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Legality of unpaid internships questioned

Our 100TH Year, No. 127

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Government scrutiny of free labor growing

BY KELLY FARRELL Staff writer

For job-seeking students, internships have gone from luxury to necessity. But government officials nationwide are also beginning to worry if internships have gone from educational to illegal.

In 1992, only 17 percent of graduating students had at least one internship under their belt. In 2008, that amount was 50 percent. And of those thousands of internships, between 25 and 50 percent are unpaid. Although many unpaid internships provide students with valuable experience worth more than a paycheck, there is growing concern about companies exploiting interns seeking a resumé builder and banking on young workers being too afraid to discuss the wrongdoings.

Michelle Farrell, a senior finance major, said the unpaid marketing internship she had the summer after her freshman year was so terrible she decided to change her major.

“I worked over 50 hours most weeks for a company promising me ‘vital experience in the marketing industry,’” Farrell said. “Instead, I did sales the whole summer with almost no guidance from my supervisors; I had no idea what to do and didn’t even learn anything.”

Amid the increasing scrutiny — both California and Oregon have in recent weeks released revised guidelines on when internships can be unpaid — the U.S. Labor Department yesterday issued a memo clarifying the rules. It applies a six-part test to every internship. The key standard is an “educational environment,” which employers have interpreted in the past to mean universities must oversee unpaid internships and give students academic credit. The memo backs this explanation. “[T]he more an internship program is structured around a classroom or academic experience as opposed to the employer’s actual operations, the more likely the internship will be viewed as an extension of the individual’s educational experience (this often occurs where a college or university exercises oversight over the internship program and provides educational credit),” the statement reads.

In addition, the intern cannot simply replace

see INTERNSHIPS, page 6

Steve Glickman celebrates after being re-elected as SGA president. Glickman’s Your Party won 26 legislative seats, compared to seven for the Andrew Steinberg-led SKY Party and three for Natalia Cuadra-Saez’s STARE coalition. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Incumbent Glickman’s Your Party dominates SGA elections, sweeps executive board spots

BY ANNA ISAACS Staff writer

For the first time in more than a decade, the SGA president was re-elected.

Steve Glickman, who will return to the campus as Student Government Association president next academic year, joins a short list of presidents who have seen a second term in the organization. Glickman’s party — Your Party — will take control of all executive seats and much of the legislature, the

Your Party member accused of illegal campaigning; Governance Board clears Steinberg of violation

SGA announced yesterday.

Having a single-party executive board, and the majority of the legislative seats, will likely make it easier for Glickman to achieve campaign initiatives, such as providing all students with IDs that double as SmarTrip cards, implementing a graduation gown rental system and making the SGA more accessible to “the average student.”

Both Lisa Crisalli and Brandon Cuffy comfortably beat out their competition

Although SGA election results were announced yesterday, some candidates may still be facing controversies surrounding issues that arose during campaigning.

SKY Party presidential hopeful Andrew Steinberg, who lost to Your Party’s Steve Glickman, has called foul on one Your Party candidate who was sighted illegally eliciting votes from students — the same violation he was accused of during last year’s race. Steinberg was

see ELECTION, page 6

see CONTROVERSIES, page 2

BY ALISSA GULIN Staff writer

VOTE BREAKDOWN Total voters: 4,723 Steve Glickman, Your Party: 1,803 — 38 percent Andrew Steinberg, SKY Party: 1,447 — 31 percent Natalia Cuadra-Saez, STARE: 1,161 — 25 percent No vote/Abstain: 312 — 6 percent In the 36-seat legislature, Your Party won 26 seats, the SKY Party won 7 seats and STARE won 3 seats.

Your Party also won all three executive board spots.

Former SGA President Jonathan Sachs consoles candidate Andrew Steinberg.

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STARE Party presidential candidate Natalia Cuadra-Saez, center, applauds after Glickman was re-elected. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

DOTS hopes New Carrollton bus can connect students to DC, Baltimore

BY LAUREN REDDING Staff writer

Yesterday’s University Senate meeting was abruptly cut short due to a technicality before senators had the chance to vote on the procedure to determine where and how buildings will be chosen for future construction projects.

In an unusually short meeting, university senators debated a proposal concerning site selection at the university, which became an issue after students and faculty fought an administration decision to bulldoze the Wooded Hillock in order to accomodate facilities displaced by the East Campus development.

The bill recommended the committee that reviews design aspects of new buildings and developments be altered to take environmental and other concerns into consideration. Vice President for Administrative

see SENATE, page 3 TOMORROW’S WEATHER:

Route to transit hub should help students living far off-campus

BY LEYLA KORKUT Staff writer

BSOS senator Jonathan Sachs races down the aisle at the University Senate meeting yesterday to call a quorum, which ended the meeting. MATTHEW CREGER/THE

DOTS has brought back a university bus line to New Carrollton after a similar route was cut in 2003 due to low ridership.

This time around, officials from the Department of Transportation said they hope it will be more successful given the number of students who have moved off-campus.

The New Carrollton Shuttle-UM line will start its rounds in the fall, going from the campus to the New Carrollton Metro station on the Orange Line. An array of other transportation lines stop at New Carrollton, which administrators hope will make the route more attractive

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Gov. O’Malley appoints two to serve on Board of Regents

CONTROVERSIES from page 1 also tried by the Student Government Association Governance Board earlier this week over questions that arose about a specific piece of his platform that dealt with the finances of Student Entertainment Events.

According to documents obtained by The Diamondback, Steinberg accused Your Party’s Carrie Coxen — who lost the seat of Greek legislator to SKY Party’s Daniel Ensign in an 18-24 vote — of accompanying another student with a laptop around dorms, asking students to vote in the election.

“My main concern is that the fundamental democratic process could have been undermined because of alleged violations to the rules,” Steinberg said.

SGA election rules prohibit any ballots being cast on a computer owned or “under the effective control of” any candidate.

The documents allege that Coxen seemed to be “directly controlling” the other student who was holding the laptop.

Election rules dictate that if she is found responsible, she could face a fine, but it is unlikely she will have to pay it because she lost the election.

The SGA Elections Board would not disclose how they are handling the situation.

Steinberg also found himself with a Tuesday night date with

BY AMANDA PINO Staff writer

Your Party’s Carrie Coxen (right), who was running for the Greek legislator seat, was accused of cheating by eliciting votes with a laptop in dorms. PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDREW STEINBERG

the SGA Governance Board after SEE alleged he included confidential information in his platform, which was published online.

Steinberg was defended in the litigation by Matt Verghese, a Diamondback columnist and former SGA legislator who authored the rule Steinberg was accused of violating.

Due to inconclusive evidence, however, the SGA’s judicial body found Steinberg was not in violation of any rules.

In an earlier version of his platform, Steinberg allegedly posted budgetary details he received from SEE in a closed meeting. Publicizing that information violated the confidentiality clause in the memorandum of understanding

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between the two organizations, SEE officials alleged.

“While we are disappointed with the outcome, we are greatful [sic] to the Governance Board for their time and consideration of the case,” SEE President Melissa Kallas said in an e-mail.

The board, composed of students not in the SGA legislature, cited uncertainty surrounding the timeline of events and insufficient proof the information was confidential.

SEE needed to prove the confidentiality clause was broken, said board chairman Rudi Sarna, “and in the case you could say the complainants didn’t mean the burden of proof.” gulin@umdbk.com

Gov. Martin O’Malley announced three appointments to the state’s Board of Regents last Friday.

Former public schools superintendent Paul Vance was selected, and lawyer Louise Gonzales was named to a second go-around on the board. The duo will replace outgoing regents David Nevins and Dwight Pettit.

Leslie Hall, a junior at Bowie State, will replace outgoing student regent Sarah Elfreth, a Towson senior.

Neither Vance nor Gonzales could be reached for comment.

The regents set university system policy and have the final say on tuition rates at universities in the University System of Maryland. In recent years, the board has made controversial decisions to not create a policy regarding when pornographic movies can be shown at system universities and to endorse the legalization of slots in the state.

Regents need to be approved by the state Senate

before they are seated. Members of the board can serve up to two consecutive five-year terms, while student regents serve for one year.

Gonzales is a university alumnus and a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law. “[Gonzales] had a previous term on the Board of Regents, so she knows the board extremely well, and she’s very much in line with the overall direction the system wants to take,” system Chancellor Brit Kirwan said. “Building quality, expanding capacity, keeping higher education affordable — these are the issues I think will be much on her mind.”

Gonzales is replacing Nevins, a former board chairman who also helped craft a university system policy aiming to make textbooks cheaper. In 2006, Nevins was investigated for illegally lobbying while on the board but was cleared of wrongdoing.

Vance has served as the superintendent of two of the area’s largest school districts — Montgomery County and Washington — and has otherwise been deeply involved in

primary and secondary education. He replaces Pettit, who is a lawyer.

Kirwan thinks Vance’s experience in one of the top school districts in the state will help foster a better and more closely synchronized relationship between higher education and K-12 education.

“His appointment is especially timely because not only is he a life-long educator, but there is a great emphasis at the moment on the interface between K-12 education and higher education,” Kirwan said.

In the coming year, Kirwan said, the most pressing issue facing the regents will be aiding the universities in securing state funding so the system can maintain educational quality in the face of rising enrollment and a poor economic climate.

“I’m very concerned about the competitiveness of our salaries,” he said. “We’ve been several years without raises for talented faculty and staff, and I’m really worried that we’re at risk for losing some of our best.” pino@umdbk.com

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SENATE from page 1 Affairs Ann Wylie proposed an amendment that would install a second committee rather than change the original — the Architectural Design Standards Board.

The amendment was passed but proved to be highly controversial.

Some senators argued it fundamentally changed the spirit of the original recommendation. Undergraduate senator Jonathan Sachs, knowing that not enough senators were present to vote on the proposal, called for a count of the members left at the meeting before the body could move to vote on the entire proposal, amendments included.

To vote, 68 senators were needed and only a handful fewer were present. Once it was determined not enough senators were in attendance, the meeting was adjourned 45 minutes early.

“I didn’t think the amendment maintained the original purpose of the recommendation,” Sachs said. “It further clouded an already clouded system.”

Wylie said she proposed the amendment to protect the Architectural Design Standards Board, which deals specifically with the design of a building and starts its review process long after a site is chosen.

She noted the recommendation made by the committee would completely change the function and purpose of a long-standing, successful committee. The amendment that was eventually passed instead suggested a separate and independent

BUS from page 1 to students who travel outside the Washington region frequently. New Carrollton is a hub for Metro, Amtrak, Greyhound buses, Baltimore’s MARC train and Prince George’s and Montgomery counties’ buses.

DOTS will also be making minor adjustments to three existing routes — Seven Springs Apartments, Silver Spring and the Greenbelt South Route — which will make the routes more convenient for students, DOTS officials said.

Although students usually rely on

Facilities Review Committee be appointed to deal specifically with site selection, instead of altering the architectural board.

The original proposal was issued by the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Site Selection Processes, which was commissioned last semester after the university decided to bulldoze the Wooded Hillock area for East Campus construction. Following protests from students, faculty and staff, who urged the forest be saved, the senate committee was charged with examining how environmental aspects are considered when building sites are chosen.

“This amendment has nothing to do with the Wooded Hillock,” Wylie said.

“In fact, if the committee structure this amendment proposes had been in place, it would have addressed all criticism faced in the selection process of the Wooded Hillock. [The proposed committee] has the same configuration and responsibilities as recommended in this report; it just sets up an independent committee to examine specific issues surrounding site selection.”

Wylie’s proposal was passed in a 39-24 vote.

But Sachs and other senators argued that adding another committee would further muddle an already complicated process, and the original intent of the site selection committee was to preserve transparency and openness.

“The report was excellent and added a lot of clarity to a process which is extremely confusing and hard to deal with,” Sachs said, noting that Wylie’s amendment would call for an eighth committee in the

getting rides from their friends when going long distances, many said that having a university bus that goes outside of Route 1 is a good idea.

“I wouldn’t mind if it were easier to get to places,” sophomore bioengineering major Pascal Yang said. “But usually it takes too long to wait for a bus.”

In 2003, more students commuted from longer distances and therefore spent little time in College Park and had little need for a connector bus to New Carrollton. Once students started moving on or close to the campus en masse, the route seemed necessary again, Assistant to the Director of DOTS Beverly Malone said.

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Vice President for Administrative Affairs Ann Wylie spoke at the University Senate meeting yesterday about the decision-making process for selecting sites for campus construction projects. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

facilities review process. “Adding an eighth committee doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense to me — it just adds to the confusion. The truth is this process is impossible to navigate. The campus community is in the dark on a vast majority of what this process does. I really appreciate the recommendation of the committee that says there should be more openness and transparency in this process.”

Another amendment to add the De-

partment of Environmental Safety on the independent review committee, which was proposed by biochemistry professor Jason Kahn, also passed.

To end debate on the proposal — amendments included — the senate needed a two-thirds majority, or 41 votes.

But only 39 voted in favor of a motion to end discussion.

Once it became clear that there wouldn’t be a vote on the bill, Sachs jogged

bodies, such as the Student Government Association and the Residence Hall Association, also gives DOTS hope that the reinstated bus line will be successful, Malone said.

“We have a lot of students that want to get to Amtrak,” she added. “The people we’ve talked to say it would be convenient to get there, it’s a general area of campus that is ill-served. Some people are interested in something that goes farther than Route 1.”

Freshman mechanical engineering major Lorin Pierson said students who live out of the state would benefit most from the route due to the fact that New Carrollton serves as a major stop for Metro and Amtrak.

“I have a lot of friends that are from Pennsylvania, so the [route] will make things easier for them,” he said.

Starting in the fall, DOTS will also be making minor adjustments to existing Shuttle-UM lines. Among the adjustments to the bus routes is a new stop to Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park. The new route was created due to high demand from students, Malone said.

Many students said having a stop at a hospital will be a good option for those who. don’t have a car, but the stop may not be used as frequently as DOTS may like.

“It would definitely be useful for someone’s who’s really sick or just

down the aisle and formally called quorum, officially ending the senate meeting after it was determined not enough senators were present.

Marvin Breslow, senate parliamentarian, said all the amendments passed before the meeting was adjourned will still be included when the entire recommendation is voted on next Thursday. redding@umdbk.com

broke their arm,” Pierson said. “But really people may only take one trip to the hospital once in a while, so the stop might not be that frequented.”

Other students said they thought there would be enough people that would use the bus to get to the hospital.

“It would be a good option,” sophomore computer science major Jeff Teng said. “People have nagging injuries all the time.”

The New Carrollton route will run Monday through Friday and will go from the campus to the New Carrollton Metro station, with a new bus leaving every half hour. korkut@umdbk.com

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t is an inherently juvenile instinct to hate The Man. It is hardwired in our spiracy. But students have a right to be suspicious. Of the hours of footage Univerbrains to lash out at those who tell us “no.” The Man sometimes takes the sity Police cameras recorded that night, the relevant 90 minutes disappeared. And form of our parents or teachers, the president or bureaucrats. But often The when it was found, three minutes from it vanished. It strains the imagination.

Regardless, this situation just adds fuel to the fire. Although county police have Man is wearing a badge.

Generally, this is a bad instinct. Police have a responsibility to enforce the law, even long held a reputation as being abrasive and quick to use excessive force, Univerif it means busting up that awesome party you were having at the satellite house or sity Police have held a much better reputation in the eyes of students. But after last arresting you for only having, “like, a ounce of weed, man.” In College Park, where month’s events and the revelations that have followed, University Police should be crime — despite declining for several years — remains too high for the taste of resi- wary that their reputation is quickly blending with that of their county counterparts.

So far, University Police have done well in executing damage control on the situdents, students and administrators, students and police need to work together. And ation. Instead of conducting an internal investigation, they have despite grumbling about the opposing sides’ behavior, both invited the Maryland State Police to handle the investigation of groups have generally gotten along in recent years. the mishandling of the footage, a step that shows a degree of But in the aftermath of the March 4 riots, this happy equilibThe new University Police transparency. rium has been disrupted. Prince George’s County Police offiFinal judgment should be reserved until the truth is fully discers have already been caught lying in a police report that chief needs to make an covered. But these coincidences, whether they be happenclaimed student John McKenna had provoked officers and immediate effort to reach stance or not, have left the university community disturbed. assaulted their horses before he was arrested. In reality, The riot that rocked Route 1 more than a month ago is a story McKenna had skipped toward two mounted Marylandout to students. that continues to unfurl, but the picture that is forming is one National Capital Park Police officers before baton-wielding that paints students as more innocent by the day. It’s not fair to judge police colleccounty police rushed over and beat him violently for about a half-minute.

And now University Police — who weren’t at the scene of the riot and thus far tively, but students will undoubtedly be tempted.

Making matters worse is an absence of leadership. The position of University have escaped blame for the night’s events — have a black eye as well. McKenna’s attorney had requested 60 hours of university surveillance footage shortly after the Police chief is unfilled, and District 1 Commander Maj. Daniel Dusseau retired last riot. All but 90 minutes from a camera with a clear view of where McKenna had been week shortly after the video of McKenna’s beating turned up on national news netbeaten were turned over, and police suspected those 90 minutes were lost forever works. There’s no person who can calm students and assure them their concerns after the original footage was recorded over. Although a copy of the footage was are being taken seriously. When either position is filled, the new official’s first stop finally found and turned over to McKenna’s attorney earlier this week, three minutes should be some type of open forum with students to begin repairing the relationship.

We hope the investigation finds it was a technician’s error. We want to have faith are missing due to a “technician’s error.”

To make matters worse, the University Police lieutenant in charge of copying the in the people charged with protecting us. But a stigma will linger. Not until the last footage is married to one of the mounted officers on duty that night and named in student of the freshman class walks across the graduation stage in 2013 will trust in University Police be fully renewed, and that is something no amount of damage the charging documents against McKenna.

Police would have you believe it’s a remarkable series of coincidences, not a con- control can fix.

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Relationships: Avoid the bone zone

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hat are college relationships? I don’t mean that rhetorically.

Really, someone please give me a proper definition attached to a list of the approved rules and regulations regarding college courtships. I’m graduating in May, and I would like to know before I leave.

You might be thinking: “Shruti, I don’t get it. How are college relationships different from high school relationships or dating while not in school?”

Well, dear reader, the main difference is that college has introduced us to “the bone zone.” You’ve heard of getting friend-zoned. Well, the bone zone is the polar opposite. It’s getting stuck in the completely physical aspect of a relationship. A lot of people face the consequence of not being able to transition into an actual relationship even though both partners might want to.

Let’s face it. Going out with someone in college doesn’t mean going on a

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RASTOGI date to the movies and then getting dinner. It means ambiguous hang-out sessions or non-dates, “watching a movie” in someone’s room or running into someone at the bars and leaving together. College students are short on cash and time, so people just don’t date to date. If they do, the classiest they can hope for is Applebee’s, Noodles & Company or Jason’s Deli.

Some people argue that the bone zone is just easier to get to. I disagree. It just appears to be more attainable. I suspect it’s because there are so many sources, including movies, that depict college students as being predominantly into easy hookups. Students are given the

impression that college is just for playing the field.

When you start a relationship as a hookup, it sometimes means there was alcohol involved and there’s probably not a strong emotional connection. Some people find it difficult to approach others and use a buzz as a catalyst to put themselves out there when they typically wouldn’t or to make a decision that they might regret later.

But if anyone starts hooking up pretty regularly with the same person, they’ll enter the bone zone. And people can’t stay in that with one person for very long. The relationship has to evolve. Sometimes it becomes something more: I have plenty of friends who are in long-term committed relationships that started out in the zone.

But sometimes it fizzles into that lame place where eye contact is avoided at all costs — that just sucks.

If you really do like someone and reasonably know that they somewhat like

you as a person, ask them out.

Unknown fact: If someone were to ask another person out on an honest-togoodness date, the askee almost always says yes, even if he or she isn’t romantically interested in the asker.

Why? People typically respect courage.

It is really hard to put yourself out there. I was asking friends for advice on dating. One person said to ask a guy out in this column (no thanks), another said to ask him out pointblank (too scary) and the rest suggested that I ask him to hang out. But I hang out with a lot of people, so does that mean we’re all dating? I’m not sure when hanging out became the official preliminary to dating.

OK, I know that some people aren’t upset about the bone zone and prefer to exist in it, but as for the rest of you, I wish you luck in defeating it.

Shruti Rastogi is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at rastogi@umdbk.com.

Voting: Lessons from election season

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was given a pen yesterday. It was from a certain SGA party that seems to appreciate the value of fast-food advertising. Its intention was to secure my vote, but its flashy, delicious logo and small, promotional future-pens distracted my ability to reason. After its pitch, I picked up my netbook and clicked “abstain” on the ballot. I really didn’t care. For all I knew, the party originally disguised as hard liquor was just as qualified as the rest.

What I experienced is something most students would agree with: a general disregard for Student Government Association politics. Maybe you’d expect a columnist to be somewhat familiar with this kind of stuff, but the truth is, it’s all a bunch of insignificant microcosmic politics. Don’t get me wrong, without the voice of the SGA, students would trot around numbly without representation. However, the matters dealt with in this political

sphere are far more trivial than what you’d find on Fox News.

Wait. On second thought, it’s probably not a large discrepancy.

The point I am trying to make is that I pay attention to the things that matter most to me. Things such as international affairs, domestic policy and most importantly, my new netbook. If someone asked me to use my “give-a-shit” meter and rate the level of importance between news of Max Jacobs trying to “unify the student voice” and Goldman Sachs defrauding its investors in some Enron-esque scam, I would pay strict attention to the latter.

Now, I danced my way through student government back in high school, so I know a thing or two about campaigning, even if it was just passing out candy in the hallway and making sexy posters. From what I see today, student politicians are not a whole lot more clever. Why else do they feel the

JASON

KRAMER need to wear matching shirts and hand out stylish pens? They have to entice and confuse the careless students somehow.

My decision-making process of who to vote for in the SGA elections is pretty analytical. If a candidate has impacted my social life in a positive manner, I vote. If they didn’t, I vote for their opponent. Really, the only two cases of this actually happening was when my roommate ran for residential representative and when I thought SGA President Steve Glickman was trying really hard to scheme on my girlfriend. Other than that, my vote flew around more aim-

lessly than a drunken pub chick.

However, I always lean towards the more radical of the student groups. It’s not necessarily their politics or spray painted shirts of armor I agreed with, but their organized effort to increase the presence of the student voice within the administration is really appealing. The more progressive change they seek, the more significance we students have. Seriously, we’re all trying to have a good time, get good grades and save some money — could our political platforms be that different? Sure, you can call the Student Power Party’s run for office last year a radical front, but the party — and others like it — fight for a larger student voice.

But whatever, I still don’t care.

Jason Kramer is a junior American studies major. He can be reached at kramer@umdbk.com.

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n April 16, The Diamondback published an article titled “Faculty blast education school reform.”

We were dismayed to have years of work on the education school reorganization characterized so negatively. Although there are faculty members who object to the school’s reorganization plan, there are also faculty members who remain committed and optimistic about its future. We would like to offer a somewhat different faculty perspective than the one portrayed in the article. We will specifically comment on the reorganization process and the concern that reorganization will damage the education school.

From our perspective, the process has not been rushed and it has been democratic. Reorganization has been discussed by the deans, associate deans and department chairs for at least two and a half years.

Some of the reasons for reorganization included enabling more efficient use of resources through the consolidation of departments, breaking down “departmental silos” to facilitate greater collaboration and interdisciplinary work and positioning the college to respond better to the university’s Strategic Plan. In the 2009-10 academic year, Dean Donna Wiseman solicited reorganization ideas from the entire education school community.

She created an advisory committee with representation from every department and held a series of open forums to discuss possible reorganization models.

Everyone in the school had the opportunity to advance specific models for reorganization and a dozen or more plans came forward during the year.

In early fall 2009, the College of Education Senate reviewed the proposed models and submitted six model variations to the College Assembly to debate and vote on.

After the first round of voting, the models were narrowed down to two and the assembly voted on which of the two they preferred. A large majority of eligible voters participated in both elections — 75 percent and 86 percent in the first and second elections, respectively — and the three-department model was ultimately preferred over the alternative by 59 percent of those voting.

During this spring semester, faculty and staff have met in cross-departmental meetings to name the new departments, and develop mission statements, plans of governance and new policies and procedures for the envisioned departments.

Faculty and staff have been actively engaged in the reorganization of the school, and the dean has continually sought feedback from the education school community about the reorganization process and goals.

All of us have legitimate concerns about how the reorganization will affect the school’s programs and our own positions, but we are reassured by the efforts of faculty and staff who have worked together to identify reorganization challenges and develop strategies to successfully address them.

The reorganization of the education school is a massive undertaking, and it is bound to generate some fear and anxiety about the future. But we have been a strong school for many years, as evidenced by the current rankings of our programs.

We will continue to be a strong school and use this reorganization opportunity to further strengthen our programs, create new learning opportunities for our students, and better ser ve the university and state.

Bob Lent is a counseling and personnel services professor, and Linda Valli is a curriculum and instruction professor. Valli can be reached at lrv@umd.edu.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — It’ll be important for you to follow instructions to the letter, especially during the first part of the day, before you find your legs.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’ll enjoy an increased sense of purpose. Others are more likely to follow you when you present your ideas with more confidence.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Your unique perspective allows you to assess certain developments in a way that is far more positive and productive than usual.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Daylight hours may bring nothing out of the ordinary, but after dark things are likely to be much more intriguing — perhaps irresistible.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’ll recognize a number of similarities between your own work and a project a rival is promoting. It may be time to work together.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — It’s not likely to be an ordinary day, but that which makes it different may not be evident to others. You’ll enjoy new opportunities.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You may come to a greater understanding of your own motives, thanks to someone who is able to reflect them in his or her behavior.

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ELECTION from page 1 by several hundred votes to serve as vice president of academic affairs and senior vice president, respectively. SKY party candidates came in second across the executive board. The closest contest of the executive positions belonged to the vice president of finance race, which Robert Mutschler won by just 195 votes.

As for legislative seats, the STARE candidates took three spots and the SKY Party took seven while the Your Party claimed 26 — about three times the number of seats the two other parties won combined.

Glickman seemed relatively unfazed by his victory.

“I’m gonna get up tomorrow morning and head right back to the office,” he said. “We’re going to work on finishing out the goals that we set at the beginning of the year and work on transitioning the old SGA to the new SGA.” Last year, Glickman edged out Student Power Party candidate Malcolm Harris by a mere 88 votes; this year, tallying in with 1,803 votes, he topped SKY Party candidate

Andrew Steinberg by 356 — a number Glickman said didn’t surprise him.

“I think some of the things and the accomplishments we’ve done this year have actually impacted the students on this campus, and they talk about that,” he said.

The election brought in 4,723 votes in total — about 18 percent of the undergraduate student population. That’s less than the about 20 percent who voted last year, but the turnout tops the 10-year low of 15.3 percent in 2008.

Voter participation for the past five years has ranged between about 15 and 22 percent.

STARE presidential candidate Natalia Cuadra-Saez came in third with 1,161 votes — about 300 fewer than Steinberg — but she said she’s already eyeing other pursuits, such as becoming president of Students for Justice in Palestine and possibly taking the one remaining arts and humanities legislator slot left free by senior STARE supporter Kenton Stalder.

“I enjoyed being the underdog a lot — that’s my kind of thing,” she said. “I wasn’t even that nervous today, because I was thinking: If I won, it would be awesome. I would get to do

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He added, “I guess the student body spoke.”

Students who participated in the election were also asked to vote on a referendum on MaryPIRG — an advocacy group comprised mainly of students — that asked students for approval to use student activities fees to fund fulltime position salaries for a non-student campus organizer and non-student state director.

Students voted to pass the referendum with 1,921 “yes” votes to 840 “no” votes.

crazy stuff next year, and if I didn’t, I’d have free time to do other crazy stuff.”

Steinberg was less at ease with his loss, but he said he has plans to apply to law school in the fall and continue to push for a state audit of the Department of Transportation Services — a key component of his campaign platform.

“I think I’m still just processing it, to be honest,” Steinberg said. “It’s something that I’ve been working on for an incredibly long time — you know, the past 24 hours, it’s felt like every second has been an hour.”

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Even with the clarification, problems and confusion remain. Intern Bridge, an internship research and consulting firm, estimates that one out of every five internships in the United States has an illegal compensation structure.

Ross Eisenbrey, the vice president of the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank, said the issue came to his attention when he was reading news coverage about “30-something displaced workers” who were working unpaid internships.

“It was a clear violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, yet the companies involved apparently thought that calling these jobs ‘internships’ made the free labor legal,” he said.

Eisenbrey’s institute also drafted a policy memorandum that calls for enforcement of internship regulations.

Many students at the university said they feel as if the companies for which they interned used them for the companies’ own economic savings or promised them an academic experience the internship didn’t deliver.

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PREVIEW | LET’S WRESTLE

BY REESE HIGGINS Senior staff writer

If there’s one thing the three gentlemen in indie-rock band Let’s Wrestle want you to know, it is that they are not goofy.

The London-based trio plays energetic and charming guitarbased pop songs, the kind of music that originally inspired the label “indie rock,” a categorization that is nowadays often misused and abused.

The lads are on their first cross-country tour of the United States and will hit the Black Cat in Washington tomorrow. The band is touring in support of its debut full-length album, In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s, which was

released in the United Kingdom last June but only reached the States this past March.

Let’s Wrestle’s unhappiness with the “goofy” label stems from what the band thinks are misguided impressions.

“I think sometimes people can get the wrong idea about what we’re trying to do,” frontman Wesley Patrick Gonzalez said.

“For instance, people calling us ‘goofy’ and ‘crazy’ — that’s really annoying. People can f--- off if they think we’re goofy. That kind of pisses me off when people completely don’t understand what we’re doing.”

Gonzalez says journalists and other observers “misconstrue a sense of humor for being a wacky

dickhead.”

“I always thought we came off as an intelligent band, not a bunch of clumsy, goofy dipshits,” he said. “That has always confused me. ... But people are gonna write what they’re gonna write and that’s fine. If that’s how they take it, that’s fine, but I’m just saying that they’re wrong.”

Aside from the descriptions Gonzalez and his bandmates find insulting, things are looking up for the rising band.

“In general, everything that has happened to us since we started, I’ve been incredibly happy with and kind of overwhelmed,” Gonzalez said. “I think we’re winning. In terms of life, we’re winning.”

Even for all the frustration of unflattering simpleton labels, bassist Mike Lightning admits the band’s mission is relatively straightforward.

“We’re not trying to touch the public, or try to change the public opinion,” Lightning said. “None of what we’re doing is like that.

“We just try and play the kind of music we like to play and have fun doing it.”

This tour is only the members’ third time in the United States as a band since their 2006 inception.

But with each of them at age 19, that’s quite an accomplishment.

Being a young band hasn’t impeded Let’s Wrestle’s ascent — or its drinking.

“Drinking on tour hasn’t been

a problem, really,” Lightning said, referring to the United States’ legal drinking age of 21. “I think too much drinking’s been a problem. We’ve been quite drunk a lot of the time.

“Us being a young band hasn’t really affected us since we were much younger. We made a much conscious decision when we were younger to never say how old we were because we’d then just be lumped in as that kind of teen youth band.”

Though the group certainly does have talent, the charismatic members of the group don’t have a very exciting story to tell about the band’s formation.

“We started making music because we were very bored,”

Gonzalez said. “Sitting on street corners drinking until late at night is not very satisfying if you don’t have any other thing to do.”

Gonzalez describes the band as “vague escapism.”

“We’ve all got our worlds that we sort of stay in,” he said. “It’s also bonding that you get out of playing with other people that you don’t get with anything else.”

The bandmates hope new friends will join them on their escapist journey as their musical careers continue to unfold. Just don’t call them goofy.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | SPORTS | FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2010

Men’s and women’s tennis teams conclude poor seasons with losses at ACC Tournament

BY CONOR WALSH Staff writer

The first round of the ACC Tournament served as a chance for redemption after dismal conference seasons for the Terrapin men’s and women’s tennis teams.

But yesterday, a combined one win in 22 conference matches for the two teams this season proved to be no fluke.

Both the men and the women were overmatched, losing their respective matches 4-0.

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HAUS from page 10 every chance he can to express his newfound loyalty.

He said his wife Lisa told him he looks great in red.

Leftovers from the Haus era still dot the Tar Heels’ (11-1, 21 ACC) roster. Seven of this year’s starters played under the former coach, including junior attackman and Tewaaraton Trophy candidate Billy Bitter. But though the elder Haus says he follows their progress under coach Joe Breschi, his heart lies with the Terps.

“I recruited a great group of kids at North Carolina, and coach Breschi has them playing very well,” Haus said.

“But family always comes first. I will be in red cheering John and the Terps on.”

Haus, now the director of lacrosse operations and men’s lacrosse coach at Division III Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pa., has been busy resurrecting both the men’s and women’s programs in their first seasons since they folded in 1985.

But he’s made time to see his son several times this season. The freshman has delivered beyond expectations, notching six goals and one assist for the No. 4 Terps (8-2) so far. His first career goal was the game-winner against Georgetown, and he scored one goal against both ACC rivals Virginia and Duke.

“You can step on John’s foot and he wouldn’t say ‘ouch,’” Cottle said. “You can tell he’s

SOFTBALL from page 10 Watten said. “A good momentum builder going into the rest of our conference series — especially going back down to N.C. State. It’s a good thing.

We just gotta take care of the next round.”

The Terps could have easily collapsed after the loss to Towson but instead thrived in Chapel Hill and revived their season. Watten says how the Terps bounced back to win the North Carolina series shows a lot about the team’s character.

“It shows where we’re really supposed to be at this point,” Watten said. “We’re playing well, we’re putting things together. We just gotta keep going.”

The Terps seem to be hitting their stride at the right time, and a solid showing against the Wolfpack would further strengthen their ACC and NCAA Tournament stock. But if the Terps falter — as they did through the early portion of their ACC schedule — their tournament

ACC) came into yesterday’s matchup as the No. 11 seed, earning the right to play No. 6 seed Wake Forest, which the Terps wrapped up the regular season against Sunday with a 61 loss.

Ranked No. 23 nationally, the Demon Deacons (14-8, 7-4) again proved to be too much for Terps, jumping out to an early 4-0 lead to seal the match.

“I don’t think we played very well,” coach Kyle Spencer said.

“Wake Forest played a very solid match. They came out with great emotion today.”

a coach’s son. He’s one of these kids, you tell him something once and he’ll do it.”

Before the Terps’ first game against the Tar Heels this season, Haus said his time watching his dad prepared him for top-level collegiate play.

“I witnessed it week in and week out at North Carolina with my dad being there, so I got the feel of everything,” said Haus, who was unavailable to the media this week.

Quiet and careful with his wording, he said the game would only be “interesting.”

But after a 9-7 loss, the Terps’ first of the season, Cottle admitted it was difficult for the freshman.

“He lived there, he thought he was going there — it had to be a strange feeling going in to play against them,” Cottle said. “But I think the more we play them, the easier it will get for him.”

It’s getting easier for the elder Haus as well. Though he missed the regular season battle between the Terps and Tar Heels to coach his own team, Haus is trying to work out a way to attend today’s 7:30 p.m. tournament semifinal at Byrd Stadium.

“What was disappointing at the time has brought our family closer, and Lisa and I are extremely proud of the way our boys have endured,” Haus said. “Coach Cottle, staff, players and families have made the Haus family feel so much a part of the Terrapin lacrosse program that I wouldn’t root for any other team.” kyanchulis@umdbk.com

credentials would likely once again be questioned.

As the Terps look to climb to .500 in conference play, the team knows every game matters. But despite the added stress, Watten has insisted all year they are more focused on their next game than how their season will end.

“Just put the foot on the gas pedal and keep it going, taking it one game at a time,” Watten said. “We just have to have that mentality. We can’t keep looking back. … That’s not what we need to do right now. We need to keep pressing on so we can get better and peak at the right time.”

Though the Wolfpack rank above the Tar Heels in the ACC standings, they lack the star power of their Carolina rivals. But as the Terps learned from their losses to weaker programs earlier in the year, they can’t take anyone lightly at this point.

“We’ve just gotta take care of ourselves and play our best,” Watten said. “Hopefully it will turn out the way we want it to.” schneider@umdbk.com

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Graham Knowlton, who has filled in for Matt Sarrazin since Sarrazin went down with a stress fracture in his foot, lost at No. 5 singles in straight sets to wrap up the victory for the Demon Deacons.

Once the overall match has been clinched in overall tournaments, all unresolved matches are suspended. After Knowlton’s defeat in the No. 5 spot, the Terps were left unable to salvage remaining points in the match.

The loss capped off a disappointing conference season

for the Terps, who came in with high expectations after their best start to a season since 1986.

“Wake was just the better team today,” Spencer said. “We just got outplayed.”

The Terp women (5-14, 0-11 ACC) came into the 12-team tournament as the No. 12 seed, where they had to deal with a superior talent in the No. 5 seed and overall No. 14 Florida State.

Coach Howard Joffe, whose team’s season-long goal has been to win its first-

round ACC Tournament matchup, identified the doubles point as the key for any possible Terps upset.

But the Terps fell in doubles — their specialty all season — and went on to lose three singles matches in straight sets en route to an easy 4-0 victory for the Seminoles (13-9, 6-4).

“The guts of it is that they’re a top-15 team at the moment,” Joffe said. “We’re not even close to being a ranked team.”

Joffe was proud of his team’s gritty effort despite being win-

less in conference on the season.

“I didn’t come away feeling poorly about how the kids performed or competed,” Joffe said. “We had some leads in doubles, and it ended up pretty damn close. That could have been the difference.”

As has been the case all season for the Terps, however, they just didn’t have the talent to contend with the Seminoles.

“It just wasn’t enough,” Joffe said. “They’re too good for us.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

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GENTZLER from page 10 Park so he could remain closer to his Berwyn, Pa., home and experience the “big school atmosphere.”

“Mary Washington didn’t even have a football team,” Gentzler said. “At that point, I figured if I wasn’t going to play baseball, I might as well go to school someplace where I will be happy.”

At this university, Gentzler joined the club team, where he emerged as one of the team’s best pitchers, thoroughly dominating during the team’s run to the semifinals of the 2007 National Club Baseball Association World Series.

After the season’s conclusion, Gentzler decided to give varsity baseball one more shot. He showed up for the Terps’ walk-on tryouts in the fall, and on the second day of tryouts, Gentzler impressed then-pitching coach Jim Farr enough to earn an extended look before the coaches during fall practices.

In the team’s winter meetings, Farr called Gentzler into his office and told him he had made the team.

“It was really cool because I had always wanted to keep playing no matter what,” Gentzler said. “At one point I had never thought I would ever get the chance to play varsity baseball again, let alone D-I baseball in the ACC. But I worked my ass off, and it paid off.”

Gentzler barely had time to

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celebrate before bicep tendonitis derailed his comeback. Despite the stinging pain, Gentzler tried to pitch through it.

The results were disastrous.

Gentzler got hit so hard during practices that the Terps’ coaching staff was reluctant to use him in any game action, and he didn’t even pitch in the first month of the 2008 season.

But he kept working. In what was perhaps the turning point in Gentzler’s baseball career, Farr, armed with a radar gun, told him to throw the ball as hard as he could — regardless of where it went — as the two worked together in a bullpen session.

Gentzler reared back and unleashed. The pitch, Farr said, came in at 84 mph — a mark far behind the ACC norm.

Desperate to once again salvage his baseball career, Gentzler took Farr’s advice and decided to drop the arm slot from which he released the ball.

In one week, he went from an overhand pitcher with average stuff to a submarine pitcher with better velocity and deceptive ball movement.

“When he got here, he was throwing over the top without a lot of success,” fellow reliever Ian Schwalenberg said. “Coach Farr changed him, and all of sudden he was really effective. You have to give him credit — he worked his ass off to make that change, and it couldn’t have been easy.”

Gentzler adapted to the new throwing motion easily, quickly becoming one of the team’s most

North Carolina. Tonight, the Terps face the No. 3 seed Cavaliers (13-3, 4-1 ACC), whom they beat earlier this season.

If they win, the team advances to play in the championship against the winner of tomorrow’s North Carolina-Duke game.

Though hosting cuts down on the team’s travel, the Terps face other challenges. Distractions that don’t normally travel with the team to out-of-state

HOSTS from page 10 as others tailgated in the parking lot celebrating, team flags and banners flying overhead.

“Ludwig looks great,” Carney said. “I really love it here, and I’m so excited to be back.”

The path to the title may end up being the same as 10 years ago, when the Terps defeated Virginia and then

reliable relievers.

When coach Erik Bakich arrived in June, he didn’t realize the weapon he had in Gentzler until he actually watched him pitch.

“In my seven years at Vanderbilt, we never had a submariner who could throw like that,” Bakich said. “He has terrific command and velocity for someone who throws like that. And we have helped him develop offspeed stuff that has made him even better.”

Although he has struggled on the mound this season, Gentzler enters this weekend’s series against the Cavaliers tied with Charles Devereux for second in school history for saves with 15, just eight behind career leader After undergoing a change to his technique midway through his career, closer Dan and current Toronto Blue Jay Gentzler now throws with a submarine delivery. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK Brett Cecil.

This season, he’s also doubled as the team’s top first baseman.

Though he’s struggled mightily at the plate, he’s had his share of memorable moments, including knocking two home runs off Georgia Tech’s projected firstround draft pick Deck McGuire.

Not bad for someone who, when his college baseball career started, couldn’t even beat out four dozen other kids for a roster spot at Mary Washington.

“Even if I don’t play professional baseball, I can say I made a difference for this program,” Gentzler said. “But don’t get me wrong, if there is even a small chance to play baseball next year, I will be there.” lemaire@umdbk.com

tournament destinations remain in College Park.

Still, the Terps are treating the weekend at home like any other game weekend. The team has historically stayed in a hotel to remain focused during the tournament, but this year, the Terps are staying at their own places.

“We’re trying to keep the normal routine as close as possible,” Reese said. “We just want our kids comfortable.”

Gentzler also doubles as the team’s top first baseman.

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they turned into quick goals.

“Virginia is so disciplined,” Reese said. “They’re smart, patient and they look for their opening. For us playing against a team like that, we need to be smart and take care of the ball and our possessions.”

Reese is obviously relishing the opportunity to play on her home field. As head coach, Reese is 35-1 all-time in College Park, with the lone loss coming against Duke in the

They should be equally at ease against the Cavaliers.

When Virginia played the Terps on March 5, the Cavaliers slowed down the game enough to only take one shot in the first 10 minutes of the half before the Terps ran away late, winning 11-5.

Yesterday, Virginia wasn’t nearly as conservative. In its 18-6 victory against Virginia Tech, Virginia pressured the Hokies into turnovers, which

NCAA Tournament in 2008.

Overall, the Terps are 175-11 since 1990, including 11 perfect seasons.

But Reese doesn’t feel any extra pressure to win the conference title because of the home-field advantage.

“We always put pressure on ourselves,” Reese said. “We’re looking at one game at a time and that’s all we know.” ceckard@umdbk.com

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WHO: North Carolina vs. TERRAPINS WHEN: Tonight, 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Byrd Stadium TV: ACCSelect

Women’s lacrosse last held event in Md. a decade ago

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Midfielder John Haus, left, the son of a former North Carolina men’s lacrosse coach, will play against the Tar Heels tonight.

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In Haus’ journey, friends become foes Midfielder will play childhood favorite North Carolina in ACC Tournament

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John Haus III always thought he would see his son playing college lacrosse in Carolina blue.

Instead, today his son and namesake, Terrapin men’s lacrosse freshman midfielder John Haus IV, will don red and white to play the No. 3 Tar Heels in the first round of the ACC Tournament.

Just a few years ago, the situation seemed unfathomable.

But after the elder Haus was forced out as North Carolina head coach just a few months before his son’s senior year of high school, the Haus family’s carefully laid plans changed.

“I would be lying if I said it hasn’t been tough,” Haus III said. “But the last year and a half has been a hard-core learning experience for all of

ONLINE| TERRAPINTRAIL.COM Check out TerrapinTrail.com all weekend long for continual updates on the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams’ progress through the ACC Tournament. us that sometimes things don’t always go as you want.”

After winning two national championships as a defender for North Carolina from 19791983, the elder Haus worked his way up the coaching ranks. In 2000, he received his dream job: the chance to coach for his alma mater.

Within years, Haus had helped bring the struggling program back to the national stage, leading the Tar Heels to the NCAA Tournament in 2004 after an 11-year drought.

While his father coached at North Carolina, the younger Haus emerged as a

top lacrosse prospect at Chapel Hill High School, helping lead the school to two 4A state titles. Of course, at that point, his college choice was a foregone conclusion: He would play for the Tar Heels. Other schools need not apply.

But in 2008, following an 86 season and a first-round exit in NCAA Tournament, North Carolina dismissed the elder Haus. After early success, the coach had struggled in conference and postseason play, going winless in the ACC for four straight seasons.

Suddenly, his son had to

rethink his college choice.

“The plan for John was to play for me at North Carolina,” Haus IV said. “But after the decision was made, we had to regroup in so many ways.”

Soon after, Terp coach Dave Cottle received a call. He and Haus were friends from their early coaching days, and he’d kept track of his old colleague’s talented progeny.

The younger Haus considered a few other schools, but in the end his ties to the Terps and to the area won out. Both his parents grew up in the Baltimore area, and his

For all intents and purposes, the Terrapin softball team’s preseason, according to coach Laura Watten, ended April 14.

After a 1-0 loss to instate rival Towson last Wednesday dealt a crushing blow to the team’s NCAA Tournament hopes, the Terps held a team meeting the next day to discuss their mentality heading into the season’s homestretch.

The Tigers loss, and many other disappointing defeats like it, were no longer of consequence.

“We’re just going to treat the rest of the season like we’re playing a miniseason — like we’re just starting out,” Watten said.

Though the Terps enter

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a crucial weekend series at N.C. State (27-21, 8-7 ACC) with a 28-17 record on paper, outfielder Vangie Galindo said the team feels it has a clean slate after a key series victory against North Carolina last weekend.

“We just said, ‘You know what? We’re going start over,’” said Galindo, recounting the team meeting. “‘It’s a brand new season. We’re 0-0.’”

The two victories over the Tar Heels — which marked the first time the Terps had won a game against North Carolina since 2007 and their first series win since 2002 — might have been their biggest of the season.

“It should be good for our confidence level,”

see SOFTBALL, page 8

Coach Cathy Reese was an assistant coach for the Terps the last time they hosted the ACC Tournament. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Gentzler perseveres through ups and downs to help Terps

Softball looks to continue roll after success at North Carolina Staff writer

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mother, Lisa Haus, graduated from this university.

He also lived in Maryland until age 10. For the first four years of his life, his father was an assistant coach at Johns Hopkins. The elder Haus also spent four seasons as the head coach at Washington College in Chestertown and two more seasons at the helm for the Blue Jays before moving on to Chapel Hill.

“He is in the perfect place at Maryland,” Haus said.

After a near-decade of forgettable performances against the Terps — the elder Haus went just 1-8 against the team as North Carolina coach — the Tar Heel alumnus finds himself in the unfamiliar position of rooting for his old adversary.

And after an adjustment in allegiances, he now takes

Sitting with her team on the Ludwig Field bleachers during yesterday’s first-round action, Terrapin women’s lacrosse assistant coach Quinn Carney paused as she tried to remember the last time the Terps hosted the ACC Tournament.

Carney smiled. It had been a while — a whole decade, in fact. The last time the ACC descended upon College Park for the conference’s postseason championship, Carney, a second-year assistant coach with the Terps, was a junior midfielder in the program she now coaches. With then-assistant coach Cathy Reese on the sidelines, Carney recorded one goal and three assists to help lead the Terps to their second straight conference title.

Ten years later, Carney, Reese and the No. 3 Terps (141, 4-1 ACC) have that same opportunity. Today, they’ll open their championship defense with a late afternoon rematch with No. 4 Virginia.

Reese and Carney have already felt the luxury of staying home. Yesterday, Reese, now the head coach, left her office in Comcast Center to make a cross-campus walk to Ludwig Field, where she met up with some of her team to watch the first-round matchups. Fans from all over the East Coast dotted the stadium

Terps’ closer and first baseman Dan Gentzler once starred for the university’s club team. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Before leaving for college, Dan Gentzler had planned on a long playing career on the Mary Washington baseball team.

But when he showed up for fall practice in 2006, he was stunned to find at least 50 other players thinking the same thing.

At Mary Washington, a Division III university in Virginia that doesn’t offer athletic scholarships, it amounted to an open tryout.

“I was surprised because Mary Washington had recruited me hard coming out of high school, and they sold me on the chance to come in and help the team right away and compete for early playing time,” Gentzler said. “Then I show up and all these players are fighting for the same chance.”

Although Gentzler said he hit and pitched well during the tryouts, the sheer quantity of players gunning for a roster spot made it difficult for him to stand

out. When the coaches posted their first round of cuts, Gentzler wasn’t on it.

Before it even began, Gentzler’s career seemed over.

But his love for baseball wasn’t. After rising from the ranks of the unwanted and unnoticed, Gentzler enters this weekend’s series against No. 2 Virginia tied for second in Terrapin baseball school history for saves. After spending 2007 on this university’s club team and the first portion of the 2008 season buried on the Terps’ bench, Gentzler transformed himself from a middling pitcher to one of the team’s most reliable relievers.

“When I look back on it, it’s still kinda crazy,” Gentzler said. “To think about where I started to where I am now, it’s something I could have never imagined.”

Gentzler lasted just one year at Mary Washington before he decided to transfer to College

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