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B.o.B to play Art Attack Student Entertainment Events gives clues to students on Twitter about this year’s performer for the May 4 concert

BY LAURA BLASEY Staff writer

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Forum on UMB alliance gives glimpse of details Panelists stress that alliance will not cut programs

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer

Although officials are still hammering out the details for a strategic alliance between this university and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, university community members got their first glimpse of these plans at a town hall forum yesterday.

A panel of administrators from both universities described several initiatives for the MPowering the State partnership, including a joint public health school and joint bioinformatics center — plans they said would provide greater opportunities for students and faculty at the two campuses. Many deans and administrators, but few students, made up the more than 100member audience that packed into the Grand Ballroom Lounge in the Stamp Student Union, raising questions about funding issues and the benefits to be gained from the partnership.

University President Wallace Loh said at the forum that entrepreneurship and innovation will be one of the alliance’s primary initiatives, along with expanding interdisciplinary work and globalization.

“We have to focus on converting ideas into impact,” Loh said. “As President Obama has said, we are facing a Sputnik moment.”

Officials estimated the full cost of implementing the partnership would be about $43.7 million over the next decade, but when the question of funding was brought up at the forum, panelists stressed that the alliance will expand programs, not cut them.

“We’ve worked under the assumption that the vast majority of these things will require new funding of different sources,” UMB Chief Academic and Research Officer Bruce Jarrell said. “We’re not talking about dismantling current programs; we’re talking about adding to the current programs on both campuses.”

Vice President for Research Patrick O’Shea added the alliance will likely attract more grants, noting that the combined research dollars brought in by the university and UMB would make the alliance No. 5 in the nation for research funding — a ranking he said will only improve through increased collaboration.

Public health school Dean Robert Gold said a joint public health school would allow students to capitalize on the resources of both campuses. Provost Ann Wylie said the universities would share administrative responsibility for the school;

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get ready to get savage University students featured in premiere episode of MTV show

BY QUINN KELLEY Staff writer

The cameras were rolling when he stopped by the campus about 14 months ago to answer students’ questions about sex.

And tonight, relationship and sex advice columnist Dan Savage is making this university the star of the premiere episode of Savage U, a new MTV reality show that follows Savage and his producer Lauren Hutchinson as they travel to college campuses nationwide to talk sex and relationships with students.

Savage was still piloting the series when he hosted a Q&A session with students on the campus last January. According to an MTV press release, the show will explore both the commonly asked questions and the taboo topics about sex such as relationship building, online dating and fetishes.

Savage said in a telephone press conference last Wednesday that he hopes Savage U will empower students to start dialogues about these subjects.

“I hoped I would be able to speak on TV about sex the way I’ve been able to

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Former Diamondback sports writer recalls his days reporting on a national champion

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will be coming to our university three days after the release of his second album. I personally think B.o.B is the absolute best choice for what we had to work with.”

In previous years, SEE has hosted Weezer, Ben Folds, Ludacris and Nelly. Last year some students said they were disappointed with SEE’s Art Attack choice, saying Nelly was outdated and listening to him made them flashback to their middle school and high school years.

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COVERING THE GLORY DAYS Ten years ago this week, the Terrapins men’s basketball team won the program’s first and only national championship. The Washington Times sports reporter Patrick Stevens covered the Terps for The Diamondback during their title season, and he spoke with the paper about the impetus for the championship, the student-ticketing process of yore and the moment he knew what ultimately happened on April 1, 2002, was possible.

DBK: What was the feeling around the team heading into the season on the campus, especially with it coming off its first Final Four appearance the previous season?

PS: I would say there was definitely this sense of anticipation, given

In 140 characters or less, Student Entertainment Events officials clued students in to Art Attack’s headliner five days before the announcement that B.o.B will headline this year’s 29th annual concert with special guest hip-hop group The Dean’s List on May 4.

B.oB’s second album, Strange Clouds, is scheduled to be released May 1 — just three days shy of his performance at Byrd Stadium — and SEE officials said this year’s

focus was finding a popular artist many students have on their playlists. The Dean’s List is an upand-coming group from Boston that combines audio clips, guitar riffs and rap to create a unique sound, and their singles “Dear Professor,” “Burn It All” and “Light Up The Sky” have garnered thousands of hits on YouTube.

“From what we’ve seen, students are excited to have one of the most current and fresh artists around right now,” said SEE Concerts Director Amina Goheer. “It really just worked in our favor that B.o.B

Students rally in Annapolis as new wind energy bill moves forward Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act passes in House of Delegates overwhelmingly; Senate set to vote next week

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Holding makeshift windmills crafted from glowsticks and paper, hundreds of students and activists joined hands, forming a circle around the State House in Annapolis last night in a show of support for alternative energy sources.

About 44 activists from this university participated in the rally to support Governor Martin O’Malley’s proposal to create a wind energy farm off the state’s coast.

Despite failing to make it out of committee in the last legislative session, HB441: Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2012 has passed the House of Delegates with an overwhelming 88-47 vote, and the state Senate is expected to vote on the measure within the next week.

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“What we want to do is show momentum, show that overwhelming support and essentially show the senate that its time to get stuff done,” said MaryPIRG campaign coordinator Sam Rivers, who attended yesterday’s rally. “The increase of Maryland students has been incredible comparing last year to this year.”

The offshore wind energy farm will include 200-megawatt wind turbines between 10 to 30 miles off the state’s coast, according to state energy director Abby Hopper. The bill — which is projected to cost the state $1.7 billion over the next 20 years — would provide for cleaner energy use, as well as give the state an economic boost with a new renewable energy market, she said.

“As amended there is a huge minority and small business focus

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so that it represents a real opportunity for small minority businesses in Maryland to get in on the ground floor of a new industry,” she said.

State lawmakers balked last year at the measure because of financial uncertainty, fearing it would see too high a hike to their monthly electric bills. Hopper said it was reworked this year, capping the additional cost to residents’ bills at $1.50 per month.

“I was very surprised by the margin of vote in the House,” said Del. Liz Bobo (D-Howard), who was a co-sponsor of the bill. “I just think another year created a better understanding.”

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In response to last year’s backlash, SEE officials said they opted for more recent artists; B.o.B’s recent single “So Good” currently holds the No. 27 spot on the Billboard Hot 100.

SEE officials said B.o.B was chosen based on his availability and student responses to a survey the group sent out in early March.

Other choices included Flo Rida, Akon and Gavin DeGraw.

“I like B.o.B,” said sophomore psychology major Tiffany Coates. “He’s so much more relevant than Nelly.”

In their official statement, SEE officials said this year’s lineup is expected to “bring a variation of hip-hop, rap and a touch of pop music.”

Despite SEE’s efforts to choose younger artists, however, several students said they were disappointed the organization didn’t choose a different music genre.

“But since they had a rapper last year, I think people were hoping they would have someone more alternative this year,” freshman journalism major Mia Simon. “I’m still buying a ticket, though,” said Simon.

Tickets will cost $8 with a valid student ID and $25 for the general public and will be on sale starting April 5 online at www.umdtickets.com or at the Hoff Ticket Office in Stamp Student Union.

talk in my column about sex … and I think the show does do that,” Savage said. “It’s important for people to reach out and ask for advice, but we have a culture where we regard being ignorant about sex as a virtue. When you let it just kind of happen is when you get into a whole lot of trouble. You need to approach sex with a lot of information.”

Hutchinson, who called in to the press conference, said she and Savage received a variety of responses from students when they reached out to the different campuses.

“Some places, we expected varsity-level questions like ‘How can I tie someone up?’

And then there were the junior varsity-level questions, like ‘How do I approach a girl?’ or ‘How do I get a boyfriend?’”

Hutchinson said. “I feel like students were similar in each place because they were just serious and looking for answers.”

Senior environmental science and policy major Marty Handelman will have a one-onone interview with Savage in tonight’s premiere. Handelman said although he initially did not want to be on TV, he jumped at the chance if it meant getting relationship advice from Savage.

“At the time, I was having my own issues with things. I needed someone to talk to, someone completely objective to talk to,” Handelman said. “I didn’t really care about being on TV; it was more I wanted the help, and the TV was whatever.”

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Weezer, Ben Folds and local band Ivy Rose (above) took the stage for Art Attack in April 2010. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Handelman said he was in the midst of being “friend-zoned” by yet another guy, so he talked with Savage about what he was looking for in a boyfriend and having realistic expectations.

“It was definitely helpful. It sort of made me really Zen about the whole situation. It really helped calm me down and put everything in perspective for me,” he said. “If I could go and change anything, I wouldn’t.”

However, senior computer science major Tam Nguyen said he had a negative filming experience with the show, adding he felt the producers tried to portray him as “a techno geek with a large libido.”

MTV reached out to Nguyen after seeing a YouTube video of his “party button” invention, which turned off the lights and turned on music and a strobe light in his dorm room with the touch of a button on his watch, phone or computer screen.

Nguyen said while he expected the filming to focus on the social aspects of the button, he thought the producers tried to turn the party button into something he designed to pick up women.

“A lot of them were trying to put me in a position to try to admit to using the button as a tool, essentially,” Nguyen said.

“That’s not really what I do with it.”

However, Nguyen said if he is included in tonight’s episode, he would welcome the show as free advertising for the party button system, which he hopes to sell eventually.

“I’m actually going to try to use this to my advantage, turning lemons into lemonade,”

“[Savage U is] putting these questions out there for this discussion. In today’s day and age, I feel like that’s an important thing to have.”

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Nguyen said.

Handelman said although he doesn’t have an issue talking about sex with friends, many other college students do. He said the show may help students examine important sexual issues.

“It’s putting these questions out there for this discussion. In today’s day and age, I feel like that’s an important thing to have,” Handelman said.

Senior family science and hearing and speech sciences major Rachel Zimmerman said she thinks the show could help dispel the negative connotations of college sex that are often prevalent in the media.

“If it’s not portraying sex in an all-negative light, that could be a good thing,” Zimmerman said. “If it’s another show about how bad people are in college, I don’t really care.”

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CORRECTIONS Due to a reporting error, yesterday’s article “Tawes Hall set to undergo $12.9 million renovation” incorrectly stated the area that will be renovated. If the proposal passes, The Tawes Theatre — which is not utilized often — will be replaced by three new classrooms.

Due to a reporting error, yesterday’s story “Zombie-themed adventure park wins $17,500 at competition” incorrectly stated that Reed Street Productions runs an adventure park. The business actually hosts obstacle races at various locations.

Due to an editing error, yesterday’s story “Ready for the big leagues” inaccurately stated how many will work with junior Emily Bolton as an Orioles ball girl. Bolton and six others will work for the team this season.

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Provost Ann Wylie discussed the proposal to create a joint public health school between this university and the University of Maryland, Baltimore. CHELSEA DIRECTOR/THE DIAMONDBACK

A panel of university and University of Maryland Baltimore officials spoke on the strategic alliance between the campuses before more than 100 people yesterday. CHELSEA DIRECTOR/THE DIAMONDBACK

ALLIANCE from page 1 one possibility would be to have the dean reside in College Park while an associate dean works at the Baltimore campus, she added.

“We cer tainly envision that students will benefit,” Jarrell said. “Programs will remain intact on both campuses, so students won’t have to move. … In the long run, interaction, we cer tainly hope, will be close not only in education, but in research.”

Another initiative would be

to establish a center for biomedical informatics and imaging, which would be geared toward studying problems in health care and working toward solutions.

Panelists said this type of collaboration would not only benefit students, but society as a whole.

“It’s about how do we attack problems as a society, not just relating to health, but law, social ser vices, social work, anything relating to the human condition,” Jarrell said.

Student Government Association President Kaiyi Xie, who was not able to attend the forum,

said after the meeting that students should be more involved in the discussions as the alliance could significantly affect their educational experience. He added the administration should continue reaching out to students to hear what they want from the partnership as well.

“It was a lot of people who were decision makers there at the forum, so I definitely think students should be more involved, and I hope the administration opens up pathways for students to be involved,” he said. kirkwood@umdbk.com

UMB Chief Academic and Research Officer Bruce Jarrell said the alliance between this university and UMB will strengthen programs. CHELSEA DIRECTOR/THE DIAMONDBACK

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“I’m against it because of the economics,” he said. “The economic rate of return doesn’t rise to the cost that we have to invest into it.”

Reilly also said wind could be more unreliable to power homes than fossil fuels.

“It’s intermittent energy, and we need a consistent, predictable source of energy,” he said, adding he would support the bill if the wind turbines were closer to shore and the total price was cheaper.

However, Reilly expects the senate to vote one of O’Malley’s major pieces of legislation through.

“It’s part of O’Malley’s very broad and aggressive agenda,” he said. “It’s my anticipation that if it gets out of committee it will pass in the senate.”

MaryPIRG campaign coordinator Sam Zwerling said the rally was intended to “show delegates in Annapolis that citizens and students in Maryland are wholeheartedly in support of the offshore wind bill.”

While lawmakers debate the economics and environmental minutia of the bill, student activists will continue to lobby on behalf of the legislation.

“Not only do people care, but they care enough to come to Annapolis with their opinion,” Zwerling said.

About a dozen members of MaryPIRG traveled to Annapolis in February to lobby Gov. Martin O’Malley to sign the Offshore Wind Energy Act. The bill is gaining momentum, passing with a wide margin in the House. About 44 students traveled to Annapolis yesterday for another rally. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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A DIGITAL COMMUNITY CONNECTOR Look out, Facebook and Twitter, there’s a new social networking app in town, brought to you by UMUC alumnus and U.S. Marines Master Sgt. Dan Williams.

The Gabbaga iPhone app serves as a digital bulletin board, where users can post bulletins about local events, organize meetings and create personal advertisements. Users can also set a physical radius they can broadcast their bulletin board to, from a quarter mile to up to 500 miles.

Need to borrow someone’s notes from a class you missed? Want to find out who else is studying for the big econ exam in McKeldin?

Williams said Gabbaga can help solve both of these problems.

For more of Brian Harris’ news blog, check out The Diamondback’s blog Campus Drive.

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or the first time in decades, the Maryland presidential primary actually conservative peers are on the wrong side of history when it comes to these issues.

Of course, we must not forget former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. matters — at least for one political party. As registered Republicans head to the polls today to have their say in who will eventually face This editorial board can’t really castigate those who vote for Paul or Santorum, incumbent President Barack Obama this November, there is one pres- because such people are obviously drawn to the set of principles those men presidential candidate many see as the darling of college students across the coun- ent — to each his own, in other words. But voting for Gingrich is essentially voting for the principle of egotism. The man has zero chance at winning the nominatry: Texas Congressman Ron Paul. tion, so the sooner he becomes an afterthought, the better.

Indeed, Paul inspires many students on a level unseen Which brings us to the frontrunner and likely nominee, since the last presidential election, when young voters former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. As this editorial turned out in droves for Obama. His visit to this university board sees it, Romney is the only candidate who, warts and last week — and the thousands in attendance at Ritchie The Diamondback all, deserves the Republican nomination for president.

Coliseum — demonstrated Paul’s support of and reliance Editorial Board endorses Critics argue Romney’s “Etch A Sketch” stance on so on the college demographic. His reluctance to mettle in formany issues is proof the man is devoid of principles, but we eign affairs, especially militarily, is a big draw for students Mitt Romney in the see the other side of the same coin as proof of his political — as is his support for marijuana legalization. His unwaverMaryland Republican instinct. When Romney presided over liberal Massachuing adherence to small government, individual liberty and setts, he behaved like a moderate Republican because non-intervention comprises his set of principles. primary election. that’s what his constituents demanded. Now that the But Paul’s zealotry is also a drawback. His just-say-no Republican primary voters demand he brandish his constance is often sugar-coated as brave and inspiring, but it’s also foolish: This is politics, after all, and a two-party system needs elected officials servative credentials, guess what — Romney spits out some pretty conservative who are willing to compromise. Congressmen aligned with the tea party movement rhetoric. But when Romney wins the Republican nomination (he almost certainly nearly brought the federal government to a standstill last year by refusing to budge will) and if he wins the general election (unlikely, barring a major Obama gaffe), on budget negotiations. It’s one thing to take a stand on a single issue — the budget expect him to drift back toward the middle on every issue.

Unlike the other Republican candidates, Romney seems willing to act based — but Paul would almost certainly set a record for presidential vetoes, which isn’t on political expediency rather than his own stringent set of principles. exactly a good thing when congressional gridlock is already such an inhibitor.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, meanwhile, rightly deserves what- Because we live in a representative democracy — not a dictatorship — that ever Google search results he has coming. While his focus on family values is com- doesn’t sound half bad. If Romney quits pretending he isn’t ridiculously forting and sincere enough, the actual values he espouses are highly troubling: As wealthy and removed from the American everyman, we might be able to recent developments in this state and New York have shown, marriage equality for stomach him. Not a rousing endorsement, sure — but this year’s Republican homosexual couples is inevitable in this country, and Santorum and his socially candidates aren’t exactly the cream of the crop.

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n March, Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign took over my Facebook, just as it probably did yours. But something else took over my Facebook, too — something seemingly unrelated. Right around the time the KONY video was launched, a friend and classmate of mine from high school committed suicide.

The aftermath of his death gave way to a hugely public (albeit virtual) display of grief and mourning on behalf of friends and loved ones. A memorial-type space emerged during this time, and as Aaron’s friends filled his Facebook wall with memories, anecdotes, photos and longing, a collectivity rooted in shared emotion also emerged. A sense of community and unity evolved during this time, with an impetus of common sentimentality — an emergence not unlike the aims of KONY 2012.

The Invisible Children movement has received much criticism for its manipulation of fact towards the creation of a singular, easily-digestible narrative about Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resis-

ALEX LESTON tance Army. But it seems to me that its primary manipulative concern is not with fact but with its viewers’ emotions.

The KONY 2012 campaign was created to raise awareness, and in this aim required something to ensure it would succeed in going viral. It appealed to everyone’s emotions.

Invisible Children aimed to unite a generation with shared emotion — the goal being the creation of a virtual community that could then be translated into physical action. This collectivity is theoretically similar to what emerged in my Facebook community after my friend’s death. Both provided a transcendence of the fragmented nature of the Internet; both provided for the virtual unification of diverse communities; both were driven, first and foremost, by emotion.

While in both cases, Facebook provided a platform in which emotion could be shared, Aaron’s death helped sharing cathartically, not creatively.

Those who had known him were drawn together by common loss, and a network was born wherein one could maintain an individual (thereby meaningful) connection to his or her own emotions while simultaneously gaining strength from the collective body. Individual closure and shared emotionalism not only coexisted during this time, but by the public nature of Facebook, were inseparable.

Considering these two phenomena in juxtaposition, it seems that KONY 2012’s fatal flaw lies, ironically, in its demands for action. The community that was born after the viral explosion of Invisible Children’s video was undoubtedly one of shared inspiration and sentiment, but by providing a universalized solution — buy a bracelet, like a video — Invisible Children failed to encourage the possibility of individualized closure (like that which existed in my Facebook world after Aaron’s death).

By demanding easy action, Invisible Children failed to create a space wherein the individual could reconcile his or her own emotional response. It failed to leave an open-ended question, and in doing so failed to allow its viewers to engage with the problem in any meaningful way.

The KONY 2012 campaign seems to have forgotten that there is a hardly nuanced difference between collective sentiment and collective resolution.

While it may be easy to incite a genuine and uniform emotional response in individuals in a crowd, a uniform action must necessarily be shallow.

Had Invisible Children aimed to raise awareness without the illusion of resolution, a collectivity that engaged the individual to resolve their personal relationship with a shared emotionality would have emerged. Meaningful engagement results from individual struggle — not from an easy way out.

Alex Leston is a freshman agriculture and resource economics major. She can be reached at leston@umdbk.com.

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ou know something’s amiss when a university’s Wikipedia page utilizes 281 words explaining away the ridiculousness of its own name — and is still unsuccessful.

Most students on this campus think of it as the school on the other side of Lot 1 or “where the Marriott is.” Some may recall that one of the institution’s adjunct professors was charged with disorderly conduct in 2010 after a witness claimed he was touching his penis through his pants while looking at “suggestively dressed and suggestively posed” people on a public computer in McKeldin Library.

I’m talking, of course, about the University of Maryland University College. And I’d like to nominate it for worst-named university ever.

The reasoning should be pretty obvious, but in case it isn’t, let’s take a look: There are four words in the UMUC name — technically five, but “of” doesn’t count — and three of them are words used to describe an institution of higher learning. Two of the words are exactly the same. One word conveniently describes the

location of UMUC. It wasn’t always this way. UMUC used to be known as University of Maryland College of Special and Continuing Studies. But people don’t much like going to a school with the word “Special” in it, so in 1953, the school decided to find a less cumbersome name. Among the suggestions were “College of General Studies,” “College of Adult Education” and “University College.”

I’ll admit, University College itself doesn’t sound half bad — University College of Maryland, for example, sounds like a real place with students and professors. But in 1959, the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents changed the name to University of Maryland University College, which sounds like something from the other side of the looking glass.

Officials may not realize it, but such a ridiculous name hurts the institution and, by extension, the entire USM. It doesn’t matter that “the name University College comes from Great Britain, where the term denotes an academic institution that takes courses and programs from all academic departments

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HAXEL outside the university’s walls and normal class times.” What matters is, it’s a stupid name that belongs in the Department of Redundancy Department. People don’t want it on their resumes, which means they aren’t applying to the school. Students who do go there just call it UMUC because they quickly learn that stating the actual name leads to the same conversation, over and over.

I’m continually astounded by the confusing names found throughout the university system. University of Maryland, Baltimore County is confused with University of Maryland, Baltimore, which is confused with University of Baltimore. Confused?

Good. So am I. The university system maintains three — three! — institutions of higher learning in Baltimore County that contain the words “University” and “Baltimore.” Meanwhile,

other universities located far from other USM institutions — Frostburg State and Salisbury — have incredibly unique names that won’t confuse anybody. It’s almost like the Regents are just messing with people, hoping the entire state will get lazy and call every school “University of Maryland.”

I’m here to help. The Regents obviously ran out of ideas for college names, so I’m offering use of my own surname: Haxel. It’s a word associated with greatness and people who are worthy of adulation (just look it up on Urban Dictionary), so no worries about prestige. And I’m not gonna lie, College of Haxel University College has a nice ring to it. Or would it be University of Haxel College University?

Haxel College of Maryland University Haxel College?

You know what, never mind; the Regents should just change UMUC to University of Maryland Extension School. It’s short, simple and unambiguous: the way it should be.

Christopher Haxel is a senior English major. He can be reached at haxel@umdbk.com.

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ear University President Wallace Loh and Provost Ann Wylie: There is no higher calling for science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related education today; the need for STEM majors in America is more critical than ever.

In 2009, President Barack Obama launched “Educate to Innovate,” a campaign to train the next generation of American scientists, engineers and technical innovators. This issue is of utmost importance if America is going to retain its technical and innovative edge in the areas of STEM. I’m truly speechless at this point. I see you two justifying why a tuition increase should be given to STEM-related majors in a number of strange ways. The fact that a proposal to increase tuition for STEM majors is even being entertained and advocated is shocking.

You know what, I’ll be blunt and tell it like it is: This is deplorable, despicable and asinine.

I hate the fact that education and learning has to be tied with money. I’m in school because I love to learn; learning is an intrinsically beautiful experience of a subliminal nature. By associating money with education, the intrinsic beauty of learning is polluted and degraded. It’s true: Instead of focusing on how best to learn the material, you’re left wondering how you can even make it through the next semester, given the heartaches at home (parental job loss, change of income, etc.).

For you, Loh, I read in a Diamondback article you believe it’s morally justified to raise the tuition of STEM majors, because they make more money. Where is the justification? It’s true that STEM majors earn more in their lifetime, but even STEM majors struggle to find jobs in today’s feeble economy. If you are seeking any sort of large donation from an alumnus who makes it big in the future, what sort of message are you sending them when you increase their educational expenses? And by the way, some kid is going to make it big.

The next big thing is going to be the person who has the skills to do something innovative. That person is going to look back on his or her school experience at this university with disdain if such a proposal is enacted.

Is this university committed to excellence in STEM when we look at Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley as our rivals? Find some other way — but don’t perpetuate the fallacy that more money from the students will raise the overall quality of our programs. No disrespect, but this letter is written like I see it. I’m sure you two are nice people, but I have a say in this, too.

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CLARIFICATION Monday’s staff editorial, “Avoiding the real issue” incorrectly represented University Police Chief David Mitchell’s response to questions about alleged staff abuse. Mitchell spoke about campus harassment policies.

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CHAMPIONS from page 1 everyone who was coming back, given the fact that they had been to the Final Four the year before. I think that had left everybody, and certainly the students, thinking it wasn’t outside the realm of possibility that that team could do something special like that again.

DBK: Were students still bitter regarding the Terps’ loss to Duke in the national semifinals the year before, or had that washed away?

PS: I think certainly in that era when the whole idea of running down to Route 1 after a Duke game was reasonably new — they had only done it three times at that time — that game was certainly raw.

But you had all those guys back [guards Juan Dixon and Steve Blake and center Lonny Baxter] and you kind of figured, if things broke right, that they would be in that position again. It wasn’t like

REVIEW from page 8 with 17.2 points per game. Second-team All-ACC forward Tianna Hawkins — one of two seniors on next season’s team — led the nation in field-goal percentage (62.8). Guard Laurin Mincy was one of the team’s most proficient outside shooters, knocking down 40 percent of her shots from beyond the arc and blossoming into a clutch performer in March.

Center Alicia DeVaughn led the team with 45 blocks.

The fifth starting position will likely go to point guard Brene Moseley, who averaged 6.9 points and 2.7 assists in a reserve role as a freshman this season.

“They have tremendous experience, when you talk about our young players, having the Elite Eight finish and winning the ACC Championship,” Frese said. “The sky is the limit.”

The team will have to contend with some departures, though. Guards Anjale Barrett and Kim Rodgers, both of whom have been with the program for the past five years, and center Lynetta Kizer will all graduate, leaving the Terps without three of their most vocal leaders.

Barrett started every game

they had just lost the best player in school histor y and lost most of that roster.

DBK: What was coach Gary Williams like during that time and the championship run?

PS: Gary was Gary. The championship defined him and it should have. Most coaches don’t get to that level and Gary did. At that point, he was still chasing, still beating the “no one believes in us” drum, which I don’t think was entirely fair. You look back at both 2000 and 2001, both of those seasons Maryland started in the top 10.

I think that there was a sense of nostalgia going into that year knowing that it would be the last year that Cole Field House would be open. So you had this group of players with Dixon and Baxter and, to a lesser extent, Blake that had been though it all once or twice.

Then, of course, you have the arena closing. There was a real sense that this could be a particularly special year. I think Gary felt pretty good heading into that season with what he

at point guard and Kizer was instrumental off the bench for the Terps, winning the ACC Sixth Player of the Year award.

Rodgers was slowed early in the season by a chronic knee injury, but flourished as a defender and 3-point-specialist in postseason play. “[The seniors] have been to two Elite Eights, two ACC Championships and we’re champions in our own right,” Rodgers said after the loss to Notre Dame. “It’s not fun having to sit here and say we didn’t get to the Final Four. But I think we accomplished a lot and we’re leaving a lot of good stuff for these underclassmen to move for ward with next year.”

Helping to replace the three departing seniors will be the nation’s sixth-best recruiting class, featuring Twinsburg, Ohio, forward Malina Howard — the nation’s No. 7 overall recruit, according to Hoopgurlz — Cincinnati guard Chloe Pavlech and Williamsport, Pa., forward Tierney Pfirman.

“Malina has the biggest opportunity, with the absence of Lynetta Kizer, to fill a huge void. Tierney and her versatility — she’s going to be able to play multiple positions,” Frese said. “Chloe is going to be able to help us in a lot of spots, whether it be in the point

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that stage.

DBK: What was the excitement level entering the tournament and how did it look throughout the month of March?

PS: I would say that it was already pretty high. The place was packed throughout the season. You think about the location during the tournament. The opening weekend was in D.C., so there was certainly the ability for students to get down to the Verizon Center and catch some games if they could get some tickets.

The regionals were up in Syracuse at the start of spring break, so I’m sure there were a handful of folks that made the trek up there. The Final Four [was] down in Atlanta, and I know of some that came down. I think that the fact that all the games were on the East Coast didn’t hurt interest at all. The actual week of the Final Four wasn’t crazy on campus simply because there wasn’t anyone around.

DBK: For you, who was the

had on his plate at that stage. I don’t think there was any point in that year — you think about the losses; there was one in November, one in December, one in January and one in March — that there was ever a sense of constant adversity.

This was a team that rolled along for basically the entire season.

DBK: What was the student-ticketing process like?

Were there students who would camp out for games?

How did it all work?

PS: The student-ticket process was still a campout.

Typically, there was a day when the tickets were available, and people would start lining up for most games when the gate opened around 7 a.m. or whatever it may have been. It wasn’t obnoxious. There was a ticket booth in Cole Field House. For the Duke game and also Virginia, the last game at Cole, it was obviously different. But for the most part it was orderly, and obviously you didn’t have problems like scan and leave at

most interesting player on the team to talk to and why?

PS: Two of the guys that I thought that were thoughtful and not as beleaguered with interview requests as others on that team were Drew Nicholas and Tahj Holden. They were two really sharp guys that really had a good perspective on things. Drew probably had the quote of the entire tournament in the locker room after the title game where he basically said, “I don’t know if any of you guys have felt something like this in your lives, but I hope you do someday.” You probably couldn’t have summed it up much better. Then you think of a guy like Byron Mouton with his personality — it was never bad to hear what he had to say.

DBK: Is there a moment or a game that sticks out that people have forgotten about over the last 10 years that you still remember?

PS: A game I keep going back to, when I thought to myself, You know what, these guys really could win this thing

— there were certainly a ton of moments. But the game I go back to is at the end of January, and they were down at Virginia.

They were down about nine with about three-and-a-half minutes to play. At that point, Virginia is pretty good and I’m certain they’re ranked, maybe even in the top 10. It looked like the sort of game that most teams go ahead and lose at that stage. But Drew Nicholas hits two long-range 3-pointers and Maryland makes all but one or two free throws to rally and win. Most teams couldn’t have pulled that off, and Maryland did. That was a moment and a game that always stood out to me. It just showed that this wasn’t a team that was going to go down quietly in any circumstance. Obviously the Blake pick-pocketing of [Duke’s] Jason Williams at Cole, [and his] 3-pointer against UConn in the Elite Eight — there were certainly a lot of moments along the way. ceckard@umdbk.com

guard or off-guard position.

“I expect all three are going to play and have a big impact.”

Xavier transfer Katie Rutan will also join the Terps’ rotation next season. The guard scored eight points per game in two seasons with the Musketeers, averaging more than two 3-pointers per game. She redshirted this season due to NCAA transfer rules.

“She’s a lights-out shooter, she can bring a tremendous spark to our team and she brings a wealth of experience,” Frese said. “She’s been at the highest level, she’s been on a top-10 team — her veteran leadership is going to be huge for our team.”

The Terps had visions of being among the last four teams standing at Denver’s Final Four this season. They fell 31 points short of that goal.

But with ample firepower returning and a group of talented newcomers ready to make their mark, this season’s Elite Eight run might only be a prelude to the heights the Terps can reach in the future.

“With the chemistry that we all had this season, we’re just going to come back, work hard this summer and hopefully get here next year,” Mincy said after the loss to Notre Dame.

“We can go pretty far.” vitale@umdbk.com

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they can’t, they’ll need to respond in turn.

During the Terps’ best start to a season since 1968, the most runs Terps pitchers allowed in an inning was two.

That happened just four times in 12 games.

Since a March 7 win over Navy, though, the Terps (1811) have allowed three or more runs in 13 innings, and are 7-10 over that span. Their of fense has been similarly unable to produce equivalent answers, scoring runs only four times in the frame immediately following those 13 big innings.

“If there is an error, if there is a walk or a hit or a hit by pitch, being able to shut it down and not let multiple things pile on and add up,” Bakich said Saturday, after his team’s series-ending win over Boston College. “Then you get crooked numbers scored against you.”

One of the Terps’ early-season calling cards — late-inning heroics — has also seemed to all but disappear in the past month. Since ACC play began, the Terps have only one comefrom-behind victory, a 6-4 win at Miami on March 25. The Terps came back in five of their 11 wins to start the year, including victories over No. 5 UCLA and No. 20 Purdue.

“Our pitching staff’s been a

percentage, the third-best mark in the conference.

“I’ve been put in tight situations like that before,” Reed said in February. “You just got to use your routine. Take it slow.

Focus on your breathing, and you’ll be fine.”

As the Terps look to rebound from a slow ACC start today against George Mason, that could be needed advice.

be expected.

Thirteen? Probably not. But that number is irrelevant now.

What matters today, on the seventh practice session of the spring, is that everyone in the supposedly divided locker room had a chance to jump ship. Those who remain have no excuse not to buy into Edsall’s message.

“A lot of guys that were leaving had already made it clear through whether their actions or what they said that they weren’t happy here,” nose tackle A.J. Francis said last Tuesday, adding that he didn’t find out some players — including a few good friends — were leaving until the day after they requested transfers. “If you’re not happy somewhere where you’re devoting 90 percent of your life, you got to change scenery.”

Last year’s locker-room issues, Francis insists, were overblown. That doesn’t mean ever yone was on the same page.

This season, Year 2 of the Edsall era, Francis sees things changing for the team. So does the coach himself.

“When we went into spring, we basically had five goals.

And the No. 1 thing that we said is, ‘Ever ybody’s got to be all in.’ Ever ybody’s all in,” Edsall said. “You can see there’s a whole different attitude. There’s a whole different feeling now.”

If that’s the case, we can stop talking about Edsall the Dictator and instead talk about Edsall the Football Coach. The focus can go back to the football field and quarterbacks, not the locker room and do-rags. We can try to look past the transfers, even as they leave a perilously thin quarterback position and an offensive line in shambles in their wake.

Was it their fault, or Edsall’s? We probably won’t know for some time, if ever. Of course, if we see another dozen players leave after this year, we’ll have some idea what the actual source of discord is.

Until then, at least until the next patch of adversity, the Terps appear unified. They seem on the same page. Now, the important number isn’t 13. It’s 2-10.

“You just got to put it behind you,” Francis said. “I mean, not to sound bad, but we’ve been 2-10 before, and we know how to come back from it.”

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FINISHING from page 8 their part in an on-field fight.

The cruel reality of it all? If lacrosse games were three quarters long, the Terps could be undefeated.

In each of their three losses this season, the Terps have surrendered five goals during the fourth quarter. Separately, they’ve squandered a threegoal lead, a two-goal lead and a one-goal lead within the games’ final 16 minutes.

“We’ve just got to put together a full game, 60 min-

Pitcher Brett Harman has emerged as one of the more dependable pitching options this season for the Terps, who face George Mason at home today. CHELSEA DIRECTOR/THE DIAMONDBACK

bright spot the whole year,” Bakich said. “It’s more of the of fense needing to clutch up and be more competitive throughout the entire lineup.”

The Terps’ offense ranks last in the ACC in batting average and on-base percentage, and second to last in slugging percentage. At the beginning of the season, that was enough for the pitching staff, but since running into more powerful

utes,” midfielder Landon Carr said. “We’ve played probably 40 and we need to play 60, defensively, at least.”

Possession has made all the difference of late. In each of their fourth-quarter collapses, the Terps have lost two pivotal battles: faceoffs (a combined 8for-21) and groundballs (19-52).

Unable to hold on to the ball, they’ve been forced to lean heavily on sophomore goalie Niko Amato.

For even the former AllACC selection, however, the late-game workload has proved to be too much. Particularly against the conference’s

offenses in ACC play, it hasn’t been. In 12 conference games, the Terps have had only three innings in which they scored three runs or more.

If the Terps can mount leads, it should be enough for a pitching staff featuring Harman and closer Jimmy Reed, two of the conference’s top pitchers this year. The staff as a whole ranks second in the ACC with a 2.91 ERA and is backed by a defense with a .972 fielding

top attackmen.

North Carolina’s Thomas Wood netted two fourth-quarter goals to capture an 11-10 Tar Heels win on March 24, and Stanwick tallied three points during an important three-plus minutes midway through the final period to secure the Cavaliers’ victory on Saturday.

“We just pick and choose our battles in the fourth quarter,” Stanwick said. “For the most part, that worked out for us.”

Of course, being shorthanded hasn’t helped the Terps.

They faced Virginia without

second-line midfielder Kevin Cooper, who was serving a onegame suspension for his part in the fight at North Carolina a week earlier. Starting midfielder Mike Chanenchuk (undisclosed injury) also was limited almost exclusively to extra-man opportunities.

Combine those setbacks with the return of just two defensive fixtures from a year ago — Amato and long pole Jesse Bernhardt — and lategame struggles seemed almost inevitable.

What’s less understandable, though, are the Terps’ faceoff troubles. Midfielder Curtis

Holmes won 62.9 percent of his draws as the team’s faceoff specialist last season and seemed poised to dominate this year.

He’s won just 50 percent of them through eight games, however, and Tillman has started using midfielder Charlie Raffa at the X. “He’s getting more experience,” Tillman said of the freshman. “That will serve us down the road.”

If Tillman can’t get his team on track soon, the Terps’ road may not extend as long as he would like. They have games against Navy and No. 3 Johns Hopkins before starting the

ACC Tournament later this month. If they can’t pull out a win against the Midshipmen on Friday, there is a real chance the Terps could miss the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2002.

So the time is now for the Terps to cut down on the mistakes. And if the look on Tillman’s face Saturday was any indication, he knows it.

“We’ll learn from our mistakes,” Amato said. “We’ll get in the film room and work with our coaches with what we can improve on.” letourneau@umdbk.com

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Sports FOOTBALL

Transfer in the mix?

Ex-Michigan men’s basketball forward Evan Smotrycz is reportedly considering the Terps. See more at TerrapinTrail.com.

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At last, Terps have it together JEREMY SCHNEIDER

T

he press releases seemed to come nearly every week.

Even after the year from hell that was the 2011 Terrapins football season ended, the stench of failure wafted through College Park as the tally of players leaving the program grew longer and longer. While the losses on the field ceased, they continued off it.

The reminders continue to arrive, even months after National Signing Day. Danny O’Brien, once Byrd Stadium’s beacon of hope, is officially heading to Wisconsin. Defensive back Avery Graham left the program last week, too — the 13th player with eligibility remaining to leave the team since the 2-10 disaster ended.

The departures have been seen as a referendum on the program and the coach in charge of it. In some cases — O’Brien and running back D.J. Adams, specifically — great talent was leaving the program. The exits of other players, meanwhile, pointed to something awr y in the locker room. What could be going on under coach Randy Edsall that was bad enough to have so many players heading for the hills?

Maybe, just maybe, the mass exodus from College Park was exactly what Edsall needed.

It’s no surprise that Edsall rubbed some players the wrong way when he took over for Ralph Friedgen. His strict style clashed with the Fridge’s more relaxed ways. Only a few of last year’s Terps were recruited by the current Terps coach. Some absconders were to

see SCHNEIDER, page 7

BASEBALL

One-inning explosions a big issue Terps struggling to limit ACC opponents

Coach Brenda Frese said the Terps’ offseason “will be motivated by our last loss,” an 80-49 defeat against Notre Dame in the Elite Eight last Tuesday. Four starters will return to next year’s team, which should be highly ranked. PHOTOS BY CHARLIE DEBOYACE AND JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

Not quite there Despite end to season, Terps’ young, talented core offers hope for return to glory

BY JOSH VITALE

MOVING ON

Senior staff writer

Had you asked Brenda Frese in October whether 31 wins, an ACC Championship and an Elite Eight appearance would be an acceptable result for her Terrapins women’s basketball team, what would she have said? Would she have been disappointed that her team missed making the Final Four? Or would she have been thrilled with the outcome?

For the longtime coach, it’s somewhere in between.

“With this young team,” Frese said yesterday, “I would have absolutely taken it.”

Featuring a roster loaded with raw talent, this year’s Terps were Frese’s most accomplished squad in recent memory. They opened the 2011-12 season with 16 straight wins. They finished the season with only five losses, four of them against teams ranked in the nation’s top eight.

Their No. 5 national ranking, ACC title and Elite Eight run were all highwater marks for the program

STAYING PUT

Guard Anjale Barrett

Forward Alyssa Thomas

Center Lynetta Kizer

Forward Tianna Hawkins

Guard Kim Rodgers

Guard Laurin Mincy

since its 2009 campaign.

Yet for all their success, the Terps’ season still ended in disappointment. A bid to reach their first Final Four since 2006 was erased by a season-ending 8049 loss to Notre Dame in the regional final a week ago.

The sting of that loss should linger into the offseason. But with four returning starters and four new faces joining the Terps on the court in Comcast Center next season, Frese already has high expectations for the 2012-13 season.

“Our offseason will be motivated by our last loss. We were punished in that last game. If that doesn’t put a fire in your belly in terms of preparing for next season, what would?” Frese said. “It’s exciting, obviously, to think about the future and what we’re able to accomplish this year going into next.”

Led by ACC Player of the Year and firstteam All-America forward Alyssa Thomas, the Terps’ quartet of returning starters should make up arguably one of the most dangerous lineups in the country.

Thomas led the conference in scoring

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BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

The Terrapins baseball team’s biggest hazard this season may not be any one team or one opposing player. Lately, Terps opponents have needed all of one inning to put games out of reach.

In the nightcap of a Friday doubleheader at Boston College, right-hander Brett Harman allowed a secondinning grand slam that put the Terps in an early 4-1 hole. Boston College didn’t score again until a 12th-inning single plated the game-winning run in a 5-4 Eagles win.

A similar scenario arose earlier Friday. After the Terps took a 1-0 lead in the first, the Eagles responded with five runs off right-hander Brady Kirkpatrick as they went on to win, 10-3.

For coach Erik Bakich, it’s not a question of what opponents are doing to get to his players. It’s simply a reflection of what the Terps are doing.

Or not doing.

“The other teams aren’t really doing anything,” Bakich said. “It’s a matter of us being able to overcome some adversity and being able to take a punch and not let an inning get away from us.”

Tonight against George Mason (1811), the Terps return to two environments where they have been successful this season: the confines of Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium, where they boast a 9-2 record, and nonconference play, where the Terps are 15-2.

But if the Terps want to return to the form that saw them start 11-1 and ranked nationally, they will need to limit opponents’ big innings. And if

see INNING, page 7

MEN’S LACROSSE

Before they can move on, Terps first need a big finish Fourth-quarter collapse Saturday against Virginia was latest for inexperienced team

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Senior staff writer

Standing in a weight room inside the Gossett Team House, Terrapins men’s lacrosse coach John Tillman fielded questions from a handful of reporters Saturday afternoon. For about six minutes, he broke down his team’s 12-8 loss to No. 1 Virginia, touching on ever ything from personnel changes to fourth-quarter struggles.

Seeing that Tillman had said enough, team spokesman Patrick Fischer ended the interview. He directed the reporters toward Virginia coach Dom Starsia, who was waiting patiently near the door with star attackman Steele Stanwick.

As the scattering of recorders and notepads moved toward Starsia, Tillman had a rare moment to himself.

“Mistakes,” he muttered, his voice heavy with grief. “Just too many mistakes.”

It was a telling scene.

Less than a month earlier, Tillman’s team was one of college lacrosse’s biggest surprises. Despite losing more than half their starters from last year’s national runner-up roster, the youthful Terps opened the

Attackman Drew Snider and the Terps were outscored 7-1 in the final 16 minutes of Saturday’s loss to No. 1 Virginia.

The Terps have allowed five fourth-quarter goals in each of their losses this season. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

season with convincing wins over three NCAA tournament hopefuls.

After a 10-7 victory over then-No. 8 Duke, they appeared ready to face the game’s heavyweights.

A lot has changed in almost four weeks.

The No. 12 Terps have dropped three of their past five games. They’ve lost two straight conference matches,

knocking them out of contention for the ACC regular-season title. They’ve even gained national attention for

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