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Broken sprinkler pipe floods Van Munching Hall Cold air, snow cause mechanical room pipe burst; water sinks ceilings, soaks hallways, bathrooms

By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow Senior staff writer A pipe break yesterday afternoon left all floors in Van Munching Hall flooded with water, creating large puddles, sunken ceilings and damage to a classroom and some bathrooms.

Before 3 p.m. yesterday, cold air

and snow leaked into the business school’s mechanical room, causing the sprinkler pipe to freeze, expand and break, said Julius Williams, a spokesman for hazardous materials and recovery services with Facilities Management.

Facilities Management officials responded to the building by 3 p.m. yesterday and patched up the broken pipe.

Junior finance major Ryan Vogt said he was studying in a first-floor classroom filled with computers at about 2:30 p.m. when the fire alarms went off. As he exited the classroom, he saw water pouring out of the roof’s top vents and into the atrium.

“It was coming down like a very, very slight waterfall,” he said.

While the pipe stopped leaking, puddles, collapsed ceiling tiles and sunken and collapsed ceiling tiles littered van munching hall yesterday after a pipe burst in See flood, Page 2 the building, flooding some areas on the first floor with about an inch of water. james levin /the diamondback

Univ Senate approves upgrade to hazing code Policy to differentiate punishments for willing, unwilling participants

By Rokia Hassanein @rokiahass Staff writer The University Senate passed revisions to this university’s hazing pol icy last week, wh ich wou ld upgrade it to a university policy instead of a student affairs policy.

The vote count on the hazing policy bill ended with 82 in favor and one opposed, with six abstentions.

Prior to these changes, the policy did not distinguish among the punishment for students instigating the hazing, students who were being hazed as willing participants and those who were unwilling victims of hazing, said Ryan Belcher, an undergraduate senator representing

go0dbye, sigma chi

See hazing, Page 3

the old sigma chi chapter house on Norwich Road was once home to nearly 50 fraternity members at a time between the early 1940s and 2002. top, left: file photos/the diamondback, right: photo courtesy of regina catipon

Fraternity alumni reflect on experiences, memories from now-demolished former chapter house Sigma Chi’s chapter house signaled the start of one of Barry DesRoches fondest memories.

That night more than 38 years ago, The walk up the path toward the the 1980 alumnus attended his first three-story-high brick facade of fraternity rush party as a freshman.

By Eleanor Mueller @eleanor_mueller Staff writer

“You’re trying to feel your way there’s this big, old brick house and figure out who you’re going with white pillars — and it hits to be in college and what you’re you.”

The house on 4600 Norwich going to do,” said DesRoches, now pre s id e nt of S i g m a C h i Gamma Chi Chapter Inc. “Then See house, Page 2

Students call for end to univ fossil fuel use Duo advocates during Global Divestment Day

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Senior staff writer

Students target runner safety with trail map project Color-coded online map tracks crime data

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Staff writer When Kelsey Cardace goes on her daily run, two factors often dictate where she runs: the number of people she is with and the time of day.

“When I run alone I try to stay on campus because I know going off campus can be more dangerous, especially if the only time I can [run] is at night,” said Cardace, a sophomore journalism major. “When I’m with my friends, I’ll feel so much better about [running off the campus].”

To further educate on and offcampus runners about their running

map that identifies local running trails and color codes them based on their level of safety.

“We took the most popular walking and running paths that a student or other member of the university would utilize, and then we laid over top of it a colorcoded indicator that indicates the number of crimes that have occurred on that particular path,” Spangenburg said. “In a lot of ways it acts like a heat index.”

The colors on the trails — green, yellow or red — indicate whether a particular area experienced no crimes, one violent crime or two to runners can access a color-coded map of running trails and their levels of safety thanks to a collab- three violent crimes over the sixorative project by kinesiology students, who created the map to protect runners. file photo/the diamondback month span of June 1 to Nov. 30.

Brainstorming for the project environment, kinesiology students Alysha Heckman and kinesiology Greg Duvall, Taylor Keenan, Kevin professor Espen Spangenburg worked Levi-Goerlich, graduate student all of last semester to create an online See safety, Page 3

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Two university students battled biting winds, freezing temperatures and Friday rush hour for the sake of the environment, taking part in Global Divestment Day — a worldwide event advocating an end to government and university investments in fossil fuel companies.

“Divestment is a tactic used by activists to change the status quo. A lot of the systems that cause problems to people in the world are based on where we are keeping our money,” said Emily Reimal, a student from this university who attended the rally in Dupont Circle.

Reimal said she has always been an activist, but she became interested in divestment at a Power Shift climate change conference last year. Divestment from fossil-fuel industries — the opposite of investment — is a way to change the focus of energy See global, Page 3

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HOUSE From PAGE 1 Road, built in the early 1940s and unoccupied since 2002, has survived a fire, squatters and rebellious students.

Before the building’s demolition on Feb. 11, all but one of the original pillars had fallen. The colors of the oncered bricks were muted, blackened by fire. Boards ripped off the windows exposed shattered glass, while overgrown plants transform ed the yard into a suburban jungle.

But some alumni said they remember the house as it used to be. Scott Werber, a Sigma Chi member and 1986 alumnus said that house is the place he formed friendships to last long after the last graduation cap was tossed.

“My fondest memory is being able to live somewhere with 49 of my best friends,” sa id Werber, t he cu r rent chapter adviser. “It’s an experience you can’t get anywhere else.”

A long w ith DesRoches, We r b e r s a w t h e e m p t ying of its final inhabitants when the chapter lost its charter in 2001, the havoc w re a ke d when t re spa ssers lost control of an open f la me, the sca rs left by vandalism — and its demolition, which began Tuesday when a yellow construction truck reduced the house to a mountain of gray rubble.

Sold by the chapter for below-market price to this university, the house had to be razed to the ground as a condition of the transaction. The demolition plans have been in motion since at least 2007.

“I can remember sitting up in the window in the back looking over the basketball court and just thinking, ‘Man, wouldn’t it be cool to come back [as an alumnus]?’” said Nick Adid, a 1985 alumnus.

“The idea of being able to continue that tradition, that legacy, maybe even have your own son live there — that would have been really cool.”

Adid, the chapter’s president during his senior year, said hosting the band O r l e a n s i n S i g m a C h i ’s backyard with an audience of 1,500 is one of his most vivid college memories.

Though the chapter was suspended for five years after failing to meet newly imposed Department of Sorority and Fraternity Life requirements, it beca me active aga i n i n 2009. The chapter house is now on Fraternity Row in Zeta Beta Tau’s old house.

Some measures have been taken to restore the memories from the old house, such as relocating the large white cross that used to stand in the yard of the old house.

Christopher Kennedy, a Sigma Chi fraternity member and 1985 alumnus, said the Norwich house’s backyard was the setting for everything from “Great Greek Gatherings” news to pickup basketball games with the university’s basketball players, who then lived in Leonardtown.

“O u r endea r i n g Sig m a Chi Norwich Road house, for several memorable decades, welcomed many timid young freshmen and years later sent them off into the world as confident, well-rounded college graduates,” Kennedy said. “It will be missed by many.”

There are many “Significant Sigs,” recognized by this university’s chapter for their accomplishments after graduation, who lived in the old house, Kennedy said.

Some of these a lu m n i include House of Representatives Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, Outback Steakhouse co-founder Robert Basham, former Dean of Students Fred DeMarr and Jack Heise, aka “Mr. Maryland,” who played lacrosse for this university

“I CAN REMEMBER SITTING UP IN THE WINDOW IN THE BACK LOOKING OVER THE BASKETBALL COURT AND JUST THINKING, ‘MAN, WOULDN’T IT BE COOL TO COME BACK [AS AN ALUMNUS]?’”

NICK ADID

1985 university alumnus before going on to fight in World War II and later become president of the school’s alumni association and its two largest booster groups.

Waldo Burnside, the former CEO of retail corporation Carter Hawley Hale, is also a “Significant Sig.” Though he never lived in the old Sigma Chi house, the 1949 alumnus still felt a connection to it.

“It was quite a time,” Burnside said. “I enjoyed it and learned a lot about people and the growing-up process.”

A s a f resh ma n i n 1945, Burnside experienced college alongside World War II veterans. Seven of these veterans started the Sigma Chi chapter the year Burnside joined, taking a pledge class of 25 that first fall.

“It was a very interesting, different group because you had all ages,” Burnside said.

“About half veterans in their mid- to late twenties, and the rest of us were very, very young — and it worked very, very well.”

However, Burnside and other alumni said it’s the chapter’s members, not the house, that matter most.

“T here’s certa i n idea ls that are inherent in Sigma Chi, and these guys exemplify them in how they go about being in their fraternity,” DesRoches said. “So it wa s a wonder f u l pl ace with wonderful memories, but what’s truly important is the brotherhood strength of the chapter.”

flood From PAGE 1 damp carpet areas were scattered throughout the building’s western hallways and offices. Facilities Management service workers a rrived at Va n Munching Hall last night at about 6 p.m. to begin vacuuming the water and assessing the damage.

“The water is going to go where it’s going to go; we just have to fix the pipe and start cleaning it up,” Williams said.

Facilities Management officials still need to assess the mechanical and electrical damage in the building, as well as the costs of the damages, he said.

Ensuring the classrooms a re sti l l f u nctiona l for today’s classes was the foremost goal, said Lee Comstock, the business school’s director of operations. So far, officials noted the pipe only caused damage to the bathrooms near the building’s rear entrance elevators and the classroom in room 1303, he said. However, there is little water on the carpet, and workers should be able to fix it by early this morning, he said.

Puddles of water about an inch deep filled parts of the hallway near the building’s rear entrance and staircase on the first floor.

In the men’s bathroom on the first floor, about a fourth of the ceiling fell down and covered the toilets and floor

a pipe break, caused by below-freezing temperatures, flooded all the floors of Van Munching Hall and damaged bathrooms, ceilings and carpets. tom hausman/the diamondback with debris on one side, while water piled up on the opposite side. In the women’s bathroom, water leaked out of the sprinkler system.

The elevators also stopped working because water was leaking inside of them.

Water filled the offices closest to the elevator on the fourth floor, leaving more puddles and a ruined carpet.

At least one room had a broken

ceiling tile, and chunks of some rooms’ ceilings fell to the floor.

“At this point, we just got to try to save as many finishes as we can and then start the recovery process,” Williams said. “We save what we can, get the water up, and we start estimating and evaluating the damage.” jsnowdbk@gmail.com

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HAZING From PAGE 1

began when Spangenburg instructed students enrolled in the kinesiology honors prog ra m to c ompl e te a n honors assignment for his KNES455: Scientific Bases of Athletic Conditioning class.

Duvall said that instead of writing a paper or giving a lecture, he wanted to work on a project that could have value to members of the community.

“I wanted to create something that was actually useful to the department and to students,” said Duvall, a senior.

“As far as safety goes, I feel like safety is just always of paramount importance to most of the organizations on campus.”

Duvall took the data the team collected and integrated it into a functional online map that he taught himself how to use. The map is now viewable through the kinesiology website, as a downloadable PDF and on Google Earth.

Spangenburg said that LeviGoerlich, the vice president of this university’s Maryland Triathlon Club, collaborated with some of its members to determine a good portion of the running and walking paths

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Lake Artemesia Trail draws students for a walk. Students Greg Duvall, Taylor Keenan, Kevin Levi-Goerlich, Alysha Heckman and kinesiology professor Espen Spangenburg developed a map to highlight crime rates on local running trails. file photo/the diamondback shown on the map.

For the crime data — which i nc lud e d c r i mes s uch a s assault, robbery, hate crimes, weapons crimes and homicides — students reached out to University Police and Prince George’s County Police.

Spangenburg noted that compiling the crime data was no easy task.

“It was quite a bit of data,” Spangenburg said, adding that he would like to see new data added every six months or so. “It’s going to take us a little longer to expand the amount of time that it actu-

ally covers, but I think that by expanding that time it will give us a better representative indicator of all the areas surrounding the campus.”

H i l la ry K a ne, who frequently runs off the campus, said she thinks the knowledge of local trails and their corresponding crime data might encourage people to run outside more often.

“I think people that like to run [and] that don’t run outside will look at it just so they can see what paths p eople ta ke a nd see how safe they feel on the paths,”

said Kane, a junior public health science major.

The map as it stands is just a conceptual starting point, Duvall said. While there is no specific plan to build on it yet, Duvall said he is open to seeing where they can take the map in the future.

“T he map right now, it’s i nteresti ng, but to become more usef u l it would need more data and more roads, and that’s all possible,” Duvall said. tswaakdbk@gmail.com

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“excessive fatigue.”

The new policy also states that anyone who witnesses an act of hazing must report it to the Office of Student Conduct immediately.

Andrea Goodwin, student conduct director, said faculty, staff and students worked on the policy revisions since last year. She said she was not surprised that the senate voted to pass it, as students and faculty members offered input supporting the new policy language to ensure it was balanced.

“Hazing is never justified, and it is my hope that the new policy will help to bring attention and focus to the dangers of hazing,” Goodwin said.

Matt Supple, director of the Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life, said it is “very important” to clarify and attempt to educate students on what constitutes hazing and how they can prevent it.

Students caught hazing under the policy could receive punishment varying from expulsion to suspension to exclusion from registering for student groups, among other punishments.

“It’s a reasonable and rational update, and I think it allows students to better understand what the university is trying to do when they mean to prohibit hazing on campus,” Belcher said. “I was happy with what the hazing policy did in terms of changes, as a member of Greek life.”

the behav iora l a nd socia l sciences college.

Belcher, a senior environmental science and policy and government and politics major, said the university used to judge willing and unwilling hazing participants in the same manner. The new policy states that the university will not assume the guilt of anyone in these circumstances and the burden of proof is on the complainant.

“It gives it more due process, which is what I was looking for when I was working with the Student Conduct Committee and Office of Student Conduct on making sure there are safeguards for innocent victims,” he said. “I was greatly supportive of that in the end.”

The hazing policy that was recently passed defines hazing as “intentionally or recklessly subjecting any person to the risk of bodily harm, or severe emotional distress, or causing or encouraging any person to commit an act that would be a violation of law or university regulations, for the purpose of initiating, promoting, fostering, or confirming any form of affiliation with a student group or organization. The express or implied consent of the victim will not be a defense.” The policy also provides examples of hazing to outline the guidelines, such as forcing people to drink alcohol or use drugs and causing people rhassaneindbk@gmail.com

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Maryland Foundation could not share more specifics last time Gutin spoke with him.

That doesn’t mean Reimal isn’t hoping to make divestment a focus for this university. R ight now, she is working on a research paper about divestment as part of the College Park Scholars International Studies program, and she is mobilizing people and gauging interest to possibly start a divestment-focused student group on the campus in the fall.

Marshall-Main said this i ssue shou ld concer n a l l students because by paying tuition, students are investing in companies they might not support, he said.

“Where people invest their money does have real-world outcomes,” Marshall-Main said. “We don’t think of ourselves as investors as students, but the endowment is a gigantic sum of money, and it changes what your reality is for companies.”

Sophomore Maya Spaur, who said she was hoping to attend the rally but didn’t make it, said she supports divestment but universities have other options.

“Divestment isn’t the only solution,” the environmental science and technology and government and politics major said. “If the University System of Maryland financial situation is too complicated, then meanwhile, having a campus carbon tax or some other method of accountability would be another good way to go about it.”

Ya le Un iversity is considering a carbon tax for its campus, which would assess a tax for the university’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Divestment can bring socia l cha nge, Ma rsha l lMain said, citing divestment from South African companies during Apartheid and f rom cor porat ion s doi ng business in Sudan in 2006 during the Darfur genocide.

“Divestment is important because climate change is i mporta nt,” Rei ma l sa id.

“It’s important to me that we ta rget th is u n iversity because we’re here trying to make better futures for ourselves, and if the institution that’s supposed to be supporting us is invested in what’s harming our future, [it’s] really damaging.”

s o u rc e s , t h e s o p h o m o re criminology and criminal justice major said.

“We’re charging universities, churches, cities, governments, anything that has an endowment or a large fund to take their money out of fossil fuel industries and reinvest it into renewables,” Reimal said.

“We want to hold the fossilfuel industry responsible for their role in climate change.”

At the rally Friday evening, Reimal and two other local st udents, i nclud i n g E r ic Marshall-Main, a senior communication studies major at University of Maryland University College, listened to speakers and then spread out to educate and raise awareness about the issue.

They also collected signatures from people in favor of divestment for Washington, Reimal said. Because of the low temperatures, she said, about 100 people showed up, but there was still a lot of energy at the rally.

T houg h the ra l ly was fo cu se d on Wa sh i n g ton , Ma rsha l l-Ma i n sa id he is hopi ng to bri ng the issue back to Col lege Pa rk a nd this university, where he also serves as a work controller for Facilities Management.

“T hey shou ld be doi ng more d ivestment; I don’t think it is on their radar right now,” he said. “For all the good that it does, some parts of the university are slow to make change, and comfortable in the status quo.”

Reimal said that the Student Government Association’s Student Sustainability Committee used to have a divestment subcommittee, but it lost attention among the other initiatives the committee is working on this year.

Because investment is very complicated, Reimal said she doesn’t feel the University System of Maryland is making real divestment plans. At a meeting last year, representatives from the university system said there isn’t much they can change because of contracts, she said.

About 11 percent of the university system’s 110 investment fund managers invest in the fossil fuel industry, SGA Director of Sustainability Ori Gutin wrote in an email. But the president of the University System of gtooheydbk@gmail.com

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Time to protect everyone Don’t stop the pursuit of music S

t is one of the great privileges of our generation to be able to learn a new instrument easily. Google, YouTube and SoundCloud, for example, are tools that have made learning how to play an instrument easier than ever before.

Today, someone could watch YouTube videos and learn how to play any instrument without ever learning to read sheet music. You would think, then, that schools everywhere would encourage students to learn an instrument. Even more so, you would think that our university would do everything in its power to encourage this pursuit.

Our university, however, restricts the use of practice rooms in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center to students who are music majors, minors or in a school-sponsored musical ensemble. This means most students don’t have access to a practice room here at the music school.

Even in many high schools, it is common to provide practice rooms and equipment to students. Why would a university as courageous and ambitious as ours deter the pursuit of playing an instrument by not allowing all students to practice in these rooms?

Many music majors would argue that if these rooms were open to all students, the demand for a room would be too high and they would not be able to practice when they need to.

If we restrict access to these practice rooms from certain students, then why not do so in other areas of our school? For example, if the gym were to face too high a demand, should we respond by only allowing students on an athletic team to use it? Rather, why not respond to a high

demand by supplying even more resources to students? If we begin to restrict the use of a certain resource at our school, we create a hierarchy of those who deserve to use it and those who do not.

It is my conviction that each student deserves to have access to these practice rooms for the sole reason that he or she was accepted to this university, in which no student should be treated differently than another.

Most importantly, restricting some students from using these practice rooms would go against many of the principles our school stands for. The northeast corner of McKeldin Library states, “The field of knowledge is the common property of mankind.” Let this be true.

If the field of knowledge is the common property of all mankind, then why is the knowledge of music not the common property of all university students? It is my opinion that every student equally deserves the right to use these practice rooms.

O u r sc h o o l s ta n d s fo r t h e freedom to pursue knowledge.

Adversities such as these only test our strength. As a student body, we must be strong in will to see that every student is given the education he or she deserves. We must create rules that benefit the entire student body rather than the single student. We must strive to create a better school for ourselves, for our classmates and for generations of students to come.

exual harassment and discrimination are steeped in power hierarchies, often inflicted upon a victim whom the perpetrator perceives as inferior or vulnerable.

So it’s perhaps unsurprising that interns might face harassment and discrimination in the workplace.

The intern often occupies the lowest position in the office pecking order in terms of age and expertise, with little recourse for prejudiced practices or abuse.

An intern protection bill introduced in the state legislature could change that, prohibiting discrimination and sexual harassment of interns and granting interns access to the same avenues for complaint employees use — or, if none exist, the state Commission on Civil Rights. It’s deeply troubling that interns do not already enjoy such protections. Freedom from such crimes shouldn’t be a prize to enjoy, but rather an expected aspect of internships, employment and life in general.

But if some employers must be forced by law to respect others, then this editorial board supports Del. Kathleen Dumais’ effort to codify these elementary principles.

The opposition is baffling. Last year, businesses and the state Chamber of Commerce worked to defeat a similar bill, objecting to the possibility of paying damages to aggrieved interns. What does it say about workplace culture if companies

are unwilling to stake their money on the integrity of their employees?

T h e exc u se s u g ge s ts a n i n ability or unwillingness to rein in sexual harassment and discrimination. And if interns are victimized, other employees are likely suffering as well. A recent expose by CenterMaryland.org on sexual harassment in the state government itself is a sobering indicator of injustice’s spread.

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Interns deserve legislation that protects them from employers who practice sexual harassment and discrimination.

This year’s iteration of the intern protection bill would punish employers with cease-and-desist orders instead, a concession to businesses that should not have to be made. But it would allow interns who are harassed or discriminated against to ensure the misdeed is not ignored. Interns should be courageous in standing up for themselves and seeking justice, for their own sakes, their coworkers’ and future interns’ — whether Dumais’ bill passes or not.

A minor positive revision to the bill only underscores the harmful attitudes interns face and the importance of taking a stand. The

2014 bill described an intern’s role mostly in the same way the current legislation does; an intern benefits from on-the-job experience gained under supervision. However, last year’s bill also said an intern’s work “provides no immediate advantage to the employer providing the training and may occasionally impede the operations of the employer.”

The phrase, which does not appear in this year’s bill, plays into the image of an intern as a barely competent lackey who might not be much more than a burden on his or her beneficent employer. Though interns are a diverse group in terms of talent and experience, it should be assumed that they generally work hard and to the benefit of their employers — often for no pay. Thousands of interns from this university alone contribute to companies each year, and trivializing their efforts as “provid[ing] no immediate advantage” is detrimental to the cause of supporting them against disrespect and mistreatment.

While no law can erase sexist, racist, homophobic or other prejudiced beliefs, the intern protection bill is a welcome tool for interns to defend themselves and fight for dignity in the workplace. The millennial with unrealistic job expectations is a popular stereotype, but this editorial board believes wanting to be judged fairly and treated respectfully is a reasonable desire that government and employers should support.

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Mark Mediate is a sophomore architecture major. He can be reached at mbmediate19@gmail.com.

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Next stop, Mars?

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uring winter break I watched the movie Interstellar. While many have noted its stunning special effects and awesome soundtrack, the movie also explored several interesting topics. The most striking of these lies with the idea that humanity had killed the planet and had to find a new home where the species could survive. At first, I thought, “Wow, that could never happen to us.”

But then I began thinking about the state of the environment, overpopulation and pollution, and I realized finding a new planet for humanity might not be such a bad idea.

Amazingly, the privately owned company Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, is preparing for a mission that would send four individuals to Mars to establish a colony. While this sounds like a great adventure, the people who are selected for this mission are on a one-way trip.

The explorers will never return to Earth to see the people they love or experience anything from their Earthly lives again. This reallife relocation project draws eerie similarities to Interstellar. In the movie, several individuals are sent to explore potentially habitable planets knowing there is a very small chance they will ever be rescued. If this mission to find a new home doesn’t succeed, the people who are selected for the mission are making a massive

sacrifice for the greater good.

While Mars generally seems a completely uninhabitable planet, it could apparently be altered re l a t ive ly ea s i ly to s u p p o r t human life. If the temperature were raised by a few degrees at the South Pole of Mars, frozen carbon dioxide would return to a gaseous form. Because carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, this would cause more carbon dioxide to turn to a gaseous state, essentially causing a self-sustained global warming event.

As the temperatures continued to rise, frozen water would melt and cover most of the planet, similar to Earth. After about a century, Mars would have a climate similar to the lowlands of the Himalayas, a very temperate environment.

Considering how much humanity has altered the environment on Earth, it is not unreasonable to believe this change could be replicated on Mars.

While it might sound absurd to say humanity must colonize a new planet, it is no more radical than when European sailors set out into the unknown and found the “New World.” I thoroughly believe this idea is something worth investigating. Mankind is meant to explore and expand our horizons, and as they say in Star Trek, “Space [is] the final frontier.”

Ian Lacy is a senior kinesiology major. He can be reached at ilacydbk@gmail.com.

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Internships: Not always worth it SAMANTHA REILLY FRESHMAN

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t least three times a week, I open my inbox to see “INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY” sprinkled across the otherwise varied subject lines.

At this university, internships are not a way to enhance your academic career; they are a way to complete it. Internships and experience in the workforce are not only necessary to prepare for the postgrad job hunt, but also for a diploma (aka the little piece of paper that says you spent four years doing more than watching Netflix and binging on Dairy Queen ice cream).

It’s not just the university, either.

A popular prerequisite for internship positions is “a previous internship,” which loosely translates to a cyclical nightmare for college students hoping to advance in their chosen field.

A n o t h e r p ro b l e m w i t h t h i s mandate is that no matter how many internship opportunities pour in, the meaning of “internship” is be-

coming increasingly vague and its effects increasingly questionable.

Student Government Association members testified at a House of Delegates committee hearing last week in favor of a bill intended to protect interns from workplace discrimination and sexual harassment. Their advocacy for this bill is one of those situations that makes you think, “Wait — interns weren’t protected from that before?” That’s the issue, right there.

The approach we take with internships is pretty disturbing when you boil it down to the basics. Apparently, it’s OK if interns don’t get paid, don’t get relevant experience and don’t receive benefits or fair treatment, because they’re interns.

Amid a whirlwind of minimum wage legislation and civil rights activism, interns are getting swept under the rug.

Apparently, interns should feel honored to fetch coffee for executives and to set foot inside real business offices.

I t ’s a s t h o u g h c o m p a n i e s are relying on a strange osmosis-based technique to impart w i s d o m a n d t ra i n i n g o n to

young college students, and it’s not working.

Internship programs vary from company to company. Some interns are offered irreplaceable, interactive and educational experiences while some get eight to 10 weeks of practice in balancing Starbucks trays in one hand and holding dry cleaning in the other.

It seems several companies have taken notice, too. Dosomething.org explicitly states on its website, “Heck yeah, we pay our college interns. (And we think it’s crappy that other companies don’t!)” and, “No coffee runs here; the work you do will matter.”

Even so, companies that provide their interns with fair treatment, pay and opportunities to gain relevant job experience feel the need to broadcast the fact because it’s simply not the norm. But maybe it’s time it is. Maybe it’s time that we realize being an intern doesn’t mean you stop being human. And maybe companies should realize that, too.

Samantha Reilly is a freshman journalism major. She can be reached at sreillydbk@gmail.com.

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A JOLT OF ENERGY The Diamondback’s Tom Hausman recaps his night at a Kongos show at the 9:30 Club last week — it was full of energy and good feelings. That and more at dbknews.com.

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drake released his album If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late on Thursday, including the song “Jungle,” which has a companion music video (pictured above). It might hit 500,000 sales by the end of this week. photo courtesy of october’s very own on youtube.com REVIEW | IF YOU’RE READING THIS IT’S TOO LATE

The word of the (6) lord Drake’s album, which he dropped Thursday in a surprise to the music world, shows a darker, angrier side of the Toronto rapper

By Matt Schnabel @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback What’s the deal with Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late? A six-year anniversary present commemorating his 2009 breakthrough mixtape? A metaphorical middle finger satisfying a contractual obligation to an imploding Cash Money Records? Merely something to lift a young Jonathan Manziel’s spirits?

Whatever the reason, the selfstyled 6 God saw fit to drop a haymaker of a surprise album-mixtape hybrid — smack in the middle of a Kanye West fashion show-cumconcert media extravaganza. Disrespectful as hell, certainly, but perhaps earned?

After all, Toronto’s finest export had just come off a 2014 that cemented his status as rap’s most pervasive tastemaker. In a gap year that saw just a lone Drake single, a trio of throwaway B-sides, a few bones tossed his floundering mentor’s way and a barely listenable Young Money

record, no co-sign held quite so much sway, no stacks stretched quite so far and, of course, no Instagram feed boasted as much cultural capital as Aubrey Graham’s.

With this tape, then, we get a portrait of the artist as a not-quite-so-younganymore man, one who’s long paid his dues and staked his claim among the genre’s elite. At once icier and angrier than Nothing Was the Same, a (for all intents and purposes) radio-unfriendly stylistic leap from Take Care, IYRTITL makes that 2011 album look like chamber pop by comparison.

DRAKE’S ALBUM MAY HIT 500,000 SALES BY THE END OF THE WEEK, INDUSTRY SOURCES PROJECT, ACCORDING TO BILLBOARD.COM Working with a bevy of up-andcomers on the production side along with longtime co-conspirators Noah “40” Shebib and Boi-1da, Drake pushes the envelope with a host of experimental beats. The electronic in-

fluences first embraced on the Grammy Award-winning Take Care are still present, but the bulk of the mixtape pulls from Nothing Was the Same’s frosty side, excising the darkest bits, interludes and beat shifts and tugging them to their breaking points.

As far as bars go, Drake reaches a degree of irateness rarely glimpsed since “Worst Behavior.” Between firing barbs at ascendant trash rappers — “Act your age and not your girl’s age,” ahem, Tyga — and alluding to mounting label drama, he elects to throw some serious shade. Nowhere is that frustration felt more clearly than Bring the Burner to Work Day anthem “Star67,” which opens with an oddly prescient 2007 studio rant from Lil Wayne and a hotheaded verse ostensibly directed at Cash Money founder Birdman: “Brand-new Beretta/ Can’t wait to let it go/ Walk up in my label like, ‘Where the check though?’”

Yet for all the bravado and bluster, the Drake who first won hearts airing out his vulnerabilities in a pianobacked croon isn’t gone — just obscured behind a relentless rebranding

effort. Underneath the cherry-picked flows, street patois and Jamaican adlibs, there’s still a twenty-something with all the millennial insecurities of his target demographic, the stripper fetishist with a heart of gold first introduced six years ago on So Far Gone.

“Jungle,” featured in an atmospheric short film by the same name released Thursday morning, finds Drake musing over ivories in a relationship retrospective that would’ve felt perfectly at home on Take Care — say, sandwiched between “Doing It Wrong” and “The Real Her.” “You & The 6” reprises the mother-son exchange of Take Care’s “Look What You’ve Done,” dispensing with the latter’s celebratory spirit in favor of a late-night venting session.

There’s a definitive lack of exgirlfriends’ voicemail audio, and you won’t find him spitting about banging out his babysitter on a posse cut, but the overly intimate details inherent to Drake’s work haven’t disappeared, either; copious address- and namedropping remain a discography staple (Courtney from Hooters on Peachtree,

eat your heart out).

Actually, you won’t find a posse cut at all. Beyond a Wayne verse on “Used To” — which alone merits a mercy-killing of the embattled Young Money kingpin — there’s just a duo of tracks featuring OVO it-boy PARTYNEXTDOOR and “Company,” an absolute firecracker starring Houston native Travi$ Scott.

Closer “6PM in New York” wraps things up with a four-minute thinkpiece on the state of the game, including shots at Kendrick Lamar and Kanye and insinuations that Watch the Throne should’ve been a trifecta effort. Four years removed from Take Care, though, Drake fashioning himself a rap god who can stand toeto-toe with the likes of Lamar and West no longer seems so far-fetched.

In all, it’s no less a towering monument to aesthetic than the definitive soundscapes of 2013 and 2011, but IYRTITL feels like more of a heat check than a painstakingly curated labor of love. Fortunately for Drake, it’s still hot up in the 6. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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LIVE-ACTION MUSICALS REBORN Why are networks shelling out for live-action musicals such as The Sound of Music and Peter Pan Live! when none have been highly rated?

By Hannah Lang @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback The hills are alive with the sound of … live musicals, according to some major television networks.

It’s a big time for musicals on TV and the big screen. Two years ago, NBC’s live version of The Sound of Music Live!, starring Carrie Underwood as Maria von Trapp, drew in more than 18 million viewers, rivaling the ratings of major sporting events.

Last year, NBC sought to repeat its success with another live musical — this time, Peter Pan Live! starring Allison Williams as the title character.

While Peter Pan Live! only grabbed

9 million viewers, the reviews were slightly better than Underwood’s The Sound of Music Live!, which many critics described as “cringe-worthy”.

Although Peter Pan didn’t appeal to major American audiences, it seems as if live TV musicals are here to stay, at least for now. NBC announced that it plans on producing The Music Man later this year in the same made-fortelevision format. Fox recently reported that Julianne Hough and Vanessa Hudgens have signed on to play Sandy and Rizzo, respectively, for the network’s version of Grease: Live, and picking a Danny Zuko is the next task.

If that weren’t enough, live-action musicals are thriving on the big screen, too. Emma Watson posted

an announcement on her Facebook page three weeks ago that she will be playing the role of Belle in Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast, and a live-action version of Cinderella with Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham Carter comes out next month.

Live-action TV musicals aren’t anything new; in fact, throughout the early 2000s, PBS aired a number of underwhelming performances, including Camelot, Sweeney Todd and Jesus Christ Superstar. ABC also offered up a rendition of The Music Man, which was blasted by critics and stalled the trend of live musicals until last year.

If made-for-TV live musicals don’t attract large audiences and receive

mediocre reviews and reactions across the board, why do networks keep trying to make them work?

Forbes has theorized that major networks are trying to tap into audiences’ inherent “fear of missing out.” Live TV events such as the Super Bowl or awards shows consistently attract large audiences, who turn on their television sets to see things happen in real time.

Streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu can’t compete with the thrill of live TV, no matter what selection of shows or movies they may boast. The live TV musical concept creates an environment that encourages viewers to mark their calendars, sit through commercials and watch a single event with millions of other Americans.

In an era in which more people are cutting the cord and moving away from traditional TV, live musicals persist in order to draw audiences back in and remind them why and how television is an integral part of American culture and can’t be replaced by laptops and iPads.

Live musicals are generally a good idea but often see poor execution. To be successful and meet networks’ goal of drawing a single audience together for a few hours, these musicals need to maintain their classic formats and offer up something new that makes it worthwhile to log out of Netflix — at least for a little while. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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lions From PAGE 8 Turgeon termed “the big three” had scored the Terps’ final 21 points in their first road victory since Jan. 10.

“It’s really a good feeling when you have three guys you can go through,” said Turgeon, whose team is now 7-0 in games decided by six points or fewer.

“Some guys have one. Some guys have zero. And we’ve got three guys to go to.”

Wells (22 points) and Trimble (20 points) carried their team throughout the night. The Terps had eight firsthalf turnovers but leaned on a combined 17 points from the two guards to enter halftime down by just one.

After the break, Wells and Trimble poured in the Terps’ first 11 points of the second half and helped the team outscore Penn State 22-8 in the first six minutes of the period. Wells’ aggressiveness helped him score at least 18 points for the second straight game, a feat he hadn’t accomplished since returning in late December from a wrist injury.

“I feel really good,” Wells said. “I feel really close to 100 percent.”

Layman, meanwhile, didn’t have as smooth a game as his two teammates. The lanky shooter turned the ball over twice in the first three minutes Saturday night and made 1 of 5 field-goal attempts in the first half.

Coach Mark TuRgEon draws up a play during a timeout late in the second half of the Terps’ victory at Penn State on Saturday night. alexander jonesi/the diamondback Eventually, though, Layman settled in. He hit his first two 3-pointers of the second half, including one that steadied the Terps while the Nittany Lions pieced together a big run of their own. Then he helped bury Penn State with a late block and his timely bucket when

Turgeon called a play for him.

“This definitely wasn’t my best game,” Layman said. “But I think I had confidence in myself to keep taking shots and confidence to make them.”

The youngest of the Terps’ three closers left the final mark on the win.

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FACEOFF SPECIALIST CHARLIE RAFFA (left) and defensive midfielder Isaiah Davis-Allen (center) battle with a Navy player for the ball during the Terps’ victory Saturday afternoon. The Terps allowed just one goal in the season-opening win. christian jenkins/the diamondback

mids From PAGE 8 a 6-foot-6, 235-pound freshman, beat Dunn and slipped a shot past Bernlohr. After the officials ruled that Ray stepped into the crease, though, the score was overturned.

Otherwise, the Terps clogged holes and forced Navy into seven shot-clock violations.

Even when three Terps penal-

Raffa, who was selected 24th overall in the MLL draft by the Chesapeake Bayhawks, recovered four of 11 chances.

“There are a lot of opportunities we gave them,” Tillman said. “The defense did a good job, and Kyle bailed us out a little bit.”

Bernlohr received minimal playing time during the first three years of his career, serving as backup for Niko Amato, who ended his career as third in

ties awarded the Midshipmen extra-man opportunities, Sowell’s team couldn’t capitalize.

Navy’s only goal came with 6:54 left in the third period, when attackman T.J. Hanzsche buried his fifth goal of the year to cut the Terps’ lead to 4-1.

“The defense got the shots that we wanted,” Bernlohr said.

The effort proved important considering the Terps’ struggles gaining possession.

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toward one minute and Penn State trailing by two, Trimble controlled the ball at the top of the key. Wells came out to the wing, but a Penn State defender mirrored him and closed off Trimble’s passing lane.

So the freshman used forward Damonte Dodd’s screen himself and

program history with 625 saves.

Bernlohr arrived in College Park as the No. 8 goalie in his class, according to Inside Lacrosse, but was relegated to the sideline behind Amato.

“It’s been a long time coming,” Bernlohr said.

In the offseason, Tillman said Bernlohr and sophomore Dan Morris emerged as the two most likely candidates to replace Amato. With his solid showing on Saturday, Bernlohr might have solidified his case.

Next week, the Terps face a Yale team that averaged 10.5 goals per game last season and exploded for 19 against UMass-Lowell on Saturday.

In its first showing with a plethora of new faces, though, the unit lifted the team to victory and left Sowell searching for answers.

“A product of how good the goalie plays is how well his defense is playing in front of him, and forcing the shots that are low-percentage shots,” Sowell said. “Certainly got to give [Bernlohr] credit, but at the end of the day, I’m going to [put] blame more on our end versus him being that good.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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finished a dagger of an acrobatic layup that put the Terps up four points. Afterward, Trimble said he was confident Wells or Layman would have scored the key basket if he hadn’t.

“On offense, we knew we could get a score out of one of us,” Trimble said. “It’s not easy, but it’s better we can go through one of us.”

After Trimble calmly knocked down his four late free throws and Penn State guard D.J. Newbill, who finished with a game-high 25 points, chucked his potential game-tying last-second 3-pointer a bit too hard, the Terps had polished off the win.

No Terps beside Trimble, Wells and Layman scored in the final 14 minutes of the game, but the trio provided balance among themselves during that span. Wells scored six points, Layman added seven and Trimble had eight down the stretch.

Turgeon mixed up his calls, and Wells said the team’s three leading scorers didn’t care who put the ball through the hoop. All that mattered was the Terps executed the plays drawn up on their coach’s index card and escaped Penn State with another nail-biting victory.

“That’s the beauty of our team,” Wells said. “We don’t have just one person that’s really good. I think we have a couple guys that can be top players in this conference.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

recap From PAGE 8 power to the NCAA’s switch to flat-seamed baseballs for the 2015 season. The new balls feature different laces, Wade said, which allow them to carry farther.

“But I think mainly the reason why we had that many home runs,” Wade said, “is because our guys were able to execute the plan and put good swings on pitches and drove them out the park.”

The Terps had 19 home runs in 63 games last year. Papio, Lowe and Cieri had three homers combined.

But the power surge this weekend keyed a potent offense, as the Terps scored at least five runs in every game. Plus, against Western Kentucky and Old Dominion, at least eight different batters reached base.

While all three starting pitchers were in new spots in the rotation, the pitching remained solid. Righth a n d e r M i k e S h a wa r y n struggled early Friday in his debut as the Terps’ ace, but after giving up two runs in the first, he allowed only one over the next five.

Left-hander Tayler Stiles, in his second career weekend start, allowed one unearned

run and struck out nine in five innings of a 5-2 win Saturday over the Monarchs, a rematch of last year’s NCAA Regional opener.

“Surprisingly, I wasn’t really nervous at all,” Stiles said. “I felt more relaxed than I ever have pitching with Maryland.”

Closer Kevin Mooney picked up the save against Old Dominion to tie the school career saves record (23) set by Toronto Blue Jays reliever Brett Cecil.

“It will be pretty special when he breaks that record, and I think in his case, he’ll blow that record out of the water,” Szefc said. “He’s a special guy.”

While Mooney secured the Terps’ final victory of the weekend Saturday night, the Terps’ power outburst put the team in a position to win the first two games.

Still, Szefc doesn’t think home runs will become a staple of the Terps’ offense.

And though Wade sees potential for more, he isn’t ready to declare it a trend. “ I d e f i n i te ly wo n ’t b e surprised if it did continue because I think our lineup is capable of that each and every day,” Wade said. “I don’t know if it’s going to actually keep up like that.” psuittsdbk@gmail.com

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spartans From PAGE 8 when she does say something, we all listen,” Brown said.

“What she has to say is really important to us.”

There have been times during practice this season when the Terps (22-2, 13-0) are struggling or lack focus.

It’s Mincy who steps in to get the team back on track.

M i n cy sa i d t h e se n i o r classes during her first two years in College Park helped her learn how to lead.

“I was able to carry what they taught me to this team now,” Mincy said.

Even if Mincy isn’t the same type of vocal leader from year’s past, Frese has noticed the difference in how the wing

conducts herself this season.

“She was always pretty quiet and didn’t allow many people to know what’s going on in her head and what was going on inside,” Frese said. “She’s fully expressed it this year.”

The sophomore class of Brown, guard Shatori WalkerKimbrough and center Brionna Jones, who are all averaging double figures, has helped replace the production of last season’s seniors.

But Mincy has emerged as the leader of the Terps and has helped pilot them to the best conference start in program history entering tonight’s matchup is with the Spartans.

“She’s the leader of our team,” Frese said. “[She’s] who we are all playing for.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2015

MEN’S BASKETBALL | No. 19 TERPS 76, NITTANY LIONS 73

BASEBALL

Terps roll to trio of victories Power surge ignites 3-0 mark in season’s opening weekend

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer

Minutes later, the Terps (21-5, 9-4 Big Ten) fed Layman, a forward, in the post, and he buried a short jumper to extend the lead to 70-64. Then, when the Nittany Lions (15-11, 3-10) made another charge at the lead, Trimble came off a ball screen, absorbed a hard foul and finished a layup with about a minute remaining in the game to keep the Terps ahead.

By the time the final buzzer sounded, the trio

Under coach John Szefc, the Terrapins baseball team has relied on a small-ball approach. To manufacture offense, the Terps bunt regularly, steal bases and execute hit-and-runs.

But in key moments this past weekend at the Caravelle Resort Tournament in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the Terps’ power hitting ignited the offense. Four home runs, including two by second baseman Brandon Lowe, propelled the No. 16 Terps to their first 3-0 start since 1987 with wins over Western Kentucky, Canisius and Old Dominion.

Szefc doesn’t preach the importance of homers to his team, but he does emphasize doubles to the gaps, and he welcomes any extra benefits of that philosophy.

“They all work hard, and they’ve developed power,” Szefc said of the home run-hitting trio — Lowe, catcher Nick Cieri and right fielder Anthony Papio. “They just don’t wake up with power; it takes a while for them to develop that. The best way you develop a hitter is to be a good hitter, and let the power take care of itself.”

All four home runs came in two innings. In the fourth inning of Friday’s 7-3 win over the Big Red, Papio smacked a solo shot to right. Three batters later, Lowe hit a go-ahead two-run homer.

And when the Terps were up by one run against the Golden Griffins in the seventh inning Saturday, two home runs secured the 8-4 win. This time, Lowe was first with a solo home run before Cieri added to the Terps’ lead with a two-run shot.

Center fielder LaMonte Wade attributed some of the unexpected

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GUARD MELO Trimble (left), forward Jake Layman (top right) and guard Dez Wells (bottom right) scored the Terps’ final 21 points in Saturday’s win over Penn State at Bryce Jordan Center. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

‘THE BIG THREE’

Wells, Layman, Trimble close out win at Penn State to give Terps first road victory since Jan. 10

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — For much of this season, Mark Turgeon has carried an index card with him on the sideline. The card, the Terrapins men’s basketball coach said, has about eight plays scribbled on it reserved for crucial possessions and designed to free up any one of the squad’s three stars: Melo Trimble, Dez Wells or Jake Layman.

And as they have much of the year, Turgeon’s favorite plays and go-to players proved to be a solid combination Saturday night in a 76-73 victory at Penn State that snapped a discouraging three-game road losing streak.

After the Nittany Lions erased a 13-point second-half deficit at Bryce Jordan Center to take a late two-point lead, Turgeon called on the Terps to isolate Wells twice in a row. Both times, the senior guard muscled into the lane, drew a foul and converted at the line, retaking the lead.

MEN’S LACROSSE | No. 10 TERPS 8, MIDSHIPMEN 1 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL | MICHIGAN STATE PREVIEW

Mincy fills leadership void in senior season Guard sets tone entering game at Spartans

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer When the Terrapins women’s basketball team’s 2013-14 campaign ended in the Final Four last season after an 87-61 loss to Notre Dame, so did the college careers of five seniors.

Three of those five seniors, including three-time All-American Alyssa Thomas, started every game that season. So entering this season, coach Brenda Frese not only had several holes in the lineup to fill, but she was also left without a leader.

Nearly a year later, that void isn’t much of a concern. The Terps’ lone senior, guard Laurin Mincy, has helped guide the team to a 16-game winning streak and a 13-0 start to conference play. She will be leading the team onto the floor tonight when the No. 5 Terps play Michigan State (12-13, 4-10 Big Ten) in East Lansing, Michigan.

“She really keeps us on track,” guard Lexie Brown said. “She’s been through high points of seasons like last year when we were just rolling, and then she has been through low points when she was one of the people on the sidelines.”

It wasn’t an easy transition for Mincy, though. The New Jersey native would’ve been the sixth player in last year’s senior class, but she tore her ACL five games

“SHE REALLY KEEPS US ON TRACK. SHE’S BEEN THROUGH HIGH POINTS OF SEASONS LIKE LAST YEAR WHEN WE WERE JUST ROLLING, AND THEN SHE HAS BEEN THROUGH LOW POINTS WHEN SHE WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE ON THE SIDELINES.” LEXIE BROWN

Terrapins women’s basketball guard into her junior season and opted to redshirt to keep another year of eligibility.

When Mincy watched the other members of her original class move on, she realized she was now the elder stateswoman on a young team that needed guidance.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God, all my buddies that I came in with are gone.

What am I going to do? How am I going to lead this team?’” Mincy said.

Mincy was anxious in part because she isn’t overly vocal. During her first four years with the team, she was reserved and let her play speak for itself.

So for the players who competed with Mincy before this season, they know when she speaks up in practice or games, it holds extra significance.

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GOALKEEPER Kyle BErnlohr makes one of his 12 saves in the Terps’ 8-1 season-opening win at Navy on Saturday afternoon.

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Bernlohr, defense spark victory New-look unit shuts down Navy to open season on high note

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer

ANNAPOLIS— Navy coach Rick Sowell sat at a table in front of reporters Saturday, his eyes fixed on the stat sheet from his team’s 8-1 loss to the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team. He kept his gaze down and spoke with a dispirited tone.

“We made [goalkeeper Kyle Bern-

lohr] look very good,” Sowell said. “A lot of those saves were easy saves. At his feet, bounce shots, in his stick.”

In his first college start, Bernlohr, a senior, stopped 12 shots and led a stout defensive effort against a team that torched VMI for 21 goals last week.

And while a new-look Terps offense battled snow flurries and struggled to develop a rhythm in the team’s season opener, Bernlohr and the defense stonewalled Navy’s attack.

“Kyle was fantastic in goal, but the guys around him did a really good job of getting him teed up,” coach John Tillman said. “The poise he showed was excellent.”

Bernlohr, who helped the Terps go 25 of 25 in the clearing game, wasn’t the only new cog in the Terps’ defense.

With defender Goran Murray, a preseason first-team All American, gone, defender Mac Pons made his second career start alongside senior Casey Ikeda and junior Matt Dunn.

Defensive midfielder Isaiah DavisAllen and long pole Mike McCarney also received significant minutes after playing limited roles last season.

The defense was stout in the first half, with Navy’s lone goal getting called back. Navy attackman Jack Ray, See midS, Page 7