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By Alex KirshnerSta� writer

Before he was a 17-term congress-man and the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, he was working in student government at this university.

Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), House Minority Whip and a member of the Democratic Party’s congressional lead-ership since 1989, has deep roots in College Park — a place he said was key to his development into one of Wash-ington’s most recognizable fi gures.

“I grew up, essentially, at the Uni-versity of Maryland,” Hoyer said. “When I came as an 18-year-old, I was not probably ready for school, ready for responsibility.”

Terrorism rarer than perceivedStudy: attacks not leading cause of death

By Madeleine ListSta� writer

Bombs, shootings, terrorist attacks — it’s hard to escape the culture of fear that has stricken America, no matter how unfounded it may be.

Terrorism looms large in Americans’ minds but actually causes fewer Ameri-can fatalities than most other causes of death, according to a study from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, headquartered at this university.

“Terrorism is really quite rare com-pared to other types of crimes like burglary and even murder in the U.S.,” said Amy Adamczyk, co-author of the START report and sociology professor at the criminal justice college at the City University of New York. “This suggests something about the Ameri-can consciousness regarding terror-ism. It a� ects our psyche, but you’re much more likely to be murdered by your neighbor than have a terrorist attack a� ect you personally.”

START researchers surveyed adults of di� erent ages across the country and asked them to compare their concern about terrorism to other worries such as the threat of hospitalization, job loss or violent crime, Adamczyk said. About 15 percent of the sample said they were concerned about terrorism, while only 10 percent said they were concerned about the other, more realistic threats.

The highest percentage of concern was among people ages 60 and older, and the lowest was among college-aged people, she said.

Students say while terrorism is not a main concern for them, it is some-thing they think about, especially in situations such as air travel.

“I only really worry about [terror-ism] when I’m traveling, like when I get on a plane or a train, or even a bus, I get a little nervous,” said Asia Lamar, a sophomore secondary edu-cation and Spanish major. “My dad travels a lot for work, so I worry about him, but in general I don’t worry about it that much.”

Others say the dangers they fear, such as muggings, are more probable and lie closer to home.

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Rep. steny hoyer (D-Md.) has seen many Congresses in his career, but the loyal alum says the current one is the most divided yet. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Univ. system could house drone sites

By Fola AkinnibiSta� writer

University researchers could soon have more freedom when testing drone technology throughout the University System of Maryland if the state wins a Federal Aviation Admin-istration competition.

The university system is apply-ing on behalf of the state to become a designated test site for unmanned aircraft, or drones, and the ground support systems required to operate them. The FAA began looking for six research areas across the nation after Congress directed the agency in 2012 to begin integrating the technology into national airspace, said Matt Scassero, an unmanned aircraft test site lead.

The university system will turn in the fi nal version of its application on May 6, and the FAA will select winners by the end of the year.

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State gun control law could do more, lawmakers saySome believe law’s measures unlikely to address city violence

By Jim BachSenior sta� writer

While proponents of stricter gun legislation are often split between those who want to take the deadliest weapons off the streets and those who want to focus on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, some lawmakers feel these laws do little to address the issue en masse.

With the passage of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s gun control legislation, the state has identified certain firearms as assault weapons and banned them, tightened background checks and required fi ngerprinting

for fi rearm purchases, while also strengthening state law to stop guns from reaching the mentally ill. But gun violence is a much larger problem that lawmakers on both side of the aisle believe this new measure won’t fully address.

“There was no increase of pen-alties for the bad guys; it was just onus on the good guys,” said Del. C.T. Wilson (D-Charles) earlier this month on the floor of the House of Delegates, less than an hour before the vote. He said he owned an AR-15, one of the weapons subject to the ban, but added he understands and supports the bill.

However, Wilson also said the discussion for gun control in the state, which was part of a national

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say yes! to health foodYes! Organic Market seeks univ. partnership to boost awareness, sales

By Annika McGinnisSta� writer

Gary Cha hates the word “no.”That’s why when he started a chain of all-natural

organic food stores in the Washington area, he named his market Yes! to represent his openness to his customers’ unique tastes. The organic market doesn’t say “no” to anyone — whether the customer desires naturally sourced, vegan, ethnic or just unusual foods, said store worker and university student Rosemary Garcia.

With the help of several student workers at the store’s Arts District Hyattsville location, the market hopes to extend that can-do attitude to students from this university. If the store becomes an o¥ cial campus sponsor, it plans to raise aware-ness about the importance of healthy, organic foods, promote the accessibility of Yes! Organic Market and hold healthy-eating events in dorms.

“When you fi rst get to college, it’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, diner food’ and the freshman 15,” said Garcia, a junior chemical engineering major. “But nutrition is important, and it’s going to have an impact on your education, too. … I feel like a lot of students don’t even know the store’s there, even though it’s one of the closest grocery stores to campus.”

Eric Marshall-Main, a University of Maryland University College student and Facilities Manage-ment employee at this university, said he doesn’t

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YES! Organic market in Hyattsville hopes to partner with this university as a sponsor, in hopes of promoting healthy eating and garnering loyal student customers. Though the market has higher prices than other stores, students said the selection and sta� are worth the cost. james levin/for the diamondback

maryland lawmakers passed strict gun control legislation earlier this month, but some politicians believe the law doesn’t go far enough in addressing persistent inner-city gun violence. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

“it is kind of a di� erent experience entirely from your typical shopping. It’s not really a chore there.”

ROSEMARY GARCIAYes! employee and junior chemical engineering major

Longtime politician cherishes univ. pastSteny Hoyer began politics in college

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He may have been immature coming into school, but a lot can change in about half a decade. By the time he graduated in 1963, he had the makings of a politician.

He was a standout student, majoring in government and politics and history and finishing his degree with 142 credits. He also worked six hours per night for several years as a file clerk for the Central Intelligence Agency before working as an intern in former Maryland Democratic Sen. Daniel Brewster’s office between 1962 and 1966.

“I learned a lot about dealing with people at the Uni-versity of Maryland,” he said.

Fifty years after his gradu-ation, Hoyer said he follows the Terrapins religiously and comes to the campus often for games. He was even here for the men’s basketball win over Duke in February.

“I’m a huge basketball fan. I go to a lot of football games as well, but basketball — college basketball — is my favorite sport,” he said.

He is especially fond of the Terrapins’ two winningest coaches, Lefty Driesell and Gary Williams — a former neighbor.

Hoyer has gotten to know current coach Mark Turgeon, too, in part through his work in the summer of 2011 to earn former men’s basketball center Alex Len eligibility to play for the team. Len, a Ukrainian and an NBA draft prospect, was in the country that summer on a visitor’s visa, but needed a longer-term student visa to take the court.

Hoyer’s office helped push the visa through at Turgeon’s request, beating a late-summer deadline for Len to be eligible in his new coach’s first season, the congressman and athletic department o�cials said.

“That was a very tall order,” Hoyer said. “We worked very hard but got that done.”

Hoyer believes the program is headed in a positive direc-tion, and he’s looking forward to seeing what else the coaches and their players can do.

“I’m a fan of Mark Tur-geon’s,” he said. “I think he’s doing a good job of recruit-

ing, and I think he’s going to lead Maryland to some very substantial success in the Big Ten.”

But Hoyer’s most pertinent in-terests lay in Congress, and he expressed significantly less cheer about the outlook on Capitol Hill than inside Comcast Center.

Congress’ federal budget faces several looming threats, between a quickly approaching debt ceiling and the pending expiration of a resolution allocating funds to the budget this September. Hoyer said he was hopeful, but he worried a comprehensive, longer-term deal — the “grand bargain” sought for years by Democratic and Repub-lican leaders — would be elusive.

“I’m not overly optimistic, because the track record that we’ve been on for two-and-a-half years now is not a good one,” he said. “It’s not one that would lead to optimism.”

He called for spending re-straints and revenue increases, both ideas that have been anath-ema to some in the parties’ bases, to reach a “balanced solution.”

Don Kettl, public policy school dean, said the likelihood of such an agreement decreases as the days pass.

“The odds that political Wash-ington can come together behind such a deal don’t seem to be growing at all,” he said. “The further we get down the road, the harder it’s going to be to make that deal.”

Hoyer swiped at members of House Speaker John Boehner’s Republican caucus for their “ri-gidity” and unwillingness to com-promise, which he believes has led to the most hyperpartisan, divided Congress of his legislative career.

“Over the last two and now almost a half a year,” he said, “it’s been the most confrontational, most polarized, the least willing to come to compromise and create consensus of any Congress in which I have served since 1981.”

His concerns do not stop at the budget, though. Gun control is another legislative passion of Hoyer’s, and he has fought for more expansive gun control in the past, a pursuit that earned him an “F” grade from the National Rifle As-sociation and transformed him into a villain of the anti-gun law move-ment. He was very disappointed at the failure of a bipartisan Senate amendment to expand background checks for gun purchases earlier this month, Hoyer said.

“We need to make it very clear to

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citizens, both from a constitutional standpoint and a policy standpoint, nobody is going to start taking guns away from people,” he said.

Though Hoyer anticipated senators would eventually con-tinue their gun control push, Kettl did not foresee the passage of a substantive bill.

“The bottom line, for better or worse, is that the NRA has a scorekeeping system,” Kettl said. “Members of Congress, especially conservatives, are fearful of losing a high score.”

The easiest way for Hoyer and the Democrats to pass their agenda, of course, would be to retake the House majority in next year’s midterm elections. On that front, Hoyer is optimistic.

He said the extreme views of far-right Republicans could turn o� moderate voters and that Democrats’ opinions on spend-ing and social issues were be-lieved to be popular in national surveys. Hoyer noted his party did take a majority of the House votes in November.

“It indicates, clearly, that there is large support, significant support for Democrats in the House of Rep-resentatives,” Hoyer said.

Kettl said picking up a majority would be a challenge for the left.

“The House races will be dis-connected from the presidential race, so any possibility of [riding] coattails from the Obama admin-istration will be gone,” he said.

Hoyer’s seat, however, seems safe, Kettl said. This state’s resi-dents elected him for the 5th congressional district 17 times by wide margins, which Kettl calls a testament to both demographics and Hoyer’s skill as a leader.

“Part of it is that he comes from a district with a lot of Demo-crats,” he said. “Part of it is that he’s worked very hard to make sure that even though he’s risen through the ranks, he’s never lost the touch back in his district. He works very hard at that.”

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shop at Yes! because MOM’s Organic Market is more acces-sible to where he lives.

“[Yes!] is just down Route 1, but it’s not even bikeable,” he said. “Most students don’t even have a car.”

Yes! is only about 2 miles from the campus, and the Shuttle-UM Hyattsville bus has a stop at the market. Still, university students make up less than 5 percent of Yes!’s customer base, even though the store o�ers a 10 percent dis-count for them, Garcia said.

So when Garcia began working at the store a few months ago, she was eager to spread the word to her friends.

When she visited the store for the first time “on a whim,” she said she had a blast shopping and chatting with a cashier.

“That kind of turned into us talking about why students don’t shop there anymore,” Garcia said. “I couldn’t believe it because if I had known this was here, I would’ve been shopping there for the past two years.”

Yes!, which opened in Hyatts-ville in 2011, sells its organic food in a brick building with a green awning on the corner of a tree-lined Route 1 stretch, down the street from Busboys and Poets.

Inside, sunny yellow walls, the scent of herbs, upbeat songs and racks of brightly colored produce welcome customers.

All of the market’s products are natural and have no preservatives or genetically modified organisms, store manager Dennis Pick said. The store caters to vegetarians, vegans and people with gluten or dairy allergies. Its o�erings include fresh produce, sushi, cheeses, wines, natural oils, and organic co�ee from around the world.

A wall of bulk bins displays everything from gingersnap and coconut-almond-flavored granola to dark chocolate-cov-ered raisins, yogurt pretzels, raw, Hawaiian-flavored carob (“chunks of energy”) and organic dates rolled in coconut. Patrons can also fill their own jars of spices and herbs and buy organic body care products, including soaps, lotions, shampoos and even a Brazilian henna cream.

Garcia loves the Guinness-flavored ice cream, the sushi (She and her roommate can’t

go in without buying an entire package), the aloe vera water and the grind-your-own almond or peanut butter section. Her three housemates make shopping at the market a sort of family trip, she said.

Because the store promotes local farmers and businesses, including a vegan bakery down the street, Garcia said, it’s a more sustainable option for students in a time when people are seri-ously considering their impact on the environment.

In a corner of the market near the wines and cheeses, Yes! em-ployee Alex Robinson was setting up a small sampling counter of some of the market’s frozen foods: ready-to-serve Punjab eggplant, a Tasty Bite meal — one of several locally sourced Indian meals that have less salt than any other pre-packaged entrees, Robinson said.

He hasn’t served samples to many University of Maryland students, he said.

“I think a lot of people don’t go [to Yes!] because it’s more ex-pensive,” Robinson said. “But the quality more than compensates.”

At Yes!, a box of strawberries costs $4.49 and a single mango costs $2.49. Sweet potatoes are $2.49 a pound and 5 ounces of baby spinach costs $3.99. Some chocolate costs $3.99 or $4.29 — just for a single bar.

At the Downtown College Park Farmers Market on Sundays, vendors often o�er lower prices: Some sell apples for $2.79 a pound, kale for $2.50 a bag and a dozen eggs for $3.50.

But Yes! o�ers many addition-al products, and Garcia said she’s found several products, such as Babybel cheese, at lower prices than at traditional supermarkets.

The food is delicious, too, Rob-inson said. Once, he gave his room-mate — whom he called more of a “Little Caesars kind of guy” — a sloppy joe with Punjab eggplant rather than traditional toppings. He loved it and didn’t even notice the di�erence, Robinson said.

And Garcia raved about the store’s events, such as its weekly wine tastings and superb cus-tomer service.

“I saw this woman thinking of buying a bag of chips, and she was like, ‘Yeah, I’m not really sure if I’d like them,’” Garcia said. “So the manager, Andy, he just ripped the bag open and was like, ‘Well, you shouldn’t have to buy it if you’ve never tasted it before.’”

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“They’re the sweetest people, and that makes me excited to work for them and excited about what they’re doing,” Garcia said.

Since she began meeting with marketing representatives of both Stamp Student Union and Campus Recreation Services, Garcia hopes to begin tabling in Stamp and promoting Yes! on social media. She’s spoken with three resident assistants so far and hopes to hold T-shirt ra¬es, food tastings and infor-mational sessions about healthy meals college students can make in their dorms or apartments.

“One idea I have is to make eggs in the microwave — that’s a healthy option, especially if you don’t have time to swing by the diner,” Garcia said.

La Plata Hall resident assis-tant William Achukwu, a senior government and politics major, said when he heard of Robin-son’s plans, he was immediate-ly on board. About a year ago, Achukwu decided to change his own diet to become healthier.

“Even before what you look like on the exterior — you obvi-ously lose weight — [it’s] just the way you feel,” he said. “You feel a lot better eating the right kinds of food, as opposed to getting, what, 50 grams of fat from one Chick-fil-A sandwich.”

Achukwu said he thought the students in his residence hall would love learning about easily microwavable healthy meals.

College students would “eat it up, no pun intended,” he said.

Before the end of the semes-ter, Garcia hopes to gain o�cial approval as a campus sponsor. During finals week, she hopes stu-dents might stop by Yes! to grab something “fresh and healthy” instead of “heavens knows what” they eat as study snacks.

But if students just visit the store and see what it’s like, Garcia said she feels like her job will be done.

“It’s local, it’s organic, it’s sustainable, and I feel like for their cause, they’re also really committed to it,” she said. “Maybe I’m di�erent from most people that I have fun when I go grocery shopping, but it is kind of a di�erent experience entirely from your typical shopping. It’s not really a chore there; like, I enjoy myself the entire time I spend there.”

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yes! ORGANIC MARKET in Hyattsville o�ers a range of naturally sourced, vegan, ethnic and unusual foods. Junior Rosemary Garcia, who works at the store, hopes to raise awareness at this university about the bene�ts of healthy, organic food. james levin/for the diamondback

“THE TRACK RECORD THAT WE’VE BEEN ON FOR TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS NOW IS NOT A GOOD ONE. IT’S NOT ONE THAT WOULD LEAD TO OPTIMISM.”

STENY HOYER (D-Md.)House of Representatives minority whip

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debate, was only a response to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that claimed 26 lives, ignoring the broader problem of gun violence in the streets, which claim only one or two victims at a time.

“But for this action in Con-necticut, we wouldn’t be talking about this because at the end of the day … [the bill] doesn’t do anything to a�ect change in the inner cities,” Wilson said.

Wilson suggested an amend-ment on the House floor that would make it a felony to carry an unregistered handgun that could carry one to five years in prison. It did not pass on a vote.

“Maybe we could scare some folks straight; maybe we could get folks to stop being so brazen if they knew they might go to jail for a while,” Wilson said.

While Del. Patrick McDonough (R-Baltimore and Harford) and Wilson stand on two different ends of the political spectrum, they agreed the bill does little to attack the problem of inner-city gun violence. During the floor debate, McDonough said the biggest driver of gun violence is a “revolving door” prison system

vehicles, which include un-manned aircraft systems, must test their projects inside. With test site designation, they could bring their research to a more re-alistic environment.

“It allows students and faculty outside,” said Pat O’Shea, the university’s vice president and chief research o�cer. “In these areas, they would be able to try these things out and work on more sophisticated and inter-esting projects.”

The military’s use of drones has recently drawn heavy criti-cism in this country and abroad. In March, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) spent nearly 13 hours filibuster-ing the nomination of CIA Di-rector John Brennanbecause of concerns about the domestic use of drones.

U.S. drone strikes against al-Qaida began in 2002. Today, the military regularly uses drones for surveillance and offensive purposes in the Middle East and Africa — most notably in Paki-stan and Yemen.

According to ProPublica, an

independent nonprofit news-room, the military was respon-sible for an estimated 86 strikes in Pakistan and Yemen in 2012; the strikes have been responsible for an estimated 95 percent of targeted killings since 9/11. The tactics have also killed hundreds of low-level militants, according to McClatchy, despite the ad-ministration’s assurance that drones are only authorized to target senior group leaders.

However, the FAA test site would have no military use whatsoever, O’Shea said. Un-manned aircraft systems could have a significant impact on ci-vilian life, he added, from pilot-ing cargo planes to carrying out search and rescue missions.

Civilian drones are not armed, and like military drones, they can come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

The university system is one of 50 applicants from 37 states, and test site designation would allow for research operations at Cris-field Airport in Somerset County and at the St. Mary’s County Re-gional Airport. While neither are very close to College Park, both sites would open up opportuni-ties for engineering faculty and

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students, O’Shea said.Those impacts are a draw for

sophomore aerospace engineer-ing major Michael Benavides, who said the designation would have enormous potential benefits for the department.

“I’m not into research [on unmanned aircraft systems],” Benavides said. “But I know a lot of the graduate students work with the systems.”

While designation wouldn’t promise federal funding, setting up the infrastructure for a test site would come at a very low cost, Scassero said. There is also an expectation that private companies would bring in money for research purposes, he said.

Since much of the infrastruc-ture is already in place, including an agreement to use restricted U.S. Navy airspace, Scassero is confident in the state’s chances at gaining the designation.

“I would put us in the category of frontrunners,” he said. “Other university system partners have been doing research, and we already have partnerships with federal agencies. I think that puts us in a very strong position.”

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Students launch custom drawstring bags businessSwagbagz sold from Univ. View

By Sam SchmiederFor The Diamondback

It started out as two friends lounging in their University View apartment trying to think up ways to make a little extra money.

“We were brainstorming one day,” said Matt Mullen, a Montgomery College student. “We were thinking about what hasn’t been done before, and we thought of customizable draw-string bags.”

Mullen and senior business major Dan Hughes then teamed up with their other room-mates to launch Swagbagz — a company that makes custom-er-designed drawstring bags. Using a printing press in Mullen and senior English major Dave Stroh’s kitchen, the group has produced and sold between 50 and 60 bags since March.

“You can add your own design or picture, pick your own bag color and even pick your own

string color,” senior history major Mike Kozier said.

Starting in September, the students researched to find the cheapest websites where they could purchase bulk orders of inexpensive, high-quality bags as well as strings and a print-ing press. They had meetings at least once a week to look at samples from various bulk sellers and decide orders by figuring out which colors they thought would sell best. Then, the group spread the word about its business to friends and family through Facebook and word of mouth, inviting them to send in orders and design ideas through the Web.

“We thought it would be a good idea to have a product made for students by students,” Stroh said. “It’s nice to know where your money is going.”

The first step in making a Swagbag, Kozier said, is to print the desired picture on a special printing paper, which will later transfer the design onto the bag. The students put a pillow inside of the bag so the

picture doesn’t bleed through, and they place the picture on the bag before putting it in the press at 275 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 seconds.

They then take the bag out to let it cool for a couple of minutes. The last step is to pull in the drawstrings.

“It took some trial and error to make the perfect Swagbag,” Kozier said. “But it got simple once we figured it out.”

Junior psychology major Emily Ajluni, a friend of the company’s creators, said she was more than happy to support the business. She purchased a red bag with Rasta-colored draw-strings, and she plans to buy her mom a Baltimore Orioles-themed bag for Mother’s Day.

“I like the idea,” Ajluni said. “It was only $10, and I got to customize them, so now my friend and I have matching bags.”

The Swagbagz founders set up a table at Relay for Life on April 20, where they sold two bag varieties and donated some of their profits to the American Cancer Society. Both designs

featured Maryland flags — one was a standard flag printed on a black bag, and the other featured a purple and white Maryland flag on a pink bag.

“The reception at Relay was good,” Kozier said. “People liked the idea of Maryland flags on their bags.”

Though she hasn’t pur-

chased a bag yet, freshman Annie Beachley said she liked the pink bags.

“I think they’re really cool looking,” said Beachley, an early childhood education major. “I see them around, and I would definitely buy one.”

While the company may face competition from other

retailers selling drawstring bags, Stroh said Swagbagz fills a unique niche.

“Everyone on campus does have at least one drawstring bag, but few people have one that is customized,” Stroh said. “We give them the ability to do that.”

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student business swagbagz launched in March and has already �lled between 50 and 60 orders for custom drawstring bags, members said. Customers can choose from bags and drawstrings in a rainbow of colors to create a custom Swagbag for $10. photo courtesy of swagbagz

“Terrorism is not the kind of thing that you really think is going to happen to you personally,” said Ronnie Bethke, a junior English and journalism major. “But if I’m coming home later at night, and I’m getting crime alerts, I feel like there’s definitely a higher prob-ability of that.”

This concern about terrorism arises not necessarily because the world is more violent now than it used to be, but rather because the nature of terrorism has changed, Adamczyk said.

“If we were doing this survey in the 1970s, there was all that do-mestic terrorism from the Weather Underground and the Vietnam war protests,” Adamczyk said. “People kind of grew up with domestic ter-rorism, and then they forgot about it for while. And then 9/11 happened, and the context has changed.”

Since 9/11, the entire American consciousness around terrorism has shifted, said Daniella Fridl, START research director.

“Everyone was stunned because they didn’t believe prior to that that the U.S. could be as vulnerable as it was,” she said.

Since then, the scope of national security has changed dramatically, and the federal government is more

involved in people’s lives, she said. Long lines for security checkpoints at airports and increased security at large public events are constant reminders of the threat of terror-ism, she said.

Forgotten fears about terrorism can easily be triggered triggered by a major event, said Arielle Gurin, a sophomore journalism major.

“I feel like when things happen in the world that relate to terrorism, it puts it more in my mind,” she said. “Ever since the Boston bombing I’ve been thinking like, ‘What would happen if that car blew up or if that building blew up?’ After seeing images of it, I think, ‘Could it realistically happen?’”

But young people can be more resilient to the concept of terror-ism because they are more educated about its implications, Fridl said. This university’s global terrorism minor has 93 students, and for the 2012-13 academic year, START has 100 interns from this university.

“Students have the ability to get involved and become more active,” she said. “That helps counter some of those fears one would have if they were just complacent.”

As terrorism awareness rises, the ability for the general public to become more involved is increas-ing. The federal government asks the public to remain aware and do its part through media campaigns, Fridl said.

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d.c. on a dime: Eastern marketIf you are experiencing a dining hall points crunch or struggling to �nd a gift for Mother’s Day, pay attention, this post

might just save your semester. Most college students haven’t heard of the Eastern Market, a weekend morning event, located near Capitol Hill, which features more than a hundred vendors. The market has been operating for so long that it is a designated national landmark.

Stop by the produce stands to stock up on food to hold you over until summer or grab a one of a kind breakfast — I’ve heard that the blueberry pancakes in particular are amazing. Make sure to do some shopping as well and grab a present for mom before the panic of �nals week sets in. There are plenty of stands specializing in jewelry, handcrafts, pottery, photography and more.

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that enables loosened sentencing and allows criminals back onto the streets.

He added that the General Assembly has “year after year after year” referred to many of the legislative body’s criminal justice measures, such as the recent repeal of the death penalty, as “criminal advocacy bills.”

“You can not stand up and look someone in the eye who’s a victim of crime and say, ‘I am fighting for public safety in Baltimore city and elsewhere,’ while at the same time you are pushing the green button to put those same criminals in that revolving door,” McDonough said.

McDonough said that of the 195 gun deaths in the state in 2012, 70 percent were by individuals on early release, and 40 percent were by people on early release with a record of gun violence.

The legislature can ban guns, but it won’t curb inner-city gun deaths, Wilson said. The bill is a feel-good measure, one that places a bandage over the problem without treating the source.

“There’s nothing in this bill that I see that’s going to get guns o� the streets; it’s just going to make After the Boston bombings, the

public played an enormous role in assisting authorities by providing photos and videos taken at the event on personal devices such as iPhones and video cameras, Fridl said. These contributions were essential to the search for suspects Tamerlan and Dzhohkar Tsarnaev, Fridl said.

Just before the recent bomb-ings, START put out a follow-up survey to continue its research but decided to pull the research-ers from the field after the attack to avoid appearing insensitive, Adamczyk said. Surveyors will go back out after an appropriate amount of time, and Adamczyk said she expects to see a large spike in concern over terrorism.

“People really bonded with Boston in the same way they bonded with the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.,” she said.

Part of the public’s fear could come from a sense of helplessness and lack of confidence that terrorism will ever be completely stopped, Fridl added. Though a solution for terror-ism may not be in sight, counterter-rorism researchers are hard at work searching for an answer, she said.

“I don’t think there’s a magic formula,” she said, “but I think what we are doing in terms of increasing research and educating the public are steps in the right direction.”

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you feel better,” Wilson said.However, there was a lot of

support for the comprehen-sive bill’s measures to keep the mentally ill, and those more predisposed to gun violence, away from purchasing firearms. McDonough gave the legislature “three cheers” for these e�orts, despite his strong opposition to the rest of the bill.

“If that was a standalone bill on the mental health issue, I would support it,” McDonough said. “It’s a move in the right direction.”

But mental health advocacy groups were wary of conflating mental health with gun violence.

Julio Abreu, senior director of public policy and advocacy at Mental Health America, said the real solutions gets buried in a discussion that focuses solely on barring the mentally ill from obtaining firearms.

“People with mental illness are no more likely to commit violent acts than people without mental illnesses,” Abreu said in an interview with The Dia-mondback in March.

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Pokémon morality

MARC PRIESTERH

owever dim the job market may seem for seniors preparing to enter the always ominous post-

graduation world, it’s well known the picture is far bleaker for those with no more than a high school diploma. As of October 2011, unemployment rates were about triple for working-age adults with no more than a high school education what they were for college graduates with bachelor’s degrees. Rehashing these statistics could easily lead to one simple solu-tion: States should work to ensure more students graduate from college, which will in turn signifi cantly boost employment statistics.

To help turn college from a dream into a reality for state residents without degrees, lawmakers passed the College and Career Readiness and College Completion Act of 2013 in March. Among other initiatives, the bill, set to go into e� ect in July, would help students who have completed some college — so-called near-com-pleters — return to school.

The state has until Dec. 1 to submit detailed plans for the incentive program and the marketing cam-paign, which will hopefully convince those without degrees to go back to school. While these plans remain in the development stages, we expect state lawmakers and university of-

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fi cials to collaborate and assess the best way to bring students back to school. For example, blended learning programs are already burgeoning — the new style of online teaching mixed with in-person lectures simply must be specifi cally tai-lored to address the needs of part-time and near-completer students.

As the Provost’s Commission on Blended and Online Education con-tinues to consider best practices for the future of blended learning at this university, it must prioritize learning based on efficient, targeted methods. If the state truly hopes to encourage a more competitive workforce to continue rebounding from the national recession, then simply putting more students into classrooms just won’t be enough. Or as Dewayne Matthews, policy and strategy vice president at the Lumina Foundation, told The Diamondback, “There’s in fact no way you could scale up the current system and its cost structure to get to these much higher levels of attainment.”

This rationale will be put to the test

in coming years, as the state expands its goal of increased degree attainment. In principle, it’s a necessary and value-added initiative for the state to pursue — by 2018, two-thirds of state jobs will require post-secondary education, ac-cording to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Nevertheless, while moving forward with these initiatives, education reform poli-cymakers and university o� cials should keep in mind that a college degree is only as valuable as the career for which it prepares you. Merely printing out more diplomas will not satisfy the demands of tomorrow’s job market. Workers need tangible and applicable skills — whether they come from a college degree or not.

State legislators have shown they are fully committed to the tried and true model of earning a degree to earn a living. By 2025, they hope to increase college degree attainment among working-age adults from 39.3 to 60 percent. Current projections have the state reaching 52 percent attainment by the 2025 deadline, which would no doubt disappoint lawmakers if they were to hold. Yet as o� cials continue to work toward increasing degree attainment, reaching somewhat arbitrary percent-age thresholds should not come at the expense of providing students with a quality product: enlightening education, the goal of every student.

A worthwhile diploma

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E� cient blended learning would help state lawmakers

reach their goal of greater college degree attainment.

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Wisdom is quite a fi ckle subject. As much as it can be present in our faces, we often view it as a fl eeting, ephem-eral concept. Ironically, wisdom is frequently cited as a consequence of aging and interacting with the world. However, wisdom is obtainable for even the most naive among us, and I can attest to that with a source that is candid in describing the most daunting challenges of life.

Of course, I am talking about Pokémon.

There is something worth notic-ing when our media sources having a meaningful impact on our personality. For some, the most precious means of knowledge came directly from parents, coaches, friends and teachers. While all of those people sincerely contributed to shaping who I am as a person, if I were to ignore Pokémon’s lessons of morality, it would be to the detriment of mankind.

One of the first lessons from the Pokémon series was the need to discard any remnants of blaming or fi nger-pointing. When Ash’s Metapod was stolen, Ash abandoned him at fi rst. Though Ash would eventually rescue him, Metapod’s displeasure with Ash taught him that self-ac-countability is imperative.

Ash had no one to blame but himself for his failure, and we can all benefi t from this conclusion. Too often, we take the easy route, redirecting criticism rather than using it as an opportunity for self-refl ection.

Pokémon also taught the importance of letting go. Humans form powerful bonds with one another, whether they are romantic or platonic. Regardless of the type, letting go of a signifi cant other can cause enormous amounts of dread — even if it’s a mutual break in the best interest of both partners.

Ash releasing his Butterfree o� ers the most heartbreakingly real portrayal of

this paradigm. Ash painfully released Butterfree into the wild so he could fi nd a mate and live free. This was terribly traumatic to Ash, as Butterfree was his first capture and both shared an in-timate fraternal bond. However, Ash rejected his sulking by instead looking to the sky with tears in his eyes and a golden smile across his face as he wished Butterfree all the luck in the world and jubilantly waved goodbye.

Ash showed that being a man is about looking out for the best interest of others and that letting go of those we love is OK.

Most importantly, Pokémon teaches that individual success is completely contingent on the support network you form with others around you. Many arrogantly believe their own merits are the only determining factor for success in life, whether that is gaining a job o� er, internship, academic success or social admiration.

Similar to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Pokémon legitimizes individualism by recognizing the elements that culti-vate our opportunities in life. It helps us understand the roots of our unique form of selfhood.

Ash knows that without Pikachu, he would lose 99 percent of his battles. Without Misty and Brock to give him a kick in the ass, he would have given up long ago. Without Gary’s conceited at-titude and cheerleading team, he would have no rival to drive him toward his goal of becoming a Pokémon master.

The journey to become a Pokémon master is an arduous undertaking. However, so are the dreams we wish to fulfi ll in life. And sure, for every battle won against a gym leader, there is a Gary around the corner to belittle you. Sure, there will always be a Team Rocket looking to rob you of the fruits of your labor. But no matter the bodily strain, mental exhaustion, time commitment or consequence, you must push to be the very best, like no one ever was.

Marc Priester is a sophomore economics and government and politics major. He can be reached at marcpriester@gmail.com.

Student Leaders at the University of Maryland Support a Strong U.S.-Israel relationship.”

As members of J Street U, we thrive on nuance and devote ourselves to break-ing down di� cult aspects of the con-versation about Israel and Palestine. So, signing the above statement for an advertisement that has run in The Diamondback raised a question many Jewish and non-Jewish students of our generation are struggling with: What does supporting a strong U.S.-Israel relationship actually mean?

At this university’s chapter of J Street U, we support Israel’s right to security. We support the Jewish people’s right to self-determination. We support the right of the Israeli people to feel skepti-cal of the peace process when Hamas threatens them with rocket fire. We unequivocally condemn all forms of terrorism that endanger Israeli civil-ians. We support the right of the Israeli government to strengthen its military with U.S.-funded defense systems such as Iron Dome — and we support its right to defend its borders.

But we also support America’s right to suggest, publicly and critically, a starting point for negotiations on the pre-1967 borders, with mutually agreed-upon land swaps — a policy supported by the U.S. government, the international community and Israeli moderates. In doing so, we support the right of the U.S. to criticize the 45-year-old occupation. We support the rights of the Palestinians who are evicted from their homes and forced to live in a state of brutal degradation. As President Obama stated so eloquently a few weeks ago, we support the right of the Palestinian people to live, as their Jewish neighbors must, as a “free people in their own land.”

The relationship between the U.S. and Israel is deeply complex. Its relatively short history is steeped in obligations, contradictions, tensions and proclama-

tions of undying love. It is defi ned by confrontations that always end with res-olute reiterations of unyielding support. But we must ask: support for what?

That question is what J Street was born to answer. Our commitment to Israel is not reducible to a blanket statement that risks neglecting vital components of Israel’s well-being — details that are painful and confus-ing. Support for the security of Israelis means support for a Jewish and demo-cratic Israel, complete with globally recognized borders. A strong U.S.-Is-rael relationship empowers Americans to advocate for Israel’s moral character, which is existentially challenged by a persistent denial of the rights and dig-nities of the Palestinian people.

J Street UMD leadership joined in the statement, “Student Leaders at the University of Maryland Support the U.S.-Israel relationship,” because, on the most fundamental level, we think the relationship must be strong to be healthy. The U.S. has taken the lead in helping Israel facilitate peace with its neighbors for decades, and with the complex and often unjust particulars of Israeli-Palestinian power dynamics, American leadership is as vital as ever. The Israeli-American partnership must be able to weather mutual criticism and confl icting demands while empowering the U.S. to stand up and make requests of its ally in the name of peace; the true test of any relationship comes in times of strain, when short-term interests feel confl icting.

Thus, only by supporting a truly strong U.S.-Israel relationship — based on an unbreakable bond of mutual respect, through which each party is empowered to tell hard truths to the other — can a secure and just Israeli future be achieved.

J Street UMD is a pro-Israel, pro-peace student movement. It can be reached at benjycannon@gmail.com.

Since January, I have conducted about 30 to 35 informational inter-views with professionals working in areas related to my career inter-ests. This process was undoubtedly time-consuming, and there was no guarantee of returns either, but it was still well worth it. Now, I have an offer for a full-time job in the niche space of energy consulting — an area of my interest — and an established network of connections to start out with when I enter the real world come June. If you are reading this column and haven’t started the process already, I’d like to share my experience and thoughts of why in-formational interviews are useful.

Before anything else, let’s go over the concept of an informational inter-view. Unlike conventional job inter-views, the roles are reversed in infor-mational interviews — the employer does the answering, and you are in the driver’s seat. You get to choose who to talk to (Just to be clear, this person has to agree, too.) what you want to talk about, what questions you want

to ask and how to steer the conversa-tion. No kidding.

Informational interviews serve three main purposes, the first of which is helping you learn about potential fi elds of interest in the professional world. Let me ask you a basic question: How do you learn about something — about anything, really? Do you reinvent the wheel every time you want to learn about something new? Or do you seek guidance from someone who has already been through the process? Most likely the latter, I hope. This is why we come to school to study under profes-sors, why we read books and why we seek mentorship.

Second, these interviews are also a subtle way of signaling your employ-ment interests to this person. What is nice about this process is that, by being subtle, you won’t likely put your contact in an awkward position by asking, “Hey, so I’m looking for a job, can you help me?” Instead, by asking thoughtful questions and showing your eager-ness to learn, you give your contact the chance to get to know you and assess your thinking abilities. So the next day, if someone at the o� ce asks him or her, “Hey we need to hire some new people. Can you give me some references for potential new hires?” your new business

contact is more likely to think of you fi rst. It is no surprise, therefore, that nearly 80 percent of the job market is hidden from job portals, ads and other impersonal tools of the human resourc-es industry. Hiring most often happens through internal networks, and getting face time with people inside the system will most defi nitely ease your entry.

And third, informational interviews will help expand your professional network, something that can be valu-able and quite self-evident as you step into the real world.

At a time when nearly 50 percent of our class could graduate without a stable job, as was the case for the na-tion’s graduates in 2011, you have to be different. Lots of people know about informational interviews, but not all are willing to go through the trouble. If you are a freshman, sophomore, junior or even a senior, you have enough time. Professionals out there are willing to help; they were once in your shoes and are more than happy to give back what they received. Be eager to learn, and make good attempts to reach out. It will be well worth it.

Anand Gupta is a junior environmental science and policy major. He can be reached at anandgupta92@gmail.com.

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I f you watch a n episode of Family Guy or American D a d! or wh ateve r ot he r s h o w s t h e M a c Fa r l a n e e m pi re d ra f t s up, no n e o f t h o s e e l e m e n t s a r e present. If his spirit lingers in every character, then all we can sense is a lazy, cocky, outdated knowledge of the world. Most of the jokes are tossed-off refer-ences to obvious pop culture targets. Look, there’s Kim Kardashian. And Mel Gibson. It’s as if MacFarlane’s writing process consists of going to the dentist, picking up a 2-year-old copy of Star Magazine and taking notes on badly behaving celebrities.

Two other animated shows that were a part of the same Fox syndication, King of the Hill and The Simpsons, are wildly different from Family Guy in their ability to capture the senti-ment of American suburbia without offending our ability to understand this humor as satire.

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thought they just needed to refocus. But as the team’s downward trend steepens, Tillman realized that its stag-nant performances aren’t anomalies.

“ W i t h u s e a r l y i n t h e season, we were putting up some big numbers,” Tillman said. “It was a little easier than we expected, so that’s something that we’ve had to adjust to.”

Scoring was certainly hard

to come by for the Terps on Friday night in a humbling loss to a Cavaliers team that hadn’t beaten a top-20 oppo-nent all year. It was character-istic of the season’s second-half struggles.

The Terps have been in this position before, though. They struggled down the stretch last season, losing two of their final four games before entering the NCAA tournament.

But once they reached na-tional postseason play, a re-energized Terps squad won t h re e s t ra i g h t ga m e s a n d reached the championship

game. One of the keys to that turnaround, Tillman said, was that the team learned where to turn in vital moments.

So now the Terps are hoping to figure out whom to rely on or what plays to call this season. And after a pattern of late-season swoons, they’re hoping to find a new identity.

“It’s where we’ve been the last couple years, where we’ve had a couple losses late,” Tillman said. “We’ve got to look at some things and maybe rede-fine who we are.”

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o�enseFrom PAGE 8

both Reed and converted closer Jake Stinnett threw complete games and the typically unreli-able o�ense provided several clutch hits.

“We’ve had a problem [all season] combining a good de-fensive and pitching perfor-mance with a good o�ensive

performance,” said Hagel, who scored the game’s only run in the eighth inning of Friday’s 1-0 victory over the Blue Devils. “On Sunday, to win the series, we did enough o�en-sively, and we did plenty de-fensively and on the mound.”

The victories over Duke also delivered Szefc’s first con-ference series victory as the Terps’ coach. ACC series wins aren’t easy to come by, either.

The team only won two series in league play under former coach Erik Bakich last season.

“We’re just trying to go out and have guys that play hard and try to be consistent every day,” Szefc said. “It’s nice, ob-viously, to have a conference series win. I hate the fact that we had to wait until late April to get one, but it’s better late than never.”

The Terps will have to con-tinue that success in their final two conference series to sneak into one of the top-eight spots in the standings and secure an ACC tournament berth. Szefc’s squad will likely have to sweep Clemson on the road this weekend and Boston College at home the following weekend to catch Miami or Virginia Tech, which are currently tied for seventh place.

But the Terps now have a self-confidence that has not existed for most of the season. And maybe that’s what they need to make a late-season run.

“Going down to Clemson after winning a series and feeling confident that we can do the same thing [we did to Duke] is huge for us,” Hagel said. “That’s going to give us an edge.”

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would have been a little bit of a di�erent game.”

Even when the Tar Heels were able to clear the ball, the Terps used solid help on defense to force errant shots. It seemed whenever a North Carolina player got close to the crease, defenders Melissa Diepold and Iliana Sanza were waiting in front.

“[Sanza] was huge for us as a leader defensively,” Reese said. “She was always on the ball,

sending people places. That was big for us.”

In a game full of slipping and sliding, it appeared the Terps were just a bit more de-termined to corral the medley of loose balls, owning a 29-19 advantage on ground balls. At one juncture, defender Megan Douty dove headfirst on the slippery turf in pursuit of a ground ball.

In her first ACC finals start, goalkeeper Kasey Howard was solid for the Terps. She didn’t make any spectacular saves, but the nine shots she did stop were crucial.

After Howard allowed nine goals and saved just two shots against Virginia on Friday, her stellar performance in the dif-ficult weather conditions was an encouraging sign as the Terps approach NCAA tour-nament play.

“It was pretty muddy in the crease,” Howard said. “For bounce shots, they kind of stuck down there, so just had to adjust a bit.”

While the Terps did put together a stellar defensive e�ort, they likely won’t be able to rely on just that as the na-tional tournament approach-

es. They will need to improve in the draw control game, which they have struggled with during the past month. Thanks to their defense, though, the Terps were able to make up for any deficiencies in the draw circle and capture yet another ACC crown.

“Probably the best game we’ve played all season de-fensively,” Reese said. “Having each other’s backs. If one of us didn’t go down there, there was somebody there to help defend Kasey.”

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over then-No. 25- and No. 31-ranked players.

“She really cared about the program,” Panova said after the team’s last home match nine days ago. “She really cared about all the girls.”

Van Berlo’s younger team-mates will now have time to improve their craft. And they will need to. According to the Tennis Recruiting Network, the Terps will welcome three new players to their squad when

school begins in the fall, includ-ing five-star recruit Kristina Hovsepyan from Danville, Calif.

Panova hopes the competi-tion for playing time will push the returning players to new heights.

That’s just one of many reasons Panova is excited about next season. After her first ex-perience as a collegiate coach, the 30-year-old believes the Terps are bound to improve.

“We made a good base,” Panova said. “We just want to get better from this year on.”

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defenseFrom PAGE 8

mid�elder john haus and the Terps have lost two of their past three games, including a 13-6 defeat to Virginia. photo courtesy of chuck liddy/theacc.com

right-hander jake stinnett and left-hander Jimmy Reed each threw complete games in the Terps’ �rst conference series win of the season over Duke. �le photo/the diamondback

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falling o� balanceMEN’S LACROSSE

attackman owen blye scored three goals against No. 4-seed Virginia in Friday’s ACC tournament semi�nal. No other Terp scored more than one goal as the No. 1-seed Terps fell, 13-6. photo courtesy of chuck liddy/theacc.com

After blistering start to open season, Terps can’t �nd dominant scorer, identity in late swoonBy Aaron KasinitzSta� writer

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Virginia had an idea of how it would attack the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team in key moments of Friday night’s ACC tournament semifinal. When there was a big pos-session, the Cavaliers turned to at-tackmen Mark Cockerton and Matt White to make a crucial play.

The duo delivered. Cockerton and White combined for seven goals and helped Virginia cruise to a 13-6 win over the No. 1-seed Terps.

The Terps, meanwhile, didn’t know whom to turn to in those situations. They had six players who have tallied at least 15 goals this season but none who had notched more than 20. Vir-ginia, however, boasted two domi-

nating presences in Cockerton and White, who have 49 and 29 goals, respectively, this season.

So as the Cavaliers pieced together a 7-0 run in the second half Friday, the Terps didn’t have a clear-cut re-sponse from a playmaker. The team would move the ball e�ciently, but it didn’t have a player aggressive enough to make the critical play and halt Virginia’s spurt.

As a result, the Terps su�ered their second loss in three games and scored fewer than 10 goals for the fifth time in six games.

Opposing coaches and pundits lauded the Terps’ exceptionally bal-anced attack earlier in the season. But with their recent struggles, the praise has faded.

Now it seems coach John Tillman

is in search of a go-to scorer. “We talked a little bit in the locker

room about kind of creating our own identity,” Tillman said, “and cleaning some things up.”

The Terps certainly didn’t know where to turn Friday. Attackman Owen Blye, who leads the Terps with 20 goals, notched a hat trick. One of his goals came on an extra-man opportunity, and another came in the game’s last 30 seconds — one of Blye’s few touches during the fourth quarter — after the result had long been determined.

During the Cavaliers’ string of seven straight goals, Blye was ine�ective and rarely penetrated the Virginia defense. And no other Terp, such as midfield-ers John Haus or Mike Chanenchuk, stepped up in that span, either. No other player tallied more than one goal Friday.

The lack of offense has left the Terps rather confused. They had an abundance of o�ensive opportunities through the first half of the season, but they couldn’t find a secondary option behind Blye in one of their biggest games.

“I don’t think there can be one single answer to that,” Blye said. “It’s a culmination of a lot of things.”

The Terps’ inability to clearly define an o�ensive identity may stem from their early success, Tillman said. The team averaged 16 goals per game during a blistering 6-0 start and won each game comfortably.

So when the Terps first began to struggle, they shrugged o� the issues. They were a balanced offense and

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BASEBALL

Series winadds ‘edge’ to TerpsTeam hosts local rivalTowson this afternoonBy Daniel PopperSta� writer

The Terrapins baseball team can now breathe a collective sigh of relief.

After seven straight series losses to open conference play, the Terps clinched their first ACC series victory of the season at Duke this weekend, pulling them to within a game of the ninth-place Blue Devils in the ACC standings.

Coach John Szefc said the series win capped o� the team’s best week of the season, which included three road vic-tories and only one loss in five games.

With the weekend’s strong showing, the Terps — who will face nonconfer-ence foe Towson today at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium — maintain hope of a postseason appearance. The top eight teams make the conference tourna-ment, which begins on May 22, and Szefc’s squad remains three games out of the coveted final spot, with two ACC series remaining.

While reaching the postseason is a goal for the Terps, their victory over Duke rep-resented something more important for the young team: newfound conviction.

“Whenever you get a conference series win, that’s definitely a big confidence boost,” said left-hander Jimmy Reed, who was named ACC Pitcher of the Week yesterday after his complete-game shutout on Friday. “You’re going to see that, I’m sure, through the entire team.”

The team features only three seniors on its roster — Reed, right fielder Jordan Hagel and catcher Jack Cleary. Without substantial experience both in the lineup and on the pitching sta�, the Terps have failed to put together complete perfor-mances game in and game out.

The Terps finally displayed their ca-pabilities over the weekend, though, as

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

defender iliana sanza and the Terps helped force North Carolina into committing 18 turnovers in Sunday’s ACC tournament �nal. photo courtesy of kaki pope/the daily tar heel

Defense stymies North CarolinaDespite draw control issues, Terps lock down Tar Heels in ACC finalBy Joshua NeedelmanSta� writer

CHAPEL HILL , N.C. — As the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team celebrated its fifth consecutive ACC Champion-ship on Fetzer Field on Sunday night, North Carolina coach Jenny Levy, midfielder Kara Cannizzaro and at-tacker Abbey Friend trudged into the press room at Carmichael Arena just a few hundred feet away.

The loss marked Cannizzaro and Levy’s fourth consecutive loss in the conference final to the Terps, while it was the third such defeat for Friend.

The familiarity between the two teams didn’t give her team any extra motivation, Levy said. The magnitude of the ACC tournament final should have been enough.

But in the rain-soaked champion-ship, the Terps’ defense was able to prevent the North Carolina offense from getting opportunities and clean shots. In the 12-8 victory, the Terps’ defense provided the separation the team needed for yet another confer-ence championship.

“We weren’t crossing. We weren’t getting into our o�ense,” an emotional Cannizzaro said, “We weren’t clear-ing the ball.”

Early on, the Tar Heels’ star seemed poised to consistently break the Terps’ defense like she did April 6 when she scored three goals in the Terps’ 14-13 win. Cannizzaro beat goalkeeper Kasey Howard with 10:38 left in the first half, and North Carolina took a 3-2 lead.

But in a nearly 25-minute stretch that spanned both halves, the Terps outscored

the Tar Heels, 10-1. North Carolina’s one-goal lead had evaporated, and the Terps had built a seemingly insurmount-able eight-goal margin late in the game.

“[The Tar Heels] are all good dodgers,” coach Cathy Reese said. “It was everybody working together down there [on defense].”

The Terps were lethal in the midfield, relentlessly trapping North Carolina, which committed 18 turnovers. The Tar Heels dominated the draw control game, controlling 68 percent of at-tempts, but on defense, they managed to clear just seven of 15 opportunities.

“That was certainly our Achilles’ heel today,” Levy said. “We usually are about 95 to 99 percent on clearing. If we had taken care of that, it probably

TENNIS | SEASON IN REVIEW

Building up the foundation

Panova’s presence in College Park provides stability for young Terps

By Phillip Suitts Sta� writer

After three tumultuous years, the Terrapins tennis team has finally found some stability. For the first time since 2010, the Terps’ coach is slated to return to College Park next season.

Daria Panova will come back to coach most of the same players, too. Many Terps have graduated or transferred after the past couple of seasons, but the team is expecting to bring back five of its six active players. They will also welcome back junior Welma Luus, who served as a volunteer assistant after a torn labrum in her right shoulder kept her sidelined all spring. In comparison, only two of the eight Terps listed on last season’s roster were still on the team this spring.

The Terps hope continuity will help the team improve on this sea-son’s 6-16 record. They su�ered an eight-game losing streak that covered more than a month of the season and only mustered one conference win.

After Luus’ injury during the fall, Panova was forced to recruit four players for the spring season just to have a complete roster. Five of the team’s players, including the four recruited during the winter, were freshmen.

“It was definitely not the season I was hoping for,” Panova said Thurs-

day after the squad’s final match. “We had more close matches that we could have won that we didn’t. But that’s what you would expect from a very young team.”

The Terps were 2-4 in matches decided by one point this year, which include conference defeats from Boston College and Wake Forest. If the Terps had won those matches, they would have reached their goal of securing three conference wins.

Still, the season had some posi-tives. The Terps beat a Duke squad, albeit a shorthanded one, for only the second time since 1998. They also sported a respectable 6-6 record at home. Even after losses, Panova would often praise the effort her players displayed and the improve-ments they made.

“We are making better decisions,” Panova said Thursday. “I can see it in their matches now.”

The ACC announced the season’s final highlight Wednesday. Vroni Van Berlo, who transferred to this uni-versity before last season, was one of 19 players to earn All-ACC honors.

The Dutch senior, currently ranked the No. 107 singles player in the nation, occupied the Terps’ No. 1 singles spot for every match of the spring slate and went 10-10 against the conference’s best players. She even earned victories

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