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Univ partners with Uber for innovation plans Mobile ride-requesting company to provide Startup Shell renovation, student project funding By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer This university and Uber announced a partnership today that will support student startups through investments. The partnership includes $25,000 for Startup Shell, a student-run
startup group and registered nonprofit organization. Mackenize Burnett, a Startup Shell co-director, said the investment could help the organization renovate its current space in the Technology Advancement Program building near the Campus Farm. “There are couches and there are tables and monitors from people’s apartments,” said Burnett, a senior
government and politics and international relations major. “This investment from Uber means that we can invest more in our space as a whole and in a better infrastructure for our co-working space.” Renovating the space would have a positive impact on the organization because it would create an environment that encourages student development, said Jeff Hilnbrand, a Startup Shell co-director. Members See UBER, Page 3 president loh announced today a partnership with Uber to support student startups. file photo/the diamondback
One injured in robbery at Univ View Suspects at large after lobby bathroom attack By Katishi Maake @TheHavocRat, @dbkcrime Staff writer
guard melo trimble is helped off the court by a trainer after suffering an injury during the No. 4-seed Terps’ 69-59 loss to No. 5-seed West Virginia last night in the NCAA tournament
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Melo Trimble lay facedown on the Nationwide Arena court kicking his feet. The Terrapins men’s basketball point guard, the local kid who captivated the nation and jolted a once-prominent program during his dazzling freshman season, had just run head-on into the shoulder of West
By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer
Virginia forward Nathan Adrian midway through last night’s NCAA tournament Round of 32 contest. A hush fell over the crowd. The rest of the Terps stood near the bench staring as a trainer kneeled down by their star near the top of the key on the other end of the floor. But then Trimble climbed up and trotted over to the bench. He shook his limbs
When the Terrapins women’s basketball team steps onto the Xfinity Center floor as the top seed in the Spokane region of the NCAA tournament tonight, it won’t be playing a typical No. 8 seed. Princeton enters the bout as the only undefeated team left in women’s bas-
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ketball, and the Tigers, ranked No. 13 in the latest Associated Press poll, have expressed dissatisfaction with their No. 8 seed for the tournament. Nonetheless, their seeding creates a heavyweight matchup tonight. And with all of the national attention Princeton has garnered since Selection Monday, the top-seeded Terps enter tonight’s game as the See women, Page 2
Researchers earn grant for human hearing studies Univ professors to look at ‘cocktail party’ effect By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Senior staff writer In theory, parties should be no place for conversation. There’s often music, background noise and crowds of people talking about different topics in close proximity. It’s a surprise partygoers can hear anything at all, yet somehow, people are able to focus on whatever
conversation they’re a part of and tune out the rest. This selective hearing is called the cocktail party effect and it has baffled researchers for decades, but one university professor received a $1.5 million grant to find out why it happens. “I’m interested in how the brain can do this,” said Jonathan Simon, a professor in the Institute for Systems Research. “First of all, how it can separate out the sounds, and second of all, how it can amplify the one See grant, Page 3
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Students hike Appalachian Trail segment Group of 11 continues program to eventually cover entire trail By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Senior staff writer E l e v e n u n i v e rs i t y s t u d e n t s tromped up steep i ncl i nes a nd endured pouring rain, each carrying a backpack that weighed up to 50 pounds for days — but they did it with purpose. As a part of the fourth-annual Maryland Adventure Program spring break backpacking trip along the Appalachian Trail, the organization has
professor jonathan simon is studying how the brain naturally processes sound in noisy environments, focusing on certain sounds and ignoring others. enoch hsiao/for the diamondback
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women From PAGE 1 less talked-about team. “I wouldn’t say we are the underdogs, but that’s what it kind of feels like,” guard Lexie Brown said. “Everyone is just excited to see an Ivy League team make some noise.” President Obama, whose niece plays for the Tigers, has contributed to the publicity surrounding Princeton. He attended Saturday’s game against No. 9-seed Green Bay in College Park, and he picked the Tigers to upset the Terps and reach the Final Four in his bracket. P r i n c e t o n ’s w i n o v e r Green Bay in the first round of the tournament marked just the second victory for an Ivy League team in the tournament. W h i le the T igers rol led th rough thei r season to a 31-0 record, none of the wins have come against a top-25 opponent. Still, the Terps, who have won 25 straight ga mes, u ndersta nd how tough it is to win night in and night out. “ I re s p e c t e v e r y t h i n g that they did this season,”
Brown said. “To go 31-0 is incredible.” A significant part of Princeton’s success has been its ability to knock down shots from the perimeter. After shooting 9 of 16 from behind the arc Saturday, the Tigers’ 41.1 three-point percentage ranks first in the country. Frese’s squad has experience aga i nst opponents that shoot a high percentage from dow ntow n, though. T he Terps defeated Iowa, wh ich ra n k s t h i rd i n t he n a t i o n a t 3 9 .5 p e r c e n t , earlier this season. “Back to our conference play, we played a lot of great s h o o t i n g t e a m s ,” g u a rd Shatori Walker-Kimbrough said. “A lot of people compare Princeton to Iowa. They play similar, but our goal is twos are better than threes, so hopefully we can run them off the three-point line.” The Terps have been strong guarding the perimeter this season. They hold their opponents to 28.3 percent from behind the arc, which ranks 38th in the country. It’s not just the game with the Hawkeyes, either. The Terps feel their entire conference slate has prepared
them for this moment. Including the Terps, the Big Ten sent seven teams to the tournament. “I feel like we have been battle-tested having gone th roug h [the con ference] reg u la r season u ndefeated,” Frese said. “Then you talk about the conference tournament and having that target on our back, I like the fact that we can gain great confidence.” The conversation regarding Princeton’s seeding has dominated the media over the past week, and tonight the Tigers will have an opportunity to prove themselves against a top team. But the Terps aren’t ready for the offseason. Especially senior guard Laurin Mincy, who knows every game could be her last in a Terps uniform. “We are in a one-and-done situation now,” Mincy said. “I personally don’t want my season to be over. I know [my teammates] don’t want their season to be over. We want to go to Spokane, and we want to go take our season further than we did last year.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com
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before checking into the game a few moments later. Relief. But it didn’t last long. Several minutes later, Trimble jumped to try and intercept a pass, didn’t quite get his fingers on it and crumpled to the ground. There he was again, lying before a raucous audience suddenly silenced. Eventually Trimble got back on his feet, but this time he didn’t smile or shake his legs. No, he walked to the bench, sat down and put his heads in his hands while he talked to a trainer. That’s where he stayed for the final eight minutes, 27 seconds of the No. 4-seed Terps’ 69-59 loss to No. 5-seed West Virginia, which puts an end to a resurgent and surprising season. “Ever y t i me he got knocked down this season, he got back up,” guard Dion Wiley said of Trimble while he fought back tears. “I guess this time was different.” Kind of like the Terps. Coach Mark Turgeon’s team finishes its season with 28 wins, 11 more than it had last season, and gutsy performances defined the turnaround campaign. The Terps ended the season 12-1 in games decided by six points or fewer, remained steady while guard Dez Wells and forward Evan Smotrycz suffered through injuries and placed second in the Big Ten after a preseason poll tabbed them as the 10th-best team in the conference. L a st n ig ht, t hey ju st couldn’t get past the Mountaineers. The Terps turned the ball over 23 times against West Virginia’s feisty fullcourt pressure and faltered down the stretch. “A lot of people didn’t
forward jake layman hoists a shot during the Terps’ 69-59 loss to West Virginia last night at Nationwide Arena in the NCAA tournament Round of 32. christian jenkins/the diamondback expect us to get where we are today,” said forward Jon Graham, a senior who couldn’t keep his eyes from welling up with tears as he sat in front of his locker. “We earned everything we got this season.” The Terps began to wilt against the Mountaineers’ pressure even before Trimble, who finished with a teamhigh 15 points, left the game with the team trailing by seven. And with the rookie on the bench — his mother, Kim Trimble, right behind him — the Terps couldn’t muster enough energy to pull out one of their patented lategame victories. “I just wa nted to m a ke su re my l itt le hom ie was go o d ,” G r a h a m s a i d . “ I didn’t care about the game, I wanted to make sure his well-being was OK.” The loss in the Round of 32 ends the Terps’ season one game short of their first Sweet 16 appearance since 2003. It ends Wells’ career, too. The senior transferred to the Terps as a sophomore and wasted no time in becoming their vocal leader and the face of the program. T u rgeon cred its Wel ls, along with the team’s other
seniors, with setting “a new standard” for future Terps teams to reach for. “It’s going to be hard,” Turgeon said. “Knowing that I don’t get to coach some of these guys again is really tough.” Last night, however, Wells committed eight turnovers, and his performance emulated his team’s effort. The Terps had some positive moments last night, though, many of which were a result of Trimble’s aggressiveness. In fact, they shot 54.5 percent from the floor and 66.7 percent from three in the first half and entered the locker room down just one point. After halftime, though, West Virginia kept pressing and attacking the defensive glass, where the Mountaineers grabbed 18 rebounds on the night to pull ahead. Trimble’s two falls to the floor added more daggers, and the Terps’ unexpected run in the NCAA tournament — along with Trimble’s stunning freshman campaign — ended on a sour note. “It’s emotional,” Wiley said of the mood in the locker, “but grateful for the season.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com
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going green The university plans to implement solar panels to boost clean energy production
MOWATT LANE GARAGE is one location among three parking garages that will house solar panels. The energy production is not expected to interfere with parking. file photo/the diamondback By Marissa Horn @MarissaL_Horn Staff writer The university plans to put about 7,000 solar panels, enough to power more than 218 average U.S. homes for a year, on the roofs of three campus parking garages to bring more clean energy to the campus, officials said. These additional renewable energy sources, which are part of an agreement between the university and a yet-tobe-decided third party, will produce up to 2 megawatts of clean electricity for the campus grid by December 2016, said Mary-Ann Ibeziako, director of Facilities Management’s Department of Engineering and Energy. “We would agree to purchase power from [the third party] at a set cost,” Ibeziako said. “The amount that we are paying for the agreement is actually saving us $1.1 million over the 20-year life cycle.” The third party will pay for solar panels to be placed on the roofs of the Terrapin Trail, Regents Drive and Mowatt Lane garages — none of which will lose any parking spots in the process, said David Allen, Department of Transportation Services director. In fact, the solar panels will shield cars from the sun, Allen said, as a metal gridlike support system will hold the panels in place above parking spots. To cover the cost for the support grid, which the third party will not cover, the university recently applied for a $250,000 grant from the Maryland Energy Adminis-
TRAIL From PAGE 1 a goal of eventually completing the world’s longest continuously marked footpath. “To [hike the trail] as an organization is an interesting thing, because it brings so many people into it,” said Warren Griffiths, a student trip leader for this year’s spring break trip. “At the end, if we are successful, it will be hundreds of people that have helped the University of Maryland to section-hike the Appalachian Trail.” The Appalachian Trail is about 2,180 miles long and passes th rough 14 states, stretching from Georgia to Maine. The program started a series of trips during spring and T ha n ksg iv i ng brea ks since 2012, working toward completing the trail, said Amanda Even, the assistant d i rector of the Ma r yla nd Adventure Program. Over s p r i n g b re a k , t h e g ro u p tackled about 30 miles through North Carolina. “What we decided to do as a program is to sectionhike it,” Even said. “Basically doing one section at a time and then picking back up where we left off.” The first group of spring break hikers went to Georgia in 2012 to start the trail. Continuing at this pace, Even said, hiking the entirety of the trail will take these participants about 30 to 40 years to complete. “First, when I suggested it, people thought it was completely overwhelming, which
tration, said Mark Stewart, senior project manager in the Office of Sustainability. University officials will know in mid-May whether they received the energy grant, Stewart said. Officials chose the garages because they will not be demolished within the next 20 years, despite major cutbacks to student parking in the next few years, Stewart said. Some of the produced energy will power the lights and charging stations for electric vehicles inside the garages, but most of it will enter the local grid as clean energy, Allen said. The push toward renewable energy comes after this winter’s freezing temperatures caused several weeks of overtime production at the cogeneration power plant on Route 1, Ibeziako said. The power plant, along with some other sources, satisfies much of the campus’s energy demand. Despite the increase in heat production this past winter, officials plan for 60 to 70 percent of the university’s electricity to come from renewable resources by the end of this year, Ibeziako said. But the President’s Energy Initiatives call for a full 100 percent to come from renewable resources by 2020. This campus already pulls energy from three solar panel farms, Ibeziako said, one of which is the 2,632-panel Severn Building Solar Array about a mile from the campus. The Severn solar panels produce 792 megawatt-hours each year, which is much smaller than what is expected from the garage solar panels, Stewart said. The solar panels will help support
in a way it can be because it is a really big task,” she said. “But each year we get to a new area, we get a little closer to home, so I think it picks up momentum as we stick with it.” T he t h ree student t r ip leaders taught their fellow eight hikers about the Leave No Trace principles, which Griffiths said are seven guidelines for best respecting the environment and natural areas while camping and hiking. Students make sure they properly dispose of their waste — both bodily and cooking — so it doesn’t affect water supplies or animal diets, said Griffiths, a sophomore anthropology and English major. When the group created “gray water,” or water that has been dirtied, the group members drank it, or “slurped the gurp.” “It’s surprising because it’s dedication to absolutely leaving everything the way we found it and not having an impact,” Griffiths said. Senior Chelsea Brown was a participant on this break’s hike, during which, in addition to the trail portion, the group completed a day-hike separate from the trail. “It’s cool to feel part of a bigger thing,” said Brown, a dance and psychology major. “Just knowing I was part of a bigger group, it’s really cool.” But the best part of the hiking trip is an outdoor environment that allows people to build relationships with one another and self-explore, said Jake Crouse, one of the trip leaders. “[The backpacking experience] was accessibility and authenticity and interaction with others that I had never
the campus’s 5 percent energy demand growth as building capacity has increased 10 percent over the past few years, Ibeziako said. Though these plans require swift action over the next 12 to 18 months, the Board of Regents still needs to approve the project. Wind- and solar-produced energy are limited by factors as simple as the weather. It is not always windy enough to provide reliable energy, and the sun sometimes does not come out — especially in the winter, when energy demand is much higher. “To meet the base demand that we have would require a tremendous amount of wind and solar power,” Stewart said. “There are some aspects and drawbacks to going all solar and all wind; it just really needs to be balanced.” Along with the new sources of energy, university officials hope students can better conserve power individually, Ibeziako said. In conjunction with student organizations, university officials are hoping to begin a behavior-based campaign to address lights being left on, thermostats turned to high temperatures and water overuse on the campus. “We are launching a behavioral campaign, which will be the biggest gamechanger to keep things static,” Ibeziako said. “[It is] one of the things we can control because one of the cleanest energies is the energy that never had to be produced.” mhorndbk@gmail.com
experienced before,” the junior mathematics and psychology major said. Senior Connie Chow led last year’s spring break trip through the Appalachian Trail, and said meeting thru-hikers — people who hike the entire trail in 12 months or less — really changed her perspective on hard work, dedication and her ideas about cleanliness. “After the second day, I started embracing it, having super-greasy hair and dirt under my fingernails,” said Chow, a civil engineering major. “I felt really one with nature.” Some of the previous groups have met up with thru-hikers they encountered on the trail when they reached this state’s section of the trail, Even said. Thru-hikers usually take on a trail name while hiking on the trail, Brown said, and sometimes other hikers do as well. Some of this year’s group members took on an Appalachain Trail name, including Brown, whom others called “Polydactyl.” “The Appalachian Trail has its own culture, trail culture; it’s a really neat experience to go out and to even be doing the section hike,” Even said. More tha n 50 students have already taken part in the section hikes thus far, and they all have left a mark on this university’s progress on completing the Appalachian Trail. “It’s cool to see different pictures from past Maryland hikers that are doing it; it’s cool to be a part of something bigger than ourselves,” Crouse said. “It’s such an ambitious goal.” gtooheydbk@gmail.com
which of these cues are being used and which parts of the brain are contributing that information,” he said. This could not only shed light on the cocktail party problem, but it could also lead to practical solutions for hearing problems. Samira Anderson, a hearing and speech sciences professor, is working with Simon on a related project that looks at the effect of aging on people’s ability to focus their hearing. Sepa rate from other hearing problems that come with age, elderly people tend to have more trouble focusi n g on one conve rsat ion when there is background noise, even if their hearing is otherwise intact, Anderson said. The cocktail party effect begins to diminish with age, and Anderson and Simon are looking to find out why. “Once we find out why this problem is occurring, maybe we can devise some kind of treatment policy,” Anderson said. “We can come up with auditory training strategies once we understand the problem better.” Simon said it could be possible one day to develop hearing aides that adapt to different pitches or timbres to help people focus on certain sounds. The cocktail party effect holds true for other mammals as well, Simon said, though humans have the added benefit of language. Simon is also studying why it is easier to tune out background conversations if they are in a foreign language. These small details change how humans perceive sound. Simon compared the cocktail party effect to another recent confusing phenomenon: the black-and-blue dress many people saw as white and gold. This is an example of the brain letting a person see things that aren’t the same as what’s coming into the eyes, Simon said, just as the sounds a person perceives are not representative of all the sounds picked up by their ears. “The difference is the dress was controversial because people were seeing it differently,” he said. “[Focused hearing] is something that all brains do so well that we don’t think of it at all. We think of it as natural. All brains do it.”
that we’re interested in, how we can switch and pay attention to someone else and muffle everything else except that speaker.” The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, a division of the National Institutes of Health, named Simon, also a professor in the electrical and computer engineering and biology departments, as the principal investigator for the five-year grant, which started this month. The project involves a process called magnetoencephalography, or MEG, which puts test subjects in a machine that looks like an old-fashioned 1950s hairdryer as they listen to a series of sounds, Simon said. Very sensitive magnetometers measure brain activity in response to the sound. “Whenever there is brain activity, there is electricity,” said Natalia Lapinskaya, MEG Lab manager. “Whenever there’s electricity, there’s a magnetic field.” The KIT-Maryland MEG Lab, part of this university’s Neuroimaging Center near The Courtyards apartments, is helpful for this type of research because MEGs are noninvasive and provide a look into brain activity “by the millisecond,” which is ideal for measuring quick responses, Lapinskaya said. The lab’s isolated location keeps it quiet, and its walls of copper and mu-metal alloy keep the earth’s magnetic field from interfering with results, she said. Hearing is a two-step process, Simon said: First, your brain takes in all the sounds, and then it hones in on the sound you’re paying attention to. Using MEG, Simon plans to study how people respond to auditory differences and which cues cause them to focus on a particular sound. Subjects will listen to sounds with varying pitch and timbre, he said, to see what effects these variables have on selective hearing. “We can then tease apart jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com
UBER From PAGE 1 of Startup Shell have been responsible for notable startups such as the BitCamp hackathon and the Javazen coffee blend. “People are in there every single day spending several hours, and everything from comfortable tables and chairs to the ambiance of the room directly affects how people function,” said Hilnbrand, a senior mechanical engineering major. “So having renovated space will allow them to be more productive in the space.” Uber is looking to expand developments on the campus in other ways, said Zuhairah Washington, the general manager of Uber DC. While the app allows users to request a car to pick them up from a preferred location, the company would like to experiment with other services for students on the campus, such as creating an on-demand ice cream service already available in cities around the world, Washington said. This partnership will provide investor grants to s t u d e nt c o m p a n i e s throughout the next two years, business competitions and mentor availability for students. Washington said Uber DC discussed having some of its employees come to the campus once a semester to talk to students about career interests, give resume feedback and help with operations,
THE STARTUP SHELL HEADQUARTERS is located in the Technology Advancement Program building. This startup will benefit from the university-Uber partnership. file photo / the diamondback engineering and marketing for student ideas. “A big part of this is not on ly us worki ng w ith the university on some of their overa l l i n novation goa ls, but us being able to tap into the power and minds of the future,” Washington said. The partnership will also form a council of Uber representatives, faculty and students that will listen to ideas from the university community and develop other opportunities in research and transportation, said Ken Ulman, a 1997 alumnus and economic development strategist. The university’s Uber partnership supports Ulman’s and university President Wallace Loh’s overall goals to turn College Park into an “innovation district,” Ulman said. Ulman announced his goals for the city in December, which are supported by his consulting firm, Margrave Strategies LLC, and its contract with the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, this university’s fundraising organization. “This is all part of a vision for this world-class university community,” Ulman said.
“Looking to partner with forward-thinking, tech-savvy, innovative companies is in keeping with that vision.” Loh said this university wants to create “a vibrant, i n novative ecosystem” through university developments and investments, such as the Uber partnership. Other university investments include a $25 million gift from university alumnus and Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank to establish the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship inside Cole Field House and a $31 million gift from Brendan Iribe, a former university student and CEO and co-founder of virtual-reality startup Oculus VR, for the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation. “It is not enough just to be a research university. We have to be as well an innovation university,” Loh said. “There has to be innovation incubators, and that’s simply a fancy term for translating those ideas, the new knowledge, into making an impact on people’s lives and solving problems.” esilvermandbk@gmail.com
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THE DIAMONDBACK | MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2015
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ust weeks ago, a University of Oklahoma fraternity made headlines with a video of members chanting their intent to prevent black students from joining. Now it’s this university’s turn, with the emergence of a January 2014 email riddled with racist and sexist remarks from a former Kappa Sigma fraternity member. The message, signed “AJ Hurwitz,” told several recipients not to invite black, Indian or Asian women to rush parties and to disregard the principle of consent, all in disgusting and callous language. We join the university community in condemning this email and the backward, discriminatory values it represents. No one at this university or elsewhere should have to live and learn with people who judge others based on their race and threaten them based on their sex. The question now, as always, is how the university will respond to and learn from this incident. The bad news is that there will always be another outbreak of prejudice and disrespect. Changing the hearts and minds of racists and rapists might be impossible. But the response to this email shows the goodness of most of the university community and a culture in which hurtful behavior will not be tolerated. University President Wallace Loh was quick to reassure the community that the issue is being taken seriously. The Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct is investigating the email, and officials have already spoken with “the individual involved,” according to a March 12 statement from Loh’s office. The next day, Loh held a Twitter chat with students, en-
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couraging them to voice their beliefs and consider the intersection of “free speech and hate speech.” Then on Tuesday, he released a longer statement with links to fraternities’ condemnations of the email and a call to “make this a teachable moment.” OUR VIEW
We admire President Loh’s efforts to address the despicable fraternity email while respecting free speech. The fraternities’ statements as well as Loh’s are practically obligatory in a case of this magnitude, and this editorial board certainly appreciates them, especially Loh’s efforts to explain the university’s approach to the issue. That approach has been appropriate. Many might want the university to punish Kappa Sigma and its nowformer member who wrote the email, but as a state institution, the university must respect the First Amendment, which can and has protected speech as awful as what we read in the email. By comparison, the University of Oklahoma now faces a potential lawsuit because it expelled students and shut down a fraternity, arguably infringing on students’ freedom of speech. The expelled students have an “excellent chance” to win in court, according to The Washington Post. Loh is wise to “fight speech with more speech,” as his March 17 statement advocated, and focus the investigation on the “circumstances, intent, and … impact” of the email rather than just its words.
Granted, proving the email’s sender or recipients acted on the sentiments in the message will be difficult. But offensive speech is not criminal if it’s empty, and the sender could argue that the email was a joke or had no effects. But as Loh said, “These incidents do not occur in a vacuum,” and if the students involved in the email have indeed committed acts of discrimination or sexual assault, they should be punished. We hope students who have observed any racist or sexist behavior will cooperate with the university to ensure justice is served. For many, this scandal also raises questions about how to view Greek life and its relationship with rape culture and racism. While this editorial board has written about repugnant behavior by fraternity and sorority members, we also have friends and co-workers in Greek life, and we know fraternities and sororities make positive impacts on our community. So we must not judge all members of Greek life based on the actions of some. That said, the pattern of fraternity and sorority scandals is disturbing, and we expect those organizations to police themselves. That means holding members accountable for their actions, not keeping a racist, sexist email secret for more than a year. Scandals seem very common now, but as with sexual assault, that could just be due to better reporting of misbehavior — and reporting is a good thing. Members of Greek life must do their part by separating themselves from racists, sexists and rapists. A cultural shift toward accountability is needed to put hurtful messages like the Kappa Sigma email behind us for good.
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hree summers ago, I spent a couple months working as a barista at a local Starbucks — learning how to use the espresso machine, memorizing the recipes for all the ridiculous drinks people would order, mopping floors and sweeping tables. While I had this part-time job, the main focus was always, of course, the customer. While I did have to talk to customers about complaints or questions they had, it never crossed my mind that one day, baristas would take on the esteemed role of Race Relations Moderator. Last week, Starbucks chairman and CEO Howard Schultz announced the company’s #RaceTogether campaign, in which baristas were encouraged to write the hashtag on customers’ coffee cups to spark discussion on race relations. What followed was a stream of negative responses on social media. Some went to Twitter to ask why Starbucks “must force [its] agenda on customers who want to buy [its] crappy coffee” or ponder why a coffee chain is discussing race. As one Twitter user wrote, “The first thing I want in the morning is a nice heaping cup of National Conversation.” After critical responses flowed in, Starbucks baristas were officially told yesterday to stop writing the hashtag. Though some might have been optimistic about Starbucks’ efforts to encourage inclusivity and debate, the campaign was a nightmare — and should’ve ended for many good reasons. My issues with Starbucks, and retail efforts addressing social issues in general, are twofold. The obvious concern is the emotional labor the firm had imposed on its staff. Of course, baristas weren’t
necessarily forced to write the hashtag, but as a former suck-up employee, there’s no doubt I would have tried to write the phrase in an attempt to be a “good” barista, so there was some pressure involved, if not directly. Race is a complex issue, so are Starbucks baristas supposed to be envoys of social change, ending racial tensions once and for all? Employees aren’t trained or might not be prepared to discuss race, and if a #RaceTogether discussion results in heated responses, I’m sure they’re even less prepared to address fiery dialogue on racial issues. Second, I’m not quite sure what the #RaceTogether campaign even meant. A press release mentioned that the campaign served as “an opportunity to begin to re-examine how we can create a more empathetic and inclusive society — one conversation at a time.” Again, what the hell does this mean? The broadness of the topic (as well as its complexities when discussed in particular contexts) makes serious, productive discussions difficult. Social issues in themselves are typically individual in nature (e.g., as a woman, I do not represent the entire female gender, but personal experiences I have had shape my specific views on gender identity and feminism). Real discussions on social issues are sparked by group discussions or personal experiences, not by a coffee company’s nationwide campaign. Though I do wish one quick collective effort could solve our problems, it unfortunately doesn’t — only gradual discussions, sparked naturally, can. So, the next time we all stop by a Starbucks, hopefully we can put down $5 just for a good cup of coffee, not an awkward hashtag and a sad excuse for political debate. Caroline Carlson, opinion editor, is a senior government and politics and information systems major. She can be reached at ccarlsondbk@gmail.com.
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ur community is in pain. The racist, sexist, misogynistic email written by a university fraternity member has shaken us. For some, the email comes as a surprise — starkly disparate from anything we imagined a member of our community might articulate. We’d come to believe that race no longer mattered, that gender bias was a thing of the past — that we’d conquered those demons, that Terps were better than that. And thus, some of us construe the email as an anomaly, as an aberration. For others, the email is an extreme representation of the biases, stereotypes and violence we’ve experienced over the years — on and off the campus. It’s disturbing, but sadly, not unfamiliar. And it salts the wounds from other recent events on the campus and beyond, such as the incident at the University of Oklahoma, which affect us vicariously. Moreover, this is happening in the time of Ferguson — when deadly discrimination and profiling and disparities are daily news. As a result, for many, this email reinforces a pre-existing sense of hopelessness and despair. It’s retraumatizing and it stimulates both grief and rage. Ironically, the email teaches us some important things: that racism and misogyny and rape culture are alive and well, that “isms” (such as racism and sexism) travel in packs (and we need to address them col-
lectively) and that we have much more work to do — on the campus and in broader society. Fortunately, this sort of horrifically offensive email is not an everyday occurrence on our campus. Yet smaller, more subtle but still problematic acts of racial and gender bias (and bias based on sexual orientation, religion, ability, class, gender identity and expression) are in fact part of many people’s daily lives. Subtle, often unintentional slights and indignities abound, affecting the experiences and success of students, staff and faculty from marginalized groups. Social scientists inform us that because they are frequent and cumulative, the little needling slights, termed microaggressions, can actually be as damaging as the big, overt, headlinegrabbing incidents. So where do we go from here? I have several recommendations. Let’s: 1. Acknowledge that “isms” — in the form of both micro- and macroaggressions — are a problem in 2015 America, even in a relatively enlightened environment such as this campus. 2. Speak up when we hear or see something that objectifies, stereotypes or denigrates others. Saying something and interrupting problematic behavior is an act of caring, not only for the person or group being treated inhumanely, but also for the person who commits the offense. In situations like this email, there are almost always witnesses. By not speaking up, we are
complicit in these acts. 3. Examine our own attitudes and create brave spaces where we can connect with others and unpack and address our beliefs. We have formal spaces on the campus where we can do this, such as our Intergroup Dialogue program and Common Ground dialogue groups. We have many informal places as well. Our campus is rich in diversity in multiple dimensions. But we need to seek out these opportunities. Let’s do more to engage with one another across differences. 4. Request a CARE to Stop Violence peer education presentation. Attend a #BlackLivesMatter event at this university. Or apply for an Office of Diversity & Inclusion “Rise Above Isms” grant of up to $750 to support the engagement of students, staff and/or faculty around issues of identity and/or bias — see diversity.umd.edu. We at this university have made tremendous strides with respect to equity, diversity and inclusion, but as the last two weeks have reminded us very painfully, we still have a ways to go. This is not an easy road: We’re called to be honest and brave and to commit to both our individual and collective development. But I firmly believe that if any campus can do this, if any campus can lead the way, it is ours. Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Ph.D, is this university’s chief diversity officer. She can be reached at kshorter@umd.edu.
his winter, students across the country celebrated Black History Month. I have fond memories of the month from my time in the classroom — of eye-catching bulletin boards, engaging assemblies and special programming. But as a teacher of all AfricanAmerican students, I also saw the dangers of isolating black history to one month in the calendar and worked to infuse black history and culture into my lessons every day. It is crucial that students learn about and understand the struggles of the past, because it is still so much a part of their present — when cashiers squint at them suspiciously when they walk into a store, when they turn on the news and see another person who looks like them lose his life to senseless violence. These lessons are anything but history. In the face of these realities, we have no time to waste. This school year marked the first in which the majority of public school students are minorities. Our generation has a responsibility to work to ensure that each and every one of them is moving through a system that affirms their identities, shows them they’re valued and allows them access to the opportunities they have been denied for far too long. While the “Whites Only” signs of the ’60s have come down, the reality of separate and unequal endures. Alongside glaring gaps in educational, employment and economic opportunity, people of color in this nation face a variety of subtler, no less damaging assumptions. A successful black lawyer hears whispers of affirmative action. A young black boy on a corner is seen as “lurking,” while his white peers “hang out.” A black college student is asked to give “the black perspective” to a seminar full of white students who are never asked to speak on behalf of their entire race.
When my kids see successful people who look like them, they reimagine what their own futures can hold. During Halloween one year, my students were able to dress up as iconic heroes of their choice. Two of them arrived in the morning dressed like me. I hadn’t done anything particularly heroic. But I had let my students know, every day, that I understood and shared their struggles, that I believed in their potential and that I planned to help them achieve the greatness of which I knew they were more than capable. While I was at this university, I planned on becoming an entertainment attorney — until I took Odis Johnson’s public policy course and realized the ways public policy shapes urban black communities. From there, my plans changed dramatically. I joined Teach For America because I saw education as a way to make a real and immediate positive impact on kids who have been robbed of opportunities they deserve for far too long. I’m so glad I did. We have a long way to go as a country before we truly achieve justice for all. To fix the systemic oppression that has created the gross inequality of the present will take the hard, dedicated work of countless leaders and changemakers — many who have experienced it firsthand, others who bear witness to it from further away. We must work toward these long-term changes as well as take the immediate, urgent opportunities to change the way our students view themselves and their futures. As teachers, we can play a central role in this. Every day, we can remind our kids that their thoughts, ideas, identities and opinions are important. We can share our own stories so that when our kids look to the front of the room, they see a little bit of themselves reflected back. We can remind them that they matter, that they always have and that they always will. Marlon Amprey is a 2009 alumnus of this university and a formerTeach For America corps member. He can be reached at mamprey@gmail.com.
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MORE YOU MISSED WHILE AT THE BEACH Staff writer Leo Traub reviews AWOLNATION’s newest album, Run, and staff writer Jonathan Raeder reviews indie horror film It Follows. Find both on dbknews.com.
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while you were out Insurgent’s star power doesn’t match the film’s premise, and Modest Mouse’s new album Strangers to Ourselves symbolizes the band’s aging
REVIEW: THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT
insurgent can’t put it all together the divergent series: insurgent shines with exertion from its acting team (namely, Shailene Woodley and Kate Winslet), but the film’s material isn’t gripping enough to warrant that kind of heavy labor. photo courtesy of the divergent series on youtube.com By Michael Errigo @M_Errigo Senior staff writer The official name of the movie alone is a bad start: The Divergent Series: Insurgent. So clunky, so official and lifeless. But hey, I guess it’s better than Divergent: Insurgent or Young Adult Paychecks: Part II. The thing about second installments in series like Divergent is that if you’re not all in — if you didn’t buy into the world that it creates and its plot and characters — things tend to drag. This is the case here. Everything that made Divergent fun, most memorably the
standard character transformations and development that happened before the action took hold, does not exist in Insurgent, which opened Friday. Instead, we get a pedal-to-the-metal plot train from scene one, and if you haven’t found your seat on the Tris Prior Express, you’re going to fall off pretty early on. Tris, the movie’s heroine, is once again portrayed admirably by Shailene Woodley (The Fault in Our Stars). And once again, she finds herself fighting against all odds in her dystopian society. She must team up with the other Divergents — including Theo James (Divergent), who still plays a character
named Four — to take down evil dictator Jeanine (Kate Winslet, A Little Chaos) while trying to battle her inner demons. Tris is plagued by the idea that everyone around her is dying and getting hurt in her quest to make her world right, and she fights this idea almost as much as Jeanine’s henchmen. Along the way, Four meets his presumed-dead, factionless mother, played surprisingly and unremarkably by Naomi Watts (While We’re Young); Tris has some problems with her brother Caleb (still played awkwardly by her The Fault in Our Stars lover Ansel Elgort) and former friend Peter — the already-too-good-for-
this-series Miles Teller (Two Night Stand); and Octavia Spencer does motherly Octavia Spencer things. Spencer and Watts are two impressive additions to an already overqualified cast. Winslet and Woodley especially do fine work, trying with all their artistic might to bring scenes with any emotion to life and to make the unbelievable situations their characters find themselves in seem somewhat enthralling. The acting is matched in quality by some of the special effects, as the film crew uses many simulation sequences to create this imagined world and spectacles that are especially
powerful in the IMAX 3-D format. Aesthetically, it’s exciting, but the things that happen in this world soon get so repetitive and flimsy that we want to leave the CGI wonderland. There is no doubt that this film boasts impressive elements. The problem is, all of them feel wasted on a lost cause. The material this movie is built around is too weak — the emotion too hokey, the premise too sloppy — to make any kind of great work worth the effort. If only Insurgent were simply horrible, maybe it wouldn’t be so frustrating. merrigodbk@gmail.com
REVIEW | STRANGERS TO OURSELVES
modest mouse isn’t so young anymore modest mouse’s newest album, Strangers to Ourselves (which includes “Lampshades on Fire,” featured in the music video above), uses the theme of humanity harming the Earth as the band labors on in its second decade together. photo courtesy of modestmousevevo on youtube.com By Jonathan Raeder @jonraeder Staff writer Modest Mouse has never really lived up to the word modest. From its beginnings in the ’90s, Isaac Brock’s manic voice and acerbic lyrics tumbled over angry lo-fi guitars with a sense that he knew everything about the terrible world we live in and just decided to laugh about it. In the years after the band’s first major-label release (and arguably its best album) The Moon & Antarctica, Modest Mouse smoothed out the rougher edges in its sound and began to grow more bombastic, excessive and pop-minded with 2004’s Good News for People Who Love Bad News and 2007’s We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. These albums won many new fans, but they also left many older ones unhappy with the band’s pop transformation. It’s been eight years since that last
album, so the question remains: who is Modest Mouse now? Is Strangers to Ourselves worth the wait? Well … it’s complicated. Despite the title, Strangers to Ourselves (released Tuesday) is definitely a Modest Mouse record, but caught in the difficult spot of attempting to straddle the line between its core style and newer ideas, to mixed results. The new album finds itself showing the all-too-familiar signs of an aging band. Brock’s voice is softer now, staying at a low and steady range and only occasionally breaking into a higher yelp — the reverse of his usual strategy. It’s also probably too long and bloated in points — understandable given the long hiatus, but still not necessary. This album also includes what might be the band’s worst song, “Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL, 1996),” a darkly distorted song with a thundering dance beat about a killing spree nearly 20 years ago. It just seems very out-of-place and
juvenile, with lyrics such as, “I’ve got my pistol in the car, uh huh/ I’ve got my stereo in the car, uh huh/ I’ve got my room key in the car, uh huh.” All this to say, there’s definitely a sense of progression and change in Brock’s — and the band’s — outlook. Where once the members cynically dismantled existential questions as struggling indie artists, they’ve now achieved a good level of mainstream success. Strangers to Ourselves combines Brock’s go-to ideas about the finite nature of life and broadens them, blending them with his own life changes and all he’s witnessed in the two decades the band’s been alive. The band’s sound has never before incorporated this much dance music — take the disco beats of “The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box” and the catchy “Lampshades on Fire.” This one excerpt from “Lampshades on Fire” truly encapsulates the album’s central theme of humanity destroying
Earth with its excess: “Well we’re the human race/ We’re goin’ to party out of this place/ And then move on.” References to “ghosts of trees” appear in multiple songs, including the excellent single “Coyotes,” which features the most straightforward message about humanity’s destruction: “Mankind’s behavin’ like some serial killers/ Giant ol’ monsters afraid of the sharks.” With lines like, “We don’t belong here/ We were just born here,” it’s clear that Brock wants to get out before it’s too late. The old Isaac Brock was screaming in the dirt while the new one is laughing on a spaceship, flying high above a broken planet. Other highlights include “Ansel,” inspired by the hiking accident that resulted in Brock’s brother’s death. It features such simple yet powerful lyrics: “The last time that you’ll ever see another soul/ Nah, you never get to know.” The aforementioned “The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box”
manages to be what the album was hoping every song would be: danceable with genuine Modest Mouse lyrics like “The world’s an inventor/ We’re the dirtiest thing it’s ever thought about,” and “Our predecessor left this box/ And something’s clawing around/ I think it really wants out.” Despite the creaks and hiccups coming from an aging band probably past its prime, Strangers to Ourselves is still a Modest Mouse record and therefore a solid collection of some good songs written by one of indie rock’s legends. It manages to be thematically cohesive about humanity partying itself into oblivion, even if it’s not as lyrically sharp as some of their older albums. Modest Mouse isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and that’s a comforting thought. Even an average Modest Mouse record is better than a large percentage of everything else. jraederdbk@gmail.com
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GYMNASTICS From PAGE 10 Though the Terps jumped ahead of Michigan State and Rutgers, they found themselves 0.075 behind Iowa after the initial rotation. And that deficit grew to 0.1 at the halfway point despite the Terps’ 49.10 showing on vault. Freshman Abbie Epperson contributed a career-high 9.90, while freshman Dominiquea Trotter (9.80), junior Kathy Tang (9.85) and Skochko (9.80) added to her efforts to help the Terps earn their best vault score since March 1. “I hate to be cliche, but I knew something good was going to happen,” Epperson said. “I [could] just feel it. Anyone who has been in that situation just knows.” And in the third rotation, the Terps started slowly on
the uneven bars, but the last four competitors rallied to help the team secure a 49.00 team score. Fre s h m a n Eve ly n Ne e (9.80), Epperson (9.80), Kathy Tang (9.85) and Karen Tang (9.90) closed out the lineup to cap just the second time this season the Terps have earned a score of 49.00 or higher on bars. But the Hawkeyes’ 0.25 lead heading into the final rotation was too much for the Terps to erase, though the squad notched a season-high 49.025 beam score behind Slobodin’s career high and 9.80 marks from sophomore Sarah Faller, senior Stephanie Giameo and Trotter. The Terps finished in the bottom half of the standi n g s S a t u r d a y, b u t t h e result improved upon their eighth-place Big Ten ranking this season. Michigan, also
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the Big Ten regular-season champion, won the meet, but the Terps defeated Rutgers, Michigan State and Ohio State, which competed in the evening session. In preparation for the upcoming regional competition, which the NCAA will announce Monday, Nelligan wants his squad to carry its confident energy into the next step of its postseason tournament, where, as with Slobodin’s stick Saturday, the Terps will look to continue their late-season aggression. “Our pre-meet speech was that we are a freight train — once you get us rolling, you can’t stop, and everyone’s got to get out of our way,” Nelligan said. “There were just some incredible moments [Saturday], and everybody just rallied.”
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From PAGE 10 the Gophers entered the weekend with only one batter hitting better than .258. But for the second time this season, the Terps overcame a deficit of five or more runs and escaped with a victory. “Our team’s confidence is real high,” said Cuas, who hit three home runs this weekend. “Whether we are up or down, we stay on the attack mode, and that’s helped us a lot.” The Terps’ bullpen gave u p two r u n s ove r seve n innings in the Game 2 victory, and junior closer Kevin Mooney broke the school career saves record
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HEELS From PAGE 10 Matt Rambo and Jay Carlson, who entered the game as the team’s two top goal-scorers, were held scoreless. Instead, LoCascio and midfielder Colin Heacock (three goals) carried the offensive load. LoCascio wasted little time making an impact on the contest, as he scored his first goal with 4:58 left in the first to give the Terps (6-1) a 2-1 lead. And after the Tar Heels (9-1) evened the score toward the end of the first period, the Lindenhurst, New York, native put his team back ahead less than three minutes into the second quarter. Then Heacock scored twice in 20 seconds to give the Terps a 5-2 lead entering the half. At the midway point, the Terps had outshot the Tar Heels 20-11, and they finished the game having attempted 11
more shots than the previously potent North Carolina offense. But that wasn’t the only facet of the game the Terps controlled. Faceoff specialist Charlie Raffa turned in another solid performance, capturing 15 of 22 attempts at the X. Plus, the Terps won the ground ball battle 38-29, and goalkeeper Kyle Bernlohr, who was added to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List on Thursday, made 11 saves. “Kyle doesn’t seem to surprise you. He keeps coming back with good game after good game,” coach John Tillman said. “We’re all really happy for Kyle, because it didn’t come easy, and it didn’t come right away.” Still, the Terps knew they couldn’t be complacent with a 7-4 lead at the end of the third quarter against the undefeated Tar Heels. As the game clock wound down, North Carolina kept chipping away. But unlike in previous years, LoCascio made
sure the Terps captured the narrow victory. Despite his dominant performance, LoCascio directed praise toward his teammates after the game. He mentioned the scout team, who “mean the world to [the team].” And Raffa, LoCascio said, “couldn’t have done a better job” at the faceoff X. He also credited Bernlohr’s performance. “I could go on and on with guys that really played hard today,” LoCascio said. In ACC play, LoCascio never found any luck against North Carolina. But in a nonconference game played on the other side of the country, the senior finally has helped his team topple the Tar Heels. “Joe showed a lot of maturity with his shooting. He changed his levels; he put the ball in different spots,” Tillman said. “He was on.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com
Every last one of them. “ I g re w u p wa tc h i n g Maryland, man. Maryland was always feared. Maryl a n d wa s a lways ta l ke d about, known for winning. When I first got here, that m e n ta l i ty, t h a t c u l t u re started to go away. And then me and the senior class, we got together, and we wanted to bring that back,” said forward Jon Graham, son of former Terps great Ernie Graham. “We brought that name back. … We brought Maryland back.” N o Te r p b e f o r e t h i s season had ever won 26 re g u l a r- s e a s o n ga m e s. Not Juan Dixon. Not Steve Blake. Not Greivis Vasquez. Not Gary Williams. This team achieved things no one thought were possible. And it happened through teamwork and devotion and hard work. The Terps didn’t cut any corners. They committed on the de-
with a five-out save, the 24th of his career. “I knew coming into the game it was going to be a save,” said Mooney, who missed more than three weeks due to a shoulder injury. “I tried to block it out as best I could, but I think it got to me a little bit. But now that it’s out the way, I’ll be able to focus just on pitching.” The Terps bullpen shone again Sunday with five scoreless innings, highlighted by left-hander Tayler Stiles’ three innings of one-hit ball. “There hasn’t been very many weak links in that bullpen,” Szefc said. “They’ve just been very consistent.” In his second straight start in the No. 3 spot Sunday, righthander Bobby Ruse gave up
three runs in four innings, but the Terps overcame a three-run deficit with eight runs over five innings in an 8-3 victory. Second baseman Brandon Lowe went 5-for-13 with one home run on the weekend and is now hitting over .400 on the season. Lowe led a Terps offense that scored 20 runs on 21 hits in the final two games. That explosive offense was one of several assets the Terps relied on to notch the series sweep. “We know we’re a pretty good team,” Shawaryn said. “We kind of just have to grind with it, and we’ll get the job done.”
fensive end. They trusted Turgeon. They played for one another. When a Terp hit the floor, all four other players on the floor rushed to attend to their teammate. “It’s amazing how we gelled and came together. I didn’t think I could learn to love a group of guys this quickly,” said Richaud Pack, a senior graduate transfer. “This is the best team I’ve ever played for — on and off the court.” Each game saw a different hero. Granted, Wells rose to the occasion more than others. But from freshmen to seniors, guards to forwards, everyone played his part in this resurgent season. In the spring of 2014, after the five transfers departed from College Park, the program was in flux. Turgeon was questioning himself. Fans so used to prominence demanded more. Twelve months later, the situation couldn’t be any more different.
“I’m a Terp for life,” Wells said. “And I’ll be proud of that.” The Terps locker room at Nationwide Arena took 20 extra minutes to open up for the media last night. Turgeon had a message he needed to get across to his team. “I just wanted to thank them for giving me a great ride this year,” the fourthyea r coa c h sa i d wh i l e choking back tears. “A year ago today, I wasn’t in a very good place, and today I’m in a really great place because of that group.” It’s not just Turgeon. The program is in a much better place, too. And while next year’s team will be missing key p i e c e s — We l l s , P a c k , Graham, Evan Smotrycz — the effect this season had on the program will linger for a long time. “We still made our mark,” Pack said. “If I see these guys do better, I’ll know that I was part of that group that started it off.”
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LoCascio scores 5 in victory Senior midfielder leads Terps to 10-8 win over Tar Heels By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer
It was the most unexpected of seasons. The Terps were picked to finish 10th of 14 Big Ten teams before the season began. But thanks to the dazzling displays of Trimble, the heroics of Wells, the drastic improvement of Jake Layman, the leadership of Richaud Pack, the blind confidence of sharpshooter Jared Nickens, the Terps proved all the doubters wrong.
For Joe LoCascio, games against former ACC rival North Carolina in the first three years of his Terrapins men’s lacrosse career always brought a familiar feeling of heartbreak. So as the No. 2 Tar Heels rallied to score two consecutive goals midway through the fourth period in Saturday night’s contest to cut the No. 5 Terps’ lead to 8-6, LoCascio took control of the game. About a minute after North Carolina attackman Luke Goldstock netted his 31st goal of the season, LoCascio corralled a feed from midfielder Henry West and deposited his career-high fifth goal of the game, cushioning the Terps’ lead just enough to secure the win in Santa Ana, California. The Tar Heels, who entered the game averaging a nation-leading 16.22 goals per game, made a late push, but LoCascio’s big performance proved too much to overcome, as the Terps extended their winning streak to five games with a 10-8 victory. “This win means a lot to the seniors,” LoCascio said. “Since I’ve been at Maryland, we’ve never beat North Carolina.” LoCascio’s showing was crucial for the Terps, considering attackmen
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guard Richaud Pack (center) and guard Dion Wiley (right) walk off the Nationwide Arena court after the No. 4-seed Terps’ 69-59 loss to No. 5-seed West Virginia that ends their season. christian jenkins/the diamondback
A SEASON TO REMEMBER Last night’s loss doesn’t diminish all the Terps achieved during their revitalizing campaign DANIEL POPPER
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COLUMBUS, OHIO — For a second, let’s forget the Terrapins men’s basketball team lost last night. Let’s forget the 23 turnovers. Let’s forget the brutal moving screen the referees didn’t call that left Melo Trimble writhing in pain on the ground. Let’s forget the freshman star looking on
helplessly for the final eight minutes, 27 seconds of a season-ending 69-59 loss to West Virginia because of a head injury. Let’s forget Dez Wells’ heart-wrenchingly disappointing performance in his final college game. Just for a moment. Because there’s on thing we can’t forget: how this team and coach Mark Turgeon, abandoned by five transfers in the offseason and overlooked by everyone, brought relevance back to College Park.
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Terps register season-best score Slobodin helps team secure 196.075 at Big Ten championship By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — After sophomore Leah Slobodin stuck her one-and-ahalf-twist balance beam dismount to cap an error-free routine in the final rotation of the Terrapins gymnastics team’s Big Ten championship competition Saturday afternoon, she saluted the judges and met her coaches with high-fives. She then sprinted to her teammates’ waiting area, where they enveloped her with hugs and cheers. Behind Slobodin’s career-best 9.850 mark, the Terps looked as though they might make a lastminute push to overtake Iowa’s 0.25
first-place lead in the first session of the conference’s meet. However, the Hawkeyes’ gap proved to be too much for the Terps to overcome. The team registered a 196.075 final score, its best total of the year, to place second among the four squads in its session and seventh out of 10 teams competing for the championship. Still, coach Brett Nelligan was proud of his team’s performance in the program’s first year in the Big Ten. The Terps improved their season average to secure qualification for the NCAA regional meet in two weeks. “We’ve had aches and pains and bumps and bruises, and we have people competing with injury, and they were able to put everything aside and just go out there and let
it happen,” Nelligan said. “They were magical.” The Terps’ positive energy was present from the start of the meet, when they opened with a 48.95 score on floor exercise. Senior anchor Ebony Walters tallied a 9.825 to lead the team. Senior Shannon Skochko contributed a personal-best 9.80 mark and junior Kathy Tang earned a 9.80 to help the Terps erase disappointment from a low 48.50 event score last weekend. “We just had to take everything one skill at a time, one routine at a time, and break it down into little parts,” Tang said. “That’s what we did here, instead of just going after floor. It’s not that; it’s one person, one routine, one skill.” Sophomore leah slobodin performs on the balance beam during the Terps’ quad-meet victory March 8 at See GYMNASTICS, Page 9 Xfinity Center. Slobodin posted a career-best 9.850 in the event Saturday. reid poluhovich/for the diamondback
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Offense, bullpen key series sweep against Minnesota Terps combine for 25 runs to win all three contests over the weekend in first games versus Big Ten opponent By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer
Third baseman jose cuas swings at a pitch during the Terps’ 8-3 win over Minnesota yesterday at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium. The junior finished 1-for-4 with a RBI and a run scored. james levin/the diamondback
Terrapins baseball third baseman Jose Cuas led off the second inning Saturday afternoon against Minnesota with his team facing a seven-run deficit. Hours earlier, Cuas and his teammates had cruised to a four-run win behind right-hander Mike Shawaryn’s quality start in the first leg of a doubleheader. But the second bout unfolded differently. The Terps’ starting pitcher, left-hander Willie Rios, had surrendered seven runs in two innings and wouldn’t return to pitch the third. The circumstances didn’t faze Cuas, though, as he drove a pitch over the left-field fence. That solo
homer helped spark a rally that propelled the Terps to a 12-9 victory over the Gophers. The comeback was part of a versatile performance from the Terps in a three-game sweep of Minnesota at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium. At different points during the three contests, the Terps leaned on sound starting pitching, a solid bullpen and efficient offense. The Terps’ sweep in their first Big Ten series pushed their winning streak to 10 games. In each of those games, the Terps have scored five or more runs. “Our offense was able to give us consistent at-bats,” coach John Szefc said. “The strength of our team is our bullpen. … But I think our lineup is a pretty close second.” Friday’s game was pushed back to
Saturday due to inclement weather, but the scheduling change didn’t affect Shawaryn. The sophomore limited the Gophers (7-13, 0-3 Big Ten) to one unearned run in eight innings in Game 1, and the Terps (17-4, 3-0) rode his pitching to a 5-1 victory. After Shawaryn’s rough start two weekends ago against UNC-Wilmington, he has surrendered one run in 15 innings. “These past few games, I’ve just been trying to getting back to how I pitched before,” Shawaryn said. “I just kind of threw that game out the window.” Because of Rios’ shaky start in Game 2, though, the Terps fell behind by seven runs even though See GOPHERS, Page 9