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Students will be able to pick up select newspapers for free once again after the SGA passed a measure to bring The Collegiate Readership Program back to the campus starting next semester.

The university discontinued the program nearly two years ago when the Student Government Association and other departments could no longer contribute enough money to fund it.

Since then, multiple newspaper racks that once offered free copies of The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today now stand empty. But Josh Ratner, SGA city council liaison, used See readership, Page 3 photo illustration by may wildman/ the diamondback

By Sandra Müller Staff writer Samantha Zwerling easily lists the SGA’s accomplishments from this past year. But just as quickly, she can rattle off the group’s yet-to-be-fulfilled goals.

Encouraging students to vote in College Park City Council elections, making the Student Government Association more efficient and visible, implementing open-source textbooks and more, the SGA president noted.

Each initiative is also one of Zwerling’s reasons for running for a second term, she said.

By Jim Bach Senior staff writer Gov. Martin O’Malley’s early political career ran almost parallel to former Baltimore Health Commissioner Peter Beilenson’s, with the two Democrats from Montgomery County running unsuccessful bids for seats in the state General Assembly in 1990.

Both later ran for seats on the Baltimore City Council in 1991, and while only O’Malley won, Beilenson took a post as the city’s health commissioner under former Mayor Kurt Schmoke. When O’Malley took over as Baltimore mayor in 1999, Beilenson stayed on board as com-

missioner and continued to watch O’Malley’s political rise.

Having known him for more than two decades, Beilenson is hardly surprised by the rumors that O’Malley has his eyes set on the White House.

“He’s very politically astute, he’s very ambitious, and I would not have been surprised 20 years ago if someone said he wants to run for president someday,” Beilenson said.

But at that point, O’Malley was a relatively unknown city councilman.

Since then, however, he has boosted his political capital and national exposure by serving two terms as mayor of Baltimore, carrying out two terms as See o’malley, Page 2

Senate immigration bill raises concerns among state advocates

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By Fatimah Waseem Staff writer Marcos Moya is a dreamer, but he is not a DREAMer. When the undocumented immigrant and university student traveled from El Salvador to Gaithersburg after his father lost his business in 2003, he was caught in limbo.

Under the state’s DREAM Act — which voters upheld in a 2012 election ballot referendum — the marketing and supply chain management major met all of the requirements to pay in-state tuition except one: He attended Montgomery College for three years after high school, surpassing a cutoff point that exempts high school graduates from paying in-state tuition. Though a deferred-action program helped him avoid more than three times the amount of in-state costs of attending college, he does not qualify for in-state tuition until

Samantha Zwerling’s Go Party seeks to complete its broad vision next year. photo courtesy of samantha zwerling The organization has accomplished a lot this semester, from launching What to Fix UMD and lobbying in Annapolis, to rallying support for mental health funding ahead of the administration’s decision to dedicate $5 million throughout the next 10 years to improving mental health resources on the campus. But Zwerling said there’s “so much more to be done.”

“We did not expect to accomplish everything on our platform last year,” she said. “To an extent, it was a twoyear plan.”

When Zwerling, a junior environmental science and policy major, was elected a year ago, her Go Party had a See zwerliNg, Page 3

2014. Now, after a bipartisan group of eight senators officially filed a longawaited immigration bill Wednesday that could lay a 13-year path to citizenship for the nation’s more than 11 million undocumented immigrants, Moya and experts fear a long and tortuous path to congressional approval is still ahead.

The 844-page immigration bill — touted as the nation’s largest immigration overhaul in nearly two decades — would block some undocumented immigrants from becoming full legal residents or citizens until the Department of Homeland Security beefs up strict security measures along the border, including surveillance and fencing.

While immigrants who arrived as minors and completed high school, and some agricultural laborers, would not be affected by the requirement, the $3 billion allocation would push the department to fortify fences,

increase patrols and ensure safety of “high risk” border zones — provisions Stella Rouse, government and politics assistant professor, said were “impractical” because of their ambiguity.

“We’re essentially throwing money towards border security because this is in Republicans’ interest,” said Rouse, also a fellow of the university’s Center for American Politics and Citizenship.

“How do you define what border security looks like? How do you measure 90 percent success in border security?

How do you define a high-risk zone?”

The final details still have to be carved out as the bill makes it through senators’ hands, but undocumented immigrants would have two main paths to citizenship — as a lawful permanent resident or as a registered provincial immigrant, according to the bill’s summary. Only immigrants who arrived before Dec. 31, 2011, with See immigration, Page 3

Delta Gamma etiquette email elicits online outrage, site hacks ‘Unsavory’ leaked email about Greek Week social skills goes viral on multiple blogs

By Laura Blasey Senior staff writer A leaked email from a sorority’s student leader has gone viral, the second time this year an email within this university’s Greek life community has done so.

At about 1 p.m. yesterday, a profanity-laced email from an executive member of this university’s Delta Gamma sorority chapter appeared on news blog Gawker.com and sports blog Deadspin.com, among other blogs. The email was forwarded to Gawker by an anonymous source, and it has since gone viral — Gawker’s post had more than 1.3 million hits and 144,000 Facebook likes as of 12:20 a.m. Friday.

The abusive tirade, which contained about 50 instances of profanity and was allegedly sent to the entire chapter last

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week, criticized the sorority members for lackluster performances at this week’s Greek Week events. The university’s Delta Gamma chapter President, Rachel Norris, declined to comment on the situation, though she did send an email to Gawker, calling the leaked email “unsavory” and asking the website to either remove the post or redact the organization names. As of printing, the post remains on Gawker’s website in its original state, with Norris’ message added as an update.

“I’ve been getting texts on texts about people LITERALLY being so f---ing AWKWARD and so f---ing BORING,” the leaked email reads.

Within two hours of the Gawker and Deadspin posts, the executive board section of the sorority chapter’s website See sorority, Page 2

delta gamma faced criticism from Gawker and Deadspin over an inflammatory email sent through the university chapter’s listserv after it leaked and caused an Internet uproar. The missive brought about sharp condemnation from other fraternities and sororities, including the national Delta Gamma organization. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

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sorority From PAGE 1 was removed and all social media accounts deleted. The Delta Gamma website was also hacked last night, with the home page featuring a GIF image of a chicken spinning in a disco with a caption that reads, “I regret nothing.” Later, the site played Icona Pop’s “I Love It” and linked to pages on Kim Jong-Un and Mike Tyson.

During Greek Week each year, sororities are paired with fraternities to compete in a week of competitions. Delta Gamma was paired with Sigma Nu, and “Julia,” as Gawker renamed the author, was not happy with how the girls were performing.

But members from Sigma Nu said the email did not reflect how they felt about their week paired with Delta Gamma.

“When we first saw the email, we were completely shocked. No one around the house had been complaining about anything regarding DG and your sisters’ behavior,” the Sigma Nu chapter wrote in an email to the Delta Gamma chapter that was then sent to The Diamondback. “Everyone that I had talked to only had good things to say about DG and your sisters. We are just as surprised as you guys that this email is getting so out of hand, and we all feel terrible.”

The national Delta Gamma Fraternity organization is working with the chapter and “investigating the legitimacy of this letter, the alleged author and will take appropriate actions as necessary,” according to a statement on its website and Facebook page.

Communications director Mary Ellen Hardies declined to offer any additional details.

“Obviously we were surprised and shocked by the email that came out; that someone in the community has those views,” said Molly Alsobrook, president of the Panhellenic Council. “Those are not the values our community values. We want to stress that that was just one woman’s opinions and the rest of our community is kind of upset about it and we’re looking forward to finishing Greek Week with a great ending.”

Michael Sikorski, the Interfraternity Council’s external relations vice president, said the email came from an individual member whose opinions “may or may not reflect the organization.”

“We’ve reached out to our IFC chapters and stressed that it’s time to support their matchups, get into the Greek spirit and, to the leadership, to be responsible,” Sikorski said. “This is a chapter issue that organizations should handle internally, and I’m sure Delta Gamma is doing that.”

According to the author, the Delta Gamma girls spend too much time talking to each other instead of the Sigma Nu members, who do “not give a flying f---,

“Obviously we were surprised and shocked by the email that came out; that someone in the community has those views.

Those are not the values our community values.”

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Panhellenic Council president about how much you f---ing love to talk to your sisters.”

“Are you people f---ing retarded? That’s not a rhetorical question, I LITERALLY want you to email me back telling me if you’re mentally slow,” the author wrote.

The Panhellenic Council’s adviser in the Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life, Liz Brown, said she had no comment on the situation and is still gathering information.

The email also chastises Delta Gamma members for openly talking about socializing with other fraternities in front of Sigma Nu members and cheering for other teams during Greek Week games.

“Are you just so f---ing dense about what it means to make people like you that you think being a good little supporter of the greek community is going to make our matchup happy?” it reads. “NO ONE F---ING LIKES THAT, ESPECIALLY OUR F---ING MATCHUP.” The author also threatened violence against members she said continually do not meet her expectations, writing that she will “assault” them, punch them and other more colorful threats not publishable in The Diamondback.

“I think it will frighten away a lot of prospective Greek life freshmen,” said Collin Baker, a senior English and theater major.

It’s the second time in less than two weeks a less-than-complimentary email allegedly from university Greek life’s student leaders went viral.

On April 8, several college blogs, including BroBible.com and BarStoolU.com, posted a message allegedly from a fraternity member at this university to his chapter.

The email also focused on Greek Week, and was intended to provide the non-Jewish fraternity members a crash course in talking to girls in their partner sorority, which had a reputation for attracting Jewish women.

The email focused on what the members should talk about, what they should wear and how they should act in order to present themselves as Jewish to the women. The sorority in question responded with its own similar email that gave sorority members tips on how to act less Jewish and attract non-Jewish men. The fraternity and sorority names were left out of the posts. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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o’malley From PAGE 1 governor of Maryland and receiving a speaking spot at the National Convention during the 2012 election.

In just the past two years, O’Malley has solidified his image as a progressive governor, signing into law several liberal initiatives such as same-sex marriage legalization, the death penalty repeal and some of the country’s strictest gun control measures. He also joined several East Coast states when he established this state as a leader in alternative energy policy with the passage of an offshore wind energy bill.

By putting his signature on these measures, O’Malley has built an impressive resume that pundits speculate could propel him through the primary process.

“You can’t run for the nomination as you would run for the presidency in the general election — that we have seen over and over and over again as this country becomes more partisan,” Beilenson said. “The primary voters are going to be overwhelmingly liberal and progressive folks for whom these accomplishments and the bills that he got passed are touchstones.”

But these issues, generally embraced by progressive Democrats, come to the dismay of the state’s Republican constituency. Del. Mike Smigiel (R-Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne’s) said the state under O’Malley has become a “liberal utopia” with interests only reflect those of the big three jurisdictions — Montgomery County, Prince George’s County and Baltimore City — at the cost of ignoring the state’s rural areas.

“They’re trying to force their lifestyle, their heritage on those who are from a rural background, and it is not going to fly,” Smigiel said. “You’re going to find that there is going to be a growing risk for secession in Western Maryland, on the Eastern Shore and the rural counties; they want nothing to do with the lifestyle.”

Martin O’Malley’s political stature has risen over the past 20 years, from Baltimore City Council to serving as Baltimore’s mayor and becoming state governor. Some pundits anticipate O’Malley could do well in a future presidential primary. file photo/the diamondback After the past legislative session, Smigiel said, the state is the most liberal in the nation.

“There is nobody that is more left than Maryland. We have surpassed Massachusetts, New York, California,” Smigiel said. “Maryland is the example of the nanny state and socialism in America.”

Beilenson said O’Malley’s progressive policy stances will give him a viable bid for the White House, but he added O’Malley has always kept consistent views and isn’t singularly guided by delusions of political grandeur. “ I t ’s n o t l i k e h e ’s n o t supporting things that he wouldn’t support otherwise,” Beilenson said.

And Beilenson said even the sizable vocal opposition in the state to O’Malley’s initiatives would not be a factor in the primaries.

But if O’Malley does make it to the general election, he may have to step back from his rhetoric and frame his more liberal initiatives in a moderate way to appease voters in the center.

Public policy professor Christopher Foreman is skeptical of any presidential buzz this close to the past election, calling it “premature.”

“I think it’s impossible to

“The primary voters are going to be overwhelmingly liberal and progressive folks for whom these accomplishments and the bills that he got passed are touchstones.”

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Former Baltimore health commissioner know, and what happens always is there are people who, early on, make noises about running who end up not running for all sorts of reasons,” he said, adding that potential candidates may back down because “they can’t raise the money, their candidacy doesn’t catch fire, their personal circumstances that end up derailing them — there’s just so much that can go wrong.”

O’Malley could conceivably run on his record as governor and ride that to the nomination, the same way Michael Dukakis did to secure the nomination in 1988, or as former President Jimmy Carter did to make it to the White House.

But he could also go the way of former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson or former Tennessee governor and current U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), names that were floated early on but never gathered enough traction when primary season rolled around. And Foreman said that scenario is even more likely, if history is any indicator.

“If you play the odds, the odds are that he will fall by the wayside simply because that’s what happens to most people who end up being mentioned this early out,” Foreman said.

O’Malley will probably weigh the presidential option in 2016, Beilenson said, but will likely step back if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decides to run, given her name recognition among Democrats. And if O’Malley doesn’t run in 2016, he likely won’t do it again.

“If you’re out of office for six years, there’s just very little you can do to keep yourself on the national stage,” Beilenson said.

“I think his one real opportunity is 2016.”

If he doesn’t end up in the White House, Beilenson said O’Malley might stay on the political scene by running for a U.S. Senate seat, or being selected for a later Democratic president’s cabinet. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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readership From PAGE 1 results of a referendum from 2012’s election ballot to demonstrate student interest in the program.

Now, instead of relying on university funding, students will foot the bill. Previously, the SGA funded the $50,000-per-year program with support from a handful of university departments.

Students will now face a $1 increase to their twice-yearly activity fee in exchange for about 350 newspapers per day.

More than 1,900 students of the 3,913 who responded to the 2012 referendum supported the increase.

The new readership program will be more flexible than the old program, which was run through USA Today, said Landon Greer, SGA chief of staff.

It will work on a week-to-week

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basis, so if students are picking up more copies of The Post than The Times, for example, subsequent distribution would reflect those changes, Ratner said.

Students will also now have access to an online version of The Times for every physical copy of the newspaper distributed on the campus, Greer said.

Several students said bringing back the program would help better inform the campus community about world events.

Alex Kline, a senior broadcast journalism major, said she remembered the usefulness of the past program in her journalism classes. She supported bringing the readership program back, even at a cost.

“When I had to take news quizzes, I used to take the papers,” Kline said.

“Everyone can spare a dollar more.”

Hasan Ford, a senior fire protection engineer, agreed with Kline, though he said he did not utilize the program in the past.

“I feel like it’s worth it,” Ford said. “I feel like it is something I should use.”

After papers hit the stands next semester, the SGA plans to advertise and expand the program, Ratner said.

Faculty can request to have the papers in specific buildings, and an individual department can allocate funds to pay for a rack in a specific building.

“I’m sure in the business school or in the journalism school there will be more interest,” Ratner said.

Because of the program’s flexibility, new demand can be met within a week or two, so it isn’t confined to the initial 350 or so newspapers.

Ratner is excited by the program’s potential for expansion, especially because of its success in the past.

“It’s something that attracts students, something to be proud of,” Ratner said. “This is really just the beginning of it.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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josh ratner, SGA city council liaison, used results from a referendum on the 2012 election ballot to show students wanted to bring back The Collegiate Readership Program. Starting next semester, students will be able to pick up free copies of The Washington Post and The New York Times on the campus. file photo/the diamondback

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a criminal record clear of felony convictions would be eligible for green cards after 10 years and citizenship after three more years. In addition to demonstrating knowledge of English, the U.S. government and its regular workings, immigrants would have to pay approximately $2,000 in fines and back taxes to apply for green cards.

“There were obstacles to the DREAM Act,” Moya said. “With the fine print of the latest immigration legislation, who’s to say illegal immigrants won’t be caught in the limbo as well?”

Despite these restrictions — and even with the failure of the 2007 immigration bill still fresh in his mind — Gustavo Torres, executive director of CASA de Maryland, a community organization helping Central Americans in the Washington area, said “the time is now” for immigration reform, largely because of the increasing clout of the Hispanic voting bloc.

In April 10’s Rally for Citizenship, organized by CASA de Maryland, thousands of immigrants, bill proponents and activists pressured Congress to pass what they called “inevitable and commonsensical reform,” echoing a 2006 rally in support of a similar 2007 immigration bill that died in the Senate as a result of conservative backlash.

“This time it is different,” Torres said. “Politicians learned in the last election cycle that you ignore immigrants at your own peril.”

The Latino voting bloc was crucial

50-page platform. This election, the platform has only 26 pages because she wants to finish what she has started.

“Now I am much more aware of what is feasible and what is not,” Zwerling added. “I really figured out how this role [as SGA president] and this university work.”

Josh Ratner, the Go Party’s student affairs vice presidential candidate, said Zwerling’s approach works for the university because it focuses on realistic plans for actions.

“It would be a disservice for students if we stop the strong momentum that she created this year,” Ratner said.

While Zwerling has built relationships with university and local officials, and a knowledge base on campus and state politics, she said she knows many voters will be unaware of the SGA’s work.

“I think that’s what this campaign is really about,” she said. “It’s talking to students about our record and also getting their input.”

Since Monday, 40 party members and 20 volunteers dressed in black T-Shirts with a green Go Party logo have spoken to more than 2,000 students, Zwerling said.

“Students will know that we care about them, that we can help them and can have an impact on daily lives,” she said. “At the very heart of it, nobody is going to vote because of a Facebook post — people are going

dream act ADVOCATES Sen. Ben Cardin and state delegates Joseline Peña-Melnyk and Heather Mizeur joined more than 250 supporters on the campus in October to rally for the state DREAM Act. file photo/the diamondback in the Democrats’ margin last election, helping re-elect President Obama over presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s 48 percent of the popular vote.

Rouse agreed, saying the political climate was opportune for politicians to reach across the aisle, especially for Republicans who must cater to the growing Hispanic population by taking a proimmigration stance while still maintaining traditional conservative leanings.

“If we can’t do something with the framework we have here, I don’t think immigration law will ever place. This is the time,” Rouse said.

Though the next step for a legislative decision may be long down the road — Senate debates are expected to last deep into May, according to The Washington Post — the journey to put a face and name to the nation’s 11.1 million undocumented immigrants “has only

just begun,” said Teresa Wright, a Montgomery County parent resource teacher who has worked with many undocumented and documented immigrants for more than 30 years.

Moya agreed, saying that supporters such as Wright — whom he called an “angel” — were crucial in pushing him to join Forest Oak Middle School, submit application forms and become involved in his dream of going to college.

“I don’t have to hide behind my citizenship status anymore,” Moya said.

“I have a Social Security number and a work permit, and I’m graduating in December next year. Our shift toward immigration reform isn’t amnesty, but it is something — something that I’m glad is being done.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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TOP FIVE REASONS WHY I LOVE HANSON Walking into a party, you prepare yourself for the forced small talk and witty banter that awaits. With a stranger to your right, you shuffle through the social cues of “Do you like this Selena Gomez song?” and “What’s your major?” over a warm Natty Light.

Not too far behind that first awkward pause, the stranger will ask you, “What’s your favorite band?” You could easily answer this very personal question with Mumford & Sons, Maroon 5 or even an artist like Taylor Swift. All of those answers would suffice.

My answer? Hanson.

Yes, that ’90s brother band that forced the non-word “MMMBop” into American culture. I swear I’m not stuck in the ’90s and that I really do have decent taste in music. But Hanson is just too great to forget.

Here are the five reasons why I love Hanson. You won’t hear them at a party because you’ll have already walked away.

5. They have exceptional hair quality.

Yes, this is a reason. They made it cool to be known for perfectly unkempt hair way before One Direction made the second — and slightly less talented — British invasion. Isaac rocks the coif, Taylor sings through his bangs and Zac is sporting a bit of a George of the Jungle style right now — but we can look past that. The Hanson bros may or may not have a restraining order against me after I slipped my fingers through their perfect locks the day we met. Trust me, it’s great hair.

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to vote because you had a conversation with them and you engaged them.”

Liz Pandya said serving as Zwerling’s student affairs vice president has been a “tremendous experience.”

“It’s quite powerful when you’re sitting in a room with five or six people that are just such strong thinkers and really thinking about the future of the student body and the future of the University of Maryland,” she added.

Zwerling also anticipates high expectations among students who have noticed the SGA’s productive year, especially when it comes to work she could not tackle during her term.

She did not establish a presidents’ forum — a meeting between student group leaders to discuss issues such as the agenda of the University Senate or organizing students for rallies. And a polling initiative created this year — in which SGA representatives poll students on a set of questions each week — is still not creating more outreach across the campus. Not all representatives poll students on a weekly basis, so the system isn’t yet having its desired effect.

However, she added, every criticism she gets is “totally worth it,” even with a schedule packed to the brim with meetings, exams, papers and events.

“I just want to finish up this campaign and get back to what I have been doing, which is making sure student voices are heard and represented, making sure that we are included in conversations and making the student experience better,” she said.

Eating right and exercising are critical to leading a healthy lifestyle, but some factors are simply out of people’s control.

Take the environment. Humans can’t entirely control its impact on their health, but they can do more to understand its complexity. Because of the demand for greater knowledge in this field, the university is offering five new courses this summer, covering areas such as environmental justice, global health, and community engagement.

The classes, taught by affiliates of the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, should give students an edge on topics that are becoming increasingly important domestically and abroad, said the institute’s director, Donald Milton.

Michael Grantham, an institute researcher and university professor, taught one of the courses, MIEH 321: Syphilis to SARS: Climate Change, Development and Emergence of Infectious Diseases, online in summer 2012.

Because of the course’s popularity, the university will continue offering it in the fall at the University of Maryland Shady Grove campus.

His goal is to determine “some of the factors that have led to disease emergence in the past and look at those factors that are happening now and have a better idea of what to watch for,” Grantham said.

The course focuses on the rapid spread of infectious diseases and resistance to antibiotic drugs, both prevalent problems, Grantham said.

“Things are definitely much more mobile now than they used to be,” he said. “The emergence of a disease can

have a much more widespread effect nowadays than, say, in the 1700s, when it took months to go from continent to continent.”

Climate change, pollution and other environmental factors can exacerbate these issues, especially in parts of the world where safe sources of food and water are scarce, said Maurice Rocque, the institute’s coordinator.

Professor Amy Sapkota will be teaching MIEH 275: Global Environmental Health: How Our Fouled Fishbowl Impacts Health and How we Can Turn the Tide, which will address these problems on a global scale.

“It’ll really talk about the intersection of all of these things and how the environment is playing a role in health around the world and how this is really a security threat,” Rocque said.

But environmental health problems hit very close to home as well.

Professor Sacoby Wilson will be teaching three courses on environmental justice focusing on local communities. The only course to be taught in person is MIEH 280: Community Engagement, Citizen Science to Participatory Action Research: Saving the World One Community at a Time. Focusing on service and learning, students will have a chance to work with communities in the county that are grappling with food access issues, Washington residents affected by contamination of the Anacostia River and some populations in South Baltimore suffering from industrial pollution, Wilson said.

“At the end, students will be able to see the issues up front and in person and hopefully be able to address some of the problems that are affecting those communities,” Wilson said.

His other two courses, online offerings MIEH 210: Environmental Justice, Racism, and Environmental Health Disparities: How Where You Live Can Kill You! and MEIH 215: The Built Environment and Public Health: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly will focus on community planning and the health disparities between wealthy and poor communities.

However, these classes are too important to only be offered online, said Nusheen Majidi, a sophomore behavioral and community health and psychology major.

“I don’t think online classes are as effective,” she said. “Students always figure out how to get around them one way or another. [Professors] can’t really drive their point home and put their passion and knowledge into it online.

People should know this information because it’s our future.”

Rocque said he hopes some of the courses will become I-series courses if the department can come up with additional funding.

Because community health and public health are such broad majors, Majidi said concentrations in subjects such as environmental health and global health should be offered within the field.

Students who choose any of the university’s public health tracks can go on to a range of valuable and rewarding careers, Wilson said.

“Students who go into public health get the opportunity to work in government and policy, to work in nonprofits, community organizations and to work globally,” he said. “That’s the power of public health.

It’s important to everyone everywhere.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Opinion College Park is caught between two seemingly unbreakable vise grips. On one hand, rent both on and off the campus is ludicrous — more so each year.

On the other, students have a history of disagreement with long-term city residents. Pressure builds behind my temples trying to figure out a solution.

I share this headache with the whole community — thousands of homeowners, students and community officials who could also use an Advil. The Neighborhood Stabilization and Quality of Life Workgroup’s public forums will help start important conversations, but they will only take us so far.

I have another answer: Get your friends together and buy a house.

First, let’s talk numbers. Living on the campus in a traditional dorm, you pay more than $5,000 per year for a triple or quad and even more for a single or on-campus apartment. You get a small, cramped room and a bathroom to share with almost 40 other people. You are obligated to buy a meal plan, setting you back another four or five grand for food and an eating experience that is less than stellar. But Dining Services is for another day.

Add the “incidental” expenses you incur — posters to cover up the cinder blocks, a mattress pad for your cheap twin bed, Route 1 food to supplement the bland diner experience — and your living expenses for a year and you’ll come to somewhere between $10,000 and $14,000, conservatively. On top of this, you don’t really own your room; during breaks and over the summer, you have to clear out. Bleh. What other options are there? Courtyards, South Campus Commons, the University View and The Varsity are slightly nicer but also appallingly expensive. Beds start at $623, $801, $864 and $889, respectively, and go up from there. Imagine paying $30 at the door every day — it’s that crazy.

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versity Club, Mazza Grandmarc, somewhere on Knox Road, an off-campus house, a fraternity or sorority. Maybe apply to Co-op Housing University of Maryland and help cooperative housing become a legitimate piece of the housing puzzle. Thousands of dollars of savings, if you can swing it with your parents. No matter where you go, you can’t recoup a cent of what you spend.

The alternative: You and three friends buy a house. Payments on a $300,000 mortgage with $30,000 down come to $1,600 per month for more than 10 years, even with poor credit. If you split utilities and spread the down payment out over two years, you end up paying about the same per month as you would in Commons: $800.

By graduation, you become the master of your fate. You can sell and maybe start paying off those student loans. Or you can stay — housing prices are slowly rising back to pre-2008 levels. Rent to some younger students, save them hundreds a month. Win-win-win.

So maybe buying a house would help a few students with the astronomical rent, but how does this make things better for residents? Intermediaries who empathize with both sides of any dispute are immeasurably valuable.

Student homeowners naturally fill this role. They have an interest in keeping the streets free of litter and maintaining relationships with their neighbors.

Instead of, “Who cares, I’m just renting,” their dominant attitude is, “This is my town. I’m going to take care of it.”

It won’t solve every problem. Not all students can find the cash for the down payment and qualify for a loan.

Not every set of neighbors will get along.

Just like any solution, it will take time and effort and will leave some issues unresolved. But it’s a start.

Buy a house. Build yourself some equity while building a sustainable, connected community in College Park.

Besides, then you’ll own a house.

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Raising the bar requirements

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ollege Park bar-goers all “know someone” who has a fake ID. There’s always a mass scramble during freshman year to get to the one or two people who have friends who can create them, and until students are 21, there are constant comparisons among people’s atrocious attempts at of-age identification in line at Cornerstone Grill and Loft.

But since December, those attempts have been foiled more and more often.

The county liquor board began investigating bars with more focus, going undercover in different Route 1 establishments, such as R.J. Bentley’s, that have reputations for serving alcohol to minors. Those measures have served as an apparent wake-up call. As part of their stricter policy changes to curb underage drinking, bars have implemented new validation methods, such as ID scanners and wristbands for minors.

It’s a substantial change from the past, when all it took to get into a bar with an obviously fake ID (or with, say, a Pokémon card, as was infamously accepted at the Thirsty Turtle), was a $7 or $10 cover charge instead of the usual $5.

The liquor board appears to have taken the initiative to carry out its job thoroughly. It seems both logical and effective that cracking down on the establishments directly — rather than sending police after individual students — is the right way to re-

strict underage drinking. Eliminating all underage drinking is simply impossible, but forcing bars to uphold the law in an effort to protect underage students is commendable.

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The county liquor board’s crackdown on underage drinking in College Park bars holds benefits for the establishments, students and community as a whole.

Bentley’s was initially investigated once, sometimes twice a week in December. Then gradually, after about a month, inspectors started showing up about once every other week. And the investigations are countywide, which led to two city establishments being fined since 2012 — Big Play Sports Grill and Town Hall Tavern.

Though it seems the new policies are hurting businesses — there are visibly fewer people in bars because those who are underage are scared of the consequences — bar owners and students alike should appreciate what these measures will ultimately create: a safer College Park.

This city has a bad reputation, deserved or not, when it comes to safety.

With high crime statistics for a college town not in the middle of a major U.S. city, College Park’s negative safety ratings are a turnoff for many prospective students. Add in a reputation for allowing any freshman to get into any bar, and this city would be quickly moving away from the goal of most students and administrators — especially university President Wallace Loh — to improve both the community’s and this university’s images.

Considering there are many other crimes that need to be both stopped and prevented, police resources and manpower could be put to better use by combating issues besides underage drinking. If these inspections incite enough fear in underage students that they start abiding by the law instead of sneaking into bars, then police officers could have freer schedules to deal with more important issues.

Regardless of any inspections or bar policies, the people who want to drink underage will figure out a way to do so.

But bars don’t have to facilitate this lawbreaking. Underage students can drink in private — lessening the potential for them to harm others or face legal action. While this community should strive toward overall student safety, a good first step is eliminating underage drinking in city bars. With the legal sideshow of underage patrons taken care of, students could focus on turning around the problematic binge-drinking culture itself.

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Robert Cobb is a junior computer engineering major. He can be reached at rwcobbjr@gmail.com.

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Some perspective from a Bostonian

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ome of you may remember a time, long past, when this writer appeared every two weeks in The Diamondback. Back then, I wrote about travels, occasionally politics, and @FakeWallaceLoh. I return today to speak, as best I can, for my hometown.

Many of you have watched the videos of Monday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon. Those streets you saw are my stomping grounds. Among the many good memories I have in downtown Boston, I recall attending the Bruins’ 2011 Stanley Cup victory parade. On that warm day in June, I stood on the exact spot where, just four days ago, the first bomb was detonated.

It is also the finish line of one of the world’s premier marathons.

Since 1897, the Boston Marathon has been a storied run. Unlike most marathons, which dodge and weave throughout cities, Boston’s is fashioned like the original one – it’s mostly a straight line, beginning in the rural Massachusetts suburb of Hopkinton and ending in downtown Boston. It is run on Patriots’ Day, which commemorates the start of the American Revolution in yet two more suburbs of Boston: Lexington and Concord. As Gov. Deval Patrick said on Thursday, “Massachusetts invented America.”

Founded nearly 400 years ago by Puritans on a tiny peninsula, Boston has since annexed several neighboring areas and filled in riverbeds and swamps, but it remains much smaller, area-wise, than most major American cities. If it were the size of New York City, Boston would have more than 3 million inhabitants.

This is why the vast majority of those who tell you they are from Boston aren’t actually from Boston.

Our marathon, and our history, emphasize one thing: Boston and its many surrounding towns, colloquially, are one united community. And when they feel threatened (which, on better days, is during any sporting event), they join to present one face.

Seeing the rest of the nation express this solidarity with us has been very

appreciated and comforting. Yankee Stadium playing “Sweet Caroline” was a class act. Most moving was the entire crowd at the Bruins’ game on Wednesday singing the national anthem together. Emotional flagwaving is uplifting. Reality, however, hits hard.

We have to be realistic. Political violence is not the problem in America that it is in Syria, whose civil war no one seems to notice anymore, or Iraq, in which at least 55 people were killed in bombings on the same day as the Boston Marathon. At home, America does not face the grave threat from terrorism that she does from global warming, widespread obesity or political dysfunction. But seeing my people run and scream through the same streets where I have such great memories, in my home city, was disturbing and terrifying to me.

That sentiment gives me the slightest clue of what it feels like to live in Damascus, Baghdad or Kabul, where violence seems able to strike anyone, anywhere, anytime. The unimaginable is now quite imaginable, and to a few of my fellow Bostonians, quite real. We are no longer blind to these struggles.

President Obama correctly termed Boston as a “tough and resilient town.”

Those who view violence as a rational means of political dialogue probably would not want to invoke the rage of those whose bitterness is hardwrought by seven months of winter per year, but they have.

Like my fellow Bostonians, I crave justice, even vengeance. But I feel it most appropriate to quote 8-year-old Martin Richard of Dorchester, Mass., who went to Boylston Street to watch his father run, and somehow lost his life. “Peace,” he proclaimed on a piece of blue construction paper, a school project completed shortly before his death. “No more hurting people.”

Amen, brah.

Greg Nasif is a 2012 alumnus and former opinion columnist. He can be reached at gregorynasif@gmail.com.

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O’Malley and the Maryland model CHARLIE BULMAN With family members of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary mass school shooting watching hopefully from the Senate balcony, lawmakers finally garnered the bipartisan support necessary for an important vote on gun control. Afterward, Democratic leaders hailed the successful vote as an essential victory against an obstructionist gun lobby.

De s p i te Se n a te De m o c ra ts ’ hubris, their “victory” was simply a preliminary motion to proceed with debate on the bill, and their jubilation was short-lived.

The Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to pass universal background checks on gun buyers.

While congressional leaders were struggling to produce, Gov. Martin O’Malley was celebrating the recent passage of state gun control legislation. The state bill — introduced by the governor — mandates fingerprinting and extensive background checks for gun ownership, significantly diminishing the probability of a mass shooting within state borders.

The gun bill is just the latest win for a governor at the top of his game.

Fresh off an especially productive legislative session, O’Malley finally acknowledged his national aspirations, telling The Baltimore Sun he’ll give “serious consideration” to a presidential run. While O’Malley is less well-known than other potential contenders Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden, his efforts

in abolishing the death penalty, legalizing same-sex marriage and securing in-state tuition for some undocumented immigrant students would lend him credibility in a national race.

Some state Republicans have criticized O’Malley for using the state legislature to bolster his 2016 profile. The Sun recently quoted House of Delegates Minority Leader Anthony O’Donnell’s attack on the governor for spending the legislative session “paving the way for his liberal platform.”

In fact, the governor has shown an opportunistic streak. O’Malley’s 2012 about-face on — and eventual endorsement of — gambling expansion in already-crime-ridden Prince George’s County is a prime example of his inclination to get in front of momentous reforms instead of being run over by them. But generally, what’s good for the governor’s personal agenda has been good for this state’s residents.

O’Malley’s greatest strength has been his steadfast support for education within the state. During the recession, states’ revenues plummeted, and state lawmakers across the country struggled to balance budgets.

While many states slashed education funding, O’Malley pushed for a politically difficult tax hike on the state’s wealthiest earners, ensuring education would not suffer as a result of the downturn.

Students are already seeing the benefits of O’Malley’s struggles.

Compared to other states, this state’s 3 percent resident undergraduate tuition increase is a bargain. As university President Wallace Loh noted in a recent university-wide email, the legislature’s $30 million increase in

university education funding dwarfs other states’ appropriations. Similarly, this university’s professors will see healthy raises. While the thought of richer professors may not inspire campuswide jubilation, generous state funding will allow this state to recruit and retain the best academic talent.

With increasing economic globalization putting downward pressure on the wages of unskilled workers, the importance of widespread access to higher education has never been greater. O’Malley’s commitment to schools is proof of his vision for a smarter, more egalitarian society.

As O’Malley recognizes, competitiveness is not achieved simply through lenient regulations or low marginal tax rates. To attract the best jobs, this state must strive to have the smartest, best-trained workforce.

And despite the apocalyptic predictions of some state Republicans, balancing ample education funding with higher taxes on wealthy Marylanders did not precipitate massive capital flight. In fact, this state’s economy has quickly bounced back from the 2008 recession; the state currently boasts a relatively decent 6.7 percent unemployment rate.

O’Malley’s governorship has been a powerful reaffirmation of the positive role government can play in people’s lives. As lawmakers across the country seek to weather tough economic headwinds and improve the nation’s outlook, they should look to the Maryland model for their next move.

Charlie Bulman is a freshman government and politics major. He can be reached at CBulman@terpmail.umd.edu.

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REVIEW | OBLIVION

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Tom Cruise-kills-CGI-space-things movie Oblivion is just as big, beautiful and profoundly empty as the futuristic vistas it so enjoys reveling in

By Zachary Berman Senior staff writer Oblivion, despite the bleak emptiness of the title, is pure sensory bombardment.

Sitting in the theater with your head craned back and peripheral vision engulfed by a massive IMAX screen, there is nothing to do but be swallowed whole by the seizureinducing visuals and earth shaking surround sound.

Too bad for the audience, then, that Oblivion isn’t much more than an amalgamation of predictable B-movie plot lines, strung together haphazardly by a series of ostentatious CGI explosions and some extreme closeups of hero Jack’s (Tom Cruise, Jack Reacher) well-exfoliated face.

This isn’t to say Oblivion can’t be a fun viewing experience. Yes, the plot holes are staggering, and yes, it’s hard to care about any of the characters, but there’s no denying the visual beauty of the film.

Director Joseph Kosinski’s previous film — and directorial debut — TRON: Legacy is in many ways an identical experience to Oblivion. Both are obnoxious, glitzy, loud and completely self-obsessed with maintaining an overproduced image.

They are undeniably fun movies to watch, but more in the way that watching a brain-dead Jean-Claude Van Damme (U.F.O.) film is fun, as opposed to a more nuanced movie from Steven Spielberg’s (Lincoln) impressive science-fiction collection. (His next film? Robopocalypse, of course.)

So while the visuals in the film can be breathtaking — for instance, two lovers taking a nighttime swim in a pool thousands of feet above the Earth — the pacing and plotting of Oblivion falter in many places.

The story follows Jack, who is told he is one of the last two people on Earth after a war with an alien race left the planet in environmental ruin.

Everyone else has apparently colonized Saturn’s moon, Titan, leaving Jack and partner Victoria (Andrea Riseborough, Welcome to the Punch) to run maintenance on the robotic drones that protect Earth’s autonomous water-foraging operation.

It’s a mouthful, all right, and things only get more convoluted and unsatisfying from there.

The plot, in addition to being scat-

tered and confusing, contains several twists that are unabashed ripoffs of Duncan Jones’ (Source Code) cult hit Moon, one of the most beloved sci-fi films of the past decade.

For those who have seen Moon, Oblivion feels like a retread, albeit one that replaces the former’s challenging concepts of humanity and existence with rather large explosions.

Fans of Moon — or anyone paying attention during the film’s tell-all info dumps — will see the entire narrative arc laid out before the two-hour film even gets going, which makes the awkward pacing even more unbearable as the film lumbers along from one robot battle to another.

For those who haven’t seen Moon, Oblivion’s shock-and-awe moment still doesn’t feel natural because the

film lacks truly relatable characters.

Cruise’s Jack is as bland a hero as they come and Victoria isn’t an interesting presence either.

Even the wily band of humans scouring the surface beg zero sympathy — the always-lovable Morgan Freeman (Olympus Has Fallen) has about 10 total minutes of screen time, which he spends saying heady nonsense the audience can’t be bothered to care about.

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HOKIES From PAGE 8 in 34 innings pitched — good enough for a 2.12 ERA. The Terps (20-18, 5-13 ACC), however, lost three of those five games, largely due to a lack of offensive execution.

But the group will have an opportunity to rebound this weekend against a Virginia Tech (22-16, 7-11) pitching staff that features the third-worst ERA in the conference (4.51).

“Our hitters right now have got to be able to adjust to anything,” Drossner said Wednesday. “Our team’s good enough.”

The offense will be without starting third baseman K.J. Hockaday for this weekend, though, after a violation of team rules. Second baseman Kyle Convissar has been out all week with a knee injury he suffered Saturday against Miami, leaving the Terps’ infield thin. Kevin Martir — normally a catcher and designated hitter — was forced to start two games this week at third base to fill the void.

Szefc hopes Convissar will return to the lineup today for the series opener against the

Hokies, but if he is unable to go, Martir will make his third start at the hot corner.

“Kevin played a little third in high school, and he did a pretty good job,” Szefc said Wednesday. “As crazy as it sounds, that was really it.

He was our best option on the infield. As pathetic as it sounds, it’s the truth.”

The Terps’ inconsistency has been their downfall this season. It seems whenever Szefc gets quality pitching, his hitters fail to deliver. Whenever his bats are going, the pitchers fail to come through with quality performances.

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the hunt for the postseason.

And if they are able to string together several complete games both offensively and defensively starting this weekend, there is a chance they will be competing at the ACC tournament in Durham, N.C., come May 22.

“You just got to go out there and give your team a chance to win,” Drossner said. “If you do that, that’s all you can ask for and hope for the best. You can’t be frustrated like that.

You’ve got to keep going out there and give your team a chance to win.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Bulldogs From PAGE 8 when they face a stout Yale defense that hasn’t allowed more than 10 goals in a game since March 16.

So Tillman and his team have to worry about Yale’s strong defense while still searching for their own offensive rhythm late in the season.

“When you get to the second half of the season, you have to start adjusting to teams and to the wear and tear of the season,” midfielder Mike Chanenchuk said. “When it comes down to game time, if you don’t make the right decisions, you’re not going to be successful.”

The Terps haven’t been effective lately, and there’s little doubt that the struggles on offense have left them frustrated. They’ve gone 2-2 in their past four games and the lack of a scoring punch is a growing concern.

That puts Tillman’s squad in a new position this week. After spending much of the year as the No. 1 team in the country, the Terps seemed to be carrying plenty of momentum after winning eight of their first nine games. But now they’re trending in the opposite direction.

midfielder mike chanenchuk and the No. 4 Terps are 2-2 in their past four games after a 6-0 start. Yale hasn’t allowed more than 10 goals since March 16. charlie deboyace/the diamondback “8-2 sounds pretty good to a lot of people, but it kind of upsets our team,” midfielder Jake Bernhardt said. “It doesn’t satisfy us.”

One week after the Terps (8-2) faced local rival Johns Hopkins, Yale (8-3) presents yet another challenge. The Bulldogs are riding a five-game winning streak and have solidified themselves as a tournament contender with victories over Penn and Albany — two top-20 teams.

And Tillman knows from his time in the Ivy League that Yale can’t be counted out. “[Yale coach Andy Shay] has created a culture and environment

seniors From PAGE 8 up: ‘Are you worried about losing?’” said Reese, who has won four national championships and captured two undefeated seasons in her career. “I don’t [worry]. I think you step on the field, and you expect to win. … Our challenge is beating ourselves right now.”

Now, with an undefeated season on the line, the Terps (16-0, 4-0 ACC) face a Hokies team that’s struggled in ACC play. Virginia Tech (8-6, 0-4) is coming off Wednesday’s 10-5 loss to intrastate rival Virginia.

The Hokies have struggled to put points on the scoreboard. Aside from a stellar season from attacker Megan W i l l , wh o h a s n o tc h e d a team-high 50 points, the offense ranks in the lower half of the conference with 12.08 goals per game.

On the defensive end, things haven’t been much better. The Hokies have shuffled playing time between three goalkeepers; Alex Gale, Alexis Carey and Hannah Sieger. They have combined to allow 9.62 goals per

eagles From PAGE 8 we were doing.”

Upon Beards’ return, the Terps were mired in a rough stretch. They lost seven of their eight games without her, and their offensive woes culminated in a 6-2 home defeat against Seton Hall. Beards wanted to provide a boost for the team, but Watten said the pressure negatively affected the performance of a usually lighthearted and happy player.

The Terps’ bats eventually heated up, and they went 17-8 during a 25-game stretch midway through the season.

Acosta, along with fellow outfielder Nikki Maier and infielder Lindsey Schmeiser, led the offensive charge.

But the Ringwood, N.J., native — voted all-region first team by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association last season — was hitting .220 leading up to the Terps’ midweek doubleheader at George Mason. Still, Beards’ teammates still had confidence in her abilities.

“I think that really helps me out a lot,” Beards said. “To know that, even though I started off slow, my teammates still always have my back.”

With mononucleosis sidelining Maier and a seasonending shoulder injury shelving infielder Mandy Gardner, Beards’ hot streak is coming

there where they can be successful,” Tillman said. “They’ve got good players and kids to buy into what they’re doing.”

Tillman remembers two of those players vividly. Johnson and McCormack helped beat Tillman as freshmen, and now that they’re seniors, the Terps coach understands how tough it will be to even the score. “[Yale] is very good defensively from what we’ve seen,” Tillman said. “We’re going to have our hands full. We’re going to have to play as well as we have all season to try and get a win.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

game, second-worst in the ACC. Plus, the Terps have defeated the Hokies in each of the squads’ past 10 contests, including a 15-7 rout in last season’s ACC quarterfinals.

Ju s t a s t h ey ’ve sa i d a l l season, though, the Terps aren’t focused on their opponents — they are focused on themselves.

“We’ve been working all season to get better,” Reese said. “This is our last chance to compete in our regular season.

That’s what we expect of ourselves every day, to be the best we can be.”

The senior class hasn’t forgotten about the loss two years ago against Dartmouth.

The team’s ultimate goal is winning a national championship — but completing an undefeated regular season would be another notch on its lengthy resume. “[We’ve learned] that we don’t want to be there,” Sanza said. “Our senior class knows what it takes. … We learn from those losses what we didn’t bring to the table, and what we can.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

at just the right time. She is playing at last season’s level, and Acosta might have something to do with that.

Before the George Mason doubleheader, the outspoken center fielder told the slumping Beards to “just hit the ball.”

Beards returned to the basics, reverting to her original batting stance after changing it in the beginning of the season, and she saw results.

Sunday’s matchup with Georgia Tech capped Beards’ productive week. She went 2-for-3, scored two runs and batted in another as the Terps rolled the 2012 ACC champions 14-5. Her average jumped 58 percentage points to .278 in the five games against the Patriots and Yellow Jackets.

“She’s a big component to the program and a big component to our offense,” Watten said. “When she steps in with confidence, I absolutely can see it all over her when she’s going to produce.”

Though it may be too late for Beards to snag any individual accolades by the end of the season, her improved offensive output can help the Terps — who rank third in the ACC standings — reach even bigger achievements.

“We’re just trying to keep going,” Beards said. “We have a mission to win the rest of the ACC series that we have.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Beards’ bat breaks out before BC Junior rebounds from early-season struggles

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to do more than once.

“They’re very good players,” Tillman said.

“Johnson and McCormack were starting as freshmen, and now they’re all-Ivy and guys that I think can be playing at the next level.”

The Terps offense hasn’t displayed the firepower to outduel talented defenses in recent weeks. It hasn’t notched more than 12 goals in a game in more than a month and posted a season-low goal total in a 7-4 loss to Johns Hopkins on Saturday.

And the Terps won’t get a break tomorrow

Candice Beards boasted only a .235 batting average through the Terrapins softball team’s first six games. But in the team’s seventh contest of the season against Nebraska, coach Laura Watten noticed a different approach from the struggling junior.

The designated hitter strutted into the box and knocked a single in her first at-bat. Then she hit a shot to the right-center fence her second time up. But as she slid into third base on the play, the relay throw banged off her head, knocking her helmet off.

Beards suffered a concussion, halting any progress at the plate she seemed poised to make.

“It set her back,” Watten said. “It just kind of took her out of it.”

The injury kept her sidelined for more than two weeks, and she struggled to find her form upon returning.

But now those troubles are behind her.

Beards is hitting .600 through her past five games,and she is no longer playing with the pressures that weighed on her mind earlier this season, as the Terps head into a series against Boston College this weekend.

Coming off a 2012 season in which she posted top-10 marks in batting average and on-base percentage in the ACC, the junior had a sputtering start to this campaign. Then the injury forced her to be away from the team while she recovered.

“She just wanted to be back the whole time,” outfielder Sara Acosta said. “There wasn’t a day when we would leave and travel that she wasn’t texting me after and before every single game wondering how

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Coach john tillman coached against Yale during his time in charge at Harvard. He’ll face the Bulldogs again tomorrow at Byrd Stadium as the Terps attempt to rebound from Saturday’s loss. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

TRENDING IN REVERSE

Tillman faces familiar foes as Terps aim to return to early-season form against Yale tomorrow

By Aaron Kasinitz Staff writer Coach John Tillman remembers spending a week at the end of April 2010 preparing his Harvard men’s lacrosse team’s offense to play against Yale freshmen defenders Peter Johnson and Michael McCormack.

His efforts didn’t pay off, though. The Bulldogs’ defensive duo stifled Tillman’s team and handed the rival Crimson a 9-8 Ivy League loss.

Much has changed since that tilt three years ago. Tillman took over the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team the next year, reached back-to-back

national title games and is poised for another run.

Johnson and McCormack, meanwhile, have morphed from talented youngsters into mainstays on All-Ivy League teams over the past three seasons. They’re now seniors and the key components on the nation’s eighth-ranked defense.

This week, despite altered circumstances, Tillman finds himself once again poring over film of Johnson and McCormack. This time, however, he’s doing so in College Park — not Cambridge, Mass. — as he readies his No. 4 Terps to host the No. 15 Bulldogs tomorrow afternoon at Byrd Stadium.

And game-planning to beat those two defenders isn’t something Tillman was itching

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ACC tournament bid at stake this weekend Visiting Hokies have one-game lead for 9th

By Daniel Popper Staff writer The Terrapins baseball team’s postseason hopes hang in the balance this weekend when Virginia Tech visits Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium for a three-game series.

The 10th-place Terps trail the ninth-place Hokies by two games in the ACC standings. A series win this weekend would inch coach John Szefc and his squad closer to the coveted eighth-place spot — currently held

by Duke and Miami — and a bid to the conference tournament.

But the Terps have more pressing concerns.

A 2-1 loss on Wednesday night to Mount St. Mary’s — what Szefc referred to as his team’s worst game of the season “by far” — exposed holes in an offense that has been

inconsistent all season.

Despite seeing 11 different Mountaineers pitchers, the Terps were unable to support left-hander Jake Drossner — who had the best start of his young career in seven scoreless innings — stranding 13 runners on base, including leaving the bases loaded in the 8th and 9th innings.

“We didn’t come out with the energy that we needed to get it done tonight,” first baseman LaMonte Wade said after Wednesday’s loss. “We just need to step it up from the first inning and carry it out through nine.”

Drossner was a bright spot, though, continuing a streak of productive starts from the Terps’ pitching rotation. Throughout the past five games, Szefc’s starters have combined to allow only eight earned runs See hokies, Page 7

midfielder katie schwarzmann and the Terps’ seniors have won three conference championships and one national title in their careers. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Terps seek perfect slate vs. Hokies Team looks to clinch first undefeated regular season since 2009

By Joshua Needelman Staff writer

pitcher jake drossner threw seven shutout innings in Wednesday’s loss. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

The Terrapins women’s lacrosse team’s senior class has accomplished a great deal during its four years in College Park.

It won the program’s first national championship in nine years in 2010.

The Terps have won an ACC championship each year of the seniors’ careers.

And in 2012, midfielder Katie Schwarzmann won the Tewaaraton Award, which is given to the sport’s best player.

In their contest at Virginia Tech tomorrow, though, the No. 1 Terps will have an opportunity to add one more accolade to the list that’s long been

absent despite a number of close calls: an undefeated regular season.

“It would be unreal to go undefeated,” attacker Alex Aust said. “I think we should. If we play our best and execute everything, we’ll go out on top.”

The last time the Terps were able to go through the regular season without losing was 2009 — the year before these seniors arrived. But even then, the Terps fell to North Carolina in the national semifinals.

The Terps did win the national championship the following season — when starters Aust, Schwarzmann, defenders Illiana Sanza and Melissa Diepold and goalkeeper Kasey Howard were freshmen — but another loss at the

Tar Heels was the lone blemish on the charmed season.

They got close again in 2011. The Terps took a 28-game winning streak into the final game before the NCAA tournament at Dartmouth, only to have it snapped in a double-overtime thriller.

But if anyone on the team knows what it takes to seal an undefeated campaign, it’d be coach Cathy Reese.

The seventh-year coach was an attacker on a Terps team that completed an entire undefeated season — national championship and all — in 1996.

“Sometimes the question comes See seniors, Page 7