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SARPP focuses awareness on male survivors Program seeks more comforting campus, help for estimated 1 in 10 survivors who are male

By Savannah Doane-Malotte and Rebecca Lurye Senior staff writers Many male students said they find it hard to envision a scenario where a guy wouldn’t be excited about having sex.

“If a guy can get it, he’s happy,” said

Dan Mullin, a freshman business and marketing major. “Unless it’s from a guy.”

But those misconceptions about consent are exactly why the university works to address assault among different populations every year. With the help of 1in6, an organization that supports male victims of abuse, the Sexual Assault

Response and Prevention Program dedicated several events to male survivors this year in hopes of creating a more welcoming environment for people to come forward and seek help.

This focus was new to many SARPP peer educators such as Neva Bowers.

“Especially since SARPP mainly focuses on violence against women,” said the senior women’s studies major, “it was interesting to learn that many men experience sexual assault before

they are 18 years old, which is very different from what I’m used to hearing about women.”

While the majority of sexual assault survivors are women, one in 10 rape victims in 2003 were men, according to a crime victimization study by the U.S. Department of Justice. Additionally, many reports suggest at least 16 percent of boys face sexual abuse before they’re 18.

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Music major plays her way into Strathmore residency from childhood roots

Security team moves away from tech aspect

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Isabelle De Leon’s music career had a bit of a shaky start.

As a child, she took to the stage with her family band, Ivy Rose, for their very first public gig at a nursing home. But even with a fairly forgiving audience, things didn’t go well.

“We were so bad,” De “It is not Leon said of the performance. “This old guy always magic was holding his ears. … or luck or We sounded terrible.” rocket science Their skills improved, … she takes however, and Ivy Rose went on to produce two initiative and albums, perform at the goes beyond Kennedy Center and homework …

DAR Constitution Hall expanding and and even make the callback round for the 2012 going deeper.” summer season of AmerCHUCK REDD ica’s Got Talent. Now, as Music professor a senior music major at this university, De Leon is preparing to launch her solo career as a professional drummer.

“This is the first year I’m promoting myself as a solo artist,” she said. “It’s kind of scary [but] I’m still going to put myself out there.”

Earlier this month, De Leon sold out her first show at the Strathmore Mansion as part of the center’s 10-month Artist in Residence program.

She was one of six musicians selected out of 100 applicants for the program, which mentors

A computer in a brightly lit office somewhere on the campus, in Patuxent Building maybe, or the computer science building, registers an attack — digits on a monitor. Someone, somewhere, is probing, looking for a weakness.

They’re in. There are credit card numbers, passwords, Social Security numbers — all ripe for the taking.

Someone, somewhere, cracks his or her knuckles and gets to work.

Right there, in that instant, cybersecurity professionals could have attempted to dissuade a hacker from making a real attack — once a hacker has entered a system, but before he or she has decided to gather information or attack others, said Michel Cukier, Maryland Cybersecurity Center education associate director. Though few cybersecurity professionals normally speculate on the human element of hacking, that’s exactly what Cukier is exploring in his research with criminology professor David Maimon.

The pair hopes their interdisciplinary approach to cybersecurity can add perspective to a field dominated by the search for technical solutions.

And any fresh technique is welcome in advancing the study of defending Isabelle de leon sold out her first drumming show at Strathmore Mansion earlier this month as part of her 10-month residency. After a musical childhood and family band, De Leon came to this university, where she is a senior music major on the premed track. photo courtesy of jonathan timmes/strathmore

Univ. Senate to vote on policy next month

LEAF team champions sustainability through public engagement

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Green living spotlighted by outreach

Patrolling campus to promote sustainability, the LEAF Outreach Team members are watchdogs for environmental justice — catching people “green-handed” is what they do best.

LEAF Outreach, a team created by the Office of Sustainability, is a group dedicated to promoting sustainability by rewarding students when they see them acting in environmentally friendly ways, from riding bikes to using reusable containers to recycling.

“When you are encouraged and sup-

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program for working with male survivors and a preparation course educating students on how bystanders can intervene and help survivors. SARPP also presented a documentary, Boys and Men Healing, to demonstrate the impact of sexual assault on men.

It’s important to encourage a dialogue outside of voluntary events and themed months, said Stephanie Rivero,

leaf outreach Team members plant a tree on Arbor Day. The group rewards students who it finds “green-handed,” engaged in sustainable activities on the campus, to raise environmental awareness. photo courtesy of aynsley toews ported for doing something, you’re probably more likely to do it again,” said Aynsley Toews, Office of Sustainability project manager. “We wanted to develop an outreach team who would take an active role in promoting sustainability on campus.”

When team members catch a student engaging in sustainable activity, they congratulate them, snap their picture and post it on the SustainableUMD

Facebook page, Toews said. Students can tag themselves and share it with their friends, which spreads word about the cause, she said.

Andrea Doukakis, one of four students on the LEAF Outreach Team, said it is especially important for students to reinforce each other’s positive behavior.

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Appealing less-than-satifactory final grades may be easier if the University Senate approves a proposal that would guarantee students a timely appeals decision.

The proposed policy places time limits on how long administrators have to give notice of decisions on grade appeals — a step toward keeping the appeals process efficient, some senators said. The Senate Executive Committee, the organization’s most powerful group, unanimously approved the proposal for a full vote at the body’s next meeting on May 2, but some senators questioned whether such a rule is necessary, given the

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low number of legitimate grade appeals.

Students who believe a final grade in a course was unfairly assigned can file an appeal with department administrators.

Under the proposed policy, administrators would have to notify the student and instructor of their final decision within five days of the chair receiving the report. It also calls for the chair of the appeals process, generally a department leader, to report appeal dismissals, whether it’s because the appeal is repetitive, untimely, irrelevant or premature, to the faculty and students involved in the appeal within 10 days.

Before the senate’s Academic Procedures and Standards Committee approved the changes for a full senate vote, undergraduate senator Matthew Popkin and faculty senator Katherine Pedro Beardsley proposed the measure to the senate in January.

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de leon From PAGE 1 talented artists and prepares them for the management aspects of a professional music career.

Her three performances at S t ra t h m o re s h o w c a s e d h e r original compositions and the center’s website described her musical style as fusing “the intensity of rock music with the harmonic complexities and feelgood groove of jazz.”

De Leon said music always defined her unorthodox childhood. She fi rst learned piano at age 4 and started playing the d r u ms, her sel f-procla i med passion, at age 7.

She said she was inspired to take up drumming after watching the movie Selena, in which a minor female character said, “Girls don’t play drums.”

“I’m proving them wrong,” she remembered thinking after watching the scene. “I’m going to do it.”

Tito De Leon, her father, also required his children to learn “a minimum of two instruments” and practice weekly family music lessons, which sometimes inspired tears from Isabelle and her siblings.

“It was difficult to explain they would come to enjoy it,” Tito De Leon said.

LEAF From PAGE 1 impacted by something your peers are doing as opposed to someone above you,” said the junior, who studies environmental sustainability through the individual studies program.

Since the team began meeting in March, Doukakis estimates that members have “caught” nearly 50 students around the campus and at various events “green-handed.”

Filling reusable water bottles and riding bikes or skateboards to class have been the most popular sustainable activities they observe students doing, she said.

And students seem to enjoy being approached by LEAF team members.

“It’s a lot of fun. We generally get a very positive reaction,” Doukakis said.

However, one area students still seem to struggle with is composting appropriately, she said.

“A lot of times we end up s h ow i n g s t u d e n ts h ow to compost, and then they do it,” Doukakis said. “I think definitely being able to catch more people composting correctly would be great.”

Involved students a critical tenet of a sustainable campus, so the office is reaching out to the campus community, said Mark Stewart, Office of Sustainability senior project manager.

“Sustainability requires a hands-on approach,” he said. “I think the LEAF Outreach Team is our objective of getting some more peer-to-peer interaction.

It’s important that students see that everyday students are embracing sustainability in their own ways so they can explore what this means for themselves.”

LEAF Outreach also teaches students about the implications of their actions with education workshops on little-known topics such as food miles — “the distance your food travels from

The siblings’ fi rst few performances were in their church choir, and as their musical skills improved, a close family friend joined their group to form Ivy Rose.

De Leon spent the bulk of her high school weekends and summer vacations touring the East Coast and the Philippines with the band, with her father acting as manager.

The band even performed at this university’s 2010 Art Attack, opening for Weezer.

De Leon attributes her success to her father, who she said has b e en her bi g ge s t s upp or te r throughout her life and music career. He even saved her from derailing her music career during her freshman year; having previously performed rock music, De Leon struggled w ith jazz drumming at first and considered dropping music as a major.

Her father talked her out of it and encouraged her to stick with the program.

“I’m so glad I did,” De Leon said.

“I wouldn’t be where I am today.”

De Leon said drumming provokes in her a sense of excitement and passion that is reflected in her face as she plays.

She always tries to convey a sense of joy in her music, she added.

Music lecturer Chuck Redd, De Leon’s drum teacher of four years, recognized her talent. He regularly hired her to perform

“the more positively people feel about their environmental impact, the more they’re going to do for the environment.”

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Office of Sustainability project manager field to fork” and the greenhouse gas emissions associated with it — and vampire power, a term for the electricity a device uses when it’s off but plugged into an outlet, Toews said.

The team’s next tabling event will be at Maryland Day, where members will also be patrolling the mall with cameras, looking for Earth-friendly students.

By the end of the semester, Doukakis and team members Doris Ihejirika, a freshman civil engineering major, Ben Shapiro, a freshman environmental science and policy major, and Morgan Folger, a freshman English major, will create a portfolio of educational activities to showcase at various events on the campus, Doukakis said.

The activities, such as a make-your-own reusable water bottle craft table, will help make learning about sustainability fun for students, Doukakis said.

“We want to create a sustainability culture at the University of Maryland,” Toews said. “I think that the more positively people feel about their environmental impact, the more they’re going to do for the environment.”

Students should remember even a small lifestyle change can have a large impact on this university’s sustainability as a whole, Stewart added.

“I meet students every week who are finding some really inspiring ways of incorporating sustainability into their lifestyle,” he said. “If we expect that everyone is trying to make a difference, then it really does add up to something. That is reason enough to inspire ourselves to take action.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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with him at area jazz festivals a nd sa id he is conv inced h is student has all the right qualities for success.

“She is without a doubt one of the best students I’ve had at University of Maryland or any where,” Redd said. “It is not a lways m ag ic or luck or rocket science … What really impressed me about Isabelle is she takes initiative and goes beyond homework … expanding and going deeper.”

Sleep is a rare commodity for De Leon.

In addition to doing two to four hours of jazz assignments a week, she practices a minimum of an hour every day while juggling performances, the Strathmore program and typically a 19- to 20-credit course load. She is also following a premed track in addition to her music major; if her music career fails, De Leon said she is prepared for a career as a doctor or physician’s assistant.

De Leon said her next step after graduation is to move to Los Angeles to pursue her dream.

While she is not naive or unprepared for failure, her family, friends and mentors said they are confident in her ability to succeed.

“She better get me comped tickets,” Redd said.

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isabelle de leon has been drumming since she was 7 years old. The senior music major, who is preparing to launch her solo career, was one of six musicians selected out of 100 applicants for the Strathmore Mansion’s Artist in Residence program. photo courtesy of isabelle de leon

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ASSAULT From PAGE 1 SARPP peer educator assistant coordinator, but the activities are a start.

“I think a big lesson to take away from these events is to get people to talk about this problem,” Rivero said. “Sexual assault is taboo, and so many people think that it will never happen to them. But a lot of students most likely do know someone who has been impacted, whether they’re aware of it or not.”

The vast majority of sexual assaults go unreported to law enforcement, and many more people tell only friends, family and advocates, research shows.

The story is no different on this campus, where students reported only five sex offenses in 2011 and 10 in each 2010 and 2009.

Michael Kesting, a freshman government and politics major, served on the University Student Judiciary this semester and said he hasn’t heard of any male survivors reporting to the Office of Student Conduct.

However, the university’s

HACKERS From PAGE 1 networks because if a person follows through with the hack, “the game is over,” said Cukier, a reliability engineering professor and director of the Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students honors program.

“We’re some of the first scholars to try to pay attention to the human element behind cybercrime,” Maimon said.

“The focus before was on the technical components of the issues: How would you patch the system, fix the network.

It would be the equivalent of me as a criminologist trying to solve a murder by looking at the gun only.”

It’s not the easiest task — a hacker can attack at any time, from anywhere in the world, and hide behind a maze of proxies and slave computers.

But Maimon and Cukier have enlisted the help of the Division of Information Technology, which allowed them to set up hundreds of phantom computers — “honeypots”— in the university network. Without any sensitive information at risk

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“I think a big lesson to take away from these events is to get people to talk about this problem ... sexual assault is taboo, and so many people think that it will never happen to them.”

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SARPP peer educator assistant coordinator sexual assault awareness activities don’t reach many students, Kesting said, because few students want to dwell on the “dark topic.”

“I think bringing it up in UNIV courses is definitely the best way to address it,” Kesting said.

Also during Sexual Assault Awareness Month, SARPP held a study abroad to Italy presentation, summarizing a spring break trip to Rome and Sicily in which students and staff led a comparison study to evaluate victim resources in Italy to those in this state.

In addition, an improv play Wednesday by Catharsis Productions, Sex Signals, involved the audience in discussions about sexual violence and

gender stereotypes. Programming continues this week with the SlutWalk, a march to encourage solidarity for sexual assault victims, on Thursday.

It’s important for the uni-

versity to keep up strong messages about assault, as college campuses present more risks than other environments, said Sacared Bodison, University Health Center director.

on the dummy computers, the cybercrime researchers can let attacks play out and test hackers’ reactions to different stimuli.

Maybe an automatic warning message will appear. Sometimes the surveillance software is more sophisticated than other times.

The goal: see what the hackers pay attention to.

“In cybersecurity, access to data is considered the Holy Grail,” Cukier said.

And he and Maimon have it. In addition to the honeypots, DIT gave Maimon and Cukier access to closely guarded data about the estimated 6,000 attacks the university receives daily.

It’s a gigantic amount of information and they’re still working through it, they said, b u t M a i m o n sa i d t h ey ’ve noticed some interesting connections. Reports between 2007 and 2009 show more than 50 percent of attacks happened during normal 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. business hours. And when more foreign users accessed the university’s network, attacks from their specific countries of origin increased.

Cukier was quick, though, to point out that they found correlation, not causation. Hackers,

he said, don’t necessarily attack when certain users are on the network. As their research progresses, they will determine whether such information could be fashioned into practical security solutions.

The university’s network could offer insight as the researchers move toward finding those more concrete results.

Experts call it a bazaar environment, Maimon said, to which anyone with a user name and password could gain access.

Even guests unaffiliated with the university can log in at McKeldin Library — so many different people doing whatever they want expose the network to all kinds of attacks, he said.

Gabriel Williams, a junior history major, said he uses the computers at McKeldin for everything from music and games to research. But network security isn’t on his mind, he said.

“It’s not really something I think about, honestly,” Williams said. “I know the school’s security is pretty good.”

Junior psychology major Avery Lundskow uses both the McKeldin computers and her own computer to accomplish work. But though she

uses antivirus software on her own computer, she said she doesn’t worry about the school’s network security.

Maimon and Cukier are also working to understand h ow t h e a c t i o n s o f t h e hackers’ victims can affect a network’s security, but that part of their research is still in an early analysis phase.

They enacted a cybersecurity campaign in certain dorms, informing students that pirating software, for example, can attract network attacks.

And now, Maimon said, they’re analyzing the data to find out if students acted differently and if hackers somewhere noticed.

“By doing this, we are opening another door to create more sophisticated security solutions by looking at the human element,” Maimon said. “We are opening a door to a new world where we can get a better understanding about the hacker and the victim. How they are doing this, why there are doing this, how they are exposing themselves.”

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“The age group and the college environment, where it’s a rite of passage to drink as much as possible, easily leads to these sorts of unfortunate situations occurring,”

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same. It’s just how it’s communicated, ultimately.”

Although time specifications are sensible, Senate Executive Committee Chairwoman Martha Nell Smith said, instances of arbitrary or capricious grading are few and far between, begging the question of whether a formal policy is necessary.

“How widespread is this? I don’t doubt it happens, but it doesn’t seem to me it’s a widespread problem,” Smith said. “The only time I’ve seen — and it’s only been maybe twice — a colleague accused of arbitrary and capricious grading, it turned out not to be an issue.”

The change is not transformative, but it would be a simple way to make academic administration more efficient and offer students a fairer process, Popkin said.

“This provides them with a little bit more clarity, a more definitive time line, so if all else fails, at least they have an effective process to deal with,” he said.

The executive committee took up several other bills at the Friday meeting, including charging a senate committee to review specific recommendations in a recent report on the treatment of non tenure track faculty, setting them up for senate consideration next year.

The executive committee also approved a request from the Sexual Harassment Task Force for an extension of its deadline to submit its findings until October of this year.

The task force is weighing a proposal to mandate sexual assault education for all university students.

“For students who do feel that it’s necessary to appeal a grade — whether it actually is arbitrary and capricious or they [just] think it is — chances are they had a troubling time in a class and were not appreciative of how something happened,” Popkin said.

The bill is a common-sense measure, Popkin said, adding he doesn’t anticipate strong opposition when it goes before the senate.

“I don’t think it was that controversial in the first place. It was really just identifying a discrepancy in the existing policy and clarifying that,” he said. “I’m fairly confident that it’ll pass.”

There was little controversy in the APAS committee about the merits of the proposal, said Chris Davis, a faculty senator and the committee chair.

“We thought it was a no-brainer,” he said.“It happened very quickly.”

One of the benefits of the proposed policy is it aligns the undergraduate appellate system with its graduate counterpart, which already includes time limits, Davis added.

In previous years, senators expressed concern that placing definitive time lines on the appeals process could backfire, encouraging hasty decisions and adding bureaucratic strain in lieu of efficiency. However, Popkin said time limits won’t compromise a fair appeals process.

“I don’t really see how it is an administrative burden,” Popkin said.

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Yesterday, The Diamondback ran a visual mock-up with its story on Knox Village, a proposed housing development that would replace the city’s beloved, decrepit Knox Boxes.

The developer, WDG Architecture, actually sent the reporter two images, but we decided against running one of them after noticing something strange — there, sitting on the Village green, was an Asian man throwing up peace signs.

Incidentally, he was also sitting next to three other cutout photographs of Asian people. We were interested in how this particular gentleman came to be in WDG Architecture’s rendering, as all the other figures seemed to be milling about, not doing anything particularly stereotypical or culturally insensitive — though many figures appear twice in the visual, which is impressive in its own way.

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For the SGA, there’s only one way to Go I

t’s Time to Go vote for next year’s SGA executive board, a group of students who play a key role in advocating for undergraduates on this campus.

This election, the mere 2,000 who usually choose to vote have to decide between presidential incumbent Samantha Zwerling and her Go Party team, and newcomer Noah Robinson and his fellow Time Party candidates.

Both parties have been highly visible on social media this year — a notable difference from previous campaign — making it that much easier to see the distinct differences between the two proposals. The candidates’ platforms, tweets, Facebook posts, videos, debates and individual interviews with this editorial board have all factored into our decision about which candidates to endorse.

Robinson’s campaign has relied heavily on overarching, crowd-pleasing initiatives, such as changing parking tickets and dining points. The Time Party campaign has tried to appeal to a greater majority of the student body by using the popular meme phrase “Ain’t nobody got TIME for that” to emphasize these broad issues. Our issue with Robinson is similar to one we had with last year’s For Party presidential candidate: His plans lack substance.

Vague ideas are not the way to get things done — and Zwerling has proven that over this past year.

In 2012, Zwerling’s 50-page election platform seemed overly ambitious. This editorial board commended Zwerling for her comprehensive plan,

but even in that endorsement, we were skeptical she would be able to accomplish more than a small percentage of what her plan outlined.

But we have been pleasantly surprised with her success in transforming both the inner workings of the Student Government Association and its communication with, and advocacy for, its constituents — students.

Zwerling shrank her platform down to 26 pages this year in a pledge to finish what she started last spring, and she has learned what can feasibly be accomplished; as she has repeatedly stated, last election’s behemoth agenda was a two-year plan.

And Zwerling was able to complete many of those initiatives. Shortly after she was elected SGA president, Zwerling spent her summer making connections with university administrators and different city and state officials. She cites her well-developed network as one of the reasons she has been able to accomplish more as the year has progressed.

Strengthening these relationships and ensuring these officials trust her has been a main goal throughout her tenure, and she has created an arrangement that benefits the students: People listen to her, and she’s advocating what’s best for our community.

Textbook reform, Dean’s Student Advisory Councils, lobbying in Annapolis and Washington, community outreach, mental health services and general college affordability have all been areas in which Zwerling has made significant progress since her inauguration.

She has consistently worked toward adopting open-source textbooks — an exceptionally useful and just initiative that Robinson’s campaign actually disparages. Her administration hosted successful rallies for both same-sex marriage and the DREAM Act — both of which got passed by referendum in this state on Election Day. She created

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JOSH RATNER Student Affairs Vice President What to Fix UMD, an innovative way of directly receiving student feedback that university departments have closely followed.

Zwerling and the SGA helped secure $5 million of funding over the next 10 years for mental health services to hire new staff members and better respond to increasing student demand. She has been working to get the sexual assault education mandate passed through the University Senate. And she told this editorial board, “College affordability is my top priority.”

We have full confidence Zwerling will accomplish a significant portion of her goals — and looking at the Go

Party platform, it’s easy to see just how she can pull it off. The 26 pages of “Problem … Here’s How It’ll GO,” explicitly outline how she and her party will solve each issue.

The Time Party has a similar format for its platform, with “Problem … Story … Solution,” as its three branching points. The difference is the Go Party’s initiatives are actually plausible. The Time Party is setting out to resolve a number of issues, from noisy construction to overpriced textbooks to Facilities Management, Dining Services and Department of Transportation Services issues. But it’s unclear if Robinson realizes the SGA has limited authority to effect such change or that the issues are already being addressed by initiatives such as WTF UMD. Robinson has belittled Zwerling’s lobbying efforts in Annapolis as beyond the purview of an SGA president. He has mocked open-source textbooks, which have the potential to ease the hit on almost every student’s wallet.

Robinson has committed to sexual assault prevention (very vaguely) in his campaign, yet he was “released from his position” at the Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program, according to SARPP assistant Director Stephanie Rivero.

He wants to audit DOTS and Dining Services, two of the largest departments at this university, and he does not seem to realize the enormity of that task. He has revealed himself to be the creator of Facebook page Maryland Compliments and claims WTF UMD

sends a negative vibe through the campus, but he fails to acknowledge what WTF UMD has accomplished in its few months of existence.

Like Zwerling herself, the entire Go Party ticket is the obvious choice in this year’s election. Vote for Meenu Singh for academic affairs vice president, Andrew Aggabao for financial affairs vice president and Josh Ratner for student affairs vice president.

Singh has a strong grasp on her position and what she wants to do, whereas the Time Party’s Stephanie Graf failed to match the Go Party’s comprehensive plan with innovative ideas of her own during the SGA debate. Aggabao is coming from outside the SGA, which could potentially bring new light to the position. Ratner, who was a student liaison for the city council, already has invaluable experience dealing with bureaucracy and would be ready to launch his initiatives from Day One. Plus, Zwerling said the Go platform was a compilation of ideas from everyone on the ticket.

Students need to understand how important it is to vote in this election.

The Time Party makes a good point by saying there are 25,000 students at this university, yet barely 2,000 usually vote. Today’s the second day of voting on Testudo — polls close at 5 p.m. tomorrow. These votes directly affect us because these candidates’ initiatives would impact each of us individually.

Samantha Zwerling has accomplished more than any SGA president this editorial board has seen. She deserves your vote so she can finish what she started.

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Rejection is a virtue The future is bright, even if you failed to nab that dream summer job

CAROLINE CARLSON Rejection can be a b----.

Sometimes it seems like no matter how much you try or how hard you work, the results don’t match expectations. The months before summer break seem to be the most tense: What if I never get accepted to an internship because I’m so unqualified? What if I end up sitting on my ass all day playing The Sims 3 like last summer?

What if I don’t get into graduate school and I actually have to enter the lousy job market?

We’ve all likely been rejected from some sort of summer opportunity and had to face the accompanying anxiety and fear. Take, for instance, this lovely email I received in my inbox Friday morning: “Thank you for applying for a summer 2013 internship position with [insert Washington think tank]. However, we do not deem your application to be adequate at this time.”

Well, hell. Looks like I’m not even adequate.

Following the rejection, I kept asking myself, “What did I do wrong?” My application was thorough and precise; my interview went well, and my references were solid.

It made me worry for days. I considered all possibilities: Perhaps everyone else had connections; maybe I showed too much cleavage during my interview; maybe they saw my drunk tweet from last week about how much I hate Calypso Spiced Rum. Truth be told, as much as it sucks getting rejected from your dream summer internship or being told you’re not “adequate” enough for an internship you thought you had sealed, there are plenty of upsides to getting rejected. Sometimes you have to consider them because, in all reality, rejection happens to the best of us. To put you at ease, here are some of the benefits of rejection:

1. Rejection can show you a company isn’t right for you in the first place. For instance, if job recruiters are really such squares that they’re not going to accept you because of your tweet about rum, then do you really want to work with people like that? I don’t know about you, but working with leftovers from the Stone Age doesn’t create the ideal work atmosphere for me.

2. Sometimes firms reject you not because you are unqualified but because they see your interests leading you to a different path. Companies don’t just consider your capabilities of working for them, but their capabilities of matching your interests.

3. Feeling like an outcast can actually bolster creativity. According to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, feeling rejected “stimulated creativity for people with an independent sense of self” and helped them reach “creative solutions.”

4. Rejection gives you time to find yourself. Rather than dwelling on your supposed flaws, maybe a free and open summer will let you explore options you never even considered during the school year. The best experiences aren’t always planned.

As much as we always want to beat ourselves up after reading a rejection letter, obsessing about the downside of things and focusing on our mistakes doesn’t really help us. There’s an immense difference between realizing you can improve certain characteristics of yourself and hating yourself for having those characteristics. And when we think about people we idolize in the workplace, there’s a huge distinction between saying, “I want to be like her one day” and asking, “Why am I not like her?”

Let’s face the facts: You are a student at a top public university. Opportunities abound, and Washington is at your doorstep. There’s plenty to brag about.

You have everything to gain, so don’t let yourself be held captive.

Caroline Carlson is a sophomore government and politics and information systems major. She can be reached at caroline.crlsn@gmail.com.

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Dove’s fake attempt at real beauty LAUREN NURSE The camera pans out to reveal an ethereal urban loft space. Cue the teary classical music, and we are introduced to an FBI forensic artist.

So begins Dove’s newest video sensation, a pseudo inspirational three-minute bit called “Dove Real Beauty Sketches.” After the number of high school acquaintances posting this video on Facebook with captions reading “OMG every girl should watch this!” reached double digits, I decided to watch it myself.

On the surface, the video tells viewers they are more beautiful than they think. It is worth noting I agree with Dove in that most women are indeed their harshest critics, and a positive self-image can enhance a woman’s happiness. But a second, more critical look at the campaign’s message reveals a much more disturbing trend.

Enter Florence, the first woman the video features at length. Thin, blond, blue-eyed and no older than mid40s, Florence is asked by the artist to describe her facial features while he remains veiled behind a curtain.

Her description immediately jumps to nitpicking features for being “big,” “fat” or “protruding.” This exercise of selfdepreciation continues before four more women go through the same process, many of whom share similar complaints.

After a few pauses and replays, I realize the five women featured as needing selfesteem adjustments are all relatively young, ranging between mid-20s and mid-40s. Four of the women are white; two have blond hair and blue eyes, and all five are thin. Shelly, the only nonwhite among the group, is still light-skinned.

For the briefest of moments, the camera pans to an Asian woman (who, by the way, is also thin and young) pondering her own sketch, and then catches a fleeting glimpse of a medium-toned woman with a rounder face and curvier figure.

Neither is introduced nor interviewed.

In a three-minute video, nonwhite women command the camera for a grand total of no more than 15 seconds.

At this point, a new group of participants is brought in to describe the women and prop up the self-esteem of our insecure group. From one interview to the next, the testimonies are eerily similar. The strangers rattle off implied positive characteristics such as being thin, having a thin chin, a cute nose or having “very nice blue eyes.” The exercise, while perhaps making our control

group feel giddy and warm, leaves critical viewers reminded of society’s relatively narrow understanding of beauty.

The featured women receive a big reveal toward the end, with their selfdescribed portrait on the left and the stranger’s description on the right. This leaves the women emotional, along with some viewers, I suppose.

One woman, Kela, is immensely relieved to see her face isn’t nearly as fat as she thought it was. Hooray! The women can now collectively cry with joy as they realize they are far closer to conventional beauty standards than previously believed. The superficial message gives the audience a temporary high before they run out to purchase more soaps and shampoos.

The “Dove Real Beauty Sketches” have simply repackaged pre-existing societal beauty norms while branding the video as a groundbreaking social experiment.

We are supposed to be shocked when young, thin, light-skinned women are told society does indeed find them beautiful. While past advertisements in Dove’s Real Beauty campaign have actually included women of all ages, shapes and colors, this one missed the mark entirely.

Lauren Nurse is a freshman government and politics major. She can be reached at laurennurse93@hotmail.com.

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REVIEW | PHOENIX’S BANKRUPT!

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French alternative group Phoenix burned bright on breakthrough album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, but follow-up Bankrupt! is more ash than flame

By Dean Essner Senior staff writer French synth-pop group Phoenix may have named its fifth studio album Bankrupt!, but the band hardly sounds desperate. Its irresistible and next most recent album, 2009’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, was fresh and exciting, showcasing a group in complete, unwavering control of its sonic direction.

Bankrupt! is cut from a similar musical cloth as Wolfgang, pairing an affection for Moog synthesizers with the simple, reliable crunch of a New Order-esque guitar. That being said, the synths have become omnipresent and overbearing. Throughout the record, balanced melodic passages transition awkwardly into dark, atonal electronic jams.

Wolfgang was an album of space and calculated emptiness — no sounds were excessively loud in the mix, which made tiny flourishes such as the bass line on “Lisztomania” instantly memorable.

On the other hand, Bankrupt! is overstuffed, yielding a frustrating, unenjoyable sensory experience that probably could have been amended with some stronger production work. The songs themselves aren’t particularly revelatory, functioning as templates that should have been enhanced with better

mixing and leveling.

T he title track starts off gorgeou sly, bloom i ng f rom a sof t guitar-laden interlude into an interstellar wash of Strawberry Jam synthesizers. Yet lead singer Thomas Mars ruins the song with some pointless babbling about fashion and someone with “feathery eyes,” all over what could be a scrapped Spacemen 3 outtake.

Ma rs’ hy perbolic and utterly nonsensical lyrics threaten to tank the whole album. If he were a more charismatic front man, it would perhaps be possible to forgive his bad writing. While Julian Casablancas’ magnetism somewhat redeemed The Strokes’ mediocre most recent record, Comedown Machine, Mars c om e s a c ro s s a s the flattest, most mundane singer ever.

Take the plucky “Drakkar Noir,” for example. The band almost successfully channels recent tour-mate Mac DeMarco on the song, which, for an odd moment, sou nd s eer i ly like “The Stars

Keep On Calling My Name” from DeM a rco’s bri l l ia nt ly low-key 2. It fails because the humorless Mars mangles everything with his crushing sincerity. You can close your eyes and imagine DeMarco having a good yuk on the chorus, “Jangle jungle/ Jingle jump before you stumble,” but Mars croons those same words like a lovelorn poet or a hazzan o n Yo m Kippur.

Only the big stomp on “Chloroform” — which tries slinky chillwave on for size — and the single “Entertainment” seem to break through the doldrums.

Overall, this is not a bad record by any means. It’s just one with a whole slew of problems, some fi xable and some unfixable. I’d argue the band hardly needs Mars. Better production work and memorable songs, though, are th i ngs to work on. Then maybe

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fLAMES From PAGE 8

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communication From PAGE 8 focused during a game.

“I’ve always been the type of pitcher that feeds off the energy of the fielders,” Schmeiser said. “I think the best way to get energy from them is to give it to them.”

When the Terps didn’t communicate on the field this weekend, their play suffered.

Pitcher Maddie Martin and the rest of the Terps were silent at the start of Game 2 of Saturday’s doubleheader. Even as the Eagles drew a four-pitch walk to open the game and piled on runs in the inning, the Terps were quiet and lacked the energy of the first game. It was a subpar outing from the freshman that coach Laura Watten said she needs to forget.

The Terps recaptured their energy later in the game, however, when utility player Lexi Carroll posted three scoreless innings from the second through the fourth.

Sparse cheers from the dugout slowly developed into chants as the Terps began to claw back from the deficit. Schmeiser also contributed with two scoreless innings in the sixth and seventh, as the team looked similar to how it played in Saturday’s first game and how it would look in Sunday’s victory, despite eventually losing Game 2, 8-6.

The relationship between communication and the team’s overall performance has been apparent this season, which is something Watten said the Terps can use entering the final three series of the regular season.

“After yesterday’s second game, I made the point that we need to get focused on what we know we’ve learned,” Watten said Sunday. “About how we can attack and control games.

That’s the key.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

DRAWs From PAGE 8 the next week against North Carolina. And against the then-No. 2 Tar Heels, they struggled in the draw circle the most they had all season.

North Carolina dominated the draw controls in the first period, 11-6, and nearly used that effort to capture a victory.

But the Terps posted a stellar defensive performance, led by goalkeeper Kasey Howard’s 11 saves, and netted more than 50 percent of their shot attempts to eventually overcome their deficiencies in the draw circle for a 14-13 victory.

Still, coach Cathy Reese’s team likely can’t rely on blistering shooting performances each game once postseason play starts Friday. If the Terps hope to compete with the nation’s best, they will need to reclaim their

because of a hamate bone injury.

Wade h as made up fo r K iene’s absence at the position, leading the team in walks (31) and compiling the second-most RBIs (25).

Michael Montville was expected to be the starter in left field, but an elbow injury before the Virginia series on March 9 has forced him to miss the majority of ACC play. Papio — who Szefc praised more for his defensive abilities than his prowess at the plate — took over in left field and has hit a teamhigh three home runs, including a game-tying shot in the bottom of the seventh inning of Saturday’s walkoff victory.

Martir has split time at catcher with senior Jack Cleary and has also started several games at designated hitter. Recently, though, he has moved to third base as both Hockaday and second baseman Kyle Convissar

efficiency on draw controls.

Cummings struggled against Dartmouth on April 14, though.

After the Big Green won six of the first period’s 13 draw controls, Reese decided to replace the freshman in the draw circle with senior Camilla Hayes.

“I thought Dartmouth did an outstanding job on the draw control,” Reese said moments after the Terps’ April 14 victory. “When you don’t have the ball, it stands out in your head.”

The switch to Hayes yielded positive results. With the senior in the middle, the Terps corralled nine draw controls to Dartmouth’s five in the second period. The 5-foot-11 midfielder held a slim height advantage against 5-foot-10 midfielder Courtney Bennett that the 5-foot-7 Cummings couldn’t provide.

So on Saturday against Virginia Tech, the Terps again allowed several

amato From PAGE 8 conversations about any random topic, and he’s always the first Terp to tell a joke.

That dichotomy in Amato’s personality — his insatiable competitive drive on the field, combined with his goofiness off it — is what makes him one of the nation’s premier netminders, coach John Tillman said.

The redshirt junior has earned All-ACC honors in both of his previous years as the Terps’ starter. He has provided a steadying presence as the team’s defensive anchor during back-to-back runs to the national title game. And he has established himself as a vocal leader on the nation’s No. 2 team this season.

“He can’t emulate anyone else,” Tillman said. “Niko’s figured out that he can be a great player in a way that suits his own personality.”

‘INTERESTING CAT’ On a near-empty lacrosse field in the Philadelphia suburbs in the spring of 2004, Brian Dougherty stood in awe of a pudgy 12-year-old with messy brown hair.

Dougherty, a Terrapins men’s lacrosse All-American goalkeeper in the mid-1990s, didn’t expect much from Amato in their first private lesson. Yet Amato showcased an awareness that usually takes aspiring goalies months — or even years — to develop.

“I’ve worked anywhere from 200 to 1,000 goalies out throughout the course of my life, and that was the first time I ever had a kid totally absorb everything I was saying,” Dougherty said.

“It was pretty awesome to watch.”

So Dougherty figured Amato must be relatively tamed and disciplined. But soon after that initial lesson, Amato was making Dougherty laugh with goofy jokes and entertaining stories.

Dougherty had never felt this way around a seventh-grader. Amato was so comfortable, confident and laid back.

“If you know Niko at all, you know he’s an interesting cat,” Dougherty said. “He’s unique, he’s funny, he makes fun of himself. … It was almost like talking to a peer.”

The day after that first lesson, Dougherty knew Amato could become a Division I goalkeeper. The middle schooler’s unique combination of talent and personality was a perfect fit for the position, he said.

Kathy Amato, Niko’s mother, was hardly surprised her son impressed

goalkeeper niko amato’s potential to play Division I men’s lacrosse was seen at a young age by former Terps netminder Brian Dougherty.

Dougherty with his personality. He’d been “chatting up a storm” with whomever would listen since he could talk, she said.

But Dougherty’s confidence in her son’s athletic ability was a bit more startling.

“That’s when I realized,” Kathy Amato said, “he really may be able to turn this into something.”

BUILDING CONFIDENCE About a year after meeting Dougherty, Amato made the 20-minute trek to Philadelphia to watch his mentor’s former team play in the NCAA semifinals.

As he sat in Lincoln Financial Field with his cousin, Duke routed the Terps, 18-9. He watched as then-Terps goalkeeper Harry Alford saved only eight of 26 shot attempts.

The 13-year-old Amato was hardly an experienced goalie — he played attack when first picking up the sport at 10 — but a thought crept into his mind as the Blue Devils rattled off nine consecutive goals in a run spanning the first and second quarters.

“Yo, I need to be out there,” Amato told his cousin. “I could stop these shots right now.”

That confidence is part of the reason Amato was an honorable mention AllAmerican last season. It’s still with him after every win and every defeat. It’s what makes him strive for perfection on a day-to-day basis.

After struggling in a 10-8 loss to North Carolina on March 23, he logged extra hours at practice the following week. He watched film and did whatever drills his coaches could muster up — all while maintaining his characteristic smile and telling his typical jokes.

The goalie stopped 14 of 21 shots and led his team to a 9-7 victory over Virginia days later.

“Niko understands he can’t change his ways,” Tillman said. “He’s got to be that same person. That’s what makes him the goalie he is.”

TEAM JOKESTER Conrad Ridgway wanted Amato to join his Collegeville Cougars lacrosse team when he was just 10 years old.

And it wasn’t necessarily because Ridgway — who played four seasons at Penn State before graduating in May — thought Amato would be good at lacrosse. He just figured the future Terp would be a fun addition.

“He was one of those kids who everybody knew his name,” said Ridgway, who also played with Amato at La Salle College High School in Wyndmoor, Pa. “Just a great personality to have on your team.”

That’s carried over to Amato’s career in College Park.

The communication major even keeps things loose before games, often engaging in shouting matches with faceoff specialist Curtis Holmes during bus rides to road games. The topic of conversation? Jokes about each other’s height.

Amato doesn’t just buddy up with his teammates, though. He often teases offensive players at practice, hoping to challenge them. It creates a competitive atmosphere, backup goalkeeper Kyle Bernlohr said. The Terps attack Amato even harder.

“He’s one of the funniest guys on the team, but he’s always getting us fired up for the game,” Bernlohr said. “It’s

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really important for our team to have someone like Niko.”

But as soon as the team’s bus pulls into its intended location on game day, the goaltender focuses on the task at hand. It’s uncanny, Tillman said. Amato takes everything so lightheartedly yet focuses on lacrosse so seriously.

“It comes a certain time when the jokes and games got to stop,” Amato said.

“I think I’m as intense and passionate as it gets when the game is going on.”

PUTTING IT TOGETHER When Tillman joined the program in the summer of 2010, the Terps didn’t have an established goalie on their roster. After 2010 All-ACC goalkeeper Brian Phipps graduated that spring, the slot was wide open.

Senior Mark White, a former high school All-American who had logged minimal minutes in three seasons, was the most experienced candidate for the starting job. Amato, the other contender in net, redshirted during his first season on the roster.

The two battled for the position throughout the fall and Tillman didn’t make a final decision until the last scrimmage before the season.

He chose Amato.

“Mark and I, we had a long battle throughout that year,” Amato said. “It was kind of strenuous, but it made us both work hard. And he pushed me, which I’m thankful for.”

Amato said he and White remain good friends. But once Amato locked down the starting job, he never made Tillman question his decision. Amato has started every game since.

miss time. Martir has been an offensive force for the Terps no matter where he plays in the field. He ranks fourth on the team in batting average (.289) and fifth in hits (37).

The three freshmen have emerged in recent weeks as effective offensive forces when they play up to their potential.

The problem, though, as it has been all season, is consistency. Through the final two games of the Virginia Tech series, Martir, Wade and Papio combined to hit just 2-for-22, good for a .091 average.

Szefc’s program seems to have a solid foundation of young players. But this season, the inexperienced squad hasn’t been able to string together reliable outings.

“We’re very hit-or-miss,” Szefc said.

“You look at our numbers and our performances, we are very inconsistent.

But that’s what young, inexperienced teams are.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

players to take draws. Cummings split time with midfielders Beth Glaros and Bryn Boucher as the Terps won the draw control battle, 13-10, in a 15-7 victory.

Perhaps Cummings benefited from sharing the burden in the draw circle. After all, she has handled most of the draw control duties throughout her first season competing at the college level.

But Cummings remains the Terps’ top draw control player as they travel to Chapel Hill, N.C. for the start of the ACC tournament Friday.

So she will need to play well this weekend if the four-time reigning ACC champions hope to stay undefeated.

“Draw controls are helpful, they help you gain possession,” Reese said.

“They will go to the team that’s going to hustle more.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

The goalie finished eighth nationally with a .583 save percentage during his redshirt freshman campaign, and he earned All-ACC honors in the process.

He seemed to play his best lacrosse in the NCAA tournament, giving up just 5.5 goals per game as he led the Terps to their first national title game berth since 1998.

Amato’s second season followed a similar path. He once again made the All-ACC team and took the Terps to another national title game. Despite a dip in save percentage, Amato was named an honorable mention All-American.

So there’s little doubt the goofy, outspoken kid from Conshohocken has morphed into one of the nation’s best goalies. But there’s still a feat that he hasn’t accomplished. He’s been to two NCAA championships and has fallen short both times.

This season, the Terps look poised to contend for another championship.

Amato is anchoring the nation’s thirdranked defense, and the No. 2 Terps sport a stellar 9-2 record.

Lately, though, Amato has been asked to carry a heavier load. Tillman’s team has struggled offensively — they haven’t notched more than 12 goals in a game since early March — and opponents have been earning possession advantages.

With his teammates struggling to regain their offensive form, Amato has had to bail out the Terps and keep them in position to win. And that was certainly the case Saturday. Yale outshot the Terps, 48-29, but Amato’s 24 saves — tied for third-most in a Division I game this season — helped the Terps salvage a victory.

“When you are in a tight spot, you hope your best players step up,” Tillman said after the game. “Niko certainly did that today.”

So Amato stood on the Byrd Stadium field on Saturday drenched with sweat and breathing heavily. He had willed his team to a critical win — and sealed it with that narrow kick-save — moments earlier.

Amato might be the key component on a Terps team aiming to win the program’s first national championship since 1975, but he maintains he feels little pressure.

Tillman said the goalkeeper is already displaying the work ethic necessary to lead the team back to the sport’s final contest.

Even after extra practice time or hours spent watching film, though, Amato will quickly relax and tell a teammate a joke.

His drive and overwhelming expectations haven’t yet changed his quirky personality.

“These four or five years we have go by pretty quick,” Amato said. “So there’s no reason not to enjoy it.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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A Different kind of

“It comes a certain time when the jokes and games got to stop. I think I’m as intense and passionate as it gets when the game is going on.”

Anchor Goalie Niko Amato balances laid-back personality with intense on-field persona

By Aaron Kasinitz Staff writer Niko Amato barely saw Yale midfielder Harry Kucharczyk fire the 30-yard shot that was hurtling toward him Saturday afternoon. But the Terrapins men’s lacrosse goalkeeper knew he couldn’t let the ball squeak past him if he wanted to preserve his team’s 8-7 lead with less than five seconds remaining.

So Amato stuck out his left foot and barely clipped the rockhard ball, deflecting its path away from the net and toward the post. The ball smacked off the pipe to preserve a crucial one-goal victory over the Bulldogs.

It was a fitting end to a noteworthy performance. The 5-foot-8, 185-pound Amato finished with a career-high 24 stops — the most saves by any Terps goalie in a single game since 2005 — in a showing coach John Tillman lauded as the contest’s decisive factor.

“I don’t know what it hit, but I know I felt pain,” Amato later said with a chuckle, referring to Saturday’s final play. “So I would have been pissed if it went in.”

The Terps’ starting goalie rarely goofs around on the lacrosse field.

Yet Amato’s teammates and coaches know his determined game-day demeanor only highlights part of Amato’s makeup.

Away from fans, announcers and reporters, the Conshohocken, Pa., native is as outgoing and quirky as anyone. He likes to pour cold water on his teammates in the shower and strike up lengthy

– Niko Amato

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BASEBALL

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Draw control sparks offensive outbursts Cummings’ 4.41 mark ranks second in ACC

By Joshua Needelman Staff writer The Terrapins women’s lacrosse team has enjoyed an undefeated 2013 campaign, but it’ll need a solid effort in the draw control circle to stay that way through this weekend’s ACC tournament.

The Terps lead the ACC with 14.94 draw controls per game and midfielder Taylor Cummings’ average of 4.41 draw controls per game ranks second in the conference. Cummings has seen a slight dip in production on draw controls lately, though, as she looks to return to the form displayed in a 15-10 victory over Penn on March 30.

In a year full of impressive performances, coach Cathy Reese’s squad

made a profound statement with its victory against the Quakers. Penn was riding a four-game winning streak entering the matchup and averaged 13 goals a game in that span.

The Terps held their streaking opponents to just 10 goals thanks in part to a 16-10 edge on draws.

Cummings, a freshman, led the stellar effort with a team-high six draw controls.

“From the draw, she’s been a huge force for us,” midfielder Katie Schwarzmann said in late February.

“In our sport of lacrosse, possession is key, and she’s made a huge impact there.”

The Terps faced another challenge See DRAWS, Page 7

SOFTBALL

Catcher kevin martir has started the past five games at third base in place of K.J. Hockaday. who is not playing after violating team rules. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Freshmen earn prominent roles Papio, Martir, Wade lead Terps in Saturday’s 10-9 win over Hokies

By Daniel Popper Staff writer The Terrapins baseball team felt a strong sense of disappointment following a 3-2 loss to Virginia Tech on Shipley Field at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium on Sunday.

The defeat capped the seventh consecutive conference series loss for the Terps — who will face nonconference foe Liberty at home this afternoon — and likely put an ACC tournament berth out of reach.

Plus, a host of injuries and third baseman K.J. Hockaday’s suspension

for violating team rules left the team with just 13 active position players for the deciding game against the Hokies, forcing coach John Szefc to insert more inexperience into his already young lineup.

But amid Szefc’s frustration, a glimpse of a promising future emerged.

In the Terps’ 10-9 walk-off win over the Hokies on Saturday, freshman first baseman LaMonte Wade, freshman catcher Kevin Martir and redshirt freshman outfielder Anthony Papio combined to hit 8-for-14 and accounted for eight of the team’s nine RBIs. Papio, who’s

hitting .223 on the year, even notched the game-winning two-run single in the bottom of the ninth inning.

“We stuck to our approach,” Papio said. “We attacked the pitchers early in the count, and when we got elevated pitches to hit, we attacked those pitches.”

The Terps’ mounting injuries have opened up the opportunity for Wade, Martir and Papio to contribute.

Tim Kiene, the presumed starter at first base entering this season, has started only eight games all season See FLAMES, Page 7

Terps remain poised, vocal in weekend wins Communication key in taking 2 of 3 from BC

By Paul Pierre-Louis Staff writer The top of the fifth on Sunday could have been a big inning for Boston College.

Facing a 5-1 deficit against the Terrapins softball team, Eagles infielder C.J. Chirichigno hit a one-out double. The Terps caught her in a rundown on an attempted steal, but she beat infielder Juli Strange’s tag back to second.

Chirichigno would never score, despite advancing to third base, as pitcher Kaitlyn Schmeiser worked her way out of the jam with a fly out.

The Terps’ response to dangerous scenarios proved to be critical during their wins this weekend. They remained poised and vocal during their 6-0 and

10-1 victories against the Eagles on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

“We’re playing our best when we’re talking and we’re all on each other and with each other,” catcher Shannon Bustillos said. “I think that’s what keeps us all in the game.”

The communication and positivity were especially beneficial for Schmeiser, who was the most vocal of the Terps when she was in the circle.

Whether she retired a batter on strikes or got a player to roll over a pitch for a routine ground ball, the sophomore constantly turned to the fielders and pushed for the next out.

It’s something Schmeiser does to keep See communication, Page 7