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New bldg has $50M price tag Regents OK engineering facility, ‘The IDEA Factory,’ to replace Potomac Building The University System of Maryland Board of Regents Christine Condon voted on Friday to approve @CChristine19 the construction of a new Senior staff writer engineering facility on the University of Maryland’s campus.

The Innovate, Design, and Engineer for America Factory building — also known as the IDEA Factory — is projected to cost $50 million, and will include open workspaces for students, prototyping facilities, engineering design and instructional studios, a mobile applications lab, an “Internet of Things” lab and a student-run incubator, according to a summary document presented to the system’s finance committee.

The 60,000-square-foot space will also house four laboratories focused on studying robotics, manufacturing, quantum technology and transportation, the document read.

About $25 million of the cost will be paid by October’s $219 million donation from the A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation, while private donors will fund the second half. This university has already by

See building, p. 2

KIM NICKERSON, assistant dean for diversity of the behavioral and social sciences college, developed the diversity and inclusion office’s campus black history tour. elliot scarangello/the diamondback

Following in noble footsteps

Savannah Williams @SavannahUMD Staff writer

A univ online black history tour will launch this month, but the SGA has plans for more THE POTOMAC BUILDING, near the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, will be replaced by a $50M engineering facility. christine condon/for the dbk

See tour, p. 3

student government

Priority class registration eyed for vets

The University of Maryland SGA passed a bill Wednesday night allocating $5,000 to a campus black history tour app, but campus researchers are already nearly finished their own online tour.

The bill, which passed 22-3, said, “Dr. Kim Nickerson from the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences has completed a project documenting the contributions of African Americans to the University of Maryland.”

Nickerson has collected research about the contributions of black people to the campus, and he has since turned his work over to the Office of Diversity and Inclusion to develop a guided walking tour on the office’s website. He said he has not been working with the Student Government Administration or the Office of Student Affairs.

The mobile-friendly tour website is “90 percent complete,” Nickerson said.

“We’ve agreed on the content, we’ve agreed on by

state politics

New bill offers bargaining to GAs, but not undergrads Lobbying in capital, grad assistants say they need bargaining ‘desperately’

Undergraduate workers left out of proposed legislation, but hopeful for precedent

By Angela Roberts | @24_angier | Staff writer

By Jillian Atelsek | @jillian_atelsek | Staff writer

The University of Maryland’s SGA voted 25-0, with Angela Roberts one abstention, to endorse @24_angier priority class registration Staff writer for veteran students and create a platform for students to air concerns with representatives on Wednesday night.

More than 1,200 students on the campus are veterans, and because many of them are seeking their education through the GI bill, they have pressing scheduling needs, Student Government Association President AJ Pruitt said.

“They are older, a lot of them have families, and they can’t have a job while they’re trying to complete their degree,” Pruitt said. “Because [the GI Bill] only provides benefits for up to 36 months, they have to finish their degree in three years … and because a lot of them are in specialized and highly sequential programs, they don’t have the luxury of not being able to register for ‘that’ class when they need it.”

The association aims to take this bill before administration in time for veteran students to have priority registration this summer.

The push for helping veteran students register early for the classes they need was nearly tabled

By spending more than two hours in the Annapolis State House Office Building on Tuesday, waiting for the chance to deliver his two-minute testimony to the state legislature’s House Appropriations Committee, University of Maryland doctoral annapolis student Casey Cavanagh said he was using “two of the most valuable resources for a graduate student” — time and money.

Ten of this university’s graduate students made the trip to the State House — two of them with babies in tow — to testify in support of a bill that would grant collective bargaining rights to graduate student workers at public four-year colleges and universities in Maryland. This would affect the University System of Maryland’s 12 institutions, as well as Morgan State University and St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Some 40 other graduate students and faculty members from this university and others in the system provided favorable written testimony to the committee, said Graduate Assistant Advisory Committee President Will Howell. More than 800 graduate assistants at this university also signed a petition in support of collective bargaining rights, he said.

A new bill proposed in the Maryland House of Delegates would grant collective bargaining rights to graduate assistants within the University System of Maryland, but some undergraduate students who were left out of the bill feel unprotected and unsupported.

The proposed legislation, developed by University of Maryland students in conjunction with Del. Marc Korman (D-Montgomery) beginning in 2017, would grant collective bargaining rights to graduate students employed by universities within the system’s 12 institutions, but omits similar protections for undergraduate student workers.

These rights allow for employees to negotiate their pay and aspects of their work such as hours, conditions and benefits.

Previously, the bill included stipulations securing collective bargaining rights for undergraduate students, Korman said to the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday. But in an effort to make the legislation narrower and easier to pass, they were removed, he added.

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“I feel like there are so many other schools that need funding for their programs, and it’s kind of unfair.”

From p. 1 obtained a $10 million gift toward the project, according to the summary document.

Carlo Colella, this university’s administration and finance vice president, called the IDEA Factory “an important component” of the Clarks’ “landmark investment.” “[The Foundation is] very confident that we’ll be able to raise the entirety of the $50 million,” Colella said.

The facility will be built on the site of the Potomac Building, which will be demolished for the project. The new building will be connected to its next-door neighbor, the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building.

“Connecting the new building into the existing Kim Building was an important factor to enhance collaboration between them,” Colella said.

- SOPHOMORE PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE MAJOR CAMILLA OBASIOLU

Sophomore aerospace engineering major Collin Miller said he liked the idea of having a startup incubator in the new building.

“I think that’d be a great idea, especially because [in] school it’s so emphasized about going to class and getting grades, but I think more people need to come up with their own ideas and start building a project from scratch,” Miller said.

But Camilla Obasiolu, a sophomore public health science major, said she’s concerned that campus resources may be h ea d i n g d i s p ro p o r t i o n a te ly toward engineering, especially since this university just opened

a new engineering building — A. James Clark Hall — for the spring semester.

“The university should allocate money to other schools more,” she said. “It would be a good opportunity for students that want to explore the entrepreneurial side of engineering and stuff, but at the same time, I feel like there are so many other schools that need funding for their programs, and it’s kind of unfair.”

E n g i n e e r i n g s c h o o l D ea n Darryll Pines said more information about the project would be available this spring.

“The A. James Clark School of Engineering is beginning the incremental process that comes

with a project of this size, and we will have more to report when we select an architectural and construction firm for the IDEA factory this Spring,” Pines wrote in a statement sent by university spokeswoman Jessica Jennings.

Renovating existing space for the project would “not have been attractive to the prospective private donors,” and “underutilized space is very limited and spread out over campus in small amounts,” the summary document read.

Colella attributed the decision to replace the Potomac Building to the building’s age and outdated accommodations such as laboratory space. The

three-story Potomac Building was constructed in 1955.

“We have a lot of activity in [the engineering] college and a lot of demand for space, especially contemporary space,” Colella said.

The building contains lab space and houses the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute.

The programs in Potomac will move to other spaces already assigned to the engineering school, Colella said.

Sophomore mechanical engineering major Brij Patel said the project will likely be good for promoting this university as a strong engineering school.

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MORE ONLINE: More than 40 people gathered as UMD’s Army ROTC screened a docuseries on the war on terror, dbknews.com

From p. 1 in an effort to tweak the details of the bill for an additional week, but after more than 30 minutes of debate, the SGA chose to act with the summer term in mind.

SGA President AJ Pruitt said this university currently provides priority class registration for student athletes and students with Accessibility and Disability or Title IX accommodations. Otherwise, students’ registration dates are based on their academic credit level.

Six students testified in front of the SGA in favor of adding veterans to the list of student groups who get to choose their classes first.

D a w n Fe d o r k a , a s e n i o r psychology major and one of the Terp Vets members who presented to the association, said she would be graduating this spring, but wanted this legacy to remain for other student veterans.

“Most veterans that I interact with, and including myself, at the veterans center here on campus — we have families, we have commutes, we have established careers that continue to close the window of opportunity for scheduling in our education,” Fedorka said. “As a student with a family member who has special needs, that closes it even further.”

tour From p. 1 the location of the sites …

They have the software in place, they’ve shown sort of a beta version of it, we’re just tweaking the language,” Nickerson said. “The reason we’re raising [questions] is not to thwart SGA’s effort to do the app, but to avoid unnecessary duplications. … Why would they want to s p e n d S GA m o n ey to do something that the university has already put on the website, that’s also mobile-friendly?”

The ODI’s website said its black history tour will

and similar concerns.

“This is a way to try and work harder for them and sort of show people that we are there,” Pruitt said, “not only to represent you when it comes to specific large policy goals and big decisions, but also represent you when you, the individual, need help with something.”

The platform is scheduled to launch later this semester and TERP VETS PRESIDENT MICHAEL RENNIE speaks at the Feb. 7 SGA meeting in Stamp Student Union. savannah williams/for the diamondback will be managed by Bryce Iapicca, a senior business management major and SGA’s deputy chief of staff. “[Veteran students] have been indoctrinated by their military service He said rolling out new pronot to ask for help. ... I’ve been given everything because of this grams always poses challenges, but he thought the increase in school, and when I hear that ... it tears me to pieces.” communication would benefit both the student body and the - TERP VETS PRESIDENT MICHAEL RENNIE SGA. “Letting people know that these things are out there … and they can actually benefit from Michael Rennie, the president of Rennie, a junior aerospace engi- ongoing policy matters.

Concerns will now be routed them will be one of the biggest Terp Vets, said that often, veteran neering major. “And when I hear through a form to appropriate challenges,” Iapicca said. “The students are “indoctrinated by that … it tears me to pieces.”

This university’s administra- representatives, who will use more student input we have, the their military service not to ask for help,” but that priority registration tion announced last semester that their connections to provide better decisions we can make, the better bills we can put together could even be the deciding factor veterans would be able to apply relief.

Pruitt said he helps between 75 and the better initiatives we can in veterans choosing whether to for free, voiding the usual $75 fee.

The SGA also voted to give and 100 students per year with start working on.” attend this university or another.

“I’ve been given everything students a system to turn to with grading policies, food issues with because of this school,” said one-time problems rather than the dining halls, mold sightings swilliamsdbk@gmail.com

launch in February, but this project is not yet online.

N i c ke rs o n s a i d h i s to u r highlights about 20 sites and buildings named after influential black leaders, like the Parren J. Mitchell ArtSociology building and the Mitchell Building — named after two brothers.

Parren Mitchell was the first black graduate student admitted to this university.

He earned his master’s degree in sociology in 1952. Mitchell would go on to become a U.S. congressman.

His brother Clarence, after whom the Mitchell Building is named, was the chief lobbyist for the NAACP.

The tour also takes students t h ro u g h S ta m p S t u d e n t Union, where they can see photographs of the first black university chancellor — John Slaughter — and to the nearby Nyumburu Cultural Center.

Nana Brantuo, a graduate s t u d e n t wh o wo rks w i t h the ODI, said she has been working with Nickerson on the project since August 2017, and is planning to test the beta version by walking around the campus for a trial next week.

Nickerson said his presentation contains stories a b o u t i m p a c ts m e m b e rs o f t h e b l a c k co m m u n i ty have had at this university

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After campus departments propose fee increases, RHA discusses the proposals

By Audrey Decker | @audreydeck_r | Staff writer Ahead of next week’s RHA meeting, committees are meeting to discuss fee hikes proposed by the University of Maryland’s transportation and dining services departments, as well as increases for certain dorms.

During last week’s Residence Hall Association meeting, three proposals were put forward.

DOTS proposed a 16 percent increase in parking permit fees for fiscal 2019. Resident Life proposed a 3 percent increase to the cost of a traditional air-conditioned dorm for the 2018-19 academic year. Lastly, Dining Services proposed

a 2.5 percent increase to the cost of a meal plan for the next school year. Next week, the RHA will vote on whether the proposals should be passed.

Doron Tadmor, the chair of the Dining Services Advisory Board committee, said the increases to the campus dining plan were reasonable. A meal plan for the 2017-18 academic year was $4,532 — not including a new student fee — which would increase to $4,645 the next academic year, if the proposal passes.

before it was the Maryland Ag r i c u l t u ra l C o l l e ge .

Nickerson said understanding and embracing this history could help minorities feel a sense of belonging at this university.

The SGA began its push for a black history tour in the fall, and will continue its project, bill sponsor Taylor Green said. SGA President

AJ Pruitt said Nickerson’s walking tour and the SGA’s v i r t u a l to u r a p p co u l d co m p l e m e n t ea c h o t h e r.

The SGA will also conduct its own research to possibly incorporate more cultures into its tour, Green said, such as Latinx and Native American contributions.

“Our plan was to start with the black tour and move

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Graduate students deserve a voice That graduate student workers at the Univer- current “meet-and-confer system” allows graduate sity of Maryland lack financial security is evident to representatives to periodically meet with adminanyone paying attention. Survey after survey prove istration to raise concerns, but doesn’t guarantee that teaching assistants, research assistants and other a contract between workers and their employers. graduate workers are deprived of workplace power A legally binding union contract could prevent the and adequate compensation. Now state lawmakers university from forcing graduate students to work have an opportunity to give them the rights all workers excessive hours and establish a more rigorous process for resolving disputes. are due. This editorial board urges them to take it.

Behind each story of workplace abuse is an inGraduate compensation doesn’t meet any reasonable definition of livable pay — it barely even covers stitution that neglected to protect its employees.

Collective action gives a vulnerable housing expenses. The only univerindividual more power against a sity-partnered housing for graduour view superior than they could have on ate students costs about $15,000 their own. A graduate student a year, and the minimum stipend employee union could serve as a for graduate assistants is $16,144. bulwark against the abuse, obstrucThese workers also don’t have tion and silence that have plagued the power to set reasonable limits institutions of higher lerarning on their hours. According to the across the country. graduate school, no full-time gradAnd Korman’s bill doesn’t just uate employee should work more benefit graduate students. A univerthan 20 hours a week. However, a sity that treats its graduate students survey from the Graduate Assistant Advisory Committee found the average graduate with dignity attracts talented scholars, who improve both its undergraduate education and global reputastudent employee worked 27 hours a week.

But last Tuesday, the Maryland House Appro- tion. If we do nothing, this university risks losing talent priations Committee held a hearing on a proposal to American University, which has a graduate union, as

by Del. Marc Korman (D-Montgomery) that could well as Georgetown and George Washington universisolve these problems and more. Unlike their coun- ties, which both have committed unionization efforts.

By opposing Korman’s bill, graduate school adterparts at America’s private institutions, graduate workers at this university are not, in fact, considered ministration is perpetuating an injustice against the employees. Korman’s proposal would change that. people who educate undergraduates and assist faculty, His bill, which Sen. Roger Manno (D-Montgomery) who in many ways are the foundation of this unihas introduced in the Senate, would grant collective versity. Describing why the graduate school’s recent bargaining rights to graduate students at University survey didn’t discuss financial issues in its executive summary, Graduate School Assistant Dean Jeffrey System of Maryland institutions.

This legislation could have a profound effect on Franke explained that “we all know” about the finangraduate financial insecurity. Although the relation- cial difficulties facing graduate students.

We agree. Enough ink has been spilled describing ship between graduate collective bargaining and compensation isn’t definitive, a study by researchers a system that denies workers the rights and dignities from Cornell and Rutgers universities found that they deserve. This editorial board urges lawmakers unionized graduate workers reported higher stipends to make the correct moral and economic choice for Maryland’s institutions of higher learning. Vote for and pay fairness than non-unionized workers.

Collective bargaining also gives graduate students Korman and Manno’s legislation. Graduate workers power to prevent workplace abuse. This university’s have waited far too long — they need and deserve relief.

Collective action gives a vulnerable individual more power against a superior.

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America’s fears are overblown, reactions excessive Max Foley-Keene @MaxFoleyKeene Opinion editor

One night during my winter break in Silver Spring, I woke up at about 3 a.m. and looked through my window with delight — snow had fallen! The dusty white roads sparked a rush of wintery nostalgia: Sledding at the local middle school, hot cocoa after shoveling our sidewalk, losing snowball fights to my little brother.

Except snow hadn’t fallen, as I learned when I arose several hours later. It was white road salt. So much road salt. This realization, as you can imagine, was heartbreaking and left me scrambling for answers. Why is my eyesight so bad?

Why did road crews drop so much damn salt when there wasn’t any snow?

Each winter, authorities in the Washington, D.C., area drop unholy amounts of salt on its roads to melt snow and ice.

So far this winter, which has seen only minor snowfall, D.C. has left more than 290,000 gallons of salt brine and 15 tons of road salt on city roads.

This saline madness has real environmental consequences. University of Maryland professor Sujay Kaushal explained to WAMU that salty runoff can threaten local drinking water; corrosive road salt was a primary cause of Flint’s water crisis. And according to Kaushal’s research, drinking water from the Potomac River was three times saltier in 2015 than in 1990.

Immoderate salt usage is a minor symptom of a major problem in America’s civic culture; outsized fear of perceived threats — slight snowfall, in this case — yields responses that are disproportionate, foment panic and ultimately do more harm than good. Americans’ lack of chill threatens our national wellbeing and blinds us to the hidden ills in our midst.

Let me offer a couple of examples.

In 2014, Ebola spread throughout West Africa, leaving death and economic ruin in its wake. The outbreak also made many Americans go briefly insane. Despite only a handful of reported cases in the

United States, Ebola paranoia dominated American airwaves for many weeks. CNN asked whether Ebola is “the ISIS of biological agents.” A congressional candidate suggested Dallas temporarily establish a policy banning hugs and handshakes. And then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie forced a nurse into quarantine for several days, even after she tested negative for the disease.

The 9/11 attacks killed nearly 3,000 innocent civilians, a massive human tragedy and national trauma.

The panic that swept the country after the attacks, however, was far more lethal. The United States swiftly entered two wars, which collectively ended over 600,000 lives.

Meanwhile, the Bush administration built a surveillance state with virtually limitless spying powers, which is now controlled by one of the most lawless and vindictive men America has ever produced.

The true level of threat in each of these examples differ, of course — Al Qaeda is more dangerous than a D.C. snowfall. But in each of these cases, the response caused more damage than the initial threat posed. Too often, American citizens and policymakers turn fear into wholesale hysteria. Our civic culture would be well served if more of us get a sense of perspective and a massage.

Now, I’m not arguing that all of our problems are exaggerated or imagined. The U.S. faces real threats. Everything is not OK. But outsized panic prevents us from noticing America’s quieter evils.

Perhaps if we spend less time wringing our hands over a fake Ebola epidemic and frantically dumping salt on snowless roads, we could end slave conditions in American prisons or prevent climate change from drowning Miami. maxfkcap2016@gmail.com

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Univ should offer the abortion pill among contraceptive options Asha Kodan @OpinionDBK Columnist

California might be making history for women’s reproductive rights. The California Senate recently passed a bill that would require the 34 public universities in the state to offer the abortion pill. If the bill passes the State Assembly and gains Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown’s approval, medication abortion would be accessible to college students within four years.

Of course, the bill has not been met with unanimous support.

Those who are opposed to the use of the abortion pill believe that “expanding a university’s mandate to include ending pre-born life” does not meet any educational goals. Some feel that by offering the pill in health centers, colleges would essentially be encouraging women to have abortions. The California Family Council is concerned with issues such as safety and medical training.

The safety of administering the abortion pill should certainly be the top priority for both medical officials and legislators. But the World Health Organization has deemed it safe for midwives and nurse practitioners to provide the medication — a physician doesn’t necessarily need to be present,

even though 34 states require one to be.

The abortion pill is a combination of two types of drugs that have been medically proven to “safely end a pregnancy before 10 weeks’ gestation.” The key to the pill being effective is that the patient takes it early on in her pregnancy. The cutoff is about two months after the first day of the woman’s most recent period; if the cutoff is not met, the patient has to look into surgical abortion procedures.

Offering the abortion pill at public institutions of higher education would be a huge step in the right direction to progress women’s reproductive rights. An unexpected pregnancy is a lifechanging event for any woman, but especially for a woman in college. With the burden of classes, jobs and internships on the average college student’s shoulders, adding a pregnancy to the mix would undoubtedly be overwhelming.

The reality is that college students will get abortions regardless of whether their university health center offers them. In fact, more than 500 students in California’s public universities look for the abortion pill at off-campus clinics each month, according to a report by the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. The hassle of

arranging for transportation, along with taking time off from classes, negatively impacts students who need these services but are not within close proximity.

It would be in the student body’s best interest if Maryland followed California’s lead by also attempting to pass this bill. The University of Maryland Health Center already offers a variety of contraceptive services, including oral contraceptives, the Nuva Ring and intrauterine devices. Making the abortion pill accessible for college students is not the same as encouraging young women to terminate their pregnancies; it would simply give them more options when they have to make decisions about family planning.

Being pregnant and raising a child is expensive. When a person is already paying a significant amount of money to earn a college degree, giving birth and becoming a parent is oftentimes impractical. This especially applies to the low-income students that make up more than half of the student population at California’s public universities.

When the technology is available and safe, there is no reason for the government to make the abortion pill inaccessible for an entire group of people who would benefit from it. ashakodan@ymail.com

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland recently held a press conference in which they denounced Gov. Larry Hogan’s most recent policy proposals to lower crime in Maryland, calling them “a throwback to failed policies of past decades.”

Hogan proposed the policies partly as a solution to soaring crime rates in Baltimore, according to a Baltimore Sun report.

The two most alarming proposals are 10-year mandatory minimum sentences for repeat offenses that involve handguns and trying as adults all minors over 16 years old charged with gang-related crimes — a move that would significantly raise the sentences given to juveniles. Both of these policies play into the larger narrative of being “tough on crime” — a term known as a rhetorical staple of the war on drugs and which has remained a dictating force in the way so many politicians address crime.

In 1986, under the Reagan administration, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act. Among other things, it was the first bill to enact mandatory minimums for drug offenses, launching an era in which discriminatory policies against black and brown communities were implemented under the guise of waging a war on drugs. This regime of discriminatory sentencing transcends the boundaries of the 1980s and ‘90s; it has informed the progression of our nation’s criminal justice system — specifically in the boom of mass incarceration.

According to the Sentencing Project, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses rose from 40,900 in 1980 to 469,545 in 2015. Right now, there are more people serving time for drug offenses than the number of people who were incarcerated for any crime in 1980. When discussing mass incarceration, it is important to examine the way that race comes into play. According to

the Justice Policy Institute, almost 89 percent of the nearly 500 people sent to prison for a mandatory minimum drug sentence in Maryland wereblack.

The war on drugs was a defining period in the history of our nation’s criminal justice system. Since that time, our nation’s prison system has exploded, leaving us the global leaders in incarceration by a wide margin.

When put within this context, it is alarming the extent to which the policies Hogan aims to impose align with those of the war on drugs. His attempts to disguise them as a necessity in the name of being “tough on crime” align almost perfectly with the rhetoric of many politicians — both Democrat and Republican — of the late ’80s and early ’90s.

We are living in a time of great political setbacks and undoing. Every week it seems as if our nation has taken zero steps forward and three steps back.

The policies introduced by Hogan fall within the scope of this trend, a calculated reversion to the past. It is imperative for us as a state — and as a country — to begin to reckon with the history that looms over our current prison system. In Maryland, this means beginning to unpack and understand the ways in which the archaic roots of discrimination intertwine with policies that aim to simply “fix crime.”

Examining the ways in which seemingly minor policies — such as new mandatory minimums or trying some juveniles as adults — align with larger structural patterns of discrimination is difficult yet critical. Systems such as mass incarceration only benefit from the fatigue and wariness so many feel about politics today.

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SGA endorses, but city council doesn’t take it up After the University of M a ryl a n d SGA voted to endorse no-excuse a b s e n te e vo t i n g l a s t we e k , t h e College Park City Council discussed the measure Tuesday night, but did not move forward with it.

The Student Government Association voted Jan. 31 to endorse a council measure allowing voters to cast absentee ballots, instead of having to vote in person, without an excuse. Voters are currently required to provide a compelling reason for being unable to vote in person, and for students at this university, having class is not a justified reason to stay home from the polls.

“There’s very clear issues with our election system in College Park,” said Chris Keosian, the city council’s student liaison. “It doesn’t follow the mold that most municipalities, states [or] federal elections follow.”

In College Park, there are five valid reasons for receiving an absentee ballot, according to the absentee ballot application: The voter will be absent from the city on election day; an accident, illness or physical disability will prevent the voter from getting to the polling place; there is a death or serious illness in the voter’s immediate family; the voter is confined in or restricted to an institution; or the voter is a full-time student who must fulfill academic requirements to an institution of higher education outside the city.

College Park diverges from the norm across many Maryland municipalities, which allow any registered voter to vote absentee and do not require an excuse to do so.

“It’s really just College Park that has this policy where you have to have an excuse to get an absentee ballot,” said SGA Governmental Affairs Director Mihir Khetarpal, a senior economics and government and politics major. “There’s no real legitimate reason not to support this.”

College Park Board of Election Supervisors Chief Jack Robson discussed the possibility of adding an early voting day on the Saturday two weeks before Election Day and the complications that come with choosing one particular day to do so.

Friday is a day of prayer for some Muslims, whereas Saturday is a Sabbath day in Judaism and certain d e n o m i n a t i o n s o f C h r i s t i a n i ty.

Sunday, however, is also the primary prayer day in Christianity.

But Robson said Saturdays near Election Day aren’t ideal, either, due to college football games.

Accommodating absentee ballots for students would require significant resources, Robson said.

“You’d probably have to hire for s i x we e ks s ta f f to b e h e re eve ry day half a day to handle absentee ba l l o t re q u e s ts,” h e sa i d . “ C i ty staff were mobbed handling 105 absentee ballots.”

During the heaviest part of Election Day this past November, which had a line going down the stairs of City Hall, it took 14 minutes from the end of the line to vote, according to Robson. Processing each absentee ballot took a total of 30 minutes, City Clerk Janeen Miller said.

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T h e C o l l e ge Park City Council decided Tuesday night which version of a new charter amendment they will introduce to correct a supermajority voting requirement that violates state law.

“The state law requires that we cannot have supermajority votes, meaning six votes, to pass a charter change,” District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said. “So to change the charter, we must have [a] supermajority, but this is against state law.”

On Sept. 12, the council voted 4-3, with one abstention, to adopt a proposed charter amendment that would have allowed nonU.S. citizens to vote in College Park. Though it appeared to pass, officials announced three days later that the body needed at least six affirmative votes to pass any future charter changes, according to a policy effective since June.

However, a legal review determined that a six-vote requirement to pass a charter change is inconsistent with state law. The law requires affirmative votes from a majority for charter changes, which in the case of this eight-member body, would be five votes, not six. The council aims to remedy the charter’s state law violation with the current proposed charter change.

The measure the council chose Tuesday calls for a simple majority threshold for charter amendments — rather than a supermajority requirement — and maintains the mayor’s current voting role. This change is more consistent with state law for passing charter amendments, Mayor Patrick Wojahn said.

District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan supported another option for the amendment, which would have changed the mayoral role. A portion of it proposed allowing the mayor to vote in various situations — which includes alterations of assessments and transferring funds between major budget items — regardless of whether there’s a tie.

“Even in a scenario where there’s a 4-3-1 vote and there’s a vote of 5 is required … the mayor’s participation does not need to be a ‘pro’ vote; it could be a ‘nay’ vote, and it could even be an abstention,” he said. “But at least that vote would give the answer to the community that more definitively we are moving forward.”

For a charter amendment to pass in the current proposal, there must be at least five votes, even if a member abstains or is not present. Only in the case of a 4-4 tie will the mayor have the opportunity to vote, Wojahn said.

District 3 Councilman John Rigg spoke against the measure that was passed, adding that allowing the mayor to vote only in tie-breaking situations wouldn’t be constructive.

“The mayor would be unable to vote except for the mandated vote … thereby enabling the minority to subvert the will of the majority,” he said. “I thought we were in a place where a majority vote on this council would result in an action being taken or it not being taken.”

The public can petition for a referendum by collecting the signatures of 20 percent of qualified voters within 40 days. If no one petitions a referendum, the amendment becomes effective on the 50th day, according to the Maryland Constitution.

“I’m looking at it from just the simple fact we’re here to do a good job, we’re here to have a simple discussion about the issues,” District 3 Councilman Robert Day said.

There will be a public hearing Feb. 27 to discuss the proposed charter amendment.

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the future home of dunkin’ donuts under Terrapin Row, where several retail outlets hope to open. elliot scarangello/the diamondback

Incoming Dunkin’ Donuts hopes for March opening

By Jack Roscoe | @Jack_Micky | Senior staff writer The Dunkin’ Donuts in the ground floor of the Terrapin Row apartment complex is expected to open by the first week of April.

Restaurants Wings Over, SeoulSpice, Cheers Cut, Poki District and Gong Cha have also signed leases for the ground floor of the apartment complex.

Usman Chaudhry, the franchisee for this Dunkin’ Donuts, said the location will open on the Knox Road side of Building B before the semester ends, ideally around St. Patrick’s Day. But that could be delayed if there are unexpected issues with construction or acquiring permits, he added.

“College is a pretty crazy time for you guys,” Chaudhry said, “so if I can provide a space where you guys can relax, eat some good food and have your normal iced coffee and things like that then I’m happy to do so.”

Chaudhry said he wanted the coffee and baked goods chain to be within walking distance of students on the campus. He wants this location to be an alternative to libraries where customers can relax, work and study as well as buy food and drinks, with strong Wi-Fi, TVs and patio furniture.

The chain joins Starbucks and Board and Brew on Route 1 as nearby coffee options for College Park residents and University of Maryland students who live off the campus.

Vigilante Coffee is also expected to open in the next few months.

Senior computer science major Akhil Reddy said he’s excited for Dunkin’ Donuts to open before he graduates.

“When I signed my lease here two years ago, they said they’d have all these stores.

It’s been, like, two years,” Reddy said. “It sucks walking all the way to 7-Eleven just to get a drink.”

The coffee wasn’t the biggest draw to senior finance major Kyle Thompson,

who said he wished it came to Terrapin Row sooner.

“We have free coffee here, so I don’t know if I’d go and get coffee there much, but if I wanted some donuts I’d definitely go there,” Thompson said.

Grace Annan, a first-year supply chain management graduate student, said she isn’t too fond of the chain but knows a lot of students who are. However, she said Dunkin’ Donuts was a good fit for the apartment complex.

“If you want actual food you could go down the Baltimore Avenue for some,” she said.

A lot of students who grew up on the East Coast ate at Dunkin’ Donuts, Chaudhry said.

He’s hoping to bring back that option to students and introduce them to new food and drink offerings on the menu.

Senior electrical engineering major Cody Cashmark agreed that the Dunkin’ Donuts would be a success here. He said the coffeehouse — along with the other restaurants slated to open soon — give the apartment complex a lot of variety, but he wishes he’d get more than a month’s use out of them.

“I wish all the stuff had been in here prior,” Cashmark said.

College Park City-University Partnership senior program associate Valerie Woodall said the Dunkin’ Donuts opening is good for more than just students. City residents who live nearby will likely patronize the location, she said, especially as the city’s bikeshare program expands and makes it easier for residents to get around.

“If people are interested in getting Dunkin’ Donuts and not driving all the way up Route 1 to North College Park,” Woodall said, “they can do that.” jroscoedbk@gmail.com

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graduates From p. 1 The Graduate Assistant Advisory Committee — which advocates for the employment concerns of graduate student workers — represents a little more than 4,000 graduate assistants at this university, according to the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment.

With collective bargaining rights, all graduate assistants within the system would be able to negotiate their wages and other terms of employment. In his testimony, Howell emphasized that these student workers have been fighting for these rights for the past 10 years.

“We need this,” Howell said. “We need this desperately.”

In their testimonies, graduate students targeted the lack of affordable housing in the area surrounding College Park, low payc h e c ks a n d p o o r m e n ta l health — issues they discussed in a recently released quality of life survey from the graduate school.

Mechanical engineering doctoral student Roozbeh Bakhshi described his struggle to pay rent with the stipend he receives as a graduate assistant. As an international student from Iran, Bakhshi has an F-1 visa, which bars students from working off the campus for the first year they have it and limits their off-campus employment options in the years beyond that, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. By the end of 2016, he had accrued more than $9,000 in credit card debt — a number he was able to cut in half, but only with his parents’ help, he said.

“There are houses around College Park where 15-20 i n te r n a t i o n a l s t u d e n t s a re living in a five-bedroom house so they can pay less rent,” he said in his testimony, adding that he knows two people who

workers From p. 1 “A l t h o u g h I t h i n k undergraduate students who are working for colleges and universities should also have protected rights, I understand that relationship is a little bit different between the higher ed institutions and undergrads,” he said.

“It’s less of an employeremployee relationship than it is with graduates.”

Gabby Pereira, a senior hearing and speech sciences major who works as an event support staff member in Stamp Student Union, said she felt the omission of rights for undergraduate workers was unfair.

“We’re the same people — we ’re s t i l l wo rk i n g , we’re still going to school,

GRADUATE STUDENT WORKERS testify in Annapolis Feb. 6 on a bill that would grant them collective bargaining rights. angela roberts/for the diamondback

“There are houses around College Park where 15-20 international students are living in a five-bedroom house so they can pay less rent. ... This is simply unacceptable.”

- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DOCTORAL STUDENT ROOZBEH BAKHSHI

lived in these conditions. “This is simply unacceptable.”

At Graduate Hills and Graduate Gardens — the only designated graduate housing communities partnered with this university, according to the Department of Resident Life — the monthly rent starts at $1,247, according to the apartment complex’s website. As a 12-month graduate assistant, Bakhshi said in his testimony he receives $1,023 every other week.

In his testimony, Cavanagh also decried the lack of funding provided to graduate students. In December, Cavanagh, an atmospheric and oceanic sciences doctoral student, declined an invitation from the American Geophysical Union to talk at its conference in Austin, Texas, because his grant does not support travel reimbursements and he would have had to pay for the

trip out of pocket.

As his undergraduate degree placed him about $60,000 in debt, this option was not financially feasible, he said.

“Graduate students currently have little say in how we’re compensated,” he said. “This bill will finally give us the right to actually have this conversation.”

But financial concerns are only part of the reason why graduate students are fighting for collective bargaining rights, said Graduate Student Government Chief of Staff Caden Fabbi.

“It’s really about building solidarity and having a seat at the negotiating table when your employer is taking advantage of you,” he said.

G ra d u a te S c h o o l I n te r i m Dean Steve Fetter submitted written testimony to the House

Appropriations Committee in opposition to the bill, writing that it would “fundamentally change the relationship between faculty and students from mentor and mentee to employer and employee.” Fetter also argued that research assistantships would not be easily adapted to collective bargaining, writing that it’s difficult to parse apart the hours students dedicate to research for a faculty member versus for their dissertation, he wrote.

GSG Financial Affairs Vice President Devin Scott, who has taught multiple undergraduate co m m u n i ca t i o n co u rse s fo r undergraduate students and does administrative work for the Oral Communications program, said this is an issue that affects neither teaching nor administrative assistants. He added that running

these commitments does not help him with his dissertation work.

U n d e r m e e t - a n d - c o n fe r, the current infrastructure that governs the relationship between graduate student employees and the university administration, students can raise employment concerns with the graduate school without any structured agreement.

This process does not work at this university, GAAC board member Morgan Hess said. Collective bargaining rights would formalize negotiations between the graduate school and graduate student employees and enable these students to unionize, she added.

System Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs Joann Boughman testified against the bill, saying, “We do our best to involve these students in the process. As you have heard, it doesn’t always work terribly well, but our position is that the collective bargaining process would not necessarily improve the situation.”

C o m m u n i c a t i o n d o c to ra l student Winnie Obike, who drove from Hyattsville to Annapolis w i t h h e r 2 -yea r- o l d so n to testify, had to leave before the bill received a hearing, as her baby was getting restless and needed a nap. Had she been able to testify, Obike would have described the grievance procedure graduate students must go through to raise a complaint against their departments — a process that she said has “made it painfully clear to me that we need external enforcement mechanisms.”

“Maybe that’s a collectively bargained contract with clear process, or maybe it’s just being able to take issues to the State Higher Education Labor Relations Board,” she said. “Either way, we need this bill.” arobertsdbk@gmail.com

“[When] you allow the graduate students to do it, and not the undergraduate students, you’re opening up this authoritative action to take away that right to a specific group.”

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it should just be the same for everyone,” she said.

The bill was developed by t h e Fea rl e s s S t u d e n t Employees Coalition, made up of members of several on-campus groups — made up of undergraduate and graduate students — such a s t h e G ra d u a te S t u d e n t Government, Student Government Association and the Student Labor Action Project.

“Right now, our priority is getting graduate students these rights, because that’s where there’s a lot more of the

demand for it, but we are open to working with undergrads to help them secure the same rights,” said Morgan Hess, a graduate student.

Hess added that she believes securing collective bargaining rights for graduate students would pave the way for undergraduate students to pursue the same protection.

“It sets a precedent,” she said. “It forces the university to develop a model of what this would look like.”

Undergraduate student workers must be paid at least the minimum wage that is

set by this state, according to this university’s human resources department.

That amount is currently $9.25 per hour, but is set to increase to $10.10 in July.

T h e m i n i m u m wa ge i n P r i n c e G e o rge ’s C o u n ty is $11.50. This university, on the other hand, is only re q u i re d to p ay s t u d e n t employees the state minimum wage, an issue that SLAP and other student groups wish to change in addition to their desire for collective bargaining rights.

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the subject of absentee voting came up,” Keosian said.

From p. 6 District 1 Councilwoman Kate Kennedy cautioned against con“The chairman of the board sidering this solely as a student of elections showed that he was willing to expand voter access via issue.

“I don’t think this is a student early voting and polling places on campus, so I was a bit surprised at issue — I think that this is a family the inconsistencies of his argu- issue, I think it’s a young adult ments and brash resistance when issue, of any age,” she said. “It’s

really dangerous to make this just about students.”

District 3 Councilman John Rigg expressed opposition to noexcuse absentee voting. Because ballots mailed to residences are out of sight, he said, there’s a greater potential for fraud.

Kennedy, however, had a more optimistic view.

“Five hundred more people voting is not a problem,” she said. “I actually think that that is an opportunity, and that’s exciting.”

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C a s s a n d ra C h a m p, a senior animal science m a jo r wh o wo rks i n t h i s u n i ve r s i t y ’s b o o k s to r e , said she didn’t think legal protection for undergraduate workers would affect her i n h e r c u r re n t p o s i t i o n , describing her managers as “pretty lenient.” However, she agreed that the omission of undergraduate students i n t h e b i l l e n t i re l y wa s somewhat inequitable.

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Let us whisper a story about ASMR quietly in your ear

By Balbina Yang | @byang98 | Staff writer Relax. Seriously. Just relax. You had a long day. You deserve to relax.

Lie down on your bed, the bean bag, perhaps the crumb-laden carpet if you must. Put in your headphones.

Go on YouTube. Type in “ASMR” in the too-small search bar. Click on a video — any one you’d like, there’s no discrimination here. Now close your eyes, take a deep breath and listen.

Crackle. Pop. Splash. Swoosh swoosh. Hiss. Drip. Squish squish.

Your spine should “oooh,” your nerves should “ahhh,” your limbs should “whew” and your mind should be in the utmost state of bliss.

Damn.

The newest fad (or lifestyle, as I like to call it) is ASMR. (If you’re not relaxed right now, shame on you.)

Long article short, ASMR is awesome.

There’s no reasoning behind it and

ahara Mokhtari has been singing since she was three years old. Now, at age 19, she has jumpstarted her music career with the single “Quicksand” and a music video to match, all while studying biology at the University of Maryland, being involved in her community and staying social.

Mokhtari, whose stage name is Sahara, went from elementary school choir to middle school honors chorus to posting covers on YouTube. She is now putting out professionally produced work, but she knows she has these opportunities because of the support system around her.

“My dad is actually my manager. He manages all my music but I do have different managers like a booking manager, social media manager, so it’s really like a group effort,” the singer said. “It’s really nice having my parents having my back and supporting me because without them I wouldn’t really be able to do it all.

They encourage me and push me to keep going.”

there shouldn’t be. But here goes.

ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. It’s an experience in and of itself, turned on either by whispers, soft speaking, chewing sounds or the sounds of everyday life. You must have ample time to partake in it because who knows if you will fall asleep. And if you do, all the more power to you.

Weirdly, we ASMR-lovers get a lot of shit for it. Whether one is “ASMRand-proud” or only listens before bed, others can’t wrap their heads around the fact that we get turned on by sounds.

But how can you not get turned on by sounds?

Sounds are everywhere: when you type (clack-clack), when you chew gum (squish-squish), when you break open an egg (cra–ack), even when you

turn the page (whoosh!). It’s just so damn relaxing.

But alas, you still do not understand.

I get mentally turned on; my ears soak it all up and my brain is given the chance to take a break from learning.

Our brains do so much, and we do so little for them. ASMR is one excellent way to tell our brains, “You know what? Thank you.”

It also stimulates my brain and allows it to focus and retain notes even better … so even if you aren’t too into it, you might as well pop in your earphones at the library sometime while studying for those exams.

Wait, now you want to try it? That was quick.

I have four recommendations for you. They’re all from YouTube but after you’ve become “ASMR-andproud” you’ll find that YouTube is

just not enough: Peaceful Cuisine: a cooking channel that does both ASMR and non-ASMR videos.

Keemi ASMR: Keemi hosts mukbangs and regular eating videos where she uses these huge-ass mics to give you the most mentally orgasmic experience.

GentleWhispering: one of the pioneers (bless her) of the ASMR world.

Maria does mostly whispering and non-object ASMR. Ephemeral Rift: he mostly talks and his videos are really creative.

Feel free to venture out of these recommendations. Actually, I urge you to go out and explore the wonderful wide world of ASMR. We’re very welcoming. byangdbk@gmail.com

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star power Pre-med student Sahara Mokhtari has what it takes to make it in music

By Allison O’Reilly | @allisonsoreilly | Staff writer Her family’s support is just the tip of the iceberg. Mokhtari’s friends see a lot of potential in her and recognize her star power.

“She’s probably like the only person I could actually see making it,” said junior economics major Marisa Madaras. “I’m always skeptical when someone is pursuing a singing career or acting career because it’s so hard to make it in a world like that, but she is like the one person who has the charisma and social stamina and talent to actually make it.”

Mokhtari is more than just a singer; she’s a biology major on the pre-med track and the community service vice president for her sorority, Kappa Delta. But music is still her dream.

“I’ve always loved the pre-med track, like medicine and becoming a doctor,” Mohktari said. “But I think right now is my only chance to become a singer and pursue a career in singing so I want to run with that and see where it takes me.”

Though her friends support her musical dreams, they’re confident she’ll be successful in any field.

“Regardless of what Sahara decides to do, she will most definitely be successful,” Ken Johnson, a sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences, said.

“She is the type of person that can accomplish whatever she sets her mind towards.”

Madaras had a similar thought, noting even if Mokhtari’s music career doesn’t take off “she will somehow have a role that will be uplifting to the people around her,” which shines through the musician’s love of community service.

During this past winter break, Mokhtari worked with D.C. organization Momma’s Safe Haven, interacting with and giving toys to children. She then wanted to give back to Momma’s Safe Haven, too, so she worked with FOX 5 News on a “New Year, New Mom” segment.

She brought three of the women from the organization on to get new clothes and have their new hair and makeup debuted on TV. “I think a big part of my aspirations with singing is giving back and helping other people that need it,” Mokhtari

said. “I know that I have been so fortunate to be surrounded by people that support me and push me to do better.

I want to give that to someone who needs it as well, because I know how important that is especially when you want to follow your dreams.”

Carly Haynes, a sophomore journalism major, has been friends with Mokhtari since high school and thinks her personality is a big part of her appeal.

“I think that she’s just genuinely well-rounded as a person,” Haynes said. “I think with a lot of singers they have the talent and the personality follows suit, but with her it’s like she cares so much about the community. … She has a genuine care for helping other people.”

Haynes once heard a snippet of “Quicksand” and thought it was Dua Lipa. With Mokhtari’s budding career, it will be cool “to turn on the radio and hear her songs … her name will definitely be out there.”

Mokhtari is serious about her music career; she traveled to Georgia to record “Quicksand” and to Los Angeles to

shoot the music video. She and her production team are starting to meet with various labels and producers to take more steps to fame.

“I find Sahara’s budding music career to be impressive, yet not surprising,” Johnson said. “She has adopted an extremely professional attitude towards her singing, one that will undoubtedly propel her to the top of the industry.”

As for the responses to her music, Mokhtari said she’s gotten overwhelmingly positive feedback on “Quicksand,” but there are always people who are negative. She doesn’t sing for the reaction of others, though.

“There are always those comments that I would read through and I would see them and obviously they’re not always very nice,” Mokhtari said. “But I think everyone has their own opinion and I would never let that get in my way because I’m a true believer in doing whatever makes you happy and always pushing to do whatever you want to do no matter what anyone else says.” aoreillydbk@gmail.com

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guard dion wiley delivered one of the best all-around performances of his Terps career Saturday after he struggled to fill the stat sheet Wednesday in a 74-70 loss to Penn State. His teammates praised his intense perimeter defense, which kept Northwestern’s offense in check. marquise mckine/the diamondback

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h i m d e ve l o p h i s s h o o t ing rhythm, guard Kevin From p. 11 Huerter said. Huerter added finished an acrobatic floater, that Maryland switched on increasing the Terps’ advan- ball screens often because Northwestern runs about tage to 15.

Turgeon kept Wiley on 40 plays, and Wiley helped the floor because of his good limit star guards Bryant Mcdefense, and that helped Intosh and Scottie Lindsey to

rutgers

held the Terps to 3-for-11 shooting from the field in From p. 11 the frame. However, in the final stages, Rutgers couldn’t picked up.”

Rutgers inched closer in break through.

“We just keep finding ways the second half, outscoring Maryland 17-12 in the third to grind out, find ways to win quarter. The Scarlet Knights with our defense as well as

fairman

he visited Rotanz’ apartment to review plays.

From p. 12 On Saturday, Fairman was rewarded with a spot in the starteagerly listened to the pair’s pering lineup. spective on dodging slides and “Connor and [Bernhardt] are when to take the shot or pass to a nearby teammate. Sometimes, going to draw a lot of attention,”

a combined five points in the second half.

“The two years I’ve played with Dion, it’s probably his best defensive game,” Cowan said.

“It’s not like he’s been bad on defense or anything, but I saw he put a little bit more emphasis on it. Making sure he boxed

out every time, making sure he cut his man off.”

The Terps’ lack of bench p ro d u c t i o n h a s d e ra i l e d them at times this season, a s t h e y ’ ve p l a ye d s o m e games with eight scholarship players.

Cowan and Huerter have

taken on the majority of the team’s scoring, but the Terps have been more competitive when Wiley or guard Jared Nickens settles into a rhythm from beyond the arc, opening driving lanes and providing Cowan more passing options when he drives.

Wiley knows he’ll need to continue playing like he did Saturday for Maryland to get back onto the NCAA tournament bubble.

“If I get going,” Wiley said, “we’re a better team overall.”

sharing the basketball,” Frese said. “Just continuing to try to keep getting better and better.”

Guard Kaila Charles put the clamps on Rutgers g u a rd Tyl e r Sca i fe , wh o entered Sunday averaging

19.5 points per game yet managed only 10 against M a r y l a n d . H o we v e r, a s the Terps’ leading scorer, Charles fell victim to foul trouble and only scored 10 as well, which put the onus on others to contribute.

The victory was Maryland’s seventh in a row, and it put the finishing touches on an unbeaten three-game roa d s ta n d . A s t h e tea m navigates through the final stretch of the regular season, Frese thinks they’re better

than ever.

“February defines a lot of teams,” Frese said. “I think you go one direction or the other. I feel like we’re February fresh.”

Rotanz said. “[Fairman has] spoken with us at length the last six or seven months about where to be [and] how to play with [different] people. He knew when Jared and Connor get slides, he knew where to step in.”

That much was evident in the second quarter against the Midshipmen, when Fairman fielded a pass from Kelly and fired a shot to make it 4-2.

He connected with Bernhardt about halfway through the third

for his second score. His third pushed Maryland’s lead to six and prompted the celebration with Puglise and Wisnauskas.

But nobody on the Terps sideline was surprised.

“He never gets too high or

too low,” Tillman said. “After a while, it was pretty evident he was going to play. It was just a matter of where and what line.”

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‘it’s kind of hard to stomach that’ Terps waste chance at earning an upset Big Ten victory over Gophers

By Andy Kostka | @afkostka | Staff writer

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aryland after a timeout, Lizak domiwresnated Cray, earning a technical tling’s fall and an 18-2 victory early Josh in the third round.

Ugalde Minnesota’s No. 12-ranked 133-pounder Mitchell McKee laid on his back with his defeated Jhared Simmons, hands on his face after Min15-0, before Diehl’s firstnesota’s Chris Pfarr completperiod fall brought energy ed his first pin of the season.

The Terps had a chance to Xfinity Pavilion. at an upset victory — and B a n n i s te r a n d D i e h l ’s their first Big Ten win of wins were critical in Marythe season. 141-pound Ryan land’s attempts to earn its Diehl upset No. 14 Tommy lone conference victory, but Thorn before 149-pound Maryland still faced an uphill Alfred Bannister followed climb. Losses by Brendan with a major decision win.

Burnham and Ugalde put But with the Terps trailing by Maryland down 26-10 and seven, 26-19, prior to heavyleft the squad trying to hype weight Youssif Hemida’s bout up its remaining wrestlers, with Rylee Streifel, the meet Diehl said.

Coach kerry mccoy has preached the importance of having a strong mindset when facing Big Ten opponents ranked in the top 25. But against No. 19 Minnesota, the Terps was already decided.

“We tell [Ugalde] it’s still Maryland (4-11, 0-9 Big could not finish a furious late comeback attempt, dooming them to their ninth conference defeat this season and continuing a difficult campaign. file photo/thediamondback our team, the next guy after Ten) couldn’t make up its deficit to the No. McCoy said earlier in the week he felt feeder since joining the powerhouse con- them will get points,” Diehl said. “It’s in 19 Golden Gophers (7-6, 4-4), losing 26-22, his upper-weight wrestlers matched well ference in 2014, leveled the score 10-10 via the past now, nothing you can do about it. despite earning four wins and a forfeit. It with Minnesota. Efforts from lighter weight wins from Diehl and Bannister. But a loss … We’ve just got to get our confidence back sealed the Terps’ fate for a second consecu- wrestlers closed the gap in class, but the from 157-pound Kyle Cochran put Maryland up, get that momentum riding, and those tive winless Big Ten campaign in a confer- Terps couldn’t go ahead despite wins from behind 16-10 at halftime. next guys come in.”

“Don’t let your highs get too high and ence where the Terps have picked up one Hemida and 197-pounder David-Brian Following Ugalde’s surprise defeat, Mary[don’t] let your lows get too low,” McCoy land closed the match with one forfeit win and dual meet win in 36 attempts.

Whisler in the final two bouts.

While Maryland assistant coaches rushed said. “You get caught up in the one match and Brian-Whisler and Hemida’s decision wins. The “We didn’t expect to give up a pin there,” from the bench to congratulate Diehl on his you know we’ve got six, seven more matches points accumulated weren’t enough to avoid a coach Kerry McCoy said of Ugalde’s bout.

“When you go into a situation and you look upset pin over Thorn, McCoy remained to go. But I was really excited for [Diehl] — second consecutive close loss, following their at the score and say, ‘You know, I know I have seated. Diehl had been in trouble, chest to the he’s been struggling the last couple weeks 25-18 loss to then-No. 15 Illinois on Jan. 28. to go out there and I have to win to give the ground with Thorn on his back, yet quickly and he’s starting to get in the right direction.”

“It’s rough, because we’re splitting those To open the dual meet, 125-pounder matches but we’re still losing,” Bannister team a chance,’ … it’s those situations that reversed and pinned Thorn for Maryland’s Brandon Cray earned an early two-point take- said. “It’s kind of hard to stomach that.” you’ve got to be able to rise to the occasion first victory Sunday against Minnesota.

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basketball

Guard dion wiley scored 10 points and made two 3-pointers in a 73-57 win over Northwestern on Saturday. marquise mckine/the diamondback

Guard Kristen confroy made her 200th career 3-pointer and scored 12 points in a 72-54 win at Rutgers. marquise mckine/the diamondback

Sharpshooters pace conference victories

By Kyle Melnick | @kyle_melnick | Senior staff writer

Locked-in Wiley wilts Wildcats with well-rounded display During the Maryland men’s basketball team’s film session Thursday after its loss at Penn State the day before, coach Mark Turgeon called out guard Dion Wiley.

Wiley scored six points in 23 minutes against the Nittany Lions. A personal foul was the only other statistic on his box score.

“At least turn the ball over or something to get into the stat sheet,” Turgeon told Wiley.

Wiley responded with one of the best all-around games of his career in Maryland’s 73-57 win over Northwestern on Saturday afternoon. He recorded 10 points, five rebounds and four assists while playing stingy defense. “[Turgeon’s comments] might have lit a fire under Dion a little bit,” guard Anthony Cowan said. “We need him to play like he did today, so hopefully that gives him more confidence going into the next game.”

Wiley has struggled to make a difference

By Sean Whooley | @swhooley27 | Staff writer

in Big Ten play, scoring in double digits during just one of the 11 conference games he played before Saturday. The redshirt junior missed two Big Ten contests due to a concussion.

But not only did Wiley find his shooting stroke Saturday — connecting on 2 of his 4 three-point attempts — the 6-foot-4, 210-pound guard also made a difference in other areas.

The Terps have used a four-guard lineup with their big men battling injuries, and after Maryland’s starting guards grabbed a combined 10 rebounds against Penn State, Turgeon told his perimeter players they didn’t make a strong enough effort to box out the Nittany Lions. Wiley notched five boards Saturday.

W i l ey i s p r i m a r i ly k n ow n a s a shooter, so defenders were closing in on him fast Saturday after he knocked down a 3-pointer with less than eight minutes remaining in the first half.

The former four-star recruit took advantage by scoring closer to the rim.

On one possession late in the second half, he drove past his defender and See wiley, p. 9

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It may not have been Maryland women’s basketball guard Kristen Confroy’s milestone 3-pointer, but it was an important one.

The senior drained a triple with 3:37 remaining in the first quarter of Maryland’s 72-54 win at Rutgers on Sunday.

Her 199th career 3-pointer at Maryland gave the Terps, who were trailing by one point, a lead.

From there, No. 10 Maryland never trailed and pulled away for its second win over Rutgers in the past 10 days. “[I’m] really proud of our team,” coach Brenda Frese said. “We knew coming in here with only one loss at home [for Rutgers], it was going to be a tough, physical type of grind-it-out game. We just came in with great poise and composure.”

Confroy reached the 200 mark with 1:16 left in the second quarter, becoming the second-ever Terp to make that many 3-pointers. She joined former guard Kristi Toliver with that distinction.

The Solon, Ohio, native’s moment came just over a minute after her own strip-and-score gave Maryland (22-3, 11-1 Big Ten) a 10-point advantage for the first time in the contest. After an edgy start to the game, it was the first signal the Terps might pull away from the Scarlet Knights (18-9, 6-7).

Guard Eleanna Christinaki scored a game-high 18 points, while forward Stephanie Jones and Confroy added 13 and 12, respectively.

Rutgers guard Kathleen Fitzpatr i c k ’s b u z z e r- b ea t i n g 3 - p o i n te r made it a three-point game after 10 minutes. Christinaki, however, opened the second quarter with six straight points for the Terps in a run, aided by Confroy, that provided all the energy they needed.

The Terps outscored the Scarlet Knights, 21-8, in the second quarter, finishing the half on a 13-1 run.

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‘another challenge’

Williamson is excited to start MLS career after being traded to Portland Timbers

midfielder eryk williamson starred for Sasho Cirovski’s Maryland squad for three seasons before forgoing his senior year to play professionally. The Alexandria, Virginia, native was a D.C. United homegrown player, but the club traded his rights last month. marquise mckine/the diamondback

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oward the end of the Maryland men’s soccer team’s 2017 season, coach Sasho Cirovski met with midfielder Eryk Williamson to encourage him to play professionally.

“I think we both agree that it’s time for you to take the next step,” Williamson recalled Cirovski saying. “College is challenging, but you deserve another challenge.”

An Alexandria, Virginia, native, Williamson came up in D.C. United’s academy and could’ve joined the professional club as a homegrown player.

Instead, over the course of about a week in January, the Portland Timbers traded for Williamson’s rights, signed him and brought him to training camp, a change of plans both parties are pleased with. “[Playing professionally] was something I’ve always wanted,” Williamson said. “The fact it finally came true was probably one of the happiest moments of my life. I wasn’t jumping up and down, but deep down inside, I was at a loss for words.”

Williamson scored 14 goals and notched 13 assists in his three seasons with Maryland, and he increased his stock by impressing during stints with the U.S. under-20 men’s national team. He considered turning pro after his sophomore season but elected to return to Cirovski’s squad for one more season.

He was one of very few players on the U-20 team

to play in college.

“I trusted Sasho and the process,” Williamson said.

“Looking back, I think that was probably the biggest thing in my development, the college season.”

Williamson visited some MLS teams last summer and knew some of them attended Maryland games to track his progress, but the potential of signing somewhere other than D.C. United didn’t occur to him until a mid-January conversation with his agent, Mike Gartlan.

But a pair of transactions from December and early January, when D.C. United signed a pair of midfielders, made it less likely Williamson would join the squad.

“It was something I didn’t think was in the best interest for me,” Williamson said. “Instead of being like a sixth-string midfielder, I could be around fourth in [Portland’s] depth chart. … I think D.C. United had me in their plans in the next 2-3 years instead of it being in the next year or two.”

Williamson had some preliminary talks with Portland during the MLS SuperDraft, and a few days later, the Timbers acquired his rights for $200,000 in allocation money, a 2018 international spot and a 2020 second-round draft pick. Timbers coach Giovanni Savarese spoke with Williamson on the phone a couple of hours later to welcome him.

“We see him as a talented player and a youngster,”

Savarese said, “and we have a very good feeling he could develop to be a really good player.”

Williamson entered as a substitute in a preseason game Feb. 3, but it isn’t clear whether he’ll start the season with the Timbers or T2, the organization’s United Soccer League squad. In their first conversation, Savarese told Williamson he could earn a spot with the first-team, but nothing will be guaranteed.

Even if Williamson does spend time with T2, he and Savarese feel he will be in a better position than if he was on D.C. United’s United Soccer League affiliate, the Richmond Kickers. T2 trains and plays in Portland, while the Richmond Kickers squad is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, about 100 miles away from D.C. “I talked to guys who said that [the distance] is hard for them,” Williamson said. “It takes a toll on them mentally. I knew. … I’d be a lot more comfortable here.”

Ideally, Williamson will continue to develop into a contributor with the MLS squad, reaching the potential Savarese and the Timbers saw in him at Maryland and with the national team.

“He has the right tools to be a successful player,” Savarese said. “We’re going to work with him to help him achieve that goal. … We invested into his future.” jcrabtreehdbk@gmail.com

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Fairman vindicates Terps’ Terps flash dynamic offense trust with superb debut in season-opening victory

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With five minutes remaining in the third quarter of the Maryland men’s lacrosse team’s 10-4 win over Navy on Saturday, freshman midfielder Bubba Fairman threw both of his arms into the air and jumped toward freshman Roman Puglise to celebrate his final score of the afternoon.

Fellow rookie Logan Wisnauskas joined the fray, highlighting the crop of new faces on coach John Tillman’s squad.

In the No. 2 Terps’ first contest this season, Fairman tied for a game-high three scores, securing the first hat trick of his Maryland career. For an offense working without attackmen Colin Heacock and Matt Rambo, who scored a combined 70 times as seniors last season, Fairman filled the void.

“Bubba has one of the greatest attitudes and mindsets toward lacrosse,” goalkeeper Dan Morris said. “He always wants to grow and develop.”

Usually, Tillman is hesitant to make younger players like Fairman key components of his starting lineup. As a freshman last year, attackman Jared Bernhardt often

deferred to Heacock and Rambo, picking up 28 points as a complementary piece.

But Fairman, whom Inside Lacrosse ranked the No. 2 recruit in the class of 2017, isn’t a typical freshman. After all, he developed rare maturity for his age before arriving in College Park.

The Sandy, Utah, native spent his junior year of high school at The Calverton School in Huntingtown. Then, he attended Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts for a postgrad season. Tillman said the fact that Fairman has lived away from home made his transition to College Park easier.

Still, Tillman’s default approach is to provide older players with the opportunity to win starting jobs in the spring. So while he knew Fairman likely possessed the attributes to earn a spot right away, he wanted the freshman to play himself into a starting role.

Rushing young players into prominent roles “is not good for your team dynamic,” Tillman said.

Fairman immediately approached senior midfielders Tim Rotanz and Connor Kelly upon arriving in College Park to learn how Maryland’s offense functions. Maintaining a positive and cheerful persona, he See fairman, p. 9

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Nothing could stop Maryland women’s lacrosse on offense in its first game of the season against William & Mary.

The Terps blew out the Tribe 18-7, taking their season opener by double digits for the 12th year in a row.

Maryland was paced by attackers Caroline Steele and Megan Whittle, who scored four goals apiece. Midfielder Jen Giles converted three times, and midfielder Meghan Siverson chipped in with two goals. “[Steele and Whittle are] both great shooters, and the thing you’ll see from this team throughout this season is some days you’ll see more from some and different from others,” coach Cathy Reese said. “But they were both having really good looks today and able again to finish our shots.”

Maryland scored 15 times in the first half — more than it had in the entirety of its matchup against the Tribe last year.

The Terps came out firing from the opening draw, scoring four unanswered goals in the first three minutes en route to an 11-0 lead midway through the first period.

“Everyone was moving the ball really well, and we were all working for each other,” Giles said. “I was just super proud of the way everyone was a threat on offense no matter who was in.”

New NCAA rules allowing attackers more movement certainly played a role in the fastpaced game.

“It’s a totally different game,” Whittle said on playing with the new rules. “It plays really well into the game we play, which is athletic, very fast and just going to goal all the time.”

The game slowed down in the second half, as Reese split time between backup goalies Madison Hine and Emma Moss while subbing in players from the bench.

Maryland allowed five goals in the second period compared to just two in the first, and the Terps failed to continue their own offensive pace.

Still, the easy win displayed the depth of the team, a trait that will be crucial going into upcoming road games against Florida and North Carolina.

“We got so many faces in the game,” Giles said. “Everyone was able to contribute and really build that confidence up, which will definitely help us moving forward.” lbrombergdbk@gmail.com