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City to widen surveillance capabilities along Route 1

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Five cameras will cover blocks by Varsity, View

Bill would require cost info for college students

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B y t he e n d of t h i s s u m m e r, College Park will install five new security cameras along Route 1, working to expand the University Police security operations center’s surveillance capabilities.

With a growing pedestrian presence in the area near the University View and T he Varsity, city officials have looked to increase surveillance along that corridor of Route 1, said Bob Ryan, city public services director. The efforts come just a few months after the University Pol ice depa r t ment a nnounced its plans to expand its jurisdiction in the city.

The five cameras, which will all be located near the two apartment complexes, will be the fi rst surveillance cameras installed north of Paint Branch Parkway, District 2 Councilman Monroe Dennis said. It will cost about $65,000 to purchase and install the cameras.

The university’s police operations center will operate three of the cameras remotely, Ryan said.

They’ll join the dozens of city and campus “pan, tilt and zoom” cameras operated by University Police. Each camera can see about a block in every direction, he said.

The other two cameras are license plate readers, which Ryan said will assist county and University Police department investigations when necessary.

In January, university student Cory Hubbard died after a car struck him near the intersection of Route 1 and

FORWARD JAKE LAYMAN’S second-half slam over Virginia Tech’s Trevor Thompson was one of a number of highlights for the Terps. chester lam/the diamondback

GRAND SLAM Terps build off Wednesday’s win in dominating blowout

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

BLACKSBURG, Va. — First, it was Dez Wells. The Terrapins men’s basketball guard stripped Virginia Tech guard Christian Beyer and finished with a sleek slam on the other end with just more than 16 minutes left in the second half of Saturday afternoon’s ACC tilt.

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a dunk over 6-foot-11 Trevor Thompson seven minutes after Wells’ breakaway flush. And finally, it was forward Charles Mitchell. Carrying 260 pounds on his 6-foot-8 frame, Mitchell got

The state is looking to mandate what this university is already doing voluntarily: helping students understand the cost of higher education by getting fi nancial information to them early.

A bill that has yet to make its way through House and Senate committees would require state universities to provide all first-time, full-time undergraduate students with information such as the estimated cost of attendance per year, potential financial aid options, graduation and default rates for students at the university and the expected monthly cost of debt repayment for students after graduation.

However, the state’s university system is already voluntarily participating in a similar national program the U.S. Education Department introduced in July 2012. Since the fall 2013 semester, this university has provided incoming students with detailed fi nancial reports that mirror the proposed ones. This dialogue is already happening at the federal level, said Greg Fitzgerald, Maryland Higher Education Commission chief of staff, and it would be wise for the state to follow suit.

“The federal government has been talking about doing this for a little while, and this is the direction they are heading in,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s a good piece of legislation. It’s just getting out a little bit in front of what the fed requirements might be, and a lot of the schools are already doing it.”

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3-D-printed vascular grafts may offer hope

MACKLIN OLLAYOS | 1993 – 2014

‘He was always optimistic about everything’

Researchers’ strategy yields more flexibility

Junior, 20, inspired despite brain tumor

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Senior staff writer

By Holly Cuozzo @emperorcuozzco Staff writer

If all goes according to plan, this university’s bioengineering research could have life-saving applications.

For the past two years, university researchers John Fisher and Anthony Melchiorri have been developing an improved implant method for treating cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death globally.

Their technology — patient-personalized 3-D-printed vascular grafts — offers a new take on the already accepted surgical concept of removing a segment of an artery or vein and replacing it with a prosthetic.

The method of 3-D printing is one of the most important and distinguishable features of the new strategy, said Fisher, bioengineering professor and associate chairman.

“We just had a simple idea,” he said. “Instead of making straight cylinders, wouldn’t it be nice if we could make vascular grafts that had an architectural complexity that

In 2007, Macklin Ollayos was “pretty stunned” when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, he told Walter Johnson High School’s newspaper, The Pitch.

Shortly afterward, Ollayos had brain surgery at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington to remove the majority of a tumor on the right temporal lobe of his brain. In summer 2013, the junior accounting and finance major was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, which he fought with what his friends called an inspirationally positive attitude until he died Wednesday.

“Macklin was the nicest person I have ever met,” said Michael Supanick, Ollayos’ roommate and a junior accounting and finance major. “He was always optimistic about everything, even his condition, until the very end.”

Despite his circumstances,

anthony melchiorri, a bioengineering graduate student, discusses his work with professor John Fisher on 3-D-printable vascular grafts, which could reduce the global leading cause of death. rachel george/the diamondback reflects human anatomy? And in order to do that, we just need to print them.”

Fisher said large-diameter vascular grafts are already available, but they lack the specificity of those he and Melchiorri are constructing. This is a problem, considering the variances in arterial structure from one patient to another, he said.

With the help of a $120,000 3-D printer located in the Kim Engineering Building, Fisher said they can reach precision between 0.05 and 0.1 millimeters, or about one-tenth the thickness of a plastic ID card.

“We’re in the process of trying to print pores in the scaffolds,” he said.

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The printer uses a specially designed poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid), or PLGA, to build the grafts. Once implanted, it begins to degrade, encouraging cellular regrowth as it does.

Fisher said the decay time varies, but it would take somewhere in the realm of several weeks to months, a period on the longer side.

“We’ll have to fi gure out ways to make [the deterioration] faster,” he said.

Melchiorri, a third-year bioengineering graduate student, has spent the past year tweaking the makeup of the material in order for it to work

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macklin ollayos, a junior accounting and finance major, died Wednesday, years after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. photo courtesy of facebook.com Ollayos showed determination to live his life to the fullest, friends said.

A fter his first brain surgery, Ollayos took a three-month break from contact sports and did not finish the season on his middle school basketball team, according to The Pitch. But the following spring, he played soccer while wearing protective head gear.

“He was literally the hardestworking player on all of my soccer teams and always impressed me with how focused he was on doing well See OLLAYOS, Page 8

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Iranian Students Foundation hosts national youth leadership conference

By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Staff writer Students from around the nation came together over the weekend to discuss leadership and how to foster stronger communities at the first Iranian Alliances Across Borders Summit held at this university.

Hosted by the university’s Iranian Students Foundation, the summit was geared toward college students of all ages and focused on topics of leadership, empowerment and networking in communities to provide a louder voice and role for the Iranian diaspora community.

“To have a voice, there needs to be a community,” IAAB Executive Director Mana Kharrazi, said to about 50 students in Stamp Student Union on Saturday.

IAAB is a New York-based nonprofit organization that aims to make this country’s

Iranian diaspora community more united and inclusive, Kharrazi said. It started in 2003, when students from Wellesley College and Tufts University wanted to find a way to help students come together.

Open to all college-level students and young professionals, the summit was a two-day leadership and networking event that strove to empower young Iranian students within communities, said Pegah Pashai, a senior aerospace engineering major and ISF president.

At the conference, Kharrazi commended members of the ISF for their organizing efforts, calling them an “extremely engaged group of people.”

“For them to be in that room shows a high level of dedication and commitment,” she said. “A lot of these folks will become leaders of their communities.”

ISF is one of the largest Iranian student university groups in the nation and contin-

ues to grow and expand, Pashai said. Providing a space to give students community ties and to strengthen bonds between them is important, added Pashai and Kamran Partovi, a sophomore government and politics major.

“We are working to provide a space for Iranian students or for others who are interested in our culture,” said Partovi, the ISF vice president of public affairs. “It’s very inclusive.”

Students from this university and others around the nation took part in various workshops and discussions to talk about IAAB campaigns and leadership strategies. They also heard Bitta Mostofi — an immigrant rights attorney and humanitarian — speak about her experiences, and she held an open question-and-answer session, including discussion on the sanctions on Iran.

Although there was no political agenda for the events over the weekend, IAAB discussed

how political situations and issues can “affect communities and lives and what we need to do to respond to that and make our lives better,” Partovi said.

“No matter which issue these young people want to work on, they can really make a positive impact,” Kharrazi said. “I hope university students recognize the power they have — not just on campus, but locally.”

After the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent sanctions against Iran, some Iranian-Americans lost touch with each other, Partovi said. Through events like this summit, IAAB tries to rebuild that community and foster a “sense of belonging,” he added.

B e c a u s e s e v e ra l o f i t s members have benefited from other IAAB events, such as the Iranian-American summer camps it hosts yearly, the ISF jumped at the chance to host this year’s summit.

“It’s nice to have people all

Bitta Mostofi, human rights activist, speaks at the 2014 Iranian Alliance Across Borders summit in Stamp on Feb. 1. The Iranian Students Foundation hosted the event. james levin/the diamondback over the country come and see gerness, Kharrazi said. how we can collaborate,” said For some, events such as Ava Omidvar, a junior neuro- last weekend’s summit have biology and physiology major implications beyond a typical and ISF secretary. two-day conference.

Even with past I A A B “[IAAB events] changed my summits in 2008, 2010 and life for sure,” Omidvar said.

2011, the ISF was the first “You really reflect on where student group to partner with you stand in your community.”

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probably be 15 to 20 years from where we are now.”

The primary obstacle the From PAGE 1 research is facing is FDA apoptimally as a 3-D printable proval, Fisher said. PLGA is not currently approved for use vascular graft, he said.

With the technical assis- in vascular implants.

It has, however, been aptance of Narutoshi Hibino, a microsurgeon at Nationwide proved in other applications Children’s Hospital in Ohio, like Lupron Depot, an injectest mice have received graft tion treatment for advanced i mpla nts w ith successfu l prostate cancer.

But because Fisher and results so far.

It’s been t h ree mont hs Melchiorri made slight varisince the surgery, Melchiorri ances to the makeup of the said, and the subjects are alive PLGA they use to allow for and well, with good tissue 3-D printing, this approval would take even more time growth observed.

Before pu rsu i ng use i n to go through the FDA. “If we were to try to comhuman patients, he said the next “shortest long-term mercialize what we’re doing goal” is to see similar results right now, there would be a in sheep, larger animals with lot of hurdles in bringing a more complicated anatomies. new material to the market,” “We would like to trans- Fisher said. late this into a clinically applicable technology,” he said. jantoshakdbk@gmail.com “If everything worked out it’d

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Officials respond to student complaints

By Morgan Eichensehr @meichensehr Staff writer Seven months after the oncampus smoking ban went into effect, the designated smoking areas continue to be controversial, and RHA officials said the key to greater effectiveness might be clearer information.

The Residence Hall Association senate passed a bill Dec. 10 calling for clearer signage and better boundary defi nition for the designated areas.

Student complaints about the smoking area outside McKeldin Library, which some said wasn’t well-defi ned enough, spurred the legislation.

“A lot of North Hill residents had complained about when they’re walking to and from their classes, they have to pass by McKeldin, which is right by the smoking area,” said North Hill representative Ashley Feng, the bill’s author.

Feng’s bill, which passed unanimously, calls for university officials to investigate resident concerns and update the smoking areas. Feng said initial ideas included adding more urns to cut down on the number of cigarette butts, as well as more clearly defi ning the areas with flowers, plants, benches and lighting.

Mike Lichtenberg, RHA’s fi nance officer, said the association has had conversations with administration and financial officials about the smoking area but would now like to see action from the university.

“We discussed various ideas and solutions and expressed a mutual interest in improving the area,” Lichtenberg said.

The designated smoking areas have proved controversial for the university and the RHA. Lichtenberg said the

Students walk past a designated smoking area sign outside McKeldin Library. RHA representatives said they have received a number of complaints about the areas from students who said the area boundaries aren’t clearly defined enough. rachel george/the diamondback RHA Senate discussed several ideas and provisions when evaluating the bill, such as moving the McKeldin smoking area to a different, less heavily trafficked side of the building, as several students had requested. Many of those ideas, including moving the area, were dropped, however, and deemed impractical at that point in the smoking ban’s implementation.

“That was the only thing we felt was entirely out of the question,” he said.

Punishing students more heavily isn’t an option either, said R H A president Omer Kaufman. Rather, the university should focus on better educating students about the ban, he said.

T he original University S e n ate b i l l d e f i n i n g t h e b a n re c o m m e n d s c re a t-

ing “a smoke-free campus identity campaign,” which shou ld i nclude adequ ate signage around the campus to inform and educate people about “Smoke-Free UMD,” Kaufman said. But he noted that he was d isappointed with the lack of information last semester about exactly where smokers can and can’t light up and said in the bill’s current state, visiting staff or faculty and commuter students might not be aware of the policy change.

“They haven’t been good at advertising at all,” Kaufman said.

Sophomore psychology major Dan Russo said he likes not having to walk behind smokers and worry about getting a “face full of smoke” anymore, but so far does not think the ban has been well enforced.

“ I’ve s t i l l se en p e ople smoking outside the smoking areas,” said Russo.

Lichtenberg said part of the lack of enforcement might be because the first semester was considered sort of a trial run, in which students could get acquainted with the ban and learn more about it, but he is glad to see blocks could be set up around the McKeldin smoking area to denote the boundaries.

“Hopefully, this semester we will see a push in the information campaign and the completion of the smoking area,” Lichtenberg said.

For now, t he R H A w i l l focus its efforts on awareness, Kaufman said, because until those concerns are met, the university can’t move to the next step: enforcement. newsumdbk@gmail.com

students who are cost-sensitive when they’re high school seniors figuring out where they’re going to go compare actual costs across colleges.”

The bill is a step forward, Bauder said, but there is still more to be done toward making financial literacy easier for students. While “the intent is perfect,” Bauder added that the shopping sheet is “sometimes causing more questions than it’s answering for the students” and that the implementation has become “very complicated.”

There are several ways students can estimate the costs of going to college, including the Financial Aid Shopping Sheet, the College Scorecard — another online tool that estimates a college’s cost, graduation rate, estimated debt figures for students and employment prospects after college — and the Voluntary System of Accountability.

Bauder said this is causing “information overload,” and she would prefer the information be compiled in one location to simplify the process.

She was also wary of the presentation of the information. In giving this financial information to students, the disclosure models typically include graduation rates and other information not directly tied to the “bottom line” cost of education, which distracts from the programs’ intention and turns them into an opportunity to sell students on the college rather than to give them a clear understanding of costs.

“The statistics skew the academic quality of the institution,” Bauder said.

At least 15 schools in this state are already following this model, and the only schools not participating are community colleges.

Fitzgerald said this bill would take “what’s already happening in practice” and put it into law.

The template for providing the financial information was released by the federal government in its “Financial Aid Shopping Sheet,” and the state law would require universities to follow that model or a similar one. Sarah Bauder, this university’s financial aid director, said the proposed state law is “really just piggybacking on the federal shopping sheet” and mandates it instead of making it voluntary.

The objective for this bill is to make it easier for students to understand the costs of higher education and give them the opportunity to make side-by-side comparisons of different colleges. It would also help bring uniformity to a process that has made it confusing for students to understand how much they will be paying for college.

“Colleges use different formats for saying what costs are; there are so many different components … to what goes into the cost of a college education,” said Del. Dana Stein (D-Baltimore County), the primary sponsor of the House version of the bill.

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Traveling outside Prince Frederick finances your comfort zone STAFF EDITORIAL

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obody likes fee increases — especially college students.

W h e n we h ea r n ews o f a proposed fee increase, we almost instinctively fight against it, considering how high tuition and fees already are.

At the Residence Hall Association Senate meeting Tuesday, multiple university departments requested fee increases to accommodate their expanding budgets. Our first question was, “Why?” Apparently, that question can be answered immediately, as university administrators have made sure to maintain transparency with these increases. Over the years, we have continuously urged university officials to tell students why they need more money. And now, they have done just that.

Dining Services and the departments of Resident Life, Residential Facilities and Transportation Services are the four divisions requesting the largest fee increases.

And while nobody really wants to give DOTS more money, especially considering the high volume of parking tickets issued, each of these departments has outlined clear reasons for these increases.

Resident Life and Residential Facilities are asking for money to fund a $2.2 million budget increase, DOTS is asking to fund a $300,738 hike, and Dining Services needs to fund a $2.4 million increase.

Prince Frederick Hall, like Oakland Hall, is ushering in a new era of dorm life on the campus. Even in its incomplete state, Prince Frederick Hall has some of the most striking, modern architecture around. And the promise it holds regarding gender-neutral housing could change students’ lives.

OUR VIEW

Fee increases are unfortunate, but to accommodate Prince Frederick Hall, departments simply require more funds.

Still, like all new buildings, Prince Frederick Hall has introduced a number of additional costs for university departments.

Its more than 400 new beds will increase the number of people with dining plans, and the new dorm needs funding for cable, landlines and general facilities operating expenses.

DOTS needs the money for employee salaries and benefits, general maintenance and insurance. But that department is not asking for as much due to an expected upsurge in revenue from Big Ten fans paying for game parking.

Add mandated wage adjustments and increased benefits from new state laws into the mix, and we

clearly see why departments need to adjust their budgets. As far as we can tell, the increases these department heads are asking for are not unreasonable. They are simply looking to keep things up to code and prepare for Prince Frederick Hall’s literally groundbreaking potential costs. In this instance, we can’t fight against fees simply because students will have to spend more money — especially when it’s clear those fees will directly help students.

Additionally, after hearing these proposed budget increases, the RHA senators will bring the budget proposals back to their dorms, where residents can weigh in on these decisions. This gives students the opportunity to analyze the proposals and give their opinion. We urge residents to attend these meetings and participate in deciding what will happen with student fees.

This editorial board understands any hesitation to embrace fee increases. We are all students, too, and we almost never want to encourage the ballooning costs of attending college. In this case, it is only fair to commend the departments, as well as the RHA, for ensuring these proposals are easy to understand and thoroughly explained. We wanted transparency, and they complied. So while we may hate paying more, at least we have a comprehensive outlook at exactly why we are doing so.

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GUEST COLUMN

Grades: By teachers or students?

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fter a stressful week of final exams last semester, I thought I could finally relax. I woke up from a peaceful slumber one morning and figured I would check whether my final grades had been posted. With a rush of courage, I logged on to Testudo and took a huge breath before clicking that ominous “View Grades” button.

My stomach dropped. Shock. A “B+” in that class? This was a class for which I had studied unbelievably hard and was consistently performing well above average. Upon further research, I found that the average grade in the class was a 71.96 percent, and I had ended with an 88 percent. The worst had become apparent: The professor didn’t curve the class at all and let the average sit at a “C-.”

My heart sank as I tried to reason through it. Most of my other professors had curved classes when the average was that low. In today’s world of academia, a “C-” is the minimum grade required to pass. If the class average is on the borderline of failing, would it not have made sense for my professor to apply a curve?

And here we come to the inevitable conclusion: Grades are as dependent on the professor as they are your performance.

My grade was the result of a subjective decision by my professor. He might have been in a bad mood. He might have flipped a coin. He might have wanted to avoid the trouble of calculating a curve.

I don’t know, and I never will; the way our grading system is designed, it is completely his choice. He has the freedom as a professor to curve the class — or not curve it — however he wants, and I can’t do anything about it. It just happens that this time, he didn’t feel like curving at the end of the semester. Who knows, maybe on a sunnier day I would have gotten an “A.” U l t i m a te ly, t h e q u e s t i o n i s whether students should be measured by the subjective decisions of their professors. In a time when graduate schools are so competitive, is it fair for grades to be an absolute mask over a mixed concoction of a professor’s opinion and a student’s actual performance?

This is a problem for which the

solution is clear: This university should require departments to establish their own absolute grading scales for each class in order to take the subjectivity away from individual professors and implement an at least absolute — if not objective — grading scale.

For example, a department might decide that all ABC 101 classes are required to have a grading distribution for which the average is a “B,” so a student’s grade will reflect his or her performance in the class rather than having each professor arbitrarily decide to place the class average.

T h e p u r p ose o f g ra d e s i s to measure a student’s performance.

In order to do so effectively, it is the responsibility of the university to ensure that a student’s performance rather than a professor’s personality is being factored into a student’s grades and ultimately his or her GPA. In the end, it is that three-digit number that has the power to make or break a student’s aspirations.

Justin Ho is a sophomore computer engineering major. He can be reached at jho123@terpmail.umd.edu.

Washington is worth exploring ADAM OFFITZER

genres – from Earl Sweatshirt and 2 Chainz to Dr. Dog and Grouplove to CHVRCHES and Haim. Most shows are $35 or less, with some as cheap as $18. You should go.

Get a half-smoke at Ben’s Chili Bowl.

But make sure to go with an empty stomach. A few blocks away from the 9:30 Club, this U Street landmark is rooted in history and fame. President Obama visited the restaurant in one of his first weeks in Washington in January 2009. He ordered the halfsmoke, Ben’s most famous dish: a sausage on a hot dog roll, smothered in chili. It’s as disgusting and fattening as it is delicious. Make sure to get one before you graduate, and get some cheese fries on the side.

Don’t forget to bring cash – Ben’s is too old-school to accept credit cards.

Go to a Washington Wizards game.

The Wizards are far from a great basketball team. But they’re still a professional basketball team, and their games are crazy cheap. If you purchase tickets on StubHub, you can see them play marquee teams like the San Antonio Spurs, Brooklyn Nets and Indiana Pacers for just 15 bucks each. And, if you desperately miss Alex Len, you can see the former Terp when the Phoenix Suns come to town on March 26 – for $4!

Watch The Room at E Street Cinema.

This one is still on my bucket list.

The Room is potentially the best “worst” movie of all time, with terrible acting, miserable music and hysterical, endlessly quotable dialogue. Every month, Washington’s E Street Cinema plays the movie at midnight, getting a raucous crowd of cult fans who memorize endless traditions, shouting and throwing spoons at the screen.

If I don’t go to this before I graduate, I have failed my cultural obligations.

Start with those four bucket list items, and you’ll be good to go. Then find your own niche and your own favorite Washington spots. But don’t waste the opportunity to hang out in our nation’s capital. And seriously, get a gyro at Marathon Deli.

In my dreams, College Park is a thriving cultural hot spot, with hip bookstores, indie movie theaters, local coffee shops and underground concert venues.

In reality, it’s fairly soulless for a college town, with an on-campus Barnes and Noble, no movie theaters, a Starbucks and a standard set of chain restaurants.

Sure, we’ve got a comic book store (Big Planet), a fantastic family-owned gyro joint (Marathon Deli, the hidden gem of College Park), an on-campus co-op and a few other lovable local spots. But for the most part, the area is lacking.

So why am I not complaining?

Because we’ve got Washington right next door.

Trapped in the campus bubble, it’s easy to forget how close we are to our nation’s capital. But Washington is a city brimming with unique culture, hidden spots and great food. It’s a city worth exploring. And it’s only a 20-minute subway ride away.

As a senior, I’m proud to say that I’ve spent a lot of time in Washington throughout my college career. If you still haven’t, or you’ve only been there once just to see the National Mall and the monuments, here’s a handy checklist of four convenient places to go and things to do when you want to branch out from our “livable community.”

Go to a concert at the 9:30 Club.

Every musician says that every venue they play is “the best,” but at the 9:30 Club, you can tell they really mean it. With its incredible sound system, friendly staff and comfortable space, the club is a mecca for local music lovers. The stage rises just a few feet above the floor, high enough that everyone can see the band but low enough that every show feels intimate. And the balcony, which wraps around the club’s upper deck, allows a unique Adam Offitzer is a senior journalbird’s-eye view. The 9:30 Club at- ism major. He can be reached at tracts a huge variety of artists and aoffitzerdbk@gmail.com.

Figure out how to teach yourself IAN LACY

academic material outside of school.

Learning can occur any time and place. All you have to do is have the initiative and drive to learn and it will happen, but this initiative is something I believe has been lost over the past few decades because of the fast-paced instant-gratification society we live in today.

People no longer feel they have time to sit down and study things on their own.

Some people also feel they are not capable of teaching themselves material and that having communication with a live professor and other students is necessary. When people have those thoughts and doubts about their abilities, they limit themselves.

They limit their potential for not only intellectual growth but also personal growth. Teaching yourself is a truly enriching experience that can reveal interesting things about your personality. You gain valuable insight into what motivates you.

You also gain an incredible sense of accomplishment because you are doing something for yourself that will benefit you.

Unfortunately, many people do not share my view on self-education. But, if over the summer you feel the need to review older material, I highly encourage you to push through the timidity of indecision and just do it. You will not regret it.

At the beginning of every semester, I find myself struggling with similar problems.

My primary problem is not remembering basic knowledge from prerequisite courses required to succeed in others. This is mostly because I have taken long periods of time between certain courses or I simply need a review in order to re-establish my knowledge.

Unfortunately, this leaves me in a little bit of a predicament; you are only allowed to repeat so many credits at the university.

Because I could not take refresher courses, such as lower-level math classes, I began to look elsewhere to learn.

My searches led me to several interesting and helpful tools, such as free math applications on my Kindle, free textbooks from Amazon and The Great Courses.

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By Robert Gifford @rcgiff Senior staff writer “I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That’s what I want to explore. We’re all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive, each of us knowing we’re going to die, each of us secretly believing we won’t.”

Philip Seymour Hoffman spoke those words as Caden Cotard, the obsessive theater director at the heart of the labyrinthine Synecdoche, New York. An immensely complicated and challenging film that gets increasingly lost in its own metatextual games — or navel-gazing, if you prefer — it holds together almost solely because it has Hoffman as its center.

One of the greatest actors of his generation, Hoffman could find the harrowing humanity in the most inscrutable of films. He took on the most difficult roles but never found

himself outmatched. From broad comedy to dark psychodrama to spot-on impersonation, there was no human face Hoffman couldn’t wear.

Hoffman, who died yesterday from an apparent overdose — coming on the heels of his relapse last year after more than two decades of sobriety — appeared in more than 50 movies in his 20-plus year career, won one Oscar and was nominated for three more. He also had a prestigious career as a theater director and actor, earning three Tony nominations. To name each of his great performances would be simply to list each film he appeared in. He did not have bad roles.

A true character actor, Hoffman had as wide a range as an actor can and could steal a film with even the smallest role. His minor roles in The Big Lebowski and Boogie Nights — as, respectively, Brandt, the Big Lebowski’s obsequious personal assistant, and Scotty, a nervous boom operator with a desperate crush on Mark Walhberg’s porn star Dirk

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GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN It’s time for female comedians to distinguish themselves from their male peers and create their own brand

By Beena Raghavendran @thebeenster Senior staff writer Amy Schumer’s Spring Comedy Show on Thursday in Ritchie Coliseum made her the first female comedian in years to headline a Student Entertainment Events comedy show.

The comedy world has always been overwhelmingly full of testosterone. The cast of Saturday Night Live, for instance, includes only seven females out of 17 total players.

That it took so long for SEE to bring Schumer to the campus not only points to the professional stand-up world’s status as a primarily male-dominated industry but also shows society’s unwillingness to accept women into the field. To put female comedians on a level playing field with men, women must form their own brand of humor to showcase themselves as independent and funny in their own right.

Christopher Hitchens’ 2007 Vanity Fair

column on the issue said men have only humor to try to attract women to them because they can’t attract them in any other way. “An average man has just one, outside chance: He had better be able to make the lady laugh,” Hitchens wrote.

Hitchens also wrote that because much of comedy is crude, it tends to market itself away from women.

T h e two c u r re n t o b s ta c l e s to t h e widened popularity of female comedians in the stand-up world are society’s perception and the high prominence of male comedians. For example, Schumer’s entrance to the campus was marketed on posters showing her behind a row of shot glasses in a provocative stance. The Facebook event featured her with a finger on her lips.

The landscape of female comedians is split into three groups: noncontroversial talk show hosts (Ellen DeGeneres) or the population of Comedy Central raunchy comedians such as Sarah Silverman and

amy schumer (far right), who has placed highly in multiple comedy competitions, performed Thursday for the Spring Comedy Show along with comic Mark Normand. It’s been years since a female comedian headlined a comedy show sponsored by SEE. rachel george/the diamondback

Schumer. They’re groups that are boring and predictable.

The third group is the one that has defined women in comedy the best — the group of empowering, classy and funny women such as Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. These females don’t rely on overtly sexual topics but fall back on the elements of good comedy: timing and impressive jokes.

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CAMERAS From PAGE 1 Knox Road. The surveillance cameras in that area were instrumental in identifying the driver during the investigation, Ryan said.

“It expands the capability primarily to take video evidence police may use in investigating crimes,” he said.

T he cit y’s f ive new cameras were not purchased because of the accident. But incidents such as the one in January show how police can use the cameras for investigations, Ryan said.

I n 2 013 , c i t y o f f i c i a l s applied for about $216,000 in state grants to fund the

project, Ryan said. The city received $50,000, and the City Council voted to offer an additional $15,000 for the five cameras.

It’s a growing team effort to monitor city neighborhoods, city officials said, especially since University Police ramped up their offcampus presence.

Un iversity Police Chief David Mitchell said employees at the security operations center are now able to monitor public areas on and around the campus almost exclusively by ca mera.

University Police and city officia ls a lso hope to add c a m e ra s a ro u n d Ca lve r t Hills and farther inside Lakeland. “[The cameras help] add

to the feeling of safety when you know that you can walk around Old Town down to the Metro knowing that that corridor is being monitored for your safety,” Mitchell said.

E v e r y y e a r, t h e c i t y applies for a grant opportunity through the state to request more funding for security cameras, Ryan said, because city officia ls a re looking constantly to expand the surveillance network.

Adding security cameras in District 2 has been discussed for a while, Dennis said.

“These cameras will just be a start, perhaps, to some crime prevention and public safety kinds of coverage along that corridor,” Dennis said.

OLLAYOS From PAGE 1 in school too,” said Austin Trupp, a junior government and politics major and business student who played travel soccer with Ollayos. “Just a really inspirational guy.”

At this university, Ollayos was a University Honors student and a member of the Accounting and Business Association, Supanick said. He also participated in intramural sports as an athlete and a referee.

Ollayos was “a true blessing” to everyone he knew, Su-

panick said, and a group of his friends set out this past summer to make him feel better.

When he learned of Ollayos’ terminal diagnosis, Supanick, along with junior chemical engineering major Isaac Zaydens and junior communication and French major Natalie Quintero, reached out to the Marshall Faulk Foundation. Faulk — a former football player for the St. Louis Rams, Ollayos’ favorite team — uses his foundation to influence children positively through sports development and education.

After contacting the foundation numerous times and using #Marshall4Macklin on Twitter, the friends got

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“I still have the texts that Macklin sent me immediately after he received the call, and he was so excited and happy,” Supanick said.

Ollayos’ friends remember him as “the ultimate good guy,” Trupp said.

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quakers From PAGE 12 forced to shuffle their lineup against the Quakers.

“I knew our squad was very deep,” Panova said. “I think we’re really strong in every spot, and I think we’re only going to get stronger.”

The Terps’ victory against a tough Penn team pushes them to 3-0 on the season.

Saturday’s match marks the fifth straight win for the Terps against the Quakers and the second consecutive under Panova.

She emphasized this was an important win for a young and untested team on the road, especially against an opponent certain players had struggled against in the fall in

CAVALIERS FORWARD ALYSSA THOMAS (on ground) is tended to by coach Brenda Frese (left) and a member of the training staff (right) early in the second half of yesterday’s victory at Syracuse. Thomas returned to finish with another triple-double. photo courtesy of emma fierberg/the daily orange

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“EVERYONE WAS RUNNING TODAY, AND WE [HAD] REALLY GOTTEN AWAY FROM THAT IN From PAGE 12 THE PAST COUPLE GAMES. SO IT WAS NICE TO SEE EVERYBODY GETTING BACK AND RUN-

shooting 5-of-8 from beyond the arc in the final 11-and-ahalf minutes before halftime.

Brown and guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough had 13 points each in the half, while Thomas had five points, seven rebounds and five assists. The Orange, which was 4-2 entering yesterday in games in which it trailed during halftime, looked to pull off another second-half comeback. The Terps, though, opened the second half on a 20-6 run in the first 4:15 to put the game out of reach.

“We knew Syracuse was a tremendous second-half team — their stats show that,” Frese said. “So just reminding our team at halftime, every timeout that we could, a three-point shooting team is never out, especially a team as talented as Syracuse.”

Thomas helped orchestrate

NING IN TRANSITION.” LEXIE BROWN

Terrapins women’s basketball guard the offense during the run, running fast breaks off Syracuse turnovers and finding open teammates for easy layups, and she was leading the Terps in transition when she had her scary moment in the second half.

The Terps already had a commanding 66-35 lead before her short absence, though, and the score was 66-41 by the time Thomas returned with 14:10 left in the game. From there, the Terps continued playing their sharp offense, ending the contest with 25 assists off their 35 made field goals.

“Everyone was running today, and we [had] really gotten away from that in the past couple games,” Brown

said. “So it was nice to see everybody getting back and running in transition.”

With the Terps up 72-48, Thomas rifled a pass to an open Brown on the right wing, and the freshman hit a jumper for Thomas’ 10th assist of the contest, sealing the tripledouble. Though Thomas said she expects to feel the effects of her hard fall today, it did not end up stopping her from turning in a performance that helped the Terps end a worrying skid.

“Just a little sore,” Thomas said. “I’m sure I’ll be stiff tomorrow, but nothing new I can’t play through.” ppierrelouisdbk@gmail.com

From PAGE 11 heavyweight’s pressing desire to capture a pin took away from his attacking.

“I think he thought a little bit too much,” McCoy said.

“He was really thinking he had to go out and pin the kid. … He didn’t need a pin; a pin would’ve been nice, but he didn’t need it.”

After the team’s 18-15 win at North Carolina last week, the Terps laughed and joked on the bus, a refreshing sign after a five-match losing streak.

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“We were a little afraid heading into the match,” Panova said. “Knowing some of the girls had lost against them previously made some of the girls a little bit nervous.”

Those same players were the ones who came through in the end. The Bredikhina sisters lost in doubles to Penn’s Stephanie Do and Luba Vazhenina in September. They avenged that defeat against Do and Alex Ion, and Nataliya Bredikhina defeated Do in singles.

Gaudreault also rebounded after losing in her match against Penn in the fall, but she stressed she was not too focused on her past matches with the Quakers.

“I really wasn’t thinking about it too much,” Gaudreault said. “Each match is com-

pletely different. You go into it not thinking about previous matches. You could face the same player five times and it would be different every time.”

The Terps’ success this season will hinge upon Luus’ and Hovsepyan’s success, but at certain times, different members of the team will have to step up if the top two falter. And with a difficult ACC schedule looming, there will be times when the other members will have to shoulder the load.

“We knew we were going to have a tough match. We were well prepared,” freshman Alex Stanova said. “I would say when you’re playing for your team and not just yourself it gives you more energy.”

ent this time. Before the team stopped to get dinner, McCoy flipped on the film from the night and skipped to Boley’s match. McCoy said it looked as if Nye’s shoulders might have been pinned to the mat, but the official thought otherwise.

Nye “could have said, ‘All right, screw it. I lost’ and lay there and got pinned,” McCoy said. But their kid had that little extra not to give up.”

Such is the essence of the 2013-14 Terps, a team ripe with potential but with little to show for it. The Terps, who were ranked No. 20

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hokies From PAGE 1 in on the highlight-reel action with a perimeter steal and transition slam.

Those electric second-half finishes and the sustained offensive efficiency that led the Terps to an 80-60 victory over the Hokies before an announced 5,110 at Cassell Coliseum on Saturday served as a refreshing change of pace for a team that has a tendency to drop winnable road games because of erratic play.

The Terps (13-9, 5-4 ACC), who coughed up a nine-point halftime lead to a shorthanded N.C. State team in their last road game, had little trouble handing the Hokies (8-13, 1-8) their eighth straight loss. The Terps shot 51.8 percent from the field, jumped out to a 21-point lead with 12 minutes remaining and avoided a letdown en route to their largest conference win this season.

“I’m much more confident than I was obviously when I walked out of North Carolina State’s game,” coach Mark Turgeon said. “They’re getting there. They’re playing with a little bit of maturity.”

Wells, who sat on the bench for the game’s first 56 seconds because he arrived late to a team meeting Saturday morning, led the Terps with 19 points in 30 minutes. Guard Seth Allen, meanwhile, chipped in 16 points and posted a season-high seven assists.

With the backcourt duo as the catalyst, the Terps shot better than 50 percent from the field for consecutive ACC games for the first time since Turgeon took over the program in 2011.

“We’re taking good shots,” Turgeon said. “We’re getting good looks. I have really good shooters, and our game is just more complete.”

guard dez wells (right) sits with forward Jake Layman on the bench in the second half of the Terps’ 80-60 blowout victory at Virginia Tech on Saturday. chester lam/the diamondback Still, the Terps began Saturday’s game somewhat sluggishly. During one stretch in the first half, they committed five turnovers in six possessions, which allowed the Hokies to build a 21-15 lead in the game’s first 11 minutes.

But at that point, Allen and Wells heated up, scoring the game’s next 10 points as part of a 12-0 run that put the Terps ahead for good.

Allen, still working back into full form since returning to the court Dec. 29 after a broken bone in his foot kept him sidelined for the season’s first 12 games, shot 5-of-9 from the field and 3-of-4 on 3-pointers.

“He’s doing so much better picking his spots and not going crazy,” Layman said.

“Overall, he had a great game offensively.”

Behind Allen and Wells’ 23 combined first-half points, the Terps took an eight-point lead into halftime. When the Terps visited the Wolfpack on Jan. 20, they watched a halftime lead dissipate and eventually suffered a discouraging defeat.

Saturday, though, the Terps returned to the floor from the locker room with what Wells called a “killer instinct” and opened the

second half on a 19-6 run that put the game out of reach.

“As a team, we have to grow up and be a lot more mature than we have in the past,” Wells said. “That was our main point was growing up, maturing and not letting up on defense.”

T h e Te r p s d e f e n s e avoided significant breakdowns, and the offense, which posted 15 assists to nine turnovers, remained steady as the team closed out just the fifth ACC road win of Turgeon’s tenure.

As the Terps polished off the convincing triumph in the final half, they threw down several electric dunks that excited the players on the floor, got the bench players on their feet and even drew a smile from Turgeon.

And now a Terps team that has spent much of the season in search of consistency enters a grueling fourgame stretch, which begins Tuesday at North Carolina riding a two-game winning streak, and the high of Saturday’s complete performance.

“Games like this just really builds the team’s confidence,” Allen said. “We needed a game like this.”

FORWARD JAKE LAYMAN dives on the floor for a loose ball during the Terps’ 80-60 win at Virginia Tech on Saturday. chester lam/the diamondback

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“IT’S JUST US LISTENING TO COACH AND DOING WHAT HE’S TELLING US TO DO AND From PAGE 12 THINGS WILL START WORKING FOR US. ... IT more selfish before the Miami HAS BEEN, SO WE’RE JUST GOING TO KEEP game. Layman took a seasonLISTENING TO HIM AND KEEP DOING WHAT high 15 shots and scored 15 points in the 74-71 win.

He urged the rest of the team to be less selfish. The Terps had 15 assists to nine turnovers against Virginia Tech — only two turnovers in the second half — and 15 assists to 10 turnovers against Miami.

Sense a pattern?

“It’s just us listening to Coach and doing what he’s telling us to do and things will start working for us,” Layman said Saturday.

“It has been, so we’re just going to keep listening to him and keep doing what he asks.”

It’s clear Turgeon has a vision for how he wants the Terps to play and what sort of results that play will bring. It’s just been a question of getting his players to buy into it. He’s hit his share of road blocks, and expectations for the program have fluctuated wildly over the past two years.

But Turgeon has remained constant. He benched guard Dez Wells, his leading scorer and hero of Wednesday’s victory, at the

HE ASKS.” JAKE LAYMAN

Terrapins men’s basketball forward start of Saturday’s game — albeit for 56 seconds — because the junior showed up late to a team meeting Saturday morning.

He also benched Wells during a win over Abilene Christian in November and sat guards Seth Allen and Roddy Peters during the second half of the N.C. State loss — leaving the Terps without a true point guard on the floor — because they weren’t playing how he wanted.

“Coaching is much more th an winning basketball games, so you got to teach kids lessons,” Turgeon said.

“Part of our guys’ problem up to this point is that we don’t listen very well. So hopefully this will be a good learning experience for us.”

I f a ny t h i n g , t h e Te r ps should be all ears at this point in the season. Not listening to Turgeon wasn’t getting results,

and it appears listening to Turgeon has paid dividends with two straight wins entering tomorrow night’s matchup at North Carolina.

It’s still a bit confusing that it took until the end of January for the Terps to start listening to a coach it’s clear they respect so much. But they are now, and it’s working.

“Great teams listen to their coach,” Layman said. “That’s what we’re doing right now.

We’re listening to Coach and we’re executing, too, which is our biggest thing.”

Sure, it probably would have been easier for Turgeon if he didn’t have to be a “real jerk,” but in crunch time, that might be what it takes to save a team that seemed destined for underachievement. dgallendbk@gmail.com

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WRESTLING | CAVALIERS 16, TERPS 15

Terps can’t complete comeback Myers’ victory nets only three points with team trailing by four on road

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer Kerry McCoy knew how Spencer Myers felt Friday.

McCoy, a three-time AllAmerican at Penn State, competed at heavyweight for the Nittany Lions, often wrestling in the final contest of the match.

The sixth-year coach understood the pressure the Terrapins wrestling team’s 285-pound stalwart was facing with the team’s fate resting on his shoulders. The Terps were trailing Virginia, 16-12, and Myers needed at least a major decision to keep the Terps alive.

But McCoy said Myers, who has often sacrificed aggression

for a more defensive strategy this season, approached the match too anxiously. The senior did pick up the 4-3 victory over Ethan Hayes, but the decision gave the Terps only three team points, ending the comeback effort and handing the Cavaliers a slim 16-15 victory.

“We lost to a really good team,” said McCoy, whose Terps have now lost six of their past eight matches. “We had some opportunities, but we didn’t capitalize on them or take advantage of the opportunities that we had. … We can’t be so upset because we were right there.”

The Terps (5-8, 1-3 ACC) came close to earning more points several times. The

133-pound Tyler Goodwin defeated Joe Martinez, 12-6, falling two points short of earning a major decision and four points.

The 197-pound Christian Boley had Zach Nye on his back toward the end of the contest but wasn’t able to secure a pin, erasing the chance for the team to pick up six points instead of three. The Terps’ 157-pound Danny Orem wrestled No. 15 Blaise Butler to overtime, but Butler ultimately picked up the 7-6 decision.

“There were a lot of opportunities we had,” McCoy said.

“But putting ourselves in the position where those things happen hopefully [will] give the guys confidence that if they just give a little bit more, then

those things will turn around.”

The Terps showed improvement at the lower classes, as 141-pound Shyheim Brown joined Goodwin in the win column. Goodwin’s older brother, Frank Goodwin, wasn’t as fortunate, dropping an 8-3 decision to Gus Sako at 149 pounds. The Terps dropped every match from 149 pounds to 174 pounds, once again forcing Myers, Boley and 184-pound Jimmy Sheptock to play catch-up.

And they nearly pulled it off. By the time Myers was up, he needed to earn a major decision, a technical fall or a fall to help the Terps avoid a loss. But McCoy said the See cavaliers, Page 9

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Her scores were meet highs in all three events.

Junior captain Stephanie Giameo joined Tang in recording a solid performance. The All-American posted a seasonhigh 39.025 in all-around, as she was the lone Terps gymnast competing in all four events.

Nelligan used his fourth beam lineup in as many meets this season. He gave senior Elizabethe Manzi her second chance on beam this season, and she delivered with the team’s top performance this season, earning a 9.850.

Manzi was supposed to replace senior captain Ebony Walters, but sophomore Kathy Tang hurt her ankle on vault and was unable to finish the meet.

Walters couldn’t step up with her teammate injured, falling off the beam for an 8.925.

This marked Walters’ third meet in row posting a beam

“WE HAVE WHAT WE NEED. WE JUST MENTALLY NEED TO GET TO A PLACE WHERE WE CAN HIT IT EVERY TIME AND KNOW WE CAN HIT IT EVERY TIME.” BRETT NELLIGAN

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The Terps have a week to rectify their struggles before a quad meet featuring conference foes Pittsburgh, Towson and George Washington at Comcast Center, and Nelligan hopes the confidence he worked so hard at instilling in his team last week returns before then.

“We have what we need,” Nelligan said. “We just mentally need to get to a place where we can hit it every time and know we can hit it every time.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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GYMNASTICS | WILDCATS 195.450, TERPS 193.950

Beam issues persist in UNH defeat

MEN’S BASKETBALL | TERPS 80, HOKIES 60

GETTING THROUGH

After being a ‘real jerk,’ Turgeon gets players to listen, respond in blowout win at Virginia Tech

Terps squander lead entering final rotation

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By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer

BLACKSBURG, Va. — When desperation sets in, sometimes things have to be shaken up.

That was obvious after the Terrapins men’s basketball team blew an 11-point early secondhalf lead at N.C. State on Jan. 20. The Terps’ shot selection in the second half was horrid, and they allowed a team without its leading scorer to outscore them by 18 points in the final 20 minutes.

But since then, things have been different.

After Saturday’s 80-60 blowout win at Virginia Tech, the Terps have posted consecutive games in which they’ve shot better than 50 percent for the first time under coach Mark Turgeon.

So what changed in the 12 days between the N.C. State loss and the Virginia Tech win, a span that also included a four-point loss to No. 18 Pittsburgh and a last-second victory over Miami? Where did the discombobulated offense disappear to? And how was it replaced with a smooth and selective system?

Turgeon’s answer was short and sweet.

“Sometimes you just have to turn into a real jerk,” the third-year coach said.

Turgeon’s frustrations with his team were apparent over a trying start to ACC play. After starting off 2-0 with a win at Boston College and a comfortable home victory over Georgia Tech, the Terps lost four of five, including two 20-point road defeats and their collapse in Raleigh, N.C. He was miffed at the lack of results his talented roster was producing. And some of the Terps admitted they weren’t doing the best job listening to their coach. Forward Evan Smotrycz said the Terps can “kind of go crazy sometimes” and not always play smart, in addition to failing to carry over lessons from practice into the games.

But it appears Turgeon has gotten through to the Terps. He urged forward Jake Layman to be

The Terrapins gymnastics team devoted a week of practice to improving confidence on the balance beam.

Fittingly, Saturday’s matchup at New Hampshire came down to the event for which the Terps had trained so hard. They led the Wildcats, 146.550-146.400, leaving no margin for error.

Freshman Sarah Faller led off with a 9.700, and with New Hampshire’s Jannelle Minichiello scoring a 9.050 on floor, the Terps earned a little breathing room.

The Terps, however, finished by falling off the beam on three of the final five routines for yet another disappointing beam score of 47.400. New Hampshire scored 49.050, and the Terps fell for the second straight meet, 195.450-193.950.

“I felt like we were ready,” coach Brett Nelligan said. “But we just weren’t.”

Before the final rotation, the Terps (1-3) were firing on all cylinders for the first time this season. The team started the meet on the uneven bars, where it posted a season-high 48.750.

The Terps followed up with another season high on vault with a 48.900, powered by senior Karen Tang’s career-high 9.900.

“We haven’t been ourselves yet this year,” Nelligan said. “But today, for the first three events, that’s the real team; that’s who we are.”

Tang was the Terps’ top gymnast Saturday, posting career-high 9.900s See WILDCATS, Page 11

GUARD DEZ WELLS dunks on a breakaway in the second half of the Terps’ 80-60 win at Virginia Tech on Saturday. Wells had 19 points on 6-of-9 shooting after not starting and coming off the bench 56 seconds into the contest. The win was the Terps’ second straight. chester lam/the diamondback

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TENNIS | TERPS 4, QUAKERS 2

Big performances from Brown, Thomas snap three-game skid Brown scores 31, Thomas records third triple-double of season

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer Alyssa Thomas dribbled across midcourt after a steal before she tripped and her right knee banged off the Carrier Dome floor with 15:44 remaining in the second half against Syracuse. The Terrapins women’s basketball forward grimaced as she lay on the court for several minutes, and she headed toward the bench with a slight limp.

Less than two minutes later, though, the national player of the year candidate returned to the game and finished off another stellar performance, recording her third triple-double of the season and fifth of her career.

Thomas’ showing, along with guard Lexie Brown’s career-high 31 points, helped the No. 8 Terps beat Syracuse, 89-61, yesterday to end a three-game losing streak and get their ACC campaign back on track.

“Obviously, A.T. is so smooth in terms of her ability to be able to go out and get triple-doubles like they’re really easy,” coach Brenda Frese said.

Thomas had 11 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, while Brown shot 7-of-8 from three-point range and added seven assists.

During their losing streak, the Terps struggled to get off to good starts, which led to close contests and tough losses.

But against Syracuse, which was coming off a 78-73 upset win at No. 6 North Carolina on Thursday, the Terps trailed for less than two minutes and shot better than 61 percent from the field.

“By far, our most complete, dominant 40-minute game,” Frese said.

freshman Kristina Hovsepyan lost in the No. 1 singles spot Saturday at Penn, but the Terps still beat the Quakers, 4-2, behind the strength of the rest of the singles and doubles points. file photo/the diamondback

Depth carries Terps to win over Quakers Penn wins Nos. 1 and 2 singles, but Terps prevail in lower-ranked matches, doubles FORWARD ALYSSA THOMAS (left) defends a Syracuse player during the Terps’ 89-61 victory over the Orange yesterday. Thomas recorded her fifth career triple-double. photo courtesy of emma fierberg/the daily orange STATLINES

GUARD LEXIE BROWN Set career highs in points, 3-pointers made FORWARD ALYSSA THOMAS Recorded fifth career triple-double After struggling to assert themselves in the paint against N.C. State on Thursday, the Terps interior offense had early success against Syracuse. The Orange’s zone defense couldn’t stop the Terps from firing passes into the lane for layups, and the Terps scored 22 points in the paint in the first half.

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Syracuse’s defense began to play a half-court trap more often as the half continued, but the pressure opened more opportunities from three-point range. The Terps (17-4, 5-3 ACC) entered the break with a 46-29 lead over the Orange (16-6, 5-4 ACC), See orange, Page 9

By Jacob Walker @JacobW_DBK Staff writer As the Nos. 1 and 2 singles players respectively, freshman Kristina Hovsepyan and senior Welma Luus are relied on often as the Terrapins tennis team’s anchors.

But when the duo struggles, the Terps will need the rest of their players to step up and help fill any void left by miscues or off days.

That need was on full display Saturday as both Hovsepyan and Luus fell for the first time this season, but the Terps still beat Penn, 4-2.

“We have a really great team dynamic,” freshman Olivia Gaudreault said. “Each person individually is close to each other, and as a

team, we’re very close.”

With their top two players falling, the Terps defeated the Quakers off the strength of the doubles point and the lower-ranked singles matches.

Sophomores Nataliya and Olga Bredikhina and Gaudreault all won their matches at Nos. 4 to 6, respectively.

“I think the girls did a great job, especially yesterday with Welma and Kristina losing; the first thing they did was support their teammates,” coach Daria Panova said.

“They’re still very vested in the team’s success.”

With sophomore Olga Gaistruk, who won her first two matches of the year at No. 5 singles, out Saturday with a leg injury, the Terps were See quakers, Page 9