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Murder-suicide shooter was drunk: autopsy

By Fola Akinnibi Staff writer Dayvon Maurice Green was under the influence of alcohol when he shot two of his roommates on Feb. 12, killing one and wounding the other before turning the gun on himself, The Baltimore Sun reported Thursday.

The graduate student had a blood alcohol concentration of .14 the morning he set small fires in his 36th Avenue house before killing 22-yearold student Stephen Rane and injuring 22-year-old student Neal Oa, according to autopsy reports obtained by The Sun. That level is almost twice the legal limit for drivers in the state: .08.

The autopsy report revealed Green’s brain had a bullet fragment in it, according to The Sun. Green allegedly shot Rane three times — once in the lower back and twice in the buttocks.Only two of the 9mm bullets were recovered, The Sun reported.

Green’s family members told officers he had suffered from mental illness for more than a year. Less than two months after the murdersuicide shook the university community, Prince George’s County Police have officially closed the case.

In the aftermath of the shooting, which came on the heels of several mass shootings across the country, university officials assessed their safety practices and re-evaluated the mental health resources available on the campus. The university’s Counseling Center and Health Center lacked funds to hire additional staff and meet growing demand from students, who have often waited more than a month to receive regular counseling.

On Tuesday, the university dedicated $5 million over the next decade to improving its mental health services. newsumdbk@gmail.com

SINEAD FARRELL is one of 17 scientists in NASA’s Operation IceBridge working until 2017 to study climate change through trends in Arctic ice thickness over the years. Farrell’s team took measurements using electromagnetic radiation that showed dramatic changes, potentially threatening Arctic animals. photo courtesy of jackie richter-menge

UNDER THE ICE Frigid temperatures don’t stop univ. researcher from studying Arctic

By Madeleine List Staff writer The Weddell Sea bordering Antarctica is a vast stretch of frozen ocean as far as the eye can see.

The frigid area isn’t a destination spot for most people. But for Sinead Farrell, it’s paradise. “[It’s] the most beautiful thing that

I’ve seen,” said Farrell, a university research scientist with the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center. “The sea ice stretches on forever in every direction. Very desolate and very remote.”

Farrell has been working with sea ice since she was an undergraduate student at University College London. She recently accompanied a team of 16 scientists from different universities and

federal institutes to Fairbanks, Alaska, on a NASA mission called Operation IceBridge. The team spent nine days measuring the thickness of Arctic ice and snow in the Greenland Ice Sheet to better understand how the polar environment has been responding to climate change, Farrell said. This particular operation will See ice, Page 2

Old Leonardtown apt. bathroom floods for second time in one year

By Dustin Levy Staff writer While Old Leonardtown residents often cite minor issues with heating and hot water, several students said their apartment experienced its second flooding incident in less than a year Sunday.

Paul Tumulty, a senior government and politics major, could tell he

and his roommates would need to do more than lay down towels after water began bubbling up from their toilet and flooding the bathroom. However, he said Residential Facilities was slow to respond even as he and his roommate made multiple calls to 4-WORK, and the flooding eventually spread to the common room.

“It was pretty insane,” Tumulty said.

“Right under the table where we eat at,

there was pretty much a lake of water.”

Residential Facilities did not respond to multiple calls and emails for comment.

The first employee who responded to the apartment presumed the toilet was just clogged, Tumulty said. However, he and his roommate John Brisentine, a senior history major, anticipated the See flooding, Page 2

Daniel Lathrop holds up a bag of hundreds of cigarette butts before the University Senate. The faculty senator offered an amendment for cigarette receptacles outside major buildings. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Senate approves smoking ban plan Smoking prohibited on campus starting July 1

By Alex Kirshner Staff writer The University Senate approved an implementation plan for the campuswide smoking ban scheduled to go into effect on July 1, delaying punitive enforcement for at least a year and not calling for designated smoking areas.

After the Board of Regents voted in summer 2012 to ban smoking throughout the University System of Maryland, the senate’s campus affairs

committee devised a plan for effective implementation, which passed in the senate yesterday by a 71-22 vote. Now the bill goes to university President Wallace Loh, who is likely to approve it before it becomes official campus policy.

A campus affairs poll conducted during the plan’s drafting and review found about two-thirds of the campus community was at least See smoking, Page 3

O’Malley’s decision to save Towson team spurs controversy after univ. cuts Governor pledges $300K for Towson baseball team to stay afloat

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer When university President Wallace Loh received recommendations to cut eight athletic teams in 2012, student-athletes, coaches and alumni banded together to try to raise the millions of dollars needed to continue competing. And even though some deadlines were extended, seven

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teams were ultimately cut.

But 50 miles north on I-95, there’s a different story.

In a situation similar to this university’s athletic department budget woes, Towson University President Maravene Loeschke announced in March the men’s baseball and soccer teams would be eliminated to help the department balance its budget while

maintaining Title IX compliance. But rather than ask student-athletes to raise the money needed to save their teams, Gov. Martin O’Malley stepped in for the baseball team.

O’Malley announced earlier this week that he plans to create a supplemental budget of $300,000 for the next two

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flooding From PAGE 1 situation could become just as severe as in September, when plumbing issues caused water to flow from both the toilet and showers into the common area.

As time went on and the water did not subside, the roommates continued their requests for immediate assistance from Residential Facilities, Tumulty said. During the second phone call, an employee told him the university could send a crew out on Monday morning.

“I was trying to communicate the gravity of the situation, make him realize it was an emergency,” Tumulty said.

“If they didn’t get somebody ove r so o n a s t h ey co u l d , then it would be completely damaging. It could flood the whole room, ruin our living situation and possibly be not only detrimental to us for this semester, but could make it impossible for someone to live here next semester.”

After what they described as several fruitless calls, they asked a resident assistant to contact his supervisor. A Residential Facilities team arrived

that night to solve the problem by stopping the sewage backup within the main plumbing and then vacuuming water and cleaning the apartment.

The workers, who have visited the apartment often since the incident, also laundered the towels the roommates used to hold the water and installed “multiple, heavy-duty dehumidifiers” to dry the carpets.

“They did a good job,” Brisentine said. “Once they finally got here, that is.”

In September, when the roommates experienced a similar delay, maintenance workers left cleaning the bathroom up to the residents, Tumulty said.

“I think my impression from last semester was that they really dropped the ball a little bit,” he said.

On Sunday, better communication from the department would have eased the roommates’ stress, Brisentine added.

“We could have been kept in the loop more about what was happening to our place, maybe some details on what really was going on,” he said.

L e o n a rd tow n Co m m u nity staff members have also checked in with the students following Sunday’s situation,

said Leonardtown Resident Director Jacklyn Gentile. Clean, operational apartments are key to maintaining residents’ safety and security she said.

Tumulty and Brisentine are not alone in experiencing maintenance issues in Old Leonardtown, which is 41 years old. Sara Igielski said she and her roommates have unreliable heating and plumbing.

“If someone’s in the shower for more than 15 minutes, we run out of hot water,” the sophomore civil engineering major said.

Though Igielski isn’t worried about her own apartment flooding, she said the facilities seem outdated and plumbing issues are unsurprising.

“I know Leonardtown is gross, so it’s expected,” Igielski said.

“But 4-WORK is really nice.”

Tumulty and Brisentine were thankful for the response overall, even though they will have to deal with damp carpets and a “wet dog” odor for the foreseeable future.

“I feel for all the people that had maybe had this happen,” Brisentine said. “Hopefully, none of this happens to anyone else.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

MORE ONLINE THE GOOD OL’ DAYS OF THE 1990S It was either the great Hilary Duff or the poet Thomas Gray who once said, “Ignorance is bliss.”

Reminisce for a second. Childhood was an awesome yet ignorant interval of time. If you are reading this, you should absolutely be nodding your head in agreement. I was walking up a long and tiring flight of stairs the other day, and while focusing on not tripping upward, I thought: What if I knew then what I know now? Everything would have been different and certainly not as blissful, a.k.a. not as fun.

With that being said, here are 10 realizations that would have been capable of ruining my childhood.

1. Dippin’ Dots. This commercial dessert may be nearly extinct now, but back in the day, I was obsessed. There’s something about spherical bursts of flavor that can excite a toddler. I was that toddler. Whatever.

Hindsight: What if you were eating a cheeseburger and it were shaped exactly like a hotdog? You would be freaked out, right? My point is officially proven. photo illustration by may wildman/the diamondback

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nasa operation icebridge researchers spent nine days studying how the polar environment responds to climate change. University scientist Sinead Farrell and her team measured the thickness of Arctic ice and snow in the Greenland Ice Sheet. photo courtesy of jackie richter-menge

ice From PAGE 1 continue through 2017 and will hopefully overlap mission ICESat-2, which should launch around that time, she said.

The ice is measured using a technique called altimetry, which involves going on long flights, about eight hours each, and bouncing electromagnetic radiation off the Earth’s surface, she said. Scientists with Operation IceBridge have been measuring the thickness of Arctic ice and snow since 2009 and have discovered various trends, she said.

Over the years, the sea ice in the Arctic has changed dramatically, shifting from a makeup of mostly old ice that remains frozen all year to mostly seasonal ice that melts and regrows each season, Farrell said. The ice is much more vulnerable to climate change because it is not as thick, she added.

This could prove catastrophic for Arctic animals, such as polar bears, that depend on the sea ice for survival. But some Arctic territories may see economic benefits with the opening of shipping lanes and more opportunities for oil drilling, Farrell said.

Those benefits come with a

drawback: They have caused a drastic shift in the way people view and access the Arctic, said Jackie Richter-Menge, a colleague of Farrell’s and a research engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers.

“This was an environment that was largely inaccessible,” Richter-Menge said. “You’ve got an increase in folks that want to access the Arctic and take advantage of it.”

Economic interests, however, should not trump environmental concerns, Richter-Menge said.

“We have an environment that’s changing very rapidly,” she said. “We must continue the effort to make the U.S. community aware of the fact that we are an Arctic nation and what’s going on in the Arctic affects us.”

Richter-Menge, who began working with sea ice in 1981, said the job has changed, meaning Farrell will face myriad challenges throughout her career.

Not only has the technology drastically improved, but there is an increased need for it because the ice is changing so quickly, Richter-Menge said.

Phil Arkin, deputy director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, said this is an urgent issue deserving of the public’s attention.

“I think it’s critical for the general public, whether it’s students or anyone else, to be aware of what’s going on in the environment,” he said. “For most people, it’s not their hobby or field of study, but it falls into the realm of being aware of your surroundings. [The Arctic] is a little farther away, but it still affects people’s lives.”

Although working in belowfreezing temperatures on a tight schedule with little sleep is far from easy, Farrell said fieldwork is why she loves her job.

“The environment we work in is difficult, no doubt about it,” she said. “It’s a great opportunity.

It’s such a pristine environment.

Once you start doing sea ice research, it’s hard to give it up.”

Even though the Arctic is remote, it greatly affects the rest of the world and deserves everyone’s attention, RichterMenge said.

“If you have any questions about climate change … look to the Arctic for answers,” she said.

“It provides extremely apparent evidence of climate warnings. We need to have a smart conversation about that, and people need to be informed.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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The University Senate voted to approve a plan for implementing a campuswide smoking ban at its full-body meeting Thursday. The policy, which goes into effect July 1, doesn’t include smoking areas and won’t involve punitive enforcement for at least one year. christian jenkins/the diamondback

smoking From PAGE 1 “moderately” in favor of a campuswide smoking ban.

Committee Chairwoman Marcy Marinelli said it’s unrealistic to expect the ban to eliminate all smoking on the campus and it would be wrong to immediately punish violators.

“We did not want College Park to become a smoking police state

where people were caught smoking and handed a ticket,” Marinelli said before the vote was originally supposed to take place, before it was postponed for inclement weather.

“We didn’t want the police to be involved in it.”

Under the plan, those found smoking on the campus during the ban’s first year of implementation would not face punishment.

“We really thought it was more important, in keeping with our campus culture, to have a commu-

nity of respect — the focus being on wellness issues, as opposed to a sort of punitive, ‘You’re a smoker, you’re bad, you’re outcast’ kind of thing,” Marinelli said.

Though the bill passed with broad support, some senators said the committee’s decision not to suggest designated smoking areas on the campus would frustrate faculty, staff and student smokers.

“It’s a safety issue for students to walk off campus at night,” said Kristen Essel, a Residence Hall

Association senator who recommended several locations as potential smoking areas. “And if they need to get a fix of nicotine between classes, they can’t walk all the way down to Route 1 and then back and still be able to learn.”

Not designating special smoking zones, undergraduate senator Alex Miletich said, is unfair to campus smokers.

“We are going to create almost a second class of citizens here at the University of Maryland if we do not have something to this effect,” said Miletch, a senior government and politics and theatre major.

Punishment for smokers could be added down the line, but Marinelli and other senators said communication is the short-term focus of the ban’s implementation.

The senate passed undergraduate senator Matthew Popkin’s amendment to emphasize policy signs in the area in front of McKeldin Library, a location senators viewed as a smoking hub and major campus thoroughfare.

Another amendment, offered by faculty senator Daniel Lathrop, added a provision to place cigarette receptacles outside major campus buildings.

During floor discussion,

Lathrop held up a bag full of what he estimated to be 300 to 500 cigarette butts, which he said he found during a 15-minute walk outside the building he works in.

Cigarette litter, Lathrop told the senate, was a prime reason to ban smoking.

“The whole business about the litter, about smoking butts, I don’t think that can be stressed enough,” senate Chairwoman Martha Nell Smith said. “I can’t stand to see all of the cigarette butts that are around Testudo.”

Transitioning to a smoke-free environment, Marinelli said, requires more awareness of the policy’s function and rationale.

According to the committee’s survey, nearly 22 percent of the campus community was “very familiar” or “extremely familiar” with the ban, while almost 48 percent was “slightly familiar” or “not familiar.”

“Because so few people,based on our survey, really had an awareness that this was coming, we recommended that we start a marketing campaign right now so that [smokers] have time to think about, ‘What am I going to do?’” Marinelli said. “We have to do a better job of communicating that it’s coming.”

Amanda Long, the University Health Center’s coordinator of campus alcohol programs, said the policy creates a health benefit by cutting down nonsmokers’ exposure to secondhand smoke.

“When you’re out walking around, you’d notice that there are pockets of areas where smoking is a big problem,” Long said. “I think we will see a drastic change in those areas where we do have high-density smokers.”

Regardless of the ban’s language or enforcement, Marinelli said she doubts smoking will ever be fully eliminated on the campus, since only about 35 percent of survey respondents said they would be comfortable with informing someone that this is a nonsmoking campus.

But one major short-term goal, Marinelli said, is to make such situations easier.

Smith said she felt her colleagues embraced the ban to varying degrees but mostly agreed with its underlying principles.

“A ban, we all sort of respond to that as, ‘Oh my goodness, it seems so far,’” she said. “But that doesn’t mean we don’t want to be known as a no-smoking campus.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

North Hill sees water outage Facilities Maintenance plans additional outages to fix pipe break; hot water out in Somerset Hall since Thursday

By Dustin Levy Staff writer Residents of five North Hill dorms experienced water outages yesterday afternoon after a pipe break forced repair crews to shut down water to parts of the community.

Four dorms regained hot water yesterday, but by about 10:40 p.m., Facilities Management had located the pipe break and planned additional heat and hot water outages today, according to an email to the North Hill community. Facilities Management could not restore hot water in one dorm— Somerset Hall — yesterday because the pipe is close to a high voltage line and workers will have to reinforce the ground today before excavating and repairing the pipe.

Beginning at 8 a.m. this

morning, Somerset, Anne Arundel, Dorchester, Queen Anne’s, and St. Mary’s halls are scheduled for heat outages.

At 10 a.m., Anne Arundel, Dorchester, Queen Anne’s and St. Mary’s halls will also lose hot water.

“Given the current conditions and information we received this evening, we anticipate being able to restore heat and hot water by 4:00 PM on Friday afternoon,” the email stated.

Before staff could turn the water back on in the other four dorms Thursday, they had to inspect each bathroom in the dorms and enter every apartment in St. Mary’s Hall to make sure water wasn’t running.

Somerset Hall residents had to wait a bit longer.

Despite the department’s suggestion that residents take

hot showers at Eppley Recreation Center, many students said they weren’t willing to take that step.

“I’m kind of annoyed because I need to shower, but I don’t want to walk to Ritchie or Eppley,” said Somerset Hall resident Maggie Doran, a freshman communication and English major.

Though the dorm has cold water, resident Alexandra Givan said the pressure is very low.

“So I guess I’ll have to deal with that,” the freshman journalism major added.

In the fall, students said they were inconvenienced by several planned water outages in South Campus Commons buildings and a slew of hours-long water outages on North Campus. newsumdbk@gmail.com

swimming and diving team members gathered in front of a sign stating “27 sports, 1 team,” at one of the program’s last meets before it was cut.

Some members were disappointed they didn’t see the same support the governor recently provided to Towson’s baseball team. file/the diamondback

towson From PAGE 1 years to keep Towson’s baseball team afloat, with the agreement that the program becomes selfsufficient by 2015.

That hasn’t sat well with former members of this university’s cut teams — which include men’s and women’s swimming and diving, men’s tennis, acrobatics and tumbling, women’s water polo, men’s cross country and men’s indoor track and field — who said they feel slighted after receiving little support to save their sports. And many state residents have criticized the governor’s move because state public universities cannot use state funds to support athletic programs.

The athletic department did not comment on Wednesday.

“I’m glad that it’s one less sport being saved from being cut, but it’s tough for us to see that just one year later after our team was cut,” said Ginny Glover, a former member of the swimming and diving team.

“We kept being told that it was something that we couldn’t save, and it was out of our hands, so it’s hard to see another sport at another state university being saved.”

Glover, last season’s captain and the school record holder in the 200-meter backstroke and

five out of five relay events, added it’s a “tough pill to swallow.”

To continue competing, the swimming and diving teams had to raise a combined $11.57 million; acrobatics and tumbling and men’s track needed $9.5 million and women’s water polo and men’s tennis had an $8 million goal to reach.Whilesomedelegatesspokeof the importance of saving the teams, no state officials put forth proposals to help the teams financially.

The swimming and diving team came the closest to reaching its goal when it raised more than $1 million in pledges and donations and persuaded Loh to extend its deadline. Even with the help of parents and alumni and support from Michael Phelps, however, they couldn’t raise enough money.

“Even outside of the scope of sports, I think it is ridiculous,” said Tyler Thompson, a junior biochemistry major. “I don’t think state money should be given to sports teams to begin with, but especially considering the issue in Towson was due to mismanagement of funds, to give them more money to waste seems ridiculous.”

But because there’s no objective way to decide which teams should be saved, Glover said, O’Malley’s move should not be lambasted.

“How do you decide who gets the money and compare each team? By grades? By number of athletes? What each sport’s budget is? Do you compare how they rank in the NCAA or in their conference? It’s not black and white,” Glover said. “It’s Mr. O’Malley’s decision and unfortunately, it wasn’t Maryland swimming and diving or any of the other teams that the athletic department decided to cut.”

And because all athletes put in similar time and effort into their sports, Glover said she isn’t resentful Towson’s baseball players get to continue competing.

“These athletes are representing this state,” Glover said. “I think it’s a great use of the money.

They are full-time students, they train hard, they study hard, they have tough schedules and they represent the state. I think it’s a good use of those funds.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, Wednesday’s article, “Sexual assault edu. mandate vote delayed,” incorrectly explained when the bill could have come up for vote in the University Senate.

The mandate could not have been voted on this month, even if it were not part of the Sexual Harassment Task Force’s comprehensive review.

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he Internet erupted on Nov. 19, 2012.

University President Wallace Loh had just announced the university’s move to the Big Ten athletic conference.

Observers initially screamed in outcry, and the national eye was trained briefly on this university.

Now there’s a far less controversial deal in the works that Loh says could be even more important than that move: a possible partnership with the Corcoran Gallery of Art. At first glance, the news seems humdrum. Another partnership with some Washington institution? OK. But this editorial board took a closer look at the partnership and had a hard time finding anything controversial.

If the university and the Corcoran decide by the end of the summer to enter a mutually beneficial partnership, we’d have access to its more than 17,000 art pieces. The university would “gain a physical footprint” — a Loh phrase you’ll hear repeatedly in the coming months — in Washington.

And perhaps most importantly, such a partnership would seriously improve the arts and humanities programs at this university.

In an age of frequent cries about the end of arts education, this university could have a hand in saving a national landmark and one of America’s oldest fine arts galleries. Severe fiscal problems in 2012 spurred desperate talks about possibly moving the Corcoran elsewhere after occupying its BeauxArts building for more than 100 years.

The museum saw a rise in fundraising in the fall, and partnering with the university would greatly help the Corcoran get out from under $130 million of renovation costs.

This editorial board wholeheartedly endorses this partnership and encourages the university and the Corcoran to seal the deal. Anyone affiliated with either institution should, too — this partnership could permanently transform the university’s national reputation.

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The merits of a proposed partnership between the university and the Corcoran Art Gallery far outweigh any unforeseen costs.

The latest U.S. News & World Report evaluations place this school at No. 58 in the country overall and No. 19 among public universities. The geochemistry program is No. 7 nationwide, quantum physics is No. 9, and computer science is No. 14. There are dozens of similar science rankings.

The ranking for fine arts? A paltry 82. That’s the single lowest ranking for any of this university’s programs among the published list. There’s no excuse for such a drastic gap in our university’s programs. Sure, we’ve got the Clarice Smith Performing Arts

Center, but clearly our fine arts offerings are severely worse than those of competing universities.

But climbing the fine arts rankings is hardly the most exciting aspect of this partnership. Imagine even a fraction of those thousands of Corcoran art pieces hanging in Stamp Student Union or McKeldin Library. Imagine the wonder that could be sparked in prospective students. Imagine the inspiration for fine arts students when seeing the work of previous generations of artists all around them.

In a statement this week, Harry Hopper, chairman of the Corcoran’s trustees board, conveyed his excitement to partner with this university, which he called “one of the nation’s most successful educational institutions.” And Ford Bell, president of the American Alliance of Museums, labeled this university an “educational and cultural powerhouse.”

Even if detractors think those statements are overblown now, this partnership could offer a bright future and national presence for the campus. Alongside the Big Ten move and the university’s already-praised science and engineering programs, this partnership would help cement Loh’s vision of constant improvement and innovation.

William Wilson Corcoran dedicated the Corcoran Gallery of Art to “encouraging American genius.” Now, almost 150 years later, this university can help achieve that lofty goal.

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he House of Delegates passed Gov. Martin O’Malley’s gun control bill Wednesday. The bill has survived multiple proposed amendments and currently stands to require licensing of handgun purchasers, a complete ban of assault weapons and a 10bullet magazine size limit.

O’Malley drafted this bill soon after the Newtown, Conn., massacre triggered a widespread, social media-fueled call to arms (no pun intended). It is no secret the governor has his eyes on the White House in 2016, and this issue was the perfect career move for him in a state largely controlled by Democrats.

What bothers me, and many other gun control opponents I’m sure, is the small regard for the constitutionality of this bill.

The fact of the matter is the Second Amendment was not written to protect the rights of hunters or apprehensive homeowners. No, it is written clear as day: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”In other words, people don’t have to rely on their government in the event of a foreign invasion and, more importantly, have the right to forcefully remove their oppressors when all legal channels fail. Of course, neither of these events is in the foreseeable future (I hope), but the right needs to exist nevertheless.

In our increasingly Orwellian society, people cannot reasonably be expected to go against a potentially tyrannical government with hunting rifles and handguns limited to 10 bullets. The Founding Fathers weren’t capable of seeing into the future, where the balance of power between the government and the governed is severely lopsided. The muskets that were owned by citizens and public servants alike have been

replaced with heavily armored SWAT teams, domestic drones that may be armed with missiles in the future and government agencies that essentially operate above the law.

Now that my political rant is over, I will move to the futility of gun control.

President Obama mentioned a new technology in his most recent State of the Union address: 3-D printing. If you haven’t looked into it yet, I suggest you do. It will literally revolutionize the world, with more affordable household printers coming out every day. For example, in the not-too-distant future, one can wake up and print a coffee mug in minutes instead of driving to the store.

Similarly, it will be entirely possible to print the individual parts of a gun and assemble it in your own home.

In fact, a new nonprofit organization called Defense Distributed was able to print the lower end of a soon-to-bebanned AR-15 and fire off 600 rounds.

Likewise, it has created 30-round magazines that have been downloaded all over the nation in anticipation of magazine size limits.

This type of technology would pretty much nullify the entire state gun control bill. You can’t get an anonymous downloader’s background information, you can’t successfully censor all gun blueprints and you certainly can’t stop the 3-D printing of larger magazines.

The reason this bill needs to be reevaluated is that it takes guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens while any clever criminal could potentially print off a whole arsenal. However, I am in no way denouncing this technology. On the contrary, it excites me to think about a future world in which any oppressed people can literally print weapons, regardless of any government bans, and gain their freedom and independence.

A rd a l u n K a m a l i i s a s e n i o r kinesiology major. He can be reached at ardykamali@yahoo.com.

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Lack of budget causing job uncertainty ANDREW DO We’ve all heard the phrase “DoNothing Congress.” Men and women are sent by the people to Washington to write laws, and instead our elected officials tend to let partisan ideologies get in the way — nothing ends up passing.

One of the prioritized tasks — one that every Congress should accomplish — is passing a federal budget.

The budget should include how revenue is to be raised and how that money should be spent during the fiscal year.

Many states, including this one, explicitly say in their constitutions that a balanced budget is the one piece of legislation that must be passed each legislative session. Elected officials don’t have to pass any other legislation — may it be a bill on domestic violence, speed cameras or gun control — just a budget. In fact, this state’s legislators may be kept in Annapolis by a governor’s proclamation until a budget is sent to the governor’s desk and signed.

Fo r t h e fe d e ra l gove r n m e n t , however, such a mandate exists with a loophole. For years, Congress has

gotten away with passing continuing resolutions to keep the government fully functioning for a couple months at a time, only to revisit the issue months later.

The temporary nature of these budgets is a huge problem, and forces government agencies and institutions to essentially live paycheck to paycheck, unsure of how long their jobs will have funding.

These resolutions also encourage wasteful spending, since funding is assigned based on what the agencies have received in previous years and not based on current, need-based assessments.

A solid budget provides certainty to various government agencies, allowing them to hire and have secure funding to perform their various projects. Without a budget, however, agencies are left in the dark, wondering if they will have sufficient funds to continue doing their jobs. This type of uncertainty can cause a hiring freeze.

Agencies aren’t able to hire people to work on new projects or even replace existing employees.

Because the federal government provides billions of dollars in grants to various private companies and universities, they, too, are left in the dark wondering if they will have enough money to fund their research.

This directly affects students seeking work after graduation as well as those with temporary jobs funded by federal grants.

In 2011, 2012 and 2013, the House of Representatives passed a budget.

But last week, for the first time in four years, the Senate narrowly passed a different version of a budget than the House. Now all Congress needs to do is get one budget to the president — hopefully that goes more smoothly than the talks on the debt ceiling and Bush tax cuts.

Just like a family needs to balance its checkbook, Congress needs to do its job of providing a budget so that there is some certainty to federal agencies and private institutions as to the amount of funding they will or will not get. They need to put politics aside and do what we pay them to do.

Without a full budget there is no clear guidance for the future. Many federal employees will be left wondering when and if they will receive funding for their projects. If they are left wondering, that will leave college students looking for jobs and wondering what the future will hold.

Andrew Do is a senior b i o c h e m i s t ry m a j o r. He ca n b e reached at doandy09@yahoo.com.

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Of all the diversity one might experience at this university, language diversity is the most underrated.

Sure, on any given day, one might overhear five different tongues, and we offer fantastic programs in various languages — but just think of all the wild permutations of English here on the campus. Remember the first time you heard someone say he or she was standing “on line” and finally understood the vastness of the universe? I do.

It’s not uncommon, of course, for some serious debate to occur over word usage. Slang is rough water. I fondly remember freshman year when I first heard a friend refer to an attractive woman as a “slam piece,” a term that soon evolved into “slam pig,” a term that soon evolved into being single and eventually disappeared.

Sometimes slang isn’t so much a singular phenomenon, and wellknown words take on new meanings for all of us through repeated interaction. I stay awake some nights wondering if “classic” and “literally” can weather the storm and once more be used as intended.

Language is interesting. It’s a complex system of communication used to give names to what already exists. We humans only learn it through our social interactions with one another, and we do quite a lot of interacting in person or through various machines and robots. So it’s no surprise few people seem to realize they could only be “literally dying” in the most broad, existential terms.

(We’re all literally dying, when you really think about it.)

Slang is fun to share and learn but probably not worth arguing about.

Hoagie isn’t a better term or more accurate referent than sub, just as morning isn’t any better than

mañana. So, if someone says soda instead of pop, they aren’t wrong. Even the redundancy of soda pop is dubious.

But the arguments still arise.

Again, we need to keep in mind the social nature of language. It’s not like math; if Portuguese were to go extinct, no one would reinvent it. The subjunctive clause is not the Pythagorean theorem. Also worth keeping in mind: It’s rather arbitrary. “Chair” is just a word we use, not the actual thing that exists in reality. “Jenkins” is just the name of your goldfish, and he probably doesn’t even know about it.

So, is it soda or pop or what? Well, it’s either, so please don’t correct anyone about it. Really, it’s carbonated water, sugar (sucrose or highfructose corn syrup, depending on country of origin), caffeine, phosphoric acid, caramel color and (suspiciously) “natural flavoring.” Even sugar, which can be legally listed in many different ways on the exterior of your nonuniversity sponsored Coca-Cola can, is really just C12H22O11. That’s just if it’s sucrose, and in America, it usually isn’t. But even sucrose isn’t made up of all that carbon, it’s made up of all that stuff we call carbon because the Romans called it something like carbon.

Look, I get that you think you’re right about this whole slang thing. It’s called the mere-exposure effect, and it’s just one of the many cognitive biases preventing us all from being right about anything. Just because you’re familiar with one version of U.S. regional slang doesn’t make it the right one.

So embrace our language and slang diversity. The arbitrary system of referents we’ve got is complex enough without us letting our personal preferences get in the way, and we need to allow unique and personal modifications to words and grammar enrich the wonderful variety we already have. But, hey, let’s not argue semantics here.

Jake DeVirgiliis is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at j.devirgiliis@gmail.com.

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Danny Boyle’s gonzo visuals compensate for a lackluster script and turn Trance into a fractured, pulpy thriller with no shortage of memorable sights

By Warren Zhang Senior staff writer After ruining and/or saving the London Summer Olympics’ opening cermony, director Danny Boyle (127 Hours) returns to the big screen with his most low-brow, pulpy film in a decade.

In Trance, an art auctioneer (James McAvoy, Welcome to the Punch) engineers the heist of an extraordinarily valuable painting with a slimy French criminal (Vincent Cassel, A Dangerous Method). Things go wrong during the heist and McAvoy ends up stealing the painting from Cassel before getting amnesia beaten into him.

E nter accompl i shed hy pnotherapist Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson, Hotel Noir). Cassel hires Dawson to use hypnosis to tease out the lost painting’s location from McAvoy. As the therapy continues, however, Cassel grows more and more suspicious of McAvoy and Dawson’s motivations and the possible secrets they’re keeping from him.

It’s fascinating to place Trance within the larger context of Boyle’s career. While Boyle arrived with his visual and aural aesthetic largely

formed, each successive film has seemingly taken him further and further away from reality.

Shallow Grave, his debut feature, was a film about some broke roommates, while Trance would have you believe that French gangsters live exclusively in houses that are 90 percent mirrors and orange Plexiglas.

Trance is firmly rooted in Boyle’s impossibly colorful and skewed vision of reality, a constantly shifting world of broken ref lections, blues, oranges and reds. Every lurch, tilt and pan of the camera is both shocking and expected — I mean, you have seen 127 Hours, right?

B u t e v e n w i t h s u c h a n e ntrenched visual playbook, Boyle and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (Dredd) manage to pull half a dozen or so indelible compositions out of the ether: a rooftop overlooking the London skyline bathed in blood-red light, a POV shot zipping down an orange garbage chute and so on.

There’s the sense that Boyle and Mantle, liberated from

in director danny boyle’s trance, an art dealer and a thief square off over a stolen painting in a twisty, dreamlike, mesmerizing game of cat and mouse. photos courtesy of collider.com and lacasadeloshorrores.com the shackles of an Oscar-bait screenplay, have been set loose, free to splash paint all over the canvas however they wish. You see this creative freedom most obviously in the opening heist, strung together more like an acid trip music video set to Rick Smith’s propulsive original score.

The casual, free-form rhythm extends to the therapy sessions, with Boyle staging McAvoy’s hypnosis as a series of increasingly jarring, increasingly violent dreamscapes.

Trance manages to cast an appropriately hypnotic state on the viewer, effectively hiding some of the weaker elements of John Ho d ge’s (T h e S we e n e y)

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I suspect Trance is a film whose character motivations crumple under tighter scrutiny, especially vis a vis the attempted gang rape in the third act that largely goes unmentioned afterward, and some meandering with Dawson and Cassel’s characters in the second act.

I t ’s t o B o y l e a n d M a n t l e ’s immense credit, then, that most of these flaws go unnoticed. The clu n k y i Pad ex position is a bit much, but everything else largely works thanks to the movie’s rapid and mesmerizing flow. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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wolfpack From PAGE 8 Watten said of N.C. State. “[We need to] make sure we just are all playing at our best level going into the weekend.”

The eighth-year coach stressed the importance of consistent defense and communication going into the next three games against the Wolfpack, something her players exhibited for the majority of their two games against the Eagles on Wednesday.

In the first inning of the second game, a Coppin State player hit a blooper to shallow left field. As infielder Nikki Maier ran back from shortstop, outfielder Amanda McCann called her off and made a sliding catch.

Once the players grew silent, however, the errors crept in.

“Communication is the key with our defense,” McCann said. “Things like the last inning [in the second game], we had a couple of errors.

That was because we weren’t communicating very well.”

The young team has had abrupt dips in its performance in the past, most recently during its series against Florida State. N.C. State,

midfielder mike chanenchuk is third on the Terps with 18 points on 11 goals and seven assists. He has started 24 of 25 career games in College Park. file photo/the diamondback

midshipmen From PAGE 8 ranks ninth in Navy history with 69 career assists.

“I learned almost everything from my dad growing up,” Chanenchuk Jr. said. “Knowing that my dad was able to do those things [at Navy], it’s really helped me play here.”

Teaching is hardly new for Chanenchuk Sr. The former Midshipman coaches his son’s old team at Saint Anthony’s High School and helps run one of the country’s top club lacrosse programs, the Long Island Express.

And he made sure his oldest son grew up around the Navy lacrosse program.

After Chanenchuk Sr. completed five years of service as a Marine Corps logistics officer, he often helped coach at summer camps in Annapolis. In the early 2000s, he regularly brought Chanenchuk Jr. and his younger brother, Matt, along to participate.

Nav y- M a r i n e C o r p s M e m o rial Stadium, Chanenchuk Jr. said, is where both Mike Chanenchuks learned the game.

“It was a really cool experience going down there with [my dad], being at his school and playing lacrosse there,” Chanenchuk said. “It was definitely one of the highlights of my childhood.”

Heels From PAGE 8 Terps had lost nine of 15 games after a nine-game winning streak and were overmatched by ACC opponents. The season’s early streak included entirely nonconference wins, and the Terps hope their win over Rider can lead to similar results against North Carolina despite the team’s prestige.

“It was good for guys to get out and feel good about themselves and give us a little positivity,” Szefc said Wednesday. “We’re playing a really good team Friday, but we’ve been in every single game we’ve played for the most part.

It’s a matter of getting a good start and just playing good defense.”

Solid starts have been few and far between to start the conference slate.

The Terps have yet to put together three quality starts in an ACC series, largely because of inconsistencies with the third starter.

Against a stacked Tar Heels (26-2, 9-2 ACC) lineup featuring four hitters — first baseman Cody Stubbs, outfielder Skye Bolt, middle infielder Landon Lassiter and third basemen Colin Moran — batting better than .350, the Terps’ (16-12, 4-8) pitching will be tested.

“When you get a good start, you have a pretty good chance of winning,” Szefc said. “And when you get a poor start, you usually don’t. That’s just the reality of what baseball is.”

The Terps will also need to contin-

At their first Midshipmen summer camp, the Chanenchuks met current Terps coach John Tillman and associate head coach Ryan Moran, both of whom were on Navy’s staff at the time.

As an involved alumnus, Chanenchuk Sr. developed a relationship with the two coaches while his son played for both Tillman and Moran at camp.

Moran, whose father coaches against Chanenchuk Sr. on Long Island, even gave Chanenchuk Jr. a tour of the Annapolis campus in 2008 when Navy recruited him out of high school. But Moran could tell the fit wasn’t quite right for the highly touted prospect.

“He had a genuine interest to explore the option of the Naval Academy because it was so meaningful to his father,” Moran said. “But you can get a read on a kid’s gut feeling, and he was more along the lines of being polite, rather than being extremely interested.”

But Tillman and Moran’s connection with the Chanenchuks eventually paid dividends.

Chanenchuk Jr. elected to transfer from Princeton in 2011 after enduring two serious injuries at the Ivy League school, and Tillman’s Terps quickly became his top choice.

Chanenchuk wanted to play somewhere he would feel comfortable, and because of the connections he and his

father established at Navy, he knew he would have support in College Park.

“It was definitely a pretty difficult time for me, leaving Princeton,” Chanenchuk Jr. said. “Knowing coach Tillman from the time at Navy … made it a lot easier.”

After injuries sidelined Chanenchuk Jr. for one of his two seasons at Princeton, the former Ivy League Rookie of the Year has finally settled into a rhythm. He has remained healthy since arriving on the campus in fall 2011 and has started 24 of his 25 games in College Park.

And even though his son decided to spurn his alma mater for a second time, Chanenchuk Sr. has stayed supportive.

He has only missed one game since his son joined the Terps, and that was to watch his other son play.

Such support won’t change when Chanenchuk Jr.’s Terps (7-1) travel to play Navy (3-7) tonight. But that doesn’t mean Chanenchuk Sr. will completely abandon his roots.

“I think I’ll wear my Navy [plebe] summer T-shirt [under my Terps shirt] that I’m very proud of. I still have it from 35 years ago. It still fits,” Chanenchuk Sr. said. “Of course I’ll wear Maryland stuff over it. That’s my son, I got to support my son.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

regionals From PAGE 8 success, Tang yearned to join them.

So she dedicated herself to her rehabilitation.

For two weeks, the Agawam, Mass., native was relegated to crutches and a boot. Then she spent two weeks walking without the crutches. Finally, she traded in the boot for an air cast, which she wore for two weeks.

All the while, she worked on regaining strength in her ankle. At first, she could only do basic ankle exercises. She gradually worked her way back to being able to compete on bars.

“I told her, ‘Just because it’s hard now, doesn’t mean it’s going to be hard later,’” her sister, junior Karen Tang, said. “She’ll show what she can do. She’ll be back.”

Upon first returning, Kathy Tang was cautious in the gym. She finished her bar routines favoring her good ankle. But eventually, with Nelligan’s urging, the freshman regained the confidence to land strong on both feet.

And while she hasn’t fully returned to the dominating all-around presence she was earlier in the season, her solid performances on bars have proven critical for the Terps.

At her first meet back, she tallied a 9.725, good for seventh on the uneven

though, has also had uneven showings in ACC play.

After the first-place Seminoles swept the Wolfpack to start an eightgame losing streak in early March, N.C. State got a pair of road wins against then-No. 19 Virginia Tech two weeks ago. But they then dropped two of three to Georgia Tech, bowing to the unpredictable nature of the ACC. “It’s going to be a big challenge for us,” Watten said. “I think we’ll play well. We’re also tough to play in-conference, too.”

Both the Terps and the Wolfpack have experienced ups and downs during the season. If the Terps can make big plays on the defensive end, pitcher Kaitlyn Schmeiser said, it could spark a momentum boost they can feed off of throughout the series — on the field and at the plate.

Reserve outfielder Liana Newton did both on Wednesday, ripping a line drive off the outfield fence for a triple following her diving catch in the top half of the third in the first game of the series.

“We’re capable of making great plays like that every single day,” Schmeiser said. “When we do, we make it look easy.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

“The team is doing so well. If we compete to our full potential, I know we can make nationals.”

KATHY TANG

Terrapins gymnast bars. Then, at the conference championships, she notched a 9.675.

Though most of her freshman campaign was spent on the sideline, Tang still has three years of college eligibility remaining. If anyone can accurately forecast how she will return from the injury, it’s her sister.

“She’s got that look in her eyes that she wants to be back no matter what,” Karen Tang said. “I know it’s hard to watch your teammates do the sport that you love.”

But for now, Kathy Tang is focusing on helping her teammates Saturday at the NCAA regional. Last season, the Terps placed fifth at the Fayetteville, N.C., regional, tallying a 194.400.

This year’s team only scored lower than 195.000 twice, and the first time was the day Tang went down. The freshman would love nothing more than to help bring the Terps to the top.

“The team is doing so well,” Kathy Tang said. “If we compete to our full potential, I know we can make nationals.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

“We’ve got young guys and guys in different positions today to take a look at a few different things. And we’re just going to keep doing that until we find the right mix.”

JOHN SZEFC

Terrapins baseball coach ue to refine their situational hitting.

They averaged nearly 10 runners left on base in last weekend’s threegame series at N.C. State. While they improved against the Broncs — stranding only seven — Szefc still isn’t satisfied.

“Our offense is going to be average until we’re able to have more quality at-bats with runners in scoring position,” he said. “That’s a focal point that we’re continuing to work on.”

Szefc has often referred to his club as a work in progress. With so many young players, he expected the inconsistent play that has plagued the Terps so far this season.

But with that youth also comes potential. And with confidence, the Terps could surprise the nation’s topranked team this weekend.

“We’re just progressing, man,” Szefc said Wednesday. “We’ve got young guys and guys in different positions today to take a look at a few different things. And we’re just going to keep doing that until we find the right mix.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Wrestler Spencer myers redshirted this year and missed the entire season. When he returns, he will wrestle as a heavyweight for the Terps. file photo/the diamondback

review From PAGE 8 would have had an opportunity to knock off the then-No. 9 Hokies.

The middleweights finished the season with a 23-62 dual record, giving up a staggering 244 dual points among the four weight classes in the process.

The Terps had some positives, though, particularly 184-pound Jimmy Sheptock. The junior, who went 21-0 in dual meets and notched a team-high 81 points, placed sixth at nationals and was the Terps’ lone All-American.

“I accomplished my goal from the beginning of the year,” Sheptock said after the NCAA Championships. “My goals were to win ACCs and get on the podium [at nationals], so I’m pretty happy with my performance.”

With the team’s latest campaign now

over, it’s time for coach Kerry McCoy and his team to start looking toward a seemingly bright future.

Josh Asper is the Terps’ only graduating contributor, and the team will return several of its key grapplers.

Sheptock, 197-pound Christian Boley, 133-pound Geoffrey Alexander and 125-pound Shane Gentry all figure to headline the Terps’ roster next season.

“It’s awesome,” McCoy said. “You don’t want to look forward until you have to, and during this whole season we know we made a few decisions that were going to be a little more cautious for this year but would pay off in the future.

We’re really looking forward to it.”

McCoy will also get 141-pound Frank Goodwin, who was sidelined for seven weeks after suffering a torn LCL and sprained ACL against Navy, back at full strength next season. Two redshirts — heavyweight Spencer Myers

and 157-pound Ben Dorsay — are slated to return, too.

“There are guys that have been around for a couple years who have really helped shape where this program is and are coming back,” said McCoy, who will return three wrestlers — Sheptock, Boley and Alexander — who have appeared in multiple NCAA Championships. “It’s going to be really exciting for what we have got going next year.”

And when next season arrives, the Terps won’t just focus on moving past a disappointing 2012-13 campaign.

They’ll eye a national championship.

“Having guys who have been there before will definitely help the team,” Sheptock said. “Once you’ve been to nationals, you’re not blinded by the light any more.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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On the right foot Kathy Tang’s return boosts Terps entering Gainesville regional

By Joshua Needelman Staff writer

midfielder mike chanenchuk will take on his father’s alma mater tonight when the No. 1 Terps face Navy in Annapolis. Mike Chanenchuk Sr. said he will root for his son against the Midshipmen. file photo/the diamondback

When Terps, Navy meet tonight, Chanenchuk faces Midshipmen team father starred for in 1970s

By Aaron Kasinitz Staff writer Mike Chanenchuk Sr. proudly wears U.S. Naval Academy attire.

Thirty-seven years removed from graduation, the former three-time All-American midfielder has hardly forgotten the school that helped shape his values.

Still, when he returns to Annapolis tonight, Chanenchuk won’t let

his Midshipmen blue show. He’ll trek five hours from his Poquott, N.Y., home to Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium sporting a Terrapins men’s lacrosse team T-shirt.

Sure, Chanenchuk’s experiences at Navy meant a lot to him. But his son — Terps midfielder Mike Chanenchuk Jr. — means more.

“Blood is thicker than water,” Chanenchuk Sr. said. “I’ll always pull for Michael 100 percent. I

love Navy, and as an alum, I love to support them and be around the program, but you always would rather see your kids succeed.”

Chanenchuk Sr. has seen his son succeed plenty this season. Chanenchuk Jr. battled back from an injury-marred stint at Princeton with a solid campaign in College Park last season and is now a key cog on the nation’s top-ranked team.

Through eight games this season,

Chanenchuk ranks third on the Terps with 18 points on 11 goals and seven assists. His father, though, prefers discussing the little things Chanenchuk does for the team. He gushes over the junior’s 10 ground balls and lauds his unselfish role on the country’s No. 3 scoring offense.

And Chanenchuk Sr. knows all about those qualities. After all, he See MIDSHIPMEN, Page 7

BASEBALL

Kathy Tang had waited six weeks for this moment. After spraining her left ankle at North Carolina on Feb. 2, the freshman was forced to watch from the sideline as her teammates competed through a mostly successful campaign.

She was supposed to miss the rest of the season, but by the Terrapins gymnastics team’s final meet at George Washington on March 17, she was ready.

That night, Tang stood next to the uneven bars. She was the Terps’ first competitor in the meet and wanted to get the team off to a good start. She took a deep breath, and leapt.

Tomorrow, Tang will be back on the mat again, this time as the team begins its NCAA championship hunt in the Gainesville, Fla., regional. They’ll go up against six other teams, including No. 1 Florida, and the top two teams will advance to the NCAA Championship in Los Angeles later this month.

“She hated every minute of it,” coach Brett Nelligan said of Tang being stuck on the sideline. “She wanted to be out there competing. She was with a trainer seven days a week.”

In Tang’s absence, the team hardly slowed down. After her injury, the Terps’ season appeared to be in jeopardy. After all, the freshman was ranked first in the EAGL in the all-around and was in the running for conference Rookie of the Year.

But aside from a loss to Auburn on March 1 and a second place finish at West Virginia on March 15, the squad won the rest of its meets.

And on Feb. 17, the Terps notched a 196.175 against Rutgers and West Virginia, their highest score in three years.

Though happy for her teammates’

Terps hope Rider win triggers momentum Team faces No. 1 Tar Heels this weekend

By Daniel Popper Staff writer After an uneven month of March, the Terrapins baseball team earned a much-needed win against Rider on Wednesday.

A quality start from right-hander Jake Stinnett gave hope to the back end of a rotation that has been inconsistent at best. An offense that has failed time and time again hit consistently with runners in scoring position and provided key run support in a 6-3 win over the Broncs.

Everything finally clicked for a team that rarely puts together a complete performance. Along with the win came

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signs of improved confidence, something the Terps lacked during their rough start to conference play, which included four straight series losses.

But the road ahead does not prove any easier for coach John Szefc and his squad, which will travel to Chapel Hill, N.C., this weekend to take on No. 1 North Carolina.

The Tar Heels’ dominance this season extends from the mound to the plate. They’re the top pitching squad in the ACC with an ERA of 1.74 and also lead the league in scoring with 8.79 runs per game.

Entering Wednesday’s win, the See HEELS, Page 7

WRESTLING | SEASON IN REVIEW

Finishing well Terps’ top priority Team focuses on past late-game struggles center fielder charlie white and the Terps hope their 6-3 win over Rider on Wednesday will gather momentum for the team in conference play, which continues at North Carolina tonight in Chapel Hill, N.C. file photo/the diamondback

In a 22-18 loss to Navy on Jan. 19, the Terps dropped all four matches at the middleweights, surrendering two matches by major decision, one by technical fall and one by fall for 19 total dual points.

The Terps’ one-point loss to Virginia Tech was a similar story. The 141-pound Shane Arechiga earned six points by medical forfeit, but 149-pound Lou Mascola, 157-pound Danny Orem and 165-pound Domenic DeRobertis lost by major decision, major decision and technical fall, respectively.

If any of those wrestlers had limited his opponents’ bonus points, the Terps See REVIEW, Page 7

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Not down for long

By Daniel Popper Staff writer The then-No. 15 Terrapins wrestling team entered the season with hopes of earning its third straight ACC title.

But inconsistency plagued the Terps’ campaign. They fell from the Top 25, failed to defend their ACC championship and finished the season with a 27th-place finish at the NCAA Championships.

The team’s struggles were predominantly in the middleweight classes: 141, 149, 157 and 165 pounds. It seemed every time the Terps had an opportunity to win a match, the middleweights were unable to limit opponents’ bonus points.

By Paul Pierre-Louis Staff writer The Terrapins softball team’s second game in its doubleheader against Coppin State on Wednesday did not end the way it hoped.

Ahead 7-1 going into the seventh inning, the Terps were cruising to a sweep of the Eagles. A combination of walks and errors, however, cut the lead to four. The tying run stepped to the plate for the Eagles with the bases loaded and two outs.

The Terps had the chance to clinch the victory on a high pop foul, but none of the three players surrounding the ball called off her teammates. The resulting confusion caused the ball to drop between them, giving Coppin State a second chance. Ultimately, pitcher Maddie Martin made the final out herself, notching her 10th strikeout to end the game.

A lackluster finish such as this is unlikely to yield the same winning result against N.C. State (17-16-1, 3-5 ACC) this weekend. Coach Laura Watten said the Terps (19-18, 4-2) need a fast start in addition to maintaining momentum until the last out.

“They’re going to be extra tough,”

After falling short of expectations, Terps poised to return to form next season

Wrestler Jimmy sheptock had a lot of individual success this season, winning an ACC title at 184 pounds and placing sixth at the NCAA Championships. The Terps struggled as a team all season, though. file photo/the diamondback

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