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Student allegedly O’Malley calls special session, assaulted and beaten plans to negotiate new budget on campus Sunday

State legislators will reconvene May 14, hope to reach compromise

Third on-campus assault this year

BY ERIN EGAN Senior staff writer

A 19-year-old student was assaulted and beaten up early Sunday morning outside of Charles Hall and was transported to the hospital with a cut on his head, University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said.

The victim was walking from Knox Road to Charles Hall near Commons 3 at about 2 a.m. when he passed a group of about 15 people, Limansky said. Members of the group reportedly said something to the victim, but he continued walking.

Outside the dorm, three males from the group allegedly

approached the victim and beat him, Limansky said. He was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital and released.

“This crossed the boundary from a fight to an assault,” Limansky said, adding the males ganged up on the victim and he reportedly did not taunt the other individuals.

The suspects are still at large and are described as three black males, Limansky said.

This was the third on-campus assault warranting a crime alert this year, according to University Police public records. In 2011, there were none.

BY JIM BACH Senior staff writer

Gov. Martin O’Malley announced Friday lawmakers will reconvene for a special session beginning May 14 to compromise on a new state budget plan for next year.

After legislators failed to pass several revenue-generat-

ing measures in the operating budget on the last day of the legislative session last month, a “doomsday” budget went into effect, triggering acrossthe-board cuts totaling $512 million — $50 million of which would come from the University System of Maryland’s budget.

Although O’Malley did not

indicate whether he would call lawmakers back, he said the cuts — which could spark double-digit tuition increases for students — would be too detrimental to residents.

“There is too much at stake not to move forward,” O’Malley said in a statement. “I’m confident that we can come together with the Senate

President and House Speaker to complete this most important work for the people of our state.”

University lobbyist Ross Stern said the announcement is “good news” for both this university and the system. If the legislature agrees on the

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A new record for ‘Zaching’ More than 10,000 show up to pose of people who aren’t here because of the disease, so I thank you all for coming out today.”

The freshman journalism major was also honored with the Rabbi Joseph Weinberg Triumph of Spirit Award at yesterday’s annual Race for Hope in Washington. This year, participants raised more than $2 million for brain cancer research and honored those who were survivors and victims of the disease. Each year, the Weinberg Award is given to someone who has shown immeasurable strength in battling brain cancer.

“I love saying a human being is like a letter of the alphabet — to produce a word, it combines with another,” Marcia Weinberg, wife of the late Rabbi Joseph Weinberg and presenter of his namesake award, told the crowd.

BY LAURA BLASEY Staff writer

For Zachary Lederer, defying the odds has simply become a part of life.

The 19-year-old Terrapins men’s basketball team manager has survived two rounds of treatment for brain cancer after being told seven years ago he likely wouldn’t make it through the night. And yesterday, Lederer faced a crowd of more than 10,000 people and set a world record: He led the crowd in the world’s largest simultaneous “Zaching,” a strongman pose that, since its inception in January, has not only come to define his fight with cancer, but has also become a viral symbol of strength and hope.

“We together are going to beat the disease,” Lederer told the cheering crowd. “There’s plenty

Hundreds of students participated in the Best Buddies Friendship Walk and played games with buddies. SU HONG/THE DIAMONDBACK

Accepting all friendships More than 400 participate in Best Buddies Friendship Walk and Games; raise money for group

BY BRADLEIGH CHANCE Staff writer

Although this university’s chapter of Best Buddies regularly spends hours advocating outside its group for the equal treatment of those with intellectual disabilities, hundreds of students and community members reserved Saturday for their buddies.

More than 400 individuals participated in the Best Buddies Friendship Walk and Games on Saturday to raise money for the nonprofit organization, which promotes one-on-one friendships for people with intellectual disabilties. Inside Ritchie Coliseum, decked with balloons and streamers, students and their buddies from this university and chapters across the state enjoyed carnival games, arts and crafts and performances to promote social inclusion through friendship.

“It’s not only a way for all of

Maryland Best Buddies to come together, but it’s also a great way to introduce people to the organization.” junior special education major Rachel Greenberg said.

Chapters from this university and state middle schools and high schools raised more than $104,000 from Saturday’s event.

Junior psychology major Kathryn Kline said there are nearly 60 active members on this campus, many of them meeting weekly with their buddies and talking on the phone every day.

“We hope that today’s event inspires everyone to continue spreading the mission of enhancing the lives of individuals who have intellectual disabilities, one friendship at a time,” said Melanie Colgan, a junior behavioral and community health and kinesiology major. “Today, we’ve had such an amazing, welcoming

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Police report student death in Anne Arundel County Officials say they suspect suicide; investigation is still ongoing

BY ERIN EGAN Senior staff writer

A university student reportedly died at about 5 a.m. yesterday, according to police.

Anne Arundel County Police are investigating the

death of Katherine Morris, which officers believe was a suicide, University Police Capt. Robert Mueck said. He added Morris’ family has been notified.

Resident Life officials sent an email to residents of South

Campus Commons Building 2 last night notifying them that Morris, a resident of that building, had died.

“We offer our deepest condolences to those of you who knew Katherine,” the email stated. “Please know, our Res-

ident Life staff are here to support you.”

Friends and Commons 2 residents declined to immediately comment on Morris’ death. egan@umdbk.com

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proposed budget and revenue package during the special session, the system is only set to absorb $5.3 million in cuts.

“We feel very positive about this,” Stern said.

“There are significant differences in what will happen to the system and College Park if they adopt the revenue package and if they don’t.”

Student leaders, who organized a rally on McKeldin Mall last month to urge O’Malley to call the session, said they are hopeful lawmakers will be able to push through revenue-generating measures that will offset drastic cuts. Student Government Association President Kaiyi Xie said he would like to see the system absorb as few reductions as possible but is wary of lawmakers’ ability to compromise.

“The vast majority of us hope that higher-education

funding is protected,” he said.

“We’re not really sure exactly what’s going to happen to higher education; that is our greatest concern.”

If lawmakers do not negotiate a new budget deal, students would not only face tuition increases of at least 12 to 13 percent, but the system’s 11 institutions would have to offer substantially lower levels of financial aid and fewer services and class sections, system spokesman Mike Lurie wrote in an email.

But some Republican lawmakers said they were unhappy with O’Malley’s decision. Del. Patrick McDonough (R-Baltimore and Harford) said the special session will be “rigged and fixed” for the purpose of raising revenue through taxes on state residents, adding that the original budget plan that came out of committee placed unnecessary burdens on taxpayers.

“The budget they created is dishonest,” he said. “They

think businesses and taxpayers are an ATM machine.”

University President Wallace Loh, however, said he is optimistic the announcement suggests legislators have begun to come to an agreement that will ultimately benefit students.

“The doomsday budget would have a ver y adverse impact on students — no question,” Loh said. “Higher education especially is not just an expenditure, it’s an investment; it’s investing in the future.”

Other lawmakers said the special session would benefit universities. Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Prince George’s and Anne Arundel) said he is confident lawmakers will see the importance in protecting the university’s budget.

“It’s obviously ver y good news for the University of Mar yland,” he said. “The governor has done the right thing.” bach@umdbk.com

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Let the students speak F

David Bransfield, the president of Mar yPIRG, filed an appeal with the rom fighting to protect Pell Grants, advocating for health care reform, championing for energy-efficient legislation and working SGA’s governance board on Tuesday to overturn the referendum. While it’s for lower textbook prices, Mar yPIRG has proven its dedication to understandable Mar yPIRG members are upset and want to tr y to change student issues. The on-campus student lobbying group often travels the rules, it’s not fair to students to tr y and go against the vote.

The point of the group is to advocate for students and lobby lawmakers to to Annapolis and Washington to reach out to lawmakers, hoping to keep studo what is in students’ best interest. For group members to tr y and reverse dent issues on officials’ radars. a student decision goes against the group’s principles.

There’s no question that Mar yPIRG’s intentions Members spent three days petitioning students and are respectable. Members commit their college gathering signatures, but it apparently wasn’t enough careers to lobbying and advocating for what they think will ultimately benefit students. The group also Students have made it clear of a convincing factor to make students change their minds on SGA Election Day. The students in Mar yPIRG has an established partnership with the Student Govthey don’t want to fund should understand this decision should be final. The ernment Association, and members constantly work to help students — Mar yPIRG, at its best, can make a MaryPIRG’s non-student argument that the funded positions ultimately help students is inconsequential, as the students have already big difference.

That being said, there is a bigger issue that looms employees, and it’s wrong for made their decision.

The referendum on the ballot was reworded this year over the student body ever y year when the SGA goes members of the group to try to make it clearer to students what exactly funding through its student group funding process. While to overturn that decision. Mar yPIRG means by including the group’s salar y most student groups ask for enough money to purbreakdown. Ultimately, this seems to be what tipped chase new equipment or keep their group going, Mar yPIRG asks the body for enough money to fund its two salaried posi- the scales against the group’s money allocation. Students seem to be considtions, which typically cost about $43,000. The two full-time, non-student ering the matter in light of last year’s funding fiasco, which is still all too employees who benefit from these funds run the Mar yPIRG internship pro- present in ever yone’s minds. Mar yPIRG received the largest chunk of SGA change of any group — and it was to fund non-student positions. This seems gram, which members say cannot sur vive without the money.

The problem is the money comes out of the mandator y student activities to be the biggest problem students have, along with the disproportionate fee ever y undergraduate pays — thus students are essentially paying cost of keeping the positions.

If students really care about lobbying lawmakers on higher-education salaries for people only affiliated with this university through Mar yPIRG. This editorial board can have as much of an opinion as we want on the issues, Mar yPIRG will be able to sustain itself — even if it has to cut the matter, but the decision is ultimately up to students. Because the SGA does internship program. Since those who ser ve in the salaried positions are not typically fund salaries, ever y two years, the students vote on the SGA there to teach group members, Mar yPIRG could work with administrators election ballot whether to continue to fund the positions. Last Wednesday, to make the position a part of a student’s curriculum, or have students the body announced 37 percent of voters opposed funding these salaries, receive some sort of internship credit, rather than a salar y. Looking to the while 32 percent voted in favor, rendering it unconstitutional for the SGA to SGA and student fees is not the only way to go about solving this problem.

But all of that is irrelevant. For now, the students have spoken. continue funding these positions.

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Editorial cartoon: Eun Jeon

Objectifying women: Joss Whedon sucks

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he media are rife with supposedly strong, independent and empowering female characters. Directors like Joss Whedon love to include a bunch of “kickass” women who spout witty one-liners and do cool things like beat up villains or pilot space ships or whatever. This would be cool if these characters were interesting or developed in any way instead of reflecting the director’s personal fantasies. What we get instead of actual characters, with moral depth and personality, is a group of cardboard cutouts catered to the desires of men. The popular image of the strong female character is increasingly becoming one of “men with boobs,” instead of one that displays any amount of femininity.

This is not to say that such characters do not exist in film, but movies especially popular in the 18- to 25-year-old demographic very rarely feature them.

The newest big superhero movie, The Avengers, is raking in an enormous sum of money, and drawing very strong

TOM BRADTKE reviews. The movie apparently depicts Scarlett Johansson as a strong female character — something I’m hesitant to believe. Her character, Black Widow, is treated in typical Whedon fashion: She does “cool” things and acts as the teen nerd’s ideal woman but has a minimal amount of characterization. Perhaps that level of depth is expected for a Whedon-directed blockbuster film, but it’s disconcerting when a man who is often associated with feminism creates almost all of his female characters based on a few archetypes and adds very little complexity to them.

Essentially, the media appropriates a feminist stance. What people like Whedon have done is use the language of

feminist thought to legitimize their views. By doing so, they help reinforce male conceptions by making them seem “woman-friendly.” In reality, these directors transplant a bunch of male “action hero” traits into a woman’s body. This is, of course, combined with hypersexualization to reflect male fantasy. I’m using Whedon as a whipping boy here, but characters like Buffy the Vampire Slayer — or basically every female character in Serenity — are just reflections of men’s personal taste. It’s a strong tradition in film and other pop media, like comic books, and it is grating to hear, “You see, I am a feminist and I understand women, so I can write them however I like in my films and it won’t be sexist.” It turns out that writing women with wholly masculine traits, in essence making them men with boobs, does not make them compelling or strong in any way. It makes them boring male nerd fantasy.

Every once in a while, we’ll get good female characters, like Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games movie or Ellen Rip-

ley in the Alien series. Neither are sexualized in a manner that objectifies them (outside of one scene in the first Alien).

These types of characters are rare in popular media, in favor of “weak,” feminine women or “strong,” masculine women who fit specific molds instead of having layers of personal complexity and motivation. It’s not just blockbuster movies settling for shallow characterization in favor of big explosions and whatnot. When someone claims he or she is feminist and appropriates feminist language to justify his or her shallow and fantastical portrayal of women, he or she actively works to shut down thought about what it means to have a positive portrayal of women. It’s really disappointing that people eat this up, because directors and writers can market themselves as woman-friendly when they’re actually subverting a very legitimate complaint by women for their own purposes.

Tom Bradtke is a senior history major. He can be reached at bradtke@umdbk.com.

The end of the semester: Pushing up daisies

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he end of the semester is a lot like coming close to death.

We’re six feet under a pile of textbooks, the costs of buying the all-purpose medication — coffee — is pretty high and sleepless nights often slap us with discerning traits of the sick — a heavy dark shadow here, a ballooning pimple there.

Time is ticking, summer is waiting and that 79.2 percent just isn’t budging.

We embrace an especially worrisome action that would normally be glorious, but we stain it by hypocritically running after it too late in the game: the act of friendship. We talk to people in our classes we normally wouldn’t. We ask each other last-minute questions and attempt to grasp concepts that might appear on the final exam.

In the past few days, I’ve seen countless classmates — who had not met in class otherwise — realize they’re struggling over the same assignments, with the same professor and with the same worries.

Bound by these common struggles and a

pressure to bring out the best in the final stretch, they’ve struck up conversation, compared answers and filled in others’ concerns with insight of their own.

They’ve shaken up McKeldin Library’s seating arrangement, dragging their seats up to each other, setting down their backpacks and learning together.

While such encounters are certainly fruitful, we dishonor the value of community by embracing it this late in the game.

Of course, in a school of this size — or any size, for that matter — it’s natural to slip in and out of class without reaching out to others. In fact, it would be ludicrous to expect classmates to become the best of friends, particularly in large lecture halls.

It’s also perfectly natural to reach out to others in your time of need. Humanity is bound by the common struggle of man.

But we do it too late. We are in a mindset of death. The semester only has a few days left and so, as if we’ve only got a certain amount of time to do a certain number of good things, we really start to value those around us. We reach out to every-

FATIMAH WASEEM one we need to reach out to. It may not even be a stamp of desperation. Maybe we take that extra step simply because we know it is the end? Because once exams end, that person you’ve reached out to will become one of the more than 37,000 on the campus? Because you know that everything you’ve said or done, or any judgments that person has made won’t matter and that we’ve got nothing to lose?

Because we can pull out your phone and screen away the awkwardness when that one person happens to pass by us by on the campus that one day?

I’ve died a thousand times over during these last two semesters. I always meet amazing people in my classes right at the end. I’ve really gotten to know the person

sitting to my left and my right. And then I wonder: Just as I might with any content that I’ve learned, why couldn’t I have done this before?

The beautiful thing, however, is that we have another chance.

If we start early, those two classmates in McKeldin Library can support one another from the very beginning. And the two other people in the floor above can too. And even if the person in the first row and the person in the last row of the lecture hall may never meet, the people sitting in the same rows just might.

I pull up my chair — you should pull up yours. I set down my vintage backpack and you set down your sports one — not in McKeldin, simply because finals are looming before us, but from day one.

Tell me then: How different would our campus be?

Fatimah Waseem is a freshman journalism and neurobiology and physiology major. She can be reached at waseem@umdbk.com.

The fight for funds

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was surprised that The Diamondback criticized me for leading the fight, year after year, for increased funding for this university and for a permanent cap on tuition for students of this state in the April 16 staff editorial, “Rosapepe’s Broken Record.”

The facts are that I’ve fought for these common sense policies for my entire public career and intend to continue to do so. In 1991 and 1992, I led the successful effort to restore cuts in the campus budget, which then-Gov. William Donald Schaefer had proposed. Serving on the Board of Regents from 2001 to 2006, I led the successful fight to stop then-Gov. Bob Ehrlich’s budget cuts. As a regent in 2006, I proposed the first freeze on tuition and worked with Gov. Martin O’Malley to continue it for four years.

This year, I worked successfully with the governor and my legislative colleagues to continue the 3 percent tuition cap, and am working now to finalize the state budget at a special session which, among other things, protects the university’s budget and keeps this fall’s tuition increase under the 3 percent cap.

The reason I introduce the Tuition Cap and College Opportunity Act every year is to keep attention — in the legislature, on the campus and elsewhere — on the continued underfunding of this university and the need for a long-term policy solution to maintain college affordability. Every major issue I’ve worked on has taken more than one year to resolve. In the 1990s, I sponsored, with the late Delegate Pete Rawlings, the first bills to adequately fund K-12 schools. It took years until public school advocates developed the political strength to pass this legislation, as the legislature did in 2002 --— the “Thornton formula,” which has helped make this state the number one public school system in the United States. It didn’t happen quickly. It didn’t happen easily. And it took a major, longterm team effort by a broad coalition of citizens, not just legislators.

That’s what it is going to take to provide adequate long-term funding and a permanent tuition cap for this university. At some point the university administration, faculty, staff, students and alumni will have to decide it’s worth the effort. The public school champions did it for K-12 — and it has worked.

There is no reason university champions can’t do it too. Until then, I’m going to keep fighting for the university every year, and introducing the Tuition Cap and College Opportunity Act to keep the long-term vision alive.

JIM ROSAPEPE STATE SENATOR D-ANNE ARUNDEL AND PRINCE GEORGE’S

Death by cigarette

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choose death. I murder myself every day. I am addicted to pain and suffering. Slowly, I extinguish my health on a regular and routine basis. This is what I want, and what I like. Others have tried to step in and save me, but I argue with them, resist them and push them away. My life is mine and I choose to end it. But before you call 911, read the next paragraph.

Cancer sticks, and there are mountains of medical realities, so we smokers cannot plead ignorance. We cannot say on our death beds that we didn’t know what was coming. We will say, “We could have lived longer.” But we choose not to. What is the difference between this and a slow, drawn out suicide? For what? The smoky aftertaste lingering on the insides of our cheeks?

The suffocating deposit on our lungs after a cigarette, straining our oxygen, draining our energy? The hopeless feeling of addiction, reducing us to beggars when we run out of smokes, jealously eyeing the suicide of others slaughtering themselves outside of McKeldin Library.

So that is what I like. I like death, because I smoke cigarettes and I refuse to deny the truth. Some are going to say, “But Hariton, everyone does things that are bad for them. Alcohol, McDonald’s, caffeine — what’s the difference?” The difference is that none of these things so directly cause cancer, emphysema or a plethora of terrifying maladies as fiercely as smoking does.

And none are nearly as addictive. So today, I urge all the smokers to think about this between puffs, and practice a little honesty. Why are we so suicidal?

HARITON WILSON SOPHOMORE RUSSIAN

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On a day when the rap world was in a state of mourning following the death of Beastie Boy Adam “MCA” Yauch, 23-year-old North Carolina rapper B.o.B seemed unaffected, enjoying the spotlight in front of a packed Art Attack crowd at Byrd Stadium.

“Why haven’t you bought Strange Clouds yet?” he asked the audience, referring to his new record that dropped last Tuesday.

The response didn’t matter, as most knew the words to ever y song in his high-energy set, which was heavy on both well-known hits like “Magic,” “Airplanes,” and “Nothin’ on You,” as well as cuts from Strange Clouds.

“I was definitely blown away,” he said during a post-show inter view with The Diamondback. “This has been the livest crowd so far, and I really didn’t know what to expect, but the response to the new music has been satisfactor y.”

Clad in a blue blazer and American flag-emblazoned tank top, B.o.B flailed around the stage for nearly 80 minutes, stomping on amplifiers and fistpumping into the sky. He even whipped out a guitar for multiple songs, proving to the audience he had more to contribute than impressively spit rhymes and an excessive amount of air-humping.

According to Student Entertainment Events Public Relations Director Lance Billington, total ticket sales — which were still in the process of being calculated — had seen a slight decrease from

planes’ is the only song of him that I actually know,” said junior mechanical engineering major Will Dunham.

“I’m just not the hugest fan of his. I went my

last year’s Art Attack featuring headliner Nelly.

Overall attendance, he said, was about the same.

Yet many were initially puzzled by the decision to book B.o.B as a headliner this year. “ I mean, ‘Air-

freshman year [to Art Attack] for Ben Folds and Weezer, and that was fantastic. They were just a better combo.”

Others were excited to see what he’d have in store, thanks to the strength of his new studio material.

“I just listened to his premiere of his CD, and I really enjoyed it,” said junior English and Spanish major Andrea Jean, before the set began. “His CD just dropped three days ago so we’re getting the first look. We’re the first people to have it performed live for us.”

Supporting acts Harmonic Blue, the jammy, Dave Matthews-inspired group that won SEE’S Battle of the Bands contest, and rap group The Dean’s List took solid turns at setting up the main act.

But above all, it was B.o.B who connected best with the audience. “[With a] college crowd, I’m with my peers,” he said. “It’s like people in my age group so there’s a different type of connection, a generational connection.

I just feel like with the college crowd, we’re on the same wavelength. It’s a lot of like-minded people.”

Near the end of his set, B.o.B implored the crowd to look up at the stars, before launching into the mega-hit “Airplanes.” Even though the sky was graced by no shiny, celestial figures — or Hayley Williams’ voice, for that matter — the screams of delight from the audience meant there was still a little bit of magic happening.

Although Harmonic Blue and The Dean’s List also played at Art Attack, B.o.B tried to show that he’s the only one in the spotlight. PHOTO BY JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Freshman journalism major Zach Lederer, the Terrapins men’s basketball team manager, led a crowd of more than 10,000 in a simultaneous “Zaching” at the annual Race for Hope yesterday.

The brain cancer survivor, whose strongman pose has become a symbol of strength, also received the Rabbi Joseph Weinberg Triumph of Spirit Award at the event. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

ZACHING from page 1 “Zach, you have connected with people all over the world and your resolve has inspired those who need hope the most ... no one deserves this award more than you.”

Lederer was diagnosed with

brain cancer in middle school, and after undergoing treatment, was told he had beaten the disease. But as his life was finally returning to normal, doctors found another tumor in his brain this past January.

Fresh out of the operating room Jan. 25, Lederer asked his father to take a picture of him flexing his arm muscles — a sign

to his friends and family that he was going to be OK. Lederer said he never expected that picture to take off the way it did — it was just a spontaneous, anesthesiafueled snapshot.

The pose, now widely-known as “Zaching,” wasn’t just a pose, though. Since Lederer’s father posted that first picture, every-

one from members of the university community, celebrities, famous athletes and cancer patients around the world have sent in or posted photos of themselves “Zaching.” It even has its own Wikipedia page.

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show my strength and spirit,’” Weinberg said. “The whole concept is turn what is a difficult situation to reaching for the stars … we thought if we were reaching for the stars, why not a world record?”

Lederer said he is responding well to treatment. And after three rounds of chemotherapy, he has experienced few side effects — which is extremely rare — and is

on the road to recovery.

“Mentally, I’m doing great as well,” he said. “I’m so inspired by the stories I hear from people on Facebook and Twitter.”

This year was his third time participating in the race, which is one of the largest of its kind and has sponsorship from American Idol winner David Cook, who lost his brother to brain cancer.

“He’s an unbelievable kid,” said runner Diane Fitzgerald.

“He’s been able to remain really positive in a hard situation.”

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First Lutheran female pastor set to retire Hundreds attend service in support of the Rev. Elizabeth Platz yesterday

BY MICHAEL-ANN HENRY For The Diamondback

More than 200 members of the local Lutheran community gathered in the Memorial Chapel yesterday to honor the Rev. Elizabeth Platz, who is retiring as chaplain of the Lutheran Campus Ministry after more than 40 years of service.

After making history as the Lutheran Church in America’s first female pastor, Platz worked tirelessly throughout the decades to create a home on the campus for Lutheran students, leading services, cooking meals once a week and planning volunteer opportunities for members of the

WALK from page 1 atmosphere,” While the group has a strong presence on this campus, former chapter President Ravi Vaswani said free community-wide events are important because they spread awareness beyond the organization’s members.

“We’re showing the College Park community that people with disabilities are people,”

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She will be finishing out her term at the end of July.

“I hope my legacy is the alumni and the experience I have with them because I’ve certainly gotten a lot from them,” Platz said. “Hopefully they would have received something of value to them when they were involved in ministry.”

Rexanah Wyse was one of many university alumni who filled the pews of the chapel to show their appreciation, along with members of the Lutheran Student Association, Hope Lutheran Church and other community members.

“It’s surreal to imagine that she is actually retiring,” Wyse said.

Bishop Richard Graham of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod, who had known Platz for more than 20 years, commended her for her courage in following “the call of the Lord” at a time when women were not allowed to be ordained ministers.

“It feels like celebrating the repeal of the law of gravity,” Graham said. “She really is a pioneer in the church but also just a really lovely person.”

Platz also launched the CARing Project, an after-school program, which matches university students with elementary children from the Langley Park area for mentoring and tutoring, and she was heavily involved in creating a Lutheran

church there.

Jacob Birkholz, the president of the Lutheran Student Association, said he would miss Platz’s presence on the campus next year.

“She has been a really big part of my college career,” Birkholz said. “I really can't imagine coming back next year and not having Pastor Beth there every week with a home cooked meal, a well thought-out activity and worship.

She more than deserves the chance to finally retire. It’s just going to be really sad and really different not to have her here.”

The Rev. Raymond Ranker, a 2004 university alumnus, will take the helm as Platz’s successor after she steps down.

said the senior biology and Spanish major.

Members said many of their buddies live in group homes for people with intellectual disabilities, where workers are paid to care for them. Best Buddies gives them the opportunity to interact with people who choose to spend time with them.

In a speech, Rick Kline, Mar yland Best Buddies buddy director, said he values the friendship he forged with a university student

through the group.

“If you’re a buddy, you learn how to give and give back, like being there for one another,” he said.

Junior government and poli-

tics major Nikki Nagler, who became Kline’s buddy as a freshman, said she enjoyed the feeling of community inside Ritchie Coliseum, where buddies were able to enjoy performances by a

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After 40 years, the Rev. Elizabeth Platz is retiring from the Lutheran Campus Ministry. PHOTO COURTESY OF KARIN BROWN

“Only about a million people have told me I have big shoes to fill,” Ranker said.

However, Platz said she is confident Ranker and the local Lutheran community will continue the service work and spiritual traditions she maintained.

“I thought it was time for somebody else to come in and be able to do things, and after a while your energy starts to go down a bit lower than what it was when you were 26,” Platz said.

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“I joined in high school because it was something my friends were involved in, but I did-

n’t expect to be doing it seven years later,” Nagler said. “It’s not even what I give them, it’s what they give me.”

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TOURNAMENT from page 10 To get there, it had to defeat MAAC champion Canisius in a play-in game yesterday.

The Minutewomen did so in thrilling fashion, too. After losing their grip on the lead when Canisius scored with 25 seconds remaining, senior attacker Jessie O’Donnell — who scored four goals — connected on a free-position shot with just four

SEMINOLES from page 10 Senior Day victory.

“I was at the end of the dugout with Kendra [Knight], and we had tears falling,” Galindo said. “I’m telling my team, ‘I’m holding them in, guys, I’m holding them in.’”

“That’s the game,” pitcher Kendra Knight said. “The team came through and scored, so you brush all that away and get ready to pitch.”

Galindo wasn’t the only Terp to make history Sunday.

Knight, a senior, broke the program’s single-season strikeout record when she fanned her 291st batter of the season in the top of the 10th.

Knight (27-11) pitched all 24 innings in the three-game series against Florida State — the teams split Saturday’s doubleheader, with the Terps losing the first game, 4-3, and winning the second, 4-1 — including all 10 innings on Sunday.

Since relieving an ineffective Lexi Carroll in an April 25 contest against Delaware State, Knight has pitched every inning for the Terps.

“Kendra’s on fire right now,” Watten said. “She’s on a mission.

It’s where we need her to be.”

Knight, who couldn’t hold a tenuous one-run lead in the opener, shut the Seminoles down

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seconds to go to give the Minutewomen an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.

“We know these guys go hard, and their record shows it,” Reese said. “They’re somebody that’s not in our conference and not on our schedule, so obviously we’re not very familiar with them. But we’re going to get down to work this week and have our team ready and prepared to play on Saturday.” munson@umdbk.com

in Saturday’s nightcap. She gave up seven runs in the series, but only four were earned.

“She’ll slip up a few times, but that’s why we’re here,” Galindo said. “We just back her up. She’s earned everything.”

It’s fitting that the weekend’s stars were the ones honored on Senior Day. Knight, Galindo and the other three seniors — Bree Hanafin, Kathy McLaughlin and Sloane Van Meter — were presented with pictures and flowers in a pregame ceremony on Sunday.

“We were getting emotional as the national anthem was being played,” Galindo said. “I was tearing up.”

The Terps took two out of three games against a top-20 team and honored their departing players with a walkoff Senior Day victory, and Galindo became the program’s all-time career hits leader.

But Galindo isn’t taking much time to bask in her recent individual accomplishments.

With just three days until the start of the ACC Tournament in Chapel Hill, N.C., the left fielder is focused solely on all her team has done this season.

“Obviously, we’re better than [Florida State]. I think we should be ranked,” Galindo said. “This lets us know we’re that good, too.” benscher@umdbk.com

Defenseman Brian Cooper, goalie Niko Amato and defenseman Michael Ehrhardt, left to right, and the unseeded Terps will face No. 7 seed Lehigh in Bethlehem, Pa., in the NCAA Tournament first round on Sunday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

RAIDERS from page 10 on two goals and four assists. “But we’re a team that never gives up and we just keep fighting, and we made a little comeback.”

It wouldn’t be enough, though. The Terps’ two-goal lead quickly evaporated when Baum and Raiders defenseman James Queeney each scored within a 37-second span to close out the third.

In the fourth, Colgate — a team that scored twice within a five-second stretch six days earlier against Lehigh — again demonstrated its offensive explosiveness. Attackman Ryan Walsh and midfielder Chris Zielinski each notched goals over a 45-second span to give Colgate an 11-9 lead with 12:28 remaining in the game.

Although Terps midfielder Michael Shakespeare cut the deficit to one on an unassisted goal less than three minutes later, the Raiders secured the win on late scores from Walsh and Baum.

“I think at the very end of the third, when we were able to get those two goals to tie it at nine, that made a huge difference going into the fourth,” Baum said. “I think we carried momentum and kind of never gave it back.”

It was a continuation of the Terps’ late-game struggles. They’ve surrendered second-half leads in four of their five losses this year and have allowed at least four goals in the fourth quarter

during four of those defeats.

Of course, some of the factors that contributed to the Raiders’ late resurgence may have been out of the Terps’ control. After falling in the Patriot League Championship game the week before, Colgate knew it needed a win Saturday to guarantee a spot in the 16team NCAA Tournament.

As for the Terps? Saturday’s loss had its postseason consequences. It dropped them out of contention for a top-eight seed, which would have given them a home game next weekend. As a result, the unseeded Terps will face No. 7 seed Lehigh in Bethlehem, Pa., in the first round on Sunday.

“They’re seeded for a reason.” Tillman said after the selection show.

“They beat North Carolina earlier this year, so to us, they’ve already won an [ACC] game. They’re really solid at both ends, so we’re really excited to see how we do against them.”

But right now, the Terps aren’t too concerned with being unseeded or facing an elite opponent this weekend.

They’re focused on learning from their shortcomings and trying to finally put together a complete performance.

“I think we really have to take a look at ourselves critically,” Tillman said. “I think there are a lot of teachable moments just from today. I think there are some things we’ve been emphasizing in practice that we didn’t do a good job of getting across to the guys.”

need to learn from today and hopefully use those experiences in the future.”

Lehigh is a team that has the potential to light up the scoreboard. The Mountain Hawks scored 10 or more goals in nine of their 16 games this year, including a 16-14 win over Colgate in the Patriot League championship game. Those performances were good enough to rank Lehigh third in the league with 10.5 goals per game.

Attackmen Dante Fantoni and David DiMaria pace the offense, ranking fifth and sixth in the Patriot League in points per game with 3.15 and 3.14, respectively. Defensively, goalie Matthew Poillon leads the conference in goals against average with 6.54 and save percentage with a .595 mark.

Tillman knows this. After all, his Terps are same team that has notched convincing wins over Johns Hopkins and Duke this season. But the reality remains that they have split their last four games, losing to Duke and Colgate, and have battled through stretches of erratic play in wins over Mount St. Mary’s and Bellarmine.

The Terps will have six days to prepare for their next matchup, hopefully erasing the chance for a repeat of the three minutes that did them in Saturday at Colgate.

“We got to lick our wounds,” Tillman said.

“We can’t feel sorry for ourself because if we get another opportunity, it’s going to be against a great team, and if we’re not ready for that, it’s going to be a one-and-done situation.”

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Sports Baums away for Raiders

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The Terrapins baseball team lost two games at No. 1 Florida State this weekend, 10-3 and 9-2. The teams will finish the series tonight. For more, visit umdbk.com.

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Colgate’s Baum stars in Terps’ 13-11 loss to Raiders on Saturday

Unseeded Terps face No. 7 seed Lehigh in first round of NCAAs

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HAMILTON, N.Y. – No team has had an answer for Peter Baum this season. Week after week, Colgate’s junior attackman has been the target of opposing coaches’ defensive game plans. And week after week, Baum has proven dominant.

Saturday was no different.

Baum exploded for a game-high seven points on five goals and two assists as No. 12 Colgate secured a 1311 win over the No. 9 Terrapins men’s lacrosse team before 2,222 at Andy Kerr Stadium.

“He’s a guy that we spoke probably about more than any other player this year going into the game,” coach John Tillman said moments after the Terps dropped their second game to the Raiders in less than a year. “He’s just terrific because he can score goals, but he makes guys around him better.”

That’s exactly what the Tewaaraton Award nominee did Saturday. He tallied two early assists and a goal as Colgate jumped to a 4-1 lead in the first quarter, then re-emerged in the game’s most crucial moments. Baum netted two goals in the third to help even the score at 9-9 and secured the Raiders’ victory on an unassisted goal with 1:35 remaining.

It was yet another mesmerizing performance in a milestone campaign for the Portland, Ore., native. Baum now has 93 points this year, giving him a realistic shot at becoming the first player to notch 100 points in a season since Delaware’s John Grant did it in 1999.

“He’s one of the best players in the country,” long pole Jesse Bernhardt said. “He proved that today, obviously to us and to everybody else.”

But that doesn’t mean the Terps were entirely ineffective against Baum and the nation’s No. 2 scoring offense.

After trailing by three goals early, their young defense seemed to settle down. The Terps went on an 8-3 run over the next 35:38 to take a 9-7 lead with little more than two minutes remaining in the third quarter.

During that stretch, the Terps (9-5) even held Colgate (13-3) — a team that entered the game averaging 13.6 goals per game — scoreless for a stretch of more than 19 minutes.

“They came out a little more inspired than us, and you could definitely see that in the first few minutes,” said midfielder John Haus, who led the Terps with a career-high six points

HAMILTON, N.Y. – Throughout the season, the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team has searched for the key to a complete performance, something that would allow it to play consistently from start to finish.

And with just one guaranteed game remaining — a matchup with No. 7 seed Lehigh in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday — putting together a full 60 minutes is more crucial than ever.

That’s exactly why they’ll need to learn from their shortcomings during a 13-11 loss at No. 12 Colgate on Saturday.

It was a span of 3:11 during the third and fourth quarters that proved the Terps’ undoing. Colgate went on a 4-0 run, turning a 9-7 Terps lead into an 11-9 Raiders advantage.

With less than a minute left in the third quarter, Colgate star attackman Peter Baum isolated Terps defenseman Goran Murray 15 yards from the goal. Baum cut to his left, Murray slipped and the junior rifled his fourth goal of the game past goalie Niko Amato, cutting the Terps’ lead to 9-8.

With two seconds left in the quarter, Colgate defenseman James Queeney pushed the equalizer past Amato after clearing the ball from the Colgate side of the field. Just like that, the game was reset going into the fourth quarter.

“I thought that was a really big goal,” coach John Tillman said.

“That’s one where we just needed to hold on to the ball and go into the fourth quarter with a lead.”

Just more than two and a half minutes later, Colgate had an 11-9 lead, and the closest the Terps would get the rest of the way was one goal.

“I don’t think we’ve played the full 60 minutes, a full game at all yet this season,” long pole Jesse Bernhardt said. “So it’s something that we need to work on.”

The time frame for working on different aspects of their game, though, is closing for the Terps. Last night, it was announced that the Terps would be traveling to Bethlehem, Pa., to take on Lehigh in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. After that, the possibilities of a rematch with No. 2 seed Johns Hopkins or a matchup with unseeded Stony Brook loom.

“You know, tomorrow’s really not up to us,” Bernhardt said Saturday.

“So we’ll just take what comes to us and we’re just going to take what we

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Midfielder Landon Carr and the Terps couldn’t stop Colgate attackman Peter Baum, who scored five goals and had a game-high seven points in the Raiders’ 13-11 win Saturday at Andy Kerr Stadium. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

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SOFTBALL

Terps earn high seed in NCAA Tournament Galindo sets new Team gets No. 3 seed in field, hosts UMass in the first round Saturday

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON Staff writer

Coach Cathy Reese and the Terps earned the No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament. They play UMass on Saturday. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

For the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team, last night’s NCAA Tournament Selection Show was little more than a formality.

A spot in its 23rd consecutive NCAA Tournament was all but guaranteed with its win over No. 5 North Carolina in the ACC Championship two weeks ago. Ranked No. 3 in RPI and with just three losses this season, it was also nearly assured that the Terps would earn one of the top eight seeds in the field and get a first round game in College Park.

The only things they didn’t know: who they would face on their quest to win their second national title in three years, and whether or not they had done enough this season to earn one of the tournament’s top four seeds, which would guarantee them home games in the first two rounds.

The answer to the latter was revealed first. For the No. 4 Terps, it was a toss-up whether or not they would get seeded in the top four. But after Florida claimed the top seed and reigning champion Northwestern was picked No. 2, the Terps were announced as the No. 3 seed.

“We were hoping that this

was going to be the case,” coach Cathy Reese said. “Having won the ACC Championship, we did everything we could to set ourselves up for that. We’re in the position right now that we want to be in.”

Despite solid recognition by the selection committee, the Terps’ (17-3) first-round opponent is anything but a reward.

Ranked No. 8 nationally, unseeded Massachusetts (19-1) will travel to College Park for its first-ever taste of NCAA Tournament action on Saturday.

Should the Terps advance, they would face either No. 6 seed Loyola (Md.) or unseeded Penn in the second round.

They could potentially meet Northwestern — who defeated the Terps, 8-7, in last year’s championship game — in the semifinal round.

The Terps have won 12 of their last 13 games, but the Minutewomen enter the game as arguably the hottest team in the nation. They have won 12 straight games, and their 19 wins overall are the most of any school in the nation.

Though Massachusetts won the Atlantic 10 Championship, it was not enough for an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.

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all-time hits mark Left fielder’s 10th inning hit gives Terps 4-3 win vs. FSU

BY JASON BENSCHER Staff writer

When Vangie Galindo stepped into the lefthanded batter’s box to lead off the 10th inning Sunday, she knew that history was just a 60-foot run down the first-base line.

With a quick snap of her wrists, it happened: The Terrapins softball left fielder notched her 219th career hit, breaking Jenny Belak’s all-time hits record.

And it came on a fitting stage.

Galindo’s leadoff single put the tying run on first.

Four batters later, right fielder Sara Acosta’s sacrifice fly brought the newly minted all-time hits leader around to score, clinching the Terps’ 4-3 Senior Day victory over No. 20 Florida State.

“She deserves it,” coach Laura Watten said. “It’s such a big day for her because she’s worked so hard.”

After the Seminoles (45-13, 16-5 ACC) scratched across unearned runs in the third and sixth innings, the Terps found themselves trailing by three runs heading into the bottom of the sixth.

But an RBI double from Candice Beards in the sixth finally got the Terps (34-19, 10-8) on the scoreboard, cutting their deficit to 3-1 entering the final frame.

That’s when Galindo made her first step toward history.

After third baseman Melissa Mancuso reached on a hit by pitch and shortstop Kathy McLaughlin singled to left, Galindo poked a record-tying, two-out double into left-center field, scoring Mancuso and McLaughlin to send the game into extra innings.

In the 10th, Galindo celebrated her recordbreaking hit and, perhaps more importantly, a

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