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Local Bikeshare plans held indefinitely Installations canceled after Alta Bicycle Share, Capital Bikeshare operator, files for bankruptcy

necessarily able to provide them,” said Valerie Goubeau, Department of Transportation Services acting assistant director. “We are kind of

By Ellie Silverman indefinitely after the company that at a standstill now.”

In December, the College Park City @esilverman11 runs the program filed for bankruptCouncil voted to support the program Senior staff writer cy in January.

“That threw a pretty signifi- with joint funding from the city and cant wrench in our plan, in that we this university, District 1 Councilman Plans to install Capital Bikeshare were unable to place any orders for Fazlul Kabir said. stations in College Park and on the The city is awaiting definitive ca mpus have been put on hold those stations because they weren’t

answers from Alta Bicycle Share, Capital Bikeshare’s operator, about bringing Capital Bikeshare to College Park, though city officials said the initiative is still a priority.

“We do plan to have Bikeshare here, but we are concerned by the fact that we can’t buy the bikes anymore,” said Steve Beavers, the See Bikeshare, Page 3

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Some seek substancefree dorms RHA debates creating new housing options

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer Each spring, students at this university can choose from a variety of housing options, including mixed-gender, gender-inclusive and single-gender apartments, dorms and suites.

But some students believe the Department of Resident Life is lacking one option: substancefree housing.

Freshman economics major Sade Ayinde said she first heard o f s u b s t a n c e-f r e e h o u s i n g through student group Wonderful Awesome Students That Evade Drinking’s Facebook page and decided to look into it.

“I realized there was a population that would prefer something like this, and I started researching it, trying to see what other schools have someth i ng l i ke this,” Ayinde said.

Substance-free housing would provide on-campus residents the

SMALL WORLD A MICROCHIP on a silicon wafer is just one creation of the FabLab, a nanotechnology center in the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building. The facility attracts scientists from across the country. rachel george/the diamondback

University’s FabLab offers safe lab for nanotechnology research with enough money to stay current

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Senior staff writer A high-performance air filtration system whirred softly throughout the orange-tinted room. A scientist peered out from plastic goggles at a reaction spurred inside a machine that cost more than $100,000. Another

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researcher took notes on a sheet of slippery, latex-saturated paper.

At FabLab, a nanotechnology center tucked away in its own wing on the second floor of the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, cleanliness is next to godliness — and perhaps only a nanometer or so away.

“If you’re working with this kind of stuff, a particle of dust is like Mount Everest,” said

Making spring break bigger Cru takes to beach for spirituality chats

By Joelle Lang @thedbk Staff writer

big break participants worship through song in a recent session. Every morning and evening throughout the four-week conference, participants amassed for Bible studies and discussions. photo courtesy of pechnique/flickr During spring break, this univerUnlike in the usual image of spring sity’s Cru, a Christian organization, break, these college Christians aimed met with other chapters from around to talk to people about religion and the country in Panama City Beach for share the basics of their beliefs. one week of a four-week conference known as “Big Break.”

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Athletic department targets graduate students to fill seats Officials plan ways to increase attendance

By Holly Cuozzo @emperorcuozzco Staff writer Jessica Stouffer cried tears of joy after Jasmine, a college-aged woman she met on spring break in Panama City Beach, Fla., decided to commit to Christianity after the two had a spiritual conversation.

Stouffer, a senior secondary education major, said the woman told her she was raised in a Christian home with a pastor for a grandfather but had never truly thought about why she called herself a Christian.

“Through that conversation, she made it her decision as opposed to what her family believed,” Stouffer said. “She decided for herself.”

Jim O’Connor, FabLab director.

Because work on nanotechnology is so precise, no one can enter the laboratory without donning a full bodysuit made of polyethylene. Shoes must be covered after a machine brushes off dust. Ceiling lights tinted orange cast a hue on the lab that avoids

In anticipation of the move to the Big Ten next year, members of the athletic department are looking for easy ways to continue improving fan attendance and satisfaction, particularly among graduate students.

Marie Brown, associate director of ticketing operations, found that demographic is “not utilizing tickets as much as they can.”

W hen pu rch a si ng t ickets, graduate students do not have

to compete with undergraduates because 10 percent of football and basketball student tickets are reserved for graduate students, a figure proportional to the percentage of athletic fees they pay.

Of that 10 percent, not all of the seats are filled every game, a shortcoming the athletic department hoped to improve by meeting with the Graduate Student Government.

“Our goal is to always maximize student attendance at our games to prov ide a n exciti ng a nd f u n game day experience for our fans, including the students and studentathletes participating,” said Carrie Blankenship, interim associate athletic director of marketing.

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Nonprofit against domestic abuse spurs court change

By Abby Burton @thedbk For The Diamondback When Laurie Duker first began her work with the Montgomery County District Court, she was just a volunteer. But after becoming a victim advocate for the social services system, Duker couldn’t believe the issues she continuously witnessed.

“I worked with about 1,000 women,” Duker said, “and the same problems kept coming.”

System inadequacies inspired Duker to become more involved.

Now, she is the executive director of Court Watch Montgomery, a nonprofit organization that works to analyze and help improve the experiences of domestic-violence victims within the Montgomery County court system. She spoke to about 10 people in South Campus Commons 1 Monday night about her work.

Duker cited inefficiency, “condescending” judges and a disregard for victims’ safety as some of the problems in the Montgomery

County Court.

“It was a really bad situation by the time I got there, and everyone was treating it as if it was normal,” she said.

Court Watch began in 2011 with 15 trained and supervised volunteers, and within six months, those volunteers examined 680 cases in Montgomery County District Court, focusing on protective orders for domestic violence victims.

Following the six-month research period, Court Watch released its first report, publicizing its findings and making recommendations for improvement.

Duker said judges and employees immediately took notice when Court Watch volunteers started observing the courts, and improvements soon followed.

“The very first day we walked in, there were changes,” Duker said.

The court used the first report to get more bailiffs to monitor the courtrooms and halls to protect victims from their abusers in the courthouse.

The court also implemented a policy allowing victims to leave the court-

house before their abusers to ensure that the victims safely make it to their transportation, Duker said.

While judges are not named in the reports, they are analyzed specifically and identified by letters, and so far, they have met with the head judge following the reports’ release to assess their work and behavior in the courtroom.

Duker attributed the organization’s success in improving the courts’ operations to “powered data and powered stories.”

Court Watch has 80 to 100 sources for each of its reports and backs up everything carefully, Duker said. The organization tells the stories of some of the victims it encounters in order to raise awareness of domestic violence.

Court Watch also aims to highlight successes in the system, something that has helped the organization accomplish its goals, Duker said.

“We tried to catch judges doing things well, too, which really added to the credibility,” she said.

Duker discussed the uphill battles her organization continues to face.

One issue that persists is judges

failing to consistently mention that it is a crime to violate a protective order, a simple decision Duker said could act as a deterrent for respondents in domestic violence cases.

The percentage of judges who mention this in court has increased since Court Watch’s first report, Duker said, but not where it needs to be.

About 20 to 40 percent of domestic violence cases are dismissed, Duker said. This happens because women are scared or unsure of whether they have enough “clear and convincing” evidence, a standard required by state law.

The women who actually come into court to announce their decision to drop their request for a protective order give judges the opportunity to question their decision to ensure that they are not being coerced or threatened in any way, Duker said.

“It’s depressing if you can’t change stuff, but when you can, it’s pretty exciting,” she said.

While there is still work to do, Duker said, Court Watch has become a model for many other court systems

Laurie Duker speaks out in opposition to domestic violence on Monday. lena salzbank/the diamondback in the country.

Junior biology major Cynthia Ezedike said she was surprised at how big an issue domestic violence remains, and she was inspired by how much Duker has been able to accomplish in Montgomery County.

Tariq Jah, a junior cell biology and genetics major, has had personal experience with domestic violence and said he didn’t see something like Court Watch in Prince George’s County, where he lives.

“This work should be in other counties as well,” Jah said. “Maybe I’ll talk to my mom about starting something like this.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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A Scientist changes the settings on a lithograph machine inside one of FabLab’s clean rooms.

fablab From PAGE 1 affecting any chemical processes by way of ultraviolet radiation from the sun.

T he a i r i n pa r ts of t he 10,000 square-foot laboratory is filtered to be 1,000 times cleaner than the air in the rest of the engineering building, and only particles less than a half-micron in size rema in in the a ir. By comparison, a speck of dust is about 10 microns. “‘Nano’ means one-bill iont h, so we’re work i ng with things that are about one-billionth of a meter in size,” O’Connor said. “To put that another way, if you piled 50,000 nanometers in a row, it’d be about equal to the length of the diameter of a hair on your head.”

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Robert Eh rl ich a l lotted a $3.65 million grant to FabLab, allowing the center to pur-

chase the major equipment it needed. Now, though the lab charges scientists to conduct research there, O’Connor said it struggles to bring in enough money to keep the tools at a state-of-the-art level.

“We can’t make money,” he sa id. “We have to just break even.”

Any revenue goes toward u p d a t i n g a n d p u r c h a si ng equ ipment, sa id Joh n Abrahams, one of FabLab’s five-member staff, which includes O’Connor.

To use any of the center’s tools, such as a wet bench for liquid-phase chemical work or a metal deposition system for such work as covering a product with an aluminum film to prevent outside environmental effects, the FabLab charges outside commercial interests $225 per hour but offers a subsidized rate of $77 per hour for university scientists.

Since 2007, about 2,000 people have made use of the lab, completing about 70,000

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process steps. Resea rchers have come from as far as the University of Vermont, O’Connor said.

Some researchers, such as Catherine Liu of bioengineering company LOC Micro, chose FabLab over comparable nanocenters. She said the company decided to develop its biosensor, which can be used to detect infectious diseases and viruses, at this university’s nanolaboratory, instead of those at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University because FabLab’s “price and quality were the best deal.”

FabLab is limited in size, and thus lim ited in other capabilities, but until LOC Micro requires work done on a larger scale, Liu said the company plans to remain working there.

“When we’re not going to collaborate with FabLab is when we go to mass production,” she said. jantoshakdbk@gmail.com

The goal of the trip was not necessarily to convert people, said Chris Berkey, a senior materials science and engineering major, but rather to have spiritual conversations in hopes of getting more people to think about their faith and to consider Christianity.

“Spiritual conversation is really a taboo thing,” Stouffer said. “We care about where people have been in their lives, and we want to hear it.”

T hroughout the conference, Cr u memb ers walked around the beach with short surveys, asking college-aged beachgoers about how they perceive God and their own lives, among other questions.

T hey logged these conversations and other details of their encounters in the “Big Break” mobile app so other Cru members could pray for the spring breakers by name.

In the week that this u n i v e r s i t y ’s C r u p a rticipated, the conference logged more than 5,000 spiritual conversations, with more than 250 people choosi ng to com m it to Christianity, according to the Big Break website. “ T h at’s pret t y d a n g successful in my opinion,” Courtney Glasser, a sophomore elementary education major, wrote in an email. “[But] it’s not about numbers by any means. I

University students (top) Michelle Molina, Rebecca Kneebone, Alexis Wenz and Taylor Rouse pose at Big Break last week. Others attendees (bottom) included students Jessica Stouffer and Alexis Pappas, and Cru staff member Caela Carlson. photo courtesy of pechnique/flickr think that just one conversation would have classified the trip as a success, but that many people is even cooler.”

T he trip was mainly focused on outreach, Morgan Burnett, a senior aerospace engineering major, wrote in an email. Each day began with worship and seminars about sharing the gospel. The students then went to the beaches to talk to people and relax in the sunny weather before ending the day with another worship session.

In addition to hopefully changing college students’ lives, Big Break also aims to help Cru members strengthen their faith by giving them experience in sharing their beliefs, participants said.

“Just seeing the dichotomy between two ways of living is a good way to kind of tell other people about Christianity,” Berkey said. “It also shows

[Christians] what a difference God has made in your life.”

T he Cr u memb ers a l so were able to see their work influencing people every day, and this served as a motivator, he said.

On the surface, the Cru members had a typical spring break at the beach, playing volleyball and making friends like many of the other students in Panama City Beach. On a spiritual level, however, members said they gained much more than just a tan.

“We had so many awesome spiritual conversations with people and got to learn what they believe and share what we believe,” Glasser wrote.

“We go because we all believe that telling people about Jesus is one of the most important things we can be doing with our lives.” hcuozzodbk@gmail.com

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Spring break campus, city crime rates down from last year University Police respond to 52 cases, including thefts and trespassing reports, during busy school break period

By Teddy Amenabar @DBKCrime Senior staff writer

own belongings out of the apartment. The individual is not affiliated with the university and was living in the Even though many students student’s apartment, Hoaas were gone for spring break, said. The confrontation was University Police spokes- not physical.

Officers on the scene learned woman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said it was a “fairly busy week the man living in the apartand a half” for the department, ment had been given an active although there were fewer in- denial to the campus in the fall when police responded to a cidents than last year.

From March 12 to 21, Uni- similar situation between the versity Police officers re- two men, Hoaas said. Police sponded to 52 cases, Hoaas arrested the man for breaking said, a drop from the 65 cases his denial to the campus.

Officers referred the student reported for the same period last year. Incidents included to t he O f f ice of St udent two thefts from cars in a uni- Conduct, Hoaas said, because versity parking garage and a this was the second time police were called to the apartment. fight in Comcast Center.

3 a.m. and asked the student where he fou nd the sig n, Hoa a s sa id . T he st udent said he took the sign from the business, and the officer wrote a criminal citation for theft of less than $100 before sending the student on his way, Hoaas said. The student was also referred to the Office of Student Conduct.

THEFT FROM VEHICLE

Officers reported to two thefts from cars in Stadium Drive Garage at about 1:30 p.m. on March 14.

Electronic devices were taken from two sedans; one of the devices was in plain view and the other was under items in the car, Hoaas said. The two THEFT TRESPASSING cars were on different levels of An officer patrolling the the garage, and the thefts ocPolice responded to an argument between a student and a parking lot behind the South curred at about the same time. man staying in his Courtyards Campus Dining Hall early Both of the car owners are afMarch 14 saw a student car- filiated with the university. apartment on March 13.

The case is open, Hoaas said.

At about 10:30 a.m., the r y i ng a sig n f rom a loca l Police responded to car establishment. student called police after The officer approached a thefts Feb. 23 and March 10, having an argument with the man, who was moving his group of three men at about but Hoaas said the depart-

university police officers stand at the scene of a traffic accident near Stamp Student Union on Feb. 19. james levin/the diamondback ment hasn’t seen a pattern or spike in incidents. Still, Hoaas said, people should leave valuables at home or take the items with them.

“Safeguard your valuables,” she said. “Secure them out of sight, out of plain view.”

BURGLARY A student came to the police

department March 18 to report a burglary in his dorm room four days before, Hoaas said.

On March 14, the victim woke up and noticed an electronic device had been taken from his room, Hoaas said.

Department detectives will look into whether the burglary is related to a February string of incidents in North Campus dorms that began

late January. Even though the incident was reported four days after the victim noticed property missing, Hoaas said delays in any report should not affect the investigation unless the time span is so long that there is no longer stored video footage of that date and time. tamenabardbk@gmail.com

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Capital bikeshare bike production stalled when the manufacturer went bankrupt. Plans to bring the program to College Park have been put on hold. photo courtesy of james schwartz/flickr

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st at ion s i n Wa sh i n g ton , Rockville, Bethesda and possibly College Park. “ B i k i n g i s b e c om i n g a more broadly accepted mode of transportation. It’s also a fun way to get around,” G o u b e a u s a i d . “ We a r e looking forward to being a part of this regional system.”

In addition to connecting College Park with surrounding areas, Kabir said the program would help mitigate traffic on Route 1 and encourage students and residents to be more active.

“Our students love to ride bikes, and definitely it will reduce the traffic,” Kabir said.

“It’s good for the environment; it’s good for the city.”

Goubeau hopes that despite the bankruptcy, the city will be able to provide this service to students and residents. Beavers said he hopes to have a bike-sharing service in College Park by the fall.

“We are still planning to continue with Capital Bikeshare,” Goubeau said. “But in the meantime, everybody is just kind of holding their breath for these bigger companies to work out who’s going to be providing what.”

city’s community development coordinator.

D i st r ict 3 Cou nci l m a n Robert Day said he was looking forward to the benefits the program would bring to the city and the campus.

“It’s an easy way of getting around; it helps take cars off of the roads when they aren’t needed; it helps with a healthy community, gets people out on the streets,” Day said. “It’s just an all-around good thing.”

The original plan included the installation of 10 bike stations with 62 bicycles throughout College Park, including six stations on the campus and one at the College Park Metro station, Beavers said.

These bike stations could encourage more people to bike if the plans go through, said Bryan Sanchez, a freshman enrolled in letters and sciences.

“You can just pick up a bike and at the same time just leave, so it will give people more accessibility,” Sanchez said.

Having Capital Bikeshare on the campus would create “a regional connectivity” within this state and Washington, Goubeau said, with esilvermandbk@gmail.com

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option to live in an environment completely free of drugs and alcohol. Ayinde brought the idea to the Residence Hall Association’s Resident Li fe Adv isory Team after finding eight of the 12 schools in the Big Ten have a substance-free housing option.

T he a dv i sor y te a m’s chair, Alex Stoller, said about 70 students in the WAST ED g roup a re i nterested in such a living arrangement.

“It’s somet h i n g t h at we’ve seen a clear interest in,” Stoller said. “I definitely think that there’s a way that we can make it work if we really wanted it to.”

Stoller said it won’t be an easy process, though. At the March 11 RHA Senate meeting, members asked whether there would be a large and consistent enough interest in a substance-free program to fill the spots provided. Other senators worried the option could isolate or stigmatize students who choose it.

graduates From PAGE 1 Michael Wiederoder, legislative affairs vice president, said he found “there is a feeling amongst some students that the athletics department focuses only on undergraduate students and not graduate students.”

Graduate students attribute their low attendance to a variety of issues.

“When I went to orientation, there was no information from the athletic department,” physics graduate student Paul Syers said. “I still don’t know how the ticket system works.”

Wiederoder said university orientations for graduate students, as well as graduate-only events, do not represent athletics or properly inform graduate students about sport-

RHA Senators listen to a proposal at a Feb. 12 meeting. The RHA is discussing a substance-free housing option. james levin/the diamondback The idea is still in its early stages, Stoller said, but it could mitigate some of the problems Resident Life officials see among roommates or with students who are uncomfortable in their oncampus housing situations.

“The people that we want to do this are the people that strongly believe this and want to commit to this,” Stoller told the RHA. Stoller said she also discussed the idea with Resident Life Director Deb Grandner.

Sophomore chemistry major Amita Jain said she wasn’t sure substance-free housing could work at this university because it is a wet campus, meaning

alcohol is allowed for students 21 and older.

“It might be a good idea for those who really can’t stand it, but at the same time, I think people need to be able to handle it,” Jain said. “It is the real world, and you will face that stuff.”

Ay i nd e, howeve r, sa id she feels it would be a positive change for on-campus housing. Within the WASTED group, people showed interest in substance-free housing for religious reasons or for p re fe re n c e s of d i f fe re nt living situations, she said, and there are also those who have struggled with substance addiction.

“There are so many different variables,” Ayinde said. “It’s something that we are still researching and looking into.”

Stol ler sa id a lot more planning must be done with Resident Life and other residents before this idea can move further.

“We have the new genderinclusive housing initiative, and people have really benefited from that,” Stoller said.

“If we can do something for students that are maybe uncomfortable in their current living situation that could be just as beneficial, that would be great.”

ing events.

“I think both sides could work more to try and raise awareness,” he said.

Both graduates and undergraduates can apply for one free student ticket and four guest tickets at a discounted price of $25. This presents more of an issue for graduate students than undergraduates, Wiederoder said, because many graduate students have fiances and spouses not affiliated with the university.

“Even though it’s a reduced fee, I am not going to pay $25 for my guest for basketball,” mechanical engineering graduate student Amir Kashani Pour said.

If guest tickets were less expensive or free, more students would be interested in attending games, Wiederoder said.

Zack Bolno, athletic department spokesman, said the athletic department is evaluating special discounted

pricing initiatives as the university moves to the Big Ten. Geology graduate student M i ria m Sha r p sa id she is hesita nt to attend ga mes because the tailgating atmosphere is lacking.

Blankenship said the athletic department is working to create a place for all students to tailgate before games but it is difficult to fi nd a large area close to the venues.

“T he issue is, whatever space we pick, it is not going to accommodate all students,” Blankenship said.

One suggestion was that once a spot is desig nated fo r t a i l g a t i n g, g ra d u a te programs would be able to reserve spaces.

“I think setting [and] designating areas where graduate st udents k new ot her graduate students would be before games would increase interest,” Wiederoder said.

“Graduate students range in age from 22 to 40, depending

on programs. There is a desire to sit with peers to create a fun environment where you can socialize with peers who are the same age as you.”

Kashani Pour also said he would attend more games if sections were reserved for certain programs.

“If I know there are 10 or 20 seats together for a certain school, I would feel better about going,” he said.

Other graduate students said they often do not come to games because they do not want to return to the campus after work days.

Blankenship said the athletic department would take the concerns shared by the GSG into consideration as they prepare for next season.

“We are always looking for new ideas to implement that contribute to the overall game day experience,” Blankenship said.

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Embrace the smoking ban L obbyists in Annapolis are trying to put this university in a bind.

In July, the university adopted the University System of Maryland’s mandate to ban smoking on the campus, with the exception of four designated areas.

Now Del. John Wood (D-Charles and St. Mary’s), under the puppetry of notorious lobbyist Bruce Bereano, has introduced a bill that could suck more than $33 million out of the university system for impeding tobacco sales.

Bereano argues the system’s smoking ban is costing tobacco retailers because smokers on university system institutions’ campuses are buying fewer cigarettes and tobacco products. In turn, he says, the state is losing tax revenue.

That missing revenue should come out of the system’s budget, the bill’s supporters say.

Those first two points are probably true. While it’s probably impossible to calculate the missing money for tobacco retailers, there’s little doubt that less smoking means fewer cigarettes.

But it’s ludicrous to take money from education to support a tobacco industry that sold 293 billion cigarettes in 2011 and helps lead to more than 480,000 deaths annually nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Passing this bill would force the university system and its member institutions to choose between wellbeing and funding, a trade-off no

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school — college or otherwise — should ever have to make and one we suspect would be made in favor of money.

This editorial board supported the smoking ban, arguing that any limitation on using harmful tobacco products is a smart one. But we questioned its logistics, which are still in flux.

OUR VIEW

Legislators in Annapolis must not fall prey to lobbyist attempts to penalize schools and students for helping decrease cigarette sales.

And though we haven’t yet seen many concrete steps in the way of enforcement, we don’t want to see the ban go, especially not if it’s being held hostage by lobbyistdictated legislation.

Bereano, a seasoned schmoozer who has lobbied in this state for more than 30 years, represented more than 40 employers as of October. Among those was the Maryland Association of Tobacco & Candy Distributors, a lobby whose very existence is flummoxing.

Besides tobacco lobbies’ profitdriven campaigns to keep deadly smoking part of the American lifestyle, the existence in this state of a lobby that consolidates smoking with

candy and children-related marketing is a disgrace.

The lobby is listed in the care of George J. Falter Company, a Baltimore-based 19th century-style convenience store company that peddles Mars bars and Marlboros in the same breath.

This legislation’s origins should speak to its antiquity and absurdity.

Like the Falter company, advocating for cigarettes belongs in history books and advertisements in back issues of this newspaper. Trying to force schools to allow this advocacy shouldn’t even earn a spot in history.

In fiscal year 2014, the university system spent $12 million on STEM initiatives, efforts to increase the scientific proficiency of our generation. It spent $7.5 million on closing the achievement gap, working to ensure that every student, regardless of race, ethnicity or economic standing, had the same opportunity to succeed academically.

All those efforts and more could be wiped clean if the tobacco law and its $33 million penalty were enacted. Initiatives that try to make the world better would take the backseat to a moneygrabbing industry that refuses to accept that the world is moving on without it.

Tobacco is less important than our collective investment in education. Legislators in Annapolis should be quick to realize that and stop this good-for-nothing bill dead in its tracks.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

Talking to others in person helps our communication How we should all live and speak to one another in today’s technological era pletely oblivious to my surroundings.

But I have found my days feel infinitely better when I am not totally immersed in social media or electronic entertainment. In fact, I take the time to think about things. This sounds remarkably simple, but it isn’t. People have become afraid to take the time to think and instead inundate their minds with music and social media. So next time you feel the need to throw on your headphones and check out from the world around you, take the little earbuds, put them in your pocket and instead take time to reflect on whatever feels right.

Human interaction is an important part of life, and people are losing this skill. A great deal of interaction is now digitized in texts or social media outlets such as Facebook.

Though texting is convenient when people are literally unable to speak, it should not be a preferred form of communication.

So next time you get the chance to speak to someone, whether on the phone or face to face, do it. These interactions are enriching and rewarding, so take advantage and you might just enrich your day.

Albert Einstein sums up this basic concept in a few eloquent words: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” You can treat every day as boring and miss out by sticking your nose in your phone, or you can immerse yourself in what the world has to offer. Your call.

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Saturday morning, I woke up early to watch some English Premier League soccer. While watching, I found myself flashing back to my childhood days, when I would wake up early to play soccer in my local league.

Reflecting on this time in my life made me realize a simple fact: I miss the ’90s.

The ’90s was a unique time, with the explosion of Internet connection and cell phone technology. But this technology wasn’t nearly as ubiquitous as it is today.

Today, nothing is a mystery. We have access to all types of information and forms of media. The days of having to wait for things are over. We live in a society of instant gratification, which breeds contempt for anything that does not suit our liking. People are obsessed with their iPods, smartphones and computers, leading them away from interacting with others in more intimate, nonsuperficial ways.

Not having a cellphone is one of the most liberating things people can do for themselves in their daily lives. Having to be always on call is exhausting and leads people to interact with the digital world instead of the physical world in which they exist.

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read the Jan. 30 staff editorial, “O’Malley gets an ‘A’ on education,” and thought you would be interested to learn how some university alumni (including me) are making a difference in the lives of students in Washington and public schools in this state through quality teaching.

In November, Education Secretary Arne Duncan relaunched a campaign to get more college students interested in careers in teaching. His call for action

is great in theory — research consistently shows the single most important school-based factor that determines student success is quality teaching.

And as a nation, we need more effective teachers.

Here’s the problem: The nation, including this state and D.C., is not preparing new teachers adequately. In January, the National Council on Teacher Quality released its 2013 State Teacher Policy Yearbook. This state and D.C. received

scores of “D+.” Equally alarming, both received a “D+” for “delivering well prepared teachers.” If we answer Duncan’s call and more college students enter the teaching profession, we need to redesign how they are prepared.

And that’s what Urban Teacher Center aims to do. Launched in Baltimore and Washington in 2010, UTC designed a residency and a dual master’s degree program that draws on the best practices in teacher and student learning.

UTC participants make a four-year commitment: an intensive year-long residency followed by a three-year

teaching commitment in a high-need public school. The residency year is rigorous, grounded in the classroom and focused on the research-based skills teachers need to help improve student performance. By the time UTC residents take on their own classrooms, they have had a full year working with students, are familiar with the school environment and know what good teaching and learning look like. In short, UTC teachers actually are ready to teach. The majority of UTC’s first-year teachers achieve student-learning gains on par with typical second-year teachers.

UTC has nine university alumni making a difference in the lives of students in Baltimore and Washington. And four more have already committed to start their training this June. Over time, these alumni will be among the most expert and results-oriented teachers in the nation, making the case for better teacher preparation. University students are helping raise this state’s and Washington’s scores, one effective teacher at a time.

Near the end of my stint in high school, the band announced a new album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. Though I was reluctant to relapse, I somehow found myself fawning over another of the band’s albums. With Danger Days, all the passionate energy of the previous albums transformed into a series of fiercely energetic dance numbers.

Once again, the band came into my life at a period of great change.

Among college applications, ex-boyfriends and bullies, the band provided the soundtrack to my senior year with songs that gave me comfort and strength when I needed them most.

And just like that, My Chemical Romance faded again at the end of the summer when I moved into a dorm, trading out my old iTunes account for new Spotify playlists and my high school woes for adulthood adventures. But my inner oddball never went away.

To this day, My Chemical Romance has the power to tame my wildest emotions. I take courage from the familiar songs telling me I can take on the world alone. Though My Chemical Romance will forever be associated with its largely teenage fan base, the band’s biggest accomplishment is tapping into universal human emotions and experiences.

Grief, triumph, fear and loneliness are with me at 21, just as they were when I was 13.

I’ve made a point of hiding my past fandom of My Chemical Romance several times, but as I look back at the rockier periods of growing up, the band helped me face the challenges along the way. Though the band went out with a whimper rather than the fabulous bang it promised, I can confidently say I will always be a My Chemical Romance fan.

Celia Scheff Communications specialist, UTC 2009 university alumna

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AN UNJUST DEATH My Chemical Romance, the somewhat embarrassing band that defined millennial teen angst, is no more, but its music helped many find an identity

By Zoë DiGiorgio @zozoembie Staff writer It’s a strange thing to admit. When I started college, it became a selfdeprecating joke: I was a My Chemical Romance fan.

That’s synonymous with saying, “I was an angsty teen,” something no college student wants to own up to. I have been coming to grips with my former melodramatic self and love for My Chemical Romance as I say farewell to the band that helped

me fearlessly face the uncertainties of growing up.

My Chemical Romance’s last album, greatest hits collection May Death Never Stop You, comes out today, attended by little fanfare. It makes sense the release would be a quiet affair, given that the band announced its split roughly a year ago.

But rather than a happy ending for the death-obsessed rockers, a pervasive air of bitterness surrounds the split.

This is not the end I expected for a band that laughed at death in the face.

I first turned to the band for guid-

ance in middle school, preparing for the inevitable plunge into high school. I fell in love with the catchy hooks, dramatic stories, cinematic music videos and approachable edginess of men wearing eyeliner.

More than latching on to the band’s lyrics about death, though, I took its fearless weirdness in the face of normalcy to heart. The members of My Chemical Romance surrounded themselves with a crowd of misfits and blessed their followers with the gift of self-confidence. For me, all it took was a trip to Target and the purchase of 2006’s The Black Parade to blossom into the hidden oddball I had concealed within me for so long.

I listened to my My Chemical Romance CDs religiously for about a year, but when I started high school, my passion cooled. The band took a break to settle down and start families. I settled back into being normal for a while.

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FOSTER THE PEOPLE is more than just “Pumped Up Kicks,” as sophomore effort Supermodel proves. A mature, surprisingly rock-oriented album that takes the band’s summery pop sound in a darker and heavier direction, Supermodel is a serious record by a serious band that demands serious attention. photo courtesey of sites.psu.edu

By Brianna Patterson @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback It’s been almost three years since Foster the People took over mainstream airwaves with the insanely catchy, yet subtly morbid summer anthem “Pumped Up Kicks.” The dance-pop song, which allegedly was written about a school shooting, set the tone for the trio’s debut album, Torches, an upbeat and cohesive project filled with catchy choruses, bouncing synthesizers and danceable melodies.

Now the trio is back with its angsty, rock-influenced sophomore album, Supermodel. It’s a mature, introspective compilation that questions life and materialism but still finds the vitality and levity that defined the band in its debut.

Supermodel takes a different tone from Torches, leaving behind the synthpop that characterized the latter. The heavy guitars and grungy bass lines in songs such as “Ask Yourself” bring an edge to the band’s former pop persona.

The instrumentals are experimental, as on the album opener “Are You What You Want to Be?,” which laces African-inspired percussion throughout the song in a style similar to Vampire Weekend’s world music.

Like an indie rock dream sequence,

“Pseudologia Fantastica” has an airy synth cadence over an undulating bass line, creating a trippy melody colored by frontman Mark Foster’s falsettos.

In an unexpected role reversal, “A Beginner’s Guide to Destroying the Moon” samples a snippet from A$AP Rocky’s 2013 track “LVL” and develops it into a grunge guitar rhythm.

Foster, a former jingle writer, once again tries his hand at turning serious concepts into fun dance hits — just as he did with “Pumped Up Kicks.” The track “Best Friend” has a funky ’60s pop-rock feel with horns and a catchy chorus about helping a companion who is strung out on drugs.

While Foster deploys his signature falsetto throughout the album, he also takes risks, entering ranges it wasn’t previously clear he had on several songs.

Hearing him practically yell the lyrics to the angry “A Beginner’s Guide to Destroying the Moon” is like hearing a librarian use his or her outside voice for the first time. Foster also delves into the deeper register of his range on the ballad “Goats In Trees.”

Though the album gets a bit dreary toward the end — finishing off with three ballads in a row — closing track “Fire Escape,” a beautiful acoustic ballad about growing up in Los Angeles, is among the album’s most emotionally revealing.

The theme of questioning oneself and society is consistent throughout the album. “Is this the life you’ve been waiting for?/ Or are you hoping that you’ll be where you want with a little more?” Foster croons on “Ask Yourself.”

The title Supermodel is fitting, as the songs generally critique the shallowness of consumer society. The album’s weighty themes attempt to prove there’s more substance to Foster the People than the one single that has defined them thus far — a sign of the band’s continuing evolution.

Foster the People could have easily created a Torches sequel and chased the success of “Pumped Up Kicks.”

But with Supermodel, the band takes a leap forward and moves on from its big hit. The result is a refined outing that demands to be taken seriously.

“I can’t write the same song twice,” Foster said in an interview with Time magazine. “It would have been so boring to try and make a second Torches.”

And Supermodel is anything but boring. It’s diverse, risky and edgy.

It’s proof of the band’s true musical talent, a statement to the world that they are capable of more than just a summer pop hit. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

Admittedly, the term “danceable” is at best an arbitrary and subjective description and at worst a meaningless cliche. People dance to everything from Tchaikovsky to Skrillex. Who’s to say what is truly danceable?

Perhaps it’s better to describe Tokyo Police Club’s much-anticipated new album, Forcefield, as rock you can dance to. During the band’s four-year hiatus, Tokyo Police Club absorbed the repetitive, groovy beats of club music, infusing the usual rock combination of guitars, keyboard and drums with an energy fit for fist pumping and sing-alongs.

In a time when every radio hit — be it pop, rock or rap — is guaranteed a host of club-ready remixes, Forcefield cuts out the middleman. There aren’t any dubstep interludes or wait-for-the-drop moments. The album takes its cues from house music, using methodical drum arrangements and lots of vocal and melodic repetition.

The songs might seem out of place among bass-heavy offerings from the likes of David Guetta and Calvin Harris, but at its best, Forcefield’s infectious and pulsating enthusiasm is an undeniable call to the dance floor.

Forcefield wastes no time drawing you in, starting with the compelling “Argentina (Parts I, II, III).” One of the album’s leaked singles, “Argentina” seamlessly stitches three songs together so each one is distinct yet related to the other two.

The opener sets the album on a breathless run straight into one of the album’s other leaked singles, “Hot Tonight.” Jumping straight into a knockout guitar-drum riff, the song launches into a powerful chorus followed by elated “ooh-

oohs” coupled with the song’s titular hook (“It’s hot tonight!”).

But while the album starts on a high, it exhausts itself once the power-pop guitars get dropped.

It’s a sprinter stuck in a marathon, taking an early lead but losing steam halfway through. Frontman David Monks’ subdued drawl is endearing when accompanied by blasting guitar riffs but seems tired, almost bored, in later songs, such as “Beaches” and “Through the Wire,” in which the music packs less of a punch.

Still, the band continues to excel with rhythm as it always has. In the past, Tokyo Police Club has shown its penchant for crafting songs built on carefully arranged beats that would impress the most precise math-rocker. Sticking to its style as a dance-rock band, Tokyo Police Club uses this same pattern of rhythm-driven guitars paired with meticulous percussion on Forcefield in songs such as “Miserable” and “Toy Guns.” Though the album’s final song, “Feel the Effect,” gets a bit lost without the catchy riffs that mark the band’s better work, the song’s head-nodding combination of bass and high-hat redeem the album’s final minutes.

The album juxtaposes poetic verses about ordinary life with lyrics that keep the subjects interesting.

Monks knows how to show, not tell.

“Oh what a girl, I want you wearing my T-shirt/ XL/ Yeah, you wear it well,” he sings in “Argentina.” At times, the poetics are contrived and banal, with lyrics such as “Through the wire to your door/ I’m coming around, ones and zeros on the ground,” turning “Through the Wire” maudlin. But in general, the songs’ colorful lyrics touch on usual subjects of love, loss and having fun.

The album has its share of misses, but Forcefield’s use of club musicinfused rock generates more than a few infectiously danceable hits. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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Reserves step in to help Terps earn sweep of N.C. State Four opening night starters miss time during three victories over No. 10 Wolfpack at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer Charlie White has been a fixture atop the Terrapins baseball team’s lineup the past two years. He started all 55 games last season and was in the lineup for the first 21 games this season.

But after he aggravated a shoulder injury on a pair of headfirst dives during Saturday’s 7-4 win over N.C. State, White left the game before the ninth inning and sat out Sunday’s game.

For coach John Szefc, White’s absence was something new.

“It was weird not writing his name on the lineup today,” Szefc said Sunday.

White was just one of several notable Terps who sat at times during this weekend’s series. But when Szefc plugged someone new into the lineup, he received production, and the Terps left Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium Sunday with a threegame sweep — their first of an ACC

opponent in almost five years — of then-No. 10 N.C. State. “ G o o d tea m s w i n d i f fe re n t ways, and they win with different people,” Szefc said. “I don’t want to win with nine guys and four pitchers. It takes a large group of guys to go out and beat [good teams]. Those guys were in Omaha [in the College World Series] last year. You can’t beat those guys by chance. It takes a lot of effort, and it takes a lot in general.”

In all, four players from the Terps’ opening night lineup missed at least one game because of injury this weekend, forcing a host of freshmen and newcomers to step up into more important roles.

Tim Lewis, a transfer from Allen Community College in Iola, Kan., made his first start in center field Sunday. The junior often appeared as a pinch runner in the early part of the season, but Szefc penciled him in the lineup batting ninth. He went 1-for-2 with a walk and also laid down a sac-

“I DON’T WANT TO WIN WITH NINE GUYS AND FOUR PITCHERS. IT TAKES A LARGE GROUP OF GUYS TO GO OUT AND BEAT [GOOD TEAMS].”

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Terrapins baseball coach rificial bunt in the 5-2 victory.

“Lewis goes out there, makes his first start of the season, has great atbats, does everything I could ask a guy to do for not having started the whole year,” Szefc said. “It’s not like he’s playing against a bad team there.”

The right side of the infield featured two more backups.

First baseman LaMonte Wade sat out Friday night’s game with shoulder soreness before returning as the designated hitter in the final two games of the series. The sophomore started all 55 games last season and the first 19 games this season, making the 10-0 win was the first game of his

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Freshman Mike Rescigno replaced him in the lineup and delivered for the Terps, going 4-for-10 with two RBIs on the weekend.

Second baseman Brandon Lowe got off to a hot start and batted .302 through the first 13 games of the season, but he suffered a hamstring injury, and Szefc doesn’t want the redshirt freshman to rush back. So Krysthian Leal, a junior transfer from Yavapai College in Prescott, Ariz., made all three starts at second this weekend.

Leal was 4-for-11 with two RBIs and three runs.

“We got great position players,” shortstop Blake Schmit said. “Any player can come in and play for us like Tim Lewis and Krysthian Leal’s going a great job at second base. We’re confident that our guys, whether they’re starting or not, can come in off the bench and do a great job for us.”

Left fielder Michael Montville exited Friday night’s game after

hurting his hamstring running the bases and was replaced by Andrew Amaro. Kyle Convissar started the final two games in left field after starting Friday’s game at designated hitter.

While Szefc is eager to get some of the top contributors from last year’s team, which won the program’s most ACC games since 1971, back into the fold, he’s afforded the luxury of making sure they’re completely healed before their return.

And while he’s waiting, he can get some of the Terps’ newcomers vital experience that could come in handy down the stretch when the Terps look to clinch their first postseason appearance in more than 40 years.

“We have a lot of young guys,” Szefc said Sunday. “If you look at the lineups we run out, a lot of freshmen and sophomores. Even today, we had two juco guys in the lineup. It’s their first season here. So they’re not freshmen, but they’re first-year guys.” dgallendbk@gmail.com

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From PAGE 8 slam dunk in the second round, ending their time in the ACC. “I’m numb right now,” Turgeon said in Greensboro, N.C. after the loss to the Seminoles.

Fo r wh a teve r rea so n , perhaps karma from exiting the ACC and moving to the Big Ten or some other unseen force, it just wasn’t the Terps’ year. And when they needed something to go right, it just never did. Even the Terps’ marquee win, their 75-69 overtime victory against then-No. 5 Virginia in their ACC finale at Comcast Center, came after the Cavaliers tied the game in the final seconds.

And in losses to thenNo. 18 Connecticut, George Washington, then-No. 17 Virginia, then-No. 8 Duke, thenNo. 4 Syracuse and Clemson before the ACC tournament loss to Florida State, the Terps didn’t get the favorable roll or break they needed to capture victories and boost their postseason resume.

In Greensboro, those close calls solidified the theme of the Terps’ 17-15 campaign.

“That’s kind of the story of our season,” guard Seth Allen said. “Things just didn’t bounce our way.” “ T h i s ye a r w a s k i n d of tough,” forward Evan Smotrycz said. “It just hasn’t

Guards Dez Wells (left) and Nick Faust (center) and forward Charles Mitchell each returned this season after playing in last year’s NIT semifinals. file photo/the diamondback bounced our way.”

“It’s tough, but it’s been happening all year to us,” forward Jake Layman said.

“The ball just hasn’t been bouncing our way.”

A few different rolls, the Terps have a postseason berth and a completely different theme to the season.Even an NIT berth,which the team would have called a disappointment in the preseason, would have been a boost for the Terps, who were finally healthy and hitting their stride late, especially the hot-shooting Allen.

But perhaps what the Terps needed was a reset, a sudden — and merciful — end to a season filled with more lows than highs.

There’s time to get healthy and take stock of the team.

There’s a new conference on the horizon, and the Terps are projected to lose only forward John Auslander from a deep rotation that will be another year older

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and more experienced.

With a top-10 recruiting class featuring McDonald’s All-American Melo Trimble, sharpshooter Dion Wiley, 7-foot-1 Trayvon Reed and forward Jared Nickens set to join the Terps this fall, there’s reason for excitement.

But as the Terps showed this season, optimism doesn’t guarantee results.

If that was the case, the Terps would be dancing, not watching from home.

When Turgeon was talking about the Terps’ loss to Florida State minutes after Seminoles center Boris Bojanovsky flushed away the Terps’ season with only 0.4 seconds left on the clock, he could have easily been talking about the season as a whole.

“Some things aren’t meant to be,” Turgeon said. “And today wasn’t.” dgallendbk@gmail.com

The final demoralizing defeat, a 67-65 loss to Florida State on March 13 in the ACC tournament’s second round, seemed to epitomize the season. With the game tied in the final seconds, a tipped pass ended up in the hands of Seminoles center Boris Bojanovsky, who flushed home the game-winning dunk with 0.4 seconds left on the clock.

“It’s been happening all year to us,” forward Jake Layman said in a somber locker room in Greensboro Coliseum. “The ball just hasn’t been bouncing our way.”

The Terps’ first unlucky break came 10 days before the season opener when starting point guard Seth Allen broke a bone in his left foot during practice.

Allen missed the first 12 games, and the Terps trudged to a 7-5 record without him.

All-ACC third-team selection Dez Wells, who finished the season averaging a teamhigh 14.9 points, moved out of his natural position on the wing to assume the starting point guard role and produced mixed results.

With Wells out of position and the team struggling to find a consistent interior presence while center Shaquille Cleare and forward Charles Mitchell

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Terrapins men’s basketball center turned in uneven production, the Terps suffered discouraging losses to Oregon State and Boston at home.

The Terps also had the c h a n ce to to p two n o n conference opponents that q u a l i f i e d fo r t h e N CA A tournament, but they lost on the final possession both times. Wells’ potent i a l ga m e -w i n n i n g s h o t rimmed out against thenNo. 18 Connecticut in the season opener, and George Washington guard Maurice Creek nailed a game-winning jumper to top the Terps in Washington on Dec. 8.

“I’m so proud of the effort we give every game,” Cleare said after the season-ending loss to Florida State. “But the tables never turned our way.”

Allen returned in time for the bulk of conference play, and the Terps showed flashes of improvement. But missed opportunities late in games led to another string of heartbreaking losses.

Mitchell had a potentially game-winning shot trickle off the rim in a two-point loss at then-No. 8 Duke on Feb. 15, nine days before the Terps lost a two-point game against then-No. 4 Syracuse.

After losing the nail-biter to Syracuse, Turgeon said he never experienced a season with so many frustrating losses. In their next game, the Terps lost at Clemson in a double-overtime contest they led late.

“Clemson was as devastating as it gets,” Turgeon said a week later. “We had to walk up three flights of stairs. It felt like 100 after that game.”

The Terps finally earned a break from their devastation by topping then-No. 5 Virginia, the ACC champion, in

stymied From PAGE 8 a freshman, has played in only four games so far this sea so n a f te r s i t t i n g o u t the first four because of a lower-body injury. Not to mention, the rest of the Terps’ freshmen — including Cannizzaro, Rambo and midfielder Colin Heacock — are still trying to produce cohesive performances and limit their mistakes.

Nonetheless, the Terps still got a number of chances

GUard seth allen missed the first 12 games of the season after breaking a bone in his left foot at practice. file photo/the diamondback their regular-season finale and the final ACC game at Comcast Center before this university’s move to the Big Ten. The satisfaction from the historically significant win was shortlived, though, as the Terps were knocked out of the ACC tournament in Greensboro, N.C., four days later.

In the locker room after the loss to the Seminoles, many Terps had their heads down, and they knew they left Turgeon’s preseason hopes unfilled. Though the Terps consistently came one play away from several victories that could have changed the course of their season, they ended up with same record as what many consider to be a much less talented team posted in Turgeon’s first year.

And a program that made the NCAA tournament each year from 1994 to 2004 missed out on the nation’s premier postseason play for the seventh time in the past 10 years.

“Maryland basketball is much bigger than us,” Cleare said. “We felt that we didn’t take care of business this season, and we disappointed a lot of people. It hurts. It hurts a lot.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

to score Saturday against goalkeeper K ieran Burke, who made 12 saves on 20 shots on goal. And while a strong defensive scheme and execution from the Tar Heels limited their opponent offensively, the Terps’ inability to finish quality opportunities ended up costing them the game.

“I’m disappointed for them because they’ve worked so hard,” Tillman said. “But I have faith in them that we’re going to regroup.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

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BOUNCING THE WRoNG WAY

Season full of near misses ends with familiar feeling of disappointment

Late-game defeats lead to another year without an NCAA tournament for Turgeon, Terps

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

DANIEL GALLEN As the NIT bracket was unveiled on ESPNU more than a week ago, anyone who watched the Terrapins men’s basketball team this season experienced a familiar feeling.

The show went later as more teams got bids to the second-tier postseason tournament, and the Terps’ chances became smaller and smaller with each new name that flashed on the screen.

And in the end, the Terps once again were left painfully short. This time, though, there was no game left to rebound in. The season was over.

After a deep NIT run last season, the Terps seemed poised to end a three-year NCAA tournament drought with a bevy of talent returning one year older, one year more experienced. But instead of playing deep into March, the Terps were left with a season defined by heartbreakingly close calls, a season that will not be forgotten soon.

In October, coach Mark Turgeon was positive and excited at the team’s media day. The Terps’ late run, which included advancing to the ACC tournament semifinals after upsetting Duke, was poised to carry over, and the mix of new and returning pieces would be hard to stop.

“This is a huge year for us to improve on what we did last year, and I think we are ready to make that step,” Turgeon said at the time. “Today, I’m happy with where we are and what we’ve done.”

Earlier this month, Turgeon was exhausted and spent. The Terps stumbled through ACC play and won consecutive conference matchups just twice. In the ACC tournament, the Terps bowed out to Florida State on a last-second

He led off with a joke and remained upbeat while fielding questions for the next 20 minutes.

Mark Turgeon felt he had reason to be optimistic during his news conference at the Terrapins men’s basketball team’s media day on Oct. 8, after leading the Terps to the NIT semifinals the previous spring.

Entering the 2013-14 campaign with six returning contributors and several promising newcomers, the third-year coach had his sights set on an NCAA tournament appearance and a return to prominence for a Terps program just more than a decade removed from its only national championship.

“That is the next progression,” Turgeon said.

“That’s what we plan to do. We’re going to have to stay healthy. We’re going to have to play really well.

We’re going to have to get lucky. The basketball gods are going to have to be on our side — we’re going to have to get a few bounces. But I just think with recruiting and everything we’re doing here, it’s just the next natural step. And it feels right.”

But over the next five months, Turgeon’s plans unraveled. The Terps didn’t stay healthy.

They often failed to get the bounce or the roll they needed to win crucial games. And for the fourth straight season, they didn’t earn an NCAA tournament berth, which Turgeon believed was within reach.

The Terps finished their final season in the ACC with a 17-15 overall record after losing five games by fewer than three points, including four against teams headed to the NCAA tournament.

Those narrow misses cost the Terps on Selection Sunday, when they didn’t earn an invite to

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North Carolina stymies Terps’ top three weapons Chanenchuk, Rambo, Carlson combine for one goal

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — For the first time this season at North Carolina on Saturday, the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team’s potent offense appeared stifled.

Attackmen Matt Rambo and Jay Carlson and midfielder Mike Chanenchuk entered the contest as the Terps’ leading scorers with a combined 53 goals in seven games — more than 57 percent of the team’s total offense. But the trio found the back of the net just one time against the Tar Heels on a third-quarter goal

by Chanenchuk.

Without the typical production from their goal-scorers, the Terps faltered. Behind a stingy performance from a host of veteran defenders, including seniors Jordan Smith and Ryan Creighton, the No. 6 Tar Heels became the only team to hold the then-No. 1 Terps to fewer than 10 goals in a contest this season, earning an 11-8 victory over their conference rival at Kenan Memorial Stadium.

“They have good pieces, they have really good individual defenders, they have really good athletes,” coach John Tillman said. “So give them their due.”

Tar Heels coach Joe Breschi commended his staff after the game for its work the previous two weeks in compiling the defensive game plan that successfully thwarted the Terps’ dynamic offense.

Breschi said there was “not a lot of sleep,” as the group slaved over the talent on Tillman’s roster, from Chanenchuk to Rambo to midfielder Connor Cannizzaro, who entered the game as the

Faceoff Specialist Charlie Raffa and the Terps scored fewer than 10 goals for the first time this year in an 11-8 loss at North Carolina on Saturday. photo courtesy of halle sinnott/the daily tar heel Terps’ fourth-leading scorer with 11 goals.

Ultimately, Breschi and his staff decided to move two long poles, including Smith, to the top of the defensive formation to prevent Chanenchuk and Rambo from dodging and rifling shots. Meanwhile, the Tar Heels moved a short stick to the bottom of the formation to cover Carlson.

The lack of a long-pole defender on Carlson could have provided a weakness in the scheme, but Breschi understood that the junior is more dangerous off the ball as opposed to dodging with the ball in his stick.

T h e d e c i s i o n pa i d o f f.

Carlson recorded one shot and finished without a goal for the first time this season.

“That, for us, kind of neutralized a little bit of what their plan was,” Breschi said.

“To dodge with those two short sticks up top.”

Breschi also complimented defenseman Austin Pifani, wh o d e fe n d e d R a m b o, a fellow rookie. Rambo and Pifani became friends as kids growing up in neighboring towns outside of Philadelphia, often playing lacrosse together or against each other on club and school teams.

Because of that, Breschi said Pifani had a good idea of Rambo’s tendencies and was able to contain him, though the attackman still shot seven times in the game.

“I think at the end of the day, those guys know each other so well,” Breschi said.

Tillman said after Saturday’s loss he is still trying to determine his offensive rotation. Attackman Tim Rotanz, See Stymied, Page 7

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‘IN THE PRECIOUS MOMENT’

The early part of Brenda Frese’s coaching career was filled with changes of address and moves from program to program. But now in her 12th season as Terrapins women’s basketball coach, Frese has found stability — along with great success — in College Park.

By Paul Pierre Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer

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ive years after she led her high school team to its first Iowa state championship, Brenda Frese’s basketball playing career was over.

Foot i nju ries ha mpered her at Arizona, and she needed four surgeries. Even after redshirting, she couldn’t complete a fourth season of eligibility.

At 23 years old in 1993, Frese was forced to move on from playing.

For an intense competitor, it wasn’t

supposed to end so soon. And yet the timing was perfect.

Frese still spent most of her time with the game that year at nearby P i m a Com mu n ity Col lege i n Tucson, Ariz. She scouted opponents and visited recruits as assistant coach of the women’s basketball team, and soon, the undergraduate started running practices by herself, CONTINUED ON P. 2

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COACH BRENDA FRESE walks off the court at PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C., after the Terps beat Texas A&M, 81-74, in the Sweet 16 to advance to the Elite Eight in the 2012 NCAA tournament. The victory was Frese’s fourth appearance in the Sweet 16. front, above: file photos/the diamondback CONTINUED FROM 1 organizing drills and explaining tactics to players who were nearly her age.

It didn’t happen often, but when Pima’s coach was too occupied with her second job, Frese got the chance to lead the team. By the end of the season, she gave her first locker room speech as a coach before coaching her first game.

“It all kind of helped lead me to now to help me as a coach,” Frese said. “My dad always told

me when I was coming up and going through it, ‘It’s amazing what basketball can do for you in your life.’ And it’s been really, really good to me.”

She couldn’t salvage her c o l l e ge c a re e r, b u t t h a t season marked the start of a journey in which she coached at six schools in 11 years. She reached the pinnacle of her sport when she led the Terrapins women’s basketball team to the NCAA championship in 2006, putting the program in the national spotlight and becoming one of the youngest

coaches to win a title.

While the Terps have been consistent contenders since her 2002 arrival in College Park, Frese has had a multitude of changes in her personal life. She got married in 2005, gave birth to twin sons, Markus and Tyler, in 2008, and endured Tyler’s leukemia diagnosis in 2010.

But now, in her 12th season as the Terps’ coach, Frese has found stability.

In November, she signed a contract extension that will keep her with the Terps until

at least 2021. Tyler reached a major stage in his recovery and received his final chemotherapy treatment in December. And after so many stops early in her career, she has developed an appreciation for the constancy that has come with the job. “ T h e r e ’s b e e n a l o t o f c h a n ge , b u t yo u se e with change, great things happen,” Frese said. “This area where we live, being able to coach at Maryland, the support we have — I just count my blessings because

we love everything about being a part of Maryland.”

Frese was involved in basketball from an early age, but it didn’t consume her days growing up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Swimming, volleyball, softball, track and field, golf, piano and trumpet all played parts in her childhood. Bill and Donna Frese introduced each of their six children to many activities, often encouraging them to pursue multiple hobbies as a release for

their boundless energy.

“I had an awesome childhood,” Brenda Frese said. “I feel like all I can remember is playing.”

As the fourth child born in a family of five girls and one boy, Frese fully embraced her household’s competitive environment. Board games such as Monopoly and Life were as intense as pick-up basketball in the driveway. Frese enjoyed the competitive nature of sports the most, and as she got older, CONTINUED ON 3

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nose. It resulted in two black eyes, but Frese kept playing.

“That didn’t stop her from anything,” Donna Frese said.

“She just didn’t look the best at all.”

As a forward at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, B re n d a Fre s e d e s c r i b e d herself as “fiery.”

“If someone scored on me, I took it personal,” Frese said.

As a senior, she led the Warriors to their first state tournament appearance since a championship game loss her freshman year. Though the team wasn’t expected to bring the title back to Cedar Rapids, Frese’s speech during a send-off party had an entirely different message.

In front of family, friends and fans in the community, the gutsy teenager guaranteed that they would bring the championship trophy back to Washington High School.

“I was kind of shocked,” Donna Frese said. “She was never an outgoing, showy person. She just kind of did her thing, and that was it.”

She followed through on her word, scoring 35 points in

basketball became her main focus.

Other sports had drawbacks.

The thought of 6 a.m. swim meets didn’t sound attractive, softball was too slow for her and track was only in season during the spring. Frese could play basketball all year, however, satisfying her desire to play a competitive sport frequently.

In addition to leagues and summer camps, Frese’s driveway became an ideal spot for Frese and her two younger sisters, Marsha and Stacy, to practice their jump shots or go toe to toe in one-on-one matchups. Bill Frese added a spotlight to the blacktop, allowing for nighttime sessions that went until 10 p.m. or later.

Brenda Frese played relatives during family gatherings, with the most memorable matchups coming against her uncles while she was in high school. On one occasion, she faced her godfather, who she said weighed 230 pounds at the time, and when he came down after a rebound, he elbowed her in the

the Warriors’ first-ever state championship victory. With Marsha Frese also on the roster that season, the game remains one of Brenda Frese’s proudest moments as a player.

And after her final high school game, basketball took her more than 1,500 miles southwest to play for the Wildcats.

Things were much different in Tucson than in Cedar Rapids. Arizona had a combined 29-59 record in Frese’s first three seasons, while injuries prevented her from building on a solid sophomore year.

After her third season, she redshirted, and the Wildcats hired a new coach. As Frese’s hopes to continue her playing career dimmed, watching locker room talks helped her discover a new passion within basketball.

“You know what?” Frese thought. “Maybe I can coach college someday.”

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“FOR BRENDA, IT WAS NEVER GOOD ENOUGH. IT WAS ALWAYS, ‘WE CAN DO MORE. WE CAN MAKE ANOTHER PHONE CALL. WE CAN WRITE ANOTHER LETTER. WE CAN GO SEE HIM.’”

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COACH BRENDA FRESE sits next to the ACC Championship trophy in March 2012 after learning the Terps’ NCAA tournament seed (top). It was Frese’s second ACC tournament title during her tenure in College Park. Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma greets Frese after the No. 1 Huskies beat the Terps, 72-55, on Nov. 15 (bottom-left). The loss was the Terps’ third to UConn in less than a year. Frese talks to forward Alyssa Thomas during a game at Georgetown in 2010 (bottom-right). The Terps fell to the Hoyas in that matchup, 53-45. file photos/the diamondback CONTINUED FROM 3 in 1995, he went without a coaching staff in hopes of rebuilding a historically subpar program from scratch in Ames, Iowa.

He was looking for young, enthusiastic assistant coaches who shared his ambition, and he knew where he would find the ideal candidate.

In the Mid-American Conference, Fennelly had already met Frese, who was an assistant coach at Kent State, and though they had never had an extended conversation, he constantly heard about her strong feelings for the game and hard-working mentality.

“When I got the job, she was one of the first calls I made,” Fennelly said.

Two years earlier, Frese sent a resume and cover letter to each school that mailed Stacy Frese recruiting letters to ensure her name was out there for teams to see. That process helped Brenda Frese get the job at Kent State.

But this time, a coach was reaching out to her. Fennelly offered Frese a chance to return to her home state as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Cyclones.

Frese, modeling Fennelly’s selective style, developed a reputation as a relentless recruiter, a characteristic that remains one of her most noteworthy traits as a coach.

“For Brenda, it was never good enough,” Fennelly said. “It was always, ‘We can do more. We can make another phone call. We can write another letter.

We can go see him.’”

In Fennelly and Frese’s first season in Ames, Iowa State had one of its biggest turnarounds in program history when it improved to 17-10 from 8-19. The next year, Stacy Frese transferred to Iowa State from Iowa,

and the sisters — who are seven years apart in age — fulfilled their aspiration of sharing a sideline, something they had hoped for since they shared a room as kids.

Stacy Frese’s transfer was a boost for both the Iowa State program and Brenda Frese’s development as a coach. After sitting out a year as a transfer and watching Iowa State make its first-ever NCAA tournament appearance, Stacy Frese led Iowa State in scoring and earned All-Big 12 honors in three consecutive seasons playing for the Cyclones.

Brenda Frese closely monitored her sister during games. And if Stacy Frese got substituted, Brenda Frese would sit next to her on the bench and provide words of encouragement.

“It was kind of a unique relationship because, obviously, she knew me better than everyone else,” Stacy Frese said. “So she always knew — she still does — how to push the right buttons with her players, you know?”

Iowa State reached the second round and the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament during those two seasons, respectively. But that deep postseason run was Brenda Frese’s last as an assistant coach. She left Iowa State in 1999 before her younger sister’s senior year and took over at Ball State for her first head coaching job.

Under Fennelly’s guidance, Frese helped transform a sputtering Cyclones program into one of the Big 12’s best teams in one of the most fruitful learning experiences of her career.

“By far had the biggest impact on my coaching,” Frese said. “To be able to be with Bill for four years and just learn how to build a program from the ground up.”

After six years of assistant positions at Division I programs, Frese

finally had the opportunity to lead the rebuilding process of a program. But as the next four years showed, there were other opportunities to pursue.

Geno Auriemma at Connecticut, Pat Summitt at Tennessee and Tara VanDerveer at Stanford: This group of legendary women’s basketball coaches, Fennelly said, rose to prominence while staying with one program for an extended period of time, with each coach building their respective teams into national powerhouses.

Coaching three teams in four years, Frese was not like those three.

“Brenda’s path was a little more like a men’s coach,” Fennelly said. “You go to one place, then you move up.”

She won Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year in her first season with Ball State when the Cardinals went 16-13, then Ball State’s record improved to a then-programbest 19-9 in her second year.

She left Muncie, Ind., after that season to coach Minnesota, which was coming off a dismal 8-20 season in which the Golden Gophers won only one conference game.

Minnesota went 22-8 and 11-5 in the Big Ten during Frese’s only season in Minneapolis in 2002. The Golden Gophers reached the second round of the NCAA tournament, and the Associated Press voted Frese the National Coach of the Year.

Frese’s three years of head coaching experience was enough to persuade then-Terps athletic director Debbie Yow to bring her to College Park.

“There is an old Southern saying that describes why we targeted Brenda, which goes like this: ‘If a

dog is going to bite you, he’ll bite you as a pup,’” Yow wrote in an email.

“That simply means that young professionals will provide indications early in their respective careers of their abilities. Brenda did that coaching at Ball State first, followed

by Minnesota.”

Yow hired Frese the same day the men’s basketball team won the 2002 NCAA title. It would be only four years until she led the women’s team to one of their own, but that didn’t seem likely during her first season.

For the first time in her coaching career, she finished a season with a worse record than the year before.

The Terps went 10-18 and didn’t get to compete in postseason play, but as she did with Fennelly at Iowa State, she began building the foundation for an improved program.

It started with recruiting guard Shay Doron during that tough first season, then forwards Laura Harper and Crystal Langhorne the next year. Finally, Frese signed forward Marissa Coleman and guard Kristi Toliver during her third season.

With Frese’s five big signings leading the way, a young Terps team that had only one upperclassman starter won the NCAA Championship in 2006.

“So much sometimes in life is luck and timing, and when you can put your work ethic, and it kind of all comes together,” Frese said. “There’s just different coincidences that end up having to happen.”

sleeved Maryland shirt and black warm-up pants — were seated in Comcast Center’s Heritage Hall watching a wall-mounted television.

Frese sat front and center with Markus and Tyler sitting on her lap.

Alongside parents, friends and media members, the Terps were waiting for their seed to be called during the NCAA tournament selection show on ESPN. After the team’s seed appeared on the screen, Frese got up and talked to reporters before chatting with the parents in attendance.

Balancing life as a coach and a mother has become second nature for Frese. But there are also times when she is fully focused on her two boys.

“She takes advantage of every waking moment,” said Mark Thomas, Frese’s husband. “She may work until after midnight, but she’s up at 6 a.m. to be up with the boys and spend time with them before they go off to school.”

Unlike in the first half of her coaching career, Frese isn’t as focused on what comes next. There’s always the big picture pursuit of another national championship, but through Tyler’s bout with leukemia, she has learned to appreciate the little moments in life.

And in a hectic job with long hours and distant travels, Frese can always return to the stability in her life.

“In a weird sort of way, it kind of helped me to slow me down, if that makes sense, and appreciate more of the now and the moment and the present.” Frese said. “I’ve always been out ahead of things and task-oriented.

I am to a degree, but I’m more in the On Monday, March 17, the precious moment now.”

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CENTERS BRIONNA JONES (left) and Alicia DeVaughn (right) will be tasked with guarding Texas center Imani McGee-Stafford, who had 20 points and 12 rebounds in the Longhorns’ win over Penn on Sunday in the NCAA tournament. left: alik mcintosh/the diamondback; right: file photo/the diamondback

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No. 5-seed TEXAS LONGHORNS 22-11, 11-7 Big 12 No. 4-seed MARYLAND TERRAPINS 25-6, 12-4 ACC

Tonight, 7 p.m. WHERE Comcast Center, College Park TV ESPN2 DATA The Terps own a 3-1 record all-time against Texas, but this is the programs’ first meeting since 1993. The Terps won the teams’ only postseason meeting in 1989, a 79-71 victory in Austin, Texas, to advance to the Final Four.

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obviously they rebound extremely hard,” Frese said. “So it’s going to take a tremendous team effort. Obviously, our bigs are going to be key as far as defending their bigs and the depth they have.”

In addition to containing the Longhorns’ inside presence, the Terps will look to continue their accurate shooting performance from their first-round matchup, in which they shot better than 53 percent from three-point range. With Texas clogging the paint, successful three-point shooting could help spread the

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Longhorns defense.

With the Longhorns stretched, the Terps could have an easier time driving to the hoop.

“They are big, but their big girl doesn’t really leave the paint. Our outside shooting isn’t going to have her come out,” guard Lexie Brown said.

“Our goal is pretty much to get Imani in foul trouble. But our three-ball is going to be so important because if they are worried about us, then we can get the ball inside and pound it in there and get her out of the game.”

For the Terps, it will be the last game at Comcast Center this year, which has motivated the upperclassmen to finish their home slate on a positive note.

“You just don’t want to get those emotions mixed up,” DeVaughn said. “You want to stay focused, and you want to win this game. You just can’t worry about that right now.”

But the main focus will be finding ways around the Longhorns’ size, so tonight’s matchup won’t be like past games this season. Even if the Terps can’t start their offense with early layups, finding ways to wear down Texas’ inside presence will be key.

“They are big,” Frese said.

“They are really big. They have tremendous size inside.

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A TEXAS-SIZED TASK No. 4-seed Terps will need superior inside play to take down No. 5-seed Texas tonight to advance to third straight Sweet 16

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer Before the Terrapins women’s basketball team’s sharpshooters took over during their first-round win over No. 13-seed Army in the NCAA tournament first round on Sunday, the team’s scoring started on the inside.

The Terps scored their first eight points in the paint, while their initial jump shots weren’t falling. Their reliable frontcourt, however, hasn’t faced a team with size like No. 5-seed Texas. During the No. 4-seed Terps’ matchup against the Longhorns in the round of 32 tonight, they’ll look to contain Texas’ size to take control of the matchup. “ T h ey a re a b i g , h u ge tea m compared to us,” center Alicia DeVaughn said. “We just can’t fall

mentally for that.”

The Longhorns have three players in their rotation who are 6-feet-4 or taller, with 6-foot-7 center Imani McGee-Stafford leading the frontcourt. Averaging 10.9 points and 7.4 rebounds this season, McGeeStafford had 20 points and 12 rebounds in the Longhorns’ firstround win over Penn.

With Texas’ size a significant part of its offense, coach Brenda Frese expects DeVaughn and center Brionna Jones — who are 6-feet-4 and 6-feet-3, respectively — to have more defensive responsibility than usual. Center Malina Howard, also listed at 6-feet-4, and 6-foot-2 forward Tierney Pfirman will be additional options for the Terps’ frontcourt rotation.

“They are extremely up-tempo and See LONGHORNS, Page 5 center malina howard will be one of the Terps counted on to provide an interior presence tonight when the team takes on No. 5-seed Texas. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

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