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Coleman, Toliver fall short of Final Four with Louisville loss

BY TIRZA AUSTIN Staff writer

Long-time university employee Ann Wylie was named the vice president for administrative affairs yesterday, a position she has filled since November while a committee searched for a permanent ANN WYLIE VP FOR ADMINSTRATIVE replacement.

Wylie planned to leave AFFAIRS the administration — where she has worked for the past decade — and return to the faculty as a geology professor, but she said yesterday she wanted to see major campus projects, such as East Campus, M-Square and the Purple Line, through to completion. In the role, Wylie is also in charge of the university’s non-academic dayto-day operations.

“It didn’t occur to me that [the interim position] would be a place to stay, because I didn’t think I had the right background,” Wylie said. “There are projects I wanted to see through. I couldn’t leave in the middle.”

BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer

RALEIGH, N.C. – After their near upset-loss to Vanderbilt on Saturday, the Terrapin women’s basketball team vowed to play with a renewed sense of urgency in their Raleigh Regional Final against Louisville last night.

For all but the final five minutes of the first half, that didn’t happen. The Cardinals, coached by former Terp assistant Jeff Walz, stifled Terp stars Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver while taking advantage of a passive Terp defense, handling the Terps 7760 on the way to their first ever Final Four.

Though the Terps (31-5) narrowed the gap to three points twice at the end of the first half, the tone was already set. The No. 1 seed Terps’ season ended in much the same way it did last year, with a disappointing Elite Eight loss concluding the careers of two senior stars.

Coleman and Toliver’s magical final season, which included the program’s first ACC regular season and ACC Tournament championships in 20 years, ended one step short of their second Final Four.

As they were taken out of the game for the final time in their Terp careers, Coleman and Toliver each betrayed their emotions, tears welling in each four-year starter’s eyes.

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BSOS dean resigns to assist with auto bailout Montgomery may return to university after two years, but not as dean

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Terp center Yemi Oyefuwa comforts senior Kristi Toliver, who played her final game as a Terp last night in an Elite Eight loss to Louisville.

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BSOS Dean Edward Montgomery is resigning from his position to work for President Barack Obama’s administration.

Montgomery, who served on Obama’s transition team and had been working as an adviser to the Labor Department while remaining as dean, EDWARD MONTGOMERY will be on leave from the university while working FORMER DEAN OF BSOS on the auto industry bailout but is expected to return to the university as a professor at a later date.

Montgomery’s departure leaves the university’s largest college without a dean as it deals with implementing the university’s strategic plan and struggles with chronic underfunding that has left it with class sizes twice as large as the university average. Students plan to protest the underfunding with a mass walkout Thursday.

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Two men attack student, steal his property Friday Student was punched in the face multiple times while walking along Calvert Road

BY KYLE GOON Senior staff writer

Prince George’s County Police have arrested one man and are still searching for another in connection with a strong-arm robbery on Friday night.

A student was walking on the 4600 block of Calvert Road at 11:36 p.m. when two men approached. After telling him to hand over his money, they punched him in the face multiple

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times and took his jacket, police said.

Witnesses called 911, and a nearby county officer began to chase the suspect’s vehicle, a silver Cadillac sedan, northbound on Route 1. The driver rammed the officer’s car with his vehicle and managed to disable it, but other county and University Police officers came to the area, University Police spokesman Paul

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The state could spend up to $200,000 to study the site and financing options for the project. Stadium authority officials would need to return to state budget committees to brief them on study results before they could be granted any design money for the project.

An earlier version of the bill would have allowed the Maryland Stadium Authority to sell bonds to build the potentially $195 million venue, but that provision has been removed.

Mother faces murder charges in girls' deaths ROCKVILLE – Police are charging a Calvert County woman with murder in the slayings of two of her adopted daughters who were found in her freezer, officials said Monday.

Montgomery County police spokesman Lt. Paul Starks said Renee Bowman, who has been in jail since the bodies were found in September, could be served with the warrant this week.

Police in Rockville obtained the warrant late Friday, charging Bowman with two counts each of firstdegree murder and child abuse resulting in death for the killing of the two girls. She also faces a count of firstdegree child abuse in Montgomery County, relating to her third, surviving daughter, and faces additional charges in Calvert County.

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‘I’m asking you to let me serve you again’ FISHER, from Page 1 Fisher’s candidacy for the top job in the Student Government Association had she not taken care of it before yesterday, which was the first official day of campaigning.

But Fisher said this shows she’s just like everyone else.

“It happens to everyone,” Fisher said. “I’ve been every person on this campus. I’ve been the person who is really involved in student groups; I’ve been the person who parties all the time; I’ve been the person who studies hard and is worried about their grades; I’ve been the student that has to work; I’ve been the student that feels like they’re just not being heard and I’ve been the student with an outstanding parking ticket.”

“College is an individual experience for every student,” said senior art history major Lauren Kim, who has worked with Fisher on student initiatives in the past and is assisting the CONNECT Party’s campaign. “And Wanika really wants to make sure no matter what they want to get out of it, they have a great experience.”

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Party’s 8-point platform, Fisher, a junior African American studies and government and politics major, said she will work to engage students in their student government.

“If you go around this campus, people don’t know who their legislators are,” Fisher said. “That’s a problem.”

Fisher said by broadcasting SGA meetings online, establishing an anonymous feedback system and inviting and encouraging “average” students to participate in SGA events and functions, the SGA can repair its relationship with an often-disengaged and disinterested student body.

“Students just want to know that you’re working for them, that you’re trying,” she said. “And you need to be accountable for your failures, because if you don’t show them your failures, they don’t know you’re working. ” Learning from failures is something Fisher knows about firsthand.

Fisher ran for SGA Senior Vice President last year under the Students Party, and was the only member of the party’s executive board who wasn’t elected. Current

SGA President Jonathan Sachs, who led the Students Party in last year’s election, declined to comment on any candidates, including Fisher.

Yet Fisher said the experience taught her to not give up, and to come back fighting for what she believes in.

“Even if you reject me the first time, that’s OK,” Fisher said. “I’m back now and I’m asking you to let me serve you again.”

As the only minority and female candidate, Fisher added that she feels she can bring a unique perspective on campus issues to the SGA. “I’m really disappointed that I’m the only woman and the only minority running,” she said.

“Maryland has one of the most diverse campuses on the East Coast and yet, again, the leadership is lacking in this area.”

Fisher said she would address some of the unique issues women face on the campus.

“Safety issues affect women on campus very differently than it does males,” Fisher said. “We experience things different than our male counterparts.”

Wanika Fisher, the CONNECT Party candidate, speaks with students at Chipotle last night. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Safety, Fisher added, is an important issue she intends to address by expanding on the work of the current administration. She wants to establish a system to rate different areas of the campus by color — red indicating the highest level of vulnerability — to give students a realistic picture of their surroundings so they can act accordingly.

She also emphasizes community service, increased lobbying at the city and university level and engaging students through an

SGA-run mentor program as initiatives she would take on.

In the end, Fisher said, she will not promise anything she cannot deliver.

“I’m not going to promise that ‘I will give these to you,’” Fisher said. “I’m going to tell you that this is what I can work on, because I can’t promise some things to you, and anyone who is telling you that they can is lying.” langdbk@gmail.com

Wylie appointed despite not meeting initial job credentials WYLIE, from Page 1 Wylie was selected from 65 national and local candidates, 10 of whom reached the interview process and five of whom were selected for final consideration, said Linda Clement, the chair of the search committee and vice president of student affairs.

But Wylie’s resumé doesn’t quite match the credentials administrators said they were looking for at the beginning of the search.

Clement originally said the search committee would look for real estate and development experience as key characteristics in

candidates. In November, university President Dan Mote described the ideal candidate as “a city manager with a PhD in business.”

Wylie, who holds a doctorate in geology, joined the staff in 1972 as a professor in the geology department and has worked only at the university since then.

While the job listing said candidates should have at least 15 years of administrative experience, Wylie did not hold her first administrative position at the university until 1998, when she became the acting associate dean of the computer, mathematical and physical sciences college. She has held a number of key positions since that

time, however, including interim dean of the graduate school, associate provost and, most recently, assistant president and Mote’s chief of staff, the second-highest position at the university.

Wylie has served as the interim vice president of administrative affairs since November, when Doug Duncan resigned after 17 months at the university. Duncan left to start a government consulting firm called CivicUS. Officials said Wylie’s familiarity with campus issues made her the strongest candidate for the position, even though her credentials

differ from what they initially sought.

“It would take another person a long time to get up to speed on these projects,” Mote said.

Wylie has a long list of campus issues she said she is going to continue to pursue, such as East Campus, the Climate Action Plan, the Purple Line, M-Square and improving the quality of campus buildings. Wylie will also oversee several campus units including University Police and Facilities Management.

Wylie said these past experiences make her better equipped

for her now permanent position because she brings a faculty member’s understanding and perspective to the position.

“I bring an academic perspective that helps both sides of the campus,” Wylie said.

Clement lauded Wylie as organized and a visionary, adding that she is a “fantastic appointment.”

Mote agreed.

“I’m very pleased that she applied to the position and that she accepted it,” he said. “She will excel at this position.” taustindbk@gmail.com

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Construction funding on schedule Univ. still needs funds to make up $600 million repair backlog “Capital is a difficult issue for us, a constant problem and one that I have reminded the legislature of repeatedly,” said university President Dan Mote. While testifying in favor of the university’s budget in Annapolis earlier this month, Mote called capital needs “the single biggest problem we can’t handle.”

The House of Delegates Appropriations Committee gave the university $4.6 million for its second year of designing and planning the physical sciences complex, which will be built next to the Computer and Space Sciences building.

Construction is slated to begin in 2011. The complex aims to bring the university’s facilities in line with

BY ALLISON STICE Senior staff writer

Campus construction goals for next year will likely proceed on schedule, after a state budget committee approved planning money for the physical sciences complex and a Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute training center yesterday.

Although the state has tentatively provided capital for the university’s two major projects of 2010, the university still faces a backlog of more than $600 million in building renovation and renewal needs, said university lobbyist Ross Stern. For the University System of Maryland, which includes 13 institutions, that figure rises to $1 billion.

its research goals by providing a technologically superior building for collaboration on sophisticated experiments. The university hopes to raise $25 million in capital for the project as part of its Great Expectations campaign.

The committee also authorized $7.7 million for planning a Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute training center at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Harford County. MFRI, the state’s fire and emergency services training agency, has been part of the university since 1930 and has six centers throughout Maryland. The centers serve more than 36,000 students through 1,880 programs, including firefighting and hazardous

materials training, according to director Steven Edwards.

Both projects were laid out in the university’s five-year capital improvement program.

“They provided enough funding to move on to the construction phase, which is what we were expecting,” Stern said.

Just like with the state’s operating budget, the House of Delegates will pass the capital budget before it moves on to the Senate.

Afterward, they will work out the differences between the two bills in conference committee, and the university’s capital projects will likely be protected, Stern said. sticedbk@gmail.com

Suspect earned early prison release last year CRIME, from Page 1 Dillon said.

Eventually, the car struck a light pole on Tecumseh Street to end the chase more than a mile from where it began. University Police came to the scene after the crash. The passenger had already left the scene, but the driver was placed under arrest and charged, said Capt. Daniel Lipsey, acting commander of District 1.

The driver has been identified as 20-year-old Tremayne Jaron Hall of Bowie, and he has been charged with one count of robbery, two counts of first-degree assault and theft. Other possible charges are pending. The passenger is described as a 6-foot slim black man between 18 and 20 years old. He was wearing a white T-shirt during the robbery.

The victim received stitches for multiple cuts to the face, chest and hands at Washington Adventist Hospital, but was re-

leased immediately, Lipsey said.

Hall has accrued an extensive criminal history and served prison time. According to court records, he pleaded guilty in May 2007 to robbery with a dangerous weapon in exchange for the prosecution dropping additional burglary charges and conspiracy to commit robbery and burglary. In Sept. 2007, he was sentenced by the Montgomery County Circuit Court to 18 months in prison with three years of supervised probation, but only served one year. He also received probation before judgment for a separate drug charge in Prince George’s County due to his imprisonment.

The crime alert is the seventh for a robbery in 2009.

Dillon said Prince George’s County Police asked University Police to withhold a crime alert until Monday for investigative purposes. goondbk@gmail.com

Interim BSOS dean Election platforms reveal similarities, differences SGA platforms vary in emphasis, but all deal with perennial issue of safety hopes for speedy search and selection

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alleviate the economic strains put on manufacturing-centric towns such as Detroit and Lansing, Mich.

“Ed will help provide support to auto workers and their families and open up opportunities to manufacturing communities in Michigan, and Ohio and Indiana, and every other state that relies on the auto industry,” Obama said in a speech Monday.

Montgomery, who was already only on the campus twice per week because of his work with Obama and was being assisted by Schwab, is the university’s third faculty member to be snagged by the administration.

John Frece left his post as associate director of the university’s National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education to begin work as the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Development, Community and Environment Division March 16.

Similarly, Steve Fetter, former dean of the School of Public Policy, went on leave earlier this year and is now serving as an assistant director in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Provost Nariman Farvardin said appointments like these are valuable political capital for the university.

“It enhances the stature of the university and increases the university’s influence,” he said.

and for the university,” said College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Associate Dean Robert Schwab, who will serve as interim dean until Montgomery’s replacement is found.

Schwab said he hopes the dean search will be mounted quickly and, ideally, name a new dean by this summer. He said with both the university and the college implementing long-term plans, “now is not the time for interim leadership.”

Schwab said he was made aware of Montgomery’s departure Thursday and even Montgomery was not aware of the position or his appointment until just a few days before that.

“It really caught me by surprise,” Schwab said. “It’s a whole new position. It wasn’t a question of who was going to fill the spot. There wasn’t a spot there before.”

Montgomery, who was deputy secretary and chief operating officer at the Department of Labor in former President Bill Clinton’s administration, will serve as the director of recovery for auto communities and workers on the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, a committee that includes the secretaries of transportation, commerce, labor and energy. His position is only expected to last for 18 months to two years, but Schwab said it could last beyond that.

According to Obama, the committee was formed to help

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As SGA campaigning began yesterday, the four parties unveiled platforms that reveal the different approaches each party plans to take to solve problems on the campus.

As in last year’s election, issues such as safety and transportation are paramount, and all four campaigns address them. But even on similar issues, the campaign platforms outline distinctly different approaches to achieving results.

The CONNECT Party, for instance, has a stated goal of creating practical solutions to campus problems while emphasizing transparency and outreach to students. The Student Power Party focuses on organizing students en masse to petition the university for certain initiatives. The ONE Party, which has the broadest platform of all four, touts its members’ experience in the Student Government Association — out of the four presidential candidates, Steve Glickman, is the longest serving member of the SGA. And Unite UMD, which also has SGA members on its ticket, emphasizes safety at greater length than the other three parties and outlines a 10-point plan to address the issue.

But safety on and around the campus was included in all parties’ platforms.

Both Unite UMD and the ONE Party propose creating a campuswide neighborhood watch program, while the CONNECT Party, in line with its goal of creating “tangible” solutions to campus problems, suggests creating a color-coded safety map to highlight dangerous areas on and around the campus. The Student Power Party has a different safety slant, focusing on a Good Samari-

Steve Glickman, the SGA presidential candidate for One Party, hands out mints in front of Stamp Student Union while discussing his party's emphasis on one-on-one financial committee meetings with campus groups. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

tan policy to give amnesty to students who call for help when friends overdose on drugs or alcohol — taking a stronger stance than the proposed Good Samaritan policy in the University Senate, which only addresses alcohol.

Presidential candidate and former opinion columnist for The Diamondback Malcolm Harris’ Student Power Party also devotes substantial space in its platform to students’ civil rights, which party members say are violated by the university's Office of Student Conduct. The platform calls for all disciplinary hearings to be taped and made available to students who are accused of wrongdoing.

The Student Power Party’s sixpoint platform calls for the university to increase transparency by publishing its budget on the Internet, to end the use of sweatshop labor in creating university apparel and for $1 million be allocated to the Bicycle Master Plan over the next three years. The Department of Transportation Ser-

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vices has so far devoted $100,000 to the plan, which aims to increase bicycle infrastructure on the campus.

The CONNECT Party’s sevenpoint platform focuses heavily on transparency and student outreach. Party members plan to post SGA meetings on YouTube and to distribute a monthly newsletter detailing the SGA’s actions, including “failing and successful initiatives.”

CONNECT Party presidential candidate and president of the university’s NAACP chapter Wanika Fisher also pledges to meet with students wherever is convenient for them — the party hosted a meetand-greet at Chipotle last night — and the party pledges to put suggestion boxes around the campus so students can anonymously comment on the SGA. Apart from the neighborhood watch program, Unite UMD also pledges to offer first-aid and self defense training to university bus drivers, to extend checkpoint hours at entrances to the campus until 4:30 a.m. and to offer free selfdefense classes to all students.

Unite UMD’s platform also focuses on developing the campus by providing more recycling stations and bus shelters without having to rely on the university administration. The platform also addresses academic issues such as advocating for the passage of a post-tenure review policy to hold tenured professors accountable and the funding inequalities between the behavior and social sciences college and others through

“low cost” solutions. SGA presidential candidate Nick Mongelluzzo, who serves as the chair of the SGA Governmental Affairs Committee, said the party would focus on other means of improvement, such as providing teacher-training to graduate students, rather than simply reallocating funds.

Safety is also a key focus of the ONE Party, which is headed by presidential candidate and SGA Outlying Commuter Legislator Glickman. The widest ranging of the four, their platform highlights 10 issues, including some not mentioned in the other platforms, such as working to restart the East Campus development project, which has been stalled due to a lack of funding.

The largest part of the ONE Party platform emphasizes academic issues such as making it easier to transfer study abroad credits and working to eliminate Saturday final exams.

Glickman said safety was also an important aspect of the party’s plan, and the platform says that emphasis in safety-related programs such as the SGA’s safety walk needs to be shifted from oncampus areas, which are relatively safe, to off-campus areas, which are not.

The platform also addresses student life issues such as moving South Campus Commons’ room selection online and vows to work for at least one all-you-can-eat location on the campus and expanding dining hall hours. coxdbk@gmail.com

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ities seem to agree that cameras deter crime. Chicago, New York and Balti- cent crime drop in public housing.

But council members shouldn’t be arguing about whose study is best; College Park more have all established extensive surveillance networks, and many colleges have done the same. This university is rigged with more than 300 live- is a college town, and crime doesn’t operate here the same way it does in New York City or London. University police spokesman Paul Dillon says that crime in College monitored cameras looking out over the campus and the city.

But some experts are less enthusiastic about cameras as crime deterrents. A New Park is concentrated downtown. And while crime merely shifted in camera-wired York University study published earlier this month showed no significant evidence British neighborhoods, we don’t foresee students moving their bar brawl to behind the College Park Metro station where cameras might not be set up. that the installation of security cameras reduced the crime rate in While the flashing blue lights of Baltimore’s CitiWatch Program one Manhattan neighborhood over a five-year span. A group of might not stop drug dealers from conducting business, small-time British studies found that even though cameras decreased crime by muggers are drawn to easy targets. Right now, criminals see College 30 percent to 40 percent in certain neighborhoods, they ultimately The city should invest in Park as a town of drunken bulls-eyes. Cameras may stand to make just pushed it into less-monitored areas. surveillance cameras.

College Park a bit less tempting.

All these studies might explain why District 2 City Councilman If you ask average residents about safety, they won’t have many Bob Catlin has raised concerns that cameras might not be worth the $200,000 that they’ll cost the city. And we understand his fiscal caution as the city good things to say, and cameras have been proven as effective reactive tools. After a crime occurs, police will scour hours of tape, and time and time again they catch the heads into an uncertain economy.

Nonetheless, as College Park considers installing its own camera surveillance sys- perpetrators. But installing cameras throughout the city is more than another way to tems, we say, wire up. The total cost of the 61 cameras council members proposed track down crooks; it’s part of a broader proactive attempt to toughen up the city’s would actually cost millions, but the bulk of the cost is covered by grants. And for image. The city has already raised taxes to pay for three Prince George’s County Poevery study questioning surveillance systems, there is also evidence supporting them. lice officers to exclusively patrol the city. Cameras won’t rid society of crime, but they New York City Police, for instance, maintain cameras were responsible for a 35 per- should do enough to make you feel a little safer at night.

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WANIKA FISHER My three years at the university have changed my life. As you may already know, my history with the SGA has been an interesting one. Last year, I lost in the election for the position of senior vice president. It was one of the most painful experiences of my life. I wanted to serve my community and felt that my opportunity was denied; 53 votes prevented me from my goal, a number that is less than 1 percent of the voting population. As it turns out, my loss was a blessing in disguise. It helped me gain the experience and passion needed to be student body president.

I still believe the Student Government Association has the ability to change and improve the lives of students on this campus. The fact that I still have the strength as a person to get up again and work twice as hard a second time around for the university proves that I will show this campus the character and spirit of myself and the rest of the CONNECT Party.

My experience leading the university’s chapter of the NAACP, the oldest social justice and civil rights organization in the United States, has taught me more about leading the SGA than anything the other candidates WANIKA have done. I have experience deal- FISHER SGA PRESIDENTIAL ing with a CANDIDATE national organization with its own regulations while having a campus agenda that requires balance and advocacy — a combination that will mirror our experience of lobbying the administration next year. I have built coalitions on this campus that are unparalleled, and my journey has prepared me to serve. My qualifications make me the only person for the position; everything that I have been through has led to this moment, this year and this ticket. I have executive leadership experience, one of the most valuable things I bring to this ticket and to this campaign.

With the support and experience of the CONNECT ticket, I am ready to take on our students’ issues and produce the results that we deserve. Our ticket is one that reflects every sector of the campus, and we will work hard to continue to be a truly accurate voice of the student body. I have walked in the shoes of the freshman who is trying to find where he or she fit in, the sophomore who now has their close group of friends and the junior who is tirelessly leading their community. The disconnect that exists right now between the SGA and the student body is unacceptable, and I am ready to bring it together again. I am your next student body president, and I am the strongest person to lead this campus community and bring it to the next level. My love for this campus is unwavering and it drives me to work for the place that has given me so much. Let’s change it up, let’s get it done and let’s renew our connection to the SGA. If true passion, real leadership and proven experience are what you want, vote CONNECT!

“I still believe the Student Government Association has the ability to change and improve the lives of students on this campus.”

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espite being separated by many miles and an inconvenient time difference, I couldn’t help but hear this malarkey about the Student Government Association’s discussions regarding a campuswide smoking ban. Honestly, if there is one thing that makes me want to develop a debilitating and expensive addiction, it is someone telling me that I can’t. I realize this gives me the moral decision-making capacity and credibility of Bart Simpson, but I do think there is something to be said for some healthy (OK, fine, probably unhealthy in this case) insubordination.

At the Thai university I’m studying at this semester and all of the other universities here in Thailand, students are required to wear the same uniform. Granted, it makes me look like a warped Japanese anime character, so I love it, but it does feel slightly eerie to have to wear a uniform on

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FRISCHLING a university campus where you’d expect something a little more subversive to be going on. I also spent some time teaching English in a public secondary school where the students wear a uniform and the teachers follow a strict dress code. The female students here are even forced to have the same (albeit adorable) haircut until they graduate from high school, and this is true for schools all across the country and even the general public. The boys in my program appreciate it, because it makes it very clear who is and is not of appropriate age to be hit on, but it makes me slightly uncomfortable.

It’s like a very obvious theme to an

allegorical, anti-communist sci-fi thriller.

The same uniformity and obedience goes for the unabated love Thai people (and I) feel for the king and queen (long live their majesties). Every household and business has at least one picture of at least one member of the royal family hanging on its walls. Before the previews start at a movie theater, an incredibly moving video montage of the king comes on, backed by his own personal anthem, and every single person stands and sings. It is literally illegal to speak ill of the king, so professors at universities don’t even go near the subject (probably because they’re jealous that they don’t have their own anthems). I’m taking a Thai government class, and I have less than a vague notion of what the king even does (but I’m sure it’s fantastic).

It was refreshing being on our campus at home and seeing kids with blue hair, kids drunk in the

middle of the day, old cute lady professors cussing or even Huckabee T-shirts. College is the time for us to push the boundaries of what we’ve been told our whole lives is socially acceptable. This freedom might manifest itself in your opting to sit during the Pledge of Allegiance or listening to Black Flag. You are in college, and part of that means, for the most part, you do/eat/wear/say/f--/drink/smoke what you want.

Unlike in Thailand, you can say whatever you want about any public figure and you can have whatever haircut your mom or girlfriend will allow. It’s totally awesome. This is America, God damn it, and if I want to smoke a cigarette on the campus when I get home, then university President Dan Mote, you can eat my shorts.

Esti Frischling is a sophomore studio art major writing this semester from Thailand. She can be reached at estidbk@gmail.com.

SGA Elections: ’Tis the season for chalk and grumbling

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h, dear God. The fumes coming from sidewalk chalk can only mean one thing: It’s student election season again.

If you’re like me — and why wouldn’t you want to be like me? — you know that the most important issue during the Student Government Association election is the issue of avoiding the damn SGA election. And with four candidates this year, it’s going to be especially tricky.

I think my first course of action is going to be finding a route that doesn’t go around the Stamp Student Union, because that’s where all the minions with the stupid fliers lurk. The late and great Mitch Hedberg once said, “When someone hands you a flier, it’s like they’re saying, ‘Here, you throw this away.’”

And the amount of walking surface that is now already covered in chalk is downright startling. It’s not just the fact

that I don’t care that bothers me, but moreso, it’s the strange messages that people think sound smart. Like, “We are all ONE: Vote ONE Party.” I wouldn’t vote for the vast majority of people here, and they’re all in the ONE Party now?

Yikes, I’m going to go ahead and not vote. Sorry, Steve Glickman.

Or maybe I will. A quick check of the CONNECT Party’s website shows a huge picture of a Chipotle burrito. Now there’s some delicious legislation I can get behind. Does it matter that I don’t know any of their policies, or who Wanika Fisher is? I don’t know. But if Chipotle wants my vote, they’ve got it.

If you don’t feel like “connecting” UMD, let’s “Unite UMD,” which is yet another party fielding a presidential candidate, Nick Mongelluzzo. Their motto, “Proven Experience. Strengthening Communities. Getting Results,” is sure to lose the English majors’ votes because apparently parallel structure

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Come on, guys, you’re better than that.

Speaking of losing the grammatical vote, we come lastly to the fourth presidential hopeful, none other than former Diamondback opinion columnist Malcolm Harris of the Student Power Party.

The party’s website advocates that we “hold a book swap day on the Mall so that you can trade books with people with other students.” As if I needed another reason to not vote for a former columnist. Columnists are terrible, wretched people. I mean, would you vote for me?

So besides the fact that all the campaign propaganda is annoying and I don’t care about any of the parties, it’s going to be a humdinger of a week until literally tens of people cast their votes for the next person who won’t get anything done.

It’s not that I hate democracy; I just hate student democracy. It’s so contrived and just filled with buzzwords such as “transparency” and “sustainability.” How about some shut-up-ability? I have a paper due, and I don’t want to hear about your plan for more streetlights or something.

So for all of you handing out fliers, take a good, long look at the mugshot on this column, and stop bugging the crap out of me. And as far as all the sidewalk chalk goes, I hope it rains.

Rob Gindes is a junior journalism major. He can be reached at gindesdbk@gmail.com

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music notes ALL POINTS WEST 2009 ANNOUNCED Not content being a Radiohead show first and a festival second, New Jersey’s All Points West returns with a bit more variety than last year’s inaugural affair. Taking place a short ferry ride away from New York City in Liberty State Park, APW will host headliners Beastie Boys, Tool and Coldplay from Friday, July 31 to Sunday, Aug. 2. Coachella East, as it’s been called — APW is run by the same folks who put together the Indo, Calif. festival — also nabbed My Bloody Valentine, Vampire Weekend and Echo and the Bunnymen. This year the festival is adding a comedy tent and runs for $89 a day or $199 for the whole shebang (fees not included, of course). Tickets go on sale Friday.

After the massive success of 2006’s “Young Folks,” Peter Bjorn and John returns with a much darker and experimental affair.

AMERICAN IDIOTS Musicals and rock ‘n’ roll have always had a mystifying relationship. They have so much in common that a marriage makes sense.

On the other hand, they’re so different that the union is almost blasphemous. From The Who’s Tommy to the Billy Joel-inspired Movin’ Out, rock and musicals are always trying to mix. Now, Spring Awakening director Michael Mayer will bring Green Day’s American Idiot to the stage. The musical premieres at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in September. The show has Green Day’s blessing, and the musical’s eventual path should lead to Broadway.

GRADUATION PRESENT FROM THE BOSS How would you like to drive to school and get a call from Bruce Springsteen? Not every 19-year-old can say he or she experienced that, but not every kid is Max Weinberg’s son. The Springsteen drummer also has a gig as Conan O’Brien’s sideman and band leader (he also hasn’t missed an E Street Band gig in years).

But when The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien premieres in June, Max will be behind the kit, and son, Jay, will be overseas, playing his first full shows with the E Street Band. Jay won’t take the reigns — albeit briefly — until June. And you thought your transition from high school to college was stressful.

ONTO A DARKER THING Peter Bjorn and John gets all the more musically adventurous on new album

BY ZACHARY HERRMANN Senior staff writer

At the start of the year, Peter Bjorn and John’s fifth studio LP, Living Thing, seemed like a good prospective candidate for 2009’s most fun album.

The Swedish trio’s last fully realized entry, Writer’s Block, was pure, decadebending, sugarcoated pop genius — just one listen to the whistled melody in “Young Folks” was enough to recall the song for months on end. After a very forgettable instrumental album, the band’s first Living Thing single, “Nothing to Worry About,” promised more of the same musical savvy, filtered through floor-stomping hip-hop beats.

Turns out the preceding single is something of an outlier in what may be the oddest album of recent memory to come from a group on the cusp of mainstream stardom. Peter Bjorn and John couldn’t have thrown its fans a more intriguing curve ball at a time when the group could have played things much safer.

As much as Writer’s Block popped with vitality, the song set was definitely bittersweet, but Living Thing comes off downright black and blue. The minimalism allows no room for the electron-

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Musically, the effect is cold and mechanical at times, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Album opener “The Feeling” will surely produce a good deal of double takes from those who thought they had the band pegged. The background chanting, distanced vocals and tribal drums set the tone and prepare the listener a little better for the sonic trip ahead.

“Please prepare for a change,” Björn Yttling sings, before the background vocals repeat, “I feel it/ Can you feel it?” It would be easy enough to deride the song, along with “I’m Losing My Mind,” as monotonous, but, as Prince once noted, “There is joy in repetition.” And purpose, too.

On Living Thing, Peter Bjorn and John is exploring fractured hearts and minds as a musical principle. That means plenty of abrasion, and while there’s nothing here as difficult as, say, Sonic Youth’s Goodbye 20th Century, the album proves a bit more challenging than PB&J fans would have reason to expect.

However, even though things start off bizarre, most of the album remains grounded in PB&J’s expansive understanding of several generations’ worth

of pop music. “Living Thing” begins with a syncopated drum beat and more chanting but ends up somewhere between Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon.

The following track, “I Want You!,” matches like a rhyming couplet.

The second half of the album gets a little misty-eyed and contemplative, with a four-song string of bummers to end the album. Peter Morén’s nasally, empathetic vocals — at times eerily similar to John Lennon’s — suit the dreary pathos of these songs better than Yttling’s detached monotone.

Morén leads the witty “Blue Period Picasso,” a synth-heavy lament from the perspective of a painting hung in a Barcelona museum. It’s the most distinct of the final ballads, though “4 Out of 5” cops nicely from The Raveonettes’ reverb-chic take on late1950s jukebox rock.

During this last stretch, especially on the Tears for Fears-inspired closer, “Last Night,” Living Thing comes off as commendable rather than enjoyable.

The reference points (there’s a lot of New Order bubbling under) feel too transparent at times.

In digging up a new, largely successful sound, PB&J has sacrificed a lot of what initially made the band so attractive. On one hand, Living Thing is exactly the sort of risk you want to see a band take. The counterpoint, though, is that the sense of adventurism doesn’t always deliver.

The blunt put-down “Lay It Down” — with the lovely chorus, “Hey, shut the f-- up, boy/ You are starting to piss me off/ Take your hands off that girl/ You have already had enough” — has plenty of unfiltered anger, but not a whole lot else.

Such a strange aside rocks the otherwise smoothly sequenced album. In the larger scheme of things, it’s a minor blemish. With time, who knows — “Lay It Down” could even pass as a loveable imperfection.

But years from now, it will be very interesting to see how the entire album ages within PB&J’s discography. Despite the muddier moments, it’s a fragile, ambitious work — Living Thing could be the one album that makes or breaks the band. zherrm@gmail.com

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THE UPS & THE DOWNS LYNETTA KIZER The Terps’ freshman center finished an underachieving NCAA Tournament with just three points.

The Cardinals' All-American had 21 points and 13 rebounds and was named the region's Most Outstanding Player.

EPIC MATCHUPS The Terps will not get to face the Connecticut juggernaut in the national championship game after all.

JEFF WALZ The former Terp assistant led the Cardinals to the Final Four in just his second year as head coach.

2006 TITLE TEAM The last players from that unforgettable run have played their last games as Terps.

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PERCENTAGES–FG: 44.6, FT: 78.9, 3FG: 28.6. 3-POINT GOALS–4-14 (Burke 2-4, McCoughtry 1-6, Bingham 1-3, Reid 01). TURNOVERS–13 (McCoughtry 4). BLOCKED SHOTS–1 (Reid 1). STEALS–12 (Bingham, McCoughtry 3).

MARYLAND TERRAPINS (31-5) PLAYER MIN FG FT Coleman 39 6-12 5-6 Toliver 37 5-15 0-0 Liles 36 3-7 4-6 Strickland 33 6-12 0-0 Kizer 27 1-2 1-5 Barrett 20 0-5 0-0 Rodgers 8 0-1 0-0 Team TOTALS 200 21-54 10-17

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PERCENTAGES–FG: 38.9, FT: 58.8, 3FG: 40.0. 3-POINT GOALS––8-20 (Toliver 4-10, Strickland 3-6, Coleman 1-2, Barrett 0-1, Rodgers 0-1). TURNOVERS––21 (Strickland 5). BLOCKED SHOTS––4 (Kizer 2). STEALS––7 (Liles, Strickland, Toliver 2).

“Just a sad moment, but at the same time, I’m very, very proud of this team this season,” coach Brenda Frese said.

Other than Coleman’s team record 42 points on Saturday, the Terps’ didn’t look like themselves on the offensive end this weekend.

The Cardinals (33-4) prevented any of the extended Terp scoring runs that were commonplace throughout the regular season and in the NCAA Tournament’s first two rounds last week.

Coleman, the ACC Tournament Most Valuable Player, struggled early, scoring just two points in the first half before finishing with 18.

Louisville threw multiple defenders at the 6-foot-1 forward from Cheltenham, wary of Coleman’s ability after her record Sweet 16 effort two days prior.

After the game, Coleman was asked about not making it to the Final Four.

“The media didn’t have those expectations for us,” Coleman said before pausing and shedding some tears. “In our locker room, we did.

We knew we could make it to the Final Four, and we fell short. But you know, we accomplished a lot of great things. I wouldn’t have rather spent my senior season with a better group of girls or coaching staff as I did this year.”

Toliver scored 14 points and hit four 3-pointers in her final collegiate game. But the senior also succumbed to the Louisville pressure defense, shooting just 5-of-15 from the field and committing four turnovers.

“They did a really good job making us uncomfortable, throwing different looks at us,” Toliver said, still teary-eyed at the post-game press conference podium. “They wanted to be physical from the beginning. ... You gotta give credit to them. We never could get into a rhythm.”

After multiple Toliver 3-pointers in the second half, the vocal Terp fans behind the team’s bench stood up and chanted, trying to infuse some energy into the team.

But nothing seemed to work for Frese’s bunch, widely regarded as one of a few teams who could challenge No. 1 and undefeated Connecticut down the line.

With less than 10 minutes remaining in the game, the Terps

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Anjalé Barrett and the Terp guards struggled with Louisville’s pressure defense, which forced bad shots and 21 turnovers. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

were down by 13. After a 3-pointer

by Toliver cut the deficit to 10, Cardinal point guard Deseree Byrd completed an and-one play to make the score 55-42.

Louisville guard Becky Burke hit a 3-pointer in the left corner with 7:15 left off of a Cardinal offensive rebound to give Walz’s team a commanding 14-point lead.

The Terps could not make up any ground.

Cardinal star Angel McCoughtry, who scored 21 points, hit a 3pointer in the right corner to give the Cardinals another 13-point lead with 3:27 remaining. Following a

Terp miss, she then dribbled down the length of the court against the Terps’ full court pressure and dished the ball to forward Candyce Bingham for an easy layup.

By that point, the outcome was largely determined. Louisville led 67-52 and showed no signs of wilting under the late-game pressure the way Vanderbilt did Saturday.

Coleman bristled at a reporter who said Walz suggested that the Terps didn’t take the No. 3 seed Cardinals seriously enough.

“Coach Walz is extremely wrong,” Coleman said. “We know his ability to coach and we know

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that his players are good. We did not take this team lightly. We knew they’re a great team.”

Still, the Terps seemed out of their element in their two games at the RBC Center. The team gave a lot of credit to the Cardinals’ defensive pressure, which forced 21 Terp turnovers, many at critical junctures.

“They brought a lot of pressure, and we didn’t combat it the way that we should have offensively,” guard Marah Strickland said.

“Defensively, we didn’t put as much pressure as we should have.”

Trailing 24-16 with less than five minutes remaining in the first half, Frese switched to a man-to-man defense. The move paid off — Toliver hit her second shot of the game, a 3-pointer with 4:37 remaining, to get the Terps within five.

Center Lynetta Kizer grabbed an offensive rebound and was fouled, but missed the front end of the subsequent one-and-one. But despite the Terp run, McCoughtry made a jumper at the halftime buzzer to give the Cardinals a 30-25 lead.

Louisville took that momentum into the second half, and Frese’s team could never get back on track.

“The first game took a lot of us,” Frese admitted. “I know Marissa’s not going to admit that — the role that she had to carry to get us to the Elite Eight. That’s why in the NCAA Tournament, matchups are so critical. If we were playing a different style of team versus a physical, full-court pressing style of team, maybe your results are a little bit different.”

But to Coleman, who finished her career as the program’s secondleading scorer and rebounder, falling just short of the Final Four for the second straight season wasn’t any less disappointing.

And with her career now over without the second National Championship she strove for throughout this season, answers were hard to find.

“We took a lot of jump shots, but at the same time, we usually hit those jump shots,” Coleman said.

“But you could say that about any game. If it was another day, it could go any other way. If we played them tomorrow, it could be the same outcome or different. I really don’t know.”

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The well ran dry on magical runs SCHIMMEL, from Page 8 the offensive end, making illadvised passes and unforced turnovers. They settled for longrange shots that just weren’t there, and unkind rims didn’t help.

The Cardinals employed a full-court press and swarmed the Terps’ ball handlers. The Terps had to work for everything, and when they fell behind, it exasperated their problems.

“They did a really good job making us uncomfortable, throwing different looks at us,” Toliver said. “They wanted to be physical from the beginning, and we knew they were going to be that way.”

On defense, the Terps came out in a soft zone to start the game and pretty much let the Cardinals pick them apart.

Louisville was able to find the passing lanes, get the ball to open shooters and score on way too many open jumpers.

The Terps switched to manto-man defense about midway through the first half. But by then the Cardinals were playing with confidence, and the Terps were playing from behind.

They kept hitting shots that provided a glimmer of hope that perhaps another of their furious comeback runs was right around the corner. No matter how bad things looked in the second half when the Cardinals stretched their lead to double digits, you thought the Terps’ trademark will would find a way.

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conference. “What an amazing career the two of them have had. I’ll go to war with them any time because of what the two of them have meant to our program and what they’ve been able to do with this team.”

Coleman and Toliver kept pushing throughout last night’s game to no avail. The Cardinals’ defensive style was too tough, forcing 21 turnovers, and other Terps failed to step up.

“It’s a lot of regret,” guard Marah Strickland said. “Just wishing we could get it done for our seniors. I just think back to last year and being in the same exact position with [former Terps Crystal Langhorne and Laura Harper] and the all the regrets we had. You know — we shoulda, woulda, coulda done this. But we didn’t do it. I feel the same way tonight.”

Toliver left the game first, with 1:09 remaining. She walked off slowly, finally realizing that the end had come. At her seat, the ACC Player of the Year best remembered for her buzzerbeating ability buried her head in a towel.

“We’ve had great moments, we’ve had disappointing moments. And right now we’re in a disappointing moment,” Toliver said. “I can’t really elaborate, because we’re human and now we’re down. We didn’t want it to end. It’s unfortu-

Forward Marissa Coleman struggled to keep her emotions at bay after the Terps’ 77-60 loss to Louisville in the NCAA Tournament’s regional finals, her last game as a Terp. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

nate that it had to come to an end, especially this way.”

Coleman followed with 1:01 left. As she hugged Frese on her way out, she started crying as well and fell quickly on an empty seat. Trainer Matt Charvat, who had a close relationship with Coleman throughout her career, came over to console her.

But it didn’t seem to help.

Louisville coach Jeff Walz, who was Frese’s top assistant two years ago and the man who led the recruiting push for Coleman when she was a star player at St. John’s High

School in Washington, said a few words to both Coleman and Toliver.

Clearly, the end was very difficult to handle. Coleman said she didn’t feel it was the right time to look back on her and Toliver’s legacy at the school.

But in typical Coleman style, the player with the intense work ethic and burning desire to represent the Terps’ program in the best way possible, she made a point to pledge her support for the next era of Terp women’s basketball.

Everyone on the team

except for Coleman and Toliver is expected to return.

“It’s gonna be hard for her and I to swallow right now, but before I pack up my things and leave College Park, I’m gonna talk to them, because there’s still a lot of talent in this locker room without Kristi and I,” Coleman said. “They’re still capable of accomplishing a lot of great things. I don’t want them to think just because Kristi and I are graduating or leaving, that they’re still not a great team.” akrautdbk@gmail.com

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THE BITTER FINISH When will alone isn’t enough

Coleman, Toliver face emotional end of road

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RALEIGH, N.C. – Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver, the two players who so gracefully and effectively transformed the Terrapin women’s basketball program into a national contender through the last four years, sat helplessly on the bench as the final buzzer sounded last night.

The duo that helped the Terps to their first National Championship as freshmen in 2006 and led the team to its first ACC regular season and ACC Tournament titles in 20 years this season wept by themselves as the rest of the Terps shook hands with Louisville.

After the euphoria of their freshman season and the team’s disappointing finishes the last two years, this tournament was supposed to be their chance to end their illustrious careers with another national crown.

Instead, Coleman and Toliver could never really get going in the Terps’ 77-60 loss to the Cardinals last night. The end result was not a second trip to the Final Four, but an emotional last few moments wearing their Under Armor Terp jerseys.

“These two to my left, you know, they’re winners,” coach Brenda Frese said, referring to Coleman and Toliver at the postgame press

over.

Their tears after the Terrapin women’s basketball team lost 77-60 in the Raleigh regional final last night against Louisville made that pretty clear.

Coleman cried as she shot her last two free throws as a Terp, and both players sat with their faces buried in towels as time winded down.

The seniors still wish they were going to St. Louis for the Final Four, and they would still likely tell you they are willing to do anything in their power to help their team win.

But will and desire can only get you so far. You still have to make things happen, and for whatever reason last night, the Terps simply couldn’t.

When Coleman exploded for 42 points in the Terps’ regional semifinal victory against Vanderbilt on Saturday, the explanation for the Terps’ comefrom-behind win was the Terps’ star seniors wouldn’t let the team lose.

They probably wanted to win just as badly last night, but Louisville simply played better basketball.

And so, a second straight season abruptly comes to an end in the Elite Eight, and two more illustrious, programaltering players end their careers unable to recapture the National Championship magic of 2006.

The Terps wanted it as badly as ever, but it just wasn’t meant to be.

“We’ve had great Terp careers, and we didn’t want it to end,” Toliver said. “So it’s unfortunate that it had to come to an end, especially this way.”

The Terps were just never able to establish a rhythm last night.

For much of the game, they looked rushed and anxious on

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Coach Brenda Frese consoles senior forward Marissa Coleman in last night’s 77-60 loss to Louisville. After a 42-point performance Saturday against Vanderbilt, Coleman scored just two first-half points in her final game as a Terp. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

Guard Kristi Toliver, in her last game in a Maryland uniform, scored 14 points on 5-of-15 shooting against Louisville.

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TERRAPIN MEN’S LACROSSE NOTEBOOK

Seven-overtime loss provides a bevy of unusual statistics

BY MICHAEL KATZ Staff writer

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Staggering statistics are to be expected from the longest game in Division I lacrosse history.

Saturday, the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team fell to No. 1 Virginia 10-9 in seven overtimes. And though the score is modest, the numbers are anything but.

There were 89 shots taken between the teams. The Terps alone let the ball fly 52 times.

There were 83 ground balls scooped, and the teams shared 53 turnovers — stats that serve as a nod to the nerves involved, and the resulting sloppy play.

But nothing was more absurd than the nearly 30 minutes of scoreless play in between the game-tying and game-winning goals by Virginia midfielder Brian Carroll.

“This is not something that you dismiss,” Virginia coach Dom Starsia said. “This is something that you put on your fireplace, and when you’re retired and you’re getting too old to be able to think straight, you go reach in and maybe go find that and take a look at it again. ... I think there was a lot to like about this.”

HOLMES DOMINATES X Faceoff specialist Bryn Holmes delivered one of Saturday’s gutsiest performances.

A groin injury held him out of action last weekend, and it was unclear during the week if Holmes would be on the field against the Cavaliers. Midfielder Jeff Reynolds took the first two faceoffs, furthering suspicions that Holmes’ playing time could be limited.

But when he finally got on the field, Holmes showed no signs of injury. The junior dove for loose balls and gritted out a 13-for-21 performance at the X. He even added his second goal of the season in the fourth quarter.

“Bryn’s a warrior,” coach Dave Cottle said. “You can see why we wanted to get him back. I thought he battled.”

PHIPPS PLAYS FULL GAME After suffering a concussion last week in practice, goalie Brian Phipps played admirably in his return.

He was between the pipes for all 85 minutes of the seven-overtime game, and his 11 saves included many startling stops that kept the Terps in the game.

“Phipps played extraordinary,” defender Max Schmidt said. “He really stepped up when we needed it. I’m feeling for him right now.”

By allowing Phipps to play into the second half, Cottle continued his trend of rotating goalies for entire games at a time. Last season, Phipps and senior Jason Carter split halves in the cage, but this year, they can usually count on having every other Saturday all to themselves.

Cottle has said that as long as the goalie is playing well, he sees no reason to put pressure on someone else to step in cold and keep it going.

Midfielder Bryn Holmes (left) made key plays for the Terps on Saturday both on defense and at the faceoff X despite a lingering groin injury. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK

DEFENSE OWNS OVERTIME It was a bit surprising to see such a low scoring contest between two teams laden with such firepower.

But early on, it became clear that this game was about defensive toughness, as evidenced by the 3-2 score at halftime.

The Terps did well to hold Virginia. The Cavaliers’ 10 goals matched their lowest production of the season, four goals below their season average heading into the contest.

Schmidt did especially well to

hold star Virginia attackman Danny Glading to just one goal, though the senior did dole out four assists.

REED MAKES STRIDES Saturday marked further progress for attackman Travis Reed in his recovery from offseason surgery.

The sharpshooting sophomore has steadily seen his role increase in the Terps offense, and against Virginia, he played extended minutes alongside the three starters as

a fourth attackman.

Reed seized the opportunity with two goals in a 12-second span in the third quarter. He did not miss a shot on the day.

Cottle has increasingly tried to get last year’s second-leading goalscorer on the field any way he can, and it seems like Reed’s condition may be at a point where Cottle can count on him in a hybrid midfield position. mkatzdbk@gmail.com