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Comp sci eliminated, Iribe to become dorm All 3,404 computer science majors will be required to switch into humanities The University of Maryland announced Monday that it will eliminate the computer science major and repurpose the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering as on-campus housing.

All 3,404 current computer science majors will be required to become English, theater or philosophy majors. The six-story, 215,000-square-foot building will by

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have air mattresses and complimentary air conditioning installed for incoming 2020 freshmen, a university spokesperson said.

“It’s honestly like they only want to keep HTML and MATLAB around,” sophomore computer science major Javon Script said. “I’m just really bugged about this.”

Construction of the Iribe Center was mostly finished last October as the university brainstormed ways to deal with overenrollment. This led to the idea to cut the computer science

major and provide incoming students with a rooftop garden, outdoor seating, a cafe and a 400-seat auditorium, a spokesperson said.

Although their main goal is for students to learn how to pronounce Brendan Iribe’s name by the end of the academic year, university officials believe giving freshmen a floor-to-ceiling window living environment with accessible, outletminimal lounge spaces will be beneficial to the first-year experience overall.

“Having such big windows will help air out the dorm rooms,” university President Wallace Loh said.

“This could help with, ah — those

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the iribe center will be converted to on-campus housing for the incoming 2020 class. file photo/the diamondback moldy dorms, you know?”

Since only four classrooms and three study spaces were available to the public as of January, the formal dedication ceremony of the Center is slated to occur later this month,

when the university will officially reveal the conversion of study spaces into flex quads and classrooms into triples.

Brendan Iribe could not be reached for comment.

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New light rail to connect UMD to Baltimore, run through McKeldin Lavender Line to have stops at Live! Casino The University of Maryland will Trey N. Trak be getting a new @iliketrains light rail line on Staff writer this campus, connecting Washington, D.C., to Baltimore.

The Lavender Line will cut through the center of the campus, demolishing both the fountain on McKeldin Mall and McKeldin Library.

“We figured everyone loved the Purple Line and the construction on campus, you know, so why not have even more construction?” university President Wallace Loh said.

The new line will include stops in Laurel, Arbutus, Glen Burnie, Patapsco, Merriweather Post Pavilion, North Laurel, Jessup, the Live! Casino, South Laurel and Camden Yards.

To compensate for the amount of construction, all remaining parking spaces on the campus will be destroyed, Department of Transportation Services director David Allen said.

“Well, we’re the Terrapins, and slow and steady wins the race,” Allen said. “So, even if everyone has to get to campus a little bit slower, then in a way we’re still really winning.”

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A new Amazon Headquarters will take the place of R.J. Bentley’s on Route 1 in College Park later this year, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced at a press

conference Friday.

After pulling out of plans to build a second headquarters in New York City, Amazon chose to buy out the popular drinking hotspot due to “its prime location along the most bustling street in College Park,” Bezos said.

As a sign of appreciation of Amazon’s generosity, University of Maryland President Wallace Loh announced that all Amazon employees and their families will receive free tuition. Employees will also be exempt from state and local income taxes, Mayor Patrick Wojahn said.

“I think adding some more business bros to the community will lessen the divide and tension between students and residents,” Wojahn said.

The owners of Bentley’s could not be reached for comment. Four former employees at the establishment, who spoke to The Diamondback on the condition of anonymity, said the owners purchased a yacht immediately after firing their entire staff and announced they would not be returning from sea for at least three months.

Loh held a meeting with Bezos before Amazon’s negotiations with Bentley’s owners.

“I wanted to be sure Bezos understood how important Bentley’s is to the University of Maryland community. It’s every freshman’s favorite bar,” Loh said. “He assured me that he was aware. It didn’t seem to bother him much. But he knew.”

Bezos couldn’t stop smiling and breaking into small bursts of sinister laughter throughout Friday’s press conference.

“I just couldn’t pass on College Park’s offer to be home to the newest Amazon HQ,” Bezos said. “This city has everything. By moving here, we can feed into gentrification and prey on all the vulnerable graduates looking for any paid work they can find.

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THE PROPOSED LAVENDER LINE would connect the University of Maryland to the city of Baltimore. image via google maps the proposed Lavender Line. Freshman business management major Matt Romney said he’ll miss swimming in the fountain at 2 a.m. after a trip to R.J. Bentley’s.

“One Saturday, I lost my grandfather’s prized watch when I was swimming there,” Romney said, wistfully.

“It’s all right, though — Saturdays are for the boys, after all.”

Mikey Dukakis, a librarian who has lived in a study carrel at McKeldin Library for the past 18 years, said he’s looking at his options, including Alloy

by Alta, Hornbake Library and a forced

triple in Wicomico Hall.

“I’m lucky College Park has so many affordable options for housing,” Dukakis said. “I’m glad a young professional like myself can live here comfortably!”

But some students at this university have voiced their support for the new construction.

“I was tired of having to Uber to Camden Yards every time I wanted to see the Orioles get their asses kicked,” senior history and journalism major Carl Fiorina said. “Thanks to UMD, I can watch Chris Davis get a Golden Sombrero much more often.”

public relations

UMD announces ‘Fearful Ideas’ campaign ‘Maryland has just been a little too risky this year,’ President Loh says of new fundraiser T h e Un ive rsity of Maryland launched its newest fundraisi n g ca m pa i g n , “Fearful Ideas,” on Friday, in what President Wallace Loh deemed a “very reasonable, cautious step forward.”

Loh made the announcement at a ceremony in Xfinity Center. Flanked

by Gov. Larry Hogan, Chancellor Robert Caret, Board of Regents Chairwoman Linda Gooden and other state officials, he told the crowd of about 20 people that “Maryland has just been a little too risky this year.”

“Before we start taking on these big societal problems that you see, like inby

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equality and climate change, we decided as a flagship institution that we should get our own problems sorted out,” Loh said. “We certainly have a lot of them.”

Among the campaign’s priorities are doubling the size of the university’s public relations staff, which Loh said would cost “somewhere around” $800,000, and prewriting press releases for future controversies. “[The releases are] like Mad Libs,” Loh said. “I think it will very much … streamline the process of apologizing for any other scandals that come up.”

Hogan said this was “just a logical step to take” after the “batshit crazy year” that the university had.

“I mean, just this year we had the

totally preventable death of a studentathlete and an entire dorm get evacuated,” Hogan said with a laugh. “God only knows what’s gonna happen next year!”

The other goals of the “Fearful Ideas” campaign include moderate improvements to campus life, such as eliminating all insects from the salad bars in campus dining halls and adding three more napping pods to McKeldin Library by 2022. “[Athletic director] Damon [Evans], he said to me, ‘Well, don’t you think we ought to aim a little higher?’” Loh said.

“And I said, ‘Well, Damon, as much as I admire your initiative, did you see what happened when we did?’”

“As a president, I have to think about these things holistically,” he added. “I just steer the ship, but I don’t want it to sink, and all.”

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VPDI wants to rebuild trust New university diversity officer set to start in June The University of Maryland’s newly chosen diversity and inclusion vice president plans to work on rebuilding trust between students and the administration and improving communication with marginalized groups.

But she isn’t sure yet what form those efforts would take.

Beginning in June, Georgina Dodge will head the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, reporting directly to university President Wallace Loh. Dodge, who was named to the post last week, currently serves as the chief diversity officer at Bucknell University.

Though Dodge laid out a general vision for the role and said she hoped to promote equity and understanding on the campus, she told The Diamondback she’d need to familiarize herself with the university before laying out any plans.

“It’s hard for me to speculate on what exactly might need to happen immediately,” she said.

For Loh, Dodge stood out from the other three candidates for her experience in a similar role at three other schools — Bucknell, the University of Iowa and Ohio State University — as well as her engagement with the surrounding community and her military service.

In Loh’s discussions with her colleagues at Ohio State, they described how she connected with the black community and urban areas in Columbus, Ohio, while she worked on “issues of health equity” and with public schools, he said.

“That adds a richness dimension that the others did not have,” Loh said.

The university has seen swift turnover at chief diversity officer, the position that the diversity and inclusion vice president will replace. Three people have served as CDO since its establishment in 2012. Two of them — Kumea Shorter-Gooden and Roger Worthington — have resigned.

The university announced its plans to create the elevated position in July 2017, shortly after the killing of 2nd Lt. Richard Collins on the campus.

Collins, a black Bowie State University student, was fatally stabbed in May 2017 while waiting for an Uber near Montgomery Hall. Police say Sean Urbanski — the white former student at this university who is awaiting trial on murder and hate crime charges in the killing — was a member of a white supremacist Facebook group named Alt-Reich: Nation.

Prior to Collins’ death, a noose had been found hanging in a fraternity house, and racist posters were discovered across the campus. The problems have by

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‘kind of lonely’ members of friends of ellen, a student group for lesbians, created the group as a safe discussion space for lesbians to connect and chat with each other.

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UMD students’ group for lesbians is struggling to gain official recognition Victoria Ebner | @victoria_ebner | Staff writer When Mags Hansen arrived at the University of Maryland this past fall, she made friends as any other freshman would. She met people on her floor in Prince Frederick Hall. She talked to others in her theater class.

But she still felt that something separated her from her new friends — her sexuality.

“A lot of my friends are queer women, but they’re not specifically lesbian,” said Hansen, a mechanical engineering and theatre major. “It’s kind of lonely being the only lesbian in the group.”

In September, Hansen began attending meetings for Women2Women, a group open to queer women of all orientations and identities.

Still, Hansen and other lesbians — women who are solely attracted to other women — wanted a place that was exclusively their own. So in November, they started working with the Pride Alliance to create Friends of Ellen — a group that would be a safe discussion space for lesbian students to connect and chat with each other.

But after about three months of email communication with the Pride Alliance and the LGBT Equity Center — where the group had hoped to meet — Hansen said they were turned down from becoming an official organization within the Pride Alliance, and it wasn’t entirely clear why.

In a March 3 email, the Pride Alliance told Paula Molina Acosta, a member of Friends of Ellen, that it was not interested in adding the lesbian discussion group to its programming.

“Our goal right now is to strengthen the groups we have been working with and to ensure that these groups continue to be sustainable and fruitful,” wrote Pride Alliance president Maria Aragon.

Aside from Women2Women, the Pride Alliance

See dodge, p. 3

hosts groups for LGBT men, asexual and aromantic students, bisexual students and transgender students. They also announced a group for intersex students in a Feb. 26 email circulated by the Equity Center.

Since receiving the rejection email, Friends of Ellen’s roughly 15 members have been bouncing from location to location to hold informal meetings.

They’re now exploring holding meetings within the women’s studies department.

But another group member, McCauley Brown, met with LGBT Equity Center associate director Shige Sakurai on March 25. Sakurai said the center is still open to hosting group meetings for Friends of Ellen even if they don’t get recognized by the Pride Alliance.

“We haven’t told this group that they can’t be hosted here. In fact, the conversations have been that we can explore that,” Sakurai said Wednesday of their conversation with Brown. “I’m excited that they are starting this group.”

Sakurai noted, however, that before being able to reserve space in the Equity Center, student groups typically are asked to gain recognition from the Student Government Association or the Student Organization Resource Center — something Friends of Ellen members said they’re not currently interested in.

“We will be, in the future, hopefully working with women’s studies or with SORC in order to be recognized by the school. It’s not a current priority because we’ve gotten a little tired of dealing with all this stuff,” Hansen said.

Regardless, the group is still confused over why they were turned down as an official group within the Pride Alliance, which could have allowed them

See ellen, p. 8

greek life

Students want stricter sexual assault prevention reqs Greek chapters only have to send 35% of members to one event a year When Univers i ty o f Maryland student Deirdre Kelly joined the Delta Gamma sorority, she was excited to be part of a community of women she might not have otherwise met on the campus — but she didn’t foresee some of the tough conversations she’d have with her fellow members about sexual assault.

“You think, ‘Oh, this isn’t going to happen to me,’” said Kelly, a freshman government and politics major. “Then you start talking to people … where by

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something has happened to them, and you’re like, ‘Wait.’”

Kelly said she valued and learned from the discussions she had at sexual assault prevention events. But she was shocked to learn that the Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life requires fraternity and sorority chapters to have just 35 percent of their members attend one such event each year.

Lola Taiwo, DFSL’s sexual assault and violence prevention coordinator, said the requirement is set at below half attendance to accommodate members’ schedules and set a bare minimum for one event.

“My new member class was Chapters self-report their doing what they need to do,” added, the 35 percent requireattendance data to DFSL. If Taiwo said. “Our job isn’t to ment is “enough to permeate 50 girls, and there are 100-plus their culture.” they don’t reach the thresh- monitor the individual.”

Kelly disagrees.

With most groups, Taiwo old, they’re considered not See assault, p. 8 to be in good standing with the department, which could lead to probation or other consequences.

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By Jeff Barnes | @thejeff barnes | Senior staff writer University of Maryland Police responded to reports of vandalism, theft, fraud and a CDS violation last week, according to daily crime logs.

VANDALISM On Tuesday at about 6:40 p.m., University Police responded to the front lobby of Tydings Hall for a report of hate bias-related vandalism.

A female student reported “language targeting Caucasians” scratched into a coffee table, police spokesperson Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas wrote in an email. It is not clear how long the language had been there, she wrote.

Facilities Management was notified to remove the writing.

This case is active.

BICYCLE THEFTS University Police responded to two reported bicycle thefts on Tuesday, and another on Thursday.

At about 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, police responded to Garrett Hall, where a female student reported that her bike and cable lock were stolen sometime between March 16 and Tuesday, Hoaas wrote.

Later that night, at about 8:45 p.m., police responded to a bicycle theft at Harford Hall, where a male student reported that his bike was stolen sometime that day between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., Hoaas wrote.

On Thursday, at about 6:30 p.m., police responded

DODGE From p. 1 continued in the years since — ODI’s online log shows 22 reported hate bias incidents so far this academic year.

“I know that events of that nature have long-term significance and have a true impact on people,” Dodge said. “So ensuring that we allow adequate space for healing is important.”

But she said she wasn’t comfortable outlining ideas to address the campus’ concerns, and didn’t know what the community’s needs would be until she starts her job in June.

“My focus will really be on listening to people when I

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A male student reported that his bike was stolen sometime between noon and 6:30 p.m. that day.

The tire and lock were left behind, Hoaas wrote.

In all three cases, police are reviewing video surveillance of the areas.

All three cases are active.

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FRAUD On Tuesday at about 1 a.m., University Police responded to South Campus Commons 7 for reported fraud.

A female student purchased a ticket to an event from someone she did not know online, Hoaas wrote.

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Pol ice adv ised the student to contact her bank for stop payment options, Hoaas wrote.

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CDS VIOLATION On Sunday, at about 8:45 p.m., University Police responded to Hagerstown Hall for a CDS violation.

An officer recovered a small amount of marijuana from the room, Hoaas wrote.

The student received a citation for possession of fewer than 10 grams of marijuana.

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arrive,” she said.

Ayesha Amsa, a member of the Student Government Association’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, said she was glad Dodge would take time to communicate with students before launching her efforts, but she hoped the office would be quick to implement substantive policies.

“I think it’s important to have some sort of timeline,” said Amsa, a sophomore public policy major. “It’s really good that she’s going to listen to students and hear our concerns — but after that, then what?”

Amid a 25-year low in black freshman enrollment, Amsa said she hoped Dodge would commit to recruiting minor-

ity students to come to this university, and focus on adequately funding units such as the Nyumburu Cultural Center and the LGBT Equity Center.

Maria Aragon, president of this university’s Pride Alliance, hopes ODI will have stronger and more immediate responses to hate bias incidents under Dodge — something they felt has been lacking.

“I think what’s really important — and kind of a really good stepping stone — is always to acknowledge the shortcomings of the office beforehand,” Aragon said.

In November, an external review of ODI’s policies laid out widespread distrust See dodge, p. 8

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Earlier this semester, the Department of Resident Life held a discussion wiht transgender students following the department’s repeated failures on transgender issues. Topics such as bathroom usage, nonbinary inclusion and general support were covered.

It’s good to have these discussions — everyday life, much less life in a dorm, can be difficult for transgender students.

Choosing which bathroom to use, for example, comes with complex and often invalidating questions of identity for transgender people, both those who fit into the gender binary and those who don’t.

Housing and roommate options can also be difficult to navigate. To assure their safety, transgender students must find an accepting and respectful roommate, which can be especially difficult as a freshman or transfer student with few or no prior relationships at the university.

In recent years, this university has attempted to alleviate these issues in some spaces, both with this panel and other movements toward trans-inclusiveness. Genderinclusive housing in dorms and on-campus apartments allow students of any gender identity to live together and share a private bathroom. However, as with any such system, several important issues remained unsolved.

Several of my friends — whose observations about Resident Life in part sparked the idea to host theaforementioned discussion — live in Hagerstown Hall and are

members of the University Honors living-learning program. Hagerstown, like most North Campus dorms, does not offer gender-inclusive housing. Coming in as transgender, first-semester freshmen, they all had difficult decisions to make: Should they choose a living-learning program without accommodations, or assured safety and comfort in gender-inclusive housing?

This isn’t a decision any student should have to make.

As Resident Life boasts, “students who participate as members of [living-learning programs] have higher retention and graduation rates and report higher satisfaction with their undergraduate experience at Maryland.”

Living-learning programs allow students to build communities both inside and outside the classroom and form friendships with classmates — something that can be hard to do on a large campus.

Although many programs allow students to participate in the academic endeavors of the program without living in the community, the living situation is, as indicated in the name, half of the experience.

By not offering the appropriate housing option, many transgender people need to feel safe and secure, trans students may find themselves excluded or put into unsafe situations to participate in these programs.

Only four of the 15 dorms that house living-learning programs have gender-inclusive housing, covering only five programs out of the 18 currently offered at this university. While 10 of these dorms host mixed-gender housing,

this option solves neither the bathroom nor the roommate issues a transgender identity can bring, despite being touted as a good option for transgender students. This leaves the BioFIRE, Carillon Communities, CIVICUS, Flexus, Global Communities, Gemstone, Honors Humanities, some University Honors, Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House, Language House and Vitrus programs without genderinclusive housing options.

I’ll be honest: I don’t have a cohesive solution to all of these problems. Many dorms don’t have the infrastructure to build single-user bathrooms on every floor, and everyone should have the option to live in traditional or mixedgender housing if they prefer.

However, gender-inclusive housing requires no construction (if redefined to exclude a mandatory private bathroom).

Resident Life could designate floors or parts of floors to be gender-inclusive, but they choose not to.

For a university that champions its pursuits in diversity and inclusion, the lack of widely available trans-friendly housing is not an issue that should be ignored. While the current emphasis on issues like pronoun awareness and inclusive language in dorms are a great step in the right direction, fundamental issues such as housing remain, and arguably impact transgender students lives more directly.

To meet its stated goal of inclusivity, Resident Life needs to correct its lack of attention to safe and secure housing for trans people.

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ship opportunities and attendance within smaller chapters, these arguments aren’t strong enough to excuse exempting up to 65 percent of Greek life from sexual assault training. If the university’s Greek life administrators are worried about taking away leadership opportunities by creating stricter mandates for sexual assault prevention training, then they might want to think about the leaders they’re creating.

There’s no real reason the attendance requirement shouldn’t be increased.

Members of fraternities and sororities have spoken about how this training has opened their eyes to problematic behavior, proving these trainings aren’t empty gestures. This could contribute to a great shift in Greek life culture, but that won’t happen unless the entire Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life commits wholeheartedly to this mission.

This also feeds into a larger conversation about the university’s inability to adequately address sexual assault on campus. During 2017-18, there were more reports of sexual misconduct and fewer

Students should criticize SGA president for AIPAC speech OLIVIA DELAPLAINE @ODelaplaine Columnist

What could have been a relaxing spring break for student leaders at the University of Maryland unfortunately turned into another episode of conflict between student activists and the Student Government Association. SGA President Jonathan Allen spoke at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference Sunday, the largest meeting of pro-Israel politicians, lobbyists and donors in the U.S. Countless essays and articles have been written enumerating the reasons that AIPAC is destructive. In short, AIPAC uses its outsized financial influence and power as a lobbying organization to silence legitimate criticism of Israel and the atrocities it commits against the Palestinian people.

Given the prevalence of anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S. and the recent violence in New Zealand and Gaza, supporting an organization that spreads public mistrust of pro-Palestinian and Muslim activists feels deeply hurtful.

After this university’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and Political Latinxs United for Movement and Action in Society called out Allen on Twitter, Allen clarified on Twitter that he was “speaking/representing [his] own views on the US-Israel relationship,” not those of the SGA or the student body. Though he issued a clarifying statement before he spoke, his name was still listed under the title “Student Body President, University of Maryland” on the list of AIPAC speakers.

If Allen, an elected leader whose name is inextricably linked to his position as a representative of the student body, chose to speak at the conference after hearing student criticism, it’s perfectly understandable that SJP would feel like their voices were being ignored. Allen has a right to speak at the conference, but his

decision to do so went against the values of much of the university community.

It can sometimes feel frustrating to spend so much time and energy discussing what appears to be a distant problem when there are other, seemingly more pressing issues on the campus. But personally, as a student leader and activist, I’ve learned so much from both the successes and the failures of the movement for Palestinian liberation spearheaded

by SJP. While SJP activists have been criticized for being uncivil and divisive, in my experience they’ve been more than civil — they’ve elevated their cause while showing remarkable grace under disproportionately harsh pressure from entrenched institutional forces.

They’ve brought forward a resolution to the SGA to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which advocates nonviolent economic tactics to shed light on the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. They’ve demonstrated peacefully at Israel Fest.

They’ve been unafraid to use social media, letter-writing and die-in demonstrations to make clear that they won’t accept complacence in the face of atrocities.

Though it’s frustrating to face unresponsive SGA leaders, the resilience displayed by SJP, PLUMAS and other activist groups makes me hopeful. With threats of white supremacy and fascism looming large around the world, there is much that we must work together on to change.

Keeping those shared goals in mind, SJP was right to challenge Allen on his decision. They and other student activists should continue pressuring Allen and any other elected officials who they disagree with. Bold activist tactics will help us all in the struggle for liberation — Allen and the SGA would do well to remember that. odelaplaine15@gmail.com

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Greek life sexual assault training should be mandatory Greek life — along with college as a whole — is a hotbed for sexual assault. Multiple studies have found that fraternity members are far more likely to commit rape than their non-Greek counterparts. The University of Maryland’s Greek life chapters train their members in sexual assault prevention, but only 35 percent of a chapter’s members are required to attend one meeting annually.

Ideally, all of a chapter’s members should be required to participate in this training if they want to remain in the fraternity or sorority. This isn’t a pie-in-the-sky expectation.

The university’s Greek life sexual assault and violence prevention coordinator Lola Taiwo argued the 35 percent attendance rule is enough to disseminate messages about sexual assault throughout each chapter. Yet it seems unlikely that a small group of people are going back to their chapter and teaching everyone else about the issue.

Additionally, while there are concerns about leader-

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investigations than previous years. Though the university consistently claims to support its students and condemns acts that threaten their safety, its policy-makers aren’t backing those claims with effective measures. There needs to be a multifaceted approach to sexual assault on this campus, with a particular focus on Greek life due to the higher incidences of sexual assault.

There needs to be sweeping changes to the way sexual assault training and awareness work on this campus. The first step is to require all Greek life members to attend trainings to remain in their chapters.

Eventually, sexual assault training should be extended to all students, similar to the way that alcohol education is mandatory for students before attending this university.

Ultimately, the hope is to eradicate sexual assault, which seems more like a dream than an achievable reality. But it’s the mindset that sexual assault is an experience inherent to college life that prevents change. Let’s change that. jasminebaten137@gmail.com

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Not many businesses are committed to the values of social justice and sustainability. The Maryland Food Co-op at the University of Maryland is one such business — but it’s been operating at a loss for several years, and it’s set to close at the end of the semester.

For the Co-op to remain open in the Stamp Student Union, the university should subsidize it. It matters now more than ever that we support companies and businesses that stand for the right values.

To stave off its impending closure, the Co-op recently formed the Solidarity Co-op initiative, in which customers can get special discounts and other perks for $10 a month. This offers students and community members a way to aid the Co-op, and I would encourage anyone who supports it to join.

The Co-op is open about its support of environmental health and social activism, and it stands for values that this university often fails to uphold. The Co-op is also democratically owned and operated, meaning that workers make all policies and decisions themselves. Subsidizing the Co-op would be a way for this university to offer support of those practices as well.

In contrast to the other food options in Stamp, the Co-op provides a refreshing example of a business with ethical and compassionate practices. Chick-fil-A, to pick the most egregious example, is notorious for its contributions to antiLGBT organizations, and its refusal to implement explicit policies against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

While ideally the university wouldn’t support Chick-fil-A by allowing it to operate on campus, that’s an unpopular position. Still, the school can counter Chick-fil-A’s hateful policies and ideology by supporting an honest and moral business like the Co-op.

There are practical reasons to subsidize the Co-op as well. It offers a wider range of freshly made vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options than any other place in Stamp. Without the Co-op, vegan students are limited to eating salads or prepackaged meals from the Union Shop.

The Co-op adds much-needed variety to the options available in Stamp, most of which are unhealthy fast food.

The Co-op has to adhere to a noncompetition clause, which prevents it from selling food that’s too similar to options in the food court. This puts the Co-op at a significant disadvantage, and when coupled with its basement location, it makes it easy to forget it’s even in Stamp. The Stamp social media accounts do a decent job of publicizing the Co-op, but it’s not enough. There needs to be more Stamp-supported Co-op signage and advertising in the food court itself.

As a community, we should come together to support a business that actually supports us. The Co-op has been a part of this campus for more than 40 years and is loved by many because it stands for good at a time when we are surrounded by corporate greed. This university should subsidize the Co-op because it embodies the values, ideals and practices that we should stand by. liyanga.a.ds@gmail.com

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College Park raises fine for illegal dumping City officials hope the statemaximum fine will help curb bulk item littering in public places.

Illegal dumping in College Park @carmenmolina_a c o u l d n o w cost offendStaff writer ers $1,000 per violation — the maximum allowed by state law — after the city council voted unanimously Tuesday to increase the fine.

The penalty seeks to target people who dump in creeks and wooded areas by trails — the areas where tires, mattresses and kitchen appliances are commonly left.

Although city manager Scott Somers said the new fine could apply to something as small as a candy wrapper, the main focus of the ordinance would be to curb bulk item dumping. “ T h i s i s re a l l y a b o u t by

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dumping, let’s be honest,” said District 3 Councilman John Rigg. “We’re are being told by our public works staff that there are various hotspots for dumping in our city.”

City staff plans to warn residents of the fine by placing signs at sites where trash is dumped regularly, as well as potentially installing surveillance cameras to catch perpetrators.

Under the new penalty, any and all violations can be fined at the maximum $1,000. This is a 1,900 percent increase from the previous $50 fine for first-time offenses and $100 for subsequent violations within six months.

During the public hearing for the ordinance, two residents expressed concerns

Oscar Gregory, a College Park resident, speaks against the Council’s motions on dumping fines at the City Council meeting on March 26th,2019 Richard Moglen/the diamondback that the city hadn’t considered other alternatives before proposing the $1,000 penalty.

“This punishment does not fit the crime,” said Oscar Gregory, a District 4 resident.

“Why is this city council considering such lazy, archaic and punitive measures when the best approach is to have the offending party or parties work community service, picking up trash and making a difference?”

District 3 resident Carol Nezzo agreed that the fine seemed drastic.

“What’s the history of developing this plan?” she said.

“What are the alternatives?

How do other people do this?”

Some council members, like District 4 Councilwoman Denise Mitchell, empathized with concerns about the harshness of the new fine, but said it was necessary.

“Usually I would say ‘no,’ because of the size and the amount of the fee,” she said. “[But] people need to adhere to a policy, and giving them a strong warning the first time may help to limit the possibility of a possible recurrence.”

Junior economics and government and politics major Alex Melinchok, who lives

off-campus in Calvert Hills, said before the meeting that she was shocked by the new $1,000 fine, since she hasn’t seen much trash in the areas she passes through.

“That’s so high — that’s crazy,” Melinchok said. “I feel like they should maybe pursue other avenues, because a thousand dollars is ridiculous — especially for students.”

District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan expressed support for Gregory’s suggestion of community service, which city attorney Suellen Ferguson clarified would have to be pursued through the court

system.

However, Ferguson agreed that city staff could advocate in those cases for the offender to perform community service as an alternative, or in exchange for a reduced fee.

“At the end of the day, we want people to be connected to the city and the issues that are here, and ultimately we want to remove the problem, gain compliance with the problem, and not just collect a fee for the sake of fees,” Brennan said. “This is just another tool in our toolbox.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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2020 College Park Census may not be fully representative Lack of student response might skew data, officials said at first Complete Count Committee meeting

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Lack of student inCarmen Molina volvement Acosta @carmenmolina_a and a potential immigration Staff writer status question are among the biggest obstacles to an accurate 2020 census in College Park, the city’s Complete Count Committee said at its first meeting Thursday.

Kacy Rohn, the city’s community development coordinator, said the committee hopes it will be able to cut through the Census Bureau’s confusing process and provide the community with resources to increase the city’s count.

“It’s very clear that it’s definitely an imperfect system,” she said.

The council appointed the 10-member committee in November to increase College Park’s census response rate after notably low numbers in 2010. The Complete Count Committee is part of a larger Census Bureau program that aims to reach undercounted populations.

College Park had a response rate of 72.5 percent, 4 percentage points lower than that of Prince George’s County and 6.8 points lower than the national rate. The census territory with the lowest total response rate in the city — 49 percent — includes the University of Maryland.

“It’s not just the campus that has responded at a low rate,” Rohn said. “While that 49 percent really stands out as being the lowest, we’re fairly low across the board, so there’s certainly a lot of room for improvement going into 2020.”

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In 2010, a similar committee was established but started meeting informally only a few months out from the census date, meaning they had a limited success, Rohn said.

Among the committee’s top concerns Thursday was how to involve students, since they should be counted in the city of College Park while attending school whether they live there on or off-campus, even if they go back to their parents’ homes for breaks and vacations, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. However, census officials find that students are often counted in with their parents, said community engagement office director Gloria Aparicio Blackwell.

Melissa Sites of the College Park Arts Exchange said the city could use online platforms to involve young people in the count.

“People are really linked in with social media,” she said. “It doesn’t always have to be Facebook — it can be other things as well.”

Committee members considered recruiting student volunteers for outreach methods and potential help centers as well as targeting them through social media and working with the university — which has two representatives on the committee.

The committee also hopes to recruit a student member.

Though the resolution that created the committee outlined an ideal of including two student members, Rohn said they were unable to find someone willing to commit to the role for a year.

“I think it’s a civic engagement responsibility,” said Blackwell. “So I think we really need to rally the students.”

Committee members also expressed concerns about the

potential inclusion of a citizenship question, which could dissuade immigrant residents from responding regardless of status.

In January, a New York judged ruled against the addition of the citizenship question, which the Trump administration sent to the Court of Appeals. However, because of the time-sensitive nature of the ruling, the case has gone straight the Supreme Court, which will begin hearing arguments April 23.

Workers in the Census Bureau take a confidentiality oath not to share identifying information with the government, and it’s illegal to release information that would identify individuals or families, Rohn said.

But committee members’ concerns aren’t unfounded, Blackwell argued, since information from the 1940 census was found to have been used in targeting Japanese families for internment camps.

Rohn agreed that regardless of the court’s decision, and whether the question is included, the damage has been done.

“Either way, the fear has already been planted in people, and no matter what the Supreme Court decides, this is still an issue that we’re going to have to address,” Rohn said. “I don’t think there’s any way to erase that.”

The committee applied for a $38,000 grant from the Maryland Department of Planning, which would be used to fund general promotional activity and a census community organizer position. The amount is almost three times what the proposed budget for College Park’s fiscal year plans to allocate and will be announced Monday. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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electric cars can charge at over 17 stations across campus. Many of them are located in Mowatt Lane Garage or close to Eppley Recreation Center. Many car owners leave their car in the spaces for the entire day, which DOTS is trying to change.

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Electric car charging locations are not being used properly The university has over 30 charging spots across 17 locations to the lack of charging space availability on the campus. The survey asked drivers if policies should be implemented to either force drivers to vacate spaces once their vehicle is charged, or require them to pay the standard $3 an hour university parking rate.

“Where we landed with that was that nobody wanted to see additional policy,” said Cara Fleck Plewinski, a DOTS spokesperson.

In October, the department added additional signs around charging stations in October, reminding drivers to be “thoughtful” and “courteous of other [electric vehicle] drivers,” Fleck Plewinski said.

“We would love to have more pumps, and when our budget allows, it is certainly something that we would consider implementing,” she said. “But given our desire to encourage people to practice thoughtful electric vehicle parking, we want to see if that actually resolves the situation before we move toward implementing policy or purchasing more pumps.”

If the issue isn’t resolved by the end of the year, the department will “have to reassess and determine if we do need to implement more policy,” Fleck Plewinski said.

In 2017, the university released its updated climate action plan, which aims for

Eve ry morning, Samantha Subin @samantha_subin David Allen drives his 2017 Staff writer Chevrolet Volt to the University of Maryland.

But once he gets onto the campus, even Allen — the director of the university’s Department of Transportation Services — has difficulty finding a parking space to charge his car.

“If you’re not here by 9 o’clock in the morning, you’re not going to find one,” he said.

The university has more than 30 electric charging spaces across 17 stations. Many of them are located in Mowatt Lane Garage, or near Eppley Recreation Center. But many electric car owners leave their vehicles in these spaces for the entire day, even when they’re done charging, Allen said.

“I would say by noon, three-fourths of the charging stations that have cars parked there aren’t even charging,” he added. “That’s what we’re trying to wrestle with — how to either incentivize people to move, or require them to move once their car is charged.”

Using an on-campus electric car charger is free, but typical parking charges — for permits, or hourly rates — are supposed to apply.

In 2018, DOTS shared a survey with electric vehicle owners to help find a solution by

the school to have 43 electric vehicle spaces by 2020, 64 by 2025 and 93 by 2040.

Winter Spray, owner of a 2012 Nissan Leaf, also said charging on the campus can be difficult with limited spaces.

The junior communication major often plugs her car in when she’s visiting the library or the gym.

“I absolutely love my car,” Spray said. “It’s just the disproportionate amount of car chargers on campus that can be annoying, even though I’ve figured out a system that works for me personally.”

Michael Mckeon, a sophomore psychology and women studies major, rarely runs into charging trouble with his Toyota Prius. Many Prius models run on batteries that charge themselves.

“It’s one of the beautiful things about a Prius,” Mckeon said. “From what I’ve heard

through the grapevine, I think UMD is doing a decent job.”

While the university is grappling with a lack of charging ports, the city of College Park is satisfied with what it has.

The city currently has charging stations near Davis

others on city property,” said Kacy Rohn, the city’s community development coordinator.

“It’s not something that I personally have been getting a lot of questions about.”

More than 360,000 electric vehicles were sold in the United

Although Allen hopes to see additional electric charging stations on the campus in the future, for now it is a “courtesy” rather than a responsibility of the university.

“We have looked into some possible sites, but the thought

“If you’re not here by 9 o’clock in the morning, you’re not going to find [an electric charging spot].”

- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES DIRECTOR DAVID ALLEN

Hall and in the city parking garage. An electric charging station with two to four pumps is currently under construction at MOM’s Organic Market in the Hollywood Shopping Center, and is expected to be complete by the end of the year.

“At this point, we don’t have any further plans to add any

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Dodge said she hoped to improve communication From p. 3 with students address those between students and the feelings.

“It’s important to acadministration, which its a u t h o rs c o n c l u d e d wa s knowledge that distrust, and “evolving into suspicion re- to admit that — for many garding the administration’s marginalized people — that commitment to diversity.” distrust comes honestly,”

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A three-page statement sent to The Diamondback on From p. 1 Wednesday from the Pride Alto take advantage of the liance offered some clarity as organization’s advertising to why Friends of Ellen wasn’t and other resources. Hansen granted recognition.

“In many ways, the decision said that they received mixed to not host [Friends of Ellen] messages.

she said. “That distrust has been well-earned.”

D o d ge ’s p o s i t i o n w i l l re p l a ce t h a t o f Cy n t h i a E d mu nd s, who has he ld the interim CDO role since Worthington stepped down from it last summer.

In a message, Worthing-

ton wrote that he’s known Dodge for “many years” and has “great respect for her credentials and expertise.”

At a meeting of the Black Faculty and Staff Association in August, Worthington harshly criticized the a d m i n i s t ra t i o n a n d t h e

Office of Strategic Communications for stifling his ability to have honest conversations with students and staff during his time as interim CDO. Dodge, who said she wasn’t aware of Worthington’s comments, pledged to

work to “establish as many collaborative relationships as possible” between ODI and other campus units.

“It will be an ongoing project,” she said. “But I believe it can be accomplished.”

is rooted in interpersonal conflicts,” Aragon wrote in the statement. “In particular, one of the founders and facilitators of this would-be lesbian discussion made transphobic and biphobic comments which made others feel excluded

from Pride Alliance affinity spaces.”

Stella Hurtt, a sophomore aerospace engineering major who is in Friends of Ellen, said she is upset the Pride Alliance has given different reasons as to why it rejected them.

Even if the organizations did have an issue with one member, she added, it was unfair of them to dismiss the entire group because of that.

“I don’t think it’s responsible to lie to the community you should be serving,” she said. “I

don’t want them to take away the potential for lesbian community building just because they have an issue with one person in a school of 25,000.”

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ASSAULT From p. 1 girls in our sorority. Thirtyfive isn’t a large amount of them, and for some people, it may not really resonate what the message is unless you’re all there,” she said. “You don’t really think about it until you’re there and someone is telling you the facts.”

Some Greek life groups are taking it upon themselves to make sexual assault prevention a focus of their chapter.

Members of the Chi Phi fraternity guide all new members through the “Ten-Man Plan,” a nine-week program created

by DFSL and CARE to Stop Violence. In this program, new members meet weekly to discuss issues such as by-

stander intervention, healthy relationships and sexual assault prevention.

While some chapters are taking these extra steps, students say there are plenty of chapters that are not.

Lizzie Mafrici, vice president of student group Preventing Sexual Assault, said it can be difficult for DFSL to regulate chapters when there are such varying levels of enthusiasm about attending these events.

“There are some chapters who have been able to pass the expectations and take things seriously … but it’s also sad that some chapters still struggle to get 35 percent of their members there,” said Mafrici, a sophomore public policy and women’s studies major.

This university’s Office of

Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct declined to comment on the requirements.

Taiwo said she worries DFSL micromanaging attendance policies would take leadership opportunities away from the chapters.

And with a stricter attendance requirement, smaller chapters — such as those with 10 or fewer members — might not even try to meet it, Taiwo said.

After going through the training, Brandon Tsou said he noticed a lot more offensive conduct, especially when he was out at bars.

“Going through TMP opens up your eyes a lot,” said Tsou, a junior aerospace engineering major and Chi Phi member.

Sexual assault prevention

programming became mandatory part of chapter expectations in 2015, along with hazing prevention, alcohol and drug education and diversity and inclusion required programs, Supple said.

Since 2008, the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association have required 20 percent of members to attend sexual assault prevention programs during Homecoming and Greek Week matchups, he added.

Fraternity and sorority members are required to engage in additional training, on top of what is required of all incoming students at this university, because they are more likely to be victims or perpetrators of sexual assault, according to a report from the the University

of Maryland Sexual Assault Prevention Task Force.

A 2009 study from Jacqueline Chevalier Minow of the United Way of America and Christopher Einolf of DePaul University found that women in sororities were four times as likely as non-sorority members to report sexual assaults.

Brandon Ferrell, a member of Chi Phi, said mandating attendance at these events would get people involved who may not think they need to be educated on the issue.

He said there’s a prevalent attitude among fraternity members of, “I’m a good person, I don’t need the training,” which can inhibit them from learning valuable lessons about preventing sexual assault.

“A lot of stuff, you just

wouldn’t think about without going through [training],” said Ferrell, a junior computer science major.

Rachel Colonomos, president of PSA, has also seen how influential that training can be through coordinating countless sexual assault prevention events in her capacity. She called the attendance requirement “unacceptable.”

“We know firsthand the impact that these prevention events and activities can have on students who may not have even know what sexual assault was before them,” Colonomos, a senior hearing and speech sciences major, wrote in an email. “[W]e sincerely believe that they should be mandatory for all students in Greek Life to attend more than once.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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“kiss-in” protests erupted at Chick-fil-A chains across the company as backlash against the company’s stance on same-sex marriage . photo via youtube

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hick-fil-A is back under fire for its notorious anti-LGBT stances. Last week, ThinkProgress reported that the corporation’s charitable leg, the Chick-fil-A Foundation, donated more than $1 million to groups with anti-LGBT values in 2017.

This is not entirely shocking: Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy publicly stated his opposition to samesex marriage in 2012. The company as a whole is openly rooted in Christian values — made obvious by its famous “closed on Sundays” rule.

Despite this knowledge of Chickfil-A’s anti-LGBT history, and the social media backlash that often follows news of its donation records, the fast-food franchise is still incredibly popular — it made more than $10 billion in revenue in 2018,

according to its website.

The University of Maryland’s Chick-fil-A Express, located in the Stamp Student Union food court, opened in 2002. It’s “the most popular outlet in the food court by far,” in terms of both customers and sales, according to Joe Mullineaux, Dining Services’ senior associate director.

Mullineaux wrote in an email that this particular Chick-fil-A Express location employs more than 60 people and, based on research and industry trends, no other quick service restaurant would “fit into that space and come anywhere near” serving as many guests each day.

William Kleyman, a sophomore aerospace engineering major, said he wasn’t aware of Chick-fil-A’s

history of donating to anti-LGBT groups. But he said that learning about it doesn’t change his thoughts on the company.

“I mean, I just eat at Chick-fil-A for the food,” he said. “Their policies don’t really change how their food tastes.”

Junior economics major Nicky Motazedi was also unaware of Chick-fil-A’s donation history, but he said he knew the founders of Chick-fil-A are “very heavy church people,” so the information didn’t surprise him.

“It’s a company’s choice,” Motazedi said. “I like the product, and I’m not a political person, so I don’t like to be involved in those things.”

Mullineaux noted it would be difficult to replace Chick-fil-A Express in Stamp. He said sales and guests

counts would have to decrease by 65 percent for the restaurant to be considered “no longer viable to operate,” and the replacement process would cost the university about $400,000.

“The [Chick-fil-A] in the Stamp continues to increase sales year after year, while several of the other locations in the food court are experiencing decreases in both guest counts and sales,” he said.

Jasmine Akhtar, a sophomore physiology and neurobiology major, said she eats at Chick-fil-A Express because it accepts Dining Dollars. She said she’s aware of the company’s anti-LGBT history, and doesn’t eat there when she’s away from school.

Akhtar considers herself an ally to the LGBT community, someone

who cares about social issues but isn’t very vocal about her beliefs.

She said others like her, who eat at the chain despite their progressive beliefs, “probably just think they’re so minuscule in the grand scheme of things that it doesn’t matter, and they enjoy Chick-fil-A.” Motazedi said he doesn’t personally know anyone who makes an effort to boycott Chick-fil-A, even though he knows people who disagree with the restaurant’s politics.

Despite this, he understands why some folks may consider leaving the company behind.

“If that’s something strong to them, all the power to them to support whatever they believe in,” he said.

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culture

Not so Here’s why you should stop wearing the famous and flawed streetwear brand.

By Evan Haynos | @evanhaynos | Staff writer

supreme’s logo is a frequently imitated, unmistakable status symbol, with pproduct prices often soaring well into the hundreds or thousands. photo and graphic via youtube

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hether you care about fashion or not, you’re probably familiar with Supreme and its unmistakably simple logo.

The red rectangle and white Futura lettering has become, if nothing else, a symbol of coolness. And although this easily obtainable status symbol may seem irresistible, Supreme isn’t worth buying or wearing. Here’s why.

it’s expensive Price is probably the first line of defense stopping consumers from purchasing the logo-branded apparel. Supreme is laughably expensive. Because its website has limited items for sale, it’s hard to give an exact estimate of how much you’d have to pay for, say, a simple white tee with the red logo, but the T-shirts they currently offer start at $48, and you’d likely pay over $100 on any resale site.

These resale sites — like Grailed and StockX — are where prices sky-

rocket from expensive to outrageous. No one, much less college students, should be dishing out $375 for a hoodie, $388 for a director’s chair or $2,650 for a Louis Vuitton collaboration wallet.

Supreme believes that slapping its logo on unusual items like a crowbar or a dog food bowl makes them more valuable.

it’s not what skateboarding culture is supposed to be about Supreme was founded as a skate brand that aimed to merge luxury brands with traditional, blue-collar skating brands — and it succeeded.

It’s grown from a small shop on Lafayette Street in New York to the biggest name in streetwear and skate fashion.

In 2017, Supreme showed the world how far it has come when The Carlyle Group purchased 50 percent of the company for $500 million, effectively giving the brand a value of $1 billion. Who

is the Carlyle Group, you might ask? A fashion conglomerate?

A group of former skaters and streetwear culture enthusiasts?

No, the Carlyle Group is an investment firm that has $216 billion in assets.

The Carlyle Group has its hand in dozens of companies, but none more intriguing than its stake in WESCO — which, through a contract with BAE Systems, is producing jets that Saudi Arabia is using to bomb Yemen. Sure, this venture is a few corporate ladder rungs from Supreme, but now that Carlyle owns half of Supreme, it’s impossible for the fashion brand to completely distance itself.

Skating culture isn’t about selling out to billionaires who are making money off the war in Yemen. It’s a culture and sport founded around self-expression — and snubbing your nose at those in positions of power.

it’s not as creative as you think

dish out triple digits for a T-shirt, then there are plenty of other brands to support.

Stüssy, a streetwear company that Supreme founder James Jebbia used to work with, is one of the most respectable brands right now, and its cursive signature logo is always being repurposed in different designs. The Shepard Fairey-founded clothing company Obey is famous for its propagandalike designs. You can find similar types of simple block lettering and single color designs that Supreme employs in Obey’s catalog.

Of course, I can’t actually stop people from buying Supreme. If you have the money and interest, then why should anyone stand in you could be supporting other, the way? But at least now, when you put on that pricey T-shirt, better brands Part of fashion is buying into you’ll know the history of the brand trends, sure, but it’s also about you’re supporting. making your own independent and creative decisions. If you like diversionsdbk@gmail.com Supreme’s style, but don’t want to If the Supreme logo style looks familiar to you, there’s a reason.

American artist Barbara Kruger employed the same bold Futura red and white patterns in pieces of art created up to a decade before the streetwear company was born in 1994. To his credit, Supreme founder James Jebbia has acknowledged Kruger’s influence on the logo, but that did not stop Kruger from dishing out a hall of fame response in 2013.

Perhaps the most ironic part is Kruger’s work is anti-capitalist, and now her signature style is being employed by a company backed by a $200 billion investment fund.

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men’s basketball

‘so close’ Terps improved all year, but came up short in March

maryland men’s basketball won 23 games despite having the fourth-youngest team in the nation, but lacking quality wins and a head coach who’s never been past the Sweet 16, a deep March run never seemed to be in the cards. courtesy of david harmantas/the daily iowan

By James Crabtree-Hannigan | @JamesCrabtreeH | Senior staff writer

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ive days after falling flat on its face in a ghastly 78-61 loss to Penn State, the Maryland men’s basketball team returned home March 3 to host Michigan in a highly anticipated top-20 showdown full of postseason implications.

The Nittany Lions established the Terps’ floor. The Wolverines would remind them of their ceiling.

Maryland got out to a fast start and matched its lowest turnover total in Big Ten play, avoiding the pitfalls that plagued the team for most of the year. The Terps’ shooting performance was on par with their season average — no small feat against one of the nation’s best defenses. And Michigan, playing without starting guard Charles Matthews, missed plenty of open looks.

The result? A 69-62 loss in which Maryland was never closer than five points in the final five minutes.

Coach Mark Turgeon guided the fourth-youngest team in the nation to 23 wins, a fifthplace finish in the Big Ten and a return to the NCAA tournament. But down the stretch, the Terps were unable to differentiate themselves from the glut of teams in the conference’s second tier, making their early exit from the postseason unsurprising, albeit still painful.

“We’ve been through a lot this year,” Turgeon said after a season-ending loss to LSU in the Round of 32. “I just felt like

we deserved a little bit better.”

The Terps showed significant growth between November and February, but rarely, if ever, seemed able to hang with the best of the best in March.

After opening 16-3 — including a 7-1 start in conference play — Maryland went 7-8 to close the season, continuing Turgeon’s trend of postseason woes and teams not peaking at the right time.

Early in the year, Turgeon extolled his team’s accomplishments as it hummed through another unimpressive nonconference schedule, but the difficulty ramped up rather quickly.

No. 2 Virginia came to College Park on Nov. 28. Not long after, eventual Big Ten regular-season champion Purdue welcomed the Terps to West Lafayette. Understandably, a team that had five freshmen and zero seniors in its eight-man rotation wasn’t ready to knock off the Cavaliers or Boilermakers in the first month of the season.

“The last seven minutes, we played like a young team,” Turgeon said after the 62-60 loss to Purdue. “We didn’t play with poise, and we didn’t coach with poise.”

That game’s end matched the struggles that brought down the 2017-18 team on the road and in close games. Maryland had just two field goals in the final eight minutes against the Boilermakers, largely due to an overreliance on guard Anthony Cowan, who regressed across the board in his junior campaign.

“It’s still early,” Cowan said

after the game. “We have a lot of young players. We can only get better from here.”

Forward Bruno Fernando, though, had already matured, becoming one of the nation’s best big men and making opponents take notice. The 6-foot-10 sophomore faced near-constant double teams that forced him to become an adept distributor.

Despite the increased attention from opposing defenses, Fernando led the Big Ten in field goal percentage and became the first Terp to average a doubledouble since Jordan Williams in 2010-11, almost certainly ensuring he won’t be back in College Park for a junior campaign.

“He’s a first-team all-league guy,” Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann said in February, accurately predicting Fernando’s postseason accolades. “You’re not going to eliminate him completely.”

Opponents’ efforts on Fernando freed up the rest of the Terps, and nobody benefitted more than fellow big man Jalen Smith. The five-star recruit battled through an up-anddown freshman campaign and struggled with the physicality of the Big Ten, but got plenty of easy buckets and rebounds as the lesser member of Maryland’s frontcourt.

Smith also keyed one of the team’s most important wins. On Jan. 2, he scored 15 points and nailed a game-winning floater to knock off an overrated, yet still dangerous, No. 24 Nebras-

ka, finally giving Turgeon’s team a win in a close game.

“We need that for a confidence builder,” Turgeon said.

“We weren’t terrific down the stretch but we were good enough to win.”

With five straight wins after that — three on the road — the Terps showed they’d improved from the early-season losses to the Cavaliers and Boilermakers.

Then, a visit to East Lansing on Jan. 21 offered a chance to prove themselves against one of the best teams in the nation.

Instead, guard Cassius Winston tore Maryland apart, leading then-No. 6 Michigan State to 29 fast-break points in a 69-55 win, the first of several sobering results against top-tier teams.

Over the month of February, the Terps produced a marquee win at home over Purdue and eventually ended Turgeon’s infamous road losing streak against ranked teams. But an 11-game stretch with just three contests at Xfinity Center took its toll.

Maryland weathered losses to Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan before mercifully knocking off a spiraling, then-No. 21 Iowa squad in Iowa City on Feb. 19.

“We made a lot of big plays,” Turgeon said after the win over the Hawkeyes. “And you have to, to beat a really good team on the road.”

In the embarrassing loss to the Nittany Lions about a week later, the Terps offered a reminder of how hard it is to beat any team.

Then came the Michigan game. On a night the Terps celebrated their 100-year history and looked back on previous golden eras, Turgeon’s squad couldn’t keep up with a Michigan program currently in the midst of one.

“We wanted this bad today,” Turgeon said, “and we just couldn’t get it.”

Despite closing the regular season with a win over Minnesota, the Terps still entered the Big Ten tournament as the No. 5-seed and 3-3 in their last six games. That made Maryland’s ugly loss to the Huskers in their first Big Ten tournament game rather foreseeable.

Then, after avoiding a true disaster — and quieting the calls for Turgeon’s firing — by squeaking past No. 11-seed Belmont in the first round of the big dance, Maryland again bumped its head on the upper bound of its potential, coming up just short against No. 3-seed LSU and leaving Jacksonville in tears.

“It’s tough for us right now,” guard Darryl Morsell said in the locker room after Tremont Waters’ game-winning layup ended Maryland’s season. “We fought, though, and I’m proud.”

Four starters — Cowan, Morsell, Smith and guard Eric Ayala — are expected to return next year. Smith may test the NBA waters but is currently forecasted to stick around for a sophomore season. The Terps will also return their top three bench options and welcome a strong recruiting class of four-

star center Makhi Mitchell, his three-star twin Makhel Mitchell and three-star forward Donta Scott.

That combination of returning nucleus and impressive newcomers spells a preseason top-25 appearance and lofty expectations in Cowan’s senior year. If Maryland is to live up to them, it will have the win over the Bruins to thank, according to Turgeon.

The day after holding off Belmont, 79-77, Turgeon revisited the Wolverines game, diagnosing why his team fell short.

“Late in the game, they were better than we were, because they know what the reward is,” Turgeon said. “Those [Michigan] players have been to a national championship game. They’ve had success. We [didn’t] know what the reward is. Now, the guys are starting to.”

But Maryland has just four NCAA tournament wins in Turgeon’s eight seasons, and he’s never made it past the Sweet 16. So regardless of how experienced or talented their roster is, or how much improvement they make over an offseason, it’s fair to wonder if the Terps will ever get past the wall they hit in 2018-19 with him at the helm.

“Being so close to reaching the Sweet 16 and going home, it’s motivation for the summer,” Morsell said. “The young guys, they came in this year and gave it everything they got.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

women’s basketball

Inconsistencies plagued, and ended, Terps’ season Terps won 29 games but lacked complete performances all year by

Last season, cluded at least one throwaway

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Maryland battled to a 29-5 @arychwal land women’s record and repossessed the Big basketball’s Staff writer season ended with a second-round loss to NC State, there was little reason for dismay. The Terps had entered the year with an unproven roster, had come up short of the Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles and earned their lowest seed in the NCAA tournament since 2011.

But expectations returned to Maryland’s lofty standard for the 2018-19 campaign. And a season-ending 85-80 loss to UCLA in the second round Monday left the program with a sour taste in its mouth.

A promising, often scintillating showing against the Bruins was whitewashed by a bevy of vital errors, ending a season that was equally as inconsistent. At times, Maryland was unstoppable on offense and offered little resistance on the other end. In others, it crawled through horrid shooting with a stout defense front. Nearly every game in-

Ten regular-season crown, but the uneven performance against UCLA was the final nail in the coffin for a squad that never fully clicked.

“We have nine of us coming back next year,” guard Kaila Charles said. “We’re going to use this as motivation in the [offseason] to get better, and hopefully have a better season and go as far as we can.”

Returning so much of her roster is a luxury that coach Brenda Frese hasn’t enjoyed in recent years, which helps explain the program’s modest downturn in recent seasons.

The Terps were decimated by transfers two years ago, and had only 10 players on the roster for this campaign.

“To accomplish what they were able to accomplish this year, being kind of shorthanded and out-manned at times,” Frese said. “We were able to kind of mask [that].”

But Frese said a lack of depth is part of why the team didn’t find postseason success after a 26-3 regular season.

Maryland gave up a seasonhigh 90 points to Iowa in its conference tournament championship loss, and the early NCAA tournament exit featured the squad’s worst rebounding performance in over a decade — the Bruins collected an eye-popping 27 offensive rebounds to overcome 36.3 percent shooting.

The Terps didn’t lack top-end talent. Led by Charles, they returned four starters from a 26-win squad and welcomed a top-five recruiting class headlined by guard Taylor Mikesell and forward Shakira Austin.

Frese’s team entered the season ranked No. 9 in the nation.

By emphatically beating then-No. 10 South Carolina on the road and taking care of business against the Big Ten’s lesser teams, the Terps remained in the top 10 for all but two weeks.

“I can’t say enough of how proud I am of this group,” Frese said. “To be able to get to 29 wins, a Big Ten regular-season title and everything they have accomplished this season.”

Despite periods of inconsis-

tency during conference play, Maryland ended the regular season winning 11 of 12 games to finish 15-3 in the Big Ten and secure a fourth conference title in five seasons.

“I told this group, it’s one of the best groups I’ve ever coached,” Frese said. “With their chemistry, how they played for each other all season long.”

With so many key pieces returning next year, that chemistry can be expected to grow.

Only forward Brianna Fraser graduates, meaning Maryland returns 90.7 percent of its scoring and brings in a quartet of five-star recruits, including McDonald’s All-American guards Ashley Owusu and Diamond Miller. The class is ranked No. 3 by ESPN and will give Frese a full roster for the first time since the 2017 exodus.

“I won’t know what to do with myself,” Frese said. “That was a byproduct of a two-year hit when you have kids transfer out.”

The Terps are slated to have five seniors next year, led by Charles and forward Stephanie Jones, who averaged 17.0 and 12.8 points this season, respectively. After having a taste of the

Sweet 16 in their freshman campaign, they will be determined to return the program back to those heights and beyond during their final year.

But the most important factor in the Terps’ 2019-20 campaign may be the maturation of Mikesell and Austin, who both displayed flashes of brilliance in record-setting seasons before trending in opposite directions down the stretch.

Austin shattered the program block record with 89 rejections, but she struggled to handle the physicality of the Big Ten, and her numbers dipped accordingly.

A 15-point, 10-rebound and sixblock outing against the Bruins, though, is reason for confidence going forward.

“I definitely had a lump at the beginning of the conference with the physicality change,” Austin said on March 2. “It just took a lot of growth for me and a lot of my teammates told me to keep attacking, keep my confidence up and finish it through.”

Mikesell, meanwhile, was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year for a season in which she broke Kristi Toliver’s mark for triples in a season with 95.

But she shot just 29 percent from

behind the arc in Maryland’s five tournament games, possibly a sign of fatigue after logging a team-high 1,180 minutes.

“Bodes well for the future for Shakira and Taylor,” Frese said.

“The future is extremely bright.”

As her players jogged off the court and into the Xfinity Center locker room for the final time Monday, Frese took one last glance at UCLA as the underdog visitors celebrated their fourth Sweet 16 appearance in a row.

By exiting both postseason tournaments empty-handed, the up-and-down season had fallen short of the lofty expectations Frese set at Media Day in November.

But while Frese surveyed the exuberant scene on the other side, her squad appeared ready to move on, viewing the defeat that kicked off the midcourt mob as a valuable teaching moment entering next year.

“In the tournament in March,” Charles said, “teams are going to be playing their best basketball because they don’t want to end their season. There’s a lot of lessons learned, but I’m still proud of my teammates.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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ack in November, Maryland wrestling coach Kerry McCoy was optimistic about his team’s chances in a loaded Big Ten. The Terps entered the year with a miserable 1-36 conference record since joining in 2014-15, but with perennial powerhouses Penn State and Ohio State not on the schedule this season, there was hope that a better showing was on the horizon.

The team also returned its three NCAA qualifiers from the previous year — 141-pounder Ryan Diehl, 149-pounder Alfred Bannister and heavyweight Youssif Hemida. All three are seniors who had high expectations, and Maryland hoped they could help the program take a step forward.

Instead, 2018-19 was more of the same — if not worse — compared with previous years. While Hemida capped his senior campaign with the best postseason of his career, the team went just 2-12 with another winless Big Ten slate, Diehl ballooned to 157 pounds and was left off the Big Ten tournament roster, Bannister was inconsistent and McCoy announced it would be his final year leading the program.

“It was a tough year,” McCoy said. “I’m proud of my team because the effort was there, but a lot of things went against us.”

Before the dual season, Hemida took time off to represent the United States at the U23 World Championships in Bucharest, Romania. While there, he went on an impressive run that

Maryland relied on its youth with mixed results. The performances of wrestlers such as sophomore Danny Bertoni and redshirt freshmen Philip Spadafora and Kyle Jasenski was promising for a rebuilding program.

There were also flashes of brilliance from freshman 133-pounder Orion Anderson and sophomore 141-pounder Michael Doetsch.

“They’re taking their lumps.

The conference is tough,” McCoy said. “This level is tough.”

During the second weekend in February, Maryland visited the Midwest and was outscored a combined 93-0 by No. 4 Iowa and No. 8 Minnesota.

“It stinks,” McCoy said after the Golden Gophers beatdown.

The Terps opened the year 0-8, with nonconference wins heavyweight youssif hemida earned All-America status for the second straight year, but his teammates struggled mightily during a winless Big Ten dual season. tyler ecker/the diamondback over George Mason and Rider preventing the indignity of a winless dual campaign.

Hemida, too, provided Maryland solace. After losing four consecutive duals in February, he closed the season stronger and backed that up in the postseason. He lost his first match of the Big Ten Championships, but wrestled back to finish third

By Matthew Gilpin | @matthewwgilpin | Staff writer — the program’s highest finish since joining the conference — Hemida wasn’t the only Terp the season started. 184-pounder nearly the entire 2018-19 season. and weathered an early loss in culminated in a silver medal.

After Hemida returned to the sidelined for an extended period. Jaron Smith was also lost for the When he finally returned Feb. the NCAA Championships for 197-pounder DB Whisler season due to a lower body injury 8, he was fighting at 157 pounds a sixth-place finish, the best of team, he sat out Maryland’s first and went winless in duals, not his career. three duals without any explana- saw action in the team’s sea- before the year started.

“It’s pretty cool to know I did No injury was more notable coming close to recapturing his tion. His understudy, Mansur son-opening loss against Penn something special here,” Hemida Abdul-Malik, went winless, and before being lost for the season than Diehl’s — even though it 2017-18, 141-pound form.

“He’s wrestling two weight said. “I’m happy.” the team as a whole was drubbed due to injury. 165-pounder Kyle happened last year.

After undergoing surgery classes above,” McCoy said Feb. a combined 83-21 across the Cochran, a key contributor in 2017-18, broke his wrist before in the offseason, Diehl missed 10. “He’s not his old self.” three meets. sportsdbk@gmail.com

‘a tough year’

Youssif Hemida once again Terps’ lone bright spot

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With just three career goals to her name, the sophomore received a pass behind the arc and accelerated hard to her right, leaving Scarlet Knights defender Brianna Cirino in her dust. She completed the play by firing a shot past goalkeeper Kameron Halsall.

Although the goal was inconsequential in a game that had been put out of reach long before, it was one of many that exemplified the Terps’ depth. Maryland’s starters achieved their usual level of success Saturday — but the Terps’ bench was equally effective, turning a convincing victory into a sheer 20-3 blowout.

“These guys are working, looking forward for their opportunity to get on the field,” coach Cathy Reese said.

After its starters built an 11-1 first-half lead — including a hat by

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trick from attacker Brindi Griffin — Maryland turned to its bench in the last 30 minutes, with Davis, attacker Hannah Glaros and attacker Catie May providing highlight plays of their own.

The Terps’ bench contributed to season highs of 20 goals and 13 goalscorers Saturday. Maryland also totalled eight assists, eclipsing its season average of 6.3.

Although Maryland owned a comfortable 10-goal advantage at the intermission, the team shot a mere 42 percent in the first half.

“Sometimes we were taking the first look rather than the best look,” Reese said. “We need to do better than that.”

However, a five-goal burst to end the half gave Maryland a sizeable lead.

With a running clock and a comfortable cushion, Reese worked fresh and seldom-used faces into the game. The bench players stepped up.

Davis was first among the bench players to get on the board. May found the sophomore cutting from the right side of the arc, and Davis made no mistake in finishing to extend Maryland’s lead to 14-2.

From there, the Terps reasserted their authority. Though the starters dominated due to a sheer volume of shots, the bench players delivered a more composed performance, working the ball around the field. Attacker Julia Hoffman was one of the primary beneficiaries of this methodical attack, scoring one and adding two assists.

“Any mix of people are obviously going to do really well together,” Davis said. “We all mesh.”

The backup defense also did its part. After seeing intermittent action through the first 11 games of the season, goalkeeper Maddie McSally spent the entire second half in net. Megan Taylor’s heir apparent notched four saves on seven Rutgers shots.

The bench raised the team’s shooting percentage from 42 percent to 50 percent, improving upon the starters’ early work and establishing just how deep the squad is.

“They’re all so good,” Griffin said. “They have the confidence to go out there, and I’m so proud of all of them.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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men’s lacrosse

comeback falls short

maryland men’s lacrosse and Penn State entered Sunday with the top spot in the nation on the line. After the first quarter, it seemed the Nittany Lions would make it a laugher. A Terps comeback prevented that but couldn’t erase the deficit. tyrin gray/the diamondback

No. 1 Nittany Lions score 8 goals in first quarter, knock off No. 3 Terps

By Eric Myers | @EricMyers531 | Staff writer

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aryland men’s lacrosse had rallied all the way back to cut a seven-goal deficit down to one, and it had three opportunities to pull even with No. 1 Penn State.

But with a chance to tie, top scorers Logan Wisnauskas and Jared Bernhardt combined for three turnovers on consecutive possessions.

Then, the Nittany Lions scored three goals in quick succession to open their lead back to a comfortable margin.

The three miscues loomed large as No. 3 Maryland’s furious comeback came up short at the hands of the nation’s top-ranked team, falling 13-10 on Sunday night at Maryland Stadium. “[It’s] tough to dig out of an 8-1 hole early, but the guys stayed with it,” coach John Tillman said. “We kept chipping away, chipping away, chipping away, got that game [to] a one-goal game with plenty of time left, and then [Penn State] did a good job of countering that.”

Penn State’s high-octane attack struck first and often, scoring on its first possession of the game as attackman Mac O’Keefe, the nation’s leader in goalscoring, fired his lefty shot past goalkeeper Danny Dolan.

M a r yl a n d fa c e o f f s p e c i a l i s t Austin Henningsen won the ensuing faceoff, and midfielder Will Snider unleashed a shot on the run that bounced into the back of the net to level the score.

T h e i n i t i a l b a c k - a n d - fo r t h quickly gave way to a Penn State onslaught, though, burying the Terps in a hole they struggled to recover from.

The Nittany Lions repeatedly found holes in Maryland’s defense, using their constant off-ball movement to free themselves for open looks. As a result, Penn State went on a 7-0 scoring run to close the first quarter and open up a convincing advantage. O’Keefe netted one chance with 18 seconds left, and midfielder Jack Kelly scored with one second remaining.

But in the second quarter, Maryland’s defense settled in and closed off some of the openings Penn State had exploited.

Despite the stops on the defensive end, the Terps’ attack was mired in an extensive scoring drought and couldn’t find any openings. Following Snider’s goal with 12:03 left in the first, Maryland went another 25 minutes without a tally.

To break that scoring drought, Maryland turned to Bernhardt to score with a strong right-handed shot. Then, with 19 seconds left in the opening half, attackman Louis Dubick hit a one-timed shot in front to give Maryland momentum going into the break, down 8-3.

Building off those late first-half scores, Maryland scored the first four goals of the third to close their once-large deficit to one. Midfielder Roman Puglise, known more as a defensive player, found two opportunities in transition and hit his perimeter shots, including one to make it 8-7 with 8:27 to go in the third.

With a chance to even the score for the first time since early in the first quarter, Maryland wasted three possessions with turnovers. And after miscues on those possessions, Penn State rediscovered its prolific scoring. The Nittany Lions scored three goals in the span of two-anda-half minutes to open their advantage back to four goals early in the fourth quarter.

Bernhardt, who finished with three goals and two assists, tried to will Maryland back into the game for a second time, scoring on a diving goal and finding Wisnauskas cutting to the net for a goal that got Maryland back within three scores with just under seven minutes remaining.

But Penn State’s offense proved to be too lethal to hold down for the remainder of the game, as they used an extra-man opportunity to stave off the Terps’ second comeback attempt of the night. sportsdbk@gmail.com

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