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colony. After surviving the winter, the apiary’s bees are thriving and will soon be joined by eight more hives, putting the group one step closer to producing enough honey to sustain the club.

Members hope to develop a “Terps Bees” brand of honey products and beeswax candles, similar to the

Identification checks on Shuttle-UM buses, drunken driving prevention and sexual assault education are some of the potential safety priorities highlighted in this year’s Campus Safety Report, presented Wednesday to the University Senate.

The annual report from the senate’s Campus Affairs Committee — based largely on input from a March 12 community forum — comes on the heels of a February murder-suicide that left two students dead and another injured, plus a string of robberies earlier in the semester. Police have emphasized visibility in the weeks after the crimes, as both a crime deterrent and a comforting presence, said University Police spokesman Sgt. Aaron Davis.

“We are increasing our visibility in areas where students congregate, so the criminals will see that we’re there and think twice about committing a crime,” he said.

Although the university’s constant flow of information on safety issues can be frustrating at times, Senate Chairwoman Martha Nell Smith said, mobile and email police alerts are critical ways of making sure the university community knows about dangerous situations.

“If they weren’t there, we wouldn’t be informed about a lot [of] things,”

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Development would tear down Knox Boxes

By Teddy Amenabar Staff writer Yet another apartment complex could be coming to College Park if the city council approves plans for the Knox Village project.

Development company Toll Brothers unveiled preliminary plans for Knox Village, an apartment complex that would replace the Knox Boxes, at the College Park City Council’s work session Tuesday.

The development would provide roughly 1,500 beds. Plans for the apartment complex include retail spaces, a parking garage and outdoor recreational areas for students.

Once opened, Knox Village would provide middle-of-the-road pricing with various room options to fit every budget, developers said.

City officials zoned the land between Knox Road and Guilford Drive, which Toll Brothers recently purchased, for high-density housing. The area and zoning laws make the lot a perfect See village, Page 3

beekeepers at the university’s apiary on the roof of 251 North recently received a sustainability grant, allowing for more research and future expansion of the colony.

Eventually, the club hopes to sell branded “Terps Bees” honey products and work with Dining Services to provide the honey as a condiment. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

abuzz with potential University Apiary to add eight hives with new grant money, popularity helps out at the university’s apiary.

“You might think it would be scary to open up a hive if you have never done it before, but once you get into it, it can be very relaxing and enjoyable.”

The beekeeping club has rapidly grown in popularity on the campus, and with the help of a $9,600 grant from the Sustainability Fund, members are working toward expanding the university’s fragile

By Bradleigh Chance Staff writer To Andrew Garavito, there’s nothing like opening up a beehive and witnessing thousands of workers carrying out their perfectly timed dance.

“Each bee has a job, and when you open a hive, you can see them all working; it’s really cool,” said Garavito, a research assistant who

Adele’s offers online ordering for carryout Stamp Student Union restaurant sees 20 to 30 orders a day through website service

By Teddy Amenabar Staff writer By the end of each semester, the line of students waiting for a seat at Adele’s tends to wrap around the first floor of Stamp Student Union.

To provide students with a more convenient way to enjoy the restaurant’s cuisine, Dining Services officials recently unveiled a new online ordering system. Patrons can now order carryout items between 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. through the restaurant’s website, which Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple said should help cut down on wait times for carryout orders.

“This increases Adele’s reach to our student customers,” Hipple said.

“This really speeds up the process.”

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A few years ago, Adele’s launched a “hallway-to-go” menu of carryout items for patrons who craved Adele’s on the go, said Joe Mullineaux, Dining Services senior associate director.

“It wasn’t that user-friendly, because you had to come in to the restaurant, place your order and wait for it,” Mullineaux said.

The new option of ordering online will help make the carryout products more convenient, officials said. Now, a few weeks after starting up the new system, the restaurant is taking about 20 to 30 online orders a day, said Adele’s chef Ivory Kornegay.

She did not yet know exactly how many orders Adele’s received per day using the new system. Still, officials See ADELE’S, Page 3

SGA Candidates for the Time and Go parties debated Thursday on issues such as lobbying, open-source textbooks and helping off-campus students during final exams. Voting is open until Wednesday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

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By Sandra Müller Staff writer In 90 minutes of rapid-fire questions and back-and-forth debate Thursday night, the executive board candidates for the Go and Time parties

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underpinned the differences in their visions for the campus.

The Student Government Association-sponsored election debate featured the parties’ presidential hopefuls, incumbent Samantha Zwerling and Time Party candidate Noah Robin-

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son, and both party’s student affairs, academic affairs and financial affairs vice presidential candidates. Voting on Testudo is open until Wednesday.

Robinson repeatedly attacked Zwerling for having spent substantial time lobbying in Annapolis rather than focusing attention more singularly on the campus, while Zwerling criticized Robinson’s idea of creating a centralized online portal as unwieldy.

“Yes, we want to do things that take a while,” Robinson said. “But we will include students in these initiatives, and it will hugely change the face of the campus.”

“To say that we have not worked on campus is simply not true,” Zwerling said. “Yes, I think it is the best use of my time to keep college affordable.”

The debate spread six rounds of questions across the parties’ platforms and promises — often focusing on specific plans and strategies to achieve those goals.

An SGA elections board member asked Zwerling why her platform included some initiatives she’d previously set out and failed to accomplish, such as TerpsRide.

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Students at the apiary, home to the campus’ beekeeping group, learn about the vital role the insects play in the environment. Members gain practical beekeeping knowledge by learning how to maintain and later split the hives so the colonies can expand. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

APIARY From PAGE 1 popular Burt’s Bees products — and sell their goods at the Maryland Food Co-op in Stamp Student Union, farmers markets and the university’s convenience shops, said Jordan Arata, a freshman engineering major. Eventually, Dining Services plans to offer honey-infused ice cream and provide honey as a condiment in the dining halls, said Greg Thompson, Dining Services assistant director.

Students are also hard at work building and painting equipment they will use in “beeminars,” seminars in which students will learn how to keep bees and maintain the hives. After establishing the new hives, the apiary will eventually begin dividing them each year.

“Once we build our numbers, we plan on putting aside some hives for research,” Arata said. “Hopefully the entomology department can use this, including the grad students, for experiments.”

Students frequently see Arata with beekeeping equipment on the roof of 251 North and become curious. He then uses that curiosity to educate students about the apiary and the true nature and benefits of bees — a source of anxiety for many.

“I’ve had people come to

the ‘beeminar’ who are afraid of bees, and once they leave, they’re not afraid of bees anymore,” he said. “They’re actually more curious about them.”

By reaching out to the local beekeeping community — including the White House’s beekeeper — Arata has been working to build connections in the hope that someday, local beekeepers will come to the university to use its equipment, including expensive extractors most individual beekeepers cannot afford.

The apiary could also potentially help students start their own bee farms in their homes once they graduate, he added.

“We want to become a source of support for the beekeeping community,” Arata said. “Eight hives isn’t that much, but this is growing.”

Some students, like Jason Rubin, became involved with the apiary after learning what bees contribute to the environment. In 2007, beekeepers nationally began experiencing what researchers call “colony collapse disorder,” or a dramatic loss in colonies, according to a report in The New York Times.

Some farmers found half of their bees missing, presumably dead after they ventured out for food and pollen and never returned.

Not only do bees create honey, they also help farmers in the pro-

duction of a host of foods, from almonds and avocados to broccoli and squash. Yet between 2006 and 2007, colony collapse disorder killed about a third of the country’s honey bees, according to the USDA, and the losses continued the next winter worldwide. About $15 billion worth of produce in the United States would not be possible without pollinators such as bees, according to a 2009 report

by EatingWell Magazine.

“I’m a big advocate for sustainability and green environmental initiatives, and at first, I didn’t think much of beekeeping,” said Rubin, a freshman computer science major.

“I thought it was for people that just liked playing with insects.”

After helping open up a beehive and handling the drone of thousands of bees, freshman computer science and finance major Praneet Puppala said he learned to appreciate rather than fear the creatures. And with the apiary’s expanding activities, more students will have opportunities to turn their anxiety around.

“Once students learn more about beekeeping, what it consists of and its positive effect on the environment, they will be interested,” Rubin said. “The apiary will pull students in because of its distinctiveness.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

“I knew last year that I would have the opportunity to run again,” she said, and added that if re-elected, she could tackle those goals.

“Many things come up on the way that need to be done immediately,” Zwerling added in regard to the SGA helping launch Get Help UMD, which prompted students to share their stories about using the campus’s mental health resources. “When those things happen, you don’t stick to the plan.”

Robinson took a rebuttal, saying, “Reacting is not the real role of an SGA president, it is about being proactive.”

The debate directed another question toward Robinson’s role as an undergraduate senator, asking why he did not submit any of his platform initiatives to the body this year.

“I did not have the time,” Robinson said. “What is great is that I will be dropping everything to be the SGA president and to focus on the student body.”

In her rebuttal, Zwerling criticized Robinson for having taken on a leadership role by joining the senate without committing enough time to have an impact.

“It is shocking to me,” she said.

Both parties, however, found areas to partially agree on. The candidates for financial affairs vice president, the Go Party’s Andrew Aggabao and the Time Party’s Cameron Ross, said it was not the time to increase the student activities fee.

“Only 200 of 700 student groups apply for the money,” said Ross, who served on the SGA’s finance committee this year. “There are large amounts of funding left.”

Aggabao added the organization needs more time to test its rolling-basis funding allocation system, implemented this semester.

noah robinson, the Time Party’s candidate for Student Government Association president, spoke about his vision for the university in a debate Thursday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback “We need more data,” he said.

However, the two parties had differing views on the exploration of online and blended learning classes.

Meenu Singh, the Go Party’s candidate for academic affairs vice president, said, “Technology is not coming, it is right here,” emphasizing the need to adapt to these changes, and fast.

Meanwhile, the Time Party’s candidate, Stephanie Graf, emphasized a “need to use technology, but in the right way.”

Graf and Singh clashed again on the issue of open-source textbooks, one of the main topics on the Go Party’s agenda.

“It is a great idea, but not the only option,” Graf said, adding it would not be feasible to get faculty to write these books and make them accessible for their students soon.

However, Singh said they are the key to textbook affordability. They must be peer-reviewed to ensure they live up to the standards of traditional textbooks, she added.

The student affairs vice president candidates, Josh Ratner for the Go Party and Jonathan Lee for the Time Party, had the chance to express their differing ideas on commuters’ struggles to arrive at exams on time during finals week.

While Ratner’s plan calls for the university to provide on-campus

housing to students for that time, Lee said that could overburden dorms already squeezed for space.

Instead, Lee said, the SGA should tackle the problem of traffic by rerouting shuttles and making it easier to travel to the campus, which could help students get to early classes and exams.

When the debate turned toward the parties’ sustainability efforts, Lee and Ratner both mentioned the need to work on students’ use of bikes. But while Ratner emphasized the importance of bringing the Capital Bikeshare program to the campus, Lee said his first priority would be working with Facilities Management on the campus’s lack of bike lanes.

At the end of the debate, the Elections Board allowed a few questions from the audience.

Mike Lichtenberg, chairman of the SGA’s constitution and bylaws committee, asked whether each party was open to integrating members of the opposing party into their cabinet if elected.

“If they are the most qualified for the job, then yes,” Zwerling said. Robinson added he especially offered Zwerling a position in his cabinet to give her the opportunity to lobby in Annapolis while the SGA president could keep the focus on the campus. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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ADELE’S

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O ve r t h e past few weeks, developers have been meeting with university and city officials to gather feedback and knox road may see a new student housing development, Knox Village, come up with open as early as fall 2016, developers said. file photo/the diamondback detailed site plans that appeal to both groups.

“We’re going through, we’re trying to solicit feedback, we are From PAGE 1 trying to understand what the location for a student housing neighborhood wants,what we want project like Knox Village, said city to provide,” Keyser said.

At the Tuesday meeting, Economic Development Coordicity council officials got a first nator Michael Stiefvater.

“I think it has always been a site glimpse of the project plans from that a lot of people have envisioned Bob Keane, who designed South as a more dense, most likely student Campus Commons and works as housing development,” Stiefvater the managing principal of WDG said.“Given its proximity to campus Architecture, which designed and also [because] it’s not near any University View I, Oakland Hall of the residential neighborhoods,” and Prince Frederick Hall. Keane If development goes according to emphasized the importance of plan, the apartment complex could connecting Knox Village back to open as early as fall 2016, according the university, saying the buildings to Toll Brothers Commercial Ac- should mimic the architecture of quisitions and Development Vice well-known university buildings.

“The visions for this project has President Richard Keyser. But, he added, it could take the company always been to almost be an extenlonger than that to complete the full sion of the campus,” Keane said.

The complex design is “bold and modern,” perfect for college students, said Keane.

“It’s kind of supposed to be a young, hip environment,” he added.

City officials voiced some concerns about the project, however. District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich said the building will be easily visible in the city, and the plans should take more into account than just the university’s architecture.

The city is quickly approaching a point of student housing saturation if university enrollment doesn’t increase, Stiefvater said. Knox Village and the proposed apartment complex above the Maryland Book Exchange might not feel the impact because of their close proximity to the campus, but other complexes may see more empty apartments if the supply outgrows the demand for off-campus housing.

“Maybe some of the [apartment complexes] that are a little further from campus may see some struggles,” Stiefvater said.

Once Knox Village and the Book Exchange apartments are built, Stiefvater said there will be a definite pause before the city considers any more private student housing developments.

District 3 Councilman Robert Day said the development would

be a step forward in improving the city’s appeal and continuing development could encourage students to live in the city after they graduate.

“This is something that could change the thought process in College Park,” Day said.

Private student housing projects also help bring business to College Park, Stiefvater said.

Without The Varsity, he said, the city wouldn’t have nearly the diversity or number of restaurants.

More retail space also opens up the possibility of having a grocery store near the campus, which College Park currently lacks, said Josh Ratner, city council student liaison.

“A grocery store would be huge,” Ratner said. “They’d be really smart to listen to students for that one demand.”

More apartment buildings could also mean more competition for student tenants, driving down leasing rates, Ratner added. And Knox Village would also help restore one of the most worn-down areas in the community, he said.

“This is the first major step in making us one of the top 20 college towns,” Ratner added. newsumdbk@gmail.com

plan to open online orders to the lunch business in the near future.

“We do get a lot of offices that are looking for something like this,” Mullineaux said.

To prevent the kitchen from having an overflow of incoming orders, Mullineaux said the system has an automatic shutoff. That ensures patrons in the restaurant are the staff’s first priority.

“There could be times when ‘Web food’ would not be available in the same way,” Mullineaux said. “We would not take carryout orders.”

The online ordering program has already been tested at the Dairy, but the program did not seem to be a popular option for patrons. Officials decided to take it to Adele’s instead.

“Adele’s is a more appropriate menu for the online food ordering because of the customer base,” Hipple said.

Alex Chase, a sophomore bioengineering major, said he tried the new system with his friends a few weeks ago after seeing advertisements for the program at the North Campus Dining Hall.

He said the site was easy to use, newsumdbk@gmail.com

SAFETY

to get to the campus and cause problems, he added.

“Are there other ways to get on the campus? Sure. The campus is open,” Davis said. “But we don’t want to give them quick transportation onto campus for free.”

The university has agreements in place with Hyattsville and other surrounding communities, Davis said, and the average campus visitor coming for a weekend visit with a friend would not be affected if IDs are checked.

“That’s not the sort of person we’re looking for,” he said.

Senators also discussed whether the campus could offer University Police-aided rape defense classes, something Davis said police had tried before but discontinued because of lack of interest.

“We initially got a lot of interest; a lot of people signed up for it. They would back out; they wouldn’t show up. Attendance was very poor,” he said.

The safety report also mentions a taxi service offered by university athletic teams.At some institutions, an audience member at the report’s presentation said, teams provide players with cars so they can pick up potentially intoxicated students during periods of “high partying.”

Sometimes such programs are free, and sometimes they come in exchange for an unspecified donation to the team. The program could help prevent drunken driving and serve as a team fundraiser at the same time, the forum member said.

Beyond larger program reforms, University Police Chief David

Mitchell offered four tips in the report to enhance campus safety on an individual level.

Mitchell emphasized the need for “situational awareness” — students’ understanding of their own surroundings — and encouraged students to guard personal property to avoid theft, not hesitate to call 911 in potential emergencies and not engage in “high-risk behavior.”

Officials stressed students should always call for police help in emergencies, and said they hoped the senate’s February passage of an expansion to the Good Samaritan policy — which offers protection from university sanctions to students who call for help for others in the case of alcohol-related incidents — to include drugs would encourage more students to reach

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From PAGE 1 Smith said. “I personally have found the campus police really responsive, and I think that’s a really terrific thing.”

Visibility and a consistent presence have been the force’s focus of late, Davis said, but the safety report also mentions a number of other potential safety-oriented reforms.

Simply raising awareness of existing safety programs such as NITE Ride and nighttime police escorts is a priority, said Sarah Heidt, the Campus Affairs Committee coordinator.

“This campus has a lot of resources that a lot of people don’t know about,” she said.

University Police are also collaborating with the Department of Transportation Services to enforce university identification checks for patrons boarding Shuttle-UM buses, Davis said. “[Several recent local arrests] came from people who came off the shuttle bus, who had no business being on campus, were not students, not faculty or anything of the sort,” Davis said.“They came on campus to make crimes.”

Shuttle drivers rarely check for university ID cards when passengers are boarding, even though the official policy states to check them.

“It’s a policy, but it’s a policy that’s not being followed,” Davis said.

Not checking IDs can give criminals a convenient, economical way

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but when finishing the order, Chase discovered the program was going to charge his Terrapin Express account instead of his dining points.

“I hope they get it fixed soon, because that would be an awesome way to order from Adele’s,” Chase said.

T h e re we re a co u p l e o f “hiccups” when the program first began, according to Dining Services officials.

“We have made adjustments,” Kornegay said. “We are just optimistic that it will keep growing and it will run as smoothly as it is right now.”

For some students,such as freshman bioengineering major Dakota Katz, trips to Adele’s are few and far between. When she does go to the restaurant, Katz would rather eat in than take her meal to-go.

“I only go to Adele’s to eat with other people,” Katz said. “I’d rather order from somewhere on Route 1, like order pizza.”

Students who live off the campus tend not to go to Adele’s, but senior communication major Marshall Pollack said he sees the program as a way to grab a quick dinner.

“It’s definitely a plus to just get in and out,” Pollack said.

out for help if necessary.

“I think safety is always something we need to work on, that you can never relax, but I do think we’ve made great strides,” Smith said.

Changing the perception some have of College Park as a crimeridden city is not a significant concern of the committee, Heidt said. Crime has declined throughout the county in recent years, although the university still faces challenges inherent to a modern institution in the heart of an urban, low-income area, Davis said.

“On any campus, the amount of crime is going to be less than in the surrounding area,” he said, “unless your campus is in the middle of a farm.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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JUGGLING

while riding atop his unicycle.

People sometimes ask him if they can try his unicycle. He has From PAGE 6 to deny them.

“Nobody has legs long enough “I ride past people and they say, ‘Dude, that’s awesome,’” said Riker. to reach the pedals,” he said.

He’s been juggling for about eight The sign announcing the years and can juggle up to six balls or four clubs (the bowling-pin-shaped Congress of Jugglers is a piece ones — but “if you call them pins, of loose-leaf paper stuck to the people will call you a pinhead,” he door of Ritchie Coliseum, written said) at one time. Now he knows in red marker.

Inside, it’s a circus — almost how to juggle poi — balls with tails that create circular patterns in the literally. One person is juggling air. He’s not very experienced with atop a long-board. Some are juggling across the top of a volleyball diabolo, but he can do it.

Riker started juggling simply net. Some are purists, juggling because he wanted to learn a new with two or three balls or clubs to skill. But all of it — unicycling, jug- the booms of typical arena-rock gling — he does to clear his mind. pump-up music. People of every Lessons learned from juggling size (younger kids to older adults) include, “What goes up, must and juggling equipment of every size (balls, clubs, rings) fill the come down,” he said.

He learned how to ride a unicycle gym’s length.

The Congress of Jugglers, held by holding on to two people as he pedaled,keeping concentration and this year in the first week of April, keeping focus. Now he can juggle is the 21st annual festival. It cel-

ebrates the art by inviting jugglers for a daylong event with free juggling lessons and a show performed by this university’s Juggling Club.

“It’s sort of like a religion,” said Barry Sperling of Fairfax County, Va. He and his club were crowded around a sign with a crest reading “Fairfax Jugglers,” near the left-side bleachers. He joked that his family were atheists, but he branched off to learn the “religion of juggling” at age 50. He’s proof that juggling clubs exist after college, too.

For Sperling, who’s been coming to the congress for almost the entire span of its existence, the event is pure fun. There’s nothing difficult about it, he said.

Bonding happens at the congress almost instantly. Scott Moore of Germantown, and Joe Kohlhaas of Fredericksburg, Va., tossed seven clubs between them after having just met, dropping some, keeping others afloat.

Moore’s love of juggling

evolved from tennis at a summer program. His roommate was a tennis player and juggled tennis balls. The hobby stuck.

“It’s not an ego thing for me,” Moore said.“For me, it’s like magic.

When you first see someone juggling, it’s like, ‘How the heck did they do that?’”

“I’m not sure there is any sport or activity that is still magic after you learn how to do it,” he added.

It’s like jazz, he said. Listeners have no idea what will happen as a jazz piece evolves, and that’s the beauty of it.

“I can’t play an instrument to save my life,” he said. “This, however, works out.”

Kohlhaas teased his new buddy lightly: “Could you really do that to save your life?”

Then, as if a lightbulb went on, Moore turned to me and posed an idea.

“It’s even better if you’re surrounded by it.”

Joseph Levesque, who works for the Department of Transportation Services, sometimes joins in when the university’s Juggling Club practices on the mall. charlie deboyace/the diamondback Before I knew it, I was between the two men, waiting and cringing — “Don’t flinch,” they said — ready for clubs to soar by. They told me to stand completely still and poised themselves.

One by one, clubs whizzed by my head. The thuds of the arena and the laughter of the jugglers

vanished. All that was left was the men in tandem with these agile clubs flying quickly, just missing my nose in the most beautiful way. I knew I was immune. I knew nothing would hurt me.

It was magic. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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SGA ELECTIONS

SGA presidential candidates NOAH ROBINSON My name is Noah Robinson, and I want to be your student body president for the 2013-14 school year. I arrived at this university eager to make the most of my college experience after coming out as gay at the end of high school. I never could have imagined how much I would get out of my three years here and next year, I want to give back to the campus community we’ve all grown to call our home.

I’ve inspired future Terps by giving tours, helped students through tough times as a peer counselor at the Help Center, put countless smiles on students’ faces by creating Maryland Compliments and lobbied for sexual assault prevention education for incoming students in the University Senate as a BSOS senator. Next year, I want to reform campus departments, improve the freshman experience and use technology to make our campus a more vibrant and welcoming place.

As a student body, we have a decision in front of us. SGA elections are underway, and it’s up to us to determine the path our campus will take going forward. What to Fix UMD has shown there are enough problems on our campus that our Student Government Association president must devote a significant portion of his or her time to address. Here’s what I want to do to enhance your college experience.

First, I want to combine our university websites, such as ELMS and Testudo, into one centralized portal. Once we have this portal, students will visit the same page every day. On this page, student groups will be able to let people know about interesting events and resources.

To do this, we’ll have incoming freshmen fill out an interest survey. If they so choose, they’ll be able to indicate their hobbies, academic interests, ethnic backgrounds and religious affiliations. No one will see specific information about students. Rather, clubs and organizations will be

able to target events to specific student populations. Say you’re interested in the outdoors.

You’d see events posted not only by the SGA’s student sustainability committee but also by student groups such as the Terrapin Trail Club.

I also want to address the issues many students have with Dining Services and the Department of Transportation Services. DOTS relies on parking ticket revenue for funding, and they have the technology to be extremely efficient at distributing tickets. But while they’re scanning license plates to find rule violators, why don’t they also scan open spaces and update a live app that shows free parking on the campus?

The ticket appeals process is also confusing and inefficient. The SGA will work with DOTS to improve the ticketing system to be more fair and transparent through the use of technology.

Dining Services is part of our university as a nonprofit organization, and it currently operates at a loss. It relies on taking extra dining points from students at the end of each semester in order to offset its costs. A service dedicated to students at our university should not have a business model relying on customer dissatisfaction. We will collaborate with Dining Services to improve services and increase student satisfaction.

To complement our focus on the campus, we want to continue the work in Annapolis that Samantha Zwerling has done this year.

Next year, I want Sam to work with the SGA to ensure the student voice continues to be heard in Annapolis. That way, the organization can stay focused on the campus while maintaining the SGA’s presence in advocating for college affordability and other universityrelated issues.

When it comes down to it, you have a choice over these three days. It’s time to decide whether you want a better campus tomorrow. Vote for the Time Party today.

Noah Robinson is the Time Party’s candidate for SGA president. He is a junior psychology major and former Diamondback columnist.

He can be reached at noahumd@gmail.com. To learn more about the Time Party’s campaign, visit www.timepartyumd.com.

SAMANTHA ZWERLING It’s that time of year again: the SGA elections.

I know you’ve been inundated with information, but I promise it’ll all be over Thursday, after which we can get back to our normally scheduled programming.

I am currently serving as your student body president and hope you’ll re-elect me so I can continue to strengthen the student voice.

Now, I’m not going to lie to you about what the Student Government Association can do. The SGA cannot magically make the parking ticket fees lower while simultaneously getting more bus routes. The SGA cannot change the way Dining Services operates so your dining points roll over each semester. These are not possible.

But what the SGA can do is give you more input in your education. This year we helped create two Dean’s Student Advisory Councils. Now students in the journalism school and the business school will have more say in the educational experience.

The SGA makes sure students are at the table.

To get a better understanding of what students want, we created What to Fix UMD, a Facebook and Twitter page in which students tell us what needs to be fixed. This has given students a chance to understand the SGA not only allocates money to student groups but can also make tangible changes. Just this week, we fixed a problem students are always complaining about: getting kicked out of McKeldin Library after 11 p.m. when they forget their student IDs. We persuaded the library to allow students to stay if they can prove they attend this university by logging in to Testudo.

Also, students want more benches. They asked for benches at the Montgomery Hall bus stop, and it’s happened. These are issues that affect the everyday life of students.

But I’ve also been working on bigger issues that have come from WTF UMD. One student pointed out that our university application does not use inclusive language. It asks you to identify your gender, and only gives you two options to choose from. Next year I’d like to implement a policy that says all university forms must have

other options when asking for gender. This is something the SGA can do. I view WTF UMD as a running to-do list. We’ve shown we’re very open to student feedback, and I genuinely believe this could change how the SGA interacts with students and university departments.

And finally, as you might have heard, I have also been in Annapolis a lot this year. I will never stop working to keep college affordable for students.

Students are busy and don’t have time to lobby for themselves — they’re in classes, they’re participating in student groups and they’re doing homework.

And if the SGA is not advocating on your behalf, who is? Who is going to make sure legislators know how important it is to keep college affordable? Who is making sure your voice is represented? That is the job of the student body president: to make sure you are heard, even when you’re not there. So although the SGA might be working on campus initiatives you’ll see while walking around the campus, my job is to work on things you’ll see when looking at your tuition bill. I am so proud I have been able to work with a fantastic team this year. While I was lobbying on your behalf in Annapolis, my team was still able to get you more benches and more input in your education.

One of the biggest impediments to our student advocacy efforts is that we’re here for such a short time. We are here for four years (hopefully), while administrators are here for 40. They can just wait us out and watch us flounder to figure out how the university works and how to make change. I’ve already been through that learning curve. I have already developed relationships and an understanding of how to get things done on the campus. The moment I’m re-elected is the moment we guarantee things still get done. Go vote Go Party!

Samantha Zwerling is the SGA president and candidate for the Go Party. She is a junior environmental science and policy major and can be reached at sgapresident@umd.edu. To learn more about the Go Party’s campaign, visit www.gopartyumd.com.

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The infamous sorority email: Offensiveness goes viral JAKE DeVIRGILIIS If you’re reading this like I told you, and you are also sitting in a chair, I want you to install one of those overhead restraints used for roller coasters because this is going to be a rough but fun ride, and safety is important.

By now, if you haven’t read the Delta Gamma listserv email leaked on the World Wide Web, you probably have your head stuck under a rock, much like the majority of the Delta Gamma chapter at this university — at least according to the author of the notorious email. It is also quite likely you are the kind of person one might describe as both literally boring and literally awkward. Let’s fix you.

If you’re a girl, there’s one easy route to make you more interesting, and that is by talking to boys and not girls. There are 361 days out of the year that are OK to talk to girls. That means there’s just one week, with only four days in it, in which you really should be talking to boys. It’s what the fun girls are doing.

If you are not a girl who’s willing to do this, or you’re just a boy, you should punch yourself in the face because you need to start living up to other people’s standards. It doesn’t matter if your entire family is doing something else. Your family members don’t know how to make people like them. Nothing is more important than being liked. Stop being yourself before you get punted in the only body part that rhymes with “punt.”

Violence is the only way to eliminate that particular breed of weird s---s in this world who do weird s--- during the day.

Though not explicitly stated in this fine piece of electronic mail, I think there are some other important lessons we might glean.

For example, if you hate the people you are paying to be friends with because they are busy living their lives, and you write a profanitylaced message insulting them, threatening them with violence and using language both homophobic and offensive to people with disabilities, you are horrible, I repeat, horrible PR for your sorority, all of Greek life, this university and the human race. Quit being a goddamn boner.

Another important lesson, if you’re a writer for a widely read blog and choose to reveal the name of someone who has made an admittedly terrible mistake to the entire world, thereby allowing the Internet at-large to completely invade this individual’s privacy, you are morally

VIEW Hey, ladies! Want to be interesting?

The Delta Gamma listserv email proves ‘cool’ is dangerous and that we need to forgive. bankrupt. Please, Jezebel, go back to the inane celebrity gossip and stop trying to ruin people’s lives. Another lesson: If you’re the president of a sports website, and you offer a random girl a job at a salary of her choosing because she found the caps lock key, well, there’s a lot wrong. Sure, the author of the email seems to have a rudimentary understanding of how to cheer for one team, but if you’re seriously that desperate for someone to explain it, you’re in the wrong biz.

There are other important lessons. Much like Los Angeles Lakers vice president of player personnel and every front man of Van Halen, this is a classic example of one person blowing it for everyone else. Don’t let this one mistake reflect too poorly on this university or her sorority. We also shouldn’t forget it’s important to forgive people, especially when their mistakes make their lives considerably more difficult. And considering the content of that message, let’s not rule out the possibility that maybe it’s time someone reached out to the email’s author and showed her what friendship is really about.

Jake DeVirgiliis is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at j.devirgiliis@gmail.com.

VIEW The controversial message reveals the desperate need to fix Greek life’s disturbing and coercive culture.

MARC PRIESTER Most people have found the email written by the Delta Gamma sorority member to be tremendously hilarious. News sources such as The Huffington Post went so far as to call it “incredible.”

I’m not laughing and neither should you. The rhetoric displayed by the email’s author was borderline sociopathic. However, underneath the blatantly horrendous language lays an even more troubling dynamic that is pervasive throughout Greek life: The culture is coercive by nature.

The expectations displayed in the email illuminated the conformity and obedience to norms that have become the cornerstone of Greek life.

From the matching tote bags and Greek-lettered shirts, to the very fact that the organizations are inundated with white, well-off students, the idea of uniformity has been a consistent pattern.

The author merely succeeded in revealing these expectations of oneness in a way that was obscene but nonetheless true. You are expected to “please” Sigma Nu; you are expected to cheer for whom they tell you to, and you are expected to party and socialize where superiors determine. Your destiny is no longer your possession — autonomy is crucified and replaced by Pleasantville-esque homogeneity.

Granted, a wide variety of social organizations suffer from similarly coercive cultures. However, what makes Greek life distinctively pernicious is

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the unquestioning loyalty required of its members. I already mentioned the mandatory physical uniformity, but this effect is exacerbated by the nature of the pledging process and how it indoctrinates new members to unconditionally and irrationally value the image and ideology of the organization. The email was never intended to be publicized. Why? Because Greek culture expects members never to engage in behavior that exposes the atrocities of the organization, regardless of the emotional or mental abuse that is perpetrated.

The embolic fluid of lies sustains this culture of coercive conformity. The secretive nature of these organizations precludes the public from ever meaningfully scrutinizing their troubling conduct.

Behind the opulent closed doors of fraternity and sorority houses lie reprehensible practices neither you nor I may adequately criticize insofar as they are enigmatic. We receive minute rays of light revealing indecent actions, such as shocking emails or racist party photos when they leak on the Internet. But how much more do we not know? Behind the sorority smiles and group handshakes lies a crooked culture shrouded in hazy mist.

This culture leads to dubious consequences that ought to disgust any rational human being. The patriarchal relationship between sororities and fraternities establishes gender and sexual norms wholly contingent on female subordination and exploitation — to such an extent that women are valued as sexual commodities. The obvious end result is rape culture, which is beyond objectionable.

What’s most abhorrent is our unwillingness as a collegiate society to sufficiently address these issues by fully critiquing these establishments. I understand some Greek organizations are exponentially more maleficent than others, but until we challenge the entirety of the culture to self-reflect, we will continue the perpetual manifestations of conformist ideologies that the author of the email championed and continue to absolve the laundry list of troubling behaviors we have seen in hazing practices and alcoholism.

This column is not meant to act as a death sentence to Greek life, but as a concerned university student and citizen’s call for Greek life to concede its problematic elements and actively open a discourse to implement revolutionary change.

Marc Priester is a sophomore economics and government and politics major. He can be reached at marcpriester@gmail.com.

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You are sometimes quick to fall in love, and very slow to see the error of your ways -- if, indeed, an error is made.

When it comes to matters of the heart you tend to be rather flighty and even inconstant, but you and your partners will surely enjoy yourselves -- if only for a short time.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Now is no time to raise your voice or get defensive in any way. Take what comes, and try to appreciate it for what it offers you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- A memory has you making decisions today that might not be in your own best interest -- at least in the short-term.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Someone is likely to hang on your every word today, so you must take care that you don’t say something you don’t want heard or remembered.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Take a leaf out of your own book today -- without copying yourself point for point -- and you’ll manage just fine in most things.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- You may discover today, at last, that what you have is far more valuable to you than what you think you want. Count your blessings!

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You may be quite far from the truth, without even knowing it.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Simple is best for you today, and anyone who tells you otherwise is best avoided. Indeed, it’s time to think about what’s best in all things.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -Keep going, for today you may pass a milestone that has you excited about where you’ve been and what’s to come. A friend says “yes.”

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Staff writer Emily Thompson memorializes indie rock group Deerhunter, which will play at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington today, while staff writer Joe Antoshak talks to Jessie Clavin of pop-punk sister duo Bleached, which played DC9 on Thursday. For more, visit diamondbackonline.com.

FEATURE | THE JUGGLING CLUB

ball so hard Juggling has evolved into a community of people engrossed in the idea of pure fun, whether it be with balls, clubs, knives or fire

By Beena Raghavendran Senior staff writer They always juggle, no matter the odds — even on days when the rain is too strong, the weather is too chilly and the wind is too blustery. But in that weather, the Juggling Club is stuck inside.

The members relocate to room 0116 or 0117 in Reckord Armory, places that are classic Armory: yellowed, weathered desks, dollar-green chalkboards, limited space.

Yet the club makes the room its own. As entertainers who adapt quickly, these people know how to make it work — they cram the desks into the back of the room to make floor space, prop speakers up on the blackboard’s chalk ledges, sprawl out with laptops and notes and take off their shoes to get comfortable.

On a rainy Tuesday evening in late February, “Rolling in the Deep” cranked out of the speakers in 0117. Looming midterms had taken most of the club prisoner, even three of the five regulars.

They apologized for being boring and doing their homework as they watched the other two juggle, mouthing along to the Adele song.

They call their biweekly meet-ups “club,” and refer to it casually: “Is there club today?” It’s all done simply, a friendly reminder of the club’s more than 25-year history and the community that revolves around this single word. Club is the circle of life in the ultimate sense: Veteran jugglers pass down old tricks to newbie jugglers; the newbies one day become the veterans.

Heidi Thalman, a senior communication major, describes her juggling journey as a determined one: She woke up one morning and decided it was the

day she would learn how to juggle. She tried for 10 straight hours, she said, and still hadn’t perfected it. So she kept trying, and now she can fire-juggle, tossing flaming objects through the air with ease.

“We’re all casual jugglers here,” she said, twirling a club in her hand. “It’s not our dying passion to go onstage and perform. It’s our hobby — something to relax.”

They’re all buddies. Shabai Liu, a freshman computer science major, rooms with freshman animal sciences major Cody Silva, and sophomore mechanical engineering major Vincent Wu lives on their floor. All three are club regulars.

Sara Shen, a sophomore computer science major, joined because Wu joined.

“I like the environment,” she said. “These are the people I’m around, regardless of whether I’m in club or not.”

Upon hearing the commotion and seeing the clubs and other objects whizzing in the air, passersby took curious looks into the basement Armory room, only to keep walking. The club members’ conversations digressed, overlapping and meshing together into a single story of the community every Tuesday and Friday.

“Feel like you’re in a class with a really old professor yet?” Thalman asked.

A rainbow-colored umbrella remained open in the corner of the room that day, a reminder of the dreariness outside. And still, the speakers blasted, the friends joked and the clubs soared.

The act of tossing props in the air dates back to ancient Egyptian times, from about 1990 to 1700 B.C., based on research done by Arthur Lewbel, a professor at Boston College. Juggling was promi-

the juggling club practices twice a week near the sundial on the mall — if the weather’s nice. Here, senior communication major Heidi Thalman tempts danger while DOTS staff member Joseph Levesque (left) and senior theatre major Daniel Riker (right) juggle over her. charlie deboyace/the diamondback nent in several other ancient cultures around the world, too. Vaudeville captured the art form in the 19th century but wasn’t able to transition with the majority of the entertainment world to radio; juggling fell with it, but rose again with television.

Now it has evolved into several different types, forms and hand patterns.

Senior psychology major Sophie Jablansky, president of the Juggling Club, picked up the art at 10 years old and got much better after joining the club at this university. She has just finished organizing the Congress of Jugglers, an annual convention the club hosts for juggling enthusiasts.

To Jablansky, the unifying link between different forms of juggling is object manipulation — whether it’s with clubs, rings or unicycles. Blake Waybright, a juggler from York, Pa., who visited this university during the Congress of Jugglers, said the umbrella of juggling breaks down into two categories: flow sports (hula hoops, poi, balancing acts) and throwing sports (rings, clubs, balls). Jugglers, too, are separated into different groups — the technical jugglers committed to the careful execution of steps and the performance-based jugglers who do it for more of an entertainment purpose.

Thalman, a fire-juggler, is familiar with dif-

ferent styles of juggling — for example, combat juggling involves jugglers who try to interfere with one another’s juggling and can evolve into zombie combat, trying to knock other jugglers’ clubs out of the air as they themselves walk around and juggle.

Wu, a regular juggler, has been mastering a style called diabolo since middle school. The tricky form involves flipping a yo-yo-like spool back and forth on a string with two sticks to create a spinning effect.

Juggling hasn’t caught on widely, but Jablansky is confident people will love it if they give it a try.

It has a weird vibe, associated with circus clowns and the like. But it forms a community that bonds people together over a quirky art form, she said.

Daniel Riker owns a unicycle, a jester’s hat and several articles of colorful clothing. The senior theatre major has a quiet smile and a glint of mischief in his eyes. His hair is a wavy intermediary between gold and bronze. He’s lanky. His fellow jugglers call him “the magical pixie that spreads happiness across campus.”

He is the unicycle guy.

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BULLDOGS From PAGE 8 It started early, too, as the Bulldogs fired off five shots to the Terps’ one in the game’s first 10 minutes and held a decisive 7-2 advantage in ground balls. But Amato helped the Terps hold a 2-1 advantage at the end of the first quarter.

At the beginning of the second, referees measured Yale midfielder Mark Glicini’s stick

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and found it was too long. The illegal crosse penalty gave the Terps a man advantage for the first three minutes of the period.

Attackman Owen Blye took advantage, notching two goals in a blistering five seconds to give his team a quick 4-1 lead.

But when the Terps (9-2) were forced to face the Bulldogs (8-4) at full strength, their offense struggled with the limited opportunities it had.

“When you don’t get as

Collins notched a game-high six controls.

They used those possessions From PAGE 8 to dominate the Hokies (8-7, 0-5) times before the Hokies’ first goal. on the scoreboard and entered After the teams traded halftime with a 10-3 lead.

“We really made it a focus to tallies, the Terps powered through the Hokies’ defense focus on the little things,” Aust for three consecutive scores to said. “I think we put in a little make it 9-2 with 8:10 remain- extra energy.”

The second half was more ing in the first period, a nearly insurmountable deficit given of the same, with the Terps tallying four of the half’s first a stout Terps defense.

The Terps (17-0, 5-0 ACC) five goals.

Midfielder Brooke Griffin followed up poor draw control play in their two previous con- scored the Terps’ final goal tests with an overpowering with 13:43 remaining as the effort in the first half, corral- lead ballooned to 10, sealing ling 10 of the period’s 15 op- the Hokies’ fate.

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many possessions as you’re used to,” Chanenchuk said, “it’s tough to get into a rhythm.”

The Terps took a 5-3 halftime lead thanks to a third Blye goal, but it wouldn’t last.

Yale came out of the locker room with overwhelming energy and notched a pair of scores in the first two minutes of the third quarter to tie the game.

The Bulldogs would continue to control possession for the rest of the game, and the Terps’

for goalkeeper Abbey Clipp to spell starter Kasey Howard, who had quietly stopped three shots against a stagnant Hokies offense in the final outing of her breakout senior campaign.

Virginia Tech rarely threatened Howard or Clipp. It never trimmed the Terps’ advantage to less than four after the Terps took a 5-1 lead halfway through the first half.

With the regular season over, the Terps will now shift their focus to the winner of a first-round ACC tournament tilt between Duke and Virginia.

The Terps made easy work of the two ACC foes earlier in

offense sputtered in response.

Amato never let the Bulldogs pull away, but Yale held a 7-6 advantage with five minutes left.

“We knew this was going to be tough, but I liked the fact that there was no pressing, there was no negativity,” Tillman said. “We talked in the huddles, like, ‘We’re going to come back.’”

The Terps remained poised, and attackman John Carlson finally beat Yale goalkeeper Eric

the season, outscoring them by a combined mark of 33-16.

While those two victories contributed to the Terps’ undefeated season, the wins didn’t help bring home any postseason hardware.

Neither did Saturday’s win at Virginia Tech, but it was an achievement that brings the Terps another step closer to the ultimate goal of a national championship.

“It’s a huge accomplishment,” Reese said. “Our goal is to keep getting better. We’ve had a great season. I think our best lacrosse is yet to come.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

Natale for the tie with less than five minutes to play.

The frantic finish that followed helped the Terps earn a win before starting the ACC tournament Friday.

Still, Tillman pointed out things his squad needs to fix.

The third-year coach said the Terps won’t win many games playing the way they did against Yale, and the offense hasn’t found a rhythm in recent weeks.

But while the Terps haven’t

shown the same dominating streak that defined their sixgame winning streak to open the season, they also proved they could win even when posting a subpar performance.

“I’m just happy we were the ones jumping up and down and not them,” Amato said minutes after Yale’s last shot ricocheted off the post. “There is no style points as long as we win.”

HOKIES

“If you don’t perform, you lose. If you’re going to win a game or a series, you have to deserve to win.”

From PAGE 8 before left fielder Anthony Papio crushed a two-run home run — his team-leading third of the season — over the right field fence to tie the game, 8-8. The Hokies took a 9-8 advantage in the eighth on a fielder’s choice, but Papio responded again in the bottom of the ninth.

Pinch hitter Andrew Amaro walked to lead off the inning, and first baseman LaMonte Wade followed with a single. Third baseman Kevin Martir then dropped down a sacrifice bunt that Hokies reliever Clark Labitan fielded and threw wildly to third.

With the bases loaded and the infield playing on the grass, Papio singled through the right side, scoring Wade and Amaro to seal a 10-9 victory.

“It was a great team win,” Papio said. “My teammates gave me a chance, set it up for me that inning and gave me a chance to get it done. That was a great offensive effort as a group.”

The second game in Saturday’s doubleheader started just 30 minutes later, but it appeared as though a different Terps (21-20, 6-15 ACC) team was on the diamond.

Right-hander Brady Kirkpatrick lasted just 3.2 innings, surrendering seven runs on nine hits, and the bullpen allowed an additional four runs over the final 5.1 innings. The Terps’ offense mirrored the pitchers’ struggles, as two Virginia Tech (24-17, 9-12) pitchers three-hit them in an 11-0 loss.

The squad failed to produce

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Schmeiser was dominant in Game 1, allowing just two hits in a shutout. The Eagles managed five hits against the sophomore in Game 3 on Sunday, but she let up a combined one hit to the top four batters in the lineup and prevented the Eagles from starting early rallies.

The solid pitching took pressure off of the offense, too, and allowed the Terps to feel comfortable at the plate.

“We can go up and swing,” infielder Juli Strange said. “If we have a lead or we’re tied, you just go up there — no pressure, nothing. You’re just swinging.”

Strange displayed her aggressive mindset in the bottom of the fifth inning yesterday when she whacked an inside pitch over the center field fence for a two-run homer to clinch a run-rule victory. Bustillos went 3-for-3, too, including a two-RBI single that put the Terps on the board in the first.

The Terps weren’t able to play with a lead in Game 2 on Saturday, though. In fact, Martin conceded six runs without retiring a batter to start the game.

She started with a fourpitch walk, then a hard line drive to right field popped out of outfielder Amanda McCann’s glove. After three hits resulted in four runs, Eagles infielder Ronnie Mae Ayers cracked a two-run homer to left field, ending Martin’s weekend in the circle.

“I wanted to be able to leave her in that inning to … let her know I had confidence in her,” Watten said. “But I also had to get her out so we could try to get back into the game.”

Utility player Lexi Carroll re-

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JOHN SZEFC

Terrapins baseball coach at the plate yesterday as well.

Despite getting another quality start from converted closer Jake Stinnett — seven innings, three earned runs and six strikeouts — the Terps could not provide the necessary run support.

Back-to-back triples from center fielder Charlie White and shortstop Blake Schmit and a sacrifice fly from right fielder Jordan Hagel in the fifth inning constituted the squad’s run production in a 3-2 loss.

“You get what you deserve in this game,” Szefc said. “If you don’t perform, you lose. If you’re going to win a game or a series, you have to deserve to win.”

Despite the gloomy outlook for the Terps’ postseason aspirations, Szefc’s squad is not mathematically out of the ACC tournament. The team has nine games remaining against Duke, Clemson and Boston College and is three games out of eighth place for the final spot.

And despite the struggles of the conference slate and the end of the schedule in sight, the goal remains the same.

“We’re still focused on the ACC tournament,” White said.

“We still have nine ACC games left and anything can happen, so we’re just going to go out game by game and play hard.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

“If we have a lead or we’re tied, you just go up there – no pressure, nothing. You’re just swinging.”

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Terrapins softball infielder placed Martin, and the Terps slowly chipped away from there. Bustillos had a two-run double in the fifth to make it 8-4, and a solo shot from infielder Lindsey Schmeiser in the seventh brought the team within two runs. The Terps couldn’t create any more runs, however, leaving three runners stranded to end the game.

Following her completegame shutout earlier Saturday, Schmeiser pitched two scoreless innings in Game 2.

The Terps tightened their grip on third place in the conference with a pair of wins this weekend. Now the goal is to fight for a top spot in the conference and focus on the teams above them in the standings.

The Terps will get a chance to do just that this coming weekend. After Wednesday’s doubleheader against Delaware State, the Terps will face second-place North Carolina, which currently possesses a two-game advantage over the Terps in the wins column.

And if the Terps can replicate the consistent pitching they displayed this week, they’ll have an added boost in their attempt to compete with the ACC’s best teams.

“Pitchers are going to set the tone and control the game,” Watten said. “If we can depend on our pitching to really control other teams, we can relax at the plate, and we can make some things happen.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Terps clinch undefeated season Aust leads team with five points in 15-7 victory at Virginia Tech

By Joshua Needelman Staff writer As the final whistle blew in the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team’s final regular-season game Saturday, it was only appropriate that the Terps held possession, milking away the final moments of yet another blowout victory, this time at Virginia Tech.

The 15-7 rout of the Hokies put the finishing touches on the No. 1 Terps’ first unblemished regular season since 2009 before 307 fans at Thompson Field in Blacksburg, Va. “It was a great win to finish our season,” coach Cathy Reese said.“The girls worked

hard and put together a full 60 minutes.

We have been asking them to work hard all year, and today we did it.”

The victory further cemented the Terps’ senior class’s place in program history, as it finally capped an undefeated campaign after a series of close calls.

And though the Terps have stressed that going undefeated is not their ultimate goal, they were pleased with the achievement.

“It was awesome,” attacker Alex Aust said. “Being undefeated my senior year really means a lot.”

Once again, a balanced offensive effort was key to a dominating win.

Nine different Terps found the back of the net with no player totaling more than two scores.

Aust, coming off a seven-point outing against Dartmouth, added three assists to her two goals for a gamehigh five points. The senior secured her 101st point of the season — she ranks second in the nation — adding to her case for the Tewaaraton Award.

Attacker Halle Majorana set the tone for the contest early, taking all of 26 seconds to draw a foul and net the game’s first score on a free-position shot. The Terps would score four more See UNDEFEATED, Page 7

attacker alex aust scored two goals and dished three assists in the Terps’ 15-7 victory at Virginia Tech on Saturday.

The Terps wrapped up their first undefeated regular season since 2009 with the win. file photo/the diamondback

MEN’S LACROSSE

SOFTBALL

Schmeiser wins twice against BC Sophomore strikes out 18 in three-game set

By Paul Pierre-Louis Staff writer

“We didn’t play our best game, but to come out on top with a win — and a close one like that — I think will help us down the road.”

Against a relentless Bulldogs attack that outshot the Terps, 48-29, Amato’s stellar performance kept his team in the game. The junior netminder’s 24 saves are the most for a Terp since 2005, and he routinely bailed out his struggling offense as the Bulldogs outshot the Terps by 19 in the second half.

“He has been great in the big moments for us,” coach John Tillman said. “I think he really is seeing the ball pretty well over the last couple of weeks.”

Amato’s effort was in response to Yale’s dominating possession throughout Saturday’s contest.

Boston College couldn’t keep up with Kaitlyn Schmeiser this weekend.

The Terrapins softball pitcher consistently overpowered the Eagles’ batters throughout the three-game series, notching 18 strikeouts in 14 innings of work. Boston College had success against Terps pitcher Maddie Martin in its 8-6 Game 2 victory Saturday, but mustered only one combined run and lost the other two games, both of which Schmeiser started.

The Terps’ two wins — 6-0 on Saturday and 10-1 yesterday — against Boston College (11-30, 2-13 ACC), bring the Terps’ ACC record to 9-6, which keeps them in third place in the conference. Many teams expected to finish ahead of the Terps (25-23, 9-6), such as Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech, still find themselves trailing coach Laura Watten’s team in the standings. “[The preseason rankings] picked us to finish seventh,” Schmeiser said. “So already I think we’re doing pretty big things.”

Schmeiser regularly got ahead in counts this weekend, forcing Eagles batters to chase after pitches. She combined her accuracy with hard-rising pitches that sped toward the high part of the strike zone.

The right-hander’s pitches often pounded into catcher Shannon Bustillos’ mitt just as Boston College batters started their swings.

“I just feel like I’ve been able to throw harder,” Schmeiser said. “Which is helping getting them to chase my moving pitches more, just because they

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midfielder Mike chanenchuk completed his hat trick with a crucial, game-winning goal with 13 seconds left in the No. 4 Terps’ 8-7 victory over No. 15 Yale on Saturday. photo courtesy of greg fiume/maryland athletics

just getting by

Late goal from Chanenchuk, last-second save from Amato lead Terps to close victory over Yale, 8-7

By Aaron Kasinitz Staff writer In many facets of the game, Yale outplayed the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team Saturday. The Bulldogs nearly doubled the Terps’ shots, held the largest advantage in faceoffs the Terps have faced this season and committed seven less turnovers than their hosts.

But goalkeeper Niko Amato stopped a careerhigh 24 shots, and the No. 4 Terps found a way to earn a critical 8-7 win in a frenzied finish against No. 15 Yale.

Amato made his 23rd save of the game to preserve a 7-7 tie with 51 seconds left. On the ensuing possession, a Bulldogs penalty gave the Terps a

man-up opportunity, and midfielder Mike Chanenchuk rifled a 13-yard shot for the go-ahead tally with 13 seconds left.

Yale midfielder Harry Kucharczyk had one last attempt after Chanenchuk’s goal, but his shot clipped Amato’s foot, smacked off the right post and flew harmlessly away as the 3,052 fans in Byrd Stadium watched time expire.

The game didn’t ease all of the Terps’ concerns heading into the ACC tournament next weekend, though. After a demoralizing loss to rival Johns Hopkins, the team once again struggled to maintain possession and turned in another paltry offensive performance.

This time, the Terps overcame it.

“This is just what we needed,” Chanenchuk said.

BASEBALL

Postseason hopes fade vs. Hokies Terps drop 2 of 3, fall three games out of ACC tournament with nine left

By Daniel Popper Staff writer The Terrapins baseball team entered this weekend’s three-game series against Virginia Tech with its postseason hopes still very much alive.

The Terps trailed the ninth-place Hokies by two games in the ACC standings, and a series victory would be crucial to earning a berth in the eight-team conference tournament.

Those hopes were severely damaged yesterday, though.

For the seventh consecutive weekend since ACC play began March 9, coach John Szefc and his squad came up short. After a walk-off 10-9 victory

in Game 1, the Terps dropped the final two games of the series, losing 11-0 on Saturday afternoon and 3-2 yesterday to fall to 11th place in the conference.

Postseason play is now virtually unattainable. And as a result, the team has been forced to come to an unfortunate realization.

“When you’re having a season like we’re having, when you’re a .500 team, that’s how you play,” Szefc said. “If we were 10 games above .500, I wouldn’t always be having this conversation, we’d be much better. But we’re just not, you know. We’re an average team, and that’s just what we are.”

After Friday’s opener was postponed due to severe thunderstorms, the Terps

took to Saturday’s doubleheader with a renewed energy after a poor midweek performance against Mount St. Mary’s.

The squad tallied three runs in the first inning, two in the second and another in the third to jump out to an early 6-2 lead.

Szefc’s squad appeared to be on its way to a series-opening win until lefthander Jimmy Reed uncharacteristically unraveled in the top of the sixth.

The senior surrendered a five-run inning — adding to a brutal stat line of seven runs on 12 hits in six innings — as the Hokies took a 7-6 lead.

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first baseman lamonte wade and the Terps lost two of three to Virginia Tech over the weekend at home. They’re now in 11th place in the ACC with nine games left on their conference schedule. charlie deboyace/the diamondback