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SPORTS LATE TURNOVER COSTS TERPS Men’s lacrosse fell to Notre Dame in the first round of the ACC tournament after committing a turnover in the game’s final minute P. 8 DIVERSIONS HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KICKSTARTER It’s Kickstarter’s fifth birthday, and students are using the crowdfunding platform and others to finance art projects and new initiatives P. 6 (2787) | UMD SCHOOL OF MUSIC Appalachian Spring UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SUNDAY, MAY 4 . 4PM $30/$10 STUDENT DIAMONDBACKONLINE.COM @thedbk TheDiamondback ISSUE NO. 106, OUR 104 TH YEAR OF PUBLICATION Submit tips, comments and inquiries to the news desk at [email protected] Scan the QR Code to download our mobile app MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2014 The University of Maryland’s Independent Student Newspaper Missing UMUC student found dead in car Friday STUdent labor action project members protest for measures to combat student debt, including support for a tuition freeze and public access to the university’s Capital One contract. photo courtesy of stephanie gaither By Jenny Hottle @JennyHottle Senior staff writer A female University of Maryland University College student was found dead inside a car Friday afternoon in Greenbelt. Greenbelt City Police said Saturday they found Emilia Arabelly Ignacio, 28, of Greenbelt, with stab wounds to her torso inside a red 2007 Nissan Altima, according to WUSA-TV. Relatives reported Ignacio missing Wednesday after they were unable to reach her. Family members said they last saw her Tuesday morning as she was on her way to work, according to WJLA-TV. Police obtained an arrest warrant for her boyfriend, 34-year-old Juan Miguel Roman, in connection with her death. He faces charges of first- and second-degree murder. Ignacio was set to graduate in May with a degree in legal studies. The mother of two children, a 1-year-old son and an 11-year-old daughter, wanted to become a lawyer and offer legal aid to immigrant communities, according to WJLA-TV. [email protected] Teaching center’s June construction celebrated Supporters gather for Maryland Day ceremony By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow Staff writer Developers, donors and support- ers of the upcoming Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center gathered Saturday to celebrate the groundbreaking of the building. After a series of speeches at a private reception the morning of Maryland Day, a select group of sup- porters put the commemorative first dig in a container of dirt to symbolize the construction of the new building that will hold 2,000 students. “Because of its unique design, it will transform the way students learn and faculty teach,” Vice President of University Relations Peter Weiler said at the reception. Construction will end December 2016. The new building will feature classrooms that promote collab- orative learning and interaction with modern teaching technology. Student group calls for better univ financial transparency Friday rally identifies private bank contract as potential debt cause By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Staff writer More than a dozen students at- tempted to rally the support of uni- versity administrators and their peers Friday to combat student debt. The campus chapter of economic justice advocacy group Student Labor Action Project called on university President Wallace Loh to support a three-year tuition freeze within the University System of Maryland and to make public the university’s contract with Capital One Financial Corpora- tion. Starting at about 11 a.m., the stu- dents chanted and held signs in front See RALLY, Page 3 of the Main Administration Building, planning to deliver a petition to Loh. The demand for a halt on tuition hikes was a response to the state General Assembly’s decision to keep tuition increases at 3 percent for the fifth consecutive year. The group aims to garner Loh’s support to influence a plea deal, said Chris Bangert-Drowns, a freshman bio- chemistry major and SLAP member. “In the U.S., college affordability is a joke,” Bangert-Drowns said. “And we want to change that.” The group also wants the uni- versity to release a copy of its con- tract with Capital One to ensure the company uses honest practices when handling student loans. The Government Accountability Office released a report in February showing that 11 percent of colleges and universities nationwide offered project officials celebrate the launch of the St. John Center project at a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony Saturday. jeremy snow/for the diamondback See center, Page 3 MARYLAND DAY CELEBRATES SWEET 16 The university celebrated its 16th annual Maryland Day on Saturday, drawing tens of thousands of people to the campus. Attendees could fish for terrapin toys in the Omicron Delta Kappa fountain (above), make paper rockets (bottom left) and help break the record for the world’s largest hand drum ensemble (bottom right), among hundreds of activities and events. sung-min kim/the diamondback james levin/the diamondback rachel george/the diamondback Preserving the past for the future By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Staff writer More than 80 students were met yesterday afternoon with a timeline of posters hung on a black canvas. The last poster in the line read, “We cannot change the past, instead we must use it to change the future. Never forget.” Last night marked the start of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remem- brance Day, which began at sundown and ends at sundown today. The uni- versity’s Jewish Student Union held a Holocaust Vigil featuring silence, prayer and candles from noon to 2 p.m. in Stamp Student Union. See holocaust, Page 2 JAKE ARONSON, a sophomore engineering major, lights a candle at a Holocaust remembrance vigil in Stamp yesterday. sung-min kim/the diamondback students debit and prepaid card service agreements with financial institutions as well as loan with- drawal options. But concerns exist over student access to no-fee ATMs, higher card fees for college cards versus credit union cards and possible conflicts of interest for schools in their dealings with banks. SLAP members have alleged that many financial institutions engage in suspicious behavior, such as Greenbelt police find student stabbed

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SPORTSLATE TURNOVER COSTS TERPS Men’s lacrosse fell to Notre Dame in the fi rst round of the ACC tournament after committing a turnover in the game’s fi nal minute P. 8

DIVERSIONSHAPPY BIRTHDAY,KICKSTARTERIt’s Kickstarter’s fi fth birthday, and students are using the crowdfunding platform and others to fi nance art projects and new initiatives P. 6

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Missing UMUC student found dead in car Friday

STUdent labor action project members protest for measures to combat student debt, including support for a tuition freeze and public access to the university’s Capital One contract. photo courtesy of stephanie gaither

By Jenny Hottle@JennyHottleSenior sta� writer

A female University of Maryland University College student was found dead inside a car Friday afternoon in Greenbelt.

Greenbelt City Police said Saturday they found Emilia Arabelly Ignacio, 28, of Greenbelt, with stab wounds to her torso inside a red 2007 Nissan Altima, according to WUSA-TV.

Relatives reported Ignacio missing Wednesday after they were unable to reach her. Family members said they last saw her Tuesday morning as she was on her way to work, according to WJLA-TV.

Police obtained an arrest warrant for her boyfriend, 34-year-old Juan Miguel Roman, in connection with her death. He faces charges of fi rst- and second-degree murder.

Ignacio was set to graduate in May with a degree in legal studies. The mother of two children, a 1-year-old son and an 11-year-old daughter, wanted to become a lawyer and o� er legal aid to immigrant communities, according to WJLA-TV.

[email protected]

Teaching center’s June construction celebratedSupporters gather for Maryland Day ceremony

By Jeremy Snow@JeremyM_SnowSta� writer

Developers, donors and support-ers of the upcoming Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center gathered Saturday to celebrate the groundbreaking of the building.

After a series of speeches at a private reception the morning of Maryland Day, a select group of sup-porters put the commemorative fi rst dig in a container of dirt to symbolize the construction of the new building that will hold 2,000 students.

“Because of its unique design, it will transform the way students learn and faculty teach,” Vice President of University Relations Peter Weiler said at the reception.

Construction will end December 2016. The new building will feature classrooms that promote collab-orative learning and interaction with modern teaching technology.

Student group calls for better univ financial transparencyFriday rally identifi es private bank contract as potential debt causeBy Erin Serpico@erin_serpicoSta� writer

More than a dozen students at-tempted to rally the support of uni-versity administrators and their peers Friday to combat student debt.

The campus chapter of economic justice advocacy group Student Labor Action Project called on university President Wallace Loh to support a three-year tuition freeze within the University System of Maryland and to make public the university’s contract with Capital One Financial Corpora-tion. Starting at about 11 a.m., the stu-dents chanted and held signs in front See RALLY, Page 3

of the Main Administration Building, planning to deliver a petition to Loh.

The demand for a halt on tuition hikes was a response to the state General Assembly’s decision to keep tuition increases at 3 percent for the fifth consecutive year. The group aims to garner Loh’s support to influence a plea deal, said Chris Bangert-Drowns, a freshman bio-chemistry major and SLAP member.

“In the U.S., college a� ordability is a joke,” Bangert-Drowns said. “And we want to change that.”

The group also wants the uni-versity to release a copy of its con-tract with Capital One to ensure the company uses honest practices when handling student loans.

The Government Accountability O¡ ce released a report in February showing that 11 percent of colleges and universities nationwide o� ered

project o� cials celebrate the launch of the St. John Center project at a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony Saturday. jeremy snow/for the diamondback

See center, Page 3

MARYLAND DAY CELEBRATES SWEET 16

The university celebrated its 16th annual Maryland Day on Saturday, drawing tens of thousands

of people to the campus. Attendees could fi sh for terrapin toys in the Omicron Delta Kappa

fountain (above), make paper rockets (bottom left) and help break the record for the world’s

largest hand drum ensemble (bottom right), among hundreds of activities and events.

sung-min kim/the diamondback

james levin/the diamondbackrachel george/the diamondback

Preserving the past for the future

By Erin Serpico@erin_serpicoSta� writer

More than 80 students were met yesterday afternoon with a timeline of posters hung on a black canvas. The last poster in the line read, “We cannot change the past, instead we must use it to change the future. Never forget.”

Last night marked the start of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remem-brance Day, which began at sundown and ends at sundown today. The uni-versity’s Jewish Student Union held a Holocaust Vigil featuring silence, prayer and candles from noon to 2 p.m. in Stamp Student Union.

See holocaust, Page 2

JAKE ARONSON, a sophomore engineering major, lights a candle at a Holocaust remembrance vigil in Stamp yesterday. sung-min kim/the diamondback

students debit and prepaid card service agreements with financial institutions as well as loan with-drawal options. But concerns exist over student access to no-fee ATMs, higher card fees for college cards versus credit union cards and possible

confl icts of interest for schools in their dealings with banks.

SLAP members have alleged that many fi nancial institutions engage in suspicious behavior, such as

Greenbelt police fi nd student stabbed

2 THE DIAMONDBACK | news | monday, april 28, 2014

The remembrance day is a time to reflect on and honor those who died in the Ho-locaust during World War II, including the 6 million Jews who were killed by Nazi forces, said Josh Gilstein, JSU president.

“Every year, there’s some kind of programming, but this is the first in a few years that we’ve done the Holo-caust Vigil right on or right before Yom HaShoah,” the senior biology major said. “It’s more impactful.”

T h i s y e a r, t h e a n n u a l e v e n t f e a t u r e d a g u e s t speaker, Holocaust survivor Israel Gruzin.

“It makes me feel good that young people like you like to listen to stories,” Gruzin said to the crowd. “It’s not a very good memory, but we shouldn’t forget.”

Gruzin, who was born in Lithuania and immigrated to Baltimore in 1955, described his life before the war and told stories about his time in ghettos and concentration camps as a young boy. He also talked about his family and his memories of events that occurred during the war.

“ T h i s w a s t h e i r l i f e ,” sa id sophomore com mu-n i t y h e a l t h m a j o r A n n a Koozmin, JSU social action chairwoman. “I’m sure every

story triggers another story. … Those stories will stick with you.”

JSU volunteers led a dozen groups of students in discus-sions, in which participants talked about their reactions to Gruzin’s speech and the how the Holocaust relates to current events and nations that still exhibit widespread discrimination and violence.

Students don’t often talk about the Holocaust with one another, Koozmin said, and the JSU aims to create a safe environment where people can voice their thoughts.

T he st udents a l so d i s-cussed how memories of all persecuted populations in the Holocaust are kept alive a nd how t hey p erson a l ly relate to the events.

“It’s i mporta nt to have set ti mes du ri ng the yea r to remember your history,” junior biology major Ariel S i e g e l s a i d t o h e r t a b l e during the discussion. “It kind of helps you remem-ber what’s going on because you’re not thinking about the Holocaust every day of the year.”

Siegel sa id events such a s t h e re m e m b ra n c e d ay remind her why she is proud of her background and why Judaism is important to her. Bei ng a rou nd people who feel the same way is vital, Siegel sa id, a nd others at her table contributed a nd listened.

At the end of the v ig i l, people at each table lit a series of ca nd les, a nd ever yone recited a memorial prayer for Yom HaShoah, followed by the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer, led by Rabbi Jessica Lott from this university’s Hillel.

T h e J S U p u t t o g e t h e r posters with photos, descrip-tions and dates to educate students about events that took place during World War II. Koozmin said she learned

about the Holocaust growing up i n Hebrew school a nd classes. But there’s so much more that people don’t know, she said, and the posters em-phasized when events oc-curred and the real meaning of the Holocaust.

The JSU is holding a can-dle-lighting ceremony from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today in front of McKeldin Library. M e m b e r s o f t h e c a m p u s Jewish community will read

a list of about 5,000 names of people who died during the Holocaust.

“It’s basically more sym-bolic,” Koozmin said. “To keep these names alive, to

keep these identities alive, to keep the hopes and dreams alive of the people who those names belong to.”

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HOLOCAUSTFrom PAGE 1

students listen as Israel Gruzin, a Holocaust survivor, gives a speech as part of the Holocaust Vigil in the Colony Ballroom at Stamp Student Union yesterday. The event coincided with Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah, which began yesterday at sundown and will continue until this evening to honor those who died. sung-min kim/the diamondback

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Students and College Park residents strolled around the City Hall parking lot in warm weather Sunday morning to the sound of dogs barking and bluegrass music.

The first Downtown College Park Farmers Market of the season took place yesterday and fea-tured 10 vendors o�ering baked goods, fresh produce, discount books and more to shoppers.

This was the beginning of the fourth year of the farmers market, which began in 2010.

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“IT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD THAT YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE YOU LIKE TO LISTEN TO STORIES. … IT’S NOT A VERY GOOD MEMORY, BUT WE SHOULDN’T FORGET.”

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s k i m m i n g m o n e y f r o m student loan withdrawals, and said publicizing the con-tract with Capital One would reveal if such practices are occurring at this university.

W h i le SL A P orga n i zed this rally, members sought help from other advocacy groups on the campus, such a s J u s t i c e a t M a r y l a n d . JAM campaigns for workers rig hts, but member Todd Waters, a junior cell biology and genetics major, said he came to the rally because tuition rates are increasing across the country and he wants student debt to end. He said he’s seen how costly living on a college campus can be after factoring in food and housing expenses.

“We can’t have intelligent, a r t icu l ate conversat ion s

about these topics without fi na ncia l tra nspa rency — w ithout seei ng where the money’s coming from and seeing where the money’s going,” Waters said.

Student loan debt reached nearly $1.2 trillion in 2013, accord i ng to a Consu mer Financial Protection Bureau esti mate. Students at the rally said if they gain enough support, they cou ld put a stop to the rising trend.

Ay m i Ay a l a , a j u n i o r hearing and speech sciences major, was in class during the rally but heard the supporters chanting when she got out.

“Luckily, my parents are helping me with school, but I do know some kids who have to pay the tuition on their own,” she said. “That really does put a burden on their actual academic lives.”

Friday’s rally might not have an immediate effect, Ayala said, but it could draw

student attention and lead to a substantial change.

“Affordability and student debt are issues that the Uni-versity has always taken very seriously,” Brian Ullmann, un iversity marketing and communications assistant vice president, wrote in an email. “We will continue our efforts to balance affordabil-ity and excellence.”

This university has been ranked as one of the top 10 “Best Values in Public Col-leges” in Kiplinger’s annual ranking of higher education institutions for the past few years, Ullmann wrote.

O n F r i d a y, p r o t e s t e r s planned to enter the main ad-ministration building to deliver their petition and demands to Loh after an hour of chanting. But when they reached the doors, University Police only allowed Bangert-Drowns into the building to deliver the ma-terials to a secretary.

University Police spokes-woman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said the police fully under-stand the group’s constitu-tional rights, but they aim to keep rallies under control.

“ W e ’ r e a t r a l l i e s t o provide a safe environment for a l l pa r t ies i nvolved,” Hoa a s sa id. “O u r overa l l goal of any rally in general is to make sure normal func-tions of the university don’t get disrupted.”

Bangert-Drowns said the first step in the fight is to get students’ and Loh’s atten-tions, and the group will look to move forward from there.

“There’s a massive bubble being created at this point,” Bangert-Drowns said. “And when that bursts — not if it bursts, but when it bursts — it’s going to affect all the students because tuition is going to rise for all of us.”

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RALLYFrom PAGE 1

Workers will begin develop-ing the $112 million building June 9.

“The days where you and I were sitting in a large lecture room and passively listening to a professor lecture to us, feed us information and then go home and do homework — those days are over,” said uni-versity President Wallace Loh.

Brit K irwan, chancellor

of the University System of Maryland, said he tried for nearly 50 years to create plans for a new teaching center when he worked on the campus in the math department, but nothing came from his e�orts.

Kirwan said when he was working as a math profes-sor, he taught students in t he ba sement of Reckord Armory, where pillars blocked students’ views and rooms lacked ventilation.

Kirwan, who was univer-sity president from 1989-98, said building plans did not begin developing until L o h t o o k o f f i c e i n 2 010 and reached out to Edward St. John, who donated $10 m i l l ion to k ick-sta r t t he building’s construction.

S t . Jo h n , a u n i v e r s i t y a lu m n u s a n d fo u n d e r of St. Joh n P rop er t ies, told the audience he decided to donate when Loh spoke to him about his aspirations to create a cutting-edge learn-ing environment.

“I always said that going to the University of Maryland teaches you to do it on your own because you’re not going to get it in the class,” St. John said, to audience laughter. “But with the new learning center, maybe you will get it in the class.”

L o h a l s o t h a n k e d t h i s state’s Senate President Mike Miller (D-Calvert and Prince George’s), who pushed the General Assembly to allocate the university $42 million, which will partly fund the new learning center.

Student Government As-sociation President Sam Zw-erling spoke on behalf of the SGA, which raised $50,000 for the project through the Sustainability Fund.

That money will go toward building a rainwater har-vester that will supply water to the pipes and toilets, said Ori Gutin, SGA sustainabil-ity director. The SGA also proposed building a green roof, which would provide

a c c e s s to v e ge t a t i o n fo r teaching purposes.

Once finished, Loh said the focus will switch to improv-ing the programs that promote innovation and higher learn-ing. The building will house the Teaching and Learning Transformation Center and the Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

“Our goal is that all 38,000 students at this university get exposed to the mindset and the skills of being an entrepreneur and innovator to make an impact on society,” Loh said.

Kirk Morris Jr., a freshman enrolled in letters and scienc-es, said he is excited to see the building bring collaborative spaces for students dedicated to learning.

“The building will serve as a fresh, new place for creative thinking,” Morris said. “It will start as something great and will only grow from here to create great things.”

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centerFrom PAGE 1

protesters seeking a three-year tuition freeze and more �nancial transparency stand on the steps of the main administration building Friday. photo courtesy of todd waters

Edward St. John speaks at Saturday’s groundbreaking. jeremy snow/for the diamondback

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ast week, the political dis-interest in our student com-munity reached a new level of

visibility.Despite the extended deadline

for Student Government Associa-tion election registration, Open Party member Patrick Ronk is the only presidential candidate in this week’s election. Not only will Ronk run uncontested, but every candi-date vying for the remaining SGA executive title positions will also run unopposed.

While it’s good that multiple students have stepped up to run in the elections, it is disappointing to see the student body display such a lackadaisical attitude toward getting involved in student gov-ernment. Last week, this editorial board wrote about how this politi-cal apathy harms our community, and with this string of uncontested student government campaigns, that sentiment holds true.

With so many unopposed candi-dates running for executive posi-tions, convincing students to vote will be nearly impossible. It’s also irrelevant for this editorial board to endorse any of the candidates without competition.

Clearly, the student body’s at-titude is, “Why bother?” This unopposed election is a shameful mark of disconnection between democratic ideals and disinter-ested reality.

After the formality of voting that begins today and ends Wednes-day, the candidates simply will assume their desired SGA positions without being held accountable by the student body for any plat-form whatsoever. Smaller repre-sentatives will still have contested elections, but it’s hard to see any interest generated without a full co m p e t i t ive ca m pa i g n b e h i n d those running.

A series of haphazard, unfair and unpolished procedural maneuvers officially ruled SGA student affairs vice president and formerly unop-posed presidential candidate Josh Ratner ineligible to run in the 11th hour — or past it. So the current unopposed presidential candidate, Ronk, at least deserves credit for stepping up to run for the presi-dential role.

The sophomore government and politics major has said he will still be out campaigning and talking to students to receive their feed-

back throughout the week. While we still need to learn more about Ronk to fully judge his candidacy, if he indeed makes himself ac-cessible this week and engages in discussions with a diverse array of students, it will indicate that he’s trying to be a worthy student representative.

Still, the uncontested election is discouraging. Even Ronk admitted he would prefer having competi-tion and dialogue. The purpose of any election is for the voters to choose their leaders, not to have leaders assume their roles because no one else wanted them.

Yet with the uncontested elec-tions that start today, it looks as though the executive board will just be filled with whoever wants to do the job.

Although all executive titles will be filled rather than earned and the Open Party will make up the majority of SGA’s leadership, the unopposed candidates are not to blame for the lack of competition. This editorial board can only hope Ronk and the rest of the soon-to-be executive board recognize all student voices and opinions, not only those associated with the Open Party. Students will need to make that happen — not nec-essarily at the polls but through much-needed communication and engagement with the SGA now and in the coming year.

Openly unopposed

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We are witnessing a comic book revival. The Marvel Cin-ematic Universe, which started with Iron Man in 2008 and ex-ploded with The Avengers in 2012, has ensured that comics have never been bigger and that it’s never been a better time to get into them.

Well, there actually hasn’t been a better time yet, because Saturday will be Free Comic Book Day, and that will actually be the best day for newcomers to get into comics.

Free Comic Book Day falls on the first Saturday in May every year. Its purpose is threefold: to celebrate comics with longtime fans, call back lapsed readers and provide an introduction for the uninitiated.

Our own Big Planet Comics on Route 1 will be participat-ing, and if you drop by, there are some hot comics for new and old readers.Guardians of the Galaxy

If you’re the sort of person who has to read the source ma-terial before going to see the movie, check out the free issue of Guardians of the Galaxy to get a primer before the movie drops in August.

The Guardians are like the characters from The Breakfast Club of the Marvel Universe — they have a human tree and a genetically engineered raccoon on their side, so there’s nothing too serious about it. This team has only been in action since 2008, so if you get hooked there isn’t a dense amount of lore to dig through. Rocket Raccoon has his own issue available on Saturday, because Marvel knows we’re all in it for the cute animals.

KaBOOM! Summer BlastAdventure Time! This collection

has material from the Adventure Time comics, as well as Regular Show, Garfield, and Peanuts. New this year is Steven Universe, based on a cute cartoon that premiered on Cartoon Network last year. Starring Steven, a chubby kid raised by hip, teenage superheroines, Steven Uni-verse is more joyful than Regular Show and less serialized than Ad-venture Time.

It’s clean enough that kids can watch it, but hints at a deeper meaning adult fans can appreciate. Try the comic, then settle down to binge watch all 17 episodes aired so far.Dark Horse Comics

This compilation from Dark Horse samples comics from Avatar: T h e L a s t Ai rb e n d e r , I t t y B i t t yHellboy and the Juice Squeezers. If you watched Avatar years ago, or you’re still watching the spin-off, The Legend of Korra, there’s no reason not to get this free issue. Plus, I just love Hellboy. A lot. If marketing a spinoff of Mike Mi-gnola’s jaw-droppingly gorgeous comics to children is what it takes to draw in new readers, I don’t mind at all.Everything Else

The important thing about Free Comic Book Day is to pick up a comic with a beautiful cover and a completely unfamiliar title. Pick up whatever strikes your fancy — it’s free, after all.

Read the first page, and realize it has nothing to do with what you thought it did. Discover that you like the real premise more than the one you expected. Flip through it, develop a taste and maybe come back a week later to snap up the new issue. Then share it with a friend.

Emma Atlas is a junior government and politics major. She can be reached at [email protected].

On April 13, about 80 miles north of this university, Gettysburg Col-lege’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter held an event called Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, in which frater-nity members pledged to walk a mile in high-heeled shoes to raise awareness about sexual assault on college campuses.

While it was probably comedic for Gettysburg College students to see grown men lumbering about in four-inch heels, the event allowed comedy to highlight a serious concern affecting college students.

As sexual assault continues to be a significant concern on college campuses, it is refreshing to see awareness of such an important topic acknowledged at a local level.

Students at this university could and should take a lead from Walk a Mile in Her Shoes. Even though these fraternity members are less likely than women to experience sexual assault, they took initia-tive to bring social change within their college community. Instead of griping about necessary social change, this fraternity took the reign and raised awareness about sexual assault.

There’s an old political adage that says change happens at the local level, which is true. When

an individual or a group of people attempts to make a difference in its local community, that change might “trickle up” to the greater community, and that’s exactly what Gettysburg College’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon did.

Luckily, there are people and or-ganizations at this university willing to make change in their local com-munity in hopes of inciting world-wide change.

For example, this university’s CARE to Stop Violence organizes an event called Take Back the Night, which focuses on sexual assault awareness on college campuses. Thanks to events like these, social awareness and change can begin at a local level and eventually seep into

Take the initiative to raise awareness at the local level

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the greater community. C rea t ive a n d c o n te m p o ra r y

events l ike Walk a M ile in Her Shoes and Take Back the Night a l l ow s o c i a l c h a n ge to b e g i n locally. They allow participants to co n n e c t t h e i r m e m o r i e s o f the event to the event’s mission. For example, Gettysburg College students will probably always remember fraternity members wearing Vineyard Vines and red high heels striding across their campus, and they will always re-member the stiletto-wearing men were walking in the name of sexual assault awareness.

While there is greater change oc-curring at this university, there can always be more. With that said, I

challenge this university’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon to follow the advice of its members at Get-tysburg College. I challenge them, along with myself and the rest of the student population, to effect social change through their own initiative, not someone else’s.

W h e t h e r yo u wa n t to ra i s e awareness of an issue that affects a small percentage of the student body or the entire student popula-tion, initiate the change yourself in your local community because this community can be the foundation to the change you see in the world.

Maggie Cassidy is a sophomore English major. She can be reached at [email protected].

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A new video game console. Wireless earbuds. A virtual reality helmet. Card games. The Veronica Mars movie.

These are just a few of the many innovative products that might not have stood a chance of getting funded by conventional methods. However, thanks to the Internet, new windows have opened up for inventors, entrepre-neurs and artists to fund their projects through people all around the world.

Today marks the fi fth anniversary of crowdfunding site Kickstarter. From student-created business startups to campus a cappella groups raising money to fund albums, the use of these sites has grown signifi cantly in the past few years. Crowdfunding websites — including Kickstarter, Indiegogo and GoFundMe — have revolutionized how products are funded and developed and have allowed students at this university to expand their fundraising e� orts.

Bryan Doyle, a junior computer science major and clarinetist in the uni-versity marching band, is one of the stu-

dents in charge of the band’s campaign to raise money for a new van to transport marching band equipment throughout the campus. Doyle said crowdfunding has helped fundraising e� orts.

“We get to reach out to the alumni and people not even associated with the university,” Doyle said. “It really gives us a much better chance.”

Doyle and the other students behind the band campaign are using crowd-funding platform Launch UMD. Ex-clusive to this university, Launch UMD provides student groups, including the UMD Chamber Singers and this campus’ chapter of Engineers Without Borders, a platform to build their campaigns.

Though it is Doyle’s fi rst time leading a crowdfunding campaign, he said he is pleased with the project’s success thus far. Doyle said the van campaign has raised about $1,000, and it met its initial goal of $8,000 Saturday.

When a creator’s project is success-fully funded, backers reap the benefi ts through various incentives, which are reward promises to donors. Doyle said alumni were many of the donors, so the band had to get creative.

“Specifi cally for us, we had to think

a little outside the box and give some intangibles,” he said.

Zahara Heckscher, a lecturer in the English department’s Professional Writing Program, used crowdfunding to publish a book. She’s now bringing her experience with Indiegogo to the classroom to teach students product development and marketing for the 21st century. Heckscher said by using what she calls the New Startup Model, her students have bypassed the tedious process of submitting a business plan and lining up investors.

This year, Heckscher has been working with her classes to develop and market The Poetry Game, a game she invented with friends in the 1990s that uses prompt cards to stimulate poetry writing. Between her winter class, which designs the game, and her current ENGL398B: Writing for Social Entrepreneurship class, what would have been a lengthy process of developing and marketing the game was distilled into about fi ve months.

“It could literally take years to get things o� the ground,” she said.

Senior English major Ryan Serrano has worked on the game since its incep-tion in January. He originally worked on the design of the product and now oversees the Indiegogo campaign as a teaching assistant for Hecksher’s class.

Though he said he’s disappointed by the amount of money raised so far — The Poetry Game still has less than half of its necessary funding — Serrano is committed to the future of the product as new game mechanics are added and its app version enters beta testing. Serrano said he is most excited for the game’s online growth.

“I really believe in this as a personal project,“ he said.

The Indiegogo campaign not only has enabled The Poetry Game to reach a wide audience of potential backers, but it also has allowed students to explore new entrepreneurial writing styles as they develop the campaign.

“I’m really enthusiastic about crowdfunding as an educational tool,” Heckscher said. “It’s something that’s real-world, that’s going to reach outside the classroom.”

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to tie the game at five with 8:30 remaining, the teams traded possession before long pole Michael Ehrhardt forced a turnover and the Terps cleared past the midfield line.

The Terps established pos-session with 4:43 on the clock and held the ball for more than two minutes without taking a shot on net, but the referees did not call for a 30-second shot clock. The possession ended when Fighting Irish goalkeeper Conor Kelly saved West’s shot.

The Fighting Irish cleared and took a timeout with 2:02 left in the game, but a series of sloppy passes gave the ball back to the Terps 20 seconds later, and Tillman called a timeout with 1:16 remaining.

Tillman said he anticipated the Terps would be able to hold for the last shot, especially considering their previous possession. But 33 seconds out of the timeout, the referees signaled the start of the 30-second shot clock while Can-nizzaro had possession, which ultimately forced Chanenchuk to make a move to shoot earlier than Tillman had wanted.

That left enough time for the

Fighting Irish to start the fast break and finish the game-win-ning goal. Two days later, Notre Dame captured the ACC title.

“You just assume it’s going to be consistent,” Tillman said. “We felt that’s how it’s been most of the year. Whatever the precedent’s been set earlier, you just assume it’s going to be the same. We had some lengthy possessions before.”

Torrential downpour from the game’s onset kept scoring to a minimum during the opening half. The Terps and Fighting Irish combined for eight first-quarter turnovers as players struggled to keep control of the ball in the wet conditions, and the first goal of the game — a left-handed finish from Terps attackman Tim Rotanz — didn’t come until 2:10 remaining in the

first period. The Terps jumped to a 3-0

lead after attackman Matt Rambo and LoCascio added goals in the first five minutes of the second quarter. The Fighting Irish finally got on the board with 5:38 left in the half when attackman Westy Hopkins capped o� a transition opportunity. Kelly started the fast break by intercepting an ill-advised pass from Chanen-chuk, who had five turnovers.

Cannizzaro gave the Terps a 4-1 lead less than four minutes into the second half, dodging to his left and sneak-ing a shot inside the far post. However, the Fighting Irish responded with three straight goals to tie the game at four with 13:06 remaining.

After an illegal body-check-ing penalty on defender Stephen

O’Hara, attackman Rustin Bryant put the Terps up 5-4 with an extra-man goal. LoCas-cio found attackman Jay Carlson open inside, and the junior dished to Bryant on the crease for an easy finish. Doyle tied the game again a minute later with a diving shot past Amato, who finished with nine saves.

“Our defense played a great game,” Amato said. “There’s room for improvement, but we communicated well, we trusted our game plan and we followed the scouting report.”

Last week in South Bend, Indiana, the Terps and Fight-ing Irish were tied at eight in the final period when West hit a post and LoCascio collected the rebound, finishing the go-ahead goal in an eventual 12-8 victory on the road. Friday night at PPL Park, though, the Terps — who only scored five times on 37 shots — failed to make the key play to seal a win.

And while the referee’s shot-clock call late in the game took the Terps by surprise, Tillman said lack of o�ensive execution led to his team’s downfall.

“ R e g a r d l e s s o f w h a t happens, regardless of what the situations are,” Tillman said, “we need to play better.”

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forced Syracuse turnovers, and the Orange failed to clear the ball on its first two opportunities.

The Terps’ draw control wins and strong defense held the Orange without a shot for the first 10 minutes of the contest.

The Orange did settle into an offensive rhythm midway through the first half, and scored two straight goals to tie the game. And after mid-fielder Zoe Stukenberg found the back of the net for the Terps, the Orange respond-ed to tie the score at three. It was the final time Syracuse pulled even.

The Terps controlled the next three draws, scoring on each possession — all in a span of less than three minutes — and entering half-time with a 7-5 lead.

Attacker Kayla Treanor, the leading goal-scorer in the ACC, helped the Orange keep the game close despite its strug-gles in the draw circle. She beat defender Megan Douty on wraparound shots twice in the period and added a goal on a free position for a hat trick in the first half.

“It’s really hard to stop Kayla Treanor,” Reese said. “Megan Douty does a nice job defending her, but it’s

hard for one person to handle her talent.”

With a two-goal lead to start the second half, the Terps defense locked down and held Treanor and the rest of the Syracuse o�ense scoreless for more than 15 minutes.

Cummings scored twice during the stretch to notch her own hat trick and gave the Terps a commanding 10-5 lead with her third goal.

The Orange controlled six of nine draws in the second half, but the Terps defense forced six turnovers to negate the extra possessions.

“We were able to make some changes at halftime, and it really paid off in the second half,” Reese said.

When the Orange finally scored in the second half, Cummings forced a turnover and found midfielder Beth Glaros for the answering goal. The Terps again went on a 3-0 run, which sealed the victory.

The Terps bench emptied as the clock struck zero, and the Terps hoisted the ACC trophy for the sixth straight time before they head to the Big Ten next season.

“It’s been an emotional day for us,” Reese said. “This was a special moment, and this is a championship that I am so proud of.”

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plate three times in the ninth, the Terps’ late rally again fell short.

The Terps have displayed potential by earning victories against ranked opponents this season, such as a 5-1 win over No. 2 Florida State on March 8 and a sweep of then-No. 10 N.C. State on March 21-23. But they’ve also suf-fered disappointing losses, and this weekend’s sweep was the latest example.

That inconsistency might cost the Terps, who had a great shot this weekend to secure a spot in the ACC tournament. Instead, with two ACC series left, the Terps have a half-game lead over N.C. State for the final ACC tournament spot.

“When you have the chance to finish strong down the stretch, your players have to be able to perform,” Szefc said. “We weren’t able to perform anything.”

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mid�elder taylor cummings won a game-high seven draw controls and posted a hat trickin the Terps’ ACC tournament �nal victory over Syracuse. photo courtesy of maryland athletics

pitcher Brenna Nation, who allowed one run on three hits in her first 2.2 innings and kept the Terps ahead.

Nation began the fifth inning by facing the Fighting Irish’s No. 3 hitter, outfielder Emilee Koerner, who reached base on a fielding error by infielder Corey Schwartz. Four singles and one triple later, Notre Dame took a three-run lead and held on for the victory.

“We were in the meat of their order, and we definitely needed to get that out,” Watten said. “Those are situations where we should have been out of that inning. They never should have scored five runs.”

The Terps had the lead early in Game 2 because of t h e p ro d u c t i o n f ro m t h e middle of their batting order. After Notre Dame pitcher Laura Winter threw a com-

plete game shutout in Game 1, the top four batters in the Terps’ lineup combined to drive in all five runs and ac-counted for five of the team’s seven hits in the back end of the Sunday doubleheader.

After the Terps scored four runs in the first two innings, outfielder Amanda McCann’s sacrifice fly in the top of the fifth gave Watten’s team a two-run cushion.

The Terps pitchers couldn’t keep opposing batters off t h e b a s e p a t h s i n No t re Dame’s five-run fifth inning, however, something Watten hopes they can improve on in the series finale tonight, which will be televised on ESPNU.

“They were hitting the ball well, and they took ad-vantage of our mistakes,” Watten said. “And we need to be able to keep our mistakes to a minimum.”

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MEN’S LACROSSE ACC SEMIFINAL | NO. 4-SEED FIGHTING IRISH 6, NO. 1-SEED TERPS 5

ATTACKMAN mike chanenchuk committed a turnover after referees signaled for the 30-second shot clock with less than a minute left. chester lam/the diamondback

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior sta� writer

CHESTER, Pa. — The Terrapins men’s lacrosse team and Notre Dame were tied at fi ve with 49 seconds remaining in their ACC tournament semifi nal game Friday night when Terps attackman Connor Cannizzaro received a pass from midfi elder Henry West just outside the re-straining box near the left sideline.

Six seconds after Cannizzaro collected the ball, referees signaled the start of a 30-second shot clock. So Canniz-zaro possessed the ball on the same side of the fi eld for another 15 seconds before dumping a pass to midfi elder Joe LoCascio at the top corner of the o� ensive formation.

LoCascio fi red the ball to attackman Mike Chanenchuk

15 yards in front of the cage. Chanenchuk ran left, planted his foot and spun back to free his hands for a shot, but Fighting Irish defender Garrett Epple checked the se-nior’s stick. The ball fell to the wet grass, and midfi elder Jack Near scooped it up to start a Notre Dame fast break.

Near carried the ball downfi eld before dumping a pass to attackman Matt Kavanagh, who was open to the right of the cage. Kavanagh slotted a point-blank shot and the eventual game-winning goal past goalkeeper Niko Amato to give Notre Dame the lead with 6.5 seconds left in a 6-5 victory for the Fighting Irish before an announced 4,137 at PPL Park.

“We just can’t give up a goal there,” coach John Tillman said. “We just can’t.”

After Fighting Irish attackman Conor Doyle scored

TAKEN AWAYTerps’ turnover in � nal seconds of ACC semi� nal leads to Notre Dame’s game-winning goal

By Phillip Suitts@PhillipSuittsSta� writer

Jake Stinnett was in trouble. The Terrapins baseball right-hander had runners on second and third with no outs in the fi rst inning of Friday’s series opener at Boston College. Stinnett got one out on an infield pop-up, but then he worked the count to 1-1 on right fi elder Chris Shaw.

Shaw drove the next pitch over the right-fi eld wall for a three-run homer that provided all the o� ense the Eagles needed in a 5-1 victory.

That was the fi rst of three losses this weekend in which the Terps failed to overcome early deficits. Boston College, who entered the series with the second-worst confer-ence record, used early runs to earn a sweep a week after the Terps took two of three from then-No. 25 Georgia Tech and clinched their second ACC series victory of the season.

“You should never lose three games on a weekend,” coach John Szefc said. “The games weren’t close at all. A very, very disappoint-ing e� ort in general.”

Stinnett, who had thrown two straight complete games, made his shortest start in more than a month in Game 1 on Friday. Stinnett went six innings and allowed four runs — all in the fi rst inning — on seven hits and two walks.

A wild pitch plated the fi nal score of the inning after Shaw’s three-run blast.

While the Eagles (17-27, 8-16 ACC) tallied four hits during the final eight innings, the Terps (25-18, 9-14) were held in check by right-hander John Gorman, who entered with a 4.10 ERA.

“There’s still eight innings to go, so you can’t really worry about being in a hole from the start,” center fielder Charlie White said. “There’s a lot of game left, but we just didn’t execute wh e n we n e e d e d to i n t h ose middle and late innings.”

The Terps also allowed four runs in the first inning of Game 2 on Friday — the teams played a doubleheader because of a rainy forecast for Saturday — when the

team’s familiar problem of hitting with runners on base re-emerged. The Terps stranded 14 in a 7-4 loss that guaranteed a series defeat.

R i g h t - h a n d e r M i k e S h a -waryn, who won five of his first six starts, allowed five runs and seven hits in five innings and struck out eight.

The Eagles had five hits in the four-run first inning of Game 2, but their offense faltered again after the early outburst and pro-duced four hits the rest of the game. Still, whenever the Terps cut the deficit, the Eagles re-sponded with runs in the bottom of the inning.

In the third, the Terps scored two runs, but Shaw extended the Eagles’ lead to 5-2 with a solo blast to right field. The Terps and Eagles both scored two runs in the sixth.

The Terps entered the ninth down 7-4 and loaded the bases with one out before back-to-back fl y outs sealed the result.

The Eagles scored in the second inning of Game 3 to take an early lead and broke open a 2-0 game with three runs in the eighth. The Terps had three hits and wasted a quality start from left-hander Jake Drossner in a 5-2 loss.

Drossner allowed two runs (one earned), four hits and one walk while striking out seven in 6.2 innings. But Eagles right-hander Je� Burke was even better. Burke entered the game with a 5.25 ERA but limited the Terps to two runs in eight innings.

While the tying run came to the

BASEBALL

Eagles score early in games, earn sweepTerps give up eight combined fi rst-inning runs in weekend series at Boston College

The Terps celebrate after capturing the 11th ACC championship in program history with a 13-7 victory over No. 2-seed Syracuse. photo courtesy of maryland athletics

By Ryan Baillargeon@RyanBaillargeonSta� writer

Midfi elder Taylor Cummings led the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team onto the field at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, on Sunday afternoon for the ACC championship game against Syra-cuse. And the moment she controlled the opening draw, Cummings set the tone for the rest of the contest.

Cummings dominated inside the draw circle and helped the No. 1-seed Terps control 10 of the 13 draws in the

fi rst half. The Terps capitalized on the extra possessions and locked down de-fensively in the second half to beat No. 2-seed Syracuse 13-7 to win their sixth consecutive ACC title and 11th overall.

“[Cummings] was really able to control the draw today for us and really control both ends of the fi eld,” coach Cathy Reese said.

The Terps entered the contest with a 300-172 advantage in draw controls, but the Orange came in with similar success, boasting a 272-182 advan-tage. In the end, the Terps prevailed, with Cummings controlling a game-high seven draws, which allowed them

to dominate possession. After Cummings took the first

draw, attacker Brooke Gri§ n picked up where she left o� in Friday’s semi-fi nal game. Gri§ n scored fi ve goals against No. 5-seed Virginia to lead the Terps o� ense, and she scored the fi rst goal Sunday against the Orange.

The redshirt junior scored again a few minutes later, and the Terps con-trolled the ensuing draw to prevent a chance for Syracuse to answer quickly. When the Orange did gain possession, the Terps defenders

Terps claim sixth straight ACC title after cruising by SyracuseCummings’ success in draw circle leads to championship win

WOMEN’S LACROSSE ACC FINAL | No. 1-SEED TERPS 13, No. 2-SEED ORANGE 7

Pitching struggles in losses at Notre DameIrish score 17 runs to sweep doubleheader

By Kyle Stackpole@kylefstackpoleSta� writer

The Terrapins softball team drove in 25 runs in two games against Howard on Wednesday, and a sea-son-high 15 of those runs came in Game 1 of the doubleheader.

But when the Terps traveled to No. 21 Notre Dame this past weekend, it was the Fighting Irish who capitalized at the plate. The Terps pitching staff allowed 17 runs in two games yesterday at Melissa Co o k S ta d i u m i n So u t h Be n d , Indiana, including a 9-0 loss in the series opener and an 8-5 defeat in the second game of the afternoon.

“They came out and were ready to jump on us,” coach Laura Watten said. “We didn’t pitch very well.”

The Terps entered the game having won five of their past seven games, and they scored first in each of those five victories. In the first game yesterday, however, the Fight-ing Irish took the early lead and never looked back.

With two outs in the first inning and a run already in, Notre Dame first baseman Micaela Arizmendi launched a two-run home run to

right field off pitcher Kaitlyn Sch-meiser to extend her team’s lead to three runs. The Fighting Irish never relinquished the lead in a shutout win.

Schmeiser, who entered the series with a 1.96 ERA in her past seven games, had trouble retiring oppos-ing hitters. The junior allowed nine runs in 3.1 innings, her worst pitching performance since surrendering 10 runs in four innings to then-No. 8 Florida State on April 5.

Watten started pitcher Madison Martin in Game 2 but removed her in the second inning. Watten said Martin got hit on the hand during her at-bat in the first inning and couldn’t feel the ball in the circle.

Watten replaced Martin with

SOFTBALL

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BY THE NUMBERS

8 runsBoston College scored in the fi rst

inning of Games 1 and 2

7 runs The Terps scored in all three games

this weekend

.5 gamesThe Terps sit ahead of N.C. State for the fi nal ACC tournament spot

“THEY WERE HITTING THE BALL WELL AND THEY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF OUR MISTAKES. ... AND WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO KEEP OUR MISTAKES TO A MINIMUM.”

LAURA WATTENTerrapins softball coach