February 2, 2015

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Man sentenced to 2 years in prison Liam Adepo, 30, struck, killed university student on Route 1 in 2014

By Katishi Maake @TheHavocRat, @dbkcrime Staff writer More than a year after the deadly hit-and-run incident that killed 22-year-old university student Cory Hubbard, Liam Adepo, 30, of Cheverly, was sentenced Friday to two years in prison.

During an emotional hearing, Adepo offered his apologies to Hubbard’s friends and family in attendance, said John Erzen, Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office spokesman.

Erzen said 54 victim impact statements were submitted during the sentencing hearing, and Hubbard’s

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Courtesy of Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Office friends and family were welcome to explain to the judge how the incident impacted each of their lives.

At about 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 17, 2014, Hubbard was attempting to cross Route 1 when he was struck by a dark-colored Toyota. Adepo, who was driving, fled the scene, but was See adepo, Page 3

Univ professors design Obama’s tax proposal sandwich ingredients sit in a freezer room in the 251 North dining hall. A team of 19 Dining Services employees transforms buckets of meats, vegetables and condiments into about 1,000 sandwiches each morning for distribution at campus dining halls and convenience stores. tom hausman/the diamondback

The lunchtime legion Maryland Sandwich Factory workers meet campus sandwich cravings

By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow Senior staff writer By 8 a.m. every morning, the workers at the Maryland Sandwich Factory have already made about 1,000 different sandwiches and salads to distribute to the campus community.

Starting at 5 a.m., 19 men and women dash between two freezer rooms while wheeling carts of meat, veggies and premade sandwiches seven days a week in the 251 North workspace, which resembles a kitchen more than a factory.

“We became better streamlined to get the product done on a daily basis

English sees decline in enrollment Some attribute student loss to decline in status of humanities majors

By Rokia Hassanein @rokiahass Staff writer Enrollment in the English major at this university is declining, frustrating officials and students who wish to improve the arts and humanities college’s resources.

The population of English majors at this university has decreased by about 40 percent in a three-year span, according to a recent report on Inside Higher Ed. According to the data featured on the report, this university’s English department lost 88 students during the spring 2012 semester, 79 students in 2013 and 128 more a year later.

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over here compared to the South Campus cold room, which was outdated,” said Rob Fahey, 251 North general manager.

The fast-moving operation is how Dining Services manages to provide those prepackaged sandwiches to 16 shops across the campus, Fahey said.

Workers arrive early to start slicing the deli meat and fresh produce. As each item is made, the employees organize carts of food to easily load into trucks by 8 a.m. so the items can arrive on campus shelves by 11 a.m., he said.

Despite the strict sandwich-making deadline and hectic pace, Sonya Effel, who has worked at the Sandwich Factory for four years, said the process

T hornton Di l l sa id there was a steady annual increase in arts and humanities students between 2001 and 2010.

However, in 2012, a noticeable decline began, with the college’s enrollment shrinking 21 percent in three years.

“It is difficult to know precisely which factors contribute to these declines, but there seems to be a perception among some students and their families that the employment prospects for humanities majors are not as great as some other fields,” Dill said. “A number of studies have shown that the job prospects for humanities majors are at least as good as for other fields.”

Sarah Feeney, president of the English Undergraduate Association, said she thinks some of the factors hurting the English department’s enrollment have to do with the marketing of the English major and of arts and humanities programs as a whole.

“For so long, every time I have mentioned my fields of study, the first response is almost always, ‘Oh, so See English, Page 2

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soon began running smoothly.

“It is a little crazy,” she said. “But we are used to working under pressure, so we can do just fine.”

Effel said the friendly camaraderie and teamwork among her coworkers helps get the job done.

But getting used to working in the 38-degree storing rooms is one of the most challenging things for them to adjust to. To stay warm, the sandwich-makers wear multiple layers, including sweatshirts, hats and aprons, while working.

While the Sandwich Factory has existed for about 30 years, operations greatly improved four years See sandwich, Page 2

Melissa Kearney, Lesley Turner offer support for dual-income credit cited in State of the Union

By Jon Banister @J_Banister Senior staff writer Two university economics professors recently designed a tax reform proposal that President Obama adopted in his State of the Union address and that could impact millions of families nationwide. The second-earner tax credit was created by professors Melissa Kearney and Lesley Turner, who saw an inherent problem in the country’s tax code, which imposes extra costs on families with two sources of income.

Because family income is pooled u nder the cu rrent ta x system, Kearney said, second income sources are taxed at much higher rates than if those workers were single. For example, the proposal states, a family with a primary earner who makes $25,000 per year would receive only

about 30 percent of any income the primary earner’s spouse brought in.

This loss of income can discourage spouses from finding a job, and it makes paying child-care costs increasingly difficult.

Kearney noted that the gains from national economic growth have gone disproportionately to upper-income households, and said she has focused her research on ways to help lowerincome families.

“It does raise really important challenges and questions about how to ensure shared prosperity and make it such that folks near the middle and bottom of the income distribution can share in these income gains and productivity gains going forward,” she said.

To remedy this problem, which Kearney said dates back to 1940s tax See tax, Page 3

Comet project finds success despite loss Univ researchers watch comet via orbiter

By Marissa Horn @MarissaL_Horn Staff writer Using the Rosetta spacecraft, scientists have photographed and surveyed nearly 70 percent of a distant comet, looking for a Mickey Mouse shape.

The Philae lander, which starred in the dramatic Nov. 12 contact with sun-orbiting Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko, collected data for 57 hours before going into hibernation. Since then the Rosetta spacecraft has continued to orbit the comet, but the exact location of the hibernating lander is still uncertain.

“What we are looking for is a Mickey Mouse-like pattern, because that’s what its feet look like, with three little circles,” said Dennis Bodewits, a research scientist at this university. “We have found about five or six of them now, but they can be everywhere.”

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Tony Farnham, astronomy professor, holds a model of the Rosetta spacecraft at the viewing party for the Rosetta mission comet landing in the Physical Sciences Complex on Wednesday, Nov. 12. file photo/the diamondback Philae is not a rogue robot wandering aimlessly around the planet.

It bounced unpredictably into a shadowed area, possibly under a cliff or some rocks, said Bodewits, who, along with research professor Michael A’Hearn, works on the team managing Rosetta’s exterior

cameras. Because Philae is in darkness, its solar panels are unable to continue to collect power, so it ceased communicating data and entered a hibernation state Nov. 15.

Philae contains about 20 scientific See rosetta, Page 3

OPINION

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STAFF EDITORIAL: USM hiring process

Behind Lexie Brown’s 26 points, the Terps women’s basketball team beat Iowa last night to earn its 13th straight win and move to 10-0 in Big Ten play P. 8

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TAWES HALL serves as the home of the English department at this university. A recent report found that enrollment in the English program is dwindling, with fewer students signing up for the major and more students dropping it, to the department’s dismay. file photo/the diamondback

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you want to be a teacher?’” the senior English and history major said. “If I’m not asked about teaching, it’s, ‘What are you going to do with that?’”

Feeney said students can do many things with an arts and humanities degree, but the problem with enrollment is that students “have no idea” how much they can do with a degree like English, including communications, book publishing and law.

“We constantly hear about growing career fields like engineering and biochemistry,

and whenever a large donation is made to the university, it always seems to be intended to fund a new lab or computer science building,” she said. “Students hear over and over about these jobs that will instantly turn them into millionaires, but that’s if they can get the job in the first place. If they can’t write or properly communicate to those outside or even within their field, they fail.”

Brittany Brown, a junior English major and African D i a spora R ead i n g Group president, said she thinks economic issues discourage enrollment.

“There is a stigma over the

humanities and liberal arts that English is not challenging or a waste of time,” Brown said. “As an English major, I know the time I take reading and rereading texts, writing papers, using intellectual skill. English can be just as challenging.”

Dill said the arts and humanities college is analyzing trends to better assess the factors contributing to this decline in enrollment. Additionally, she said, the college is investing in more career services by launching an arts and humanities-focused career office and working to increase scholarship aid. rhassaneindbk@gmail.com

from a similar type of inspiration. After seeing a pasta picture from a calendar in a campus convenience store, Fahey realized he could easily recreate the dish.

“I thought, ‘Oh! We could do that!” he said. “We have a pasta cooker, and we could just add sauce and meatballs or vegetables.’”

Fa hey a l so ap pl ie s t he same attitude when looking at trade show or convention magazines, he said, as well as during his trips to the grocery store Wegmans, which he said inspired various wraps and sandwiches.

Each new item is typically invented during the summers, when Fahey and other chefs try out new recipes. But not every item is a runaway success, Fahey said, citing a short-lived Asian fried beef salad design from a few years ago.

“After we breaded it and then deep-fried it, it sat on the salad,” he said. “It would lose its appeal.”

Out of all the new items, however, Fahey said his favorite is still a timeless classic — the club sandwich.

ago when they moved production from the cramped, minimalistic South Campus Dining Hall to the larger kitchen in 251 North, said John Gray, the senior executive chef.

The area used now features additional freezer space and new cooking instruments for efficient production, Gray said.

“Where before it used to be just a sandwich factory, now it’s like a commissary,” he said.

The extra space means they can carry a larger variety of fresh products while expanding production. With more ingredients and space to work with, Fahey and the team got creative and made new types of sandwiches, he said.

“I live in Baltimore, and up the street from me is a chicken and waffles place,” Fahey said.

“I was like, ‘I think kids will eat that!’”

The sandwich, a fried chicken thigh between two waffles, is one of the operation’s newest creations and has met with moderate success, he said.

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robert Fahey, the 251 North general manager, removes a tray of sushi. The meals prepared in the Maryland Sandwich Factory are served throughout the campus. tom hausman/the diamondback

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rosetta From PAGE 1 measuring instruments that range in purpose from “sniffing” gases rising off the comet surface to collecting and analyzing dust samples, research scientist Lori Feaga said.

Despite the missing lander, scientists still have been able to make findings and draw conclusions from the mission.

Researchers at this university compiled their initial observations of the comet in a series of seven articles published Jan. 22 in the journal Science after spending about two and a half months collecting data on the comet.

T hey discovered the comet is encased in a cloud of gases and its double-lobed body is coated with frozen water molecules.

“We believe that the comets may be one of the important sou rces of the terrestria l water,” said Ludmilla Kolokolova, a senior research scientist at this university.

But these water molecules are different from water on Earth, as they include much more deuterium — hydrogen with an extra neutron — accord i n g to t he Eu rop e a n Space Agency.

Despite the different composition, the water is drinkable, Bodewits said.

The surface of the comet has also proved of interest to

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the scientists, with its huge canyons, tall mountains and sand dunes, A’Hearn said.

“If you combined all the national parks together, you would get this comet,” Bodewits said. “I think of Bryce [Canyon National Park] especially, with all of the rock formations.”

The comet’s strange double-lobed figure might have formed when two comets collided. But the most startling feature is the crack that runs along the neck of the comet, in between the lobes.

“It could mean that [the two sides] may break apart in the future, but that would be pretty difficult to decide which side to chase,” Bodewits said.

Comets are hypothesized to be frozen remains from about 4.6 billion years ago, when some of the solar system’s planets formed. Although comets have a lifespan of only 10,000 years, Bodewits said, their untouched condition gives researchers insight into the origins of our solar system.

Comets are also thought to have brought amino acids and organic materials to Earth, playing an important role in the development of life, Kolokolova said.

Rosetta reached the comet after traveling for more than 10 years through space. It used fou r g rav ity assists and hibernated for nearly th ree yea rs before scientists rebooted its energy in

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arrested the next day after admitting to being the driver.

The hit-and-run involving Hubbard was the second pedestrian-related incident of five in a span of 11 months in 2014.

Adepo pleaded guilty Nov. 20 and was sentenced Friday for failure to remain at the scene of a collision involving death. He was also charged with other violations, such as driving with a suspended license and driving while alcohol-impaired, but those were dropped as part of the plea agreement, according to a Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office news release.

Adepo will serve three years of probation after his two-year sentence, Erzen said.

policies created when twoworker households were less common, the professors proposed a tax credit to give money back to families with two working parents.

“Our proposal is really motivated by our views as public finance economists that, both on efficiency grounds and on equity grounds, it is undesirable that people working at low wages pay very high marginal tax rates,” Kearney said.

“This particular group is hit really hard by this because of an unfortunate design in the tax code, which is pretty easily addressed by implementing a second-earner credit or deduction.”

Kearney and Turner published their proposal in December 2013 with the Ham-

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late January 2014 to begin the final approach to the comet.

Rosetta and company arrived at the comet in August and remained in orbit until Philae broke off and landed haphazardly near the face of a cliff. Rosetta will continue orbiting the comet until at least the end of the year, when its solar-paneled wings will be too far from the sun to absorb energy.

But until that occurs, the search for Philae will continue. While Rosetta’s body is the size of a small room and has solar panel wings spanning about 104 feet on either side, Philae is just the size of a four-person table.

University researchers, along with European Space Agency scientists, have narrowed down the search area on the 2-k i lometer-th ick comet, but Rosetta will not be able to locate it until they further narrow the search, Bodewits said.

Though the sun has only shone on one side of the comet so far, Philae could recharge and reactivate when the sunlight reaches the rest of the surface, researchers said.

“It’s such a wild idea to do this,” Bodewits said of the Rosetta mission. “We really hope it’s going to come back in May, and we have good hope for whenever the sun gets over that spot, it’ll charge.”

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Surface area of a comet that has been surveyed and photographed using the Rosetta spacecraft

57 hours

Amount of time the Philae lander collected information before heading into hibernation

10 years

Amount of time Rosetta traveled through space before reaching the comet

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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, comprising the four images put together above, has been the subject of Rosetta spacecraft’s mission for years. Rosetta continues to orbit the comet, but the Philae lander’s location is unknown. photo courtesy of the european space agency

ilton Project, a nonpartisan think tank aimed at helping middle-class families.

The proposal attracted immediate attention from policymakers, and in July, Kearney met with Obama and other economists for an informal lunch to discuss possible tax reform ideas. Just days before the State of the Union, an administration staffer called Kearney to tell her that her ideas had resonated with the president and he would be proposing a variant of her secondearner tax credit.

Obama’s proposal gives a $500 credit to families with two incomesources,affectingroughly 24 million couples, according to a White House fact sheet.

In his annual address, the president coined the term “middle-class economics” to describe the combination of Kearney’s second-earner credit with a tax credit for

families with young children, as well as measures to help people pay for college and save for retirement.

Stephanie Rennane, a doctoral candidate who assisted the professors’ research, said she was excited to see the president integrate their ideas into his tax reform proposal.

“I care a lot about policy; I think most people who work on these programs do,” Rennane said. “You always hope that your work will make a difference and sometimes it feels pretty far removed from that, so it’s pretty exciting when you actually see it potentially being involved in some big decisions.”

To make up for the loss in revenue from the tax credit, Obama proposed increasing the tax rate on capital gains and large financial institutions, measures targeted at wealthier individuals.

Before being implemented,

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the proposal would have to be passed by a Republican Congress, but Turner said she is confident it can receive bipartisan support.

“It’s not just providing additional benefits — it’s providing a return and increased benefits

for families that are working and doing everything that they can in this economy to get ahead,” Turner said. “I think that resonates on both sides of the political spectrum.” jbanisterdbk@gmail.com

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Terps impress as new Big Ten member illini At 6-month mark, Anderson says move to league has been ‘seamless’

By Jake Eisenberg @JakeEisenberg_ Staff writer During a rally to celebrate this university’s move to the Big Ten on July 1, university President Wallace Loh promised those gathered at Mitchell Field that the Terrapins would make their presence known in their new conference.

Now, seven months later, the Terps have established themselves in the Big Ten with statement wins, increased attendance and conference championships.

The men’s soccer and field hockey teams both won their respective regular season titles. Men’s soccer won its Big Ten Tournament as well. Randy Edsall and the football team turned in road wins against traditional college powers Michigan and Penn State. And the women’s basketball team is ranked fifth in the country with a perfect record in Big Ten play.

The men’s team, meanwhile, is ranked for the first time in coach Mark Turgeon’s Terps career. “[The campus] is a lot more excited [than last year]” Abhi Udayshankar, a sophomore finance major, said. “There’s definitely a lot of spirit. The athletic department did a good job with marketing and handing out shirts students would want to wear.”

Still, those who are excited now might not have been at the outset of the transition.

“My initial thought was years of history for Maryland was going down the drain,” said Kevin Sims, a senior economics major.

Not only was the loss of tradition a cause for concern among Terps fans, but this university was also locked in a

athletic director kevin anderson (left) and Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany (right) chat during a celebration on the campus on July 1, the day this university officially joined the Big Ten conference. file photo/the diamondback heated lawsuit with the Atlantic Coast Conference over a pending exit fee. A mediated settlement in early August eased the switch, though.

“Due to the tireless effort the University and our athletic department put forth in the 18 months leading up to our move to the Big Ten, it’s been a seamless transition and we are off to an outstanding start both academically and athletically,” Athletic Director Kevin Anderson wrote in an email.

The widespread athletic success and addition of the Big Ten Network have also generated more fan support. The football program earned a 14 percent increase in attendance, the second-largest among Power-Five schools. Season ticket sales increased by 25 percent, and the university sold out two home games for the first time since 2007, according to Anderson.

“Big Ten teams bring in more fans, and it’s traditionally a tougher conference, which means more competition,” said Adolfo Blassino, a freshman computer engineering major.

The realignment has already led to

plans for changes to the campus, too.

In early December, the University System of Maryland Board of Regents approved plans to convert Cole Field House into an indoor football practice facility.

This university is the only Big Ten school without such a facility.

“The facility puts us on par with other schools for better recruiting,” said Justin Goldspiel, a junior accounting and management major. “The sports medicine and entrepreneurship centers are a plus for academics, too.”

In the next six months, five more Terps teams will be making their mark in the Big Ten: baseball, softball, women’s tennis and men’s and women’s lacrosse.

The baseball team was ranked in three preseason polls, and women’s lacrosse will be defending a national title.

“We have a promising future and understand there are always new and exciting challenges that are in front of us,” Anderson wrote. jeisenbergdbk@gmail.com

“WE DIDN’T DO AS WELL AS WE SHOULD From PAGE 8 HAVE, BUT OUR POTENTIAL IS THERE. In addition, neither 133pound Geoffrey Alexander nor WE KNOW WHAT WE 141-pound Shyheim Brown, HAVE TO IMPROVE both of whom resided in the ON, AND WE HAVE A top 20 at some point this season, could tack on points for COUPLE MORE WEEKS the Terps (5-12, 0-6 Big Ten).

BEFORE BIG TENS, SO Alexander, ranked No. 17, had WE KNOW WHAT WE a chance to avenge the 12-1 loss he suffered against No. 4 Zane Richards at the Midlands Championships in December. Instead, the rematch yielded a similar result, as Alexander succumbed to another loss by major decision.

Brown, meanwhile, nearly knocked off No. 12 Steven Rodrigues. But Rodrigues pulled out another close win for the Fighting Illini (10-4, 4-3) while handing Brown his sixth loss in the past seven matches.

“We underperformed a little bit, but overall we wrestled hard and didn’t get the results that we wanted,” said 125-pound Josh Polacek, who suffered a one-point loss to No. 1 Jesse Delgado in his match.

A string of tight defeats left the Terps scoreless after nine matches, meaning a loss by 149-pound Ben Dorsay would mark the team’s first shutout loss since its 47-0 loss to Missouri on Jan. 2, 2005.

But Dorsay, who hadn’t won since the Terrapin Duals on Nov. 2, earned a victory in his match to avoid a historic defeat.

With the score tied in the third period, the redshirt senior earned

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Terrapins 149-pound wrestler a takedown as time expired.

“I knew we were both exhausted,” Dorsay said. “With one minute left, I was just thinking to go all-out and give it everything you got, and everything will turn out the way you want it to.”

Even in a season without sustained success and hindered by injuries — Dorsay has dealt with a concussion, a partially torn LCL and a sprained ankle — his gritty performance late in the bout led to the team’s lone high point of the afternoon.

Dorsay’s teammates, however, failed to take control of winnable matches, a problem that leaves the Terps searching for their first-ever Big Ten win with three conference duals remaining.

“We didn’t do as well as we should have, but our potential is there,” Dorsay said. “We know what we have to improve on, and we have a couple more weeks before Big Tens, so we know what we got to do.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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OPINION

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STAFF EDITORIAL

ust two months ago, state Sen. Joan Carter Conway (D-Baltimore) introduced legislation to halt the appointment of Robert Caret as University System of Maryland chancellor and require approval of chancellor appointments by the General Assembly.

Caret, former president of the University of Massachusetts system as well as Towson University, has come under controversy for his involvement in establishing a joint MBA program between Towson and the University of Baltimore. Historically black Morgan State University claimed Caret was establishing a program similar to one it already offered, thus discouraging enrollment and diversity at Morgan State.

Though Conway’s concern over this case is warranted, this editorial board does not believe the best solution is to change the system chancellor appointment process altogether.

Conway has stated that she believes the process should be changed because the Board of Regents, which elected Caret, should not be trusted if it appoints a chancellor with such a background.

However, this idea ignores the fact that the Board of Regents might have appointed Caret because of his many other accomplishments or assumed his misstep regarding the joint MBA

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program was not large enough to disqualify him from consideration. We also know nothing about the other candidates the Board of Regents considered or whether these candidates had dealt with controversies as well.

OUR VIEW

The General Assembly should not complicate the University System of Maryland hiring process any further.

We can take a look at Caret’s track record to understand why he was hired: While heading the University of Massachusetts system, he negotiated with former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to establish a “50-50” funding plan to increase state funding by $100 million over just two years.

He helped drastically improve the University of Massachusetts system’s rankings and still likely holds strong connections with politicians in Annapolis from when he served as president of Towson University.

There’s no doubt Caret has the financial knowledge and leadership experience to help get this university’s budget (as well as others among this state’s universities) out of the red.

Outside of Caret’s accomplishments, this proposal seems like an unnecessary addition to the hiring process. While members of the Board of Regents appoint a chancellor, individuals cannot become members of the Board without approval from the governor and state Senate.

This state already plays a major role in higher education appointments for public universities. Not only does additional oversight seem extraneous, but it would replace a process in which experienced professionals (the Board of Regents) choose chancellors to one in which nearly 200 individuals — who likely have mixed ideologies regarding higher education — determine the leaders of our universities.

Sure, the General Assembly might vote on other issues about which its members have minimal knowledge, but a system as complex as higher education really needs to be managed by a dedicated group like the Board of Regents.

People might have their qualms with Caret, but overhauling the hiring process for the system seems like an extreme change for this state.

Students at this university likely value knowledgeable input and an efficient hiring process over the politicization of a university position.

Hopefully, Conway and her supporters understand that.

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My Facebook profile is not my resume EMMA ATLAS SENIOR

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jazzed up about systemically hiding my personal life.

We’re enablers of the continuance of a “please delete this” culture, in which our personal lives constantly threaten to bleed over into work. Students should put this into perspective. Social media is an expression of who we are — if you have to pretend to be someone else to work somewhere, is that going to be a healthy environment?

I can’t hope for a law forbidding employers from considering our social media presence. It’s above the board for employers to discriminate based on tattoos, piercings — essentially anything, save religion, that we obtain after we are born. My fight is a question of public standard. If my future employer came to my house and watched me through the windows, I would consider that an equivalent affront.

I know my standards seem relatively high. But we can only demonstrate that things have gone too far when we start to dig in our heels. It’s depressing to see how the Great Recession has made us OK with being forcibly, systemically probed.

If I find out that during a hiring process there was anything but a cursory search of me, I’m going to reconsider that work environment. If Googling “Emma Atlas” revealed a full page of letters lambasting me as the worst columnist The Diamondback has ever had, then sure, I think it’s worth a raised eyebrow, but I’ve officially abandoned the fear that my interviewer will discover me talking trash online or appearing to have a good time in a photo.

No, I am not The Infamous Emma Atlas, Feared Serial Killer, Town Drunk or Puppy Kicker. I’m just me. If picking over my boring life, my nerdy eccentricities and my bitter-sounding columns causes someone to question whether I’m “right for the company,” then they’re right; I’m not. You won’t see me put up a fight.

man I respect and admire once said that if he were denied a job position because of his hairstyle, he would rather have not worked there anyway.

Hearing this, I imagined reactions that just about ripped my soul out of my chest. “Ha ha, choosing your hair over your job? In this economy?”

My depressing vision aligned with reality the more I thought about it.

Professors often say to their classes, “Be careful what you post on Facebook” and “Clean up your Internet footprint” because “Employers will stalk you.” “We are the dead,” much?

After considering the dangerous balancing act of a private life on a public profile, I’ve landed on a single conclusion: I should have the seediest social media presence possible, because I would rather not work for anyone who feels my employment should hinge on my personal life.

I would start this column by saying, “At the risk of endangering future job offers” if I were worried about this column doing that, but my topic this week argues the opposite. Freedom of expression and the right to privacy are worth more to me than a job offer. I couldn’t work somewhere that boiled me down to a hairstyle, a profile and a checklist of misdeeds with few enough ticks to let me squeak by.

I’m not even scandalous. Yet in the past, I’ve found myself irrationally worried that tweeting about video games was going to make me unemployable. Businesswomen don’t tweet about video games. Businesswomen tweet, “I love being a productive team player” and “I love my long, thick track record of success.” Beggars can’t be choosers, they say. The job market is dismal. Emma Atlas is a senior government I’m not worth enough to complain. and politics major. She can be reached Possibly, and yet I can’t seem to get at eatlasdbk@gmail.com.

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GUEST COLUMN

A simple way to create change

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hat mark are we making in life throughout this generation? What can we leave for the next?

Nowadays, there are statues and monuments to honor those who made a difference in the past. What if I tell you we all can leave our legacy in this world if we just persevere?

If we were to jump over every single hurdle and obstacle, much like at a track meet, we could potentially do pretty great things. We don’t need to be Olympic racers or be on the Terrapins track team (but it is obviously awesome if we are) to jump over those hurdles, whatever they might be. We can simply work hard. This is something some of us are good at, while others need a bit of work.

As a full-time student in my first year at a big college, I often hear around the campus about how much homework someone has or how many tasks someone needs to complete. I’m definitely someone who understands that things are not always easy. In fact, things are usually never easy at all. What I often tell myself is that through hard work and maybe overcoming

a bit of adversity, people become smarter and grow as human beings.

This is my first priority at this university: gaining knowledge with every experience, learning and developing myself and my intellectual abilities — basically, getting to a place I thought I would never be.

This university is a very large campus. (I know this because I’m occasionally late for class.)

However, I like to think of it more as a small town; a little community, almost. Some people stay in the area, and some people, after spending some of their best years here, will move on to other things.

What I do hope all of us do, or continue to do, is not to lose sight of the personal things. We are in a time when we have unlimited access to everything, including not-sopersonal communication. We have this huge campus with all of these people, and I’m sure we have family and friends elsewhere, but how do we communicate with them? A text?

Facebook? It’s as though the further we advance in technology of that nature, the closer we get to borderline antisocial behavior.

Don’t get me wrong, I love texting

and Facebook as much as, or more than, the next person, but when we limit our human contact and rely completely on interacting through hand-held devices, it does something to us.

In all our endeavors, can we add something to the list? Try speaking face-to-face with someone you would normally text. Or introduce yourself — in person — to someone new. It sounds silly, I know, but taking steps like this helps keep us grounded.

Even though we are all looking forward and focusing on getting the job done, let’s not let communication take a backseat. We all want to make our mark in the world and in our generation, right? Well, making an impact is not limited to people who become rich or famous.

Just one simple interaction with someone could change a life. It seems small, but it might not be for someone else. This all figures into making a difference. Just some food for thought.

Kayla Culbreath is a sophomore English major. She can be reached at k.culbreath93@gmail.com.

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We should be mad at O’Malley and a decade’s worth of state delegates and senators for making unrealistic promises to the state, increasing government spending by nearly 25 percent even as revenues fell far short. Over the past eight years, various state taxes were raised 40 times while the state authorized the sale of billions of dollars in bonds to cover the shortfall in state tax revenue. Those bonds began to mature this year, and the state will be forced to spend more money covering debt than it will on school construction in the current budget.

Even with all these additional taxes and bond sales, our state still didn’t have a balanced budget. Just days after the end of last year’s legislative session, the Board of Public Works made the decision to cut $77 million from the budget in an attempt to bring this state’s deficit back in order. This past December, the Baltimore Sun reported that O’Malley’s budget left the state in a $1.2 billion budget hole before the former governor and Hogan took action.

Hogan’s budget totals $16.4 billion, not a penny more than the state will take in through tax revenues.

It does not borrow against this state’s future by selling bonds that will cost the state far greater amounts of money when a new administration comes into office. It does not raise taxes or drive businesses away from the state with excessive regulations. What it does is spend what we have. It also covers for the deficits left behind by the previous administration. Governing effectively is not about appeasing everyone; it is about doing the right thing and taking responsibility.

Thank you, Gov. Hogan.

ver the past two weeks, the focus of conversation in state politics has been the new budget proposed by Republican Gov. Larry Hogan. Talk over complicated subjects like the state budget can be confusing, so it’s important to clear the air on some very important facts about the Hogan budget.

K-12 education is funded at the highest level in state history, school construction is fully funded at $289 million, higher education spending has increased by 1.3 percent and major transit projects such as the Purple and Red lines are fully funded for the upcoming fiscal year.

Unlike at the federal level, our state budget needs to be balanced every single year. In this state, our elected officials do not have the choice to be responsible for the budget or not. It is a requirement.

Hogan’s budget doesn’t give everyone what they want. As The Diamondback and other publications have highlighted, tuition for students at several public universities in this state is increasing this semester, and university employees will be furloughed. At the same time, many state employees will not receive a scheduled cost-of-living adjustment pay increase.

Should we be mad at Hogan for these tough decisions? No. Not one bit. The conversation over this budget began eight years ago, with the first budget released in former Gov. Martin O’Malley administration, which began a spending spree Sam Wallace is a junior government that has harmed this state’s economy and politics major. He can be reached at swallacedbk@gmail.com. and citizens in the long run.

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saturday night live is celebrating 40 years on television. VH1 Classic started a 19-day SNL marathon Thursday; an NBC special airs next weekend. photo courtesy of heresyourfix.wordpress.com LASTING IMPACT | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

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By Maeve Dunigan @maevedunigan Staff writer Forty, though just an unassuming even number, can often prove to be a very significant one. Forty was the age your uncle turned when he liquidated your cousin’s college fund and bought that Ferrari he always wanted.

Forty is a composite number and an octagonal number.

Fo r t y i s t h e m a x i m u m number of players a majorleague baseball team can have on its roster. Forty serves as the atomic number of zirconium. In more recent news, 40 also happens to be how old the famed sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live is turning this year.

Such a big birthday obviously merits a big celebration. If the three-hour special Saturday Night Live is already planning to air on Feb. 15 wasn’t enough, then the 19-day SNL marathon that VH1 Classic has just begun definitely sets the occasion apart from other televised anniversaries.

Throughout its 40-year run, Saturday Night Live has allowed its audience to take a break from — and laugh at — the realities of daily life.

Although viewers might have had a paper due in the morning or an assignment for work that they had yet to complete, at 11:30 on a Saturday night, sometimes all that mattered was Tina Fey’s funny accent or Chris Farley wearing a blonde wig.

Saturday Night Live has been the starting point for the careers of many of the most beloved actors. The list is exceedingly long; many co m e dy g rea ts a cq u i re d

their fame while donning costumes and doing absurd accents on the SNL stage.

From Chevy Chase to Eddie Murphy to Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live’s ability to turn a simple aspiring comedian into a well-known (and, almost always, well-liked) actor is a testament to SNL’s selection process.

I can remember some of the first SNL episodes I viewed.

Back then, it was amazing if I was still conscious by the time “Weekend Update”rolled around. Watching Tina Fey and Amy Poehler tag-team the segment was undoubtedly one of the forces that piqued my interest in the world of sketch comedy. Saturday Night Live taught me that when writing comedy, no idea is too stupid or too strange.

If it weren’t for SNL, I probably wouldn’t have had the courage to audition for and participate in sketch comedy groups here at this university.

Each episode of Saturday Night Live serves as a snapshot of what was going on in pop culture and politics at the time it aired. I can remember my fits of laughter the first time I watched Rachel Dratch make faces at the camera as she starred as “Debbie Downer.” Or watching as Will Ferrell impersonated George W. Bush, as Mark Zuckerberg met Jesse Eisenberg (who portrayed him in the film The Social Network) or, more recently, as Cecily Strong did her best Sarah Koenig impression in order to parody the hit podcast Serial.

T h e “ We e ke n d Up d a te ” segment alone is enough for viewers to tell exactly what absurdities were taking place in and around the U.S. when the episode aired.

Notable snl characters through its 40 years include Sarah Palin, portrayed by Tina Fey, and Will Ferrell’s George Bush. photos courtesy of (from top) telegraph.co.uk and film.com.

The music segment on SNL has always been an important complement to the sketches that take up the majority of the program. The Saturday Night Live stage has been home to countless musical greats throughout the years, including the Grateful Dead, Elton John, Madonna, Neil Young and Lady Gaga.

E a c h i n s ta l l m e n t i s a package of sorts that manages to capture the essence of life when the episode was made, and it’s all wrapped up with a hilarious, satirical bow.

The bits, jokes and catchy one-liners on Saturday Night Live are a force in themselves.

It’s hard to hear the sound of a bell keeping the beat in a song without also thinking about Christopher Walken saying that he’s “got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.” Upon seeing

the logo for Chicago’s football team, no one can avoid trying a Chicago accent and proclaiming that it’s “da Bears.”

And, of course, everybody knows that Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house.

Ho p e f u l ly, t h e p h ra se “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!” will always be a familiar one. As surely as Saturday night event u a l ly b e c o m e s S u n d ay morning, Saturday Night Live has always been, and surely always will be, able to entertain its audience.

The show has managed to promote the idea that even though politics, celebrities and current events can get a bit dark or strange, there’s a bit of comedy in everything.

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- The Hunger of the Wolf by Stephen Marche (Feb. 3): Readers of Esquire already know that Stephen Marche has a lot to say. In his column for the storied magazine, Marche voices his opinions, and he voices them quite well. His work can be long and sometimes controversial, which is why the release of his new novel is so intriguing. The story begins with a body found in the Canadian wilderness.

The deceased was the heir to America’s second-largest business dynasty, and his death is surrounded by questions. From that patch of tragic snow, Marche takes us back through multiple generations, through all the money, secrets and actions that eventually led to the death of this young man.

The novel is being touted as a broad work of power, one that deals as deftly with financial power struggle as it does with the complexity of a father-son relationship.

Through the twist and turns, Marche paints a picture of American money not soon to be forgotten.

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by Neil Gaiman (Feb. 3): The unquestionably skilled author of American Gods returns with this collection of short stories that is all over the map. Always one to embrace the fantastical, Gaiman does not limit his writing to one genre.

Covering everything from poetry to horror to sci-fi, this book is sure to give a broad look at the talents of a literary heavyweight.

- The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman (Feb. 10): Already released to acclaim in the United K ingdom, Sandra Newman’s third novel has finally reached the States. This dystopian tale creates a world in which a plague has rendered the planet free of adults.

Everyone dies before age 20 of a mysterious disease.

There is no treatment and no hope. When a girl named Ice Cream Star realizes her older brother is starting to show symptoms of the deadly affliction, she sets off to chase rumors of a cure.

Her journey blends lessons of adolescence with a thrilling dystopian landscape, creating a feeling of fear and excitement all its own.

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complishment might be her use of language in this book as she adapts her writing to show what the English language might be like in a world of children.

- I a m Ra d a r by Re i f L a rs e n ( Fe b. 2 4 ) : I a m Radar begins in 1975 with the birth of a black child to white parents. Doctors are perplexed, chalking it up to an unexplainable wonder.

One could say the same of the rest of this novel as, over 650 pages, best-selling author Reif Larsen takes readers through Radar’s life and its myriad of historical settings and incomprehensible circumstances. Publisher’s Weekly called Larsen an “effortless magician,” and by all accounts, I am Radar is shaping up to be his greatest trick yet.

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- L i fe o f P i b y Ya n n Martel: Director Ang Lee’s masterful work made the 2012 film adaptation stunningly beautiful and earned him an Oscar, but no movie could truly capture the depth of character and emotion put forth by the 2001 book.

- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer: When the movie of Foer’s brilliant 9/11 novel was nominated for best picture in 2013, not everyone was happy. Rightfully so, as this film is always going to come off as weak in comparison to the novel. Foer’s greatest accomplishment is to capture the emotional mix of a child’s wonderment and fear in a semi-magical reality that could never be replicated onscreen.

- The Wolf of Wall Street

by Jordan Belfort: There was only one simple flaw with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s stab at Belfort’s wild memoir: It was too long. So much happens in this biography that Scorsese could never fit it all and maintain his typical level of brilliance.

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Wells said he’ll shoulder the task of getting the team re-energized after absorbing the shellacking in Columbus.

“I got to be a lot tougher on these guys in practice,” Wells said outside the Terps locker room in the Value City Arena. “I’m actually excited for practice tomorrow. Just wipe this off our mind, and we’ll be back tomorrow.”

on 7-for-11 shooting to go along with seven assists.

Center Brionna Jones added 19 points, 17 of which came in the second half, and 15 rebounds for her eighth double-double on the season and third in a row.

The win gives the Terps a two-game lead in the Big Ten standings, though Frese’s team took a while to get going on Super Bowl Sunday in College Park.

In fact, Iowa (17-4, 8-2), which knocked down 19 of 28 3-pointers against Northwestern on Thursday, opened Sunday’s game with a similar hot shooting streak. The Hawkeyes drilled back-toback 3-pointers and added a layup in the first two minutes of the contest to jump out to an early 8-0 lead.

The Hawkeyes hit six of their first seven shots from behind the arc, but the Terps’ perimeter defense improved as the game progressed.

“We learn a team within the game,” Frese said. “It took some lapses in the first half, but [we] really locked in in the second half.”

With Iowa shooting better than 50 percent from the floor, the Terps relied on their ability to get to the free-throw line to keep the game close. They earned 35 free throws and sank 28 of them.

And after the Terps trailed at the break for the first time in conference play, they made an adjustment at halftime to work the ball inside more to Jones, and they reaped the benefits.

“I just had to work harder to get open and present myself to be open to my teammates,” Jones said. “That was the

TRIMBLE’S TREND For two and a half months, Melo Trimble’s freshman season had been more about success and praise than missteps and learning experiences. The point guard scored 31 points in his fourth career game, earned his way onto the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 and had the Terps out to a 6-2 start to conference play.

But then came Thursday night.

In his first humbling hiccup of the season, Trimble scored a career-low three points and failed to make a field goal in the blowout loss at Ohio State. The Terps couldn’t get anything going on the night, and Trimble’s passive play — he finished 0 for 8 from the field — was at the heart of their struggles.

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the Buckeyes continued a recent trend of play from the rookie. In the past four games, he averaged 25.5 points over two home wins but averaged 6.5 points in two road losses.

Trimble has averaged 11.6 points in five conference road games, but he has scored 20.5 points per home game during Big Ten play. And, as last week’s results evinced, the team struggles when Trimble isn’t scoring. The Upper Marlboro native averages 15.7 points per game on the season, but has averaged just 11.5 points per contest over the Terps’ four losses.

Still, Wells said after the loss at Ohio State that the team’s faith in its floor general hasn’t wavered.

“He’s going to be a lot better next game, and he’ll be a lot more aggressive next game,” Wells said.

The Terps, now 6-3 in the Big Ten, follow their trip to Ohio State with a home game against Penn State on Wednesday. And though the Nittany Lions are 12th in the Big Ten standings, Wells said the Terps won’t take any team lightly.

When last-place Northwestern visited Xfinity Center on Jan. 25, the Terps fell into a double-digit hole and needed a frantic comeback in the last four minutes to sidestep an upset.

“We have to take it one game at a time and be prepared for whatever comes out,” Wells said.

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Moseley and the Terps are now 10-0 in conference play. marquise mckine/the diamondback major change I made in the second half.”

A f te r n o t re c o rd i n g a field-goal attempt in the first half, the sophomore scored the Terps’ first 12 points of the second half b e fo re Fre s e gave h e r a breather at the 13:42 mark.

Jones pulled down nine offensive rebounds — one more than Iowa as a team — which helped the Terps earn a 28-6 edge on second-chance points. While it was Jones who did most of the damage

early in the second half, the ball was in Brown’s hands during the final possessions.

He r l ay u p i n t h e f i n a l minute and steal o n the Hawkeyes’ ensuing possession capped her most productive game of the season, kept the Terps perfect in conference play and extended a lengthy win streak. “‘Big Shot Brown’ down the stretch in terms of the confidence that she had,” Frese said. rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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depth From PAGE 8 and then she stepped in for us on floor, and she’s just doing a phenomenal job.”

Junior Kathy Tang is also dealing with an injury after jamming her ankle during her floor routine at Penn State on Jan. 24, Nelligan said.

“She did a great job of kind of putting her pain aside for uneven bars and vault, but we knew it would be too much to push her on floor,” Nelligan said.

Karen Tang, Kathy Tang’s sister, performed in her place to score a 9.65 in her first appearance in the event this year.

Some Terps gymnasts have also managed to compete while not at optimal health.

Sophomore Sarah Faller, for instance, rolled her ankle days before the Terps’ seasonopening competition against George Washington and West Virginia on Jan. 9 but has yet to miss a competition in the leadoff spots on bars and beam.

Senior Stephanie Giameo,

p u s h i n g t h ro u g h a to r n labrum, has competed on beam and floor each meet.

Freshman Abbie Epperson has shown steady improvement each competition on vault and bars while dealing with lingering issues from a shin injury.

Despite the health concerns, Nelligan’s squad has increased its overall score in each outing, posting a seasonbest 195.275 against Iowa.

With little time for rest and recovery with the upcoming grueling slate of competitions, the Terps’ depth in each event provides a cushion in case injury struggles persist.

“It’s never easy to have [injuries], but we have such a big team, and everyone is ready on everything, so as sad as it is to see someone go, to have a new person step in and take their spot — it’s really exciting to see our whole team can contribute,” Epperson said.

“We’re a team. It’s not just whoever’s up in the first six.

It’s nice to see everyone show their stuff.” ccaplandbk@gmail.com

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Turgeon turns to Terps’ seniors Coach looks at veterans for leadership; Trimble falters at Buckeyes

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

guard melo trimble drives past Ohio State guard Shannon Scott on Thursday. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

Before the Terrapins men’s basketball team traveled to Columbus, Ohio, and suffered an 80-56 loss to Ohio State on Thursday, coach Mark Turgeon asked forward Jon Graham a question in front of the entire team.

“Why do you care so much?”

Turgeon recalled asking.

“Because it’s my last year, coach,” Graham responded.

As the No. 16 Terps look to rebound

from a shaky three-game stretch that culminated in Thursday’s blowout, Turgeon expects Graham and the three other seniors in the team’s rotation to set the tone for a resurgence.

Senior guard Dez Wells has been the Terps’ vocal leader for the past two seasons, and teammates have turned to Graham for leadership as well. Graduate transfer guard Richaud Pack and forward Evan Smotrycz are the Terps’ other two senior contributors.

Turgeon’s team has a unique mix of veterans and newcomers. The

fourth-year coach hasn’t had this many seniors on his roster since he arrived in College Park, but he also leans on four freshmen to play key roles. That’s why it’s so important that his most experienced players set positive examples, Turgeon said.

“Our seniors care,” he said. “We’re just trying to get everybody to care as much so you follow game plans.

And we’re having a great year. I’m proud of my guys, but I just want us to get better.”

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL | No. 5 TERPS 93, No. 20 HAWKEYES 88

WRESTLING

Illinois cruises to 32-3 win Terps fall short of first Big Ten victory

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer Terrapins 285-pound wrestler Spencer Myers remained in position to ride out his opponent Brooks Black and extend the bout during the tiebreaker of his heavyweight match against No. 14 Illinois.

But moments before time expired, Black broke free, earning a point for his escape to win the match. Myers, the No. 8 wrestler in his weight class, looked on as Black paced around the mat, pumping his fists in the air while Fighting Illini faithful at Huff Hall rejoiced.

Myers’ close defeat followed a trend of the dual against Illinois, which secured decisions in all but one match.

The Terps wrestled competitively — six of their nine losses came by four points or fewer — but their inability to close out matches resulted in a 32-3 defeat Friday night.

“A little bit disappointing that we didn’t perform better overall,” coach Kerry McCoy said. “But there were some good things that happened, and we just have to build off of that.”

In his loss to Black, Myers tasted defeat for the first time this season.

The Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, native, who rejoined the team in early January after playing football in the fall, entered the dual 4-0, including a win over No. 14 Billy Smith of Rutgers on Jan. 18.

Still, McCoy isn’t satisfied with the heavyweight’s performance despite a quality start to his redshirt senior campaign.

“He’s not going out there and wrestling to his ability,” McCoy said. “He’s just wrestling tight and afraid to lose.”

See illini, Page 3

guard lexie brown dribbles up the court during the No. 5 Terps’ victory over No. 20 Iowa. Brown’s 26 points and center Brionna Jones’ 19 points and 15 rebounds led the team past the Hawkeyes. marquise mckine/the diamondback

FLYING TO no. 13 Brown’s season-high 26 points lead to 13th straight win

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer Lexie Brown sprinted down the floor on a fast break against Iowa before dishing the ball to fellow Terrapins women’s basketball guard Brene Moseley. Moseley adjusted in midair, absorbed contact from a defender and finished the layup, sending a raucous crowd at Xfinity

Center to its feet.

Moseley sunk the free throw to give the No. 5 Terps a two-point lead with 7:46 remaining, and for the remainder of the 93-88 victory, the team never allowed No. 20 Iowa to reclaim the lead.

Brown was the focal point of the offense Sunday, leading the Terps (19-2, 10-0 Big Ten) and helping to close out their 13th straight win.

She scored seven points in the final 1:30, including a crucial layup that gave the Terps a four-

point lead with 38 seconds left.

“I’ve just been more confident in my offensive game,” Brown said. “Coach [Brenda Frese] has really been telling us to push the ball in transition, get teams on their heels. When you have teams on their heels it’s a lot easier to score, and that goes for all the guards.”

Brown finished with a season-high 26 points See hawkeyes, Page 7

GYMNASTICS

Depth gives Nelligan options as injury troubles mount Skochko, Slobodin step up to take on enhanced responsibilities

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer

senior Shannon Skochko performs on the floor during a victory over then-No. 11 Minnesota on Jan. 15 at Xfinity Center. Skochko has competed in three events over the past two weeks. christian jenkins/the diamondback

When redshirt freshman Leah Slobodin competed on balance beam for the first time in her Terrapins gymnastics career Friday night at Iowa, it marked an emotional return from an Achilles injury that ended her first year before it began.

Slobodin’s nearly flawless routine garnered a 9.80 score and brought senior Karen Tang to tears. But if sophomore teammate Nikki Dragon had been healthy, Slobodin might have been left out of Friday’s beam lineup altogether.

As the Terps move into perhaps

the most grueling part of their schedule, with four competitions over a span of three weekends this month, the Terps have relied on their depth to contribute in the wake of numerous injuries.

“I just prepare the same every week, whether someone’s hurt or someone’s not,” senior Shannon Skochko said. “But when someone’s out and we have to step up, I think that just kind of motivates me a little bit more … to be there for my team and make sure that we have a nice hit routine, even if someone’s injured.”

Skochko has competed on vault and beam in every meet this season, and she scored a 9.85 and 9.70, respectively, in those events Friday. The

past two meets, however, she has also substituted for Dragon, who is still suffering tenderness and blurriness from an eye injury she suffered against Minnesota on Jan. 15 on floor exercise.

Though coach Brett Nelligan anticipates Dragon will be cleared early this week to compete in some fashion Saturday against Michigan, Skochko has made a favorable impression in her expanded role.

“Shannon is kind of one of those unsung heroes,” Nelligan said. “She’s quietly dominating three events for us, and I say that quietly because maybe she’s not anchor on any of them, but she’s fifth up on two events See depth, Page 7