March 3, 2015

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Suspect messages circulate on ELMS

Student loan debt, default rates continue to increase Univ graduates in 2013 averaged $25,254 in debt

Ads for oneclass.com hijack student accounts

By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Senior staff writer

The average loan debt accumulated by this university’s 2013 graduates was $25,254, according to the Project on Student Debt.

And if a national trend holds true for the 45 percent of graduates who left this university with debt that year, many will have difficulty paying it back in a timely manner.

Nationally, student loan debt jumped to nearly $1.2 trillion at the end of 2014 — a $77 billion increase from the previous year, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York study released this past month.

Student loan delinquency rates a lso rose, w it h 11.3 percent of student loan debt at least 90 days overdue in the last quarter of 2014.

The overall delinquency rate for outstanding debt was 4.3 percent during the same period.

“Although we’ve seen an overall improvement in delinquency rates since the Great Recession, the increasing trend in student loan balances and delinquencies is concerning,” Donghoon Lee, a research officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said in a statement.

Student loans had higher delinquency rates than many other forms of debt; 3.5 percent of auto loa ns were more t ha n 90 d ays ove rdu e, wh i le 3 .1 p e rc e nt of mortgage loans were delinquent, according to the study.

According to a separate Federal Reserve Bank of New York report published Feb. 18, the trend illuminated a shift in borrowing habits

CUSTOMERS shop at Trader Joe’s in Silver Spring. University students want to see the popular grocery chain open in College Park.

Students might be accustomed to the occasional errant or unusual message on ELMS, but some have noticed an uptick in suspicious emails this past week.

Message subject lines on this university’s education management website claim to offer “study guides and notes” for the class they are sent to. When students click on the links in these messages, their own Enterprise Learning Management System accounts become hijacked and send similar messages to their class rosters.

These messages began about Feb. 24 and have been circulating during the past week, students said. Patrick Healey, a junior mechanical engineering major, said the peak number of messages he received arrived Thursday and decreased after that.

“I expect [the messages have] popped up in a lot of classes,” Healey said. “I’ve seen them in at least three different classes of mine.”

The messages promote and link to a website called oneclass.com, which is supposed to provide study guides, lecture notes and video tutorials to students who sign up for its service, according to the website. Representatives for the company, which is located in Toronto, did not reply to requests for comment.

Michael Xue, a senior mechanical engineering and business management major, said he saw a message about the website Thursday and trusted it because it came through ELMS, a university site, and he

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tRADING FOR JOE’S Students, residents rally to bring Trader Joe’s store to College Park’s ‘food desert’

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Senior staff writer A lack of grocery store options in the area frustrated students and local residents, prompting them to request a Trader Joe’s grocery store in College Park.

University Park resident Beth Domingo created the Facebook page “College Park Wants Trader Joe’s,” which garnered more than 600 likes and more than 5,000 page views from students and community members.

“I had heard that Trader Joe’s is very responsive to feedback,” said Domingo, a 1984 university alumna. “I’m like their No. 1 fan. … It just seems like the perfect time.”

Local demand influenced the building of the Silver Spring Trader Joe’s, Domingo said, which inspired her

to create the Facebook page and encourage people to fill out a location request form on the Trader Joe’s website.

Annie Rice, a sophomore environmental science and policy major, said she saw the link on the Facebook page and requested a Trader Joe’s in College Park through the form.

“I just think it makes a lot of sense,” the environmental science and policy major said. “One, we don’t have a grocery store. Two, everyone loves Trader Joe’s.”

Although construction began for the Whole Foods in Riverdale Park, Rice said Trader Joe’s prices are less expensive and a College Park location would be more convenient.

Sophomore Katarina Pisini said a Trader Joe’s could provide better food for her complicated diet. She adheres to a gluten- and dairy-free, See GROCERY, Page 2

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Energy use hampers univ green efforts

Landmark univ study aims to stop spread of cholera bacteria 15-year study looks into poor environments

Univ emissions off track by 7 percent for 2015

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Senior staff writer

By Marissa Horn @MarissaL_Horn Staff writer Despite years of progress toward reducing campus carbon emissions, the university needs to take stronger measures to remain on track to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, officials and advocates said.

The 2009 Climate Action Plan, which set benchmarks for the university’s sustainability progress, dictates that by 2015, campus emissions numbers should decrease by 25

THE POWER PLANT that powers half of the campus is leased until 2019. The SGA Student Sustainability Committee and officials are exploring alternative methods to power the campus. tom hausman/the diamondback percent from 2005 levels. But while initiatives such as promoting recycled paper, improving waste water management and expanding composting contributed to an 18 percent decline, energy consumption continues to hamper progress.

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If untreated, cholera can kill within hours.

Vaccines can’t completely stop it, and it is difficult to eradicate the disease, as it can survive in the open environment. Modern water purification techniques can prevent cholera outbreaks, but it plagues areas where sanitation is limited and clean water is hard to come by.

But researchers at this university continue to fi nd ways to stop the spread of cholera as they fi nish a

15-year study and conduct further research into the genetics and environment of the disease.

The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, will be completed next year, and its fi ndings will be applied to the team’s work in Africa to fight the disease.

Rita Colwell, a cell biology and molecular genetics professor, has studied cholera for more than 40 years, looking at satellite data, gene sequencing and easily adaptable means of water filtration in areas where large amounts of Vibrio cholerae bacteria are present in water.

Three to 5 million people are still infected by cholera every year, resulting in 100,000 to 120,000 deaths, accord ing to the World Health See cholera, Page 2

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GROCERY From PAGE 1 low-sodium and low-sugar diet for medical reasons and said the store successfully avoids cross-contamination, which she worries about in other grocery stores.

“Trader Joe’s offers a lot of different options that are more exciting,” the history a nd seconda ry education major said. “[Trader Joe’s] allows us to eat foods that we wouldn’t regularly be able to eat.”

The company doesn’t have any plans for expansion in the College Park area, but its request form is the best method for change, Trader Joe’s spokeswoman Rachel Broderick wrote in an email.

“We are willing to consider any and all great neighborhoods,” Broderick wrote in an email.

The U.S. Agriculture Department classifies College Park as a food desert, a term used for u rba n neighborhoods or rural towns that don’t have access to fresh, healthy and affordable food.

D i s t r ic t 1 Co u nc i l m a n Pat r ick Woja h n sa id a ny grocery store within walking distance could improve the

customers check out at the Trader Joe’s location in Silver Spring. Community members and students want to see the chain open in College Park. tom hausman/the diamondback area by allowing students without cars to get groceries.

Wojahn said it could be difficult to have another grocery store in the area with the Riverdale Park Whole Foods currently under construction. However, with more student housing on the way, such as the Landmark apartment complex and Terrapin Row, the demand for a grocery store could increase, he said.

New York n at ive A r ie l C o h e n , a s e n i o r h i s to r y major, said she doesn’t know how to drive, so getting to a grocery store to get kosher food is a challenge.

“As a student who keeps kosher, Giant doesn’t sell cheese or meat or a lot of dif-

ferent foods that are part of your diet,” Cohen said.

Though she said Trader Joe’s doesn’t always have a lot of kosher meat and cheese products, their products tend to be labeled as kosher more frequently than other grocery store products.

No matter what people’s diets are, Domingo said Trader Joe’s would help the community in many ways.

“W hy is there not a decent g rocery store i n College Park?” she said.

“I just think that [Trader Joe’s] offer[s] a really wonderful alternative to the sta nd a rd fa re. … T hei r prices are right.” gtooheydbk@gmail.com

org a n i z at ion . T h e W HO website also states many of these deaths occur in the developing world, and many could be prevented by precautionary measures.

The disease is a result of an infection of Vibrio cholerae, a bacterium naturally present in the environment in many parts of the world, Colwell said.

“Cholera occurs every year, year after year in Bangladesh and poor countries where the sanitation is not good and access to safe water is limited,” Colwell said. “Our hypothesis — because there’s always a spring peak and a fall peak in cholera — was an association with plankton.”

In the spring and fall, there is a sharp increase in the number of phytoplankton and zooplankton. Vibrio cholerae recycles the chitin shells of the zooplankton, Colwell said, and grows in clusters on tiny crustaceans called copepods.

While traditional means of filtration are too expensive or difficult to bring to villagers in Bangladesh, university researchers found a solution in a popularly available item: the cloth from saris, traditional garments in the country.

Four-folded sari cloth can catch a l most 99 percent of the bacteria from copepods and particulate matter, which would make the water safe, said Anwar Huq, a cell biology and molecular genetics research professor in the Maryland Pathogen Research Institute who worked with Colwell on this and other cholera research.

The flooding in Bangladesh can leave more than half the country underwater some years, leaving villagers living on roofs and unable to access clean water, Huq said.

With lessons learned from the work using sari filtration,

RITA COLWELL, a cell biology and molecular genetics professor, uses satellite data and gene sequencing, among other methods, to study cholera. alexander jonesi/the diamondback Huq, Colwell and their colleagues said they hope to show a similar drastic reduction of cholera cases.

“After three years, we found a close to 50 percent reduction in cholera” in the Bangladeshi villages with the use of sari filtration, Colwell said.

Cholera is a dose-dependent disease, which means someone must ingest about 1 million microbes to become ill.

Sa ri fi ltration does not remove all the bacteria from the water, but it removes enough to keep people from getting sick. It also helps take other particulates, to which bacteria and viruses attach, out of the water, Colwell said.

In addition to their work in Bangladesh, Colwell and her university colleag ues have done cholera research in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Peru, Haiti and other countries around the world, she said.

T his university has one of the largest databases on cholera in the world, Huq said, and researchers continue to expand it with satellite data for prediction models that can forecast when and where cholera outbrea k s could occur.

Researchers have been sequencing the genomes of the bacteria collected in Bangladesh and elsewhere from 2004 to 2014 and are now in the process of sequencing 200 additional strains of the bacterium, Colwell said.

“We’re very excited about the prospect of being able to follow the cholera genome evolution and also to test hypotheses about the distribution of vibrios in the environment and their genomic construct,” Colwell said.

Ben Shneiderman, a computer science professor, said Colwell’s previous work as the director of the National Science Foundation and her current work make her a “hero” and model for other researchers.

“She provides an exemplary case study of how to do research in the way I think it should be done,” Shneiderman said. “She uses science to solve real problems to save lives. [Her work] would make a great film. Let’s get Angelina Jolie on the role. It’s that kind of story.”

Huq, a Bangladesh native, started working with Colwell’s team as a young researcher before she convinced him to continue his studies in the U.S. He said he joked with his father, a doctor, that if he were successful with work in cholera prevention, his father wouldn’t have any more patients.

“This has been really fascinating work,” Huq said. “And if we are successful, we will not be saving one person at a time but we will be saving hundreds or thousands of people at a time.” jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com

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POWER

“WE ARE 18 PERCENT BELOW THE BASELINE From PAGE 1 EMISSIONS LEVEL, BUT WE ARE GETTING us from getting to climate neutrality.”

TO THE POINT WHERE Ahead of the lease renewal THINGS ARE A LITTLE for the university’s power STAGNANT.” plant, Gutin said the committee is pushing for a discussion of alternative energy sources.

Most c a rb on-em it t i n g sources on the campus have downgraded protection over the past 10 years, according to a committee analysis report. The exception is the power plant on Route 1, where emissions increased 1.5 percent between 2005 and 2013. The cogeneration steam and natural gas power plant, which has a lease that ends in 2019, has supplied half of the campus’s energy for the past 20 years, said John Fratangelo, the Facilities Management facility performance assistant director.

The rest of the energy is purchased from a variety of sources, some of which are renewable. That proportion is expected to grow to 100 percent by 2020, after university President Wallace Loh

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Student Sustainability Committee director signed the President’s Energy Initiatives into action last year and committed to purchasing solely renewable electricity by the end of the decade.

“Over the past six years, since we have had the climate a c t i o n p l a n , w e’ve b e e n h itti ng ou r goa ls,” Guti n sa id . “ We a re 18 percent below the baseline emissions level, but we are getting to the point where things are a little stagnant.”

Facilities Management is exploring several possible solutions, including burning biomass such as wood chips.

Solar panels have accounted for a portion of the campus energ y pro duct ion si nce 2011, with 2,632 panels at the Severn Solar Array producing about 792 megawatt hours

each year — the equivalent of taking 79 cars off the road — Fratangelo said.

“The other choice, which p eople m ay not pa r t icularly like, is nuclear power,” Frata ngelo sa id. “But we would like to gather all of the facts and create an economic model for all of the options before we decide what to do [in the next few years].”

The Student Sustainability Committee also wants to get students and faculty involved in rethinking energy use. The committee started a campaign yesterday called “What Will YOU(md) Do?” and similar to last year’s, the campaign asks students and faculty to form goals and collaborate on how to be more sustainable and conserve energy.

For example, relying less on heati ng a nd cool i ng systems ca n cut dow n on energ y con su mpt ion a nd the amount of water used for air conditioning.

“Honestly the technology that saves the most energy is turning the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer,” Fratangelo said.

The power plant is not the

during the recession.

“Until 2009, student loans had been the smallest form o f h o u s e h ol d d e b t,” t h e report stated. “During the Great Recession, Americans reduced their other debts but continued to borrow for education.”

Over the past decade, more people started taking out student loans and borrowing larger sums. Between 2004 and 2014, there was a 92 percent increase in borrowers and a 74 percent increase in the average balance. During the same time frame, the average growth rate was 13 percent a year, according to the report.

A host of factors led to th is rise, i nclud i ng the mounting cost of a college deg ree a nd a n i ncreasi ng number of people attending college and graduate school, the report stated.

Joelle Scally, a co-author of the report, wrote in an email that another reason student loan delinquencies are increasing is because, unlike other forms of debt, student loans can’t eventually be removed from the bor rower’s cred it repor t th roug h ba n k r uptcy or foreclosure.

“Student loans are not dis-

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t he 13t h-g reenest school in the country for the past two years, other universities and colleges will be nearing their carbon neutrality goals w ith i n the nex t 10 yea rs.

A rizona State Un iversity plans to reach carbon neutrality by 2025, while nearby A merica n Un iversity is aiming for 2020.

“It is going to take a lot to

reduce our numbers,” said Jay Rao, the Student Sustainability Committee communications director. “We really need to divest from the power plant now because right now it is the main source of our carbon footprint and it is going to be hard to find an alternative solution.” mhorndbk@gmail.com

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Amount of student debt held nationally at the end of 2014.

11.3 percent

Amount of national student loan debt at least 90 days overdue in the last quarter of 2014.

$25,254

Average amount of loan debt this university’s 2013 graduates accumulated. chargeable by bankruptcy, so there is a stagnant pool of defaulted student loan debt that does not disappear if borrowers do not repay it,” Scally wrote.

T he effects of “the student debt crisis” could be far-reaching, said Chris Bangert-Drowns, a member of this university’s chapter of the Student Labor Action Project, an economic justice advocacy group.

“You’re really barred from sustaining yourself, so not only are you in the position to not be able to pay back loans, but you can’t necessarily afford rent or food or a car,” the sophomore biochemistry major said. “It i mpedes so much. I f students can’t afford to pay for

only source of greenhouse gases, Gutin said, with other specific sources including car and air travel for staff, faculty and students. Cars account for 10 percent of this university’s carbon footprint and air travel accounted for 18 percent, according to the Office of Sustainability.

Although the Sierra Club ra n ked th is u n iversity as

ELMS

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THE steam and natural gas power plant, which powers the campus, has a lease that ends in 2019. The Student Sustainability Committee is looking for students and faculty to get involved in rethinking energy use and alternative power sources for the campus. tom hausman/the diamondback

houses or cars after they graduate, that hinders the entire country’s economic recovery.”

T hou g h t he hou si ng market saw an 11 percent house price recover y i n 2 013 , h o m e o w n e rsh ip rates decl i ned for 30-year-olds with student loan debt, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York report released in May. About one-third of student loan borrowers are in their 30s.

“Student loan delinquencies and repayment problems appear to be reducing borrowers’ ability to form their own households,” Lee said. trichmandbk@gmail.com

clicked on the link to check out the page.

Xue a lso entered h is ELMS information to sign up for the service because he thought using his university accou nt in formation would be safe. The site also resembled the popular website Koofers, he said.

About 10 minutes later, he received an email from a classmate asking when the first exam was going to be.

Xue said he had no idea why that student was asking him about a test until he noticed the original message.

“And I look at the email, and it’s [a reply to] the exact same email that I received from the guy from my class,” he said, “but I was the one who sent it out.”

On ly m inutes passed between the time Xue opened the link and when X u e’s a c c o u nt s t a r te d sending out mass emails to his classmates.

“It sent out one of these emails to everybody in every single upper-level class I’m in now,” he said, “and the worst part about it is, I’m currently a TA [teaching assistant] for an engineering course, which has 180 students. So being a TA and sending something

a student opens oneclass, a website that is supposed to be a student studying resource.

The site has spammed university students’ ELMS inboxes with ads. tom hausman/the diamondback li ke that out to students, they’re going to trust that.”

Once Xue realized what happened, he warned his students to not click the link he sent out. He also noticed that a third-party integration had been activated on his ELMS page once he clicked the link, which he deleted by changing his settings. After that, the messages stopped coming from his account, he said.

Shira Winston, a sophomore bioengineering major, said she clicked the link but did not put her information into the site. Still, emails about OneClass went out to three of her classes for a few hours before they suddenly stopped, she said.

“It was sending tons and tons of emails every minute,” she said. “I sat there for two hours just deleting all the sent messages.”

Phyllis Johnson, director of communications and marketing for the Division of Information Technology, wrote in an email that DIT is still investigating these messages.

“T he tech n ica l g l itch was addressed,” she wrote.

“The Division of Information Technology is waiting for Instructure [the service that runs ELMS] to provide us with an official report about the glitch that occurred in UMD’s ELMS Canvas.” jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com

SPORTS GYMNASTICS

Nelligan earns his 100th career victory over weekend Coach says he still aims for goal of taking Terps ‘to the next level’

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer

Coach Brett Nelligan looks on during a loss to then-No. 5 Michigan on Feb. 7.

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After senior Karen Tang cleanly landed her uneven bars dismount during the Terrapins gymnastics team’s competition Sunday afternoon, coach Brett Nelligan pumped his fists in celebration.

Tang’s routine tallied a 9.90 in the anchor position, completed the Terps’ comeback to beat Texas Woman’s and Brown in Denton, Texas, and helped the team secure its season-high 195.525 final score.

But Sunday’s outing was more satisfying than a typical tri-meet for Nelligan. Defeating the Pioneers and Bears marked his 99th and 100th wins at the helm of the program.

“One hundred wins means I’ve been blessed with phenomenal coaches to work with and incredible athletes,” Nelligan said. “My goal is just to try and build a special program and move the team up in the rankings.”

Nelligan took over the program in May 2009, replacing his father, Bob Nelligan, who coached the Terps for the previous 31 seasons. The thenfirst year coach immediately put an

emphasis on recruiting to take the Terps “to the next level.”

The talent Nelligan has brought to College Park was on display Sunday afternoon.

Katy Dodds and Stephanie Giameo, seniors who both earned All-America honors in 2013, contributed high scores to Nelligan’s milestone victories.

Giameo anchored the team on beam, winning the competition with a 9.90 mark, and tied with teammate Kathy Tang for the top spot on the floor exercise with a 9.80.

Though Dodds fell on her release move on the uneven bars, her 9.825 on vault helped the Terps tie their season-high event total and regain their lead after falling into an early deficit.

“He [Nelligan] wants to win, and he knows we can win,” Giameo said.

“He definitely boosts our confidence and makes us all believe that we can go as far as we all think that we can.”

Nelligan’s belief in the team and in each gymnast as a person is one of the reasons freshman Abbie Epperson said she chose to become a Terp.

Performing in her home state in front of family members and friends Sunday, Epperson won the vault title

in a tie with a 9.85 score and earned a four-way tie for second on the uneven bars with a 9.825.

She said her performance was extra-special because of what it meant to Nelligan’s coaching record.

“He’s more than just a coach to us,” Epperson said. “He cares about us, and he’s so proud of us no matter what we do, and it makes you really happy that we could do so well for him [Sunday] because he’s just always been our No. 1 supporter.”

Nelligan has guided the Terps to an 11-5-1 record so far this season.

After starting the year 1-5 through five competitions, the Terps have rallied to grab 10 wins in the past three weekends.

Behind the Terps’ recent resurgence, Giameo said, is Nelligan’s spirited, confident nature, which has rubbed off on his gymnasts.

And that enthusiasm was evident in his reaction when Tang landed her dismount to seal his 100-win milestone.

“He’s just always there, pumping us up, getting us excited, getting the crowd going,” Giameo said. “And he’s definitely famous for his fist pump.” ccaplandbk@gmail.com

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ollege Park has long been lamented as a subpar college town. What with a housing crisis for students at this university, parking problems throughout the city, a severe lack of city watering holes that students and longtime residents can enjoy simultaneously and a lacking sense of community, the hopes of the city becoming a quintessential college town are waning.

However, recent city and university efforts have tried to fix the problem by planning to build more on-campus and off-campus housing options, proposing a hip art house to replace the old Barking Dog site and designing the upcoming Hotel at the University of Maryland.

These expansions to make the city a more welcoming environment seem like the ticket to build the city up. However, some planned projects are facing criticism from the College Park Airport. The past construction of tall buildings in the area, such as the 16-story University View, and the future construction of the hotel have had aviators who use the airport worried about the highrises encroaching on airspace.

Considering a recent tragedy in December in which a small private jet crashed into a Gaithersburg home near the Montgomery County Airpark, killing six people, it is understandable that there are fears of a similar incident occurring in the rising city of College Park.

Luckily, the worries are not falling on deaf ears. Southern Management Corp., the group responsible for the hotel’s development, decreased the building’s height from the original

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13 stories to 10 stories, which took roughly 35 feet off the building’s height. The elimination of the three floors also increased the developer’s budget about $15 million to between $140 million and $150 million.

Southern Management’s compromise with the College Park Airport illustrates that those hoping to make the city a better place care about the airport’s and community’s history. But even though the hotel’s redesign is in line with federal and state aviation administration regulations, the decision has sparked demands for the city to better protect building height limits around the airport.

OUR VIEW

Building projects that improve the city should be prioritized over the needs of the College Park Airport.

It is reasonable that the airport wants the county to look out for it and not permit a wall of high-rises around the airport. If too many buildings are erected and the safety of pilots and civilians on the ground is compromised, then the airport could potentially shut down. The airport is not just a playground for puddle-jumping planes and novice pilots to fly around. The College Park Airport is historically and economically significant.

Founded in 1909, the airport was the site of the first female airplane passenger, the first controlled helicopter flight and the final stop on the first

airmail routes. The Wright brothers trained the country’s first military pilots on the runway. And according to a Maryland Aviation Administration-commissioned study, the airport accrued almost $1.2 million in business revenue in 2012 and provided 45 jobs and $221,000 in state and local taxes. While some bigwig developers might deem the airport insignificant, its history and economic contributions beg to differ.

Despite the airport’s local significance, its qualms about the city’s urbanization encroaching on airspace might hold the city back. According to The Washington Post, height regulations on building ultimately end up costing communities millions in tax revenue and billions in economic growth — something that this city could experience if the needs of the airport are prioritized over the city’s.

The airport is important to the community, but it might be safe to say that the growth of the city is more important. Granted, the airport does add economically to the community and could be a hidden gem once the city eventually grows (up).

However, projects such as the hotel would better serve the community.

It would provide an estimated 1,637 jobs and hopefully begin the longawaited process of making the city a better college town.

That’s not to say that the city and the university should throw the airport’s needs to the wayside. Instead, the city, county and university should continue to work to compromise with the airport, and the airport and its officials should put the needs of the greater College Park community before its own.

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Killing our creative instincts the fire that helps forge innovation and improvement, and indeed creativity is also an integral part of math and science. Creativity is what drives continual improvement and arguably is essential for success in all manners of life.

How else could we enjoy our current technological boom? How else did we evolve from landlocked and seafaring individuals (up until the hot air balloon’s invention in 1783) to beings on the verge of exploring Mars, a planet nearly 140 million miles away from us?

Creativity and the freedom of exploration that comes with it also nurture successful businesses and drive economic improvement.

While certain fields understandably require a stricter polarity of correct and incorrect answers, it’s important to allow students to explore answers without fear of being punished for their creative endeavors.

How else could we improve on today’s understandings? Franklin D. Roosevelt once said that the “only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” and the rise of standardized testing as a pillar of general education is too fundamentally detrimental.

The Common Core’s emphasis on standardized testing limits our ability to comprehend and question, and students consequentially focus less on the material they are studying but more on the tests they are taking and strategies for taking those tests.

Every day and every minute that passes, we face new problems with rising wealth and education gaps, environmental destruction and the increasing exhaustion of our already declining nonrenewable resources.

By limiting creativity in our public school system, we are only hurting ourselves in the long run.

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ecently, public education in the U.S. has placed an increased emphasis on common-core programs. With today’s “Common Core,” certain math, science and humanities courses have been grouped into a basic curriculum, with each student’s proficiency judged by his or her performance on a wide array of standardized tests.

And yet this new norm by which students are either right or wrong in their answers is a system that has too many faults, especially in its categorization and quantification.

With increased emphasis on math and science and with increased pressure on students to get jobs in the STEM fields (wh i c h h ave b e e n a f fo rd e d growing job markets), the death of creativity is nigh, though it shouldn’t be.

The notion that ideas and answers must be either right or wrong places limits on students who, in turn, are punished for thinking outside the box or for taking risks.

With teachers and parents indirectly pushing students to choose science- and math-related careers, public-school funding for performance arts has dried up the past couple of decades.

While this has a blatant detrimental effect on the development of artists and performers, the ascension of standardized tests, too, is killing creativity in other fields.

The truth is that creativity is not something that solely resides in arts, as it is so often incorrectly depicted. Max An is a sophomore physiology and Creativity is inherent in almost neurobiology major. He can be reached every branch of knowledge. It is at maxandbk@gmail.com.

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mid the thundering applause after Oscar winner Patricia Arquette’s rousing speech advocating “wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America,” a question emerged.

Why, after all these years, is equality so elusive?

Why does it seem that gender equality, like a frightened dove, flutters out of reach every time we approach it? Are our hands too sordid with prejudice to be worthy of touching its pristine feathers?

Perhaps it is because we have been contemplating the debate from the wrong angle all along.

The feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir famously asserted that “woman cannot be transformed unless society has first made her really the equal of man.” But the word “equal” implies a certain similitude, a certain homogeneity between the sexes that extends beyond the abstract concepts of

character and content of mind — a homogeneity that does not exist.

Women are not simply men repackaged into a different shape; instead, women bring a different skill set of equal value to the table. What we should be seeking is equivalence, not equality — parity, and not ponderous uniformity.

The latest studies appear to support this approach. Take, for instance, the recent study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that was recapitulated as a New York Times opinion piece in January. The authors concluded that “simply having more women” was the key to successful groups.

Similarly, Stanford researcher Jo Boaler argued in a series of articles on women in mathematics that the two sexes strive for different goals in math learning, with women embracing a desire for deeper understanding.

Two of this university’s own, former Student Involvement and

Leadership Coordinator John Dugan and Professor Emerita of Student Affairs Susan Komives, also weighed in on the matter in 2007. They noted that the results of their study indicated “women’s leadership competence was higher than men’s”, a conclusion supported by their 2009 collaboration with Shepherd University’s Thomas Segar, in which they found female college students “scored significantly higher than men on seven out of eight leadership measures.”

Despite the preponderance of studies such as these, the pay gap between men and women — a quantitative measure of gender parity if there ever was one — still exists.

The problem, it seems, is that we are seeking equality and not equivalence. Society, in its quest to equalize, is trying to remedy the effects of conscious misogyny and artificially raise the number of women in certain fields via special programs such as Girls Who Code.

While this quest may be noble, it also has deleterious effects: Kim Gordon and Shambhavi Kadam note in Fortune that the idea that “middle-class, educated women … [need] specialized programmes to ‘help them’ compete on the same level as men” makes them appear inferior to their male counterparts.

Rather than being empowered, women are further marginalized by the cloak of victimhood that the gender-equality movement has bequeathed them. Their inextricable association with gender discrimination is what allows people to characterize a woman being “sensitive to her ‘status’” in a company as a “personality flaw”, as a managing partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers did in Ellen Pao’s lawsuit.

Striving for equality is preventing us from achieving equivalence.

Much of the problem stems not from misogyny, as one might believe, but from unconscious, unacknowledged biases, the seemingly innocu-

ous kind that lead college students to describe female professors as “ bossy” rather than “ brilliant.”

It is that same bias, however, that leads employers to choose men over women despite identical test scores.

Just because this bias is unconscious, however, does not mean that it cannot be changed.

Colleges in particular have been found to be particularly influential on the beliefs, both conscious and unconscious, that students develop.

By encouraging gender equivalence rather than equality and judging individuals by the quality of their minds and characters rather than their genders, colleges can help the next generation of employers and employees turn gender parity from an impossibility to a reality.

Together, we can set that dove free at last.

C a i t l y n S i n ga m i s a j u n i o r a t Montgomery Blair High School. She can be reached at CAKS@verizon.net.

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MORE THAN A LIMP FISH The king of Atlantis has been the butt of jokes for decades. Here’s why Aquaman is cooler than you think.

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SONGS OF THE WEEK Carly Rae Jepsen, “I Really Like You”

By Eric Bricker @EricCBricker Senior staff writer As usual, the Web saw an explosion of new music t h i s we e k . H e re ’s w h a t you should pick out of the melodic rubble:

Kanye West, “All Day” Kanye dropped this burst of (literal) fire at the BRIT Awards last week, leaving dozens of awed-Taylor Swift reaction GIFs and spontaneous mall jaunts in its wake.

The full studio version premiered online on Monday.

This is full-on braggadocio Kanye, one of those cuts that sees him embodying his arrogant id and just reveling in his fame; it’s a refreshing break from the more introspective, superego side of Ye we’ve been seeing lately on “Only One” and “Wolves.”

Will Butler, “Witness” Will Butler, brother to Win and longtime Arcade Fire workhorse, officially drops his debut album next week, but the entire LP, Policy, is streaming right now on Spotify. Fans of whimsical, bluesy singer-songwriter ja m s s h o u l d f i n d so m e thing to like on cuts such as “Take My Side” and “Anna,” but album closer “Witness” is the album’s most exciting track, a frenetic burst of gospel-rock complete with Little Richard “woos” and a boogie-woogie piano breakdown.

Waxahatchee, “Under a Rock” Katie Crutchfield can do no wrong. “Under a Rock” is a plaintive, conversational piece, a ball of accusations (“Maybe you got your head ca u g h t” ) l aye re d ove r a two-minute swell of surprisingly crisp guitar riffing and crashing snare drums.

Emotionally bracing while still being fun and deeply accessible, this is Waxahatchee at its jangly, angsty best.

Fresh off a stint on Broadway and still living in the mammoth shadow of “Call Me Maybe” (one of the best pop songs of this millennium thus far), Jepsen wisely doesn’t try to break new ground on this new single, a synth-driven ode to the early days of a relationship, all hanging out “late night watching television.”

The track plays like a giant wad of bubblegum is being inflated by your car speakers: It’s going to explode and get everywhere, yeah, but it’s worth marveling at while it’s still fresh and sticky.

Chance the Rapper and Alec Baldwin, “Chicago” This isn’t so much a song as it is an Instagram videolength peek into heaven, as Chance, wearing a White Sox flat brim, beatboxes while Alec Baldwin, draped i n a m a ro o n sca r f a n d a blazer, recites lines from Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago” before exclaiming, “We’re done; we got it!” Knowing Chance, this whole thing could end up as a perfect little earworm on SoundCloud in the next few weeks, or the video could just be a tiny, spontaneous gem.

Either way, treasure it.

Action Bronson ft. Chance the Rapper, “Baby Blue” Want one more Chance?

It’s a great week for the Chicago wunderkind, whose stream-of-consciousness verse on Action Bronson’s “Baby Blue” elevates the back half of Bronson’s soulpop revenge fantasy to delightfully juvenile heights (a highlight: “I hope you never get off Friday/and you work at a Friday’s that’s always busy on Fridays”). ebrickerdbk@gmail.com

Aquaman has been granted some much-needed upgrades in a New 52 take on the character. Jason Momoa is set to play the hero in upcoming films.

By Leo Traub @LeoTraub Staff writer Here’s a bold statement: Aquaman doesn’t suck.

Here’s an even bolder s ta te m e n t : Aq u a m a n i s actually pretty cool.

Yes, you read that correctly. Aquaman is cool.

No, he’s not the mysterious and brooding crusader that is Batman, nor is he the snarky genius that is Iron Man. All the same, he’s no less noble, powerful or heroic than either superhero — yet Aquaman faces more ridicule and teasing than just about any other hero in pop culture.

He’s been satirized by TV shows including The Big Bang Theory, Family Guy and Robot Chicken. He’s endured jokes made at his expense by comedians, latenight television hosts and YouTube personalities. He’s topped countless “dumbest superheroes” listicles.

T h i s so r t o f m o c ke ry is totally undeserved and is mostly propagated by people who only know of Aquaman through the echo chamber that is pop-culture critique. For anyone wh o ’s p l u n ge d i n to t h e depths of stupid comic book characters, there are far

dumber heroes (try searching Google for Matter-Eater Lad and Arm Fall Off Boy).

Aquaman’s image was tarnished by Super Friends, a cartoon TV show in which he rode around on Storm the seahorse and took on a sidekick cleverly named Aqualad. This gave him a pretty dumb image to mainstream audiences, so that’s where most Aquaman jokes originate.

But lame cartoons aside, the king of Atlantis is actually a really cool superhero.

First of all, let’s get past the whole “talking to fish” thing. Every modern continuity of Aquaman has changed that power in some way or another. Once DC comic book writer Geoff Jo h n s go t h i s h a n d s o n Aquaman’s storyline with the New 52 series that began in 2011, one of his first moves was to revamp the hero’s abilities. The New 52 Aquaman no longer chats with marine life as he did in Super Friends; instead, he uses telepathic impulses to compel fish with primitive brains to do his bidding. It’s a subtle difference, but it substitutes his fishy conversations with a genuine superpower.

Besides, even if Aquaman did have one dumb super-

power, it shouldn’t delegitimize his entire character.

Nobody makes fun of Superman’s super-ventriloquism, a power he brandished from the ’50s through the ’80s.

A n d wh a t a b o u t Da re devil’s ability to “feel” the difference between colors despite being blind? Like super-ventriloquism, that lame power was considered canon, right from Daredevil’s origin in the ’60s until the ’90s.

What’s more, Aquaman is basically a gladiator. His costume is made up of scale armor, crafted by armorers in Atlantis. His weapon of choice is a trident, which was actually used by ancient Roman gladiators and 17th-century Korean martial artists. In some iterations, Aquaman even has a cybernetic hook for a hand and a giant beard, making him into something of a pirate warrior. Make jokes all you like: The reality is, Aquaman can wield deadly force while Spider-Man shoots webs and Captain America throws his shield.

M o s t i m p o r t a n t l y, modern Aquaman is a totally different character than Aquaman of yesteryear. Besides retouching the superhero’s fish-communication ability for the New 52

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series, Johns gives Aquaman a stoic, no-nonsense personality and focuses his combat skills on wielding his trident instead of calling for help from marine life.

Anyone who’s seen the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice “Unite the Seven” poster unveiled a couple of weeks ago knows we’re in for another badass modern Aquaman. The poster shows Jason Momoa’s Aquaman as a scowling, tattooed muscleman clad in medieval-looking armor and gripping a black trident.

Momoa, who has previously played Khal Drogo on Game of Thrones, seems to be playing a similar character with this new Aquaman, a fierce — almost tribal — warrior king.

U l t i m a te l y, i t s e e m s that the people who think Aquaman is stupid don’t actually know much about his character. He’s a good reason to look forward to Batman v Superman in 2016, even if he won’t be getting a ton of screen time until his solo film in 2018.

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Walker-Kimbrough, a first-team all-Big Ten member, and the Terps finished 18-0 in conference play. christian jenkins/the diamondback

awards From PAGE 8 the media understand how valuable [Brown and WalkerKimbrough] both were to our team’s success was tremendous,” Frese said.

Center Brionna Jones earned first team recognition from the coaches and Second Team from the media, while guard Laurin Mincy earned second team honors. All four players garnering recogni-

shaffer From PAGE 8 giving up two home runs last week against Arkansas, he kept the ball down in the zone.

“His M.O. is to be in the zone,” Szefc said. “He’s constantly in the strike zone, sometimes too much.”

Shaffer allowed four hits Sunday, including three extra-base hits — two doubles and a two-run homer. Still, both times the Mountaineers doubled, Shaffer didn’t allow another batter to reach base, and he finished with six strikeouts.

“Last week’s experience helped him deal this week with some of the hard at-bats he got himself into and got out of,” Szefc said.

Last Sunday, Shaffer faced

tion from the conference are averaging double figures in scoring this season, and they all rank in the top 30 in the conference in scoring average.

“I’m extremely proud for our program,” Frese said.

“Those awards don’t come without the success of the team.”

The honors are just part of what the Terps are hoping to achieve this season, though.

They’re already eyeing the Big Ten tournament as the next opportunity to make their mark.

The No. 1-se ed Terps w i l l fa ce t h e w i n n e r o f a matchup between No. 8-seed Michigan and No. 9-seed Michigan State at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois on Friday afternoon.

“It’s special to be able to see when you work hard great things happen,” Frese said, “but at the end of the day, we still have bigger goals we want to accomplish.”

an NCAA tournament team, Arkansas, and got shelled. He surrendered six runs on eight hits, including five runs off homers. But afterwards, Shawaryn complimented the freshman’s even-keeled approach.

Other teammates, meanwhile, have noticed Shaffer’s arsenal of quality pitches.

“With Shaffer, he’s always on attack mode,” center fielder LaMonte Wade said.

“He can throw his off-speed pitches for strikes, which really makes him a dangerous pitcher. He can use all of his pitches.”

W h i l e S h a f fe r re covered from last week’s poor outing, left-hander Tayler Stiles struggled against the Mountaineers. For the second straight week, the sophomore allowed five or more runs in four or fewer innings.

Szefc has used two pitchers in the No. 2 spot this season.

Left-hander Jake Drossner started the season there before Stiles moved up one spot to replace him.

In the preseason, Szefc called Shaffer a “mini-Shawaryn.” Last year, Shawaryn was the Terps’ Saturday starter.

But Shaffer isn’t worried about his place in the rotation. He’s focused on replicating his start from Sunday.

And Szefc has the perfect model for him to follow.

“He needs to keep going out there and pitching and hanging around the older guys, a guy like Shawaryn who has been through the battles,” Szefc said. “I think Brian will progress pretty rapidly.”

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of whom are former walk-ons who rarely see the floor, for establishing positive relationships with the younger players.

The Terps’ four freshmen — Trimble, forward Michal Cekovsky and guards Jared Nickens and Dion Wiley — made for a recruiting class that ranked in the top 10 in the country, and the veterans welcomed them with excitement this summer. Wells often talked about how he could see the youngsters’ potential during preseason workouts and how he aimed to instill the group with confidence.

The rookies have responded well. Trimble leads the team in scoring, while the other three freshmen have made big plays in some of the Terps’ best wins this season.

Nickens has made a name for himself as a clutch shooter with key second-half threes, Wiley helped spark the offense in a road victory at Oklahoma State, and Cekovsky’s defense last week against All-American forward Frank Kaminsky helped the Terps top No. 5 Wisconsin.

After Saturday’s Senior Day win over Michigan, Nickens said the seniors’ leadership has allowed the freshmen to feel comfortable and confident enough to make an impact.

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“IT’S ALMOST LIKE YOU’RE ESTABLISHING A CULTURE AND A WORK ETHIC AND A MINDSET THAT THIS PROGRAM HAD AT ONE POINT.” DEZ WELLS

Terrapins men’s basketball guard personally,” Nickens said.

“Guys from Dez to Evan, all the way to Varun [Ram], Spencer [Barks] and Jake Susskind. They’re just a group of great guys. They always have the best interest in the team.”

T u rg e o n a g r e e d w i t h Nickens that his veterans deserve praise for their unselfishness. After all, Turgeon said, the seniors remained supportive of Trimble while he’s raked in accolades and attention during his first college season.

“They’ve treated him with respect from day one because they know how important he was for us,” Turgeon said.

“Our guys accepted him, never doubted him and never got jealous of him. It would’ve been really easy to get jealous of Melo this year, and they didn’t. That’s just a sign of our seniors and what kind of kids they are.”

Wells has been the Terps’ vocal leader since arriving on the campus before his soph-

omore season, and he was the team’s leading scorer for the seasons before Trimble’s arrival, but he hasn’t seemed to mind sharing the spotlight this season.

After Trimble scored 24 points in a win over Michigan State, Wells took to Twitter to congratulate the 20-year-old star. He expressed his pride in Cekovsky after the win over the Badgers, and in a postgame news conference Saturday after the win over the Wolverines, Wells said, “Thank God for Jared Nickens,” who hit two second-half threes.

Wells spent the past two seasons on Terps teams that missed the NCAA tournament and struggled with chemistry issues before five players transferred away this offseason.

This season, he’s enjoying the wave of good results with a fresh batch of teammates who all seem to get along.

“I want these guys to know how tough it is to have this kind of success,” Wells said.

“It’s almost like you’re establishing a culture and a work ethic and a mindset that this program had at one point.

We kind of lost it and had some players here that didn’t belong here, but at the same time, I want these guys to know you can have whatever you want. You just have to be willing to work for it.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

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PONS FINDS SUCCESS Murray’s replacement, defender Mac Pons, has fit in with the Terps seamlessly.

The sophomore might not be the prolific man-to-man defender that Murray was during his three years in College Park, but Pons has fit into the Terps’ system and fulfilled his role.

Pons has started all four games, working in sync with Dunn and senior defender Casey Ikeda. He’s also caused three turnovers, one of which came in the second quarter Saturday.

“Mac’s really smart,” coach John Tillman said. “He understands what he does well. He’s got a really good lacrosse IQ.” Pons played in 16 games last season and scooped up six ground balls and two faceoffs.

For Tillman, Pons’ recent success is emblematic of the Terps’ trust in their system.

“No one will argue that maybe some of the parts were a little bit better known [last year],” Tillman said. “The guys know their strengths and their limitations, and they also take a lot of pride in ‘Hey, I can’t let the guy next to me down.’ Sometimes it’s said; it’s not always executed.”

RAFFA RETURNS The Terps needed a boost early in the first period. They had conceded two early goals to Drexel and were at risk of letting the game slip away.

Charlie Raffa steadied things.

faceoff specialist charlie raffa corrals a ball during the Terps’ victory over Drexel on Saturday. Raffa missed the previous game with an injury. christian jenkins/the diamondback The faceoff specialist won the ball at the X and charged downfield before launching a shot at goal.

Though the attempt flew wide, Raffa’s teammates were pleased to see him back in the lineup after he missed the Penn game and played sparingly against Yale.

The senior went 6 of 14 at the X, but Tillman wasn’t concerned with the numbers.

“That was as gutty and tough a performance as we could hope,” Tillman said. “[He] fought and created a lot of 50/50 ground balls. He actually had some faceoffs that he won; we just didn’t get the ball.”

EGG CRACK CHALLENGE On Sunday, Tillman’s squad accepted a challenge from the women’s lacrosse team.

A video posted to the team’s Facebook page shows a number of Terps in Byrd Stadium participating in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Egg Crack Challenge, in which they smashed raw eggs over each other’s heads. The movement was designed to raise money

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The Terps were “challenged” by the women’s team and extended the offer to Scott Van Pelt, Tim Ahner and their team managers.

“We all pledge $10 each to donate to the diabetes research team,” attackman Jay Carlson said in the video.

“Let’s get cracking.”

NEUFELDT EARNS HONOR Freshman long pole Matt Neufeldt was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week after his performances against Penn and Drexel. It marks the second time this year a Terp has received the honor after goalkeeper Kyle Bernlohr earned the recognition two weeks ago.

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Terps take home big haul of yearly conference awards Three make all-Big Ten first team, Frese wins Coach of the Year

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer

Guard Lexie Brown, who was named to the all-Big Ten first team yesterday, dribbles down the court during a win over Rutgers on Feb. 10 at Xfinity Center. Three other Terps made first- or second-team all-Big Ten. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

The Terrapins women’s basketball team continued its collection of accolades in its inaugural Big Ten season Monday night. The conference announced coach Brenda Frese as the Big Ten Coach of the Year and named four players to the All-Big Ten first and second teams.

Frese led the No. 4 Terps to the Big Ten regular-season title behind an 18-0 conference record, marking just the third time in Big Ten history a team emerged from its conference slate without a defeat.

Frese’s award is the fourth time

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the 13-year veteran has earned conference Coach of the Year honors during her career. Frese won Big Ten Coach of the Year in her only other season in the conference with Minnesota in 2001-02, when she also was named the Associated Press National Coach of the Year.

“I’ve always believed Coach of the Year is really about the team, but I think what will separate this award from every [other] one is just how this team went about it,” Frese said. “To go undefeated in a new conference and everything that they had to go within the season says a lot, and [it’s] something that I’ll truly remember.”

The Iowa native grew up watch-

ing the Big Ten, and she said the conference is as deep now as it has ever been. Frese also won Coach of the Year during her two-year stint with Ball State in the Mid-American Conference as well as in the 2013 season with the Terps.

She is one of two coaches to earn the accolade in three different conferences and also be named the National Coach of the Year.

Meanwhile, sophomore guards Lexie Brown and Shatori WalkerKimbrough were named to the conference first team by both coaches and media.

“To be able to see the coaches and See awards, Page 7

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Freshman cruises in 2nd start Shaffer gives up two runs in six innings to pick up first victory

By Phillip Suitts @Phillip_Suitts Staff writer The Terrapins baseball team entered Sunday with its series against Appalachian State hanging in the balance.

A win would secure a series victory, and a loss would seal defeat for the Terps in the first three-game set of their 2015 campaign.

In the rubber match, the Terps turned to freshman right-hander Brian Shaffer despite his poor start last weekend, and they were rewarded with a solid outing.

In Shaffer’s second career start, he allowed two runs in six innings, and the No. 16 Terps cruised to a seriesclinching 8-2 victory over the Mountaineers. After Shaffer’s bounce-back performance, his spot in the weekend rotation appears secure, and the Terps might have found a second reliable starter to pair with ace Mike Shawaryn.

“He did a really good job of when he got in bad counts, he slowed the game down,” coach John Szefc said. “The biggest difference is he pitched a lot more maturely this week than last.”

With Shaffer’s first career start out of the way, the 6-foot-5 hurler didn’t have to deal with nerves this Sunday.

Instead, he focused on getting hitters with two strikes to chase pitches out of the strike zone, something he worked on in the week leading up to the game.

“It can be kind of tough,” Shaffer said. “You definitely have to pinpoint location.”

For the second straight week, Shaffer didn’t issue a walk, and after See shaffer, Page 7

Guard Dez Wells (44), a senior, rises for a layup in an 80-56 loss to Ohio State at Value City Arena on Jan. 29 as freshman point guard Melo Trimble (2) watches the play from the perimeter. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

A MIX MAKES A MATCH Group of seniors, four freshmen mesh for No. 10 Terps entering tonight’s game at Scarlet Knights

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer Late in the second half of Saturday’s 66-56 win over Michigan, Terrapins men’s basketball guard Melo Trimble drove from the right wing toward the lane. A Wolverines defender slid over to stop Trimble’s path to the basket, leaving guard Dez Wells in the corner of the court.

Trimble, a freshman, flipped a pass to his wide-open senior teammate, and Wells rose up

to drain a dagger of a 3-pointer that pushed the Terps’ lead to 60-48.

That’s sort of how this season has unfolded in College Park. Veterans such as Wells are enjoying wild success in their final runs through college basketball, but they’ve leaned on Trimble and a star-studded class of rookies to revive the once-prominent program.

Coach Mark Turgeon’s 10-man rotation includes four freshmen and four seniors, and entering a matchup at Rutgers (10-19, 2-14 Big Ten) tonight, the unique mix has helped

the No. 10 Terps (24-5, 12-4) win five straight games to reach the top 10 of the AP poll for the first time since 2003.

“We kind of feed off each other,” senior forward Evan Smotrycz said. “We’ve got a great team dynamic; everyone gets along. And, you know, even though Melo’s a freshman, he’s our point guard; he’s our leader. We have a nice group of guys who can step up and lead each other.”

Turgeon credits the Terps’ seven seniors, three See knights, Page 7

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New-look defense stays steady Pons helps unit replace Murray; Raffa makes return against Drexel

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer

Defender matt dunn checks midfielder Ryan Belka during a 12-3 win over Drexel on Saturday at Byrd Stadium.

The Terps held the Dragons scoreless for a stretch of 56:17 during the game. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Only one current undergraduate student at this university has earned Inside Lacrosse First Team All-American honors: senior Goran Murray.

Murray, though, was ruled ineligible for the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team this season and hasn’t been able to lead the defense he starred on for three years. Nevertheless, four games into the season, the Terps lead the Big Ten with a 5.25 goals-against average.

The defense hasn’t slowed without

Murray, though. The unit continued its dominance Saturday, holding Drexel scoreless over 56:17 en route to a 12-3 win.

“You have to look at the guy behind it all, [goalkeeper] Kyle Bernlohr,” junior defender Matt Dunn said. “Any point where we break down, they get a shot, we have confidence that he’s going to make those stops.”

The drought represents the longest the Terps have held an opponent scoreless since April 19, 2008, when Penn didn’t score for a stretch of 51:12. The last time the Terps shut out an opponent was Feb. 26, 2002 in an 18-0 shellacking of

Mount St. Mary’s.

On Saturday, the Dragons ended the chance of a shutout early on, as they scored twice in the opening three minutes. They didn’t score again until there was 1:10 left in the game.

And while Bernlohr made 11 saves, the key to the No. 9 Terps’ continued defensive success, Dunn said, is assistant coach/defensive coordinator Kevin Conry’s system.

“We harp on a team defense principle, no matter who the pieces are,” Dunn said. “We can put different parts in, and everybody knows the See NOTEBOOK, Page 7