April 6, 2015 by The Diamondback

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GUARD LEXIE BROWN walks off the court after the Terps’ loss to Connecticut last night in Tampa, Florida. Brown finished with 12 points as the Terps’ 28-game winning streak came to an end. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

Terps women’s basketball falls in Final Four for second straight season, this time to Connecticut By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer

TAMPA, Fla. — For the second straight season, the Terrapins women’s basketball team failed to keep a Final Four game competitive. After falling to Notre Dame by 26 points in last year’s semifinal bout, the Terps struggled to slow top-seeded Connecticut last night. The Huskies proved why they entered as the over-

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whelming favorite to win their 10th national championship with a relentless attack and stifling defense. Behind a 25-point outing from Associated Press Player of the Year forward Breanna Stewart, Connecticut cruised to an 81-58 rout of the No. 1-seed Terps at Amalie Arena before an announced 19,730.

at about 12:30 a.m., according to the alert. One of the group members then allegedly grabbed at the student’s waist and demanded his property, but the victim was able to push the perpetrator away, the alert stated. The student said he heard someone else in the group dissuade the perpetrator from further engaging with him, and the perpetrator fled the scene with the group down the hallway in an unknown direction. No injuries were reported and no weapons were used during the incident, according to the alert. Police are conducting an investigation and ask anyone with information regarding the incident or the identity of the suspect to contact 911 or 301-772-4908.

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Connecticut advances to the national championship to play No. 1-seed Notre Dame, the only other team to have defeated the Terps since the start of December. The loss ends the Terps’ season a game shy of their second-ever national championship appearance and halts a program-record winning streak of 28 games. “When you look at a season and go 34-3 and two of our three losses are coming from teams that are playing for See huskies, Page 3

U fan group seeks to develop leadership The Pride transitions from athletic dept group to student-run By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Staff writer When this university won the Big Ten Network Home Court Challenge — a competition to see which university had the lowest opponent free-throw percentage at its home court — on March 13, Bryan Farrell said he saw potential for a top-tier student fan organization. “[People] generally equate [low opponent free-throw percent-

ages] to mean who has the loudest, most rambunctious student section and the most intimidating student section,” said Farrell, an Athletic Department Student Advisory Council member. “The Maryland section is stupidly loud, but if we can get them organized, it’s kind of exciting.” In an effort to create student sections for different sports and organize activities for athletic events — such as chants, card tricks and flash mobs — Farrell, the athletic department and ADSAC are seeking to set up a student executive board for The Pride, a fan organization currently under the purview of the athletic department. Applications for the executive board, which can be found on the Student Government Association’s

Facebook page, opened March 26 and are open until April 8. Farrell, who also serves as the SGA’s Tradition Commission chairman, said the goal is to have a six-member board established within a month. “[Under the direction of an executive board], The Pride would be a parent organization that could help facilitate and help support these smaller, individual [sports] sections,” Farrell said. “A behind-the-scenes kind of thing that could help recruit new members to help promote certain events going on, to help put together events, road trips.” Farrell said in the first week, about 30 students applied for the positions, See Pride, Page 3

Univ, USM leaders hope for additional funds ahead of budget deadline Hogan has until next Monday to file supplemental budget; System faces $47 million shortfall

to work out the differences between the two versions. Neither chamber reduced the $1.2 billion in state funding that Hogan By Jon Banister Maryland deal with its $47 million originally budgeted for the univer@J_Banister budget shortfall for the upcoming sity system. This amount would leave the system with $47 million Senior staff writer fiscal year. Both the state Senate and House of less than anticipated. “It’s going to mean that things Gov. Larry Hogan has until next Delegates passed amended versions aren’t going to get better and a lot of Hogan’s original budget proposal Monday to grant additional funding to help the University System of in March and are meeting this week of programs we wanted to do aren’t

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going to be able to be sustained,” Student Government Association President Patrick Ronk said, noting recent improvements on the campus and for the entire university system. “It’s just going to stagnate us, more or less.” The funding shortfall is partly caused by former G ov. Ma r ti n O’Malley’s $40 million cut to the university system in January, which

prompted cuts across all system i n st it ut ion s a nd res u lted i n a 2 percent midyear tuition increase at this university. Hogan took office in January facing a $750 million structural budget deficit. Hogan, who campaigned on fiscal restraint and limited state spending, implemented 2 percent cuts See budget, Page 2

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The Terrapins baseball offense snapped out of a recent funk this weekend to lift the team to a three-game sweep of Nebraska P. 10

STAFF EDITORIAL: Housing priorities

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BUDGET From PAGE 1 to all state agencies. A February poll by The Washington Post and this university found 87 percent of respondents felt the budget deficit was a problem for state residents, and 68 percent supported Hogan’s 2 percent across-the-board cuts. “The way I’m looking at it, this year for Hogan in particular is the year to kind of close out the deficit, and I’m hoping that now that he’s made his cuts, now that we’ve closed like three-fourths of the deficit, that he’ll kind of start prioritizing higher ed a little bit more and be more amenable to it moving forward,” Ronk said. Hogan’s budget includes university system projections for an additional 5 percent tuition increase for the fall semester. Ronk said it is likely this projection will become reality, and the SGA is lobbying to make sure it doesn’t jump higher. “This isn’t ideal and we’re going to push against this, but I think the minimum we can hope for is the 5 percent moving forward,” Ronk said. Hogan still has the ability to increase university system funding with a supplemental budget. Supplemental budgets are additional funding measures the governor can attach to the budget throughout the session before final action on the budget to correct errors and fill gaps as he sees fit. This must be done by the end of next Monday, when the legislative session ends, and must be ap-

proved by both chambers. The governor issued his second supplemental budget last week, which did not add funding to the system’s budget but did grant $450,000 for a new research building in St. Mary’s County. The Southern Maryland Higher Education Center will use these funds to expand this university’s engineering school’s research into the use of drones and other unmanned systems for civilian use. “The items in this supplemental budget provide the necessary funding for education, public safety, heroin addiction and tax relief measures that the people of Maryland deserve,” Hogan said in a news release Thursday. “We still have much more to do, but as we draw closer to the end of the legislative session, I look forward to working with the conference committee to reach a fi nal budget that addresses the concerns of all hardworking Marylanders.” Un iversity system Vice Chancellor P.J. Hogan said he has been lobbying all session for additional university system funding, and he hopes to see about half of the $47 million returned to the system. But he acknowledged the difficult fiscal situation the state faces and said he still believes higher education is a priority for the governor.

BY THE NUMBERS Gov. Larry Hogan allotted

$1.2 billion

to the University System of Maryland in his budget proposal. That’s

$47 million

less than what university system officials anticipated. Hogan has projected the university system would need to increase tuition by an additional

5 percent

to make up those funds. That could be added to a

2 percent

tuition increase that resulted in January after former Gov. Martin O’Malley cut university funds

$40 million.

Gov. Larry Hogan speaks to supporters after the election in November. Hogan has another week to grant additional funding to the University System of Maryland. file photo / the diamondback “We could be in a much more dire fiscal situation as far as funding to the university system,” P.J. Hogan said. “More like what’s going on in most states around the

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HUSKIES From PAGE 1 the national championship game,” coach Brenda Frese sa id, “that is a heck of a season.” G u a rd L e x i e B ro w n — playing with her dad in the stands for the fi rst time this season — finished with 12 points as one of nine Terps who scored in the game. Forwa rd Morga n T uck, mea nwh i le, tea med w ith Stewart to spearhead a dominating frontcourt for Connecticut. One of two Huskies starters not named to an AllAmerican team, Tuck finished 10 of 16 from the floor to score 24 points. “She is such a d ifficu lt matchup,” Frese said of Tuck. “She took us inside. She took us out. She was able to score at will.” For the first four minutes, it appeared the Terps would be able to hang with the Huskies. But center Brion na Jones picked up her second foul at the 16:01 mark and spent the next 10 minutes watching from the bench. Jones departed with the score knotted at 10, and when she returned, her team was down 34-23. “Bri balances our offense out,” guard Shatori WalkerK imbrough said. “We get that inside-outside game and when she went out, they were … clogging the paint and we couldn’t really penetrate.” While the Terps struggled to get the ball inside without her, they also failed to slow Connecticut’s attack with a smaller lineup in the game. The Huskies finished with 40 paint points and shot 53.7 percent from the floor. And a young Terps team

“THE THING ABOUT UCONN IS IT’S NOT ONE PERSON CONTRIBUTING TO THAT RUN. IT’S THE ENTIRE TEAM. SO WE WOULD TRY KEY ON ONE PERSON AND THEN SOMEBODY ELSE WOULD SCORE. AND THEN WE WOULD TRY TO KEY ON THAT PERSON AND THE NEXT PERSON WOULD SCORE.” LEXIE BROWN

Terps women’s basketball guard made the types of errors it hadn’t been making all season. The Terps endured two shotclock violations and a pair of five-second violations trying to inbound the ball. Ever y t i me t he Ter ps appea red to ga i n thei r footing, Connecticut struck back with an easy bucket. When Brown drilled a deep 3-pointer with 1:54 remaining in the first half to cut t h e Te r p s’ d e f i c i t to s i x p o i n t s , t h e H u s k i e s a nswered w ith two stra ight baskets at the other end to take a 44-33 advantage into the locker room. Connecticut carried the momentum out of the break to put the Terps away for good. The Huskies scored the first nine points of the second half for a 14-0 run spanning back to Brown’s 3-pointer. “The thing about UConn is it’s not one person contributing to that run,” Brown said. “It’s the entire team. So we would try key on one person and then somebody else would score. And then we would try to key on that

forward A’lexUS HARRISON (left) rises for a shot blocked by Connecticut forward Breanna Stewart. Guard Lexie Brown (top right) looks to drive to the lane against the Huskies. Coach Brenda Frese (bottom right) walks off the floor after Connecticut finished its 81-58 win that ended the Terps’ season one win shy of the national title game. alexander jonesi/the diamondback person and the next person would score.” After the Huskies used the spurt to push their lead to 18 points, the Terps never threatened to pull within double digits again in the lopsided affair. T he loss ma rks the end

of g u a rd L au r i n M i ncy’s career. After battling back from a pair of ACL surgeries — one in high school and one in college — the Terps’ lone senior failed to make a significant impact in her final college game. She finished with three points and

a game-high six turnovers. W it h 1:51 rem a i n i n g, Mincy was left walking off the court to hugs from her coaches. Behind her, in an arena with nine Connecticut national championship banners hanging from the rafters, her team finished

a game while facing an insurmountable deficit for the second straight year. “It’s rea l ly d isappoi nti n g ,” M i n c y s a i d . “ We wanted to come in here and shock the world.”

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justice major, said student groups play a role in leading teams to victories. “ [S t u d e n t g ro u p s] a re really important, they keep the teams going,” Keckler said. “Melo Trimble always tweets about how much he loves the fans. It’s a big part of us winning, I think.” ADSAC initially worked with the athletic department to create The Pride last semester, Farrell said. The Pride distributed T-shirts and sent 50 students to Pennsylvania State University last fall, but it has been struggling to reach its potential due to a lack of student i nvolvement a nd organization. SGA P re sid ent Pat r ic k Ronk said the university’s tra nsition to the Big Ten provides the perfect opportunity to get students involved with improving the fan atmosphere at athletic events and leaving a mark on the conference. “This year was the first yea r where we sold out

every conference game, and it felt like it was a big deal,” Ron k sa id . “T he P r ide i s trying to capitalize on that and make sure we have this culture of students going to the games and selling out the student section every game moving forward.” Fifth-year English major Kelly Raines said she loves the game atmosphere at this university — it’s one of the reasons she initially transferred here — but added she would like to see increased student enthusiasm for a variety of sports other than basketball. “ We’re stereoty pica l ly and historically a basketba l l school, so we have p re t t y o rg a n i z e d e ve nt s there,” Raines said. “But it took me a while to even learn the football cheers, and I’m seeing a huge presence now at baseball games and stuff like that. It would be nice to have a dynamic environment at every event.”

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Misery In Every Mouthful. “The chickens hang there and look at you while they are bleeding. They try to hide their head from you by sticking it under the wing of the chicken next to them on the slaughter line. You can tell by them looking at you, they’re scared to death.”-Virgil Butler, former Tyson chicken slaughterhouse worker

which include president, vice president, finance director, recruitment director, programming director and communications director. I f s t u d e n t s a re n’t a ccepted onto the executive board, or do not want to be on the board, they are still encouraged to get involved, whether it is by coming up with ideas for events or by creating new student sections, Farrell said. “It’s really transitioning The Pride from an athletic department-run group to a student-ru n g roup,” SGA athletic liaison and ADSAC chairman Ian Moritz said. “Our peer institutions, like Ohio and Rutgers, they all have student groups which a re p o w e r f u l a n d g re a t , a n d t h e y ’re r u n e nt i re ly by students.” Justin Keckler, a jun ior criminology and criminal

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ne of the greatest benefits of living on a university campus is the opportunity to learn to live independently. For many young students, higher education marks a transition into adulthood — filling a few short years between living at home and making a new home — where having a safety net of friends, programs and meal points makes all the changes easier to adapt to. Starting next academic year, though, this university is redefining on-campus housing as an amenity primarily for underclassmen. The Department of Resident Life announced in January that rising juniors and seniors seeking to live in dorms will no longer be eligible for the familiar housing selection process; instead, they’ll have to hope there will be spaces left after freshmen and sophomores have been assigned housing. Resident Life data show that three-quarters of rising juniors choose to leave the dorms in favor of on-campus apartments or offcampus housing. But next year’s policy seems sure to generate a younger cohort of dorm-dwellers. It will be more important than ever, then, that on-campus residents have the support of resident assistants, community assistants and the Residence Hall Association. That’s why Resident Life should follow last week’s RHA resolution and guarantee spots in the dorms to the RHA’s senators-at-large. Accommodating the at-large senators shouldn’t be a logistical problem; there are only four of them. The real significance of this issue is that RHA

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senators live among their constituents, and off-campus residents are not eligible to serve. Senators-atlarge are often upperclassmen, and without guaranteed housing, their positions could hinge on the outcome of a housing lottery in which the odds are increasingly stacked against them. OUR VIEW

Resident Life should follow the RHA’s resolution to guarantee university housing for at-large senators. Preserving positions for upperclassmen will benefit the RHA and the student body, even if the junior and senior senators’ constituents are more exclusively underclassmen. By virtue of their seniority, upperclassmen won’t be as preoccupied with learning how to live at the university or scrambling to establish a new friend group. They are also more familiar with on-campus resources because of their time on the campus and in the RHA. Thus, they can offer a slightly wiser, more informed perspective on the RHA’s work, which ranges from supporting gender-neutral housing to promoting composting initiatives to interacting with the university departments that make the campus a healthful place to live. Upper-class senators might not have the same priorities and concerns as freshmen, but they might know more about how to solve the problems underclassmen face. Guaranteeing them

on-campus housing will help them identify measures that will help the most residents. Beyond RHA legislation, the dorm communities themselves could benefit from invested older residents. Anyone who wants to live in a dorm through senior year so he or she can represent students is a valuable community member whom other residents could go to for help, much like a resident assistant. For a freshman who needs someone to talk to, an upperclassman neighbor might be more approachable than a professor or university counselor, and more discreet than a friend. The presence of upperclassman RHA senators-at-large in dorms could also foster a more cohesive university community by encouraging connections across academic years. This campus allows under- and upperclassmen to work together through classes, clubs and athletic teams, but for many new students, their floormates become their first close friends. A few friendly juniors and seniors in the dorms could help freshmen and sophomores expand their social circles and discover the student groups they might go on to lead — including the RHA itself. One of the differences between K-12 schooling and the adult world, after all, is that real life isn’t as stratified by age. College is a great time to get comfortable working with older students and instructors, and RHA senators-at-large should be given the opportunity to help younger students grow, through direct encouragement as well as campus policies. Setting aside a few dorm rooms is a small price for promoting a supportive community with effective leaders.

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Lawmakers break more promises quarter of what it promised a few years ago. Liberal legislators used a variety of excuses to justify their plan to renege on their promise, chief among them the recent strong stock-market performance of the state’s investments with the pension fund. They also pointed out the benefits of switching the method of pension funding, which would save the state $60 million next year. Did proponents of the plan forget that pension-plan investment returns are consistently among the worst in the country, or overlook that this funding gimmick would cost the state an additional $2.5 billion over the next 13 years? Did they fail to realize that under this plan, the state won’t even reach 80 percent funding of the pension plan until at least a decade from now? The answer to all of these questions is probably no. But if they’re aware of the consequences of their decision, why are they breaking their promises? This is Politics 101. Democratic lawmakers could care less about the pension fund compared with public schools or raises for public employees. Pension funding debates can be bogged with jargon like “actuarial versus corridor funding methods,” and real conversation on fiscal mismanagement can always be pushed down the road. Democrats know that keeping their promises to state employees doesn’t get votes. So, yet again, the state will renege on its promise. I would expect some sort of statement to come soon from the state’s Democratic leaders, who have led the effort to reduce pension funding this year, just as they did last year. I would expect them to promise, yet again, that they will fully fund the pension plan. As a caution to everyone who trusts our liberal legislature to do the right thing next year, just remember: Politicians sometimes break promises.

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our years ago, then-Gov. Martin O’Malley proposed a solution to restore funding to this state’s beleaguered public-employee pension system. Even though the state’s pension fund was fully funded in 2000, it was less than 69 percent funded in 2011. According to the plan, state workers would accept a cut in benefits for new hires, and state workers would contribute 7 percent of their paychecks to the pension plan, up from the traditional 5 percent. In return for this sacrifice, the state promised to put $300 million into the pension fund each year. The state legislature agreed with the governor and the state’s promise. To nobody’s surprise, politicians sometimes break promises. The state’s end of the bargain began to unravel last year, with O’Malley’s plan to skim off $100 million from the state’s contribution in order to plug holes in the budget. Not to be outdone, Democratic lawmakers proposed the state remove $200 million, and in the end, the state contributed just half of the money — $150 million — it had promised. Then legislators made another promise: to ramp up the state’s contribution back to the initially promised amount, $300 million every year. After Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration released its budget for the 2016 fiscal year, Democrats identified the two major areas in which they wanted to ramp up funding: K-12 education and 2 percent cost-of-living adjustments for state employees. So where did Democratic lawmakers look for money? The pension system. T h i s yea r, t h e l e g i s l a t u re Sam Wallace is a junior government will put $75 million toward and politics major. He can be reached t h e p e n s i o n f u n d , j u s t a at swallacedbk@gmail.com. GUEST COLUMN

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Handling our past with care

t wa s p ro p o s e d i n a re c e n t opinion column that former university President Harry Clifton Byrd’s name should be removed from both the football stadium and the citizenship prize that bears the name. Byrd was many things, and a racist was one of them. He once told the head of this university’s law school that he and the governor (named Harry Nice, ironically) would fight integration “down to the last ditch.” He attempted to scare supporters of the law school’s integration by worrying publicly about the safety of the white coeds on that campus, one of the worst and most blatantly incendiary statements of his entire career. He certainly fought as long as he could to keep African-Americans off the campus, though he eventually lost. However, I disagree with the notion that we should wipe his name off everything it currently touches, for several reasons. One of them is the idea that those who are not aware of the past are condemned to repeat it. We are in the middle of a large “discussion” in this country about whether racism still remains (spoiler: Yeah, it does). One could argue that removing Byrd’s name and presence as much as possible is a way to indirectly support the view that it does not exist, rather than using what exists as a learning tool in the present and the future. Additionally, engaging in what

scholars call “the effacement of memory” is fraught with hidden dangers, as the desire to present a more positive or more palatable version of history can aid in obscuring or deliberately ignoring the past. In can create a vacuum in which myth-making can occur, potentially displacing reality. Instead of working to remove or hide all potential traces of past racism, we should work to become more knowledgeable about the university’s racial past and how it brought us to where we are. Hiram Whittle becoming the first African-American undergraduate student on the campus in 1951 was just the beginning of a path that the university still travels. African-American students (as well as African-American faculty and staff) during those early years were undersupported, underrepresented and subject to racism that was just as difficult, if not as naked, as it was in Byrd’s time. A f r i c a n -A m e r i c a n s o n t h i s campus worked to create their own groups, sometimes with and sometimes without administrative support. Yet the administration did eventually step up — university Chancellor John Slaughter, the first African-American to hold the position, worked to increase minority enrollment on the campus and in the sciences in the 1980s. In the early 1990s, President Brit Kirwan defended the then-named Benjamin

Banneker scholarship program in federal court as a redress of wrongs done by the university in the past to the African-American community. Today, we have an outstanding Office of Diversity & Inclusion, which tracks where and how we have improved and where we continue to struggle. H av i n g By rd ’s n a m e o n t h e stadium, to me, is a way of constantly reminding us where we came from, as well as how far we still need to go. The struggle for inclusivity and to end discrimination requires relentless vigilance and reminders. Incidentally, Byrd was also such a rabid supporter of intercollegiate athletics that he once dared the NCAA to expel this university for openly subsidizing its student-athletes (There was a vote — it failed). As such, he can be a focal point for multiple core issues for our campus today. On a personal level, I enjoy the fact that a stadium named for him hosts student-athletes of all races, genders and orientations, sending the message that we do not allow our past to either shame or define us. His legacy, like our past, is varied and complex, dark as well as light. Let us embrace it, discuss it, challenge it and learn from it. Let’s not bury it. Ja so n S p e c k i s a n a ss i s t a n t university archivist. He can be reached at jgspeck@umd.edu.

hursday’s open forum concerning the recent inflammatory email was noteworthy in many ways, including the turnout and the earnest expressions of pain, fear, anger and outrage. These sentiments were understandable for any reasonable listener. Noteworthy, too, were the issues elicited: the context of the university’s history, transparency of the investigative process, equity of accountability in the Greek life system and the adequacy of student training and existing conduct codes, among others. Among the “glasshalf-full” effects is that members of the campus community gather, hear one another and wrestle with such dilemmas. Other aspects of the forum crossed over into the “glass-halfempty” realm. I felt that several speakers personally attacked university President Wallace Loh during their remarks. I appreciated and honored each speaker’s sentiments. However, the temptation to attack the university president personally does not move us forward. President Loh is aggrieved — as we all are — by this event; we all have this in common. We must engage and disagree without personal attacks. There were moments when behavior became uncivil. However understandable our passions, we must preserve civility as we engage in dialogue. The student moderators quickly challenged the audience at those moments when incivility erupted. I thought their leadership was marvelous. Incidents such as this one pose the peril of tempting us to work against one another as the result of the problem. We must preserve and nurture the instinct to work together in response to the problem. I felt that students were calling upon university administrators to solve this problem, yet this incident arose from

student behavior. I feel that the most influential solutions to these problems lie largely, although not exclusively, in students’ hands. The expression of our disgust and outrage — via speech — is among those solutions. Ongoing engagement is another; in deliberations about the questions cited above, in earnest dialogue with others of differing identities, in meaningful social relationships that supplant stereotypes and ignorance with individual faces and stories. I must respectfully disagree with several propositions. Speech codes are a nonstarter. One cannot change attitudes and behavior by punishing words. Speech codes on many campuses were invalidated by the federal judiciary in the ’90s. They are counterproductive, and I believe that no responsible university officer would pursue them. Such codes might even be used to punish some of the speech expressed at the forum. Further, one speaker proposed that we eschew terms such as unity and civility in our engagements, but a community such as ours must come together and embrace both its unity and diversity. There was but a fleeting moment of true dialogue: An officer of a white, Jewish fraternity spoke and, admitting that he did not experience this incident in the way many others had, asked others present what they thought the solutions were. Several other student speakers responded honestly. As one of the creators of the Common Ground Dialogue Program, I appreciated the value of that moment and hope it was noted by others present. That moment was a glimpse of the multicultural future of this campus. Students and student leaders, take that moment and use it as an example of one of the most productive routes to a truly caring and inclusive community. Steve Petkas is an associate director for student and staff development at this university. He can be reached at spetkas@umd.edu.

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the truth about black squirrels These darker squirrels, often seen around the campus, came from the National Zoo and are common in northern parts of the United States By Hannah Lang @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback My family wasn’t like most at Family Weekend this past fall. While other parents took pictures of the sunset on McKeldin Mall or the packed seats in Byrd Stadium, my family snapped pictures of every black squirrel that scurried across the campus. We got some weird looks from folks who were fortunate enough to have been graced by the presence of the black squirrel their entire lives, but my family is from Virginia, and we’ve only been blessed by the presence of the Eastern gray squirrel. The first time I saw a black squirrel on the campus, I was confused. Mystified. Taken aback by its exis-

tence. Everything I thought I knew about squirrels (which is, admittedly, very little) had been called into question. The squirrels at this university are unprecedentedly fearless. I’ve had at least two encounters with squirrels that I’m fairly sure would have ended in vicious attacks if I hadn’t run away at the very last second. But the black squirrels were a different story entirely: Where did they come from? Why had I never heard of them before I started college? Did they have some sort of special squirrel superpowers? Were there any racial tensions between the different-colored squirrels? I had way too many questions. According to The Washington Post, the black squirrel and the gray squirrel are actually the

same squirrel — the only difference between them is their color. The black squirrels just possess a recessive color gene. Black squirrels are thought to have originated in Canada, but arrived in Washington in 1902, when Canada decided we needed a little squirrel diversity and shipped eight black squirrels to the National Zoo. The zoo decided that the little guys were cute enough to stay, so they released them into the zoo. A second order of black squirrels arrived four years later and thrived in the area through repopulation. I still had some more questions though: Why are black squirrels so prevalent in this state but completely absent in Virginia? I decided the only thing left to do was to consult a squirrel expert. I

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“[THE TERPS’] OFFENSIVE PERSONNEL, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU’VE GOT THE FIRST-LINE MIDFIELD OUT THERE, IS JUST EXTREMELY TALENTED.” JEFF TAMBRONI

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attackMen matt rambo (left) and Jay Carlson (right) high-five after a goal during the Terps’ win over Penn State on Saturday afternoon at Byrd Stadium. marquise mckine/the diamondback

start From PAGE 10 Then after midfielder Mike Sutton put the Nittany Lions on the board, the Terps scored five unanswered goals to push their lead to 8-1. Entering the game, Penn State hadn’t lost a game by more than four goals, but it was already facing a huge deficit.

“I actually don’t think you can key in on any one guy,” Penn State coach Jeff Tambroni said. “All their offensive personnel, especially when you’ve got the first-line midfield out there, is just extremely talented.” The Terps have gotten off to similar starts in recent wee ks. T h e tea m s p rea d out its scoring during the 13-4 win over Michigan last

Sunday, but scored nine of its 13 goals against Robert Morris on March 24 in the first half. And against Villanova on March 14, the Terps pounced on the Wildcats early and took an 8-1 lead into the half but scored three times after the break. Saturday, the Terps offense slowed after the big first quarter, shooting 0-for-11 in the next period. The Nittany Lions packed their defenders near the crease, freeing up the perimeter and forcing the Terps into longer possessions. “We know that when we have the ball, these guys defensively are well-rested, and they’re going to do a great job throughout the game when they’re wellrested,” Carlson said. As postseason play approaches, the Terps might not be able to rely on big first quarters against ranked teams. But Saturday, the Terps used the fast start to coast to victory. “I thought we had extremely limited possessions in the first half, and we maximized all we could,” Tambroni said. “We just found ourselves down by too much.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

The Terps wave to the Xfinity Center crowd after polishing off a quad-meet victory on Senior Day on March 8. Saturday, the Terps’ season ended when they earned a 195.150 score and a third-place finish in the NCAA regionals at Auburn. reid poluhovich/the diamondback

REGIONALS From PAGE 10 The Terps nabbed their first victories in their third tilts with fourth-seeded Iowa (194.675) and sixth-seeded George Washington (194.150). They also beat thirdseeded Minnesota (195.025) for the second time this year. To p - s e e d e d A l a b a m a (197.575) and second-seeded Auburn (196.900) grabbed the top two slots on the podium to earn berths to NCAA nationals in two weeks, but the Terps’ third-place finish represented the best regional outcome in coach Brett Nelligan’s six-year tenure at the helm of the program. “What went well is we just plugged along and kept pushing forward,” Nelligan said. “If you hit 23 or 24 routines, good things tend to happen, and, for us, finishing third is phenomenal.” A fall from Karen Tang in

the leadoff position on vault, the Terps’ first event, tested that steady mindset. But the Terps responded to the senior’s slip by hitting their remaining five vaults to secure a 48.950 event score. Epperson, junior Kathy Tang and senior Shannon Skochko posted 9.80 marks to lead the Terps on their highest-scoring event of the evening. “When someone falls on vault, there’s always a little bit of extra added pressure,” Skochko said. “I knew the team was going to pick it back up. … I just kind of tried to use the adrenaline that I had and do the best vault that I could.” From there, the Terps worked their way through so l i d ba rs (4 8.7 2 5 ) a n d balance beam (48.700) routines before taking their loose attitude to floor exercise in the final rotation. Every gymnast earned a score of 9.70 or better on the event en route to a 48.775 team tally, which included sopho-

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Midfielder Deb Milani leads a breakaway during the Terps’ victory over Rutgers on Saturday. Milani is one of several reserves who saw time. reid poluhovich/the diamondback

reserves From PAGE 10 Reese also had the opportunity to rotate all three of her goalies into the net. A f te r t h e Te r p s we n t ahead 12-2 less than three minutes into the second half on one of Cummings’ five scores, Reese pulled Alex

Fitzpatrick, who won the preseason competition for Terps starting netminder after joining the team as a graduate transfer from Lehigh. Sophomore Emily Kift replaced Fitzpatrick for about 19 minutes, allowing two Rutgers scores, before freshman Emma Moss took her turn in the net for the rest of

the match. “[Moss is] one of those goalies that if she gets under your skin, she’s going to stop it every time,” Cummings said. “She did awesome today. All of the goalies did really well.” The Terps’ substitutes’ successes afforded the team’s usual starters extra time on the bench to rest as they gear up for the last five games of the regular season. And the squad’s depth all over the field has Reese and her players excited about the special moments, such as Scanlin’s score Saturday, that will come in the squad’s attempt to run the table this season. “All of them did really well,” defender Alice Mercer said. “They’ve been working together, and they’re executing what we’ve been doing, too, so I think it’s good they’re able to keep it going.” ccaplandbk@gmail.com

The Terps sprint to congratulate third baseman Jose Cuas after Nebraska’s error on his slow roller yesterday led to a walk-off victory. Cuas and the Terps came back from a five-run deficit to polish off the sweep and remain unbeaten at home. reid poluhovich/the diamondback

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The Terps hadn’t scored more than three runs in the previous four games, but they scored at least six runs in all three games this weekend. “We were much more aggressive early in the count,” coach John Szefc said Saturday. “We didn’t take a whole lot of fastballs for strikes. We just had better-quality atbats, with guys on base and when it mattered a lot.” Rain pushed Friday’s opener back to Saturday and created a doubleheader. In Game 1, right-hander M ike Shawaryn notched his seventh victory in eight starts, and the Terps broke the game open with a fourrun seventh after the Cornhuskers had cut the lead to 3-2. Shawaryn gave up three runs (one earned) in seven innings in the 8-3 victory. While Shawaryn has dominated this season, the Terps

have struggled to find two consistent weekend starters to add to their ace. But in Game 2, left-hander Tayler Stiles threw seven innings of one-run ball, and a three-run first inning started the Terps on their way to an 8-2 victory. Stiles has given up one run in his last 14 innings. He began the season as the No. 3 starter, but after a string of poor outings, he was demoted to the bullpen. “Stiles is very locked in,” Szefc said Saturday. “He was able to fix a few things working out of the bullpen for a few weeks there.” After two innings Sunday, the Terps trailed 5-0. Closer Kevin Mooney surrendered five runs (two earned) in three innings. Three runs scored when Smith misjudged a high pop-up in shallow left. That error was part of a four-run second inning for the Cornhuskers. But for the third time this season, the Terps won a game after trailing by five or more

runs. The bullpen threw six scoreless innings and the Terps hit three home runs, including a two-run homer by Smith. That power hitting set the stage for the ninthinning finish. “We came back against a very, very good bullpen,” Szefc said. “That’s an even better thing than what we’ve done in the past.” The previous weekend, the Terps lost their first weekend conference series of the season. But they erased those memories with a sweep this weekend against the highestranked team in the conference. “After last weekend, we had to bounce back,” Cuas said Saturday. “It was important for us to bounce back and get back to how we started off the year.” TERPS NOTE: Designated hitter Nick Cieri injured the back of his hand in warmups yesterday. Cieri, a backup catcher, will get X-rays today. psuittsdbk@gmail.com

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undefeated at home (11-0) and made up a fiverun deficit yesterday. “All the guys rally around you,” outfielder Jamal Wade said. “If you don’t get the job done, you know someone behind you will get it done.” The Terps (22-7, 7-2 Big Ten) notched 31 hits against the Cornhuskers (23-10, 3-3). Before this weekend, Nebraska’s pitchers had held opponents to a .228 average, and the Terps were stuck in an offensive rut.

The six uneven bars competitors for the Terrapins gymnastics team huddled around the chalking area during the allotted warm-up period in their NCAA regional competition. The Terps danced along to the background music blaring through Auburn Arena and chatted with one another while preparing to compete on their second event. That’s when Kathy Tang noticed her and her teammates’ appearance on the Jumbotron. At first, the Terps decided to play it cool and pretend to be focused. But after a few seconds, they instead turned toward the camera, waving, laughing and pointing at themselves on the screen. The team carried their lighthearted approach through the entire meet Saturday night as they earned a third-place finish with a 195.150 final score after entering the competition as the fifth-seeded squad out of six. It marked the program’s best regional outcome since 2001. “There’s nothing to lose,” freshman Abbie Epperson said. “Having this be our last meet, we just wanted to be out there and have fun. And I think it came because we’ve learned to have fun. That’s when we do our best.” The Terps scored about a point lower on Saturday night than the seasonhigh total (196.075) they set in the Big Ten championships on March 21, but their efforts in Auburn propelled the Terps to three victories over teams they had faced earlier this season.

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OUTFIELDER JAMAL WADE fist-bumps third-base coach Rob Vaughn while rounding the bases after hitting a home run during the Terps’ 6-5 win over No. 22 Nebraska yesterday afternoon.

A CLEAN SWEEP

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Bats come alive to spark three victories over No. 22 Nebraska

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer As the ball bounced on the infield turf yesterday afternoon, Terrapins baseball third baseman Jose Cuas sped down the first-base line. With the score tied and one out in the ninth inning, Nebraska tried to turn a frame-ending double play. But as Cuas neared the bag, Cornhuskers second baseman Jake Placzek’s throw bounced past first baseman Scott Schreiber.

Terps shortstop Kevin Smith, who was on second base when Cuas hit his slow roller, charged home to score the winning run. The Terps bench streamed onto the field and surrounded Cuas in celebration. That throwing error gifted the Terps a 6-5 walk-off victory yesterday and capped a threegame sweep of No. 22 Nebraska. The Terps offense led the way with 22 runs against a Cornhusker pitching staff that entered the weekend leading the Big Ten with a 2.30 ERA. Behind that hot offense, the Terps remained

MEN’S LACROSSE | No. 3 TERPS 12 NITTANY LIONS 5

WOMEN’S LACROSSE | No. 1 TERPS 17, SCARLET KNIGHTS 5

Reserves make mark in blowout Bench players receive big minutes to help Terps roll past Rutgers By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer

Attackman Dylan Maltz turns toward the goal during the Terps’ victory over Penn State on Saturday. Maltz helped the Terps take an 8-2 lead over the Nittany Lions into the second quarter. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Another speedy start leads to win over PSU Offense cools after eight-goal first quarter By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer The players on the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team’s sideline stayed active in the first quarter Saturday. Each time the No. 3 Terps scored a goal, the reserves would holler and bump chests and fists. In the first 15 minutes of a 12-5 win over Penn State, the Terps on the sideline engaged in what they call “The Mosh” eight times, as coach John Tillman’s squad jumped on Penn State early to take an 8-2 lead into the second quarter. But the Terps didn’t displaythe same firepower over the rest of the game. This has been the trend in many of the team’s recent contests: The Terps offense has begun games with explosive outbursts before

cooling off and leaning on a stout defense to help hold on for a win. “Obviously [the Penn State defense] started in man; they went to one zone; they went to another zone; then they went to another zone, and they found the one that they felt most comfortable with.” Tillman said. “As the game went on, their goalie got better.” Attackman Dylan Maltz got the scoring started with 13:06 left in the period when he used a stick fake to distract his defender before rifling a shot into the back of the net. The Terps didn’t give the sideline much time to rest after that, as attackmen Jay Carlson and Matt Rambo both added goals within the next four minutes. See start, Page 7

Midfielder Shelby Scanlin stood near the outer left of Rutgers’ circle during the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team’s game against the Scarlet Knights and caught a pass from midfielder Lindsay Biondi. With the ball secured, the freshman took a couple steps toward the Scarlet Knights’ cage before rifling a shot past goalkeeper Candice Dandridge. As her attempt flew into the back of the net with less than two minutes remaining in the game, the players and coaches on the No. 1 Terps’ bench erupted into cheers, while Scanlin’s teammates on the field congratulated her. Scanlin’s score extended her team’s lead to 16-5 and capped a memorable day for the freshman, who has Type 1 diabetes and was one of the focal points in the program’s organizing and playing Saturday’s diabetes awareness game. The goal also highlighted a day on which the Terps held a large lead for the majority of their 17-5 victory, providing coach Cathy Reese with the flexibility to give reserve players like Scanlin extended time in the game. “Everyone did a really good job, but I think it was really important for Shelby to score today,” midfielder Taylor Cummings said. “We were playing for her today, too, and for her to score was really exciting, and I’m sure it made her smile. It made all of us smile.” In total, 31 players took the field for the Terps (12-0, 2-0 Big Ten), who led the Scarlet Knights (1-12, 0-2) by at least five goals for the final

The Terps come together after their victory over Rutgers on Saturday. The Terps led by at least five goals for the final 48 minutes of the contest and improved to 12-0 with the win. reid poluhovich/the diamondback

“ALL OF [THE RESERVES] DID REALLY WELL. THEY’VE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER, AND THEY’RE EXECUTING WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING, TOO, SO I THINK IT’S GOOD THEY’RE ABLE TO KEEP IT GOING.” ALICE MERCER

Terrapins women’s lacrosse defender 48 minutes of the game. Many of Reese’s bench players hadn’t seen that kind of lengthy action yet this season. But for midfielders Taylor Hensh and Kacie Longo, two freshmen who have been some of the first reserves off the bench in recent games, Reese said Saturday’s game served as another step in their development into starting-caliber players. Hensh, the ninth-ranked freshman on Inside Lacrosse’s preseason list, scored the Terps’ final point on an assist from another midfield reserve, sophomore Deb Milani, with 1:09 remaining in the game.

Hensh also fielded two ground balls, secured one draw and caused one Rutgers turnover. Ranked 13th on Inside Lacrosse’s freshman list, Longo picked up one ground ball of her own and turned the ball over to the Scarlet Knights once. “Taylor Hensh and Kacie Longo are continuing to get more and more time, and they’re growing with experience,” Reese said. “Sometimes they get thrown in there, and today they had a little more time and a little more opportunity to kind of control the midfield.”

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