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Our 100TH Year, No. 68THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERMonday, December 7, 2009
Students weak in math hurting CMPSDozens admitted despite poor math skills have high drop-out and probation rates
BY CARRIE WELLSSenior staff writer
Nearly 100 freshmen and transferstudents with sub-par math skillshave been admitted into the Collegeof Computer, Mathematical andPhysical Sciences during the pasttwo years, frustrating professorswho have said admitting unqualifiedstudents is harmful to students anduniversity graduation rates.
Most of the 99 students wholanded in a remedial math coursehave SAT math scores well below
university averages or failed to sat-isfy fundamental math require-ments at earlier schools, accordingto analysis of aggregate studentdata provided by a professor in thecollege. Of those 99, 27 have sincebeen placed on academic proba-tion or academic warning, andsome have been dismissed fromthe university entirely. Sincemajors within CMPS rely heavilyon math, the policy of admittingthese students is baffling, the pro-fessor said.
Although admissions officials said
they use more than two dozen fac-tors to examine a potential studentholistically, math SAT scores andfundamental requirements play onlya small role, and a student’s pre-ferred major isn’t considered at all.With certain exceptions, if a studentis admitted to the university, theycan generally enroll in the major oftheir choice.
“The fact is students changetheir majors,” said Shannon Gundy,the director of undergraduate
POOR OUTCOMESOf the 99 students who havebeen admitted to CMPS overthe past two years and had totake remedial math:
27 have been given academicprobation, warning or dismissal
73 originally failed an upper-level math course before beingplaced in the remedial class
Despitegoals, USMenrollmentdeclinesUniv. trying to decreasestudent population
BY LAUREN REDDINGStaff writer
Overall enrollment of first-year, full-time undergraduate students in the Uni-versity System of Maryland decreasedover the past year, leading the Board ofRegents to discuss the causes and conse-quences at a meeting last week.
Some of the 13 institutions, includingthis university, are actively attempting tohold down enrollment in order to pre-serve academic quality because of a lackof state funding earmarked for recruitingnew students. But for most of the institu-tions, the dip in enrollment is trouble-some, officials said.
System officials are attributing thedecrease of almost 320 first-year, full-timestudents — 13,213 in fall 2008 to 12,894 infall 2009 — to the economic downturn.They also cited the lack of state fundingas a possible cause.
“We aren’t seeing enough money com-ing in from the state,” said Patricia Flo-restano, a member of the Board ofRegents and chairwoman of the Commit-tee on Education Policy. “The money just
Student voterturnout shortof predictions
BY BRADY HOLTSenior staff writer
About 130 students voted in lastmonth’s College Park City Council elec-tion, a tiny fraction of the total studentbody and short of the SGA’s stated goal of200, but a big jump from the estimatednumber of voters in 2007.
City officials said a high number of con-tested races and the draw of a graduatestudent candidate was responsible forsome of the boosted student turnout butgenerally agreed with student leadersthat their groups’ get-out-the-vote effortsdeserved much of the credit. Overallturnout also increased.
“It’s mostly got to be driven within thestudent community to get people to comeout to vote: students mobilizing stu-dents,” Mayor-elect Andy Fellows said.“This total marks a remarkable increasefrom past participation, so I think the peo-ple who organized to make that happenshould be congratulated.”
To reach this estimate of 130 student
Analysis: About 130voted in city elections
Dancers duke it out
BY AMANDA PINOStaff writer
Student dance team DyNaMicburst onto the Hoff Theater’s stageFriday night, gyrating and breakdancing to the Black Eyed Peas’“Ring-a-ling” before dropping to theground in sync as the sound effect ofgunshots rang through the hall.
“Wow, I pulled a hamstring justwatching that,” said CommunityRoots’ Jason Nichols, a graduate stu-
dent who organized the Maryland’sNext Best Dance Crew competition.
The event pitted the co-ed hip-hoptroupe, DyNaMic, against Dhoom, afemale South Asian fusion team, inan effort to raise money and aware-ness for the Sexual AssaultResponse and Prevention Programat the university. Although the twostudent groups who competed Fri-day seemed to be polar opposites, DyNaMic was one of the groups to perform in Maryland's Next Best Dance
Crew on Friday night. The event raised money for the university’s SexualAssault Response and Prevention Program. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Dance crew competition raises hundreds for sexual assault prevention
Eric Hayes is swarmed by defenders during the first half of Maryland's 95-86 loss toVillanova Sunday night at Verizon Center. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
see ADMISSIONS, page 3
see ENROLLMENT, page 3
see TURNOUT, page 3 see DANCE, page 2
NO. 3 ‘NOVALEAVES TERPSIN THE COLDHot-shooting Wildcats denyTerps major victory, 95-86
BY ERIC DETWEILERSenior staff writer
WASHINGTON — Nursing a three-point lead againstthe Terrapin basketball team, Villanova called a timeoutwith 13:31 left in last night’s BB&T Classic matchup atVerizon Center.
The Terps, who had trailed since early in the first half,had chances their next three possessions to cut into thedeficit or tie the No. 3 Wildcats.
Three quick shots and misses later, the opportunitywas gone.
Villanova got off to a torrid shooting start and with-stood a second-half comeback attempt to knock off theTerps 95-86.
“Sometimes the rush of the moment — you make acomeback, you’re right there — and it’s really hard to getover the top,” Terp coach Gary Williams said. “You seethat a lot when teams comeback, and you just can’t getover the top. That’s what we ran into in the second half.”
Guard Sean Mosley notched a career-high 26 points,guard Eric Hayes scored 16 in the second half, and for-ward Jordan Williams added 19 points and 12 rebounds— good for his first career double-double.
But the Terps (5-3) couldn’t pull the upset as the Wild-cats, who were led by preseason All-American ScottieReynolds’ 25 points, hit 16 from three-point range and pro-duced 29 second-chance points on their 23 offensiverebounds.
After trailing by 11 at half time, the Terps hung around
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University officials are considering thepossibility of third-party billing for theUniversity Health Center that wouldallow students to finance their visits to thecenter through their private health insur-ance coverage, causing some to questionhow the proposal could impact insurance-less students.
No decision on the change will be madewithout input from various university agen-cies, including the Student Health Advi-sory Committee, Assistant Director forHealth Promotion Kelly Kesler said, notingthe policy has been under review for quitesome time. But some students, particularlygraduate students, balked at the proposal,saying it could result in an extension ofmandatory insurance to all students,including some who cannot afford it.
The health center charges a flat rate of$15 for most visits to all students. The feesvary depending on certain proceduressuch as X-rays, laboratory tests, allergyinjections and physical therapy.
For students to use their non-universityinsurance now, they must go through areimbursement process. If the universityimplements third-party billing, these stu-dents would simply be billed a co-pay, whichis the small supplemental fee most insur-ance companies charge their customers.With third-party billing, the costs of univer-sity health center visits would depend oneach student’s insurance provider.
Some students with health insurancewelcome the idea of third-party billing, butothers cite an insurance middleman as acomplication that could impede on theease of health center visits.
“Now everything goes to your accountand you access information from oneplace, but with insurance if there’s prob-lems and complications then you havethe school and all these other parties thatjust aren’t necessary,” junior criminologyand criminal justice major NicoleBlanchette said.
This policy would more than likely
benefit out-of-state students the most,Kesler said.
“For many students it would actually behelpful. Out-of-state students could paytheir bills more easily,” she said. “Com-pared to what students would pay at otherplaces, it could be better.”
Although the university enacted apolicy requiring all incoming under-graduate students to have health insur-ance this year, graduate students areexempt. Graduate Student Governmentrepresentative Michael Scholten saidmost graduate students he knows donot have health insurance.
“There’s a potential that it will not be agood option for graduate students who donot have health insurance or students withinsurance that is not on the a list of theirproviders,” said Scholten, a physics gradu-ate student. “You will be paying a fee for aplace you can’t go to.”
Because the university has yet to lay outany specifics about how it would imple-ment a third-party billing system, AnnaBedford, a graduate student in compara-tive literature, questioned how exactlysuch a change would affect others.
“I wonder if they will be collecting rev-enues from third-party billing and whetherthey will be continually supported by stu-dent fees,” said Bedford, who also said shethinks most graduate students live withouthealth insurance. “I wonder about the stu-dents who don’t have health insurance.”
Kesler said third-party billing is a com-mon practice among large universities.Towson University offers third-partybilling services. Towson’s Dowell HealthCenter provides students with the optionto bill their private insurance for office vis-its and medical services. The center is con-tracted with a number of large insurancecompanies and preferred provider net-works, but allows reasonable flexibilitywith many providers.
“All of these concerns as well as thepotential benefits would have to beweighed out,” Kesler said.
Students worry change inbilling may hurt uninsured
Dance crew Dhoom was one of two groups to compete in the Maryland's Next Best Dance Crew onFriday night in Hoff Theater at Stamp Student Union. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK
performers and audience memberscame together at the event and raisedhundreds of dollars for the cause.
The proceeds went to SARPP’s vic-tim assistance fund, which helps stu-dents or acquaintances of studentswho have been affected by stalking,relationship violence or sexual assault.The fund can be used to help a victimchange the locks on his or her doors,or spend the night in a hotel.
Community Roots Public Rela-tions co-Chairman Jazz Lewis, a jun-ior government and politics major,said half of ticket sales benefitedSARPP and a tenth was awarded tothe winning dance team. Theremainder will go toward futureCommunity Roots programs. Whilean exact count of ticket sales has notbeen released, he said more than100 people attended the event.
Before the performances, Nicholsencouraged playful trash talking, ask-ing a Dhoom captain, “Is DyNaMicbetter than you?”
“Well, I have a question for them,”answered senior Nikki Anand, a phys-iology and neurobiology major. “Canyou do Bollywood?”
Although the audience ate up bothgroups’ two self-choreographed sets,judges were torn when deciding the
winner. Dhoom ultimately won thetiebreaker after drawing the loudestcheers from the audience.
Dhoom performed barefoot, andtheir routine, which included touchesof classical Indian dance, was set toboth American pop and Bollywoodtracks. The group provided a sharpcontrast to DyNaMic, which stompedand spun through a hip-hop heavypresentation in black sweatpants andshiny sneakers.
Many in attendance were friendsor family of Dhoom dancers, whoteam captains said don’t usually get tosee the troupe in action.
“We advertised a lot, but we alsodon’t get the opportunity to performon campus often since most of thecompetitions we do are at other uni-versities up and down the EastCoast,” Anand said. “I think sinceStamp [Student Union] was so acces-sible, that was another reason a lot ofour supporters came out.”
Community Roots organizers saidtwo of the five scheduled dance teamsdropped out before the event, oneannouncing the decision to forego thecompetition five minutes before thescheduled 7 p.m. start time. Althoughthe start was pushed back almost anhour, a third group, Sykes Game, wasultimately unable to put on a full per-formance because car troubles left halfof their team stranded in Washington.
A surprise appearance from the
school mascot helped launch thelate start.
“Who wants to challenge Tes-tudo to a dance-off?” asked Com-munity Roots Public Relations co-Chairwoman Shruti Rastogi, a sen-ior journalism major and Diamond-back columnist.
DyNaMic team member “HK”stepped up to the challenge, one-upping Testudo’s efforts to top thebreak dancer’s moves.
Community Roots chose SARPPas the main beneficiary last yearafter the group discussed the issueof sexual assault on the campus dur-ing its weekly meetings. Membersbelieve it is an issue that is particu-larly important to the universitycommunity. One in four women issexually assaulted in college, andsexual assault is the second-leadingcrime in the Washington area.
“When we were discussing theseissues, some female members thatwe were really close with startedbreaking out in tears talking aboutthe things that happened on this cam-pus,” Lewis said.
Lewis added that he consideredthe event a success and hoped for itto continue.
“I think it went pretty well,” he said.“Next year we’ll definitely do the eventagain, and it will be bigger and better.”
Friday’s story about Zeta Beta Tau being kicked off the campus incorrectly stated the date of a haz-ing incident in which the fraternity was involved. The incident happened in 2007. The fraternitywas given 10 months probation beginning in 2008.
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voters, The Diamondback pur-chased a list of the 1,485 resi-dents who participated in theNov. 3 council election from thePrince George’s County Boardof Elections and checked theuniversity’s student directoryfor each name.
This figure is not directlycomparable to the rough esti-mate of 25 to 50 student voterswho voted in 2007. This num-ber was generated by city elec-tion workers who had noaccess to the university direc-tory; they instead tried to iden-tify students based on theirages and addresses, leavingmore room for error.
This year’s total of 130 alsoincludes a few dozen older stu-dents — one in her 80s — whomay be more likely to see them-selves as long-term CollegePark residents. The Diamond-back nonetheless identified 92student voters who are 25 yearsold or younger.
Student Government Associ-ation President Steve Glickmanhad expected 200 student vot-ers, but said he’s still pleasedwith the results.
“Is that what I said before?Well, 130 is close, right?” he said.“One hundred thirty students —of course we’re satisfied.”
Many student voters werepart of a rally organized by theUMD for Clean Energy group,which held a “march to thevote” rally on election day thatorganizers said drew an esti-mated 80 participants.
Elections workers reportedseeing around 30 voters fromthe rally at City Hall, the pollingstation for legislative Districts 2and 3. This would representroughly 55 percent of the stu-dents aged 25 and under whovoted in those two districts.Other student voters who werenot in the rally also said they hadbeen drawn to the polls by thegroup’s outreach efforts.
“We worked pretty hard toget the word out early,” saidHilary Staver, the UMD forClean Energy political liaisonwho helped drive the group’s
voting efforts and interviewedthe council candidates to createthe environment-basedendorsements many studentsultimately heeded. She said itwas “gratifying to hear” that herefforts contributed to increasedstudent participation.
Student turnout was the high-est in District 2, which includesmuch of the campus, the Univer-sity View and many studentrental homes. This was also thedistrict with by far the smallesttotal turnout: The district’s 34student voters aged 25 and underrepresented just under a fifth ofits 186 total; citywide, this demo-graphic represented more than 6percent of the overall turnout.
“Well, I suspect that’s proba-bly double what we’ve had in thepast, absent an undergraduatestudent running,” said District 2Councilman Bob Catlin, whowon reelection along with fellowincumbent Jack Perry againstlandlord Bob Weber. “That’s ahealthy number.”
But Perry, who said on elec-tion day that students should be“lined coming out the door,” wasunimpressed when he heardthe estimated total.
“All I can say is wow. It’s 130students that voted — that’s ter-rific,” Perry said, making a dis-missive noise.
After all, even with a higherstudent turnout, it was CollegePark’s elderly population thatdominated the list of voters.
According to data from theU.S. Census Bureau, 18- to 20-year-olds make up 45 percent ofthe city’s population, but theyrepresented just 5 percent of itsvoters in this election. Althoughnearly a third of the voters were65 and older, census data showthat demographic is just 7 per-cent of College Park’s total pop-ulation. The median voter agewas 55 in a city the U.S. CensusBureau says has an overallmedian age younger than 21.
Many students register athome or say they feel noattachment to the politics of acity they are only passingthrough, even if city legislationcan affect their lives for fouryears. On election day, one stu-dent argued spiritedly with aclerk at City Hall about parking
rules while other residentsvoted one floor above him.
“I don’t really care about thecity because I’m graduating inthe spring,” he said, explain-ing why he didn’t vote. “F---the city … I can’t wait to getout of this place.”
The student body also facesthe challenge of keeping itsvoter registration addresses upto date. A student who changesdorms each semester wouldneed to continually update theaddress in the county’s recordsto be able to vote.
Keeping this in mind, Mar-cus Afzali — the graduate stu-dent who just won a District 4council seat — said this year’sstudent turnout is “a goodstart, but it’s just a start.”
“If you want to have a consis-tently high student turnout, you
have to create a culture of votingin the city council election,”Afzali said. “That’s not going tobe built in one election.”
Catlin also noted that evenCollege Park’s non-student resi-dents vote in relatively low num-bers — the total voter turnoutwas more than 10 percent of thecity’s registered voters this yearand 7 percent in 2007 — and sug-gested that some of those resi-dents may take notice of highernumbers of students at the polls.
“Certainly to the extent thatwe have students turning out,that will encourage more non-students to turn out next time,”Catlin said. “People would paymore attention probably if theyrealized students were payingattention too.”
Ballots are counted during the College Park City Council elec-tion last month. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
HOW THE VOTER POPULATION ADDS UP
admissions. “We don’t want torestrict them from opportuni-ties ... We’re confident thatevery student can come in andbe successful.”
The professor, who requestedanonymity for fear of angeringsuperiors, noted that many ofthese at-risk students end upleaving CMPS and changingtheir majors after a few semes-ters, delaying their graduationand hurting graduation ratesimportant to university officials.Most of the students who wereadmitted despite poor mathskills were minorities; the pro-
fessor theorized they wereaccepted to fulfill diversity goals.He said many of these studentsproceeded to get minimal helpfrom the university.
“We admit them on the colorof their skin, lead them on andthen throw them away,” the pro-fessor said. “It’s terrible.”
Gundy said the university hasmultiple summer “bridge” pro-grams to help underprivilegedstudents who need extra atten-tion to be ready for college-levelcourses. The data doesn’t specifyhow many of the students partici-pated in the bridge programs.
Jim Yorke, the chair of themath department, couldn’t bereached for comment. CMPSDean Steven Halperin declined
to comment on the issue, saying,“A dean should in no circum-stances get into a public discus-sion about how the universityconducts its business.”
After reviewing the data,admissions officials were con-cerned there might be issueswith the math placement exam.Of the 99 students in the reme-dial math class, 73 originallytested into a higher level of mathand then failed the class.
Gundy rejected the use of themath SAT as a predictor of suc-cess for college math. She saidamong disadvantaged students,the most successful usually haveexcellent high school GPAs andweaker SAT scores.
Math professor Frances
Gulick said increasing the uni-versity’s admissions standards torequire a fourth year of highschool math could help reducethe number of CMPS studentswho are unprepared for collegemath. The Board of Regentsapproved the switch Friday.
“It’s a real problem,” she said.“We have students who comefrom high school with little morethan Algebra II. If they want to bemath majors coming from thatbackground they’re going tohave to really work. A lot have tochange majors. Without a strongSAT in math or without a strongbackground in math, they’regoing to struggle.”
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isn’t there.”Contrary to the overall trend,
freshman enrollment increased7.5 percent last year at this uni-versity even though officials areenacting stricter admissionspolicies to avoid overcrowdedclassrooms and a drain on theuniversity’s limitedresources.
UndergraduateAdmissions Direc-tor Shannon Gundyaffirmed thatProvost NarimanFarvardin aims todecrease under-graduate enroll-ment.
The numberswere first reportedto the board — a 17-member panel ofgubernatorialappointees thatoversees the system— earlier lastmonth at the Com-mittee on Education Policymeeting and were presented toall the regents Friday.
The report, which providedan overview of preliminary fall2009 enrollment growth and pat-terns, provided hard evidencefor the regents demonstratinghow the economic state is affect-ing system institutions.
As a result, Florestano saidsystem institutions are beingmore careful in the number ofstudents they admit, althoughlast week’s meeting didn’t resultin any recommendations orchanges in policy.
“We’re not telling them not
to grow, but all the institutionsare being very cautious,” shesaid. “We’re not delighted withthis, but we recognize thatuntil the economy stabilizes,we could be seeing thesedecreases continue.”
Although increasing overallenrollment is a high priority forthe system at large, the enroll-ment rates of most systeminstitutions are actually pre-dicted to slow in the next year.
During a 10-year period, sys-tem officials pre-dict a 24-percentgrowth in stu-dent enrollment— with a 23-per-cent increase inundergraduatestudents and a25-percentincrease in grad-uate students.
However, forthis university,decreasing thenumber of full-time, first-yearstudents whoenroll is in line
with many long-term goalsincluding maintaining aca-demic quality and raising thecaliber of the student body, offi-cials said. The overall goal is toreduce enrollment at this cam-pus by 800 students by 2017,according to a 10-year projec-tion report issued to the boardin 2008.
From 2008 to 2009, accordingto the report, undergraduateadmissions at this universityincreased 0.5 percent, which ishigher than the 10-year plan’sprojection of 0.2 percent.
UNIV. MATH STANDARDS TO INCREASEIn an effort to cut down on the number of students taking
remedial math classes, the Board of Regents voted Fridayto change admissions policies so that undergraduate appli-cants are required to take an additional fourth year of mathto gain acceptance to this university.
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When I was about sixyears old, my dad wasdriving me home frombasketball practice
when he asked me the stupidestquestion I’d ever heard.
“How many days are in a week?”“Seven, duh!”He reached for the radio dial. “Lis-
ten to this, and you might changeyour mind.”
I ain’t got nothin’ but love, girl,eight days a week.
And that’s how it started.Since that day, I’ve been searching
for a guy who thinks there are eightdays in a week. A guy who is happyjust to dance with me. A guy who justwants to hold my hand.
You know I love you still. Will Iwait a lonely lifetime? If you want meto, I will.
Some girls say the Disneyprincesses gave them unrealisticexpectations about love. Not me. I
blame The Beatles. I’ve been spend-ing my life waiting for a boy whoexists only in a Beatles song.
If you let me take your heart, I willprove to you/ we will never be apart, ifI’m part of you.
And it seems like most of the guysI meet are trying desperately toenlighten me as to just how unrealis-tic my dreams are. In fact, the firsttime I walked into the Thirsty Tur-tle, those dreams were nearly shotto hell.
I felt like I needed to shield myeyes from the sultry corners of thedance floor. Girls in high heels andshort skirts were clinging onto thearms of boys they didn’t know. Boys,drunk and sweaty, were prowling thedance floor looking for groups ofgirls with intoxicated stragglers.
“Hershey’s factories make millionsof kisses a day, but I’m only askingfor one.”
“Excuse me, I lost my phone num-
ber. Could I borrow yours?”And that’s how it ended.Some day when we’re dreaming,
deep in love, not a lot to say/ then wewill remember the things we saidtoday.
I’m not trying to say that nice guysnever come along or don’t exist (thatargument is negated by guys like mybrother, male cousins and malefriends). But these days, guys likethem seem so hard to find. Instead of“just call on me, and I’ll send it alongwith love from me to you,” we get “doyou have a Band-Aid? I just scrapedmy knee falling for you.” Instead of“we can work it out,” we get “it’s not
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T he road to sainthood was a quick one for Cordell Black. Since hewas dismissed from his position as associate provost for equity anddiversity, hundreds of students marched on the administrationbuilding and demanded his reinstatement. Countless stories have
been told of the impact Black had on students, and repeated columns con-tinue the press for him to keep his job.
Last week, the Student Government Association brought the debate backto reality. The SGA legislature passed a bill demanding the reinstatement ofthe associate provost for equity and diversity as a full-time position but made no mention of Black ever fillingthat role again.
There’s no denying Black’s contributions to the univer-sity. Since he arrived on the campus in 1979, Black hasbeen an advocate for diversifying the faculty and studentbody. He has played critical roles in many of the univer-sity’s accomplishments in diversity fields, such as a 20-percentage-point increase in black student graduationrates within a decade. And much of his impact, accordingto alumni who worked with him, can’t truly be qualified.
That said, it is indisputably the right of Provost Nariman Farvardin to hireand fire his own staff. No matter how beloved a faculty member may be, it isperfectly acceptable for an administrator to decide who works in theiroffice. While Congress could try to prevent an attempt by President BarackObama to eliminate the position of commerce secretary, they couldn’tprotest a decision to remove Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke — he
serves at the discretion of the president.By striking the four mentions of Black’s name from the bill, the SGA
shifted the focus to where it should have been all along: the position of asso-ciate provost for equity and diversity. Certainly, some of the outrage overBlack’s dismissal was because the job would become part-time with hisdeparture, but much of it has been wrapped up in the man and not the big-ger picture.
The administration should now take this gesture of student support asjust one more sign that the majority find this position valu-able and necessary. With the new comprehensive diver-sity plan on the verge of being finalized, a leader will beneeded to devote the right amount of time to this new steptoward inclusion.
As Black has stated, his position is less about paper-work and more about advocacy. The university needs afull-time advocate for diversity, not one who deals withissues like a 28 percent decrease in black enrollment inhis or her spare time.
The SGA has sent a signal to the administration that stu-dents and their representatives find this position one that shouldn’t be sacri-ficed because of budgetary woes. Diversity can be achieved at this univer-sity without Cordell Black holding the reins.
The SGA has sent the message that students are not just infatuated withone man — instead, they believe the ideas he professed must continue to bevalued at the university.
Staff editorial
Our ViewThe existence of an
associate provost of equityand diversity is vital to the
university.
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L ast Wednesday, the Stu-dent Government Associ-ation legislature approveda budget appeal that the
SGA Finance Committee, the boardthat oversees the budget applica-tion process for more than 350 stu-dent groups, had initially rejected.
As a member of the committeeand South Campus Commons legis-lator, I would first like to commendVice President of Finance AndrewSteinberg for leading an efficientand fair finance process. Under thisyear’s executive leadership, theorganization implemented a policyto assign finance liaisons to studentgroups; this improved the clarity ofthe finance process so thoroughlythat only one student groupappealed to the full legislature: theSGA itself.
In Thursday’s article, “Officialsclash over extra SGA funding,”The Diamondback reported on theappeals process. As a member ofboth the Finance Committee thatdenied the SGA appeal and the leg-islature that approved the appeal, Iwould like to offer my insight andfurther illuminate the situation. Asthe article mentioned, the SGA’sappeal requested funding for threespecific events: the StudentGroups Awards Ceremony, an aca-demic “Second Look Fair” and amulticultural expo, which will allbe held during the spring semes-ter. These events are directedtoward student groups and aim toease the financial and organiza-tional burden of hosting large-scale, collaborative events.
The main concern expressedduring the debate was that fundingfor these events would be availablethrough reserves, which are usedfor discretionary funding for initia-tives that help the SGA carry out itsduties. However, under the currentstructure, reserves are not securedfor specific purposes — a complica-tion that could threaten the exis-tence of these events. As a result, itis not practical for the event-hostingbranch of the SGA, to rely on thisnon-guaranteed source of fundingto host such essential events.
As a result, SGA President SteveGlickman presented a budget thatrequested funding to benefit thestudent body for these threeevents. The money requested wasspecifically earmarked so it wouldnot go into the general operationsof the SGA but rather would beeffectively returned to studentgroups. The legislature saw thatthe nature of these requests inher-ently benefits student groups andthe overall student body. Therefore,the SGA legislature overwhelm-ingly approved the appeal.
As a legislator intimatelyinvolved in the fair and equitabledistribution of student activitiesfees, I can assure you the SGA doesnot take the task of allocating morethan $1.5 million lightly. Wednes-day night, the SGA did not vote toenhance its own bank account —rather, it voted to help fund eventsthat will enhance the experience ofundergraduate students on thecampus. The SGA has and will con-tinue to be fiscally responsible withyour money. Through the fair allot-ment of these funds, the SGA willcontinue to ensure that the priori-ties of students and student groupsremain our priorities.
Lisa Crisalli is the SGA’s SouthCampus Commons legislator and amember of the finance committee. Shecan be reached at [email protected].
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As I registered for springsemester classes, I thoughtnostalgically of my fresh-man orientation experi-
ence. About two hours before wewere scheduled to go home, we wereushered into a cramped room toawait our “advisers” and register. Iremember the shared sense of panicand confusion as we logged onto Tes-tudo and Venus for the first time.There were so many courses, profes-sors, times and so on — it was totalinformation overload. To make mat-ters worse, the schedule my advisercreated for me was completely use-less due to the fact she didn’t factorin my Advanced Placement credits.Walking out of that room, I was actu-ally more lost and confused than Ihad been when I entered.
When I asked my upperclassmenfriends for help, they introduced meto the holy godsend commonlyreferred to as OurUMD.com. I
obsessively checked and re-checkedthe ratings and grade distributionsfor the professors and classes Iwished to take in the fall. I read allthe comments and became wary ofany professor with 3.5 stars andbelow. I made a master schedule andwas determined to obtain seats inthese classes.
Then came the hard part: adjust-ing my original schedule. Unfortu-nately, as all of us know, freshmenare at the bottom of the barrel whenit comes to registration times. If reg-istration was a food chain, freshmenare nothing but the scavengers thatvie for the morsels of seats in classes
that upperclassmen don’t want orhad already. Because I was in Chinafor most of the summer, I had toadjust to a 12-hour time difference.You could count on me to compul-sively log onto the Internet at 7 p.m.on the dot, checking for any openseats in the sections I wanted. I real-ize that this sounds a little over-the-top, but I’m sure that some of youunderstand my sentiments.
By August, I had my dream sched-ule made — or so I thought. As Imentioned before, I relied heavily onthe ratings on OurUMD. Even if onlyone person had rated a particularprofessor, I felt as if this one opinionrepresented a consensus. It’s humannature to overlook the details whenthere are four or five happy littlestars next to a professor’s name. Andit’s easy to assume one professor isbetter than the other because onehas 10 people on his or her waitlistwhile the other has ten open seats in
his or her class. As the semester pro-gressed, I realized that there reallywasn’t that much of a difference interms of teaching ability between aprofessor who was rated a little lowerthan another.
Lesson Learned: OurUMD is use-ful but is by no means a definite indi-cator of which course or professor isbetter. There are always disgruntledstudents who use OurUMD as a wayto rant about a course they failed —ever wonder why the bad ratingsseem to come from people wholeave the “Grade Expected” fieldblank? And there are always thoseone or two exceptionally good andbad classes with skewed grade per-centages. Perhaps OurUMD is a lit-tle overrated.
Angelina She is a freshmanneurobiology and physiology major.She can be reached [email protected].
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Bored to sketch and scanUniversity students launch an online platform for doodles
BY JONWOLPERSenior staff writer
In the past few months, many peo-ple — including a wealth of collegestudents — have become captivatedwith time-wasting websites such asFMyLife and Texts From Last Night.On these sites, users are encouragedto send in humorous anecdotes ortext messages, which may be broad-cast to the world.
Two students at this university,Paul Rowe and Christoph Kienzle,decided to try to replicate thosewebsites’ successes by creatingone with their own fresh, class-based spin.
“Everyone draws in class, so nat-urally I was doing it, too,” saidRowe, a sophomore finance major.“I started taking pictures of [thedrawings] and putting them onFacebook, and people started likingit a lot. So I thought if people are lik-ing it who are my friends, whatabout people who don’t know me?”
Rowe teamed up with Kienzle, afreshman marketing major, andlaunched Drawinginclass.com (tag-line: “Updated daily because classsucks”) on Nov. 2. The site now ac-cepts pictures of classroom doo-dles from anyone willing to sendthem in.
For the site’s debut, the duo puttogether what Rowe called a “huge,huge launch campaign,” chalkingmany of the heavily traveled places
on the campus. Big Drawing inClass logos and advertisementspopped up near McKeldin Library,in front of both The Diner and SouthCampus dining hall and outside ofStamp Student Union, among otherplaces. One drawing, which used tobe on the platform in front of McK-eldin Library, featured the website’s“DIC” logo. It nearly took up theplatform’s full length.
“We don’t like to make it likeyour normal chalk,” Rowe said. “Welike to make it something that youhave to stop and at least glance at.”
The creators, who said they tryto post about five times every week-day, also plan to expand their chalk-ing campaign to other universitiesto create more buzz. The “Cam-paigns” section of their website listsPace University and GeorgetownUniversity as upcoming targets.
Regarding submissions, Roweand Kienzle said they’re very opento posting whatever tasteful doodlescome their way, as long as there’ssome degree of creativity involved.
“If you’re sitting there and draw-ing squares and stars, that’s cool —it is drawing in class — but we’relooking for something that wouldreally interest people,” Rowe said.
Added Kienzle, “People want tosee cool stuff, something thatwould inspire them. Not just typicalstick figures.”
Rowe noted that stick figureswould be acceptable, however, if
they were shown “jumping off of acliff.”
Unlike their web contemporaries,Rowe and Kienzle stress that not allsubmissions need to be particularlyhumorous — anything visually inter-esting is considered fair game.
“The submissions shape it,” Kien-zle said. “If we can get more cool art-based ones, we’ll probably end uptaking more art-based ones. But rightnow, it’s half and half.”
These submissions, to the cre-ators’ surprise, have been comingfrom unexpected places. BesidesNew York, where the two are origi-nally from, and Maryland, peoplefrom as far as Canada and Brazil havee-mailed their drawings.
Such geographic diversity is im-
portant for the two, who hope tomake the site grow for as long as theycan. However, they believe a certainamount of luck is involved to achievethe status of FMyLife or Texts FromLast Night, which both rank insidethe top 4,000 websites in terms of visi-tors and page views, according toweb traffic monitor Alexa.com.
“They’re way up there,” Kienzlesaid, lifting his arm high above hishead, “and we’re way down here,”he explained, pointing to a cigarettebutt on the ground.
“We can only hope that we’relucky enough to get the viral spreadthat they did,” Rowe added. “If wedo, awesome. If we don’t, then it’skind of cool because you got thattiny cult following.”
For the long term, however, theduo’s goals aim a bit higher than sim-ply creating a well-known website.
“It would be cool to be able tobuy a big house,” Rowe joked.
“I’ve always personally likedyachts,” Kienzle added.
But despite those lofty hopes,Kienzle was quick to add that thetwo “don’t have any specific goals”for where exactly they want thewebsite to end up.
“Seriously, though, we have noreal message,” he said. “It’s a funway for people to waste a little bit oftime and make that doodle in classworth it.”
Drawing in Class co-founderChristoph Kienzle posted hisdepiction of a barbecue on thesite. COURTESY DRAWINGINCLASS.COM
Taken by itself, this onegame is nothing toworry about. Sure, theTerrapin men’s bas-
ketball team lost by nine infront of what was essentially ahome crowd at Verizon Center.
Sure, the Terps’ perimeterdefense in the first half was just amirage, they gave up 23 offensiverebounds to a team that often playswith four guards, and guard GreivisVasquez struggled his way througha performance sullied by question-able fouls and was limited to 12points to go with seven turnovers.
But, really, the Terps’ 95-86 lossto No. 3 Villanova in the BB&TClassic last night should not be anadditional burden on your mindbefore finals.
The Wildcats are legitimatelyone of the best teams in the coun-try. They are the favorite to win theBig East, and they have a very goodshot at reaching the Final Four forthe second consecutive season.
A win last night simply wouldhave been gravy.
But what you should be worriedabout is the Terps have nowmissed their last opportunity toearn an impressive nonconferencewin to boost their NCAA Tourna-ment résumé come March.
The Terps had three chances topick up a signature win beforeACC play — twice at the Maui Invi-tational against Cincinnati and Wis-consin, and here last night — andeach time the Terps whiffed.
The win against Indiana atAssembly Hall last week was nice,but it remains to be seen howmuch weight a victory over therebuilding Hoosiers is ultimately
going to carry.If the Terps are going to get
back to the Big Dance this year —and with this roster it would be ahuge disappointment if they didn’t— it is now apparent the Terps aregoing to have to make some seri-ous moves in the ACC.
The NCAA Tournament selec-tion committee isn’t exactly goingto be wowed by a home win againstCharleston Southern or Fairfield.
“You don’t play a lot of teams asgood as Villanova,” coach GaryWilliams said. “But when we playteams that good, we have to be ableto win those games. That’s going tobe our goal.”
What’s disappointing about thisloss and makes it worth adding tothis missed opportunity discus-sion is that it was actually awinnable game.
The Terps had their chances lastnight. They just showed up at theparty a little late.
The Wildcats came out firingfrom long range, as they are proneto do, and they were able to makesome shots and give themselves anice cushion before the Terps wereable to adjust their defense.
Once the Terps switched to azone, they forgot about rebound-ing when they didn’t have a specificman to box out, and the Wildcatskilled them on the offensive glass.
The Terps went on a nice run,fueled by budding star guard SeanMosley and guard Eric Hayes,early in the second half, and theysomewhat surprisingly pulled to
within three with 13:34 to play.But then it seemed the Terps
tried to win the game in the firstfive seconds of the shot clockevery time they touched the ball,and they never got any closerdespite having three consecutivepossessions in which they couldhave tied it.
“We were right there. We hadthem within three in the secondhalf,” center Jordan Williams said.“A couple more breaks here andthere and we could have beatenthat team.”
But those breaks didn’t come,and now the Terps are left facingjust four cupcakes and an admit-tedly tough William & Mary teamon their schedule before the con-ference opener against FloridaState on Jan. 10.
Who knows? Maybe the Terpswill go 10-6 or 11-5 in the ACC,make a run in the ACC Tourna-ment, and render all of this moot.Maybe they’ll beat Duke or UNCagain and get the glamorous winthat will separate them from thepack.
But you can’t count on wins likethat in the conference every year,even if those opportunities arealways going to be in the ACC.
It just would have been nice forthe Terps to have a big-name win intheir back pocket before NewYear’s.
Now we know that isn’t going tohappen.
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TERPRECAP
Guard Sean Mosley scored 26 points yesterday, but that wasn’tenough in the Terps’ loss. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
for most of the second half thanks to a nearly54-percent shooting rate with Hayes andMosley, who hit 11-of-14 shots and carried thebulk of the load.
The Wildcats, who returned several keycontributors from last season’s Final Foursquad, allowed the Terps to make it a two-pos-session game in the last minute, but ultimatelysealed the win with 19 second-half free throws.
“We just needed to keep chipping away andkeep trying to get back in the game and wedid a great job of that in the second half,” saidHayes, who combined with Mosley to accountfor 19 points during one second-half stretch.“We just couldn’t get over the hump.”
The Wildcats (8-0) took the lead whenReynolds, a native of Herndon, Va., hit a 3-pointer 1:34 into the game, and they nevertrailed again thanks to blistering early shooting.
The famously guard-oriented squad fromPhiladelphia hit just eight of its 19 two-pointattempts in the first half.
But they made up for that by hitting 11-of-22from long range to take a 49-38 at the half.
“It’s one of those things where if you’re mak-ing them, you keep taking them,” Williamssaid. “And we were late [to their shooters].”
Villanova struggled to keep pace after half-time, struggling to solve the Terps’ zonedefense, which Reynolds said caused prob-lems because he had trouble distinguishing itfrom the Terps’ man-to-man defense. TheWildcats hit just 5-of-17 threes in the second.
Still, they made two more 3-pointers thanthey did two-point field goals in the game.
“Even though we were flying at them, theywere still hitting shots,” Mosley said.
Even after the three-point barrage, and inspite of guard Greivis Vasquez’s foul trouble,the Terps had their best shot after an 8-0 runput them within a possession for the only timein the second half.
But Vasquez missed a 3-pointer in transi-tion, Hayes missed another three andVasquez missed a layup before Villanovapulled away again with an 11-1 run that madethe score 72-59 with 9:21 remaining.
The Terps eventually whittled the deficitdown to six in the final minute and had achance to get even closer until JordanWilliams missed a pair of free throws.
Yet the Terps realized they let their bestchance at an upset slip away in a span of a fewrushed possessions after the second half run.
“We started playing their game, comingdown and taking threes,” Jordan Williamssaid. “That hurt us.”
VILLANOVA 49 46 ——————95TERRAPINS 38 48 ——————86
NO. 3 VILLANOVA (8-0, 0-0 BIG EAST)
PLAYER MIN FG FT O-T A PF TPReynolds 38 7-18 8-11 1-5 8 2 25Fisher 30 6-13 4-4 1-4 2 2 20Stokes 31 6-13 1-1 2-3 3 5 18Pena 25 2-4 4-8 6-11 2 3 8Sutton 17 1-2 0-0 4-4 0 5 2Wayns 9 1-3 0-0 1-4 2 1 3Cheek 16 2-5 2-2 2-4 2 2 6King 30 5-17 0-0 2-6 0 1 13Armwood 4 0-0 0-0 1-1 0 3 0TeamTOTALS 200 30-75 19-26 23-45 19 24 95
PERCENTAGES–FG: 40 FT: 73.1 3FG: 41 3-POINT GOALS–16-39(Stokes 5-11, Fisher 4-6, King 3-8, Reynolds 3-10, Wayns 1-2,Cheek 0-2). TURNOVERS–14 (Reynolds 5). BLOCKED SHOTS–2(Sutton 1, Armwood 1). STEALS–10 (King 3).
TERRAPINS (5-3, 0-0 ACC)
PLAYER MIN FG FT O-T A PF TPMilbourne 34 1-4 2-2 1-5 0 4 4Hayes 39 6-13 3-4 0-0 4 2 20Mosley 37 11-14 1-1 1-5 2 2 26Williams 30 5-8 9-13 5-12 0 3 19Vasquez 27 3-9 5-6 0-3 7 5 12Bowie 13 0-3 0-0 0-3 0 4 0Padgett 10 0-0 0-0 0-2 0 0 0Choi 1 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 2Tucker 9 1-1 1-1 0-0 1 2 3TeamTOTALS 200 28-53 21-27 7-33 14 23 86
PERCENTAGES–FG: 52.8 FT: 77.8 3FG: 47.4 3-POINT GOALS–– 9-19 (Hayes 5-9, Mosley 3-4, Vasquez 1-4, Milbourne 0-1, Bowie0-1). TURNOVERS––19 (Vasquez 7). BLOCKED SHOTS–– 4 (Mil-bourne 2). STEALS––7 (Mosley, Vasquez, Tucker 2).
‘NOVA 95,TERPS 86
Anotherchancewasted
GREGSCHIMMEL
VILLANOVAfrom page 1
&&THE UPS
THE DOWNSSEAN MOSLEY
The sophomore guard isemerging as the Terps’ nextstar. Mosley finished with 26points on 11-of-14 shooting.
FAN ETIQUETTEA non-student fan was ejectedduring the second half afterhe threw a beer bottle on thecourt to protest a foul calledon Landon Milbourne.
TERP BENCHThe Terps’ four reserves combined for five points, fiverebounds, five turnovers andseven fouls.
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His goal is to win everything every year. But with such high stakes, that inexperi-
ence was glaring. For the loss to come to Virginia, undeni-
ably the Terps’ biggest rival in a confer-ence full of top-caliber programs, made itthat much harder to stomach.
Bruce Arena, Cirovski’s nemesis fromwhen he coached the Cavaliers to fourconsecutive titles in the early ’90s, stoodin the press box with a smile when hewasn’t taking photos with jubilant Vir-ginia fans below. Whether he was happyhis former program was heading back tothe College Cup, he took some pleasurein seeing his former rival go down orboth, we’ll never know.
There’s certainly a great deal of mutualrespect and admiration between the twocoaches. Arena, now the coach of the LosAngeles Galaxy, wouldn’t have selectedboth Delagarza and Gonzalez in last year’sMLS SuperDraft if that weren’t the case.
Regardless, Cirovski made it clear howdisappointing the night was, in only theway he could.
When asked how long he’ll dwell on thegame, Cirovski paused and pursed his lips.
“This game will sit with me,” Cirovskisaid, “until we win the next championship.”
KRAUTfrom page 10
Terp forward Casey Townsend couldn’t finish two scoring opportunities early in thefirst half against a tough Cavalier defense.JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
be an uphill battle — we knew thatfor sure.”
It was a bit of cruel irony that thefirst net the Terps could find againstthe Cavaliers was their own. After twogoals apiece in games against PennState and Harvard, two opponentsseeded in the top 10 who had aver-aged less than one allowed per match,the Terp offense seemed poised tobreak through for the first time thisseason against a regional rival.
Instead, it was the Terp defense— not Virginia’s offense — that putmore pressure on its own attackthan the Terps could manage. Only5:01 into play, Virginia midfielderNeil Barlow aimed in a low crossfrom the left flank for a streaking AriDimas. Kemp reached the ball first,but it caromed off his foot and pastgoalkeeper Zac MacMath.
“When you put balls in the boxlike that and cause a little chaos, any-thing can happen,” defender KevinTangney said. “Fortunately for themand unfortunately for us, it resultedin an own goal.”
It was just about the best-case sce-nario for the Cavaliers, who hadn’tallowed a goal in nearly a month anda half entering Friday’s match. Terp
forward Casey Townsend had twogolden opportunities to even thescore and change the complexionof the game, but he steered a well-struck volley right to the Cavaliers’Restrepo before redirecting aJason Herrick cross wide of goalminutes later.
“We had some good chances,”said midfielder Drew Yates, one ofthe Terps’ five seniors and three sen-ior starters. “We just couldn’t get itinto the back of the net.”
As Virginia’s backline and mid-fielders built a wall around Restrepo,Cirovski played chemist, experi-menting with a series of lineup per-mutations he hoped might deliverthe spark to ignite an ineffective andfatigued midfield.
But when the young Terp lineupcouldn’t deliver on offense, the Cav-aliers made them pay for the pres-sure. After freeing himself fromfreshman defender Ethan Whitealong the left side early in the secondhalf, Barlow again delivered a crossinto the box. This time, the dippingball skipped off the head of fresh-man London Woodberry and fell toBates, who easily headed it pastMacMath from near the penalty spotfor a 2-0 lead with 30 minutes left.
“You have to deny the penetration:You don’t let the cross get off,”Cirovski said. “On two occasions, we
stumbled.”The Terp offense featured a series
of misfires to match. Long balls toTownsend and Herrick found onlyCavalier heads, and chances insidethe box ended with whiff after whiff.When their last real chance at beatingRestrepo — a poorly taken penaltykick from Herrick in the 66th minute— ended up in the Cavalier goal-keeper’s hands, a roaring crowd of4,900 announced the season’sinevitable demise for the Terps.
“When you miss a penalty kick inthe playoffs, usually good thingsdon’t happen to you,” Cirovski said.
A late goal from Virginia’s Evanson a through ball punctuated thenight for the Terps, who hadmarched from among the ranks ofthe tournament’s unseeded to theprecipice of yet another College Cupappearance.
But on Friday in Charlottesville,for a team replacing six starters nowdotting professional soccer with sixunderclassmen starters, just beingthere wasn’t enough to compensatefor the heartbreak.
“It’s really hard, especially tocome and get so close to the FinalFour and lose it,” Tangney said. “Toget so close and not get there — itreally hurts.”
SOCCERfrom page 10
Once again, McCoy’s admit-tedly cliché mantra, “Anythingcan happen in wrestling,”became reality in his wrestlers’matches. Kohler outlasted Sta-bile, 10-8, and John shockedScotton, staying aggressivethroughout on his way to a 9-0major decision.
“You could tell Jon [Kohler]was on the edge of breakingthrough last week,” McCoysaid. “He was really close and Ithought he should have won
the match last week, but it’sgreat for him to be performingthis way now.”
Then Taylor tied Jake Storkfor most career pins in programhistory when he tied up No. 18Dennis Drury midway throughthe second period. Drurycouldn’t find an answer for Tay-lor, despite his familiarity withTaylor’s style after having wres-tled him four times in the lasttwo seasons.
Taylor broke the record yes-terday at the Penn State Open.Taylor improved his seasonrecord to 17-0 with 13 pins.
“It’s a huge accomplishment
for him,” McCoy said. “He’shad this goal since the begin-ning of the season, and for himto break the record againstquality competition is a specialmoment for our program.”
Taylor has made pinningopponents a personal mis-sion, and it showed with a rel-atively easy match against anexperienced, nationallyranked wrestler.
Now, as Friday’s matchshowed, the rest of the Terpsare improving in time to compli-ment Taylor’s dominance.
WRESTLINGfrom page 10
6-foot-7 center EssenceTownsend stretched her longlimbs wide while defending 6-foot Loyola forward MeredithTolley or as Hawkins went upfor a layup, missed andbounded back up for a reboundand put-back near the end ofthe first half.
Even as Kizer was limitedto 18 minutes while nursingan ankle injury, the Terps out-rebounded Loyola 50-32,including 20 on the offensiveend.
The 6-foot-3 Hawkins, whoplayed just eight minutesagainst Minnesota, best utilizedthe advantage, throwingaround Greyhound defendersand attacking the basket withvoracity. She scored 16 of her22 points in the second half,coming off the bench to play amajor role in putting away thepesky Greyhounds.
“I felt like it was my time tocome in and attack [the bas-ket],” Hawkins said. “I feltmore confident. It’s like it’s all
coming to me.”No Greyhound could com-
pete. Loyola shot just 33.3 per-cent from the field and 25.9 per-cent from three-point range,both missing open jumpers andstruggling with the Terps’ size.Two of Loyola’s top three scor-ers, Miriam McKenzie and Tol-ley, finished a combined 3-of-23from the field.
Still, Loyola kept the gamerelatively close, never trailingby more than 20 and providinganother noticeable chink in theTerps’ armor this season. Lastyear, Maryland dogged theGreyhounds in an 83-52
blowout.The Terps are still trying to
find their identity, though itincreasingly appears to belocated underneath the basket.The Terps’ 36 points in thepaint were indicative of theirbiggest advantage, height.With five players 6-foot-3 ortaller, the Terps create matchupproblems in the paint.
Against a team such as Loy-ola, those advantages, com-bined with a potent shootingperformance from Tchatch-ouang, are enough to make thedifference. But Frese knowsthere are issues to be ironedout in the next month beforeACC play begins.
“I’m disappointed with ourgame, collectively,” theeighth-year Terp coach said.“I thought we played inspurts. … When you see thisteam outmatch a very physi-cal Minnesota team and thephysicality we played with inthat game, to watch us in thisgame not be as aggressiveand not as physical was verydisappointing.”
LOYOLAfrom page 10
“I felt like it wasmy time to comein and attack [thebasket]. I feltmore confident.It’s like it’s allcoming to me.”
TIANNA HAWKINS TERP WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FORWARD
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Virginia midfielder Jonathan Villanueva celebrates after the Cavaliers’ first goal in Friday’s NCAA quarterfinal. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Terps’ season endsFriday againstarchrival after earlydefensive blunder
DOWN AND OUT3 0
BY JONAS SHAFFERStaff writer
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Forjust more than 84 fruitless minutes Fri-day night, the Terrapin men’s soccerteam found itself in a hole of its ownmaking. And when the Terps tried to digthemselves out, they only got in deeper.
An unlucky deflection off defenderTaylor Kemp into his own goal in thesixth minute marked the beginning ofthe end of the Terps’ season and openedthe floodgates for Virginia, who routedthe Terps 3-0, crushing any dreams of aNational Championship repeat in theNCAA Tournament quarterfinals inKlockner Stadium.
Virginia forwards Will Bates andJordan Evans later punched in goalsagainst a Terp defense stretched toothin for its own good, while goalkeeperDiego Restrepo turned in anothermatch of scoreless play for the Cava-liers (17-3-3), who outscored the Terps4-0 in three games this season.
“[We] got in a hole against a team thathasn’t been scored on in 10 games,”coach Sasho Cirovski said. Virginia alsoended the Terps’ ACC Tournament titledefense weeks earlier. “It was going to
Forward Jason Herrick (left) walks off the field after theTerps were eliminated from the NCAA Tournament onFriday night. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
see SOCCER, page 9
A rare poor performance
Things like what hap-pened Friday nightdon’t happen to theTerrapin men’s soccer
team. The Terps’ 3-0 NCAAquarterfinal loss to Virginia wasa humbling performance, onethat proved how even the mighti-est programs can be exposedwhen the goal is national champi-onship or bust every season.
The Terps’ attempt to defendtheir national title was effec-tively over when forward JasonHerrick failed to convert a
penalty kick in the 66th minutewith the team trailing 2-0. Cava-lier forward Tony Tchani slicedthrough the Terp midfield to setup a third goal in the 78thminute that just emphasized Vir-ginia’s superiority.
During the final 10 minutes,Terp coach Sasho Cirovskipaced the sidelines with hisarms crossed and head down,probably trying to analyze whatwent wrong.
Besides an approximately 20-minute stretch after the Cava-liers’ first-half goal, Virginia domi-nated the game. That’s some-thing you can’t say many teamshave done to the Terps in such abig game, at least recently.
The reasons were numerousand certainly nothing to beashamed of, considering
Cirovski’s team lost six startersfrom last year’s 23-3 squad. Butafterward, the Terps’ facesshowed the emotional toll of notliving up to their lofty standardsand hinted at the shocking natureof their defeat.
Cirovski, while proud of histeam, started his postgamepress conference with a deliber-ate rundown of the things theTerps didn’t do.
Forward Casey Townsendmissed two quality scoring oppor-tunities in the first half. DefenderLondon Woodberry failed toclear a Virginia cross in the 59thminute, which led to the Cava-liers’ second goal. The Terps“lacked the quality in the [attack-ing] third,” and their midfield wastoo fatigued to keep up with afaster, more physical group.
Seniors Kevin Tangney andDrew Yates sat at the table withCirovski, having each finished hisfinal season on a disappointingnote. Tangney said he wouldcome back next year and offerany help he could to get the Terpsback on top.
A.J. Delagarza and Omar Gon-zalez, two stars of the Terps’championship run in 2008 now inthe MLS, were in attendance Fri-day, showing the type of alumnisupport Tangney spoke of.
The Terps could have usedtheir calm and collecteddemeanor on the back line Fri-day, but throughout the season,Cirovski never used inexperienceas an excuse.
That’s not how he operates.
AARONKRAUT
see KRAUT, page 9
Forward Diandra Tchatchouang scored 20 points on 8-of-14 shooting in the Terps’ 69-56 win against Loyola (Md.) yesterday atComcast Center. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Terps’ height too muchfor visiting Loyola (Md.)to handle in 69-56 winWomen’s basketball team uses rebounding edge to get by Greyhounds
BY ADI JOSEPHSenior staff writer
Loyola (Md.) guard EricaDiClemente set her box out per-fectly. She squared her hips tothe basket and prepared to snaga defensive rebound as Terrapinguard Kim Rodgers’ shotclanked off the iron.
But in basketball, even per-fect form can be rendered use-less when physical advantagesare so lopsided. Terp centerLynetta Kizer used her thick 6-foot-4 frame to outmuscle andoutleap the 5-foot-11DiClemente, ripping down theboard and restarting the Terpoffense. Forward DiandraTchatchouang’s jump shot sec-onds later extended the Terps’lead to 10 at the beginning of thesecond half.
The Terps did not play at asignificantly higher level thanthe Greyhounds yesterday.They turned the ball over 19times, fouled heavily and settledtoo often for jump shots. But
Loyola (3-5) was unable tomatch the Terps (8-1) in sizeand athleticism — few can —and the Greyhounds becamethe 44th straight visiting team toleave Comcast Center with aloss, 69-56.
Still, aside from freshmenTchatchouang and TiannaHawkins, who combined for 42points and 17 rebounds, theTerps shot 30.5 percent fromthe field. They were missingmuch of the physicality shownThursday against Minnesota,settling too often for jumpersand allowing 12 offensiverebounds to a team with no rota-tion player taller than 6-foot-1.
“There’s a lot of concerns fromthis game,” coach Brenda Fresesaid. “Luckily, we were playing athome today. I told them, if wewere playing on the road, it couldhave been a bad outcome.”
Height was most responsiblefor bailing the Terps out. Theadvantage was tangible, be it as
see LOYOLA, page 9
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
Wrestling team dominatesin first conference match Taylor ties program recordfor pins in shutout at UNC
BY MICHAEL LEMAIREStaff writer
It was only fitting thatthe Terrapin wrestlingteam’s night at North Car-olina on Friday ended with-out a match.
Terp heavyweight PatGilmore got the night offbecause his Tar Heelopponent forfeited. Butwith the way the rest ofthe night had gone forNorth Carolina (2-4-1, 0-1ACC) the Tar Heels mightas well have raised thewhite flag anyway.
The No. 7 Terps (6-1, 1-0) shut out the Tar Heels,41-0. At 125 pounds,James Knox set the tonewith a dominant 13-3major decision, and at 197pounds, Hudson Taylorcapped off the perform-ance with his 69th careerpin, tying a school recordhe went on to break yes-terday at Penn State.
“I think for how early itis in the season, we are alittle ahead of schedule,”coach Kerry McCoy said.“I don’t think the guyswrestled their best. ... But
it shows our potential theway in which we were ableto win.”
The Terps had beenexpected to dominate D-IIIYork College when theybeat them 57-0 in the sea-son’s first dual meet. Butthe Tar Heels are perennialcontenders in the ACC andthe Terps’ shutout speaksvolumes about their poten-tial when all 10 starters arewrestling well.
The Terps were heavilyfavored to win the match,but North Carolina hadsome perceived advan-tages. At 149 and 157pounds, the Tar Heels hadtwo wrestlers ranked in thetop 20 nationally. Mean-while, their Terp counter-parts were considered theteam’s weak links.
Jon Kohler (149 pounds)had gotten off to a slowstart this season as headjusted to moving up aweight class, and 157-pounder Kyle John startedthe season as the backup— experienced, but cer-tainly not highly touted.
see WRESTLING, page 9
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