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Students foil robbery attempt Police delay crime alert to pursue leads in case

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Three students fended off a group of about seven attempted robbers Friday, marking the third unsuccessful robbery in the month of February.

The students were walking to a bus stop on Berwyn House Road just before midnight when a group of six or seven males approached, according to a crime alert sent out yesterday by University Police. One of the suspects asked “Who’s got the money?” before a struggle ensued. The attempted robbers ultimately fled without any stolen property, said Assistant District 1 Commander Cpt. Daniel Lipsey.

The attempted muggers are described as black males between the ages of 16 and 19, wearing dark, hooded sweatshirts and dark pants. A few of them had dreadlocks, both Lipsey and the crime alert said. Lipsey added the description was fairly good in this case and added that in snap incidents such as these, a thorough, detailed or specific description is usually hard to come by. Because police wanted

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President Barack Obama unveiled a budget outline on Thursday that could save the nation’s students millions of dollars.

Obama’s financial aid reform plan targets three key federal financial aid programs for reform and expansion. The plan ties the maximum Pell Grant award to inflation for the first time, expands a federal loan program that will lead to fewer students taking out riskier private loans and makes permanent a new college tax credit that could help students pay for textbooks and other expenses.

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‘We can’t replace her’ Engineering staffer Tiller remembered for warm, welcoming smile

Guard Greivis Vasquez shows his frustration late in the Terps’ 65-63 loss to Wake Forest last night.

The loss seriously hinders the Terps’ NCAA Tournament hopes. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Terps lose crucial game at home against No. 10 Demon Deacons on Senior Night

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Friends and colleagues said one of India Tiller’s most memorable characteristics was the warm, amiable smile she offered to anyone who walked into the undergraduate studies office of the electrical and computer engineering department.

It was only fitting at INDIA TILLER Tiller’s memorial service yesterday afternoon in Memorial Chapel that a familiar image was centered at the front of the

With every 3-pointer Dave Neal stroked, he could taste the NCAA Tournament and an ultimate sendoff to his career at Comcast Center.

But in a game defined by drastic runs, the Terrapin men’s basketball team was on the wrong side of the see-saw when it

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Panel says trend creates few role models for women

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teetered one final time.

With a chance to knock off a second top10 team in 11 days and put an emphatic stamp on their tournament resumé, the Terps (18-11, 7-8 ACC) lost a double-digit lead and eventually the game, 65-63. A large and athletic Wake Forest team (23-5, 10-5) imposed its will down the stretch and

The lack of minority women in academia is a self-perpetuating trend that deprives young minority females of role models and networking opportunities, professors and researchers said at a panel discussion on the campus yesterday.

“I see a lot of women who are incredibly smart not go into these fields,” said Ritu Agarwal, a business professor.

There are only 26 women of color holding tenure professorship at this university, according to Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs Ellin

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Terp men swimming in shallow funding Men’s team has struggled with a lack of scholarships

BY JONAS SHAFFER Staff writer

Faculty members and students gathered at the Memorial Chapel yesterday afternoon for a memorial service for India Tiller. MATTHEW

The 21st century has not been kind to the Terrapin men’s swimming and diving program.

After concluding the previous decade with a combined 56-49 record, the last seven-plus seasons have yielded just a 30-59 mark. And since 2001, the team has gone 5-40 in conference play.

The women, meanwhile, have been better off — and that’s putting it lightly. Since 2001, they have more than doubled the wins of the men (71), including two undefeated seasons in 200304 and 2004-05.

This year, the women finished fifth in the ACC championship. Last weekend, the men finished eighth, far behind elite programs such as Virginia and North Carolina.

Those programs, including LSU, where firstyear head coach Sean Schimmel served two seasons as associate head coach, differ from Maryland in one fundamental regard: They have the full financial backing of their respective athletic

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NEWSMAKERS BRIEFS Officers suspended for beating suspect UPPER MARLBORO — Prince George’s County police say two officers have been suspended after they were seen on police videotape beating a Latino driver.

Police Chief Roberto Hylton said in a statement on Saturday that John Wynkoop and Scott Wilson were suspended with pay pending an internal investigation.

Second-degree assault charges against 30-yearold Rafael Rodriguez were dropped Friday after prosecutors received a video that contradicted the arresting officer’s allegations.

The traffic stop occurred in College Park on Oct. 19. Wynkoop says he tried to cite Rodriguez for driving with illegal blue lights.

In the video, the officers are seen slamming Rodriguez against his car, pepper spraying him and hitting him with a police baton.

Senate votes to restrict use of death penalty ANNAPOLIS

— The Maryland Senate voted Tuesday to amend a death penalty repeal measure to keep capital punishment on the books while limiting its use to cases with biological or conclusive videotaped evidence.

The Senate voted 33-12 to accept an amendment

by Sen. Robert Zirkin (DBaltimore County), one of many amendments considered by lawmakers.

Under the amendment, either biological evidence such as DNA, a voluntary videotaped confession to a murder or a video recording that conclusively links a defendant to a killing would be needed to seek the death penalty.

Zirkin said the change keeps capital punishment in the state while creating stronger safeguards in how it is used.

“For those of you who are for the repeal of this, you know, you may not get the full repeal and this does move the ball forward,” Zirkin said.

Zirkin’s amendment was approved after the Senate voted for an amendment by Sen. James Brochin (D-Baltimore County), that would have simply required evidence stronger than eyewitness testimony to bring a capital case.

Sen. Brian Frosh (DMontgomery), who chairs the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, said Zirkin’s amendment improved the bill from the condition it was left in after Brochin’s change.

“I think this amendment improves the bill from the status that we just put it in,” Frosh said. “It will provide a greater guarantee if there is a death penalty sought and it provides the state with some additional work that they have to do and some greater protection.”

Trial delayed for man accused of hitting puppy FREDERICK — The trial of a man accused of hitting a pit bull puppy, fracturing its skull and blinding the animal, has been delayed.

Troy D. Goines of Frederick has been charged with felony and misdemeanor animal cruelty in the August incident.

According to charging documents, Goines punched the dog in Discovery, a Walkersville subdivision. The dog’s owner agreed to have it euthanized after its condition deteriorated.

An emergency kept a prosecution witness from appearing in Frederick County Circuit Court at a jury trial on Monday. The trial has been rescheduled for March 30.

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While the Terps’ women’s program has that luxury, the men do not.

“They’re totally two separate programs when you look at men and women,” Schimmel said. “I knew coming in that they were not on the same level.”

Title IX bears much of the blame for that imbalance. To maintain an equal proportion of scholarships between men and women, the Athletics Department through the years has juggled the allocation of men’s and women’s scholarships.

While the women’s program reached its maximum 14 scholarships, the men fall short of their maximum 9.9 mark, with just 6.5 scholarships available.

And unlike sports such as football and basketball, swimming and diving does not operate under a “head count” basis, whereby each scholarship player must receive one in full. Rather, the Terps divvy up the scholarships among the more than 20 swimmers on roster.

As a result, Schimmel must determine a recruit’s value to his program, awarding scholarship money based on potential and performance.

“You want to make a good deal for everybody, give them what you have, and it takes Terp coach Sean Schimmel knew when he accepted the job a year money to do that,” Schimmel ago that the men’s team would have an uphill battle to success with said. “The more funded we its funding issues looming. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

“Somehow they need to figure out a way to make things a little bit more fair. ... Yeah, football brings in all that money, but do all 85 of those full rides play?”

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are, the more impact we’re gonna have at a conference level, and at a NCAA level.”

The scholarship crunch can be taxing on the swimmers.

Before ultimately signing with the Terps, sophomore Mitch Challacombe also considered Virginia and Duke. He said he committed because the university offered him a better deal financially than did the Cavaliers, who didn’t offer him as much as the Terps, or the Blue Devils, whose swimming and diving program doesn’t offer athletics scholarships. It was a matter of dollars and cents.

“It turned out that Maryland was actually going to be the cheapest for me,” Challacombe said, “so that kind of made my decision when I was coming here.”

Senior Eric Cullen said he arrived in College Park as a member of the team on nothing more than “a book scholarship.” His current scholarship now offers him more, but those early days still trouble him.

“I feel like somehow they need to figure out a way to make things a little bit more fair,” said Cullen, who, in previous years, worked part time to supplement his partial scholarship. “Yeah, football brings in all that money, but do all 85 of those full rides play?”

Senior Associate Athletics Director Michael Lipitz and Schimmel hope the “Fear the Turtle II” campaign can level the playing field. Its predecessor, the 2005 “Fear the Turtle” campaign, brought the total number of fully funded scholarships to 6.5 from 4 — a vast improvement but still a far cry from the available 9.9. The fundraising campaign’s goal is to find full funding for all 27 varsity sports, primarily the three still in need: baseball, men’s swimming and diving and track and field.

Lipitz said the Athletics Department is currently relying on donations to fund the program until other revenue streams can support it on a permanent basis. Former Terrapin letter-winners and other

generous donors are being asked to provide the necessary short-term endowments.

“It’s been a long time coming,” Lipitz said of the department’s goals. “It’s been a priority for a lot of years, and we’re finally getting there.”

Even without the full complement of scholarships, the men have nonetheless made a marked improvement under Schimmel’s watch this year. At 6-7, this season has been the closest the program has had to an actual winning season since the 2000-01 squad posted an 83 record. Considering the team’s absence of any premier long-distance swimmers and a diver for most of the season, Schimmel was understandably optimistic.

Last week’s ACC championship offered an indication of just how far the team has come and how far it still has to go — despite breaking team records in 14 of 21 events, the Terps finished in just eighth place in the 11team meet.

“There’s definitely an upside to being able to develop athletes’ potential,

maybe untapped potential, but in one sense, it’s limiting when that happens because there’s only so far you can go,” Schimmel said. “The goal is to get the most talented athletes out there that are coming out of high school to bring to our program.”

The support, or lack thereof, can also be problematic for Schimmel and others in a position like his. If a batch of recruits fails to pan out as planned, there isn’t much opportunity for immediate help. It’s a hit-or-miss market, and the battles must be picked carefully, especially in a conference where Lipitz says the majority of the teams are fully funded.

“Even though we’re all together, there’s differences in how you can build a program, and we’re looking to build the programs on both sides to be at the top of the ACC,” Schimmel continued, “and we’ll get there in a few years. ... It’s a different ball game when you have your 9.9.” shafferdbk@gmail.com

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Retention key to boosting minority faculty in sciences WOMEN, from Page 1 Scholnick, despite there being close to 1,500 tenure or tenuretrack faculty at the university.

When students reach higher education, there is a significant drop in female minority participation in science fields, according to a recent study by a Catholic University of America sociology professor. That minimal number of prospective role models hinders the development of female minority students.

“I wish there was a woman role model I could turn to,” Agarwal said. “There were many times I wished I were a man [for networking purposes]. Many times I felt people weren’t taking me as seriously as my actions and scholarship suggest.”

The study found that low expectations of women and minorities led those groups to lose interest in the sciences. Disinterest begins in the eighth grade and lasts through the senior year of high school because of a lack of female minority science teachers and less challenging curricula, leaving students unprepared for university-level classes.

The lack of minority and female interest in science, technology and engineering fields is reflected at the university. In the engineering school, only 16.8 percent of undergraduates are female and only 13 percent come from underrepresented minority groups. At the graduate school level, the percentage of female students is higher, but the percentage of underrepresented minorities is lower.

In addition to employing minority faculty, schools should also provide a “sense of belonging” to all students with access to labs, mentoring and symposiums.

“I think it’s so helpful when you can see someone who’s so similar to you,” said Joy Browne, a sophomore biological anthropology major. “It’s good to see someone physically in front of you who’s portraying the goal you want to reach.”

At this university, Browne said

she does not rely heavily on her female minority professors because they teach large lectures with less interaction and room for intimacy, she said.

“All the female teachers have not been helpful to me at all,” Browne said. “There should be more focus on getting more women as lab instructors.”

Like others, junior physiology and neurobiology major Aishat Olatunde, who is black, was always “geared toward math and science.” Her interest lasted through high school, in which she took science Advanced Placement classes. While none of her teachers were women of color, Olatunde still got support from her role model, a white woman who taught physics.

“Her explanation of how [women] could enter the science profession and move up really did excite me,” she said.

While science classes at this university are statistically diverse, Olatunde said it is important to have a range of cultures.

To deal with the lack of minority women faculty, some said the university needs to do a better job retaining the professors they originally hire until the professors get tenure. “[I am] extremely proud of this university. I just see people of all types from different places,” said Carol Parham, an education professor who chairs university President Dan Mote’s commission on women’s issues. “I think we should be concerned there’s only 26 full professors. I met some of the most outstanding woman of color, but they leave before becoming full professors.”

There is also a stigma attached to being a working woman of color, Parham said. Being a university professor does not fit the image of a disadvantaged housewife, and minority women must overcome these stereotypes in order to succeed and be taken seriously, she added.

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College tax credits may have minimal impact BUDGET, from Page 1 direction,” said Patrick Callan, president of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, an organization that promotes and analyzes public policies that enhance access to higher education. “Affordability is becoming a huge problem in this country. Family income has not grown at all this decade and tuition keeps going up ... aid just hasn’t kept pace.”

“The deal with access and college completion rates is a huge problem in this country,” Callan added. “And while we don’t know the details [of Obama’s budget] yet, the approach of supporting need-based financial aid is the direction we need to go in.”

While Obama’s budget, which would effectively abolish bankbased, profit-driven student loans and use the savings to raise the maximum Pell Grant and provide a significant increase to the Perkins Loan program, is still undergoing changes, it stands to make college access and affordability high priorities.

Pell Grants — the result of a federal program that provides need-

based aid to help low-income students pay for college — are guaranteed to all students who qualify.

But because the maximum award amount is set through an annual process where spending level projections are made long before students actually receive the grants, the maximum changes depending on the economic or political climate of the time. When times are tougher, like now, the maximum award stagnates or shrinks.

Under Obama’s proposal, the maximum Pell Grant award would be linked to the rate of inflation, allowing the maximum award to grow at the same rate as the cost-ofliving index and will allow more students to qualify for federal aid.

“College is part of the American dream; it shouldn’t be a part of the American financial nightmare,” Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said in a statement. “That’s why I will keep fighting to make access to higher education a priority in the federal law books.”

Obama’s budget also explicitly proposes revamping the Perkins Loan program to avoid taking out private loans in an unstable market. The proposal calls for the

elimination of the bank-based Federal Family Education Loan program and putting the money saved toward increasing the funding for the Perkins Loan program and other aid programs.

Unlike bank-based loans, the Perkins Loan provides low-interest annual loans of up to $4,000 for undergraduates and up to $6,000 for graduates with financial need. “[The government] needs to take the profit-making out of the system,” Callan said.

But many say cutting the loan programs may be a mistake.

After the president released his budget proposal, stock prices of student-loan companies took a nose dive, with Sallie Mae’s stock sinking about 31 percent in a day and Nelnet Inc., a major student lender, falling about 54 percent.

The third component of Obama’s financial aid proposal would make permanent a tax credit approved by Congress in last month’s stimulus package.

The credit would reimburse students for the money they spent on crucial college-related expenses, such as textbooks and tuition.

The tax credit could essentially

ensure millions of students receive up to $2,500 for tuition and textbook costs, while also providing up to $1,000 to low-income families who do not make enough to qualify for other college-related tax breaks.

Though many are hailing this as a much-needed help to middle-income families, Callan and others argue it is the weakest link in Obama’s federal aid plan.

“It’s hard to see or prove that a tax credit would have a direct impact on college access,” he said.

“It’s OK to say that going to college is such a good thing for the country that the government is going to give you a tax break, but there’s just not a lot of evidence that shows that it goes to helping the student or the economy in the long run.”

Though the budget outline does not detail spending levels for most of the education programs it outlines, Education Department officials have promised there would be no cuts to student aid in the 2010 fiscal year — a promise legislators pledge to uphold.

P.J. Hogan, a lobbyist for the university system, said while the state legislature is in session, their lobbying efforts will be focused on

Attempt is third to fail this month CRIME, from Page 1 to first follow some investigative leads, the crime alert was delayed a few days, Lipsey said.

Despite being outnumbered, the students, who Lipsey said were “a pretty good size,” were able to fend off the attempted robbers and did not hand over any money or possessions. Police said none of the victims were injured

during the attack.

Because of the large group of attackers, Lipsey said gang involvement is a possibility, but unlikely.

Three failed robbery attempts occurred last month, though the events are probably not connected, Lipsey said: Each happened in different areas, under different circumstances and the suspect descriptions were not similar.

On Feb. 4, an intoxicated male

witnessed a fight on College Avenue and was approached and forced to give up his cell phone at knife-point. Once the suspect ran, the victim’s cell phone was returned by a witness.

On Feb. 20, two men attempted to rob a student in the lobby of his building on Adelphi Road before fleeing when someone interrupted the encounter.

Lipsey said the economy may

have played a role in the spate of attempted robberies and may continue to play a part in future crimes of this nature.

“I’m sure the economy has a part in this but it’s not the complete excuse,” Lipsey said.

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‘When she smiled at you, it just made your day’ TILLER, from Page 1 sanctuary — a picture of her smiling face.

“Her beauty was reflected in her smile,” electrical and computer engineering associate director Stephen Norton said.

“It will be one of the things I’ll miss the most.”

Tiller, a 49-year-old program management specialist for the department, was fondly remembered as a woman who was quick to make others feel welcome and who cared about all living things.

“She dealt with hundreds of students every day, but she took it very seriously,” electrical and computer engineering chair Patrick O’Shea said.

“She took the time to help students on an individual level, and encouraged them to work and study hard. She really went beyond her administrative duties, and that’s hard to find — we can’t replace her.”

Tiller was born July 28, 1959, in Detroit, where she was one of seven children. She received a bachelor’s degree in speech science and communication from Capital University in Ohio, and also an associate’s degree from the Psychology Center in Catonsville.

She came to the university in 2000 and worked for the business services department before she transferred to the electrical and computer engineering department in 2004.

Electrical and computer engineering director Judi Bell knew the two would get along when

WHAT’S IN OBAMA’S BUDGET: FINANCIAL AID Last Thursday, President Barack Obama highlighted three facets of federal financial aid reform he hopes to enact in his 2010 budget: Pell Grant – After the stimulus bill raised the maximum award to $5,500 per student by 2010, Obama’s budget would tie the maximum award to the rate of inflation for the first time.

Federal Student Loans – The federal student loan program would be revamped to eliminate bank-based loans and use that money to support the Perkins Loan program, which provides low-interest loans.

Tax Credits – The budget would make permanent a tax credit approved by Congress in last month’s stimulus package that would reimburse students up to $2,500 for tuition and textbook costs, while also providing up to $1,000 to low-income families who do not make enough to qualify for other college-related tax breaks. more local issues, but once the session concludes in April, they will switch gears and begin pushing for the passage of Obama’s budget and other student- and universityfriendly legislation. “[The federal government] is still going to go through like six months of hearings about this,” Hogan said.

In the meantime, however, Hogan said he will be waiting to hear more about Obama’s budget, which he and financial aid experts

Major amendments to textbook bill fail; both still need to be approved by delegates

BY ALLISON STICE Senior staff writer

Two bills supported by students — the College Textbook Competition and Affordability Act and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act — cleared the state Senate and may be up for a vote in the House of Delegates in a matter of weeks.

Sen. Paul Pinsky (D-Prince George’s), the lead sponsor of both bills, said he is optimistic

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she saw her pictures of her two dogs she held so dearly: Pepper and Sammy.

“We both loved dogs,” she said.

Bell shared the little details of Tiller’s personality: She loved her dogs like members of her family; she was a voracious eater, despite her petite frame; she enjoyed spending time at local events in Washington and being active; and she wore a large set of keys that jingled down the hall, alerting coworkers to her presence.

“You could always hear her coming; we sometimes thought about telling her the keys were distracting, but we never did,” Bell said. “Now the sound of keys in the hall has been silenced, and we would give anything to hear them again.”

Tiller fell ill earlier this year with pneumonia, and many of her colleagues in the department would call to check up on her or visit her while she was sick, they said. She died Feb. 24, and a funeral reflecting her Muslim faith was held Saturday.

Rebecca Copeland, assistant to the director in the Engineering Institute for Systems Research, acted as master of ceremonies for the memorial service yesterday. She said although some mourners might have been frustrated with Tiller’s early passing, they also provided her with company and support toward the end of her life.

“India knew she was not struggling alone,” Copeland said. “She knew people were concerned, she knew people

were caring, and she felt the warmth of our friendship. It is my hope for you all that you can be consoled that you were there by her side in her final weeks.”

The ceremony was colored by artistic tributes to Tiller. Several professors used poetry to express their sentiments, while program coordinator Angela Bass chose to sing a dedication.

Pamela Abshire, an assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department, said the memorial was a fitting tribute to a vibrant person.

“Her smile was best described as ‘explosive,’” she said. “She was warm and loving, and when she smiled at you, it just made your day.” goondbk@gmail.com

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“The question is whether anyone proposes amendments that harm the bill or significantly weaken it.”

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lauded as a clear indication of the president’s priorities and initiative.

“One of the problems is if we can’t catch our students up on education, [the country] doesn’t have much of a chance of staying on top,” Callan said. “None of these programs by themselves will get us where we need to be, but together, we can really get our students into college despite this horrible economy.”

about their passage in the House of Delegates. The greenhouse gas reduction bill has more than 50 cosponsors in the House, while the textbook bill has more than 30 out of 141 delegates — though bills with similar numbers of cosponsors have failed before.

“There’s a coalition behind it now, [Gov. Martin O’Malley (D)] is strongly behind it, so the question is whether anyone proposes amendments that harm the bill or significantly weaken it,” Pinsky said, noting the textbook bill faced several amendments that he said would fundamentally alter its purpose and implementation, but all such amendments were voted down.

One such amendment would have allowed faculty to continue posting book information after the bookstores placed their orders, even though the original purpose of the bill was to ensure book information would be published early enough to give students more buying options and

bookstores more time to track down used copies.

Amendments that did pass clarified that the act applies only to bookstores that pay state sales taxes and that campus bookstores may clearly label the faculty-selected textbooks and alternative choices, such as older editions, to make it easier for students to see their options. The bill promotes the use of older editions of textbooks and discourages newer editions, although faculty are ultimately allowed to make their own decisions.

As for the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act, which failed late in the session last year, Pinsky said he is hopeful that support from O’Malley, as well as manufacturing interests, will sway more lawmakers’ opinions this time around.

But there are no guarantees, proponents acknowledge. Brian Lentz, a member of the university’s chapter of the Maryland Public Interest Research Group who is leading a lobbying effort for the emissions reduction bill said he and others have called each delegate to get a sense of their support for the bill.

“Support in the House, I’d say, is 50-50,” the sophomore sociology major said. “There’s not so many people in opposition, but there are a lot on the edge. Those are the people we’re targeting.”

To do so, MaryPIRG is collecting signatures to send to delegates and setting up meetings with between delegates and constituents to talk about the bill’s importance. The House has been waiting to see what the Senate would do before moving the bill out of committee, Pinsky said.

Now that both measures have successfully cleared the Senate, the bills will likely come to a vote on the House floor in a few weeks.

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The juggling club, the badminton club, Revolutions Dance Team, Student Entertainment Events — they all have one thing in common: YouMaryland.com.

Capitalizing on the need to show university and group pride, the student-run website that began this semester customizes merchandise for student clubs and organizations. With a selection of more than 600,000 products such as volleyballs, T-shirts and bags, YouMaryland.com allows clubs and organizations to make purchases directly through the website.

“The biggest selling point [of YouMaryland.com] is that we will give any price and we’ll almost 100 percent of the time beat [an opponent’s] price,” said Nathan Deck, a

junior accounting major and employee of YouMaryland.com.

Although YouMaryland.com just started up this semester, the website has already generated business with several groups.

“We learned of YouMaryland during the StampFest Student Organization Fair and were excited to learn that a student organization was taking on a project of this kind,” said Melissa Kallas, the marketing director of SEE. “They have a wide selection of goods, are very knowledgeable and are extremely helpful,” she said.

The president of the juggling club also found YouMaryland.com useful.

“I recently asked YouMaryland for a quote for juggling club T-shirts,” junior journalism major Christian Kloc said. “They gave me

a flier advertising their services at StampFest, so I figured it would be worthwhile to check it out... The person I e-mailed seemed very nice

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and responsive.”

The website started after Non-Traditional Media, an educational marketing firm, approached the Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity about the prospect of running a

website to sell merchandise to student groups. NTM runs similar websites at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Delaware.

While Alpha Kappa Psi runs all the marketing and pricing of the merchandise on the website, Non-Traditional Media puts all the orders through.

“The YouMaryland partnership focuses on building relationships with student groups, Greek organizations and departments on campus,” said Dmitriy Portnyagin, a sophomore economics and marketing major who helps run the website. “Non-Traditional Media has given us nearly autonomous control over operations and serves to provide us with the resources and prior experience to better serve our Maryland community,” he said.

YouMaryland.com employees said they provide solid cus-

tomer service and low prices.

“We are a student-run organization, and instead of getting quotes from other companies, we give you face time with students you know,” said Ankit Bhalla, a junior accounting and operations management major who helps run YouMaryland.com.

“You’re buying from friends rather than strangers.

“The initiative has shifted to the Maryland Chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi, and we are working to revamp the website to make it more user friendly and to better appeal to the needs of UMD students,” Bhalla added.

Besides selling merchandise, YouMaryland.com caters a portion of its website to the hygienic needs of fraternity and sorority houses. They supply houses with bulk portions of toilet paper, plates and many

“green” products.

“They’re products that houses need in higher quantities, and we are starting a service where houses can order and it will be delivered right to their door,” Deck said. “If you run out of, say, toilet paper, you have to wait, and with this it’s 100 percent next-day delivery, and it’s like $200 or $300 cheaper than what the houses are currently getting from other places.”

Students running YouMaryland.com hope to reach out to more organizations and expand the scope of the website in coming semesters.

“Right now, we’re looking to expand,” Bhalla said.

“We’ve kicked off this semester and we’re definitely going to be trying to change up a few things.” newsdesk.dbk@gmail.com

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ast semester, a 27-member group including university officials, state legis- full of ivory towers. During economic booms, the bill would lay out written guidelators and regents laid out an ideal higher education funding plan. The lines for how governors should fund universities. In hard times, the bill would give group, known as the Bohanan Commission, called for a dramatically high- college presidents an official document to point to before the state reaches for the er investment in our schools to draw lucrative industries and talented axe.

But the state has made similar promises in the past. And Sen. Jim Rosapepe (Dworkers to the state. The price tag of the plan: $700 million.

Any plan that costs that kind of money sets the bar high, but that’s where the Bo- Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), the sponsor of the senate bill mandating highhanan Commission meant to put it. And they didn’t set the bar impossibly high so er education funding levels, is quick to point that out. In 1998, the state passed legislation backing the findings of the Larson Commission. Much they could bargain down later. The report is a sober appraisal of like the Bohanan Commission, it called on state lawmakers to set the commitment the state must make to its universities if we are funding goals for higher education. to achieve widespread prosperity.

The commission’s calls were ignored. During the next 10 But the reality is that the Dow Jones industrial average sank The state needs to back the years, Gov. Robert Ehrlich (R) raised the university’s tuition by to a 12-year low Monday. Even Ross Stern, the university’s AnBohanan Commission’s 40 percent. Rosapepe’s bill, the Tuition Cap and College Oppornapolis lobbyist, isn’t fighting for a senate bill that would require lawmakers to meet the funding benchmarks laid out in the rereport with strong legisla- tunity Act of 2009, would require the state to meet 100 percent the Bohanan Commission’s funding guidelines within 10 port. Instead, with the state’s budget already stripped to the bare tion when it has the money. of years. essentials, Stern is backing a second bill that would treat the Even Rosapepe acknowledges his bill stands little chance of passing this year. But benchmarks as guidelines rather than requirements. We know a toothless bill when bringing the bill before the legislature is more than an empty gesture. Forcing legiswe see one. But even without mandated funding, this bill could have a real impact.

The bill, known as the Higher Education Funding Model for Maryland Act of lators to vote on mandated funding reminds them of what the state should be doing, 2009, doesn’t promise a single extra dollar in funding. But sponsored by the Bo- even if it can’t afford to at the moment. In some ways, adopting funding guidelines hanan Commission’s chair, Del. John Bohanan (D-St. Mary’s), it still calls on law- without mandates serves the same purpose. But Rosapepe’s bill shouldn’t be makers to change the way they view the state’s public universities. The bill pushes thrown by the wayside. It’s not that Rosapepe can’t see what’s happening now; it’s the state to see its universities as essential engines for prosperity, not just campuses that he can see what should be happening in 10 years.

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n recent weeks, I’ve heard many University View residents complain about the noisy construction starting every morning outside their windows at 8 a.m. The View’s owner is building an addition, and to many students’ dismay, he did not inform residents about this when they signed their leases last year. I think it would be a stretch to say the management is inherently anti-student for mishandling their concern. The View as a building, however, is definitely working against its occupants. One of the first complexes built specifically for student housing in this area, it sets a precedent for every building that follows. Fortunately — or unfortunately, perhaps — that bar’s been set pretty low.

Let’s start with the outside. In a town composed mainly of low buildings — one-story strip malls, two-story houses, even eight-story dormitories — a tower 16 stories high and roughly a city block long sticks out. While this may not be the

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REED last high-rise that will sprout on Route 1, even the View’s addition currently under construction will only be 12 stories high.

This is a building that chooses not to play well with its neighbors in College Park, which says a lot about how its architects and developers view the community and the people who live here.

For instance: The View is located just behind the campus and across a bridge.

This side of the building should be an important entrance, a welcome mat to residents coming home from classes or oncampus students paying a visit to their friends. Instead, it’s a parking garage, a blank wall and a long, poorly lit walk to

the front door on Route 1. This is unsafe because, as anyone who’s walked this way after dark can tell you, there’s no one to see (or hear) you scream.

Inside, it’s clearer how little the View’s creators understood how its residents would live there. There are more than 1,100 students living in the View, nearly twice as many as in the largest dorm on the campus. Meanwhile, I spent my freshman and sophomore years living in Bel Air Hall, a dorm with 120 residents. I could have told you who lived in every single room. I knew if someone coming into the building was a resident or not. If a floormate made a mess in the stairwell or common areas, they’d be sure to hear about it. You can’t buy that kind of surveillance.

Students knock out light fixtures in the hallways and leave trash in the elevator in the View because there’s nobody to hold them accountable. It’s impossible for someone to know all 1,100 residents in the building, and even more difficult

for the management to keep track of them all. This building is simply too large to create the sense of community that you need to encourage responsible behavior.

This argument isn’t really directed at the View, because it’s already built and occupied and knocking it down would probably upset the people who live there.

It’s for the buildings that will serve future students eager to have a complete college experience. I like to think of the View as a test run — too much attention paid to luxury goodies such as gourmet kitchens and swimming pools, not enough to the basics, like safe pedestrian access. I hope architects and developers have learned from the mistakes made here so that the next generation of student housing in College Park won’t repeat them.

Dan Reed is a senior architecture and English major. He can be reached at reeddbk@gmail.com.

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h, freshman year. The year of no air conditioning, mistakes and broken exit signs. The ultimate living experience.

Living in the calmer and air-conditioned basement of Dorchester Hall, my experience was a little different. But we were still able to share the welcome-tocollege-introduction everyone dreams of: Lot 11 before football games.

The first time I made the long trek down there, I was shocked. Maryland vs.

William & Mary. My first weekend of college. I couldn’t believe the number of underage drinkers all over the place. And the police weren’t doing anything about it — they were just walking around, making sure no one was doing anything stupid.

(To be fair, at the time, I was also shocked how people thought this was actually fun.)

But the more I got to thinking about it, the more it made sense. The police would never be able to stop the underage

drinkers. There were simply too many. So instead, they just wanted to make sure no one hurt themselves or others. (Like the guy who threatened to do a back flip off his car — that was fun.)

Now, more than two years later, the University Senate is considering banning smoking on the campus. But if I’ve learned anything from the Lot 11 tailgates, I can say with confidence that this proposal will not work.

Don’t get me wrong. I hate everything about smoking — the smell, the smoke, even sometimes the people. Living in the Dorchester basement, I had my share of smokers who would smoke right outside my window. I would ask them to leave — sometimes they would listen; sometimes they would not. But either way, they were violating the university policy that states you must be 15 feet away from a building when smoking.

And even though this rule has been on

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COHEN the books since I started school, I have never seen anybody enforce it. But do we really want the police enforcing this rule?

What happens if smoking is banned? Will police issue a ticket to every smoker?

Don’t they have better things to worry about — say, mainly, keeping us safe?

And ultimately, we have to recognize, this ban will not stop people from smoking. Think about all the other deterrents already in place. There is extensive research linking cigarettes to cancer. Cigarettes are even labeled with bold warnings, effectively saying, “THIS PROD-

UCT WILL KILL YOU.” And let’s not forget the smell, the social scorn, the yellow teeth, the smelly clothes, the money, the wasted time and the ridiculously high taxes.

But, Joel, I have asthma! People smoking just makes it worse!

Walking around the campus, people smoke in designated areas. It is not that hard to know where these locations are — just avoid them.

In Lot 11 before football games, the police looked at the big picture. Rather than cite every underage drinker, they wanted to maintain control. Instead of theoretically citing every smoker on the campus, or more practically, enacting an unenforceable rule, let’s allow the police to keep control of the campus.

Joel Cohen is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at jcohendbk@gmail.com.

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COLLEEN WRIGHT-RIVA AND SCOTT LUPIN Over the last several weeks, there have been a number of articles and editorials about the new Bagasse take-out containers Dining Services introduced as part of its New Year’s resolution and “Eat IN-itiative.”

Well, the good news is that people across the campus are talking.

There’s nothing better on a university campus than healthy debate.

The bad news is that some of the information shared through the course of normal conversation, through newspaper interviews and in the rollout of this product has been inaccurate or might have been taken out of context. We believe clarifying some of this will benefit the entire campus community.

It’s important to recognize Dining Services has been and continues to be committed to doing its part in the university’s larger and ongoing effort to improve its sustainability practices. From university President Dan Mote’s commitment that the campus become “climate neutral” to the construction of Knight Hall, our first “green” campus building, to the collaborative “Feed the Turtle” campaign at Byrd Stadium and now, to eliminating the use of plastic foam products in dining locations across the campus — change is occurring. All of these efforts, large and small, make a difference. In furthering these initiatives, though, the campus and Dining Services will encounter challenges involving costs, policy and logistics.

The transition to Bagasse containers was based on several interests including: a desire to eliminate the use of plastic foam products made from fossil fuel and to introduce a functionally similar product made from renewable resources; a desire to reduce the generation of solid waste by encouraging students to eat in rather than take out and, finally, a desire to continue to take positive steps in stewarding campus resources. As you can imagine, there are no simple solutions and no perfect answers, but efforts across the campus are moving us all in the right direction.

Bagasse take-out products are made from sugarcane, a renewable resource. They are compostable and will biodegrade into environmentally benign materials (unlike plastic alternatives). At the end of the day, “eating in” is the most environmentally sound choice you can make, period. But there should be no doubt that the new Bagasse containers are much better than their plastic predecessors — whether they are composted in the dining hall dish room or they are thrown away in a trash container on the other side of the campus. It’s really just that simple.

We hope and believe the efforts under way across the campus will reduce our environmental footprint.

We need to recognize, however, that change takes time and that it takes participation by all members of the campus community.

There are many small actions we can each take to make a difference.

Several tips are provided on the Office of Sustainability’s website (www.sustainability.umd.edu) — check them out, but when possible, eat in, please.

Colleen Wright-Riva is the director of Dining Services. Scott Lupin is the director of the Office of Sustainability. They can be reached at cwr@umd.edu.

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MILK Milk scored big at the Academy Awards last month, with Sean Penn sneaking past Mickey Rourke’s highly favored performance in The Wrestler to nab his second best actor win for his portrayal of gay rights activist Harvey Milk. The film’s best performance, however, may be Josh Brolin, who played Milk’s eventual killer, Dan White.

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he Towers at University Town Center is quickly becoming a great place for your typical dinner and a movie date.

A slew of restaurants have opened around the Regal Royale 14, both in the form of familiar chains (Five Guys) and down-home cooking (The Carolina Kitchen Bar & Grill). A new restaurant, Hank’s Tavern and Eats, opened a few months ago, offering a different kind of burger experience than its chain counterpart.

The restaurant is small, offering about 15 tables in addition to the bar area. It’s a very modern-looking establishment with a slew of flat screen televisions on the walls in the bar area and individual televisions in the bar booths.

Hank’s bar has a dizzying water and neon light tank behind the bottles, which changes colors every minute or so. It’s an eye-catching accoutrement, if a little disorienting when caught out of the corner The interior of Hank’s Tavern and Eats sports a spacious bar, but limited seating. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK of your eye.

The restaurant takes some extra restaurant. While the $9 price for er pill to swallow.

Thankfully, the bar décor isn’t For those looking to try the the only thing worth discussing steps with the burger to ensure a a burger is acceptable, it doesn’t restaurant in a budget-conscious when it comes to Hank’s. Despite better food experience for cus- come with any sides.

These not-included sides range way, Hank’s offers happy hour the small menu, the restaurant is tomers. Both the top and bottom putting a spin on typical bar food, buns have grill marks, making for from handmade barbecue potato prices on the burger ($5) and offering slightly upscale versions a nicely crisped sandwich without chips or French fries (both $2.99), chicken wing appetizer ($6, norto garlic spinach or red beans and mally $9.99). This special runs of what you might typically find at any soggy mess.

Another great addition is the rice (both $4.99). While they cover a from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. every day a drinking establishment.

The onion rings ($3.99) at steak sauce that comes with the nice range of cuisines, including a and all night Tuesday. Of course, it Hank’s have the clear markings of burger. Like all the sauces and side with a meal drives the total wouldn’t be happy hour without hand-battered deliciousness. The dressings, it is house made, ac- price much higher. If you’re looking drink specials, as well. Budweiser coating isn’t perfectly even, and cording to the waiter. The sauce to keep the price down, you could and Natural Bohemian cans are there are small offshoots of crispy has a delicious combination of fla- get away with sharing an order of $2, and margaritas are $3.

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THE UPS & THE DOWNS DAVE NEAL The senior led the Terps with a career-high 19 points and six rebounds while shooting 5-for-6 from deep.

The Terps had no answer for Wake’s size down low, as the Deacons enjoyed a 50-32 rebounding advantage.

COMCAST CENTER The crowd was nuts all night.

At one point each side of the student sections took turns chanting “DAVE” and “NEAL.”

GREIVIS VASQUEZ After a torrid 33-point performance against N.C. State, Vasquez shot just 7-of24 from the field last night.

FIRST HALF An efficient offense and stifling defense marked the first period, but Wake’s length got to the Terps in the second.

25 32

40 ——————65 31 ——————63

WAKE FOREST (23-5, 10-5 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG FT Teague 37 6-16 4-5 Aminu 34 6-12 3-4 Johnson 32 4-11 1-3 McFarland 8 2-3 0-0 Williams 19 1-4 0-0 Clark 14 2-4 0-0 Hale 3 0-0 0-0 Smith 33 4-11 2-3 Weaver 9 0-0 0-0 Woods 11 0-2 0-2 Team TOTALS 200 25-63 10-17

O-T 1-2 6-14 6-8 1-4 0-0 0-4 0-0 1-3 1-6 2-5 1-4 19-50

A 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 0

PF TP 2 17 1 16 2 9 0 4 4 2 1 6 0 0 1 11 1 0 0 0

9 12 65

PERCENTAGES–FG: 39.7, FT: 58.8, 3FG: 33.3 3-POINT GOALS5-15 Clark 2-4, Aminu 1-2, Smith 1-2, Teague 1-6. TURNOVERS–16 (Johnson, Teague, 3). BLOCKED SHOTS–10 (Aminu, Johnson, Teague, Weaver, 2). STEALS–6 (Smith, 2).

TERRAPINS (18-11, 7-8 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG Milbourne 30 1-6 Neal 23 7-11 Mosley 23 2-6 Vasquez 39 7-24 Bowie 18 3-5 Dupree 6 2-3 Hayes 28 3-8 Tucker 12 1-3 Gregory 21 1-3 Team TOTALS 200 27-69

FT 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

O-T 0-2 2-6 2-5 1-5 2-3 0-0 1-2 0-1 1-3 2-5 2-2 11-32

A 0 0 3 7 0 0 4 1 0

PF TP 1 2 3 19 1 6 2 16 3 6 1 4 2 6 2 2 2 2

15 17 63

PERCENTAGES–FG: 39.1, FT: 100.0, 3FG: 36.8 3-POINT –7-19 (Neal 5-6, Vasquez 2-8, Hayes 0-3, Milbourne 0-1, GOALS– Tucker 0-1). TURNOVERS––10 (Vasquez 4). BLOCKED SHOTS––3 (Milbourne 2). STEALS––8 (Vasquez 3).

ATTENDANCE––17,950 (17,950).

TERPRECAP

Neal nearly carried team to victory put the Terps’ upset hopes to rest.

“When I got hot there, I definitely thought we were gonna pull this one out,” said Neal, who hit five 3-pointers as part of a career-high 19 points on his Senior Night. “But Wake Forest being the No. 10 team in the country stayed completely composed; they never quit.”

After three Neal 3-pointers, the Terps led 54-48 with 7:44 left to play. But No. 10 Wake Forest switched to a 1-3-1 defense, which stifled the Terps and keyed an 11-0 Demon Deacon run.

“They made a run, we made our run and then they went into their 1-3-1 and kind of got us out of the groove we were in,” Neal said. “We kind of got out of our zone offense there at the end, but we fought hard.”

Guard Greivis Vasquez, who had 16 points on 7-24 shooting, was less impressed by Wake Forest’s defense, saying, “They don’t play good defense at all. They’re just long and they got size.”

Wake Forest has six players on its roster 6-foot-9 or taller, while not one player in the Terps rotation is that large. In addition to closing out on the Terps’ passing lanes, the Demon Deacons capitalized on their size to amass a 50-32 rebounding edge.

Nineteen of those Demon Deacon rebounds were on the offensive end, as they scored 20 secondchance points on a Terps team that was putting in a quality defensive effort in holding Wake Forest to 39.7 percent shooting.

Demon Deacon freshman AlFarouq Aminu — an athletic 6-foot-9 small forward — grabbed 14 rebounds to supplement his 16 points.

“It’s definitely tough when they have four 6-[foot]-9 guys in the game and they’re crashing the boards,” guard Eric Hayes said.

“That’s what they do best. We could have done a better job getting defensive rebounds.”

In the first half, the Terps showed that mismatches can go both ways.

They mitigated Wake Forest’s size advantage by constantly reaching for steals, forcing 11 first-half turnovers.

Those steals turned into Terps points on the other end.

“We had to play that way,” coach Gary Williams said. “You can’t save it.

You gotta go after the game. We had a chance there to break it open a bit that we didn’t get and that hurt. We were in position to win that game.”

Neal beat the halftime buzzer with a 3-pointer, giving the Terps a sevenpoint lead as they joyously skipped

BY THE NUMBERS A statistical look at last night’s game

Guard Eric Hayes and the Terps struggled to produce a consistent offense last night. Hayes finished with six points, which was good enough to tie for third on the Terps behind Dave Neal and Greivis Vasquez. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

through the tunnel. The Terps led by as many as 11 points before the break.

The Demon Deacons quickly filched the lead with a 16-5 run during the first 5:14 of the second half.

Then Neal got hot and led a 13-3 Terps rush. But Vasquez was just 2-11 in the half, and couldn’t continue his mastery down the stretch.

“They couldn’t stop me; I stopped my own self,” Vasquez said. “I think I got a little tired, me playing a lot of minutes. That’s no excuse.”

Sophomore guard Jeff Teague

19 Wake Forest offensive rebounds

SCHIMMEL

W

ith the Terrapin men’s basketball team holding on for dear life with about a minute to go in its 65-63 loss against Wake Forest last night, Demon Deacon forward James Johnson drove down the right side of the lane with his team up by one.

The long, powerful 6-foot-9 sophomore came up short on his layup attempt, but with nobody on the Terps big enough to get in his way, Johnson followed his shot and tipped in the putback.

The critical basket — which gave the Demon Deacons 20 second-chance points on the night — pushed the Wake Forest lead to three and effectively ended another valiant attempt by the Terps to knock off a top-10 team.

The Demon Deacons had five players 6-foot-9 or taller who played significant minutes. The Terps had none. In a backand-forth game in which both teams struggled shooting from the field, the difference was around the basket and on the glass.

Wake Forest had 20 second-chance points. The Terps had six.

Wake Forest grabbed 50 total rebounds and 19 offensive boards. The Terps grabbed 32 and 11, respectively.

Wake Forest went to the free throw line 17 times. The Terps went only twice.

The Terps played tough. The Terps played with heart. The Terps almost pulled off the upset.

But Wake Forest was bigger. Wake Forest was more physical.

Wake Forest won the game.

“We’re not the biggest team this year, but, you know, you compete,” coach Gary Williams said. “A couple times down there, I thought we could have had the ball defensively where we gave them the second shot and they scored. In a game that close, the hustle plays are always big.”

During an optimistic stretch late in the second half when it looked like the Terps were going to win, I was all set to write about how — with another statement win — the Terps had just about locked up an NCAA tournament berth despite playing with an undersized frontcourt all season.

I was going to apologize for all the times earlier in the season when I wrote about how they’d never make it to the Big Dance because they weren’t big enough or deep enough in the post.

Instead, the Terps were undone by their size disadvantage once again, and they are still fighting for their NCAA tournament lives.

My crow-eating can be temporarily put on hold.

The Terps now face an absolute mustwin game Saturday in the regular season finale at Virginia and will probably also need to win at least one game in the ACC tournament to make the field of 65.

It’s certainly doable, and the Terps are still in a much better position than they were just two weeks ago. But things are not as certain as they would have been with a huge win last night.

“If we can’t come out here and play hard and kind of come back from this tough loss that we had tonight,” forward Dave Neal said, “I don’t know what it’s going to take for a person to play hard.”

What’s unfortunate for Neal on his Senior Night is that he played his best offensive game as a Terp despite the mismatch, and his team still lost.

scored 13 of his team-high 17 points in the second half to lead the Demon Deacon comeback.

The Terps have had to play four teams ranked 13th or higher in their last five games. They could only muster one win against those ranked teams, but the loss last night and the one against Duke last week were inspiring to Williams.

“You try to put yourself in the position where in the last two minutes you’ve got a shot, and we had a shot,” the 20th-year Terp coach said.

14 The Demon Deacons’ advantage in secondchance points

Terps still learning that size matters GREG

WAKE 65, TERPS 63

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10 Blocked shots by Wake Forest

The Terps are off until Saturday, when they will try to even their conference record at Virginia — a team that is 3-12 in ACC play.

A win there will keep the Terps in NCAA Tournament discussions. A win last night against Wake Forest may have put them over the edge.

“I’m so angry right now,” Vasquez said. “Just because I thought we could have made history by winning this game.” mseligdbk@gmail.com

2 Total 3-point shots made by Terps other than Dave Neal

Goalies each have different strengths and weaknesses GOALIES, from Page 8

The undersized Terp frontcourt could do little but look on as Wake Forest’s giants, such as Al-Farouq Aminu, controlled the glass. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

He knocked down a career-high five threes and scored a career-high 19 points, shooting mostly from the perimeter.

Neal has stepped up tremendously all season and has put together his best two games back to back. But the way the 6-foot7 made his impact last night also underscored the Terps’ biggest flaw.

They still don’t have a true interior scorer, and they still don’t have anybody that can reliably defend against an army of big men like Wake Forest’s.

“That’s what their strength is,” Neal said.

“We could’ve done a better job on the boards on both ends, but we didn’t.”

Like so many extra opportunities the Demon Deacons had last night, the Terps will get a second chance on Saturday.

They’re working hard in the post. They just need to finish. schimmeldbk@gmail.com

each half.”

The goalies too have taken in stride an issue that could have placed strain on their relationship.

“Mary’s one of my good friends on the team. There’s no real tension or rivalry between us,” Dipper said. “We’re able to push each other. When she’s in goal, I’m cheering for her, and when I’m in goal, she’s cheering for me.”

Jordan played the first 40 minutes in the season opener against Richmond and in the first half of the Massachusetts match, with Dipper taking over in the second half. But the roles reversed last weekend against Duke, when Reese gave Dipper the starting nod and put Jordan in after halftime.

Jordan has a lower goalsagainst average in her time on the field, 7.19 to Dipper’s 8.83. However, Dipper has the edge in saves, with eight saves and a 42.1 save percentage compared to Jordan, who has six saves and a 33.3 percentage.

They bring different styles along with their statistics.

Dipper played field hockey in the fall, so she has experience with collegiate-level competition and also has honed her skills when saving low shots and going after the ball, midfielder Laura Merrifield said.

Jordan is more vocal in orchestrating the defense and provides quick clears up the field, according to midfielder Caitlyn McFadden.

“Dipper’s real fast and aggressive, and she’s got a lot of that

hockey background for her,” Reese said. “Mary’s more calm, has got good clears; and she made some big saves for us at the end of the Duke game.”

“It works out perfectly,” Jordan said. “We both have our strengths and weaknesses, and we capitalize on them. We work off each other.”

This uncertain situation is unfamiliar territory for the Terps.

Allie Buote, who had a 48.3 save percentage with 6.8 saves per game in her last season, started at goalie the last three seasons before she graduated and left the Terps with a hole at the position.

But the Terps are willing to work with the situation and put their trust in both freshmen.

“We have confidence in both of them,” McFadden said. “So whoever’s in the goal, we know that they’ll make saves and make those clears, so it’s fair. As freshman they’re really stepping up and gaining more confidence, so we trust either one of them back there.”

Reese is unwilling to put a time frame on the setup. But heading into a stretch of four straight top20 matches without stability in the net could be a disadvantage.

Dipper is quick to remind people that against Duke, she and Jordan combined for six saves, just one shy of Blue Devil senior Kim Imbesi. And they were the ones who walked away with a win.

“A lot of people think we can’t do it,” Dipper said. “But we want to prove them wrong, to prove we’re as good as a senior goalie.

And together we’re doing it.” kyanchulisdbk@gmail.com

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AP College Women’s Basketball Poll Top 10 School 1. Connecticut 2. Stanford 3. Oklahoma 4. TERRAPINS 5. Baylor

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School 6. Auburn 7. Louisville 8. Duke 9. California 10. Texas A&M

SITUATION

Entering their Feb. 2 game at then-first-place Florida State, the Terrapin women’s basketball team was 16-4 overall with a 4-2 ACC record, ranked No. 13 in the country and still trying to find consistency in the middle of a deeperthan-usual conference schedule.

Just more than a month later, with the regular season complete and the ACC tournament upcoming, the now-No. 4 Terps are winners of nine games in a row and are in line for their first No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament since 1989. Whether or not the Terps (25-4, 12-2 ACC) can secure a top seed and avoid a potential matchup with undefeated Connecticut until the final four is largely dependent on their conference tournament performance this weekend in Greensboro, N.C. The Terps carry quite the resume for that distinction. They are the regular-season champions of the second-highest RPI-rated conference and boast wins against highly regarded teams such as Florida State, North Carolina, Duke and Purdue.

But while the Terps have held onto the No. 3 RPI ranking for much of the year, there are still questions for the tournament selection committee to consider when finding the two other No. 1

seeds besides Connecticut and Oklahoma, both viewed as locks in that position by analysts.

“They need to make sure they don’t lose to anybody but Duke,” said Jerry Palm, publisher of CollegeRPI.com, when asked what the Terps need to do this weekend to ensure a top seed. “They could still be a [No. 1 seed] even if they lost, if they lost to the right team.

It depends on what happens in other places.”

Those other places include the Big 12 conference tournament, where a championship win by No. 5 Baylor instead of No. 3 Oklahoma could propel the Bears to a No. 1 seed along with the Sooners.

Palm also said the Terps’ position will depend on how Pac-10 leader Stanford and SEC favorite Auburn fare this weekend.

Both the Pac-10 and SEC are regarded as weaker conferences this season, which means a slip up by either of those two teams could put them out of the running.

A potential Maryland-Duke ACC tournament matchup would occur in Sunday’s conference final, as the Blue Devils are the No. 3 seed. But in Saturday’s semifinal, the Terps are in line to face a team perhaps just as tough as Duke in No. 11 North Carolina, the fourth seed in the ACC draw.

Beth Mowins, a women’s basketball analyst for ESPN and Westwood One Radio, agreed that

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Terp coach Brenda Frese is more concerned with her team winning the ACC tournament than what seed they will get in the NCAA tournament. The Terps have been a No. 2 seed three straight years. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

no matter the outcome, an appearance in Sunday’s title game should earn the Terps a top seed.

But if the Terps lose to the Tar Heels in the semifinals, the seeding situation could become murky.

“I think they’re in great shape for a No. 1 seed,” Mowins said.

“They’ve really come on strong late in the regular season. ... Having said that, they’re going to probably have to beat North Carolina again.”

That brings up the issue of how heavily the selection committee should weigh long-term regular season success compared to conference tournament results. The Terps beat then-No. 2 North Carolina 77-71 at Comcast Center on Jan. 25 in the two teams’ only previous meeting.

“I think the regular season is much more important than the tournament, two or three days on one weekend,” Mowins said.

“Based on what Maryland has done, they have earned the right to be a [No. 1] seed.”

The Terps received serious consideration for a No. 1 seed in each

of the last three seasons, but in each tournament draw, they ended up with a No. 2 seed. The last Terp team to earn the honor was the 1988-1989 squad, also the last team to win the ACC regular season or ACC tournament.

If the Terps earn a No. 1 seed, they will most likely end up in the Raleigh, N.C., region. Connecticut is projected by most analysts to earn the top spot in Trenton, N.J. The other regional sites are Oklahoma City and Berkeley, Calif.

To coach Brenda Frese, who is 7-6 all-time in the ACC tournament and has twice guided the Terps to second-place finishes there, the difference between a No. 1 and No. 2 NCAA tournament seed isn’t that important.

“I don’t think you can count on anything because you’re not in that room with the selection committee,” Frese said. “So we just wanna keep getting better and keep building and our next task at hand is the ACC tournament. The No. 1 seed doesn’t guarantee you anything.” akrautdbk@gmail.com

Terrapin women’s lacrosse coach Cathy Reese had watched two freshman goalies in the preseason, and she knew she would have talent in the net. But as the season approached and neither established herself as the dominant player, Reese set up a competition for the job.

Three games into the season, the tryout continues.

Reese had hoped Mary Jordan or Brittany Dipper would separate herself and step naturally into the starting role. But she said the players remain neck and neck.

So Jordan and Dipper have rotated halves and starts so far this season, and right now, Reese said she does not mind.

In fact, she plans to use the changing faces in the cage to the Terps’ advantage, hoping the goalie change at halftime will throw off their opponents and give the Terps the upper hand heading into the last 30 minutes of the game.

“They both have their strengths, but they’re very different goalkeepers,” Reese said. “So it will be a different look when you’re shooting against different goalkeepers in

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