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snow is likely coming to College Park, according to the predictions of junior Jordan Tessler, the student behind TerpWeather. The geography major launched the Facebook page in 2011, and has since added a Twitter account, to help students plan accordingly for the climate and “fear the turtle, not the weather,” as he states on the Facebook page. photo illustration by chris allen/the diamondback

the weather man Junior behind TerpWeather studies weather models, shares projections with College Park community

By Laura Blasey Senior staff writer You could say Jordan Tessler has a thing for models.

He’s been linked with some of the top names over the years, and he likes to study them, watching how they move and change. They’re dynamic and unpredictable and always lead to beautiful photographs.

What he likes most of all is what they give him in return: an intimate look into the next week’s storms and pressure systems. That’s right — Tessler studies weather models.

“It’s rare to see an interest in weather in people,” said Tessler, a junior geography major. “For me, I can’t even pinpoint when it started. I’ve just been born with it.”

Throughout his life, Tessler has seen Mother Nature at her worst,

and it’s the hurricanes, tidal floods and tornadoes he has witnessed that inspired his College Park-centered creation, TerpWeather.

“It was an idea I had after the big tornado outbreak in 2011 that hit Alabama so hard,” Tessler said. “Weather in general catches people off guard. And then [Hurricane] Irene hit, and that’s what kicked it off.”

He launched the project’s Facebook page in 2011 and has since added a Twitter account. Tessler, who grew up in Maryland, said he wants TerpWeather to be an educational tool, so students can “fear the turtle, not the weather,” as the page reads.

Although the university is designated as “StormReady,” Tessler feels students aren’t informed enough about the state’s weather — booming sirens ordering the campus community to stay indoors

Undocumented students hoping to one day become citizens may have thought they saw a glimmer of hope in September.

While campaigning for his second term, President Obama cited the absence of comprehensive immigration reform in his first term as his “biggest failure” in a television interview with Univision in Miami.

He kicked off his second term by outlining a blueprint for immigration reform. But plans for a federal Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act may have been buried within Obama’s rhetoric to strengthen border security and crack down on employers hiring illegal immigrants, experts said. Or, they argue, a path to citizenship is coming second to enforcement.

While federal lawmakers plan to unveil a framework this month, it remains to be seen whether a federal DREAM Act will weave its way into a comprehensive bill, or if it will become a secondary objective to what has become the centerpiece of Obama’s

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Commons apts. fail fire drills

Alum who planned cannibalism facing court

Some students too slow or didn’t evacuate

Allegedly had plot to kidnap, cook, eat more than 100 women

By Sarah Sexton Staff writer Several South Campus Commons buildings failed fire alarm safety drills last week because some residents were slow to leave the buildings and others failed to evacuate altogether.

The Fire Marshal’s office reported several students were looking out their apartment windows during the recent drills — a practice that could spell trouble for residents if the office or Resident Life can identify them.

Students who ignore safety drills can be brought before the Resident Life Judicial Board, said Amber Dees,

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer

Although the app started as a personal project, Rosenberg had his friends and roommates offer new ideas, design feedback and even coding for the programs. The app was initially only available on Android because Rosenberg didn’t have an iPhone. But after winning thousands of dollars through several student entrepreneurship

Court proceedings are underway for the 28-year-old university alumnus who allegedly planned to kidnap, cook and eat more than 100 women, including two of his classmates from College Park and his own wife.

Gilberto Valle, a New York City police officer who earned his psychology degree from this university in 2006, has been held without bail since he was arrested in October, according to CBS New York, after FBI agents discovered files on his computer with the names and photographs of 89 women, some of whom he was tracking. According to his charging documents made available by The Washington Post, Valle traveled to this state to meet with one of his potential victims in late July 2012.

T he federal court case, which is being heard in Manhattan, has included testimony from several females who knew Valle and allegedly never felt threatened. The court has acknowledged that no women were ever actually harmed. On Feb. 25, the second day of Valle’s trial, his wife

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some south campus commons apartments failed fire alarm safety drills recently because some residents did not follow procedure.

South Campus Commons community director. However, the benefit of complying with practice runs comes from learning proper procedure, not avoiding punishment, officials said.

“Fire drills help our students prepare for that one unfortunate day that a fire could break out in their building,” Resident Life Director Deb Grandner wrote in an email. “It’s im-

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portant to never assume that a fire alarm is a false alarm. Evacuate every time.”

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App allows students to plan DOTS bus trips better Route Rider available on Android, iPhone

By Bradleigh Chance Staff writer Taking the bus from his Courtyards apartment to the campus was always a guessing game for senior Eric Rosenberg.

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himself consistently rushing out of his classes to catch the bus back to his apartment, only to get stuck in the cold or rain for 20 minutes while he waited for the next bus to come.

R ather tha n conti nu i ng w ith the often frustrating cycle, Rosenberg decided to create an app for his Android that would let him know when the buses were coming. He built Route Rider, which features an interactive map showing users bus stops

near their locations as well as when Shuttle-UM buses will be arriving at all stops on and around the campus.

The free app even takes into account weather, traffic and delays.

“There were days where I would wake up and have no idea if I had to run outside immediately to catch the bus or if I had time for a quick breakfast,” Rosenberg said. “I decided to build an app for myself to tell me when the buses were coming as quickly as possible.”

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the samuel riggs iV alumni center hosted a bridal open house Sunday for couples interested in holding their wedding ceremonies or receptions at the university. The center hosts about 30 ceremonies each year, while the Memorial Chapel hosted 88 last year. karen mawdsley/for the diamondback

Alumni flock to reserve univ. venues for wedding ceremonies 20 couples attend open house Sunday at alumni center

By Karen Mawdsley For The Diamondback Joseph and Bria Flowers met as freshmen at this university six years ago. By their sophomore year, they were dating. About a year after their 2010 graduation, they got engaged.

For these two former Terps, the choice of venue for their wedding was obvious, and in July, the couple stepped into the Memorial Chapel to exchange their vows on the campus where they first fell in love.

“We thought it would be great to have the wedding where it all started,” Joseph Flowers said.

Every year, dozens of brides and grooms like the Flowers opt to celebrate their nuptials on the university campus. The Memorial Chapel hosted 88 wedding ceremonies last year, while the staff at the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center hosts about 30 ceremonies and countless receptions each year, according to staff members.

Amy Royle, a 2012 alumna, attended the Calvert Cotillion with her fiance just last year, and she

now looks forward to returning to the alumni center for their wedding in the fall.

“Maryland has been a big part of my family. It has been a place of opportunity and also a place where we found love,” Royle said. “So I’m tying the knot in September 2013 at my school. It seems perfect.”

On Sunday, Royle joined about 20 other eager couples in crossing the threshold into the alumni center for the March bridal open house. The registrants were greeted by a wedding-esque sprawl and an expo of friendly wedding-related companies, including caterers, florists, limo services, jewelry and makeup sellers and photographers.

The companies’ reps all had the same message for the bridesto-be: they were there to make brides’ dreams come true.

“That’s what we’re all about – making it to be whatever you want it to be,” Sameeha Bricklemyer, owner and designer of The Inked Leaf stationery, told one future bride.

The alumni center hosts open houses in January, March and the fall, according to staff members.

Depending on the number of guests, the center also offers several different wedding packages.

Court From PAGE 1 and two former university classmates testified.

Kimberly Sauer, 29, testified that Valle was planning on driving to Maryland to see her, according to CBS New York, while Elizabeth Sauer of Germantown testified that she didn’t feel threatened, according to CBS Baltimore.

His wife also testified, alleging that she became suspicious after her husband often stayed up late on the computer. She checked his website history, she said in court, revealing, “women covered in blood, hanging. I saw a picture of human feet cut off from the body.”

Presented in court yesterday were Valle’s Web searches, including “eat her for dinner,” “how to tie up a girl” and more gruesome entries, according to the Associated Press.

Valle’s lawyers, though, argue that his online history reveals nothing other than a few sick fantasies.

“Who can blame you if that scares you?” the defense attorney told jurors, according to CBS Baltimore. “It’s the stuff of a horror movie. But like horror movies, it’s pure fiction. Pretend.”

Valle’s father agreed, saying he never heard his son talk about cannibalism. Valle allegedly wore a red Terps shirt to a court hearing in October when he was first arrested, and his father wore a gray Maryland sweatshirt in a television interview with CBS last week.

Also found in the charging documents are copies of Valle’s alleged online chats, in which another individual asked him how big his oven is.

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gilberto valle, a graduate of the university, allegedly planned to kidnap, cook and eat more than 100 women. photo courtesy of jezebel.com He replied, “Big enough to fit one of these girls if I folded their legs.”

The documents continue to describe how Valle would “make chloroform” and “cook her over a low heat.” Although his searches were revealed, the judge barred prosecutors from revealing pictures of mutilated women in court, and defense lawyers argued there is no proof Valle viewed the photos.

“What we don’t have is proof that he ever saw the images here,” U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe said.

He described the photos as “what appeared to be murdered and mutilated women in scenes related to cannibalism,” according to the Associated Press.

The trial is continuing in New York and is expected to last at least two more weeks.

Valle has no criminal record in this state, according to court records. Although he was a police officer in New York, Valle was never employed by University Police during his time in College Park, said spokesman Maj. Marc Limansky.

“We have no record of him as an auxiliary police officer or any other position within the department,” Limansky said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Current students, faculty and staff can receive a 15 percent discount, while Alumni Association members receive a 5 percent discount.

However, the remaining price tag can still be a deterrent for some.

“In general, the cost might be higher than we expected,” 2007 alumnus Charles Chang said.

Charles and his fiance Monica Chang, who is also an alumna, plan to get married next spring. So far, they said, their biggest obstacle is finding a venue that fits within the confines of their budget.

“We just started [planning], and it’s already slightly stressful,” Monica Chang said.

While the couple has yet to decide, they said this campus would be their first choice for a wedding venue if they can afford it.

“We went to Maryland,” Chang said. “We met at Maryland. So it would be ideal, and it is such a beautiful venue.”

Joseph Flowers agreed, saying the experience of tying the knot at his alma mater was well worth the cost.

“It was magnificent,” he said of his wedding. “It was the perfect day.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

contests on the campus and receiving money from the Department of Transportation Services to run the app, Rosenberg and the studentrun company 512 Technology were able to offer the app for iPhones this semester.

Now, the app boasts more than 4,000 users, Rosenberg said, and it’s helped students catch the bus more than 150,000 times.

But 512 Technology has plenty of room to improve.

The company has three goals: improve the apps, build electronics that will count passengers as they enter and exit the buses and expand Route Rider to other universities and cities.

Alexa Scott, who said she often relies on Route Rider, said it’s one of her most-used applications.

“I’ve had very few issues with it,” the senior computer science and psychology major said. “It’s one of the most useful apps I have on my phone.”

unpredictable bus routes were a nuisance for Eric Rosenberg, so the computer science major created Route Rider, an app that tracks bus stop schedules. file photo/the diamondback

For Betti Gregus, a senior anthropology major, the app has changed the way she plans her day.

“Between the weather and all the things I have to think about, it makes it a lot easier to know for sure whether a bus will be at the stop when I need it,” Gregus said. “If I’m planning on leaving my apart“our goal is just to ment, I’d rather spend 20 extra help out the umd minutes waiting at home than community and at the stop.”

And Rosenberg’s personal inenhance our terest in the app is evident, stuexperience as much dents said, as Route Rider specifically caters to student needs. as possible.”

“It was designed and built by MIKE NOYES someone who uses it every day, 512 Technology so it takes into account what a Chief sales and marketing officer

student wants and needs from an app like this,” Scott said.

The most rewarding part of Route Rider is meeting people who use the app, said Mike Noyes, 512 Technology chief sales and marketing officer.

After all, the company’s end goal is to make students’ lives at least a little bit easier.

“It’s g reat to h ear fro m people how much easier they find riding the bus is since they started using Route Rider,” Noyes said. “Our goal is just to help out the UMD community and enhance our experience as much as possible here at Maryland.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Univ. Police respond to more incidents in February than January

By Fola Akinnibi Staff writer

president obama said while campaigning for re-election his “biggest failure” in his first term was an absence of comprehensive immigration reform. He has enforced border protection and security. file photo/the diamondback

DREAM From PAGE 1 immigration record: deportations.

“It’s been an enforcement-first policy,” said university economist Jeffrey Werling. “Obama never really got off the ground with an alternative.”

The DREAM Act would provide children who came to the country before they were 16 years old with a path to citizenship if they attend a four-year college or serve in the military for two years.

“Real reform means strong border security, and we can build on the progress my administration’s already made, putting more boots on the southern border than at any time in our history and reducing illegal crossings to their lowest levels in 40 years,” Obama said in his State of the Union address last month.

“Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship, a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally,” he added.

But experts noted he did not mention the DREAM Act or allude to a pathway to citizenship for undocumented students looking to regularize their immigration status by earning a diploma.

In June, Obama issued the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals directive, which halts the deportation of undocumented citizens who pursue a path to citizenship while helping them secure working papers, but it doesn’t have the same staying power that a federal DREAM Act would.

WerlingwouldliketoseebothObama and Congress take it a step further when drafting legislation. Reform, he said, should emphasize a reasonable path to citizenship, instead of channeling more federal dollars to resources on the border that would make the walls “higher” and the fences “longer.” It is difficult to scratch the surface, though, when Congress is wary of mentioning the ‘A’ word, Werling said.

“If you want to call it ‘amnesty,’ so be it, I’m all for it,” Werling said.

“I really do think we need to have some sort of road to green cards, some kind of road to citizenship in the end for folks who deserve it.”

But for now, “That seems to be the last thing on the table,” he added.

Before any plan resembling amnesty can be debated, however, lawmakers on Capitol Hill will almost certainly seek more enforcement, said Isabel Garcia, co-chairwoman of the human rights organization Derechos Humanos. But Garcia doubts the debate will advance much from there because the border fence will never truly satisfy the ardent supporters of stricter security measures.

“It certainly cannot begin with a trigger condition that there be border security or more border security,” Garcia said.“I think we’re really headed in the wrong direction.”

In the days following the State of the Union, a draft of a White House immigration bill leaked to the press. It included provisions that would allow the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants to get on an eight-year path to obtain visas.

There was also mention of extending citizenship to DREAM Act individuals, even though Obama has only lightly touched upon these aspects of reform in his recent speeches and news releases.

However, Obama pledged to present his bill only if Congress couldn’t pass its own — and passing Obama’s bill may prove exceptionally difficult. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who is on an eight-member senatorial committee drafting an immigration bill, called Obama’s plan “dead on arrival.”

The border has usually taken center stage in the debate over immigration because of the drug war and the crossborder smuggling of arms into Mexico.

Werling, however, has become skeptical as to whether the costs to stem these illegal activities are worth the price. He added that it may be in Congress’s interest to refocus its efforts on undocumented workers currently in the country, especially because they continue to compose a growing portion of the workforce.

“For some reason, Americans buy the myth that securing the border in a physical way, that that’ll be solving the problem,” Werling said. He added that Mexico is more stable than it has been in past years, and if employers make an effort to crack down on illegal employment, the problem of smuggling could solve itself.

Despite the DREAM Act getting shortchanged in immigration talks, Werling said it has a better chance of becoming a part of a comprehensive legislative package, but broader measures to address the undocumented population at large will be more difficult to pass.

A plan to help students secure citizenship could gather momentum in Congress, but Werling said “their parents, apparently, might be out of luck on that.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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University Police responded to 218 incidents in February, down from 228 in February last year. However, that number marks a small spike from January’s 155 incidents, likely because students were on winter break for most of that month, University Police spokesman Sgt. Aaron Davis said.

As the weather gets warmer, Davis said he expects the number of incidents to increase as students go out more often.

February’s reports included disorderly conduct, theft, possession of a controlled dangerous substance and an alcohol violation.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT — A student became agitated on Feb. 8 at 10 a.m. after going to the mathematics building for extra help, police said. The student

Vietnamese culture met American pop music Saturday night as members of the Vietnamese Student Association took the stage to put a unique twist on a classic fairy tale.

For its 35th Annual Family Night, the VSA staged a musical in Hoff Theater called Cinderella – A Vietnamese Tale, which followed the basic Cinderella story line while incorporating songs by several pop music artists, including Maroon 5, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga. The event also featured a fashion show, musical performances by students, and comedic videos, all of which celebrated Vietnamese-American heritage.

“We are changing things up a little bit this year,” program director and senior finance and supply chain management major Chi Nguyen said.

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From PAGE 1 during a severe weather event don’t let students know what is really going on, he said.

“It has so much impact. I’m a believer that the climate is shifting,” Tessler said. “I want to tell people that if that extreme weather happens, I will be with them to say, ‘Hey, this is coming, get out of its way.’”

Using software programs, Tessler can study models and make diagrams that he posts to the TerpWeather social media accounts. While some of the programs are free, others are expensive; he uses his own money, along with a little help from his parents, to pay for them.

Studying weather models is a natural instinct for Tessler, who is largely selftaught. He’s taken a few meteorology courses and was a trained emergency responder in high school, but he believes the reason for the project’s success is his persistence and passion for weather.

“If it’s a severe weather event, I will go start to finish until the weather is over, just because of my innate sense of helping people,” Tessler said.“My updates on TerpWeather, some people may find it obsessive, but I find it necessary, especially during bigger weather, to keep people updated.”

Since the page’s inception in September 2011, TerpWeather has garnered more than 800 Facebook likes and upwards of 700 Twitter followers. Tessler likes giving his audience visuals: diagrams, radars and even photographs.

“It’s just amazing, the exposure I’ve gotten, just because I’ve started a little TerpWeather thing,” Tessler said.

Tessler’s Twitter account has received attention from The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang and meteorologists from local ABC affiliate WJLA and NBC affiliate WCR-TV, who help spread his College Park weather forecasts.

Others, such as communication professor Suzanne Gordon, herald TerpWeather’s accuracy. Despite having friends who are experts in earth science, Gordon said it’s Tessler she relies on for weather updates.

“I’m in awe of his climate science interests,” Gordon said. “He’s my first go-to guy when bad weather is coming.

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proached the car, he could detect the odor of marijuana, Davis said.

The driver admitted to smoking marijuana earlier, and upon searching the vehicle, the officer found bags used to hold marijuana. The driver was arrested and charged with possession of paraphernalia, Davis said.

ALCOHOL VIOLATION — On Feb. 2 at about 10:50 p.m., officers responded to a noise complaint in Leonardtown.

After knocking on the door, officers asked everyone to leave the party.

There was alcohol in the apartment, and the resident said it belonged to him. Because he was under 21, he was issued a citation for underage possession of alcohol.

Davis said police aren’t actively looking to bust parties, but if there is noise complaint, they are likely to investigate.

“If somebody calls because they are being disturbed, we will go there,” he said. “That’s a quality of life issue.”

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could not understand the professor and became angry, and after yelling, “I don’t understand!” repeatedly, the student stormed out of the office and slammed the door, Davis said. The professor did not want to press charges, but called University Police to make sure the student was fine.

“We spoke to him,” Davis said.

“We don’t believe him to be any sort of threat.”

THEFT — On Feb. 26 at about 1 p.m., a student reported her iPad missing from her room. The student, a Hagerstown Hall resident, said she last saw her iPad two days before while studying.

When she returned to her room after leaving for lunch, she looked for her iPad and noticed it was missing.

There was no sign of forced entry and nothing else in the room was disturbed, Davis said.

The case is still under investigation.

CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE — Police stopped a vehicle at 6 a.m. Feb. 2 because the driver did not turn on the headlights. When the officer ap-

During recent tests, a member of the Fire Marshal’s office “went to different doors after the drill and confirmed residents were still in their apartments and had not evacuated,” said Luisa Ferreira, an assistant fire marshal.

Officials declined to say which buildings failed the drills until the office finishes conducting fire drills in the community and sends a final report to Resident Life officials.

“I wouldn’t say buildings failing fire drills is ‘rare,’ but it’s something close to that,” Dees said. “Generally, students are well-educated and know the expectations for drills.”

Typical reasons why a building may fail include residents leaving in a disorderly or extremely slow manner, reentering the building without permission or failing to evacuate when the alarm sounds, Dees said.

Officials may choose to schedule

Jordan Tessler, a junior geography major, says he was born with a love of weather. He feeds students a steady stream of forecasts through TerpWeather on Twitter and Facebook. charlie deboyace/the diamondback I learned the word ‘derecho’ from him.”

But while TerpWeather is receiving plenty of praise, its creator prefers to stay behind the scenes, remaining elusive to many of the page’s fans and self-conscious about the impact he’s made.

“Half the people I know that ‘like’ the page don’t know that I run it,” Tessler said.

“It’s not something that I try to broadcast, because it is very geeky and I think it gets some people a little turned off.”

But the hundreds of Facebook users and Twitter followers who rely on the project for updates continue to motivate him. Tessler worries about becoming too engaged in his weather models but feels he has no choice but to continue.

“There’s trust involved now,” Tessler said. “If I do cut back on it and there is weather, and I don’t see it, oops. My fault. And I don’t want it to be one of those situations where it’s my fault and something happens.”

Tessler tries to stay involved in other aspects of campus life, like the Geography Club, and he enjoys working on political

campaigns. But TerpWeather is growing, and its reach has moved beyond College Park. Almost half of the Facebook page’s supporters are from outside the city.

“People have asked me in the past, ‘Why aren’t you majoring in meteorology?’ and the answer is that’s just not what I want to do with my life,” Tessler said. “If I stay in Maryland, I will probably do something [with TerpWeather] because people put trust in me, and I don’t want to just leave and leave them hanging.”

He hopes to work in emergency management, keeping people informed and aiding communities after severe weather strikes, a step beyond basic forecasting.

“I love the passion that he has for the weather, and I share that passion,” WCR-TV chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer wrote in an email. “There are not many of us out there that live and breathe weather, and so just for that, he is in the club.”

another drill or, as South Campus Commons management did, send out an email stating the building failed and reminding residents of the importance of following drill procedures.

One Commons resident said she had never personally been in her apartment during a drill, but had heard students complain about the inconvenience.

“It’s really cold outside, so people just want to stay in their apartments,” junior biology major Sheenali Naik said. “But the alarms are really loud, so I would think people would want to get out of their rooms just to get away from the noise.”

Because a fire drill can be disruptive, many residents also struggle to “take it seriously,” freshman civil engineering major Doris Ihejirika said.

“It’s just if there’s no smoke, and I don’t think there’s a fire or I’m in any danger, I think ‘Eh, it’s just a drill,’” Ihejirika said. “I know that’s probably not a good thing, though.”

However, if residents and faculty don’t participate in drills, they may

not understand proper procedures in the event of an emergency and could endanger themselves or others, Ferreira said. For example, while students typically exit buildings through the main lobby, they are expected to exit through doors in the stairwells during emergencies to prevent crowding.

Front desk staff members are also expected to follow procedure by calling the campus emergency number, 301405-3333 or #3333, and the Security Operations Center during drills.

“Some of the largest fires have been in student residences like Commons, Courtyards and other apartments with kitchens because of students cooking, especially with grease,” Ferreira said.

Last month, a small grease fire broke out in St. Mary’s Hall, and a Courtyards building experienced another small cooking-related fire in October, she said.

“It’s important for everyone to practice, ” Ferreira said. “You never know when a fire might start.”

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Quit living in the past F

The regents — along with other state governing bodies — should certainly use this experience to revise meeting policies and ensure they are fulfilling their responsibilities to the public, as the regents have begun doing. But some people are calling for the regents to have another meeting, this time in public, and vote on

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The Board of Regents failed to transparently discuss the Big Ten move, but prolonged indignation — and another meeting — will ultimately prove unproductive. the move again. And this, quite frankly, would be an utter waste of time as well as a fruitless effort.

Yes, the regents should have been more transparent when they were meeting to discuss the move, but for all intents and purposes, their vote did not matter in the end. The decision rested with Loh, and even though he said he would have torn up contracts if he did not receive the board’s endorsement, the regents suddenly voting against it wouldn’t have changed anything. The papers are

signed, and many students, faculty, staff and alumni have since said the move will ultimately benefit the university.

And the reason for the regents’ secrecy — the financial statements — has been disclosed, thanks to documents obtained

by Sports Illustrated. We know the university is projected to make $100 million more than it would have in the ACC by 2020. Now Loh has formed a committee to plan the move and take advantage of all the new opportunities, and he has promised the university community will have opportunities to offer input. The regents’ opinions no longer matter — all that does matter from this point on is what we, as the most affected parties, want to see from this conference switch.

The regents have taken the appropriate action by vowing to revise their policies regarding closed session meetings. But that is all that should arise out of this recent decision — not another meeting or vote. If community members still feel shortchanged, they should air their concerns to the administrators now in charge of the move, who include Loh, Athletic Director Kevin Anderson and people within their departments, and speak up at forums university officials have promised to hold.

The regents have done their part, so the rest of us should move on and only look ahead, rather than dwelling on the past.

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Multiple majors improve prospects Dabbling in different disciplines is essential for today’s jobs

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r. Barry Schwartz — psychologist and author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less — gave an interesting TED talk on the secret to happiness. If you wish to be happy, there are essentially two simple steps: limit your options and lower your expectations.

It’s funny how the key to bliss is essentially un-American. Our responsibility is more to preserve than to create our vitality and this process starts by devoting ourselves entirely to an endeavor we care about, rather than fragmenting our focus unnecessarily. By choosing to limit students to a single major, as noted in the Feb. 22 Diamondback article, “Some university officials questioning allowing students to double-major,” I think some educators believe most of us would benefit from dedicated, deliberate efforts, and spreading our focus in two or more directions is anything but that.

The solution may be for us to channel this youthful vigor, rather than fight the tension. Who could blame any student for abandoning ship if they felt pigeonholed? Realistically, the majority of the jobs students will have after graduation are going to require a wide range of skills.

I would argue the underlying motivation for many (but definitely not all) students who are double, triple and quadruple majoring and minoring is not to “just do

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or some of us, Nov. 19 was a day of grief. When university President Wallace Loh announced this university would be jumping ship for the Big Ten, we went through most of the stages of grief: denial, anger, depression and, hopefully, acceptance. Now, four months removed from the decision’s announcement, we would hope most people have accepted we only have about a year left in the ACC, and that’s OK. But one glaring aspect of the process of moving to the revenue-rich conference has yet to be resolved. People were not only outraged by the loss of years’ worth of history and rivalries by leaving a conference we helped form six decades ago, but also by the Board of Regents — the 17member governing body that oversees the University System of Maryland — convening privately twice before endorsing Loh’s decision.

Last week, the Maryland Open Meetings Compliance Board found the regents violated the state’s Open Meetings Act when they held a confidential conference call Nov. 18 and met in Baltimore on Nov. 19. While the regents had the right to discuss financial documents in private, other parts of the meeting should have been held in public, and the regents did not adequately inform the public of the meeting and why it needed to be held behind closed doors.

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it” because they are so deeply interested in biochemistry, a foreign language and business finance. It’s about bread and butter. The job market is competitive, and many students and parents will admit to feeling more secure about prospective employment if they have more majors tagged to their (or their child’s) diploma. These individuals correlate a greater number of degrees with increased perceived value — an attribute they believe could potentially attract more attention from viable employers.

The dangerous allure of this thinking is that it creates a false sense of security about avoiding missed opportunities while at the same time often incurring unnecessary costs. While college courses may be difficult, some of the most challenging learning we’ll do is off the campus — classes can only ready you for the workplace to a certain extent.

And consider this: For every year we spend in college, we incur the opportunity cost of a year’s employment, pay and experience.

Of course, it goes without saying that any institution that intends to implement such a shift as a single-major-only policy will initially face considerable backlash from students, parents and faculty alike. Change, no matter how slowly initiated, is usually considered

“abrupt.” (Ask Facebook.) Just because a new or different process, measure or metric is more effective doesn’t mean it will be utilized readily and easily. People often need to get used to the idea of a better alternative.

In the Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams program here on the campus, I’ve worked together with peers from disciplines as diverse as business, engineering and life sciences to solve semester-long innovation, tactical and systems optimization problems. Through QUEST I’ve been fortunate enough to be thoroughly exposed to concepts outside of my major; I’ve also been able to train my “soft skills,” such as effective communication, group collaboration and public speaking. A curriculum that supplements my major rather than tugging me in different directions has enabled these accomplishments.

Perhaps the better method is to focus on exposing students to working with and dabbling in different disciplines through co-curricular, team-based and goal-oriented programs such as QUEST, rather than doing so through double and triple-majoring.

Daniel-Jason Minzie is a sophomore business management major. He can be reached at djminzie@terpmail.umd.edu.

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Pens? Girls just want to have guns CAROLINE CARLSON If you stood face to face with a rapist in the middle of the night, what would you prefer to use to defend yourself: a ballpoint pen or a handgun?

About two weeks ago, the Colorado House of Representatives passed a statewide ban on concealed-carry weapons on public college campuses, and the bill is now being considered by the Colorado Senate. In response to questions concerning women and their right to defend themselves, legislators were quick to come up with silly, petty alternatives to prevent a rapist from attacking them.

Colorado Rep. Joe Salazar claimed that passive resistance is the way to go. While speaking on the House floor, he stated women don’t need guns because “we have call boxes … safe zones … whistles.”

But how safe are you in a “safe zone?” And what’s a rape whistle really going to do if you’re about to be assaulted with no one else in your vicinity?

Colorado state Sen. Jessie Ulibarri suggested that during the 2011 Tucson, Ariz., shooting, some people were able to defend themselves using “ballpoint pens” instead of guns. Rep. Paul Rosenthal furthered these ridiculous alternative strategies by saying the buddy system and learning “judo” were adequate forms of self-defense.

It seems it’s male politicians who are at the forefront of taking away a woman’s right to own a concealedcarry weapon and telling her to use weaker or silly alternatives.

Not only are politicians suggesting ineffective ways to defend yourself, but several universities have listed ineffective tips to dispel attackers.

For instance, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs’s public safety department urged students to “tell your attacker that you have a disease or are menstruating.” According to the department, using your bodily fluids is a very effective way to protect yourself: “Vomiting or urinating may also convince the

attacker to leave you alone.”

At Oregon State University, the public safety department suggests students take 16 to 20 hours of training in martial arts or street fighting.

The state university also claims that you can discourage your attacker by “claiming to be sick or pregnant” and “fainting” or “acting insane.”

I’m sorry, but don’t politicians and universities support female empowerment? I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t feel empowered to protect myself if I knew menstruation was my only weapon. And urinating may not even stop a sick, deranged rapist from assaulting me — but a bullet would.

As a woman, I feel offended that politicians expect me to use such impractical, hopeless methods to defend myself from someone who wants to take away my dignity. According to many universities, I’m just a young girl who should act insane to prevent rapists from violating me. As many feminists may say, “This is anti-choice.”

From my life experiences, empowerment never came in the form of urinating, menstruating or acting pregnant. It came in the form of shooting a Beretta DT10 for the first time.

Regardless of whether a woman wants to own a concealed-carry weapon on a college campus, politicians and institutions shouldn’t be making the decision for women nor telling them they can just pretend to menstruate and everything will be fine.

The fact is, gun ownership among women is on the rise. A Gallup poll, from 2005 to 2011, showed the proportion of females who had guns in their households rose 10 percent. Today, almost a quarter of American women own guns.

Sooner or later, we need to realize taking guns away from the law-abiding does not prevent criminals from possessing guns. The idea that women should play dumb or stand back when they are about to be raped only perpetuates sexist judgment. By simply telling women to use pathetic, unsuccessful forms of self-defense, we are only weakening the American woman’s mentality when she is faced with her violent, brutal attacker.

Caroline Carlson is a sophomore government and politics and information systems major. She can be reached at caroline.crlsn@gmail.com.

Hashtags gone wild Fight back against Twitter-talk mania

NEAL FREYMAN They’re impossible to escape: Whether you’re watching television, riding the Metro or scrolling down your Facebook news feed, you’re very likely to encounter the hashtag — or by its older name, the pound sign. And just like everything associated with social media these days, we turned a good thing into a monster.

For many years, my only contact with this symbol was punching in my password before listening to voice mail (though now that seems about as outdated as a Walkman).

But from its ancient origins as a keypad symbol, the pound sign has completed its metamorphosis into the hashtag — a perversion for the worse.

Initially, Tweeps made good use of the hashtag as a way to categorize topics and themes on the website.

During the San Diego wildfires in 2007, blogger Nate Ritter utilized #sandiegofire to help streamline relief efforts for victims and connect them with loved ones across the country. Such phenomena have continued for virtually every major event since, and there is no doubt the hashtag has saved countless lives.

Six years after its benevolent inception, however, the hashtag is now ubiquitous across a variety of platforms, its original purpose thoroughly corrupted. It has transcended its use as a grouping mechanism and instead has manifested itself as a way to say things without

really saying them. It is a prefix for words that do not require any. I recently saw a picture posted with the caption “#bestfriends,” because just saying “best friends” is somehow not good enough these days.

Perhaps my biggest issue with the proliferation of the symbol is that hashtags have somehow managed to lift themselves off the screen and infiltrate our daily speech. I was struggling up a long staircase with a friend, and during our bitter complaining, he made the astute comment, “hashtag ‘I hate stairs.’” I reminded him that the more succinct “I hate stairs” phrase would do, as we were not tweeting, but talking.

Sadly, it seems any resistance to this growing movement would be futile.

Even interlocutors on the highest of stages have made it a point to capture the hearts and minds of teenagers by resorting to Twitter lingo. During a Canadian political debate in April 2011, then-leader of the New Democratic Party Jack Layton accused his opponent of being soft on crime, saying, “We’ve got to protect those vulnerable neighborhoods. And that’s been a hashtag ‘fail’ on this issue.” Of course, Twitter blew up around the time of the reference, but then again, when doesn’t Twitter blow up?

I’m not calling for the retirement of the hashtag. It can be used for very practical purposes, as well as fun and creative outlets for trending topics online. Everything has its place, though, and hashtags belong on Twitter — not as prefixes for phrases that do not require them. Sometimes, words are just words.

Neal Freyman is a senior history major. He can be reached at nfreyman3@gmail.com.

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orn today, you don’t always do things in the usual ways; in fact, more often than not, you will keep your eyes open for the kind of opportunity -- or methodology -- that is downright unusual.

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You may, once or twice, find yourself on the wrong side of the law.

You enjoy being at the center of important affairs, and doing things that will have a lasting impact on your own life and the lives of others.

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LASTING IMPACT | RILO KILEY

By Eric Bricker Staff writer Throughout my time growing up as a kid desperately trying to find his place on the fringes of the indie scene, Rilo Kiley was always one of those bands that was just there, hanging out in the background of The O.C. episodes and adorning posters in the bedrooms of all the cool hipster girls. Jenny Lewis and company made indie pop that sounded like most other mid-2000s pop; her solo work was folksy and approachable, but as a teenager, I never thought it seemed particularly revolutionary or vital.

T hen I turned 20, and everything changed. That’s when Rilo Kiley started making sense: Throughout its decadelong run, the band was always fascinated with transitions and evolution.

W hat makes darkness turn to light?

What distinguishes crazy from healthy?

Why does teenage angst inevitably just fade into adult despair?

And most importantly, what can we do about it?

That’s why it’s so appropriate that RKives, a new collection of B-sides and unreleased rarities from the beloved 2000s group, is being released now, just as the doldrums of winter begin to fade into spring. This is a time of change, the time of the year that cries out for Jenny Lewis’ plaintive coo and jangly guitars. The frost is melting, the rain is coming and the sun could burst out at any time.

Lyrically and musically, Rilo Kiley was always growing, always advancing by leaps and bounds. The slick radio pop of Under the Blacklight, the group’s most recent album, is a far cry from the cutegirl-with-a-guitar shtick of its debut, Take Offs and Landings.

Both albums have musical merit, but they deliberately speak to wildly different ti mes of l i fe; Take Offs and Landings is the sou nd of a wordy, too-smart-for-her-own-good teenager trying — and, more often than not, failing — to find her place in the world.

“How do you do it? And make it seem effortless?” Lewis pleads on “Plane Crash in C,” before a waltzing horn section sweeps in to take the melody — and the pressure — away. “I have no idea what’s been going on lately,” Lewis concludes, and it’s at once a sincere cry for help and a tongue-in-cheek act of defiance from a girl caught between the pangs of adolescence and the even worse pangs of adulthood.

Cont ra s t t h i s w it h , say, “Si lver Linings,” from Under the Blacklight.

Lewis’ earnest questioning is gone, repl aced w it h a wor n-out, sou l f u l c ro on . “ Ho oray, ho oray, I’m you r silver lining,” she sings slowly, lazily.

It’s impossible to tell what’s serious and what’s sarcastic. What’s clear is that Lewis is no longer the fresh-faced girl trying to make a difference. Trying doesn’t matter anymore. Cynicism has taken its toll. The girl who was eager to please is now a woman who’s seen it all.

Digging back into the rkives 2000s indie pop group Rilo Kiley plans to debut a 16-track rarities collection featuring seven previously unreleased songs, stimulating plenty of nostalgia

Rilo Kiley was a group of lost, directionless kids making music about being lost, directionless kids.

And the band nailed it.

That’s why the lyrics that just seemed like clever nonsense as a kid now feel so poignant as an ostensible young adult: I now know what it’s like to move away from home, to get too into alcohol and cigarettes, to “get a real job” and to realize that “there’s no mystery left” (as Lewis does in “Portions for Foxes”), but hope for the best nonetheless. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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WELLS From PAGE 8 season-high crowd of 14,173.

“He just kept getting to the rim,” coach Mark Turgeon said. “He got some early. He was aggressive.”

Once again, Wells carried the offensive load for a young Terps team that has struggled to score on the road this season.

Wells’ 16.6 points per game away from College Park are more than seven points better than any other Terp and easily outpace his home average of 9.3.

He’s also shooting 61.9 percent from the field on the road, a far cry from the 50 percent clip he owns at Comcast Center.

Turgeon attributes the discrepancy to Wells’ grit. The second-year coach regularly calls Wells the Terps’ “toughest player,” and lauds the Xavier transfer’s will to win. Whenever the Terps seem to lose traction on the road, Wells begins using his chiseled 6-foot-5, 215-pound frame to wreak havoc near the basket.

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last week’s extended road trip. After netting four points on 1-of-6 shooting in a Feb. 23 home win over Clemson, Wells returned to what he feels is his biggest strength as a player: driving to the rim.

He passed up open jumpers and muscled his way into the lane during a 78-68 loss at Georgia Tech on Wednesday, notching 10 of his team-high 15 points in the second half. And outside of the end result, Saturday was much of the same. Wells forced his way into the paint and didn’t attempt a 3-pointer for the second straight game.

“I think he’s just aggressive,” guard Logan Aronhalt said. “He’s aggressive with the ball, and when we get down, he can get layups. He’s so strong and can finish on anyone.”

Wells, who leads the Terps with three turnovers per game, has had trouble harnessing that aggression at times this season. He has a tendency to play out of control and sometimes lets miscues derail the rest of his game. But Wells overcame five giveaways and nagging foul trouble

Saturday to help his team avoid yet another road letdown.

After opening the second half with a monstrous steal and dunk, Wells picked up his third foul 34 seconds into the period. Turgeon benched him until a 9-0 Wake Forest run turned an eight-point Terps lead into a one-point deficit four minutes later. Wells didn’t register another foul the rest of the way, scoring 10 points over the final 15:08 to secure the Terps’ first 20-win season since the 2009-10 campaign.

Turgeon called Wells’ ability to avoid tacking on another foul a sign he’s “growing up.” But Paul may not agree. After all, Wells didn’t listen to his elder’s advice Saturday. That’s hardly a mark of maturity.

“He’s just competitive. You know, he’s really competitive for his alma mater,” Wells said of Paul’s halftime plea. “He came here a couple years ago, and he loves Wake Forest as much as he loves anybody.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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AUSTIN From PAGE 8 minutes in a 31-game career, Austin appeared to headed toward another season filled with short, late-game appearances in blowouts.

But the Terps were hit with a barrage of injuries at guard with projected point guard Brene Moseley suffering a torn ACL in the preseason and guard Laurin Mincy suffering the same injury in late November. Soon, Frese needed Austin to play more minutes.

Austin’s previous career high in minutes was 11, which she reached twice last season. She’s exceeded that number in 11 games this season,

including a new high of 26 minutes against Clemson on Feb. 14.

The Greenbelt native has already set career highs this season in most major categories. She’s played in nearly as many games this season (25) as she has in the past two years combined. She’s averaging the most minutes (10.8) and points per game (2.7) of her career, in addition to her best field goal percentage (42.2 percent).

For a team that’s leaned on its frontcourt duo of Thomas and forward Tianna Hawkins for the majority of its scoring this season, she is another element to the Terps’ offense. Nearly every player on the roster — from Rutan to forward Tierney Pfirman to guard Chloe Pavlech — has taken her

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LAMON From PAGE 8 complete her breakout weekend.

“It’s been really nice to contribute,” said Lamon, whose Terps will host UMBC tonight. “[I] don’t get to really play a ton.”

L a m o n ’s o f fe n s ive o u tb u rs t couldn’t have come at a better time for the Terps. When she came in to begin the second half on Friday, the Terps were clinging to an 8-6 lead over

their conference rivals. Her threegoal surge came in the middle of a 5-1 run that would ultimately be enough to fend off the scrappy Cavaliers.

On Sunday, Lamon’s four tallies proved crucial in the Terps’ five-point victory.

“She’s coming in when we need her,” Reese said. “She’s executing our offense. Done a great job.”

After spending limited time on the field during her rookie campaign — she played in just 10 of the Terps’ 23 games last year — Lamon has slowly

star turn as the third scorer. Sunday was Austin’s turn.

With the ACC tournament approaching this weekend, the Terps will be facing familiar foes keying on Hawkins and Thomas, two of the conference’s top players. Austin knows that any impact she can have on the game diverts some attention from the two stars. After all, playing in Hawkins’ last regular season home game Sunday helped jump-start her career performance.

“The theme of the day is the seniors and going into the tournament on a good note,” Austin said. “So I think that’s what really got me going.”

career-high six points in Durham, N.C., on Saturday, Tillman felt Chanenchuk’s journey had finally come full circle.

“Michael Chanenchuk, everybody knows how long his road has been,” Tillman said. “So when he scores a goal, it means a lot to our team.”

And he scored plenty of them against Duke. The junior notched a pair of first-quarter goals and then assisted on a Jake Bernhardt goal with less than a minute left in the frame.

Chanenchuk scored again early in the second quarter, totaling four points in less than 10 minutes of play to lead a 5-0 Terps run.

“We just try to move the ball, make one-on-one matchups and move it,” Chanenchuk said. “The ball moves around a lot in this offense, and a lot of people get involved. That’s what makes us successful.”

He was just the latest Terp to spearhead a balanced offense that leads the nation with 16.75 goals per game. A different Terp has posted a game-high goal total of at least four in each of their four

games, and that doesn’t even include attackman Kevin Cooper, the team’s leading goal scorer.

“It makes it difficult because we have so many guys you have to prepare for,” attackman Billy Gribbin said. “There’s just so many people who can score.”

Chanenchuk carried the load Saturday. His stellar performance propelled the Terps to their third straight road victory and helped them maintain momentum heading into tomorrow’s contest with UMBC — a squad that handed the Terps an 8-7 loss last season.

And that’s where Chanenchuk’s focus lies. The midfielder isn’t interested in reliving his injury-plagued past, just as he’s not intent on admiring his accomplishments. In order to revive his career, Chanenchuk had to look forward, and he expects his team to have a similar mindset.

So moments after a career performance, Chanenchuk’s attention had already shifted to the next challenge.

“We have UMBC coming up, and last year they beat us,” Chanenchuk said.

“These next few days, it’s going to be really buckling down and refocusing our energy toward beating them.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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begun to see the field more this year.

In the Terps’ season-opening win at Richmond, Va., on Feb. 10, she tallied two goals and one assist. Then, in a victory against Duke two weeks later, she notched another goal. But with highly touted freshmen Halle Majorana and Taylor Cummings growing into two of Reese’s favorite options, Lamon found herself at risk of being lost in the shuffle.

Majorana has started all five of the team’s games as an attacker, and her seven points are the second-highest total of the team’s eight freshmen.

Cummings has found even more success. The midfielder’s 14 goals are tied for second on the team, and she leads the Terps with 23 draw controls.

“Our game plan for every game is draws,” Lamon said. “Taylor Cummings on the draw has been great.”

Lamon’s impactful weekend certainly solidified her position as a reliable scoring threat. Tonight, she and the Terps (5-0) will look to secure their sixth straight victory to begin the season when they take on the Retrievers (3-1).

“She’s making a difference,” Reese said after Lamon’s eight-goal weekend.

“She’s finding her openings and scoring when we get the ball in her stick.”

Continuing her scoring barrage won’t be so easy tonight, though, as UMBC goalkeeper Kendall Mason ranks No. 28 in the nation with an 8.75 goals against average.

But don’t expect the attacker to back down. When the Terps take the field at Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex tonight, Lamon will have her sights set at the back of the net.

“It’s been fun,” Lamon said. “We take it one game at a time.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

Midfielder Mike Chanenchuk is one of four Terps to lead the team in scoring in a game. christian jenkins/the diamondback

PIRATES From PAGE 8 early point in the season, Strange said, the players are still getting accustomed to playing together.

The team has lost nine of its past 10 games, with two or fewer runs deciding five of those defeats. Considering the Terps dropped only four games in College Park last season, they are eager for today’s home opener.

“We get to have all of our fans come to our game,” outfielder Nikki Maier said. “It’s nice to play on our field and have the support of Maryland pride.”

Designated player Candice Beards, who has spent the past week recovering from a concussion, may not be able to play this afternoon. She didn’t travel with the team to Florida this weekend, and Watten remains undecided about her status against Seton Hall (5-6).

“We really missed her at bat this weekend,” Watten said of Beards, who

is one of three Terps batting at least .300 this season. “It really hurt us.”

Today’s game is the beginning of an eight-game home stand, and the Terps will look to use the extended stretch in College Park to get back on track.

The team will have an opportunity this weekend to face teams that have struggled to win games. Three of the eight squads it will face during the home stand — St. John’s, Radford and Binghamton — have won a combined six contests this season.

The Terps, who own a .214 team batting average, will also look to improve their production at the plate. The odds are not in their favor today, however, as Seton Hall has held opponents to a .278 batting average so far this season.

But right now, the Terps are just thankful to not have to dart for an airport after this afternoon’s game. “[Traveling] is difficult,” Strange said. “It’s very hectic.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Stealing the show

Chris Paul told Wells to slow down, but forward never let up in 23-point performance

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer

But he broke his collarbone the next fall, forcing him to face the possibility of spending his second season on the sideline in a three-year span.

So Chanenchuk, whose rehab schedule interfered with a rigorous academic workload, decided to withdraw from the Ivy League school. A year after breaking the Tigers’ freshman record with 28 goals, he wasn’t even on a college roster.

Coach John Tillman convinced Chanenchuk to make the move to College Park the following year, and the Poquott, N.Y., native has remained healthy and productive ever since. Last season, Chanenchuk started 17 of 18 games and ranked sixth on the team with 25 points.

So when the junior posted a

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — With only 18 hours to spare from his hectic NBA schedule, Chris Paul returned home Saturday for a celebratory afternoon at his alma mater. He was there to see his No. 3 jersey retired, watch a banner of his likeness hung in the rafters and reflect on a stellar two-year college career.

But the festivities weren’t exactly going according to plan when the Los Angeles Clippers point guard stepped onto the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum hardwood for the halftime ceremonies. With Paul’s old friend Dez Wells crashing the party, Wake Forest trailed the Terrapins men’s basketball team, 30-24.

So the six-time NBA All-Star tracked down Wells — who once played AAU for the Chris Paul All-Stars and had 11 points at the break — on the sideline moments before the start of the second half. He told the Raleigh native to slow down, to not “bust the score open” on Chris Paul Day. Wells ignored his longtime mentor’s lighthearted advice. The sophomore forward continued to bully the Demon Deacons, finishing with a game-high 23 points on 11-of-12 shooting.

He attacked the rim with ease, posted up smaller defenders and didn’t attempt a field goal outside the paint. Wells’ workhorse effort carried the Terps to a much-needed 67-57 win and spoiled an otherwise memorable afternoon for the

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Midfielder Mike Chanenchuk notched six points in Saturday’s 16-7 win at Duke. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Chanenchuk starring in 2nd year with Terps Midfielder scores four goals in win at Duke

By Aaron Kasinitz Staff writer

DURHAM, N.C. — Plenty of Terrapins men’s lacrosse players have turned in dominating individual outings this season, but Mike Chanenchuk’s four-goal, two-assist performance in Saturday’s 16-7 victory at Duke carried a bit more emotional significance than the rest.

After all, the midfielder is a key cog on the nation’s top-ranked team less than two years after his career was in flux.

Chanenchuk landed at this university prior to last season after injuries marred a stint at Princeton. He missed the 2009 season with a back injury, but returned to the field the following campaign and won the 2010 Ivy League Rookie of the Year award.

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Los Angeles Clippers Guard Chris Paul (bottom right) told Terps forward Dez Wells (top right) not to “bust the score open” Saturday at Wake Forest, but Wells didn’t listen. He finished the game with 23 points. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Terps’ long road trip finally over

Austin takes turn in supporting role

Team will host Seton Hall in home opener

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer

Guard comes off bench to score 15 points

By Paul Pierre-Louis Staff writer The Terrapins softball team has a different postgame routine in store today. Unlike the weekends they spent in Florida and California, the Terps won’t have to rush to an airport after their game to catch a flight back to College Park.

After spending the past three weeks on the road, the Terps will play in Robert E. Taylor Stadium for the first time this season when they host Seton Hall this afternoon.

“While traveling is fun, we love playing on our home field,” infielder Juli Strange said Sunday. “There is really nothing better.”

The team is 4-10 so far after facing five Top-25 teams during an arduous 14-game road trip to start the season.

It was a learning experience for a young squad, coach Laura Watten said. After all, the Terps feature 11 underclassmen and boast just four seniors. At this See PIRATES, Page 7

Guard Sequoia Austin provided a spark off the bench in the Terps’ 88-61 victory over Wake Forest on Sunday.

The former walk-on scored 15 points and dished out two assists in 22 minutes. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Throughout this season, the Terrapins women’s basketball team has found sparks in many different forms.

Sometimes the team responds when coach Brenda Frese calls a timeout.

Sometimes forward Alyssa Thomas gets the team going when she drives in the lane for a basket and a foul. Sometimes guard Katie Rutan swings the game’s momentum when she drains a 3-pointer from the corner.

In Sunday’s 88-61 Senior Day victory over Wake Forest, though, the No. 10 Terps’ spark came from an unusual place: the end of the bench.

Guard Sequoia Austin scored a career-high 15 points on 6-of-11 shooting, had two assists and recorded two

steals in 22 minutes. During the Terps’ 15-1 run early in the first half that would ultimately decide the game, the junior scored seven points, including a fast break layup after a steal to cap the streak.

“Once you hit one, every other shot feels great,” Austin said. “I keep getting confidence from my teammates to keep shooting and keep playing.”

Frese pointed to Austin’s energy off the bench as an early boost to the Terps in a tight first half Sunday. A total of five Terps reached double figures against the Demon Deacons, and it was just the second time in Austin’s career she had scored at least 10 points.

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Lamon breaks out with eight goals during weekend sweep Attacker looks to continue surge tonight against UMBC

By Joshua Needelman Staff writer

Outfielder Nikki Maier and the Terps will play their first home game of the season tonight. file photo/the diamondback

Lacrosse is a family tradition for Kristen Lamon. Her father, John, ranks No. 13 all-time on the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team’s assists list, and her two brothers, Matt and John, both played lacrosse at Towson.

So when Lamon committed to the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team, she intended to make an impact on the national stage. But she never got that chance in her freshman season, spending much of her first year in College Park on the bench and scoring just one goal.

So when coach Cathy Reese called on the attacker to start the second half of the No. 1 Terps’ 18-10 victory at No. 10 Virginia on Friday, Lamon didn’t hold back.

She had totaled just three goals through the Terps’ first three games this season, but it took her less than five minutes to equal that mark Friday.

The sophomore scored three goals between the 29:28 mark and the 25:18 mark, and she notched her fourth less than five minutes later.

Lamon found similar success in Sunday’s 16-11 win over Hofstra, scoring another four goals to See LAMON, Page 7

Attacker Kristen Lamon doubled her career goal total in a single weekend, scoring eight combined goals in the Terps’ wins over Virginia and Hofstra. file photo/the diamondback