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SGA president vetoes bill to fund website Legislature has one more meeting to override vote

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

After nearly two weeks of deliberations, SGA President Kaiyi Xie vetoed a resolution funding $2,500 to MyMaryland.net, leaving the body only one more meeting to override his decision.

The vote to sponsor MyMaryland.net — a nonpartisan, nonprofit website that aims to connect state residents with their lawmakers — divided the Student Government Association at its April 11 meeting, with Xie and several legislators arguing the organization should not direct student activities fees toward funding a company’s startup costs. Xie held off on vetoing the measure for two weeks, the maximum period allowed, in order to meet with site founder Ben Simon to address Xie’s concerns with their contract.

The bill’s supporters and Simon will work this week to amend the bill to state that SGA would only fund the site after it is up and running, Simon said.

Then, a legislator may attempt to override the veto, which would require a two-thirds vote from the body. SGA would then need a majority vote to pass the amended resolution.

“I was a little taken aback that Kaiyi was really bringing this into the world of politics instead of looking at this as an issue of policy and progress,

TIME TO GO PARTY Samantha Zwerling elected first female SGA president in six years

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

After two weeks of grassroots outreach to students across the campus, members of the Go Party swept next year’s SGA executive board positions, making Samantha Zwerling the first female SGA president in six years.

The presidential race was closely decided, with 55 percent of the 3,913 students who voted choosing Zwerling and 45 percent choosing For Party candidate Jamil Scott. Incoming Vice President for Student Affairs Liz Pandya, incoming Vice President for Academic Affairs Ryan Heisinger and incoming Vice President for Financial Affairs Tali Alter all ran on the Go Party ticket, while the rest of the legislature featured

see ELECTION, page 8

Go Party candidate Samantha Zwerling (above) was elected next year’s SGA president over For Party candidate Jamil Scott (left). ALEXIS JENKINS/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Holding signs that read, “I’m a proud slut,” and “Real men take no for an answer,” they traversed the campus, a long line of students strutting and shouting in support of a movement to end violence against women.

More than 300 students participated in the first-ever “SlutWalk” held at the university yesterday evening. The event, organized by the student group UMD Feminists for Sexual Health, was an offshoot of an international protest movement geared toward

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As the second longest-serving official for the city of College Park, former District 2 Councilman Jack Perry was always in the public eye. While he was an outspoken fixture in JACK PERRY the community, he FORMER DISTRICT 2 always put his family COUNCILMAN first, relatives said.

John “Jack” Perry, 69, died April 16 after battling liver cancer for more than three years, leaving behind a legacy in the College Park City Council that spanned more than 26 years of service and an involvement in the city that began when he moved there in 1969.

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Second journalism dean candidate speaks Dalglish listed expanding curriculum, addressing budget as her top priorities

BY LAURA BLASEY Staff writer

Although she does not yet have the position, dean candidate Lucy Dalglish knows exactly what she wants to do in the journalism school and how to execute her plans.

Along with Deborah Leff, Dalglish is in the running to replace current journalism school Dean Kevin Klose, who announced in September he would step down from the post. As part of the selection process, both candidates attended student and general forums this week to answer questions from journalism faculty and students.

On Monday, Leff received positive

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Dalglish said the two main issues she sees holding back the journalism college are a limited curriculum and budget concerns.

“A lot of these things are probably not unique,” she said. “I’d imagine the faculty and student body have thought of these things and you might say, ‘Goodness gracious, that’s obvious,’ but I think there should be a way of taking advantage of your own backyard.”

Her first order of business would be to

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regain control of the budget, working with the university to find solutions and using her experiences working at nonprofits to come up with a fundraising strategy.

She doesn’t plan on executing it alone, though. In fact, she said she would attack problems the best way she knows how: through a group effort.

Dalglish said her first step would be to meet every faculty member for one-on-one conversations to gain a broad perspective on the nature of the budget and curriculum issues and how the school can work as a team to achieve not only department-wide goals, but also individual goals.

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SLUTWALK from page 1 ending the practice of assigning blame to sexual assault victims.

The protests began about a year ago in Toronto after a Canadian police officer suggested women should “avoid dressing like sluts” if they do not want to be raped. It is that culture of victim-blaming that must be stopped, said Jill Santos, vice president of Feminists for Sexual Health.

“The whole movement is against saying women are asking for it just because they’re dressing provocatively,” she said. “No one puts on a skirt and is like, ‘Oh God, I hope this gets me raped tonight.’”

Over the last year, SlutWalk became an international movement, and members of the student group said they felt it was the perfect event to bring to the campus. According to the Justice Department, one in five women will be sexually assaulted in college and only 5 percent of them will report it, said incoming Feminists for Sexual Health president Lauren Redding, the outgoing Diamondback editor in chief.

“Being called a slut is very common in our society,” Feminists for Sexual Health President Mercedes Katis said. “If

she is dressing like a slut, if she is acting like a slut, she still has the right to say no. We’re trying to reclaim the word and take back our sexual agency.”

As the group walked down McKeldin Mall, passed by the Main Administration Building and wound around North Campus dorms, they chanted, “Whatever we wear, wherever we go — yes means yes, and no means no.” Passersby stopped to take out their cell phones and snap photos, and some honked car horns and waved; one man playing tennis paused to lift his racket in support.

Several students who participated said the walk was an opportunity to connect with the community about an issue that pervades not just campus culture but society as well.

“I’m a feminist, and I think one of the most important things we do is advocate for a problem that reaches everyone,” freshman English major Sadie Echols said. “It’s not just about women; it’s not just about men.”

Katis said SlutWalk is consistent with her group’s mission of working for everyone’s right to access health care and reproductive services.

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lthough students frequently enjoy complaining about the SGA — whether how they’re spending their money.

Additionally, SGA co-Director of Student Groups Traci Siegel, who sat on the because of a perceived lack of action, exclusivity or the fact the organization holds too much power in allocating funding to student groups — once financial reform commission, told The Diamondback, “There’s an inherent problem with the current process where it encourages groups to apply for more in a while the body does manage to get something right.

A commission of Student Government Association members and student group money than what they need, which is worse for all student groups in the long leaders submitted a proposal Tuesday to craft a new funding system — one where run.” This sentiment seems to ring true, especially if you look at how much groups requested this year and how much they were given. student groups could request funding throughout the year Wednesday night, however, marked the SGA’s final as they need it, rather than once a year. The SGA, which round of appeals for this year. Seventeen student groups has a five-year average of how much groups spend throughout the year, would decide how much money to An SGA task force’s proposal asked for additional funding. WMUC appealed for $26,797.37 to cover its summer phone line costs, purchase allocate for group funding each month. If the body runs to allocate student groups new AV equipment and make repairs to the station. After it out of money to distribute one month, groups would be able to apply for money from the Group Help Fund, which funds on a case-by-case basis was granted $10,000 last week, the radio station received an additional $3,789. The station will be able to survive despite now holds more than $73,000, or wait another month to would make the funding receiving only about half of what it requested, and it can still request money. The aim of the proposal is to prevent for money from the Group Help Fund. groups from requesting more than they need. process fairer and prevent apply But that’s a big pot of money, and it could be more effecAfter last year’s funding debacle, in which the SGA another fiasco. tively doled out under the proposed system. originally offered groups $20,000 more than it had actuThis editorial board urges the SGA to vote in favor of the ally had, many groups — including WMUC Radio and MaryPIRG — were left wondering whether they would be able to remain on the new funding process, even if it means more work for the body’s members. While campus another year. SGA officials ultimately restored $10,000 in funding to six the body was able to hold its funding appeals without disaster this year, that student groups, but the mishap sparked outcry and skepticism toward the body. doesn’t mean it wasn’t a contentious process. Overhauling the system to distribThen-president-elect Kaiyi Xie witnessed firsthand how frustrating and diffi- ute funds on a monthly basis seems to be a step in the right direction. Members cult the process was, and made its reform a key goal of his tenure with the SGA. of the commission thought the process through, and even included details in the In September, he created the Commission on Financial Reform to find a more report such as mandating funding for the Help Center’s telephone lines — a effective funding method. The commission held two open forums to seek input group that saw budget slashes over the last two years — and requiring groups to request money for events costing $1,500 or less at least 30 days in advance and from student group leaders and others concerned about the process.

SGA Vice President of Financial Affairs David Berlin said in an inter view requests of more than $1,500 at least 60 days in advance.

With just a few weeks left for the current SGA executive board, members with this editorial board last night that the new funding process would “force groups to get their act together,” and he hopes to “rethink the entire have only a couple meetings to push through a slew of initiatives they have way the funding system is done at the University of Mar yland and give the been working on all year. Despite student complaints of inefficacy, pushing student groups money when they need it, where they need it.” The process this funding change through would help give students something positive by would also require student groups to show documentation breaking down which to remember this SGA.

Four types of campus women JULIET MELTSNER

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ome of the most fun I had as a kid was moving piles of dirt from one place to another with a Tonka toy truck. Except, to me, they weren’t piles of dirt — they were the most massive mountains of earth that anyone had ever seen. And I had the most powerful bulldozer in the world, not a dinky plastic toy. My task was supremely important, and nobody could ever do it as well as me.

I not only had the most awesome job imaginable but was also unrivaled at the top of my position.

Obviously, I cannot look at the world like that anymore. I’m nearly 20: Within five years, I should be on a solid career path, own tie pins and cuff links and realize I should have learned what a Roth IRA was a long time ago. And in 10 years, I could have a family and be dealing with more serious life issues like mortgage pay-

RAJARSHI CHATTOPADHYAY ments and balding. (Except I’m not going bald; that’s just not happening.)

Textbooks, MATLAB and an arsenal of well-sharpened pencils are the tools I need to follow in the footsteps of some of the most brilliant men and women to ever walk the Earth (and moon). There is no time for thinking that the world is there for me to play in. I have to be serious.

In college, most of us are somewhere between the clichés of a wideeyed youth and wage slave with a coffee cup glued to our lips. And it’s the combination of these two per-

sonas that defines who we are. In fact, having aspects of both sides is important to be successful in life.

I’m enough of a child to love exploring new things, be it physically or intellectually, regardless of how relevant they are to me at the time. I find this to be an invaluable quality, but I’m also enough of an adult to not rely on fart jokes to reach my word limit.

Reconciling these two sides can get difficult, as they prescribe very different behaviors in almost every situation. I not only find myself conflicted by which course of actions to take but also feel as if I’m acting too childish for my age. However, I know that isn’t an issue with which I should concern myself. I only get to grow up once.

The way I see it, we all get to sit down and move the dirt from one side to the other. It starts as a full pile on

one side when we start as kids, and as we grow we transfer it over until it’s all on the other side. Back in my glory days of toy trucking, I was never in a race to get the job done — the fun came from just playing in the dirt. And so now, being in that position again, I’m in no hurry to finish and become a full-fledged adult. That doesn’t mean I won’t attend to the crucial task of moving the dirt, it just means I’m going to play to my heart’s content, rather than rush through life and regret not spending more time on it. Eventually I’ll be done, and I’ll move on to the next game. But by then, I’ll only have fond memories of the hours spent pushing that toy around and making truck sounds.

Rajarshi Chattopadhyay is a sophomore aerospace engineering major. He can be reached at chattopadhyay@umdbk.com.

Tales from Europe: Roma Victor

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erhaps you recognize the title of this column as the phrase shouted by Russell Crowe’s character after he slaughters a barbarian army in the 2000 film Gladiator. Like the barbarians, I have had the fortune of invading Italy with several classmates for spring break. Once again, Rome was victorious.

In modern-day Italy, waiting in line is a staple of everyday life. Nowhere is this more pronounced than at a train station, where queues are enormous and slow, and tickets cannot be bought onboard the train. Think of it like a DMV, if you had a train to catch five minutes after arriving.

Thus, while waiting for tickets in Rome’s Central Station, I was free to reflect on my time in the ancient city, beginning with our arrival at the hostel on day one. The girls I was traveling with found it dirty and unkempt, but thanks to free dinner, I found it to be home sweet home. The next morning, however, was a little different.

“I hate dark skin!” I heard, waking me up.

I entered the common room, where a

staff member was ranting to nervously amused French girls, “Dark skin, black hair, it’s so ugly!”

“But you are Indian!” one of them responded.

“Indian is gross! Don’t go to India, and never use the bathrooms if you do!” he said, eerily invoking episodes of Seinfeld long past. “Dark skin is dirty!”

“My friend is black,” I interrupted, hoping to avert disaster. “And she’s right over there.” And she has sass, I neglected to add.

“Black, OK. Brown skin — disgusting!” he continued, as my black friend entered the room. Two hours later, we were back on the rainy streets of Rome, refunds in hand.

Wrenching myself back to the present, a gypsy man is aggressively offering directions to confused travelers, attempting to pickpocket them. I am sourly reminded of the ripoffs we have so far endured: being charged for food we didn’t order, being denied student discounts because we weren’t European Union citizens and paying for a Colosseum tour we could have received from the back of a Gladiator DVD case.

GREG NASIF I recall a visit to Vatican City, where the only way to skip six hours of waiting in line was to pay 35 euros for a guided tour. The second night comes to mind as well, when an impromptu Metro strike forced us to use expensive taxis.

Stupid, socialist Europe.

Turning around, I see young American girls emerging from an expensive shoe store. Suddenly I remember the night before, when a friend studying in the Maryland-in-Rome program advised us to visit the famous Piazza del Popolo for a fun nightlife experience. In actuality, this is the Roman version of the ChampsÉlysées — a vast collection of (closed) high-end outfitters. Adding insult to injury, one of the girls collapsed at my side, having worn heels into the entirely cobblestone district. Better than the other friend who, after insisting every-

one imbibe their own bottle of wine, passed out at the hostel.

Trying to remember better times, I ponder instead the first night out, when a mustached man in blue overalls and a red flat cap was flirting with my friends.

Before I could ask him whether he had any blonde princess-types for me, he actually turned and began chatting with a blonde girl wearing a tiara. Golly, she was a peach. Slowly, their interest for anyone but each other faded. Wait, this memory sucks.

Forty-five minutes prior, having sprinted to the train station, we actually thought we’d catch the earlier train departing to Naples, which would have cost just 10 euros and given us time to visit the fascinating sites of Pompeii. But the line is almost over; hope begins anew.

Finally, it’s our turn at the ticket counter, 10 minutes before the next train departs. The worker tells us there has been another strike and there are no trains. Roma Victor indeed.

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e all have that friend or friend of a friend who has been in a relationship for X number of years, who envisions getting married, settling down with her partner, having kids and whatnot.

Her boyfriend probably follows her around like a lost puppy, spending ever y waking hour with her. You, as a friend, always have that fear in the back of your mind that they will break up, and your good friend will not know what to do with herself after having a companion for so long. You shake it off, though, knowing the couple will stay together. I mean, if they have put up with each other for this long, what are 30 more years going to do?

Another type of woman is the one who is with her boy for a few months and thinks that he truly is “the one” — but then something invariably happens and a few arguments later they break up.

This woman, having been in multiple relationships, does not know what to do with her single self.

She starts talking to that guy in her communications class and about a week later and — bada bing bada boom — they are in a relationship, Facebook official and all. It’s all good until a few months later, and a few arguments later, they break up. This woman is in a constant cycle of guys, but at least she is in a relationship for a little while.

The third kind of woman is better termed “easy” and will get with anyone to feel a sense of companionship. At one party, she is flirting with one guy, staying at his place. At another party, she is flirting with another guy and staying with him. Each weekend it’s another guy.

Fortunately, all of these women can change their habits and come to terms with being single, leading us to our fourth and final type of woman: the strong, independent type.

This woman is hard to come by, seeing as wherever you walk on the campus, you see couples holding hands, cuddling in the librar y or feeding each other in Stamp Student Union. It’s nauseating. The strong, independent woman walks with an extra pep in her step because she’s cool and confident. She knows she does not need a man to be happy. She understands having a guy is just something else to deal with along with grades, family and getting into a decent graduate school — something not worth dealing with at the moment. This woman knows patience is a virtue and that the right fellow will come along in good time. Let’s face it: Most college men only want one thing. Need I elaborate? Why waste time looking for him?

He will put in the effort and time if he really likes you, unlike the majority of our male undergrads. Campus women, let us all be this fourth type of woman.

Walk with confidence, strut and flaunt your single label and above all else, be proud of who you are.

Juliet Meltsner is a junior microbiology major. She can be reached at meltsner@umdbk.com.

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ingston (The Onion News Network) and Hannah Shakespeare’s (The Playboy Club) script, and there are moments amid Cusack’s largely forgettable performance when he seems to be channeling Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance), who would’ve been infinitely better for the part. It suggests that, had McTeigue gone for a bolder, more unhinged tone, the film could have been pretty damn entertaining.

Instead, he heads for the safer waters of conventionality. The serial killer is, of course, a genius who leaves behind a trail of clues to toy with the investigators — the only kind of killer that exists in Hollywood, apparently — and there’s an awkward, deeply unnecessary romantic subplot (with Entourage’s Alice Eve), because what movie is complete without one? Throw in some CGI gore (hilariously unconvincing) and a TV procedural’s improbable leaps in investigative logic and macabre fascination with the more gruesome details of crime, and wham-o!

You’ve got The Raven. Also, boredom.

When Ted Leo, the legend of punk bands such as Citizens Arrest, Chisel and currently The Pharmacists, retires The Tyranny of Distance — his eclectic, classic-rock influenced 2001 masterpiece — with two, final start-to-finish performances at the Black Cat tonight and Sunday, he wants to make one thing clear: retrospection does not mean a dwindling career.

“The whole cash-grabby, alternative, indie-punk nostalgia circuit that has kind of developed over the past few years is not my thing,” Leo said. “I want to be very explicit about the fact that we’re not doing this in that spirit. I don’t want to overdo the idea of playing the record.”

Leo instead sees this as an opportunity to embrace a vital aspect of his musical past, breathing new life into many The Tyranny of Distance songs that have not been featured at recent shows. Plus, the timing just feels right, even if the occasion is less momentous — in Leo’s eyes — than people are making it out to be.

“It’s not like we haven’t played a lot of those songs,” Leo said. “Some of them have completely fallen out of the setlist from time to time. But it’s really the idea of playing it frontto-back, saying, ‘this was the record we released 10 years ago.’”

Both shows will be compiled into a concert film directed by Brendan Canty, drummer of the defunct Washington punk band Fugazi and co-owner of production company TrixieFilm that has released concert documentaries such as Wilco Live: Ashes of American Flags. But Canty also produced The Pharmacists record The Tyranny of Distance, a striking connection too vital not to intertwine with these shows.

“We made the record with Brendan,” Leo said. “And if we’re going to do this, it could be an interesting thing to have him film it to see what we get out of it.”

Yet Leo, at 41 years old, is aware the film may point out an aged sense of complacency in his live performance, therefore aligning him with the “indie-punk” nostalgia circuit that he wants no part of.

“It’s how we feel when we look at the footage,” he said. “If we look as tired and old as I feel right now, then maybe we won’t do anything with it.”

Ted Leo and The Pharmacists will play the Black Cat tomorrow and Sunday. Doors open at 9 p.m. tomorrow and 8 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are sold out.

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The Raven coasts on mediocrity for 111 minutes

BY ROBERT GIFFORD Senior staff writer

Too ridiculous to succeed as drama and too safe to work as camp, The Raven is a film that manages to utterly fail in the blandest way possible. It’s a movie so completely devoid of identity it wouldn’t be hard to forget most of the plot details on your way to the parking lot.

The setup is promisingly off-the-wall. A serial killer in 1840s Baltimore is staging his murders to echo the stories of Edgar Allen Poe (John Cusack, The Factory) — a man is tied down and sliced up à la “The Pit and the Pendulum”; a woman is immured, “The Cask of Amontillado” style — in a kind of grotesque greatest hits tribute.

It’s a patently, unapologetically ludicrous premise, and its absurdity is only magnified when the Baltimore Police, led by the incomparably boring and growly Luke Evans (Immortals), bring in Poe to help them catch the killer.

A movie about Poe spending his last days solving a series of murders based on his own stories should be anything but boring. At worst, it could at least be a luridly fascinating fiasco; at best, it could be a B classic.

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The film adapts Poe’s life and works in the most literal and prosaic way possible. A more inspired director might have found interesting ways to show life and art bleeding into each other; McTeigue, demonstrating his supreme failure of imagination, simply offers recitation after recitation of Poe’s poems, which is the flattest and least dynamic way of presenting his genius.

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which it is,” Simon said.

“Regardless of whether or not we have enough votes to overturn the veto, he should still be doing his job … cooperating with the legislature and with us.”

Xie said he doubts the body will net enough votes to override the veto — the original bill narrowly passed 13 to 10.

Letters and sciences legislator Zane Adoum wrote in an email to Xie on Tuesday night he would motion to override it the same night.

However, he wasn’t able to because legislators must wait until next Wednesday to take that action.

Adoum, who sponsored the bill to fund MyMaryland.net, declined to comment.

Simon, a former Diamondback columnist, said he was still optimistic he could come to a working agreement with the SGA. “Hopefully everyone will be more open to coming to the table and cooperating and moving for ward over the next week to hammer out this contract,” Simon said.

Xie said he would be willing to sign a new or amended bill that addresses all his concerns.

It took Simon about a week to contact Xie back, which is

PERRY from page 1 While he often faced scrutiny from the public for “asking the tough questions” as a city councilman, son Sean Perr y said his pride in his family eclipsed his political career.

“He was happy for his success,” he said, “but he was most happy and most proud of his family.”

He began his tenure as a city councilman in 1979, ser ving two terms before an unsuccessful bid for mayor in 1983. In 1989, Perr y returned to his spot as District 2 councilman, where he ser ved until December.

As a councilman, Perr y would often be the lone dissenting vote, Mayor Andy Fellows said.

He added that the two had many disagreements, which

“He was given a very short time to live once the diagnosis was found because it was very serious.

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only ser ved as a testament to Perr y’s experience and strong convictions.

When Fellows was a graduate student at this university, he first crossed paths with Perr y in 1992 at city council meetings. Fellows said he took note of Perr y’s political acumen almost instantly.

“I immediately recognized that he was a pretty forceful member of the council,” Fellows said. “He was ver y confident in his right and need to express his opinion on issues as a council member.”

Perr y was a proponent of limited government, Fellows said, adding “he was ver y skeptical about the government doing anything.”

Sean Perr y said his father, as a public ser vant, believed taxpayer money should be used wisely and fairly.

“He didn’t want government just taking over ever ything,” Sean Perr y said. “He wanted to have his voice heard and make changes so it was fair for ever ybody.”

When Perr y’s family was

“Hopefully everyone will be more open to coming to the table and cooperating and moving forward over the next week.”

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time the bill’s supporters could have used to negotiate the contract, Xie said.

“We had a week that could have been spent deciding the features legislators want to see, and they didn’t use it,” Xie said.

Xie, Simon and Adoum included university officials in discussions about drafting a contract to define the SGA’s relationship to the site.

“I want to respect the autonomy of the legislature,” Xie said in an interview last week. “But there’s a larger issue of the role of what the student activities fee can be used for. We’re trying to do something that’s consistent with everyone’s needs and wants.” villanueva@umdbk.com

informed of his diagnosis in 2009, they immediately came together in support, joining the American Cancer Society and assembling family members to form Team Perr y to participate in Relay for Life.

The team raised more than $30,000 for the organization.

“We rallied around him,” Sean Perr y said. “We were as devastated as any family would be knowing that your father is sick.”

Sean Perr y said as his father battled the disease, he drew strength from prayer, modern medicine and his family; he outlived the expectations of his doctors.

“He was given a very short time to live once the diagnosis was found because it was very serious,” Sean Perry said. “He fought it every day; his family was with him all the time.”

Perry had to adjust his schedule as a councilman, missing many meetings in his final years.

However, Fellows said that before Perr y stepped down, “he really made a heroic effort to stay engaged.”

Son Joseph Perr y said his father always wanted what was best for the city and didn’t let his disease affect his political work.

“He would always make it a point to be there and listen and understand the issues at hand,” he said.

Sean Perry said his father was always very involved in the community. He was actively involved in the Berwyn district for 42 years, serving as board member on the District Civic Association before becoming its president.

“He liked being the leader,” Sean Perry said. “He always wanted to be up front.”

The city renamed the Bicycle Plaza on Berwyn Road in honor of Perry in December, as a tribute to his efforts as a community leader.

“The fact that was named in his honor really speaks to the fact that that Berwyn community really loved him,” Fellows said.

Perry was also president of the Boys and Girls Club in College Park, as well an active member of the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, and he served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1960 to 1964.

Perr y’s sur vivors include his wife, Kathy, 65; his son, Sean Perry, 41, of Catonsville; daughter Christine Doyle, 40, of Hernando, Miss.; daughter Donna Long, 38, of Kensington; son Joseph Perr y, 35, of Odenton; daughter Jennifer DiStefano, 30, of Cranston, R.I.; daughter Colleen Gruber, 27, of Pittsburgh; six grandchildren; and five sisters. bach@umdbk.com

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First human rights week brings together multiple groups Issues discussed include apartheid, alleged workplace abuse; organizers hope to host event annually

BY QUINN KELLEY Staff writer

Grace Goode and Matt Parsons are both student activists on this campus. Although they said many student-run human rights groups don’t interact much, their ultimate purpose is the same: to spread awareness of injustices occurring at home and abroad.

The pair said they wanted to fuse the passions of various student groups into a jam-packed week of events, all devoted to human rights issues.

The newly formed UMD Human Rights Council, which senior anthropology major Goode and junior government and politics major Parsons started this semester, brought

ELECTION from page 1 a mix of both parties.

Zwerling noted members of her party spent the past two weeks trekking across the campus to ask what students understood about the Student Government Association and what they thought the organization could do for them, a tactic she said likely grabbed the attention of many voters.

“I’m really excited that talking to people and really listening to students made a difference,” Zwerling said.

However, there were only 18 more votes in this year’s election than last year’s, which featured the lowest turnout in 13 years.

Overall, 24 members from the Go Party, 14 members from the For Party and one independent candidate — outlying legislator Yerodin Anthony — will be in next year’s SGA. Of the 19 academic legislators, 14 ran with the Go Party while only five ran with the For Party. The 16 residential legislators includes six Go Party members and nine For Party members.

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“The Human Rights Week is kind of the product of us trying to network and collaborate with each other,” Goode said.

The groups — which include Amnesty International, Community Roots, Justice at Maryland, Muslims Without Borders, Students for Justice in Palestine, UMD Campaign for Burma, the minor in international development and conflict management and Beyond the Class-

room — planned events on many issues, including apartheid, alleged workers’ abuse at this university and ethnic genocide.

Hosting the events in April was no coincidence, Goode said, as it is Genocide Prevention Month. To kick off the week, an in-depth discussion about the meaning of human rights was held Monday and a benefit concert and two documentary screenings conclude the week today.

“We’re trying to make human rights as accessible as possible, without watering down dialogue about human rights,” Parsons said.

Their motivation for hosting the events was not political, Goode and Parsons said.

with a 50-page platform to overhaul the structure of the SGA and to add 30 new nonelected positions. Filling those seats, Zwerling said, will be her next prerogative.

Some candidates who were not elected to next year’s legislature said these seats will be their next aim.

“I absolutely plan to apply for a cabinet position,” said computer, mathematical and natural sciences legislator David Lieb, who did not win his campaign for re-election. “I feel like the SGA is something I’m really passionate about, and I don’t see myself not being a part of the organization.”

However, Scott — a threeyear veteran of the organization and current SGA vice president of academic affairs — said she probably will not tr y to be involved again with the SGA next year. She said instead she will devote time to her leadership positions in other student groups.

“It’s the risk you take when you run for a position,” Scott said. “This doesn’t stop me from being a student leader or doing any of the other things I want to do.”

Zwerling said she will be approaching members of both parties who were not elected over the next week

about stocking what will be the organization’s newly expanded cabinet and will also talk to all legislators to gauge their interests. She added that both parties shared many of the same goals, and she also plans to implement Scott’s initiative to lobby to expand the university’s Good Samaritan Policy, which allows dangerously drunk students to call 911 for help for themselves or a friend without fear of university sanctions, to include drugs.

“Last year’s [legislature] was also a mix,” Zwerling said. “I’ll be sitting with them and talking with them and seeing how we’re going to work together.”

Outgoing SGA President Kaiyi Xie declined to comment on Zwerling’s victory. However, he noted he still had some reservations about some of the details of the Go Party’s plans to restructure the organization; during the final debate last week, he questioned the financial implications of expanding the SGA. “I think there are still concerns about the feasibility and the relations with other schools in the system, but I hope they can figure it out, and with this strong legisla-

Their purpose was to bring together a variety of student groups and raise awareness of human rights issues across the globe, rather than promote any kind of agenda, Goode said.

“It’s really important when you’re talking about something like human rights — it transcends political boundaries,” Goode said.

Beyond the Classroom Director James Riker said he hopes the week helps students understand “the importance of acting and voicing concerns with human rights issues and working with a range of organizations.”

It can be difficult to net loyal participants in human rights organizations because stu-

dents tend to lean toward joining social organizations, Parsons said.

But he and Riker said they believe the various events will be able to capture an audience that wasn’t previously aware of or interested in these issues.

“I think we’re going to reach a new audience because there’s such a wide range of possible activities and events on campus,” Riker said.

Community Roots co-President Lizzie Horne said she hopes students will be able to connect with an issue they learn about during the week, since a variety of human rights issues will be represented.

“I think there will definitely be younger students — freshmen, sophomores — coming

out and getting involved in ways they haven’t been involved before,” Horne said.

Goode said she hopes UMD Human Rights Week becomes an annual event and wants to expand the events in size and scope of topics in the future.

For next year, Riker said he hopes the week grows to include not only human rights issues in geographic places but also a variety of topics, such as women’s rights and the rights of indigenous people.

“We’d love to do it on a regular basis to raise wider awareness,” Riker said.

“Human rights are already broader than just focusing on specific countries.” kelley@umdbk.com

The Go Party’s SGA executive board candidates — (from left) Vice President for Financial Affairs Tali Alter, Vice President for Student Affairs Liz Pandya, Vice President for Academic Affairs Ryan Heisinger and President Samantha Zwerling — won a clean sweep. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

ture, they will,” Xie said.

Connie Lu, the SGA elections board chair, said there were far fewer violations of election rules this year than during last year’s race. The Go Party received a violation for chalking in a place they were not permitted to on the first day. They corrected this and were not fined for it, but the party was fined $10 for campaigning in Stamp Student Union for one hour. Lu said Zwerling herself contacted the board to report the

latter violation. There were no violations submitted for the For Party.

For many of the Go Party’s elected candidates, this next year will be their first experience with the SGA — a

prospect some said excited them rather than daunted them.

“I’m excited to come in and fundamentally change this organization,” Heisinger said. villanueva@umdbk.com

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DALGLISH from page 1 “I’m a gregarious person — I enjoy walking around and talking to people. I like to know what’s going on,” she said, adding her next step would be to make sure the school helps students and adjunct faculty meet their goals as well.

Curriculum-wise, Dalglish said she wants to see more specialized collaborations, such as partnership programs with the business or public health schools, other journalism schools and field journalists. The partnerships, which she said would be similar to Capital News Service, would broaden students’ education and supplement basic classroom learning.

“The most important thing is to have students learn how to be learners, lifelong learners,” she said.

Students at the forum said they thought Dalglish was a well-qualified and exciting candidate.

“I thought it was an impressive

presentation,” said junior journalism major Kelsey Miller. “I also came to the student session, and I thought she was personable and had good ideas.”

Dalglish said she would especially encourage local partnerships, both by reaching out to local high school students and to media and research institutions such as NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Building a strong community is key to moving the school forward, she said.

As the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press executive director, Dalglish has experience furthering partnerships.

The nonprofit brings together lawyers and journalists to defend public access to information and First Amendment rights.

With both law and journalism degrees, Dalglish has made a career of combining the best of both worlds, most prominently as president of the National Freedom of Information Coalition, supervisor of the Sunshine in Government initiative and a member of the Virginia Coalition

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In 1995, the Society of Professional Journalists awarded her the Wells Memorial Key for service to the profession, and in 1996, she became a charter member of the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame.

While she has not spent as much time immersing herself in academia, Dalglish said her background as an authority on media law and a First Amendment public speaker would help her advance the journalism school.

“I think this could be a gathering place where some of the world’s finest journalists come,” she said. “I think there are ways to take advantage of this fabulous facility and bring more of those journalists in and interact with students, supplement the curriculum and even network with each other.” blasey@umdbk.com

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KENNY from page 12 conference at an outstanding school.”

THE ODYSSEY Kenny landing in College Park seems just as unusual as how he ended up in California in the first place. An Ann Arbor, Mich., native, Kenny grew up a fan of Michigan football, his high school sitting in the shadows of Michigan Stadium.

A graduate of Pioneer High School — the same school that produced Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh — Kenny made the short trip to Ypsilanti, Mich., to spend his college career pitching for Eastern Michigan. During his time with the Eagles, Kenny lettered three times and was twice named All-Mid America Conference.

The New York Mets selected the right-handed Kenny in the 17th round of the 1993 MLB Draft with the 472nd overall pick. He never made it above Class A. After three years with four teams in the Mets organization, Kenny finished his career in 1995 with the St. Lucie Mets of the Florida State League with a 9-14 record, 2.82 ERA and 13 saves in 111 relief appearances.

But Kenny knew his baseball career wasn’t over. He may have reached his ceiling as a player in the minors, but he knew there

was much more to come.

“I think what the minor leagues taught me was how much I actually love baseball,” Kenny said. “Sometimes you only play it because you’re good at it, and then when you start to see the end of the road, you start to realize you’re not ready to give it up. I probably didn’t realize I wanted to coach baseball until later on in my career.”

Kenny would return to Ypsilanti and eventually earn a degree in English literature from Eastern Michigan in 1997.

After his playing career ended, Kenny said, he spent time coaching in a summer league, which led him to his first college job, to California and, eventually, to College Park.

Kenny joined the coaching staff at St. Mary’s, a small Catholic college in Moraga, Calif., in 1997 as a volunteer assistant working with the outfielders.

One year later, Kenny took his first pitching-coach position at Laney Community College in Oakland for the 1998 campaign.

After one season, Kenny headed south, joining the San Diego coaching staff under first-year coach Rich Hill in 1999. There, Kenny would see his first successes. During his five years with the Toreros, they would go from a middling WCC team to conference champions in 2002 and 2003.

“From a coaching standpoint, I think I learned, or was taught, that you’re only as good as your players, so you better

recruit,” Kenny said. “I think if you have good players, you’re a good coach. I was taught that recruiting is the lifeblood.”

After the Toreros fell in the NCAA Regionals in 2003, Kenny headed back up north to Malibu, Calif., and Pepperdine.

Again, Kenny flourished.

He coached on three WCC Championship teams (20042006), had 11 pitchers named to the All-WCC first team and had two players named conference pitcher of the year. Thirteen of his pitchers were drafted.

All the while, he was working on recruiting and player development, which he saw as the two cornerstones of team building. More than 2,000 miles away at Vanderbilt, another young coach was learning the same things.

EAST COAST CALLING When Bakich left the Commodores to take over the Terps in June 2009, he had no connections to the area. When looking for a pitching coach and a recruiter, Bakich wanted someone with local ties.

But after Bernie Walter, the winningest coach in Maryland high school baseball history, joined the program as director of operations, Bakich was free to look nationwide for his pitching coach. A tip from a colleague on the West Coast led to Bakich looking up Kenny on Pepperdine’s website.

“I wasn’t sure if we would have a shot at getting him,”

Bakich said. “But I figured I’d go ahead and swing for the fence and call him.”

Like Bakich, Kenny didn’t have any ties to this state. But he also didn’t have any ties to California and was looking to join a program in a power conference with an atmosphere for football and basketball.

“We kind of hit it of f and flew him out here to take a look at this place. I was kind of learning on the fly. I was tr ying to give him a campus tour when it was my first campus tour as well,” Bakich said, laughing. “You could just tell he’s got all those natural ‘it’ qualities in a good coach: a good way with people, just making you feel comfortable.”

For Kenny, that tour — despite obvious aesthetic differences — brought back the memory of his first coaching job in Southern California. A few weeks after that day, Kenny officially joined the Terps.

“The nuts and bolts of the school were always there for me,” Kenny said. “San Diego was a situation where we had to rebuild that as well. I don’t know what it is, but there’s something about situations like that that I really like. I don’t know if it’s just the challenge or what, but I never once looked at this place any other way than a great opportunity. I don’t know if that’s how my brain’s wired, but I saw the potential in it just like I did in San Diego.”

BREAKING THROUGH When the Terps wrapped up a 3-0 victory over James Madison on April 17, they saw a familiar sight in left field: zeros all across the scoreboard on the opponent’s side. Right-handers Michael Boyden and Brady Kirkpatrick had just combined to throw eight innings in the Terps’ ninth shutout of the season, a mark that leads the ACC. For Kirkpatrick, it was an especially significant performance after a month of struggles during ACC play. The sophomore threw four no-hit innings, allowing only two walks. Following the game, he was quick to credit Kenny for help during the rocky period.

“He’s the best pitching coach I’ve ever worked with,” Kirkpatrick said after the game.

“Just the mindset he brings each and every day and the energy. He just comes out here wanting to teach us.”

Kirkpatrick’s sentiment is echoed by the entire pitching staff. Kenny has helped remake the pitching staff both mentally and physically, and four Terps pitchers — Kirkpatrick, left-hander Jimmy Reed and right-handers Brett Harman and David Carroll — rank in the top 25 in the ACC in ERA. Reed, who entered the starting rotation April 6 against N.C. State, leads the conference with a 1.02 mark.

“I think I’ve definitely improved mentally, being able

to take an inning one pitch at a time,” Reed said. “That’s definitely been the thing that’s helped the most.”

Boyden said Kenny runs the pitchers through intense classroom sessions, in which they discuss every scenario they could face on the mound.

“It’s taking the same situation, no matter big or small,” right-hander Charlie Haslup said. “Being in the same mindset for every situation and keeping the same approach really helps big or small situations either way.”

“Coach Kenny is invaluable,” Boyden said. “He took my game to the next level.”

As the Terps (27-17, 7-14 ACC) continue their season, the tests only get harder.

After Virginia Tech (28-15, 813) this weekend, the Terps have No. 1 Florida State and Virginia left on the schedule.

Down the stretch, it will be up to the pitching staff to keep Terps in games as they look for their first ACC Tournament appearance since expansion in 2005.

After years in California, this is where Kenny’s mind is, too — trying to bring an ACC Championship back to College Park.

“I guess I really only think about getting to the ACC Tournament, getting to the NCAA Tournament and if we’re throwing it over the plate,” Kenny said. “That’s as far as my mind can focus.” dgallen@umdbk.com

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EAGLES from page 12 weeks. Coming on for Knight, who had completed nine innings, she recorded two outs before surrendering a gamewinning run to N.C. State.

“We didn’t play poorly behind them,” Watten said of Carroll and Schmeiser. “But it’s tough tracking down balls left and right.”

The lack of a consistent secondary option in case Knight falters is something that could derail the Terps (29-18, 5-7 ACC) in the postseason.

Despite an extremely high workload — she has pitched at least five innings in each of the team’s past 12 games — Knight has gotten even stronger, as evidenced by her two no-hitters in the past nine days.

Knight has had instances of ineffectiveness, albeit not

recently. But when it happens, as it did against No. 4 Alabama in early March, the Terps’ contingency plan does not inspire confidence. Knight recorded just one out in her start against the Crimson Tide, allowing eight runs in the first inning.

Schmeiser and Carroll allowed 11 runs in relief in the team’s 19-1 loss on March 2.

But no matter what, it seems, Watten’s confidence in Knight is unwavering, even as the competition gets stronger with each passing week.

That same faith has not transferred to Schmeiser and Carroll.

Knight has started 11 of the Terps’ past 12 games, with Schmeiser starting the other.

She failed to make it through the second inning in the team’s 6-5 win over Virginia on April 14.

“It’s all just mental for them,” Watten said. “It’s something they have to get better at, and they will.”

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This certainly would be a good time to do so. The Eagles (22-23, 2-13) are last in the conference, giving the Terps a chance to secure a crucial series win and inch closer to claiming the No. 5 seed in May’s ACC Tournament.

“We need all the wins we can get,” Knight said. “We just have to keep going and fight for every win, because we need them.”

This weekend’s games can push the Terps beyond 30 wins and help them lock down a higher conference seed as they vie for an NCAA Tournament bid. Those dreams will be harder to realize, however, if they can’t get Carroll and Schmeiser to hold down the fort behind their ace.

“We’ll stay confident in them,” Watten said. “We can’t get down, can’t give up, can’t let up.” benscher@umdbk.com

KNIGHTS from page 12 disengaged during those stretches. It’s more that they’ve been lethargic and out of sorts.

They’ve settled for the first look on offense and haven’t helped their teammates on defense — all teachable moments for a young squad still learning how to win games.

“We’ve got to do a better job, especially as the leaders on the team, of trying to keep our guys focused and trying to control the pace of the game,” attackman Joe Cummings said.

If the Terps can do that, they could be a team to fear come postseason play. After all, this is the same group that pummeled thenNo. 3 Johns Hopkins for the final 30 minutes just two weeks ago.

When it’s on, it can be lethal. Now it’s simply a matter of making those stretches last entire games.

“We haven’t played all the way through games,” long pole Jesse Bernhardt said. “We haven’t played a 60-minute game, and

Attackman Joe Cummings had three goals in the Terps’ win vs.

Mount St. Mary’s on Wednesday. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

our big key was to do that.”

The Terps will get a chance to work out some final kinks when they host Bellarmine tomorrow.

The Knights have lost five of their past six games and should provide the perfect test for a young team trying to improve its focus.

“Right now, it’s all about winning games,” Cummings said.

“We have max six games left, and we have two games guaranteed. So my focus and the team’s focus is solely on winning the next game against Bellarmine.”

If they can stick to the script and rout the Knights before a Maryland Day crowd on Senior Day, perhaps Tillman will be able to temporarily retire “new” from his vocabulary.

“We’re vulnerable, and we know that,” he said. “But yet we like the fact that, on the other side of it, if maybe we’re going in and somebody’s ranked higher, we feel like we could still win the game.” letourneau@umdbk.com

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Sports

Dodd inks with Terps Forward Damonte Dodd has signed his letter of intent, finalizing his future with the Terps. For more, go to TerrapinTrail.com.

WATER POLO

BASEBALL

Winning 2.73 before a big loss

Terps’ ERA this season, which ranks first in the ACC and No. 10 nationally

MEN’S LACROSSE

.239

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Opponents’ batting average vs. the Terps this season, a drop from .260 in 2011

Terps pitchers ranked among the top 25 in the ACC in ERA

‘Big key’ for Terps: play 60

Successes mount amid bleak future

Terps eye complete game vs. Knights

BY DANIEL POPPER

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU

Staff writer

Senior staff writer

In mid-November, university President Wallace Loh announced the cut of eight of the university’s 27 varsity sports teams for financial reasons. Among the eight was the Terrapins water polo team.

It was the worst scenario imaginable for the Terps, who learned their team was going to be eliminated after just nine years of existence. Their best appeal for salvation, as it turned out, wouldn’t come through protest or fundraising — instead, their performance has done the talking.

In what could be their final year as a Division-I program, the Terps are in the midst of their best season in program history. The team is ranked No. 14 in the nation and sits at 17-6 on the season heading into today’s matchup with Salem International in the first round of the CWPA Eastern Championship in Providence, R.I. Even with his team on the brink of termination, coach Carl Salyer’s main frustration isn’t the fact that the program is getting cut.

He simply wants some recognition.

“We have been getting better nationally each year,” Salyer said, “but there are students, faculty and alumni that don’t even know we have a [water polo] program.”

The team’s 17 wins are nearing their program-best mark of 22, set in 2008. Before losses to Hartwick and Indiana at the CWPA Western Division Championship April 14 and 15, the team had won six straight contests, including a 21-1 decision on April 6 against the same Salem International team it faces today.

Yet despite the amount of talent on his squad, Salyer thinks that the team’s chemistry explains its breakthrough success.

“From freshman to seniors, this is the closest team I have ever coached,” Salyer said. “They are very close out of the water and, because of that, are playing great as a team in the water.”

After the bad news came down in the fall, Salyer sat his team down to ensure they stayed optimistic.

“I told the team that they could focus on the problem and we would have a horrible year and have no fun,” he said. “Or we could focus on the solution and what the team could control.”

Regardless of whether the team can reach the necessary benchmarks to reaffirm its status as a team, Salyer said his Terps will continue to work hard and perform at a high level.

“The team will continue doing what they can,” he said. “But I certainly couldn’t have asked for a better group of people.”

When the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team opened its season in mid-February, coach John Tillman consistently used one word to describe his squad: new.

It seemed an apt characterization given that this year’s Terps hardly resemble the group that made a run to the national title game last May. Even a dozen games into the season, that newness is still apparent.

As talented as they may be, the No. 9 Terps continue to struggle through bouts of erratic play.

That was evident Wednesday night at unranked Mount St. Mary’s. After jumping to an early 3-0 lead, the Terps’ offense went silent for more than 23 minutes while the Mountaineers rattled off three straight goals to tie the game in the waning moments of the first quarter.

“That 3-0 lead, sometimes that’s the worst thing for you,” Tillman said shortly after the Terps secured a 12-8 win. “Because all of a sudden, I think the guys relaxed a little bit.”

It’s been a common theme for the Terps (8-4) this season: take a quick advantage, then let the opposition back within striking distance.

The Terps have lost leads in seven of their 12 games this season, dropping three of those outings.

And it’s not so much that they’ve appeared disinterested or

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Assistant Sean Kenny, left, talks to pitcher David Carroll, center, and catcher Jack Cleary during a loss to Clemson on Saturday. Kenny and the Terps face Virginia Tech tonight. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

More than pitching in Assistant takes unheralded staff to the top

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

T

he University of San Diego’s Cunningham Stadium, nestled into a natural amphitheater nor th of downtown, has a view of redroofed school buildings ripe with Spanish architecture.

Eddy D. Field Stadium at Pepperdine has a view of the Pacific Ocean beyond left field, a grove of palm trees in center field and is accessible from the scenic Pacific Coast Highway.

Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium has a somewhat less scenic Byrd Stadium in left field, the football practice fields in center and right, a few trees and the computer and space sciences building beyond its outfield walls.

So it’s easy to see why Terrapins baseball coach Erik Bakich didn’t think he had a chance to lure Sean Kenny from the West Coast in 2009 to join the Terps’ coaching staff after spending years in California.

“I immediately thought there’s no way this guy’s coming to College Park after being in Malibu and San Diego

for 11 years,” Bakich said. “His bio was incredible.”

During six years at Pepperdine and five at San Diego, Kenny developed a proven track record as a pitching coach, developing numerous pro prospects and lauded pitchers in the West Coast Conference.

But now, Kenny’s in College Park, helping guide a Terps pitching staff to its best season in recent memory.

Entering this weekend’s series at Virginia Tech, Terps pitchers lead the ACC with a 2.73 ERA, their lowest of the new millennium by more than two runs. Twelve games from the end of the regular season, the Terps have already set a team record for shutouts with nine.

By being surrounded by a like-minded coaching staff and roster, Kenny has been able to play a key role in the turnaround of a once-moribund program that is reminded daily of its four-decade ACC Championship drought by a graphic printed on the left-field wall.

“Challenges are what keeps you going,” Kenny said.

“There’s obviously different types of them, but this was a great challenge, a great opportunity in the best

see KENNY, page 10

WEEKENDLOOK AHEAD BASEBALL Friday @ Virginia Tech (5:30 p.m.)

Saturday @ Virginia Tech (2 p.m.)

Sunday @ Virginia Tech (1 p.m.)

MEN’S LACROSSE

JIMMY REED – JUNIOR

BRADY KIRKPATRICK – SOPHOMORE

2010 ERA: 13.75 — 2011 ERA: 4.86 — 2012 ERA: 1.02

2011 ERA: 5.71 — 2012 ERA: 3.04

BRETT HARMAN – SENIOR

MICHAEL BOYEDN – SENIOR

2010 ERA: 4.50 — 2011 ERA: Redshirt — 2012 ERA: 3.14

2011 ERA: 6.44 — 2012 ERA: 2.34

Saturday vs. Bellarmine (noon)

SOFTBALL Saturday @ Boston College (1 and 3 p.m.)

Sunday @ Boston College (1 p.m.)

WATER POLO CWPA Eastern Championship (FridaySunday)

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see KNIGHTS, page 11

SOFTBALL

Workload increasing for Knight Terps will lean on pitcher vs. Eagles

BY JASON BENSCHER Staff writer

With two series left in its season, starting with this weekend’s ACC tilt at Boston College, the Terrapins softball team’s current 10-1 roll appears well-timed.

A stretch of that caliber, after all, normally shows off a team’s biggest strengths. But in the fourth inning of Wednesday’s 10-5 win against Delaware State, a glaring weakness was again evident.

It was a sequence, perhaps not coincidentally, that directly coincided with Kendra Knight’s absence from the circle.

Fresh off a no-hitter in the first game of the doubleheader and bidding for another one in the second, Knight was pulled after three innings as the Terps held a seemingly safe 9-0 lead.

But when pitcher Lexi Carroll came on in relief, she promptly allowed the Hornets’ first hit in eight innings of play, a booming double to the right-field wall.

Six of the next seven batters reached base against Carroll, the team’s No. 3 pitcher. The five-run bleeding was only stopped when coach Laura Watten mercifully brought Knight back into the game.

“We can only play so well when balls are going off the fence,” the seventh-year coach said.

Watten chose Carroll over Kaitlyn Schmeiser, the highly touted recruit turned inconsistent freshman. Schmeiser, who was warming up during Carroll’s rough patch, last pitched in the 10th inning of the Terps’ only loss in the last two

see EAGLES, page 11