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Election season starts for SGATime Party challenges incumbent Go Party
please don’t stop the musicArchivists commemorate WMUC’s decades of strife, successes in upcoming exhibit
Death penalty’s uneven past lingers after repealUniv. study shows state’s racial, regional biases in punishmentBy Jim BachSenior sta� writer
The death penalty may be gone, but the discussion about criminal justice is far from over in Maryland.
Throughout the debate, critics of the death penalty were quick to point out the state’s history of racial bias when it comes to sentencing convicts to the punishment, noting some county jurisdictions were more lenient than others. But some experts said capital punishment wasn’t the problem — it was a culture of unfairness and incon-sistency that ran much deeper in the state’s penal system, and a policy repeal wasn’t going to fi x that.
University criminology professor Raymond Paternoster studied more than 6,000 state homicide cases, pulling together a picture of a state justice system that doled out punish-ment unevenly along racial lines.
The punishment was rarely used, with state judges sentencing 10 con-victed citizens to death since the pun-ishment’s reinstatement in 1978. The state executed only fi ve of those indi-viduals before the penalty’s repeal in March, but the trends Paternoster saw in the data were alarming. For example, homicide cases that involved a white victim were three times more likely to involve a death sentence than cases in which the victim was nonwhite.
Even more glaring was the discrep-ancy from county to county: One step
See repeal, Page 3
See ELECTION, Page 2
By Sandra MüllerSta� writer
Two SGA presidential hopefuls began vying for students’ support yesterday, leaving voters to choose between an incumbent candidate who hopes to continue lobbying for stu-dents in Annapolis and a challenger who plans to use technology to increase the student voice on the campus.
The Go Party, led by Student Gov-ernment Association President Sa-mantha Zwerling, plans to build on its work over the past two semesters by advocating for textbook affordabil-ity, increasing student participation in city council elections and further improving SGA’s allocation of the student activities fee. Challenger Noah Robinson of the Time Party, however, said he will gear his focus toward on-campus issues, such as dining plan and on-campus parking issues, through an interactive website that will allow students to voice their concerns.
“I have gained so many experiences and built so many relationships this year — I have just fi gured out how the university works,” Zwerling, a junior environmental science and policy major, said. “I don’t want to throw all of that away, but continue to advocate for students.”
“It’s time for a better campus,” said Robinson, a junior psychology major who was previously The Diamond-back’s relationship columnist. “All of our ideas are the next step of what hap-pened so far.”
Even before campaigning began, the two candidates clashed. Earlier in April,
University confi rms Len entering NBA draftLen, Turgeon will speak about decision todayBy Connor LetourneauSenior sta� writer
Terrapins men’s basketball center Alex Len will forgo his fi nal two years of eligibility and enter the NBA draft, the athletic department announced yesterday after several media outlets, including The Diamondback, reported the news Sunday.
Len and coach Mark Turgeon will address the media at 2:30 p.m. today to discuss the decision.
“I’m very grateful for the two years I’ve spent at Maryland and for everyone that has supported me during my time here,” Len said in a news release. “It’s been an honor to play here, and I’ve learned so much.”
Len is projected to go within the fi rst 14 picks in the June 27 draft, which will be held at Newark’s Prudential Center.
See LEN, Page 2
wmuc has championed college radio for more than 65 years. An exhibit this fall will highlight the station’s wild history and various struggles to stay alive. photos courtesy of
university archives
By Laura BlaseySenior sta� writer
The story of WMUC is one of resistance, resilience and revolution.
World War II, Vietnam and Apollo 1; Louis Arm-strong, Fats Domino and The Beatles — a microcosm of modern American history. And the university’s student-run radio station has been around to see it all.
In honor of the station’s 65th year under its present call letters, university archivists are assembling an exhibit on the station’s history. The exhibit, titled “Saving College Radio: WMUC Past, Present and Future,” will open in September in Hornbake Library’s Maryland Room and run through July 2014.
For project leader Laura Schnitker, it’s a look into See WMUC, Page 3
the past of the college radio station she’s come to love, both as an ethnomusicologist and as a station volunteer for the past eight years.
“I like the spirit of college radio. I like to hear stories about especially undergrad students who come to the university and maybe feel like they don’t quite fi t in for whatever reason,” she said. “And they fi nd WMUC is a very supportive community, and they feel comfortable there and are able to fi nd their own voice.”
To the students who have come and gone over WMUC’s airwaves, the station means everything. It’s not only been a second home but launched the careers of the likes of news anchor Connie Chung,
Blasts kill three, injure more than 100 MondayBy Jenny HottleSenior sta� writer
Garrett Gleason had been fol-lowing his mother’s progress in the Boston Marathon all Monday morning through text updates from the race’s website.
His mom, Marilee Gleason, crossed the fi nish line about seven minutes before an explosion, fol-lowed by another, shattered windows and knocked runners and spectators to the ground, killing at least three people and injuring more than 100. As soon as a friend alerted the senior music major of the blasts, he began dialing and learned a few minutes later his mom and dad were safe.
“But those five minutes of two failed calls toward them were terri- See BOSTON, Page 3
Boston bombing sparks fear among univ. students
fying,” said Gleason, whose parents were already driving out of the city when he reached them. “I know what happened with my mom was a coincidence, luck. She just squeezed through. I’m just so thankful. My concerns are going out to any runners who didn’t get to fi nish but also any marathon watchers and families who were injured by it or a¤ ected at all.”
Authorities did not know who or what was responsible for the incident as of Monday evening, President Obama said in a White House news conference, but o¥ cials would heighten security around the country “as necessary.”
“Make no mistake, we will get to the bottom of this, and we will fi nd out who did this. We’ll find out why they did this,” Obama said. “Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups will feel the full weight of justice.”
New York- and Washington-area police put additional o¥ cers on duty as a precau-tion, according to multiple reports. Prince George’s County Police and University Police have also increased surveillance, though University Police reported there were no threats to the campus or area.
O¥ cers found several other explosive devices near the marathon fi nish line, according to Associated Press reports.
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Two explosions near the Boston Marathon’s � nish line caused national shock and increased security measures. Some known details:
BY THE NUMBERS
Time into the marathon when the � rst bomb exploded at the � nish
Maryland residents who competed in Monday’s marathon*
47 Maryland runners who never � nished; they may have been pulled from the race*
Alex Len, Terrapins men’s basketball center, will enter the NBA draft, athletic department o� cials confirmed yesterday. file photo/the diamondback
448
*Numbers courtesy of Boston Athletic Association
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The sophomore is widely con-sidered a top-3 center — along with Kentucky’s Nerlens Noel and Indiana’s Cody Zeller — and will likely become the Terps’ fi rst lottery pick since Chris Wilcox went No. 8 overall to the Los Angeles Clippers in 2002.
“I’m very proud of Alex and am excited for what the future holds for him,” Turgeon said. “To see the progress he’s made on the court, in the classroom and socially has been a truly reward-ing experience.”
The 7-foot-1, 255-pound Ukrainian arrived in College Park before the 2011-12 season and sat out the Terps’ fi rst 10 games while the NCAA investigated his ties to a European pro team. Still unable to grasp the English language, Len felt lost on the court. When he received the ball in the post, Len said in September, he didn’t know whether to dribble, pass or shoot.
After struggling mightily with foul trouble during his final 18 games that season, Len fi nished an up-and-down rookie cam-paign with averages of six points and 5.4 rebounds.
He used those shortcomings to help motivate himself through an intense summer slate of workouts, weight lifting and language tutori-als. The 19-year-old added about 30 pounds of muscle, became fluent in English and expanded his arsenal of low-post moves.
Those improvements allowed Len to emerge as one of the ACC’s top big men this season. He de-livered strong showings against
elite talent, such as Noel and Duke’s Mason Plumlee, ultimately earning All-ACC defensive team honors and honorable mention all-conference. Len averaged 11.9 points and 7.8 rebounds per game and tallied a conference-high 78 blocks in the 2012-13 season.
“Alex has worked incred-ibly hard since he got here,” Turgeon said. “He has earned this opportunity.”
With Len and guard Pe’Shon Howard — who announced April 8 he is transferring — now gone, the Terps will enter the o� season with nine scholarship players. Three of those — rising sophomores Sha-quille Cleare and Charles Mitchell and incoming freshman Damonte Dodd — are post players.
“ We s h a re d so m e g rea t moments together,” Len said of his Terps teammates and coaches. “I’ve grown a lot, both on the court and o� the court, over the past two years, and I am looking forward to the next chapter of my life.”
Len had until today to enter while still retaining the right to withdraw his name from the draft. The fi nal date to declare eligibility for the 2013 NBA draft is April 28.
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Matt Arnstine — Zwerling’s former SGA communica-tions director who is now an adviser for the Time Party and was also a Diamondback columnist — accused the SGA via Twitter of promoting Zw-erling before campaigning officially began. The tweet resulted in a $500 fine for the Time Party from the SGA Elections Board, Robinson said. John Saltzman, head of the board, declined to o� er any additional details.
Robinson filed an appeal with the governance board April 7 but said he has not heard whether it was granted. While each campaign has $2,000 to spend, the Time Party must now operate with $1,500 unless the fine is alleviated.
Among the initiatives Zw-erling hopes to build upon is increasing mental health awareness on the campus.
Earlier in April, the univer-sity granted the health and counseling centers an addi-tional $5 million over the next 10 years to increase staff and improve services, but Zwerling said the money was “only the first step and doesn’t fix the whole problem.”
Zwerling hopes to build a website for mental health ser-vices to provide students with a centralized contact point.
Robinson, however, said he plans to build one centralized website that will provide various student services to make access-ing the SGA easier and give them opportunities to vote on issues presented in the Time Party’s platform. That way, Robinson said, representatives can pri-oritize issues and create a time line based on need.
ELECTIONFrom PAGE 1
“There is an overfl ow of in-formation, but it is not targeted to the students,” Robinson said. “We need to target our resourc-es to one platform.”
Both candidates’ cabinets would be made up of both SGA veterans and newcomers.
The Go Party features Josh Ratner, city council liaison, who is running for vice presi-dent of student a� airs; Andrew Aggabao for vice president of financial affairs; and Meenu Singh, RHA’s public relations and outreach officer, for vice president of academic a� airs.
Singh said many classes at the university do not appeal to various learning styles, and she hopes to improve the classroom experience so more students feel compelled to go to class.
“Why are students not going to the classes that they’re paying for?” Singh said. “The fact that we’ve remained so complacent about it is really
a testament to how much this needs to be addressed.”
The Time Party’s ticket in-cludes Cameron Ross, who has served on SGA’s fi nance com-mittee, for vice president of fi -nancial a� airs; Stephanie Graf, who served on SGA’s student affairs committee; and Jona-than Lee, who served RHA. Graf and Lee are running for vice president of academic affairs and vice president of student a� airs, respectively.
One of Graf’s main goals is to put together a list of student leaders — from both the SGA and other groups — so univer-sity leaders know exactly who to turn to before making im-pactful decisions. For example, the junior fi nance and market-ing major said, o¦ cials could have easily sought student voices before deciding to join the Big Ten.
terrapins men’s basketball center Alex Len will forgo his � nal two years of eligibility to enter the NBA draft, athletic department o� cials announced Monday. � le photo/the diamondback
“I’m very proud of alex and am excited for what the future holds for him ... to see the progress he’s made on the court, in the classroom and socially has been a truly rewarding experience.”
MARK TURGEONMen’s basketball head coach
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sports journalist Bonnie Bernstein and conservative pundit Mark Davis.
“There are a lot of people who really benefited from the radio station and will continue to support it for the rest of their lives,” said Steve Rudenstein, who worked for WMUC Sports between 2001 and 2005.
But for all the station has done for the students who embraced it, its existence is in jeopardy. The past decade has not been kind to WMUC, between funding crises and the controversial expansion of a larger Baltimore station in 2006 that threatened to take over WMUC’s 88.1 FM signal.
The exhibit, Schnitker said, aims to fulfill two goals. First, to pay tribute to the station’s legacy in music, sports and news. And second, to draw attention to the station as something worth saving for future students.
In a dusty room in Hornbake Library, manila folders are laid out on a table. Schnitker has filled them with photos, fl iers and newspaper clippings she’s been collecting with the help of her student assistants over the past seven months.
There are homemade fliers from the ’90s and yearbooks from the ’50s. There’s a T-shirt and a promotional Frisbee — even a press pass from the ’70s. And that’s not including the station’s collection of 1,500 audio reels that Schnitker and an assistant spent months digitizing.
One station alumnus scoured auction websites so he could purchase and donate the exact model of the recorder he would have used in the ’70s.
Every new piece discovered or donated by an alumnus fi lls a hole in the broader picture of a station’s rich, eclectic and scattered history.
“It’s a hidden gem on campus,” said alumnus CJ Holley, who worked for WMUC Sports until 2005.
The station sits on the third fl oor of the South Campus Dining Hall, across from The Diamondback’s newsroom, full of couches bleeding stu� ng and piles of old equipment in comfortable chaos. Paint on the walls is peeling, and corners are dusty.
“The place looks almost identical to the way it did back in the ’80s,” said Arthur Harrison, another alumnus who has spent time at the station intermittently since the ’70s.
But its battered appearance is part of its appeal. It’s clear that WMUC is one of the oldest college radio stations in the country and one of the few to boast a free-form format — DJs can broadcast as they wish.
It all began in 1937, when CBS donated radio equipment in an attempt to turn the university into a talent pool. That donation paved the way for students to set up The Old Line Network, the fi rst incarnation of a student radio station, in 1943. But campus radio had a rocky start fraught with fi nancial and logistical troubles.
The Old Line Network, which broadcast daily, was short-lived. The student sta¡ traded their broadcasting equipment for guns and military uniforms and shipped out to fi ght in World War II. With no one to run the station, it disbanded.
Students worked to raise more than $1,000 to re-establish the campus radio station during the 1947-48 school year. They took on the letters WMUC in 1948 when the FCC gave students’ fi rst choice of call letters, WUOM, to the University of Michigan.
WMUC’s fi rst foray in radio didn’t last long, either — it shut down after only three days of broadcast because of poor transmission, and students weren’t able to revive it until 1949.
The station moved many times over the years, occupying buildings that have since been demolished. At one point, in about 1951, DJs were broadcasting out of a basement bathroom in Calvert Hall, which was an all-male residence hall at the time, and female students had to fi nd ways to slip into the building undetected.
WMUC didn’t take up residence in its current location, tucked away above the South Campus Dining Hall, until 1974.
“What surprised me was how many
di¡ erent characters the station has em-bodied over the years, depending on the types of students who worked there,” Schnitker said.
Broadcasting six days a week, the stu-dents of the ’50s placed a heavy emphasis on live broadcasts, from sporting events to concerts. And in the ’60s, students who ran the station were set on professional careers. Broadcasts were held to high stan-dards and students sold ad space to local businesses to bring in revenue.
They also recorded several high-profi le interviews, including with astronaut Gus Grissom, who died in the Apollo 1 tragedy in 1967; Chubby Checker; Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons; Fats Domino; and Bill Cosby. Station DJs also set the world record for collegiate disc jockeying in 1975 after staying on air for 101 hours.
Schnitker said a station alumnus re-cently sent her an audio recording of a 1964 interview with The Beatles after its show at the Washington Coliseum, the band’s fi rst show in the United States. Four station DJs convinced John Lennon to read several WMUC promotional spots, which played for years afterwards. Those promos were some of the last The Beatles ever did; the band’s manager asked them to stop reading promos shortly after.
WMUC was always a progressive and unique place, alumni said, but in the ’70s, it began to embrace a more diverse crowd. Anne Edwards, a noted fi gure in TV jour-nalism and 1972 graduate, became the fi rst female station manager in 1971, and “Yes-ternow,” the fi rst program geared toward black students, premiered in 1972.
That decade was also when Davis, a conservative radio talk show host and columnist in Texas, got his start. Between 1975 and 1979, Davis was a reporter for WMUC News, where he was a fi rsthand witness to the 1978 state governor election, in which Harry Hughes unexpectedly de-feated Blair Lee in the Democratic primary.
“I was halfway through my journalism degree, thinking for all the world that my career would be print-related,” Davis said. “There was one thing that happened that was a big part of the state’s history, and I got to see it fi rsthand, and it made the journalism bug bite in me the way it never had before covering things in print.”
Davis also remembers how di� cult it was for the station to obtain an FM license. For fi ve years, the station bid for a license, and the FCC rejected it twice before grant-ing the students a license to broadcast on 88.1 FM.
The ’80s ushered in a different era. With an FM license also came a group of students with a fresh outlook, one The Washington Post at the time said gave “listeners and disc jockeys a chance to revel in the thoroughly bizarre.”
“They were interested in music that wasn’t being played on other commercial stations, nothing in the Top 40,” Schnit-ker said. “These were students that, sort of because of their eccentric musical tastes, thought they were outsiders to the mainstream.”
Harrison, a student in the ’70s, returned to the station frequently in the ’80s as an electronic musician. He would make his way to the third-fl oor station and sit with friends and acquaintances, playing an eerie-sounding electronic instrument called the theremin and listening to live performances in the station’s main room.
“Along with the chaos of the station comes an inherent freedom,” he said. “Radio was one of the few mediums by which you could reach the public.”
Into the ’90s, WMUC continued to play fringe artists, including a live per-formance from then-up-and-coming singer-songwriter Elliott Smith , who remains a cult icon.
There is some dispute about whether the Smith session took place in 1996 or 1997, but student-DJs made national headlines in 2011 when they unearthed the missing recording — eight years after Smith’s death — and a never-before-broadcast song. The ’90s also saw the launch of Third Rail Radio, the live-act show that’s been broadcasting since 1997.
Josh Madden, assistant director of
undergraduate programs in the journal-ism college, said he has fond memories of working at the station with Holley, now an ESPN.com editor, and Rudenstein, now di-rector of major gifts and athletic fundrais-ing at Rider University, in the early 2000s. Madden broadcast for WMUC Sports between 2002 and 2005, when WMUC Sports was beginning to stream online.
“There was always a rush when you’re at a game,” Madden said. “Myself as well as my peers always had the mentality that we would be watching the game anyway, so broadcasting the game and giving our own opinions and thoughts and analysis was something we all really treasured.”
WMUC had agreements with several university sports teams, and student jour-nalists traveled with the teams to games across the country.
“We went on some great trips,” said Rudenstein, who added WMUC influ-enced his decision to enroll at the univer-sity. “I remember going to Jacksonville [Fla.] to the Gator Bowl my junior year, and my senior year, Maryland was in the NIT fi nal four, and we went up to Madison Square Garden.”
The AM stream died out in 1999, but it was soon replaced with what alumni said was the biggest change to the station since it received an FM license: WMUC Digital, an online station, premiered in 2008.
Keeping it alive hasn’t been easy.“I’ve seen the station go through cycles
of being almost in a state of neglect and coming back to life by students who come in and see it as something worth investing their time in,” Schnitker said.
One of the worst crises was a serious funding withdrawal two years ago. The station’s Student Government Association funding was cut in half, so WMUC was looking at shutting down, Schnitker said.
Senior international business major and former business manager Phil Mulliken described a power struggle and a tense atmosphere between old and new staff that also threatened the station.
“The old station staff and the new station sta¡ were fragmented; they didn’t really trust each other very much,” Mul-liken said. “Nobody really had perspective of the station as a whole.”
With a concerted effort, WMUC re-gained its footing. There were donations and events to get the station exposure, including an agreement with the Wash-ington Nationals in which a portion of the ticket proceeds went to the station. Even Rivers Cuomo, the lead singer of alt rock band Weezer, tweeted his support for the station.
“It’s been a couple years, and we’re still struggling,” said station manager Lealin Queen, a senior English major. “Money’s always an issue. It’s almost expected that we’re going to come into some hard times.”
But WMUC has always persevered. Even when the station is strapped for cash, the community behind it refuses to let it die.
“We’re one of the only free-form college stations left … continuing that tradition is just a really big thing for us,” Mulliken said. “There’s a lot of history here, and I think it needs to be preserved.”
Station supporters are confident the debut of the new exhibit will signal a new chapter for WMUC and college radio. With the old recordings and vintage scripts comes a new hope that WMUC will indeed be able to continue writing its history for much more than 70 years.
“So far, the Nazis are the only thing that has kept WMUC from broadcast-ing,” Queen said.
Schnitker said that in addition to the exhibit, archivists hope to hold a benefi t concert and symposium on college radio. The station also has plans to host a concert with other local college radio stations and spread the WMUC name.
“Even though it’s very di¡ erent, and everyone is of a very di¡ erent generation, the job is exactly the same: to provide a place for people who are 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 to come in and have the bug bite,” Davis said. “To actually do it so you can close your eyes and imagine yourself doing it for money, doing it for a living.”
To mark WMUC’s 65th year, the University Archives will unveil an exhibit in the fall that aims to pay tribute to the campus radio station’s legacy and gather support to help it stave o� its � nancial troubles. Current and former WMUC volunteers said the station is as much a training ground for students as a second home. � le photo /the diamondback
WMUCFrom PAGE 1
Aurora Borealis stops short of CP skies
In a � ashback to March’s Snowquester, TerpWeather creator Jordan Tessler had to break some disappointing news to his Twitter followers Saturday evening.
Students had been gazing longingly at the night sky hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the most rare and unpredictable weather phenomena — Aurora Borealis, or the northern lights. But by about 9:30 p.m., it was clear the lights would not be visible as far south as Maryland, as scientists had predicted.
As sophomore bioengineering major Charlie Liu commented on a post on TerpWeather’s Facebook page, “the state of Maryland is the epitome of let downs.”
For more of Madeleine List’s post, check out The Diamondback’s news blog, Campus Drive, at diamondbackonline.com.
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Police reported a third explosion at John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum about an hour later, but preliminary investigations indicated it appeared to be an unrelated fire, Boston police tweeted.
When the explosions hit shortly before 3 p.m., Gleason’s parents were picking up his mother’s medal about a quarter mile away from the fi nish line. They didn’t have time to text or call their friends and family as they tried to get to safety, he said.
“Their concerns, I’m sure, were more about getting out of there and then getting in touch with every-one to let us know they were safe,” Gleason said.
The 26.2-mile race is among the oldest annual marathons in the world. It is one of the city’s biggest annual events, with more than 27,000 people from around the world participating in this year’s marathon.
Images of blood on the streets and red cups scattered across water sta-tions shocked senior Rosemary Staro-bin, who has volunteered at mara-thons and has cheered on her mother at past events. Several members of her mother’s running group safely fi nished the Boston event, she said.
“[A marathon] is a milestone in your life; it’s a big deal,” the education and mathematics major said. “Everyone is there cheering on strangers. It’s nothing but a positive place. It hurt me that someone would do this.”
“To target people running in a mar-athon is just horrible,” Starobin added.
BOSTONFrom PAGE 1
death penalty supporters, including state Attorney General Douglas Gansler (top) and state Senate President Mike Miller (bottom), argued against the state’s capital punishment repeal. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
over the county border could have a signifi cant impact on whether pros-ecutors pursued the death penalty, regardless of whether the suspect was black or white.
People who committed a death penalty-eligible homicide in Bal-timore County were 26 times more likely to receive a sentence of capital punishment than those in Baltimore City, Paternoster said.
Repealing the penalty was a step in the right direction, Paternoster added, as it set “a bad example in terms of taking a human life,” but only scratched the surface of the state’s discrimination issues — state legislators need more pervasive measures such as presenting case facts in a racially neutral light, to curb racial and geographic disparities, he said.
Fairness aside, the death penalty was an important tool for state legislators, said Del. Mike Smigiel (R-Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne’s). It served
less as a penalty and more as a bargain-ing chip for prosecutors to ensure the most violent criminals stayed behind bars for life.
With the death penalty serving as the maximum sentence, life in prison without parole was an attractive plea bargain for defendants. But with a new maximum sentence of life in prison, plea deals could give violent criminals parole and the opportunity to walk free again.
“E¡ ectively there is no death penalty in Maryland,” Smigiel said. “I think [re-pealing the penalty] could cause much more harm than it will ever alleviate.”
State Attorney General Douglas Gansler said the same issues will still arise with or without capital punish-ment, and the focus of the conversation needs to shift.
“It seems like we put an inordinate amount of focus on that one part of the criminal law section,” Gansler said. “If there truly are all these injustices that are put forward, then we ought to be looking at the criminal justice system as a whole.”
repealFrom PAGE 1
“Their concerns, I’m sure, were more about getting out of there and then getting in touch with everyone to let us know they were safe.”
GARRETT GLEASONStudent and son of Boston Marathon runner
demonstrated their final products, I could see certain trends emerge that perhaps explained why some of the entrepreneurs were more successful than others. In the larger scheme of things, these trends could also explain the difference between working hard and working smart.
That Sunday evening, only one product received a truly emphatic response from the judges (who also happened to be investors): They offered to put their money in the company right then and there.
That product was an app designed for Google Glass, the hi-tech hard-ware slated to roll out perhaps as early as the end of this year. The idea behind this app is to provide a plat-form to connect Google Glass users (who literally put on spectacles and use them as a smartphone, except
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VIEW Unlike the Iron Lady, modern politicians have forgotten what it takes to lead.
WILL DYESS
Margaret Thatcher’s death made headlines last week as the world remembered the late British prime minister’s unquestionable legacy in the pages of history.
Not only was she the U.K.’s longest-tenured prime minister of the 20th century, but she is the only woman to have held the po-sition to date. She hails from what could be described as the fi eld of classical liberalism — an ideology of free markets, small government and financial discipline. Many of her efforts were put toward curbing government expenditure, and although the merits of this policy can be debated, a recent report by The Economist shows Britain fared better in terms of GDP per capita growth than other leading countries.
Meanwhile, across the pond, former President Ronald Reagan was pioneering what would later be known as “Reaganom-ics,” doing his part to reshape the United State’s conservative party. I am not one to pass judg-ment on either as politicians, as many of us were not alive to know the true political atmo-sphere of the day, but, from what I gather, we are in drastically dif-ferent times.
Fast-forward 20-some years, and we are making history in our own right.
The latest election was cer-tainly memorable for me, as it was the first of many ballots I will cast. And it was historic, in that President Obama secured his second term.
We face a very different politi-cal atmosphere today than that of the 1980s. One immutable fact that warrants repeating though is: We do live in a democracy, and our elected officials are, in fact, elected by us.
Some things have certainly changed, though. The debt, wars, a financial crisis and a strati-fied political atmosphere that is proving incapable of dealing with any of it, are just a few ex-
amples of this change. The partisanship that has
manifested in recent years is broken. Now, within each party, Democrat and Republican, there lay new extremes: the tea party and the Occupiers. The far right is waiting for someone to end the Fed, while the far left feels as though the blame for their woes rests with the top 1 percent of earners. As we mature and ex-ercise our right to participate in this democracy, I simply wish to air a tale of caution.
Aside from the corporate lobbying — doing well to keep the status quo — the biggest headwind to getting things done in Washington is a delusional public. The country suffers from a “Fix the problem, but don’t affect my life” mentality.
For a politician, whose inter-est is to keep his job, this means telling the public exactly what it wants to hear to get re-elected, and when that turns out to be politically infeasible, do nothing about it. For one to come out on a platform that said what actually needed to happen would almost certainly mean political suicide. Our generation faces the unique challenge of coping with mis-information. The Internet now allows anyone to be a pundit and any meme to be a factual deter-minant of an ideology.
I strongly urge you to mini-mize your political exposure on social media. The power politi-cians have over us is because we often forego facts for rhetoric. This past election, I was amazed to find an incredible lack of factual information among my peers and no shortage of rheto-ric as the basis for their choices. We need to elect officials on the merits of their proposals, but in order to do so we need to be able to distinguish fact from rhetoric.
W i l l D y e s s i s a j u n i o r economics major. He can be reached at [email protected].
In my eyes, Margaret Thatcher was the most devilish politician who wasn’t named Ronald Reagan. Her idiosyncratic notion of laissez-faire economics com-pletely remolded the British Conserva-tive Party as an anti-labor and anti-poor monstrosity. She safeguarded corporate exploitation and perniciously dismantled the welfare state with no remorse for human su� ering. If the world never has to endure the malicious wrath of another Margaret Thatcher, I will rest easy.
One more thing: I respect the Iron Lady more than I respect most Ameri-can politicians.
Why? Thatcher actually stood up for her own personal concepts of justice and governance. Thatcherism may be the political opposite of my views, but when Britain was reeling from massive hard-ship — causing a generation of young people to feel disenfranchised and “lost” while her male counterparts bumbled around like morons — she ascertained political power and instituted reform she believed would save the nation without reservation or concern of dissent.
Every time I watch cable news or scan The Wall Street Journal, I’m disgusted by the hypocrisy, ineptitude and foolish-ness American politicians demonstrate. These politicians seem more interested in gaming the system than revolution-izing it. While stoically orating menial talking points ad nauseam, their chief worry isn’t you or me, it’s projecting a facade of perfection.
It’s unclear how we’ve devolved from the days of political giants like Robert Kennedy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Maybe it’s the omnipotent presence of special interest groups deforming the politicians’ identities with money. Maybe it’s political correctness constricting the discourse. With leaders quaking in fear of o� ending others, it’s safer to regurgitate the same stale lines, rather than fi ercely uttering controversial yet awe-inspiring knowledge. Maybe our ignorance has induced us to fall for these cheap tricks.
No one knows where the great leaders went, but they are dearly missed. Wash-ington is hideously littered with an over-abundance of “politicians” but very few “leaders.” A politician is only fascinated with endorsing positions that are em-pirically popular. For example, it is no
MARC PRIESTER
I was in Washington last weekend attending a three-day entrepre-neurship blitzkrieg of sorts. Aspir-ing entrepreneurs huddled together, chalked out ideas and built basic products based on their ideas — all in one weekend.
To give you a few examples of some of the products hammered out: Someone built a smartphone app to help consumers buy wines; another entrepreneur built an online market-place to digitize the banner adver-tising industry; curiously, someone also programmed an entirely new alternative to Minecraft.
As the pool of 17 entrepreneurs
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coincidence so many politicians began supporting same-sex marriage recently, since it has gained majority approval.
In regard to campaign commer-cials, the constant barrage of politi-cians being “pro” education, women, freedom, America, etc. is grotesquely repetitive. Who the hell doesn’t support these things?
Where is the honor in all of this?Politicians are concerned with
winning elections, which have prin-cipally devolved into glorifi ed prom king or queen popularity contests. We as a society must reject these politicians and return sovereignty to the leaders.
Leaders embody action and conquer with their resilience, savvy and apti-tude. Lyndon B. Johnson was notorious for using the “Johnson Treatment,” his unique version of debating with unco-operative legislators. The treatment consisted of rapidly bombarding the opposing party with statistics and impassioned arguments in a menac-ing fashion, leaving a psychologically scarred congressman submissive to Johnson’s will.
Was he controversial and conten-tious? Certainly. Did he alienate and infuriate? The Democrats permanently lost their Southern majority as a con-sequence of his policies. However, Johnson was responsible for a record-low percentage of Americans under the poverty line, the invention of Medicare and Medicaid and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It’s futile to deny the e¥ cacy of his leadership.
Our nation desperately craves revi-talized ideas from leaders, not the same tired ideas of the past. New leaders such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren seem determined to embrace the task — but this is not enough. Until leaders, rather than politicians, mesmerize our nation, the same miserable cycle of me-diocrity will perpetuate.
The Iron Lady is emphatically not my idol. But without an iota of doubt, she was a leader who deserved her title. Rest in peace.
Marc Priester is a sophomore economics and government and politics major. He can be reached at [email protected].
VIEW We live in drastically di� erent times and need new, pragmatic leadership.
Former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher’s polarizing legacy was rehashed
after her death on April 8. Is her style of leadership worth replicating today?
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that they are all hands-free, run on voice command and are right in front of the users’ eyes) with experts from all around the world.
This is the scenario the founders of the app used in their final demo: Your car broke down in the middle of the road, and you don’t want to call a towing company. So you put your Google Glass on, go to this app and then visually demonstrate your problem to a connected expert on the other side, and voila — your problem is solved.
Sure, there were many loopholes in the idea, but it was received suc-cessfully. In a sense, these guys were working on a commercial-scale project ahead of the curve, which is what made the judges salivate with wagging checkbooks in their hands.
So what’s the point? The first
thing that came to my mind was that while developing mobile apps, which is what everybody else did that weekend, is cool, it’s an over-heated market and in a sense already passe. There are countless engineers working on building upon existing mobile apps. On the other hand, it is the truly cutting-edge ideas that attract money almost instantly. In all likelihood, developing apps for Google Glass will be passe in another five years, and something more cut-ting-edge will command premium.
And that’s where the whole issue of working hard versus smart comes into question. Clearly the guys working on building the application
for Google Glass were working smart. But why don’t many other intelli-gent people choose to work ahead of the curve to multiply their gains? Clearly there seems to be a trade-off. The more cutting-edge the idea, the riskier the proposition. And in risky propositions, you get all or nothing. When further developing something that is already established, spectacu-lar success is beyond reach, but you are more or less guaranteed stable returns. Where do you fit into the equation? Think about it.
Anand Gupta is a junior environmen-tal science and policy major. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Those looking for growth on Fall Out Boy’s latest, Save Rock and Roll, are in for a disappointment. With nearly five years since their previ-ous album, 2008’s middling Folie a Deu x — a brea k that i ncluded a very public temporary hiatus, a ha nd f u l of fa i led solo a lbu ms (Here’s look i ng at you, Pat r ick Stump.) and a generally terrible young adult novel (Pete Wentz’s Gray) — Fall Out Boy has inevitably grown older, but the band hasn’t grown up. In fact, it has regressed.
Gone is the hooky, angsty emo vibe that propelled Fall Out Boy to fame. In its place is something less interesting, perhaps even ju-venile. Contrary to its lofty title (Way to keep ex pectations low, guys!), Save Rock and Roll trades in the band’s melodic pop-punk for sugary dance music and star ca meos (Foxes! Big Sea n! Elton Joh n, for some reason!). I n l ieu of the snarky gen ius of “Dance, Dance,” the band has refashioned itself into yet another latter-day Maroon 5, all shimmering synths and generic, shout-along choruses aimed directly for maximum Top 40 radio airplay.
Save Rock and Roll a i ms to be a nt hem ic, a nd on t h at level, it
succeeds — most of the repetitive, “Oh!”-heavy hooks will be stuck in your head immediately after first listen. But all this shouty bombast gets old quickly. It’s an album that’s nothing but candy, and after a few tracks, the listener is left desper-ately looking for something — any-thing — of substance to dig into.
Take the album’s lyrics. While Fall Out Boy once thrived on clever
wordplay and frantically verbose hooks, Save Rock and Roll runs the gamut from insipid (“I’m not gonna go home alone/ Oh, where did the pa r ty go?”) to head-scratch i ng (“I’m gon n a ch a nge you, l i ke a remix/ Then I’ll raise you, like a phoenix” — really?). T he g uests seem to be phoning it in, too: Big Sean’s lazy, ambling verse on “The Mighty Fall” (Really guys, you’re
just setti ng you rselves up w ith these titles.) feels like it took all of 20 seconds to throw out.
Even the tracks that work feel calculated and derivative, shame-lessly aping anything that has re-cently passed for a h it. “You ng Volcanoes” is catchy, but it never becomes a ny t h i ng more t h a n a strummy, clappy “Hey, Soul Sister” knock-off. Elsewhere, “Just One
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Rather than a comeback album t hat rea f f i rms t he ba nd’s elder statesmen status, Save Rock and Roll feels l i ke the worst k i nd of cheap, achingly inessential cash-in — a desperate and rushed bid to stay relevant and justify the group’s forthcoming stadium tour. T his isn’t Green Day’s American Idiot, it’s Good Charlotte’s Good Morning Revival (remember Good Morning Revival? I didn’t think so).
I’ll let Stump put it in his own word s, a s he g rowl s on “ R at A Tat” (fa r a nd away t he a lbu m’s best track, despite the presence of Courtney Love): “Are you ready for another bad poem?/ One more off-key anthem?” It’s a refreshing moment of self-awareness and an actual sign of life on an album that mostly trades in soul for slick pro-duction design and empty noise.
“Remember me as I was, not as I am,” Stump cries. Unfortunately, that’s advice worth following.
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save rock and roll heads in a di� erent direction than Fall Out Boy’s previous albums, with songs that are more reminiscent of Train, One Direction and Adele. Rather than relying on its own creativity, Fall Out Boy has also brought in a wide range of collaborators, including Elton John and Courtney Love. photo courtesy of lostinthesound.com
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in the more relaxed environ-ment of the spring game.
“It was just a play we threw in there, and it worked,” said Reid, who also rushed for 135 yards. “I just got the ball in my hands, and I threw it.”
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Last October, kicker Brad Craddock laid on his back on the Byrd Stadium turf clutch-ing his face mask. His poten-tial game-winning field goal attempt against N.C. State had just smacked off the left upright, and the Terps had fallen short in a game in which they lost two quarterbacks to season-ending injuries.
It was a notable moment in an inconsistent freshman campaign for Craddock, who was playing his first season of American football after growing up in Adelaide, Aus-tralia. He made 10-of-16 field goals and 23-of-25 extra-point attempts. Walk-on kicker Brendan Magistro also had op-portunities, making his lone field goal attempt and hitting 3-of-3 extra points.
Both kickers now have a year of experience, so it’d be reason-able to expect improved play. But in Friday’s game, there were mixed results.
Craddock made two field goals from 24 and 40 yards, but a third attempt was botched after a miscommunication. Long snapper Greg Parcher snapped the ball to holder Michael Tart, who wasn’t ex-pecting it. He bobbled the snap before falling on the ball, causing a heated Craddock to rip off his helmet and stomp over to the sideline.
“[Tart] didn’t look at the
play clock,” Edsall said. “In the game, I would’ve been on the sideline calling timeout because I wouldn’t have let it get down there.”
Magistro was 1-of-2 on extra- point attempts, pushing a second-half attempt wide right. Linebacker Avery Thompson blocked Magistro’s potential game-winner as time expired. The ball came o� of Magistro’s foot low, and Thompson, who delayed before breaking through a hole, was able to cause it to drop to the end-zone turf.
“Those are teaching moments we’ll go through and go over,” Edsall said.
LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
Edsall announced following Friday’s game that the Terps no longer have team captains. Instead, he instituted a leader-ship council of 10 players — one from each position group — whom their position coaches recommended. The Terps will still have weekly captains for games, but the overall lead-ership of the team falls to the leadership council.
The 10 players are quarter-back C.J. Brown, Reid, Diggs, tight end Dave Stinebaugh, of-fensive lineman Sal Conaboy, defensive lineman Darius Kilgo, outside linebacker Yannik Cud-joe-Virgil, inside linebacker Cole Farrand, defensive back Jeremiah Johnson and Parcher.
“It puts much more on your head when you make a deci-sion,” Diggs said. “You got to watch what’s coming out of your mouth and know who’s watch-ing you. You’re not anymore living for yourself, but you’re living for your teammates. You got to lead by example, and I accept the responsibility and what comes with it.”
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Szefc said. “It’s important to have that guy back.”
Despite missing extended time, Hagel, who hit 3-for-13 with two walks and a run scored in the Terps’ three-game set against Miami this weekend, remains among the team leaders in numerous sta-tistical categories.
He ranks third in stolen bases (10) and is tied for fourth in doubles (7), fifth in runs scored (18), seventh in hits (24) and fifth in games played (33). He made several pinch running and de-fensive replacement appearances while his thumb was still healing.
“It was exciting to get back,” Hagel said after Sunday’s 7-2 win over the Hurricanes. “Today was a good team win. I don’t have to worry about myself. I’d rather win a game than worry about my own stats. We still have stu� to work on, but this was a good sign and a start of something good.”
Hagel’s greatest value, though, is his leadership. He is one of only three seniors on the roster and the only fourth-year position player besides Cleary — who has started 22 games at catcher this season —
consistently in the lineup. “Our team is just more com-
plete,” Hagel said. “It’s a confi-dence thing. We have more con-fidence with me in the lineup.”
T h e Fa i r f i e l d , C o n n . , n a t ive i s n ’t 1 0 0 p e rce n t healthy, though. His thumb isn’t fully healed, so when he swings and misses, Hagel still feels a shooting pain down the right side of his left hand, but it’s manageable.
And with infielder Kyle Convissar still day to day with a twisted knee he suf-fered sliding into a base on Saturday, Szefc needs Hagel to perform this week.
Luckily for the first-year
coach, Hagel’s competitive drive will keep him on the field no matter what kind of pain he’s feeling. He won’t let a broken thumb stop his attempt to lead the Terps to the pro-gram’s first ACC tournament appearance since 2005.
“Obviously, making the tournament is the goal, and we strive to do that,” Hagel said on Sunday. “But we’re really looking at the short term. We’re looking at Tuesday. We’ve built a record that’s a decent record still by winning midweek games and taking care of business.”
from catching the ball.The sophomore attackman
struggled to find room to ma-neuver and was only able to attempt two shots all game. Even when Carlson did get a quality look at the net in the second quarter, Johns Hopkins goal-keeper Pierce Bassett snatched up his only shot on goal.
“We put some short sticks down on Carlson and forced them to take him out of the game,” Pietramala said. “They put [attackman Dave Goodwin]
in because they wanted more of a ball carrier, and we did a good job on him, too.”
The Terps needed to turn to Goodwin, a freshman, because Carlson wasn’t very effective without room to work in the middle of the field, and coach John Tillman wanted to replace him with a better perimeter player.
Goodwin has shown progress, and the Terps’ coaching sta� was comfortable putting him in the game, but he couldn’t match Carlson’s o�ensive firepower.
“We thought [Goodwin] could give us a bit more of a presence below the goal line,” Tillman said. “We were hoping he could give us a little bit of a spark after halftime.”
That didn’t happen. Nobody could give the Terps a spark Saturday.
With Johns Hopkins effec-tively shutting down Cooper and Carlson, Tillman’s team would have needed a potent shooting display from its midfielders to find any semblance of o�ensive
success. The starting midfield-ers, though, combined to net just three of 12 shots on goal.
That type of performance seemed to be exactly what Pi-etramala hoped for. He wasn’t going to let Cooper or Carlson beat his Blue Jays, and his defense allowed the duo to take only one shot on goal com-bined all game long as the Terps turned in their worst o�ensive performance of the season.
So maybe for the rest of the season, opposing coaches can scout the Terps — who slipped to No. 4 in the national rank-ings yesterday — and not be as daunted as Pietramala was. Maybe the Blue Jays figured out the blueprint for slowing down one of the nation’s most potent scoring attacks.
“We put a new defense in this week, and I thought [the players] adapted to it,” Pietra-mala said. “It’s nice to see it all come together.”
Right �elder jordan hagel hit 3-for-13 against Miami. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
RAMSFrom PAGE 8
to earn significant minutes early in her career.
“It kind of seems familiar with the injuries we faced at Maryland,” Hawkins said. “I feel really great about it and I’m looking forward to putting in time, putting [in] the hard work, putting myself in a position to be successful.”
Hawkins posted the best statistical performance of her four years in College Park this
past season, averaging 18 points and 9.7 rebounds per game. She finished the regular season as the ACC’s scoring leader, and notched 17 double-doubles through the NCAA tournament.
With injuries to guards L a u r i n M i n cy a n d B re n e Moseley decimating the Terps’ backcourt, Hawkins helped shoulder the o�ensive load and improved her scoring average by six points. She scored a ca-reer-high 33 points at Loyola in November and 30 against Clemson in February.
Hawkins earned First Team All-ACC honors as the Terps finished the regular season second in the ACC and ad-vanced to the Sweet 16 before falling to eventual national champion Connecticut.
Now it’s a new journey for Hawkins, who said Phoenix was the farthest west she’d ever been.
“All I can say is dreams come true,” Hawkins said. “Hard work and dedication takes you a long way.”
HAWKINSFrom PAGE 8
Kicker Brendan Magistro missed an extra-point attempt Friday. christian jenkins/the diamondback
DEFENSEFrom PAGE 8
By Aaron KasinitzSta� writer
Johns Hopkins coach Dave Pietramala grew concerned while watching Terra-pins men’s lacrosse game tape last week.
The then-No. 1 Terps had so many o�ensive playmakers that the 13th-year coach and associate head coach Bill Dwan couldn’t devise a plan to contain them all. So he said his then-No. 15 Blue Jays had to “pick their poison” on Saturday and focus on defending just a few specific players.
The squad decided to key on the Terps’ two leading goal-scorers — attackmen Kevin Cooper and Jay Carlson. Pietramala assigned All-American defender Tucker Durkin the task of guarding Cooper and chose to send plenty of help in the middle of the field to disrupt Carlson.
The plan worked better than Pietra-mala could have hoped. His team held the Terps to their lowest scoring total of the season and kept Cooper and Carlson without a goal in a 7-4 Johns Hopkins victory.
“We knew what [the Terps] were going to do,” Durkin said after the game. “I think our game plan fit it very well.”
The decision to put Durkin on Cooper wasn’t easy, though. Terps attackman Owen Blye scored four goals at Johns Hopkins in the rivals’ regular-season meeting last year, and the Blue Jays didn’t want to let the senior hurt them again.
But Pietramala had confidence that defender Jack Reilly could keep Blye from a repeat performance and that Durkin would be better suited guarding Cooper, who led the Terps in goals and assists coming into the game.
“We felt like we needed a bigger, stronger, more physical defender on [Blye],” Pietramala said. “Jack gives us that.”
Reilly held Blye to one goal, while Cooper notched just one assist. In fact, Durkin kept the Terps’ leading scorer from attempting a single shot on goal.
Blye and Cooper’s struggles likely
had a negative impact on Carlson, too. The two senior attackmen often carry the ball and feed Carlson near the goal, but on Saturday, the pair struggled to beat their respective defenders, giving the Blue Jays a chance to send extra help in the middle to keep Carlson
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL | WNBA DRAFT
Forward Tianna Hawkins poses with WNBA President Laurel Richie at last night’s 2013 WNBA draft in Bristol,Conn. The Seattle Storm selected the former Terps star with the sixth overall pick. photo courtesy of the wnba
Hawkins selected 6thin 2013 WNBA draftSeattle Storm pick former Terps forwardBy Daniel GallenSenior sta� writer
In four years, Tianna Hawkins de-veloped from the 133rd-ranked player in the class of 2009 into an All-Amer-ica Honorable Mention selection.
It was a lengthy development for the Terrapins women’s basketball forward, who couldn’t make it through a full practice her fresh-man year but eventually became one of the nation’s top rebounders and post players.
Hawkins took the next step in her rise last night. The Seattle Storm selected the 6-foot-3 Clinton native
with the sixth pick in the WNBA draft in Bristol, Conn.
“It was like, ‘Oh my goodness, I made it,’” Hawkins said less than an hour after being drafted. “‘I’ve made it.’”
Hawkins joins a team that went 16-18 in 2012, finished fourth in the Western Conference and lost in the opening round of the WNBA playo�s. The Storm, however, will be without star guard Sue Bird and center Lauren Jackson in 2013 as they recover from injuries.
It’s an opportunity for Hawkins
FOOTBALL | NOTEBOOK
Edsall: Don’t expect more trick playsCraddock, Magistro still uneven; Terps form leadership councilBy Daniel GallenSenior sta� writer
While quarterbacks Ricardo Young and Dustin Dailey played inconsis-tently in the Terrapins football team’s Red-White spring game, a running back made the most immediate impact through the air Friday night.
In the third quarter, Albert Reid took a hando� from Dailey and started running to the right side of the of-fensive line. But he pulled up before reaching the line of scrimmage and lobbed a pass to Red team wide receiver Daniel Adams, who corralled the ball and dragged defensive back Isaac Goins into the end zone. Earlier, the White team unsuccessfully tried the same
play with wide receiver Stefon Diggs throwing a pass near the end zone.
Such plays won’t become main-stays in coach Randy Edsall’s playbook come fall.
“I allowed them to do some things with trick plays,” Edsall said. “That was something they put in. That’s not something that’ll be in our arsenal for the season. That was for the fans.”
Reid said the spring game was the first time the Terps had run any sort of pass play involving the running backs. He had never thrown a pass in a high school game, so he’s not expecting to put the ball in the air much next season.
It was just for entertainment value Wide Receiver Daniel Adams catches a touchdown passfrom running back Albert Reid on a trick play during Friday’sRed-White spring game. christian jenkins/the diamondback
MEN’S LACROSSE
Attackmen Kevin Cooper (above) and Jay Carlson were the focal points of Johns Hopkins’ defense on Saturday,and they struggled in the 7-4 loss. Cooper had an assist, but neither player scored a goal. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
Picking their poisonFocus on Terps’ Cooper,
Carlson pays dividends for Johns Hopkins’ defense
Hagel makes strong impression in returnRight fielder healthy after missing 16 gameswith broken thumb; will play vs. VCU tonightBy Daniel PopperSta� writer
Miami right fielder Chantz Mack was threatening to break a scoreless tie in the sixth inning of Friday’s eventual 13-inning thriller against the Terra-pins baseball team at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium. The speedy senior was on second base with two outs, itching to score the game’s first run.
Then he got his chance. Cleanup hitter Alex San Juan delivered a line-drive single to right field, and coach Jim Morris waved Mack around third base. It appeared Miami would take a crucial 1-0 lead in a pitchers’ duel that featured limited base runners and fewer scoring chances.
But Terps right fielder Jordan Hagel had a di�erent idea.
The senior fielded the ball on the move, crow-hopped and threw a bulls-eye on three bounces to catcher Jack Cleary at home plate. Cleary didn’t even have to move his glove as the throw beat Mack by two steps and saved the run.
The Terps would go on to drop the game, 1-0, in 13 innings, but Hagel still left a positive impression during his first start in nearly a month. Coach John Szefc — who will take his team to face nonconference foe Vir-ginia Commonwealth in Richmond, Va., today — missed Hagel’s presence in the outfield while the senior sat for 16 games after breaking his thumb against Florida State on March 15.
“He’s a runner, and he helps us do the things that we’re supposed to do,”
BASEBALL
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