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Some may see lower tuition with new bill

By Jim Bach Senior staff writer Students who previously could not afford college or would have struggled to earn a diploma may find relief in bills that would make higher education more affordable for certain groups.

One bill would allow members of the armed forces to pay in-state rates for graduate school regardless of the state they are from, while another would shave $1,000 off tuition for state educators or their family members.

While the bill for armed forces members stalled in the House of Delegates Appropriations Committee, this isn’t the first time such a measure has been discussed among lawmakers in Annapolis, and there is still strong support for it.

“I look at the extreme sacrifices that a number of people in our armed forces make on behalf of our freedoms, and I think that’s the very least we could do,” said Del. Michael Vaughn (D-Prince George’s). “It isn’t an easy transition sometimes for them, coming from the armed forces back into everyday society.”

And with the state’s DREAM Act allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state rates if they meet a set of requirements, as opposed to the much steeper out-of-state rates, Del. Warren E. Miller (R-Howard) said the bill is only logical.

“If we’re going to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants, I don’t see what’s wrong with giving See tuition, Page 3

Health and counseling centers hope to add staff

By Savannah Doane-Malotte Staff writer

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The Terrapins men’s basketball team beat Wake Forest, 75-62, in the first round of the ACC tournament in Greensboro, N.C. The No. 7-seed Terps trailed the No. 10-seed Demon Deacons last night by five going into halftime, but coach Mark Turgeon’s speech inspired the team heading into the second half. Forward Dez Wells scored 14 of his game-high 21 points in the second half and guard Pe’Shon Howard shut down Wake Forest star C.J. Harris as the team cruised to a 13-point victory. The Terps will face No. 2-seed Duke in the quarterfinals tonight. For more, check out the sports section on page 8.

More than a month ago, sophomore Juinell Williams attended her first appointment at the Counseling Center for anxiety and panic symptoms; she was told she needed regular therapy sessions and possibly medication. But 44 days later, the behavioral and community health and psychology major still has not received any treatment from the center.

“A month is way too long,” Williams said. “I literally just got my first email from the center yesterday, telling me that I was still on the waiting list. I expected an email way before then, and my anxiety just kept getting worse during the waiting time. I’m lucky enough to live in-state, so I was able to get treatment outside of the university.”

Williams is not alone in her struggle to access campus mental health services.

Rising concerns over this issue have created an See counseling, Page 3

katharine ‘kathy’ lulu walters, 1966-2013

‘The best friend you could have’

By Fola Akinnibi Staff writer gov. martin o’malley met with Student Government Association members, as well as two students who won an SGA essay contest that asked why the state should keep college affordable. The SGA and the winners presented O’Malley with the essays yesterday. sandra müller/for the diamondback

SGA travels to Annapolis to meet with O’Malley Members present governor with college affordability essays

By Sandra Müller Staff writer

ANNAPOLIS — Why should the state keep college affordable?

After the Student Government Association launched an essay contest in November asking students to answer that question in their own words, two of the contest winners and four SGA members went to Annapolis yesterday to present the results — a book with 25 selected student essays — to Gov. Martin O’Malley.

“Last year was the scare of the doomsday budget, and students were really concerned that their tuition might increase by 10 percent,” SGA President Samantha Zwerling said. “So we were trying to figure out a way to get students’ voice to Annapolis without actually physically bringing students there.”

The essay contest, Zwerling added, allowed students to create a tangible product to hold legislators to their dedication to keeping higher education a possibility for future students.

“We tend to lose track of the most important

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issues,” O’Malley said after greeting students in his Statehouse office. “We have to invest in the talents and skills of our people, our next generations.”

O’Malley embraced the idea to hand hard copies of the book to legislators.

“This is a really important message they need to hear,” he said. “Sometimes we stop believing that our actions can actually have an impact.”

A college degree is valuable and should be available to everyone, senior Jeffrey Elizabeth Copeland said, recalling experiences of her friends who could not afford to attend college.

“Education is the great equalizer, giving people of all races, religions and socioeconomic statuses the chance to write their own future and open countless doors for advancement,” the journalism major wrote in her first-place essay.

Affordable education is an issue that affects all students, added Katy Rennenkampf, a senior economics and mathematics major whose essay won second place out of 100 entries.

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Whether she was building friendships through World of Warcraft or cheering on her favorite hockey team, Katharine “Kathy” Lulu Walters was making the most of every moment.

Walters, a Career Center employee whose parents are both university professors, died March 2 after an almost four-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 46.

Even when doctors had to resort to different procedures and new rounds of chemotherapy, Walters stayed “incredibly upbeat,” said her father, William Walters.

Born in 1966, Katharine Walters graduated from Northwestern High School in Hyattsville and took some courses at this university.

She went on to work for phone company Bell Atlantic and, more than 10 years ago, joined the Career Center. The IT data entry operator recently received an award for her service to the school.

William Walters, a chemistry professor, said he was lucky to have his daughter close at hand.

“It was nice to have her on campus,” he said. “I could call her on the phone with just five digits.”

While at work, Katharine Walters’ bright personality brought life to the daily work routine, said Sandra Waldrop, a program management specialist at the alumni center.

When the pair first met 12 years ago, Waldrop was going through a divorce and struggling to find new transportation to work — but Walters helped her through the difficult time.

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katharine “kathy” walters will be remembered for her kind and genuine demeanor, friends and family said. photo courtesy of william walters “She stepped in and gave me a ride to and from work every day for three years and wouldn’t take a thing for it,” Waldrop said. “She’s the best friend you could have.”

Walters made sure she touched base with coworkers often and took the time to get to know them, said Linda LeNoir, the Career Center’s assistant director and Walters’ “walking buddy.”

The two would make sure to find each other after work every day for the short journey across the parking lot, LeNoir said.

Even while Walters was undergoing treatment, she remained dedicated to checking in with her co-workers. Stacy Brown, a Career Center senior program director, called Walters in February to chat and instead fielded questions from Walters about a project.

“It was like she was still working,” Brown said.

“It speaks volumes to her commitment.”

Outside of work, Walters was passionate about ice hockey and video games. She began skating

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Student journalist annapolis censored at event

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Biden’s press secretary apologizes after Capital News Service reporter told to erase photos from camera

By Laura Blasey Senior staff writer Vice President Joe Biden’s press secretary apologized to a university dean and a student after a staffer demanded the student journalist delete photos from a domestic violence awareness event.

Jeremy Barr, a reporter with the journalism college’s studentpowered news wire organization, Capital News Service, was covering the announcement of a new domestic violence prevention initiative in Rockville on Wednesday when a staffer made him clear his camera of all photos he had taken of Biden. The event was open to members of the media, so journalism dean Lucy Dalglish filed an official complaint with Biden’s press secretary, prompting the apology.

Barr, a graduate journalism student who has previously written for The Diamondback as a general assignment reporter, had press credentials but was mistakenly directed to a nonpress seating area. During speeches

by Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder and Sen. Ben Cardin, Barr took photos, notes and audio recordings from his seat to write his story for CNS. Following the event, a staff member pressured Barr to delete photos of the event, he said.

“She said that because I had sat and taken photos from a front area when the press was in the back, I got an unfair advantage, so she would have to watch me delete the photos,” Barr said.

Barr complied with the staffer, who was later identified in a CNS report as Dana Rosenzweig, because he thought he had made a mistake, he said.

She also asked to see his iPhone so she could ensure there were no other photos from the event stored on it.

“I said I hadn’t taken any photos, and she said she needed to see it,” Barr said. “I showed her my iPhone, and she saw that there were no photos, and she even scrolled through my photos to make sure.”

Rosenzweig then spoke with her supervisor and told Barr she was allowing him to keep

his audio recordings because the event was open to the press, Barr said.

Dalglish, a former media lawyer and executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, heard about the incident through Barr’s supervisors at CNS and filed the complaint Wednesday, sending an angry letter to Biden’s press secretary.

“Your staff member’s action was clearly some sort of punishment of the CNS reporter,”Dalglish wrote in her letter. “Rockville is not a thirdworld country where police-state style media censorship is expected.”

P re ss Se c re ta ry Ken d ra Barkoff apologized to Dalglish and Barr on Wednesday.

In a statement to Politico, Barkoff confirmed the event was open to the press and the incident was “an unfortunate mistake by a staffer who does not regularly interact with the press … it will never happen again.”

Adrianne Flynn, Barr’s CNS supervisor and a journalism professor, said CNS reporters have had trouble in the past with difficult law enforcement and government employees, although conflicts don’t normally stem from seating charts.

“I was very angry and upset, and very frosted that the vice president’s press staff would push around one of our reporters like that,” Flynn said.

Flynn placed part of the blame on the way the White House handles press events, adding she hopes this will be a learning experience for the Biden staff.

“It was a full-throated, immediate apology. It is what we asked for,” Flynn said. “My only wish is they would go through and retrain their press staff to deal with situations like this.”

Barr said it was a learning experience for him as well.

“I definitely appreciated that they apologized, and I’m happy to have the situation resolved,” Barr said. “Going forward, I’m much more knowledgeable about my rights as a journalist, and it’s nice to have a faculty that will stand up for me.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

katharine walters was a devoted member of her hockey league team. The Career Center employee died March 2 after battling cancer for four years. photo courtesy of william walters

walters From PAGE 1 as a young girl, and her love for the ice turned into a love for hockey, especially the Washington Capitals, her father said. She even traveled with her adult league team to Toronto for a world tournament.

Walters also built a large network of friends through online multiplayer games such as Asheron’s Call and World of Warcraft.

She even attempted to get Waldrop into the games, though to no avail.

“That’s not really my cup of tea,” Waldrop said with a laugh. “She enjoyed it; that’s what she liked to

do,and she met a lot of people virtually through those systems.”

Walters truly loved people, her father said; she embraced her own quirks and appreciated those she saw in others.

It was a trait Waldrop noticed as well. Walters had an uncommon willingness to accept everyone.

“She did not view people with any judgments whatsoever,” Waldrop said. “She just took you on your level and loved you.”

Walters’ survivors include her parents, William and Barbara; her brother, alumnus David of Poway, Calif.; and a nephew, Adam. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Rennenkampf, a tour guide at this university, talked about the difficulties of explaining the ins and outs of the campus — numbers on tuition and living expenses included — to visitors and prospective students.

“This is the heartbreaking moment when most of the high school students on my tour realize that they will not be able to afford the University of Maryland,” she wrote in her essay.

Both Copeland and Rennenkampf pay their tuition through scholarships and loans. Without such financial assistance, they said it would be hard for them to study at the university.

The printed compilation of essays was part of a range of lobbying activities the SGA has been organizing throughout the semester.

Two weeks ago, about 200 students from this university rallied with the governor in front of the Statehouse, urging legislators to keep

enhanced education funding in the proposed budget for the coming year.

After meeting with O’Malley yesterday, SGA members chatted with legislators about education affordability and other initiatives over scoops of university Dairy ice cream.

“It is great that the student body is so e ngaged,” said Del. Darren Swain (D-Prince George’s). “These advocacy events are crucial to make sure that the students are part of the process that we call democracy.”

While looking at possible budget cuts, it is important for legislators to keep in mind the importance of affordable education, said Del. Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr. (D-Baltimore City) — and the essays presented by university students could add a personal touch to the issue.

“It is enterprising how they blend creative approach with a substantive goal,” said Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery).

By the end of the day, SGA governmental affairs director James Jalandoni said he was happy about 400 staff members and legislators showed up for the ice cream day.

“We had great conversa-

SGA members took to Annapolis on Thursday to meet with lawmakers and Gov. Martin O’Malley, presenting a book of student essays and lobbying for affordable tuition. file photo/the diamondback tions, and the legislators were make sure to continue this effort extremely receptive,” Jalandoni in upcoming semesters.” said. “They were impressed by our level of engagement. We will newsumdbk@gmail.com

MORE ONLINE Remembering the Orange Chicken lost in the Panda Express glass break of 2013 I was sitting in the upper level of Stamp Student Union, enjoying a tasty Salad Works creation and catching up on some Netflix, when a loud bang and the sound of shattering glass pulled me out of my Parks and Recreation haze.

Several other students and I ran over to the balcony to see what had happened. It appeared one of the glass divides at Panda Express — separating hungry students from the food — had broken. Huge chunks of thick glass had scattered all over the floor of the food court and, most importantly, into the food.

The employees looked perplexed for a minute, but then seemed to shrug and start cleaning up the glass. But what happened next — I couldn’t even believe it. It was like driving by a car accident: You don’t want to look but you just can’t tear your eyes away.

They were throwing the food away.

Yes, friends, that’s right. Trays of orange chicken, beef and broccoli and steamed vegetables chucked into the trash. Like they were nothing. Like they were McDonald’s chicken nuggets, for God’s sake. It happened so fast — I didn’t even get to say goodbye. lauren redding/for the diamondback

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counseling From PAGE 1 outcry for the university to better address student needs by decreasing wait times for appointments. The university’s health and counseling centers have requested $500,000 in funding to add more oncampus psychologists, psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners, but officials are unsure when the request will be permitted, said Sacared Bodison, University Health Center director.

“We hope to have the additional funding approved as soon as we can,” Bodison said.

“We really want to improve the experience for students, and adding staff will at least make it so students will not have to wait so long.”

The health center currently employs four psychotherapists and two staff psychiatrists, plus several therapists who come in during peak periods, the equivalent of 7.5 full-time psychiatrists and clinical social workers, Bodison said. She added the center hopes to add a new psychiatric nurse practitioner and extra psychiatrists.

The Counseling Center’s service staff comprises 10 fulltime and four part-time psychologists and counselors, four doctoral psychology interns, and externs and practicum students. In addition, the counseling center has been advertising one psychologist position and has requested to add two more with the funding, said Sharon Kirkland-Gordon, counseling center director.

“The stigma against mental health is changing, which means students are much more willing to seek help, which is good news,” Kirkland-Gordon said.

Sen. Rich Madaleno (D-Montgomery) called for college affordability in 2012 at this university.

Several new bills could lower tuition for certain groups of students. file photo/the diamondback

TUition From PAGE 1 it to our military veterans,” Miller said.

Another bill, which Miller sponsored, would reduce tuition bills for state educators and their families by $1,000. The idea came from Nicholas Green, an 18-yearold legislative intern and student from Glenelg High School, who was given the opportunity to draft the bill through his school’s mentorship program.

“Teachers are probably one of the most overlooked job fields,” Green said. “They’re one of the lowest paid for what they actually do and what service they provide.”

Green said he recognized that within his own family, his mother — who is a state teacher — had to balance her job while also footing the bill for his sister’s education. He said this would provide some relief to several families across the state.

“I realized this is actually kind of a bigger problem than it really turned out to be,” Green said.

In the context of already steep tuition bills in the state, Green added, “it would cut down on some of [the] cost but not all of it.”

Although Miller declined to comment on whether he supported the measure, he sponsored the bill for Green,adding it would be a rela-

tively expensive measure to pass.

“I think it’s a very costly proposition, and I tend to be a fiscal conservative,” Miller said.

The state’s Department of Legislative Services said it would be hard to quantify how many people would benefit from this bill. If only 2 percent of those eligible under the proposed measure take advantage of the bill, tuition revenues would drop $1.5 million in 2014, the department found.

But it has secured some support from lawmakers, such as Vaughn, who co-sponsored this bill along with the measure to lower the burden for members of the armed forces.

“This is something that I don’t have a problem supporting because I think teachers are extremely valuable,” Vaughn said. “Oftentimes, their compensation does not reflect their true value and worth.”

He said he would like to see more than a $1,000 reduction but noted there is a point at which the cost becomes too high for the state.

“I don’t know if that’s a reasonable thing to do, considering other fiscal challenges that we have,” Vaughn said. “I’m just glad to see at this point and time we are doing something to try and address the compensation for our teachers.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

“Adding more staff will definitely help better address these needs of the student body. If we get more staff, we can see more students and reduce the wait time.”

But the proposed number of additional staff members might not be enough to meet students’ increasing demand for mental health services, said Williams, who is also the outreach chairwoman for Active Minds, a collegiate mental health advocacy group on the campus.

“I definitely don’t think that adding just a few psychologists, counselors and therapists is enough,” she said. “I understand that there are funding issues,but we can go without an extra something on campus. We can give that up.”

Demand for these services has continued to increase, not only on the campus, but also across the state and the nation.

Last year, 92 percent of campus counseling centers surveyed by the American College Counseling Association reported the number of students seeking help was on the rise.

At this university, the number of students seeking help for stress, depression, anxiety or other mental health problems has risen 35 percent from 2007 to 2012, according to a Baltimore Sun article.

Active Minds President Jen Robinson said the growing demand for mental health services, along with the hardships of college, require the health and counseling centers to take the initiative to meet student needs.

“College is an incredibly stressful time for students since they are oftentimes away from home for the first time and have to face the pressures of classes, work and activities,” Robinson said.

“This, combined with the fact that the onset of mental illnesses often occur in young adulthood, creates a situation that may lead a student to need help.”

To give students an outlet for concerns about campus mental health services, the Student Government Association, Active Minds and the Help Center have teamed up to create Get Help UMD. Through Get Help UMD, students can anonymously suggest improvements for the health and counseling centers, some of which are then posted on the group’s Facebook page.

In response to some of these concerns, the Counseling Center has developed and implemented changes to reduce the wait time for follow-up appointments, Health Center assistant director Judith Kinney said. For example, several staff members are implementing an “alternative treatment hour,” when students can participate in group therapy sessions.

These sessions, during which six to 10 students meet with a group therapist, are designed to take students off the waitlist at a faster rate and reduce the number of students being placed on the waitlist for individual therapy.

And with SGA meetings, requests from the health center student advisory board and surveys conducted by the center itself, these services are contributing to the effort to find solutions for student concerns, Bodison said.

“We do surveys all the time to try and hear from the student body,” Bodison said. “SGA, as well as [the Graduate Student Government], have made it clear that they are supportive of us to add more staff to decrease the wait times.”

While both centers wait for the possibility of requested funding to go into effect, Williams said students seeking help will just have to continue waiting for treatment.

“The student body has been done waiting since last year,” Williams said. “These issues need to be fixed immediately. It’s people’s health that’s at stake here.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

MORE ONLINE TALE OF A LONELY SPRING BREAKER As I sit here to begin writing this post, I have already wasted 45 minutes surfing the Internet.

No, I am not picking out cruise excursions or lining up tropical drink orders like every single other lucky soul I know. I am simply Googling ways to spend my sunless, bikiniless, cute boy-less spring break.

Every student and his or her mother is cascading off to warmer weather while I am stuck here in College Park (though foreign in its photo used under creative commons by céline vignal own right). Instead of sulking in self-pity, I have decided I can still have fun this week without margaritas and tanned bodies.

Pale is 100 percent the new tan. Have you seen the Twilight series?

This spring break, I’m going to embrace my fair shade and scoff at all of you basking in the UV rays of a strong sun after hibernating all winter. Excuse me while I go raid every local pharmacy’s shelf of aloe vera in spite.

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SEMINOLES From PAGE 8 ranked foe on an extended winning streak. They played tough against No. 25 Virginia — which had won 12 straight entering last weekend — winning Sunday’s game and losing one game Saturday on a walk-off double.

“If you’re intimidated, you’re going to lose,” Szefc said. “We have to go out there and play well against [Florida State] just like we would anyone else. And to be honest, I don’t really care who we’re playing because it doesn’t matter.”

The Terps will get some help from the weather, too. The Seminoles spend most of their time in the Tallahassee, Fla., sunshine, so they could certainly struggle to cope with the mid-40-degree weather forecast for this weekend’s series.

As for Szefc’s squad, they’ve been outside since January, when

INVITATIONAL From PAGE 8 signs for her batters to attack.

It’s a type of assertiveness at the helm the eighth-year coach didn’t endorse in the beginning of the Terps’ homestand.

Watten had a conservative approach before, ordering sacrifice bunts once the team managed to get runners on base. After all, the team had a .214 batting average entering its past eight-game stretch.

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temperatures would barely break 30 degrees. This weekend will be almost tropical by comparison.

“We look at them as a pampered team,” Hagel said. “They’re always in warm weather, always in good conditions. We’re used to the bad weather, and we’re used to playing through it, and I think that gives us a huge advantage.”

There’s no question Florida State is one of the top teams in the country.

Its roster is stacked with future major-leaguers, and they’re proving it with its undefeated record.

But the Terps aren’t scared.

They don’t back down from any team. And that confidence can go a long way in the ACC. “We feel like we have a good chance of taking the series this weekend even though they are No. [12] in the nation. We feel like we can beat them,” Hagel said.

“We can beat anyone.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

But Watten demonstrated more confidence in her h i t te rs o n c e t h ey b e ga n building confidence in themselves. A gradual improvement at the plate has helped the Terps rise to a .262 clip going into their first game of the weekend against Boston University on Friday.

“We were stringing together a lot of hits, and hitting is contagious,” outfielder Nikki Maier said Tuesday. “I think coach Watten was giving us the green light to swing and get some

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Coach John Szefc said the Terps have the ability to beat the Seminoles. The key, he said, is to treat them the same way they would treat any other team. file photo/the diamondback

good hard hits.”

When those hits started to pile up, Watten finally began to see the team return to the same form that helped the team dominate its fall slate.

During that period, the Terps went 7-1, outscoring their opponents 81-15.

T h o u g h e n e rg y l e ve l s haven’t shown any indications of fading, maintaining that confidence will be important when the team enters its last tournament before conference play begins

March 23. They’ll play games against Boston University, Oklahoma State, Temple, Valparaiso and Dartmouth.

And for a team that endured a number of tough losses earlier this season, the hot streak at the plate couldn’t have come at a better time.

“We need to keep doing what we’re doing,” Maier said. “As long as everybody is confident and worrying about themselves, then we’ll do fine.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

the role of idle spectator.

“I didn’t like it at all,” Zimmermann said. “Seeing the team’s success, it really made me want to compete myself. So I worked in the gym, and I put some routines together.”

But after freshman phenom Kathy Tang went down Feb. 2 with an ankle injury, Nelligan called on Zimmermann to help fill Tang’s positions on vault and floor.

Filling in for Tang wasn’t an easy task, though. The freshman had taken the East Atlantic Gymnastics League by storm, winning conference Rookie of the Week multiple times. At the time of her injury, her 39.200 average score was good for No. 2 in the conference.

The Terps were putting together a stellar season, too. Before Tang went down, they boasted a near-perfect record and were ranked No. 15 in the nation.

But Nelligan felt confident turning to Zimmermann. After finally conquering her emotions, the freshman was ready to compete.

“The week before Kathy got hurt, she started to really figure it out,” Nelligan said. “Then when Kathy went down, she knew that was her shot. She took advantage of it. It showed her eagerness.”

And Zimmermann hasn’t let Nelligan down. She has competed in four of the Terps’ last five meets on floor and competed on

“Just walking, especially doing the sport I love, I think about it every day, how grateful I am.”

ALEX ZIMMERMANN Terrapins gymnast

vault in three of them. In her collegiate debut on Feb. 8, her floor score of 9.825 was the meet’s seventh-best, and her 9.700 on vault also ranked in the top 20.

The Sparrows Point native is the only freshman in the Terps’ vault and floor rotations, but Krikorian said Zimmermann has had no trouble acclimating to the college scene.

“She acted as if she had been competing the entire time,” Krikorian said. “Having that confidence really helped us build off of her because we could trust that she was going to hit her routines.”

With only two meets remaining until the conference championships, the Terps will need Zimmermann to continue to step up. After all, she is a key part of the squad’s two highestscoring events.

She doesn’t lead the Terps in any statistical categories like Tang did, but she possesses an uncanny craving for competition that rubs off on her teammates — a craving fueled by her recognition of just how lucky she is.

“I was limited for everything,” Zimmermann said. “Just walking, especially doing the sport I love, I think about it every day, how grateful I am.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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THE DIAMONDBACK | FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013

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OUT-OF-STATE STUDENT BILL

An interesting state of affairs: this university’s enrollment OUR VIEW: It should be this university’s goal to enroll deserving students, not discriminate based on home state.

DIAMONDBACK EDITORIAL BOARD Think about your out-of-state acquaintances, friends and lovers and how much they’ve shaped your experience here.

Now imagine a third of them never having the chance to come to this university.

At this university, we pride ourselves on diversity and inclusion. So a new bill seeking to limit out-of-state student enrollment at University System of Maryland institutions would not only be a contradiction but also an injustice.

The bill, which hasn’t yet passed the General Assembly, would limit out-of-state undergraduates to 20 percent of the student body and outof-state graduate students to 30 percent. The system’s policy already limits the out-of-state undergraduate proportion of the student body to 30 percent, but 66 percent of graduate students are from outside the state.

The question facing lawmakers is whether drastically reducing those proportions is worthwhile.

To this editorial board, it’s not.

University President Wallace Loh continually emphasizes the importance of diversity and globalization. He wants a world-class university — and so do we. Forcing students to adopt an open mind by surrounding them with people from different schools and places with new ideas is valuable for creating the best environment for learning, especially in a fragile economic climate. There isn’t much that’s less global than only encouraging instate students to apply to the university system.

How can we become a world-class school without recruiting the nation’s best students?

Supporters of the bill suppose that in-state students will contribute more to the state economy by sticking around after graduating. But that’s a hypothetical idea based on assumptions. Even if that were true, limiting opportunities for out-ofstate students with an arbitrary cutoff is an exclusionary and discriminatory solution. And tuition rates are already roughly tripled for out-of-state

students, ostensibly in an effort to balance out their expected lack of contribution to the state’s economy before enrolling.

Further, the state’s Department of Legislative Services estimates the university would see a $140 million revenue drop in the 2014 fiscal year if the bill’s proposals were enacted. That’s money no university — especially one facing federal budget cuts and an ACC lawsuit — can afford to lose.

This month, U.S. News & World Report ranked two of this university’s graduate programs as the best in the country. Those rankings and others would inevitably take a major hit from such isolationist policies.

More importantly, the system, and thus the state, could suffer from a brain drain — especially with those studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics, fields generally considered to be critical to future-proofing our economy.

So why penalize out-of-state students for living in a different place than their desired university? The better solution would be to make sure there are incentives to keep every student in the state after graduation.

A recent study found this university to be the second-best state flagship for graduates’ starting salaries, at $50,600. Keeping that money in the state is a valid goal, but trying to limit all the best students from enrolling would lower that average salary for everyone.

By limiting out-of-state populations, this state would be setting a dangerous precedent. If lawmakers are fine with these reductions, how far would they be willing to go?

The system should be actively working to enroll the maximum number of skilled students. Better brains at this university should always be the goal of top administrators. The proposals in this bill are part of an unfortunate, one-sided mind-set, and they should be voted down.

VIEW: As a resident of this great state, I am outraged at how many spots in our primary institution are going to outsiders.

EZRA FISHMAN I would like to paint you a picture of a student. This student works hard, is in a few clubs and contributes to the community as much as anyone else.

But this student is missing something.

Though he tries to fit in, he’s just a bit off. He might eat crab on occasion, but he doesn’t see it as the manna it is. He might go to the football and basketball games, but the defining moments of his childhood weren’t our men’s and women’s basketball teams’ NCAA Championship wins in 2002 and 2006, respectively.

Sure, he may go to this university, but this is not his home. Just look at his dinner — there isn’t even a sprinkle of Old Bay on it.

This student, this out-of-place individual, is an out-of-state student. And everywhere you turn at this university, you can find one. This group of students — foreign individuals from all over the world — makes up nearly a quarter of this university’s undergraduate population and nearly two-thirds of its graduate students.

Though this university is an institution of the state, paid for by its residents, an extraordinarily high percentage of its students aren’t even from around here. These prestigious spots in our flagship institution are going to outsiders, instead of going to the Maryland residents to whom the spots rightfully belong. How did we allow this to happen?

Campus administrators and lobbyists will tell you out-of-state students increase the standing of the university. “We want the best students, regardless of their origin,” they’ll say. “They make our university more competitive with other elite institutions.” I don’t see why that’s the case. The young men and women of our fine state are just as capable as any students from anywhere in the world; we should focus on educating our children, not outsourcing their spots to students from other locales.

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Administrators will also try to convince you with revenue figures. They’ll tell you about how much more out-of-state students pay in tuition than in-state students, and how important that source of funding is. That’s just silly. Instead of relying on outside funding to run our institution, we should just dig a bit deeper into our pockets and charge our in-state students a bit more. If everyone chips in, we can easily raise just as much money in tuition — or even more!

Finally, they’ll tell you about the importance of a diversity of backgrounds and opinions. They’ll preach about the importance of meeting new, different people, about learning from other cultures and about the ever-expanding globalization of information and trade. They’ll tell you the only way for students to learn how to interact with others is to place them in classes with others.

That’s absolutely ludicrous. If we want students to learn about other cultures, we should have them take a class about other cultures. If students want to meet new people, they can use Facebook or Twitter or whatever the newest social network is. To be perfectly honest, the global community isn’t even that important; the university community has everything these students will ever need.

And so, residents of Maryland, I propose we limit the number of out-of-state students we allow into our elite institution. We needn’t entirely eliminate them; as many as 20 percent will still be fine. But any more than that, and we risk allowing our children to lose the state traditions we hold near and dear. Our children deserve better.

Just think of the cap like Old Bay on french fries. It’ll take something wonderful — i.e., our prestigious university — and make it into something we Marylanders can truly be proud of.

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

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Are men finished in today’s world?

ANDREW DO March 8 was International Women’s Day. It was the first time I’ve ever heard of such a day dedicated to just women’s accomplishments and achievements around the world. The subject of women also came up this week with Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s secondin-command, promoting her book on the talk-show circuit about the need for women to “lean in” and take on men in the corporate world. Everywhere I go, I hear the discussion of women’s accomplishments — news articles, news broadcasts, documentaries and even in class.

With the dominance and the rise of women, many have posed the notion that it leaves no room for men, and the fact is, men are finished.

The argument is that women make better leaders. Three of the past five secretaries of state were women. For the first time, 20 sitting U.S. senators are women. Congresswomen have sponsored and co-sponsored more bills with bipartisan support than their male counterparts.

In terms of education, women make up more than half of college students and professional school attendees today. More women are graduating with a college degree than men — for every two college degrees earned by men, three are earned by women. In the

workplace, women are surpassing men in obtaining managerial positions — women make up more than 50 percent of all American managers.

But when it comes to being “equal” to men, women aren’t quite there yet.

Women run only 4.2 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Men file more patents than women, meaning the field of technology is still dominated by men.

There are two plausible reasons for why we don’t see women in the forefront: Women are still stigmatized in society, and women aren’t willing to take risks (according to people like Sandberg).

In society, although women are attributed with characteristics that make them better politicians, CEOs or even broadcast journalists, Americans still favor seeing men at the realms of these jobs. For example, in a 2008 Pew Research survey, when asked about characteristics regarding political leaders and which gender was superior in those particular categories, an overwhelming majority said women were more honest, intelligent and compassionate.

Men and women were tied for which gender is more hardworking. But then when asked who would they prefer to see in political office, less than 10 percent said they prefer to see a woman. The same goes for broadcast journalists.

Americans are more willing to believe a news story is reliable if it comes from a woman, but when asked if they prefer women or men anchors, an overwhelming majority prefer men.

The other reason, according to Sandberg, is that women are not insistent enough. When it comes to accepting a job, men are more likely to negotiate their pay, while women, a majority of the time, just take it as is.

When given the option to move up the corporate ladder or stay comfortable in their current position, women prefer to stay comfortable because they believe advancing onto a higher job will cause them to neglect their families.

So how do we change this? The notion that men are finished and unneeded is not the way to look at it. It’s not about “girls rule and boys drool” but should be about how men and women can form a symbiotic relationship and work together so both genders flourish.

Men still make up half of this country and are responsible for half of the people holding the stigma. Men are the husbands who, along with women, can help care for the family so a woman can move up the corporate ladder. Men currently still hold the top jobs in society and working with them can help women gain these top jobs.

The discussion shouldn’t be about one gender rising while the other one remains stagnant, but should be about how men and women can form a more symbiotic relationship in order to advance women, but also make men and women equal partners in society.

Andrew Do is a senior biochemistry major. He can be reached at doandy09@yahoo.com.

Several times over the past few weeks, I have walked around cold College Park with a shivering lady by my side. Though none of these girls have ever been a significant other of mine, a postmodern love buddy or a proverbial notch in my bedpost, every time the wind whips and things get frigid, I offer them my coat — and every time, I get turned down.

I offer it to them partially because I usually have a whiskey jacket on anyway, but mainly because I was raised to be a gentleman.

As a gentleman, I am expected to pick up the occasional bill, buy the occasional drink, open the occasional door and wave encouragingly and acceptingly as the last of the lifeboats are lowered into the icy Atlantic. Save for the last one, I have done all these things — and almost every time I do, I get ridiculed, stared down or denied outright.

After all the denials toward these chivalrous gestures, you’d think I’d stop offering. But I don’t, because the fact that these senseless rejections keep happening fascinates me. Why do all these freezing females choose to brave the cold when I’ve offered to briefly shelter them from it? What about the thirsty gals who deny my free, no-strings-attached beverages? The polite and sensible ones use pride as their defense, which is the acceptable alternative that stems from feminism. But the mean ones, the 99 percent, reject my gentlemanly gifts because they wrongly assume I have ulterior motives — that I want a drink to mean more than just a drink.

But who can blame them?

It seems to me that the age of ladies and gentlemen is dead and that we are now living in a world (ushered in by Facebook) populated

by femme fatales and zombies. Ladies have been transformed into highheeled heartbreakers, and gentlemen have become brain-dead idiots with a healthy appetite for flesh. Thanks to Facebook, a site whose only purpose appears to be women validating one another’s looks and men coming along for the ride, we now have a continuous, 24/7 stream celebrating superficiality.

Ever consider the effect this has on our real-life interactions?

Think about the old romantic scenario where a boy asks a girl to dance.

Remember the first time that happened to you? How embarrassing and awkward it was? How nervous you were when it all went down? Regardless of the result, that scene is awesome because it’s a miniature lady and a miniature gentleman acting accordingly — being polite above all else.

Now, flash forward to the last couple you saw dancing at the unfortunately well-lit dance floor at R.J. Bentley’s. Did the gentleman nervously and politely approach his lady, tap her on the shoulder and humbly ask, “Miss, would you like to dance?”

Or did he silently come in, guns hot, frontside to backside, sucked in again by the unstoppable gravitational pull of another lady butt?

It’s a sad realization that ladies and gentlemen are being drowned out by their degenerate brothers and sisters.

It’s even sadder that those who try to keep fighting the good fight are being branded creeps because of their vague resemblance to the actual creeps. It’s sadder yet and more frustrating that we know who’s to blame. I mean, if we were playing the board game Clue, my guess as to who murdered chivalry is a tie between women in the bar with short skirts and men at their computer screens with their pants down.

So, who wants a drink? I’m buying.

Drew Farrell is a senior English m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t dfarrell@terpmail.umd.edu.

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orn today, you are a creative and hard-working individual, able to stick with a project through thick and thin until you have either achieved your goals or exhausted every possible chance for success. You’re not the kind to keep toiling away at something when you know you cannot win, and you consider failure a form of learning. You have something of the visionary about you, and the ability to transform even the most unusual or outrageous ideas into reality. Others are sure to look to you when such ideas are called for in all manner of situations.

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stoker ? i barely know her Korean director Chan-wook Park’s English-language debut is a heady, satisfying thriller, interspersed with shots that “play out like visual poetry”

By Eric Bricker Staff writer Some thrillers are roller-coaster rides, all about the noise and the flash — grabby and fun, yet ultimately hollow. Some thrillers ratchet up tension through cheap jump scares; others reach for heavy psychodrama or shocking twists.

And then there are odd little thrillers like Stoker, an ambling, lurid fever dream of a film that builds up walls of atmosphere and layers of tension, only to tear them down and start from scratch at a moment’s notice. It’s a wildly unstable, hyper-stylish and occasionally breathtaking piece of filmmaking, both deeply indebted to and gleefully eager to subvert the tropes of the well-worn psychological thriller genre.

On her 18th birthday, India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska, Lawless) comes home to find that her father (Dermot Mulroney, New Girl) has died in a car accident, leaving her alone on an enormous country estate with her icy mother (Nicole Kidman, Hemingway & Gellhorn). When her estranged uncle Charles (Matthew Goode, Burning Man) comes to stay with the grieving family, India quickly becomes infatuated with the charming, enigmatic stranger.

To say any more would be to spoil the film’s many twists and turns, which

unfold at a deliberate, almost leisurely, pace. Unlike so many of its kind, Stoker is a film to savor and unpack (and one that will almost certainly reward multiple viewings). It’s a supremely confident, self-assured piece of filmmaking, particularly considering it marks the screenwriting debut of actor Wentworth Miller (Prison Break) and the English-language debut of director Chan-wook Park (Thirst).

Park brings much of the same gloriously off-kilter, anything-goes energy that made his Korean films (including the brilliant martial arts epic Oldboy) so delightful. But here, this energy is subdued and restrained, only bursting forth in moments of shocking hyper-violence and coursing through the film’s sugarysweet, oversaturated color palette.

Still, Park has a keen eye, and many moments of the film play out like visual poetry — a lingering shot on a box of shoes becomes an ode to a girl’s relationship with her father; a tracking shot of a woman’s hair flows into wild grasses, blurring the line between refinement and savagery. Park — along with cinematographer Chung-hoon Chung — also seems to delight in toying with American settings for the first time: The film subtly makes domestic Americana decor seem alien, pulling menace out of the mundane.

This lingering sense runs through the cast, which largely delivers its lines as if on sedatives. It’s a jarring, stylized choice, but one that pays off richly as the film goes on and the walls between characters begin to break down.

Wasi kowska plays dead-eyed innocence with the best of them; her India is a portrait of restraint, a l l long sta res a nd even-keeled smiles, only breaking down when

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In fact, Lee Daniels’ disastrous Paperboy may serve as a nice companion piece to Stoker, as both thrillers

try to wring shocks out of brightly colored, sexually explicit psychodrama. But while Daniels’ film descended into sugary exploitation groping at meaning, Park’s Stoker turns what could be a light confection into a feast for the mind — a visually rich and narratively daring treatise on maturity, family and sexuality. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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Terps outscored the No. 10-seed Demon Deacons, 45-27, in the second half to clinch a date with No. 2-seed Duke in tonight’s quarterfinals. The victory gave the Terps a 2-7 record when trailing at the half and helped them move past a late collapse at Virginia four days earlier.

“Our energy was down,” Wells said. “We had to pick our energy up; we had to make good plays and be smarter than we were in the first half. So we made the necessary adjustments and we came out with the win.”

It was a night-and-day showing. After tallying 10 turnovers during the first half, the Terps (21-11) slowed down the pace offensively and notched only three after intermission. They locked down defensively, too. The streaky Demon Deacons (13-18) shot 36.4 percent in the second half, and guard C.J. Harris netted just six points after entering the break with 13.

In case coach Mark Turgeon’s halftime speech didn’t resonate, Wells made sure to provide a spark. The forward attacked the basket at will early in the second half, scoring 12 of his team’s first 16 points in the latter frame. The outburst gave the Terps a 46-45 lead with about 13 minutes remaining and seemed to liven up the young team.

Leaning on their inside-out principles, the Terps pieced together a 10-2 run to take an eight-point lead with 4:43 remaining. Wake Forest, which has struggled down the stretch all season, couldn’t muster a comeback and dropped its third game to Turgeon’s squad this season. “ We d i d n ’t wa n t to go home,” said guard Pe’Shon Howard, who finished with a season-high 10 points and helped shut down Harris in the second half. “We were deter-

Terps have only trailed once all season, and it lasted for less than two minutes in the first quarter of a 12-10 victory at then-No. 1 Loyola on Feb. 23.

So how can the Terps match an opponent’s intensity when they’re the team to beat? It’s not easy, coach John Tillman said. The Terps can’t become satisfied with their performance. They have to continue to critique themselves.

T illman plans to weed through film of his topranked scoring offense and s e c o n d - ra n ke d s c o r i n g defense to find areas for improvement. He’ll implore AllAmericans such as goaltender Niko Amato and long pole Jesse Bernhardt to fine-tune their already impressive skill sets and urge his coaches to push the team harder.

After all, the third-year coach believes everyone else is getting better. So if his team isn’t, they won’t stay atop the polls for long.

“You have to find ways to improve, to get better even when you’re winning,” Tillman said. “You hope you don’t need a loss to do that, and I don’t think our guys do.

They are still working just as hard at improving, and you have to keep that up.”

The Terps have not yet allowed national acclaim to derail their hot start. Since Inside Lacrosse first ranked the Terps as the top team in the country nearly three weeks ago, they’ve earned convincing victories at No. 17 Duke, 16-7, and against Stony Brook, 13-7.

It’s a familiar place for the program to be in, too. The Terps own a 17-8 record alltime when ranked as the nation’s top team.

Guard Pe’Shon Howard scored a season-high 10 points while playing sound defense on Wake Forest guard C.J. Harris. charlie deboyace/the diamondback mined, and we really felt like we were together. We really picked each other up.”

After trading buckets much of the first half, a James Padgett free throw gave the Terps an 18-15 lead with 7:51 left before intermission. An 8-1 Wake Forest spurt forced Turgeon to call a timeout less than two minutes later, but the Demon Deacons seemed inspired.

De te r m i n e d to p ro l o n g an otherwise disappointing season, Wake Forest used extra passes to find open players near the basket and took a 29-22 lead with 3:43 left.

“We didn’t know whether we were coming or going really

on defense in the first half,” Turgeon said. “[Wake Forest] executed well, made some good plays and really did a great allaround job.”

With the season at a breaking point, the Terps responded after halftime. Wells had seven points within the first two minutes en route to a gamehigh 21 points, and that 10-2 rally ultimately proved too much for Wake Forest.

The Terps will hope to maintain that pressure tonight against a Blue Devils team that is 18-0 with a healthy Ryan Kelly in the lineup. But the youthful bunch wasn’t ready to focus on the nation’s No. 2

team moments after putting the finishing touches on a muchneeded comeback last night.

It was still just reveling in a rare moment. For one of the few times in a lengthy campaign, the Terps responded when facing a halftime deficit. And that’s nothing worth taking lightly in a season marred with letdowns.

“I think we wanted it more,” center Shaquille Cleare said.

“We wanted to win. We knew [at halftime] we could’ve played a lot better. Coach at halftime told us the game wasn’t over, and I think the guys just picked it up a lot more in the second half.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

“You have to find ways to improve, to get better even when you’re winning. You hope you don’t need a loss to do that.”

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“It might add a tiny bit of pressure, but I kind of like that role,” senior midfielder Landon Carr said. “We take the mind-set that everyone wants to beat us, and it’s our job to prove them wrong.”

But with everyone out to beat the Terps, the team seems bound to slow its offensive pace at some point.

The Terps’ .417 shooting percentage is easily the top mark in the nation, and they’ve earned plenty of extra possessions thanks in part to Charlie Raffa’s .644 faceoff percentage, which ranks fifth in the country. But if they slip in one of those areas tomorrow, Villanova won’t hesitate to take advantage.

The Wildcats, after all, have held early leads against fo u r to p - 2 0 tea m s t h i s season. They eventually fell short in each of those games, but they’ve been battletested. And of course, Villanova is geared to give the Terps its best shot.

The Terps like it that way, though, because Tillman’s words can only do so much.

He needs motivated opponents to remind the Terps they can’t afford to relax.

“It’s something we talk about every week — and really everyday — with our team, is us pushing ourselves and challenging ourselves and moving on from the week before,” Tillman said.

“You have to hold yourself to high standards.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

STATLINE Terps men’s basketball guard Seth Allen’s performance in a 75-62 win vs. Wake Forest

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SECOND-HALF Spark

Terps serve as target for other teams Team offers Villanova chance at defining win

By Aaron Kasinitz Staff writer There’s a different feeling surrounding the Villanova men’s lacrosse team this week. Players are more dialed-in than usual, moving around the practice field with a heightened sense of urgency. Even the Wildcats coaching staff is a bit more eager for tomorrow’s game against the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team to arrive.

If Villanova were to knock off the visiting Terps, it would receive instant national attention. A victory would likely bolster the Wildcats’ recruiting efforts in the talent-rich Baltimore area, too. But above all, tomorrow’s game serves as an opportunity for Villanova’s players to establish a careerdefining moment.

So why would this week be like any other? It’s not often the Wildcats get a crack at the nation’s top-ranked team. “[Beating the Terps] would put us back on the map,” Wildcats midfielder Max Hart said. “It’s definitely a huge opportunity for us.”

The No. 1 Terps will have to contend with that mentality at Villanova (1-4) tomorrow and when they host No. 8 North Carolina (3-3) the following Saturday. If their fast start persists, the Terps (5-0) will likely end up facing especially inspired opponents all year long.

That’s where so many potential pitfalls lay for the Terps. They don’t have anything to prove.

But other teams do. All 22 media members who vote in Inside Lacrosse’s weekly poll selected the Terps as the top team in the country this week. The See WILDCATS, Page 7

Forward Dez Wells and the Terps responded to one another’s encouragement at halftime, turning a five-point deficit into a 13-point win over the Demon Deacons yesterday in Greensboro Coliseum. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Wells explodes for 21 points as Terps rally past Wake Forest to advance to ACC tournament quarterfinals

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer

THE MATCHUP

GREENSBORO, N.C. — It was the same tired story. After spending much of the opening 20 minutes fumbling the ball and allowing open jumpers, the Terrapins men’s basketball team entered halftime at Greensboro Coliseum last night staring down a five-point deficit.

For the ninth time this season, the Terps would need to battle back

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WHERE Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, N.C. TV ESPN2/ACC Network DATA The Terps and Blue Devils have split the season series this year. Duke won, 84-64, in Durham, N.C., on Jan. 26, and the Terps won, 83-81, in College Park on Feb. 16.

after intermission if they wanted to secure a win. But this time was a bit different. A loss would mean a firstround exit in the ACC tournament.

It would end any far-flung NCAA tournament aspirations, and put even an NIT appearance in doubt.

So during the intermission of

an eventual 75-62 win over Wake Forest, a desperate squad talked about keeping an up-and-down season alive. Players encouraged one another to lock down defensively and focus more on offense. After all, there may not be another chance to remedy nagging errors.

They responded. With forward Dez Wells leading the way before a home-state crowd, the No. 7-seed See DEACONS, Page 7

GYMNASTICS

The long road back Zimmermann returns from severe neck injury to make impact with Terps

By Joshua Needelman Staff writer

Right Fielder Jordan Hagel and the Terps are just 2-28 all-time against Florida State in Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium.

Hagel said he hopes this weekend’s colder temperatures slow the Seminoles down. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Dominant Seminoles head to College Park Florida State is 64-5 all-time against Terps

By Daniel Popper Staff writer The Terrapins baseball team has historically had very little success against Florida State.

Since joining the ACC in 1991, the Seminoles are 28-2 in the Terps’ Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium. They lead the all-time series between the two teams, 64-5, and they have only dropped two games against the Terps since 1998.

Unfortunately for coach John Szefc, No. 12 Florida State looks poised to continue its dominance over the Terps in their three-game series this weekend.

The Seminoles have won 16 straight games to start the season and are ranked second in the nation in on-base percentage (.446), third in walks (101), fifth in ERA (1.73) and ninth in runs scored (134).

“You really have to play clean baseball, and you can’t make a whole lot of

mistakes,” Szefc said. “You can only give them three outs. You have to play really good defense and limit the freebies you give out as far as walks and hit-by-pitches. They’re 16-0 because they’re really good.”

But this season is different for the Terps. They are 9-0 so far on Shipley Field and have displayed much more confidence playing in their own ballpark.

“We love playing at home,” right fielder Jordan Hagel said. “We’re definitely calmer, and we have the fans behind us. We’re used to playing at home, and there’s a comfort level. On the road, you can get calls against you and you worry about the factors you can’t control. Here, you know what you’re going to get every time.”

This weekend also isn’t the first time the Terps have faced a nationally See SEMINOLES, Page 3

Alex Zimmermann lay sprawled behind the vault horse, unable to move her neck. She had sprinted across the vault runway thousands of times, but this time, something went wrong.

Zimmermann, who had already committed to the Terrapins gymnastics team, was practicing with her club team, Skyline Gymnastics, about a year ago and overran the apparatus, landing on her neck. She broke not one, but both sides of a vertebrae, exponentially increasing her chances of being paralyzed.

But Zimmermann got lucky. She wasn’t paralyzed, her neck healed and she eventually resumed gymnastics activity. This weekend, she’ll compete for the Terps in a tri-meet at West Virginia tonight and a quad-meet at George Washington on Sunday.

“A lot of people, they would break their neck and it would be the end for them,” senior Ally Krikorian said. “It’s a scary thing to go back and compete. … For her to overcome every fear and every doubt she’s had to step up and compete for us is phenomenal.”

While Zimmermann didn’t lose the ability to walk, she almost considered walking away from the

sport. Following the injury, she couldn’t even picture herself doing gymnastics without reliving the accident in her head.

She ultimately decided to give the sport another shot, though. She was cleared from rehab the day before the Terps began boot camp, and she started the rebuilding process.

But as the Terps began the regular season, coach Brett Nelligan elected not to include Zimmermann in any of the team’s starting rotations. Zimmermann, who had starred on her club team, had difficulty assuming See ZIMMERMANN, Page 3

SOFTBALL

Terps hope bats stay hot at Under Armour Invitational in Florida

By Paul Pierre-Louis Staff writer During the intermission between games of its doubleheader on a chilly Tuesday evening, the Terrapins softball team and its opponent, Hampton, showed contrasting ways of coping with the weather.

After their team talk, the Pirates sat static in the dugout in relative silence, shoulders shrugged and arms crossed.

On the other end of the field, the Terps formed a circle in the outfield, bouncing about and exchanging laughs with one another. When it was time to take the field again, the team refocused and let

its bats erupt for 17 hits in a 13-5 win.

The Terps are finding a way to channel their bundles of energy into consistent offensive production, coach Laura Watten said, a trend she hopes they build on going into their third and final regular-season trip to Florida for the Under Armour Invitational this weekend.

But reaching their comfort zone in the batter’s box has been a process for the Terps. The exuberant young bunch has had troubles with efficiency before, and Watten has been searching for ways to keep her hitters on an even keel.

Not long ago, Watten found herself

having to pull her players aside during at-bats to calm them down before they approached the plate again.

“There’s been so much of us just stepping in and swinging,” she said after a 10-9 win over Binghamton on Sunday. “I just have been trying to get them to slow down and not freak out.”

The message was well received, and Watten did not have to confront her players nearly as much in the past two games. Instead, she stood in her natural spot beside the third-base line the majority of the night, sending See INVITATIONAL, Page 3