March 31, 2014

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Immersive program to offer $500 for research

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Staff writer A university professor unveiled a program earlier this year that could help undergraduate students become more immersed in social sciences research.

In response to calls from students to improve independent research standards, sociology professor Jeff Lucas set up an alternative program in January. The initiative invites sociology majors to work in the group processes experimental laboratory with a graduate student mentor for one semester and promises a $500 grant afterward for students to create and run their own independent research projects the next semester.

“A lot of students get involved in the lab and really like the experience, but they finish a semester and feel like they are just getting started on all the things they can learn and explore,” Lucas said.

For students such as Amanda Nguyen, Lucas’ program is a welcome improvement. When she worked at the group processes laboratory in the fall, the semester ended just as she began feeling comfortable.

“I felt toward the end of the semester I hadn’t gotten the full experience, so I asked to stay on,” said Nguyen, who graduated in December and is now the assistant lab manager.

This struck a chord with Lucas, who created the program to give undergraduates a more comprehensive experience.

“Students can get many research opportunities on campus, but they are often coding data or entering data engagement with one step of the process,” Lucas said. “So we’re trying to set up a model so students can be engaged in the process from beginning to the end.”

This new idea will also expose sociology students to social science research, something that has influenced Nguyen’s future. She now plans to attend graduate school in the social sciences for research.

FORWARD ALYSSA THOMAS scored a career-high 33 points in the No. 4-seed Terps’ 73-62 win over No. 1-seed Tennessee. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

DANCING ON Thomas’ 33 points lead Terps past Tennessee, into Elite Eight

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When the Terrapins women’s basketball team saw its place in the NCAA tournament bracket, players knew they would have a chance to do something they couldn’t manage during the regular season.

The No. 4-seed Terps were in the same region as No. 1-seed Tennessee, which set up a possible Sweet 16 matchup against a Lady Volunteers team with a prestigious history. And after losses to Connecticut, Notre Dame and Duke during the regular season, it was another chance for the Terps fi nally

to beat a national powerhouse.

Yesterday at the KFC Yum! Center, forward Alyssa Thomas scored a career-high 33 points, and the Terps beat Tennessee, 73-62, to make their second Elite Eight appearance in three seasons.

“It was great that we got to play against those three teams before we got to the tournament,” guard Lexie Brown said. “We have a lot to prove in this tournament, and to get a big win over Tennessee is just giving us a lot more momentum going into our next game.”

Thomas shot 14-of-25 from the field and grabbed 13 rebounds for her 27th double-double of the season See vols, Page 2

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Torrey Smith distributes scholarships

Seeing smoke Volunteer firefighters prioritize their passion

By Teddy Amenabar @TeddyAmen Senior staff writer The bass builds and two students nod to “Turn Down for What” as they drive toward the campus Friday night. Everyone’s drinking — but it’s orange juice, not alcohol.

Volunteer firefighters Chad Schaefer and Herson Delgado are returning from Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, where they dropped off a sick Chestertown Hall student.

At the College Park Volunteer Fire Department, 12 students from local universities, including this one, work as emergency medical technicians and firefighters after class and throughout the weekend. Prince George’s County is recognized nationally for its volunteer programs and relatively large number of incidents, said Schaefer, a senior at University of Maryland University College who moved from upstate New York to volunteer at the department.

Schaefer and Delgado, a student at Prince George’s County Community College, are running on little more than orange juice and ice pops; plans for dinner back at the firehouse were interrupted by the call from Chestertown Hall.

Superseding the music, another call comes in on the scanner: an incident at Spellman House, an assistedliving apartment complex on Berwyn House Road. Dinner plans are pushed back again. Schaefer turns on the sirens, and the ambulance roars to life, pushing 60 mph as cars move out of the way.

At about 8:45 p.m., Schaefer and Delgado pull a stretcher through the Spellman doors, down the whiteand green-tiled hall to a first-floor apartment. Department volunteers said later they sometimes get uncommon calls at Spellman — one time they were asked to unclog a toilet.

This call, however, was in response to a female resident who had injured herself in a fall.

Schaefer began working at fire departments at age 15 and became See firefighters, Page 2

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Pro’s charity basketball event held at Comcast

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer Less than two years after Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith played in his last game at this university, his brother, Tevin Jones, died in a motorcycle accident on Sept. 22, 2012.

Despite the heartbreak, the former Terrapins football wide receiver suited up for the Ravens the next day, dedicating his two touchdowns and 127 yards to his late brother.

At Comcast Center on Saturday, Smith had another opportunity to honor Jones, presenting several scholarships to local students in Jones’ name at halftime during his celebrity basketball contest — billed the “Battle of the Beltway.” The event’s proceeds torrey smith (right), Ravens wide receiver and Terps football alumnus, embraces a local high school student Saturday, awarding her a scholarship in honor of his late brother. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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National Hillel basketball tournament attracts 29 universities

By Ryan Carbo @thedbk For The Diamondback A re sou nd i n g com motion of cheering and sneakers scuffing on the gym floor filled Reckord Armory yesterday as sweat dripped down the faces of athletes wearing basketball shorts and kippot.

The weekend marked the fourth annual National Hillel B a s ketba l l To u r n a m e nt, an event hosted by Jewish student group Hillel, that brings together hundreds of Jewish college athletes from across the country to compete for the Kiddush Cup. Although this university’s Hillel chapter has hosted the tournament for the past three years, this year’s turnout far exceeded previous records and expectations, said Reid Danels, a freshman finance major on the tou rna ment board. This year, the event boasted 34 teams registered to comp ete h a i l i n g f rom 29 universities across the country.

“It might be the largest tou rna ment across the country,” Danels said.

He said the tournament aims to raise money to help Hillel continue to support the college Jewish community.

Teams applied to participate, and Hillel required each team contribute at least $1,000 to compete. Corporate spon-

sors such as Under Armour, Pepsico and Muscle Milk also backed the tournament.

Both Mike Shrager, a senior psychology major and tournament co-chairman, and Danels said planning the event required about 10 hours of work per day since early last semester. Board members worked to line up sponsors and teams and generate hype. They planned Shabbat events, such as a Friday night Shabbat dinner with more than 500 people in attendance and recruited guest speakers and promoters such as NBA All-Star Dominique Wilkins and sports journalist and university professor Kevin Blackistone.

“Our motto was always to do it bigger a nd better than before,” said Joseph Tuchman, tournament cochairman and a sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences. “And we truly met that expectation.”

University alumna Rachel Klausner ran the tournament during the 2010-11 school year.

She said just as Shrager hoped, this year’s tournament surpassed records and goals.

“In the four years since I started [the tournament], it has far exceeded my expectations of where it would be in this time. But at the same time, I know that the students on the board now … will take it farther,” she said. “My dream is that this will make it to the

“MY DREAM IS THAT THIS WILL MAKE IT TO THE COMCAST CENTER. MAYBE WHEN MY KIDS ARE OLD ENOUGH TO COMPETE, THAT WILL HAPPEN.” RACHEL KLAUSNER

University alumna

Comcast Center. Maybe when my kids are old enough to compete, that will happen.”

Keeping with the spirit of strengthening bonds among the Jewish community across college campuses, the atmosphere of the tournament was friendly and laid-back.

However, the teams did come to win, and Tuchman said the competition was fierce as the tournament drew to a close.

This university won the ch a mpion sh ip m atch for the women’s teams, beating Texas, 38-32. This university’s men’s team also won the championship, defeating Harvard, 39-30.

“The caliber of play was unbelievable. Really, some of the most talented Jewish athletes in the country were here,” said Shrager. “It came down to a great game between Maryland and Harvard, and Maryland won, capturing the first ever title for the University of Maryland.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

Jacob susskind, Terrapins men’s basketball guard, goes for a layup while playing for the UMD Langer team at the National Hillel Basketball Tournament in Reckord Armory yesterday. The event attracted 34 teams from 29 universities across the country. lena salzbank/the diamondback

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GUARD SHATORI WALKER-KIMBROUGH scored 10 points off the bench in the No. 4-seed Terps’ victory over No. 1-seed Tennessee yesterday at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

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and third straight in three tournament games.

“We knew we could get to the rim on them, and that was my mentality,” Thomas said. “Just get to the rim and just try to get easy shots.”

Star Tennessee guard Meighan Simmons had 31 points in the contest, but her team fell short of its goal of a ninth national championship and first without legendary coach Pat Summitt.

The Lady Volunteers (29-6) played the Terps (27-6) tough on the boards, and the Terps, who entered the game with a plus-11.8 rebounding margin, finished with a 42-40 advantage. The Terps, though, were able to take advantage of second-chance opportunities off 19 offensive rebounds.

On the Terps’ first possession, guard Katie Rutan’s 3-pointer fell short of the rim, but Thomas got the rebound and finished a layup over two Tennessee defenders for the game’s first basket. There wouldn’t be a slow start leading to an insurmountable Terps deficit in yesterday’s game as there had been in the Terps’ past

games with top competition.

“The coaches just did a good job of preparing us for Tennessee,” guard Laurin Mincy said. “We knew that we had to get them on the boards to win this game, so focused on that for the last two days.”

Mincy, one of the team’s top performers during the postseason, scored eight points in her first three minutes, 20 seconds on the court. Her jumper gave the Terps a 20-9 lead at 12:49, while stingy defense prevented Tennessee from scoring on the inside.

The Lady Volunteers had 14 of their 22 turnovers in the opening period, which led to 14 points for the Terps.

Thomas scored 15 points and grabbed seven rebounds in the first half, and her 3-pointer from the right corner — her fifth converted three-point shot of the season — gave the Terps a 16-point lead at 8:48. They went scoreless for almost four minutes, but they got 10 more points before halftime to make it 41-27, which is more first-half points than they scored against UConn, Notre Dame or Duke.

Like those three teams, Tennessee had a player whom the Terps had trouble containing. Simmons had 19 points in the second half, and the

Lady Volunteers switched to a fullcourt trap in the final 10 minutes of the contest in an attempt to keep their season alive. They closed the deficit to 60-52 with 6:27 remaining.

But the Terps responded with a 10-4 run, with Mincy sinking a 3-pointer from the left corner to regain a doubledigit lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

“This is the Mincy that we know,” Thomas said. “It’s crunch time, the lights are on and she’s playing her best basketball.”

Two weeks after finding out their spot in the NCAA tournament field, the Terps are now one of two teams remaining in their region. Their Elite Eight matchup against No. 3-seed Louisville, which lost in the national title game last season, will be another game against a top-tier opponent. After the Terps finally proved they can knock off highly ranked foes, tomorrow’s contest gives them an opportunity to do it again.

“We want to continue to be under the radar,” Frese said. “Make sure nobody writes about us, talks about us, but really proud of our team and what we were able to accomplish today.” ppierrelouisdbk@gmail.com

they drove, Schaefer said.

Both Lannon and Schaefer said the worst feeling is when they miss calls for a fire, which are less common than those for medical emergencies and other issues. “[The] best feeling is when you see smoke,” he said. “You feel like you’re doing your job.”

The department has provided Lannon with the “best of both worlds” as he studies at the university to be a fire protection engineer, investigating the causes of fires. Being a firefighter gives a “well-rounded idea” of the response to any fire situation, Lannon said.

“Investigation and firefighting go hand-in-hand,” he said.

Lannon turned down a job as a career firefighter near his home in Baltimore County to volunteer at the College Park department, the town he’s lived in for almost four years. The amount of time that goes into volunteering is comparable to being a studentathlete, Lannon said.

Though the crude jokes and humor around the department highlight the camaraderie among the volunteers, Lannon said the volunteer life is more than a fraternity.

“We risk our lives together,” he said. “[That] goes far beyond drinking at a frat house.”

a junior firefighter just after he turned 16, the legal minimum for the department. His age has no effect on his job, Schaefer said. At the hospital, he tells nurses twice his age about vitals, allergies and when the patient last ate.

By the end of the night, Schaefer said he will have been up for almost 24 hours.

“We run off barely any sleep,” he said.

The volunteer schedule allows for a balance between class time during the week and full-time shifts on the weekend. Each time they work, volunteers commit to two shifts on duty and one shift off while living at the department. Shifts during the school week run from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. and then break for classes, but weekend shifts are 24 hours.

On top of this, volunteers with time available between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. — the swing shift — are expected to work.

Each fire call is a test of true character for every volunteer who responds, graduate student and department volunteer Chad Lannon said. After every fire, the team that responded takes a picture in front of the engine tamenabardbk@gmail.com

Chad Schaefer (top, left) and Herson Delgado, members of the College Park Volunteer Fire Department, respond to a call in Ellicott Hall on Friday night. Schaefer (bottom left) drives to Washington Adventist Hospital after picking up a patient from the university. A veteran’s helmet (bottom right) used to be white before battling fires. james levin/the diamondback

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Student named Cherry Blossom Princess Senior represents state at national flower festival

By Jaclyn Turner @thedbk For The Diamondback

ryan kerrigan, Washington Redskins linebacker and Battle of the Beltway co-host, speaks during the event Saturday at Comcast Center. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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lot of ways,” Smith said. “The biggest thing is that we’re able to help more people because of it. We were able to create a different kind of environment, more of a family feel this year.”

For Kerrigan, whose cousin is autistic, the charity game was a chance to raise money for a cause that hits close to home.

“That’s the goal of the foundation,” Kerrigan said.

“Any time we can raise money to help fund it, help run it, help better people’s lives, it’s a good thing.”

W h i l e t h e p l ay o n t h e hardwood wasn’t as physical as games on the gridiron, the players made sure to put on an entertaining show. At one point, Hall went up for a layup, only to have it swatted away by Ravens quarterback Tyrod Taylor.

Former Terps defensive lineman and fan favorite A.J. Francis played on Kerrigan’s squad. The boisterous Miami Dolphins lineman said before the game that he planned to earn MVP honors.

“I like that I’m not on Torrey’s team,” Francis said. “He’s been dogging me in the media the last week, talking about how I’m bad at basketball when he could never beat me in a one-on-one in his life.

He could beat me in a dunk contest and that’s it.”

The contest ended when Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones hit a put-back layup in overtime. Jones raced to the other end of the court where he was mobbed by teammates.

The celebratory ending capped an important memory to keep Jones’ memory alive, Smith said.

“Everyone’s coming together for a great cause,” Smith said. “To help our community.”

went to Smith’s and Washington Redskins linebacker Ryan Kerrigan’s foundations.

“Through the scholarship and through the help of others, it allows his name to live on,” Smith said. “He’s a b l e to h e l p o t h e rs eve n though he’s not here.”

The Torrey Smith Foundation works to provide Baltimore youths with educational support and resources, while Kerrigan’s Blitz for the Better Foundation aids seriously ill and special-needs children in the Washington area.

Kerrigan and Smith each fielded teams replete with NFL stars, making for a competitive yet lighthearted atmosphere at Comcast. While the teams consisted mostly of players from the Redskins and Ravens, several players from other teams joined them on the court. Smith’s team of mostly Ravens defeated Kerrigan’s team in overtime.

“It’s so much fun coming out here to play, because I had hoop dreams,” Cleveland Browns cornerback Joe Haden said. “If I didn’t go to the league, I definitely wanted to be a point guard.”

Among the notable players we re R a ve n s l i n e b a c k e r Terrell Suggs, Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall, Indianapolis Colts wide receiver T.Y. Hilton and San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Anquan Boldin. Hip-hop artist Wale, a Washington native who will perform at this year’s Art Attack, also participated.

Smith hosted an annual charity game each of the past three years, but this was the first time it was held at this university.

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Sen ior publ ic hea lt h major Taylor Rogers was prom queen in high school, but until recently, she had never been a princess.

That is, until the Maryland State Society selected Rogers to represent the state i n th is yea r’s Cherry Blossom Princess Program. The weeklong program, wh ich begins S u n d ay, i s p a r t of t h e annual National Cherry Blossom Festival, which honors and celebrates Japanese-American relations.

“I’m still trying to grasp what I’ve gotten myself into,” Rogers said. “And the fact that I was chosen for the whole state. It’s an honor.”

The National Conference of State Societies sponsors the Cherry Blossom Princess Program. One aspiring female leader between the age of 19 and 24 from each U.S. state and territory is selected for a series of cultural, professional and philanthropic events.

The women are selected for their scholastic achievements, speaking abilities, leadership, interest in local and global issues and commitment to service, according to the society’s website.

Rogers said she heard about the opportunity from a high school friend.

Rogers sent her resume to the Maryland State Society and was considered among fou r ot her ca nd id ates.

Rogers had the strongest application, said Maryland State Society Board President Taylor Barfield.

“She se emed l i ke a n excel lent student. She needed to be educated

SOCIOLOGY From PAGE 1 “When I thought about research, I always reserved it for the STEM fields,” Nguyen said. “I always had an interest in the social sciences; I never knew where my place in it could be.”

Lucas and Nguyen recently set up the sociology group processes lab fund to raise money for student projects and the lab, but Luca s i s con f ident t he costs of the fall semester’s projects will be covered, “even if it comes out of my pocket,” he said.

The challenge is to get ongoing support to con-

and well versed; I saw that in her resume,” said Barfield, a junior communications major at Bowie State University and 2012’s Cherry Blossom Queen.

Rogers said she always tried to be involved in the communities where she lived. In middle school, she volunteered at a library enrolling children in a summer reading program.

Rogers also spent time at this university’s Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air in high school and was a leader in training for her local Boys and Girls Club.

However, Rogers’ interest in diversity made her an ideal candidate for the program, she said.

“To be a Cherry Blossom Princess, you must be culturally aware and very giving. You must have a strong desire to learn about other cultures,” Rogers said. “I grew up in Wichita, Kan., not a very diverse place. I didn’t realize there were other cultures besides what I saw from my family.”

Rogers moved to Howard County when she was seven, expanding her worldview, she said.

“At Maryland, I saw that there was more,” she said. “I’m eager to see what’s out there; I want to see and explore.”

A f ter sta r t i ng col lege, Rogers did a few Terp Service Days but found herself wanting more opportunities for service.

A friend told her about Health Leads, a nonprofit that helps low-income families access health resources and pay for food, housing and utilities.

Rogers started as a volunteer and now interns with the program. Health Leads inspired her to switch her major from biology to public health, which allowed her to pursue her passion for civic service.

“I want to empower people and decrease poverty in the United States. There are so many people in poverty,” Rogers said. “When people asked me what I wanted to do,

I always said that I wanted to help people. I thought it would be through medicine, but now it is public health.”

Barfield said the Cherry Blossom Princess Program i s n o t a b e a u t y c o n te s t.

During the day, the women participate in philanthropic activities such as reading to children at elementary schools. At night, the princesses mingle with Japanese ambassadors and other government, cultural, military and business leaders.

Throughout the week, this year’s Cherry Blossom Queen, Mary A nne Morgan, from the Oklahoma State Society, guides the princesses through their activities. The program culminates with a grand ball, in which a Japanese ambassador will spin a wheel to choose the new queen, who will visit Japan for a two-week goodwill tour as a representative of the U.S. Rogers is also chapter vice president of the Alpha Theta Gamma Multicultural Sorority and played trumpet with the Mighty Sound of Maryland her sophomore year.

H o w e v e r, R o ge r s h a s , also experienced challenges during her time at the university, namely when her mother went into cardiac arrest last year. Her mother recovered, but Rogers had to miss a week of classes to help care for her four younger siblings.

“It was one of the worst things that ever happened to me,” she said. “It was crazy, but I pushed through. I’m still trying to repair my GPA. Just the fact that I’ve come so far since then. … It’s a thing to be proud of.”

Amber Cook, a senior psychology major and chapter president of A lpha T heta Gamma, said Rogers often helps her put things in perspective with her bright attitude.

“She lets me know that things aren’t as bad as they seem,” Cook said. “She’s always optimistic and positive and hardworking.”

Tiara Askew, a junior biology major at Bowie State University and a middle school friend of Rogers’, said she was excited to hear Rogers would be participating in the program.

“If anyone deserves it, it should be Taylor,” she said. “I can’t wait to go to the Cherry Blossom Parade to go see her.”

Rogers said she didn’t want to be a Cherry Blossom Princess for the resume boost; rather, she was proud of the recognition she earned by volunteering and was excited to be part of a group of accomplished leaders.

“Getting to be associated with powerful, strong women, and to be a part of that history … it’s going to be awesome,” she said.

tinue each semester, Lucas said. Their first bake sale fundraiser is in the works, and Lucas and Nguyen plan to reach out to alumni and organizations for support. Lucas hopes their unique plan will draw funding.

“Grad students often have funding through the university or grants like that, but undergrads don’t,” Nguyen said.

Lucas wants undergraduates to become “intellectually involved.” He tries to promote a collaborative atmosphere, with project groups meeting once a week and the entire lab meeting every other week.

“The best part of the experience for students is interaction with each other on projects,” Lucas said. “It’s them

working with each other on research and to facilitate that is, I think, a good thing.”

After teaching a 200-person lecture in the fall, Lucas recruited prospective students who are not seniors, are sociology majors and had done well in the class. Sophomore Savannah Hudson jumped on the opportunity and has enjoyed her work in the lab so far, she said.

“We all collaborate and discuss what we’ve done,” she said. “We all contribute ideas together so you really see how it works; it’s a team feel.”

Hudson hopes to focus her independent research project next semester on inequality because she specializes in social stratification.

“I enjoy a different experi-

ence separate from the classroom,” she said. “It will definitely help me decide if I want to pursue research and help me [later] in the workforce, just from working together with other professionals. I just think it’s a really great opportunity.”

Lucas is hoping his model can be used in other areas of study, providing better research opportunities to more undergraduates.

“For our campus, it’s important, as a major research university, to give students the opportunities to see how research is done,” he said. “So it’s not a lot of students, but it’s a chance to get intellectually involved in research.”

New Zealand moss keeps Eppley pool clean

By Nate Rabner @thedbk For The Diamondback On the first day of each month, Campus Recreation Services pool operations manager Matthew Quigley removes a section of tile floor at the Eppley Recreation Center Natatorium and hauls a yellow cage out of the dark water below.

It’s time to open the cage and replace the seven or eight bags that have rested in the instructional pool’s surge tank for the past month. The mesh sacks hold sodden clumps of sphagnum moss, imported from New Zealand, which help pool staff keep the water clean using less chlorine.

“We had some patrons that said it’s less harsh on their skin, on their hair,” Quigley said.

Staff started using the moss in 2011, before the university’s July 2012 decision to cut eight sports programs, including two

that practiced in the ERC pool, Quigley said.

“We had the swim team, which spent five to six hours a day in the pool — they really liked it,” he said.

We also had water polo. … They said they could breathe easier.”

CRS received a grant for more than $64,000 for the 2010-11 academic year from the University Sustainability Fund so it could set up the moss filtration system.

The moss costs about $40,000 per year and reduces spending on chemicals by about $38,000 — a good investment, Quigley said.

“We’re always looking to try and turn something into a sustainable effort,” he said.

Each pool has its own surge tank, which holds water that is displaced when more swimmers climb in. A pump keeps water flowing through the tank, allowing the moss to filter the water.

Sphagnum moss releases pH buffers that make water more resistant to changes in acidity. This makes it easier to keep a pool’s pH

between 7.2 and 7.4, the range in which chlorine is most effective as a sanitizer, said Gina Chavez, operations vice president at Creative Water Solutions, the Minnesotabased company that supplies the moss for the Eppley pools.

The moss’s brown leaves carry a negative charge that attracts cations such as calcium and magnesium, pulling the metals out of the water. Chavez said the moss also stops biological contaminants from building up on pool filters.

Creative Water Solutions sends the university a year’s worth of moss at a time. The 1.2 million-gallon competition pool requires 47 bags of moss, and the outdoor recreational pool takes 14. Overall, staff use about 84 bags at a time.

Halfway through the month, the pool staff removes the moss to fluff it, mixing the chlorinebleached outer layer of each clump with fresher leaves from the inside.

“It’s cool because it’s innova-

tive, but at the same time, I don’t know, I was expecting something bigger. … It just looks like such an unassuming thing,” said Kathy Haines, a public policy graduate student who saw the moss during a sustainability tour earlier this month.

Quigley said the university might be able to recycle used-up moss in the future — for instance, as a moisture-holding blanket to help grass grow. She said she hopes Creative Water Solutions will be able to grow the moss in the U.S. to eliminate the environmental impact of shipping it across the ocean.

“There’s some cost to transport from New Zealand, but I think it’s better to dare and be bold and try new things than to just say, ‘Oh, you know, we spent so much carbon to get here.’ … They’ll keep refining the idea until it does make good economic and environmental sense,” she said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Taylor rogers, who was selected as the state’s Cherry Blossom Princess, shows off her tiara.

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bikeUMD looks to attract female bikers Emily Cheung has never been to bikeUMD’s annual bike week. In her sixth semester at this university, Cheung, a junior Chinese and psychology major, brought her bike to the campus but has yet to use it. bikeUMD is hoping to change that with their first ever women-focused biking event. bikeYo, a new program at this year’s fair, combines a biking trip and a yoga lesson to encourage more women to take up cycling.

Read the rest of staff writer Joelle Lang’s story and more at diamondbackonline.com.

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ver since university President Wallace Loh took office in 2010, this editorial board has encouraged nearly every development or renovation proposed to improve the area surrounding the campus.

We have supported developing East Campus, erecting Oakland and Prince Frederick halls and redeveloping the Maryland Book Exchange, and we have conditionally supported Knox Village and other initiatives.

We hope to see College Park turn around as Hyattsville has in the past few years, and we already have seen improvements. New, attractive dorms have improved the beauty of the campus and made space for Freshmen Connection students, which will allow them greater connection with the campus community.

Yet another project is in the works, this one near the city’s Metro station, with county officials looking for developers to design a transit-oriented community set to include lodging, residential, retail and office spaces.

There are not yet any specifics in place for the development, but it is located in an area that university officials have not yet addressed.

This is somewhat understandable, as the location is a bit removed from the campus, but it is close enough that it can improve the university community’s aesthetics. The proposed area is within walking distance of the Green Line and the Purple Line, once the latter is built.

It also would service the M Square

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Research Park and the College Park Airport, along with students and faculty from the university.

This Metro station is not the only one set to have communities built up around it. There are plans in place for University Town Center development at the Prince George’s Plaza Metro Station and the potential FBI headquarters in Greenbelt. With so many similar projects receiving positive buzz, our Metro area’s proposed development is bound to yield positive results.

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The proposed development around the College Park Metro Station has promise only if we take the necessary precautions to ensure community safety.

The new proposal promises to help the local economy, as people will be attracted toward businesses, hopefully stimulating economic growth.

This editorial board still has some reservations, though. It is difficult, however, to fully endorse an idea that could have detrimental impacts on the community.

Communities surrounding Metro stations continue to face high crime rates. From 2008 to 2012, crimes such as aggravated assault, arson, burglary, homicide, larceny, motor

vehicle theft, rape and robbery along the rail line not only increased substantially but also far outranked crimes in parking lots, buses and other transportationrelated locations, according to the Metro Transit Police Department Five-Year Crime Report.

These facts are concerning. And according to an article on The Source, a transportation news website, crime rates in areas surrounding Metro transit stations surpass the rates of crime along the rails.

Crime rates won’t necessarily rise if this development near our Metro station comes to fruition, but we need to discuss preventative measures in the planning process.

Especially with crime rates declining in our campus community, we shouldn’t make moves that could risk raising that rate.

If the necessary precautions such as security and safety measures are put in place, this project could attract a much-needed demographic to the area to improve the quality of life in this city. As the community aims to provide a place for professionals working in the area or commuting to Washington, it could place College Park on the map as a viable place to live for people other than college students. But for that to happen, the community can’t lose sight of the city’s safety goals, or professionals and commuters undoubtedly will avoid the place, rendering the project worthless.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

Banning ‘bossy’ and all its connotations and stop asserting themselves in school, extracurriculars and even their home lives.

No one, not even my parents, batted an eye when I was called a little bossy girl back in the late ’90s. In fact, my parents still call me bossy to this day, which I’m not too fond of.

Now, a little less than 20 years later, society is finally starting to notice the repercussions of the word bossy. Thanks to a campaign called Ban Bossy, started by the Girl Scouts and Lean In, telling society to stop demarcating young girls with adjectives like bossy. The campaign does an excellent job explaining how the word affects young girls, how parents can encourage their daughters to rise above the word’s use and how the term is almost never applied to boys.

Everyone, especially educators and parents, needs to join Ban Bossy’s campaign and educate the rest of society how just one word can paralyze an assertive, young girl from turning into a leader. Most importantly, women and girls of any age, from 6 to 60, need to rise above “bossy” and appreciate their assertive natures and leadership qualities.

Granted, girls and boys alike can be guilty of overasserting themselves on the playground or in the classroom. For example, on a few occasions I had to be held down in timeout because I refused to listen to my teachers’ directions. However, educators, parents and peers need to recognize calling girls and boys bossy diminishes their leadership skills and encourages them to retreat into a shell of defeat created by society. If we can successfully ban bossy, then we can help encourage both young girls and boys to be positive leaders.

MAGGIE CASSIDY

B o s sy. Ag g re s s ive . S t u b born. Pushy.

These words all are used to describe girls and women who are more assertive than others.

However, words such as leader, trailblazer and confident are used to describe boys and men who are more assertive.

Unfortunately, I am no stranger to being called adjectives associated with assertive women. When I was little, my preschool teachers told my parents they referred to me as “little boss girl” because I always spoke up when I was not a fan of something. Whether it was because I didn’t like the snack that day or because I told Davy he was hogging the tire swing, I always asserted myself one way or another. Unfortunately, my teachers construed my assertions as bossy behavior.

Now I don’t know what my teachers told Davy’s parents when he decided he would be the line leader for the day or when he insisted on passing out the juice boxes, but I bet they did not call him bossy. I bet our teachers called him a natural leader, someone who took the reins without hesitation, whereas I was called bossy, someone inclined to dominate or be dictatorial over a group of 5-year-olds.

Thankfully, my “bossiness” did not stop me from possessing self-confidence and achieving leadership goals throughout my life. However, being branded with adjectives like bossy, agg re s s i ve a n d s t u b b o r n c a n prevent young girls from being p os i t ive , a sse r t ive l ea d e rs ; Maggie Cassidy is a sophomore young girls become ashamed English major. She can be reached of being called these names at mcassidydbk@gmail.com.

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All speech is free, even opposition EMMA ATLAS “I disapprove of what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” This quote, commonly attributed to French philosopher Voltaire, doesn’t seem applicable to modern-day college students on a free-thinking campus. Unlike people living during the French Enlightenment, we have a thousand avenues of communication, and in College Park, at least, there’s no culture of killing people for their opinions.

It’s possible, from where we stand, to lose sight of the full extent of freedom of speech. To beat a dead horse, columnist Tiffany Burba has the right to say anything she likes about flirting or smoking. Students have the right to bicker about her column on social media. It’s hard to imagine the government or any higher power blocking such conversations.

In Australia, however, there is a law called the Racial Discrimination Act, which restricts speech that might “offend, insult, humiliate, or intimidate” on the basis of race or ethnicity. Australian Attorney General George Brandis is leading the charge to remove everything but “intimidate” from the law. Brandis said the rule should be removed because people “have a right to be bigots.”

I agree with Brandis, and on this subject alone, I stand with bigots.

Freedom of speech grants us the right to say anything and everything.

The only exclusions are speech that incites clear and present danger, libel and slander and language that compromises national security. The Supreme Court protects hate speech under the First Amendment, with the exception of “fighting” words that incite an immediate breach of peace.

It is fortunate no legislation like the Racial Discrimination Act exists in the United States, but it is also important to be mindful of why that is the case. As a society, we can aspire to tolerance, but if tolerance became a legal mandate, we would have given up something much greater to obtain it.

Under U.S. law, for example, the Westboro Baptist Church is free to protest military funerals and protest against gay rights in public spaces.

Objectively, this is hate speech. I think everyone except the church’s members would be pleased if the group’s protests were ruled illegal.

But what if saying that is offensive? The Westboro Baptist Church has a right to exist, even if I don’t like what it has to say, and maybe it’s humiliating for the church’s members to be brought up in an example of hate speech. So maybe it’s now illegal for me speak against their hate speech.

Maybe it’s illegal to use ad hominem attacks against them. Maybe now it’s illegal to be rude.

Speaker by speaker, we can shut down almost anything on the basis

of its offensiveness. Many musicians directly address President Obama and former presidents in offensive music. Pro-abortion rights columns are offensive to people who are antiabortion. Speech in favor of LGBT rights is offensive to people whose religions oppose it. Shutting up one group on the basis of protection by race, gender or beliefs is grounds to shut everyone up.

None of this ugliness should happen. It always does, and in all likelihood it always will, but we can hope people will treat one another better.

We can’t, however, demand it. The discussion in Australia is a cautionary tale for us: The people we don’t agree with don’t have their own set of rights; they have ours, and we have to learn to share. When we defend to the death our own right to speak, we’re fighting for everyone else, too.

As a primarily liberal university, we sometimes seem monochrome in opinion, and it’s too easy to disregard opposition as “offensive.”

If we wanted to cast out Burba for expressing her opinions, the people who stand outside Stamp Student Union for saying racist things about the president and our conservative roommates for disagreeing with us, we have that power. All we have to do is give up our right to speak in return.

Emma Atlas is a junior government and politics and journalism major. She can be reached at eatlasdbk@gmail.com.

t this moment, about 700 million people around the world are suffering from water scarcity.

Seven hundred million people, about twice the number of U.S. citizens, face difficulty fulfilling their basic water needs, according to a 2012 U.N. World Water Development Report.

It might seem that such an issue exists peripherally, that it’s relegated to isolated places and marginalized peoples, and that we can simply forget the travails of the Third World because, as they say, if it’s out of sight, it’s out of mind.

Sub-Saharan Africa has the greatest number of water-stressed nations of any region in the world.

According to the World Water Organization, the average African family uses five gallons of water per day.

Comparatively, the average American uses 100 to 176 gallons of water per day. North Americans are the highest per capita water users in the world and use two-and-a-half times the amount of water Europeans use per person, the U.N. report stated.

Water scarcity disproportionately affects different regions of the world, and too often those nations that lack the essential tools for healthy lifestyles face even greater food and water shortages as time goes on because of climate change. Too frequently, the nations with the highest water consumption per capita and the greatest capability to make progress in sustainability turn a blind eye to worldwide water scarcity.

Continuing our policy of indifference toward water scarcity would only enable the issue to keep growing and would condemn nearly half of the global population to highly water-stressed areas by 2030, according to the U.N. water scarcity website. Instead, we can and should be active participants in the movement to ensure clean water for all.

By making small changes to our lifestyles, each person can make

an enormous difference in the lives of many. As members of a modern, industrialized society, there are many steps we can still take to combat water scarcity.

With 176 gallons of water to work down from, you can easily feel empowered by making a difference every day.

By reducing your personal water consumption, you can help decrease worldwide demand for water. The average American faucet flows at a rate of three gallons of water per minute, so start by turning off the water when you brush your teeth or shave. Reduce that shower time to five minutes — it may seem like an unattainable goal, but try turning off the water when applying shampoo or conditioner and getting a low-flow shower head. Save water and money at the same time by only doing laundry when you have a full load of clothes.

Last but certainly not least, let go of the coffee. Each cup of coffee requires 37 gallons of water to produce, and if every person in the world drank one cup of coffee per day, 32 trillion gallons of water would be used each year, according to a National Geographic report.

Water allows life to exist and flourish.

As one individual in a world of many, take it upon yourself to not take water for granted when others fight each day to scrounge up enough water to survive.

In doing so, you will persuade others to do the same. Our potential to achieve water sustainability is bounded by no barrier greater than ourselves.

“What Will YOU(md) Do?” Sustainability Pledge, begins Wednesday and runs through April 8. During this week, choose to bring the issue of water scarcity into your life and pledge to reduce your water use. Learn more and take the pledge at www.whatwillyoumddo.org.

Maya Spaur is a freshman environmental science and technology and government and politics major. She is a member of the Student Government Association’s Student Sustainability Committee. She can be contacted at mspaur@terpmail.umd.edu.

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MARCH COMES IN LIKE A LION AND GOES OUT LIKE A BLOCKBUSTER Summer movie season used to start in June, during the actual summer. Now, blockbuster epics are being released in late March; Noah hit theaters Friday. Visit diamondbackonline.com to get senior staff writer Warren Zhang’s take on this trend.

FACEOFF | SHOULD WE STILL CARE ABOUT SUPERHERO MOVIES?

testing the balance of power Captain America: Winter Soldier comes out in theaters Friday, begging the question: Is it worth seeing if it’s just another superhero movie? photos courtesy of forbes.com and digitaltrends.com

NO: WE’RE TIRED OF SUPERHEROES SAVING THE DAY

YES: SUPERHERO FILMS CAN STILL PACK A PUNCH

By Zöe DiGiorgio @zozoembie Staff writer This week is an exciting one for comic book fans: Captain America: The Winter Soldier hits the big screen Friday.

For everyone else, this movie is barely more than a blip on their radars. And not without reason: Amid the influx of trailers for X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and the endless casting rumors for DC Comic’s upcoming Batman-Superman film, film studios seem to plan on churning out these superhero spin-offs, reboots and cliched origin stories until the end of time.

While there has been a lot of redundancy in the genre so far, superhero movies are just scratching the surface of their potential.

My attraction to superhero films stems from more than my love for carefully crafted action sequences and stunning graphics. I’m fascinated by how these movies adapt the source comics in unique ways, layering the superhero stories with deeper reflections on human nature and contemporary social events.

Look at the Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire, for example. When the first film came out in 2002, its record-breaking weekend box office profits made national headlines. People scratched their heads, struggling to understand how a superhero movie would be so popular.

For many, this isn’t just any superhero flick, though.

It’s more than flashy visuals or fight scenes; the story of bullied nerd Peter Parker transforming into the beloved masked webslinger appeals to a broad audience in a way that other hero tales can’t match. Released post-9/11, the film provided catharsis for a troubled public needing

to know an average person could make a difference in the world.

Superhero movies are especially potent at tellinga variety of stories in a unique way. The upcoming X-Men film Days of Future Past is causing widespread excitement among fans of the mutant hero team.

Though there have been six other X-Men films to date, this one is set to visit one of the series’s most popular story arcs, in which a mutant is sent back in time to help the X-Men stop the destruction of society and prevent a mutant genocide.

Audiences have always connected with the X-Men series on a deeply personal level; over the years, the team has represented or stood in for various real-life marginalized populations. Because the mutants are “born different,” the characters have been used to explore social issues such as race, gender, religion and, most recently, sexuality. Openly gay director Bryan Singer, who previously directed X-Men and X2, will be returning for the most epic and thought-provoking X-Men film yet, which will feature overt references to the Holocaust and various struggles for civil rights, along with a fight to prevent a dystopian future.

The Iron Man series explored the business interests behind war. Nolan’s Batman trilogy looked at various issues in post-9/11 America. Sure, superhero movies have some work to do. True, reboots and retreads of origin stories are getting old. Yet there is still a lot of untapped potential for the genre. Stories of the little guy fighting against a variety of challenges, both metaphorical and literal, relate to the universal human condition. For that reason, superhero movies will still have considerable power (pun unintended) at the box office for years to come. zdigiorgiodbk@gmail.com

By Brianna Patterson @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback It’s probably the oldest story known to man.

The world is in danger. An evil antagonist, either in the form of a villain or natural disaster, threatens the existence of mankind — or at least those living in New York or Los Angeles. But alas, a supernatural human being — or a rich guy with a costume and gadgets — comes to the rescue and saves the city from imminent destruction, in the process winning the hearts of grateful citizens and his desired love interest.

So goes the plotline of every superhero movie. The story is predictable and overdone, yet every summer the public is greeted with another installment of a superhero franchise — and I’m tired of them.

The early 2000s brought a resurgence of superhero admiration as better special effects allowed for upgraded versions of classic superhero films. But the trend has gotten out of hand. Every year, we’re plagued by another movie with the same hackneyed storyline but a different guy in tights.

It wouldn’t be so bad if we weren’t seeing the same superheroes again and again: Iron Man, Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine. Only five years after the final installment

of the Spider-Man trilogy featuring Tobey Maguire, an all-new reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man, hit theaters. And the sequel to Man Of Steel will put Superman back on the big screen for the second time since 2006’s Superman Returns. It seems every year there’s another Iron Man shoved down our throats, and The Avengers went one step further and put a cadre of playedout superheroes in the same film. The success of the genre is being carried by the same few superheroes. We get numerous sequels because the more obscure or less popular superhero films flop in the box office: Green Hornet, Catwoman, Green Lantern, Daredevil and many more.

The industry became a bit too cocky after the successes of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. Yet he used his films to reimagine the story. His series was a deviation from the deranged and almost comical counterparts produced

by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher in 1989 and 1997, respectively.

We need a break from superhero movies. With the same plotlines, they are simply turning into a worn-out jumble of CGI effects and witty lines.

It’s time for the film industry to either try something new or take a superhero hiatus — I’m sure the world will be safe in their absence. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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Terps struggle at plate in pair of losses to Clemson Bullpen spoils another solid outing from Stinnett on Friday; Terps score two runs against strong Tigers pitching

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer Terrapins baseball shortstop Blake Schmit stood on third base, hands on his hips, as designated hitter Kyle Convissar strolled to the plate with one out in the first inning against Clemson on Friday. The Terps were coming off a three-game series in which they scored 22 runs and looked set to continue their hot hitting. But both Convissar and catcher Kevin Martir struck out, and Schmit was stranded at third.

While the Terps faced one of the ACC’s top offenses this weekend, it was their hitting — not their pitching — that doomed them in a shortened two-game series sweep against No. 20 Clemson at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium. Familiar offensive problems, such as situational hitting, from earlier ACC play resurfaced one week after a sweep of N.C. State.

“That was probably the best team we played all year on that day,” coach John Szefc said. “Florida State was very good at their place, but on that given day, that was probably the best team we played this year.

They pitched the best. They played the best defense.”

The Terps staked early leads on the way to last weekend’s sweep but scored two runs in Friday’s doubleheader, neither of which came before the seventh inning. While Clemson entered the series in the lower part of the ACC with a 4.61 ERA, Tigers right-hander Daniel Gossett and lefthander Matthew Crownover combined to pitch 17 innings and allowed 12 hits while striking out 15 Terps. The Tigers (17-9, 8-3 ACC) turned to the bullpen just once against the Terps (16-8, 5-6).

The Terps, who have lost just once after scoring first, had chances to score early in Game 1, putting runners in scoring position in three of the first four innings in a 3-1 loss.

But the Terps went 0-for-5 with

three strikeouts and one walk in those key situations.

After those wasted opportunities, Gossett started mowing down the Terps, allowing four hits in the next four innings. And while pinch-hitter Michael Montville’s eighth-inning solo homer to center tied the game at 1-1, the Terps showed no real threat of an extended rally, with no other runner advancing past first in the final five innings.

Right-hander Jake Stinnett made his second straight quality start, pitching eight innings of one-run ball, but the normally reliable bullpen faltered late.

In the ninth, right-hander Brandon Casas gave up a leadoff double and was immediately pulled for righthander Kevin Mooney, the Terps closer. But the Tigers’ next batter, first baseman Shane Kennedy, drove in the go-ahead run with a triple off the center-field fence. Kennedy went 4-for-4 with a solo home run, two RBIs and two runs scored.

After that loss, the Terps had 45

minutes to regroup before playing the second game of the doubleheader, a schedule caused by expected inclement weather that prompted them to move yesterday’s game to Friday.

And the defeat seemed to linger.

Right-hander Mike Shawaryn gave up four runs in the first inning in a 7-1 loss, his first of the season. In his six previous starts, Shawaryn had given up six runs (five earned).

The Terps offense never responded, and by the time they pushed a run across in the seventh, the Tigers were up 6-1. Crownover threw a complete game and gave up four hits and no walks while striking out nine.

“Well, with the ACC as tough as it is, you got to bounce back pretty quick,” Szefc said. “We really weren’t able to do that. … Their second starter might have been better than the first guy.”

The series finale was canceled after heavy rain Saturday and yesterday made Shipley Field unplayable.

While the Terps offense was unable

to generate runs this weekend, the pitchers understand that the type of run support they enjoyed last weekend won’t always be available.

Over a long season, the offense will strive for consistency but not always achieve it. But the Terps have other facets of the game they can rely upon to win games, such as pitching and defense.

“The offense isn’t always going to be there,” Stinnett said. “We rely on our pitching to be consistent day in and day out. Sometimes the offense isn’t going to be there. Our pitchers, we know, whether you have run support or not, your plan of attack stays the same.”

TERPS NOTE: Schmit fouled a ball off home plate that hit his face in the eighth inning of Game 1 and had to leave the game. He didn’t return for Game 2.

Szefc said he had a “minor concussion” and might be able to return for Wednesday’s game against Liberty. psuittsdbk@gmail.com

GUARD SHATORI WALKER-KIMBROUGH celebrates during the Terps’ upset win over Tennessee yesterday. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

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MIDFIELDER HENRY WEST raises his arms after one of his three goals in the No. 4 Terps’ 9-6 win over No. 8 Virginia. christian jenkins/the diamondback

cavaliers From PAGE 8 of nine faceoffs but displayed more patience after securing the initial ground ball. As a result, the Terps (8-1, 3-1 ACC) limited the Cavaliers (8-3, 1-2) to nine minutes, 30 seconds of possession in the final two quarters.

“I thought Charlie really settled in and really showed some maturity,” Tillman said.

“He took what they gave him, which says a lot.”

The Terps — who commit-

eagles From PAGE 8 Cummings’ 52 total draw controls entering Saturday’s game, but issues in the circle persisted in the second half Saturday. The Eagles standing outside of the draw circle often beat the Terps to loose balls to win draw controls.

Boston College went on a 5-0 run early in the second half as it continued to secure possessions.

“We let them get the first step on us, which I think was a problem,” Cummings said.

With the Terps leading 6-5 with 24:27 left, Reese made a change on the draw. She replaced Collins with Cummings, and midfielder Zoe Stukenberg began taking the

ted a season-high 17 turnovers, including 13 in the first half, while rain poured throughout the contest — exploded for four straight goals during the first 10 minutes of the third quarter to build a 7-5 lead they never relinquished. Midfielder Henry West, who made his first start of the season Sunday, capped the stretch with his third goal of the afternoon.

Amato made a save on attackman Mark Cockerton’s shot from point-blank range with 9:32 left in the third quarter to keep the Terps’ run intact.

Cocke rton e nte re d the contest with 32 goals, but the Terps held him scoreless, the first time he’s gone without a goal this season. That effort was part of a stifling performance for the Terps, whose defense proved to be the difference in a second-half turnaround.

“I’m really proud of the way they responded at halftime,” Tillman said. “And on a really not-so-great weather day, the guys found a way.”

draw. The adjustment didn’t work, and the Eagles scored nine seconds after controlling the draw to tie the game.

After using a methodical offensive approach in the first half, the Eagles attacked the Terps defense quickly and found success in the second period. Boston College scored three goals in less than a minute and added another at the 19:39 mark to take an 8-6 lead.

Trailing by two goals, Reese sent Kift in to replace Clipp.

“We weren’t making many saves to start the second half,” Reese said. “They were getting some good looks on goal, so we decided to make a switch.”

Along with the change in net, midfielder Deb Milani started to take the draws.

With Milani rectifying the

Terps’ draw control issues and Kift providing a solid presence in net, the Terps began their own comeback in the second half behind Cummings, who hadn’t recorded a goal in either of the Terps’ past two contests.

The sophomore scored two more goals to complete a hat trick, sandwiching midfielder Beth Glaros’ score to regain a 9-8 lead for the Terps with 15:30 remaining.

But Milani lost the next draw, and the Eagles responded 21 seconds later to tie the game at nine.

Down the stretch, both teams’ offensive production slowed after the teams combined to score nine goals in the first 15 minutes of the second half.

Kift helped keep the score

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out, which you saw with the different possessions that took place.”

The Lady Volunteers had more success getting to the rim in the second half and drew more fouls on their layup attempts. Simmons handled the ball with more care as she drove in to the lane, earning trips to the line instead of turning the ball over. Her free throw with 6:27 left cut the deficit to eight, the closest Tennessee got in the second half.

By the game’s closing minutes, the Lady Volunteers’ possession issues returned, and three of their eight second-half turnovers came in the final three minutes and seven seconds.

“You can’t win the ballgame when you’ve got 20-plus turnovers,” Tennessee forward Cierra Burdick said. “We couldn’t get into a rhythm offensively, and we weren’t getting the stops that we needed defensively. Give Maryland all the credit.

They came out and played a heck of a ballgame.”

Frese’s pregame analysis of the Lady Volunteers helped the Terps devise an effective game plan. The aggressive play on defense hampered Tennessee’s typically high-powered offense, helping the Terps record their biggest win of the season.

“I’m really proud of the fact that our kids played for Maryland and played with a lot of confidence, were never intimidated and really played for each other,” Frese said. “I thought you saw us really get after it defensively — dominated.”

Lexie Brown. Brown, who tied her career high with five steals, slapped the ball out of Simmons’ hands as she dashed by, and forward Alyssa Thomas scored and put back a missed shot on the ensuing possession to give the Terps a 4-3 lead.

With 12:26 remaining in the first half, Simmons drove to the left side of the rim, but when she rose for a floater, center Brionna Jones knocked the ball loose. Thomas picked it up and led the fast break before getting fouled and hitting both free throws, increasing the Terps’ lead to 22-9.

The Terps almost matched their season average in steals during the first half, and their 14 forced turnovers in the half helped them build a comfortable 41-27 lead.

“When we came out in the first half, we were really locked in, being able to keep them in front against the dribble drives.” Frese said.

“Did a phenomenal job in terms of being able to get that spread.”

The Terps struggled on offense at times, including a five-minute, 22-second stretch in the first half in which they missed 11 of 12 field goals, making their defensive performance a key factor in their strong start.

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tied with three consecutive saves on one Eagles possession. Collins then found the back of the net for the lone goal in the final 15 minutes of the game, a score that decided the result.

Despite the Eagles dominating possession on draw controls, the Terps rallied behind a hat trick from Cummings and big saves from their backup goalkeeper to remain undefeated.

“Emily came in as a freshman with a bunch of confidence and made three saves that we really needed,” Cummings said. “She took the pressure and she ran with it, and we all kind of rallied behind her.”

MIDFIELDER BETH GLAROS attempts to beat a defender and pick up a ground ball during the rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com No. 2 Terps’ 10-9 win over No. 4 Boston College on Saturday. chester lam/the diamondback

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NCAA TOURNAMENT | WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

WOMEN’S LACROSSE | No. 2 TERPS 10, No. 4 EAGLES 9

MIDFIELDER TAYLOR CUMMINGS and the Terps controlled nine draws to Boston College’s 11 in their 10-9 victory Saturday afternoon. Coach Cathy Reese tweaked her team’s lineup in the second half. chester lam/the diamondback

Lineup changes help Terps sneak by Eagles Boston College controls more draws, but Collins nets game-winner late in ACC game CENTER ALICIA DEVAUGHN (left) and guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough (right) tie up Tennessee forward Bashaara Graves yesterday. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

STEALING AWAY No. 4-seed Terps defense leads to upset of No. 1-seed Tennessee

at the KFC Yum! Center yesterday.

Tennessee, which averaged 16.4 turnovers per game entering yesterday, had 22 in the contest, and the Terps turned those into 19 points in an upset win that sets up LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Brenda Frese studied film of Tennes- their ninth Elite Eight appearance in program history.

“I really felt like we could be getting that message see before the Terrapins women’s basketball team’s Sweet 16 matchup against the Lady Volunteers and to our team to be able to understand how aggressive took note of the stingy backcourt defense of guards we could be,” Frese said. “So that was important in Meighan Simmons and Andraya Carter. But when terms of being able to get steals and being able to the coach compared the statistics of both teams, she cause turnovers.”

The Terps got their first steal in the opening two realized the Terps averaged more steals per game this minutes when Simmons drove to her right and tried season than Tennessee did.

Frese emphasized this point in preparation, and to slice between center Alicia DeVaughn and guard she watched the No. 4-seed Terps collect 13 steals in their 73-62 win over the No. 1-seed Lady Volunteers See defense, Page 7

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer The Terrapins women’s lacrosse team entered its matchup against No. 4 Boston College on a 12-game winning streak and owning a 196-96 advantage in the draw circle. As the No. 2 Terps controlled the first four draws against the Eagles on Saturday afternoon, their dominance appeared primed to continue.

But the Eagles earned possession on the final six draws of the first half to control the tempo of the game. After trailing 4-0 early, Boston College rallied to take an 8-6 lead with 19:39 remaining in the game behind their success in the draw circle.

The Terps, however, overcame Boston College’s 11-9 edge on draw controls, mounted a comeback and secured a 10-9 victory against the Eagles at the Field Hockey and La-

crosse Complex.

Goalkeeper Emily Kift, who replaced Abbey Clipp in the second half, made three crucial late-game saves, and midfielder Erin Collins netted the game-winning goal with 4:19 to play.

“They came in and fought until the very end, and we did the same thing, which was great,” coach Cathy Reese said. “We saw a lot of good things from our team despite some challenges we had throughout the game.”

Reese made multiple substitutions during the second half in an attempt to spark her team. Though the Terps (13-0, 4-0 ACC) controlled the opening draw, they quickly turned over the ball, and Boston College (8-3, 1-3) held possession for 10 minutes after the miscue.

T h e Te r p s ra n ke d fo u r t h i n the country in draw controls per game behind midfielder Taylor See eagles, Page 7

MEN’S LACROSSE | No. 4 TERPS 9, No. 8 CAVALIERS 6

Terps weather Virginia attack in comeback victory West’s five points help team rebound from last weekend’s defeat against ACC rival

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer Entering yesterday’s game with Virginia, Terrapins men’s lacrosse coach John Tillman knew his defense wouldn’t be fast enough to prevent the Cavaliers sharpshooters from rifling long-distance shots. Taking away those looks would require aggressive overextension, so Tillman opted to pack his defense in, trusting goalkeeper Niko Amato to watch the ball well and make important saves.

But during the first half of the contest, Tillman’s game plan backfired. Cavaliers midfielders Zed Williams, Ryan Tucker and Rob Emery scored goals on low-sailing shots from at least 12 yards out before the 12minute mark in the second quarter.

The No. 4 Terps entered halftime trailing by two goals, but their defense locked down in the second half. The game plan didn’t change, and the defense continued to give the No. 8 Cavaliers outside shots, but the Terps’ defenders picked up the speed of their help defense and slides. Plus, Amato made four saves in net and surrendered just one goal to Virginia’s potent offense in the second half.

The adjustments resulted in a dominant second-half performance from the Terps, who outscored the Cavaliers by five goals in the final 30 minutes to

earn a 9-6 victory in their final ACC home game at Byrd Stadium.

“We knew they had a lot of talented players and a lot of big-time outside shooters,” defender Matt Dunn said.

“We knew we were going to slide to them, but we were a little slow in our recoveries at first. And then we just sped it up. … Everybody played with a little more pep in their step, and we got out to their shooters.”

Besides tightening up defensive rotations, Dunn said the key to the Terps’ defensive success in the second half was adjusting to the tendencies of the Cavaliers’ attacking players. He noted game film shows only so much about opposing players, and stepping on the field provides new challenges that require fine-tuning during the contest.

“As the game goes on, you get more of a feel for playing with them,” Dunn said. “You get to feel the speed of their offense … so you kind of know their tendencies coming off the picks and when they’re going to set them.”

Another crucial aspect of the Terps’ second-half comeback was the play of faceoff specialist Charlie Raffa, who battled long pole Nate Menninger for the majority of the afternoon. Raffa won seven of 10 faceoffs in the first half but gave a couple of possessions away when he rushed to get rid of the ball.

In the second half, Raffa won seven See cavaliers, Page 7 MIDFIELDER HENRY WEST checks a Virginia player during the Terps’ rain-soaked victory over the Cavaliers at Byrd Stadium yesterday. christian jenkins/the diamondback