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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER

Despite Students weak in math hurting CMPS goals, USM POOR OUTCOMES enrollment declines

Dozens admitted despite poor math skills have high drop-out and probation rates

BY CARRIE WELLS Senior staff writer

Univ. trying to decrease student population

Nearly 100 freshmen and transfer students with sub-par math skills have been admitted into the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences during the past two years, frustrating professors who have said admitting unqualified students is harmful to students and university graduation rates.

Most of the 99 students who landed in a remedial math course have SAT math scores well below

university averages or failed to satisfy fundamental math requirements at earlier schools, according to analysis of aggregate student data provided by a professor in the college. Of those 99, 27 have since been placed on academic probation or academic warning, and some have been dismissed from the university entirely. Since majors within CMPS rely heavily on math, the policy of admitting these students is baffling, the professor said.

Although admissions officials said

they use more than two dozen factors to examine a potential student holistically, math SAT scores and fundamental requirements play only a small role, and a student’s preferred major isn’t considered at all.

With certain exceptions, if a student is admitted to the university, they can generally enroll in the major of their choice.

“The fact is students change their majors,” said Shannon Gundy, the director of undergraduate

see ADMISSIONS, page 3

Of the 99 students who have been admitted to CMPS over the past two years and had to take remedial math:

27 have been given academic probation, warning or dismissal 73 originally failed an upperlevel math course before being placed in the remedial class

BY LAUREN REDDING Staff writer

Overall enrollment of first-year, fulltime undergraduate students in the University System of Maryland decreased over the past year, leading the Board of Regents to discuss the causes and consequences at a meeting last week.

Some of the 13 institutions, including this university, are actively attempting to hold down enrollment in order to preserve academic quality because of a lack of state funding earmarked for recruiting new students. But for most of the institutions, the dip in enrollment is troublesome, officials said.

System officials are attributing the decrease of almost 320 first-year, full-time students — 13,213 in fall 2008 to 12,894 in fall 2009 — to the economic downturn.

They also cited the lack of state funding as a possible cause.

“We aren’t seeing enough money coming in from the state,” said Patricia Florestano, a member of the Board of Regents and chairwoman of the Committee on Education Policy. “The money just

see ENROLLMENT, page 3

Student voter turnout short of predictions Analysis: About 130 voted in city elections

NO. 3 ‘NOVA LEAVES TERPS IN THE COLD Hot-shooting Wildcats deny Terps major victory, 95-86

BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer

WASHINGTON — Nursing a three-point lead against the Terrapin basketball team, Villanova called a timeout with 13:31 left in last night’s BB&T Classic matchup at Verizon Center.

The Terps, who had trailed since early in the first half, had chances their next three possessions to cut into the deficit or tie the No. 3 Wildcats.

Three quick shots and misses later, the opportunity was gone.

Villanova got off to a torrid shooting start and withstood a second-half comeback attempt to knock off the Terps 95-86.

“Sometimes the rush of the moment — you make a comeback, you’re right there — and it’s really hard to get over the top,” Terp coach Gary Williams said. “You see that a lot when teams comeback, and you just can’t get over the top. That’s what we ran into in the second half.”

Guard Sean Mosley notched a career-high 26 points, guard Eric Hayes scored 16 in the second half, and forward Jordan Williams added 19 points and 12 rebounds — good for his first career double-double.

But the Terps (5-3) couldn’t pull the upset as the Wildcats, who were led by preseason All-American Scottie Reynolds’ 25 points, hit 16 from three-point range and produced 29 second-chance points on their 23 offensive rebounds.

After trailing by 11 at half time, the Terps hung around

BY BRADY HOLT

see VILLANOVA, page 7

Senior staff writer

About 130 students voted in last month’s College Park City Council election, a tiny fraction of the total student body and short of the SGA’s stated goal of 200, but a big jump from the estimated number of voters in 2007.

City officials said a high number of contested races and the draw of a graduate student candidate was responsible for some of the boosted student turnout but generally agreed with student leaders that their groups’ get-out-the-vote efforts deserved much of the credit. Overall turnout also increased.

“It’s mostly got to be driven within the student community to get people to come out to vote: students mobilizing students,” Mayor-elect Andy Fellows said.

“This total marks a remarkable increase from past participation, so I think the people who organized to make that happen should be congratulated.”

To reach this estimate of 130 student

see TURNOUT, page 3

TOMORROW’S WEATHER:

Eric Hayes is swarmed by defenders during the first half of Maryland's 95-86 loss to Villanova Sunday night at Verizon Center. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

Dancers duke it out Dance crew competition raises hundreds for sexual assault prevention

BY AMANDA PINO Staff writer

Student dance team DyNaMic burst onto the Hoff Theater’s stage Friday night, gyrating and break dancing to the Black Eyed Peas’ “Ring-a-ling” before dropping to the ground in sync as the sound effect of gunshots rang through the hall.

“Wow, I pulled a hamstring just watching that,” said Community Roots’ Jason Nichols, a graduate stu-

Sunny/40s

dent who organized the Maryland’s Next Best Dance Crew competition.

The event pitted the co-ed hip-hop troupe, DyNaMic, against Dhoom, a female South Asian fusion team, in an effort to raise money and awareness for the Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program at the university. Although the two student groups who competed Friday seemed to be polar opposites,

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DyNaMic was one of the groups to perform in Maryland's Next Best Dance Crew on Friday night. The event raised money for the university’s Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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DIVERSIONS . . . . .6 SPORTS . . . . . . . . .10

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009

Students worry change in billing may hurt uninsured

BY MELISSA QUIJADA Staff writer

University officials are considering the possibility of third-party billing for the University Health Center that would allow students to finance their visits to the center through their private health insurance coverage, causing some to question how the proposal could impact insuranceless students.

No decision on the change will be made without input from various university agencies, including the Student Health Advisory Committee, Assistant Director for Health Promotion Kelly Kesler said, noting the policy has been under review for quite some time. But some students, particularly graduate students, balked at the proposal, saying it could result in an extension of mandatory insurance to all students, including some who cannot afford it.

The health center charges a flat rate of $15 for most visits to all students. The fees vary depending on certain procedures such as X-rays, laboratory tests, allergy injections and physical therapy.

For students to use their non-university insurance now, they must go through a reimbursement process. If the university implements third-party billing, these students would simply be billed a co-pay, which is the small supplemental fee most insurance companies charge their customers.

With third-party billing, the costs of university health center visits would depend on each student’s insurance provider.

Some students with health insurance welcome the idea of third-party billing, but others cite an insurance middleman as a complication that could impede on the ease of health center visits.

“Now everything goes to your account and you access information from one place, but with insurance if there’s problems and complications then you have the school and all these other parties that just aren’t necessary,” junior criminology and criminal justice major Nicole Blanchette said.

This policy would more than likely

benefit out-of-state students the most, Kesler said.

“For many students it would actually be helpful. Out-of-state students could pay their bills more easily,” she said. “Compared to what students would pay at other places, it could be better.”

Although the university enacted a policy requiring all incoming undergraduate students to have health insurance this year, graduate students are exempt. Graduate Student Government representative Michael Scholten said most graduate students he knows do not have health insurance.

“There’s a potential that it will not be a good option for graduate students who do not have health insurance or students with insurance that is not on the a list of their providers,” said Scholten, a physics graduate student. “You will be paying a fee for a place you can’t go to.”

Because the university has yet to lay out any specifics about how it would implement a third-party billing system, Anna Bedford, a graduate student in comparative literature, questioned how exactly such a change would affect others.

“I wonder if they will be collecting revenues from third-party billing and whether they will be continually supported by student fees,” said Bedford, who also said she thinks most graduate students live without health insurance. “I wonder about the students who don’t have health insurance.”

Kesler said third-party billing is a common practice among large universities.

Towson University offers third-party billing services. Towson’s Dowell Health Center provides students with the option to bill their private insurance for office visits and medical services. The center is contracted with a number of large insurance companies and preferred provider networks, but allows reasonable flexibility with many providers.

“All of these concerns as well as the potential benefits would have to be weighed out,” Kesler said.

Dance crew Dhoom was one of two groups to compete in the Maryland's Next Best Dance Crew on Friday night in Hoff Theater at Stamp Student Union. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK

DANCE from page 1 performers and audience members came together at the event and raised hundreds of dollars for the cause.

The proceeds went to SARPP’s victim assistance fund, which helps students or acquaintances of students who have been affected by stalking, relationship violence or sexual assault.

The fund can be used to help a victim change the locks on his or her doors ,or spend the night in a hotel.

Community Roots Public Relations co-Chairman Jazz Lewis, a junior government and politics major, said half of ticket sales benefited SARPP and a tenth was awarded to the winning dance team. The remainder will go toward future Community Roots programs. While an exact count of ticket sales has not been released, he said more than 100 people attended the event.

Before the performances, Nichols encouraged playful trash talking, asking a Dhoom captain, “Is DyNaMic better than you?”

“Well, I have a question for them,” answered senior Nikki Anand, a physiology and neurobiology major. “Can you do Bollywood?”

Although the audience ate up both groups’ two self-choreographed sets, judges were torn when deciding the

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CORRECTION Friday’s story about Zeta Beta Tau being kicked off the campus incorrectly stated the date of a hazing incident in which the fraternity was involved. The incident happened in 2007. The fraternity was given 10 months probation beginning in 2008.

winner. Dhoom ultimately won the tiebreaker after drawing the loudest cheers from the audience.

Dhoom performed barefoot, and their routine, which included touches of classical Indian dance, was set to both American pop and Bollywood tracks. The group provided a sharp contrast to DyNaMic, which stomped and spun through a hip-hop heavy presentation in black sweatpants and shiny sneakers.

Many in attendance were friends or family of Dhoom dancers, who team captains said don’t usually get to see the troupe in action.

“We advertised a lot, but we also don’t get the opportunity to perform on campus often since most of the competitions we do are at other universities up and down the East Coast,” Anand said. “I think since Stamp [Student Union] was so accessible, that was another reason a lot of our supporters came out.”

Community Roots organizers said two of the five scheduled dance teams dropped out before the event, one announcing the decision to forego the competition five minutes before the scheduled 7 p.m. start time. Although the start was pushed back almost an hour, a third group, Sykes Game, was ultimately unable to put on a full performance because car troubles left half of their team stranded in Washington.

A surprise appearance from the

school mascot helped launch the late start.

“Who wants to challenge Testudo to a dance-off?” asked Community Roots Public Relations coChairwoman Shruti Rastogi, a senior journalism major and Diamondback columnist.

DyNaMic team member “HK” stepped up to the challenge, oneupping Testudo’s efforts to top the break dancer’s moves.

Community Roots chose SARPP as the main beneficiary last year after the group discussed the issue of sexual assault on the campus during its weekly meetings. Members believe it is an issue that is particularly important to the university community. One in four women is sexually assaulted in college, and sexual assault is the second-leading crime in the Washington area.

“When we were discussing these issues, some female members that we were really close with started breaking out in tears talking about the things that happened on this campus,” Lewis said.

Lewis added that he considered the event a success and hoped for it to continue.

“I think it went pretty well,” he said.

“Next year we’ll definitely do the event again, and it will be bigger and better.” apino@umdbk.com

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009 | NEWS | THE DIAMONDBACK

from page 1 voters, The Diamondback purchased a list of the 1,485 residents who participated in the Nov. 3 council election from the Prince George’s County Board of Elections and checked the university’s student directory for each name.

This figure is not directly comparable to the rough estimate of 25 to 50 student voters who voted in 2007. This number was generated by city election workers who had no access to the university directory; they instead tried to identify students based on their ages and addresses, leaving more room for error.

This year’s total of 130 also includes a few dozen older students — one in her 80s — who may be more likely to see themselves as long-term College Park residents. The Diamondback nonetheless identified 92 student voters who are 25 years old or younger.

Student Government Association President Steve Glickman had expected 200 student voters, but said he’s still pleased with the results.

“Is that what I said before?

Well, 130 is close, right?” he said.

“One hundred thirty students — of course we’re satisfied.”

Many student voters were part of a rally organized by the UMD for Clean Energy group, which held a “march to the vote” rally on election day that organizers said drew an estimated 80 participants.

Elections workers reported seeing around 30 voters from the rally at City Hall, the polling station for legislative Districts 2 and 3. This would represent roughly 55 percent of the students aged 25 and under who voted in those two districts.

Other student voters who were not in the rally also said they had been drawn to the polls by the group’s outreach efforts.

“We worked pretty hard to get the word out early,” said Hilary Staver, the UMD for Clean Energy political liaison who helped drive the group’s

ADMISSIONS from page 1 admissions. “We don’t want to restrict them from opportunities ... We’re confident that every student can come in and be successful.”

The professor, who requested anonymity for fear of angering superiors, noted that many of these at-risk students end up leaving CMPS and changing their majors after a few semesters, delaying their graduation and hurting graduation rates important to university officials.

Most of the students who were admitted despite poor math skills were minorities; the pro-

voting efforts and interviewed the council candidates to create the environment-based endorsements many students ultimately heeded. She said it was “gratifying to hear” that her efforts contributed to increased student participation.

Student turnout was the highest in District 2, which includes much of the campus, the University View and many student rental homes. This was also the district with by far the smallest total turnout: The district’s 34 student voters aged 25 and under represented just under a fifth of its 186 total; citywide, this demographic represented more than 6 percent of the overall turnout.

“Well, I suspect that’s probably double what we’ve had in the past, absent an undergraduate student running,” said District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin, who won reelection along with fellow incumbent Jack Perry against landlord Bob Weber. “That’s a healthy number.”

But Perry, who said on election day that students should be “lined coming out the door,” was unimpressed when he heard the estimated total.

“All I can say is wow. It’s 130 students that voted — that’s terrific,” Perry said, making a dismissive noise.

After all, even with a higher student turnout, it was College Park’s elderly population that dominated the list of voters.

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 18- to 20year-olds make up 45 percent of the city’s population, but they represented just 5 percent of its voters in this election. Although nearly a third of the voters were 65 and older, census data show that demographic is just 7 percent of College Park’s total population. The median voter age was 55 in a city the U.S. Census Bureau says has an overall median age younger than 21.

Many students register at home or say they feel no attachment to the politics of a city they are only passing through, even if city legislation can affect their lives for four years. On election day, one student argued spiritedly with a clerk at City Hall about parking

fessor theorized they were accepted to fulfill diversity goals.

He said many of these students proceeded to get minimal help from the university.

“We admit them on the color of their skin, lead them on and then throw them away,” the professor said. “It’s terrible.”

Gundy said the university has multiple summer “bridge” programs to help underprivileged students who need extra attention to be ready for college-level courses. The data doesn’t specify how many of the students participated in the bridge programs.

Jim Yorke, the chair of the math department, couldn’t be reached for comment. CMPS Dean Steven Halperin declined

FIRST-YEAR ENROLLMENT IN UNIV. SYSTEM 14,000 11,840

12,198 12,685

13,036 13,213 12,894

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Ballots are counted during the College Park City Council election last month. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

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HOW THE VOTER POPULATION ADDS UP These charts compare the age of voters in the election with the city’s demographics. Voters 18 to 20 years old made up just 5 percent of the electorate despite comprising nearly half of the population.

POPULATION 65+ <18 7% 9% 21-64 39%

VOTING 65+ 31%

18-20 45%

18-20 5%

21-64 64%

rules while other residents voted one floor above him.

“I don’t really care about the city because I’m graduating in the spring,” he said, explaining why he didn’t vote. “F--the city … I can’t wait to get out of this place.”

The student body also faces the challenge of keeping its voter registration addresses up to date. A student who changes dorms each semester would need to continually update the address in the county’s records to be able to vote.

Keeping this in mind, Marcus Afzali — the graduate student who just won a District 4 council seat — said this year’s student turnout is “a good start, but it’s just a start.”

“If you want to have a consistently high student turnout, you

have to create a culture of voting in the city council election,” Afzali said. “That’s not going to be built in one election.”

Catlin also noted that even College Park’s non-student residents vote in relatively low numbers — the total voter turnout was more than 10 percent of the city’s registered voters this year and 7 percent in 2007 — and suggested that some of those residents may take notice of higher numbers of students at the polls.

“Certainly to the extent that we have students turning out, that will encourage more nonstudents to turn out next time,” Catlin said. “People would pay more attention probably if they realized students were paying attention too.”

to comment on the issue, saying, “A dean should in no circumstances get into a public discussion about how the university conducts its business.”

After reviewing the data, admissions officials were concerned there might be issues with the math placement exam.

Of the 99 students in the remedial math class, 73 originally tested into a higher level of math and then failed the class.

Gundy rejected the use of the math SAT as a predictor of success for college math. She said among disadvantaged students, the most successful usually have excellent high school GPAs and weaker SAT scores.

Math professor Frances

Gulick said increasing the university’s admissions standards to require a fourth year of high school math could help reduce the number of CMPS students who are unprepared for college math. The Board of Regents approved the switch Friday.

“It’s a real problem,” she said.

“We have students who come from high school with little more than Algebra II. If they want to be math majors coming from that background they’re going to have to really work. A lot have to change majors. Without a strong SAT in math or without a strong background in math, they’re going to struggle.”

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to grow, but all the institutions are being very cautious,” she from page 1 said. “We’re not delighted with this, but we recognize that until the economy stabilizes, we could be seeing these isn’t there.”

Contrary to the overall trend, decreases continue.”

Although increasing overall freshman enrollment increased 7.5 percent last year at this uni- enrollment is a high priority for versity even though officials are the system at large, the enrollenacting stricter admissions ment rates of most system policies to avoid overcrowded institutions are actually preclassrooms and a drain on the dicted to slow in the next year.

During a 10university’s limited year period, sysresources. tem officials preUndergraduate dict a 24-percent Admissions Direcgrowth in stutor Shannon Gundy dent enrollment affirmed that — with a 23-perProvost Nariman cent increase in Farvardin aims to undergraduate decrease understudents and a graduate enroll25-percent ment. increase in gradThe numbers uate students. were first reported However, for to the board — a 17this university, member panel of decreasing the gubernatorial PATRICIA number of fullappointees that FLORESTANO oversees the system BOARD OF REGENTS MEMBER time, first-year students who — earlier last enroll is in line month at the Committee on Education Policy with many long-term goals meeting and were presented to including maintaining academic quality and raising the all the regents Friday.

The report, which provided caliber of the student body, offian overview of preliminary fall cials said. The overall goal is to 2009 enrollment growth and pat- reduce enrollment at this camterns, provided hard evidence pus by 800 students by 2017, for the regents demonstrating according to a 10-year projechow the economic state is affect- tion report issued to the board in 2008. ing system institutions.

From 2008 to 2009, according As a result, Florestano said system institutions are being to the report, undergraduate more careful in the number of admissions at this university students they admit, although increased 0.5 percent, which is last week’s meeting didn’t result higher than the 10-year plan’s in any recommendations or projection of 0.2 percent. changes in policy.

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“We’re not delighted with this, but ... we could be seeing these [enrollment] decreases continue.”

MORE ONLINE www.diamondbackonline.com UNIV. MATH STANDARDS TO INCREASE In an effort to cut down on the number of students taking remedial math classes, the Board of Regents voted Friday to change admissions policies so that undergraduate applicants are required to take an additional fourth year of math to gain acceptance to this university.

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Bigger than Black

Banking on the SGA

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he road to sainthood was a quick one for Cordell Black. Since he ser ves at the discretion of the president.

By striking the four mentions of Black’s name from the bill, the SGA was dismissed from his position as associate provost for equity and diversity, hundreds of students marched on the administration shifted the focus to where it should have been all along: the position of assobuilding and demanded his reinstatement. Countless stories have ciate provost for equity and diversity. Certainly, some of the outrage over been told of the impact Black had on students, and repeated columns con- Black’s dismissal was because the job would become part-time with his departure, but much of it has been wrapped up in the man and not the bigtinue the press for him to keep his job.

Last week, the Student Government Association brought the debate back ger picture.

The administration should now take this gesture of student support as to reality. The SGA legislature passed a bill demanding the reinstatement of just one more sign that the majority find this position valuthe associate provost for equity and diversity as a fullable and necessar y. With the new comprehensive divertime position but made no mention of Black ever filling sity plan on the verge of being finalized, a leader will be that role again. needed to devote the right amount of time to this new step There’s no denying Black’s contributions to the univerThe existence of an toward inclusion. sity. Since he arrived on the campus in 1979, Black has As Black has stated, his position is less about paperbeen an advocate for diversifying the faculty and student associate provost of equity work and more about advocacy. The university needs a body. He has played critical roles in many of the university’s accomplishments in diversity fields, such as a 20- and diversity is vital to the full-time advocate for diversity, not one who deals with issues like a 28 percent decrease in black enrollment in percentage-point increase in black student graduation university. his or her spare time. rates within a decade. And much of his impact, according The SGA has sent a signal to the administration that stuto alumni who worked with him, can’t truly be qualified.

That said, it is indisputably the right of Provost Nariman Far vardin to hire dents and their representatives find this position one that shouldn’t be sacriand fire his own staff. No matter how beloved a faculty member may be, it is ficed because of budgetar y woes. Diversity can be achieved at this univerperfectly acceptable for an administrator to decide who works in their sity without Cordell Black holding the reins.

The SGA has sent the message that students are not just infatuated with office. While Congress could tr y to prevent an attempt by President Barack Obama to eliminate the position of commerce secretar y, they couldn’t one man — instead, they believe the ideas he professed must continue to be protest a decision to remove Secretar y of Commerce Gar y Locke — he valued at the university.

Our View

Editorial cartoon: Shai Goller

OurUMD: Not quite MyUMD

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s I registered for spring semester classes, I thought nostalgically of my freshman orientation experience. About two hours before we were scheduled to go home, we were ushered into a cramped room to await our “advisers” and register. I remember the shared sense of panic and confusion as we logged onto Testudo and Venus for the first time.

There were so many courses, professors, times and so on — it was total information overload. To make matters worse, the schedule my adviser created for me was completely useless due to the fact she didn’t factor in my Advanced Placement credits.

Walking out of that room, I was actually more lost and confused than I had been when I entered.

When I asked my upperclassmen friends for help, they introduced me to the holy godsend commonly referred to as OurUMD.com. I

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SHE obsessively checked and re-checked the ratings and grade distributions for the professors and classes I wished to take in the fall. I read all the comments and became wary of any professor with 3.5 stars and below. I made a master schedule and was determined to obtain seats in these classes.

Then came the hard part: adjusting my original schedule. Unfortunately, as all of us know, freshmen are at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to registration times. If registration was a food chain, freshmen are nothing but the scavengers that vie for the morsels of seats in classes

that upperclassmen don’t want or had already. Because I was in China for most of the summer, I had to adjust to a 12-hour time difference.

You could count on me to compulsively log onto the Internet at 7 p.m. on the dot, checking for any open seats in the sections I wanted. I realize that this sounds a little over-thetop, but I’m sure that some of you understand my sentiments.

By August, I had my dream schedule made — or so I thought. As I mentioned before, I relied heavily on the ratings on OurUMD. Even if only one person had rated a particular professor, I felt as if this one opinion represented a consensus. It’s human nature to overlook the details when there are four or five happy little stars next to a professor’s name. And it’s easy to assume one professor is better than the other because one has 10 people on his or her waitlist while the other has ten open seats in

his or her class. As the semester progressed, I realized that there really wasn’t that much of a difference in terms of teaching ability between a professor who was rated a little lower than another.

Lesson Learned: OurUMD is useful but is by no means a definite indicator of which course or professor is better. There are always disgruntled students who use OurUMD as a way to rant about a course they failed — ever wonder why the bad ratings seem to come from people who leave the “Grade Expected” field blank? And there are always those one or two exceptionally good and bad classes with skewed grade percentages. Perhaps OurUMD is a little overrated.

Angelina She is a freshman neurobiology and physiology major.

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hen I was about six years old, my dad was driving me home from basketball practice when he asked me the stupidest question I’d ever heard.

“How many days are in a week?”

“Seven, duh!”

He reached for the radio dial. “Listen to this, and you might change your mind.”

I ain’t got nothin’ but love, girl, eight days a week.

And that’s how it started.

Since that day, I’ve been searching for a guy who thinks there are eight days in a week. A guy who is happy just to dance with me. A guy who just wants to hold my hand.

You know I love you still. Will I wait a lonely lifetime? If you want me to, I will.

Some girls say the Disney princesses gave them unrealistic expectations about love. Not me. I

blame The Beatles. I’ve been spending my life waiting for a boy who exists only in a Beatles song.

If you let me take your heart, I will prove to you/ we will never be apart, if I’m part of you.

And it seems like most of the guys I meet are tr ying desperately to enlighten me as to just how unrealistic my dreams are. In fact, the first time I walked into the Thirsty Turtle, those dreams were nearly shot to hell.

I felt like I needed to shield my eyes from the sultry corners of the dance floor. Girls in high heels and short skirts were clinging onto the arms of boys they didn’t know. Boys, drunk and sweaty, were prowling the dance floor looking for groups of girls with intoxicated stragglers.

“Hershey’s factories make millions of kisses a day, but I’m only asking for one.”

“Excuse me, I lost my phone num-

RACHEL

HARE ber. Could I borrow yours?”

And that’s how it ended.

Some day when we’re dreaming, deep in love, not a lot to say/ then we will remember the things we said today.

I’m not trying to say that nice guys never come along or don’t exist (that argument is negated by guys like my brother, male cousins and male friends). But these days, guys like them seem so hard to find. Instead of “just call on me, and I’ll send it along with love from me to you,” we get “do you have a Band-Aid? I just scraped my knee falling for you.” Instead of “we can work it out,” we get “it’s not

you, it’s me.” Instead of “love you forever and forever, love you with all my heart,” we get “I’m not really looking for a relationship; I’m just talking about tonight.”

A love like ours/ could never die/ as long as I/ have you near me.

Maybe these really are unrealistic expectations. Maybe I really am looking for someone who doesn’t exist.

Or maybe I’m just waiting for George Harrison to walk through my door.

I love you more than ever, girl, I do ... I’m living every moment, girl, for you.

Whether it’s realistic or impractical, real or imagined, I know exactly what I’m waiting for.

Keep all my love forever.

P.S. I love you.

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

LISA CRISALLI

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ast Wednesday, the Student Government Association legislature approved a budget appeal that the SGA Finance Committee, the board that oversees the budget application process for more than 350 student groups, had initially rejected.

As a member of the committee and South Campus Commons legislator, I would first like to commend Vice President of Finance Andrew Steinberg for leading an efficient and fair finance process. Under this year’s executive leadership, the organization implemented a policy to assign finance liaisons to student groups; this improved the clarity of the finance process so thoroughly that only one student group appealed to the full legislature: the SGA itself.

In Thursday’s article, “Officials clash over extra SGA funding,” The Diamondback reported on the appeals process. As a member of both the Finance Committee that denied the SGA appeal and the legislature that approved the appeal, I would like to offer my insight and further illuminate the situation. As the article mentioned, the SGA’s appeal requested funding for three specific events: the Student Groups Awards Ceremony, an academic “Second Look Fair” and a multicultural expo, which will all be held during the spring semester. These events are directed toward student groups and aim to ease the financial and organizational burden of hosting largescale, collaborative events.

The main concern expressed during the debate was that funding for these events would be available through reserves, which are used for discretionary funding for initiatives that help the SGA carry out its duties. However, under the current structure, reserves are not secured for specific purposes — a complication that could threaten the existence of these events. As a result, it is not practical for the event-hosting branch of the SGA, to rely on this non-guaranteed source of funding to host such essential events.

As a result, SGA President Steve Glickman presented a budget that requested funding to benefit the student body for these three events. The money requested was specifically earmarked so it would not go into the general operations of the SGA but rather would be effectively returned to student groups. The legislature saw that the nature of these requests inherently benefits student groups and the overall student body. Therefore, the SGA legislature overwhelmingly approved the appeal.

As a legislator intimately involved in the fair and equitable distribution of student activities fees, I can assure you the SGA does not take the task of allocating more than $1.5 million lightly. Wednesday night, the SGA did not vote to enhance its own bank account — rather, it voted to help fund events that will enhance the experience of undergraduate students on the campus. The SGA has and will continue to be fiscally responsible with your money. Through the fair allotment of these funds, the SGA will continue to ensure that the priorities of students and student groups remain our priorities.

Lisa Crisalli is the SGA’s South Campus Commons legislator and a member of the finance committee. She can be reached at lcrisalli@gmail.com.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Even though you may be quite successful at this time, there’s no need to be self-congratulatory. Maintain a humble, realistic outlook.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — What begins as a surprise is likely to be surprising throughout the day — and bring with it a surprising conclusion as well.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — A cavalier attitude isn’t likely to endear you to others. It’s time to get serious, and give things the weight they deserve.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You are likely to be exactly halfway through something rather important. It’s time to take a short break and assess your tactics.

take advantage of an unexpected stroke of good fortune. Your ideas count, too.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Are you fully invested in your work at this time? You may want to consider making a change that brings with it greater commitment.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Never a dull moment — that’s likely to be the motto for the day. Much of what transpires, however, is good for you in many ways.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Someone may be adopting a surprisingly aggressive stance, but it’s merely to knock you off the plate and put a dent in your confidence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may be playing a waiting game of sorts, as others scramble to catch up to you. You’re ready to do something big at this time.

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VALENCIA When most bands tour for nearly an entire year straight and then take several months off to write another record, they usually welcome the down time and embrace the comforts of home. But Valencia is not most bands.

And why did Valencia’s members — vocalist Shane Henderson, guitarists JD Perry and Brendan Walter, bassist George Ciukurescu and drummer Maxim Soria — embark on their recent tour that hit Washington’s 9:30 Club Nov. 20? Well, they were roadsick, of course.

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University students launch an online platform for doodles

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MAYDAY PARADE A lot has changed for Mayday Parade since 2006. That year, the unsigned band didn’t perform at the Vans Warped Tour; Rather, it followed the nationwide festival in the grueling heat of summer to sell its selfreleased EP, Tales Told By Dead Friends.

The group hoped to attract new fans and garner interest from record labels.

Its self-promotional venture turned out to be a success.

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In the past few months, many people — including a wealth of college students — have become captivated with time-wasting websites such as FMyLife and Texts From Last Night.

On these sites, users are encouraged to send in humorous anecdotes or text messages, which may be broadcast to the world.

Two students at this university, Paul Rowe and Christoph Kienzle, decided to tr y to replicate those websites’ successes by creating one with their own fresh, classbased spin.

“Everyone draws in class, so naturally I was doing it, too,” said Rowe, a sophomore finance major.

“I started taking pictures of [the drawings] and putting them on Facebook, and people started liking it a lot. So I thought if people are liking it who are my friends, what about people who don’t know me?”

Rowe teamed up with Kienzle, a freshman marketing major, and launched Drawinginclass.com (tagline: “Updated daily because class sucks”) on Nov. 2. The site now accepts pictures of classroom doodles from anyone willing to send them in.

For the site’s debut, the duo put together what Rowe called a “huge, huge launch campaign,” chalking many of the heavily traveled places

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“We don’t like to make it like your normal chalk,” Rowe said. “We like to make it something that you have to stop and at least glance at.”

The creators, who said they try to post about five times every weekday, also plan to expand their chalking campaign to other universities to create more buzz. The “Campaigns” section of their website lists Pace University and Georgetown University as upcoming targets.

Regarding submissions, Rowe and Kienzle said they’re very open to posting whatever tasteful doodles come their way, as long as there’s some degree of creativity involved.

“If you’re sitting there and drawing squares and stars, that’s cool — it is drawing in class — but we’re looking for something that would really interest people,” Rowe said.

Added Kienzle, “People want to see cool stuff, something that would inspire them. Not just typical stick figures.”

Rowe noted that stick figures would be acceptable, however, if

Drawing in Class co-founder Christoph Kienzle posted his depiction of a barbecue on the site. COURTESY DRAWINGINCLASS.COM

they were shown “jumping off of a cliff.”

Unlike their web contemporaries, Rowe and Kienzle stress that not all submissions need to be particularly humorous — anything visually interesting is considered fair game.

“The submissions shape it,” Kienzle said. “If we can get more cool artbased ones, we’ll probably end up taking more art-based ones. But right now, it’s half and half.”

These submissions, to the creators’ surprise, have been coming from unexpected places. Besides New York, where the two are originally from, and Maryland, people from as far as Canada and Brazil have e-mailed their drawings.

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“They’re way up there,” Kienzle said, lifting his arm high above his head, “and we’re way down here,” he explained, pointing to a cigarette butt on the ground.

“We can only hope that we’re lucky enough to get the viral spread that they did,” Rowe added. “If we do, awesome. If we don’t, then it’s kind of cool because you got that tiny cult following.”

For the long term, however, the duo’s goals aim a bit higher than simply creating a well-known website.

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within three with 13:34 to play.

But then it seemed the Terps tried to win the game in the first five seconds of the shot clock every time they touched the ball, and they never got any closer despite having three consecutive possessions in which they could have tied it.

“We were right there. We had them within three in the second half,” center Jordan Williams said.

“A couple more breaks here and there and we could have beaten that team.”

But those breaks didn’t come, and now the Terps are left facing just four cupcakes and an admittedly tough William & Mary team on their schedule before the conference opener against Florida State on Jan. 10.

Who knows? Maybe the Terps will go 10-6 or 11-5 in the ACC, make a run in the ACC Tournament, and render all of this moot.

Maybe they’ll beat Duke or UNC again and get the glamorous win that will separate them from the pack.

But you can’t count on wins like that in the conference every year, even if those opportunities are always going to be in the ACC. It just would have been nice for the Terps to have a big-name win in their back pocket before New Year’s.

Now we know that isn’t going to happen.

for most of the second half thanks to a nearly 54-percent shooting rate with Hayes and Mosley, who hit 11-of-14 shots and carried the bulk of the load.

The Wildcats, who returned several key contributors from last season’s Final Four squad, allowed the Terps to make it a two-possession game in the last minute, but ultimately sealed the win with 19 second-half free throws.

“We just needed to keep chipping away and keep trying to get back in the game and we did a great job of that in the second half,” said Hayes, who combined with Mosley to account for 19 points during one second-half stretch.

“We just couldn’t get over the hump.”

The Wildcats (8-0) took the lead when Reynolds, a native of Herndon, Va., hit a 3pointer 1:34 into the game, and they never trailed again thanks to blistering early shooting.

The famously guard-oriented squad from Philadelphia hit just eight of its 19 two-point attempts in the first half.

But they made up for that by hitting 11-of-22 from long range to take a 49-38 at the half.

“It’s one of those things where if you’re making them, you keep taking them,” Williams said. “And we were late [to their shooters].”

Villanova struggled to keep pace after halftime, struggling to solve the Terps’ zone defense, which Reynolds said caused problems because he had trouble distinguishing it from the Terps’ man-to-man defense. The Wildcats hit just 5-of-17 threes in the second.

Still, they made two more 3-pointers than they did two-point field goals in the game.

“Even though we were flying at them, they were still hitting shots,” Mosley said.

Even after the three-point barrage, and in spite of guard Greivis Vasquez’s foul trouble, the Terps had their best shot after an 8-0 run put them within a possession for the only time in the second half.

But Vasquez missed a 3-pointer in transition, Hayes missed another three and Vasquez missed a layup before Villanova pulled away again with an 11-1 run that made the score 72-59 with 9:21 remaining.

The Terps eventually whittled the deficit down to six in the final minute and had a chance to get even closer until Jordan Williams missed a pair of free throws.

Yet the Terps realized they let their best chance at an upset slip away in a span of a few rushed possessions after the second half run.

“We started playing their game, coming down and taking threes,” Jordan Williams said. “That hurt us.”

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aken by itself, this one game is nothing to worr y about. Sure, the Terrapin men’s basketball team lost by nine in front of what was essentially a home crowd at Verizon Center.

Sure, the Terps’ perimeter defense in the first half was just a mirage, they gave up 23 offensive rebounds to a team that often plays with four guards, and guard Greivis Vasquez struggled his way through a performance sullied by questionable fouls and was limited to 12 points to go with seven turnovers.

But, really, the Terps’ 95-86 loss to No. 3 Villanova in the BB&T Classic last night should not be an additional burden on your mind before finals.

The Wildcats are legitimately one of the best teams in the country. They are the favorite to win the Big East, and they have a very good shot at reaching the Final Four for the second consecutive season.

A win last night simply would have been gravy.

But what you should be worried about is the Terps have now missed their last opportunity to earn an impressive nonconference win to boost their NCAA Tournament résumé come March.

The Terps had three chances to pick up a signature win before ACC play — twice at the Maui Invitational against Cincinnati and Wisconsin, and here last night — and each time the Terps whiffed.

The win against Indiana at Assembly Hall last week was nice, but it remains to be seen how much weight a victory over the rebuilding Hoosiers is ultimately

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going to carry.

If the Terps are going to get back to the Big Dance this year — and with this roster it would be a huge disappointment if they didn’t — it is now apparent the Terps are going to have to make some serious moves in the ACC. The NCAA Tournament selection committee isn’t exactly going to be wowed by a home win against Charleston Southern or Fairfield.

“You don’t play a lot of teams as good as Villanova,” coach Gary Williams said. “But when we play teams that good, we have to be able to win those games. That’s going to be our goal.”

What’s disappointing about this loss and makes it worth adding to this missed opportunity discussion is that it was actually a winnable game.

The Terps had their chances last night. They just showed up at the party a little late.

The Wildcats came out firing from long range, as they are prone to do, and they were able to make some shots and give themselves a nice cushion before the Terps were able to adjust their defense.

Once the Terps switched to a zone, they forgot about rebounding when they didn’t have a specific man to box out, and the Wildcats killed them on the offensive glass.

The Terps went on a nice run, fueled by budding star guard Sean Mosley and guard Eric Hayes, early in the second half, and they somewhat surprisingly pulled to

The sophomore guard is emerging as the Terps’ next star. Mosley finished with 26 points on 11-of-14 shooting.

TERP BENCH The Terps’ four reserves combined for five points, five rebounds, five turnovers and seven fouls.

FAN ETIQUETTE A non-student fan was ejected during the second half after he threw a beer bottle on the court to protest a foul called on Landon Milbourne.

VILLANOVA TERRAPINS

49 38

46 ——————95 48 ——————86

NO. 3 VILLANOVA (8-0, 0-0 BIG EAST) PLAYER MIN FG FT O-T Reynolds 38 7-18 8-11 1-5 Fisher 30 6-13 4-4 1-4 Stokes 31 6-13 1-1 2-3 Pena 25 2-4 4-8 6-11 Sutton 17 1-2 0-0 4-4 Wayns 9 1-3 0-0 1-4 Cheek 16 2-5 2-2 2-4 King 30 5-17 0-0 2-6 Armwood 4 0-0 0-0 1-1 Team TOTALS 200 30-75 19-26 23-45

A 8 2 3 2 0 2 2 0 0

PF 2 2 5 3 5 1 2 1 3

TP 25 20 18 8 2 3 6 13 0

19 24 95

PERCENTAGES–FG: 40 FT: 73.1 3FG: 41 3-POINT GOALS–16-39 (Stokes 5-11, Fisher 4-6, King 3-8, Reynolds 3-10, Wayns 1-2, Cheek 0-2). TURNOVERS–14 (Reynolds 5). BLOCKED SHOTS–2 (Sutton 1, Armwood 1). STEALS–10 (King 3).

TERRAPINS (5-3, 0-0 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG FT Milbourne 34 1-4 2-2 Hayes 39 6-13 3-4 Mosley 37 11-14 1-1 Williams 30 5-8 9-13 Vasquez 27 3-9 5-6 Bowie 13 0-3 0-0 Padgett 10 0-0 0-0 Choi 1 1-1 0-0 Tucker 9 1-1 1-1 Team TOTALS 200 28-53 21-27

O-T 1-5 0-0 1-5 5-12 0-3 0-3 0-2 0-0 0-0

A 0 4 2 0 7 0 0 0 1

PF 4 2 2 3 5 4 0 1 2

TP 4 20 26 19 12 0 0 2 3

7-33 14 23 86

PERCENTAGES–FG: 52.8 FT: 77.8 3FG: 47.4 3-POINT GOALS–– 919 (Hayes 5-9, Mosley 3-4, Vasquez 1-4, Milbourne 0-1, Bowie 0-1). TURNOVERS––19 (Vasquez 7). BLOCKED SHOTS–– 4 (Milbourne 2). STEALS––7 (Mosley, Vasquez, Tucker 2).

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His goal is to win everything every year.

But with such high stakes, that inexperience was glaring.

For the loss to come to Virginia, undeniably the Terps’ biggest rival in a conference full of top-caliber programs, made it that much harder to stomach.

Bruce Arena, Cirovski’s nemesis from when he coached the Cavaliers to four consecutive titles in the early ’90s, stood in the press box with a smile when he wasn’t taking photos with jubilant Virginia fans below. Whether he was happy his former program was heading back to the College Cup, he took some pleasure in seeing his former rival go down or both, we’ll never know.

There’s certainly a great deal of mutual respect and admiration between the two coaches. Arena, now the coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy, wouldn’t have selected both Delagarza and Gonzalez in last year’s MLS SuperDraft if that weren’t the case.

Regardless, Cirovski made it clear how disappointing the night was, in only the way he could.

When asked how long he’ll dwell on the game, Cirovski paused and pursed his lips.

“This game will sit with me,” Cirovski said, “until we win the next championship.”

be an uphill battle — we knew that for sure.”

It was a bit of cruel irony that the first net the Terps could find against the Cavaliers was their own. After two goals apiece in games against Penn State and Harvard, two opponents seeded in the top 10 who had averaged less than one allowed per match, the Terp offense seemed poised to break through for the first time this season against a regional rival.

Instead, it was the Terp defense — not Virginia’s offense — that put more pressure on its own attack than the Terps could manage. Only 5:01 into play, Virginia midfielder Neil Barlow aimed in a low cross from the left flank for a streaking Ari Dimas. Kemp reached the ball first, but it caromed off his foot and past goalkeeper Zac MacMath.

“When you put balls in the box like that and cause a little chaos, anything can happen,” defender Kevin Tangney said. “Fortunately for them and unfortunately for us, it resulted in an own goal.”

It was just about the best-case scenario for the Cavaliers, who hadn’t allowed a goal in nearly a month and a half entering Friday’s match. Terp

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Terp forward Casey Townsend couldn’t finish two scoring opportunities early in the first half against a tough Cavalier defense.

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forward Casey Townsend had two golden opportunities to even the score and change the complexion of the game, but he steered a wellstruck volley right to the Cavaliers’ Restrepo before redirecting a Jason Herrick cross wide of goal minutes later.

“We had some good chances,” said midfielder Drew Yates, one of the Terps’ five seniors and three senior starters. “We just couldn’t get it into the back of the net.”

As Virginia’s backline and midfielders built a wall around Restrepo, Cirovski played chemist, experimenting with a series of lineup permutations he hoped might deliver the spark to ignite an ineffective and fatigued midfield.

But when the young Terp lineup couldn’t deliver on offense, the Cavaliers made them pay for the pressure. After freeing himself from freshman defender Ethan White along the left side early in the second half, Barlow again delivered a cross into the box. This time, the dipping ball skipped off the head of freshman London Woodberry and fell to Bates, who easily headed it past MacMath from near the penalty spot for a 2-0 lead with 30 minutes left.

“You have to deny the penetration: You don’t let the cross get off,” Cirovski said. “On two occasions, we

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6-foot-7 center Essence Townsend stretched her long limbs wide while defending 6foot Loyola forward Meredith Tolley or as Hawkins went up for a layup, missed and bounded back up for a rebound and put-back near the end of the first half.

Even as Kizer was limited to 18 minutes while nursing an ankle injur y, the Terps outrebounded Loyola 50-32, including 20 on the offensive end.

The 6-foot-3 Hawkins, who played just eight minutes against Minnesota, best utilized the advantage, throwing around Greyhound defenders and attacking the basket with voracity. She scored 16 of her 22 points in the second half, coming off the bench to play a major role in putting away the pesky Greyhounds.

“I felt like it was my time to come in and attack [the basket],” Hawkins said. “I felt more confident. It’s like it’s all

WRESTLING from page 10 Once again, McCoy’s admittedly cliché mantra, “Anything can happen in wrestling,” became reality in his wrestlers’ matches. Kohler outlasted Stabile, 10-8, and John shocked Scotton, staying aggressive throughout on his way to a 9-0 major decision.

“You could tell Jon [Kohler] was on the edge of breaking through last week,” McCoy said. “He was really close and I thought he should have won

stumbled.”

The Terp offense featured a series of misfires to match. Long balls to Townsend and Herrick found only Cavalier heads, and chances inside the box ended with whiff after whiff.

When their last real chance at beating Restrepo — a poorly taken penalty kick from Herrick in the 66th minute — ended up in the Cavalier goalkeeper’s hands, a roaring crowd of 4,900 announced the season’s inevitable demise for the Terps.

“When you miss a penalty kick in the playoffs, usually good things don’t happen to you,” Cirovski said.

A late goal from Virginia’s Evans on a through ball punctuated the night for the Terps, who had marched from among the ranks of the tournament’s unseeded to the precipice of yet another College Cup appearance.

But on Friday in Charlottesville, for a team replacing six starters now dotting professional soccer with six underclassmen starters, just being there wasn’t enough to compensate for the heartbreak.

“It’s really hard, especially to come and get so close to the Final Four and lose it,” Tangney said. “To get so close and not get there — it really hurts.” shaffer@umdbk.com

“I felt like it was my time to come in and attack [the basket]. I felt more confident.

It’s like it’s all coming to me.”

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coming to me.”

No Greyhound could compete. Loyola shot just 33.3 percent from the field and 25.9 percent from three-point range, both missing open jumpers and struggling with the Terps’ size.

Two of Loyola’s top three scorers, Miriam McKenzie and Tolley, finished a combined 3-of-23 from the field.

Still, Loyola kept the game relatively close, never trailing by more than 20 and providing another noticeable chink in the Terps’ armor this season. Last year, Maryland dogged the Greyhounds in an 83-52

the match last week, but it’s great for him to be performing this way now.”

Then Taylor tied Jake Stork for most career pins in program history when he tied up No. 18 Dennis Drury midway through the second period. Drury couldn’t find an answer for Taylor, despite his familiarity with Taylor’s style after having wrestled him four times in the last two seasons.

Taylor broke the record yesterday at the Penn State Open.

Taylor improved his season record to 17-0 with 13 pins.

“It’s a huge accomplishment

blowout.

The Terps are still trying to find their identity, though it increasingly appears to be located underneath the basket.

The Terps’ 36 points in the paint were indicative of their biggest advantage, height.

With five players 6-foot-3 or taller, the Terps create matchup problems in the paint.

Against a team such as Loyola, those advantages, combined with a potent shooting performance from Tchatchouang, are enough to make the difference. But Frese knows there are issues to be ironed out in the next month before ACC play begins.

“I’m disappointed with our game, collectively,” the eighth-year Terp coach said.

“I thought we played in spurts. … When you see this team outmatch a ver y physical Minnesota team and the physicality we played with in that game, to watch us in this game not be as aggressive and not as physical was ver y disappointing.” ajoseph@umdbk.com

for him,” McCoy said. “He’s had this goal since the beginning of the season, and for him to break the record against quality competition is a special moment for our program.”

Taylor has made pinning opponents a personal mission, and it showed with a relatively easy match against an experienced, nationally ranked wrestler.

Now, as Friday’s match showed, the rest of the Terps are improving in time to compliment Taylor’s dominance. lemaire@umdbk.com

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3 0 DOWN AND OUT Terps’ season ends Friday against archrival after early defensive blunder

BY JONAS SHAFFER Staff writer

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — For just more than 84 fruitless minutes Friday night, the Terrapin men’s soccer team found itself in a hole of its own making. And when the Terps tried to dig themselves out, they only got in deeper.

An unlucky deflection off defender Taylor Kemp into his own goal in the sixth minute marked the beginning of the end of the Terps’ season and opened the floodgates for Virginia, who routed the Terps 3-0, crushing any dreams of a National Championship repeat in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals in Klockner Stadium.

Virginia forwards Will Bates and Jordan Evans later punched in goals against a Terp defense stretched too thin for its own good, while goalkeeper Diego Restrepo turned in another match of scoreless play for the Cavaliers (17-3-3), who outscored the Terps 4-0 in three games this season. “[We] got in a hole against a team that hasn’t been scored on in 10 games,” coach Sasho Cirovski said. Virginia also ended the Terps’ ACC Tournament title defense weeks earlier. “It was going to Virginia midfielder Jonathan Villanueva celebrates after the Cavaliers’ first goal in Friday’s NCAA quarterfinal.

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hings like what happened Friday night don’t happen to the Terrapin men’s soccer team. The Terps’ 3-0 NCAA quarterfinal loss to Virginia was a humbling performance, one that proved how even the mightiest programs can be exposed when the goal is national championship or bust every season.

The Terps’ attempt to defend their national title was effectively over when forward Jason Herrick failed to convert a

penalty kick in the 66th minute with the team trailing 2-0. Cavalier forward Tony Tchani sliced through the Terp midfield to set up a third goal in the 78th minute that just emphasized Virginia’s superiority.

During the final 10 minutes, Terp coach Sasho Cirovski paced the sidelines with his arms crossed and head down, probably trying to analyze what went wrong.

Besides an approximately 20minute stretch after the Cavaliers’ first-half goal, Virginia dominated the game. That’s something you can’t say many teams have done to the Terps in such a big game, at least recently.

The reasons were numerous and certainly nothing to be ashamed of, considering

Cirovski’s team lost six starters from last year’s 23-3 squad. But afterward, the Terps’ faces showed the emotional toll of not living up to their lofty standards and hinted at the shocking nature of their defeat.

Cirovski, while proud of his team, started his postgame press conference with a deliberate rundown of the things the Terps didn’t do.

Forward Casey Townsend missed two quality scoring opportunities in the first half. Defender London Woodberry failed to clear a Virginia cross in the 59th minute, which led to the Cavaliers’ second goal. The Terps “lacked the quality in the [attacking] third,” and their midfield was too fatigued to keep up with a faster, more physical group.

Seniors Kevin Tangney and Drew Yates sat at the table with Cirovski, having each finished his final season on a disappointing note. Tangney said he would come back next year and offer any help he could to get the Terps back on top.

A.J. Delagarza and Omar Gonzalez, two stars of the Terps’ championship run in 2008 now in the MLS, were in attendance Friday, showing the type of alumni support Tangney spoke of.

The Terps could have used their calm and collected demeanor on the back line Friday, but throughout the season, Cirovski never used inexperience as an excuse.

That’s not how he operates.

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Wrestling team dominates in first conference match

Terps’ height too much for visiting Loyola (Md.) to handle in 69-56 win

Taylor ties program record for pins in shutout at UNC

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Staff writer

It was only fitting that the Terrapin wrestling team’s night at North Carolina on Friday ended without a match.

Terp heavyweight Pat Gilmore got the night off because his Tar Heel opponent forfeited. But with the way the rest of the night had gone for North Carolina (2-4-1, 0-1 ACC) the Tar Heels might as well have raised the white flag anyway.

The No. 7 Terps (6-1, 10) shut out the Tar Heels, 41-0. At 125 pounds, James Knox set the tone with a dominant 13-3 major decision, and at 197 pounds, Hudson Taylor capped off the performance with his 69th career pin, tying a school record he went on to break yesterday at Penn State.

“I think for how early it is in the season, we are a little ahead of schedule,” coach Kerry McCoy said.

“I don’t think the guys wrestled their best. ... But

it shows our potential the way in which we were able to win.”

The Terps had been expected to dominate D-III York College when they beat them 57-0 in the season’s first dual meet. But the Tar Heels are perennial contenders in the ACC and the Terps’ shutout speaks volumes about their potential when all 10 starters are wrestling well.

The Terps were heavily favored to win the match, but North Carolina had some perceived advantages. At 149 and 157 pounds, the Tar Heels had two wrestlers ranked in the top 20 nationally. Meanwhile, their Terp counterparts were considered the team’s weak links.

Jon Kohler (149 pounds) had gotten off to a slow start this season as he adjusted to moving up a weight class, and 157pounder Kyle John started the season as the backup — experienced, but certainly not highly touted.

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Forward Jason Herrick (left) walks off the field after the Terps were eliminated from the NCAA Tournament on Friday night. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Women’s basketball team uses rebounding edge to get by Greyhounds

BY ADI JOSEPH Senior staff writer

Forward Diandra Tchatchouang scored 20 points on 8-of-14 shooting in the Terps’ 69-56 win against Loyola (Md.) yesterday at Comcast Center. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Loyola (Md.) guard Erica DiClemente set her box out perfectly. She squared her hips to the basket and prepared to snag a defensive rebound as Terrapin guard Kim Rodgers’ shot clanked off the iron.

But in basketball, even perfect form can be rendered useless when physical advantages are so lopsided. Terp center Lynetta Kizer used her thick 6foot-4 frame to outmuscle and outleap the 5-foot-11 DiClemente, ripping down the board and restarting the Terp offense. Forward Diandra Tchatchouang’s jump shot seconds later extended the Terps’ lead to 10 at the beginning of the second half.

The Terps did not play at a significantly higher level than the Greyhounds yesterday.

They turned the ball over 19 times, fouled heavily and settled too often for jump shots. But

Loyola (3-5) was unable to match the Terps (8-1) in size and athleticism — few can — and the Greyhounds became the 44th straight visiting team to leave Comcast Center with a loss, 69-56.

Still, aside from freshmen Tchatchouang and Tianna Hawkins, who combined for 42 points and 17 rebounds, the Terps shot 30.5 percent from the field. They were missing much of the physicality shown Thursday against Minnesota, settling too often for jumpers and allowing 12 offensive rebounds to a team with no rotation player taller than 6-foot-1.

“There’s a lot of concerns from this game,” coach Brenda Frese said. “Luckily, we were playing at home today. I told them, if we were playing on the road, it could have been a bad outcome.”

Height was most responsible for bailing the Terps out. The advantage was tangible, be it as

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