April 29, 2014

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Resident Life plans dorms, demolitions over next 15 years Announced Strategic Housing Plan construction to cost $700 million

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer The Department of Resident Life released the On-Campus Student Housing Strategic Plan last week, detailing the scale of the next 15 years of expected construction.

The plan, which has an estimated cost of about $700 million, will add about 3,180 beds to campus housing,

raising the total from 9,518 in 2014 to 10,784 by 2028. It includes the demolition of Carroll, Caroline, Wicomico and Worcester Halls and the addition of eight new dorms and two new dining halls.

R e s i d e n t L i fe D i re c to r D e b Grandner said the primary goals of the project include creating new, attractive options for on-campus residents, as well as updating existing facilities and making them “feel

more like home.”

“We want to foster a sense of belonging,” Grandner said during a presentation of the plan in Oakland Hall on April 23. “We want students to form an unbreakable bond with this community and this university.”

T he plan also aims to ensure housing availability for all freshman and sophomore students who want it, including Freshman Connection students who will be offered on-campus

wicomico hall will be demolished in the On-Campus Student Housing Strategic Plan. housing starting this fall.

Resident Life’s Assessment and Research office conducted a study several years ago, Grandner said, that revealed a correlation between living on the campus for at least one year and being more likely to graduate.

Grandner said these results played

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a large role when crafting the plan.

“Our primary purpose is to provide the support that will help [students] be successful,” Grandner said. “We’d like to be able to house freshman and sophomores especially. We feel like See housing, Page 2

Bank replies to request for transparency Capital One defends ethics after student protest Friday

By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Staff writer After students rallied for better university fi nancial transparency Friday, Capital One Financial Corp. confi rmed the company is not involved with any of the suspicious practices the student group referenced.

Capital One’s corporate communications spokeswoman Amanda Landers denied any connection to suspect behavior on the part of the company.

“Capital One Bank is not involved with the federal aid disbursement program at the University of Maryland (or any other university), and we do not receive any compensation from the University for opening accounts or for issuing debit/ATM cards,” Landers wrote in an email.

Students in the university chapter of the economic justice advocacy group Student Labor Action Project rallied in front of the

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REMEMBRANCE, NAME BY NAME Burnt matches and candles scattered over tin foil lie on a table outside McKeldin Library yesterday. Members of the Jewish Student Union read the names of 5,000 of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust at a seven-hour remembrance ceremony. The vigil was part of the community’s recognition of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, which ended at sundown yesterday.

Learning to ask for help

Cyber landscape requires refreshing comp sci curricula

Disabled students struggle to find, use university resources

Challenge for admins: Up quality, quantity

By Laura Blasey @lblasey Senior staff writer

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Staff writer When Christopher Gaines entered this university as a freshman, the adjustment came as a shock. But it was more than the typical growing pains of a fi rst-time college student — he also had to learn how to be his own advocate.

Gaines has cerebral palsy, and though it’s noticeable when he walks, by law he has to disclose his condition to the university to receive accommodations and services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The transition from grade school, in which the law guarantees

christopher gaines, a junior family science major, poses for a portrait. Gaines has cerebral palsy and said the transition to college was especially challenging, as he had to learn to advocate for himself. james levin/the diamondback a free education for all students with disabilities, to college, in which students must actively seek help to receive accommodations, can be trying for students like him.

But the university is working to improve learning conditions for all students by pushing for universally accessible technology, according to

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a panel discussing the technology Thursday in Stamp Student Union.

The university has started working to include tools to read text aloud, add captions to videos and make Web pages easier to navigate, among other resources.

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For B i l l P u g h , it wa s n’t a question of if he would donate.

It wasn’t a question of where he would donate, either. It was a question of results — how could he ensure that his money was used most effectively?

On Oct. 1, Pugh, a veteran computer science professor at this university, proposed a challenge to the computer science department. The school pledged to raise $500,000 toward innovating its undergraduate teaching model in the next five years, and Pugh will match it, dollar for dollar, in an

initiative called Computer Science Education for Tomorrow.

“It seemed like a place where a gift could make a difference,” Pugh said.

As college administrators prepare the next generation of digital soldiers, software designers and IT professionals, figuring out which tools to give their students is an increasingly difficult task. And while shifting paradigms in the computer science field aren’t anything new, the stakes are much higher today than they were when Pugh began teaching more than 20 years ago.

“Computer science is not like mathematics, where you can teach calculus the same way you’ve taught it for 30 years,” Pugh said. “Computer science changes very rapidly; it’s a lot of work simply to keep up with the changing topics that need to be covered.”

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Housing From PAGE 1 that is so valuable in the adjustment to the university.”

Going forward, Grandner said the department will continue to look for ways to finance the project, including reaching out to potential donors and seeking partnerships with academic programs.

Residential Facilities Director Jon Dooley said the plan will be revisited over the next several years and adjustments to costs or funding could be made as campus conditions change. He said many conversations will need to happen with review groups and stakeholders in the near future.

ACADEMIC VILLAGE DESIGN

Prince Frederick Hall opens

Cambridge Hall closes for renovation

SEPTEMBER 2014

JUNE 2015

9,518 beds (on-campus total)

SEPTEMBER 2015 9,284 beds

ACADEMIC VILLAGE CONSTRUCTION

Dorchester Hall closes for renovation

Cambridge Hall reopens

JUNE 2016

SEPTEMBER 2016

JUNE 2017

9,319 beds

Dorchester Hall reopens

Ellicott Hall closes for renovation

SEPTEMBER 2017

JUNE 2018

9,485 beds source: department of resident life student housing strategic plan

Department of Transportation Services.

DOTS Director David Allen told Dooley there are already many vacant spaces around the campus to cushion the loss of Lot 1, though in February, Allen said DOTS had 1.6 registered parkers per designated space on the campus.

Allen doesn’t foresee having to build a new parking facilLOT 1: ACADEMIC VILLAGE ity, Dooley said, but DOTS T h re e n e w re s i d e n t i a l has considered the option of buildings and a new dining enforcing a policy to exclude facility will be erected on the freshmen and sophomores site of Lot 1, near Knight Hall. from parking on the campus.

Another concern is the conThe construction of this site struction of the Purple Line, is planned in two phases. The first phase, which Resident which will overlap with this Life projects will be completed project. Dooley said Resident fall 2018, would add 800 beds Life does not know enough yet to the campus. An additional to determine whether there 700 would be added in the will be any issues. second phase, which is projected to be completed in 2019. VARSITY PRACTICE FIELDS Officials plan to create an AND NORTH CAMPUS “Academic Village” on Lot 1 The Varsity practice field that will be designed to facilisite will be home to two new tate the expansion of livinglearning programs, Dooley residential buildings and a said. The ground f loors of new dining facility, scheduled each of the dorms will be to open in fall 2021.

The new dining facility will reserved for academic purreplace the North Campus poses, he said, such as offices for living-learning program Dining Hall, which will be leaders and meeting spaces torn down and turned into a fourth residential building for program students.

“It will serve as a visible for the Ellicott Community symbol of the continuing by fall 2023.

The practice field site will importance of academic rigor add 880 new beds to North here,” Grandner said.

Grandner and Dooley dis- Campus and the new dorm in cussed possible issues re- the Ellicott Community will garding the project and af- add another 350.

The Cambridge Community fected parties, including the athletic department and the Center will also be torn down

to provide a greater green space in the Cambridge Community.

Over the 15-year period, Resident Life also plans to close each older dorm on North Campus for one year to make necessary updates and renovations, starting with Cambridge Hall in fiscal year 2015.

“W hen a bu i ld i ng goes down for the year, we will be adding living rooms, updating common areas and lounges, renovating bathrooms and putting AC in the buildings that don’t already have it,” Dooley said.

Gra nd ner sa id renovations will also include the addition of gender-neutral bat h ro om s to t he d or m s in an effort to accom modate greater privacy needs of students. T hese dorms will have one- or two-story additions to provide more living and gathering spaces for students.

T he fi na l bu i ld i ng to undergo renovations will be Centreville Hall, which is scheduled to reopen fall 2027.

vacated and torn down in summer 2022 and Old and New Leonardtown in June 2019 and June 2027, respectively.

“T hey are beyond their u s e f u l l i f e ,” s a i d M i k e Glowacki, assistant to the director for Resident Life.

Gra nd ner sa id South Campus apartments and suites would also see updates and renovations over the coming years, but not to the scale seen on North Campus.

Overall, student housing costs will increase by about 4.5 percent for a 10-yea r period before coming back down to “normal” annual increase rates, Dooley said.

Omer Kaufman, Residence Hall Association president, was the only student on the advisory committee, and he said that from a student perspective, the plan’s cost remains the biggest concern of all.

Kaufman said he is worried

that the higher rates could push students to search for off-campus housing, an effect that would cause them to miss out on what he feels is a crucial part of the college experience.

“We have to keep working to find the balance between making our facilities app ea l i n g a nd more equ a l, and keeping costs down,” Kaufman said. meichensehrdbk@gmail.com

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DORM RAZING I n add ition to bu i ld i ng new facilities, some outdated dorms will be torn down and others will be replaced.

Carroll, Caroline and Wicomico halls will be vacated and torn down in summer 2020, according to the strategic plan.

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Student online privacy laws up for debate rally Student Privacy and Cloud Computing Act introduced to keep data from being sold

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer Laws protecting student privacy online have been slow to come to this state, but as federal lawsuits elevate the issue of data mining to the national stage, privacy advocates are calling on the state and its universities to do more.

Del. Anne Kaiser (D-Montgomery) introduced the Student Privacy and Cloud Computing Act this session in order to work to keep student data in cloud networks from being used and sold for commercial purposes.

The bill was aimed at protecting students in kindergarten through high school.

Eric Barbalace, a sophomore economics and supply chain management major who interns for Kaiser, said the bill raises an important question as to whether student data should be available for sale.

“Although this data does create a large convenience for members of the educa-

cyber From PAGE 1 One challenge that cybersecurity and computer science programs present administrators is capacity. Enrollment goes through “boom and bust” cycles, Pugh said, and the school is in a boom period.

For example, more than 220,000 people from around the world signed up for an online university course in Android mobile app development. And of those, course instructor Adam Porter said about 160,000 spent time on the course’s Web pages.

B u t i t’s n o t e n o u g h to teach more students, Pugh said. Quality must also be i ncreased, a nd i n m a ny ways, Pugh said, that’s the most challenging part.

One concept the Computer Science Education for Tomorrow initiative is testing is the “flipped classroom model.”

Students watch videos and learn information online, then spend their class time getting hands-on experience, such as with lab projects.

T he purpose is to teach students how to learn, Pugh said. Most companies don’t expect students to come out of a four-year program with all the training they need. Google has its own computer science classes employees take to stay up to date.

Freshman computer science major Christian Johnson de-

tional institutions, it allows the holder of this information to be able to exploit it for a profit,” Barbalace said at a House of Delegates Ways and Means Committee hearing.

“Student data should not be for sale.”

Google opposed the bill, a nd Ron Ba r nes, head of state legislative affairs for Google, testified in opposition. Barnes said the bill was very broad and he wasn’t sure it would address concerns about student privacy properly. When asked if Google is mining student data, he said he didn’t know.

Despite this, a lawsuit in California alleges Google is collecting student data through Google Apps for Education, which services email accounts for students, staff and faculty within universities. It further claims the data intercepted is then used for profit.

“According to the hearing in the suit, Google is using a content discovery engine on

Gmail for education, but suppressing ads,” Chris Hoofnagle, an attorney and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote in an email.

“This means that Google can determine the content of individuals emails without the individual realizing it.”

I n l ig ht of the lawsu it, social media attorney Bradley Shear said that while Kaiser’s bill is a good first step, it needs to expand to cover more students.

“We need to have legislation that covers all students,” Shear said. “There’s a real need for legislation or greater awareness for these types of issues.”

One of the issues that concerns Shear in particular is that, without the ads, students are even more unsure about where their information is going and who is using it.

“I highly doubt any University of Maryland student or any other student in the state of Maryland would ever think that the emails that they’re

scribes a complete education as a blend of classroom time and experiential learning, a concept that is unexplored territory for administrators.

Johnson is not like most students — he got his experiential learning first. He built his first computer at age 6, earned a position as a NASA contractor in middle school and launched his own computer company in high school. And he’s the only student member of the university’s task force investigating the February data breach, in which the social security numbers and other personal information of almost 300,000 students, faculty, staff and alumni were stolen from a university database.

“When I think about what I’ve gotten in my career and what I’ve gotten professionally, it’s the experiential learning, which is the communication skills, and those are really important in a technical field that requires people to share information and ideas,” Johnson said. “And we don’t do that enough here.”

The culture surrounding computer science has romanticized the Silicon Valley start-up concept, Pugh said. Students are creating more advanced projects than ever before, but that has come at the expense of security, a fundamental of strong Web development in today’s world that Pugh said should be a priority in classrooms.

“When I started, hacking

was just something you did because you thought it was cool,” he said. “Not so much because the project you and your two friends built could turn into a multim illiondollar start-up.”

One hard learning experience for the industry was the Heartbleed bug, Pugh said.

T he OpenSSL software is maintained by one full-time employee and several young part-time IT professionals and thousands of companies rely on it to secure their websites.

But the software contained a hidden flaw that left Web users’ personal details at risk and has since caused “millions and millions” of dollars in damage.

Had security been a priority, the mistake could have been avoided, Pugh said.

This university is working toward ensuring that cybersecurity plays a larger role in its curricula. In fall 2014, the university will begin offering a MOOC specialization in cybersecurity through the Maryland Cybersecurity Center. The Honors College also launched the Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students program in fall 2013 to provide an interdisciplinary approach to cybersecurity.

“For now the focus has been too technical. There are a lot of issues left in cybersecurity, and one of the things people need to do is come up with more creative solutions,” said Michel Cukier, ACES director and as-

disability From PAGE 1 “It’s important to know what you need and how to tell people what you need,” said Gaines, now a junior family science major. “It’s also important to know what your disability entails because you’re going to need to express that in a way that’s understandable to professors.”

At this university, students meet with Disability Support Service to discuss their disabilities and learn about options they have for classes, ex a m s a nd study i ng. Ser v ices include having another person take notes during class, getting extra time on exams and quizzes, and having someone else write answers on a test.

Gaines met with the DSS office to ensure he would have access to the accommodations he needed, but he’s found that it takes more than a meeting to guarantee he’ll receive them, especially when professors have their own concerns.

Through the office, Gaines received permission to record his classes. But one professor was uncomfortable and said recording the class would infringe on the privacy of other students, so Gaines had to take up the issue with DSS.

sending on their school-provided email accounts … would ever be used to sell advertising,” Shear said.

Shear said it is hard for lawmakers to understand how important online privacy laws are and more needs to be done to ensure student data isn’t mined and used for profit by outside companies.

“It’s very tough for people to really understand some of these issues out there as far as technology goes,” Shear said. “It takes years after the fact for the law to catch up with technology.”

The best way for institutions to respond to threats to student privacy is to be proactive, Hoofnagle wrote.

“Universities can change to a provider that promises not to engage in such analysis, such as Microsoft, or use an encryption appliance to scramble text of email and other communications before they reach Google,” he wrote. jbachdbk@gmail.com

AS RESPONSIVE AS From PAGE 1 WE CAN AND FOLLOW

administration building to ask the staff to support a threeyear tuition freeze, and for the university to make public its contract with Capital One to ensure the company’s practices dealing with student loans are honest.

The group’s suspicions stemmed from a Government Accountability Office report in February that showed 11 percent of American colleges and universities offered students debit and prepaid card service agreements with financial institutions in addition to loan withdrawal options.

But the protesters were concerned over students’ access to no-fee ATMs, higher fees for college cards versus credit union cards and possible conflicts of interest in colleges’ dealings with banks.

SL A P m e m b e r Ch r i s Bangert-Drowns said his organization’s members reached out to the university in March, asking officials to disclose any ties between the university and finan-

THE POLICIES AS SET FORTH BY THE LAW.”

BRIAN ULLMANN

University marketing and communications assistant vice president cial institutions that market prepaid and debit cards, as well as student loans. The group received a reply in April revealing no such partnerships existed.

Brian Ullmann, university marketing and communications assistant vice president, said the university is working on reviewing SLAP’s requests.

“This request for this document goes through the exact same process as any request for any document of any kind,” Ullmann said. “We have to make sure that it falls within the rules that govern public disclosure of documents.”

Ullmann also said the university is trying to speed up the process of reviewing requests for public documents.

“We’re trying to be as responsive as we can and follow the policies as set forth by the law,” he said. eserpicodbk@gmail.com

COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL ENROLLMENT

information from IRPA records sociate education director of the MCC. “Studies show that if you have a multidisciplinary approach, if you have people with diverse backgrounds around the table, that’s how you come up with more creative solutions.”

As it stands, the computer science program requirements are heavily focused on math and programming courses, Johnson said. Students can specialize in cybersecurity, but the courses are upper-level electives, which could exclude students, said Tom Georgen, president of the university’s Cyber Security Club.

The club introduces im-

“I USED TO WANT TO PRETEND TO BE AS CLOSE TO NORMAL AS POSSIBLE, BUT NOW I’M REALIZING THAT THERE REALLY IS NO NORMAL. THERE’S SO MANY DIFFERENCES AMONG PEOPLE, AND DISABILITY IS JUST ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE EXPRESSIONS OF THOSE DIFFERENCES.” CHRISTOPHER GAINES

Junior family science major “It affected a lot of what I reta i ned f rom cl a sses b ec au se I couldn’t remember a lot of what was said, and usually that’s where the recorder comes i n ha ndy,” Gaines said. “I would miss things, like forgetting to turn in parts of assignments or forgetting what the professor said. I still did pretty well, but it could have been easier not having to jump through hoops like that.”

When Gaines took the issue to DSS, the organization intervened, and Gaines’ professor allowed him to record the last few classes.

“Just having someone go to your professors and say this is what is supposed to happen according to the law, this is what you’re supposed to be providing and how you’re supposed to be providing it — it’s helpful to have someone in a position of power do that,” said Gaines, who is now on the DSS student advisory board. “It’s just

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helpful to have someone … backing you. It doesn’t feel like it’s you versus the professor.”

Junior chemistry major Megan — who asked her last n a me be omitted because of the sensitivity of the issue — said she knows that feeling as well. She receives accommodations, such as private space for testing and double time on exams, because she has dyslexia and ADHD. But she said some of her professors don’t make the testing process easier for her.

“A lot of teachers think that it’s a hassle, they don’t really work with you,” Megan said.

Some teachers lu mp a l l DSS students into one group, Megan said, an approach that can cause problems for people with different needs.

Un iversity of f ici a l s hop e to i mprove accom mod at ions a nd accessibility in classrooms and for study ing w ith the technol-

portant skills and topics that students can go deeper into in their classes, Georgen said.

Their mailing list includes about 100 students.

“You don’t have to be a 400-level student to learn a b o u t c y b e r s e c u r i t y, ” Georgen, a senior computer science major, said. “[The club] gives different opportunities to be more hands-on, like in our competition team, you can apply your skills and that kind of performance under pressure you wouldn’t get in class.”

Johnson said the diverse approach and emphasis on

ogy funds. For three years, one group — the Student Affairs Web Accessibility Group — has been working to make all the student affairs websites accessible.

“We try to share information with all of our students and if some students can’t get into our information, that’s really important,” said Stephanie Payne-Roberts, Stamp Tech nolog y Serv ices assista nt director and Student Affairs Web Accessibility Group chairwoman.

“After doing it for three years, we realized we couldn’t do it alone.”

The Campus Technology Accessibility Committee, formed within the Division of Information Technology, has been working to find a tool that will scan Web pages to alert campus officials of shortcomings in accessibility.

The committee hopes to have two people double-checking the tool, implementing changes and educating other IT professionals so they can proactively make all of the campus websites accessible, said Alison Robinson, Campus Technology Accessibility Committee chairwoman.

“It’s much better designing a single uniform website that supports as many people upfront rather than multiple versions for multiple devices or populations,” said computer science professor Ben Beder-

accessibility in the ACES program is part of what drew him to this university and what he enjoys about the program.

Students learn about public policy, economics, psychology and criminology to supplement their technical skills.

“The goal of the program is not to make a computer science student a specialist in policy or a policy student an expert in a technical field,” Cukier said. “Our responsibility is to give the right tools to students so they can learn and act as leaders.” lblaseydbk@gmail.com

son, who is also the Learning Initiatives associate provost and Teaching and Learning Transformation Center founding executive director.

But it won’t just be people with disabilities that will benefit from accessible technology, Gaines said — it’s everyone.

“Accessibility doesn’t have to be just for one group … everyone learns and explores differently,” Gaines said. “I think a lot of the stigma is just, ‘Oh, you want certain privileges that other people don’t get’ or ‘This is just to help your specific group,’ but it’s really not.

It helps everyone if it’s done the right way.”

Gaines said he’s noticed students’ attitudes toward people with disabilities is much more positive than anything he’d seen or experienced prior to attending college.

“People don’t make it this huge issue,” he said. “I used to want to pretend to be as close to normal as possible, but now I’m realizing there really is no normal. There’s so many differences among people, and disability is just another one of those expressions of those differences. It’s not all of me; there’s other things that are important about me.” gtooheydbk@gmail.com

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magine spending thousands of dollars a year on graduate school tuition and decades of industry experience just to find yourself years later working a low-wage job and struggling to pay your bills.

Traditionally, adjunct professors were hired by universities to instruct individual “applied” courses that full-time, tenured professors could not teach. While tenured professors taught fundamental and advanced studies, adjunct professors taught specialized skills such as computing languages, business applications and graphic design.

This status quo, however, has come to a close. Now there’s an invisible trend developing: A growing number of adjunct professors are teaching the same or similar courses as full-time professors, and they are receiving a pittance to do so.

According to the American Association of University Professors, the average adjunct professor makes about $18,000 to $30,000 a year — surprisingly low compared to the $29,950 salary the average high school graduate earned in this country in 2011, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. And according to this year’s Salary Guide, some adjunct professors make as little as $10,300 for teaching a three-credit course.

The growing number of adjunct faculty members in the U.S. is also startling: The proportion of professors in tenured positions is about 30 percent, a huge drop from 60 percent in the 1970s.

This growth is largely because of universities’ attempts to cut costs

and make up for any lost potential profit from students who decide not to attend college. Many adjunct professors today rely on their faculty positions as their primary source of income, but their positions don’t come with much job security and few benefits.

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This university needs to reward its professors based on quality, not just title.

Even more sadly, some adjunct professors don’t have a place to call home. Film director Chris LaBree and author Debra Leigh Scott, for instance, have interviewed several adjunct professors across the country for a book-documentary project, ‘Junct: The Trashing of Higher Ed. in America. Those interviewed have such a low salary that they resort to living in homeless shelters or family members’ basements.

We can’t let the situation for adjunct faculty members at this university become so desperate that some of our professors don’t earn a livable wage. It seems as if the primary focus for universities nowadays is to increase profit rather than quality.

Although a university cannot run without a sizable profit margin, the highest priority a university should have is to provide a quality education to all of its students, and this can’t be done if administrators are not rewarding adjunct faculty members based on

the quality of the work they put into teaching.

There are different measures this university, along with many others, could institute to prevent offering such low salaries to adjunct faculty.

For instance, this university could implement an audit of tenured faculty members. Though tenured faculty are guaranteed a position, their salary is not fixed over time.

Perhaps performing an audit on full-time tenured faculty members’ teaching and research accomplishments throughout the next fiscal year would give the university an idea of how much each tenured professor or director should be paid. That way, a tenured professor’s salary is not only based on his or her title, but also based on the effort and input he or she puts into teaching courses and conducting research. Any gained revenue could be divided among adjunct faculty based on the number of credits they are teaching. If this strategy proves too complex, the university can establish a fundraising campaign to reward adjunct professors and lecturers with higher wages.

Regardless of the new steps this university takes, we must recognize this growing issue before it becomes impermeable. This university is one of the top public research institutions in the country, but that can’t continue if our professors aren’t given the credit they deserve. Being a professor used to be considered an esteemed, valuable position. We don’t want the future of academia to consist of adjunct professors earning graduate degrees and teaching several courses just to scrape by.

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The only other large scale SGA EZRA FISHMAN actions I can remember in my Off the top of your head, can four years as a student are removyou name one impactful thing the ing MaryPIRG funding from the student activities fee, revamping of SGA has done in the past year?

Off the top of my head: The the budgeting system and the SGA’s Student Government Association complete failure to adequately fund revived the collegiate readership most organizations two years ago — program, providing students with the first two were important, but free copies of The Washington neither was recent — and the last Post and The New York Times. shows just how incompetent and Members also participated in pointless the SGA is.

I spent a lot of time last year an annual ice cream day, when they travel to Annapolis to lobby putting my voice out in favor of the legislators and provide ice cream current SGA leadership — a decifrom the university’s Dairy. Oh, sion I stand by — but a year later, and last spring they spent a lot I can’t really say it was worth it. I of time campaigning for SGA don’t think the current administration has done much more than its elections.

Other than those changes, I opponents would have.

With all this, I don’t see the point can’t really think of anything else they’ve done this year. Even of making a big stir about SGA electhough I write for The Diamond- tions — or even voting at all. Even back and read it most days, I have if there were multiple candidates no idea what the SGA actually does running for president and other exto better the student community. ecutive titles — the choice among Yes, they manage the finances and the candidates would be symbolic budgeting for student groups, but at best.

T h e c h o i ce wo u l d b e wh i c h they certainly don’t do a good job of it. I’m not the only one who feels student takes more pictures with university President Wallace Loh, this way, either.

Going through The Diamond- which student has a stronger and back archives, there are at least more important voice against two columns about how little the smokers, robberies, student faSGA does. One of them is literally talities, low ticket sales at athletic titled 'What does the SGA do?” The events and which student will show column mentions the SGA used to up more often on the cover of next publish a digest of its activities, year’s issues of The Diamondback.

What does the SGA do? I honestwhich it no longer does.

Another, titled “SGA elections: ly want to know. I expect someone What’s the point” by Matt Arn- from the SGA to write a response stine, a former Diamondback col- to this — I encourage it. Give me umnist who went on to advise one good reason I should care, why Time Party candidates in the 2013 any student should care, about the election, summarizes the purpose SGA or its elections.

Until then, I wish all of you the of SGA elections perfectly: “After the polls close and the winners best of luck in your campaigns for are announced, it is all too likely the chance to win a meaningless that all this university will have title in an irrelevant organization. is a new iteration of the same irEzra Fishman is a senior accounting relevant organization.”

Three elections after Arn- and finance major. He can be reached stine’s column, the SGA has not at efishmandbk@gmail.com.

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An ode to the new ‘beach’ EMMA ATLAS I’m writing to congratulate the campus on its brand new beachfront property.

Well technically, there is no beach — if one defines a beach by its proximity to the ocean. This new space, however, resembles a beach without water.

I’m talking about the space at Valley Drive and Denton Service Lane, upon which some kind soul deposited enough sand to bury a Honda Civic about two weeks ago.

The gift has turned this part of the campus into North Denton Beach — a beach that might even put La Plata’s to shame.

I have to assume the intent was to turn the Center for Young Children and the northern half of the Denton Community into a beachfront because the alternative is that whoever placed the pile of sand there believed it would wait patiently, through wind and rain, until

a time when it could be moved to Eppley Recreation Center’s outdoor volleyball court. Because I have the utmost faith in this university, I know the slow diffusion of sand to many places other than the volleyball court was completely planned.

Since the sand was dumped near the Denton Community, it has wormed its way into the sidewalk and road and piled up in dunes, creating the atmosphere of an area steps away from a beautiful beach.

I do have to thank the gracious sandman who left us Dentonites (or Dentonians) our new beach — the piles of sand have at least halved in size since they were originally placed, signaling a successful “beach-ification” of the area. Clearly, if the sand had been intended for the ERC, then it would have been moved sooner, unless the university means to send someone over with a giant vacuum.

One of the places the sand has infiltrated has been my eyes. While I was momentarily blinded, the sand also stung my legs on my first day wearing shorts. It was painful, and the friends

I was walking with all shouted with joy at getting a real “hands-on” experience with the sand.

I know I’m not the only one pleased by the installation of the beach and the opportunity to drop

by Lot N at any time to take it all in. I bet the kids at the Center for Young Children are especially happy, as they are essentially caged in next to the sand, which waits there to be whittled away by each passing breeze.

You can hear the children’s tiny screams of delight every time the leaves begin to move and grit flies into the air.

Within a week, I am sure the dune will be gone and its evolution into the North Denton Beach will be complete. I think we should all show a little appreciation to the university for getting us in the summer spirit this way. After all, nothing says finals week is coming like being violently sandblasted.

Emma Atlas is a junior government and politics major. She can be reached at eatlasdbk@gmail.com.

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very April, a number of organizations on the campus hold events to raise awareness for Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

To wrap up the month, organizations such as UMD Feminists and JFem will be hosting the university’s third annual March to End Victim Blaming on Thursday. The event will start with a rally at 5 p.m. before the march.

You might not recognize the name of this year’s march, but I’m sure you remember SlutWalk, the march’s previous title. While the SlutWalk movement started with a great purpose, it has become controversial because of its name.

A major aspect of SlutWalks is the reclamation of the word “slut.”

Although some people are fully behind the reclamation, not everyone is interested in reclaiming and using that word freely. Not everyone is comfortable being called a slut, even if the word is used in a more positive context. Others might not

feel safe reclaiming it because of their family or culture’s values.

SlutWalks are also not inclusive to everyone who might be a victim or survivor of sexual assault. They focus mainly on women as survivors, most likely because of the 2011 case in Toronto that started the movement after a policeman blamed a woman for her sexual assault, saying women “should avoid dressing like sluts.” Despite SlutWalk’s concentration on women, the March to End Victim Blaming recognizes that sexual violence and victim-blaming can affect anyone, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. This includes men and people who do not identify within the gender binary.

I hope that changing the name of this march will make everyone feel welcome and confident at the event as we all march to fight for the end of victim-blaming and rape culture.

Brittany Holtzner is a sophomore nursing student. She can be reached at holtzner@terpmail.umd.edu.

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BRANCHING OUT Baltimore duo Wye Oak ditches its signature guitars for dreamy synth-pop on its exhilarating fourth album

By Jonathan Raeder @jmraeder Staff writer The cover of Baltimoreb a s e d Wye Oa k ’s fo u r t h album, Shriek, shows a boy clawing at his face, trying to peel himself out of his own skin. It’s a fitting metaphor for the content of the album, which deals with feelings of being trapped, confused and desperate to unleash some intense emotion.

After touring for their critically acclaimed 2011 release, Civilian, the two members of the band, Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack, retreated to separate homes to recharge — Wasner back to Baltimore and Stack to Texas. Wasner’s new experience playing the bass over their break inspired her to write music untethered from the patterns and phrasing required from her usual guitar. Disconnected from each other and from their normal sound, they resorted to using electronic keyboards and synths instead of their trademark guitars.

Shriek is obviously a Wye Oak record, yet it’s the group’s greatest leap away from the sound it has cultivated over its previous three releases.

The bass, synths and rhythm section dominate the album. It somehow seems wrong to use the words groovy or seductive,

yet both float around somewhere in these songs. Wasner’s vocals slide over repeated patterns of keyboards, catchy bass riffs and a steady undercurrent of whirring synths.

It has the same sense of dark reflection evident in their previous albums but with a new energy. The band navigates the style with ease, sounding as if it’s been playing this way for years. These songs might have been born of Wasner’s fear and existential dread, but they sound downright mesmerizing and, somehow, comforting.

Wasner’s side project Dungeonesse could have played a big role in Wye Oak’s latest transformation: Dungeonesse is all danceable funk, radically different from the old Wye Oak but definitely apparent in Shriek. Side projects exist to let musicians tackle sounds and genres that wouldn’t work with their normal output, yet it’s understandably difficult to keep whatever new influences they’ve experienced relegated to only one project. Dungeonesse bled into Wye Oak, but Wye Oak sounds all the better for it. Shriek even echoes fellow indie rock musician St. Vincent — particularly on tracks such as “Schools of Eyes” and “Despicable Animal” — as well as fellow Baltimore band Beach House’s general aesthetic of drenching synths.

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have a weak spot, but its strongest area is concentrated in its middle with “Shriek,” “The Tower” and “Glory.”

“The Tower” and “Glory” are fast-paced and exceedingly rhythmic; they could even be considered danceable. There’s vibrancy and a strange urgency in these songs. The lyrics center on themes of dreams, relating to other people and a feeling of trapped hopelessness — that sense of bondage that comes from being tied to another in a romantic relationship. Love necessarily takes away some freedom and brings an attachment that can be stifling.

Wa s n e r h a s b e e n o p e n about the emotional difficulties she’s faced in the time leading up to this album, but in interviews, she’s spoken about how Shriek has helped her get through those issues and come out inspired. Forced to deal with their physical separation, touring burnout and general anxiety, the members of Wye Oak have emerged, shrieking, with a newfound confidence. Shriek might be the band’s best record to date; Wye Oak has come into its own, drawing from great influences but making something wholly unique. Set aside a spot in your 2014 best-of-year list for Shriek. It deserves it. jraederdbk@gmail.com

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defense From PAGE 8 allowing her to take 11 shots when the teams battled in the Carrier Dome on March 10.

While the attacker scored three goals in that contest as well, the Terps took some of the pressure off Clipp on Sunday by limiting Treanor’s shots.

Reese’s unit also held attacker Alyssa Murray, who entered with 46 goals, to one goal.

“They have two of the best attackers in the nation,” Reese said. “We wanted to limit the looks that they got and we needed to get help to them.”

After Murray and Treanor combined for four goals in less than eight minutes, the Terps made some adjustments and improved their help defense for the final 41 minutes of the game.

While defenders Douty and Alice Mercer and midfielder Taylor Cummings displayed strong one-on-one defending, Reese said the Syracuse attackers are too talented to leave in isolation situations. After the duo’s scoring outburst, the Terps defense unified for more of a team effort on the attackers in the second half.

“We slid quicker,” Reese

said. “We got our doubles there quicker, and we at least made it a little harder for Syracuse to get good looks on goal in the second half.”

Syracuse took eight shots in the first half but scored on five opportunities to enter halftime trailing by two. In the second half, though, the Terps held the Orange to fewer shots. Syracuse scored on two of seven shots in the second period.

The Terps defense held the Orange scoreless for the first 15 minutes of the second half, and after midfielder Katie Webster ended the goalless streak, the Terps responded by shutting down the nation’s ninth-ranked scoring offense for another 13 minutes.

“To hold a team with the offensive success that Syracuse has had to seven goals is a huge credit to our defense,” Reese said.

With the ACC title on the line, the Terps demonstrated the ability to stifle the leading goal-scorer in the ACC. And they’ll look to carry their strong performance into the NCAA tournament in two weeks.

“This weekend, for us, is the best we have played all season defensively,” Reese said. rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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“MICHAEL PUTS A LOT OF PRESSURE ON From PAGE 8 HIMSELF TO BE OUR Chanenchuk suffered late in the LEADER — TO A FAULT second quarter. With just less SOMETIMES. ... HE than three minutes left in the CARES SO MUCH

Second baseman brandon lowe led the Terps offense against Boston College by going 5-for-9 with one walk and two RBIs in this weekend’s series. rebecca rainey/the diamondback

dukes From PAGE 8 The lone bright spot was second baseman Brandon Lowe, who went 5-for-9 with one walk and two RBIs on the series.

“Things didn’t go our way,” center fielder Charlie White said. “We didn’t execute when we needed to. Give B.C. credit because they made things happen when they needed to.”

In each of the last two games of the series, the Terps loaded the bases in the ninth, and the tying or winning run came to the plate. Still, their late comeback attempts were unsuccessful. Two straight fly outs resulted in a 7-4 loss in Game 2 on Friday. And after Burke exited the game

Sunday, two more Terps reached base before the final out was recorded.

The Terps’ inconsistent offensive performances were part of the problem in a disappointing weekend. Szefc has preached consistency all season, but the Terps struggle to maintain a high level of offensive production week after week.

Nonetheless, the Terps have two more ACC series and a host of midweek games to work on their consistency and put their offensive struggles behind them.

“With baseball, there’s a lot of ups and downs,” White said.

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half, the attackman cut to his left at the edge of the restraining box but twisted his ankle. Chanenchuk immediately fell to the ground, and the Fighting Irish eventually secured possession.

Chanenchuk — who deferred enrollment at Princeton in 2009 due to a back injury and missed the 2011 season with a broken collarbone — limped off the field and returned to the locker room with a trainer before the end of the half. But the senior returned for the second half without any noticeable discomfort, and Tillman projected Chanenchuk to return to the field by the middle of this week.

“Michael’s battled a lot of injuries historically and has always come back and fought through it,” Tillman said.

“We’ll be pretty careful with it. Getting him some rest probably is not a bad thing.”

Even before the injury, Chanenchuk looked out of sorts, which Fighting Irish coach Kevin Corrigan attributed to his team’s on-ball defense. Defenders Stephen O’Hara and Matt Landis spent time guarding Chanenchuk as did shortstick defensive midfielder Jack Near, who picked up the ground ball off Chanenchuk’s turnover in the contest’s waning seconds and assisted on attackman Matt Kavanagh’s game-winning goal.

The Terps scored three straight goals to open the

review From PAGE 8 most important thing that we improved as a team and that we got closer together.”

The Terps entered the ACC tournament as the No. 12 seed and faced a first-round rematch with the No. 13-seed Demon Deacons.

But Wake Forest came out on top to hand the Terps their ninth consecutive loss in the first round of the ACC tournament. The team will also be left out of the NCAA tournament for the eighth straight time after producing a losing record this season.

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Terrapins men’s lacrosse coach game and held an advantage well into the second quarter.

But with 5:47 remaining in the first half, Chanenchuk tried to force a risky pass across the face of the cage that goalkeeper Conor Kelly intercepted. Kelly hit Near in stride with an outlet pass before the midfielder dished to attackman Westy Hopkins on the crease for the Fighting Irish’s first goal of the night.

“We can’t play scared,” Tillman said. “We can’t be so conservative that we’re not going to be able to make some plays.”

But on a number of occasions in the semifinal, Chanenchuk’s attempts to make plays translated into crucial transition goals for the Fighting Irish. And for the second time this season — the other being the Terps’ five-goal loss at Johns Hopkins on April 12 — Chanenchuk didn’t find the back of the net in a game.

“He just wants to help the team and try to create some offense and create some opportunities,” Tillman said. “That’s more him feeling like he’s going to have to help some of the younger guys. … But he’s been so terrific all year. He’s a guy that we have a ton of confidence in, and I’m sure he’ll bounce back.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

goal,” Nataliya Bredikhina said.

“It’s kind of a disappointment a little bit. But we have to use this disappointment to push ourselves for the next season.”

The Terps experienced several peaks and lows in the 2014 season. But while their focus shifts toward next season in the Big Ten, the Terps appreciate the improvements from this year while remaining unsatisfied with another early end to the season.

“It was better than it was last year,” Nataliya Bredikhina said.

“At the same time, I’m very ambitious. I feel like next season we have to do even better because I believe the entire team is good enough to do much better than we did this season.” jmwalkerdbk@gmail.com

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ON THE SITE

TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

MEN’S LACROSSE

Defense stiffens in title game Terps stymie Treanor for final 41 minutes in win over Syracuse

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer Standing behind the net during the ACC tournament final Sunday afternoon at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Syracuse attacker Kayla Treanor faked left, then right, then back to her left to gain a step on Terrapins women’s lacrosse defender Megan Douty. With space between her and Douty, Treanor wrapped around the crease and scored past goalkeeper Abbey Clipp.

Treanor’s goal, the sophomore’s third straight score for the No. 2-seed Orange, cut the No. 1-seed Terps’ lead to two, 6-4, with 11:37 left in the first half. With the ACC’s leading scorer heating up, it appeared the Terps defense would struggle to contain Treanor for the rest of the game.

Instead, the defense held Treanor scoreless for the rest of the contest and allowed three goals in the final 41 minutes to help the Terps capture their sixth straight ACC title with a 13-7 win.

“The thing when you play against a player like Kayla Treanor is she is going to score,” coach Cathy Reese said. “We just want to limit the number of opportunities that she is getting as best as we can.”

The Terps defense limited Treanor to five shots on the afternoon after See defense, Page 7

attackman Mike Chanenchuk lies on the ground after committing a turnover in the fourth quarter of Friday night’s loss to Notre Dame in the first round of the ACC tournament.

OUT OF SORTS

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Chanenchuk finishes with season-high five turnovers during scoreless outing in ACC semifinal loss to Notre Dame

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer

CHESTER, Pa. — Through both his play and emotion this season, Mike Chanenchuk has been the leader of the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team’s offense.

Entering Friday night’s ACC semifinal contest against No. 4-seed Notre Dame, the senior attackman led the top-seeded Terps in goals (28) and assists (16). Coach John Tillman also credited Chanenchuk for ensuring a smooth transition to the college game for the team’s freshman attackman, who scored 49 goals in 12 regular-season

games before the conference tournament.

Under the lights of PPL Park, though, Chanenchuk appeared more disrupted than he has all season in a 6-5 loss to the Fighting Irish. Despite scoring three times and adding an assist against Notre Dame on April 19, the attackman couldn’t find a rhythm during Friday’s rematch.

Not only did Chanenchuk finish without a goal, but he also committed a season-high of five turnovers — two of which Notre Dame converted into transition goals, including the game-winner with 6.5 seconds remaining.

“Michael puts a lot of pressure on himself to be our leader — to a fault sometimes,” Tillman said. “He cares so much about the team.”

A heavy rain fell for most of the first half Friday night, and the teams combined to commit 16 turnovers in the first 30 minutes of play. Tillman said the wet conditions were a key factor in Chanenchuk’s sloppy play, though the Terps faced similar weather in previous contests, including in a 9-6 win over Virginia at Byrd Stadium on March 30.

“You’ve got to show up and play any game in any situation,” said defender Michael Ehrhardt, who collected two ground balls and forced two turnovers in the loss. “You’ve just got to go out and play your game. You just can’t let it affect you.”

The rain also played a role in a leg injury See turnovers, Page 7

BASEBALL | JAMES MADISON PREVIEW

Bats go quiet in three-game sweep at BC Terps score seven runs in series loss vs Eagles, look to rebound tonight against Dukes

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer

center fielder charlie white and the Terps struggled at Boston College, which had the ACC’s second-worst ERA entering the weekend. sung-min kim/the diamondback

Boston College right-hander Jeff Burke stepped off the mound in the ninth inning Sunday afternoon and headed toward the dugout. The Terrapins baseball team had runners on second and third with no outs, but it trailed by five runs. Three outs later, Burke had his first win of the season as the Terps lost, 5-2.

Burke entered Sunday with a 5.25 ERA, but he allowed two runs in eight-plus innings in the series finale against the Terps, who face James Madison at home today. Burke’s performance capped a weekend in which coach John Szefc’s team was unable to generate much offense in a three-game sweep.

The Terps scored seven runs in three games against the Eagles, who entered the series ranked second-tolast in the ACC with a 4.18 ERA. The pronounced offensive deficiencies came a week after the Terps earned a series victory over then-No. 25 Georgia Tech, in which they scored four or more runs in all three games.

“We’ve been really inconsistent the whole year,” Szefc said. “I really couldn’t tell you what changed.”

The Eagles scored more runs in the first innings (eight) than the Terps did in the entire series, and the Terps’ seven total runs tied a season-low for a three-game series. Plus, for the third time this year, the Terps failed to score more than four runs in a single game of a three-game series.

Earlier in the season, the Terps

struggled offensively as well. In their first two ACC series, the Terps scored only eight and seven runs, respectively.

As conference play progressed, the Terps began to produce more runs. They didn’t perform at the same level every week, though. The Terps scored eight runs against N.C. State left-hander Carlos Rodon — a potential No. 1 overall pick in this year’s MLB draft — in a 10-0 win over the then-No. 10 Wolfpack on March 21. But a week later, the Terps scored two runs in a pair of losses during a doubleheader against then-No. 20 Clemson.

“If you can’t show up with a lot of urgency on a daily basis you’re not going to have success,” Szefc said.

“That’s why we’ve had the lack of success we’ve had.”

While the Terps have struggled

against mediocre ACC pitching, they’ve usually produced at least one strong showing a series. After scoring six runs in the first two games against Wake Forest, which currently boasts the 10th-best ERA in the ACC, the Terps exploded for 11 runs in an April 6 blowout victory over the Demon Deacons.

But against the Eagles, the Terps didn’t have that breakout performance and were unable to produce hits for most of the weekend. The Terps had 11 hits in Game 2 on Friday, but in Games 1 and 3, the Terps tallied a combined seven hits against a Boston College pitching staff that entered the series with the third-worst opposing batting average in the conference.

See dukes, Page 7

TENNIS | SEASON IN REVIEW

Early ACC tournament exit ends up-and-down year Young Terps show improvement from 2013 but fail to reach NCAA tournament for the eighth consecutive season

By Jacob Walker @JacobW_DBK Staff writer The Terrapins tennis season did not end the way the team wanted. After entering the ACC tournament with plenty of momentum from four wins in six matches, the Terps suffered a 4-1 loss to Wake Forest in the first round.

But after the Terps followed a 4-0 start with a stretch of one win in 11 matches, the loss to the Demon Deacons served as a fitting end to an up-and-down year for a young team in its last season in the ACC. “I feel like we were improving until the end, and that was important,” sophomore Nataliya Bredikhina said. “This loss was coming right after some good victories. We were improving, we were believing in ourselves.”

Even before their fast start, the Terps

entered the year with optimism coming off a 6-16 campaign in 2013. Senior Welma Luus — who missed last season with a torn labrum — returned for her junior season of eligibility, coach Daria Panova was entering her second season and the Terps had seven underclassmen on their eight-player roster.

Also, the Terps performed well in the fall at the Cissie Leary Invitational, with no player losing in the first round.

Early in the regular season, the Terps gave more reason to believe this year would be different. After beating Pittsburgh on Feb. 28, the Terps improved to 5-3, had an ACC victory and were ranked No. 61 in the nation, the highest they’d been ranked since February 2012.

But a month-long losing streak derailed the Terps’ promising season.

During March, the team was unable to register a point in four separate matches and lost to five ranked teams.

By early April, the Terps had been swept seven times and had not won a match against a ranked opponent.

“We were playing against teams who were the best teams in the country,” Panova said. “Of course the confidence was down, especially for a young team that doesn’t really know how to win yet.”

Things began to turn around for the team, however, with their match against Syracuse on April 6. The match was knotted at three when the Terps lined the court next to where Olga Bredikhina was playing.

When the sophomore scored the clinching point to give the Terps their first win against a ranked opponent and their first ACC win since the match against Pittsburgh, the players rushed her court in celebration.

In the next match, against Wake Forest, the Terps won again. This

OLGA Bredikhina was one of seven underclassmen on the Terps’ roster this year that helped the team win three more contests than it did in coach Daria Panova’s first season in College Park. marquise mckine /the diamondback time it was Nataliya Bredikhina who Three of the Terps’ last four wins clinched the match-winning point to were decided by one point. They finsend her teammates onto the court ished the with a 9-12 overall record in celebration. Back-to-back wins and a 4-10 mark in the ACC. against ranked opponents that came “Overall, it was better than last down to the final singles match gave year,” Olga Bredikhina said. “It’s the the Terps the confidence they had been missing for much of the season.

See review, Page 7