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In response to many nonNatalie Schwartz citizens’ con@nmschwartz23 cerns about Senior staff writer their future in a Trump administration, PLUMAS raised more than $1,000 to provide undocumented students and their families with legal aid at its Dream Gala on Monday night.

The organization’s goal was to create a pool of money for undocumented students, or students with non-citizen family members, not just as a resource for “the next four years” but rather as a sustainable resource for those who need it in the future, said Erica Fuentes, Political Latinxs United for Movement and Action in Society president. If the need for the funds subsides, all money will be donated to the Terp DREAM scholarship, provided to first-generation undergraduate students.

More than 90 students and faculty members gathered in Nyumburu Cultural Center’s multipurpose room to support the cause, watch musical performances and listen to the night’s speaker, Janelle Wong, an American studies professor and Asian American studies Program director.

Wong has been involved with organizing resources for undocumented students, such as a website geared toward connecting them with resources, and has been in conversation with university administration about how they can provide more support for their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals students.

However, resources are needed now more than ever, Wong said.

Trump promised to crack down on illegal immigration throughout his campaign. He repeatedly called for the government to “build a wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border and said in June 2015 that Mexican immigrants are “bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

He had also pledged to repeal some of former President Barack Obama’s executive orders, such as the DACA program, which allows certain undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to work and study without threat of deportation.

However, this week the Department of Homeland Security announced DACA would remain intact, though it did highlight expansions of deportation efforts.

This university has 113 DACA students as of fall 2016, as well as 20 students covered under Maryland’s DREAM Act, a law that grants in-state tuition to undocumented students.

Student hit by bus sues Suit seeks $75K$100K damages for September 2015 campus incident

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A former University o f M a r yl a n d student filed a lawsuit against this university and the state on Feb. 3 after a Shuttle-UM bus struck him on the campus in September 2015.

William Fausnaugh, a freshman enrolled in letters and sciences at the time of the incident, suffered non-life threatening injuries but faced “physical pain and suffering, emotion pain and suffering, anxiety, inconvenience … and the loss of many enjoyments of his life” after a crash near the Computer and Space Sciences building, according to court documents obtained by The Diamondback.

He is suing this university and the state for “an amount exceeding $75,000,” the complaint read.

Fausnaugh was riding his bike on Stadium Drive near the intersection of Regents Drive, court documents say. At the same time, university employee Donald Nyundzewira was driving a Shuttle-UM bus along Stadium Drive, behind Fausnaugh, according to the complaint.

A witness of the incident said the bicyclist was trying to make a left turn while in the right lane on Stadium Drive, while the bus was in the left lane, The Diamondback reported in September 2015.

The bus and the bicyclist collided near the Computer and Space Sciences Building, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said after the incident.

“Mr. Nyundzewira did fail … to obey the laws, rules, and regulations of the State of Maryland, and to otherwise operate his vehicle in a reasonable, prudent and safe manner,” Fausnaugh’s complaint read.

The court issued Maryland State Treasurer Nancy Kopp a copy of the complaint Feb. 15. After receiving it, she has 30 days to file a response.

Je f f rey B l o o m , t h e a t to r n ey representing Fausnaugh in the suit, declined to comment on the ongoing case.

“We are aware of the lawsuit, but it is our longtime practice not to comment on ongoing legislation,” said university spokesman Brian Ullmann. by

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‘taboo to talk about’

University Trump supporters say they feel voiceless on a liberal campus

By Natalie Schwartz | @nmschwartz23 | Senior staff writer hat image: gage skidmore/via flickr, cut out and edited for color. photo illustration by evan berkowitz/the diamondback

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hen Shane Havens walked back to his car from class before the election, he found someone had blacked out his President Trump bumper sticker with marker. On more than one other occasion, there was a note waiting on his windshield criticizing Trump.

And although Havens, a senior accounting major, proudly wore his “Make America Great Again” hat to class the day after the election, he received dirty looks from his classmates. He hasn’t worn it on the University of Maryland campus since.

One month after Trump’s inauguration, near-daily protests continue to erupt across the nation in response to his administration and executive orders. Despite claims that Trump’s

victory has emboldened his supporters, the strong backlash against his policies has left some students at this university feeling shut out of political discussion and fearful of hostile reactions from other students.

“It’s definitely taboo to talk about it,” Havens said. “You definitely feel intimidated to speak publicly about it. … I’m all about encouraging free speech and open discussion about things. I think that’s something our campus might be lacking right now.”

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Mold began to grow this past summer in McKeldin’s basement,

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By Lindsey Collins | @LindsECollins | Staff writer Over the past week, University of Maryland Police responded to reports of Title IX violations — both criminal and non-criminal — as well as reports of domestic violence and suspicious activity, according to police reports.

and a female university student in front of the M a i n A d m i n i s t ra t i o n Building. Both individuals spoke with the police, who issued the man an immediate denial to the campus, Hoaas said. This case is closed.

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On Monday at 11:31 a.m., University Police received a report of a rape incident that occurred last March, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said. T he case remains under investigation.

NON-CRIMINAL TITLE IX VIOLATION University Police answered a call Feb. 16 at a b o u t 10 a . m . a f t e r a university employee reported that someone had entered their office space at Susquehanna Hall and left items on their desk, Hoaas said.

Officers met with the person responsible for the unauthorized visit and told the visitor it was inappropriate to access the office space. They also told him to refrain from contacting the university employee going forward. This case is closed.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE O n M o n d a y a t 3 :0 6 a.m., University Police responded to a domestic violence report outside South Campus Commons 1, Hoaas said.

Officials searched the a rea a nd d id n’t locate anyone until 3:32 a.m., when an officer found a man, who is not affiliated with this university,

University Police responded to a call from the Art-Sociology Building on Feb. 16 at 1:22 p.m. after a female university student noticed a man following and taking photos of her, Hoaas said. Officers conducted a search but were unable to locate the man. A video review of the cameras was submitted. This case has been suspended.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT University Police responded to the 4500 block of Knox Road for a report of disorderly conduct, according to police reports.

The incident resulted in an arrest.

TITLE IX-RELATED TELEPHONE/EMAIL MISUSE University Police responded to the 3900 block of Denton Service Lane for a report of a Title IXrelated telephone/email misuse incident. This case is active.

LOST PROPERTY University Police responded to the 7500 block of Baltimore Avenue for a report of lost property.

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Prince George’s school chief nabs second term

Kevin Maxwell, a University of Maryland alumnus, was appointed to a second term at the helm of Prince George’s County Public Schools.

County Executive Rushern Baker announced last week that he would extend Maxwell’s contract through 2 0 2 1 , m a k i n g M a x we l l the first superintendent in nearly 25 years to get a second term. His first threeand-a-half years as schools chief executive officer saw a record-high graduation rate, expansion of prekindergarten programs and several scandals.

“Our job is to make this school system the best it can be for every single child that walks through our door,” Baker said at a press conference Friday.

“And at every moment of the time that [Maxwell] has been here, I have believed ... that is his charge.”

In 2016, 81.4 percent of Prince George’s County high school seniors graduated — the highest percentage in its history. The county historically sends a large number of students to College Park, with 2,460 students enrolling at this university in fall 2016.

Since Maxwell took over, the county has expanded its language immersion programs in several elementary schools and now offers 50 pre-kindergarten programs, up from eight in 2013.

Most importantly, said Scott Peterson, Baker’s press secretary, enrollment by

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This month, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement led a series of raids that resulted in the arrests of more than 600 people in a week, leaving many undocumented students worrying someone they know could be next.

“The air we breathe is different [since the election] ,” Wong said. “It is filled with hostility toward immigrants, and it is filled with fear among immigrants and their supporters.”

Carol Barrios, a senior psychology major, said being the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and having friends from different countries spurred her to come to the event.

“I’ve become really passionate about it because I want to help people,” Barrios said. “Coming here is hope for them.”

Evelyn Canabal-Torres, a professor in the Spanish and Portuguese department, said it is important

KEVIN MAXWELL, the Prince George’s County Public Schools superintendent and a university alumnus, was re-appointed to the position, becoming the first superintendent in nearly 25 years to get a second term following improvements and scandals. a. bailey/via wikimedia commons also increased after years of decline – evidence that “more and more people are investing in their children’s education in Prince George’s County schools under Dr. Maxwell.”

“You can look at several major outcomes,” Peterson said. “What’s up is up, and what’s down should be down.”

Numerous sexual and child abuse scandals rocked the school system since Maxwell took over. In wake of one incident, where a teacher forced a 3-year-old boy to clean up his own urine, the federal government revoked a $6.4 million grant to the county, The Washington Post reported in September.

Prince George’s County Board of Education member Raaheela Ahmed, a 2015 university graduate, criticized Maxwell for his response to these scandals. The CEO didn’t go far enough to meet the needs of all the students in the system, she said.

Ahmed stressed the im-

for faculty to stand in solidarity with their undocumented students. “ We b e l i e v e i n t h i s ,” Canabal-Torres said. “We believe they should have an opportunity to stay here.”

Un d o c u m e n te d i s s u e s aren’t isolated to the Latinx community, Wong said. Unauthorized immigration from Asia has been growing at faster rates than from Mexico and Central America, according to a 2015 Migration Policy Institute report. Moreover, about 600,000 black immigrants in the U.S. are undocumented, according to a 2016 MPI report.

“We have made some progress at the University of Maryland,” Wong said. “We have petitioned the university for more resources and support … We have sought to educate and we have tried to navigate our way toward enhanced legal support.

Students, as this event shows, are leading the way.”

This university’s Undergraduate Student Legal Aid Office has enlisted an immigration attorney who comes in for four hours every 45 days to help with any undocumented

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portance of being “proactive, instead of reactive,” which means “addressing inconsistencies or inadequacies within the system that are identified and doing that in a timely manner,” she said.

In October, the county’s branch of the NAACP called for Baker to remove Maxwell.

The system had been through “one incident after another” and needed “someone to come in and put it back on track,” the branch’s president Bob Ross told The Post.

At his press conference Friday, Baker mentioned the scandals but said they didn’t affect his faith in Maxwell.

“You’re going to have bumps and stumbles,” Baker said. “The question is how you react to those things that go wrong. At every point of an incident that has happened in our school system, I have never lost confidence in [Maxwell].”

Before leading the school system, Maxwell spent 22 years as a teacher, principal and ad-

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ERICA FUENTES, president of PLUMAS (left), and Jocelyn Nolasco, social chair of PLUMAS (right), address the audience at the organization’s DREAM gala Monday. tom hausman/the diamondback students’ needs, Fuentes said.

But the attorney can only give advice and cannot represent the student in court.

Noncitizen students need more access to legal resources, “especially given the political climate,” the senior government and politics major added. “[With] the increase in ICE activity [and] the increase in immigration raids, we feel that that time slot is not enough to meet the demand that the undocumented have right now,” Fuentes said.

This university’s Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy office will assist PLUMAS in assessing

the validity of each student’s request and determining an appropriate amount of funding, Fuentes said.

The event was cosponsored by the Muslim Political Alliance, the NAACP UMD chapter, the UMD Student Labor Action Project and other campus organizations.

“I just love the unity we felt amongst each other,” said Sarah Eshera, a junior mathematics and philosophy major and president of the Muslim Political Association. “It’s important to stand with our undocumented student community.” nschwartzdbk@gmail.com

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Board of Education member K. Alexander Wallace wrote in an email that he admired Maxwell’s devotion.

“Other predecessors to Dr. Maxwell would have resigned from their position once times got hard or public outcry got tough,” Wallace wrote. “Dr. Maxwell’s dedication to his home county and home school system is something to thank and to support.”

Although his predecessors didn’t remain at their post for long, Maxwell said at his press conference that he’s enjoyed his tenure and that he plans to stick around.

“It has been … challenging, but at the same time, it has been some of the most rewarding work that I have ever done,” Maxwell said. “I see this as my capstone for my career. I see this as my legacy of reinvesting in the community that gave me the life that I have today.”

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finding their voices U’s Hearing and Speech Clinic helps transgender community adapt their vocals

By Natalie Schwartz | @nmschwartz23 | Senior staff writer

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endra Goodson plays a game at her job while on the phone, keeping a tally of whether someone she is speaking with refers to her either as “miss” or misgenders her. But lately, more and more people have correctly identified her as a woman, she said.

Goodson, a University of Maryland Facilities Management employee, is a transgender woman who has been retraining her voice to more closely align with her gender identity. She came out to her friends and family in 2015 and at work in May 2016, making her the first transgender Facilities Management employee.

After fully coming out, Goodson said she sought out the resources this university provides for its transgender population.

While looking for information about how to change her name, she stumbled upon transgender voice training offered by the Hearing and Speech Clinic — a service that aims to help members of the transgender community find a voice they are happy with.

“Sometimes this is someone’s first step,” said Kristin Slawson, a hearing and speech sciences clinical assistant professor. “One of the first things they want to do is figure out their voice so that it matches when they do want to present their desired gender. … [And] sometimes the voice … is the piece that helped [them] really feel like it all came together.”

The clinic begins by putting together a communication profile for its clients, Slawson said. This is a test that shows them where they “fall on the spectrum” between a more traditionally male-sounding voice and a more traditionally female-sounding voice, Goodson said.

A masculine voice typically measures around 120 hertz, whereas a feminine voice falls around 220 hertz, said Christie Block, a speech-language pathologist from the New York Speech and Voice Lab. A genderambiguous voice falls somewhere between 155 hertz and 187 hertz.

Most people who seek out the program are transgender women, because they have the

Kendra Goodson reached out to the Hearing and Speech Clinic to develop a more feminine voice type. file photo/the diamondback biggest “physical deviation” from the voice they are going for, Slawson said. Transgender women’s vocal cords tend to be longer and thicker and must be overcome with training, whereas transgender men’s voices tend to lower when they take testosterone.

While many clients come in focused just on pitch, there are many other subtle differences between how men and women communicate, such as word choice, body language, inflection and intonation, Slawson said.

When women speak they use more variation in their pitch, hitting more highs and more lows, while men tend to keep a relatively flat pitch, but stress with emphasis and prolongation. For example, it would be more typical for a man to say, “That was soooo awesome,” Slawson said.

Women also tend to have a more colorful language, selecting words like “fabulous” and “fantastic” more often, Slawson said.

Body language can also be a crucial indicator of someone’s gender. So the clinic may, for example, work on walking with a client.

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tend to have a wider stride and let their knees come apart a little bit — things you don’t even think about.”

Not everyone seeking help from the clinic wants to work on body language or is focused on sounding stereotypically feminine or masculine, Slawson added.

The clinic tailors the sessions to each of its clients’ individual goals.

Clients typically come in for two 50-minute sessions each week. These sessions aren’t enough to make the desired change in voice, so clients must be willing to constantly work outside of the sessions, Slawson said.

“Folks have to go out and practice,” Slawson said.“It may not be at work where they haven’t begun to transition yet — that’s OK — but they’ve got to have people … that they can practice their new voice with; somebody that they feel comfortable experimenting with, that they can try a voice and get a little feedback.

“That’s a really important piece in the generalization process.”

The program isn’t only about teaching clients different vocal techniques, but also

“counseling and having the person become comfortable using the voice in different settings,” said Emily McCullough, a master’s speech-language pathology student.

McCullough will assign clients to “do things that challenge their comfort level,” she said.

For example, she might start with a low-level situation like asking a client to call her twice a week and leave a message. The next week she might ask them to do something a little more scary, she said, such as calling the pharmacy or doctor. Eventually she wants her clients to be comfortable with high-anxiety situations, like giving a speech in class.

One of Goodson’s favorite assignments was to find a celebrity whose voice she wanted to emulate. Goodson selected Scarlett Johansson because of the movie star’s lower voice, she said.

The clinic also encourages clients to constantly record their voices and listen for things they like and don’t like, Slawson said.

Goodson began recording and tracking her voice with YouTube videos shortly after she came out. She said she’s been able to hear the gradual improvement in her voice and has surprised herself because she can no longer comfortably return to her former voice.

“I tried and tried and I couldn’t get [to my old voice],” Goodson said. “Once you get to a point, it just stays there. It’s a natural thing.”

Slawson said she averages about two transgender clients per semester. An initial evaluation costs $190 and each session is $50 for sessions in the daytime and $55 per session for sessions in the evening. There is a “sliding scale” on the price for students who may not be able to afford it, and University of Maryland students receive a 50 percent discount.

“It’s really needed, especially with trans women that have a very deep voice,” Goodson said. “Sometimes they give up.

They don’t have to give up. They can do it. … It’s changed my life for the better.” nschwartzdbk@gmail.com

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Sam Wallace @opiniondbk Columnist

Since the start of the Great But the state pension system is antithetical to these Recession in 2008, the debate values in a number of ways. First, throughout a person’s over pension funding levels career, both the employer (the state) and employee conhas become commonplace in tribute a percentage of the employee’s paycheck to their Maryland’s General Assembly. As the state’s pension retirement account. But under the current system, an fund, with only 70 percent of the money needed to employee who wants to transition to work outside of provide benefits to retiring employees, begins to account state employment isn’t entitled to the state’s contribufor severe underperformance of its investment, legis- tion unless they’ve worked for the state for at least 10 lators and Gov. Larry Hogan will struggle to provide years. The state’s pension system discourages a generation of job seekers who value being able to switch jobs adequate additional funding.

But there’s an equally important question that isn’t and still have a secure retirement.

Secondly, employees aren’t given flexibility in how being asked enough: Why is Maryland’s pension system their retirement funds are invested. Currently, all constill structured for a 20th-century workforce?

Pensions, like salary or healthcare benefits, are part tributions from the state and employee are put in one of the incentives an employer can provide to attract state pension fund — which has been severely underemployees to work for them.The current pension system performing as of late — with no ability to control the sort of investment options their fails to meet the needs of millennial money is going toward. But this workers, and therefore fails to attract excerpt one-size-fits-all approach is top talent to the state government.

Our generation is unappealing. If given the ability Not convinced the pension system more likely to move to choose for themselves, an isn’t tailored to today’s workforce? Try employee might practice more asking yourself and your friends a few between multiple aggressive investing earlier in simple questions: Do you want to work jobs with the their working life and more for a decade at the same company right conservative later on. out of college? Do you want to control desire to control The state also provides little the investment of your retirement our own money. flexibility in how employees can funds to match your goals in life? Do receive benefits. Upon retireyou want to control how you receive the benefits you’ve earned throughout your employ- ment, an employee can receive structured payments equivalent to a percentage of their salary for the remainder ment during retirement?

Our generation is more likely to move between of their lifetime,or elect for payments to go to a designated multiple jobs with the desire to control our own beneficiary. But what if employees want something else? money. A 2016 Gallup study found 60 percent of Some employees may choose to retire early and want to millennials were open to moving to a new job and transfer money over to another account. Others might more than one-fifth had moved jobs in the past want the ability to take out a lump sum for their immediate year alone. If the job market improved, 36 percent use. Still, others might prefer an annuity.

It is obvious Maryland’s pension offerings to many of millennials said they would look for a different job in the next year, a full 15 percent higher than state employees are simply out of date. The state would attract greater talent, especially among milworkers of other generations.

A separate report conducted by North Carolina State lennials, if it offered greater portability of benefits, University reported, over a 23-year period, younger pro- flexibility in how benefits are conferred upon retirefessionals consistently chose plans with higher mobility ment and the ability to control how retirement funds of retirement benefits between jobs when they were are being invested. offered. Our generation values mobility, freedom and personal control. samhwallace@gmail.com

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Erin Hill @erin_mhill Columnist

Appropriation is a word that’s b e e n tosse d around quite a bit in the past few years, and it’s been controversial in almost every context.

Cultural appropriation, a recently divisive topic, is the “adoption or theft of icons, rituals, aesthetic standards and behavior from one culture or subculture by another.”

Appropriation itself originally came to the foreground when pop artists in the ’50s and ’60s took scope of their increasingly commercialized world and incorporated the images they saw into their work. Since the conception of pop art, critics have been almost unable to completely untangle artful appropriation from stealing, just like sociologists still grapple with the nuances between cultural appropriation and cultural exchange.

An interesting variation of these forms of appropriation is almost a reverse of appropriation in art. Just as artists steal from advertisements, popular media, news etc, so does the capitalist sphere steal from artists. The question remains: When does artistic exchange end and exploitation begin?

If art is being used to sell massproduced products without the artist’s consent, is the product a commercialized way to acknowledge the artistic sentiments that the artist represents, or is it an insult to the artist’s work? There is no black and white answer.

On one hand, Republic Nail Inc. has released a line of beauty products called “Frida Kahlo” after the famed Mexican painter. Each item’s packaging has a simplified rendering of a piece of her art or simply a portrait of her. One portrait in particular strikes me: it is a reproduction of her 1946 piece, “The Wounded Deer.” This painting, which depicts Kahlo as a young buck fatally shot with arrows, is widely interpreted to be a harrowing metaphor of Kahlo’s chronic pain due to her numerous health problems and fruitless struggle to change her own destiny. But today, it’s being used to sell nail polish at CVS. Despite flattering intentions, that just

doesn’t sit well, especially considering Kahlo was an outspoken member of the Communist party.

There may be no heuristic way to decide if art should be used to sell a product. If Republic Nails Inc. put a statement on its website as to why the company chose to revere a great painter’s work by putting her image on its products, would this then be appreciation instead of exploitation?

That’s for you to decide. Maybe it isn’t as offensive as traditional Hindu bindis being sold as a summer accessory à la cultural appropriation, but maybe it’s slightly more important than the stillannoying people who wear Thrasher T-shirts without having heard of the skateboarding magazine.

We have companies like Uniqlo, who have an entire line of graphic tees emblazoned with the work of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.

At first, when I saw these, I felt a little annoyed. Here is this multi-million dollar company, presenting itself as eclectic and socially aware by showcasing a collection of T-shirts being sold for $14.90. This seemed like the kind of thing where, with the right advertising, a corporation could make you feel passionate about aspects of culture you may have known very little about, just to make a quick buck.

Upon further consideration, I realized I may be wrong. No, the late Andy Warhol’s estate is not receiving any of the profits from his reproduced work, but the man sure did love capitalism.

He once said, “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” Andy Warhol might’ve actually gotten a kick that his work, which is largely based around exploitation, celebrity and consumer culture, has become part of the culture itself.

There’s an entire social spectrum on how insensitive a small gesture can be, and there’s really no cut-and-dry way to approach it other than to stay educated, be aware and make up your own mind on the statement you or a corporation might be making. erin.mckendry.hill@gmail.com

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The darker side of tokenism

Maris Medina Ever since I @marisgmedina came to college, I have unknowColumnist ingly become a “token Asian friend.” With this special, gold star privilege of being the only Asian friend in my friend group — and one of two minorities — I have been the butt of various Asian jokes (Maris, where are your eyes?

Maris, do you want me to take off my shoes at the door?). I have also been expected to possess infinite knowledge on everything pertaining to both stir fry and surviving all-nighters at McKeldin Library, and have generally stepped up as the immediate go-to when anyone has any questions pertaining to the realm of being Asian.

Given my inherent position as the glorified Asian friend among my friends — whom I love and appreciate dearly, don’t get me wrong — I have simultaneously been revered as the voice for all Asian people everywhere while feeling isolated and even unintentionally caricatured as“other.”My status as a “token,” a term first coined

by Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter to describe minority groups that compose less than 15 percent of the total group, doesn’t end within the confines of my friend group.

As a journalism student, I can count on one hand the number of Asian individuals within my course classes. I can literally name every single one of the few Asian residents living in my hall. But tokens don’t exactly live lives that complement

our ironically connoted nickname.

In fact, aside from social groups, token minorities persist through a myriad of difficulties when breaking into vocational fields that historically did not welcome them. In her 1977 book Men and Women of the Corporation, Kanter researched women in sales — especially Fortune 500 companies — a historically and currently male-dominated field. She found these women felt “added performance pressures, felt isolated from the dominant group, and believed they were forced into roles consistent with their identity as a minority.”

This same phenomenon can be applied to any field in which a minority is present — whether it be male teachers working in education or nursing, or my own example as an Asian woman pursuing journalism.

But wait: Isn’t it good that minorities are gaining visibility? Isn’t the fact that there are minorities now in fields in which they weren’t present before exciting? While it is certainly acknowledgeable that individuals belonging to minority groups — such as myself — are breaking into, thriving and excelling in these unconventional fields, there is a fine line between being treated as “other” and being treated as an equal.

Kanter defines tokenism as having three distinct consequences: visibility, polarization and assimilation.

She surmises that with increased visibility comes unparalleled and unwanted attention, leading many to feel “added pressure to perform

well as their actions reflect on all tokens,” and even causing some to underachieve in order to “fly ‘under the radar’” and avoid drawing attention. Polarization is exactly what it sounds like; the differences between tokens and their dominant peers are magnified and exacerbated. Lastly, minority members are often assimilated. Because dominant group members don’t really know how to treat us, we are trapped within roles that best characterize (which is to say, stereotype) our group.

Having said that, I’m not here to say I don’t sometimes bask in being the token Asian friend or the token Asian journalist in the room. I can contribute necessary yet underrepresented viewpoints in difficult conversations. I can assert myself as someone who has worked hard to earn my spot, despite the setbacks being a minority inherently affords me. And despite this, I have places and people to turn to when needed, such as my sisters in Alpha Kappa Delta Phi, an Asian-interest sorority on campus.

However, tokenism — whether systemic or informal — can often be a recipe for isolation and casual racism.

Asian jokes can be funny. Women are breaking into new fields. That’s cause for visible acknowledgment, even celebration. But at the end of the day, if not addressed sensitively, tokenism can antagonize the very people it attempts to commend. marismedina29@gmail.com

The United States bestows upon its citizens many freedoms.

We are free to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Americans can climb the social ladder, defy all odds and attain monumental achievements. America does not currently conscript citizens into national service and we are free to pursue the lives we seek. But one can be easily lost in self-centeredness. Therefore, as part of our high school education, we should ensure that our youth — who will one day determine the fate of our country — learn empathy, hard work and sacrifice through the eye-opening experiences that community service provides.

Throughout the world, nations conscript their citizens into mandatory military service. Countries such as Israel, Greece, Austria and South Korea, among many others, draft their citizens into national service. Their youth both sacrifice for the common good and learn about the vast disparities in the backgrounds of their compatriots. America has no such gathering point for all of society.

Sure, Americans root for the red, white and blue when the Olympics roll around, but day to day we agonize over our own burgeoning to-do list of occupational assignments, personal errands and individual ambitions. Thus, voluntary acts in which individuals coalesce to enhance the community at large should be mandated for high school students. This directive will educate students about the importance of social involvement at a crucial age, which will teach them altruism and encourage the continuation of worthwhile acts in their adult lives.

I present my edict of mandatory community service as follows. All high school students nationwide, both public and private, must participate in 20 hours of unpaid community service per school year. Such exceptions will be made to students who must work to provide for their family. Students will propose a

volunteer opportunity that interests them to a school adviser, who will evaluate the merit of the proposal. I also encourage students to unite and create their own innovative volunteer projects and organizations. Such initiative and teamwork will improve the students’ leadership skills, imbue in them a respect and understanding of entrepreneurship and inspire the community through their passion. This will ensure that volunteering both benefits the community and engages the student in an area that excites him or her.

Additionally, community service sensitizes people to the travails of others, while also providing volunteers with valuable interpersonal skills. High school students are often unaware of what direction to follow after graduation, and volunteering opens them up to a multitude of potential paths.

By stepping outside of their comfort zone, volunteers interact with people from different backgrounds to solve difficult problems that the community faces. At a local food bank, students can connect with people from less fortunate economic backgrounds and learn from these peoples’ life experiences.

Or, a student can adopt a “grandfriend” at a nearby senior citizens center and connect on a more intimate level with an elderly person who might not have family close by to visit him. Such inspirations are best invoked by experience; when individuals see and feel a problem in person, they are driven to great lengths to hunt down a solution for the benefit of those suffering.

Not everything in life is meant to be easy. Nor is everything meant to serve the self. With mandated community service, we can help our youth thrive and create a better community for the future. These achievements will mold students into more knowledgeable, driven and altruistic citizens. jkuttler@umd.edu

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the college park farmers market could be threatened by new fire safety regulations at the county level that require certified, flame-resistant tents and canopies. file photo/the diamondback

County’s new fire safety regulation could threaten College Park’s farmers markets

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new Prince George’s County restriction could threaten College Park’s Downtown and Hollywood farmers markets by requiring vendors to use tents that are flame-resistant and certified by the National Fire Protection Agency.

The approved canopies must meet the NFPA’s textile standards and have an NFPA label, said Julie Beavers, market manager for the city’s farmers markets, at Tuesday’s College Park City Council meeting. This county’s fire marshal is in charge of enforcing the restriction, she added.

Not all city vendors can afford the cost of these canopies, which sell for about $200 on Amazon, Beavers said.

“This expense is too much for them,” Beavers said. “It could be a problem.”

Though Beavers said the rule is supposed to be enforced, she’s not sure what

mckeldin From p. 1 To prevent water from causing problems in McKeldin, Facilities Management will likely have

will come of it this farmers market season.

The farmers markets will open for the season in late April.

In addition to concern over the canopy restriction, the council discussed how the farmers markets can expand outreach so attendance does not drop so heavily when students leave for the summer.

The downtown location particularly struggles during summer months, District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan said before Tuesday’s meeting.

“When the students go away for the summer, all of the demand goes with them,” he said.

Brennan said he remained optimistic about business for that location.

“With the advent of the new student complexes like Terrapin Row and the Landmark, we’re hoping we’ll see students sticking around,” he said. He added many students and city residents might not be

to divert downspouts, which collect water from the roof and bring it through pipes within the library’s walls and into the building’s foundation drains, Baker said.

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aware of the value of the farmers markets.

The city plans to use Facebook advertising “to help students become aware” of the city’s farmers markets, said Ryan Chelton, the city’s economic development coordinator. Chelton also reached out to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center to see if student musicians would like to practice or perform at the city’s farmers markets.

The city also plans to expand its advertising efforts with business cards that have coupons for each vendor on the back, as well as posters in Terrapin Row and other campus high-rises, Beavers said.

“We are definitely catered to our students — and I don’t mind it, I love it,” Beavers said.

Staff writer Laura Spitalniak contributed to this report. acarolandbk@gmail.com

If the situation proves dire enough, Facilities Management will have to dig around the foundation, reseal it and then install new drainage systems, which would cost close to $1 million. The process would take one to two years, Baker said.

“I’m sure trying to avoid [digging up and resealing the foundation], because we have a lot of projects on campus that need to be done,” Baker said, highlighting an ongoing stormwater management plan that will cost several million dollars to implement.

There’s a possibility the water spillage in the library became more evident after Fa c i l i t i e s M a n a g e m e n t

renovated McKeldin Mall last summer, which could have caused compacted dirt to change the flow of underground streams, Baker said, but Facilities Management is still trying to find where the water is coming from.

“Water’s a funny thing, it can move in a lot of different directions,” Baker said.

“So where it’s coming out of the wall may not be the major problem.”

Bartheld added that the water coming up from underneath McKeldin Mall is a new problem; however, water leaking into McKeldin Library has been an issue for as long as Baker has worked at this university — more than 20 years.

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The College Park City Council butted heads with State Highway Administration officials Tuesday night, disagreeing with some aspects of the SHA’s s i x p ro p osa l s fo r roa d changes in College Park.

The SHA, which gave its annual presentation on important projects planned for the city during Tuesday’s work session, recommended removing the exit ramp off the inner loop of the Beltway to northbound Route 1 — a move councilmembers said would increase traffic in the area. The exit ramp comes off the Beltway toward Laurel, where drivers have the option to get off the ramp into College Park or split north toward Laurel, District 1 Councilwoman Christine Nagle said. She noted that this proposal would eliminate the Laurel option, causing both lanes to come together.

“This project is just from a safety perspective,” said Anyesha Mookherjee, SHA assistant district engineer for traffic. In theory, the change would eliminate “the weaving movement” for cars that enter and exit the Beltway, Mookherjee said.

The SHA plans to implement left turns into the Route 1 southbound ramp to compensate for removal of the Beltway inner loop.

Nagle said the exit ramp is already “heavily failing” and would only become more congested with the road change.

“You’re creating more [of a] safety hazard than you do by allowing two cars to weave back and forth going the other way,” Nagle said.

The SHA expects to review the concept for that exit by April, according to the city’s agenda.

Highway officials tell the city about their design plans, which the city then discusses with them to recommend changes.

Disagreements between Na g l e a n d D i s t r i c t 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir spurred the council to consider either inviting N icolas Saavedra — t h e S H A’s p ro j e c t manager — to a meeting or sending him a letter to express their concerns.

If the SHA still approves the plan, Mookherjee assured the council it will be only one of the preliminary steps of the exit’s redesign.

College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn said he was “extremely concerned” about that project.

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MCkeldin library’s mold in the basement could cost $1 million to fix. file photo/the diamondback “Most basements have water problems or can have water problems if the basements are old, and if some of the foundation drains aren’t working properly,” Baker said.

“So that certainly is the situation at McKeldin.”

There have been mold issues in other areas of McKeldin as well, Bartheld said, usually during the summer when the air is humid. Whenever Facilities Management finds mold in McKeldin Library, they treat it with Clorox, Baker said.

“It really all stems back to a weak [heating, ventilation and air conditioning system], and it’s something that libraries have to be vigilant about,” he said.

The problem is augmented by the fact that McKeldin Library “literally is sitting in a bowl,” Baker said, meaning it lies in a valley running from Anne Arundel Hall through the Main Administration Building, and eventually to Paint Branch stream. The other valley on the campus runs from the University of Maryland Golf Course through Maryland Stadium and North Campus, ending at the Paint Branch stream.

“Hopefully we can control it by diverting the water,” Baker said. “And we’ll go from there.” acarolandbk@gmail.com

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white house update trump From p. 1 Trump has signed a spate of contentious executive orders — including a 90-day immigration ban on seven Muslim-majority countries, a directive to begin scaling back parts of the Affordable Care Act and a stop on government funding to international organizations that provide abortions — which have intensified political tension and spurred students to participate in marches and protests in Washington and on the campus. New student groups such as the Muslim Political Alliance, a group aiming to give Muslim students a political voice, have also started cropping up in response to the shifting political landscape.

Christina O’Connell, a junior finance and accounting major,

said she tends to keep her support for Trump private, citing her fear of losing friends on a more leftleaning campus.

Excluding provisional ballots, less than 15 percent of students voted for Trump in Ritchie Coliseum and Stamp Student Union on Nov. 8. Some of O’Connell’s more liberal friends have complained to her about Trump supporters on their Facebook feeds and asked anyone who voted for Trump to defriend them, O’Connell said.

No t b e i n g a b l e to s h a re h e r political views can be isolating, O’Connell said, adding Trump supporters may worry that other students will conflate their support for Trump with being a racist.

On the campaign trail, Trump implied the federal judge presiding over a class action lawsuit against Trump University would be

unable to stay unbiased because of his Mexican heritage, a statement Speaker of the House Paul Ryan claimed was a “textbook definition” of racism. Trump was also slow to disavow the Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke after an interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper in February 2016. “[It’s] a very hostile environment toward conservatives, and I think that that’s not really what being at a university is about,” O’Connell said. “It’s about learning about the world and learning other people’s viewpoints other than yourself.

And if we as a university allow a culture where one viewpoint seriously outweighs the other and makes the other feel endangered … then I think we’ve endangered the whole part of the reason why our democracy works.”

Havens noted many of his professors continue to make jabs and constantly criticize the new president in class, which has become part of the culture on the campus, he said. Some professors even postponed exams and canceled classes in wake of Trump’s election.

In an email to students after the election, one professor, Alan Peel, said his decision to postpone an exam

was not political, but rather necessary “given that the nation in which you currently reside decided last night to elect a president whose own words have painted him a moral and physical hazard to many of us.”

O’Connell said professors should instead be giving equal weight to a “whole slew of different” ideas and creating safe spaces where students can freely share their opinions.

“It is totally OK to disagree with each other,” O’Connell said. “But when it becomes somewhat of a hostile disagreement I think that’s when we’re entering a dangerous space.”

While Terps for Trump member Nicholas Zielinski said the campus is more tolerant than most, he added that he doesn’t publicize his views because of the stigma attached to them. “[It’s] way more [tolerant] than Berkeley,” Zielinski said. “It’s not like we’ve had any controversial things happen here that might trigger an event like that.”

Violent riots involving about 150 masked protestors who threw smoke bombs and smashed barricades broke out on the University of California, Berkeley’s campus earlier this month before M ilo

Yi a n n o p o u l os, a co n se rva t ive Breitbart editor, was set to speak.

Yiannopoulos was also scheduled to speak at this university in October, but Terps for Trump failed to submit the proper paperwork by the deadline and could not afford security costs for the event. This university had upped the security costs for that particular event to account for safety concerns.

Zielinski said he isn’t concerned as much about his safety as he is about people judging him because of his views.

“You don’t want it getting in the way of anything else, like employment or friendships,” said Zielinski, a junior fire protection engineering major. “It’s not worth it going around public when it could be an issue.”

O’Connell said the lack of respect that is shown for opposing opinions is frustrating.

“President Loh espouses the fact that we have a fearless university,” O’Connell said. “I don’t understand how we can be building and growing fearless leaders if we all can’t support each other in our own viewpoints and endeavors.” nschwartzdbk@gmail.com

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Trump keeps DACA but ups deportation The Department of Christine Condon Homeland Security un@CChristine19 veiled plans Tuesday to expand deportations of Staff writer undocumented immigrants, but DACA — a federal program that protects undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children — will remain intact under President Trump’s administration.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals allows these immigrants to work and study for two-year intervals while protected from deportation.

DACA also allows students to receive in-state tuition at the University of Maryland. Former President Barack Obama created the program through an executive order in 2012. by

The ProtectUMD student group coalition raised concerns about the future of DACA after Trump’s election, as Trump promised throughout his campaign to crack down on illegal immigration. As of fall 2016, there were 113 DACA students attending this university, as well as 20 students covered by Maryland’s DREAM Act. The department’s plans prioritize undocumented immigrants convicted of any crime, in keeping with Trump’s campaign stances on the issue. Undocumented immigrants convicted of serious crimes topped the list for deportation during Obama’s administration.

The plans will also allow for expedited removals for any undocumented immigrant residing anywhere in the nation

for less than two years. Previously, these removals were only used for immigrants who had been apprehended within 100 miles of the border and had been in the country for no more than two weeks.

The department released its plans as “guidance documents.” These memos advise the department to begin the process of hiring 10,000 new immigration and customs officers, and to set up a new office within Immigration and Customs Enforcement to aid the families of those killed by undocumented immigrants.

Jocelyn Nolasco, a sophomore government and politics major and social chair for PLUMAS, called Trump a “loose cannon,” stating that many undocumented students feel uncertain

about the future. She said the group has received requests for escorts to class from undocumented students fearing punitive action.

“We’re supposed to be fearless leaders, but how can we do that when literally our government teaches us to be in fear?”

Nolasco said, adding that she expects trust in police and undocumented student attendance at this university to decrease as a result of the new policies.

The documents also leave another Obama immigration program — Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents — intact, although the courts have blocked the program.

Trump signed an executive order Jan. 25 to begin construction of a

wall on the Mexico border, although the funding has not been allocated for such action. He has also issued orders increasing the ranks of border patrol forces and the number of immigration enforcement officials and threatened to pull federal funding from sanctuary cities that protect undocumented immigrants.

Last week, thousands across the nation protested during “A Day Without Immigrants,” when immigrants — documented and undocumented — skipped work or school in order to show they are an integral part of daily life. Several College Park area restaurants were closed as a result of the protest. ccondondbk@gmail.com

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INTO THE INFINITE Yayoi Kusama at the Hirshhorn thrives on its immersive nature that cannot be contained by

The only f l aw o f Evan Berkowitz “Yayoi @TheEndOfMyWitz Kusama: For The DBK Infinity M i r r o r s ,” w h i c h o p e n s Thursday at the Hirshhorn M u s e u m a n d S c u l p t u re Garden, is its setting.

So immersive, demanding and enthralling, the show does not do well to dwell within walls, no matter how white or how circular.

B eyo n d t h e e x p l o s i ve c o l o r p a l e t te t h a t we l comely overloads the senses, the show’s interactivity demands more time than eve n t h e H i rs h h o r n ca n give it. Beyond the jarring, dichotomous themes that whiplash attentive viewers between male and female, light and dark or earthly and heavenly, the show’s immersion deserves a total separation no building can give to it.

These drastic interplays are organized with remarkable clarity such that one can, with care, follow the progression upward toward space, light and femininity as one imagines Kusama encountering the same within herself.

The first gallery presents an amuse-bouche of works on paper that feel maternal and are deeply tied to the earthen core of Kusama’s childhood on a Honshu plant nursery.

The dulcet brown tones of the works combine with t h e i r i n t ra c ta b l e b o d i ly shapes to create a grounded sense of solidity.

T h i s eva p o ra te s a s Ku s a m a t rave l s f u r t h e r and further into her mind, rejecting, per exhibition curator M ika Yoshitake, the Japanese painterly techniques she first learned for

yayoi kusama’s 2007 work “Dots Obsession—Love Transformed Into Dots” is a womb-like environment, featuring floating orbs that defy the maternal convention of Earth. photo courtesy of the hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden/ courtesy of ota fine arts, tokyo/singapore;victoria mira, london/david zwirner, new york/(C) yayoi kusama/photo by cathy carver

the surrealist methods and modernist tendencies she would come to wholeheartedly embrace. “ V i o l e t O b s e s s i o n ,” a large purple rowboat with its image repeated on every surrounding surface, carries visitors over the proverbial Styx as she makes this transition. It also introduces the artist’s obsessive fear and use of phalluses.

Born out of childhood traumas in which Kusama’s mother told her to spy on her father while he had affairs, the artist’s phobia of sex, particularly in the male form, pervades most of her artwork once it is noticed.

Interestingly, though, it is the phalluses — the paternal works — that stay grounded and earth-tied while womblike, maternal forms float

above. This is a unique reversal of the Mother Earth trope that has informed such artistic dialogue since Uranus and Gaia.

In the first set of sculpt u re s , s h o e s a n d o t h e r earthly talismans ground the objects as “phallic tubers” take them over. In 1974’s “A Snake,” the soft, stuffed appendages reach up like seedlings from a harrowed field.

In the first infinity mirror, “Phalli’s Field,” the forms h a v e e a r n e d K u s a m a ’s trademark polka dot patterning, but still rise from the floor like plants. The room, Kusama’s first, is mirrored to infinity on the edges, but has yet to adopt a reflective ceiling.

Later, Kusama abandons earth for the ethereal and begins to more fervently

explore femininity.

Visitors enter “Dots Obsession — Love Transformed into Dots” through a pair of pink spotted curtains and find an utterly womb-like environment within, where lit orbs hang from umbilical power cords and all is maternal in a very literal sense.

Soon, though, she searches deeper, using the warmth of candles and all they connote — home life, even death — in “Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity.”

The infinity room almost feels like a catacomb as its transmits maternity into Earth once more.

The exhibition’s careful order makes these bifurcated paths commendably lucid. Within specific works, though, Kusama’s neurotic, dissociative swings — flash-

ing lights, strobes, everchanging colors and, often, total darkness — snap the viewer to attention.

(In addition to the childh o o d t ra u m a s , K u s a m a suffers from mental illness and lives voluntarily in an institution near her Tokyo studio.)

In th e co nfines o f th e mirrored room, all of these stories — if you cared to learn them — echo cacophonously, doubled by whatever insecurities about life, death, sex and personhood that enter with you.

With these ideas alone, the artwork is difficult.

The shortcomings of the museum setting multiply this exponentially.

Beyond the core mental discussion, one is now faced with the self-consciousness

of being alone in a box.

Yo u c o u n t d o w n t h e seconds of your allotted 60 ‘til nearly half expire.

You focus on how forcefully the door was closed long after its sound has stopped echoing.

Yo u c o n te m p l a te t h e people behind you in line and the temperament of the guide who let you in.

You arrange yourself when you perceive it’s nearly time to exit and, if God forbid you insist on capturing the moment for some undeserving internet posterity, you agonize over how to frame a selfie in a mirrored room with ever-changing light.

On the surface, perhaps, none of this needs to h a p p e n . I t ’s b e a u t i f u l without context and people will throw it a like on Instagram no matter how deep you delve.

But far more satisfying is the process of considering, rectifying and silencing these thoughts — deep or incidental — to revel in the quietude that can result.

Strip away Kusama’s intentions and your own insecurities. Pare down the invading vestiges of the museum outside.

Stop up your ears, steady your eyes and simply exist in the space until the little beep of a stopwatch, quiet knock and whoosh of a door mean you must leave it.

You still won’t want to depart, but at least you’ll h a ve t a k e n t h e t i m e to glimpse the infinite.

“Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors” runs at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden through May 14, with free timed passes required. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

essay | teen suicide on screen

The problem with 13 Reasons The Netflix book adaptation raises questions about teen suicide in art by

I was 13 Taylor Stokes when I first @taylormstokes picked up Jay Asher’s young Staff writer adult novel, Thirteen Reasons Why . I remember really having to convince myself to start reading the emotionallycharged pages. Even today I can’t fully explain why I even started to read it. I knew the subject matter focused on a young teenage girl committing suicide and that the reasons for her suicide would be laid out in full detail for me to witness. In some ways I knew her story would negatively affect me, yet I began to read anyway.

I remember debating with my mom about the subject, arguing that it was important for me to learn about these mature subjects. My argument was based on the fact that the book itself was actually an advocate for suicide prevention, highlighting the multiple ways the tragic event could have been avoided. Her response was one that, until quite recently, I’d actively dismissed: “Your entertainment is derived from another person’s pain. That darkness can be dangerous.”

I n e s s e n c e , T h i r te e n Reasons Why is a story about blame. Hannah Baker is a high

school student who commits suicide before the story even begins. She leaves behind 13 cassette tapes, each of which containing a reason why she decided to kill herself. These cassettes are posthumously passed around to each of the people who influenced Hannah’s decision, ultimately holding each person responsible for their actions.

On Jan. 25, Netflix dropped its first teaser trailer for its television adaptation of Asher’s bestseller. The hype surrounding 13 Reasons Why was pretty high to begin with, especially since it was revealed that Spotlight director Tom McCarthy would be directing a couple episodes and that Selena Gomez would be acting as executive producer for the project. With the series set to air on March 31, there’s still a while before we’ll actually get to see it. Rather than waiting in anticipation, potential viewers could call to question the delicacies surrounding the project. Namely, is it really okay to visually bring to life the story of a girl who ended hers?

For many, suicide is not a new topic of discussion. According to a report from the CDC “the national suicide rate across all demographics is at an almost 30-year high.”

That number is highest among teenagers, as “more than three times as many teens are killing themselves now than in the 1950s.” It’s also been long established that suicide can be contagious, especially among younger populations. In 2014, The New York Times reported, “analysis suggests that at least 5 percent of youth suicides are influenced by contagion.”

Intentional or not, a television show like 13 Reasons Why is bound to glamorize suicide.

The story is presented as a semi-disturbing adventure for the book’s protagonist, Clay.

He’s the one who receives the package with Hannah’s tapes, and it’s up to him to listen to her story and piece together her suicide. He’s taken all over their small town, retracing the steps Hannah took in order to understand her point of view.

There’s a certain amount of romanticism in that, almost as if it’s a quest he must complete in order to pay tribute to the deceased girl. I don’t believe it was Asher’s intention to glamorize Hannah’s suicide, but it can definitely be taken that way.

There’s also something to be said about seeing the actions of the story play out on screen. It’s too early to say whether or not we’ll actually get to witness the acts that led

to Hannah’s death, but if that’s the case, there are bound to be numerous cases of bullying, emotional manipulation and sexual harassment in store. According to Psychology Today , when we watch someone perform an action, “our brains mirror what’s unfolding before us as if we were part of the scene, even if we are just sitting passively on the sidelines.” Watching the events of 13 Reasons Why unfold is bound to elicit a more emotional reaction than reading them, again raising the concern of copycats following in Hannah’s footsteps.

The topic of suicide is one that’s hard for many people to face. Nobody wants to think about a young girl feeling so helpless she decides to cut her life short. And while art is usually a place to bring these topics to the forefront, in this case the harm might outweigh the good. It’s important to talk about suicide, there’s no denying that. But those conversations should be constructive, and happen in a safe place built on support, not tragedy. And they certainly shouldn’t be passed off as something as light as entertainment. After all, that darkness can be dangerous. tstokesdbk@gmail.com

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Sprinter Lisa Meneau won her 300-meter race at the Spire Invitational in 37.89 seconds, .69 better than the school record she set earlier in the season. The next day, she set the program mark in the 60-meter hurdles. She’ll compete next at the Big Ten Indoor Championships. photo courtesy of maryland athletics

RACE AGAINST TIME Sprinter Lisa Meneau breaks two program records ahead of Big Ten Indoor Championships

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By Callie Caplan | @CallieCaplan | Senior staff writer

aryland track and field sprinter Lisa Meneau prepared for her 300meter race at the Spire Invitational on Feb. 10 the same way she always does. She visualized a powerful start, a consistent pace and an emphatic finish.

When she lined up on the blocks that day in Geneva, Ohio, though, one aspect of her race wasn’t normal. She was the only one competing.

A mix-up in the entries pushed her alone to a second heat, so Meneau raced against time. She finished second in the event’s overall standings, but perhaps more impressive was her triumph over the clock.

The senior set the first of her two school records during the competition, her last before the Big Ten Indoor Championships this weekend.

“I wanted to run as hard as I possibly could,” Meneau said. “I’ll be in the books for hopefully a long time.”

Meneau and coach Andrew Valmon estimate she might have run even faster had she faced opponents to fuel her competitiveness and maintain a faster clip. But it didn’t matter

when she crossed the line in 37.89 seconds, shaving .69 off a mark she set at the Terrapin Invitational in January.

“Honestly, it’s rare,” Valmon said at practice this week, pausing to reflect on the circumstances of Meneau’s milestone. “Usually our records that we’ve seen this year, our school records, the kids have run against people that are fast, and it’s been a fast heat.

“But I think she set some sights on some records and proved that she was going to win at all costs.”

She ran the 60-meter hurdles the next day, battling a rival from Penn State. Meneau could sense the intensity — and the Nittany Lions coach’s glare — in warm-ups, but she focused on a few sprints and hurdles, again visualizing her performance.

“I was in the moment just trying to run as fast as I could,” Meneau said of her approach at the gun. “Just putting everything my coaches had taught me over the years into one race.”

When she finished first and saw her 8.36-second record-breaking time, her eyes widened.

Thea LaFond, a former Maryland standout sprinter who competed for Dominica in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, had touted

Maryland’s fastest time — 8.38 seconds — in the event since 2015.

Meneau lived with LaFond when she was a freshman, bonding over their Caribbean heritage as “island neighbors” given the proximity between Dominica and Meneau’s native Martinique.

LaFond often texts Meneau with encouragement for beating her time before and after meets, so the senior was pleased to surpass it by .02.

“She’s always going for the PR,” said Thaila Cooper, who runs on the Terps’ top 4x400relay unit with Meneau. “We all knew she was going to run fast, but when she did it, even she was surprised.”

“Honestly,” Meneau admitted, “I did not think I was going to run that fast.”

Still, she had one race left.

After setting two school records with the conference championships looming, Valmon approached her with the option of treating the 4x400 as practice to cap the meet.

“She looked at me like, ‘No, no, you can’t go out and just get a workout in. If I’m going to run, I’m going to run,’” Valmon said of Meneau’s reaction before leading off Maryland’s relay win. “I’m trying to get her to

think about it and relax, and she said, ‘I only have one speed, which is all-out.’”

The response reflects Meneau’s senioryear approach. She told the coaching staff before the season to give her “no options” for an easy workload, and she isn’t letting up entering the Big Ten Indoor Championships — also in Geneva, Ohio — this weekend.

To prepare for the 60-meter hurdles and 4x400 relay, she’s sharpening her technique and relying on visualization. The NCAAsanctioned events don’t offer 300-meter races.

She’s also emphasizing healthy eating — fish is her favorite lean protein, and she loves stir-fried and roasted vegetables — and aims to sleep about 10 hours a night.

That way, she’ll return to the track where she etched spots in Maryland’s records in peak form, ready to challenge new opponents and the same clock.

“We’ve taken away the ‘You have to run this time’ and just said, ‘Just go beat people,’” Valmon said. “She likes that. She’s kind of that feisty personality, so we’ve just been playing to her personality, and it’s worked.” ccaplandbk@gmail.com

men’s lacrosse

Bernhardt impresses When the Maryland Dan Bernstein @danbernsteinUMD m e n ’s l a Senior staff writer crosse team faced Virginia on Jan. 28 in a preseason exhibition at Maryland Stadium, its touted freshman midfielder created buzz.

“They got another Bernhardt brother,” whispered a woman in a black Terps cap to someone sitting next to her on the bleachers.

The fan was referring to Jared Bernhardt, younger brother of former Maryland standouts Jake and Jesse Bernhardt. He was making his first ever home appearance, and as the thirdranked recruit in the nation, his arrival warranted recognition.

Since the scrimmage with the Cavaliers,Jared Bernhardt’s profile has grown larger. He’s recorded seven points through three games, and he’s carved an important role in the Terps’ starting midfield.

“He’s been real big,” goalkeeper Dan Morris said. “Coming into freshman year, it’s always tough, buthe’sprogressivelygettingbetter and better with each practice.”

Bernhardt competed against older children while growing up, first in his own backyard and then on the quiet suburban streets of Longwood, Florida, against his older brothers’ friends.

The Bernhardt family had a small lacrosse net behind their house, which Jake and Jesse Bernhardt took turns shooting on.

Once Jared Bernhardt grew older, he spent days playing against bigger kids in his neighborhood in basketball, football and wiffle ball. At night, played manhunt.

Jesse Bernhardt said his by

younger brother’s willingness to challenge children who were bigger and stronger than him gave him an edge he has today. “[Jake] and I were a couple of years older than him, but he always tagged along and always played with us,” Jesse Bernhardt said. “So he was a young guy out there trying to get past my older buddies playing football or basketball … He definitely gained a competitiveness from that early on.”

After Jake Bernhardt joined Maryland in 2009 as a midfielder, Jesse Bernhardt arrived in 2010 as a long pole. In 2012, Jake Bernhardt was named team captain. Meanwhile, Jesse Bernhardt made two All-American teams.

Whenever he could, Jared Bernhardt flew to College Pa rk w i t h h i s pa re n ts to visit his brothers and watch a game. Often, he attended Friday practice and observed the Terps’ training session.

For someone unaccustomed to the skill set of players in a college lacrosse program like Maryland, the level of play he witnessed made a strong impression.

“It was big for me coming from Florida to see some top-notch players,” Jared Bernhardt said.

“They were heroes to me — bigtime players. I wanted to be like them and just watched how they did things.”

Bernhardt said the weekend trips drew him closer to lacrosse, which at the time jockeyed with football for his attention.

At L a ke B ra n t l ey H i g h School, he racked up more than 4,000 all-purpose yards in his final two seasons as a triple-option quarterback.

He received football interest from Navy, Army and Air Force.

However, he decided to follow in his brothers’ footsteps, committing to play lacrosse for coach John Tillman’s squad. While it was a difficult decision, he said he felt most comfortable in College Park.

It didn’t take Jared Bernhardt long to settle in.

While Tillman avoids placing pressure on first-year players because “there’s a lot to digest and think about,” he started Jared Bernhardt in Maryland’s season opener at then-No. 11 Navy.

With 16 seconds remaining until the break and the game tied, 5-5, Tillman called timeout so he could design a play for one of his experienced attackmen.

The coach said Jared Bernhardt, stationed near midfield, was “the last option.”

So Jared Bernhardt waited as the Terps passed the ball around the left side. But with seven seconds to go, he received a pass from attackman Colin Heacock and burst forward. He faked a righthanded shot on the run and then launched the ball at the net with his left just before the clock expired.

The attempt flew past the goalkeeper, leading his teammates to mob him as the Midshipmen trudged off the field for the intermission.

“That was a really good feeling,” Jared Bernhardt said.

Tillman’s main takeaway from the score was Jared Bernhardt’s patience, as the freshman lingered like a veteran at the outskirts of the play before making his move.

“He doesn’t try to do too

much,” Tillman said. “He lets the game come to him, and he plays with a lot of poise. A lot of the success he’s had … he’s just put himself in the right place at the right time.”

Since the Navy game, Jared Bernhardt has continued to impress. In Maryland’s 16-8 win over Saint Joseph’s, he notched three goals and an assist, becoming the first Terps freshman to earn a hat trick since midfielder Connor Kelly completed the task against North Carolina in 2015.

Last weekend in Maryland’s 19-5 victory over High Point, Jared Bernhardt added his fifth goal of the campaign. He said it was “awesome” to register a score in the same venue his older brothers found success.

But what has impressed teammates more than his on-field contributions is the way he carries himself. Attackman Matt Rambo said he “can really see the potential that’s going to be there.”

“He’s teachable,” Rambo said.

“He doesn’t complain and he doesn’t argue with anyone.He just does the right thing all the time.”

While taking turns with a stick, a ball and a worndown net in a central Florida backyard with his youngest sibling, Jesse Bernhardt could also see Jared Bernhardt’s promise. So when asked if his brother’s quick ascension at Maryland surprised him, he didn’t hesitate.

“To be honest, not at all,” Jesse Bernhardt said.“My mom always said he was going to be the best out of the three of us … He’s just starting to scratch the surface.” dbernsteindbk@gmail.com

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minnesota From p. 12 the whole game,” Bender said. “We really played for each other. The only difference between the first and second halves is we didn’t make shots and they did. That was the main reason they got away.”

W i t h 1 3 m i n u te s to play, however, the Golden Gophers took over.

Minnesota went on a 9-0 run while Maryland didn’t make a field goal for about three minutes.

After the Terps broke that spurt and narrowed the deficit to 61-60, the Golden Gophers scored another nine unanswered to increase their lead to double digits with about six-and-a-half minutes remaining to win their sixth straight contest. The Terps, who entered Wednesday allowing 66.9 points per game, hadn’t given up more than 82 points since November.

The Golden Gophers double-teamed Maryland’s guards off pick

and rolls in the second half, limiting them from entering the paint. Minnesota, meanwhile, ran pick and rolls for Mason, who kicked the ball out to shooters on the wing if the Terps’ defense collapsed on him.

Turgeon stomped onto the court and pumped his fist after the officials called a foul on Dodd with less than five minutes remaining, prompting the sixthyear coach’s second technical foul in as many games.

“It happened so fast,” Turgeon said. “You’re right there and then you’re down 10. We’ve got a young team out there. They were moving at a high speed and we could never catch up. Because we were down, we were going way too fast offensively.”

The fans were frustrated, too.

A large group of the 17,349 fans at Xfinity Center booed as they stormed out with about three minutes remaining. The Terps faithful were disgusted after witnessing one of their team’s worst defensive performances of the season.

“If we just calm down and just know how we’ve been playing all year, we’ll be fine,” Brantley said. “We’re 22-6. We’ve been playing great all season. People need to stop panicking.” kmelnickdbk@gmail.com

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brantley From p. 12 the program, though neither enrolled. Still, Brantley’s production helped the team win 23 of its 30 games.

But this meeting wasn’t about his on-court play.

Instead, Brantley said it was the lowest moment of his life.

“First thing they say is that I should take Jaylen to get his GED,” his mom said. “And I’m like ‘What?’”

“That I should go take Jaylen to get his GED,” she recalled the advisers repeating. “That’s he’s not going to qualify to play basketball.”

Brantley was two classes short of the 16 core classes he needed for Division I athletics eligibility, they explained.

He had retaken an English class at Wilbraham & Monson after passing it at Central High School, where he spent his first two years. He also took a noncore math course.

The NCAA requires athletes to complete their core curriculum in the first four years, and Brantley — who was a sophomore twice — came up short.

Wilbraham & Monson officials, knowing he wouldn’t be academically eligible to play Division I basketball, told Brantley he was not welcome back next school year.

“I stayed in my room probably for a week,” Brantley said.

“I just didn’t know what I was going to do.”

About 14 years old, Brantley had started with an elite AAU program in Boston, about 100 miles from his Springfield, Massachusetts, hometown. He led the Boston Amateur Basketball Club to two national championships, the second one coming in 2011. Also that year, Brantley earned his first scholarship offer from Louisville after his team also won the 2011 Elite Youth Basketball League (EYBL) title. On a team

with three future NBA players, Brantley scored 24 points in the championship game.

By the end of his junior year at Wilbraham & Monson, the four-star guard said he had about 20 Division I offers.

But as Brantley walked out of the meeting that day, none of those accomplishments held much importance. On the car ride home, he pulled the hood of his sweatshirt over his face and bawled.

‘DEAD MAN WALKING’ Several college coaches watched Brantley’s first tournament with the Notre Dame Preparatory School to start the 2012-13 season.

His uncle and mother sat behind a few Georgia Tech scouts while Brantley competed for his third school team in four years. His AAU coach had urged him to enroll at the Fitchburg, Massachusetts, private school to finish his degree.

The Yellow Jackets had recruited him before, but this time, they didn’t recognize him. Brantley had grown out his hair and beard in what his mother called a “no-shave November but for months.” She said he looked like a caveman.

“They were like ‘Oh my goodness. That’s Jaylen Brantley,’” she said. “They had no clue who he was. No clue. No clue. That’s how depressed he was.”

After leaving Wilbraham & Monson, she said she had never seen her son cry so hard for so long. At one point, she said, he was suicidal. She even started bringing Brantley for her visits as a home care nurse, leaving him in the car to “make sure that he was alive.”

She often received phone calls from Notre Dame Prep coaches, asking why he wasn’t happy and didn’t smile. At Odessa, the Texas junior college Brantley attended two years

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later, his coaches did the same.

“I’m just like ‘I don’t know what to tell you guys,’” she said.

“There would be sparks of happiness, but he wasn’t the same kid anymore.”

“Dead man walking,” his uncle said. “Simple.”

After finishing at Notre Dame Prep, Brantley still wasn’t eligible to play Division I because he still didn’t meet the core academic requirements. He planned to enroll at a program but sit out a year before his four years of eligibility began.

His wanted to attend UMass Amherst, about 28 miles north of his home, but his mother said no. The school’s proximity bothered her. As her son focused on school, she didn’t want his friends distracting him.

Brantley instead went to Marshall in Huntington, West Virginia, more than 11 hours away.

His mom struggled to hold back tears as she remembered Brantley signing his National Letter of Intent. If he were a high-profile recruit, signing day would have involved cameras and interviews.

That wasn’t the case. Marshall faxed over the paperwork as Brantley and his mom satin the kitchen. He signed the forms while she snapped a few pictures, but the moment held little significance.

After all, he couldn’t be around the team yet.

“Our lives were in limbo for three years,” his mother said.

“Whatever Jaylen’s dreams were were my dreams, and that’s just what it is. Jaylen’s dream was to play basketball in college … and Jaylen’s dream was put on pause, so everybody’s life was put on pause.”

Park hotel room as his friends texted and called to see if he was OK. “What are you guys talking about?” Brantley responded.

“There was a big car accident,” his friends replied, “and like a lot of your friends were in it.”

About two hours earlier, four of his buddies drove around Springfield when 21-year-old Daquan Warrick lost control and crashed into a utility pole.

Warrick, who was under the influence, lived. So did Brantley’s two other friends.

But, Tayquan Goodman, Brantley’s teammate when he attended Central, didn’t survive. The crash’s impact ejected him out of the front passenger seat, and the car landed on him, said Assistant District Attorney Robert A. Schmidt. He had several head lacerations, Schmidt said, and died at the scene. He was 22.

Goodman’s death came when Brantley’s life had direction.

He managed not playing competitive basketball at Marshall. Then, when the program fired Tom Herrion, the coach Brantley had committed to, he spurned his mother’s junior college concerns and transferred to Odessa.

Now, hours before he was set to pledge to Maryland, cementing his path toward a lifelong desire, Brantley yearned to go home.

“I was just really heartbroken,” Brantley said. “He was one of those I called my brothers — I grew up with him my whole life — so I just felt like that was really a dark place for me.”

Brantley broke down in his mother’s room, crying and screaming, as she and his uncle tried to calm him.

Despite Brantley wanting to see his friends back home, THE ACCIDENT his uncle emphasized finishing Around 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 19, the visit. Brantley owed it to 2014, Brantley sat in a College Maryland’s staff, regardless of whether he planned to commit.

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called the family after seeing Brantley’s tweet about the tragedy. He talked with Brantley’s mother first before speaking to Brantley, who promised the assistant he’d see him the next morning.

“Instead of the visit being about Jaylen and picking the school,” Clark said, “I think Jaylen wanted to continue with the visit and make this decision to honor his friend.”

Before that special meeting at center court came more tears, this time in Turgeon’s office. But as the group walked toward the main floor, Brantley composed himself before sharing hugs of excitement and relief with his relatives and new Terps family.

He returned to Odessa a few days later and became one of the team’s best players. In 29 games, he averaged 14.3 points and 3.7 assists.

But before busting onto the junior college scene, Brantley and his mother returned to Springfield.

He needed a few more hugs.

“When you are Jaylen’s brother, that is very, very special to him,” his mom said.

“Tayquan being his brother and him dying really, really hurt him. I knew at that moment that he had to go home and hug his other brothers.”

‘RIDE THAT PINE’ Brantley had been the star of every team he played for before the 2015-16 season, but he spent most of that first Maryland campaign battling for a rotation spot. Maryland had five NBA prospects, so Brantley played about eight minutes per game.

For Brantley, that wasn’t good enough.

“Riding that pine — that’s wh a t c h a n ge d h i m ,” h i s mother said. “That would change any baller. Riding that pine.”

So, he adjusted his work ethic. He improved his shot

— he’s hitting about 38 percent from beyond the arc —and defense, an area Turgeon admits the 5-foot-11 junior has “outdone himself” for an undersized guard in a power conference.

Brantley now believes he belongs.

Entering Maryland’s home tilt with Ohio State on Feb. 11, though, Brantley felt he was losing his offensive rhythm.

He’d played at least 16 minutes in each of the previous three games but scored a combined six points. He expressed his concerns to his uncle, who said the two talk on the phone at least four times a week.

He told Brantley to trust the skills and experience he developed on his way to performing for a team battling for a Big Ten title.

With his uncle’s advice in mind, Brantley scored 11 points in 20 minutes, leading a bench charge that outscored Ohio State’s reserves, 33-0.

Maryland won by nine.

Brantley’s become the most significant bench contributor for the nation’s No. 24 team.

At 23, he’s accomplishing what he intended as a young teenager on the travel basketball circuit — before the academic issues, before the transfers and before the personal tragedy.

Whenever his confidence wanes, Brantley’s uncle references LeBron James’ road to becoming one of the best NBA players of all time.

“I’m from Akron, Ohio,” James often says. “I’m not supposed to be here.”

His uncle then tweaks it to fit Brantley’s arduous journey.

“You’re Jaylen Brantley,” he reminds his nephew. “You’re from Springfield, Massachusetts. You’re not supposed to be there.”

“But you are,” he adds, “so take full advantage of where you are right now.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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jaylen’s journey Maryland guard Jaylen Brantley has endured a difficult road to becoming a Division I contributor

By Kyle Stackpole | @kylefstackpole | Senior staff writer

J

aylen Brantley walked slowly out of Maryland men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon’s office Oct. 19, 2014, and to the middle of the Xfinity Center court for the final step of his official visit.

Brantley had attended “M idnight Madness” to start the weekend. He had also watched Maryland football’s homecoming win over Iowa.

But Sunday morning, Brantley was the focal point as Maryland’s staff, and his mom and uncle waited for an announcement.

Cornelio Cayode remembers his nephew declaring “I’ll be in College Park.” Angela

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graphic by julia lerner/the diamondback timeline not to scale

and a pending summer graduate. Today, he’s still noticed for igniting the Running Man Challenge, landing him and guard Jared Nickens on The Ellen Show and at the ESPYs. But today doesn’t shed light on Brantley’s demoralizing road to playing highlevel Division I basketball. It overlooks his two high schools, a prep school, a failed attempt to play at Marshall and a junior-college stint. It passes on his childhood friend’s tragic death.

“It’s a journey,” Brantley said. “[My mom] just always tells me to never give up and just fight throughout adversity.”

October 19, 2014

September 2012

On a team with three future NBA players, Brantley scores a game-high 24 points to lead his AAU team to the 2011 EYBL championship and secure his first Division I scholarship offer from Louisville.

Timeline of jaylen brantley’s career

Cayode remembers her son saying he wanted to be a part of the Maryland family.

Assistant coach Dustin Clark remembers the tears, the smiles and the back slaps from his fellow coaches upon securing an important piece of the 2015 recruiting class.

They all remember the hugs.

“It was a real good moment, man,” his uncle said. “I remember him and Turgeon embracing, and the rest is where we’re at today.”

Today, the No. 24 Terps are primed for a third straight NCAA tournament. Today, Brantley is a crucial reserve, a co-captain

22-year-old Tayquan Goodman, one of Brantley’s childhood friends, dies in a car crash prompted by drunk driving.

Brantley enrolls at Notre Dame Preparatory School to finish his degree but still can’t compete at a Division I program.

‘THE LOWEST MOMENT’ In August 2012, after Brantley finished his second year at Wilbraham & Monson Academy, the high school’s officials asked to meet with him and his mother to discuss an urgent matter.

Brantley didn’t know what to expect.

He shined for the basketball team as a junior, averaging more than 20 points against heightened competition. The coach had scheduled tougher opponents, expecting two future NBA players to join See brantley, p. 11

November 2015

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Brantley makes his Terps debut, going scoreless in 16 minutes against Mount St. Mary’s.

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5 key to 6 photos 7 Design by Evan 8 Berkowitz/The Diamondback

August 2012

Wilbraham & Monson Academy officials tell Brantley, who has about 20 offers, he isn’t eligible to play Division I basketball.

May 2013

Brantley signs his National Letter of Intent at Marshall to sit out a year and then play the next four seasons.

He would later transfer to Odessa junior college.

October 19, 2014 Brantley commits to Maryland, cementing his path toward his lifelong goal of playing Division I basketball.

February 2016

As Maryland moves toward its third straight NCAA Tournament appearance, Brantley is its biggest bench contributor.

1 - With former men’s basketball forward Jake Layman during the pair’s time at Boston Amateur Basketball Club.

2 - At Boston Amateur Basketball Club.

3 - At Wilbraham & Monson Academy. courtesy photo 4 - At this university. file photo/the diamondback 5, 6, 7 - At Odessa College.

8 - With mother Angela Cayode during his time with Boston Amateur Basketball Club. courtesy of caianne cayode (photos courtesy of jaylen brantley unless otherwise noted)

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Terps falter in 89-75 loss to Minnesota The Maryl a n d m e n ’s Kyle Melnick basketball @kyle_melnick team has a sign Senior staff writer i n i ts l o c ke r room that focuses on four points: toughness, ambitiousness, work ethic and defense.

The Terps have taken pride in the fourth, which helped them start 10-4 in Big Ten play entering Wednesday’s home game against Minnesota.

B u t c o a c h M a r k T u rge o n ’s team couldn’t contain the Golden Gophers, surrendering its most by

points of the season in an 89-75 loss. Minnesota shot 50 percent from the field and 36 percent from three to hand the No. 24 Terps their second consecutive defeat.

“They weren’t good, they weren’t g rea t , t h ey we re i n c re d i b l e ,” Turgeon said. “We couldn’t guard them. One thing we talked about is being better defensively, and we weren’t tonight.”

Five Minnesota players scored at least 13 points, led by guards Dupree McBrayer (18) and Nate Mason (17). Forward Ivan Bender, meanwhile, paced the Terps with

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15 points in Maryland’s first game since center Michal Cekovsky suffered a season-ending ankle fracture against Wisconsin on Sunday.

Guard Melo Trimble, who combined for 59 points in Maryland’s past two outings, finished with 11 points on 4-for-12 shooting. While Trimble scored 13 points in Maryland’s 85-78 win over Minnesota on Jan. 28, guard Kevin Huerter and forward Justin Jackson combined for 47 points. The Terps had no answer in their rematch.

After collapsing in the second half of its loss to Wisconsin, Maryland was

outscored, 55-40, by the Golden Gophers (21-7, 9-6) in the final frame.

“Our offense is affecting our defense,” guard Jaylen Brantley said. “People are missing shots.

We’re just taking it too far thinking about it mentally. If we start flowing offensively, our defense will start flowing.”

Minnesota led for much of the opening 10 minutes while Golden Gophers guard Akeem Springs, who entered with the fifth-most points per game on his team (9.9), scored 10 points in the first seven

minutes. But he sat on the bench after drawing his second foul with about 14 minutes remaining. Maryland capitalized.

Maryland’s bench, which outscored the Golden Gophers’, 24-8, in the half, helped the Terps (22-6, 10-5 Big Ten) enter the locker room with a 35-34 advantage. Trimble and Huerter combined for nine assists in the first half, positioning Bender to score a career-high 12 points at intermission.

“We shared the ball throughout See minnesota , p. 3

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