May 12, 2014

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City, state collaborate for Route 1 safety Officials produce list of prioritized improvements

t i o n w i t h S H A’s a p p ro a c h to p edest r i a n sa fety on Route 1, but after the meeting they said SHA is

By Ellie Silverman for Route 1 at a meeting Friday. @esilverman11 SHA Administrator Melinda Peters, approaching this issue with urgency.

“When your top person is here and Senior staff writer university President Wallace Loh, University Police Chief David Mitchell, she’s making these commitments, I The State Highway Administra- city Mayor Andy Fellows and Sen. Jim feel good,” Loh said. “[Peters] cares tion and university, College Park and Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince about people’s lives and safety.”

A sense of urgency was evident with county officials created a list of imme- George’s) were among the attendees.

City and u n iversity officials orange stanchions with yellow tape indiate, short-term, midterm and longterm pedestrian safety improvements prev iously ex pressed f r ust ra- stalled on Route 1 following the meeting,

Mitchell said. They were placed at the intersection of Knox Road and Route 1, continuing southbound past R.J. Bentley’s and stopping before Big Play Sports Grill. Across the street the stanchions continued down to Bank of America.

The stanchions will stand from 10 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. on weekend nights for at least the rest of the semester, Mitchell said.

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Ryan Suess, electrical engineering representative, speaks about the data breach response at Friday’s GSG meeting. stephanie natoli/for the diamondback

Running for the fun of it

Univ: No Experian extension GSG bill requesting longer coverage time killed after debate

Prince George’s Running Club hosts College Park Mother’s Day 5K Run

By Joelle Lang @joelleRlang Staff writer The GSG decided during Friday’s meeting that it would stop pursuing a bill that would approve sending a request to the university to extend the Experian identity theft protection offered in response to February’s data breach.

The Graduate Student Government assembly voted 8-9 to kill any further revision of the bill, which initially proposed the graduate students send a letter to the university asking that the five-year protection plan be increased to 16 years when it was introduced in April. Through the course of the last month, graduate students discussed revising the bill to request the protection be extended to cover a lifetime.

This decision came after Administration and Finance Assistant Vice President Anne Martens attended Friday’s meeting and told

By Eleanor Mueller @thedbk Staff writer Several mothers with babies in strollers and others dressed in tutus with their daughters were among a crowd of runners who celebrated Mother’s Day differently this year in College Park.

The Prince George’s Running Club hosted the city’s first-ever Mother’s Day 5K Run at 7 a.m. yesterday, attracting not only mothers but also runners of all ages and skill levels from the area.

“Our club is awesome,” said Cassandra Logan, a Prince George’s Running Club member volunteering at the race. “We have runners of all levels, ages, races and abilities. runners participate in the Prince George’s Running Club’s Mother’s Day 5k Run yesterday. The event was the first of many the club plans to hold as it expands its presence into College Park and the university community. About one-fourth of the 107 participants were club members. stephanie natoli/for the diamondback

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Students push forward in search for film success

University drops retailer over factory safety agreements Officials will not renew licensing contract

By Elena Baurkot @thedbk For The Diamondback

Film club debuts 10 student-made movies

By Matt Schnabel @thedbk For The Diamondback The lights went down in Hoff Theater in Stamp Student Union.

About 350 students and guests sat in the theater Friday night, awaiting the short films produced during the semester by the Maryland Filmmakers Club for its biannual festival.

D i re c to r s , a c to r s a n d c re w members — some clad in suits, tuxedos and dresses — had their photos taken by mock paparazzi while entering the theater. Each of the 10 student films were livestreamed on YouTube and preceded by an interview with the movie’s director, cast and crew members.

“It’s kind of cool to see some of the context that goes into it,” said Alex Oshiro, a junior computer engineering major and the club’s

Chris Robeck, a senior communication and theatre major, accepts an award for his film, Rewind, at the Maryland Filmmakers Club’s 2014 spring film festival in Hoff Theater on Friday. sung-min kim/the diamondback president. “You see people express where they’ve struggled with it or how they feel about the project.”

The films spanned various genres — comedies, a horror short and dramas of all stripes — and the average run time was about 12-anda-half minutes.

The films’ relative brevity didn’t necessarily mean a smooth development process, however; some directors and actors said scheduling conflicts and editing obstacles hindered the films’ completion.

Ch r i s Rob eck, who d i rected Rewind, a time-bending horror

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film about a gruesome psychological study, considered abandoning his project several times because of a complicated filming and editing process. Though the majority of the film appears to take place in a single room, shots from various angles took place in several locations.

“There were points at which I didn’t want to keep going,” the senior communication and theatre major said. “[The cast and crew] pushed me.”

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University officials are taking steps to ensure Terps gear is ethically and safely produced just more than a year after Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed and killed more than 1,100 workers.

The accident, which took place April 24, 2013, spurred international efforts to protect workers’ rights, including two agreements companies can sign to promise their clothing is ethically made, said Garrett Strain, a United Students Against Sweatshops national organizer. Officials at this university have already identified one apparel producer they will be dropping for failure to comply with ethics codes, officials said.

The university licenses its logos to clothing companies for use on apparel, said Joe Ebaugh, university trademark licensing director.

The products are then sold at stores as officially licensed merchan-

dise. While university officials can’t control how the clothing is made, they can control their brand image by contracting only apparel producers that have signed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, as 16 universities have already done, Strain said.

The accord is a legally binding agreement requiring regular safety inspections of Bangladeshi apparel factories. And while this university is not one of the 16 that have signed, Ebaugh said officials are taking steps to encourage their contracted companies to embrace worker safety.

Ebaugh sent letters last month to eight university-contracted companies that he could not confirm had signed the accord or a similar agreement called the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety. The letters urged the companies to join one or the other, and Ebaugh said a company’s response affected their chances of extending their licensing contracts, which are up for renewal July 1.

The alliance is similar to the accord in that it is also a legally binding agreement that mandates factory safety inspections. But the main difference is that the alliance is an See factories, Page 3

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Run From PAGE 1 It’s a very friendly club; no one should ever feel intimidated.”

The city and the North College Park Citizens Association sponsored the 3.1 mile run, which began and ended at the Hollywood Shopping Center parking lot.

Logan said the club often hosts races like this one in the county, but the members felt they needed to have more races in the North College Park area to accommodate other runners who would like to participate.

By the end of registration yes-

terday, 107 runners had signed up for the race, Logan said.

“First we were like, ‘Mother’s Day? Is anyone going to want to come?’ But then we had a lot of registrants,” Logan said.

Mark Shroder, running club member and the race’s director, lives in the area and said he felt an event of this kind was long overdue for the city. “ I se e so m a ny p e o p l e running here in North College Park that I thought they deserved their own event,” Shroder said.

Shroder said 92 runners registered before the event, and he knew more would register as the day progressed. About 25

of the race’s participants were club members, and about 30 were from the surrounding area, he said.

Tonya Wells-Owen, a District Heights resident who ran in the event, said the race took place about 15 minutes from her home. She said running events in this area like the Mother’s Day 5K are scarce.

“We have to go to D.C. or Columbia,” Wells-Owen said.

“This is the first one that I’ve seen in College Park.”

The running club’s members received a discounted registration fee for the race, but the event was open to anyone interested — including those who

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decided to run the race that morning, such as Luis Navarro.

He registered for the race on a whim yesterday and ended up finishing first. Navarro said though the race seemed small, it was “the right size for the right course.”

College Park Mayor Andy Fellows, a self-proclaimed “funrunner,” wasn’t far behind him.

“I run at a pace that I can’t always finish strong,” Fellows said. “It’s a beautiful day, it’s Mother’s Day — it’s a great day.”

District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan also came out to the race to support the city. He attended with his husband, Nick, an avid runner who pushed

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Rewind ended up winning the festival’s best picture and best editing awards, which came as a surprise, Robeck said during his acceptance speech.

“Those of you that know me — I’m actually shocked to be up here,” Robeck said.

“There were several points at which I wanted to scrap the project.”

At one of the club’s first meetings each semester, returning and new members alike can pitch film ideas to the club’s officer board, which then gives the go-ahead on a dozen of the best projects, Oshiro said.

T hough Robeck and his crew did finish Rewind, failure to complete green-lighted projects isn’t uncommon, Oshiro said.

“Before I became president, we’d green-light about 1 2; we’d get m ayb e si x,” Oshiro said. “We were like, ‘Yeah! We’ve got so many this time.’”

R e g a r d l e s s o f s e n i o rity, each club member can

But more needs to be done, he said. University Police have arrested 509 drunk drivers on Route 1 and Route 193 since 2012, but most of the Route 1 incidents did not involve university students.

“We’re talking about a small section of roadway that has proven in the last roughly 10 months to be very deadly,” Mitchell said. “We believe that the speed limit needs to be lowered and that the current speed limit needs to be enforced. We know that speed cameras work, and I’m in favor of that on this section of Route 1.”

These concerns were addressed in SHA’s list of proposed short-term safety items that will take place in the next several weeks. The list also includes installing warning signs, evaluating automatic walk signals along with the 30 mph speed limit and the speed cameras hours of operation, looking into ways to improve lighting, assessing the feasibility of a four-way

FIlmmakers Aidan Walsh, Alex Oshiro and Patrick O’Connor speak during intermission at the Maryland Filmmakers Club’s 2014 spring film festival on Friday. sung-min kim/the diamondback get involved with a film in some capacity, Oshiro said, and many end up working on multiple projects.

“It just kind of happens,” Oshiro said. “Some directors see someone who they think is really good, and they’re like, ‘Hey, you want to work with me on this thing?’”

Adam Nixon, a university film professor who served as one of the festival’s three judges, said he has seen the quality of films improve steadily during the four years he’s been involved with the festival.

“These films are getting more p ol i she d a nd more well-made every semester,”

Nixon said. “We’re starting to really see films that could be in festivals in cities other than College Park.”

Oshiro agreed with Nixon and said a good-natured competitive spirit has driven the films’ rise in quality from semester to semester.

“We do have people who make good things, and then the next semester, people who saw that movie will be on that level,” Oshiro said.

“We’ve been doing that for a wh i le; people have just been pushing to get better and better.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

Shea duncan crosses the finish line of the Mother’s Day 5K Run on Sunday. The Prince George’s Running Club hosted the run in College Park. stephanie natoli/for the diamondback him to sign up for fun and to support the city.

“This is our first time doing something with the running club,” Brennan said.

“It’s a good thing for the city

— anything that advocates healthy activity, the community coming together and just having fun is great.”

red flash for this section at night and measuring the need for a traffic signal at the intersection of Hartwick Road and Route 1.

The crosswalk pavement markings are scheduled to be refurbished today if the weather permits, and the SHA District Office will start looking to install the pedestrian safety signs this week.

Peters also said she hopes to have messages along the curbs to remind pedestrians not to cross.

“One of the th ings I noticed as I was driving up and down the corridor is a lot of the students are looking dow n, maybe at their phone,” Peters said.

“So having an actual visual reminder on the curb line will hopefully deter people from making that decision to step out into the street and cross not at the crosswalk.”

Reviewing the feasibility of engineering changes to the median is among the list of midterm proposals, along with studying the corridor to decide if additional lighting would be necessary and determining a location to install

a flashing yellow light with a warning sign.

Upgrading the signals at the intersection to current standards and a Route 1 redesign project from the SHA, including a raised median, wider sidewalks and audible signals at crosswalks, are among the long-term options within one- to-three years.

M itc h e l l s a i d t h e i ncreased police presence on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights will be permanent, and the university has a “Street Smart” campaign to educate pedestrians.

“We’re all focused as a team on getting to the right result, which is safer pedestrians and a safer roadway for drivers as well,” Peters said. “In the end, we can all work together, but the students also have to be a part of making sure we have a good solution out there.”

The SHA will complete a pedestrian road safety audit report by early summer, Peters sa id , wh ich w i l l include the agency’s official observations on the highway’s safety hazards.

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Rooftop Community Garden plans to increase outreach next semester Club looks forward to summer harvest after winter freeze

By Nate Rabner @thedbk For The Diamondback On a ter race overlooking Susquehanna Hall and South Campus Commons, fruits, vegetables and herbs are growing at last. Rooftop Community Garden members are replanting their plots on the rubber-floored roof on the third floor of the South Campus Dining Hall.

Tomatoes, leeks, sorrel, carrots, turnips, parsnips and broccoli are in the ground.

The raspberry plant has come back from last year, the kale managed to survive the cold of winter and herbs are sprouting in the herb spiral, which is a stack of plastic crates.

Come fall, club members hope to turn the terrace into a social space to share their ro of top ret re at w it h t he university community, and they’re looking to expand outreach efforts and grow their ranks. April’s torrential rains delayed planting this spring, but work is finally underway and club members are optimistic.

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“It’s been so i nconsistent and suddenly freezing, which is really bad for baby plants,” said club member Eric Marshall-Main, a University of Ma ryla nd Un iversity College student and Facilities Management employee at this university. “It’s quite impressive up here in the summertime.”

Over the summer, MarshallMain and a Dining Services employee will water the plants and harvest produce.

“This is a great place to come up and do work or just sit with friends,” said rooftop gardener Stephanie Ingber, a senior environmental science and policy major. “It’s very relaxed up here. You just want a good environment and do something awesome.”

In the past, the club has participated in a yoga s e s s i o n o n t h e ro o f a n d invited student musicians to perform. Members plan to hold kite-flying sessions a nd more concerts i n the future, in part to raise interest in the garden itself. The club will build a make-yourown garden station where

authored the bills, said she was concerned graduates studying abroad might not have heard about the breach yet and might miss the deadline to sign up for Experian.

The sign-up date for the protection service cannot be pushed back further, Martens said, because the activation codes will stop working at that date. However, she would be available for anyone who had a problem to contact her, she said.

“I’m happy to handle [problems with] codes on a day-byday basis,” Martens said.

The five-year service could be extended, however, if someone’s identity is stolen a nd u sed a ga i n st t hem, Martens said.

“If I have this service and if in seven years my ID is stolen, I can call Protect My ID, get connected to theft services, and they will help me through this process,” Martens said.

When Sharp asked Martens what would happen if Experian decided to cut the service to the university without notice — a fear of some graduate students — Martens said she could not predict the future.

But Martens said based on the care this university has displayed with regard to the breach, she did not doubt it would find a way to continue identity theft protection for its students, faculty and staff if such a situation occurred.

While some graduates said they still wanted to request a lifetime of coverage and an extended sign-up date for Experian and send their proposals to the University Senate, the majority decided to kill the bill and end the debate. “[The university] did a phenomenal job, notifying students within a week of it happening,” biochemistry representative Andrew Longhini said. “Putting a resolution like this forward is saying, ‘We know you’ve done a lot, but not enough.’”

the students that extending the coverage would be impossible.

Martens, who was invited to address the assembly after meeting with a subcommittee formed April 11 at the last GSG meeting, said the problem with asking an identity protection service for added years of coverage is that the company would have difficulty setting a price on the service.

“There isn’t a company that knows how to price that,” Martens said. “We pressed to find a way to price the service for five years.”

T he university initially offered students a year of protection under Experian, but within one week the service was extended to five years.

Identity protection services are typically offered to employees or students for one to three years at most, Martens said.

But some graduates said they were not satisfied with the length of coverage.

Assembly member Timir Datta-Chaudhuri suggested that to support a lifetime of protection, the university could find a way to strike a deal with Experian in which it would not have to pay up front for the entire term of service.

“We want the university to know that the graduate students as a whole are concerned, specifically about extending the care,” said Ryan Suess, an electrical engineering department representative. “That’s why we’re asking for lifetime [coverage], because philosophically it’s the idea that you are protected or you are not protected. This is symbolic in a sense.”

The GSG passed a bill in April that approved sending a letter to the university requesting that the registration deadline for the protection be extended from May 31 to Dec. 31. Miriam Sharp, a geology department representative and graduate assistant who jlangdbk@gmail.com

Factories

the accord, joining the alliance or proving their products were not made in Bangladesh. A From PAGE 1 seventh company replied that agreement between compa- it did not produce clothing.

Ebaugh said the university nies and retailers instead of companies and unions, as in will not renew the contract the accord, Deborah Drew, the w ith one compa ny, Isaac alliance’s operations manager, Morris Ltd., which did not respond to the initial letter. wrote in an email.

T he compa n ies h ad 30 Officials sent the company a days to respond with a plan of follow-up letter announcing action, Ebaugh said, and all but the decision Wednesday.

The accord and the alliance two complied, either signing

anyone can construct a waterjug planter to hang from the terrace’s railing, Ingber said.

“We want people to come and plant their own stuff,” she said. “It’s a really big learning experience, gardening.”

The club’s dedicated core is small. There are 10 regularly attending members, said university research assistant and club member Emily Voelker.

Many club members had never grown plants before joining and had to learn as they went.

“A lot of us were Google farmers — like, ‘How do you do this?’ ‘I don’t know, let’s Google it,’” Marshall-Main said.

But the gardeners since have transformed the dining hall’s terrace.

Greg Thompson, Dining Services’ assistant director for facilities, said he worked with former student Jesse Yurrow to get permission to build a garden on the terrace.

Yurrow had tried to start a community garden on top of the North Campus Dining Hall, but students could not access the roof without a university employee’s help. The South

The rooftop garden provides a social space for its members, many of whom had never grown plants before joining the club. Located on the third floor of South Campus Dining Hall, it boasts plants such as tomatoes, carrots and broccoli. james levin/the diamondback Campus Dining Hall’s terrace offered a promising option, but it needed some sprucing up.

In the 1970s, the South Campus Dining Hall featured a bar, and students gathered on the terrace to drink. The space was closed after reports of students throwing bottles off the roof, Thompson said.

Its tile floor was covered with the waterproof rubber shell, its metal railings removed and its door replaced with a window.

“We had to do a lot of things to make it safe,” Thompson said.

Yurrow applied for a grant from the University Sustainability Fund, which helped pay for the construction of a new door and railings. The terrace needed a second exit to meet fire code requirements, so Help Center staff allowed the addition of an emergency-only door into their office. The club started planting on the newly accessible rooftop on Maryland Day in 2011.

L a s t s u m m e r, D i n i n g Services hired students to harvest produce for the Green Tidings food truck and 251

Nor th. Now, thoug h, the garden is for the community.

Anyone is welcome to take some food from the garden, Voelker said. “Basically, the only rule is to not be a jerk about it,” she said — that is, leave some for everyone else.

“In a really high-traffic area, real close to Route 1, real close to D.C., this is a great way to utilize space,” Ingber said. “You can learn from here. … It’s a way to get outside and get active.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

New science building earns efficiency honor Physical Sciences Complex meets LEED gold requirements despite laboratories

T he Phy s ic a l S c i e n c e s Complex became the first laboratory building on the campus to earn a LEED gold certification last week, reaching certain sustainability standards set by the U.S. Green Building Council.

T h i s s t ate re q u i re s a l l state-funded construction projects or major renovations to reach at least LEED silver status. But with this university’s sustainability goa ls, such as u n iversity P re sid e nt Wa l l a c e L oh’s l ate s t go a l of c a rb onneutral new construction, project teams aim beyond silver status to become as energy efficient as possible, said Bill Olen, Facilities Management interim planning and construction executive director and capital projects director.

T here are four levels of LEED certification — certified, silver, gold and platinum — and buildings earn points by meeting various criteria set by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Sustainability was considered t h roug hout t he $128-m i l l ion-dol la r constr uction of the Physica l Sciences Complex, but the gold status was not expected, Olen said.

“I was surprised based on the complexity of the building and it being a lab building,” Olen said. “It is very hard for us to get gold or better on laboratory buildings because they are inherently not energy efficient because of the types of things that happen in lab buildings.”

The construction of the

Physical Sciences Complex, wh ich w i l l hou se t he astronomy a nd physics d epartments as well as the Institute for Physical Science a nd Te c h nolog y a nd t he Joi nt Qua ntu m Institute, helped the building reach gold status.

“Our contractor was able to recycle 83 percent of the construction waste,” said Tom McMullen, computer, mathematical and natural sciences college assistant dean of facilities. “That’s a pretty significant amount, but that means 17 percent of your construction waste is going into a landfill.”

To cut down on transportation pollution, the project obtained 15 percent of constr uction materia ls f rom within 500 miles of the site, McMullen said. The buildi ng a lso featu res a g reen roof, which allows water to slowly drain or evaporate, rather than becoming surface runoff, he said.

The complex has a groundwater recycling system in place that has yet to be approved by the county, but will add to the building’s susta i nabi l ity i f it is approved, Olen said.

“Instead of using water t h at comes f rom [ Wa shington Suburban Sanitary Commission] that we would pay for, we’re trying to get p e r m it te d a p u r pl e p i p e system that will allow us to use groundwater,” Olen said.

T he complex goes fou r s to r i e s i nto t h e g ro u n d , which means groundwater must be pumped out, Olen said. The university wants to ma ke better use of the water than pumping it into the storm sewer, he said.

have stirred controversy among experts, some of whom said the agreements are not specific or strong enough to address the problems they seek to solve.

An April report on the apparel industry’s business practices in Bangladesh conducted by New York University researchers Sarah Labowitz and Dorothée Baumann-Pauly concluded both the accord and the alliance are insufficient. They do not reach factories where workers are most

at risk, clarify where the money for factory renovations will come from or address indirect sourcing, in which factories subcontract manufacturing to other factories to cut costs, the report found.

Indirect sourcing creates a web of contracts and production flow that is confusing even to regulators, according to the report, and the system plays a major role in Bangladesh’s garment industry.

Encouraging companies to

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The outdoor seating area at the Physical Sciences Complex features a garden and an oval shaped cutout. The complex began opening offices in January. file photo/the diamondback “We’re trying to get permitted to use that water for toilets and urinals,” Olen said.

The water will be tinted purple to indicate it’s not drinking water, he said. And when the building is fully occupied and the system is running, it will save about 8,000 gallons of water a day, McMullen said.

To ensure high standards of sustainability, the university hired a sustainability consultant who worked with the architects and engineers.

The university also paid a few thousand dollars in LEED certification fees, Olen said, adding that the final cost was less than $10,000.

“Although there is a cost to it, it does provide value,” McMullen said.

Sophomore Da n L ev i ne learned the importance of energy-efficient buildings a f ter ta k i ng a n env i ronmental engineering class in Germany this winter, he said.

“I f you wa nt to focu s on anything to reduce our e n e rg y i m p a c t, it wo u l d b e b u i l d i n g s ,” L e v i n e , a m e c h a n i c a l e n g i n e e ring major, said. “If you’re making an effort to reduce t h at i mpa ct t hen I t h i n k

t h at’s a rea l ly ad m i rable thing to be doing.”

Sophomore physics major Tom Fowler said he is excited about ex tra lab space the complex will provide, though he doesn’t care about the LEED gold certification label.

“I understand for the university the name is important to them,” Fowler said. “I don’t mind them doing that, as long as it’s not like millions of dollars to get it certified.”

This building joins other LEED gold status buildings on the campus, including the University House, Pocomoke Building, Oakland Hall, Knight Hall and South Campus Commons 7.

Chris Yeager, a sophomore mathematics and physics major, said he thinks going green is important for both the campus and the country as a whole.

“Even if it costs more to build the building, they’re going to be paying less for energy to make it run and making less of an impact on the environment,” Yeager said. “Overall, the investment is worth it.”

join the accord or the alliance is a good thing, Labowitz said, but more needs to be done to effect real change.

“University license stores should be encouraging their licensees to look at their full supply chains and to understand the implications of indirect sourcing in the products that end up being sold in their bookstores,” Labowitz said.

Sophomore elementary education major Kim Turner agreed

with the decision not to renew the Isaac Morris contract but said that the university should only contract companies that sign the accord or the alliance.

A company saying they do not manufacture in Bangladesh is not enough, she said.

“There’s no harm in signing something that will give you more credibility and make them seem safer,” she said.

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The steady fight for Title IX

Putting yourself before your resume

Using educational initiatives to promote Title IX standards

Creative catalysts to guide life’s choices

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ast week, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights released a list of 55 universities across the country under investigation for potentially violating Title IX regulations. Thankfully, this university was not one of those listed.

However, five of the schools listed were Big Ten schools, bringing this issue closer to home. The point of releasing this list of schools under investigation is to promote transparency between the government and educational institutions and to make other universities aware of how widespread Title IX violations are.

Catherine Carroll, this university’s sexual misconduct and Title IX compliance office director, said in a previous interview with The Diamondback that sexual misconduct can happen anywhere. Carroll also shared that violations can occur more easily at large universities, where it is unfortunately difficult to keep track of students and get the word out about available resources.

Despite this university being quite sizable, the university’s Sexual Misconduct Policy and programs such as CARE to Stop Violence place a high priority on protecting students, faculty and staff from sexual assault. Despite the already high marks this university has received regarding sexual assault awareness and preventative action, there is still more that can be done at the administrative level.

University President Wallace Loh said he believes staff and students can benefit from mandated sexual assault education; Loh contrasted this university’s lack of training with the training

he received within his first two weeks as the provost of the University of Iowa back in 2008. According to Carroll and Loh, required sexual assault education at this university is in the works, and Carroll said she hopes to have mandatory training implemented for the upcoming fall semester.

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This university hasn’t been recognized as a violator of Title IX standards — but there’s still room for improvement.

This university can be praised for taking the initiative to develop sexual misconduct education; however, the training needs to come sooner rather than later. Several other universities across the country have already developed sexual misconduct education programs.

For example, Johns Hopkins University has a program that focuses on preventing sexual harassment while encouraging department heads to encourage this program among all staff and faculty. The University of New Hampshire established a Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program that researches the best methods to effectively educate students about sexual assault. It has initiated campaigns such as an antiviolence rally and the White Ribbon Campaign, which encourages men on their campus to sign a pledge to “Never commit, condone, nor remain silent

about violence against women,” according to the program’s website.

The University of Texas at Austin established the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, which conducts research on interpersonal violence and sexual assault policies. In response to growing awareness of sexual assault cases across the U.S., the institute published a toolkit last fall to educate police on how they should approach and speak to sexual assault victims.

Considering the limited number of colleges leading the way in sexual assault education and research, this university should stand at the forefront of combating sexual assault and violence. The next step is finding unique, effective ways to educate people on sexual assault in order to prevent it from happening and to ensure this university continues to uphold Title IX requirements.

Stephanie Rivero, assistant coordinator of the CARE to Stop Violence program, said in a previous interview with The Diamondback that education isn’t harmful — and she’s right. If this university implemented a comprehensive sexual misconduct education course for students, faculty and staff, then this educational initiative could lead to a greater understanding of sexual assault prevention.

This university has already taken steps toward treating sexual assault victims with more respect, and it places a large emphasis on awareness.

However, in order to fully combat sexual assault, this university can’t just follow suit with other universities in combating sexual assault — it needs to take innovative steps to lead the way.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

The moment it struck me was on the bus ride back from harassing people in Hyattsville. The idea of “street reporting” sucked to me — working as a journalist had boiled down to just bothering people and trying to get them to talk to me. No high-minded First Amendment sermons, no smoky images of Woodward and Bernstein — journalism was just me standing next to Busboys and Poets menacing people with a pen. I was watching Byrd Stadium approach on the horizon and listening to Friendcast, as I had taken to doing to calm myself down after a long day of being annoying, when I realized it.

Eventually, this led me to dropping my double major. I don’t think I’ve ever been happier about doing badly at something. I felt like dying for a week, and then I felt amazing.

It was like ripping off a Band-Aid I had been picking at for five years.

Chasing happiness isn’t always the way to find happiness. Standing at the end of my junior year, too far away from the end of senior year to tell you something cliche, I have the antithesis to the glowing college sayonara: You don’t always have to work hard to be happy.

Encouraging people to “make the most of your four years” is a guaranteed way to give someone an ulcer. Sometimes happiness is failing. Sometimes happiness is making a petty change and listening to grown men talk about eating Vicks VapoRub. Constantly focusing on the day when you get to walk across the stage in a silly square hat and a dress is unhealthy — focus on how you can make yourself happy right now.

EMMA ATLAS

I’ve lived most of my life knowing that when I’m not thinking very hard, my face drops to an expression that suggests I just dropped my soft-serve ice cream.

There’s a common phrase people use to describe when women look upset all the time that contains words I won’t repeat, and knowing this phenomenon is common has kept me from trying to fix it, even though it bothers me.

This year, I stumbled upon a solution by accident, and now, as I walk across the campus, I can’t hide a furtive grin to the point that I think I might be scaring people. I learned I could stop looking angry by listening to podcasts.

This past August, I was introduced to Welcome to Night Vale, a Twilight Zone-style podcast. I tore through it, finding excuses to go for walks just so I could force myself to stay focused on the audio-only experience.

I ran out of Night Vale episodes in late August. I thought that might be it for me and podcasts until the Super Best Friendcast, a video gaming podcast run by four nerdy Canadians that launched about the time I moved in for the fall semester.

Now, I can’t stop snickering to myself as I walk around. I’ve switched from looking distressingly upset to distressingly pleased.

This past year has consisted of me repeatedly pulling out thorns I didn’t even notice, using obvious solutions. I fixed my default angry face by listening to podcasts, and I Emma Atlas is a junior government stopped loathing my coursework by and politics major. She can be reached at eatlasdbk@gmail.com. dropping my journalism major.

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GUEST COLUMN

Life at a standstill: Appreciating the luxuries we have We should take advantage of living in one of the greatest periods of our lives

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ife is not easy. Relative to the lives of many of those around the world, college students have it easy. We might not know it; we might not feel it right now, but around us is a world of disadvantage. Within this rambunctious, sleep-deprived realm is an opportunity to decide how our journey will unfold.

When I came to college, I didn’t know what I was getting myself into. I’m a senior now. I can distinctly remember how blissfully refreshing the freedom and sunshine were during my first weeks on the campus.

It is truly amazing what we have at this university. We are blessed with opportunities for success, yet there are unlimited distractions (from the

bar exam to the bars). These distractions can either be fun diversions or irritations that can restrict us from breaking out.

We have our own unique backgrounds, and that’s what makes this melting pot of youthful adventure a special experience. Each person’s specific experience includes a mosaic of other characters, adventures, challenges and lessons.

Our own gut reactions, emotions and stressful inner selves continue to push and pull us in directions we never could have predicted.

We have spontaneously gotten jobs, enrolled in classes and made friends. We rarely have regrets because time pushes our journeys onward. When it’s over, we’ll look back with gratitude.

My journey is concluding soon. It’s taken me a while to get together the confidence, commitment and time to make something for everyone to read.

My gut feeling has told me writing this might be fulfilling.

There’s an inner drive that pulls us in these directions, and it’s unexplainable. We need to trust our instincts.

We are good people at heart, and our instincts are forces outside our control guiding us on our destined path. When we go against these instincts, it is possible to feel a perpetual inkling of discomfort.

I must give you one piece of concrete advice. I’ve kept a digital journal throughout college, and it is fun to look back on the stories and see those in which different characters of my adventure come into play.

I encourage you to keep something, such as a journal, because you probably can’t tell me where you went on your third night of college, but one day you might like to be able to.

We all like to stay somewhat busy in our lives, not wasting a moment.

Sometimes our lives can be cycles of stress. We find ourselves running on a treadmill of deadlines, assignments and events. We need to take a deep breath at times, focusing our energy on one task at a time. When we direct our mind toward one task at a time, our life becomes simpler to navigate.

We are living in one of the greatest periods of our lives. Our biggest responsibility is to earn a letter grade. We are fed well. We are housed. We have friends and hope-

fully family. We live comfortably. A small percentage of the world lives as comfortably as we do. We are the princes of history. Let’s consider all the people of history who struggled through hard, short lives and could only dream of what we experience every day.

We all have the ability to take our situation and appreciate it for what it is. It is unlikely we will live alongside friends, with immediate necessities limited to superficial homework assignments. If you take advantage of each day of college, then you’ll be proud and grateful for the journey you completed.

Ben Simon is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at benjamin.m.simon@gmail.com.

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FROM FILM TO TELEVISION Staff writer Jonathan Raeder looks at television’s recent trend in piggybacking off some original films. Visit diamondbackonline.com for a list of movies that should be TV series.

ESSAY | SPOILERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA

stopping social spoilers Proper etiquette is required in social media postings about favorite entertainment — especially during monumental moments in television shows

SPOILER BLOCKERS Tired of seeing your favorite television shows ruined by untimely scrolls through your social media feeds? It’s time to be the solution to your own problem. Whether it’s on your computer or on your smartphone, the following are guaranteed to make your life a little more free of spoilers.

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By Zoë DiGiorgio @zozoembie Staff writer Picture this: It’s a Sunday night. You have two exams in the next two days. You’ve spent all weekend studying your butt off, and you’re getting ready to wrap up your work for the evening by streaming the newest episode of your favorite show.

But when you log on to Facebook, you quickly find out everything you needed to know about what you missed.

Plastered on your newsfeed is the status: “Well, it’s about time [character name] died.”

And just like that, your night is ruined.

Your study break turned into a major headache, thanks to a careless spoiler plastered on social media.

It might sound like an exaggeration, but it happened to me a few weeks ago. Between studying and constant errors on HBO GO, I missed a crucial episode of Game of Thrones, only to have the dramatic ending ruined for me less than 10 minutes after the episode aired, thanks to a Facebook status.

Plenty has been written about spoilers lately, including an analysis of the spoilers’ cultural importance and several histories on the use of the word “spoiler” in vernacular. But while it’s almost universally understood that spoilers are horrible and inconsiderate, there is still an ongoing debate about how to treat these critical nuggets of information in social media.

After I had the Game of Thrones episode spoiled, I admit it: I snapped. I posted a not-so-polite Facebook status about my hatred for those who spoil the show.

While those who also had their hopes dashed by spoilers agreed with my status

— or at the very least, the sentiments behind it — others took a more accusatory tone.

“If you’re so concerned about being spoiled, why did you go on Facebook?”

That made me even angrier. Why was I to blame for this now? I didn’t actively seek out the ending of the episode!

Someone who chose to broadcast a spoiler to his or her Facebook friends without first considering others ruined the episode for me.

If I bumped into this person on the campus after the episode had aired, the conversation would have gone differently.

In face-to-face situations, it’s understood that people who blurt out the ending to books, movies or TV without assessing their conversation partners’ familiarity with the subject material are ignorant jerks.

You probably do this frequently without thinking about it. A conversation might go something like this: “Oh my gosh, did you see The Walking Dead last night?”

“Ugh, no! I had to go work on a group project.”

“Oh man, you gotta see it! It was crazy!”

The person with the information in this case knows he or she is in a position of power. The person who saw the episode then might struggle to continue the conversation afterward, especially if there is a particularly juicy part of the episode he or she wants to chat about, but it’s highly unlikely this person will blurt any key pieces of information without finding out the other person’s familiarity first. It’s simply what we’re socially conditioned to do.

On social media, however, the distance between people means these social codes are lost. But in the same way you wouldn’t walk

An app released in September called Spoiler Shield blocks spoilers from newsfeeds using algorithms that detect key words and phrases and block relevant statuses and tweets from phones.

It also blocks sports spoilers (including NBA, NFL and MLB) and can then show the hidden posts after viewing the content for the first time.

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up to someone and tell them the ending of the newest Stephen King novel while he or she is trying to read it, you shouldn’t carelessly blurt out spoilers on social media.

Here are some ways to share information about your favorite shows responsibly on social media: 1. Vague statuses People joke all the time about those Facebook friends who post vague statuses about their emotions, but in the case of highly charged emotions related to movies or TV, I think we all agree we can let it slide. “Wow, that episode was crazy!” or some variation of that phrase can get across a lot of your feelings without actively revealing information to friends and acquaintances.

2. Seek out private conversations If you feel the need to talk about a show or movie right after you see it, it’s totally cool to post something such as “Has anyone else seen Captain America? I need to talk about the ending.” It might seem awkward to initiate a conversation this way, but it’s nicer than ruining the movie for those who haven’t been able to see it yet.

3. Format your spoilers properly It’s harder on Twitter, but on Facebook, you can post “Spoiler alert for tonight’s Scandal!” followed by a bunch of spaces, symbols or other characters that stretch your status and create a “Read More” link.

This means people have to actively seek out the spoiler, removing you from fault when they have the episode ruined.

The bottom line is this: Follow the golden rule when posting spoilers online. Treat others as you’d want to be treated; don’t post spoilers unless you want something ruined for you.

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SILENCER Silencer, a Google Chrome extension, allows users to type in a keyword and block out content, effectively muting it. It works like a charm on Twitter, but doesn’t work for Facebook newsfeeds. Fun fact: Silencer can also mute people.

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drives on one on ones, and we needed to tighten that up.”

The Terps defense held the Quakers scoreless for the first 10 minutes of the second half before Bensen scored her third goal of the contest.

But instead of allowing Penn to climb back into the game, the Terps defense locked down and forced seven turnovers in the second half.

The Terps held the Quakers scoreless for the rest of the game, limiting them to four shots in the second half. With the Quakers offense shut down, the Terps scored the final four goals of the contest to secure their spot in the quarterfinals.

“In the second half, we just got stronger and tougher as a whole, not just one or two people,” midfielder Kelly McPartland said.

spans when teams are going to do that.”

The Terps won the next draw control, but Quakers goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson made a save 10 seconds later, to give the Quakers a possession that led to a goal, cutting the Terps lead to 4-3.

But that is as close as the game would get. The Terps defense limited Penn to one goal in the final 10 minutes of the half, and the team won all but one draw control during that time to go on a 4-1 run before halftime.

Despite the 8-4 lead, Reese wasn’t happy with the Terps’ first-half defense and made adjustments during the break.

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But in the ninth, with the game tied at four, Terps first baseman LaMonte Wade hit a triple, and Lowe drove him in with a single to left that gave the Terps a lead they would hang onto.

“We know what we are playing for and where we want to go, and we know that for that to happen we have to come out as an offense and play as a unit and execute,” Wade said.

The Terps ended their ACC regular season on a hot streak.

After wining one of their first six conference series, the Terps have won three of their past four.

With the postseason looming, the Terps are brimming with confidence.

“These last three days have been great,” Wade said. “It just seems like everything is clicking right, and the vibe around the team has been going the right way, in the right direction, and we just want to keep it rolling.”

Jose Cuas opened the scoring with an RBI double down the right-field line and later drove in the last runs of the inning with a two-RBI single to center.

On Saturday, right-hander Mike Shawaryn set the Terps’ single-season record with his ninth victory, also tying him for first in the ACC this year, and gave up one run in 6.2 innings.

“As much as it was me, it was the team too,” Shawaryn said.

“I couldn’t really do it without the guys in the field because they were swinging the bats.”

The Panthers (22-27, 11-16 ACC) took the early lead with a run in the first inning of Game 2, but the Terps (33-19, 15-14) tied the game in the second before plating three runs in the fifth.

The Panthers also took the lead yesterday with four runs in the seventh, breaking the Terps bullpen’s streak of 24.1 psuittsdbk@gmail.com scoreless innings.

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RED From PAGE 8 both sides of the ball to take a 5-1 lead entering halftime — a start worse than the Terps’ eight-goal home loss to the Big Red in the first round of last year’s NCAA tournament, in which the Big Red led by two at the break.

Cornell attackman Matt Donovan — the team’s points leader — scored three times in the second quarter on dodges from behind the cage against defender Goran Murray. The Big Red defense, meanwhile, thwarted the Terps offense and held the unit to one goal in the first 30 minutes of play: a score from Chanenchuk with about six minutes left in the half.

“They knocked down some balls,” Tillman said. “They got to our hands. They took away the inside. So give them a lot of credit. They disrupted our rhythm and they had a great defensive game plan.”

The second half was a complete turnaround, though.

The Terps scored twice in the first five minutes of the third quarter — the first on a shovel rebound from attackman Jay Carlson and the second on an underhand lefty rip from attackman Matt Rambo during an extra-man opportunity — to cut the Big Red lead to two.

“Those first two goals got us momentum,” Tillman said. “It was a different energy on the bench, just a different energy everywhere.”

Attackman Connor Cannizzaro added a goal one minute later to bring the Terps within one, but a penalty from defensive midfielder Brian Cooper led to a man-up goal from Cornell midfielder John Hogan with 7:13 left in the quarter to extend the Big Red advantage back to two goals.

Rambo and attackman Dan Lintner traded goals to begin

MiDFIELDER HENRY WEST celebrates after attackman Mike Chanenchuk scored the go-ahead goal with two seconds left against Cornell on Saturday. West assisted on Chanenchuk’s goal with a long skip pass after he sliced to the cage out of a timeout. chester lam/the diamondback the fourth quarter before Cannizzaro and Rambo scored back-to-back goals to tie the game at seven with 8:12 left.

Tillman said his team’s furious comeback was fueled by faceoff specialist Charlie Raffa — who won 8-of-10 draws in the second half against Big Red specialist Doug Tesoriero — along with wingers Michael Ehrhardt and Cooper.

“Because of their energy and their ground play, we got the ball to the offensive end, and some of our younger players stepped up,” Tillman said. “But that was all due to the hard work in the middle of the field by the older guys.”

Neither team found the

back of the net for the next seven minutes in the fourth quarter, but the Terps established possession with less than two minutes left before Tillman called a timeout with 53 seconds remaining.

Against the Fighting Irish in the conference tournament at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania, the Terps were in a similar predicament when Tillman took a timeout with possession with 1:16 remaining. But the referees put a 30-second shot clock on with about 45 seconds left, forcing Chanenchuk to make a move to the net that resulted in his debilitating turnover.

During his timeout on Saturday, Tillman said he had a

quick conversation with a referee to clarify exactly when he was planning on starting the timer. Eventually, the officials started the shot clock with 31 seconds remaining on the game clock.

That means Chanenchuk’s game-clinching goal hit the net with one second to spare.

And just more than two weeks after he wilted down the stretch against Notre Dame, the senior made two crucial plays in the final 10 seconds of regulation to avoid elimination against Cornell.

“That’s how close sometimes winning and losing is,” Tillman said. dpopperdbk@gmail.com

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE NCAA TOURNAMENT | NO. 1-SEED TERPS 13, QUAKERS 5

Defense tightens in second half Penn fails to score in final 19:50, Terps advance to quarterfinals

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer

Defender Shanna Brady stays in front of a Quaker attacker during Sunday’s win. christian jenkins/the diamondback

The Terrapins women’s lacrosse defense allowed Penn to take 21 shots when the teams met in the regular season in March, but the Quakers found the back of the net five times in a 10-goal loss.

In the opening 30 minutes of the second round of the NCAA tournament yesterday, though, Penn shot 50 percent, and the Quakers scored four goals during the half.

But in the second period, the No. 1-seed Terps clamped down.

They limited Penn to one goal in the second half to polish off a 13-5 win at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex, sending the Terps to a

quarterfinal matchup with Duke on Saturday.

“It was nice to see us kind of improve and make some adjustments at halftime to limit their opportunities in the second half,” coach Cathy Reese said.

Though the Terps never trailed Penn in the regular-season contest, the Quakers scored the first goal yesterday less than five minutes in.

And with attacker Halle Majorana, who entered the game ranking sixth on the team with 20 goals, absent from the Terps lineup for an undisclosed reason, Reese adjusted her offensive game plan.

But attacker Kristen Lamon was first off the bench for the Terps — a role Majorana usually fills — and quickly made an impact. Lamon cut in from the right side of the goal and finished off the shot in the top-right corner in

the 10th minute to give the Terps a 2-1 advantage over the Quakers.

After the Terps scored two more goals in the next minute, they turned the ball over, allowing Penn a chance to end their four-goal run. The Quakers cleared the ball with 19:03 remaining, and the Terps defense repeatedly forced Penn to circle the net, not allowing a shot for more than four minutes.

Eventually, though, Quakers midfielder Tory Bensen beat goalkeeper Abbey Clipp with 11:38 left to end the seven-minute possession.

“Our defense played great for sixand-a-half minutes, seven minutes and then one slip-up,” midfielder Taylor Cummings said. “We just need to keep focus and keep our attention See QUAKERS, Page 7

MEN’S LACROSSE NCAA TOURNAMENT | NO. 7-SEED TERPS 8, BIG RED 7

BASEBALL

Terps earn sweep of Panthers

IN THE NICK OF TIME

Team clinches first league tournament berth in nine years

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer The Terrapins baseball team entered the third inning trailing Pittsburgh 1-0 Friday in Game 1 of a three-game series. But by the end of the frame, the Terps had a commanding 9-1 edge in an eventual 21-1 win.

Friday afternoon set the example for the rest of the series. The Terps, who entered the weekend 3-9 on the road in the ACC, faced deficits in all three games but came back each time to complete a sweep in their final ACC series.

The victories extended the Terps’ winning streak to a season-high eight games and clinched the team’s spot in the ACC tournament for the first time in nine seasons.

“There’s no fear of playing with a deficit,” coach John Szefc said.

“They’re able to produce tough at-bats throughout the game.”

The Terps end their ACC slate by tying a school record with 15 conference victories and posted their first winning season in the ACC since 1981.

The successful weekend started Friday when the Terps set season highs in runs (21), hits (18) and margin of victory (20). Each starter had at least one hit, and right-hander Jake Stinnett gave up one run in six innings to pick up his sixth victory.

The Terps batted around in the third, when they posted a season-high nine runs in an inning. Third baseman See PANTHERS, Page 7

ATTACKMAN MIKE CHANENCHUK dodges to his left hand past a Big Red defender to wind up for a shot. The senior scored two goals to propel the Terps to an 8-7 victory Saturday at Byrd Stadium. chester lam/the diamondback

Chanenchuk scores game-winning goal with two seconds left to lead No. 7-seed Terps past Cornell The No. 7-seed Terps and the Big Red were tied 7-7 with less than 20 seconds remaining when Terps midfielder Bryan Cole slipped while making a move, and the ball fell to the turf.

In the closing seconds of the Terrapins men’s Three Big Red players charged to the loose ball, lacrosse team’s ACC semifinal loss to Notre Dame but Chanenchuk emerged from the scrum with on April 25, Mike Chanenchuk committed a possession before coach John Tillman called a costly turnover that led to the Fighting Irish’s timeout with nine seconds left.

Out of the break, midfielder Henry West game-winning goal with 6.5 seconds remaining.

But during the Terps’ first-round NCAA tour- drove to the net and delivered a skip pass to nament game against Cornell on Saturday evening Chanenchuk on the other side of the offensive at Byrd Stadium, the senior attackman redeemed formation. The attackman then rifled a rocket into the top right corner with two seconds himself in a similar late-game situation.

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer

left to give the Terps a one-goal victory and a spot in the NCAA quarterfinals at Hofstra on Saturday against Bryant.

“I knew if they got it, they were going,” Chanenchuk said. “I just put my head down and picked it up. And coach made a great call with the timeout. … We knew ground balls were going to be a big part of this game, and that the tough ones are the ones that are going to make the difference.”

Chanenchuk’s goal gave the Terps their first lead. Cornell played a dominant first half on See RED, Page 7

TERPS NOTEBOOK

Reports: Allen commits to transfer to Virginia Tech New York Jets draft Dexter McDougle in third round of NFL draft; Whitfield, Goins sign as undrafted free agents

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer Former Terrapins men’s basketball guard Seth Allen, who declared his intention to leave the program less than two weeks ago, has committed to transfer to Virginia Tech, according to reports.

ESPN and CBS Sports announced the news Saturday afternoon, and Allen has retweeted several tweets congratulating him on the move to Blacksburg, Virginia. Allen, who was second on the Terps with 13.4 points per game last season, will sit out one season and have two years of eligibility under new Hokies coach Buzz Williams, Marquette’s former head man.

Allen missed the first 12 games last season with a broken bone in his left foot but flaunted his scoring ability down the stretch of the season. He scored a career-high 32 points in a win over Florida State on Feb. 8, led the Terps with 20 points in an upset of then-No. 5 Virginia in the March 9 regular-season finale and helped the Terps keep pace with the Seminoles with 13 first-half points in their ACC tournament loss March 13.

The shifty guard joins a Virginia Tech team that finished 9-22 overall and 2-16 in the ACC last season and lost two games to the Terps by a combined 37 points. Reports have also linked guard Roddy Peters, another Terps transfer who has yet to decide

on his destination, to the Hokies.

Terps transfer guard Nick Faust, meanwhile, reopened his recruitment after Oregon State fired coach Craig Robinson last week.

The Virginia native started each game for the Terps in 2011 and 2012.

McDougle — projected by most outlets to go in the sixth or seventh round of the draft — joins a Jets team known for its aggressive defensive play-calling, meaning New York’s MCDOUGLE TO JETS cornerbacks are often counted on to The New York Jets selected former play one-on-one coverage.

Terrapins football cornerback Dexter McDougle in the third round of the WHITFIELD, GOINS SIGN NFL draft Friday night.

McDougle, the 80th overall pick, Former Terps outside linebacker missed the final 10 games of his senior Marcus Whitfield signed with the season after suffering a shoulder injury Jacksonville Jaguars as an undrafted in a Terps victory at Connecticut in free agent Saturday night and corSeptember. In the 32-21 win over the nerback Isaac Goins signed with the Huskies, McDougle had two intercep- Miami Dolphins, coach Randy Edsall tions and returned one for a touchdown. announced Saturday on Twitter.

Entering his senior year, Whitfield had 21 career tackles and three career sacks while dealing with injuries and playing behind established starters.

But last season Whitfield finished with nine sacks, 52 tackles, 15.5 tackles for loss and two forced fumbles.

Goins made 60 tackles as a senior, broke up four passes and snagged two interceptions. Forced into a starting role after McDougle and cornerback Jeremiah Johnson suffered injuries early in the season, Goins started opposite freshman Will Likely for nine of the season’s final 10 games.

Goins joins former Terps defensive lineman A.J. Francis in Miami. akasinitzdbk@gmail.com