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City votes to support same-sex marriage present in Annapolis when former Gov. Martin O’Malley signed into law the bill granting equal marriage rights within state boundaries.

Wojahn is again hoping to be part

By Eleanor Mueller what he didn’t know was how long @eleanor_mueller it would be before the couple could of the success for the equal marriage rights movement with the help of his Staff writer officially wed in this state.

A failed lawsuit and a decade of fellow council members. The College In 2003, Patrick Wojahn knew he advocacy later, Wojahn, College Park City Council voted Feb. 24 to wanted to take the next step in his Park’s District 1 councilman, and support same-sex marriage and sign relationship with Dave Kolesar. But Kolesar, now his husband, were a brief filed with the Supreme Court,

Council members vote to add city to amicus brief ahead of Supreme Court marriage equality case

which will hear arguments on samesex marriage bans in Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Tennessee on April 28.

The vote was unanimous with the exception of one absence and one abstention.

“It reflects our long-standing tradition of supporting same-sex couples in College Park,” Wojahn said.

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A double-decker MARC Train, a new model, approaches the College Park MARC station yesterday morning. sung-min kim/the diamondback

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Every day, Joyce Teixeira da Silva waits in College Park — usually for about 20 minutes — before the MARC Train can take her to the University of Maryland, Baltimore, she said.

She com mutes tw ice a day between her home in College Park and UMB’s dentistry school, where she is completing her doctorate, and said she always faces this delay between the bus and the train.

“The timing of the bus is not so close to the timing of [the] leaving MARC train,” Teixeira da Silva said.

But the Maryland Transit Administration’s addition of a new commuter rail link between Baltimore and Washington drastically shortened her usual wait by several minutes Monday, she said.

Despite what one might assume while watching videos such as “Keyboard Cat” or medleys of cats dancing along to dubstep, felines do not particularly enjoy human music.

I n fact, cats p erh aps h ave a similar disinterest in most music as they have in many human activities, but that doesn’t mean cats are not musically minded, one university professor found.

David Teie, a composer at the music school, wrote songs to appeal specifically to the musical senses of the largely domestic pet. Teie has released three singles for cats and co-authored a study published Feb. 19 in Applied Animal Behaviour Science that found cats had more interest in his original a cat listens to an original song by David Teie, a composer in this university’s music school. Cats have their own musical preferences.

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Univ cricket team heads to national competition

Students, panelists share experiences

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Student team succeeds in inaugural season

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Senior staff writer Shivank Joshi grew up playing cricket in India and played for his state’s team, but he said there wasn’t as much of an interest in the sport when he came to this university.

So he and some fellow cricket enthusiasts started the Terrapin Cricket Club in September, and he said he did

Mahesh Naidu, a telecommunications engineering graduate student, practices batting for the Terrapin Cricket Club. The team is heading to its first national championship Wednesday. tom hausman/the diamondback not think in his “wildest dreams” that the team would be heading to the college national championship, which starts tomorrow.

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Sangeetha Madhavan saw a need to discuss black diversity when she noticed her students struggling to understand one another because of cultural differences.

Being “black” means different things to different people, said Madhavan, an African-American studies professor.

As the moderator for last night’s panel, “Engaging Black Diversity: A Conversation with UMD Students,” Madhavan shared her

observations and facilitated a discussion on identity with panelists and the audience.

“This event is really about and for students,” Madhavan said. “We’d like to hear what the students have to say about this issue of black diversity and what does it mean to be African-American versus Nigerian or Jamaican, first-generation, second-generation?”

Panelists Onoso Imoagene, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania; Michelle Rowley, a women’s studies professor at this university; and three undergraduate students distinguished between “black” and “AfricanAmerican” labels.

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david teie, a composer at the music school, uses the sounds of purring, bird calls and nursing to write music for cats. He is the co-author of a study that found cats are more interested in his original music than other human composers. tom hausman/the diamondback

cats From PAGE 1 music than in the melodies of even the most distinguished human composers, such as Johann Sebastian Bach.

“A lot of people have cats,” Teie said, “so if I wanted to bring music to animals, it makes sense to bring it to a place where they’re not hard to find.”

The music imitates the pitch and tempo of sounds that naturally appeal to cats, such as purring, bird calls or even nursing, Teie said.

The study involved University of Wisconsin-Madison resea rchers v isiti ng 47 cats at 23 homes and playing music to them. The researchers switched between three minutes of classical music and three minutes of “species-appropriate” music, said Charles Snowdon, the study’s lead author.

“What we found was that t h e c a t s re s p o n d e d s i gnificantly more to the cat music,” said Snowdon, an emeritus psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They were very interested in and responded much faster to the cat music.”

Researchers recorded positive responses when observing the cats “orienting the head toward the speaker, [moving] toward the speaker, rubbing against the speaker, sniffi ng the speaker, and purring,” according to the study.

On average, the cats tested responded about six times more frequently to the species-appropriate music and about a minute faster than they responded to the human music, according to the study.

The cats responded equally to tion in humans and animals, both the song imitating purring sa id s t u d ie s show m a ny and the one imitating suckling, animals respond to music, including elephants and a cockaSnowdon said.

Snowdon and Teie previ- too that danced to the Backously worked together on a street Boys. He said the study study in which the composer involving cat music is part of wrote species-specific music this body of research but noted for monkeys, which sounded a combination of factors could a bit like heavy metal and influence the musical interests which cotton-topped tamarin of the animals.

“It’s an interesting part of a monkeys responded to. For this project, researchers designed larger question of how music the study independently of Teie evolved,” said Fritz, who was not involved in the study. to remain objective, he said.

These projects come from “[The result of the study] supTeie’s interest in the evo- ports their hypothesis, but it lutionary aspects of music, doesn’t prove it.”

Teie said he wants the music he said, as our hunting and gathering ancestors had an he made for this study to be emotional response to certain enjoyed by owners and felines.

“Music presents a stylized sounds and melodies. He said hu ma ns enjoy music that version of our own commusounds like what they heard nication,” he said. “Music during emotional develop- is a distillation of our own ment — such as a mother’s emotional connection. It’s a heartbeat, which makes us genuine and valid communicaenjoy steady rhythms and tion in a kind of a hybrid form.”

Teie has received positive bass pulses.

“One of the things that I responses from owners who thought could be done to test have bonded with their cats [this theory],” he said, “was through music, and he said that I should be able to write he hopes it will continue to allow more communication music for another species.”

To this end, Teie tried to between pets and owners. One approx i mate w ithout d i- day, he said, his music could rectly replicating meaningful be used in an app in which the sounds in a young cat’s life. owner could play a purring He used everything from a song to communicate feelings pencil eraser dropped in a res- to their cat.

T wo of Te i e’s son g s onant box to a sped-up cello and his own vocal approxima- — “ R u s t y ’s B a l l a d” a n d tions of purrs and birdsongs. “Cozmo’s Air” — are currentHe doesn’t expect to fool the ly available on iTunes, and cats, he said, but rather to his discography is also availevoke a feeling in the felines. able on his personal website, “The kitty is not going to musicforcats.com. Teie said think, ‘Oh, I got to get that bird he is working on a full album in there,’” he said. “It’s more of cat music, which he hopes like, ‘I don’t know what that is, to release by the end of the but I certainly feel like getting summer, and is considering bringing species-specific up and around.’”

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a te l e c o m m u n i c at io n s e n g i n e e r i n g g ra d u ate student and president of the club. “But we as a club have proved it wrong.”

After fi nishing in the top half of the teams in the midAtlantic regional tournament in October, this university’s cricket team was invited to compete in the American College Cricket National Championship.

T he club’s leadership team chose its top players — 15 graduate students — to compete in the tournament hosted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The team will compete for the title against 32 other universities from the U.S. and Ca nada i n the i nternational game that is often compared to baseball.

Razi Khan, an electrical engineering graduate student, played cricket as a child in Pakistan as well as in the Washington Cricket L e a g u e a t a ge 17 a f te r moving to the U.S. when he was 15. Khan said he did not have an opportunity to play as an undergraduate at this university, but the new cricket club lets him compete again.

“We have come a long way,” Khan said. “These p e o pl e a re re a l ly h a rd workers; they show up to every practice; they have a desire to win and do well for the university.”

K h a n, t he tea m’s captain, will lead the team in their first round of the national tou rnament Wednesday. He said he played football in high school, but for him, cricket has something special.

“The good thing about cricket — it’s a gentleman’s sport,” Khan said.

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Travel expenses were also a concern for the club of more than 60 members. The organization does not receive university funding because it does not have enough undergraduate students involved; Sobel is one of two.

But u n iversity depa r tments, such as the information studies college, and the team’s GoFundMe page has helped the team raise money for the tournament, with almost $2,000 from the GoFundMe page alone.

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Unlike K han, freshman journalism major Nick Sobel d id not g row up pl ay i n g cricket. A Bethesda native, Sobel had a friend who had lived in India introduce him to the sport in high school, and that experience led Sobel to join the cricket club on the campus last semester.

“It’s pretty a mazi ng to pl ay w it h k id s who h ave such a different perspective and such different cultural aspects,” said Sobel, who is not traveling to the tournament.

The team tries to practice twice a week, especially after they received their invitation to the national tournament, but getting facility space during the winter was d i f f icu lt, Josh i sa id. T he

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University Senate to review points to improve faculty salary inequity Faculty Affairs Committee receives draft to regulate policy

By Andrew Dunn @AndrewE_Dunn Staff writer T he push to i mprove faculty salary inequities at this university made progre s s y e s te rd a y a f te r t h e University Senate Faculty Affairs Committee received suggested principles that could create a plan to regulate salaries.

During a Faculty Affairs Com m ittee meeti ng yesterday, members received the statement of principles rough draft, which would address widespread inequity among faculty salaries on the campus. The draft concludes that this university does not have a clear way to address those issues and suggests that it needs a way to regulate and make faculty salaries more fair and transparent.

“S a l a r y i n e q u it i e s a re rooted in a variety of longterm structural and cultural characteristics, which will re qu i re concer te d ef for t a n d s i g n i f i c a n t i n s t it utional change to address,” the draft states.

These principles are under

committee review and do not portray any official senate or Faculty Affairs Committee member opinions. At yesterday’s meeting, however, several Faculty Affairs Committee members expressed interest in making the statement of principles into an actionable item instead of a packet of information.

Before this university can implement any changes, the Facu lty A f fa i rs Com m ittee must revise the rough draft to make it an actionable item and send it to the Senate Executive Committee before a full senate vote can take place. Devin Ellis, the Faculty Affairs Committee chairman, said the committee plans to submit its findings to the SEC by the end of this semester.

The charge to investigate salary inequities came from the SEC on March 26, 2013.

The initial charge asked the committee to examine policies regarding faculty salaries and “the overall principles of distribution of raises to merit, retention, promotion, and salary inequities.”

This rough draft, a state-

ment of general principles and findings of the Faculty Affairs Committee and possible future actions to consider, includes work and revisions the committee has put into the issue throughout the past two years.

Ellis said the primary reason the Faculty Affairs Committee has been unable to produce significant action on the matter is because of the issue’s complexity. “ We a re re a l ly t a l k i n g about a data-management problem that calls for that level of approach,” E l l i s said. “We’re talking about a bounded but nevertheless complex set of variables that go into determining why one faculty member is paid X and one is paid Y. To create policy on the basis of a flawed understanding … would be just as bad as doing nothing.”

Sen ior govern ment and politics major Andrew Podob is one member on the Faculty Affairs Committee who said he worries about this issue.

“A s a n u n d e rg ra d u a te student who interacts with faculty members each week, and as a soon-to-be Ph.D.

devin ellis, the University Senate Faculty Affairs Committee chairman, discusses faculty salaries at the committee meeting Monday. At the meeting, the committee received a statement of principles rough draft that would address faculty salary inequity. tom hausman/the diamondback student who w ill one day be a faculty member at this university or elsewhere, I am deeply concerned about the salary inequities between faculty members at this university, and at other universities around the country,” Podob wrote in an email.

Podob also said this problem a ffects students as well because large salary inequities can drive away faculty if they are financially shorted and could lead to a decrease in faculty morale.

He also said alleviating this issue could take some time, especially in making sure the money can come from this

university to support it.

“President [Wallace] Loh, or the Faculty Affairs Committee or me cannot simply wave a wand and make it disappear,” Podob wrote. “Solving the problem requires significant data collection and statistical analysis to fully understand the problem.”

T he com m ittee’s d ra f t re com m e nd s t he for m ation of a body to investigate this matter further, which would include the necessary resources and staff to further analyze the issue. Committee member Michele Eastman said at the meeting that it is important to establish a spe-

cific committee to examine faculty salaries and regulate the issue.

“Years ago, there was the women’s salary equity committee,” Eastman said during the meeting. “There was a process, so there could be a process to look at the salary inequities campuswide.”

The committee plans to discuss and revise the statement at the next meeting on March 23. The next full sen ate meet i ng at wh ich SEC-approved items w i l l be voted on is scheduled for April 8.

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Fellows, who is a member of Mayors for the Freedom to Marry, has held an active interest in advancing equal marriage rights since the start of his political career, he said.

“It goes a little deeper for me because at one of my first political jobs I was fortunate enough to work with lots of gay and lesbian activists,” Fellows said. “I’ve known so many wonderful people who are supportive of the issue.”

That list of advocates includes Wojahn, who Fellows said has been instrumental in fostering a supportive atmosphere in this city, and District 2 councilman P.J. Brennan.

“T he fact that I am gay myself and that Councilmember Brennan is also openly gay helps our colleagues to understands our lives and our families a little better,” Wojahn said. “It’s easier to discriminate against others you don’t k now, a nd it’s harder to do that when they’re closer to you.”

Another factor that contributed to the vote was the

local influx of students, who tend to be more vocally supportive of equal marriage rights, Fellows said.

“I hope we wou ld have supported it anyway, but it doesn’t hurt that so many students are members of the gay community,” Fellows said.

Signing the brief was a gestu re t h at t h is city’s government stood with the u n iversity student body, said Cole Holocker, student liaison to the city council.

T he Student Government Association has passed severa l mot ions over t he past several years to show support for state same-sex marriage legislation.

“It shows students that C o l l e g e P a r k a s a c o mmunity is accepting of all people,” Holocker said. “It proves College Park is a place where they can be accepted no m at ter who t hey a re, because people aren’t going to judge them because they are different.”

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onoso imoagene, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, speaks at the African-American studies department-sponsored panel yesterday in Nyumburu Cultural Center. The event tackled race and identity issues in the black community. stephanie natoli/the diamondback

diversity From PAGE 1 They also highlighted differences between the black American and black immigrant experiences.

I moagene, who stud ies second-generation African immigrants in the U.S. and Britain, said individuals can perceive themselves in many different ways. She asked the audience what it means to be black in their daily lives.

Rowley said it can be difficult for African immigrants to both hold on to their cultural roots and identify with the struggles of black Americans.

“I am Trinidadian and I am black,” Rowley said. “I think it’s really important to hold those two positions together.”

Panelist Kendall Foster, a junior African-American studies and sociology major, said that while there is great diversity within the black community on the campus, ot he rs m ay p e rc e ive t he community as homogenous.

“Racism in America has not discriminated against whether you were Ja ma ican or Caribbean or from America,” Foster said. “If you appeared black, if you were bl ack-sk i n ned, you were bl ack a nd you were treated thusly.”

He sa id A f r ica n i m m ig ra nts m ig ht not u nderstand the emphasis on race

in America and the stigma that accompanies being classified as African-American.

Panelist Devona Austin, a sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences, said she does not identify as African-American because her ancestors were not enslaved in this country.

Austin, who is of Jamaican descent, said she didn’t consider herself black until she attended a predominantly white high school in Frederick.

“I hate the question, ‘What are you?’ Austin said, “But when I do answer, I like to say that I‘m “Jamerican.” … I feel like it better defines who I am compared to just black.”

Junior African-American studies major R ick Tagne m o v e d to t h e U. S . f ro m Cameroon in 2007, and he said his transition was difficult because of the language barrier. He would see other kids playing at a park near his house but could not join them because they could not communicate with each other.

Tagne said he has not experienced racism directly, but his initial experience with other American black students was not always positive — for example, some people would make fun of his accent.

“I d id n’t get it because I was like, ‘Wow, you look like me, you should be my friend,’” Tagne said. “But they were just ignorant.”

Marci Deloatch, special events coordinator for the African-American studies

department, said misconcept ion s about d i f ferent groups are not talked about o p e n l y. D e l o a t c h , w h o planned the panel, said it is important to discuss group dynamics to promote better understanding.

“If you’re more exposed to different cultures, you’ll be more aware,” Deloatch s a i d . “ W h e n yo u h a ve a forum like this where you’re able to discuss it, it makes a difference.”

Senior kinesiology major Iman Evans said he did not realize there were such differences between black Americans and African immigrants. He said he thinks discussions like this can help to improve relations within the black community.

“I think that we all need to understand each other’s cultures and just come together and find similarities,” Evans said.

Sophomore com mu n ity health major Emily Ogunbo said she thought the panel started a great discussion about individual cultures in the community.

“At the end of the d ay, we’re a l l black,” Og u nbo said. “We all need to understand that even if I say I am Nigerian, someone else will see me and see me as just black and make assumptions about me because they see me as ‘just black.’” lschapitldbk@gmail.com

“College Park is a diverse and inclusive community that believes all residents should be treated equally under law.”

College Park Mayor Andy Fellows said he is pleased with the council’s decision to add its name to the friend-of-the-court brief.

T he do cu ment si g ne es i nclude M ayors for t he Freedom to Marry and the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

“I was proud Col lege Park voted to do the right thing at the national level,” Fellows said. “With this S upreme Cou r t c a se, I believe we will hopefully cement that civil right for all Americans to marry if they want to.”

T he Los A ngeles City Attorney’s Office drafted the brief, which will focus on the harm marriage discrimination does to families and communities.

marc From PAGE 1 City, county and MTA officials met early yeste rd ay m o r n i n g at t h e College Park MARC Train station to inaugurate the Camden Line, which will ru n from Wash ing ton’s Un ion Station to Ba ltimore’s Camden Station.

The maiden voyage on a new bi-level MARC Train ended at a short press conference in Camden Station, where the Camden Line has run since 1835 under CSX infrastructure.

With the new service, students finishing their doctorates and capstones at UMB and students looking to explore Baltimore will be able to reach the city and other transit options in about an hour.

“This is an opportunity we have been working on for years to improve the con nectivity between the two campuses,” said Robert Smith, MTA administrator, referring to this university and UMB. “What we’re about is improv i ng access to jobs, access to education, and that’s what it’s all about.”

Although this university’s M A RC stat ion i s

about a mile from campus, the Camden Station is just a 10-minute walk to UMB, Smith said.

T h roug h t he ef for ts of local legislators and MPower, an alliance between UMB and this university, the connected corridor will allow convenient transportation between the two campuses, said Carlo Colella, university vice president.

“A few yea rs ago, [t h i s university] formed a strategic partnership with the Un iversit y of M a r yl a nd , Baltimore, called MPower, and in that short period of ti me, we have gotten $80 million in research grants,” Colella said.

Colella and other university officials hope the connection will inspire further collaboration between university researchers and UMB faculty in the coming years and ease the congestion of the Interstate 95 corridor, Colella said.

The push for a new MARC line and additional service began two years ago when state Sen. Jim Rosapepe (DLaurel) and local legislators made it a high priority for the region’s transportation budget and in the city-university partnership, Rosapepe said.

“It came about because the

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21st District delegation … made it a high priority when the legislation was consider i ng t he t ra n spor tat ion financing package in 2013,” Rosapepe said. “So when we were considering the governor’s transportation legislation, we said, ‘To get our votes, you got to add service on the MARC line.’ So that’s when we got the commitment to add this service.”

Trains will begin on the Camden Line at 6:32 a.m. every weekday morn ing at Un ion Station, stop i n College Park at about 6:44 a .m . a nd end at Ca mden Station at about 7:43 a.m., accord i ng to the Ca mden Line schedule.

A d d it i o n a l t ra i n s w i l l run every day, including a 5:53 p.m. train leaving from Union Station and arriving in College Park at 6:04 p.m., which will close a 90-minute MARC-service gap at College Park’s station.

MARC will also be adding 54 new cars and five doubledecker cars in the coming weeks, Rosapepe said.

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he idea of death with dignity became a national debate last year when 29-year-old Brittany Maynard, who had an inoperable brain tumor, moved to Oregon from California to die under the state’s Death with Dignity Act. Now the issue has come to this state, with supporters of a similar act rallying in Annapolis on Wednesday. Both this state and Washington have opened discussions on right-to-die legislation. Back in January, Sen. Ronald N. Young (DFrederick) said he planned to help draft the bill “Death with Dignity,” and D.C. Councilwoman Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3) also drafted and presented her “Death with Dignity Act of 2015.”

According to The Washington Post, this state’s bill, which has been presented to the General Assembly, is modeled after Oregon’s law, which gives mentally healthy and competent patients diagnosed with terminal illnesses and less than six months to live the right to ask for a prescription for lethal drugs.

The bill’s advocates argue that a Death with Dignity law would allow those suffering from the pain and decay of terminal diseases to end their suffering sooner and offer

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them a small degree of control over the diseases ravaging their bodies. Meanwhile, the bill’s opponents question why the bill does not include a provision for a terminally ill patient to meet with a mental health professional before seeking out the prescription for the lethal medication.

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Legislators need to evaluate all angles of the Death With Dignity debate before any decisions are made.

It also comes as little surprise that Gov. Larry Hogan told the Catholic Standard before he was elected into office that he would resist attempts to make bills like the Death with Dignity law.

Morality aside, there are logistical challenges with Death with Dignity laws. In fact, in 1999, state legislators made physician-assisted suicides illegal after the Jack Kevorkian cases. Most states do not have these types of laws because of the risk they could potentially pose to individuals who are not terminally ill and the

number of questions that naysayers have regarding the logistics of obtaining the lethal medication.

The concerns of those who oppose Death with Dignity legislation are valid, as are the points voiced by its advocates. With Death with Dignity being debated across the country, advocates in this state want legislation, and they want it now.

However, lawmakers should tread lightly in ratifying legislation when it does concern matters of life and death, not because of morality issues, but because of the danger that could occur if lethal medication got into the wrong hands.

Legislation of life and death cannot be played fast and loose.

Every angle possible in laws concerning Death with Dignity need to be fully evaluated by a varied group of patient advocates, medical and mental health professionals and government officials.

While most do not think Death with Dignity legislation will be passed in this state or Washington in the following year, lawmakers should work with all parties concerned to ensure the safety and protect the rights of all individuals, terminally ill or not.

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Economic realities MATT DRAGONETTE

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n Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the creation of 295,000 jobs during February — 55,000 more than economists expected. This dropped the U.S. unemployment rate to 5.5 percent, down from 6.7 percent a year ago and 10 percent in October 2009. In normal economic times, unemployment naturally hovers at about 5 percent, so such an improvement certainly shows recovery from the depths of a severe economic downturn.

For college students, the rapid creation of jobs is certainly something to be celebrated. College graduates have to start paying off debt, providing for living expenses and saving for the future. Certainly, college graduates want to work in their fields of expertise, not an unskilled job in a wholly unrelated field. But as rosy as this picture might seem, young people need to be concerned about their economic prospects, especially with issues such as underemployment, low wages and labor-force participation.

Unfortunately, economic conditions for young people are quite dire. A policy paper by the Economic Policy Institute shows that 2014 unemployment for recent college graduates was 8.5 percent while “underemployment” was a staggering 16.8 percent. The EPI reported that unemployment for people ages 25 and younger was 14.5 percent in March 2014. While the long-term trends report a gap in the employment rate between young people and the overall population, it is evident that this division is exacerbated during recessions.

One of the most serious consequences of the Great Recession was the creation of low-pay, low-skill jobs to replace middle-class jobs lost during the recession. Last April, The New York Times reported that the country had lost a million higherpaid jobs since the beginning of the recession but had actually added 1.2 million lower-paid jobs, such as those in restaurant service, in the

same period. The same article reported that the average household income, adjusted for inflation, had declined more than $4,500 from 2007 to 2012. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco reported in February that 60 percent of jobs lost during the recession were mid-wage jobs, but 58 percent of recovered jobs were low-wage. Even though jobs returned, they were not of the same quality or pay.

America’s youngest generation must also be aware of another economic restructuring: the retirement of baby boomers and its effect on taxes and economic expenditures. FiveThirtyEight, the famed statistical blog, studied some of the effects of an increase in the percentage of retired Americans. One effect is a decline in the labor-force participation rate — at its lowest in decades — which in turn slows economic growth. Another concern is the increased burden on Social Security and Medicare from an increased number of retirees. One benefit of lower labor-force participation: more job openings for recent college graduates.

Young people need to be aware of these pressing economic realities. On a personal level, it requires us to be financially prudent in a still shaky economy.

Staying out of unnecessary and unwise debt (such as credit card debt) and saving money for financial emergencies will make life much easier down the road.

We have to be versatile — in our education, skills and effort — to make ourselves more attractive in a job market that has replaced many higher-paid jobs with low-skill ones.

As a generation, we must be vocal about our economic concerns. Mounting government debt, budget deficits and unsustainable entitlement spending are all being passed to us and could mean increased taxes or further economic woes.

These economic problems appear daunting. And while the American economy has rebounded and rebranded throughout our history, we still must be aware of the severe problems affecting our generation.

M a t t D ra g o n e t t e i s a j u n i o r accounting and government and politics major. He can be reached at mdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

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vidence supporting a causal link between a good education and upward mobility is both abundant and unequivocal.

Public schools can help lift vulnerable populations out of poverty, churn out knowledgeable workers ripe for hire and promote the economic growth and development of our communities.

A 2012 report by the Pew Charitable Trusts Economic Mobility Project found that a college education “promotes upward mobility from the bottom and prevents downward mobility from the middle and the top.” Access to a quality higher education leads to improved job prospects and higher earnings and gives students from low and middle-income backgrounds an opportunity to fulfill the promise of their boundless potential.

College education, however, is not by itself a golden ticket to prosperity.

Raj Chetty, a Harvard University economics professor, recently led a team of researchers who found that the link between public education and upward social mobility begins long before students enter college. Intergenerational income mobility is fostered at a young age and is strongly tied to attending wellfunded public schools with small class sizes, according to the study.

Unfortunately, Gov. Larry Hogan’s budget drains the coffers of our public schools and severely reduces students’ opportunity to move up the

social ladder. Cuts to the Geographic Cost of Education Index, which provides public school funding to this state’s largest jurisdictions, amount to $144 million. Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker has said his county’s public schools will take a $20 million hit. Montgomery, Prince George’s, and Baltimore City public schools will see their funding slashed by a combined $68 million. Eleven Maryland jurisdictions will receive less direct state aid a pupil in the coming fiscal year.

The imposition of a cap on education funding formulas only exacerbates how insulting Hogan’s budget is to this state’s long-standing commitment to education. Student enrollment in this state’s public schools increases by several thousand each year. Capping education funding formulas, therefore, will quickly engender a reduction in per-pupil education spending.

College students will also shoulder the burden of Hogan’s imprudent budget priorities. Reduced funding for the University System of Maryland is projected to force the Board of Regents to hike tuition rates by 5 percent — a marked increase compared to the non-existent and then minimal tuition increases during former Gov. Martin O’Malley’s tenure.

Educating students and training skilled workers is critical to this

state’s economic growth. O’Malley championed record levels of education spending and historically small tuition increases and made targeted investments in workforce development initiatives. He gave more young people access to quality public schools and made college more affordable for more students in the state. Consequently, during his tenure, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ranked Maryland first in STEM job concentration, third for its talent pipeline, and first for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Investing in our students and training a highly skilled future workforce helps attract innovative businesses to the state. More pathbreaking and successful companies spur job creation, which promotes economic growth and develops the state’s tax base.

Hogan is indeed facing a budget shortfall, albeit less than the one O’Malley inherited from his predecessor. Cutting critical education dollars, however, is not a panacea.

Rather, it is a proven way to hurt short and long-term economic growth and crush young students’ prospects for upward social mobility.

Ben Kramer is a senior government and politics and history major and the president of UMD College Democrats. He can be reached at benkramer1234@gmail.com.

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Realistically, most of the new policies and funds that colleges will use to implement better training programs for professors might not even impact our generation. That is why we must proactively engage ourselves to get the most out of our education now.

It is understandable and justifiable to complain about a professor’s poor teaching abilities. This has significant implications for a student’s learning. However, many students turn this into an excuse.

Rather than actively seeking out help from professors, teaching assistants or tutoring services, students become lazy.

We welcome failure because we can put the blame on someone else’s shoulders.

Especially for curriculum-required courses in which material builds on the previous course, failing to properly grasp the content will have severe consequences. This has led and will further lead to the perceived inadequacies of higher education systems.

Another point that students also forget is that we have the privilege to attend a research institute. This means that our education is not just limited by what we learn in the classroom. We have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with pioneering professors in their fields who share our passions.

Professors are always welcoming undergraduate students to work in their labs or on their projects. After all, that is one of their responsibilities.

Those who hold steadfast to the idea that the university needs to be more accountable for our education certainly do have a point, but they are letting that logic beat them down in the long run.

With a university that possesses an abundant and diverse array of resources for students, there should be no excuse why we cannot adapt and utilize them to the best of our abilities.

recent New York Times op-ed, “How to Hold Colleges Accountable,” discusses major problems with the current state of college education in the United States and presents solutions for improved accountability. The authors claim that students are graduating with an inferior quality of education while being expected to compete in an aggressive job market. Compound that with student debts, and a person can just imagine the hardship.

The three main areas the authors focus on are: holding colleges accountable for improving the quality of education, information transparency and student aid. While strong arguments are made for each, the article’s stand on the quality of education seems nearsighted.

At research institutions like this university, most professors come in with a doctorate and are expected to conduct research. They might receive little training on how to teach students. Much of their credentials, funding and salary are based on their work, not on their ability to teach.

As a result, the authors point out that this leads to an uneven distribution of teaching quality at universities.

For instance, they would say that this university might have groundbreaking researchers, but some might not be the best educators. The authors go on to mention that most professors lack “innovative teaching methods,” which can be associated with teaching and education quality.

While this point might be valid, the authors are forgetting students’ roles in their education. It is not only the re- Sauradeep Sinha is a sophomore sponsibility of the university but also chemical engineering major. He can be ours, as students, to be accountable. reached at ssinhadbk@gmail.com.

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FEATURE | LINUX LAPTOP ORCHESTRA

from virginia with tech Virginia Tech’s Linux Laptop Orchestra, visiting the campus for a performance and workshop today, puts a new twist on orchestral music

By Danielle Ohl @DTOhl Senior staff writer The Linux Laptop Orchestra doesn’t need instruments to make music.

“It’s basically my crazy idea,” said Ivica Ico Bukvic, a professor at Virginia Tech and the founder of Linux Laptop Orchestra, or L2Ork, a group that makes music with computers and motion-sensing remotes. Hosted by the Design | Cultures + Creativity and Honors Humanities living-learning programs and the architecture school, L 2Ork will bring its digital art to this university through a performance, lecture and design workshop today from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.

Bukvic and L2Ork have fostered musical progress since 2009. Using relatively cheap but innovative tools, the group built the world’s first Linux-based laptop orchestra.

“We see that digital technology is really having an impact on every facet of life,” said Jason Farman, DCC director. “Something as historical as orchestras are actually being totally reimagined.

That to me is a really fascinating opportunity.”

The workshop and performance will allow the honors and architecture students to go behind the screen and learn what exactly it means to make collaborative music with a laptop.

“It’s the notion to be musical and take classical and orchestral performance and mix it up with technology,” Bukvic said. “It may seem kind of radical, but it’s not;

IVICA ICO BUKVIC poses with members of Virginia Tech’s Linux Laptop Orchestra. The musical group will perform on the campus today. when you think about it, every era of music evolution has introduced some kind of technological progress.”

Like the piano in the 1700s, laptop orchestras feel wildly experimental but could one day feel as normal as black and white keys — at least that’s what the members of L2Ork hope.

Virginia Tech’s Linux Laptop O rc h e s t ra s u cce e d s b o t h t h e Princeton Laptop Orchestra and the Stanford Laptop Orchestra. But it stands out from its predecessors as L 2 Ork uses the Linux operating system. Unlike Macintosh and Windows, Linux is open-sourced — meaning users can access it for free and are free to create whatever they want with it — and essentially

is the technological equivalent of an uncarved marble slab or unpainted canvas. Instead of paying thousands for the technology, L 2 Ork has had to pay only a few hundred per station, allowing the group to travel more easily.

L2Ork focuses on creating an immersive, distinctive sensory experience. The group’s events are not typical concerts. They do not simply click away on laptops, as if writing an email, but gracefully glide to modified tai chi choreography. Nor do they use simple outward-facing speakers.

“If you go to a rock concert, they play the same sound across all the speakers, but we don’t do that,” said Tianyu Ge, a Virginia Tech computer science major and L2Ork

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member. “We want everybody to have their own experience.”

The music makers supplement their technological tunes simply.

Wii remotes capture their movement patterns. The speakers are IKEA salad bowls, altered to propagate sound better.

“When you play a violin, all the sound doesn’t go forward toward the audience; it goes in all directions,” Bukvic said. “The laptop orchestra mimics a traditional orchestra’s ability to spatialize sound around the stage, whereas contemporary pop culture says, ‘I want the same experience as everyone else.’”

The music that Bukvic and his band of 17 students create leans toward the tonal side of electronic music; those familiar with orchestral

music will feel relatively at home, though L2Ork performs some original, experimental compositions to “shake people up” and evoke a pushand-pull that Bukvic hopes recalibrates an audience’s awareness.

“You’ll hear music that spans the spectrum. Some of it is very conservative — think classic aria,” he said. “Another part of the spectrum could be a soundscape with a narrator. And then we have pieces that are just crazy noise.”

Multi-faceted, L 2 Ork not only tours college campuses and other continents (they’ve been to Europe and helped jump-start a similar group in South America), it interacts with students in kindergarten through 12th grade to teach them valuable 21st century skills. L2Ork has also partnered with a Boys & Girls Club in Virginia and taught the young students to program computers and code.

“Rather than thinking of music as an exclusive club, think of it as a means of empowering people,” Bukvic said. “In many ways, it mimics the traits of a football game. Everybody’s in it together; every second counts. If someone falters, someone else has to pick up the slack. All those things are really, really curious, and having the o ppo rtunity to engage in such a team-building exercise is essential.”

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DON’T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME As John Hughes’ high school classic turns 30 years old, we look at why it outlasted the ’80s

By Dustin Levy @DustinBLevy Staff writer John Hughes introduced the world to Long Duk Dong, created Macaulay Culkin’s iconic hands-on-face scream and gave Ferris Bueller a day off. But perhaps his greatest triumph in defining those awkward and confusing teenage years came in the form of The Breakfast Club, which celebrated its 30th anniversary this past month.

Hughes wrote and directed the 1985 classic, assembling the actors of the Brat Pack who would go on to take over cinema for the rest of the ’80s. Like much of Hughes’ ouvre, The Breakfast Club labels its stars as high-school stereotypes — such

as Molly Ringwald as the princess and Anthony Michael Hall as the nerd — before throwing them into weekend detention together.

But what begins as a typical ’80s high-school comedy premise quickly transforms into a more evocative experience. As each of the respective walls of the Breakfast Club members comes down, we learn about the individuals behind the labels and how high-school woes are universal. Whether it’s Hall’s Brian revealing his suicide attempt or the daddy issues of Andy, played by Emilio Estevez, The Breakfast Club works to create a true coming-of-age film that bucks obvious trends.

It helps that the cast features a collection of actors truly dedicated

to their unique parts in the film.

Ally Sheedy combines an unhinged comedic sensibility with hidden vulnerability in her basket-case character Allison, while Assistant Principal Vernon, played by a sharp Paul Gleason, represents the relentless authority figure without becoming a ridiculous cartoon.

And if The Breakfast Club has a true star, it’s undoubtedly Judd Nelson as John Bender. Lanky-haired and intense, Nelson effortlessly captures the ’80s bad-boy persona with comedic charm and surprising emotional gravity.

But The Breakfast Club’s legacy carries on 30 years later because of the detailed nature of each of the film’s scenes, many of which deserve to be counted among the cinematic

THIRTY YEARS LATER, NO MOVIE CAN COMPARE TO THE BREAKFAST CLUB’S AMBITIOUS AND NOVEL TAKE ON HIGH SCHOOL. greats. Just thinking about the film brings to mind a handful of legendary moments, such as the antagonistic Bender-Vernon banter, the signature dancing in the library or Allison’s truly special and artistic use of her dandruff.

And that ending — The Breakfast Club’s conclusion stands out among the best high-school dramedies.

The shared voiceover reading of the group essay, which definitely

feels a few hundred words too short but nonetheless reveals the film’s message of looking past the petty pigeonholes of high school; the soundtrack (Simple Minds’ pitchperfect earworm of a song, “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”; and John’s fist pump all perfectly punctuate the small triumph of five teenagers.

Thirty years later, no movie can compare to The Breakfast Club’s ambitious and novel take on high school. Even as the film’s iconic moments have been parodied to death and the careers of the Brat Pack have largely fizzled out, The Breakfast Club reigns supreme as an ageless time capsule of Hughes and these actors at their best. dlevydbk@gmail.com

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Offense stays hot through 12 games Terps show increased power early on

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Faceoff specialist charlie raffa carries the ball upfield during the Terps’ 11-4 victory over Princeton at Byrd Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

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Raffa regains form against Tigers Senior secures 13 of 20 faceoffs in Saturday’s win over No. 12 Princeton

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer The Terrapins men’s lac ro s s e tea m ’s l ea d h a d climbed to three goals, but Charlie Raffa wasn’t ready to slow down.

There was 5:36 left in the third period of the No. 8 Terps’ 11-4 win over No. 12 Princeton on Saturday afternoon, and senior attackman Jay Carlson had just scored an extra-man goal to put the Terps up 6-3. The Tigers hadn’t scored in about four minutes, and the Terps were beginning to gain momentum.

Raffa, a senior faceoff specialist, hunkered down at the X, won possession and sprinted downfield before feeding midfielder Joe LoCascio.

LoCascio then passed to Carlson, who was on the right side of the cage. Carlson spun right to elude his defender, and with his knees on the ground, he ripped a shot into the top-right corner of the net. The sequence epitomized the third period of the contest, during which the Terps rode Raffa’s 7-for-9 quarter at the faceoff X to a game-defining 5-0 run.

honors From PAGE 8 helm of the program, while Anderson voiced support for the coach. And Monday night, about 10 months after that stressful day of questioning, the two got their latest form of validation when media members named Turgeon the Big Ten Coach of the Year on the heels of a 26-5 regular season.

Turgeon’s players got some recognition, too. The conference’s media named freshman guard Melo Trimble to the All-Big Ten first team, g u a rd Dez We l l s to t h e second team and forward Jake Layman to the third team. The conference’s coaches, meanwhile, selected Wells for the first team, Trimble to second team and named Layman a honorable mention for their roles on the No. 8 Terps’ surprising surge into the national spotlight this season.

“I’m really happy for Maryland and Maryland basketball fans,” Turgeon said Monday.

“It’s been a process for all of us. I’m happy for everybody.

I’m happy for the players that have stuck with us. I’m happy for the fans and I’m happy for the coaches. I’m happy for everybody involved.”

The Terps’ 26 regularseason wins set a school record, which comes after a 17-15 campaign in 2013-14.

They’ve been at their best in late-game situations, as the team’s won all 10 of its games decided by six points or fewer.

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The Terps defense turned in another dominant performance, while the offense scored double-digit goals for the third consecutive game.

But for coach John Tillman, Raffa’s performance was imperative in the victory. “[Defender] Casey [Ikeda] will be the first one to tell you, [the Terps defenders] were pretty darn rested in the second half,” Tillman said. “A lot [of] that had to do with [Raffa].”

Raffa’s coaches and teammates frequently praise him, but they aren’t the only ones.

“He’s the best out there,” Navy coach Rick Sowell said after the Terps beat the Midshipmen, 8-1, on Feb. 14 in the season opener.

Raffa turned in a subpar performance against Navy, though, going 4-for-11 in the faceoff X, beginning a string of poor showings. Plus, injuries kept him out of the Terps’ 11-7 win against Penn on Feb. 24.

When he returned to action later that week, Raffa went 6-for-14 in a 12-3 victory over Drexel. But Saturday, he resembled his 2014 form, going 13-for-20 while scooping up nine ground balls to move into fourth all-time (245) on the program list.

Tillman hopes the Syosset, New York, native’s strong showing against Princeton means his early-season struggles are behind him, as he has been instrumental to the Terps’ success during his time in College Park.

“We worked a lot with [wing player] Matt Neufeldt and [midfielder] Isaiah [Davis-Allen] and those guys,” Raffa said.

“Having them on the same page with me really helped us today and made us better than we have been in the past.”

skills right now; his clearing is starting to get better.”

Bernlohr and the Terps will look to slow down another steady offense Saturday when they head to Villanova to challenge a Wildcats squad averaging 12.4 goals per game.

“He’s been very humble about this whole thing so far,” Tillman said. “He’s trying to make sure that he’s one of the guys who the younger players can look to.”

BERNLOHR ROLLS

Ikeda, a senior, earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors after helping slow Princeton on Saturday.

The co-captain scooped up one ground ball and forced one turnover while helping the Terps stymie a previously potent Princeton attack.

Princeton came into the game averaging 14.67 goals, but Ikeda and the defense held the Tigers to four goals.

Ikeda spent significant time marking attackman Mike MacDonald, who entered the contest with a team-high 10 goals but didn’t score on three shots against the Terps.

sea so n s w i t h t h e Te r ps didn’t attract much positive attention, Turgeon is no stranger to earning noteworthy designations during his coaching career. Turgeon won Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year in 2006 while leading Wichita S t a t e . A t Te x a s A & M , Turgeon won Big 12 Coach of the Year in 2010 and 2011, his final two years with the program before coming to College Park.

“We’ve been through so much, especially coach; he’s taken a lot of criticism,” guard Varun Ram said. “It’s unfortunate because, he’s been a great coach this whole time; it’s just things haven’t worked out. I’m so happy for him to be finally getting the recognition he deserves.”

Turgeon, though, wanted to discuss his players’ recognitions Monday. Trimble, who also made the Big Ten’s All-Freshman Team, was the crown jewel of a four-player recruiting class, and he ran the offense all season while leading the team with 16.1 points per game.

Wells, meanwhile, averaged 15.3 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.8 assists despite missing about a month with a wrist injury. Turgeon said he was most happy to see Wells, the team’s senior leader with a reputation as one of the conference’s most clutch players, earn an accolade.

“I’m really happy for him,” Turgeon said. “I’m really happy for him getting honors, but I’m more happy he’s getting to play on a really good team that has a chance

to play in the NCAA tournament. And just the way he’s handled everything — it’s been great. Not only on the court has Dez excelled, but off the court he’s been great for me, too.”

Layman scored 13.1 points per game and led the Terps with 5.9 rebounds per contest en route to his award-capturing season. Turgeon said the honor “is good for Jake,” who struggled to find consistency in his first season in College Park before blossoming into a well-rounded offensive threat as a junior.

But Monday, Turgeon didn’t just heap praise on the three players who won awards. He credited his entire roster for the team’s success.

“To go 26-5, you got to have really good players,” Turgeon said, “and we have that. And we have good personality, good character kids and tough kids that when the game’s on the line, they step up and get it done.”

Layman sees it a little differently. This past spring, when the Terps faced tough times and Turgeon’s job status was in question, the coach’s passion helped keep the returning players together. That’s why, the All-Big Ten performer said this past week, the Terps could conduct a dramatic turnaround that resulted in a flurry of awards.

“For me, Dez and Evan [Smotrycz], it kind of brought our pride out with how much we respect coach Turgeon,” Layman said, “and we respect what he’s doing here.”

The Terps defense has cemented its reputation as a potent unit through its first five games with a nationleading 5.00 goals-against average. Much of the success can be traced back to the play of goalkeeper Kyle Bernlohr.

The junior has allowed double-digit goals once while compiling the best save percentage (.696) in the country.

On Saturday, he registered 11 saves against four goals.

“I don’t think Kyle is satisfied right now,” Tillman said.

“He realizes there are some aspects that he can get better.

But I do like his leadership

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The Terrapins baseball team’s offense exploded down the stretch last season. In 14 of the season’s last 16 games, the Terps scored four or more runs.

That offensive outburst helped propel the Terps to their first-ever NCAA Super Regional appearance, and with seven of nine starters returning, the momentum from that late-season surge has carried into this spring. Through 12 games, the Terps have yet to score fewer than four runs in a game, and this past weekend, the team scored at least six runs in each game.

While the Terps lost two of three at UNC-Wilmington on Brooks Field, the offense had to overcome poor pitching and defense in all three games.

And the stellar output at the plate has some Terps speculating on this offense’s place in school history.

“I feel this offense could be better than last year’s because there’s so much power throughout the lineup,” catcher Kevin Martir said. “Everyone can have a tough at-bat.”

Martir had two of the Terps’ five homers this weekend to bring their season total to 10.

In 63 games last season, the Terps hit 19 home runs.

This offseason, the NCAA Division 1 rules committee chose to use flat-seamed baseballs in competition instead of raised-seam balls. Last week, center fielder LaMonte Wade said the new balls travel farther in the air, and as of Wednesday, home runs were up more than 40 percent, according to an NCAA report.

But power hitting wasn’t the only aspect in which the Terps offense excelled this weekend.

They drew 20 walks over the three games, including 10 in Sunday’s 11-9 win.

T h e Te r ps h a d 1 4 h i ts Sunday, as well, and second b a s e m a n B ra n d o n L owe

Guard kiara leslie searches for an open teammate during the Terps’ 81-52 win over Towson on Dec. 7, which started their 24-game win streak. marquise mckine/the diamondback

leslie From PAGE 8 g u a r d S h a t o r i Wa l k e r Kimbrough said. “It starts in practice. She works hard in practice, so I’m happy for her to see she translated it from practice to the game.

I mean, that was really big for us.”

L eslie’s cont ribu tions

carried over to the defensive end, too. When the 6-footer entered the game, she matched up against the nation’s top scorer, Buckeyes freshman guard Kelsey Mitchell.

Although Mitchell found more success against the Terps on Sunday than she did in the teams’ regular-season meeting, Leslie provided strong defense for Frese to

BY THE NUMBERS

19 homers The Terps hit in 63 games last season

10 homers The Terps have hit through 12 games this season

40 percent Increase in home run total across Division I baseball

spearheaded the offense this weekend with a 7-for-12 performance that included three walks, four RBIs and four runs.

While coach John Szefc was impressed with the Terps’ production, it’s too early for him to draw large-scale conclusions.

“As far as comparing it to last year’s team, that was a pretty special group of guys,” Szefc said. “It’s just tough because last year’s team at one point was pretty average and then finished pretty, pretty strong.”

During the Terps’ surprising postseason run, they often overcame early deficits, and Sunday, the Terps dug out of a 4-0 hole.

“We have a lot of tough, confident guys,” shortstop Kevin Smith said. “When we get down, we believe in ourselves. We want it to be a staple of the team.”

Szefc isn’t ready to shower accolades on this offense, but he’s pleased with team’s tenacity.

Though the Terps lost the series in Wilmington, North Carolina, this weekend to bring their record to 8-4, the offense fought back and kept each game close, just as it’s done all season.

“I don’t think there’s one game of the four we’ve lost that we’ve rolled over,” Szefc said. “Not one. Every game has been a high-scoring, nail-biter type game.” psuittsdbk@gmail.com

rely on when she needed to give the starters a breather in a fast-paced game.

“She was just phenomenal,” Walker-Kimbrough said of Leslie’s play. “She guarded Kelsey Mitchell for us and got stops.”

It marked a continued trend the Terps have displayed through their 30-2 season entering the NCAA to u r n a m e n t . O n a tea m that frequently sees 10 or 11 players take the floor each game, a member of the bench has routinely stepped up to provide a boost.

In the quarterfinals, it was guards Brene Moseley and Kristen Confroy. Then Moseley chipped in 15 off the bench Saturday. Sunday, it was Leslie’s turn.

“They push us in practice every day,” guard Lexie Brown said Saturday after the Terps’ bench outscored Northwestern’s 24-7. “When I come out and they go in, there’s never a thought in my mind that our energy is about to dip.”

The Terps didn’t need Leslie to provide the 24minute spark in the first two games of the conference tournament. Instead, she had a couple of contests to get accustomed to postseason play in college.

But with the championship on the line, Leslie was there when the Terps needed to lean on her. “[I’m] just really proud of her,” Frese said. “It hasn’t been an easy role for her as a freshman. She was huge.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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Leslie’s performance aids Terps in title win Guard matches career-high 24 minutes in Big Ten tournament championship win

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Coach Mark Turgeon claps during a 68-66 victory over Indiana on Feb. 11, one of the team’s 10 wins decided by six points or fewer. christian jenkins/the diamondback

RAKING THEM IN Media name Turgeon Big Ten Coach of the Year, three players earn honors

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer During a news conference at Verizon Center in Washington this past May, television cameras and voice recorders surrounded Terrapins men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon and Athletic Director Kevin Anderson.

The two were in the nation’s capital for the Big Ten’s announcement that it would hold the 2017 conference tournament at the arena, but reporters didn’t want to discuss that.

It was the first time Turgeon or Anderson had made a public appearance since guard Seth Allen became the fourth Terps player that offseason to announce his decision

to transfer. Questions about the team’s stability and progress after a disappointing season flowed in for Turgeon, while the media asked Anderson whether the coach’s job was in jeopardy.

Turgeon stood by his players who stayed and his choices at the See honors, Page 7

Kiara Leslie looked nervous. In two of the Terrapins women’s basketball guard’s first three trips down the floor in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinal game Friday against Michigan State, she bobbled a pass that led to a turnover.

So coach Brenda Frese pulled th e fres hman less than two minutes after she entered a postseason game for the first time as a Terp. Leslie only played about two more minutes in Friday’s win and didn’t record a positive stat. In the next night’s semifinal, however, Leslie turned in a three-point, three-rebound performance that pushed the Terps past Northwestern.

By Sunday’s championship bout against Ohio State, Leslie looked like a different player. She matched her career high with 24 minutes to help the top-seeded Terps to a 77-74 win at Sears Centre and the Big Ten Championship.

“We knew matchup-wise she could give us some big things if she was confident,” Frese said of Leslie.

The Holly Springs, North Carolina, native delivered for her coach after starting the tournament with a shaky performance.

Leslie finished the night with eight points — more than she had in the previous eight games combined — six rebounds and four assists.

Guard Kiara leslie drives into the lane during the Terps’ win over South Florida on Nov. 19. The freshman scored eight points in Sunday’s victory over Ohio State. christian jenkins/the diamondback Leslie’s newfound confidence was on display early Sunday evening. She entered the contest shooting 3 of 17 from beyond the arc, but when she caught the ball on the right wing at about the 10-minute mark in the first half, she didn’t hesitate to pull the trigger.

With the flick of her right wrist, Leslie launched the ball toward the rim and watched as it swished through the netting she would later have a hand in cutting down. It marked her first successful 3-pointer since Nov. 16, the Terps’ second game of the season.

“She has been doing great,” See Leslie, Page 7