April 3, 2014

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Tenure plan gets pushed forward

Flexus lauded for empowering women Univ recognized for engineering program

“Paige talked me down, reassured me that those classes are hard for everyone, that they would start to make more sense as time went on and that what I was feeling was completely

By Darcy Costello normal,” said Niezelski, now a soph@dctello omore economics and engineering Senior staff writer major. “Having a resource like that to As a freshman, Sarah Niezelski turn to, even from the very beginning started to struggle in her chemistry of school, was invaluable.”

Niezelski knew Smith through the and calculus courses and worried she might not be cut out for engineering. university’s Flexus program, a twoConcerned about how her perfor- year living-learning program that mance in the first-year classes, she supports women in engineering. The turned to a mentor, Paige Smith, the program is designed to build comuniversity’s Women in Engineering munity bonds and increase female engineering student retention rates. program director.

Through mentors such as Smith and peer connections, Flexus gives female students a support network at this university.

The American Association of University Women, a nonprofit organization that promotes equality for women, recently recognized this university for empowering women, and Flexus was highlighted for its work toward supporting women in STEM programs.

Traditionally, women are a minority in STEM fields. Of engineering students nationwide, women See flexus, Page 2

Univ Senate passes nontenure-track framework

PAIGE SMITH, director of the university’s Women in Engineering program. sung-min kim/the diamondback

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By Jon Banister @J_banister Staff writer The University Senate passed a non-tenure-track faculty proposal yesterday that aims to create new promotional ladders with clearly defined ranks, which will give more opportunities for career advancement to faculty off the tenure track.

The proposal, which passed by a vote of 90-3-1, was backed overwhelmingly by faculty senators, who voiced their support for the changes at yesterday’s meeting.

“There was nobody speaking in dissension; there was nobody speaking against this today,” Senate Chairman Vincent Novara said. “The vote reflected that the senate — and we had a really great turnout today — are strongly behind this.”

The new framework will reorganize a system of titles that previously was not uniform across the campus and restricted the ability of non-tenure-track faculty to move up promotional ladders.

The proposed changes will do away with positions such as faculty research assistants and research associates, in which some faculty have been stuck for more than a decade with no room for career advancement.

Robert Sohlberg has been a faculty research assistant in the geographical sciences department for 17 years, and while he isn’t too concerned with his official title, he said it is beneficial for newcomers to see room for growth.

“Especially for people that are new in their career, having an advancement track through a tier of titles is useful in that it can get that recognition when they hit particular milestones in their career,” Sohlberg said.

In addition to research, courses taught by non-tenure-track faculty members account for about 40 percent of undergraduate credits received by university students.

“T he 1,600-plus individuals who are members of this research See tenure, Page 3

Open-source textbooks in policy focus

Public university employee salaries increase over year

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer

SGA pushes for school to adopt cheap options

By Jeremy Snow @thedbk Staff writer Fed up with academic textbooks making constant but minor updates, adding unnecessary chapters and providing unwanted worksheets, Scott Roberts was desperate for a new way to teach his PSYC 100: Introduction to Psychology class.

In the fall of 2010, he found a solution that not only relieved his frustrations but also saved his students money.

Roberts developed his own opensource textbook for his class, an increasingly popular option that gives students access to free online course

a student browses books at the University Book Center. This semester, the Student Government Association has advocated marketplace reforms for free or cheaper open-source textbooks. rachel george/the diamondback material that professors from any university can use for class.

“I realized that all the information was already on the Internet in some shape or form,” Roberts said.

“I could have way more control over the material now that I created and gathered it on my own.”

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System of Maryland looks to make textbooks more affordable, the Student Government Association is pushing for more professors to adopt open-source options.

When buying traditional textbooks, students often must shell See textbooks, Page 2

Higher education professionals saw an increase in salaries over the past year, but as the state’s General Assembly prepares its budget, school officials aren’t optimistic the increases will continue.

The median base salaries for public university employees with professional-level expertise assigned to specified departments increased 2.4 percent nationwide during the 2013-14 academic year, according to a College and University Professional Association for Human Resources report released this week. Private university employees’ salaries increased 2 percent. In previous years, private university employees saw greater salary increases than their

public counterparts.

“S t ate e c onom ie s a nd s t ate legislatures impact public institutions’ ability to award salary i ncreases to thei r employees,” CUPA-HR CEO Andy Brantley said in a news release Monday. “Many public colleges and universities have had limited to no opportunities to provide salary increases during the last 4-5 years.”

CUPA-HR officials said they’re pleased with the increase for public institution employees. But the change isn’t significant, said Dale Anderson, this university’s human resources director.

“The public sector has been behind for several years, and I think maybe there’s a little catch-up there,” Anderson said.

Last year’s budget and versions See USM, Page 3

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County running club seeks univ student involvement Group plans Mother’s Day 5K for College Park

By Eleanor Mueller @thedbk Staff writer The Prince George’s Running Club is looking to do more than keep its members fit through its running programs. It wants to form a relationship between this university and the community.

Though the club was created two decades ago and has hosted events in College Park, its upcoming North College Park Mother’s Day 5K run is the first of its kind, as the club seeks to further expand in the College Park area and increase the number of students involved.

The Mother’s Day 5K was the

FLEXUS From PAGE 1 make up about 18 percent of undergraduate and 20 percent of graduate students, Smith said.

Engineering programs nationwide struggle to retain students, Smith said, but female students leave the major in higher numbers than their male counterparts. WIE, which organizes events and mentoring for female engineering students at this university, launched Flexus in 2007 to provide additional support and encourage students to stay in the program.

“We thought it would be great to give students a support structure at school that they could turn

brainchild of College Park resident Mark Shroder, said Lydia Shell, the PGRC president. It is set to start and finish at the Hollywood Shopping Center on May 11 and will feature prizes from outdoor gear and clothing store REI. The club, like the Mother’s Day 5K, is open to runners of every skill level, Shell said, and includes training programs for a range of runners, from beginners interested in running their first 5K to marathoners trying to stay in shape.

“What we pride ourselves on is being a community of people that encourages people to start running, no matter what the distance and no matter what the goal,” Shell said.

“They just have to have a love to run or want a love to run.”

The club already has strong ties to the city and hopes to encourage

more students to join the club.

“We try to be a resource the com mu n ity ca n tap to ru n together,” Shell said. “We do time intervals on the UMD track every Tuesday night. We already have some students in the club, most of whom are grad students — our outgoi ng v ice president was a [graduate] student — and we’d love to have more.”

Rebecca Sachs, a member of local running clubs Terp Runners and Howard County Striders, said she would be interested in joining PGRC to expand her options.

“My mom has always been a runner, so I’ve just found that I’m passionate about it because I’m really close with her and it makes me feel strong,” said the freshman sociology major. “Another group in the area would be good because I’m trying to train for a marathon, and Terp Runners doesn’t really include that.”

Kelsey Ca rdace, a fresh ma n journalism major, has a different reason to join.

to when they’re feeling stressed or overwhelmed, just a group that would make them feel like they aren’t alone,” Smith said. “It’s been a success beyond my wildest imagination. Students are retained at higher levels and become great leaders; it’s so exciting to see what they’ve done with the program.”

In designing the living-learning community, the university looked to Virginia Tech’s Hypatia community, which combines a living component in dorms and a learning component through a one-year seminar. Smith said this university went a step further and added a second year to Flexus, which she said has allowed first- and secondyear students to bond.

The program isn’t old enough for officials to determine a six-year graduation rate, which is used to measure program success. But Smith said 81 percent of the Flexus students who joined the program in 2008 have graduated with an engineering degree. Of the students who entered the program in 2009, 82 percent have either graduated with an engineering degree or are still enrolled in the engineering program. These numbers exceed the national average, Smith said, which is why the program is part of a National Science Foundation study on female student retention rates in science and engineering.

“Historically, women haven’t been considered as candidates for technical fields in general,” Niezelski said. “And

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their books. Open-source books can be offered for free because they completely cut From PAGE 1 out publishers, said Meenu out hu nd reds of dol la rs. Singh, SGA academic affairs The SGA posted a photo in vice president.

Instead of a conventional January of sophomore macopyright, an open-source terials science and engineertextbook uses a Creative ing major Jeff Adams, who spent $736 on textbooks for Commons license, which allows anyone to access it for the spring semester.

But with open-source text- free as long as no one sells it. books, students can log on to Professors can write their own websites provided by their textbooks or use texts posted professors and download by other instructors.

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Roberts said open-source textbooks are more versatile than traditional textbooks a nd ca n prov ide l i n ks to videos, research papers and other information sources to ensure students receive wellrounded information they might not get from standalone physical textbooks.

“T hese are not just e-books,” Singh said.

Ryan Curtis, a university psychology lecturer who also started using open-source textbooks, said he likes how the process makes acquiring textbooks less difficult for students.

“It can take two weeks before students may get the

prince george’s running club members train at Kehoe Track. The team meets every Tuesday night to practice at the track, located at this university’s Ludwig Field. rachel george/the diamondback “It would be great to get more involved in the community,” Cardace said. “[The club] would be a good way to bring everyone together, especially if it’s for all levels.”

Sharon Desmond, a behavioral and community health department professor, said the club serves a g reater pu r pose tha n keepi ng members in shape.

“This club is developing a partnersh ip between students a nd

residents,” Desmond said. “By engag i ng i n a hea lthy activ ity together, members are forming relationships so the community doesn’t feel like, ‘You’re here, but you’re not a part of us.’ Everyone will get to know each other better, so if there’s ever an issue or problem, it’ll be easier to work together — it’s great.”

“IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO TELL YOUNG WOMEN THAT ENGINEERING IS AN OPTION.”

demic tutoring and study help.

In addition to the living-learning component, Flexus students mentor K-12 students and host a WIE Dream Conference to encourage female high school students to pursue careers in engineering — encouragement they may not get in school, Niezelski said.

“It’s so important to tell young women that eng i neeri ng is a n option, that they should be confident in their ability to do it,” Niezelski said. “Flexus in general has had a huge effect on my college career.

I’ve made my best friends in it and am still in engineering because of it, probably. It’s just great.”

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Sophomore economics and engineering major so now that people are realizing that’s a problem, that women have a lot of potential, it’s a great opportunity to give them the right tools to be successful and enable them to be leaders.”

Niezelski is the president of Flexus’ Student Executive Board, which partners with Virtus — Flexus’ male counterpart created in fall 2011 — to create social and academic programming for students. Events range from ice cream socials and tailgates to aca-

book — more if they joined late,” Curtis said. “Now, everyone has access to it on day one, and they will always have it. There are no real barriers of entry.”

Library workers have spent more than a decade working to develop online databases of books and publications, said Gary White, University Libraries associate dean for public services. Open-source textbooks are the obvious next step, he said.

Despite support for online options from the University Senate and the SGA, White said he estimates between 10 and 15 percent of the 100 mos t p op u l a r cl a sse s at

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“Choosing a textbook to use is fairly easy, but developing your own textbook can be a lot more work,” White said.

T he u n iversity system plans to offer spring workshops for professors to teach them how to develop opensou rce tex tbooks, a nd it launched a pilot program to encourage online learning.

But concerns remain about the quality of information that comes with using an open-source system, said M.J. Bishop, the university system’s Center of Innovation in Excellence in Learning and Teaching director.

“Ensuring quality can be a tricky question,” she said.

“We’re starting to develop recommended systems that allow people to review, tag or favorite textbooks, so we can begin to gauge the quality of different ones.”

To help encourage professors to use open-source books, SGA President Samantha Zwerling said she wants to see future grants given to professors to develop textbooks solely for open-source use.

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Students press univ officials for better dining, housing options Department directors address concerns at RHA Town Hall event

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer University department representatives addressed students’ questions and concerns regarding everything from how the recycling system works to what can be expected for parking fees in the coming years during a Town Hall meeting at the North Campus Dining Hall on Tuesday.

The Residence Hall Association hosts a Town Hall each semester to give students a chance to ask about issues related to campus departments, including the Department of Resident Life, Residential Facilities, the Department of Transportation Services, the Residence Hall Association Sustainability Committee and Dining Services.

The questions began with student concerns about the dining halls.

Some asked if the dining spaces could be made to look more inviting, while others expressed qualms about the number of vegetarian and vegan options available and crosscontamination issues.

Joseph Pesce, senior associate director of resident dining, said

tenure From PAGE 1 community I represent here live currently in a state of confusion,” said Devin Ellis, behavioral and social sciences college faculty senator and member of the Senate Executive Committee, in his address to the senate. “ T h i s p ro p o s a l a n d i t s subsequent execution will provide a range of relief to those concerns.”

Josh Ratner, executive com m ittee u nderg raduate representat ive, sa id although this is primarily a faculty issue, it is also important to students.

“The reason this is really good for u s a s students is that now there is more standardization across the board on qualifications and standards and promotions and obtaining certain titles,” Ratner said. “Now we’ll have a better idea of the quality of

UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS, including Department of Resident Life Director Deb Grandner (third from left) and Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple (fourth from left), respond to questions during Tuesday’s Town Hall meeting. The Residence Hall Association held the event to encourage student-official dialogue. rachel george/the diamondback his department worked to meet student needs and desires with its menu offerings. He said dining services employees received extensive training on how to avoid cross-contamination and other food preparation problems.

“We have explained to our employees how important this is to our students,” Pesce said. “We’re aware that students have a whole

faculty we’re getting across the board at the university.”

The Faculty Affairs Comm ittee has been designing the proposal since last spring, and Novara said he was impressed with the committee’s work.

“The Faculty Affairs Committee got this right,” Novara sa id. “T hey d id a rea l ly great job; they addressed a lot; they had a lot of great people involved in this discussion, from administration to faculty, from campus to senate, so I think we’ve really arrived at the right place.”

Mark Arnold, director of faculty initiatives, worked on the proposals and said he was very pleased with the feedback at yesterday’s meeting.

“T he overwhelming support was an indication that it was really well thought through and that the committee really did their homework on considering all of the concerns,” Arnold said. “The

range of dietary needs.”

Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple encouraged students to email the department with specific complaints or suggestions about campus dining.

Students addressed questions regarding plans for new residence halls and improvements to older ones to Resident Life Director Deb Grandner and Residential Facilities

Director Jon Dooley. The directors said official plans for residential projects would be made available later this month.

“We have been working on a strategic plan over the past year in housing,” Grandner said. “About 1,500 beds are going to be added to the Lot 1 area in two segments, and we are looking at another site by the Varsity Practice Field to see

if we can put a couple of buildings there, too.”

Grandner said residents could expect upgrades to bathrooms, lobby areas and study spaces in the meantime.

Dooley said there would also be an effort to get air conditioning installed in all existing dorms over the next few years.

DOTS Director David Allen said the loss of spaces in Lot 1 would affect the amount of people able to park on the campus. He said parking privileges will most likely be pulled from freshmen and sophomores first, and fees will be raised to cover those losses.

Although not all commuter bus routes have been worked out, Allen said the Regents Drive Garage will be used much more once Campus Drive becomes a one-way street during Purple Line construction.

Ideally, DOTS won’t have to run as many buses as students take advantage of the Purple Line, Allen said.

One of the final questions of the night regarded what students should avoid doing to make the campus community a better place for everyone. Allen, Grandner and Dooley responded in turn: “Vomiting on buses.”

“Vomiting in bathrooms.”

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Parking ticket appeals process rejected

By Joelle Lang @thedbk Staff writer

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University Senate chairman way it was written up really showed that thoughtfulness, and so senators were willing to support it because they could see the logic behind the work, it was well-argued for and it just makes sense.”

The proposal will be sent to the provost and university President Wallace Loh for approva l a nd fi na l ly to the Board of Regents.

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Drivers won’t have the ability to appeal their parking tickets twice after a University Senate subcommittee voted against a Graduate Student Government proposal to reinstate the secondary appeals process.

But Josh Ratner, student affairs vice president for the Student Government Association and a supporter of the proposal, said the fight is not over.

“I’m exploring different ways to bring back the proposal,” Ratner said. “I’m certainly going to keep pushing for this.”

The proposal’s opponents voted it down at a Campus Transportation Advisory Committee meeting on March 14 by a final 6-3 vote. They said it wasn’t worth reinstating because two-thirds of secondary appeals in the past couple of years were upheld.

“I don’t think that [33] percent is a small number,” Ratner said. “I don’t think it’s fair to minimize the impact.”

The Department of Transportation Services cut the secondary appeals process last summer as a way to reduce an expected 7 percent parking fee increase on the campus.

DOTS was paying the Office of Student Conduct $10,000 annually at the time to continue the review process. By cutting the second appeals process, DOTS expected a 35-cent reduction in the expected parking fee increase, DOTS Director David Allen said.

Allen recently met with the student conduct office and

USM From PAGE 1 of this year’s budget included cost-of-living adjustments and merit increases for the University System of Maryland. The adjustments are “well-deserved,” said system lobbyist P.J. Hogan, because the system has frozen employee pay in recent years to find savings.

Gov. Martin O’Malley proposed a budget for fiscal year 2015 with a 2 percent cost-ofliving adjustment and merit increases. But both legislative chambers have proposed cuts as much as $10 million to the university system.

“We’re hopeful that things are getting better, and they are

DAVID ALLEN, DOTS director, says cutting the second parking ticket appeals process could reduce expected parking fee increases by about 35 cents. rachel george/the diamondback found that it was willing to reinstate the process for $2,000, a cost DOTS likely could cover without increasing parking fees, he said.

“With the efforts of DOTS and the Office of Student Conduct to reduce the fee that had been charged for that second service, we thought this would be a victory for everyone,” Residence Hall Association President Omer Kaufman said.

But opponents of the proposal said reinstating the process would show distrust in the student employees who make the judgment calls on appeals.

“If the claim is made that the second appeal is necessary because of DOTS student employees being biased against students, the proposal or someone arguing for it at the meeting should prepare appeal statement examples of cases where students were parked lega l ly a nd appea ls were denied,” said Campus Transportation Advisory Committee member Max Burns, who voted against the proposal.

Opponents such as Burns

also argued that the second review process, while wellliked, offers no further information on why a ticket is being appealed, making the process pointless.

“The second appeal should be required to have new information or evidence in support of the appellant’s claim, just as it would be in a court,” Burns said.

But supporters said having a second set of eyes on appeals would be beneficial, as the ticket review is a subjective decision.

Another point of contention was a claim that the second appeals process debate was based on a few people having negative experiences.

Graduate Student Government President David ColónCabrera said that wasn’t the case, but either way “anecdotal and quantitative evidence” should be considered.

“A lot of graduates are not happy,” Colón-Cabrera said. “I want some sort of resolution.”

getting better because we’ve gone through” years of pay freezes, Anderson said.

O’Malley’s proposed budget provides $24.1 million for this year’s cost-of-living increase and $38.5 million for merit increases.

Inflation grew 1.5 percent nationally over the past year, the report noted, meaning the growth of prices in the economy didn’t significantly erode the purchasing power of public university employees’ wages.

But when salaries don’t increase, Anderson said, it affects the morale of faculty members.

The university has to hire new faculty at competitive rates determined by market forces, while current faculty are essentially locked in at the salaries at which they were hired

years before.

This creates a “two-tiered” system, Anderson said. New hires can take advantage of increasing salaries because of changes in the market, he said, but veteran faculty members’ salaries aren’t adjusted.

“You have to hire at elevated rates, and as a result some people … are being hired at salaries that are at or very close to what some people that are already here are earning,” Anderson said. “They’re saying, ‘Gee, my salary hasn’t advanced, but the market has for everybody else, and what they’re paying for new faculty members is what I’m earning now or slightly more than what I’m earning now, and that doesn’t seem right.’”

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Smart spending Spending green to go green creates real change STAFF EDITORIAL

Another wise investment in sustainable development L a s t T h u rsd ay, t h e Un ive rsity Sustainability Fund granted $50,000 to Facilities Management to create green amenities in the new Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center. The building, set to open in 2016, will include either a teaching green roof or a rainwater harvesting system, but Facilities Management has not decided which project, if not both, to implement yet.

A l t h o u g h t h e d e ta i l s o f t h e two Facilities Management projects have not completely rolled out, we support allocating these funds toward features meant to improve the campus academically and environmentally. Though the program costs $50,000, we believe the benefits generally outweigh the costs.

The teaching green roof and the rainwater harvesting system both serve academic purposes, not just environmental ones. The teaching green roof provides a backdrop for an applied education — students can easily access the roof and take classes or study there. Meanwhile, the harvesting system provides benefits beyond simple sustainability because it would provide research and teaching opportunities for students and faculty on the campus.

One of this university’s most important goals is to be a leading institution in environmental research and sustainability. Although we must be cautious and ensure student funds aren’t going to green

projects that have extensive costs or only benefit a small proportion of the university community, the benefits provided by these projects are easily accessible and contribute to compelling academic purposes.

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The benefits outweigh the $50,000 cost of making the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center sustainable.

If people are wary of the financial costs, then this must be dealt with through the University Sustainability Council — after all, we did vote for this. In April 2007, a whopping 91 percent of undergraduate students voted in favor of increasing student fees by $12 per year to create a University Sustainability Fund. This fund, which totaled $350,000 this year, is responsible for granting different portions of its budget to green initiatives on the campus. University students favored the creation of this endowment as a means to make the campus more environmentally self-sufficient.

The University Sustainability Fund requires anyone seeking a g ra n t to c o m p l e te a r i go r ous application. Organizations and departments must pitch a program that satisfies a total of

14 requirements to receive grant m o n e y. T h e s e r e q u i r e m e n t s include having a broad application across the campus, measurable outcomes, mechanisms for project evaluation and follow-up, education and outreach opportunities, a cost-benefit analysis outline and support from different individuals and entities on the campus.

Once an individual, group or department pitches the program, the University Sustainability Council assesses the proposed program’s ability to meet its specified requirements and then makes the final decisions. The council receives input from the Student Advisory Subcommittee, which reviews all applications and makes recommendations to the council before any official decisions are made.

Achieving environmental goals at a university level is done best when they meet academic needs and affect a large portion of the student body. Just because we support being environmentally friendly does not mean we support public funding for unnecessary programs that serve more to show off our green initiatives than actually put them to use. At the end of the day, we support the University Sustainability Council’s decisions on academic and environmental grounds — the teaching green roof and rainwater harvesting system will save water, reduce our carbon footprint and expand our research and educational opportunities more than we could have imagined.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

Money can truly help make a difference

ROBERT COBB

This university is full of passionate people. Hunger, oppression, injustice — opportunity, discovery, growth; for any subject you name, someone is probably researching, writing, discussing or demonstrating it on the campus. I learn almost every day about the challenges facing our generation, our country, our world. I see many s t u d e n ts a n d fa c u l ty a dvo cate change: loudly in front of Stamp Student Union, quietly with friends across dining hall tables, online and in the pages of this paper.

Perhaps it is my youthful naivete, but I think those conversations are meaningful. I believe in the power of words to change minds and attitudes. However, conversation itself is not the change we seek but a jumpingoff point. The real change is the real change — tangible improvements in people’s lives.

Of course, I am not the first to realize this. Most passionate people at this university go beyond the talking and get to the doing. March and April see solicitations for donations for charitable walks and runs.

Relay for Life, Out of the Darkness Campus Walk and Glow for the Girls are all coming up, on the heels of the most successful Terp Thon yet. Appeals to the altruism of our friends and colleagues here at the university work, mostly. But when strangers ask for donations, and all too often when friends ask, we are suddenly deaf.

Of course, many of us are undergraduate or graduate students or poorly compensated professors; we simply don’t have the money to give to everyone — nor should we. If we want to have the best impact with what we give, Robert Cobb is a senior computwe have to be discerning about er engineering major. He can be the organizations we sponsor. reached at rcobbdbk@gmail.com.

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Where does the money go? How do they account for it? Who is tracking outcomes?

To make change, you have to have some dollars. Not every time — you can spread the word to end mental health stigma without hitting a donate button — and not every change is equally cost-effective to fund. In Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership classes, students vigorously debate the merits of different causes and critically estimate the real value of every dollar given. It seems obvious upon inspection that some dollars, such as those for malaria nets or mass deworming, go further than others, such as money donated to an already overfunded Kickstarter.

The choice between giving to a bake sale and giving to disaster relief might help people visualize the difference between the magnitude of impact. Finding the best organizations to give to is worth the time and consideration. Thankfully, sites such as GiveWell, Charity Navigator and GuideStar can help with research and decision-making.

But wait, what about those bake sales? What about Relay for Life?

Those are good too! Real people are trying to make real change, and they need to raise money. More than that, these are expressions of our community values. When Terp Thon or Relay for Life raises sixdigit sums, that reflects positively on all of us — we are making a difference together.

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It’s hard, but don’t sweat the small stuff Trying to avoid stress and anxiety in an overwhelming college environment ADAM OFFITZER In the middle of an overwhelming week, with constant deadlines to meet, meetings to attend and tasks to finish, I find myself in deep, deep need of a deep, deep breath. While college has its perks and periods of rest, it’s also full of anxiety, stress and — for seniors —constant fear of the future.

In high school, the end of senior year is the time to sit back and relax. Your teachers have basically given up, prom festivities are on the way and you most likely know where you’ll be spending the next four years of your life.

In college, the end of senior year is terrifying. Even if you’ve already

accepted a job or chosen a graduate school program, there’s still an unnerving sense of uncertainty and skepticism about post-college life. And if you don’t have a job yet (like me), your life is virtually a blank slate after May 23, which is definitely exciting — but definitely scary, too.

These big-picture concerns, like “getting a job” or “ having a relationship,” are often worth worrying about. But it’s the little things piling up that ultimately affect our mental and emotional well-beings. “Small stuff ” that should be insignificant — a mediocre quiz grade, a $15 parking ticket, a disappointing buffalo chicken wrap — can make a bad mood worse.

With this in mind, I have a little piece of advice for those who feel

college life is wearing them down.

I typically don’t use my columnist platform to give “tips,” because n o b o dy n e e d s to h ea r wh a t a random college student has to say, but this one is worth it. Plus, it’s not even my own advice. It’s from a 1997 book called Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… and It’s All Small Stuff by renowned psychotherapist Richard Carlson.

Se l f- h e l p, l i fe a dv i ce b o o ks aren’t really my thing, but Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff is different.

The tone is remarkably matter-offact (down-to-earth, rather than preachy), and the tips are remarkably simple and obvious. One in particular has always stuck with me. It’s a game called “time warp.”

As Carlson explains: “To play ‘time warp,’ all you have to do is imagine that whatever circum-

stance you are dealing with isn’t happening right now but a year from now. Then simply ask yourself, ‘Is this situation really as important as I’m making it out to be?’ Once in a great while it may be — but a vast majority of the time, it simply isn’t.”

This time warp mentality has become a guiding part of my approach to life. As a camp counselor, I taught it to my campers when they got upset about a bad basketball game, a gross meal for dinner o r a d u m b a rg u m e n t b e twe e n friends. Using the concept of time to explain that these little things just don’t matter became incredibly effective, and my campers learned to never “sweat the small stuff.” Basically, teaching them to play time warp was a nicer way of saying “get over it.”

The game of time warp is easy enough for a kid to understand but universal enough for a college student to use. It’s useful in daily life and incredibly simple to incorporate. So give it a try. The next time you get flustered over something, anything, ask yourself: “Will this matter one year from now?”

Sometimes, you can keep going: Will this matter one month from now? One week from now? One day from now? One hour from now?

Usually, the answer is no. Then, you can move on from the small stuff and start to freak out about things that really matter.

Adam Offitzer is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at aoffitzerdbk@gmail.com.

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humdrum simulacrum Mundane simulators have unexpectedly become popular. Some are oddly brilliant. These ones aren’t.

By Warren Zhang @auberginecow Senior staff writer Goat Simulator is not an elaborate April Fools’ Day joke, despite its fortuitous release date. As with Surgeon Simulator and the recently Kickstarter-funded Bear Simulator, it is instead a cheeky addition to the bafflingly large simulator genre, though lumping together Goat Simulator and Street Cleaning Simulator may be a bit of a stretch.

More surprising than the existence of Goat Simulator and Bear Simulator is just how expansive and popular simulator games have become. On the surface, it’s hard to figure out why Euro Truck Simulator is so trendy on the Internet.

It’s tempting to write off the popularity of these games as some sort of ironic cultural movement (thank YouTube’s “TRAIN SIMULATOR B----”

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But like any genre, with the sublime come the asinine. Here are some of the worst simulator games out on the market. No, Goat Simulator doesn’t count.

games revolve around fairly dull mechanics, but even among this crowd, Woodcutter Simulator is the most boring bore in all of boredom.

Gameplay jumps from scintillating first-person tactical chainsaw action to drives in the forest in cheapo cars.

Maybe someone, somewhere gets pseudo-sexual gratification from watching trees fall unrealistically to the ground. I, unfortunately, do not.

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Expecting cheap games made by tiny development teams to be as polished as the top-rated AAA big boys is unrealistic. Usually, there’s a fair bit of leeway given to these indie games because the developers have limited resources.

Enter Woodcutter Simulator 2013, a first-person lumberjack-’em-up available on Steam. This is a game that’s not so much broken as it is nonexistent. To be fair, most simulator

The makers of Euro Bus Simulator 2012 probably didn’t intend to cause nightmares, but that’s about the only thing the game’s good for aside from carpal tunnel syndrome. In the grand tradition of simulator games, Euro Bus Simulator 2012 features very finicky and obtuse controls.

Realistic? Sure. Fun? Not when you have to carefully pull up to bus stops and not run over passengers. Perhaps a lifetime of playing Grand Theft Auto

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By Beena Raghavendran @thebeenster Senior staff writer I relate to Glee on a personal level.

I grew up just outside Cincinnati, about 125 miles south of Lima, Ohio, the hometown of Glee. My school was William Mason High School (oddly similar to the show’s William McKinley High School) and takes the same abbreviation (WMHS or MHS). Characters have mentioned the Kings Island amusement

park, which is just minutes from my house.

My high school is huge. For the most part, its students stayed in their assigned cliques — jocks, cheerleaders, mathletes, drama kids — and tried not to intermingle. Uproar, even chaos, ensued when anyone tried.

Glee’s 100th episode, a two-parter that aired its first half March 18 and concluded March 25, shows how the show has changed and the magic it once had.

As a junior in high school, I watched and evaluated Glee’s heyday. In the first few epi-

GOAT SIMULATOR’S absurd title and trailer made the game a viral phenomenon. photo courtesy of wired.co.uk has ruined my ability to pull up to the curb peacefully. Perhaps Euro Bus Simulator 2012 just sucks.

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You finally manage to park right next to the bus stop, and you open your door to find a hideous paper doll expecting change for his ticket staring at you with cold, pixelated eyes. This must be what hell looks like.

Tow Truck Simulator 2010 How could it be fun to tow illegally parked cars if there’s no one around to watch you? Of all these games, Tow Truck Simulator 2010 feels the least complete, as if it was slapped together

sodes, I was wide-eyed, in awe that a show would dare to try a musical style on primetime television, and that it worked. Just like seemingly everyone else, I loved the mash-ups. I fell for the characters. I was amazed by the “Don’t Stop Believin’” cover.

But more than that, I understood. I understood why Rachel wanted to get out of her small town. Why Finn struggled with social insecurity through high school. Why Blaine and Kurt were trailblazers for dating — and why Glee should still be praised for being a prominent TV show portraying homosexual relationships. In many ways, Glee was reflective of the community I grew up in. I experienced real-life high school issues at about the same times as the characters on Glee did.

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have hurt the show: falling viewership, having a cast that needed to graduate — forcing a focus on unknown characters — and trying too hard to make some songs and plot arcs work. But the biggest blow to the show and cast morale was the death of star Cory Monteith this past summer. Glee, in its fifth season, announced its sixth season will be its last.

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FIRST BASEMAN LAMONTE WADE went 3-for-3 with three RBIs, two runs scored and a walk in the Terps’ 8-3 victory over Liberty yesterday evening.

FLAMES From PAGE 8 said. “Just going out there, just trying to throw strikes, let my defense work. That was my mentality the whole game because when I do that, it most likely works.”

The Terps scored a run before the fifth inning for the first time in the past three games. Wade drove in the game’s first run in the first on a sacrifice fly, and he scored on a double by designated hitter Kyle Convissar in the third.

Drossner retired the first eight batters he faced, but

Liberty (22-8) manufactured runs in the middle innings through steals, errors and the occasional hit, scoring two-out runs in the third and fourth.

Familiar offensive problems, such as batting with runners in scoring position, plagued the Terps in the fifth, when they were unable to push across a run and break a 2-2 deadlock after loading the bases with one out.

But in the sixth, the Terps took advantage of Liberty’s pitching and defensive mistakes with a few timely hits.

After two straight walks to lead off the inning, catcher Nick Cieri bunted down the third base line. Flames catcher

Danny Grauer threw to third instead of first, and the lead runner reached safely.

After a sacrifice fly and a wild pitch plated two runs, Wade’s hit pushed the Terps’ lead to four, and he later scored in the inning on a single by Convissar.

The sophomore, who entered the game hitting .202, went 3-for-3 with three RBIs, two runs and a walk.

Wa d e ’s s ta n d o u t p e rformance came a day after another struggling hitter, shortstop Jose Cuas, had a standout performance.

Cuas, filling in at short for the injured Blake Schmit (concussion), went 4-for-4 with two RBIs in the win over VCU on

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Tuesday. Cuas entered that game hitting .203.

Despite having four of their top six hitters batting worse than .254 entering yesterday, the Terps showed they can produce runs with plate discipline and by putting the ball in play. For the second straight game, the Terps took advantage of their opponent’s miscues during another big inning that broke open a close game.

“We never want to strike out,” Wade said. “Put the ball in play. … The more we cut down on strikeouts, the better chance we have of scoring.” psuittsdbk@gmail.com

three events, Brauckmuller will compete in floor and potentially vault and Chung will compete in vault. Regardless of the scores they produce, the meet will provide valuable experience before the Terps move to the Big Ten next season.

“Our meets will be televised,” Nelligan said. “It’s going to be kind of a bigger atmosphere, so this is perfect practice for the freshmen to get experience for next year.”

Faller will open for the Terps on beam during her first NCAA Regional meet.

More than two months after she was elated with a 9.700, Faller has heightened expectations and hopes to continuning setting a tone for the Terps.

“She gets the meet going for us,” Giameo said. “So I have just been telling her how well she has been doing because I don’t feel like she gets enough recognition.”

the lineup. Freshman Nikki Chung has competed in vault and bars, and freshman Emily Brauckmuller has competed on floor, beam and vault.

Both Chung and Brauckmuller have had success as of late. Chung tied her careerhigh 9.800 in vault at the EAGL Championships, and Brauckmuller set her career best with a 9.700 on floor.

“The freshmen have really stepped up this year when we needed them,” senior Jessie Black said. “They really just have so much confidence, and I can’t wait to see what they do the next three years.”

When the Terps travel to University Park, Pa., for the NCAA Regionals on Saturday, the freshmen will hope to play a pivotal role in the team’s continuing success.

While Faller will lead the FRESHMAN SARAH FALLER has improved during her first season competing for the Terps in College Park entering this weekend’s NCAA Regionals at Penn State. file photo/the diamondback freshmen by competing in rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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BROWN From PAGE 10

going to hit it, no doubt.”

Brown and the Terps worked on free-throw shooting at various intensities this season, especially during their twoweek layoff before the NCAA tournament. During that break, coach Brenda Frese reintroduced their free-throw ladder drill, which combines freethrow shooting with sprints.

In the practice, players had to run sprints if they missed free throws. The physical punishment associated with the drill has helped Brown endure the pressure of taking free throws in crunch time.

“It’s the same kind of pressure in practice, but instead of not scoring any points, you got 15, 20 line sprints,” Brown said.

“I would take pressure in a game over free-throw ladder any day.”

During this season, Brown has gradually become one of the Terps’ most reliable players, averaging the secondmost minutes per game behind Thomas. Brown’s poise in a hostile environment during the team’s most tense and important game of the season helped seal the Terps’ victory. And as the stage gets bigger and the lights get brighter, the Terps will continue to look to the freshman to stay composed and orchestrate the offense for one last weekend.

“We have a common goal, and we’ve reached it,” Brown said. “So now we can only go up from here.”

while shooting 9-of-10 from the line. Her composure during the contest’s closing moments helped the team outlast Louisville’s comeback push.

When No. 1-seed Tennessee cut an 18-point deficit to nine with 7:12 remaining in the Terps’ Sweet 16 matchup, Brown was replaced after picking up two fouls in less than a minute. Forward Alyssa Thomas and guard Laurin Mincy shared the point guard role until Brown returned with 1:57 left in the game.

She played the final eight minutes of Tuesday’s contest, though, and she remained the Terps’ primary ball handler when Louisville switched to a press.

“We have complete confidence in our freshmen,” Thomas said. “I mean, they’re in the game in tight minutes and making plays for us. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

Shooting better than 78 percent from the free-throw line this year, which ranks third on the team, Brown held the ball when the Cardinals’ pressure caved in. She shot 5-of-6 from the line in the final 2:39.

“I don’t think she’s a freshman anymore,” guard Katie Rutan said. “She doesn’t play like it. She doesn’t hold herself as it. To see her on the line, I just knew that it was two easy points, and I knew she was ppierrelouisdbk@gmail.com

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most important game of the year,” midfielder Joe LoCascio said. “You need to come out, play hard, prepare, practice and get ready for every game like it’s your last.”

Still, Tillman was displeased with what he referred to as a “sluggish start” to the game. The Terps scored five first-quarter goals — two from LoCascio, two from attackman Matt Rambo and one from midfielder Mike Chanenchuk — but a number of defensive breakdowns helped the Colonials remain in the contest.

After a Matt Dunn pushing penalty 31 seconds into the second quarter, Robert Morris midfielder Taylor Graves cut the Terps’ lead to 5-3, finding the bottom right corner during the extra-man opportunity.

That was the closest the Colonials would come for the remainder of the contest, though, and the Terps were able to play their way out of a shaky opening stretch.

Midfielder Henry West, defender Mike Ehrhardt, Chanenchuk, midfielder Jon Garino Jr. and attackman Jay Carlson — who finished with a game-high four goals — combined to score seven straight times in the final 13 minutes of the half, building a 12-3 lead entering the break.

“Today was a great day,” said Rambo, who finished with three goals on five shots. “Our dodging was great today all around.”

With the Terps’ huge lead entering the second half, Tillman put every

When they return to practice Monday, Tillman said there will be plenty of work to do. The team continues to produce victories, and it avoided a letdown yesterday in its final midweek game of the season, but the fourth-year coach still hopes to see improvements as the team moves toward the postseason.

“We’ve really, with this group, looked to try and get more of a killer instinct,” Tillman said. “I don’t think we’re quite there yet, but we want to make sure we come out and get after it.”

Game 2, this time against Nation in the third to cut the Terps’ lead to 6-5. Watten made a pitching change the next inning, opting for Martin in her eighth appearance of the season over alternatives such as Schmeiser or Hannah Dewey.

“She was fresh, and she was ready, and she had the pitches that we needed,” Watten said. “Her screwball was really good, and we needed to have a changeup that has good offspeed to it.”

Martin delivered and allowed only one run in the final four innings while keeping the Orange hitters offbalance with her changeup. Martin helped her team at the plate as well, going 1-for-3 as the designated hitter before pitching.

“I’m just trying to help the team out as much as I can in any way possible — hitting, pitching, fielding, whatever,” Martin said. “So it was great to help out the team and get a win.”

The Terps’ win was their third in 28 games this season. But if the Terps want to carry any momentum from yesterday evening’s victory into a weekend series at Florida State, Watten said Nation and the rest of the pitching staff need to work on closing out innings in the circle.

“She’s been going about four or five innings and then running out of gas,” Watten said. “She has to start turning the corner on that and try to finish some games.”

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Tillman reminded the team in the locker room to spread the wealth and get everyone involved, which resulted in two players — attackman Quinn Haley and midfielder Zack Wholley — finding the back of the net for the first time this season in the fourth quarter.

“That meant a lot to me,” Tillman said. “Guys have made a lot of sacrifices, so I was psyched to see everybody get in.”

Tillman also used the midweek contest to rest faceoff specialist Charlie Raffa, who is battling a knee

injury, and defender Goran Murray, who took a big hit in Sunday’s win over Virginia. Garino took the faceoff responsibilities for the second time this season — Raffa also sat out the Michigan game — and won 17-of-20 faceoffs while scoring his first goal of the season in that seven-goal spurt in the second quarter.

The Terps have nine days before an in-state rivalry game at Johns Hopkins on April 12. Tillman said the team will start preparing for the Blue Jays tomorrow but will get Saturday and Sunday off to rest mentally and physically.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | SPORTS | THURSDAY, april 3, 2014 GYMNASTICS

MEN’S LACROSSE | No. 4 TERPS 19, COLONIALS 6

Growing up, getting better Faller leads group of three improving freshmen into NCAA Regionals “SHE UNDERSTANDS THE PRESSURE AND BEING ON THE BIG STAGE. I FEEL In freshman Sarah Faller’s first two LIKE SHE IS ONE OF THOSE meets for the Terrapins gymnastics KIDS THAT ARE BETTER team, she failed to score higher than a WHEN SHE IS ON THE

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer

9.650. In the Terps’ third meet, Faller posted a 9.700 on bars at North Carolina on Jan. 26.

Excited with her career best, she told coach Brett Nelligan it was her first 9.700.

“I didn’t want to, like, squash her enthusiasm,” Nelligan said. “But I was like, ‘We want 9.800s. 9.700s we don’t get excited for.’”

Since that meet, Faller has steadily improved in all her events. The Raleigh, N.C., native has posted at least one score of 9.800 on vault, bars and beam.

On the biggest stage of her collegiate career at the East Atlantic Gymnastics League Championships, Faller set her career-high on bars with a 9.825, tied her career-high with a 9.800 on beam and added a 9.725 on vault to help the Terps post their season-best total and secure a spot in NCAA Regionals on Saturday.

“She has really come a long way,” Nelligan said. “She understands the pressure and being on the big stage. I feel like she is one of those kids that are better when she is on the bigger stage.”

Entering her first season with

BIGGER STAGE.” BRETT NELLIGAN

Terrapins gymnastics coach the Terps, Faller didn’t expect to compete in three events. She assumed she’d compete on bars and was hoping to earn a spot in the rotation on beam.

Not only has she competed on beam and bars in every meet this season, but she also leads off the beam lineup. In an event that gave the Terps trouble in the regular season, she joined junior captain Stephanie Giameo as the only Terp to compete on beam more than three times during the season and not count a fall.

“At the beginning of the season, it took some adjusting,” Faller said. “I had to get used to meet after meet, back-to-back weekends, but I have had such a blast.”

Faller is one of three freshmen on the team who have played a valuable role throughout the season with multiple injured gymnasts out of See FALLER, Page 7

THE TERPS pulled away from Robert Morris in a blowout win yesterday behind a balanced scoring attack and numerous contributions. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

STAYING UP

Terps avoid midweek letdown with blowout of Robert Morris

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer The top-ranked Loyola men’s lacrosse team traveled to unranked Georgetown on March 19 for what appeared to be a routine midweek game. But the Greyhounds nearly lost the contest, relying on a goal in the game’s final minute to escape with a slim one-goal victory.

Coach John Tillman pointed to that near-upset to motivate his Terrapins men’s lacrosse team entering its matchup with Robert Morris last night. He told

his players they couldn’t look past any opponent, or they could face a similar situation as the Greyhounds did a few weeks ago.

“The danger of midweek games is always tough,” Tillman said. “It’s just a different feel.”

The team took Tillman’s message to heart. The No. 4 Terps (9-1) jumped out to nine-goal lead at halftime and coasted to a 19-6 victory over the Colonials (4-6) before an announced 1,182 at Byrd Stadium.

“The person who is next on the schedule is the See COLONIALS, Page 7

SOFTBALL

Pitching buckles down late to earn split with Syracuse Martin closes out Game 2 win with strong four innings

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer

PITCHER KAITLYN SCHMEISER gave up a grand slam in Game 1 of yesterday’s doubleheader against Syracuse. rebecca rainey/the diamondback

BASEBALL | TERPS 8, FLAMES 3

Wade leads bats with 3 hits, 3 RBIs Drossner allows two runs in six innings for another nonconference victory

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer With two outs in the sixth inning, LaMonte Wade reached down and made contact with a 2-2 pitch from Liberty lefthander Michael Stafford.

The Terrapins baseball first baseman bounced the ball through the infield, and it rolled into right field, driving in two base runners.

The two-RBI single was the key hit in a five-run sixth that broke open a tie game and propelled the Terps to an 8-3 victory over Liberty at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium yesterday. The sixth-inning explosion came a day after a four-run sixth inning led the Terps to a 5-2 victory over Virginia Commonwealth.

“It was a similar game to yesterday really,” coach John Szefc said. “We put that big

inning together. We got really tough at-bats when we needed to. Obviously [Wade’s] at-bat was a big part of that inning.”

After the Terps scored two runs over two games on Friday against then-No. 20 Clemson, they rediscovered the offensive firepower they displayed in a sweep of then-No. 11 N.C. State from March 21 to 23.

Before the Terps (18-8) exploded in the sixth, left-hander Jake Drossner kept the game close with his second straight quality start. The sophomore gave up two hits, two walks and two runs (one earned) in six innings. Drossner also struck out nine in an 84-pitch outing and is now 3-0 in five appearances (four starts).

“I really just want to go out there and try to be consistent with my fastball,”Drossner See FLAMES, Page 7

After Syracuse loaded the bases with two outs in the third inning of Game 2 of a doubleheader yesterday, the Terrapins softball team was in danger of relinquishing a four-run lead.

Orange catcher Jasmine Watson had hit a three-run home run — her second of the day — to cut the deficit to 6-5, and the Terps’ pitchers had already struggled to close out innings in their Game 1 defeat.

But when pitcher Brenna Nation fielded outfielder Alyssa Dewes’ grounder and threw to infielder Candice Beards for the third out, the Terps escaped the inning with a narrow lead.

Pitcher Madison Martin allowed one run to Syracuse in relief to give the Terps a 7-6 win and a split of their doubleheader at Maryland Softball Stadium.

Coach Laura Watten realized the importance of Nation pitching out of that inning after giving up four runs in Game 1 and five more in Game 2.

“It was big,” Watten said.

“She just has to be strong and keep pushing through stuff like that. That was really a situation where we just had to get her to stay mentally tough.”

Control has been a problem for Nation this season, and her struggles continued yesterday.

She walked eight batters over eight innings, which led to RBI opportunities for hitters such as Syracuse infielder Julie

Wambold, who drove in three runs in Game 1.

“We can’t walk batters,” Watten said. “We can’t be giving free bases like we have been.”

Pitcher Kaitlyn Schmeiser gave up a crucial free base when she hit Orange infielder Corinne Ozanne with two outs in the sixth inning of Game 1.

This loaded the bases, forcing Schmeiser to pitch to cleanup hitter Watson, who had a team-high eight home runs entering the doubleheader.

Her grand slam provided the Orange (13-16, 6-5 ACC) with valuable insurance runs on their way to a 9-4 victory over the Terps (3-25, 2-6 ACC).

Watson went deep again in See ORANGE, Page 7

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NCAA TOURNAMENT | WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

CALM, COLLECTED, VICTORIOUS

Unflappable Brown turns in steady performance during No. 4-seed Terps’ Elite Eight victory over No. 3-seed Louisville

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Lexie Brown’s free throw bounced off the front rim with 22 seconds remaining in the Terrapins women’s basketball team’s 76-73 win Tuesday night against No. 3-seed Louisville in the Elite Eight, eliciting cheers from Cardinals fans at the KFC Yum! Center.

The Terps were trying to pull away from Louisville late on the road in their biggest game of the season, and the Cardinals started fouling with more than two-and-a-half minutes left, sending the Terps to the line again and again.

But that miss was her lone misfire at the line all night. With the No. 4-seed Terps holding onto a 72-65 lead with hopes of advancing to their first Final Four since 2006, the freshman guard remained calm before an announced crowd of 14,002 mostly rooting for Louisville.

“The crowd will feed off of your body language,” Brown said. “So if you show them that they’re bothering you, they’re going to bother you.”

Brown sank the second free throw and finished the game with 20 points See brown, Page 7 GUARD LEXIE BROWN (left) talks to coach Brenda Frese (right) during the Terps’ 76-73 Elite Eight victory over Louisville on Tuesday night. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

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