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ONE YEAR LATER: ‘We want a safe place’

DAVID MITCHELL, University Police chief, speaks to reporters the day of last year’s off-campus murder-suicide. file photo/the diamondback Neighbors said no one appears to live there anymore, not after what happened one year ago.

In the backyard of the two-story house on 36th Avenue, gunfire hree doors down from the end of the street, a broke out at about 1 a.m. on house on 36th Avenue Feb. 12, 2013. University graduate student Dayvon Maurice Green, sits quietly, undisturbed.

A takeout menu is wedged in 23, shot two of his roommates, the screen door. A few pieces of killing 22-year-old Stephen Alex mail stick out from the mailbox. Rane and injuring then-22-yearBroken boxes lie in a pile on the old Neal Oa, before turning the gun on himself. front stoop.

“As we found out in fact, it was Strips of torn caution tape that read “Fire line do not cross” hang our students — all three,” Univerfrom a downspout and a broken sity Police Chief David Mitchell wooden fence leading into the said. “I don’t remember specifically how I became aware. One of backyard.

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eight in a row.”

About five minutes earlier, Shargo said, she was smoking a cigarette outside her house on 37th Avenue, unable to fall asleep. After she went inside and heard gunshots, fi retruck sirens began to fi ll the air.

Shargo and her roommate looked out a bedroom window as Early that February morning cop cars and ambulances arrived a year ago, a few shots across the at the house one street over.

Must be a fire, they decided street rang out like fireworks, said Isabel Shargo, a senior environ- as they stared out the window. mental science and policy major. Shargo started to drift off. It was “I had never heard gunshots late, and it was a school night. Any before,” Shargo said. “It was news could wait until morning.

Shortly before 1:30 a.m., Unisuper startling — there were like my commanding officers calling me, and the commanding officers from District 1 [Prince George’s County Police] calling me to tell me they were on the scene. They had the same questions we did.

How do you sort through that?

Just a terrible, terrible tragedy.”

versity Police sent out email and text safety alerts regarding an offcampus shooting. In the morning, Shargo and her roommates read the alerts and saw a news van parked in front of their house.

Throughout the day, county and University Police released more information about the shooting that happened one street over. Green had a 9 mm handgun, a semi-automatic Uzi with multiple magazines, a baseball bat and a machete.

“I don’t know what his plans were, and I don’t know if we’ll

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Police search for suspects in N Campus dorm thefts

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By Talia Richman @talirichman Staff writer When it came time to pay for h is fi rst yea r of col lege, Josh Singer was on his own. W hile his parents dealt with the impact of the recession and a stagnant housing market, the Singer family barely had enough money for food, much less college tuition.

Carroll Community College was all Singer could afford for his first three semesters. But with the economy picking up, the sophomore biolog y major transferred to this university for the spring 2014 semester, ref lecting a nationwide trend in higher education.

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City Council lowers age to take office 5-3 vote: minimum age to run decreased to 18

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Senior staff writer After more than two-and-a-half hours of debate last night, the College Park City Council voted in favor of a charter that lowers the minimum age to take office as mayor or secure a seat on the council.

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dents spoke against the motion, citing community harms such as vandalism and litter caused by students, District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn said he supported a lower minimum age because it was the right thing for the community.

“If I thought for one second that passing this amendment would contribute to those challenges and add to those challenges, then I wouldn’t support it,” he said.

District 3 Councilman Robert Day said he considered the issue to

University Police detectives are searching for three people of interest in connection with multiple thefts in North Campus dorms, according to a news release.

On the mornings of Jan. 30 and Friday, police officers responded to a string of thefts inside Centreville, Cumberland and Denton halls.

University Police spokeswoman Rosanne Hoaas said detectives cannot confirm if the cases are connected.

At about 9 a.m. on Jan. 30, Kyle DeLancey, a freshman computer science major, said he woke up in his Denton Hall room and saw a man standing at his desk.

DeLancey said he addressed the suspect, who responded by asking

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Former District 4 Councilman Marcus Afzali proposed the charter in December, stirring new debate on the topic. A previous proposal was rejected during a meeting in 2010 after city residents in attendance voiced their dissent and spurred a 6-2 decision against it.

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CONNECTING THE DOTS

shooting rampage on McKeldin Mall, and the university took immediate action after a sergeant reviewed the case.

The BETA Team and inforUniversity’s BETA Team reviews campus safety threats mation technology workers traced the IP address of the

By Teddy Amenabar and havioral Evaluation and Threat and student affairs assistant post’s author as reports of similar online threats came in.

Assessment Team just before a vice president.

Jenny Hottle Less than 12 hours after police @TeddyAmen, @JennyHottle shooter killed 33 people at Virreceived the first report, Song ginia Tech on April 16, 2007.

Senior staff writers THE CASELOAD was in custody. Later, a judge The small team of directors When a person decides to and university officials comes The university’s BETA team ordered that he receive an emer8706 36th Ave. was the site of a murder-suicide in February 2013, when a university commit a mass act of violence, from departments such as receives about two or three calls gency psychiatric evaluation. student shot his roommates, killing one, before killing himself. jenny hottle/for the diamondback it’s challenging for police to in- University Police, the Office a week, Zacker said, but the board of Student Conduct, the only deems a few to be serious terrupt that plan.

THE INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS had locked in a car truck. The University Police Chief David student called Prince George’s Mitchell said. “It’s OK to call But often, a tragedy can be Counseling Center, Mental enough for review. Very few inciprevented by connecting the Health Service and the Office dents addressed by the team conWhen the team perceives an County Police to ask for help in and tell the university, tell dots of an individual’s behavior. of the Vice President for stitute serious physical violence. immediate danger, members retrieving the gun. The county people in responsible posiIn March 2012, a University begin working on a case right police notified the university and tions and let us take it from That’s where the BETA Team Student Affairs.

The group meets every Police aide called the depart- away. a county crisis response team, there because we’re going to comes in.

Friday at 10 a.m. to look at ment to report a suspicious Following the February 2013 and University Police stepped in. act on this immediately.” new incidents and review the threat on Reddit. A university murder-suicide, police learned “[The roommates] did not THE TEAM status of ongoing cases, said student, later identified as that a student had a gun, which call anybody. They did not tell tamenabardbk@gmail.com, This university formed a Be- John Zacker, BETA chairman Alexander Song, threatened a his concerned roommates us, didn’t tell the campus,” jhottledbk@gmail.com

MURDER From PAGE 1 ever know what his plans were,” Mitchell said. “I can only imagine had he come down onto campus armed the way he was.”

And there was fire: Police said Green set a fire in the backyard at about 1 a.m. to attract his roommates’ attention and bring them outside before he shot them.

“They were just random roommates. I was living with random roommates. I just found them online,” Shargo said, standing in her kitchen nearly a year later on Feb. 7.

“It was super coincidental and ironic and so sad.”

The landscape of campus security has changed in the wake of shootings such as the February 2013 murder-suicide and the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, Mitchell said. In 2013, there were 28 shootings at educational institutions across the country, University Police spokeswoman Sgt.

Rosanne Hoaas said. Since Jan. 1, there have been seven.

One of the takeaways from the Virginia Tech shooting, Mitchell said, was the need to notify the university community of a threat, whether it’s through an application such as the university’s SOS app, safety notices or sirens.

The other major change has been how police handle active shooter situations. Years ago, police practiced “contain and negotiate” drills to contain a shooter until a SWAT team arrived on the scene. Now, University Police go in with the equipment they have, Mitchell said, and they rehearse scenarios in which they take immediate action to clear a threat.

In the fall, University Police also expanded its jurisdiction farther off-campus, which Student Government Association President Samantha Zwerling called a positive step for the university community’s relationship with the city.

“Allowing the University Police, who deal a lot more with students, to expand their juris-

diction is important for situations to be dealt with appropriately,” Zwerling said. “College students can be a more unique population than the regular Prince George’s County residents.”

One of the biggest goals of campus security improvements is to teach students that they should report any threats that concern them, Mitchell said. It’s difficult to stop an active shooter, he said, but there are opportunities for intervention along the way.

“They’re good folks who did not deserve what happened to them, and we mourn them,” Mitchell said. “When one of them dies here, in many ways, a piece of all of us dies. … I care very, very much. We all do.

Our children come here. We want a safe place.”

In the aftermath of the shooting, police reported that Green had suffered from a mental illness and had been taking medication for at least a year.

T he u n iversity a l ready was pushing for increased

funding for mental health services, said Sharon KirklandGordon, counseling center director. In April 2013, university officials announced a decision to spend an extra $5 million over the next 10 years to add health center and counseling center staff and address issues such as long wait times for counseling services.

The shooting was a wake-up call, Zwerling said, a call to invest more in these resources and to clarify the services available to students, faculty and staff.

“We need to create a culture on our campus where people do feel safe but also feel like they can get mental health resources if they need it,” Zwerling said.

“It’s OK to need help.”

The stigma around mental health issues remains an issue that people struggle with, Kirkland-Gordon said.

Though the university’s counseling and mental health service centers have since seen shorter wait times and University Police have increased their jurisdiction, university President Wallace Loh said he feels more must be done.

“There’s a combination of factors of investing resources in a very targeted way that could perhaps reduce the incidence of these kinds of senseless killings in the future,” Loh said. “It’s certainly a sense of renewed commitment and obligation to do everything we can to help students who have needs and keep the campus as safe as possible.”

the guy down the hall who knew how to cheer up anyone, whether it was a best friend or a classmate.

“Stephen is great,” friends said at a campus memorial service in Memorial Chapel on Feb. 12, 2013, recalling Rane’s favorite catchphrase.

Friends and family members, including Rane’s sister, Alison, also held a candlelit vigil on Feb. 19, 2013, near Little has changed to the the McKeldin Mall sundial, exterior of the house near the where they shared memories. end of 36th Avenue in the year A year after her brother’s since the shooting. death, Alison Rane said her A few patches of green grass family can’t put their loss stick out of the dried lawn. A into words. white table covered in dirt rests “We can list off Stephen’s atop a pile of leaves next to a qualities and accomplishments, toppled green pot. Peeled siding but none of that would convey hangs on the back of the house. what he meant to us,” Alison For the university, it’s a re- Rane said. “I miss his individminder that the campus com- ual voice terribly, his thoughts munity is still recovering and about the world and how he still trying to make sense of would express them. No one Feb. 12, 2013. will ever replace or replicate it.”

Stephen A lex R a ne, a n English and linguistics major, Senior staff writer Yasmeen loved learning languages, Abutaleb contributed to this traveling and telling jokes. report.

To many, he was known as jhottledbk@gmail.com

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Collegiate Readership Program returns Free newspapers available tomorrow

By Holly Cuozzo @emperorcuozzco Staff writer Starting tomorrow, campus newsstands that stood empty for years will once again be filled with free copies of national newspapers.

Until about three years ago, the Collegiate Readership Program provided students with free copies of The Washington Post, The New York Times and USA Today. The program was canceled because of insufficient funding.

“It was something that a lot of my constituents were concerned about,” said Josh Ratner, Student Government Association student affairs vice president. “It’s important to have a well-informed

student body … Many other universities have similar programs, and there’s no reason we shouldn’t have it.”

The program has since been revamped to exclude USA Today papers, which were more expensive and, according to an SGA poll, not students’ preferred publication, Ratner said.

The latest incarnation of the initiative also includes one online access code per issue of The New York Times, so students can access the same materials online, said SGA Chief of Staff Madison Higgins.

For the program’s launch, Higgins said, 180 copies of The New York Times, 180 New York Times online access codes and 60 copies of The Washington Post will be available in high-traffic areas of the campus: McKeldin Library, the North and South Campus dining halls and the Student Involvement Suite in Stamp Student Union.

“The purpose of the SGA is to serve

students, so I’m happy we were able to restore this popular program for students,” said Higgins. “Many things the SGA does isn’t so obvious to students, but this kind of program has benefits you can literally hold in your hands.”

SGA leaders were able to bring back the program with the help of a $1 twice-yearly student fee increase, approved by a referendum in the 2012 SGA elections.

Ideally, Ratner said, university departments will buy into the program to have papers delivered to their buildings, making the funding model more sustainable and allowing for more copies to be delivered to the campus.

The papers originally were supposed to return to racks last semester, but difficulties arose surrounding the contracts and delivery. University contract regulations stalled the process, as did the SGA’s request for a 4:30 a.m. delivery, at which time

distributer Publishers Circulation Fulfillment Inc. would not have been able to access on-campus racks. Higgins said Publishers Circulation Fulfillment hired a student worker to distribute the papers to move the deal along.

“These issues have been addressed in a way that will make it a sustainable program for the future,” Higgins said.

As the program relaunches this week, Ratner hopes students will continue to show interest. With just more than 200 papers available on the campus daily, Ratner worries faculty or graduate students might scoop up the papers before the undergraduates can get to them. The rack locations were chosen because they were considered undergraduate-friendly areas.

If the program receives additional funding from university departments, distribution won’t be as much of a concern, he said.

Kelsey Rutherford, a sophomore government and politics major, said

an empty rack in the South Campus Dining Hall awaits New York Times copies, which will arrive this week after a three-year hiatus. daniel gallen/for the diamondback she is looking forward to the program’s return.

“We’ll not only be able to read a variety of articles but also get different perspectives on the same stories being reported,” Rutherford said. “We really needed [the newspapers].” hcuozzodbk@gmail.com

Club teams pose in LGBT COLLEGE rights photo campaign UMD Amnesty chapter project focuses on Sochi Olympics

By Sarah Dean @thedbk Staff writer University athletes are showing their support for the LGBT community in this university’s Amnesty International chapter’s latest project — an Instagram campaign to raise awareness of problems facing the LGBT community in Russia, the home country for this year’s Olympic Winter Games.

The campaign, led by this university’s chapter of the nonprofit human rights organization, involves sharing pictures of athletes on the campus on Instagram holding signs reading, “We support LGBT rights” and “#sochi2014.”

Subjects of the pictures, many of which were taken at StampFest on Thursday, include representatives from the Fencing Club, Maryland Dodgeball, UMD Women’s Rugby, Ballroom at Maryland, Maryland Quidditch, and female-centric fitness group Changing Health, Attitudes, and Actions to Recreate Girls.

“We’ve decided it would be a wonderful way to show support to the community by having our athletes take pictures with signs to show support,” said Amnesty International member Andrew Bridgeman, a junior philosophy major. “We felt it was the perfect timing for this sort of thing, and we decided to leverage the current issue of the Olympics in Sochi and to support those who feel disenfranchised.”

Among other human rights debates, the winter Olympics’ location in Sochi has sparked

women’s rugby team members show support at StampFest. photo courtesy of mary clare fischer controversy, as Russian leaders and easier to reach.” and laws have taken a hard Andrew Morin, who is picstance against LGBT rights. tured on Instagram as a member Other activists and support- of the Fencing Club, said no one ers have taken to the Internet in his organization refused to to show their support, includ- be pictured and that he had ing a Google doodle last week no concerns about the photo’s with Olympic athletes pictured effect on the team’s image. against a rainbow background, “One of our teammates videos, books and more. brought the poster and asked “There have been some us to do it, and I said sure,” he regulations over LGBTQ+ said. “It’s absolutely an impeople in different countries, portant issue, and they chose and Sochi Olympics is not an athletes to support it because exception,” said Amnesty In- that’s … what they’re trying to ternational member Tae Ryang enforce at the Sochi Olympics, Kim, a freshman psychology and I think it’s a great idea.” major. “Our plan is to take as Samantha Medney, a senior many pictures as possible with journalism major, represented many different people and post Maryland Quidditch in the them on Instagram.” campaign.

While working on the cam“I believe in equal rights for paign, Bridgeman found that all, so when I saw the poster, some athletes weren’t willing I knew I wanted to be a part to participate. It wasn’t neces- of the campaign,” she said. sarily out of fear, but rather, “Maryland Quidditch is exthey wanted to protect their tremely inclusive, and we’re images, he said. always happy to support posi“We’ve had some groups that tive causes.” fully supported it, but at the Medney, who is the Marysame time, wanted their group land Quidditch vice president, to remain apolitical,” he said. said she was supportive of the Overall, however, Bridge- campaign overall. man said people seemed to be “We’re in this unique situamore supportive and willing to tion where we have the world’s participate than he expected. attention and we can make a “It’s been doing wonderful- difference,” she said. “If we ly,” Bridgeman said. “People have the power to help and do already know about the change people’s lives for the issue and want to raise aware- better, why wouldn’t we?” ness themselves, so they join in and it makes our goal easier sdeandbk@gmail.com

basic general education classes instead of taking them here.”

But Phillips said the main From PAGE 1 demographic that flocks to direction of the economy community colleges during — when the recession hit in recessions is older students late 2007, the state’s 16 com- seeking to bolster their skill munity colleges saw about a sets and appear more attrac9 percent increase. Since fall tive as job candidates. At 2012, however, the Maryland a community college, they Association of Community can do so while continuing Colleges reported a 4 percent to work part-time and staying drop in enrollment. close to home.

A similar shift is occur“In today’s world, with the ring across the country pace of technology, you have to — there was a 3.1 percent continue to update your skills,” decline nationally in enroll- he said. “It’s not the old world ment at two-year public col- where you can graduate from leges this fall, according to high school, get into an industhe National Student Clear- trial position and live a middleinghouse Research Center. class lifestyle. Today’s world “Enrollments go down requires more than just a high a nd en rol lments go up, school diploma.” and we expect them to go Phillips said the MACC atup pretty soon,” said Brad tributes much of the recent Phillips, research director enrollment decline to older at the MACC. “We’re not students returning to the just educating recent high workforce, but there may be school graduates. We have other reasons the numbers many adult learners, too.” are falling.

For Singer and other high Enrollment decline can also school graduates, the deci- be attributed to high school sion to attend community graduates going to four-year college in the aftermath of institutions instead of comthe recession was purely munity colleges, Singer said. financial.

Changes in the federal fi“I wasn’t in the financial nancial aid program have position to afford a four-year made even community college institution at the time,” an expensive investment — Singer said. “I saved some notably, the restrictions limmoney and knocked out the iting Pell Grant eligibility to

College Park.

“WE WANT Frosti sa id he was a lso EVERYONE TO FEEL AS sleepi ng wh i le a su spect From PAGE 1 SAFE AS THEY CAN.” entered t he ro om; i f t he whether a “Danny” was in the AMY MARTIN suspect had violent intentions, room. DeLancey noticed his own wallet on the ground and asked the individual to give money back.

The suspect eventually returned DeLancey’s cash and left the room.

Before the incident, DeLancey said he was relaxed about locking his door but he is now more conscientious, though he said the suspect never threatened him and he felt the man “wasn’t a bad person.”

“Even if I am in the room, or whatever, I just lock the door,” he said. “Just in case, like, I decide to fall asleep.”

On Friday, in Cumberland Ha l l, Wa rren Gri ffiths, a f re s h m a n a n t h ro p o l o g y and English major, woke up

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“we’d all be dead.”

“On that note, we’re handling it surprisingly well,” he said.

In response to the string of thefts across North Campus, Resident Life Associate Director Amy Martin said the department has sent emails and posted fliers to remind students of the importance of locking doors and preventing tailgating.

Students need to work with Resident Life to ensure that the processes in place, such as the triple barrier access into the halls, work.

“We want everyone to feel as safe as they can,” Martin said.

missing $50 but assumed he must have lost it in the past couple of days. After lunch, Griffiths said he talked to other students in the hall a nd rea l i zed ot hers were m issi ng money a nd other items, too.

Another resident on the same floor, freshman criminology and criminal justice a nd E n g l i sh m ajor Br i a n Frosti, woke up late that morning and was missing $200 and a watch.

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stephanie stullich, District 3 councilwoman, broke a deadlocked City Council last night with a vote in favor of lowering the minimum age to run for a seat on the council. The approved measure allows College Park residents as young as 18 to run. file photo/the diamondback

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12 semesters.

“Shortened time frames affect students who have attended college earlier in their lives and used Pell Grants to help cover those costs,” Bernard Sadusky, executive director of the MACC, wrote in an email. “When those students now attempt to return to college, usually in hopes of improving their skill sets and value in the workforce, they find that their previous use of Pell Grants has left them with little or no eligibility remaining.”

A nd tu it ion h a s seen a modest increase to make up for decreasing state aid, Phillips said.

Regardless of the shifting patterns in enrollment, Brooks Clarke, who spent four years at Montgomery College’s Rockville campus before coming to this university, said the community college experience has benefits beyond access and affordability.

“It was a good transition,” said Clarke, a junior studio art major. “It felt like a good middle step between high school and a university, where you didn’t have that overwhelming atmosphere. It was a lot smaller-scale with a lot of individualized attention.”

be one of equ ity for a l l town adults.

“We need to be able to a l low people — a nyone — to run, vote and have the equal opportunity for all individuals including those young adults,” Day said. “The only way to have a truly free and fair election is to allow any and all eligible members of College Park the opportunity to run for these elected positions.”

Before the charter came to a vote, District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir proposed an amendment that would instead lower the mayoral and council minimum ages to 24 and 20 respectively, a compromise that he said would be a better alternative.

Kathy Bryant, a resident of College Park’s historic Old Town, said she did not support any minimum age

change because of a discrepancy in concerns between university students and actual residents of the city.

“The issues in Old Town a re d i f fe re nt f rom som e other areas in the city to some degree,” Bryant said. “My big concern is that someone who is 18 might not understand some of the issues of people who pay $5,200 a year in property taxes like I do.”

Student representatives such as Student Government Association President Samantha Zwerling and Matthew Popkin, who as a 22-year-old university graduate student ran unsuccessfully for a council seat in the fall, testified before the roughly 40 in attendance that unqualified individuals who were under the age of 21 would never have the opportunity to harm the city. Unqualified candidates would not be elected in the first place, they said.

“There is definitely a fear that I think is unfounded,” Popkin said. “Different people

have different life experiences; different people bring different qualifications, or perspectives, or values, or opinions. Excluding someone from a process — whether deliberately because of age or just for experience — it begs the question of what you’re really afraid of.”

For much of the session, the vote appeared to be split among the council members, but after an emotional statement and more than two hours of debate, District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich changed her position to vote in favor of the motion, yielding a 5-3 final vote.

The main goal of the motion would be to shrink the gap between university students and city residents, she said.

“As an olive branch, as a statement, I have a pretty intense desire to find a way forward,” Stullich said. “There’s nothing more important than that we overcome that.” jantoshakdbk@gmail.com

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One year after our ‘collective sadness’ Reflecting on the anniversary of last year’s murder-suicide and evaluating the university’s response

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ne year ago today, early on a Tuesday morning, Prince George’s County Police reported an off-campus shooting at the 8700 block of 36th Avenue. University graduate student Dayvon Maurice Green had gunned down roommate Stephen Alex Rane and injured roommate Neal Oa before committing suicide in the backyard of their offcampus home.

The university community was shaken as long-standing concerns over College Park safety and university mental health services seemingly reached a tipping point.

“I’ve been here 30 years and I’ve never seen anything of this magnitude,” then-University Police spokesman Maj. Marc Limansky said after the tragedy.

The university grieved.

Family, friends, students and city and university officials attended a Memorial Chapel candlelight vigil one night later to remember those killed and lament their loss. University President Wallace Loh canceled a high-profile Lunar New Year celebration at the president’s residence with a guest list of regents and state officials.

And in a devastating year that would go on to see more than 15 shootings involving college students in the national news, many students simply expressed shock that one had happened at this university — at home.

“Our grief is so intense, it’s intolerable and endless,” Loh said at the vigil. “But experience tells me it will yield with time.”

And so the university mourned.

But it also took action.

Loh wrote a guest column for this newspaper that ran eight days after the murder-suicide in which he supported Gov. Martin O’Malley’s gun control legislative package and pledged to address mental health services shortages and safety both on and off the campus.

In what largely proved to be a grassroots movement, students and advocates, tired of facing delayed and insufficient mental health care, took a stand and demanded the university provide them with the services they deserved.

In April, the university allocated a $5 million gift from PepsiCo Inc. to the university’s health and counseling centers, which had jointly requested

the funds to rectify understaffing and prolonged waiting lists. In July, administrators allocated the first of 10 $500,000 installments to the centers, financing the hiring of 11 new psychiatrists, counselors and psychologists.

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Last year’s murder-suicide led to an admirable response from the university, which should continue supporting mental health resources.

The funding was sorely needed: 92 percent of university counseling services polled in 2012 reported the number of students requesting treatment had increased over past years, according to the American College Counseling Association.

Before allocating the $5 million in funding toward the health and counseling centers, this university’s counselor-to-student ratio stood at

about 1-to-1,854. Today, it stands at 1-to-1,500, a marked improvement.

The university’s efforts didn’t stop with the largest investment in mental health services in decades, however. The Office of Student Conduct implemented an expanded student conduct code in May. Perhaps less tangible but no less significant a measure, the move granted University Police concurrent jurisdiction with Prince George’s County police.

It’s both admirable and heartbreaking that in the wake of the shootings, the university community rallied to enact widespread policy changes and shore up its mental health services. These preventative measures were clearly in order, yet it’s sadly predictable that a calamity of this magnitude had to happen for the university to take action.

Even with the university and community preventative efforts put into place over the past year, we recognize that there is simply no way to prevent every possible shooting. This state’s gun control laws were among the strictest in the nation before the

shocking events of last year, and they remain rigid.

The perpetrator of last month’s Mall in Columbia shooting, Darion Aguilar, and one of his victims lived in College Park. (Neither had university connections.) In a journal police found at Aguilar’s mother’s house, he indicated that he was “ready to die” and had some form of a plan “set.”

For this university community, last month’s shooting stands as a sobering reminder of what can happen when severe mental health problems go unnoticed or unchecked.

Thankfully, organized efforts are working toward those checks. Since 2007, this university’s Behavioral Evaluation and Threat Assessment team has evaluated potential threats and investigated the ones they deem to be serious.

With more funding, more awareness and more staffing, perhaps the brave people working to help those with mental health problems can help make sure that this university will not only emerge from collective sadness, but also establish a community both stronger and safer than ever before.

Mike King, Editor in Chief OLIVIA NEWPORT, Assistant Managing Editor Chris Allen, Design Editor FOLA AKINNIBI, Online Editor JENNY HOTTLE, News Editor Maria Romas, Opinion Editor RobERT Gifford, Diversions Editor DANIEL GALLEN, Sports Editor CHRISTIAN JENKINS, Photo Editor Michelle chavez, Multimedia Editor

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EDITORIAL BOARD MIKE KING, editor in chief, is a senior journalism major. He has worked as a copy editor, assistant managing editor, deputy managing editor and managing editor.

Dan Appenfeller, managing editor, is a senior journalism major.

He has worked as a copy editor and assistant managing editor.

MATT SCHNABEL, deputy managing editor, is a sophomore journalism major.

He has worked as a copy editor, assistant managing editor and diversions writer.

Maria Romas, opinion editor, is a senior English major.

She has worked as a reporter, assistant opinion editor and columnist.

ADAM OFFITZER, opinion editor, is a senior journalism major.

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The ‘war on women’ is real Republican denial doesn’t change the facts CHARLIE BULMAN “If there was a war on women, I think they won.”

That’s Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, apparently communicating the view of fellow Republican lawmakers on the subject. Appearing recently on Meet The Press, Paul dismissed the “war” — a political catchphrase referring to the full menu of Republican policies aimed at curbing female health and reproductive rights — pointing out that, “You know, the women in my family are incredibly successful. I have a niece at Cornell vet school, and 85 percent of the young people there are women.”

What’s that? You don’t see a connection between Rand Paul’s niece’s academic success and policies circumscribing female reproductive rights? Neither do I. To be fair, Paul was drawing on a trend toward greater female enrollment in higher education — a trend that’s completely irrelevant to women’s reproductive health — as a counterpoint to the charge that women are under assault.

His remarks are part of a larger GOP strategy of misrepresenting criticism leveled against its social policies. On a weirder note, former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee recently said Democrats were telling women “they cannot control their libido” without gov-

ernment assistance.

Implicit in Huckabee’s libido comment is the suggestion that any sexual impulse experienced by a woman not prepared for pregnancy needs to be squashed. In his view, Democrats think women cannot resist their worst temptations and believe the government needs to step up to save them. Evidently, the thought of purposeful just-forpleasure sex is beyond the realm of comprehension.

Contrary to Huckabee’s skewed perspective, I do believe women can control their libidos. I also believe, however, that women should be afforded the contraceptives allowing them to exercise their sexuality at their own discretion, no matter their income level. And despite any GOP reservations, respecting women’s control of their bodies entails granting access to abortion as well.

While the Democrats’ tactic of collapsing all right-wing social p o l i c i e s i n to a rh e to r i ca l wa r fought against a monolithic mass of single-minded women might be self-serving, Republican policies have indeed harmed women.

In fact, GOP lawmakers recently curtailed access to abortion in Texas by requiring clinics to secure permission to admit from uncooperative local hospitals. Also recently, Republicans in the Senate filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in a case deciding the fate of the contraceptive mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, encouraging the court to

strike contraception provisions from the law. On the state and federal levels, restricting female reproductive rights remains a common thread.

Sexual freedom and reproductive choice aren’t all that’s at stake — reproductive rights shape female opportunities in the workplace as well.

In her 2012 Georgetown University Law Center research paper making an Equal Protection case for reproductive freedom, nowD.C. Circuit Court Judge Nina P illard and co-writer Naomi Mezey argued that “many emp l oye rs a ss u m e t h a t to b e a mother is to be a primary caregiver with correspondingly less job commitment than a man, who is presumed to be an unencumbered ‘ideal worker.’” Thus, limiting women’s access to contraception and undermining their ability to choose whether to have children could reinforce “broader patterns of discrimination against women as a class of presumptive breeders rather than reliable breadwinners and citizens.”

Considering that Republican policies threaten women’s sexual freedom, reproductive choice and economic equality, their duplicitous public relations defense doesn’t come as a shock. But the stakes are far too high to let it go unchallenged.

Charlie Bulman is a sophomore government and politics major. He can be reached at cbulmandbk@gmail.com.

Stop trying to make plurnt happen EMMA ATLAS

ference is that buffalo chicken wraps don’t need to advertise.

I can deal with turnt. Turnt is one of many in the revolving door of euphemisms for drinking and drug use. With each new synonym for “high” or “drunk,” a new generation asserts they were cooler than the last at parties.

YOLO, which Drake eventually apologized for on Saturday Night Live, was, like plurnt, mostly rooted in advertising. But YOLO is saved by its utility, because shouting “parkour” when doing something barely acrobatic had gotten stale since the decline of The Office, and YOLO was more widely applicable to acts of spontaneity.

For a little while, it was funny to excuse wearing shorts in the cold, leaving your phone in your dorm or throwing out your malformed buffalo wrap before paying for it because you only live once.

Plurnt has no such value. Its utility does not redeem its commercial roots because the use of plurnt is limited to those banal Monday elevator conversations about the weekend. If left unchecked, it will grow in popularity, Flosstradamus will reap extra attention from it and some fraction of students will feel bad in a few years for using “Plurntsday” unironically.

End the cycle. Just because you only live once doesn’t mean you should feel plurnt while you’re turnt on Plurntsday.

The good thing about YOLO — and there aren’t a lot of good things about YOLO — is that as a slang word, it’s fairly easy to explain. It stands for “you only live once,” and it’s an interjection popularized by Drake for when people want to live without regrets or do something risky.

It’s not clever, but it’s fairly straightforward.

The other day, however, I heard the word “Plurntsday.”

Plurntsday is derived from plurnt, which is derived from turnt. It’s not wildly popular yet, but it has potential. Plurntsday refers to the day Chicago-based DJ collaboration Flosstradamus is performing in your city when you are feeling plurnt. Plurnt is a sense of peace, love, unity and respect, while being turnt. Turnt is the sense of being drunk. In short, Plurntsday is being drunk and feeling good at a Flosstradamus concert.

We don’t need words for this.

It’s a transparent marketing strategy, and I want to believe it’s harder than this to train young people to casually spit out advertisements. We need Plurntsday as badly as we need “buffalowrappression” — the feeling when the lady at the sandwich station rolls Emma Atlas is a junior government and your buffalo chicken wrap before politics and journalism major. She can folding the ends in. The only dif- be reached at eatlasdbk@gmail.com.

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orn today, you always seem to have a trick up your sleeve. This is not so much because you are tricky or deceptive, but because there are so many facets to your complex personality that you are always surprising those around you with words or deeds that seem out of character. Yet, in the long run, they fit perfectly into the scope of who you are and what you are about. Always eager to better yourself and the lot of those around you, you will work tirelessly to see wrongs righted and injustices reversed.

You may not always be popular, but you are always attracting attention to yourself.

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ESSAY | FLAPPY BIRD

killing millions of birds with one stone Flappy Bird, the latest mobile gaming addiction, was taken off the iPhone and Android app stores as well as Google Play over the weekend to plenty of protest

By Michael Errigo @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback Footsteps pound the floor of a dorm hallway, a sense of urgency in every stride. The feet find their destination as a young man throws open the door to his friend’s room with a fervor that only stems from situations of pure emergency.

“112!” the student yells with excitement, “I just got 112 on Flappy Bird, what up!”

This is the unbridled joy that comes about only in the rare instance that one reaches a true payoff of labor, a gargantuan achievement.

This excitement stems from an app called Flappy Bird.

The premise is simple enough: Tap the screen to keep a bird afloat as you guide him through a series of green pipes. But actually complet-

ing said task is much harder than it sounds. The extreme difficulty of the app has become its trademark as reviews of the game in the App Store contain lines such as “Its sideaffects are worse than cocaine/meth” and “Satan made it.”

Next in the long line of mobile games that have experienced a meteoric rise in success (following the likes of Temple Run, Angry Birds and, of course, Candy Crush Saga), Flappy Bird was launched in May 2013 by independent Vietnamese game developer Dong Nguyen.

Since an extreme sales surge in mid-January, the game has been downloaded more than 50 million times and was reportedly making $50,000 a day.

But all of that came to an abrupt and surprising end Sunday when Nguyen deleted the game from the iPhone and Android app stores. In a

REVIEW | ROBOCOP

copping out RoboCop is a tale of conflicted intentions that almost ruin a solid trashy genre film

By Warren Zhang @auberginecow Senior staff writer So much of Paul Verhoeven’s original RoboCop has actually come to pass that it seems only fitting its remake, also titled RoboCop, should be a mostly serious retread of Verhoeven’s satirical classic.

The remake’s story follows similar beats: In near-future Detroit, Alex

Murphy (Joel K innaman, Easy Money: Life Deluxe) is a hardworking cop who gets blown up by super violent weapons dealers. Enter OmniCorp, an allegedly benevolent supplier of drone robots with eyes set on also supplying a robotic police force to America.

Unfortunately, the whole unfeeling, Skynetian robot scheme doesn’t suit members of Congress, who have banned (ha!) drone strikes on

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American soil. But wait, says creepy OmniCorp CEO Raymond Sellars (a disappointingly low-key Michael Keaton, Penthouse North), what if we augmented the horrifically burned and injured Murphy with robotic limbs and our drone software?

He’d be half robotic drone cop, half fleshy, emotional man cop – RoboCop, if you will.

The plot might sound ripe for black comedy, but the new RoboCop plays most of its cards straight, ramrodding absurd, cheesy dialogue with that post-Christopher Nolan ultramarine veneer commonly found in crappy wannabes.

For a while, the new RoboCop works. Though the evil CEO conceit derails the compelling story aspect of the equation, RoboCop’s opening is thrilling and propulsive enough to sideline such flaws.

series of tweets, the creator claims the game ruined his life and he was deleting it because many people were “overusing” it. The surprising removal was even more puzzling considering how much money other popular apps have produced in the past. Surely Flappy Bird was well on its way to the highest echelon of pointless mobile games.

Thankfully, users who had already downloaded the app can still play it.

The sudden deletion appears to have created a market for those people still seeking to try the game, as phones with the app installed are being listed for sale on sites such as eBay for fouror five-figure prices.

To understand the end of this saga, one must consider the beginning.

The game spread like any other trend in the youth community: by word of mouth. Those who had played it told their friends about this new addictive

and challenging app that was sure to be the next Candy Crush Saga. Soon, Flappy Bird high scores became measuring sticks for coolness and overall achievement in life.

The fact that its popularity reached the point that Dong Nguyen felt like Frankenstein says something about the growing app culture in America. Whatever your game of choice might be, it seems like everyone is playing something constantly.

And as much as we like to tell ourselves that these games require some sort of skill or talent, they don’t. Not at all. Our high scores will fade as another app assumes the position of mindless distraction king. And in the aftermath of the oh-so-tragic death of Flappy Bird, the question we should be asking ourselves is: Why do we care?

But as the uneven remake proceeds, it becomes abundantly clear the new RoboCop is a product of half-steps and compromises. RoboCop’s new, rather empty focus on Murphy’s family feels like the result of studiomandated tweaking, as does the generally less nihilistic tone and (possibly) the Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of Patriots video game vibe applied to many of the film’s drone designs.

The movie’s embarrassing attempts at satire — in the form of quasi-topical drones and Samuel L. Jackson’s (Reasonable Doubt) one-man Fox News parody — feel more like the auteurish demands of director José Padilha (Elite Squad: The Enemy Within) than any organic extension of the source material, equally as superfluous and superficial as the family side plot.

All of this is window-dressing on the campy genre film desperate

to burst forth from the tight cocoon formed by its makers’ contradictory interests. The material is practically screaming B-movie to its disapproving director and panicked financiers, making the film’s subsequent attempts at being something else all the more pathetic.

That’s not to say the new RoboCop isn’t worth your time. Despite its shortcomings, RoboCop is still an entertaining and intermittently engaging flick. The action is slick and competently assembled, while many of the supporting actors turn in solid performances. It just isn’t as entertaining as it could have been or nearly as meaningful as the original.

Destined to be forgotten this time next year, the new RoboCop is part man, part machine but all cop-out.

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the midfield last season.

Along with Cummings, junior Kelly McPartland and Glaros will lead a midfield that adds highly touted freshmen Zoe Stukenberg and Morgan Torggler.

“Zoe Stukenberg has been phenomenal,” Reese said. “I expect a lot from her as we head into the season.”

The Terps lost Aust’s teamhigh 70 goals and 55 assists, but returning attackers Kristen Lamon and Halle Majorana combined to score 48 goals last season, and the team also returns redshirt junior Brooke Griffin.

In addition to Glaros, Reese said she expects Griffin, another four-year player who contributed in the past, to step into a prominent role on offense.

“I had such great leaders in front of me,” Griffin said. “So I know what the responsibility is.”

While the Terps are best known for their high-powered offense, which averaged nearly 15 goals per game last season, Reese expects her defense to impress as well.

The Terps return three defensive starters from last year, including Inside Lacrosse preseason All-American defenders Megan Douty and Alice Mercer.

The Terps are confident they have plenty of depth as they search for a replacement for Sanza, last season’s ACC Defender of the Year. Reese acknowledged the difficulty for freshmen to acclimate to the college game on defense, but the six-time ACC Coach of the Year said freshman Nadine Hadnagy looked strong in practice and is battling for the fourth starting spot on defense.

Once again this year, the Terps enter the season without a declared starting goalkeeper. With Howard graduating, Reese must decide between redshirt junior Abbey Clipp and freshman Emily Kift.

“I just want one that makes

clad in a Pin Cancer T-shirt, was eager to talk not only about his 11th win of the season but also about the broader significance of the night.

“Donating extra money for the pin, I just really wanted it,” Goodwin said. “I thought it would be kind of cool. Had a nice big crowd and I just wanted to. … [Bronfman] asked us all to clean his wallet out.

That’s what I was trying to do.”

Goodwin nearly recorded a pin in the opening moments of the match, but Botwin was able to escape temporarily.

After dominating the rest of the period, Goodwin secured the pin at 2:29.

“Usually I play it safe in the

midfielder Taylor Cummings scored 43 goals and was named ACC Freshman of the Year last season. file photo/the diamondback saves,” Reese said. “They are both so different. Emily is somebody that is going to take chances. She comes out of the cage. She is super athletic back there. And Abbey is just happier in the cage, a more traditional approach to being goalie.”

Reese plans to use the same approach as last year, when Howard and Clipp battled for the starting job. She will have the two split time to start the season and make a decision later based on their performances. Whichever goalkeeper Reese chooses, the Terps will continue to face stiff conference competition.

With the ACC adding Syracuse and Notre Dame, the league has six of the nation’s top 11 teams entering the season, including No. 1 North Carolina.

“It’s going to make for a fun regular season,” Reese said “And for sure an exciting tournament.”

But before the Terps can look ahead to playing conference games and seeking redemption in the NCAA tournament, they will first have to fill the holes left by the graduating class.

“We have got a group of girls that are all really talented athletes and talented players,” Reese said. “And now our job as coaches is to try to put the group that will play well together on the field.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

first period, kind of rack up points and see what happens the rest of the match,” Goodwin said. “But I’ve been gassing a lot this week, so I tried to end it as quick as I could.”

After missing about six weeks with an injured knee, Goodwin said he finally felt recovered. The freshman said he practiced just once before returning in a 7-2 defeat to Virginia Tech’s Dennis Gustafson on Jan. 19 and has gradually worked his way to how he feels now.

The victory was Goodwin’s first at home since Nov. 22, when he dominated Penn’s Ken Bade, 9-0, in a major decision victory.

Goodwin’s first career fall against a Division I opponent in a dual meet gave the Terps their sixth win in a row, and their third and final pin of the night.

“[BRONFMAN] ASKED US ALL TO CLEAN HIS WALLET OUT. THAT’S WHAT I WAS TRYING TO DO.” TYLER GOODWIN

Terrapins 133-pound wrestler The team raised $1,748 in conjunction with P in Cancer, including the $300 Bronfman gladly doled out for the trio of pins.

“My father is a cancer survivor,” Bronfman said.

“My uncle passed away from cancer, and we’re all touched by a terrible disease. So being able to help raise money for research is a bonus.”

On a night with his loved ones watching from the Comcast Pavilion bleachers, Goodwin didn’t get too caught up in the win’s statistical implications, as he was more excited about his aid to cancer research.

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GUARD DEZ WELLS scored 12 points Monday night in the Terps’ 61-53 loss at Virginia.

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During Goodwin’s time at Arundel High School, a rival wrestler at nearby Archbishop Spalding High School took a season off to spend time with his father, who was dying of cancer.

So while Goodwin has never been affected directly by the disease, he was proud of his contribution.

“It’s not something that just passes right away,” Goodwin said. “It’s something that affects somebody for the rest of their life — the people around them and obviously the person that has it.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

Despite Virginia’s recent success, the Terps were locked in a four-point game with a minute left before an announced 11,568 at John Paul Jones Arena.

Forward Evan Smotrycz eve n h a d a pa i r o f c l ea n three-point looks at the basket in the final minute that could have trimmed the Cavaliers’ lead to within one possession. Neither fell true, though, as the first deep attempt rimmed out and the second hit the back iron.

So while the Terps, whose nine-man rotation consists of five underclassmen, are still searching to attain the consistency and composure Virginia’s displayed this season, they have shown signs of progress.

“We know we’ve grown,” guard Nick Faust said. “We know we are playing well as a team; the ball just didn’t fall our way.”

The Terps, despite their waning hopes of an NCAA tournament appearance, aren’t entirely discouraged.

The team has strides to make if it hopes to beat the Cavaliers at home, but Wells said he and his teammates have the ability to get to that point.

He thinks the Terps can become the team opposing coaches gush about.

“Virginia’s a great team, but I’m satisfied with the guys that I have and the sets that we do and the coaches,” Wells said. “I’m satisfied with our program.”

holds an 11-1 record in ACC play. “They’ve been so good.

They haven’t had a close game in a while. They’ve just been pounding people.”

Guard Dez Wells also spoke highly of Virginia. Wells scored 12 points Monday night, more than three below his average, and couldn’t help the Terps put together enough of a run to push past Virginia in the second half.

“With a team like Virginia, if you mess up one possession, they make you pay,” Wells said.

“My hat goes off to those guys.

They made shots. They hit free throws when it mattered. They deserved to win.”

Virginia’s selflessness and offensive efficiency proved to be one of the deciding factors Monday night.

The Cavaliers dished out 16 assists as a team to six turnovers, while the Terps had nine assists to 10 turnovers. Plus, Virginia could turn to Harris to ice the game. The Cavaliers senior scored 16 of his 19 points in the second half and was 3-of-4 on free throws in the final minutes.

The Terps, meanwhile, don’t have a senior in their rotation, and Wells — who typically dominates the ball down the stretch — was held quiet.

“There’s a reason they’re 11-1 in the league,” Turgeon said. “When the game is on the line, their senior stepped up and made some big plays for them.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

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Loss to talented Cavs provides benchmark Turgeon, Wells praise Virginia after defeat

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — After the Ter-

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With season opening tomorrow, Terps hope to avenge last year’s championship loss

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer Last season, the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team watched North Carolina players flood from the sidelines at Villanova Stadium after the Tar Heels scored the winning goal in a triple-overtime epic to win the national championship.

The loss on that May night ended a near-perfect campaign for the Terps. They rolled through the regular season to the tune of a 17-0, captured their fifth straight ACC championship and went on an NCAA tournament run to their fifth consecutive national semifinals appearance.

But it ended suddenly in the longest NCAA championship game in women’s lacrosse history.

So as the No. 2 Terps enter their final season in the ACC, a return to the sport’s final weekend remains the

goal, though coach Cathy Reese will have to fill the voids left by last year’s seniors, including Tewaaraton Award winner Katie Schwarzmann, attacker Alex Aust, defender Iliana Sanza and goalkeeper Kasey Howard.

The Terps have one senior who started any games last season, midfielder Beth Glaros.

“We are young this year,” Reese said. “But we have seen a lot of great things from our returning players and our freshmen that are fitting into the mix. Overall, it is just a new team.”

Inside Lacrosse listed Terps midfielder Taylor Cummings on its preseason national player of the year watch list. The sophomore recorded 43 goals and 14 assists, along with a team-high 94 draw controls on her way to winning ACC Freshman of the Year.

Reese expects Cummings to help ease the loss of Schwarzmann, who had 58 goals and 27 assists in

SENIOR GRADUATION PORTRAITS

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rapins men’s basketball team fell to No. 17 Virginia, 61-53, on Monday night, coach Mark Turgeon stayed true to his habit of praising opponents in the opening seconds of his postgame press conference. But unlike some of his previous chats with the media, Turgeon didn’t stop there.

He referred to the Cavaliers’ balance, depth and maturity at separate times during the press conference. The third-year coach

lauded Virginia guard Joe Harris’ unselfishness and mentioned how stout the Cavaliers’ defense was down the stretch.

Each of those aspects Turgeon admired represents qualities he wants his Terps to take on. And though Turgeon’s been pleased with the Terps’ improvements in recent weeks, Monday night’s performance suggested they aren’t quite as complete as Virginia.

“They’ve been so balanced,” Turgeon said of a Cavaliers team that’s won eight straight games and See Virginia, Page 7

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Terps wrestle for charity in victory against Duke Terrapin Club member donates for each pin

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer Before the Terrapins wrestling team shellacked Duke on Saturday night, it was greeted by Marcos Bronfman, a member of the Terrapin Club Scholarship Fund who pledged to donate $100 to cancer research for every pin a Terp recorded in conjunction with the organization Pin Cancer.

As the referee raised 133-pound

Tyler Goodwin’s victorious hand after he secured a pin over Duke’s Evan Botwin, a small smile spread across Goodwin’s face as his friends and family in attendance cheered him on.

None of Goodwin’s loved ones have been affected by cancer, but the freshman knows many people who have been, as some of his friends have lost their fathers to the disease.

So at the end of the night, Goodwin, See charity, Page 7

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