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Student faces child pornography charges

By Fola Akinnibi Staff writer A university freshman already facing child pornography charges was arrested in Washington on Monday after allegedly attempting to solicit sex from a minor in a Craigslist sting.

Akshay Rajshekar, an 18-year-old student from Salisbury, allegedly responded to a Craigslist ad posted by the FBI and Metropolitan Police’s

Child Exploitation Task Force. Rajshekar reportedly believed he was communicating with the father of a 12-year-old girl. The freshman was reportedly looking to meet with the supposed father — who told Rajshekar he was interested in incest — to have sex with the minor, according to U.S. court documents.

Rajshekar is awaiting trial in this state for charges of distributing child pornography in Wicomico County in

the fall, according to several news reports.

However, there are no available court records for those charges.

On March 18, AKSHAY RAJSHEKAR Rajshekar initiat18-year-old univ. student ed contact online with an undercover officer and expressed a desire to meet with like-minded people,

a charging document stated.

“I really want to experience what it is like,” Rajshekar allegedly wrote in a chat obtained by investigators. “I have been trying to meet other pedos online with similar interest … [it’s] hard as hell.”

He reportedly sent the undercover officer six images of child pornography, the document states. Rajshekar eventually set up a Monday meeting during which the document alleged he planned to have sex with the fictitious

young girl and exchange pornography with the undercover officer.

Police arrested Rajshekar at about 5:30 p.m. Monday. His backpack contained a laptop and condoms, according to police records.

Rajshekar faces charges for transporting child pornography across state lines and traveling with the intent to have sex with a minor. These charges See arrest, Page 2

Advancements in mental health services may stall Despite increased discussion surrounding services, federal cuts could hamper efforts

By Jim Bach Senior staff writer More support for mental health services has been a hot-button issue surrounding the gun control debate, but advocates of additional funding may hit a roadblock in the face of federal budget cuts.

After December’s Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, along with several shootings in recent months, schools and health officials across the country hoped to see increased financial support for these ser-

vices. However, sequestration — a slew of across-the-board federal budget cuts that began going into effect March 1 — impacted several federal programs, including mental health services.

“In the aftermath of Sandy Hook, I can’t recall a time where there’s been greater awareness of mental health,” said Julio Abreu, senior director of government affairs at Mental Health America, a nonprofit advocacy group. But it becomes See health. Page 3

a march madness bracket isn’t so complicated for a group of graduate students, who used an experiment in quantum mechanics to make genuinely random predictions for the NCAA tournament. The students are finding their brackets (like the one above) are in the lead against those filled out the traditional way. graphic by may wildman/the diamondback

MAD SCIENTISTs Group of graduate research assistants use quantum mechanics to fill out March Madness brackets

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kevin anderson, the university’s athletic director, was one of the Washington Business Journal’s top 25 minority leaders. Judges recognized his creativity, drive and success in the position. file photo/the diamondback

Athletic director’s leadership honored Washington Business Journal names Kevin Anderson a top 25 minority leader in region

By Savannah Doane-Malotte Staff writer For Kevin Anderson, student-athletes’ success on the field is just as important as in the classroom.

So when he came to this university in 2010, the athletic director sought to emphasize the “student” in student-athlete. And that commitment to well-rounded success helped lead the Washington Business Journal to honor Anderson as one of the top 25 minority business leaders — out of 125

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considered — for his entrepreneurial drive, creativity and success in his position.

“This program started because a lot of folks were not being honored in other similar award programs, and we wanted to recognize these minorities for their work,” said Roger Hughlett, the Journal’s social engagement manager. “Kevin Anderson is without a doubt deserving of his honor. He is a great example of See anderson, Page 3

Building a March Madness bracket is a delicate process — as people mull over their picks, they might use logic and reason, superstition and bias or even blind hope.

But this year, some students have chosen to leave their brackets up to chance, or rather, quantum mechanics. In the basement of the computer science building, a group of about 20 graduate research assistants are using a theory of randomness to predict what

teams will make it to, and prevail in, the Final Four.

And so far, it may be working, said David Hucul, a fourth-year graduate student in one of the five lab rooms participating in the physics-fueled experiment this month. Groups of about four research assistants in different labs each created at least one bracket based on a quantum mechanics experiment, which elicits purely random results. To measure the method’s effectiveness, several research assistants contributed personal brackets made the old-fashioned way. In an online pool, brackets

based on the physics experiment are in the lead, Hucul said.

“We’re losing to random chance,” he added.

More than two years ago, Hucul and postdoctoral researcher Susan Clark developed the idea of applying an existing experiment to March Madness.

The process they chose involves measuring how much energy a single atom happens to emit in a highly advanced experiment: either an above- or belowaverage amount.

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A hidden treasure trove Terrapin Trader sells old university items for exceptionally low costs

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer Sitting on Paint Branch Parkway is the university’s best-kept secret.

It’s a place where you can buy everyday items, such as televisions or bicycles. Or you can find more unique

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trinkets, such as a polygraph test or wicker basket. And it’s all at a fraction of the retail price.

That place is Terrapin Trader, a shop that accepts various items from University System of Maryland schools that the institutions no longer want. The shop then sells those items to other universi-

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ties, companies or the general public.

“We can sell everything, as long as we have the space to hold it,” said Mike Painter, the store’s manager.

While few students know about the store, sales for 2013 have already exceeded

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bracket From PAGE 1 By assigning each basketball team in a matchup to one of those outcomes — above or below average energy — research assistants can build a bracket.

“Why not make our experiments participate in the March Madness?”

Hucul said. “We spend all this time down here all day long, and we spend all day looking at this thing.”

The field of quantum mechanics lends itself to the NCAA tournament surprisingly well — the principle behind the experiment is as simple as a coin toss, said physics professor Chris Monroe, who oversees the five quantum mechanics labs. The only difference is the experiment takes place in a vacuum, so the results are genuinely random, Monroe said.

“Quantum mechanics is different — randomness is intrinsic. It comes with the theory,” Monroe said, adding that even Albert Einstein failed to provide reasoning for this.

But so far, Hucul and Clark are having some success. They made two brackets based on quantum mechanics, including one that predicts a winner in No. 9-seed Wichita State. The Shockers are not only still in the running but beat La Salle last night. Another bracket had the Pittsburgh Pan-

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thers coming out on top, though the MORE ONLINE team fell in the Watch how students tournament’s round of 64. use physics to Looking at predict the Final Four the process, at The Diamondback Monroe and online.

Hucul both admitted physics may not hold the key to choosing the winning bracket, in part because a team that performed badly throughout the season gets equal weight as a top-seeded program. However, No. 1 seeds have never lost in the round of 64.

“Maybe you don’t even want to pick randomly,” Monroe said.

“In fact, I would say that’s a pretty poor bracket if you pick randomly.”

Tyler Brooke, a freshman enrolled in letters and sciences, said he tries to use statistics from past tournaments to predict the likelihood of upsets for his bracket.

Still, he recognizes the tournament results involve a lot of luck.

“It’s kind of random — it’s hard to pick an upset,” he said. “It depends who’s playing well that day.”

Some students said they base their brackets off the nature of programs’ tournament histories, such as Louisville, which has been to the Elite Eight four times since 2005, and Georgetown, which has seen early upsets in each of its past five NCAA tournament appearances.

2012 sales, Painter said. Terrapin Trader has seen about $500,000 in sales this year, while it sold just less than that in 2012.

Terrapin Trader opened in May 1994, following the university’s struggles to auction its used items; test tubes and tractors weren’t generating enough money to continue with auctions.

“It was just a way to clean the campus up, but it wasn’t really working,” said Painter, who has been a university employee for 34 years. “Space is a premium on campus, and they didn’t want people storing things and becoming pack rats.”

Each new piece of university equipment is given a shelf life, Painter said, and at the end of that time, it becomes a part of Terrapin Trader. Once an item sells, a fraction of the proceeds go to the department that donated it.

While people often go for the household items, Painter remembers selling a robot from the engineering department for $350 that “looked like a cross between R2-D2 and C-3PO from Star Wars.”

Terrapin Trader has sold $43,000 worth of test tubes and microscopes to Monash University in Australia, jukebox speakers for $2,400 to a company in Virginia and a street sweeper for $15,200 to a customer in Michigan.

And there’s something for everyone. Students often come looking for furniture, bicycles and other household items, Painter said.

“Students come in here all the time looking to outfit their offcampus houses,” he said. “But we do sell a lot of bikes … There was a line out the door, and every bike sold within a half hour.”

Senior Nadira Ramnarain hadn’t heard of Terrapin Trader but said she wishes she had known about it earlier.

“It sounds like it would be much cheaper and easier than going to

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“Certain coaches, once they get to the tournament, they sort of turn it up for their team,” said Marqus Nixon, a sophomore economics major. “I look at is as more of a coach’s game once it gets down to the tournament.”

When looking at the physics students’ brackets, Nixon said it would be interesting to follow their predictions.

“It’s really cool because everyone has their unique way of

picking teams,” Nixon said.

For now, Monroe’s research assistants are waiting to see which method prevails from the basement of the computer science building. Where Hucul, Clark and lab partner Volkan Inlek work, wires stretch across the room and every inch of space is taken up by equipment. In the middle of their lab, mirrors and lenses are scattered across a table, all directing light toward a vacuum

— the same technology they use to decide each bracket.

Under Monroe’s direction, students conduct research on a variety of quantum mechanics projects, such as the development of the first complex quantum computer. Among the five labs, students and professors have millions of dollars worth of equipment at their disposal, Monroe said.

“There are really very few

comparable places for this, and I’m including MIT, Stanford and Harvard,” Monroe said. “This is world-class stuff.”

However, Monroe encourages the brackets each spring as a “light-hearted” experiment.

“Graduate school can be a grind, but we make fun when we can,” Monroe said with a laugh. “Work hard, play hard.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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david hucul and volkan inlek, behind, joined a group of graduate research assistants to test if quantum mechanics could determine which teams will advance to the Final Four. The experiment, which produces random results, is so far proving to be more effective than the traditional way of predicting the results of the NCAA Tournament, Hucul said. alexis jenkins/for the diamondback

the long-anticipated 21st birthday

Terrpain Trader offers a variety of items for sale, ranging from common household items, such as bicycles and TVs, to the more unusual, such as a robot that looks like it is straight out of Star Wars. Here are some of the stranger items that have been purchase at the store, located just off the campus.

Engineering dept. robot

$350

Jukebox speakers

$2,400

Street sweeper

$15,200

There are many rites of passage in college: pulling an all-nighter before your first exam, surviving the dirty habits of a random roommate or scoring a date with that cutie who barely looks at you on the bus. They all bring you a sense of accomplishment on par with getting an “A” on an exam. Perhaps all these milestones prepare us for the moment our license rotates 90 degrees and our inhibitions, along with our livers, are washed away by 12 Natty Lights and seven shots of tequila.

With everyone I know turning 21 years old, I’ve come to find this long-anticipated birthday is magical and miserable at the same time. Our eyes are opened to a whole new world of $2 rail Tuesdays and Happy Hour hangovers. Cornerstone is no longer a foreign land of fake IDs and bad cologne but is now our substitute for lame house parties.

We relish the thought of purchasing cheap beer and bad vodka on a barstool because, well, we simply can. Stepping into The Barking Dog after the bouncers arrive is like stepping into Narnia. We’ve heard about this place, but we can’t believe we’re there on our own legal accord! photo used under creative commons by constanza

Lowe’s or Ikea,” the cell biology and genetics major said. “I would have liked to have known about it when I was moving into my apartment because that’s a great idea.”

Although the store certainly enjoys its increasing success, Painter prides himself most on its ability to maintain environmentally sustainable practices.

Every item is resold or stripped down to its basic elements for repurposing, Painter said.

“We were green before being green was cool,” he said, adding that unsold computers and “ewaste” are sitting in trailers waiting to be stripped down for their metals and plastics.

For Becky Kim, however, Terrapin Trader isn’t an appealing store option.

“If they’re reselling old couches from various Commons apartments, I don’t think I’d want it,” said the junior communication and sociology major.“It sounds like a good idea, but some of the furniture at this university isn’t the best quality.”

Painter says good quality, though, is the store’s motto.

“We always say that if we wouldn’t buy it, we wouldn’t sell it,” he said. “This is a great place for students to come because you won’t pay an arm and a leg for any of our items.Students even get a 10percent discount when they show their IDs. It’s really a great place for students to make purchases.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

process, just like anyone else in the criminal justice system,” the department wrote in a statement. “If a student is convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony, they are subject to our Code of Student Conduct.

We are working closely with law enforcement officials to better understand the facts of this case.”

Rajshekar has not received any sanctions from the university, however. A student can be suspended before conviction if he or she is perceived as a threat to public safety or disruption to the normal school environment, said Student Conduct Director Andrea Goodwin.

carry a maximum of 40 and 30 years in prison, respectively, according to the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.

R a j s h e ka r i s b e i n g h e l d without bond pending an April 4 hearing before Judge Deborah Robinson, according to Bill Miller, spokesman of Washington’s U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The university’s media relations department declined to comment on the case.

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Julie ParkER, a Prince George’s County Police spokeswoman, addresses the media at the scene of February’s murder-suicide, in which a student suffering from a mental illness killed his roommate and himself. file photo/the diamond-

health From PAGE 1 frustrating, he said, because at the same time, Congress is having “these fiscal debates that instead of investing in services and support for young people, they’re divesting that.

They’re cutting.”

Mental health services could be facing cuts as high as 9 percent if the government allows the cuts to stay in place over the next several months, Abreu said. This would translate into about 373,000 mentally ill adults and children who would not receive the mental health help they need, which could lead to more crime, more hospitalizations and homelessness, he said.

Suicide prevention hotlines often

answer calls from college students grappling with mental health problems, making this an issue that cuts to the heart of college campuses.

“The mental health situation is already really dire,” said Madison Higgins, Help Center administrator at this university. Students already face long wait times to get the help they need, she said, and at times, it leads to more severe consequences, such as students taking more time to graduate or dropping out altogether.

“If anything, we need to be shifting our resources more over to mental health — they definitely should not be taken away,” Higgins said.

In February, 23-year-old graduate student Dayvon Green shot and killed undergraduate roommate Stephen Rane and injured his other roommate, Neal

“We have a suicide epidemic in this country, and at a time where we’re cutting back suicide prevention efforts, it’s not hard to connect that … it could potentially lead to even higher rates.”

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Mental Health America’s senior director of government affairs operating in a crisis mode,” Abreu said, especially when suicide rates far outpace both traffic deaths and homicides. Further cuts could add to these numbers, Abreu added.

“We have a suicide epidemic in this country, and at a time where we’re cutting back suicide prevention efforts,

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anderson From PAGE 1 someone who has risen to the top ranks of collegiate athletics and has had a big influence on his professional realm.”

Soon after Anderson assumed his position, he was faced with two hires that could help make or break his athletic department’s success.

The department bought out the last year of former football coach Ralph Friedgen’s contract for $2 million, and former men’s basketball coach Gary Williams announced he was retiring after more than 20 years at the helm. In just a few weeks, Anderson hired Randy Edsall to lead a football team that had seen little success in several years and Mark Turgeon to coach a basketball team that had been drawing smaller crowds to Comcast Center.

The challenges, however, hardly stopped there. He and university President Wallace Loh were faced with what they both described as the most heart-wrenching decision they ever had to make. After a task force found the athletic department would face a $4.7 million deficit if it didn’t make a drastic change, Loh and Anderson ultimately cut seven teams to help balance the department’s budget.

“Very simply, my hope in this job is to run a business that allows young men and women to gain their dreams by competing on the field and in the classroom,” Anderson said.

This year marks the sixth consecutive year the Journal has recognized minority business owners and leaders living in the Washington region. The goal of the program is to shine the spotlight on people who may not be well-known, but who have demonstrated business success, Hughlett said.

Judges also look for community involvement and philanthropy work, and Anderson’s commitment to developing relationships with student-athletes and rewarding scholarships for academic excellence fit the bill.

“At the end of the day, Kevin always keeps students at the center of his

Oa, before taking his own life. Because Green suffered from a mental illness, the incident elevated mental health dialogue on the campus.

“It’s unfortunate that something like that needs to happen in order for there to be attention brought to this issue,” Higgins said. “There are students that aren’t necessarily suicidal or homicidal that still need help.”

The state has included provisions for mental health in its several measures aimed at curbing gun violence, but for some lawmakers, it isn’t taking up enough of the conversation.

“We should definitely talk about that,” said Del. Michael Hough (RFrederick and Washington). “Unfortunately, that’s one small fraction of the bill.”

The public health system is “already

it’s not hard to connect that … it could potentially lead to even higher rates,” Abreu said.

Along with mental health discussions, this state, like many others, has become a political stage for gun control debates. Lawmakers have often criticized the signature measures of Gov. Martin O’Malley, claiming his efforts go after law-abiding citizens and their Second Amendment rights while turning a blind eye to the mental health issue at hand.

“It does not attack the problem of people who have mental illness to the extent that they’re a danger to themselves or others but being able to obtain and use firearms,” said Del. Michael Smigiel (R-Caroline, Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne’s). “It fails to address that issue.”

But gun control and mental health do not always go hand-in-hand, Abreu said. The discussion surrounding mental health, he added, ignores the more important realities of poor mental health treatment, specifically that the mentally ill are more likely to be victims of violence and cause self-harm. This is more of a concern than a perceived increased likelihood of the mentally ill being more violent and committing homicide, Abreu said.

“When we talk about gun violence, we have to be careful not to conflate violence and people with mental health conditions,” Abreu said. “People with mental illness are no more likely to commit violent acts than people without mental illnesses.”

The premise that gun violence could be solved if the mentally ill are barred from firearms falls short of solving the problem, Abreu said, and will often “paint people with mental illnesses” with “too broad a brush.”

“The connection between violence and mental illness is overblown,” Abreu said. “It’s making connections where there may not be one.”

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athletic director Kevin Anderson was recently named a Washington Business Journal top 25 minority business leaders. file photo/the diamondback decision-making,” said J. Batt, associate athletic director. “He cares deeply for student-athletes, and his motivation of his heart is what sets the pace for his work.”

Women’s basketball forward Alyssa Thomas said Anderson takes a vested interest in student-athletes by rooting for them at games and taking time to speak with them. “[Anderson] is always swinging by practices and games and makes a point to know all the athletes,” she said. “I think that’s really important in a leader, to show how much he cares and he’s behind us all the way. At Maryland, we definitely talk about being the best in everything we do, and I think he lives by that as well.”

Other 2013 honorees include George Mason President Angel Cabrera, Montgomery College President DeRionne Pollard and Jenel Wyatt, regional medical director of Johns Hopkins Community Physicians. Appearing on that list of honorees helps keep Anderson motivated to continue improving, he said.

“Anything in your life should be perceived as a learning experience,” he said. “The beauty of being around all of these brilliant people is that I’m able to learn from them.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

This campus could soon have a Code of Student Conduct that addresses misbehavior occurring off the campus, becoming one of the last schools within the University System of Maryland to do so.

The University Senate’s Student Conduct Committee is scheduled to decide on the bill’s final language today after a several-weeks-long review.

Without the proposal, which Office of Student Conduct Director Andrea Goodwin introduced in fall 2012, the current student conduct code has limited means of holding students responsible for engaging in hazing, violence or sexual assault off the campus. If the bill passes the senate, those incidences would be within the office’s jurisdiction as long as students are involved and the incident has an impact on the university.

“We are trying to improve the wellbeing of the campus as a whole,” Goodwin said.

In addition,this campus is trying to keep up with other universities in the system that already have some kind of discretionary application of its code beyond campus borders, Goodwin added.

“Towson [University], for example, changed its code six years ago. We are learning from their experiences,” Goodwin said, adding that with a growing number of students living beyond the campus, the current code is due for a review. “It’s not working anymore.”

On Wednesday, Goodwin and Jason Speck, chairman of the Student Conduct Committee, presented the status of the bill at a Student Government Association meeting.

“This will be very beneficial to students,” Speck said, adding in the same way the Student Conduct Code addresses incidents on the campus without automatically reporting them to the police, the revised code would then apply to situations beyond the campus’ borders.

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Though police can address crime off the campus, some students hesitate to report peers, said Office of Student Conduct Director Andrea Goodwin, who has proposed expanding her office’s jurisdiction. file photo/the diamondback tal affairs director, expressed concerns the expanded jurisdiction could result in increased staff needs. However, Goodwin said she did not anticipate the office seeing a much larger case load.

“We just want to make the process easier. And we want to give victims of misbehavior, no matter where a situation occurs, [the ability] to have recourse on campus,” she added in regards to students who might feel hesitant to report an incident directly to the police. “They could come directly to me and my staff, and we would give them all the options they have.”

During the course of the proposal’s review, students raised concerns that an expansion of jurisdiction would have a “big brother” effect, meaning students could face university sanctions for every minor incident.

“We definitely don’t want to get more students into trouble,” Goodwin said. “We are only interested in cases that have substantial impact on this university.”

The proposal is part of a wider effort the university is taking to improve quality of life in College Park. For example, in the wake of increased complaints from permanent residents that student behavior creates a nuisance in many neighborhoods,

the university’s Department of Public Safety has crafted a plan to increase community safety. Officials plan to expand University Police jurisdiction into a portion of the county, and a work group has recently been formed to improve communication between the student body, residents and decision makers.

“I think this can be beneficial to students,” graduate student Asad Jabbar said of an expanded code.

However, he added, “It can give the university too much power. They have to define how far they can go.”

The proposal does not yet include provisions as to where the Student Conduct Code’s expanded jurisdiction would end. However, Goodwin emphasized the reviewed code would not change how her office handles a reported situation. Ultimately, if the senate approves rewriting the Student Conduct Code, there will be an educational process to inform students about the changes.

In addition, the student body is still able to influence the process, as the SGA is scheduled to vote on a resolution supporting the senate bill in its upcoming Wednesday meeting.

in the 1600s. I felt like it was a good place to talk about American legacy and everything that doesn’t go away.”

Yet the nearly omnipresent score, which invades the film’s pure, intimate moments, taints this immense sense of realism; the music either ratchets up the emotion already present in the scene to an overwhelming level, or introduces an

irrelevant tone that doesn’t make sense with what’s happening at the time.

And this ambition is the crux of the problem in The Place Beyond the Pines. As Cianfrance displays so well, humanity is inherently flawed. No one can do everything.

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pines From PAGE 6 “A lot of people didn’t recognize me — there was this ghost-town vibe — and it helped me get into my role,” Mendes said. “They were hungry, they wanted food and they wanted it fast, and if they

didn’t get it, they wouldn’t leave me a tip and say something mean.”

More than anything, The Place Beyond the Pines showcases the town of Schenectady — which means “place beyond the pine plains” in a Mohawk dialect — as both a crimeridden area that has seen better days but also one of natural beauty, with

woods and rolling hills aplenty.

“One thing about Schenectady is that it has a real past, a real history,” said Cianfrance, the director. “If you look at their police badge, there’s a burning building with a bunch of Indians chasing these Dutch people out of it with spears, and that happened in Schenectady with these massacres

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t’s not every day you see a large institution standing up for the little guys.

But this editorial board is proud to say our university has taken a stand in a human rights issue to protect 2,800 former Indonesian factory workers — individuals who are owed a total of $1.8 million in severance pay from Adidas.

On Tuesday, this university threatened to cut financial ties with Adidas if they don’t “remedy labor rights violations” within 90 days beginning Tuesday. We could join nine other institutions in dropping Adidas if the university severs ties with the company.

After the slew of issues that have arisen in the past year with workers’ rights on this campus, as well as the labor issues with Daycon — a janitorial supply company that was found guilty of violating federal labor laws — it’s refreshing to see the administration taking steps to ensure fair practices are upheld throughout all companies we interact with.

However, these aren’t exactly leaps in the right direction. Student activist groups such as Community Roots and Justice at Maryland bring up a fair point when they say they are disappointed the university has decided to monitor the case and suspend approval of new designs, as opposed to simply shelving Adidas items by terminating its contract.

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It’s understandable the university can’t simply dive into this issue without considering the ramifications.

But Adidas only yielded 1 percent in royalties in the past year when compared to the university’s 499 other licensed companies. Joe Ebaugh — the university’s director of trademark licensing — said the financial losses of terminating the university’s contract are minimal.

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The university should carry out its threats to cut ties with Adidas given the company’s labor rights violations.

This editorial board isn’t quite sure exactly what’s holding us back from severing ties with a company that violates labor rights.

Of course, Adidas came out with its own statement, saying it has directly given $525,000 in humanitarian aid to the former workers and their families, as well as providing job placement services for workers — noting more than 1,000 workers found new jobs, many with Adidas suppliers. The company also claims it has no obligation to pay the workers.

There are two sides to the story, and what it’s all boiling down to is this:

Will we side with the athletic-wear mogul, or defend human rights?

The choice doesn’t seem too difficult.

And this editorial board would also like to commend the efforts of student activist groups. University officials became aware of the contract violations in 2011, but felt compelled to act after the student campaign began earlier this year. Community Roots and Justice at Maryland hosted two PT Kizone factory workers, Heni Sutisna and Aslam Hidayat, in February as part of the workers’ national Badidas Worker Tour. Ebaugh attended the talk and the student groups invited university President Wallace Loh, university relations Vice President Peter Weiler and Administrative Affairs Vice President Rob Specter.

This is the perfect example of the symbiotic relationship that should exist between students who advocate for workers’ rights and university officials. It’s organized and orderly, and both sides have effective lines of communication, resulting in everyone working toward the best outcome for the most people.

Specifically when it comes to human rights and labor law violations, it’s commendable that both the administration and the on-campus activists have chosen to take action, rather than sit idly by and hope something turns out for the better.

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No excuses on Friday Learning from curves and Christianity

MATT RICE Last year, I took CHEM 231: Organic Chemistry I, and it lived up to its notorious reputation. Whenever I saw the top grade (the one that destroyed the curve) listed, I comforted myself with a slew of unfounded excuses: The person who scored 100 percent probably had more time than I did, didn’t have a social life or was some jerk retaking the class after they only got a “B” the first time.

When we see someone do something better than us, our natural response is to make excuses. It is far easier to find or invent flaws in the people who challenge us rather than admitting that we need to improve.

I experienced that during spring break, when I came out of the Metro to find a group of people — Bibles in hand — telling everyone they were headed to hell. One of the men stopped me and began talking to me. I quickly tried to persuade him and his friends to be more compassionate, but he responded with an argument — fire-and-brimstone style.

In the heat of the moment, I couldn’t think of a rebuttal, so I found an excuse to exit the conversation. As soon as I left, I began inventing reasons why he was probably a terrible person. Yet I quickly realized I was only thinking these things to avoid the fact that the man had won the argument. Rather than admit I had lost, I looked at his flaws.

I believe “you’re going to hell” preaching is wrong: Coercing someone by inciting fear is never right.

Encountering that firsthand helped me understand why some people dislike

Christianity: If the religion consisted only of scaring people into submission with hell, I’d hate that too.

Yet when faced with a gentler Christianity, critics often characterize it as an unfounded crutch people believe in because it allows them to avoid the unpleasant fact of death. Their assessment is fairly accurate for a Christianity that, like my self-affirmation after the argument or an Orgo test, does not recognize faults and seek change.

But true Christianity does demand a change; it demands daily conversion and death to self.

Today is Good Friday — the day that Christians remember the biblical story of Jesus Christ’s execution.

Like the curve-wrecker in Orgo, Jesus’ perfection hurt the pride of those who thought they were fine as is, so they put him to death.

What if they had decided to change themselves rather than getting defensive? If the story ended on Good Friday, that question would be pointless; they did not. Case closed. Yet Good Friday is followed by Easter, with its claim that Christ has risen. If true, this gives a second chance. In fact, Christian traditions claim that some of the very soldiers who executed Christ heeded his example and went on to become saints.

When we are challenged, we can always give in to the temptation to excuse ourselves, to focus on the flaws of anyone who challenges us with their words or example. This does not lead to improvement but to stagnation. If we admit our own inadequacies, change is possible. If we die to our pride, to our bad habits and our past way of life, we can rise to a new life freed from the things that hinder us.

Matt Rice is a sophomore engineering and materials science major. He can be reached at matthew.rice.d@gmail.com.

Biotech food at the public’s expense TOMMY CREEGAN

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Toilet paper: Testing our tolerance JOSHUA DOWLING My four years at this university have been lovely. I’m constantly amazed at the variety of courses I’ve been able to take, the diverse, dynamic and engaging people I have met and just how amazing a short nap on McKeldin Mall can feel during the spring.

Despite all of this, I still struggle almost daily with basic tasks such as navigating Taliaferro Hall or finding appetizing vegetarian options on the campus. And no day would be complete without my taxing, miserable walk up the hill to Stamp Student Union.

But I’ve come to expect — and even accept — these challenges. It doesn’t matter how hard I try or how much I hope there will be great vegetarian food, Coke machines or navigable humanities buildings — and no amount of time on a treadmill could ever help me conquer the hill on Campus Drive.

One thing I’ll simply never be able to come to terms with is our university’s

complete and utter disregard for the health and well-being of the students.

And I’m not referring to the Counseling Center — though they’re doing a fabulous job and really need more money so they can treat and help more people.

This is more a concern that affects everyone nearly equally, whether they be staff, faculty or students. I’m referring, of course, to the quality of toilet paper on the campus.

It’s no secret the bathrooms on the campus are in a constant state of disarray — and some have written about this before, most notably Rich Abdill.

(You should really go check him out.)

The single unifying flaw in all of our bathrooms is the lack of acceptable toilet paper. From Eppley Recreation Center to Stamp Student Union, from the far reaches of the campus to McKeldin Library, the bathrooms are stocked with the roughest variety of toilet paper available. It’s mind-boggling to attempt to comprehend just how such thin toilet paper was created. It would be a stretch even to say it’s one-ply. Half-ply, perhaps, but I doubt it.

It’s hard to imagine how the univer-

sity maintains such an impressive retention rate when our toilet paper isn’t worth crap. How are we supposed to entice prospective students into coming here if our toilet paper dissolves in our hands? More importantly, how can university President Wallace Loh entertain foreign heads of state and other dignitaries during his magnificent palace galas if the bathrooms aren’t stocked with Charmin or Cottonelle? If we buy our student-athletes iPads, shouldn’t we be making sure they’re well-stocked with toilet paper too?

I’ll level with you. I have very little understanding as to how much toilet paper costs or how bulk buying bathroom supplies works, but this feels very important. Isn’t this why Feminism Without Borders was trying to get us to drop Daycon? Because their toilet paper sucked? That must have been it.

Let’s not half-ass this, President Loh. Real people, real schools and real athletic departments need real toilet paper.

Joshua Dowling is a senior government and politics and history major. He can be reached at dowlingj@terpmail.umd.edu.

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While most Americans were paying attention to the highly publicized and historic U.S. Supreme Court hearings on same-sex marriage, Congress pulled a fast one on the general public.

On March 26, President Obama signed a spending bill (the 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill or “Monsanto Protection Act”) with a backdoor judicial provision protecting practices of biotech food companies such as Monsanto from judicial review. According to Food Democracy Now, under section 735 of the bill, federal judges are prohibited from halting the sale and planting of genetically engineered crops during an appeals process.

In the past, legal advocates have been able to convince the court to halt production of genetically modified crops until a federal judge approves those seeds. Section 735 strips judges of their duty to protect consumer rights. So even if these seeds are found to produce dangerous and harmful food, as many studies indicate, biotech food giants would be allowed to keep producing them.

This bill expires in six months, as it is a temporary spending bill passed to prevent government shutdown.

The protection provision may or may not be renewed, but it sets a bad precedent that allows corporations to bypass consumer safety protections with the help of Congress. It also treats court challenges as a privilege, not a right.

Sadly enough, as chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, our own state’s Sen. Barbara Mikulski allowed this bill to ride through Congress without appropriate review from the agricultural or judiciary committees. After the vote, many members of Congress were unaware of the bill’s Monsanto protection provision. On this front, Mikulski has failed us.

An overwhelming majority of Americans are for labeling genetically modified food. Fifty countries have either banned or restricted genetically modified foods, while the U.S. still doesn’t even require labeling.

Phil Angell, Monsanto’s director of corporate communications, told The New York Times in 1998, “Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA’s job.”

Conveniently enough for Monsanto, many former associates find themselves inside the federal government. Former Monsanto vice president Michael Taylor is now the FDA deputy commissioner for foods. And former director of Monsanto-funded Danforth Plant Science Center, Roger Beachy, served as the director of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture from October 2009 to May 2011.

It doesn’t stop there, as many other government officials, congressmen and lobbyists have ties to Monsanto, including Hillary Clinton and Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan.

I do not have the authority to definitively say whether genetically modified foods are damaging to public health.

What makes section 735 so dangerous is that Congress has placed the profits and public image of Monsanto and other biotech companies ahead of Americans’ right to know what we are eating. There is no regard for or incentive to actually uncover and reveal the real effects genetically modified foods have on our health. Section 735 only restricts the rights of the people and strengthens the power of giant biotech companies such as Monsanto.

We must be aware of the fight for safety-ensured food and proper engineered food labels. When it comes to what our bodies consume and turn into energy, we must demand honesty from the government and the biotech food industry.

Tommy Creegan is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at creegant@terpmail.umd.edu.

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Buzz Bissinger, who is synonymous with small-town decency due to the fact that he penned Friday Night Lights and is named Buzz, recently admitted to a shopping addiction that cost him $600,000 but gained him 40 pairs of leather pants, just like all blue-collar high school football coaches wear. He has checked himself into rehab, where, presumably, a coach/therapist’s halftime speech will inspire him to get back out there and spend.

REVIEW | THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES

PINING FOR SIMPLICITY The Place Beyond the Pines makes a valiant effort to unite too many disparate story lines

By Mary Clare Fischer Senior staff writer They say that everything good comes in threes.

Writers use this technique to give their prose an eloquent sound. Marketing firms employ it to persuade consumers to invest in their products. (“Just do it.”) Photographers turn to the rule of thirds to orient their shots — because placing significant elements where their imaginary lines intersect creates tension, energy and intrigue.

Yet, when done successfully, the series of three is only a means to an end, pushing the audience to understand one book, shoe or picture. That’s where Derek Cianfrance’s (Blue Valentine) triptych crime drama, The Place Beyond the Pines, fails: It tries to tell three stories instead of one.

The first segment follows Luke (Ryan Gosling, Gangster Squad), a heavily tattooed, angry but silent man who travels around as a member of a vagabond motorcycle show. In Schenectady, N.Y., he runs into ex-flame Romina (Eva Mendes, Holy Motors), who seems to have wanted one last glimpse of him but nothing more.

Not the case with Luke, who returns to Romina’s house and comes face to face with his unbeknownst-to-himbefore-this-moment infant son, Jason.

“I was creating this guy who was a melting pot of masculine cliches,”

Gosling said, “but when confronted with his kid, like a mirror, all those things didn’t mean you were a man.”

Luke immediately decides he needs to support his newfound family and becomes entangled with Robin (Ben Mendelsohn, Two Mothers), a wily mechanic who suggests robbing a bank — an endeavor he’s already pulled off successfully several times.

This plan goes over well at first, until a scuffle with Romina’s current boyfriend causes Luke to go into panic mode. He becomes careless and is captured speeding away from his next robbery by rookie cop Avery (Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook).

The movie thereby shifts into its second segment (We’re only 45 minutes in, folks), which focuses on Avery proving himself as a police officer under the premise of dealing with a lie — he’d made a mistake on duty, but the unsuspicious public regards the act as heroic.

Here’s where the film begins to lag, as Avery’s character becomes trapped in the irrelevant web of corruption that is his police department and must decide whether to expose his comrades.

Fast forward to the third segment, 15 years later, when Avery’s troublemaker of a son, AJ (Emory Cohen, Nor’easter), is sent to a different high school for senior year. It’s the same one that now-adolescent Jason (Dane DeHaan, Lincoln), oh-so-coincidentally attends. The two are arrested for drug

possession, leading to insights about their fathers and confrontation up the wazoo among multiple characters.

Now. That’s a lot of material — eight paragraphs, in fact. Broken down by film segments, that’s five devoted to the first section, two to the second and one to the third, which correlates with the level of viewer excitement throughout the 140 minutes of screen time.

It’s a shame, because each segment is a fairly decent film within itself.

Gosling hasn’t strayed far from his recent indulgence as a pseudo-criminal (i.e., Drive), but he plays his misunderstood character — whose most prominent tattoo is a small knife dripping tears of black blood next to his eye — with ease and emotion. Cooper, in contrast, plays an utterly different character than his Oscar-nominated role in Silver Linings Playbook, but his simmering intensity is just as effective. Mendes is underused, but aside from a few excessively dramatic moments, her portrayal of a woman torn between love and common sense comes across as authentic.

This might have been because all the actors assimilated into the community to prepare for The Place Beyond the Pines. Mendes spent her days off working at the same diner where her character, Romina, waits tables in the film.

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[Virginia] will come out in new things that we need to improvise and play against.”

If the Cavaliers choose to play zone tomorrow, Carlson will likely be a focal point in the Terps’ offense.

Despite struggling for much of the game against the Wildcats, the Terps did develop a blueprint of how to attack a zone during the three-goal win. Attackman Kevin Cooper held the ball during offensive possessions on a mud-soaked Villanova Stadium field, using his 6-foot-4 frame to see over defenders. Meanwhile, Carlson would often find a seam in the zone, receive a pass from Cooper and absorb contact while scoring a goal.

After the Terps chose to run the offense through the two attackmen, Cooper finished with four assists and Carlson notched five goals. The Terps may need the duo to emulate that effort if they hope to beat a Virginia zone tomorrow.

“Kevin’s a very unselfish player; he’s got very good vision,” Tillman said. “And Jay Carlson is a guy that if you want to play zone, that is a great ‘X’ factor for us because he is great inside.”

The Terps wouldn’t have to change much if the Cavaliers play man-to-man, attackman Owen Blye said. They know they can rely on their midfield group to take advantage of spe-

break UConn’s full-court press.

But in more recent games, there have been stretches in which she has been the primary ballhandler on the court to set up her teammates.

Huskies guard Kelly Faris was charged with guarding Thomas in December and responded with a full stat line. The 5-foot11 senior scored eight points, grabbed seven rebounds, dished seven assists and notched eight steals. She did a bit of everything for a UConn team that posted its worst offensive performance up to that point in the season.

“I think we’ve grown a lot since,” guard Katie Rutan said.

“We’ve really worked on our mistakes. We’ve had mistakes in the past, and we’ve been able to fix it.

We just have to keep working the next couple days and just put it all together for them.”

Jumping to a fast start will be key for the Terps tomorrow. In their first meeting, the Huskies outscored the Terps by just two in the second half, but UConn’s 13-point halftime lead proved too much to overcome. A UConn press forced the Terps into five turnovers in the first five-and-a-half minutes, helping the Huskies build a 13-4 lead. UConn stretched its lead to as many as 19 in the second half.

“We know what to expect this time,” Thomas said. “I think last time, the nerves played into it.

Now that we know what they want to do, we expect them to press, so it’s definitely going to be a different start for us.”

The Terps suffered a slow start

Attackman Kevin Cooper and attackman Jay Carlson will look to get the Terps’ offense back on track against Virginia tomorrow in Charlottesville, Va. charlie deboyace/the diamondback cific matchups, after primarily facing man-to-man coverage during their blistering fivegame start to the season.

But Blye believes the Terps need to be more patient if they want to avoid duplicating last week’s performance against the Tar Heels — a game in which illadvised perimeter shots led to a .216 shot percentage and the team’s first loss.

“We don’t want to change our mindset. I just think teams throw some different things at us, and we have to adapt,” Blye said. “We want to be an unselfish group that follows the game plan and we want to be efficient and take good shots.”

The Terps certainly aren’t panicking. After all, they still rank second in the nation with 14 goals per game and a .384 shot percentage. But if they want to break out of their recent offensive rut, they’ll have to adapt to whatever the Cavaliers throw at them.

“Depending on what teams do defensively, we just want to be able to get our guys in a couple of different sets,” Tillman said. “As we go and we watch what those guys are doing, we have to do a good job as coaches of making those in-game adjustments.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

Forward AlySsa Thomas’ Terps were a team going through a transition during their first meeting with UConn, as injuries forced two freshmen to play prominent roles. charlie deboyace/the diamondback against Quinnipiac in Saturday’s first round game and dug an early nine-point hole.But against Michigan State on Monday, the Terps were sharp from the outset and delivered what coach Brenda Frese called their most complete defensive performance of the season.

The first time the Terps faced UConn, Frese’s squad was going through a transitional phase.

Forward Tierney Pfirman was making her first career start. It was guard Chloe Pavlech’s third career start. Thomas hadn’t yet rounded into the form she’s displayed in the past month. No one had established herself as a third scoring option behind Thomas and forward Tianna Hawkins.

Frese was upbeat after the game despite the struggles. Her team held down a rolling Huskies group three days removed from losing a key starter.

The game was also played in front of a pro-UConn crowd about

30 minutes from its Storrs, Conn., campus. Webster Bank Arena has sold out for tomorrow’s games, which feature No. 6-seed Delaware and No. 2-seed Kentucky, meaning the crowd might not favor the local team as heavily.

“I think we’re really clicking right now,” Pavlech said. “It’s the perfect time to click and peak as a team and as a whole.”

Nearly five months ago, Thomas thought she’d be returning to Connecticut to face one of the nation’s most historically successful program. Through a season with an assortment of twists and turns, that inkling has come true. The underdog Terps have a distinct opportunity for an unexpected upset.

“I do know this: Alyssa Thomas is an intense, fierce competitor,” Frese said. “No question, she’ll be ready to play.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

first baseman tim kiene returned from a hamate bone injury Tuesday against George Mason, batting 3-for-4 with an RBI. file photo/the diamondback

WOLFPACK From PAGE 8 preseason batting practice, when a foul tip off his hands broke the bat and impacted his lower palm.

Coaches originally expected Kiene to recover before the start of ACC play, but his timetable was pushed back after he aggravated the injury during practice.

Now that he’s healthy, the junior gives the Terps (14-10, 3-6 ACC) a proven power bat they can deploy in the middle of their lineup. Kiene hit a teamhigh six home runs and drove in 19 runs last season.

LUUS From PAGE 8 Luus said she has felt pain in her right shoulder since her freshman season, but doctors were unable to diagnose the problem. So Luus kept playing until finally, this fall, the pain became too much.

She decided to look for help back home and sent an MRI to her doctor in South Africa. The injury would require surgery, ending a promising junior season before it could begin.

“At first it was the end of my world. Tennis is what I came here to do,” Luus said. “What helped me a lot during this time is that I got to be really involved with the team.”

Luus attends every practice and every match, and doles out helpful tips or pieces of advice to every Terp, from the

His return couldn’t have come at a better time, either. Right fielder Jordan Hagel broke his left thumb during the Florida State series two weeks ago, and he is sidelined indefinitely. Szefc said Hagel — who is wearing a soft cast — will be available in pinch running and defensive replacement situations, but is unlikely to return to the lineup for this weekend’s series against the Wolfpack (17-9, 3-6).

“I can’t really tell you when he is going to be back. It could be this weekend, or it could be next weekend,” Szefc said.

“He can put his finger in a glove and catch a fly ball, but he isn’t ready to hit yet.”

That’s part of what makesthe addition of Kiene to the lineup so significant. And even with the absence of Hagel — who is second on the team in batting average (.344) and first in slugging percentage (.525) — Kiene isn’t worried. After all, the Terps have a number of players with significant offensive abilities.

“We have a great offense,” Kiene said. “I have trust in t h e g uys a n d so d o e s t h e coaching staff. It’s not just one guy. We have plenty of hitters who can handle a bat, and I just want to be one of those guys who contributes.”

five freshmen to the sole senior, Vroni Van Berlo.

“When you have an injury, some players really get down because they aren’t able to hit,” Van Berlo said. “But she’s doing a really good job still supporting us even though she wants to be out there on the court.”

In three weeks, Luus plans to start training with the rest of the Terps. She has already started training individually twice a week and says she’s pain-free for the first time in more than two years. However, Luus doesn’t expect to play full matches again until this summer.

Though Luus said she would never want to go through this experience again,she believes watching from the sidelines has taught her a lot about herself — as a player and a person. She has learned to be patient, to see the whole picture during the match and not get caught up in a badly played point.

All the while, she has retained her passion for the game, one of the first traits both Van Berlo and Panova mentioned when describing her.

“She’s not afraid to say something. She has a great energy,” Panova said. “She’s all about Maryland. I think she’s the perfect role model right now.”

All of those traits and skills should prove useful when Luus pursues a professional coaching career. But at the moment, Luus remains focused on playing. She has obtained a medical redshirt and still has two years of eligibility left to recapture last year’s success.

“I’ll play some tournaments over the summer and over the fall, so I definitely think it will be possible for me to get back to that level,” Luus said. “I can do even better than that.”

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL | NCAA TOURNAMENT

‘we will see them again’

Terps ready for highly anticipated rematch with UConn in Sweet 16

THE MATCHUP

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer

Connecticut Huskies

No. 4 seed

No. 1 seed

WHEN Tomorrow, 2 p.m.

WHERE Webster Bank Arena, Bridgeport, Conn.

TV ESPN DATA The two teams have already met once this season. The Huskies defeated the Terps, 63-48, on Dec. 3.

In the depths of the XL Center in December, after the Terrapins women’s basketball team fell to then-No. 2 Connecticut, Alyssa Thomas made a strong proclamation.

“I know we will see them again,” Thomas said.

The odds of that happening seemed slim. After all, the NCAA tournament would provide the lone chance for the Terps to face the Big East foe. And with 64 teams and so many possibilities for matchups, a March Madness meeting seemed improbable.

But Thomas’ postgame statement has come to fruition. Tomorrow, the No. 4-seed Terps will continue their tournament run against the No. 1-seed Huskies in the Sweet 16 at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn.

“I knew [the tournament committee would] probably try to match us up,” Thomas said Wednesday. “I wanted to see them again, so it’s just something that I said.”

The two-time ACC Player of the Year has plenty of reason to want to see UConn (31-4) again, too. In the 63-48 defeat on Dec. 3, Thomas shot 2-of-12 from the field, scored six points and turned the ball over eight times.

That’s not the player Thomas is, and she knows it. The forward has scored in double figures in every game since, including at least 26 in each of the past four contests.

Thomas has added another dimension to her game since last seeing the Huskies. She rarely ran the offense from the point in that game, and the Terps (26-7) leaned on her to help See HUSKIES, Page 7

MARYLAND TERRAPINS

Coach Brenda Frese (top right) and the Terps have already faced coach Geno Auriemma (top left) and the Huskies once this season. The teams will play tomorrow for a berth in the Elite Eight. photos by charlie deboyace/the diamondback

BASEBALL

MEN’S LACROSSE

TENNIS

Terps get Kiene back from injury

A glimpse toward the future

Junior will play in series at N.C. State

Out for year due to injury, Luus serves as volunteer assistant

By Daniel Popper Staff writer

By Phillip Suitts Staff writer

For 23 games, the Terrapins baseball team patiently awaited the return of one of its best hitters. That wait finally came to an end Tuesday.

After missing the start of the season with a hamate bone injury he suffered during preseason batting practice, slugger Tim Kiene made his longawaited season debut against George Mason. And it didn’t take long for the 6-foot-4, 244-pound first baseman to show coach John Szefc exactly what the Terps have been missing in the middle of the lineup all season.

Batting in the five hole, Kiene went 3-for-4 with two doubles and an RBI against the Patriots, serving as one of the few bright spots in the Terps’ 3-2 loss.

“It’s exciting,” said Kiene, whose Terps will travel to Raleigh, N.C., for a three-game series at N.C. State this weekend. “I’m happy I was able to recover well and come out and perform. I’ve been talking to Coach a lot, and today was the right day for me to come back, and it went well.”

Injuries to the hamate bone — located near the lower palm and upper wrist on the pinky side of the hand — are common in baseball, as the bone lies near the surface of the palm and can fracture with little to moderate contact. Kiene fractured his during See WOLFPACK, Page 7

we’re taking good shots in good areas of the field.”

That could prove difficult, though, considering the Terps (6-1, 1-1 ACC) aren’t sure what strategy the Cavaliers (5-4, 0-0) will employ. Virginia has played both zone and man-to-man this year, and recent game film will show the Cavaliers how each system has stymied the Terps’ offense.

So the veteran bunch has plans in place to attack either defense.

“We’ve worked hard on practicing against the man-to-man and against the zones,” attackman Jay Carlson said. “We just need to be prepared for every situation. And I’m sure

Last year, junior Welma Luus was part of the No. 15 doubles pairing in the nation and was one of only three Terrapins women’s tennis players who played in the NCAA tournament.

Ten months and an MRI later, she has yet to play in a match this spring. A season-ending torn labrum ruined any chance of building on her success as a sophomore last season, but the injury might have given Luus — a volunteer assistant coach this year — a glimpse at a future career.

“I definitely think, at least for a year or two after college, I would want to do college coaching,” said Luus, who will be on the sidelines when the Terps play at No. 15 Clemson tomorrow and at Georgia Tech on Sunday. “So I definitely want to use this experience and see what I can do with it.”

It’s not a position the South African expected to be in when the team began practice in the fall. She was one of only two returning Terps players, and her experience was a chief asset for a young squad. In fact, first-year coach Daria Panova even turned to her longest-tenured player for help in the fall whenever she had a question.

A nagging shoulder injury made playing this season difficult, though.

See CAVALIERS, Page 7

See LUUS, Page 7

Attackman Jay Carlson said the Terps have practiced against both man-to-man and zone defenses in preparation for the Cavaliers. file photo/the diamondback

Opposing teams still crafting different ways to defend Terps Tillman not yet sure what strategy Virginia will use tomorrow

By Aaron Kasinitz Staff writer John Tillman isn’t overthinking the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team’s dip in offensive production during the past two games. The third-year coach figured maintaining the Terps’ torrid 16 goals-per-game pace in the season’s first five contests wasn’t necessarily a realistic goal.

But the nation’s second-ranked offense seems to have hit a snag after grinding out a sloppy 10-7 victory at Villanova on March 16 and suffering through a 33-minute scoring drought in a 10-8 loss to North Carolina on Saturday.

Opposing defenses are slowly finding unique ways to guard the

Terps. The Wildcats used a zone, while the Tar Heels played a manto-man with long poles guarding the Terps’ midfielders to keep them away from the crease. Both teams experienced relative success, holding the Terps to their two lowest-scoring outputs all year.

The No. 2 Terps will have a chance to return to form tomorrow in their ACC regular-season finale at No. 15 Virginia. They don’t need to make any fundamental changes to their game plan to do so, Tillman said.

They just have to make small tweaks.

“I think as the season goes on, people start scouting you and goalies get a better idea of how you shoot the ball,” Tillman said. “We’ve got to adjust to that. We got to make sure