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SPORTS

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Univ requests complaint dismissal Ex-student says due process violated when U found him responsible for sexual assault University o f M a r yl a n d administrators on Friday filed a motion to dismiss a complaint in a $5 million federal lawsuit brought by a former student, who claims that this university violated his due process rights during a sexual assault investigation. by

Jessica Campisi @jessiecampisi Senior staff writer

defendants in the lawsuit.

This university’s standards of due process outline that students subject to expulsion receive a conduct board The student, referred to as John Doe hearing. The Standing Review Comin the complaint filed Sept. 30, claims mittee — a group of five trained stuhe was wrongfully expelled after this dents, staff and faculty members that university found him responsible for changes for each case — is required to sexually assaulting a woman, referred follow certain policy procedures to to as Jane Roe, in an on-campus dorm guarantee due process.

But Doe’s lawyer, Ronald Schwartz, at about 5 a.m. on Dec. 14, 2014.

University President Wallace alleges the committee failed to do that.

Schwartz alleged university officials Loh, Title IX Coordinator Catherine Carroll and Student Conduct Direc- “filtered through the police report” tor Andrea Goodwin are among the and used certain details to aid in their

investigation while ignoring others, and failed to let Doe tell his side of the story.

The police report and lawsuit documents include different details about the encounter between Doe and Roe. This university’s special investigator, Josh Bronson, said that’s because he conducted a trauma-informed investigation, while the police did not, according to the complaint.

In trauma-informed investigations, police officers are aware of how the brain functions in normal and traumatic situations, how to interview

victims and how to write an effective incident report. This university’s Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct trained University of Maryland Police on conducting these types of investigations in October 2015.

Schwartz said the university administrators “took the parts of the police report that they liked to essentially railroad my client … It’s hard to imagine there will be a full vindication [of the complaint].”

In the response filed yesterday, this See lawsuit, p. 2

community

local

Student still stuck in Sudan Doctoral candidate, Language House instructor working to renew his visa One University of Maryland graduate student stuck abroad is scrambling to return to the United States to continue his studies for spring semester while Trump’s travel ban remains on hold.

A b u ba k r S u l i m a n E l taye b Mohamed Hamid, an engineering doctoral student, works for the Language House as a live-in Arabic language teacher.

But since traveling to his home country of Sudan during winter break, he has been unable to come back.

Trump signed an executive order Jan. 27 blocking citizens of seven countries — Sudan, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Yemen — from entering the United States for 90 days. The order also suspends the entry of refugees for 120 days, and suspends the entry of Syrian refugees indefinitely.

A federal judge in Seattle temporarily suspended the ban on Feb. 5, allowing for a lawsuit filed

by Washington state and Minnesota that claims key parts of the order are unconstitutional.

A panel of appeals court judges heard arguments on whether to reinstate the ban Tuesday, and by

Carrie Snurr @CSnurr18 Staff writer

for the kids the peretti family (left to right) Chris, Charlie, Catherine and Daisy, has been on the waitlist for a preschool program at the University of Maryland since Daisy, 3, was born. College Park residents’ childcare troubles led the City Council to explore adding more facilities. photo courtesy of catherine peretti

City Council exploring new preschool option to accompany childcare facility

By Alex Carolan | @alexhcarolan | Staff writer

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atherine Peretti’s 3-year-old daughter Daisy has been on the waitlist for a preschool program at the University of Maryland since the day she was born.

But Peretti, a Calvert Hills resident, is doubtful the structured program she wants for her daughter at this university will ever be available to her.

“We don’t get a preference there because we’re not university affiliated,” Peretti said. “So there’s a chance that [though] my daughter has been on the waitlist … she might not get in.”

Some College Park residents have a hard time finding childcare centers to accommodate their full-time work schedules, leading the College Park

City Council to explore a new preschool option in addition to a childcare center on Calvert Road in collaboration with this university. The Calvert Road facility is slated to open in 2018, and the preschool is in the beginning stages of discussion.

The drive for more childcare options coincides with a 2014 College Park City University Child Care Report, which determined there isn’t enough space in this city’s childcare centers for parents with children here, or those who are having children. There were about 650 children under 5 years old in this city as of 2012, and 71 percent of those on waitlists were on it See children, p. 7

Abubakr Suliman Eltayeb Mohamed Hamid, a Sudanese doctoral student, is still in the process of renewing his visa. photo courtesy of olivia delaplaine officials say a decision is expected within the week.

Hamid’s student visa had expired while he was abroad, and he was in the process of renewing it when the executive order went into place.

Now, he is continuing to work on renewing his visa and coming back to the United States so he can continue with his studies, said Garrett Bradford, the Graduate Student Government’s vice president for committee affairs who has been in contact with Hamid since the ban came into effect.

He can return to this country so long as he gets his visa and reaches an airport in the United States before the ban is put back See student, p. 6

campus

U Senate could alter restricted research policy Bill would allow researchers to expand work with intel community, but concerns remain The University of Maryland’s Senate is voting T h u rsd ay o n a proposed set of recommended actions that would clarify this university’s restricted research policy, further opening the door for collaboration with the intelligence community and inviting controversy from open research advocates.

The University Senate, this university’s primary policy-making by

Andrew Dunn @AndrewE_Dunn Staff writer

body, will discuss and vote on this proposal Thursday at its first meeting of the spring semester. The subcommittee that examined the proposal ultimately recommended this university allow restricted research on a case-by-case basis.

Restricted research refers to limiting what research findings can be published, and may be imposed by corporations or done out of national security concerns, among other reasons. This corresponds with the school’s current approach, but the report recommends steps to provide

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more transparency in the process.

Proponents of the change argue it would bring much-needed clarity and guidance to the current working University System of Maryland policy from 1991. For others, it has raised concerns about the appropriateness of such research and how it fits with the academic principles of transparency. If the senate passes it, the report would go to university President Wallace Loh’s desk for approval.

Keith Marzullo, dean of the information studies college, was the subcommittee’s chair. Marzullo joined the subcommittee in August, coming from the White House’s science and technology policy office.

“The USM policy allows us to do restricted research, it’s just that the conditions under which it can be done are not clear,” Marzullo said.

“There’s been a healthy debate.

The committee has been in general agreement, but we want to get it right.”

While the subcommittee suggested this university continue to be an open academic environment, members identified some potential costs of adopting this restricted research policy, such as staffing for review and monitoring, training and security. The new revenue streams stemming from new research would likely mitigate some of these costs, the subcommittee found.

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The subcommittee’s report also calls for the creation of transparency and accountability measures, including quarterly internal reports on any such research that are then presented annually to the senate.

Beth Tennyson is the sole graduate student on the 16-member subcommittee. She is a graduate student in the material sciences and engineering department and stands behind their report.

“I think as the current USM policy stands, just in general, there was a need for this subcommittee to rewrite and maybe figure it out,” Tennyson said. “As our current See senate , p. 3

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CRIME BLOTTER

police university police lt. lisa payne leads a community class at the department’s training facility in College Park on Wednesday. photo courtesy of university police

By Michael Brice-Saddler | @TheArtist_MBS | Senior staff writer University of Maryland Police responded to reports of vandalism, thef t a nd fi re, a mong other incidents this pa st week, accord i ng to police reports.

THEFT O n F r id ay at 3:17 p.m., University Police responded to 251 North for a theft report, University Police spokeswom a n Sg t. R o sa n ne Hoaas said. A male university student forgot his backpack in the d in ing ha ll at about 6 p.m. the previous day, and his bag was missing when he went back for it on Friday at noon.

University Police will review cameras in the area, Hoaas said. This case is still open.

responded to the 3400 block of T u lane Drive for a report of fraud. The incident took place nine m inutes before police a r r ive d . T h i s c a s e i s open and active.

Police responded to t h e 39 0 0 b l o c k o f Campus Drive on Saturday at 11:14 a.m. for a fraud report. The incident took place at noon two days earlier. T his case remains active.

HARASSMENT/ STALKING

University Police responded to McKeld i n Library on Saturday at 5:26 p.m., when a reporting person notified police a door at the main entrance was cracked, Hoaas said.

The reporting person noticed the damage at 3 p.m. that day. However, it is unknown how long t h e c ra c k w a s t h e re , Hoaas said.

University Police will review cameras near the area as a part of their investigation. T his case is open.

University Police responded to Chestertown Hall on Friday at 3 p.m ., whe re a m a le university student reported he participated in a mutually consensual sexual video chat with a woman, who threatened to post the video online, Hoaas sa id . T he wom a n demanded money, but the student refused to pay and ended the chat.

The woman sent mu lt iple messa ges to the victim demanding money, Hoaas said. University Police contacted the woman and told her to stop contacting the student. The victim does not know the suspect, Hoaas said.

University Police gave the victim information from the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct. T h is case is closed.

FIRE

OTHER INCIDENT

University Police responded to the Xfinity Center on Satu rday at 11:28 p.m. for a fire a l a r m . O f f i c e r s d i scovered smoke i n a room, and the case was handled by the University Fire Marshal’s Office, Hoaas said.

O n S u n d ay at 4:0 8 p.m., University Police responded to the J. M. Patterson building for water on the floor, Hoaas said. An officer discovered water leaking from a pipe in the ceiling.

Police notified Facilities Management, who responded to the scene for cleanup, Hoaas said.

This case is closed.

VANDALISM

FRAUD O n M o n d a y a t 5: 35 p.m., University Police

lawsuit From p. 1 university says during the investigation, Doe “was given many opportunities to present his side of the incident,” including making a statement to University Police, meeting twice with a university investigator, submitting affidavits

behind the badge

Police launch community program for 22 students, staff

By Michael Brice-Saddler | @TheArtist_MBS | Senior staff writer

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niversity of Maryland Police launched their Community Police Academy on Wednesday night, giving a mix of 22 university students and staff a chance to walk in the shoes of University Police officers.

After the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray highlighted instances of police misconduct and poor community relations, University Police Chief David Mitchell wanted to create an environment in which students felt at ease around officers, he told The Diamondback in May. The police academy aims to build trust with students and staff and demonstrate how the department protects the campus, Mitchell said.

Mitchell also announced department-wide diversity training, reaffirmed the importance of gaining community trust and participated in a Town Hall discussion focused on race relations after officers used pepper spray to disperse a crowd at a graduation party of predominantly black students in May. Lt. Lisa Payne, a University Police assistant patrol commander, leads the academy, which will involve hands-on activities such as simulated traffic stops and firearm training using lasers. Payne helped orchestrate the academy’s overall structure as well as coordinate instructors and weekly lesson plans, she said. “[The academy] is good because it introduced me to what a police department is and what they do,” said Payne, who went through a similar student academy herself when she joined the department in 2001. “It’s very helpful for students to understand what the police department does.”

The inaugural class was at University Police’s training facility, located behind the College Park Metro station. Eighteen students, as well as four university faculty and staff members, will meet every Wednesday — excluding spring break — until their graduation ceremony on April 19. Although registration is now closed, the academy was open to any university student, staff or faculty member, in addition to College Park residents, Payne said.

On their first day, academy participants received an oral history of University Police. After officers divided them into squads, they also tried on vests and gun belts, which they’ll use for the remainder of the course. Before graduating, participants will engage in a use-of-force discussion, meet the department’s K9 unit and participate in a ride along.

“I’m looking forward to the K9 thing because I love dogs, and anything that has to do with that will be cool,” said Jamie Klunk, a junior criminal justice major. “Also the laser shot — it’ll be interesting to see how I do on that.”

There is no full-time academy instructor for this program, Payne said. Instead, about 22 University Police instructors — ranging from master patrol officer to lieutenant — will take turns leading the academy over its duration. These officers are certified through the state and instruct the department’s actual Police Academy for incoming officers, Payne said.

Designed to be an informal experience for participants, students in the academy won’t have to address instructors as “ma’am” or “sir,” or adhere to any other type of strict protocol, Payne said as she addressed the class on Wednesday. There is no credit or grade associated with the class, either.

“It’s just an open environment where we can learn from each other in a non-confrontational type of way,” Payne said.

“I’m really excited about it.”

The Community Police Academy is a partnership between University Police and the Fraternal Order of Police, a nationwide union, Payne said. Enriching this partnership between these two groups and fostering discourse between University Police and the university community is one of the academy’s primary goals.

Donna Moore, an executive administrative assistant in the Provost’s Office who’s participating in the program, said she’s looking forward to conversing with University Police — particularly about active shooter situations.

“I’ll enjoy the active shooter discussion, just learning about things to do since we haven’t really addressed that in our building,” Moore said, referencing the main Administration building. “There’s only one way in and one way out of [the building], so I’m curious to see what they would suggest for us to do.”

A venue for students and police to learn from each other in an open, pressure-free environment is paramount to the academy’s success, Mitchell said. “[The academy] shows transparency — this is what we do and this is how we do it,” Mitchell said. “They’ll never forget this experience. I promise you that.” mbricesaddlerdbk@gmail.com

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and testifying before the SRC. “[Doe] tries to recharacterize and distort the University’s proceedings,” the administrators’ response read. “[Doe] makes bald allegations in the text of his complaint which are flatly contradicted by his own exhibits. [Doe] references (and mischaracterizes) certain documents, but then selectively

ignores them when they undermine his claims.”

The response alleges Doe’s complaint should be dismissed on the grounds of qualified immunity, which protects government officials from liability unless their actions knowingly violate someone’s “clearly established” constitutional rights, according to the Legal Information Institute, a nonprofit housed in the Cornell Law School.

“The University’s proceedings were more extensive and generous to [Doe] than other streamlined school disciplinary proceedings which have been approved by the courts,” the response read. “[Doe’s] lawsuit would impose on educators across

Maryland the stringent requirements of a criminal trial or the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure — standards which courts have uniformly found are not required in university disciplinary proceedings and which would, in fact, hamper schools’ ability to deal with sexual assault on campuses.”

In evaluating qualified immunity, the court will consider whether a reasonable person in the administrators’ positions would know that their actions violated the law. But “it’s complicated in Title IX” because of the nature of cases, Schwartz said.

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needed better sexual misconduct investigation procedures.

The letters outlined stricter rules for the investigation and sentencing process in sexual misconduct cases and lowered the standard of proof.

To abide by the Education Department’s rules, this university must determine it is more likely than not that sexual misconduct occurred for a student to be found responsible, rather than the “clear and convincing” standard, which means it is highly probable that sexual misconduct occurred.

This university has expelled a record number of students for sexual assault for two years in a row. Between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015, three

students were expelled, and four students were expelled during the 2015-16 academic year for Sexual Assault I, or nonconsensual penetration.

Three other students were also found responsible for Sexual Assault I but faced suspensions, according to the second annual Student Sexual Misconduct Report. Changes in the sexual misconduct investigation procedure led to inconsistent punishments.

This university is currently under federal investigation regarding the way it handles sexual assault cases.

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Hogan remains quiet on Trump policies Being a Christine Condon Republican @CChristine19 governor in a Democratic Staff writer s ta te c o m e s with its fair share of challenges, and President Trump hasn’t made life any easier for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.

Trump’s policies — most notably, his executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations — have stirred controversy and protests nationwide, including in Annapolis. Hundreds gathered outside Hogan’s h o m e S a t u rd ay a n d d e manded he speak out against Trump’s cabinet picks, as well as the travel ban.

In a state where Democrats o u t n u m b e r Re p u b l i c a n s more than 2-1, Maryland lawmakers have called on Hogan — who did not vote by

for Trump in the presidential election — to address these concerns. Del. Kirill Reznik (D-Montgomery) said in a tweet that “it’s not that hard” for Hogan to voice opposition to Trump’s ban.

Hogan’s office released a statement saying his legal team was investigating the ban. But his focus remains on state policy, said Hannah Marr, a Hogan spokeswoman.

“The governor is committed to working with this administration, just as he has successfully worked with the previous administration, to promote what is in Maryland’s best interest, and he believes there are many areas where we can collaborate closely, including economic development and transportation infrastructure,” Marr wrote in an email.

Hogan did not address the travel ban or Trump’s proposal to eliminate the Affordable Care Act during his third annual State of the State speech Feb. 1. Instead, he highlighted his policy proposals for the state, including expanding school voucher options, requiring certain employers to offer pa i d s i c k l eave a n d s u rmounting the state’s heroin and opioid crisis.

Stella Rouse, a government and politics professor at this university, said Hogan is between a “rock and a hard place” by not speaking out against the ban, but added that his hands-off approach could prove damaging.

“He’s enjoyed a relatively high popularity particularly for a Republican governor for a number of reasons, but this

could definitely be his Achilles’ heel,” she said. Hogan’s approval ratings reached 74 percent in January, according to a Gonzales Research poll.

Rouse called this moment a “ fo rk i n t h e ro a d ” fo r Hogan, and said it could affect the outcome of his re-election campaign.

“Hogan could be one of the casualties of 2018 as this antiTrump movement gears up, and that could happen no matter what he does,” Rouse said.

For this university’s College Republicans President Jacob Veitch, Hogan’s approach is an inclusive one, especially for Republicans who gave Trump a win in this state’s primary. In the presidential election, less than 34 percent of state voters supported Trump. “ He ’s going to stick to the middle leading to this

re - e l e c t i o n ca m pa i g n i n [2018], and I think that’s a smart move,” said Veitch, a junior government and politics and international business major. “I think Marylanders are happy with the way he’s governed; he’s governed in a way that represents all of Maryland, not just the Republican Party, not just the Democratic Party.”

For College Democrats spokesman Will O’Malley, Hogan’s actions have been far from sufficient and show “absolute cowardice.”

Hogan and Trump aren’t so different after all, O’Malley said, citing Hogan’s 2015 statement against settling Syrian refugees in Maryland.

Hogan asked the Obama administration to stop settlement of Syrian refugees in this state until the federal

government could ensure that the refugees wouldn’t threaten public safety.

Hogan’s team even deleted comments from the governor’s Facebook page this we e k re q u e s t i n g t h a t h e publicly oppose xTrump’s travel ban, causing O’Malley to disagree.

“It’s hysterical. He’s acting like a thin-skinned 12-yearold on his social media,” he said. “Larry Hogan is not going to be able to delete our voices or our votes, so we look forward to making our case to voters between now and 2018.”

The College Democrats intend to turn their opinions into action for the 2018 g u b e r n a to r i a l e l e c t i o n , O’Malley said. ccondondbk@gmail.com

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Researcher aims to help house displaced scientists A University Lindsey Feingold of Maryland re@lindseyf96 searcher is using a self-created Staff writer communication network to help house scientists who might be stuck abroad following President Trump’s immigration ban.

Though a federal judge in Seattle issued a ruling Friday that has temporarily blocked a ban barring citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries from traveling to the U.S. for 90 days, the future of some U.S. scientists who have been doing work abroad remains in limbo.

To a d d r e s s t h i s , J e n Golbeck, a computer science and information studies professor at this university, decided to expand a network she created in January to provide resources and alternate facilities to scientists stuck overseas. by

senate From p. 1 p o l i c y s t a n d s , i t ’s ve r y unclear.”

Tennyson also added although her peers don’t talk about the policy or idea of restricted research much — if at all — it is something she believes students should be more aware of.

The proposal vote comes as this university prepares to consider a plan to create the Maryland Global Institute for Cybersecurity, an academic addition that would deepen already significant relationships with secretive government organizations such as the NSA and with private companies that conduct proprietary research, which can remain confidential for a given time.

But expanding restricted re sea rc h r i s ks i m p e d i n g on academic transparency, particularly for a public university, said Joann Boughman, the university system’s senior vice chancellor for academic affairs. “ T h e c o m p a n y wo u l d not only want to protect its own intellectual property, but may require the faculty member not to publish,” Bo u g h m a n sa i d . “ T h a t’s w h e r e we h a ve to s t a r t looking at things very seriously because of the basic need for us to share information with the world.”

Some faculty senators expressed reservations about the proposal when it was first introduced.

When Provost Mary Ann Rankin presented the idea of the institute at a University Senate meeting May 5, Jonathan Katz, the director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center, asked if it would take away resources from areas such as computer science

Golbeck initially created The Freedom of Science Network — which currently has about 360 members, including about 16 researchers and professors from this university — on Jan. 24 to help government scientists and science communicators find jobs if they are fired during Trump’s presidency. Some government scientists might be fired under Trump because he has previously blocked some government organizations, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, from tweeting or speaking to the public about climate change, she said.

But when Trump issued a travel ban on Jan. 27, Golbeck realized she could do more. On Jan. 28, she tweeted from the network’s account asking if anyone was able to help those unable to travel back to the U.S. with finding housing and places to work.

“The tweet went out and even before I closed the Twitter page I

started getting direct messages from people all over the world saying they wanted to help,” said Golbeck, who is also the director of this university’s Social Intelligence Lab. “The tweet spread very wide and very fast, and it made me feel better that I was able to help in some way.”

Within five days about 1,000 people had direct messaged her Twitter account offering beds and lab spaces on six continents, Golbeck said. Canada and the U.K. extended the highest number of offers, and Germany had the third-highest number.

The University of Oxford and University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and Simon Fraser University, University of Waterloo and McGill University in Canada were among the institutions that offered lab space for displaced scientists to use. Some people in the U.S. offered to take care of scientists’ pets or pick up

their cars while they are stuck abroad as well.

Four scientists — all from Iran — reached out to the network following Trump’s ban, with one needing emergency help to find a new school to transfer to, Golbeck said.

Farhad Ghorbani, a doctoral student studying chemistry at the University of Florida, was still stuck in the U.K. as of Saturday, Golbeck said. She added she was working to find him a department he could transfer to in the U.K. or Canada. She’d referred him to a number of researchers who had direct messaged her and also put out a tweet about his case and directed him to anyone who replied to her about it. On Saturday, he was still in the process of talking directly with potential schools he could move to.

Those stranded abroad have attempted to return to the U.S.

with varying levels of success.

While some have been reunited with family members, “others — particularly those whose visas were physically taken or marked as invalid — ran into roadblocks trying to board planes overseas,” The Washington Post reported.

The Post added that some airline representatives have “seemed confused over the various court rulings and what they meant.”

Brendan Joyce, a junior cell biology and molecular genetics and computer science major, said Golbeck’s intent to help scientists is “a great thing.”

“A big issue society has right now is that people believe certain races and beliefs correspond to something sinister,” Joyce said, “but it’s good that the scientific community is accepting of everyone outside of the United States, and that so many people are willing to help those who can’t travel home.”

Crystal Agha, a junior public health science major, added that Golbeck’s effort to help scientists overseas “is a really powerful way to continue to uplift employees and have them continue working despite all of the things going on in America right now.”

Despite the ban’s halt, its implementation has already had far-reaching consequences, Golbeck said.

“The United States has been a leader in academics and science for decades, not because Americans are better than everyone else, but because we draw the best minds from all over the world to do research here,” Golbeck said. “The executive order has kind of a chilling effect all around on science in this country, and it definitely makes it less attractive for scientists to come here.”

and computer engineering.

Ethan Kaplan, an economics professor, also raised concerns about the appropriateness of off-campus restricted research, according to the meeting minutes.

Potential delays in publishing research or having less academic freedom could place students or pre-tenure students at a disadvantage, according to the report. The subcommittee recommended unit heads advise those involved in restricted research, as criteria for getting a promotion or tenure don’t take unpublished research into account. “[The] right way to manage this risk is to have oversight, people need to be able to say, ‘Should we do it or not’ for this specific project,” Marzullo said.

M ichael Wertheimer, a former NSA research director and professor in the public policy school, said the raised concerns are legitimate ones that deserve to be addressed and monitored as plans for the institute go forward.

The theorized cybersecurity institute was originally his idea when he came to the school in 2014 after finishing a career of about 30 years in the intelligence field.

Wertheimer, along with other university officials, p u s h e d fo r a rev i ew a n d clarification of the policy, arguing its current form lacks clarity on what types of research are allowed.

Although there has been no formal announcement for the institute, it has been operating as an initiative under the provost’s office. Daniel Ennis, the executive director for the initiative, said an announcement could be coming either this month or in March.

To become a formal institution, the plan would have to go before the Senate,

something that Wertheimer s a i d h e wo u l d ra t h e r d o when he can demonstrate its success and have some momentum behind the idea.

If implemented, the cybersecurity institute would mean increased work with the intelligence community, and would likely bring in research revenue from the intelligence world, especially organizations such as the NSA and FBI. Tapping into those funds wouldn’t benefit just researchers or faculty, Wertheimer said. To attract students, the institute would offer a scholarship component funded by companies that would allow interested students to graduate debtfree if they pursue a cybersecurity concentration. The money would be not be tied to any type of cash-for-work requirement either, Wertheimer said.

It would also benefit the nation, especially if this university could bring a unique benefit to the table, Ennis said.

“You need to explore all options to include restricted research to determine if that’s an area you could have strength,” Ennis said. “If you have strength there … you should do it.”

The current policy requires classified work to be done off the campus and only when it is “in both the university system and the national interest,” but Wertheimer said students would rarely go to buildings off of the campus.

Wertheimer, who dealt with these centers extensively as the NSA’s research director, said the Center for Advanced Study of Language could never get the linguistics department to work with them in “any meaningful way.” At the Laboratory for Physical Sciences, Wertheimer said even though about 80

percent of the work is unclassified and an entire floor of the building is dedicated for students, its off-campus location makes it seldom used or visited by students.

“I don’t want to do that with cybersecurity,” Wertheimer said. “I want us in.”

The restricted research report states that “restricted research can be conducted in an on-campus space by securing the space,” referring to the necessary security measures required to protect sensitive information.

Under the current policy, the Center for Advanced Study of Language performs classified work in a guarded off-campus research park about a half-mile from the College Park airport. This

c e n te r, c re a te d i n 2 0 0 3 with the NSA as its primary funder, was the first national center designed to support the intelligence community with its language needs.

New research priorities, such as cyber, data analysis and analytics, have taken precedence for intelligence agencies, which have begun focusing money elsewhere, said Bob Flores, former chief technology officer for the CIA. “Cyber is becoming the weapon of the future,” Flores said. “So universities who really want to be deemed relevant need to understand how to do those things and train their students in them.”

This university, should it amend its policy, could be an ideal place to flesh out Wert-

heimer’s vision of a cooperative research triangle that academia would form with government and industry.

“The location of Maryland being close to D.C., close to the NSA, close to other academic institutions, I think that’s huge,” Ennis said. “If you want a triad … Maryland is ideally postured as the largest public university in the immediate metropolitan area to have success in the cyber fight. It’s just an ideal place to expand the cyber piece.”

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The perils of voluntourism Maris Medina @marisgmedina Columnist

In the summer of my sophThe white savior complex further exacerbates the omore year of high school, “we vs. them” notion, furthering the belief that those many of my friends went on in developing countries are inferior to us Americans. service trips. One went to Aside from promoting this white savior phenomenon, voluntourism can physically harm Tanzania, another to New Orleans and a handful traveled to El Salvador. They subsequently flooded under-resourced countries. Because the trips are my timeline and newsfeed with so many photos of relatively short, they sometimes don’t have the caadorable children and stunning landscapes, I couldn’t pacity to have a long-term impact. Columnist Maya help but feel a pang of jealousy and guilt that I wasn’t Wesby explained in Newsweek that voluntourism “creates a dependency between host communities out changing the world.

Although these service trips appeared to be gracious and Western societies rather than the infrastrucacts of kindness at the time, they can also be argued ture needed for sustainable self-reliance.” Other as forms of “voluntourism” — or volunteer tourism. immediate effects of voluntourism involve taking One Newsweek article describes it as “volunteer work jobs away from local workers and furthering the in developing nations,” where “willing participants trauma of abused or abandoned children, who end up developing emotional attachcan travel the world while gaining ments to volunteers. a sense of community alongside excerpt Even worse, the work done fellow volunteers and the native “It’s difficult to during these service trips can population.” As innocent as this amount to little actual advanceseems, voluntourism can have judge whether a ment. Pippa Biddle, a writer who underlying implications — often service trip exploits traveled to Tanzania to volunteer unbeknown to its participants — on a school trip, remembers every and can do more harm than good. communities for night, the local workers would have Voluntourism can unintentiona to take down and redo the flimsily ally promote the idea that white constructed wall her group had people can go into disadvantaged built. “When we woke up in the countries and, essentially, save morning, we would be unaware the communities involved. This “white savior complex” can be traced back to historic of our failure. It is likely that this was a daily ritual,” instances of colonization when white men believed Biddle recalled.

In essence, it’s difficult to judge whether a service themselves to be superior human beings “saving” trip exploits communities for a much-needed the lives of inferior individuals.

This notion is satirized and exposed on an Ins- wanderlust fix. But with the extensive volume of tagram account called Barbie Savior. The account volunteer programs nowadays, it’s crucial to ask depicts more than 100 scenes where a white Barbie important questions: Why are you volunteering? doll travels to Africa and volunteers with black Barbie Does the program you’re volunteering in employ dolls ignorantly and flamboyantly — showing that local workers as well? Does it rely on wealthy white although voluntourism is founded on good inten- Americans to do work that trained locals could comtions, it can manifest itself in excessive grandeur. On plete? Does it emphasize infrastructure rather than New Year’s Day, for instance, Barbie Savior posted short-term advancement? These are the questions another satirical image of Barbie volunteering in you need to decide before you embark on a trip to Africa with the humorous caption, “2016. What a “change the world.” year! It was my first year taking up residency in the country of Africa.” marismedina29@gmail.com

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Hello? I’d like to buy a senator.

Jack Siglin @_inthebox Columnist

I rememb e r go i n g to the arcade as a kid with $10 in quarters and a vague hope of earning enough tickets for a fivecent plastic kazoo. After several hours of shrewd planning, I’d come a few tickets short and settle for a bouncy ball. As I got older, it became apparent the return on my arcade investment isn’t measured in plastic prizes — it’s the calculus of the arcade. The game itself is the return. The value is in the process.

Betsy DeVos walked into the arcade, went straight to the bored high school kid working the prize counter, and tossed over 50 dollars for one of each prize. And now she’s the education secretary! So you see, you can skip the whole process entirely if you’ve got enough scratch! You can have all the kazoos you want!

The rub, of course, is the arcade is actually the theater of due political process. And by skipping the game entirely, DeVos has managed to pull the curtain back on an unsurprising yet jarring truth: Money talks a lot louder than regular people do.

T h ro u g h t h e m a g i c o f $ 8.3 million in super PAC donations and direct campaign contributions to individual Republican senators in the last two election cycles, the DeVos family has purchased an enormous amount of influence.

I’ll let Ms. DeVos herself tell it: “I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence … We expect a return on our investment.” On the one hand, her ideology seems antithetical to the backbone of what education should be. She’s a major contributor to organizations that oppose LGBT rights.

Her husband has explained his fear that schools have become more important than churches in our society. She’s in favor of funneling federal dollars to private institutions that have no obligation to educate all students. Neither she nor her children ever attended public school.

She’s hoping to “confront the

[secular educational] culture in ways that will continue to advance God’s kingdom.”

On the other hand, it’s not her beliefs and goals that scare me the most — it’s that she’s managed to purchase enough power to potentially implement those beliefs. Ideology shouldn’t have a bearing on whether or not pay-to-play politics are acceptable. After all, I very well could have written this article about Hillary Clinton, if things had shaken out differently.

The issue, as I see it, is the philosophical foundation of democracy is that each person is worth as much as every other person.

Obviously, that’s naïve and inadequate in practice. I don’t claim to be nearly as important — or have the same say in policy decisions — as an elected official.

After all, that’s the point of a representative democracy. However, until very recently, Betsy DeVos was a regular citizen. I am also a regular citizen (who, let it be noted, has at least attended public school). But now she’s an official with a large amount of political juice because of the magic of dollar signs, and I’m sitting here juice-less, making openface quesadillas to save money.

To me, that calls into question the philosophical underpinnings of our system.

DeVos’ ascension to education secretary is such a flagrant flouting of the supposition of a meritocracy that her inappropriateness for the position is only a secondary concern for me. Pay-to-play is a perfectly acceptable business model for Chuck E. Cheese’s. It’s unacceptable in a political system claiming to be a representative democracy.

I don’t claim to have a solution for how to reduce the prominence of money in politics. I suppose I’ll call Mitch McConnell to see which senators I can sway with a Chipotle coupon and some Twizzlers left over from the Super Bowl. If you can’t beat them, join ‘em, right? jsiglindbk@gmail.com

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Resist Russia’s aggressive land grabs Kyle Rempfer After about @Kyle_Rempfer three years and nearly 10,000 Columnist deaths, the conflict in eastern Ukraine is raging on, despite the attempt at peace in the Minsk Peace Agreement. Fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces has continued in the rebel-held portions of Donetsk Oblast, labeled by the separatist forces as the Donetsk People’s Republic. With the Trump administration still getting its sea legs in the foreign policy arena, a question has arisen as to how it will decide to handle Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bold intervention in Ukraine. While it may be tempting for the United States to cut ties with the frozen mess east of the European Union, doing so risks the integrity of the international system.

The conflict began when the Euromaidan protests brought down Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Widely viewed as corrupt and authoritarian, Yanukovych sparked the protests after he squashed a trade deal with the EU in favor of a pro-Russian business stance. Since then, Moscow has continued to accuse the West of illicitly coaxing the regime change. And Russia’s primary goal throughout the conflict — for Ukraine to grant autonomy to the Donetsk Oblast and Crimea, its proRussian regions in the east — has endured. Such a concession would set a dangerous precedent that the territorial boundaries traditionally

held sovereign can be manipulated through hybrid warfare.

In March 2014, then-Secretary of State John Kerry explained to CBS’ “Face the Nation” the importance of maintaining reverence for national sovereignty and condemned Russia for behaving in a “19th century fashion.” It wasn’t long before the Obama administration began to sanction Russian energy exports alongside the EU. This was a prudent decision.

The modern world order is built on the promise that bigger nations won’t invade smaller ones. If the Trump administration were to repeal sanctions, it would be abandoning the United States’ role as a guarantor of that concept. In the Baltic states, Russian posturing and an ambivalent Trump has already put the military on edge, despite the military support President Obama ordered in the twilight hours of his own administration. These NATO member states aren’t necessarily threatened by an outright invasion, but instead by the sort of asymmetric, hybrid warfare that defined the Ukrainian crises. To ignore these threats to national sovereignty is to encourage further territorial challenges by autocrats with a penchant for 19th century power plays. Unfortunately, ceding the Ukrainian crises to Putin does more than threaten the Baltic states; It undermines the regional strategies of one of our major allies.

Since reunification, the German state has become the largest economy in Europe, and the

unequivocal protagonist of the continent’s leadership. Early in the Ukrainian crises, German Chancellor Angela Merkel did a lot of maneuvering to align EU partner states with her objective of countering Russian posturing. And with a tumultuous Ukraine only a 10-hour drive away, German leadership is resolved to continue those sanctions. By siding with Russia, the United States would be rewarding an aggressor at the expense of a close ally. Aside from being politically problematic, such a move would be counter to American interests.

The 28 EU member states make up the largest economy in the world.

Deserting the EU trade bloc in favor of closer ties to Russia, which has an economy the size of Italy’s, yields a net loss for Americans.

As Putin’s Russia slips deeper into a financial crisis, he must be persuaded that the only way to calm his agitated oligarchs is through compliance. The Crimean Peninsula, which may be irreparable as is, could be conceded to Putin as a way for him to save face with the Russian public. The removal of sanctions should hinge on the withdrawal of Russian agitators in eastern Europe to include Donetsk Oblast and ongoing interference in European elections. To put it bluntly, any measure by the Trump administration sans a consequence for Russian aggression will give Putin the green light to interfere elsewhere. krempfer@terpmail.umd.edu

Analyzing Gorsuch’s record Sam Wallace @opiniondbk Columnist

Since the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia nearly one year ago, the biggest battle of national politics has been the process of naming his replacement. With President Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch, a federal appellate judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, the Supreme Court will have a ninth justice again, pending Senate confirmation.

Having not supported Trump in the primary or general election, and after the administration’s first three weeks that could be called rough at best, I was skeptical about Gorsuch. Like most people, I don’t have much of a knowledge base about Court of Appeals judges, and Trump’s own clear ignorance of the separation of powers and respect for the judiciary (see: “so-called judge”) made me worried that his Supreme Court pick would serve as an unthinking rubber stamp for the administration.

While Gorsuch’s hundreds of opinions in his 11-year tenure with the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals have been analyzed and discussed by people with greater understanding than me, I took the time to look at one of Gorsuch’s most recent notable ruling, a pair of opinions issued in Gutierrez-Brizuela v. Lynch. For anyone wondering what kind of Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch would be, the writings are especially telling.

Like Scalia, Gorsuch takes what is often called a “textualist” or “originalist” view of the law, and the role of courts in government. For Gorsuch, the role of the judge is to understand the reasoning and language of the law according to the original meaning, and not to apply the values of the judge to the written text.

Unlike Scalia, who was famous for biting and bold writings on the court, Gorsuch’s opinions come across as polite and engaging, drawing on a great deal of knowledge and presenting his reasoning in a way that even a non-lawyer like me can understand.

In Gutierrez-Brizuela v. Lynch, Gorsuch’s application of originalist interpretation of statutes related to immigration law addressed the practice of federal agencies (the executive branch of government) both creating regulations and interpreting their meaning (the legislative and judicial powers of government). The permissibility of such a practice comes from the “Chevron Doctrine,” which requires the judicial branch of government to defer to these federal agencies on important questions of law. In Gutierrez-Brizuela v.

Lynch, Gorsuch argued deferring the interpretation of a law’s meaning to the agencies that enforce the law was unconstitutional, and that it was time for the judiciary to reconsider the Chevron Doctrine.

Why is Gorsuch’s opinion in Gutierrez-Brizuela v. Lynch so important?

Understanding the proper role of the executive and judicial branches of government will be critically important over the coming months and years, as major policy changes on immigration enforcement and other areas will be coming. Gorsuch’s decision to rule in favor of Mr. GutierrezBrizuela, an immigrant attempting to navigate a complex immigration system stacked against him by an agency able to both interpret and enforce the law, should be heartening to people on both sides of the aisle. opinionumdbk@gmail.com

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Hiring freeze puts some students’ job prospects ‘in limbo’ Some University of Maryland students approaching graduation could be at risk of losing job and internship opportunities within the federal government because of President Trump’s hiring freeze.

The memorandum, enacted in late January, freezes hiring in the federal civilian workforce for 90 days, affecting jobs such as those in the Smithsonian Institutions in Washington.

No federal agencies can hire new employees unless the agency can justify the new hire under a certain set of exceptions, such as national security and public safety and the military.

Senior environmental science and policy major Ryan Block, who is also taking graduate classes in the public policy school, said a lot of his friends in the public policy school have job prospects and applications now “in limbo” because of the freeze.

“They have the technical skills and a great education, but they can’t follow their dream of serving in the federal government,” Block said.

Political science and history are the majors most likely to list an interest in working for the federal government, according to Partnership for Public Service data.

The behavioral and social sciences college, which offers the government and politics major, housed 4,650 undergraduates as of 2015, and the arts and humanities college, which offers the art history and history majors, housed nearly 2,900, according to the Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment department.

“A significant portion of our students are interested in the public sector,” said Irwin Morris, government and politics department chair.

“It’s not clear how the freeze will be implemented.”

Block, who has interned with the Energy Department in the past, said he wanted to intern with the department again this summer, but since Trump’s inauguration in January the office he wanted to work for — the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy — has stopped functioning. He added that a friend who graduated in May took a job at Target while waiting to get a security clearance, but will not get that security clearance because of the hiring freeze.

The thought of working under Trump has also left some students feeling hesitant, said Nisha Desai, Student Government Association communications director.

“We have heard from students who accepted internships in the fall before the election,” Desai said. “A lot of students thought they would be working under a Clinton administration, and many of them have reservations about their internships.”

Desai noted some students who accepted internships with the Energy Department, for example, are worried about Trump’s pick to head the agency, Rick Perry, who once proposed abolishing the agency altogether.

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issue the SGA would address this semester because the group’s lobbying power is focused at the state level, Desai said.

Allynn Powell, University Career Center associate director, said there are “still a lot of unknowns at this point,” making it difficult to gauge the extent of how the freeze might affect students going into the federal sector.

Many of the federal agencies scheduled to attend the upcoming jobs fairs still plan to come, Powell said.

In the meantime, Powell said she “encourage[s] students interested in the public sector to reach out and continue to pursue those jobs.”

Trump pledged to shrink the size of the federal workforce during his campaign and promised to clean up corruption in the federal workforce.

Former presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan also issued federal hiring freezes during their times in office. The size of the federal workforce has shrunk from 5 percent of the U.S. population to 2 percent since Reagan was in office, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

“Although things may look bleak, there will always be career employees of the government that outlive the administration,” Block said. “Career employees are not bad people; they make huge sacrifices. It’s unfair they get a lot of slack.”

Federal agencies had not been issued formal guidelines for how to deal with the freeze until a week after the directive was signed. On Jan. 31, the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management issued more specific guidelines for the freeze.

The U.S. Postal service is allowed to continue hiring, and all agencies can hire temporary workers for seasonal increases in workloads.

The administration has added an exemption for the Veteran Affairs department as well, allowing it to hire “anyone it deems necessary for public health and safety, including frontline caregivers.”

The freeze will be held in place until Trump’s administration develops a plan to reduce the size of the federal workforce. Trump has not indicated if the directive will be extended after 90 days.

Morris said the government and politics department is watching to see what the freeze will do, adding he personally did not know of any students in the department who had interviews canceled or job offers taken back because of the freeze. Powell also said the Career Center had not heard from any students who had their job offers rescinded.

People who had been offered federal positions before Jan. 22 will be able to take federal government positions, according to the updated guidelines. The initial order made it unclear that workers who were not fully hired before the freeze but who had received job offers would be able to accept those jobs.

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bout an hour before Vice President Pence broke a U. S. Se n a te tie to secure Betsy DeVos as President Trump’s pick for education secretary, Democratic Maryland lawmakers announced a set of initiatives Tuesday to protect this state’s schools from federal influence.

Lawmakers and educators in the state are concerned that DeVos, Trump and Republican Gov. Larry Hogan will take steps to “privatize” the education system through voucher programs and conversion to charter schools — all at the expense of public schools and their students, said Steven Hershkowitz, a Maryland State Education Association spokesman. Vouchers aim to provide students in low-performing schools with funds to subsidize their tuition at private schools, while charter schools can be run by forprofit companies instead of government districts.

DeVos, a 59-year-old phil a n t h ro p i s t wh o d o n a te d $22.5 million in 2010 to fund the University of Maryland’s DeVos Institute of Arts Management, faced criticism from Democrats and constituents after her Jan. 17 confirmation hearing where opponents said she stumbled over questions on accountability measures, guns in schools and other education policies. She also does not have prior experience in the education sector.

Though legislators such as Hogan have expressed support fo r c h a r te r sc h o o l s a n d voucher programs as a means of providing wider education opportunities, opponents say both serve as a Band-Aid that fails to address achievement gaps and further segregates students by class and race.

“Now with Betsy DeVos being confirmed as U.S. Secretary of Education, there is a real threat to the nature of how education is delivered to students across the state,” Hershkowitz said. “…

Every student deserves a high quality education no matter what background they come from … so the strategy that we put forward today had to do with making sure that our public schools are intact and they’re protected.”

In anticipation of DeVos’ confirmation, Democratic lawmakers introduced bills Tuesday to prevent these privatization efforts and to limit the emphasis on standardized testing in public schools. They also announced their opposition to Hogan’s education agenda and state budget, which they said focuses on vouchers and charter schools.

Maryland’s Protect Our Schools Act would set guidelines

for how this state will implement the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act, a federal law that gives states flexibility in designing accountability systems for public schools, to prohibit the states from using any forms of privatization for low-performing schools, Hershkowitz said. The act also seeks to shift the focus away from standardized test performance and include other accountability metrics such as class size and a well-rounded curriculum.

L a w m a k e rs a l s o p l e d ge d Tuesday to fight a handful of Hogan’s education initiatives, including his Public Charter School Act of 2017 — which would create an independent charter school authority and grant charter schools certain exemptions from local law — and his plan to double funding for a voucher program that allows low-income students to attend private school.

Hogan has advocated for the expansion of charter schools and voucher programs to offer more choice for Maryland students and to improve access to high-quality education across the state.

His Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today program also provides scholarships to send low-income students to private schools. In his State of the State address last week, Hogan said, “We still have students who are trapped in persistently failing schools.”

Del. Eric Luedtke (D-Montgo m e r y ) , a s p o n s o r o f t h e Protect Our Schools Act, said while private school vouchers and charter schools may benefit some students, these programs are not in the best interest of all students.

“The reality is that these proposals like that are sideshows to solving the fundamental issues in education, things like the achievement gap, and they can benefit some kids, but they won’t benefit the vast majority,” said Luedtke, who taught middle school social studies in Montgomery County for 10 years.

Luedtke is also sponsoring a bill that would limit standardized testing to 2 percent of a school year’s instructional time. This proposal — the Less Testing, More Learning Act — passed the House of Delegates last year but died in the Senate.

Parents, teachers and students have raised concerns that excessive testing is taking time away from learning and instruction, Luedtke said.

While some argue charter schools and vouchers can help students in low-performing schools, these programs have diverted money from public schools in other states without proof that these schools perform any better, said Gail Sunderman, director of the University of Maryland’s Maryland Equity Project.

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“stratify students” by class and race, Sunderman said, as private school vouchers don’t cover the full cost of tuition, and charter schools can attract students and families who are already advantaged.

“It’s hard to tell at this early stage” how DeVos will affect education in the state and nationwide because “it’s not clear how much she can just act unilaterally,” Sunderman said.

Democrats on Tuesday were able to sway some Republican senators to their side before Pence’s 50-50 vote tie break — the first time a vice president has been summoned to break a tie on a presidential cabinet nomination.

Two Re pub lica n sen ators joined Democrats and Independents in opposing DeVos. Trump tweeted before the vote that, “Betsy DeVos is a reformer, and she is going to be a great Education Sec. for our kids!”

Pence also tweeted that his vote to break the tie was “a vote for every child having a chance at a world-class education.”

Maryland Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin both voted against DeVos on Tuesday and spoke against her on the Senate floor Monday.

Senate Democrats held the floor overnight Monday in a last-ditch effort to prevent DeVos’ confirmation. “ O u r m i ss i o n m u s t b e to provide every child, regardless of zip code, with access to a high-quality neighborhood public school,” Van Hollen said. “… We can do a lot better for our kids.”

Freshman Paden Tranter said she was concerned that DeVos was not able to answer questions from senators during her confirmation hearing, and that DeVos “doesn’t really seem like she knows what she’s doing.”

“She didn’t go a public school, her kids didn’t go to a public school, so I mean I just don’t think she’s qualified,” the criminology and criminal justice major said prior to the final vote in the Senate.

“It kind of scares me that she might be in charge of this without having any experience,” she said.

Rachel Moskowitz, a sophomore elementary education major, said DeVos’ comments put her in a difficult place as an aspiring teacher.

“As somebody who wants to work in a public school, I don’t appreciate that when 50 million of our children are educated in public schools, she doesn’t believe in it,” Moskowitz said.

Maryland House and Senate committees will hold hearings on the Less Testing, More Learning Act in mid-February.

Hearing dates for the Protect Our Schools Act have not yet been announced.

Staff writer Leah Brennan contributed to this report. lschapitldbk@gmail.com

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Metro Station had Carly Taylor @carly_taylor97 the sixth-highest crime rate in the Staff writer Metro system in 2016, according to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s annual security report released Monday.

Forty-five Part I crimes were reported at the College Park station in 2016. Part I crimes may include homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft or the attempt and larceny, said Tyler Hunter, public information officer for Prince George’s County Police Department.

Washington’s Minnesota Avenue experienced the most crime, with 53 reports. The Greenbelt and New Carrollton stations also made the list of the 10 Metro stations with the most crime. Eight of the top 10 stations are located on the Green Line.

Part I crime was down 4.7 percent from 2015 across all Metro stations in 2016 with 1,569 crimes reported.

Senior journalism major Patrick Stoll said he is not surprised by the amount of crime at the College Park station.

“One factor that you can chalk that up to is that it’s not near anything,” Stoll said. “It’s far off campus and it’s not well-lit.”

Ammy Adhia, a senior psychology major, uses the Metro about once a month to travel home. Adhia only uses the Metro during the day because she knows it is unsafe at night, she said.

“Knowing that College Park is number six kind of upsets me,” Adhia said. “I think we should have more security at Metro stations.”

The Metro Transit Police declined to comment on the report at this time. Metro officials will hold a presentation detailing the specifics of the report at 9:30 a.m.

Thursday at the Metro Transit Headquarters. newsumdbk@gmail.com

children From p. 1 for 12 or more months, according to the report.

Though Peretti’s two children, Daisy and 1-year-old Charlie, now attend Saint Jerome’s Child Care Center in Hyattsville from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on weekdays, she said she initially tried to find a College Park location that would be more convenient because of her commute to her full-time job in Washington.

One of the centers, the Center for Young Children on this university’s campus, provides 110 spots, which cannot fill the needs of all residents and prioritizes the children of this university’s students, staff and faculty, said Mona Guha, the center’s director. She noted this priority system is because of the center’s mission to serve the university.

While Peretti said she understands the waitlist is a way to manage demand — she herself manages the lottery and waitlist for Washington public schools — she added it’s still frustrating for her to experience it first-hand.

“You want to have certainty in where your kid is going to be, especially if you’re a first-time parent,” Peretti said.

“There’s a lot of uncertainty that comes with having a kid in general, so the sooner you can work out the details and what you can expect when you go back to work, the better it is.”

Daisy’s three years on the waitlist is not uncommon. The Center for Young Children allows parents to sign their children up as soon as they’re born, Guha said.

“If we go through all of the university affiliates in any given year, then we go to our list that are non-affiliates,” Guha

COLLEGE PARK mayor patrick wojahn attends a City Council meeting. file photo/the diamondback

THE HOTEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND is set to open by the end of July and will begin taking reservations in April. ornelle chimi/the diamondback

room at the inn Hotel to begin taking reservations in April, set to open in July

By Carly Kempler | @carlykempler | Senior staff writer The reservation period for The Hotel at The University of Maryland — an anchoring feature in the Greater College Park initiative — will begin in April, said general manager Jeff Makhlouf.

The Hotel and adjoining retail and restaurant spaces such as the Old Maryland Grill, a steakhouse, and Kapnos Taverna, a Mediterranean restaurant, are scheduled to open before the end of July, Makhlouf said. The $140 million project features 297 rooms with an additional 43,000 square feet of meeting space for various events including conferences, weddings and other gatherings.

Although The Hotel will not be open in time for the spring 2017 graduation ceremonies, Makhlouf said they’ve already received calls from people looking to make reservations.

“We’ve been getting a lot of calls from people interested in

booking anything between a couple rooms to ten rooms,” he said.

While management is not opening individual reservations until midApril, Makhlouf said The Hotel’s sales team has worked with larger groups for more than a year to schedule future conference dates.

Makhlouf could not comment specifically on which groups have booked gatherings at The Hotel, but he said the property has an event scheduled toward the end of July.

Conferences are just one of the benefits The Hotel will provide once it’s open, College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn said.

“I’m thrilled about the people that are going to come to the conferences,” Wojahn said. “...[and] the innovative and exciting work that will be happening with people gathering from all over our country.”

In addition to the conference scheduled for July, The Hotel spokeswoman Mindy Bianca said the property has also booked weddings, corporate events and other association

gatherings. These events will range anywhere from 50 to 1,200 attendees, Bianca wrote in an email.

In November, The Hotel will also host the Maryland Tourism Summit, an event involving the Maryland Tourism Coalition — an organization advocating for the state’s tourism industry, according to the MTC website.

Ken Ulman, chief economic strategist for the university’s College Park Foundation, said he thinks The Hotel will be a focal point of College Park.

“I can’t wait till people can finally go to The Hotel and finally eat at the restaurants,” Ulman said. “It’s such a highquality project, that it’s going to open up people’s eyes to the place we are and the high quality projects that are going to open up afterwards.”

said.“Some years you may not get to that non-affiliate list, some years there’s loads of non-affiliates. It just depends.”

The other daycare facility in College Park — apart from house-run day care services — is the College Park Nursery School on College Avenue. It operates from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., which Peretti said makes it a less desirable option for fulltime parents.

“We often will draw from people who have a parent who is not working, or who has a flexible work schedule, for our school,” said Christine Nickel, president of the College Park Nursery School.

The program has 60 spaces and requires parents whose children attend to volunteer twice a month at the center, which also poses a problem for parents such as Peretti who aren’t around on weekdays. The center currently has 57 of the 60 spots filled, Nickel said.

Sunny Days Early Learning Center in nearby Riverdale would also have been convenient for Peretti, but it prioritizes access for federal employees, and her two children wouldn’t have been near the top of the waitlist, she said. For Calvert Hills resident Kristy Maddux, a communication professor at this university, her husband’s federal job enabled her children to gain spots at the school.

“We just completely lucked out — we were able to get into our daycare when my first child was a baby … because I basically called them,” Maddux said.

Maddux was on the waitlist at three federal daycares before Sunny Days accepted her first child, and if those hadn’t work out, she said she’d planned to go to St. Jerome’s in Hyattsville. Of the families Maddux knows at Sunny Days, only one

does not have a parent who is a federal employee, she said.

These guidelines are leaving parents such as Peretti scrambling to find College Park daycares that accept city residents just the same as university-affiliated members or federal employees. If Peretti’s daughter is not accepted to the Center for Young Children program at this university for preschool, she said she would consider moving to Washington, where childcare is more plentiful. There are 380 childcare centers in Washington, according to Childcare Center.

“I get jealous of all of the options for families there, and I would love to see the same options for College Park families,” Peretti said.

The child care project on Calvert Road would have 120 openings, District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich told the Diamondback in September 2016, and would accept children younger than 5 years old. This fills a need for more care for children younger than 3 years old, as only 36 percent of child care centers in College Park offer infant care, according to the 2014 report.

“I’ve been so optimistic about the project at the Calvert Road school,” Maddux said, “because it will fill in that need, and I’m just very convinced that there actually is a need for that.”

The Calvert Road location would give preference to university-affiliated members and city residents based on this university and the city’s financial contributions to the center. However, this university’s contributions are likely to be greater, Stullich said.

“It just seems like such a win-win, we’d be crazy not to do it,” Stullich said.

“I’m really looking forward to taking that

next step to making it a reality.”

For the project to move forward, the city must enter a formal agreement with the university to discuss cost, determine how they would split the site as both a child care center and community space, and fund construction, Stullich said. Bright Horizons, an early education and preschool provider, would run the center.

The council also discussed the potential preschool facility Jan. 17, when the Children’s Guild, a non-profit child-serving organization based out of Baltimore, gave a presentation on the proposal. However, this proposal is in the preliminary stages and has no timeline, Stullich said.

“This could tie in well with our efforts to attract faculty and staff,” said College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn, adding that, “Ideally, [the city] would be able to provide all amenities that people need,” including childcare and education programs that would make College Park more attractive to live in.

Though Maddux’s kids would be older than preschool age by the time these projects would reach fruition, she said she still hopes to see them built.

“I want this to be a place where other people with young kids can live and work,” Maddux said.“And right now, it’s hard.”

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Laura Spitalniak Park City Council @LauraSpitalniak is considering a clean water iniStaff writer tiative to prevent pollution from reaching the Chesapeake Bay. The Clean Water Partnership, a collaboration between Prince George’s County and the private planning company Corvias Solutions, proposed to install an estimated 46,000 water filtration devices in storm drains in the area by 2025. The move would prevent pollution and help the county comply with EPA regulations, according to the partnership’s website.

Peter Littleton, the partnership’s operations manager, said installation of the devices should finish “within the next month or two.” Littleton estimated the partnership would finalize city and county approval in the next two weeks, finalize details with community member and city staff in the following two weeks and build the storm drains the next month.

Before installation can begin in College Park, the county and city councils will need to approve the plans. There will also be a pre-construction meeting with city staff to cover the logistics of construction, Littleton said.

“We’d hope to do it as soon as possible,” he said.

Initially, the partnership identified about 20 possible sites in College Park. Littleton said only one viable option remains, located at University Boulevard and Rhode Island Avenue.

Mayor Patrick Wojahn described the reduction as “a little frustrating.”

“I’m a little bit concerned about the direction this ended up going,” Wojahn said.

The council also discussed a significant proposed increase in residential parking permit fees.

Council members voted in July to raise the price on-street parking permits in zones 11 and 11A from $10 every six months, or $20 annually, to $60 a month. The council reviewed this decision on Jan. 3 and again during their worksession Tuesday night, but delayed their discussion on the matter until March. newsumdbk@gmail.com

correction Due to a reporting error, the story “Van Hollen co-sponsors DREAMer privacy bill” incorrectly stated that the Student Government Association and Residence Hall Association passed legislation to support and defend undocumented students. The RHA passed a resolution to explore the topic, and the SGA passed no such resolution.

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review | sweeney todd

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Love is surreal on overlooked comedy series An ode to FX’s Man Seeking Woman by

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sweeney todd:the demon barber of fleet street at Olney Theatre Center stars David Benoit and E. Faye Butler as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett, respectively.

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Capturing the demon barber Olney Theatre Center grapples with the intensity of Sweeney Todd T h e s ta ge Taylor Stokes is black. Idle @taylormstokes chatter from the audience Staff writer immediately dies down as an eerie organ solo begins, a haunting tone promptly established. Two men gradually appear on opposite ends of the stage, as deep bass begins to describe the tale of a certain ominous barber. After a couple of lines, the stage is suddenly flooded with white light, illuminating a row of ghostly silhouettes. Perhaps even more ghostly, though, is the immediate onslaught of music, jarring harmonies demanding the audience do one thing and one thing only: attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.

So begins Olney Theatre Center’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony awardwinning musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Led by director Jason Loewith, Sondheim’s classic horror about a murderous barber and his morally repugnant accomplice carved out a solid place on the Olney Theatre’s mainstage. With an incredibly talented cast by

fronted by Olney newcomers David Benoit and E. Faye Butler as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett, respectively, the production proved to be a wellearned success.

While each member of the cast managed to produce quality performances, two main actors definitely stood out. The first, perhaps unsurprisingly, was Butler in her role as Mrs. Lovett. Butler not only brought the vivaciousness typically expected of Mrs. Lovett to life, but also managed to make the character entirely her own through an incredibly sassy and sharp-witted personality.

Unlike with her murder-driven counterpart, it was hard to find any true fault in anything Butler’s Lovett did, even when she hatched up the idea to fill her failing meat pies with actual human flesh.

The other, more surprising standout was Michael J. Mainwaring as Tobias. Mainwaring’s use of quirky and childish body movements to embody the role of the young boy was particularly amusing to watch, especially during his first solo in “Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir.” His shining

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moment occurred during the heartfelt promise of “Not While I’m Around,” his impressively strong tenor clearly carrying the duet between himself and Butler.

Perhaps even more impressive than the individual performers was how well the ensemble worked together. Each and every movement was in sync and deliberate, with not a single step out of place. The intensity of the choir was oftentimes more moving than the individually sung lines, particularly because it highlighted the extreme dissonance in which Sondheim’s music thrives. In some ways, the opening and ending songs of the show, each entitled “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” were the most spectacular, paying tribute to an ensemble whose combined vocal talent was absolutely breathtaking.

This is not to say the show was perfect. Although there were multiple stellar moments in the show, as a whole the production failed to truly entrap viewers in its story.

On several occasions, the intensity of a moment seemed to build and grow, yet never

fully hit the point of emotional release. The performers were so focused on the complexity of the music; hitting all the right notes and rhythms required by Sondheim is no easy feat, and it would make sense the actual acting would take a hit when performers are so invested in the music.

Another reason could be the literal length of the show.

With the show itself tapping out at roughly three hours, taking the time to fully experience a moment might have been sacrificed in order to shorten the run time. It’s a minor yet important critique, and when discussing the musical with my guest, I felt he put it best: The story was logically intense, but we as audience members didn’t really feel the intensity.

Swe e n e y To d d : T h e Demon Barber of Fleet Street is playing at the Olney Theater Center’s mainstage until March 5. Tickets start at $38 and can be purchased at olneytheatre.org. tstokesdbk@gmail.com

ever felt like an enhanced interrogation?

Almost as if she has a car battery hooked up to your nipples?

No? Well, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but bizarre hyperbole is the foundation on which Man Seeking Woman is built. Throughout the show, Josh Greenberg, played by Jay Baruchel, finds himself on a date with a literal troll from the Scandinavian forest, in a war room trying to craft the perfect text and in a casket faking his own death just to avoid breaking up with his girlfriend.

With the support of Eric André and Britt Lower as Greenberg’s friend and sister respectively, Greenberg navigates the absurd modern dating culture of New York City ranging from dating apps and booty calls to wannabe match makers and a partner’s judgmental friends.

The show has been a hidden gem since it first premiered January 2015, and it’s powering through its third season with no signs of slowing down. The show breaks rules normally found in sitcoms, delving into the land of make-believe to highlight the realities of modern dating — and with Baruchel’s character switching from girlfriend to girlfriend, there is no shortage of situations for the writers to use as plot points.

The uniqueness of Man Seeking Woman comes undoubtedly from its surreal events, playing up the drama and emotion of moments like cleaning your ex’s stuff out of your apartment and having

dinner with your parents and your partner. The show’s ability to capture awkward moments is also a hallmark, rivaling the cringe-worthy, strange moments of The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Perhaps the greatest embodiment of these two aspects is the scene when Greenberg strikes up an uncomfortable conversation with a girl on the subway.

They talk about the weather and mutual acquaintances, and he gets her number when he asks her to go to dinner. As Greenberg gets off the subway, he receives a phone call from the MacArthur Foundation to ask how he started the conversation, and then President Obama calls him to offer his congratulations.

The show heightens the feeling of successfully getting someone’s number and illustrates it with preposterous events reflecting Greenberg’s inner mood and emotions. This blending of fiction and reality is a unique and effective way to demonstrate the highs and lows of modern dating through extraordinary circumstances, and it is where the show truly distinguishes itself.

Surrealism doesn’t have much of a foothold in modern television, but Man Seeking Woman shows us what we could be missing. The absurdities the show presents heighten moments we are all at least somewhat familiar with, so why don’t we see this concept elsewhere? Too many shows are grounded by the rules of reality as we know it — hopefully Man Seeking Woman will be looked at in antiquity as ahead of its time. jpowersdbk@gmail.com

review | dear evan hansen soundtrack

Soundtrack to musical hits all the right notes Dear Evan Hansen perfectly captures teen angst and isolation in its music It’s tough Hannah Yasharoff for a show to @HannahYasharoff fail when the people spearFor The DBK heading its music just recently did the same for La La Land and Hamilton, perhaps the two greatest musicals in recent history — or ever, depending on who you ask.

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (lyricists for La La Land) and Alex Lacamoire (music supervisor and orchestrator for Hamilton) are no strangers to stories that modernize timeless struggles, whether that’s yearning for a romanticized past or struggling with mortality and one’s lasting legacy.

Dear Evan Hansen vocalizes another timeless struggle: a dorky teenager both desperate and terrified of fitting in. This time social media plays a central role, one that heightens and elevates the stakes.

The original cast album, released digitally Feb. 3, sounds like inside of a teenager’s mind: frantic, immediate, life-ordeath, now-or-never. Songs build and explode and then fall to a hush in the same way teenagers panic, jump to conclusions and incorrectly assume their complete isolation.

Ben Platt as the title role is an by

expert at switching tempo, best exemplified in the heartbreaking rendition from act two “Words Fail,” in which his character gives up on the idea of ever fitting in.

This is similar to “Waving Through a Window,” in which Platt sings “I’ve learned to slam on the break/ Before I even turn the key/ Before I make the mistake/ Before I lead with the worst of me.”

Platt and Laura Dreyfuss (Zoe, Evan’s love interest) together bring teenage angst and doubt to life. The duo’s relationship is built on the nervous energy reserved only for a first crush. Their vocals “If I Could Tell Her” and “Only Us” weave between slow enunciation, doubting every word and powering through a ballad with full confidence in a vocal game of red light, green light.

But Dear Evan Hansen’s greatest success is the act one finale, “You Will Be Found.” In response to a classmate’s suicide, Evan posts a video of himself online.

On the surface, he’s speaking to the classmate and the rest of his peers, though on a deeper level he’s also reassuring himself. If “Waving Through a Window” is the cry for help, “You Will Be Found” is the response.

“When you’re falling in a forest

ben platt stars as the angsty, titular character in Dear Evan Hansen. photo via youtube and there’s nobody around/ Do you ever really crash, or even make a sound?” Platt sings in “Waving Through A Window.”

“When you’re broken on the ground, you will be found,” he answers in “You Will Be Found.”

“You Will Be Found” is also Pasek and Paul’s most creative use of music to convey a message. Evan’s video goes viral, and suddenly the entire ensemble is singing along with him, peppering words like “share,” “like” and “repost” throughout.

Light piano in the background accumulates speed at the same rate Evan’s video is shared.

Not every song in the album is a show-stopping number — songs like “To Break in a Glove”

and “Good For You” feel like a halfhearted attempt at keeping Evan and Zoe’s parents relevant after the opening number.

“Anybody Have a Map?” wonderfully sets them up as flawed, three-dimensional characters.

But wanting every song to be a hit is an almost unfair standard that any post-2015 musical faces — call it the Hamilton standard.

It’s unlikely that Dear Evan Hansen will gain as much critical acclaim as La La Land or Hamilton. But for now, Hansen is much like the viral internet sensations it gives a nod to: powerful, meaningful and great in the moment. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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men’s basketball

Statistical breakdown of Terps’ offensive struggles vs. Penn State by

The Maryl a n d m e n ’s Kyle Stackpole basketball @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer t e a m ’ s o f fensive woes from UNIVERSITY started in the PARK, Pa. final stretch o f Sa t u rd ay ’s o n e - p o i n t loss against No. 16 Purdue.

Up three with about eight minutes left, the Terps’ remaining points came from the foul line. They missed their final seven shots.

At Mo n d ay ’s p ra c t i c e , guard Kevin Huerter said the Terps were “terrible offensively,” a factor in No. 21 Maryland’s 70-64 loss at Penn State on Tuesday night.

After winning their first nine games away from Xfinity Center, the Terps delivered perhaps their worst offensive performance of the season at the Bryce Jordan Center.

Here’s the breakdown of Maryland’s offensive slump in Happy Valley.

Field goal shooting: 33.9 percent vs Season average: 44.7 percent Maryland couldn’t draw foul s an d ge t to t h e fre e throw line, so points came at a premium Tuesday night.

The Terps made 20 of 59 field goal attempts, their lowest shooting percentage so far.

In the first half, guard Me l o Tr i m b l e a n d a pa i r o f Te r p s f o r wa rd s we re t h e tea m ’s b e s t o f fe n se .

Trimble scored eight points in the first seven minutes and entered the break with 11 points on 4 of 7 shooting.

Michal Cekovsky and Ivan Bender, meanwhile, converted at the rim and drew shooting fouls, combining for 11 points.

The production helped Maryland stay within six at halftime despite its three freshmen combining to go 2-for-11 in the period.

The failed 3-pointers and missed layups continued after intermission, as Maryland needed more than six minutes for its first field goal.The drought allowed Pe n n S ta te to o p e n u p a double-digit lead the Terps whittled to four but couldn’t overcome.

Three-point shooting: 26.9 percent vs Season average: 36.3 percent

Guard Anthony Cowan missed each of his five shots and finished with two points. As a team, the Terps shot a season-low field goal percentage (33.9). marquise mckine/the diamondback

Maryland had swished long balls at an efficient rate in recent games, but their production plummeted against the Nittany Lions.

After struggling from trey in nonconference play, the Terps entered Tuesday as the third-best team from distance in the Big Ten slate (39.3 percent).

Their success stemmed from Jackson (46.4 percent) and Huerter (44.8 percent), whose combined 10-for12 three-point mark lifted

Maryland to a road win over Minnesota on Jan. 28. Even guard Jared Nickens, whose slump had knocked him out of the rotation at times, found his long-range stroke against conference opponents. In limited attempts, he entered Tuesday making 63.2 percent of his triples.

Maryland, though, knocked down seven of its 26 long balls against Penn State for one of its lowest percentages of the year. Trimble and Huerter each had one of the team’s 12 first-half attempts. Jackson

and N icke ns misse d two apiece during that span.

With about five minutes remaining, it appeared longrange shots could close the gap. Huerter’s three cut Penn State’s lead to 59-51 at the 5:22 mark. Jackson’s deep ball moments later pulled his team within seven. Huerter missed his attempt on the Terps’ next possession, but Anthony Cowan grabbed the rebound and found guard Jaylen Brantley for a trey that cut the deficit to 62-58.

Still, the Terps missed

their last four long balls to when their shots from the field close a frustrating offensive didn’t fall. outing.

The referees were quick to blow their whistles. In the Free throw shooting: 63 first half, Penn State shot 16 percent freebies while the Terps atvs tempted 10, making seven.

Season average: 70.5 The Terps continued the percent aggression as they entered the bonus less than six minutes left Turgeon has critiqued the in the first. The team finished team’s season-long free throw with 17 foul shots in the second struggles, but his words failed period, but Maryland only made to improve the charity stripe 58.8 percent as its second conproduction against Penn State. secutive defeat loomed.

The Terps missed 10 of 27 free throws, which was detrimental kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

midfielder zoe stukenberg is one of the Terps’ top returning players. file photo/the diamondback

reese From p. 12

midfielder matt rambo is looking to end his impressive career on a high note. Last season, Rambo scored 43 goals and tallied 32 assists. marquise mckine/the diamondback

tillman From p. 12 the first time since 2015.

T i l l m a n s a i d Ne u fe l d t’s recent practice “looks like he’s shaken off a lot of the rust” from fall workouts.

Midfielder Connor Kelly, meanwhile, will look to build on a breakthrough sophom o re c a m p a i g n , d u r i n g which he tallied 31 goals.

After Gradinger’s departure, though, the Terps lack midfield depth. Tillman acknowledged his second unit needs work but said the team has multiple options.

“At a program like Maryland there’s always the next guy up, and we have a lot of good young guys,” DavisA l l e n a d d e d . “ G uys l i ke

Heacock and Davis-Allen [midfielder T im Rotanz] h ave b o u g h t and [midfieldinto T iller Wes Janeck] m a n ’s d a y … will step up by-day menand probably tality. When have a big year asked if this for us.” season would T h e Te r p s be a disapalso need depointment fenders to find if it didn’t their grooves end in a nawhile filling tional chamthe void from pionship, graduation Heacock said and Pons’ the players injury. “don’t really “You can’t think about just have things a long those guys leave and then maryland men’s lacrosse coach way down the road.” new guys step Still, it’s difficult to ignore in at the same level,” Tillman said. “We’ve got to just try to the previous three seasons ends. get better every day.”

You can’t just have those guys leave and then new guys step in at the same level.

We’ve got to just try to get better every day.

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In 2014, Notre Dame bounced Maryland in the Final Four. In 2015, Denver beat the Terps, 10-5, in the national c h a m p i o n s h i p ga m e .

And last season, North Carolina came back to k n o c k o f f M a ryl a n d , 14-13, in overtime in the national championship.

With one more opportunity for fourth-year players to capture a title, those misses haunt the veterans.

“It’s a new year,” Davis-Allen said. “But obviously it kind of nags at you, especially with me being a senior and being here the last three years.” dbernsteindbk@gmail.com

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Reese also acknowledged the loss of the trio of key g ra d u a te s b u t re m a i n s confident in her team’s ability to move ahead and improve.

“We have a group that’s just really gelling well together right now, and that’s all as a coach we can ask for,” Reese said. “But this is a team that’s going to have to grow and continue to get better as the season progresses.”

The Terps will have to a d j u s t to t h e n ew 9 0 second shot clock, which Reese said will make the game a little faster and perhaps more exciting.

It will also limit teams’ a b i l i t i e s to s l ow d ow n the game’s pace to rest or waste time.

“We’re a team that likes to push, to transition, that likes to look to go to goal,” Reese said. “It’s something we’re going to learn.

We scrimmaged ourselves this weekend and we found out some things we never thought about with it.”

Maryland’s season begins Saturday at William & Mary.

The Terps are projected to win the Big Ten, and begin c o n fe re n c e p l a y A p r i l 1 against Michigan.

Their marquee matchup comes Feb. 25 when they host North Carolina at Maryland Stadium. Reese emphasized focusing on William & Mary and Georgetown but said it’s important to play the best programs to test her team early on.

“We just want to be the best that we can be,” Reese said. “We graduated some great players last year, but our group that’s returning is hungry, they’re excited, they’re passionate, they’re enjoying this journey that we’re on, and I really think that this is going to be a fun season to watch our team play.” swhooleydbk@gmail.com

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gymnastics

Terps pleased with recent growth despite team’s 1-6 start to season by

In Septem-

omitting their highest score.

Connor Hoyt ber, the Mary- Squads must include three @ConnerHoyt27 l a n d g y m - away scores in both totals. nastics team Brauckmuller, who scored Staff writer h e l d a te a m meeting in which seniors Emily Brauckmuller, Sarah Faller and Leah Slobodin said they wanted to leave the team better than they found it.

And despite a 1-6 start to the season, Brauckmuller said the Terps are moving in the right direction.

Sun d ay’s m e e t a ga i n st No. 7 Michigan marked the second time this season the Terps have eclipsed their p rev i o u s sea so n - h i g h i n points in a losing effort.

Still, Brauckmuller valued the team’s scoring output more than the result.

“We still got a great team sco re ,” s h e sa i d , “ wh i c h we ’ r e a l l r e a l l y e x c i te d about.”

The top 36 teams earn bids to NCAA Regionals based on an average of their top six total meet scores, independent of wins and losses; additionally, the team is judged based on an all-around competitor’s top six scores, again

a career-high 9.900 on floor in the meet’s final rotation, is confident Maryland will find its way back to the postseason.

“I never doubt that,” Brauckmuller said. “We just need to keep doing what we’re doing.”

She stressed the importance of the Terps staying internally focused. The team’s mantra all season has been “staying in the bubble,” whether that be on an individual level during a nerve-wracking routine or as a team in a raucous road environment.

“Nothing outside of that bubble matters,” coach Brett Nelligan said. “The only The Terps have eclipsed previous season-high scoring totals twice in meets they’ve lost. Despite those defeats, the gymnasts are confident their scores can continue to improve. matt regan/the diamondback thing that matters is the muller realized this was her “That is a must-hit situ- for the first time this season, much easier to remain enteam, the coaches and the l a s t yea r i n co m p e t i t ive ation,” Nelligan added. “She agreed. thusiastic when losing gymnastics, giving her extra was able to keep her nerves event that we’re on.”

S h e c i te d M a r y l a n d ’s efforts still produce imO n e e x a m p l e c a m e motivation to come through calm. I’m really proud of failure to reach its potential proved team scores. d u r i n g B r a u c k m u l l e r ’s for her teammates. up until Sunday. her.”

“I’m hoping that we can “You need to enjoy every floor routine. Michigan had “Trying to stay enthusi- just not think about winning B ra u c k m u l l e r sa i d t h e already clinched the meet, m o m e n t o f i t ,” B ra u c k - Terps “turned over a new astic even when the scores or losing,” Brauckmuller but whether the Terps met muller said. “Every turn, leaf” against the Wolverines, are bad is extremely hard,” said. “Just thinking about Nelligan’s team goal of ex- every smile you can make as they found a lineup that Brauckmuller said, referenc- each person’s routine one ceeding 195 points hinged on a t t h e j u d ge s. Eve n j u s t catered to their strengths. ing the team’s first few meets skill at a time.”

Brauckmuller’s performance. sitting around dancing with Freshman Kirsten Peter- of the season.

It was at this time Brauck- teammates.”

Still, she said it’s been man, who competed on bars choytdbk@gmail.com

softball

men’s basketball

In Wright’s second campaign, team looks for stability, growth It has been Andy Kostka d i f f i c u l t fo r the Maryland @afkostka softball team Staff writer to f i n d o f fseason stability with three coaches in the past four years. But head coach Julie Wright and the Terps are entering Wright’s second s ea s o n i n C o l l e ge P a rk , and with experience comes heightened expectations.

The team features young p l a y e r s , b u t Wr i g h t i s l o o k i n g fo r t h e Te r ps to improve every series. That starts at the Texas Invitational this weekend against No. 16 Minnesota, Colorado State and Texas. “We’re still building, and we’re still trying to figure out who we are, this team,” Wright said.

“We’ll know a lot after the first weekend, which we need.”

T h i s i s t h e f i rs t t i m e senior catcher and infielder Kristina Dillard has had the same coach in consecutive seasons.

“Having that second year, we know what to expect, wh a t t h e s ta n d a rd s a re , what the demand is,” Dillard said. “It’s been a lot easier by

since day one coming back [knowing] what we need to do.”

The transition after losing three key players from last year may not be as easy, but the team believes it can fill the voids. M iddle infield duo Lindsey Schmeiser and Corey Schwartz graduated, along with pitcher Brenna Nation. “ We g o t s o m e y o u n g kids stepping up,” Wright said. “We are probably a little lean, no doubt, in the circle, but they’re working hard. We’ve got a nice senior catcher here who’s guiding them.”

Without Nation, Wright is deciding to pitch by committee. Nation pitched 131 innings, 44 more innings than redshirt senior pitcher Madison Martin, the next closest. Nation also threw six complete games. Martin and senior Hannah Dewey threw only one complete game each.

Having an experienced c a tc h e r s u c h a s D i l l a rd behind the plate will help settle a young pitching staff, Wright said.

Freshman pitcher Lauren Graves is likely to see a lot

of the mound this season as Dillard learns about her pitching style and helps her adjust to the college level.

Ju l i S t ra n ge a n d S k y lynne Ellazar are replacing Schmeiser and Schwartz in the middle infield. Ellazar was voted team MVP after hitting a career-high .399 with a .458 on base percentage and .574 slugging percentage while scoring 32 runs. Her average is the third-best single-season average in Maryland history.

Before Strange’s injury l a s t s e a s o n , s h e p l a ye d third base. When she went down, Ellazar filled in. Now, freshman Anna Kufta will play third as Strange slides to second base and Ellazar plays shortstop.

“I’m fully confident in A n n a Ku f ta , s h e ’s c o m e from a championship team,” Dillard said of Kufta’s club national championship in 2016. “She’s done nothing but prove herself since she’s gotten here. I don’t care what class she’s in because she can do it.”

Kufta may not be the only freshman to make an immediate impact in College Park.

In addition to Graves on the mound, freshmen Kassidy Cross, Amanda Brashear and Brigette Nordberg are in contention for the outfield spots.

“The only real difference is just experience,” outfielder Sarah Calta said of the freshmen. “I’ve been helped a lot by them because they bring in that new energy and that competition to make myself want to be better, too.”

Calta is eager to return f ro m t h e to r n AC L t h a t forced her to miss the last eight games of the season.

She was named second team All-Big Ten selection a year ago after playing in each of the first 44 games, hitting .331 with last year’s teamhigh eight stolen bases.

Calta was one of three players to hit above .300 last season, and Wright expects to lean on those veterans as her younger players adjust.

“It’ll be good for them to look to [the veterans] to know, ‘Okay, this is how we do it, this is how you prepare, this is what it looks like,’” Wright said. “It won’t seem so foreign to have guidance.” akostkadbk@gmail.com

the terps fell four spots before losing at Penn State. charlie deboyace/thediamondback

Terps drop to No. 21 in AP by

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Kyle Melnick Mary@kyle_melnick land Senior staff writer men’s basketball team dropped four spots to No. 21 in the AP Top 25 Poll released Monday.

The Terps (20-4, 8-3 Big Ten) claimed the No. 17 ranking last week – their highest mark of the season – after jumping out to a 7-1 start in the Big Ten. But Maryland blew a 12-point lead in its 73-72 loss to then-No. 23 Purdue at Xfinity Center on Saturday. The contest

marked the Terps’ first test against a ranked opponent, leaving them still without a marquee victory.

The loss came after Maryland defeated Ohio State, 77-71, Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio, for its seventh straight win.

The Terps are third in the Big Ten. Wisconsin (No. 8) and the Boilermakers (No. 16) are the other conference schools ranked in the poll.

Maryland most recently suffered a 70-64 road loss to Penn State on Tuesday.

The Terps host Ohio State on Saturday before road tilts with Northwestern and the Badgers next week. kmelnickdbk@gmail.com

wrestling

Despite eight consecutive losses, young grapplers secure solo wins The MarySean Whooley l a n d w r e s @swhooley27 t l i n g t e a m has not won a Staff writer dual match in almost two months. The Terps (2-12, 0-7 Big Ten) have lost eight straight, culminating in a three-point loss to Indiana on Friday. Other defeats have been more lopsided.

H oweve r, c o a c h Ke r r y McCoy has tried to focus on the positive.

Of the four wins the Terps took against the Hoosiers, three came from the team's less experienced grapplers by

— redshirt sophomore 149pounder Ryan Diehl, redshirt freshman 197-pounder DavidBrian Whisler and sophomore heavyweight Youssif Hemida.

McCoy believes the contributions from younger wrestlers are encouraging.

“It's a combination of things," McCoy said after the match. "It's work ethic, talent and a desire to win.”

Of Maryland's 13 wrestlers who have competed in at least three duals, four have winning records. All — 149-pounder Alfred Bannister, 165-pounder Patrick Gerish, Whisler and

Hemida — are sophomores or team's youth over the course of the season, younger. and after a T h e Te r p s loss to Rutgers have started on Dec. 11, he many undersaid they will classmen over c o n t i n u e to the course of work hard and the season. improvements Five redshirt will come. freshmen have “They work been consisat a high level,” tent starters, McCoy said and freshman after the loss 125-pounder to the Scarlet Alex Vargas has maryland wrestling coach Knights. also seen time “There's always an opporin the lineup.

McCoy has discussed the tunity to get better. They're

It’s important to capitalize on that youth ... We’ve got a bright future. kerry mccoy

working. They're training hard. They're doing the right things. The more they do that, the better the results are.”

At the Terps' media day in October, redshirt freshman Josh Ugalde, who has seen time starting in the 165-pound weight class, said the grapplers who redshirted last season gained experience in open tournaments while improving their strength. Whisler, who did the same, agreed.

“I noticed this year I'm doing a lot more extra stuff than I did last year,” Whisler said after the Rutgers loss.

“I learned that the redshirt season is a lot different than starting, and you have to take it a bit more serious.”

That's why McCoy was pleased with his young grapp l e rs ’ s h ow i n gs a ga i n s t Indiana. “[This] week is Senior Night, and we've got one senior," McCoy said. "We've got everybody coming back in the future, so it's important to capitalize on that youth, and make sure we recognize that we've got a bright future.” swhooleydbk@gmail.com

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Trimble falters after quick start by

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Kyle Melnick land @kyle_melnick men’s Senior staff writer basketball guard Melo Trimble seemed primed for a big scoring performance against Penn State on Tuesday night.

The junior tallied eight of the Terps’ first 10 points and notched 10 through 16 minutes.

Trimble, however, faded down the stretch.

He scored one point in the second half as No. 21 Maryland’s offense went stagnant, falling to the Nittany Lions, 70-64, in their first loss away from Xfinity Center in 10 tries.

“He’s a great point guard, and he uses ball screens really well,” said Penn State guard Tony Carr, who guarded Trimble.“We just wanted to limit him off the ball screen and just make things difficult for him.”

While Trimble has started slow this season, he’s often bounced back to help Maryland finish on top. Trimble has made a number of game-winning and game-sealing shots this season and throughout his three-year Terps career. He averages 15.7 points per game in Big Ten play – the eighthmost in the conference.

Trimble helped Maryland stick around with the Nittany Lions at the

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center brionna jones leads the team in points (19.3) and rebounds (10.3) per game as a senior. file photo/the diamondback

Jones’ production is among nation’s best The Maryland James Crabtree-Hannigan women’s @JamesCrabtreeH basketball team has Staff writer spent hundreds of hours practicing with and against center Brionna Jones and countless more reviewing game film.

Still, nobody in the program has developed strategies to stop her. “ T h e re ’s n o n e ,” g u a rd Ieshia Small said. “None that I know of.”

“People are still trying to find that,” coach Brenda Frese said.

So far, opponents have come up empty. Jones is the highest scorer on the nation’s highest-scoring offense. She’s been a nearly unstoppable force in her senior season, averaging a double-double and showing significant improvement over a junior campaign that landed her on All-Big Ten and AllAmerica lists.

The No. 3 Terps (23-1, 11-0 Big Ten) expect Jones to continue her impressive play against Illinois (8-16, 3-8) on Thursday.

“I’m trying to do whatever I can for this team this year,” Jones said, “so we can get past where we got to last year.”

At times last season, Small and Frese grew frustrated watching Jones on the court. by

They felt she was too passive.

“I used to get on her a lot about that,” Small said.

“She needed to ask for the ball more. But she’s doing a really good job this year with that.”

Now, the usually reserved Jones has no problem “taking over games when she needs to,” Small said. Frese said she’s nearly forgotten the days when she had to beg Jones to demand the ball in the post.

Once she gets it, teams haven’t had an answer. Her experience of facing doubleand triple-teams have made even those extreme efforts moderately successful.

She is shooting about 70 percent this year, the highest mark in the country. Even when she does miss at the rim, opponents still aren’t out of the woods. A significant number of Jones’ 108 offensive rebounds (ninth -best in the nation) have come after one of her rare misfires.

Jones’ rebounding is one of the reasons she’s been so consistent this season, the team said. The Havre de Grace native averages 10.3 rebounds per game after grabbing 9.8 per contest last year. “ T h e ga m e h a s s l owe d down for her as a senior,” Frese said. “You’ll see a shot go up, and she already knows

how to go to the weakside and put herself in position.”

Trying to body up Jones and break her down isn’t a sound strategy, either. Her 6-foot-3 frame is built for physical play, and she welcomes contact, she said.

“She’s one of the most physical, dominant low post players out there,” Frese said.

“Contact has never bothered her.”

Jones has played through pain a few times this season, rolling her ankle in the first quarter against Iowa on Jan. 29 and dealing with a black eye at Indiana on Feb. 5, the af te re f fe cts of an e rrant elbow from practice the previous day.

She still averaged 22.5 points and 10 rebounds in those two games, a sign of the “every game like it’s her last” mentality she’s utilized in her final season, the team said.

Swollen eyes notwithstanding, Jones agrees she’s seeing the game better than ever in her final year with the Terps and has also stepped up as a leader, despite her quiet nature.

Having watched her play every day, though, nobody in the program is surprised to see her developments this season.

“I knew she had it in her,” Small said. “I just needed her to know what was in her.” jcrabtreehdbk@gmail.com

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Trimble 17th Terp to eclipse 1,500 points Maryland Liam Beatus m e n ’s b a s @notliambeatus ketball guard Melo Trimble Staff writer has come a long way since being the state’s top-rated player out of high school in 2014. And in the Terps’ 70-64 loss Tuesday at Penn State, the junior from Upper Marlboro became the 17th Maryland player to score 1,500 career points.

A little more than a minute into the game, Trimble made an and-one layup to open Maryland’s scoring. He then converted the free throw to reach the milestone. He finished the by

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game with 11 points on 4 of 13 shooting.

T r i m b l e , t h e t e a m ’s leading scorer for the third straight season, paces the Terps (20-3, 8-2 Big Ten) this year with 17.2 points per game.

As a freshman, Trimble teamed up with former guard Dez Wells to help Maryland return to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2010. The former McDonald’s All-American put 16.2 points per game during that campaign.

Tr i m b l e ex p e r i e n ce d a scoring drop off his sophomore season (14.8 points per

game), but guided the Terps to their first Sweet 16 appearance in 13 years. Now, he’s the leader of a young squad near the top of the Big Ten standings.

“Melo Trimble is the best leader and closer in college basketball,” ESPN analyst Dan Dakich said.

Trimble has plenty of time this season to move up the program’s all-time scoring list, as Maryland has eight more regular-season games after Tuesday, the Big Ten Tournament and (maybe) the NCAA tournament.

have a fresh piece of gum, and Maryland must make him lose it again.

The Ohio State players will want to return the agony with a win on the Xfinity Center floor, so Turgeon’s players have to ensure a somber plane ride home.

O t h e r w i s e , t h e Te r p s should apologize to themselves for wasting an upstart conference run with a threegame slide entering the season’s toughest stretch.

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Melo Trimble scored one point after halftime against Penn State. marquise mckine/the diamondback start. He began with an and-one layup and drained the free throw to become the 17th Maryland player to score 1,500 career points and give coach Mark Turgeon’s squad its only lead.

The Upper Marlboro native finished a layup in transition before making his lone 3-pointer of the contest about three minutes later. As Penn State was pulling away at the end of the first half, Trimble made his final field goal — a layup — with about five minutes remaining.

But when Penn State took a 12point lead with about 11 minutes left, Trimble had no answer. He shot 0-for-6 from the field in the final 20 minutes. The Nittany Lions studied Trimble’s ballscreen effectiveness on film, so they double-teamed him when he received the screen, not allowing him to find driving lanes.

“I was trying to get my other guys going on the court,” Trimble said. “Justin [Jackson] is a really good scorer, and Kevin [Huerter] is a really good shooter. I was trying to get them the ball and … get them open looks. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case.”

Trimble has been a menace at getting to the free throw line in his Terps career, but his pro-

duction from the charity stripe has decreased since he shot 86.3 percent at the line his freshman year. He drove to the basket and flailed his arms while trying to draw contact throughout the second half Tuesday, but the referees didn’t call many fouls.

The 6-foot-3, 185-pound guard drew a whistle once in the second frame and made one of two free throws.

“He forced a couple,” Turgeon said. “He’s doing what I asked him to do. I said drive the ball.

Melo’s trying hard.”

Trimble usually handles the ball in the final five minutes, but he attempted just one shot, a missed 3-pointer, during that stretch Tuesday.

Maryland, which shot a season-low 33.9 percent against the Nittany Lions, is 30-8 in games decided by six or fewer points in Trimble’s career. With Trimble’s shortcomings in the past two contests, though, the Terps lost consecutive games for the first time this season.

“It was a strange night,” Turgeon said. “He was trying to make a comeback and trying to inspire the guys.” kmelnickdbk@gmail.com

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The TErps women’s and men’s lacrosse programs lost in last season’s NCAA championship as the No. 1 overall seeds. Each squad has a chance to win the title this season. Entering the year, both teams are ranked second. photo courtesy of maryland athletics (left), file photo/the diamondback (right)

deuces are wild After second-place finishes, No. 2 men’s and women’s programs seek title runs

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By Sean Whooley | @swhooley27 | Staff writer

he Maryland women’s lacrosse team is the most successful program in NCAA history, with 13 national titles. But last season, it came up short.

Looking for their third straight championship and first undefeated season since 2001, the top-ranked Terps couldn’t keep up with No. 3 North Carolina in a 13-7 defeat.

The two teams may meet on the sport’s biggest stage again this year, as the Tar Heels and Terps enter the season No. 1 and No. 2, respectively. Coach Cathy Reese, however, is focused solely on this group, regardless of whom it plays down the road.

“It’s in the past, it’s done,” Reese said. “We’re not going to get anywhere if we look back and worry about that. We have a different team this year, it’s totally different every year and it’s something for all our returners to fuel their fire.”

Those returnees bring back a wealth of experience and accolades, as three players were All-Americans last season and six made the preseason list. Senior captains Nadine Hadnagy and Zoe Stukenberg as well as junior Megan Whittle secured All-American honors last season and made the preseason first team this year. Sophomore Julia Braig was named to the second team while senior Caroline Wannen and sophomore Megan Taylor earned

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honorable mention.

The Terps also boast Inside Lacrosse’s top-ranked freshman class, which includes three players ranked in the top five and seven in the top 50.

Reese said some will make immediate contributions, and Stukenberg said the influence of the team’s experienced players will be key for the newcomers.

“We have a really awesome group of sophomores and juniors and seniors who are confident and excited and really believe in this group and our team,” Stukenberg said. “That’s all you can really ask for, and I think that confidence and passion will rub off on the freshmen sooner rather than later.”

The Terps return nine starters, but they’ll be without two of the nation’s best players the past few seasons.

Taylor Cummings, the first-ever three time Tewaaraton Award winner — given annually to the nation’s best player — graduated. Maryland also lost 2016 National Defender of the Year and All-American Alice Mercer and starter Bryn Boucher.

“You are obviously going to feel the loss of people like Taylor and Alice because of who they were on the field and off the field,” Stukenberg said.

“They were two of the best players I’ve ever had the opportunity to play with.”

a ryl a n d m e n ’s lacrosse atta c k m e n M a t t Rambo and Colin Heacock have played in three Final Fours and two national title games. They’ve also notched a combined 178 career goals and 76 assists to form one of the most dynamic offensive tandems in the country.

But there’s one major accomplishment neither has earned: a national championship. This year, they hope to guide the Terps to an NCAA title victory for the first time since 1975 and cap their illustrious careers in style.

However, No. 2 Maryland must overcome setbacks in the midfield to make a deep postseason run.

“We’re further behind than we’ve been most years,” coach John Tillman said. “We’re going to have to catch up pretty fast.”

The Terps lost starting goalkeeper Kyle Bernlohr, defender Matt Dunn and long pole Greg Danseglio to graduation. Plus, midfielder Lucas Gradinger stepped away from the program last week and defender Mac Pons is out indefinitely with a lowerbody injury.

Even so, Maryland possesses the star power few teams can match.

Rambo and Heacock, coming off career-best seasons, are expected to provide a dangerous one-two punch

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up front. Rambo tallied 43 goals and 32 assists last year, and Heacock netted 42 scores and provided 12 assists.

While the players maintain a goofy friendship off the field, their intensity during preseason training has helped the Terps prepare for the upcoming campaign.

Whenever Heacock or Rambo score in practice, Heacock said they “let the defenders hear it.” If the defense gets a stop, though, they fire trash talk right back. “[The banter] kind of loosens [the team] up a little bit,” Heacock explained. “It brings out the competitive nature in us and makes it more fun.”

Maryland boasts a nation-best seven Inside Lacrosse preseason AllAmericans, including first-team AllAmerican defensive midfielder Isaiah Davis-Allen.

Tillman called Davis-Allen one of the premier short-stick defensive midfielders in the country, and said the Springfield, Virginia, native is vital to Maryland’s success because he “is the type of guy who will do whatever the team needs,” even if his defensive-minded role isn’t glamorous.

Long pole Matt Neufeldt, an honorable mention All-American, will return from an ACL injury to play for See tillman, p. 9

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Turgeon’s team faces must win vs. Ohio State CALLIE CAPLAN @calliecaplan men’s basketball columnist A few days ago, I wrote the Maryland men’s basketball team needed to apologize to Ohio State after the Terps rattled off another road win — a 77-71 roll in Columbus Ohio, on Jan. 31 — with little regard.

That’s because forward Justin Jackson spent the night swishing threes, and the Terps shot almost 50 percent from the field, at times boasting a double-digit lead.

Ohio State coach Thad Matta’s frustration reached its peak when he had to catch his gum as it flew out of his mouth while shouting in the huddle.

Well, get the stationery and envelopes ready again, Maryland, because you have to make Matta and the Buckeyes just as furious on Saturday. The outlook for the rest of the season depends on it.

“We’ve been together. We’ve played with energy. We’ve played for each other. We love each other,” coach Mark Turgeon said. “It just didn’t have that feel [Tuesday].

We got to get that feel back before Saturday. This team has done some amazing things. It really has this year. It hasn’t been a perfect 72 hours. We’ll get it back. We’ve done too many good things to not get it back.”

T h i s t i m e , t h e Te r ps a re n ’t trying to preserve an undefeated road record. The disjointed effort in Tuesday’s 70-64 loss at Penn State ended that. They’re not trying to keep their spot atop the Big Ten standings, either, as two straight defeats have pushed them below Wisconsin.

Instead, Turgeon’s squad must win to ensure its hopes for a conference tournament bye and a respectable NCAA tournament seed remain alive. Plus, the Terps’ following two games — at upstart

Northwestern and No. 7 Wisconsin — threaten to turn a two-game slip into a full-blown slide.

“It’s time for us to get better,” guard Melo Trimble said.

That’s not to say Jackson has to drop 22 points on 67 percent shooting from the field or grab 12 boards for another double-double, or that Trimble must channel his acrobatics and control for a late personal run to polish the outing.

Maryland just has to ensure its lackadaisical preparation and disorganized execution doesn’t seep into Saturday.

Trimble can’t be afraid to drive through contact when his shots aren’t falling. Guard Anthony Cowan can’t settle for 3-pointers after missing his last 11. Big men Michal Cekovsky, Damonte Dodd and Ivan Bender can’t fumble possessions at the rim or battle foul trouble and put the Terps at a size disadvantage.

“We’re good enough to win any

The Terps have back-to-back road tests after Saturday’s home tilt against the Buckeyes. marquise mckine/the diamondback game we step on the court and season’s trajectory hanging in the play,” guard Kevin Huerter said, balance against a hungry, vengeful “if we all show up and play.”

They’ll have to do that with their See caplan, p. 11