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Cavaliers dash Terps’ ACC Championship hopes with 10-6 victory

CSPAC’S Gilgamesh is light on story, but its effects are spectacular

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Monday, April 26, 2010

THE DIAMONDBACK Our 100TH Year, No. 128

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER

Officials Armed robbers strike two city houses struggle to decrease enrollment Suspects were looking for drugs on Princeton Ave.; One had semi-automatic handgun

BY DARREN BOTELHO Staff writer

Two men — one with a semi-automatic handgun — broke into two Old Town houses, robbed and threatened the residents Saturday afternoon.

Univ. System looks for a 6-percent drop by 2016

BY DERBY COX Senior staff writer

The university is just too popular for its own good.

A high yield — the percentage of admitted students who come to the university — has thwarted university efforts to decrease enrollment during the past few years. Fewer students would mean more money per student, which would ensure academic quality, administrators have said.

“Every time you admit a student, you lose money, basically,” university President Dan Mote said. “The tuition doesn’t come close to paying for it, and the state appropriation doesn’t either. ... As you admit more students, you’re going to end up reducing the quality of your program by spending less money per student.”

Numbers released earlier this month by the university system underscore the difficulty of the problem. While freshman enrollment increased 7.5 percent this year, system projections call for the university to decrease its undergraduate population by slightly more than 6 percent by 2016. Graduate student enrollment would decrease about 4 percent.

see ENROLLMENT, page 2

Prince George’s County Police spokeswoman Sgt. Michelle Reedy said two men entered the residences on the 7500 block of Princeton Ave. and demanded the occupants hand over drugs and other property at about 4:45 p.m. Police would not identify what else was

taken from the houses.

Reedy said the two men ran down College Avenue and were last seen by witnesses heading toward the College Park Metro station.

A crime alert was sent out to the university community in the evening — about four hours after

the incident occurred. This was the fourth crime alert of the semester from county police. The previous three incidents were robberies on or near Route 1.

According to the crime alert, the

see ROBBERY, page 2

TERPS BRING IT HOME Dipper helps lead women’s lacrosse to second straight ACC Title at Ludwig Field

BY CHRIS ECKARD Staff writer

As the final whistle blew to signal the end of the ACC Championship game, the Terrapin women’s lacrosse team’s bench sprinted across Ludwig Field to goalie Brittany Dipper, knocking her to the ground as players threw themselves onto an ever-growing pile.

Following a regular season rife with inconsistency in net, Dipper was happy to finally have any doubts about the security of her starting job off her back.

Yesterday, in their place, was a scrum of delirious Terps celebrating a 10-5 win against No. 1 North Carolina and a second straight conference title.

And after leading the team through postgame handshakes, Dipper approached the Terps’ coaching staff and embraced each.

“It’s a great feeling,” said Dipper, who finished with a career-high 12 saves. “The coaches have helped me so much. There was just a whole lot of emotions out there.”

Just a month ago, coach Cathy Reese pulled Dipper at halftime against James Madison. For the rest of the

see TITLE, page 7

Cardin pushes for clean energy legislation U.S. senator speaks at Stamp Student Union

MORE ONLINE www.terrapintrail.com WHO’S NO. 1?

By taking down current No. 1 North Carolina in yesterday’s ACC Tournament title game, the Terps staked their claim to the top spot when the polls come out today.

The No. 3 Terps will face competition from No. 2 Northwestern, who beat Vanderbilt this weekend.

It would be the first time in coach Cathy Reese’s four-year tenure that the Terps have earned the No. 1 ranking.

Attackers Karri Ellen Johnson, left, and Sarah Mollison, right, celebrate the Terps’ 10-5 win over No. 1 North Carolina to win the ACC Championship on Sunday.

Johnson had a goal and two assists in the win. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK

BY LEYLA KORKUT Staff writer

An upcoming federal bill aimed at tackling the country’s numerous environmental issues should enable the country to make progress toward clean, renewable energy by offering reforms such as protecting the Chesapeake Bay from offshore drilling, Sen. Ben Cardin told a group of students Friday.

Cardin (D-Md.) spoke to a few dozen students in the Stamp Student Union’s Benjamin Banneker Room at a town hall forum sponsored by UMD for Clean Energy. The event was designed to give students a chance to question the senator about upcoming environmental legislation.

One climate bill in particular — which has already passed the House of Representatives — may come before Cardin and his colleagues in the Senate within the next week, he said.

Cardin said he hopes this bill will protect the Chesapeake Bay from offshore drilling, institute cap-and-trade policies and invest in renewable forms of energy, which are issues Cardin said should be tackled now —

see CARDIN, page 2

TOMORROW’S WEATHER:

MOTE’S LEGACY

More than another Saturday For Mote, Maryland Day helped show what the university has to offer

BY KEVIN ROBILLARD Senior staff writer

It started with a red three-ring binder and 10 people sitting around a table.

The moon bounce, the long line for the wind tunnel, the 50,000 cupcakes and the world’s largest strawberry shortcake, the students showing off custom robots and experiments, the thousands of volunteers showing up for nothing more than a boxed lunch — that all came later.

Before Maryland Day became a reason for tens of thousands of people to descend on the campus each April —

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the university held its 12th annual Maryland Day on Saturday — it was just a brand-new university president’s idea that no one believed would work.

“The campus was so unenthusiastic,” university President Dan Mote said. “I was the only person on the campus who wanted Maryland Day to happen that I know of.”

For most, Maryland Day is fun and games, but for Mote, who is retiring Aug. 31 after 12 years as president, the event has always been a part of a strategy to link the university to its

see MOTE, page 3

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University President Dan Mote poses for a photo with students at The Dairy during his last Maryland Day. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

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clean up,” Cardin said. “It’s our responsibility to make sure it’s there for future generations.”

Cardin said one of the primary ways to preserve the Chesapeake Bay and other bodies of water is to

create an energy policy that will rely less on polluting fossil fuels — including oil, particularly from foreign sources — and more on renewable sources of energy, such as nuclear, solar and wind energy.

“We can argue energy policy based on national security,” Cardin said. “We spend a billion dollars a day importing oil; we’re financing people who’d like to see us go away. The only way we can be-

come energy independent is to develop renewable sources. We know that we have to do much better on an energy policy that relies on renewable energy sources.”

Cardin also described a proposal to create a national cap-andtrade system, in which each company would be allocated an amount of pollutants its operations may emit and a company with minimal pollution could sell its allocation to one that is less ecofriendly. Cardin’s proposal would remove a set price for carbon emissions, letting the market decide the value of carbon pollution.

Students at the forum largely agreed with Cardin’s policy proposals, but junior environmental science and policy major Cara Miller said she was not completely convinced nuclear energy was worth investing in considering nuclear waste’s potential danger.

“I came in on the fence about the issue,” she said, “and he didn’t

Board of Regents — a 17-member panel of gubernatorial appointees that oversees the university system — earlier this month.

Admitting too many students can have undesirable results such as large classes and excess demand on facilities, Mote said.

“If we have programs we’re offering that are not excellent and we can’t afford to make them excellent, then we should ask ourselves why we offer them at all,” he said.

The University System of Maryland’s plans call for more

high school students to attend state universities in Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Salisbury and Frostburg. The University of Maryland University College is also supposed to see many more students enrolled in its primarily online courses, which would contribute to a 19-percent increase in system enrollment — to about 176,000 by 2019.

The current budget situation is a contributor to the university’s enrollment goals, but not the driving force, Mote said.

“Most of this focuses around

money. And not just the current budget situation, I think it’s the historical budget circumstances,” he said. “We have never been funded according to the state’s guidelines, ever. And therefore we’re not in a position to expand enrollment.”

In contrast, Provost Nariman Farvardin wrote in an e-mail that “The goal of reducing enrollment has nothing to do with the budget situation,” but did not elaborate.

Changing the size of the university is not a new idea.

The Strategic Plan — a 10-

year road map for the development of the university — calls for undergraduate enrollment to be adjusted “to an appropriate size.” Enrollment projections presented in 2008 to the regents show the university wanted to lower enrollment by 800 students by 2017.

“I think that College Park, in order to be a national flagship, has one important benchmark, and that’s how much money they have per student,” university system Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance Joe Vivona said.

CARDIN from page 1 strengthening what he called a watered-down bill passed by the House.

“Environmental issues are mainstream America. It’s a popular issue,” Cardin said. “As a result, we’ve been able to pass some far-reaching bills — all have been passed with the last 40 years.

We’re trying to protect our environment, and now that [President Barack] Obama’s been elected, the Environmental Protection Agency is actually protecting the environment.”

However, Cardin argued citizens of the state should not take this opportunity for granted because the Chesapeake Bay is constantly at risk for pollution.

“The problem today is our great water bodies are being polluted, and they’re very difficult to

ENROLLMENT from page 1 Overall enrollment would decline by 2,125.

University system projections call for the undergraduate population to decrease by 1,684 students, more than a 6-percent reduction. Graduate student enrollment would decrease about 4 percent. By 2016, administrators want to decrease total enrollment by 2,125 to 35,095, according to projections presented to the

ROBBERY from page 1 two suspects were men in their early 20s with “slim” builds and wearing sweatshirts and blue jeans. The first suspect was described as white, 5 feet 11 inches tall and was armed with a black semiautomatic handgun with silver trim. The second suspect was described as black and 5 feet 8 inches tall.

County police said the investigation is ongoing, and are encouraging any individuals with information regarding the incident, or who may be able to identify the suspects, to contact police.

Senior agricultural and resource economics major Gabriel Kay, who lives next door to the victims, said he saw the aftermath of the incident when he walked out of his house at 5 p.m. Saturday and saw six police cars and a forensics truck. He said detectives came to his house a little later and asked him if he saw anything or anyone, but he hadn’t.

Kay said county police officers told him the robbery was drug-related — the crime report noted the suspects “demanded drugs” from the

UMD for Clean Energy hosted Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and encouraged students to ask about federal environment legislation in Stamp Student Union on Friday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

victims before stealing other property.

Kay, who has lived in the neighborhood for about two years, said he still feels secure in the area despite the crime.

“I feel totally safe,” Kay said. “I’ve never had an issue.”

But his roommate, senior economics major Ari Bellen, said he’s never felt more scared about living on his block. Bellen said because crime alerts tend to highlight robberies that happen east of Route 1, it’s always in the back of residents’ minds.

He added that he’s frightened of the area, but doesn’t know what to do other than lock his door.

The Saturday incident is also not the first he has heard of in their neighborhood.

Last summer, Bellen said when one of his roommates was living in the house by himself, he said he heard a window shatter. His roommate told him there was a man on the roof, but he ran away once his roommate had woken up.

The incident was never reported to police, Bellen added. His roommate could not be reached for comment.

sway me one way or the other.”

Senior government and politics major Matt Dernoga, a Diamondback columnist and UMD for Clean Energy’s campaign director, said that among the numerous issues that Cardin hopes to tackle, the most important was ensuring federal standards would not prevent this state from excelling in its environmental goals.

Cardin told students Friday that he was especially optimistic about the climate bill given how much the university has improved its sustainability practices in recent years.

“I’m convinced we’ll pass a global energy climate bill,” he said. “We’re going to be able to pass those goals. I’m more optimistic today knowing what you’re doing at the University of Maryland. If UMD can do it as a campus, there’s no reason why industry can’t do it.”

Vivona said interest in attending the university — along with other universities in the system — has increased during the past few years as the country has battled a national recession and high unemployment.

“You offer opportunities to admit students, and then they accept,” Mote said. “So you have a fair amount of control over who you offer the admissions to, but you don’t have much control over who accepts.”

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A cool honor While university officials may view Maryland Day as an essential part of their community outreach, students are likely to remember it for something else: dessert.

In the past, Maryland Day has premiered 50,000 cupcakes forming the university logo and the world’s largest strawberry shortcake.

This year the dessert was smaller, and it required a little more stealth. When university President Dan Mote announced his retirement, Dining Services went to work.

“After we shed a few tears, we thought: How could we honor him?”

Senior Associate Director of Dining Services Joe Mullineaux said.

Mullineaux, Dining Services Director Colleen Wright-Riva and Administrative Chef Jeff Russo hatched a plan: While Mote was out, they visited his wife, Patsy Mote, and asked her for a list of his favorite flavors. They whipped up five different ice creams Patsy Mote then taste-tested. They didn’t reveal the results to anyone until they presented Mote with the first batch late last month.

And so, Mochalatta Mote — an ice cream with a double espresso base mixed with a swirl of fudge, toffee, almonds and a touch of amaretto — was born.

Mote visited the Dairy on Saturday to test the concoction.

“This one seems to have a lot of buzz,” Mullineaux said, noting it has outsold other specialty ice creams.

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MOTE from page 1 surrounding community — not just College Park and Prince George’s County, but to the entire state. And the event, which Mote first tasked then-Vice President of Student Affairs Bud Thomas with completing 12 years ago, has grown beyond even Mote’s wildest expectations.

Although Maryland Day is now a 365-day project for some administrators, Mote only gave Thomas a few months to plan the first event in 1999. No one at the university had done anything like it before. Brooke Supple, Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement’s chief of staff, was one of those 10 people at the table. At the time, she was serving as an assistant to Thomas.

“It certainly wasn’t part of my job description,” she said. “We didn’t have a lot of planning time.”

Mote chose the late Thomas, who had served as a vice president for a quarter-century, because he was the kind of person who knew everyone. He had connections throughout the university. No one else, Supple said, could have brought together the event so quickly. The red three-ring binder was where Thomas kept the ideas submitted for the very first Maryland Day’s events.

“It was pretty old-school,” Supple said.

Many of the people who worked at the first Maryland Day — it had about 100 events — thought no one would come. But

the weather that day, Supple said, was as perfect. About 20,000 people showed up. But Mote was disappointed. He wanted 25,000.

Thomas continued running Maryland Day the next year, until Vice President for University Relations Brodie Remington took over the project. He has overseen it ever since. In its second year, 35,000 people came. The third year, 60,000 showed up.

Since, attendance has plateaued, peaking at about 80,000 and the number of events has stayed constant at about 400.

Mote said he never thought attendance would top 50,000.

The growth has been spurred by sponsors. Even as the university has slashed away at its budget, Remington has recruited partners for the university’s biggest celebration of the year: Cisco Systems, Pepsi and the ABC affiliates in Baltimore and Washington.

Not only do these contracts pay the bills for the event, the latter two also ensure free air time in the state’s largest television markets.

And that TV time matters.

Maryland Day is symbolic of a bigger push by Mote to connect the university to the communities, businesses, government agencies and state that surround it. Mote said he realized when he arrived that the university had never had an open house, when everyone would be free to simply come and explore what the university had to offer.

“Coming to Maryland is like going to the library,” Mote said.

“You go to the library and part of it is going to the library and picking

The Air Force ROTC Color Guard performed at Maryland Day.

up the book that you came to get, but while you’re picking that book up, like at a book store, you find five other books that are sitting next to it on the shelf that you weren’t looking for to start with. ... You may be coming looking for the spring football game, but before you get there to start there and hear what’s going on at the department of poetry or what’s going on at the [agriculture] school.”

Before Mote arrived, the university had Agriculture Day, or “Ag Day” for short, which was hosted by the agriculture college.

The 85-year-old event was significantly smaller — about 500 people attended in 1998, the last year it was a stand-alone event.

For Mote, Ag Day wasn’t big enough, wasn’t broad enough.

As a man who has dubbed the university the “state’s most valuable asset,” he wanted Marylanders to realize what they had.

“The state needs to value its higher education system,” Mote said. “It needs to value its flagship university. It needs to see it’s an extraordinary place, and it con-

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tributes to the state in ways that are just not available otherwise.”

But even though Mote isn’t deeply involved in planning the event — that work is left to two committees — his affection for his creation is clear. He can proudly rattle off statistics: The Maryland Day website has received 1.5 million hits; visitors are scheduled to come from every state but Wisconsin and from 83 foreign countries; visitors will have 419 programs to visit.

And amid all the chaos, Maryland Day has rules. No. 1: No fundraising. No. 2: Except for food, everything is free. No. 3: No parking tickets. No. 4: Everyone leaves Maryland Day happy.

The first three rules are critical to the last. Maryland Day, in Mote’s eyes, aims to create positive feelings about the university.

“People should be able to come here and go home and be happy about their experience,” he said.

As Remington points out, the university’s image can too often focus on rioting and basketball.

“I think goodwill in the com-

munity is very important,” Remington said. “[Maryland Day] helps to break down the barrier.”

That one day of positive feelings can have a lasting impact. For alumni, it might lead to a future donation. For an unaffiliated state resident, it might ease their apprehensions about the university’s coffers filling up with their tax dollars. And it can create future Terps out of otherwise ambivalent 14year-old high school students.

When he meets students each fall, Mote claims, as many as half of them first came to the university before — on Maryland Day. Mote is retiring Aug. 31, and a search committee is looking for a successor. Even now, Mote said, holding the event is a year-to-year decision — there are no guarantees his successor will continue it.

“It’s the most important event like it in the state,” he said. “One day a year this place is open.

That’s it.

“I hope it continues,” he added, but “you never know.” robillard@umdbk.com

Floyd’s Barbershop gets a hair apparent Campus cyclists get more police notice After shop closed, new cuttery to take over its old storefront and staff

BY BEN PRESENT Staff writer

Floyd’s Barbershop closed its doors Saturday, but that doesn’t mean students won’t be able to get the barbershop experience in College Park anymore.

Starting on May 1, Wynn Fashion Culture and Hair Studio will be opening in College Park where Floyd’s used to be. The barbershop and salon will retain most of the staff students were familiar with from Floyd’s, with a few additions, according to incoming manager Eric Webber. The environment will largely stay the same, with laptops, colorful photos and big screen TVs to entertain customers while they wait.

Owner Marty Wynn said he is excited to come to College Park and give back to the community, and is confident his business will have some staying power.

He said his business plan started with negotiating a strong lease but will be supplemented by involvement in the community.

“I’ve always thought that was a great location,” Wynn said of his new storefront on Route 1,

BY LEYLA KORKUT Staff writer

Floyd’s Barbershop, which had become a popular off-beat College Park establishment in its five years in the area, closed over the weekend. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

tucked between Big Planet Comics and Kiyoko Express.

But old-fashioned hair cutting isn’t all Wynn wants to bring to his new store. Among some of the new owner’s more outlandish ideas are an upscale twist on Friday nights and inviting local celebrities to the shop.

Although the plans aren’t set in stone, Wynn said he would

like to add hors d’oeuvres, wine and champagne for Friday nights “to take the chill off” as part of his plan to create top-ofthe-line customer service. Students will also get a 10 percent off with their student IDs. Wynn added that he expects some local celebrities, such as former Terps Steve Francis and Juan Dixon, to make appearances.

Wynn’s studio will replace Floyd’s, which had been in College Park for five years before closing Saturday. Owner Anne O’Brien, who will be moving the business to Crofton, said it’s hard to go, but it was the right decision for her business.

“This is sad,” she said. “It’s hard to change.”

O’Brien said the small chain started when her brothers, who traveled often for business, grew tired of not finding a “middle ground” place to get a haircut. Either the places were too nice and expensive, or not nice enough.

When Floyd’s came to College Park, O’Brien was excited to host

any and all community members — students and non-students alike — even if they just wanted to come in and enjoy the environment and not get a haircut. On their first day of business, Floyd’s stylists shaped up a 3-year-old and gave a 93-year-old a trim. On their last day, it was no different — students and College Park locals filled the barber chairs as O’Brien made plans to shutter the shop.

In the end, it was the transient nature of their consumers in College Park that made it tough on O’Brien and Floyd’s. With students leaving for winter and summer breaks, O’Brien said her staff often felt discouraged in the off-season.

“To build on that kind of energy is hard,” she said.

But Wynn remains optimistic about his chances in a college town.

“I’m very ecstatic about what this business can bring to the community,” he said. present@umdbk.com

Despite recent efforts made

by DOTS to make the campus more bike-friendly, many cyclists still complain about overly stiff fines they have received for their traffic violations.

Student cyclists have received fines for running stop signs and riding with headphones. The fines — typically $80 to $90 — are basically the same for cyclists and motorists, University Police spokesman Paul Dillon said.

Although University Police Sgt. Robert Jenshoej, who is working with the Department of Transportation Services to educate cyclists about safety, said he didn’t know exactly how many tickets and warnings officers have issued to cyclists, he said police did monitor bicycle behavior more closely this month during the DOTS observance of Bike Week.

While University Police were allowed to issue citations to cyclists during the Share the Road Campaign, which saw the sharpest increase of students being stopped by officers, police only gave student cyclists written warnings, Jenshoej said.

“It’s not aimed to be a punitive thing in nature, it’s aimed to be educational,” he said. “During the week of the Share the Road Campaign, a bicyclist hit a shuttle bus ... and had to be transported to the hospital. What we want to emphasize is that if bicyclists are in the roadway, they have to behave as if they’re a motor vehicle.”

Some cyclists said following certain traffic laws is unnecessary and sometimes down-

right dangerous.

David Yarborough, a senior mechanical engineering major, said he was fined $140 for running a red light on Route 1 earlier this school year after he made an illegal turn. Though he admits he was legally wrong, Yarborough said he felt he had to get out of the highway.

“The bottom line is either be safe or stand in the middle of Route 1 and not be safe,” he said.

Other students complained that police have been issuing heavy fines for running stop signs even when there was little to no traffic.

“A cop pulled me over, almost ran me up the road and [he said] I ran two stop signs,” senior electrical engineering major Ben Chang said. “This happened over spring break, and no one was there.”

While students recognize following bike laws is crucial to safety, they said they were unfamiliar with many cycling traffic regulations.

“Instead of being intelligent about the way they inform students about biking laws, they’re threatening people,” junior mechanical engineering major Bob Hayes said.

DOTS Assistant to the Director of DOTS Beverly Malone, who spearheaded the recent Share the Road Campaign — a week-long event that aimed to educate students about bike safety — said her department has not been involved in the bike ticketing.

“Our goal was to start with education,” Malone said. “It is so important that cyclists stop at the signs. If I had a dollar for every time a person did not stop at a stop sign, I could quit my job.”

Many students agree with safety initiatives that DOTS and the University Police are trying to enforce, but the expensive fines and hassle from police caused some student cyclists to ride on the sidewalk, despite the increased risk to pedestrians, Chang said.

“I’ve started riding on the sidewalk because I got a ticket,” he said. “They won’t hassle you there.” korkut@umdbk.com

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A new ’shipping standard I

f you’re a student who has an internship, you’re nothing out of the ordinary. ing a potential employee by seeing how well he or she works in their organization.

This issue has been gaining attention in recent weeks — in no small part due to a If you’re a student who has a paid internship, you’re likely to be greeted with New York Times article earlier this month — and many have suggested stepping up high fives whenever you tell your friends.

It’s become an expectation of college: At some point, you will work for free. enforcement of the federal laws governing internships. But better enforcement You might gain less tangible benefits — a line on your résumé and a reference you could have the unfortunate consequence of employers opting not to offer interncan use to get a job (or another unpaid internship) — but you won’t receive any cold ships because they’re afraid of violating labor laws. And even if no money is exchanged, most students gain something from their internships. hard cash for your efforts.

The solution here isn’t better enforcement of the rules — it’s the creation of betThe number of students who seek out internships — and the number of internships each student accumulates before graduation — has skyrocketed over the past ter rules. There are certainly interns who deserve to be paid, and there are some who don’t. The current federal guidelines, based on a 1947 U.S. decade. It’s reached the point that if a student doesn’t have work Supreme Court decision, do a poor job of dividing the two experience in his or her chosen field, finding a job in it after gradcamps. The most obvious dividing line would be the number of uation will be nearly impossible. Several colleges at this univerThe guidelines for intern- hours an intern works. If, over the course of the internship, he sity either require or encourage students to procure an internship (not necessarily an unpaid one) before they graduate. The ships should be changed so or she averages more than 20 hours a week, the intern should be paid. If the average is at or fewer than 20 hours, the intern U.S. economy has evolved in such a way that 18- to 22-year-olds companies do not exploit can remain unpaid. are expected to provide free labor before they start getting paid.

This boundary line makes sense because it indicates This reality needs to change. The dividing line between paid students. whether the intern is acting as a full-time employee. Regardless and unpaid interns needs to be made less arbitrary in a way that won’t scare off employers who have open positions that could benefit students but will of what assignments you have, someone who works more than 20 hours a week is acting as a full-time employee, whereas someone working less than that isn’t essenalso prevent unscrupulous employers from taking advantage of free student labor.

Last Thursday, the U.S. Labor Department issued guidelines clarifying when tial to the company’s operations.

No dividing line between paid and unpaid internships is going to be completely internships can be unpaid. Officials in California and Oregon have taken similar steps. Why? Because many unpaid internships — up to one in five, according to fair. Some wealthier students with financial support from their parents can afford to some estimates — are based on illegal compensation structures. For an internship work 60 hours a week without pay. Less well-off students might have to work a fullto be legal, the student can’t simply be replacing paid workers, and the organization time job to pay their rent and may not be able to have an internship at any point during their college careers. can’t derive an “immediate advantage” from the intern’s work.

But until the rules are revamped, students will continue to be short-changed.

Those rules seem to disqualify most work the average intern does or ever could do. It also seems to eliminate the rationale for employers to hire interns in the first Until a concrete line is definitively drawn and made clear to potential employers and place. Generally, profit-seeking companies aren’t going to train someone for charity. interns, many students will continue to be forced to enter an unfair system with few They’re either gaining something from taking on an inexperienced employee or test- alternatives to exploitative arrangements.

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Editorial cartoon: Shai Goller

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queezing margins in a fraction of an inch; adding 0.2 inches to the line spacing; secretly making a period’s font size 14.

Admit it, most of us have tried to put these — and other equally crafty skills — to use at least once in our college careers. Back in high school, I pulled the same kind of tricks, except in reverse. We had two-page limits for our essays. Every sentence had to have a point and purpose. Every quote had to be cut down and synthesized in a concise manner. To this day, I still cannot express how much I hate that one line at the bottom of a Microsoft Word document that crosses the threshold to begin a new page.

That being said, I never understand why so many college courses have page requirements. I suppose a 50page paper would make a student work and work to fill up space. But

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SHE then again, how can professors not realize that is all students are doing — simply filling up blank space? If anything, a page limit challenges students to express their ideas in a concentrated manner and helps them develop their writing voice. Most papers with exorbitant page requirements probably have at least one or two pages of complete crap.

Some of you may really be surprised at how many ways a point can be restated or drawn out. An entire page or paragraph could be dedicated to repeating one idea. The student will

say the same thing over and over again just to fill up space. Students try hard to dilute and spread out their ideas when faced with long assignments. Have I wasted at least 50 words yet in this paragraph?

Neither the student nor the instructor benefit from writing or grading long-winded papers. With a limited amount of space to express their ideas, students have to learn how to pick and choose which ideas and details are important to develop their argument.

And which grader would not prefer reading two pages of well-thought out, quality content over 30 pages of the same ideas mixed in with inordinate amounts of fluff?

I hated the first two-page limit I was given in my Advanced Placement literature class. Over time, however, I realized that having a stupid line cross over onto the third page meant that I

wrote something unnecessary. I was forced to prune and polish each essay until the third page disappeared. Having two-page limits allowed me to develop the most as a writer. It’s difficult to say the same for 10- and 50page papers.

Although there is a bit of a gamble in entrusting students to try their best while writing less, perhaps this is a risk worth taking. More brain power is needed to formulate a strong and concise argument than figuring out how much the default settings of Word can be altered before the instructor realizes it. Even William Shakespeare, champion of long, drawn-out soliloquies and the like, conceded, “Brevity is the soul of wit.”

Angelina She is a freshman physiology and neurobiology major. She can be reached at she@umdbk.com.

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he university’s tour guides must be naturally anxious people. I don’t mean because they have to say a lot of memorized crap while walking backward and herding generationally diverse tourists. It’s the constant weight of the comparison, the struggle with the implied enemies of the Ivy League and peer institutions that strains those smiles. These poor guides carry the neurotic burden for an institution obsessed with measuring that never quite measures up. The Freudian anxieties of the tour guide become clear with the telling of the staple story of our mall-measuring contest: “The University of Virginia said its was the biggest, so we pulled out a ruler, and it turns out we have the longest mall in the country.”

This becomes relevant to me as a senior because a number of offices within the university bureaucracy want to know if I’m doing anything impressive post-graduation. Much of the univer-

sity’s advertising is devoted to explaining that what may look like a third-rate job-placement machine is actually a second-rate job-placement machine. This is accomplished by drawing attention to those who “move up” after this school: the handful of university students sent to Harvard Law School, Morgan Stanley and the like. The selling point here isn’t that all graduates are on the path to fortune-making success — no one confuses our public institution with the toptier placement machines — but this imagined lifestyle isn’t closed to someone who attends this university. In a country where everyone is going to win the lottery (or at least American Idol), a few examples that suggest any chance of success are enough. The university doesn’t have to answer for increased unemployment among young college graduates — if some graduates got good jobs, then it’s presumably your fault if you don’t. Then it sells visions of our successes to the next round of buyers and neglect to mention the rest.

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HARRIS I don’t blame prospective students and their families for falling for this line.

The way the college market sets up the choice, plenty of high schoolers will be relieved that their chances at lives full of prestige and privilege aren’t shot at the age of 18. Sellers always want desperate buyers, and there’s no one more desperate than parents worried about their children’s futures. Instead of creating a community based on scholarship and exploration and then telling potential Terps about it, the university worries about its rankings, spending all day staring in the mirror like a model scared her thighs are getting fat. Same business school, half the price! Ivy gives us a rash! We’re exceptionally close to the

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We send students to all the best graduate schools! There is nothing here about the university itself. References to students are really allusions to other, more prestigious institutions, and there is always the underlying contradiction between “We’re just as good as Stanford” and “You can still go to Stanford for graduate school!”

I don’t know if I’ll be doing something “impressive” after graduation, but I sure as hell won’t serve as a before-and-after shot for an institution that can’t stop bragging that Testudo has the biggest endowment of all the mascots in the ACC long enough to worry about the quality of undergraduate education. I think there are plenty of things at this university worth talking about, but none of them include how comparatively big our “mall” is.

Malcolm Harris is a senior English and government and politics major. He can be reached at harris@umdbk.com.

Letters to the editor Tooning out criticism On April 22, there was a guest column written about one of my cartoons that really spiked my interest. The author jumps to a lot of conclusions about that cartoon — mainly that the girl in the cartoon was raped. To that I say, where is the evidence of rape?

In the second panel, the woman says, “Yea!” So it wasn’t against her will. The column also says that the male in the cartoon “crams the heel of the boot up the woman’s skirt with such force that she is thrown spread-eagled off her feet, flying higher than the man’s head.”

The only reason it was drawn that way is because that is the only way I could accurately depict the whole country of Italy going into her. It wasn’t thrust in with force — where is there any evidence of that? How can you tell it is being thrust in? It could be going in gently, and there is no evidence of that, either. The column also said, “She appears pained; the man looks excited.” This is clearly the writer seeing what she wants to see. In fact, you can’t tell what the facial expression of the woman in the cartoon is because I am a below average artist.

But if you do see pain in her face, women sometimes have a look of pain on their face when they are having sex. Watch any pornographic film and you can see women who look like they are in pain, but they aren’t being raped.

The man “looking excited” isn’t true either — the facial expression I was going for was to show him working hard to accommodate the woman’s wish to have “some Italian in her.” He’s trying his hardest to oblige by literally putting some Italian in her.

Perhaps the most annoying part of this guest column is that if you Google “Joe Welkie Diamondback,” a column called “Rape is no joke” shows up. That’s a pretty bad stigma. I don’t want potential employers seeing that, especially since I am not a rapist, the girl in my cartoon isn’t being raped and I have never advocated it. I wasn’t belittling people who have been raped.

This cartoon wasn’t about rape at all, and to say that it was would be completely ludicrous. It was just misconstrued by someone who doesn’t fully understand humor.

Joe Welkie | Diamondback cartoonist

All for nothing The Diamondback’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate in the Student Government Association elections is, to me, a long overdue decision that should not merely be the exception that calls attention to the rule — it should be the rule.

When I was the managing editor of a weekly community newspaper, the publisher informed me that the paper’s policy was to not endorse any political candidates. He believed the paper’s job was to inform readers by providing the news and to allow the readers to make up their own minds.

It was one thing I wholeheartedly agreed with him on. I have no problems with an individual endorsement of a political candidate. I’ve written those before, and I intend to do so soon with state and local elections looming in the distance.

However, the practice of a newspaper endorsing a candidate strikes me as being an awful display of temerity. Who are the media to presume they have the right to tell me, the reader, whom to vote for? In my mind, it compromises the whole notion of journalistic integrity and objectivity all of us should strive for.

When I was on The Diamondback staff back in 2000, we had a debate about whether to endorse a particular candidate for SGA president. Back then, the candidates seemed as weak as The Diamondback argued this year’s candidates were. I made an off-hand, half-joking comment that The Diamondback should endorse no candidate.

I certainly didn’t expect it to take on new life to the point where the theneditor in chief convened an editorial meeting and told us we were endorsing a candidate and we should all “get over it.”

The Diamondback did the right thing this year by stepping away from endorsing candidates because the editorial board felt none of them deserved it. It should take one more step and end the practice of endorsing candidates once and for all.

Mike Sarzo | 2000 alumnus | former Diamondback staff writer

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You are not the kind to promote secrecy of any kind, and yet there are times when you might wish that others knew less about you and your life than they do.

You also are not the kind to promote any sort of prejudice; you will fight for equality in all things, and for everyone.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Honesty is certainly the best policy, but, as usual, there is a time and a place for everything.

You’ll know when to speak up.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Crunching the numbers is likely to lead you to a major discovery that can affect your financial situation in surprising ways.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — The difference between No. 1 and No. 2 is likely to be infinitesimal, but to you it is likely to matter a great deal.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’ll have the chance to answer your critics in a way that not only silences them but also wins them over to your point of view.

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REVIEW | GILGAMESH

The stuff of legend

BY ANDREW FREEDMAN Staff writer

In 1872, a scholar named George Smith began to decipher ancient cuneiform tablets for the British Museum and deciphered the Epic of Gilgamesh. More than a century later, Gilgamesh has materialized in the form of a theatre department play at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

The Izumi Ashizawa-adapted play opens with Smith (David Lloyd Olson) discovering the tablets containing the Epic of Gilgamesh. While studying them, he finds they contain a version of the story of Noah and the Biblical flood that the people he presents the ideas to consider blasphemous. He goes on to retell the story to the audience.

Gilgamesh (Gregory Mack) is the distracted and distraught

king of Uruk (present-day Iraq).

After his friend Enkidu’s death, Gilgamesh begins to question his own mortality and wonders, “Is there a way to overcome death?” He begins a journey through the mythological world of ancient Mesopotamia to find eternal youth.

Throughout his journey, Gilgamesh encounters wild living trees (Cheslie Lloyd and Olivia Brann), a ferocious serpent (Whitney Rose Pynn) and multibreasted women (Raechel and Vanessa Nolan).

The story is complex, sometimes confusing and completely overshadowed by every other aspect of the play. The point of the great flood seems jammed in with the quest for eternal life, and some of the storytelling is so over the top that, though entertaining to watch, is baffling.

Luckily, every other facet of the

show is masterly and keeps Gilgamesh interesting to watch.

The ensemble is used brilliantly. Only Mack and Olson play single parts and the rest of the cast brings ancient Mesopotamia to life. For example, besides playing the parts of Gilgamesh’s soldiers (Jason Glass, Andrew Kim, Nick Mercurio, Shane O’Laughlin and Scott Whalen), two of the actors are also puppeteers who use shadow puppets to illustrate parts of the story. The women of the cast portray the mothers of Mesopotamia, wild cedar trees and scorpions, among other characters.

The set is by far the most excellent in a theatre department production in recent memory. The stage, which appears to

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As the show begins, a bridge protrudes from the middle of the audience. The cast and crew should be commended for keeping it all in order: moving in and out of the trap doors and climbing the set while somehow keeping the show moving without a hitch. With such a technical set and constant movement, this alone was an incredible feat.

Along with the set are several surprising effects pulled off by the production crew, including sand raining from the sky and a body dropping from the ceiling. The technicality of the show turns it from a play

into a spectacle.

The acting in Gilgamesh is different from a typical play.

These actors have learned a new way to move, and every movement in Gilgamesh has meaning.

Ashizawa has directed her cast not to walk, but to climb, dance and jump.

Combined with the chanting and singing, which encircle the audience, the play has a very tribal feel. Vocal performances through chants, moans and whispers create the mythical aura that surrounds the stage.

The movement and vocals actually top the straight acting, which, like the story itself, is exaggerated and embellished.

Gilgamesh is a complex play that only works when all its pieces come together. The

stage, props, costumes, makeup and stage direction set a new bar for CSPAC productions. The cast members work excellently as an ensemble and play their roles with a zest and passion that illuminate the theater. Only the story falters at times, as it straddles the line between awesome and obscure. The story satisfies well enough, but does not live up to the other components of the play.

Either way, the spectacle alone makes this play worth checking out.

Gilgamesh runs from Wednesday to Sunday at CSPAC’s Kogod Theatre. Student tickets are $9, and non-student tickets are $26. afreedman@umdbk.com

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“We’re stepping up individually, but we also realize we need to be a unit,” defender Brittany Poist said. “When someone helps, everyone needs to help. There was no letdown at any point on any part of our offense.”

Offensively, McFadden capped her Most Valuable Player performance with three goals and two assists.

Merrifield added two goals and attacker Karri Ellen Johnson contributed a goal and two assists for the Terps, who will enter the NCAA Tournament on a four-game winning streak.

“We’re capable of greatness when we can put together 60 minutes of lacrosse,” Reese said.

TERP NOTE: McFadden, Johnson, Merrifield, Dipper, Mollison and defender Karissa Taylor were named to the ACC All-Tournament team.

But the Tar Heels didn’t fold. Attackers Kristen Taylor and Corey Donohoe each scored a goal in the first 3:33 of the second half, threatening to erode all that had gone so well in the game’s first 30 minutes.

Then Tar Heels midfielder Megan Bosica blasted a shot toward Dipper, looking to cut the lead down to two. But, again, Dipper flashed her stick for the save, starting a transition break for the Terps.

Moments later, midfielder Laura Merrifield grabbed a pass at the top of the 12meter fan and weaved through the defense, capping it off with a goal.

With a four-goal lead, the Terps relaxed their offensive pressure and opted to put the game in their defense’s hands. For the rest of the afternoon, Dipper and her defense relished the challenge, holding the Tar Heels to a season-low scoring output.

half, the Tar Heels (14-2) had three free position from page 1 shots. They shot high, low and then off the bounce. Dipsecond half, she struggled to per saved each.

“Dipper made a lot of stay composed on the sidelines as backup Mary Jordan great saves in goal which helped lead the Terps to a allowed us to start our break narrow one-goal victory. and control the tempo,” After the game, she quickly coach Cathy Reese said.

The Terps started the made her way to the team bus, still trying to figure out game firing offensively. Only 31 seconds into the game, what had just happened.

In the six games since, midfielder Amanda SpinnenDipper’s struggles — weber found midfielder Caitincluding an April 10 game lyn McFadden for the game’s against North Carolina in first goal, and less than six which she allowed 10 goals minutes in, the Terps had as the Terps lost their first built a 5-1 advantage.

After Kristy Black scored game this season — were her second goal off the only magnified.

But as the postseason bench before halftime, the neared, Dipper reestablished Terps entered the break herself in goal for the No. 3 with a five-goal advantage.

“We didn’t feel like we Terps (16-1). Against Virginia in the semifinals, the sopho- played a great first half, and more allowed only six goals it put us in a significant hole,” North Carolina coach to go along with six saves.

That performance didn’t Jenny Levy said. “They come close to Sunday’s played with a lot of focus showing, though. In a five- today, and it was apparent minute span late in the first from the opening whistle.”

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Midfielder Caitlyn McFadden, left, who finished with three goals against North Carolina, charges upfield. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK

VIRGINIA from page 8 scores, Ghitelman remained unrattled.

“A team like Maryland is going to get good shots, and they’re going to score,” Ghitelman said. “You’ve got to know that. I just made sure to keep my focus after that quick threegoal spurt in the beginning.”

Virginia reeled off a 4-0 run after that, largely buoyed by Ghitelman’s play in net. In one 30-second stretch, the Terps fired four times at Ghitelman.

Two veered wide, while Ghitelman stopped the two others, including a final save that set up a Virginia fast break to take their first lead of the game, 4-3.

“When we’re not scoring goals, that’s not good for our team,” Catalino said. “So when he gets on those runs, we’ve

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Short stick midfielder Dean Hart stares down a Cavalier.

Kessenich, should the Terps conclude their regular season with wins against No. 17 Fairfield and Colgate in the coming weeks, the team’s strong record and strength of sched-

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just got to stick one and hopefully move the momentum to our side instead of his side.”

But the Terps could not. The absence of attackman Will Yeatman, who sat out with a mild concussion, disrupted their offensive plans.

The 6-foot-6, 250-pound attackman led the Terps with a career-high four goals against Virginia in the regular season, matching up against star Virginia defender Ken Clausen and helping set up goals from behind the cage. Without Yeatman, Clausen focused his energy on smaller attackmen Travis Reed and Ryan Young, who had just one point between them.

The Terps also had to change their shooting strategy against the white-hot Ghitelman. Against the Tar Heels on Friday and against Virginia in the regular season, the Terps often aimed low on goal. But Ghitelman quickly forced them

ule warrants a bid for the No. 3 seed in the 16-team tournament field.

But it was this weekend’s sampling of some of the nation’s best teams that gave the Terps a preview of what they’ll see in May, when the NCAA Tournament kicks off.

“These are the teams you

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there is no doubt Virginia is a better ball club right now,” Bakich said. “We were just overmatched.”

That point was no more apparent than in the teams’ Friday nightcap, a 27-4 shellacking. The Terps’ only lead came when shortstop Alfredo Rodriguez hit a solo home run to lead off the bottom of the first inning.

The lead was short-lived. Virginia scored four runs in the top half of the second and cruised from there, amassing 28 hits in the Terps’ most lopsided defeat of the season.

The Cavaliers routinely exposed a thin Terps pitching staff that was further stretched after weekend weather forecasts forced Bakich to scrap the Sunday finale in favor of a Friday doubleheader.

“That loss was by far the biggest blemish of the weekend,” Bakich said. “We just don’t have the depth right now to compete in doubleheaders.

We got in a pitching bind early, and that’s why you saw the result you did.”

In Friday’s opener, the Terps’ offense spoiled yet another solid start from ace Brett Harman by scoring just one run — a home run by left fielder Brandon Padula — in the 5-1 loss.

Facing a lineup with just one player hitting less than .300, Harman was able to keep the Terps within striking distance by limiting the Cavaliers to just eight hits and three runs over eight innings while striking out eight. It was Harman’s third straight quality start against a conference foe and his sixth in 10 starts on the season.

Unfortunately for the Terps, Virginia countered with sopho-

to scrap that approach.

“At the end, I think we had to change it up to high, and by that time, it was too late,” Cottle said. “I thought he took away low a little bit because we had such success the first game. We had to shoot the ball to some different spots, and we missed the cage.”

Down 8-5 to start the fourth quarter, the Terps still had a chance at a comeback. Against the Cavaliers in the regular season, the Terps caught fire late, converting more than half of their shots on Ghitelman in the fourth quarter to come within one controversial call of tying the game.

Yesterday, though, they fizzled out. While the Terps outshot their opponents 12-3 in the fourth quarter, they were outscored 2-1, sealing a fate they’d already endured this season. kyanchulis@umdbk.com

gotta beat to be the best, and when we get to the NCAA Tournament, I’m sure we’re gonna see either one or two of these teams,” Catalino said. “So we know what’s on the road ahead of us. We’re looking forward to it and we gotta get better.” engelke@umdbk.com

more ace Danny Hultzen, who responded with an even better performance than Harman’s.

The Bethesda native was masterful, allowing just six hits and one run in 7.2 innings and offering Bakich a look at what could have been.

“Being where he is from, there is no way that kid should be playing anywhere except Maryland right now,” Bakich said. “He is one of the top starters in our league and he was great on Friday. But I think if our offense performed at the level it is capable of all season, [Harman] would be in the discussion as well.”

Despite the series sweep, which culminated in an easy 112 win Saturday, Bakich insisted there were positives to take from the otherwise disappointing weekend.

In another step toward building what Bakich called “a culture of winning,” the Terps honored players from the program’s 1965, 1970 and 1971 ACC Championship teams.

Even Elton “Jack” Jackson, the Terps’ coach from 1961-1990 and the program’s all-time winningest coach with 471 wins, flew in from Michigan to throw out the first pitch.

Bakich also noted Virginia’s rise from mediocrity to a perennial national power over the past decade as an example of what he hopes to accomplish in College Park in the coming years.

“Seven years ago, that team was a cellar-dweller,” Bakich said. “For all the naysayers who say Mar yland can’t become a baseball school, we can just point to Virginia.

Ever y good program has had a point in their histor y when they turned it around. That’s what we are tr ying to do here, whether it is this year or next year.” lemaire@umdbk.com

CORRECTION In Friday’s story about Terrapin men’s lacrosse midfielder John Haus IV, a quote was incorrectly attributed due to an editing error. It was Haus III who said, “The plan for John was to play for me at North Carolina ... but after the decision was made, we had to regroup in so many ways.”

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Softball takes weekend series Check out www.diamondbackonline.com for a recap of the Terrapin softball team’s much-needed 2-1 series victory over N.C. State this weekend.

10 6 ’HOOS THE BOSS Terps squander early lead, shot at ACC Championship

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

Goalie Brian Phipps picks himself off the ground after a Virginia goal. The Terps were denied their first ACC title since 2005. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Rigorous ACC Tournament slate should prepare Terps for future NCAA Tournament run JAKOB ENGELKE Staff writer

Although the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team left yesterday’s ACC Championship watching Virginia celebrate its first ACC title since 2006, it feels the experience could be a foreshadowing of sorts for another championship run.

All four team in the conference are ranked in the top five nationally, and the No. 4 Terps (9-3) realize that a journey to the Final Four and beyond will likely run through another conference foe.

“You not only play each other once a year, but you play them in the ACC Tournament and then sometimes you see them in the NCAA Tournament,” attackman Grant Catalino said. “So you know pretty much every single one of their guys, and they know every one of your guys, so it

makes it that much tougher.”

The competitive play inside the league, which culminated yesterday when No. 2 Virginia (13-1) topped the Terps 10-6 to win the ACC Championship, should prepare the Terps for a stretch of strong competition they will continue to face in the postseason’s second phase.

“The competition is fierce,” Virginia coach Dom Starsia said.

“If you’re a kid, and you get a choice of one of these four schools, your life is pretty good.

You’ve got coaches at all these different programs trying to do what they can to be at the top, and we’re taking each others’ heads off in an attempt to be the one left standing in the end.”

On paper, the ACC’s dominance in lacrosse is easy to see.

The conference is 35-1 this season in nonconference action, with the one defeat coming in Duke’s 11-7 loss to Notre Dame

on Feb. 20.

The ACC also boasts three schools in the top 10 in goals per game, two of the top 10 in goalsagainst per game, three of the top five in man-up scoring percentage and three of the top six in ground balls per game.

“You’ve got four of the most talented teams in the country in personnel, size, depth and athleticism. Each week it’s a bruising battle,” coach Dave Cottle said. “We came up on the short end, but we’ll be better the next time we play.”

Although yesterday’s game, which likely amounted to a playin game for the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, ended in disappointing fashion for the Terps, their weekend showing likely secured them a first-round home game. According to Cottle and ESPNU analyst Quint

see ACC, page 7

About three weeks ago, the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team had been in this same situation, facing Virginia, the top team in the ACC, at Byrd Stadium.

Although the start of the ACC Championship game seemed near opposite the regular season meeting, the outcome didn’t change. For the second time this season, the Cavaliers topped the Terps, this time 10-6 and denying their hosts their first ACC Championship since 2005.

In their first meeting April 3, the Terps fell into a deep first-quarter hole they couldn’t overcome despite a furious comeback in a one-goal loss. So going into yesterday’s conference title game against the No. 2 Cavaliers, the No. 4 Terps wanted to ensure this match would end differently. Unsurprisingly, they made getting out to a fast start a top priority.

And in the first eight minutes yesterday, they did just that, jumping out to a three-goal lead.

But the script quickly reversed to Virginia dominance. The Cavaliers outscored the Terps by seven goals through the rest of the game while goalie Adam Ghitelman, who earned Most Valuable Player honors, notched four times the number of saves he had in his earlier game against the Terps.

“The last time, all the other stats were in their favor, but we had 16 saves, and they had four,” coach Dave Cottle said. “This time, it was reverse, and that’s how far away we are right now.”

Ghitelman turned his performance around completely from his struggles in the last game, making 16 saves to just six for Terps’ goalie Brian Phipps. During a game in which the Terps thoroughly outshot the Cavaliers, Ghitelman’s play provided the Cavaliers the edge they needed.

“I think we were sticking to our game plan. I think it just comes down to we weren’t shooting the ball very well,” attackman Grant Catalino said. “You’ve got to give credit to their defense and their goaltending. We were making some good shots, we were beating their guys, we were drawing slides, but we just couldn’t finish the ball today.”

Early on, the Terps came out firing, seemingly poised to continue the dominance they displayed in Friday’s 13-5 semifinal victory against No. 3 North Carolina. But despite giving up three early

Defender Dan Burns stands in the way of a Virginia shot. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

see VIRGINIA, page 7

No. 2 Virginia batters Terps

Terps look to move past 2-10 season with Red-White spring football game

Cavaliers outscore baseball 43-7 in weekend sweep

Robinson and O’Brien split time at quarterback spot

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Senior staff writer

Before Saturday’s game against No. 2 Virginia, the Terrapin baseball team honored the program’s past conference champions, offering a rare glimpse at the success coach Erik Bakich hopes to one day bring back to Shipley Field.

Once the game started, the Terps showed just how much work remains before they can think about etching their own piece of program history in the record books.

Against a Cavaliers squad widely considered one of the deepest teams in the country, the Terps never stood a chance. Virginia used strong starting pitching and a balanced offensive attack to dominate the Terps on its way to a series sweep, outscoring them by a combined 43-7.

“I told the guys after the game,

see BASEBALL, page 7

Quarterback Jamarr Robinson winds up for a pass in the Red-White spring football game. Robinson finished with 143 yards passing. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Just more than a minute into the annual Red-White spring football game Saturday afternoon, Jamarr Robinson floated a perfect pass to Torrey Smith in the back of the end zone for a touchdown.

After struggling to a 2-10 finish last season, it’s a hopeful sign for the Terrapin football team of things yet to come.

“We’re just trying to put last season to the background,” said Smith, whose Red team fell to the White team 21-13. “We’re looking ahead to this season and focusing on Navy right now.”

If the Terps are going to turn things around, though, they will need a lot of improvement on both sides of the ball. The team’s offense and defense finished near the bottom of the Football Bowl Subdivision last season.

But if the Red-White game is any indication, both units

should be improved going into next season.

The Terps’ much-maligned rushing attack also showed improvement, racking up a combined 219 yards on the ground.

“I’m very pleased with the way [Davin] Meggett and [Da’Rel] Scott played today,” coach Ralph Friedgen said. “I think they are both much improved. I also think D.J. Adams is going to be a very good goal-line runner for us this season.”

Adams led the way for the Terps’ rushing attack Saturday, finishing with two touchdowns and 70 yards on 14 carries.

“My O-line blocked very well for me today,” Adams said.

“They opened up a lot of holes for me, and we just got it going from there.”

Robinson finished with a game-high 143 passing yards — 90 of them to Smith — including the game’s opening touchdown.

Robinson’s backup, redshirt sophomore Danny O’Brien, fin-

ished the game with 93 passing yards, including a 19-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Kevin Dorsey. Both quarterbacks also threw two interceptions.

“I thought the quarterbacks did a good job today,” Friedgen said. “Other than the four interceptions, I thought they did some good things out there.”

The Terps’ first-string defense also played well for the Red team, holding the firststring White team offense to just 52 yards on the ground.

Cornerback Cameron Chism led the team with seven tackles, and safety Kenny Tate also had two interceptions.

Friedgen knows the team is a long way away from where it needs to be in the fall, but so far he’s liked what he’s seen.

“I think we’ve had a very good spring,” Friedgen said.

“I’m very pleased with where we are at right now.” vitale@umdbk.com