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Hogan details reform plans in first State of State Governor announces better business climate, economic competition will be a high priority

By Jon Banister @J_Banister Senior staff writer Gov. Larry Hogan gave his first State of the State address Wednesday afternoon, revealing the specifics of his plans to reduce taxes and introduce reforms.

The new Republican governor said

his administration’s priority will be to improve the state’s business climate and economic competitiveness.

“Maryland’s anti-business attitude, combined with our onerous tax and regulatory policies, have rendered our state unable to compete with any of the states in our region,” Hogan said. “It’s the reason that businesses, jobs and taxpayers have been fleeing our state

at an alarming rate.”

While Hogan echoed the themes of reining in spending and cutting taxes that got him elected, he laid out his specific plans to reduce taxes for the first time.

He said he would introduce legislation to repeal the “rain tax,” a fee on stormwater runoff former Gov. Martin O’Malley signed into law to protect the Chesapeake Bay from pollutants.

See state, Page 3 Gov. Larry Hogan gives his first State of the State address yesterday. phot0 courtesy of the office of the governor

SGA votes to condemn DBK dept of advertising Legislature unanimously approves bill asking for apology for FLAME ads

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Staff writer

Julia, the cooking robot, stirs a mixing bowl of tomatoes while preparing a salad in the A.V. Williams Building. Julia can also prepare a cup of coffee and serve drinks.

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cooking with science University robot learns to cook using library of instructional YouTube videos

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Senior staff writer For a time, the lab looked like the set of a cooking show from the future.

At the center was Julia, standing behind a table stocked with uten-

sils and ingredients. An audience gathered around in a semicircle to see her prepare her next dish.

Julia might seem like a celebrity chef, but she has hulking scarlet arms and is made of metal and plastic.

Julia is an industrial robot.

“I am looking for the toma-

toes,” Julia, a Baxter robot built

by Rethink Robotics, said in her Siri-esque voice, like a very thorough Cooking Channel host who announces even the smallest details to the audience.

Julia, named after the famous chef Julia Child, then grasped a plastic container of tomatoes, lifted it over

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the salad bowl and dumped in the contents. For this demonstration, Julia made a fairly minimalist salad — simply tomatoes stirred in the bowl — and she only mimed pouring the dressing so the bowl wouldn’t need cleaning afterward.

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Student receives Good Samaritan help on college loans When financial trouble hit, stranger helped Josh Deese return to school

By Lexie Schapitl @lexieschapitl Staff writer A fter w ithd raw ing from th is university in May for financial reasons, sophomore Josh Deese was able to return to school this semester thanks to a stranger’s help.

As an out-of-state student from Florida, Deese, a government and politics major, relied heavily on student loans from Sallie Mae to fund his education. His uncle originally co-signed the loans, but then experienced financial problems that made him ineligible to co-sign.

No one else in Deese’s family was able to co-sign his loans at the time, so Deese withdrew from school.

“I was stuck with the burden of having to pay for school myself,”

met and talked for hours before Schwei agreed to cosign his loans.

“I read that article, and it just sounded like [Josh] had a lot of potential,” said Schwei, an information technology project manager from Baltimore. “It just sounded like he could use some help, and I was in a position to do that.”

Deese returned to school after a semester. Though he had experience in politics — he previously interned for U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa) and volunteered for the Florida Democratic Party Josh Deese, a sophomore government and politics major, poses in Knight Hall. After financial trouble, he was able and Obama For America — he to return to the university this semester when a stranger offered to co-sign his loans. josh loock/the diamondback struggled to find a job without a said Deese, 21. “Forty-four grand a Friends of Lesbians and Gays — in degree, so he worked full time at year isn’t something that someone November. Baltimore OUTloud, an FedEx as an assistant manager.

“It’s sobering — it’s a huge without a college education can LGBT news outlet, wrote about the do, so it was quite tough for me.” event and detailed Deese’s story, wake-up call,” Deese said. “And W hile not enrolled in school, although he didn’t expect much seeing all my friends passing me and getting closer to their Deese, who is gay and an LGBTQ to come of it.

But Steve Schwei, a reader, saw degrees just made me want to go activist, spoke at a meeting for H o w a r d C o u n t y ’s c h a p t e r o f Deese’s story and wanted to help.

PFLAG — Parents, Families and He reached out to him, and the two See DEESE, Page 3

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The SGA unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday condemning The Diamondback’s advertising department for publishing advertisements the governing body deems harmful to students at this university.

The final vote was 20-0 in favor, with no abstentions.

T he resolut ion focu ses specifically on advertisements from FLAME — Facts & Logic About the Middle East — an interest group that “perpetrates Islamophobia and anti-Arab sentiment,” according to the Student Government Association resolution.

Study finds code as unique as handwriting Naming style, structure can identify author

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Senior staff writer Though computer code might seem less unique than handwriting, researchers have shown that programmers each have their own style, so much so that a code’s author can be recognized just by the code he or she writes.

A study from Drexel University, co-authored by a student at this university, analyzed the code of 250 programmers and found code could be matched to its author with high accuracy based on inline variations such as naming style and deep structural differences.

The researchers used publicly accessible code from the 2014 Google Code Jam for analysis. They looked specifically at code in the C++ language, and they had about 650 lines from each author. They then examined surface-level features as well as more structural qualities, such See PROGRAM, Page 2

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chef From PAGE 1 But Julia can also prepare coffee and serve drinks, with more recipes to come in the future. And she has learned all her culinary skills by watching videos on YouTube.

A team of researchers from the Autonomy Robotics Cognition Lab within the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies has written a paper about how they engineered Julia and another identical robot to learn cooking techniques and recipes after watching them online.

Much as humans might visit YouTube for guitar lessons or makeup tips, these robots can take what they see in YouTube videos and apply them to their own actions. With image-recognition software, the objects and actions in the video are translated into a grammar of commands that the robots can follow, said Yezhou Yang, a computer science doctoral

candidate and the lead author of the paper.

From the video, the robot knows which action – such as grasp, pour or pound – to complete and what object to complete it on.

“For example, if you want to ask robot to stir a salad, the robot needs to know the first action and grasp type to use on the ladle, and then uses another grasp type to hold the bowl,” he said. “We want to learn these kinds of schemas from online videos.”

Usi ng a d atabase of 88 cooking videos, the researchers established a source from which the robots could potentially one day learn to cook a whole repertoire of recipes, said Cornelia Fermüller, an associate research scientist with UMIACS and co-author of the paper.

Robots lea r n i ng f rom human behavior is nothing new, said S.K. Gupta, the Maryland Robotics Center director. The field is known as imitation learning, or learning from demonstration, and

it could play a significant role in the future of robotics.

“So imagine if you get a robot at home,” Gupta said, “and if you want the robot to learn a new skill, it’s much easier for you to show the robot how to do the task than it is to program it.”

Kinesiology professor Rodolphe Gentili has also worked with imitation learning in the past, but he uses it as a tool to understand the human brain.

He said researchers could learn a lot if robots could completely replicate human motor action.

“We may not necessarily reach that,” he said. “The idea is that this will provide a step that will hopefully allow us to better understand the brain as well as to hopefully develop better control systems.”

While many imitation learning projects focus on mimicking direct action, this UMIACS project is more related to goaloriented work, Gupta said. A robot might not necessarily be able to copy the exact action of a human it watches, but it could figure out how to work toward the same goal.

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sophomore Andrew Liu co-authored a study that analyzed the code of 250 programmers and found code could be matched to its author with high accuracy. tom hausman/the diamondback

as abstract syntax trees and random forest regression, said Andrew Liu, a sophomore computer science major at this university and co-author of the study.

“We got these features from the source code, and then we use data mining to get these featu res a nd g roup them with their author,” said Liu, a member of the Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students program.

After the researchers correlated the way these features were used with different programmers, they identified whether these programmers wrote other lines of code with 95 percent accuracy, he said.

T h is resea rch i nvolves

Julia, a cooking Baxter robot built by Rethink Robotics, pours water into a mug in the A.V. Williams Building. josh loock/the diamondback Fermüller said this also allows the robot to adapt to lessthan-ideal cooking scenarios.

For instance,the robot can learn to use a spatula instead of a knife if a knife is not available, Yang said.

“The robot can also reason,” she said. “So if a tomato disap-

pears, if someone ate it, what lead to an advancement of ardoes it do now?” tificial intelligence, or skills like It may be some time before pouring drinks could contribute humans are served meals by to another kind of progress. animatronic Gordon Ramsays, “This could be the first step but Yang noted that this was to having a robotic bartender,” one step further toward robots Yang said. that are able to complete more complex actions. This could jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com

code stylometry, a subset of general stylometry, the study of characteristics that make up people’s writing style.

Using stylometry, researchers can determine, for instance, whether Shakespeare wrote the witches’ song in Macbeth.

Aylin Caliskan-Islam, a computer science doctoral student at Drexel and the lead author of this study, said she has also used stylometry to study essays and anonymous comments on Internet forums. By looking at a writer’s style, she said, they can determine whether an anonymous user wrote anonymous content on other sites, or even if one user had multiple accounts active on the same site.

Analyzing code should not be that different, she said. Obfuscating programs can sometimes mask more obvious features of style, but structural style is

harder to hide.

“We are looking at lexical features — the way you use spacing or tabs,” she said. “But no one has really explored the style of the structural level of code before us.”

Jan Plane, a computer science professor and associate director of the ACES program, wrote in an email that it didn’t surprise her that a programmer could potentially be identified by the code he or she writes.

“Programmers do develop a style as they program more,” Plane wrote, “this is true even within the ‘code conventions’ specified for some programming languages. When writing a program, there are usually many ways to do the same task — all of which can work correctly and produce the correct results. This is similar to writing an essay or other writing exercises — a

person can express the same information many ways, all of which are correct.”

James Purtilo, a computer science professor, said it makes sense that data analysis could show programmers style preferences, but he thought such methods would probably not work with some other coding languages.

Liu said the research could be used to match malware to a known programmer or to prevent programming plagiarism in classrooms and in the outside world. If two theoretical people, say, Bob and Alice, had similar code, this method could help determine whether one copied the other.

“We can look at code and see if Bob wrote it, or if it was Alice,” he said. jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com

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Library storage facility to house books, collections to open next year The Severn Library will be located one mile from campus

“STUDENTS, FACULTY, LIBRARIANS AND OTHER RESEARCHERS CAN COLLABORATE ON ACCESSING BOTH OUR DIGITAL AND PRINT COLLECTIONS [AT THESE NEW SPACES]. ... WE’RE NOT TAKING ALL OF THE BOOKS AND SENDING THEM AWAY.”

By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow Senior staff writer A new library storage facility will soon house excess books and special archival collections, Facilities Management officials said.

The Severn Library will be a 21,000-square-foot warehou se-l i ke stora ge ro om located inside the Severn Building, about a mile from the campus.

The four-story library will be “a box inside a box,” said Bill Olen, interim executive d i rector of pla n n i ng a nd construction. Officials hope to begin storing items in the $6.9 million building by the beginning of next year, with construction scheduled to start in late February.

The 1.5 percent budget cut to the University Libraries’ funds announced last year won’t a ffect th is project, said Daniel Mack, associate dean of collections.

“The funding for this was appropriated by the Maryland state legislature a couple years ago,” Mack said. “I think the appropriation went through in 2013 before the budget cuts.

So the money’s there.”

State From PAGE 1 In her Democratic response to Hogan’s address, Del. Anne Kaiser, the House majority leader, pushed back against Hogan’s call for a repeal and noted the importance of protecting the bay.

“We have made significant progress over the past decade in reseeding oyster beds, updating wastewater treatment plants and curbing stormwater runoff into the bay and local waterways, but we cannot move backwards,” Kaiser said. “We must mainta i n t h is com m it ment to ensure that watermen and boaters and all Marylanders can enjoy our waterways for generations to come.”

Hogan also proposed a tax relief plan for small businesses, saying he wants to cut personal property taxes for businesses. In addition, he called for a repeal of the income tax on pensions for retired members of the military, police and fire departments and first responders.

He also proposed a repeal of the automatic gas tax increase.

SGA From PAGE 1 The resolution demands T he Diamondback issue a formal apology to the student body “to amend for the years of hu r tf u l a nd trau m atic adver tisements,” as wel l as cease publishing future FLAME advertisements.

“We’re just trying to say, ‘This is hate speech, and we’d appreciate it if you don’t publish negative ads in the future,’” SGA President Patrick Ronk said after the vote. “Putting anti-Arab ads in a student newspaper … I just don’t think it’s the place for that.”

Students speaking on behalf of the Muslim Students Association, Students for Justice in Palestine, UMD Social Justice Coalition and UMD Socialists also attended the meeting to share stories and express their support for the resolution.

“I’ve se en a l l k i nd s of things growing up here, and you make strides and you m a ke rel at ion sh ips w it h people and make friendships and then something happens

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Associate dean of collections Mckeldin library, pictured above, will be able to expand and add more technology after a new library storage space opens. The Severn Library, the new storage facility slated to open next year, will house excess books and archival collections in a warehouse-like room in the Severn Building. Officials expect the facility to hold about 2.5 million books. file photo/the diamondback T he facility is expected to hold roughly 2.5 million books in compact bins once complete, said Patricia Steele, libraries dean.

Vertical shelves will store extra books and items that cannot be kept in on-campus locations, including some from the Special Collections and University Archives at Hornbake Library.

“T h is is a strateg ic i nve s t m e nt t h at a l low s u s to hou se item s t h at need

special security to ensure their survival,” Steele said.

The building will be kept at a low temperature with monitored humidity levels to keep the items in good condition.

In this environment, older, delicate books will remain in top condition for 200 to 500 years, Steele said. The paper pages won’t become brown or brittle, mold will not be able to grow, and the bookcases will hold together well, she added.

Previously, Steele said, this university’s rare books were stored in other areas, including rented space at Johns Hopkins University’s remote library storage facility in Laurel. But as space became more lim ited and more books came into this u n iversit y’s p osse ssion , library officials decided to invest in a closer alternative.

The new space will also serve as room for McKeldin L ibra r y’s overf low. A s it

“WE CANNOT GROW OUR ECONOMY, BOOST PRIVATE-SECTOR CONFIDENCE TO INVEST, EXPAND OR ATTRACT NEW BUSINESS TO MARYLAND WITHOUT A STRONG, EDUCATED WORKFORCE.”

any other mass transportation projects.

Hogan also showed support for campaign finance reform and redistricting to create fairer elections.

“T he streng th of ou r democracy rests on a balANNE KAISER anced, honest and open House majority leader (D) p o l i t i c a l p ro c e s s t h a t “Nobody likes to pay taxes cation Association, which ch a l len ges convent ion to the extent we can lower said his budget includes $144 and encourages progress,” taxes. Obviously, we would million less than K-12 ex- Hogan said.

This comes as this unilike to, but we don’t want to pected to receive, which could do it by lowering taxes and lead to larger classrooms and versity’s MaryPIRG chapter continues to advocate camraising tuition,” said Sen. Jim teacher layoffs.

In her response, Kaiser em- paign finance reform.

Rosapepe (D-Prince George’s).

“The gerrymandering Hogan made little mention phasized education’s imporof higher education in his tance to the state’s economy. a nd c a mpa i g n f i n a nc e “ We c a n n o t g r o w o u r reform com ments were speech, focusing instead on economy, boost pr ivate- great especially for me, as education for grades K-12.

“He really cut state invest- sector confidence to invest, a young person interestment in higher education and expand or attract new busi- ed in politics,” said Luke proposed a 5 percent tuition ness to Maryland without Pinton, Student Governincrease, and he didn’t even a strong, educated work- ment Association director of government affairs. mention higher education in force,” Kaiser said.

Kaiser also quoted univer- “Public financing, smallhis speech,” Rosapepe said.

Hogan touted his budget’s sity President Wallace Loh in donor incentivization bills record spending levels for K-12 her speech, saying “We need a nd c a mpa i g n f i n a nc e education. He also introduced to ‘out-educate, out-innovate reform from the top down, measures to strengthen the and out-compete our global the Supreme Court level, are key to making sure that state’s public charter school competitors.’”

When talking about trans- me and you and anyone law and grant tax credits to people who voluntarily con- portation, Hogan announced else interested in politics a $25 m i l l ion i ncrease i n can get involved.” tribute to K-12 schools.

Hogan received backlash highway funds but made no Tuesday from the State Edu- mention of the Purple Line or jbanisterdbk@gmail.com

that takes you steps back,” said Omar K han, a senior business management major and MSA president. “To see something in a newspaper that’s against who you are or hateful toward you, that’s like taking three steps back.”

Junior Shannon Gallagher, the SGA representative from the journalism school, was unable to attend the meeting.

She said she was disappointed her point of view was not heard because of her absence.

“I understand how much of a privilege it is that we have freedom of speech and the ability to speak our minds,” the journalism major said.

“Starting to censor things is not conducive to ... what [The Diamondback] is trying to do.”

This is not the first time the SGA passed a resolution urging the discontinuation of FLAME advertisements. The SGA unanimously passed a similar resolution in 2011.

S i n c e t h e n , T h e D i amondback has continued to publish about one FLAME advertisement per month, as it has done fairly consistently since 2008, said Victoria Checa, The Diamond-

back’s advertising director.

Checa said she wasn’t aware of any controversy regarding the FLAME advertisements until recently.

“In the three or two months that I’ve been here, I’ve gotten maybe two emails, and it’s all been ‘SGA’s going to do something, what do you have to say?’” Checa said.

Shane James, a sophomore history and secondary education major, spoke on behalf of the other three organizations and said 2 4 student groups on the campus are opposed to the FLAME ads.

A Change.org petition calling for The Diamondback to stop publishing the advertisements has 205 signatures.

The students opposed will continue fighting despite the lack of results from the prior resolution, said James, who is also the president of Students for Justice in Palestine.

“Hate speech is not welcome on our campus. [The Diamondback] doesn’t have any obligation to continue this business relationship with this organization,” James said. “We will continue this fight until the ads are removed

nologically rich space,” Mack said, with room for new refills up, library officials will search spaces like the Termove less popular books or rapin Learning Commons. books that are available dig“Students, faculty, librariitally to the Severn Library, ans and other researchers can Mack said. collaborate on accessing both Students will be able to our digital and print collecrequest books from the fa- tions [at these new spaces],” cility, and while the check- Mack said. “We’re not taking out system i s st i l l b ei n g all of the books and sending finalized, they will receive them away. We’re going to be the book or scan within 24 careful with deciding what hours, he said. go es to Sever n a nd wh at The extra space will also stays for in-house use.” allow McKeldin Library to expand and add more “tech- jsnowdbk@gmail.com

deese From PAGE 1 back to school even more.”

Un iversit y a d m i ssion s representative Erwin Hesse met Deese while he was recruiting at a college fair in Florida. Hesse said he has acted as a mentor for Deese, and has noticed a greater focus i n h i m si nce he returned to school.

“I just see a different person,” Hesse said. “He’s more focused.

He’s more determined.”

This past year wasn’t the first time school presented a problem for Deese. He said he was often bullied for his sexuality when he was younger, which became so severe that he attempted to take his own life at 15 years old.

“First it was taunts and i nsu lts, a nd then those t u r n e d i n to s m a c k s a n d p u nche s a nd shove s a nd kicks,” Deese said. “It just takes a toll on you.”

Deese launched his high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance and has worked for The T revor P roject, a su icide prevent ion orga n i z at ion for LGBTQ youth, he said.

He got i nvolved w it h t he project after his own experience, and he has spoken to legislators, donors and business leaders about LGBTQ issues on behalf of the organization.

“T hey calmed me down and talked to me and just reminded me of how important I was, how much value I had,” Deese said. “A few months a f ter t h at, I joi ned t hei r youth council, and I started doing the same thing, started talking to kids, trying to help them out.”

N o w t h a t h e’s b a c k i n school, Deese said his time away from the university reaffirmed his commitment to his education, and he hopes to work toward education reform in politics and conti nue to advocate for the LGBTQ community in the future.

“Lots of people probably skipped class this morning,” Deese said. “Lots of people don’t have that opportunity — they don’t have the chance to sleep in and miss school because they’re not in school.” lschapitldbk@gmail.com

student government association members listen to a presentation at the Jan. 28 SGA meeting at Stamp Student Union. The SGA passed a resolution yesterday demanding The Diamondback issue a public apology for running FLAME ads in the newspaper. stephanie natoli/the diamondback from the student paper.”

The Diamondback’s general manager, Michael Fribush, said he hadn’t been directly contacted in years about the issue. He added that The Diamondback does not intend on making a public apology or discontinuing the FLAME ads, which have also been published in The Washington Post and The New York Times.

“There are people who have

concerns about any number of ad s we r u n t h at don’t meet their viewpoint or their morals,” Fribush said.

Fribush added that The Diamondback, which publishes a host of other controversial ads — such as gentlemen’s club ads a nd ads on both sides of the abortion debate — is not advocating or opposing any one of the advertisements it publishes.

“I’m giving those people freedom of the press; that’s what this country is a l l about a nd that’s what newspapers are all about,” Fribush said. “T his is a college-aged audience here. … Someone’s present i n g facts to you, and you make up your own mind whether you agree with them or not.” tswaakdbk@gmail.com

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Where the cuts hit home

h e n fo r m e r G ov. M a r t i n O’Malley announced more than $400 million in fund transfers and cuts in a bid to balance this state’s fiscal 2015 budget in the waning days of his administration, slashing $40.3 million in higher education spending might’ve come as a surprise.

After all, the man named “America’s greatest education governor” in 2010 by the National Education Association had spent no small part of his two terms championing the University System of Maryland and state students, introducing a fouryear tuition freeze in 2007 and thereafter capping annual tuition increases at 3 percent. O’Malley’s fiscal 2015 budget alone included a 3 percent hike in university system funding.

But what’s done is done, and in truth, O’Malley’s late-game budget cuts — yes, even those to higher education — ease Gov. Larry Hogan’s task of balancing a daunting inherited budget shortfall, as hard as those cuts might be to swallow.

So this state’s budgetary colossus continues to chug along, albeit looking a bit thinner than it did before — particularly so at this university, which absorbed $15.6 million of the system’s total cuts.

University President Wallace Loh had already unveiled in December a campus-wide freeze on most hires in anticipation of the cuts, following up that decision a month later by announcing a 2 percent midyear tuition increase and furloughs for more than half of university employees.

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The hiring freeze and furloughs admittedly won’t hit home for most students; university employees earning less than $60,000 per year aren’t affected by the latter. It’s not likely that the 2 percent tuition spike — though hugely inconvenient — will break the bank in most cases, either.

OUR VIEW

Recent funding cuts could have a significant impact on various construction projects on the campus.

In fact, where students might see the largest — and certainly the most visible — impact might lie with the very layout of the campus.

With massive projects on the table or under construction, such as the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation and the Cole Field House renovations, the budget cuts left administrators scrambling to figure out where capital funding would come from.

In some cases, the budgetary constraints proved a non-issue: The work on Cole Field House and the Iribe Center will proceed on schedule, Loh reassured. As reported yesterday, however, the Department of Resident Life’s 15-year On-Campus Student Housing Strategic Plan remains in serious need of re-evaluation.

Officials had expected to break ground in summer 2016 on the Academic Village, which would replace Lot 1 with three new dorms and a dining hall at an estimated cost of $170 million. Now, though, Resident Life will instead begin work on a smaller residential project located at the current site of the varsity practice fields.

The delay would save the department a significant chunk of change; the varsity fields project costs about $82 million. Yet it would also mean the loss — at least temporarily — of the 1,500 beds promised by the Academic Village.

Construction of the varsity practice fields community won’t begin until 2019, pushed up from 2021, according to Resident Life Director Deb Grandner.

For a campus in the midst of a self-proclaimed housing crunch, one that forced Resident Life to institute a new lottery system for juniors and seniors wishing to remain on campus, it seems a reprieve is further off than expected.

Whether these delays will also affect the planned elimination of on-campus student parking isn’t clear. But if Lot 1 won’t be affected for a few more years, perhaps officials could consider restructuring parking plans as well.

What we do know is the state funding cuts will have a starkly physical effect on the campus, and for now, that’s simply a financial reality we (and future Terps) will have to shoulder.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

Hogan’s budget hurts students by choice

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n 2013, for the fifth consecutive year, Education Week named this state’s public schools the best in the country. Our K-12 schools are routinely lauded for their topnotch early-education programs, their effective college and workforce preparedness efforts and their ability to churn out academically and socially high-achieving students. Our universities, moreover, are hotbeds for innovation and laboratories of creativity.

These accolades were not bestowed upon this state’s public schools without cause. During his tenure, former Gov. Martin O’Malley demonstrated steadfast commitment to our state’s public education system. Despite a recession, public education funding sharply rose from $4 billion to $6 billion. O’Malley instituted a four-year college tuition freeze in 2007 and thereafter capped tuition increases at 3 percent per year.

The result: The College Board reported that between the 2008-09 and 2013-14 academic years, this state’s tuition and fee increases for in-state students at public fouryear universities ranked secondlowest in the country.

O’Malley did not decide to make important investments in public education and ensure that more state residents can afford college because his predecessor handed him a budget surplus. Rather, these choices were made in spite of the $1.7 billion structural deficit former Republican Gov. Bob Ehrlich left the O’Malley administration.

Despite inheriting a budget deficit amounting to less than half of the shortfall O’Malley inherited, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s proposed budget makes devastating cuts to our public schools and entails sharp tuition increases.

The fiscal 2016 budget includes projections for a 5 percent undergraduate tuition increase at most University System of Maryland institutions in the fall — a spike that would follow the midyear tuition increase university President Wallace Loh announced in midJanuary. The budget also slashes the Geographic Cost of the Education Index by 50 percent. The state uses the index to calculate the education funding it provides local jurisdictions, and local school boards use it to craft their budgets.

While Hogan does increase education funding a paltry 0.7 percent

by cutting the GCEI, school systems will actually receive $144 million less than their budgets accounted for. This state’s largest jurisdictions will be hit hardest: Baltimore City will suffer a potential loss of $35 million hit and Montgomery County will lose more than $17 million.

Yes, the university system’s Board of Regents sets tuition rates. Yet the regents’ hands are tied by the funding they are given. For example, if Montgomery County Public Schools lays off 250 teachers because of the 50 percent cut to the GCEI, this is clearly a direct result of the cut in funding for the school system. The school system obviously would not have elected to cut the teachers were it not for budget cuts. The regents, essentially, are just doing what they are bound to do with the money they are given.

Deep cuts in public school funding will mean larger class sizes, fewer teachers in the classroom and the elimination of critical support staff. Higher tuition will make it even harder for in-state students to afford college and will threaten our state’s proud legacy of keeping any tuition increases manageable.

Hogan’s refusal to adequately fund our public schools and his aversion to keeping tuition low for hardworking state students is not a consequence of a historic budget deficit. Both the deficit O’Malley inherited and the national economic climate in which he governed were significantly more dire.

T h e n ew gove r n o r ’s b u d ge t proposal simply reflects severely misplaced priorities. We should be reducing class sizes, improving programs that will train more effective teachers and making it more affordable for more state students to attend college. Unfortunately, Hogan’s budget does just the opposite. Instead of cultivating our state’s future leaders and scientists, doctors and engineers, the new budget threatens critical progress this state has made — progress that has benefited our students and our state. Failure to adequately invest in our students is not a budgetary necessity imposed on our new governor, but rather a misguided and surely detrimental choice.

Ben Kramer is a senior government and politics and history major and the president of UMD College Democrats. He can be reached at benkramer1234@gmail.com.

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Looking beyond social biases PATRICK AN

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s a teenager entering college, all I wanted to do was volunteer in a medical brigade, travel to foreign countries and help impoverished people. Now, three years later, as an adult with the means to embark on such a trip, I am no longer so enthusiastic.

I only realized that the transactions these medical brigades make are not always ethically sound when I looked at a photo of another volunteer, who could very well have been me, holding up a young Peruvian boy. It was not the boy who struck me, but the ominous face of a Peruvian young man in the background, much too easy to miss. He was looking straight into my eyes, and I knew at that moment he was looking not at a savior but an intruder.

Consider Norma, a 7-year-old girl from Ecuador whose story is publicized on one medical brigade’s website. Norma lives in a remote village where extreme poverty is the norm and local medical practices are centered on healing through spiritual leaders, with a distrust of modern medicine.

To the outsider, Norma’s village lives in poverty and her culture’s view of health care is flawed, but Norma

has accepted this reality because it is the only reality she knows.

Suddenly, a group of Americans sets up a clinic in her village and tell her she has a congenital heart defect that needs to be treated. Against the initial wishes of her parents, who distrust modern medicine, Norma is shipped off to be treated using money provided by the medical brigade, an amount Norma knows her family could never make in her lifetime.

When she returns, the brigade has built sanitary latrines and left supplies in her village to improve the residents’ “living conditions.”

To most, the story ends here, and the mission is accomplished.

However, we must be capable of perceiving Norma and other children like her as more than deprived people who will gratefully take any help that comes to them. We must realize that children like Norma will also try to rationalize the miraculous events they have witnessed in almost a blink of an eye.

At the age of 7, Norma might not understand that money is not the only predictor of wealth and superiority, or the other multitude of factors that led her village to its current state. Norma only makes connections to what she can see.

She sees that only the foreigners who have money are able to swiftly build sanitary facilities and treat diseases. Because her own people

do not possess such financial holdings or provide similar services, she might conclude it is because they are incapable and inferior. She perceives that the foreigners bring a solution to remedy a problem that can only be created by her own people.

This is not, of course, to suggest that villages like Norma’s should not be helped, but we must be careful of being too enticed by the obvious results and ignore the fact that some of these actions threaten a people’s cultural integrity.

Although Norma’s family does not live an acceptable life by our standards, her parents genuinely care for her and her father makes an honest living to feed her family. Should these factors, though not as objective but equally as important as money, be neglected when determining how or whether to provide aid? Should we not care whether the aid Norma receives in a week overshadows everything her father has provided her whole life? Or that she might compare her father to the foreigners?

In retrospect, I get the impression that the young man who stared back at me in that photograph does not believe his people are impoverished at all. Perhaps we should start entertaining the thought that maybe he is right.

Patrick An is a junior biology major. He can be reached at patandbk@gmail.com.

Excitement in personal food innovations BEN STRYKER

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ast year, I wrote a column about how I stole soup crackers from the on-campus dining halls. Thankfully, this article went unnoticed and I managed to avoid expulsion. Either the dining hall staff is like the 99 percent of the student body that doesn’t read The Diamondback or they felt the 50 cents I stole in crackers wasn’t worth their time. Whatever the reason, I’ve since made the move to off-campus living and I couldn’t be happier.

Right now, I find myself in a beautiful place where I can fully combine the creativity and flexibility of my own kitchen with the substandard eating habits of a college student. Only my housemates can judge my new culinary creations, and they’re the same people who drink cheap beer three weeks past its expiration date, so their opinions mean very little.

I began my odyssey of eating with simple meals: turkey sandwiches, pasta, etc. It was a drastic improvement from the dining hall; but then again, Lunchables would be too. These meals were neither a challenge to my taste buds nor for

my cooking skills; I needed something new.

Pretty soon, those sandwiches were on garlic bread in lieu of white bread.

Chicken, turkey, bacon and eggs — it didn’t matter. All sandwiches I crafted were made better with garlic bread. This experiment lasted for a week before I got too lazy and the ingredients got too expensive to keep making the spread.

When in doubt, add hot sauce. One thing I’ve come to learn about offcampus cooking is you can never have enough hot sauce. I still haven’t found a meal that wouldn’t be improved by a splash of Frank’s. That being said, hot sauce is the easy way out.

I’ve also discovered that desperation can produce some magical dishes. Pizza and waffles, foods that used to stand on their own, now bookended sandwiches when my loaf of Wonder Bread ran out.

This university talks about “fearless ideas,” and I really think I came across something beautiful with my ham and syrup waffle sandwich.

If Dining Services is reading this column, I welcome them to borrow some of these ideas. In the meantime, please excuse me as I prepare my dino nugget mac ’n cheese.

Ben Stryker is a Diamondback cartoonist and a senior marketing and supply chain management major. He can be reached at bstryker@terpmail.umd.edu.

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You enjoy working with people, and you find the wide diversity of humanity throughout the world to be fascinating -- and rather entertaining as well! You get a real kick out of learning about how other people live, and you’re more than willing, whenever you have the chance, to look at life through another’s eyes.

Also born on this date are: Hank Aaron, baseball player; Jeremy Sumpter, actor; Bobby Brown, singer; Sara Evans, singer; Michael Sheen, actor; Roger Staubach, football player; Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress; Laura Linney, actress; Barbara Hershey, actress; Christopher Guest, actor and filmmaker; Red Buttons, actor and comedian; Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., politician; Cristiano Ronaldo, soccer player; Stephen J. Cannell, television producer; Michael Mann, filmmaker; H.R. Giger, surrealist artist; John Carradine, actor.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) -Giving others a taste of what you’re about, and what you’re capable of, gives you a taste of your own personal potential at this time.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -There’s no reason you can’t move on to something new on the heels of a task you think was well-performed.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- You’ll feel a renewed sense of camaraderie as you and some friends attempt something you have only dreamed of in the past.

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A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING How should we approach the biographies of people who didn’t want to be seen?

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By Eric Bricker @EricCBricker Senior staff writer We’re in the dog days of winter. It’s been cold. Like, really cold. Like, every part of your exposed flesh feels like it could be a hangnail cold. But what better way to keep warm than to dig into some hot new tracks? Here are the songs we’re listening to this week:

Modest Mouse, “The Best Room” This is the third track to drop from Modest Mouse’s upcoming Strangers to Ourselves LP, and it’s arguably the best cut yet, a yelping, dramatic exorcism of a jam that serves as a nice complement to first single “Lampshades on Fire.” Deep into a storied career, Modest Mouse isn’t changing, and that’s a good thing.

Rihanna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney, “FourFiveSeconds” A denim-heavy and relatively makeup-free video for this meandering singer-songwriter track dropped online earlier this week, and it’s a perfectly low-key match to this minimalist, borderline tossed-off slice of gospel pop. Kanye says he’s about to spaz, but everything he’s been putting out lately sounds like a lullaby — again, that’s a good thing.

Natalie Prass, “My Baby Don’t Understand Me” Prass’ album dropped last week, and it’s a sleeper bomb of an LP. Let her honey-dripping voice and Tin Pan Alley arrangements lure you into a false sense of security, and before you know it, there’s blood all down your front because she’s ripped out your heart. Soft, sanguine and unlike anything else happening in pop right now, Prass is a must-listen.

Chromatics, “Yes (Love Theme from Lost River)” Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, Lost River, looks like a messy movie, its trailers giving off a distinct John Steinbeck by way of Nicolas Winding Refn vibe. Whatever the movie’s quality, this song is smooth, scary and deeply enjoyable, a soundtrack cut with universal appeal.

Dick Diver, “Tearing the Posters Down” This gaggle of Australian stalwarts takes its name from an F. Scott Fitzgerald character, and like Fitzgerald, it tends to beat back into the past. This jangly, frenetic burst of power pop wouldn’t have sounded terribly out of place in 1998 — to powerful effect. ebrickerdbk@gmail.com

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JASON SEGEL STARS AS DAVID FOSTER WALLACE in The End of the Tour, an account of the late author’s lengthy interview with writer David Lipsky. Though the film and Segel’s performance have earned largely positive reviews since premiering at Sundance, Wallace’s estate has repeatedly challenged the project. photo courtesy of collider.com

By Jonathan Raeder @jonraeder Staff writer Would you want your life turned into a movie after you died?

At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, one of the m o s t ta l ke d - a b o u t a n d critically praised films of the lot was The End of the Tour. The film is an adaptation of David Lipsky’s 2010 book Although Of Course You End up Becoming Yourself, which itself is a transcript of a series of conversations the writer had with the late author David Foster Wallace near the end of a book tour.

Fo r t h e u n i n i t i a t e d , Wallace was a postmodern writer who’s already been inducted into the pantheon of literary geniuses. His unfinished work has even been published since his death in 2008. In the film, Wallace is portrayed by Jason Segel in what critics have called a career-defining performance. So why is there so much controversy surrounding this film already?

Making films about famous people, usually those who are already deceased, has been a Hollywood staple for decades. Just look at this year’s Oscar nominees: The I m i t a t i o n G a m e , Se l m a , American Sniper. And this

isn’t even counting past Oscar-bait such as Lincoln, 1 2 Ye a rs a S l a v e o r T h e King’s Speech.

H u m a n i ty i s a d e p t a t taking the existing stories of peoples’ lives and fictionalizing them. Sometimes these portrayals smooth out the rougher edges of the subject’s life, sometimes the subjects are unfairly maligned, and sometimes the people are turned into completely different characters.

Usually these are icons who died some time ago, and if they were famous enough, they’re essentially turned i n to c h a ra c te rs. Fo r m e r presidents, Hitler, Einstein, Charles Dickens: They’re used in commercials, cartoons, greeting cards, films and every other conceivable form of marketing and fiction. There’s almost an unwritten rule of humanity that anyone’s life can enter the public domain if they’ve been gone long enough.

B u t h ow l o n g i s l o n g enough?

The David Foster Wallace Literary Estate has refused to endorse The End of the Tour, claiming that Wallace would not have consented to any film depiction of himself. The film is clearly a work imbued with respect and love for Wallace’s work, but is that enough to consti-

tute its necessity?

Proponents of turning people into characters argue that these people were in the public sphere and therefore are ripe for adaptation even if they personally wouldn’t wa n t i t . A n d , a f te r a l l , wouldn’t these portrayals increase the posthumous popularity of the individual and maybe create a new generation of fans?

There’s merit to this argument, but there’s an unsettling slippery slope that this kind of thinking can careen down. Most of us living today in the developed world have our own public personas on social media. Is it so hard to foresee a future where a calculating Hollywood executive stumbles on a blog or Facebook page about a real person so interesting that he or she would make a great film?

However, the decision to adapt a life into a fictionalized story needs to take into account that real people often know or knew this person. Yes, most of us revere Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., but wondering about the progress that could have been made if they survived and dealing with the raw grief of losing a person you actually knew are different beasts entirely. Wallace has

only been gone a few years, and many living people miss him. What must it be like to see someone you know and love portrayed by someone else onscreen? If people being adapted were alive, they could at least argue for or against their depictions, but when they’re gone, they have no voice in the matter.

Maybe the proponents of this type of fictionali za t i o n a re r i g h t . A f te r all, don’t many of us post our personal lives on the Internet for strangers to see? Don’t we sometimes imagine who would play us in a movie of our life or what the soundtrack might be or which parts of our stories would invoke laughter or tears or applause? Maybe there’s nothing wrong with turning our life stories into real stories. We’re already doing it.

In all likelihood, The End of the Tour will be remembered as a great film, made by people who genuinely admire Wallace’s work and life. But there’s something deeply unsettling about turning a real person into a character when his family doesn’t want it. Yes, this might be honoring his memory, but wouldn’t it be better to honor his wishes? jraederdbk@gmail.com

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE | MEDIA DAY

Reese, veteran squad pursue 2nd straight national title No. 1 Terps return 10 of 11 starters, enter year with leadership, chemistry

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer W h e n t h e Te r r a p i n s women’s lacrosse team takes the field for its season opener at William & Mary on Feb. 15, the starting lineup won’t look much different than the one that won the 2014 national championship last May. The No. 1 Terps return 10 of the 11 field starters on last year’s squad that posted a 23-1 record, including three victories over No. 3 Syracuse, two of which came in the ACC championship and national title games.

The existing chemistry and returning leadership, coach Cathy Reese said at the Terps’ media day Tuesday,

has been one of her squad’s greatest assets during its preseason preparations. “[We] return a really solid and great group of players,” Reese said. “We graduated one midfield starter off of our 2014 national championship team and our goalie that year, so we’ve been working with a lot of people who are ready to step up. Our returners are ready to go. We’re all healthy right now and just kind of anxious … to get things going and to compete.”

The midfielder Reese referred to is Beth Glaros, who led the Terps with five goals and one assist in the national championship game and was considered the team’s most vocal leader.

But the sentiment within

LIONS From PAGE 8 who played for Penn State for two years, kept the Terps steady.

The veterans’ resilient effort eventually helped the No. 17 Terps eke out a 64-58 win before an announced 14,195 at Xfinity Center to avoid a crippling upset and their first backto-back losses of the season.

Wells led the team with 23 points on the night, scored five of the team’s final seven points and grabbed a key rebound late, but Graham’s performance might have resonated more with the Terps faithful. The fan favorite scored a career-high 16 points on 6 of 7 shooting and spent most of his 20 minutes on the floor battling against larger post players.

“I’m just happy for him; what a great kid,” Turgeon said of Graham. “And we needed it.

We needed every little point.”

Graham’s production was so crucial because guard Melo Trimble, the face of the Terps’ resurgence, went without a made field goal for a second straight game.

Graham doubled his season-high point total against his old team, Wells scored in bunches and Trimble posted a career-high eight assists as the Terps gutted out a much-needed win.

The narrow victory over Penn State (14-9, 2-8 Big Ten) comes after a poor three-game stretch in which the Terps (19-4, 7-3) lost two games on the road by a combined 43 points and barely escaped with a home win over Northwestern.

“It’s a good win,” Turgeon said. “It’s a hard win. It’s college basketball.”

The Terps’ recent struggles extended into the first half against the Nittany Lions last night as the offense failed to find a rhythm, and Penn State, which sits at 12th in the Big Ten standings, drilled seven of its first 11 shots.

The sluggish start put the Terps in a fourpoint hole midway through the first half, but the

t h e p rog ra m i s t h a t t h e 11-player senior class has gained ample experience competing in important games and will efficiently offset the loss of Glaros.

“They said we have 11 seniors [now],” redshirt s e n i o r a t ta c k e r B ro o k e Griffin said. “So it’s like we have a role model on our team, and … we’re so close, we’re just a unit.”

The Terps’ biggest question lingers in the goal. Abbey Clipp started 23 of the Terps’ 24 games in 2014, notching 129 saves on the year.

This preseason, coaches are holding a competition between sophomore Emily Kift, freshman Emma Moss and Alex Fitzpatrick, a graduate student from Lehigh, to select this season’s starting netminder.

Both the coaching staff and the players are upbeat about the three contend-

two senior stars of the victory combined to pull coach Mark Turgeon’s team out of a funk. Wells scored 12 first-half points to keep the team in the game, and out of the break, Graham turned in his most productive offensive spurt as a Terp.

The Centreville native scored the team’s first seven points in the second half, and after he finished a layup through contact to give his team a 36-31 lead, the Xfinity Center crowd erupted.

“Scoring 16 is nice, but a win is a win,” said Graham, who credited his offensive numbers to Trimble’s playmaking. “We won the game, so that’s all I’m worried about.”

Graham’s lay-in wouldn’t be the last time a Terps senior drew a monstrous cheer last night.

About six minutes into the half, Wells caught a pass in transition on the right side of the hoop, took one hard dribble and rose toward the rim.

Jack jumped to contest the attempt, but Wells flew through contact and slammed the ball home to send the fans into their loudest roar of the night.

“Once I saw I got the ball with a full head of steam, I knew it was going to end up bad for him,” Wells said.

Penn State, though, didn’t crumple in the minutes after Wells’ highlight-reel jam. Guard D.J. Newbill’s scoring kept the Nittany Lions offense afloat, and the Terps’ inability to pull away meant they moved into the final minutes, for the second straight home game, locked in a tight battle against a Big Ten bottom-dweller.

But Trimble dished out two late assists to keep the Terps ahead, and Wells scored five straight points to build a little cushion.

The team forced Penn State into a five-second inbounds violation with 7.7 seconds left to punctuate a victory fueled by two of its oldest players.

“Senior leadership is the most important thing on the team,” Wells said. “With me and Jon Graham and Evan [Smotrycz] and the other seniors on the team, we have to step up and do what’s necessary to guide these young guys.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

ers’ progress. In preseason practices, Reese said the offense has gotten sharper from playing against such challenging keepers, while the defense, which returns all five starters, has developed solid communication between the field players and the goalkeepers.

“Emily [Kift] having a year under her belt, she’s gotten more confident and she can speak to us, and Alex [Fitzpatrick] having the experience from Lehigh, she has the ability to speak to us as well, very loud in the cage,” defender Megan Douty said.

“Emma [Moss], as a freshman, is probably almost louder than [Kift and Fitzpatrick], and it’s awesome to see that confidence behind the net.”

As the regular season approaches, the Terps are concentrating less on filling voids on the field than in past years.

SIGNING From PAGE 8 in 60 minutes. The Spartans, meanwhile, totaled 242.

The message was clear for Edsall and his staff: The Terps needed bigger bodies to solidify their fronts and sustain even marginal competition against the elite Big Ten programs.

And during National Signing Day yesterday, the fourth-year coach continued a promising trend of landing marquee defensive and offensive linemen from the Washington metropolitan area.

Defensive tackle Adam McLean, a 6-foot-2, 293-pound four-star recruit out of Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg, highlights the class along with 6-foot-3, 283-pound offensive guard Quarvez Boulware, a Friendship Collegiate Academy product.

“We got our needs,” Edsall said. “The two most critical positions that we had were the O-line and the D-line, and we were able to secure commitments from some outstanding young men.”

The Terps’ 2015 class consists of 18 players, five of whom are offensive linemen. That led to Edsall feeling comfortable with his haul despite missing out on highly coveted local lineman Isaiah Prince, who picked the Buckeyes over the Terps on Wednesday morning.

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MIDFIELDER TAYLOR CUMMINGS celebrates with teammates after winning the 2014 NCAA title. She is returning this season along with nine other starters. file photo/the diamondback But as the search for a starting goalie and midfielder continues, the Terps squad is anxious to kickoff its campaign for a repeat title.

“It goes by fast,” Griffin said.

“I’ve been here for five years,

and it’s crazy. Just having the process of just taking it in. It goes by fast, and don’t take it for granted each and every single day.”

Boulware leads a group that includes 6-foot-5, 320-pound E.J. Donahue, 6-foot-5, 290pound Will McClain, 6-foot3, 305-pound Ellis McKennie and 6-foot-5, 285-pound Mason Zimmerman.

“The things we wanted to do, we accomplished,” Edsall said. “We wanted to continue to build our team from the inside out. And having been able to land the quality and the number of offensive linemen that we were able to land really enhances what we want to do [and] where we want to go in the Big Ten.” The five 2015 offensive linemen follow a strong class from last season, which featured two four-star tackles from the region in Damian Prince and Derwin Gray. Boulware joins the duo as the third four-star offensive lineman Edsall has signed in the past two seasons.

“We’ve got to be able to match up with the people that we’re going against,” Edsall said. “Last year’s group and this year’s group give us the opportunity to be able to do that.

And now what we’ve got to do is just continue to do that on an annual basis moving forward.”

It remains unclear which position Boulware will play when he joins the team, as experts have projected him as both a guard and center. Recruiting coordinator John Dunn said it would rely heavily on the youngster’s performance and

comfort level during training camp this summer.

“We try to recruit offensive linemen,” Dunn said. “Our philosophy with linemen is the best five are going to play. The best five linemen are going to be out there. So we don’t always necessarily plug them in at X position when he could be maybe better somewhere else.”

Na t i o n a l S i g n i n g Day was far from all positive for Edsall, though. The Terps lost out on both of their possible recruits who entered Wednesday undecided, including Prince, the top prospect in this state, according to 247sports.com.

“You’re never going to get everybody you want. Go take a look around the country,” Edsall said. “It happens. You’re not going to get every guy that you’re looking for, and you never worry about the guys you don’t get. You worry about the guys that you do get.”

And for Edsall, the players he signed in the 2015 recruiting class represent yet another step in the right direction for a program trying to establish itself as a threat in a “linemen league.”

“That’s where you win ball games. You win it up front,” E d sa l l sa i d . “A n d we ’re bringing in the guys that we know can win the games for us up front.”

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Now in her sophomore campaign, Walker-Kimbrough has a chance to help the Terps improve to 11-0 in conference play — which would be their best start ever — in front of her friends and family.

Walker-Kimbrough’s grandparents are renting a van to bring about 15 other people on the three-hour drive to State College, Pennsylvania. And while many of Walker-Kimbrough’s friends went to Pittsburgh, the ones who attend Penn State (5-17, 2-9) are recruiting their own peers to watch her play.

“They hit me up on Twitter and Instagram like, ‘Can’t wait to see you, bringing all my friends,’” Walker-Kimbrough said. “So that’s exciting.”

Frese had an opportunity to unite with some family and friends when the team traveled to Minnesota, where she coached during the 2001-02 season. And guard Laurin Mincy, a New Jersey native, got her chance when the Terps visited Rutgers.

Tonight, it’s Walker-Kimbrough and Pfirman’s turn to play in front of family and friends on the road.

“I love seeing them after games when they have different family and friends there to support them,” Frese said.

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Tillman said of Reppert. “I saw him bust his butt for four years as a player.”

This isn’t the first time Tillman and Reppert have worked together, as Reppert served as an assistant under Tillman at Harvard in 2009. After a brief stint as the offensive coordinator at Washington College in 2011, Reppert then spent the past three seasons coaching at his alma mater.

In Reppert’s first season with Navy, the Midshipmen improved their shot percentage from .280 to .311.

“One thing you probably have heard Coach Reppert talk about at practice, if you’ve been to any of our practices, is the art of shooting,” Tillman said.“There is an art to it. You don’t just get out there and heave it at the goal. There are different release points; there are different locations.”

While three Terps posted more than 100 shots last year, the team often struggled with its accuracy. Attackman Jay Carlson posted a .500 shooting percentage on 52 shots, but none of the Terps’ top three scorers — attackmen Matt Rambo and Connor Cannizzaro and midfielder Mike Chanenchuk — connected on more than 32 percent of their shots.

“It’s not always velocity. It could be the location; it could be just a little more touch on it,” Tillman said. “And some guys don’t realize that, and we’re really focused on that with this group.”

The addition of Reppert is part of Tillman’s plan to fix those problems. Tillman said Reppert has been inquisitive during

to Kelly anymore,” Pfirman said.

Still, in her third season with the Terps (19-2, 10-0 Big Ten), she will get an opportunity to return to the school she grew up around. And Pfirman has texted her close friends and extended family to make sure everyone who can make it has tickets.

For Walker-Kimbrough, a well-known Penn State a t h l e te f ro m a d i f fe re n t sport took an interest in her.

Christa Harmotto, who attended the same high school a s Wa l k e r - K i m b r o u g h , h e l p e d l ea d t h e N i t ta ny Lions to NCAA volleyball championships in 2007 and 2008 before playing for the U.S. national team.

Harmotto had the Penn State coaching staff come to Hopewell High School in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, to examine Walker-Kimbrough as a potential volleyball recruit.

But the Terps sophomore guard turned down the Nittany Lions, who have won the past two NCAA Championships.

“They recorded a couple practices, and they sent me some letters.” Walker-Kimbrough said. “But I didn’t want to waste their time, so I was like, ‘Basketball is where it’s at.’”

COACH JOHN TILLMAN gives directions to former midfielder Mike Chanenchuk during the Terps’ 11-6 loss to Johns Hopkins last season. Chanenchuk, the team’s leading scorer in 2014, graduated in the spring. file photo/the diamondback coaching sessions, giving suggestions and offering insight into how he used to scout the Terps.

For a team desperate to improve offensively, Reppert’s presence has been welcomed.

“He’s not afraid to challenge me. He’s not afraid to say, ‘Hey, why are we doing that?’” Tillman said. “You want people to keep you on your game, keep you on your toes, making sure that we’ve looked at all angles.”

Defender Casey Ikeda, who was selected 54th overall by the Florida Launch in the Major League Lacrosse draft, has already noticed an uptick in the Terps’ intensity in practice. Ikeda, a senior captain, said he’s seen positive things from attackman Dylan Maltz and midfielders Joe LoCascio and Henry West.

“They’ve already picked up the burden

of playing great,” Ikeda said. “They’re making us work hard every day. I feel confident a lot of guys are going to step up and give us a good amount of offense this year.”

The Terps easily defeated Navy last season, finishing 12 of 39 shots en route to a 12-6 victory. Yet three weeks later, when Tillman’s squad needed to outlast Notre Dame to qualify for the national championship, the Terps shot a measly 16 percent.

Tillman hopes that Reppert, a longtime ally, will help establish more offensive consistency.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL | No. 17 TERPS 64, NITTANY LIONS 58

FOOTBALL | NATIONAL SIGNING DAY

Linemen a focal point of ’15 class Edsall signs bigger bodies to bolster fronts, compete with size of Big Ten

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer Saturday after Saturday this past season, the Terrapins football team faced the intimidating reality of its new conference: The opposing linemen on both sides of the ball are tough, athletic and, most of all, big.

Against many of the Big Ten’s top teams, the Terps’ o f fe n s ive a n d d e fe n s ive fronts were manhandled, the players overmatched in

size and strength.

Ohio State, the eventual national champion, outrushed the Terps 269-66 yards in a blowout victory at Byrd Stadium in early October.

Three weeks later at Camp Randall Stadium, Wisconsin thrashed coach Randy Edsall’s squad, 52-7, posting 311 yards on the ground to the Terps’ 46.

Then on Nov. 15, facing imposing Michigan State offensive and defensive lines, the Terps mustered just 6 yards rushing See SIGNING, Page 7

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Reppert added to improve shooting Former Navy standout, coach joins Tillman’s staff to help with accuracy

FORWARD JON GRAHAM celebrates during the Terps’ 64-58 victory over Penn State last night. The senior scored a career-high 16 points on 6 of 7 shooting. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

EXPERIENCE REIGNS Seniors Wells, Graham help Terps avoid upset against Nittany Lions

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer A star-studded freshman class has dominated the national and local conversation around the Terrapins men’s

basketball team’s surprising season for the past several months, but last night, the squad leaned on two seniors to sidestep disaster against Penn State.

Whether it was guard Dez Wells’ vicious slam over 6-foot-9 forward Donovon Jack or forward Jon Graham’s

six rebounds, the Terps’ most experienced players made several plays to jolt a team stuck firmly in a rut. And as the Nittany Lions bounced back from blow after blow, Wells and Graham, See LIONS, Page 7

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer When the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team opens its 2015 slate at Navy on Feb. 14, it will mark a homecoming for coach John Tillman, who served 12 seasons as an assistant coach in Annapolis.

Tillman won’t be alone, though. He’ll bring another former Navy coach with him, J.L. Reppert, who joined the Terps as an assistant coach in August. Reppert played under Tillman in the late 1990s at

Navy, leading the team to an NCAA tournament berth as a senior captain in 1999.

One of the reasons T illman brought Reppert to College Park was to help with the Terps’ offense. The team posted the nation’s 33rd-ranked shot percentage (.283) in 2014, and Tillman said Reppert has put a lot of energy into fixing some of the Terps’ poor shooting habits.

“He’s really poised in all situations. He has really high standards for the guys,” See REPPERT, Page 7

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL | PENN STATE PREVIEW

Two Terps set to play in home state Walker-Kimbrough, Pfirman both recall growing up with Nittany Lions

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer Many of the Terrapins women’s basketball team’s road trips this season have been to places most of coach Brenda Frese’s players hadn’t visited.

Aside from Nebraska, where the Terps visited during the 2012-13 season, none of the current players had played college basketball at any of the arenas they visited during the first month of Big Ten play. On top of that, many players are

case what Maryland’s about and the team.”

Growing up, Pfirman said she was often compared to former Penn State guard Kelly Mazzante, who is the all-time leader in points for the Nittany Lions’ women’s basketball program. Mazzante attended Montoursville Area High School, a town over from Pfirman’s.

The current Terps forward attended a Penn State game yearly with her high school basketball team and occasionally visited with her parents.

visiting states such as Minnesota, Indiana and Michigan for the first time in their lives.

B u t to n i g h t wh e n t h e No. 5 Terps play at Penn State, Pennsylvania natives Shatori Walker-Kimbrough and Tierney Pfirman will feel a little more at home.

“The majority of people that attended high school games are going to be there,” said Pfirman, whose hometown of Williamsport is about an hour from the Bryce Jordan Center.

“It’s always great any time you can go back home and show-

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