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U proposes tuition hike for 3 fields Gradual hike over next 4 years would affect business, engineering, computer science majors

programs,” Loh said of the major-specific increases. “It’s not for the central administration. Students will see an immediate benefit to their education

By Ellie Silverman President Wallace Loh said. @esilverman11 The University System of Maryland as a result.”

The proposed business, engineerSenior staff writer Board of Regents will vote on this proposal as well as a systemwide 5 percent ing and computer science tuition This university plans to gradually tuition increase at its meeting tomor- increases would be phased in over increase tuition for business, engi- row. The university also increased four years. Current juniors would neering and computer science majors tuition by 2 percent this past semester. see a $700 tuition increase senior “Unlike all other funding, all of this year, current sophomores would see during students’ junior and senior years starting in the fall, university funding goes right back to these three a $700 tuition increase junior year

and a $1,400 increase senior year, and current freshman would see a $1,400 tuition increase junior year and a $2,800 increase senior year, according to the university proposal.

Future university students enrolled in these majors will receive $2,800 tuition increases junior and senior year after paying the university’s flat tuition rates freshman and See tuition, Page 3

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Misconduct policy faces revisions Committee votes to alter interim sexual misconduct policy

275 students turn out for College Republican’s American Sniper screening

By Andrew Dunn @AndrewE_Dunn Staff writer The University Senate’s Student Conduct Committee voted Friday to change part of the university’s interim sexual misconduct procedures regarding the minimum age of a support person and the case review process.

The interim procedure, approved by university President Wallace Loh on Oct. 13, permits each party in a sexual misconduct case to be assisted by a “support person,” which is defined as a nonparticipant 18 years old or older “who can provide emotional, logistical, or other kinds of assistance,” to one of the parties.

However, the senate committee voted against the age requirement with two in favor, three opposed and one abstention.

Rachel Patterson, a sophomore plant sciences major and committee See policy, Page 3

By Andrew Dunn @AndrewE_Dunn Staff writer The student first in line for College Republican’s screening of American Sniper had two finals to study for, homework due at midnight and a car to fix.

Yet for Jason Musick, a junior mechanical engineering major and a veteran who served in the Marine Corps for more than five years as a mechanic, the screening was too important to miss. While he hadn’t seen the movie before, he said he wanted to see it because no one should infringe upon others’ choice to see a movie.

“I have my own reservations about seei ng th is mov ie just because of my own personal issues Yaser Valiuddin, a sophomore information systems major, and Tam-Ahn Nguyen, a sophomore communication and film major, stand outside of College Republican’s screening of American Sniper in Hoff Theater last night holding signs and roses that discourage hate speech. josh loock/the diamondback

By Eleanor Mueller @eleanor_mueller Staff writer

Work leaves 6 dorms without air conditioning

By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow Senior staff writer

Facilities management employees work in a hole behind Frederick Hall to remove broken pipes and weld new pieces to the system, which carries water for air conditioning and heating. jeremy snow/for the diamondback dormitories over winter break. When the pipes broke, workers only created a temporary solution until they could replace them, Austin said.

Although Residential Facilities turned on air conditioning last week, Frederick, Washington, Charles, Montgomery, Alleghany and Prince George’s halls do not have air conditioning because of the project,

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City to pay university for security camera operation

Dorm piping project to be completed next weekend

Facilities Management workers will finish a three-week pipe replacement project near Annapolis Hall this weekend that forced them to shut off air conditioning to six South Hill dorms, department officials said.

The project’s completion was initially scheduled for Monday, said John Austin, mechanical support systems assistant director. However, progress stalled when workers found a large slab of concrete blocking the pipes while digging. Delays continued when workers began breaking up the concrete and discovered they also needed to dig around Wi-Fi wires above the excavation site, he said.

The new installations, which workers started April 13, will replace the pipes that cracked and caused water outages for the surrounding

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said George Mohr, Residential Facilities assistant director. He added the project also affects Annapolis Hall, but the dorm has a backup chilling system.

During the construction, workers have been digging and installing about 140 feet of water piping to the

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The College Park City Council approved plans last week to pay this university to monitor the city’s surveillance cameras, a decision that has sparked debate about whether this university should help foot the bill.

T h i s u n iversity’s Depa r tment of Public Safety has actively monitored the 21 city-owned and -maintained cameras — which are located throughout the Old Town and Calvert Hills neighborhoods and along Route 1 — free of charge for three years. The department records footage 24/7, conducts rounds, notifies University Police of any concerning activity and gives relevant video evidence to officers.

However, the deal providing the free service expired on June 31, when this university asked the city to start paying for the services. The university continued providing the service for free, and officials began working toward a deal in September.

City and university attorneys presented a deal at an April 1 work session that states the city must pay the university $107,275 for the

past fiscal year and $132,300 for fiscal year 2016, which begins July 1. The City Council approved this measure April 28.

“They’ve absorbed the cost for three years, and they’re no longer willing to do that,” District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich said at a council work session April 21. “We don’t have any bargaining power.”

The city does not have the ability to operate the cameras itself because the Security Operations Center, which has the personnel and equipment, is under university control.

This university’s compensation breaks down to $6,130 per camera for fiscal year 2015, a fee for which the city did not budget.

“We have to pay for the fiscal year that we’re in, and we hadn’t budgeted any money,” said Bob Ryan, the city’s public services director. “We’ll have to find the money to be able to do that.”

Paying the university to simply record rather than actively monitor the cameras would be less expensive, at $570 per camera, but crime rates in the area prevent that from being an option, Stullich said. “[Old Town] is an area where there are a lot of incidents,” Stullich said.

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sniper From PAGE 1 I’ve experienced with the conflict,” said Musick, who was deployed to Iraq in 2002 from Kuwait. “But at the same time, the controversy behind this situation is what drove me to see this.”

Musick and about 275 other students attended the free screening at Hoff Theater.

After the screening, a panel d iscussion hosted by the College Republicans and the College Democrats presented the legal, cultural and ethical perspectives on the film.

On April 28, College Republicans announced it would host a screening of the 2014 movie and a panel discussion after Student Entertainment Events postponed its showings of the film in response to student criticism.

After SEE canceled the event April 22, social media users berated the Muslim Students’ Association for its role in the screen ing’s cancel lation, eventually prompting the organization to temporarily take

cameras From PAGE 1 “The benefit of having cameras in this area is they can and they have followed people committing activities from one camera to another, and taking out some of the cameras would impede that ability.”

Regardless of the decision, city residents are raising the question of whether this university should help cover the costs.

“I got some comments from residents … saying that many of these cameras monitor student traffic,” District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said. “So the university does have a stake in it.”

The fact that 16 of the surveil-

down its Facebook page due to abusive and hateful comments.

Before the screening, students from various student groups, including the MSA, UMD Feminists, Students for Justice in Palestine and Asian American Student Union, handed out flowers in support of the MSA. Each flower featured a note with a hateful message MSA received, as well as a response from an MSA member.

One note attached to a white flower read: “The only bigot here is you and your kind. NO Sharia Law in America GTFO,” with a response of, “Hello! My name is Yaser and Islam has taught me to greet all others with peace.”

Shani Banks, MSA vice president, said the group wanted to share its story with the public in a pleasant manner.

“The primary goal of this was to come out and tell our na rrative,” sa id Ba n ks, a senior psychology major. “Not many people know where the Muslim Student Association lies on the issue.”

UMD Feminists members, including Jill Santos, the group’s president, also sup-

lance cameras are located in Old Town, an area where many students reside, supports this claim, said Kathy Bryant, Old Town Civic Association president.

“The No. 1 reason there are so many cameras in Old Town is for the safety of students, because it has by far the largest student population in College Park,” Bryant said. “If the university is monitoring them, they should share some of the cost.”

Students in the area not only commit crimes, but also attract them, Bryant said.

“Students’ houses are notoriously rife for theft,” Bryant said. “When there’s outrageous parties, the cameras also help identify students who destroy property, since

ported the MSA by handing out flowers.

“We’re here because we hate that a lot of the Muslim students on our campus received personal death threats,” said Santos, a senior criminology and criminal justice and psychology major.

“Threats of violence to specific events they were planning was disgusting, and that’s not tolerated on our campus.”

About 100 students attended the hourlong panel discussion following the screening. The panelists discussed their reactions to the film, the film’s strengths and weaknesses and the larger context that surrounds American Sniper.

Dawud Walid, executive director of Michigan’s Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter and a U.S. Navy veteran, led the panel by criticizing the film for its inaccuracies and problematic framing.

“I v iewed much of t he framework to be extremely problematic, coming from the perspective of American exceptionalism,” Walid said.

Michael Spivey, a government and politics professor, said the controversy sur-

rounding the screening of the film was not about the First Amendment.

“There was no attempt by any governmental entity to restrict speech, so there was no First Amendment issue with respect to that,” Spivey said.

Sarah Oates, a journalism professor, acknowledged and praised the MSA’s flower idea during the panel discussion.

“It’s just a fascinating and incredibly effective way of communicating,” Oates said.

While the panel touched on various issues, including the Baltimore riots, news coverage of war, nationalism and posttraumatic stress disorder, there was not much dialogue directly about MSA’s initial safety concerns with the film being shown.

Musick, who spent more than four hours at the event, said the discussion failed to achieve its main goals.

“If it was going to be an effective discussion, they should have argued the point of why they were trying not to play it,” Musick said, “and I think it failed there.” adunndbk@gmail.com

College park will begin paying this university to monitor its 21 CCTV security cameras located throughout the city. This service used to be free. enoch hsiao/the diamondback we’ve had fences torn down and plants destroyed.”

However, the city holds a responsibility to keep its inhabitants safe whether they’re students or not, sophomore Amanda Smith said.

“Yes, there’s a large population of college students living

in College Park, but there’s also residents who aren’t part of the university,” the government and politics and journalism major said. “The city should be funding it because it’s affecting them as well.” emuellerdbk@gmail.com

Facilities management workers install new pipes near Annapolis Hall. The threeweek-long project is scheduled to end this weekend. jeremy snow/for the diamondback

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he broke them with his hands.

The new pipes are steel — the same material as the old pipes — but will have more room in the ground to expand during colder temperatures to prevent future breaks, Austin said.

“We’re designing it in a way that will allow the pipes to grow and will give them much more room so they can move,” he said.

The final cost for the project is unknown, but Austin said he estimates it will cost between $250,000 and $300,000. About 85 percent of that money went toward digging the hole to reach the pipes, he said.

Charles Hall resident Ashley Mason said the construction noise — usually starting between 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. — and the lack of air conditioning resulting from the maintenance project bothers her.

“It’s ridiculous to live in these conditions when I pay all this money to go here,” the sophomore economics major said. “I can’t wait until they’re done.”

Despite the inconvenience for students, Austi n sa id the project’s timing is ideal because it isn’t too hot out to require air conditioning or too cold to need heating.

“That’s why we’re doing this right now — it’s our only opportunity,” Austin said.

“These dorms are used in the summer, and they’ll need air conditioning.”

right of Annapolis Hall, Austin said. During this time, workers added new sections to the pipes that carry cool and hot water for air conditioning and heating.

“What we’re doing here is we’re repairing a big chunk of section, and that chunk becomes part of the new piping system,” said Austin, who is also the site’s project manager. “So it’s more than a repair — we’re really replacing this small section that is a high-stressed area.”

Behind Frederick Hall, workers du g a 4 0-fo ot hole to reach the broken pipes and lined the hole with greenwood, a type of lumber, to support the surrounding area. Workers have been removing the older, broken pieces of the pipe system and welding toget her new pieces i n their place.

After finals week, Facilities Management also plans to replace the domest ic water pipe t h at moves hot water to dorm sinks and showers.

The older pipes became corroded and cracked after years of being underground and under heavy use, Austin said. Julius Breakiron, a mechanical projects coordinator, said some of the old pipes were so thin and fragile jsnowdbk@gmail.com

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Gemstone team raises money for research on nanopaper technology Strong, transparent material could replace some plastics

By Aisha Sharipzhan @aishasharipz Staff writer

A team of university students is raising money for their research on a strong paper material that could potentially work as an environmentally friendly replacement for plastics i n electronic devices.

Members of team NAT U R E , a G emstone Honors P rog ra m g roup project, started a Lau nch UMD campaign to fund their resea rch a nd have ra ised about 80 percent of thei r $7,000 goal as of yesterday.

Their research focuses on cellulose nanopaper, a transparent and robust substance made of tree fibers but altered on the nanoscale.

This material could pot e n t i a l l y h a v e a p p l i c ations ranging from printed electronics to solar panels, members said.

“The problem is plastics are resourced from fossil fuels,

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which are limited resources,” said sophomore aerospace engineering major Karenna Buco, “whereas the technology we’re trying to help develop is a sustainable alternative that comes from the cellulose of trees and plants, so you can always renew those.”

Liangbing Hu, a materials science and engineering professor, mentors the group of 14 undergraduate students, all sophomores in various majors. Gemstone approved the team’s project proposal in February.

Cellulose, which makes up the cell walls and fibers of plants, is abundant in nature.

The team is researching the c e l l u l o s e f ro m p i n e a n d looking at the fibers on the nanoscale, said sophomore f i n a nce a nd i n for m at ion systems major Sachi Khemka.

“Basically what we’re doing is you have the cellulose fiber, and you’re breaking it down into smaller fibers, and then you make paper out of the smaller fibers,” said Hannah

“Both of these grounds are available in appeals in other kinds of cases at the University of Maryland – for example, they are available grounds for appeal in academic integrity cases,” Mark wrote in an email after the meeting. “ I don’t see why parties should have fewer available grounds for appeal in a sexual misconduct case than in an academic integrity case.”

While these “arbitrary, capr icious a nd d isprop o r t i o n a te s a n c t i o n s” g rou nd s for appea l a re used in other processes, Catherine Carroll, Title I X coord i nator, a rg ued sexual misconduct cases are drastically different t h a n ot her pro c e du re s in which these sanctions cou ld b e u sed , such a s academic integrity cases. “[This process is] just fundamentally different; we’re talking about sexual violence; we’re not talking about cheating,” Carroll said. “So the amount of expertise that is going into this changes the nature for what we have grounds for appeal on.”

The committee did leave some grounds for appeal in the new draft, including procedural error, new evidence and substantive due process, which also fol low t he u n iversity’s interim procedure.

The senate committee unanimously voted to echo the interim procedure’s current language regarding cross-examination, i n wh ich each side ca n propose questions to the chair of the student review committee to be asked of the investigation or investigator only.

At the meeting, Mark said the other party shou ld be perm itted to attend the questioning in an effort to improve the process’ t ra nspa rency.

He a lso advocated that each party be permitted to submit questions to the review committee chair for the other party. This would be a change from the university’s interim procedure, but the senate did not vote to include this in its draft.

“Whenever the SRC is questioning either party, the other party should be free to attend if they want. If they aren’t allowed to attend, I don’t see how that’s transparent,” Mark said.

member, led the argument to change the language, bringing up the hypothetical situation of a 17-year-old best friend who would not be allowed under the previous language.

“I just wouldn’t want it to deny people the opportunity to bring in someone very important to them that they feel would be an important support person,” Patterson said.

Gideon Mark, a business professor, voted against this change and said he sees the change as a way to let anyone in the meeting.

“T he Com m ittee’s vote opens the door for children — even young children — to function as support persons, whereas the draft procedures had set a minimum age of 18,” Mark said in an email.

“I can’t see how this change benefits anyone.”

T he i nter i m pro cedu re a l so c a l le d for a s t u d ent review committee to meet separately with each party i nvolved w ith the case i n closed sessions. Du ri ng these meetings, the comm ittee cha i r wou ld question the party or witness in attendance.

T h e s e n a te c o m m it te e el i m i nated that aspect of the procedure from its draft, which will be presented to the Senate Executive Committee for review by the end of the fall semester. With SEC approval, the proposal would then go to a full senate vote before reaching Loh’s desk for approval.

The senate committee’s recommendation draft states that the standing student review committee in sexual misconduct procedures should only consider cases contested by either party and that the committee chair can only discuss impact statements privately with each party.

The student conduct committee voted 5-to-1 to eliminate an appeal process added in an earlier draft and unanimously supported the interim policy’s current language regarding cross-examination. Both of these decisions aligned with the university’s interim procedures.

The specific appeal process voted dow n wou ld have allowed those who felt as though weak evidence led to an unjust punishment, or that the punishment was unduly harsh, to appeal the decision.

Mark said he was not satisfied with the arguments presented to remove these grounds for appeal. adunndbk@gmail.com

Russell, a sophomore chemistry and environmental science and technology major. “It’s transparent and a lot stronger than regular paper.”

Hu developed the cellulose nanopaper, and the team began the research this academic year and plans to conclude in spring 2017. Buco said the project is in the beginning stages of development, and the next phase would involve experimenting and exploring the various properties of the paper to see how the team might be able to improve it.

“By looking at the paper at the nanoscale, we are trying to improve all of its properties so that we can make it a viable replacement for plastics, specifically in electronics,” Khemka said. “So we’re looking at different applications, once we finish doing property testing and figuring out what it is we want to improve — water-resistance, optical haze, transparency, electrical conductivity.”

When light shines through

Members of the Gemstone team NATURE pose for a photograph on McKeldin Mall. The team is raising money to fund its research, in which it looks to a material called nanopaper for environmentally friendly alternatives to plastics in electronics. PHOTO COURTESY OF Julia Downing the paper, t he f ibers ca n diffuse or spread the light out on a greater surface area.

He said because this material absorbs more light and produces more energy, it could be useful for solar-cell or solarpowered technology.

“The kind of electronics we’re looking to use this paper in is solar cells, cellphones — particularly touch screens — LEDs, television screens [and] printed circuits,” Buco said.

Another potential applica-

tion of the nanopaper is with printed electronics, Russell said, which involve electrical circuits printed onto various substances such as paper or plastic. If they can apply the substance for this use, they could use nanopaper for pieces in electronics, and then recycle or easily dispose of the paper material, she said.

T h e t e a m ’s p r o j e c t i s funded by Gemstone with $600 a year, but Sachi and Buco said this is not enough

for the various chemicals and lab equipment they need. The Launch UMD campaign to raise $7,000 ends Friday.

“Our project is pretty expansive; there’s a lot that we want to accomplish because we’re a very ambitious group,” Buco said. “[Hu] really believes in [this technology] and he instilled in us to believe it as well, so we have a lot of faith in our project.” asharipzhandbk@gmail.com

U to host LGBT conference on education abroad this on,” Zeutenhorst said.

The conference is a joint project of the LGBT Equity Center, International Student Studying abroad can be a & Scholar Services and the Eduonce-in-a-lifetime opportu- cation Abroad office, said Nick nity for college students, so this Sakurai, LGBT Equity Center university wants to ensure all associate director.

“To my knowledge, this is the students have equal opportunities and options when seeking first time a conference about this topic has been done anywhere in education internationally.

To do so, this university the world,” Sakurai said.

Planning for this conference plans to host a new conference, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, began last summer when the primarily to help international LGBT Equity Center received education administrators better positive feedback earlier on understand LGBTQ inclusion in after posting a survey online to the international education field. gauge interest in a conference The SOTR conference — sub- regarding LGBTQ inclusion in titled A Conference on Sexual international education.

“I honestly thought a few Orientation & Gender Identity in International Education — is dozen people would show interest in the topic and would scheduled for June 12.

A main goal of the conference attend, and actually over 150 is to educate people and make people filled out the survey,” them comfortable with talking Sakurai said.

The conference is set up priabout the LGBTQ identity of many university students, said marily for Education Abroad Conrad Zeutenhorst, an Educa- offices and ISSS offices, and the hope is to have professiontion Abroad office adviser.

“I think it really says a lot als attending from both types about Maryland where we have of work, said Katrina Knudsen, had a great degree of indepen- an international student adviser dence and innovation in putting at this university’s ISSS office.

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Pell Grant recipients will not be affected, as 25 percent of funds raised by the increase w i l l b e a l located towa rd grants for these students and other financial aid, according to the proposal.

Junior and senior business, engineering and computer science majors compose about 20 percent of the university’s undergraduate population, according to the proposal.

T he u n iversity decided against increasing tuition for freshman and sophomore students enrolled in those majors because those students might switch to another major before making it to the more costly upper-level classes, said Brian Ullmann, university marketing and communications assistant vice president.

Business and engineering majors cost the university an average of 25 percent more than other majors to provide the necessary materials for instruction in junior- and senior-level courses.

Most Big Ten universities charge students enrolled in business, engineering and computer science an increased tuition rate. This university

modeled its tuition increase after the median tuition increase of $5,600 in those Big Ten institutions, which is why future students will see that amount split between junior and senior year, Loh said.

Sixty-five percent of the i n c re a s e d f u n d s w i l l go toward hiring 23 new faculty members — five business, 12 engineering and six computer science — as well as improving the student-to-faculty ratio across the departments.

Ten percent of the funds gained will go toward increasing enrollment in each program, according to the proposal. This could allow the departments to add more sections for a course and therefore admit more students to the major, Ullmann said.

The deans of each of the t h r e e c o l l e g e s s u b m i tted letters to the Board of Regents in support of the proposal, citing the need to reduce class sizes, update facilities and hire new faculty, staff and advisers.

T he engineering school added 10 net full-time faculty positions since 2008, while its enrollment increased by 43 percent during that same time, engineering school Dean Darryll Pines wrote.

“We owe it to our undergraduate and graduate stu-

“[The conference is] tailoring education on those two different tracks, and hopefully those in attendance will put what they learn into practice in their own offices,” Knudsen said.

During the conference, there will be three workshop sessions with eight workshops, focused on topics such as building effective infrastructure for inclusion and developing strategies for marketing study abroad programs to LGBTQ students, as well as an opening and closing panel.

“T he closi ng [pa nel], I hope, will give people some inspiration to think about the ways that we do social justice work in higher education with LGBTQ inclusion in international matters,” Sakurai said.

“We have a mission as institutions of higher education … preparing students to create more inclusive societies.”

One of the workshops will discuss the conditions for LGBT communities outside of Europe, which Zeutenhorst said is helpful for advisers who are working with LGBTQ students who might be interested

in going abroad to Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East or other places that are not as socially, culturally or legally open to the LGBTQ community.

A nother workshop w i l l feature a professional from Athens, Greece, who will discuss LGBTQ youth movements in Europe overall and how those could be relevant to an American student going to Europe.

“It’s not a new conversation to talk about LGBTQ inclusion in international education — there have been professionals talking about it for decades,” Sakurai said. “However, based upon what little is out there, I don’t know how people have been able to come together around it.”

Zeutenhorst said the host organizations are excited to put on such a diverse event in terms of presenters and people who are attending the conference. “[It] goes to show that this university is diverse and it really does care about that diversity,” he said. jnoceradbk@gmail.com

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$700

The tuition increase current sophomores and juniors majoring in business, computer science and engineering could see next year

20 percent

The amount of junior and senior undergraduates who could be affected by the possible tuition increase

$2,800

The potential tuition increase for future students in these majors during their junior and senior years, if the proposal passes

dents to deliver them a firstclass high-value engineering education,” Pines wrote.

The computer science department has seen a 116 percent increase in enrollment over the past five years and is currently the major with the highest enrollment at the university.

However, the program has eight instructors to teach most of the introductory courses and three advisers for 1,900 students, Jayanth Banavar, the computer science, mathematical and natural sciences dean wrote in a letter to the Board of Regents.

The department has not seen a net increase in tenuretrack faculty over the past four years, Banavar wrote.

“We are in dire need of resources to preserve and en ha nce ou r educationa l

programs,” Banavar wrote.

“Increased investment in our programs will add value to our students’ degrees and, in turn, to the economy of the state and nation.”

B u s i n e s s u nd e rg ra duates are willing to pay more for better-quality services, business school Dean Alexander Triantis wrote, citing a survey conducted by the business school’s dean’s student advisory council.

“I really do believe that this, in the long run, will increase a value of a University of Maryland degree in these fields,” Loh said. “We need to talk about flagship excellence and affordability. What we’ve done with the proposal is strike a balance.” esilvermandbk@gmail.com

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n Thursday, a town hall meeting was held at the Nyumburu Cultural Center to discuss the ongoing Baltimore protests. The town hall, which drew more than 150 people, including University Police Chief David Mitchell and AfricanAmerican studies professor Jason Nichols, provided a public platform to engage in a variety of discussions related to the demonstrations and riots. Attendees passionately weighed in their views on the handling of these riots by state officials and the pervading national issue of police brutality and racial inequality.

While verbal interactions at the town hall became heated, this editorial board applauds the efforts the student body and officials in attendance demonstrated to create a space for intimate and open discussion regarding these unresolved societal issues.

Even though some of the words exchanged at the town hall were less than cordial, formalities and social contracts often need to be transcended when engaging in dialogue.

We can only realize and understand public concerns when people muster the strength to voice their beliefs.

Issues regarding police brutality and

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racial inequality are delicate, but in order to effectively address them, people must recognize their existence and work towards a solution.

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The recent town hall meeting on the Baltimore riots showed promising signs toward solving some of our societal issues.

Often, such confessions can only be elicited only in moments of passion and sentiment. Our student body cannot be hesitant to engage in dialogue in fear that some might be offended or feel uncomfortable. It is in these moments where we reveal our deepest and most passionate thoughts. Only when all of the cards are out on the table can we begin to identify which concerns are valid, what problems we need to fix and how we will go about fixing them.

During the town hall, many students talked about their experiences between protesters and policemen in the heat of the riot and condemned the violent actions taken by both

sides. Nichols also added that we need to “talk about the larger conditions that created the situation and not just when the emergency started.”

Even people who are seemingly on the same side have differing approaches to the issues, and only in venues that encourage unrestricted expression, such as the town hall, can we really begin to identify the many perspectives, complexities and nuances that compose this unrelenting national crisis.

In the end, the discussion seemed to have paid off. Mitchell publicly stated at the town hall: “We have lost, in many ways, our legitimacy as police officers. We need to restore public trust,” and Del. Alonzo Washington of Prince George’s County declared that he “has proposed legislation in the General Assembly mandating that independent investigations are carried out whenever a police officer kills a citizen, under any circumstance.”

This progress is encouraging, especially because it was a result generated in part by the passion expressed by this university and community to push for change. Let this town hall be an example and an initiator for further actions.

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n Arrow, a popular CW network TV show, title superhero the Green Arrow often tells villains, “You have failed this city,” and in many senses, this quote captures the current protests in Baltimore.

And yet it begs the question: How could one go about salvaging and improving the situation in Charm City?

To begin with, though, it is important to try to see how the media might be manipulating the portrayal of the Baltimore riots, and more importantly try to decipher what they are not showing us. From a cursory glance, it is easy to see the protesters in Baltimore as crazy hooligans ripping apart a city, and while this is certainly true for some of the protesters, the main purpose of the demonstrations is not so much destruction, but rather a congregation to protest against generations of systemic racism, inescapable cycles of poverty and the inequity of our modern justice system.

While there are no easy solutions to these issues, some are available to assuage our current societal dilemmas. In particular, it is necessary to look into how Baltimore has changed within the past 40 years and to see where it has failed. The last time such riots occurred in Baltimore was back in the 1960s, an era when rampant racism was the everyday norm. Since then, the number of minorities in government positions and law enforcement has exponentially risen with the barriers of 20th-century segregation all but eradicated.

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s my last undergraduate semester comes to an end, I would like to reflect upon my experiences from these past four years and share what I have learned with you. I am not going to discuss the topics I learned from my computer networks and security major, but I will instead discuss with you what I have learned about the “real world” and what it takes to make it beyond this campus.

Overall, there are two sets of skills you should focus on attaining while in college: communication and networking skills. In addition, you should focus on doing at least one internship while still a student.

The first, communication skills, are paramount to all other skills. In fact, communication skills are considered some of the most important skills to have in the workplace. Anyone majoring in any of the STEM-related fields should consider taking as many communication courses as possible. The more speech, writing or communication courses you can take, the better off you will be when you actually start interning or working. After doing several internships myself, I learned firsthand how important communication skills are and how you must focus on gaining these skills while still a student.

The second important skill is networking. I can’t stress enough how important networking is to getting an internship or job in the future. If there is one thing that I want you to get out of this article, it is that you need to network with as many people as you can. It might be hard at first to just go over to strangers and tell them what you are doing in college and what your aspirations are, but over time it will get easier, and you’ll soon see that you’ve become a networking whiz. The connections you gain from networking can be useful for everything from helping you decide which career path to take to helping you get that sought-after internship.

So network, network, network!

Finally, an important task you should take on while a student is doing an internship at some point during your college career. Gaining work experience through a student internship while still a student is critical for several reasons. Besides the fact that an internship will help you immensely with getting a job upon graduation, internships provide you the chance to learn more about your field. There is a stark contrast between college and the workplace, and by doing internships, you will be able to gain the skills employers want.

Furthermore, internships provide you with the chance to network with individuals who work in your field of study and can help you get a job one day. Overall, internships provide many benefits that are just not available after you graduate, so it is important to start interning as soon as you can, even if that means working through your summer breaks.

Just as an example, when a construction company wants to build an apartment complex, they first start by building the foundation; this consists of digging deep into the ground and placing small rocks, large rocks and rebar. After the concrete is poured, then the building process can begin. This same analogy can be applied to your college experiences.

Your experiences, such as communication skills, networking, and internships, are analogous to the rocks, rebar and concrete of a building’s foundation. Hopefully, if you build this strong foundation while still a student, you will have the opportunity to excel in any field that you choose and your future.

Ariel Golfeyz is a senior computer networks and security major at University of Maryland University College. She can be reached at agolfeyz@yahoo.com.

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But what has not fundamentally changed these past 40 years is the underlying issue of racism and injustice in this country. Why is it that modern law enforcement requires the wielding of such deadly force in their peacekeeper capacities? Why was Freddie Gray brutalized upon arrest? Admittedly, some degree of weaponization is required because of the job’s danger, but our country needs to change criminal procedures.

According to the NAACP, African-Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites, and it is apparent that our country requires a fundamental rebalancing of the criminal justice system.

That’s not to say all law enforcement branches across the nation need sweeping changes, but there should be an increased emphasis on police transparency, which would in turn increase police accountability.

After improving our justice system, the next step must be to increase funding for after-school programs and job development significantly nationwide. By increasing the number of available jobs and working opportunities, we could theoretically increase our nation’s productivity and overall wealth and give chances to our society’s most vulnerable members.

We could then finally close our nation’s detrimentally burgeoning wealth gap.

In 1940, before the U.S. entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt justified U.S. aid to the allied nations by comparing the war to allowing a fire to spread to a neighbor’s country. Even today, we simply cannot allow the fire in Baltimore to rage on. We must address our nation’s fundamental issues quickly and correctly.

Being tolerant SAMANTHA REILLY FRESHMAN

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wo days a week I work with Partners in Print, a bilingual family literacy program that presents workshops in Prince George’s County schools and teaches techniques that parents can use in helping develop their children’s literacy.

Let me say I do not embody the “ bilingual” part of that description. I try to present in Spanish but usually end up stumbling over words I barely know while I desperately rattle my brain for conjugations that I learned years ago from a PowerPoint presentation.

The most shocking part of my pitiful Spanish attempts is not that I lack fluency after more than 10 years of training; it is that the parents to whom I present are unbelievably understanding, helpful and grateful.

Many of them engage in my ridiculous games of charades to search for the words for “hair bow” and “hash browns.” They encourage my fellow presenters and me in continuing our studies, if we aren’t native speakers. They thank us for taking the time to try to understand and share in their language and culture.

Every time I walk away from these interactions I can’t help but wonder why these caring people don’t receive reciprocity from their English-speaking counterparts. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard a student complain about their teaching assistants who, annoyingly, “can’t even speak English.”

It’s hard to believe something that comes so naturally to you, such as a native language, can be hard for or unfathomable to others, but it’s true.

While there is no definitive ranking of difficulty for languages around the world, the World Atlas of Language Structures compiled an index of languages based on “weirdness” and English ranked as the 33rd weirdest of 239 languages considered.

The U.S. Census published in 2011 that about 20.8 percent of the population 5 years and older spoke a language other than English at home. The United States has no official language, so it’s clear we have no justification for slurs claiming, “We speak English,” or worse, “We speak American.”

Although I’d very much like to say we are growing in tolerance and cultural competency, these everyday examples of ignorance scrape away at the pride I had for what I thought was a progressive and inclusive generation.

Even the simple Coca-Cola commercial that aired during last year’s SuperBowl sparked outrage from people who were too proud to embrace or even tolerate a few verses of a patriotic song in a language different from their own.

In short, it’s simply not fair. Why do we pride ourselves on A’s and B’s in foreign-language classes but discredit those who bravely dive into our Anglocentric, hostile world?

We need to change the way we think about English as a Second Language speakers and learners. We need to start appreciating the effort.

The least we can do is be tolerant.

Samantha Reilly is a freshman journalism major. She can be reached at sreillydbk@gmail.com.

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ALL THE THE SIMPSONS isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Fox announced Monday that CRAP YOU it has renewed the animated comedy for its 27th and 28th seasons. At the end of CARE ABOUT those two runs, Homer and company will have been on the air for 625 episodes.

LASTING IMPACT | NO DOUBT’S TRAGIC KINGDOM AT 20

UNDOUBTEDLY GOOD A look back at the album that launched an Anaheim ska band into the pop universe and Gwen Stefani into the realm of superstardom

By Dustin Levy @DustinBLevy Staff writer “It will take an act of God for this band to get on the radio.”

These words came from a Los Angeles radio station program director in 1992 about a little-known Anaheim ska band called No Doubt. With the release of Tragic Kingdom three years later, No Doubt sold more than 16 million copies worldwide and reached the peak of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Avoiding No Doubt on the radio became the more difficult task.

Tragic K ingdom might mark the abandonment of No Doubt’s ska roots, but don’t be too quick to call them sellouts.

While the album deviates from No Doubt’s original sound, it infused what made the band unique with delicious ear candy.

Tragic Kingdom, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary later this year, released seven singles and turned a bindiwearing blonde named Gwen Stefani into a rock princess.

“Just a Girl” could not be a more fitting leadoff single for Tragic Kingdom, as it became the band’s modus operandi for years to come. The song functions as Stefani’s tongue-incheek feminist anthem — one that cemented her stardom as No Doubt’s tomboy front woman.

Stefani will never overwhelm with powerful vocals, but that never prevented No Doubt from

GWEN STEFANI, seen here onstage at a 2004 show, provided No Doubt with the perfect frontwoman. The band broke up later that year, but their work together provided fans with a unique mix of ska-infused sounds and pop-compatible lyrics. Tragic Kingdom showed off this blend, providing a national platform for Stefani and the band. photo courtesy of wikipedia.org creating pop magic. “Just a Girl” features Stefani’s signature bleat, even transforming into an infant-like coo on some lyrics, portraying the patronizing tone of the track. “Just a Girl” may sound like a peppy romp of a song, but lyrics like “I’ve had it up to here/ Am I making myself clear?” reflect a more militant message of exasperation.

Tragic Kingdom also features “Spiderwebs,” No Doubt’s ode to dodging an annoying per-

son’s phone calls. The single returns to the band’s ska origins with horns adding a funky edge to Stefani’s plead for a guy to stop calling her. For a song with the phrase “I screen my phone calls,” “Spiderwebs” is surprisingly timeless. Although the song was written when people used phones with cords, the technological melodrama is still relevant today, even without references to emojis.

If No Doubt ever had a Rumors moment, it was prob-

ably during Tragic Kingdom, specifically the single “Don’t Speak.” Like Fleetwood Mac’s cornerstone album, Tragic K ingdom documents No Doubt’s inner turmoil, including the departure of keyboardist and songwriter Eric Stefani, Gwen’s brother, as well as the breakup between Stefani and bassist Tony Kanal. However, Stefani and her brother teamed up to write “Don’t Speak,” No Doubt’s classic power ballad that earned a Grammy nomina-

tion for Song of the Year.

On paper, the song is somewhat sappy and unimaginative, but in Stefani’s capable hands, it transforms into something honest and relatable. “I really feel/ That I’m losing my best friend/ I can’t believe this could be the end” is simple and straightforward, which matches Stefani’s delivery of these words with heartfelt emotion and soft, aurally pleasing vocals.

Tragic Kingdom features

more gems, including the manic “Excuse Me Mr.,” the defiant “Sunday Morning” and the dreamy “Hey You!” The album holds up because of songs such as these that showcase the band’s versatility and Stefani’s sensuality as a performer.

While Tragic Kingdom was certainly the peak for No Doubt, it was by no means an aberration, as the group continued to succeed well into the early millennium. The band dissolved in 2004 to work on their individual solo projects, most notably Stefani teaching the world to spell “bananas.” They reunited for a 2012 album, Push and Shove, but much of the mystique of No Doubt stems from their youth, whether it was the band’s juvenile lyrics, Stefani’s energetic performance style or drummer Adrian Young’s rocking Mohawk.

In many ways, No Doubt paved the way for bands like The Pretty Reckless and Paramore with Tragic Kingdom. An enigmatic front woman goes a long way in rock ‘n’ roll, especially today when catchy, pleasing tunes will always get more radio play. Stefani and company perfected this model when they ditched their roots for a more pop-driven sound on Tragic Kingdom, but their fusion probably did more for the ska genre anyway. dlevydbk@gmail.com

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WE HARDLY KNEW YE In the wake of Dr. Derek Shepherd’s passing, a remembrance of some of television’s most memorable deaths

By Maeve Dunigan @maevedunigan Staff writer I h a ve n e ve r s e e n a n episode of Grey’s Anatomy.

Yet, somehow, even without knowing the name of a single character or any major plot points, last week I became well aware of the fact that Patrick Dempsey’s character, Derek Shepherd, had died.

A car hit Dr. Shepherd — it came out of nowhere, and no one was expecting it — and poor McDreamy was conscious but unable to act as he realized the doctors working to help him would ultimately be unsuccessful in saving his life. I can attribute my fairly in-depth knowledge about this event to the fact that people go crazy over television character deaths. If someone dies on a popular TV show, you’re going to hear about it, whether or not you watch the series.

With that in mind, here are four other television deaths that have plagued our screens and our hearts.

If you’re someone who hates prematurely hearing about plot twists and has an overflowing Netflix queue, t h e n co n s i d e r t h i s yo u r warning that things are about to be majorly spoiled.

Tracy Mosby How I Met Your Mother The death of Tracy Mosby, Ted Mosby’s wife and THE mother (the one referred to in the title, How I Met Your Mother, yes THAT mother) is an event that every fan predicted yet no one actually believed would occur.

Throughout the series, fans waited patiently to find out who the mother could be. Through scores of girlfriends and fiancees, it didn’t seem as though Ted Mosby would ever find the right gal

or that this television show would ever end. Finally, it was almost as though everything had worked out for Ted. He would have the happy life he always wanted, and we would see exactly how he met this woman, whose story was nine years in the making.

We had known dear Tracy for such a short time, and right before our eyes in a split second of a sad little montage, she was ripped from our lives.

Violet Harmon American Horror Story: Murder House Violet Harmon doesn’t realize she’s dead for quite some time, which makes her death — or rather, her realization of the fact that she is dead — fairly traumatizing.

It doesn’t help that when she sees her long-dead body, it’s covered in a small army of flies.

Living in a terrifying house

that’s basically a day care center for horrifically twisted souls, Violet’s chances of survival didn’t necessarily look great from the get-go.

Violet’s death was one of the ways in which the American Horror Story writers proved they weren’t afraid to toy with viewers’ minds. Her death created confusion for anyone watching, and from then on, there was no way of knowing whether anyone “ living ” in the “murder house” was dead or alive.

Ned Stark Game Of Thrones Poor Ned Stark. Perfectly able-bodied and strong one minute, headless the next.

Ned Stark’s death is so sudden and surprising that there isn’t really much one can say about it. As one of the show’s central characters at the time of his demise, his death was Game of Thrones’ way of reminding viewers

that regardless of importance and screen time, any character could be gone in the blink of an eye.

Also, his death proves that Joffrey is the absolute worst.

Kenny McCormick South Park To round out this list, here is a character whose deaths are both frequent and unsurprising.

Especially throughout South Park ’s first five seasons, Kenny cannot catch a break. With nothing but an orange parka to protect him from the terrors of his cartoon world, Kenny dies quite often.

L u c k i l y, j u s t a s t h e phrase “You killed Kenny!” is always screamed at the moment of his death, Kenny is always sure to reappear — with little to no explanation, of course. mdunigandbk@gmail.com

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Offense mixes up free-position strategies in defeat Squad struggles with shooting accuracy in Big Ten tournament; three Terps earn conference player of year awards

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer In two instances during Friday night’s Big Ten tournament semifinal loss to Ohio State, the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team used a different strategy with its freeposition shots.

Two minutes into the game, attacker Megan Whittle pulled back from her stance and whipped a pass toward attacker Brooke Griffin on the crease. Griffin ripped her shot into the back of the net to give the No. 1 Terps an early lead in their eventual 11-10 loss.

In the opening minutes of the second period, midfielder Zoe Stukenberg passed the ball out of the circle rather than moving toward the net on her free-position attempt.

While the Terps frequently used an aggressive approach on their free-position shots this season, the team altered its scheme in an effort to push the Buckeyes’ goalie off her mark. Their newfound plan led to a 3-for-5 showing on freeposition attempts, which was better than their 53-for-118 mark in the previous 17 games.

“The goalie was amazing, so we just had to change up our shot,” Griffin said. “When she was dropping low, you had to hit it high. If she was staying high, you just had to read the goalie, and take one extra second

The Terps connected on 10 of their 29 total shots Friday. Comparatively, the team boasted a 43.4 overall shooting percentage and a 75.9 shooting percentage on goal during the regular season.

Midfielder Taylor Cummings, the reigning Tewaaraton winner and the team’s leader in points, did not score a goal for the first time this season. She went scoreless on four shot attempts, and her only point came on an assist to Griffin with less than four minutes left in the contest.

Of players who recorded more than one attempt on goal, Griffin was the only Terp to register a shooting percentage better than 50 percent.

CONFERENCE AWARDS

Attacker Brooke Griffin searches for an opening during the top-seeded Terps’ 11-10 loss to Ohio State in the Big Ten semifinals Friday night. photo courtesy of maryland athletics and look at the goal and try to focus a little bit harder.”

SHOOTING INEFFICIENCIES Coach Cathy Reese’s squad held a 12-10 advantage in the draw circle against Ohio State in Piscataway,

New Jersey, on Friday night, but the Terps’ shooting efficiency was well worse than their season average.

Their inability to convert looks at the net was one of the shortcomings Reese pointed to in the team’s tournament defeat at High Point Solutions Stadium.

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“We generated a lot of looks offensively and didn’t either put them on goal or their goalie made some great saves,” Reese said. “We shot like 30 percent, which that’s not good enough. … We just, again, need to stick our shots. Thirty percent is not where we want to be.”

Three Terps nabbed player of the year honors for their respective positions, the Big Ten announced yesterday.

Griffin won Attack Player of the Year, while Cummings earned Midfielder of the Year and Megan Douty garnered Defender of the Year.

Despite leading the conference with 59 goals, Whittle failed to win Freshman of the Year. Northwestern’s Selena Lasota, who sits one goal behind Whittle and ranks second in the Big Ten in points, claimed the award. ccaplandbk@gmail.com

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“Honestly, I was just focusing on getting some runs on the board for the team,” Bustillos said. “We were down, so I was just really focused on getting a pitch and really helping out my teammates.”

She has been a workhorse behind the plate all four years for the Terps, too. The team has played 212 games during Bustillos’ college career, and she has started in all but six of them.

Bustillos has capitalized on her time on the field this season, as she’s tied for third on the team in home runs (11) and RBIs (42). Plus, Bustillos has been at her best in conference play, in which she boasts a .410 batting average, nine home runs and 30 RBIs. Earlier in the season, she credited her success at the plate to McRae. “It’s not a cookie-cutter hitting style; she takes your kind of … personal style and just adds a little bit to it,” Bustillos said. “She’s always working, always doing something, and I think that she’s

early leads as they were swept in a three-game set for the first time this year.

“There wasn’t a whole [lot] of fight in us throughout this whole weekend,” Szefc said. “If we get some fight back, maybe we’ll turn it around.”

Indiana jumped out to an early lead in the series finale Sunday afternoon after scoring five runs in the third inning. While designated hitter Kevin Smith hit a solo home run in the bottom of the frame, his team never pulled closer than four the rest of the game.

The Terps had their best chance to mount a comeback when second baseman Brandon Lowe drove in a run to cut the deficit to four in the eighth. Catcher Kevin Martir ended the frame with a groundout, however, and the Hoosiers secured a 6-2 victory minutes later.

“The offense is just struggling a little bit,” right fielder Anthony Papio said. “We’re hitting [balls] hard, but [they] aren’t finding holes.”

The team maintained a modest offensive performance through the weekend. In the Terps’ 13-2 loss Saturday, which matched their worst defeat of the season, the offense’s streak of scoring four or more runs in a game ended after six games.

Although the Terps came back from a five-run deficit

Catcher shannon bustillos makes contact during the Terps’ 8-6 win over Penn State on April 17. Bustillos launched two home runs last weekend. karen tang/the diamondback kind of tailored an individual hitting style for each person.”

With the help of McRae, B u s t i l l o s h a s p o s te d a season high in home runs.

And if she records one RBI in the Big Ten tournament, she will tie her season-best mark of 43 from her sophomore campaign.

After breaking two program records in East Lansing, Michigan, Bustillos will head

to the Big Ten tournament looking to cap her successful four years at the plate in a Terps uniform.

“She absolutely deserved it,” pitcher Kaitlyn Schmeiser said. “She’s worked so hard these four years, and it’s really cool to see her especially break two records in one weekend.” aflumdbk@gmail.com

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Right fielder anthony papio swings at a pitch during the Terps’ 6-2 loss to Indiana on Sunday. The Terps fell to the Hoosiers in all three contests. alexander jonesi/the diamondback against Arkansas on Feb. 22 and trailed by seven before pulling out a 12-9 victory against Minnesota on March 21, Indiana scored two runs in each of the first two innings en route to a dominating win.

“We were playing our best baseball early,” Papio said, “and we seemed to be down all the time.”

While the Terps came back from an early deficit Friday night — the team erased a three-run deficit in the third inning — they fell 6-5. Szefc’s squad took a 4-3 lead after the third frame, but the Hoosiers retook the lead for good in the sixth, handing right-hander Mike Shawaryn his first defeat in 12 starts this season. “ We ’ r e n o t c o m i n g through,” Smith said. “We’re having bases loaded. … It’s just a matter of getting it done. I’ll take anyone on this team with that situation coming up in the next few weeks.”

As the starting pitching has improved recently, the Terps have faced fewer deficits and gotten out to quick leads. Last weekend against Purdue, the Terps scored two runs in the first inning in each of their first two wins.

The outbursts at the plate, combined with sufficient starting pitching, helped the Terps win five straight games entering their series with Indiana.

And while the Terps didn’t execute their winning formula against the Hoosiers, they’ll hope to draw on those earlyseason experiences heading into the final stretch of the regular season.

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TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2015

BASEBALL

SOFTBALL

Bustillos breaks HR, RBI records

Catcher launches pair of long balls, knocks in four runs over weekend

By Alex Flum @alex_flum Staff writer

shortstop kevin smith swings at a pitch during the No. 21 Terps’ 6-2 loss to Indiana on Sunday. He hit a solo home run in the game. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

NO COMEBACK Terps fail to mount rallies in series loss against Indiana

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer Trailing by a run with two outs in the ninth inning against Liberty on April 15, the Terrapins baseball team was in danger of dropping its third straight game.

But after two hits, one hit batter and a Flames’ error, the Terps tied the contest and loaded the bases. Coach John

Szefc’s squad took the lead moments later with two basesloaded walks, and right-hander Kevin Mooney pitched a scoreless ninth inning to secure the team a 6-4 win.

Their comeback victory against Liberty marked the fifth time this season the Terps overcame a deficit of four or more runs. But against Indiana this weekend at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium, the Terps struggled to cut the Hoosiers’ See offense, Page 7

Before Courtney Scott Deifel took over the head coaching job for the Terrapins softball team this season, she served as an assistant for the 2009 and 2010 seasons. During her first stint in College Park, she paired with current assistant coach Yolanda McRae to help recruit catcher Shannon Bustillos.

Before Bustillos arrived on the campus, though, Scott Deifel had left for Louisville.

Still, the two crossed paths at a high-school travel softball tournament.

“She came up to me, and she goes, ‘I don’t know if you remember me,’” Scott Deifel said.

“It’s like, ‘Shannon, yes, just because I recruited you at one school and then go to another doesn’t just cut off all ties.’”

It seemed Scott Deifel would never get a chance to coach the Anaheim, California, native, but her return to the Terps has allowed the first-year manager the opportunity to reunite with the senior. And over the weekend, Scott Deifel and McRae were looking on as Bustillos broke the program’s all-time home run and RBI records during

BY THE NUMBERS

29 HRs

Bustillos has hit during her four-year career with the Terps to set the program record

151 RBIs

Bustillos has tallied to set a new school record

4 hits

Bustillos recorded over the weekend en route to breaking both records

the Terps’ series loss to Michigan State.

Bustillos finished the threegame set 4-for-8 with two home runs and four RBIs. She launched a solo shot in the fourth inning Friday for her 28th career home run to put her ahead of former Terp Beth Radford and current Terps shortstop Lindsey Schmeiser.

Then Sunday, the veteran smashed a three-run home run over the center-field fence to break former Terp Lindsay Klein’s career tally of 148 RBIs. Still, the Terps weren’t able to turn either of Bustillos’ record-breaking performances into wins.

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