The Diamondback March 9 2017

The University of Maryland’s Independent Student Newspaper ONLINE AT

ISSUE NO.

dbknews.com

OUR

Follow us on Twitter @thedbk

107th

23 YEAR

Thursday, March 9, 2017

OPINION

AMBITIOUS

Anthony Cowan always ‘brought the fight,’ p. 12

EDITORIAL: We commend ‘A Day Without a Woman’ participants, p. 4

DIVERSIONS

community

Local band Priests’ debut has sharp political edge, p. 8 community

2 councils cut ties with Greek Week

‘i wish for the best’

Historically black, multicultural groups will skip newly-renamed ‘Spring Fest’ Carrie Snurr @csnurr18 Staff writer

abubakr mohamed hamid returned about two weeks ago after being stuck in his home country of Sudan because of President Trump’s travel ban. jay reed/the diamondback

Sudanese student formerly stuck abroad during travel ban remains uncertain of the future

By Carrie Snurr | @csnurr18 | Staff writer

A

bubakr Mohamed Hamid boarded a plane in Sudan on Feb. 21 — the same day he received his renewed visa. The flight back to the U.S. would be “very stressful.”

“I got on the flight and just hoped that nothing would change and that a new executive order would not be signed,” said Hamid, an engineering doctoral student at the University of Maryland, in an interview Wednesday.

Hamid got back to this university about two weeks ago, about a month into the spring semester and a few weeks after President Trump signed his initial travel ban that left Hamid stuck abroad after winter break. Hamid’s student visa had expired while he was home, and when he went to renew it, he was unable to, as U.S. embassies were no longer issuing visas to citizens of the seven Muslim-majority countries banned under Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order.

“I had a lot of mixed feelings [about the ban],” Hamid said. “There was a lot of uncertainty about being able to travel back and continuing to pursue

my career and my dreams.” A first-year doctoral student studying aerospace engineering, Hamid serves as a mentor in the Language House, teaching Arabic to residents. He also received his masters in systems engineering from this university and has been a student here for three years.

Though he had been in Sudan since the start of winter break, Hamid said he’d followed the news before Trump’s travel ban went into effect, and had heard rumors circulating that an executive order banning travel might be signed. Once the travel ban unfolded, Hamid said he’d held onto hope of returning to this university.

When he heard a federal judge in Seattle had halted the ban in early February, Hamid said he went back around Feb. 10 to the embassy in Khartoum, his hometown and the capital of Sudan, where his family and friends live. The embassy then informed him it was issuing visas again.

“The Graduate Student Government is elated and happy that Abubakr is back,” said Garrett See hamid, p. 6

Women’s studies dept joins national strike About 20 students protest on McKeldin Mall as some profs strike despite provost email A few things were missing at the University of Maryland on Wednesday: some professors, students and an entire department.

The women’s studies department closed Wednesday in support of the national ‘Day Without a Woman’ strike, which protested against gender inequality and workplace discrimination. The event called for women to take the day off from all paid and unpaid labor, and urged those who couldn’t take off to wear red in solidarity and to only shop at women- and minorityowned businesses.

Some university faculty also spent the day outside of the classroom, such as communication professor Kristy Maddux, who decided to join the strike on International Women’s Day because she saw the potential for this movement to “make a bold statement”

Lindsey Feingold and Natalie Schwartz @thedbk Senior staff writers

against wage gaps between men and women. She missed teaching her class on feminist history and scheduled an alternative assignment for that day.

It is unclear how many university staff and faculty women participated in the strike, but Maddux noted she knew one or two other professors who were participating. Neighboring K-12 school systems in the Washington area, including Prince George’s County Public Schools, did not hold classes Wednesday, citing a lack of staff to properly operate.

Maddux said she has no way to know if she or any other female faculty will face blowback from the administration for their decision to take leave.

Provost Mary Ann Rankin sent an email — with the subject line “Expectations for Faculty Attendance” — to university faculty and staff at about 3 p.m. Tuesday reminding them of obligations to come to work.

“Students enroll in courses, and

NEWS 2 OPINION 4 FEATURES 5 city 7 diversions 8 SPORTS 12

departments schedule course teaching assignments, with the expectation that the classes will be taught by the assigned faculty members,” Rankin wrote.

“Faculty are, therefore, expected to convene all classes for the entire stated time.”

In the case of “unavoidable faculty absence,” Rankin noted faculty have options to reschedule class meeting time, arrange an alternate method for teaching the class or having another faculty member teach the class.

Staff and faculty weren’t the only ones participating in Wednesday’s event. Some university students organized a strike on McKeldin Mall from 12 to 2 p.m., which drew about 20 participants.

Nora Murphy, a communication graduate student and one of the organizers of the university event, said her peers decided to create a protest on the campus See strike, p. 6

The tradition of Greek Week dates back to at least the 1960s. During that week, sororities and fraternities at this university join efforts to raise money for charity. In the past, sororities and fraternities have been paired up to work together in games, complete service projects and to create skits, which have been the biggest draw of the event in the past. It is meant to build unity in the Greek community.

The letter noted, however, that relationships were not developed beyond Homecoming and Greek Week, and that there isn’t enough relationship building and unity between match-ups.

“Homecoming and Greek Week should not be a crutch for cross council interaction,” the letter read.

Britney Sagastizado, president of the MGC and senior communication major, noted that a lack of knowledge pertaining to cultural fraternities and sororities’ traditions, such as stepping and strolling, and small incidents that have built up over years led to the decision. Stepping and strolling are forms of synchronized dance often performed by members of cultural fraternities and sororities. She added that See greek , p. 6

ray paternoster | 1952-2017

‘One of the smartest people I ever knew’ Criminology professor had sharp wit and cheerful personality, students say by

community

by

The National PanHellenic Council and the Multicultural Greek Council at the University of Maryland will not be participating in next month’s Greek Week, which has been renamed Spring Fest, citing disappointing experiences and instances of cultural appropriation.

In a joint letter to this university’s Greek community sent in November, the two councils wrote that their recent experiences with Homecoming and Greek Week, which also involves the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association, have been negative or below their expectations. The NPHC is made up of nine historically black fraternities and sororities, and the MGC governs culturally-based fraternities and sororities.

“While [Greek weeks] are seen as a time for chapters to establish relationships these interactions often seem forced, and the perception is that there is a lack of hospitality from host organizations,” the letter read. by

When criminol-

Jessica Campisi ogy and criminal @jessiecampisi justice professor Senior staff writer Ray Paternoster walked into class, he often came in the same way: sporting green Converse sneakers, a T-shirt and a “raggedy buttondown,” said Katie Frey.

“He’s one of the smartest people I ever knew,” said Frey, a criminology and criminal justice doctoral student. He was always cheerful, she added, and never without a snarky joke to tell.

Paternoster, who had worked at the University of Maryland since 1982 and became a professor in 1990, died Sunday morning. He was 65. He had been diagnosed with pancreatitis and was in the hospital since Dec. 15, according to a blog post written by his wife, Ronet Bachman. “He is no longer in pain,” she wrote in a blog post Sunday.“We are not yet OK, but I have faith that we will be one day.”

At this university, Paternoster was known for teaching CCJS200: Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice. His areas of interests included criminological theory, offender decision-making and issues related to capital punishment, according to his university bio.

He was also the principal investigator of a 2003 study that found Maryland prosecutors were more likely to seek the death penalty in cases involving black suspects accused of killing white victims than in cases involving blacks killers of black victims or white killers of any victim. In 2014, he coauthored

Submit tips and corrections to The Diamondback at newsumdbk@gmail.com

ray paternoster, a criminology and criminal justice professor who’d worked at this university since 1982, died Sunday at 65. photo courtesy of rebecca johnson another study that found that almost half of black men and 40 percent of white men nationally get arrested by age 23.

Sally Simpson came to this university in 1989 as a junior faculty member and developed a close relationship with Paternoster and his family. The research paper she and Paternoster published together has been the “most cited paper in my scholarly career,” she said.

Their relationship quickly evolved from coworkers to friends. Simpson got to know Bachman before Bachman married Paternoster, and both women had their children at about the same time, so the families would meet for playdates, she said.

After Paternoster and his family moved to Delaware a few years ago, Simpson said she didn’t see them as often, but they reunited about a week ago when she visited him in the hospital.

See paternoster, p. 2

For breaking news, alerts and more, follow us on Twitter @thedbk

thursday, march 9, 2017

2 | news

CRIME BLOTTER

By Lindsey Collins | @LindsECollins | Staff writer Un iversity of M a r yland Police responded to reports of a suspicious automobile, embezzlement and theft this week, among other incidents.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON/ AUTOMOBILE University Police res p ond e d to rep or ts of a suspicious vehicle in the area of Mowatt Lane G a r a g e a t 10 : 3 6 p. m .

Monday. A student Police Au xiliary aide saw a woman hanging out of a moving vehicle yelling for help, said Hoaas.

Officers searched the area for the vehicle but were unable to locate it.

The department’s Security Operations Center p rov i d e d a b e t te r d escription of the vehicle based on camera footage and shared this description w ith neighboring police jurisdictions, Hoaas said.

EMBEZZLEMENT

found a man in possession of food he did not pay for, according to police rep or ts. T he m a n lef t the scene before officers arrived, but police know his identity, Hoaas said.

The employee was told to contact the department if the man returned. The case is closed.

University Police responded to a repor t of bicycle theft on Rowalt Drive on Friday at 9:07 p.m. A male university student noticed his bike was m issing at about 10:30 a.m. on March 2, Hoaas said. The student told a n of f icer he l a st saw his bike on Feb. 27, secured with a cable lock, Hoaas said.

T he department w ill rev iew ca mera footage from the area, and the case remains open, according to police reports.

Police also responded to a report of theft near Annapolis Hall at 1:54 p.m.

The case remains open.

ASSAULT

University Police met with a male student for a report of an embezzlement scheme at 4 p.m. Monday.

T he student appl ied for a job a nd l ater received a check from the company, said University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas.

The company instructed him to deposit the check and send a percentage back to the company, Hoaas said.

T he student d id not comply and reported the i ncident to u n iversity police.

“This is a scam,” Hoaas said. “If it sounds too good to be true, then it usually is. Report i ncidents to police right away.”

THEFT At about 1:30 p.m. on March 3, University Police responded to a report of an attempted theft at Denton Dining Hall.

A university employee

O n M a rch 2 at 1 2:17 a.m., University Police responded to the 4400 block of Knox Road for a report of an assault, according to police reports. The incident resulted in an arrest.

VANDALISM At 7:31 a.m. Sunday, a male university student reported that his vehicle was da maged between 10 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m.

Sunday.

The vehicle was parked in Lot J2 and the windshield was damaged, according to police reports.

T he department w ill rev iew ca mera footage from the area, and the case remains open.

Police also responded to reports of vandalism at Leonardtown Apartments on 7567 Yale Ave at 11:03 a.m. Sunday.

The case remains open. newsumdbk@gmail.com

police

After incident, police restrict pepper spray Following an investigation, police complete diversity and bias training by

More than

Lindsey Collins nine months @LindsECollins a f te r Un i ve rs i ty o f Staff writer Maryland Police used pepper spray to break up a graduation party of predominantly black students, the department has prohibited the use of pepper spray in nonviolent situations and implemented the diversity training University Police Chief David Mitchell ordered in July.

On May 21, police responded to what turned out to be a false report of a fight at a party in a Courtyards apartment. Officers deployed pepper spray twice to disperse partygoers, sparking allegations that their conduct was racially biased. Students posted cell phone videos of the incident on social media and expressed outrage at how police handled the situation.

After a five-week investigation into the incident, M itchell suspended an officer without pay for two weeks for “conduct unbecoming an officer” and ordered the department to undergo training in cultural diversity and implicit bias.

Mitchell said in July he was “terribly embarrassed and humiliated” by the actions of the officers.

“The bottom line is it never should have gotten to this point,” he said.

The department revised its policy to ban the use of pepper spray in “passive civil demonstrations,” such as nonviolent rallies, protests, parties and other gatherings. Under the new policy, officers cannot use pepper spray to disperse a crowd without a supervisor’s orders.

If an officer were to deploy pepper spray improperly, the department would conduct an internal investigation, said University Police spokes-

UNIVERSITY POLICE CHIEF DAVID MITCHELL, seen speaking in this file photo, ordereddiversity training following a pepper spray incident at Courtyards in May 2016 that sparked racial bias allegations. University Police completed the trainings last week. file photo/the diamondback woman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas.

University Police are also reviewing their mandatory, immediate decontamination and first aid responsibilities to ensure officers know how to respond when they deploy pepper spray. Mitchell said he wants these changes to emphasize de-escalation techniques over an “escalation of force.”

“We’ve made it really clear that de-escalation is preferable,” Mitchell said. “Force begins when we arrive on the scene with our mere presence.

When you have an essentially compliant situation, you want to use your verbal skills and techniques to resolve whatever differences there may be.”

Officers also began a Fair and Impartial Policing course in midJanuary that aims to identify implicit or “hidden” bias and help people recognize situations in which bias subconsciously affects their decisions. Lorie Fridell, former research director at the Police Executive Research Forum, worked with social psychologists that study human biases to develop the training.

“Over the past decade, police personnel, researchers, community leaders and other stakeholders have engaged in a national discussion about policing and bias; biases based on race and ethnicity have received the most attention,” Fridell said.

“Much of the national discussion, however, has been based

on outdated notions of how bias manifests in our society.”

The training consisted of videos on the psychology of implicit bias, activities and discussions of personal experiences with bias in policing.

Mitchell said the training was “eye-opening in the sense that we are all a product of our experiences.”

“Because of those experiences, sometimes we as humans are predisposed to lean a certain way,” he said.

“That’s critically important for us to know in our profession so that we eliminate bias to the extent that we ever can, which is difficult but possible.”

For police officers, bias is not always a bad thing, Mitchell said. Assumptions may save an officer from fatal danger, so “sometimes it’s good when a red flag pops up,” he said.

But Mitchell added he hopes the training will make officers more aware of hidden bias incidents to prevent inappropriate conduct whenever possible.

Patrol officers who work in the field and have the most dayto-day interaction completed the training first, said Capt.

Joanne Ardovini, who organized and planned the course for the department. The department held the sessions during the university’s winter break so the training could take place while there was a smaller campus

population without creating a shortage of patrolling officers.

Mitchell, University Police chief of staff David Lloyd, commanders, captains and majors completed a training for supervisors March 2.

“We got all but three officers through that training,” Ardovini said. “Not having three gave us probably about a 98 percent attendance rate, which I think is pretty phenomenal since we still had to have officers working the street and taking calls.”

Representatives from the department will complete a Train the Trainer program in the next several weeks. Fair and Impartial Policing instructors will teach department officers how to implement the training on their own in the future, Ardovini said.

“Anyone that gets hired by us moving forward will have this training before they start working,” she said.

With the implementation of new training and an updated use of force policy, Mitchell said he is hopeful the department is on the right track.

“If we continue to hire qualified people, we continue our path of diversity in our department, we give them, in our own police academy, the best training we can provide and the best supervision … our problems are going to be few.”

walked by his closed office every morning as she arrives to work, a From p. 1 “daily reminder that he was not “He was a colleague and a well, that he was in the hospital friend,” Simpson said. “He had and now he’s gone,” she said.

“You can feel the hole,” an ebullient personality, [and] Simpson said.“To lose somebody he was so joyous in his life.”

Since Paternoster was hos- who was so vital, whose energy pitalized the night of Dec. 15 was so high, it’s unconscionable.”

Frey said she’d known Pater— just hours after the department’s holiday party, which noster since 2010. When she was he attended — Simpson has accepted to this university as a

potential doctoral student, she was not given any funding and said she likely wasn’t going to attend. But after meeting Frey at a new student orientation, Paternoster “ended up fighting for me to get funding,” said Frey, who became a teaching assistant for his statistics course during the 2010-11 academic year.

In the criminology department, Paternoster was known

for his love of dogs. Any time someone brought their dog to work, he was probably rolling around on the floor petting it, Simpson said.

“When the dogs were here, they would know Ray was around, and they would ignore everybody else to get his attention,” she said. “Honestly, students flocked around him too.”

Students and other members of the campus community expressed their grief on social media after hearing about Paternoster’s death.

“Just heard some truly sad news. My dissertation chair, Ray Paternoster, passed away.

So sad. We lost a great man, and the field lost a giant,” wrote Bret Bucklen, a criminology and criminal justice doctoral student, in a tweet Sunday.

Junior psychology major Jordan Costa also called Paternoster “a staple in the CCJS community here at UMD” in a tweet Monday morning, including a turtle emoji to help commemorate her former teacher.

Paternoster was “the only one that could make stat bearable,” Costa wrote. “We’ll miss you.”

Before joining this university’s staff, Paternoster was an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina from 1978 to 1982. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware, a master’s degree from Southern Illinois University and a doctoral degree from Florida State University.

newsumdbk@gmail.com

VOTED COLLEGE PARK’S “BEST BAGELS”

BAGEL PLACE Catering available!

Sign Up for Our VIP Rewards Card!

301-779-3900 Route 1 • Across from South Campus

Visit us for lunch or dinner!

BAGEL PLACE BUY ONE BAGEL WITH CREAM CHEESE, GET ONE

FREE

BAGEL PLACE GET

$1.00 OFF

OF EQUAL OR LESSER VALUE.

ANY SPECIALTY SANDWICH

NOT VALID WITH OTHER OFFERS.

NOT VALID WITH OTHER OFFERS.

paternoster

RCH STUDY A E S E R a in te a ip ic Part r time! and be PAID for you

RATED “BEST BBQ IN MD, VA, DC AREA”

BY WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE IN BOTH 2015 AND 2016

NEW LOW PRICES! DEALS OF THE DAY

MON $12 FULL RACK OF RIBS / $6 HALF RACK TUES $5 CHOPPED BRISKET SANDWICH WED $4 CHOPPED PORK SANDWICH THURS $5 SMOKED TURKEY SANDWICH FRIDAY $4 PULLED CHICKEN SANDWICH

BRING IN YOUR STUDENT ID FOR

IF YOU: WE NEED YOU er

te smok • Are a cigaret quit moker who has s er rm • Are a fo tes moked cigaret • Have never s

10% OFF

YOUR ORDER!

Abuse on l Institute on Drug na tio Na e th by d conducte These studies are in east Baltimore.

Bayview campus ins pk dule.

Ho s hn Jo e th rk with your sche There is no cost

ALL

7406 BALTIMORE AVE

DELIVERY • 301-864-1081 ORDER ONLINE FATPETESBBQ.COM

e can wo to participate. W

EL.

ME AND TRAV ID FOR THEIR TI

ANTS WILL BE PA STUDY PARTICIP

Call today!

1-800-535-8254

www.ResearchStudies.DrugAbuse.gov

jcampisidbk@gmail.com

thursday, march 9, 2017

news | 3

community

miracle terp

Terp Thon ‘Miracle Kid’ Jaiwen Hsu ‘never considered’ not attending University of Maryland

By Nick Lawrie | @thedbk | For The Diamondback JAIWEN HSU (left), a ‘Miracle Kid’ who has been coming to Terp Thon for five years, poses with his sister and the organization’s executive director, Kaiwei Hsu, on Saturday in Reckord Armory. He’s committed to the University of Maryland. photo courtesy of preet mandavia/alio graphics

I

t wasn’t Jaiwen Hsu’s first time at Terp Thon.

Hsu, 18, has been coming for five years — he’s one of the ‘Miracle Kids’ celebrated at the University of Maryland’s annual dance marathon, which benefits Children’s National Health System in Washington.

This Saturday, though, was special. Hsu, an osteosarcoma survivor, had an announcement to make before the more than 1,000 people who had pledged to dance for 12 hours in Reckord Armory.

The Walt Whitman High School senior decided to

officially commit to attend this university.

“I knew for a while that I was going to UMD,” he said.

“I still had to wait to see if I got in, but when I heard the news, there was no hesitation in accepting. UMD is so familiar to me that I never considered going anywhere else.”

Much of this familiarity is due to his involvement with Terp Thon.

His older sister, Kaiwei Hsu, is the organization’s executive director. Under her leadership, the organization this year raised a record $1 million for the hospital that saved her brother’s life.

The senior public health science major said she’s seen firsthand the impact Terp Thon has had on her brother.

“Over the years, I’ve watched Jaiwen gain the confidence to share his story in front of thousands of students and find some of his closest friends and supporters through Terp Thon,” she said. “Jaiwen has chosen to use his experience to inspire others to fight — not for him, but for the kids who still need our help.”

Jaiwen Hsu was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, in 2010. He had part of his left femur amputated, and underwent chemotherapy treatment for a year.

“Terp Thon has enabled me to spread my cause to so many more people,” he said. “When I first joined five years ago, I never expected [it] to become such an impactful organization in my life.”

Terp Thon has not just affected Hsu. His involvement in Terp Thon has inspired thousands of university students, too. For freshman business major Caitlin Sien, hearing Hsu’s story “hits home that anyone could be impacted by [a sickness] like this.”

“He also shows how much of an impact Terp Thon in general has on these kids and how the event itself is really

amazing, without even taking into account the money we raise,” said Sien, who attended Terp Thon for the first time when he went last weekend.

“Just showing the kids we are there to support them can have an impact.”

Fifteen families of Miracle Kids attended Saturday’s dance marathon, and more than 3,000 people were registered for the event.

Hsu said he’s excited to attend this university, where he can “finally join so many of the organizations who have supported me in the past years.”

Hsu will be the sixth member of his family to attend the

state’s flagship university, and his sister said the family is “thrilled to watch [Jaiwen] do big things at UMD.” Hsu was accepted into the business school but has not yet decided on a major. He plans to explore interests in engineering, art and literature.

“I know Maryland offers a lot, so I’m excited to see where I end up,” he said. “I’m most excited to start a new chapter in my life. I’m not dropping everything I have right now and starting over, but instead advancing [the interests] I already have.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

MORE ONLINE: In its eighth year, Terp Thon raises more than $1 million, becoming the youngest college dance marathon to reach the seven-figure mark. Read the full story at dbknews.com

Remember your senior year forever....

BUY A

TERRAPIN YEARBOOK!

ybpay.com

Enter code: 12916517

4 | opinion

thursday, March 9, 2017

Opinion

editorial board

Danielle Ohl Editor in Chief

@DBKOpinion

CONTACT US:

staff editorial

In January, protests against newly-elected Presi- the arts and sports. It demands diversity in experident Trump became an international rallying cry for ence to provide enriching commentary, columns and women. Marches overtook cities across the globe as analysis. We commend everyone participating in this women and other marginalized communities turned necessary movement to raise awareness of flaws in a shock, fear and outrage at the new administration into workforce that relies on women, yet undermines and a political movement. Six weeks later, on International undervalues them every step of the way.

Participating in A Day Without a Woman can mean Women’s Day, organizers of the Women’s March on Washington joined other grassroots organizers to staying home, wearing red in solidarity or boycotting sustain that movement in the U.S.with A Day Without businesses that aren’t women- or minority-run. It a Woman, a labor strike meant to underscore women’s can mean engaging in and debating issues affecting marginalized communities. It’s not realistic to ask eveconomic and professional importance.

University of Maryland students and faculty par- eryone to take a day off from work, and to do so would ticipated in Wednesday’s movement by canceling alienate an entire group of women, as U.S. labor law does not protect workers during or skipping class, or protesting all strikes. But it is realistic to ask gender inequality on McKeldin our view everyone to consider the value of Mall. The women’s studies dewomen in their professional lives, partment and African American and question whether our labor History,Culture and Digital Huforce rewards or punishes them manities — a project within the for their gender. arts and humanities department One day may not bring about —were both closed, though meaningful, permanent policy neither department explicitly change that addresses the gender referenced the strike. Prince pay disparity, or the barriers preGeorge’s County schools joined venting women from upward other public school systems in closing Wednesday due to the number of staff mobility in their careers. The current administration does not seem to prioritize the two issues, and while members who requested leave.

In a faculty-wide email, Provost Mary Ann Rankin Congress is more diverse than it has ever been, just emphasized the faculty attendance policy without about 19 percent of those drafting legislation have reffering to the protest. “Students enroll in courses, first-hand experience with the issues women face and departments schedule course teaching assign- in the workforce.

It is necessary to acknowledge that for every bit of ments, with the expectation that the classes will be taught by the assigned faculty members,” she wrote. progress and every women’s march, women are still “Faculty are, therefore, expected to convene all classes underrepresented in science, medicine, law, business, for the entire stated time.” This university employs politics, journalism and the arts. They’re rarely the focal point of textbooks, even when they play major 5,379 female professors, lecturers and instructors.

Three out of five members of this editorial board roles in historical events. Workplaces would not funcare women. Though most of its staff members are tion without women, or at least would not function women, The Diamondback is part of an industry to their full potential. The Diamondback certainly that, like most others, lags behind in female leader- wouldn’t. This editorial board commends everyone ship and representation. Fair, accurate and tenacious who took today to acknowledge the significance of reporting requires diversity. It requires women and women in the economy and the labor force.It’s imporminorities to have the opportunity to cover news, tant that acknowledgment lasts longer than 24 hours.

We commend this protest for highlighting women in the workforce.

editorial cartoon

Eva Shen/the diamondback

column

Steve Bannon is an intellectual fraud one finds a distinguished breed of student that I have (pithily) dubbed the Self-Proclaimed Undergraduate Public Intellectual. The SPUPI is often referred to as “that guy,” and, yes, it is almost always a guy. You know that guy: He has the gall to ask questions in a 200-person lecture hall and treats your seminar discussion like an extended soliloquy.

SPUPIs would be fine, I guess, if their intellectualism were earnest.

But the SPUPI’s one goal is to impress others with his knowledge.

He’s never read a word of Sartre, and probably never will, but he’s “casually” mentioned the philosopher three times during dinner. In the interest of full disclosure, at my worst I can be a SPUPI, although I really try not to be.

SPUPIs eventually leave the campus and, if they’re lucky, might convince some people they’re sharp.

Sometimes, these folks are pretty successful. In fact, one SPUPI-like character, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, sits comfortably at a desk right near the Oval Office.

Within a White House staff that would make the fully activated Hulk look like Plato, Bannon has emerged as President Trump’s intellectual spirit. Political reporters are obsessed with his reading habits. The New York Times ran a story about how a reporter once saw Bannon read a book in an airport and Politico wrote a piece quoting someone describing Bannon as “the most well-read person in Washington.” But Bannon is no intellectual heavyweight; he

uses all the classic tools of a SPUPI to conceal his phoniness.

His faux-intellectual con was on full display during a 2014 interview with the Human Dignity Institute.

In this interview, he introduces fluffy abstractions and doesn’t define them. Bannon mentions the “Judeo-Christian West” 11 times during this interview.

He’s also partial to “enlightened capitalism,” which he explains is at odds with “jihadist Islamic fascism” and “the immense secularization of the West.” Bannon never clarifies what makes “enlightened capitalism” enlightened, or what values and institutions constitute the “Judeo-Christian West.” We are also not told what distinguishes jihadist Islamic fascism from plain jihadism.

For a SPUPI and for Bannon, this sort of confusion is a tool. The casual listener hears a string of concocted “isms” and, instead of wondering whether the speaker has said anything of substance, is impressed with his intellect.

Bannon also takes personal credit for inventing ideas that already exist.

Bannon’s particular verbal tic is the phrase, “what I call.” With regard to Vladimir Putin, Bannon talks about, “what I call Eurasianism.” But Eurasianism is a Russian philosophy pioneered in the 1920s, far before Bannon was born. Bannon describes the threat to “enlightened capitalism” as “What I call the Ayn Rand or the Objectivist school of libertarian capitalism.” Aside from the fact that Rand opposed the libertarian movement of her day, Bannon is not the first person to refer to Rand’s followers as Objectivist. Rand was the first person to refer to her followers as

Treva Thrush Deputy Managing Editor

William An Opinion Editor

Reuven Bank Opinion Editor

3150 South Campus Dining Hall, College Park, MD 20742 | opinionumdbk@gmail.com | PHONE (301) 314-8200

column

A Day Without a Woman

Max Foley-Keene On college @maxfoleykeene campuses across the U.S., Columnist

Mina Haq Managing Editor

Objectivist. To conclude his remarks, Bannon implores his audience to “do what I call a gut check,” apparently taking credit for the creation of a common English idiom.

Finally, Bannon references thinkers he either hasn’t read or doesn’t understand. Bannon explains Putin has been influenced by “Julius Evola and different writers of the early 20th century who are really the supporters of what’s called the traditionalist movement, which really eventually metastasized into Italian fascism.”

Presumably, Bannon isn’t willing to publicly endorse Italian fascism (I hope). But he does subsequently endorse both traditionalism and nationalism, especially in Russia.

But Evola’s traditionalism was both anti-Semitic and anti-Christian. He criticized Christianity for being a movement “born to a Jew,” which, if you’re already super antiSemitic, is apparently a big insult.

Bannon said Putin champions Evolainspired traditionalism. So, when he explains that, “we the JudeoChristian West really have to look at what [Putin’s] talking about as far as traditionalism goes,” he seems to be suggesting that Jews and Christians ascribe to a movement that despised both Jews and Christians. Or maybe Bannon doesn’t know much about Julius Evola at all.

SPUPIs don’t deserve public scorn. They’re just insecure college kids, and they’ll probably grow out of it. But Bannon has used SPUPI tactics far into adulthood. He isn’t the philosopher-king of nationalism. He’s an intellectual fraud and should be treated accordingly. maxfkcap2016@gmail.com

State Democrats stifle redistricting reform Sam Wallace @opiniondbk Columnist

O n Fr i d a y, G o v. L a r r y Hogan held a press conference on his renewed push for redistricting reform in the state of Maryland, urging the predominantly Democratic General Assembly to establish an independent and nonpartisan commission to draw Congressional districts following Maryland’s 2020 census. For a third consecutive year, Hogan’s legislation to create such a commission was heard in the General Assembly, and its chances for success are, again, slim to none.

Hogan isn’t the only one who understands that Maryland’s congressional districts are in need of independent oversight. The Diamondback’s opinion section has featured criticism of Maryland’s gerrymandered congressional districts five of the past six years (the reconfigured districts were approved by ballot referendum in 2012). The Washington Post gives Maryland the dubious honor of being “essentially tied” with North Carolina as the nation’s most gerrymandered state.

While the criticism of gerrymandered congressional districts isn’t new, there are some new proponents of reform, most notably former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who oversaw the creation of Maryland’s current congressional districts, including District 3, the second-most gerrymandered district in the entire country.

Speaking in January at Boston College Law School, where he serves as distinguished visiting professor, O’Malley acknowledged the need to combat the practice saying, “We must, on a state by state basis, push for an end to gerrymandered Congressional districts.” He also acknowledged his own gerrymandering as governor: “As a governor, I held that redistricting pen in my own Democratic hand. I was convinced that we should use our political power to pass a map that was more favorable for the election of Democratic candidates.”

With O’Malley seeing the light on redistricting reform, will General Assembly Democrats do the same?

Unfortunately, the willingness to provide fair and accurate representation for Marylanders remains in short supply in Annapolis.

Rather than reject the need for reform altogether, Maryland Democrats acknowledge that Maryland needs reform but insist Maryland should not act unless other states do the same. Senate Bill 1023, sponsored by Sen. Craig Zucker and co-sponsored by most of the Democratic senators, would set up an independent five-member commission, with four members appointed by the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate. However, SB1023 wouldn’t have Maryland form such a commission until New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina all do the same.

It isn’t hard to see that SB1023 and similar demands that Maryland should wait for regional or national action on gerrymandering are merely lip service to the clearly undemocratic construction of state congressional districts. Understandably, Maryland Democrats proposed this legislation to ensure any Democratic congressional seats lost in Maryland’s redrawn districts would be balanced with Democratic gains in these states.

But these legislators are also smart enough to know that the likelihood that five other states would all undertake such action is slim to none, and Congress has never shown a serious interest in legislation to end the practice of gerrymandering. The end result is that Marylanders will continue to be denied.

Maryland Democrats simultaneously acknowledge the wrongs of gerrymandering while refusing to take up Hogan’s proposal to end the practice in the state. It seems for the third year in a row, Maryland Democrats will continue to put party over people, denying Marylanders the fair and accurate representation they deserve. Better luck next year to Hogan. samhwallace@gmail.com

humor: an inconvenient youth

Trump’s ‘Four Years Without a Woman’ initiative Reuven Bank @moneyindabank97 Opinion editor

In solidarity with Wednesday’s International Women’s Day protests, the White House will begin a new “Four Years Without a Woman” initiative to demonstrate the lack of female representation in government, press secretary Melissa McCarthy Sean Spicer announced this morning. The program will build on current national “A Day Without a Woman” strikes, and will take effect immediately for all cabinet appointees in the executive branch until Jan. 20, 2021.

Noting recent criticism directed toward the government’s policies regarding gender equality and women’s health, Spicer expressed his utter delight in learning about a protest “which so clearly aligned with our administration’s values.” “I think the president has been really progressive on this issue,” Spicer explained.

“Most liberals only care about taking women out of the workforce once a year. We’ve been focused on this since Inauguration Day.” When asked how banning women from serving in cabinet positions would promote a narrative of equality, Spicer responded “It’s not a

woman ban! You called it that!

We’re temporarily banning individuals with woman-majority bodies, that’s all.”

But while prominent administration officials and coincidental penis-havers Mike Pence, Jeff Sessions and Steve Bannon all unequivocally voiced their support for the initiative, reports indicated that some White House staff have raised internal concerns. One inside source detailed an alleged incident where Kellyanne Conway was asked to leave the West Wing complex. When she resisted, Secret Service agents pointed to a recently installed “No Girls Allowed” sign hanging on the Oval Office door, and briskly escorted her off of the premises.

The new policy is expected to serve as a template for the administration’s future diversity agenda, as senior advisors were quick to suggest further efforts to promote inclusion. The consensus favorite “Four Years Without a Black Man Not Named Ben Carson” is slated for implementation later this spring. opinionumdbk@gmail.com

POLICY: Signed letters, columns and cartoons represent the opinions of the authors. The staff editorial represents the opinion of The Diamondback’s editorial board and is the responsibility of the editor in chief.

thursday, march 9, 2017

6 | news

strike From p. 1 because “we heard about this international movement and we thought it would be great for folks on campus to participate.” Faculty and students at the protest created posters and signs and also wrote letters to university President Wallace Loh, as well as various senators and congressmen.

Morgan Hess, a communication doctoral student and teaching assistant, helped organize this university’s campus strike to bring awareness to ways this university falls short of fair and equitable workers’ rights.

“In many ways the unive rs i t y e x e m p l i f i e s t h e problematic conditions we are striking against,” Hess said. “The university runs on the exploitative labor of

hamid From p. 1 Bradford, Graduate Student Government’s vice president for committee affairs, on Wednesday. “We hope he is readjusting to being back in the United States and his classes.”

Hamid and Bradford exchanged emails throughout the time Hamid was unable to return from Sudan, Bradford said.

The initial executive order banned citizens from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days, barred refugees for 120 days and banned Syrian refugees indefinitely. Monday’s updated version of the order bans for 90 days citizens from six of those Muslim-majority countries, excluding Iraq, and places Syrian refugees under the 120-day ban. It also protects valid visa card holders, such as Hamid. The order goes into effect March 16 to give

greek From p. 1 the focus of past Greek Weeks did not completely match up with the missions and goals of the organizations that make up the MGC and NPHC. “We’re not trying to throw other organizations under the bus or divide the Greek community,” Sagastizado said. “Rather than creating a separation, we want to move toward a more

underpaid graduate, undergraduate and adjunct faculty and it also relies on unpaid emotional labor of all women faculty and faculty of color.”

“Emotional labor” involves all the ways women and minority faculty are expected to help their female minority students navigate both their academic work and the “conditions on campus, which can be difficult” for them, Hess said.

For example, Hess has been expected to talk to other graduate students about how to deal with sexism in academia and in the workplace — labor that’s “not expected of their white male colleagues,” she said.

Because some groups could not take off work to strike — for example, international students could lose their visas if they take leave — campus strike organizers raised awareness through social media on alternative ways

people could participate, such as wearing red. The organizers gathered a group of male allies who agreed to act as substitutes for any classes women would miss, and posted an alternative out-of-class assignment that asked students to learn about and write about a historical strike on its Facebook page as an option for teaching assistants to give to their students.

Luke Capizzo, a communication doctoral student, offered to substitute for any women who wanted to strike because he’s seen “the unjust ways and distinctions between how men and women are treated,” he said.

“It’s up to each of us to seek out the ways that we can help,” Capizzo said. “This day is just one day, but it’s a small part of a larger process of raising awareness and taking action so we can improve this university campus and this country as a whole.”

Sophomore Devorah Stavisky heard about the protest from her communication professor.

She participated by writing a letter to Loh. “I am writing President Loh to thank him for his continued support to diversity at this university, but also to remind him that commitment to diversity at this school doesn’t just happen by saying we are diverse, but by actually following through on implementing policy,” the sociology major said.

This university’s strategic plan includes several initiatives to increase diversity on campus, including employing more faculty of color, recruiting more women to STEM fields and enrolling underrepresented ethnic minority students.

Jade Olson, a communication doctoral candidate and Oral Communication Center director, created and held up a

poster that said “we strike in solidarity” during the protest.

“I think it’s really important that we demonstrate solidarity with working women, with women of all backgrounds and classes, and especially solidarity with women who are not able to participate in the strike today,” said Olson, who planned on attending a Washington protest as well with a few of the other protesters.

While Sarah Berman, a senior community health major, attended the protest to show women are important at this university, she said she was disappointed at the turnout.

“If all of the women who wo rk e d h e re d e c i d e d to come, it would be chaos,” Berman said. “The turnout is definitely disappointing, I thought there would be way more people out here, because on the day of the [November]

walkout, there were hundreds of people here.”

Berman added that “the rhetoric that has come out of the election and from Trump is not okay and makes people feel like they can say it as well … so doing things like this, whether or not there is a big turnout, needs to keep happening.”

The strikers concluded their protest by placing handwritten letters to Loh in an envelope and walking them to the Main Administration Building.

“I believe these kinds of events are important for our community, especially during this time in our country,” said Lanre Faderin, a senior biology major. “So many people have gotten comfortable with the accomplishments women have already made in this country, yet there is still so much more progress that can be made.”

those affected time to prepare.

The executive orders are disheartening, Hamid said, because people from Sudan are welcoming and warm-hearted. He added that it’s frustrating to see the government associate his home country — and the other nations the ban applies to — with terrorism.

Twenty percent of the 46 Muslim-Americans associated with violent extremism in 2016 had families stemming from the seven countries initially covered by Trump’s ban, according to a report by Duke University’s Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security. There are no reported fatalities in the U.S. executed by extremists with family backgrounds in these countries.

A federal judge has approved a lawsuit Hawaii will file challenging the latest travel ban and requesting that a federal judge issue a temporary restraining

order to block the ban’s implementation, according to CNN. January’s executive order caused chaos and protests at airports across the country, including at Washington Dulles International Airport. Security officials detained Maryam Aida Mohammadi, another student from this university and a green card holder with Iranian citizenship, and her 5-year-old cousin at Dulles for about five hours on Jan. 28. They’d been returning from a visit with family in Turkey.

Hamid said he was very appreciative of the support he received while the ban was in effect and when he got back to this university. His friends went to rallies in Washington and held up signs with his name on them to support him.

He added that his friends and other supporters were always in touch with him over email and phone. Friends saved newspaper clippings and

articles about him for when Hamid returned to Maryland, which he described as his second home.

His academic adviser, Mumu Xu, said she knew Hamid had gone home for winter break, and that she’d worried about his ability to return to Maryland. Prior to the ban, the embassy had delayed granting his visa for a few days — something that is common, Xu said.

H o w e v e r, o n c e t h e embassy canceled Hamid’s visa processing following the ban, Xu said she reached out to the U.S. embassy and Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s office in an effort to bring Hamid back to the U.S. The International Scholars and Student Services office a l s o h e l p e d c o n ta c t t h e embassy to speed up the process of renewing his visa.

When the ban was lifted, Van Hollen’s office sent a letter, along with an additional

letter from ISSS, to expedite Hamid’s visa approval.

Van Hollen has denounced Trump and his executive order.

In a statement Monday, he said Trump has “engaged in fearmongering about visitors and refugees from these six countries, and this executive order is now a fake solution to the real security issues we face.”

“I’m really appreciative of the senator’s office,” Xu said.

Hamid said Xu went above and beyond in her support for him.

“It really felt amazing to be surrounded by such community,” he said. “My family back home also did a great job in supporting me get through everything that happened.”

University President Wallace Loh’s statements and messages to the campus community that urged solidarity following Trump’s initial order meant a lot as well, Hamid said. About 350 people from this university — largely graduate students,

postdoctoral researchers and visiting scholars — were affected by the ban, according to a Jan. 31 message to the campus.

Hamid said he remains uncertain that he will be able to return to Sudan to visit his family following the installment of Trump’s second executive order. If his visa expires, he fears he won’t be able to come back again.

“Before I was worried I couldn’t come back,” Hamid said, “and now I’m worried that I can’t travel to visit my family because my visa might expire while I’m there. Will I face the same situation?”

Amid uncertainty, he’s trying to stay optimistic.

“I don’t want anyone to go through what I went through,” Hamid said. “I am worried about other people in this situation. I wish for the best in the upcoming days.”

unified Greek community. But we had to take action to shift the needle toward that unity.”

The councils departed on good terms with the IFC and the PHA, said Nathan Bunch,programming and advising coordinator for the Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life and adviser for the NPHC and MGC. He added that the MGC and NPHC are planning their own week of events that will focus on diversity and addressing homophobia and sexism. The

event will not take place the same week as Spring Fest.

The event was renamed as Spring Fest is because half the Greek councils at this university won’t be participating, essentially making Greek Week defunct, Bunch noted.

“It’s very unfortunate, but their decision to leave is justified,” said Kate Shannon, a junior middle school education major and PHA vice president of external affairs.

“It’s an eye-opening experience.

It’s drawing attention to issues we’ve been having.”

In 2015, an email from a Kappa Sigma fraternity member containing racial epithets and sexist language, was shared with school authorities and went viral on social media. The presidents of all four Greek organizations wrote letters denouncing the email, initially sent in January 2014.

“This email was especially offensive to members of the Multicultural Greek Council because of the various racial slurs used, as well as the blatant disregard for women of color, of which our council has many,” wrote Diana Kim, MGC president at the time.

Jordan Brunson, NPHC president at the time, also condemned the email and called for solidarity among Greek organizations moving forward.

At a forum held in March 2015 after the email went viral, students at this university called on the school administration to punish those responsible for the email and to implement stricter oversight on fraternities.

Skits have been removed from the event because they have raised concerns of cultural appropriation and insensitivity

in the past, Shannon said. November’s letter to the Greek community cited “misrepresentation of cultures” in skits as one of the contributing factor to the decision to leave Greek Week.

Corin Edwards, associate director of programming and advising for DFSL, said this year’s Spring Fest would focus more on service and philanthropic events because the two Greek councils participating are generally more focused on those areas.

“Skits used to be the main event of Greek Week,” Edwards said. “Skits seem to cause the largest frustration. With getting rid of skits, it will hopefully entice [NPHC and MGC] to come back in the fall.”

Philanthropic events during Spring Fest will include a food drive held throughout and more service-based activities, Shannon

said. She added organizers for Spring Fest are considering a competition for charitable fundraising, and the sorority and fraternity match-up that raises the most money will select a charity to which the money raised from all match-ups will be donated.

While NPHC and MGC are no longer participating, November’s letter stated that the organizations are hopeful about working together again in the future.

“We believe that there are a number of IFC and PHA organizations doing meaningful work that aligns with our communities’ respective goals,” the letter read.

“We hope that a move from superficial social interaction will encourage substantive community engagement.”

Baltimore’s Marching Ravens are looking for new musicians!

Terps run on Nitro!

Come see why @

7336 Baltimore Ave. Right outside campus!

newsumdbk@gmail.com

newsumdbk@gmail.com

newsumdbk@gmail.com

CONTACT LENS ASSOCIATES Dr. Stuart D. Schatz, Optometrist, P.A. 7305 Baltimore Ave • College Park, MD

#AlwaysonTap

M-F 5AM-10PM Sa/Su 6AM-10PM

WE BUY FRESH & LOCAL

YOU EAT WELL! CARRY OUT AVAILABLE SILVERDINER.COM

OPEN AUDITIONS:

Saturday, April 1st at M&T Bank Stadium

FARMTOTABLE OPTIONS

FOR INFORMATION & TO REGISTER:

FREE WIFI! OPEN LATE!

BaltimoreRavens.com/MarchingRavens

VEGAN • GLUTENFREE • FLEXITARIAN GREENBELT SILVER DINER • 301-220-0028 GREENBELT PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER • 6040 GREENBELT ROAD

301-277-6100

thursday, march 9, 2017

news | 7

City county

county

Women’s strike closes schools by

Prince George’s p.m., according to the system’s

Julia Heimlich C o u n t y P u b l i c Facebook page.

While the University of Maryland @JuliaHeimlich Schools were closed Wednesday because was open Wednesday, the women’s Staff writer of the number of staff members who “requested leave” in support of “A Day Without a Woman,” according to school officials.

About 1,700 of the county’s teachers and 30 percent of its transportation staff had called in for a leave of absence, according to a statement released by the county’s superintendent Kevin Maxwell on Tuesday.

To recognize the significant role women play in all aspects of the socioeconomic system, the international strike urged women to take a day off from work and shop only at women- or minority-owned businesses. Aside from the number of teacher absences, public schools would not have been fully equipped with transportation, nor would they have provided high levels of productivity or proper safety measures, Maxwell said in his statement.

Several schools such as William Wirt Middle School and Edward M. Felegy Elementary School did open for lunch from 10 a.m. to 12:30

studies department was closed, and several professors canceled classes.

A group of students also planned a strike on McKeldin Mall that drew about 20 participants.

The website for the Women’s March on Washington, a global movement in January that addressed similar issues to Wednesday’s protest, encouraged anyone who could not take a day off from work to show their support by wearing the color red. Red is symbolic of revolutionary love and sacrifice, energy and action and leadership and determination, according to the website.

Aside from simply wearing a color, the site also asked people to educate themselves on equal pay, paid family leave, domestic work or any other conflicts this strike highlight.

Prince George’s County Public Schools open at normal operating hours on Thursday. newsumdbk@gmail.com

city

Council pushes for more public art by

The College Park

Laura Spitalniak City Council discussed @LauraSpitalniak ways of increasing public art and artistic Staff writer ventures throughout the city during a work session Tuesday.

“Public art has a lot to say about a city,” District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan said. “Art needs to be part of our development.”

The city’s planning department gave an official recommendation at the session in support of incorporating public art, such as sculptures and mosaics, into city projects and offering incentives to developers to include public art in all new projects.

Brennan previously requested that the city explore how other communities fund and incorporate public art. Terry Schum, the city’s planning director who spoke on behalf of the department, presented her findings to the council at the work session.

“The most common thing you see in the [other counties’] zoning regulations is a provision for developers to be eligible to get a density bonus if they include certain amenities like public art,” Schum said. Density bonuses allot certain benefits, such as permission to build more housing units and taller buildings, “in exchange for provision of a defined public benefit,” according to the Puget Sound Regional Council.

Prince George’s County does not have any sort of similar provision regarding public art, Schum said, but she referenced neighboring Montgomery County’s success with public art as a possible role model. The county has installed more than 300 works since 1983, in mediums ranging from sculptures to stained glass. Most are on display in public areas, such as high schools and libraries.

Some College Park developments will soon display art, such as the Milkboy Arthouse restaurant and performance venue that is slated to open in the former Barking Dog location around spring break. Nando’s PeriPeri, which opened on Route 1 in 2015, currently boasts an outdoor mural by South African artist Kilmany-Jo Liversage. The city is looking to promote like-minded works in all mediums, according to a council agenda item.

Brennan noted that implementing public art “is not just going to be one approach. It should be multifaceted.”

Planned parenthood’s Silver Spring location, the closest facility to the University of Maryland campus, will close on March 17 as part of efforts to consolidate. Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., has added two new branches in the past 15 months. tom hausman/thediamondback

not quite to plan Silver Spring Planned Parenthood location to close this month, but region still well-served

By Angela Jacob | @angela_jacob13 | Staff writer

P

lanned Parenthood in Silver The senior biochemistry major noted there Spring, the closest Planned are other women’s clinics nearby, including Parenthood facility to the Uni- the Pregnancy Aid Center in College Park. versity of Maryland campus, The Health Center also provides contraceptive will close on March 17 as the resources to students on campus, but Zheng organization consolidates its services in the stressed the need for educating students about Washington area. what other options are available to them.

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan WashPresident Trump and other conservatives ington, D.C., has added two new locations have repeatedly pledged to defund Planned i n No r t h ea s t Wa s h i n g to n Parenthood, citing their moral and Suitland, Maryland, in opposition to abortion. Kaiser the past 15 months, accordBraunger said the organization ing to an organization news has seen an uptick in donarelease. Clients and employtions since the election. The ees from the Silver Spring Guardian reported in Decembranch will be absorbed into ber that Planned Parenthood those locations, according to received 40 times more donathe release. tions than normal in the six The Silver Spring location weeks following the election. is about 7 miles away from “There is a lot of uncerthis campus; the new locatainty about what’s happening tion in Northeast Washington with Medicaid and with the is about 10 miles away. The [Affordable Care Act],” Kaiser external relations v.p., planned Silver Spring branch has operBraunger said. “At the end of parenthood of metro. washington ated for about 20 years. the day, our patients still need The location’s lease is up in care, and we’re going to be March, and with newer, more comprehensive here. Our message is clear: our doors remain branches now open in the area, there is less open, no matter what.” need for the Silver Spring clinic.

Trump said Monday he would pledge to con“This strategic decision will ensure that tinue providing federal funding to the organiPlanned Parenthood is in a position to con- zation if they stopped performing abortions. tinue to meet the growing and diverse needs In response, Planned Parenthood President of our community in the metropolitan D.C. Cecile Richards wrote on Twitter that the area with high-quality health care and educa- organization “is proud to provide abortion—a tion services no matter what,” President and necessary service that’s as vital to our mission CEO Laura Meyers said in the news release. as birth control or cancer screenings.”

The Northeast Washington location opened Planned Parenthood receives about $500 in September 2016 and the Suitland location million in federal funding each year, but opened in November 2015, said Mara Kaiser federal money supports the organization’s Braunger, Planned Parenthood of Metro- women’s health services, not abortions. politan Washington vice president of external “The type of legislation you’re describing, relations. The Suitland location was not in and other pieces that have been proposed, Planned Parenthood’s original plans, but frankly would just prevent millions of women Prince George’s County officials asked the who rely on Medicaid or federal programs organization to open a clinic in a “medical from accessing the health care that has been desert,” she said. there for decades,” Kaiser Braunger said. “We “Our board has been studying patient and are not backing down. We know the devastathealthcare needs in the midst of this really ing impact that this type of legislation has.” dynamic landscape, and one of the considerIn Texas, infant mortality rates have skyations was, what do we do in Silver Spring?” rocketed as funding for Planned Parenthood Kaiser Braunger said. “So the board voted decreased, Kaiser Braunger said. Vice Presi— because of the expanded footprint here in dent Pence served as governor of Indiana, D.C. — to absorb the patient base.”

Planned Parenthood facilities closed in rural She noted the Northeast Washington lo- areas of the state, eliminating access to STI cation is only five Metro stops away from and HIV testing in Austin, Indiana, where the Silver Spring station. Additionally, the HIV is prevalent.

Planned Parenthood in Gaithersburg is seeing Despite resistance from Congress and the major upgrades, including a switch to an president, Kaiser Braunger said services in online scheduling system and increased sex the Washington area will continue. education services, she said.

“Our focus is the patients and the patient Melanie Zheng, the director of the SGA’s experience, high-quality sex education, and Health and Wellness committee said she keeping the community healthy from a reprohadn’t heard about the facility closing. ductive health standpoint,” she said. “That’s “It is kind of disappointing because it is our mission, and that’s what we intend to pretty close to campus, so I think it was po- continue to do in a very uncertain time.” tentially an asset to undergraduate students on campus,” she said. ajacobdbk@gmail.com

That’s our mission, and that’s what we intend to continue to do.”

district 2 councilman P.J. Brennan speaks at a City Council work session. tom hausman/thediamondback Chris Keosian, Student Government Association city affairs director and student liaison, said he supported the recommendations, citing the College Park 2020 initiative that aims to make the city a top-20 college town within the next three years.

“We want to create a desirable town where students and residents and visitors come together,” the junior government and politics major said. “If you look at college towns like Chapel Hill, State College or Blacksburg, they are beautiful. This is the right way for College Park to head.”

Mayor Patrick Wojahn said he had been approached about possible art installations and would like for the city to create a clear path forward.

“There’s a lot more that we could be doing with public art in our city,” he said. “If we have the right place for [installations] and they reflect the sentiment of the community, they could be good opportunities.”

District 1 Councilmember Fazlul Kabir added “if there’s an interest, we could probably create an art advisory committee.” The committee would exist to debate types of artwork and possible locations.

Brennan emphasized the advantages of private-public partnerships in regard to public art, adding that art installations would create shared spaces for the city and bring more people to central areas.

“I appreciate the reaction public art instigates a reaction in people,” Brennan said. “Just because I don’t find something visually appealing, doesn’t mean it has no value.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

MARA KAISER BRAUNGER

thursday, march 9, 2017

8 | diversions

MORE ONLINE

Diversions

Post Malone One writer asks: Will the rapper become a fixture in hip-hop or a temporary fraud bound to fade away?

@DBKDiversions

preview | priests

after releasing a trio of EPs, local band Priests plans to celebrate the release of debut album, Nothing Feels Natural, this Saturday at D.C.’s Black Cat. photo by audrey melton

BAPTISM BY FIRE D.C. band Priests ends U.S. tour with Black Cat concert for debut album

A

fter five years of touring and three promising EPs, the Washington, D.C.-based band Priests released its debut album Nothing Feels N a t u ra l o n J a n . 2 7. A n uncompromising punk record with a sharp political edge, Natural tackles patriarchy, neoliberalism and more with nuanced anger. Featuring lithe guitar riffs and incisive lyrics, the band channels the best elements of its trio of EPs into a daring and ambitious record.

On Saturday, Priests will conclude its U.S. tour with a record release show at Washington’s Black Cat mainstage.

The show features support

By David Sexton | @_davidsexton | For The Diamondback from Coup Savage & the Snips and Atta Girl.

The band resists easy classification, thanks to each member’s diverse listening habits and long drives spent listening to music while on tour. According to Priests guitarist G.L. Jaguar, Natural was the result of translating the group’s live energy into an equally compelling record.

One such influence for this approach is Third, the 2008 record from Bristol trip-hop group Portishead. “[Third] has lots of elements of Portishead as a live band [as well as] more lo-fi live elements: very proficient drummers, excellent guitar lines — but also using synthesizers and building up songs in the studio,” Jaguar said. “It’s a

very good example of what we were trying to achieve.”

It’s a fitting comparison.

Portishead was once pigeonholed as sounding too much like its peers in Massive Attack, while Priests tends to get lumped in with groups such as Washington, D.C., punk legends Fugazi. Natural is more than just angry postpunk anthems; the title track is all dreamy vocals and shoegaze guitars, while “Interlude” adds tension with wispy and eerie string arrangements.

Other frequently played artists include The Cure, Fiona Apple, Protomartyr and Scott Walker’s 4.

“One of the positive points of all being stuck in a band together is we all get to constantly expose each other to

the music each of us is listening to,” said Jaguar.

Another important dimension of Priests’ work is maintaining artistic integrity through actions and beliefs.

“It’s important to try and make safe and supportive art spaces in communities that are very much community oriented,” Jaguar said.

“I think the big division is that you have these spaces that are corporately funded … you used to have these huge art shows that were funded by Pop Chips or Vitamin Water.

And you’d be going to exhibits, and the exhibits would be focused on some aspect of Vitamin Water or Pop Chips.”

The subject of commercialism comes up often on Natural. Singer Katie Alice

Greer shouts “it feels good to buy something you can’t a f fo rd ” ove r d i sco rd a n t guitars on “Appropriate.”

Calls of “anything you want/ anyone you want” on “Pink White House” are a taunt of the American Dream. Best is “Puff,” a post-punk screed that finds Greer snarling at accelerationism.

Daniele Daniele, the band’s drummer, agrees that activism is important to Priests, reflecting a careful and critical approach to the group’s work.

“Artists are often economically marginalized because of the line of work that we do,” Daniele said. “Although we are an anti-capitalist band in a lot of ways, we still obviously make merchandise to sell. We

understand that we live in a capitalist society.”

Balancing the group’s independent streak with the need for money to keep the group afloat is a challenge, she said.

“How do I get those in a way t h a t b e n e f i ts t h e things I want to support and not things I don’t want to support?” she said. “That’s a very hard thing — there’s not a simple answer.”

Tickets cost $16, with $1 from each ticket sold going to Casa Ruby. They are available online at www.blackcatdc.com and in the box office of the Black Cat, which can be accessed from the Green Line of the Metro. Doors open at 8 p.m. and set times are to be announced. dsextondbk@gmail.com

essay | cash me ousside

Upcoming Shows

memes are racist, how bow dah?

Danielle Bregoli didn’t mean to, but she made a statement on the inequality of memes

W

By Hannah Yasharoff | @HannahYasharoff | Staff writer

hether you like it or not, whether the end of this sentence will make you laugh, cringe or shut your laptop in disgust, memes are an increasingly legitimate part of entertainment culture.

That’s something 13-year-old Danielle Bregoli, better known to the world as the “cash me ousside” girl from The Dr. Phil Show, knows all too well.

She appeared on the show with her mother in an episode titled, “I Want to Give Up My Car-Stealing, KnifeWielding, Twerking 13-Year-Old Daughter Who Tried to Frame Me for a Crime.”

Now, rumors are circulating that she might even get her own reality TV show.

On Dr. Phil, Bregoli is rude, obnoxious and disrespectful. But the way she talks is unusual, and that’s the reason for her viral success. Her now-infamous catchphrase, “Catch me outside, how about that?” — or, “Cash me ousside, how bow dah?” if we’re going with the phonetic spelling — is all over the internet, T-shirts and a song remix.

It’s not a particularly good meme, and certainly not one that deserves to continue for several months now.

Moreover, it definitely should not warrant an entire TV series.

The main problem here, besides celebrating a subpar meme, is the underlying racial issues. Bregoli is white, though she’s appropriating a speaking style prominent in black culture.

Both the appropriation of other cultures and the celebration of white mediocrity runs rampant in memes; it’s why you saw #AlexFromTarget and the “Damn, Daniel” kid on Ellen but don’t know anything about the guy tapping his temple like he just thought of something brilliant, despite probably seeing it more than a handful of times on Twitter.

Fo r t h e r e c o r d , h i s n a m e i s K ayo d e Ew u m i , a n d h e ’s t h e co creator of a mockumentary called #HoodDocumentary.

There’s a much better chance you know Alex Lee and Daniel Lara, respectively known as the stars of #AlexFromTarget and “Damn, Daniel.” Both are white teenage boys who went viral for little more than being attractive.

And while it’s important to point out that neither are monsters who purposely sought out international fame, they also didn’t do anything to deserve the attention they received.

All this is to say that subpar memes created by white people get worldwide notoriety, while viral internet sensations created by people of color rarely see the same mainstream level of ce-

lebrity. If they do, it’s often without credit.

The mainstream entertainment industry this year has seen a boost in diversity: Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture, all four musical acting awards at the Tonys went to black actors and people of color made up almost 25 percent of Emmy nominees, making it the most diverse list of nominations in the show’s history.

And though there’s still a long way to go, the industry is headed in the right direction when it comes to giving rightful acknowledgment to a diverse group of entertainers.

But if there’s one thing the internet has the power to do, it’s promote diversity. Equal communication across the world opens us up to every perspective imaginable. Why, then, do memes fall behind traditional entertainment in giving proper recognition to diverse content creators?

“Cash me ousside” may be just a dumb meme. But it’s also indicative of serious racial issues the internet needs to deal with — issues that simultaneously push the celebration of white mediocrity and the acceptance of cultural appropriation. Continuing to give Bregoli a platform only worsens those problems. hyasharoffdbk@gmail.com

thursday, march 9, 2017

9 | sports

baseball

Terps blast 4 homers in 11-5 win Maryland Scott Gelman baseball left @Gelman_Scott fielder Madison Nickens stood Staff writer at the plate with Garth Brooks’ “Callin’ Baton Rouge” blaring over the speakers at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium for the second time in the eighth inning Wednesday.

In Nickens’ first plate appearance of the frame against Saint Joseph’s, the Terps dugout was quiet. The game was tied.

But by Nickens’ second trip to the dish, the Maryland dugout screamed “Louisiana” along with Brooks. A few minutes earlier, the Gonzales, Louisiana, native had sent an offspeed pitch over the center-field wall to give the Terps a one-run lead.

A Hawks error and Maryland’s savvy baserunning helped the Terps to score five more times after Nickens’ leadoff home run.

But it was Nickens’ solo shot — by

Maryland’s fourth home run of the afternoon — that ignited the scoring eruption as the Terps defeated Saint Joseph’s, 11-5.

“The first approach is to get on base,” Nickens said. “I tried three different times to lay down a bunt [for a hit]. I’m not going to swing for the long ball. Sometimes it will happen. I tried to lay one down, didn’t get it and he hung me a changeup.”

Maryland’s power resulted in its fifth straight victory and second in as many days. The Terps recorded four home runs in a game for the first time since February 2016.

The late rally came after the Terps lost the lead in the seventh.

Maryland carried a 5-4 edge into the inning, and the Hawks had a runner on third with one out when right-hander Jared Price induced a ground ball. First baseman Brandon Gum, who has been plagued by a shoulder

injury, stepped on first base, allowing the Hawks to tie the game.

Coach John Szefc declined to comment on whether Gum’s injury prevented him from throwing to catcher Justin Morris, who seemed to be expecting a play at the plate.

Nickens’ home run came after right-hander Mike Rescigno averted a Hawks rally in the top of the eight. They had runners on second and third with one out before Rescigno struck out center fielder Peter Sitaras with a breaking ball and induced a ground out off the bat of second baseman Taylor Boyd.

Rescigno left the mound, lifted his fist into the air and chest-bumped Morris. On what could have been a frustrating afternoon, Rescigno and Nickens led the late rally.

“I was just trying to get ahead,” Rescigno said. “I knew

they were going to try and bunt [with runners on first and second and nobody out]. Trying to just not let them score any runs …

[Nickens’ home run] was huge.

It probably won us the game.”

Though Nickens’ round-tripper gave the Terps a late lead, the club’s power helped it overcome an early deficit. In the second inning, starting right-hander Cameron Enck allowed four runs and didn’t record an out before departing. But Morris went yard in the bottom of the frame to cut the Hawks’ edge to two.

Right fielder Marty Costes hit a two-run home run in the third to tie the game at four. Then, third baseman AJ Lee added a solo shot in the sixth to give the Terps a one-run advantage.

For the second consecutive afternoon, the Terps tied the contest and took the lead.

Nickens said Costes’ home run emerged as a turning point in

The Terps beat Saint Joseph’s for their fifth straight victory. (marquise mckine/ the diamondback) the dugout. After that, the Terps were confident they would be able to close the gap.

Left-hander Tayler Stiles tossed 3.1 innings of scoreless relief, and left-hander Andrew Miller and Rescigno kept it a tie game until Maryland’s eighth-

Frese secures 400th victory against MSU As the buzzer sounded Sunday night, signaling the Maryland women’s ba s ke tba l l tea m ’s B i g Te n to u r n a m e n t t i t l e win over Purdue, confetti rained down from Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

It marked the Terps’ second celebration of the weekend.

S a t u r d a y ’s 1 0 0 - 8 9 semifinal triumph over Michigan State was coach Brenda Frese’s 400th win with Maryland, and the team recognized the milestone in the locker room with balloons, cardboard cutouts and an appearance from athletic director Kevin Anderson.

The celebration exemplified the enjoyable, re l a xe d c u l t u re Fre s e t r i e s to i n s t i l l i n t h e program, even less than 24 hours before the team played for a conference championship.

“To be reminded by o u r h ea d c o a c h e s [ to have fun], it’s really relaxing,” guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough said of Frese’s personality. “Some coaches are uptight, which makes it hard to play like that.”

Had the victory been Frese’s 50th or 100th, the festivities might have been more muted, and not because the feats were less impressive. “ I ’ l l b e t h e f i rs t to admit, when I was young … I had no balance,” the 15th-year coach said. “[It] was a complete to-do list and what’s next, and I had a really hard time in my mind slowing things down in the moment.”

Frese said she’s loosened up since, gaining perspective throughout her life, She started a family and had two kids.

She helped her son, Tyler, beat leukemia.

Still, she didn’t make plans to celebrate Saturday despite being told she had 399 wins before the game.

In fact, she was confused after the game when she arrived in the locker room, which the staff members decorated during the second half.

“I had actually forgotten about it,” Frese said. by

James Crabtree-Hannigan @JamesCrabtreeH Staff writer

Coach Mark Turgeon emphasized his team’s quality regular season after the Terps’ win vs. Michigan State. They’re set to make their third straight NCAA tournament. marquise/the diamondback

Like Turgeon, fans should appreciate team’s success Maryland men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon stood at the podium for less than a minute during his postgame press conference Saturday before having to fight back his emotions.

“It’s just been an amazing year,” he said before taking a long pause, reflecting on the parameters of this campaign’s perceived rebuildturned-Big Ten threat.

Then, his voice cracked as he addressed the cyclic nature of this year’s roster, re p l a c i n g fo u r Swe e t 1 6 starters with three rookies a n d e n d u r i n g seve ra l injuries.

“It’s so hard to win, and we’ve made it look easy the last three years,” Turgeon continued.

“Just really proud of them. They always put the team first. They never, ever,” Turgeon said, wavering, “put themselves first. They always put the team first.”

The sixth-year coach has often displayed excitement or frustration, but the raw feelings were a public rarity.

He appreciates this year’s chemistry and coachability, and with the postseason a day from beginning in the

Big Ten tournament quarterfinals, it’s time to reflect, as Turgeon did, about how extraordinary this group has been.

Start with the leader’s first example during that threeminute “soap box” of an opening statement: Maryland trailed American late in the second half on Nov. 11.

Of course, the outlook for the season less than 40 minutes after its official tip was bleak if the Terps couldn’t romp a mid-major foe that had finished with seven more losses than wins the season before.

They needed to replace fo u r s ta r te rs f ro m l a s t year’s Sweet 16 squad. And who was there to fill some of the holes? Three freshm e n — g u a rd s A n t h o n y Cowan and Kevin Huerter and forward Justin Jackson — who had never played together, never played with star guard Melo Trimble and never played at that high a level of competition.

Plus, the Terps’ returning role players didn’t warrant much trust. An injury forced guard Dion Wiley to redshirt last season. Centers Damonte Dodd and Michal Cekovsky received little playing time a year ago, and guards Jaylen Brantley and Jared Nickens offered meager production

during that hyped season’s lukewarm finish.

“Toughness has been our motto all year,” Trimble said last week, “in the weight room, on the court and off the court.”

With that, the rookie s fit in. The returners gelled.

And the Terps won. And won.

And won some more, entering conference play in late December with a 12-1 record.

Surely that wouldn’t last, right? Not with the rash of frontcourt injuries and d a u n t i n g roa d s t re tc h e s looming.

It did, though, resulting in the program’s best-ever start at 20-2.

“We’ve always had confidence in our abilities,” H u e r t e r s a i d . “ We s a w when we first got here and we r e p l a y i n g p i c k u p i n the summer how good we thought we could’ve been.”

B u t t h e n t h e Te r p s dropped five of their next seven games.

The slide started Feb. 4 against Purdue. Maryland led by one with six seconds left, but a defensive foul allowed the eventual Big Ten champions to escape College Park victorious.

Doesn’t it nag Turgeon that the season could’ve been even more special? With one more win and one more Boilermak-

sgelmandbk@gmail.com

women’s basketball

men’s basketball

CALLIE CAPLAN @CallieCaplan Columnist

inning outburst. By the end, the entire Terps dugout was yelling “Louisiana.”

“We did hit some home runs,” Szefc said. “We have some guys that can do it.”

ers loss, the teams would have tied atop the conference standings with Maryland holding the tiebreaker. After Saturday’s win over Michigan State, the Terps would have cut down the nets as regularseason champions. “ I ’m m o re p ro u d o f my team than I would’ve been if we’d won that day, if we would’ve won the league, because of how they reacted,” Turgeon said. “We never gave up on each other. We stuck together. We’re not the most talented group in the world, but we play together on both ends.”

Such belief, and his pride for finishing the “ r i g h t way ” w i t h two wins to close out the year, is what allowed Turgeon to bust some dance moves with his players in the l o c ke r ro o m a f te r t h e thriller over M ichigan State.

You should do the same — perhaps with a bit more grace and rhythm than the 52-year-old coach.

After all, the Terps are set to dance for a third straight March, and that, especially this season, is something to celebrate. ccaplandbk@gmail.com

“You get locked into the game. I had walked into the locker room and saw a couple of streamers up top and still didn’t connect it.”

Frese may have realized the accomplishment sooner if her team didn’t stay silent as she entered the room and received the game ball and a hug from Anderson.

“We decided … we were going to act like we didn’t care,” Walker-K imbrough said, “and then when she started talking, we hit her with balloons.”

Frese didn’t expect the surprise, as she’s usually the one playing pranks on her players. While meeting before practice earlier this season, for example, Frese told her team to change out of their workout gear and meet back in the team’s office. The announcement set off a flurry of celebrations from the players, who thought Frese canceled practice.

When they returned, though, Frese told them to get into the coaching staff’s cars.

She said they’d be working on their “out-of-bounds plays.”

Instead, the team went bowling.

“She does make the locker room fun,” guard Ieshia Small said.

That’s truer now than it used to be, Frese said, and the players ensure they don’t lose focus amid the occasional celebration.

“It’s just a mindset thing,” Small said. “After a while, we come back here and we get back to it. We know we have something bigger in our minds.”

After the most-recent festivities, that meant the Terps shifting their focus toward Purdue. Frese was thankful to have something so immediate to move the spotlight away from her.

“If it’s celebrating me, I’d rather, like, let’s not do it,” Frese said. “Full disclosure, I’m not really good at it. I like to move through it and get back to what we’re there for.”

But with all of the jokes and surprises Frese takes part in, some are due to come back in her direction.

And though she wasn’t seeking the attention after her 400th win, she praised her players for their initial silent treatment.

“She said we had personality,” Walker-Kimbrough said.

“We were finally a team that had personality.” jcrabtreehdbk@gmail.com

thursday, march 9, 2017

sports | 10

men’s lacrosse

one-two punch Star attackmen Matt Rambo and Colin Heacock are ‘friends forever’

By Dan Bernstein | @danbernsteinUMD | Senior staff writer

A

t the 2013 Under Armour AllAmerica Lacrosse Classic, five future Maryland men’s lacrosse players competed for the South team, including attackmen Matt Rambo and Colin Heacock.

While Rambo garnered attention with a record-setting eightgoal performance, he took notice of Heacock, the goofy Catonsville native who roomed with him at a hotel.

Right away, Rambo recognized the potential for a special friendship. They were lefty attackmen with complementary styles. Plus, Rambo valued Heacock’s sense of humor.

“I thought he was funny,” Rambo quipped. “But I didn’t think he was as smart as me.”

Four years later, the senior duo has formed one of the most illustrious tandems in program history with a combined 199 goals and 96 assists. Their friendship revolves around pranks, trash talk and laughter as they energize the Terps for another national championship pursuit.

“You know that once a guy steps on campus, every day is one day less you get with him,” coach John Tillman said before the season. “[Saying goodbye to Heacock and Rambo], because they’re so gregarious and they’re pretty engaging guys … will be pretty hard.”

It’s rare to see Rambo or Heacock without spotting one of them grinning at a joke or giving the other player hard time. This semester, they take the same classes and work out together.

They’ve lived with each other since sophomore year.

After long days, they enjoy

attackmen matt rambo and colin heacock have developed into one of the nation’s best scoring duos while pranking and trash talking each other along the way. file photo/the diamondback watching TV or tossing around a football. They also use an ongoing prank war to unwind from class and practice.

Often, Heacock waits for Rambo to become distracted with his phone or fall asleep. Then, as midfielder and former roommate Ben Chisolm recalled, he dumps a bottle of water on Rambo.

“That always really pisses Matt off,” Chisolm said.

Heacock is a light sleeper, so Rambo struggles to exact revenge.

Though Heacock insists his counterpart is “not as smooth,” Rambo finds ways to even the battle.

Rambo’s favorite tactic is to hide Heacock’s laptop around the house and watch him panic when he realizes it’s missing. Long pole Nick Brozowski, who lived with Rambo and Heacock last year, said he’s never seen anything quite like their banter.

“You’ve got to understand that they’re literally like brothers,”

Brozowski explained. “They fight like brothers. They love each other like brothers. They’re always with each other, and they’re always making jokes.”

Rambo claimed he was the responsible one around the house.

Heacock, smiling while sitting in a golf cart about 15 feet away, disagreed.

“He doesn’t cook food,”Rambo said, prompting Heacock to crack up. “I’ve cooked a meal for him once or twice. I try to teach him to live the healthy lifestyle, but he’s always buying his food.”

“He’s like my little brother,” Heacock retorted. “I can cook better than he can. It just depends on the time of day and how I’m feeling, but when I cook it’s definitely much better than him.”

Midfielder Jared Bernhardt, the third-ranked freshman in the country, said he knew about Rambo and Heacock’s infamous rapport before he arrived, even

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT Maryland Media Inc., publisher of The Diamondback, Mitzpeh, and the Terrapin Yearbook seeks at-large applicants for its 2017-2018 Board of Directors.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone to participate in the running of this important, UMD campus based business. Maryland Media is a non-profit 501(c)3 which has been independent of the University of Maryland since 1972. MMI receives no university or state funding and is entirely self-supported through the sale of advertising, yearbook sales and donations.

The Board of Directors is responsible for hiring the business staff as well as the editors of the Diamondback, the Terrapin Yearbook and Mitzpeh. It provides guidance to over 100 student employees, sets annual budgets, makes investment decisions, and establishes policies and guidelines.

The board meets for approximately 60 to 90 minutes just 8x per year during the months that school is in session.

If you are interested in becoming a member of the Board of Directors of Maryland Media, Inc., please email craig@mmi.umd.edu to request an application. Applications are due by noon on March 23, 2017.

though he grew up in Longwood, Florida.

Once Bernhardt reached the campus, however, he realized the seniors were more than jokesters.

He said they helped smooth his transition into the starting lineup by pushing him with their constant competitiveness. “[Rambo and Heacock] know when to have some fun … but they definitely lift practice up,” Bernhardt said.“[They’re always] making sure people are in the right spots doing the right things.”

Almost everything is a contest for the attackmen. A race for the team’s scoring lead last season provided fodder for ribbing this campaign.

Entering the 2016 national championship, both players had 40 scores. But in the 14-13 loss to North Carolina, Rambo notched three goals to Heacock’s two.

Earlier this spring, with the pain of the overtime title defeat

behind them, Rambo berated Heacock about the scoring tally. While Heacock argued the achievement was “garbage” and shouldn’t count because two of Rambo’s final three strikes came from man-up opportunities, Rambo didn’t relent.

“Garbage? He had a couple of [man-up] goals himself,” Rambo said. “So I wouldn’t count that as garbage. But it’s just a friendly battle … We’re always just oneupping each other.”

On the field, Rambo and Heacock join forces to combat defenders. In practice, their antics lead to verbal blows between the Terps’ offense and defense.

When either scores during training, Chisolm said they “let the goalie know” and high-five right in front of the net. Likewise, the defense counters with excessive hollering and cheering when it manages a stop.

“It makes us play harder,” defender Tim Muller said. “We go out there, and we don’t want to hear [Rambo and Heacock] chirping at us.”

During games, Maryland rallies around Rambo and Heacock’s energy and production.

Through its first five contests, the pair has notched 21 goals and 20 assists. In each contest, Rambo, donning No. 1, has linked up with Heacock, wearing No. 2, for a score.

Their contributions have placed the Terps in a position to make another deep postseason run this year, cementing their status as program greats. After they graduate, the team said it would treasure their legacy, as the senior class needs seven more victories to set the program’s alltime mark.

“I think they’ll go into the Hall of Fame here,” Chisolm said.

“They’re [two of the] best attackmen I’ve ever seen. Everyone is going to be talking about them for a while.”

Rambo and Heacock, meanwhile, are focused on capturing the program’s first national championship since 1975, so they haven’t thought much about life after Maryland. But considering the relationship they’ve built over the previous four years in College Park, they expect to maintain a close bond.

After all, Heacock said, “[Rambo] is like a brother to me.”

“I don’t know my future plans, and I don’t think he does either, but … I’m sure I’m going to talk to him for the rest of my life,” Rambo added. “We’re just going to be friends forever.” dbernsteindbk@gmail.com

2017 SENIOR

PORTRAITS The Terrapin Yearbook, in association with Life Touch Studios, is now scheduling the final sessions for graduation portraits beginning the week of March 13.

All photos will be included in the 2017 TERRAPIN YEARBOOK which you have an opportunity to purchase. Anyone having their portrait taken will receive a $25 discount off the price of the yearbook if you would like to buy one .

There is absolutely NO cost or obligation. Several poses will be taken, both with and if you prefer, without cap and gown. After the proofs are sent, you will have an opportunity to purchase portraits at a reasonable charge.

You may make an appointment by calling 1-800-687-9327, 8AM–5PM, or schedule your appointment on the net!

HURRY! The Final Sessions begin on:

March 13TH, 2017 PLACE:

3101 South Campus Dining Hall TERRAPIN YEARBOOK Office 1-800-687-9327 or ouryear.com • School code: 87101

thursday, march 9, 2017

sports | 11

cowan From p. 12 One of Cowan’s most memorable matchups came against Kobi Simmons of St. Francis High School in Alpharetta, Georgia. ESPN ranked Simmons the 20th-best player in his class.

When the McDonald’s AllAmerican rosters were announced five days before the showdown, Simmons was among the 24 players selected.

Cowan wasn’t.

Cowan, who said he was “very angry,” matched a career-high 40 points on seven 3-pointers in St. John’s win.

Simmons scored 22.

His mom remembers fans and scouts in the crowd talking about Simmons’ prowess before the game, while some didn’t know Cowan. By the end of the contest, some spectators were calling the game “the Anthony Cowan show.”

Cowan also had extra incentive when St. John’s traveled to Louisville, Kentucky, in December 2014. Cowan and his parents were scheduled to meet with University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino, but his dad said an assistant coach called Cowan and told him Pitino had a scheduling conflict with donors.

In the semifinal of the tournament, which featured another player Louisville was scouting, Cowan knocked down a 3-pointer to tie the contest with a few seconds remaining. St. John’s won the tournament, and Cowan earned MVP. “After the game, I was sitting there talking to the assistants, and I was just like, ‘The kid’s got guts,’” McAloon said. “He was never afraid of the moment.”

Cowan continues to take pride in going against higherranked foes.

In Maryland’s win over Indiana on Jan. 10., Cowan stole the ball from freshman Hoosiers guard Curtis Jones,

whom ESPN ranked 22 spots higher than Cowan. Cowan ran down the court for an easy layup, and Indiana substituted for Jones at the next stoppage.

“Anthony looks at it and is like, ‘OK, we’re back playing against each other, and now I got something for you,’” his AAU coach, Zach Suber, remembered. “‘You got all the accolades, but I’m going to do this and win the game at a higher level now.’”

Fueling his Fire After Maryland’s victory over Michigan State on March 4, Cowan liked a tweet that read “listening to MD game on the radio anthony cowan is trash even on the radio like hit a shot go back to high school sheesh.”

Be fo re a n d a f te r so m e games, Cowan searches his name on Twitter to read negative comments about himself.

It fires him up.

“In this area, there’s a lot of people who talk about the individual,” McAloon said. “His name was never mentioned toward the top early on. He took it and ran with it. He’s got an innate drive to be the best.”

Cowan’s dad shows him negative articles and rankings.

When McAloon and Suber needed Cowan to regain his focus during a game, they’d tell him the opposing guard was outplaying him.

Cowan has always been competitive. He turned family bike rides into races, and he cried after losses until he was 10. But when he heard someone speak poorly about him, he played on another level.

“He’s a much better player,” his dad said, “when he has that chip on his shoulder.”

In the midst of Big Ten play, Cowan averaged six points per game through a five-game slump. Cowan Sr. sent stories to his son about how he had missed his past 11 three-pointers.

While Cowan Jr. usually sets aside time before and after practice to hoist extra shots, he spent more time in the gym leading up to Maryland’s ensuing bout with Ohio State on Feb. 11. Cowan finished with 19 points on 3-for-4 three-point shooting in the Terps’ victory.

Cowan, though, continues to hear criticism around campus.

After Maryland’s win over Oklahoma State on Dec. 3,

bench player his sophomore year to The Washington Post’s All-Met Player of the Year two seasons later. “ I t wa s a re d e m p t i o n moment,” his mom said, “for the team, the school and for Anthony.”

The road to that championship started when Cowan made All-WCAC Third Team at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School his freshman season. But after the coach left in 2013, he transferred to

His name was never mentioned toward the top early on. He took it and ran with it. He’s got an innate drive to be the best.

SEAN McALOON

Fitting In

st. john’s college high school coach Cowan Jr. was walking near Route 1 when a driver rolled down his window and screamed, “Make your free throws.”

“That type of stuff,” Cowan Jr. said, “ I laugh at.”

Playing through ‘torture’ While driving home from Cowan’s practice at St. John’s last February, Traci Cowan had to play an audio clip.

It was a YouTube video that predicted DeMatha would rout St. John’s in the upcoming WCAC Championship. She then told him about an article

by The Washington Post that picked DeMatha to win.

“OK, that’s enough,” Cowan Jr. responded, nodding his head. “We’ll see.”

S t . J o h n ’s d e f e a t e d DeMatha, 71-57, behind his 21 points for the school’s first conference championship since 2000. The win embodied his conversion from a

#1 CHOICE IN HOUSING 2017-2018

SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

By March 9TH at 4:00 pm In Order To Get Your Priority Number And Appointment Time To Attend Open Leasing

By March 28TH at 4:00 pm Last Chance To Participate In Open Leasing On The Last Day March 30th

Open Leasing Dates March 27TH, 28TH & 30TH Stamp Student Union

McAloon said. “It was ultracompetitive, and it was fun to watch.”

When the seniors graduated, Cowan emerged as a star, making All-WCAC First Team his final two seasons. His family credited his sophomore campaign for furthering his drive and teaching him how to earn playing time at Maryland in his first year.

So,when the final buzzer blared on that upset WCAC Championship win, the one Cowan warned his mom would happen, St. John’s students stormed the American University court.

Cowan hugged the Under Armour game ball and spun away from the mob. He walked to the sidelines with a smile, reflecting on one of his proudest feats before taking photos and completing interviews with the ball in his arms.

Cowan still keeps that ball in his room.

St. John’s.

The Cadets started five seniors, so Cowan came off the bench as a sophomore for the first time in his basketball career.

He hated it.

“It was torture living with him,” his mom said. “He did not want to play behind anybody. During the games you could tell from his body language, he was pissed.”

Cowan’s AAU teammates rose in recruiting rankings while he didn’t have many opportunities to prove himself to scouts.

Cowan worked harder for playing time than he ever had.

McAloon said Cowan came to St. John’s as a poor off-theball defender, and the coach benched him whenever he botched an assignment. Cowan learned to take advantage of his chances, and Terps coach Mark Turgeon now lauds him as one of his team’s best defenders.

“He never backed down,”

After committing to Maryland in January 2015, Cowan asked his mom almost every day until he left for College Park in May if she thought he would play.

“We must’ve had this conversation 100 times,” Traci Cowan said. “We weren’t able to live with him from that point on. He drove us nuts.”

The first time Maryland assistant coach Dustin Clark watched Cowan play at Good Counsel’s gym in December 2012, he noticed his tenacity. He attended many of Cowan’s high school games, and Turgeon promised he wouldn’t recruit another small, gritty guard. Cowan’s childhood favorite Georgetown, meanwhile, offered him, but his dad felt the program didn’t put much effort into recruitment because of his son’s short stature.

Still, Cowan had to adjust to the physicality in college.

While defending forward L.G. Gill in a pick-up game at

Xfinty Center last summer, the graduate transfer fell on Cowan’s face and gave him a bruise on his right eye. The athletic department was forced to give Cowan limited face time when filming the team’s pregame hype video.

But Clark said Cowan separated himself with his work ethic. He wanted to guard Trimble every practice. When the team met after a workout last summer, Maryland’s coaching staff emphasized the team needed to bring the same energy as Cowan.

Cowan put up shots at Xfinity Center until midnight most nights. His mom just asked he didn’t go alone.

“Whether it’s in practice in August, in a midnight madness scrimmage or when the ball goes up against Michigan State,” Clark said, “his approach is the same.”

That’s helped him start every outing of his rookie campaign, lead the team in assists (116) and average the third-most points per game (10.4) on a squad that enters the Big Ten tournament as the No. 3-seed, poised for its third straight NCAA tournament appearance.

Skeeter said Cowan plays with an “emotional high” in high-pressure contests, and he won’t have a shortage of inspirational sources. He can check his Twitter mentions, read articles his dad sends him or remind himself of the work ethic that led him to Maryland.

When he’s on the Verizon Center court this weekend w i t h t h o u s a n d s o f fa n s watching the biggest tournament of his life, Cowan can also look down toward the words that shield his chest.

“Any physical limitations that Anthony has are more than compensated by the competitor he is and the size of his heart,” Clark said. “He’s always brought the fight.” kmelnickdbk@gmail.com

“I love the atmosphere of the Courtyards and the staff welcomes you with open arms.” ~ Ryan Toledo

“In the future, when I look back at my time at Maryland, I’ll picture my Commons apartment and the friends I live with here, I’ll always remember and appreciate how I truly had a home away from home.” ~ Margaret Kahwaty

TWEET OF THE WEEK

I guess 24 wins, 12 league wins & 8 road wins while starting 3 freshman doesn’t result in anyone being on the @bigten all-freshman team...

-Mark Turgeon (@CoachTurgeon) men’s basketball coach

Sports

SCOREBOARD men’s basketball

Terps 63, Michigan State 60 baseball

Terps 11, St. Joseph’s 5

@DBKSports

Page 12

women’s basketball

Terps 74, Purdue 64 women’s lacrosse

Terps 21, Boston College 13 Thursday, March 9, 2017

men’s basketball

‘YOU JUST DON’T BET AGAINST HIM’ Anthony Cowan’s maniacal work ethic helped him become a Maryland basketball star freshman

By Kyle Melnick | @kyle_melnick | Senior staff writer

A

nthony Cowan Jr. cringed when the needle pierced into his skin on his 18th birthday. He felt a sharp pain as an “A,” in black ink, formed on the left side of his chest.

Cowan was in agony for another four hours. But when he got up from the leather chair to look in the Suitland tattoo parlor’s mirror, “AMBITIOUS” covered his chest, in all capital letters except the i’s.

Growing up, Cowan felt he never received the same admiration as other guards taller than his 6-foot frame. So since he was a freshman in high school, he wanted a tattoo to reflect his demeanor as he worked for respect. But his parents didn’t give him consent, so he waited until he reached adulthood.

On Oct. 7, 2015, the day he turned 18, Cowan drove 20 minutes in his Honda Accord from his Bowie home to the tattoo parlor after school.

“When we think about basketball being a game for the big guys, he sees it as it’s a good deal more than just stature,” said Valencia Skeeter, Cowan’s grandma. “It’s about heart, and it’s about ambition.”

While Cowan felt disrespected throughout his basketball career, his solution never changed. He relied on a dogged work ethic to prove wrong those who he believed doubted him.

As the Maryland men’s basketball team seeks its first-ever Big Ten tournament title this weekend, Cowan will play with the same drive that helped him become a star at St. John’s College High School

and earn the No. 25 Terps’ starting point guard job as a freshman.

“You just don’t bet against him,” St. John’s coach Sean McAloon said. “He always figures out a way.”

Developing an edge When Cowan was about 6 years old, his family hosted a cookout for his AAU team. Cowan played pick-up with his teammates throughout the afternoon on the half-court cement slab behind his house. While his friends stopped for hamburgers, Cowan never left the court.

Cowan’s parents decided to get a basketball court instead of a swimming pool.

They figured it would be put to better use. Sure enough, every day after school, Cowan Jr. went straight to the backyard.

Skeeter said Cowan gave “no mercy” when he played against his AAU teammates, cousins or two younger sisters.

When it snowed, Cowan’s dad, Anthony Cowan Sr., motivated him to shovel the court so he could play again.

Cowan Jr. beat up the court so much his parents replaced it when he was 14.

“Anthony can go forever,” his mom, Traci Cowan, said. “He has a hard time just playing for fun.”

When Cowan Jr. wasn’t playing at his house or with his AAU team, D.C. Assault, he worked out with his dad at gyms around Prince George’s County.

The pair developed a routine throughout their two-hour regimes.

Cowan Jr. worked on his ball handling,

setting up cones on the court to dribble around, first with his right hand and then his left. Afterward, they worked on Cowan Jr.’s shooting form near the basket.

He also shot around the court at a fast pace while his dad rebounded for him.

The duo’s final component was defensive drills, working on lateral quickness between cones.

“I can’t even tell you how many hours we spent in basketball gyms and on the road,” his mom said.

Cowan Sr. coached Cowan Jr. on D.C. Assault when he was between 8 and 11 years old. Cowan Sr. had higher expectations for his son “because he knew what I was expecting.”

That caused arguments on their car rides back from games, many of which his mom had to break up.

While Cowan Jr. didn’t appreciate it at the time, Traci Cowan said the experience developed his skillset, toughness and competitiveness.

Even now, Cowan Sr. drives 25 minutes to Xfinity Center about every other week to rebound for his son.

“It’s nothing any other coach can say to him that can shake him up,” Traci Cowan said. “He had the roughest coach there is.”

‘Make It Personal’ Skeeter is an African American Studies professor at the University of Maryland, so she would bring Cowan to her office in LeFrak Hall when he was growing up. As a

4 year old, Cowan become infatuated with a 20-year-old woman who worked in the building’s front office.

One day, a graduate student was sitting next to her when Cowan walked into the office. Cowan balled up his fist and told him, “[She] is my girlfriend. Don’t be talking to her.”

Cowan has never shied away from a challenge.

“When he had an opportunity to go against somebody who was perceived as the best player on another team or people talked about that person being better than Anthony,” McAloon said, “he would make it personal.”

ESPN ranked Cowan the 30th-best guard in the 2016 class, while Rivals listed him at 22nd. Most of the top players in the country played in Nike’s AAU circuit, while Cowan competed in the Adidas AAU circuit. That’s why he felt he didn’t receive proper national respect. Plus, most guards ranked above him exceeded 6 feet.

So, Cowan had extra incentive when he faced high-profile guards.

He loved playing Bishop O’Connell High School’s Melo Trimble, and Skeeter said her grandson gave his future Terps backcourt mate “the hell.”

There was also DeMatha Catholic High School’s Markelle Fultz, whom experts project to be a top-five selection in this summer’s NBA Draft, and Gonzaga College High School’s Chris Lykes, a University of Miami commit.

See cowan, p. 11

CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT: GUARD ANTHONY COWAN addresses the media and answers questions during Maryland’s Media Day on Oct. 25, 2016, at Xfinity Center. file photo/the diamondback COWAN shoots a free throw while playing for D.C. Assault, his longtime AAU team. COWAN poses with his dad, Anthony Cowan Sr., and mom, Traci Cowan, at St. John’s graduation last June. photo courtesy of valencia skeeter COWAN plays with Star Youth Athletics when he was about eight years old. photo courtesy of traci cowan