March 26, 2018 by The Diamondback

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March 26, 2018 | Issue No. 25, Our 108th Year

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y 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, the College Park Metro Station was packed with hundreds of people, many of them University of Maryland students. Toting small backpacks, water bottles and handmade signs, they steadily poured onto packed trains headed toward the nation’s capital. These Metro riders — students, College Park residents and others hailing from homes across the country — were all united by a movement that was amplified by students from a South Florida high school, which fell victim to one of the deadliest school shootings in American history.

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As 800,000 converge on Washington, a united push against gun violence ByJillian Atelsek | @jillian_atelsek | Staff writer After 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, student survivors pushed for stricter gun laws, calling on the nation to join them in the March for Our Lives. The march in Washington, D.C., which organizers estimated drew a crowd of about 800,000, was one of

more than 800 marches across six continents that took place Saturday. Children and families across the globe took to the streets and demanded an end to gun violence. “It seems like the debate has really shifted on an axis here,” said Nithin Venkatraman, a junior physiology

and neurobiology major who attended the march to support Stoneman Douglas students. “What they’re doing is incredible.” Police say 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, a former Stoneman Douglas student, opened fire at the high school on Feb. 14, killing 14 students and three faculty members. In the wake of the shooting, Stoneman Douglas students have called for stricter gun laws and have denounced politicians who accept donations from the National Rifle Association, See march, p. 6

Counseling Center to hire four full-time psychologists The Unive rs i t y o f Leah Brennan Maryland’s @allhaeleah Counseling Senior staff writer Center will hire four full-time psychologists to address a demand for more mental health resources on the campus, a university official said. Three of the positions were newly created and the fourth fills a vacancy, Student Affairs Vice President Linda Clement said on by

Friday. The new posts come in response to an increasing need for campus mental health services, and resources were redirected to add the additional positions, she added. “I want everybody to know that if people are having a crisis or emergency, they can be seen,” Clement said. “There certainly are longer waits for people that have less severe conditions. Anybody with an emergency — we need to see them in the Counseling Center.”

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The center’s overall full-time employee count dipped due to budget cuts in fiscal 2015, according to a 2015-16 Counseling Center report. Of the total additional funds used to bolster campus counseling and mental health services, $100,000 is new this year from alcohol sales at Maryland Stadium and Xfinity Center, Clement said, and the remaining See counseling, p. 2

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in response to a demand for an increase in campus mental health resources, the Counseling Center will hire four full-time psychologists. Three spots are new, while the fourth fills a vacancy. file photo/the diamondback

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CRIME BLOTTER By Brad Dress | @thedbk | For The Diamondback Un iversity of M a r yland Police responded to reports of assault, burglary, indecent exposure and vandalism over the past two weeks, according to police reports.

ASSAULT On M a rch 10 at 3:42 p.m., University Police received a report of an a s s a u l t , a c c o rd i n g to pol ice reports. T wo female students — who are roommates — began verbally fighting about chores in Garrett Hall, which led to a brief physical fight before their other roommates broke it up, police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said. There were no reported injuries. This case is closed by exception.

BURGLARY University Police responded to a repor t of a burglary on March 11 at 3:50 a.m, accord i ng to pol ice reports. T wo fem a le st ud ents woke up in their dorm room in Centreville Hall to two “possibly drunk” men, Hoaas said. T he men asked for a phone charger before leaving the dorm room, wh ich had been unlocked, Hoaas added. T h is case is active, a n d a v i d e o re v i e w i s underway. These cases are closed by exception.

University Police also responded to a report of trespassing at 9:05 a.m. on March 7 at Delta Sigma Ph i f rater n ity ch apter house, accord i ng to police reports. T his case resulted in an arrest.

INDECENT EXPOSURE O n M a rch 10 at 2:55 a.m., police responded to a report of an indecent exposure on Knox Road, according to police reports. This case is closed by exception.

SUSPICIOUS AUTO/PERSON On March 14 at 5:44 p.m., University Police responded to a report of a suspicious person/auto at the Terrapin Row apartment complex, according to police reports. This case is closed by exception.

VANDALISM O n M a rc h 9 a t 5 : 4 1 a.m., University Police responded to Lot A for a report of vandalism that h a d o c c u r re d t h e d ay before, according to police reports. University Police re s p o n d e d to a n o t h e r report of vandalism at the Department of Residential Facilities office at about 8:44 a.m. on March 12.

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in a silver vehicle drive by, Hoaas said. Police responded at about 7:35 p.m., Hoaas said, and rev i ewe d n ea rby v i d e o c a m e ra s. No n ew i n fo rmation arose until March 12, when a detective saw a similar silver vehicle in front of the Junior Tennis Champions Center, which sits near this university’s campus, Hoaas said. The detective entered the tennis club, aiming to find the driver and ask him about the March 8 incident, Hoaas said. A man — who has no affiliation with this university — admitted he was driving

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the vehicle when the incident occurred but said a passenger had yelled the slur, Hoaas added. T h e m a n re f u s e d to provide information about the passenger, and the detective contacted the owner of the man’s car, who complied, Hoaas said. On March 16, police interviewed the male passenger and issued him a denial of access to the campus. This comes after a separate hate bias incident on March 2, in which a student reported to police that someone wrote antiblack racial slurs on a dry erase board in Cumberland Hall, police said.

$450,000 comes from a campus contract with Pepsi that is in its third year. In June 2015, university President Wallace Loh pledged in a campuswide email that an estimated $500,000 per year from alcohol revenues would be set aside for mental health counseling, sexual assault prevention and alcohol education programs for university students. “We’ve had a couple retirements in our learning assistance center, and so we were able to take those positions and redirect the funding, and then, over the last couple of years, we’ve received additional funding, money from a grant from the Pepsi

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Policy would reduce consultation on student fees Student leaders say they’re worried about the system’s new proposal by

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Christine Condon set to go before ment President Stephanie @CChristine19 t h e U n i ve r - Cork said last year. Student Government AsSenior staff writer s i t y Sy s te m of Maryland’s Committee on Finance this Thursday would eliminate the requirement that advisory committees be consulted in the imposition of non-mandatory student fees. Some University of Maryland students are speaking out against the proposed changes, particularly in light of the controversy surrounding the international student fee implemented last year. The international student fee — which is $125 each semester for full-time students and $62.50 each semester for part-time students — did not go through the Committee for the Review of Student Fees before it was imposed, then

sociation President AJ Pruitt said the proposed changes, which appear as an agenda item for the Finance Committee meeting on Thursday, enable the sort of action that led to the fee’s proposal without the consultation of relevant groups. “We sort of had everyone admit that the process wasn’t followed, but then we didn’t do anything from the top levels of leadership. … We didn’t do anything to right that wrong,” Pruitt said. “All we’ve done is now we’ve changed the policy to make it easier the next time we want to do something like this.” The international student fee was considered mandatory

under the old policy, but under the policy proposal, it would be non-mandatory, which means it wouldn’t have to be reviewed by an advisory group. The group should be made up of “an appropriate number of students and stakeholders representing each area supported by a student fee,” according to system policy. The old policy stated that mandatory fees included “fees and charges applicable to a specific category of student according to enrollment status during the standard academic year.” Under the proposed changes, mandatory fees would be limited to ones “required to be paid by the entire undergraduate and/ or graduate student body.” As written, the draft policy would mandate that student groups affected by a new fee be consulted at the time of its establishment, but not before. Caden Fabbi, the system’s Student Council president,

said he was surprised by the policy draft. Fabbi said his group passed a resolution in May calling on the system to clarify its policy on student fees. “My understanding this whole entire time was that there wasn’t going to be any less student input for academic or non-mandatory student fees … so I was pretty caught offguard when I finally received that draft,” he said. Fabbi, who is also the GSG chief of staff, said he is speaking with system student body presidents about the proposal and intends to speak against it at the Thursday meeting. “Essentially what they’re saying is that, ‘OK we broke the policy, but we make the policy, so let’s change the policy,’” he said. According to a summary of the changes on the system website, the amendments are intended to clarify what constitutes a mandatory fee and streamline the fee imposition process.

But Pruitt said the policy should do more. “My hope would’ve been that through this process the system would have come up with a policy … that everyone could follow that would get us all to the same place, that would give us all a best p ra c t i c e a n d h ave eve r y campus abide by it. I don’t think they’ve done that,” the senior economics and government and politics major said, adding that there ought to be more specifics about the makeup and powers of advisory committees for student fees. System spokesman Mike Lurie said in an email that if the changes are passed by the committee at its meeting on Thursday, the full Board of Regents will likely vote on them on April 20. He noted t h e s u m m a r y ’s wo rd i n g “serves as a comment from the USM.” The summary notes the

c h a n g e s we r e b a s e d o n student concerns. “ L a s t yea r, a g ro u p o f students came forth with concerns regarding the implementation of a new nonmandatory fee. After discussion and an internal review of the policy, it was determined that several technical adjustments and updates to the policy were in order,” the document reads. But the proposed changes go against the system’s ideals of shared governance, Fabbi said, and what the student council intended. “We hear the USM administrators and we hear [this university’s] administrators bragging about our robust system of shared governance and how students and faculty and staff are all included in the decisions that are made on the campuses,” Fabbi said. “And this just really flies in the face of all that.” ccondondbk@gmail.com

“We sort of had everyone admit that the process wasn’t followed, but then we didn’t do anything from the top levels of leadership.” - SGA PRESIDENT AJ PRUITT

COUNSELING From p. 2 corporation, and we also have committed funds, going into this year and moving forward, to profits from the sale of alcohol in the stadium,” Clement said. The new positions follow a rise in student activism for greater mental health resources on the campus. Scholars Promoting and Revitalizing Care — a group formed by College

Park Scholars students in 2015 — seeks to boost these resources. On Feb. 14, it launched its “30 Days Too Late” campaign, which was named to reflect the amount of time it can take to receive a Counseling Center appointment following the initial intake. “This is a step in the right direction,” said Alyssa Schledwitz, SPARC’s vice president and a senior physiology and neurobiology major. “I like to think that we were at least part of the impetus

that led to this. It’s really heartening to see that administration is taking into consideration the concerns of students and how understaffed the Counseling Center is right now.” Clement said “there’s not a standard amount of wait time” for receiving an appointment, and this shouldn’t be thought of as a “static thing.” “If somebody’s got a severe situation and they need to see somebody, they will have no

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wait times,” she said. “If it’s determined to be a less severe situation, they may have a longer wait period, particularly during those two times in the semester — midterms and finals — when we seem to have the most demand. … Everyone is seen immediately for intakes, which is a period of diagnosis, and that’s important.” Clement pointed to other resources that have been put in place this academic year for

undergraduate and graduate students. The center began offering 12 workshops — composed of between four and 12 students and facilitated by psychologists — for students with anxiety and depression, and an online counseling alternative that began “within the last couple weeks,” Clement said. “We’re trying all types of delivery modes to try and meet the demand,” she said. The center hopes to hire the

new psychologists “immediately” out of the current search pool, Clement said, adding that the search likely won’t start until the end of this semester but should be in place for next academic year. “We think that having more staff is certainly going to cut down the wait time for people, and also just alleviate the stress on our staff,” Clement said. lbrennandbk@gmail.com

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Hogan’s approach to gun violence is misguided The United States is awash with guns, which means it is also awash with gun crimes. In 2016, there were 3.85 violent gun deaths per 100,000 U.S. residents, far more than in virtually any other developed country. Maryland is not immune: According to USA Today, this state ranks 32nd in the nation in firearm deaths per capita. Last week’s shooting at Great Mills High School was just the latest manifestation of this plague on our society, when two students were shot, one fatally, as well as the shooter, who was killed after an exchange with a police officer. As school shootings have captured the country’s attention, many see school security as a pressing issue. Schools in Carroll County will soon have an increased police presence, and Maryland legislators are debating a bill that would allow school boards to arm teachers. Gov. Larry Hogan has proposed a $125 million project to reinforce school doors, add panic buttons and implement other school security measures. This approach is misguided — partially because research shows police officers and armed teachers aren’t likely to make schools safer, but primarily because it ultimately won’t solve the root issue. Restrictions like these are focused on the symptom that is school shootings, rather than the broader disease of gun violence. Students aren’t behind a desk 24 hours a day, seven days a week; making their school more secure does nothing to protect them when they’re somewhere else. We need not look far to see the shortcomings of school security. Baltimore’s Excel Academy has metal detectors and brick walls, making it a sanctuary for its students. But they still live in a city where 299 shooting homicides were reported last year, and they still feel the trauma of gun violence throughout their lives. What good is it for these students to feel safe in their classrooms when they can die at any second outside it? In the Great Mills shooting, the suspected

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gunman died after the school resource officer intervened. It’s tempting to think that with more security, the shooting wouldn’t have happened at all, but the facts behind the case suggest otherwise. The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect, 17-year-old Austin Rollins, had been in a relationship with one of the victims, 16-year-old Jaelynn Willey, and that it was most likely “not a random act of violence.” If Rollins harbored a grudge against Willey, he could’ve easily attacked her at another place without resource officers. To prevent shootings like this, we should keep guns out of the hands of people like Rollins — and there could be an easy way to do that. Rollins’ father legally owned the gun used in the shooting, according to the sheriff’s office; Maryland residents aren’t allowed to leave loaded guns where children under 16 can take them, but since Rollins was 17, this didn’t apply to him. Expanding this law to cover 16- and 17-yearolds might have made Rollins’ father more careful with his gun storage, which could have averted the tragedy in the first place. The state legislature is considering other bills restricting guns, including a “red flag law” that could force residents who are deemed dangerous to give up any firearms they own, and a bill that would make sure people convicted of domestic violence don’t have guns. These measures — which have passed the House of Delegates and have Hogan’s support — would go a long way toward combatting gun violence in all places, just as they should. Shootings are a blot on our country, regardless of where they take place, and we should do everything we can to prevent them. Maryland already has many common-sense restrictions on guns, but it’s clear more are needed. To stop a bad guy with a gun, we don’t need a metal detector, or an armed teacher, or even a school resource officer. We just need to take the gun away from him.

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Teachers must not spread bigotry to students Asha Kodan @OpinionDBK Columnist

Dayanna Volitich, a m i d d l e sc h o o l social studies teacher in Florida, was removed from her classroom after it was revealed that she hosted a white nationalist podcast. Volitich ran the podcast under the pseudonym Tiana Dalichov. Her content included discussions about some races being more intelligent than others, anti-Islamic rhetoric and denial of white privilege. Volitich claimed she is not a white nationalist; she said that her political views did not influence the way she teaches, although she had bragged on her podcast about discussing white nationalism with her students and getting away with it. Teachers are at the forefront of shaping the next generation’s minds. They have the challenging and underappreciated job of educating children while fostering a community of openmindedness and intellectual development. Despite these challenges, most teachers join the profession because they find the work rewarding. So it’s terrible that the same woman who tweeted at a survivor of the Parkland school shooting telling him to “stop acting like a toddler” is teaching children who may be exposed to her bigoted behavior. The mother of one of Volitich’s students told NBC News that her daughter remembers a day when the students were learning about civil rights, and that Volitich “alluded that segregation might possibly be OK.” Allowing teachers to express their political beliefs in the classroom is a murky subject that court rulings have not been clear on. In 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution allows school faculty to express their opinions on public issues. However, school districts generally have flexibility in deciding policies for teachers’ political expression. For instance, the New York City Education Department released guidelines in 2013 for social media use;

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In-state tuition should be free Caitlin McCann @OpinionDBK Columnist

the recommendations included a warning that teachers should not use social media — whether in school or during off-hours — in a way that could potentially be a disruption in the classroom. Florida’s own education department has a Social Media Disclaimer page, where it states that comments on social media “should not be obscene in nature or serve as an attack against any person or group.” Whether Volitich legally has the freedom to run her bigoted podcast on her own time is subject to legal speculation beyond our scope. However, the issue becomes much clearer if Volitich has lectured her students on the ostensible superiority of the white race. The extent to which Volitich boasted about white nationalism in her classroom is unclear, but if the conversations on her podcast are any indication of the way she speaks with her students, then she would be in direct violation of the Florida Education Department policy. Even if we assume Volitich did not teach social studies with a racist perspective, her podcast is still public, albeit under a pseudonym. This means her students can easily find and listen to her rants and interviews with people from Red Ice TV, which the Southern Poverty Law Center recognizes as a hate group. When a student notices an authority figure, such as a teacher, preaching prejudice, those ideas can shift to become the norm. Children are a product of the environment they grow up in. If that environment includes lessons about segregation being acceptable, then we are reverting the progress of previous generations toward making this nation a safer, more inclusive place for all.

In January, Gov. Larry Hogan released his budget proposal for fiscal 2019. Under this budget, tuition increases at Maryland’s public four-year schools would be capped at 2 percent. While this may seem like a good thing, as it puts a limit on tuition growth, it actually avoids addressing the underlying problem: For many Maryland residents, the cost of college has become entirely unaffordable, despite the growing necessity of a college education. The tuition increase cap is like a small bandaid on a massive wound — it may slow the rise in unaffordability, but it will never stop it. Nobody expects college to be cheap. To have nice facilities, knowledgeable professors and a ton of resources for students, a lot of money is required. I know that my Eppley Recreation Center access isn’t actually free, and that McKeldin Library needs funding and staff to be open nearly 24-7. My education is worth a lot in terms of resources, time and manpower, and I understand the money for that has to come from somewhere. But it shouldn’t necessarily be from the pockets of students. Minorities in particular are disadvantaged by high tuition. In 2017, the Federal Reserve reported that black and Hispanic individuals were far more likely than their white counterparts to be behind on loan repayment, and the think tank Demos published research in 2015 that found “black and low-

income students borrow more, and more often, to receive a bachelor’s degree, even at public institutions.” For women, high levels of student loan debt mean repayment is often slower than their male counterparts because of the wage gap that develops within a year after graduation. Consider also the ability of economically advantaged students to participate in unpaid internships that aren’t feasible for students who must spend their time working to fund their education. Students who cannot pay tuition out-ofpocket suffer from a handicap that shouldn’t exist in the first place. The rising cost of college divides students. Those with the financial background to afford high tuition out of pocket don’t face the same struggles as students who rely on loans and scholarships. The higher tuition gets, the greater these divides will become. The ultimate solution is to drastically reduce the burden of tuition, perhaps even making it so students need not pay it at all. Hogan’s plan of placing a new tuition cap with every budget won’t cut it anymore; Maryland must do more than set a maximum on the amount it bleeds out from students trying to improve their lives. We need to consider exploring alternative options, such as the tuition-free college plan proposed in November by Maryland state Sen. William C. Smith Jr (D-Montgomery). Smith wrote a piece in The Baltimore Sun detailing a plan that would eventually allow any Maryland resident admitted into any University System of Maryland school to attend

tuition-free. The plan would see the establishment of a fund, or “quasi-endowment,” that would be specifically earmarked for in-state students’ tuition. In Smith’s vision, the money for the fund would come from “an initial transfer from the USM fund balance, private funds raised from the 12 USM institutions, and the general fund of the state of Maryland.” While the plan may sound expensive — and I’m sure it would be — it would also be worth it. Think of the number of bright students who would elect to stay in-state for college and raise the profile of Maryland public education. The millions of dollars that would be spent in local economies once students and their families are able to save instead of devote exorbitant sums to schools, and the number of prospective students who will be inspired to attend college because of its affordability. Smith’s dream doesn’t just have to be of the pipe variety: If we begin erecting an endowment like this one now, in just 10 or 15 years we could well be on our way to providing free public higher education to Maryland residents. We could be the flagship state for affordable education, and raise the profiles of our colleges in the process. This is the Maryland I want to live in — not one that thinks pricecapping the maximum rise in tuition is sound economic or education policy. caitlinmccann32@gmail.com

Maryland’s state song is headed for the history books Liyanga de Silva @OpinionDBK Columnist

Maryland legislators have yet again rejected a proposal to repeal the racist state song, “Maryland, My Maryland.” This debate has been going on for the past 45 years, and we are now left with a compromise — changing the tune’s status to Maryland’s “historic song” instead of its state song. Penned in 1861, “Maryland, My Maryland” is an ode to the Confederacy. It calls for Maryland to secede from its “Northern scum” neighbors and smears Abraham Lincoln as a “tyrant” and “despot.” Despite this, Republican Sen. Michael Hough (Carroll and Frederick) indicated that it is all right for Maryland to hold this song in high regard because “a song is a song. The people singing it today are not singing it with that in their hearts.” A state song is meant to be relatable for — and representative of — the residents of a state. We have a state flower and state bird, both of which have significance within the present context of Maryland. So why wouldn’t residents want a song that equally represents their present? A song isn’t just a song, especially if it’s supposed to encompass the pride residents have for their state. There is usually public pushback against songs that are bigoted, as we saw in 2013 with Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.” The song touts the “blurred lines” of consent, and the public wasn’t OK with it. Songs have messages and meaning, and “Maryland, My Maryland” is no different.

To change “Maryland, My Maryland” to a historic song would be the right move. The song doesn’t represent the majority of Maryland residents anymore, and it goes even further to discriminate against many of them. The University of Maryland Marching Band stopped playing the state song in August, and yet Maryland lawmakers cannot agree that retaining a Confederate song to represent our diverse state is wrong. Some people would like the lyrics of the song changed, or for there to be no recognition of the song altogether, but that isn’t quite the right solution, either. While the song is a Confederate anthem, it is still a part of our history. Whether we like it or not, the song has represented this state since 1939, and we have to recognize that part of our past, no matter how offensive it is. In the same way that we allow Confederate flags in textbooks yet deem them socially unacceptable to hang outside, our racist and outdated state song needs to be archived. We need to recognize our past for future education, without pretending it is our present and future. Marylanders should have a state song they’re proud to sing, just as Americans should be proud to sing the national anthem. For me and many other Maryland residents, the song doesn’t represent the state I know and love. liyanga.a.ds@gmail.com

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Steven Grutman, a junior computer science major who attended the march, said he supports “common-sense” measures such as banning bump stocks, a device that allows semiautomatic weapons to fire more rapidly, and implementing stricter background checks. But he added that assault weapons, such as AR-15s, are not the problem and should not be outlawed. “If you try and ban [assault weapons], you’re looking at the second Civil War,” Grutman said. “People are not going to want to give up their guns.” So far in 2018, the U.S. has seen 17 school shootings in which someone was injured or killed, according to CNN. On Tuesday, a shooter opened fire on students at Great Mills High School in

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dozing in comforting arms. At the corner of 8th and D streets, kids drew with chalk on the pavement in the shadows of security guards and heavily armored police vehicles as their parents watched on. Christine Crudo, an executive assistant at Sandy Hook Promise — a nonprofit that works to educate students on the warning signs of gun violence — said all three of her children went through the Sandy Hook school system. The organization was founded after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that killed 20 children and six adults. Crudo said the young people who organized and participated in Saturday’s march gave her hope for members of future generations, like the

SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE CROWD of students and adults at the March for Our Lives in Washington on Saturday were children, peering over the protesters from atop their parents shoulders, nestled in laps and dozing in comforting arms.

children drawing with the chalk. “They’re gonna make the difference,” she said. “Our first graders at Sandy Hook couldn’t speak as articulately as these teenagers can.” As one of these young adults, Venkatraman said his generation has the power to affect gun control policy by voting for stricter gun control measures. “We’regoingtoseealargeculturalshift.Somethingthat’s pretty necessary about the way we think about guns,” Venkatraman said.“We’re going to be the future.” Staff writers Brooks DuBose and Matt Perez contributed to this report. jatelsekdbk@gmail.com

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Wallz Baba is a student at the University of Maryland who makes music with his friends for fun. On May 4, they’ll get to perform that music at Art Attack XXXV. Baba, whose real name is Moses Fatola, won Student E n te r ta i n m e n t Eve n ts ’ annual Battle of the Bands contest on March 13, securing him and his band a spot as the opening performer of the much-anticipated spring concert. “I get to open in front of thousands of people of different cultural backgrounds — that’s crazy! I’m really taking my craft to the world, and I’m not doing it alone, I’m doing it with my team. I’m blessed,” Baba said. Baba earned his degree from this university in May, but is still taking classes here to finish minor requirements. He released a mixtape, A F R O, back in November and applied to Battle of the Bands with a lot of those songs. His band leader, Cleave

Ekpe, said his favorite part of Tuesday’s performance was during “Cinderella,” when the band members suddenly broke into a pause together: “What you guys don’t know is that we did not rehearse as extensively as I would have liked, so when stuff like that happens without thinking about it — it was just crazy,” t h e se n i o r p u b l i c h ea l t h science major said. Ekpe categorized their music as Afrobeats, a genre he said is “on the rise.” “My favorite part of the performance was watching people react to our genre of music in a good way and putting smiles on their faces,” said band member Ayeni Oluwatobi, 25, whose stage name is Tobby Drillz. “It was priceless.” Baba’s performance inc l u d e d s o m e o f h i s ow n songs, some freestyling and a lot of engagement with the audience. “Being on stage felt like I was doing what I was made

to do — perform, entertain, and have a good time while doing it,” Baba said. “It felt natural.” Baba was announced winner about one minute after his performance was over. He said he had just walked away to get water, and doesn’t think he would h ave eve n h ea rd t h e a n nouncement if it weren’t for somebody stopping him to ask where they can find his music. “The announcement was kinda swift, I had it recorded on my Instagram story and it was like we won the World Cup,” Ekpe said. “It was like an explosion in the room!

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gained fans with his abstract, poetry-inspired flow and wordy, witty songs. He’s worked with fellow rap weirdos like Kool A.D., Open Mike Eagle and Anderson .Paak. It’s a notably different lineup for Terpstock, offering two rappers after several years of alternative and indie artists like COIN, Phoebe Ryan, Vacationer, Sun Club and Cas Haley. It’s also another example of Student Entertainment Events’ ability to draw bigger

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event. I feel blessed and we are grateful to the organizers of the event for putting this together. This is one of those moments we pray and hope for and we are glad all of our hard work is appreciated,” said Oluwatobi, who is originally from Nigeria. Baba said, “I believe it’s my time and it’s only right,”

in regards to his impending performance, and doesn’t plan on doing anything special in preparation. “ To ge t re a d y f o r A r t Attack, we gonna do what we always do: have lots of fun. That’s how we know how to perform,” Baba said. aoreillydbk@gmail.com

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PROTESTERS AT THE MARCH FOR OUR LIVES take to the streets with colorful and creative posters in support of tighter gun regulations. jillian atelsek/for the diamondback brooks dubose/for the diamondback jay reed/for the diamondback allison o’reilly/for the diamondback

LAUREL PASCHALL holds the zia symbol she created to honor students who were killed in a shooting at her high school in New Mexico (Allison O’Reilly/For The Diamondback).

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itty, thought-provoking posters have been a staple of protests and marches throughout this nation’s history. People convey messages of dissent through words and artwork that later show up on magazine and history book pages. To that end, the March for Our Lives was a show of protest art. Hundreds of thousands of people came to Washington, D.C., on Saturday with posters and symbols in hand to protest gun violence and push lawmakers to enact change. Among them were students from Aztec High School in Aztec, New Mexico, where a shooting took the lives of students Casey Marquez and Francisco Fernandez in December. The students worked with art teacher Shannon Cruise to make a Zia symbol, seen on their state flag, out of cardboard tubes and synthetic flowers, which they carried to honor the late teenagers. “I think that art in protest is always that kind of dichotomy: You see something beautiful but then you also look a little deeper and say, ‘What does that mean?’” Cruise said. “We see flowers and red colors, but it’s so much more than that — it’s a memorial to someone and yes, that’s beautiful but it’s also really heartbreaking at the very same time.” Aztec High junior Laurel Paschall stood on the statue of General Winfield Scott Hancock on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street holding the Zia symbol with her friends. She said the memorial shows how she and her classmates miss Marquez and Fernandez, and that “they shouldn’t be dead for this; they

Protest in paint and pencil at the March for Our Lives By Allison O’Reilly | @allisonsoreilly | Staff writer should be here with us.” “We just deserve to be safe in school, and knowing that we weren’t at one time is so scary,” Paschall said. “I think that every kid in America, in the world, deserves to be safe and feel safe and not be scared that they’re going to die, and I think bringing this and bringing ourselves here shows that, and seeing everyone here shows how many people also support the same cause.” Eli Spicer, a student at Strawberry Crest High School in the Tampa area, said they were able to attend the march thanks to a GoFundMe set up to send students from the area to the D.C. event. Spicer was carrying a poster made by classmate Ryan Martinez. It was decorated with playing cards meant to represent politicians who are “just playing a game right now.” Spicer also drew a stack of money because “we’re supposed to be represented by the citizens’ voice, not money from corporates.” “I really think [art] calls a lot more attention to what it’s saying, there can be a lot of symbols inside the poster — we have a bunch right here,” Spicer said. “If you just take a minute to look at this, you can tell how much meaning is put into this and how much passion everyone has at this march.” Even though this march came in response to February’s Parkland shooting, gun violence reaches beyond the class-

room. Anamaria Vasquez, 52, showcased a painting she made of faces of individuals killed by border patrol at the MexicanAmerican border. She said she lived there for over a decade and moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, in September. “I lived in Colombia and 52 years we’ve been at war, so I have seen and been displaced from the area I lived. Then I moved to Mexico, lived on the border, and I met the family of a 16-year-old boy who was shot 11 times in the back — my son was 16 at the time — and I met many of the families of people who have been killed by the border patrol,” Vasquez said, regarding why she came to Saturday’s march. “So when we arrived to Florida and we hear about the killing [in Parkland], my daughter, who’s in high school, said, ‘We have to go, we have to do something.’” Vasquez said art is one of the “few ways we still have to speak out.” “You see that all these artists come up here and this is what’s moving people,” she said. “People are tired of empty words, and something in art touches the heart — this is what you look for you look to touch the heart.” Posters weren’t the only form of art at the event. Ariana Grande, Vic Mensa, Jennifer Hudson and others gave moving musical performances; teenagers and even an 11-year-old girl who have been impacted by gun violence gave heartfelt

speeches and marchers engaged in many impassioned, witty chants. Lily Tillery, 33, brought a poster with the outline of a woman’s body and wrote “grab ’em by the midterms” — a play on President Trump’s infamous comments from leaked Access Hollywood tapes. She said it wasn’t her original design; she got the idea from Women’s March photos online. “I added this little snake piece where it grabs because I feel like we need to get the snakes out of Congress who are feathering their own wallets with cash donations from the [National Rifle Association] to buy their silence and their inaction,” Tillery said. “Although all of this is incredibly inspiring and incredibly encouraging, it’s not going to matter if we don’t get the corrupt politicians out of office.” She traveled to the march from Atlanta but said she grew up in south Florida. She said she didn’t know any Parkland victims personally but came to learn victim Carmen Schentrup was taking piano lessons from the same teacher Tillery had learned from years ago. That personal connection compelled her to make the other side of her poster a list of the Parkland victims’ names, with Schentrup’s name a little larger. “I think that art has a big impact on life in general. Art is such an important form of expression just for mankind, that’s how we communicate,” Tillery said.“When you have events like this and there are these statement pieces that stick in people’s minds, it makes an impression and comes to define movements.” aoreillydbk@gmail.com

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Maryland starter SYDNEY GOLDEN allowed three runs in a complete game in the rubber match against Penn State on Sunday. The Cal State Fullerton transfer is 6-10 in her first year with the Terps.

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or the first time in nearly two years, the Maryland softball team won a Big Ten series. In its first conference weekend of the season, the Terps finished a series win over Penn State with a 4-3 victory on Sunday. That performance came after Maryland earned its first run-rule victory of the year on Saturday, beating the Nittany Lions 8-0 in five innings. Things began similarly in the series finale. Catcher Anna Kufta gave Maryland the lead with a single in the second inning, and outfielder

Kassidy Cross scored another two runs in the fourth with a triple. Kufta had a breakout weekend, going 4-for-9 with four RBIs. After leading the team in home runs and RBIs last season, she came into the weekend batting just .143 with seven RBIs. “A n n a Ku f ta i s a go o d h i t te r who hasn’t been swinging at good pitches,” coach Julie Wright said. “Her pitch selection has been improving a lot the last few weeks.” Right-hander Sydney Golden, starting for the second game in a row, allowed only two hits through

five shutout innings. But the Nittany Lions tied the game in the sixth, scoring three runs against Golden with two RBI singles and an RBI groundout. Golden still earned the win thanks to a solo home run from infielder Skylynne Ellazar in the top of the seventh. The run was just the sixth that the Terps have scored in the seventh inning all season and preserved their perfect record when leading after five innings. “She had her drop ball working and it was nasty,” Wright said. “She’s so even-keel, which is a tremendous

quality to have as a pitcher. Nothing can rattle her.” Ellazar went 3-for-3 with a walk, continuing her hot weekend in which she went 6-for-9 with three RBI and three runs scored. “Sky has been having a great year. Her preparation has been tremendous.” Wright said. “She’s been handling the pitches she can handle and having great at-bats.” The win was Maryland’s 12th of the season, more than the squad won all of last year. bfischerdbk@gmail.com

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Fast pace aids Parsons in 2-0 victory Junior continues recovery from disastrous 2018 debut with shutout After Maryland baseball starter Hunter Parsons’ first strikeout Sunday against Stetson, the righthander walked toward third baseman Tommy Gardiner with his glove up, eager to get back on the mound immediately after the Terps finished throwing it around the horn. Pa rso n s co n t i n u e d h i s torrid pace on the mound, an adjustment he made after a disastrous first start against Tennessee. Since that Feb. 18 contest, Parsons compiled four quality starts, including in the rubber match against the Hatters. Hitters began holding their hands up for time, trying to disrupt Parsons’ pace. It didn’t phase him, and Parsons’ twoseam fastball helped him earn by

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a career-high nine strikeouts and induce 13 groundouts in a two-hit complete-game shutout. Behind a second gem from a Terps pitcher this weekend, Maryland’s continually shuffling lineup managed enough support to secure a series win with a 2-0 victory. “The thing that people were so excited about with him out of high school is his fastball has really good action to it,” coach Rob Vaughn said. “It’s just hard for that not to get below your barrel. When he’s good, that’s what he’s getting. And for us, that’s huge.” Last week, Parsons (3-2, 3.23 ERA) surrendered one earned run in seven innings against No. 18 East Carolina, but a Terps lineup in the thick of their scuffles couldn’t produce a run to support him.

starter hunter parsons had a disastrous season debut against Tennessee but has made quality starts in his last four outings, including a shutout Sunday vs. Stetson. File photo/the diamondback Facing Stetson (19-5) starter Mitchell Senger on Sunday, Maryland (12-12) still struggled but managed to piece together enough offense for its third series victory of the season. In the fifth, Senger (3-1, 1.70 ERA) followed an infield single from left fielder Richie Schiekofer with two walks to load the bases. Then, a passed ball plated Schiekofer, though Senger bounced back to strike out right fielder Marty Costes and strand three runners. Senger was charged with another unearned run in the

sixth following an error from left fielder Andrew MacNeil. Then, with runners on second and third, first baseman Kevin Biondic beat the throw home on a Schiekofer grounder to give Maryland a 2-0 lead. “That’s what you have to do with good teams. It’s not a great day to hit,” Vaughn said. “For us to win consistently at the level we want to win at, those are the things we need to do: play great defense and be able to just execute when we need to.” With the two-run cushion, Parsons clapped his hand

inside his glove as he walked off the mound in the seventh, matching his career high with seven strikeouts. The junior needed fewer than 10 pitches in three innings Sunday. “He went from having one of the worst paces on our team last year to just attacking the zone with an unbelievable pace,” Vaughn said. “A lot of toughness, a lot of poise. Had a little swag out there to him today. That’s fun to watch.” After the final out, catcher Justin Morris gave Parsons a hug at the mound as the hurler

has continued the form he discovered after regressing his sophomore year and allowing eight runs in one inning against Tennessee to begin this season. “He caught me last year when I was struggling, and he’d come out and say, ‘You’ve just got to trust in me and trust that God’s got a plan with you right now,’” Parsons said. “I had to fight through that and then to come out there and be able to throw to him today was pretty awesome.” afkostkadbk@gmail.com

men’s lacrosse

Justin Shockey dominates the X in W over UNC Freshman faceoff specialist helps Terps to second consecutive win Maryland

acclimated, with faceoff specialist Austin Henningsen starting for the squad to begin the campaign. On Saturday night, though, Shockey made the most of his

start against No. 20 North Carolina, helping No. 2 Maryland to an 11-7 win with his dominance in the faceoff X. Shockey won 16 of 20 draws in the Pacific Coast Shootout matchup. Shockey’s dominance in the first half, when he secured seven of eight faceoffs, helped the Terps enter the intermission with a 5-2 lead. Still, Maryland struggled in the fourth quarter for the third time in

as many games. Against Albany on March 10, a late collapse cost the Terps the game. Defenseman Bryce Young denied a similar result on Saturday with a critical run-stopping strike against the Tar Heels. North Carolina opened the fourth quarter with three unanswered goals and boasted a man-up opportunity. However, the Terps forced a turnover, and Young sprinted down the field and

scored his first goal of the year. The Maryland sideline erupted in celebration. Shockey’s success enabled the Terps to construct a large second-half lead, giving them vital cushion down the stretch. Midfielder Connor Kelly and attackmen Jared Bernhardt and Anthony DeMaio helped Maryland open the third quarter on a 3-0 run. After the Tar Heels responded with goals, Kelly found

the net for the fourth time to give Maryland a 9-4 edge entering the final quarter. The win was Maryland’s second straight and the Terps’ fifth in their last six meetings with North Carolina. It also concluded a stretch of four consecutive contests against ranked teams. The Terps begin conference play at Michigan next week.

Spartans, the Terps rattled off seven straight wins, none more impressive than the 99-69 thrashing of then-No. 12 Ohio State. However, the team sputtered down the stretch, losing three of its final four regularseason games to drop into second place in the Big Ten. Convincing wins in the opening two rounds of the conference tournament gave Maryland a chance to claim its fourth straight Big Ten crown, but the Terps fell to the Buckeyes by 10 points in the title game. “Nobody expected this team

to be in this position this year,” Frese said after the loss. “With everything we lost, and then you talk about going down, losing Blair — you know, this has been a rewarding year, when you talk about how this team has bought in.” Maryland started the NCAA tournament on the road for the first time since 2007, and after beating No. 12-seed Princeton, the Terps fell to No. 4-seed NC State on its home court, ending their season in the second round. The Terps will lose senior

l e a d e rs h i p f ro m g u a rd s Kristen Confroy and Ieshia Small, but they’re slated to return their top five scorers, as well as their primary point guard Channise Lewis. Guard Kaila Charles, who started as a freshman alongside Slocum, broke out from the shadows to become Maryland’s star, averaging 17.9 points and 8.1 rebounds as a sophomore. Guard Eleanna Christinaki will begin her first full season at Maryland after playing half of this year due to transfer eligibility rules. Watson, provided

she’s healthy, could return to her key role. Lewis, a freshman who signed after the announcement of Slocum’s transfer and replaced her as the starting point guard, will return as a seasoned sophomore. Plus, Maryland’s No. 5 recruiting class — headlined by forward Shakira Austin, ESPN’s No. 3 overall player in the country — will provide a further boost to a team that Frese said persevered

through the many difficulties thrown its way. Ideally, the Terps will have more stability and fewer question marks entering next season. “I’m really proud of this team, when you talk about staying the course all year long,” Frese said. “Through injuries, through adversity, they just put their head down and continued to get better.”

But because Shockey didn’t

Scott Gelman men’s lacrosse participate in fall practice with the @Gelman_Scott faceoff spe- Terps,the Potomac native took the Senior staff writer cialist Justin first few weeks of the season to get Shockey arrived in College Park in January after a distinguished career at Landon High School where he won almost 80 percent of his faceoffs.

TERPS From p. 12 facing the Spartans, Watson suffered a season-ending ACL tear. While the Terps had some highlights without Watson, overall the team struggled from that point. Maryland closed the season 11-6, failing to win a Big Ten title for the first time since entering the conference and slipping to a No. 5 seed in the NCAA tournament, its lowest seed since 2005. After a 14-point loss to the

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Terps run on Nitro! TURGEON From p. 12 explaining it was their own mental errors that caused them to fall short of their potential. “Coach Turgeon doesn’t execute plays when we’re supposed to execute plays that we practiced multiple t i m e s. T h a t’s a l l o n t h e

players,” Huerter said. “We didn’t make plays for him.” Still, Michigan’s ascent d e s p i te b e i n g p i c k e d to finish fifth in the Big Ten t h i s yea r i l l u s t ra te s t h e effect good coaching can have. Maryland might not have been on par with the Wolverines without Jackson, but the gulf between the programs certainly wasn’t

a Fi n a l Fo u r a p p ea ra n ce and missing the postseason altogether. B e t te r c o a c h i n g f r o m Turgeon to ensure on-court cohesiveness late in games would have gone a long way in closing the gap. The Terps will likely have much greater aspirations next year given their top-15 recruiting class and probable

return of multiple starters, but adversity will no doubt s t r i ke a ga i n . I f Tu rge o n again fails to elevate his team to meet those challenges, maybe it’ll be time for someone else to guide the program to the destinations he’s yet to reach.

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Sports THIS WEEK’S GAMES

TWEET OF THE WEEK I wonder if DOTS employees get paid [per] ticket cause they give them joints out like candy @JERMA1NECARTER, former Maryland linebacker Jermaine Carter

Men’s lacrosse

March 24

2 Maryland

11 7

20 UNC

Baseball

March 25

Maryland Stetson

2 0

Softball

Maryland Penn State

March 25

4 3

men’s basketball

missing the mark

Coach mark turgeon made excuses throughout the 2017-18 campaign as the Terps continuously struggled to close out games. They missed the postseason entirely for the first time since 2013-14.

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While injuries hindered the Terps, their failure started at the top By Daniel Bernstein | @danbernsteinUMD | Basketball columnist

t each stage of Michigan’s ongoing NCAA tournament run, what the Maryland men’s basketball team almost accomplished in Ann Arbor earlier this year has become more bewildering. The Terps, who missed the postseason entirely for the first time since 2014, would have beaten the Final Four-bound Wolverines in January if not for a lastsecond defensive blunder. After failing to guard the inbounds pass following guard Kevin Huerter’s go-ahead bucket with three seconds left, forward Bruno Fernando fouled guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman. Rahkman sunk both free throws to clinch a 68-67 victory. For all of the excuses that arrived as Maryland limped out of tournament contention, nearly winning at Michigan showed it had the potential to find success with better coaching and execution. Sure, season-ending setbacks to forwards Justin Jackson and Ivan Bender were a factor in Maryland’s decline.

Recurring health problems for forward Bruno Fernando and center Michal Cekovsky also hindered the team. But perhaps more frustrating than those challenges was the lack of accountability from coach Mark Turgeon as the campaign unraveled. There were chances to win, regardless of adversity, and the team simply couldn’t. Often, Turgeon played up the Terps’ obstacles, emphasizing how much they battled a tough schedule against supposedly insurmountable odds. The narrative glossed over the active role he had in their downfall. Maryland took a 10-point halftime lead at Michigan. Huerter’s 3-pointer gave the Terps a one-point advantage with little time remaining. But failing to defend the ensuing inbounds pass likely cost Maryland a resume-boosting road win over a top-25 foe. While Turgeon admitted he should have set up his team better on Michigan’s final possession, he didn’t acknowledge that putting a man on

the inbounder could’ve prevented the collapse. Against Indiana, a late unforced turnover by Darryl Morsell on an inbounds pass, failure to rebound a missed free throw and incoherent final possession led to a 71-68 road loss. Instead of explaining why guard Anthony Cowan took an ugly 3-pointer with six seconds left after a stagnant possession, Turgeon deflected. “Worked our tails off, tough environment,” Turgeon said. “Bruno went down, Ceko was in foul trouble. We’re limited and we just kept battling.” Against Nebraska, the Terps again failed to execute late in the game, losing 70-66 after giving up a key offensive rebound in the final 30 seconds. Turgeon blamed Maryland’s inability to close the contest on the Cornhuskers keying in on Huerter and Cowan, even though Fernando led the team with 21 points. Against Penn State, all Maryland could muster in the final 30 seconds of its 74-70 loss was a wild layup

attempt from Cowan and a heavilycontested 3-point prayer from guard Jared Nickens. Turgeon claimed the unranked Nittany Lions had “maybe three NBA guys,” even though they don’t have any players projected to be a 2018 first-round pick. “My guys battled. Are you serious, guys? Let’s be real,” Turgeon said in his most defensive moment of the season. “My kids battled. We had like four guys out there. My guys battled.” The rotten cherry on top of the disastrous season came with eight seconds left in Maryland’s Big Ten tournament matchup with Wisconsin, when Cowan ran an inbound play incorrectly and guard Dion Wiley threw away the pass. It was the fitting summation of a year that featured few marquee wins and the kind of consistent late-game mistakes that led fans to question Turgeon’s management skills. Players defended their coach, See turgeon, p. 11

women’s basketball

Terps bounce back from tough breaks Coach Brenda Frese’s squad reached the tournament’s Round of 32 When the Maryland women’s basketball team flamed out of the 2017 NCAA tournament in the Sweet 16, it meant All-American seniors Shatori WalkerKimbrough and Brionna Jones had played their final games for the program. The team knew those losses were on the horizon. The shocker came 10 days later, when Maryland announced guard Destiny Slocum — the National Freshman of the Year — would be transferring from the program. The exodus continued throughout by

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the offseason, as three more players transferred out. Having lost 62 percent of its scoring from the previous season, Maryland suffered a down year. The Terps were dealt a 14-point defeat in the second round of the NCAA tournament and failed to reach 30 wins for the first time since 2013-14. But the campaign wasn’t without positives, as the Terps established new go-to players and won 26 games, creating a promising base to build upon. “To go through a season of just pure adversity is something I commend my team for,” guard Blair Watson said before the NCAA tournament. “One thing after another, bringing

in new players, going through injury, you couldn’t ask for anything more.” At the team’s Oct. 24 Media Day, Watson emphasized the departures didn’t take anything away from the team. When the season began, Watson did her best to prove that was true, becoming a focal point of Maryland’s offense and the team’s second-leading scorer through 17 games. After playing just 10.9 minutes per game last year, the Nutley, New Jersey, native averaged 13.8 points and 4.2 rebounds in 26 minutes per game this season. Maryland was 15-2 and had seven players averaging double digits entering its home tilt against Michigan State on Jan. 11. However, the day before See terps, p. 11

guard blair watson averaged 13.8 points and 4.2 rebounds per game this past season before tearing her ACL early in conference play. Still, the Terps finished second in the Big Ten and made it to the NCAA tournament without Watson available. marquise mckine/thediamondback