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Gov. O’Malley will speak at commencement Second-term governor, longtime friend of univ President Loh, set to come to campus May 22

By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer This May, Gov. Martin O’Malley will join the list of famous athletes, politicians, journalists and academics who have delivered the commencement address at this university.

The second-term governor will speak at graduation on May 22.

“The talented young men and women of the class of 2014 will propel our state and our nation forward, and I’m incredibly honored to participate in their commencement ceremonies,” O’Malley said in a university news release.

The commencement committee

sought a speaker who would be memorable and someone students would be excited to see, along with meeting the requirements of speaking for free and not repeating past speakers, said Amber Ferguson, the committee’s senior council student representative.

“We are graduating in a time of a lot of uncertainty: uncertainty with the economy, with employment, just uncertainty with a lot of different things,” said Ferguson, a senior See O’MALLEY, Page 2 gov. martin o’malley (right) traveled with university President Wallace Loh last year. photo courtesy of wallace loh

USM cuts preserved as budget progresses General Assembly keeps cost-cutting plans alive

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer

leonard moodispaw, KEYW Holding Corp. CEO, speaks beside undergraduate law programs director Robert Koulish at “Googling the NSA: Accountability in the Age of Big Data” last night. sung-min kim/the diamondback

‘We need to prevent abuses’ Panel discusses accountability, legality and future of government surveillance

By Jon Banister @J_Banister Staff writer Swiping a card, posting something online, driving past a traffic camera or making a phone call: these everyday activities create small pieces of data that are recorded and stored.

Actions of many U.S. citizens are retained in massive private company- or government-owned databases — what’s come to be known as big data.

The issues of big data and how those handling it can be held accountable when things go wrong was the topic of discussion at last

night’s panel at Stamp Student Union, “Googling the NSA: Accountability in the Age of Big Data.”

The event, hosted by undergraduate law programs director Robert Koulish and sponsored by the behavioral and social sciences college and the Francis King Carey law school at the University

of Maryland, Baltimore, featured four cybersecurity experts, with experience in government agencies, private companies and universities. The panelists spoke to a crowd of about 60 and discussed the implications of the National See NSA, Page 2

Title IX compliance director takes office Catherine Carroll first leader of new initiative

By Jon Banister @J_Banister Staff writer The university’s fi rst sexual misconduct and Title IX compliance director took office March 19, after months of planning.

University officials hired Catherine Carroll, who has more than 20 years of legal experience in areas of sexual and domestic violence, to lead a newly created office intended to improve education and response to cases of sexual misconduct.

“When we spoke to her references and so forth, what people told us is she’s a person who can hit the ground running,” said Cynthia Hale, head of the university’s sexual harassment task force. “She knows how to put an office together, how to set up systems and how to work within a very complicated environment.”

The office’s creation comes in response to recommendations from the University Senate’s Sexual Harassment Task Force, as well as the 2013 revitalization of the Violence Against Women Act, in which the federal government encouraged schools to create Title IX offices.

The aim of the office is to have a centralized place where students

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affected by sexual misconduct can take their cases and have them dealt with efficiently and judiciously.

“I want our responses to be informed,” Carroll said. “I want victims to feel supported — they need to feel supported — and I want accused to feel like they have due process rights, that they aren’t just getting short shrifted.”

Before, student cases involving sexual misconduct were dealt with through the Office of Student Conduct. But these cases require special attention, university President Wallace Loh said.

“We cannot lump together compla ints about d ru n ken student behavior with sexual harassment, but that’s what we’ve been doing,”

As the state budget moves through the approval process, deep cuts to University System of Maryland funding are a step closer to becoming a reality.

State analysts and both General Assembly chambers reviewed the budget, keeping in place budget cuts system officia ls hoped to see reduced. While Gov. Martin O’Malley’s original proposal included no additional university system funds compared to last year, the House Appropriations Committee recommended a $9.5 million cut to O’Malley’s proposed $1.2 billion allocation in its recommendations, released Monday.

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City Council votes to voice support for ‘fairness’ bill

By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer

Loh said. “That’s why we needed someone who’s a specialist — who’s worked in this area and actually dealt with survivors, people who are the defendants — and is a lawyer.”

To show continued interest in transgender legal protection, the College Park City Council voted to send a letter to the state House of Delegates voicing support for the Fairness for All Marylanders Act on March 18.

The civil rights bill, passed in the state Senate earlier this month, would ban discrimination against transgender people in employment, housing, businesses and public services. The City Council voted to protect transgender people in February, asking the city attorney to draft

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Doctor shares stories of treating poor in Ethiopia

By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Staff writer He planned to stay in Ethiopia for only a year as a relief worker, but American doctor Rick Hodes found a passion for helping the African country’s sick and underprivileged that has kept him there for more than 25 years.

Hodes stood before more than 120 students and spectators in the Cambridge Community Center last night, wearing a multicolored striped hat with tassels at its tip, handmade by one of his patients.

“If you speak in America, you must wear this hat,” Hodes remembered the patient telling him.

The doctor spoke to the crowd about his experience living and working in Ethiopia. Several university students in attendance said they were familiar with Hodes from their own travels to Ethiopia on alternative breaks and observing his work.

Zoe Klein, a senior psychology major, went to Ethiopia on an alternative winter break trip through the university’s Hillel, a Jewish student group, in January 2013 and this year with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, an international relief agency.

“His work changed my life,” Klein said. “And he changed how I saw my future. I definitely want to go into medicine in the global health field after seeing what he’s doing.”

Hodes is the JDC medical director in Ethiopia and provides treatment, primary care, immunization and family planning for people there. Patients flock to him for care, Klein said.

“H is waiting room was full,” Klein said. “He’d just take patient after patient after patient.”

Accompanied by photos, maps and statistics, Hodes discussed his background, patients’ stories and some medical history of the country.

Ethiopia’s life expectancy is 59

years — the life expectancy of the U.S. in 1929.

“My life changed because of this kid,” Hodes said as he showed a photo of Bewoket, a boy who suffered from congestive heart failure, malnourishment, an enlarged heart and hepatitis B. “If you have one of those t h i n gs, yo u h ave a go o d chance of dying,” Hodes said.

“If I was a betting person, I would not bet that this guy was going to live.”

Bewoket needed medication to get rid of excess fluid, but the drug was not readily available.

So Hodes drove out to find it, bought the syringes, alcohol and medication, and administered it to the child.

For a while, Hodes received constant phone calls regarding Bewoket’s condition, and eventually he decided it would be best to take the child into his own home.

The hepatitis B got worse.

“Something needed to be done, and I didn’t know what,” Hodes said.

RICK HODES, an American doctor living in Ethiopia, has cared for and helped sick people from the African country for more than 25 years. james levin/the diamondback After reading about a study that treated 32 patients with a new drug, Hodes thought the child might benefit from it, but it was a risk, he said.

“Every week, he looked better and stronger than the week before,” Hodes said. “He became OK, and it was amazing that we completely cured him.”

Sometimes, Hodes sends patients to other countries for treatments — Ghana for spinal traction to treat tuberculosis and India for heart surgery.

Hodes, who has also treated

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Security Agency’s mass surveillance practices and the controversy that followed when pr ivate cont ractor Edward Snowden revealed them in 2013.

Knowledge and information are a form of power, panelist and law professor James Grimmelmann said. Computers available today can give anyone the ability to generate their own power, he said, simply through harnessing big data.

“In particular, this power over others includes a power to invade privacy in ways people find quite terrifying,” Grimmelmann said. “Wherever you have these kinds of concentrated data power in private or public hands, it calls for oversight and concern that we need to prevent abuses of it.”

Grimmelmann and fellow panelists KEYW Holding Corp.

CEO Leonard Moodispaw, law professor Michael Greenberger, university criminology and criminal justice department Chairman James P. Lynch agreed the issue isn’t that the NSA is violating laws. Rather, they said, the legal system needs to update and to hold big data collection accountable.

“While we may not like the practices,” Moodispaw said, “I can argue till the cows come home that they haven’t broken any laws.”

Greenberger said President Obama has the power

history major. “O’Malley gives us a sense of promise and a real sense of leadership, and I feel like that’s what we need right now to hear.”

O’Malley has garnered public attention for considering a 2016 bid for president, and Ferguson said seeking a higher office would make him a more memorable speaker but did not influence the committee’s choice. But some students, such as senior Mellownie Ho, said they were disappointed that the university did not select a more nationally recognizable figure.

“If it was a co-founder of Google or something, I’d definitely go [to commencement]. Nobody is going to YouTube our commencement speech and be like, ‘Whoa, O’Malley,’” said Ho, an English major. “He’s just not going to leave that big of an impact.”

During the past eight years, O’Malley has worked to keep college tuition afford able, i mplemented stricter gun laws, signed same-sex marriage into law, passed the state DREAM Act and increased funding to University System of Maryland institutions.

The laws O’Malley passes in Annapolis directly affect students and residents in College Park, said senior Farhan Shah, which makes

ROBERT KOULISH (left), James Grimmelmann (right) and other panelists discuss how big data should be handled at last night’s event in Stamp Student Union. sung-min kim/the diamondback to unilaterally reform NSA procedures but has been slow to act. T his week, Obama proposed an end to the NSA’s mass phone data collections, to be replaced with a system of individual orders to monitor terrorism-linked numbers.

“What worries me is that [Obama] is asking that the present program be authorized. Why does it need to be authorized if it’s legal?”

Greenberger said. “I worry that what we’re going to end up with is the present program clearly being legal and we’ll never get the reform.”

Lynch, who also served in the Obama administration as the Bureau of Justice Statistics director, expressed a different concern: The ability to do research, as big databases can be an important tool for academic and scientific study.

“What I’m afraid of is that the group that wants to research you, as opposed to the group that wants to identify you and rip you off, are going to

be subject to the same kinds of concerns about confidentiality and other things,” Lynch said.

Panelists also weighed in on Snowden’s actions and how he was able to get so much information from the NSA. Greenberger bla med Snowden’s company, Booz Allen Hamilton, saying it gave him top security clearance without doing a thorough investigation into his background, which would have revealed red flags from the CIA about Snowden’s having an agenda.

“His series of whistle-blowing revelations are only possible because of insufficient oversight,” Grimmelmann said, noting that Snowden was able to trick other contractors into logging in so he could gain access to a vast amount of information. “That wouldn’t happen in a world where big data users at the agency were being sufficiently surveilled themselves.” jbanisterdbk@gmail.com

counting major, attended the event, and although Hodes’ work doesn’t relate directly with his field of study, he said it’s still relevant.

“It doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from, he’s going to hit home somewhere,” Pulitzer said.

On the alternative break trip to Ethiopia in January, Pulitzer saw Hodes in action.

“I spent my Friday night Shabbat dinner with him,” Pulitzer said. “Everyone knows: His house, Friday night, is the place to be.”

Upon her return from her first trip to Ethiopia, Klein created JDCU, a campus initiative supporting the JDC. For several months, the group worked with Elisabeth Maring, the College Park Scholars Global Public Health director, to have Hodes speak at this university.

JDCU and Global Public Health Scholars have been raising money to help fund a surgery and continued to collect money at the event.

“Really, he’s trying to get his name out there to get people to support his work so he can save more lives,” Klein said.

patients with a variety of ca n ce rs, ra i se s f u n d s to support surgeries and procedures. He’s fostered 17 children and put them on his own health insurance plan to get them the help they need.

“Every single patient, I say to them, ‘What’s your dream, what do you want to be when you grow up?’” Hodes said.

Hodes closed his lecture with a question-and-answer session, discussing his typical workdays and his family.

Miles Pulitzer, a junior ac- eserpicodbk@gmail.com

O’Malley an appropriate commencement speaker.

“I respect that we have our governor taking the time to actually talk to the students of the flagship university,” the biology major said. “If someone is giving decisions from so far away that affect you personally and so practically, you want to hear him come up and talk about it in person, not from some ivory tower.”

After spending time with O’Malley on foreign trips and collaborating with him on higher education initiatives, university President Wallace Loh said he thinks students will be able to learn from O’Malley’s speech.

“He has helped our students,” Loh said in a news release, “and they want him to share his vision, insight and leadership as they start a new chapter.”

But senior marketing and psycholog y m ajor Da sh a Bukreyeva was hoping for a speaker with greater recognition outside of this state.

“If we were to tell people after graduating who our c o m m e n c e m e nt s p e a k e r was, I think people growing up outside of Ma ryla nd would have no idea who he was,” Bukreyeva said. “He’s a household name, but he’s not a celebrity.”

When O’Malley was running for re-election in 2010, senior Hannah Ashenafi met him while her brother worked on his campaign. She said she’s looking forward to seeing him

again at graduation.

“I’m sure he’ll be really motivational,” the chemical engineering major said.

“Just generally being proud of Maryland, and he’s accomplished a lot as governor, and he’s really supportive of education at the university.”

Sen ior accou nt i ng a nd finance major Kevin Chen said it makes sense for the governor to speak to the graduating class. But students might expect a certain flair to accompany a keynote speaker at a large university such as this one, he said.

“It’s just the lack of sexiness in terms of we all hear about all the commencement speakers that are big like Steve Jobs [or] if Lady Gaga came. Just very superficial,” Chen said. “We all kind of expect somebody who has a certain amount of star power and appeal to come and speak.”

But a speaker with more name recognition might not necessarily have as big of an impact on the graduating class, Shah said.

“It’s awesome that [some speakers are] Nobel Prize winners, but we don’t know you; we don’t k now why you’re meaningful to us,” Shah said. “So O’Malley is a nice realistic candidate to hear from.”

Senior staff writer Yasmeen Abutaleb contributed to this report. esilvermandbk@gmail.com

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U of Baltimore to pay senior tuition for 4-year graduates School seeks to solve low student attainment rates

By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer patrick wojahn, District 1 Councilman, listens to debate at a Feb. 25 City Council meeting. Wojahn voted in favor of supporting the Fairness for All Marylanders Act, a state bill that aims to protect transgender state residents from discrimination. james levin/the diamondback

FAIRNESS From PAGE 1 a Humans Rights Ordinance that included three separate protection bills.

“Given our efforts to pass a nondiscrimination ordinance in the city, I think it would have a much greater impact if the entire state of Maryland prohibited discrimination based on gender identity,” District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn said. “Given the hardships that people who are transgender face in College Park and all around the state, I thought it was important that the city take a position on that.”

The council voted 7-1 to send the letter. District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir, who voted against the letter, said he supports prohibiting discrimination in terms of housing and employment, but he was concerned with the possible misuse of certain gender-neutral public places such as bathrooms and locker rooms that could come as the result of the bill’s passage.

“I really like all of the things in it, for example in terms of housi ng, employ ment, i f someone wants to work or has the capability or qualifications to do the job he or she should be given that opportunity,” Kabir said “But [the public

accommodations] part of the bill, that is controversial.”

D i st r ict 3 Cou nci l m a n Robert Day said he does not fi nd merit in those concerns.

“That part of the argument is so small and so minute to what the real argument is.

For people to pick at something like that to try and fi nd a way of bringing this down is kind of telling,” Day said.

“That shouldn’t be the issue.

The issue should be fairness, treating all [people] the same.”

Avery Dame, a women’s studies graduate student, said this act would alleviate apprehension by ensuring transgender people like him would be protected from any unfair discrimination.

“I had a d ispute w ith a neighbor. Well, my concern wa s t h at i f my nei g hb or found out I was trans, then they could go to the apartment complex and be like, ‘I’m uncomfortable with this person, they need to leave,’” Dame said.

Any legislation that promotes equality is necessary for the city community, Day said.

“Discrimination, there’s no point,” Day said. “We need to treat human beings as human beings and move forward and build our community into a better place.”

As the home of the state’s flagship university, Wojahn said, the city should demon-

strate “inclusiveness and make a stand in support of fairness for everyone.”

“The University of Maryland is doing great things in terms of gender-neutral housing,” Wojahn said.

“I’m really interested in taking a stance in support of fairness for the transgender community.”

This university values and hopes to promote fairness for all its students, said Kumea Shorter-Gooden, the university’s chief diversity officer and associate vice president.

“If College Park can be a leader in the state and even beyond in advocating for and supporting the full rights of transgender people or of anyone whose gender identity and expression does not fit the traditional norm … I think it’s a very positive step,” Shorter-Gooden said.

With the city’s support, Dame said he hopes the act will pass.

“T hese sort of acts … provide safety for many different kinds of trans people or people who are gender nonconforming,” Dame said. “[The letter] will reflect the general attitude of the College Park community that they are in support of the passage of the act.” esilvermandbk@gmail.com

Higher education institutions across the nation — including those affiliated with the University System of Maryland — face student debt and faltering four-year graduation rates. The University of Baltimore aims to address those problems with a new incentive program, Finish4Free, which will be the first of its kind in the country.

Starting with freshmen entering in the fall, University of Baltimore students who graduate in four years will receive free tuition for their final semester — saving in-state students about $3,300 and out-of-state students $9,000.

“We’d like to make it available as an incentive and motivating factor to finish in four years,” said Peter Toran, University of Baltimore advancement and communications vice president.

The university’s four-year graduation rate for first-time freshmen who go to the university full-time is 8 percent, the second lowest rate in the university system, according to The Baltimore Sun. Many of the current 583student freshman class are first-generation, economically

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challenged students who must juggle job responsibilities while in school, Toran said, making it hard for many to earn a degree on time. And taking additional time to graduate can have a spiraling effect on a person’s future, he added.

“When you start your professional life $30,000 in debt, which is now the average, it limits the type of work you can do,” Toran said. “It delays people’s decisions on when to start a family or buy a house. It limits your earning capability.”

Additionally, if students put off getting their degree, they raise their risk of not graduating at all, Toran said.

“We talk a lot about the debt students have when they graduate — what about the debt students have and they never even get their degree?” he said.

As part of the university system, the University of Baltimore receives state financial aid funding, which will help pay for the program. And any time there is a tuition hike, some of the additional revenue will go toward student scholarships.

Realistically, not all students will graduate in four years and make use of the program, Toran said. However, finding a way to fund every student’s final semester is “a problem we would love to solve,” he said.

Not only will this program help students complete and afford a degree, Toran said, but it will positively influence

University of Baltimore, as shorter graduation times lessen the strain on school resources.

The university system will monitor how well the initiative works at the school, but system spokesman Mike Lurie wrote in an email that it is too early to predict whether the initiative will spread to other system campuses.

“Each campus has different challenges and constituencies for which a variety of programs would be suitable,” he wrote.

This university isn’t likely to follow suit, Lurie said. It has a 63 percent four-year graduation rate, according to U.S. News & World Report.

“It would be a great incentive at Maryland, but I don’t know if it would work the same way,” said Carrie Hildebrandt, a senior Arabic studies major. “It would be a much bigger financial burden on this university because we’d have to pay a lot more people than they would, but it would be helpful.”

But Toran said the ultimate success would be for Finish4Free to became a model for other universities to follow.

“I’m sure there are creative ways for all universities in the system to address the major issues of student debt and time to degree,” he said. “Even if it’s not this exact program, we can all find ways to incentivize students in a similar way.” trichmandbk@gmail.com

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The office also plans to drastically increase the amount of education students and faculty receive regarding sexual misconduct.

Carroll said she plans to implement online education courses so students have a better understanding of what constitutes sexual misconduct.

She also said she wants students to know there is a place they can easily report their cases.

“The overarching goal is to really get the word out that the office exists and that people should come to us to report anything that they want to report,” Carroll said.

BUDGET From PAGE 1 The legislative services department previously recommended a $7.6 million cut and the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee proposed a $10 million cut.

In addition to those cuts, both chambers of the General Assembly proposed the university system transfer money from its fund balance, which is essentially the system’s savings account, to cover costs. Senate officials recommended $30.8 million and House officials suggested a $31 million transfer. The system proposed the idea of a transfer early in the budget approval process, as it was bracing for much bigger cuts and system Chancellor Brit Kirwan feared a larger cut would threaten a spate of key initiatives introduced last year.

“It protects us from having a budget that would not be able to pay for all of the needs that we have,” said Joe Vivona, the university system’s vice chancellor for administration and finance.

However, “they still need to cut the budget beyond that,” Vivona said.

The transfers are contentious among system officials.

When Kirwan fi rst heard the idea in February, he expressed concern that the system was offering its own money to cover the state’s funding problems but was still being asked

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University president Carroll applauded the university for taking the issue seriously and using a proactive approach instead of waiting to respond to a potential scandal or lawsuit.

This played a role in her decision to take the new position, she said.

Loh said that in his four years at this university, he has realized sexual misconduct training is not as prevalent as it is at other schools.

“Everyone’s starting to do this,” Loh said. “The time to act is now, not wait until you have a major situation.”

The office is interviewing can-

didates for a sexual misconduct investigator, and Carroll also plans to appoint deputy coordinators and an advisory board to help her handle what she expects will be a large caseload.

“I want to achieve an environment at the University of Maryland where people know that sexual misconduct is misconduct,” Carroll said. “You raise consciousness [so] that they know where to get assistance and services and that over time it becomes less and less.”

to take cuts.

Fortunately for students wary of tuition increases, both proposed budgets specified that the cuts should not impact money already earmarked to keep tuition increases capped at 3 percent, consistent with the past five years.

The next step in the process is for conference committees to convene, look at the budget and the recommendations and settle on a fi nal bill to be presented and voted on by both chambers. The state is constitutionally obligated to pass the bill by March 31 this year, though legislators have missed their deadline in the past. Two years ago, O’Malley had to call for a special session.

Robert Platky, the university’s budget and fiscal analysis director, said it’s too early to know how the cuts will affect the university, which was originally set to receive a $30 million increase in funding.

“Our concern is making sure that we understand the totality of the thing when we’re looking at it,” Platky said. “We haven’t seen the whites of the eyes of the budget yet. It’s still on its way coming toward us.”

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$9.5 million cuts to USM funding recommended by the House Appropriations Committee

$7.6 million cuts to USM funding recommended by the state legislative services department

$10 million cuts to USM funding recommended by the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee final bill, as the committees crafting it can choose to take or reject the recommendations. And the specific items within the system budget taking cuts are not yet clear — it’s possible they won’t affect this university at all.

“Its really hard to make a decision just looking at, say, the $10 million number, because you just don’t know what else is going to impact [the budget],” Platky said.

“It boils down to these little provisions that sometimes aren’t so little to see the light of day.” jbachdbk@gmail.com

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Appreciate unique opinions, don’t dismiss them

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aced with a ubiquitous mix of alcohol-fueled parties and recreational drugs on campuses across the nation, college students who have adopted substance-free lifestyles often can feel out of place.

This university’s Wonderful Awesome Students That Evade Drinking group aims to provide these students with a community of like-minded individuals. WASTED — “where the Terps who don’t drink alcohol [come] to party,” according to the organization’s Facebook page — have lobbied the Residence Hall Association this semester for a substance-free university housing option.

Students likely have heard college drinking and drug use statistics — ranging from sobering to alarmist in nature — bandied about since middle school, but even the bare-bones facts suffice in highlighting the prevalence of drugs and alcohol on and around college campuses.

About 4 in 5 students drink alcohol and about half of those students binge drink, or consume four to five drinks within two hours, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Compound that with drug use — about 21 percent of college-age adults used illicit drugs in 2012, according to a Department of Health and Human Services survey — and it’s clear why students who lead substance-free lifestyles might feel uncomfortable or like they are part of a minority on college campuses.

In the past, this university has demonstrated its commitment to providing housing options that meet students’ needs and living preferences.

Prince Frederick Hall, set to open for the fall semester, will offer genderneutral housing for LGBT students.

The university long has offered singlegender housing, and the JiménezPorter Writers’ and Language houses provide housing options tailored to students’ academic studies.

OUR VIEW

WASTED’s call for a substance-free housing option is legitimate and should be considered.

Though WASTED is not a livinglearning community and teetotaling students admittedly do not fall into the same category of traditionally marginalized minorities as LGBT individuals, the RHA nonetheless should not write off group members’ living preferences.

Some WASTED members have struggled with addiction, group members said, and others have expressed interest in substance-free housing because of religious beliefs, among other reasons. Such a housing opportunity could help these students combat peer pressure and express solidarity in an environment where drinking and drug use are otherwise commonplace.

In the Big Ten, which this university is scheduled to join in July, eight of the conference’s 12 schools have substance-free housing options. University President Wallace Loh and other

administrators have cited desires to match Big Ten schools in other facets of higher education, and this move would allow the university to keep its housing on par with its soon-to-be conference peers.

WASTED’s greatest obstacle to overcome, it seems, lies in its relatively small size. About 70 group members have shown interest in substance-free housing, said Alex Stoller, RHA Resident Life Advisory Team chairwoman.

In contrast, Prince Frederick Hall will add about 460 beds to the campus, and the Department of Resident Life expects to fill all of those spots.

RHA senators cited concerns over the number of students potentially interested in substance-free housing, and with housing space at a premium on the campus and WASTED’s membership at fewer than 100 students, those qualms are viable. Rather than simply dispel the group’s proposal, however, Resident Life officials should consider the feasibility of offering substance-free housing on one or more dorm floors, just as it has done with mixed-gender housing in the past.

This university’s efforts to provide students with living spaces where they can feel comfortable has been admirable so far, but WASTED’s call for substance-free housing highlights the truth that groups remain on the campus whose lifestyle preferences have yet to be addressed. Careful Resident Life and RHA consideration of resident needs — regardless of perceived importance or number of those affected — can continue to work toward giving students living spaces where they truly feel at home.

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LAUREN NURSE

brings to light the larger issue that intolerance and hostility run both ways.

As educated citizens, we have the right to absorb media and make intelligent decisions about how it will affect our lives. If you found the column offensive, good for you. Continue to strive to create a culture in which men don’t simply see women as objects to lust after. But to turn disagreement over a differing stance into threats and lowlevel name-calling reflects poorly on opponents more so than the author.

I, for one, am glad to see students are both reading the newspaper (an increasing rarity in today’s age) and becoming engaged in discourse by writing responses and commenting online. Social issues are enormously complex and require dialogue from a variety of individuals to come up with a resolution. The same small-mindedness that leads to social injustice cannot also be used in attempting to solve it. The fact that most students disagreed with the column was a personal comfort to me, as it showed our generation is capable of creating a more tolerant and equitable world. But in our fervent attempts to do so, we cannot squash challengers as the tides of majority and minority opinion shift.

Writers covering campus or community issues surely should continue to report through an unbiased lens.

However, The Diamondback should also continue to publish opinion columns that represent the diversity of beliefs and student backgrounds that constitute the student body here at this university. I encourage readers to read, think critically and get angry. It’s important to feel passionate about issues you feel are unjust. Being tolerant of others’ opinions does not mean we cannot continue pushing forward an agenda that upholds what we believe to be the most just.

Recently, another opinion piece penned by a fellow Diamondback columnist, Tiffany Burba, once again made impressive rounds on social media, garnering thousands of views and angry comments on Facebook and Twitter.

Readers attacked not just the ideas it expressed, but also the writer herself and the integrity of The Diamondback as a whole.

Such an overwhelming response to a change in the usual liberal humdrum of college newspapers was disappointing.

This university calls itself the proud home of more than 30,000 students. University President Wallace Loh calls diversity a “core value” of the Terrapins experience, and multiple campus programs are dedicated to this lofty ideal.

I am proud The Diamondback also has committed to this initiative by publishing controversial op-eds that could cause backlash or contradict the personal views of the editors. This does not detract from the integrity of our campus newspaper but rather adds to it.

As editor in chief Mike King appropriately put it in his weekly column, the editing process is designed to ensure all columns are “grammatically correct, defensible and factually correct.”

As a long-standing independent student newspaper, The Diamondback reaches a large audience of students, faculty and community members. I wouldn’t want to imagine an instance in which editors were screening “news” and “opinions” because of personal conflicts of interest.

The backlash over “How women L a u re n N u rs e i s a s o p h o m o re should take compliments,” which government and politics major. She can Burba wrote for the March 11 issue, be reached at lnursedbk@gmail.com.

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We need more guidance to help others KEVIN HOGAN Two years ago, a friend of mine and student at this university confided in me about his thoughts of suicide. I was extremely concerned, and I had no idea how I was supposed to handle the situation. My mind was flooded with questions. Was I supposed to tell somebody, even though his thoughts were somewhat vague and my friend didn’t want me to say anything? If I decided to tell somebody, whom would I talk to first? And in the meantime, how could I show my friend that his life is valuable?

My first step was to call the Help Center hotline for guidance. The representative I spoke with did her best to help but was unable to provide me with a clear course of action. Because my friend’s life was not in immediate danger, which would have warranted a call to police, she told me just to continue talking to him and trying to give him hope. I did this for some time, and I felt like my friend’s life was in my hands.

Soon, the suicidal thoughts

became more specific and more severe. One day, my friend told me how he planned to take his life, and I knew I had to do something. I had heard this university’s Counseling Center offered walk-in appointments in cases of emergency. I decided to take advantage of this resource so I could speak with a mental health professional about how to proceed.

After speaking with a receptionist in the Shoemaker Building about my situation, I was instructed to take an electronic survey then wait until somebody could meet with me.

I spent about a half-hour answering questions about whether I was depressed or had thoughts of suicide and another half-hour sitting in the waiting room. Once I was finally in the room with a counselor, I was able to explain the entire situation and ask for help.

Fortunately, the Counseling Center was able to take over the reins of the situation and helped avert a potential crisis. Nevertheless, I was somewhat disappointed in how difficult it was for me to find the right help on the campus.

The Help Center website lists plenty of resources students can

use to help navigate difficult situations. Two years ago, I didn’t know the best way to use these resources, and today, I still don’t. The website includes a brief bulleted list with tips on how to respond to a crisis, but I think the university community would benefit more from a detailed flowchart describing what to do and whom to call in a variety of scenarios.

I suspect many students have felt concern for a peer and have been confused about what, if anything, they should do to help. As friends, roommates and classmates, we are the first line of defense when it comes to assisting a student in need. It is crucial that students have the best assistance when helping a fellow student.

This university is clearly committed to creating a safe and healthy environment for all students, faculty and staff. Hopefully, sharing my experience with a mental health emergency can provide some insight into how this commitment could be strengthened.

Kevin Hogan is a senior computer engineering major. He can be reached at khogandbk@gmail.com.

Whether you watch the news every day or not, you undoubtedly know about the situation concerning the missing Malaysia Airlines flight. For those of us who frequent more than one form of news media, it seems we cannot go one day without hearing about it.

But what is the content of these updates? For the first week, we were told the plane was lost and there was no evidence. Weeks two and three have consisted of radar signals and debris — not necessarily relevant debris, but sea scraps all the same.

J u d g i n g b y t h e d ra m a t i c rhetoric, the conspiracy theories and the amount of air time and column inches given to this event, I am more than confident that sea trash will win a Pulitzer Prize this year. And that is hugely problematic.

Just so it is clear to readers, the revolution in Syria has not stopped, the Egyptian government is still unstable and the Affordable Care Act is still undergoing growing pains, website updates and untold success stories. The sun has not stopped in the sky for the sake of this airplane, yet any uninformed outsider who happened to turn on the news in the past three weeks would think it so.

Certainly, we’ve seen this kind of coverage before. The news cycle during similarly tragic events such as the Boston Marathon bombing or the Navy Yard shooting was equally dominant (if not more so).

The difference here is that information about the bombing and the shooting came fast and furious. Among the police press

conferences, security tape analyses, amateur journalism and the speed of social media, we had a pretty good picture of things by the end of one week. With this airplane, however, we have sat in the dark room of uncertainty for more than two weeks, and we just cannot seem to stop talking about how little we know.

A s a n a n c i e n t h i s to r i a n , by definition someone who studies obscure, confusing events for long periods of time, I find this journalistic development highly disappointing. When pressed to think of a reason for the intense focus, I can see only ratings as the motive.

It is not as though there is nothing to report in the world, but people love a mystery, so they tune in to hear more about nothing.

The process of research and reporting has been honed over thousands of years and has undergone a veritable evolution in media over that time to become faster, more efficient and sometimes more factual.

To ignore these entire generations of development and innovation in a ploy to boost ratings approaches the criminal development of the History Channel or TLC into reality show hellscapes where any educational programming is long dead on the cutting room floor.

I do not condone ignoring clearly tragic and confusing news. But, as epistemologically unsound as this might be, the news should reflect new things, or at the very least, new developments. The news media is supposed to be our window into the world around us, condensing information and stories to keep us honest and educated. Anything less than the bare minimum of the “new” should not be accepted.

E r i k S h e l l i s a j u n i o r c l a ss i cal languages and literatures and history major. He can be reached at eshelldbk@gmail.com.

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how to remember a legend Honoring the recent release of Jimi: All Is by My Side, a biopic depicting guitarist Jimi Hendrix, we discuss the keys to successful biopics and list the best ones

By Brianna Patterson @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback Lead actors in biopics have particularly big roles to fill as lead actors go. They are not simply playing a character but embodying the essence of a historical figure whom many have come to love in real life. Because it’s an arduous task, becoming another person who really existed and replicating their impact on screen, finding the right actor for a biopic can make or break a movie.

When biopic Jimi: All Is by My Side was announced, excitement was running high — not only would the film honor ’60s guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, but it also cast Outkast’s André 3000 in the leading role. Waves of approval rippled across the Internet, simply because of the two artists’ uncanny resemblance.

But appearance is just the starting point for biopics: The actor must embody the person in his or her being, demeanor and practices. Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in the autobiographical film Ray and Joaquin Phoenix’s Johnny Cash in Walk the Line are prime examples of how legends are supposed to be personified. André 3000 — also known as André Benjamin — shares much more than physical similarities with the rock legend. Both are creative geniuses who have pushed boundaries and redefined limits in their respective genres.

As one half of the legendary hip-hop

duo Outkast, André 3000 — along with his counterpart, Big Boi — is a force in the music world. He is known for his flamboyant presence as an artist and his tendency to introduce unconventional topics into his music. From his style of dress — dapper yet eccentric apparel — to his offbeat delivery and conceptualization, his unorthodox approach to hip-hop is what made Outkast, and André himself, rise to stardom.

Hendrix also possessed that raw talent and packaged it with his flashy, unpredictable stage presence and personal style. With his afro and attire, whimsical even for the ’60s, his rise to fame came with the development of his unique persona.

Both men’s idiosyncrasies set their music apart from their contemporaries’ and developed niche fan bases that span generations and have deemed them classics within their genres.

Eccentricity can make it hard to reach success in such formulaic industries. But André 3000 and Hendrix achieved prosperity by being so different.

Despite mixed reviews of the film, which premiered at South By Southwest on March 12, André 3000 as Hendrix provides a solid portrayal that represents more than the similarities of their hair and lanky frames. One musical magnate portraying a legend is a fitting way to pay homage to greatness. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

By Michael Errigo @DBKDiversions Staff writer The biopic is a delicate type of movie. Playing another person is possibly the biggest risk an actor or actress can take because imitation adds a new level to storytelling. But if the lead nails his or her performance, what happens next is truly a work of art. Here are 10 biopics that found such favorable results: 1. The Social Network (2010) — Sure, the movie is more of a biopic of Facebook than its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, but the quality of David Fincher’s film earns it a spot near the top of every list for which it could possibly qualify.

Aaron Sorkin’s superb script in combination with Jesse Eisenberg’s outstanding portrayal of Zuckerberg and a strong supporting cast makes for the movie of this generation.

2. Goodfellas (1990) — Goodfellas is a master work from a master craftsman. Martin Scorsese has made a career of creating phenomenal biopics, continuing the trend this year with The Wolf of Wall Street. But this gangster epic about the rise of Henry Hill stands alone as his best. Ray Liotta turns in the highlight of his career as Hill, but Scorsese regulars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci push this movie into the Godfather echelon.

3. Capote (2005) — Philip Seymour Hoffman looked nothing like Truman Capote. One was a big man with a large belly, the other a small man with a large mouth. Yet, in his Oscar-winning

performance as the notorious writer of In Cold Blood, Hoffman becomes Capote. There is no other way to put it. His performance is devastatingly accurate, allowing the audience to sense that the pain resting behind Capote’s larger-than-life persona might not be an act. That type of trauma, hidden beneath the surface of a public image, cannot be faked.

4. The Aviator (2004) — The best biopics can be loved by a crowd that might not be entirely sure who the film’s subject is. This is the case here, as The Aviator focuses on early American business mogul, filmmaker and pilot Howard Hughes, who died in 1976. Another Scorsese film, The Aviator didn’t get the reception it had hoped for upon its release, dismissed as Oscar bait for leading man Leonardo DiCaprio. This unfair assessment disregards what may be DiCaprio’s best performance to date and some of Scorsese’s strongest work.

The Aviator may never shake its reputation as a disappointment, but it deserves to.

5. Raging Bull (1980) — This Scorsese business may be getting a bit repetitive, but not having the ultimate De Niro performance on this list would be a joke. The two pals got together in 1980 to tell the story of boxer Jake La Motta and created what is arguably the best sports movie ever. De Niro put on 60 pounds over the course of filming to play an old, retired La Motta. That’s acting.

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WILLIAMS From PAGE 8 dripping with sweat.

“Just his competitive nature was bar none,” Gilchrist said.

“Playing for him, you had to have that fire.”

Gilchrist also noticed students and fans of the team looking up to Williams. And Williams credits the community with helping him achieve the success that propelled him into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

“I hope they feel like a part of it,” Williams said. “When you come in, you preach to your team that you’re part of the school, you’re part of the university. There’s some people there who really helped me over my 22 years. I think they know who they are, and I really appreciated that support.”

The ultra-competitive coach who brought a program in shambles back into the national spotlight will be inducted along with the other hall of fame honorees — a group that in-

Former Coach GARY WILLIAMS (left, with Athletic Director Kevin Anderson in October) will be inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. file photo/the diamondback cludes Duke’s Grant Hill and LSU’s Shaquille O’Neal — in a ceremony in Kansas City,Mo.,on Nov. 23, one day before the start of the College Basketball Experience tournament, which the Terps will participate in this year.

It’s a day Williams is excited about. Gilchrist is looking forward to seeing his college coach recognized with a prestigious honor, too, even if he

believes the moment should have come a lot sooner.

“I know that’s something that’s special to him,” Gilchrist said.“Everyone likes to have that staple, to be appreciated for all that hard work. He put that program on the map, and he definitely had a top-notch program.

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patriots From PAGE 8 said. “That’s always our objective, to get on the board first and kind of set the tone early.”

When the Terps scored early runs, it allowed the pitching staff to relax and pitch aggressively against a Wolfpack lineup that boasted the ACC’s leading hitter, third baseman Andrew Knizner, who entered the weekend batting .448, and shortstop Trea Turner, a projected first-round pick in June’s MLB draft.

The Terps pitchers stymied N.C. State. Stinnett’s 14 strikeouts in eight shutout innings Friday night, which earned him ACC Pitcher of the Week honors, highlighted the weekend, but right-hander Mike Shawaryn followed a day later with seven innings of one-run ball.

On Sunday, left-hander Tayler Stiles and right-hander Bobby Ruse combined to allow one run on six hits and one walk in 6.2 innings.

“Pitchers, I know, talking to all them, they love pitching with a lead,” Papio said.

“Their confidence goes up, and they can just go out and pound the zone, just throw strikes and that makes it a lot easier. It speeds the game up.”

It was a sharp contrast to some of the Terps’ defeats earlier this season, in which they couldn’t make up early deficits. The Terps had trouble manufacturing runs during Stinnett’s starts, in particular, when they faced the opposing team’s top pitcher. In Stinnett’s three losses this season, the Terps were outscored 26-3.

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with a lead. In Sunday’s win, Szefc lifted Stiles for Ruse one batter into the fourth inning, and the Terps bullpen allowed one run the rest of the way, which came on a solo home run by Turner off right-hander Kevin Mooney in the ninth.

But because the Terps had built an early lead, Szefc said, that homer was “inconsequential.”

Three weekends into ACC play, the Terps already have their first sweep of a conference opponent since 2009 and a winning record. With plenty of tough opponents remaining on the schedule, including No. 20 Clemson this weekend, those early runs could pay off in the push for the postseason.

“It’s a small thing,” Szefc said. “But it’s getting off on the right foot.” dgallendbk@gmail.com

matchup against No. 1-seed Tennessee in Louisville, Ky. Thomas led the way yet again, scoring 16 points and grabbing 11 rebounds.

“That was just a heck of a game,” coach Brenda Frese said.

“Neither team deserved to lose that game.”

With a plus-12.2 reboundi n g m a rg i n e n te r i n g t h e matchup, the Terps (26-6) capitalized on their usual height advantage this season.

But they had a tougher challenge in the post against a Longhorns team with three players 6-foot-4 or taller.

Despite the daunting task, the Terps still outrebounded Texas (22-12), 42-33.

The biggest two rebounds came in the final seconds.

Guard Laurin Mincy snagged a loose ball after Texas guard Chassidy Fussell missed a goahead 3-pointer. After Mincy hit two free throws, Thomas grabbed the ball over several outstretched hands for one of the most important of her 1,203 career rebounds.

Longhorns center Imani McGee-Stafford fouled Thomas with eight seconds left, and the three-time ACC Player of the Year let out a loud roar as she stomped toward the freethrow line.

“It was just a great team effort there,” Thomas said. “We knew we needed a stop, and I was able to secure the rebound.

But that was just like a moment of relief to know that we had this one in the bag.”

The Terps struggled to

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score on the inside against the Longhorns’ zone defense in the opening minutes, with their big frontcourt altering layups and blocking paths to the hoop.

Thomas was 0-of-5 from the field and got subbed out after roughly seven minutes. But Texas couldn’t turn its defense into offense and committed two early traveling violations to squander offensive possessions.

While Thomas struggled, Mincy led the offense with eight points in her first five minutes off the bench. Center Malina Howard was another reliable offensive force off the bench and scored seven points in the opening half.

“Some of my teammates had the hot hand — why not keep going to them?” Thomas said. “So I knew I just had to be patient and wait for my opportunity.”

The Terps and Longhorns struggled with tough looks, but when one team went on a run, the other eventually responded. Center Alicia DeVaughn’s two straight layups over the 6-foot-7 McGeeStafford made it 20-15. After a Longhorns timeout, the visitors went on a 13-2 run in five minutes, nine seconds to take a 28-22 lead. The Terps tied it at 31 entering halftime with a basket with five seconds left.

Thomas began to make her mark in the second half. After an and-1 layup, she spun past guard Brady Sanders and finished at the rim to make it 44-38, causing the Terps’ bench and the crowd to erupt in cheers. Thomas scored all 16 of her points in the half, and her early rush helped the team open a 55-44 lead with 9:24 left.

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Texas stuck around. After trailing by 10, the Longhorns hit three straight 3-pointers, and then McGee-Stafford scored to make it a one-point game.

“The girls are huge compared to us,” DeVaughn said.

“You just can’t go mental with it. You just got to be stronger.

You got to feel like you’re bigger than them when you’re out there battling with bigger girls.

You just got to fight, fight until the end.”

B u t Tex a s m i s s e d two 3-pointers to take the lead and tie the contest, respectively, in the final minute.

Fittingly, Thomas grabbed the game’s final rebound and scored the final two points at the free-throw line to seal the victory and help the Terps book a trip to Louisville. And while Thomas led the team in scoring, five other teamm a te s h a d a t l ea s t e i g h t points. Those contributions, Thomas said, will make this postseason run different from the Terps’ past two.

“This is the most depth that we’ve had I think in the four years I’ve been here,” Thomas said. “Just the energy and we’re willing to fight for each other.

It’s definitely different from the four years I’ve been here, and it’s going to be a special ride.”

The Terps share the same goal as Thomas: They want to have another banner to hang by the end of the season.

“Like I told them in the locker room, we’re not finished,” Frese said. “We’re excited to be able to go, and we’re going to go make a run for the roses.” ppierrelouisdbk@gmail.com

performance, Sheptock’s run to the NCAA final two weeks later provided a steady buzz around the team.

In the months leading up to the tournament, Sheptock refused to be sentimental about the end of his storied career. Once the match was finally over, he did.

“I was walking back up the stands to watch the rest of the matches,” Sheptock said. “And I was saying in my mind, ‘I guess that’s all she wrote.’”

It marked the end of an era for the Terps. For the past three seasons, Sheptock and Boley have carried the team through the positive and negative. The duo will take five individual ACC titles with them, leaving a significant void for McCoy to fill.

The seniors yearned to close out their college careers with one last conference championship, but the lack of consistency up and down the Terps lineup thwarted that dream.

“Those guys were all in for the last couple years,” McCoy said. “If other guys had that attitude, they just have that trust and faith in what we’re trying to do as a staff, good things will happen.”

to resemble a different team in February. With postseason play looming in March, the Terps reeled off four straight wins in the month, including a 37-7 shellacking of Duke on Feb. 8 at Comcast Pavilion.

“The teams that we were w re s t l i n g , ca l i b e r-w i se , weren’t as good as the ones earlier in the season,” Sheptock said. “I think we didn’t want to lose to those teams.”

During the four-match stretch, the team compiled an impressive 16-8 mark from 125 pounds to 165 pounds, reversing the ugly trend from earlier in the season.

But by the time the ACC tournament rolled around, those struggles had returned, and four Terps earned victories in their first-round contests.

The paltry showing was a disappointing result for a team that had won the tournament in two of the past three seasons.

“Sometimes some of those guys went out feeling like they’re overmatched or it’d be a huge upset if they did win,” Sheptock.

“Whereas, in my sense with me and Christian, we expect to win every single time.”

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2014

Williams elected to Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Legendary coach to be enshrined during November ceremony in Kansas City, Mo.

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

Gilchrist, who played under Williams at this university from 2002 to 2005. “He had all the accolades and everything.”

Williams, who led the Terps to their John Gilchrist had one thought lone national title in 2002 and spent yesterday morning when he read on Twitter that former Terrapins men’s 22 years leading the program he played basketball coach Gary Williams had for in the 1960s, is part of an eightbeen elected to the National Colle- member class the hall of fame’s voting committee unveiled yesterday. giate Basketball Hall of Fame.

The National Collegiate Basketball “I was like, ‘It’s about time,’” said

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Hall of Fame recognizes contributions to the sport at the college level and opened in 2006. Williams was also nominated for induction to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, which will announce its honorees April 7 before the national championship game.

For now, though, the fiery coach, who retired in 2011, is enjoying his most recent recognition.

“It’s a great honor when you think about all the people involved with college basketball,” Williams said. “To get in is something I really appreciate.”

Williams coached at American,

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Boston College and Ohio State before returning to his alma mater in 1989.

The New Jersey native compiled a record of 668-380 during his coaching career, but his greatest successes came at this university.

He took over a program the NCAA crippled with sanctions, but Williams brought the Terps to the NCAA tournament each year from 1994 to 2004 and led them to seven Sweet 16s. In 2002, he reached the pinnacle of the sport.

“The national championship was nice because we went four years with basically all those players,” Williams

said. “So to win a national championship with those guys was pretty special.”

Gilchrist, who arrived in College Park the season after the national title, quickly learned how Williams became so successful. The coach often challenged the point guard in practice, and Williams would pit teammates against one another in heated competitions rather than conduct typical shooting drills.

In games, Williams stomped around the court and often left the hardwood See williams, Page 7

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No. 5 LONGHORNS

Early runs help Terps to sweep Team takes on George Mason this afternoon

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer

FORWARD ALYSSA THOMAS reacts during the No. 4-seed Terps’ 69-64 victory over No. 5-seed Texas last night at Comcast Center. The win put the Terps in the Sweet 16 for the third straight year. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

SWEET SURVIVAL

Thomas scores 16 second-half points while Terps withstand Texas’ late barrage to advance to Sweet 16 of her career. After a physical, back-and-forth TEXAS 31 33 64 contest in the Terps’ last game in College Park this season, their star player still has a chance MARYLAND 31 38 69 to achieve that goal.

Though they had to endure a late 11-2 run that Alyssa Thomas’ No. 25 jersey hangs from the Comcast Center rafters to the right of the Ter- Senior Day, and she played under it for the final made it a one-point game, the No. 4-seed Terps beat No. 5-seed Texas, 69-64, setting up a Sweet 16 rapins women’s basketball team’s 2006 national time last night.

Thomas also wants to add a second national championship banner. The Terps unfurled the forward’s number earlier this month after their championship banner to those rafters by the end See LONGHORNS, Page 7

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer

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As the Terrapins baseball team entered its weekend series with N.C. State, all 13 of the team’s wins had come when it scored first. With a solid pitching staff, early leads held up, and the Terps lost only once after plating the first run.

Against the then-No. 10 Wolfpack, the Terps scored in the first inning of each game and came away with a three-game sweep. In all, the Terps have outscored opponents 35-13 in the first two innings of games this season, and they’ll look to continue that trend today, when they face George Mason at Harford Community College in Bel Air. “You want to score first because it always makes your pitcher go out there and feel a lot better about things if he has a little bit of a cushion,” coach John Szefc said. “I thought that was huge on Friday night when [righthander Jake Stinnett] was able to go out there with a one-run lead in the second. It’s not a huge lead, but it’s better than nothing.”

The Terps put early pressure on N.C. State in each game by taking advantage of Wolfpack mistakes and manufacturing runs through sacrifice bunts and steals. In Game 1, N.C. State left-hander Carlos Rodon hit designated hitter Kyle Convissar and walked catcher Kevin Martir before an error allowed Convissar to score.

In Game 2, center fielder Charlie White led off in the first with a single before scoring on a single by right fielder Anthony Papio three batters later. And in the series finale, the Terps sent seven batters to the plate in the first and scored twice. “[Assistant coach Rob Vaughn] always talks about four things for us, and the first is score first,” Papio See Patri0ts, Page 7

WRESTLING | SEASON IN REVIEW

Despite Sheptock’s dominance, struggles reigned Lack of consistency at lower weights plagues Terps in up-and-down search for final ACC championship

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer The two-time NCAA champion was sweating, lying across the floor in the Terrapins wrestling team’s training room.

After demonstrating a technique, Kerry McCoy leaned up to face his two star wrestlers.

It was the middle of February, and with the ACC and NCAA tournaments approaching, 184-pound Jimmy Sheptock and 197-pound Christian Boley were listening intently to their coach.

Through an uneven 2013-14 campaign in which the Terps

struggled early but delivered a string of solid performances down the stretch, McCoy was nearly always able to rely on Sheptock and Boley.

In the end, the senior captains were the last two Terps alive at the NCAA tournament in Oklahoma City, epitomizing the team’s season. Though the Terps possessed talent at the heavyweight classes, an inability to produce at the lower and middleweight classes ultimately prevented the team from being a contender in the ACC. “We had a handful of guys on our team that understood we could get out here and win an ACC Championship,”

McCoy said. “At different times during the year, we had some people that may not have believed it, and some people that may not have been working at the high level.”

The Terps placed 20th in the NCAA tournament after a p r e s e a s o n ra n k i n g o f No. 25. Much of the success in Oklahoma City, though, came from the points earned

by Sheptock reaching the NCAA finals and Boley coming within one win of attaining All-America status.

Two weeks earlier in Blacksburg, Va., the Terps placed fifth at the conference tournament. Despite their promises

to compete for an ACC title earlier in the season, their lack of depth toward the bottom of the lineup hampered them.

In the season’s first contest against a ranked opponent in November, the team fell to Stanford, 17-16, and recorded one victory under 174 pounds.

Six days later against Penn, the team had two victories under 184 pounds.

While Sheptock and Boley earned prestigious individual Midlands Championships titles on Dec. 30, the Terps eked out two victories in eight tries in December and January, gradually falling further from the national rankings and the

top of the ACC. McCoy said the team reached its “lowest part of the season” at Virginia Tech on Jan. 19. Sheptock, 285-pound Spencer Myers and 174-pound Ty Snook were the only Terps to pick up decisions, and the team lost, 24-9, to the then-No. 16 Hokies.

“The rest of the team got beat pretty bad,” Sheptock said.

“We drove down there, it’s a far drive, then we had to drive back up after the other team gets [seven] wins and we only get [three].”

But on Jan. 24, things started to turn around for the Terps at North Carolina. Billy Rappo upset then-No. 20 Nathan

Kraisser at 125 pounds to start off the night. In the next match, 133-pound Tyler Goodwin earned a 7-4 decision. After victories from Sheptock and Myers, the Terps came away with the 18-15 decision.

“That was definitely a good, decisive moment in our season,” McCoy said. “The guys knew at that time we were six matches away and we needed to win at least five of our matches if we’re going to have a winning season.”

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