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Monday, April 9, 2012

Parents wary of athletics funding

THE CUPCAKE ENGINEER

Teams say distrust led them to raise funds on their own

BY REBECCA LURYE Senior staff writer

Shank, a junior bioengineering major.

But really, this is nothing. For the past few years, she’s had a cupcake “obsession,” and she’s made everything from life-sized monarch butterflies to an iced Vincent Van Gogh painting, plenty more complicated than the Terps design bogging her down now.

When she finishes the state flag an hour

Despite the university’s efforts to pledge their support to the eight athletic teams facing elimination next season, lingering distrust may still hamper fundraising efforts.

Parents and alumni from the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams quickly reacted to the cuts, forming their own nonprofit organization, Save UMD Swimming and Diving, to collect funds separately from an athletics department account. Several parents said they’re skeptical of the department’s account, noting they’re afraid university officials will funnel the funds into the basketball and football programs.

“It’s highway robbery; they’re holding these poor kids for ransom,” said parent John Tynan, whose son is a junior on the swimming and diving team.

see CUPCAKES, page 3

see FUNDRAISING, page 3

Junior designs novelty cupcakes as a hobby

BY REBECCA LURYE Senior staff writer

Junior bioengineering major Michi Shank has been baking and designing cupcakes since last year. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

Michi Shank’s brow furrows as a Tic Tacsized piece of rolled candied icing cracks in her fingers. She discards it, and with slow strokes, cuts into the smooth white icing again, working to form the 48 shapes of the flashy state flag.

“Hardest puzzle I’ve ever done,” said

Incoming freshmen use unofficial roommate finding system Although students soon able to use RoomSync for free, RoomSurf charging money for similar services

BY FOLA AKINNIBI Staff writer

As the university finalizes plans to offer students a free roommate-matching system on Facebook, a business

that charges for a similar service has stepped up its advertising to students.

More than 1,400 university students have signed up with RoomSurf, according to an email from company co-founder Justin Gaither, more than

300 of them through the Facebook group “University of Maryland Class of 2016.” However, Residence Hall Association members said they are frustrated the group is targeting students who may not know a similar free

service will soon be available to them.

Earlier in the semester, Department of Resident Life Assistant Director Scott Young proposed the department purchase the program RoomSync, a Facebook application used by 21 other

universities and colleges enables students to search for compatible roommates online. The department is in the final stages of forming a contract with

see ROOMMATES, page 3

Three students construct zip line on South Campus, hope to make more Students unsure whether zip line is against university regulations

BY TEDDY AMENABAR Staff writer

EDITOR’S NOTE: Some students’ last names have been withheld from this article to protect them from potential university sanctions.

Although people typically take to parks or exotic vacation spots to experience the thrill of zip-lining, three students hope to bring the

experience right to the campus — as long as it’s legal.

Last weekend, some students eagerly crowded around a carefully constructed zip line that ran from a railing outside South Campus Dining Hall to a light post near Commons Building 5. Three students — sophomore physics major Roger, sophomore computer engineering major Ilya and freshman computer science

major Stephen — designed the line by using rock climbing equipment to protect students from any potential injury and a 100-foot static rope so anyone could safely ride down the line.

“We had climbing gear, and, well, we got pulleys one day and we thought, ‘Well, we should zipline with them,’” Roger said.

see ZIP LINE, page 3

Ilya (left) and Stephen are two of the three students who constructed a zip line on South Campus using climbing equipment. ALEXIS JENKINS/THE DIAMONDBACK

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ZIP LINE from page 1 The idea originated after Ilya mentioned the idea to his friends several months ago. He had ziplined in Costa Rica and believed he could provide students with the same exciting experience on the campus by using his computer engineering and rock climbing background to design a completely safe line.

“I finally have enough knowledge that I feel that I can do this safely,” he said.

ROOMMATES from page 1 RoomSync, and officials said they plan to pay about $5,000, plus a yearly fee, to offer university students the service for free.

Unlike the app that will be offered through the university, RoomSurf charges the majority of its customers. The first 30 students from a school join for free, and the

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The three students then spent time evaluating multiple locations on the campus before realizing the area outside the diner was the perfect location.

“The main reason why we went here is this is one of the places that’s pretty much designed for it, almost,” Ilya said. “We can engineer everything and ensure everything is sufficiently sturdy.”

While the students said they would like to continue offering their peers the opportunity to zip line on and off the campus, they are unsure whether it is against university safety regulations.

But the three said they didn’t overlook safety when creating the line. Although they were looking to provide students with a good time, they built the line with great caution, Ilya said, because they knew it wasn’t a project to take on “unless you have experience.”

The rope and rock climbing equipment are designed to comfortably hold at least 5,000 pounds of weight, the students said, and Stephen said he understands the proper knot-tying techniques to secure the ropes.

Several students who rode the zip line said they would

gladly do it again.

“It is incredible — I wish they did this more often,” said sophomore architecture major Sean Konig, who is also friends with the three students. “I heard them talking about making it … I trust these guys to design something safe.”

Although Ilya said he does not know why the university would ban him and his friends from continuing to offer the zip line and is unclear on what the policy is, he said the group does not plan to violate any rules.

remainder are prompted to upgrade according to the company’s website. The site charges students between $4.95 and $9.95.

The RHA Resident Life Advisory Team drafted a resolution that warns students against using the pay service.

“At this point, it is a shady business practice,” advisory team chairman Mike Lichtenberg said.

Although the university also reviewed RoomSurf, officials ulti-

mately decided against procuring the app. Young said he plans to discuss the issue with the Office of Legal Affairs to see whether the university can take any action against the company.

Because Gaither knows the university plans to offer a free service soon, RHA Vice President Sasha Azar said Gaither should stop advertising to incoming students.

“RoomSurf has taken their actions on Facebook way too far, and

something must be done,” she said.

Despite losing out on a contract, Gaither said RoomSurf still has the right to reach out to university students on social networking sites.

“We understand [the university] recently started working with a vendor for roommate matching,” he said. “But Maryland students have been finding roommates on Roomsurf for several months now.”

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FUNDRAISING from page 1 “I wouldn’t give them a dollar for a cup of coffee ‘cause I’d be afraid they would spend it on Gatorade for the football team.”

University President Wallace Loh said although the concerns from parents are understandable, the university has a proven record of fiscal responsibility with donations. The athletics department pledged to return all money given this year if the teams aren’t saved.

“We have hundreds of millions of dollars in our endowment, everybody else trusts us,” Loh said. “We spend it wisely, we give periodic reports at least once a year, even twice a year to all our donors.”

In November, Loh announced eight Terrapins teams would be cut to address the athletics department’s $83 million debt, unless the university and teams could raise the necessary funds by June 30 to support the programs for the next eight years.

Of the $2.8 million needed, Save UMD Swimming and Diving has fundraised about $20,000 and has $430,000 in verbal commitments, according to parents, and the athletics department has collected $68,631 as of last Monday. The teams missed their April 2 benchmark.

While men’s outdoor track and field is more than halfway to its deadline of $940,000, the other five potentially cut teams — men’s indoor track and field, men’s cross country, women’s water polo, women’s acrobatics and tumbling, and men’s tennis — are millions of dollars short.

Athletics department officials said they are still courting big donors — including alumni who wish to rename the natatorium after a former coach — and several parents said they are optimistic they will find support outside the campus.

“If there’s disappointment from a parent, it’s probably be-

CUPCAKES from page 1 later, Shank reaches for a new ball of rolled fondant — a sugar-based mixture that dries hard like modeling clay — squirts it with red food dye and begins to knead, staining her fingers and palms, pressing and turning the fondant with careful, measured moves while mulling over the design of Testudo’s shell.

Although Shank has loved crafting since she was young, baking cupcakes became an obsession last year. It’s the first thing she shares with people during icebreakers. She bakes for her sorority and her friends. And every Thursday, she decorates a batch that her roommates eat for breakfast the next day.

So far, Shank hasn’t taken any baking classes and her ventures involve a lot of guesswork, research and the occasional cover-up (she sometimes fixes new pieces of icing over her mistakes).

But a lack of formal experience has not stopped her from tackling rainbow layers and flavors such as Red Bull, chai tea and strawberr y champagne — complete with a strawberries flambe.

As a joke, she once made not-quite-unsuccessful Old Bay cupcakes.

Mitch Shank said his daughter’s creativity and love of cooking began early. For years, she baked with her grandmother.

“My dad swears she holds out ingredients or steps for him, but she’ll show me the whole thing,” Michi Shank said. By age 12, she was cooking meatloaf and pot roast; her dad’s eyesight had deteriorated, and she made dinner most weekdays, carefully following her mom’s written instructions.

Her father is a diabetic and has been insulin-dependent for 40 years. Due to kidney failure, he became legally blind when Shank was in middle school and has received a new kidney and pancreas.

In November, she was preparing to leave for a winter study abroad trip when kidney failure put her dad in the hospital again. Before she left, she handed him some paperwork and said she wanted to be his second kidney donor.

“It’s a gift I didn’t expect from Michi, and in fact, I cried for quite a while,” Mitch Shank said. “She just said ‘I’ve got two; I only need one.’”

This weekend, Shank completed another round of testing and hopes she can have the operation soon. It wasn’t a hard decision, she said.

Others, she’s still working through. Shank has wanted to be an engineer her whole life

cause some of the ideas they put forth weren’t accepted by the athletics department,” said Frank Rellihan, a parent who is fundraising in the Washington business community.

Kim Spina, whose son is a junior on the team, said fundraising on a small scale — such as with Tshirt sales — is difficult enough without considering the “rumors going around.”

“Until we come up with that lump sum, there’s no guarantee and I don’t know what the university would do with that money,” Spina said.

Assistant Athletics Director Ryan Bowles said parents have not approached him with concerns about whether the department would return their donations.

“It’s disappointing because we certainly feel like we’ve explained it to them,” he said.

Within the parents’ steering committee, there are different ideas about where Save UMD Swimming and Diving’s money will go if it is not enough to save the team on June 30. Rellihan said members of the steering committee have discussed giving it to the coaches as severance pay.

However, officials said several of the steering committee’s ideas are still negotiable. That includes fees for renting office space for the coaches in Eppley Recreation Center, which amounted to just about $3,200 last year, according to Campus Recreation Services Director Jay Gilchrist.

Bowles said there is currently no free office space available in Comcast Center, but the department can consider making those changes next year if the team reaches its June 30 deadline. If swimming and diving reaches its goal, it must raise $5.79 million by Dec. 31, 2012 and $11.57 million

by Dec. 31, 2013.

“When we presented the plan to the swimming and diving steering committee, they expressed a happiness with that plan,” Bowles added. lurye@umdbk.com

— especially growing up around her dad’s treatments, watching him take insulin shots and counting out his pills — but now she isn’t sure it’s the right path.

“I’m just an average engineering student, but sometimes I question if that’s because I should be baking instead,” she said.

Between homework and classes, Shank spends hours scouring blogs for inspiration. She makes frequent trips to Georgetown Cupcake and is working her way through the store’s recipe book, never revealing she is also a “cupcake engineer.”

Shank smoothes a circle of tan fondant over a red velvet cupcake, forming Testudo’s back.

“Should that be bigger? No, it’s good,” she said, adding she sometimes talks to herself when she bakes.

Sometimes she still worries the cupcakes are just a phase.

Shank has tried countless other activities while traveling or visiting friends at home, including scuba diving, taking pole dancing fitness classes and learning to shoot firearms.

But this is probably not just a temporary extension of her love for crafting. For Shank, having multiple hobbies runs in her family.

In her Havre de Grace home are a dozen of her parents’ collections, including baseball cards, a battalion of lead soldiers, a Disney-themed room decked yearround for Christmas and thousands of wooden decoy ducks — her grandfather, one of the world’s most prolific decoy-makers, carved more than 100,000 in his lifetime.

When Shank joined the university’s chapter of Alpha Omega Epsilon, a society for female engineers, in fall 2010, she found similar joy in engineering.

Her roommate and sorority big Laken Ensor said she was impressed Shank juggles baking with classes and extracurriculars like Beyond These Walls — a group that volunteers with elementary school children — and her sorority.

“She does so much to help us even though she’s not on the executive board this year, and I think that just shows a lot of dedication and good heart for everything she does,” said Ensor, a junior civil engineering major.

“Whatever she’s involved in she puts in 110 percent.”

On a whim one Wednesday night, she baked 24 cupcakes and iced them in swirling blues, yellows and greens to replicate Van Gogh’s famous “Starry Night.”

“Before you taught her to color in the lines, she had to color in the lines; that’s just the way she’s always been,” Mitch Shank said. lurye@umdbk.com

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Really, Senate? Again?

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The recommendations moved onto the Senate Executive Committee, his editorial board is actually impressed that the University Senate can keep making the wrong decision on the student fee review process over and over which could either vote to send them to the full body for another vote, or back again. In the senate’s latest gaff, its most powerful committee — the Senate to the Student Affairs Committee for further consideration. Considering that Executive Committee — voted to send forward three useless recommenda- the committee’s chairwoman Rachel Cooper admitted the silly proposals tions on “revamping” the process by which departments request mandatory student were passed because the meeting ran out of time, this editorial board had hoped the SEC would give Cooper more time to adequately address them. fees to the full body, which will debate and likely vote on them at its April 19 meeting.

Unfortunately, we were wrong again. The full senate will To understand just how silly this is, let’s backtrack for a secconsider the recommendations at its next meeting and since ond. In October, Student Government Association President the year is coming to an end, it seems likely that they will be Kaiyi Xie and Graduate Student Government President Anna Bedford submitted a proposal to the senate outlining con- The University Senate has a passed and senators will consider the matter.

There is a glimmer of hope: Xie and other senators crete ways to improve the student fee review process. For the last several years, it’s been an extremely shady operation; responsibility to send student drafted a minority report outlining their dissatisfaction departments ranging from Transportation Services to Athlet- fee review recommendations at how the process has played out. The Senate Executive Committee even recognized how rare it is for such ics seek little student input when deciding to charge the actual constituency. Additionally, scarce records by the Com- back to the Student Affairs an extreme measure to be taken.

“It’s going to get attention,” Senate Parliamentarian Marvin mittee for the Review of Student Fees are taken when the Committee for an extensive Breslow said. “When’s the last time you saw a minority report departments actually do justify how the money will be spent. debate, not a quick chat. in the senate? Maybe once in the last 10 years, or something Xie and Bedford had some pretty good ideas. They recomlike that. … There should be a very full discussion.” mended creating a student advisory board to OK the fee proIf that was the case, why did the executive committee vote to move the posals before they even reach the review committee and mandating detailed minutes be taken to increase accountability. It makes sense; if these departments want to recommendations for ward? Given how extreme Xie’s minority report apparently is, why didn’t the committee think the proposal needed more time to charge students money, they should have to justify those fees.

The Student Affairs Committee was charged with reviewing the proposals. Appar- be fleshed out before it reached the full senate?

Unfortunately, it’s too late now. The executive committee has (incorrectly) ently, because members ran out of time, they chose to ignore Xie and Bedford’s recommendations and instead approved three watered-down recommendations: Depart- spoken and the proposals are moving forward. Xie and other students will likely ments must meet with the review committee to discuss fee requests, meet with con- make a last stand at the senate meeting, urging senators to vote to send it back to stituency groups before making fee requests and justify how fees will be used. These committee. To this editorial board, that’s the only responsible decision. Cooper suggestions are essentially meaningless because they lack any accountability meas- admitted the recommendations were made in haste; the senate needs to handle this important situation thoroughly, not quickly. ures and don’t ensure students will be consulted before the fees are proposed.

Our View

Editorial cartoon: Eun Jeon

No one should care about Obamacare

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he Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, sometimes dubbed “Obamacare,” has been touted as President Barack Obama’s big achievement by numerous Democratic-aligned pundits and voters, who say aspects of the bill have improved the health care situation in the United States. I must say I agree — extending the age to which dependents can use their parents’ or guardians’ coverage to 26 is definitely a good thing. Other small parts of the bill have invariably been helpful as well. Yet none of that is particularly important for the majority of society. In fact, average health care costs rose by nearly 10 percent in 2011, despite the rhetoric saying it would help slash costs.

Regardless of whether you are a leftist or a rightist, something is fishy here.

First thing’s first: The bill was created in closed meetings between Obama and health care and pharmaceutical company officials in 2009.

That doesn’t sound like socking it to the insurance companies to me. Why

TOM BRADTKE would it ever be in the best interests of these companies to help draft a plan that could potentially cut into their profits? It is not — and never has been — and the plan reflects that. If anything, it’s a massive bailout for what was a stagnant business model. How does that work?

It starts off with forcing all uninsured Americans to buy health care. If the cost is too expensive for an individual or family, they will be provided subsidies, paid for by the American taxpayers, to help pay for it. In essence, Obama’s health care law gave the insurance companies millions of new and unwilling customers and then helped pay for their insurance costs. Insurance companies have been able to raise premiums

because they now have a captive market. Additionally, many have strong regional monopolies that have only gotten stronger. Ever since 1945’s McCarran-Ferguson Act, insurance companies have been given exemptions from most federal antitrust laws and other oversight. As such, efforts such as price collusion are actually allowed, which create easily maintained monopolies.

The “best” part is, of course, that the Affordable Care Act did not create a regulatory body to actually examine these unethical practices. The entire thing is toothless when it comes to policing any provisions. On a theoretical level, Congress could pull the operating license from one of these companies should it act against the law or in any fashion detrimental to the American people. The odds of that happening are roughly nil, since in such a case it would suddenly take away the insurance of thousands or millions of people, who would then be snatched up by other insurance conglomerates doing the exact same thing.

What I’m saying is that Obamacare sucks unless you are a stockholder in an insurance company, or one of the lucky few in the very specific circumstances where it benefits you as a consumer. There are many people who hate the law because it’s “socialist.” They’re just plain wrong, but at least they recognize it’s bad. It is a powerful piece of regulation. However, it is regulation that definitively benefits private interests and sabotages government oversight and the interests of the American people. I’m glad a federal court ruled the individual mandate unconstitutional and that the Supreme Court is taking a look at it. To be honest, I’m not sure the Supreme Court is going to overturn the law because the justices have proven themselves completely pro-corporation recently, but it’s good to have hope for once.

Tom Bradtke is a senior history major.

He can be reached at bradtke@umdbk.com.

Weather or not: To the flip-floppers

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isturbing events have danced on the front pages of newspapers and websites around the county, giving rise to a new era of uncertainty for school campuses, pensive politicians and everyday emulations. The most basic decisions have been thrown into jeopardy while the days of gliding across the campus have been cut short, fear replacing confidence, weakness pushing aside strength.

In this chasm of uncertainty, a void has emerged, an uncontested demand for answers. Why the hypocrisy? Why the back and forth?

So we throw our hands up to the sky, embracing our natural instinct, and look for answers. Our chief complaint is against nothing other than the weather: umbrella one day, shorts the next. These few months have been vexing. Weeks of cold are followed by weeks of warmth — and everything in between. Like a little child running away with your favorite pen, the weather skips about, dragging you along with it. It tests our skills of adaptation, challenging

us with a new little game every day.

Dress for success, all the way.

Thus, we ponder the Shakespearean question of “Whether or not?” But amidst assuming the role of psychiatrist and flinging out diagnoses of “bipolar disorder,” we have lost heed of the most necessary observation: So ready to complain about this winter weather anomaly, we have forgotten the hypocrisy that exists within ourselves.

Our beliefs hang on a thin line.

We download billions of dollars worth of pirated software and media over the Internet, but would never dream of stealing a $1.19 candy bar from the Union Shop. We believe in the importance of a balanced life, yet spend up to 75 percent of our waking lives working and 10 percent watching TV. Skinny jeans are in fashion, yet obesity continues to climb. We receive speeding tickets and never alter our driving habits.

Email has shattered barriers of time and place, yet forced us farther apart. If you lie down with the dogs, you rise with the fleas, but if you can’t beat them, join them. The more the merrier, but

FATIMAH WASEEM two’s company and three’s a crowd.

We are too busy growing up to witness our parents growing old. We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make ourselves thin while children in Somalia die because they are too thin.

When war is on our side, it is patriotism; when it is on theirs, it is terrorism.

Caught in a flurry of complaints against the world beyond, a simple and yet frightening thought has slipped our minds.

We are the flip-floppers.

Our criticism is of society’s greater umbrella. The dips and downs of the economy are “horrendous,” the prices at the fuel pump “fuel rage,” the “big boss” is “always to blame.” Like our perception of the weather, society is at fault — politicians flip-flop back and forth, our wallets cannot adapt to

climbing prices, the media is just watering down the news and we’ve got golf balls of red tape and a tornado of hate. Forecast fiascos.

Therein lies our fatal flaw. We have forged a disconnect between society’s problems and our role in them, calling such challenges a “bipolar disorder” and nestling ourselves into the comfort of self-pity. The world will probably never change. Temperatures will dip, corruption scandals will be revealed and people will continue to struggle.

But we can change our response.

Trayvon Martin, the Oakland shootings, concerns of racial hate on the campus — these ideas just change with the political and social climate. And that makes finding where we stand in all issues all the more valuable.

So meet sun with flip-flops, rain with boots and dry sidewalks with TOMS. Flip-floppers were made for flip-floppers. Weather or not.

Fatimah Waseem is a freshman neurobiology and physiology and journalism major. She can be reached at waseem@umdbk.com.

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etween now and the end of the semester, faculty, staff, students and information technology professionals will conduct a series of discussions pertaining to the direction campuswide information technology will take in the next five years or more.

The Division of Information Technology, formerly the Office of Information Technology, will lead this charge.

The goal of these discussions is to formulate Brian Voss’ “IT Abundance” strategy for the campus. To Voss, Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, IT Abundance is a philosophy in which technology is advanced, up-todate, readily available and meets the needs of faculty, staff and students.

The IT strategy will support university President Wallace Loh’s priorities for student opportunity, internationalization, innovation and entrepreneurship and service to the people of this state. Until the end of the semester, action items will be developed by discussing current services provided on the campus and the needs of the academic community.

The discussions will be divided into four focus groups: scholarly enablement, infrastructure, research and innovation, and resource allocation and efficient and effective use. Each group will examine a different area of IT development. Scholarly enablement will explore how to help current and future students learn more effectively. Research and innovation will work to create an environment that promotes research and emerging technology. Infrastructure will focus on facilitating administrative affairs for the university. Resource allocation and efficient and effective use will investigate how to manage and govern this university’s IT and technological resources.

Based on the input of the four groups, Voss and the Division of Information Technology will formulate a plan for an effective IT infrastructure for the university. The hope is that this strategy will develop an environment that fosters world-class education, research and administration in support of the university’s overall mission, as well as increase communication between the Division of Information Technology and the academic and administrative community. Additionally, the strategy should reflect the community’s vision for an IT environment that enables the success of this university.

Unfortunately, the focus groups are lacking representation of undergraduate students. Although there are positions reserved for undergraduates within the groups, undergraduate turnout has been low. As of now, the groups are composed of vice presidents, deans and University Senate members from various colleges. Students have the most experience with the IT services this university provides and therefore have valuable input when dealing with central and distributed IT resources. Participation in the focus groups does not require a technological background; all that is required is engagement during discussions.

Whether through Blackboard, personalizing MyUM, registering for classes, putting up with WebAssign, etc. — students have valuable input to give in shaping the direction of central and distributed IT resources. This is an excellent opportunity to not only give back to the university, but also shape the academic community and leave a legacy that will affect future classes, research and responses to technological advancements. If you would like to be a part of this committee, please feel free to contact me.

Akash Trivedi is the director of information systems for the Student Government Association. He can be reached at akash.trivedi27@gmail.com.

OPINION EDITOR WANTED The Diamondback is seeking an opinion editor for the Fall 2012 semester. Ideal candidates have an understanding of university, state and national issues, a familiarity with journalistic writing, strong managerial skills and the ability to meet deadlines.

Opinion editors typically work 30 to 35 hours per week. The position is paid. For more information on the position or how to apply, please contact opinion editors Christopher Haxel and Maria Romas at opinion@umdbk.com.

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orn today, you are not the kind to put up with personal affronts with any grace whatsoever.You can become quite aggressive in response to someone telling you what to do, insulting you or getting in the way of any personal agenda you may be promoting. There are times, in fact, when you can be quite difficult to work with, and for this reason the roster of your allies may well be a small one — but those who choose to hitch themselves to your wagon will stick with you through thick or thin, loyal to the end.You prefer to do things your own way.

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It’s not all negative, however.

You can be one of the most thoughtful and giving of individuals, and that is actually your natural state — but it all depends upon whether you feel challenged or threatened in some way. If not, your light shines brightly and positively.

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PREVIEW | AN HORSE

Good vibes Upstart band Caveman brings its hypnotic sound to Washington tonight

BY ADAM OFFITZER Staff writer

Australian duo An Horse will come to the 9:30 Club tomorrow.

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An Horse with no name

BY ZACHARY BERMAN Senior staff writer

An Horse. An Horse. An Horse. No matter how many times you say it, the Australian indie rock duo’s name just won’t sound quite right.

What does sound right, though, is the group’s music, which has managed to lift it out of obscurity in Brisbane and onto the indie pop world stage. Tomorrow, An Horse rides into the 9:30 Club in Washington, just one stop on a long tour away from home.

“Our first ever tour was in the states,” said singer and guitarist Kate Cooper. “The shows in Australia are pretty small and there are only really five places you play shows. But crowdwise, everything depends — we have great shows everywhere.

Sometimes at home I feel a bit more nervous, but then in Denver I know [the crowd] is going to like it. There’s definitely a difference, but both are amazing.”

An Horse was discovered by another indie rock duo, Tegan and Sara, who took the young band out of Australia and brought them along on a tour of the U.S. Now with an EP, two studio albums and appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman under its belt, An Horse has cultivated a strong following of its own.

Needless to say, the band’s current status is a huge leap from Cooper and drummer Damon Cox’s humble beginnings as clerks in their local record store in Brisbane.

“We both worked in this record store, and we were both in other bands,” Cooper said.

“We were both bored as well, so we decided to start a band. We thought about getting someone else and then we thought ‘no.’”

Practicing after hours in the store, An Horse evolved from Cooper’s snippets of song ideas into full-fledged indie rock anthems grounded firmly in the restrictions of a two-piece guitar

and drums combo.

Meanwhile, Cooper’s smart, somewhat world-weary lyrics tend to draw from personal experiences and observations filtered through what she jokingly described as her “dark mind.”

With such raw songwriting it’s no surprise the band members are both astonished at how far they’ve come and perpetually excited to craft a better act.

“We didn’t even realize we were in a band for that first album [Rearrange Beds],” Cooper said. “Then we got signed by a record label and we had to make another record. We went in thinking ‘we have to make a record’ and produced [Walls], which came out really good. On the next record we’ll definitely take that to the next level.”

An Horse will perform at 9:30 Club tomorrow. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $22. berman@umdbk.com

Caveman’s debut album, CoCo Beware, opens with a drum beat that puts you in a trance. It grabs and holds for the entire song, remaining in the background as layered guitars, vocal harmonies and warbling synthesizers are endlessly looped.

The band’s lead singer, Matt Iwanusa, realizes the hypnotic percussion is a major aspect of the band’s presence — which is why he often drums alongside the band’s main drummer in its live shows, giving concerts a double dose of percussion.

“It’s my favorite thing,” Iwanusa said. “I mean, it adds a lot of energy because people can relate to drums, and they can relate to vocals, so we’re just trying to make sure those two elements are strong.”

Iwanusa’s airy vocals and frenetic drumming will both be on display when Caveman takes its live show to the Red Palace in Washington tonight.

Caveman’s sound is full of soothing harmonies, and Iwanusa says the record has a very “relaxed feel” and “easygoing vibe.” But the music also has a moody, alluring appeal that differentiates it from an average bubbly, optimistic harmony-based band, which earns it comparisons to Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes. The music is just as hypnotizing and mysterious as it is happy.

The darker tone of some of the music is just “something you grow into,” Iwanusa said.

He mentioned movie soundtracks from the past 20 years as having a major influence on the album, and it shows, especially on “Vampirer.” The track is an instrumental with a broad, cinematic feel, building a melody and setting the scene for album standout “Old Friend.”

Caveman has found success with its “dark and vibey” sound, as Iwanusa describes it, primarily through word of mouth — first locally in New York, then nationally.

“It was catching on just through the Internet, and telling people and playing shows, “ Iwanusa said. “And all these people were just hearing it through that and they kept telling more people. It was exciting that, you know, the oldschool style of finding out about something still works today.

Just word of mouth and people being loyal to what you’re doing. It’s pretty exciting on that front, just because it’s amazing how much that has been the main thing.”

The band members all were part of various groups in the New York music scene, and played their first show together opening for White Rabbits in January 2010. They scored the gig based on the strength of just a few demos.

“We didn’t have enough songs we’d written yet, but they gave us a show so we wrote three new songs,” Iwanusa said about that first show.

Since then, Caveman has crafted 10 songs for a debut album that is making the rounds in the indie rock world and developing the band a loyal following. Now, the group is touring the country and gaining new fans and fame (praise from the New York Times and NPR), all the while trying to keep each other happy and upbeat.

“We talk a lot about band morale, trying to keep that high,” Iwanusa said. “Whatever that is, if it means to, you know, splurge a little bit on something to make everybody feeling good, that’s what we do to always keep the positive vibes on tour.”

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MIDSHIPMEN from page 8 night off.”

Even with an overwhelming number of opportunities in the first half, the Terps struggled to find the back of the net. They converted on just 20.7 percent of their attempts and were forced to settle for a 6-5 lead entering halftime.

But Holmes described the mood at the break as “confident,” and the Terps quickly took control of the game in the second half. They scored all five goals in the third quarter, taking 17 of the 21 shots in the period.

“We just really didn’t shoot the ball that well [in the first half],” midfielder Kevin Cooper said. “I think everyone just knew, if we kept doing what we were doing, shots were going to fall. We’d put more goals in.”

Five different Terps scored during their third-quarter barrage, with Cummings capping the stretch on a high note. The senior finished off his 10th career hat trick on a no-look,

CAROLINA from page 8 minute later, though, the Terps were hard-pressed to stop their hosts for the remainder of the first half. North Carolina got six more goals before the break, including back-to-back free-position shots against Terps goalie Brittany Dipper.

Despite their poor first-half performance, the Terps woke up when they hit the field once again. After another Tar Heels score from attacker/midfielder Abbey Friend (four goals) extended the lead to 10-4, the Terps broke out and scored five of the next six goals to place the ACC regular-season title up for grabs. But North Carolina limited the Terps to just two goals in the last 14 minutes of the game, ending their comeback bid.

“I thought we came out hard in the second half and really stepped up the pace of our attack,” coach Cathy Reese said.

Although the loss stopped the Terps’ six-game winning streak in its tracks — and gave the team its most regular-season defeats

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behind-the-back goal with 3:32 left in the third.

The Midshipmen’s lone second-half goal came when Terps defender Michael Ehrhardt accidentally pushed a ball sitting in the crease across the goal line midway through the fourth quarter.

The Terps rebounded from the miscue three minutes later when they scored two goals in a six-second span to cement the win.

Friday’s victory was a welcome relief for a team eager to make its 10th straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament this May. The Terps were coming off back-to-back conference losses, and now await a tough road test at No. 3 Johns Hopkins on Saturday.

“We’re back on the right track,” Cummings said. “The season kind of becomes a grind a little bit, and you’ve got to fight through stuff and you’ve got to really grind it out.”

Grind it out? Maybe. Or just relax. letourneau@umdbk.com

Midfielder Drew Snider, left, embraces midfielder John Haus after Haus scored an unassisted goal in the third quarter to give the Terps a 10-5 lead over Navy. The team faces No. 3 Johns Hopkins on Saturday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

since 2008 — it wasn’t a lost afternoon, by any stretch. Compared to their first two losses against No. 8 Duke and No. 3 Syracuse, the Terps managed to put on a strong showing in the second half. They outscored the Tar Heels 7-5 after halftime and had more scoring opportunities, as well. They also won twice as many draw controls as North Carolina in the entire game.

Schwarzmann, meanwhile, notched another hat trick, her 10th of the season. Alex Aust, who was named the ACC Offensive Player of the Week, did not slow down her hot streak, either. The attacker tallied three goals and two assists.

What ultimately spelled their doom, however, was the 15-8 turnover disparity, as well as the mere eight shots they put on net in the first half. With two games remaining in the regular season, both against unranked teams, the Terps know they can start stronger.

“I think our team has the opportunity to take a lot from this game as we move forward to our next two matches and then the ACC Tournament,” Reese said. munson@umdbk.com

WOLFPACK from page 8 allowing three runs (one earned) on seven hits. The senior did not issue any walks and struck out four, exiting with a 6-3 lead.

N.C. State (21-9, 9-6 ACC) would not go quietly. The Wolfpack scored three runs with two outs in the top of the ninth off reliever Korey Wacker to tie the game and send it to extra innings. The Terps (21-13, 5-10) put two runners on in the ninth and loaded the bases in the 10th, but came up empty until Rodriguez won it in the 11th.

“Before this series, it was a pivotal part of the season,” said Rodriguez, who went 3for-4 with three RBI yesterday. “It was halfway, and Coach just wanted us to come out with a lot of confidence, and that’s what we did. It shows that when we have a lot of confidence and do the things we can do, we have a shot to beat anyone.”

Strong starting pitching

emerged as the dominant narrative of the series’ first two games. Left-hander Jimmy Reed, who had been the Terps’ closer all year, started Friday night for the first time in his career and turned in a stellar performance. The junior pitched eight shutout innings, allowing two hits, two walks and a hit by pitch while striking out eight.

“That was awesome,” Carroll said. “He’s been pitching real well for us all year, and he got the call to start games, and we all have pretty good trust in him that he’ll get the job done.

He just pitched phenomenal out there, and it’s awesome watching him throw.”

The Terps got another strong performance from starter Brett Harman on Saturday, but he was outdueled

by N.C. State’s Carlos Rodon, the ACC’s leader in ERA. Harman allowed three runs on seven hits over 6.2 innings, but Rodon went the distance for his first career complete game. A 16th-round pick of the Milwaukee Brewers last year, Rodon allowed two runs

“When … we do the things we can do, we can beat anyone.”

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in the first inning before settling in to retire 24 of the game’s last 27 batters in a 3-2 Wolfpack win.

“He looked like C.C. Sabathia in the second through ninth inning,” Bakich said. “I thought we were going to get to him. We had him on the ropes and had him rattled. We scored two and we had an opportunity to put some more in there and just didn’t capitalize on it.”

This weekend also featured key contributions from first baseman/designated hitter Tim Kiene, who had been quiet since his return from a shoulder injur y. The sophomore had three hits over the three

games, but two were key home runs. His three-run blast in the sixth inning Friday gave Reed plenty of room to work with, while his two-run shot in the first yesterday gave the Terps a 3-0 cushion.

They’d hoped that lead would have been enough, but the eventual win proved just as fine — from both a micro and macro perspective.

Halfway through their ACC schedule, the Terps have already matched last season’s number of conference and overall wins. Rodriguez’s double Friday showed this weekend might be different, and Sunday’s clincher hinted that this season could still be, too.

“Looking back historically, there was always a moment where we lost an emotional series about halfway through ACC play and we kind of went south,” Bakich said. “I think this is going to be the other direction for us. This is going to be huge for our confidence and our belief.” dgallen@umdbk.com

JACKETS from page 8 to victimize the Terps with her bat.

Her three-run double keyed a rally that had the Yellow Jackets on top by the fourth inning of an eventual 9-6 win.

The theme of the final game, a 5-0 shutout, differed little. Against Rush, the Terps totaled just four hits, all by shortstop Kathy McLaughlin.

Knight, continuing a trend that has set her back all season, struggled with her command throughout the weekend. She finished both games she started, but totaled 17 walks in 13 innings.

“She tries way too hard,” Watten said. “It’s just one of those things that happens sometimes.”

For all that went wrong in Atlanta, Watten won’t let the Terps sulk. ACC play, she knows, will only get more difficult as the season moves along.

“We have a long way to go,” Watten said. “There’s still time.” benscher@umdbk.com

Shortstop Kathy McLaughlin, shown during Wednesday’s doubleheader against George Mason, had four hits in a 5-0 loss Sunday afternoon. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Their better half Terps outscore Navy by six after halftime in 13-6 win vs. in-state foe Midshipmen

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Senior staff writer

When halftime arrived at Byrd Stadium on Friday, coach John Tillman had a simple message for his Terrapins men’s lacrosse team: relax.

The No. 12 Terps had outshot Navy 29-8 and gone 10-for-13 on faceoffs. Yet their attempts were missing, and they left the field nursing a one-goal lead.

“Let’s take a deep breath, clean the slate,” Tillman told his players. “You’re winning, all right? Just go back to shooting your best shot. OK, play loose.

Have some fun out there.”

The meditation session worked.

The Terps exploded for five unanswered goals in the third quarter, rolling to a 13-6 victory over the Midshipmen before 5,022 fans at Byrd. It was the most lopsided result in the series since the Terps routed Navy, 21-7, in 1998.

Attackman Joe Cummings led eight Terps in scoring with three goals and two assists, and the team avoided its first three-game losing streak in three years.

The Terps (6-3) dominated the Midshipmen (5-5) in nearly every statistical category. They won 18 of 23 faceoffs, captured 34 of 53 groundballs and tallied 52 of the game’s 70 shots. It was the Terps’ most shots against the in-state rival since at least 1986.

Navy goalie R.J. Wickham did his best to keep things close, recording 11 first-half saves en route to a season-high 18, but the Terps’ overwhelming possession advantage ultimately proved too much for the Midshipmen.

Faceoff specialist Curtis Holmes, who had won just half of his draws this season entering the contest, played a critical role in the disparity. The junior went 15-for-20 at the X, at one point helping the Terps win 14 straight faceoffs.

“Anything I can do to make the defense’s job easier,” said Holmes, who has battled nagging injuries much of the season. “Niko [Amato] came up to me after the game and was like, ‘You made my job so easy tonight.’ And that’s my job.

My job is to let Niko have a

Coach Cathy Reese and the Terps dropped out of contention for the ACC regular-season title Saturday.

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Terps are left blue in defeat UNC’s strong start triggers 14-11 win

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON Staff writer

The Terrapins women’s lacrosse team knew it was in for a challenge Saturday as it faced No. 2 North Carolina on the road. If that did not sink in before the opening whistle, it sure did early in the second half.

Trailing the Tar Heels 11-5 with 23 minutes remaining, the No. 5 Terps were up against a wall. If there existed any chance of still contending for the ACC regular-season title, they had to close the gap of their largest deficit of the entire season.

The next 10 minutes saw four consecutive Terps goals, but even that wasn’t enough. The Tar Heels regained momentum soon after, claiming the rivalry game and the conference title with a 14-11 win.

To be sure, the Terps (11-3, 2-2 ACC) did not start the game on the right foot. North Carolina (13-1, 5-0) controlled the first five minutes with the help of midfielder Kara Cannizzaro, who scored the first three of her eventual five goals to put the Tar Heels up 3-0 early.

Attacker Karri Ellen Johnson put the brakes to the Tar Heels’ run with the 219th goal of her career, giving her sole possession of second place in program history.

After midfielder Katie Schwarzmann added another less than a

see CAROLINA, page 7

Attackman Owen Blye’s third-quarter goal was his second of the game and the first of five Terps scores in the period. The offensive surge distanced the Terps from Navy in their 13-6 win. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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After a second sweep, Terps fall farther back Team still without a win in ACC

BY JASON BENSCHER Staff writer

First baseman Tim Kiene, shown here during Saturday’s loss to N.C. State, hit two home runs in three games this weekend. A three-run shot Friday helped the Terps secure an eventual 4-0 victory, their first of two weekend wins. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

Extra-long wait, but extra-special series Team tops N.C. State in 11 innings, 7-6, to grab year’s first ACC series win

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

Arriving at second base after a fifth-inning double down the left-field line Friday night, Alfredo Rodriguez stared into the Terrapins baseball team’s dugout, clapping his hands and yelling emphatically.

After the senior shortstop

rounded third base and scored moments later, he stomped his foot on home plate. As the Terps went on to claim a 4-0 victory against N.C. State, the signs were there that this weekend, after four weeks of ACC struggles, could be different for the Terps.

When Rodriguez lifted a deep fly ball to left field in the 11th

inning yesterday for the Terps to claim an emotional 7-6 victory over the Wolfpack and their first ACC series victory of the year, it was.

“Out of all the guys on the team, [Rodriguez] was the most pissed when they came back and tied it in the ninth,” coach Erik Bakich said of N.C. State’s late rally. “He’s a winner. He

expects to win, and he backs it up. He backs it up with his play.

He walks the walk, as well as talks the talk.”

It appeared the Terps would not need Rodriguez’s heroics for most of the game, though.

Starting pitcher David Carroll went seven solid innings,

see WOLFPACK, page 7

Two home wins Wednesday against George Mason had the Terrapins softball team’s confidence on the rise entering an important ACC weekend series.

Despite a fruitless trip to Atlanta, the Terps insist that confidence hasn’t gone anywhere just yet. After three more losses in more three conference games, though, neither has their win total in ACC play.

“I don’t think we’ve lost any confidence,” coach Laura Watten said yesterday, after a three-game Yellow Jackets sweep ensured the Terps would remain the only winless team in the ACC. “We just didn’t come through with the hits when we needed them.”

The lack of clutch hitting that had plagued the Terps (20-17, 0-6 ACC) before Wednesday resurfaced against Georgia Tech (2716, 9-3). They crossed the plate only seven times in three games.

Yellow Jackets pitcher Hope Rush shut the Terps down in the series opener,

HELP WANTED The Terps have been outscored 37-13 in ACC games so far.

Virginia Tech L, 5-0 L, 7-5 L, 5-1

Georgia Tech L, 6-1 L, 9-6 L, 5-0

outdueling Kendra Knight in a 6-1 win that saw the Yellow Jackets score three runs by the second inning and never look back.

On Saturday, Terps pitcher Kaitlyn Schmeiser, fresh off a complete-game win against the Patriots, was handed a five-run lead after two innings in the second games.

Only Rush, serving as the Yellow Jackets’ designated player, was there once again

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