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Big Ten introduces freshman ineligibility proposal

By Aaron Kasinitz and Ellie Silverman @AaronKazreports, @esilverman11 Senior staff writers The Big Ten is hoping for support from its member institutions to begin a “national discussion” about ruling freshmen ineligible for football and men’s basketball, according to a document obtained by The Diamondback.

“What I like about the concept of

the proposal is it puts right up front the basic issue: Are we basically a quasi-professional activity or primarily an educational activity?” university President Wallace Loh said. “And if you support it, you are basically saying very clearly the No. 1 priority is the education of the students.”

The University Athletic Council met this afternoon to discuss a Big Ten proposal to examine “the health of the educational experience,” titled “A Year of Readiness,” which equates

to a mandatory redshirt season.

“I want to listen to the council,” said Nick Hadley, athletic council chairman and physics professor. “As a faculty member, it’s hard for me not to support something that would increase academic performance.”

The document, which shows football and men’s basketball as the only sports with graduation rates of less than 75 percent across the NCAA, states that a push for freshman ineligibility MARK TURGEON, men’s basketball head coach, looks at the score as his team defends its lead during See BIG TEN, Page 3 the second half of the Terps’ win over the VMI Keydets in November. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Budget cuts strain cash for univ grad students Surcharges to cover $40.3M USM funding loss draw student ire

By Carly Kempler @carlykempler Staff writer

SHARYL ATTKISSON discusses her experiences as a former CBS investigative reporter covering Benghazi and the “Fast and Furious” scandal with students and faculty in Knight Hall on Friday. enoch hsiao/for the diamondback

fighting for the truth Former CBS correspondent Sharyl Attkisson speaks on reporting experiences and government surveillance

By Rokia Hassanein @rokiahass Staff writer Around the time Sharyl Attkisson was investigating scandals that occurred under the Obama administration, she started to notice strange things happening.

The former CBS correspondent

said her computer would turn on by itself at night. Her daughter’s Skype account was hacked. The files on her computer were accessed.

On Friday, the Emmy-winning former investigative journalist spoke to a crowd of about 60 students, faculty and fellows in Knight Hall about her experiences investigating scandals and leaving CBS, which

she detailed in her new book, Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington. She addressed the dangers of government surveillance as well as the necessity of standing up for privacy rights.

Attkisson said she was digging deeper into the “Fast and Furious”

scandal, a federal operation during which U.S. officials lost track of guns sold to weapon smugglers in Mexico, and the 2012 attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the deaths of four Americans.

“The administration didn’t See attkisson, Page 2

After the university announced a midyear tuition increase Jan. 16, many graduate students were frustrated with the surcharge on their accounts, said Ellie Howe, Graduate Student Government public relations vice president.

The surcharge appeared on students’ accounts Feb. 11, said Howe, a second-year higher education, student affairs and international education policy graduate student.

The student account charges ranged from $40 to $100, Howe said.

This university’s share of the $40.3 million cut to the University System See GRADUATES, Page 2

RHA to push pet ownership for dorm staff

SGA, univ officials release textbook affordability site

Allergies, behavior cited in opposition to change

Site offers open-source book links, instructions

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Staff writer A new university website launched today, oer.umd.edu, aims to inform students and faculty about cheaper alternatives to pricey textbooks and course materials.

The Student Government Association, University Libraries and the Office of the Provost collaborated to create the site, which includes faculty instructions for creating free opensource textbooks, links to educa-

textbook costs,” said Benjamin Bederson, associate provost of learning initiatives.

The website aims to continue the progress made by existing initiatives, such as the Maryland Open Source Textbook Initiative, which gives professors of introductory-level classes access to open-source textbooks. “[Open-source textbooks are] brought together, curated by the faculty member, but the actual Members of the sga watch a presentation at a January meeting in the Benjamin Banneker Room of Stamp content comes from the open Student Union. SGA helped launch a textbook affordability website this week. stephanie natoli/the diamondback Web,” Bederson said. “No one is tional resources and tips for students important issue and give various charging money because it’s not actionable steps on how faculty and copyrighted material.” trying to save money on books.

“Our goal is to inform campus students alike can change decisionthat [textbook affordability] is an making processes overall to lower See textbooks, Page 3

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The RHA president plans to introduce a resolution that advocates allowing resident directors to have pets.

W h i le Sree Si n ha i ntends to present the resolution to the Resident Hall Association in the coming weeks, the current no-pet policy will not likely be changing this year, said Deb Grandner, Department of Resident Life director.

“Right now, what we’re trying to do is balance the needs and wishes of

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GRADUATES From PAGE 1 of Maryland budget is $15.6 m i l l i o n . R a i s i n g u n d e rgraduate tuition and adding a su rch a rge for g radu ate students will generate $4 million toward balancing the cut, according to university President Wallace Loh’s Jan. 16 email to the university community.

F u l l-t i me i n-state u nderg raduate students experienced a $76 tuition increase, as well as a one-time surcharge of $76. Full-time out-of-state undergraduates were required to pay a onetime surcharge of $279.

T he g radu ate st ud ents were charged $10 per credit hour, capped at $100, said Brian Ullmann, marketing a nd com mu n icat ion s a ssistant vice president. The money generated from the graduate student surcharges w i l l ma ke up about 4 percent of the $15.6 million cut, he said.

T he su rcha rges a re not covered by graduate assista ntsh ips, wh ich a re oppor tu n it ies to work w it h faculty and undergraduates in their field of study, Howe said. These assistantships

offer stipends, benefits and tuition remission. However, this does not cover mandatory fees, which are most fees excluding tuition.

This tuition increase is not considered a mandatory fee, Ullmann said. If a mandatory fee is applied to students, it needs to go through an approval process by the Committee for Review of Student Fees, GSG President Deborah Hemingway said.

Although this is classified as a tuition surcharge, it is not covered by graduate assistantships’ tuition remission; instead, it is an outof-pocket expense, Ullmann said. This tuition surcharge is a one-time cost for graduate students, appl icable only for the spring 2015 semester, and is not covered by tuition remission.

A f ter the su rcha rge h it student accounts, the GSG saw an influx of complaints, Howe said.

“Most grad students live on very tight, planned-out budgets, and every single dollar makes a difference,” Howe said.

D espite t he nu mb er of student complaints, Ullmann said the January announcement made to the university about these expected charges

was advance notice for February bills.

Howe sa id t he u n iversity is in a “tight spot” financially but should have been more transparent with this surcharge and tuition costs, as graduate students thought it would be covered by tuition remission.

T he state announced in January a significant budget shortfall, resulting in cuts to state agencies a nd the university, which generated money to absorb the budget cut t h rou g h f u rlou g h s, fund balancing and tuition increases and surcharges, Ullmann said.

“I understand the burden must be shared,” Howe said.

“But they need to be as transparent as possible and inform students where these charges are going.”

Benja m i n Shapi ro, a first-year graduate student studying materials science a nd eng i neeri ng, sa id he is also frustrated by these surcharges.

“I understand that there’s a budget shortfall,” Shapiro said, “and I’m sure there are ways to deal with it without taking $3 million from students in the middle of the semester.”

re a l ly l i ke it a n d t h e y were pushing back to my bosses,” she said. “A couple of my sources came up to me separately and said, ‘You know, you’re likely being monitored.’”

Her friend was able to send her CBS laptop to a friend in the CIA, and within a day, Attkisson found out her laptop was c o m p ro m i s e d a n d h e r phone likely was as well.

The software on her computer matched that used by the National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, CIA and FBI, Attkisson said, so the CIA employee who checked her computer said one of those four government agencies was behind it.

“I got a n i n forma l report that said they had downloaded software at a certain date and had refreshed that software,” Attkisson said. “They had a keystroke program. They had all my passwords.”

W hen her daughter’s Skype was hacked, it wasn’t clear how much the hackers had listened in on her own home. Attkisson said Skype can be activated to listen to audio, even if it doesn’t appear to be turned on.

The person who prepared the report for her couldn’t come forward because he worked for the government, Attkisson said.

“I reported it to CBS, and I got a weird nonreaction,” Attkisson said. “My boss said, ‘That’s really bad, but since you can’t use your source, let’s go with our forensic guy and see if he can confirm it.’”

CBS h i red a foren sic expert, who went to her house and confirmed her computers were compro-

SHARYL ATTKISSON speaks Friday about her experiences as a CBS correspondent and investigative journalist to students and faculty in Knight Hall. enoch hsiao/for the diamondback mised, she said. He informed CBS of his findings, and CBS eventually put out a news release about the hacking.

Attkisson said although she was trying to get out of her contract with CBS at the time, she appreciated the company backing her story as rumors circulated.

“You’ll see a lot of things that say it never happened or that I’m mentally ill or whatever is being put around, but CBS, to its credit, tried to put an end to that by putting a statement that said yes, the computer was compromised,” she said.

Attkisson said her difficulties highlight a problem, as there’s a pattern of intimidation and “bullying” of the press by government officials.

Generally, Attkisson said, journalists cannot get the information they need for stories because of the government.

“I have four Freedom of Information lawsuits pending against the federal government,” Attkisson said.

The Freedom of Information Act g ives people the right to access information from the federal government, but Attkisson said government officials don’t always follow this law. She said the problem is not new under the Obama administration, but rather amplified.

“Every year seems to be getting worse and worse,” Attkisson said. “It’s audacious to me, the way they treat the information we own,

as they work for us. That’s the huge problem.”

Adanma Odefa, a Humphrey Fellow at this university, said listening to Attkisson speak about the government intimidating the press reminded her of countries where news is sold to journalists, and it made her wonder whether journalism in the U.S. would ever get to that point.

Boya Xu, a journalism doctoral candidate at this university who interned with Attkisson at CBS in 2010, said while the journalism school gets plenty of speakers to visit, she enjoyed seeing Attkisson on the campus.

“I had a great experience with her at CBS while I was interning with her,” Xu said.

“I found her well-seasoned, and I liked the way she treated the interns.”

Attkisson said she hopes in the future, people w ill stand up against surveillance instead of accepting it as the norm.

“I’ve had conversations with members of Congress in which they will say, ‘Your phone is being bugged,’ not because they know it is but because we all assume it is now,” she said. “I’m thinking, ‘Why are you saying it in a causal voice like it’s OK?’ Why aren’t we standing up and saying that it’s not OK that journalists’ and Congress members’ phones would be bugged?”

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textbooks From PAGE 1 For many students at this university — where the average student spends about $1,130 each semester on books and supplies, according to the website — these resources could determine whether they have access to course material.

“We’ve looked at data that says when textbooks are really, really expensive, students will either not buy the book at all or buy one of the books that’s needed,” said Charmaine Wilson-Jones, SGA vice president of academic affairs. “That can affect their ability to be successful in the class.”

Open-source textbooks can be textbooks professors write for their classes, or compilations of open-source texts and materials available from other sources, such as other universities, Web pages, YouTube videos, PDFs and online simulations, Bederson said.

“There’s actually lots of facu lty that use non-pay

textbooks for one reason or another,” Bederson said.

Gary W hite, University Libraries’ associate dean for public services, said about 10 percent of classes on the campus use some form of open educational resources.

White said that as of the 2014 fall semester, McKeldin Library offers two-hour textbook rentals for course materials for the university’s 50 courses with the highest enrollment. The courses included in this trial program are listed on the libraries website.

“We did add some additional books for courses this semester, so it is changing. So far it’s been a very popular program, and I think a lot of students are using it,” White said, noting that the university spent about $15,000 on the program.

For classes not using opensource textbooks, WilsonJones said, faculty members can visit the new website for information on reducing textbook costs for their students.

“A lot of times, professors don’t even know how much

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“WHEN YOU’RE FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES, THAT’S WHEN YOU SPEND THE MOST AMOUNT OF MONEY ON TEXTBOOKS. ... IT’S USUALLY BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW ABOUT OTHER OPTIONS TO LOWER THE COST.” CHARMAINE WILSON-JONES

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the books they’re assigning for classes cost,” Wilson-Jones said. “[The website] needed to be targeting professors to make sure that they’re aware how high these costs are, and that there are some simple ways they can reduce the costs, like using a textbook that has all the material but is from the year before.”

As for students, WilsonJones said the site provides tips on how to shop smarter and avoid high book prices.

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PETS From PAGE 1 the community with those of individuals,” Grandner said.

“Whenever you have animals in the residence halls, you run some risks related to health and safety of residents.”

Grandner said Resident Life has several concerns regarding allowing resident directors to house animals in dorms, including students with pet allergies, the potential for an animal to act out, extra mess and dander sensitivity. There is also staff turnover concern if a staff member brought in an animal that the next resident director was allergic to, she said.

Matt Wheeler, a freshman Arabic major, said he doesn’t really know his resident director and might be more likely to seek him out if he had a dog.

However, he said there could be some issues with residents.

“I love dogs but am not a fan of cats, so stuff like that could be an issue,” Wheeler said.

“There could be issues with people with allergies, and it would have to be a really wellbehaved pet.”

As professionals serving the campus community, resident directors should be able to decide if they want the responsibility of having a pet, Sinha said. She said there is also potential for community

students walk out of Hagerstown Hall. The Resident Hall Association might consider a proposal that would allow resident directors to house pets in dorms. file photo/the diamondback building, as the presence of pets could help students to have more positive interactions with resident directors.

“A lo t of t i m e s p e o pl e don’t k now who thei r R D is u nti l or u n less t hey’re getting in trouble,” Sinha said. “R Ds are a wealth of knowledge and can really help in making your college experience a lot better.”

Sophomore physics major Lucknerson Germain said he became good friends with his resident director when he lived in Hagerstown Hall last year.

“It’s good for people to get to know [their resident directors],” Germain said. “It definitely helps when you need help. They have access to more resources than people know, I think. [My resident director] really helped me out when I

freshmen and sophomores, that’s when you spend the most amount of money on textbooks,” Wilson-Jones said. “It’s usually because they don’t know about other options to lower the cost.”

White said the next step after launching the website is talking with the deans and encouraging them to share information about the new website and open educational resources directly with faculty.

Bederson emphasized the importance of making sure quality is not thrown by the wayside as demand for open resources grows. “ You c a n’t say, ‘ We demand textbook prices to be zero,’ because the result is that we’d have poor resources for learning,” Bederson said. “There’s a balance between [low textbook prices] and the goal of having the best possible learning opportunity. … We’re trying to shift the balance.”

have ha rd jobs,” Si n ha said. “They have a lot of stu ff they have to dea l with, often at unsavory hours and in stressful situations. Having a dog or a cat around might help.”

Resident Life supports students and staff members who have a documented need for comfort or service animals, in accordance with federal policies, but in terms of optional pets, Grandner said she thinks the risks outweigh the benefits.

Germain said he thinks resident directors’ ability to have pets in the dorms would be unfair to students, who are not allowed to have pets, and he doesn’t support the idea.

“The plan is: I will write a resolution that if the body passes, we’ll send to the [Resident Facilities Advisory Board] and [Resident Life Advisory Team] committees to do some research and consider feasibility for this idea,” Sinha said.

I f t he R H A approves the resolution, Si n ha said, committees can determine how to deal with problems. There will be consideration of issues such as allergies, fears of certain animals, noise and potential damage as the idea is developed, she said.

was having a rough time here.”

He doesn’t think many students get to know their resident directors well enough, he said, but they probably wouldn’t go out of their way to visit resident directors if they had pets, either.

Grandner said she thinks most resident directors are good at engaging the community and doing the necessary outreach to meet their residents.

“I don’t really think RDs need an animal to connect with students,” Grandner said. “They are hired based on their ability to relate to others, and I think mostly they do a great job with that.”

Sinha said allowing resident directors to have a pet could help with resident directors’ psychological welfare.

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BIG TEN From PAGE 1 would benefit athletes academically.

Men’s basketball and football players lag behind other sports in terms of academics, according to data provided in the document. Among the 34 sports listed in the Graduation Success Rate data, football and men’s basketball ranked last in the 2004 to 2007 cohort, according to the document.

Among the 38 sports listed in the Academic Progress Rate data from 2009 to 2013, those two sports also ranked last.

T he proposa l exa m i nes “the imbalance observed in those two sports” and cites that football and men’s basketba l l st ud ent-at h lete s a ccou nt for le ss t h a n 19 percent of Division I participants, yet they account for more than 80 percent of academic infraction cases.

It also suggests applying current academic eligibility standards for freshman student-athletes to sophomores if the “Year of Readiness” is approved.

“I f th is is the best way to accomplish the goals of raising graduation rates and academic performance for all student-athletes, then we should consider it,” Athletic Director Kevin Anderson said in a statement.

An NCAA rule prohibited true freshmen from competing in all sports up until 1972, a nd the decision to ma ke first-year students eligible was financially rooted, according to the document.

The proposal addresses the additional funds necessary to keep athletes on scholarship for the one year of ineligibility and four years of play. It also acknowledges the need to balance scholarship increases for women’s sports.

The document estimates the cost of the additional scholarships at about $94.5 million per year if the “Year of Readiness” program were implemented nationwide, which is less than 10 percent of football and men’s basketball postseason revenue distribution across all Division I programs.

“If they do well because they spend more time, get more academic advising … their freshman year, they’re going to graduate,” Loh said. “And I think it’s worth spending an extra year of financial support to ensure that they graduate.”

According to Forbes, the Big Ten brought in an estimated $318 million in 2014, the most

revenue of all conferences nationwide, taking into account income from television deals as well as payouts from football bowl games and the NCAA basketball tournament.

Still, many athletic departments, including this university’s, have experienced economic troubles in recent years.

This university’s athletic department reported $3.5 million in operating losses in 2014 and cut seven varsity sports teams in 2012 in an attempt to balance its budget and begin to climb out of debt.

On Wednesday, Terrapins men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon said he’s concerned about his players’ academic performance as time-consuming postseason tournaments draw closer.

“This time of year, you’re really worried about [academics] as a coach, making sure your kids don’t get too far behind,” Turgeon said.

Terrapins football coach Randy Edsall, meanwhile, voiced more direct support for such a proposal in August when responding to a question about Damian Prince, a highly touted offensive lineman who redshirted this past season.

“All the freshmen should be redshirted,” Edsall said. “If we’re in a true collegiate model that we talk about or people like to talk about, it’s hard. It is hard for these kids. School is going to start next week. Now they’ve got the added weight of taking 15 [credits] and getting acclimated in terms of time management, taking these classes and reaching the expectations that we have for them in the classroom.”

Early next week there will be a Big Ten meeting with representatives from each member institution where this topic will be one of many discussed, Hadley said.

“This is really the starting point of a discussion,” H a d l e y s a i d . “A n d t h e concern is how can we have the graduation rates or academ ic performa nce of a ll ou r student ath letes, but in particular the ones that seem to be lagging behind, which would be football and men’s basketball. How can we have those improvements and what’s the best way to do that, but at the same time be fair and not deny people opportunities.”

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lions From PAGE 8 “It’s her strength and her power,” Frese said. “They didn’t have a big that could match her.”

While Jones learned from playing behind Thomas and DeVaughn last season, she didn’t pursue the ball with the same aggression she has this season. Jones figured one of the seniors would come down with the ball.

“Last year, I kind of took for granted that Alyssa was re b o u n d i n g , s o I d i d n ’t rea l ly h ave to a s m u c h ,” Jones said. “But I think this year, I took it upon myself to try to get more rebounds to try to help the team.”

With Thomas and DeVaughn out of the picture, the Havre de Grace native has emerged as the Terps’ clear top rebounder, es pecially on the offensive glass. Nearly half of Jones’ rebounds have come on the offensive end of the floor, and her 4.3 offensive boards per game rank second in the Big Ten. “She’s probably one of the hardest workers on our team,” Walker-Kimbrough said. “She’s one of those people; she’s going to go after it. If she wants it, she’s going to get it.”

Center Brionna Jones makes a move to the basket during the No. 5 Terps’ victory over conference rival Rutgers on Feb. 10 at Xfinity Center. alexander jonesi/the diamondback The Terps have reaped the benefits of Jones’ attitude.

Frese’s squad owns a plus-11 rebounding margin, which is best in the conference by 4.4 rebounds per game.

Prior to the season, Frese feared the Terps wouldn’t be able to replicate their consistent rebounding. With Jones’ help, though, the Terps enter tonight’s matchup against a tall Penn State team with confidence. “ Pe n n S ta te i s re a l ly, really big in size,” Frese said. “[We’re] going to need to be able to have that advantage from her.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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lenty of aspects of college are stressful, but the most basic n e e d s a re ge n e ra l ly n o t a concern. Students on this campus usually don’t need to worry about the security of their living spaces or the availability of water, and they’re free to focus on their intellectual and professional goals. But that’s small comfort to those whose amenities and routines are interrupted by infrastructural failures.

In the past two weeks, several broken pipes on and around the campus have damaged property and inconvenienced community members. Members of the Kappa Alpha Order and Delta Chi fraternities relocated after fire sprinkler pipes burst and flooded their Fraternity Row houses. Elkton Hall residents had to evacuate for about 20 minutes last Monday when pipes flooded the basement. And off the campus, faulty Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission pipes left College Park Towers dry Wednesday afternoon and cut off water to eight businesses on Lehigh Road on Thursday.

These problems are unpredictable and inevitable. Some of this campus’ buried pipes are more than 50 years old, and corrosion, shifts in the ground and cold temperatures all can cause them to rupture. And it would be impossible for Facilities Management to prevent every

symptom of what officials called an “invisible crisis;” pipe breaks occur underground or in ceilings and attics, only becoming apparent when it’s too late to do anything but patch the leaks and mop up the puddles.

But even if the crises are inevitable, there are measures the university should take to improve its response.

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Facilities Management needs to make a better effort to inform the campus community of plumbing issues.

One step could be communicating more with students and other community members. A year ago, this editorial board discussed steam leaks at Tawes Plaza and Preinkert Drive and called for more informative signage to reassure passersby that the smelly plumes were not dangerous.

Though the university is quick to inform the community members who are directly affected by a pipe break — for example, by emailing residents in dorms that have lost water to update them on the progress of repairs — a student who walks by a fenced-in pit each day for weeks on the way to class might never know why the work is

necessary. Signs around these repair sites could help people understand the efforts Facilities Management makes to keep the water running and reframe the sometimes-disruptive work as beneficial maintenance rather than merely an annoyance.

The university could also report more to community members on maintenance that’s not performed immediately after a pipe break or other emergency. Facilities Management has been replacing pipes around the campus to ensure more consistent performance — Fraternity Row will get a new pipeline this summer, for example.

But while summer is the best time to perform maintenance, as the campus is not as crowded, it’s half a year removed from the winter weather that often causes pipes to break, as they have during this frigid month. More information about preventative improvements could make the invisible crisis more visible, reassuring students that the university is working on infrastructure along with well-publicized academic and athletic projects.

This editorial board acknowledges Facilities Management’s work to keep the water running throughout the campus and the difficulty of that task. More information about the work being done would make the department more accountable and perhaps more appreciated as well.

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a meadow. Happiness is creating a movie. Happiness is talking to people. Happiness is playing music.

Happiness is running. Happiness is writing poetry. Yet all of these artistic instincts that every human possesses are considered a waste of time in American society. If they don’t put food on the table, they will not bring you happiness.

We are so wrong. When I was abroad, I would spend hours touring the city alone, without a smartphone that had Snapchat or Twitter or Facebook. I remember sitting on a wall at the South Bank with my feet dangling over the Thames as the public passed by silently and calmly in their black coats and hats. I sat there for hours, jotting away in a little red Moleskine notebook — just random thoughts that no one would ever care about. Yet I was happy.

I toured museums, attended the theater, traveled the country and read and wrote and drew. There were no dollar signs being waved in my face or Kardashian scandals being flashed onto billboards. The world was peaceful and silent. There was no competition or judgment, no rush for the American Dream. And while I greatly appreciate the fact that I have been given the opportunity to live in America, a country where I could become a pop star if I wanted to, I am even more grateful to have been given the opportunity to realize that is not who I want to be.

I returned home from England and immediately found myself sitting in the advising office. I had thought I was going to be a linguistics major — a master of the psychology of language and rhetoric. I was going to make mad money advertising in New York, feeding the public beautifully crafted lies as I rolled in my millions. But that would not make me a beautiful person.

Instead, I proudly accepted my fate and become an English major, a weak little major for students who define themselves as people who enjoy nothing more than a warm sunny day with their feet dangling over the Thames.

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t’s been two-and-a-half years since I traveled to London for my semester abroad. I remember how much I missed my American lifestyle — peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, NFL football and the ability to talk on public transportation without anyone giving me the stink-eye.

But now, nearly three years later, I find myself missing British culture more and more each day.

I long for the Underground, the fresh food and the beautiful historical landscapes. But most of all, I miss the sense of self I developed while I was abroad. I figured out what the word “me” truly means.

Today in American society, we individualize everything and everyone. Every kid is a champion, and we tell one another the only person standing in your way is yourself. We aspire to be movie stars, Olympic gold medalists, Wall Street investors and hip-hop artists. Fourth graders win trophies simply for enrolling in recreational sports and get gold stars for attending school. We are told mental illness makes us unique or tragic situations make us stronger.

In all honesty, I believe that my generation of Americans consists of a bunch of weak, pathetic babies.

We aspire to make every single person feel special because in reality, we are incapable of making ourselves feel special. The truth is that we are not special at all. We have materialized every aspect of self-worth. We seek to find passion, but our passion is to be successful. We want to do something worthwhile and make money.

Everyone wants to be No. 1.

Our Declaration of Independence tells us we have the right to the “pursuit of happiness,” yet we fear happiness. Happiness is becoming an artist and paint- Katie Stuller is a junior English ing naked models all day. Hap- m a j o r. S h e c a n b e re a c h e d a t piness is riding horses through kstullerdbk@gmail.com.

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You irrationally hate them, but they could be the bump you need MARGARET ZELENSKI SENIOR

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e all have that one person we hate for no reason. They’ve never done anything to us; we don’t even know them that well. But they make us irrationally frustrated and angry.

They are our college frenemies.

We think they are better than us at something, and it drives us nuts.

We think they’re prettier, smarter, more popular or even happier than we are. But here’s the thing — these people are neither our friends nor our enemies. They’re actually a lot like us.

What’s consistent about our relationships with our college frenemies is that they are very shallow.

We barely know these people, and that’s what makes them so dangerous. The few moments a day or week or month we see them, all we see are their superiorities, and this makes us think they are perfect every other second of their lives. In reality, they have flaws in areas we likely super-

sede them in. But we just don’t think about that.

They’re not our enemies because they haven’t done anything to us. But less obviously, they aren’t that different from us. I see my most infuriating frenemies in my classes; I see their GPAs and I see their study habits, and they make me jealous. We aren’t so different, though. My frenemies and I are all very academically motivated and work toward good grades. The frenemies you think are more attractive than you probably enjoy working out as much as you do. The frenemies you think are more popular probably go to the same parties as you do and hang out like you.

I emphasize the word “think” because our shallow relationships with these frenemies cloud our judgment and make us judge ourselves too harshly. Take grades, for example. I might think the girl with the 3.9 is smarter overall than me and hate her for it, but in reality, I could be a much better writer than she is. The likelihood of my frenemy being smarter than I am in general is minute; therefore, me saying she is smarter than I am is 99.9 percent

invalid. Most of these umbrella statements are overgeneralized and misguided, and you should avoid them if you’re looking to have mercy on your self-esteem.

You can do two things with your frenemies: keep hating them or have the best revenge. Hating them will only kill your confidence and selfesteem. College frenemies should be used as motivation to better yourself, and everyone knows living well is the best revenge.

Russians have a motivational proverb: Only idiots learn by making mistakes. This means a smart person learns from the mistakes of others and doesn’t make those mistakes in the first place. For this particular purpose, I’d like to amend this proverb to include that only idiots let the success of others make them jealous. Go to the gym more often; study just a bit longer; reach out to more people at the next party; let those frustrations turn into action.

Ma rga re t Z e l e n sk i i s a se n i o r criminology and criminal justice and English major. She can be reached at mzelenskidbk@gmail.com.

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SIS’ recent crime of burning alive Jordanian air force pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh seems especially horrible, even compared to the group’s recent executions of British, Japanese and American private citizens. However, though those executions seemed totally senseless, there was a certain twisted military logic to al-Kasasbeh’s death in that the Jordanian had been bombing ISIS’ territory.

Though he personally was no longer a threat to ISIS and could’ve just been imprisoned, killing him in such a horrible way might have been intended to give pause to other air force pilots, no matter their nationality, about continuing these raids. If other pilots were shot down, the same thing might happen to them.

Now, some of them might be noble, as the executed Jordanian airman probably was, and be willing to take the risk of being burned alive to pursue a humane cause of reducing civilian casualties.

However, others might say: If we have to risk our necks, why not use nuclear weapons instead?

This might immeasurably reduce their chances of being shot down and burned alive, as the number of attacks required to achieve success would be far fewer, even though the civilian casualties and destruction of property and priceless artifacts would be so much greater.

And who could blame those pilots for not wanting to be burned alive?

If enough of them rebel, they might be able to force President Obama to either use nuclear weapons or stop the air campaign against ISIS completely, though the war against ISIS might still proceed under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

However, if just a few rebel and say they don’t want to be burned alive, what can President Obama or the allied military authorities do? Give those pilots dishonorable discharges and put them in prison, the way they did Sgt. Perry Mitchell 24 years earlier during the Gulf War under similar circumstances?

ISIS may have discovered a real secret weapon against the West, though it could just as easily backfire.

Jonathan Miller is a graduate student studying geography. He can be reached at jsmiller@umd.edu.

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stay together for the kids The punk-rock band that released its inaugural album Cheshire Cat 20 years ago is growing up, too

By Leo Traub @LeoTraub Staff writer Even if you never went through a punk-rock phase in eighth grade, you can’t possibly have missed blink-182.

Riding the wave of pop-punk music that rose in the mid-’90s, blink-182 became a staple of popular music for anyone our age. Along with bands like Green Day, Sum 41 and Good Charlotte, the band defined everything that was cool about rock music at our most impressionable age, becoming one of our symbols of youth in revolt before we knew any better. This month marks the 20th anniversary of blink-182’s first album, Cheshire Cat, the launch of a punk rock tour de force.

Transcending marginal punk music, blink-182 broke into the mainstream with what seemed to be relative ease. While the band’s first two albums provided its rapid rise in the punk-rock world, it was

its third album, 1999’s Enema of the State, that began drawing mainstream listeners, including our young elementary-age selves. Hits like “What’s My Age Again?” and “All the Small Things” (which is not called “Say It Ain’t So,” contrary to popular belief) made it onto the radio and into our ears.

The band stood out from its contemporaries with obvious singularity. As two uncannily distinct vocalists, Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus made listening interesting, switching off vocal parts and nailing harmonies. However, DeLonge’s voice is the one people still love to impersonate, whining out the chorus of “All The Small Things.”

T h e t r i o wo u l d h a ve b e e n nowhere as complete without drummer Travis Barker, who joined the band before Enema of the State.

One of the greatest rock drummers of the past few decades, Barker’s brilliant syncopation rivals any drum track. He even played entire

shows with only his left hand when his right was in a cast.

Then the guys of blink-182 gave us the soundtrack to our adolescences. Theirs were the songs that washed our birthday parties and bar mitzvahs in the twang of punk guitars and the clash of unapologetic cymbals and drums. Theirs were the voices that whined on the radio as our parents drove us to middle school, or a friend’s house, or perhaps our Little League games. Theirs was the music that first compelled us to headbang and raise up our hands — left palm up, right strumming near our hip — to perform the instinctual “air guitar.”

And suddenly, blink-182 grew up with us. As we matured, the band from our childhood matured as well. Blink-182 progressed from juvenile butt jokes (a bull’s rear end dominates the cover of 1997’s Dude Ranch) to masturbation jokes (2001’s Take Off Your Pants and Jacket) to no jokes at all.

The accelerated growth was noticeable. From the beginning, the guys had always sung about love and relationships. But soon, blink-182 went from addressing issues with parents and having a girlfriend to marriage and divorce. Growing dark but not quite brooding, their two most recent albums touched on themes of loss, depression, addiction and death.

The band went into “indefinite hiatus” in 2005, and DeLonge left the band. The members talked again after Barker was in a plane crash in 2008. At the February 2009 Grammy Awards, the band was back together onstage for the first time since the breakup.

But the band’s most recent controversies have begun besmirching my memories of blink-182. After some confusing back-and-forth bickering between DeLonge and the other two band members, it seems he’s out of the band. DeLonge has also been in the public eye for an interview published last week in which the singer discussed getting his phone tapped

by the government and his belief in aliens and mind control.

With the gossip media hungrily circling the band that defined our youth, I feel obliged to invoke one of blink-182’s own songs and say: “Stay Together for the Kids.”

We grew up with these guys. We played them through school and into college, through parties and high school drama. Seeing them now in this state is like seeing a close friend you grew up with drop out of school, turn to drugs and piss all over the great promise they once had.

Still very much relevant, blink182 has endured as a linchpin of modern rock; even artists such as Mumford & Sons and Owl City have cited the band as their inspiration. But with its future now very much in question, we can only hope that blink-182 manages to pull itself back together. ltraubdbk@gmail.com

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what you may not know about blink-182 • The band added “-182” to its name after an Irish band, Blink, threatened a lawsuit • The music video for “All the Small Things” appears to have been filmed on the same beach as the one in the video for One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful” • Travis Barker was a garbageman before he was a drummer • Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker have cameos in the first American Pie blink-182 members (from left to right) Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker. photo courtesy of wikimedia commons.

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heels From PAGE 8 national championship game.

“It’s been something we’ve been looking forward to over the past month,” Reese said.

“This is a good learning experience for us to kind of see the things that we need to work on against a team that I think is strong [on] all ends of the field.”

McPartland, midfielder Taylor Cummings and attacker Megan Whittle paced the Terps (2-0) with three goals each. In all, six different Terps put shots into the back of the net.

Meanwhile, the defense did an adequate job containing the Tar Heels attack, which entered the contest averaging 16.3 goals per game. The Tar Heels’ 11 goals came on 16 shots.

“My defense was awesome today,” Reese said. “We were

able to come up with a lot of loose balls on the defensive end. We started to get tired towards the end … but again, our defenders pulled through.”

Unlike Saturday’s portion of the game, which the Terps dominated, the part of the first half played Sunday afternoon featured several scoring runs.

After midfielder Zoe Stukenberg opened the scoring for the Terps less than four minutes into the match, the Tar Heels (3-1) responded with two goals of their own, both courtesy of midfielder Brittney Coppa.

Faced with their first deficit of the season, the Terps strung together four straight goals to regain control of the game. Whittle, the nation’s top recruit out of high school, netted two goals during that span.

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The Terps entered halftime with a 7-4 advantage, but the Tar Heels netted three of the first four goals of the second half to cut the lead to one.

North Carolina failed to inch any closer as the Terps claimed the next three scores to regain the comfortable advantage they’d held throughout the contest.

Though their momentum was stunted Saturday, the Terps returned with the same attitude Sunday to cement its place atop the national polls.

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ESPN analyst Jeff Goodman hinted on Twitter that Trimble’s play helped Turgeon keep his job.

“Melo Trimble is Mark Turgeon’s savior,” he tweeted.

Ask Trimble, though, and he’ll say Turgeon, a former point guard at Kansas, deserves credit for his development and the team’s turnaround. But he recognizes the perception that he’s protecting his coach.

“It makes me feel good,” Trimble said in January.

“Turgeon is a great coach, and I don’t think he should have to get fired because he has great passion for the game, and it’s not always the coach’s fault that teams are not doing good. I think that we’re now listening to him, we’re playing up to his expectations, and that’s why we’re doing good.”

Trimble has expressed his admiration for Turgeon time and again in interviews and on social media. The feeling seems mutual.

“He’s so fun to coach,” Turgeon said last week. “He doesn’t say boo, and he’s so quiet. He does exactly what you ask him to do. And I don’t have to motivate him. He motivates himself to play well and be good.”

As the numbers suggest, Tr i m b l e h a s b e e n go o d .

Turgeon also credits his rookie floor general with the team’s success in close games — the Terps are 8-0 in games

bulldogs From PAGE 8 game, though. The Terps scored the contest’s first two goals and put some early pressure on Yale.

For the second week in a row, they scored on their first possession. After goalkeeper Kyle Bernlohr stopped Yale’s first shot, the Terps successfully cleared before working the ball around the offensive formation.

With less than 13 minutes left in the period, attackman Jay Carlson received the ball behind the net from Rambo.

Un cove re d , C a rl so n ra n around the right side of the cage and fired a shot into the top-left corner of the goal.

Less than a minute later, Rambo sprinted around a pick from midfielder Bryan Cole, dodged Yale midfielder James

decided by fewer than seven points — and he gushed over Trimble after he buried two late threes Thursday night to push the Terps past Nebraska, 69-65.

Per usual, Turgeon called Trimble a “winner” after the game and mentioned that he isn’t surprised by anything the subdued 20-year-old does. That’s because Turgeon spent three years watching Trimble play in high school, on the AAU circuit and at O’Connell’s practices.

During Trimble’s highschool years, Turgeon was struggling to find the right fit at point guard for his Terps. Three players who earned time at the position for Turgeon over the past three seasons have transferred away, and another, Terrell Stoglin, left school early after a suspension in 2012.

As such issues persisted, Turgeon remained in contact with Trimble, whom the coach tabbed as the potential fix to one of the program’s most glaring problems.

“Before I got here, it was like, ‘Yeah, I can’t wait for you to get here’ and ‘We’re going to be really good,’” Trimble said of his conversations with Turgeon. “I believed him.”

Trimble’s faith in Turgeon’s words mirrored the coach’s confidence in the player’s abilities.

Now, the two are combining to jolt a fan base that’s been hungry to root for a contender for nearly half a decade. The bond between Trimble and

Turgeon has only grown as the success mounts.

“When I got here we had a lot of talks, private talks, about how to be a great point guard,” Trimble said.

Wootten isn’t shocked the relationship has taken off.

O’Connell’s longtime coach said Trimble stopped by his office every day to chat throughout his four years of high school, and Wootten told Turgeon during the recruiting process that his McDonald’s All-American had an uncanny ability to get along with coaches.

Turgeon saw for himself that day he stopped by practice before Trimble’s junior season, and he’s mentioned he enjoys talking to the guard one-on-one. But as much as Wootten and Turgeon like tutoring Trimble, they both have the same concern.

“He’s not a savior,” Wootten said. “He’s just a guy.”

So as Trimble helps his team storm toward a long-awaited NCAA tournament appearance, Turgeon has tried to give back to the local star by relieving the weight on his shoulders.

He doesn’t want Trimble to be tasked with reviving a onceprominent program, even if, as some suggest, he already has.

“I try to take pressure off him,” Turgeon said. “I don’t like to put too much on him.

Just let him be a young guy and enjoy it. As a coach, you need to step back and say, ‘Go have fun, Melo. Go have fun.’”

Tjarksen and slipped the ball under the leg of goalkeeper Eric Natale.

Rambo pounded his chest and celebrated with his teammates as the team took an early 2-0 lead.

But within four minutes, Yale scored twice and tied the game. The Terps never led again.

The Terps wouldn’t score another goal until midfielder Henry West finished a feed from midfielder Joe LoCascio to cut their deficit to 4-3 with 7:02 remaining in the first half.

With defender Michael Quinn marking Rambo for much of the game, the Terps’ most potent offensive threat was neutralized. And for the first three quarters, neither the Terps nor the Bulldogs could pull away, as virtually every goal was matched with one from the other side.

That changed in the fourth quarter.

“I don’t think there was any time that it really got away from us until the very end,” Tillman said.

Midfielder Colin Flaherty broke the tie early in the quarter when he rifled Yale’s seventh goal of the game past Bernlohr with 12:14 left in regulation. The Bulldogs then held the Terps scoreless for the rest of the contest while pulling away with three more goals of their own.

Wi t h R a m b o re n d e re d ineffective by Quinn, the Terps’ offense lacked rhythm and struggled to generate quality looks. The team unleashed 34 shots, but Natale only made eight saves. Maltz (two goals) turned in the team’s top shot percentage at 40 percent.

On Tuesday, the Terps will have another chance to correct their offensive inefficiencies against Penn, which held Saint Joseph’s to 10 goals last Tuesday.

“We just didn’t execute very well,” Tillman said. “We had a couple opportunities, too, and we didn’t capitalize on those. And that really puts a lot of pressure on your defense.”

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The Terrapins baseball team erased a five-run deficit yesterday to top Arkansas and cap a 2-1 weekend. For more, visit dbknews.com.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2015

MEN’S LACROSSE

WOMEN’S LACROSSE | No. 1 TERPS 13, No. 2 TAR HEELS 11

Offense falls flat in defeat Terps suffer first loss, 10-6, at No. 14 Yale

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer As the clock wound down in the third quarter of the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team’s contest at Yale Saturday afternoon, attackman Matt Rambo chased the ball behind the net.

After recovering the ball, Rambo charged hard to his right, shaking off Bulldogs midfielder Tyler Warner.

With some momentary breathing room, he swung a quick skip pass to attackman Dylan Maltz, who deposited a bullet into the top left corner of the net.

The goal, which tied the contest at six, was the last time the Terps found the back of the net in an eventual 10-6 loss. The Terps’ offense failed to eclipse double-digit goals for the second consecutive game and wasted another solid performance from the defense.

“We had some unforced turnovers, just throwing the ball from one guy to another,” coach John Tillman said.

“We had a couple looks that we didn’t convert. If we can get those, it gives us a little bit of a shot in the arm.”

Tillman’s squad has netted 14 goals in its first two games. By comparison, the Terps didn’t score fewer than 17 goals over any two-game stretch last season.

Midway through their 2014 campaign, the Terps scored eight and nine goals against then-No. 6 North Carolina and then-No. 8 Virginia, respectively.

Otherwise, they notched more than 10 goals at least once every two games.

“We just didn’t play our best game,” Tillman said.

The offense didn’t seem primed for a paltry showing early in Saturday’s See bulldogs, Page 7

midfielder kelly mcpartland sprints around a Tar Heels defender during the No. 1 Terps’ 13-11 victory over No. 2 North Carolina yesterday at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

WEATHERING THE ELEMENTS After snow postpones game, Reese’s squad rolls to victory in contest between title contenders

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer As snow fell and conditions worsened at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex on Saturday afternoon, the top-ranked Terrapins women’s lacrosse team stormed out to a three-goal lead against No. 2 North Carolina.

But less than 10 minutes into the game, of-

ficials made the decision to postpone the contest to Sunday afternoon, when the game would restart with the Terps holding a 4-1 lead.

“A lot of people probably put their heads down,” midfielder Kelly McPartland said. “Then [coach] Cathy [Reese] came in and gave us a speech, and we were like, ‘All right, we just got to do it again. There’s no way to get around it.’”

So the Terps returned to the turf Sunday hoping to re-enact their offensive outburst from

the day before. And after scoring five of the first seven goals of the contest, Reese’s squad held on for a 13-11 win over their former ACC rival.

The win served as revenge for the Terps, whose loss to the Tar Heels last season was the team’s only defeat in an otherwise perfect season. The year before, North Carolina topped the Terps in a triple-overtime thriller in the See heels, Page 7

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Building a beneficial bond Turgeon, Trimble form strong relationship in resurgent season

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

Mark Turgeon, a former point guard at Kansas, said his floor general Melo Trimble has been “so fun to coach” in his freshman season. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

About two and a half years ago, Terrapins men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon attended a practice at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, Virginia, with a specific aim in mind.

Turgeon had offered guard Melo Trimble a scholarship months earlier, and he knew what O’Connell’s star junior could do with the ball in his hands. On this day, he wanted to learn how Trimble acted when it wasn’t.

“He said, ‘I just want to see how he reacts when you coach him,’” O’Connell coach Joe Wootten recalled in the fall. “That’s really important. It’s not just getting the player; it’s getting him and having to coach him.”

Turgeon’s goal was to determine what kind of relationship he’d have with Trimble once he got to College Park. And now that the Upper Marlboro native has been at the helm of Turgeon’s offense for close to a full

regular season, it’s clear to the coach that his bond with the freshman is unique, impactful and an important component of the No. 16 Terps’ resurgence.

Trimble is the leading scorer on a Terps team that sits at 22-5 and looks poised to reach the NCAA tournament. He’s a Bob Cousy Award finalist, was named to the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 and has scored at least 20 points in eight games entering a nationally televised matchup with No. 5 Wisconsin tomorrow.

Trimble’s success has propelled the Terps back to relevance, and perhaps it’s done even more than that for his coach. Turgeon was rumored to be on the hot seat nationally and locally when five players transferred away after the team finished with a 17-15 record last season.

Things are different this year. During the Terps’ double-overtime win at Michigan State in December, a victory that inched Turgeon closer to his first NCAA tournament appearance with this university, See bond, Page 7

guard Melo Trimble is the leading scorer on a Terps team poised to make its first NCAA tournament appearance in Mark Turgeon’s tenure as coach. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL | PENN STATE PREVIEW

Jones provides needed rebounding for Frese, Terps With departures of Thomas, DeVaughn, sophomore center develops into consistent presence on boards

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer Terrapins women’s basketball coach Brenda Frese stood in front of reporters at the team’s media day in October and let everyone know what was keeping her up at night.

It wasn’t her twin sons, but rather pondering who would fill the void left by the departures of two of the best rebounders in program history: Alyssa Thomas and Alicia DeVaughn.

Fast-forward four months, and center Brionna Jones has put Frese’s preseason worries to rest. The 6-foot-3 sophomore, who averaged 4.5 boards per game as a freshman last season, has emerged as one of the best rebounders in the conference.

After a 15-rebound performance at Wisconsin on Thursday, Jones is averaging 11.2 boards per game during conference play. And the No. 5 Terps (24-2, 15-0 Big Ten) will rely on her rebounding prowess when they host Penn

“LAST YEAR, I KIND OF TOOK FOR GRANTED THAT ALYSSA WAS REBOUNDING. ... THIS YEAR, I TOOK IT UPON MYSELF TO TRY TO GET MORE REBOUNDS TO TRY TO HELP THE TEAM.” BRIONNA JONES

Terrapins women’s basketball center State (6-20, 3-12), which features five players at least as tall as Jones. “[Jones is] a winner,” Frese said. “She thrives off of that.

To lose Alyssa and Alicia’s rebounding and to be able to replace that with double-

digit rebounds with Bri has been huge.”

Thomas finished as the Terps’ all-time leading rebounder and DeVaughn ranks No. 9 in program history. During the duo’s four years in College Park, the Terps outrebounded their

opponents by an average of at least 10 boards per game.

Frese thought that convincing advantage was in jeopardy, especially with the Terps headed to the Big Ten, which players deemed a bigger, more physical conference than the ACC. And even with the Terps’ success on the glass this season, guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough maintains rebounding has been tougher against their new opponents.

“I can jump, but I mean, if she’s got 50 pounds on me, then

she’s going to move me out the way,” said Walker-Kimbrough, who ranks second on the Terps with 5.5 rebounds per game.

“It’s a lot more physical.”

Walker-Kimbrough said the Terps used to rely on their athleticism, but in the Big Ten, they have needed more muscle down low. Jones, who has transformed her body since arriving on the campus, has provided that, and it was on full display against the Badgers.

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