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GPAs similar after plus-minus grading Cumulative, semester GPAs only change by hundredths of a point after first semester

By Alex Kirshner Staff writer While many students were opposed to a plus-minus grading policy that went into effect in the fall, semesterend and cumulative GPAs did not see a significant change, according to recently released university data.

The campuswide undergraduate grade point average dropped by two hundredths of a point to 3.08 from fall 2011, which saw a 3.10 GPA, data from the university’s Institutional Research Planning and Assessment department state. But the cumulative GPA ticked up to 3.13 from 3.12.

The policy change upset some stu-

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so that a petition circulated shortly after the University Senate approved the policy change — the senate subcommittee charged with reviewing the proposal last year conducted a study

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Lawmakers push more marijuana legislation Hope to open dialogue for future policies

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By Madeleine List Staff writer

It was a chilly Sunday morning in Old Town College Park when nine young men with trash bags appeared, ambling down Dartmouth Avenue and picking up stray beer bottles and bits of plastic debris.

The rest of the neighborhood was still waking up, but for chapters in the Interfraternity Council, it was just a regular day as the street’s adoptive owners.

“Sunday — wake up, get a little fresh air, clean the street,” said sophomore economics and physics major Jesse Williams, the philanthropy chair of Delta Chi. “We love this place.”

In recent years, relations between long-term city residents and Greek life members living off the campus have worsened, said Jimmy Gray, a senior business major. So in October, the then-IFC vice president of external affairs spurred 20 of the 22 council fraternities to formally adopt streets in Old Town. Fraternity members clean their adopted streets at least twice a month,

A house of 36 college-aged men can produce a lot of trash, but it’s where it ends up that matters.

Mark Gyorfy, president of Kappa Alpha Order, said composting in the fraternity house has taken off since their chef, Justin Kearney, started up the effort about a year and a half ago. The house has two bins in the basement, one each for compost and recycling, and another tiny cardboard box labeled “landfill.”

Since Kearney set out the bins, only about 3 percent of the house’s waste goes to the landfill, while the rest is fed back to recycling and the environment.

But the environmentally friendly practice is far from uncommon on Fraternity Row. Kappa Alpha Order is one of 11 Greek fraternities and sororities on the campus, including Sigma Delta Tau, Alpha Chi Omega and Sigma Chi, that have launched composting initiatives since 2010, said housing coordinator Heidi Biffl. Implementing those greener habits has contributed to an increase

This state may not join the likes of Colorado and Washington state in legalizing recreational marijuana use this legislative session, but a group of lawmakers are at least trying to get the conversation started.

Even though the lawmakers proposing the bill don’t have much confidence in such a measure’s success, it has become increasingly clear this session’s marijuana legislation — ranging from loosening the legal implications of possession to authorizing the drug for medical use — has opened up the discussion.

Although legalizing recreational marijuana in the state is highly unlikely, Del. Cheryl Glenn (D-Baltimore City) wants to show her support as she rallies behind the more politically feasible medicinal marijuana bill.

“Sometimes, even though you realize that something is probably politically not doable in a given session, it’s good to start the conversation,” said Glenn, who in addition to co-sponsoring the legalization effort has also served as the primary sponsor on two bills that address its medical uses.

The debate has changed since last year, Glenn said, and the political landscape may have shifted enough to give medicinal marijuana in the state a chance. Gov. Martin O’Malley hasn’t come out with the same adamant opposition to the proposal as last year, when

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fraternity members clean up a street they adopted in Old Town College Park as part of an effort to better relations with neighbors. Fraternities and sororities have also launched composting initiatives. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

ALL IN A DAY’s work Fraternities adopt streets in Old Town to clean up twice a month as part of effort to better relations with neighbors

Eleven Greek fraternities, sororities have launched composting initiatives since 2010 to help with university goals

Remembering The Bayou Three alumni create documentary on former D.C. nightclub; debuted last night

By Savannah Doane-Malotte Staff writer The lights couldn’t dim soon enough for the college students and 20-somethings packed inside The Bayou.

The din was getting louder and the people were restless, but as the band began to play, the energy coursing through the room seemed to expand its very walls.

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That was the typical scene at The Bayou, a Washington nightclub on K Street that closed its doors in 1998 after serving as an arena of musical culture and social interaction dating back to its opening in 1953. Fifteen years after the club opened its doors for the last time, three alumni shined a spotlight on the antiquity of the acclaimed spot in a documentary entitled The Bayou: DC’s Killer Joint, which aired last night on Maryland Public Television.

1978 alumnus Dave Lilling and 1980 alumni Vinnie Perrone and Bill Scanlan each had experience with the club dating back to their days on this

campus. They began recording and interviewing for the documentary in the fall of 1998, when they heard that the club was officially closing on New Year’s Eve of that year, in the hopes of sharing the influence The Bayou had on the local community by hosting bands, musicians and comedians from Bruce Springsteen and Peter Tosh to Billy Joel and Todd Rundgren.

“The Bayou is a mid-Atlantic icon, where millions of young adults in the D.C., Maryland and Virginia area came to hear great music and meet other people,” Lilling said. “When we started

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bruce springsteen paid The Bayou a surprise visit in the early 1980s to sit in with his former friend and bandmate Robin Thompson. Three alumni created a documentary about the club that aired last night. photo courtesy of dave nuttycombe

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show them what can be composted and recycled.

“Would you eat it? ‘Yes.’ Then it’s compostable,” he said. “Was it ever alive? ‘Yes.’ Then it’ll break down.”

Even newspaper is compostable because it comes from trees, which were once alive — “But I’ve never seen a plastic tree,” Kearney said.

Mike Kizer, chef at Sigma Chi’s house, began composting when he started the job three years ago.

He was disturbed by the tremendous amount of food being thrown away and thought something else should be done with it.

Though he composts in the kitchen, he said participation from the fraternity’s members is not always consistent.

“It’s important for students themselves to become more aware and proactive,” he said.

As someone who grew up composting and recycling, he said he thinks it’s hard to get in the habit in college, and many people are unaware or unmotivated.

Griffith said she agreed the reason not everyone composts is because they don’t know how or don’t understand its importance.

“With any kind of initiative, it goes back to education and awareness,” she said.

But Greek life is moving in the same direction with sustainability issues as the rest of the university, Griffith said, adding she hopes every chapter will eventually participate in the effort.

It also helps to visualize the impact of greener actions.

Kearney, an avid surfer, said he hopes composting will become more popular, because landfill waste often ends up in the ocean, and he “doesn’t want to swim in all that crap.”

Sustainability is becoming increasingly vital, he said, and by the time this generation’s children are in college, everyone may be composting.

“The earth is not infinite,” Kearney said. “Nor are its resources.”

in composting across the campus — the university composted 566.18 tons in 2012, up from 138 tons in 2010, said Bill Guididas, recycling and solid waste coordinator.

“Generally it’s a growing culture in our community,” Biffl said.

Facilities Management collects the compost from each participating house Monday through Friday and brings it to a compactor at one of the dining halls, Guididas said. When the compactor is full, the material is transported to a junction transfer station in Annapolis and eventually ends up at a compost facility in Delaware. At Kappa Alpha Order, most of the members are committed to composting and recycling, Gyorfy said.

They easily fill a large bin with compostable material every day.

“It’s good because it gets the brothers to start thinking about what happens when you throw stuff away,” he said.

Sustainability and environmental awareness go hand in hand with the philanthropic mission of the Greek system, said Taylor Griffith, Panhellenic Association president.

“The whole point of Greek life is to hold yourself to a higher level of accountability and standard,” she said. “Sustainability efforts are a part of that all-encompassing field … everything we do we try to make a difference.”

The university also makes composting as convenient as throwing waste in the trash, said Nate Finnegan, sophomore finance major and member of Kappa Alpha Order. But it’s not a walk in the park for everyone.

Despite handmade signs above each of the three bins detailing what can and can’t be thrown in them, Kearney said he spends about half an hour a week picking plastic materials out of the compost bin. He said he tries to educate the fraternity members about properly sorting their waste and even makes dioramas in the kitchen to visually newsumdbk@gmail.com

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post-graduate admissions boards and employers to adjust grades to fit plus-minus criteria, Smith said.

Some students feel the policy isn’t fair because it does not reward them for earning an A+ over an A, while it makes distinctions for other plus grades. Although an earlier form of the grading policy stipulated an A+ wouldrewardstudentswitha4.3,the policy was then amended to make both an A+ and an A worth 4.0.

“Because of that discrepancy, it can really impact your GPA because there’s no reward for the pluses, but fortheminuses,yougettakendown,” said freshman government and politics major Carl Legg, who said his GPA was hindered by minus marks.

Although plus grades usually earn students extra grade points, a 100 percent A+ is not treated any differently under this system than a mid-level A. Legg said minus grades could hinder students’ future opportunities, whether it’s graduate school or the job market.

“A lot of the things that we take advantage of as college students are tied to our GPAs, and it’s kind of taken away opportunities for some of us,” he said.

Despite some opposition, Smith and Hamilton each believe the majority of the student body has come around to — or will eventually — accept the new grading methodology.

And Levine said the IRPA data was no surprise as her office anticipated the plus-minus scale would have little effect on grade outcomes.

A 2006 internal IRPA report, now published on its website, found that “over the long term, most students’ cumulative GPAs are affected negatively” by plusminus scales.

The new system better aligns the university with the rest of academia, said Ryan Heisinger, the Student Government Association’s academic affairs vice president.

“This is really just something we were dragging our heels on, and now this puts us in the same boat as a lot of our peer institutions we strive to be more like,” Heisinger said. “It just makes sense.”

The senate initially approved the policy in December 2005, but its implementation was delayed. The legislationwaspickedbackupin2011 after a student asked for it to be reviewed again — it passed in fall 2011.

The plus-minus grading system is more in line with the university’s peer institutions, officials said, and it makes academic evaluations more specific.

“It is a policy that allows for finer distinctions in describing what a student has achieved,” Hamilton said.

But because of students’ varying backgrounds and experiences, observersshouldtakecautionwhenanalyzing the university’s GPA figures, said Mona Levine, the university’s associate vice president for IRPA. “We have many, many different types of students and many situations, and it’s such a gross measure that it doesn’t tell us much about what the experience of any individual student or even groups of students is,” she said.

In recent years, more institutions have pivoted to a plus-minus system. Undergraduate Studies Dean Donna Hamilton said the change catches the university up to the rest of the academic community.

“We need to align the direction that higher education moves,” said Hamilton, who is also an English professor and associate provost for academic affairs. “Sometimes we’re out in front, sometimes we’re in the middle and sometimes we’re behind. In this case, we were behind.”

The new grading policy brings the university up to speed with other competitive institutions and helps students adjust to educational and economic standards, said Martha Nell Smith, University Senate chairwoman.

“We were really out of step with the best universities in the country, with universities that are our peers,” she said. “A lot of students didn’t know that both employers and graduate schools were recalculating their grades.”

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The Delta Chi members said they wished they had been assigned to their own street or at least one that required a little more effort. However, the students added that cleaning up residents’ trash is just as important as cleaning their own trash. To them, the service goes both ways.

“We don’t mind cleaning up other people’s trash, Fraternity members from this university look for beer cans, food wrappers and discarded cups in an Old because people Town College Park neighborhood as a part of the adopt-a-street program. charlie deboyace/the diamondback clean up our trash,” Williams said.

Most fraternities embraced the public urination and vandalism.

“A lot of the trash you’ll find in program enthusiastically, but Gray Old Town on Saturday morning is said he had to give a few chapters a From PAGE 1 caused by partying,” Wojahn said. “bit of a hard time” to meet their and IFC members hope the “I think [this] does help improve cleaning commitments.

“There’s pressure on us now,” program will begin softening their image amongst our residents residents’ negative views of to show that at least they’re doing he said. “The signs are up and the something to promote better rela- city is expected to stay clean, so it their younger neighbors. needs to stay that way, or else it As a former fraternity pres- tions with the community.”

Each fraternity requested a makes them look bad.” ident, Gray said he realized In College Park, there’s a “small neighbors hated living near street ­— often the ones their him and his fellow fraternity houses were on — but streets but loud minority” of residents members and wanted to find a were assigned based on overall who really don’t like students living GPA and recruitment numbers. around them, Gray said, although solution to the problem.

“I was dealing with angry In some cases, fraternities ended most are much more reasonable.

“There’s so many residents residents who get sick of stu- up matched with streets far away that really love students — they dents trashing the town every from their actual houses.

On Sunday, the Delta Chi love living around students and weekend, and fraternities not taking responsibility for brothers searched residents’ front understand what they got themtrash they leave behind on the yards for bits of trash but came selves into. They bought earplugs up empty-handed. Sophomore when they got here,” he said. streets,” he said.

Many of these residents have With the help of city public government and politics major works director Robert Stumpff, Jake Bouer’s trash bag was almost appreciated the street adopGray organized the street adop- empty, with only one beer bottle tion program, Gray said. Early tion program to get the streets and a few scraps of plastic to show one morning, as a fraternity was picking up trash on their street, a clean and keep the neighbors for a morning of cleaning.

“This is like the cleanest street mother with two young children happy. It’s a joint effort between students and the city: College in College Park,” he said. “All of approached them.

“She was like, ‘What are you Park funds the students’ supply them are families — that’s why guys doing? Did you get in trouble?’ of trash bags and gloves, and all it’s so clean.”

Williamssaidhethoughtabout80 And they were like, ‘No, we’ve acthe trash is taken to City Hall percentoftrashinthecitycamefrom tually adopted a street,’” Gray said. once it’s collected.

To students and city officials, fraternity and sorority members. “The mother stopped for a second it’s a small step toward improv- Some streets are left littered with with her two kids and said, ‘This is ing Greek life’s image, which empty beer cans, empty cups and incredible; you’re models for the District 1 Councilman Patrick food wrappers from popular late- community. I wish all the residents Wojahn said is tainted by com- night eateries such as Jimmy John’s acted like this.’”

Although picking up an empty plaints about excessive noise, on weekend mornings, he said.

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beer can might not drastically change the city’s appearance, Greek life members hope to show residents they care about being good neighbors. They’re encouraged to wear their Greek letters when cleaning, “so residents will see people wearing these shirts picking up trash, carrying a big bag, something kind of uncharacteristic for typical college students,” Gray said.

Several residents at town hall meetings have voiced their support for the program, Gray said. Sophomore bioengineering major Michael Sikorski, IFC vice president of external affairs, added those living at the bottom of College Avenue have been especially appreciative.

With the formation of the city council’s new quality of life work group, Wojahn said students and residents are starting to have a real “dialogue” about their issues.

Later this semester, Sikorski hopes to plan a large-scale spring cleaning of the city. He said the new IFC executive board is also designing a comprehensive plan to address resident concerns.

“Right now we’re in the process of trying to get every single satellite house in Old Town College Park a lot of information about appropriate relations with your neighbors,” he said.

Though street adoptions are a start, Sikorski said there’s a lot more that needs to be done in the coming year.Butfornow,onweekendmornings, groups of lettered young men will continue to traverse the streets in College Park, painstakingly removing the evidence of the night before.

With the goal of improving relations in the city in mind, Gray said the program is a small step in the right direction: repairing relationships, one beer can at a time.

“I wouldn’t say that this program is solving any huge problem in student-city relations. I think it’s helping, but it’s not solving,” Gray said. “It’s a small step toward a culture change, toward residents and students living together, sharing a community.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Students see benefits of completed Denton quad renovation $3.5 mil project ended in December after five months

more plants in “bioretention” areas, which collect rain runoff and prevent chemicals from making their way into the local water supply. The focus of the

By Dustin Levy project, however, was creating a Staff writer unified environment by focusing After enduring months of on the “spaces in between buildconstruction dust and disrup- ings,” which are key to bringing tive noise, students living in the together every amenity the comDenton Community can finally munity has to offer, said Carlo Colella, Facilities Management enjoy an updated quad.

Facilities Management spent associate vice president.

“These spaces in between more than $3.5 million renovating the outdoor space, adding are an important part of our better lighting, more seating overall campus environment and new pavement. The redone and mix together the different space is also a little greener buildings,” Colella said. “They — workers put in place new have profound impact on the drains, chilled water lines and experience, in this case par-

251 North dining hall. Officials hoped the project would be completed in early fall, but due to setbacks in obtaining proper renovations permits and damage from Hurricane Sandy, Facilities Management had to extend the project’s time line two more months. Workers put the finishing touches on the space in December, much to the chagrin of some North Campus residents.

“It was really loud, especially in the morning,” said freshman public health major Lynn Cournoyer, who lives in the Denton Community.

However, she said she was impressed with the work and

is looking forward to using the quad’s new features as the weather gets warmer. “ I t’s ve ry a e s t h e t i ca l ly pleasing. They kept all the green and the grass,” Cournoyer said. “People are happier now, especially since they don’t have to walk in circles around construction.”

Many students said they had grown tired of the noise and were happy to see the mess and footpath detours go. While construction might have been an inconvenience, the work done to improve the quad is worth it in the long run, Colella said.

“It’s the kind of investment that is leveraged against a

whole lot more people that get to use it and pass through it or enjoy it actively all the time,” Colella said.

Facilities Management isn’t quite done with the Denton Community yet, as they still have to finish installing air conditioning in Elkton Hall.

However, residents won’t see nearly as much disruption as during the recent renovations.

For now, they’ll be able to enjoy their new quad in peace.

“There’s benches, there’s tables,” said sophomore communication major Mike Calia.

“I have everything I need.”

connections to the club,” Scanlan said. “So much new information came out of the woodwork; we were able to conduct 10 to a dozen more interviews that we hadn’t gotten before.”

In addition to its TV debut last night, The Bayou: DC’s Killer Joint is entered in a few film festivals, including one in Richmond this weekend. More than 20 other outlets have given offers to air the film starting this summer, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is interested in some of the video clips that were documented.Scanlan hopes all of the hard work put into the documentary may open peoples’ eyes to the musical history of the area.

“We wanted to make this a worthwhile documentary,” he said. “The fact that it’s being aired is really great. We took making this very seriously; we approached this as if we were being paid. It is a huge labor of love.”

Sung-Min Kim, WMUC’s comusic director, said he was looking forward to viewing the documentary to learn more about the great musical, cultural and artistic past of the district.

“A lot of us join the radio station because we love music, and The Bayou was a big center for great times in music history,” the junior journalism major said. “It will be great to revisit the peak of D.C.

music and remind students of different cultural eras.”

Creating that experience for viewers was aided by the education Lilling received from his professors at this university, he said.

“My professors really encouraged me to think outside of the box and to not do what everyone else was doing; it was never about following the textbook,” he said. “The great thing about Maryland is that you get this big tent experience, since there are so many students that attend the university. That really helps you understand the big picture.”

“I do believe that we have lation if it came to his desk. That, combined with growing support, really turned a corner in this has given Glenn confidence that whole discussion,” Glenn said.

From PAGE 1 her legislation will eventually Glenn added that she could see recreational use eventually become state law. he vowed to veto any such legisbecoming a possibility, which she strongly supports.

“If you’re an adult and you are willing to abide by the laws and use marijuana as regulated, I see nothing wrong with that,” Glenn said.

Medical marijuana bills have been held back in previous years because of fears that federal regulators will step in and go after state dispensaries, setting the stage for a more conservative posture on the issue in a state with a reputation for being one of the nation’s most liberal.

This state does, however, have complicating factors that have roadblocked the medicinal efforts.

“Part of it may be a geographic issue — we’re pretty much in [the federal government’s] backyard,” said Alan Lehman, a criminology and criminal justice professor. “It feels kind of different when you’re out in Washington state or California or Arizona.”

That proximity has made the state more apt to play the waiting game and see how these laws have affected other states that have already enacted such measures, Lehman said.

While he supports a law that would authorize medicinal use of the drug, Lehman is still wary of an effort to make it legal for recreational use, primarily because it opens the floodgates to abuse by people who either don’t know how to correctly use it or aren’t using it as a part of a structured medical regimen.

“I just don’t want to see people getting in trouble with it,” Lehman said.

Some are also skeptical a rec-

reational legalization bill could serve as anything more than a symbolic measure. Public policy professor Peter Reuter said bills only passed in Washington state and Colorado after both had established medical marijuana programs and supporters had launched large campaigns, but Reuter said he doesn’t see that same fervor in this state.

“It’s not something that you can create without a lot of attention to detail,” Reuter said.

“It’s not that you need medical marijuana in a logical sense, but I think in a political sense, it’s probably a step toward having the populace take a different attitude on marijuana.”

With the unlikely possibility the state would pass a recreational legalization bill, other lawmakers have proposed several variations of laws pertaining to the bill.

Glenn had introduced a bill that provides an affirmative defense in court for caregivers administering the drug to patients. This year, the bill passed the House by a 92-40 vote and is currently going through the Senate process.

Additionally, Sen. Bobby Zirkin (D-Baltimore County) has proposed two bills that would make possession of certain amounts of marijuana a civil offense, as opposed to a criminal charge that puts offenders behind bars. These would also have an easier time passing the assembly than a recreational law.

“At present, you have a large number of people who are arrested for possession of small amounts of marijuana and then have to deal with criminal court,” Reuter said. “It’s not hard to motivate this reform.”

ticularly, that students have when they’re living in a residential community.”

But after enduring months of construction, some residents questioned whether the patios and pergolas — structures that shade walkways with architectural flair — were examples of money well spent.

“I’d rather see every single dollar of this go into my actual education,” said junior mechanical engineering major Matt Palkowski.

The renovations, which began after some delays last summer, came on the heels of the construction of Oakland Hall and the all-you-can-eat

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Playing at The Bayou was like a rite of passage for D.C. musicians.”

Scanlan, who previously worked as the program director of WMUC radio, would broadcast live concerts from the venue on Monday nights as part of his on-air show. He recognized the potential The Bayou could present for an interesting documentary and pitched it to Lilling, his longtime friend. The duo then invited Perrone, a former sports editor at The Diamondback, to join them in creating a 90-minute production of the club’s life and times.

“In a way, the club’s closing gave us the opportunity to expose the role that the club had played in musical history,” Scanlan said.

“Its transitions from the Dixieland, rock ‘n’ roll and jazz genres reflected the national musical pattern of each era.”

The documentary includes how The Bayou was involved in each of these cultural periods in American history, telling the stories of patrons, musicians and workers, Lilling said. One

A go-go girl (above) is pictured in a vintage photo performing at The Bayou in Washington during one of the nightclub’s regular Sunday events. Three alumni produced a documentary on the club (pictured at right in 1977), which closed nearly 15 years ago. photos courtesy of dave nuttycombe portion of the documentary tells the story of a couple that met at The Bayou and has been married for 15 years. Many famous artists also had their start on the club’s stage, including Hootie and the Blowfish, Dave Matthews Band, U2 and Foreigner, whose performances at The Bayou were among their first in the country.

“We want people to understand that The Bayou was a place where many amazing musical events happened,” Lilling said. “That’s why people should watch, for those special moments.”

One such moment includes the never-before-seen footage of jazz and blues singer Eva Cassidy’s last performance, which she delivered just six weeks before her death at age 33. Many similar interviews and recordings were discovered between 2008 and 2009, after the three producers had taken a small hiatus from their project, Scanlan said. The growth of Facebook and YouTube during this time aided the alums in finding more unknown performances and other information that progressed the completion of the documentary.

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f you’ve ever taken a class in which you’re assigned papers or other subjective assignments, you’ve likely gotten back a grade only to wonder where all the deducted points could have possibly come from. Professors try to be fair, but as students, we often feel snubbed or that we didn’t get the grade we wanted for arbitrary reasons.

Those types of scenarios prompted a University Senate proposal to update alleged “arbitrary and capricious grading.” As it stands, students can file an appeal for a grade they believe is unfair, but when the policy was last updated, it did not include a time limit on how long the reviewing committee could take to make a decision. The proposal states, “anyone appealing a grade or involved in a grade appeal should not have to wait an excessively lengthy period of time to be informed of the decision by the reviewing committee.”

The senate’s executive committee decided to push the proposal forward, so it will now be reviewed by the Academic Procedures and Standards Committee. Unless the policy is amended in committee review, the time limits would include 10 days for professors and students to be notified if an appeal is dismissed, along with an explanation of why it was dismissed; additionally, the student, professor and dean would need to be

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informed within five days of the committee reviewing the appeal meeting.

While the policy of allowing students to appeal a grade ensures a transparent grading process — which also helps protect professors and instructors because a committee composed of objective viewers decides

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Revising the current grading appeals process is an easy and worthwhile proposal for the University Senate to pass. whether the appeal is worth reviewing — the process can get held up and lose its merit without stringent time limits.

This editorial board fully supports the amendment to the policy, as it guarantees the process of appealing a grade remains efficient and beneficial to students.

Some professors, however, said the time limits are too restrictive and would burden professors and administrators in the committees already bogged down with work. But these time limits ensure appeals are reviewed as they come in, rather than allowing the committee to accrue a backlog of appeals that could be held up for weeks or months and never come before the committee prior to semester’s end. Perhaps officials

should explore expanding the committee so more people can review appeals as they come in to help officials stay within the time constraints.

With the plus-minus grading policy now fully in place, there’s a high probability more students will appeal certain grades given that it isn’t just about staying within a certain grade range anymore. While semester-end GPA and cumulative GPA averages did not significantly change — the first decreased by two-hundredths of a point, while the latter increased by one-hundredth of a point — individual grades fluctuate much more, meaning students will be more inclined to fight for the extra couple of points to bolster their individual GPAs. If the appeals do in fact mount because of this university change, enforcing tight time limits will help keep the process moving, rather than having students and professors become frustrated by stagnant waits.

The senate has many lofty, timeconsuming proposals to tackle this semester — it already passed an allinclusive Good Samaritan policy, and it still has a smoking ban implementation and a proposal to mandate sexual assault prevention education to take up. Updating the current grading appeals process seems like a relatively simple order that in the end will benefit the entire university community.

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Your greatest weapon MARC PRIESTER This is a call to arms. The pen is the greatest weapon at your disposal — now write. It doesn’t matter how you decide to materialize the thoughts rumbling in your head — just do it.

Whether it through poetry, stories, stream-of-consciousness free writes, journals or articles, you have an obligation to yourself and the world to help find truth.

This world encourages lies. Our interpersonal relationships are founded on deceit and masks hiding our insecurities. Half-truths and doublespeak have grotesquely distorted conversations from remotely reflecting anything genuine. You lie, I lie and the world lies. But the pen is our platform to reclaim truth.

I’ve loved writing ever since I was in third grade. Over time, I became deeply intrigued by the concept of lying and how one could go about liberating himself or herself from its binds. The works of my idols such as Sylvia Plath and Alfred Tennyson sought to use fictional universes and artificially crafted realties to highlight the ills of the real world.

The world can be outlandish and even disgusting at times, yet it seemingly all works. Many people go to school, get a job, pay off the mortgage, get married, have kids, retire then die.

On a superficial level, everything is working — but at the same time, it isn’t. Our belief that everything is fine comes from the lies we are fed.

The dread and anguish we experience when facing the reality of becoming cogs in the machine is real.

The suffering drives some over the edge. Anxiety, stress and pressure can eventually break you.

But writing saves us. When Lord Tennyson wrote the poem “Ulysses,” the narrative of a depressed and bored Greek hero exposed the monotony of a

completed life. Simply satisfying goals in life is not sufficient for happiness. Tennyson’s “Ulysses” advocated the pioneer spirit of rejecting complacency and never settling. It’s a rallying call for free souls to never squander the possibility of adventure. His writing directly conflicts that of a modern suburban pipe dream and defeats the notion that superficial objectives are what make a person.

“Ulysses” may be fictional, but the struggle described in the text is reflective of our own, thus, it embodies truth.

Writers have a prerogative to use art as a channel for criticism. Therefore, if all people used it as such, we would have nothing to lose but our chains, and the truth to gain.

As a poet, my idols taught me that valuable lesson. It has become my creed, the standard by which I evaluate my creative works — “Did I bring the audience and myself closer to the truth?”

But writing goes beyond the spiritual; it also tangibly preserves “you.”

Who we are as humans is rather confusing to define, because we change rapidly over time. The “you” of last year is vastly different than the “you” of today. When we write, we forever inscribe the thoughts and emotion of who we are at this moment and guarantee our being never fades. The unfortunate truth is we all will die one day, but our writing is an undisturbed sanctuary where we may live for eternity. There’s comfort in that.

The struggle for truth and freedom continues to persist. Maybe it’s an inherent part of life and impossible to end, but creative writing has become our megaphone to raise our voice over the riotous chorus of lies. It’s my hope every human being will write in some form so that maybe we as a people can find solace and hope in a world that often seems devoid of truth. The price of this war may be your soul — never allow yourself to become a casualty.

Marc Priester is a sophomore economics and government and politics major. He can be reached at marcpriester@gmail.com.

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Incentivizing classes by teaching EZRA FISHMAN For my first two years of college, class attendance was mostly optional.

Though attending classes was strongly encouraged, as it would usually help improve grades significantly, it was almost never required. Professors would lecture, and students would attend if they felt the lecture was worthwhile, had nothing else they needed to do and their alarms woke them up. Classes were almost never fully attended, but most students showed up most of the time. Now, however, almost all of my classes have an attendance requirement.

Professors give many different explanations for this decision. Some call it a way to ensure active class discussion. Others give long speeches about responsibility and using tuition dollars effectively. Some bring studies emphasizing the grade increases when students actively participate in class.

These are all good reasons for emphasizing attendance and, in some cases, they’re even honest. Many professors are good people who care about students, and they just want to make sure we get the education we paid for.

But these requirements hint at an underlying question: Why aren’t we attending these classes in the first

place? Why do we need professors to so generously offer us incentives for attendance? We know attendance helps our grades; we know we get more out of classes by actually going to them; we know we are paying a lot of money for college. So what’s stopping us from attending? Why do we need attendance requirements at all?

In general, most students don’t need the requirements. They will sometimes miss classes for various personal reasons: they’re sick, hungover, have too much work to do for other classes, have weekend plans, it’s raining, it’s cold or their alarm wasn’t set. Though attendance requirements will often encourage students to push through some of these excuses, in general, students would have gone to the classes anyway. In almost all classes, the requirements are irrelevant.

In some specific cases, though, the requirements are actually needed. For some classes, even the best students often find it difficult to attend on even the most ideal of days. These classes all have something in common: They’re bad classes. The professors explain the material poorly, the lectures have little bearing on the exams, the class is a tangential requirement for a major, the class repeats material from a previous, lower-level class, the professors are unpleasant to be around or the class is so easy the lectures don’t matter. I

even had one class with all of these features. These classes offer almost nothing to students; they’re almost always a waste of time, money and will to live. In these classes, attendance requirements are necessary — and, coincidentally, a mainstay.

The stated reason for attendance requirements is to incentivize students to make the most of their college educations. However, when bad classes continue to exist, students will never be able to maximize their educations.

How can we take something out of a class that offers nothing? It’s not a secret that some classes are terrible and useless and that some professors can’t teach effectively. So why do these classes exist? And why do these professors still have jobs?

As stated earlier, there are many genuine reasons to encourage participation. Most professors teach the material well and know participation and attendance increase the value of the class for students. Some classes, though, only exist because of required attendance. In these cases, attendance requirements should be replaced with competence and relevance requirements. Good classes are well-attended, bad classes aren’t.

It’s as simple as that.

Ezra Fishman is a junior accounting and finance major. He can be reached at ezra.fish@gmail.com.

ithin this university’s Department of Residential Facilities, there is a subdivision called “reflex.” It is a group that, in theory, exists to provide after-hours and weekend emergency maintenance for campus residential communities.

Unfortunately, this staff endures tremendously inadequate supplies and, as a result, will continue to fail in responding to on-campus emergencies unless something is done immediately.

Reflex is made up of six employees collectively working within the program as a sort of first responder unit on the campus. They respond to anything from sewage backups, electrical outages and flood damage, to retrieving university IDs from toilet bowls — all for the sole purpose of helping distressed students in emergent or odd situations. Sadly, our employees respond to these emergencies with a virtually empty supply truck containing little to sufficiently resolve problems.

After years of operating with inadequate supplies and consistently informing department supervisors of our plight, I found it compelling to raise awareness about our issues to the most widely circulated news source on the campus: The Diamondback.

As a parent of a university alumnus and a dedicated department employee for the past 15 years, I am passionate about doing whatever I can for the campus community. Especially now that we are facing troubling times with campus safety, I believe it is of the utmost importance we address issues of safety and the lack of communication between departments across the campus.

On two occasions this month,

reflex employees had to climb through windows during what many consider high-crime hours to assist residents who were unable to access their rooms. On one occasion, there was no available lock on the campus to replace a resident’s bedroom lock. I find it disturbing, as a parent, that with all the recent crime around the campus, my department has done absolutely nothing with respect to providing the adequate emergency maintenance to help in the safety and security of our campus’ residents and visitors. If my daughter were left locked out of her room during a local shooting because a fellow employee could not assist her, I would have found it entirely unacceptable. No student should ever fear for his or her safety, nor should an employee be without the proper tools to assist in an emergency.

There are many ways we can safely protect both students and employees, such as by providing the night employees with identifiable and reflective clothing or the even simplest of my concerns: adequate supplies for the reflex team.

It is my hope we can address the problems regarding campus safety in a timely and wise manner. We can start with simple communication, positive service to the student community and sufficient supplies for departments to successfully complete the tasks to which they have dedicated their lives. My department knows there is nothing more precious than the ability to gain access to the safety of one’s room. I hope we can continue to guarantee this possibility for all students housed on the campus.

Joseph Sherman is a staff member of the Department of Residential Facilities reflex team. He can be reached at collegeparksherman@msn.com.

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orn today, you make promises only after careful consideration of all the issues at play, for one simple reason: You insist on keeping your promises, come what may.

Indeed, you will do all you can to protect the value of your word even when circumstances work against you, and you will weather all kinds of hardship as a result. There will be times, of course, that you are simply unable to keep a promise -- not because you do not want to or because you give up, but rather because the world around you conspires against you. Because you are so honorable, however, these few lapses are always understood and forgiven.

You are the kind to face problems head-on, and when it comes to personal issues you are never unwilling to talk about what is going on. Indeed, when others are too uncomfortable to talk about the most sensitive issues, you have a way of opening doors to honest communication.

Also born on this date are: Margaret Leighton, actress; Betty Hutton, actress; Erykah Badu, singer; Michael Bolton, singer; Johnny Cash, singer and songwriter; Tony Randall, actor and director; “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Western showman; Victor Hugo, author.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You may discover that what was done only yesterday is likely to be ineffectual today. It’s already time to think up some new moves.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -You have a way of putting things so that others understand what you’re getting at without a lot of fuss or struggle. Keep it up!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- You may want to look another way today if what you see before you isn’t to your liking. You can’t get away from it -- but you can minimize it!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- You have little to fear today if you stick to the path that has revealed itself to you. A journey into stranger territory can be dangerous.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You may feel as though someone else has the advantage over you -- but later in the day you’ll come into your own and show you mean business.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- You may want to choose a more difficult path for yourself today, just to prove

to yourself -- and one other -- that you have what it takes.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -You’re trying to keep a secret from the wrong person! He or she is actually on your side, and can help you in your efforts.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -What you do by yourself today can prove more important to you in the long run than any collaborate effort.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- You may be surprised to learn that your standing has increased in the eyes of those who, only yesterday, were harsh critics.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Plans can be made today that will make a big difference to those who are in your care. Focus on that which can be done all at once.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- You are not making points with one who is asking you to do certain things in certain ways -- but you are asserting your independence, surely!

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Before letter writing was considered quaint and old-fashioned, it was a practice that conveyed love, effort and respect and created a gold mine for musicians “Dear Jamie...Sincerely Me” by Hellogoodbye

By Kelsey Hughes Staff writer In honor of the U.S. Postal Service’s decision to end Saturday mail, juxtaposed with indie electronic group The Postal Service’s announcement of a new tour and release of a new single, “A Tattered Line of String,” here are some of the best songs about mail and the post.

“Please Mr. Postman” by The Marvelettes Singing in the early ’60s, Marvelettes vocalist Gladys Horton did not have the same privilege of instant communication afforded to Hellogoodbye when they sang about the mail 40 years later. In this song, Horton desperately hounds the poor mailman for a letter from her boyfriend who has been away at war. It’s not clear what Horton and her fellow Marvelettes believe the postman can do, aside from forging a letter to get the girls off his tail. However, it did result in a catchy Motown tune, replete with the line “Deliver de letter/ de sooner de better.” The song has gone on to be covered many times, most notably by The Carpenters and The Beatles.

This song, written in the same depressing yet cute electropop style harnessed by The Postal Service and released in 2004 on the band’s self-titled first EP, is the story of a boy confessing his love through the mail. Few before or after former Hellogoodbye member Jesse Kurvink have so eloquently and adorably penned the trials and tribulations of analog love: “Dear Jamie, this envelope will represent my heart/ I’ll seal it, send it off and wish it luck with its depart.../ Should I trust the postage due/ to deliver my heart to you?” The band went on to record many more songs about love, including “Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn,” a track from the very same EP, which made use of the nearly extinct AIM message sound, proving even Kurvink was moving into more digital forms of communication.

“Across the Sea” by Weezer Once again comes a song about long-distance romance made possible by the USPS, though this one errs on the side of creepy.

According to Weezerpedia (the online Weezer encyclopedia), frontman Rivers Cuomo wrote the song about a letter from a young girl in Japan asking him about his time at Harvard University in the ’90s, a period during which Cuomo had been extremely depressed. Cuomo said he fell in love with the girl upon receiving the letter, but he never contacted her, knowing the girl was probably too young and couldn’t speak English. In the chorus, Cuomo sings, “Why are you so far away from me?/ I need you and you’re way across the sea/ I could never touch you/ I think it would be wrong/ but I’ve got your letter/ and you’ve got my song.”

He later penned another song about his affinity for Asian women, “El Scorcho,” which reads, “God damn you half-Japanese girls/ you do it to me every time.” According to Weezerpedia, Cuomo proposed to his Japanese-American wife Kyoto Ito while they were in Tokyo in 2005.

“Stan” by Eminem

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For songs about mail, there are few better or more haunting than “Stan,” the eerie seven-minute rap epic that details one crazed Eminem fan’s correspondence with the rapper. Sampling Dido’s

eminem’s obsessive “stan” feels like the dark-hearted inverse of mail-centric songs, many of which focus on declarations of love and letters from sweethearts. photo courtesy of wat.tv “Thank You” for the chorus, Eminem plays the role of Stan, who believes himself to be Eminem’s No. 1 fan. Stan gets more and more agitated as time goes by without receiving any response to his three letters, even though Eminem said he would reply. Misunderstood by almost everyone around him because of his obsession and what appear to be serious problems with his home life and mental illness, Stan kidnaps his pregnant girlfriend, gets drunk and records one final tape on his way to a bridge. Eminem writes his response letter a few weeks later, belatedly realizing he is far too late. Despite Eminem’s reputation for self-deprecation and humorous raps, “Stan” is a fantastic example of the musician’s ability to be introspective and poetic about the influence that comes with fame.

“Letter Home” by Defiance, Ohio Defiance, Ohio is a lesser-known folk-punk band whose namesake is a place not far from their hometown in Columbus, Ohio. Its 2006 song, “Letter Home,” is a New Year’s Eve address to an anonymous friend. It discusses the good and bad of life away from home, replete with Emily Dickinson graffiti, criticism of war and reflections on changing lives, ending on a moment of hope: “But the miracles in motion/ finding new places we belong/ and finding inspiration to sing our brand new songs.” It’s a pretty picture of suburban life, a blatant political attack and a showcase of the band’s intelligence (in addition to Dickinson, references include Grendel and Gilgamesh), all rolled up into a short and sweet minute and 32 seconds. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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CLEARE From PAGE 8 he guarded Tigers star Devin Booker for 19 solid minutes.

Cleare held Booker — Clemson’s top scorer and rebounder — to just six points and three boards after the break. The defensive display helped the Terps quickly build on a three-point halftime lead and cruise to their fifth ACC home win of the season.

“I always tell Shaq, ‘They are big and strong, but not as big and strong as you are.’ He can wear them down,” Turgeon said moments after the Terps moved back to .500 in conference play. “Shaq really played good, I was happy for him.”

Cleare’s workhorse effort came just four days after an up-and-down rookie season hit a low point. Matchup issues left Cleare sidelined while a sluggish Terps group stumbled its way through a disappointing 69-58 loss on his 20th birthday. The former Top-30 recruit logged just five minutes against the Eagles and didn’t score a point for the second time in four games.

Ever the optimist, Cleare’s head began to hang for one

DEFENSE From PAGE 8 the first half, the Terps missed eight jump shots. The highpercentage shots DeVaughn and Hawkins had converted all season long disappeared on the interior, forcing Pavlech and guard Katie Rutan to take their chances from the perimeter.

“We didn’t stop,” Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We want to be consistent. [Hawkins] got a few more this time than last. We were

AMATO From PAGE 8 constantly directed traffic in front of the net.

“He’s really become more of a vocal leader,” Tillman said.

“Being in that third year, he’s a guy that’s very comfortable always telling guys where to go and getting them checked up.”

Amato’s leadership helped propel the Terps to a huge win,

Center Shaquille Cleare is averaging just 4.4 points and 3.2 rebounds in 13.4 minutes in his freshman season, but coach Mark Turgeon said, “His time’s coming.” file photo/the diamondback

begrudging his friends’ success.

He met with Turgeon and asked for advice. He wanted to know what he could do to improve himself, to make a more significant on-court impact. “[Shaq] might get down on himself, but he moves on to the next one,” Mitchell said.

“He’s going to do something to get better and to make people notice that he wants to play and he wants to win.”

Cleare’s diligence could prove critical down the stretch.

With Len starting to look more like a raw sophomore than a projected NBA lottery pick, Turgeon may lean on his favorite pupil over the Terps’ final four regular-season games.

But if Len returns to form and Cleare finishes up the year playing mop-up minutes, Turgeon won’t be concerned.

After all, he’s seen Cleare outmuscle teammates in practice and he knows the former fourstar prospect’s work ethic can’t be taught. It’s only a matter of time, Turgeon reasons, before Cleare is an elite ACC big man. “ H i s t i m e ’s c o m i n g ,” Turgeon said. “I don’t know when, but his time’s coming.”

of the first times this season.

A once-promising freshman campaign was veering off track, and he didn’t understand how to better his situation. Cleare hadn’t reached double-digit points since a Dec. 5 rout of Maryland-Eastern Shore, and he hadn’t topped the five-rebound mark since a Dec. 8 win over South Carolina State. For the season, he was averaging just 4.2 points and 3.1 rebounds in 13.2 minutes.

H is less-touted class-

mates, meanwhile, seemed to be finding their niches.

Jake Layman had solidified a starting role; Seth Allen had emerged as an instantoffense option off the bench and Charles Mitchell was developing into one of the ACC’s premier offensive rebounders.

Why was it taking the 6-foot-9, 265-pound Cleare so long to become an interior force?

But the easy-going center didn’t spend the days following Tuesday’s debacle pouting or

pretty steady and consistent with [Thomas]. But they’re a great team and great players, and we had to work very hard.”

Hawkins, who had a gamehigh 16 points and nine rebounds, and Thomas, who totaled 14 points, six rebounds and six assists, were still able to get their opportunities.

Neither, however, could take over the game the way Hawkins did against Clemson on Feb. 14 or the way Thomas did at Virginia and Boston College in the two games before Sunday. “[Thomas is] a great player,”

McCallie said. “Really, really one of the best that’s ever hit the ACC, that’s for sure. You can’t really stop her completely, so we just tried to work very hard at playing good defense around her.”

Rutan emerged as a weapon for the Terps in the teams’ first meeting Feb. 11 at Cameron Indoor Stadium, with 14 points and a deft touch from the outside. But back in the friendly confines of Comcast Center, she mustered eight points on 3-of-10 shooting, including 2-of-9 from behind the arc.

The 3-of-18 line from three-

point range was the Terps’ thirdworst this season when attempting at least 10 shots from behind the arc. Thursday night, the Terps made 53.8 percent of their 3-pointers at Boston College.

While a 46.7 percent shooting second half brought the Terps within eight points late in the contest, it just wasn’t enough to take down the Blue Devils, who clinched the ACC regular season crown with the win.

“We just fell short this time,” Pavlech said.

and he decisively outplayed Runkel, the goalie on last year’s NCAA All-Tournament team.

Amato said he never thought back to last season, though.

He’s not too elated over this win, either. The Conshohocken, Pa., native has bigger goals for his top-ranked Terps this season.

“No one is ever satisfied with being a winner in February and March,” Amato said. “Our bar is set for na-

tional championships and ACC championships.”

If Amato can match his success from Saturday’s game during the rest of the season, his Terps may reach those goals. The junior has stopped 63 percent of shots on goal this year and is anchoring a stout defense that has given up an average of 6.7 goals a game.

Inside Lacrosse selected Amato as a third-team preseason All-American. With

his performance through three games, though, his coach is convinced he deserves even more praise than that.

“It’s one thing to make the saves, but also he gets the ball out, he creates transition, he makes great decisions on the clears and he’s getting guys organized,” Tillman said. “That’s what you really want out of a first team All-American.”

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Quarterback C.J. Brown will compete with Ricardo Young for the starting job in spring practice.

Brown missed all of last year after tearing his ACL in the preseason. file photo/the diamondback

NOTEBOOK From PAGE 8 Diggs and running back Wes Brown — as well as some returning defensive contributors — will join an incoming freshman class Rivals.com ranks No. 33 nationally.

And unlike the coach’s first two years, everybody seems to share the same vision for the program’s first bowl game in three seasons.

“Coming into spring, we all know what we have to do,” defensive lineman Darius Kilgo said.

“We had some guys that added dead weight to the team, but we got rid of those guys.”

QUARTERBACK BATTLE After injuries forced the Terps to shuffle in one unproven quarterback after another last season, Edsall will have two more options under center this fall.

C.J. Brown, who started five games in 2011, was the projected starter last year before suffering a season-ending ACL tear in preseason practice. The rising senior still isn’t back at full strength and will only participate in individual and 7-on-7 drills this spring. He is expected to be ready to play when the team starts preseason practice in August.

“I’m really excited for where I’m at right now from where I’ve come,” Brown said. “I’m just going day by day.”

Brown’s injury opens up an opportunity for Ricardo Young, who sat out last season after transferring from New Mexico. The 2010 Washington High School Player of the Year has yet to play in a college game, but Edsall praised Young’s athletic ability yesterday.

W i t h B row n s i d e l i n e d , Young will get the first-team reps this spring. Both signal callers possess speed and are serviceable passers. And they both acknowledge that they’ll be competing for the starting quarterback job.

WHITE From PAGE 8 he gets on base often.

The lefty can square and drop a trickling bunt down the third-base line with precision and consistency. Third basemen regularly charge, field and look to throw — only to find White already safe at first base.

“I’m a speed-type player, so I need to learn how to use my short game, and bunting is part of my short game,” White said.

“It’s a nice weapon to have.”

That speed has made White a perfect fit for Szefc’s uptempo style of play, which was showcased this weekend when the Terps (4-3) stole 26 bases without being caught in a fourgame sweep of Oakland. White accounted for 10 of those in arguably his best series as a Terp.

After batting 10-for-15 with five RBIs and six runs, White was voted one of Louisville Slugger’s National Players of the Week by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, and even earned ACC Co-Player of the Week honors.

On the year, the Naperville, Ill., native leads the Terps in

“I feel like he’s the incumbent starter,” Young said of Brown.

“The only thing I can do is try to come in and fill his void and try to play to the best of my abilities.”

Quarterbacks Perry Hills and Caleb Rowe, who both earned starts in the injury-plagued 2012 campaign, will continue to rehab ailments suffered last season and will not compete during the spring.

“We’ll see how Caleb and Perry come back and how they’re doing,” Edsall said. “The best situation for us would be to be able to take one of those guys and redshirt them.”

NEW-LOOK DEFENSE The Terps graduated stars like Joe Vellano and Kenneth Tate from a unit that ranked No. 3 in total defense in the ACC last year. But Edsall feels this year’s unit can be just as solid.

There’s finally some consistency with Stewart returning to run the defense and the Terps should have plenty of depth, barring major injury issues.

Returning starters Jeremiah Johnson and Dexter McDougle will anchor a veteran defensive backfield, while Edsall expects improved play from Kilgo and linebacker Alex Twine in the front seven.

“We feel like we have some good pieces on defense,” Edsall said. “Now it’s just a matter of solidifying those best 11.”

SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED The Terps released their 2013 schedule yesterday. They open the season Aug. 31 against Florida International at Byrd Stadium and play West Virginia on Sept. 21 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

As for the ACC, Virginia, Clemson, Syracuse and Boston College will visit College Park.

The Terps will travel to play Florida State, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech and N.C. State. sportsdbk@gmail.com

hits (11), slugging percentage (.583), RBIs (5) and stolen bases (10). He is also second on the team in batting average (.458), on-base percentage (.567) and runs scored (6).

That’s quite the fast start for a player who missed the majority of last season after suffering a broken hand in mid-March.

“I worked in the offseason to try and get faster down the line,” White said. “I got on my own little speed program, got in the weight room and worked on my skills at the plate.”

While White may already garner comparisons to Dykstra, it’s clear the redshirt sophomore has the ability to become one of college baseball’s top leadoff men this season. He has the versatility to lay down a perfect bunt in one at-bat and double to the rightcenter gap in the next.

And that makes him the type of player Szefc has long desired at the top of his lineup.

“Charlie is really a pure leadoff guy, and that’s exactly what you want at the top of your lineup,” Szefc said. “He adds a huge dimension to our team.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

“Once we get a QB established, we could be scoring 50 points a game, easily.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Loud and cleare

Turgeon’s teacher’s pet, Cleare, proving himself with strong work ethic

Edsall upbeat as Terps begin spring practice Coach talks QB battle, defensive changes 2013 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

By Aaron Kasinitz Staff writer

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer Shaquille Cleare doesn’t think he does anything unique. He just completes all the basic tasks required of Division I athletes.

But Mark Turgeon sees something special in Cleare’s approach to the Terrapins men’s basketball team’s laundry list of workouts, meetings and film sessions. In fact, a day rarely passes without him lauding the freshman’s focus and work ethic. Cleare is his favorite player to coach, Turgeon regularly says. He’s someone the second-year coach hopes the rest of the youthful Terps emulate.

“He always says it like, ‘Why can’t you guys do what Shaq does?’” Cleare said with a chuckle last week. “I go, ‘Coach, I don’t really do nothing special but bench press and pushups and stuff.’”

Cleare showed why he’s become such an object of Turgeon’s affection during Saturday’s 72-59 win over Clemson. With center Alex Len struggling through yet another middling performance, the Bahamian big man went to work down low. He finished with 10 points and six rebounds, and See CLEARE, Page 7

FOOTBALL | NOTEBOOK

Center Shaquille Cleare, who coach Mark Turgeon has regularly called his “favorite player” this season, scored 10 points and grabbed six rebounds in the Terps’ 72-59 victory over Clemson on Saturday. christian jenkins/the diamondback

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Randy Edsall couldn’t hide his confidence when he strode into a news conference at Gossett Team House yesterday. With spring practice slated to begin Saturday, the third-year coach has found stability within the Terrapins football team for maybe the first time since taking over the program.

Questions still surround the quarterback situation and a defense that lost a host of contributors, but those concerns hardly compare to what Edsall faced during his first two years at the helm. The team stumbled to a 2-10 record in Edsall’s first season, and new coordinators couldn’t prevent an injury-riddled 4-8 campaign last year.

But Edsall can’t help but feel things are different now. The Terps have a year of experience in Mike Locksley and Brian Stewart’s respective systems; players Edsall recruited compose the majority of the roster, and there seems to be more cohesion within the locker room than in past years.

“I would expect that from the day we go out there, the players will be able to know exactly what to do, and they’re going to play a little bit faster,” Edsall said. “I think any time that you go in and you have people coming back and they are familiar with what you’re doing, it gives you a chance to get a lot better.”

The Terps will have an NCAA-

Duke defense forces poor shooting effort

august 31 vs. Florida International September 7 vs. Old Dominion September 14 at Connecticut september 21 vs. West Virginia (M&T Bank Stadium) october 5 at Florida State october 12 vs. Virginia october 19 at Wake Forest october 26 vs. Clemson november 9 vs. Syracuse november 16 at Virginia Tech november 23 vs. Boston College november 30 at N.C. State mandated six weeks to improve before spring practice culminates with the annual Spring Game on April 12.

The 2013 Terps will feature a combination of new and old faces. Playmakers such as wide receiver Stefon See NOTEBOOK, Page 7

MEN’S LACROSSE

Terps shoot 38.7 percent in first half of loss

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer

Forward Tianna Hawkins and the Terps struggled against Duke’s defense. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Days after posting one of its most complete shooting performances of the season at Boston College, the Terrapins women’s basketball team returned to College Park hoping to put on a similar show against Duke on Sunday afternoon.

But the No. 5 Blue Devils — boasting one of the nation’s top defenses — flustered the No. 9 Terps early and stonewalled them in front of a near-capacity crowd at Comcast Center.

The Terps shot 38.7 percent in the first half, including a glaring 0-of-9 from three-point range. One game after their best performance from distance, the Terps’ looks — while often open and uncontested — just wouldn’t fall. After shooting 56.1 percent against

the Eagles Thursday, they shot just 42.6 percent Sunday.

“I think kind of the way we came out,” guard Chloe Pavlech said of why the Terps struggled early. “We didn’t have maximum effort, so obviously our energy wasn’t there and a lot of our shots were short. I think we came out flat, and that’s what kind of led to it.”

Duke’s defense collapsed on center Alicia DeVaughn and forward Tianna Hawkins in the post, blocked forward Alyssa Thomas’ driving lanes and forced the Terps to keep the ball on the perimeter. The Blue Devils forced them to become a jump-shooting team, coach Brenda Frese said, and they simply weren’t as effective.

While Duke went on an 18-4 run in See DEFENSE, Page 7

Amato reverses fortune in victory Goalkeeper saves 13 shots in win vs. Loyola

BASEBALL

White drawing lofty comparisons Szefc sees shades of Lenny Dykstra in soph. center fielder

By Daniel Popper Staff writer John Szefc can’t help but reflect on one of the greatest leadoff men in baseball history when he watches his starting center fielder on the diamond.

After all, Charlie White’s high on-base percentage, speed on the base paths and perfectly placed bunts are reminiscent of a certain hard-nosed former major leaguer.

“He’s a really good college version of Lenny Dykstra,” said Szefc, whose Terrapins baseball team will face James Madison tomorrow in Harrisonburg, Va. “A lot of young people wouldn’t remember who that guy was, but I’ve always wanted a true leadoff hitter and [White] is certainly that.”

Dykstra spent 12 seasons in the major

Goalkeeper Niko Amato anchored the Terps’ defense in a 12-10 win on Saturday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Center Fielder Charlie White leads the Terps with 10 steals, six runs scored and five RBIs through seven games.

He’ll bat leadoff when the team plays the Dukes in Harrisonburg, Va., tomorrow. charlie deboyace/the diamondback leagues with the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies, earning the nickname “Nails”for his relentless playing style. He was a three-time All-Star, won a Silver Slugger award and finished second in MVP voting for the 1993 season.

And though White still lacks a professional pedigree, he’s already playing with Dykstra’s scrappy style. He does everything he can to get on base, and See WHITE, Page 7

By Aaron Kasinitz Staff writer

BALTIMORE — As soon as the game clock ticked down to zero Saturday at Ridley Athletic Complex, every member of the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team sprinted downfield to gather around goalkeeper Niko Amato.

It’s a common custom in lacrosse for the winning team to greet its netminder for a postgame celebration.

This time, though, the gesture was particularly warranted.

Nine months ago, Greyhounds goalkeeper Jack Runkel stifled the Terps in a 9-3 national championship victory, leaving Amato on the losing end. Saturday, it was the Terps’ All-American who outshone his counterpart, helping solidify his team’s 12-10 victory.

Amato saved 13 of 23 shots on goal, consistently keeping No. 4 Loyola from converting on scoring attempts. His efforts helped the No. 1 Terps keep a sizable lead throughout the contest and escape Baltimore with a win.

“He’s always been a great stopper,” coach John Tillman said. “He’s got high standards, and he really wants

to be the very best.”

Runkel, on the other hand, struggled mightily. The junior allowed 10 goals and saved just two shots before being pulled in favor of Jimmy Joe Granito midway through the third quarter. The goaltending battle clearly favored the Terps and was one of the keys to their victory.

Though Loyola scored 10 goals, that number could have been much higher.

The Greyhounds outshot the Terps, 41-36, but they capitalized on only one of four extra-man opportunities thanks to a pair of Amato saves.

“Their defense was making us string two passes along to get a good look at Niko, and we felt like once we did get that look, he was right there,” Loyola coach Charley Toomey said.

“It was a little frustrating because we felt like we did get some good looks at Niko, and he bailed them out.”

The junior didn’t just make saves, though. He also gathered two ground balls, caused a turnover and threw several passes that gave the offense quick scoring chances.

And maybe most importantly, he See AMATO, Page 7