April 14, 2014

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Pedestrian fatally struck at Knox, Route 1 Friday

By Teddy Amenabar @DBKCrime Senior staff writer A vehicle fatally struck a pedestrian crossing Route 1 at Knox Road on Friday night, police said.

Prince George’s County Fire Department firefighters and paramedics responded to the scene and transported George Washington University senior Carlos Pacanins to a trauma center, as first reported by The GW Hatchet.

A re d fou r-d o or c a r t raveling northbound struck Pacanins, who was not in the crosswalk at the time, Prince George’s County Police spokesman Harry Bond said.

The driver of the vehicle remained on the scene.

A George Washington University spokeswoman confirmed to The Hatchet that Pacanins, a Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity member, died from injuries suffered in the collision.

Police cordoned off and closed Route 1 to all traffic between College

Avenue and Hartwick Road for hours, stretching from about 10:20 Friday night into early Saturday morning.

This is the third report of a vehicle striking a pedestrian near the intersection in the past nine months.

In the early morning of Jan. 17, a male student from this university died while crossing Route 1 near the Knox Road intersection in a hit-andrun accident. Police responded to that scene at about 1:30 a.m.

See PEDESTRIAN, Page 3 police stand near the red car that fatally struck a George Washington University senior. sung-min kim/the diamondback

STATE LEGISLATURE

U officials expect few changes in future funds

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer

lambs at the Campus Farm allow 22 students to get hands-on experience in caring for the animals, which are part of two ‘lamb watch’ courses in the animal sciences department. rachel george/the diamondback

it’s a small wool (after all) Students tend to Campus Farm’s sheep in ‘lamb watch’ animal sciences courses

By Holly Cuozzo @emperorcuozzco Staff writer Kayla Miner vividly remembers watching her sheep give birth to three lambs — Harry, Hermione and Ron — one spring Friday afternoon.

“It was just the miracle of life, and I got to help and be a part of it,” the senior animal sciences major said.

Miner watched the birth during her lamb watch course, ANSC 235: Applied Small Ruminant Parturition. Now she is a teaching assistant for the two-credit animal sciences

course, in which students learn about and look after sheep on the Campus Farm.

“For them, it’s one of the few classes where they get to spend a whole lot of time on the farm doing animal science; they get to see all of their classes come together,” said Sarah Balcom, undergraduate animal sciences program director and lecturer for the lamb watch class. “They really like working with the lambs; let’s face it, they’re really cute.”

Students can enroll in the course in the spring semester and have the opportunity to take it again at the 300 level with less supervision as “advanced lamb watch” students.

The 22 lamb watch students learn about a variety of topics from basic sheep care to the slaughter and breeding processes, proper birth practices and how to prevent infections and other potential problems in the weekly lectures.

In labs, students learn skills from the Campus Farm manager, Crystal Caldwell, and student pairs care for a ewe and her lambs.

The students administer vaccines and do other basic care chores for the sheep at fi rst as they wait for the lambs to be born.

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‘We’re all united in the struggle of being women’ United Muslim Relief holds Sisters’ Week

By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Staff writer A group of sisters came together to discuss how to combat issues among women this past week.

This university’s chapter of the United Muslim Relief held a weeklong series of events to advocate women’s causes and rights as part of Sisters’ Week: Empowerment Through Awareness, promoting the idea that all women are sisters to one another.

Each year, the group focuses on a different group of issues. Now in its third year, Sisters’ Week focused on women’s dress, violence against women and education, said Momina Mazhar, a junior physiology and neu-

united muslim relief MEMBERS (left to right) Naema Ahmed, Nouran Younis, and Zainab Faizan decorate a women’s empowerment event in Nyumburu Amphitheater for Sisters’ Week. rachel george/the diamondback robiology major and UMR chapter fundraising coordinator.

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The week featured a discussionbased event called iEmpower, in which attendees addressed issues

When economic times were dire, Gov. Martin O’Malley and the state General Assembly didn’t cut back on higher education.

Instead, they continued to invest, delighting the higher education lobby.

But next year, the state’s government could look very different.

O’Malley’s term will come to an end and 25 percent of the legislature is poised to change, as about 40 delegates and seven senators will be stepping down or seeking another political office.

A new legislature means university officials have work to do toward keeping higher education a priority for lawmakers, university lobbyist Ross Stern said.

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Microfridges could come to dorm rooms Microwave, refrigerator combo costs discussed

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer

such as the importance of women’s dress and how it is viewed in society as well as men’s role in women’s issues and empowerment.

Women everywhere are “criticized for what we wear,” said Aisha Hussain, senior community health and psychology major and UMR chapter president. “We’re all united in the struggle of being women.”

The iEmpower discussion featured Darakshan Raja, a research associate at the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center, who talked about dangerous perceptions on the policy level about violence against women, forced marriage and sexual assault.

Raja offered advice on how to fi nd one’s voice and take a stand when “gaps in the policy” mean not everyone is protected.

A collaborative effort between the Department of Residential Facilities and two RHA subcommittees could allow students to rent combined microwaves and mini fridges in dorms.

The Residence Hall Association Resident Facilities Advisory Board and the Sustainability Committee are exploring the costs and feasibility of using the “microfridges” in dorm rooms — research they plan to continue in the fall.

The combined appliance would cost students about $500 to purchase or about $200 to rent for an academic year, said Logan Grenley, advisory board chairman.

Committee members brought up the concern that students might be inclined to buy their own refrigerator for four years instead of renting a microfridge every year, Grenley said.

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Fraternity members shave heads, run to Baltimore for sick student

By Michelle Leibowitz @thedbk For The Diamondback Kyle Greaver hopes the members of his fraternity aren’t headed toward “a major identity crisis” with their new lack of hair.

Members of this university’s Phi Gamma Delta chapter lined up on the front lawn of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority Friday for “Going Bald for Bucks” to have their heads shaved. They came up with the idea two weeks ago to support Greaver, who was diagnosed with cancer in December.

“As a guy who’s had a lot of hair for most of his life, I was very uneasy about losing all of it,” Greaver wrote in an email.

Doctors diagnosed Greaver w it h meta stat ic Ew i ng’s sarcoma, a cancerous bone tumor that mainly affects children and young adults, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Greaver’s treatment at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore includes 10 rounds of radiation therapy and seven rounds of chemotherapy, and he hopes he’ll be finished by September or October.

In the meantime, the fraternity and the sorority have

been helping Greaver cover his medical costs. They raised nearly $1,000 from “Going Bald for Bucks” — in which each brother set a donation mark, then shaved his head when the sum was raised.

Greaver has gotten used to his “new sleek look” since he was diagnosed, he wrote.

“W hen we fou nd out it was cancer, I was in complete shock,” Kathleen Clark, Greaver’s girlfriend and a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, wrote in an email.

Greaver had experienced lower back pain, burning sensations and difficulty sitting for long periods of time during the fall semester but never suspected it was cancer.

“I thought my pain was due to a herniated disc from moving heavy furniture,” he wrote.

The fraternity and the sorority also hosted a run Saturday called Miles for Kyle, in which groups of fraternity members alternated running 32 miles from their chapter house to Baltimore. Two buses filled with fraternity members and University Police followed the groups of runners throughout the run, which took about four hours. The sorority’s members painted a banner with the logo

microFRIDGE From PAGE 1 Additionally, he said, most dorms have microwaves in lounges, kitchens or hallways.

Resident Life forbids the use of microwaves and other high-wattage electrical appliances in dorm rooms to minimize fire hazards and power overloads or outages, according to the department’s policy. Microfridges still pose a fire hazard, Grenley said.

Committee members also dis-

UMR From PAGE 1 Den i a l ca n f u r t her t he issue, Raja said. Some people don’t consider domestic violence and sexual assault prevalent issues or even problems in the Muslim community.

However, up to 70 percent of women internationally will experience domestic violence or sexual assault in their lifetime, she said.

Earlier in the week, group members asked volunteers if they wanted to spend one day wearing a hijab — the traditional Muslim head scarf — to give a different perspective to those who had never worn one.

The idea stemmed from a 2011 event called Undercover as a Muslim Woman, and Hussain said she wanted to incorporate a humanitarian aspect this time rather than a religious one. The group at this university wanted to focus on women’s empowerment and the importance of men in these issues, she said.

“I’m actually glad that a lot of males came out,” Hussain said. “These are issues that don’t only affect women, but they affect everyone, like men and boys and family in general.”

Ahmed Abbasi, a freshman business student, came to iEmpower as an avid supporter of the cause.

“My sister and my mom, both women, having them immediately in my family … they go through so much struggle in their everyday lives,” he said.

Mazhar said that no matter the victim’s background or religious affiliation, domestic violence and stigmas against women’s dress are international problems. The focus was to “find similarities between all of us women, as opposed to using something like dress to divide us,” she said.

Another day focused on spreading awareness about women’s education, w ith group members handing out

“Miles 4 Kyle” that hung from one of the buses. “ We a g re e d to d o t h i s because it’s a great cause,” said University Police Sgt. Keith Galster. “We commend their fraternalism to look out for another brother and to raise money for his treatment.”

Although the original plan was for the brothers to run to The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Greaver felt well enough to leave the hospital and met the 200 runners at Forno, a Baltimore restaurant owned by his cousins.

The fraternity plans to raise about $35,000 in total for Greaver, said Brian Corcoran, the fraternity’s former president and senior finance major who helped organize the events.

“We want to be with Kyle through the battle,” said Phi Delta Gamma chapter president Gregory Birman, a sophomore economics and finance major. “His persistence and determination alone are what make this event meaningful.”

The fraternity also set up a GoFundMe page for Greaver that has raised more than $20,000. “ [ P h i G a m m a D e lt a’s] efforts to help me through this

cussed whether the older dorms on the campus could handle increased energy use. Jon Dooley, Residential Facilities director, told the advisory board that dorms might not be equipped for the amount of waste energy that could be produced.

“We believe that it is possible that more energy will be wasted, as more students will have access to a microwave and thus more students will bring in food into the residence halls,” Grenley said.

Nika Nepali, a sophomore biochemistry major, said she thought students

“THESE ARE ISSUES THAT DON’T ONLY AFFECT WOMEN, BUT THEY AFFECT EVERYONE, LIKE MEN AND BOYS AND FAMILY IN GENERAL.” AISHA HUSSAIN

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postcards near Nyumburu Amphitheater.

Passersby were encouraged to use the postcards to send a note to a woman who inspires them. All proceeds went to the Hoshyar Foundation to help fund programs for educating girls, specifically in Pakistan.

Posters of successf u l women throughout history surrounded the educational advocacy area. One featured was 16-year-old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, who advocates girls’ education. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year and survived being shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012.

“We selected influential women who contributed to t he educat ion movement throughout history and in different fields,” said Nouran Younis, a freshman computer science major and committee member. “We tried to make [the posters] really appealing to look at to catch people’s attention.”

The week also included a discussion about Saving Face, a documentary about women in Pakistan who suffer acid attacks, often inflicted by someone the victim knows.

T he discussion examined causes of acid attacks, in which attackers use acid to disfigure victims, and the implications of a gender power rift and the value of women.

“W hat is the va lue of women?” asked Mahw ish Askari, sophomore physiology and neurobiology major.

“If they’re not told they’re valuable, they don’t realize it.” eserpicodbk@gmail.com

andy macloed (right) admires his newly shaved head with Joseph Rockland. The senior finance and marketing majors helped raised money to support their fellow fraternity member Kyle Greaver, who is undergoing treatment for bone cancer. james levin/the diamondback struggle have been nothing shor t of jaw-d rop pi n g,” Greaver wrote. “What has been most surprising so far in dealing with cancer is the staggering amount of generous and caring people.”

C l a rk n o w s p e n d s h e r weekends at the hospital or at Greaver’s house, and she wrote that his optimistic attitude and constant smile keep everyone else going.

“Ask anyone and they will tell you that Kyle is one of the most genuine and positive

would take advantage of microfridges offered “at a reasonable price.”

“A lot of people live in dorms for only two years, and then they move into a place that already has both,” Nepali said. “But it’s a hassle to have to transport [a fridge] if you’re the owner of it, like me.”

Having microfridges in individual rooms could be convenient, Nepali said, especially for students whose rooms are located far from communal microwaves.

RHA members have discussed the topic at several recent meetings, and

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people you will ever meet,” she wrote. “When you’re around him, it’s hard to be anything but happy. All of this has not changed since his diagnosis.”

D e s pite h i s d i a g no si s, Greaver tries to keep h is health in perspective, and he still lives the life of a typical college student when he can — indulging in the occasional drink when he’s feeling well.

“For others currently facing serious illness, there are so many methods of both conventional and alternative healing

RHA finance officer Mike Lichtenberg said he supports the idea.

“Students are already able to rent bed lofts and carpets, so it seems logical that they be able to rent fridges,” Lichtenberg said. “It would also save students and their parents the hassle of having to purchase a fridge they may only use for four years and to move it in and out each year.”

Sustainability committee representatives Joshua Beeson and Erin Schlegel spoke about microfridges at the RHA Town Hall on April 1. They said they were looking into student

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out there today,” he wrote. “So even if your odds seem slim, try your hardest to maintain a perspective that keeps you feeling good.”

After he finishes treatment, Greaver plans to travel the world and then complete his final 10 credits.

“My long-term plans are mostly still a mystery to me,” he wrote. “But each day I’m getting closer to realizing what I really want and need.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

interest but that the committee needed to straighten out details before organizing an official plan.

Members of the sustainability committee encouraged the facilities advisory board to continue researching the process.

Dooley told the facilities advisory board that he would look into the matter and some associated concerns.

“There is still a lot that needs to be worked out,” Grenley said. “This will likely continue into next fall.” meichensehrdbk@gmail.com

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LAMBS From PAGE 1 of students responsible for the ewe giving birth will watch and then care for the newborns immediately after.

They clean them and do other tasks, and the students come to the farm periodically to check on the lambs, looking for abnormalities.

Students are also divided into eight groups to perform nighttime lamb watches every eight nights, Balcom said.

“It’s one of my favorite classes to teach, and, I think, for the same reason that it’s a favorite class of the students: because it’s very hands-on with the animals,” Balcom said.

Some students in the course, such as senior animal sciences major Cody Auxier, feel privileged to work directly with the farm animals.

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not only does it offer learning in a very enticing way given the raising of adorable lambs, but it also offers that experiential aspect that might be lacking in the animal science department,” Auxier wrote in an email.

In addition, the course offers a look at careers in animal sciences students might not have considered.

Though many animal sciences students come into their undergraduate studies on the pre-veterinary track, Balcom said, this course offers a look into the more traditional, agricultural side of animal sciences and gives students an alternate track to traditional veterinary studies, which students might eventually forgo for cost or other reasons.

For Miner, the lamb watch class affected her postgraduate goals. She plans to attend Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in Blacksburg, Va., on the

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“It’s something that’s pretty unique to this university and just kind of brings this piece of agriculture into this very metropolitan campus — and everybody loves the babies

because they’re super cute.”

In the end, Balcom and Caldwell hope students can appreciate what it takes to work on a farm with livestock and perhaps consider working with sheep in the future.

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according to Prince George’s County Police spokesman Cpl. Clinton Copeland.

From PAGE 1 That driver remained on F i r s t r e s p o n d e r s t o o k the scene after that accident, 22-year-old Cory Hubbard and first responders took the to the hospital, where offi- victim to a local hospital, cials pronounced him dead, where he was said to be in as previously reported by critical but stable condition.

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“As long as that structure remains in place, losing or changing 20, 30, even 40 delegates and senators doesn’t actually change the operation of those houses,” Norris said.

And Miller, who touted the achievements of the state’s higher education system as “unsurpassed in the nation,” said this election likely will not impact legislators’ support of higher education.

“We’ve made a lot of concessions on other ends to make certain we fully fund education and that’s going to continue,” Miller said. “Higher education has been on a roll.”

As a deep blue state that in the past 50 years has only had two Republican governors — former Gov. Robert Ehrlich from 2003-07 and former governor and Vice President Spiro Agnew from 1967-69 — the three frontrunners for the Democratic ticket are garnering attention.

According to a February Washington Post poll, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown was leading the race with 34 percent of polled Democratic and Democratic-leaning independent voters’ support. State Attorney General Doug Gansler was polling at 15 percent, and Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery) was polling at 8 percent.

Each candidate has demonstrated support for higher education, said university government and politics professor Stella Rouse.

“All of them have made the point of touting education as a major priority, and I don’t think it will change from the policies of the current governor,” Rouse said.

But a Republican governor does have the potential of changing the picture for state universities, Norris said.

“If it’s a Republican governor, all bets are off,” Norris said. “I would expect that we would not be looking at the kind of budgetary support that we’ve gotten under O’Malley.”

The last Republican governor, Ehrlich, drew criticism for his budgetary priorities, which some blamed for tuition increases during his one term as governor.

“The sense is that Republicans certainly think that … schools and university systems should try and raise money,” Rouse said. “They shouldn’t rely just on money from state government.”

And while a Republican governor in the state seems unlikely, Miller said he could see Republicans also being allies to higher education.

Harford County Executive David Craig, a Republican candidate who was polling at 13 percent, would be a supporter of state universities, Miller said, as he comes from a teaching background.

In general, a Republican candidate would be unwilling to face the political heat that would come with cutting funding for higher education, Willis said.

“It’s hard to imagine that a Republican nominee coming out saying that they’re going to cut the University System of Maryland budget,” Willis said.

“That would be like, ‘Oh, here’s another reason to push votes to the Democrats.’”

The shape those efforts will take still has to be determined, however. The priorities of the candidates running for governor and legislative seats, combined with a deeply ingrained state philosophy championing higher education, suggest the university’s generous state funding likely will not exit with the spate of policymakers leaving in the next year.

The shift in the legislature will include the departure of state political icons such as Sen. Norman Stone Jr. (DBaltimore County) and Del. Elizabeth Bobo (D-Howard).

Stone witnessed “just about everything” in his 50-year tenure in the House of Delegates and the Senate, he said, but he saw consistent support for higher education.

Similarly, Bobo, who is retiring after almost 20 years in the House of Delegates, said she can’t imagine the state’s continued investment in higher education being threatened with a different legislature.

“Most people understand that one of the reasons why Maryland is such a desirable place to be and do business is because of our institutions of higher education,” Bobo said. “I can’t see anything in the future that would have us bring in people who would have a lesser understanding of that. I would certainly hope not.”

Though the state has seen large-scale shifts in its ideology and representation over the years, John Willis, an executive-in-residence at the University of Baltimore’s public and international affairs school, said the upcoming cycle adjustment likely won’t result in serious change.

The state has a “basic character” and mode of political thinking based on a legacy of policies and programs, Willis said, including a generous investment in higher education.

“Names and faces change, but in terms of ideology or in terms of programs, you’re probably not going to see a lot of difference,” Willis said. “The policies of the state tend to outlive the people who created them, and they tend to reflect the electorate more than they reflect the individual person, regardless of who tries to take credit for them.”

How the legislature operates can also indicate whether significant change is imminent.

“If you look at the leadership in the Maryland General Assembly, in other words, who is the speaker, who is the president of the Senate, who are the committee chairs, there’s not very much change there,” Willis said.

Senate President M ike Miller (D-Calvert and Prince George’s), has held the position since 1987, and House Speaker M i c h a e l B u sc h ( D -A n n e Arundel) has been speaker since 2003. Neither have indicated an intent to leave.

That’s an important factor, said Donald Norris, University of Maryland, Baltimore County public policy department chairman. He said the state’s leadership system is probably one of the strongest in the country. jbachdbk@gmail.com

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lenty of roadblocks can ruin a child’s life, from sudden medical diagnoses to abusive parents. Flawed foster homes can fail those with nowhere else to go. But as we have seen through the horrible case of Washington’s missing 8-year-old, Relisha Rudd, homelessness is a beast unlike other childhood problems. Youths taking to the street clearly can lead to death — and in Relisha’s case, it likely already did.

It’s everyone else’s duty to make sure that doesn’t happen.

School systems in this state identified about 14,700 homeless students during the 2011-12 academic year, a 13 percent increase from the 2009-10 year, according to data from the Task Force to Study Housing and Supportive Services for Unaccompanied Homeless Youth.

The proportion of the state’s population between ages 14 and 25 that is homeless is also increasing, according to the Baltimore-based Homeless Persons Representation Project.

Thankfully, a few key state legislators — particularly Del. Mary Washington (D-Baltimore City) and Sen. Ed Reilly (R-Anne Arundel) — have taken the necessary steps to ensure passage of a bill this past legislative session to wave tuition for homeless students . If passed into law, the policy would offer a tuition waiver to “unaccompanied homeless youth,” defined by the state as residents who are not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian and lack a stable, adequate residence. The next step is to have Gov. Martin O’Malley sign the bill.

The bill was drafted based on a consistently reauthorized federal law, The McKinney–Vento Home-

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less Assistance Act of 1987, which allocates money for homeless shelter programs. Based off an Illinois statute, the McKinney-Vento Act determines which children fall under the title of homeless: “individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.” That wording accounts for homeless youths but doesn’t go as far as the recent state bill waiting on O’Malley’s desk.

OUR VIEW

Gov. Martin O’Malley needs to sign the bill to grant homeless students a tuition waiver, and state legislators need to spread the word to students.

Different states have varying laws in regard to the homeless youth, but based on this state’s data, this is a demographic we sorely need to consider helping. It’s refreshing to see bipartisan support for the initiative.

This editorial board urges O’Malley to sign the bill as soon as possible. And we have very little doubt he will do just that.

It’s hard to imagine opposing this beneficent bill. The tuition waver wouldn’t hurt students who have to pay tuition, as students who have a parent or guardian and stable home very likely have the means of either borrowing money or having help with school payments. But the system has already failed children by the time they are homeless, so it’s refreshing to see legislators try to help change

the course of their lives.

Here’s the main problem with how this state aids homeless students: Jurisdictions overlook homeless youths and thus cannot allot money to bolster resources for this unknown population, according to Ingrid Lofgren, a Skadden fellow at the HPRP. However, O’Malley has allocated $200,000 in his supplemental budget to cover that unknown population, Lofgren said.

Don’t doubt this initiative for any perceived largesse. In Reilly’s words, the bill is “not a free college education without strings.” The students have to be accepted based on their academic achievements, and then the state foots the bill so they can afford to attend college. Because banks and other private loan companies usually don’t allow students to take out a loan without a cosignatory, young homeless people can struggle to gain access to any money that would help pay for school.

A working, educated adult undoubtedly will more than return any investment the state makes in his or her education. Making the investment to help homeless youths transition into college graduates makes sense for this state. O’Malley has proven his commitment to the economic engine of higher education for the past seven years. He should step in and give assistance to this neglected segment of our population.

We urge every legislator who supported this bill to reach out to local high schools about it. Homeless youths already struggle to find their next meal — they shouldn’t have to wait on a state law that could help them pay for college.

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is his use of the word “average.” Yes, statistically there are more women who measure and weigh about the same amount. However, when we use the word “average” in reference to size, we are still telling girls they should look like the average 5-foot-4 Lammily. Using this adjective severely limits girls, just as Barbie’s super svelte appearance does.

The Lammily doll tries to say girls should be comfortable in their own bodies, but it negates its argument by spreading the message that if a girl is not “average sized,” then she is not beautiful. Think about a scenario in which the consumer of a Lammily doll is young girl who is rail thin, unable to gain weight because of biological or medical reasons. Wouldn’t Lammily’s image ostracize this girl from the “average beauty?” Or what about a girl who is taller than 5 feet 4?

Because of Lammily’s petite height, the taller girl would be separated from Lammily’s “averageness.”

The difficulty in finding an accurate perception of “average” creates Lammily’s issues. If Lamm wanted to create a doll inspired by an average young adult woman, then he should have depicted Lammily living in her Lammily Dream House, wearing yoga pants and eating junk food while binge-watching Scandal. He should have focused on her activities, not her size.

Barbie is not average, and neither is Lammily, which is why they shouldn’t be labeled as normal.

There is no normal in life, especially in the realm of physical sizes. Consumers should not liken themselves to a piece of molded plastic, much less to a piece of plastic that boasts its “normalcy” and “averageness.”

MAGGIE CASSIDY

Society and the media finally are starting to catch on to how products such as children’s toys can create negative social perceptions. For example, the iconic Barbie doll has paraded her invisible hips, long legs and perky chest to consumers since Mattel first sculpted her perfectly plastic body. Since her debut in 1959, Barbie’s long-standing reign as queen of the toy aisle has shown young, impressionable female consumers her man-made physical appearance is the definition of true beauty.

However, a young artist named Nickolay Lamm decided to create a toy that defied everything about Barbie’s physical appearance.

That toy is the Lammily doll, modestly named after himself.

Lammily is modeled off the measurements of an average 19-yearold female and stands at about 5 feet 4 inches with a 33-inch waist. Lamm created this new 21st-century doll in hopes of signifying “average is beautiful.”

I admire Lamm for sticking it to Barbie and realizing her presence in children’s lives has created unrealistic expectations of what a woman’s body should look like.

Some people have become so obsessed with Barbie’s “look” that they have used plastic surgery to become real-life Barbies and Kens. This just shows the power of a piece of plastic.

Despite Lamm’s good intentions of promoting a body-positive lifestyle through a toy, his Maggie Cassidy is a sophomore product is just as bad as Barbie. English major. She can be reached at The flaw in Lamm’s approach mcassidydbk@gmail.com.

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Is it OK to enjoy violence in media?

EMMA ATLAS After watching Game of Thrones, I thought I probably should feel worse than I do about watching some of the brutality on the show. I won’t talk about the plot at all, so don’t worry about spoilers, but everyone and their grandma knows Game of Thrones is one of the most unapologetically violent shows on TV. Some of the gore would make those at WorldStarHipHop sick.

I’m not proud that I can stomach this kind of violent content. Every edgy 14-year-old at my middle school watched 300 at home and came to school the next day claiming they had been “desensitized” to the violence in the movie. In high school, it turned into “thrill-seeking,” and now it’s an emotional distance that makes me feel creepy.

I think it’s OK to enjoy gnarly action occasionally, as long as reflection follows. Game of Thrones doesn’t glamorize violence for this reason. Characters frequently lament the needless bloodshed, and it’s used to demonstrate the tragic failings of politics. When the show involves children, it’s not trying to en-

courage exposing the young to violence.

Instead, it’s demonstrating the children’s ability to persevere and the overarching goal of keeping kids out of these situations in the first place.

However, there are times the line between reflection and unapologetic enjoyment are blurred. Hotline Miami, a top-down action video game released in 2012, features some of the most gut-wrenchingly disgusting depictions of violence I’ve ever seen. The game seduces your inner animal and pumps you up with exciting music and vibrant, ugly ’80s colors. It sickens and disorients you with artificial scan lines and a slightly drunken camera. Finally, it shoves you into a room full of armed thugs with just your fists.

It’s gross. Yet after I saw the trailer for Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, I don’t feel bad about being excited for its release.

That’s because Hotline Miami picks at you for having fun. There is almost no plot, and the main character has the flimsiest of reasons to be performing the game’s actions.

Therefore, if you’re not playing for the plot, you must be playing for the ultra-violent action. At one point, a character asks you point-blank, “Do you like hurting other people?”

If you do anything but put the game down then and there, the game is asserting itself over you. You must either answer yes or try to defend the weak argument in which enjoying a simulation of violence isn’t analogous at all to the real thing.

I don’t think it’s true that violence in media leads to violence in the real world, but it’s worth picking apart where the enjoyment of this violence is coming from. I like how Hotline Miami tests my reflexes and the way it forces me to think on my feet. I feel weirdly satisfied and relieved after completing the heinous tasks in the game. It’s complicated to find the game’s true source of fun, but Hotline Miami forces me to think during a mindlessly violent game.

Ultimately it’s all about reflection.

There are fights in Game of Thrones that are hard to watch because they’re cruel, but there are also awesome fights for vengeance against injustice. If the fights have meaning, and if you’re cognizant enough to enjoy them for more than just brutality, then maybe it’s OK to pump your fist. But only a little bit, and absolutely no whooping.

Emma Atlas is a junior government and politics and journalism major. She can be reached at eatlasdbk@gmail.com.

The ‘marriageable mate’ dilemma

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hanks to feminism, society has come a long way since the days of women being refused entrance to U.S. schools and universities. In 1982, the number of women graduating from college was greater than the number of men for the first time in U.S. history, according to the Education Department. Women earned 50.2 percent of the total college degrees awarded that year.

Since then, the percentage of degrees earned by females relative to males has increased every year. The Census Bureau stated in 2009 that were 685,000 men and 916,000 women earned bachelor’s degrees that year. That’s about 75 percent fewer men than women.

Now what exactly are the implications of this large gender gap? Sociologists agree that on average, most heterosexual college-educated women prefer to date men at a similar educational level. A college degree serves as a good indicator of education. Men, on the other hand, traditionally have dated and married women do with lower educational levels and income.

These preferences, along with the growing ratio of women to men graduating from college, creates a new problem. The Pew Research Center calls this problem the “marriageable mate” dilemma, meaning a very large number of heterosexual collegeeducated women will be unable to find a similarly educated partner.

Now some of you might be thinking to yourselves, “Well, if

that’s the case, why don’t I see this large number of women around me here at this university?”This university’s student body is 53 percent male and 47 percent female, whereas the average ratio for student populations in American colleges and universities is 43 percent male and 57 percent female. Effects of this disparity can be observed just a Metro ride away. There are about 5 percent more women than men with college degrees between 25 and 35 living in Washington, according to the Census Bureau.

So, men: If you are OK with the marriageable mate dilemma continuing, I suggest you refrain from asking if there’s a problem leading to this low percentage of male graduates. You might be met with the harsh opposition this issue has brought up before, as it is politically incorrect to talk about issues that primarily affect men.

Instead, you should see how you can help increase the number of women graduating college by creating more women’s scholarships or supporting women’s groups focused on increasing the retention rate of female students. Not only will you help more women achieve the education they deserve, but you’ll also be helping college-educated men’s dating prospects. As for you women out there who would like to date or marry a man with a college degree, I wish you all good luck; you will certainly need it with the gender imbalance as great as it is.

Pascal Bloch is a senior computer science major. He can be reached at pbloch@terpmail.umd.edu.

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LASTING IMPACT | ROCKET POWER

a show with staying power Fifteen years after it first premiered, Nickelodeon show Rocket Power remains relevant because of the theme of friendship it promotes

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer When I was about 8 years old, I leaned against the leather couch in the living room of my childhood home with my feet on the coffee table and my eyes fixed on the TV. I was entranced. I wanted the world on the screen to be my world.

And let’s be honest, you probably felt the same way when you watched Rocket Power.

The characters of the Nickelodeon cartoon that aired from 1999 to 2004 had the most bonkers life.

Otto and Reggie Rocket and their friends Twister and Squid lived right by a beach and minutes from an amusement park. They were awesome athletes, too, and when the grade-schoolers finished surfing or skateboarding, they went to the Shore Shack, owned by Ray Rocket (Reggie and Otto’s dad), for free hamburgers.

Toss in a friendly Hawaiian cook named Tito and a rad handshake, in which the kids said “woogity woogity woogity,” and how could you not be envious of the Rocket Power crew?

To this day, I want to live like the kids on Rocket Power. But unlike when I was 8, it’s not because of the activities they did or their ability to hit the beach several times a week. It’s because of the friendship among the main characters and how powerful it was.

It wasn’t the sports, the skate park or the ocean that allowed the kids to have so much fun. It was the inside jokes about shoobies, the support of Reggie’s magazine, The Zine, and that nifty handshake.

You might not remember that Otto and Reggie’s mom was never around in Rocket Power. She died in a surfing accident when

the kids were young, leaving Ray as a single parent. It’s easy to forget, though, because Otto and Reggie were always so happy and had so much support.

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same street hockey team and any time one of the friends needed help, they talked it out and leaned on Tito for help.

Oh, and did I mention how cool that handshake was?

The best parts of the show — and the kids’ lives — didn’t have anything to do with location. The group’s friendship would have thrived if they were surfing in the fictional town of Oceans Shores, Calif., or watching TV with me in Rockville.

I remember when I came to that realization: It was the summer before I entered fifth grade, and my mom told me she would take me to Six Flags to swim in the wave pool, which I had been nagging her to do for months. I finally would get to catch some waves and be like Otto, Reggie and the rest of the gang.

I could take one friend, so I decided to call my best buddy T.J. He was onboard with coming to Six Flags, and I was pumped.

Problem was, Brian called a couple of minutes later to ask if I wanted to go play football, and I didn’t want to make him feel left out — my mom wouldn’t let me bring more than one friend — so I said I’d call him back. Before I could call Brian, though, Darien called. And then Tyler gave me a buzz. They too wanted to play football.

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Jays dominated possession during the final nine minutes of the half, scoring three unanswered goals to build a 5-1 lead entering halftime.

“Everyone was really jacked up, and I think we rushed things a little bit too much, especially in the second quarter when we didn’t have the ball,” said midfielder Mike Chanenchuk, who was held without a goal for the first time this season. “If you don’t have the ball, it’s tough to make plays, and that makes everyone grip their sticks a little bit tighter.”

After Benn’s goal to open the half, the teams traded goals in the final six minutes of the third quarter, and the Blue Jays carried a 7-2 lead in the final period.

Chanenchuk found attackman Rustin Bryant on the crease for his second goal of the game during a man-up situation with 13:15 left in regulation, but Cattoni and attackman Ryan Brown responded with back-to-back goals for the Blue Jays in the next five minutes to build a six-goal lead.

With less than eight minutes remaining, Terps midfielder Henry West beat a defender behind the cage and finished

Hokies From PAGE 8 two runs in 5.1 innings, and the Hokies stranded 13 runners in the game.

The Terps scored two runs in the first on Saturday and led 4-2 in the seventh when right-hander Kevin Mooney, the Terps closer, entered with the bases loaded and one out.

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JOHNS HOPKINS ATTACKMAN WELLS STANWICK (42) and the Blue Jays took an early 2-0 lead on the Terps. christian jenkins/the diamondback a wide-open shot from close range. It was the first Terps goal in six-on-six play.

West scored again in an even situation 45 seconds later, and LoCascio added his second goal of the contest during a man-up opportunity with 5:02 remaining, but the Terps’ late surge wasn’t enough. Brown and Crawley added goals in the final minutes to secure the victory.

“Hopkins is a very talented

offense,” said Amato, who made nine saves. “Just the slightest mistake, the smallest misstep or communication breakdown, they’re going to make you pay.”

For the first time this season, not one of the Terps’ freshmen found the back of the net.

Attackman Matt Rambo (21 goals), Cannizzaro (15 goals), attackman Colin Heacock (four goals) and Rotanz (two goals)

struggled to find a rhythm in the game and combined for seven costly turnovers. And the Terps couldn’t make up for the erratic play from their freshmen and the rest of their typically strong offense.

“We didn’t execute as well as we would have liked to offensively,” Tillman said. “I think we showed our age today.”

groundouts to end the inning and threat.

When the Hokies loaded the bases in the ninth with three two-out singles, Mooney forced a grounder to second to secure the win.

Left-hander Jake Drossner made his first career weekend start yesterday and gave up one run on eight hits and two walks in four innings, and Markey returned to the mound for the finale and allowed three runs in 6.1

innings. The Terps took a 3-1 lead into the sixth inning, but Virginia Tech exploded for five runs in the sixth and seventh off left-hander Tayler Stiles and right-hander Bobby Ruse, who took the loss, to coast to a 6-4 victory.

After squandering yesterday’s lead, the Terps are more than halfway through ACC play and have one series win in six tries. The Hokies’ unusual pitching strategy tripped up the Terps offense

all weekend, and with only nine runs in three games, the Terps couldn’t seal their second series victory.

“The opposing pitching has been pretty good lately, and we haven’t been able to be very productive against it,” Szefc said. “The pitching we faced in the last three games was very good, and that normally dictates your offensive success.”

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us really even,” Cummings said.

“In the second half, I think we were able to pull away a little more because our defense buckled down and our offense was able to stick it a little more.”

But before the Terps could build a healthy lead, each team scored a pair of goals in the first 14 minutes of the second half.

But the Terps again had difficulty hitting their offensive stride to stretch their lead. The Terps hit the post twice in a row before midfielder Beth Glaros finally found the back of the net with 11:37 remaining.

Her goal was the first of the five-goal run that ended the Cavaliers’ upset attempt.

Midfielder Zoe Stukenberg sco re d 2 6 se co n d s a f te r Glaros, and Cummings added her third goal of the game with 6:29 left. The Terps slowed the tempo and controlled the draws in the final minutes to secure the win.

Though the Terps couldn’t pull away early and didn’t receive McPartland’s typical offensive contribution, Cummings and Griffin’s offensive production was enough to secure a comfortable win.

“I’m really proud of the way we pulled it out in the end there,” Reese said. “We had a great second half and were able to play some better defense.”

plays,” Griffin said.

Early in the contest, both sides had good looks on net, but neither team could score. Of the first six shots of the game, four hit a post or the crossbar.

Cummings broke the scoreless tie with 24:44 left in the first half, but Virginia answered two minutes later. And despite backto-back goals from Cummings and Griffin, the Cavaliers scored to make the score 3-2, preventing the Terps from running away with the game early.

The close score allowed Virginia to slow the pace and limit the number of possessions for the Terps.

“It’s a style that we see a lot when other teams possess the ball a lot before they go to goal,” coach Cathy Reese said.

Still, the Terps managed to extend the lead to two goals two more times during the first half. With six seconds remaining in the period, however, Virginia scored its sixth goal of the game to tie the score before the break.

Despite Virginia’s methodical approach, the teams combined for 35 shots in the first half. The goalkeepers’ 10 first-half saves, paired with the shots that hit the post, kept it a low-scoring game.

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SPRING From PAGE 8 six points for touchdowns, among others.

Ultimately, the offense e m e rge d w i t h a 1 87 -1 43 victory despite the impressive performance from the Terps secondary.

“I ain’t going to say flat out we outplayed them, but I feel like it should have been closer,” Hill said. “A lot closer.”

After the contest, coach Randy Edsall was concerned with consistency. He pointed out his frustration specifically with Brown, who had 157 yards on 16-of-24 passing and two touchdowns (one rushing) to go with his two interceptions.

The senior — who rushed for 28 yards on 10 attempts in a noncontact yellow jersey — appeared to throw another pick early in the first quarter when cornerback Will Likely ripped a jump ball away from wide receiver Nigel King down the left sideline, but the referees ruled it a completion.

“I didn’t think C.J. played that well tonight,” Edsall said.

“It’s my fault. I should have put these guys in white jerseys and made them live. And then they play with more of a sense of urgency. And I think C.J.’s got to understand that he’s got to use his legs. When things open up,

“IT’S MY FAULT. I SHOULD HAVE PUT THESE GUYS IN WHITE JERSEYS AND MADE THEM LIVE. AND THEN THEY PLAY WITH MORE OF A SENSE OF URGENCY. AND I THINK C.J.’S GOT TO UNDERSTAND THAT HE’S GOT TO USE HIS LEGS.” RANDY EDSALL

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he’s got to take off and run. And he can’t sit there in the pocket.

He sits there in the pocket when he has a yellow jersey on and doesn’t get things done the way he needs to as a quarterback.”

Both Hill and Hendy attributed the secondary’s success to knowing the tendencies of the quarterbacks and wide receivers.

After spending all spring facing the same players and seeing the same routes, Hendy said the defensive backs were able to stay disciplined in the spring game and recognize offensive packages.

“We made different calls with the defense,” Hill said.

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MEN’S LACROSSE | No. 8 BLUE JAYS 11, No. 3 TERPS 6

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Five Terps score goals in victory McPartland scoreless in yesterday’s 13-8 win over No. 18 Virginia

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer

because of turnovers from both sides and stellar saves from Amato and Blue Jays goalkeeper Eric Schneider.

Blue Jays midfielder Holden Cattoni scored the only goal of the first quarter with 6:56 remaining, and midfielder John Crawley extended Johns Hopkins’ lead to 2-0 early in the second period on a tough-angle shot from right of the cage.

Midfielder Joe LoCascio answered less than two minutes later when he stepped into a righthanded shot on a man-up opportunity to bring the Terps within one goal, the closest they would come for the remainder of the contest. The Blue

Virginia blanked midfielder Kelly McPartland, the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team’s leading scorer, yesterday afternoon, but the Terps offense wasn’t significantly hampered.

Powered by a five-goal performance from attacker Brooke Griffin and a hat trick from midfielder Taylor Cummings, the No. 2 Terps beat No. 18 Virginia, 13-8, at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex. Five different Terps scored in the win, and the team reeled off five straight goals down the stretch to seal the victory.

“They have so many kids that you have to contain that you kind of can’t do it all,” Virginia coach Julie Myers said. “Two people can probably beat you if they are on.

Brooke Griffin was great today, and Taylor Cummings is a force to be reckoned with.”

After three consecutive close games, the Terps (15-1, 5-1 ACC) couldn’t open up a significant lead against Virginia (8-7, 2-4) in the first half. The Cavaliers didn’t let the Terps extend the lead beyond two goals in the opening 30 minutes, and the score was tied at halftime.

The second half unfolded differenly.

The Terps used the late five-goal run to take command of the game, which included a pair of scores from Cummings and Griffin.

“We just came out more focused, more determined and executed our

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GOALKEEPER NIKO AMATO stopped nine of 20 shots on goal against Johns Hopkins, but the Terps never led in the 111th game of one of the sport’s most recognizable rivalries.

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BALTIMORE BLUES Terps post season-low scoring total in loss at archrival Johns Hopkins

Brandon Benn near the crease. Benn finished the breakaway with an underhand shot to the top right corner past goalkeeper Niko Amato.

Cannizzaro’s turnover — one of 17 in the game for the Terps, which tied a season high — repreBALTIMORE — The Terrapins men’s lacrosse team sented a sloppy and stagnant offensive perfortrailed Johns Hopkins by four goals early in the mance from the No. 3 Terps, who fell to No. 8 third quarter Saturday afternoon when Terps Johns Hopkins, 11-6, before an announced sellout attackman Connor Cannizzaro ripped a pass crowd of 9,553 at Homewood Field.

“We rushed things,” coach John Tillman said. from behind the cage to cutting attackman Tim “We forced some plays that weren’t really there.”

Rotanz along the crease.

The 111th edition of the historic rivalry But Blue Jays defender Mike Pellegrino read it the whole way and cleanly intercepted the pass opened with intensity and a quick pace. The before charging downfield on a fast break. After Terps (9-2) and Blue Jays (7-3) traded poscrossing midfield, Pellegrino dumped the ball to sessions through the opening eight minutes, midfielder Rob Guida, who rifled it to attackman though neither could find the back of the net

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Hokies rotation change stymies Terps offense Virginia Tech pitches Markey twice, wins two of three games

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer Virginia Tech left-hander Sean Keselica walked off the mound Friday with one out in the eighth inning, and Hokies ace right-hander Brad Markey jogged in from the bullpen.

Markey was scheduled to start against the Terrapins baseball team yesterday, but with Friday’s result hanging in the balance, Virginia Tech coach Pat Mason decided to make an unconventional move and bring Markey in to get the final five outs. Markey, the usual Friday starter, pitched 1.2 scoreless innings to record the save and hand the Terps team a 3-1 loss in the series opener.

Virginia Tech’s rotation changes threw off the Terps, who were unable to generate much offense and dropped two of three games this weekend in Blacksburg, Va. Keselica and Markey combined to pitch 15.1 of 27 innings this weekend, and the Terps scored four or fewer runs in all three games.

“They just did a really good job of managing their pitching staff the whole weekend,” coach John Szefc said. “They got the most they possibly could out of their best guys. … I give them a lot of credit.”

The Terps couldn’t capitalize on another solid start from right-hander Jake Stinnett in the 3-1 loss Friday.

The Terps stranded 10 runners on base, including runners at third in four innings. Stinnett, who dropped to 3-5 with the loss, gave up nine hits and three walks but used eight strikeouts

BY THE NUMBERS

9 runs

Total the Terps scored in three games this weekend

10 runners

Total the Terps stranded in a 3-1 loss Friday night

1 ACC series Total the Terps have won in six tries this season

to hold the Hokies to three runs (two earned) in eight innings.

Keselica, making his first career Friday start, allowed one run in a career-high 7.1 innings and relied on the Hokies defense to help him escape several jams.

With runners on second and third and one out in the fifth, Virginia Tech shortstop Ricky Surum made a fully extended diving catch on a pop-up in shallow left to rob second baseman Brandon Lowe of a hit. Catcher Kevin Martir scored on the play, but the Terps failed to add another run in the inning.

The Hokies responded with three runs in the fifth and sixth before Markey squelched the Terps’ hopes of a comeback.

“Honestly, I didn’t even know who was going to pitch for them on Friday,” Stinnett said. “I just try to pitch by game because it doesn’t really matter who you are going up against in the end.”

The Terps offense improved Saturday in a 4-2 victory, and right-hander Mike Shawaryn picked up his first win in three weeks. Shawaryn allowed See HOKIEs, Page 7

Safety A.J. Hendy (19) sprints for a touchdown after intercepting quarterback Perry Hills (11) in Friday night’s spring game at Byrd Stadium. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Defensive backs grab three picks to highlight Red-White spring game Starting QB Brown throws two interceptions, one touchdown

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer Late in the second quarter of the Terrapins football team’s Red-White spring game Friday night, safety A.J. Hendy jumped a route, grabbed reserve quarterback Perry Hills’ pass out of the air and scampered down the left sideline.

Hills charged toward Hendy in an effort to force the defensive back out of bounds. But Hendy stopped on a dime, juked to his right to dodge Hills and carried the ball the final 30 yards to the end zone for the Red team’s lone

touchdown of the scrimmage.

“I just had to score,” said Hendy, whose Red team was solely comprised of defensive players.

Hendy’s interception return was one of three picks — including two thrown by starting quarterback C.J. Brown — on the night for the Terps secondary, which limited the offense to a combined 275 passing yards on 49 attempts without starting cornerback Jeremiah Johnson (hamstring) on the field.

“This defense makes plays,” said cornerback Alvin Hill, who intercepted Brown in the first quarter on a deep pass intended for wide receiver Taivon Jacobs. “I don’t want to say if it was

bad for C.J., but our defense is solid.”

The night began with noncontact seven-on-seven drills, which gave wide receivers Stefon Diggs (broken leg) and Deon Long (broken leg) the opportunity to showcase their talent before the announced 8,139, though neither was cleared for the scrimmage.

The scrimmage pitted the offense, wearing white, against the defense, clad in red, and a scoring system gave points for various plays, such as three points for defensive stops, three points for first downs and See SPRING, Page 7