April 14, 2015

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T U E S DAY, A P R I L 1 4 , 2 015 ANNAPOLIS 2015

Hogan’s first Sine Die proves eventful Univs will need to administer sexual assault surveys, ride-sharing apps to face increased regulations

party lines, and the Democratic majority passed a spending plan that Hogan criticized for not providing enough funding to the state’s pension fund and not doing

By Jon Banister General Assembly passed several enough to reduce the deficit.

No additional money was granted @J_Banister bills and finalized a 2016 budget Senior staff writer that drew opposition from Hogan to the University System of Maryland from the original proposal, so the and Republicans. system will face a $47 million deficit After a lengthy standoff on the budget The first legislative session of Gov. next year, likely necessitating the that does not require Hogan’s signaLarry Hogan’s term ended with an eventful Sine Die yesterday as the ture, lawmakers remained split along projected 5 percent tuition increase.

Despite the tumultuous budget battle that dominated Sine Die, the legislature still passed amended versions of Hogan’s initiatives on charter schools and stormwater management, as well as other bills addressing campus sexual assault, ride-sharing apps, fracking, alcoholic beverage sales and marijuana paraphernalia.

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City renews bike share plan search After year on hold, officials are reaching out to find options for area

LGBTQ, Asian-Pacific American group leaders host talk on media stereotypes

By Josh Magness @josh_mag Staff writer Students and city residents interested in borrowing bikes for leisure and travel might be able to take advantage of a joint local and university bike share program as early as this fall.

College Park and this university sent out a request for proposal on April 10 to several bike share companies to see which might be interested in coming to the area, said Anna McLaughlin, this university’s Department of Transportation Services spokeswoman.

Since last spring, the city and the university have been working on va r iou s lega l a nd procu rement approvals as well as the requests for partnership with bike share companies, such as Capital Bi kesha re a nd Socia l Bicycles, McLaughlin said.

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By Jess Nocera @jessmnocera Staff writer Identifying as a lesbian, senior Madeleine Moore said she always used queer TV and movie characters as guides on how to live her life, and that was the one way she felt she should carry her queer identity into that of the public eye.

“Growing up as a young, queer person, I clung to Glee like rubber does to glue,” the community health major said. “I felt like I had to portray these stereotypes on Glee.”

This university’s LGBTQ and Asian-Pacific American leaders hosted a brown-bag event yesterday titled “Minorities in the Media: How LGBTQ/APA Characters are Nataly Cruz-Castillo (left), a junior government and politics major, speaks at an event that addressed how LGBTQ and Asian-Pacific American characters are portrayed on TV and in movies yesterday in Stamp Student Union. MICA APA community organizing student intern Alicia Loh listens. stephanie natoli/the diamondback

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Funding increase planned for cameras

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By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow Senior staff writer Impact umd members baptize a female student in the Eppley Recreational Center pool. The group has used the pool in lieu of an official baptism pool since 2013. photo courtesy of allison blansett shook my core. I never experienced campus service with Impact UMD, anything like that in my life. It was an on-campus apostolic ministry so powerful that I didn’t know how group, Ayegbusi said she wanted to to handle it.”

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Junior Mary Ayegbusi said she had an epiphany on March 25, and she was baptized four days later — not in a church, but in the Eppley Recreational Services public pool.

“One Wednesday, I was filled with the Holy Spirit,” the philosophy and sociology major said. “That just

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The city’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year includes no significant changes to its spending habits, with the exception of increasing funding for minor projects.

“It’s very much in line with the way we did things last year,” District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan said. “We’re funding everything at about the same levels.”

Although the budget does not include resident tax increases, the

city’s expected revenue increased almost 10 percent from a state transportation grant and income from speed-camera ticketing.

As a result, the city proposes spending more than $16,000,000 in fiscal year 2016, a 7.41 percent increase from fiscal year 2015.

“It’s really not an earth-shattering budget,” said Cole Holocker, the City Council student liaison. “It maintains what the city’s been doing.”

T he few except ion s i nclude an increase in funding for security cameras, as well as money for the launch of a council internship program, Holocker said.

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Honors College town hall seeks student feedback Attendees discuss future of college

By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer About 40 students involved in various honors programs gathered in the Anne Arundel Hall basement last night to discuss improvements that could be made to this university’s Honors College.

Senior Cory Maks, Honors College Student Advisory Board president, led a town hall meeting that touched on ways to improve the college’s image, increase student enrollment in departmental honors and clarify the difference among the honors programs to prospective students.

“The goal of tonight is to discuss what everyone would like to see in the future of the Honors College,” he said. “We want to gauge the reactions of Honors College students and get their input on the changes we’ve been thinking up since [the advisory board’s] inception a year ago.”

Maks proposed an idea to accept one-fifth fewer students into the Honors College — about 800, compared with the 1,000 currently accepted each year — and instead to extend initiations to the final 200 spots after evaluating students who succeed during their first year of college.

“A lot of people view the Honors College as hoity-toity and outside of the regular university community,” Maks said. “To integrate, we want to take students in who weren’t initially admitted to be part of the program. We want to find a way to offer seats to students

LGBT From PAGE 1 Stereotyped and W hy” to discuss how such LGBTQ and APA TV and film characters are depicted as stereotypes onscreen.

Fourteen people showed up for the event in the Office of Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy conference room in Stamp Student Union to have an open discussion regarding why stereotypes exist and how to engage critically with community members and allies.

“I hope everyone got the ability to think a little bit more critically about the characters they see on TV and in movies and really think about the consequences of either sticking with or pushing against stereotypes,” said Moore, who serves as the LGBTQ MICA intern.

Moore, the student adviser for Pride Alliance and a Pride

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who are very successful in their regular classes and could handle the honors classes.”

Sophomore Alayna Abel said implementing that proposal would improve how others perceive Honors College students.

“It would do a lot for the image for the Honors College, that we don’t just admit students who did well in high s c h o ol ,” t h e a c c o u nt i n g major said. “Some people look at us and say, ‘Oh well, sorry I didn’t get a 4.0 in high school.’ It’d be a really cool th i ng to do to ad m it students after their freshmen year who could add a lot to our program.”

The meeting also addressed the disparity in students who participate in departmental honors prog ra m s. O f t he 6,500 to 7,000 students who graduate from this university each year, only about 200 — about 3 percent — do so with a departmental honors citation on their diploma, said Bill Dorland, the Honors College executive director and the University Honors livinglearning program director.

According to a survey sent to Honors College students on March 31, 56 percent of respondents said they did not know enough about departmental honors programs.

However, 30 percent said they would like to join one, and 44 percent said completing one would make them more competitive in the job market.

Dorland said the Honors College plans to work on increased communication and clarity regarding the purpose behind departmental honors and its benefits for students.

“There has definitely been some pressure from above to

increase participation in departmental honors programs,” Maks said. “We’re getting on board to try and solve that problem. We want to make sure we are more rigorous with students in [living-learning programs] and outside as well to show them the benefits of joining departmental honors.”

The Honors College leade rs h i p w i l l b e c h a n g i n g next year, as an email sent to Honors College students announced yesterday that D o rl a n d w i l l s t e p d o w n June 30 and return to serving as a physics professor. At last night’s meeting, Maks proposed additional changes to the leadership structure.

“We want to align ourselves with what other Big Ten schools are doing, not just athletically but academically,” he said. “All those colleges have deans of their honors colleges. We want to elevate the status of executive direc-

Month co-coordinator, said she has related to some characters — specifically gay characters in the media — which helped her harness her strength to live life through the characteristics they express.

Attendees watched several clips from the media during the discussion, including those from Glee, Modern Family, Ugly Betty, Mulan and Full Metal Jacket. The selected clips highlighted both LGBTQ and APA stereotypes that are prominent in the media today.

For example, with APA stereotypes, the media seem to overly sexualize Asian women in their roles by showing them to be submissive yet sexual with men. With LGBTQ stereotypes, there is at least one queer character in each new TV show that is different from the others, the group discussed.

“I hope students could see that [LGBTQ and APA] are not two separate identities that exist, and they intersect for

many people,” said Jude Dizon, the Asian-Pacific American student involvement and advocacy coordinator for MICA. Dizon identifies as both AsianPacific American and queer.

T he group discussed at length that all stereotypes are rooted in some form of truth and that each member of the group being stereotyped will fit into the stereotype portrayed.

It is important to look past the stereotypes and look at the character in its raw form, said Alicia Loh, the Asian-Pacific American community organizing student intern for MICA. Beyond being Pride Month, April is also Asian-Pacific American Month at this university, and the two groups wanted to have some form of intersectional event, Loh said.

“There is so much connection between the two groups that we make sure we interact and think about how we experience things together,” the sophomore marketing and

students attend an Honors College town hall meeting and discuss ways to improve the college’s image, increase enrollment and market the program. stephanie natoli/the diamondback tor to the dean level.”

Dorland said although the change wouldn’t affect him, it would allow his successor to focus more on improving university policies and speaking up for the “academically talented varsity team” during deans meetings.

The changes also would allow the Honors College to focus more on fundraising. At Pennsylvania State University, which has a dean of its honors college, the honors program’s endowment is more than $100 million, Dorland said.

“Here, we have no endowment,” Dorland said. “This university could, in principle, follow the Penn State model, but you need a point person speaking to potential donors and have meetings with the trustees and the president and chancellor and the vice president for development.” trichmandbk@gmail.com

his classes, said bringing a bike share program to College Park is a great idea because it lets students have access to a bike if they need it.

“To give students the opportunity to have a bike when they need it and then drop it off where it won’t be rotting away and someone else can use it is a really good system that we could implement,” the computer engineering major said.

The number of bikes the program would include is unknown, but McLaughlin said there would be fewer bikes if the program requires the city and university to build custom stations.

College Park District 1 City Councilman Patrick Wojahn said he would like a program that is si m i la r to Capita l Bikeshare’s system of having custom stations, although he said he would support a program without stations, such as Social Bicycles, if it is user-friendly and accessible.

“People u se bi ke sh a re for wh at we ca l l t he l a st mile,” Wojahn said. “A great example of this is the distance between the College Park Metro Station and the university. Bike share would be a great way to traverse that distance without having to wait for a bus.”

Although Pogoda said he is worried implementing a bike program that requires its own custom stations could displace racks for bike riders who a ren’t pa r t icipat i ng in the program, he said the positives of implementing a bike share program outweigh the negatives. “ It’s not a hu ge i ss u e, however, if you look at the big picture,” he said. “I think it’s a fantastic idea.”

would like,” McLaughlin said, noting they haven’t received any responses yet.

T he pu sh for a bi ke sha re prog ra m comes after the original plans for a program halted indefinitely in March 2014 after Public Bike Systems Compa ny, a Mont rea lbased bike supplier that makes bikes and stations, announced its bankruptcy in January 2014.

T h e b a n k r u p t c y d irectly impacted Capital Bikeshare — the company tasked with the initial bike share program — so officials decided at that time to seek out other options.

City and university officials said they are hoping to attract a bike share system that offers safe bikes with baskets to allow users to travel with their belongings and also provides a mobile application that lets users track where there are available bikes, McLaughlin said.

For Capital Bikeshare, u sers nor m a l ly pay a n annual $75 fee and receive a key that lets them unlock and return bikes from any Capital Bikeshare station.

Social Bicycles has varying membership costs depending on geographical location and lets users select bicycles from any location in the area with the bike’s built-in locks.

Both companies would provide an app that lets users find the nearest available bikes. Social Bicycle’s app, for example, allows users to reserve the bike they want and unlock it with their personal four-digit code.

Sophomore Frank Pogoda, who bikes to and from all of jmagnessdbk@gmail.com

madeleine moore, a senior community health major, speaks at an event yesterday about how LGBTQ and APA characters are portrayed on TV and in movies. This month is the university’s Pride Month, with many awareness events each day. stephanie natoli/the diamondback sociology major said.

Loh said she tends to think that in the media, every decision a director makes is an intentional one, such as whom to cast in shows and how diverse that cast is. It’s im-

portant to come together not only for a chance to discuss those choices, but also to think diligently about what kind of person is directing each film and what kind of audience they aim for, Loh said.

“It’s a choice to have an all-white cast; it’s not the default, and sometimes I feel like a lot of people feel like it is,” Loh said. jnoceradbk@gmail.com

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budget From PAGE 1 program to see if that was something that would be feasible,” he said. “The council wants to work with university students to get them interacting with the city a little more.”

There was also money allotted for improvements to the R hode Isla nd Avenue T rol ley T ra i l, a 2 .6-m i le paved trail through College Pa rk, R iverda le Pa rk a nd Hyattsville.

The renovations include bag dispensers for pet waste and covered new trash receptacles to prevent animals and wind from spreading litter and allow residents to separate waste into recyclables and nonrecyclables, Brennan said.

“It’s k i n d o f a ge e k y thing to be excited about,” Brennan said. “It’s nothing big, but it is the small things here and there that really improve the look and feel

of our community.”

It’s likely that more significant budget changes will take place in fiscal year 2017, following a triannual state tax reassessment that could result in revenue increases, he said.

“After that happens, we will be able to respond more appropriately to some of the services people are looking for,” Brennan said. “We’ll b e a b l e to a n s w e r t h o s e requests more efficiently when more ta x revenue comes along.”

Because the last assessment took place when the ma rket was at the lowest point, property values were low and thus taxes brought in little revenue, City Manager Joe Nagro said.

This will be the last budget Nagro writes, as he is set to retire in June after more t h a n 25 ye a rs w it h the city.

“I’ve been very lucky,” he said. “I have a good team

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10 percent Amount the city’s expected revenue increased in fiscal year 2015

7.41 percent Amount the city proposes to increase spending from fiscal year 2015 to work with, and it’s fun to do the budget — just to play with the numbers and get it together. I’ve been very fortunate.”

After writing 11 budgets, Mayor A ndy Fel lows sa id Nagro’s experience has made the process a smooth one for the city. “ We h a v e a v e r y go o d working relationship with our city manager,” Fellows said. “It was not difficult to go th rough the budget and ask questions and get answers.”

While the city isn’t schedu led to adopt t he budget

u nti l May 26, nor i mplement it until July, it appears that the council is already in agreement.

“O u r work se ssion [on Saturday] was very productive and noncontroversial,” Fellows said. “It felt like there was a strong consensus on the budget as proposed.”

The council will discuss the budget f u rther at tonight’s work session and will hold a town hall meeting to hear resident input on April 22 at 7 p.m. at the city community library. emuellerdbk@gmail.com

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At least, this is what I thought until last summer, when I picked up a cookbook...

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Architecture school studio students propose alternative Purple Line paths About 40 undergraduates in the PALS program create route change, proposals

By Aisha Sharipzhan @aishasharipz Staff writer As state officia ls move forward with the Purple Line, a studio in this university’s architecture school is exploring alternate paths for the future transit line, which will run through the campus.

Under the guidance of professors Steven Hurtt, Madlen Simon and James Tilghman, about 40 undergraduate students in the Partnership for Active Learning and Susta i nabi l ity prog ra m proposed changes to the College Park portion of the light-rail line’s route. A group of city and university administrators reviewed the proposals

April 1, and the City Council will have a chance to review them May 12.

The PALS program partners with one city from the state each year, and students work to propose solutions to a local issue. College Park and the Purple Line was this semester’s focus.

Working in teams, the students produced 12 alternative proposals this semester that considered the Purple Line’s relationship to the university innovation district, length a nd ex p en se, p edest r i a n safety on Route 1 and the visual impact to the campus.

Reducing traffic on Route 1 and promoting bike safety were also priorities, Simon said.

“We are looking forward

to significant development on the other side of Route 1, we want campus connection and we want that pedestrian connection,” Hurtt said.

The current route of the Purple Line, or the “preferred alignment,” has the rail running south of the power plant on Route 1 with two turns between the Reckord Armory, Rossborough Inn and Turner Hall. “[We] were seeing opportunities to encourage transitoriented development around the new Purple Line stops, and so [we] were thinking more about how the Purple Line can spur development and make useful con nections,” Simon said.

One proposal explored reducing the number of turns in the rail’s path, making it shorter, straighter and less expensive. That alignment would have the line enter the

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a student gets baptized in the Eppley Recreation Center pool. Impact UMD, an on-campus apostolic ministry group, holds baptisms during free swim. photo courtesy of allison blansett

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Anne Arundel Community College to complete the baptisms before the group started using the ERC, eager to bring the ceremony closer to students, Whittington said.

Student interest has only increased since then, McGurk said. This academic year, Impact UMD baptized about 10 people at the ERC, including three people in one day during March, he said. “ We fo u n d t h a t t h e r e are tons of people who are hungry for God on campus,” Whittington said. “You just got to find them and provide them some direction.”

Baptisms outside of the church are common among American evangelical groups, who often baptize people in rivers or streams, similar to Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River, anthropology professor William Stuart said.

While christening people w it h wate r h a s repl a c e d d u n k i n g p a r t i c ip a nt s i n water as the most common method, there are still exceptions, he said. And baptism doesn’t always occur inside of a church, either.

“Few things in religiosity are locked up,” Stuart said.

Senior English major Morga n Ni xon , who wa s baptized on the same day as Ayegbusi, sa id she felt God leading her to be baptized, although at first she felt nervous about the public nature of the event. She was concerned whether the pool wou ld be empty a nd that other swimmers would watch her, she said.

But those thoughts disappeared after it took place, reaffirming her decision.

“W hen I was put under the water and came back up, I felt so much joy and so much peace,” Nixon said. “I knew what I did was in his will.”

get bapt i zed to show her commitment to Christ.

Without an official baptism pool on the campus to use, the group has been depending on the ERC pool to perform the sacrament since fall 2013, said Mike McGurk, the Impact UMD president.

“We felt l i ke there was nothing better than being able to ex perience G od anywhere,” said McGurk, a senior management and marketing major. “If you can experience him in a campus pool, you can experience him anywhere.”

The baptisms — sometimes planned, sometimes spontaneous — generally occur after Impact UMD’s religious services and during the pool’s freeswim period, McGurk said.

W hen someone is baptized, he or she undergoes a Bible study about baptism program to help the person understand the event and then heads to the shallow a rea of the pool for a 20minute service with prayers.

Baptisms are one of the “greatest experiences ever,” said McGurk, who is training to be a minister and helps conduct each baptism. Spiritually, the event is meant to wash away sins, allowing for the creation of a new person with God, he said.

W hile the pool water is not blessed, it makes no religious difference to those becoming baptized, said the Rev. Jerrod Whittington, an Impact UMD minister.

“Baptism is more about our faith and our obedience to the word of God, and that process of obedience — that is where God meets us and cleanses us and washes us,” he said.

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With n ation a l attention focused on col lege campus sexual assault, the state legislature passed a bill last night that would requ i re u n iversit ies to subm it campus climate surveys every two years to gauge the prevalence of sexual assault among their student bodies.

“T his w ill give us a better sense of what the issue is on campus, and hopefully we’ll learn from that and be able to make sure the services they’re providing address the real issues the students a re seeing and experiencing,” said Del. Shelly Hettleman (D-Baltimore County), the bill’s sponsor.

T he bill would also remove barriers for reporting sexual assaults by ensuring that schools could not punish victims or witnesses who report sexual assaults for any alcohol or drug policy violations related to the incident.

RIDE-SHARING APPS A bill to allow ride-sharing apps such as Uber to continue to operate legally in this state passed last night after it was amended to increase regulations on the companies.

Taxi companies and the state Public Service Commission were opposed to the original bill, wh ich wou ld have g iven ridesharing companies more independence in conducting background checks and licensing drivers.

M a r y A n n R a n k i n; Br i a n Da r mo dy, cor p orate a nd foundations relations associate vice president; and university Facilities Planning Director Brenda Testa.

Colel la sa id the P u r ple Line’s preferred alignment minimizes the its financial burden on the university, but previous studies took into consideration many of the same concerns and layouts i ncluded i n the student proposals.

“Over the years, I think it has been a very productive d i a log u e w it h M a r yl a nd T ra n s i t A d m i n i s t ra t i o n a nd t he ca mpus com munity about how to mitigate i m p a c t s ,” C o l e l l a s a i d .

“Every alignment has advantages and disadvantages, but I think on balance the alignment that the campus has approved will serve the

university well.”

Construction on the line is expected to begin this summer and finish by 2020. State officials have largely settled on the light rail’s path, though the project awaits Gov. Larry Hogan’s stamp of approval.

The course and proposa l s were a n opp or t u n it y to d iscuss new ideas a nd promote com mu n icat ion between the city and university, Simon said, although she hopes there’s still room to tailor the MTA’s proposed route as local development progresses.

“It would be very valuable if there was a chance to reconsider the Purple Line in light of … how people begin to use that area as this kind of city-university connector,” she said.

the long-term health impacts on communities.

“Limiting it to two years limits the effectiveness of some of the studies that can come out. … But i f that’s what the General Assembly can agree on, it’s better than nothing,” Gutin said.

One of Hogan’s signature goals, repealing the so-called “rain tax,” was partially fulfilled yesterday when the House passed a watereddown version of the governor’s original proposal.

Under the bill, counties would no longer be required to impose fees on properties with impervious surfaces that create stormwater runoff shown to be polluting the Chesapeake Bay. Counties would still be forced to fund the cleanup initiatives ENVIRONMENTAL BILLS those fees paid for, but they now can find funding using T he c ont rove rs i a l oi l- other means than imposing drilling process known as the controversial rain tax. fracking will be banned in “ It le ave s it more i nto the state for the next two the counties’ hands of how years following legislation t hey’re goi ng to f i nd t he the House passed Friday, m o n e y r a t h e r t h a n j u s t pending Gov. Larry Hogan’s say i ng th is is what we’re signature. doing,” Gutin said. “There’s While no fracking has taken a little less certainty with place in this state, natural gas this. If there’s money allodeposits have been identified cated to restoring the bay, in two western counties in the honestly I don’t care where state. During his campaign, it comes from.”

Hogan noted the economic boom extracting this oil could ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES create, calling it “critical to our state economy.”

T he G enera l A ssembly Several opponents remain passed a bi l l last week to concerned about the toxins allow liquor stores and bars fracking could release into to sell liquor on Sundays in the ground and the effect Prince George’s County. that could have on the enviWhile Sunday liquor sales ronment and public health. w e re p re v i o u s ly b a n n e d Ori Gutin, Student Govern- t h ro u g h o u t t h e c o u n t y, ment Association sustain- stores ca n now apply for ability director, said he was p er m its w it h t he cou nty glad to see legislators pass liquor board to serve liquor the two-year moratorium, seven days a week. but he would have preferred “There are some areas of the eight-year ban proposed the county near the D.C. line in an earlier version of the bill where D.C. has alcohol sales to allow for more studies on on Su ndays, a nd so there

were folks in those areas that were concerned about the competition of people going to D.C.,” said Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Prince George’s).

The General Assembly also passed a bill yesterday to prohibit the sale of powdered alcohol in the state for the next two years, allowing time to study potentially dangerous effects of the substance.

“My expectation is in two years it would probably be banned entirely, at least for individual use,” Rosapepe said.

campus north of the power plant, allowing crews to use a narrower track and fewer supports for the overhead wires.

Another would leave the route as it is, but remove two houses on Fraternity Row to allow Purple Line riders traveling west to have a scenic view of the Memorial Chapel.

“Visual connections between iconic places are very important,” Simon said.

“Certainly the chapel is one of the most important historic buildings — it’s high on the hill, it’s a very tall building, it’s commanding visually.”

Carlo Colella, this university’s administration and finance vice president, was part of the rev iew group, which also included Assistant City Manager Bill Gardiner; Terry Schum, city planning and community economic development director; Provost

A f ter severa l rou nds of negotiations, the bill’s sponsor Sen. Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) brokered a comprom ise that forces Uber drivers to register with the state electronically but g ives them a n i ne-month trial period during which the Public Service Committee will assess how safe Uber’s model is before deciding if drivers will be subject to fingerprint requirements.

“It indicates that we are really thoughtful about our approach, we are willing to consider new ideas and we are flexible in our regulatory frameworks,” Ferguson said.

“T hat’s what is needed to protect consumers while also allowing innovative business to develop.”

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MARIJUANA PARAPHERNALIA After passing a decriminalization law during last year’s session to reduce the penalties for possession of s m a l l a m o u n t s o f m a r ijuana, the General Assembly passed a bill Saturday to expand that by making possession of paraphernalia and smoking in a public pl a c e a c iv i l rat he r t h a n criminal offense.

Being caught with paraphernalia, such as pipes or rolling papers sold legally in smokeshops, now carries no punishment. Smoking marijuana in a public place can incur a fine of up to $500, but it will not show up on a criminal record. Driving while impaired by marijuana can still lead to fines, imprisonment or driver’s license suspensions.

“It’s moving marijuana more towards the legal structures for alcohol, which ultimately is where it should be considering the fact that it’s used in similar ways and is ultimately safer than alcohol consumption,” said Robert Capecchi, deputy director for state policy at the Marijuana Policy Project. jbanisterdbk@gmail.com

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Strange shines as bright spot in frustrating series Junior infielder hits .666 over weekend while teammates combine to bat .257

By Alex Flum @alex_flum Staff writer During a dismal weekend duing which Illinois handed the Terrapins softball team its first sweep in Big Ten play, infielder Juli Strange was one of the few Terps to make a positive impression.

Strange hit a two-run home run Saturday to tie the game 7-7 in the fifth inning in an eventual 14-8 loss. It was her first fourbagger since the Terps’ fourth game of the season, an 11-10 loss to Virginia Tech on Feb. 7 at the Kickin’ Chicken Classic in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

S t ra n ge b at te d .6 6 6 against Illinois, while the

rest of the team hit .257. She also had three RBIs and posted a 1.000 slugging percentage.

“She just got base shots; she was hitting it all over t he f ield,” leadof f h itter L i nd sey Sch mei ser sa id .

“This weekend she shined; she was the most consistent hitter.”

For Strange, this weekend was a successful one that stands out in a season in which she’s experienced prolonged struggles.

St ra nge’s .269 batt i ng average ranks sixth among Terps who have 108 or more at-bats. She’s seventh on the team with 18 RBIs. “She’s been in a little rut herself,” coach Courtney Scott Deifel said. “She’s just been working really hard to

get out of it. This weekend was just a huge indication of the work she’s put in.”

Strange showed signs of snappi ng out of her f u n k even before this weekend.

She ranks third on the team with a .484 batting average during the Big Ten slate, and she has six RBIs since conference play started.

More than halfway into her junior year, Strange has started 133 games and appeared in 138 during her Terps career. This season, she’s one of four players on the team to start in all 42 games.

A native of Valencia, California, Strange came to this university after playing four years of varsity softball at Ha rt H igh School. I n her senior season she hit 12 home

runs. She’s hit six home runs and batted in 23 during her career as a Terp.

Strange was able to tap into the hot hitting she displayed in high school this past weekend.

“I was just seeing the ball well,” Strange said. “I really focused in on keeping my hands on top of the ball and having a plan as far as what I was gonna do with each pitch.”

Her teammate, Schmeiser, enjoyed watching Strange’s strong at-bats this weekend.

“I was really happy for her because she’s definitely been battling and really trying to find that timing and getting those hits,” Schmeiser said.

“She was very clutch this weekend. She just hit the ball.” aflumdbk@gmail.com

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eing a postdoctoral student at a research institution isn’t a walk in the park, especially if you aren’t granted retirement or health benefits.

If you think about it, many postdoctoral students across this country with their doctorates in hand have five or more years of graduate study behind them yet fail to receive a postdoctoral position that grants them relatively similar benefits as faculty positions.

Last month, the University Senate proposed a title change for postdoctoral students, allowing departments to decrease benefits for these students and classify them as non-faculty members.

The professors who supported this change claimed that providing faculty benefits to postdoctoral students would essentially raid funds departments could have used for research. Though this is a valid concern, the proposed change is going somewhat against the grain of what we typically see in academic research.

The National Science Foundation estimates that there are about 89,000 postdoctoral students involved in research across the U.S. Additionally, the life sciences programs at this university conducted research on postdoctoral students and found that, of the 13 other schools in the Big Ten, eight offer health benefits while only two offer retirement benefits.

This editorial board believes that postdoctoral students should receive benefits; however, if the senate wants to change the benefits these “postdoctorate research assistants” receive to pursue further research funding, it can only decrease benefits by a certain limit.

OUR VIEW

Though departments at this university have tight budgets, they should not cut certain benefits for postdocs.

Slashing tuition remission and health insurance should be off the table. Not only should we expect postdoctoral students to receive tuition subsidies and health insurance, but many postdoctoral programs at research institutions — not to mention those eight other Big Ten schools — throughout the country offer some sort of tuition remission as well as health benefits packages to its students.

We understand that departments might want more control when it comes to research funding, as funding boosts would increase this university’s competitiveness as a research institution.

However, cutting health benefits, and therefore increasing health costs, for postdoctoral students could increase

the likelihood of prospective postdoctoral students straying away from this university, making it uncompetitive in the long run.

A 2006 study by Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society found postdoctoral students who received health insurance benefits were 10 percent more likely than those who did not to claim they were “satisfied” with their academic program.

The study also found postdoctoral students who were in the top quartile (in terms of the amount of benefits they received) were 10 percent more likely to claim they were “satisfied” with their academic program compared with those in the bottom quartile.

These correlations, though not extremely significant, should provide departments at this university an idea of how important stipends and health benefits are in promoting satisfied, productive researchers.

At a time when this university system is working with a strict budget, cuts to some funding are necessary. However, if the senate wants to open up the possibility of reducing all benefits of postdoctoral students, this reflects very poorly on the body’s academic priorities and could result in a “race to the bottom,” as Faculty Affairs Committee member Marc Pound told The Diamondback. These reductions can’t be so deep that the university’s competitiveness as a research university — or the happiness of its students, for that matter — is at stake.

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ast week, the state legislature acted decisively to protect the privacy and expressive rights of students throughout the state. Once SB210 and HB934 are fully reconciled and presumably signed by Gov. Larry Hogan, it will be illegal for educational institutions and their employees to request access to students’ personal electronic accounts, such as social media accounts. The measure, which passed nearly unanimously in the General Assembly, is an excellent, legally sound solution for dealing with email and social media accounts, especially at the university level.

Students should never be forced to relinquish passwords to personal phones, social media or email accounts to the government without a legally obtained warrant. This notion is simply an extension of Americans’ constitutional rights.

Though this university has not often attempted to access this private information, The Diamondback recently reported that a coach had requested access to players’ private social media accounts. The bill would forbid this practice, as well as ban access as a condition of university admission or extracurricular participation.

Freedom of speech, especially political speech, is fundamental in protecting and preserving democratic government. Free speech is essential to societal progress, as it encourages new ideas and their spread of spirited public debate.

By facilitating as many points of view as possible, society can encourage innovation through the combination and contrasting of ideas. What if one person had the genius to foresee a problem that millions could not? It makes sense for government to allow pure speech — and its communication — free rein in society and let citizens discuss and choose ideas for themselves. Even stupid speech must be allowed, because the government should not be the final arbiter of “proper” or “good” ideas.

It should be noted that this bill does not prevent students’ stupidity from being seen by university officials, as the bill clearly states that information in the public domain is fair game — as it should be. Students, especially ones inclined to voice offensive, unpopular or unsavory speech, should be reminded that one screenshot or retweet might cause a lifetime of trouble. Instead, this bill simply ensures that the university stays out of the private communication between students and others.

If this university, a government institution, can view the private speech of its students, it could stifle it by denying admission or participation in extracurricular activities to students with whose speech it disagrees. It simply is not the business of a government institution to sift through private communication without a lawful criminal investigation.

Though the bill does not explicitly require a warrant for university officials to view private accounts, future policy should. The bill allows police, public safety or health departments to access them in the context of a “suspected criminal activity investigation” or investigation “in accordance with the health or public safety administration assessment policy or protocol.” If all University System of Maryland institutions require warrants in these situations, then there would be no need for further legislation.

Certainly, there are social consequences for offensive and hateful speech in the forms of reduced employment prospects and social ostracizing. I certainly would avoid hiring someone who gained national infamy for being hateful bigot.

Regardless of the social effects, one thing has become increasingly clear: Educational institutions have no power to interfere in the speech of their students, even private speech that goes viral. University officials have no business in the private communication of students, and the General Assembly has taken the correct step in protecting that privacy.

M a t t D ra go n e t t e i s a j u n i o r accounting and government and politics major. He can be reached at mdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

EDITORIAL BOARD

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

She has worked as a staff writer, assistant news editor and news editor.

MATT SCHNABEL, managing editor, is a junior journalism major.

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

NATE RABNER, deputy managing editor, is a junior journalism major. He has worked as a copy editor.

CAROLINE CARLSON, opinion editor, is a senior government and politics and information systems major.

She has worked as an assistant opinion editor and columnist.

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

He has worked as a deputy opinion editor and columnist.

A new era of news coverage LAURA BLASEY

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n 17 days, my tenure as editor in chief will come to a close, and shortly after that, I will graduate from this university. It’s surreal to think that I will no longer spend all of my free time in The Diamondback newsroom, as I have for the past two years in my current position and as news editor.

We’ve made some big changes at The Diamondback in that time. We went online-only for our Friday editions. We partnered with The Washington Post. We created a new desk to focus on our digital needs.

And here’s one more big change that some readers picked up on in yesterday’s announcement about our new editor in chief: We’ll be printing one day a week starting this fall.

We’ll still be putting out fire content daily, but it’ll just be on the Internet, the medium our readers have shown us they use most.

It’s true that newspapers are struggling financially. Advertising sales across the industry are in decline and readers don’t want a hard copy of the news anymore. We used

to print almost 20,000 papers every day, and today we print a fraction of that at 7,000. That’s not a good number, but it’s also not a bad one.

It’s a reflection of the way the world works today and provides insight into the significant growth we’ve seen in page views and social media interaction over the past few years.

We are not a casualty of the economy. We’re an organization with limited resources, and it was time for us to make decisions about how and where we wanted to spend our time and money. We strive to provide a hands-on learning experience for young journalists, to keep the community informed and to grow as a modern news organization.

In pursuing those goals, it became clear that producing a printed newspaper daily no longer made sense.

Most of our top editors spend 40 to 50 hours a week in the newsroom working on the print paper — imagine what we could do with that time. We’d rather be experimenting with new technology, creating interactive elements and focusing on our online content.

The Washington Post’s software we received has allowed us to add photos, videos, in-text sound clips and more to our feature stories in one

sleek template, and we’re excited to see what else we can do with our site.

In the next week, we’ll be releasing an interactive breakdown of student fees, created by our staff web development team in partnership with the Student Government Association. And later this month, the 2015 salary guide will go live as a searchable, interactive database using Silk.

These are just a few of the projects we hope to bring to our readers that you can’t print on paper.

We’re excited for this new chapter of The Diamondback’s history. The legacy of this organization is one of bold decisions, and we’re going all in on our digital future. I’m looking forward to seeing what the 2015-16 staff and beyond will accomplish.

As always, we’re listening to our readers. We want to know what you want to see, both online and as we design our new print edition. Have an idea for a project? Want to share your thoughts about the site or paper?

Looking to get involved? Let us know in the comments, on social media or by sending us an email.

Laura Blasey, editor in chief, is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at diamondbackeditor@gmail.com.

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agree that pizza dives dot all college campuses. The University of Michigan probably has 12 to 14 pizza places surrounding its campus, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, is considered one of the top college towns. At the same time, Michigan also has about 15 to 20 coffee shops and many great white-tablecloth restaurants. In order to become a great college town, College Park will need a good variety of all types of restaurants.

Before College Park gets there, it needs more restaurants like Potomac Pizza. However, I don’t mean just pizza; what I mean is people who are willing to spend money to build great restaurants with great food, great ambiance and great service, not just another pizza shop serving a slice or pie: restaurants that want to be involved in their communities and create spaces where visitors are comfortable dining.

Potomac Pizza will be added to the mix of pizza places in College Park.

That is where all the similarities end.

I don’t know much, if anything, about the pizza places you named in Thursday’s staff editorial, except for Domino’s and Papa John’s. I don’t look at the competition in a traditional way.

If there are a lot of pizza places, then there must be a lot of kids who like to eat pizza. There must also be many people who desire a variety of other choices as well.

As we have since 1978, we will focus on who we are: a family-style pizzeria serving a full menu. There aren’t many places that have survived as long as Potomac Pizza and are still growing.

We are so excited to be part of this university’s community and other programs in College Park. We would love to extend this conversation if you are interested. We aren’t the next pizza place that will come and go from the landscape in this college town, but we will set the example of how to enter a market and start digging deep roots!

Adam Greenberg is the president of Restaurant Zone Inc. He can be reached at adam@potomacpizza.com.

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COLLEGE PARK’s COACHELLA A diverse roster of headliners — from a locally grown reggae band to a bicoastal DJ — brings laidback energy to SEE’s annual day of music

Chris mcclenney spins his music in the Nyumburu Amphitheater during his headlining set at Sunday’s Terpstock Music Festival. In addition to touring and playing his music across the country, McClenney is a senior jazz performance major.

By Danielle Ohl @dtohl Senior staff writer Sunglass-clad twentysomethings lounged on woven blankets. Girls sashayed about, their boho-print floods swaying with each step. Guys in hats nodded to the beats radiating across the sundrenched lawns.

Thousands of miles away from the internationally popular Coachella, this university’s students enjoyed their own festival atmosphere at Student Entertainment Events’ sixth annual Terpstock Music Festival.

SEE hosted the festival in the Nyumburu Amphitheater Sunday.

Student and professional artists of all genres played for more than five hours as the sun set on one of the warmest days of the year so far.

“We wanted to fill a hole that existed because we had a huge end of the year show,” SEE Public Relations Director Andi Hubbell said.

“We wanted to have something that was more relaxed.”

The event serves to contrast the hype surrounding Art Attack in both size and style. Terpstock has a history of booking smaller name bands and on-the-verge acts as well as local and student talent.

This year, the festival kicked off with three Battle of the Bands participants: rock groups Talk Radio and Bare Left and a member of the rap group HYERLearnin.

Though the two events aren’t related, Hubbell said that Terpstock incorporates Battle of the Bands runner-ups to keep SEE involved with student talent.

“We like to know students,

we ’re a s t u d e n t o rga n i za t i o n so why not draw from student talent,” she said.

Chris McClenney was the first headliner. He is a senior jazz performance major and recently joined Soulection, a Los Angelesbased independent label that works with artists around the world. He said he is currently its only East Coast act.

McClenney has performed in Washington at U Street Music Hall, as well as in New York and Los Angeles and with the music school’s jazz lab band. He has more than 20,000 followers on SoundCloud but expressed doubts about student reception of his West Coast vibe.

“The style of music that I usually spin is a little bit more underground,” he said. “I’m curious to see how people will react.”

All focus and no flash, McClenney wasted no time doling out funky beats and lush soundscapes to an early audience of almost 50 people. Bent over his laptop and soundboard, he engaged more with his music than the audience but provided the perfect array of exciting and relaxing vibes to ease sun-drunk students into the event and introduce them to his coastal brand.

During McClenney’s set, another headliner milled among the musiclisteners, handing out stickers, chatting with festival-goers and spreading general well-wishes to the crowd.

Dale “Snail” Rodman and his band make up Dale and the ZDubs, a local reggae-rock band currently touring the East Coast.

“A ZDub is … someone who does their own thing,” said Rodman,

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“I FIND IT REFRESHING TO HAVE AN AUDIENCE THAT’S AT A POINT IN THEIR LIFE WHERE THEY’RE DISCOVERING WHO THEY ARE.” CAS HALEY Musician

who grew up near this campus. His father and grandfather are prominent state figures: The former is a boxer enshrined in Xfinity Center and the latter is the previous host of the Rodman Memorial Golf Tournament.

In true ZDub spirit, Rodman dominated the interview, and later the stage, with an impressive display of gymnastics, hurricaneforce energy and vigorous headbanging that sent his dreadlocks flying.

Shirtless and strutting, Rodman led his band through a high-energy set that had the audience up and dancing.

“H igh school- and collegeaged people tend to really like our music,” Rodman said. “The musicianship is the best it’s ever been now, so the new songs are better than the old songs.”

Dale and the ZDubs indulged listeners in mainly new music, which the group hopes to compile in their third full-length album sometime in the upcoming fall or winter.

Cas Haley, a Texas-based reggae-folk artist, rounded out the Terpstock bill. He ended the night on an inspirational note.

“You can follow your dreams,” he told the crowd.

Dale and the ZDubs brought its singular blend of rock, reggae and ska to its set at Terpstock. The all-day festival event drew a crowd of more than 100 to Nyumburu Amphitheater. james levin/the diamondback Haley cut his teeth in 2007 when he competed on America’s Got Talent, finishing the season in second place. Since then, he has released three albums and toured the West Coast and Europe.

Despite making it big, Haley still has a soft spot for intimate venues with college audiences.

“I find it refreshing to have an audience that’s at a point in their life where they’re discovering who they are,” he said. “Just to have a conscious crowd, means something different than a bar gig.”

This fatherly take poked through during Haley’s calming and catchy set, as he advised students on

the joys of procreating (“Go out there and multiply!” he yelled), the wonders of parental love and the possibility of pursing big goals.

The crowd waned as the sun set over Terpstock, but Haley never did — his powerful, island-tinged vocals guided the evening to a gentle stop.

“I really enjoyed Cas Haley,” said Joe Laverty, a sophomore computer science major. “The lineup was really interesting compared to last year’s [alternative one] and I like the way they incorporated students.” dohldbk@gmail.com

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notebook From PAGE 8 the defense’s front four. He wants to help the younger group as the players before him did. “ I j u s t wa n t to b r i n g the next guy up with me,” Ngakoue said.

“I want to bring [sophomore] Jesse [Aniebonam] up with me because I know he is in the same shoes I was in. Just being more of a leader, being more vocal and trying to help out the team as much as I can.”

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left-hander tayler stiles throws a pitch during the Terps’ 3-1 loss to Iowa on Saturday. Despite the defeat, Stiles put up his second straight quality start.

flames From PAGE 8 Mike Shawaryn, who is 8-0 with an 1.89 ERA as the Terps’ ace, set the tone for the weekend by pitching eight innings of one-run ball and led the team to a 10-1 victory.

But the pitching difficulties this season have occurred after Shawaryn has taken the rubber. While Shawaryn has pitched the first game of all nine weekend series this year, Szefc has sent out four different pitchers as the No. 2 starter.

Against the Hawkeyes, the third-year coach gave left-

hander Tayler Stiles the ball for Saturday’s contest. In his last start, Stiles allowed two runs in seven innings and recorded his third win as the Terps beat Nebraska, 8-2, on April 4.

On Saturday, Stiles took the loss despite pitching into the seventh and allowing two runs.

Still, his second consecutive quality start put the Terps in a position to top Iowa.

“Just got to keep doing my routine [and] sticking with everything,” Stiles said Saturday.

“I had a few more walks than I expected, so all I want to do is keep pounding the zone.”

Right-hander Kevin Mooney, who began the

DRAWS From PAGE 8 Reese said she moved defender Alice Mercer onto the edge of the circle in the first half and presented the Buckeyes with different opening looks throughout the game.

“I always believe and think that Taylor can control the middle of the circle, and she does,” Reese said. “Every time we have the opportunity for a 50-50 ball, we want to make sure we’re giving the best we can and that we can look back and are able to say, ‘No regrets,’ basically, in the effort that we gave.”

Cummings had some help Sunday, too, as Collins contributed with three draw controls.

Collins, a senior, is second on the team with 29 draw controls and is often the Terps player to scoop the tip from the ground if Cummings fails to nab the ball in the air.

“I just try to help the team as best I can,” Collins said. “We [are] focused on that, just getting the ball and being able to possess it on offense, and then, once we got it around, we were able to find the back of the net.”

The Terps found the back of the net early

season as the team’s closer, made his third start of the year Sunday. But after walking four batters in 1.1 innings — one of which gave the Hawkeyes their first run — Mooney exited, and Szefc turned to left-hander Robert Galligan to prevent further damage.

Over the next 5.2 innings, Galligan moved through the Hawkeyes’ lineup with ease.

He struck out five, allowed three hits and gave up one unearned run after shortstop Kevin Smith’s throwing error to start the seventh inning.

But the miscue helped the Hawkeyes plate the go-ahead run and hand Galligan a loss.

All-Big Ten cornerback Will Likely intercepted a pass in the final minutes of Saturday’s game to seal the outcome for the Red Team, but it was cornerback Antwaine Carter who stole the show in the first half.

The seldom-used sophomore, who is transitioning from safety to corner this season, jumped an out route early in the first quarter to pick off quarterback Perry Hills. Then, on the last play of the first half, Carter blocked a 21-yard field-goal attempt by backup kicker Adam Greene.

The Terps have a deep secondary with Likely and three other starters returning to the defensive backfield, but Carter made his presence known in the team’s first organized contest since last season.

“There has been a lot of competition throughout the whole spring,” Carter said.

“Everybody battling for the corner spot. Everybody trying to get the No. 1 spot.”

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“Galligan was as good as I’ve ever seen him,” Szefc said.

“He was the toughest guy on our team today, and he gave us an opportunity to win.”

Szefc hasn’t said who will hand the ball to when the Terps (24-10) play the Flames (2313). Regardless, tonight’s starter will try to continue the streak of quality outings as the Terps offense attempts to rebound.

“If you’re nervous, then you’re bound to fail,” Galligan said. “It’s real important to have confidence in everything you do and visualize positivity, and good things happen.”

ROSS LEADS BACKS Edsall has a plethora of running backs to turn to out of the backfield. On Saturday, Brandon Ross, Albert Reid and

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Terrapins women’s lacrosse coach Sunday afternoon, another contrast from their match with Princeton. The Terps’ 8-2 halftime lead, fueled by the team’s 8-3 draw margin in the first period, proved a largeenough cushion to withstand Ohio State’s second-half comeback attempt.

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Garino From PAGE 8 terrific job of keeping it loose, and one of the wing guys might get it, or he just got it himself.”

Garino lost the game’s first four opportunities, so Tillman tried other options at the X. Midfielders Andrew Walsh and Bobby Gribbin both took opportunities on faceoffs.

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first half, Walsh won a faceoff cleanly but turned the ball over with an errant pass.

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FOOTBALL | NOTEBOOK

Ngakoue shines playing defensive end in spring game Carter causes two key stops; Ross leads group of running backs

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer Yannick Ngakoue emerged this past season as a pass-rushing threat for the Terrapins football team from the outside linebacker position. But after recording six sacks and 13.5 tackles for a loss in 2014, the junior is shifting to play defensive end in the Terps’ new 4-3 defense.

The 6-foot-2, 250-pound former four-star recruit from Bowie had his first opportunity to showcase his skills as he played his new role

during the Terps’ spring game Saturday. And he didn’t disappoint.

Ngakoue disrupted quarterback Shane Cockerille all afternoon, recording three sacks and often forcing Cockerille to make throws on the run, which played a part in the signal-caller’s paltry 5 of 20 showing through the air. “[Ngakoue’s] gotten better,” coach Randy Edsall said. “There is still some things that he’s got to work on, but he enjoys that position. He’s gotten better at it, and he’s just going to continue to get better cause he’s a worker.

He’s a guy that wants to do well.”

The position change allows

Ngakoue to get into his defensive stance on the line of scrimmage, which he said has allowed him to be more explosive after the snap.

He frequently burned past offensive tackles from the defensive end spot in the spring game.

“I like it a lot,” Ngakoue said. “I like putting my hand in the dirt … better than standing up.”

With former senior defensive linemen Andre Monroe, Darius Kilgo and Keith Bowers all moving on, Ngakoue will become a leader of the terps take their positions at the line of scrimmage Saturday during the team’s spring game at Byrd Stadium.

See NOTEBOOK, Page 7 Defensive end Yannick Ngakoue led the way with three sacks in the contest. marquise mckine/the diamondback

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MEN’S LACROSSE

Tillman stays with Garino Jr. After rocky first half faceoff specialist keys close win at Rutgers

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer

ference showdown with Liberty, they’ll hope to replicate the pitching performances from last weekend.

“We need other people to do what they’re supposed to do on the mound and at the plate,” Szefc said Sunday. “And when that happens, we’ll be good. Until that happens, we’ll be OK.”

For the past five years, Terrapins men’s lacrosse coach John Tillman could always rely on Jesse Bernhardt.

First, the long pole provided stability for faceoff specialists Bryn Holmes, Curtis Holmes and Charlie Raffa along the wings from 2010 to 2013. Then last season, Tillman added Bernhardt as a volunteer assistant coach.

But when Rutgers took a two-goal lead over the Terps Sunday behind a dominant showing from faceoff specialist Joe Nardella, Bernhardt was standing on the other sideline as a Scarlet Knights assistant coach.

In fact, Tillman credited Bernhardt for much of Rutgers’ early success.

Still, the Terps and faceoff specialist Jon Garino Jr. turned things around at the X over the final two quarters and snagged a 9-8 road victory. “[Bernhardt] is a guy that pretty much knew everything and anything about us,” Tillman said. “Obviously pleased with the halftime adjustments. [Volunteer] coach [Chris] Pieczonka did a really great job with our faceoff guys.”

With Raffa, the Terps starter, sitting out for the second straight game with an injury, Garino encountered difficulty early against Nardella, who is second in the nation with 192 faceoff wins. “[Nardella] will spite you at the X,” Tillman said. “There were a lot of times when we might have gotten the first guy to the ball, but he did a

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right-hander Mike shawaryn fires a pitch during the Terps’ 10-1 win over Iowa on Friday at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium. The Terps’ ace went eight innings while allowing one run. karen tang/for the diamondback

mounds of momentum Terps’ pitching staff enters tonight’s game after allowing six runs over weekend contests

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer Entering a series with No. 20 Iowa this past weekend, the Terrapins baseball team had relied on its offense to outscore opponents.

The No. 24 Terps lead the Big Ten with 240 runs scored and second baseman Brandon Lowe is tops in the conference in hits, runs scored and home runs.

Against the Hawkeyes, however, the Terps offense disappeared after a 10-run outburst in the series opener Friday night, forcing coach John Szefc’s squad to rely on its pitching to keep the games close.

While the Terps dropped the final two contests, they held the Hawkeyes to six combined runs in the series behind several promising showings.

And when the Terps travel to Lynchburg, Virginia, on Tuesday afternoon for a noncon-

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Improvements in draw circle aid win Cummings, Collins lead efforts in No. 1 Terps’ victory at No. 14 Ohio State

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer The Terrapins women’s lacrosse team entered its contest i n C o l u m b u s, O h i o, t h i s weekend focused on improving after a weak start last week against then-No. 15 Princeton.

Sure, the No. 1 Terps had wo n 13 s t ra i g h t ga m e s to open their season, but in Wednesday night’s win over the Tigers, the team struggled in the first half before pulling away after the break.

So before the team took to the field Sunday morning to face then-No. 14 Ohio State, Terps coach Cathy Reese stressed the

need to play with consistency.

Reese’s staff, though, zeroed in on a specific facet it wanted the Terps to dominate in against the Buckeyes: draw controls.

The Terps responded by controlling 15 of the game’s 21 draws and beating the Buckeyes, 13-8, to remain undefeated. “[The coaches] just tried to enforce how important [controlling the draw] was,” midfielder Erin Collins said. “We really were focusing on it more in this game than we were against Princeton because we know we didn’t do as well as we should have in the Princeton game.”

The Terps won the draw control battle 18-12 against Princeton, but they faltered

in the first half. They trailed the Tigers 7-4 in the category after the opening 30 minutes, and Princeton became the first team to take a halftime lead over the Terps all season.

It reached the point Wednesday that Reese temporarily replaced All-American midfielder Taylor Cummings in the circle to try to spark her squad.

In the second half of that game and all day Sunday, however, Cummings returned to her usual form. Against the Buckeyes, the junior led the team with five draw controls to add to her team-high 96 possession wins this season. She ranks fifth in the nation in draw controls.

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4 draws

The Terps controlled in the first half of Wednesday’s win over Princeton

14 draws

The Terps controlled in the second half against Princeton

15 draws

The Terps controlled in Sunday’s win over Ohio State The Terps’ rebound performance also was due in part to a switch in players in the circle.

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midfielder taylor cummings jumps for a draw control during the Terps’ 18-10 victory over Princeton on Wednesday at home. marquise mckine/the diamondback