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Syracuse forward C.J. Fair (5) scored 17 points, and the No. 4 Orange defeated the Terps, 57-55 last night at a sold-out Comcast Center. Guard Dez Wells (32) scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half, and guard Seth Allen had a game-high 22, but it wasn’t enough to pull off the upset. STORY P. 8
The online mailing list this university used to alert community members of the massive security breach last week might have left some former students in the dark. While messages were sent to thousands on the “University of Maryland Community” Listserv, some university alumni said they never received the crucial emails regarding the nature of the attack and the free credit monitoring program the university then offered. “I heard that they were doing one year of free credit monitoring, but I don’t know much more than that,” said Leigh Ann Renzulli, who graduated in May with a journalism degree. Renzulli was unaware of the cyberattack until she checked Facebook on Thursday morning — a day after university President Wallace Loh first announced the breach. She followed a friend’s link to the university’s update page, she said. “I did not get any sort of anything from the university,” Renzulli said. Un iversity of f icia ls i nsisted
Monday that the mailing list used to contact the community included all students, faculty members or otherwise affiliated individuals with an email address on record since 1998. “Maintaining accurate information in this database is an ongoing challenge,” Brian Ullmann, the university’s marketing and communications assistant vice president, wrote in an email. “Our alumni move, change jobs, get different phone numbers, emails. We only have accurate email addresses for about half of our alumni.” Alumni with email accounts in the database — about 55,000 individuals — received the two emails: one from Loh on Wednesday and one from Brian Voss, information technology vice president and chief information officer, on Friday. The university sent emails to another 54,000 current students, faculty and staff members through a separate database. Ullmann said Monday night that the university had identified 17,000 additional alumni for whom a phone number is on record but not an email See BREACH, Page 2
Council seeks to end gender identity discrimination Hyattsville-modeled Human Rights Ordinance inspires City Council to discuss, plan three bills By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Staff writer Davinia Forgy calls herself lucky. Not because she won the lottery or was able to take an amazing vacation, but because she is able to get health insurance and other benefits despite
her transgender identity. “There’s always a little voice, a fear in the back of my head of ‘what if someone does find out and they freak out’ or stuff like that,” the 2012 university alumna said. “But I think I’m in a much better, safer environment in my life than a lot of other trans people.”
On Feb. 4, the College Park City Council discussed the idea of a Human Rights Ordinance, modeled after one recently passed in Hyattsville. The council has since asked the city attorney to draft three separate bills to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and expression. “We should do everything we can
to work and meet the reduction and elimination of discrimination in all of its forms,” College Park Mayor Andy Fellows said. In this state, 18 percent of transgender people report losing their jobs, 17 percent report being denied a home See EQUALITY, Page 3
P.J. BRENNAN, District 2 Councilman, is pushing for three bills to ensure future “security” for those who identify as transgender. file photo/the diamondback
Non-tenure-track faculty framework moves forward U Senate committee recommends changes By Jon Banister @J_Banister Staff writer The University Senate Faculty Affairs Committee completed its recommendations yesterday, a step forward for a plan that would create new promotional opportunities for non-tenure-track faculty. The new NTT faculty framework aims to establish promotional ladders for faculty members in positions that have few chances for advancement and career development. Plans for the framework have been in the works for almost a year, and such a system would give about 1,300 university employees new chances for promotion, said Mark Arnold, faculty initiatives director. Most of the those affected are faculty research assistants and research associates, Arnold said. About 30 of the university’s research assistants have worked here for more than 15 years but haven’t advanced beyond their original title because of the university’s framework. The committee’s recommendations
would eliminate the faculty research assistant and research associate positions, and faculty members holding those titles would be able to transfer to new positions with clearly defined promotional ladders. “I think of it as a profound change in the way that we treat a very important set of constituencies in faculty,” said Ellin Scholnick, Faculty Affairs Committee chairwoman. “It’s a just and fair way to do it and also reflects the fact that we have been very unsystematic about how we treat nontenure-track faculty.” NTT faculty members deliver about 40 percent of undergraduate credits, overseeing smaller classes that a l low for more student i nteraction tha n those taught by tenure-track professors, who typically lecture larger classes, Arnold said. “The promotion mechanism is there to make sure that you’re getting the best faculty in the classroom or in the lab,” Scholnick said. “In order for them to advance, they’ve got to be evaluated. I think that does something for the student. It also means that your lecturers are more satisfied with their job because they feel more See FACULTY, Page 2
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Electronic cigarettes offer rewards, risks Devices unaffected by campus smoking ban By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Staff writer The trend of electronic cigarettes is catching speed, and with a growing $1.7 billion market comes increased debate over the batterypowered product. In the next few weeks, the Food and Drug Administration will decide how to handle e-cigarettes as researchers study the product’s possible benefits and risks and advocacy groups promote or
decry regulation. E-cigarettes turn chemicals such as nicotine into an aerosol that the user inhales. Most are shaped like traditional cigarettes or cigars, while some mimic pens or USB flash drives. The devices don’t create smoke, but rather vapor that dissipates, unlike conventional cigarettes. But this “nicotine delivery device” is unregulated and not necessarily safe or even safer than using conventional cigarettes, said Laura Place, Healthy TERPS coordinator at the University Health Center. Boston and New York City recently added e-cigarettes to their public smoking bans, but some health advocates argue the new instrument
should be promoted because it could help smokers overcome addiction with available varying concentrations of nicotine. Under this university’s smoke-free campus policy, e-cigarettes are not included. The policy defines smoking as carrying or smoking a lighted tobacco product or burning a material to inhale, said Anne Martens, administration and finance assistant vice president. Cigarette smokers must smoke in one of the four designated smoking areas on the campus, Martens said, but e-cigarette users are not restricted to those areas. See e-CIGARETTE, Page 3
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Students connect with Israel Israel studies course pairs university with Tel Aviv professor By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Staff writer When university President Wallace Loh visited the Middle East in April, he returned with some new additions. Loh signed academic partnerships with several universities in Israel and Jordan in an effort to globalize this university and strengthen its relationships with those institutions. A lmost a year after the agreement, university students are able to learn with students at Tel Aviv University through video-conference software in an Israel studies class. “I was glad [for the collaboration] because of the connection,” said Paul Scham, visiting professor and Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies executive director. “I think for someone who teaches about Israel, the sense of connection is important in ways we don’t see, we don’t realize.” As the first effort in cohesion with the agreement to globalize the classroom, an 18-person class — ISRL 359A: Israel Studies Global Classroom; Conf licts and
Challenges in Israel 19481967 — launched this semester, allowing a professor in Tel Aviv to teach students in the city and at this university simultaneously. S c h a m , G o v. M a r t i n O’Ma l ley a nd Yora m Peri (professor and Gildenhorn Institute director) were all involved in the initial collaboration. This state and Israel already have close ties economically and socially, Peri said, but on his most recent trip, O’Malley wanted to incorporate an academic tie. “You open the door to wonderful new ideas of learning,” Peri said. “It’s the beginning of new higher education.“ While Scham and Peri organized the course on this campus and act as the facilitators, the offi cial professor for the class is Anat Stern from Tel Aviv, who instructs from Israel. Because Tel Aviv’s second semester did not begin until Feb. 16, the professors at this university gave in-class lectures for three classes before video conferencing began Feb. 17. The three-and-ahalf hour course is not just a lecture; the second half involves a discussion-based
period for students in both classrooms to interact with one another. The students enrolled in the class at Tel Aviv University include a wide variety of international students with different backgrounds and countries of origin, Scham said. A class and partnership like this also encourages students to visit the country, Peri said, because there are many opportunities to do so while learning about it interactively. Junior geographical sciences major Mohamad Ibrahim has never visited Israel, but because there are several students on the campus who have, he said being in the class makes it easy for them to relate to the topic. “It allows for better access to a lot of experts,” Ibrahim said. “ It’s an intelligent topic, and the fact that it’s taught like this is amazing.” Peri said the partnership could be used within other disciplines or in other count r ies, but more i nt r icate classes might require more preparation and research. “This is only the beginning, but the idea is to go beyond Tel Aviv and UMD,” Peri said. Scham said they expect to
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to protect bikers included a rumble strip, tinted asphalt and a wider lane. “We really want to see bike lanes, but we have some concerns about the safety of the bikers because of the proximity to the travel lanes,” Kabir said. “The way the SHA presented it, it looks like the design has been finalized. But we asked for more guides on the SHA side.” SHA officials said the plan conforms to the state’s bike lane guidelines. While the mandatory lane width is 4 feet, the width of the lanes on Greenbelt will be 5 feet. “We are accommodating bicyclists within the limits of our project,” said Venu Nemani, the SHA representative who presented the pla n. “T he bicycle policy guidelines were formed with considerable input from the bicycle community.” B i ke l a n e s a re a l re a dy i n place on R hode Isla nd Avenue, and those on Greenbelt Road will provide a connection to the campus. Kabir said he hopes the increased maneuverability will attract students and residents. “I f you have more bi ke lanes, it will encourage more residents and more students to take these bike lanes and be more active,” Kabir said. “In College Park, for example, ma ny students w i l l most likely be using bike lanes to get to campus.”
A con st r uct ion project that would bring bike lanes to Greenbelt Road is set to begin soon. State Highway Administration officials presented a plan at the Feb. 18 City Council worksession meeting to repaint the road to include bike lanes. “It’s really going to improve bikeability in this city,” College Park Mayor Andy Fellows said. The plan is part of a larger effort on behalf of the city and the state to make College Park more bike-friendly. Other initiatives include installing Capital Bikeshare stations, which are expected to arrive this year, and requesting that area developers contribute to improving local “bikeability,” District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said. “Every time we have new developments coming in, we ask the developers to pitch in some money to the city to promote a biker-friendly district,” Kabir said. “For example, we had the developers come to do the CVS development, and we asked them to put some money towards the bike shares.” However, local lawmakers are not content with the latest Greenbelt project. The plans indicated only paint markers, not a physical barrier, separating the bike lane from car traffic. At Tuesday’s work session, other ideas for how emuellerdbk@gmail.com
address. These individuals will receive a prerecorded call today, he said — almost one week after Loh reported the attack. T h e u n i v e r s i t y c o nfirmed Friday that more t ha n 300,000 person a l files had been exposed in the breach. “Information gets stolen every day … it’s just going to happen,” said Zachary Ferentz, a 2012 graduate who received a bachelor’s degree in psychology. “But I would like to feel protected by my university.” Similarly to Renzulli, Ferentz learned about the cyberattack from Facebook. His father called him soon afterward. H e w a s n o t i n c lu d e d i n t he a lu m n i L istser v, t hou g h he sa id he s t i l l receives alerts from University Police, including messages when the school
University students listen to Anat Stern, a professor whose lectures are streamed from Tel Aviv during class. james levin/the diamondback see more partnerships like this in the future, and “in five to 10 years, this will be the norm,” he said. There were some technical problems on the first day of video conferencing, such as picture clarity and sound issues, but everything is now functioning, Scham said. “We’re experimenting with how things will work best for everyone; we’re just learning how to use this medium,” Scham said. “It’s not a technical question, but it’s, ‘How ca n we use th is tech nology as it becomes easier and available?’” Daniella Berger, a sophomore government and politics and history major, is enrolled in the class as a part of her Middle Eastern studies
concentration. Despite the initial technology errors, she said the class feels normal and engaging. “[Stern] is very charismatic. She definitely does a good job to get people to talk,” she said. While the format seems to work for the class, Berger said it would be harder to use this type of learning for more hands-on, group project-based classes. Ibrahim’s love for history brought him to the course initially, he said, not knowing the class was based upon virtual enrollment. “The history of the Middle E a st i s somet h i ng t h at’s central to who I am, and I want to learn about it from the other side,” Ibrahim said. “There’s
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no defi ned ‘this is what it is.’” While watching the class unfold on a large screen can sometimes feel distracting, he said, the students in Tel Aviv have such a wide range of backgrounds that it is “intimidating and exciting at the same time.” “ We s h o u l d b e v e r y proud,” Peri said. “In less than a year, we were able to develop this.” Peri said there are several ways to study while using Internet resources, but this type of classroom opens “a new horizon” for progressive methods of studying. “This is the new world,” Peri said. “Go beyond the parochial approach.” eserpicodbk@gmail.com
tract renewal, according to the recommendations, but will not experience significant structural changes. The issue began working through the senate in February 2013, about a year after the university created a task force on non-tenure-track faculty. The task force identified several concerns and inconsistencies regarding the evaluation and promotion of NTT faculty. The Senate Executive Committee then asked the Faculty Affairs Committee to recommend policy changes addressing these concerns. The Faculty Affairs Comm ittee is a lso working to change “non-tenure-track faculty” to a title that better “represents the contribution that they make to the university,” Arnold said. At its March 12 meeting, the executive committee will decide whether to approve the committee’s proposal, and then send it to the full senate for a vote.
appreciated, and they’re going to put more into it. So whenever you treat a constituency well, students benefit.” The committee’s recommendations also address facu lty eva luation. For many faculty members, both tenure- and non-tenure-track, the only form of evaluation is student feedback through CourseEvalUM, which Arnold says is insufficient. The committee is charging the Office of Faculty Affairs with developing standards and methods to better evaluate faculty members, Senate Coordinator Sarah Heidt said. Several other positions, such as artist-in-residence, research scientist, research professor, research scholar, re se a rc h e n g i ne e r a nd clinical professor will be renamed at their next con- jbanisterdbk@gmail.com
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E-CIGARETTE From PAGE 1 Even w it h t h at opt ion, some smokers at the university said they won’t switch to e-cigarettes. “Kids seem to like them here, though. Definitely with the smoking ban, you see a lot more kids walking around with the e-cigs,” said Tom Dermody, a senior environmental science and policy major. “But it’s not my thing.” Junior Mohammad Biglari tried e-cigarettes but went back to regular cigarettes. “I didn’t like it. It didn’t give me the same feeling,” the biology major said. “I thought I smoked more when I had it because you can smoke it everywhere.” Dermody said he doesn’t see many people switch to smoking just e-cigarettes. “When they can get a real cigarette, they will have that instead,” said Dermody, a smoker of four years. But some said they’ve seen a benefit to using e-cigarettes: They could help people quit smoking traditional cigarettes. “I know several people who
are using them in their effort to stop smoking, and they have been used quite successfully in that regard,” Martens said. B ut e-c i ga ret te s d on’t always help with smoking cessat ion ef for ts, sen ior Sean Turner said. He said his friend, a smoker of 12 years, used e-cigarettes to help him quit smoking. “He hasn’t smoked a cigarette in a year and a half now, but he still smokes the electronic cigarettes,” said Turner, a geographical sciences and government and politics major. “So it helped him stop with the actual cigarette, but in terms of weaning himself off of [the e-cigarette], he’s hav i ng a l ittle bit of trouble with it.” Dermody said he sees the benefits for nonsmokers — e-cigarettes don’t create any secondhand smoke — but believes the only way to quit is to “do it cold turkey.” Using e-cigarettes and other types of smoking products is a risk, Place said. “Anything that allows a person to use an addictive substance more frequently increases the risk of addiction — the more one uses,
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the more likely they are to become add icted,” Pl ace wrote in an email. Martens hasn’t seen a huge presence of e-cigarettes on the campus, but she did see someone using one at December’s commencement ceremony. She said she wouldn’t be surprised if the University System of Maryland soon considers the product’s place in the smoke-free policy. “The whole process is evolving, and the university system and the state periodically review of all policies, including this one,” she said. From a health perspective, Place said she doesn’t advocate the product’s use. “ I t h i n k t here a re t wo compelling reasons not to recommend them: They are quite expensive and they are an unknown, unregulated delivery mechanism for a substance that we know to be quite addictive,” Place wrote. “If nothing else, that’s a recipe for running out of cash quickly and potentially developing health problems we don’t even really know enough to predict yet.” gtooheydbk@gmail.com
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Equality From PAGE 1 or an apartment and 54 percent report being harassed in public places, a ccord i n g to t he 2009 Na t i o n a l T ra n s ge n d e r Discrimination Survey, conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. “People experiencing violence or discrimination, losing employment, those kinds of things, it happens,” Forgy said. “It definitely happens.” District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan said he can relate to the sort of struggles trans- Patrick wojahn is one of the College Park City Council members supporting three bills that prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and expression. file photo/the diamondback gender people face and he hopes that if these laws Park resident, said she believes message that we want here on come to fruition, transgen- in equality but thinks drafting campus, so it’s really good,” der people can find security new bills is redundant. Shorter-Gooden said. “I think College Park is an within them. D i s t r ic t 1 Cou nc i l m a n “As a gay man, when they accepting area. To discrimi- P a t r i c k Wo j a h n , w h o i s passed marriage equality nate against any one segment pushing along with Brennan or protections for same- [of people] is terribly wrong for the bi l ls to pass, sa id sex couples … there’s a for whatever reason,” Termini that for inspiration, the city sense of security, a sense sa id . “[ However,] i f you should look at the measures of i nclusion, a sense of already have the laws in place, this university has adopted. welcome that these mea- why reinvent the wheel?” “I think the university has B u t K u m e a S h o r t e r- put strong policies, has been a sures provide,” Brennan said. “I can only hope that Gooden, the university’s chief leader in preventing discrimthe measu res that have diversity officer and associate ination based on sexual oribeen passed for my own vice president, said drafting entation or gender identity,” sexual orientation issues laws to protect transgender Wojahn said. “It’s important are felt by those who will people is imperative. that as a city, we do everything “We really need to be ex- we can to reflect that as well.” receive the benefits by the measure that is coming plicit because we’re fighting Du ri ng her ti me at th is against transphobia and ho- university, Forgy said she down the pipeline.” The bills should be drafted mophobia,” she said. “I think felt safe, but she said this sometime in the next month, you can only do that by naming kind of legislation is still and Brennan said they will it, by saying it, by calling at- important for the area and protect transgender people tention to it in that way.” “is a big deal for trans civil Adding gender identity and rights right now.” aga i nst d iscri m i nation in housing, employment expression to nondiscrimi“It’s definitely a first step and within businesses and nation policies was first pro- towards us just being able to posed in 2003 to the Univer- live and exist more safely, as public services. There are already laws sity System of Maryland and safely as everyone else. It’s that provide protection was adopted by the Board of exactly the kind of thing that aga i nst d iscri m i nation Regents on June 22, 2012. we need to happen for us,” “Having College Park as Forgy said. “To just be able based on sexual orientation, but they do not explicitly a municipality in our home to exist in public and not fear protect those who identify pass leg islation that a lso for our safety.” proh ibits d iscri m i n ation as transgender. Kennis Termini, a College really helps to reinforce the esilvermandbk@gmail.com
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ne week ago, faceless hackers breached the virtual walls of this university’s digital infrastructure and accessed more than 300,000 names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of students, alumni, faculty and staff. It’s hard to say whether the university was adequately prepared — officials have told the community it was — or whether administrators reacted appropriately, as details are scant and the complexity of such a breach is difficult to grasp. One thing, however, is certain: Those affected need OUR to protect themselves. And in a move that we can’t help but praise the university for, administrators have decided to pay for credit monitoring for all those affected by the breach — for the next year, so far. Starting today at 9 a.m., the university will offer free one-year accounts for a credit protection service, including a hotline (reachable at 866-274-3891) that can tell students, alumni, faculty and staff whether hackers accessed their information. If it was, Experian (the company offering the “ProtectMyID” service) will monitor that individual’s credit history for the year, hopefully ensuring no outlandish transactions go unnoticed. This could cost the university up to $3 million. That number gives this editorial board some solace and assurance that university officials have students’ backs. They understand the gravity of identity theft and will do something to address it, but students need to grasp that seriousness as well. We need to put those dollars to work. Experian, Equifax — the company used the last time university security was breached — and TransUnion are all credit reporting agencies this university already suggests students use if they suspect identity theft, so university officials are sending these agencies’ information around the community, urging everyone to encourage all
current students, alumni, faculty and staff to utilize these resources. So that’s exactly what we are going to do. Call today. Yes, it’s a tired infomercial cliche, but at no time has it been truer. Wake up early; stay up late; put off some plans — just make that call. Identity theft is one in a series of buzzwords our generation has heard and read relentlessly in advertisements, news stories or spam emails. But until we’re faced with the destructively concrete VIEW reality of such a concept, identity theft remains just another undefined monster under the bed. With a Social Security number and corresponding name and birth date, thieves can potentially take out mortgages or other loans and open up credit card accounts with no intention of repaying them. And the already indebted students and recent alumni of this university — you — will be left on the hook. In 2012, victims in this country lost more than $24 billion to identity thieves, with more than 40 percent of the incidents including fraudulent credit cards, according to the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics. Those $24 billion were spread over about 16.6 million people, meaning the average victim of identity theft lost nearly$1,500. And that number doesn’t account for the peace of mind they might never get back. Going into adult life with debt is already hard enough, but adding in the sometimes insurmountable troubles of dealing with fraudulent credit lines could make finances even more problematic. So avoiding those detriments is crucial. The university has given its community members a lifeline, and we need to take it. Call 866-274-3891 today — you’ll be better off for it.
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Relationships don’t own or define you A significant other is not a possession, but something to appreciate
TIFFANY BURBA In my recent excursions on the interwebs during an intense period of procrastination, I stumbled upon another cliche photo caption that barely caught my attention. I nearly scrolled right by, but reading the text gave me a solid 20 more seconds of not working. The photo itself was a black and white image of Beyoncé fistbumping Jay Z as they sat together at a New York Knicks’ game. The caption was about a paragraph long and completely obscured the bottom three-fourths of the picture. It dealt with relationships. Essentially, the quote asserted that a female partner would gladly surrender her social media passwords, text messages and other private correspondences for her male partner to review on the spot. The final sentence said something to the effect that any good girlfriend who wishes to be totally loyal to her partner would surely do this to prove her continued faithfulness and devotion. Really? In order to be monogamous and faithful to your partner, you must surrender all personal information and be completely monitored in everything you do? You have got to be kidding me. There is no reason to have to live in some Orwellian partnership in which you are dating Big Brother. Relationships are supposed to be built on mutual trust and respect, not on a concept of possession or ownership. This misconception seems
to be perpetuated throughout our generation, and it needs to be corrected. Especially on our campus, we are a group of independent students who “don’t need no man” (or woman or other person) governing our private affairs. People should not be defined by their relationships; your identity is much deeper than “girlfriend of so-and-so” or “boyfriend of ‘X,’ ‘Y’ and ‘Z’”. You own your body, and you control the message you broadcast to others. No partner of yours has a right to censor you, monitor your behavior or demand anything from you at all. In order for your relationship to be fulfilling and enjoyable, you must achieve a level of mutual trust and respect. And this is absolutely not achieved by cyberstalking, message checking, phone snooping or behaving in any other possessive manner. While it is natural to encounter some level of insecurity while you build this sense of mutual trust, that does not excuse disruptive or offensive behavior. “My last girlfriend cheated on me,” “Previous abuse gave me trust issues” or “I just don’t want to lose you” are all phrases that may garner sympathy but are not acceptable justifications for being a controlling jerk in a relationship. Discuss these experiences with your partner so he or she gains a better understanding of your world view, but do not use them as a weapon to destroy your partner’s sense of self and individuality. And if after all of this, you still can’t trust your partner enough to ease back on your own National Security Agency-like surveillance
WHILE IT IS IMPORTANT TO ADMIRE AND DESIRE YOUR PARTNER, SHE IS NOT YOUR POSSESSION AND YOU DO NOT OWN HER. CONVERSELY, SURRENDERING YOUR INDIVIDUALISM IS NOT A MEANS TO PROVE YOUR DEVOTION — IT IS A ONE-WAY TICKET TO LOSING YOURSELF AND YOUR CONFIDENCE. missions, you might want to look inward. Take some time off from relationships and learn to trust yourself before you build trust with another person. While it is important to admire and desire your partner, he or she is not your possession, and you do not own him or her. Conversely, surrendering your individualism is not a means of proving your devotion — it is a one-way ticket to losing yourself and your confidence. No partner is worth that price. So while you should uphold your promises and commitment to a monogamous relationship, even when interacting with your friends, you are also entitled to a high level of personal autonomy in your platonic friendships. So while we all refer to our partners as “my ___,” we must remember they are not possessions. You are the only person who can own you. Tiffany Burba is a senior government and politics major. She can be reached at tburbadbk@gmail.com.
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CAROLINE CARLSON In seventh grade, I was obsessed with a guy some people called “The Flying Tomato”: Olympic snowboarder Shaun White. I couldn’t have cared less about snowboarding itself. I knew nothing about snowboarding or skateboarding. Rather, it was my childish obsession with redheaded men that motivated me to tune in to the Winter Olympics every four years. I never watched the X Games or any international snowboarding championships and knew nothing of other snowboarders who were just as good as White. For me, watching the Winter Olympics didn’t serve one of its purposes — to honor the hard work athletes put into their sports. Think about it: Every four years, we watch athletes (who perform their best) win medals and break records. In the months (or years) that follow, many of us can remember some of these athletes by name: Shaun White, Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin. However, some compete, win international competitions and achieve scores just as good as their Olympic counterparts yet receive minimal recognition — no corporate sponsors, no magazine covers and no excessive fan mail. So wh a t’s t h e d i f fe re n c e between the Olympics and any international competition in a particular sport? Is an X Games gold medal just as good as an Olympic one, especially if the competitors are the same? Some say the Olympics differ from other competitions because they are a passive-aggressive form of international diplomacy — a safe gathering of different nations where athletes fight for first place.
Some say it’s important because it makes us pay attention to sports, but I beg to differ. It only forces us to pay attention to particular sports and athletes, forgetting about their other achievements. I’m not one to whine and mope a b o u t h ow u n fa i r a n eve n t i s because it promotes corporate recognition and reward. All athletes should receive proper recognition for their achievements. Take Kevin Pearce, for instance. Before the 2010 Winter Olympics, he was a gold medal contender against White, but we never saw him compete due to a critical injury during training. Although he’s won several competitions, your average college student (or Olympic Games follower) has no idea who he is. I ’m n o t say i n g t h e O ly m p i c Games are pointless or we should all be anti-corporate spectators and avoid famous athletes. I think the games are simply less than they are hyped up to be. If you really claim to love watching snowboarding during the Olympics, why not follow it every day of the year? If you were pissed Team USA didn’t win gold last week, why not cheer on American figure skaters during the world championships? People who are the best in their sport shouldn’t feel pressured to do well once every four years because that’s when people happen to care about them. Athletic records should be viewed holistically, and athletes shouldn’t be valued by how many Olympic medals they have. When I’m older, I want to label myself as someone who follows all aspects of American snowboarding, Hopefully my memories of watching sports won’t boil down to thinking about a prepubescent girl obsessing over an amazing athlete just because he has really cool hair. Caroline Carlson is a junior government and politics and information systems major. She can be reached at ccarlsondbk@gmail.com.
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TRUTH IS UGLY On her latest — and very good — album, St. Vincent, Annie Clark dives into the postmodern and finds just as much to say about herself as society By Eric Bricker @EricCBricker Senior staff writer St. Vincent (the stage name of musician Annie Clark) finds its titular artist grappling with heady concepts of identity and reality, all over a jaunty musical sensibility that winningly melds avant-garde flourishes with intensely listenable, well-crafted pop melodies. Her recent self-titled album — like the digital, mediated world it so ably dissects — repulses and attracts, confuses and entices. St. Vincent is pop for a postmodern world, where nothing, not even music, is real. St. Vincent’s quest for the real subtly underscores the entire album: In a world where everything is abstract, manipulated, crafted and consumed through screens (that look “just like a window”), is there anything physical, sensual, sensational left to grab onto? As Clark asks on the bouncy, Talking Headsesque “Digital Witness,” “If I can’t show it, you can’t see me/ What’s the point of doing anything?” That question appears again and again: Lead single “Birth in Reverse” begins with a lyric that could be a pseudo-tweet (“Oh what an ordinary day/ Take out the garbage, masturbate”) before Clark undercuts herself (“I’m still holding for the laugh”). The world of St. Vincent, like our own, is a world where every thought is
a performance that can be conveniently packaged into 140 characters, where every mental breakdown or day spent apathetically watching dogs bark “through the blinds” is another chance for publicity and self-promotion. “Bring Me Your Loves,” similarly, plays like a 5 a.m. Facebook stalking session, a desperate cry for connection — however tenuous or forced — layered over a driving electronic beat that blends the sounds of a squealing modem with a grand, reverberating organ. Self-pity is a symphony. Love is the terrifying discovery that another person is not “like a dog,” but a fully formed person with autonomy and a separate life of his or her own: “I took you off your leash/ But I can’t, no I can’t make you heel.” On the power-poppy “Regret,” meanwhile, Clark grapples with the isolation of everyday life. “Who is the one?” she asks. “All by yourself/ All of us,” she replies. You can hear the rueful twist of her mouth. It’s not an indictment, but a coming to terms, a bittersweet acknowledgment of the unreality of our reality. And her questioning goes beyond the confining world of social media. She turns her attention to religion — its own sort of simulacrum — on “I Prefer Your Love,” which finds Clark conflating and contrasting earthly pleasures and spiritual highs, all over an ethereal synth track that calls to
mind Madonna and John Lennon in equal measure. Musically, St. Vincent further fleshes out its desire to balance the real and the abstract, the analog and the digital: Ambient, trance-y synths are layered with a rattling snare drum on “Prince Johnny;” industrial grinding and banging segues into virtuosic, angular guitar work on “Birth in Reverse;” and “Huey Newton” begins with what sounds like a beat ripped from a ’90s drum machine before giving way to a shredding, guttural industrial breakdown. Far from sounding like a hodgepodge, however, St. Vincent wears its musical messiness as a badge. It is a lean, well-curated soundscape that flits between high art and high trash, finding the ugliness in the perfectly manicured and the fleeting, ecstatic joy of the dirty and industrial. “The truth is ugly/ Well I feel ugly too,” Clark sighs on album closer “Severed Crossed Fingers.” It’s a line that befits St. Vincent the record just as well as St. Vincent the artist, a sociologist with a synthesizer who turns her probing gaze on herself and the society that shapes her in equal measure. A blistering yet fun foray into the murkiness and contradictions of our postmodern mediascape, St. Vincent is essential listening, a unique distillation of what it feels like to be alive — whatever that means — in 2014. ANNIE CLARK’S kaleidoscopic pop has never been better than it is on St. Vincent, in which the artist deals with the contradictions and isolation inherent to modern life. photos courtesy of thecurrent.org, mtvhive.com and chartattack.com
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ORANGE From PAGE 8 Scott Van Pelt, Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith and former Pro Bowl quarterback Boomer Esiason lined the courtside seats, the Terps struggled to produce much offense against Syracuse’s vaunted 2-3 zone and turned the ball over 18 times, tying the season high. A l l e n fo u n d a rhy t h m f ro m deep and connected on six of nine 3-pointers on the night, but the Terps shot 35 percent from beyond the arc as a team. Guard Dez Wells added 15 points, 13 of which came in the second half, but the backcourt duo didn’t have much help. No Terp other than Allen and Wells made more than one field goal. “I don’t know. I think it’s the zone,” Allen said. “It’s hard. You got to pick your spots and you got to be poised.” On the other end of the floor, the Terps struggled to contain two of Syracuse’s top offensive options. Guard Tyler Ennis, a freshman, scored 20 points and dished out three assists for the Orange, while forward C.J. Fair finished with 17 points. The Orange (26-2, 13-2 ACC) also took advantage of the Terps’ miscues, scoring 26 points off turnovers. And as a result, an often-disenchanted fan base that showed up in full force last night grew restless as the Terps (15-13, 7-8) trailed 51-39 with 5:45 remaining.
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The 71 percent free-throw shooter made one of his two shots, and the Terps still trailed by one. “The crowd, and then the press, and we got steals and we made our free throws when we got to the line,” Allen said. “That was big.” On Syracuse’s next possession, Fair missed a jump shot from the right wing, and Wells corralled the rebound. The Terps’ unquestioned leader decided to pitch the ball ahead to Faust. “I trust Nick in those situations,” Wells said. Faust’s ensuing drive to the rim brought Comcast Center’s largest crowd of the season to its feet, creating a climax to an emotional game that ended with a no-call, a missed layup and an eventual Terps loss. It marked the Terps’ third defeat against a top-25 team that came down to the final possession, and it likely squelched any lingering hope of an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Plus, the aftermath of Faust’s unsuccessful final effort silenced an enthusiastic College Park crowd — a rarity — that for so long, had so much to make noise about. SYRACUSE GUARD TYLER ENnIS scored a team-high 20 points for the No. 4 Orange last night in its 57-55 win over the Terps at Comcast Center. alik mcintosh/the diamondback “The disappointing thing tonight “We didn’t give them a lot to cheer Orange. Wells and Allen, meanwhile, remaining, then the Terps forced a was Syracuse was ripe to be beat,” about for 35 minutes,” Turgeon said. led a suddenly aggressive offense that turnover to kick-start a fast break that Turgeon said. “We just couldn’t get sent forward Jake Layman to the free- it going. Disappointing.” But that changed in the closing cut into the Syracuse lead. They hit four straight free throws throw line with a chance to tie the minutes, as the Terps’ pressure defense caused problems for the to cut the lead to two with 54 seconds game with 47.7 seconds left. akasinitzdbk@gmail.com
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WEAKNESS From PAGE 8 against an undersized Yellow Jackets frontcourt. “We did feel like obviously we did have an advantage there,” Frese said. “We wanted to be aggressive on the boards because they do a tremendous job and we wanted to obviously do a really good job at handling the ball.” Guards Kaela Davis and Tyaunna Marshall, Georgia Tech’s top scorers, tried to get their team back into the game, but the pair often rushed shots and tried to force their way to the basket. With the Yellow Jackets trailing 48-35 a little more than five minutes into the second half, Marshall launched a long 2-pointer that clanged off the back iron. Davis grabbed the offensive rebound before attempting to slash into
pride From PAGE 8 attacker Alex Aust and midfielder Katie Schwarzmann for the bulk of their offense. But so far this season, the Terps have been led by a balanced offense that is averaging more goals per game than last year. After Saturday’s win, the Terps have five players who have scored eight or more goals through the first four games this season. “Every game you are going to get different looks and different things you are going to find are working and are open,” Reese said. “Those spots are going to be the areas we are getting a lot of production from.” Unlike the first three games this season, Reese did not
a congested lane, where four defenders were waiting. Center Alicia DeVaughn blocked Davis’ pass, and the Terps scored five seconds later off a quick transition bucket to extend their lead to 15. “I mean, you look at someone like Kaela and Ty, they’re just great offensive players,” guard Lexie Brown said. “But I mean, when we got the scout, we know their tendencies, so actually it kind of gets a lot easier, because you know exactly what they’re about to do and then you can shut it down.” Though Brown shot 4-of-14 from the field, including 0-of-6 from three-point range, her passing in transition and defense led to nine assists and five steals. In her return to her home state, the Suwanee, Ga., native’s performance played a significant role in the Terps’ 13 forced turnovers and
18 fast-break points. “I was definitely excited, more excited to see my family, obviously,” Brown said. “Offensively, I didn’t feel like I played very well, but I feel like I still needed to contribute, so defense was so important in this game for everybody but specifically for me.” Though the Terps’ final two regular-season games are against two of the bottom three teams in the conference, playing like they did against Georgia Tech by focusing on the opponent’s strengths will be a key factor in both contests. After all, an upset loss to one of those teams could hurt the Terps’ final position before the ACC tournament. “Anything can happen to anyone,” Frese said. “So I know it’s going to be wild.”
look too far down her bench for players. After playing her entire roster against Boston, Reese brought just three players off the bench against the Nittany Lions. And though Clipp and fellow goalkeeper Emily Kift split time in the season’s first three games, Reese stuck with Clipp. Clipp, who recorded 21 saves, was three shy of tying the Terps’ single-game record set by Denise Wescott in 1977. But Reese isn’t ready to declare Clipp the starter. This afternoon in Hempstead, N.Y., Reese said she plans on starting Clipp in the first half and using Kift in the second. “I like having two different looks at goalie right now,” Reese said. Today’s matchup will be the second of three straight road
games for the Terps, who travel to Durham, N.C., on Saturday to open ACC play against Duke. Reese said these early-season games are important to find out where her team can improve. After the win over Penn State, Reese said the Terps needs to cut down on turnovers; they turned the ball over a season-high 16 times, nine more than their opponent. While the Terps look to clean up their turnovers against Hofstra, they will have to wait and see who emerges as the go-to player on offense. “It’s just an area we need to address a little bit with our team,” Reese said. “Make sure we are smarter about protecting our sticks in the midfield.”
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Creek’s game-winner for George Washington flying over Nick Faust’s fingertips and Dez Wells’ shot rimming out at Barclays Center, it just feels like something had to give, something had to drop, something — just something — had to go right for the Terps. Sure, replays showed a foul could have been called on Syracuse center Baye Moussa Keita as Faust drove to the hoop in transition with the Terps trailing by one inside 10 seconds. Turgeon thinks so. But it wasn’t, and “that’s kind of the way the year’s gone for us,” Turgeon said. Still beyond the significant, potentially game — or even season — changing plays, there’s been plenty of flaws the Terps haven’t yet rectified. They missed eight free throws, including forward Jake Layman’s miss on a pair with 47.7 seconds left that could have tied the game. And, perhaps most glaringly, the Terps’ turnover woes continued. The Terps turned the ball over 18 times, tying a season-high, and Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said a good number of them were unforced errors such as sloppy entry passes or just a general lack of awareness from the Terps. If the Terps didn’t turn the ball over so many times, Boeheim said, the no-call on
amato From PAGE 8 have the ability to go on runs.” After a slow start, the Terps exploded for 10 goals in the second quarter to build a 12-5 advantage entering the break. At the same time, Amato was a brick wall in the net, stopping the Orange from scoring during an almost seven-minute stretch in the second quarter. A m a t o ’s i m p r e s s i v e display was no easy task, though. Syracuse has one of the most talented offensive units in the country, featuring attackmen Kevin Rice and Dylan Donahue and midfielder Henry Schoonmaker. All three scored 18 or more goals in 2013. Not to mention, the Orange brought in Inside Lacrosse’s No. 2 recruiting class in the nation, anchored by midfielder Jordan Evans, who was the website’s No. 1 prospect and scored 82 goals as a high school senior. “All the saves he made were quality saves,” coach John Tillman said. “They have a really dynamic offense, and when they get their hands free, they put it in good spots.
Faust’s late drive wouldn’t have mattered. In many ways last night, the Terps were playing against an inverted version of themselves. Syracuse received stellar point guard play from freshman Tyler Ennis, who scored a team-high 20 points on 9-of-18 shooting while dishing three assists and grabbing six rebounds. The Orange’s top player, forward C.J. Fair, started strong with 10 points in the first half, and though he battled foul trouble down the stretch, the senior hit a big 3-pointer to put the Orange up by seven with 3:07 remaining and finished with 17 points. And like it did earlier this month against Pittsburgh, N.C. State and Duke, Syracuse escaped with a narrow victory for its 26th win of the season. The Terps, meanwhile, have gone most of the season without a steady hand at the point. Allen scored a game-high 22 points on 6-of-11 shooting, but he turned the ball over five times. Wells was second on the Terps with 15 points, but he had yet another slow start and scored just two points in the first half. Syracuse built a sizable secondhalf margin, leading by 12 with 11:46 remaining and with as little as 5:45 left on the clock. The Terps closed the gap quickly and furiously, but in the end, Syracuse made more plays when it counted, and the Terps ended up emptyhanded yet again. “We could have won this
You don’t get any easy ones from them.” Tillman attributed some of Amato’s success to the Terps defense, which has put together consecutive strong outings after Tillman sought improvement following a win over Mount St. Mary’s in the season opener Feb. 8. Tillman said the group, including defenders Michael Ehrhardt, Casey Ikeda, Goran Murray and Matt Dunn, forced the Orange attackers into difficult shots, making Amato’s job a lot easier. “Knowing that we have those guys back there gave us a little bit of assurance knowing it will be really difficult for them to get back in the game,” Chanenchuk said. On Saturday, the offense’s performance, along with a dominant day from faceoff specialist Charlie Raffa — who won 19 of 26 faceoffs — highlighted the Terps victory over Syracuse. Nine players scored goals, including two rare ones from Raffa and a hat trick from freshman midfielder Connor Cannizzaro, who attended high school in Cazenovia, N.Y., about 30 minutes from the Syracuse campus.
“WE COULD HAVE WON THIS GAME, JUST LIKE WE COULD HAVE WON AGAINST DUKE AND VIRGINIA AND ALL THESE OTHER GOOD TEAMS THAT WE’RE PLAYING REALLY CLOSE AGAINST, LIKE UCONN.” DEZ WELLS
Terrapins men’s basketball guard game, just like we could have won against Duke and Virginia and all these other good teams that we’re playing really close against, like UConn,” Wells said. “That’s just something that me and coach Turgeon are going to talk about and I’m just going to put it on my shoulders to figure out what I need to do or what needs to happen for us to take that jump to win these close games against good teams.” One bounce, one roll, one split-second reaction, and the Terps could be in the thick of the NCAA tournament hunt instead of stagnating on the periphery, accumulating heartbreak. But it hasn’t gone that way. And while the Terps could blame the basketball gods or bad luck or officiating on a night when they seemingly had everything else behind them, they simply made too many mistakes to overcome. dgallendbk@gmail.com
“ALL THE SAVES HE MADE WERE QUALITY SAVES. ... THEY HAVE A REALLY DYNAMIC OFFENSE, AND WHEN THEY GET THEIR HANDS FREE, THEY PUT IT IN GOOD SPOTS. YOU DON’T GET ANY EASY ONES FROM THEM.” JOHN TILLMAN
Terrapins men’s lacrosse coach But among all the goals was yet another consistent performance from Amato, who silenced any chance of an Orange comeback by surrendering eight goals on 32 shots. And even in the scoring outburst, Chanenchuk got a chance to look back to his own net, becoming calm when he saw Amato clad in the red, yellow, white and black of the Terps uniform. “When you have Niko back there,” Chanenchuk said, “they’re going to have to work for every goal they get.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com
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ON THE SITE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2014
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Terps rally from 12 down in final minutes but still fall to No. 4 Syracuse despite Allen’s 22
Terps come out on wrong end of another close call; real deficiencies remain
By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer
DANIEL GALLEN
When Terrapins men’s basketball forward Charles Mitchell slammed home a breakaway dunk about two minutes into last night’s game against No. 4 Syracuse, Comcast Center’s first sellout crowd of the season erupted. That was just the start of an intense contest that left the announced 17,950 fans and students clad in gold T-shirts with their share of disgruntled moans and triumphant screams. The noise reached a fever pitch when guard Nick Faust drove at Syracuse center Baye Moussa Keita with the Terps trailing 56-55 and less than 10 seconds left. The pair collided, and no foul was called. Faust’s shot didn’t get anywhere near the rim, and the Orange grabbed the rebound. Coach Mark Turgeon ran onto the court screaming for a foul. And on the Terps’ final possession moments later, guard Seth Allen’s desperate 3-pointer clanked off the rim and bounced off the backboard to seal an agonizing 57-55 loss to Syracuse. “I thought Nick got fouled and that the replay showed that,” said Turgeon, whose Terps are 0-9 in games against opponents ranked in the top 50 of the RPI. “It’s been that kind of year for us. Didn’t call it, and they win the game.” Though Turgeon felt that his team’s late 16-5 run should have led to a victory, he was quick to point out the deficiencies that ultimately proved costly. On a night when ESPN personality
Last night had everything the Terrapins men’s basketball team had been asking for all season long. A top-ranked opponent visited Comcast Center, the student section was mostly packed and a cast of notable alumni dotted the courtside seats. But on a night when it all felt so different, everything ended exactly the same: Another last-ditch rally, another seemingly improbable run at a superior opponent and another heartbreaking defeat — this time as guard Seth Allen’s running 3-pointer at the buzzer fell off the mark and left the Terps with a 57-55 defeat at the hands of No. 4 Syracuse. There was Connecticut in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the season opener. There was George Washington a month later in Washington. Just more than a week ago, it was Duke in Durham, N.C. And finally, College Park became the latest location of a deflating defeat. Has coach Mark Turgeon, who gained a reputation for being able to turn teams around in previous stops at Texas A&M, Wichita State and Jacksonville, ever experienced anything like this at any point in his career? “No,” he answered softly to close his news conference last night. On a grand scale, it’s easy to wonder, “Why?” when looking at the Terps’ string of defeats. Between Allen’s heave, Charles Mitchell’s harsh roll off the rim at Cameron Indoor Stadium, Maurice
See ORANGE, Page 7 GUARD SETH ALLEN made six 3-pointers and scored a game-high 22 points in the Terps’ loss to No. 4 Syracuse last night. alik mcintosh/the diamondback
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Terps exploit Yellow Jackets’ weaknesses Team takes advantage of rebounds, turnovers By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer
GOALKEEPER NIKO AMATO made 11 saves and held Syracuse scoreless for seven minutes at one point in the Terps’ 16-8 road win Saturday. file photo/the diamondback
Amato stifles Orange in victory By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer Stellar performances from Niko Amato have become a common occurrence for the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team during the goalkeeper’s four years competing with the program.
The preseason third-team AllAmerican made double-digit saves in nine of his 14 starts last season, including a career-high 24 saves in an 8-7 win over Yale on April 20. So it was no surprise Saturday when Amato stopped 11 shots against No. 1 Syracuse, leading the Terps to a 16-8 blowout victory at the Carrier Dome. Teammates, coaches and oppo-
nents alike have come to expect such games from one of the nation’s top goalkeepers. “He’s always a rock in the cage,” midfielder Mike Chanenchuk said. “That was one thing I was thinking during the game because Syracuse, obviously, is really confident and they See amato, Page 7
During the news conference after the Terrapins women’s basketball team’s 79-62 win against Georgia Tech on Sunday afternoon, coach Brenda Frese made sure to mention that the Terps outrebounded the Yellow Jackets and committed fewer turnovers. In the past, the Terps have had difficulty against Georgia Tech, a tough rebounding team that also runs a halfcourt trap defense that can frequently force mistakes. Performance in those areas, Frese said, was critical in the comfortable victory over the Yellow Jackets. Neutralizing those Georgia Tech strengths helped key the Terps to their sixth win in seven contests, helping them build momentum entering the final two regular-season games. “For us, it’s just finishing these last
two games on the biggest high that we can,” Frese said. “That we know that we’re going into Greensboro with the most confidence.” Before the matchup, the Terps hoped to avoid a disappointing result that could halt their momentum entering the ACC tournament. Before their game, Virginia Tech pulled off an upset victory at No. 11 North Carolina, and the Terps didn’t want to suffer a similar fate that could hurt postseason seeding. So the Terps focused on slowing the Yellow Jackets’ strengths while attacking their weaknesses. The Terps outrebounded Georgia Tech, the best offensive rebounding team in the ACC, 49-41. The rebounding helped the Terps dominate the inside, scoring off putback layups on their way to 60 points in the paint See WEAKNESS, Page 7
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Balanced offense producing early Terps hit road to take on Hofstra today after beating Penn State By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer In its win over No. 7 Penn State on Saturday, the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team got career performances from attacker Brooke Griffin and goalkeeper Abbey Clipp. In doing so, the No. 2 Terps showed again how their talent and depth can come through at any time against any opponent. “With the offense and team we have,” coach Cathy Reese said, “I think you are going to see different people
come through big on different days.” The Terps’ top three scorers entering Saturday’s contest combined to score just two of the Terps’ 14 goals. Midfielders Taylor Cummings, Kelly McPartland and Zoe Stukenberg combined to average 9.3 goals per game during the first three games of the season, but they played a complementary role as Griffin scored seven goals. The Terps (4-0), who face Hofstra (2-1) on the road today, proved they could take down a top-10 team without a big scoring day from their top midfielders. Instead, the midfielders affected the game by controlling
draws and finding open teammates, as they assisted on four goals. They received a boost from midfielder Erin Collins, who had five of the team’s 12 draw controls. Cummings, who led the team entering Saturday, controlled one draw. “Our middies came through big in transitioning the ball,” Reese said. “But once they moved the ball, they put it in our low attackers hands, and they were the ones that were able to finish [Saturday].” Last year, the Terps depended on MIDFIELDER KELLY MCPARTLAND was one of the Terps’ three leading scorers entering Saturday’s game at Penn See PRIDE, Page 7 State, but attacker Brooke Griffin stepped up to lead the offense in the 14-7 victory. file photo/the diamondback