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Admins seek More student riot charges dropped input on plan to shut down Campus Drive Of the 23 students arrested March 4, six have fought and beaten their charges

BY BEN PRESENT Staff writer

Of the 23 students who were arrested during the post-Duke game riot last month, six have seen their cases go to court. All six have had the charges against them dropped.

Not a single university student has faced trial for crimes relating to the riot, while four Prince George’s County Police officers have been sus-

pended in relation to the videotaped beating of a student, largely validating widespread student complaints about police brutality during the early morning hours of March 4.

“It says that there was no basis for the charges in the first place,” said Terrell N. Roberts III, a law partner of an attorney representing three of the six students. “This demonstrates that at least six unlawful arrests occurred. So what’s the

basis for the use of force against these students? None.”

County police spokesman Maj. Andrew Ellis said prosecutors dropped two recent cases because the officer who wrote the charging documents didn’t summon the witnessing officer to court. In most situations, the two officers are one and the same, Ellis explained. But in a riot, witnessing officers can’t leave the formation police use to disperse

the crowd, so other officers pick up the paperwork.

County police have refused to provide a comprehensive list of the students arrested that night, but lawyer Chris Griffiths, who is representing about six students and said he was familiar with about 20 of the cases in total, said he believes most of the cases were unlawful arrests.

see CHARGES, page 6

Students say closed road may be an inconvenience

BY LEYLA KORKUT Staff writer

Officials were expected to announce yesterday that transit access to Campus Drive would be restricted during the summer, but administrators decided to postpone making an official move until they receive feedback on the initiative.

The pilot program will likely still take place, Vice President of Administrative Affairs Ann Wylie said, but the administration wants to first determine what problems the university community would encounter if Campus Drive were restricted, eliminating all vehicle traffic except for two Shuttle-UM routes. If the experimental move to turn the area around Stamp Student Union into a pedestrian-only zone were to be implemented, the pilot program would begin June 19 and end Aug. 13, after which administrators would discuss and determine the success of the test run. The proposal would restrict access from the traffic circle near the

see TRANSIT, page 7

English professor Matt Kirschenbaum received a grant from the Library of Congress to attain and preserve old video games and gaming systems.

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A bill demanding student seats on merger committee was withdrawn at yesterday’s SGA meeting. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

SGA kills bill for undergrad representation Students seek say in dance, theatre merger

BY ANNA ISAACS Staff writer

A resolution demanding student representation on committees that would plan how to merge of the dance and theate departments — if approved by the University Senate — was withdrawn last night after SGA legislators said it seemed the bill wouldn’t change anything before the senate votes on the issue.

As the plan stands, 18 committees would be charged with laying out the new structure and curriculum of the proposed School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies. An overarching committee would have one undergraduate member and one graduate student member, both of whom would be non-voting. The other 17 committees have no student representatives, and other students aren’t allowed into committee meetings, which drove Arts and Humanities legislator Kate Richard to write the bill.

“Students in the theater and dance departments are so involved at every level,” including technical work, stage managing and design, she said. “They should have a say in what happens.”

see REPRESENTATION, page 7

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A SECOND LIFE Two researchers attempt to salvage old-school video game worlds

BY KELLY FARRELL Staff writer

Frogger may face greater risks than leaping into oncoming traffic, and Pong could meet a worse fate than bouncing off of the screen into TV oblivion. For these and many other classic video games, it could very well be “Game Over.”

Doug Reside and English professor Matt Kirschenbaum, who are the associate directors of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, are working to preserve video games as they become obsolete in an ever-chang-

ing technological world.

The two have joined up with researchers from Stanford University, the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign and the Rochester Institute of Technology in a project funded by the Library of Congress to find a way to save these pop culture artifacts from the march of time. Ultimately, Kirschenbaum said, he wants people to be able to track down an original version of Pong or Frogger in a few decades.

“If I want to teach a novel that’s hundreds of years old, it’s not a problem — I

see GAMES, page 2

Helping many men, many women Founder of sexual awareness program to leave university at end of semester

BY NELLY DESMARATTES Staff writer

As Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to a close, so too will Sexual Assault Prevention Coordinator for the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Mollie MonahanKreishman’s time at this university.

After working six years to educate fraternity men and sorority women at this university on sexual assault prevention techniques, Monahan-Kreishman took a new job as director of the Women’s Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Monahan-Kreishman created the 10 Men and 10 Women plan in 2004 to fight a growing problem with sexual violence within university Greek organizations. The program selects 10 women and 10 men from selected

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sororities and fraternities to attend weekly meetings with a facilitator, learn skills to help sexual assault victims and find out how to prevent sexual assault from occurring within their organization.

The program was originally run through the University Health Center, but after the project lost its funding, the Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life picked it up.

“By that time, fraternities and sororities were willing to try almost anything to advance the issue in the Greek community,” MonahanKreishman said.

Monahan-Kreishman works specifically with two fraternities, meeting weekly with members of Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta

see PROGRAM, page 6

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University system set to implement fraud hotline Community will be able to report suspected fraud over telephone or on website

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BY DERBY COX Senior staff writer

The University System of Mar yland will implement an anonymous hotline for reporting suspected fraud “any day now,” according to a system official.

Under the plan, which was approved by the Board of Regents at its April 16 meeting, members of the system community will be able to report fraud through a telephone number, website, fax or mail.

New federal regulations prompted the creation of the hotline, which Office of Internal Audit Director David Mosca said would be implemented very soon.

Allegations of fraud received by the hotline will be evaluated by the Office of Internal Audit, which may choose to involve individual institutions or the Office of the Attorney General in investigations, according to the policy.

Mosca said it’s unclear whether the hotline will help to curb fraud — which generally involves deceit for monetary gain — in the system, although he said it might act as an additional deterrent. The university system has fallen victim to fraud in the past, Mosca said.

In one such case, an employee used a procurement card — a credit card-like item meant for official purchases — for personal use, bilking a uni-

versity out of more than $300,000, Mosca said. On other occasions, employees have stolen from cash funds.

“Some years we don’t have any fraud, or it’s not discovered,” Mosca said. “Some years there are frequent reports of fraud. Usually they’re small in nature and usually an institution catches it early on.”

Had it existed at the time, Mosca said the fraud hotline could have, for example, played a part in the controversy surrounding former University of Maryland Law School Dean Karen Rothenberg, who accepted “questionable compensation payments,” according to a state audit.

System officials will publicize the hotline through posters and possibly business cards, Mosca said. He said announcements and e-mails about the hotline’s creation should contain information about what constitutes fraud.

Other mechanisms already exist to report such wrongdoings, he said, including university police departments and a fraud hotline operated by the state’s Office of Legislative Audits. University President Dan Mote said the university occasionally receives anonymous fraud tips by letter.

“I think it’s not a bad thing to have,” said Mote, adding “time will tell” whether the hotline leads to more useful fraud tips.

Mote also said allowing anonymity opens the door for people to use the hotline for their own personal complaints.

“When people don’t identify themselves, they can be less credible in some ways,” Mote said. “When people have to identify themselves, they usually are more careful about whether their personal interests will be exposed.”

When other institutions have implemented similar hotlines, they have seen spikes in fraud complaints, but in many cases the actions in question are not truly fraud but personnel decisions, Mosca said. cox@umdbk.com

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GAMES from page 1 can assign them a book. But if somebody 50 years from now wants to show their students where computer games came from, they’ll have a much harder time doing it,” Kirschenbaum said.

The two-year-old project will concentrate on preser ving vintage games such as Star Raiders, an Atari spaceship shooting game; Doom, one of the original first-person shooting games; and Second Life, a life-simulation game.

They chose these games for their historical significance and will work on several versions of each one.

The team will create copies of authentic video games to make them compatible with modern computers so they can be used even when their respective consoles have become obsolete.

Since video games span from the arcade games of the 1970s and ’80s to the Game Boys and Nintendo 64s of the ’90s to the iPhones and Wiis of the 21st century, Kirschenbaum and Reside emphasized that the project is also important from a nostalgic standpoint.

Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technologies in Humanities Doug Reside thinks there is a nostalgia to old video games.

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“The project has touched a nerve in a good way,” Kirschenbaum said. “There are a lot of people who care a lot about computer games and are interested in what’s being done to make sure they won’t just evaporate.”

For Reside, his first video game memory is playing an Atari 2600 version of Donkey Kong.

“I was never allowed to play in

MARYLAND BEATS DUKE CELEBRATION WERE YOU THERE? I’m a private investigator working for lawyers who represent a number of students who were beaten by police and arrested at the celebration.

We are still actively investigating the cases of Jack McKenna, Ben Donat, and other students. If you were arrested, injured by police, have video or saw any of the police actions, I would like to hear from you.

We are especially interested in anyone who saw a student being beaten near the Panda carry-out and a student being beaten in front of Montgomery Hall.

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English professor Matthew Kirschenbaum, left, and Doug Reside, right, associate directors of the Maryland Institute for Technologies for Humanities, are preserving old video games in a program funded by the Library of Congress. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

the pizza parlor because you needed a quarter, but my grandparents had an Atari 2600, so I could play for free even though the game was way different,” Reside said.

Reside also said he thought the archiving of old video games could serve as a re-

source and point of reference for those developing new video games today.

“Today in creative writing classes, you would write a lot but also read a lot, so that you will understand what works came before you,” Reside said.

“For that reason, it’s important to know that future game developers are aware of the history that came before them so they can place themselves in the canon of video game history.” farrell@umdbk.com

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City officials release draft of 2011 budget with few changes Council set to hold a public hearing on proposal in May before the final version is approved this summer

BY NICK RHODES Staff writer

City officials released a draft of the requested budget for 2011 earlier this week that outlined few changes from last year’s proposal despite lower funds.

The proposal is the first step in the budget’s journey to adoption this summer. The College Park City Council will hold a public hearing on the budget May 11 at 7:15 p.m. in city hall.

Finances are down in the city as this year’s revenue stream is about $800,000 less than last year’s budget.

The city’s total revenue for the year was almost $12.5 million.

This year’s budget is expected to garner less debate than years past due to less controversial measures and a more cohesive council group.

Last year, the city apportioned $200,000 to install a system of security cameras throughout College Park in order to improve security and

decrease crime.

Last year’s budget was passed in early June without much debate, but the years prior produced some turmoil among city officials. Two years ago, former Mayor Steve Brayman was dismayed by what he described as “11th hour” concerns that were brought up by members of the council late in the process.

But so far, no council members have voiced public concern or support towards to the budget after its introduction failed to garner any response or dialogue.

While there are no clear objectors, District 2 Councilman Jack Perry traditionally rails against increased city spending and votes against the budget.

The proposed budget included a “wish list” section where members of the council voiced some of their more pressing concerns.

Some of the wish list items were addressed within the budget or would not need to be addressed

such as creating an unpaid research internship position, increasing parking enforcement and increasing fees charged to landlords for inspection costs.

New Student Government Association Student Liaison Becca Lurie suggested the city provide grants to university students who open businesses in College Park which the budget states is already in place.

The proposed budget also aims to increase occupancy and parking permit costs and parking meter costs. According to the budget, the increase in the fees will help levy the costs of the parking garage that has generated less revenue than expected.

The 288-space garage cost $3 million to build and has been used sparingly since its creation last year. City officials predict an uptick in use once Ledo Restaurant moves into the basement of the garage this summer.

District 2 Councilman Jack Perry, left, and Mayor Andrew Fellows, right, discuss the budget at Tuesday’s city council meeting. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

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ome people never learn. With the conclusion of another Student Govern- dates to vote for. The year before last, an independent presidential hopeful announced ment Association election has come another slew of cheating allegations. It’s his candidacy early to try to get a leg up on the competition. This year, the Your Party, a pattern that seems endless, even among returning members. Since voting which will dominate the organization this fall, is facing cheating allegations.

Campaigners, and even Glickman, who just won re-election, have faced multiple ended last week, the Elections Board has heard multiple accusations of allegations of election fraud. Thus far, the Elections Board — a group of students cheating, leaving serious questions about the validity of last week’s election results.

SGA incumbent President Steve Glickman and other members of his party have nominated by Glickman — has dismissed all charges against Your Party, but questions still remain how deep this problem goes. been exonerated of the charges against them.

Like last year, there is little evidence any suspected illegal activity swayed the elecBut the prevalence of accusations — even among nonpartisans — has left little tion results. doubt that one of the dozens of candidates running in the elecBut there is also little doubt that illegal campaigning is more tions violated the rules. And if one campaigner or candidate illeprevalent than it appears. The Elections Board only investigates gally solicited a vote in any way, even if the numbers did not sway the results, the election should be deemed invalid.

Students should be more reports that are formally filed. If a student sees something fishy doesn’t file a complaint, nothing will be done.

For most students who are not involved or do not follow the proactive in regard to the butThe apathy that leads students not to vote is the same apathy SGA, the election results seem meaningless. There is plenty of allegations of cheating in that leads students not to report corrupt behavior. Too many stuapathy and disregard for the organization, especially considering dents, including a columnist for this paper, have expressed conless than 20 percent of undergraduates voted. But such apathy SGA elections. cerns over what they encountered at the polls, but for whatever reaignores the true power that the SGA holds. When used wisely, the organization has the ability to put its weight behind initiatives that can change the lives son will not go through the proper channels to have their observations investigated.

The Elections Board should pursue a more active and open role in the investigaof students for better or for worse. Although they have no direct power, administrators tion of election fraud by SGA candidates, even if allegations are not formally filed. One view their recommendations as those of the entire undergraduate student body.

Many in the SGA claim they want to give a voice to students, and they should. But invalid vote may not sway an election, but the means by which it was secured sets the that is not done by ignoring the true voice of students at the polls. Each time a candi- tone for how elections are conducted in the future. This may mean more work for date or party openly violates election rules in order to pursue their own ambitions, members of the board, but it will show a strong commitment to the rules they are trusted to enforce and uphold. they are turning their backs on students and ignoring students’ true opinions.

Regardless of who did or who didn’t break the rules, the results of this SGA elecThe unfortunate truth is rules were probably violated in this election, much as they tion aren’t likely to change. But students who were in any way coerced or instructed seem to be in every SGA election.

Last year, it was the Unite UMD party that faced $200 in fines for illegally soliciting how to vote should make the Elections Board listen. Nobody likes a cheater, and it’s votes by providing students with laptops to vote on and instructing them which candi- time to finally hold their feet to the fire.

Mike DiMarco is a senior English major. He can be reached at dimarco@umdbk.com.

Sarah Brogi is a senior sociology major. She can be reached at sarahbrogi@gmail.com.

Bars: Rules of the roadhouse

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KRAMER alcoholic or friends are something of a novelty for you. Do your image a favor and go out with a group of people — the larger the better.

2. Change up the scenery Being 21 opens your eyes to what a bar really is — real drinks, semicrowded atmosphere and most importantly, no cover. Nowhere in College Park does this exist. Nevertheless, these places to drink and dance can still be fun as long as you rotate through the sweet spots. The first spot you’ll want to reserve is a group rendezvous point. Ideally, this place should be far away from the speakers. When the music is too

loud, people exchange difficult conversations for free drinks. It’s a dirty little trick every bar here takes advantage of. Don’t fall for it. The only other spot you should be concerned with is the middle of the dance floor.

3. Dance like you mean it Believe it or not, a lot of people (mostly creepy guys) have a hard time finding their rhythm. To compensate, these people grope, fidget and head bob their way suspiciously through the crowd. If you see them, don’t follow — they’re just making a few laps.

To avoid such douchebaggery, loosen your limbs, and stop giving a shit. As long as you avoid knocking over drinks and stepping on toes, people will think you’re just out having a good time.

Luckily, I never lost my groove, so I’m 10 blocks ahead of Stella.

4. Leave the desperation at home

Having high expectations in College Park is a foolish mistake. No matter how well you pretend, people know when you’re trying too hard.

Here’s a hint: Strip the ego, and stop banking on scoring with some drunken mess. If you act naturally, your batting average will increase significantly.

5. Wear 3-D glasses Trust me, this works every time.

Grab those cheap plastic frames you lost somewhere in your room, and let them do the talking. No, they won’t actually work, but wearing goofy glasses that don’t dim your vision is a neat little trick.

Plus, you won’t freak out when you drop them on the ground. Be sure to seek out someone wearing red and blue. You might trip balls.

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

Graduation: Having a senior moment all me a pessimist, call me a curmudgeon, but most of all call me a graduating senior who needs a hug. I know I probably shouldn’t be whining about being just a month away from getting out of this place and into the world, but for the sake of my sanity and that of all my fellow spring 2010 grads, indulge me.

Now I made the mistake of saving credits until my final semester, and thus, I’m actually still buried in work during what should be a breeze to the finish line. But nonetheless, the burden on the graduating-senior population is much larger than might be expected. Even those of us who were smart enough to only need a handful of credits in their final semester constantly have to face the ever-present fear that one failed 100-level bullshit class will result in the biggest embarrassment of our soon-to-be fruitless lives. I’m currently taking a class on

weather and climate, and it’s become the most terrifying course I’ve ever taken. It’s gotten so bad I’ve actually started going to some of the lectures.

Hell, I even took notes. I mean come on, before you know it, I’m going to actually have to purchase the textbook to study for the final.

Besides classes, we poor graduates are faced with all kinds of troublesome graduation protocols. Yesterday, I went to the Maryland Book Exchange and spent a $100 on a cap and gown that no doubt cost about 40 cents to get sewn together by a woman in Taiwan. I’ve received several e-mails from classmates asking if I could spare tickets to the main ceremony since apparently we can only receive six per graduate. I’m thinking it’s time for me to start scalping these bad boys in order to recoup my cap and gown costs.

I also received a personal invite to join university President Dan Mote

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DIMARCO and his wife at their home, only to find out the same invitation was extended to hundreds of other graduates. And here I was thinking Mote was just a big fan of my work.

Let’s also not forget with the whole economic collapse, graduating college is good and all, but it has become sort of necessary to go to grad school for a lot of people. That’s not to say that none of the graduating class will be doing just fine financially in the near future, but for the majority of us, either it’s back to school — for reals this time — or into a job that is going to shower us with bitch work for what amounts to pigeon feed. Of

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course, if you’re like me, you just swallow your pride and move back in with your mom and dad until you get lucky and find a Band-Aid in your cheeseburger at McDonald’s and sue for millions.

Obviously, though, the big issue at hand is I’m jealous of my underclassmen peers. I don’t think I’m alone in the notion that had I known a little more when I was a little younger, I could have accomplished a hell of a lot in this place, but now I’ve run out of time to do it. Though your friends at West Virginia University and Penn State will tell you other wise, this university is actually a really fun place to go to school. So do yourselves a favor and figure it out before you’re getting ready to walk across that stage.

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’m not convinced that all students who venture out to the bars in College Park actually have a good time.

There are guys who fight, girls who cry and singles with high expectations who head home defeated and alone. After a $40 bar tab and thinking the whole place is one big group of friends you don’t know, the bars begin to resemble more of a thieving brothel than a classy drinking establishment.

Now, I speak purely from an observational perspective — like Rodney Dangerfield, I don’t get much respect — but good times are my specialty. So if you’ve experienced misfortune while barhopping along Route 1, allow me to share some tips that will improve your nightlife.

1. Never go out alone This is a typical rookie mistake.

Going out alone can mean one of two things: Either you’re an underage

SARAH BROGI ach year, between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders and forced into commercial sexual exploitation, according to the U.S. State Department. University alumnus and State Department expert Abraham Lee, along with Program Associate Erin Meyer from anti-trafficking organization Polaris Project, will be speaking on the campus tonight about the critical human rights issue of human trafficking.

The event will take place in Stamp Student Union’s Margaret Brent Room and will run from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The event, “The Truth: Human Trafficking in the U.S.,” is being co-sponsored by Sigma Psi Zeta, the Asian American Student Union, Delta Phi Omega, Feminism Without Borders and UMD Multiracial and Biracial Student Association.

Human trafficking, the act of modern-day slavery, is one of the fastest growing illegal industries worldwide. Human trafficking is the act of forcing or coercing individuals into labor or sexual exploitation. It is commonly assumed that human trafficking is only an international issue, but within the United States, there are girls ages 12 to 14 who are forced into commercial sexual exploitation.

Polaris Project estimates about 244,000 American youths are at risk of sexual exploitation, including child prostitution. Street traffickers, commonly referred to as pimps, target vulnerable youth such as runaways and homeless children. Pimps use a variety of recruitment strategies to coerce young women and children, imprisoning them in the commercial sex industry through control mechanisms in strip clubs, street-based prostitution, escort services and brothels.

Sexually exploited girls 12 to 13 years old are caught by police officials are often labeled as child prostitutes and sent to jail, despite not even being old enough to consent to sex. If the New York Safe Harbor for Exploited Children Act passes, it would “allow for the presumption that a person under 16 years of age charged as a juvenile delinquent for a prostitution offense is a severely trafficked person.” It would waive criminal charges, and instead the child would be considered a “person in need of supervision.” The statute would provide help to these trafficked people under the age of 18, such as safe houses, crisis intervention programs and training to help identify those who’ve been sexually exploited.

Trafficking not only occurs in urban environments such as New York City, Washington and Atlanta but also in small towns such as Greenbelt. According to Polaris, labor trafficking of U.S. citizens has also been recently reported in a variety of locations, such as restaurants, the agricultural industry, traveling carnivals, peddling or begging rings and traveling sales crews.

Lee will speak on basic human trafficking in the United States and its connection with the law. He will also cover the U.S. government’s efforts and international response to combating human trafficking in East Asia and the Pacific. Meyer will cover trafficking within the United States, the exploitation of Asian women in brothels and massage parlors and Polaris’ efforts to combat trafficking in Tokyo.

Lee and Meyer will advise on practical ways college students can get involved in the effort to end trafficking. The event will end with a 30minute Q-and-A session.

Students who cannot attend the event but are interested in combating sex trafficking can help by raising awareness about the issue and educating youth to be wary of street predators. A five-minute lesson could save a life. Students can also get involved by volunteering, interning or working full time at an anti-trafficking organization, such as the State Department or Polaris Project in Washington, Shared Hope International in Virginia or G.E.M.S. in New York City. In the effort to prevent labor trafficking, students should pay attention to their purchases by visiting www.chainstorereaction.com and check if the companies they are purchasing from have a track record of using forced labor to make their products.

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orn today, you are able to take your knocks — or even more than your share of knocks — and get right back up and keep going, unwilling to accept defeat until defeat has claimed permanent victory. As long as there is the slightest doubt about the outcome of a given endeavor, you can be found striving away, working toward your established goals, eager to overcome the obstacles ahead of you. Indeed, on those rare occasions when you do come out on the losing end of things, you are often the last to know it, so positive and forward-moving can you be.

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Humor is one of your greatest tools, but you understand that even the ability to laugh and make others laugh is no substitute for know-how, technique, talent, training and good old-fashioned hard work.

Also born on this date are Michelle Pfeiffer, actress; Uma Thurman, actress; Kate Mulgrew, actress; Celeste Holm, actress; Duke Ellington, musician; William Randolph Hearst, publishing mogul; Jerry Seinfeld, comedian and actor; Andre Agassi, tennis player; Dale Earnhardt, stock-car driver.

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To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

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thing that has never been tried before. The only question is, are you fit enough?

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may be able to change someone’s mind, but it’s not likely you’ll change everyone’s.

Be willing to compromise in the end.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Ask yourself why you are sharing certain information with another at this time. Are you trying to make him or her jealous for any reason?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You may not be able to see the path laid out before you in perfect detail, but past experience and instincts serve you well.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Progress is measured in smaller increments than usual, but it is progress nonetheless. You’ll have to make a stop along the way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Don’t hesitate to show your enthusiasm and excitement. Others will find your freedom of expression refreshing — and contagious.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may find that you do, indeed, have the courage to try some-

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You know exactly what it will take to come out on top, and though others may not be willing to do it, you certainly are.

Go for it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — The competition is likely to be quite fierce, but fortunately, everyone involved can be considered a friend. Keep things fun.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — The hopes of many are with you — and though you may feel insecure as the day begins, you’ll reach your stride soon and accomplish much.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’re likely to be the highest scorer, but you know as well as anyone that there are more important things than coming in first.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010

CHARGES from page 1 Griffiths represents sophomore Ben Donat and junior John McKenna, both of whom were cleared of charges earlier this month. He declined to release the names of the other students he is representing, as some of them have not yet gone through the judicial process.

A student filmmaker videorecorded the beating of McKenna by three county police officers.

Griffiths released the video, which gathered national media attention and sparked investigations of police behavior by the FBI and the State’s Attorney’s office and caused county police to step up an internal investigation.

Ellis confirmed only four officers have been suspended to date, including Officer Sean McAleavey, who signed the charging documents against McKenna and Donat. The charging documents against McKenna claim he assaulted an officer and a MarylandNational Capital Park Police horse, which the video clearly contradicts. Multiple media outlets have identified Sgt. Anthony Cline as another suspended officer, which was confirmed by the Fraternal Order of Police.

While no officers have been suspended in the past week, the county police investigation isn’t nearing its end.

“It’s going to take months,” Ellis said.

WJLA, Washington’s ABC affiliate, reported last week

that the FBI was no longer actively investigating the incident and that no interviews had been conducted. An FBI spokesman said the investigation was continuing.

“The FBI’s investigation of the events in College Park is continuing and ongoing,” Rich Wolf, a spokesman for the FBI’s Baltimore field office.

“They sometimes can be pretty time intensive.”

Wolf would not say if any interviews have been conducted, but Griffiths said neither he nor his clients were ever interviewed by the FBI. Ellis said the FBI has been in contact with his department, but he didn’t know if any interviews had been conducted.

Sharon Weidenfeld, the private investigator working closely with Griffiths on this case, said

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she hopes more students who witnessed police brutality will come forward as witnesses to aid her and Griffiths with their investigation. She originally suspected students were worried about university and criminal sanctions but hopes that has changed given the current climate of the riot situation.

“Hopefully, now that the video has been released and now that people see that the public sentiment is with students, we are hoping that more people will feel comfortable coming forward as witnesses,” she said.

Anyone who has information about the riot can contact Weidenfeld by e-mail at sharonpi@aol.com and by phone at 301-873-6969. present@umdbk.com

PROGRAM from page 1 Theta. After six years of teaching the program, MonahanKreishman has become close with her participants, said Alpha Tau Omega Vice President Mark Delaney, who has worked with her for almost two years.

“I don’t have close relationships with anyone on the university administration or any staff or professor, but I know that I can always call Mollie and talk to her and be able to get things off my chest,” Delaney said. “I say stuff around Mollie that I would never say around my mom.”

Monahan-Kreishman was devoted to the program. She hosted end-of-semester dinners at her house and even counseled the entire Alpha Tau

Omega chapter after one of their members fell into a coma earlier this semester.

Starting her new job in June, Monahan-Kreishman said her departure is bittersweet.

“The new position is what I’ve always wanted to do, but it comes with me leaving all these great guys that I’ve made such a connection with,” MonahanKreishman said.

Though sad that she is leaving, program members said they plan to invite her back to talk to new members.

“The members who knew her will remember her as someone who cared about the brothers in this chapter and who helped us become better people,” senior civil engineering major Sam Piland said. ndesmarattes@umdbk.com

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THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010 | NEWS | THE DIAMONDBACK

REPRESENTATION from page 1 The proposed merger of the dance and theatre departments, which will be put to a vote in today’s senate meeting, comes on the heels of a slew of similar proposals — administrators suggested merging the colleges of chemical and life sciences and computer, mathematical and physical sciences last semester, and a proposed consolidation of diversity departments was shot down earlier this year — that have received criticism from faculty and students who feel they’re being left out of the process.

But graduate student senator and Graduate Student Government official Aaron Tobiason, who originally approached the SGA about getting on board with the issue, asked the undergraduate legislators to withdraw the resolution, because “at this point, it’s moot,” he said. Although there may be problems with the committee process, he added, the senate floor isn’t the right place to air them.

“I was trying to get as much student support behind me as possible to get the College of Arts and Humanities to consider revising the plan,” said Tobiason, who backed a similar GSG measure. “I’ve been thinking about this a lot, talking with a lot of my colleagues on the [Senate Executive Committee] and the senate. At this point, it’s fairly certain to me that

approval of this merger is certain. ... I don’t think that this is a discussion that can happen cleanly on the floor of the senate.”

Undergraduate senator Jonathan Sachs also foresees a problem with raising student representation concerns to the full senate.

Sachs said he brought up the issue of student representation at the meeting of the senate’s most powerful committee — the SEC — last week. But he said it doesn’t look like there’s much recourse for undergraduates seeking representation.

“I think from what I understand, the senate can’t amend the document,” Sachs said. “It’s tough because it can’t be amended and you can’t strike it down.”

The SGA resolution, which never made it to vote at last night’s meeting, mentioned the need for student voices in four committees in particular: the Season Selection (which selects shows for performances), New Technology, Artists-in-Residence and Performance/Production committees.

“It would have been sort of a symbolic stand,” Tobiason said of the attempted resolution. “I feel that my efforts would probably be better directed toward making certain that going forward, future mergers that are considered are dealt with in a different fashion.”

Senior staff writer Derby Cox contributed to this report. aisaacs@umdbk.com

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TRANSIT from page 1 Campus Drive entrance to east of Cole Field House.

“We’re asking for input,” Wylie said. “I think all the people should let us know what issues they face, what problem they see with us doing this.”

Some critics of the plan worry that closing the busiest street on the campus would inconvenience everyone and could jeopardize plans to construct the Purple Line — a proposed light-rail system that would connect Metro lines from Bethesda to New Carrollton, linking Prince George’s and Montgomery counties — along the main road. Although students and state officials have supported a Campus Drive alignment for the Purple Line, administrators have remained in staunch opposition, instead supporting Preinkert Drive, where they say electromagnetic waves emitted from the rail system would be less likely to interfere with scientific research.

“It’s kind of an underhanded way of [the administration] trying to get their way with the Purple Line,” said

David Daddio, co-founder of the blog Rethink College Park.

Officials from the Maryland Transit Administration could not be reached for comment.

Student Government Association Director of Environmental Affairs Joanna Calabrese said restricting access to Campus Drive would force traffic away from some of the most central locations on the campus, creating a major inconvenience and possibly discouraging use of public transportation to get around the area.

“How did this get passed in 2001 and again in 2007?” Calabrese asked. “Anyone that has a degree in urban design would know you just don’t restrict access to primary destinations.”

Wylie noted the decision to shut down Campus Drive during the summer comes from the administration’s desire to know whether or not the restriction of transit should be included in the updated version of the University Master Plan, which will be presented to the Board of Regents in 2011.

Under the proposal, many of the Shuttle-UM buses would be rerouted to stop at Regents Drive Garage, where students would then have the

ability to transfer to an inter-campus loop connector to reach the buildings around Campus Drive, she said.

“By making the buses stop at Regents Drive, you put alternative transportation on an equal footing with an automobile,” Calabrese said.

“Why would anyone choose to take a bus? The only reason you would take transit is if it’s more convenient — it’s common sense.”

Making Regents Drive a transportation hub will only be feasible during the summer months, Wylie said. If restricted access to Campus Drive were to take effect permanently, the administration would have to choose another station to use as the central hub for on-campus shuttles.

Limiting through traffic on Campus Drive is not a new plan. The 20year-old initiative has been included in the university’s Facilities Master Plan, which was last updated in 2007, Wylie wrote in an e-mail.

In the meantime, Wylie said, the administration is looking for feedback about the initiative before making any final decisions regarding the pilot program. korkut@umdbk.com

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REVIEW | EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

Banksy’s new film sheds some light on the enigmatic graffiti artist

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Once again, Banksy has turned the joke on us.

His new film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, is sure to initiate a flurry of speculative theories about who protagonist Mr. Brainwash is. This conundrum is a parallel and a complement to the existing and more important mystery: Who is Banksy?

Banksy is perhaps the bestknown graffiti artist of his time. His works have acquired global recognition and revolutionized the reputation of street art. In essence, he made graffiti a legitimate art form, albeit an ephemeral one. He works mostly with stencils, usually large in scale and often with a political or social message. For example, on the Israeli West Bank barrier, he painted images including one where a ladder goes up and over the wall.

He’s had projects in New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans and his (supposedly) native Britain. His works, along with other street artists, are now collected and sold as legitimate art pieces. Banksy

has made law-abiding citizens realize that graffiti’s function can be more than just making a place look dilapidated. Part of Banksy’s appeal is his anonymity — his real identity is kept closely under wraps by his friends.

Exit Through the Gift Shop follows French videographer Thierry Guetta’s foray into street art. After just filming the exploits of street artists such as Shepard Fairey at first, Guetta soon discovers the existence of Banksy, whom he idolizes and eventually films.

Later, Banksy encourages Guetta to pursue street art himself. Under the name Mr. Brainwash, Guetta takes his advice to heart and produces a massive show largely based on pop art, thanks to a team of underlings.

Through the depiction of Guetta as a foolish copycat whose work is massive in quantity but insignificant in quality, Banksy pokes fun at the modern art world. Guetta’s paintings and works, which are largely based on the works of pop artist Andy Warhol, are still sold for thousands of dollars despite their unoriginality.

This goes to show the power of hype, which both Fairey and Banksy unwittingly provided. Another aspect of the art world the film seems to criticize is the depersonalization of art. Guetta, like other artists such as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, enlists a team of minions who produce the art in his place.

Never before has the world seen a film that gets up close and personal with graffiti greats like this one does. It’s a film that highlights an increas-

ingly important movement that is changing the way people view art. Banksy himself stays mostly in the shadows, so viewers who see this movie in the hopes of getting a better glimpse of the elusive artist may be a little disappointed. His face is always censored, and when he talks directly to the camera, he is in the dark, and his voice is garbled.

Nevertheless, one does get

a peek under the shroud of mystery. It is interesting to witness the dangers involved in producing graffiti, what with the hard-to-reach places one tags and the constant threat of the police. The film is thankfully full of classic Banksy humor: dry, British and unexpected.

The film’s focus on Guetta provides a deliberate contrast to the genius of Banksy. While Guetta is rolling in his newfound fame and fortune, Banksy sits on the sidelines and is passively amused by the hullabaloo.

If the entire character of Guetta is a hoax, it’s a very

expensive one — thousands of dollars must have been spent in creating Guetta’s artwork, and this movie was probably planned very far in advance.

However, it would be a move not unfathomable for Banksy.

His works have proven his unfailing cunning, and he is obviously steadfast — who else could have eluded being fed to the media for so long?

Banksy has never before been seen this up-close and personal. He has succeeded once again in stumping us on multiple levels. After all, what’s the fun in knowing? wildman@umdbk.com

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Infielder Dan Gentzler appeals a call during yesterday’s loss to James Madison. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

starter Eric Potter to keep James Madison from doing any more damage. But the Dukes jumped on the left-hander, taking the lead for good with four hits and three runs.

While a three-run lead is far from insurmountable, it was

enough against a Terps’ (15-30) offense that has averaged just over four runs per game this season.

Although James Madison starter Evan Scott had only one inning of experience entering the game, and none of the three pitchers that followed him entered the game with an ERA under 8.00, the Terps’ offense couldn’t muster much of anything. The team managed just

five hits, three of which came when James Madison was already comfortably ahead late.

With just 11 games remaining in the season, including nine conference games, the Terps’ goal of reaching the ACC Tournament is all but impossible. And while Bakich admits a miracle finish to the season is unlikely, he insisted it isn’t impossible.

“It’s not unthinkable that a

team can sweep three weekend series in a row,” Bakich said.

“There is always a chance as long as we have believers, and I am just not sure if that belief system exists with all 35 players. We as a coaching staff believe it, but we aren’t the ones out there swinging the bat and throwing the ball. It’s on them.” lemaire@umdbk.com

Pitcher Kerry Hickey high-fives assistant coach Courtney Scott during a Terps’ win yesterday. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

SOFTBALL from page 12 Infielder Marisha Branson hit a three-run home run that put the Terps on top in the second inning, and a slew of hits in the sixth inning — including a two-RBI single from infielder Kathy McLaughlin — plated five runs to seal the victory.

Given the early dominance, coach Laura Watten later admitted she wouldn’t have been surprised to see pitcher Kendra Knight — who has a no-hitter of her own this season — toss a no-no in the nightcap as well.

That dream ended quickly, as Knight allowed a hit to the first batter she faced in the game. Though the no-hit streak ended, the commanding pitching endured in the Terps’ 5-1 win. Knight struck out 12 Hornets on the way to her 13th victory of the season, allowing only five hits and only one run.

After a hitless first two innings, the Terps broke through offensively in the third with outfielder Sara Acosta’s RBI double. In the fourth inning, infielder Nikki Maier drew an RBI walk to get the Terps on the board, and outfielder Vangie Galindo’s double down the leftfield line gave the Terps a com-

manding four-run lead.

“We’ve matured throughout the season,” Watten said.

“They’re not the caliber the ACC is, but that’s a team that can come back. You let them have any kind of energy at all and they’ll bite you. It’s a tough game.”

With the ACC Tournament approaching and a possible NCAA tournament berth on the horizon, the Terps knew they couldn’t afford the same blunders that haunted them in their two losses to Towson. But for much of yesterday, the results were never in doubt.

“Every game matters now, even the midweek game,” Hickey said. “It was a big deal to get two ‘W’s and to win by a lot and not make them close games so it looks good trying to go into postseason.”

The Terps close out their home schedule with a doubleheader Saturday against Longwood, another unheralded nonconference team. But with almost every remaining game in their campaign a must-win, the Terps are confident they know what’s necessary to come out victorious.

“Come out intense and focused,” Hickey said, “and just take it one game at a time.” schneider@umdbk.com

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Loose ball work paying dividends for Terps

CASEY

Men’s lax ranks No. 4 nationally in ground ball pickups per game

would offer her a chance.

The Washington Freedom, whose youth development team Casey starred on before coming to College Park, gave her a shot. But the Freedom already had a logjam at goalkeeper and couldn’t afford to add another so close to the season’s start.

“By that time, the teams were pretty much settled, goalkeepingwise,” Pensky said. “It really wasn’t a lack of interest and more of a timing issue.”

When it became increasingly evident that no WPS teams would have an open spot for her on their opening day rosters, Casey sat down with Pensky to figure out her options.

She faced two paths: Chase her dream of playing professional soccer or enroll in graduate school as she had previously planned.

Before even considering the possibility of playing professional soccer, Casey wanted to become an athletic trainer. And as her options in professional soccer dwindled, Casey began to feel a pull to graduate school once again.

“Everyone has an ego, everyone has emotions and everyone wants to be wanted, and I think the reality is she had a feeling of being not wanted,” Pensky said. “She had thoughts about saying ‘forget this’ because of her emotional roller coaster.”

But Casey decided to keep pushing. She could study kinesiology in her 30s, but playing compet-

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

Ground balls aren’t the prettiest part of a lacrosse game. Sticks clash and players fly in pursuit as the ball bounces unpredictably through the grass. They are, by nature, messy, which is why Terrapin men’s lacrosse coach Dave Cottle says they’re more about will than about skill.

But that’s why he’s made them a priority this season.

It’s not because his team isn’t skilled. Rather, it’s because he wanted their grit and determination without the ball to match their finesse and abilities with the ball.

Recently, they’ve responded.

The No. 3 Terps (9-3) have averaged 11 more ground balls than their opponents through their last four games and are fourth in the NCAA in ground balls per game.

“I think we’ve all kind of bought into the concept of putting it all on the line,” attackman Travis Reed said.

“And that’s what we’re playing for right now.”

Cottle felt that with the Terps’ speed and athletic prowess, his team could

excel on ground ball plays.

But though the defenders were strong last season, he felt the attackmen let loose ball chances slip by them.

“I think sometimes our guys hadn’t seen going after the ball as important as their scoring,” Cottle said. “But right now, Ryan Young’s as good a ground ball player as you’re going to find, and Travis Reed has really improved.”

Attackman Grant Catalino, too, has gotten in on the action. In Sunday’s ACC title game, the junior snatched up a turnover by Virginia’s Steele Stanwick in the midfield and took it all the way up the left wing for a goal, tying the score at 5-5 in the Terps’ eventual 10-6 loss.

Young currently has the third-most ground balls on the team with 32, and Catalino and Reed are just three spots behind with 26 each.

Young and Reed have already eclipsed their totals from last season, and Catalino is one away from tying last year’s mark.

“We’ve really been sticking to it,” Reed said, “and we’ve all been really trying our best to live up to that

The Terps and Virginia battle for a loose ball during their game Sunday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

expectation.”

The defense has held up its own end of the bargain as well. Short stick defensive midfielder Bryn Holmes and long pole Brian Farrell lead the team with 54 and 40 ground balls, respectively. In the Terps’ 13-5 victory against then-No. 3 North Carolina on Friday, Farrell swiped a Tar Heel’s stick to knock the ball free and Holmes scooped it up and fed it to Farrell, who dashed upfield to set up the offense.

The ground ball success has been contagious. After an early spell of mediocrity, the

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team’s faceoff play has improved, and the hard work on 50-50 chances has been a big reason why. Long pole Jesse Bernhardt scored both of his goals this season after taking two faceoff ground balls all the way to net.

“You don’t have to be the greatest lacrosse player to be able to get ground balls, but if you get ground balls, you’ll be able to play,” Bernhardt said. “It’s really not the hardest thing to do, but you’ve got to be willing to throw your body in there.” kyanchulis@umdbk.com

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itive soccer at that age was another matter.

“You shouldn’t play sports for money,” Casey said. “I’m doing this so that I can keep playing soccer and play at a high level. I can go to grad school later, but I can’t play professional soccer later.”

To rekindle her soccer career, Casey reconnected with Naimo, who had drafted her months earlier and is the coach and president of the WLeague’s Pali Blues, a second-division team with a track record of developing unheralded players.

After Naimo’s earlier show of faith, Casey felt confident in heading to Los Angeles to play for the Blues, who have won two straight championships and helped put more than 20 players into the WPS. “If you’re a very good player and have had success, then you can make it,” Naimo said. “I don’t think you need to be an All-American to make it into the league.”

In the coming weeks, Casey will make the cross-country trek to California, where she plans to start her professional career at long last. Her first exhibition match is May 22, and two weeks later, she begins the regular season.

Finally, after months of stress and questioning, Casey has found a home.

“You always have to keep perspective, and it’s always very easy to get frustrated with it,” Casey said. “I had to realize that I had some good things going, and if I kept working at it, then things would start to go my way. I can’t give up on it.” ceckard@umdbk.com

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TERRAPIN WOMEN’S LACROSSE NOTEBOOK

McFadden climbs record books; defense rebounds

BY CHRIS ECKARD Staff writer

Goalie Brittany Dipper, center, eyes a loose ball near the crease during the Terps’ 10-5 win over North Carolina in Sunday’s ACC Championship game. The Terps are second in the nation in fewest goals allowed. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONBACK

With only two regular season games before the NCAA Tournament begins for the Terrapin women’s lacrosse team, time is running out for midfielder Caitlyn McFadden to make an impact on the record books.

After her five-point performance against North Carolina in the ACC Championship on Sunday, McFadden moved closer to the top of the Terps’ career points list. She currently ranks ninth all-time and is six points away from unseating Anysia Fedec for the eighth spot.

Earlier this season, McFadden passed Terps’ head coach Cathy Reese, who was previously 11th

on the list with 217 points.

“I learn new things everyday,” Reese joked when informed of McFadden’s move up the record books. “Caitlyn’s had such a wonderful career for us, so it’s good to see her coming along like that.”

McFadden also stands fifth all-time in total assists and is 18 goals away from breaking into the top 10 for career goals.

She isn’t the only player forging her name in Terps’ history.

Attacker Karri Ellen Johnson has scored 51 goals this season to lead the team, and with another nine scores, she will crack the top 10 for single-season goals. She’s chasing one of her own marks: Her 74 goals last season as a freshman marks the third-most by any Terps’ player.

But Reese said the marks are just unimportant footnotes when compared with the most pressing number for the team: nine — the number of years since the Terps won a national championship.

“I don’t pay any attention to that kind of stuff,” Reese said.

“I know they take care of what they need to do on the field, and those accomplishments come along with that.”

‘D’ BOUNCES BACK When the Terps faced North Carolina on April 10, the Tar Heels handed the Terps a rude wake-up call. In wrecking the Terps’ perfect season, North Carolina scored 13 goals, a season high in goals allowed, in a decisive four-goal victory.

Since that defeat, the defense has played its best lacrosse of the season, allowing just a combined 21 goals in its last four games to climb to No. 2 in the nation in goals allowed per game. After a sloppy showing against the Tar Heels, the team’s defenders have focused on their own individual matchups while working with teammates to form a cohesive unit.

When the Terps faced the Tar Heels for the second time last weekend, the defense showed marked improvement, limiting North Carolina to a season-low five goals.

“I think that’s huge,” Reese said. “We look to get better every practice and every game, and we’ve really come together the past few games. ... The keys to being successful is to have a well-balanced team. That’s super important at the end of the season.”

NORTHWESTERN NO-GO Reigning champion and No. 2 Northwestern will host another ACC foe this weekend — and it won’t be the Terps.

In a sport where top-ranked regular season games are the norm, two of the sport’s most prestigious programs — the Terps and Wildcats rank No. 1 and No. 2 in all-time titles, respectively — haven’t met since 2007, when the Terps lost in the regular season, 12-7.

Since that meeting, Northwestern has regularly met the ACC’s other perennial powers.

The Wildcats have played North Carolina four times and Virginia and Duke three times since the Terps’ defeat.

The Terps have battled the Wildcats for No. 1 votes in the top-20 rankings all season, but with no game scheduled between the two, it’s hard to decipher which team is better. A matchup between the two teams would provide an easy answer, but circumstances have kept the two programs apart.

Reese said the 787-mile trip from Evanston, Ill., to College Park doesn’t make sense given the strength of other local opponents, and the Terps’ early exits in the postseason have cost them a shot at a meeting with the Wildcats.

“It’s not an easy trip to take and within bus-driving distance for us,” said Reese, who left open the chance of a fall scrimmage between the two teams. “We play the toughest schedule in the country, so I don’t think it’s necessary for us to add them.” ceckard@umdbk.com

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FOR LOVE OF THE GAME | MARY CASEY

After draft setback, Casey returns to professional soccer

BY CHRIS ECKARD Staff writer

After being selected in last year’s Women’s Professional Soccer draft, former Terps’ goalkeeper Mary Casey was left without a team after the collapse of the franchise who picked her. She’s now set to play in the second-division W-League. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

With the click of a mouse Jan. 28, Mary Casey learned her dreams had vanished.

An e-mail from the Los Angeles Sol, the Women’s Professional Soccer team that had drafted her just 13 days earlier, informed the former Terrapin goalkeeper that the franchise no longer existed. Casey and the team’s other 18 players would enter a dispersal draft where those fortunate enough would be picked up by another of the fledgling league’s teams.

Casey wasn’t completely blindsided. Just a week earlier, the team’s front office had held a conference call with all of the players to announce the possibility of folding, but added that it remained hopeful it would find an answer to the team’s financial problems.

But with that e-mail, soccer, for a moment, felt distant to Casey. All the work she had put in the previous few weeks during pre-draft workouts from Chicago to Philadelphia now seemed pointless. She wondered if her last game in a Terp uniform would be her last in a competitive game, period.

“I was shocked,” she said.

Potter struggles, offense sputters for baseball against regional rivals

Win streak moves to four for softball

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Senior staff writer

Staff writer

Soon after the Terrapin softball team’s doubleheader sweep against Delaware State yesterday, pitcher Kerry Hickey nonchalantly walked out of the locker room with a blank expression on her face, her demeanor offering little hint at the feat she’d just accomplished.

For the second time this season and the 10th time in her career, Hickey tossed a no-hitter in an 8-0 victory that kick-started a two-win night for the Terps (31-19).

“I really don’t even think about it,” Hickey said. “I just think about

it as we won. We get another ‘W,’ and that was our goal. ... It’s a big deal — I’m happy I got it. If it happens, it happens.”

The Terps took Hickey’s series opener in just six innings, run-ruling the Hornets (23-16). As Hickey dominated Delaware State in the circle, the Terps’ offense chased two Delaware State pitchers in a rare offensive outburst.

“It’s inspiring,” infielder Nadine Blackie said of the Terps’ pitching. “They’re working their butt off for us, so we gotta do the same for them.”

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Infielder Zach Fisher hustles back to first base during the Terps’ 8-3 loss to James Madison at Shipley Field yesterday. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Dukes blow by Terps, 8-3

Hickey’s no-hitter highlights sweep against Delaware St.

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER

“For as good of club as that was, it was pretty surprising to know that it was in any sort of trouble.

For me personally, it was a little kick to the gut.”

In January, the Sol, first-place finisher in the WPS regular season and runner-up in the league’s playoffs, had used its No. 38 overall pick to draft Casey, who officials saw as “a hardworking keeper that’s reliable and someone we could groom to have for a lot of years,” according to General Manager Charlie Naimo. But before she could even get her first year underway, the AllACC goalkeeper, who led the Terps to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament, was left without a team.

“She was drafted by the best team in the league,” Terps’ coach Brian Pensky said. “She was on top of the world. She was all set to go on this new adventure with a great team and great players, and the bottom drops.”

She didn’t let go of her dream, though. With the help of Pensky and the rest of the Terps’ coaching staff, Casey talked to almost every WPS team in the league, hoping one

Throughout the season, Terrapin baseball coach Erik Bakich has experimented with different methods to ignite the team’s anemic offense.

There’s been extra workouts in the batting cage, tinkering with players’ mechanics and even the insertion of David and Goliath pictures at the bottom of the team’s lineup card.

But after yesterday’s sixth straight loss, an 8-3 defeat at the hands of James Madison (21-19) in which the offense once again struggled to produce baserunners, Bakich said there was only

one source of the struggles.

“When it boils down to it, it’s all about competing,” Bakich said. “You can take the mechanics and the hitting approach and throw it out the window in the end because no matter what, true competitors find a way. We just aren’t doing that right now.”

Facing the second-ranked team in the Colonial Athletic Association, the Terps started well thanks to three strong innings from starter Matt Fullerton, who allowed just one earned run. After Fullerton departed with the score tied 1-1, Bakich turned to weekend

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