February 17, 2014

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69 No. 8 BLUE DEVILS

AN EPIC FINISH Historic rivalry ends as Mitchell’s last-second hook shot rims out

Facilities officials to update two halls Jiménez, H.J. Patterson to receive ventilation, electrical improvements

By Jeremy Snow @thedbk Staff writer

GUARD SETH ALLEN (4) crouches while guard Dez Wells (32) comforts forward Charles Mitchell (0) in the waning seconds of the Terps’ 69-67 loss at Duke. christian jenkins/the diamondback

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer DURHAM, N.C. — He sat on the floor at Cameron Indoor Stadium for several seconds Saturday night, his arms resting on his knees and his eyes staring down toward the historic hardwood. The 6-foot-8, 260-pound Charles Mitchell eventually rose to his feet, and when he did, guard Dez Wells was there to greet him.

Wells wrapped his right arm around Mitchell, and Mitchell put his left arm around the shoulder of his Terrapins men’s

basketball teammate. Then the two Terps walked slowly across the floor together, leaning on each other for support.

It was the final time the Terps visited Duke as an ACC opponent and perhaps the end to a rivalry steeped in more than 60 years of tradition. And Saturday’s game, as Blue Devils Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski put it, was “one for the ages.”

But when Mitchell’s turnaround hook shot trickled off the rim with less than five seconds remaining and the Terps trailing by one, it sealed the team’s 69-67 loss to the No. 8 Blue Devils

Jiménez Hall and H.J. Patterson Hall will receive substantial maintenance updates this summer to improve the buildings’ ventilation and electrical systems, Facilities Management officials said.

“These are old, tired buildings,” said Jack Baker, operations and maintenance department director. “I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in the case of Patterson, it may be one of the worst buildings on campus.”

Once the spring 2014 semester ends, workers will begin renovating the halls to be completed for fall 2014. During the updates, summer classes and offices will be moved to other buildings in order to empty the facilities out, Baker said.

H.J. Patterson’s renovations will focus on the first wing of the building, which faces Stamp Student Union.

These changes will be similar to work done last year on the third floor, when its electrical and ventilation systems were overhauled. In Jiménez, the north wing of the building will be renovated.

H.J. Patterson’s first wing has not received major work since its construction in 1937, according to Facilities Management’s 2010 “Restore the Core” building renovation report, part of an initiative to upgrade outdated university buildings. And Jiménez has received only a partial heating, ventilation and air conditioning renovation since 1962.

See duke, Page 9 See facilities, Page 7

Running for research sans pants

Univ classics students will get more chances to study Rome Grant will fund study abroad, scholarships

Alumni-founded Cupid’s Undie Run raises charity money

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Senior staff writer

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Staff writer This past weekend, hundreds of people stripped down to run through the streets of Washington for charity.

The fifth annual Cupid’s Undie Run, in which participants ran through the winter weather in their underwear, raised more than $2.6 million for the Children’s Tumor Foundation on Saturday. A few hundred runners 21 and older scampered down Pennsylvania Avenue, many covered by a “liquid blanket” from the alcohol available

participants in Cupid’s Undie Run in Washington on Saturday rest along the route of the noncompetitive run, which raises money for the Children’s Tumor Foundation to do research. grace toohey/for the diamondback in prerace festivities, showing a lot of skin and sporting apparel reading, “I’m with Cupid.”

“We are putting the hilarity in charity,” said Bobby Gill, co-founder of the run and 2006 university alumnus. “There are people in crazy outfits; it’s wild all-around. We’re worldwide. We’re raising millions

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for a great cause, and we’re having a great time doing it.”

Brendan Hanrahan, who graduated from this university with a doctorate in 2013, and Gill came up with the idea for Cupid’s Undie Run with their friend Chad Leathers in 2010, See run, Page 2

Students in the university’s classics department will have more opportunities to study the impact of Rome on American architecture after the department received a $500,000 grant from the National Italian American Foundation on Jan. 13.

The Ernest L. Pellegri Grant will go toward funding new opportunities for paid study abroad trips to Italy, recruiting more top-tier high school students who have studied Latin, encouraging high school teachers to pursue master’s degrees in Latin and studying the influence

of Roman traditions in the U.S. Professor Jorge Bravo, who is in his second year of teaching at the university, authored the department’s proposal to the NIAF that beat out 24 other American and Italian university proposals.

“The way you think about the past affects what you’ll do in the future,” Bravo said, explaining the importance of the grant.

The grant will apportion $100,000 a year to the university for five years, starting in the fall. Roughly $400,000 of the total will be devoted to student scholarships, Bravo said.

Judith Hallett, a classics professor and co-director of the Pellegri Program at this university, said the proposal stood out because it focused on studying similarities between ancient structures in comparison to See ROME, Page 3

SPORTS

OPINION

DUKE LOSS LIVES UP TO BILLING

STAFF EDITORIAL: Don’t change smoking age

Columnist Daniel Gallen writes that the Terps and Blue Devils treated fans to a dandy Saturday evening in Durham, N.C. P. 10

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run From PAGE 1 hoping to support Leathers’ younger brother, who has a rare genetic disorder called neurofibromatosis.

“We wanted to do something that would help our friend’s little brother, but we didn’t want to do your basic 5K or happy hour.

We wanted to do something that made a big splash in the bucket in terms of fundraising,” Gill said. “So here we are, five years later, and we are now the biggest fundraiser for the Children’s Tumor Foundation that exists.

I’d say it was a success.”

With events in 27 cities in the U.S. and three in Australia, Cupid’s Undie Run doubled its donations for the Children’s Tumor Foundation from 2013, Gill said, and the co-founders expect fundraising to continue into March.

“It’s rea l ly a fou r-hou r party with a brief run sandw i c h e d i n t h e m i d d l e ,” Hanrahan said. “Everyone gets here at noon, they make new friends, they strip down to their undie outfits, and then at 2 o’clock we hit the streets

of Pennsylvania Avenue.”

A mon g t ho s e t re k k i n g around the nation’s capital i n t hei r u nder we a r were senior studio art major Sarah Fitzsimmons and her sister Megan Fitzsimmons, 28.

Megan Fitzsimmons came to the event two years ago to support friends, and she has wanted to participate ever since.

“Everyone’s kind of united in their own way. You pull together with strangers for the same reason, and that’s a really cool experience,” Fitzsimmons said. “They’re an amazing cause, they help families that have children with terminal brain tumors. Anything I can do to help someone be healthy and happy.”

For Sarah Fitzsimmons, participating with her sister was a special experience, and she hopes more people will get involved in the future.

“It was amazing. We’ve never done anything like this together before,” she said.

“It’s just a simple thing to do, to run a mile in your underwear. It’s a lot of fun and especially for a good cause.

Definitely worth it.”

A few months ago, Gill quit

his engineering job to commit full-time to Cupid’s Undie Run, something he never expected when Hanrahan first shared his idea.

“His idea was: Let’s get people together, let’s throw a really big party, people in their underwear, and then let’s run around in the freezing cold on Valentine’s weekend,” Gill said.

“And I looked at him and said, ‘Brendan, you’re an idiot, but that’s a great idea. Let’s do it.’”

The event has grown each year, with people from many generations showing up in crazier outfits and with more e n t h u s i a s m . H a n ra h a n , though, said he thinks the most incredible part is the impact people are making.

“The craziest thing I’ve seen is the amount of fundraising the people do for this cause,” he said. “People will come into it because it sounds like a crazy party and then you’ll set the hook and they will do $10,000, $20,000 in fundraising. It’s crazy good.”

Megan Fitzsimmons wished she had a camera to catch her unique perspective as she navigated the crowd in her wheelchair.

“From a bottom-only type of view, it was definitely interesting,” she said. “It’s worth it. You can’t put a price on helping people with a terminal illness. And what does it cost you? You ran in your underwear. We w ill definitely do it next year.”

Gill hopes that in the future more university students and fellow alumni will sign up to support their cause and join the fun.

“If you’re 21, come out. I guarantee it will be better than anything that happens at the Knox Boxes or on Frat Row or a Bentley’s party,” he said. “Cupid’s Undie Run, hands down, is far better and we raise millions for charity.” gtooheydbk@gmail.com

BRENDAN HANRAHAN (center), university alumnus, started Cupid’s Undie Run with Bobby Gill to support their friend’s brother, who has neurofibromatosis. grace toohey/for the diamondback

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Information college HackHealth program promotes Internet research skills Outreach program encourages interest in health for kids

professors Mega Subramanian and Beth St. Jean, brings together a group of about 10 students after school once a week for eight weeks. Participating students select a

By Jon Banister topic, learn how to research @thedbk and present their findings to Staff writer the class using PowerPoint or Long gone are the days of another medium.

The program launched in regularly going to the doctor for every ache and pain. Students the fall at William Wirt Middle in the information studies col- School in Riverdale Park and lege’s HackHealth program are is now also in progress at using research skills to improve Buck Lodge Middle School in Adelphi. HackHealth is pretheir community’s health.

The information studies paring to launch a third locacol lege develop ed H ack- tion at Charles Carroll Middle Health to teach middle school School in New Carrollton.

Students are asked to restudents attending Title I schools — those in districts search topics that are sigwith high numbers of under- nificant to them, such as a privileged students — how to personal issue or problem afuse the Internet to research fecting a family member. One health topics important to student with Type 1 diabetes them. The program, led by found new ways to maintain information studies college a healthy blood sugar level by

adjusting his eating habits.

Another student’s mother wh o e x p e r i e n c i n g lowe r leg and foot pain. Through her research, the student found the pain was caused by her mother’s job, which kept her on her feet, and she found ways for her mother to prevent and alleviate the pain.

“The program gives them a really special confidence,” said Rebecca Oxley, a librarian at Buck Lodge Middle School. “Kind of like a self potency about their ability to care for not only their own health as young people but to influence the people that they care about to also care about their own health.”

The program teaches students research skills, such as how to identify credible sources. Most students come into the program with very

little research ability beyond basic Google searches, and Subramanian said their skills improved greatly during the eight weeks.

“It’s really fascinating to know how these kids come to our program,” she said.

“By the time they leave the program, they have all the necessary skills that they need to find out information.”

HackHealth aims to reduce health problems in underserved communities that are often caused by lack of information, Subramanian said.

“The kids who need this ty pe of instruction the most are the kids who are from disadvantaged backgrounds, because they don’t have access to information at home,” she said.

St. Jean said an important aspect of the program is reaching kids in their early years.

“BY THE TIME THEY LEAVE THE PROGRAM, THEY HAVE ALL THE NECESSARY SKILLS THAT THEY NEED TO FIND OUT INFORMATION.” MEGA SUBRAMANIAN

Information studies college professor and HackHealth co-founder “T here’s a lot of health disparities that are caused by different levels of information literacy,” St. Jean said. “If we can work with these kids before these huge health disparities start to really develop, we develop their health literacy skills and their ability to find relevant information and make sure that it’s credible.”

Subramanian and St. Jean wa nt Hack Hea lth to be a model for other schools to follow. They are working on creating modules and lesson plans librarians can easily use to implement the program, and they have been presenting

them at school librarian conferences across the country.

Natalie Greene Taylor, an information studies doctoral candidate and HackHealth team member, said HackHealth is one of the many ways the school aims to positively affect its community through research.

“We really try to do research that has an impact, research that is directly impacting their local communities, underserved populations,” Taylor said. “This project is a really good example of that sort of research.” jbanisterdbk@gmail.com

rome

“THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT THE PAST From PAGE 1 AFFECTS WHAT YOU’LL American ones, specifically DO IN THE FUTURE.”

in the nearby capital. Classics undergraduates and graduates alike have studied ancient Greek and Roman structures in comparison to Washington architecture, she said.

Because the Founding Fathers were so immersed in the thinking and the lessons of Greek and Roman philosophers, the buildings in Washington reflect those of their societies, she said. “[The NIAF] said that they really liked that we were in proximity to Washington, that we had a track record of producing Latin teachers and that we were giving most of the grant money to scholarships,” said Lillian Doherty, this university’s Pellegri Program co-director and classics professor.

JORGE BRAVO

University classics professor Landing this grant is significant for improving the university’s national rankings in classical studies, Bravo said. But his primary personal benefit, he said, is watching the program take off.

A graduate of Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, Bravo said he bounced around short-term teaching jobs before finding a home at this university.

“I’m a relatively new hire, so I’m just interested in seeing the program thrive,” he said. “I’m pretty excited. My long-term career path is here at Maryland.” jantoshakdbk@gmail.com

The U.S. Capitol is one example of Roman-influenced architecture in the Washington area. College Park’s proximity to Washington is one of the reasons the National Italian American Foundation awarded researchers at this university a $500,000 grant for study abroad trips, teacher training and recruiting, and projects geared toward studying the architecture. file photo/the diamondback

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OPINION

EDITORIAL BOARD

Mike King

Editor in Chief

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Legal age to purchase cigarettes should stay put While state Senate bill has its merits, 18-year-olds should be able to make decisions for themselves

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obacco use is the leading preventable cause of death.”

That’s a major point from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fact sheet, and it’s a pretty irrefutable fact. On average, “smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.”

“Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year, and current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by 2030,” the fact sheet continues.

This editorial board doesn’t need to convince anyone that smoking is terrible for their health, and we stand behind most policies that dissuade people from smoking cigarettes — in particular, higher tax rates and massive, graphic health warning labels. But we’re not so sure about the latest anti-smoking

proposal in the state Senate.

Senate Bill 325, sponsored by Jennie Forehand (D-Montgomery), would raise the minimum age for purchasing and using tobacco products from 18 to 21 years old.

“This would make it harder for many in the university community to purchase tobacco,” said Carlo Colella, administration and finance vice president at this university.

“Even fewer people on campus would be smoking.”

We ’re n o t q u i te co nv i n ce d .

While the bill would most likely stop some potential smokers from purchasing cigarettes, it’s hard to imagine college and high school students wouldn’t just do the same thing they do with alcohol: either use fake IDs or simply get tobacco products from their older friends.

Still, there are plenty of reasons

this bill is a good idea. According to tobaccofreekids.org, about 4,200 Maryland residents younger than 18 become regular smokers each year.

These minors get cigarettes from those 18 or older who can legally purchase them.

OUR VIEW

This state should focus on increasing the cigarette tax and other effective measures before raising the legal age.

This is a troubling, multilayered problem. At face value, the b i l l l i m i ts t h e r i g h ts o f t h ose between the ages of 18 and 21, preventing them from obtaining

and smoking cigarettes legally.

But on a deeper level, it hopefully would work to break a cycle of even younger kids getting hooked on cigarettes.

That potential outcome is enough to make the bill fair and worth considering. But it’s not enough to make it worth passing.

As an editorial board that supported lowering the age to run for the College Park City Council and supports lowering the drinking age, we would be inconsistent and hypocritical to favor raising the legal age to purchase tobacco products. At age 18, citizens can vote, drive and enlist in the military. Our society considers 18-year-olds adults, and they must be treated as such.

Other measures to discourage smoking should be applauded:

From 1998 to 2010, smoking in this state fell by a third, while the cigarette tax quintupled. That tax rate is $2 a pack, tied for 12thhighest in the country. It can — and should — be even higher. State voters have supported these socalled sin taxes in the past, and they likely would again.

A s fo r ra i s i n g t h e a ge , i t remains to be seen if that would have any concrete, demonstrated impact. Just a few months ago, New York City raised its age to purchase cigarettes from 18 to 21.

Voters and legislators in this state should watch and take note to see if that change makes a substantial impact on smoking habits for those under 21. But until there is an established benefit, this state should seek out other, less discriminatory measures.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

MIKE KING, Editor in Chief DAN APPENFELLER, Managing Editor MATT SCHNABEL, Deputy Managing Editor OLIVIA NEWPORT, Assistant Managing Editor BRIAN COMPERE, Assistant Managing Editor Chris Allen, Design Editor QUINN KELLEY, General Assignment Editor JENNY HOTTLE, News Editor LAURA BLASEY, News Editor Maria Romas, Opinion Editor ADAM OFFITZER, Assistant Opinion Editor RobERT Gifford, Diversions Editor Mary Clare Fischer, Diversions Editor DANIEL GALLEN, Sports Editor AARON KASINITZ, Assistant Sports Editor CHRISTIAN JENKINS, Photo Editor JAMES LEVIN, Photo Editor FOLA AKINNIBI, Online Editor JOYCE KOH, Multimedia Editor

EDITORIAL BOARD MIKE KING, editor in chief, is a senior journalism major. He has worked as a copy editor, assistant managing editor, deputy managing editor and managing editor.

Dan Appenfeller, managing editor, is a senior journalism major.

He has worked as a copy editor and assistant managing editor.

MATT SCHNABEL, deputy managing editor, is a sophomore journalism major.

He has worked as a copy editor, assistant managing editor and diversions writer.

Maria Romas, opinion editor, is a senior English major.

She has worked as a reporter, assistant opinion editor and columnist.

ADAM OFFITZER, opinion editor, is a senior journalism major.

He has worked as a diversions writer and columnist.

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Do you believe in miracles?

Celebrating Saturday’s hockey win by remembering the 1980 classic

MATT DRAGONETTE On the surface, sports games might seem meaningless after stadiums have emptied. But sports have power beyond the scoreboard; they bring together people of all backgrounds who otherwise might have no reason to interact. As Nelson Mandela once said: “Sport has the power to change the world. … It has the power to inspire.

It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does.”

This year’s Olympics provided a great example of this. Over the weekend, millions across the nation woke up early Saturday to watch Team USA take on Russia in men’s ice hockey. Those who did were treated to a spectacular show: a classic defensive matchup settled in a shootout victory for the Americans. Complete strangers and I excitedly talked about the game later that day. I saw a little kid re-enact T.J. Oshie’s decisive shootout goal. One simple game can provide a feeling of unity for millions.

But as remarkable as Oshie’s heroics were, no Olympic event can compare to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice.” On a cold day more than three decades ago, 20 American Olympians united the nation in a way no one else could. Their incredible story deserves retelling for eternity.

In 1980, our nation faced some of its darkest days. The specters of Vietnam and Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis combined with a weak economy and a strengthening Soviet Union cast a pall over the country. My family remembers this era as the bleakest in a lifetime.

On the sports front, U.S. Olympic hockey’s outlook was equally bleak.

Since its 1960 upset of the Soviets, the team had won just one medal in Olympic play. The world’s best team and the U.S. national rival, the Soviet Union, had won the gold medal in each Olympics since 1960.

For the 1980 Winter Olympics, new coach Herb Brooks put together a team of amateur college hockey players whose average age was just 21, the youngest in American Olympic history. In contrast, the Soviets fielded “amateurs” who had years of experience and were widely considered some of the best players in the world at their positions. In the period leading up to the Olympics, the Soviets shut out the NHL All-Stars, 6-0, in the final game of the 1979 Challenge Cup series and humiliated the U.S. Olympic team, 10-3, in New York.

In Olympic pool play, the Soviet team averaged 10 goals per game, easily advancing to the medal round.

The Americans had a more difficult time, coming from behind in all five games to win four and tie the other.

The stage was set for a Soviet-American semifinal match.

Of course, the Americans’ improbable run did not go unnoticed. Fan attendance increased each game, and news media began analyzing the matchup with the Soviets.

The coverage went beyond hockey, however; news sources focused primarily on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. One analyst even declared the Soviet team used “human tanks and waves of troops in graceful assaults on ice to conquer any land and destroy any contemptuous opponent.” This coverage, humiliation from the past matchup and the

state of the nation gave the semifinal much more meaning than an ordinary hockey game. Both inside and outside the stadium, Americans of all backgrounds united behind the 20 players skating for the United States.

In true underdog fashion, the U.S. overcame two deficits to win a nerve-racking 4-3 game. As the final seconds ran out, young broadcaster Al Michaels emotionally asked the audience, “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” People across the nation came together to celebrate the astonishing victory, now known as the “Miracle on Ice.” The game, which would later be voted the best sports moment of the century, was the victory the U.S. needed. Our problems remained, but the victory went a long way toward restoring people’s pride in our nation.

The power of events like these should not be ignored. For these Olympic Games and any future international sports events, we should use our pride to become closer as a national community. Today’s Olympians compete for us as much as they do themselves. Thousands of miles away in Sochi, they continue to represent and unify us. Sport can be the uniting factor Mandela believed it was.

Even on our own campus, our support for our sports teams has many of the same effects. After Saturday’s crushing loss to Duke, for instance, Terps across the country were united, reflective and proud.

Let’s continue to take advantage of the opportunity sport gives us to create a stronger community.

Matt Dragonette is a sophomore accounting major. He can be reached at mdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

An open letter to the weather DAVE STROH Dear weather, On behalf of all the students at this university (and other schools in the area), I would like to thank you for the recent snow days you have provided us. Your fluffy white excuse to stay home from classes was a blessing to all.

For those who have been struggling to find time for friends, these two days off were just what the doctor ordered: time to catch up and enjoy one another’s company over a hot chocolate or an Irish coffee, time to plop down on the couch and watch a nostalgic movie. These snow day memories will always be cherished; they help complete the college experience.

Two d ays o f f a l l owe d fo r stress-free studying for those of us behind on our homework.

Just when readings and assignments began to pile up, you threw a wrench into class schedules and cut us all a little slack. In return, we’ll cut you a little slack for giving the South such a hard time.

What’s better than curling up next to a fire on a cold winter day?

Gathering around a prematurely lit “Beat Duke Week” bonfire, that’s what. The beauty of the fire’s flickering light illuminating Memorial Chapel can’t be reproduced accurately in Instagram posts. Only in our hearts can we ever relive that feeling, surrounded by fellow Terps as we engaged in late-night borderline vandalism.

Getting a few extra days of sleeping in — after weeks of early-morning wake-up calls

and zombie-like walks to ride the struggle bus — has rejuvenated the exhausted students of College Park (not including the “my first class is at 2 p.m.” kids we upperclassmen can’t stand). It seems the Sandman finally won out over Father Time — with some help from Mother Nature.

Snowball fights on McKeldin Mall and elsewhere on the campus brought out the kid in all of us.

Those precious moments from childhood came flooding back like an avalanche (no pun intended).

Nothing says “let’s have fun” like catching a ball of frozen water in the face. The snowman armies that popped up outside dorms will be reminders of the gift you gave us for weeks to come — barring a heat wave, of course, which would also be worthy of a thank-you note (hint, hint).

And last but certainly not least, thanks for letting us enjoy the beauty of our campus with a lovely layer of pure white snow. The mall and many other areas came alive with the untouched blanket that was dropped from the heavens. Trees and shrubs looked as if they were fresh out of a Thomas Kinkade painting or a Robert Frost poem.

So good looks, weather. You should be receiving a mini-muffin basket in the mail any day now. It would have been there earlier, but, you know … the weather.

Thanks again, Dave Stroh P.S. Mind sending another one of those snowstorms our way again soon? Say, around midterms?

Dave S t ro h i s a se n i o r E n g l i sh m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t dstrohdbk@gmail .com .

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FEATURES CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Rumple 5 Retail giant 10 Crimson Tide nickname 14 By mouth 15 -- wind or star 16 Mr. Trebek 17 Pageant figures 18 Rice or Gantry 19 T. -- Price 20 Left undone 22 Harbor sight 24 Winter Games org.

25 Frank’s ex 26 They may be hidden 30 Fringes, e.g.

34 Pealed 35 Gridiron kicks 37 Beery or Webster 38 Set of tools 39 Cheerleader’s yell 40 Mao -- -tung 41 Inkling 43 Mutinous one 45 For nothing 46 Bolder 48 Ask nicely 50 Alley from Moo 51 Homer Simpson’s dad 52 Candidate

56 Keep in thrall 60 During 61 Over and -63 Orchid-like blossom 64 Thespian’s quest 65 Hues 66 Undiluted 67 Sorority member 68 Pony’s comment 69 Festive

28 Parking-garage sign 29 More certain 30 Bygone anesthetic 31 Our, in Tours 32 Neon and argon 33 Piece of plywood

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holding all the cards The second season of Netflix orginal series House of Cards, released Friday morning, picks up right where it left off

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The second season of House of Cards doesn’t have time to set things up. There’s no recap, no refresher. It storms out of the gate with alarming intensity and never looks back.

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powerful in his role as Underwood, and Robin Wright (A Most Wanted Man) shows why she won a Golden Globe last month for her role as Claire, Frank’s own Lady Macbeth. Supporting actors Mahershala Ali (Go for Sisters) and Michael Kelly (Man of Steel) also excel in their instrumental roles as Remy Danton and Doug Stamper, respectively. Some old faces are gone, and some new faces crop up, but consistently strong acting from the whole cast is one reason this show is so good.

The second season again follows the Underwoods as Frank continues to try to climb the political ladder at whatever cost. Claire has problems of her own as pieces of her past creep into the limelight and threaten both of their careers. Frank’s political dealings are now on an even bigger scale in his new role as vice president. Instead of playing mind games with members of Congress, he’s up against the likes of billionaire string-puller Raymond Tusk and the president.

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Jiménez Hall and H.J. Patterson Hall will undergo major renovations after the spring semester, such as updates to their electrical and ventilation systems. Facilities Management has not completed any major work on either since the 1960s, which has led to problems that have hampered students and teachers. sung-min kim/the diamondback

facilities From PAGE 1 Facilities Management plans to add a new central cooling system to each building to replace the dated steel radiators and the room-based air conditioning units in Jiménez.

Baker said the new heating system will be much more reliable and less distracting than the current versions.

“You can’t teach very well over the loud units and these cooling units generally did not fit into a good teaching environment,” he said. “The change will also waste less energy.”

Junior Japanese major Saria Rudolph, who has had multiple classes in Jiménez, said she

would welcome the change.

“In a couple of my Japanese classes, the people who sit near the back by the air conditioner usually have a lot of trouble hearing the teacher,” she said.

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Facilities Management plans to install more circuits and breakers to provide the power required for modern laboratories and classrooms.

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GALLEN From PAGE 10 have displayed a knack to go cold suddenly and let opponents pull away.

That wasn’t the case Saturday.

Guard Nick Faust threw down a slam off a missed 3-pointer by forward Jake Layman to hush the Cameron Crazies in the highlight of the first half, punctuated by Mitchell stomping his foot to the floor after the dunk. The teams traded runs to enter halftime with the Blue Devils up, 39-33, and it felt like the Terps were solidly in contention entering the second half.

Then, Wells — who has often spoken of carving out his own spot in Terps history alongside the likes of Dixon, Len Elmore and Len Bias — took over. He drove straight at Duke forward Jabari Parker, a projected topthree pick in the NBA draft, for his first points of the game with just less than 13 minutes remaining.

Wells tied the game at 52 with 8:50 remaining, knocking down a free throw for a three-point play after being fouled. From there, the teams traded blows, exchanging the lead six

cemented its place in the history of the rivalry as it ended, albeit with an unsavory result.

“I don’t know how Charles’ shot didn’t go in,” coach Mark Turgeon said. “Call it the Duke gods or whatever. That thing was rolling in, and all of a sudden, it’s rolling out.”

The game will go down in ACC lore as the Terps leave for the Big Ten this summer. Mitchell’s shot balancing on the rim will remain the lasting image of the rivalry, with a packed gym holding its collective breath.

“I thought it was in, but the basketball gods looked out for us,” Hood told Fox Sports Carolinas. “[The ball] was up there for like 10 seconds, in my opinion. I was just waiting in anticipation. I think the crowd helped us a lot with all the noise and kind of shoved it the other way.”

And as the buzzer sounded, the Terps walked dejectedly off the court.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski sought GUARD SETH ALLEN defends Duke guard Rasheed Sulaimon during the Terps’ 69-67 defeat at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday. christian jenkins/the diamondback out Wells. The Cameron Crazies celesion, Duke forward Amile Jefferson Damonte Dodd with 77 seconds left brated another triumph over the Terps. times the rest of the way. would lift the Blue Devils after MitchThe rivalry in its current form was When Wells gave the Terps their responded with one of his own.

With 2:45 left, Wells drained a ell’s shot rolled out. over, but as it left, it lived up to evfirst lead at 54-52, Duke forward Instead of leaving Cameron Indoor erything that came before it.

Rodney Hood answered with two free 3-pointer to put the Terps up, 67-64. throws to tie. And after guard Seth They wouldn’t score again, and Park- Stadium weakly as the victims of yet Allen hit a layup on the next posses- er’s thunderous dunk over forward another blowout, this Terps team dgallendbk@gmail.com

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way to start your ACC career.”

Though Duke has been without All-America guard Chelsea Gray, who is out for the season after fracturing her right kneecap Jan. 12 against Boston College, the Blue Devils have still been one of the top teams in the conference.

Duke has four other players who average more than 10 points per game and ranks second in the conference in three-point field goal percentage.

“They know what it takes to win,” Thomas said. “They have great players that make plays and make up for the absence of Chelsea Gray.”

With a 2-4 record against Duke, Thomas said past experience will help her lead teammates who are making their first appearance in the rivalry’s last regular-season matchup as ACC members.

“It’s going to be a battle for 40 minutes,” Thomas said. “It’s very physical, tough environment to come in and get a win, so it’s all about staying together and just playing hard.”

Frese and the Terps know that sticking together will be critical to getting their first win at Cameron. With Markus and Tyler’s birthday marking the team’s final matchup at Duke, the Terps hope to cap another memorable day for their coach.

“It will the first and last time that we’ll be able to do this,” Thomas said. “We’re just going in with a mindset of coming in and playing our hardest.”

win,” Frese said. “We’re going back on the boys’ sixth birthday, and they’ll be with us, and it should be a tremendous day.”

Both teams have been historically even head-to-head, with the Blue Devils owning a 40-39 edge over the Terps overall.

Kristi Toliver’s game-tying 3-pointer with six seconds remaining in the 2006 national championship remains one of the defining moments of the rivalry. Her step-back jumper forced the game into overtime, in which the Terps sealed the program’s first — and only — national title.

The win capped a significant turnaround for the program. It came three years after Frese’s first game at Duke, a 101-52 loss during a season in which the Terps went 10-18.

“To go full circle like that in four years was phenomenal,” Frese said. “It doesn’t get any better than that.”

Since the Terps’ national title, however, they are 6-11 against Duke, and they have struggled in the intimidating environment of Cameron Indoor Stadium during that span.

Duke’s famous gym was the site of forward Alyssa Thomas’ first career double-double — 11 points and 12 rebounds — in her first conference game, a 71-64 loss three seasons ago.

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That narrow miss was what sent Mitchell to the ground in devastation and what implored Wells to comfort the sophomore big man.

Mitchell and Wells both played their parts in the intense bout, a fitting finale for the rivalry’s likely final chapter.

But as they separated from each other when they reached Duke’s end of the floor, it was clear they had fallen agonizingly short in a game for which the significance stretched beyond the two teams on the court Saturday night.

“This goes all the way back to the ’70s, when Len Elmore had almost a triple-double against them or Joe Smith scored 40 points,” Wells said.

“This rivalry is so much bigger than anybody on this team, so we had to come out here and play for everybody who’s been part of this rivalry.”

The Terps (14-12, 6-7 ACC) came as close as they have all year to topping a ranked team and getting a marquee win for their postseason resume.

They didn’t falter when they fell behind by 10 points in the first half; Wells scored all 17 of his points in the game’s final 13 minutes, and the team’s defense forced Duke (20-5, 9-3) to shoot 6-of-26 from the field in the second half.

Forward Jake Layman led the Terps with 18 points and Mitchell had 12 points and six rebounds to help the Terps get in position for an upset of a top-10 team in a hostile environment. But Duke freshman sensation Jabari Parker threw down a dunk over forward Damonte Dodd with 1:17 remaining that proved to be the game-winner.

“I can’t be more proud of my guys,” Turgeon said. “I hope Maryland fans feel the same way. I know we’re upset that we lost, but our guys gave it all they had.”

T h o u g h P a rk e r l e d a l l scorers with 23 points, the Terps held a typically potent Duke offense to 33.3 percent from the field on the night.

Even with early foul trouble — both Wells and Mitchell had three fouls before halftime — the Terps never let the game get out of reach.

“THIS RIVALRY IS SO MUCH BIGGER THAN ANYBODY ON THIS TEAM, SO WE HAD TO COME OUT HERE AND PLAY FOR EVERYBODY WHO’S BEEN PART OF THIS RIVALRY.” DEZ WELLS

Terrapins men’s basketball guard Guard Nick Faust provided the Terps’ top highlight in their final trip to Durham as a conference foe when he soared from several steps outside the paint for a thunderous putback slam on a Layman miss late in the first half.

And Wells provided the most substantial production when he got into a rhythm in the second half and shouldered the offensive load for the Terps in the game’s final 13 minutes.

“He was in one of those modes where he was being aggressive and getting his shots off and getting some great looks,” Layman said.

Wells scored back-to-back transition buckets to give the Terps their first lead of the game, 54-52, with 8:26 to play.

After the two rivals exchanged baskets, Wells hit a 3-pointer from the left wing that gave the Terps a 67-64 lead with 2:45 left.

But Duke forward Rodney Hood hit a pair of free throws, Parker threw down his gamedefining dunk and the Terps were back down by one.

Mitchell’s shot from about 5 feet away with the game clock dwindling could have put the Terps back in the lead. Instead, it bounced off the back rim, then hit the front rim twice, hung for a second and fell off.

“I don’t know how Charles’ shot didn’t go in,” Turgeon said. “Call it the Duke gods or whatever. That thing was rolling in, and all of a sudden, it’s rolling out.”

R at her t h a n Wel l s a nd Mitchell triumphantly hugging and cheering, they came together to console each other after the excruciating loss.

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In final trip to Duke, Frese searches for first victory No. 9 Terps, No. 3 Blue Devils square off on twins’ sixth birthday tonight at Cameron Indoor Stadium

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer Six years ago today, the Terrapins women’s basketball beat Duke for the first time at Cameron Indoor Stadium since 2000, a victory that sealed what coach Brenda Frese called “a perfect ending to a perfect day.”

But it was an ending she didn’t experience. The morning of Feb. 17, 2008, she gave birth to her twin sons, Markus and Tyler Thomas, at Howard County General Hospital. Though Frese looks back on that day fondly, she wasn’t on the sidelines for the Terps’ only victory at Cameron Indoor Stadium during her 12-year tenure.

So entering the No. 9 Terps’ final scheduled visit as members of the ACC to No. 3 Duke tonight on Markus and Tyler’s sixth birthday, Frese, like her current players, will be looking to get her first win in Durham, N.C. “It’s such a difficult place to See devils, Page 8 FORWARD CHARLES MITCHELL scored 12 points Saturday despite missing time with three first-half fouls. christian jenkins/the diamondback

HYPE ACHIEVED Final regular-season Duke game carves its own place in history

DANIEL GALLEN DURHAM, N.C. — The man with the bullhorn shouted at the Cameron Crazies to push closer together and turn sideways. More students had to fit in the bleachers at Cameron Indoor Stadium for the final ACC regular-season contest between the Terrapins men’s basketball team and Duke on Saturday.

There were 300 more undergraduates outside, the man said, and all of them were going to fit in the stands for the end of a historic rivalry. The stream of blue-clad Duke students started about 90 minutes before tip-off, entering from the muddy tents of Krzyzewskiville, and by the time the “ACC” and “not our rivals” chants began, the legendary gym was packed.

The frenzied Duke students, part of an announced 9,314, watched an epic finish to an ACC staple, as forward Charles Mitchell’s desperate layup attempt with less than two seconds remaining fell harmlessly into a mess of bodies on the floor, and the No. 8 Blue Devils escaped with a 69-67 victory.

In a rare case, a much-ballyhooed matchup lived up to the hype.

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Classic and I’ll be talking to my children, my sister and my mom about how I picked up like three fouls in five minutes,” said guard Dez Wells, who scored all 17 of his points in the second half. “Hopefully, I’ll be looking back laughing at it, but right now it hurts to lose.

It was fun. That was so much fun.”

In last week’s run-up to the game, memory after memory was recalled about the TerpsDuke matchups from the early 2000s, when the teams were in the thick of the ACC and national title races. But in 2014, with the Terps scuffling through a .500 season in ACC play, the chances of recapturing the energy and pageantry of Juan Dixon, Jason Williams, Mike Krzyzewski and Cole Field House seemed unlikely.

As Duke built a 10-point lead in the first half, the Blue Devils seemed poised to put together a typical home performance. Entering Saturday, the Terps had lost the previous six matchups in Durham by an average of 19.8 points, including a 41-point embarrassment in 2009. And this season, the Terps

COACH BRENDA FRESE (right) and forward Alyssa Thomas (left) will have a chance to get their first victory at No. 3 Duke tonight in a top-10 matchup. file photo/the diamondback TONIGHT’S MATCHUP

No. 9 MARYLAND TERRAPINS

20-4, 8-3 ACC

No. 3 DUKE BLUE DEVILS

22-3, 9-2 ACC

Tonight, 7 p.m. WHERE Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham, N.C. TV ESPN2 Coach Brenda Frese has never beaten the Blue Devils on the road in her Terps tenure.

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