April 7, 2015

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City may get state transportation funds Proposed state budget allocates largest amount to municipal transportation projects since 2008

By Eleanor Mueller @eleanor_mueller Staff writer

state’s draft budget passes before the legislative session ends Monday.

T he draft earmarks the most money to municipal transportaCollege Park could receive more tion since 2008, putting aside an funds for road maintenance next additional $3 million for cities to year if the current version of the build and repair streets.

But officials do not know how much money will be allotted to the city and must wait for a decision from the highway user revenue formula, which considers the miles of street within city boundaries.

College Park is responsible for 51 miles of road, District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said.

“The concept is that citizens in College Park pay state taxes, but

the state doesn’t maintain the roads that they drive,” said Cole Holocker, City Council student liaison. “The highway user revenue is a kickback from the state government to compensate for that.”

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U housing begins new priorities Res Life enters first lottery since limiting process to underclass

Univ group assembles guide to creating programs for smart contracts

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer With the 2015 room selection process in full swing, fewer upperclassmen will be living on the campus due to Resident Life’s commitment to prioritizing first- and second-year students’ housing, department officials said.

“Our housing best serves students in their first two years here,” said Scott Young, Department of Resident Life assistant director. “Freshmen and sophomores have priority for our oncampus spaces because we believe our housing has the greatest impact for them.”

Young said Resident Life received 4,874 Returning Student Agreements by the end of March. Of those agreements, rising sophomores submitted 3,653, rising juniors submitted 689, rising seniors accounted for 406 and rising fifth- or sixth-year seniors submitted 126.

The expected capacity in dorms See Housing, Page 3

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Senior staff writer Old practices tend to die out with new technology.

Writing letters is a lost art. Dictionary searches have gone the way of the dodo. Soon enough, even the old standby of contractual obligations could be forever transformed by the digital world.

In the near future, people interested in coming to an agreement with each other might no longer need to go through a lawyer or even a printed document. Instead, computer programs might be all they need with smart contracts, and a team from this university is working on a guide to making and using them.

Just as a typical contract would

Study: State officials need to invest in smarter growth States ranks next to last in economy growth

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More than 60 senior citizens came to College Park’s aging-in-place forum, hosted in St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church yesterday. The event addressed the concerns of aging residents. tom hausman/the diamondback

College Park residents listened to and spoke about issues related to growing old in the area at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church last night.

Citizens gathered in the Rector’s Lounge of the church off College Avenue next to Fraternity Row at 6:30 p.m. for a panel discussion about what kind of senior-living program residents would like to see established.

The College Park Aging-in-Place Task Force hosted the forum.

“The grassroots committee is really important for something like this,” said Carol Nezzo, a task force member.

“We need to have those services there when we need them, and we need to develop them ourselves.”

Mayor Andy Fellows moderated the discussion, attended by an au-

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dience of about 60 people, close to the room’s maximum capacity of 65.

Among the speakers were District 1 Councilman P.J. Brennan, representing the City Council and its aging task force.

T he City Council established the task force of city officials and See forum, Page 2

For the long-term success of this state’s economy, the government must overcome many challenges, such as demographic changes and affordable housing, a study found.

The three-year study, which this university’s National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education conducted, found that while the state’s economy grew 0.01 percent in 2013, a rate second to last among all states, it generally

has done well over the past 15 years.

To continue to grow, the study suggested, the state needs to address specific challenges.

“The main findings are that Maryland has a lot of economic strengths that are likely to continue into the future, but that long term issues such as demographic change, traffic congestion, infrastructure capacity and affordable housing are the more important challenges the state must overcome,” said Gerrit-Jan Knaap, the center’s director and the report’s primary investigator.

Nick Finio, a community planning graduate student at this university involved in the study, said this state

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H.J. Patterson Hall to undergo major renovation forum From PAGE 1

$18.2M project to add offices, spaces

By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow Senior staff writer Facilities Management will begin major renovations to part of H.J. Patterson Hall starting in July to create a new space for this university’s international departments and communities, officials said.

The $18.2 million project will involve major renovations to four f loors of the building, adding new offices, classrooms and student space to the building’s east wing, which will face the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center, Facilities Management Director Bill Olen said. The space will be ready in October 2016.

Once construction is c o mpl e te, t h e n e w w i n g w i l l h o u s e t h e O f f i c e of International Affairs, the Gi lden hor n I n st it ute for I s ra e l S t u d i e s, t h e L a nguage Science Center and the Arabic and Persian flagship language programs, Lori Owen, arts and humanities college facilities director, wrote in an email.

“The spaces are being designed so as to encourage collaboration among these groups as well as many others across campus,” Owen wrote.

“A goal for the building is for it to act as an international hub for the entire campus.”

To create this hub, the first floor will contain space called the “Globa l Crossroads,” said Ross Lewin, associate vice president of the Office of International Affairs. This

h.J. PATTERSON HALL will begin to undergo major renovations starting this July as part of a $18.2 million project. The additions will bring offices, classrooms and more student space to the building’s east wing to house programs. james levin/the diamondback large common space will be used for the departments’ and programs’ events.

“This will be a place where people all over the world can meet over a cup of coffee or a bagel and some hummus,” Lewin said.

The open space will b ecome a melt i n g p ot of international culture and ideas, he said. They plan to host lectures, events or meetand-greets and serve international food. A multipaneled television will also play news or sports events, and art from different parts of the world will be displayed.

“It’s not only about projecting diversity out on the world, but also bringing the

world back into our university,” he said. “We want to project an academic priority to identify this campus as a global university and a center of global excellence.”

Facilities Management has almost finished partial demolition of the wing, which involves gutting the building’s offices and extraneous parts, and is doing a mandatory safety check for asbestos, Olen said.

H . J . P a t t e r s o n H a l l ’s wing will also receive a new computer lab and updated heating and air conditioning and other utilities, said Terence McCann, director of Academic Facilities.

H.J. Patterson Hall is one

growth From PAGE 1 ranks among the top states in the nation in economic performance and social well-being, which includes education, income, stability, productivity and more.

“The reasons that Maryland excels in these categories are not likely to change,” Finio said, “due to its geographic location, proximity to Washington, D.C., strong education and health care institutions and a development pattern that allows firms to capture agglomeration economies.

While Maryland is doing well and is positioned to s u c c e e d i n t he f ut u re, there is room for improvea view of INTERSTATE 495 last night. College Park could receive additional funding to maintain highways and roads next year. photo composite by tom hausman/the diamondback

of the oldest buildings on the campus, and the east wing hasn’t seen changes since it was built in 1931, when it was mostly used by the agriculture department, McCann said. After the department moved out, the wing stayed “mostly empty” as officials planned a larger update.

When Facilties Management had to remove Holzapfel Hall to make room for the center’s construction, H.J. Patterson Hall became the most appealing relocat ion spot for t he depa r tments, such as international affairs, that resided in Holzapfel Hall. jsnowdbk@gmail.com

ment, particularly in transportation infrastructure, the business climate and affordable housing.”

Knaap said some of the data was determined by collecting information from public sources and some, such as the transportation and land-use forecasts, are the products of the center’s models.

“One of the major challenges was data availability,” he said. “There are very few sources of comprehensive data on infrastructure capacity and need at the state level.”

Structuring the report was a difficult task, Finio said.

The center aimed to write the document from a different perspective than what is standard, he said.

“We wa nted to emphasize the triple bottom line

re sid ents l a s t A pr i l to explore options for an aging-in-place program in the city. Since then, the committee has met every month for three months.

“The charge of the committee, which has representatives from the council and residents, is to identify the existing county and city resources,” Brennan said.

“Communication is one of the biggest challenges — to just let people know what’s available to them.”

Brennan, who has lived in the city with his husband Nick for three years, emph a s i z e d h i s d e s i re to live in College Park after retirement.

“W hen my husband and I moved here, we fell in love with College Park,” Brennan said. “I pray that we can stay in this city for as long as we can because we really do enjoy our commu n ity a nd every th i ng around it.”

A similar task force was formed in Greenbelt in 1995 after the closing of the city’s nursing home, said guest speaker Christal Batey, a community resource advocate with the Greenbelt Assitance in Living Program.

“Citizens said, ‘What are we going to have for our residents that are growing older?’” Batey said.

T he a nswer was that they wanted assisted-living programs to help seniors remain independent, rather than having to move into nursing homes.

“Our citizens wanted to stay at home — they wanted to age in place,” Batey said.

of the economy, the natural environment and the comm u n i t y,” h e s a i d . “ T h e report was able to offer a broad-based, quality of life perspective on advancing Maryland’s economy in the 21st century.”

Elliott Campbell, an ecolog ic a l e conom i st at t he state’s Natural Resources department, said the report does wel l su m ma rizi ng a national trend of economic growth leaving behind the middle class, the poor and minorities. However, he said, it could do more.

“W hile I agree with the center on the diagnosis of the problem, I don’t believe they go far enough in treating it,” Campbell said. “Traditional solutions to spur economic growth like improving the

“Out of that came the recommendation for a program that empowered our residents to remain independent for as long as possible.”

A c c ord i n g to t he 2010 Census, 5.1 percent of College Park’s residents are 65 years old or older. That’s less than half of the statew ide 12.3 percent average.

This statistic is a sign of College Park’s unique senior population, which has different needs f rom most other communities.

Eddie Rivas, who spoke on the panel, works at Vertical Village at Wildwood, an alternative community for seniors.

“The idea of a village and the way it’s defined on the website is that it’s a self-governing grassroots, community-organized living space — usua l ly geog raph ica l ly defined,” Rivas said. “It’s up to the individual village to decide whether to serve based on age or disability, but the important thing is they want to meet the needs of the residents.”

Among the Village’s mostrequested services are help with chores around the home and rides to go grocery shopping or see a doctor, Rivas said.

T hose attend i ng ra ised c o n c e r n s s u c h a s a n a ge limit on services provided and how to find out about resources offered.

Fellows said the university will be involved with developing a program for the city’s senior residents.

“The university is interested in helping out seniors,” Fellows said. “It’s really good for the university as well for retiring facu lty staff and people who have an interest in the university if they’re able to remain in the community.” emuellerdbk@gmail.com

business climate in the state or building up transportation infrastructure may help in the short term but will not likely address the systemic problem of corporate capitalism — the ever-increasing wealth divide.”

Knaap said the center will continue to research transportation, la nd use, economic development, social equity and housing issues in the state.

“There seems to be a lot of concern about the state’s economy and a lot of effort to improve the tax and business climate,” Knaap said.

“We think that’s important, but t h at t he lon ger ter m issues need much greater attention.” rhassaneindbk@gmail.com

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day, Kabir said.

“We don’t exactly know how the funds will be asFrom PAGE 1 signed,” K abir sa id. “But funds, total $19 million. This Sat u rd ay we go over t he is the most money the state whole budget and as part of has given to cities for that that we also talk about street purpose since 2008, after improvements.”

Kabir said he hopes the which the state cut highway user revenues to cities by 96 state funds can go toward percent, said Jim Peck, the fulfilling his constituents’ state’s Mu n icipa l Leag ue requests for more sidewalks.

However, Holocker said research and information ma nagement d i rector. I n the additional funds likely 2008, highway user revenues will go toward repaving and resurfacing the city’s existtotaled $45 million.

During this time, College ing roads.

“Our public works departPark received about $650,000 f o r s t r e e t m a i n t e n a n c e ment does a great job given compared with last year’s our circumstances,” Holocker said. “But any additional $250,000, Holocker said.

“This money is something support they can be given is that we’ve been missing for a good thing.”

It’s unlikely changes will a number of years now, that now is getting restored,” Ho- be made to this part of the d ra f t b u d ge t b e fo re t h e locker said.

If the budget passes, it will legislature ends its session be a triumph for cities state- Monday, Peck said.

“At this stage of the game, wide, Peck said. the monies are securely in “Given where we’ve been the budget to be provided in terms of lack of transto municipal governments,” portation funding, we are whol ly appreci at ive,” he Peck said. “We have highest hopes that they will make it said. “We’re delighted.”

W h i le t he city do esn’t through the remainder of k now how it pla ns to use the process.” the extra money yet, the City Council will decide Satur- emuellerdbk@gmail.com

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Maryland Munch: Crafting the perfect quick-and-easy omelet quesadilla for one As a student hoping to eat more exciting foods than ramen and Celeste pizza, I try to cook a lot of my meals. But as a student with classes, projects, homework and a job, I also hit points where I value sleep more than food.

So I got excited when I stumbled across Brent Garell’s College Recipe Cafe website. Garell specializes in studentfriendly cooking, and his latest cookbook focuses on cheap, 15-minute meals. Sounds doable for lunch between classes, right? I decided to put the time limit to the test and check out the 10-Minute Cheese Omelet Quesadilla.

For more of staff blogger Lyla Lawless’ post, head to dbknews.com.

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University researchers continue to obtain patents for inventions Inventors have 20 years of exclusive rights to their product

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Senior staff writer Current technologies come in handy, but there’s always room for more inventions.

For instance, what if you w a n t to c h a rge a l l y o u r devices without ever plugging in? Or if you don’t want to die from bacterial growths? How about if you want to manufacture plastics but just wish it were a lot cheaper?

These products might not be on the market quite yet, but university researchers have patented technology for similar projects, which are just a few of the patents that have come through the university this year.

T he process of gett i ng products patented usually takes about four years, said Gayatri Varma, this university’s Office of Technology Commercialization executive director. But university researchers continually apply for patents to obtain exclusive rights to their inventions.

Varma’s office often sees nearly 200 patent proposals annually, Varma said. While large companies such as IBM have the resources to submit

anything patentable to the Un ited States Patent a nd Trademark Office, this university must be more selective. The office spends about $700,000 to $750,000 annually on submissions, with each patent costing about $35,000 to $60,000.

“It’s a screening process,” Varma said. “There is an active d iscussion i n why th i ngs should move forward. The strongest patents go through.”

Once the patents a re granted, the inventors have 20 years of exclusive rights to their product in this country.

During that time, they can license and sell their invention.

O f t he 159 p ate nt s t he U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued to university researchers since 2010, close to half come from engineering and physical science resea rch, accord i ng to th is university’s statistics.

Another 32 percent come from life sciences and 21 from information sciences.

Ray Sedw ick, a u n iversity aerospace engineering professor, received a patent March 31 for his work that could let people wirelessly charge their laptops. T he idea of wireless transfer of

BY THE NUMBERS

4,874

Number of Returning Student Agreements Resident Life received

4,000

Approximate number of incoming freshmen

9,120

Number of expected student spaces in dorms for next year

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u s u a l ly hou ses ab out 93 percent of them. They also plan to house about 800 to 900 students enrolled in Freshmen Connection, as well as 100 to 200 transfer students.

Young said there is not much room for upperclassmen when accounting for underclassmen as well as 800 to 900 students who are exempt from the housing process, such as resident assistants and Residence Hall Association executives.

Erin Iverson, assignments and public inquiry manager, said room selection will be similar to past years, but a few group housing options have been added to the process. In previous years, groups as large as six were able to go room shopping together for on-campus spaces, but this year, groups of up to seven people can look for spaces to live in the Leonardtown Community apartments.

Groups of eight to 10 students interested in living on the same dorm floor can shop together and be placed in double rooms clustered together “as a kind of community,” Iverson said.

Resident Life also passed a resolution this past semester to implement a differentiated housing rate structure, which will be incorporated into room selection this year.

Di f ferent ty pes of rooms w i l l h ave va r y i n g pr icetags, which are specified for each room on the selection database.

“Looking at whatever building, whatever floor and the list of rooms available,” Iverson said, “a student can see very specifically the price for any room they are choosing.”

Katz, who said he plans to move i nto South Ca mpus Commons for his junior year, said while room selection can be formidable, the Resident Life office has been helpful as he continues to look for a spot in a South Hill suite next year.

T h e h o u s i n g s e l e c t ion process ends April 17.

is 9,120 students, Young said.

He added that he expects rising sophomores and incoming freshmen to fill the empty spaces in dorms. Resident Life set up a lottery system for rising juniors who want to remain on the campus in the event that underclassmen do not fill the spaces, he said.

This past week, Resident Life informed about 330 rising juniors — out of the 689 who submitted an agreement — who opted to participate in the lottery that they would not be eligible to participate in room selection this year. But Young said about 62 percent of sophomores who live on the campus generally move to South Campus Commons and The Courtyards at the University of Maryland apartments the next year.

“Based on all the calculations and projections, there is not enough evidence for us to let any of the students in the lottery to participate in room selection,” Young said. “We would love to be in the position to be able to offer more students housing on campus. Unfortunately, we are unable to with the spaces available at this time.”

Daniel Katz, a freshman finance major, said prioritizing freshmen and sophomores for housing allows students to develop a stronger sense of community and to build social and academic ties on the campus.

“New students are simply more intimidated by their surroundings, and the jump to college is huge,” Katz said. “By receiving on-campus housing, the freshmen and sophomores are given a strong opportunity to succeed and thrive socially with those around them in their residence halls.”

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electrical power is inspired by early 20th-century inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla, but Sedwick worked on how superconductors could improve the efficiency of such a system.

“Let’s say you’re in your local Starbucks,” Sedwick said. “Everybody has access to Wi-Fi no matter where they sit, but there are a few coveted seats that have access to wall-plug power.

If you could get your power wirelessly, then you could sit anywhere. You could work all day and have your laptop stay charged and your phone stay charged.”

Though Sedwick said more research is necessary before these wireless power sources are implemented — and inefficiency might prevent their widespread use — the technology still has seen significant development in recent years. Astronauts tested a similar device that Sedwick helped design on the International Space Station in 2013, he said.

Another team of university researchers were issued a patent in February for a chemical compound that inhibits the formation of dangerous biofilms.

This nanoparticle, for which chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Kyu Yong Choi received a patent in January, aids in plastic production and could help corporations save a large amount of money in plastic production. photo courtesy of kyu yong choi W hen a lot of bacter i a gather on a su rface, they create a biofilm. Sowmya Subramanian, an electrical engineering doctoral candidate, said biofilms begin to act more like a group organism and become more antibiotic-resistant.

S u b ra m a n i a n w a s n o t a n i nventor of the patent but works for Institute for Systems Research Director Reza Ghodssi, who helped develop the chemical compound that turns off the genes that cause bacteria to group together into biofilms. Subramanian said this makes antibiotics more effective.

“T he antibiotic can act more effectively on these c e l l s b e c a u s e i t’s n o t a biofilm; it’s not a communi-

ty; it’s not a slimy layer that only happens with quorum sensing,” she said. “This is the first step to enhancing antibiotic efficacy at lower concentrations.”

Kyu Yong Choi, a chemical and biomolecular engineering professor, said he wants to see companies reach out to this university to use his products. He received a patent in January for his work developing a nanoparticle that aids in production of plastics.

To make plastics, porous materials are reacted with a catalyst. While this process is of ten i nefficient, Choi and his team synthesized a nanoparticle that allows much more of the materials to react.

“To make these polymers

you need catalysts, and producing these catalysts are very, very expensive,” he said.

“So any savings you can make by using improved catalyst activities would greatly help the economy in the process.”

W h i le these cha nges m ig ht be sm a l l, so much plastic is produced that these nanoparticles could save a large amount of money, Choi said. He said he is continuing to promote the product and that researchers always shou ld be looking out for possible inventions. His team came to the nanoparticle by accident, the byproduct of another experiment.

“Anything could lead to a new invention,” he said. jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com

Study finds women promotion chances drop when another has top management position Women comprise about half of workforce, 8.7 percent were top managers in 2011

By Rokia Hassanein @rokiahass Staff writer After a company hires or promotes one woman to top management, the odds of a second woman landing a similar position decrease by about ha l f, according to a new study.

Cristian Deszö, the lead author and a business professor at this university, said this is the first study conducted that has examined the gender dynamics of promotion probability in upper management. “ I t m a y b e s u b c o nscious, but [companies] make it less of a priority,” Deszö said. “Putting the nu mbers out there w i l l hopefully do more to get the desired results of corepresentations with businesses. Companies have to make the extra effort.”

contracts From PAGE 1 involve two or more parties reach i ng a n ag reement and accepting the resulting terms, smart contracts do the same thing while becom i ng autom ated, decentralized and public, said Andrew Miller, a doctoral candidate studying cryptocurrency.

For a simple contract, this might involve somet h i n g l i k e a l o t te r y. A program would wait until it receives one dollar from the first party and then one dollar from the second party, said Miller, a leader in the lab project. Then, it flips a coin and pays out two dollars to one person.

“That’s a little program that you can imagine writing out in a programming language,” Miller said, “and it uses money and it responds to these different inputs and it has an effect.”

In more complex, realworld applications, Miller

Columbia business professor Dav id Ross, one of the co-authors of the study, said the research team developed a method that used re a l d at a f rom top m a nagement teams to predict the distribution of women across the teams without any gender-related spillovers.

Gender spillovers, he said, i ncluded t he assu mpt ion that having a woman on a top management team did not a f fect whet her ot her positions on the same team would be filled by a woman.

R oss sa id t he re se a rch included comparing those simulations with the actual distribution of women across top m a n a gement.

Comparisons revealed that having a woman on a topmanagement team reduced the probability of another top position being held by a woman by about 50 percent.

“O u r f i nd i n g s s u g ge s t

that organizations tend to relax once they have made some m i n i m a l prog ress towa rds gender equ ity i n to p m a n a ge m e n t ,” R o s s said. “It is as if they check the box and then move on.

An implication is that organizations need to focus on pressi ng a head once they start making progress, not relent.”

The most surprising resu lts of the study were that it poi nted to a quota ef fect, sa id Jose Ur ibe, a doctoral candidate at Columbia Business School who was involved in managing data sets for the study. “ We w e re a b l e to f i n d some evidence supporting a mechanism where males in the top-management team seem to en force the tacit quota,” Uribe said.

Women comprise about half of the nation’s workforce, but a mere 8.7 percent

of top managers in 2011 were women, accord i ng to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

It is for practitioners and policymakers to decide what to do regarding the results of the study, Ross said, noting he was surprised by what the researchers found.

“A n at u ra l hy p o t h e s i s is that women would gain strength in numbers, so that having a woman on a topma nagement tea m wou ld make it more rather than less likely that another position on the same team was occupied by a woman, all else equ a l,” he sa id . “B ut we found the opposite.”

R o s s a d d e d h e “a b s o lutely” has plans for future research on women in management.

“We are just beginning to understand gender in management,” Ross said.

said this innovation might involve two parties that don’t trust each other but need something from the other.

A smart contract could be programmed to deliver the money to one pa r ty on ly when the other sends proof of coming through with their service, he said. Smart contracts are related to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin because they allow the involved parties to see where the money is sent, he said.

“With a legal contract, you have a lawyer who writes it up and reviews it and then establishes some type of liability between two parties,” said Mitchell Arnett, a junior computer science and mathematics major also involved in the project. “Technology is trying to allow an easier entrance to creating binding contracts digitally that can be supervised by everyone on the network.”

A r nett took CMSC414: Computer a nd Network Security with Elaine Shi, a computer science professor, this past semester. For a final section of the class,

students studied smart c ont ra c t s a nd t he s m a r t contract platform Ethereum, said Kevin Delmolino, a junior computer science and economics major.

W hile this field has expanded in recent years, the workings of smart contracts are still under development and not very well documented, Delmolino said. Along with a few other undergraduates, Delmolino then began working under Shi to pull together a guide on teaching smart contracts.

“We decided all to work on a guide or a tutorial a better way of teach i ng students about smart contracts and how to write them,” he said.

The team plans to release a work i ng g u ide i n the nex t few weeks, to coi ncide with the full release of Ethereum, sometime in April or early May, Miller said.

They will make it open to the public and then continue to update it.

The guide aims to teach programmers how to write smart contracts, walking them through the process

of how they are coded, Delmolino said. Then the guide also shows how to keep these contracts secure.

Arnett said he was happy h e c o u l d wo rk w it h t h i s new technology and hopes it can serve as a tool for more students and first adopte rs of t he te c h nolog y to become involved.

“Our guide will always be a work in progress,” he said.

“We want to turn it into a community effort.”

Some rudimentary contracts are available through Bitcoin and other services, but more work needs to be completed before smart contracts become widely used, Arnett said. Miller said this lab project could be the start of more smart contract research on the campus.

“We think it’s a big enough topic and important enough topic that it’s a good idea to get undergrads exposed to it,” Miller said. “We kind of like that view of the future where everything’s going to involve smart contracts.”

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n January, this editorial board expressed concerns about Gov. Larry Hogan’s newly released budget. Though we understood the need for budget cuts as a response to this state’s troubling deficit, we stood against a possible 5 percent tuition hike included by the University System of Maryland in the budget’s projections.

Most recently, the state House of Delegates and Senate passed a m e n d e d ve rs i o n s o f Hoga n ’s budget and will meet this week to address differences between both versions. Some of the changes the Senate proposed include restoring a 3 percent increase to the Developmental Disabilities Administration, a partial restoration in state funding for Baltimore City College and restoring 50 vacant state police positions. Both the House of Delegates and Senate recommended fully funding foundation aid to public schools as well as restoration of the 2 percent cost-of-living raise for state employees. None of the changes addressed higher education funding.

Thankfully — though not to our surprise — neither chamber reduced the $1.2 billion in state funding Hogan had budgeted for the university system.

Two key effects of the budget

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seem to be running against college students’ favor: Firstly, the projected 5 percent increase in tuition next semester seems likely to occur — or at least, this university should be preparing for it. Secondly, the possibility of Hogan issuing a supplemental budget, or an additional funding measure, to improve university system funding seems very unlikely, as this funding would need to be issued within a week as well as receive support from both chambers.

OUR VIEW

The budget seems to be against students, but hopefully Gov. Hogan will prioritize education once the deficit closes.

Though most students might not exactly be satisfied with Hogan’s budget, it seems as though pushing for improvements in the budget for the 2016 fiscal year isn’t worth it and won’t yield changes, given the timeline and political differences between the governor and the legislature.

However, this reality doesn’t mean we’ll be facing a downward trend when it comes to higher education

funding, and it also doesn’t necessarily mean Hogan should be labeled an “anti-education” governor.

As Student Government Association President Patrick Ronk said: “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 … he’ll kind of start prioritizing higher ed a little bit more and be more amenable to it moving forward.”

We hope this prediction will ultimately become a reality. Given the $750 million structural budget deficit this state faced in January, we believe that some sacrifices have to be made before we get out of the red.

Like many students, members of this editorial board aren’t happy to shell out more funds to receive a college education, but if this pain is short-term and leads to better economic conditions, it is something we will have to live with for the next year.

As the deficit (hopefully) closes, we expect Hogan to place more of a priority on higher education, and if he does not, then that would be the time to start additional lobbying efforts in Annapolis. Otherwise, the cuts in the upcoming fiscal year seem like discomforts we’ll have to endure for the time being.

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Let’s get down to business By ensuring students graduate with basic accounting comprehension, we might even be able to reduce our overall national debt.

Right now, our country is enslaved by rampant consumerism, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be this way.

I f eve r yo n e l ea r n e d h ow to budget and spend only what he or she could afford, would that really hurt our economy in the long run?

By molding more fiscally-conscious citizens, we give them the autonomy to make better decisions for themselves and for their country.

Believe me, as a person who is majoring in physiology and neurobiology, I love learning about science.

But I believe that it is also necessary to learn and understand something that is more universally practical.

By understanding how insurance companies work and how banking and monetary systems operate, we could be able to change society for the better with improved legislation and financial regulation of previously untouchable entities.

Nowa d ays, we c o m p l a i n s o much about the “1 percent” and how unequal wealth distribution is the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, and with this increased emphasis on financial literacy across all age levels, we might finally have a mechanism to institute societal change.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said, “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the ab undance o f th ose wh o h ave much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little,” and I believe that the only way to truly accomplish that is by restructuring our existing education system to include fundamental financial literacy.

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enjamin Franklin once famously said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” and unfortunately, he was absolutely correct. Historically, revolution and war have long accompanied increasing taxes, and multitudes of lives were lost and changed forever over the seemingly trite issue of tax enforcement.

And so, it boggles me how nowadays we neglect to teach basic accounting principles in our school systems. Instead of learning how to derive the slopes of lines, is it not more prudent and useful to learn how to file taxes and how to establish good credit? By knowing about these basic accounting tasks and being somewhat financially literate, it is quite possible that our whole society might benefit.

Recently, I attended the National Conference on Ending Poverty in Washington where one of the guest speakers talked about how impoverished people were often victims of loan sharks and caught in vicious cycles of debt in which they did not understand the necessity of good credit and amassed large debts, taking out even more loans to cover their prior debts.

Teaching these financial principles earlier would help individuals of all social and financial levels. Sure, the argument can be made that in the end, some banks and some of these quickcash loan companies ultimately would be financially hurt, but is it even ethical for banks and loan Max An is a sophomore physiology companies to profit off what is and neurobiology major. He can be reached at maxandbk@gmail.com. essentially lack of education?

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Laura Blasey, editor in chief, is a senior journalism major.

She has worked as a reporter, assistant news editor and news editor.

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He has worked as a copy editor, deputy managing editor and diversions writer.

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He has worked as an assistant managing editor and copy editor.

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She has worked as an assistant opinion editor and columnist.

SAuraDEEP SINHA, opinion editor, is a sophomore chemical engineering major.

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Those crazy flier people need our attention SAMANTHA REILLY FRESHMAN

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hursday afternoon was a breezy, clear-skied reminder of why I originally fell in love with McKeldin Mall. While reading and vaguely noting that the Frisbee games and guitar players sprinkled across the grass were “so college,” a few people came to talk to me.

One of them was from a Christian group on the campus, letting me know that the organization was holding services this weekend to celebrate Easter for students who couldn’t make it home to their

families. Another was a student raising funds for victims of domestic violence by selling Krispy Kreme donuts.

You can imagine which student was better received. The Christian student asked for no donations yet was brushed off rudely. I even overheard the frustration of another student from the same group who was tired of being ignored and rejected when she tried to give students fliers.

The fundraising student asked for money and was welcomed with open arms, open ears and open wallets.

I’ve heard that college students are notoriously passionate and dedicated to activism, sometimes naively so, but I wasn’t aware that millen-

nial passion was contingent on the promise of glazed circular desserts.

There’s something seriously wrong with the way we react to advocacy on the campus.

When you attend a university with more than 800 student organizations, you’re bound to be approached by someone with a flier for something at some point.

There is a number of ways to handle this situation. Some of the most common include ignoring them, laughing at them or simply pretending you’re texting while passing quickly.

My question is, in what seems like a twisted game of Family Feud, why doesn’t listening make the top three?

Sure, you might not care that

there’s a food drive going on or that a club is holding an event in Stamp Student Union tomorrow, but these people obviously do care. They care enough that they put themselves out there just to get the word out. It takes a special kind of person to not only care about a cause, but also to care so much that he or she champions it.

It’s cliche, yes, but put yourself in his or her shoes. There is something you care about. There is something that makes your friends groan because you talk about it non-stop.

Now imagine approaching complete strangers with the small hope that your ideas and your passion will resonate with just one of them.

It must feel awful to not even be

given a chance to explain what you care about.

The least you could do is listen.

There’s a very good chance that once you hear what the club is doing you still won’t care, but there’s also a very good chance that you know at least one person who will.

Just listen to the “crazy” flier p e o p l e . I t ta ke s l e s s t h a n 3 0 seconds. You don’t have to attend the event or donate money. You just have to let them know they’re not so crazy after all. Caring isn’t crazy; turning a blind eye to dedication and passion is.

Samantha Reilly is a freshman j o u r n a l i s m m a j o r. S h e c a n b e reached at sreillydbk@gmail.com.

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ALBUM REVIEW | THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, BEAT THE CHAMP

GOING BEHIND THE MASK John Darnielle and the rest of The Mountain Goats turn a wry, empathetic eye to the world of professional wrestling on their eclectic new album

By Jonathan Raeder @jonraeder Staff writer John Darnielle, the founder, lead singer, lyricist and bleeding heart of The Mountain Goats, is a storyteller first and foremost. In his catalog of now 15 albums, numerous EPs, compilations, side projects and unreleased singles, Darnielle has told stories about love (in all its good and bad forms), outsiders, the devil, Jimi Hendrix, peanuts, Michael Myers, an alcoholic couple and hundreds of other topics and characters. Beat the Champ is the band’s latest effort — this time about the world of professional wrestling.

The young Darnielle went to wrestling matches with his abusive stepfather, taking in the frenzied violence, theatricality and defined sense of good and evil. Wrestlers are either faces (the good guys) or heels (the bad guys), and watching the heroic father figures such as Chavo Guerrero trounce their enemies gave Darnielle some semblance of the justice he couldn’t find in his own battles against his evil heel.

Beat the Champ is an ode to those men, fighting under masks and narratives but still fighting all the same.

These songs are love letters to the heroic faces of Darnielle’s youth (“The Legend of Chavo Guerrero” and “The Ballad of Bull Ramos”), raucous frenzies from the more crazed and eccen-

BEAT THE CHAMP, the 15th studio album from indie rock stalwarts The Mountain Goats, is a concept album of sorts; the record finds Goats frontman John Darnielle telling stories about the lives of wrestlers over a wide spectrum of music, including country rock and jazz. photo courtesy of floodmagazine.com tric heels (“Choked Out,” “Werewolf Gimmick”), and quiet meditations on the struggles of these “nameless bodies in unremembered rooms” (“Luna,” “Unmasked!”).

While The Mountain Goats always have and likely always will stick to “conventional songwriting” of several verses, choruses, a bridge and the like, Beat the Champ finds the band continuing its recent evolution into new sounds. “Foreign Object” is a hilariously violent sax-backed romp with a chorus of “I personally will stab you in the eye with a foreign object.”

This is followed by the twangy guitar of “Animal Mask,” while “Werewolf Gimmick” features a gleefully manic Darnielle shouting, amid a thunder-

ing roll of drums, “Know how a man becomes a beast when the wolfbane blooms!” Even the low-key album opener “Southwestern Territory” features what sounds like the oboes from a musical pit band, adding a layer of theatricality to the entire album.

Beat the Champ is The Mountain Goats’ 15th studio album, and while Darnielle is no stranger to the concept album, this one is the most thematically unified since 2005’s The Sunset Tree (about his youth with an abusive stepfather). While there are welcome glimpses of the real Darnielle in “The Legend of Chavo Guerrero”, which chronicles the young Darnielle’s childhood admiration for an obscure wrestler, most of the album centers

on these fighters and their distinct challenges and quirks. Some grow old and die happy among family and friends, as in “The Ballad of Bull Ramos,” while others are stabbed to death outside San Juan, as in the appropriately titled “Stabbed to Death Outside San Juan.”

Yet perhaps the truest and most gut-wrenching moment of empathy for these fighters comes with the album’s closer, “Hair Match.” In some high-stakes wrestling matches, the fighters will pledge to cut their long hair (a symbol of their status) if they lose. The protagonist of “Hair Match” is strapped to a chair and must simply stare out into the waves of fans and onlookers, so eager to watch his life

fall apart. “We’ll stipulate that there will be no cameras filming/ But of course there will be several in the building” is just one of many cutting lines that spell doom for the unlucky fighter.

More than just clever lyrics and interesting stories, Beat the Champ succeeds as one of the most blatant examples of John Darnielle’s defining songwriting characteristic — empathy. He’s written songs about nearly every type of person, including several creatures and monsters, and there’s really no living songwriter so capable of getting you to understand the pathos inherent in every person’s life. Yes, wrestlers are large and violent and spend their lives “faking it,” but they’re people too, listening to the adulations or venomous hatred of the crowd, fully aware of how the two can change if those on high say their characters need to change.

These wrestlers will never have true fame, and most will die injured on the side of a road, wondering what it was all for. Yet some, like Chavo Guerrero, live on in both body and the hearts of everyone they inspired. Of course Darnielle says it better than anyone: “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’ve been told/ It’s real sweet to grow old.” Beat the Champ is one of the best Mountain Goats records in years for anyone willing to slip inside the minds behind the brightly colored masks. jraederdbk@gmail.com

ALBUM REVIEW | WAXAHATCHEE, IVY TRIPP

ARE WE OUT OF THE WOODS YET? Seasoned indie rocker Katie Crutchfield and her band probe transition, tension and change on gorgeous new LP

By Eric Bricker @EricCBricker Senior staff writer I v y Tr i p p i s a n a l b u m t h a t proudly wears its ephemerality on its sleeve. There is a sense across its runtime that this is a record of and about moments — moments of joy, moments of sadness, moments of reverie, coming and going, unbidden and out of our control.

The album — the third from Katie Crutchfield’s band Waxahatchee and the group’s first for prestigious indie label Merge Records — ultimately feels like a series of sketches. They’re impeccably well-produced and laboredover sketches, sure, but they’re also self-consciously fleeting, a series of fragments and patches that amount to a musical daydream.

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three-minute mark. Melodies arrive, unfold themselves into earworms and then depart before you can truly get a handle on them. Ideas are brought up — like the lilting “la la las” at the tail-end of opener “Breathless” — and are then abandoned just as quickly as they come.

Crutchfield isn’t necessarily telling cohesive stories on Ivy Tripp, as she did on Cerulean Salt, Waxahatchee’s

(stellar) last album; here, she is fixating on feelings, on memories, on sensory experience — the loathing that comes from looking in a mirror and brushing her hair on “<,” or the bittersweet strains of nostalgia that accompany an old photo on “Summer of Love.”

Ivy Tripp is all about sensation, about the experience of feeling and doing and being. Certain images — sugar, “soda pop,” beachscapes — come up again and again, operating more like impressionistic musical memories than deliberate motifs. Dogs’ barking and radio static underscore parts of the album. “Blue” finds Crutchfield fixating on a phrase (“running water, running”) and playing with it, finding its limits and dimensions, stripping the words of meaning until they feel, rather than mean, becoming another part of the song’s sunny sonic landscape.

There is also a sense of uncertainty

IVY TRIPP IS ALL ABOUT SENSATION, ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE OF FEELING AND DOING AND BEING. that runs across Ivy Tripp, one that lyrically and musically comes to represent transition — from one age to another, from one relationship to another, from indie darlings to biggest band in the world. “Maybe” recurs again and again in the lyrics, be it shouted with triumphant spite on “Under a Rock” or floated as a strangled suggestion on “Grey Hair.” Elsewhere, Crutchfield obsesses over the word “ethereal” and repeats the phrase “I am nothing.”

Likewise, Ivy Tripp is Waxahatchee’s most diverse and musically experimental album to date. Crutchfield

plays around with a Casio keyboard on “La Loose” and turns to the piano on “Half Moon” and “Stale Before Noon.”

Gone are the DIY bedroom dirges of debut album American Weekend, in favor of a wide range of palettes — soaring post-rock on “Air,” twangy surf guitars on “The Dirt,” industrial synths on “Breathless.” It is the sound of an artist in flux, pushing off against her past as she steps into the future.

The songs of Ivy Tripp could comfortably fill stadiums or dingy basements; Crutchfield’s lyrics, still as achingly personal and incisive as ever, wouldn’t be out of place sung by a crowd of 200 or a kid in a coffee shop. They are songs about feelings being felt — quickly and passionately.

And for that, Ivy Tripp, as a whole, is a moment worth savoring. ebrickerdbk@gmail.com

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GUARD LAURIN MINCY searches for room against Connecticut center Kiah Stokes on Sunday in Tampa, Florida. Mincy tied a season low with three points and shot 1 of 5 from the field in her final game as a Terp. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

MINCY From PAGE 8 points on 1 of 5 shooting, and her team fell, 81-58, in the Final Four for the second consecutive season.

“I had a really terrible game,” Mincy said. “It was a little disappointing because I know my team needed me to play at a high level.”

Mincy logged 22 minutes, her second-briefest time on the floor since Jan. 18. She committed six giveaways,

duo From PAGE 8 at catcher in 37 games this season. She ranks in the top five on the team in slugging percentage, hits, RBIs and home runs. In Big Ten play, she’s posted a .588 batting average, which is the best m a rk a m o n g Te r ps w i t h four or more at-bats. She also boasts a perfect fielding percentage.

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Freshman Abbie Epperson followed her two fellow rookies and garnered a 9.80 that tied for the Terps’ best on the event.

Slobodin, Trotter and Epperson had never been to an NCAA regional competition, but afterward, Epperson said the heightened tension in the Terps’ vaulting rotation didn’t deter the inexperienced gymnasts’ approaches.

“We haven’t had [a fall on vault] very often this season, so I think we weren’t too worried about it,” Epperson said. “We just kind of stuck with what we’ve been doing all season, and it worked out.

We go 6-for-6 all the time, so I didn’t feel a lot of pressure.”

The rookies’ production on Saturday wasn’t limited

matching her most in a contest since November. And she converted just one field-goal attempt for the third time in 37 games.

It was arguably her worst night of the season. The performance, Terps coach Brenda Frese seemed to suggest, didn’t do Mincy’s career justice. Nor did it define a standout senior season, one Frese was hoping Mincy would finally put together after spending most of her first four years bouncing back from knee injuries.

“I couldn’t be more proud of Laurin,”

Frese said. “All the adversity that she went through in her five years to be able to lead this team to new heights, to a season that nobody expected is something that I’m going to cherish forever in terms of her legacy.”

Mincy ends her career 19th on the Terps’ all-time scoring list with 1,379 points. She ranks sixth in program history with 143 made 3-pointers.

And her career 81.7 percent mark at the free-throw line is second only to guard Kristi Tolliver.

Even though she wasn’t 100 percent healthy for most of her time in College Park, Mincy’s 143 games played for the Terps leaves her one shy of tying the program record.

“A lot of people could have rolled over and said, ‘You know what? [Because of] my knees, I’m not going to be the player I used to be,’” guard Lexie Brown said.

“But Mincy, she worked extremely hard to get back this season. To see her back to who she was before her knee injuries and see how hard she worked and pushed us every day, I think that’s the legacy she’s going to leave with us.”

Perhaps Mincy’s final regular-season game and last postseason contest at Xfinity Center better resemble what Brown will remember about Mincy’s career.

On Senior N ight, Mincy set her career high with 28 points and played 40 minutes for the first time since before she tore her right ACL five games into her junior season.

Then in the second round of the NCAA tournament, the final time Mincy played in front of her home crowd, she went 6-for-7 from beyond the arc for 27 points to lead the Terps past previously unbeaten Princeton.

But against the Huskies, who recruited her in high school, she never quite found her rhythm.

“I was one of the few kids that wanted to beat UConn,” Mincy said Thursday, referring to her recruitment process. “I wanted be one of the ones to knock them off their throne. That’s ultimately why I chose Maryland.”

The New Jersey native never did top Connecticut in her time donning No. 1 for the Terps. But just like Sunday’s underwhelming outing to end her career, it was only a fragment of Mincy’s lasting impact with the Terps.

“Tonight was tough just because it’s the last game with her,” guard Brene Moseley said. “It hurts my heart.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

“MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, THEY JUST ARE HAVING REALLY GOOD AT-BATS. ... IT JUST MAKES A STATEMENT, WHICH IS GOOD FOR THE REST OF THE TEAM.” COURTNEY SCOTT DEIFEL Terrapins softball coach

game for us and doing a good job, and [Erin] made some really good catches for us [Sunday],” Scott Deifel said.

“Can’t say enough about how they’re swinging the bat, but they’re also playing the other side really well.”

While Pronobis, a Waldorf native, joined the Terps as a transfer from the Community College of Baltimore County in Catonsville last season, Bustillos has been a staple in the Terps’ lineup since she arrived from her hometown

in Anaheim, California, for her freshman year. Bustillos, a senior, has started 192 games at catcher for the team.

Scott Deifel said Bustillos and Pronobis’ success has rubbed off on their teammates.

“More than anything else, they just are having really good at-bats,” Scott Deifel said.

“Whether it’s productive or not, it just makes a statement, which is good for the rest of the team.”

to vault. On bars, Epperson swung with clean lines and nearly stuck her dismount to bring in another 9.80 routine.

Trotter and Slobodin both competed beam and floor in the Terps’ final two events.

Trotter tallied a 9.675 on beam and added a 9.70 on floor in the leadoff position.

Slobodin earned a 9.80 on beam to tie senior Shannon Skochko for the Terps’ highest score on the event. She then performed her floor routine to grab a 9.825 in the Terps’ closing rotation. She finished in ninth place on floor due to ties, though only three scores were higher than hers.

“Dominiquea did three out of four events [consistently] pretty much all year,” Epperson said. “And then Leah, you can just see it. The way she attacks. She’s a really strong competitor. I could see her doing all four [events] next year and the rest of her years.”

With six seniors set to leave the program, Nelligan said he’ll lean on his under-

classmen to carry much of the team’s production for years to come, much like they did as the heart of the vault lineup on Saturday night.

“I am so proud of our underclassmen,” Skochko said.

“They have bright futures ahead of them, and I know we have a big class that’s graduating. But I have no doubt in my mind that every one of them is going to step up and be a leader and just continue to do amazing things for the rest of their careers at Maryland.”

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notebook From PAGE 8 defense switched to a zone, packing the interior and forcing the Terps to grind out long possessions.

But before that, Carlson made his presence felt. Less than four minutes into the game, Carlson and attackman Matt Rambo crisscrossed behind the net. Carlson’s defender then slid to Rambo, who found a wide-open Carlson for a goal.

C a rl s o n wa s n ’t d o n e scoring, though. With 38 seconds left in the period, he received a pass from Rambo at point-blank range, clanged a shot off the post and deposited his own rebound into the top left corner of the net.

The Terps leaned on the first-quarter outburst to cruise to their eighth win in a row, thanks in part to Carlson. But as he sat between his coach and his captain, Carlson directed praise elsewhere.

“All six guys on the field do a great job,” Carlson said. “It’s going to be different scorers each game. Rambo is always a great player, and sometimes teams are going to be more aggressive and slide fast to

shortstop kevin smith (left) greets his roommate, outfielder Jamal Wade, after hitting a home run to score Wade in Sunday’s win over Nebraska. reid poluhovich/the diamondback

wvu From PAGE 8 seventh inning with a leadoff single to silence his playful teammates.

“They were joking around and saying when am I going to hit a single?” Wade said.

“Finally I hit a single.”

Wade scored later that inning when Kevin Smith, his roommate, smashed a two-run homer over the left field fence.

I n t h e e i g h t h , Wa d e achieved another first at the plate when he drew a leadoff walk. Before Sunday, Wade had struck out four times and never drawn a walk.

“I struggled in the beginning of the year, swinging at bad pitches, like out of the zone,” Wade said. “I really worked on having a better approach and working the count a little bit.”

While Wade struck out in his first at-bat Sunday, Szefc wasn’t concerned about Wade’s plate appearance.

“He went down looking on a pitch that was clearly missed by the guy standing behind the plate,” Szefc said.

Last year, Wade started working out in the weight ro o m a n d h i t a “ so l i d ” amount of homers as a senior at St. Paul’s School, but in the

Matt. And Matt has that unselfish mindset when he gets that double.”

WEST RISES Nine Terps scored in the team’s 13-4 win over Michigan last week, but midfielder Henry West wasn’t one of them. The junior unleashed shot after shot at goalkeeper Gerald Logan, but none found the back of the net.

So as the Terps readied for Penn State, West went back to the basics. Hoping to rebound from his 0-for-6 performance, West worked on his fundamentals.

“I don’t think he feels like he’s been playing as well as he’d like. And to his credit, he stayed after this week, and we worked on some things.”

Tillman said. “He was taking a look maybe at how he released the ball.”

After West contributed quality minutes on the Terps’ second-line midfield in 2014, the team asked him to take on a bigger role this year and West has attempted the second-most shots on the team (69).

Entering Saturday, West wanted to prove the Michigan game was an aberration.

He finished with two goals on

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summer the Owings Mills native tried to slim down to become more flexible.

Even Wade struggled to explain where his power came from. “ Ho n e s t ly, I h ave n o idea,” Wade said. “It’s pretty shocking.”

Wade is one of four freshman reserves who have filled in for injured starters over the last few weeks. His older brother, LaMonte, has been out since March 7 with a broken hamate bone. Kengo Kawahara has filled in for LaMonte in center field and complied a .231 average and .339 on-base percentage.

Kevin Biondic and Justin Morris both have played at first base since Andrew Bechtold suffered a seasonending torn ligament in his left thumb on Feb. 28.

“Our freshmen have consistently gotten better,” Szefc said. “We’ll be happy about that.”

While Morris and Kawahara both started Sunday, Wade was the offensive star of that group. And the Terps hope that Wade’s hot hitting continues today.

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nine shots to help bury the Nittany Lions.

“We’re thrilled for [West],” Tillman said. “It’s always great as a coach to see kids work that little extra and be rewarded for it.”

TOUGH TEST Throughout the season, the Terps defense has made a habit of shutting down elite scorers.

They held Princeton attackman Mike MacDonald scoreless in an 11-4 rout March 7, and they shut out freshman attackman Danny Seibel on March 14 in an 11-2 win at Villanova.

When Loyola visits Byrd on Wednesday, the Terps will be tasked with defending attackman Zach Herreweyers, who ranks sixth in the nation with a 3.27 goals per game average.

Herreweyers will have his hands full, too. The junior has scored in every game this year, but the Terps have held each of their previous three opponents to five goals or fewer. jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

BASEBALL | WEST VIRGINIA PREVIEW

Wade’s power helps mask injury trouble Outfielder hits third home run of season over weekend, readies for Mountaineers

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer Jamal Wade wasn’t supposed to start Sunday, but Terrapins baseball designated hitter Nick Cieri injured his hand during batting practice. The freshman outfielder took advantage of the opportunity to start in Cieri’s place.

Wade went 2-for-3 with one walk and a fifth-inning home run.

His performance at the plate helped the No. 19 Terps dig out of a five-run hole and clinch a series sweep over then-No. 22 Nebraska with a 6-5 walk-off victory Sunday.

With Cieri’s status unknown before today’s home game against West Virginia, Wade might be thrust into a starting role once again for the Terps.

“I thought he had four great at-bats,” coach John Szefc said Sunday. “He was just as much a part of that [comeback] as anybody.”

Wade entered Sunday with two hits, both home runs, in 14 atbats, and he continued that trend of power hitting during his second plate appearance Sunday.

The Terps trailed 5-1 when Wade stepped to the plate during the fifth inning. An inning earlier, catcher Kevin Martir had blasted a solo home run over the left-field fence. Wade followed suit with a solo homer that landed in nearly the exact same spot as Martir’s.

The first three hits of Wade’s career were all homers, but he showed some versatility in the See wvu, Page 7

SOFTBALL

Pronobis, Bustillos set tone on offense Duo combines for 15 RBIs over weekend

By Alex Flum @alex_flum Staff writer guard Laurin Mincy, a fifth-year senior, hugs coach Brenda Frese late in the Terps’ 81-58 loss to Connecticut in the Final Four on Sunday.

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A TOUGH GOODBYE Mincy ends career with shaky performance in Final Four loss to UConn

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer

TAMPA, Fla. — It wasn’t how Laurin Mincy wanted her winding journey to end. Not after she had revitalized her Terrapins women’s basketball career during her fifth and final year after suffering a pair of ACL tears since the start of high school.

It wasn’t supposed to end with Mincy matching her lowest scoring output of the season. Not after she had led the Terps in scoring while averaging nearly 15 points per game through the first seven postseason contests.

But Sunday night at Amalie Arena against powerhouse Connecticut, that’s how the final 40 minutes of Mincy’s time in a Terps uniform unfolded. Mincy scored three See mincy, Page 7

In Big Ten play, outfielder Erin Pronobis and catcher Shannon Bustillos lead the Terrapins softball team with matching 1.118 slugging percentages.

This season, Pronobis has been a driving force in the outfield and at the plate, while Bustillos has been an anchor at catcher and an offensive threat herself.

Together, they’ve jolted a program with a first-year coach during its inaugural Big Ten season.

“You just have a chance when they’re in the box,” Terps coach Courtney Scott Deifel said.

“They’re always making good things happen for the team.”

As the Terps took two of three at

Indiana this the weekend, Pronobis and Bustillos hit a combined .600 at the plate with four home runs and 15 RBIs. P ro n o b i s l a u n c h e d t h re e home runs in the Terps’ 11-8 loss Saturday.

“Three home runs in a game is absolutely incredibly, absolutely insane,” Bustillos said. “I’m really proud of her.”

Pronobis upped her home run season total to 11, which tied her for the team lead with infielder Corey Schwartz. Pronobis also leads the team with 39 RBIs and is second with a .513 OBP and 45 hits. Her .388 batting average is the best of any Terp who has had three or more at-bats this season.

Meanwhile, Bustillos has started See duo, Page 7

MEN’S LACROSSE | NOTEBOOK

Carlson keeps steady in victory West bounces back; Terps prepare to face Loyola’s top threat

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer Terrapins men’s lacrosse coach John Tillman already was waiting at a table in Byrd Stadium’s pressroom Saturday after a 12-5 win over Penn State, and Casey Ikeda and Jay

Carlson were deciding where to sit.

Ikeda made the decision for Carlson.

“You sit in the middle,” Ikeda said to Carlson. “You scored two goals.”

While the No. 3 Terps’ first-line midfield has shifted between dominant and lackluster performances, Carlson, an attackman, has provided a steady scoring presence throughout the year from in front of the crease.

The senior didn’t score in the Terps’ 10-8 win over North Carolina on March 21, and he found the back

of the net once three days later in the team’s 13-4 rout of Robert Morris.

But otherwise, Carlson has scored at least two goals every game since the Terps began their eight-game winning streak with an 11-7 win over Penn on Feb. 24.

The streak continued Saturday thanks to Carlson’s two goals.

After the Terps got off to a hot start and took an 8-2 advantage before the second quarter, the Nittany Lions Attackman Jay carlson whips a shot around his head during the Terps’ 12-5 win over Penn State on Saturday.

See notebook, Page 7 Carlson has scored at least two goals in six of the Terps’ past eight games. marquise mckine/the diamondback

GYMNASTICS

Underclassmen step up in regional Young Terps right ship with consistent performance in third-place finish

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer

Sophomore Leah Slobodin was one of three underclassmen who stuck routines on vault during Saturday’s NCAA regional meet after Karen Tang’s fall. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Senior Karen Tang fell forward after landing off the vault in the Terrapins gymnastics team’s NCAA Regional competition in Auburn, Alabama, on Saturday, and her teammates held their breath.

In the first routine in the opening rotation of their meet,

the Terps knew they had to hit their remaining five vaults in the lineup so Tang’s low mark wouldn’t count toward their overall score.

With the next three gymnasts all first-year contributors in the biggest meet of the Terps’ postseason, it would have been hard to blame coach Brett Nelligan and his squad for feeling nervous about avoiding another mistake.

But the younger gymnasts came through both on vault and throughout the remainder of the competition en route to the No. 5-seed Terps’ thirdplace finish in their final meet of the season.

“We learned a lot about them tonight,” Nelligan said.

“We’ve been learning about them all year, but tonight we saw in front of a huge crowd on the biggest stage,

the most pressure, they elevated themselves. So that, for us, is huge going forward because we know we can count on them, and we can start to build on that with next year’s freshmen.”

Sophomore Leah Slobodin, who redshirted her freshman year with a torn Achilles tendon, was the first to vault See regional, Page 7