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Pedestrian struck Saturday near R.J. Bentley’s Non-university-student pedestrian’s condition unknown; fourth collision on road in 10 months

By Laura Blasey @lblasey Senior staff writer

according to witnesses. A car struck the victim in the left southbound lane of Route 1, a Prince George’s County Police spokesman said.

County police are handling the A pedestrian was struck while case and confirmed the victim is crossing Route 1 near R.J. Bentley’s early Saturday morning, police said. not a student at this university. The The male victim ran across the spokesman could not confi rm the street after being kicked out of the seriousness of the pedestrian’s inbar at about 12:20 a.m. Saturday, juries Saturday, and police did not

respond to requests for comment yesterday.

The collision came a week after a vehicle fatally struck George Washington University student Carlos Pacanins near the Knox Road intersection, and it is the fourth pedestrian incident to occur on the stretch of road in less than 10 months.

On July 12, a 54-year-old man attempting to cross Route 1 at the intersection was struck.

See pedestrian, Page 2 emergency personnel respond to a struck pedestrian Saturday morning on Route 1. james levin/the diamondback

Campaign season for SGA begins

Josh Ratner unopposed in race for presidency

By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow Staff writer

Candidates s e e k i n g p o s itions in the SGA executive cabinet or legislature will begin campaigning this week.

Those running for spots could JOSH RATNER begin their nine- SGA presidential hopeful day campaigns at midnight today to encourage students to vote for them. Many will use social media, emails, fl iers and face-to-face conversations to promote themselves, said Alex Krefetz, chairman of the Student Government Association Elections Board.

“Each candidate largely does PR work and gets their name out either

addy (second from right) and her family (from left), sister Izzi, mother Stacey and father Thomas, pose for a portrait in Comcast Center. james levin/the diamondback

MUSIC TO HER EARS Make-A-Wish Foundation gives child cancer patient music video shoot in Comcast

By Talia Richman @TaliRichman Senior staff writer EDITOR’S NOTE: The last names of Make-A-Wish recipients are withheld to protect the families’ privacy.

When then-4-year-old Addy was first admitted to the hospital with Stage IV kidney cancer, the bubbly girl known for constantly singing and dancing around her home in Alexandria, Va., wouldn’t even ask to listen to Taylor Swift on the radio.

That’s when her family realized how severe her illness was.

One year after doctors told her family she had six days to live, Addy is in remission. Through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, she is starring in her own music video, filmed at Comcast Center on Saturday.

“Her wish was to be a pop star,” said Stacey, Addy’s mother. “And I think she’s really rocking it.”

The music video, which will be released to the public May 5, also includes See make-a-wish, Page 2

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addy (left), in remission from kidney cancer, watches university volunteers dance in the music video filmed as part of her Make-A-Wish gift Saturday. james levin/the diamondback

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Letting themselves be Queer Monologues highlight individuality

By Nate Rabner @thedbk For The Diamondback Audience members waited silently in the dark as footsteps echoed from the Hoff Theater stage in Stamp Student Union. Charley Goldman took position behind the microphone and lectern and spotlights shone.

“I realized I wasn’t straight in the 10th grade, but this story isn’t about that,” said Goldman, a junior psychology major. “This is the story of a haircut.”

Over the past few months, Goldman has adopted a new hairstyle, a new name, an androgynous wardrobe of button-downs and vests and a gender-neutral third-person pronoun.

Goldman, now called “they,” not “she,” by their suitemates and others they’ve come out to as gender queer, has finally found an identity that fits them.

Goldman was one of nine people from the LGBTQA community who took the Hoff stage Friday to recite a story or poem in front of about 80 people at The Queer Monologues 2014, organized by the Office of Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy.

“I can’t really put into words what happened when I got my hair cut,” said Goldman, formerly Rebecca, whose

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Issues disrupt use of campus elevators often

finally just let myself be.”

Students shared breakthroughs and despair, stories of summer camp trysts and children driven

Despite regular inspections and maintenance, students living in some university dorms said they frequently fi nd elevators out of order, stuck or otherwise malfunctioning.

“They are very sensitive pieces of equipment,” said Jack Baker, Facilities Management director of operations and maintenance. “If an elevator is taken out [of service] for several days, it is because we are doing maintenance to fix them or providing upgrades to them.”

If a campus elevator is in use, it’s safe, he added.

The elevator malfunctions are often caused when doors or carts

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charley goldman (left) listens as Cal Lynn (center) answers an audience question during this year’s iteration of Queer Monologues in Stamp Student Union’s Hoff Theater on Friday. photo courtesy of kelsey hughes curly hair was cut short and dyed green in the back. “Short hair for me meant freedom — freedom to discover who I truly was. … After 10 years of trying so hard to be something I’m not, it’s nice to finally be able to take a step back to

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Students petition mayor for sidewalk barriers, Route 1 safety ‘It’s way too many people that are getting injured’

By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer Among the more than 1,300 signatures on a petition urging city Mayor Andy Fellows to increase safety measures along Route 1 is the name of Cory Hubbard’s father.

Hubbard, a 22-year-old u n i v e rs i t y s t u d e n t, w a s killed in a hit-and-run near the Route 1 and Knox Road i nte rs e c t io n i n Ja n u a r y.

George Washington University senior Carlos Pacanins died of injuries after he was hit by a car while crossing near the same intersection last week. Another pedestrian was hit while crossing near R.J. Bentley’s early Saturday morning.

The Change.org petition, started by junior community health major Megan Keane on Thursday evening, asks for a brick wall to be built on the edge of the sidewalk outside Cornerstone Grill and Loft a nd Bent ley’s to prevent future accidents.

“You drive past those bars … and there are hundreds of kids on the sidewalk, inches away from the street. And it’s just

like, ‘How has nobody thought of this before?’” Keane said. “[A brick wall] will just keep them in closed barriers on the sidewalk; it will keep them from going out into the street, whether they mean to or not.”

Fellows said he does not think constructing a sidewalk barrier is the best remedy because barriers “tend to not look very nice and not be pedestrian-friendly,” though he said he is open to discussion.

“This is the second time this has happened this year,” said Fellows. “It’s increased the priority of doing as much as we can to address this, but I’m not so sure the barriers are the way to go.”

Fellows and other council members voted at Tuesday’s city council work session to send a letter to the State Highway Administration with requests to improve pedestrian safety.

These requests included reducing the speed limit, installing an automatic walk signal and investing in stronger lighting along the road. Measures the council hopes to take include increasing police presence on Route 1 and starting an educational safety campaign to teach residents and students about the dangers of jaywalking.

Casey McGinnis, a senior English major, said the council’s suggestions would improve the situation but building a wall

flowers lie at Route 1 and Knox Road after the April 11 collision that killed a George Washington University student. A pedestrian was struck nearby Saturday. james levin/the diamondback would be most effective.

“The amount of people that just jaywalk after the bars is just crazy, so I think that wall would definitely help and prevent that,” said McGinnis, a friend of Hubbard.

Pacanins was a Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity member at George Washington University, making this a personal issue for this university’s Greek community, Greek life members said.

When Alex Polak, president of the Theta Chi fraternity chapter at this university, saw the petition, he emailed it to the presidents of every chapter in the Interfraternity Council,

Panhellenic Association, National Pan-Hellenic Council and the United Greek Council asking them to sign and forward it to their members.

Before the junior civil engineering major sent out the email Thursday night, he said there were about 30 signatures, but by Friday, it had reached about 800.

On Friday, Prince George’s C o u n t y P ol i c e i n s t a l l e d f lash i ng sig ns on Route 1 medians to instruct pedestrians to use crosswalks and warn drivers of pedestrians in the street. Prince George’s County Police officers also distributed pamphlets the same night, informing pe-

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segments filmed at Addy’s school, her house and the WJLA-TV studio.

Comcast was chosen so part of the video could have a “concert venue” feel, said Tara Wilson-Jones, MakeA-W i s h M i d -A t l a n t i c spokeswoman. “ We’ve seen t he spi r it beh i nd the U M D student body, so we hoped we’d get ent hu si a st ic st udents to come out and be a part of this,” Wilson-Jones said.

“Community involvement has been incredibly key in making Addy’s wish come true, and today has been a true indicator of that.”

A small group of university students volunteered as extras, pretending to be adoring fans as they jumped up and down and held signs bearing Addy’s name.

“It was my first time experiencing the granting of a wish. The whole experience was humbling and amazing to be a part of,” said Daniel le Spiegel ma n, a ju n ior i n formation systems a nd management major. “As a college student, it is easy to get consumed with a routine lifestyle, but this reminded me to step back and appreciate the little things that much more.”

Some of the colorful posters used in the video were decorated with unicorns, one of Addy’s favorite animals.

“W hen Addy was sick and lost all her hair from chemotherapy, there was this big freckle on the top of her head,” Stacey said. “So she pretended that she was turning into a unicorn and a horn was going to grow out of her freckle and her hands would turn into hooves.”

Addy’s uncle and grand-

Cory Hubbard, a 22-yearold university student, died of his injuries after being struck in the intersection on Jan. 17.

Neither Hubbard nor the latest pedestrian were in the crosswalk at the time

Alicia DeVaughn, Terrapins women’s basketball center, helps Make-A-Wish recipient Addy sit in her chair in the team’s locker room in Comcast Center. james levin/the diamondback parents also came out for the shoot. Her grandmother, “Nana” Sue, moved in w ith the fa m i ly a f ter the diagnosis and watched as her granddaughter underwent three surgeries, eight rounds of radiation and 28 weeks of chemotherapy.

At one point, the chemotherapy numbed the nerves in Addy’s feet. She’d try to take a step, but she would just fall right down, Sue said.

“It’s really nice now that she can walk and dance again. It took a long time, but she ca me a rou nd a nd you wouldn’t know she was sick today,” Sue said. “Everything about this project is positive, which is so nice.

For so long, we were all just tr y i ng to ha ng on. We’re lucky to have her here, let alone doing this.”

Aside from making the music video, Addy got other special perks while on the campus.

Terrapins women’s basketball center Alicia DeVaughn gave Addy’s family an impromptu private tour of the locker room after Addy shot some baskets on the Terps’ home court.

“I told her she was part of the Maryland family now,” DeVaughn said. “It was nice to see her smile.”

Stacey said the support

she’s seen for her daughter has been “unbelievable.”

“We were driving in the car to a filming last week and Addy says to me, ‘Mommy, this wish has changed my l i fe.’ A nd it re a l ly h a s,” Stacey said. “She’s this little 5-year-old with huge crowds of people cheering for her.”

Wilson-Jones hopes that after the music video is revealed in a few weeks, Addy’s story will inspire people.

But more than that, she said she hopes Addy’s wish has been fulfilled in every way.

“She has been through so much to be only 5 years old a nd a l ready have battled cancer,” Wilson-Jones said.

“We want Addy to get something special because no child should have to go through what she went through.”

The song Addy performs in the video is being kept a secret until its release.

But aside from the mystery song, Addy loves si ng i ng other th i ngs — especia lly duets f rom t he F roze n soundtrack with her little sister, Izzy.

“I really do like singing,” Addy said. “The most fun is when you get to take a video.

I’m really excited to see it when it’s over.”

destrians they could face fines up to $500 for failure to obey traffic laws.

Keane said she does not think reducing the speed limit or the flashing sign will deter drivers from unsafe behavior.

“That’s like, ‘good try,’ but I really think there are better things they could do to help not only the safety of students but also the safety of the whole community,” Keane said. “It’s way too many people that are getting injured.”

Andrew Robillard, a senior economics and finance major and a friend of Hubbard, said he will meet with University Police Chief David Mitch-

ell today to discuss further measures the city can take to improve safety.

“In a few short months this community has seen two young adults, months away from receiving their respective degrees, stripped of their lives due to a lack of security measures that should have been in place for years,” Robillard wrote in a message. “Both of these casualties are ones that could have been prevented, and I want to make sure that no other group of friends, families and loved ones has to deal with such a tragic loss.”

of the collisions, according to police reports.

Police said Pacanins was in or near the crosswalk when he was struck, but he attempted to cross when the “Do Not Walk” sign was flashing, and they believe alcohol may have been a factor in Pacanins’ death.

Police are looking for ways to increase safety on this stretch of road. County police

officials installed flashing signs and a speed indicator in the area on Friday and officers handed out about 200 fliers with safety tips Friday night, hours before the latest victim was struck.

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Students seek more outside scholarships QUEER Tuition gap leads to greater pursuit of private funds

But as letters alerting prospective students of their financial aid packages go out, many students turn to private scholarships to fill in the gap between what the university

By Talia Richman offers and what their tuition @TaliRichman bills read.

Senior staff writer Almost 2 million undergraduates used $6.2 billion in A lt hou g h A n n a Mu c kprivate scholarships — not inerman, a senior at Patterson Mill High School in Bel Air, cluding college athletic scholsubmitted her last college arships and college grants — application in February, the to help pay for college in the stressful process of sending 2011-12 school year, according out her resume and crafting to The Washington Post. That’s double the scholarship money essays isn’t over, she said.

Muckerman has applied that 1.1 million undergraduates for 15 private scholarships so used from 2007-2008.

“It makes a big difference far and said she plans to conto apply for these scholartinue applying until school ships,” said senior journalism starts in August.

“I wanted to cover all the major Kirsten Petersen, who bases because I feel like when spends about 10 to 15 hours you go to college you can a semester on scholarship never have too much money,” applications. “Investing the she said. “It’s an expensive time in completing a scholarship application will make an undertaking.”

During the 2012-13 school enormous difference in your year, students at this univer- financial aid prospects.”

Unlike university-awarded sity received about $47 million in need-based scholarships scholarships — such as the and almost $43 million in mer- Banneker/Key Scholarship it-based scholarships, accord- or the President’s Scholarship ing to the university’s annual — which focus on a student’s Institutional Research Plan- academic achievements and ning and Assessment reports. sta nda rd ized test scores,

many private grants target unique traits.

St u d ents able to m a ke a “satisfactory” duck call onstage are eligible for up to $2,000 through the Chick and Sophie Major Memorial Duck Calling Contest. There’s also a $2,000 prize for the person who can best describe what to do in a zombie apocalypse.

Ice cream enthusiasts can win $1,500 for answering which ice cream flavor they would be and why.

The Billy Barty Foundation scholarship gives money to those diagnosed with dwarfism, wh ile the Ta ll Clubs International scholarship is for men taller than 6 feet 2 inches and women taller than 5 feet 10 inches.

“A great strategy is to focus on niche scholarships that you really fit into,” said Petersen, the recipient of seven private scholarships. “There’s a much smaller pool of people who are eligible, so you have a higher chance of getting them in the grand scheme of things.”

While many of these outside awards — which typically range from about $500 to $2,000 — are “just a drop in the bucket,” they can really

add up, Petersen said.

L ook i ng th rough her financial aid listing one afternoon, Petersen pointed to a $200 scholarship from her local congressman, saying it paid for her gas money all semester.

“Every little bit counts when you recognize where else that money can be spent,” she said.

Sen ior m icrobiolog y major Elizabeth Williams spent as much time applying to 10 outside scholarships as she did applying to nine colleges. She said private awards help students caught in “the middle ground.”

“People who do wel l in school but are not at the very top and whose families have a moderate amount of money — they k i nd of get lef t beh i nd when it comes to financial aid,” Williams said. “The outside scholarships help because there’s more opportunity. You’re more likely to find an outside scholarship than an inside scholarship.”

ELEVATORS

Elevator maintenance work and inspections must occur nearly every day to deal with the several hundred elevators on the campus, Baker said.

Preventative maintenance programs ensure the machines are mechanically efficient.

State officials also inspect each elevator every summer.

Once an elevator is considered safe, the state mails a certificate to the school to place in the elevator. The massive number of elevators needing certification often leads to a backlog, which forces Facilities Management workers to hang papers guaranteeing that inspectors certified the elevator and that the paperwork is coming.

“They have routine maintenance that they perform, just like you have routine maintenance on your car ... to ensure that the elevators are maintained and are safe,” Baker said.

If there were a problem found with an elevator, it would be immediately taken offline until fixed, Baker said.

Hagerstow n Ha l l faces similar issues, freshman bio-

engineering major Fade Aromolaran said. He said an elevator is out of order almost every day, and it will not always align with the floor or will take a few moments before closing completely.

“With only two elevators, and ones that break, the ex tra ti me it ta kes could make someone late for classes and affect their academics and stress levels,” said Joseph Dawson, a freshman bioeng i neeri ng major a nd Hagerstown Hall resident.

I n E l l ic ot t H a l l t h i s weekend, one of the elevators did not work, and another would not go to the fourth floor, said Yoni Brande, a freshman enrolled in letters and sciences who lives in the dorm.

Sometimes the elevators will also take a while to close, he said.

“It’s inconvenient in the sense that they should just work,” he said.

From PAGE 1 do not align perfectly, Baker said, forcing the machines to shut themselves down.

Holding an elevator door for too long can also cause it to get out of sync.

One consequence of this issue, Baker said, is people riding the elevators when they malfunction can get stuck for some time. In these instances, elevator workers either come to fix it or the fire department is called.

David Jalali, a junior biology major, is familiar with faulty elevators. A couple of weeks ago, he said, he was in a Denton Hall elevator with several others when it abruptly stopped. Firefighters had to come pry open the doors and release them.

W h i le i n t he e levator, Jalali’s friend threw up from claustrophobia.

“It can get really inconvenient when there are only two elevators for the whole building,” Jalali said.

Em a nuel Ola n iy i had a similar experience in Elkton Hall last semester when he was caught in an elevator from midnight until 4:30 a.m. Now, the sophomore computer engineering major lives in Denton Hall, where he said there is a problem with the elevators at least once a week.

Last week, an elevator in Denton Ha l l consistently opened at the wrong floor, said Kassandra Saravia, a sophomore elementary education major and community assistant at the dorm. The elevator still traveled up and down, so residential staff taped a sign to the buttons telling residents not to use it.

While Olaniyi said many elevator malfunctions are caused by mechanical problems, he admitted students sometimes are to blame.

“I know people who have jumped on elevators and got stuck on it from generally just being stupid,” said Precious Thompson, a sophomore criminology and criminal justice major.

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From PAGE 1 to suicide, memories of ostracism, slurs, beatings and families divided.

“I’ll never be able to love a woman, but understand that my definition of love isn’t blind disobedience,” Kev i n Chen, a sen ior accounting and finance major, read from a poem he wrote to his father. “Laws, traditions, conditions were meant to be broken, so let’s imagine them done with.”

The students also shared stories of small victories.

“I got sir-ma’am’ed at the CVS recently and it was fantastic,” Goldman said.

Jo Arnone, 56, presented last. She was prescribed psychotherapy as a teenager and survived police beatings and bar raids as a lesbian in 1970s Queens, N.Y. W h e n m a ny fe m i n i s t s “lau nched a ca mpa ig n to wipe the face of the feminist movement clean of all traces of women who ex pressed difference,” A rnone said, she co-founded the Lesbian Sex Mafia, a women’s BDSM support and education group.

She marched in brown leather from head to toe with 19 LSM members in the 1982 New York City gay pride march, braving sum mer heat and thrown bottles. She has been an announcer for the pride march since 1984, she said.

“When the Trevor Project [a suicide prevention and crisis intervention service for LGBTQ young people] says it gets better, trust me, it does,” Arnone said. “The more effort and the more energy you put into getting there, the more you grow, the more you move and you shake, the more you let it roll off your back and the

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more that you keep remembering it gets better, the faster it does.”

After recounting their experiences, the speakers sat on the edge of the stage and answered questions f rom aud ience members. Brandon Edwards, a sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences who will be a resident assistant next year, asked what he could do to help as a community leader.

A few spea kers recommended Edwa rds put a rainbow flag sticker on his door as a signal to students looking for help.

“By the way,” Arnone said, “if you put a rainbow f lag out in front of your room or whatever, don’t forget, there are people that are going to think you’re gay.”

The audience laughed when Edwards jokingly replied, “It’s healthy to make assumptions.”

Edwards said he appreciated the “bluntness and honesty” with which the speakers shared their experiences.

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opposition, you don’t have a chance to vet ideas. It forces people to prove oneself, to prove their own ideas and to justify themselves,” said Popkin, a graduate student in public policy at this university.

“In this case, really they could run on whatever platform they want. They don’t have to do any work to earn it. And for a position of that caliber, I think that is a requisite.”

Ca nd id ates of ten for m parties to strengthen their campaigns, which traditionally helps connect the candidates during the campaign process — as last year’s Time and Go parties did, Krefetz said.

“People can pool their resources together to fundraise or just campaign together,” Krefetz said. “They can chalk, tell people to look out for certain names or hold events.”

Ca n d i d a te s h a v e b e e n participating in SGA meetings and sessions since midMarch, but midnight today marked the first official day of campaigning. The SGA stopped early campaigning to level the playing field, said Samantha Zwerling, current SGA president.

“If you knew you wanted to run a long time ago, and have been campaigning for like a year, then it would be difficult for others to compete,” she said.

The SGA enforces other campaigning rules, such as banning door-to-door promotion in dorms or disturbing people studying in the library.

“We want to make sure the students are being informed about it, but … we want to make sure it is strictly regulated, so candidates are all respectful of the other students’ time,” Krefetz said.

Last year, the student body re-elected Zwerling, along with all of the Go Party executives, including Ratner and Meenu Singh, academic affairs vice president.

Zwerling, a senior, gave this advice to candidates: “Just get some sleep.”

about them or an individual candidate or a party and what they want to do,” Krefetz said.

Students are running for president, other executive posit ion s a nd leg isl at ive representatives for academic departments and residential communities.

Students will be able to vote online via Testudo.umd.edu from the morning of April 28 through April 30 between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. Students can also cast their ballots at a voting station in Stamp Student Union, and Krefetz hopes to put voting booths inside the campus’ three dining halls.

The board will announce the election results May 1.

SGA Student Affairs Vice President Josh Ratner, is unopposed in the race for SGA president. The lack of opposition is unusual, Ratner said, and could point toward student apathy and a lack of engagement with SGA or this university.

Rather than sit back and wait for a victory, though, Ratner said he plans to use the election time to focus on student outreach.

“We’re going to be speaking to a lot of student groups,” he said. “We really just genuinely want their feedback.

Obviously, we want them to vote, so it doesn’t need to be our primary focus.”

Zak Malamed, Ratner’s former roommate, said though he believes Ratner would be the best candidate no matter the opposition, the community would have benefited from election competition.

“Half of me is like, ‘A ll right, this is exciting,’ because I know Josh really deserves to win,” he said. “But at the same time, I think it’s important that other voices are heard and that people are challenged in the political process, the democratic process.”

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ver the past year, a one-block stretch of Route 1 has proven perilous — and in two cases, deadly — for pedestrians crossing the highway.

On July 12, a 54-year-old man attempting to cross Route 1 at Knox Road was struck by a car. On Jan. 17, university student Cory Hubbard, 22, died of injuries suffered in a hit-and-run accident that occurred at the same intersection. On April 11, a vehicle fatally stuck George Washington University senior Carlos Pacanins while crossing near the junction. And on Saturday, yet another pedestrian was hit while crossing near the intersection.

Two accidents in one week is a tragedy; four in 10 months is indicative of a trend.

A 120 inch-wide crosswalk traverses the four-lane highway at the intersection of Route 1 and Knox Road, enough for four pedestrians to walk abreast comfortably between Cornerstone Grill and Loft and the Bank of America situated opposite the bar. Stoplights direct vehicle and foot traffic from all directions, and on weekend nights, an officer sits inside a patrol car just yards away. The posted speed limit is 30 mph.

Clearly, these measures aren’t enough. Thursdays through early Sunday mornings, the glut of students walking to and from downtown bars and restaurants regularly spills off sidewalks and crosswalks. Often inebriated and sometimes unruly, these crowds frequently can’t be counted on to cross Route 1 at designated intersections.

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However, the blame is on drivers, just as much as pedestrians, to remain alert and obey traffic signals in areas near the campus. Drivers must realize they are passing through a densely trafficked area where pedestrians often exercise less than sound judgment.

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The university and the city should implement effective measures to make Route 1 safer for pedestrians. eliminate some accidents, the fact remains that Hubbard, Pacanins and the most recent victim were jaywalking when they were hit, according to police and witnesses.

Hubbard’s and Pacanins’ deaths weren’t enough to deter the latest victim from running across the street — as reported by bystanders — and it’s likely this latest incident won’t dissuade students and residents alike from crossing Route 1 outside of designated crosswalks.

The city and this university need to step in to ensure pedestrians’ wellbeing, as the four recent incidents have demonstrated current safety measures aren’t sufficient.

The city’s speed cameras can’t prevent drivers from speeding; they merely punish violators after the fact.

And students and residents likely will continue to cross Route 1 wherever and whenever they see fit.

Fortunately, the city already has taken action to raise awareness of the intersection’s dangers and promote driver and pedestrian safety in the wake of this past week’s accidents.

Police installed two electronic signs — one between the Campus Drive and Rossborough Lane intersections and one between the Knox Road and Regents Drive intersections — that display cautionary messages for drivers and pedestrians, as well as a radar speed display at the Calvert Road intersection. Prince George’s County Police handed out fliers Friday night listing safety tips and potential penalties for traffic violations to pedestrians.

These are all appropriate measures in the wake of the past year’s accidents, but the university and the city can take more effective preemptive actions. Under the university’s expanded Code of Student Conduct, University Police or police auxiliary units could be stationed at the Knox Road intersection on weekend nights to direct traffic and ensure pedestrians are crossing Route 1 at designated crosswalks. A Change.org petition to build sidewalk barriers outside Cornerstone and R.J. Bentley’s garnered more than 1,300 online signatures as of last night.

The city and the university should spare no effort in promoting the safety of students and residents as they step off the campus. Increased police presence, in addition to recently implemented safety measures, can help ensure tragedy doesn’t strike again along Route 1’s deadliest block.

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Taking more steps to address climate change IAN LACY

the Pliocene epoch, according to a study published in Paleoceanography in 2011. To put that in perspective, the Pliocene epoch was when mastodons and saber-toothed cats existed. El Niño cycles, resulting in intense rainfall, flooding and sea levels between 16 and 131 feet higher than they are today characterized this period of time, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Sea levels will take time to alter because of their sheer scale, but it will happen if current trends continue. Sea levels rose by an annual rate of 0.13 inches over the past 20 years, according to National Geographic, about twice the average speed of the previous 80 years. The Pliocene epoch data clearly shows the correlation between carbon dioxide levels, increased sea levels and alterations in climate.

Luckily, there are things people can do to help slow the upward trajectory of carbon dioxide emissions as well as other greenhouse gases: One, write to your congressional representatives and ask them to try to enact policy change at a federal level. They are our public servants. Let’s make them work for us. Two, stop driving all the time. You simply do not need to use your car all the time.

If you are going to a local business or class, walk, bicycle, run or skip, if you feel so inclined. Just alter your use of fossil fuel-burning cars and use something more fuel-friendly.

Three, invest in a more fuel-efficient car, such as a Toyota Prius or a Honda Fit. By trying to minimize our carbon dioxide production through these three strategies, we might just stand a chance in slowing climate change.

The weather this semester has been incredibly confusing. We have experienced incredible swings between above-average snowfall and sunny, 70-degree weather.

Considering the extremes of the weather, it is easy to dismiss these irregularities by thinking they are just blips on the radar and everything will work itself back to the norm for the season.

Unfortunately, this is not correct. The bipolarity of the weather this year is not just random; it is due to climate change. Yes, I probably sound like an extremist saying a few snowstorms and massive temperature swings are indicative of global trends, but I think we are just beginning to see the proverbial tip of the iceberg when it comes to climate change.

Recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that the global concentration of carbon dioxide has reached concentrations of 400 parts per million, a 28 percent increase in carbon dioxide levels since 1958, according to data recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory. That means in little more than half a century we have dramatically increased the carbon dioxide concentration in our atmosphere.

This is truly alarming. Dr. Erika Podest, a carbon and water cycle research scientist, says carbon dioxide “concentrations haven’t been this high in millions of years.” Those heightened I a n L a c y i s a se n i o r k i n es i o l concentrations occurred more ogy major. He can be reached at than 3 million years ago during ilacydbk@gmail.com.

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Remembering Gabriel García Márquez: The death of a literary icon

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uring my junior year, one of my professors told my class we were not to accept degrees from this university unless we had read Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man. I’ve never escaped that sentiment, and I’m now one chapter deep. I thought about dropping out or changing majors every semester, so the idea that one book could be so singularly brilliant that one’s education is incomplete without it resonated with me. If a book is really that good, it transcends any exclusive “canon” and becomes part of the fabric of culture — something inclusive and shared. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a book that good, and recently, its author, Gabriel García Márquez, died at age 87.

The Nobel laureate died quietly but sent ripples through a world that has loved his books for decades. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, death makes a palpable impact on the physical world.

Flower petals rain from the sky, people float into heaven and the soon-to-bedeceased collect letters from the living to deliver to the dead.

The mythic events surrounding death in the book are not so different from the rituals and practices surrounding death in this world. It’s easy to say magic isn’t real and what

seems supernatural can be explained with science, as that might be true for you. But myths and magic are very real for many people, and that has power in the world as real as any pie chart.

The surreal isn’t a writer’s tool; it’s everyday life. Sure, one character in One Hundred Years of Solitude eats dirt and it’s weird. But real people I know have paid money to eat breakfast at Taco Bell. Readers are immersed in the swirling mythologies surrounding the town of Macondo over the course of a century as they evolve into a towering creation story.

Retaining its mystifying tone even in translation, One Hundred Years of Solitude is bristling with curious people discovering the world around them. It’s a world still so new people must create it as much as learn about it. Things still need names, but language cannot adequately describe what people see around them (much less how they feel about it).

In an unforgettable conversation with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza (published in book form as The Fragrance of Guava), García Márquez discusses the roots of the novel’s thrilling landscape. A sense that language itself is not enough marks his experience as a writer. For García Márquez, it’s using

the language of the colonizer to describe the colonized world. “River,” in the European mind, is the Danube or the Seine, and is useless when applied to something such as the Amazon in South America. “Rain” does not give life to what falls from the sky at the equator. So in One Hundred Years of Solitude, petals fall from the sky and butterflies pour from the faucets.

My senior year, a friend described to me his desire to be hit by a bus. It wasn’t that he wanted to die, but that getting hit by a bus would make life easier. I know the feeling. But I don’t want to go around telling people I want to be run over. It’s hard to explain.

When García Márquez won the Nobel Prize, he summed it up well: “Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imaginations for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable.” It’s a shame García Márquez will not write again, but we can read the books he’s given us forever.

Jake DeVirgiliis is a former opinion columnist. He can be reached at j.devirgiliis@gmail.com.

The Bible, the Quran, going to religious services and praying. As an atheist, these are all things I could feel a bit awkward talking about, but surprisingly, nothing makes me more uncomfortable than talking about religion with fellow atheists, agnostics or nonbelievers.

Thursday marked the first day of the American Atheists National Convention in Salt Lake City. Though attendees heard from Chris Kluwe, an atheist and ex-NFL player, authors and activists in an ironically religious city, I can’t stop thinking about how ineffective the atheist “culture” is at recruiting new members.

Although the Pew Research Center reported in 2012 that nearly 20 percent of Americans were “unaffiliated” with any religion, only 2.4 percent actually described themselves as atheists.

So who’s to blame for the low atheist turnout? Perhaps it’s the uninviting attitude toward religious people in general. On the American Atheists webpage, a short disclaimer states, “Please note: we are not interested in debating you or being preached at.” I guess atheists want to attract new members, as long as they don’t have to defend their views to do so?

Regardless of whether the growth of the atheist movement is good, atheists have a pretty long uphill battle to win, and they’re likely going to lose unless they undergo a marketing makeover.

While not all atheists are guilty of this, overwhelming whining about the word “God” on the U.S. dollar or in the Pledge of Allegiance undermines legitimate arguments about the inexistence of God. I love intellectual debate. As students on a college campus, we should be glad we’re exposed to people with various opinions and

have access to forums to debate different ideas. Because of this, atheists shouldn’t claim we’re “not interested in debating” religious people.

If atheists feel they’re such an excluded minority, then they should find ways to collaborate with people who disagree with them rather than complaining to their Reddit fan base about how annoying religion is.

There could be many reasons why atheism isn’t popular. According to a 2012 Gallup poll, a whopping 43 percent of Americans said they would not vote for an atheist presidential candidate, even if he or she was qualified for the job. As in politics, persuading people to agree with you requires appealing to them, not just outright rejecting their opinions.

I want to be able to call myself an atheist without having to explain myself by saying, “I’m not one of those atheists.”

Atheism, along with many of my other ideologies, has very credible arguments, but atheist leaders have done a terrible job marketing atheism to the public.

I don’t want to put atheists in a circle and assume all of them act ignorantly, but this explains my point — the more atheists have a negative attitude toward those who disagree with them, the more likely they’ll be categorized as part of a “rude” group.

Perhaps the best solution is to create environments in which religious followers, atheists and people of all ideologies can debate — interreligious summits or workshops may be a step in the right direction.

Atheists seem upset that their ideas aren’t always included in mainstream debates, but perhaps that unfairness stems from their unwelcoming attitude toward intellectually diverse discussion. Regardless, one thing is for sure — atheists are losing the culture war, and they won’t make any inroads unless they change the way they present themselves.

Caroline Carlson is a junior government and politics and information systems major. She can be reached at ccarlsondbk@gmail.com.

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washington’s geek haven In its second year, Awesome Con draws celebrities and thousands of fans to its three-day event celebrating nerd culture

aWESOME CON’s three-day-long convention attracted thousands to the Walter E. Washington Center in Washington for a weekend of nerdy activities. Pictured are costumed Captain America characters (center) and Billie Piper of Doctor Who (right). zoë digiorgio/for the diamondback

By Zoë DiGiorgio @zozoembie Staff writer When the doors to the exhibition hall opened to the public for the first time Friday afternoon, the attendees surged in, eager to explore the maze of T-shirts and comics set before them.

“It’s beautiful!” one woman exclaimed.

The sprawling space was just one of the major attractions at Awesome Con in Washington this weekend.

A comic convention that also includes film, TV and video game paraphernalia, Awesome Con is a self-proclaimed celebration of pop culture in all its forms.

Though the three-day convention was only in its second year, it managed to attract a large, diverse crowd. Attendance numbers for this year haven’t been released yet, but last year’s convention saw a reported 7,000 guests, and there

was “unprecedented growth from last year,” Awesome Con organizers wrote on its Facebook page. From Star Wars to steampunk, Pokémon to Power Rangers and everything between, Awesome Con had all its nerdy bases covered, which made it an open, welcoming environment.

The large attendance likely was due to the geek icons featured at Awesome Con for autograph signings, photo opportunities and Q-and-A panels.

Famous artists, authors, actors, voice actors and even puppeteers from Sesame Street came out in droves to the convention, including Cary Elwes, star of cult classic The Princess Bride; Jewel Staite, of Firefly fame; and various cast members from AMC’s The Walking Dead. About 90 celebrities attended.

Lines snaked through the second floor of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday with attendees eager to hear Lord of the Rings and Goonies star Sean

Astin and Doctor Who darling Billie Piper. Astin spoke at length about his time working on Lord of the Rings and his other famous roles, including the titular hero in football flick Rudy and Raphael in the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.

Piper answered questions about her experiences as Rose Tyler and her recent work on the London stage.

However, despite its packed guest list, the convention demonstrated it still has room to grow. While exhibitors sold an interesting array of comics, action figures, T-shirts and other geeky knickknacks, there was little variety from the retailers in the exhibition hall. Such lack of diversity of merchandise was surprising at a convention that branded itself as open to a range of nerdy subcultures.

However, Awesome Con’s open environment fostered a welcoming attitude toward families. The convention featured children’s crafts and other entertainment, including

balloon animals and a rocket-themed activity sponsored by NASA. Though some conventions gain reputations for attendees’ raucous or lewd behavior, this convention was relatively subdued and kept content PG-rated for many of its events.

Lealin Queen, a 2013 university alumnus, frequently attends local fan conventions. Though this was his first time at Awesome Con, he had high praise for the convention’s superb organization and celebrity guests.

“My only complaint was the fact that the program schedule limited the size of the panel rooms,” he said.

Nonetheless, many artists found themselves at home at Awesome Con. The convention’s Artist’s Alley featured self-published comics from many little-known artists and writers. This provided good showcasing opportunities for creators such as Kevin Roberts, who was

plugging a Kickstarter fundraiser for his science fiction comic Stronghold: Hope Is Not Yet Lost, and John Cappello, who was promoting his fantasy comic The Wonderful Wheels.

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Cappello said the space itself feels more welcoming to the visiting artists. “ W h a t I ’ ve n o t i c e d a b o u t Awesome Con is that they have a huge space for Artist’s Alley,” he said.

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By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer After trotting around third base yesterday with a smile across her face, Candice Beards smacked Terrapins softball coach Laura Watten’s hands for a double high-five.

But the senior infielder wanted more than the coach’s normal celebration after she clubbed a three-run home run over the right-field fence at Maryland Softball Stadium in the third inning of yesterday’s 8-1 Senior Day victory over Virginia Tech.

So after Beards stepped on home plate and embraced her teammates, Watten approached her with her arms outstretched for a hug.

“The one thing she’s always wanted from me is, when she hit a home run, that I would hug her,” Watten said. “I gave her a hug. It’s her day, she hit a home run, and that’s all she’s dreamed about.”

Though the Terps were victorious yesterday, they weren’t as fortunate Saturday. They dropped both games of a doubleheader to the Hokies, 3-0 and 8-6. But while the series loss continued the Terps’ rough season, the weekend was also a celebration for Beards and outfielder Amanda McCann, who was honored Saturday.

“Those are the types of kids that are rare to programs,” Watten said.

“You find them here and there. But I’ve got two graduating this year that are just much the same. You see Candice: She’s always smiling.

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OUTFIELDER AMANDA MCCANN (55) scored two runs and drew three walks in Game 2 of the series with Virginia Tech at Maryland Softball Stadium. alik mcintosh/the diamondback always upbeat, and she absolutely works harder than anyone I’ve seen in my life.”

The first 100 fans in attendance Saturday were given yellow T-shirts bearing McCann’s name. The senior went 0-for-3 in the first game but had three walks and scored two runs in Game 2.

While the spotlight was on the senior leaders this weekend, the

Terps received bad news about one of their top younger players. Shortstop Lindsey Schmeiser, the 2013 ACC Freshman of the Year, will miss the remainder of the season with a torn meniscus.

“It’s awful,” Watten said. “She’s a big-time leader out on the field. It’s awful just for her. I hate seeing her in that place. She works so hard and is so passionate and wants to be out there so

badly. It’s all she wants in her entire life.”

Kaitlyn Schmeiser pitched in all three contests this weekend and threw a combined 12.2 innings while allowing four earned runs.

She threw seven innings of threerun ball in Game 1, but Virginia Tech pitcher Kelly Heinz held the Terps (6-32, 4-13 ACC) to one hit and a walk to outdo the junior hurler.

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Midfielder Henry West helped the Terps to a 6-3 lead by halftime of their win over Notre Dame. photo courtesy of joseph weiser/notre dame athletics

IRISH From PAGE 8 settled the ball and started passing it around the formation. They maintained control of the ball for more than 90 seconds before West scored with a turnaround righthanded jump shot.

Raffa won the ensuing faceoff, and the Terps again had a long possession that attackman Mike Chanenchuk finished by finding the back of the net.

“We definitely made some strides there,” Tillman said.

“In the first two possessions of the game, we were much more poised. I thought we were a little more selective. We were really trying to work for a good, quality shot.”

Attackman Conor Doyle answered for Notre Dame with 10:54 remaining in the first quarter, but Chanenchuk added his second goal of the game with 38.3 seconds left in the quarter during an extra-man opportunity to

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trouble in the second game, Heinz trotted back in for relief work in the fifth inning. The Terps had trimmed their deficit to 4-3 and were threatening with runners on first and second.

The next batter, catcher Shannon Bustillos, calmly stepped into the batter’s box and sent the first pitch she saw over the left-field fence to give the Terps a 6-4 lead.

“They were trying to slow the game down,” Bustillos said. “Being able just to pick it right back up and get a little momentum on our side [was] huge.”

But the lead would be short-lived.

Virginia Tech stormed back and plated four runs over the next two innings to take the contest, 8-6.

Bustillos homered again yesterday, sending a ball to nearly the same spot over the left-field fence in the sixth inning to cap the Terps’ scoring in the 8-1 win.

That home run gave Bustillos 101 career RBIs, which placed her in a tie for eighth place in program history with Beards. Still, Beards wasn’t concerned about her position in the record books when she circled the bases yesterday.

McCann said she and Beards are the only players from their original six-member recruiting class to remain in College Park.

And as Terps fans cheered after her long ball, Beards was merely intent on celebrating with her coach.

“I’m very touchy,” Beards said. “I watched something, and I forgot who said it, but the touchiest teams win.”

give the Terps a 3-1 lead.

The attackman helped the Terps add another goal with 13:36 remaining in the half by dodging to his left and drawing a Fighting Irish defender before dumping to attackman Matt Rambo, who was wide open on the crease.

The teams traded goals during the final 13 minutes of the second quarter. Chanenchuk capped off the sequence by scoring his third goal of the game with 5.7 seconds remaining in the half to give the Terps a 6-3 lead entering the break.

“Whenever he gets going, he really sparks the whole team,” Cannizzaro said of Chanenchuk, who failed to score a goal for the first time all season against the Blue Jays.

“We really rally behind him, so it was really good for him to get going in the beginning of the game.”

The Terps got a break to start the second half when a pass from West intended for midfielder Bryan Cole bounced untouched into the back of the net to give them a 7-3 lead with

fensive production. The switch didn’t stop Glaros, though.

The midfielder sprinted From PAGE 8 toward the cage and fired a wouldn’t score again for more bounce shot past Sieger for than 15 minutes, but the Terps her third goal of the contest offense didn’t slow down. They with 11:37 remaining in the beat Hokies goalkeeper Meagh first half. Virginia Tech’s Graham on eight of their first struggles in net persisted, nine shots of the game to take with the Terps scoring 13 times on 16 first-half shots. an 8-3 lead.

“We have definitely been After cutting the Terps’ lead struggling a lot with shooting, to 8-4, the Hokies subbed in goalkeeper Hannah Sieger in hitting pipes,” midfielder Halle hopes of limiting the Terps’ of- Majorana said. “Today we were

12:37 remaining in the third quarter.

Notre Dame attackman Matt Kavanagh netted his second goal of the game with 1:55 left in the quarter, though, beginning a string of four straight goals to tie the score at eight with 11:36 left in regulation.

However, the Terps held the ball for long periods down the stretch and Raffa’s dominant performance allowed the team to keep possession. They rattled off four goals in the final 8:51 of the fourth quarter while limiting the Fighting Irish’s offensive chances.

With Notre Dame unable to mount a comeback, the Terps claimed the top seed in the ACC tournament.

“We were just being calm,” Cannizzaro said. “We didn’t want to force anything and g ive the m op p ortu nitie s back. We just wanted to take our time and work for the best shot. And ultimately, at the end of the game, that really helped us out.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

runs and start the team’s comeback. White laid down a suicide squeeze — the first of three on the weekend — to plate the go-ahead run in a three-run seventh.

An inning later, Cuas’ team-leading fifth homer helped the Terps to their first series-opening win since a March 21 victory over then-No. 10 N.C. State.

The win was also the Terps’ second straight triumph after their opponent scored first. Before an 11-4 victory over Navy on April 16, the Terps were 0-11 when opponents scored the first run.

“Good teams play well from behind, and obviously this week we’ve done that,” Szefc said Friday. “To our pitchers’ credit, too, we haven’t been down five to nothing.”

The Terps again relied on solid starting pitching and a late offensive surge Saturday.

They struggled to produce with runners in scoring position, but two runs in the eighth and right-hander Mike Shawaryn’s solid start lifted the team to a 4-1 win.

Shawaryn, who had lost two of his past three starts, had a career-high nine strikeouts and allowed one run in six innings. The freshman leads the Terps with a 7-2 record and a 2.63 ERA. While the Terps tallied 11 hits Saturday and put runners at third with one out in three of the first five innings, they relied on a double play and a wild pitch to score their first two runs.

In the eighth, left fielder T im Lewis, who entered

“WE HAVE DEFINITELY BEEN STRUGGLING A LOT WITH SHOOTING, HITTING PIPES. TODAY WE WERE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE AND FOUND THE BACK OF THE NET REALLY WELL.”

third baseman jose cuas hit his team-leading fifth home run of the season to help seal the Terps’ 7-2 victory over No. 25 Georgia Tech on Friday night. alik mcintosh/the diamondback t h e we e k e n d w i t h z e ro and then turn those 16 hits RBIs, picked up his third into 10 runs,” White said.

RBI of the series, and right While the Terps couldn’t fielder Anthony Papio, who polish off an ACC sweep, entered the game as a defen- they rode late offensive sive replacement, executed rallies and solid starting another suicide squeeze to pitching to wins in Games put the Terps ahead, 4-2.

1 and 2 that helped them But yesterday the Yellow move into a better position Jackets scored seven runs in with the ACC tournament the 12th inning to hand the looming in a month. And Terps a 13-6 loss. While the they enter the just more offense continued to put than three final weeks of the runners on — the Terps tied a regular season after a valuseason-high with 16 hits — its able series victory. recent struggles with runners “From last Saturday’s game in scoring position continued. with Virginia Tech on, we’ve The Terps stranded 13 and played pretty well,” Szefc said didn’t score after the sixth yesterday.“Our guys played hard inning. They also committed through the week. I think we a season-high four errors, part really got to a much better team of an uncharacteristically poor this week, from Virginia Tech defensive performance. on. We played our best from last “It’d be nice if we could Saturday through today.” produce with runners in scoring position a little more psuittsdbk@gmail.com

her to the ground. She finished off the shot to cap her senior day with her fifth goal of the game.

G laros’ goal sparked a scoring run in which the Terps HALLE MAJORANA scored five goals in less than Terrapins women’s lacrosse midfielder two-and-a-half minutes to all on the same page and found bench, though, the Hokies initiate a running clock with the back of the net really well.” s c o re d fo u r u n a n swe re d 14:11 remaining.

Once again Reese brought With a 13-6 advantage at the goals to cut the Terps’ lead break, Reese made a switch in to five. The starters returned her starters to the bench, but net of her own, bringing in and Glaros earned a free- this time they remained there.

Emily Kift for the second half. position shot after a hard And Glaros, who dominated on With the starters on the Virginia Tech foul knocked Senior Day, was able to rest for

the final minutes as the Terps coasted to a commanding victory in their final regularseason game as members of the ACC. “ T h ey a re d e f i n i te ly a group that has such great personality and they contribute so much to the team that it’s sad to see them leave,” Majorana said. “But at the same time, recognizing them is awesome.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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ENDING ON A HIGH NOTE The Terrapins tennis team enters the ACC tournament after beating N.C. State yesterday. For more, visit diamondbackonline.com.

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Late runs spearhead series win Terps take first two games over ACC foe No. 25 Georgia Tech

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer With runners on second and third base in the eighth inning Friday night, the Terrapins baseball team looked set to add to its 4-2 lead over No. 25 Georgia Tech when Jose Cuas stepped into the batter’s box. Seconds later, the third baseman trotted around the bases after his homer over the left-field fence sealed the Terps’ 7-2 victory.

Just like Cuas’ home run provided insurance Friday, the Terps used another late rally Saturday against the Yellow Jackets at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium to secure their second ACC series victory of the season. Though the Terps didn’t produce late runs yesterday and failed to complete a series sweep, they still gave themselves a cushion for fourth place in the Atlantic Division.

“It’s a tough loss today,” center fielder Charlie White said yesterday. “It hurts, but overall, we took two of three and won the series, and that’s what we are looking to do every weekend.”

The Terps (24-14, 9-11 ACC) overcame an early 2-0 deficit Friday and scored six runs in the seventh and eighth while right-hander Jake Stinnett threw 141 pitches in his second straight complete game to halt the Yellow Jackets (25-16, 11-10), who entered the series having won nine of 10.

Stinnett struggled early and allowed two runs in the first two innings, but after that, he didn’t allow another hit until the eighth and finished with 10 strikeouts.

Though the Terps sealed the game on Cuas’ deep blast, coach John Szefc turned to small ball to manufacture See JACKETS, Page 7

MIDFIELDER BETH GLAROS was the Terps’ only senior to start more than two games this season. She finished the season with 37 goals. stephanie natoli/the diamondback

ATTACKMAN TIM ROTANZ (right) and the Terps beat Notre Dame on Saturday to earn the No. 1 seed in the ACC tournament, which begins this weekend at PPL Park in Chester, Pa. photo courtesy of joseph weiser/notre dame athletics

WORTH THE WAIT

Patient offense leads to victory over Fighting Irish to secure ACC regular-season championship

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer The Terrapins men’s lacrosse team was tied with Notre Dame in the fourth quarter of Saturday afternoon’s contest in South Bend, Ind., when midfielder Henry West dodged past Fighting Irish midfielder Tyler Brenneman and rifled a shot on the run.

West’s shot banged off the right post before bouncing back into play. But Terps midfielder Joe LoCascio scooped up the rebound, sprinted down the left alley and finished a left-handed shot into the top right corner past the shoulder

of Notre Dame goalkeeper Conor Kelly.

LoCascio’s score with just less than nine minutes remaining sparked a run that sealed the No. 7 Terps’ 12-8 victory over the No. 8 Fighting Irish, a win that clinched the ACC regular-season title.

Attackman Connor Cannizzaro scored three unanswered goals in the final 7:44 of the fourth quarter to close out the victory before an announced 2,242 at Arlotta Stadium.

“I’m proud of our guys for hanging in there and not getting too flustered,” coach John Tillman said.

“Just getting some momentum back and fighting.”

Similar to their match at Johns Hopkins on April 12, Tillman encouraged the Terps — who

will face the Fighting Irish again Friday in the opening round of the ACC tournament in Chester, Pa. — to adopt a patient offensive approach.

Against the Blue Jays, the Terps didn’t follow through on Tillman’s demands and appeared hasty and out of sync in an eventual five-goal loss. But while battling the Fighting Irish (6-5, 2-3 ACC), the Terps (10-2, 4-1) executed the game plan properly.

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Glaros nets five goals in Senior Day victory Midfielder helps offense post season-high output in final regular-season home game

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer Before its regular-season finale Saturday afternoon, the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team recognized its six-member senior class which played a variety of roles for the team.

But midfielder Beth Glaros was the lone senior to start more than two games this season.

After the pregame ceremony and pictures, the focus remained on the

team’s lone senior starter. Glaros posted a first-half hat trick to lead the Terps to their highest-scoring half of the season with 13 goals.

The offensive outburst continued into the final 30 minutes, and Glaros finished with five goals to power the No. 1 Terps to their season-best scoring total in a 22-12 Senior Day win against Virginia Tech at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex.

“It was nice to go out on my senior game scoring,” Glaros said. “But I mean, we just tried to play Maryland lacrosse all day and just focus on our team.”

Glaros finished fourth on the team in goals this season with a career-best 37. The Ellicott City native joined midfielder Jen Mendez, attacker Mary Angstadt and defender Annie Farrell as the four active seniors to start in their final regular-season game. Midfielder Amalie Trentzsch and attacker Kelsey Horton were also honored before the game but haven’t been active this season.

Fittingly, Glaros opened the scoring for the Terps (16-1, 6-1 ACC) less than a minute into the game. She found the

back of the net again a few minutes later in a stretch during which the Terps scored three times in a 36second span to take an early 4-1 lead over Virginia Tech (7-9, 0-7).

“She is always very entertaining,” coach Cathy Reese said. “But she makes some things look pretty easy too. She can just run by people and stick it in the upper corner, so she had a great game today.”

After her second goal, Glaros

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