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Mediator appointed for ACC lawsuits Fees dispute could forgo trial for private settling the food court at Stamp Student Union, which an email advised students to avoid. rachel george/the diamondback

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Senior staff writer

Police: Stamp warnings in viral message unfounded

Officials verified reports yesterday that this university and the ACC have agreed on mediation, a step that could indicate a desire on both sides to prevent lasting confl ict.

The mediation, confirmed by Brian Ullmann, university marketing and communications assistant vice president, will help foster settlement negotiations rather than prepare the two for trial, according to North Carolina Court System procedure.

The parties have yet to decide on a meeting date, though the order requires they meet before July 10, The Washington Post reported Monday.

“Eventually they’re going to come to a settlement,” said Bradley Shear, a Bethesda-based sports lawyer and George Washington University professor. “It looks like that’s the avenue, the path, they’re trying to follow — to settle this rather than dragging it out for years through litigation.”

The ACC filed a lawsuit to force this university to pay a recently hiked $52 million exit fee after university President Wallace Loh announced in November 2012 the university was leaving for the Big Ten, roughly two months after the ACC’s Council of Presidents voted to increase the exit fee from its initial $17.4 million.

When the university and this state attempted to have the exit fee dismissed, North Carolina appellate judges ruled against it last November.

I n Ja nu a r y, t he state f i led a $157 million counterclaim against the

By Teddy Amenabar @DBKcrime Senior staff writer evan lutz, Food Recovery CSA project coordinator and senior business management major, presents his group’s work to the judges at yesterday’s Do Good Challenge. The team was one of six competing for tens of thousands of dollars. kelsey hughes/the diamondback

A university student group sent an email Monday warning members to stay away from Stamp Student Union after a male university student made unnerving comments, according to University Police spokesman Maj. Marc Limansky.

The situation escalated Monday night, Limansky said, when the email, which was spread via social media and text messages, prompted officers to respond to North Campus to “track down the origin” of it.

The student has not been arrested, Limansky said. Police looked into the situation several weeks ago, he added, after the student began having issues with the group, of which he’s “loosely” a member. A member of the Korean Campus Ministry who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity said the email originally was sent through the ministry’s listserv and was intended for its members.

“We did a threat assessment on it,” Limansky said. “As a result of that we didn’t find anything.”

In the initial investigation, officers did a background check to

going for the good Annual Do Good Challenge honors service organizations

By Brittany Cheng @thedbk For The Diamondback Six university-student teams pitched their philanthropic ventures and projects to a panel of judges yesterday night, in an effort to win the university’s Do Good Challenge.

The annual competition sponsored by Morgan Stanley — a financial services corporation — inspires university students to come up with an idea to make a difference for a cause they’re passionate about within an eight-week period, said Robert Grimm Jr., public policy professor and creator of the Do Good Challenge.

“We want to make philanthropy a pillar of the university experience,” Grimm said.

Each of the six finalists had five minutes to convince the judges and philanthropists they

deserved to win at the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center. The panel of judges included former NFL quarterback and 1984 alumnus Boomer Esiason, sports agent David Falk and Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust board member Bob Seaberg, who selected the winners based on three criteria: impact, leverage and creativity.

The public policy school’s Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership created the competition in 2012 and teamed up with the business school’s Center for Social Value Creation this year to split challenge into two tracks: projects and ventures. Projects encompass a one-time initiative supporting an existing cause, while ventures are student-founded nonprofits, said Kiki Griffith, a junior criminal justice and criminology major and Do Good Challenge committee member.

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Gov reflects on outcomes of two terms

SGA candidates campaign despite late registrations, rain Voting ends today; only one position contested

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O’Malley talks higher ed funding at roundtable

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer Gov. Martin O’Malley shrugged off questions about a potential presidential run yesterday in a roundtable discussion with student reporters from across the state, opting instead to reflect on his successes over the past eight years for state higher education.

When he and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown fi rst ran for election in 2006, his philosophy, he said, was that “the more a person learns, the more a person earns.” This fueled his decision to make college affordability a key part of his executive agenda,

Gov. Martin o’malley speaks with student journalists from publications around the state at a roundtable in Annapolis yesterday. After two terms, O’Malley is not eligible for reelection. photo courtesy of the governor’s press office through which he saw several years of tuition freezes and caps and praise from the higher education lobby for continued investment in state schools.

Despite this, he said, “The battle continues.”

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ing to reach out and push for an improved connection between students and the organization as the elections come to a close tonight, candidates said.

Students ca n vote for SGA legislative representatives and executive candidates, includi n g u nop p o se d pre s id e nt i a l candidate Patrick Ronk, online until 8 p.m. They can also cast their ballots at a table in Stamp Student Union.

SGA officials will announce

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the winners tomorrow at an undecided time, according to the official SGA election website. The winners then will be inaugurated into their positions Friday through Tuesday.

Ca mbridge Com mu n ity representative is the only contested position. There is also only one t icket, t he O p en Pa r ty, wh ich party members said is meant to See SGA, Page 3

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Clothing drive helps job seekers TerpAMA drive collects 50 items

By Nate Rabner @thedbk For The Diamondback While some aspiring businesspeople listened yesterday evening to a speaker from data mining company DMA in a Van Munching Hall lecture room, others stood outside at a table to help job applicants with far fewer resources.

Student group terpAMA, which hosts guest speakers and networking sessions for marketing students, was collecting business clothes for the Washington office of Dress For Success, which helps disadvantaged women apply for jobs.

The clothing drive at this university has received about 75 items this semester, said Monica Lesar, terpAMA com-

munity service director. Students, alumni and faculty have brought in used business attire, which Lesar will take to the Dress For Success office for sorting and distribution.

“A lot of times women come out of being homeless or just have a disadvantaged life, and they want to get into the working world but they can’t afford to buy something to wear to an interview,” said Lesar, a junior marketing major. “Dress For Success fills that need.”

Sophomore economics major Mike Harrington stopped by the table laden with blazers and dresses from business fraternity Phi Chi Theta, which partnered with terpAMA this semester to collect clothes. He said the coed fraternity has added

TERPAMA collected about 50 items yesterday in its Dress for Success event, aiming to outfit female job seekers. sung-min kim/the diamondback eight or nine bags to the drive this semester.

“It’s going to help give the opportunity to a bunch of women looking to get into the professional workforce,” Harrington said.

TerpAMA collected 370 clothing items last semester, its first time working with Dress For Success. This year,

the group is trying to spread awareness of its project.

“We’ve been trying to reach across campus for anyone who wants to donate their mom’s or their sister’s or their own old clothing,” said Recelda Lazarte, a sophomore communication major and terpAMA’s event coordination director. “It really aligns with the business com-

Students cut out food groups for paleo diet, draw concern from university health officials Diet eliminates grains, legumes, dairy, oil, sugar

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Staff writer While some diets attract followers with progressive ideas, one trend is encouraging people to go back thousands of years and eat more like our Stone Age ancestors.

The paleo diet consists of unprocessed foods, usually with an emphasis on meat and vegetables. The strictest paleo diet cuts out all grains, legumes, dairy products, vegetable oils and sugars, which worries some health professionals.

Student group PrimalTerps focuses its meetings on the paleo diet, and they believe adhering to the diet should extend beyond food and emphasize sleep, movement, social interaction and other aspects of wellness.

There are about five consistent club members, and others come and go, members said.

Junior Ben Anderson started the paleo diet when he was 17 after struggling with health problems, including celiac disease and food allergies. At first, he only cut gluten from his diet, but when he switched to the paleo diet there was a “huge difference,” he said.

“I just feel good all the time,” said the computer science and mathematics major. “I really don’t feel deprived eating a big steak or some bacon, or roasted vegetables. … It’s not restrictive in that sense that it’s a diet — by and large I say I can eat whatever I want, as much as I want, whenever I want to — it’s just

MEDIATION From PAGE 1 ACC, citing allegations that the conference withheld $16 million from this university and tried to recruit two Big Ten schools to the ACC. The counterclaim also questioned the legal credibility of the exit fee increase.

Shear said the development of mediation likely is representative of the university and the conference taking their respective goals into account. It shows there is common ground between the two, he said.

“They’re probably thinking, ‘Maybe it’s just time for us to reach a mutual agreement,’” Shear said. “This is a piece of business that Maryland probably wants to settle before it goes to the Big Ten, and it seems the ACC would want to get it done before next year

that what I want happens to be paleo foods.”

The paleo diet can help combat chronic health problems, such as acne, asthma, eczema and anxiety, and people also lose weight, Anderson said.

But Jane Jakubczak, University Health Center nutrition services coordinator, said she is worried the diet restricts intake of some vital nutrients.

“My concern with the Paleo diet is that it restricts two very important food groups; grains and dairy,” Jakubczak wrote in an email. “Restricting these two food groups puts a person at risk for not receiving essential nutrients such as fiber, which supports the health of our digestive tract, B-Vitamins which aid in turning our foods into energy and calcium which is essential for healthy bones.”

However, junior Alyssa Schaffer follows the paleo diet and said it does not have to be restrictive and can vary based on ethical beliefs and tastes.

“There are tons of ways to fit it into your lifestyle, and I think that’s the greatest thing about this movement,” the music and plant science major said.

“The main thing is just to understand what you’re putting into your body and to avoid processed foods.”

Anderson said he recommends anyone interested in the diet should try it for a month.

Depending on the results and the person’s preference, the dieter then can start reintroducing some dairy or starches, such as corn, full-fat dairy and some legumes.

Schaffer stuck with the diet after a doctor recommended it to help relieve symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome and has

“THEY’RE GOING TO COME TO A SETTLEMENT. IT LOOKS LIKE THAT’S THE AVENUE, THE PATH, THEY’RE TRYING TO FOLLOW.” BRADLEY SHEAR

Sports lawyer and George Washington University professor starts as well.”

Ullmann wrote that the official mediation order issues by the North Carolina court system identified the mediator as “Jonathan A. Marks, Esq.” though there are no area arbiters by that name listed on WhitePages.com.

The Post article later linked to the resume of Jonathan B. Marks, but his office would neither confirm nor deny his connection to the litigation. jantoshakdbk@gmail.com

PRIMALTERPS follow the paleo diet, which includes unprocessed foods such as meat and vegetables while eliminating most other food groups. sung-min kim/the diamondback since been spreading the word — but she encourages everyone to make their own decisions.

“Ever since I really committed to this for a medical purpose, I noticed an extreme change in my lifestyle and how I feel, like my moods; I’m happy all the time,” Schaffer said. “It really affects my mental psyche.

Physically I’ve never felt better or stronger, and I’ve been able to focus better.”

There are some issues that can come with the paleo diet, such as a lack of carbohydrates and low iodine levels, Anderson said.

To remedy the carbohydrate shortage, Anderson said to eat starchy vegetables such as white potatoes, sweet potatoes, plantains, yucca and some white rice.

Eating sushi and fish can help dieters get enough iodine.

Though these unprocessed foods can be more difficult to obtain, Anderson and Schaffer said the on-campus farmers market and other local organic food vendors, such as MOM’s Organic Market on Route 1, made changing their eating habits easier.

One criticism scientists have pointed out is that early humans weren’t eating only meat and vegetables; they actually ate many grain-based foods as well, said Julie Miller Jones, a nutrition professor at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota who has studied grains extensively in an April 1 Washington Post article.

Jakubczak said she does not plan on recommending the diet to anyone because dairy and grains are too important.

“I have also seen hundreds of people try restrictive diets and although they lose weight at the beginning, nine out of 10 times they regain the weight, plus more,” she wrote.

“Diets don’t work and diets can be dangerous.”

But PrimalTerps thinks this diet can be “transformative,” Anderson said.

“It’s real food. Eat it, listen to your body, and don’t stress about it too much,” he said.

“The biggest thing is you feel so much better.” gtooheydbk@gmail.com

A B1G MOVE This university and the ACC agreed to mediation after months of conflict over revenues and exit fees.

Women who get referrals from local women’s homes or halfway houses can choose an interview-quality outfit from the selection with the help of Dress For Success volunteers.

The organization also gives a week’s worth of business clothes to each customer who lands a job, Lesar said.

By the end of yesterday’s drive, a handful of donors had dropped off about 50 items at the terpAMA table. Group member Yichen Dong, a junior information systems major and marketing major delivered a plastic bag full of old business clothes from his professor’s yoga class.

Dong, who has volunteered at the Dress For Success office, said about half the clothes that arrive are business-appropriate and in good condition. But the right outfit can go a long way, he said.“It’s giving them a chance to help themselves,” he said.

“It’s not like a handout — it’s giving them the opportunity to better themselves.”

munity giving back to people who are actively looking for jobs and really need that extra push — just having a businessprofessional outfit can really make a difference.”

Group members have also been volunteering at the Dress For Success office this semester, helping sort donated clothing and arrange it in a showroom. newsumdbk@gmail.com

CHALLENGE From PAGE 1

and Washington families.

Terps Against Hunger, a project that provides emergency food assistance to local families, and Ride4ECO, an initiative to build a bike stop at ECO City Farms in Edmonston for area residents to access affordable groceries, came in second and third for projects, respectively.

Finalists earned more than $25,000 in prizes, and first-place winners in each track received $6,000. The audience also chose Students Helping Honduras as the winners of the Behavioral and Social Sciences College’s “Be the Solution” Audience Choice Award $2,500 prize, while the National Scholarships Office awarded Community Pipeline President Nick Henninger and treasurer Ryan Crowder, a $6,000 Maryland Leadership and Discovery Grant.

Fifty-eight teams initially entered the competition this year, Grimm said. The challenge committee reviewed the entries and invited semifinalists back to pitch their ideas.

From there, the committee decided on a final three for each track, Griffith said.

“As much as possible, we want to continue to support these student groups even as alums,” Grimm said, “because when Maryland students go out in the world and unleash their ventures to the world, they represent the greatness of this university.”

And beyond the mone t a r y a n d n e t w o rk i n g benefits, the challenge encourages students to incorporate philanthropy into their ventures, said Evan Lutz, project manager for Recovered Food CSA. “It’s an absolutely incredible initiative that the University of Maryland desperately needed,” the senior management major said. “You know, there are so many business competitions … they’re just lacking in social value. And social value is something that’s really up-and-coming.”

“When the audience is evaluating [the teams], they may not realize that the student who’s raising money is doing something just as powerful as starting a nonprofit organization,” said Griffith, who helped choose the finalists. “So we made the differentiation so that it would be more fair to all the teams.”

First prize in the ventures category went to justlikeyou. org, a student-created pen pal-like social networking website that connects users to help them support each other when coming out about their sexuality.

Esiason said he “just got chills” from watching justlikeyou.org founder Brooks Gabel’s presentation.

“W hen I was watch i ng [Gabel], I just kept saying to myself, ‘passion and credibility,’” Esiason said.

Gabel said he started the venture because it is a resource he wishes he had during his own coming-out process and that the website acts as a stepping stone to encourage LGBT youth to take advantage of available alliances.

“The biggest problem we see today is not that we have inadequate resources, it’s that people aren’t ready to show up. And the missing component there is trust,” the senior marketing major said. “That’s why we see roughly 73 percent of LGBT youth going online rather than talking to someone in person.”

Students Helping Honduras, an on-campus group whose members travel to Honduras to build schools, came in first place for the projects category.

The other venture finalists included Community Pipeline, a collaboration between university clubs and organizations and Prince George’s County elementary and middle schools, and Recovered Food Community-Supported Agriculture, an initiative that sells surplus food from farms and grocery stores to students and matches the sales with donations of food to Baltimore newsumdbk@gmail.com

Sept. 2012 The ACC’s Council for Presidents votes to increase the exit fee from $17.4 million to $52 million.

Nov. 2013 This university and state try to dismiss the exit fee, but North Carolina appellate judges rule against it.

April 2014 This university and the ACC agree to mediation instead of trial.

Nov. 2012 Loh announces Big Ten move; ACC files a lawsuit to force the university to pay the $52 million exit fee.

Jan. 2014 The state files a $157 million counterclaim against the ACC.

July 2014 This university moves to the Big Ten Conference.

INCIDENT From PAGE 1

group “reached out” to the student again, according to Limansky. A conversation between them spurred Monday’s email.

University Police Chief Dav id M itchel l sent a messa ge rega rd i n g t he i ncident to the u n iversity community Tuesday mor n i n g, w r it i n g t h at t here i s “no t h reat” to safety.

“There is currently no cause for concern,” Limansky said. “We are aware of the individual and we have been for some time.”

see if the student had bought a weapon recently, Limansk y sa id . O f f icers i nterviewed the student and his mother, who allowed them to search the house. There was “no indication” of a threat, and police did not find any weapons. “ We r e a l l y j u s t h a v e somebody that spouts off … says some inappropriate things,” Limansky said.

The two parties had not been i n contact u nti l the tamenabardbk@gmail.com

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”WE WANT TO OPEN UP NEW DIALOGUES. … EVERY UNDERGRADUATE MEMBER OF THE From PAGE 1 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND IS, BY NATURE, A MEMBER OF THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT function more for the sake of teamwork rather than to rep- ASSOCIATION.”

Sharon Fries-Britt, a professor in the education college, responds to a question during the symposium. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Ceremony honors univ’s first black student to earn master’s Late Rep. Parren Mitchell fought for racial equality

By Marissa Horn @thedbk For The Diamondback University faculty members gathered yesterday afternoon to honor the legacy of a civil rights pioneer from this university, the late Rep. Parren Mitchell, less than a month after the nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Mitchell, who served in Congress from 1971 to 1987, fought a segregation policy in place at this university and became the first black graduate student to take all of his classes on the campus and receive a master’s degree in 1952. The university’s sociology department held a symposium that focused on race in higher education.

“I know it’s a cliche, but he was a trailblazer for the integration of the university,” said Del. Keiffer Jackson Mitchell Jr. (D-Baltimore City), Mitchell’s grandnephew. “He did a great thing to be the first person.”

At the Critical Race Symposium on the Legacy of Congressman Parren Mitchell, panelists discussed the barriers that inhibited minorities from enrolling in higher education during the civil rights movement, focusing on the university’s current strategy to eliminate obstacles faced by minorities enrolling in higher education.

“Sixty-four years later, we still have a leaky pipeline, achievement gap, retention and

promotion gap, and as a result, a revolving door of underrepresented faculty,” said Kumea Shorter-Gooden, the university’s chief diversity officer.

Mitchell, shaped by his parents’ commitment to continuing education, was one of three students who initiated a grassroots civil rights movement at this university. The group took action against the “separate but equal” curriculum in place when then-university President Harry Clifton “Curly” Byrd told him to take classes off-campus. In August 1950, the NAACP recruited Mitchell to file a lawsuit against the university.

By October 1950, the Baltimore City Court issued a writ of mandamus, compelling the university to admit Mitchell as a full-time graduate student, four years before Brown v. Board of Education declared “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”

“The three students graduated before Brown v. Board of Education, which everyone really thinks of as the legislation that kicked off the integration of education,” university archivist Anne Turkos said.

“We were really ahead of the curve as an institution.”

Prior to enrolling in this university for graduate school, Mitchell served in the Army in World War II and graduated from Morgan State University.

At this university, he graduated with honors and a master’s degree in sociology. Upon graduation, he pursued a career

in public service to advocate for civil rights and taught sociology courses at Morgan State.

“They told me to run for Congress. I said no. I had no real interest in political life.

I was much more interested in civil rights,” said Mitchell in a 1994 interview with Outlook, a former university faculty newspaper.

Despite his initial disinterest in politics, Mitchell saw an opportunity to serve the community and further the civil rights movement, so he ran for U.S. Congress.

Mitchell went on to serve the 7th congressional district for 15 years as this state’s first black congressman and was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. In the 1980s, he found another call to public service during the South African anti-apartheid movement, pushing for economic sanctions against the country.

“As a World War II veteran, as a person who really took some knocks, to be the first person was really amazing,” said graduate student Steve Ammidown, who compiled a Maryland Room exhibit of Mitchell’s life achievements.

“Just how much he had to sacrifice to sort of be that one that was there to break down the wall. Where it was more than just being the student; it was about something we could never imagine about having to be the first.”

resent similar political ideals.

“We want to open up new dialogues,” said Ryan Belcher, Open Pa rty ticket cha i rman. “Every undergraduate member of the University of Maryland is, by nature, a member of the Student Government Association. We want them to tell us how to go forward as an SGA.” Students will also be able to vote on a referendum in support of using the SGA’s student activities fee to fund MaryPIRG, a nonprofit public interest research group that examines environmental, economic and other local issues.

If the referendum passes, the SGA will use part of the money used to support clubs and student activities to pay for MaryPIRG’s campus organizer and state director’s salaries, according to the ballot.

As the elections continue, so does the Open Party’s main outreach strategy — ca nvassi ng. For the past week, candidates stood in front of McKeldin Library and other populated campus areas to poll students to determine their concerns about the university.

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Open Party ticket chairman T he rain affected their work yesterday afternoon, Belcher, a government and politics major, said, but candidates will push forward today if weather permits.

While talking to students, Belcher said he heard transfer students say the lack of an adjustment period made them feel as though they “were thrown into the pit.”

Belcher said the party will look into solving the issue now that they know about it.

“It’s about getting SGA out there and asking students to get involved in the process and working out solutions that really integrate people outside of the formal SGA structure,” Belcher said.

After the Open Party finishes canvassing, members will continue to encourage students to lobby and speak to the state General Assembly to promote college affordability, Belcher added.

T he Open Party also hopes to continue improvi n g how s t u d e nt g ro up s receive funding, which was

subject to a major overhaul in the 2013 spring semester. Belcher said the party also will work internally to make SGA more inclusive and collaborative.

The Open Party’s platform covers ways to improve student life, organized in a 10-page outline, which includes a new gym on South Campus, healthier meals at the dining halls, Route 1 safety and textbook costs. While the list is extensive, Belcher said, SGA members will work on it piece by piece throughout the year.

Vice president of Academic Affairs candidate Charmaine Wilson-Jones also sees the new school year as a time for changes.

T he ju n ior gover n ment a nd pol it ics m ajor sa id she would work with the provost office and the Division of Information Technology to simplify the class registration process. jsnowdbk@gmail.com

RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING

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D.C. on a Dime: Around the World Embassy Tour If you’re excited for the year to be over or anxious and need an escape, this Saturday is the perfect time to take a vacation to more than 50 countries. I’m not kidding.

Washington kicks off Passport DC this week with the Around the World Embassy Tour.

Fifty embassies will open their doors to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday for cultural and educational demonstrations. Best of all, it’s free.

For more of Catherine Sheffo’s blog post, visit diamondbackonline.com.

CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, yesterday’s article, “Cyber landscape requires refreshing comp sci curricula,” incorrectly stated when Christian Johnson was hired as a contractor at NASA. He earned the position in high school.

a c c o rd i n g to h o w m a n y lecture halls they can fill up,” O’Malley said, but should instead “embrace technology and embrace new ways to deliver curriculum.”

But it’s a lso i mpor ta nt to focus on the pathway to higher education. O’Malley said he sees the state’s education system moving toward a model that allows for students to become adept i n a marketable, in-dema nd sk i l l a nd g radu ate h ig h school with a certificate in that skill. This will bolster the value of a high school diploma, he said.

And to complement this initiative, O’Malley said he would also like to see the state reform senior year of high school, to allow students to earn more college credits and get them prepared early to help bolster four-year graduation rates. This will also help on the college affordability front, he said.

This is all part of a strategy O’Malley described as promoting “competency-

based learning,” which he said has helped lay the groundwork for the future of the state’s education system, with its offering of online schools, such as through University of Maryland University College.

“All of this is a change that’s underway, and I’m excited at the ability that we have as a state,” O’Malley said.

While optimistic about the future and sanguine about the past, O’Malley said he did have some regrets and shortcomings in his tenure.

T he biggest of wh ich, he said, stemmed from the lack of substantial outcomes for students who don’t go to college and instead aim for a career and technical education. He said that as a state, “We have to break out of the college bias.”

Pushing college attendance on those who can’t afford it “isn’t going to pay your tuition bill,” O’Malley said.

He said he was disappointed that in his tenure, the state was not able to expand the number of students benefiting from a Career Technology Education curriculum.

O’Malley also touted the merits of non-STEM majors,

at a time when the state and the university are looking to strengthen the number of students enrolled in STEM programs to keep up with growing market demand for these skill sets.

Between O’Malley’s generation and today’s generation of students, there has been a change in how students approach education, he said. It has moved from field specialization to become focused on “an ability to think conceptually and to understand,” as well as an ability “to work across disciplines,” O’Malley said.

“Those that make the argument about STEM — that we should be calling it ‘STEAM’ — have a good point; we should put the ‘A’ for ‘arts,’” O’Malley sa id. “T he a r ts a lso is about conceptual thinking; it’s about symmetry a n d s y m m e t r y b re a king, every bit as much as science and math is.”

Nonetheless, he said, the push for education in STEMrelated fields is important. jbachdbk@gmail.com

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Accommodating all students Israel and the IDF

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t this university, where total enrollment exceeds 37,000 undergraduate and graduate students, those with disabilities affecting their classroom performances easily can get lost in the academic shuffle.

T h i s u n ive rs i ty ’s D i sa b i l i ty Support Service aids more than 1,000 students, according to the office’s website, which lists just 11 staff members.

Students with disabilities enrolled at this university reported a sharp contrast from how previous teachers and administrators treated their conditions: Unlike in elementary and high school, students with disabilities are responsible for seeking out help themselves for any academic issues.

At a university with tens of thousands of students and an ostensibly short-staffed DSS office, it’s understandable students have to be their own advocates, at least to some degree. The sheer size of the student population rules assessing all students’ specialized academic needs impractical — it’s reasonable for the DSS office to require students to take the initiative in reporting their disabilities.

It’s clear, however, this university’s treatment of students with disabilities needs work. Hopefully, it’s work already in progress.

Though the university is legally obligated to provide accommodations for students with disabilities, students must first report any physical or psychological conditions and consult the DSS office to receive academic services under the

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Such services include receiving double time on exams and quizzes and having someone else write down answers on tests or take notes in class.

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This university must offer DSS training to faculty in order to properly help students with disabilities succeed.

Following documentation and consultation, the office prepares an accommodation letter for students’ instructors, but there’s no guarantee professors and lecturers will adequately cater to students’ demonstrated needs.

Students said their instructors often lump all students with disabilities into one group, despite the diversity of documented disa b i l i t i e s t h a t requ ire d is ti nct accommodations.

Still, the blame for insufficient accommodation should not be placed squarely on instructors — university professors confirmed they receive little to no instruction beyond DSS office emails regarding how to deal with students with disabilities. Some have even said they would not send their children to this university if they had disabilities.

Unlike elementary and high school teachers, university professors don’t have to complete

state certification programs that ensure instructors know how to cater to students’ specialized academic needs. That lack of training — through little fault of university professors — contributes to the disconnect cited by some university students.

To properly serve students with disabilities, the university must offer instructors complete DSS training. Professors and lecturers interact with students more closely than any other university employee, and the consequences of taking a class with an instructor unreceptive to students’ needs can harm not only their GPAs but also their enthusiasm for learning and their overall university experience.

Though university reassessment of the DSS office is certainly in order, the Division of Information Technology’s Information Campus Technology Accessibility Committee admittedly is taking strides to help members of the university community with disabilities by making university Web pages more viewable and interactive.

While not as crucial as professor-student relations, that initiative is still a start. If the university can allocate some of that willingness to aid those with disabilities toward its DSS office and instructing professors on how to best help students with disabilities, it can begin to turn around its negative reputation regarding the issue — and, more importantly, help one of the university’s most underserved populations.

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Support Israel without glorifying military

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srael Week is upon us. The annual exhibition of Israeli culture will reappear across the campus as camels, SodaStream, falafel and inflatables will decorate McKeldin Mall in a spirited display of pride in Israeli society. I am proud of my native country’s accomplishments and I enjoy the opportunity to celebrate cherry tomatoes and drip irrigation, but these festivities often include an obsession with Israeli military culture as an extension of Israeli identity.

The Americanized brand of Zionism that cocoons Jewish institutions typically includes public reverence for the Israeli Defense Forces. “Wear Your IDF T-shirt Day,” as well as the bragging rights associated with being the first to sleep with a soldier on a Birthright trip, are just two ways this manifests itself — not to mention IDF kippot and Gadna mini-seminars in which American teens get to “play soldier” in the IDF. American Jews are frustrated when the general perception of Israel is based on conflict and war, yet we choose to perpetuate this visual by bombarding the campus with camouflaged faces of students wrapped in Israeli flags. This obsession with the IDF is one of the easiest ways we can display our insistence on Israel’s right to exist and its right to defend itself, but fails to address the danger of a militarized country dependent on weapons rather than morals.

During the early Zionist movement and, to a greater extent, following the Holocaust, Jewish identity shifted both in perception of self and in the way Jews wanted to be perceived by others. The “old Jews” who did not stand up for themselves, who failed to join the uprisings in the Treblinka death camp and the Warsaw Ghetto, were no longer worth being proud of — so much that many Holocaust survivors were rejected by the modern Zionists, who were ashamed of their weak roots.

Now, the “new Jews” — suntanned, Hebrew-speaking and holding guns — redefined Jewish

identity as one of self-reliance as they defended their agricultural settlements in what would become Israel.

Our collective insistence on leaving the old Jew behind persists today. We are determined to fight our persecutors, to stand up for our community, and we want the public to feel the power of the IDF. Our history as an oppressed people dominates our psyche, and we refuse to acknowledge the power shift that unfolded in the decades after the Holocaust. It certainly makes sense that this is how we choose to represent ourselves, but the real problem lies in the consequences.

It goes without saying that the IDF plays an important role within Israeli society and deserves love and appreciation from those who support the existence of a Jewish s ta te . T h e I D F ke e p s I s ra e l i s safe, fosters camaraderie across an increasingly diverse society and creates a systematic way for each and every citizen to serve its country (whether through military service or the teaching corps). I support the IDF because it keeps my sisters safe, and because it creates a structure through which 18-year-olds take responsibility for their community, building a universal sense of civic duty.

However, many American Zionists have crossed the dangerous line between support and idolization through their obsession with the IDF and military culture.

I am not criticizing the existence of the IDF, but rather how we idolize it.

Regardless of politics — left, right, center or apathetic — excessive reverence for military culture is unhealthy, and teaches us to rely on our military domination rather than our values. This is an incredibly dangerous path to follow. It distracts us from the urgency and necessity of negotiations and will continue to eat at the true meaning of being a “light unto the nations,” a people who lead by example and insist on sharing their ethics to better to the world.

Molly Bernstein is a senior Arabic studies and government and politics major. She can be reached at molly.r.bernstein@gmail.com.

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Remain loyal to close friends Betraying others is indefensible — stay true to those you care about

MARIA ROMAS Loyalty is an irreplaceable, priceless virtue far too many people take for granted. Every relationship, platonic or intimate, requires a certain amount of loyalty to continue and flourish. It’s one of the most important aspects of trust. And when something happens to break that trust — whether it’s a friend lying to you, a significant other cheating on you or any other defilement of that relationship — that link breaks. It’s nearly impossible to feel the same way about someone after he or she exploits your feelings.

When that bond is broken, there’s likely no coming back.

Loyalty is particularly important among those you call family. And in many communities, that label surpasses mere bloodlines. Even when you have a large, wonderful family that supports you in every way possible, there’s always room to open your heart to more people and include them in your inner circle. Your “extended family” is whoever looks out for you and whoever is there for you when you need them — until they’re not.

Typically, when a family member who degrades your loyalty is blood-

related, it is overlooked. There’s a saying that blood is thicker than water, and sometimes blood ties people together and helps them resist urges to break a bond. But when the family member who betrays you is someone in your inner circle, whom you have taken in and accepted as an eternal part of your life, it’s hard to know what to do.

It’s deplorable that people think they can violate a bond of trust and loyalty once that security has been established. In an instance in which an “extended family” member deceives you, goes behind your back or in some way makes it unbearable to be around them, it’s hard to simply forgive and forget. Even with family members actually related to you, it can be difficult to overcome that betrayal.

Yet there is a reason to try to move past it with people directly related to you. These are the people who are supposed to have your back — who you can go to with your troubles and are supposed to be there for you unconditionally. They are the ones who share your background and life experiences. But the people you include in your life because you think they will better it — who then end up ruining it — are the ones it’s often impossible to want to readmit into your trust.

I have been blessed with phe-

nomenal people in both my bloodrelated family and my “extended family.” People have accepted me into their inner circle and have helped me in more ways than I ever thought possible. I hope I have been able to help others in some portion of the way they have all helped me countless times.

And when I see a member of my family hurt, it makes my blood boil.

When I see someone exploit a relationship with someone I love, it doesn’t make sense to me. In that way, loyalty is one of the virtues I expect in people, and that’s not an outrageous thing to presume.

Watching people throw away relationships that have been forged over years or generations by breaking that loyalty is one of the worst things I can imagine, and I hate seeing it happen.

So remember when someone takes you into his or her circle, it’s a big deal. It’s not something to scoff at, to take advantage of or brush off. Watching people destroy their family relationships makes me want to reinforce my own and ensure that each of those special people know how important they are to me. I urge you all to do the same.

Maria Romas is a senior English major and former opinion editor. She can be reached at mromasdbk@gmail.com.

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A call to freeze tuition

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resident Wallace Loh: The University System of Maryland is expected to raise tuition at this university by 3 percent, according to an email you sent to the student body. This increase, while comparable to the average 2.9 percent increase for in-state students at fouryear public universities nationwide, demonstrates a widespread trend of balancing budgets on the backs of students. The cost-of-living adjustment this year was 1.5 percent, making our tuition increase seem much less modest. As students, paying tuition is part of our cost of living. No educational institution should raise costs at a rate higher than the cost of living, especially when many bright high school students have to delay or forgo a college education because of the price tag.

Though the university system tuition increase is in line with the average national increase, and this state’s system is considered at about average affordability relative to other state systems, we believe our university should be a leading — rather than average — institution when it comes to providing accessible education. To further this belief, we are demanding you publicly support a three-year tuition freeze for the university system.

We also believe transparency is necessary to move toward a sustainable and affordable system of education, especially when private institutions are involved. Corporations, unlike public institutions, are profit-motivated. Because of this motivation, we find it difficult to trust any corporation, even if it has a relationship with a public insti-

tution. More specifically, with documented instances of Sallie Mae’s racist redlining policies and of risky contracts between universities and banks, we are wary of any relationship between a private entity and an institution of education. In this light, we are demanding you make publicly available the contract between Capital One Financial Corp. and this university. We are not alleging any wrongdoing on the part of Capital One, but we cannot trust the assurance of a university official alone that no wrongdoing is taking place. We will only be satisfied if the contract is made public.

We are making these two demands in the context of a national student debt crisis. One in 5 American households has education debt, posing an increasingly large threat to our economic recovery. The aggregate level of student loan debt is at $1.2 trillion, and with the Department of Education originating nearly $100 billion of federal student loans per year, action needs to be taken quickly.

We believe this university, with leadership from its students and aid from its administration, can become a pioneer in fighting the student debt crisis. You, President Loh, can help us turn this university into that pioneer by publicly advocating for a three-year tuition freeze and disclosing the contract between Capital One and the university.

Sincerely, The UMD Student Labor Action Project Team SLAP is a student-run organization that fights for economic justice in the classroom and the workplace. Contact the organization at umdslap@gmail.com.

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The things you do well, you very likely do better than anyone else -- though you’re certainly not the kind to blow your own horn! You are confident that your skills will serve you adequately in a down-to-earth, low-key sort of way -- and so they do, again and again. Success, for you, is something unique and highly personal.

Also born on this date are: Willie Nelson, singer; Kirsten Dunst, actress; Cloris Leachman, actress; Eve Arden, actress; Jill Clayburgh, actress; Jane Campion, screenwriter; Burt Young, actor.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You’ll enjoy spending time with friends, provided you have cleared your plate of pressing tasks that would otherwise be hanging over you.

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By Dustin Levy @dustinblevy Staff writer It was the perfect farewell.

Parks and Recreation’s sixth season finale tied the activities in Pawnee, Indiana, into a tight bow, and the series has been renewed for a seventh and probably final season. In the episode’s final moments, the show jumped three years into the future, opening up numerous creative possibilities for the end of Parks and Recreation’s run.

After a season full of departures and goodbyes, it makes sense for Parks and Recreation to avoid hitting the same notes in its final season; its time leap is a wise and important decision for comedic television.

Executive producer Michael Schur confirmed the show would be leaping into 2017 in the show’s seventh season.

“The natural rhythm of the show and the big creative jump we take at the end of this season certainly suggests that we’re moving in that direction,” Schur told Entertainment Weekly last week.

The concluding scenes of the finale featured Amy Poehler’s Leslie Knope managing her new office with the National Parks Conservation Asso-

PARKS AND RECREATION surprised audiences with a three-year time jump in its season finale, affirming its place in comic television as a smart, inventive comedy.

Executive producer Michael Schur said the show’s seventh season — which will be set in 2017 — most likely will be its final one. photos courtesy of insidetv.ew.com ciation and her triplets with husband Ben (Adam Scott), an incompetent Jon Hamm getting fired and Larry (née Jerry) with a new name: Terry.

The sixth season featured the departures of Rashida Jones’ Ann Perkins and Rob Lowe’s Chris Traeger. In addition, Leslie learned she was pregnant with triplets toward the end of the season, a sure sign Leslie’s personal and professional lives were coming together successfully. The finale added to this feeling of conclusiveness with Leslie’s Unity Concert, designed to finalize the merger between Pawnee and neighboring town Eagleton. The episode featured several triumphs — the integration of favorite guest stars, Ben getting Cones of Dunshire patented, Ron Swanson outing his jazz musician alter-ego Duke Silver and musical performances by Ginuwine, The Decemberists, Letters to

Cleo and, of course, the fictitious Mouse Rat. On top of that, Leslie met her idol Michelle Obama and made the choice to accept a job in Chicago.

It was a satisfying conclusion made complicated by the final twist: Leslie found a solution to stay in Pawnee, pitching that renting out a floor of City Hall would be cheaper and closer to the parks where she would be working.

“We may go back and see a couple of things here and there of what happened in the interim, but we’re not faking you out,” Schur told Entertainment Weekly. “This is a real shift for the show in terms of when it takes place.”

By skipping three years, Parks and Recreation will be cutting out a great deal of progression in Pawnee, such as Leslie’s pregnancy, her and Ben’s handling of triplet babies, the success

of Tom’s Bistro and how Larry’s name got changed to Terry. However, this is a welcome outcome — pregnancy and babies are well-worn territory on sitcoms, and dedicating the show’s final season to this subject would have felt stale. Season six gave Ann a number of pregnancy storylines, so creating new ones for Leslie could have been difficult or unimaginative.

Now, the show’s final installment has endless possibilities. What have Pawnee’s finest been up to since 2014?

Will there be flashbacks? Can a new setting provide more comedy for the show? The jump to the future guarantees the last season of Parks and Recreation will continue to surprise — a rarity when most shows tend to peter out toward the end.

Schur, a former writer on The Office, appears to be avoiding the

mistakes of that show’s conclusion.

While The Office dragged on a few seasons after the departure of Steve Carell’s Michael Scott — the undeniable star of the show — Parks and Recreation has a deadline in mind and a twist that will keep viewers hooked until the end.

Parks and Recreation thrives on the unexpected. The show’s proposals and weddings often occurred randomly and in the middle of seasons, instead of during finales and episodes with major hype like other sitcoms.

It’s no coincidence the high points of season six came from shocking and progressive moments — the Pawnee/ Eagleton merger, Leslie’s recall election, Ann and Chris departing and the revelation that Leslie was having triplets.

I’d like to see a Parks and Recreation in 2017 and the show’s previous innovation strongly suggests it will succeed toward the end and take advantage of a creative premise.

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Griffin posts 10 goals in ACC tournament to win MVP Attacker earns award after missing out on All-ACC team; Terps produce 13 goals despite Syracuse’s 38 fouls

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer Terrapins women’s lacrosse attacker Brooke Griffin was among those named to the preseason All-ACC team, but when the league released its All-ACC first team April 23 before the conference tournament, Griffin didn’t make the cut.

Instead, the redshirt junior made the second team.

In a conference filled with talent at the attacker position, Syracuse’s Alyssa Murray and Kayla Treanor and North Carolina’s Abbey Friend were the three attackers to make the first team.

But Griffin took home her own award this weekend with her performance in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She scored seven goals in the No. 1-seed Terps’ victory over No. 5-seed Virginia on Friday — tying an ACC tournament record — and added a hat trick in the championship win over No. 2-seed Syracuse on Sunday to earn tournament MVP honors.

“Brooke has such great field sense,” coach Cathy Reese said. “If we can get her in the right spot, then she is going to finish. She is a great shooter, and she knows what to do with the ball when it’s in her stick.”

Terps midfielders Taylor Cummings and Kelly McPartland entered the tournament tied with Griffin as the team’s leading goal-scorers. Now, Griffin leads the team with 54 goals and has a 66.7 percent shooting percentage, 10 percentage points better than any other starter.

6-0 start by scoring the first seven goals of the contest. In both games the early leads proved enough, with neither opponent pulling closer than three goals.

While the Terps weren’t as dominant early against Syracuse, they did score the game’s first two goals. And when the Orange tied the game at two and then three, the Terps responded with a three-goal scoring run that gave them a lead they would never relinquish.

“We just want to start off on the opening whistle,” Reese said. “It’s about executing what we are asking to do all over the field.”

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attacker brooke griffin scored seven goals in a win over No. 5-seed Virginia in the ACC tournament semifinal and posted a hat trick in the championship. chester lam/the diamondback Griffin has continued to progress as a top offensive option, and her 10 goals in three games this weekend helped lead the Terps to their sixth straight ACC title.

“She is not done yet,” Reese said. “She is still working to get better, and I think we are just going to see her get better as the season goes on.”

STAYING DISCIPLINED When the then-No. 2 Terps traveled to the Carrier Dome

on March 10 to battle then-No. 3 Syracuse, it the teams has a physical game. The Orange committed 28 fouls, but the Terps overcame Syracuse’s defense for a 12-10 road victory.

Syracuse played more physically in the ACC championship, committing 38 fouls.

“They are very aggressive,” Reese said. “It’s a different style of play than we play here. It’s very physical, and we had to talk with our offense a lot about it — staying poised, don’t let it get to you and not letting the

excessive fouling get to you.”

The Terps offense once again produced despite Syracuse’s tactics in a 13-7 win Sunday. While the offense overcame the fouls at one end, the Terps defense remained disciplined at the other.

The Terps committed eight fouls in the game and found a balance between fouling and forcing turnovers. The Terps caused seven turnovers compared to the Orange’s four.

“Our girls did a really nice job,” Reese said. “They

really handled the pressure.

They were really composed through the entire game.”

NEVER TRAILING Midfielder Zoe Stukenberg earned a free-position shot less than two minutes into Thursday’s quarterfinal matchup against No. 8-seed Virginia Tech. The freshman found the back of the net for the first score of a six-goal run by the Terps.

I n t h e se m i f i n a l s, t h e Terps topped Thursday’s

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attackman tim rotanz (20) and the Terps posted their season-low goal total in the 6-5 loss to the Fighting Irish on Friday in the semifinals of the ACC tournament. chester lam/the diamondback

defense

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contest in the ensuing week to pick up on opposing offensive tendencies, schemes and personnel packages, and made adjustments accordingly.

Attackman Mike Chanenchuk scored three first-half goals in the regular-season matchup between the Terps and the Fighting Irish. On Friday, though, the senior was held scoreless for the second time this season, and the Terps had their lowest scoring output of the season.

Meanwhile, 2013 USILA A l l -A m e r i c a h o n o ra b l e mention attackman Matt Kavanagh compiled six points for the Fighting Irish in the teams’ April 19 meeting. But the Terps — namely defender Goran Murray, who spent most of the night guarding Kavanagh — limited the sophomore to one point on one goal in the rematch at PPL Park, though that score was the game-winner with 6.5 seconds remaining.

“There’s some advantage to us in playing a team for the seventh and eighth quarters in the last seven days,” Corrigan said Friday. “It gave us a chance to get a little bit better at our communication and decision-making against the things that they

NOTRE DAME. ... THEY DO A GREAT JOB.” JOHN TILLMAN

were doing. And we got some big saves.”

For the second straight weekend against the Terps, Kelly compiled double-digit saves. The junior went on to stop eight shots in the ACC championship game against the Orange to lead the Fighting Irish to the conference title. But for most of the 2014 season, Kelly’s role on the team was in limbo as he split time with fellow goalkeeper Shane Doss.

Kelly started and played at least three quarters in the Fighting Irish’s first two games. Corrigan then started Kelly in the team’s ACC opener at North Carolina on March 1 but pulled the junior in favor of Doss after he surrendered four goals in the first nine minutes without making a save.

Kelly didn’t see the field again until more than a month later when Doss struggled in the first half against Duke.

Kelly came in for the final 4:24 of the second quarter, played the entire second half and finished with seven saves in an eight-goal loss to the Blue Devils.

Doss played the entirety of the Fighting Irish’s win over

Terrapins men’s lacrosse coach Marquette a week later, but the two goalkeepers again split time during a 15-5 win over Robert Morris on April 12.

Kelly — who played high school lacrosse just outside Philadelphia at The Haverford School — started Notre Dame’s next game against the Terps and made 14 saves in the four-goal loss. He then started both tournament wins for the Fighting Irish at PPL Park and clinched the championship game with a pointblank save in the contest’s closing seconds.

“There’s nothing more disappointing than what happened to him,” Corrigan said Friday. “And yet if you were at our practice every day, you would have never seen a second of that. … He did what a good teammate and a good young man does.

He worried about getting himself better. He worried about supporting his teammate and preparing himself for the opportunity should it come back his way. And that’s all you can ever ask of anybody in that situation.”

A m a to m a tc h e d Ke l ly with an equally impressive showing Friday night and

led a dominant six-on-six defensive performance from the Terps. The Fighting Irish scored six goals, but three of those came in transition and another came during an extra-man up opportunity.

Still, those fast-break goals — including Kavanagh’s clincher — proved costly for the Terps.

“They have a lot of speed in the open field,” Tillman said.

“And when you have that speed and that much space, it does cause some problems.”

Ultimately, the Fighting Irish came up with stops during their final two defensive possessions. The first ended when Kelly saved an open shot from midfielder Henry West, and the second concluded when defender Garrett Epple forced Chanenchuk into a turnover with 15 seconds remaining in regulation.

After midfielder Jack Near scooped up the ground ball, the Terps failed to halt the speedster in transition, and Kavanagh slotted his first goal of the game to seal a victory in a contest marked by stifling defense.

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and the Dukes sealed the win with three runs in the seventh and eighth.

The Terps pitchers gave up 10 hits and issued six walks to a Dukes offense w i t h o u t o n e o f i ts to p hitters, first baseman/outfielder Matt Tenaglia.

In his second straight midweek start, left-hander Zach Morris allowed three runs (two earned), six hits, three walks and struck out four in six innings.

Morris struggled early as he allowed six base runners in the first three innings.

After escaping a basesloaded jam unscathed in the first inning, Morris gave up the first run of the contest when James Madison right fielder Tyler Gregory knocked an RBI double in the third.

In the teams’ first meeting, the Terps (25-19) scored two runs in the first, only for the Dukes (15-26) to tie the game up in the bottom of the inning. Yesterday, the Terps responded similarly by quickly answering in the bottom of the third.

First baseman LaMonte Wade’s RBI single, the Terps’ only hit of the inning, tied the game at one. Wade was one of two Terps to have multi-hit games, and he went 2-for-4 with a walk and an RBI.

Because the ACC added Syracuse and Notre Dame in the offseason, every team played a first-round game in the ACC tournament.

The Terps won three games in four days, in a new experience for a team that never played back-to-back games during the regular season.

The Terps don’t have a game scheduled for this weekend, however, and will have more than a week to rest before the NCAA tournament. So before the team began play in the ACC tournament, Reese told her team to play hard regardless of their fatigue.

“Every single person on our team did that, and that was crucial to our success,” Reese said. rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

The Dukes, though, capitalized on another Terps defensive miscue in the fifth.

With one out and a runner on first, a grounder slid under third baseman Jose Cuas’ glove. The next batter, shortstop Kyle Weston, drove in both runners with a single to left.

“We can’t use the wet conditions as an excuse,” Wade said. “They’re playing in the same thing we’re playing in, so we definitely can’t use the rain as an excuse. We need to get the job done.”

The Dukes tacked on a run in the seventh and two more in the eighth, which put the Terps in a 6-1 hole.

Szefc made a couple of lineup changes in the eighth that helped jump-start the dormant offense. With one out and a runner on first, third baseman Mike Rescigno pinch-hit for Cuas and singled up the middle. Papio then drove in a run with a single to left. Rescigno scored later in the inning and cut the deficit to 6-3.

The Terps couldn’t complete the late comeback, though, and they suffered their fourth straight loss to further damage their chances of earning an NCAA tournament at-large bid.

“This past week was a horrible week for us,” shortstop Blake Schmit said. “It’s just a bad week.” psuittsdbk@gmail.com

First baseman lamonte wade watches a pitch in the Terps’ 6-3 loss to James Madison yesterday. Wade was one of two Terps with multiple hits . christian jenkins/the diamondback

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SOGGY AND suffocating Terps, Fighting Irish display stout defense in 6-5 Notre Dame win in ACC tournament semifinal

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer The rain started before the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team and Notre Dame stepped onto the field for their ACC semifinal at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania, Friday night, and it didn’t stop until well into the third quarter of the contest.

Players struggled to keep their footing, especially when trying to cut or quickly change direction. Balls slipped out of soaking wet sticks, passes sailed high and the teams combined for 28 turnovers in the game. Not to mention, the topseeded Terps and No. 4-seed Fighting Irish scored just four first-half goals on a combined 31 shots, which equates to an abysmal 13 percent success rate.

The weather played a role in a lowscoring 6-5 victory for Notre Dame,

which won the league title and clinched an NCAA tournament berth after a victory over No. 3-seed Syracuse on Sunday. But amid the downpour were exceptional performances from both defensive units, including Fighting Irish goalkeeper Conor Kelly (12 saves) and Terps goalkeeper Niko Amato (nine saves).

“It was going to be a little bit of a grind-itout game,” coach John Tillman said Friday.

Friday’s contest marked the second time in a week the teams played each other, and both Tillman and Notre Dame coach Kevin Corrigan said the back-to-back games were key in their teams’ defensive success in the conference semifinal.

The Terps defeated the Fighting Irish by four goals in the ACC regular-season finale in South Bend, Indiana, on April 19. Both coaches analyzed film from that See DEFENSE, Page 7

Midfielder Joe Locascio flips a pass while Notre Dame defenders converge on him in the Fighting Irish’s 6-5 win Friday night. chester lam/the diamondback

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Terps lose fourth straight contest Defensive miscues in wet conditions prove costly against James Madison

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer Anthony Papio took a step back while keeping his eye focused on the small circular white speck in the dreary gray sky yesterday.

But the Terrapins baseball right fielder’s foot couldn’t gain traction and slid across the rain-soaked outfield grass. Papio quickly recovered and took a few steps forward, but he slipped again and a routine fly ball dropped to the ground in front of him.

By the time Papio picked up the ball and threw it toward the infield, James Madison second baseman Connor Brown was en route to third with a one-out triple in the third inning. Two batters later, Brown scored the first run of the game.

The Terps made several other uncharacteristic defensive mistakes in wet conditions yesterday, and their offense struggled in a 6-3 loss to James Madison

“THEY’RE PLAYING IN THE SAME THING WE’RE PLAYING IN, SO WE DEFINITELY CAN’T USE THE RAIN AS AN EXCUSE. WE NEED TO GET THE JOB DONE.” LAMONTE WADE

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“James Madison, obviously, those guys wanted to play,” coach John Szefc said. “They drove over here in a rainstorm to play, so you’ve got to give them a lot of credit. They came over and played hard and did what they had to do.”

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