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Cumberland Hall students report two men broke into unlocked room University Police say no property stolen; suspects not yet found 19 — who live on the seventh floor — confronted the two before the males left without stealing any property, a University Police crime alert sent to the campus community stated yesterday afternoon.

After questioning other Cumberland residents, police determined the two suspects had tried several other doors before finding the victim’s door

BY ERIN EGAN Senior staff writer

The Maryland Book Exchange lot is now one step closer to becoming a sixstory apartment building, now that the Prince George’s County Planning Board approved the development Thursday. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

A university student reportedly awoke at 3:50 a.m. yesterday morning to an unknown male touching her thigh while another male was holding her laptop in her Cumberland Hall dorm room, police said.

The victim, 18, and her roommate,

to be unlocked. One resident told police she saw two males, who met the same description, through the peephole of her door as they jiggled her doorknob from the outside, University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said.

“It really seems to be that the

see CRIME, page 2

County OKs Book A PEACEFUL Exchange project PROPOSAL City plans to appeal development; could still be stalled in district council hearings

BY NICK FOLEY Staff writer

Two weeks after city officials voted down a project to transform the Maryland Book Exchange into a six-story apartment building, the Prince George’s County Planning Board gave the plan its stamp of approval Thursday.

County officials decided to move the project forward in the hopes that it will attract new residents and lead to economic growth, according to several city council members. However, the College Park City Council unanimously voted to appeal it at a Feb. 7 meeting because the design violates the U.S.

Route 1 Corridor Sector plan — which prohibits construction of a high-rise building in the downtown area — and would clash with the surrounding neighborhood. The council voted against the same project on Oct. 11.

Prince George’s County council members could not be reached to comment on this article.

District 4 Councilman Marcus Afzali said although he understands the county’s emphasis on creating growth, the project shouldn’t flout the city’s own plans for development, which city officials and residents

see DEVELOPMENT, page 2

Activist speaks on Middle Eastern peace solutions

BY QUINN KELLEY Staff writer

When Omar Barghouti co-founded the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel movement nearly seven years ago, he wasn’t looking to propagate hatred toward Israel — he wanted to launch a nonviolent movement that would help restore peace in the Middle East.

Unlike many organizations involved in the ongoing Israeli and Palestinian conflict, Barghouti’s movement does not take a political stance on particular parts of the Middle East conflict, such as whether to implement a one- or two-state solution.

Instead, Barghouti said he carries the words of

see CONFLICTS, page 2

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Education college plans to offer 42 scholarships to future math teachers Officials hope $14,000 awards will grow math education program

BY QUINN KELLEY Staff writer

Coach Brenda Frese, left, stands with guard Anjale Barrett, who was honored before Friday’s Terrapins women’s basketball game against North Carolina, an 84-64 Terps win. ALEXIS JENKINS/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

For 42 students, teaching math might start to pay off sooner than they expected.

In an effort to encourage students to enter math education after graduation, the education college will award 42 juniors and seniors $14,000 scholarships over the next four years, said assistant education professor Lawrence Clark, who is overseeing

the program. Students who receive the scholarship must commit to teaching two years of math in a high-needs school district after graduation.

Students must be a math education major or a math major willing to take on math education as a second major to be eligible for the program, Clark said.

Since this is the first year the scholarships will be offered, Clark said he expects mostly math education majors to apply but hopes more math majors will consider going into education as

the program gains popularity.

“We are hoping to increase the number of math-ed. students as a result of offering theses scholarships,” he said.

The program’s goals are in line with President Barack Obama’s initiative to train 100,000 well-qualified science and math teachers by 2020 to help students compete for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math.

Although scholarship recipients are

see SCHOLARSHIPS, page 3

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012

University program funds $4.1 million to technology projects Seven university faculty involved with projects; work to develop sports technology, eco-friendly cooling

BY MADELINE TALLMAN For The Diamondback

From artificial floating wetlands designed to clean the Chesapeake Bay to electronic baseball plates, faculty members and graduate students across the state, including this university, are developing new technology projects with $4.1 million from the Maryland Industrial Partnerships.

The MIPS program — which was founded at this university 25 years ago to help companies fund research projects to develop new products — has approved 16 different projects teaming up com-

panies with researchers from campuses across the University System of Maryland. This year’s projects, seven of which involve faculty from this university, range from eco-friendly technology to food preservation to state-of-theart running shoes and will receive funding from MIPS, the sponsoring companies and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Environmental Protection Agency.

MIPS Director Martha Connolly said these new projects may not only put new technological innovations on the market, but may also open up job opportunities for the graduate stu-

dents involved.

“It’s very much in the state’s interest to create jobs for students,” Connolly said.

Environmental science and technology professor Joshua McGrath is heading a project with Towson graduate student Joshua Lowman and the Ellicott City-based BlueWing Environmental Solutions & Technologies company to create floating treatment wetlands to remove nitrogen gas from the Chesapeake Bay. Lowman said they planted various shrubs on recycled plastic platforms — “which look like a Brillo Pad,” he noted — so that the plants would push the pollu-

tants out of the water through their own natural chemicals.

Mechanical engineering professor Jungho Kim is working with Earth Networks, a Germantown company that analyzes environmental data, to develop more cost-efficient home cooling systems. As energy is cheaper in the morning due to the lower temperature, Kim is designing a thermostat that would cool a house in the morning and then allow the house’s temperature to level out throughout the day.

“We can determine the house’s response to weather,” Kim said, adding he hopes to

CONFLICTS from page 1

Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel movement, spoke before nearly 40 Friday about his organization. CHELSEA DIRECTOR/THE DIAMONDBACK

DEVELOPMENT from page 1 spent years crafting.

“Why did we waste all this time, energy and money making the sector plan if the guidelines are going to be ignored?” he said.

Once City Attorney Suellen Ferguson officially appeals the decision, the district council will hold a hearing to determine whether the project will move forward or if the develop-

CRIME from page 1 intent was to get into resident hall rooms,” Limansky said. “It seems like they were looking for opportunities to take property.”

The first suspect was described as a 5-foot-8, black male wearing blue jeans, a gray hooded sweatshirt and a gray baseball cap. The only description given for the second suspect was that

Martin Luther King Jr. with him through his peaceful protests, and welcomes both Palestinians and Israelis to join the movement. And when he spoke in front of about 40 students, staff and faculty on Friday, Barghouti said he wasn’t trying to promote a political agenda; he wanted to rally people to end the occupation in the West Bank and let Palestinian refugees return home.

“BDS is not a central command, it’s not a political party — it’s a global rights movement,” Barghouti said. “At the core of this is our deep belief that moral right can and should prevail over military might.”

Barghouti spoke about the quest for Palestinian rights, non-violent protest and how BDS has spearheaded campaigns against products and companies that support Israeli academic and cultural institutions. He also spoke of Nelson Mandela’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s peaceful approaches to protest, and related the Palestinian cause to the “99 percent” of the Occupy movement.

In hopes of pressuring the Israeli government to end the occupation, Barghouti and participants in BDS partake in an academic, consumer and cultural boycott of Israel.

Barghouti told Friday’s audience about the history of peaceful Palestinian protest and explained that the movement aims to restore humanitarian rights for three Palestinian groups: Refugees, those under military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Palestinians in Israel.

Barghouti also spoke of the growing Jewish support for Palestine and said young Jews

test the thermostat in June.

But not all the projects are hard science. Electrical and computer engineering professor Christopher Davis is working with Hagerstown’s Spessard Manufacturing to design an electronic baseball home plate that would indicate whether or not a pitch was a strike or a ball. Davis said the plate will have a computer chip with a database of different batters’ heights and would use infrared LED lights and detectors to tell the height and speed of a pitch.

“Modern electronics are sweeping into sports,” Davis said.

“We have very high expectations that this will work.”

are increasingly favoring Palestinian freedom over Zionism.

“We are very proud of Jewish support of BDS,” he said.

“Israel cannot commit its crimes against Palestinian people in the name of Jewish communities.”

Even though senior civil and environmental engineering major Jonathan Cohen went to Jewish school for nine years, he said he had to “unlearn” the Zionist teachings he grew up with. He now serves as a board member of Students for Justice in Palestine, which sponsored the event.

“I don’t want my people, my family, my heritage to be responsible and be associated with these atrocities, and I take that very seriously,” Cohen said. “Israel isn’t this innocent thing and we shouldn’t be so gung-ho in support of everything it does.”

Although Ira Rickman, Terrapin Students for Israel treasurer, said he welcomed any discourse brought on by bringing Barghouti to the campus, he thinks it’s hypocritical that Barghouti is pursuing his master’s degree at Tel Aviv University in Israel.

“I respect the rights and opinions of SJP and their ability to put on an event like this and bring in a speaker like this. It’s nice to have a little political conversation on campus,” Rickman said. “I think it says something about the speaker when he’s practicing something he’s preaching against.”

Since BDS is comprised of both Jews and Arabs, SJP Treasurer Farooq Burney said it helps disprove the notion that the two ethnic groups are always pitted against each other.

“When you say Arab versus Jew, that really stereotypes both groups,” he said.

“There’s a lot of Jews working

Kinesiology professor Jae Kun Shim is also working with Under Armour to compare traditional running shoes to newly designed low-inertia running shoes. Shim could not be reached for comment.

And Connolly said MIPS is interested in funding projects that would impact various areas, whether they be for improving the environment or the world of sports.

“We’re looking for two things: good size and good opportunity to do some great research,” Connolly said. news@umdbk.com

day and night for Palestinian equality.”

SJP brought Barghouti to the campus to motivate students to learn about and get involved with the movement to end the occupation of Palestine, Burney said.

“We wanted him here mostly to inspire people and to kind of shed light on what the BDS movement is and why it’s effective,” Burney said. “The best way to start is to learn more about the issue, because then that way you understand what’s right and what’s wrong.”

But some students said they didn’t agree with BDS’s methods.

“I think academic boycotts are unconstructive. If you really want to understand another person’s culture, which is absolutely essential to creating peace, you have to cooperate with the intellectuals of that society,” said freshman government and politics major Benjy Cannon, who is on the board of J Street U. “I think to say it’s a peace-oriented movement would be a mischaracterization.”

Senior criminology major and SJP board member Farah Kahn said she hopes the lecture inspires students to participate in the Palestinian cause on the campus.

“I would just hope that they really want to get more involved and help support our cause, our movement,” Kahn said. “We’re spearheading the BDS campaign on campus, and we thought this would be a great way to introduce it to our campus.”

Senior history major David Trent said Barghouti inspired him to get more involved with the movement.

“Usually people say you can’t do anything, they try to disempower you, but this feels empowering,” Trent said. kelley@umdbk.com

ers will need to rework the plan to align it with city code.

Afzali said he thought county officials chose to ignore the fact that the housing structure violates regulation.

“I don’t think they even think this complies to the Route 1 Sector Plan,” he said. “I think they basically are willing to look the other way on a lot of things right now as long as it leads to development and growth.”

However, District 1 councilman Patrick Wojahn said he

was confident the appeal will “at least force the developer to go back to the drawing board.”

Wojahn added that surrounding neighborhoods should be considered when developing plans for future buildings, like the proposed mixed-use housing complex.

“It’s not compatible with the neighborhood; it’s too tall and doesn’t transition into the neighborhood behind it,” he said. “It would change it from being a low-density commercial

district to a much higher density commercial district.”

Some residents, such as Mark Hoelk, who lives on Fordham Road in Calvert Hills, called the proposed building “out of place,” and said it would clash with the city’s distinct atmosphere.

“I think the character of this town has been established; so much is happening on Route 1 as it is,” Hoelk said. “There’s growth, and then there’s smart growth.”

However, Wojahn said the planning board did acknowl-

edge the neighborhood’s atmosphere, a move he called “confusing” given they voted to support the project.

“They say that they recognize that there’s a small-scale residential property immediately behind the Book Exchange, but they don’t seem to agree with the notion that ... the project needs to be scaled back [because of that],” Wojahn said.

Some students, such as sophomore computer engineering major Porter Darby,

said constructing the six-story building alongside smaller structures seemed like “an excessive waste.”

“It’s like ‘Hey, here’s Route 1 and it’s dominated by one huge building,’” Darby said.

However, he added that he would welcome more student housing options in the city.

“It could be good in the respect that it’s opening up students to more housing options.”

he is a black male and did not seem to belong in the dorm since he appeared to be lurking in the hallway, Limansky said. Police are still searching for the suspects.

Limansky added that the suspect who caressed the victim’s thigh yesterday morning does not fit the same description of previous incidents when an unknown male reportedly crawled into bed with several female students last semester — what

some students have deemed, “The College Park Cuddler.”

Although the two suspects do not fit the same description as the “Cuddler,” several Cumberland residents were distraught upon hearing about the incident.

“I heard the elevators open, and I saw two guys in the hallway,” said freshman hearing and speech sciences major Meg Graves, who said she saw the suspects as she was walking from the shower back to

her room.

“At first I thought they were just walking through, but then they just started hanging around the hallway, which I thought was weird,” she said.

“I started watching them through the peep hole and I didn’t recognize either of them. It got really quiet and I could hear doorknobs jiggling. Even though I could see they weren’t at my door, I was still terrified.”

Graves, a Cumberland resident who lives across the hall from the victim, added that she had not locked her door while she was showering, meaning they could have entered her room.

Limansky said the best thing students can do to prevent similar incidents is to lock the door even if they are leaving the room for only a minute. After this incident, some students said they will take Limansky’s advice.

“I didn’t lock my door before

because I trusted everyone here, and if I forgot or was lazy, I figured it would be fine,” Sasha Hoherchak, a freshman letters and sciences major and Cumberland resident, said. “I don’t even think I locked my door last night. It was scary when the cops were banging on my door this morning, asking if I had seen any suspicious people. I will definitely be locking my door in the future.”

CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, Friday’s article “The origins of their service,” incorrectly stated that the Civil Air Patrol is primarily a youth activity. The majority of CAP members are adults over the age of 21.

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ON THE BLOG campusdrivedbk.wordpress.com OBAMA PRESSES FOR MORE STEM MAJORS, FEWER STUDENTS ENTER FIELDS STEM majors — Obama wants you!

In his State of the Union Address in January, President Barack Obama stressed the need for a larger workforce in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, otherwise known as STEM. And judging from the number of tables at the Career Fair last year, it looks like STEM careers are where it’s at.

But after surveying 1,000 young adults last year, experts at Lemelson-MIT found that fewer students between the ages of 16 and 25 are pursuing careers in STEM. For more, visit The Diamondback’s news blog, Campus Drive

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University research team makes geological discovery Using 2.8-billion-year-old rock, researchers overturn widespread belief about content of the Earth’s core

BY FOLA AKINNIBI Staff writer

While searching for one scientific breakthrough, university geology professor Richard Walker and his research team stumbled across another — parts of Earth’s mantle remained unchanged through the chaotic period after its formation.

From about 2.8 to 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth was experiencing growing pains. Collections of cosmic dust were bombarding the Earth, and until now, the scientific community widely believed Earth melted, erasing remnants of one of early Earth’s interior layers — the mantle.

Using a 2.8 billion-year-old rock from Russia, Walker and his team of two researchers proved that this widespread belief was false.

The discovery is important because the findings can help scientists better understand

the Earth’s complexities — specifically how it formed into what it is today, according to a university press release.

Walker attributes the team’s success to the precision of the instruments they used to measure the Tungsten in the rocks, which helps date the rocks for the researchers.

The team dissolved the rocks and then removed the Tungsten — an element that can be found in light bulb filaments — from the rocks. A device, called a mass spectrometer, then measures the type of Tungsten in the samples, which Walker said gives his team “a window into the Earth’s mantle.”

Their findings showed that the rocks, called komatiites, contained material that could have only been present in the early stages of Earth’s development. He said this evidence contradicts the old belief that the mantle would have mixed

together after being struck by the massive object. “[It’s like] building a model Earth out of clay and adding a piece of green clay and a little bit of red clay, and putting them together, but they would remain separate,” Walker said.

While most of the Earth — including parts of the mantle — was undergoing change, this part seemed to stay separate for at least 1.7 billion years. According to the author of the study, Mathieu Touboul, this was most likely the layer between Earth’s core and mantle.

The team doesn’t know if that portion of the mantle is still separate or why the portion was unmixed. However, they plan to focus their studies on this in the future.

The next step: Looking at more modern rocks, according to Touboul, to see if this part of the mantles is the same today as it was 2.8 billion years ago.

University geology professor Richard Walker shows a meteorite he used in a previous study. This semester, Walker and two other researchers are using a 2.8-billion-year-old rock to show that not all of the Earth’s mantle melted. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

The search for slavery’s ‘smoking gun’ Professor looks for evidence linking univ. and slavery

BY JAKE FEWSTER For The Diamondback

Spotlighting the university’s early ties to slavery, history professor Ira Berlin detailed the findings of a 2009 student investigation into this campus’ history at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on Friday night.

About 100 people listened as Berlin outlined the report, “Knowing Our History: African American Slavery and The University of Maryland,” which was put together almost three years ago by the students of a two-semester HIST429 course headed by Berlin and former university history lecturer Herbert Brewer.

The student research team ventured out across the state — from the Hall of Records in Annapolis — in search of clues into the role slavery played in the origins of the university.

“I think Herbert and I can both agree, unquestionably, this was the best teaching experience we’ve had,” Berlin said.

While it is common knowledge that Charles Benedict Calvert — the founder of the university, which was originally called the Maryland Agricultural College in 1856 — was a slave owner, Berlin said the students wanted to uncover the “smoking gun,” or the defining document that

STOPAK from page 6 Stopak was already awake. “He had a basket with twelve different compartments, and he would fill every one with a breakfast item: half a bagel and a little orange. Breakfast every single morning, two hours before he had to get up, which was plenty early anyway, until I left that job.”

THE CD Years later, after their marriage and four kids — three of whom have been, or are currently, students at this university — the couple was sitting together in their house in Potomac.

Stopak looked at Seigle, who still goes by her maiden name in her professional life.

“I never get tired of looking at your face,” he said.

He walked over to the piano and wrote “I Never Get Tired” which would become track six on Operation Love.

As the days went on, Stopak continued to write, in good times and in bad, sometimes even referencing his first wife. About a year and a half ago, he realized he had 30 to 35 songs. He narrowed the list down to 22 and placed them in a certain order.

“The first three are when you’re looking to fall in love,” Stopak said.

“The next seven are when things are great. Then there’s a transition song, and then the next eight is a series of saloon songs when things aren’t so great, but not morbid or depressing or suicidal. There’s jazz and bossa nova and waltz and a ballad and even a funky tune. The last three are when you’ve decided to stay together, even though it’s not perfect.”

Seigle said she likes that last section best.

would clearly link the university to slavery.

“It was not enough simply to affirm the ubiquity of slavery at Maryland, and so the students of HIST429 had to become practicing historians,” Berlin said.

However, Berlin said even after the students “ransacked the university archives,” that “smoking gun” was never found.

“If such evidence ever existed, it had been destroyed in the Great Fire that leveled the university campus at the end of the nineteenth century,” Berlin said. “Not finding the ‘smoking gun’ was a real downer.”

However, students did uncover that Calvert’s father, George Calvert, had a second family — a black family. They also found that Calvert’s righthand man, Adam Plummer, was a slave who was able to travel freely in the area, was married in a church in Washington, and was caught plotting to escape with his wife but received no punishment, Berlin said.

“Knowing our history gives us a sense of how slavery and freedom are involved in both the creation of this university, a heritage which gives us a sense of the complexity of history and a complexity of our own heritage as members of the university community,” Berlin said.

“He is a very idealistic person,” she said. “I think that it reflects a coming to terms with the fact that life changes in ways that are unexpected. It’s sort of a resolution and a comfort level with a relationship; even though it wasn’t what he expected in the beginning, it’s one that he has become content with.”

An old friend, Stef Scaggiari — who is in the in-house pianist for NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, among other things — helped Stopak turn Operation Love from a list of songs into a CD. He wrote the music to seven or eight of the songs and the lyrics for a few, as well as arranging and producing it all, acting as Stopak’s “musical masseuse.”

Stopak once asked Scaggiari if they should hire a professional singer, concerned that his singing wasn’t good enough.

“No,” Scaggiari said. “It’s your story. You should sing it. Louis Armstrong didn’t have a great voice, but he had a way of putting it over.”

Stopak refuses to compare himself to Armstrong, whom he believes had much more talent.

In contrast, Velma Crawford is learning she can do what Stopak does. After surgery to remove a brain tumor last year, she was depressed and uncertain about what her life would be like from then on.

Stopak — who no longer operates, but was part of her surgical team — began to share his stories about how he’s still trying to fulfill his dream.

Now Crawford is pursuing her own dream — designing aprons — and credits Stopak as her inspiration.

“He inspires you to believe in love again and life and all that good stuff,” Crawford said. “I like to call him my healer, and he has been a great healer in more ways than one.” mcfischer@umdbk.com

Several members of the audience, which included students and alumni, said they were drawn to the event out of a fascination with the subject.

“I’m a descendent from slaves from the Hampton plantation, so it’s something that kind of strikes home,” said Keith Dawson, an information technology specialist who studied Africana studies at UMBC and said he had regular discussions of race-related issues among friends.

Sophomore kinesiology major Keema Givens, who attended to satisfy a speaker event requirement for the Arts Scholars program, said she found the issue relevant to modern attitudes toward race. “[Berlin] talked about how race relations are still an issue in society today, and I think it’s really true, so that was interesting,” she said.

Berlin considers the role of slavery at American universities “somewhat of a cottage industry” among schools that have also funded major studies concerning the role of slavery in their history.

“As in the past, whenever we, that is the American people, have confronted the question of race, we have always returned to ground zero of American race relations,” said Berlin. news@umdbk.com

SCHOLARSHIP from page 1 not required to stay in the area to teach, Clark said he thinks many students will stay local and help state and Prince George’s County public schools. The program will enable students to tutor at local public schools.

“Through our relationship with Prince George’s, we’re really hoping we can place as many of these scholars locally as possible,” Clark said.

Since many math and science teachers in lowincome school districts lack the background needed to effectively teach these courses, Clark said there is a dire need for math students to consider becoming teachers.

“Unfortunately, in some high-needs schools, teachers who are teaching math and science, they may be under-certified,” Clark said. “We want to help change that.”

Some students, such as sophomore math education major Jamie Schmutter, who said she plans to discuss applying for the scholarship with her parents, said the scholarship is enticing since it will help students secure a job after they graduate.

“I think it’s just really important because with teaching, it’s so difficult to get a job, so getting this opportunity, which basically

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gets you a job right out of college, is huge for anyone who wants to be a teacher,” Schmutter said. “I think it’s a great scholarship.”

Halima Cherif, the College of Education’s assistant director for communications, said many math students are likely deterred from teaching because they think it’s too difficult, the pay is too low and teaching isn’t perceived as a prestigious job.

However, she hopes the scholarships can change this perception.

“As students get involved and as they learn more, I think that they’ll see that education can be a highly lucrative field for them to pursue,” Cherif said.

While freshman math and Spanish major Rosemary Smith said she wouldn’t immediately consider going into education, she said she believes well-educated math teachers are sorely needed.

“I feel like good math teachers are ver y hard to find because you do need those qualities of being able to teach and being able to present concepts in a lot of different ways,” Smith said. “It’s hard to be a good math teacher, and there aren’t enough of those.”

Smith said she thinks math majors don’t always consider education because teachers need to be creative and students in math tend to be more analytical and straightforward.

“I feel like good math teachers are very hard to find because you do need those qualities of being able to teach and being able to present concepts.”

ROSEMARY SMITH FRESHMAN MATH, SPANISH MAJOR

“You need to have more of an extroverted nature and you sort of have to love being around people and teaching them things. It requires a lot of creativity to figure out ways other people could understand things,” Smith said. “I think that those aren’t necessarily qualities you find a lot in math majors.”

Although teaching isn’t always seen as a “glamorous job,” Clark said, he hopes the program can help change students’ preconceived notions.

“Exposing them to the professions and engaging them in activities that show them how rewarding the job can be is our best way of dispelling some of these myths about teaching mathematics in high-needs schools,” Clark said. kelley@umdbk.com

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heers broke out in the Senate chambers in Annapolis Thursday experts are expecting a high turnout of black voters. Combine that with the after the final vote on legalizing same-sex marriage in the state was fact that another contentious piece of liberal legislation is also on the ballot read aloud: 25 to 22. Gov. Martin O’Malley’s signature will make — the DREAM Act, which would grant in-state tuition to the children of illethis state the eighth (plus Washington, D.C.) to overcome this gen- gal immigrants — it seems almost too good to be true for Democrats if both eration’s greatest human rights violation. Opponents of the bill were mostly pieces of controversial legislation narrowly passed in the General Assembly silent as supporters rushed together in celebration and gay couples marked and the general election.

And between the two possible referendum items, the the moment with a kiss. That silence, however, will DREAM Act does have a bit of a leg up on same-sex marsurely be fleeting. The fight isn’t over yet. riage. The in-state tuition legislation passed the General Opponents of the legislation were already mobilizing to Assembly last legislative session, so supporters have had kill the bill before it even made its way to the Senate. After Although same-sex ample time to launch a state-wide educational campaign to narrowly passing in the House last week, Republican senmarriage may have passed ensure the necessary referendum votes to solidify the law. ators proposed amending the bill, meaning it would have Same-sex marriage advocates, on the other hand, will be been sent back to the House and likely killed. the General Assembly, left with just eight months to sway the nearly-split public While each amendment was subsequently rejected supporters still need to on such a contentious issue. before the final vote and the legislation managed to pass, Marylanders don’t have to look back far in the state’s opponents have already promised to launch a state-wide prepare for the issue to be history book to see just how controversial the matter is. petition, which, if the necessary 55,736 signatures are The state joined the nationwide debate on same-sex margarnered, will ensure the legislation’s final say is put in put to a referendum. riage only eight years ago when nine same-sex couples voters’ hands on the November referendum.

Both opponents and supporters of the bill seem to agree the fight won’t filed suit in Baltimore City to overturn a law banning gay marriage. Although a be over until November and, in many ways, it shouldn’t be. With an issue as Circuit Court judge sided with the couples — and was nearly impeached for controversial as gay marriage, it makes sense the residents of this state doing so — the state’s highest court ruled three years later in favor of upholding would have the final say on legalizing it. And while this editorial board fully the 1973 anti-gay marriage statute.

After that, however, momentum on the issue picked up — over the next four endorses granting equal opportunity to homosexual couples, the LGBTQIA years, the state legalized domestic benefit rights and even began to recognize community needs to brace itself for round two.

It’s unclear at this point exactly how state residents will vote. Mar ylan- same-sex marriages performed in other states.

Fast-forward two years, and this state is now just one of a handful to truly ders seem to be evenly split on the issue, ensuring gay-marriage is still anything but a sure thing. According to the most recent state-wide poll on the uphold the equality of all its residents. There’s little doubt same-sex marriage issue, conducted by Gonzales and Research Marketing Strategies, residents will one day be ubiquitous in this country, but unfortunately, the nation as a favored gay marriage 49 to 47 percent; however, the difference was within whole isn’t there yet. So unless advocates want all the work done over the last four years to be defeated in November, it’s time to hit the pavement and get the the poll’s margin of error.

The poll also showed the legislation is most strongly opposed by African- word out once and for all. Same-sex marriage is here; there are about eight Americans, and given President Barack Obama’s campaign for reelection, months of work left to make sure it’s here to stay.

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The war on drugs and welfare

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he U.S. welfare system is a problem for a great number of reasons. It’s inefficient, inadequate and culturally perceived to be a humiliation to be suffered under by those at the mercy of its auspices.

There are many different considerations on how to deal with the problem. Many propose doing away with it entirely, while others propose minimizing it. Many on the left propose larger protections for those in need. I’m more concerned with those who propose reform that limits welfare. For example, Florida passed mandator y drug testing for welfare recipients, although a federal judge has blocked the law, and unfortunately, other states look to follow suit.

This policy hinges on certain logical and moral processes that may at first seem sensible. But when analyzed further, they are ver y suspicious. The first is that it’s certainly a consequence of the war on drugs, at least in a sense. Denying necessar y aid to those in poverty because they

TOM BRADTKE failed a drug test — any drug test at all — does not differentiate between the casual marijuana user and the crazed heroin addict. It is a silly zero-tolerance policy that attempts to remove nuances and constructs a black-and-white morality around human actions.

That sort of policing of human behavior, with regards to issues such as drug use, creates a scenario where those who suffer the worst are the ones denied the aid to help them get better. Drug use has been proven repeatedly to be associated with poverty and its pressures, not the cause of it. Cutting welfare to those who use drugs does not solve the problem of drug use. The war on drugs is an overfunded failure of a policy that over whelmingly targets

the poor — so why add stipulations in welfare that expand the policing of poor people?

Why is it that those who are set to receive welfare or unemployment benefits are the ones who are forced to undergo this drug testing? You might say the government is giving them “free” money and therefore can provide stipulations on how to receive that payment. It is a somewhat fair point — if welfare recipients were the only ones receiving federal or state money. American tax dollars are used to pay for an enormous number of things not directly associated with the government, such as student financial awards and contractor salaries. Why doesn’t the American government make it mandator y for these groups to undergo drug testing?

Alternatively, for that matter, why don’t these groups refrain from spending any of their money on things that are not associated with their direct personal needs, such as alcohol or cigarettes? Hell, why not go to the bottom of the well and

allow the government to have a say in how to raise your child because of the tax credit you get for childbirth?

Should farmers be mandated to pass drug tests because they receive subsidies? That entire line of logic is a huge affront to human dignity, let alone human rights.

Ever y single person in the United States receives some form of aid from taxpayer dollars — be it from welfare checks or road construction. No one is advocating that every American must prove they are moral upstanding citizens to use these privileges. To say Americans could be subsidizing drug use through welfare is disingenuous, since any person given money by the government can spend it on drugs outside of ver y specific situations. So what’s so special about the word “welfare” that means ever yone who uses its ser vices is subject to the moral policing of society and government?

Tom Bradtke is a senior history major. He can be reached at bradtke@umdbk.com.

The climb: Struggling with life’s obstacles

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n the 19 years I have been alive, I have survived a number of obstacles — a grueling eye surgery, a 15-year-old brother who knows better than anyone how to annoy me, a face full of mosquito bites at my aunt’s professionally photographed wedding and an assortment of similar catastrophes.

Upon arriving at this university, however, I have realized that there are far more challenging, life-molding, character-changing, mind-boggling, heart-wrenching tests. Namely, there is one I must endure everyday: the climb up the looming mountain that rests between Stamp Student Union and Cole Field House.

Yes, it is a mountain. You see, that monolithic being represents a journey that captures the epitome of a student’s life. It’s a hill that gets steeper and steeper every four meters you climb. Occasionally, it blasts you with a dose of hazy, white gas — a strange

chemical that I have yet to pinpoint the exact location and nature of — synonymous with the hazy, obstructing distractions of life. To make matters worse, there are no railings — it is just you and the elements of nature.

On days when I must make that fateful journey, I am reminded of the way it completely symbolizes my life. The burden on my backpack weighs on my shoulders. Sweat pours down my back. Ever y muscle in my body screams for relief. My feet struggle to move for ward and my knees bend to the floor while my backpack yanks me back. I’m a puppet floating with strings.

But I climb anyway.

I could choose to travel light. But you see, I’ve got my eyes on the prize. You can’t buy that $1.47 bean burrito from Taco Bell without a wallet. So I jostle my belongings and bear the burden.

Some students can merrily skip

FATIMAH WASEEM down my mini-Armageddon, hurtling down the challenge that defines my very existence. They have it easy. My insides flare up.

But worst of all is the mountain’s sheer power to expose the inner workings of man. In a few meters’ length, the obstacle can reveal the best and the worst of a person’s physical state. In front of this being, there is nothing you can hide. In a matter of seconds, it will reveal your true colors and bring you down to your knees, spluttering, gagging, huffing and puffing erratically.

In these brief moments, I remind myself that life has no shortcuts. I

don’t know about you, but I aim to go up. The load on my back, the white burst of haze to my left and the apparent ease of others isn’t going to stop me. I may be out of shape, but it’s going to take more than few huffs and puffs to make me give up.

So the next time you see me walking up my personal Mount Everest, know that I’ll be climbing this little obstacle my four years here. We’ll all be climbing this hill together.

And when someone remarks, “Hey, kid. Why don’t you just cut through Stamp and save yourself all the trouble?”

I’ll say, “Good question. Maybe that’s why I’m here, studying at this university.”

Fatimah Waseem is a freshman journalism and physiology and neurobiology major. She can be reached at waseem@umdbk.com.

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yga, Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga, Skrillex and Justin Bieber — all successful music-makers in this day and age. But honestly, spare me. The “musical” genres that welcome such low-quality artists like the ones just mentioned have recently gained momentum, and I’ve noticed that I can’t get through a weekend, let alone a single day, without being subjected to the subpar sounds and obnoxious lyrics epitomized by this new wave of mainstream music. Whether it’s the rapid seizure-inducing metallic noise of electro/techno music (whatever kids call it these days) or the unbearably cliché and jejune lyrics often found in pop music, I find myself always reaching to hit the mute button or hurrying to change songs.

Since these kinds of songs are mostly hackneyed and overplayed, they naturally tend to nag one’s memory long enough to become aggravating. Yet listening to these annoying songs is becoming an infectious habit that pervades the everyday routine of today’s college students. Related to this issue is the growing tendency of many young adults to reject or ignore music that is no longer embraced by modern media outlets; namely, music from before this decade.

To witness this tendency, I encourage you to switch the blaring rave music to a catchy rock song during the next party you attend, just to see how quickly everyone’s demeanor changes from “happy party mode” to “severely disgruntled mode.” I’ve made this rookie mistake before (while attempting to play the Doobie Brothers at a house party), so I can assure you partygoers will frown upon this type of behavior. However, I don’t wish to dwell on this matter any longer than necessary or simply criticize every artist I dislike. Instead, I’d like to propose a question: What ever happened to the pioneering bands that created stimulating music with instruments rather than computers or overused sound effects?

I’ll tell you what happened — they’re being irreversibly driven to extinction by the hands of today’s pop stars and fancy DJ equipment.

This recent trend not only betrays my intuitive taste for quality music, it also enables mediocre artists to continue to produce bad music, which in turn influences more bad music that is inevitably aired on public radio stations. I guess I just wish more college-aged people could enjoy the classics as much as I do. And by classics I’m referring to the many bands and songs created in the unmatched heyday of music: the 1970s. Artists and bands like The Who, Queen, Steely Dan, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pink Floyd, Chicago and the Eagles all played a major role in amplifying the soul and verve of music, while also escalating various musical styles to previously unreachable heights.

These groundbreaking powerhouses (as well as many others during the 70s) permeated our society and marked a golden age of music whose reputation has yet to be transcended. Sure, that time period undoubtedly saw its fair share of terrible bands, but I’m still convinced the ‘70s gave birth to a much higher number of hit bands and timeless tracks compared to other decades, especially this one. Paul Simon (of the popular duo Simon & Garfunkel) once said, “music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.” I couldn’t agree more with Mr. Simon, and the music that will grow and mature with me is the music of the ‘70s.

Kyle Greaver is a sophomore criminology and criminal justice major. He can be reached at kgreaver@terpmail.umd.edu.

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SPOTLIGHT | BERNIE STOPAK

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THE GOOD DOCTOR University alumnus combines two loves: music and neurosurgery

BY MARY CLARE FISCHER Staff writer

Bernie Stopak, 75, has saved lives — thousands of lives.

The most memorable ones are immortalized, in framed pictures and letters that crowd the walls of his small seventhfloor office in the Pasquerilla Healthcare Center on the Georgetown university hospital campus. They’re all expressions of utter gratitude, an attempt to thank the man who often made split-second decisions to cut open their skulls or operate on their spines. In exchange for their minds, patients give Stopak a little piece of their hearts.

Those personal relationships have affected his outlook on life.

Stopak, a 1959 alumnus of this university, speaks of love as a man who has experienced its every facet — passion, comfort, anger, doubt — and emerged with a story to tell.

Stopak has relayed that story as so many love-stricken people have — through music. However, his CD, Operation Love, released in October, is not your typical 12-track tale of teenage angst. With 22 songs that span an hour and eight minutes and a short narration that precedes every song, Operation Love is more like an epic poem of corny words but sincere thoughts.

“What men have told me is the images that I was able to write and the thoughts that I was able to express were things a lot of men feel, but they wouldn’t know how to express it,” Stopak said. “And then it turns out that people from different age groups have heard it, like college age, and they seem to like it, and that’s not where I thought the attention would be.”

After being sidelined for a few months by bouts of pinkeye and the flu, Stopak is now trying to develop a marketing strategy for his CD. He hopes to perform

at nightclubs and is already in contact with Riot Act Comedy Theater in Washington, where he plans to audition soon.

THE MUSIC Expressing his story on a CD was a logical choice for Stopak, who has been involved with music since childhood. At 7 or 8 years old, he began to sing in the choir at his synagogue. His cantor there, Hazzan Katz, was an Auschwitz survivor who sounded like Pavarotti. Stopak’s father — an Eastern European immigrant and former Hebrew teacher — listened to the choir and watched his son on the pulpit, beaming with pride.

Around the same time, Stopak saw a news story on 1930s singer Al Jolson.

“I could do that,” he recalled saying. “If I wanted to do that, I could do that.”

In high school, Stopak played the violin, clarinet and saxo-

phone while also acting in school plays. He received a scholarship to Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio. He never took a science class.

“But my big brother was my hero, and he was a doc,” Stopak said. “He said, ‘What are you doing? I think you should be a doctor.’ What do I know? I listened to him.”

Yet Stopak’s musical interest continued into college where he sang and played bass fiddle and saxophone as a member of the Terptones, a rock group that played at sports rallies and other campus events. He even DJed for an hour on WMUC, the campus radio station, a few mornings a week.

For almost 30 years afterward, though, Stopak focused on medicine. He got married and had two children. Then, in 1987, Stopak released an album titled Remember Me, and the legacy of the singing neurosurgeon began.

Donita Breland, who Stopak operated on for spinal stenosis, recalls the period after her first surgery when Stopak came in almost every day to visit her.

She was hooked up to a catheter, and Stopak had come in right when she was trying to relieve herself.

“I did a little tinkle,” Breland said. “Bernie goes, ‘Oh, that sounds like a C sharp.’”

Remember Me received positive reviews, but Stopak got divorced and was not in the right mindset to pursue his musical career at the time. He had been single for only a year when he found his Juliet.

THE LOVE STORY He was 51. Juliet Seigle was 28 and had just dropped out of George Washington University’s neurosurgery residency program. He was trying to rent a room in the Georgetown area.

She was going away to Ger-

many and India for two months with her boyfriend and called Stopak after hearing he had tried to rent a room from her friend.

She opened the door. Stopak remembered seeing her at a Washington Academy of Neurosurgery meeting in the past. He said, “Aren’t you the one who just quit the program at GW? Too bad you didn’t know me before. You wouldn’t have quit the program.”

Seigle looked at him. “That’s awfully presumptuous of you,” she said. “I’ve been through a lot with this decision. Are you interested in my house or not?”

Two months later, Stopak called and asked if she wanted to go the movies. She said yes.

“He was a very giving, generous, outgoing and loving person,” Seigle said. She recalled getting up at 5:15 a.m. to go to work a long drive away, and

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JACKETS from page 8 do it. We hang our heads quickly.”

Stoglin eventually connected, hitting a 3-pointer with three seconds left. His shot, and a Yellow Jackets’ missed free throw, gave the Terps one last chance on a three-quarters-court heave by guard Nick Faust moments later. Faust’s shot never reached the rim, and Georgia Tech (10-18, 3-11) walked away with just its third win in the ACC. “What else is there for him to say?” Mosley said of Turgeon. “He’s done a lot of talking throughout the course of the season. I know how frustrating it is for him. We keep talking and talking and things aren’t changing. He’s not going to keep wasting his energy and breath after games to talk about what we

did wrong because we know what we did wrong.”

Mosley started the game with arguably his best shooting performance of the season, knocking down his first five shots, including four from 3-point range. He entered halftime leading the team in scoring with 14 points, but had just two points the rest of the way.

Stoglin, meanwhile, could never find his shot, finishing with a team-high 18 points on 17 shots. He hit just one of his six 3-point attempts.

“We went away from the game plan,” Mosley said. “In the first half we were sharing the basketball and then the second half we became a selfish team. Once you start doing that, the big guys aren’t touching the ball in the post.

We were going inside-out the entire first half and things were clicking. The second half, we broke down as a team. Like I said, they were

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tougher than us today.”

The Terps led by as many as nine early in the second half before their offense came to a screeching halt during a 17-2 Georgia Tech run. Before their late-game surge to close the Yellow Jackets’ lead, the Terps started the second half missing 21 of their first 24 shots, including many that Turgeon labeled as “bunnies.”

“We couldn’t execute,” forward James Padgett said. “We couldn’t make any layups. It was hard for us.”

Even with all their secondhalf miscues, the Terps had multiple chances to win Saturday. They just couldn’t convert.

“When the game is on the line and they were making their run in the second half, just the lack of competitiveness that was really hard,” Turgeon said.

“I like to think my teams don’t usually do that.” ceckard@umdbk.com

RECAP from page 8 State (16-14, 5-11), but the Wolfpack responded with a 196 run of their own, cutting the deficit to just one late in the first half.

Though they never led, N.C. State stuck with the Terps for much of the rest of the game, trailing by single digits until the Terps pulled away in the final eight minutes of the game.

The Terps shot just 34.4 percent from the field, their worst offensive performance this season.

“It was a really physical game that [the referees] allowed both teams to play,” Frese said. “N.C. State is a tremendous 3-point shooting team, but we were able to lock down on the perimeter and use our defense to get our rebounding and our offense going.”

Forward Alyssa Thomas was the x-factor for the Terps over the weekend, putting together arguably the best two-game stretch of her season. She was three assists short of a triple-double Friday, finishing with 20 points, 14

TOURNAMENT from page 8 left side to score pinch runner Andrew Amaro and give the Terps a 2-1 lead.

“I was just looking for a pitch up and early, whether it was a sac fly or, in this case, a ground ball through the hole,” Rodriguez said. “I was just trying to get that run across and keep the rally going.”

Reliever Korey Wacker (1-0) started the ninth and issued a leadoff walk before being lifted for left-hander Jimmy Reed.

The runner advanced to second on a sacrifice, but Reed shut the door on the Pirates’ (5-2) shot at spoiling the Terps’ weekend.

Bakich highlighted the team’s pitching as a key to its early season success, and it was evident in Saturday morning’s game against Western Carolina (4-3), a team that had not scored fewer than six runs in a game all season. Right-hander Brady Kirkpatrick(1-0) scattered four hits and two walks over 7.1 innings and struck out five to get the win.

The Terps’ offense was stymied by Western Carolina starter Jordan Smith, who didn’t allow an earned run. So they took advantage of three Cata-

DUKE from page 8

Fans hung signs honoring the Terps’ three seniors — guards Anjale Barrett and Kim Rodgers and forward Lynetta Kizer — before Friday’s game. SU HONG/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

rebounds and seven assists in the team’s victory over the Tar Heels.

Yesterday, Thomas scored 22 of her game-high 24 points in the second half while grabbing a career-high 17 rebounds. She also added three steals and blocked a career-high four shots.

“Coach B challenged us at halftime and told us we were playing scared and didn’t come to play,” Thomas said after yesterday’s game. “I kind of took that to heart a little bit and tried to hit the glass hard.”

After winning four straight to close out the regular season, the Terps secured the No. 3 seed in next weekend’s ACC Tournament in Greensboro, N.C. “This is how you want to finish, you finish strong, and just to be able to see the confidence that we’re playing with, really just having a tremendous feel,” Frese said. “You want to be peaking come March, and this is where this team is at.” vitale@umdbk.com

ball over too many times for our liking. We had opportunities to get going, but they didn’t let us get the ball.”

The beginning of the game was, to say the least, unexpected. The stalwart Terps (31, 0-1 ACC) defense of the team’s first three games this season was nowhere to be found, as the Blue Devils scored five goals and held the Terps off the scoreboard for more than 26 minutes of play.

Terps midfielder Kelly McPartland, who finished with a hat trick, sparked the rally that knotted the game at halftime.

Despite Duke’s (4-2, 1-0) control of the first half, the Terps still managed to come out to the field for the second half with a blank slate.

“It was back and forth through the whole game,” Reese said. “They went up 5-

HOYAS from page 8 performance for the senior captain. Cummings had a careerhigh six points on four goals and two assists for his eighth career hat trick and his first multi-assist game.

“You can’t replace somebody like Joe Cummings,” midfielder Curtis Holmes said. “His lacrosse IQ is so high. He knows where to be all the time.

He’s our quarterback of the offense.”

Holmes also proved critical early on. Following up a 19-for20 showing against Hartford last week, the Marriotsville native won 13 of his first 17 faceoffs, helping the Terps (20) dominate possession for much of the game.

With just more than six minutes remaining in the third quarter, Georgetown (0-1) had registered five three-minute stretches without taking a shot, let alone scoring. At that point,

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mount errors to score two of their three runs “We definitely pitched and played defense very well,” Rodriguez said. “We were able to come up with timely hits and that’s the key to it. Pitching and defense wins, and in this case, we had good starts from all three of our pitchers and our relievers came in and did a great job.”

The Terps continued to take advantage of opponents’ errors in the nightcap against Purdue (5-1). In an 11-1 win called after eight innings due to mercy rule, they were able to capitalize on five Boilermaker errors that allowed four unearned runs.

It wasn’t just the Boilermakers’ defensive lapses that paved the way for a Terps victory, though. Second baseman Kyle Convissar was 4-for-5 at the plate with a double and three RBI. Center fielder Charlie White, who entered the game hitless on the year, was 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored out of the leadoff spot.

First baseman Tim Kiene matched him, also going 3-for-4 with a home run, three RBI and two runs scored.

“The home runs, obviously, stand out, but just a lot of quality at-bats throughout the

0, but then we score five goals in three minutes. We need to become more consistent and play that way for 60 minutes instead of a fewminute inter vals.”

The Terps came out firing early in the second half, too, getting back-to-back goals from midfielder Beth Glaros as their scoring streak moved to 7-0 and their lead to 7-5. But they couldn’t sustain the offensive play that has until now defined their season. A Terps offense that had averaged 34 shots and 19 goals entering Saturday’s game mustered just 20 shots and nine goals on the day.

Two free-position shots by Duke midfielder Taylor Trimble hit net behind Terps goalkeeper Brittany Dipper, tying the game and sparking another Blue Devils run. When the smoke cleared, the Terps were down by three goals with less than 10 minutes to play. But lightning didn’t strike twice —

the Terps held an 11-4 lead.

By the time freshman attackman Jay Carlson netted his second goal of the day with 6:32 to play, that advantage had ballooned to 16-5.

Six Hoyas goals in the final four-and-a-half minutes — five of which came against backup goalie Thomas Guarino and a reserve-laden backline — contributed to a final score that belied the Terps’ dominance.

“To be honest, we were playing a lot of our younger guys,” Holmes said. “They were a little sloppy on some of the basic things, but they’re growing.

They’re learning every day.”

The game was the second-tolast scheduled meeting between the Terps and Georgetown in any sport for the foreseeable future. The last will come when the Terps women’s lacrosse team hosts the Hoyas April 25. Anderson’s decision not to schedule Georgetown in any sports reflects the athletic director’s mounting frustrations in trying to schedule a

“The scoreboard was definitely in our favor in the offensive column.”

ERIK BAKICH TERRAPINS BASEBALL COACH

game, top to bottom,” Bakich said. “It seemed like we were stringing together a lot of quality at-bats in a row, and the scoreboard was definitely in our favor in the offensive column.”

Capping what could have been the Terps’ most complete performance of the year, righthander David Carroll (1-0) pitched seven strong innings, scattering four hits and allowing an unearned run while tying a career high with eight strikeouts.

And while the weekend might not have gone on schedule for the tournament organizers, everything was just fine for Bakich. That, after all, is what he expects out of his team.

“It doesn’t matter what time we play,” Bakich said. “We’ll play around the clock. We don’t care.” dgallen@umdbk.com

Glaros got another goal with 4:17 remaining, and McPartland netted her third with only seven seconds to go. A comeback and an ACC opener win within their reach were not meant to be.

“It’s done and over, it’s behind us,” Reese said. “We need to be ready for Virginia on Friday, and we need to do those little things like finishing our shots, getting groundballs and taking care of the ball in transition.”

The Terps hadn’t lost an ACC regular-season game since their championship season in 2010, and will have a week to prepare for the No. 6 Cavaliers to make sure their place in the ACC is still intact.

“It’s a good learning experience for us,” Reese said. “We got outplayed, and we’re going to make sure it won’t happen again the next time we go out and play.” munson@umdbk.com

home-and-home series with the crosstown hoops powers. In recent years, the schools had played in men’s and women’s lacrosse, women’s basketball, men’s soccer and swimming, and scrimmaged in women’s soccer.

Still, a stop to the “Battle of the Beltway” is likely the most high-profile collateral damage in the two schools’ latest spat.

Georgetown men’s lacrosse has opened its season against the Terps in seven of the past eight years.

A near-capacity crowd of 2,283 braved blister y conditions to see what could’ve been the end of that era.

“I think this game means a lot to a lot of people locally,” Tillman said. “It’s a treat for me.

Hopefully, it’s something that will get resolved. But we’ll stand by kind of the team concept at Maryland and whatever they ask us to do, we’ll support our own guys.” letourneau@umdbk.com

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Sports Terps stumble in Atlanta

Softball moves to 10-2 The Terrapins softball team won four of five games at this weekend’s ESPN Citrus Classic. For more, go to umdbk.com.

YELLOW JACKETS 63, TERPS 61

ACC-worst Yellow Jackets hold off Stoglin in upset

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

ATLANTA – Terrell Stoglin put both his hands to his head in frustration.

The Terrapins men’s basket-

ball team and its star guard certainly had a chance — four of them in the last 1:24 alone — against perhaps the ACC’s worst team Saturday. Yet each of them came up painfully short.

After securing their best win of the season, the Terps flopped in a disheartening 63-61 loss to Georgia Tech at the Philips Arena, their road record dropping to 1-7 overall against a team that had lost 10 of its last 12 games.

The Terps (16-12, 6-8 ACC) have yet to win two games in a row since early January.

“It’s just disappointing,” coach Mark Turgeon said. “I just thought we were growing up and we haven’t. Georgia Tech played well. They made a lot of shots they haven’t been making and executed and were tougher than we were.”

Stoglin hit a layup with 2:03 left to give the Terps a 56-55 lead, but Georgia Tech guard

Mfon Udofia grabbed it right back with a three-point play on the other end.

In the final 1:24, the Yellow Jackets committed three turnovers and missed two of their four free-throw attempts.

A traveling violation and a fivesecond violation against the Terps’ full-court press kept the Yellow Jackets from even getting near the basket on two separate possessions.

But the Terps could never

capitalize. Each of their opportunities to tie or take the lead in that time period resulted in a missed shot or turnover by Stoglin. He was called for an offensive foul and missed a floater, a mid-range jumper and a 3-pointer.

Despite a 3-pointer by Georgia Tech’s Brandon Reed with 26.1 seconds left, the Terps still had two chances late to steal the win.

Down 61-58 with 18 seconds

left, the Terps tried to find an opening for guard Sean Mosley, but he was doubleteamed and kicked out to Stoglin, who missed his chance from deep.

“I thought Terrell had an angle and I thought we had Sean,” Turgeon said. “We just didn’t make a play. It’s that simple. You have your two best players on one side, they got to

see JACKETS, page 7

MEN’S LACROSSE

BASEBALL

Hardly a ‘Battle’ vs. Hoyas

Terps are perfect in Greenville Start to this season team’s best since ’87

Cummings stars as Terps triumph, 16-11

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

When the Terrapins baseball team arrived at East Carolina for the Keith LeClair Classic, it was not greeted with a balmy escape from College Park’s unpredictable weather.

Instead, heavy rains forced the Terps’ Friday afternoon game against Western Carolina to be moved to Saturday morning, with a first pitch scheduled for 9 a.m.

If the change in itinerary had any negative effect on the Terps, it didn’t show. The team surged to its best start in 25 years after yesterday’s 2-1 win over East Carolina capped an undefeated weekend in Greenville, N.C. “We love bad weather,” coach Erik Bakich said. “We live in the state of Maryland. We talk about rainy and cold being our weather, so we own cold-weather games, because that’s what we practice in all the time. We love it. We thrive in it.”

Yesterday’s game against East Carolina was by far the tightest. The Terps (5-1) fell behind the Pirates 1-0 in the third inning after a walk and two throwing errors by starter Brett Harman. But third baseman K.J. Hockaday tied the game with an RBI single in the fifth, and the game’s outcome eventually came down to the ninth inning.

That’s where the Terps loaded the bases for shortstop Alfredo Rodriguez, who singled through the

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

Athletic Director Kevin Anderson announced last week that the Terrapins will not schedule games against Georgetown in any sport until the Hoyas agree to restart the two schools’ men’s basketball rivalry.

And that may not be such a bad thing for the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team.

The No. 7 Terps dominated their local foe for much of Friday, leading by as many as 11 goals before walking away from Multi-Sport Field with a 1611 win. It was their 10th victory in 12 “Battles of the Beltway.” Since 2003, the Terps have defeated the Hoyas by scores of 14-5, 13-6, 10-4, 11-6 and 20-8.

“I love playing these guys,” said midfielder Michael Shakespeare, who had his first career hat trick Friday.

“They always come out hard. It’s a fun game. You know, the past couple years we’ve gotten the best of them, but that was a great win for us.”

Attackman Joe Cummings started the scoring early, taking the ball from attackman Rustin Bryant on the crease and rocketing it past Georgetown goalie C.T. Fisher just three minutes into regulation. Twenty seconds later, Cummings emerged from the crease again to put the Terps up 2-0.

It was a fitting start to a milestone

see HOYAS, page 7

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Attackman Joe Cummings had a career-high six points in the Terps’ 16-11 win over Georgetown on Friday.

It was his eighth career hat trick and his first multi-assist game. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

see TOURNAMENT, page 7

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Duke topples No. 6 Terps dominate in wins over UNC, N.C. State No. 2 Terps Team gets two league wins by combined 35 points, earns No. 3 seed in ACC Tournament

BY JOSH VITALE

Glaros’ big day not enough in 10-9 loss, team’s first of year

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON Staff writer

The latest edition of the TerrapinsBlue Devils women’s lacrosse rivalry Saturday was a tale of runs and comebacks. The Terps’ last rally, however, came up just short.

Riding the wave of a 5-0 secondhalf run, No. 5 Duke toppled the No. 2 Terps, 10-9, in Durham, N.C. After erasing a forgettable beginning to the game, the Terps couldn’t withstand a final Blue Devils surge as they lost for the first time in 2012 and the first time since last year’s title game against Northwestern.

“They played really well and executed their game plan against us,” coach Cathy Reese said. “We needed to do more of the little things — we got outhustled on groundballs, struggled to come up with draws and turned the

see DUKE, page 7

Staff writer

With the game clock showing 1:36 on Friday night, a Comcast Center crowd of more than 8,000 rose to its feet, filling the arena to the rafters with rousing applause.

The cheers had little to do with the game. With a 20point lead over visiting North Carolina, the Terrapins women’s basketball team had already made sure the final minutes would be of little consequence.

Instead, the standing ovation was in honor of the Terps’ three departing seniors — guards Anjale Barrett and Kim Rodgers and center Lynetta Kizer — whom coach Brenda Frese was subbing out of the game for the final time in their regular-season Comcast Center careers.

Aided by a combined 22 points from their seniors, the No. 6 Terps cruised to an 84-64 Senior Night victor y over the Tar Heels on Friday night. The team also

defeated N.C. State in its regular-season finale yesterday, beating the Wolfpack, 65-50, in Raleigh, N.C. “Obviously, we couldn’t have scripted it any better,” Frese said after Friday’s game. “From the tip to the knockout punch and how they led and then how they were able to give them a round of applause — it was fitting for three players who have given four and five years to this program.”

Motivated to win one for their three veteran teammates Friday, the Terps (25-4, 12-4 ACC) deflated North Carolina (19-10, 9-7) in the opening minutes. Two 3pointers from Rodgers helped the Terps jump to an early 11-1 lead.

Their lead never got below eight for the rest of the game, and they led by as many as 33 en route to an eventual 20point decision.

Rodgers finished the night with nine points on 3-for-4 shooting from beyond the arc. Barrett notched six

Forward Alyssa Thomas, right, had a combined 44 points and 31 rebounds in the Terps’ wins over North Carolina and N.C. State this weekend. ALEXIS JENKINS/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

points and five assists, and Kizer added seven points, five rebounds and a teamhigh four steals.

“We just wanted to come out strong. We struggled a little bit with letting teams punch us first and we really

wanted to give them the first knockout punch, and I think we did that,” Rodgers said.

“It’s been a long five years here, and the journey’s been really nice, so just to hear my name that one last time in front of the home crowd

was cool.”

Yesterday’s victory was also a lopsided one, but the final score doesn’t tell the whole tale. The Terps raced to an early 15-1 lead over N.C.

see RECAP, page 7