March 30, 2015

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100 students march, protest on Fraternity Row Demonstrators rally against racism, sexism in Greek life, leave signs in front of Kappa Sigma

By Josh Magness and Morgan Eichensehr @josh_mag, @MEichensehr Staff writers Senior Moriah Ray stood on the sidewalk in front of the Kappa Sigma fraternity chapter house on College Avenue Friday afternoon, leading a group of about 100 students in chants through a bullhorn.

“Hey, hey. Ho, ho. These racist frats have got to go.”

“No justice, no peace. No racist, sexist Greeks.”

The demonstration was part of an event held in protest of a recently surfaced email sent by a former Kappa Sigma fraternity member in January 2014 that included racist and sexist language and the phrase “f--- consent.”

“This is not just about the email but the culture that that email represents,” said Ray, a government and politics major and vice president of this university’s NAACP chapter, which helped organize the event.

Students participated in a sit-in at Stamp Student Union’s food court

and then marched across the campus and along Fraternity Row before ending at the Kappa Sigma chapter house, which is located off the row.

“Today, we want to stand in solidarity to symbolically say, ‘We don’t support racism, we don’t support sexism and we don’t support rape,’” said Colin Byrd, the chairman of national membership for this university’s NAACP chapter.

A group of student organizations participating in the protest called for this university to increase funding for diversity studies, make the Nyumburu Cultural Center a stop on campus tour routes and require diversity a group of men looks on from the steps of the Lambda Chi house as students protest on Fraternity Row on Friday See protest, Page 2 after a racist, sexist email sent by a former Kappa Sigma fraternity member leaked. rachel george/the diamondback

A cappella group wins finals spot Faux Paz secures first trip to finals since 2002

By Michael Errigo @M_Errigo Senior staff writer Michael Brisentine, the musical director of Faux Paz, had trouble finding words to describe how he felt after his a cappella group placed first in the annual regional competition Saturday.

The group the senior has called home for four years won the International Championship of Collegiate A Capella semifinals, earning a trip to the finals for the first time since 2002.

Faux Paz finished third in the regional competition during Brisentine’s freshman year, and fourth during his sophomore and junior years. Now, in the fifth-straight year Faux Paz has made semifinals, the group is set to head to New York City in April as one of the seven best college a cappella groups in the nation.

See finals, Page 2

JOINING ELITE COMPANY P. 8 forward aja ellison cheers from the bench during the No. 1-seed Terps’ 65-55 victory over former ACC rival No. 4-seed Duke in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament Saturday night at Spokane Arena in Spokane, Washington.

The Terps take on No. 2-seed Tennessee tonight in the Elite Eight in Spokane with a second straight Final Four appearance at stake. Last season, the Terps upset the Lady Volunteers in the Sweet 16. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

Panel shares stories of converts to Islamic faith

Senators unanimously vote against 2012 ‘rain tax’ Water management fee remains controversial

By Josh Magness and Aisha Sharipzhan @josh_mag, @aishasharipz Staff writers

Event highlights local convert community

By Lexie Schapitl @lexieschapitl Staff writer When Lauren Schreiber converted to Islam, she had bright blue hair, multiple facial piercings and “interesting clothing.”

Schreiber was working full time at a swimming pool but did not have a swimsuit that was suitable for her new religion. She had also released an album of original music that she could no longer promote because the music did not align with Islam.

Schreiber said the social aspects of converting to Islam became less challenging over time because of community support, such as one woman who taught her how to pray

Anika Ingram, a lawyer, speaks about her conversion to the Islamic faith at the Muslim Student Association’s Beyond My Story event held in the Charles Carroll Room on Friday. tom hausman/the diamondback and guided her through the conversion process.

“As a community, we have to do better,” Schreiber said. “How many people are out there right now who

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The state Senate unanimously voted earlier this month to remove stormwater fee requirements for property owners.

Passed in 2012, the stormwater fee — which many opponents call the “rain tax” — required the state’s 10 largest jurisdictions, including major counties and Baltimore City, to assess a fee to property owners and use the funds for stormwater management.

Both Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. and Gov. Larry Hogan introduced bills into the Senate to loosen requirements in the Watershed Protection and Restoration Program.

Miller’s bill passed the Senate

on March 20 with a 46-0 vote, a strong bipartisan compromise that gave exemptions to “veteran organizations,” according to The Washington Post. It also allowed counties to opt out of paying the fee as long as they find another way to fund anti-pollution efforts that the federal government requires.

The bill will now be sent to the House of Delegates, which will vote on it before the session ends April 13.

The funds from the law previously went toward methods to slow and filter stormwater runoff and minimize pollutants entering the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding waterways.

This new vote has prompted varied opinions from student leaders, local officials and environment specialists.

Ben Kramer, the president of this university’s College Democrats, said he is “OK” with Miller’s bill, as long as the state finds other ways to meet federal fundraising requirements See tax, Page 3

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Students support charity with 5K run Miles for Smiles event draws about 150, raises money for Honduran children

By Rokia Hassanein @rokiahass Staff writer

students march on Fraternity Row Friday afternoon to protest in light of the university’s response to the racist and sexist January 2014 email. rachel george/the diamondback

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before you make a judgment, and I think you have to have an investigation,” Loh said.

The student who wrote the offensive email will not be returning to the u n iversity th is semester “by mutual consent between the student involved, his family and the Un iversity,” Clement’s email stated.

Department of Fraternity & Sorority Life Director Matt Supple also attended the event, along with University Police Chief David Mitchell. Supple said he wanted to reiterate that Greek life at this university is “no place for hate.”

“We take an oath to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States, and that certainly includes the First Amendment, which is free speech and freedom of assembly,” Mitchell said.

A Shuttle-UM bus and some passi ng ca rs on Route 1 honked in support as the crowd of students held up signs and chanted on the march toward Fraternity Row. As students arrived at the row, they shouted to some smiling fraternity members watching from the steps of their chapter houses.

Most of the fraternity members outside sat and watched, though some took selfies and filmed protesters as they passed.

Later, some students not affiliated with the protest laughed and danced to the beat of the protesters’ chants.

“To a lot of people on the other side, they do think this is a laughing matter,” Ray said after encouraging the protesters to leave their signs in front of the K appa Sig ma chapter house. “W hile they are laughing, hopefully we are working with the university and implementing policies to get rid of the racism and the misogyny on this campus.”

Mu ltiple fratern ity members watch i ng the protest on the row declined to comment.

t r a i n i n g l e d b y m i n o rity student organizations during fraternity and sorority recruitment.

Protesters also called for the renaming of Byrd Stadium.

Its namesake, former university President Harry “Curley” Byrd, was known as a strict opponent to racial integration at this university.

“To h ave t h at stad iu m named after him … it’s confusing and objectionable,” said Colin Byrd, a senior sociology major.

Un iversity President Wallace Loh attended the sit-in part of the event.

“I am here in solidarity with students who are expressing the core values of this university — of respect, diversity, of safety — and to stand up against racism and sexism,” Loh said.

University officials have responded to the email incident by announcing the creation of a multicultural student advisory group that will work with Loh on diversity issues. The Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life also announced mandatory training programs on sexual assault prevention, multicultural competency, hazing prevention and drug and alcohol education for all Greek life members beginning next year, according to a campuswide email sent Wednesday night by Linda Clement, the student affairs vice president.

S e ve ra l s t u d e nt s c o nfronted Loh during the sit-in, asking why officials did not take harsher action against the writer of the email. They complained this university had not reacted as swiftly as the University of Oklahoma, which expelled two students in that university’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter after a video of its members singing a racist chant went viral in earlier this month.

Loh wrote during a March 13 Twitter chat that the university wou ld fol low due process before taking action in response to the email.

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A university social awareness course encouraged five students to take classroom lessons and turn them into a fundraiser for underprivileged kids in Honduras.

The students used social media and word of mouth to inspire about 150 runners to come to the new organization, Miles for Smiles, for a 5K run yesterday afternoon.

“Miles for Smiles emerged as a way to support a great cause through a fun, collegefriendly event,” said Linda Powers, a senior cell biology and genetics major and Miles for Smiles founder.

Hondu ras is a mong the poorest countries in Latin America, according to World Vision, with 60 percent of Hondurans living beneath the poverty line. With such a high poverty rate, many cannot afford the oral care t hey need. T h is ca n lead to gum disease and dental problems, according to this university’s Do Good Challenge website.

The group created a GoFundMe account in February which raised $3,538 of its $4,000 goal to provide dental care to children in Honduras,

Finals From PAGE 1 “It’s just hard to find the words,” said Brisentine, a senior music education and vocal performance major. “It means everything.”

At Drexel Un iversity in Philadelphia on Saturday, the group solidified its ticket to the Big Apple with a 12minute set, put together just for ICCA season, that helped the group get first place in the quarterfinals weeks earlier.

The group chose four songs they hoped could show off their talents and appeal to the crowd in terms of familiarity, including “Come Into my Head” by Kimbra, “La La La” by Naughty Boy, “Gone”

by Lianne La Havas and “Take Me to Church” by Hozier. “ W h i l e w e w e r e p e rform ing, I thought it was going relatively well,” said freshman business student and Faux Paz member Todd F l e m i n g. “ I w a s e x c ite d about how it sounded. It’s hard to focus on that sort of thing in the moment, but I thought that what we were doing in that moment was the resu lt of a lot of ha rd work a nd was somet h i ng that was rea l ly musica l ly beautiful.”

The group finished with

said Laura Gonzalez, one of the organization’s founders. “ We ra i s e d t h e mon e y by m a k i ng a huge on l i ne a nd so c i a l me d i a p u sh ,” the senior communication major said. “We really used the power of crowdsourcing and online word of mouth.”

T he ru n bega n at McKeldin Mall before participants looped around campus through Regents Drive, Farm Drive a nd Stad iu m Drive before ending back at the mall. Miles for Smiles will be taking part in the Do Good Challenge this year, Gonzalez said.

“People got really excited and were inspired to help w ith ou r m ission to ra ise money for children in rural Honduras,” Gonzalez said.

“But they lacked the motivation to take the step to commit to actually running in the 5K.” Senior Lilybelle Davis said seeing Powers’ enthusiasm for the 5K influenced her decision to join Miles for Smiles.

The event benefits Honduran children as well as this university’s dental branch of Global Brigades, an international nonprofit organization that works with volunteers to improve com mu n ities’ health and economies. The group will receive a portion

365 points, 42 points ahead of second-place Vocal Point from the University of Delaware. Off the Beat from the University of Pennsylvania finished third with 311.

“No matter what would’ve happened, we would have been proud, but it was just nice to have that recognition and proof that people are liking what we’re doing,” Brisentine said.

Fa u x Pa z w i l l joi n t h e w i n ners of t he si x ot her semifinal regional competitions in New York City’s Beacon Theatre on April 18: Voices in Your Head from the University of Chicago, The G-Men from the University of Michigan, Baylor VirtuOSO from Baylor University, Vassar Devils from Vassar College, The SoCal VoCals from the University of Southern California and the United Kingdom champions, All the King’s Men from King’s College London.

For now, the group will head back to rehea rsa l — which the group cites as the cornerstone of its success.

“We have put in a lot of hours and there’s been very little complaining, very little negativity,” Brisentine said.

“Everyone’s excited to go to rehearsal and we’re excited to do the best we can do. At the end of the day, we’ve tried

Sophomores Aliza Layman, left, and Tamar Brown, right, finish the Miles for Smiles 5K run on Sunday. About 150 runners participated in the charity event. sung-min kim/the diamondback of the fundraising money as a scholarship subsidy.

“As an economics major, I’ve never participated in dental-type organizations,” Davis said. “But I could tell immediately that Miles for Sm i les was specia l, a nd I knew I had to be a part of it.”

Davis said setting up a nd promot i ng t he event was ch a l leng i ng because ma ny students a re not aware of oral health issues a nd the cha l lenge they present to underprivileged populations.

“A n o t h e r p r o b l e m w e faced was showing people that this was a worthy cause to donate to and participate

in — no matter if your major is neurobiology, engineering or dance,” she said.

The inspiration for creating the group came after taking BSOS 388D: Behavioral and Social Sciences Special Topics; Innovation and Social Change: Do Good Now. “T he oppor tu n ity to plan an event that benefits members of our global community has been one I will not soon forget,” G onzalez said. “T he ladies I am working with have made this event enjoyable. We hope to see lots of Terps ru n n ing miles and giving smiles.” rhassaneindbk@gmail.com

a cappella group Faux Paz members pose together after placing first in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella semifinals this weekend. photo courtesy of faux paz really, really hard.”

But effort would be nothing if it weren’t for the group’s chemistry, senior Lynique Webster said. “ We j u s t g e t e x c i t e d m a k i n g m u s i c to ge t h e r, even just standing in a room together,” the music education major said. “When you can stand in a room with a group of people and say, ‘I love them’ without having sung two notes — that’s what makes us finals-worthy.”

The efforts that landed Faux

Paz in the winner’s spot reflect the larger journey they’ve taken to get to this point.

“Having been in the group for only a semester and a half, I get to take part in multiple generations of si ngers, people that have been in this group and have furthered it in ways I can’t even imagine,” Fleming said.

“To be a freshman now and to be reaping the benefits of that is absolutely surreal.” merrigodbk@gmail.com

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exposed to Islam in college.

She said she worried about losing her family’s support after she converted.

“My parents made it very clear that they didn’t agree with my decision,” she said.

“They were going to argue against it, they were not happy about it, but we were still going to be family.”

Her brother, however, stopped speaking to her.

She said it was difficult to deal with her brother’s reaction, but the experience taught her to be patient, negotiate differences and find commonalities with others.

In December, Olson said, her brother started talking to her for the first time in two years.

Junior education major Saera Suhail, who was born Muslim, said hearing the panelists’ honest stories cou ld help her a n swer questions about Islam in the future.

“You never know when you’re i n that position where you have a nonMuslim friend who wants to know more about Islam,” Suhail said. “Because I got their firsthand perspective of their journey, maybe that might help me to explain to a potential convert.”

Omar Khan, the president of the MSA cabinet a nd a Mu sl i m , sa id he wa nted to hea r d i f ferent perspectives to understand the convert experience.

Khan, a senior business management major, said he has not experienced discrimination for his religion on this campus, but knows others who have. “ P e o p l e a re u s u a l l y pretty accepting,” he said.

“There’s a lot of misconceptions that people have in their ideas about Islam, so I have always had to deal with that, wherever I was, at the University of Maryland or not, and I think that’s going to continue until we continue to break down these barriers between us.”

About 50 students gathered in the Charles Carroll Room of Stamp Student Union on Friday for “Beyond My Story,” a panel discussion about converting to Islam held by the Muslim Students Association.

Beyond My Story is “dedicated to celebrating the identities of our converts,” MSA Vice President Shani Banks said. The senior psychology major converted to Islam two years ago after learning about the religion from MSA events.

“There is a convert community here, and these are our stories, and this is why they’re important, and it’s kind of part of our identity as Muslims,” Banks said.

Mikaeel Smith said he grew up in Buffalo, New York, “lost between drugs and girls and cars.” The imam embraced Islam after he read a Quran at Barnes & Noble, and it was “as if the author was somehow talking to [him].”

Smith urged the audience to support new Muslims and bring the religion to others who a re i ntere s te d . “ He doesn’t need a thick book,” Smith said. “He doesn’t need YouTube videos. He or she just needs a brother or sister to drink coffee with, to chill with, to study with. That’s it.”

Anika Ingram, an attorney and Anne Arundel Community College professor, converted to Islam after her two brothers did so. She said she was concerned at first about how cl ients a nd students might react when she began wearing a hijab, but now she enjoys engaging with others about Islam.

“Islam for me is something beautiful,” Ingram said. “It’s not something that you wear as a chip on your shoulder, that you’re apologizing for. You don’t apologize for who you are.”

Jennifer Olson, graduate coordinator for interfaith programs and spiritual diversity for the Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy, said she grew up in a devout Protestant family and was first lschapitldbk@gmail.com

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volunteers sort food donations at the Good Neighbor Day held in the College Park Community Center Saturday. The annual event brought 340 people this year. tom hausman/the diamondback

Good Neighbor Day draws largest crowd College Park event brings 340 to community Center for 5K fun run, free health screening

By Eleanor Mueller @eleanor_mueller Staff writer More than 340 residents, city officials and students braved unseasonably cold weather Saturday morning to participate in the fifth annual Good Neighbor Day, he ld at t he Col lege Pa rk Community Center.

This university, the city of College Park and the Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission collaborated to host the day of service, which took place from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Saturday marked the event’s highest turnout ever. Participants enjoyed a range of activities, including a 5K fun run, free health screenings, workshops, beautification projects, a food drive and an exposition featuring local organizations.

“As we strive to make this a stronger community, Good Neighbor Day has been one of the key elements,” said Gloria Aparicio Blackwell, this university’s community engagement director and chair of the Good Neighbor Day Planning

Committee. “All the organizations that are part of the community become part of making that community vibrant, beautifying spaces that we all use.”

The event kicked off with its first-ever 5K run/walk around Lake Artemesia, part of a three-race 5K series hosted the School of Public Health’s Lose It to Win It program.

Then, at 9 a.m., volunteers in bright yellow T-shirts split into groups to sort donations or participate in one of three beautification projects at Paint Branch Elementary School and local parks.

“One of the key themes is bringing the University of Maryland and community members together to create a sense that this is a common space and we have all invested in it,” said Tricia Homer, assistant director of the Office of Community Engagement. “The more people can connect, the more we can really build a community.”

Homer, also a resident, said the event holds special meaning.

“There’s a lot of distrust between residents and the

community,” she said. “This is an opportunity to really get to know each other.”

Sierra Kel ley-Chu ng, a sen ior i nd iv idua l stud ies major, and Hannah Breakstone, a senior international business and supply chain management major, came as part of activist group Community Roots. Breakstone is also the student coordinator for Lakeland STARs, a collaboration between this university’s College Park Scholars program and Paint Branch Elementary.

“It’s good to make a connection between the university and the community, because in my experience there’s no interaction,” Breakstone said.

“We share backyards, so there should be.”

Resident Adele Cerrelli, who g radu ated f rom th is university in 1980, said the event represents an improvement in cooperation since her time as a student.

“I like the outreach between the two,” Cerrelli said, taking a break from planting shrubbery.

“When I was at Maryland, there was a lot bigger separation between the school and the town, and now both groups are making a lot more effort.”

Resident Jack ie Pea rce Ga rrett, a member of the

Campus houses biggest trees in county TAX From PAGE 1

State program tracks largest trees of county species, finds 19 at U

By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow Senior staff writer A Siber i a n el m t ree on Regents Drive rises high above the ground, casting shade over the plants growing near it.

A Japanese lilac tree next to Symons Hall sprouts leaves that brush up to the second floor of the red-brick building.

A laurel oak behind Knight Hall towers over its surroundings.

These trees, and 16 others on the campus, are the biggest re p re s e n t a t ive s of t h e i r species in Prince George’s Cou nty, accord i ng to the Maryland Big Tree Program, which tracks the largest trees in each county.

T h i s u n ive rs it y b e g a n keeping track of its 19 “champion trees” five years ago, said Karen Petroff, assistant director of arboretum and horticultural services.

“We were really able then to reveal some great assets to Prince George’s County,” Petroff said. “It’s just always very gratifying to hear how interested people are in excellent specimens of different species.”

The university is able to sustain these trees thanks to strong support from inhouse arborists and maintenance staff, said Maryland Big Tree volunteer coordinator John Bennett. The soil on the campus is also ideal for growing, he said, because it’s not too rocky.

This Laurel Oak tree, located near the Benjamin Building, is the biggest representative of its species in Prince George’s County, according to the Maryland Big Tree Program. The program tracks the largest trees in each county. sung-min kim/the diamondback “It’s not unusual for such a big campus be able to offer support, especially when it’s an older campus like Maryland,” Bennett said.

Prince George’s County keeps track of 115 different tree types, said Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission park ranger Chris Garrett, who travels this state measuring trees. The champions are constantly changing as the older trees die or are damaged by weather.

The county began tracking champion trees in 1986 based on a formula created by Maryland’s first state forester, Fred Besley. To measure a nominated tree, officials use a pointbased system that involves adding the tree’s circumference, height and one-fourth of its length from branch to branch, Garrett said.

M a n y o f t h i s c a m p u s’ champion trees, such as the Chinese parasol tree, hold records due to their species’ scarcity in this state, Garrett said. Many uncommon trees grew thanks to professors who planted and cared for them throughout the years for educational purposes, Petroff said.

“It’s really about something that connects us to the history and heritage of the institution,” Petroff said. “It’s something that shows the permanence of the university. … It’s about all the people who came before us, and the passage of time and the development of a culture at the university that values that canopy, that sense of place.”

Tree preservation is difficult on the campus because of frequent construction proj-

ects, Petroff said. Although facilities management will try to relocate trees or build around wildlife, sometimes nothing can be done about trees located near construction sites or necessary utility sites, she said.

Recently, Facilities Management removed a daw n redwood to continue building the Edward St. John Learni ng a nd Teach i ng Center between Campus Drive and McKeldin Mall.

“There are always people wanting to cut down trees,” Garrett said. “But [the Big Tree Program]is a way to get people interested in looking out for them. It’s a way to get people to look at the trees around them and get them thinking about the big natural world.” jsnowdbk@gmail.com

Col lege Pa rk Com mu n ity Foundation board, stressed the importance of residents seeing students engaged in their community.

“It’s critical residents see the university outside the walls of campus and see that the university is very invested in their community,” she said.

After the leak of an offensive former Kappa Sigma member’s email and the backlash it provoked, it’s especially important that the university take measures such as Good Neighbor Day to bolster its reputation, Blackwell said.

“This is a way for us to say, hey, we’re doing good,” she said.

Though university President Wallace Loh was scheduled to attend, he was unable to make the event, so Carlo Colella, the vice president for administration and finance, spoke at the closing ceremony in his place. Mayor Andrew Fellows and state Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Prince George’s and Anne Arundel) also spoke.

“T he themes here a re about partnership and how we can do together more than when we work individually,” Colella said. “A lot of people get credit today.” emuellerdbk@gmail.com

management act because “it is not only about protecting Chesapeake Bay, but also the watersheds that go into it.”

The 2012 law is popular in Prince George’s County, Fellows said, in large part because of its Rain Check Rebate P rog ra m, wh ich offered money to property owners who installed rain barrels and other stormwater runoff controls, among other community services.

Though Republicans suggest using money from the state’s budget rather than outside fees for these initiatives, doing so could result in a lack of funding for other community services such as education or public safety, Dindinger said. “[The fee] is the best way to guarantee that you’ll have a funding source… and is a way of making sure that you are paying for the solution in a proportion to the impact you are having,” Dindinger said.

Another component of Miller’s bill required jurisdictions to confirm to taxpayers that it was a local tax, not a state one. This message was added to the bill because of residents’ negative views of state taxes.

Dindinger is concerned that if the bill becomes law, it would slow down stormwater management projects, and he claims that state or federal grants to local governments for these projects would be insufficient.

“We need to ma ke su re we maintain our pace, if not pick up our pace, to manage stormwater,” Dindinger said, “especially in these urban areas where the impact is just growing.”

to clea n up the Chesap e a k e B a y. H o w e v e r, Kramer said he objects to the “rain tax” nickname.

“This is the mechanism t h e s t a t e go v e r n m e n t created to comply with [the Environmental Protection Agency],” he said.

“It’s not a tax for every rain drop that falls; it just deals with runoff and cleaning the bay.”

Jennifer Dindinger, regional watershed restoration specialist with this university’s Sea Grant Extension, said urban stormwater is the fastest-growing sector of pollution coming into the bay.

Though the bay needs certain amounts of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphor u s, pol lut ion levels are becoming dangerous, she said.

“T here’s too much of [these nutrients] in the water,” Dindinger said.

“The plants that are there can’t grow, which means the animals like striped bass and crabs that use the underwater grasses for their nursery, basically, don’t have a place to hide and [can’t] grow to be a bigger size so they can withstand predators.”

T he money f rom t he fee went toward restoration projects such as rain gardens, bioretention or removing impervious surfaces, Dindinger said.

A nd rew Fel lows, the mayor of College Park, said he both personally and professionally supported jmagnessdbk@gmail.com, the original stormwater asharipzhandbk@gmail.com

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his state’s education system is among the strongest in the nation, but not all residents have the same access to it. Fortunately, legislation aimed at helping low-income students get to college is well underway. The House of Delegates passed a bill by Del. Alonzo Washington (D-Prince George’s) by a 131-5 vote on March 19, while a Senate version sponsored by Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Prince George’s and Anne Arundel) passed unanimously two days later.

The widespread support for the bills is a commendable demonstration of this state’s commitment to education, and Washington said he expects Gov. Larry Hogan will follow suit by signing the legislation into law. Perhaps one reason for the bipartisan support is that Washington’s and Rosapepe’s bills do not propose a new government organization; instead, they would create a fundmatching program to empower nonprofits that are already working with students around the state.

Fe d e ra l d a ta s h ow t h a t t h i s state’s residents are already relatively successful in attaining higher education. In 2010, this state had the ninth-highest percentage of college graduates, according to the U.S. Education Department, with 45.5 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds holding a degree.

But achievement is far from equal across the state. In Prince George’s County, 29.8 percent of residents ages 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree — well below the state average of 36.8 percent — ac-

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cording to the U.S. Census Bureau.

In adjacent Montgomery County, that figure is 57.1 percent. Those rates are both better than they were in 2000, but the gap has increased, from about 11 percentage points to more than 27.

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A recent bipartisan state bill would improve chances for economically disadvantaged students to obtain an education.

Income is likely a factor in the discrepancy — compare the median household income of $73,623 in Prince George’s to $98,221 in Montgomery. And, as with bachelor’s degree attainment, income disparity is also on the rise: Montgomery County’s median household income was 29.5 percent greater than Prince George’s’ in 2000, but 33.4 percent greater in 2010.

Higher education is likely to be an even greater factor in income in the future. A report from Georgetown University estimates that by 2020, 65 percent of jobs will require more than a high-school diploma, compared to 59 percent in 2010. So while a vast majority of state residents have graduated high school — and between Prince George’s and Montgomery, the graduation gap is only a few percentage points — the value of a high-school education is predicted to slip even more than it already has. If a college degree is

the employability baseline of the near future, then this state must work harder for equity in higher education.

The rest of the state is not waiting for lawmakers in Annapolis to solve this longstanding problem. Several colleges at this university already hold competitions and initiatives to raise interest in and access to higher education, for example, this university’s Physics Summer Outreach Program, aimed at girls who are interested in physics, or this university’s annual High School Mathematics Competition, through which students from this state and Washington can win scholarships.

But this university and its students can do more to help.

For low-income high-school students, knowledge about the admissions process and financial aid is a prerequisite for successful entry into college. The bills going through the legislature aim to help organizations that teach students how to successfully apply for college.

Who else knows how to get into college? Every current student at this university — otherwise we wouldn’t be here. We could be a valuable resource for aspiring college students, whether through university-sanctioned outreach programs or just by talking with younger neighbors back home.

We students have been fortunate enough to reach this university, with its effective professors, chances for growth and diverse community. We can and should use our experience to help others reach those same opportunities.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

Protecting freedom of speech h o u se . A p os te r p ro m o te d o n # OccupyStamp on Twitter reads, “ ‘ Fre e S p e e c h ’ E q u a l s ‘ F * c k Consent’,” which sounds acceptable to me. Freedom of speech does indeed allow people to say very nearly anything they like.

It’s disturbing to know that someone believes rape is OK, but it would be far, far more disturbing to know that someone isn’t allowed to believe rape is OK because we’ve made thinking illegal.

Similarly, the aforementioned group of students who called for the expulsion of the former member of Kappa Sigma are spiting themselves in their eagerness to divest themselves of a constitutional right. The viral email did not constitute harassment. It did not aid and abet rape. It spoke positively about an illegal act, but that isn’t illegal in itself.

I’ve gotten mail that was offensive to me. I’m not here to chase anyone out of school for it. Should we decide to expel any student who sends a private email containing content in some way offensive to an individual not in the conversation, I think half the campus would have to leave.

In light of this, I want to say I recognize how significant it is that the university did not outright throw this student out. I can’t imagine he wanted to stay, especially after he was removed from Kappa Sigma, but the formality acknowledges that it was the public reception of his private message — and a retreat from the negative reception by the community — and not a punishment for his speech by the university.

University President Wallace Loh’s emphasis on due process and free speech in his responses has been commendable. His assertion that this is a social issue, not a case against individual speech, has been the right move.

A real inquisition into the roots of racism, sexism and misogyny in Greek and campus culture could be valuable. If people are motivated enough by this to advocate for measures that go against the First Amendment, I think we have enough momentum that tackling the real issues should be a cakewalk.

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’ve seen prejudice. I’ve been a victim of it, I’ve witnessed it and I’ve fought it in myself.

I’ve seen more of it in my four years at this university than ever before in my life. So imagine my surprise when I find that everyone here was just lying in wait all this time for today to start the witch hunt that would end it.

I do emphasize: witch hunt. It’s hard to imagine that the former Kappa Sigma fraternity member responsible for the viral email would be leaving this campus through “mutual consent,” as described by Student Affairs Vice President Linda Clement in her email to the campus, when he’s become the figurehead and the piñata for the major social ills on our campus. Protesters asking for his expulsion are literally standing at his doorstep.

Eve n i n t h i s s i t u a t i o n o f tension, I’ll stand by this: Racist and sexist language is not illegal.

Disapproving of consent also is not illegal. They’re not commonly moral, but they’re protected free speech. Kappa Sigma can expel members for whatever it likes, but the university has a responsibility to uphold students’ First Amendment rights.

I know that once this email went viral, there was never a chance the sender could finish his studies at this university.

But despite how unpopular his beliefs are — ones I do not share — it’s our responsibility to try to welcome everyone to this campus. We don’t have to like all our classmates. But, we don’t have the right to exile the classmates we disagree with.

Student responses to the email have been mixed, and I understand that one set of voices does not speak for the whole. Using this moment to shine a stronger light on campus culture as some have done is late and lazily opportunistic but beneficial.

On the other hand, using this as a chance to end freedom of Emma Atlas is a senior government speech is like setting your car and politics major. She can be reached on fire to put one out in your at eatlasdbk@gmail.com.

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Remove racist relics from the campus Buildings and awards at this university should not remind us of Harry Byrd’s segregationist efforts

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cross the country, we are treating racist events as singular, independent occurrences that are not indicative of a greater societal problem. Whether we verbalize it or not, we all know this issue exists and has existed since the country’s inception. Tragedies such as the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and Eric Garner are not isolated incidents, but rather the results of a deep cultural flaw.

Moreover, college campuses, often heralded as hotspots of liberal behavior and beliefs, are far from free of this culture. Incidents like the racist chant from a University of Oklahoma fraternity or the racist and misogynistic email that has torn our campus apart help to shed light on our flawed culture, but those are only the instances of people getting caught. It is frightening to wonder

how many conversations are had, emails are sent, jokes are made and chants are sung in private that perpetuate prejudice.

On our campus, this email has made members of our community feel isolated, disconnected, disrespected, unwelcome and unsafe. That is unacceptable.

No member of our campus community, regardless of race, gender identity, sex, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, should ever feel that way.

Our university has responded promptly to this situation and has taken steps to address it. What impact the response and proposed actions will have to stymie this behavior has yet to be determined, but by no means can we pat ourselves on the back and say we have addressed this problem.

We cannot remain reactionary and wait for another horrifying event

to catalyze action to ensure every member of the campus feels equally protected, welcomed and included.

We must proactively eliminate all elements of and opportunities for discrimination at our university.

I am far from an expert on diversity, but others on this campus are.

Student leaders are working incredibly hard to eliminate discrimination on our campus and have brought a clear opportunity to do so to the forefront: changing the name of Byrd Stadium and the Byrd Citizenship Prizes.

Harry “Curley” Byrd has a storied history at this university. He was a student, professor, coach, athletic director and ultimately the university president from 1936-54.

Undeniably, Byrd influenced the university in many positive ways and truly dedicated his life to this school. However, during his time

as president, he adamantly opposed admitting black students and was a firm believer in the “separate but equal” college system.

So, as we continue to face systemic racism today, not only nationally but right here on our campus as well, is it not wrong to name one of our campus’ most prominent features after a man who firmly believed in segregation? Is it not wrong to name an award for graduating seniors “who during their collegiate careers have most nearly typified the model citizen” after a man who fought to ensure white students were not subjected to the atrocity of sitting in a classroom with black students?

It is wrong.

And just as the recent racist email has made members of our community — our family — feel isolated, disconnected, disrespected and un-

welcome, this is unacceptable and needs to change.

In all capacities, the university should strive to remove discrimination from our campus, and regardless of Byrd’s positive contributions, we should not force members of our campus community to feel disrespected and unwelcome in this manner. So, as we fight to remove discrimination from our campus in the present, let’s also strive to put all relics of racism and segregation from the past behind us. Doing so would be an important and symbolic step forward in the continuing battle for equality and justice on our campus.

Ori Gutin is a junior e n v i ro n m e n t a l s c i e n c e a n d policy major and member of the Student Government Association. He can be reached at omgutin@gmail.com.

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REVIEW | WAKE UP!

awakening a movement Wake Up! at The Clarice sold out all its shows and included dance elements to highlight black advocacy

By Danielle Ohl @DTOhl Senior staff writer Streamers and posters lined white cinder-block walls.

A steady stream of people crowded into a narrow, dimly lit hallway. Bass thumped and lights flashed from the doorway ahead.

“Can I get your hand, man?” asked someone with a stamper blocking the entrance. Freshly inked, the audience walked into the theater.

The past weekend’s Second Season production of Wake Up!, which ran at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, was an exploratory mash-up of dance and theater based on Spike Lee’s film School Daze. It invited its sold-out audience to bump, grind and reflect on the state of race at this university.

“The audience is with us on this journey,” said Meghan Abadoo, a dance graduate student and Wake Up! co-director.

Abadoo conceived the idea after she fell in love with the song “Good and Bad Hair” from the original School Daze, which depicts life at a fictitious historically black college. The

song represents a struggle between what is natural and what is considered “normal” — coiled hair versus straight hair.

“I first saw this film when I was 5 or 6 and [the “Good and Bad Hair” scene] was so inspiring to me as a young black girl,” Abadoo said.

“IN ONE ACT, YOU’VE GOT TO SAY A LOT. YOU’VE GOT TO SAY IT ALL.” MEGHAN ABADOO

Co-director of Wake Up! After plans to receive the screenplay and rights to produce School Daze fell through, she invited university alumnus Vaughn Midder to help create the production.

The pair decided to adapt the 1988 indie favorite to fit a typical homecoming weekend at this university.

Midder, who modified the screenplay for the site-specific performance, wanted to focus on the intersection of race and class for a black student at a major public university. “ My f i rs t d ra f t o f t he play was sort of a rewriting in modern-day, but after reading it over, we realized

that wasn’t our intention,” said Midder, who graduated from the theater school. “We picked out the things that are most provocative and the more we talked about it, about the show, we started to get a much greater vision of School Daze today.”

Abadoo built the storyline of Wake Up! around her strengths as a choreographer. The musical moments separated different dialogue-heavy vignettes, each of which showcased a different element of the students’ experience: the black student union failing to meet the needs of its members, a fight that breaks out at a racially unbalanced fashion show, a “jukejoint” talent show, two male students arguing about what it truly means to be black at a predominantly white school.

“When the dialogue occurs, I wanted it to be right on point,” Abadoo said. “In one act, you’ve got to say a lot.

You’ve got to say it all.”

The interactive performance balanced the silly with the serious. The opening scene was not a scene at all, but a house party in full swing, featuring a DJ and pulsing strobe lights — as entertaining as an actual rager.

“Part of [the dancing] was up to us and the other part was choreography,” said Olivia Lynes, a dance major and a dancer in the show. “It’s broken down for the audience to enjoy and play with as well.”

Audience members danced throughout the performance to classics off the School Daze soundtrack, giving the whole production a surreal, movie-inreal-life edge. The time-twisting scenes of different collegiate goings-on showcased the boiling issues that seem stark and unsettling once the sun rises after the night of the party.

Though at times disorienting, dancing to “Da Butt” (as silly as it was) served as an oddly sobering experience.

In Wake Up!, once the music stopped and the dancing ended, the reality of human discourse slammed back with full force, especially in the confusing yet passionate throes of college advocacy.

Wake Up! used movement as a mouthpiece, transforming Spike Lee’s larger-than-life indie musical into a nostalgic, hip-hop-tinged portrait of the black college experience.

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we didn’t start the fire St. Elmo’s Fire, which filmed its campus scenes at this university’s Fraternity Row, celebrates coming of age after college graduation

By Zoë DiGiorgio @zozoembie Staff writer If you look at the 1985 edition of the Terrapin yearbook, you’ll notice that even after 30 years, some aspects of life at this university never change.

Students and football fans packed campus parking lots on game days to tailgate before flooding Byrd Stadium.

R.J. Bentley’s was the go-to haunt on Route 1 for thirsty Terps. Students protested for causes they cared about, participated in charity dance-offs to fight cancer and lounged around McKeldin Mall on sunny days.

It was the first year students were able to register for classes using a computer. Commencement ceremonies had just begun giving personalized experiences for students by offering multiple graduation ceremonies.

But though there is no mention of it in the yearbook, that summer, the campus got a taste of Hollywood.

When Georgetown University officials refused to allow the crew of the movie St. Elmo’s Fire to film on their campus, the crew instead used this university to stand in. According to the university archives, the Sigma Kappa sorority chapter house stood in for an academic building while the grassy lawn of Fraternity Row

st. Elmo’s Fire ‘s campus scenes were shot on Fraternity Row. photo courtesy of movie-tourist.blogspot.com stood in for the mall in a shot early in the film.

It’s been nearly 30 years since the release of St. Elmo’s Fire, the Brat Pack film that shows the ’80s teen stars growing up. Though critics mostly panned the film, it touches on a period of life that most Brat Pack films and even modern movies shy away from: the onset of adulthood. St. Elmo’s Fire was one of the first films to look at the period of transition between college and postgrad life, which has been the coming-of-age point for many young adults in the past several decades.

For many in my generation, the idea of starting a career right out of high school is preposterous. While movies love to show the crazy parties and a cappella tournaments of the undergraduate career, they fail to

address what happens after we’ve managed to wrap up our finals and throw the last red Solo cups away.

Life does not fade to black after we hug our friends goodbye one final time at graduation, and St. Elmo’s Fire embraces this idea. The movie opens with a shot of friends walking together at graduation; what looks to be the happy ending of one story is merely the backdrop to another narrative — one laden with uncertainty, mistakes and regret.

The film seems to pose a question to the audience: What happens when the identities we spend four years carefully concocting are put to the test in the harsh light of the world outside the shelter of the university?

Though the movie has aged a bit, the situations and characters presented in the film feel very familiar even today.

Andrew McCarthy plays the brooding writer who wears his cynicism as a badge of honor. Despite being out of college, McCarthy is trapped in the teen angst that most usually outgrow by sophomore year.

Playing complete foils to their characters in The Breakfast Club, Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson portray the typical college couple that everyone assumes will stay together forever after graduation. Nelson’s Alec is the spitting image of every ambitious government and politics major around campus. Ruthless and morally flexible, Alec is the ultimate sellout; formerly the president of the Young Democrats, he is willing to work for a Republican senator to reap the benefits of a bigger paycheck — a nightmare, but a very real choice for many students working in politics.

A dreamy young Emilio Estevez portrays Kirby, who works as a waiter at St. Elmo’s Bar (the Cornerstone of Georgetown) to pay his way through law school.

The movie features quite a few moments that seem woefully removed from the situations of modern college graduates. Perhaps the biggest slap in the face is the bevy of shots of spacious apartments the recent grads were living in. Comfortable living is a dream for

many students following college, but the ridiculously roomy apartments and lofts in Washington provided a bit of false hope for me as I watched this movie early in my undergraduate career.

What’s perhaps most interesting — aside from bad-boy Rob Lowe’s flowing mane — is how the lives of these characters seem fairly static after graduation. Aside from having jobs, they all act as if they are still in college. They live in the vicinity of their alma mater, and until the end of the movie, they continue to hang out at the same watering hole they did as students. While quite a few Terps go on to get jobs in the area, many of us are separated from our friends after graduation as we head either home or beyond the area to seek a new career.

While St. Elmo’s Fire might not be the best post-college movie, it’s an important reminder to undergrads to prepare for the changes that await after graduation. While it’s not bad to hold onto the people and place we enjoyed, we must not forget to embrace change and continue growing, even when the socalled “best years of our lives” are behind us. zdigiorgiodbk@gmail.com

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BROWN From PAGE 8 seat on the bench with 11:28 left, she remained there with her shoulders hunched for the next 11 minutes.

But even with their floor general — one of 10 semifinalist’s for the Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year — scoring one point, the No. 1-seed Terps advanced to the Elite Eight with a 65-55 win over No. 4-seed Duke.

“I’m able to get the pulse of our players and I felt Lexie struggling through most of the game,” Terps coach Brenda Frese said. “I kept trying to get her back and get her energy and get her confidence. I just felt like in the second half, I had to make a decision, a tough decision obviously. Just didn’t feel the energy was there.”

Frese turned to redshirt junior guard Brene Moseley, who has plenty of postseason experience, to run the offense while Brown sat. Moseley checked in with the Terps clinging to a 44-41 lead over a surging Blue Devils squad.

The Burtonsville native lined up a 3-pointer from the top of the arc on her first possession of the second half and watched her high-arcing shot rip through the netting at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. It came in the midst of a 7-0 Terps run that pushed the lead to eight points after Duke threatened to pull ahead.

“We are so fortunate to have the depth that we have,” Frese said. “Brene is a player that you talk about three years ago against Texas A&M in the Sweet 16 came in and had big play after big play just like today.”

Moseley, who entered Saturday averaging 5.1 points in 11.1 minutes per game, was one of two Terps players who

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“I’M ABLE TO GET THE PULSE OF OUR PLAYERS AND I FELT LEXIE STRUGGLING THROUGH MOST OF THE GAME. ... I KEPT TRYING TO GET HER BACK AND GET HER ENERGY AND GET HER CONFIDENCE.” BRENDA FRESE

Terrapins women’s basketball coach had beaten Duke in her career before this weekend. She finished the night with eight points and logged 16 crucial minutes at point guard.

After Moseley replaced Brown at the under-12 media timeout, she remained on the floor until the final buzzer.

“Brene’s a big-time player, and she likes the big moment,” said guard Laurin Mincy, who scored all of her 15 points in the first half. “So she came in, and she was really ready.”

Throughout the season, Moseley has stepped up in different moments. She knocked down four free throws in the final 2.8 seconds against Minnesota to help the Terps secure a 77-73 win. In the regular-season finale against then-No. 25 Northwestern, Moseley scored a game-high 18 points to help the Terps secure a perfect regular-season conference record.

The Terps leaned on Moseley’s contributions when Brown was unable to find her stroke at the offensive end.

And Moseley will continue to provide a veteran presence during the tournament run.

“I just let my confidence falter a little bit during that game,” Brown said. “I commend Brene to come in and pick up the slack.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

guard shatori walker-kimbrough chases after a loose balll during the Terps’ victory over Duke in the Sweet 16 on Saturday night at Spokane Arena.

VOLS From PAGE 8 “I look at what [the sophomores] have done here at Maryland, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a class make the jump that they have made,” said Terps coach Brenda Frese, “when you talk about going from your freshman year to your sophomore season and being as consistent as all three have been for us and leading this team.”

Guard Lexie Brown and center Brionna Jones both started as freshmen against Tennessee in last year’s 73-62 win, while guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough came off the bench to score 10 points.

It was a game and an environment that Walker-Kimbrough will never forget.

“I was scared,” she said. “I remember one time Alyssa

was at the free-throw line and the arena was literally shaking. Physically, the walls were shaking. I was like, ‘Oh my God.’” They didn’t let the big s ta ge ove rwh e l m t h e m , however. And with another ye a r b e h i n d t h e m , t h e sophomores are ready to lead the Terps in a rematch with a spot in the Final Four hanging in the balance.

With five seniors from last season’s squad gone, each sophomore has emerged to help fill the void by averaging at least 12.3 points per game.

“This team has played well beyond their years this season,” Frese said.

T h ey h ave ea c h h a d moments in the first three games of this year’s tournament, too. In the opener against New Mexico State, Jones led the way with 22 points. Then Brown scored

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23 against previously unbeaten Princeton in the second round.

Saturday afternoon, Walker-Kimbrough made her mark in the Sweet 16 matchup against No. 4-seed Duke with 24 points, and she was responsible for more than half of the Terps’ scoring in the second half.

“I wouldn’t say we go as Tori goes, but we kind of do,” Brown said of WalkerKimbrough. “We need her to keep that intensity and passion up for the rest of the season.”

With guard Laurin Mincy as the only senior on this year’s squad, Frese has needed the sophomores to take on roles often reserved for upperclassmen. Before the season started, she said she viewed them as juniors because of how they matured during last year’s Final Four run.

In their second season with the program, the trio has helped the Terps to a program-record 27 straight wins and a second-straight Elite Eight appearance.

“To be able to do some of the things that we have been able to do this season is because of such a talented class,” Frese said.

W h e n t h ey to o k t h e floor a year ago against the program with the most wins in NCAA tournament history, the Terps gained national attention. Now, the sophomores want to deepen their impression.

“We set goals at the beginning of the year, and we’ve met every single one of them thus far,” Brown said. “This is more icing on the cake of our accomplishments, and we’re not done yet.”

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mates will find opportunities,” Reese said. “She’s really fitting in with this offense nicely.

She’s a great player with great field sense.”

After facing the Wildcats, Whittle became the Terps’ leading scorer this season with 33 goals, tied for 12th in the nation.

She was also named to the watch list for the Tewaaraton Award, which honors the nation’s best men’s and women’s college lacrosse players, in the first round of additions March 19. She is the only freshman among the three firstround nominees.

And that’s why, as Whittle and her teammates look to extend their undefeated run this season, the Terps will continue to rely on Whittle’s talents and take advantage of her looks on goal each game, just as they did against the Wildcats on Thursday.

“She’s an awesome player all around,” McPartland said. “Nobody can really mark her. Her shot placement is amazing, and I think she’s definitely a threat for us, and I think more teams are going to start to realize that now.”

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Saturday, two of the Terps’ former conference rivals played in what was perhaps the most anticipated college lacrosse game of the year, as No. 2 Notre Dame defeated No. 1 Syracuse in a 13-12 doubleovertime thriller.

The Terps (8-1, 1-0 Big Ten), meanwhile, only have two conference games remaining against currently ranked teams, and Sunday’s contest showed the differences between their program and Michigan (4-5, 0-1). But that doesn’t mean Terps coach John Tillman was content with his team’s performance.

“Not a clean game by any standard. Definitely one of our sloppier games,” Tillman said.

“One of the things we talked about at halftime is you have to win games like when you’re not at your best.”

The teams combined for 30 turnovers, and both struggled getting quality shots off early in the game. The Terps took control in the third quarter, using a 5-0 run that spanned less than four minutes to balloon their lead to 9-1.

Attackmen Matt Rambo and Jay Carlson each scored during the span and led the Terps with

just trying to convert all my shots,” Whittle said. “It was just working for us and I happened to have opportunities there.”

Thursday night wasn’t Whittle’s most productive showing in a Terps uniform.

That was her six-goal performance against Towson on March 11, but her efforts against Northwestern proved again why she was Inside Lacrosse’s top-ranked freshman heading into the season.

Whittle bested the combined scoring efforts of Northwestern’s freshman attacker duo of Selena Lasota and Shelby Fredericks. Lasota, Inside Lacrosse’s third-ranked freshman, scored three goals, but the Terps held Fredericks, who ranked fourth, scoreless.

While she’s only 10 games into her college career, Whittle has transitioned into the Terps’ program with ease, Reese said.

“When she has the opportunity [to score], she’s going to take full advantage of it, and then when not, she’s going to move the ball and her team-

attackman matt rambo tries to evade a Michigan defender during last night’s 13-4 victory over the Wolverines in the Big Ten opener.

Rambo led the Terps with three goals in the contest to help the team claim its seventh consecutive victory. christian jenkins/the diamondback three and two goals, respectively. But the team also received scores from unexpected faces.

Raffa went 11 of 14 at the faceoff X, and defensive midfielder Isaiah Davis-Allen and long pole Matt Neufeldt turned a few ground balls recovered along the wings into goals. Davis-Allen scored his first two career goals, while Neufeldt scored his first. Raffa jumped into Neufeldt’s arms after his score, toppling him to the ground in celebration.

“I try to focus on my role,” Davis-Allen said. “But if the opportunity presents itself, I’ll definitely take it.”

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he would’ve liked to see more production from his starting offensive players. After making easy work of Robert Morris’ zone Tuesday, the Terps had trouble finding opportunities against Michigan’s man-to-man defense. Aside from Rambo and Carlson, senior midfielder Joe LoCascio was the only Terps starter to register a goal.

Still, with another strong showing from Raffa, the Terps dominated possession and outshot the Wolverines by 41-21.

“The hard work that Isaiah and Matt put in with me, just getting on the same page as me, and working together and getting that, just having that cohesion [has helped me],” Raffa said.

Plus, the Terps used yet another prodigious showing from the defense to pull off

the easy win. Playing without junior defender Matt Dunn for the second consecutive game, the Terps continually clogged the holes and forced the Wolverines into poor shots. Before midfielder Kyle Jackson put Michigan on the board with 1:07 left in the half, only one of the team’s 10 shots were on goal.

The Terps’ contests against No. 15 Ohio State and No. 20 Johns Hopkins are their two conferences games against ranked opponents. Sure, the team’s league slate used to be packed with high-profile games like the one between Syracuse and Notre Dame this weekend, but Tillman chooses to look on the bright side.

“Any win in Division I lacrosse is a good win,” Tillman said. “You take it.”

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A CLASS OF THEIR OWN

GUARd LEXIE BROWN (left), guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough (top-right) and center Brionna Jones (bottom-right), who make up the No. 1-seed Terps’ sophomore class, all started in a 65-55 win over No. 4-seed Duke in the Elite Eight on Saturday.

Terps cruise to victory over Duke in Sweet 16 despite Brown’s off night

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer

SPOKANE, Wash. — Before the start of the NCAA tournament, Terrapins women’s basketball assistant coach Shay Robinson sat behind the desk in his office and recalled memories of preteen Lexie Brown, an emotional player. He commented on her improved maturity as a sophomore with

the Terps, but he alluded to times when her younger mannerisms shine through.

“I can see it creeping in at times during games when she misses one or misses two in a row,” Robinson said.

In a Sweet 16 matchup with Duke on Saturday, Brown missed all seven of her attempts from the field. And her body language matched her statline. When Brown took a See Brown, Page 7

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Sophomores aim to leave mark on Elite Eight matchup with Tennessee

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer

SPOKANE, Wash. — A year ago today, the Terrapins women’s basketball team took the floor at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky, as an underdog in the Sweet 16. A No. 4-seed at the time, the Terps knocked off No. 1-seed Tennessee behind a 33-point outing from three-time

All-American Alyssa Thomas.

Tonight at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, though, the No. 1-seed Terps won’t have the program’s all-time leading scorer to carry them in an Elite Eight rematch with No. 2-seed Tennessee. Instead, they will rely on a three-member sophomore class that gained valuable experience in last season’s upset win over the Lady Volunteers.

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Terps earn win in first Big Ten game Raffa, defense play role in blowout of Michigan

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer Michigan coach John Paul was at a recruiting event a few years ago with Terrapins men’s lacrosse defensive coordinator Kevin Conry when rumors were begining

to swirl about this university’s move from the ACC to the Big Ten. “He didn’t believe it,” Paul recalled. “He said, ‘No way, no way it’s going to happen.’”

Paul reminded Conry of the exchange before the Terps hosted Michigan last night in both teams’ first-ever Big Ten game at Byrd Stadium, where a black and gold “B1G” banner decorated one side of the stadium’s seats.

In a contest that marked an historic moment in program history, the No. 3 Terps

extended their winning streak to seven games. Senior faceoff specialist Charlie Raffa turned in a dominant showing at the X, and the Terps defense held the Wolverines to a season-low four goals in a 13-4 victory before an announced 2,561.

“At Michigan, the Big Ten is so much a part of our fabric; it’s so much a part of who we are,” Paul said. “Probably kind of how Maryland felt about the ACC.” faceoff specialist Charlie raffa sprints away from a Michigan defender during the Terps’’ See wolverines, Page 7 victory in their Big Ten opener last night at Byrd Stadium. reid poluhovich/for the diamondback

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Freshman stars in victory Whittle’s five goals provide lift in win at Northwestern

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer With the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team clinging to a 3-2 lead late in the first half of its game at No. 4 Northwestern on Thursday night, attacker Megan Whittle broke into a sprint from the right side of the Wildcats’ zone.

A s s h e m a d e h e r way toward the net, midfielder Kelly McPartland received a pass and quickly sent the ball Whittle’s way.

The freshman grabbed the feed and slashed it into the right corner of the Wildcats’ cage, sparking a 9-0 run to break the back-and-forth nature of the contest.

The momentum-shifting score, the second of Whittle’s game-high five goals, which led the No. 1 Terps to a 16-5

“SHE’S GOT SUCH COMPOSURE OUT THERE, SUCH CONFIDENCE. SHE IS A GREAT SHOOTER, AND TONIGHT, SHE FOUND HER LOOKS, SHE ATTACKED THE CAGE HARD AND SHE PUT AWAY A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES.” CATHY REESE

Terrapins women’s lacrosse coach victory in Evanston, Illinois, and continued the dominant start of Whittle’s Terps career.

“She played really well, and she opened up opportunities for her teammates,” coach Cathy Reese said. “She’s got such composure out there, such confidence. She is a great shooter, and tonight,

she found her looks, she attacked the cage hard and she put away a lot of opportunities that she had.”

Whittle’s five scores Thursday came on nine attempts.

Often, she set up by one of the corners of Northwestern’s goal and converted on incoming passes from her teammates.

But when she was on the move, she displayed a knack for drawing opposing fouls, as she has all season. She converted on one of her two free position shots with 58 seconds left in the first half, in the midst of the Terps scoring frenzy she’d started six minutes earlier.

“Just coming down in transition, opportunities were really open for us, and I was the person on the back side, See whittle, Page 7

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