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Bill would require virus response plans It was inspired by the 2018 adenovirus outbreak at UMD Maryland lawmakers on Tuesday heard arguments for a bill that would aim to improve colleges and universities’ responses to outbreaks on their campuses — inspired in part by the adenovirus outbreak at the University of Maryland in 2018.

House Bill 187 — brought to the House Appropriations Committee by Del. Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D-21) — would require all public higher education institutions to annually submit an outbreak response plan to the state health department starting next year.

In a proposed amendment to the legislation, Peña-Melnyk requested that the bill’s name be changed to “Olivia’s Law.” The name would honor university freshman Olivia Paregol, who died in fall 2018 after she contracted adenovirus, which sickened more than 40 students by the end of the semester.

University officials didn’t notify the campus community until 18 days after it knew about the outbreak — a situation lawmakers hope could be prevented in the future if the bill becomes law. The legislation would require a response plan with a process of “expediently notifying” students and their families, as well as faculty and staff, about outbreaks.

In November, an independent report found that though the university followed protocol, communication between departments could have been improved.

“The problem was that the University of Maryland did not give notice immediately,” Peña-Melnyk said.

The bill requires each institution’s response plan to include protocol for isolating infected by

‘We want to break the cycle’ Facing a power imbalance, many UMD doctoral students feel they’re denied the tools they need to navigate conflicts with their advisers

Eric Neugeboren @eric_neugeboren Staff writer

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By Angela Roberts | @24_angier | Senior staff writer mArk shayman, ombuds officer for the University of Maryland’s graduate school, said there are about half a dozen advisers he’d consider “serial abusers.” suze creedon/the diamondback

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.ucked away in a maze of classrooms on the second floor of the University of Maryland’s A.V. Williams Building is a place where graduate students can air grievances against their advisers without fear of retribution.

From the other side of a wide desk, swept free of clutter, Mark Shayman, the graduate school’s ombuds officer, listens as they share their stories.

Some say their advisers are making them work 80 hours a week, quadruple the amount of time they’re supposed to. They describe the emails they’ve received from their advisers — the kind that are laced with “four letter words” and denunciations that they’re the stupidest student to come through their program in 20 years. Still others come to him after they’ve been dismissed from their positions, a move that could destroy them academically and financially.

In the nearly four years Shayman has served as ombuds officer, a handful of advisers have been brought up to him again and again.

“I could probably name maybe half a dozen faculty members that are serial abusers,” he said. “And nothing happens to them.”

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Chinese study abroad trips suspended Coronavirus outbreak has infected 14K, killed 300 The University of Clara Longo de Freitas M a r y l a n d a n n o u n c e d @clongode1 We d n e s d a y i t w o u l d Staff writer suspend study abroad programs in China for the spring semester amid an outbreak of coronavirus.

In a campuswide email, Provost Mary Ann Rankin wrote that the university also will stop authorizing travel to China “until further notice.”

The virus — which originated in Wuhan, China — had infected at least 14,000 people in the country as of Sunday night and killed over 300, according to The New York Times.

It causes pneumonia, and in severe cases, organ failure.

On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended avoiding all non-essential travel to China. The university study abroad programming in China included the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Dalian. None of the cities are located in Hubei, where Wuhan is located.

There have been no confirmed cases of coronavirus in the state of Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan wrote in a press release Wednesday morning. by

Last semester, a story lit across national news, stirring up conversation among administrators at this university and making the urgency of addressing student mistreatment all too clear. In October, the Wisconsin State Journal published a lengthy account of a “toxic” lab environment that had proliferated for years under an abusive adviser at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Few knew how bad it was until a research assistant killed himself in 2016.

“It could happen here,” Shayman said.

For students who run into issues with their advisers, this university’s graduate school offers mediation and counseling services. The school’s website hosts two 1,000-and-some word grievance policies and a form where students can anonymously submit reports of abuse.

But some graduate students say these resources don’t cast a strong enough safety net.

A coalition of graduate student workers is calling for a change to the current system: They want the right to unionize and negotiate binding contracts with the graduate school. It’s a solution that’s currently prohibited under Maryland law, and one that the

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A watchdog group filed a formal complaint against the University of Maryland last week, urging an investigation into problems with how guinea pigs involved in research were treated last year.

In a routine public information act, Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! — an Ohio-based group that monitors research facilities in the U.S. — came across a university document that detailed issues with how guinea

pigs used for research were treated at the time of April 2019 inspections. They’d been overcrowded and left without sufficient water, the document read, and there was no evidence that post-surgical anasthesia had been used.

To compound it, documentation surrounding their treatment was lacking — there were no surgical, anesthesia or post-operative records available at the time of the inspection, in addition to missing animal identification, husbandry logs and USDA records, the document read.

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Additionally, staff had “incomplete knowledge” of documents and procedures, according to the document.

In a statement sent by a university spokesperson, research vice president Laurie Locascio said the university stopped the work on the study “immediately” after a university official reported the guinea pigs’ treatment. Furthermore, the protocols tied to noncompliance were suspended and the university implemented staff retraining and additional supervision. “ T h e p ro p e r ca re a n d u se o f

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The passenger was issued a civil citation for less than 10 grams of marijuana and was released.

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An officer stopped a male student holding an open container of alcohol on Wednesday at about 12:40 a.m. near College Avenue, Hoaas wrote. The male was issued a civil citation and referred to the Office of Student Conduct.

On the same night, in the same area, an officer stopped a female student at 12:28 a.m., Hoaas wrote. She was also issued a civil citation and referred to the Office of Student Conduct.

On Monday, Jan. 27, an officer stopped a stolen vehicle in the 7100 block of Baltimore Avenue. An officer was near Baltimore Avenue and Campus Drive at about 2:15 p.m., police spokesperson Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas wrote. The officer ran a registration check of a blue vehicle with a Maryland tag.

The registration returned a vehicle in Prince George’s County that was reported stolen Jan. 19.

A male driver and male passenger were ordered out of the vehicle. Both were handcuffed and transported to University Police headquarters for processing.

The driver, identified as Donell Dajuan Davis, 26, of Washington D.C., was arrested. He was charged with motor vehicle theft and rogue and vagabond. There was no contact information listed for Davis or his attorney listed on online court records.

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Burglary University Police responded to the Chemistry Building at about 9:15 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 27, for a report of burglary. Electronics were stolen from a room between Jan. 24 and 27. The area was processed for evidence collection. A review of cameras is underway, Hoaas wrote.

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Clara Niel s c o o t e r s o n @vballclra12 the University Staff writer o f M a r y l a n d campus must be parked in specific areas starting Feb. 3, as part of a series of new safety rules DOTS plans to enforce.

To accomodate the new rules, the Department o f Tra n s p o r ta t i o n Se rvices created 27 e-scooter parking sites across the campus, which riders can find through an app called VeoRide.

Under other new regulations, riders also can’t text, ride while impaired or ride with another passenger.

Un ive rs i ty o f M a ryl a n d Police can issue a citation to riders found violating the regulations.

DOTS officials say the rules were added to keep scooter riders and those around them safe.

However, some feel they’re unnecessary.

Senior information science major Max Lobel said he feels the new parking regulations are trying to fix something that isn’t broken.

“I think it’s a little silly that now you have to go out of your way to park the scooters,” Lobel said. “They have convenient bike spots and it’s not like I’m throwing it right in front of the building.”

But David Tomblin, director of College Park Scholars’ Science, Technology and Society program, said he was pleased by the new rules. Near the end of last semester, Tomblin started a petition for more e-scooter regulations on the campus, which received roughly 100 signatures.

“I felt like there wasn’t anything being done and I was just walking around campus and I was getting k i n d a a n g r y a b o u t i t ,” To m b l i n s a i d . “ T h e r e we re sco o te rs l i t te re d everywhere.”

The new rules come after this university gained about 70 e-scooters from their partnership with the e-scooter rental company Ve o R i d e l a s t s e m e s te r, DOTS Director David Allen sa i d . A n o t h e r e - sco o t e r company, BIR D, also brought scooters to this campus for a test run of a 30-day rental program.

“The [BIRD] program was very successful but we had far, far more than 75 scooters,” Allen said. “So it was determined that we should have some policies and regulations for these scooters.”

If not parked in the designated areas, the scooters

It was determined that we should have some policies and regulations for these scooters.

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will be tagged and relocated to their proper parking spots, just like a normal vehicle, Allen said.

Under Maryland transportation laws, scooters fall into the same categories as bicycles, meaning they must also be driven on the roads and follow all traffic laws, said police spokesperson Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas.

Multiple university departments, such as DOTS, University Police and the Office of General Counsel, came together to create the e-scooter regulations after reviewing other university practices and considering campus needs, according to

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D OTS ’ “ sco o t s m a r t” campaign aims to educate t h e ca m p u s co m m u n i ty on the new directive this semester through pop-up events and posters in dorms, said DOTS spokesperson Cara Fleck.

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graduate school has opposed for years.

“That’s the main way the root of this problem can be solved,” said Adelaida Shelley, an American Studies doctoral student.

***** They’ll contact Alessandra Zimmermann on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter. Some have just stepped out from meetings during which their advisers pressed them to leave their labs. Others are petrified that’s about to happen.

All are frantic, and desperate for guidance.

Zimmermann, now the exe c u t ive d i re c to r o f a company that offers advice on writing grant proposals, got a call once while she in Washington, D.C. She was busy that day, she told the shaken doctoral student on the other end, but she could meet tomorrow. “‘No, I need advice right this second or else I’m going to blow up,’” she recalled the student saying. “So I just sat down in a coffee shop and had a phone call with them.”

She understands their urgency. She’s been there before.

In the summer between her second and third year in the biochemistry doctoral program at this university, she said her adviser — Paul Paukstelis — suddenly announced that she wasn’t progressing quickly enough.

A n d wh i l e P a u k s te l i s stressed that he has never pressured a student to take a master’s degree, Zimmermann remembers him telling her that she had two options: leave the university then and there with a master’s degree, or leave with nothing.

Zimmermann did neither — she fought to stay. Now, years later, she said she’s become a sort of shepherd for students in similar situations. She has counseled at least five, listening as they vent, then explaining how to salvage their graduate school careers.

A week after Z immermann’s meeting with Paukstelis, she started looking for a new adviser, Googling around for candidates. Within two weeks, she was in a new lab — and spent the rest of her time at this university co-advised by faculty in the biochemistry and bioengineering departments.

Switching advisers doesn’t go as smoothly for everyone, though. Academia is widely recognized as a community where connections are currency. So, for many graduate students, leaving one adviser for another becomes an exercise in cooling tensions to avoid burning bridges.

Breaking apart a relationship where so much hangs in the balance can be fraught with fear and anxiety, but the process receives little acknowledgement in the rulebooks of schools and colleges across campus. Few doctoral programs host a policy on their website or handbook explaining how a dissolution should proceed.

One of these lonely departments is Zimmermann’s. It created the policy after Zimmermann and two colleagues sent a letter to the chemistry and biochemistry department chair, detailing reforms they wanted to see.

The department took their feedback to heart.

In May, administrators posted a policy on their website that explains the steps advisers and students should take if they want to dissolve their relationship.

The policy describes the procedure students should follow when changing re-

Alessandra zimmermann, a former doctoral student at UMD, has become a shepherd for others facing conflict with their advisers. search groups, as well as a series of obligations they should honor: It requires students to return research materials before leaving, for instance.

It also encourages advisers to discuss their concerns with students, and vice versa, as soon as they arise. Should a student continue to come up short, faculty members are required to communicate the issues to the student in writing and give them 30 days to make adjustments — and an additional 30-day notice of their dismissal, if the adviser continues to be dissatisfied.

Six months after the policy was posted on the department’s website, biochemistry graduate program director Douglas Julin said he hadn’t heard of it being used by students or faculty members.

But, at least in his program, Julin said the dissolution of an adviser relationship is rare — since he became director in 2010, he said he can only remember two times a biochemistry student was dropped by their adviser.

However, he added that there have been cases where a student entered the program as a doctoral student and wound up leaving with a master’s degree instead. Maybe adviser-related issues contributed to some of these early departures, Julin said, but he can’t know for sure.

Still, Julin said, he’s glad to have the policy.

“This happens in graduate programs everywhere,” he said. “I think it’s probably better to have it written down — ‘This is how you should go about doing it.’”

However, graduate school dean Steve Fetter said it wouldn’t be appropriate for the graduate school to adopt an umbrella version of the chemistry and biochemistry’s department policy, since students’ experiences vary so much by department.

But Shayman said having a broader version of that department’s policy would “make sense.” Then, he said, it would be helpful if each college filled in specifics about how the dissolution should be handled.

***** In a conversation with Shayman about advisers mistreating students, Fetter shared a policy that allows the graduate school dean to remove or suspend faculty from the graduate school — revoking, at least temporarily, their rights to teach classes and advise students.

The policy was published in the graduate student catalogue two years ago, Fetter said, but this was Shayman’s first time hearing about it.

“It would be a huge penalty to those faculty members and presumably, a big deterrent,” Shayman said.

In an email, a university spokesperson declined to comment on whether the policy has ever been used to suspend or remove a faculty member, calling it a personnel issue.

The policy doesn’t give Fetter the power to revoke tenure — a step, Shayman said, would almost certainly result in litigation.

According to University System of Maryland policy, tenured professors can only be terminated for “moral turpitude, professional or scholarly misconduct, incompetence, or willful neglect of duty.” If a faculty member is simply a bad adviser, their job is likely safe, said former graduate school assistant dean Jeffrey Franke.

“Unless it’s egregious, you can’t get rid of a tenure track faculty member,” said Franke, who has since moved on to a position in the behavioral and social sciences college.

“That’s what tenure means — it’s a job for life, there’s no retirement age.”

The graduate students who seek Shayman’s help often feel wronged, and many want to see some sort of punishment handed down. Often, though, students don’t want to risk stirring the pot.

So, Shayman frequently tells students to first concentrate on securing a new adviser and source of funding.

He tells them that after they graduate — and are no longer in danger of facing retaliation — they could consider writing a letter to the chair of the department or asking for a faceto-face meeting to share their experience. Doing so would have the highest likelihood of affecting an adviser’s career if they have yet to receive tenure, Shayman said.

However, Shayman said, it’s not his job to go after faculty members “My job is to help the student and to somehow get the student to a safe situation and hopefully be able to stay in school and finish their degree and go on with their life,” he said. “I’m not a prosecutor.”

***** Shayman said the graduate school has been taking some big steps to offer students a greater sense of protection.

“All of a sudden, things are really moving forward,” he said.

Since last year, Fetter said the school has hosted a mentorship guide for faculty members on its website. The school also hosts a companion guide for doctoral students, which offers sugges-

tions on “mentoring up” to their advisers.

On top of this, Fetter described recent efforts to help graduate students seek out their own funding, so they don’t have to rely solely on their advisers. This year, he said the graduate school contracted with a market research firm, which has provided a series of webinars and training sessions for students writing grant applications.

Even when funding isn’t in the mix, graduate students often still depend on their advisers to usher them through their academic careers and provide them with the professional networks to find a job.

But Frank said it’s really up to individual colleges to develop a culture where graduate students can thrive — one that supports collaborative relationships and doesn’t approve of faculty members who are “bad apples.”

“We can provide best practices and we can say here are the ideals, but it has to happen at the local levels,” Franke said.

***** Last March, Zimmermann stared up at a panel of state legislators from behind a sturdy oak desk. She was terrified.

But when she spoke in support of a bill that would legalize unionization for graduate assistants, her voice didn’t waver.

Over the 5 ½ years she’d been at Maryland, she told the Senate Finance Committee, she’d been a research assistant and taught 17 courses as a teaching assistant. In both roles, she said she saw professors abuse their power — sometimes rising to the level of “psychological torture.”

Sen. Delores Kelley nodded knowingly. Sadly, the committee’s chair told Zimmermann, many of the professors who now mistreat their students are only mimicking the way they were treated when they were in graduate school.

“We want to break the cycle,” Zimmermann replied.

Zimmermann’s testimony built upon a long fight by activists at the university to win collective bargaining rights for graduate assistants — a category encompassing most doctoral students at Maryland.

Over the past two decades, lawmakers have heard nine bills that would have granted collective bargaining rights to graduate student workers.

Legislators listen with varying degrees of sympathy to the impassioned pleas of activists — and the fight usually stalls there, the bills dying in committee without receiving broader debate. That’s what

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happened last year.

But the battle rages on.

On Tuesday, delegates heard this year’s bill in the House Appropriations Committee, and its companion is planned to drop in the Senate on Monday.

Because the ombuds officer, the grievance procedure, guidebooks, counselors — while these resources might be helpful for some graduate students, many expressed that they don’t confront the underlying issues that remain.

Short of hiring a private lawyer and going to court, there is no external body that graduate student workers can turn to if they face issues with their advisers. And, unlike other employees across the state, graduate assistants don’t have contracts to fall back on should their supervisors abruptly change their expectations.

If graduate student workers could unionize, activists say these challenges would no longer exist. They could take workplace issues to the State Higher Education Labor Relations Board, the agency charged with enforcing Maryland’s collective bargaining law for state university employees.

Activists say collective bargaining rights would offer graduate student workers some semblance of leverage when engaging with administrators, even if they don’t actually create a union.

But the graduate school and the university have put up a fight over the years to oppose collective bargaining bills. On Tuesday, Fetter drove down to Annapolis to make the graduate school’s case.

In an interview with The Diamondback, Fetter echoed many of the same arguments he has previously brought up in testimony.

For one, he said the duties graduate assistants perform are part of their education.

Furthermore, Fetter said the graduate school can address student concerns without collective bargaining. Since April 2017, the school has increased the minimum stipend by 16.4 percent. It has also adjusted policy in response to student feedback, Fetter said, pointing to the recently reformed grievance policy as one example.

Collective bargaining would also likely lead to further stipend increases, Fetter said, which could reduce the number of assistantships offered by departments.

Students have disputed these arguments in the past, though, pointing out that the work some assistants typically conduct — updating websites, for instance, and completing paperwork — could hardly count as contributing to their

education.

Stipends are also a point of contention — at $18,791, the minimum stipend afforded to those with 9 ½ -month assistantships at this university is about half the salary MIT’s Living Wage Calculator lists for a single adult in Prince George’s County.

Still, the fight for collective bargaining hasn’t been without victory.

In 2012, the University System of Maryland tweaked its policies to allow graduate assistants and adjunct faculty to meet with administrators to discuss job-related concerns in a process called “meet-and-confer.”

And starting in the fall 2018 semester, this university’s graduate school began requiring graduate student workers to meet with their supervisors at the start of each term to discuss responsibilities both would be expected to uphold.

But graduate student activists argue that these measures are poor substitutes for the sorts of protections collective bargaining would provide.

Meet-and-confer sessions aren’t for binding agreements — they’re just meant to give employees a chance to air concerns with the university. And the group of graduate student workers tasked with participating in meetings with administrators have found them less than fruitful.

Plus, the graduate school has made it clear that while it hosts a sample form assistants can fill out with their advisers during their expectation-setting meeting, no documentation is required. And even if a student and their adviser complete what’s called a “statement of mutual expectations” together, it’s not considered a legally enforceable contract.

Last September, the graduate school sent a survey to gauge how many graduate assistants had met with their supervisors under the new policy. Of the 1,279 students who responded, 73 percent indicated they had participated in an expectation-setting meeting. Broken down by college, though, that statistic varied.

In the journalism college, 100 percent of survey respondents reported having met with their advisers. But in the engineering school, this number was only 56 percent. In the computer, math and natural sciences college, it was 63 percent.

These numbers are far from satisfactory, Howell stressed — especially considering they represent the experiences of only a fraction of the just over 4,000 graduate student workers on campus.

Over the seven years Howell has been involved in fighting for collective bargaining rights, he said he has watched support for the cause swell across campus — last year, activists submitted a petition with more than 800 signatures to state legislators. While he’s encouraged by the movement’s growth, though, he said it’s distressing that it’s had to continue for so long.

“It’s just depressing that a good public policy issue can’t just see the light of day,” he said.

Still, Howell has already signed onto his fourth legislative battle. And when he graduates in May — facing life after university with no money put away for retirement after years of earning a teaching assistant’s salary — he knows the fight will go on.

“The desire is still there — just like it was there when I arrived in Maryland,” he said.

“It will be there after I leave because it’s everybody’s future.”

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concepts in today’s political discourse is the term “neoliberalism.” The confusion over what exactly neoliberalism is supposed to mean is reasonable. Many on the left use the word to smear folks in the Democratic Party mainstream. Others refer to the “neoliberal turn” of global politics in the 1970s and 1980s, when right-wing politicians such as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan rode into power, bringing the post-World War II social democratic compromise to an end. The intellectual historian Quinn Slobodian frames neoliberalism as an effort to create institutions, from the European Union to the World Trade Organization, that protect global markets from national government interference.

I think all of these ways of understanding neoliberalism have some utility. But one can also conceptualize neoliberalism as a way of thinking defined by market logic. In recent decades, the logic of the market has come to dominate public policymaking. We evaluate public spending based on its return on investment. We shrink and meanstest welfare programs because giving cash transfers to middle class folks isn’t efficient. In an age where most political figures share neoliberal assumptions, the idea of truly public goods — goods, such as libraries, parks and public schools, deliberately shielded from the market — fades from view. What’s more, the material consequences of neoliberal policymaking — namely, neutering the public sector — often leads policymakers to unwittingly adopt neoliberal habits of mind.

This brings me to the lack of affordable housing for students

room, but through exposure to unique experiences and perspectives.

With the closing of MilkBoy ArtHouse, College Park has lost a vital institution dedicated to this enrichment. The consistent funding of high quality performances at University of Maryland campus venues shows how important arts are to the community. However, this city must promote quality small performance venues for students and residents alike.

MilkBoy’s departure has left a void in College Park — no, not that void — having been an intimate but professional music venue. Only a few years ago, in May 2017, MilkBoy opened in a longtime bar location along Route 1 as a collaboration between The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and MilkBoy, a Philadelphia-based music and entertainment company, in an attempt to bring the arts into the heart of the city’s downtown. Construction took over a year and the space’s design was, in part, aided and influenced by university students from the architecture school.

MilkBoy’s collaboration with The Clarice allowed the space to host a variety of informative speaker sessions, including what being a music critic means in a digital age, an audio engineer’s perspective on “making it” in the music industry, and even an event on music’s role in social change. Not only did MilkBoy provide enrichment through these speaker sessions, but the venue drew in big performers, who may otherwise go to larger venues in Washington, D.C. One recent example is electronic musician Marc Rebillet, who performed at MilkBoy in April 2019, then nearly sold out a performance at the 9:30 Club just a few months later.

The remainder of College Park’s off-campus venue list consists largely of beloved DIY venue The Void. While The Void undeniably provides a place for small groups and musicians to play and develop in an underground music scene, it doesn’t have

all raised their rent this year.

As enrollment rises, property owners are free to raise their rent, and students are so desperate for a place to sleep that they’ll pay exorbitant prices. A couple of new dorms are coming to North Campus, but the bed increase they’ll bring will be significantly offset when Carroll, Wicomico and Caroline halls close. There are also two private housing developments in the works — but one of the developers said their apartments will cost students an average $1,500 per month.

The interim chairman of the College Park Housing Authority, Bob Catlin, points to three possible solutions — his limited imagination is a perfect example of neoliberalism as a habit of mind.

One, the University of Maryland could reduce its enrollment. But nobody really wants that, as the point of a public university, after all, is to educate a broad swath of the public. The second solution is for a ton of students to commute to school. But that’s less a solution to the affordable housing shortage than an avoidance of the problem.

And so, the third and best solution, according to Catlin, is to encourage developers to come to College Park. In the meanwhile, though, we just have to cross our fingers and wait for the housing supply to increase. It’s not ideal, but it’s the best we’ve got.

But is it? It’s telling that a fourth option didn’t come to Catlin’s mind: public student housing. The city could simply use some of the land it already owns and pay a construction company to build apartments on it. Then, the city could set rents at a reasonable rate and sell its units to students. Governments do this all the time, all around the world! There’s no reason why the

able housing. There’s no need to rely on the market — there’s a public solution staring us right in the face.

Skeptical readers will likely respond that the city doesn’t have the money to build affordable student housing. And they’re probably right; such a project would probably require cooperation between the city and the university, as well as a jolt of state funding. In no way do I mean to point to Catlin’s answer as intentionally malevolent. But his argument is a great example of how neoliberal policies (austerity in housing and education policy) can lead to neoliberal thinking (a faith in market solutions). Market solutions aren’t really preferable in the affordable housing space, but when public funding streams have dried up, they’re all we’ve got. Public solutions don’t even come to mind.

I’ve been writing columns about this university for several years now. In years prior, I spent much of my energy criticizing specific university officials — especially President Wallace Loh. I don’t think any of those criticisms were wrong, exactly, but I definitely missed the forest for the trees. Lately, I’ve become convinced that many of this university’s problems share an underlying cause: austerity. Austerity not only hamstrings policymakers, both in the city and at the university — it cowers their thinking and limits their imagination. Bringing the austerity regime to an end and achieving a truly public university will first require getting the neoliberal poison out of our brains. It will require realizing that austerity doesn’t have to be permanent — but it won’t end without a fight.

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Rent is too high, and the city council can help Maya Rosenberg If there’s campus apartments have been lead to shortages in develop@mayarosenberg_ one thing increasing in recent years, with ment if the set price is lower Columnist University no end in sight. Not only is the than what developers want to available housing expensive, there simply isn’t enough of it.

With university enrollment increasing and dorms closing for renovations, juniors and seniors aren’t guaranteed on-campus housing. And while the development of off-campus housing is increasing, so are the prices: A planned apartment complex where Marathon Deli currently sits could cost $1,500 per bed.

The current housing prices in College Park are unsustainable. The university doesn’t have the ability to lower off-campus rents, but the council could help. Students and the council already agree that new housing developments in College Park are a good thing. The council can and should take this common ground issue one step further and implement price regulations on housing.

And while it’s not always easy to develop the right kind of tools that will foster manageable rent prices, there are some clear ways the council can step in to help.

Rent controls, for example, are price ceilings that prevent rent from going above a certain level, and they’re commonly used to ensure affordable housing.

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of Maryland students can bond over, it’s the abysmal state of housing prices in College Park. The search for housing is already stressful due to the limited options students have, but the absurdly high rent prices make it even worse. With more luxury housing complexes in the works with even higher rent, students are in desperate need of an affordable housing champion. Where could they turn? The College Park City Council.

I know many students don’t see the council as an ally; after last year’s debacle — when the council passed an ordinance banning “unruly social gatherings” that was highly unpopular with students — that makes sense. But the council does have the power to create positive change for students. Implementing guidelines to lower or manage sky-high rent prices could be a major step in addressing the affordable housing crisis in College Park, as well as strengthening the council’s relationship with students.

Affordable housing almost doesn’t exist on or around campus, and monthly rent prices for some on-campus and off-

space large or professional enough for more mainstream choices.

It could be said that the newly developed multi-use space The Hall CP may bring some hope to Route 1. However, the promise of a venue alone does not amend a lackluster music scene without consistent management and bookings of both local and widely known musicians. If this venue does successfully run as promised, it appears to be geared more toward creating a community space rather than a place solely for concertgoers, featuring local musicians and speaker series.

That said, MilkBoy never quite fit the bill either. That may have been a side effect of its upscale feel; it served dishes toted as “elevated American comfort.” The venue originally proclaimed that it catered to a more “adult” experience as opposed to directly to students.

Perhaps a venue somewhere in the middle, between the spaces occupied by MilkBoy and The Void, might find success in College Park. Not too far into Washington, D.C., the Black Cat has lived on for 26 years, despite its gentrifying landscape driving away its main fanbase. The Black Cat’s original mission was to create a good concert venue which especially catered to underground music. Yet, it has remained successful for decades in booking bigger names in addition to smaller local musicians.

College Park should not be doomed to a lack of venues merely because it’s near D.C. The student and resident populations here should have their own venues without the late-night train ride into the nation’s capital. No matter what replaces MilkBoy, and whether or not this university funds a new artistic venture, a college town deserves a new concert venue that allows students and residents alike access to both professional and local musicians.

charge, the council could also provide tax subsidies or credits to developers or students in order to offset higher rents. Subsidies could prevent developers or landlords from absorbing a loss with possible rent controls, and they could make off-campus housing more feasible.

In 2005, the council adopted an ordinance designed to prevent undue rent hikes, although it didn’t include large apartment buildings. It was terminated in 2014, but there’s no reason rent stabilization couldn’t be prioritized again in the future, hopefully with greater protections for all tenants.

Affordable housing benefits both students and the city. It could allow more developments to be built and increase students’ access to housing.

Enacting legislation that reins in the rising rent in College Park is the much needed olive branch the city council should extend to students. It’s no secret that housing prices in College Park are a nightmare. What this city and its students need is access to affordable housing, and the city council could make it happen. maya.b.rosenberg@gmail.

The central panel of the Ghent Altarp i e ce — a fa m o u s 15th century piece of Christian iconography — recently underwent restoration, removing layers of overpaint by a different artist than the original. And it churned up something sinister. The Lamb of God’s face at the center of the painting came off to reveal intense yellow eyes staring at the viewer and an overall more visceral, cartoonish visage. Rather than maintaining a depiction of gentleness and soft features, this painting now contains an expression of the uncanny and the “nightmarish.”

The viral shock expressed by viewers of the painting significantly blurred the boundary between high and low art. That’s what’s important about debates around art restoration: Whatever the outcome of the restoration effort, the authority of authenticity is challenged.

Calling something high art makes an object irreproachable, thus removing any obligation of it to be accessible. That’s the kind of art that has no use because we are only told what it should be. The original artist of the Ghent altarpiece saw Jesus as an intense and stern figure; a century later came another artist’s insistence that the Lamb of God is demure and knowing.

Religion undergoes constant reinterpretation to be resonant and acceptable to different people as well as shed characteristics maladaptive to modern life, and it’s not sacrilegious for canonical art to do the same.

Mo re ove r, t h e a u t h e n t i c i ty o f a r t shouldn’t matter because we have to move beyond original intents to understand old works anyway. The act of critiquing and explaining art — whether by writing essays or Facebook posts — is already removing the art from its original context even if it

codifies a high art meaning. Restoration work tries to reveal the original painting by removing wear and tarnished pigments, but hesitancy to paint over an image to restore features or simply the limits of the field mean we can never recapture a painting as it was fresh. Artifacts of age and history are inextricably part of experiencing art.

And though the Lamb of God is now ugly, the significance of the overpaint is not removed from history or scholarly study.

It cannot be cheapened just because it was discovered to be inauthentic. There is no inherent value to authenticity because it’s not tied to meaning.

One of the most famous art restoration efforts of the modern era was in 2012, when Cecilia Giménez painted over Ecce Homo and turned a fresco of Jesus into a vaguely simian effigy. What was so beautiful about her “ruining” the painting is that it elevated an insignificant work into a lucrative tourist attraction; the original is now discussed and defended more than it ever was when intact. Though the object is destroyed, its cultural value is retrospectively elevated. This is perhaps the sincerest way to honor an artist; they are regarded not for the monetary value of possessing their art, but instead for having been unique, precious because of personal sentiments.

Physical reinterpretation of art is the most aggressive way of engaging with it, but it sends a strong message. There is no object so important that it is beyond human judgment. Perhaps it is, above all, a virtuous reminder that religion is not about the worship of things but abstractions, that we should champion the amorphous over the fixed, and that just because something is old doesn’t mean it’s not too ugly to tweet about. chauds@umd.edu

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City D.P. Dough leaves College Park after 20 years The popular calzone eatery on Route 1 closed early Friday morning D.P. Dough, a popular calzone eatery located on Route 1, closed its doors early Friday morning.

After serving the area for about 20 years, the store announced Tuesday morning on social media that it would be closing before the end of the week, generating an emotional response — both online and in line — from former and current students.

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but I still order from here all the time,” McCormick said.

The store always has three to five people inside, but never a line that spans outside the door, Hool said. Sophomore music education major Eric Aaron said he waited in line for almost 45 minutes to get a calzone Wednesday evening.

The store’s managers and owners weren’t immediately available for comment.

“We were overwhelmed by the turnout,” read a recent post on D.P. Dough’s Facebook page. The post added that the staff would be “extra prepared”

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D.P. Dough shuttered this week, attracting lines out the door in its final days. I’shea boyd/the diamondback

The “Western Gateway” project would include apartments and dorm-style housing by

In the Gilbane Development Company’s latest effort to include graduate students in the design of a new housing community, the development director spoke with GSG representatives after their Monday meeting.

The company started meeting with focus groups about two years ago, said director Christian Cerria. Through these discussions, a clear rallying cry emerged: College Park needs

cheaper housing for graduate students.

Currently, rent at Graduate Hills and Graduate Gardens — the university’s only graduate student housing — ranges from $1,227 to $1,735 per month. Considering that a graduate assistant working a 9 ½ month position earns a minimum stipend of $18,791 per year at this university, keeping up with that cost could be difficult for some.

Annie Rappeport, president of the Graduate Student Government, has been encouraged

by Gilbane’s attempts to garner

feedback from her constituents.

“It’s really promising how much this particular group has really wanted to listen to people that they’re building something for,” she said.

In his presentation, Cerria provided an overview for what Gilbane has planned for the “Western Gateway Project,” which will be situated behind the Hillel Center and close to the Domain apartment complex.

The community will cover 17 acres and include 300 units of graduate student housing and 81 townhouses.

gilbane director Christian cerria addresses Graduate Student Government members after their meeting on Jan. 28. angela roberts/for the diamondback

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during the] store’s last two days to “serve as many calzones as we can.”

The franchise calzone company has nearly 40 locations, and the College Park restaurant is the only one in Maryland — the next closest D.P. Dough is in Newark, Delaware.

“It’s not a goodbye. It’s see ya later,” a post on the store’s Facebook page read. “It’s been [an] amazing journey, but all good things must come to an end.”

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outside the door and onto the sidewalk. So many calzones were ordered Tuesday night that the store temporarily ran out of dough.

“It’s one of my favorite places to order from,” said sophomore flute performance major Selia Myers. “I’m a little sad to see it go.”

University of Maryland alumni TJ Hool and Kyle McCormick — who graduated in 2009 and 2010, respectively — also decided to make the trip to D.P. Dough to get one last order before the store officially closed.

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To keep prices low, Gilbane has been considering a number of cost-cutting ideas. On Monday, Cerria described the company’s plan to offer a number of “co-living spaces,” where students could rent out a small room equipped with a bed and bathroom and share an open kitchen space with 16 other individuals.

Cerria also announced what the company is planning to offer as the community’s lowest rent: $850 for a single co-living “pod.”

A two-bedroom apartment at the complex is planned to come to around $250 less than such a unit at Graduate Hills and Graduate Gardens, he added, emphasizing that the prices are still subject to change.

“We’re trying to be as affordable as possible,” he said. “We would love to have it for free, but we need to still build the project.”

Additionally, the development company plans to set aside a small portion of the property as retail space, making room for either a restaurant or coffee shop, said Cerria. The community is also planned to include lots of walking trails and green

space, as well as an underground parking garage.

Although only a handful of representatives stayed after the meeting for Cerria’s presentation, the few that remained had lots of questions. They asked about the amount of sunlight that will filter through the rooms’ windows, how Gilbane is planning to encourage community among its residents and how a co-living space would be set up.

Cerria explained that pods would only include the bare essentials — a bed, bathroom, small refrigerator, cooktop, closet and storage space. Ideas for their design emerged from discussions held by focus groups, he said, where students said they’d be willing to compromise on having certain amenities if it meant paying less in rent.

But one representative, Laura McBride, pointed out that going by the company’s planned rates, it would be about $100 cheaper for a student to split the cost of a two-bedroom apartment with a classmate than to rent a pod.

“To me, the co-living would not sound attractive unless it

would be cheaper than splitting an apartment,” she said.

Cerria, however, thought differently. Some students would likely be willing to pay extra for the added privacy living in a pod would offer and for the added convenience of not having to track down a roommate, he said.

He emphasized that the presentation wasn’t the end of Gilbane’s discussion with graduate students — the company plans to spend the next year gathering more feedback and tweaking its design.

It has also hired a third party to conduct a market study on the graduate student population, and is planning to distribute a survey in the coming month to further gauge what graduate students look for in a living space.

“We hope that [the market study] looks at all the national players and who we’ll be competing against from a university perspective,” Cerria said. “How do we attract the brightest and best faculty, staff and graduate students? What do they care about? That’s what we’re after.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

After heated debate, College Park City Council approves changes to trash collection rules The city council passed two ordinances on the environmental issue of trash collection rules within the city At a packed meeting Tuesday Angela Mecca @AngelaMecca2 night, the College Staff writer Park City Council passed two highly debated ordinances addressing “special” and “bulk trash” collection in the city.

The council has discussed the issue for years, District 2 councilman P.J. Brennan said.

Trash collection is a particularly pressing issue during move-in and move-out dates for students at the University of Maryland, council members said.

The first ordinance deals with defining “special trash” and fines associated with its pickup. According to city documents, electronics and appliances such as refrigeraby

tors, stoves and washers, or items containing the chemical Freon — such as tires without a rim or wheel — are categorized as special trash.

The second ordinance addresses the pickup schedule for bulk trash items — like furniture and mattresses — and the number of bulk trash items that can be collected free of charge per unit per year.

Despite concerns of many residents voiced at public hearings, city manager Scott Somers said the ordinances will not affect 95 percent of city residents.

“This is an environmental issue,” Somers said, adding that while the existing trash collection system is effective, about five percent of people in the city use “more than their equitable share.”

At the end of the discussion, the council passed the “special trash” ordinance with an amendment that addressed the part of the ordinance that dealt with the number of curbside garbage bins allowed per household, as well as the billing for collection. The ordinance will go into effect on May 1.

The second ordinance also passed with an amendment that allows the rules of the ordinance to be put into effect for “the next six months to a year” without fines.

Still, about ten residents spoke up regarding the ordinances. Most argued the fines imposed and limits enforced were a burden on the city.

David Dorsch, a College Park resident who frequently attends council meetings and speaks during public hearings, spoke

against both ordinances, saying that if five percent of city residents are abusing the current trash collection system, the city should focus on correcting that five percent specifically instead of changing the system overall.

“I would ask this council to vote against these two bills until the city provides much more evidence that a major change is necessary,” said Dorsch.

Many who spoke at the public hearing, including city resident Francie Wasser, argued that the specifics presented in the “Bulk Trash Schedule” ordinance made the ordinance too complicated.

“This is going to take time and it’s going to cost money,” Wasser said. “I advocate for a much simpler method.”

Wasser said counting items in each bulk trash pickup to

determine whether or not the resident will be charged for the pickup made the ordinance an “administrative burden.”

But to resident Stephanie Stullich, the ordinances are necessary. Stullich argued that the ordinances not only would help to reduce the city’s waste problem, but would encourage residents to recycle.

“We as a society produce too much waste,” Stullich, a former member of the city council, said. “People need a financial incentive to think about changing their behavior.”

Brennan agreed.

“Without some type of incentive, what we’ve seen in practice is the practitioner chooses the path of least resistance,” Brennan said, adding that when choosing between paying a fine to dispose of items

or recycling them for free, he hopes that the ordinance will encourage people to reuse and recycle special or bulky items.

Notices will be given to residents who violate the ordinance, and the council will then reassess the issue after about a year has passed.

Mayor Patrick Wojahn praised the council for their work on addressing trash in the city and said he hopes that this is just the beginning of their efforts.

“This is about dealing with an ongoing problem that we as a city need to address,” Wojahn said. “There’s a lot of work we need to be doing in the city in terms of educating people of what their options are for trash.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Real estate major in the works The architecture school’s proposed program would combine finance with human development A f te r two Chloe Goldberg years of plan@ChloeGoldberg10 n i n g , t h e Staff writer University of Maryland’s architecture school is one step closer to adding a bachelor’s degree in real estate for the first time, which combines finance with a human approach to development.

If approved by the Board of Regents, it will become one of a handful of real estate majors in the U.S. operating outside of a business school, allowing for a socially conscious approach to real estate development. The board’s education committee approved a proposal for the major earlier this month.

“Most real estate development education is focused just on the business, finance and by

investment side, and when one gets out into the industry, one finds that there’s really a lot more to real estate than just the finance part,” said Donald Linebaugh, interim dean of the architecture, planning and preservation school.

To address real estate’s many disciplines, students within the major must take nine elective credits unrelated to finance. The courses will cover a variety of subjects, including politics, communication and public policy.

Students will graduate with an understanding of historic preservation and urban planning — two areas that can clash with real estate development in large cities like Washington, D.C., Linebaugh said.

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the architecture school wants to bring a more community-oriented approach to real estate development than programs run through business schools. gabby baniqued/the diamondback ment at the community level, Linebaugh said, would help ease tensions between developers and urban planners. In addition, he said the approach would fulfill the school’s “quadruple bottom line”: building developments that are well-financed, socially and environmentally responsible and artfully designed.

“To be done in a way that improves communities, that makes better places,” Linebaugh said, “real estate really needs to be an integrated practice.”

The school first launched a real estate development master’s program in 2006.

Then, a year later, the school established the Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development, which paved the way

for a minor program in 2015.

The minor’s unexpected popularity prompted the establishment of a major, said Maria Day-Marshall, director of the Colvin Institute for Real Estate Development. In 2017, the architecture school commissioned a higher education research firm to explore the demand for the major.

“The study confirmed that there was in fact enough demand, not just in this area but across the country, for an undergraduate major of our kind,” Day-Marshall said.

“There are a ton of job opportunities for our students once they graduate with this major.”

Given existing enrollment in the minor, Linebaugh estimates about 65 students will

join the major in the program’s first few years, with about 250 students total at the end of four years.

The board will vote on the major’s approval at its next meeting on Feb. 21. From there, it must pass through the Maryland Higher Education Commission before it can be officially offered next fall. The proposal passed the commission’s initial review in late December, Day-Marshall said. She is optimistic that it will make its way through the process.

Naima Camara, a sophomore architecture major, said a real estate development major focused on design and community may help prevent the causes of gentrification.

“Many times [developers]

buy up homes in underdeveloped areas and then flip the homes, make them better, but then they don’t realize what they’re doing to the community,” Camara said.

“When you’re an architecture major, you take the approach of understanding, like, how are you conducting with the community and everybody around you?”

Duong Hoang Le, the Student Government Association’s architecture representative, said the integrated major would help attract even more students to the school.

“I think it’s a really, really unique experience that we have a lot of options for students,” the sophomore architecture major said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Campus construction projects continue As spring semester begins, here’s an update on some of this university’s major works-in-progress.

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Cole Field House The exterior of Cole Field House is expected to be complete by the end of winter, university planning and construction executive director Bill Olen said. The field house is expected to be open for business by the beginning of next year, he added.

Construction on the $210 million project — which will cost $55 million more than originally planned — began in 2016. It is being paid through donations and university funds, and it’s a joint partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

The field house will double as a facility that will oversee research into concussions and other brain behavior, said Brian Ullmann, this university’s executive associate athletic director. It will be called the Center for Brain Health and Human Performance.

“It’s transformative for our athletic department,” Ullmann said. “It’s just an exciting moment to see it from start to finish.

And I think people are going to be blown away by what this facility means for athletics, and what it means for the university.”

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Construction workers expanded the fencing area and removed some trees within the area, Olen said. Preliminary work on the building’s foundation system is expected to begin in the early spring, he added.

The $60 million building will replace the recently demolished Potomac Building, and it will be connected to the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building.

In the new building, engineering students will have an opportunity to use new prototyping facilities and four new laboratories that focus on robotics, manufacturing, quantum technology and transportation.

nently reconfigured, and Farm Drive will consist of two loops around the Ellicott and Cambridge communities.

The dorm project is part of the Department of Resident Life’s 15-year housing plan. Students in the University Honors Living-Learning Program will live in one of the new dorms, leaving their current home in Hagerstown Hall.

Olen said substantial completion is expected to be complete by the end of 2021.

New Dorms & Dining Hall

The parking lot adjacent to the Lee Building closed at the end of last year, as the insulation of underground utilities began for the new public policy school building.

The 70,000 square-foot building will be located between the Lee Building and Rossborough Inn. The $52.4 million project is being funded using money from the university, the state and an anonymous donor.

This semester, the university’s “M” Circle will be relocated to make way for Purple Line construction. There will also be storm drain construction along Campus Drive, according to this university’s Division of Administration and Finance.

The new “M” Circle will be located across Campus Drive near the Mitchell Building. The current “M” will not be removed until the new one is complete, Shaquanna Shields, communications supervisor for the Purple Line Transit Partners, wrote in an email.

There will be five stations on or around this university’s campus when construction is finished — expected in late 2022 Within the next few months, construc— including one between Stamp Student tion workers will start to insulate underUnion and Cole Field House. ground utilities and build the foundation for two new dorms and a dining hall on North Campus, Olen said.

The Varsity Practice Fields — a former practice area for sports teams — and a Preliminary site work on the E.A. Fernan- section of Farm Drive were shut down ahead dez IDEA Factory began last month, about of the project. Due to the road closure, the one year after the project’s groundbreaking. roads on North Campus will be perma-

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where needed and engage openly and transparently with federal agencies for the From p. 1 betterment of the animals animals in research is of the and research conducted here.”

SAEN’s complaint shows utmost importance to our faculty, staff and research the initial report of noncomadministration,” Locascio pliance came from Pamela wrote. “We strive for excel- Lanford, the animal research lence in every aspect of our support director and instituprogram, make corrections tional care and use committee

manager. Lanford, who is also University Senate chair, deferred comment to Locascio and university spokespeople.

Despite the university’s corrective actions, SAEN’s co-founder, Michael Budkie, isn’t satisfied. In a letter to the U.S. agriculture department dated Jan. 24, he called for an immediate

investigation.

“Their corrective actions are, in some ways, irrelevant,” Budkie said. “They never should’ve happened in the first place.”

A USDA spokesperson wrote in an email the department was aware of the complaint, but he couldn’t confirm or deny that there

was an investigation.

According to the letter, SAEN is also seeking the “maximum fine allowable” against the school: $10,000 per infraction, per animal.

Budkie referred to the noncompliance issues as “very basic.”

“Anyone that works in a research facility should know

that all of these things have to be done,” Budkie said, “and if they’re not aware that these kinds of practices and procedures are basic to animal experimentation, then they have no business working with animals.”

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S t i l l , t h e u n ive rs i ty ’s Campus Infectious Disease Management Committee and Incident Response Team are monitoring the outbreak. The university increased cleaning and disinfecting in university

buildings, residence halls, fraternities and sororities, recreation facilities, the Stamp Student Union a n d S h u t t l e -U M b u se s, according to a web page it created to post updates on the situation.

In addition, the University Health Center is asking visitors about their travel and health history. Coronavirus is more common in people w i t h wea ke n e d i m m u n e sys te m s, a cco rd i n g to Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention.

As part of the university measures, testing for coronavirus will be coordinated through the CDC. Clinical laboratories cannot test for this virus, Hogan wrote in his release.

Students experiencing fever, cough and difficulty breathing should go to the nearest hospital and alert suspected exposure, Rankin wrote.

Ian Paregol — Olivia’s father — acknowledged the bill doesn’t “set up an entire structure” for universities or the state to follow, he expects it to spur further changes.

“My hope is that as plans are submitted, the department of health will set up their own regulations as to what qualifies as a health emergency and what types of things need to be reported,” he told The Diamondback.

“My hope is to have additional regulations put into place.”

Another proposed

amendment includes eliminating the provision t h a t t h e o u t b re a k p l a n must be in place for lifethreatening diseases only.

After Peña-Melnyk spoke, Sue Esty, a senior adviser for the union that represents workers at this university, announced that Council 3 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees’ supported the bill.

Esty said that a number of university employees in 2018 were not given protective equipment when coming into contact with mold,

which does not cause adenovirus but can weaken a person’s immune system. Esty requested that an amendment be added that would notify the workers’ union during an illness outbreak.

“The folks that work at College Park were also very vulnerable to the spread of contagious diseases, along with the students,” Esty said.

A separate bill, House Bill 7, would require the state Department of the Environment to “require periodic inspections for the presence of mold hazards and

mold or moisture problems in each occupied public or nonpublic school facility” in the state.

Ian Paregol has long said that mold in Olivia’s dorm — Elkton Hall, which was hit hardest by a mold outbreak during the fall 2018 semester — made her more susceptible to adenovirus. Her immune system was already compromised due to medication she took for Crohn’s disease.

“Both of those pieces of legislation stem from that incident,” Paregol said.

In May, the Paregol family

filed a notice of claim against the university under the Maryland Tort Claims Act, paving the way for a lawsuit.

The appropriations comm i t te e w i l l l a te r d e c i d e whether to amend the bill, in which case those amendments would be voted on the house floor before eventually passing the bill to the state senate.

“I hate to think that there has to be a legacy for my daughter,” Ian Paregol said.

“But … hopefully that saves other kids’ lives.”

From p. 1 One person exhibited symptoms that met the CDC’s criteria for testing for the virus, and they remain in isolation pending the results, Hogan

bill From p. 1 individuals, measures to notify the campus community and implementation of evidence-based response measures. Faculty members would be required to know how to implement these measures, and there must be a process for reporting an outbreak to “specific entities.”

There is currently no law re q u i r i n g p u b l i c h i g h e r education institutions to implement outbreak response plans. And though

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Despite team losses, Cochran is consistent After redshirting last season with a wrist injury, Kyle Cochran has won six of his past 10 dual bouts

kyle cochran secured a major decision win against Indiana’s Dillon Hoey, 12-0, in the 165-pound bout on Jan. 26, 2020. Overall, Cochran has eight dual wins during the 2019-20 campaign, including three Big Ten dual wins.

As the final seconds Alex Murphy ticked away @Alex_MurphyUMD i n t h e 1 6 5 pound bout during Maryland wrestling ’s dual Sunday, Kyle Cochran wasn’t letting Indiana’s Dillon Hoey go anywhere on the mat.

Cochran had racked up about five minutes and 30 seconds of riding time on his way to a convincing 12-0 major decision victory.

It was his second-straight m a jo r d e c i s i o n v i c to ry, putting the finishing touches on his 2-0 weekend.

A f te r re d s h i r t i n g l a s t season due to a wrist injury, Cochran has now won six of his past 10 dual bouts and has been one of the most by

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consistent wrestlers for the Terps this season. The journey to get to this point, though, has been anything but straightforward. “[The injury] was a big wake-up call because I was away from the sport for a whole year, but I knew I would be able to get back i n t h e sw i n g o f t h i n gs,” Cochran said.

That time off affected him early on as he went 2-3 in his first five duals of the season.

Things quickly changed at t h e Vi rg i n i a D u a l s w i t h Maryland in desperate need of a momentum swing.

While the Terps started hot, defeating Fresno State o n J a n . 1 0 , M a r y l a n d ’s success quickly devolved i n to a s t r i n g o f l o s s e s,

dropping three straight duals in six hours the next day.

But amid the trio of losses, Cochran’s hand was continually raised. In what became a physically draining day and weekend of wrestling, he was a bright spot, going a perfect 4-0 as the Terps finished sixth out of eight teams. “ I t f e l t v e r y g o o d ,” Cochran said. “I don’t like to think about the past, but I felt like I was back to my old ways.”

Those were at Paramus High School in New Jersey, where he was a 2016 state champion and a runner-up in 2017, compiling a 143-30 career record.

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Clemsen saw Cochran take home a championship in 2016, and it was then that Cochran’s potential became ev i d e n t . O n c e C l e m s e n arrived in College Park for his first season at the helm of Maryland, he was brutally honest with Cochran about his place in the program.

“The first time we met, I just said, ‘You’re one of the more talented kids in the room and on paper, you’re maybe the biggest recruit in the room,’” Clemsen said.

“I said, ‘That kid hasn’t shown up yet. I don’t know if he’s still in Jersey or if he’s lost on campus somewhere, but I need that guy to walk

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through my doors and get to work.’”

After getting back to full health, Cochran put in work in the practice room, trying to make up for that year he lost.

So far, Clemsen has been impressed with the progress Cochran’s been making.

And among the wrestlers currently in the program, Cochran has become one of the standouts, especially in practice.

“He’s been the most consistent guy in the room with his preparation,” Clemsen said. “He’s done the best job of being consistent and strategic and doing what we’re asking or what we’re preaching.”

Along with that, Clemsen

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said Cochran has been able to step up and answer challenges that have been thrown at him.

The wrestler who was once wandering around the campus has been found and has dominated on the mat the past few weeks. The question now is whether he can keep it up. “[Clemsen] told me this whole year that the light bulb is going to go off at some point,” Cochran said. “… The light bulb’s not completely lit up right now, but it’s getting there. I’m twisting it, trying to get it to light up completely, and when I get there, big things are gonna come.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Basketball legend Kobe bryant, shown here playing for the Los Angeles Lakers in 2007,died Jan. 26, in a helicopter crash that killed seven people, including his 13-year-old daughter Gianna. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

Kobe Bryant’s legacy teaches us to get the most out of every moment

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he most beautiful things are often the most fragile, and such is the case for life itself. Someone could be here one moment and gone the next,and there’s nothing we can do besides feel one of the most inexplicable pains in this world. On Sunday, Jan. 26, millions around the world felt that pain when former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna died in a helicopter crash.

The pain is, of course, felt deepest by Vanessa Bryant and her other three daughters, people for whom condolences will do very little to fill the tremendous void. Bryant meant the most to his family and to his close friends.

But to fans around the world, he was a symbol of what hard work and compassion can accomplish.

Where I’m from, you can’t grow up without knowing the name Kobe Bryant. He was the star of suburban Philadelphia’s

By Evan Haynos | @evanhaynos | Senior staff writer Lower Merion, a high school ten miles down the road from mine.

Whether it was my middle school math teacher claiming to have played baseball against him (potentially true) or some guy playing pick up at the YMCA claiming to have dunked on him during a state playoff game (definitely not true),Kobe folklore constantly spreads throughout the region.

The kid from Lower Merion quickly became the man in Los Angeles, going straight from high school to the NBA’s most legendary franchise: the Lakers. Playing for the storied organization brings about a level of pressure to win championships that can be found on few other professional sports teams, but that was the perfect fit for Bryant.

During his 20-year career, Bryant delivered five more championships to the Lakers and raked in two Finals MVPs and 18 All-Star appearances, thanks to early mornings and late nights of

relentless practice. Scoring was Kobe’s modus operandi and, before LeBron James passed him on Jan. 25 of this year, the Black Mamba sat at third on the alltime scoring list.

Great talent and hard work can only get you so far in a league as competitive as the NBA, so you need an edge — a so-called “Mamba Mentality.” This mindset represents a refusal to give up, an inability to be content with anything less than perfection.

There’s ample evidence of the “Mamba Mentality” throughout the years,but perhaps none better than when a reporter asked him why he seemed unhappy after winning the first two games of the 2009 NBA finals. With a perfect deadpan expression, the man two games away from another ring replied, “What’s there to be happy about? Job’s not finished.

Job finished? I don’t think so.”

It was this kind of dedication that made him so transcendent

and relatable, argues David Ceasar, a senior finance major.

“Obviously he’s a legend for the titles, the records, the clutch moments, swagger and everything that encompasses his actual play on the court,” Ceasar said. “Beyond that, though, he showed millions of people what dedication and commitment can produce in your life.”

Although many of those who feel strongest about Kobe Bryant’s impact are those who love and play sports, everyone can appreciate the way he approached his family life: with love and compassion.

The father of four daughters spoke publicly about how proud he was of all of them, but particularly loved sharing anecdotes about his second-oldest, Gianna.

ESPN anchor Elle Duncan wistfully recounted when Bryant told her Gianna was “a monster, she’s a beast.”

On Jimmy Kimmel in 2018, Bryant described how fans would

tell him he should have a son to carry on his legacy. Gianna would cut them off, saying, “I got this.”

In a sad twist of cruel irony, it was this desire to be a good father — to be there for his kids — that led Bryant to start regularly using helicopters as a mode of transportation.

“I had to figure out a way where I could still train and focus on the craft, but still not compromise on family time. So that’s when I looked into helicopters,” Bryant said in a 2018 interview on The Corp.

It’s Kobe as a person, not just the basketball player, that makes his death a source of such international despair. Upon senior computer science major Jonathan Saewitz’s arrival to College Park, he was confronted with the vast reach of Kobe’s legacy.

“Seeing random students at Maryland, [a place] where Kobe doesn’t have much connection to, walking around in Lower Merion jerseys,it showed how much of an

impact he had around the world,” said Saewitz, who’s also a Lower Merion alumnus. “It’s really a surreal thing to see.”

To fully get some closure and decide how we should move on, it’s best to go to the man himself for advice. When asked in a 2015 ESPN interview about how he wanted to be remembered, Bryant said, “As a player that didn’t waste a moment. Didn’t waste a day.”

Lots of time is required to process the intense emotions that come about when someone passes away, so it is important to take the time to mourn the loss of Kobe and Gianna. What Kobe’s legacy can teach us, however, is to get the most out of every moment going forward, as he would’ve done. Regardless of whether you’re a player, a fan or have never heard of Kobe Bryant, you should never waste a day. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

return of the pop queens Several chart-topping pop stars from the last decade are poised to make their comebacks

By Jason Fontelieu | @JasonFontelieu | Senior staff writer miley cyrus teased upcoming music for 2020 on Jan. 1. Photo courtesy of instagram The feeling is almost indescribable. I can’t shake it. It’s an intense longing, as if I’ve lost a half-used Terrapin Express gift card. But when Justin Bieber’s new song “Yummy” comes on the radio, I feel nothing but a deep, mournful lamentation for the greatness of pop music past.

But, fear not! It’s 2020, and as our planet continues to heat up at a frighteningly unstoppable rate, pop girls from the last decade are resurging from their (relative) hibernation from the limelight.

Now, what exactly is my definition of a “pop girl,” you may ask? Any #queen from the years 2006 to 2013 who ruled the charts and captured countless adoring fans’ hearts.

Whoever you’d consider an Ariana Grande of that time period was a pop girl. Your Keshas, Katys, Gagas and Rihannas.

There’s some evidence that these girls will revive this strain of pop greatness this year, and I’m more excited than I’ve been for probably anything, ever.

January isn’t even over and

Selena Gomez has already made a comeback with her new album, Rare, which features her first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, “Lose You to Love Me.” With Kesha dropping an album literally today, there’s a lot to look forward to. Let’s take a look at our roster.

Sure Things: Demi Lovato Demi Lovato just debuted her thunderous new ballad “Anyone” at the Grammys, a heartfelt and heartbreaking song written just days before her drug overdose in July 2018.

With this new release and her upcoming performance of the national anthem at the Super Bowl this weekend, Demi is back and she means business.

Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus’ EP from last year, She Is Coming, was supposedly the first of three planned EPs that would make up the album She Is Miley Cyrus. Since that EP dropped last May, all we’ve gotten from Miley is the stand-alone single

“Slide Away” addressing her divorce from Liam HemsMaybe, Baby: worth and her collaboration with Ariana Grande and Lana Beyoncé Del Rey for the 2019 Charlie’s Although it’s been almost Angels remake. But on Jan. 1, four years since we last reshe took to Instagram to tease ceived the gift of a solo Beyoncé upcoming music. album, Queen Bey has still kept herself busy with the releases of Lady Gaga Homecoming: The Live Album Gaga fans — also known as and The Lion King: The Gift.

Little Monsters — have been She’s definitely got something eagerly awaiting Gaga’s sixth cooking, but it’s best not to album (nicknamed LG6) for question a queen. years now. So eagerly, in fact, that someone got their hands Lorde on the rumored lead single In an email to her fans last from the project, “Stupid November about how she was Love,” and leaked it for all of grieving the loss of her dog, Gaga Fan Twitter. And, after Pearl, she said she would be a suspicious tweet hinting at delaying her new record. We a major announcement, the probably won’t get this album rah-rah queen is sure to return anytime soon, as she said “it soon enough. won’t be the same work,” but who knows? We can hope.

The Pussycat Dolls With the dissipation of Fifth Adele Harmony, there’s been a dearth Though she’s known to of girl group realness in our take her time between albums lives. But, after a fiery perfor- — there were nearly five years mance of their upcoming single between 21 and 25 — it’s “React” on The X Factor, the coming up on five years since 25 Dolls are set to take on the next dropped. Is Adele ready to come decade claws out. and snatch back her crown?

through Fenty Beauty. A month ago, she posted a video of a dog dancing on her Instagram with the caption: “me Rihanna listening to R9 by myself and We can cross our fingers as refusing to release it.” And I’m tightly as we can, but Rihanna inclined to believe her. will be none the wiser. She’s moved on into the realm of diversionsdbk@gmail.com entrepreneurial domination Probably Not, But I’d Commit a Crime For Her Anyway:

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Cowan serenaded by MVP chants Anthony Cowan posts career-high 31 points against Iowa, becoming 12th-highest scorer in Terps history Anthony Cowan Andy Kostka wasn’t @ afkostka Senior staff writer fazed by the 11-inch difference in height, or the additional foot added on once Luka Garza raised both arms.

Instead, the 6-foot Maryland men’s basketball guard went right to the rim, driving baseline before meeting the Iowa center in mid-air. He fell away — the better to get the ball out of Garza’s shadow — and flicked his acrobatic attempt to the rim. It fell home.

For four seasons, that’s been Cowan. For four seasons, he’s been about as big for the No. 15 Terps as anyone — even if he’s smaller than some of the players he’s found ways to outperform. And on Thursday night, it was Cowan who rose highest once more, over Garza

and the No. 18 Hawkeyes, surpassing Walt Williams to move into 12th all-time at Maryland in scoring.

It’s one thing for the Xfinity Center faithful to see Cowan at his best — chanting “MVP” as time wound down on the 82-72 victory — and another entirely for an opposing team.

For those who must line up against Cowan on a night like this, the magnitude of the task in front of them becomes clear.

When Cowan’s going strong, there’s really no stopping him, not even the outstretched arms of Garza.

“What’s tough for us is he’s a good shooter, but at the same time he’s so quick he’s going to rip and drive you,” Iowa guard Joe Wieskamp said. “So when you’re closing out up into his space, you’ve gotta be aware of him driving. His first step’s so quick, and then once he gets

past you, he either has a layup for himself or he’s creating for others.”

It’s not a place a defender wants to find himself.

Cowan posted a career-high 31 points, surpassing his 30 against Temple at the Orlando Invitational. He drew plaudits from the 16,369 packed in to watch this top-25 Big Ten matchup for his knifing runs into the lane, the agile finishes at the rim.

But for all the flashy moments — and there were plenty — Cowan impressed in different ways, too.

He had the option to chuck up a corner three late in the first half, yet pump-faked, dribbled past his defender and snuck a bounce pass inside for guard Darryl Morsell to finish off. He supplied five other assists, bringing his average assist tally in the last four

games to 5.75.

And for a player who’s undersized on the boards, he pulled in six of those, including a box-out on 6-foot-9 forward Cordell Pemsl. Those were all the underlying factors in what was a standout night on the offensive end, shooting 9-for-15 while converting 90.9 percent of his free throws.

“He’s really quick in the open court, so you’ve gotta get back in transition, and a couple times we just let him go right to the rim,” Hawkeyes guard CJ Fredrick said. “He got some easy ones going, easy ones at the rim, and then he started feeling himself a little bit and was knocking down threes. He’s just really good with the ball.”

Cowan’s been especially good with the ball as of late.

He knocked down only two

garza

still definitely a great matchup.”

In all, Garza finished just shy of his season average, scoring 21 points — eight of which came in the final 1:27 of play. Smith forced difficult looks throughout and never allowed Garza to take over.

Turgeon said Smith “did his work early” on the defensive end, meaning that each Iowa possession that Garza tried to post-up, Smith got himself into a good position to deny a pass or force him into a difficult spot.

The onus to stop Garza wasn’t solely on Smith, though. Guards and forwards also shaded over to double team the dominant big

man and give Smith reinforcements in the post.

“Because of his ability to finish around the basket, everybody was a little bit off the help,” guard Aaron Wiggins said. “We had to play smart and just communicate on the defensive end.”

Maryland’s harassing defense on Garza was perhaps only matched by the student section’s jeers and “overrated” chants directed at the Hawkeyes’ center.

The derision persisted throughout the game, with Garza only briefly silencing the crowd with one of his turn-around jumpers or interior moves.

Part of the reason Garza

couldn’t permanently quiet the students was foul trouble, but another was Smith looming large in the paint — the sophomore swatted away five total shots.

It was just the latest in a string of defensive displays that illustrates how Smith, despite being smaller than other big men in the conference, is equipped with the savvy to limit their effectiveness.

“I don’t think he gets enough credit for how good he is defensively,” Turgeon said. “His footwork and giving up weight and things he’s doing every night is amazing.”

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From p. 12 is with two 3-pointers, low-post hook shots and difficult turnaround jumpers.

“What a great player he is,” coach Mark Turgeon said of the Iowa big man. “He’s almost impossible to guard.”

Foul trouble hampered Garza all night, as the junior picked up two fouls in the first five minutes of the first half and another soon after halftime.

“Wish I could’ve been out there more and not in foul trouble to be a little bit better,” Garza said. “But I think it was

shots against Northwestern, but he had a 6-to-1 assist-toturnover ratio in 37 minutes.

And during Maryland’s second road win this year, a comeback over Indiana that included an assist from Cowan on Jalen Smith’s game-winning score, the senior went without a turnover.

While the guard had two giveaways Thursday night, they were inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, hitting three 3-pointers and slicing through the lane when he desired.

“He’s virtually impossible to keep in front of you,” Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said. “You have a shot if he’s missing jumpers. If he’s making jumpers, it’s really difficult. But the thing about him, he finds people. He’ll pitch it to the rim, he’ll skip it to the corner. He’s creative that way.

He plays like a veteran guy who’s been through it.”

That’s because he has been through it.

As the senior dribbled down the shot clock with about a minute remaining in Thursday’s game, a chant that had popped up in corners of the arena throughout the second half finally caught life. “MVP,” the crowd shouted down to the Bowie native.

It seemed to be the only time Cowan took a self-indulgent shot all night, pulling up from long range despite tight coverage.

He sank it, though. He pounded his chest as he skipped back down the floor.

And with each thump, the crowd rocked with him, the 6-foot guard who played bigger than anyone. sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Maryland gymnastics competed without

Kevin F. McNulty junior Audrey Barber on Sunday against No. @kmcnulty_219 22 Illinois due to an academic issue, according to a team spokesperson.

Staff writer Barber has been the Terps’ only all-around competitor during the 2020 campaign, and she holds each of the team’s individual high scores this season. The program is expected to release a written statement later this week.

On Sunday, freshman Emma Silberman took Barber’s play in every event. Silberman has competed in vault, bars and floor already this season, but she made her debut on beam.

Junior Collea Burgess, another gymnast, has already been ruled out for the season due to a violation of team rules.

They posted two scores above 196.000 without Burgess, but the loss of Barber could have greater impact. There’s no timetable for Barber’s return.

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Emma Silberman steps up to lead Maryland against Illinois In place of Audrey Barber in the all-around, Silberman put up a 39.150 score to help the Terps come out on top In her collegiate debut on the balance beam, freshman Emma Silberman followed a round-off with a one-and-a-half twist, which she followed with a hug from assistant coach Erinn Dooley.

The quality routine resulted in a 9.800 for the 5-foot-3 freshman and helped Maryland gymnastics to a 48.600 on beam.

Silberman competed allaround on Sunday in place of junior Audrey Barber, who was held out of Sunday’s meet due to an academic issue. Along with senior Tiara Wright, Silberman helped the Terps tread water without their star.

Maryland, helped by an all-around score of 39.150 from Silberman, was victorious in its top-25 meet Sunday against No. 22 Illinois, 195.475-193.950.

“I told them today was just another opportunity for us to be resilient,” coach Brett Nelligan said. “We had lineup changes, but we can adapt and we can handle anything that comes our way. That’s what being resilient means.” by

Kevin F. McNulty @kmcnulty_219 Staff writer

Nelligan’s squad began the afternoon with vault, its highest-scoring event from last weekend. Freshman Aleka Tsiknias landed in the anchor spot in her first time competing on beam, and she delivered with a 9.775 in the event.

Tsiknias followed sophomore Alexsis Rubio’s teamhigh 9.850, helping Maryland jump ahead of Illinois after the first rotation.

After the Terps moved across the Xfinity Center floor for the second rotation, they once again executed on bars — they came into the meet ranked ninth in the country in the event. Senior Tiara Wright led Maryland on bars. Wright posted a 9.850, nearly matching her season-high of 9.875.

“The bar group is confident because they put in the work in the gym,” Nelligan freshman emma silberman competed on balance beam for the first time in her young Maryland career on Sunday against Illinois, earning a 9.8. She took the place of junior Audrey Barber in the all-around after Barber sat out due to an academic issue and posted a meet-leading 39.150 to help lead the Terps to a win. Joe ryan/the diamondback said. “That’s a place where we feel like we can put up for the Terps. in the rotation, allowing a 48.900 score. a chance.” a big score week-in and “This is what we wait for Maryland to hold on to its “We were in this exact In the absence of the week-out.” every single week,” Wright lead heading into the final same situation two weekends gymnast who holds individWright came through said. “Going out there and rotation. ago against Iowa, and we fin- ual high scores in every event once again for Maryland doing what we know how to The Terps were guaranteed ished it off,” Nelligan said. for Maryland this season, the on beam, where she repli- do was essential.” nothing when they began the “I told the team that no one team was able to notch its cated her score of 9.850 in The 9.850 at the end of the floor exercise event, but big finishes a meet like we do. It second-straight victory in the anchor position. The event helped mask wobbles performances from junior doesn’t mean you’re always Big Ten dual meets.

5-foot-5 senior’s score tied from seniors Kirsten Peter- Sabriyya Rouse and fresh- going to come out on top, but the individual season-high man and Alecia Farina earlier man Reese McClure secured it means you’ll always have sportsdbk@gmail.com

wrestling

Terps start out with a win, but Penn State imposes its will the rest of the way Brandon Cray opened Sunday’s dual with a decision win as the Terps fell 40-3 to the No. 2 Nittany Lions Starting off a dual with a win has been a ra r i ty for Maryland wrestling this season, but against No. 2 Penn State, the Terps bucked that trend.

Brandon Cray has been the Terps’ opener at 125 all season, and he faced Brandon Meredith to start Sunday’s match. The redshirt senior notched a takedown and landed an impressive reversal in the second period with two back points to take a 7-5 lead.

That four-point swing was enough to secure an eventual 8-7 decision — his first Big Ten dual win of the season — to give Maryland a 3-0 lead, but it was short-lived as the Nittany Lions dominated the rest of the dual, winning 40-3.

Penn State featured five ranked wrestlers, including four ranked in the top three by

Alex Murphy @Alex_MurphyUMD Staff writer

and two at the top of their respective weight classes.

Maryland’s best shot at taking any points in the dual was in the lightweights, where three Nittany Lions were unranked. The Terps got the victory at 125 and looked to secure points at 149 and 157, too.

For the second time this weekend, Michael Doetsch wasn’t featured in the starting lineup as Ryan Garlitz to o k h i s p l a c e . G a rl i tz had one of the closer bout losses in the dual, losing a 9-0 major decision to Jarod Verkleeren.

Following him was Jahi Jones, who faced Bo Pipher, a junior who entered Sunday with a below-.500 record.

With the home crowd at State College behind him, though, Pipher shut out Jones with an escape in the second period and a takedown, winning a 3-0 decision.

With Penn State taking a

17-3 lead into intermission and some of its heaviest hitters coming up, the Terps’ chances to cut into the lead grew slim.

No. 1 Vincenzo Joseph and No. 1 Mark Hall were up next for the Nittany Lions, and they made their presence known as each pinned their opponent early on in their bouts. Hall beat 174-pounder Philip Spadafora in less than a minute, putting Penn State ahead 29-3.

Maryland had opportunities to secure points at 184 and 197, where the Nittany Lions featured unranked wrestlers, but coach Alex Clemsen’s team failed to capitalize.

The Terps had two close bouts with Kyle Jasenski and Niko Cappello, separated by four points, but in each, Maryland came up just short.

Cappello had the closer of the two, down 3-1 with 30 seconds remaining in the third period.

125-pounder brandon cray has struggled as Maryland’s opening wrestler in duals this season, but he found his footing Sunday against Penn State with an 8-7 decision to provide his team its only points of the outing. julia nikhinson/the diamondback He got an escape to cut the lead to one, needing a takedown to win the bout and give the Terps three more team points before the match finished up.

Cappello took a shot down

low, but Austin Hoopes absorbed the blow and fought it off at neutral, keeping the bout 3-2 as time expired.

It was an improvement from two years previous where the Terps lost 47-3

on the main floor at Xfinity Center, but the result remained the same — yet another defeat in a season filled with hardship. sportsdbk@gmail.com

baseball

As Randy Bednar switches jersey number, his leadership role is solidifed Bednar has worn No. 16 in past years, but the change to No. 3 for 2020 carries on a Maryland tradition When Rob Alexander Dacy @alexanderdacy Vaughn called Staff writer Randy Bednar into his office this offseason to ask the Maryland baseball outfielder if he’d consider changing his uniform number, Bednar needed to wrack his mind.

On the one hand, he knew what the No. 3 meant to the Terps — a tradition stemming from Vaughn’s time as hitting coach, symbolizing the three pillars h e wa n ts h i s p l aye rs to personify. On the other hand, though, Bednar had always worn No. 16 when it was available. It’s what his father and brother wore.

As Bednar weighed his by

options, he came at a crossroads — should he continue his family’s tradition of wearing No. 16, or follow in a Maryland tradition?

So, he called his father for advice.

“He was happy for me.

All he said was, ‘Whatever you want to do, whatever you think is best, just do it,’” Bednar said.

The Bethesda native took a day to think things over.

Then he returned to his coach’s office. As Bednar looked back at those who’d worn the No. 3 before him, t h o s e w h o ’d m a d e b i g impacts for Maryland in the past, the junior realized what an honor it was.

So while No. 16 served as a connection to his family,

adopting No. 3 solidified Bednar’s leadership role with the Terps, now res p o n s i b l e fo r s e t t i n g a positive example as well as producing results on the field, too.

“Heck yeah,” Vaughn recalled him saying. “I want to do that.”

The tradition began when Vaughn was Maryland’s hitting coach. He challenged the hitters to live up to those three pillars — “growth mindset, toughness and ownership,” as Bednar put it — and whichever player did so the best received No. 3. The honor first went to then-outfielder Anthony Papio, who is now an assistant coach with the team.

B u t t h e n u m b e r i s n ’t given out every year. Outf i e l d e r Z a c h Ja n ca rs k i , who graduated in 2018, was the last player to wear i t . O n ce Ja n ca rs k i l e f t , Vaughn didn’t know if any player completely fit the description.

“We had a talk as a staff and I didn’t really know who that was, so it didn’t get handed out last year,” Vaughn said.

But to Vaughn, Bednar’s leadership skills and progression during the offseason made him an obvious choice to wear the jersey this campaign. He’s coming off a sophomore year in which he hit .288, 33 extrabase hits and 55 RBIs. And over the summer,

Bednar earned All-New England Collegiate Baseball League first team honors after hitting .337 for the Keene Swamp Bats to go along with 41 RBIs and nine homers.

“He shows up to work every day. … He’s a great representative of what it looks like to be a Maryland baseball player,” Vaughn said. “He’s always worked his tail off and he’s starting to kind of learn how to demand that the people around him rise up to his occasion.”

The 2020 season is still over a week away, beginning with a matchup at Charleston Southern on Feb. 14, and Vaughn’s exact lineup isn’t set.

But a critical piece of it is — Bednar. And this year, wearing the No. 3 jersey for the first time, Bednar is looking forward to the i n c rea s e d re s p o n s i b i l ity that goes along with the uniform, serving as a symbol of the three pillars t h a t h o l d u p Va u g h n ’s program.

“You’re the guy that’s supposed to set the example and set the standard, and I try to do that as best I can every day,” Bednar said. “If I’m able to do something that helps someone become a better baseball player and a better person, then I believe I’ve done my job.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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monday, February 3, 2020

THIS WEEK’S GAMES

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Fouls, Jalen Smith hold Luka Garza back Against the Big Ten’s leading scorer, Smith proves powerful

By Eric Myers | @EricMyers531 | Senior staff writer Holding a 10-point lead with 15 seconds to play, No. 15 Maryland men’s basketball had already cemented the win over No. 18 Iowa on Thursday night at the Xfinity Center. But the Hawkeyes continued

to run their offense, and found a mismatch when 6-foot-5 guard Eric Ayala found himself defending 6-foot-11 center Luka Garza after a switch.

Forward Jalen Smith had rotated onto a guard, and

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men’s basketball he was at the three-point arc when Garza received a pass in the low post. As the ball reached Garza’s hands, Smith sprinted toward the hoop.

Garza easily turned on Ayala and hoisted a layup he might have thought was an easy bucket. But despite his team having the result in hand, Smith didn’t relent and blocked Garza’s attempt from behind. It was merely a continuation of Smith’s mentality to make everything difficult for his counterpart during the

Terps’ eventual 82-72 win.

“Just trying to stay in between him and the basket, and just trying to fight him on every post-up,” Smith said. “[And] staying out of foul trouble.”

For as impressive as Smith has been on the offensive end recently, averaging 21.6 points in his last five games, he’s been just as good on the defensive end. The 6-foot-10 forward has defended a multitude of skilled Big Ten centers, each one bringing a different skill set onto the floor.

jalen smith has averaged 21.6 points in his last five games. julia nikhinson/the diamondback Garza was his latest challenge, entering Thursday as the Big Ten’s leading scorer at 23.7 points

per game. Garza flashed how complete a player he See garza , p. 10

men’s lacrosse

shockey gives a spark A faceoff adjustment led to Maryland’s season-opening onslaught against High Point.

By David Suggs | @David_Suggs3 | Senior staff writer

justin shockey helped spur the Terps to a 23-12 victory over the Panthers, winning 15 of his 26 faceoff attempts. The faceoff specialist also grabbed his first goal in two seasons, one of 12 players to find the back of the net for Maryland.

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nce Justin Shockey lifted the ball into the air, the rest was a formality.

The Maryland men’s lacrosse faceoff specialist crouched in front of the X early in the fourth quarter, mirroring High Point’s Davis Sampere and looking to set up a transition opportunity for the Terps.

With the first flick of his stick, Shockey was past Sampere, cratering toward the opposition’s goal. With his second, the net rippled and Shockey jumped into his teammates’ warm embrace.

Fa c e o f f s we re a wea k point for the Terps at times last campaign, especially during postseason play. But with Maryland struggling to contain a potent Panthers

attack in the first half, coach John Tillman turned to his faceoff options, making a series of adjustments in an effort to reduce H igh Point’s ability to generate possessions.

T h e c h a n ge s pa i d o f f, giving T illman’s squad a platform to let its attacking talent shine on. And they were the biggest factor in Maryland turning a slim two-goal halftime advantage into a 23-12 beatdown Saturday.

“I felt like that was a big difference in the second half,” said Tillman of the faceoff adjustment. “We were able to … get a goal, get the ball again, get the ball, get a goal again.”

It didn’t start that way, though. After racing out to

a three-goal lead early in the opening frame, the Panthers clawed their way back into the game after Hunter Vines’ strike late in the first.

Sampere won the subsequent faceoff, eventually falling into the path of attackman Tyler Hendrycks, who thumped the ball past goalkeeper Chris Brandau some 35 seconds after the game restart.

“Offensively, when we get the ball to those guys, they’re talented and they score,” High Point coach Jon Torpey said. “You saw that in the first half.”

And as the scoring picked up in the second quarter, the Panthers continued to capitalize on Maryland’s torpidity at the X, winning 8 of 12 faceoffs in the frame. Even

joshua coffman recorded an assist in Maryland’s win. The Terps outshot the Panthers 70-45.

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justin shockey played in 15 games last year as a sophomore, securing 86 of his 171 faceoff attempts. with Maryland’s attack continuing to give High Point’s backline fits — winning the shot battle 20-8 — it seemed as if every Panthers break was in transition, the consequence of yet another faceoff victory. “ C re d i t t h e m , i n t h e first half we had a tough time getting the ball back,” Tillman said. “We struggled in the second quarter, especially.”

With the Panthers gaining confidence with every win at the X, Tillman knew a change was needed. After calling on his faceoff men to show more consistency leading up to the season, Tillman opted for a more aggressive approach for Shockey and freshman Co n o r C a l d e ro n e . So o n enough, it was Maryland that was creating transition

opportunities and odd-man rushes seconds after scoring.

And it was the Panthers who couldn’t cope.

“All credit goes to John T i l l m a n a n d h i s s ta f f ,” Torpey said. “I thought their second-half adjustments at the X were elite. We have a lot to learn.”

Shockey was especially impressive, winning 15 of 26 faceoffs while scoring his first goal in two years. After impressing in the offseason, Shockey looks poised to be a central figure at the X for the Terps — a position that appears to be on an upward trend.

“He’s in the best shape of his life, he’s done a really good job so far,” T illman said. “I’m really impressed with how focused he is.

We’re excited about what

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he can do in his junior year.”

Maryland is still looking for more consistency from its faceoff specialists, especially after a disastrous display against Virginia gifted the Cavaliers opportunity after opportunity en route to a premature postseason dismissal last season.

“That’s a big area of improvement for us that needs to be improved,” Tillman said. “We gotta be consistent there — more consistent than last year.”

Saturday, if anything, was a positive first step for the faceoff unit — a unit that showed glimpses of real quality throughout the second half.

And for now, that may be just what Maryland needs. sportsdbk@gmail.com