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Jessie J to headline Art Attack XXXII Logic, The Chainsmokers will open show; SEE makes announcement via midnight video release

By Michael Errigo @M_Errigo Senior staff writer SEE released a video at midnight

traffic cones mark the site behind the South Campus Dining Hall where workers are replacing a grease intercepter. enoch hsiao/for the diamondback

announcing that English pop star Jessie J will headline Art Attack XXXII on May 1 in Xfi nity Center.

Two acts of different genres will open for the 26-year-old singer-

songwriter: EDM duo The Chainsmokers and hip-hop artist Logic.

The lineup will be finalized by the student winner of Student Entertainment Events’ Battle of the Bands competition.

Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m.

Thursday at umdtickets.com and at noon the same day at Stamp Student

Terps roll past Princeton to earn spot in Sweet 16

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer A highly anticipated second round matchup between the No. 1-seed Terrapins women’s basketball team and undefeated No. 8-seed Princeton last night didn’t disappoint. At least not for a half.

After a high-scoring first 20 minutes in which both teams shot better than 50 percent, the Terps seized control.

Coach Brenda Frese’s squad used a 15-0 run to bury the Tigers.

With the help of a raucous home crowd and a spectacular three-point shooting display, the Terps cruised to an 85-70 win over Princeton to earn a Sweet 16 berth for the third consecutive season. They will meet longtime ACC rival Duke, a No. 4 seed, on Saturday.

A day after guard Laurin Mincy said she wasn’t ready for her career to end, the Terps’ lone senior drilled a careerhigh six 3-pointers, part of a 27-point performance on 9 of 11 shooting.

Parts delivery, weather delay replacement of grease intercepter

By Jessie Campisi @jessiecampisi Staff writer

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TOPPLING TIGERS

Obama’s niece threatened, security heightened at tournament

By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Senior staff writer A phoned-in threat referencing President Obama’s niece resulted in heightened security at the Terrapins women’s basketball game against

Princeton during the NCAA tournament yesterday.

University Police received a call at about 3 p.m. yesterday from someone saying they received a text from a third party that a man had a gun, while also mentioning Leslie Robinson, Obama’s niece and a freshman

Engineering school, building namesake dies after construction career, life of univ support — asking Clark for the biggest donation in the university’s history at the time, $15 million, in exchange for Clark’s name on the engineering school building.

“After my soliloquy, there was this pause,” said Kirwan, now the University System of Maryland chancellor.

“And [Clark] says, ‘Of course I’ll do it. When I came into the room, I was A. james clark died Friday at age 87. He was a major See Clark, Page 2 university donor. photo courtesy of elise carbonaro

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forward at Princeton.

Police began investigating the call and upped security at Xfinity Center last night as a precaution but announced that the threat was “unsubstantiated,” according to a University Police release.

The Associated Press reported that

Princeton Tigers coach Courtney Banghart knew of the threat before the game, but Robinson did not.

Robinson did not play in the game.

No threatening activity took place at the game, the police release stated. eserpicodbk@gmail.com

Univ Senate weighs change in title for postdoc students

‘His legacy will live on’

Former university President Brit Kirwan was a nervous wreck when the corporate giant and university alumnus Alfred James Clark walked into his office in 1994.

Amid pleasantries and sipping tea, Kirwan struggled to gather the courage to “pop the question”

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GUARD LEXIE Brown smiles down the stretch of the Terps’ victory over Princeton last night. The Terps shot 60 percent from three in the win. marquise mckine/the diamondback

ALFRED JAMES CLARK, 1927-2015

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Staff writer

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Dining hall upgrades off schedule

T he c on s t r u c t ion out sid e South Campus Dining Hall is several months behind schedule and its completion time remains unknown, said Bill Olen, Facilities Management director.

The project, which is occurring in the parking lot space behind the dining hall, could be completed by this month, Olen said.

T he project’s purpose is to replace the grease interceptor for the building, Olen said. After being washed down the drain, waste from the kitchens streams down pipes. State-mandated plumbing code requires any food preparation site to have an interceptor to separate grease from other waste materials, Olen said.

“Dining halls generate a lot of grease, and the grease typically ends up getting into the water supply, but it’s supposed to be stopped by a grease interceptor,” said Colleen Wright-Riva, dining services director. “That grease interceptor is located outside the South Campus Dining Hall. It’s

Union’s ticket office. For university ID holders, floor seats in Xfinity Center will cost $20, while seated tickets will cost $10. Members of the general public can purchase the same options for $40 and $25, respectively.

SEE is also offering a special VIP

By Andrew Dunn @AndrewE_Dunn Staff writer Beginning postdoctoral students at this university could see a title change due to a University Senate proposal, which would allow departments to decrease benefits such students receive and classify them as non-faculty members.

A group of life sciences professors and administrative chairs appeared before the Faculty Affairs Committee yesterday to discuss

adding a second title for postdoctoral students and professionals in temporary positions. The only employee title currently available for postdoctoral students at this university is “postdoctorate research assistant,” which classifies all postdoctoral students as non-tenure-track faculty.

Faculty Affairs Committee Chairman Devin Ellis said he anticipates a change to be decided by the committee and put up for a senate vote by the end of this semester. If passed, the

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Gemstone students research Alzheimer’s disease treatment Team Brain Blast continues study after mentor, professor dies

By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow Senior staff writer A dozen students working on a G e m s ton e re s e a rc h project have overcome a personal tragedy as they continue researching a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

As of last fall, the student team, Team Brain Blast, had worked for two years under the guidance of Brian Bequette, an animal and avian sciences professor. Together they looked for an innovative way to treat Alzheimer’s — by injecting a certain drug into the nose through a syringe instead of administering it orally.

Bequette spent countless hours in the lab working on research, but on Sept. 16, he suddenly collapsed while doing a routine data collection with students and died later that day at Washington Adventist Hospital.

“That was a really rough couple weeks,” said Eric Kang, a junior biology major who was in the lab with Bequette when he collapsed. “It was really

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rough for us.”

That same day, word spread to the teammates and Gemstone faculty about the incident. When the team members heard the news, they gathered with Frank Coale, a university professor and Gemstone program director, in the Gemstone lab.

“It wasn’t long until we had the whole team there, just kind of supporting each other, so we ended up buying some food and sitting around, just chatting,” Coale said.

In the following days, the students were worried about whether they could continue the project without Bequette, said Ilana Green, a junior physiology and neurobiology and psychology major.

But the students made it back to the lab to continue their resea rch for t he rem a i ni ng yea r of the Gemstone l iv i n g-lea r n i n g prog ra m t h e s i s r e q u i r e m e n t , fo r which students spend four years researching, applying for grants and analyzing data with the help of a mentor.

“Their resiliency and how

love a nd a lways set h ig h standards.

“He was focused and disciplined and expected excellence from his team at Clark Enterprises along with those who ran the University of Maryland,” engineering school Dean Darryll Pines wrote in an email. “He loved the University of Maryland, which gave him the foundation to be great in the construction field.”

Clark had to work for his success. Kirwan said Clark’s family was of “very modest means” and that his engineeri ng deg ree from th is university helped him accomplish his corporate goals. “[Cl a rk] re p or te d t h at some days he d id n’t have enough money to ride the bus to the campus, so he had to hitchhike,” Kirwan said.

“T h i s m a n went on f rom those circumstances with the benefit of the University of Maryland degree in engineering to become one of the largest construction giants in the industry.”

Cl a rk, who g rew up i n Bethesda, graduated from this university with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1950.

After graduating, he worked with Hyman Construction Co. as a field engineer. He became president of the company in 1969, and after creating Omni Construction in 1977, he merged the two companies into the current Clark Enterprises in 1996.

Clark’s awards include the American Society of Civil Engineers OPAL 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award for Construction and the Honor Awa rd from the Nationa l Building Museum, and he is an honorary member of the ASCE. Clark remained involved with the university, serving on this university’s Board of Regents in the 1980s and on the Board of Trustees in the 1990s, Kirwan said.

P i nes w rote t hat Cla rk visited the campus several times a year and stayed in touch with the university and Clark Scholars, who he “expected to be great leaders.”

“T here w i l l be a ver y s m a l l h a n d f u l of p e o pl e who en abled t he u n iversity to take a quantum leap in its quality, and [Clark] will always be in that small handful of people,” Kirwan said. “His legacy will live on for as long as there is a University of Maryland.”

going to do it. But I thought I needed to make you ask me.’”

It is one of Kirwan’s favorite memories of Clark, the former CEO of multi-billion dollar contracting conglomerate Clark Enterprises Inc., who died Friday at his home in Easton.

T he cause of death was congestive heart failure, according to The Washington Post. Clark was 87.

Kirwan said Clark leaves behind a legacy at this university that surpasses that of other a lu m n i a nd philanthropists.

Not a bl e c ont r i b ut ion s include Clark’s $15 million don at ion i n 1994, wh ich rena med the eng i neeri ng school as the A. James Clark School of Eng i neer i ng; a $30 million donation in 2005 to provide financial support to undergraduate engineering students; and a pledge of $15 million in 2012 to spur the design and construction of A. James Clark Hall, a bioengineering facility slated to open in 2017.

Brian Ullmann, the marketing and communication assistant vice president at this university, said Clark’s lasting impact on thousands of students lies with more than his financial contributions to the university.

“It’s one t h i ng to h ave your name on a facility, but it’s what we did with that facility … that college impacts the l ives of thousa nds of e n g i n e e r i n g s t u d e n t s ,” Ullmann said. “His legacy will live on in the work of those students that graduate from his school.”

Clark Construction Group, wh ich Cl a rk E nter pr i ses oversees, is also responsible for major local and national scale construction projects.

T here a re 26 ca mpus structu res bu i lt u nder Clark’s direction, such as Eppley Recreation Center, the Kim Engineering Buildi n g, Oa k l a nd a nd P r i nce Frederick halls and sections of Byrd Stadium.

CCG also headed the construction of projects such as Nationals Park and the Verizon Center in Washington, FedEx Field in this state and the Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

To be as successful as Clark requires a backbone, Kirwan said, noting that Clark was warm and generous at his core, he epitomized tough tswaakdbk@gmail.com

they handled it in a mature fashion was a big huge lesson learned,” Coale said. “It won’t show up on their resumes anywhere, but it’s a huge lesson and a huge experience they’ll never forget.”

The team asked Kara Duffy, a doctoral candidate who worked under Bequette, to become their new mentor. She accepted, despite just having started a new off-campus job at the Shady Grove campus.

Leslie Juengst, another graduate assistant to Bequette also helped the team.

T hough the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists Alzheimer’s as the sixth-leading cause of death in the U.S., no cure exists for it.

Bequette worked with the students to study a diabetes drug, Thiazolidinedione, or TZD. “When we were brainstorming, he was brainstorming too … so he was right with us figuring out what to do,” Green said.

They hypothesized that injecting the drug through the nose could allow it to by pa ss t he “ blood-bra i n barrier,” she said, sending

basketball From PAGE 1 It was Princeton, which entered the contest with the nation’s best three-point shooting percentage, that was supposed to light up the scoreboard from beyond the arc. Instead, the Terps stole the show from deep. They shot 60 percent, as guard Lexie Brown chipped in with five threes of her own in a 23-point outing.

“They were making their shots,” Princeton guard Blake Dietrick said. “I mean, they shot 87.5 percent from three in the second half. So, if that’s what it takes to beat us, great.”

In the first half, though, the Tigers carved the Terps’ typically strong defense for bucket after bucket down low. Pri nceton boasted a 28-6 edge in the paint and held centers Malina Howa rd a nd Brion na Jones without a field-goal attempt in the half.

Forward Tierney Pfirman helped mask the Terps’ post deficiencies with 11 first-half points off the bench. It was enough to send the Terps into a locker room with a

senate From PAGE 1 change would take effect for the upcoming fiscal year, which starts July 1.

“W hat I’m concerned about is, if we create a category with no benefits, it’s a race to the bottom,” Marc Pound, a committee member and astronomy senior research scientist, said at the meeting.

This initiative for a new title stemmed directly from a letter on this issue that 131 professors signed on behalf of the university’s life sciences programs. The letter states that considering postdoctoral students faculty gives their departments a disadvantage, as the high level of benefits would lead to a “research funding erosion” resulting from less money going toward research.

The university funds allocated toward postdoctoral students include fringebenefit coverage as well as money for research. As the number of postdoctoral students increases, more funds are required to cover fringe benefits and there is less

a group of students continues researching an Alzheimer’s disease treatment despite the death of its mentor and university professor Brian Bequette. They hypothesize that a nasal injection of certain drugs could have less harmful side effects. photo courtesy of ilana green it straight to the brain with less harmful side effects.

To help with funding, they raised more than $5,000 in three days through Launch UMD, a fundraising website for on-campus groups and events.

Now, the team continues to collect and test data about every day. The members use

42-38 lead until Jones could get going in the second half.

The Terps looked to get the 6-foot-3 sophomore the ball early after the break, and she delivered with 10 points and nine rebounds in the final 20 minutes.

“For Mincy to shoot the three-ball like she did and then Bri to show up in the second half like she did, I think that makes us unstoppable,” Brown said.

The combination proved to be too much for the Tigers, w h o h a d n ’ t b e e n o v e rwhelmed all season. After the Terps missed their first shot from the field in the second half, they connected on their next six while finally slowing the Tigers offense.

Howard knocked down a jumper — her first field-goal attempt of the game — at the 13:48 mark to cap a 15-0 run that would be prove to be the demise of Princeton’s perfect season.

“Playing an undefeated team — a team that [President] Obama had picked over us — it gave us a little added motivation to come in and make a statement,” Mincy said.

Frese said she remembers watching film of the Tigers’ 30-point blowout win at Mich-

money available for research.

This proposal aims to create a new title for incoming postdoctoral students that would not require departments to allocate benefits such as full retirement benefits, health insurance and tuition remission for this title.

Therefore, there would be more money available for research for current postdoctoral students.

The life sciences programs collected research on postdoctoral students from the other Big Ten schools and found that out of the 13 other schools in the conference, eight offer health benefits and two offer retirement benefits. The only other schools to offer retirement benefits are Northwestern University and Indiana University, which both have significantly higher funding for the life sciences.

Jonathan Dinman, professor and cell biology and molecular genetics deparment chairman, said the current academic environment requires this new title for postdoctoral students for this university to stay competitive and on track with fellow Big Ten schools.

Faculty Affairs Committee member Ellin Scholnick said she was concerned this change may take even more away from

tiny syringes to drop bubbles of the TZD drug into the noses of genetically altered mice with Alzheimer’s.

They see their research not as a means to cure Alzheimer’s but to lay the building blocks for future research that might.

Having their research inspire or be used by a professional lab

is the ultimate goal, Kang said.

As they work toward that goal and their final thesis next year, he said, Bequette still inspires their project.

“His fingerprints are still all over our project,” Kang said.

“They’re everywhere.” jsnowdbk@gmail.com

guard shatori walker-kimbrough blows past a defender during the Terps’ 85-70 win against Princeton last night in Xfinity Center. marquise mckine/the diamondback igan and saying, “You wait until the bracket comes out; whoever has to play Princeton is going to have a game.”

The Tigers hung with the Terps early, and if it wasn’t for a staggering display from behind the arc, it might have been closer down the stretch.

After all, Mincy said she had never felt so good from

three-point range.

“It was a special night, being my last game here at Xfinity playing an undefeated team,” Mincy said. “Just very emotional, but I’m glad my team was able to come out and play hard for me, and I’m glad I gave them a great game.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

Jewel Washington, human resources assistant vice president, reviews a briefing before the University Senate Faculty Affairs Committee yesterday. rachel george/the diamondback postdoctoral students, who she said are already some of the lowest-compensated people on the campus.

“Talking about taking away benefits from the least-paid individuals … I’m deeply worried about the impact on the postdocs themselves, who already live on the edge,” Scholnick said at the meeting.

While a new title would not leave postdoctoral students completely without benefits, it is likely the policy would lower the minimum level of benefits for entering postdoctoral students at this university.

T he committee expects that people who are currently in postdoctoral associate positions cannot be pushed to a lower position and lose benefits

from the change.

Some postdoctoral students might even gain benefits from this change, Ellis said. Roughly 15 percent of postdoctoral students were assigned to a more flexible position in the old system that handed out benefits on a case-by-case basis, Ellis said, leaving some postdoctoral students with very few. This change could be an improvement for some of them, as they would have some benefits.

The committee requested to receive and review a plan from Provost Mary Ann Rankin that will explicitly grant health and retirement benefits for postdoctoral students with this proposed title. adunndbk@gmail.com

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Medical school match program sees record number of positions Univ school of medicine places 147 students for residency

By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer A manda Fernandez was 2 years old when doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center removed a tumor roughly the size of a golf ball from her brain.

On March 20, 26-year-old Fernandez found out she will be completing her residency in pediatrics at the same hospital that once saved her life.

“I really owe my life to the University of Maryland and the innovative minds that were there at the time,” said Fernandez, who lives in Baltimore. “It was definitely emotional being accepted there for medical school and I’m really excited to be continuing my training there.”

Fernandez is one of 147 students in this university’s school of medicine that were placed in a residency position on “Match Day,” a 63-yearold tradition in which medical students nationwide are assigned to the program where they’ll train for the next three to seven years.

T his university held its Match Day ceremony Friday at the Hippodrome Theatre.

E a c h s t u d e nt re c e ive d a white envelope with his or her assignment, and many announced their result to the crowd as their chosen “walkup” song sounded through the auditorium.

“My whole family was in the audience and when I opened my envelope, I sa id, ‘I’m staying home — University of Maryland,’” Fernandez said.

T his year saw the most number of matches in the p ro g ra m’s h i s to r y, w it h 41,000 registered applicants placed in about 30,000 positions in 140 programs across the country.

T h e m atc h i n g p ro c e s s involves an algorithm that takes students’ list of residency program preferences and compares it with each participating teaching hospitals’ preferences and needs.

At t h i s u n iversit y, t he program matched students at 60 hospitals in 26 states, said David Kohn, the school of medicine’s medicine and science communications director. Thirty-five members of the class of 2015 will remain in this state for their residency training.

More t h a n h a l f of t h i s

BY THE NUMBERS

147 students Number of University of Maryland School of Medicine students placed in a residency position in 2015.

41,000 students

Number of registered applicants placed in residency programs across the country this year.

10 percent

Rate of increase in the number of national applicants since 2011. state’s practicing physicians and health care professionals are alumni of the school of medicine, according to the school’s website.

“It’s nice that we have a lot of great students who want to stay here because these are people committed to our state and institution,” said Dr. Donna Parker, associate dean for student affairs.

“They have the chance to be leaders, and they’re great ambassadors.”

Nationally, the nu mber of applicants has increased n e a rl y 10 p e r c e n t s i n c e 2011, while the number of available positions grew by slightly more than 15 percent

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Progressive College Republicans club plans initiative to advise area projects

By Josh Magness @josh_mag Staff writer

jessie j will headline Art Attack XXXII on May 1 in Xfinity Center with two openers: EDM duo The Chainsmokers and local hip-hop artist Logic. The student winner of Student Entertainment Events’ Battle of the Bands will also perform. photo courtesy of geffpaulo herrera success. In the fall, Jessie J released her third studio album, Sweet Talker, which featured the Grammy-nominated, radio-dominating hit “Bang Bang” featuring A ria na Gra nde a nd Nick i

Minaj. The Chainsmokers had their own ubiquitous top-40 a nt hem l a st yea r with “#SELFIE,” and Logic’s debut album, Under Pressure, opened at No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 in October.

Doors to A r t Attack X X X II will open at 5:30 p.m. M ay 1, w it h t he l i ne formation sta rti ng at 3:30 p.m. merrigodbk@gmail.com

dining From PAGE 1 very old and needed to be replaced.”

Without the interceptor, the dining hall could face some bigger problems.

“If we don’t complete the project, the dining hall might have to stop running,” Olen said. “But we shouldn’t have a problem getting it done.”

Olen said the Dining Services-funded $500,000 project is a “regular repair,” but its completion has been delayed.

“Once they got in there and started digging around, they encountered more difficulties,” Wright-Riva said.

These issues were mostly related to a n i nabi l ity to do groundwork because of weather conditions.

“Certain types of work just can’t happen in cold weather,” Olen said.

Con st r uct ion a l so wa s halted because it required a pipe that was on its way to this university. Olen could not confirm whether this pipe has arrived.

The extended construction period has affected students such as freshman cell biology and genetics major Kerina Ochieng, who has a class in Susquehanna Hall three days a week. Ochieng walks through the parking l o t e a c h m o r n i n g to ge t there, but the construction can be obstructive.

T he rep or t s t ate s t h at 12,500 to 31,100 of the empty positions will be in primary care, the category in which Signer said 60 percent of the new residency positions this year will occupy.

“There were more primary ca re positions — more i n internal medicine, family medicine and pediatrics — a nd that’s a good trend,” Signer said. “We’d like to se e more U. S. g ra du ate s matching into primary care, and we’d like to see primary care positions in the match because that’s where the greatest need is.”

Univ club to create Local Development Council to better city

SEE “Jessie J experience” package, wh ich w i l l i nclud e f lo or tickets and a meet-and-greet with the artist for $150.

This will be the first Art Attack ever held in Xfinity Center, as the event was previously held at Byrd Stadium.

This change resulted from a scheduling conf lict at the event’s usual venue.

The choice to bring Jessie J as headliner is a break in the trend of recent Art Attack performances, mostly male hip-hop performers. Last year, Wale and Big Sean headlined the event, and alternative band MGMT took the stage in 2013. B.O.B. headlined the show in 2012 and Nelly came in 2011.

This year’s announcement puts an end to speculation in recent weeks fueled by the release of a SEE Spotify playlist, which had the lineup hidden among its included artists. SEE released the playlist of more than 100 songs by different artists on March 4 and eliminated songs from it to lead up to the reveal.

All three acts will be arriving in College Park on the tail of recent com mercial

during that time.

T he growing number of medical schools being established and existing schools’ enrollment numbers rising are responsible for the uptick, said Mona Signer, the National Resident Matching Program’s president and CEO. “[A projected physician shortage] is certainly what is spurring the creation of new medical schools and enrollment increases,” she said.

T he dema nd for physicians is predicted to exceed those available by a range of 46,000 to 90,000 by 2025, according to a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

CONSTRUCTION in the parking lot behind the South Campus Dining Hall is running behind schedule with an unknown completion time. Officials said the project to replace a grease interceptor could be completed by this month. enoch hsiao/for the diamondback “ S o m e t i m e s t h e p a ssa geway to get [t here] i s blocked off and you have to walk around, or there will be a truck driving through and I can’t walk there,” she said. “I’ll be late and I have to wait for them to drive by. ... When that happens, it’s really irritating.”

These pipes normally need to be replaced every 25 to 30 years, Olen said. The university i nsta l led a g rease i nterc ep tor at 251 Nor t h about three years ago when it first opened, but the North

Campus Dining Hall has yet to be renovated.

Olen said the North Campus Dining Hall construction has not taken place as the u n iversity is “currently looking at options” including the building of at least one new d in ing hall in its place. The 2014 OnCampus Student Housing Strategic Plan includes the addition of two new dining facilities: one in the Academic Village and one at the varsity practice fields. These facilities are scheduled to be

completed in fall 2019 and fall 2021, respectively.

For the South Campus Dining Hall, the restoration and closeout procedures, which include painting, paving and cleaning up the construction site, will be concluded before the senior class graduates in May, Olen said.

Staff writer Morgan Eichensehr contributed to this report. jcampisidbk@gmail.com

From forming a coalition of fiscally responsible groups to having representatives in multiple SGA committees, the Progressive College Republicans club is determined to bring change to people living and working in College Park.

The club is now planning a new initiative, the Local Development Council, an independent review board that would give “fiscally responsible” recommendations on construction projects for the College Park area, said Ryan Kromsky, a senior accounting and finance major heading the proposed initiative.

“While this council is still in the early planning stages, we think this is a very important idea because although various offices on campus look at economic data, there is no freestanding student organization that represents student beliefs,” he said.

The board would be made up of diverse student and local groups, and it would be organized by the Progressive College Republicans, a group founded last year that seeks to match progressive social issues w ith conser vative fiscal policies.

Group members already have a few ideas the council could advocate, K romsky said, including the construction of a f lyover bridge to connect the new hotel project to this university’s campus, as well as the proposed Maryl a nd P u r ple L i ne, wh ich would have a stop in front of Stamp Student Union.

The Residence Hall Association has committed its intent to co-sponsor the council, Kromsky said, and members of the council plan to attend College Park city hall’s strategic plan public hearings to share ideas with city officials.

Kromsky said the most important aspect of the council is finding a way to support economic growth while ensuring the proposals are “socially responsible.”

“The f lyover bridge is a good example of that,” he said. “We won’t support it unless it is economically and socially feasible, which means if the bridge costs too much we won’t build it, and while building it, we will make sure people think it’s a good idea.”

The Progressive College Republicans will have rep-

“WE THINK THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT IDEA BECAUSE ALTHOUGH VARIOUS OFFICES ON CAMPUS LOOK AT ECONOMIC DATA, THERE IS NO FREESTANDING STUDENT ORGANIZATION THAT REPRESENTS STUDENT BELIEFS.” RYAN KROMSKY

Senior accounting and finance major resentatives attend Student G overn ment A ssociation m e e t i n g s, i nc lu d i n g t he Committee on Governmental Affairs, where they will promote the council and other ideas, Kromsky said.

SGA Director of Governmental Affairs Luke Pinton said he is excited to hear the group’s proposals, but he is “not sure” what that will entail.

“It’s important for student groups to come out to our meetings because we need to focus on events that students care about and let their opinions form our own to make good policy,” the senior government and politics major said.

Pinton said the idea of a diverse group of students giving input on city development would be “well received” in the SGA but that the body needs more time to investigate the council before approving it.

“The SGA obviously wants to be demographically inclusionary,” he said. “I’m not sure yet if the SGA would support [the council], because it depends on how well-run it is. You also have to be around a while for your recommendations to have weight.”

Despite quest ion s su rrounding how the council will operate and the months of planning before it becomes reality, Zachary Goldstein, head of the club’s i n for m at ion c om m it te e, said he looks forward to the changes a diverse coalition could bring.

“I t h i n k we c a n ga i n a lot more if we have diverse people from diverse backgrounds with diverse ideas,” t he ju n ior biolog y m ajor said. “We don’t have just one agenda, we really want to be progressive and include as many voices as possible.

That’s our goal.” jmagnessdbk@gmail.com

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t has been quite a year of endowments, donations and partnerships for this university. In the fall, former university student Brendan Iribe donated $31 million to this university for the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation; the Charles Koch Foundation and the Snider Foundation donated $6 million to establish a multidisciplinary research center; and Under Armour CEO and university alumnus Kevin Plank bestowed a $25 million gift to put the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Cole Field House.

And just as the university was settling down from a gift-filled fall, it was announced yesterday that this university and Uber, the popular transportation company, have engaged in a partnership to support student innovation.

According to a news release on Uber’s blog, the collaboration between the company and this university will allow for a significant investment of $25,000 in the Startup Shell, a studentrun startup space that fosters innovation. Along with the investment in the Startup Shell, Uber will also provide investor grants to student-created companies over the next couple of years.

And that’s not all.

The Uber partnership will provide mentors to students and the ability to participate in business competitions.

And to keep the innovation flowing, an innovation council will be created

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to crowdsource ideas from students, faculty and staff.

The partnership announcement comes at a time in which the status of Uber in this state is being questioned.

Lawmakers in Annapolis are struggling to find a way to regulate and oversee Uber drivers, which caused the company to claim that Uber was being threatened by state regulators. This prompted an Uber public-relations campaign focused on having Baltimore users “save Uber.”

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Investments in research universities such as ours create opportunity for students and spark innovation.

It would be easy to assume that this partnership with the university might be correlated to this state trying to regulate Uber. However, questionable coincidences aside, the decision to collaborate with Uber will help this university and the ideas it produces to flourish.

This university is a flagship of innovation and research. Taking a look around the campus, passersby can see banners, buses and student groups touting this university’s research reputation. To maintain its acclaim, the university

community must continue to pump out novel ideas, and that becomes a whole lot easier when the university community has investors.

Craig Barrett, CEO emeritus of Intel, wrote for Forbes Magazine in 2012 that the United States must invest in research universities in order to continue pioneering, and Uber, Under Armour, Brendan Iribe and the Koch Brothers all seem to agree with that.

While this editorial board commends the partnership between Uber and the endowments from other groups that benefit this university, other companies and influential individuals should invest in all research universities, not just this one.

Those affluent enough must take advantage of the innovation that is brewing out of universities across the country, especially in College Park.

As Zuhairah Washington, Uber DC’s general manager, said, “The spirit of collaboration and entrepreneurship being fostered at the University of Maryland … is truly something special.” The innovation at this university is extraordinary, and the partnership with Uber will continue to enhance it. More partnerships like this must occur nationwide in order to ensure that research universities like this one are continuing to innovate and change the world on a daily basis.

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racial stereotypes and racist jokes that it encompasses is practically omnipresent. Our television screens and computer monitors are plastered with popular TV programs — Saturday Night Live, The Boondocks, South Park and, more recently, Empire — that have thrived commercially by selling racism and stereotypical depictions. We watch these shows and to some extent enjoy them, and so is it really that big of a mystery why racism is still such an issue in America today?

One would think that our country’s increasing diversity would decrease racism, yet the opposite seems to be true. Our country’s diversity is undeniable, and with that growing diversity, has come new shows that cater to those demographic groups.

While certainly in some instances unintentional, these shows force the continuation of racist issues. There is no known correlation between the shows we watch and the way we behave, but unfortunately, television does seem to set up an idea of our societal norms. We have so many new shows that cater to diverse audiences that can build and influence our perceptions of other races. More often than not, these shows portray these diverse actors in stereotypically hackneyed roles.

While it might be politically correct to punish those individuals who have been caught red-handed being “racist,” perhaps it is time to fundamentally re-evaluate how we perceive and depict other races.

he past couple of weeks have breathed new life into and reignited the firestorm of racism that periodically ravages our country and fills our news coverage. Much like a phoenix that occasionally rises from the ashes, the most recent racist incident has manifested itself within some of our nation’s colleges.

And yet it is important to remember that the views and actions of a select few individuals cannot and do not represent the opinions of the majority. The punishments dealt to the guilty parties, however, seem rather unnecessarily cruel. Harshly vilifying and punishing the select individuals who are caught in these racist offenses does not truly solve the main issue of racism.

Yes, it may deter future racist behavior, but it offers no long-term solution to the current issue.

Ironically, the problem at hand is one that might be self-inflicted. Our nation was slowly constructed on the tenets of freedom and liberty, and as a democratic nation, our First Amendment rights entitle us to say freely what we want to when we want to. As long as our free speech does not jeopardize the public’s safety, it remains free. And indeed, this freedom has allowed quite a number of people in our country Max An is a sophomore physiology and to profit.

Our exploitation and mon- neurobiology major. He can be reached etization of free speech and the at maxandbk@gmail.com.

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s an undergraduate who has spent a good amount of time working with the Leadership & Community Service-Learning office and the Alternative Breaks student leaders, I must say it is a fantastic experience that can absolutely shape the lives of university students. These programs can provide much exposure to parts of this country and the world that many students would otherwise be unwilling or incapable of exploring through other means.

However, I would offer three main critiques to the program that I believe could not only further its cause, but also be to the betterment of the people who are engaged in the programs. Note: I am not opposed to Alternative Breaks, but I see some key areas that could be changed for the better.

1. Location of the breaks: As I was looking through the list of areas that this university has gone to in recent years, I noticed a pattern among many of the destinations. Whether intentional or coincidental, there

seem to be mostly trips to locations in the Americas or surrounding islands. To expand the program, I believe it would be best to expand the trips to some African and Asian countries. This would serve to vary not only the locations, but also give students a different perspective of what life is like beyond this part of the world.

2. For locations that are set in the United States, again, try expanding the horizon a bit to take on different regions. Some locations are known for their socioeconomic and civic differences, especially at this time.

Some might not be considered the most popular of locations, but I feel as though much could be learned from an Alternative Breaks trip to Compton, California, Detroit, San Antonio or even right outside the campus — somewhere like Suitland. There are many parts of the U.S. in which Alternative Breaks could definitely be of service, and that could give students another perspective as to which parts of the country need help.

3. A petition to change the duration of breaks. This might sound like an outside shot, but as most trips cost more than $1,300, I feel that students perhaps should have the ability to determine the length of these trips. Either reduce the costs of the trips and push for more funding from the university or even increase the length of certain trips per student requests, especially for trips with extended travel distances.

Alternative Breaks is a wonderful program that offers students exposure to many different walks of life and opportunities to volunteer on a variety of issues.

Yet much more can be done, with university support, to expand the reaches of Alternative Breaks and give it a more diverse trajectory. As a student who has yet to attend an Alternative Breaks trip but possesses a strong desire to do so, these are just some requests I’d have for the program’s future.

Rhys Hall is a junior sociology major. He can be reached at rhyshall2144@gmail.com.

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trip worth it. The residents’ gratitude was unbelievable and humbling.

Some would say that these shortterm trips are detrimental to the community. They would say that we should stop kidding ourselves because the moment we return to our everyday lives, our work is done.

I refuse to believe that is true.

My Alternative Breaks trip has given me understanding above all else, and that attribute benefits both sides of this complex debate. The painful history these people continue to endure is rooted in a lack of understanding. It stems from a lack of empathy, and we counteracted that deficiency every day we were there. We listened to Sioux speakers, we played with the children, and we learned from our daily interactions with Sioux people.

A week wasn’t enough, but it was a start. It was 36 starts, actually. Every one of the participants we met through working with the Re-Member organization ended his or her spring break with more understanding and knowledge than he or she had started with.

It’s true that turnover can take its toll on a community. Some issues really do require long-term commitment. Students learning from a teacher volunteer deserve the chance to come back to that same person for advice or celebration in their later years.

With the nature of our program and for many of the Alternative Breaks trips the university offers, our projects are short term yet impactful, and they leave us with a passion to learn, give and do more. Our short week of service was by no means a shortcut to an unstable solution; it was the first of many steps on an incredible journey.

few weeks ago, I received a flood (OK, maybe not a flood — I’m not that popular) of texts asking when I would be home for spring break. I responded by telling everyone I wasn’t coming home and instead would be on a service trip in South Dakota. The most popular response: “What is even in South Dakota?”

Well, let me tell you. Located in South Dakota is the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota, where the unemployment rate hovers around 85 percent, the life expectancy is about 48 for men and 52 for women, the number of deaths that occur because of diabetes is three to four times the national average and where some of the most incredible people live.

I could tell you all of that within an hour of arriving on the reservation for my Alternative Breaks trip. I came back to school with a week’s worth of memories, facts and experiences to share. The real question: Was a week enough?

If I’m being honest, no. The issues that surround the Sioux people extend far beyond my weeklong stay. But service has never been an all-or-nothing proposition. No one ever gave me an ultimatum and told me to change the world “or else.” That’s just not how it works.

We did what we could in a week’s time. We skirted houses; we built staircases and outhouses; we got to know the people; we re- Samantha Reilly is a freshman minded them that someone cares journalism major. She can be reached about them. That alone made the at sreillydbk@gmail.com.

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FACEOFF | IS THE NETWORK SITCOM DEAD?

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED (ONCE)

CURRENT Network Sitcoms include (clockwise from top left) The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which NBC sold to streaming service Netflix, FOX’s The Mindy Project, ABC’s Blackish, CBS’ The Odd Couple and ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat. screengrabs from youtube.com

YES: All of the best comedic talent now goes to cable

By Michael Errigo @M_Errigo Senior staff writer In the most recent quarte rly N i e l se n ra t i n gs o f prime-time network shows, only two comedies made it into the top 10. Both of them were produced by ruler-ofthe-network-world CBS and both of them are an indication of just how messed up our network comedy landscape is right now.

The first is a show that has long been beloved by old white people and science teachers who want to seem cool: The Big Bang Theory.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise, as the show has been getting staggeringly large ratings for years now.

Unfortunately, its future is secure as anything on TV right now.

The second show that cracked the top 10 is a brandnew remake of a classic 1968 movie and ’70s-era TV show that now involves Matthew Perry (of Friends fame). Some pairings just make sense.

This is not one of them. But, for some reason, America is eating up CBS’ The Odd Couple so far.

And I think that may be because there are just not many tasty comedies left on the network menu.

IF THE NETWORKS CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE TO FIND LAUGHS, THEIR CONTENT WILL JUST BE RENDERED OBSOLETE Ten years ago today, The Office premiered on NBC. The Americanized version of a British hit had some early trouble finding its footing, in part because it was unlike a nyt h i n g m a ny n e twork comedy fans had seen before.

It lacked the feel-good pred i c ta b i l i ty o f C h e e rs o r Frasier, and it wasn’t stuffed with the complex writing of Seinfeld. The Office was awkward and a bit sad, its documentary-style format highlighting the human side of its small-town Scranton, Pennsylvania, setting.

The show soon became a hit and a cornerstone to what became a powerhouse Thursday night lineup for NBC. The Office, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation were all smart, creative shows that contributed more than just memes to television culture.

Now we have Matthew Perry driving another guy up the wall with his carefree attitude and refusal to be tidy. How did we get here?

I take shots at the CBS

s h ows b e c a u s e a t l e a s t they’re successful. ABC, NBC and Fox have comedies of their own, but their attempts to find a voice and/or an audience have been mostly futile. The Big Four’s formulaic approach to comedy right now will never help them replace the magic they had five and 10 years ago, and even worse, it will allow cable stations and streaming services to continue to race right past them.

And that’s where the real problem lies: If the networks continue to struggle to find laughs, their content will just be rendered obsolete by all of the quality content coming from outlets like Ne t f l i x , A m a z o n , H B O, Comedy Central and FX, which are all creating hits by pushing the envelope, giving platforms to young, creative minds and marketing themselves as the bolder, better alternative to the network graveyard.

Until CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox realize what’s going on around them and start to model themselves off of their far-superior competitors and take more creative risks, their biggest punchlines will continue to be the quality of their shows. merrigodbk@gmail.com

NO: The eulogies are premature; network sitcoms can still be fresh ByDustin Levy @DustinBLevy Staff writer N B C ’s c o m e d i e s a r e no longer Must-See TV, mainly because NBC is no longer airing any during its infamous Thursday night lineup. In December, NBC announced a midseason sc h e d u l e w i t h n o co m e d i e s o n T h u rs d ay, t h e night of the week that had been bringing hit sitcoms such as The Office, Seinfeld and Friends to households since the ’80s.

H oweve r, t h i s i s n ’t a b l ow fo r t h e e x i s te n c e of the network comedy, despite recent grumblings since the Parks and Re c re a t i o n se n d o f f a n d the success of Netflix’s The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a show NBC passed over to the streaming platform.

T h e Wa s h i n g t o n P o s t s e n t i n i ts o b i t fo r t h e sitcom with an article entitled “‘Kimmy Schmidt’ proves the network sitcom is dead.”

“Network sitcoms are generally — how shall I put this? — kind of unwatchable,” wrote Jenny Jaffe, a guest columnist for PostEve ry t h i n g . “ T h ey ca n ’t afford to lovingly hand-craft

shows that appeal to niche interests, so they are forced to continually dip back into the well of the things that they know can work.”

This is a fair point, and it’s true that viewers are still eating up CBS’ endless trove of lowest common denominator Chuck Lorre comedies. Looking beyond NBC, though, the landscape of sitcoms on n e two rk te l ev i s i o n h a s p o te n t i a l . E a c h m a jo r co mpeting netwo rk has its own hit shows — ABC with Modern Family, CBS with The Big Bang Theory and Fox with a collection of buzzy series such as New Girl, The Mindy Project and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

And declaring network comedies dead by focusing on NBC is overlooking the experimental freshmen sitcoms on the air. ABC continues to prove that diversifying works with promising comedies like Blackish and Fresh Off the Boat. Fox’s The Last Man on Earth resembles a cable series, thanks to its original, less-than-networkfriendly premise. Even the CW is finding its comedy footing with the critically lauded Jane the Virgin.

So m ayb e i t’s t i m e to pump the brakes on the

mourning. People simply aren’t going to sit in front of the television anymore w i t h so m u c h a cce ss to content online these days, but that doesn’t mean a h i g h - q u a l i ty te l ev i s i o n show won’t work on netwo r k s . N B C s a i d n o to K i m m y Sc h m i d t , wh i c h undoubtedly would have attracted a niche audience like Community or 30 Rock.

And that’s a much better alternative to what NBC has now, which is nothing (and The Slap).

While NBC treads water, it can look to its competitors for inspiration. Aside from the CBS Lorre-juggernaut, the other networks have exercised creativity in airing newbie sitcoms.

Even cable and streaming platforms demonstrate that quality series get attention in smaller markets.

A post-Parks and Recreation NBC might appear frightening when one considers the network’s lucrative sitcom past, but the state of network comedies remains in solid shape on the other big network players.

And as for NBC? Well, I, for one, look forward to five nights of James Spader and spinning chairs. dlevydbk@gmail.com

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REVIEW From PAGE 8 McCoy, meanwhile, thought the team’s downfall occurred because of its mindset before conference play.

“Some of the guys on the team didn’t necessarily have the best mindset throughout the season,” McCoy said. “We have to have the mindset of going out and competing at the highest level and doing the right things consistently throughout the season to have more success.”

Early in the year, McCoy said some of the wrestlers continued to follow the routine that brought them success in the ACC. It wasn’t until the latter part of the

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season that the Terps realized the amount of training needed to compete in a conference that produced the past nine national champions in team competition.

“Everybody’s mindset was totally different with the ACC, where we had great seasons,” 285p o u n d S p e n ce r Mye rs sa i d . “ G o i n g to t h e B i g Ten, which is known as … arguably the best conference in the country, everyone’s mindset had to change.”

Though the Terps lose Myers to graduation, they’ll welcome 133-pound Tyler Goodwin and 141-pound Alfred Bannister next season.

Goodwin, who qualified for the national tournament last season at 133 pounds,

took a redshirt year after failing to drop to the 125pound division. Bannister, meanwhile, redshirted and went 35-4 in open competition, wrestling at 141 and 149 pounds.

Along with Alexander and 141-pound Shyheim Brown, the duo should help solidify the Terps at the lower weights.

But regardless of who earns the starting nod , McCoy, who witnessed the Terps achieve their lowest win total since 2004, will ensure his wrestlers strive to meet his expectations, not just their own.

“If they don’t have it, they won’t be around,” McCoy said. kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

ATTACKMAN MATT RAMBO races up the field while shielding the ball during the Terps’ 11-4 win over Princeton on March 7 at Byrd Stadium.

The sophomore failed to score for the first time all season in a 10-8 victory over North Carolina last weekend. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

COLONIALS From PAGE 8 that’s given all of the other offensive guys opportunities.”

Rambo wasn’t the only prominent Terps attackman the Tar Heels rendered ineffective.

Senior Jay Carlson, who entered the contest second on the team with 11 goals, missed all six of his shots and failed to score for the first time in 11 games.

Nevertheless, LoCascio and Heacock buoyed the Terps to victory with career days. LoCascio overpowered the Tar Heels defense for five goals, while Heacock continued his solid campaign with a career-high three goals Saturday.

While Rambo and former attackman Connor Cannizzaro, who transferred to Denver after last season, proved to be reliable scoring weapons as freshmen, Heacock scored five goals in his rookie campaign.

“We’re hoping that this really kick-starts [Heacock’s] confidence. He’s a very good athlete, and we feel like if Colin can take his game up, that really would help us,” Tillman said. “We have him playing a little different position than he’s played in high school, and it’s taken a little while for him to get comfortable.”

Still, Tillman and the Terps likely will need Rambo to improve on his most recent showing if they hope to maintain their five-game winning

streak. He’s already propelled the Terps to several wins.

After the Terps fell to Yale, 10-6, in their only loss of the season Feb. 21, Rambo scored a hat trick three days later to lead the team past Penn, 11-7. And he recorded two more three-goal outings to help the team get past two highranked offenses in Princeton and Villanova on March 7 and March 14, respectively.

“He’s done a good job of realizing that there’s a lot of attention by defenses on him,” Tillman said on March 10. “He needs to pick his spots.”

The Terps (6-1) play Robert Morris (1-6) next, and the matchup presents a solid opportunity for Rambo to turn things around, as the Colonials have let in 12.43 goals per game this season.

In recent years, Tillman has led teams teeming with defensive stalwarts to the brink of a national championship. But each time, lackluster offensive showings have undone the Terps.

Led by goalkeeper Kyle Bernlohr and defender Casey Ikeda, the Terps boast another strong defense this season. And they’re leaning on Rambo to carry the offense.

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DUKES From PAGE 8 and steals to manufacture runs. This year, though, the Terps have added a power element.

They have 20 homers, one more than all of last year.

“We’ve been extremely aggressive,” said third baseman Jose Cuas, who has a team-high five home runs. “We’re hammering fastballs.

Any elevated pitches with runners in scoring positions, we’re able to get on top of them and drive runs in.”

The Terps offense, which has scored four or more runs in each game this season, was particularly potent this week. It scored 25 runs in three games against Minnesota and tallied 22 at Elon in two midweek contests. The Terps also scored 13 runs against Princeton in a rescheduled game on March 16.

“The biggest thing about our offense this week doing well is we played six games,” Szefc

said. “When hitters are facing live arms that often, they’re going to get better. They’re going to get sharper.”

Lowe, the Terps’ leadoff hitter, set the tone.

He went 12-for-23 (.522) in five games this past week with six extra-base hits, eight runs and seven RBIs. And behind Lowe’s explosive performances, the Terps offense helped notch two crucial comeback victories this weekend.

“We’re just like, ‘Hey, we got a lot of game left,’” Shawaryn said of the Terps’ attitude toward deficits. “‘We’ve got to chip at it.’”

TERPS NOTE: First baseman Andrew Bechtold is out for the season with a torn ligament in his left thumb, an injury he suffered on Feb. 28.

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The Terps filled Dodds’ void in their third rotation w h e n s o p h o m o re N i k k i Chung brought in a 9.675 as the second competitor on the uneven bars. It was Chung’s second routine of the season on any event, and she tied her mark set in the Terps’ B1G 5 meet.

So as the Terps gear up for their NCAA regional competition in Auburn on April 5, Dodds likely will be watching some practices from the sideline as she rests and rehabilitates her lingering back issues.

While the team is aiming

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Terps fail to reach goals in inaugural Big Ten season After team posts lowest win total since 2004 against stiff competition, McCoy questions mindset, approach

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer In front of a slew of reporters at media day Oct. 7, Terrapins wrestling coach Kerry McCoy stood at the podium and discussed his goals for the team in its inaugural Big Ten season.

Among them were finishing in the top half of the nation’s premier wrestling conference, qualifying all 10 starters for the national tournament and concluding the season as a top-10 squad.

To start the season, the Terps dominated four mid-major opponents at the Terrapin Duals on Nov. 2. Against lesser competition,

the results showed McCoy’s team was moving toward its goal.

But from then on, the team struggled both in individual and team competition. The Terps dropped 14 of their final 15 duals to finish 10 games under .500, took last at the Big Ten championships and ended the season without an All-American after sending three wrestlers to the NCAA championships.

“I guess guys didn’t believe in themselves as much as they maybe should have,” 157-pound Lou Mascola said. “Everyone did the best they could. They just fell short of their goals.”

With the move to the Big Ten, the Terps knew they’d grapple nationally ranked wrestlers in nearly every dual.

In nine conference matches, Northwestern was the only Terps opponent not ranked in the top 25.

The heightened competition overmatched the Terps. They managed just three points against Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Penn State — four teams that finished in the top 12 at the NCAA championships — and finished the conference season winless.

“You’re wrestling a top-10 guy every match, and if you’re losing consistently like that, it’s very tough to give yourself a break mentally,” Mascola said of wrestling in the Big Ten. “I think that a lot of guys got caught up in the strength of our schedule and the losses rather than the improvements.”

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Offense stays hot in weekend sweep Behind potent bats, group carries 10-game winning streak into matchup with Dukes

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer

ATTACKMAN MATT RAMBO scans the field while carrying the ball during the Terps’ 11-4 win over Princeton on March 7 at Byrd Stadium.

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RAMBO TO REBOUND? Star sophomore looks to bounce back after going scoreless in win over North Carolina

Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer The Terrapins men’s lacrosse team tainted North Carolina’s then-unblemished record Saturday, but the Tar Heels did something none of the Terps’ other six opponents this year were able to do.

They held Matt Rambo scoreless.

Through the first month of the season, Rambo, whose status was clouded in the offseason after he was charged with assault, paced the Terps with 14 goals, regularly injecting excitement into a sometimes-sluggish offense.

But on Saturday, none of Rambo’s shots hit the back

of the net. One attempt flew wide of the goal. Another sailed over it. And Tar Heels goalkeeper Kieran Burke stopped two shots.

Coach John Tillman’s team pulled out a 10-8 victory behind strong showings from midfielders Joe LoCascio and Colin Heacock, but the Terps hope Rambo returns to his early-season form as conference play approaches.

He’ll have his first opportunity to redeem himself today when the No. 3 Terps head to Moon Township, Pennsylvania, to play Robert Morris.

“He’s drawn a lot of attention from defenses,” Heacock said of Rambo. “Everybody’s quick to slide with him, so See COLONIALS, Page 7

Moments after Brandon Lowe strolled to the plate at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium on Sunday afternoon, he was jogging around the bases as his two-out solo home run sailed over the elevated center-field fence.

The Terrapins baseball second baseman’s sixth-inning long shot, his final hit of the weekend and the next-to-last run the Terps scored, put the finishing touches on a successful weekend for the Terps offense.

In a three-game sweep of Minnesota, the Terps’ first Big Ten series, Lowe went 5-for-13, and the team scored five or more runs in each victory. The Terps even overcame a seven-run deficit in the second leg of Saturday’s doubleheader.

While the Terps often have fallen behind in games this season, the team’s potent offense, led by Lowe, has propelled the Terps to a 17-4 start, including their current 10-game winning streak. So if the Terps don’t jump out to an early lead tonight at James Madison, they won’t be worried.

“When we’re down, we’re never out of the game,” right-hander Mike Shawaryn said. “Last year, earlier in the season anyways, when we would get down, we were down. This year, we don’t get scared.”

The Terps trailed by seven in the second game Saturday but escaped with a 12-9 victory. And Sunday, they scored eight runs in five innings to turn a three-run

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Even more, earlier this season, the Terps were down by five against Arkansas and won, 13-6.

To engineer these comebacks, the Terps rely on their lineup’s versatility, exemplified by Lowe.

The Suffolk, Virginia, native, who earned Big Ten Player of the Week yesterday, leads the conference in slugging percentage (.691) and is second in the conference with a .407 batting average and a .523 on-base percentage. Plus, he’s stolen two bases.

“We have a lot of different ways we can score runs,” coach John Szefc said. “We can do it with speed. We can do it with a little bit of power, and I think our offense makes it difficult for an opposing staff to get [our batters] out 27 times.”

Last year, the Terps relied on a small-ball offensive approach that emphasized bunts, hit-and-runs See DUKES, Page 7

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Teammates step up while Dodds battles back pain Terps compile season-high final score at Big Ten championships with senior leader, anchor sitting out

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer When Katy Dodds fell to the ground with a torn Achilles tendon in a competition at North Carolina on Jan. 26, 2014, the Terrapins gymnastics team was left without a key contributor and leader just three meets into the season.

Dodds received a medical redshirt, though, and the Terps welcomed her talent and influence back into the lineup on three events this year. That is, however, until the Terps’ grueling slate wore on and Dodds developed

back issues that have slowly forced coaches to rest her on specific events.

Unable to perform any routines at the Big Ten championships on Saturday, Dodds watched from the sidelines. But this time, her teammates were able to weather her absence and claim a season-high 196.075 final result.

“Her back has really spasmed up,” coach Brett Nelligan said. “We can’t get it unlocked right now, so hopefully, we’ve got a two-week break heading to regionals, so we can get her some rest time and hopefully she’ll be OK to go.”

While Dodds looks to recover

enough to finish her Terps career in the coming weeks, her teammates carried the team in Saturday’s seventh-place conference finish, starting with senior Ebony Walters on floor.

Walters tallied a 9.825 for the Terps’ highest floor score of the day as part of a 48.95 team score on the event.

The senior took over the floor anchor position in Dodd’s absence last year. And this season, Walters inherited the same role from Dodd after the Terps’ quad-meet victory over Rutgers, Cornell and Ursinus on Feb. 14.

“I told them we have to come out hard and fast, and for us, that means amplitude on our passes and clean, clean landings,” Nelligan said. “And they r e s p o n d e d t h e r i g h t a w a y.

Everyone just stepped up, I mean, from other seniors to freshmen.”

The team effort carried into the vaulting rotation, in which Dodds had served as the Terps’ anchor. Though she scored a 9.775 on the event in her only routine in the B1G 5 Meet on March 14, the injury forced Dodds to look on from the team’s designated standing area as sophomore Leah Slobodin filled in.

Slobodin, who also missed last season with a torn Achilles tendon, hadn’t competed on vault in the Terps’ previous three competitions and had only performed the event three other times in her college career.

Still, she earned a 9.75 to tie a career-best mark, while senior Shannon Skochko slid from her usual fifth slot to the anchor spot and scored a 9.80.

“We were sad to see Katy go, but Leah’s a really good competitor,” freshman Abbie Epperson said.

“She was ready to step in because See DODDS, Page 7

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guard Lexie brown dribbles the ball down the floor during the Terps’ victory over Rutgers on Feb. 10. Brown and the No. 1-seed Terps will play in the Sweet 16 against former ACC rival No. 4-seed Duke next weekend in Spokane, Washington. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

Terps star Lexie Brown’s relationship with her father, a former NBA star, shaped her career

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer

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exie Brown lay sprawled across her bed in her new Georgia home. She was upset and searching for answers.

A year after Brown helped Dr. Phillips High School to its first undefeated regular season in school history as a freshman, her family had moved from Orlando, Florida, to Suwanee, Georgia. Brown’s father, Dee, made her attend North Gwinnett, which didn’t have a strong basketball

program, to force his daughter to become a leader.

The Bulldogs were off to a 1-5 start, and Lexie was losing faith in her dad’s plan for her.

“This is terrible; we are terrible,” Tammy Brown, Lexie’s mother, recalled her daughter telling her dad.

“If your team’s terrible, you’re terrible,” Dee Brown, a 12-year NBA veteran, said to his daughter.

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guard Lexie Brown raises for a jump shot during a 77-62 win over Penn State on Feb. 5, in which she scored eight points and dished out a career-high 10 assists. christian jenkins/the diamondback

guard lexie brown looks to pass during the Terps’ victory over Towson in December.

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brown From PAGE 1 “You need to figure out a way to win.”

Lexie Brown responded by taking matters into her own hands. She went to first-year coach Bryan Sellers and told him he should demand more of the team. In return, Brown would elevate her own game.

The Bulldogs went on to win their next 18 games, and Brown led the team to a Sweet 16 appearance in the Georgia Class AAAAA state playoffs.

Dee had laid out a difficult path for her only because he knew she could handle it. He has always demanded a lot from his first-born child, both on and off the court.

The relationship Dee and Lexie have is one few can relate to. Dee and current Terrapins women’s basketball assistant coach Shay Robinson spent countless hours molding Lexie into a dominant player at her father’s EDGE training facility in Orlando.

Those relationships, especially the one with her father,

are the driving force behind the Terps star point guard as she leads the team into the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament as a sophomore.

THE BEGINNING B row n ’s f i rs t p a s s i o n wasn’t basketball. She grew up with a knack for tennis and competed in soccer and cheerleading, too.

At 8 years old, though, Brown decided to try her hand at the sport her dad made a career of. But basketball didn’t come easy. She had to work for it.

“She wasn’t a gifted athlete,” Tammy Brown said. “Lexie has been built. Her training, she just really worked at it, and she

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to develop their second relationship dynamic, one that would dominate their lives for years to come.

“They are like-minded.

They work the same,” Tammy said. “He knew he could teach her things because she would absorb it. She was hungry.”

THE TRAINING After Dee opened the EDGE training facility when Lexie was a preteen, basketball engulfed her life. When she wasn’t at school, she was training.

“The best thing that happened was him opening that gym because we would have so much one-on-one time together,” Brown said. “That was awesome.”

Brown would leave her house at 7 a.m. and wouldn’t return until 10 or 11 p.m. After school ended for the day, her parents picked her up and drove her to the facility, where Dee and Tammy worked.

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First on the agenda was an hourlong workout with her dad. Then it was off to practice with her team. When Lexie returned, Dee put her through another workout.

And when she wasn’t hoisting shots on the court, Brown was in the weight room doing speed and agility training with her mom.

There were times, though, when Dee made her do the workouts on her own. He would leave Lexie, a seventh grader at the time, alone in the gym with a whiteboard.

Scribbled on it were the various drills she was expected to complete over the course of two hours.

“I used to be the kind of mom that used to say, ‘You are going to make her do this herself?’” Tammy said. “[Dee] said ‘If she can work herself out, I know she has a passion,’” Tammy recalled. “‘She is going to have to learn in order to get better that

sometimes you are going to have to do it alone.’”

T h a t ’s w h e n B row n ’s parents noticed a change in their daughter. The elementary-school girl who was better suited for tennis had disappeared. Emerging from the gym in Orlando was a future top-15 recruit in the country.

Dee wanted to know Lexie’s goal. She aspired to play for a big school. She wanted to play for the Terps, who had her favorite player, Kristi Toliver. So Dee laid out a path for her to achieve her dream.

In eighth grade, Brown tried to stray from it. A bunch of her friends were on the volleyball team, and Lexie told Dee she wanted to play, too.

Dee asked Lexie whether her goal had changed. When she said no, he told her she couldn’t waver on her path. Dee said she could play, but it would never provide a substitute for her See BROWN, Page 3

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If Dee hadn’t been there to teach Lexie, she may have ended up on a tennis court in high school, or maybe holding pom-poms on the sidelines.

But because Lexie was willing to put the time and effort in, Dee was able to use his basketball mind to sculpt his daughter into a basketball player.

“In order for her to have all the time that she wanted with him, she kind of developed a passion and a love for what he did,” Tammy said.

“They kind of went on this journey together, and it was kind of beautiful.”

Dee was content looking on during her tennis matches, but that sport didn’t offer the connection that basketball did. At that moment, Lexie and Dee were simply a daughter and a dad who just happened to have had won the Slam Dunk Contest in 1991.

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“I DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS ABOUT THE BIG GAMES, BUT I JUST DON’T LIKE TO LOSE. I DON’T LIKE TO LOSE IN FRONT OF A CROWD. I DON’T LIKE TO LOSE ON TV.” LEXIE BROWN

Terrapins women’s basketball guard inson the next season as an assistant coach when David Atkins left the program for a job with the Washington Wizards.

With the Terps, Robinson and Brown’s successful partnership has continued.

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So for a year, Brown did both. Volleyball practice then training. It was the only season she played, though, because she later decided to stay committed to her father’s plan for her basketball development.

“She had to trust him,” Tammy said.

A SECOND FATHER Brown’s first impression of Robinson wasn’t indicative of the relationship they would build.

Robinson came to the facility on a Friday, and Dee asked him to work out Lexie.

So, at 12 years old, Brown

served as the guinea pig in Robinson’s job tryout.

“Dee just threw it on me,” Ro b i n so n sa i d . “ He wa s like, ‘I want you to work my daughter out.’”

Robinson put her through a rigorous 45-minute workout covering all facets of the game.

“I almost died, it was so hard,” Brown said. “I was like, ‘Who is this man? He’s crazy.’”

When the drills ended, Brown told her dad that she didn’t like Robinson. Dee hired him by the next day.

But Brown’s feelings toward Robinson quickly changed, even though his training style didn’t. He became the coach of Brown’s first Amateur Athletic Union team.

“How intense he is now, that’s how intense he was when we were 12,” Brown said.

“He actually might have been

more intense when we were 12 than he is here.”

At the facility, Brown alternated between working out with Robinson and her dad.

“Lexie was basically both of their brainchilds,” Tammy said.

Eventually, though, it was just Robinson. Dee got a job as a D-League coach in 2009, and he spent most of his time away from Orlando.

The two men were teaching Brown the same skills, but their styles and approaches varied. Robinson pushed Brown hard, and sometimes, when the shots weren’t falling or she couldn’t get a move down, the tears would come.

“She knows: You start crying; I don’t want to hear it,” Robinson said. “You cry all you want to — start over.”

Robinson would work with Brown four to six times per

week for about an hour each day. Sometimes, the focus was on the art of shooting. The shooting bay inside the facility had cameras set up to film Brown taking step-in jumpers, pull-ups off the dribble and step-backs.

After Brown would shoot, the two would watch the footage. Robinson would rewind and replay the various angles with her to break down where improvements needed to be made.

While Brown’s dad was busy traveling the country, Robinson was there to supplement the relationship that drove her to pick up a basketball years earlier.

“He’s been a really important person,” Brown said.

“Kind of like a second father, big-brother type of person in my life.”

The duo reunited years later in College Park. After Lexie arrived on the campus in 2013, the Terps hired Rob-

Brown has never been fazed by the spotlight.

Maybe it’s because she grew up watching her dad play in NBA arenas. Maybe it’s because she’s always been around stars. One of her best friends growing up was Taryn Griffey, daughter of Ken Griffey Jr. Or maybe it’s because she’s willing to do anything to avoid suffering defeat.

“I don’t know what it is about the big games, but I just don’t like to lose,” Lexie said. “I don’t like to lose in front of a crowd. I don’t like to lose on TV.” Whatever it is, Lexie has always had a knack for clutchtime situations. It’s the reason Terps coach Brenda Frese gave her the nickname “Big Shot Brown” during their Final Four run last season.

As a freshman, Lexie elevated her game when the calendar turned to March. With the nation watching the No. 4-seed Terps, she went 9 of 10 from the free-throw line as part of a 20-point performance that lifted her team to a 76-73 win over Louisville in the Elite Eight.

“I love March Madness,” Lexie said. “It’s like my favorite thing in the world.”

When Lexie was the star at North Gwinnett, she played on the biggest stages, too.

During her junior season,

she posted a triple-double to send the Bulldogs to the state semifinals for the first time since 1963.

A year later, Lexie helped North Gwinnett reach the championship. A struggling program became a powerhouse when the McDonald’s All-American arrived.

“Just little Suwanee; no one ever even heard of it,” Tammy said. “I can remember, she said to her dad, ‘I just need one person that can dribble.’”

Lexie has come a long way from the girl sulking in her bed after a 1-5 start to her Bulldogs career. She always has had that determination to be the best. When Lexie came across USA Today’s list of the top high school teams in the country, she immediately asked Dee what she had to do to get North Gwinnett on it.

By the time she left Suwanee for College Park, the Bulldogs were on that list.

“What she’s always done — whether it be high school, AAU, college — she’s come into her own,” Frese said.

“Last year, when she was an unknown coming into college, it was Dee Brown’s daughter. But I think as this season has unfolded, she’s definitely made a name for herself across the country.”

DAD AND A DAUGHTER It isn’t easy to emerge from the shadow of a former dunk contest champion. Lexie didn’t even realize how famous her father was until she was 11 years old and snooping around his office.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NCAA TOURNAMENT GUIDE | TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015 MEN’S BASKETBALL

UNDER PRESSURE, OVERWHElMED

Guard Melo Trimble (left) and Dez Wells (right) combined for 11 turnovers in a season-ending loss to West Virginia on Sunday. Coach Mark Turgeon said afterward Trimble, who suffered a concussion in the second half, was the team’s only true point guard. christian jenkins/the diamondback

After Terps struggle to contend with West Virginia’s defense in NCAA tournament loss, Turgeon notes team’s thin depth at point guard

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Terrapins men’s basketball team snatched headlines and revived a sputtering program this season by overcoming pressure.

The Terps thrived in intense lategame situations. They kept rolling while young players were thrust into significant roles because of injuries to veterans early in the season. And when the team’s success resulted in national attention, heightened expectations never seemed to faze the players.

But Sunday night at Nationwide Arena, the Terps finally succumbed to pressure.

No. 5-seed West Virginia’s physical full-court trapping defense forced the No. 4-seed Terps into a season-high 23 turnovers and kept coach Mark Turgeon’s team off-kilter throughout a 69-59 loss in the NCAA tournament’s Round of 32. The defeat ended the team’s

turnaround season one win shy of the Sweet 16.

“Their press, it was good,” said guard Dez Wells, who finished with a career-high eight turnovers in his final college game. “They kept throwing a lot of bodies at us. And we turned the ball over more than we usually do.

And it worked in their favor. And they capitalized on our mistakes.”

The Mountaineers’ pressure defense has stumped plenty of teams this season. They lead the nation in steals, average more than 19 forced turnovers per game and entered Sunday’s game with the intent of flustering the Terps.

By night’s end, West Virginia scored 26 points off turnovers, and the Terps’ three leading scorers — Wells, guard Melo Trimble and forward Jake Layman — each coughed the ball up at least three times.

“The press was good,” Turgeon said. “We weren’t ourselves.”

Trimble, the all-Big Ten freshman point guard, was the only Terp to have success handling the ball. He

was efficient in the half court, too, as he scored 12 first-half points and finished with 15 for the game on 5 of 6 shooting from the field.

But the floor general suffered a concussion after taking two blows to the head in the second half, and the team faltered while he sat on the bench for the final 8:27 of the game with tears welling up in his eyes.

The Terps committed 14 of their 23 giveaways in the second half, and on the first play after Trimble was helped off the court for a second time, reserve guard Varun Ram threw the ball away.

“We have one point guard in our program, and a really good one in Melo,” Turgeon said. “And it’s the first time all year, really, that he couldn’t play. He took a beating tonight. So would the outcome have been different? We don’t know.”

Even before Trimble left the game, the Terps started to crumble. After leading for much of the first half behind the rookie’s slick offensive performance, the Terps allowed

West Virginia to score the final four points before halftime to grab a onepoint lead entering the break.

Then Trimble committed two of his three total turnovers in the second half after he played 19 firsthalf minutes against an exhausting defense. The Terps, Turgeon conceded, had nowhere else to turn for solid ball handling.

Turgeon has used guard Richaud Pack as a backup point guard for much of the season, but the fifthyear senior is more comfortable off the ball and didn’t take charge against West Virginia’s press.

Ram, a former walk-on, also was outmatched against the press, and Wells’ eight turnovers point to his struggles caring for the ball.

So Trimble got minimal rest early, and West Virginia guard Gary Browne said the Upper Marlboro native was sluggish to start the second half.

“When [Trimble] got worn out, that was a big key,” Browne said.

“We told our guys, ‘We make sure he don’t catch the ball; we’re going to

have other guys that can’t make great decisions make decisions.’ That’s what we’ve been doing all year, and it worked today. And he got tired.”

With Trimble breathing heavily and the rest of the Terps guards playing sporadically, the Mountaineers surged ahead early in the second half. Then they put the finishing touches on their win after Trimble’s injuries.

Afterward, Turgeon thanked his players for their effort during a season that jolted hope into the coach and a long-disgruntled fanbase. But he ended a postgame conference looking forward to next season, for which he expects to return six contributors.

Plus, the fourth-year coach added, junior-college point guard Jaylen Brantley will join the Terps.

“We’re going to have two point guards on the roster next year,” Turgeon said, looking down at a sheet of Sunday’s stats, “which will help.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

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coach Brenda Frese talks with guard Lexie Brown during the Terps’ victory at George Washington in December.

BROWN From PAGE 3 drawers in his desk to find a set of old VCR tapes. Sitting alone, she started to watch them. It was the first time she saw footage of Dee’s iconic no-look jam in his Boston Celtics garb.

There was a Dunkin’ Donuts commercial with him, too.

“I was like, ‘Wow, you were kind of cool back then,’” Lexie said.

She says Dee has taught her everything he possibly could in basketball. In the years since those countless nights in the Orlando gym, the two haven’t had the chance to spend much time together.

Dee has been coaching since

they moved to Georgia, and he has been to only a handful of Lexie’s games since high school.

The only of her college games he has attended was the Elite Eight bout with the Cardinals.

For some players, that void in the stands might cause anguish. But Lexie knows he was there when she needed him to help her learn the game at a young age.

“I know every time she mentions him, she has a bright smile on her face,” Terps guard Laurin Mincy said.

When Lexie and Dee do get a chance to hang out, basketball usually isn’t on the agenda. “ We h ave g rea t t i m e s together. We laugh,” Lexie said. “I love being in the gym with him, but now when I see

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him, that’s not really what we want to go do because we want to have quality time with each other.

“We just kind of hang out and be a dad and a daughter.”

He always texts her before games to wish her good luck.

Dee has been the mentor and biggest influence on one of 10 semifinalists for the Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year. He’s also formed an unbreakable bond with his daughter, which serves as her fuel as she leads the No. 1-seed Terps fearlessly through another NCAA tournament. “ T h a t’s h i s p r i n ce ss,” Tammy said. “There is nothing he wouldn’t do for her.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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