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SGA pushes Police face more brutality charges to remove ‘rioting’ from conduct code Two more students allege county police beat them during riot

BY BEN PRESENT Staff writer

Change in policy is unlikely, official says

BY ANNA ISAACS Staff writer

In an attempt to persuade university administrators to remove the word “rioting” from the Code of Student Conduct, SGA North Hill legislator Natalia CuadraSaez will meet with officials this week to establish a foundation for the change, which she hopes to push through next semester.

University policy lists more than a dozen offenses that could result in a student’s expulsion. The Code of Student Conduct dictates that students found guilty of assault, theft, vandalism or fire setting — all crimes likely to occur during a riot — could face dismissal from the university. But the Student Government Association passed a resolution about two weeks ago demanding the term “rioting” be removed from this list.

Legislators said they supported the measure because the ambiguity of the term “rioting” — its definition has come under scrutiny since the March 4 riot — may end up punishing innocent bystanders. Although outrage has permeated the university community on behalf of students who have fought charges of

Two more students have come forward with allegations Prince George’s County Police officers beat them unlawfully during the post-Duke victory riot March 4.

Senior William Wang, 23, and alumnus Christopher Booze, 21, are both considering filing civil suits against county police, joining junior John McKenna and sophomore Ben Donat. All four men have had charges against them relating to the riot dropped. The lawyer for three of the men, Terrell N. Roberts, said as more and more allegations of police brutal-

ity surface, police will have a difficult time pursuing criminal charges against any students.

“My prediction is there will be no convictions coming from all these arrests,” he said.

County police spokesman Maj. Andy Ellis said he couldn’t comment last night on the new allegations.

Attempts to reach Wang were unsuccessful, but Roberts said Wang left a downtown College Park bar, where he had watched the game, to make a phone call when he saw students recovering from being pepper-sprayed in Panda. Wang attempted to help the students, Roberts said, and then approached a few officers and

asked them why they were pepperspraying students.

He was then knocked unconscious by an unknown number of officers, Roberts said, and dragged to a pool of arrested people waiting to be taken into custody. Wang had cuts over his left eye and the left side of his face, and bruises and scrapes on both arms.

His charging documents, however, allege the wounds to be from a fall he sustained while trying to evade police. The documents say that county police officer “Cpl. Williams made over several attempts” to have Wang disperse

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Senior William Wang alleges these wounds were incurred in a confrontation with county police at the March 4 riot.

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BY JON WOLPER Senior staff writer

Weezer and Ben Folds electrify audience of about 12,000 at university’s Art Attack on Friday

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A few things make Rivers Cuomo seem like a bit of a nerd from the outset, such as his ubiquitous hornrimmed glasses and Ivy League education. But neither stopped the Weezer frontman from achieving rock star status Friday night at Byrd Stadium.

At Student Entertainment Events’ 27th annual Art Attack concert, which also featured Ben Folds and local band Ivy Rose, Cuomo darted around the stage, smashed a ukulele and bounced around on a minitrampoline. He punched the air and turned his microphone stand vertically while the band’s “W” logo shone in the background.

And he did all that for a much larger audience than last year’s performers. While more than 6,500 people were on hand to watch 2009’s headliner rapper Ludacris, this year an estimated 12,000 tickets were sold, according to Matt Adler, the concerts director for SEE.

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Regents scour social media for donors Fundraising continues to lag behind goals

BY BEN SLIVNICK Senior staff writer

First, it was your little brother. Then, your parents. Now, the university is also hopping on the social networking bandwagon. But unlike your pesky relatives, the university isn’t signing on to share family pictures and nag — it’s after your wallet.

“We have ample anecdotal evidence that social media is uncovering new donors,” Barry Gossett, a major university donor, reported to the Board of Regents on Thursday. “Prior to 2007, all of us were busy solely answering the phones. That’s changed now.”

That change is evident from Twitter to Facebook to YouTube, where university President Dan Mote’s spring 2010 video address has notched more than 5,500 views in nine days.

And with fundraising continuing to fall behind expectations across the University System of Maryland’s 15 institutions, regents said they’re counting on social media to make up for the recession’s blow.

“It’s a better way of communicating,” said Gossett, chairman of the regents’ advancement committee. “You can get an instant response ... as opposed to mail, where it comes and maybe you’ll open it, maybe you won’t.”

University officials shared several success stories with regents, who compose a governing board for the university system.

At Frostburg State University, the president’s newly minted blog has opened a new

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SGA overhauls structure to invite ‘average’ student back in System will return to how the organization was structured pre-Jonathan Sachs administration

BY ANNA ISAACS Staff writer

In the second half of a more than 10hour meeting, the SGA voted early Thursday morning to revert the organization’s stucture back to a setup similar to what it was under former SGA president Jonathan Sachs.

Last year, the number of Student Government Association committees was cut from 12 to five to review legislation, and five new executive departments were cre-

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ated largely to enact SGA policy. SGA executives would no longer chair legislative committees and non-legislators would have to apply for any voting position, including committee chair.

But after a unanimous vote, those new departments were eliminated and committees will once again be charged with both policy and legislative work.

SGA President Steve Glickman made the changes because he said the structure this

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CONCERT from page 1 After a host of SEE concerts centered heavily on hip-hop or rap in the past few years, including Ludacris, Lupe Fiasco and Girl Talk, “it was time to do a rock show,” Adler said.

Adler attributed the huge increase in ticket sales to both the notion that Weezer draws a naturally larger crowd than Ludacris and SEE’s more aggressive promotional campaign this year.

“It’s a much bigger show production than we’ve ever had before,” he said.

By the time Weezer began its set — a little after 8:30 p.m. — eight sections of Byrd Stadium were entirely full, and an additional 3,700 attendees — those who came earliest and were given a special pink bracelet — stood in a general admission area, closer to the front of the stage. Originally, Adler said, SEE planned to let 5,000 people into the standing room area, but last-minute fire code restrictions forced the organization to reduce the number.

During the show, Weezer barreled through a career-spanning set list, rarely pausing between cuts as varied as “Can’t Stop Partying,” from 2009’s Raditude (on which Cuomo sang Lil Wayne’s verse from the album version) and “Buddy Holly” from 1994’s Weezer.

In the encore, the band launched into a cover of MGMT’s “Kids,” which soon morphed into cover-within-a-

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His lawyer said otherwise.

“He didn’t fall on the ground on his own and hit his head,” Roberts said. “He was knocked to the ground and then knocked unconscious and then struck several times.”

Roberts said the charging documents are part of a county police effort to hide the actions of officers.

“If any of that were true, the officer would have showed up at trial,” Roberts said, adding that Wang did not resist arrest.

“The charges were merely a cover-up for the use of excessive force that evening.”

Roberts said Wang recalled using his knee to press against the wounds on his face to stop the bleeding because his hands were not available to him. Roberts added that Wang was one of the luckier students who were taken to the hospital rather than directly into custody.

Sharon Weidenfeld, a private investigator working with Roberts and the students, would not say if Wang was intoxicated at the time but pointed out that his charging documents do not mention alcohol at all. He was charged with willfully acting in a disorderly manner to the disturbance of public peace.

Booze, the alumnus also looking to take action against county police, was trying to pick up his cell phone after dropping it when police used excessive force against him, according to his attorney Brian Timian.

Timian said Booze was try-

Weezer bassist Scott Shriner rocks out under the spotlight at Art Attack on Friday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

cover of Lady Gaga (who Cuomo emulated by donning a blonde wig).

“It was incredible,” said Patty Lora, a freshman art major, who said Weezer has been her favorite band since she was 10 years old.

“They were just such good sports,” added Chris Schulz, a freshman letters and sciences major. “They came back for, what, three encores? That was great. It was just an awesome show.”

Though the night’s emphasis was obviously on the headliner, Folds was able to control a potentially unwieldy crowd during his set, which consisted of nothing more than the artist, a piano and some improvised percussion.

At one point, he invited the audience to sing the expletiveridden second verse during his emotive cover of Dr. Dre’s “Bitches Ain’t Shit.” Later, he taught the thousands in attendance a three-part harmony to serve as background vocals

ing to find a way to his car but continued to meet a wall of officers who would not let him pass; other students have reported being similarly cornered. Timian said Booze was

by College Park Bicycle on Knox Road when someone bumped him, causing him to drop his phone. After attempting to retrieve it, police instructed him to walk away.

When Booze bent over to pick up the phone, he was knocked unconscious by police.

“Next thing he remembers, he’s in Ritchie Coliseum in handcuffs with blood coming down his face,” Timian said.

All six people who have had a court date so far have had their charges dropped, including Booze.

Timian said Booze’s civil suit will require video footage to identify the officers who struck his client. He said he was pretty sure the officers he saw in court were not the ones he is looking for.

Wang’s case also hinges on additional help.

Weidenfeld stressed the importance of witnesses for her client’s case, pointing out students are fully protected if they come forward with information.

“We are still very actively investigating the beatings of William Wang and other students that night,” Weidenfeld said. “What happened to William was a terrible act of police brutality, and we’re hoping that anyone that saw any part of this will come forward and speak with us.”

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during a powerful performance of “Not the Same” off 2001’s Rockin’ the Suburbs.

Though Folds’ set was sparse, even students unfamiliar with his music enjoyed the show.

“I’ve only heard a couple songs, so it was a lot more fun than I was expecting,” junior kinesiology major Jen Frame said.

But because Folds’ performance — and that of Ivy Rose, an all-girl band from Gaithersburg that provided a shot of adrenaline for the early arrivers — took place while the sun was still out, some saw it as not much more than a warm-up before Weezer took the stage.

According to Schulz, Folds’ set mostly seemed like a buildup to the headliner’s, which he said was “on another level.”

“I can’t wait to see what they do next year,” he said. “I’m really excited now.”

Above, Weezer serenades the crowd at Art Attack on Friday; below, lead singer Rivers Cuomo sings solo. PHOTOS BY JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

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POLICY from page 1 rioting following the Terrapin men’s basketball team’s victor y over Duke in March, university officials said the policy, which has been in place for four years, isn’t likely to change any time soon.

John Zacker, director of the Office of Student Conduct, said there is little chance the word would be omitted from the code.

“I think it’s a necessar y deterrent, and anything less has the potential of weakening that deterrent,” he said.

In Februar y 2006, the Board of Regents — the 17member board that sets University System of Mar yland policy — mandated all state institutions devise a riot policy, prompting the University Senate to recommend “rioting” be added to the list of expulsion-worthy offenses.

University President Dan Mote signed the policy shortly after the 2006 riot that followed the women’s basketball team’s victor y over Duke in the National Championship.

Zacker said if any changes were to be made to the existing policy, the process would again have to begin with the senate and be approved by the university president and

eventually the regents.

“The Board of Regents was ver y clear in its policy several years ago that necessitated a requirement for expulsion for all institutions,” he said. “Certainly I’m happy to have a discussion with legislators about the nature of that policy and the histor y behind it.”

That’s exactly what CuadraSaez said she plans on doing, noting she will meet with Zacker early in the week and hopes to broach the topic with the senate — particularly the Student Conduct Committee — when it reconvenes in the fall.

“It won’t just be a one-person decision,” Cuadra-Saez said. “It will definitely be a process.”

Zacker said the term’s use in the code is hardly absolute and allows room for individual judgment, despite SGA legislators’ concerns that the language can be applied arbitrarily.

“I think the policy is crafted in a manner that provides for latitude in decision-making but that clearly a statement of expulsion ... sends a strong deterrence to the student population,” he said. “If there are circumstances that lessen the seriousness of the rioting offense, there is an opportunity for a lesser penalty.” aisaacs@umdbk.com

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Springing the question

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Social Q&A website grows popular among students, university officials

BY JESSICA BAUER Staff writer

As new social networking sites begin to appear, offering everything from mystery webcam chats to 140-character message boards, one just beginning to catch on focuses on a different aspect of social interactions: Q&A. Formspring.me, which links to both Facebook and Twitter, allows members to post questions and answers on others’ pages, either anonymously or under a username. Senior communication major Stacey Acevero said she enjoys being asked fun, interesting questions by other users.

The site’s popularity is picking up among the university community and in the College Park area as students, Terrapin athletes, university officials and notable alumni log onto the site to address burning questions submitted to them anonymously.

U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who graduated from this university and represents College Park, answers questions about his political ideals on his Formspring page.

One user asks Hoyer, “What is your stance on Social Security?” He answers: “I want to preserve Social Security for Future Generations by restoring fiscal discipline to the federal government and ending the practice of borrowing from Social Security for other programs.”

John Wechsler, who worked with business partner Ade Olonah to launch the site, said they started Formspring in

OMNIBUS from page 1 year eliminated the average student from the process.

“We’re changing to a model where students and legislators are able to interact, discuss and advocate together on behalf of the students,” he said. “Now students can have an active voice in committees when legislation is discussed.”

But Sachs said Glickman made these changes based on a misunderstanding of how the new system was meant to function.

“I think all year, [Glickman] used a much more per-

November 2009 to make it easier for people to create comment boxes for blogs, a trend that was rising in popularity.

“We set out to give people a single-purpose environment to ask and answer questions — essentially to do what they were already doing. We just made it a lot easier for them,” he wrote in an e-mail. “We wanted to make it easier for people to learn more about their friends and themselves by asking and answering questions.”

Although Wechsler said they have no intended audience, he replied to a question on his Formspring page that 33 percent of users are between the Terrapin men’s basketball guard Adrian Bowie answers questions on his Formspring page. ages of 18 and 34. He also said PHOTO COURTESY OF FORMSPRING.ME the site has had more than 50 ments to people they might account, Wechsler added. million unique visitors in the modeling career aspirations.

“Whatever someone asks “The best thing is being not care for,” he said. “I, perpast month alone.

Brian Vandegrift, a fresh- asked silly questions, or asking sonally, have not had any bad you remains unseen by until it is man business and psychology silly questions or using it to experiences with people ever yone major who recently jumped on anonymously find out some- anonymously being rude answered,” he said. “The board the growing trend, said one’s favorite restaurant, band, and/or mean. But this is most best way to stop someone he uses Formspring to interact etc., so you can surprise them on likely because I haven’t adver- like this is to not give them tised my Formspring account the pleasure of a reply. Simwith friends through an inno- a later occasion,” she said.

But the anonymity of the that well, so not many people ply delete it and move on.” vative medium.

And though both Acevero “I heard about Formspring site also causes controversy know mine exists.”

Wechsler said the negative and Vandegrift said they have from a friend who made an for some users. Acevero said account before I did. We she has gotten rude, overly comments are just like those gotten sucked into the site, were having fun with his site, personal questions on her people can hear in the physical they said they don’t think Formspring has the same world. so I figured I would make Formspring page.

“Formspring is a micro- appeal as other social net“I do get bothered when one as well,” he said. “I like that Formspring offers any- people ask me rude or snarky cosm of the world we live in,” works.

“I feel like Formspring will body and ever ybody the questions,” she said. “It has he said. “You have the good chance to express them- happened, and people do it and the bad. We would love to catch on with more college selves the way they truly anonymously and hide to be a see a world where all mean- students, but it will not accuspirited speech disappeared. mulate to anything nearly as want to. If someone wants to pest or to mess up your day.”

Vandegrift said while he But as long as we have people popular as other new websites, say something to a certain somebody, they can hide likes the anonymity the site who think it is OK to say and such as Chatroulette,” Vandebehind anonymity to get offers, he also understands the do mean things, we will have grift said. “No one will want to to deal with this issue — use Formspring if the only downside. whatever they need out.” questions they are getting are “It seems like Formspring offline and online.”

Acevero joined Formspring Users who don’t like the rude [or] disrespectful.” to give her friends and fans an quickly became a medium online space to ask her ques- through which people vent anonymity have the ability to tions about her social life and negative and hurtful com- turn it off on their Formspring bauer@umdbk.com

fect system in SGA as an excuse to account for his own lack of completion of his own initiatives,” he said. “It is completely and totally more inclusive to students, and to erase that is just going to be a detriment to the student body.”

Sachs said the old system overloaded legislators, making legislative processes less transparent to average students. “[Glickman] lacks the capacity to understand how the system worked,” Sachs said.

While no amendments to the omnibus bill were proposed that specifically addressed these changes, another created plenty of con-

troversy for the legislature.

South Campus Commons Legislator Lisa Crisalli proposed a successful amendment to remove the SGA logo from Student Entertainment Events materials — a stamp that SEE was previously required to include.

Crisalli said the logo requirement was a “vestigial remnant” of when SEE was an arm of the SGA — it is now an independent organization — and that by stamping it onto SEE materials, the SGA was taking credit for another organization’s work.

But Glickman argued that because SEE is funded in part by student activities fees, stu-

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“I don’t know why we have this phallusdriven need to put our logo on everything.”

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dents should know the money comes from allocation by the SGA. “Nearly a quarter of student activities fees goes to SEE,” said Vice President of Finance Andrew Steinberg, who pointed to the tiny, barely visible logo on a flier for a SEE event as proof it wasn’t misleading

to students.

Most legislators took a different view — the prevailing one when the amendment passed.

“I don’t know why we have this phallus-driven need to put our logo on ever ything,” said Anton Medvedev, an outlying commuter legislator.

Two new positions were also created: a critical activist position, a self-nominated position that will be filled with the legislature’s approval, was proposed by Medvedev, who will evaluate the performances of legislators on a weekly basis, and a transfer student legislator position, proposed by Denton Legislator Ian Winchester. aisaacs@umdbk.com

dialogue with the university community. At Towson University, Facebook invites have prompted unprecedented turnouts at alumni events.

And at this university, similar promotions fueled a student drive to donate meal points to peers struggling to pay their bills. The drive attracted 1,180 students who donated $22,700.

But with graying hairs and balding heads seated around the conference table, the regents and officials admitted they still have much to learn on the social networking front. In one instance, regent Tom McMillen referred to Twitter as if it were a foreign language.

“If we don’t speak in their language, we’re almost speaking in Martian to them,” McMillen said, referring to the younger demographic the regents are targeting. “We need to figure out how to speak with them now, so we can speak to them later.”

McMillen and other officials stressed that social networking isn’t targeted only toward netting short-term donations.

Rather, he said an online presence will hopefully cultivate relationships that pay off in the long term.

“The last thing you want to do is hit people over the head and ask them for money on these websites,” the system’s Vice Chancellor for Advancement Leonard Raley said.

“There’s a ver y subtle way you have to do this. So we’re tr ying to learn.”

Social networking is on the docket for the university system’s next communications retreat.

Still, even as university officials from across the state learn more on how to engage alumni on the Internet, Gossett said no one has any hard numbers yet on this trend’s effect on fundraising.

“Analyzing the true impact of social media is still very much so a work in progress,” he said.

With the economy still ravaging the university’s fundraising totals, Gossett said he hopes new donors identifying with social networks will bump up its bottom line.

The university remains about $282 million short of its $1 billion Great Expectations campaign, which was originally planned to wrap up by 2011.

And even as some economists are saying the recession is ending, Gossett said many donors are remaining cautious.

At the beginning of the meeting, he reported big-time benefactors are continuing to give in smaller amounts and over longer periods of time.

Still, he said the university is beginning to see signs of a resurgence.

“I think we’re not quite there yet, but we’re seeing the trend star ting to go up,” Gossett said.

He added that even if the university misses its mark for Great Expectations, it will have plenty of time to make up the gap.

“This is not a sprint — it’s a marathon,” he said. slivnick@umdbk.com

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uring the March 4 riot, not every student tore down street signs. Not with Office of Student Conduct Director John Zacker this week. Zacker runs the office every student lit Duke jerseys on fire or set trees ablaze. Not every student that would send students in question to the student judiciary for a hearing, in which it hurled insults at police officers atop horses or attempted to stand up to oth- would determine if students are guilty of violating the Code of Student Conduct — a decision that could ultimately lead to a student being expelled. And Zacker seems altogethers, wielding shields and pepper spray.

Not every student who stormed Route 1 in jubilation committed crimes such as er dismissive of the idea that the code’s wording should be altered. He argues that alarson, assault, theft or vandalism, but according to university policy, every student though some students fear the ambiguous wording makes the process more arbitrary, who stormed downtown that night could be expelled from the university if found it actually leaves more room to tailor cases to individual circumstances, thereby making it less absolute and more fair. guilty of “rioting,” as dictated by the Code of Student Conduct.

But how fair can such a policy be when the accounts of administrators, police offiAccording to university policy, the university has the right to expel any and all stucers and city residents will be — and have been — automatically dents for on- or off-campus riot-related behavior, regardless of held in higher regard than those of students? whether they have been convicted in a criminal court or cited for Although administrators might resists changing the policy, that any legal wrongdoing. The only catch: A written police report doesn’t mean students should give up. Before any officials reject must document the offense. And for more than four years, stuThe term ‘rioting’ in the idea out of hand, it should be explored how adding a concrete dents have quietly accepted being held accountable to this policy Code of Student Conduct this definition or removing the term “rioting” from the code could im— until now.

About two weeks ago, the Student Government Association either needs to be removed pact the university and the students charged with the offense.

More than 20 students were arrested on March 4. Of those, at passed a resolution in a 14-11 vote demanding the term “rioting” be or made more specific. least four have seen their charges dropped. At least one case of poremoved from a list of expulsion-worthy transgressions in the Code of Student Conduct. Although the bill passed by a relatively slim margin, almost all lice brutality has been documented. That case also makes it clear police lied on some of representatives agreed the term is too vague and leaves too much room for arbitrary in- the reports they filed that night — the same reports that are used as the basis for punterpretation — where they differed was what to do about it. Some supported clarifying ishing students. Prince George’s County Police are conducting an internal investigathe definition of “rioting” in university policy. Others said the word should be removed tion into what went wrong that night and whether more officers on duty that night falsiall together. Both suggestions would be a significant improvement from the code’s cur- fied charging documents. And still, administrators say any students involved in “rioting” will be expelled. rent language.

Removing the word “rioting” from the Code of Student Conduct won’t heal students’ Destructive acts associated with rioting, such as inciting violence, looting, destroying property and lighting things on fire, are already listed as expulsionary offenses in wounds or prevent them from rushing to Route 1. But unless the term and what it means is made more specific, it remains another way for students to be arbitrarily punthe policy. What other ground could “rioting” cover?

North Hill Legislator Natalia Cuadra-Saez, who sponsored the bill, is planning to meet ished. And anyone on Route 1 that night knows they were already punished enough.

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Domefest: Dome, drugs and rock and roll

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n Saturday, the university’s drug policy reform community, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, along with its listens-to-music community, put on Domefest, a one-day music festival and campout at the Domes of Beltsville.

“Dome” is also a slang term for oral sex. It’s better that everyone knows that upfront.

4 p.m.: The Magic Marker signs tacked to trees say “Dome Concert.”

This seems like a good move by the organizers, as the posted direction “Domefest this way” might attract too much traffic.

4:15 p.m.: We park, and I walk into next month’s Target catalog. I’ve seen the ads with all the beautiful young (and oh-so-white) people hanging out in forests, camping and listening to live music, and I have always wondered where on Earth these places were.

Domefest was held at a self-contained clearing where the ground is impossibly flat. The name of the location comes

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HARRIS from two dome-shaped buildings on the property, but it could also describe the way the whole place feels. The festival is in a valley encircled by trees, and the sky seems close enough to touch.

Tomorrow morning, they’ll likely take down the clouds along with the concessions table.

6:15 p.m.: The music lineup is mostly made up of student bands, with some standouts. Lion Turf is the only College Park band I’ve ever gone to see twice on purpose, and even without Ricky Alexander’s mesmerizing saxophone, it is criminal to have them play so early in the evening. The band describes itself as “experimental/hip-hop/psychedelic,” and a guy behind me describes them as

“like a white go-go band” and “awesome.” If Lion Turf had opened at Art Attack on Friday, I might have attended a Weezer concert.

8 p.m.: The Domefest website says all local laws would be enforced, which turns out to be true if the concerned locality were a particularly liberal coffee shop in Copenhagen. People ask one another what drugs they’ve taken like high school seniors talking about college acceptances, with the same excitement, apprehension and hint of resignation.

11 p.m.: I hear from festival organizers that the Student Government Association ended up spending around $5,000 in student group appropriations on Domefest. Anyone who thinks students are pulling one over on the university by getting it to pay for beer and music needs to think that through one more step. That money doesn’t come from the administration.

3:30 a.m.: Some guy asks if there’s any beer left, and there is. It’s easy to have beer or people who are awake and

want beer at 3:30 a.m., but it takes solid planning to have both at the same time.

4:30 a.m.: It starts to rain, as if to say, “Clean up and go to bed, you hippies.”

But as long as there are drums and drugs, there will be drum circles. I head to the tent.

6 a.m.: I resign myself to dawn when some people find a rusty trampoline and set it up next to the tent where I’m not sleeping. I try not to begrudge them their exuberance, but it’s hard.

9:30 a.m.: By the time the rest of my tent wakes up, most people are gone.

The lawn is clean again, and there are free doughnuts and fast-food breakfast sandwiches. My throat is a tunnel of ash, and I promise never to smoke another cigarette. We pack up and head home, passing the Magic Marker signs going the wrong way on the morning’s backward drive.

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

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am still frighteningly undecided about my future. With less than a month until graduation, I have taken to interrogation.

Take, for instance, last Saturday. I was watching a baseball game with my friends Greg and Kieran when I could no longer help myself. During the seventh-inning stretch, I pounced.

“So,” I said, tr ying to sound casual, “how do you guys feel about graduation?”

Their anxious faces told me I had been about as casual as a penguin at the zoo during feeding time.

“Well, it’s definitely exciting to start something new,” Greg began, and then he hesitated for a moment as he weighed his options. “Having a steady income will be great, but being at school allows you more free time and opportunities to do things, so I think it’s a catch-22.”

“Well, Jill’s excited to start working,” I informed him.

“That’s crazy,” he said. “There is no way working will be better than school.”

Now on the edge of my seat, I turned to Kieran.

“I’m nervous about it all,” Kieran said, tilting his head introspectively. “I don’t really know what to expect from any of it — graduation, grad school.

Do you think you’re ready?”

How does one really know when one is “ready” to graduate? The way I see it, graduation is like being blindsided by a freight train, and everyone has his or her own way of coping.

Professional students are often indifferent to graduation because they have anywhere from two to eight more years of school still to come. They know graduate school will be different from college, and like my friend Kieran, they have mixed feelings about those differences. More often than not, this group will put graduation in terms of student loans.

The yuppies will tell you without

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HARE hesitation that they are excited to graduate. Ask them about their futures, and they will whip out BlackBerrys to give you the name of a future employer, a ballpark salary figure and a future address. Usually of the overachieving variety, these students tend to use pleasant euphemisms, such as “moving on” or “the next step,” to describe the future.

The reluctant professionals have resigned themselves to graduation.

Like my friend Greg, they are not looking forward to it but will not be blindsided by it. Unlike the clingers-on, the reluctant professionals usually have concrete plans that they avoid talking

about. They will modify the phrase “I have a job” with words such as “temporary” or “stepping stone.”

The clingers-on drag their feet all the way to picking up their diplomas, and they will refuse any graduation gift that will associate them with the word “alumni.” They are also often markedly undecided about their futures. Mention the word “graduation,” and they will cover their ears and run in the opposite direction shouting, “I don’t want to think about it!”

Most seniors probably know in which category they fit. I certainly do, and here’s a word to anyone rummaging through displays of university paraphernalia in search of the perfect graduation gift for me: I will beat you with a stick if you give me anything that says “alumni.”

Rachel Hare is a senior French language and literature and journalism major. She can be reached at hare@umdbk.com.

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ike owes about $2 million in severance pay to workers at two recently closed factories in Honduras that formerly produced collegiate apparel. The Worker Rights Consortium, an independent labor rights monitoring organization with which the university is affiliated, has investigated these factories and determined Nike is in violation of Honduran labor laws. It’s clear Nike has violated our university’s codes of conduct for licensees that make Terrapin apparel. According to the university’s fair labor code of conduct, it cannot license our logo to apparel companies that do not respect workers’ human rights. Yet, as the case against Nike is building, there are still university T-shirts and other apparel produced by Nike being sold across the country, embarrassing the university community.

This is not a complex issue. Nike owes a great deal of money to its workers in return for the garments they made. Nike must prove it has reformed since its sweatshop scandals of the 1990s. As an enormously profitable corporation, Nike can afford to pay out the more than $2 million to its workers. This money is nothing more than a drop in the bucket for Nike, but for the workers represents about 29 percent of the GDP per capita in Honduras. So long as Nike refuses to pay, the university must cut its licensing contract with Nike to stand for workers’ rights on this issue.

Feminism Without Borders participated in a similar campaign last year when Russell Athletic illegally fired unionizing workers in Honduras. After months of delay, the university finally severed its licensing contract with Russell after more than 25 other schools had already done so. The contract cut made an enormous difference, culminating in a landmark victory when Russell rehired these workers, but it was late in the game compared to other schools. We need to demonstrate that, as a university, we are proud to stand up for the workers who make our apparel rather than be reluctant to do what’s right.

Two of the workers from Honduras who are owed wages by Nike came to the campus for a rally April 2. Though our initial request for representatives from the administration to meet with these workers was denied, Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement happened to be available briefly to hear their stories. Now, we need more than words. We need action. Workers’ livelihoods and lives are in jeopardy every day they go without the money they need to survive. They cannot afford to wait out the administration’s hesitation when what the university should do is unambiguously clear.

A nationwide movement is building, calling on Nike to “Just Pay It” to fulfill its obligations to the workers and pay the about $2 million it owes.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently terminated its licensing contract with Nike, landing articles in media outlets such as The New York Times. This university can similarly be a leader on this issue, but we need to act now for justice.

Join us in our campaign for justice by e-mailing fwbumd@gmail.com or coming to our meetings on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in room 2117 of Jimenez Hall.

Jack Izen is a freshman American studies and government and politics major and a member of Feminism Without Borders. He can be reached at jackliebiz@gmail.com.

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“Somebody take me back to the days ... when ain’t nobody listened to my mixtape,” B.o.B raps on “Airplanes,” a track from his latest album, B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray. B.o.B was unknown a few months ago, but now he is killing it on the pop charts.

It’s a battle to survive in the rap world, and every rapper has his humble beginnings.

Take J. Ferb — whose real name is Jamal Ferby — a rapper with roots partly here in College Park. Ferby opened Wednesday for J. Cole at the Stamp Student Union in the First Come First Heard show, which was sponsored by the

university’s chapter of the NAACP, the Latino Student Union and the Maryland Music Business Society.

Ferby grew up in Memphis, Tenn., and originally came to this university to study business.

Plans changed, however, when he landed a show on the university’s WMUC 88.1 FM and realized what he really wanted to do was work in the music business.

In spring 2009, Ferby left the university for St. Francis College in New York. That summer, he went on tour with Memphis rapper Yo Gotti.

According to Ferby, it was “more a music internship than me going on the road performing with somebody.”

Ferby is now back in this state, solidifying his fan base and pur-

three people.

Part of the reason he is not attending school stems from that.

“I’m going to chase the dream, no matter what,” he said. “I’m not going to halfheartedly do school and halfheartedly do music. I’m going to chase what I want.”

And his enthusiasm for music has garnered him some recognition.

Ferby was covered by MTV UK’s website and signed to an

suing music in earnest.

“I’m just going to build up from here,” he said.

While Memphis is his home, this state was where J. Ferb’s passion for music began.

“Down south, music is more of a way out of life,” he said. “Up here, music is a way of life.”

Ferby seems to have enough ambition to comfortably accommodate at least

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His risk-taking was not without consequences, however.

“Some things in life, you have to take a sacrifice to do,” he said.

“It might not be what someone else likes, but you still have to do it if you want to get there.”

Citing influences as far and wide as Amy Winehouse, Mos Def and Miles Davis, Ferby certainly takes a different approach to music than most rappers. He prefers what’s timeless rather than what’s hot at any given moment.

“I love music that generations have passed on,” he said.

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At Wednesday’s show, Ferby had his heart in his performance. He faced a challenge that all opening acts face: a crowd thirsty for the main act. He battled a faulty sound system and prowled the stage to keep the excitement going.

The girls loved him — screams could be heard when he started his song “Watermelon.” By the time his act was over, sweat dripped down his face onto his gray Alife T-shirt.

It was a performance that embodied Ferby: confident, enthusiastic and ambitious.

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Defender Brett Schmidt jars the ball loose from Fairfield attackman Kevin Peters.

UMASS from page 8 and Brittany Jones.

But after midfielder Laura Merrifield scored on a free position shot in front of the goal with 15:05 remaining in the first half, the Terps’ offense exploded. Not even a Minutewomen (10-9) timeout could stop what was going to happen next.

Only 24 seconds after Merrifield’s goal, attacker Karri Ellen Johnson won the draw and stormed down the field to score a goal herself. Another 22 seconds later, attacker Sarah Mollison worked at the top of the 12-meter fan, made a spin move and whipped the ball past Massachusetts goalie Katie Florence.

Even without the ball, the Terps were dangerous. After the Minutewomen won the next draw, they opted to work the ball around their defense, hoping to keep the ball from Terp sticks.

Eventually, Florence decided to pass the ball up to midfield, where Caitlyn McFadden lurked in the background.

MIAMI from page 8 Saturday afternoon game devolve into a blowout, the Terps jumped out to an early one-run lead when shortstop Alfredo Rodriguez hit his third leadoff home run and fifth overall of the season.

Miami (34-11, 18-6 ACC) stormed back for two runs against starter Eric Potter in the bottom of the first inning, but the Terps came right back with two more of their own in the top of the second. They could’ve had more, but Schneider was caught trying to steal third, and left fielder Jon Wilson popped out to end the threat.

The midfielder read the pass, jumped up and intercepted it to start a wide-open fast break.

With no one around her, the senior sprinted up to the crease and scored effortlessly against the rattled Florence.

“It was just [about] getting into it and getting our rhythm going,” coach Cathy Reese said of the team’s slow start.

After attacker Kate Fass scored a minute later, the Terps had pushed their lead from two to seven in less than three minutes. Before long, the team’s starters earned themselves a break on the bench.

When the game finished, nine different players had scored for the Terps.

“We got to play a lot of people today,” McFadden said. “We wanted to be unselfish and find the open looks, which I think we did.”

Aust may have been the greatest beneficiary of the early success. The freshman scored two second-half goals, killing any hopes of a Massachusetts comeback as she extended the Terps’ lead to 12 midway through the final period.

Just two innings later, Miami retook the lead when designated hitter Michael Broad grounded into a double play that plated left fielder Chris Pelaez for a 4-3 advantage. And by the time the Terps (15-33, 420) scored a fourth run of their own, the Hurricanes already had a three-run lead in what would be a 6-4 victory.

Yesterday’s loss marked the first time the Terps have lost nine games in a row since 1995. They’ll try to break the streak tomorrow at Towson, which beat them 3-1 in the teams’ last meeting.

But until then, Bakich said the Terps will try not to dwell on what was perhaps their most disappointing series loss

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the pickup in the crease, accidentally sending it rolling over the goal line and giving Boyle his first career goal.

It was just that kind of day for the Terps (10-3). Fairfield stopped the next Terps’ possession, picking up a shot that had rolled wide. But when Marra came out of the crease to clear, attackman Grant Catalino intercepted the pass on the 40-yard line and hurled a long shot that bounced easily into the cage, one of his four goals in the game.

“Catalino can shoot the lights out,” Farrell said. “It’s amazing how well he’s playing right now. You can’t ask for anything better.”

By halftime, the Terps held a 10-1 lead. Though Marra, who leads the nation in save percentage and goals against average, had 10 saves, they came at a cost. Marra faced 30 shots in the first half — an average of a shot per minute — and the Stags pulled him after intermission to get a fresh presence in the cage.

It didn’t help. Even without starting senior attackman Will Yeatman, who missed his second straight game with a concussion, the Terps dominated. Eleven play-

ers scored in the game, and the Terps held a 14-goal lead entering the fourth quarter.

By the time Fairfield scored three straight to open the frame, the game was more coronation than competition. Three Terps played for the first time in their careers, including attackman Mike Poiter, who scored one of the game’s final two goals.

And after attackman Fran Gormley capped the barrage with a goal, the game ended just how it started: with a senior scoring.

Much to Cottle’s relief, the team showed no lag from its loss to Virginia the week before. Rather, the Terps’ play most resembled their dominant 13-5 victory over North Carolina in the opening round of the ACC Tournament.

“We came out and showed everyone that we’re back,” Cummings said. “We literally didn’t lose a step.”

And while the game marked the last regular season home game for the seniors, the Terps all but assured they’ll return home soon enough.

With Saturday’s win and another next weekend at Colgate, the team will likely guarantee itself a firstround NCAA Tournament game at Byrd Stadium. kyanchulis@umdbk.com

“It’s got to be scary for other teams, because we’re all so dangerous with the ball,” Aust said.

“We’re a really selfless team, so we’re not looking for just one person to score. “ The Minutewomen scored only one goal in the first half before adding three more in the second. The Atlantic 10 champions even struggled against the Terps’ backup defending trio of Melissa Diepold, Sara Cooper and Elizabeth Hamilton, only notching their last two goals in the final 10:52 of the game.

Terps’ defender Karissa Taylor, meanwhile, held Massachusetts midfielder Jackie L yons — who leads the Minutewomen in goals and garnered WomensLax.com Player of the Week honors last week — without a point on just two shots.

“I’m glad we stepped out after the ACC Tournament and showed we’re still a dominating force,” defender Brittany Poist said. “We didn’t show as much poise as we normally do, but clearly, we got the job done.” ceckard@umdbk.com

“I could sit here and talk about what we did wrong, but ... what good will it do?”

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of the season.

“I could sit here and talk about what we did wrong, but there is no reason to relive that stuff,” Bakich said. “What good will it do? We just got to go back to work and figure out how to continue to get better.” lemaire@umdbk.com

Attacker Karri Ellen Johnson tries to lose a defender.

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Terps split series with Longwood After early success, softball fails to take advantage of repeat Lancers pitcher in Saturday’s 5-1 finale

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER Staff writer

Asked about the Terrapin softball team’s disappointing doubleheader split against Longwood on Saturday, infielder Marisha Branson took a step back from near the Terps’ dugout and paused, parsing her words carefully as she sought to gather her thoughts.

“It’s just disappointing,”

Branson said after the Terps (32-20) lost the series finale 51 to Longwood (36-16) in the Terps’ last home game of the year. “We should have been able to come out here and finish a lot stronger.”

Except for the Longwood fans who made the trip from Farmville, Va., Branson was joined in silence by most of Taylor Stadium after the game, shocked by the demoralizing defeat to the Lancers.

During the later innings of the second game, a similar eerie hush came across the stadium as the Terps were taken apart by the same pitcher they enjoyed success against in the first half of the doubleheader.

The only cheers, coming from the surprisingly pro-Longwood crowd, were for the Lancers.

“We didn’t give our best,” coach Laura Watten said. “We didn’t play our best. We didn’t come out our best. It’s what happens when you don’t.”

The Terps jumped on Longwood pitcher Briana Wells early in the opener, taking a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first after a RBI double from infielder Alex Schultz.

But after the initial outburst, the Terps’ offense went cold for the majority of the game.

Fortunately for the Terps, pitcher Kerry Hickey took a perfect game into the sixth inning and kept the Terps in control of the game, which they eventually won 3-1.

But after a relatively easy, albeit close, victory in the opener, game two was a completely different story.

Wells again took the mound for the Lancers, but despite having already faced her for the entirety of the opener, the Terps were unable to solve her a second time. They scratched out only five hits and one run while stranding eight runners on base.

“Knowing that they pitched her in the second game, we should have already made the adjustments and been able to kick her out of the game,” outfielder Vangie Galindo said.

“We should have jumped on

her right away.”

Pitcher Kendra Knight allowed only two runs in four innings, but struggled late.

After Hickey relieved her, the Lancers plated three more runs, essentially putting the game out of reach for the Terps’ listless offense.

“We didn’t come out and hit the ball like we needed to,” Watten said. “They threw the same pitcher both games. We should have been hitting the ball better.”

As the Terps failed to stage a rally in the final innings, managing only one hit over the final three frames, their home crowd fell deathly silent, stunned at the 5-1 result in the season’s final contest in College Park.

“We knew they were going to be hitting, and they hit well — they hit the ball well,” Watten said. “We just have to be better. We didn’t do what we needed to do today.”

The loss to Longwood isn’t as hurtful to the Terps’ NCAA Tournament hopes as their two losses earlier this season to Towson. After all, the Lancers are a well-regarded team with a record over .500 and earlier wins against Virginia and Virginia Tech.

But in their postgame autograph sessions, the Terps wore the look of a team that had just suffered its worst loss of the year.

“The second game was just embarrassing,” Galindo said bluntly. “Shouldn’t have came out like that. We shouldn’t have came out like we did.”

The Terps close their regular season and conference slate next weekend against last-place Boston College, which has won just one league game so far. No matter how much the Eagles have struggled this year, memories of Saturday’s disheartening loss will likely make the trip with the Terps up to Chestnut Hill, Mass.

“The key is gonna be that our bats show up,” Watten said. “Hopefully, we’ll bring those along with us.” schneider@umdbk.com

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Terps send off seniors with Stags’ thumping Men’s lacrosse blows

by Fairfield on Senior Day in 17-4 cakewalk

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

Entering the weekend, Terrapin men’s lacrosse coach Dave Cottle recognized the potential for a trap game against Fairfield on Saturday.

He had plenty to worry about. The No. 3 Terps were still on the mend, both physically and mentally, from a draining loss to Virginia in the ACC championship game, and the pregame Senior Day festivities could have functioned more as a distraction than a celebration.

Even more concerning, the unranked Stags boasted the nation’s top statistical goalie, Joseph Marra.

Battling a wave of emotions and a lockdown netminder, the Terps were in what Cottle called a “potentially scary position.”

But the coach need not have worried. The Terps easily dispatched Fairfield, posting their highest goal total of the season in a 17-4 victory.

“It just was so great to come out here and just put a complete game together, finally,” long pole midfielder Brian Farrell said. “Start fast, finish strong — it was just a great week.”

Just minutes after a pregame ceremony to honor the eight Terps playing their final regular season game at Byrd Stadium, senior midfielder Adam Sear fittingly kicked off the scoring deluge with a man-up goal a little more than a minute into the game.

Though the Stags (8-5) appeared to score soon after, the referees nullified the goal because of a crease violation. From that point on, the Terps ruled the quarter, outshooting their opponents 15-3 and winning 5-of-7 faceoffs, hardly letting the Stags touch the ball.

“I just thought we put a lot of pressure on them defensively, especially between the lines,” Cottle said. “And by putting pressure on them, we got a bunch of transition opportunities.

Their goalie’s a heck of a goalie, but we just kept outnumbering them.”

Then, less than 1:30 into the second quarter, Marra blocked a shot by midfielder Eric Boyle, but flubbed Attackmen Fran Gormley, left, and Grant Catalino celebrate after a goal Saturday. Catalino finished with four goals in the Terps’ 17-4 win against Fairfield, while Gormley, a seldom-used senior, capped his Senior Day and the Terps’ scoring with his second goal of the season. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

see FAIRFIELD, page 7

With weekend sweep, Hurricanes push baseball’s losing streak to nine Terps drop two close games before 9-1 blowout Sunday

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Senior staff writer

With the exception of the final three innings of yesterday’s 9-1 loss to Miami, the Terrapin baseball team, victims of convincing thumpings in its last two conference series, had held its own against the No. 16 Hurricanes.

The Terps pitched well, played good defense and were aggressive on the basepaths. They did everything coach Erik Bakich said they needed to do to be competitive in the ACC. But when the weekend was over, despite the Terps’ best efforts, Miami had its fifth weekend sweep and the Terps had

their ninth straight loss, their longest losing streak in 15 years.

“There are no moral victories for close losses. It doesn’t matter to me — a loss is a loss,” Bakich said. “In the first two games, there were some signs of competitiveness and fight, but [yesterday] was a letdown. Knowing how to win is a skill, and it comes when you beat teams. It’s a lot easier to smell blood in the water when you have already done it.”

Throughout the Terps’ losing streak, the one bright spot has been the solid pitching of ace Brett Harman. Matched against Miami’s star lefthander, Chris Hernandez, Harman was nearly unhittable for the first four

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innings Friday, striking out two hitters in three of the first four innings. He entered the bottom of the fifth inning with seven strikeouts and a 1-0 lead, thanks to an RBI single from designated hitter Gary Schneider.

The Hurricanes finally solved him when, with one out, right fielder Nathan Melendres drove an 0-1 offering from Harman deep over the left-field fence.

Before Harman could get comfortable again, five straight Hurricanes reached base, scoring two runs and taking the lead for good in their 5-1 win.

Determined to not let another

see MIAMI, page 7

With the Terrapin baseball team’s 9-1 loss yesterday, it became the first Terps’ team since 1995 to lose nine in a row. Here’s how some of their losing streaks compare:

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April 4 - 13 April 21 - 29 Feb. 13 - 28 April 9 - 18 March 12 - 23

March 16 - 27

Midfielder Brandi Jones opens the Terps’ scoring Saturday against Massachusetts. Jones was one of nine Terps to score in the 14-4 victory. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Terps roll over Minutewomen Women’s lax crushes A-10 champion in 14-4 win

BY CHRIS ECKARD Staff writer

Before the opening draw in the Terrapin women’s lacrosse game against Massachusetts on Saturday, everything that could go wrong in the pregame ceremonies at Ludwig Field did go wrong.

The national anthem cut off halfway through. The public address announcer garbled the starting lineups. Sky-high temperatures

continued to soar.

With all that had gone right the previous weekend, the Terps hoped the early blunders weren’t a sign their luck had changed.

They weren’t. The No. 1 Terps (17-1, 4-1 ACC) easily cruised past Massachusetts 14-4 in the first of two nonconference games to close out the regular season.

“We came off a huge weekend, a huge win, so we told ourselves, ‘Let’s play even better,’” mid-

fielder Alex Aust said.

“When we played UNC, we played great, but it wasn’t our best.”

The Terps, much like they did in the second half of their 10-5 ACC championship game win against then-No. 1 North Carolina, slowed down the game’s tempo to start. The Terps scored only two goals in the first 14 minutes, one each from midfielders Brandi

see UMASS, page 7