March 24, 2016

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New cafe to open in Tawes Hall in April Creative Commons to serve similar snacks and drinks as 11 other cafes in academic buildings

By Hannah Lang @hannahdlang Staff writer Students traveling across Tawes Plaza will soon be able to grab a snack in the new cafe opening in Tawes Hall.

Dining Services will open the

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said. “We’re really looking forward to it.”

Creative Commons will join the 11 other cafes housed in academic Creative Commons cafe in April, Dining Services spokesman Bart buildings across the campus. This Hipple said. The space is under cafe will serve similar snacks and construction on the lower level of drinks such as coffee, soda and cereal Tawes, which houses the American bars, among others, and will accept studies and English departments, Terp Bucks this semester and dining and is committed to opening before dollars — in accordance with the new dining plan — in the fall, he said.

Maryland Day on April 30.

As Dining Services prepares to “It’s a cute little place,” Hipple

switch over to the anytime-dining program next semester, it will also encourage students to use these cafes, instead of the dining halls, as social spaces, said Colleen Wright-Riva, Dining Services director. Creative Commons will serve this purpose by extending into an open area of tables and chairs, which will accommodate students who want to study or talk See CAFE, Page 8

Landfill diversion, recycling rates drop

By Lindsey Feingold @lindseyf96 Staff writer Last year, this university experienced decreased landfill diversion rates and individual recycling rates compared with its rates from 2014, officials said.

The university’s total landfill diversion rate fell from 89 percent in 2014 to 83 percent in 2015, said Bill Guididas, University Recycling and Solid Waste Program coordinator.

However, the decrease in the diversion rate — the amount of waste on the campus that is collected for recycling instead of being put i n a l a nd f i l l — does not wor r y Guididas, who noted that 2014’s high diversion rate was partly due to increased construction on the campus, such as demolition for

BICYCLE BUILT FOR ALL Cyclists pedal down Campus Drive. A city-university bike-share program will launch in May, with seven stations on the campus and seven stations elsewhere in the city.

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Long-delayed bike-share program to launch in May

Res Life calendars scrutinized RHA Senate urges dept to cut $19,870 planner initiative

By Zach Melvin @ZachM3lvin Staff writer Next year, the dorm desks of incoming students could be a little bit emptier.

The Residence Hall Association Senate unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday urging the Department of Resident Life to discontinue printing student planners for on-campus residents. Typically, the planners are provided to students who live in dorms when they move in.

“The question you have to ask is: What is the purpose of these calendars? And to that I have no answer,” said Steve Chen, a junior biology and individual studies major. “I guess to me, it’s to practice recycling.”

Resident Life has traditionally printed 14,000 planners each year.

For the 2015-16 academic year, the cost was $19,870.

According to the resolution, the vast majority of students never touch the planners.

“It’s a huge waste of paper, and I think it’s a huge waste of funds,” said Sasha Galbreath, a junior government See RHA, Page 3

By Hannah Lang @hannahdlang Staff writer A long-awaited bike-share program will become a reality this spring when 14 bike stations are installed across College Park, said

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to pass.”

The City of College Park and this university received a $375,000 grant in 2012 from the state to operate a bike-share program.

A plan to bring Washington-based Capital Bikeshare to College Park was derailed in 2014 when the company that manufactured the bicycles filed for bankruptcy. Instead, the city and university partnered with bikesharing company Zagster, a company that has been successful at other universities such as See BIKES, Page 3

Res Life unveils proposed fee increases for 2016-17 housing Rates for standard doubles would rise by less than 4 percent

By Zach Melvin @ZachM3lvin Staff writer The Department of Resident Life has unveiled its proposed fee structure for the 2016-17 academic year, and not all housing rates are increasing equally.

While the rate for standard doubles in traditional halls is increasing by less than 4 percent, fees for singles and rooms with bathrooms are going up almost 7 percent.

The disparity reflects progress toward a more differentiated housing rate structure, designed to base fees on the number of room occupants and amenities such as air conditioning and bathrooms.

“It really is an implementation that started last year,” said Mike Glowacki, Resident Life’s assistant to the director. “Prior to this year,

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Terry Schum, the city’s planning director.

Starting May 4, 120 bikes will be available for use at seven bike stations on the campus and seven stations in the city. Schum said that while the locations are not yet finalized, people can expect to see stations in downtown College Park, the College Park Metro station, Domain College Park on Mowatt Lane, the Hollywood neighborhood and Northgate Park just south of The Varsity.

“People are very much looking forward to this system,” Schum said. “We’ve been talking about it for four years, and it’s finally coming

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most spaces cost about the same. We got a lot of support to change the way we do things.”

The plan for the differentiated rate structure, designed in conjunction with the Residence Hall Association Senate, is to phase in fees over a fiveyear period, Glowacki said. After the phase-in, all fees should increase by the same percentage.

Among the highest fee increases are those for singles with individual bathrooms. Students with these rooms next year will pay 9.15 percent more than they would have paid this academic year. Meanwhile, fee changes for triples and quads without bathrooms are among the lowest increases, rising less than 3.5 percent for those without air conditioning.

Glowacki added that most of the university’s peer institutions have differentiated housing rates.

Junior criminology and criminal justice major Jason Bounds said the differentiated rates are a welcome change for students who want to choose the kind of housing they live in.

“It’s really nice being able to have

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housing rates would increase by less than 4 percent for standard doubles in traditional dorms and by about 7 percent for singles and rooms with bathrooms under the proposed structure for next academic year. file photo/the diamondback that option to select where you would is a lot better.” like to live,” Bounds said. “There’s However, students often don’t that economics side of it, that Mary- have complete control over housing. land is kind of like forcing people to pay, so definitely giving that choice See FEES, Page 3

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2016

By Michael Brice-Saddler @TheArtist_MBS Staff writer University Police responded to reports of an assault, an indecent exposure and a burglary, among other incidents, in the past two weeks, according to police reports.

Assault Un iversity Pol ice responded to South Campus Commons 3 March 11 at 2:45 a.m. for a reported assault that took place at 2:36 a.m. Three female students were visiting a friend in the building and began talking to another man who was in the apartment.

While the three students were getting up to leave, the man yelled insults at them. He grabbed one of the girls and pushed her, police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said. The man then grabbed another one of the girls and shoved her out the door.

Officers searched the area and were unable to locate the man. No injuries were reported, and police are still investigating the incident.

Indecent Exposure On March 11 at 1:52 a.m., University Police responded to the lobby of their headquarters for a report of indecent exposure. A male university student reported that a man approached him as he waited with a group at a bus stop in front of Montgomery Hall at about 1:47 a.m.

The man initiated a conversation with the student,

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UMD Total Landfill Diversion Rates by Year Graphic by Shannon Gallagher/The Diamondback

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“The year before, we had a lot of buildings that were demolished and more construction,” Guididas said.

“Now some of those projects are entering the building phase, and there is less waste to be diverted.”

T h e re h a s b e e n a n i ncrease in efforts to divert landfill waste, and “hopefully some of it gets recycled a nd re u se d i n c on s t r u ction,” said Bill Olen, executive director of design and construction. “It is a great susta i nable effort that is going on.”

The decrease in construction in 2015, however, does not account for last year’s decrease in the individual recycl i ng rate, wh ich excludes construction waste.

In 2015, 47 percent of individual waste was diverted, while in 2014 the rate was 54 percent, Guididas said.

The decrease for the individual rate was in response to the shutdown of the disposal site that this university prev iou sly u sed a nd the new processor’s more stringent requirements that “took a while to adjust to,” Guididas said.

O v e ra l l , h o w e v e r, t h e tot a l wa s te d iver te d h a s more than tripled in the past 10 years — the rate was 25 percent in 2005. The indiv idu a l d iversion rate has doubled since 2005, when it was 23 percent, Guididas said.

This university reached its target goal, outlined in the 2009 Cl i m ate Action Pl a n , of 75 p ercent tota l waste diverted in 2013. The new goal, Guididas said, is to maintain that. “ For ye a rs we we re focused on collecting more

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same area while investigating. The officers, from the Hyattsville and the Prince George’s County police departments, received a report from a different person about the same incident. Hyattsstarted an argument with the ville police had detained two group and then exposed himself, of the three suspects, who they determined were the Hoaas said.

Officers successfully located same individuals from the the man and identified him as initial report.

University Police arrestWilliam Fallon, 19, from Brightwaters, New York. They charged ed the two — Jerry Lamont Fitzgerald, 40, of Capital him with indecent exposure.

Heights, and Lawrence Edison Preston, 30, of Upper Noncriminal Title IX-incident Marlboro. They face five charges related to burglary, At 10 p.m. March 12, Uni- theft and malicious destrucversity Police responded to tion of property.

Xfinity Center, where employees reported that a man unaffiliFraud ated with this university made lewd comments to some staff University Police respondmembers. Officers were able to ed to a concessions stand at locate the individual and deter- Xfinity Center March 10 at mined the comments he made 11:08 p.m. for a report of a were not criminal in nature. counterfeit bill. A $20 bill The police provided the staff someone had used to pay worker with information from had come back as counterfeit. the Office of Civil Rights & Police took possession of Sexual Misconduct. This case the bill and contacted the is closed.

Secret Service, Hoaas said. It is standard practice for police to involve the Secret Service Burglary in cases involving currency.

University Police responded to the 3400 block of Tulane Vandalism Drive March 16 at 10:10 p.m. for a burglary that took place University Police rebetween March 16 at 10 p.m. sponded to the area outside and March 17 at 12:16 a.m. The Washington Hall March 16 at person who reported it saw 4:47 p.m. for a report of vanthree suspicious people in the dalism. A witness said he oblaundry room of that building. served an individual kneeling Police were unable to find the down by a bike rack, where suspects initially and cleared he appeared to be cutting the the call. cable of a bike lock. When the At 11:39 p.m., the same person saw the witness, he person notified police that the fled, Hoaas said. people had entered the room, Officers checked the area damaged a laundry machine and and could not locate the taken money from it. They also suspect. Police submitted damaged a smoke detector in the a request for area camera laundry room. footage. This case is still University Police returned to under investigation. process the scene for evidence and noticed other officers in that mbricesaddlerdbk@gmail.com

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Source: Bill Guididas, University Recycling and Solid Waste Program coordinator is most likely to cause contamination, Muir said.

Items that cannot be recycled include plastic bags, Styrofoam, small plastics such as straws and lids for drink containers and coffee creamer cups.

“Even if someone’s drink container is recyclable, they don’t rea l ize they shou ld du mp out t he food a nd l iqu id before recycl i ng,” he sa id. “T he theme goes “IT’S UP TO a lo n g w it h t h e f a c t t h at EVERYONE THAT THE people want to recycle, and we want to ensure that they RIGHT MATERIAL recycle properly.”

GOES INTO THE T h e re c y c l e d m a te r i a l RIGHT BIN, AND is about 90 percent clean, ALL WE CAN DO IS Muir said. The main issue ents put COLLECT IT AND SEE is that stud certain items in the wrong WHERE IT GOES.” bins, such as putting someANDREW MUIR thing compostable into the Sustainability office spokesman re c yc l i n g bi n or p ut t i n g something recyclable into “ C l e a n t h e S t r e a m ” the trash. posters can be seen in the “It’s up to everyone that dining halls, Stamp Student the right material goes into Union and in resident halls. the right bin, and all we can T he posters outl i ne what do is collect it and see where shou ld a nd shou ld not be it goes,” he said. recycled.

The focus is now on what lfeingolddbk@gmail.com and more waste, but now we are focusing on the cleanliness of the material collected,” said Andrew Muir, a sustainability office spokesm a n. “T h is yea r’s t heme is ‘Clea n T he Strea m.’ …

Collections are strong, and we know for the most part where there’s a recycling bin … but not everyone knows what ca n a nd ca n not be recycled.”

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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2016 | NEWS | The Diamondback

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A Tyson worker wrote how the poor, sad little chickens are so scared on the slaughter line: “They try to hide their head from you by sticking it under the wing of the chicken next to them.”

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I watched as workers kicked and stomped the chickens to death or picked them up by their heads and spun them around by their necks. One worker picked up a chicken and threw her head against the wall and then violently kicked her. At Perdue, cruelty is everywhere. And it isn’t only Perdue.

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By the time you read this, this chicken will be dead, after being kicked and beaten and electrically shocked in his face, so I speak for all the other chickens in the Perdue factory in my hope that you will not want to eat chickens anymore when you know how badly they are treated. An undercover investigator from Mercy For Animals stated that:

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and politics major and the author of the resolution. “People have proposed pr i nt i ng fewer, but because of economies of scale, it would be a lot more costly [per unit].”

In response to continued d iscussions about d ive rs it y a n d s e ve ra l r e c e n t i n c i d e n t s i nvolv ing homophobic language and swastikas being written on white boards, the senate also voted to suppor t the Un ive rs it y S y s te m of Maryland’s decision to rename Byrd Stadium to Maryland Stadium.

The University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents voted to change the name in December,

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Junior biology major Mariah BalmacenoCriss noted that wh i le the structure is nice for someone forced i nto a f lex triple or quad, students who a re ra ndomly assigned a single now face substantially higher fees.

“I know that when my friend … switched into [the Integrated Life Sciences l iv i n g-le a r n i n g program], he was mandated to live in a single on the ninth f loor of La Plata,” BalmacenoCriss said. “That wasn’t his choice. In those circumstances, you can’t make somebody pay more because that’s not their choice.”

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Duke and Ohio State.

“When our contract with Capital Bikeshare didn’t work out, the city took the lead in going out to bid to request proposals from bike-share vendors, wh ich we d id ,” Schum said. “Joint leaders in the city and university conducted interviews and selected Zagster as our vendor.”

Each Zagster bike is equipped with seven gears, LED l ights, a bel l a nd a ba sket, accord i n g to t he company’s website. Cyclists will be able to book a bike online, via text or with the Zagster app.

“We still have not finali z ed wh at t he [ pay ment] structure is going to be, so that will be something we’ll be working on for the next couple of weeks w ith the city to figure out what that’s going to look like,” said Anna McLaughlin, Department of Transportation Services assistant director.

At Ohio State University, where Zagster launched last year, the student rate is $35 per year and the public rate is $75. Additionally, 24-hour passes are available to purchase for $6 a day. Users can rent a bike for up to one hour on weekdays and three hours on weekends.

Bike-share programs have become increasingly popular in the Washington area since Capital Bikeshare launched i n 2008 a nd ex pa nded to areas in Northern Virginia a nd Ma ryla nd. T he trend has spread to several college campuses in the region, and McLaughlin said officials are looking at these schools as models.

George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, had a successf u l system ca l led Patriot Bikeshare for a year hlangdbk@gmail.com

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in 2012 before the company that operated the program went out of business.

Joshua Cantor, the director of parking and transportation at George Mason, said the university has a Capital Bikeshare station at its Arlington, Virginia, campus and is working with Fairfax to create a joint bike-share p ro g ra m , s i m i l a r to t h e program in College Park.

“What we found with our campus is that more stations including off-campus were highly desirable,” Cantor wrote in an email.

Ju n ior E m i ly H i m melfarb said she wasn’t sure she would pay an annual membership fee for a bike-share program, but she would consider a day pass option.

“I have my ow n bi ke at home, a nd so I cou ld just choose to bring it if I was going to use my bike regul a rly,” t he f i n a nce m ajor sa id . “ I f I n e e d e d to ge t somewhere really quickly or i f I wasn’t feel i ng l i ke walking all the way, I might be willing to pay.”

For students who already own a bike, the bike-share program might be less appealing, freshman criminology and criminal justice major Fatmata Sesay said. DOTS allows students to register a bike on the campus for free.

“I feel like people would use it, but some people already have their own bikes, so what would be the point of using someone else’s?” Sesay said.

McLaughlin said the university is still working with the city to fi nalize all of the details of the program before the launch date.

“We’re really trying to get it running this spring, and it’s been a struggle,” McLaughlin said. “We’re excited to get it operational before everyone leaves for the summer.”

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after university President Wallace Loh wrote a recommendation letter in which he said the “values of racial segregation and discrimination are associated with [By rd’s] icon ic na me a nd legacy.”

The symbolic gesture was a part of a larger resolution urging continued efforts to support diversity and inclusion on the campus. An additional clause announced the R H A’s support for the Maryland Dialogues effort to promote conversat ion about the role of diversity on the campus and in students’ lives.

“T he issues of diversity and inclusion that we see are very pertinent to us at RHA,” said Allison Peters, a sen ior gover n ment a nd politics and history major and president of the RHA. “When the RHA decides it wants to take a stance on

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JESSICA ROTHMAN, a sophomore environmental science and policy major, speaks at a March 1 RHA meeting. The RHA is urging the discontinuation of student planners. tom hausman/the diamondback someth i ng, it shows that we care. In order to create cha nge, we need to show that we care.”

The final vote count was 35 to 2, with no abstentions.

The candidates for president and vice president of the R H A Senate also presented thei r platforms during the meeting.

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of the Transportation Advisory Committee, is running for v ice president, wh i le Chen, RHA student groups and organizations liaison, is running for president.

Elections are scheduled for the next senate meeting on April 5. Both candidates are running unopposed. zmelvindbk@gmail.com

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THE DIAMONDBACK | THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2016

OPINION

EDITORIAL BOARD

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Managing Editor

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“The question you have to ask is: What is the purpose of these calendars? And to that I have no answer,” Steve Chen, a Residence Hall Association member and junior biology and independent studies major, deadpanned at a Tuesday meeting. “I guess to me, it’s to practice recycling.”

OUR VIEW

The Department of Resident Life should end the expensive, obsolete student planner program.

Sure, students could probably use the practice — a recent report found that the university’s individual recycling rate dropped to 47 percent in 2015, down from 54 percent the year before. But with sustainability initiatives already underway in several dorms across the campus,

on-campus residents don’t need another training exercise; if they do, you’d think the university would have the good sense to print in black and white and scrimp a bit on printing costs.

Snark aside, it’s difficult to justify that kind of expense these days given the sheer abundance of cloud-based planning resources available to today’s students. The ELMS calendar feature alone allows users to schedule daily events and assignments and set email notifications for each, and Google and Apple calendars permit even further personalization.

Investing in students’ academic well-being is admirable, to be sure, but this particular effort seems more like an overlooked anachronism than anything worth renewing next semester. Resident Life would do well to can it — just as students have been doing with its planners for years.

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No, rich people can’t buy elections

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ft repeated but rarely challenged, the claim that “billionaires and special interests buy politicians and elections” has grown enormously popular among young people.

It’s certainly undeniable that money is an influencer in politics.

Politicians spend obscene amounts of time raising money — and then spend obscene amounts of money on elections. Campaign donations by individuals or groups get them access and attention. That money can be spent on get-out-the-vote efforts, campaign advertising and other campaign needs.

On the surface, money seems to be the end-all, be-all in politics.

Nine in 10 Congressional seats were won by the better-financed candidate. President Obama shattered campaign finance records in his two presidential campaigns. Yet this relationship might be a more casual association.

But big money’s influence is overblown. The amount of money a candidate has appears to be more of a correlation to than a cause of success. Furthermore, the influence of money can be largely countered with political participation: the basic right to vote and involvement with specific issues, candidates and parties.

A study by economist Steve Levitt found that candidates who doubled campaign spending only increased their vote share by one percentage point, holding all else equal. Those who cut spending in half lost only one percentage point in total. These findings illustrate that money is not as important as many of our peers claim. Successful or attractive candidates do seem to attract campaign money, but money is not the primary cause of their success. Donors might circle around a winner, much as voters do late in a primary season.

It’s easy to say “money buys elections,” but the evidence shows it’s not that simple. And what does it say about the average voter if those campaign ads and other spending easily sway that voter?

Party affiliation remains the most important influence on a voter’s

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That’s really the only response this editorial board could muster upon learning that the Department of Resident Life dropped five figures this academic year on printing student planners for on-campus residents.

At less than $1.50 a copy, the cost of producing each semi-obsolete calendar is fairly negligible, but at 14,000 copies a year, that adds up to quite a bit: $19,870 for 2015-16, to be precise.

Naturally, with ample access to digital calendars on laptops, phones and ELMS, students aren’t hard-pressed to make use of the print product, either, according to a Residence Hall Association Senate resolution that rightfully u rge d t h e d e pa r t m e n t to d i s continue the planners. The vast majority of planners go unused, dumped into dorm trash bins or otherwise neglected.

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choice, though ideology and personal appeal play important roles as well. Other factors like incumbency and gerrymandering favor certain parties or candidates variously across the country. These are certainly things that need reform — potential solutions include term limits and a more independent redistricting process.

Think of Jeb Bush in this election.

The early primaries’ biggest spender, Bush spent $2,800 per vote in Iowa and won just 2.8 percent of the total vote. That was 18 times the amount of money that winner Ted Cruz spent per voter. In New Hampshire, Bush spent $1,150 per vote — only to finish behind Cruz, who spent just $18 per vote. And with front-runner Donald Trump’s frugal spending, it’s clear that money isn’t a guarantee.

But suppose money plays a bigger role than economists and political scientists have been able to identify. Or suppose we’re just tired of politicians being unduly influenced by billionaires and special interest groups.

In that case, we need to identify the problem, the reason why money can influence elections. Because vote totals, not campaign coffer totals, actually decide the winner in elections, it can’t just be the massive amounts of money.

Part of the problem is lack of basic civic engagement. Large swaths of the population do not vote in elections, particularly midterm and primary elections. There are still many voter accessibility issues that are not insignificant — as it relates to proper election procedures, vote format and the like. Take the long lines in Arizona primaries this past Tuesday, voter identification card confusion or the many states who lack sufficient early or alternate voting options.

But turnout has been on a decline and remarkably low for the last few decades, especially recently.

The national turnout among the voting-eligible population was 36.7 percent in 2014. In 2012, the last presidential election year, it was 58.2 percent. Many primary states have seen turnout well below these

numbers. Consider that critical state of Florida: Just 28.1 percent of the voting-eligible population cast ballots, even with a lengthy early voting period.

Complain about billionaires all you want, but if 70 percent of citizens aren’t voting in the accessible, highly publicized primary election, Americans are doing themselves much more harm. You need to do everything in your power to vote.

If voting is a fundamental civic duty, then so is becoming an informed voter. With Internet access virtually everywhere in the country, each of us has the ability to consume information from a variety of sources across ideological spectrums. Coupled with traditional media, we have the ability to make informed decisions about our political ideology, affiliation and electoral decisions. Take time to consider your beliefs and learn more about other beliefs. Learn about critical issues and the various candidates presented to you. Money has little influence if you’ve taken the time to consider your positions and voted in all levels of elections.

You can do more than being an informed voter, depending on time and resources available to you. Get involved with a particular issue in your community or nationally. Volunteer for or donate to a candidate’s campaign. If you feel strongly about a party, participate in that party’s activities. Get your friends, family and neighbors involved as well. Run for office yourself! Every contribution helps your cause — and our democracy.

There’s a lot of reform needed in our democracy. But the biggest reform won’t come from Congress, the judiciary or an executive order.

It’ll come from people like you becoming informed citizens: being active at the ballot box, holding your elected officials accountable and taking a greater role in your party or candidate selection.

Start now.

Matt Dragonette, opinion editor, is an accounting and government and politics major. He can be reached at mdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

Winning is everything

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hanks to victories in Florida, North Carolina, Illinois and Ohio, Hillary Clinton has largely secured the Democratic nomination.

It was expected that Clinton would win Florida and North Carolina, but there was some doubt as to whether Clinton or Bernie Sanders would win Illinois and Ohio. Sanders’ campaign had hoped that victories there would illustrate his electability in a national election. Clinton’s victories illustrate problems with Sanders’ campaign, particularly his ability to appeal to a broad electorate.

Sanders’ economic populist message appeals to liberals, but he has had difficulty convincing the Democratic electorate that his plans are pragmatic. Thus, Sanders has struggled to appeal to the broad Democratic electorate. A key issue is that the Sanders campaign has fallen short in offering specifics on how his plans would be implemented. For instance, Sanders has explained how his national health care plan, “Medicare for All,” would be paid for, but he has not offered particulars as to how this would be administered or implemented.

There has also been the question of Sanders’ electability in a national election. Although the Sanders campaign frequently touts national polls that indicate Sanders would win over Donald Trump, Sanders has had trouble garnering support from African-Americans and Hispanics. In Ohio, Clinton won African-American voters with 68 percent compared to Sanders’ 30 percent. Sanders is doing better among African-Americans than before; he received 29 percent of the vote in Illinois, 29 percent in Missouri, 28 percent in Ohio, 20 percent in Florida and 17 percent in North Carolina. However, this is still a low total. This raises the question: If Sanders cannot win votes from African-Americans in his party’s primary, what is the probability he can in the general election?

These low margins have contributed to Sanders not garnering more victories. African-Americans and Hispanics make up a significant portion of the Democratic Party’s base, and a candidate cannot win their party’s nomination without winning a key party base. For instance, Trump appears to be on his way to securing the nomination because he appeals to the base of the Republican Party.

Currently, Clinton has 1,690 delegates and Sanders has 946, includ-

ing superdelegates, with 2,129 delegates not yet allocated. Because the Democrats allot delegates proportionally, that means Sanders would need to win about 58 percent of the vote in the remaining states to Clinton’s 42 percent. He would need to beat Clinton by about 16 points the rest of the way. Some have attempted to draw comparisons to the 2008 primary, but this is not a valid comparison because Clinton’s lead over Sanders is much larger than Barack Obama’s lead was in 2008 at this stage in the race. At the end of February 2008, Obama led Clinton by 100 delegates. Sanders supporters have complained about the unfair and undemocratic delegate rules, but these rules also existed in 2008. In 2008, there was no outcry about unfairness of these rules. Those same unfair and undemocratic delegate rules secured the nomination of Obama,the preferred candidate of liberal millennials in 2008. (For instance, Clinton’s victories in Michigan and Florida were discounted). The Democratic Party fell in line in 2008 because a divided political party is never good when the goal is to win a general election.

This explains why Obama privately told a group of Democratic donors that it was nearing time for the Democratic Party to unite behind Clinton.

Many Sanders supporters are millennials, the same millennials who supported Obama and would certainly vote for him again if they could. These millennials are supporting Sanders for a few reasons: They agree with his message, are optimistic that a “political revolution” can occur and perhaps think there can be a repeat performance of 2008. A key difference between Obama in 2008 and Sanders currently is that Obama delivered a pragmatic message. After all, Obama and Clinton did not differ vastly on the issues. Though many of these millennials are unsure whether they will vote for Clinton, they should vote for her if she wins the nomination. To put it bluntly, winning is the only thing that matters in national elections, particularly when there is the likelihood that Trump could be the next president of these United States. Whether or not the Republican nominee is Trump, perhaps liberal millennials should ponder what a Republican president and a Republican-controlled Congress could do to this country: repeal the Affordable Care Act; limit, if not eliminate, funding for Planned Parenthood; and place more limitations on women’s access to abortions.

Leslie McNamara is a public policy graduate student. She can be reached at lmcnamaradbk@gmail.com.

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oday’s student veterans enjoy college benefits in return for their service. The Post-9/11 GI Bill provides veterans with 36 months of educational benefits.

For a student veteran who faces other priorities, challenges and needs, 36 months is simply not enough time.

This year alone, there are more than 700 student veterans on the campus using benefits from the bill to attend this university. A majority of our student veterans manage school as they hold down jobs and support families. Consider many student veterans’ reserve training obligations, and it’s clear that 36 months fails to provide enough time to finish school.

Even the traditional student population struggles to earn a bachelor’s degree in four years, according to a 2014 report by Complete College America. The report, titled “FourYear Myth,” found that only 19 percent of full-time students graduate on time at non-flagship public universities, and only 36 percent do so at flagship state universities.

The typical 36-month limit to the bill’s educational benefits for student veterans only considers four academic school years, which is observed as nine months per year. But many student veterans, constrained by the time limit and other responsibilities, take winter and summer classes to stay on track. When classes taken outside of the regular academic year are not covered by the bill, student veterans must seek other funding.

Congress should extend the standard educational benefits offered under the Post-9/11 GI Bill to 48 months.

This university participates in the Veterans Affairs’ Yellow Ribbon Program, which offers additional assistance to student veterans, though the university should do more to help student veterans in their academic pursuits.

Currently, the university’s Veteran Student Life office only employs one full-time coordinator and two graduate assistants in its efforts to support student veterans. Comparably, Pennsylvania State University, which has more than 900 student veterans using bill benefits at its various campuses, employs six fulltime staff members, four of whom are certified in counseling about the GI Bill.

For its commitment to student veterans, Penn State-World Campus ranked No. 1 in the country in 2016 for online bachelor’s degree programs for veterans in U.S.News & World Report’s annual list.

This university must do more in covering educational expenses for student veterans.

Terps were especially proud to hear that university alumnus Florent Groberg received the Medal of Honor for his brave actions during his 2012 deployment to Afghanistan. In the fall, he was also named to HillVets’ 100 most influential veterans of 2015.

It is our responsibility to support those who have served and ensure they receive high-quality education. It’s time we help relieve the stress of affording college and demand that Congress and the university extend the Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits to 48 months.

Ilan Simanin is a senior communication a n d go v e r n m e n t a n d p o l i t i c s m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t isimanin@umd.edu.

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DOTS to pilot expanded Shuttle-UM route from South Campus to Metro Buses will go past Memorial Chapel and Annapolis Hall, though changes could increase wait times at stops THE LANGUAGE HOUSE, which encourages students to embrace a new language by immersing them in an experience led by mentors, faces financial uncertainty. enoch hsiao/thediamondback

U’s Language House seeks stable funding Rising housing costs contribute to long-standing program’s shortfall

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Senior staff writer

more funds to better stabilize the program. The Language House is also planning a gala and silent auction on April 21 in Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center. Students are also teaming up for smaller f u nd ra isers such as ba ke sales, which will benefit the program's future.

“We're trying to raise the profile and raise some more money so we're not necessarily dependent on the funding streams because universities as a whole aren't getting as much money as they used to,” Scullen said. “We're trying to build a network of alums who give back.”

Junior Casey Garnett is part of a group of students working to fundraise for the program. She lives in the Spanish cluster and plans to join the Japanese cluster after she travels abroad in Japan this summer.

“I like the language-learning atmosphere in the house, how everyone wants to learn at least one language, and most people know at least a couple languages,” the psychology major said. “We're just really trying to make sure that we have our mentors, who are the big driving motivation; that really helps us improve our target language.”

Sen ior Cesar Velez-Peñaloza is one of the mentors who might see his benefits cut, but he said he's more worried about how that could affect the house's mission and success.

“My initial thought is we lose the mentor, the whole house gets lost, there's no one there who can actually say ‘I'm from this culture,’ unless someone has lived it,” the animal sciences and Spanish major said. “It will be a huge detriment to the house, and the program will start caving in.”

Velez-Peñaloza grew up in Colombia and has since found a second home at the Language House, not only for Spanish, but also for a community. He said he is angry that this community could be jeopardized in any way.

“It won't be up to its high level where it is now,” he said. “It's not only building a friendship and network in the house; it's an extremely open place where you're not being judged for anything — the Language House is the epitome of what this university stands for.”

Students, staff and alumni are joining forces to address a budget gap for this university's oldest living-learning prog ra m, t he L a ng u age House.

For the past few years, this program has been fully funded by the languages, literatures and cultures school. But with increases in housing costs and no designated portion of the budget allotted to the program, there is a need for more funds, said Mary Ellen Scullen, the school's associate director of academic affairs.

Established in 1989, the program housed in St. Mary's Hall encourages students to f u l ly embrace a new la nguage through an immersive experience led by mentors and apartment leaders. Students pledge to only speak their target language in their chosen clusters, of which there are 10: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Russian and Spanish.

“Nobody's going to take away the Language House — what we're trying to do is get it on a more solid footing so that we can keep it going a nd i ncrease it,” Scu l len said. “The Language House is a huge benefit to the [languages, literatures and cultures] school, but not only to the school; it's a huge benefit to the campus.”

T he lack of funds could most greatly affect mentors, who are native or near-native speakers and are usually graduate students, who live in each cluster — a group of apartments — to support students in their learning, said Phoenix Liu, Language House prog ra m d i rector.

These mentors are currently provided with a stipend that covers the cost of housing fees, which Liu said helps to recruit the best mentors.

“T hey a re essentia l for the Language House," she said. “It's like a native tutor at home. … Our students are very motivated to learn the language; we want to provide the best environment.”

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Cambridge Hall renovation continues The first dorm on North Campus is more than halfway through its renovations, Residential Facilities Director Jon Dooley said.

The renovations to Cambridge Hall, which houses part of the College Park Scholars Program, are 60 percent complete and are scheduled to be finished in July, said Bill Olen, director of capital projects.

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By Lexie Schapitl @lexieschapitl Staff writer DOTS will pilot an expanded 104 Shuttle-UM bus route to the College Park Metro Station starti ng t h i s su m mer a f ter the department received student feedback that the route does not adequately serve South Campus.

T he 104 bus route to the Metro station cu rrently runs from Regents Drive Garage around the “M” circle, down to Route 1 and out to the station, said David Allen, Department of Transportation Ser v ices d i rector. T he new route, wh ich w i l l have a slightly longer wait time between buses, will run straight on Regents Drive — past the ma i n ad m i n i st rat ion bu i lding, Memorial Chapel and Annapolis Hall — before turning left onto Route 1 and continuing to the Metro, Allen said.

The Student Governme nt A sso c i at ion a nd Residence Hall Association both have advocated for expanded bus service

to the Metro station. T he R H A pa ssed a resolut ion t h is mont h u rg i ng DO TS to implement a new route connecting South Campus to the Metro. “ T h o s e w h o p a y ge t a l o t o f s a y,” A l l e n s a i d .

“The students pay for this service, so we're willing to pilot it and see how it works for the fall semester.”

Expanding the bus service to t he Met ro cou ld m a ke commuting easier for students who intern in Washington and the surrounding areas, particularly upperclassmen, who often live on South Campus, said Katherine Swanson, the SGA vice president of student affairs.

Many students pursue these opportunities during academic semesters because of this university's proximity to Washington, she said.

“People on this campus go to D.C. all the time,” said Swanson, a junior government a nd pol it ics m ajor.

“We've heard multiple complaints from people on this campus who are interning, saying that they don't use th is bus a nd that it's not helpful to them because to walk to the Regents [Drive]

Garage is not convenient at all.”

Sen ior Joshua T rowel l, who wa l k s more t h a n 10 minutes to the College Park Metro from his Frederick Hall dorm to get to his internship at Children's Nat io n a l H e a lt h S y s te m i n Washington, said the current 104 bus route is not readily accessible for students living on South Campus. However, he noted he would be interested in using the bus if it stopped closer to his dorm.

If the bus “reached South Ca mpus or h it one of the spots here, that would be g r e a t ,” t h e c o m m u n i t y hea lth major sa id. “Even though South [Campus] is so close to the Metro, it will be awesome if there was a stop that just goes straight from South [Campus] to the Metro station.”

Senior community health m ajor A nd re a Sa f i rs te i n d r ive s ab out 20 m i nute s to ge t to h e r i n t e r n s h i p w i t h t h e Fo o d a n d D r u g Ad m i n i st rat ion i n Si lver Spring this semester. T he d r ive i s much more convenient than her commute last year, when she took the Metro to an internship with the Arthritis Foundation in Bethesda, she said.

“If [the College Park Metro Station] was in a more central lo c at ion , a lot of p e ople

would be more motivated to go into D.C. and have internships,” she said.

D O T S d o e s h ave s o m e concerns that the new route might lead to overcrowded buses and longer wait times, Allen said. The department will already be eliminating one bus from the 104 route during peak times next year as a cost-cutting measure, running three buses instead of four, he said.

With the reduced number of buses and a longer route, he a dway s — t he a mou nt of time it takes a bus to go through its entire route — cou ld i ncrease f rom fou r or six minutes during peak time to about 10 minutes, said Armand Scala, DOTS associate director.

But the department is optimistic that students will like the changed route, Scala said.

“I f t he R H A a nd [SGA] are both excited about this, we're hopi ng the student body as a whole is as well, so we're hoping ridership goes up," Scala said. "The only real negative would be if people don't like it and stop riding it.”

Allen said DOTS will “keep track” of these issues during the summer and fall pi lot periods. lschapitldbk@gmail.com

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Creative Commons will From PAGE 1 be the first cafe to open in t he b u i ld i n gs s u r rou ndwith friends.

“That’s one of the di- ing Tawes Plaza, making it lemmas of [a lack of social convenient for students who space in dining halls],” have classes in the Benjamin Wright-Riva said at the Building, the Art-Sociology Residence Hall Associa- Building and Tawes.

“I spend a lot of time in tion town hall on March 8. “We will have to try the Benjamin Building, so it a n d f i n d m o r e s o c i a l would be good for me because spaces in the cafes and anywhere in the plaza is convenient for me to get food,” encourage that.”

The dining halls will no said junior education major longer be accessible for Gabrielle Simala.

Dining Services also plans studying or socializing for many students because to open another cafe within customers will be required the year in the renovated H.J. to scan their hands or pay Patterson Hall, which will a fee upon ent r y. Stu- house the Office of Internadents who currently use tional Affairs, Hipple said.

Junior elementary eduthe dining halls to meet up with friends will have cation major Victoria Graw

CREATIVE COMMONS, a new cafe in Tawes Hall, is set to open in April. This location will join the 11 cafes in academic buildings across the campus. tom hausman/the diamondback said she wishes there were more of these smaller cafes on the campus in academic buildings.

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By Michael Brice-Saddler @TheArtist_MBS Staff writer Dennis Sung Woo Kim, a hardworking university student, ardent sports fan and compassionate friend, died on March 10. He was 20.

Kim, a junior materials science and engineering major, was found dead in Commons 6. Police do not suspect foul play, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

The official cause of death is still under investigation.

“He was one of the nicest people I know,” said Paul Bauer, one of K im's best friends from high school and a junior at Salisbury University. “Dennis was always in tune to how other people were feeling.”

K i m had a passion for sports, particularly football, Bauer said. The two encouraged each other to t r y out for t he fo otba l l tea m at Ma rriotts R idge High School, and although t hey d id not get much playing time, Kim helped keep Bauer entertained and upbeat on the sidelines.

Bauer said he most admired Kim for his outgoing nature, contagious energy and ability to make a positive difference for many people.

Dennis sung woo KIM

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e x pressed how much h i s son meant to him and how touched he was to see all the lives Kim influenced.

Kim's father talked about “how Dennis was his pride and joy, and that those years w it h Den n i s were t he 20 happiest years of his life,” Bauer said. Whatever stress he felt after work each day when he came home “would wash away when he looked at Dennis.”

K im loved his friends and the people around him, and continually put others before himself, Bauer said.

Fresh ma n Shaw n Baek, K im's next-door neighbor for about four years, said K i m wa s a lways eager to offer him advice, especially about girls, school and other sensitive topics, while they were growing up.

“He went out of his way to let his friends know he was there for them,” said Baek, a civil and environmental engineering major.

“My childhood would not have been the same without him.” Kim is survived by his father, mother and brother, Christopher Sung Yun Kim. “ D en n i s i s goi n g to b e very m issed,” Javed said.

“Everything from his spirit, his bubbliness, his laughter to his smile.”

Kim “cared about people and how they felt,” Bauer said. “He left a huge impact on my life and the lives of others, and everyone's going to miss him a lot.”

Ju n ior Saa ra h Javed, another friend from Marriotts Ridge, said Kim always made her day brighter — in the classroom or outside it.

She sa id K i m had a l ighthearted and silly personality, but she always knew he would be there for her when it mattered most.

“He was always laughing a nd was such a f u n g uy,” Jave d s a i d . “ T h e re we re some t i mes when I'd feel dow n or feel l i ke I d id n't fit in, but he always had my back. … He noticed when I wasn't myself.”

Kim was always working to m a k e h i s m o t h e r a n d father proud, Bauer sa id.

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By Michael Brice-Saddler @TheArtist_MBS Staff writer Sultan Adedoyinsola Oyeshile, a student at this university and devoted brother and friend who was always ready to lend a helping hand, died March 12 after a car accident.

He was 22.

Oyeshile was driving on Interstate 95 in South Carolina when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into several trees, according to reports by The Manning Times and WIS TV. Three passengers in Oyeshile's car were taken to Clarendon Memorial Hospital, where one passenger, a student from this university, was released, and a student from the University of the District of Columbia underwent surgery and is recovering from a broken leg. The third passenger, also a student at this university, was transferred to a different hospital and had surgery but is now in stable condition, recovering from a few broken ribs and a broken hand.

Born in Washington, Oyeshile grew up in Silver Spring and attended Damascus High School in Montgomery County.

A Pittsburgh Steelers fan, he often watched football on television and played outside on La Plata Beach. He had many close ties at the university, and friends and family remember Oyeshile for the attention and care he gave to others.

“He was the type of person that would give anything to somebody he loves, whether you're a f riend or fa m i ly member,” his brother Idris Oyeshile said. “He'd give somebody the shirt off his back if they needed it.”

His brother said Oyeshile, a senior community health major, wanted to go to medical

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“shining personality.”

“He was a person that would put anyone before himself and left an impact on everyone he met,” Kone said.

Oyeshile's fondness for his friends was paralleled by a n i m men se love for his parents, brothers and cousins, Gillis said. His family was everything to him, and they supported him however they could.

“He was always the happiest when he was talking about his friends or family,” Idris Oyeshile said.

Although the friend group did not live together this year as they had their junior year, Oyeshile made a concerted effort to prevent any strain on their relationships. “ We t a l k e d a l l d a y, every day,” Nelson said.

“Once the weekend rolled around, we were right back together again.”

Oyeshile's rigorous work ethic and several jobs — including working in restaurants such as Red Robin and as a community assistant at this university — made it difficult for him to be as involved on the campus as he wanted to be, but he still found a way to leave an impression on anyone he spoke to, no matter how briefly, Gillis said.

“Everyone he spoke to he touched,” Gillis said. “Even people he saw just once have a story about he made them laugh or recall a funny story from months ago. … He's going to be missed.”

Oyeshile is survived by his father, Ali Oyeshile; his mother, Bola Odusanya; and his three brothers, Idris, Saheed and Eniola Oyeshile.

H i s f u n e ra l wa s h e ld Tuesday at the De Vol Funeral Home in Gaithersburg.

school after obtaining his undergraduate degree — career plans that went hand in hand with how Oyeshile lived his life, as his dream to manage his own medical facility would allow him to care for others in need.

“Whatever field he ended up in, he wanted to make an impact on people's lives,” said Brandon Nelson, a senior economics major and one of Oyeshile's closest friends. “He was all about helping people and seeing what he could do to make the lives of other people better.”

Nel son i s one of t h re e members of Oyeshile's core friend group at this university, which also included senior computer science major Marcellus Davenport and senior criminology and criminal justice major Derek Abrokwa.

This foursome was nearly inseparable, said English and journalism major Danielle Gillis, Oyeshile's girlfriend of one year. The group had plans to graduate and continue growing together, making Oyeshile's death even more difficult for them to process.

“They had plans to grow old and have cookouts with their families — it was more than just some college friends,” Gillis said. “They had planned to be together forever.”

Nelson's girlfriend, senior com mu n ity hea lth major Mikaela Kone, recalled Oyeshile's trustworthiness and his mbricesaddlerdbk@gmail.com

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ESSAY | RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE AND THE LGBT COMMUNITY

FLAWS AND ALL Embarking on its eighth season, RuPaul’s Drag Race brings a whole bunch of good and some bad

By Josh Magness @josh_mag Staff writer Ever since RuPaul’s Drag Race premiered its opening season in February 2009, the drag queen competition has established itself as one of the most notable and longest-running LGBT-themed shows on television.

Led by the ageless RuPaul, a prominent drag queen since the 1990s, the show follows a group of queens — men dressed as women — who must perform in a weekly challenge and strut down the runway in their finest outfits. One contestant is eliminated each week based on their performance until only three queens remain, leaving RuPaul with the decision of who to crown as “America’s Next Drag Superstar” in the celeb-studded finale.

Now, the show finds itself embarking on its eighth season of outlandish yet extravagant costumes and makeup, fierce lip syncs to top-40 songs and not-so-subtle puns about male genitalia and gay sex. (Penny Tration, for example, is the name of a queen who briefly graced the screen for season five.)

For the most part, the show, which is really just an overly queer version of America’s Next Top Model, has been a boon to the LGBT community.

For starters, the program has catapulted a whole subset of gay culture directly into the bright spotlight of the mainstream, especially among younger viewers. Once relegated to the shadows for its controversial stance on gender expression, drag culture is now becoming one of the most vibrant and celebrated facets of the LGBT community.

And RuPaul’s Drag Race deserves credit not just for giving the art form a pedestal to stand upon, but for also allowing the whole breadth of drag queens to share their unique styles, no matter how off-putting they might be to viewers.

Season four winner Sharon Needles, with a name that just reeks of her grungy style, is a perfect example. Right off the bat, Needles never strayed from her style; her first runway look was a post-apocalyptic zombie with blood oozing out

rupaul’s drag race has emerged as an integral part of the LGBT community despite being criticized in the past. of her mouth and over her face. Later that season, as other queens wore fabulous gowns for a red carpet-inspired challenge, Needles, ever a rebel, pretended to give herself plastic surgery by injecting a needle into her lips.

Many of the show’s contestants felt Needles didn’t encapsulate the true spirit of drag — one even yelled, “Go back to Party City, where you belong!” — but in the end, RuPaul saw the potential in the feisty queen, exalting her as that season’s champion.

Similarly, the show has experimented with the “genderf---” style of drag, in which gender stereotypes are flipped on their head. Queens had to match their best outfit with fake facial hair for the beautifully named “ShakesQueer” challenge in season seven. That challenge aimed to stretch the gender binary, and the show now attempts to quash it entirely.

The show is also a benefit to the gay community because of the positive message it espouses. At the end of every episode, RuPaul departs with his inspiring message that “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?”

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Contestants on the show often talk about their daily struggles with self-acceptance, conflicts with family members over their career choice and even moments of abuse, which usually ends with moving advice from RuPaul or a fellow queen.

For troubled gay teens looking for a glimmer of hope, the show provides that and more. It gives them heroes to look up to, mantras to repeat (“You’re born naked, and the rest is drag”) and ample amounts of bravery to siphon into their own lives.

But that doesn’t mean the show, like everything, is without fault.

It definitely does little to negate the common tropes about gay men. The show’s “Pit Crew” — merely scantily clad eye candy with chiseled abs, tight underwear and massive bulges only called on for sex appeal — reinforce the already-unhealthy body-image issues many gay men struggle with today. There’s nothing wrong with a little bit of shirtless men here or there (I can’t say I don’t look…), but it definitely sends the wrong message on a show about embracing yourself, flaws and all.

Frequent catfights and overhyped drama often plagues RuPaul’s Drag Race as well, reinforcing the stereotype of gay men as catty gossips. Of course, this is to be expected with any reality TV show, but the program’s producers take the drama one step further. They edit in side-eyes and eye-rolls to paint some characters as the “good guys” and others as the “bad guys” — or girls, depending on their current state of dress.

Roxxxy Andrews, one of season five’s final three contestants, found herself a victim of that suspect editing. It’s a commonly held belief that the show’s editors, in an attempt to dredge up support for the season’s eventual victor Jinkx Monsoon, used Andrews’ quotes and facial expressions out of context to smear her.

Andrews herself even mentioned this in a Facebook post the night after a particularly damning episode of her insulting Monsoon.

“Am i blaming editing? NO because i had to say those things at some point,” she wrote in a Facebook post. “BUT, they Can put it anywhere they want in the show. regardless of what episode i actually said it in.”

Still, at the end of the day, Monsoon and Andrews remain good friends, and both benefited from the enhanced spotlight on their careers. Ask any of the queens about the show’s pitfalls, and I’m sure they would gladly stomach the bad for all the good it brought.

The same can be said for Rupaul’s Drag Race’s impact on the LGBT community. Sure, there are some problematic themes here or there, with another being the controversy surrounding RuPaul’s use of the word “tranny” or his sincediscarded phrase “You got she-mail!” But those things pale in comparison to the tremendous job it has done in educating the populace about an integral part of the LGBT community.

So for all that, in the words of RuPaul as he saves one of the two queens up for elimination each week: “Shante, you stay,” RuPaul’s Drag Race, “shante, you stay.” jmagnessdbk@gmail.com

TIMELINE | MILEY CYRUS

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By Anna Muckerman @annamuckerman Staff writer Can you believe it’s been a decade since the mid-2000s pop princess Miley Cyrus debuted her dual lives on Hannah Montana? And if that’s not shocking enough, her raunchy dancing and ear-piercing music as of late has us all wondering why two personalities weren’t enough. Let’s take a quick tour of Miley’s edgy evolution.

November 1992 : Miley Cyrus is born in Tennessee. Her birth name is Destiny Hope. Over the top? Yes. Fitting?

You decide.

March 2006 : Hannah Montana premieres. Just 12 years old at casting, Miley plays an average teen who moonlights as a pop star.

March 2006 : “Best of Both Worlds,” credited to Hannah Montana, is Miley’s first commercial hit. The Hannah Montana Soundtrack released later that year is her first album.

June 2007 : Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus is a two-part album (catching the theme here?) that serves as her first personal studio album.

September 2007: In “See You Again,” Miley vows to redeem herself after *gasp* stuttering when talking to a guy.

2008: The first signs Miley may not be as wholesome as mothers think — suggestive Myspace photos circulate. But she’s not naked or anything; it’s just kid stuff, right?

April 2008: Miley’s wrapped-in-a-bed-sheet photo shoot with famed photographer Annie Leibovitz is a little harder to cover up. Where were her parents? Oh, right. Her dad was at the photo shoot.

Summer 2009: Miley meets Liam Hemsworth while working on The Last Song. The two start dating.

August 2009 : Sixteen-year-old Miley does what all kids would want to during their Teen Choice Awards performance. She pole dances on an ice cream cart.

June 2010: Miley’s 2010 album Can’t be Tamed must feel

like a sucker punch for Disney, which just can’t keep the young star clothed and out of the spotlight. It was her worstselling album to date, possibly because all we wanted was for Miley to tame herself.

August 2010: After a year, Miley and Liam break up.

September 2010: They get back together.

November 2010: They break up.

November 2010 : A video circulates of Miley taking a bong hit of the psychedelic herb salvia. Mothers aren’t impressed, and apparently she isn’t either, saying in the video that she’s having a bit of a bad trip.

April 2011: They get back together.

January 2011: Hannah Montana ends after just four seasons.

Miley’s bad-girl phase, however, is just getting started.

June 2012: They get engaged.

August 2013: Miley seals her transformation by scandalizing the entire country during her VMAs performance of “We Can’t Stop.” She strips down to bra and underwear, grabs her crotch, twerks and dances on Robin Thicke. Miley, you can stop.

August 2013: Miley swings naked on a piece of construction machinery for her “Wrecking Ball” video, further demolishing her career.

September 2013: They break off the engagement.

August 2015 : Arguably the worst album of the year, Miley and Her Dead Petz , is released. If you’ve ever wondered if Miley’s face would look better covered in chocolate sauce, sprinkles and candy, she’s graciously provided her “Doo It!” music video for your viewing pleasure.

November 2015 : Miley poses nude for Candy magazine, covering what appears to be her most offensive part, her mouth, with a cat. She’s just being Miley.

Late 2015: They start dating again.

January 2016 : A fresh start for Miley — a second engagement is underway. amuckermandbk@gmail.com

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Terps don’t show progress in second Big Ten season

By Josh Schmidt @joshj_s Staff writer

Right-hander Andrew green earned his first career win with the Terps’ 10-9 victory over Liberty on Tuesday. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Green shows confidence during win over Liberty Redshirt sophomore tosses scoreless inning of relief

By Kyle Melnick @kyle_melnick Staff writer

MLB draft and graduation this offseason, though, Green stepped into a larger role.

The Blairstown, New Jersey, native said he felt a Ryan Selmer offered some little overwhelmed in pressure words of advice to fellow right-hander Andrew Green situations in his first few apafter the Terrapins baseball pearances this season, but he team’s 12-7 loss to Delaware credited the coaching staff’s preparation to helping him on March 1.

After Green gave up three become more comfortable. runs in the sixth inning, al“I WANT TO BE A lowing the Blue Hens to break GUY [ASSOCIATE the game open, Selmer told the redshirt sophomore he needed HEAD COACH JIM] to exude more confidence on BELANGER CAN GO the mound to have success.

TO EVERY DAY. JUST So faced with another tough GOING OUT THERE, situation against Liberty on Tuesday — the Flames had LOOKING CONFIDENT runners on second and third AND LOOKING LIKE base with two outs in the fifth I WANT TO ATTACK inning — Green remained BATTERS.” poised. He allowed two hits in the inning but induced a ANDREW GREEN groundout to end the frame.

Terrapins baseball right-hander And behind an improved The Terps practice gamemindset, Green earned his first career win in the Terps’ like situations in which reliev10-9 victory at Bob “Turtle” ers step onto the mound with runners in scoring position.

Smith Stadium.

“I want to be a guy [associ- The training seemed to pay ate head coach Jim] Belanger off Tuesday, as Green threw can go to every day,” Green his first scoreless inning of said. “Just going out there, the season.

“Just because a guy has looking confident and looking like I want to attack batters.” a bad outing or a bad day After redshirting his fresh- d o e s n ’ t m e a n y o u s t o p man season due to injury, working with them,” coach Green pitched just 4.1 innings John Szefc said. “You just last year. When the Terps lost keep plugging along. It’s a five relievers between the long season. You can’t come

out here every day and go through what we go through and not get back.

It’s just a process.”

In the Terps’ previous four midweek contests, they went winless and allowed an average of 12.5 runs in those games. The bullpen gave up an average of 7.5 runs per game during that stretch.

While Szefc’s team fell behind again Tuesday, trailing 4-1 after the top of the fourth inning, the bullpen pitched well enough to overcome left-hander Tayler Stiles’ poor outing and secure the victory.

Following Green’s scoreless frame, the Terps cut the deficit to one in the fifth and took the lead an inning later in the eventual win. And with his first victory behind him, Green is confident as the Terps begin Big Ten play this weekend.

“The bottom line is the more innings they get, the more comfortable they get, the more confidence you get,” catcher Dan Maynard said. “Pitching is more confidence than anything. When you walk up there and you have just a ton of confidence, you’re going to do well.” kmelnickdbk@gmail.com

Coming off an injury-riddled regular season, capped with a loss on his own Senior Night, Terrapins 133-pound wrestler Geoffrey Alexander viewed the NCAA Tournament as a chance to end his final season the way he wanted.

But after entering the championships as a seeded wrestler for the first time in four trips, Alexander couldn’t capitalize on the opportunity. After defeating Austin Eicher of Northern Illinois in his first match, Alexander dropped his next two bouts, marking the end of his five-year career.

While Alexander could’ve capped a tough Terps season on a high note, the team’s lone wrestler to make it to New York failed to generate much success. The Terps finished the season with a 5-13 record and just one Big Ten win.

“It’s definitely disappointing, just not how you want to end the season,” coach Kerry McCoy said. “It was a tough year in ways and, I hope we can learn from it going into next year.”

Coming off a season during which they went winless in their new conference, the Terps entered 2015-16 looking to take steps forward. The team notched its first-ever conference victory Jan. 10 over Michigan State but only won one more match all season — a 31-9 win over George Mason.

NEEDELMAN From PAGE 14 NBA-level talent and one that held the nation’s No. 2 ranking at recently as February.

As improbable as it might have sounded in late November, this is the path the No. 5-seed Terrapins men’s basketball team has carved for itself. A string of late-season losses, some more embarrassing than others, has left coach Mark Turgeon comfortable with calling his team an “underdog” entering the third-round matchup.

“There’s been times this year we’ve been tight. Not a lot, but there’s been times,” Turgeon said. “Now there’s no reason for us to be tight. Really, the rest of the way there’s a good chance we’ll be an underdog in most games.”

While the team would never admit it, it’d be hard to believe the Terps didn’t let the pressure get to them at times. How could they not have? After all, this is The Year.

This iteration of the Terps hasn’t had years to build chemistry. Plus, four-fifths of the starting lineup — considered

The disappointing season culminated with a 26-12 loss to Rider on Senior Day, marking the end of many of the veterans’ careers.

“It’s definitely not what we wanted to happen,” 125-pound Michael Beck said after the loss.

“It would’ve been a lot nicer to get the win for them and finish it up right.”

In their first two years in the Big Ten, the Terps are 1-17 in conference matches. It hasn’t been just the team struggling, though. The wrestlers haven’t been as successful individually as in years past, with no AllAmericans since the transition and only three NCAA qualifiers — Alexander, 157-pound Lou Mascola and former 285pound Spencer Myers.

The Terps’ struggles have even been exacerbated in postseason play.

Last season, the Terps finished the conference tournament with 10.5 points and tied for 39th place in the NCAA Tournament with six points. This season, the Terps took a step backward, finishing last place in the Big Ten Tournament with 7.5 points and placing 64th at the NCAA Tournament with only one point.

Watching the trend in the wrong direction hasn’t been easy for Alexander. After winning four Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League titles, Alexander entered as a highly touted recruit gunning to uphold the Terps’ dominance in the ACC. But once the Terps moved to the Big Ten, they plummeted to the bottom of the con-

ference standings.

“It’s tough to see what’s happened,” Alexander said. “I came into a powerhouse team in the ACC and then we ended up in a powerhouse conference.”

But McCoy thinks the issues extend beyond the conference switch. He questioned the team’s passion and commitment.

“What you put into it is what you’re going to get out of it,” McCoy said. “If you try to cut corners or weasel through this, it’s not going to work out as well as if you’re 100 percent all in.”

Part of that commitment is managing weight, something McCoy says 141-pound Alfred Bannister struggled with all season. Bannister, a team captain as a redshirt freshman, entered the season expected to lead the Terps after winning 30 matches on the open circuit.

Instead, he went 10-10.

While McCoy has hope for the future and growth of the team’s underclassmen, such as Bannister, this season was a reminder of how far the Terps are from contending in the Big Ten. “The bottom line is that we have to get the guys to continue to work hard and to believe in it all,” McCoy said. “It’s not a secret that the guys who are successful are the guys that do it at a high level all the time.

You don’t take six weeks off at any point during your career if you’re trying to be elite; you take that time when you’re done.”

by some the best in the country — likely will be gone after this campaign. It looks like a one-year ultimatum.

That’s stressful. That’s nerveracking. That’s terrifying.

But now, interestingly enough, the Terps are entering this contest, by far the program’s most important in more than a decade, with a feeling of having nothing to lose.

Or at least Turgeon hopes they are.

“We’re not even thinking about being an underdog,” forward Jake Layman said.

“We’re just going to go out there and have fun and play hard.”

Added forward Robert Carter Jr.: “I don’t really look at is an underdog. We’re a really good team; they’re a really good team. So it should be a really competitive, even-matched game.”

Las Vegas disagrees. Of the eight Sweet Sixteen games, the Terps/Jayhawks game has the largest spread. People don’t think they’re good enough to beat Kansas.

But in case you’ve forgotten, this is March.

Of course, the Terps have a tall task in front of them. They’re

going to have to defend as well as they have all season (see: holding the Spartans to 64 points on March 12). They’ll have to throw a diverse attack at the Jayhawks (see: something other than guard Melo Trimble dribbling around aimlessly for 25 seconds before hoisting a contested 3-pointer).

The Terps, most importantly, have to bring it. Call it whatever you want. Empty your book of cliches and toss them all at the keyboard. Perseverance. Fight.

The will to win.

Yes, fans didn’t think they’d be in this situation months ago. Yes, the Terps should have performed better than they did during the regular season based on the talent they have.

But there’s still a game of basketball to play. So come 9:40 tonight, make yourself comfortable. Cozy up in the Terpsembroidered Snuggie you got for Christmas.

And maybe, just maybe, a few hours later you’ll find yourself following in the footsteps of former students and wreaking absolute havoc on Route 1.

Maybe.

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ROTANZ From PAGE 14 Soon, Rotanz took a wheelchair ride to the car, returning to his Wading River, New York, home to spend the next three weeks sleeping. He couldn’t drive for about five weeks.

The symptoms faded with time, but when he tried to participate in fall practices, Rotanz was always lightheaded. When he turned his head too quickly or started to run, he lost his balance. Throwing, catching, even looking at a lacrosse ball, became nearly impossible.

“I really couldn’t do anything,” Rotanz said. “I couldn’t practice. I couldn’t hang out with friends. Like a lot of things got me dizzy, set my head off, just made me feel weird.”

So Rotanz experienced a new kind of shutdown.

Rehabilitation and trips to hospitals, neurologists and ear, nose and throat specialists replaced lacrosse. Rotanz estimated he saw eight to 12 doctors from Baltimore to Washington to New York.

As the effects again started to wane, the doctors gave Rotanz a target date to return to lacrosse: Jan. 8, 2015. Rotanz thought his nightmarish summer and fall might give way to a sophomore-year return.

But four days later, Rotanz wa s san d w i c h e d i n a h i t during a scrimmage. He felt as though he had a concussion, but collisions can also trigger vertigo symptoms.

He had returned too soon. So, too, had his vertigo.

The Terps started the season while Rotanz contemplated life without lacrosse, something he wasn’t accustomed to.

His dad, who coached lacrosse at Shoreham-Wading River High School, had pulled Rotanz up to varsity as an eighth grader with intentions of having him practice and prepare for high school. A couple of days before that season, the team’s captains told the 13-yearold’s dad, Tom Rotanz, they wanted his son to start. So he did, sparking the fourth high school career in Long Island lacrosse history to finish in more than 400 points.

Rotanz also tagged along when his dad game-planned with his assistants, using cups to simulate formations on their kitchen counter. As he got older, he started to ask questions and suggest plays of his own.

But after eight months of no answers and little progress, Rotanz figured vertigo had stripped him of any more minutes and lacrosse memories.

“We were concerned that — forget lacrosse — this could be life-altering,” his dad said.

But a visit to Dr. Eric Smouha,

a neurotologist and otolaryngologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, brought hope.

During spring break last year, the Terps were in the midst of a weeklong trip to California for the Pacific Coast Shootout.

Rotanz, though, was in Smouha’s office.

At the appointment, Smouha had Rotanz recline before jerking his head to the left.

Nausea and eye-twitching ensued. When it stopped, Smouha did the same to the right. Then Rotanz rolled to his stomach, bringing his chin to his chest. Smouha told Rotanz to repeat the exercises every three days in the coming weeks.

“Everybody else was like, ‘Take Dramamine, take steroids, take this, take that,’ and here’s a guy saying we have to trick the brain into telling it this is where everything should line up,” Tom Rotanz said. “It improved 100 percent in the course of 10 days.”

Smouha wouldn’t let Rotanz Midfielder TIM Rotanz sat out all of last season with vertigo but has returned to the Terps’ rotation to become a steady contributor for the team. return to contact activity until July, but Rotanz was relieved.

He could run and be around his teammates. He got contacts to improve his vision.

On game days, Rotanz took to helping the goalkeepers warm up. While he shot, he listened to the coaching staff’s banter, continuing to do so throughout the game.

Rotanz also adopted a new diet, based on constant hydration and low-salt foods because late last summer, he “totally forgot” to drink water and spent the next three days with vertigo symptoms.

Such adaption is nothing new for the midfielder, who converted from attackman two games into this season.

When Rotanz suffered a hand injury against Yale on Feb. 27, the Terps weren’t sure how serious it was. But his dad knew his son’s hand “would have to be cut off for him to even think about” missing time again.

So Rotanz played the next week — a California debut a year delayed — and made the switch to the second midfield line. Since then, he’s recorded six of his seven points, already more than his rookie-year contributions.

Rotanz used to rush his shots and passes. He even fell into that trap at the beginning of the season. Now he knows to take a step back, free his hands and follow through.

“He looks confident out there. He looks faster out there.

He looks healthy,” coach John Tillman said after admitting Rotanz was “snake-bitten” to start the season after the layoff.

“He doesn’t look like anything’s holding him back,” Tillman said. ccaplandbk@gmail.com

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Forward Jake Layman

Forward Perry Ellis

cooled off some against Hawaii, but he’s been on a tear since late February. He hit 25 of his last 41 long balls before going 0-for-4 from deep Sunday. Still, the senior managed to shoot 50 percent from the floor and finish with 10 points. As important as his offensive success will be tonight, perhaps his defense will be even more crucial. The 6-foot-9 wing could match up with Kansas’ leading scorer, Perry Ellis, at times during the game.

is the heart and soul of Kansas. The senior leads the team with 16.9 points per game while also pulling down 5.9 rebounds per contest. The 6-foot-8 forward has been dominant lately, scoring at least 20 points in six of Kansas’ past seven games — five of which came in postseason play. If the Terps want to upset the Jayhawks, containing Ellis is a must.

FAST STATS When he steps onto the floor tonight, Jake Layman will tie former guard Juan Dixon with

games

Guard Melo Trimble

played, the most in program history.

averaged 21.5 points over the first two games of the NCAA Tournament in large part due to his success getting to the line. He went 22-for-23 at the charity stripe in the two contests, matching the most trips he’s had to the line in a two-game stretch this season. As the Terps leading scorer and floor general, the sophomore star is vital to the Terps’ success against Kansas. If the Sweet Sixteen comes down to the last shot, you can bet Trimble will be the one taking it.

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days

since Kansas suffered its last loss, an 85-72 defeat at Iowa State.

Kansas averages

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which ranks15th-best in the country.

2-3 series record vs. Kansas 1965 1984 1997 2002

Guard Wayne Selden Jr. can light up the scoreboard in a number of ways for Kansas. He leads the team in made 3-pointers, but he’s also dangerous driving to the basket. The 6-foot-5 junior dominated Kentucky earlier in the season, pouring in 33 points. Selden turned in a great performance in Kansas’ Round of 32 win, too, finishing with 22 points, seven rebounds and three assists.

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DBK PREDICTIONS RYAN BAILLARGEON: 79-72, KANSAS The Terps hang with the tournament’s top team but can’t hit big shots down the stretch.

JOSHUA NEEDELMAN: 70-66, TERPS The Terps put together their best game of the year and deliver the biggest win of coach Mark Turgeon’s career.

PHILLIP SUITTS: 76-70, KANSAS Behind a stellar performance from Layman, the Terps keep it close, but the Jayhawks pull away in the final minutes.

ON THE RECORD “I don’t really feel like we are the underdog. I feel like we are a really talented team — one of the best teams in the country playing against another team that’s one of the best teams in the country.”

Robert Carter Jr. FORWARD “Being a part of the NCAA Tournament is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, so we’re just enjoying every part of it.”

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REVIEW From PAGE 14 Their leadership extended outside the gym, too, as freshman forward Brianna Fraser credited Pavlech with helping her balance athletics and academics. And the team’s chemistry, which many said has been the best since they’ve been in the program, can be traced back to the Terps veterans.

At media day Oct. 20, about three weeks before the Terps’

season opener, Frese stood at the lectern inside Heritage Hall and spoke about how the four seniors would lead this year’s team. She addressed each player individually over the next few minutes, highlighting her work in the offseason and how she’d contribute going forward.

Frese also addressed the seniors one by one at the postgame press conference Monday night, but this time, she focused on how each player would make an impact outside of basketball.

She discussed the possibility of Pavlech going into journalism or coaching. Howard aspires to become a doctor.

But as Howard prepares for medical school, she’ll always remember her involvement in the program’s success.

“It just hurts a lot. Us four seniors, we came in, and we wanted to have the best season we could and leave our mark on Maryland,” Howard said. “It’s not how we wanted it to end, but I’m glad I got the opportunity to play here and wear a Maryland jersey for four years and be a part of a lot of special moments.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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starred for back-to-back state champions and was part From PAGE 14 of an undefeated season. But as an undersized point guard No. 1-seed Kansas in Lou- he received little attention isville, Kentucky. Turgeon from Division I schools.

His high school coach, Ben said he hates facing his old team. He’s focused on the Meseke, arranged a meeting with then-Kansas coach Larry game, not the school.

H e c o u l d n ’ t a v o i d Brown, and Turgeon worked the questions, though. his way onto the roster.

Seconds after the Terps “WE KNOW COACH advanced to the Sweet WANTS KANSAS ...

Sixteen on Sunday, he was asked about the matchup HE’S ALWAYS against Kansas. Yesterday, TALKING ABOUT he even explained his path HOW HE MADE IT TO to the Jayhawks.

A FINAL FOUR, AND And today, he’ll face the school that helped shape HOW GREAT OF AN him into the man he is EXPERIENCE THAT today with a shot at the WAS FOR HIM.” Elite Eight on the line.

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Melo Trimble plays point guard, Turgeon’s position, but he’s never seen video of Turgeon directing the Jayhawks offense.

“That’s what’s funny,” Trimble said Tuesday. “I haven’t seen clips of him play, but I have seen pictures.”

Turgeon became the first Jayhawk to play in four NCAA Tournaments and was a captain his junior and senior seasons. After graduating, Turgeon immediately returned to the program as an assistant coach.

While a national championship eluded him as a player, he was part of the 1987-88 national championship team.

As a player and then as a coach, Turgeon spent nine consecutive seasons at Kansas. He was part of eight NCAA Tournament teams and worked with two legendary coaches — Brown and North Carolina coach Roy Williams.

“He always talks about his mentors,” Carter said.

“His mentors are the guys who helped him be who he is today.”

Yet this week, Turgeon hasn’t talked about his time at Kansas, Carter said.

And the rebounding story?

Turgeon last referenced that Final Four game Feb. 18 after the Terps lost, 68-63, to Minnesota.

Tonight won’t be Turgeon’s first game against Kansas, the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament. At Texas A&M, Turgeon faced Kansas a handful of times. The Aggies, then a member of the Big 12, regularly played the Jayhawks during the season.

But tonight is different.

Turgeon has never faced the Jayhawks in the NCAA Tournament with the season hanging in the balance.

The heightened pressure doesn’t faze Turgeon, though.

“I’d rather play them in a national championship game than Sweet Sixteen game, but here we are so we’ll play it,” Turgeon said. “It is what it is.” psuittsdbk@gmail.com

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HOW SWEET IT WOULD BE

The TERPS will play their first Sweet Sixteen game since 2003 tonight against the NCAA Tournament’s No. 1 overall seed Kansas in Louisville, Kentucky. Despite opening the year with national title expectations, the Terps are the Sweet Sixteen’s biggest underdogs. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Turgeon meets alma mater in Sweet Sixteen

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writer When Terrapins men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon was a junior at Kansas in 1986, a crucial mistake cost the Jayhawks a berth in the national title game. With less than a minute remaining, they failed to secure a defensive rebound. A four-point loss followed.

So with the Terps struggling to rebound

at points this season, Turgeon repeatedly used that anecdote to emphasize the importance of crashing the glass. But this week, as the Terps prepare to face Kansas, Turgeon has shied away from any reference to his playing days.

In front of the media Tuesday, Turgeon downplayed the significance of competing against his alma mater. Tonight in the Sweet Sixteen, the No. 5-seed Terps face See TURGEON, Page 13

Terps unexpected underdogs against Kansas JOSHUA NEEDELMAN

MEN’S BASKETBALL COLUMNIST

Every year, we set aside one month to park ourselves in front of our televisions and tune out the rest of the world. We rush home from work. We push chores to the back burner.

In case you haven’t guessed it, the month is March. The occasion? Madness.

And tonight, attention will turn to Louisville, Kentucky, where No. 1 overall seed Kansas will try to continue its dominant

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

NCAA Tournament run. But the Jayhawks’ bout in the Sweet Sixteen will have a different feel than its first two.

Their opponent isn’t a mid-major school trying to make a name for itself (Austin Peay, first round) or a traditional powerhouse experiencing a down year (Connecticut, second round).

Their opponent is a preseason national title contender, one touted for its excessive See NEEDELMAN, Page 11

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Seniors leave legacy despite NCAA loss Round of 32 exit doesn’t define their careers

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer Chloe Pavlech and Malina Howard looked on from the bench as their Terrapins women’s basketball careers came to a disappointing end. Brene Moseley and Tierney Pfirman, the squad’s other two seniors, slowly walked off the court having lost just their fifth game at Xfinity Center in the past four seasons.

The end came sooner than expected in a Round of 32 loss to No. 7-seed Washington on Monday night. The No. 2-seed Terps had their sights set on going to Indianapolis in early April for what would have been their third straight Final Four appearance. Instead, they failed to reach the Sweet Sixteen for the first time since 2011.

But as coach Brenda Frese addressed the media after her team’s uncharacteristic performance, she harped on what the four seniors did accomplish over their careers rather than what they couldn’t Monday. For the veteran coach, it better represented what the players meant to the program.

“We have a lot to thank in this team and especially in our seniors when you talk about our Sweet Sixteens, two Final Fours, Big Ten titles,” Frese said. “I can’t say enough in terms of our seniors [and] what it has meant to be able to have them in the course of their career.”

On a team featuring two firstteam All-Big Ten performers in juniors Shatori Walker-Kimbrough and Brionna Jones, each senior made unique contributions.

Pavlech and Moseley, the team’s two point guards, took on larger roles after star guard Lexie Brown transferred to Duke in the offseason to be closer to home.

Despite averaging 2.3 points and 3.2 assists per game, Pavlech started all 35 contests and ran an offense that ranks fifth in the country in scoring (83.2 points per game) and second in fieldgoal shooting (49.6 percent). Moseley was a major contributor off the bench, finishing third on the team in scoring and first in assists en route to winning the Big Ten Sixth Player of the Year Award. She’s also one of five finalists for the Nancy Lieberman Award, given to the nation’s best point guard.

With their two floor generals leading the way, the Terps finished with a 31-4 record and once again won the Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles.

In the frontcourt, Pfirman overcame an injury-riddled career to provide instant offense for the Terps off the bench, while Howard ended her career in College Park as a starter the past two seasons.

“The most important thing the seniors instilled in us is work hard at all times, no matter who’s watching,” freshman forward Kiah Gillespie said. “Just do the little things that separate yourself from the rest of the teams out there.”

Jones and sophomore guard Kristen Confroy talked about how the seniors showed the underclassmen what it takes to have long-term success on the court.

See REVIEW, Page 13

midfielder tim rotanz has settled back in with the Terps after spending last season on the sidelines recovering from vertigo. christian jenkins/the diamondback

After missing sophomore season with vertigo, Rotanz contributing

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Senior staff writer Tim Rotanz couldn’t get out of bed without throwing up. If he managed to stand, he was overcome with dizziness. His left eye moved in a constant twitch.

On July 12, 2014, shortly after his freshman campaign as an attackman with the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team ended, Rotanz was admitted to a hospital.

After multiple tests, doctors concluded Rotanz had a virus that attacked the calcium crystals in his ears, setting his equilibrium and alignment off balance.

Rotanz had vertigo.

Fast-forward a year and a half, and Rotanz has broken into the

Terps’ rotation. After struggling upon his arrival to college — the speed and on-the-field adjustments of the game would cause the rookie to “shut down” — he can now adjust on the fly. His mind is settled, and he’s become a vocal presence in practice.

Rotanz figured such familiarity would develop by his third season in College Park. He just didn’t realize it would stem from spending his sophomore year on the sidelines, wondering whether he would ever take the field again.

“It was a rough year,” Rotanz said “Made it through though.”

When Rotanz first arrived at the hospital in 2014, blood tests confirmed mononucleosis. But the doctors guessed that wasn’t all.

Rotanz stayed the night and spent

the next day poked and prodded as five to seven doctors streamed in and out of his room for tests.

That evening, they diagnosed him with vertigo.

“First off, I didn’t know what it was,” Rotanz said. “What made it real frustrating is I never got a timeline.

Doctors never see it in athletes. It’s really in elderly.”

Instead of a timeline, doctors offered Rotanz a deal: If he could eat a meal on his third day in the emergency room, he could go home.

But the bedridden three-sport high school star who started nine of his 13 games as a freshman couldn’t down the Jello, mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese on his plate.

His dad, Tom, ate them for him.

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