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Taylor, Whittle: childhood friends to teammates,

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LEWIS: As hate crimes surge under Trump, we need better data, p. 4

DIVERSIONS

DJ Khaled’s latest video is one big advertisement, p. 8

police

Noose found in Phi Tau kitchen Police investigating hate bias incident at Fraternity Row house No. 5 on April 27 A noose was found inside of the University o f M a r yl a n d Phi Kappa Tau chapter house on Fraternity Row last Thursday, according to University Police.

On April 27, at 11:39 p.m., University Police responded to the chapter’s by

Lindsey Collins and Rosie Kean @thedbk Senior staff writers

house for an incident that occurred earlier that day. Between 1:30 p.m. and 1:45 p.m., a noose was found inside the building, police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

University Police are investigating the event as a hate bias incident.

Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life Director Matt Supple sent an email Wednesday to Greek Life

chapter presidents saying that a noose was found hanging in the kitchen.

“While we do not know who perpetrated this crime, it has impacted the catering staff, the housekeeping staff, and every member of the fraternity,” the email read. “We all bear responsibility to confront bias/hate when we see it.

Sadly, this is one more example of hatred and prejudice that continue to poison our society. We must stand together in defiance of this act. We need to ensure people who would perpetrate this type of hate know they do not belong and

are not welcome in our chapters, in our community, at the University of Maryland, or in our society.”

Phi Kappa Tau President A.J. Coleman released a written statement Wednesday night in response to the incident.

“We are shocked and appalled,” Coleman wrote. “The chapter’s reaction to this event has been confusion and outrage. For all of us, it is beyond the realm of belief that anyone could have perpetrated such a heinous act.”

University President Wallace Loh called the incident “despicable.”

“I resolutely condemn the use of a symbol of violence and hatred for the purpose of intimidating members of our University of Maryland community,” Loh said in a statement. “All of us — students, faculty, staff, alumni — stand united in our commitment to core values of human dignity, diversity, inclusiveness, and intellectual freedom. We stand against such craven expressions of bigotry.”

In a statement released Wednesday See bias, p. 2

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Man dies after medical emergency at Md Day Univers i ty Police Jessie Campisi are investi@jessiecampisi gating the Senior staff writer death of a man found on the University of Maryland’s campus on Saturday, according to reports.

Officers responded to a bystander report on April 29 at 3:15 p.m.

— while this year’s Maryland Day was taking place on the campus — that a man was in need of medical assistance in front of Marie Mount by

Pruitt assumes SGA presidency

milkboy arthouse launched with a grand opening Tuesday. The two-story cafe features multiple bars, two stages and a full restaurant. josh loock/the diamondback

After more than a year of construction, MilkBoy ArtHouse opens for business

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atmosphere between the audiences and the artists,” said Erica Bondarev Rapach, the associate executive director of this university’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. “The audience is going to be right there … it’s very intimate, and the artist will be close to the audience physically.”

The project is a collaboration between MilkBoy, a music and entertainment company based in Philadelphia, and The Clarice Smith See milkboy, p. 7

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About 100 boycott Israel Fest, but groups remain peaceful, separate Jewish Student Union upped security from prior year for event celebrating culture This year’s Israel Fest coAngela Jacob and incided with Laura Spitalniak the Israeli Inde@thedbk pendence Day, Staff writers as both Jewish and non-Jewish students gathered to celebrate Israeli culture on McKeldin Mall Tuesday, while students gathered to boycott the event hundreds of feet away.

Rachel Greenberg, the vice president of cultural programming for the Jewish Student Union, said the event is important to her because she lived by

in Israel for a year, and she feels a close connection to the culture.

“Israel is a hugely integral part of Jewish culture,” Greenberg, a senior government and politics major, said.

“To me, it’s a way to represent [the Independence Day] on our campus, to show this giant celebration and try to mimic what happens in Israel.”

The event has been held every year for more than 10 years, Greenberg said.

The JSU and other organizations and clubs, such as Maryland Hillel, host Israel Fest each year, and most of the funding comes from the Student

In inaugural address, Pruitt says SGA should be ‘catalysts’ for campus leaders by

By Carly Kempler | @carlykempler | Senior staff writer

opening day.

After more than a year of construction, the completed two-story building features multiple bars, two stages and a full restaurant with seating.

The space will also be a performing arts venue, though shows will not begin until September.

“MilkBoy ArtHouse is going to be the kind of space that really creates an intimate

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refreshing route 1 usic and smiles filled the MilkBoy ArtHouse on Tuesday as community members dined in the space for its grand

Hall, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

Police and medical personnel responded and attempted life-saving measures to the man, who was taken to a local area hospital and later pronounced dead.

The cause of death has yet to be announced, but no foul play is suspected, Hoaas said. University Police are awaiting a report from the medical examiner.

Government Association, including money for police officers, she added.

Talia Hoch, a junior behavioral and community health major, said she also lived in Israel for a year, and she said celebrating Independence Day in Israel is “what American Independence Day should be,” with dancing and including everyone in the festivities. Having an event like Israel Fest allows people to come together and celebrate the holiday, despite not being in Israel, Hoch said.

“It’s a cultural celebration See fest, p. 7

After his three-year membership with the SGA, A.J. Pruitt geared up for his fourth year of leadership Tuesday night when he became student body president for the 2017-18 academic year.

A crowd of about 50 students and faculty gathered in Stamp Student Union’s Juan Ramon Jiménez Room, where Linda Clement, this university’s vice president for student affairs, inaugurated the new student government. Pruitt, three executive members and 34 legislators made a solemn affirmation.

In his inaugural speech, Pruitt recalled the words of Sir Isaac Newton to describe his vision for the Student Government Association: “If I’ve seen further, it is by

Carly Taylor @Carly_Taylor97 Staff writer

student body PRESIDENT A.J. PRUITT was inaugurated Tuesday night. mateo pacheco/for the diamondback standing on the shoulders of giants.”

In order to be successful representatives, SGA members have to “take all of the great leadership” on the campus and “figure out how to be catalysts for that leadership,” Pruitt said.

“The only way that this year is successful is by empowering students and making sure that their voice isn’t only heard through us, but that they hear their See PRUITT, p. 7

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CRIME BLOTTER

By Lindsey Collins | @LindsECollins | Staff writer University of Maryland Police responded to reports of trespassing, robbery, vandalism and theft this past week, according to reports.

TRESPASSING On April 30 at 3 a.m., a University Police officer near Route 1 and Knox Road saw a vehicle stop in the street, and heard the driver talking to a wom a n wh o wa s walking in the same a re a , p o l i c e s p o k e swom a n Sg t. R osa n ne Hoaas said.

The vehicle then lef t t he a re a , but t he officer located the veh icle a second ti me

by Commons 3, Hoaas said. The driver exited his vehicle and attempted to talk to women in the area but was denied any further communication, so he returned to his vehicle and left.

The officer stopped the vehicle and identified the man after seeing the vehicle commit a traffic violation, according to police reports.

T he man, who was issued a den ia l to the ca mpus i n September 2016, will face charges at a later date in relation to trespassing, as well as the traffic violation.

The case remains active.

ROBBERY University Police responded to a reported ro b b e r y n e a r C h a p e l Field at about 2:08 a.m.

Wednesday. After officers investigated video footage from the a rea a nd i nterv iewed the reporting person, they determ i ned the cri me was falsely reported.

The reporting person has since been served with a criminal su m mon s for m a k i ng a fa lse statement to a police officer.

O n Apr i l 29 at 3:41 a.m., University Police responded to reports of a n attempted robbery outside of Morrill Hall.

T h e s u s p e c t s w e re identified as two men i n d a rk clot h i n g who were last seen traveling north on Route 1 at the intersection of Greenbelt Road, according to a university alert. The case remains active.

VANDALISM University Police res p o n d e d to t h e 430 0 block of Sterling Road on Saturday at 1:47 a.m. for reports of a vandalism incident, according to police reports. T he incident resulted in an arrest.

This case is closed.

THEFT O n Apr i l 29 at 8:5 4 p.m., officers res p o n d e d to C h e s te rtow n H a l l for a t hef t that occurred on Friday at 9 p.m., according to police reports. The case remains active. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Police nab DC man on 68 univ-related theft counts 60-year-old David Bates committed 8 thefts over 1-year spree, police say

University Lindsey Collins of Maryland @LindsECollins Police arrested 60-year-old Staff writer David Lawrence Bates of Washington, D.C., in April on 68 counts of theft in connection with a nearly year-long spree of credit card-related thefts in this university’s public health school.

From May 2016 to April of this year, Bates — who is unaffiliated with this university — committed eight separate theft offenses in the public health school, said University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas.

Though theft is the most re p o r te d c r i m e o n t h e campus, University Police noticed a clear pattern in the cases. In each offense, a male employee of this university placed their belongings in the public health school building. by

Upon returning, each man found their credit cards, and in some cases their cash, stolen, according to Hoaas.

Unauthorized charges have been made on every stolen card.

Seven of the victims also reported that their locks on their lockers in the building had been cut or broken.

Often, the pry marks were so small that victims didn’t even realize until after the fact, Hoaas said. People who use the lockers need to bring their own locks.

“In these cases, what we were seeing is that some were secured and some were not,” Hoaas said. “You want to secure a locker with the best means possible. So when you use a key lock, that is a challenge for the person versus a combo lock, those are a little

bit easier to manipulate to the point where you can pry open a locker.”

Detectives caught a break while investigating the seventh case, which occurred Nov. 1.

The patrol officer who responded to the scene processed the locker for evidence by dusting for fingerprints. The officer submitted the fingerprints for processing.

In February, University Police were notified that the fingerprint matched Bates, whom investigators were able to identify as the suspect in the November case and other theft cases from the public health school.

“Getting a hit back, that is awesome for us and for our community to know that things like this do happen where we do get arrests, even though the span of cases starts back in May of last year all the way to March of this year,” Hoaas said.

In April, officers received a search warrant for Bates’

h o m e , w h e r e “ i te m s o f ev i d e n t i a ry va l u e ” we re seized, Hoaas said.

Bates will be tried on 68 different counts of theft, including 47 counts of credit card-related theft and 14 counts of identityrelated theft, Hoaas said. His final sentencing will remain unknown until the case goes to court. University Police do not know when the case will go to court, Hoaas said.

Hoaas said cases of such length and volume are unprecedented for University Police.

“I can’t think of a time where we had charged someone for such a span of cases,” Hoaas said. “It ranges from using and disclosing a signature, credit card stealing and fraud identity, theft less than $100, a destruction of property charge and theft less than $1,000.

Each case probably has anywhere from eight to 12 charges.”

University Police do not have a photo of Bates on file. newsumdbk@gmail.com

bias From p. 1 night, Interfraternity Council President Ross Brannigan called on the organization to address issues of racism on the campus.

“To say this only reflects the actions of an individual is to deny that there is a problem,” the statement read. “It is to deny that this issue exists in our culture … IFC organizations should strive to create a safe and inclusive environment, yet we have consistently failed to demonstrate behavior to support that objective. We can say this does not reflect our values, yet this is an issue we consistently address.”

DFSL is working with the fraternity’s leadership to address this incident, Supple’s statement read.

A similar incident occurred at American University in Washiwngton, D.C., on Monday, when bananas were found hanging from nooses in three places on the school’s campus.

Writing on the bananas read “HARAMBE BAIT” and “AKA

the phi kappa tau house on Fraternity Row. University Police are investigating a hate bias incident that occurred April 27. file photo/the diamondback FREE,” the letters of predominately black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha. Newly elected student body president Taylor Dumpson, the first black female president in American University’s student government, is a member of AKA and took office the same day.

An offensive email sent in January 2014 by a former member

of this university’s Kappa Sigma fraternity chapter resurfaced in 2015. The email told fraternity members — through the use of various racial slurs — to avoid inviting black, Indian and Asian women to their rush parties. Loh said the email expressed “views that are reprehensible to our campus community.”

This university’s National Pan-Hellenic Council and the

Multicultural Greek Council chose not to participate in this year’s Spring Fest claiming members faced disappointing experiences and cultural appropriation. The NPHC is made up of nine historically black fraternities and sororities, while the MGC governs culturally based fraternities and sororities. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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bout 12 University of Maryland students ra l l i e d a n d n i n e ipresented demands at the administration building Monday to stand in solidarity with immigrants and workers at this university.

The marchers met with this university’s assistant president and chief of staff, Michele Eastman, and read to her their nine demands from a petition.

Their list included demands for the administration to make this university an official sanctuary campus, for all university workers to have the right to collective bargaining rights and for the administration to publicly denounce hate speech and attacks, particularly those targeted against the LGBTQIA community and communities of color.

The student groups garnered 71 signatures for their petition, said Brendan Sullivan, a sophomore civil engineering major. He previously told The Diamondback that he expected about 200 people to attend Monday, including the involved groups’ members.

“We commend student activism on these issues,” Eastman said. She plans to write a response to the groups, she added.

Students chanted “One struggle, one fight, workers of the world unite,” and “No borders, no nations, stop deportations,” as they marched from Hornbake Plaza to the administration building.

Before the march, student groups set up tables at Hornbake Plaza, including Young Democratic Socialists, Our Revolution, UMD Socialists, the Pride Alliance, Students for Justice in Palestine, Prison Resistance Project and the Student Labor Action Project.

The Pride Alliance signed onto the effort Monday, and the Graduate Student Government also took part in the effort but did not have a table set up because of a schedule conflict, Sullivan said. The groups began their rally at 3 p.m.

“We’re here in solidarity with May Day movements across the nation,” Sullivan said. “We’re here in order to support a living wage on campus, getting students the right to organize, expanding the Maryland DREAM Act,

marching into may A dozen students rally in solidarity with immigrants, workers; about 9 deliver demands to main administration building

By Leah Brennan | @allhaelleah | Staff writer

MICHELE EASTMAN, left, this university’s assistant president, receives demands from students who marched to the administration building on May 1. tom hausman/the diamondback protecting undocumented immigrants and calling for divestment from Maryland Correctional Enterprises.”

Sullivan said although the group expected to have 50 to 100 students in attendance, low turnout could have been caused by students restricted by their class schedules or who were attending other May Day events in Washington, D.C. Tens of thousands of protesters and marchers were expected Monday in May Day protests across the United States, which organizers describe as “a surge in energy against the president and his administration’s policies,” NBC News reported.

Cydnee Jordan, a freshman government and politics and public policy major, visited the UMD Socialists’

table before the march. Jordan said the group’s acknowledgment of immigrant and workers’ rights is a testament to what this university’s community values.

“Even if no one shows up to the rally, the point is that we’re having this rally because it’s something that’s important — immigrant rights, workers’ rights — they’re all entangled in some sort of way,” Jordan said.

Jordan and other students who visited the UMD Socialists table voiced support for the demand to designate this university a sanctuary campus.

“ICE has a lot of power right now, especially in the current administration,” Jordan said. “They might gain even more power as time goes on and I think that’s a slippery slope. …

Trying to cut it off here at our university would be a good step forward.”

In November, ProtectUMD, a coalition of 25 student organizations, sent a letter to administrators outlining 64 demands for new programs, resources and initiatives to serve marginalized student populations. After reviewing those demands, Loh wrote in a campuswide email on Jan. 26 that designating this university as a sanctuary campus is “unnecessary.”

Although this university is not labeled a sanctuary campus, Prince George’s County has protocols to protect undocumented immigrants from federal authorities.

Another demand presented by the student groups on Monday stated “all workers at UMD, including graduate

students, and student workers should have the right to form a union with collective bargaining rights.”

Maryland state Del. Marc Korman (D-Montgomery) introduced a bill that called for student workers in the University System of Maryland to have the right to collectively bargain.

It failed to move out of committee in March.

“I work at the co-op, which is worker-owned, so we do set our own wages,” said Shreya Anand, a junior astronomy and physics major who joined the march. “We’re [still] not unionized, so one thing I’m interested in is building a network of all the workers in Stamp, so we can campaign for minimum wage [and] labor rights.”

Another demand is for this university to divest from Maryland Correctional Enterprises.

A state statute requires the University System of Maryland to purchase furniture from MCE or other state socioeconomic preference programs.

“The University of Maryland can’t make a campuswide decision to completely end business with MCE because of the state mandate,” said Nathan Brandli, an alumnus of this university and coordinator for the Prison Resistance Project. “But it’s very important the … administration releases a statement and do everything they can to verbally speak out against Maryland Correctional Enterprises … and to make a public commitment to divesting when given the option.”

After meeting with Eastman, Shane James, a senior history major and representative of Students for Justice in Palestine, expressed his frustration.

Although Eastman said this university didn’t receive many emails about its work with MCE, James said last semester almost 1,000 students backed a set of demands, which included divestment from MCE. “[This university doesn’t] really care too much when we raise demands and drop off petitions,” James said. “I mean they’ll respond to it, but when they can, they try to ignore it.” lbrennandbk@gmail.com

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In high school, Downtown Silver Spring was my kingdom. It had everything that my heart could desire: bustling streets teeming with other prepubescent kings and queens, a perpetual hot dog and popcorn aroma and reggae music blasting from every street corner.

I felt at home. It was a place where being Filipino or a first-generation immigrant wasn’t an anomaly, as nearly everyone I saw was also a person of color. There were also a handful of amazing minorityowned businesses, such as Negril Eatery — a small Jamaican restaurant founded by a Jamaican native that boasted beef patties I would scramble for every Friday.

It was an amazing hub of culture that I still hold dear to my heart.

Unfortunately, in recent years, it has fallen prey to pockets of gentrification.

PBS characterizes gentrification as “the arrival of wealthier people in an existing urban district, a related increase in rents and property values, and changes in the district’s character and culture.” At its worst, gentrification causes the displacement of poor, often minority, communities by rich outsiders. Of the families that stay, many find themselves “economically and socially

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marginalized.” Online real estate website Trulia reports that Silver Spring had an out-migration rate (residents moving away from the area) of 103.5 percent, or twice the expected rate for those earning less than $30,000 from 2005 to 2009.

In hindsight, gentrification is really hard to define, and even harder to measure. According to Governing Magazine, it is largely concentrated to a few select regions and hasn’t even made it to most urban cities.

However, in the places where gentrification is indeed alive and well, its effects are sinister – even in their subtlety. Since 2000, 54 neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., have been characterized as gentrified, a steep increase from five in the 1990s.

Washington and a few of its suburban communities like Silver Spring have been the face of gentrification.

One of gentrification’s most visible and distinct elements are “hip” new restaurants that often negatively impact long-established local businesses. Yep, I’m talking about those upscale burger joints and artisan salad places that attract young professionals and “hipster” artists. “[O]nce-affordable ingredients have been discovered by trendy chefs, and have been transformed into haute cuisine,” cultural critic Mikki Kendall explains. “Food is facing gentrification that may well put traditional meals out of reach

for those who created the recipes.”

Similarly, these urban communities are being whitewashed of their vivid cultures. Some of these communities have long-established histories of people banding together to “build a community through strife,” such as black people in Harlem, New York, and Latinxs in San Francisco’s Mission District, explains Everyday Feminism. When gentrification occurs, these people of color are made to feel like outsiders in their own homes. Everyday Feminism dubs this “new-wave colonialism,” which affects businesses, schools and the overall atmospheres of these neighborhoods.

When construction firms and business developers allow their profit-driven desires to seep into these already-vulnerable neighborhoods, they are only dividing the communities that have long called these places home.

Downtown Silver Spring has not yet completely lost its character, but I can’t say that it’s the same kingdom my friends and I so instinctively claimed. There’s a Cava now, and the shopping center has been completely remodeled. Just last week, I found myself strolling along the same storefronts I roamed as high school royalty. I hope the younger students who call it home will have the same opportunity to do so. marismedina29@gmail.com

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North Korean human trafficking spans the globe Reuven Bank @moneyindabank97 Opinion editor

In 2014, an overburdened and ill-equipped North Korean welder died of severe burns while working in a hazardous shipyard. At first glance, this heartbreaking story appeared anything but uncommon.

Under the reign of authoritarian tyrant Kim Jong Un, the hermit kingdom has continued a decades-old campaign of “systematic starvation, torture, rape and many executions” against its substantial population of political prisoners, which to this day hovers around 100,000 strong, according to The Guardian.

Life above the 38th parallel can be extinguished with such routine frequency that few outside the world’s most secretive dictatorship notice when a worker vanishes on the job. But this welder didn’t perish in the factories of Pyongyang; rather, he burned to death in the heart of the European Union.

To fund exorbitant military expenditures amid an intense international sanctions regime, North Korea runs an extensive network of human capital exportation. More than 50,000 Korean nationals involuntarily labor abroad, silently maintaining the infrastructure of more than a dozen nations, ranging from Mongolia to Malta. Predictably, these workers toil through 12-hour shifts, only to return to cramped sleeping quarters, chafing under their constant armed supervision. As a token of its appreciation, Kim’s government confiscates 90 percent or more of these workers’ respective salaries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue for the cash-strapped dictatorship.

Most of the host countries complicit in this slave trade demonstrate few qualms about compromising human rights standards for the prospect of cheap labor. Because of this, international condemnations toward major offenders, such as China and Russia, remain perpetually lost in translation.

But even in Poland, a developed democracy with full EU membership status, the allure of discount workers prevails over corporations’ moral compasses. It was here, in the industrial port city of Gdansk, that the unfortunate welder was carelessly immolated on the job. In the past decade, 32 corporations have employed North Korean laborers within Polish borders, often coordinating their labor acquisitions directly with the Korean government. When questioned about the plight of her company’s foreign work force, one corporate executive responded with almost laughably disprovable claims — “They go out, go shopping, go sightseeing.”

Although Poland eventually ceased issuing new visas to North Korean workers in 2016, this anecdote highlights the pernicious imperceptibility of human trafficking around the globe.

The world’s most notoriously petulant dictator funneled 800 blackmailed laborers into a liberal, core economic zone — one so rife with business regulations it prodded half of Britain to support this man — and few Poles batted an eye. As long as Kim Jong Un can capitalize on our collective consumer penchant for willful ignorance, he will continue reaping the benefits of his contemporary slavery empire for years to come. opinionumdbk@gmail.com

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On Israel Fest and boycotts Moshe Klein @moshe_klein Columnist

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We need better data on hate crimes Jack Lewis @coatrackjack Columnist

“Whites only” scrawled on the wall of a Minnesota high school bathroom.

A woman’s hijab yanked by a white man in California. A black homeless man killed with a sword in New York. These are just a few examples of the surge in hate crimes following the 2016 presidential election.

Many of us saw this uptick documented on social media, as white supremacists became further emboldened after President Trump’s victory. However, much of this evidence remained anecdotal, and while it is crucial we tell the stories of hate crime victims, anecdotes alone will not suffice. The months following the election have been a reminder that we need reliable and comprehensive national data on hate crimes.

Our government has huge gaps in its hate crime data. What little information it does possess is often unreliable. Even FBI Director James Comey admitted there was a problem, saying, “We need to do a better job of tracking and reporting hate crimes to fully understand what is happening in our communities and how to stop it.” The responsibility must fall on federal agencies that, at a minimum, should demand that local and state law enforcement provide data. Currently, more than 3,000 state and local agencies don’t report hate crimes to the FBI at all, and little is being done to fix that. Other agencies will report

data, but provide information that is clearly inaccurate. For example, in 2015, Mississippi reported zero hate crimes, and no further investigations took place.

Some make the argument that hate crimes are inherently difficult to track. The FBI defines a hate crime as a traditional crime motivated by bias “against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.” The hatred itself is not a crime, but it is crucial that we understand when crimes are motivated by hate to effectively prevent them and keep vulnerable communities safe. Though the question of motivation has the potential to make classification challenging, there is nothing ambiguous about the actions of a man in Colorado who smashed the windows of a mosque and threw a Bible inside, or about a man in Florida who tried to set fire to a store he thought was Muslim-owned to “do his part for America.” These hate crimes need federal attention and are not difficult to define. The white supremacists committing hate crimes in the age of Trump are clear about their reasoning and proud of their behavior. The FBI and all law enforcement agencies have a duty to protect marginalized populations who are now at an even greater risk.

The first step to doing that is gathering better data.

ProPublica, a nonprofit organization focused on investigative journalism, has launched a program called “Documenting Hate” to

tackle this issue. They are leading a critical movement with a wide range of partners to create a hate crime database. In addition to investigative journalists, they are looking for “volunteers, including journalism students throughout the country” to contribute. They are stepping up where our nation’s law enforcement has failed, and it’s up to all of us to join the effort. We must continue to demand more of our government, while also eliminating the expectation that they alone can solve the problem. We must be vigilant in our own communities to monitor and report hate crimes so the data will reflect the truth. In doing so, we can draw law enforcement’s attention and resources to hate crimes. We must make stopping these offenses a political, financial and moral necessity for our government.

We cannot be sidetracked by those who would try to dismiss the threat of hate crimes and seek comfort in their ignorance. These offenses are not just individual incidents. They are not limited to certain communities. They cannot be ignored. Hatred toward marginalized groups has always been normalized in America, and a focus on preventing hate crimes is long overdue. Today we have the resources to more accurately gauge the reality of crime in America and take steps to address it. That begins with better data, and better data begins with conscious citizens. jlewis20@umd.edu

On Tuesday, the Jewish Student Union held its annual Israel Fest, an event “celebrating the culture, history and people of Israel.”

After protesting last year, Students for Justice in Palestine, along with other student groups, held a Teach-In to boycott Israel Fest. The University of Maryland Muslim Political Alliance and SJP released an important statement on April 27 addressing why they were compelled to boycott Israel Fest.

It is no secret that I am Jewish and that I have serious issues with contemporary Israel. In the past few years, Israel Fest has generally avoided politics and seemingly swept the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the plight of Palestinians under the rug.

The MPA points this out in its address, and it is a fair and important criticism of Israel Fest. The group also points out that Israel’s policies toward Palestinians have often violated human rights and resulted in the death of thousands of Palestinians. However, to end the conversation here presents an unfair, simplistic and superficial perspective on the conflict.

There are three important points made in advocating for the boycott. First, proponents of the boycott claim power dynamics place the burden of blame exclusively on Israel. Second, they claim the boycott is not anti-Semitic. And lastly, they claim Israel Fest excuses Israel of its human rights violations and oppression of Palestinians. It is prudent to respond to all three.

The issue with citing power dynamics is that it trivializes the cost beared by both sides and therefore distorts history.

Neither Israelis nor Palestinians have a monopoly on suffering. Neither were always innocent players in the conflict, and both occasionally presented dangers to each other even before 1948 and the occupation. It is important to understand that neither Palestinians nor Jews can be exclusively blamed for the conflict, as it was in reality manufactured by the British, who made dishonest promises to both sides. Jews sacrificed immensely to gain independence from the British occupation, and while the power dynamics are in Israel’s favor now, that was not the reality for the first 20 years of its existence. To play the game of power dynamics and accuse Israel of being “undeniably responsible for the displacement,

imprisonment, and killing of thousands of Palestinians,” without mentioning the percentageofthosedisplaced,imprisoned and killed who were terrorists targeting innocent civilians, is to have a simplistic and revisionist reading of history.

To respond to the question of antiSemitism, let me make this clear: Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic. What is anti-Semitic is believing Israel does not have a right to exist. Israel is the Jewish homeland and the state holds both cultural and religious significance to Jews.

Jews in diaspora had been trying to return for 2,000 years since their expulsion by the Romans. To dispute Israel’s right to exist is to dispute the Jewish connection to the land — both a core tenet of the Jewish faith and a fact supported by a plethora of both archaeological and historical evidence. One can hate the state of Israel, but to deny its right to exist is a different issue. To disregard the facts, deny the Jewish narrative and delegitimize Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitic.

Lastly, I am disappointed Israel Fest has not acknowledged Israel’s history with the Palestinian people. Israel Fest needs to be better at acknowledging the failings and challenges of the state. At the same time,celebrating Israel is important to Jews because the state represents the historic realization of Jewish aspirations.

When Jews finally gained independence from British occupation, re-establishing Jewish sovereignty in their homeland, they rightfully celebrated. And on Israeli Independence Day, Jews again celebrate this anniversary of the Jewish state. While certain activities in Israel Fest cheapen the Israeli narrative and don’t tell a compelling Jewish story — a large frustration of mine — that does not change the fact that Jews have a right to celebrate.

The challenge remains how Jews can celebrate the existence of the state of Israel without marginalizing Palestinian faculty and students on campus.

This is an important question that addresses both the very real grievances of Palestinians and the important role Israel plays in the Jewish narrative. Hopefully, groups can come together to make a more holistic celebration in the future — one that both allows Jews to celebrate their homeland and its culture while simultaneously recognizing its problems as well. mosheylklein@gmail.com

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Capital Bikeshare to hit PG in 2018 Capital BikeMiranda Jackson share, a program that allows @thedbk people to rent For The DBK and return bicycles between Prince George’s County and Washington, D.C., will launch in 2018.

However, the program, which currently operates in Arlington, Montgomery, Alexandria and Fairfax counties along with Washington, D.C., will not be available in College Park until the following year, according to city officials. The bikes will first be available at the National Harbor, as well as along Route 1 from Mount Rainier to Riverdale Park next spring.

Residents of the remaining regions of Prince George’s County, including College Park, Greenbelt and Langley Park, will see accessibility within these areas in 2019.

These plans will install 670 bikes across 67 stations.

College Park is familiar with bike-sharing programs. In 2016, the University of Maryland and the City of College Park collaborated with Zagster, a bikesharing company, to introduce mBike, a bike-sharing program with 14 stations across campus and the city, including locations such as McKeldin Mall, as well as Guilford Drive and the College Park Metro station.

City planning officials reached by

out to companies to propose a bike-share program in 2014, Mayor Patrick Wojahn said. The original plan was to put Capital Bikeshare in this city, but supplier conflicts led city planning officials to choose a different provider — Zagster, Wojahn said.

With Capital Bikeshare, some mBike territories could overlap, Wojahn said. In efforts to resolve this, Wojahn said it is possible Capital Bikeshare will replace mBike entirely, because it was designed to be a threeyear pilot program.

“We may have both programs running side-by-side, if we decide that’s the best way to do it,” Wojahn said. “There are pros and cons we need to work through.”

Sophomore accounting major Allison Conde said she doesn’t see the market for these sorts of programs in the city.

“I don’t know anyone that uses the current [program] and I don’t see that many people on them, so I don’t think that [a new one] is really necessary,” Conde said.

Both bike-share programs have a similar renting process, requiring riders to purchase either a membership or day pass.

But there is a key difference between mBike and Capital Bikeshare, which will be kiosk-style, said Jon Terbush, communications manager at Zagster. All of the locking software is based in the docking

hollywood station whereas mBike has an individual lock system on each bike, Terbush said.

In addition, Capital Bikeshare riders are limited to 30-minute trips, and must lock the bike into a designated station. The rider will then have to rent out a new bike if the trip expires but they are not yet at their destination.

“It forces riders to plan their trips around the stations and not where they actually want to go,” Terbush said.

However, Zagster does not impose a limit on the length or time of trips; instead, the rider gets the first hour free and pays an extra $3 for every additional hour, with a max of $24 for a trip of any length. Users are also not limited to park the bike at a designated station as it has an exterior lock, which allows it to be locked onto anything.

The hope is for this regional program to reach members of the community who are unable to access or are not using mBike, Wojahn said, and give them the opportunity to bike into Washington, D.C. City officials will make the final decision on whether the two companies will work simultaneously before the contract with mBike expires, which is somenewsumdbk@gmail.com

Council tables project to await public reaction The CollLaura Spitalniak e g e P a r k @LauraSpitalniak City Council decided to Staff writer wait for more community feedback before proceeding on the Hollywood Streetscape project, following a concept presentation Tuesday night.

“Initially, when the planning study was presented to the community, there was a lot of enthusiasm for this,” Terry Schum, the city’s planning director, said during the meeting.

“Otherwise this design effort won’t be under way. We’re at the critical moment in the project when we have to decide how we want to move forward.”

Created in October 2014, the project aims to revitalize College Park’s Hollywood Commercial District by adding more public spaces and improving existing features to make the area more attractive to residents and visitors.

Missing or narrow sidewalks, overhead electric lines and stormwater drainage problems were among a few of the area’s difficulties identified in a presentation from the Hollywood Streetscape Revitalization group at an April 13 community meeting.

The project’s first phase looks to improve Rhode Island Avenue usability and upgrade by

the intersections of Rhode Island Avenue and Niagara Road, as well as Edgewood Road and Narragansett Parkway.

Another large feature is a wellness circuit aimed to run between Narragansett Parkway and Muskogee Street. The outdoor fitness trail is designed around the existing playground and resources and will feature exercise stations to assist with workouts.

District 1 Councilwoman Christine Nagle referred to the proposal as “a very attractive plan” and asked about potential recurring upkeep costs for the exercise equipment.

“This equipment is made to be in the elements,” said Megan Maffeo, a senior associate and landscape architect with Floura Teeter. “We don’t expect a lot of maintenance will be needed.”

On May 1, District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir posted on his website that the Hollywood Streetscape Project will be allocated $1 million in the city’s budget for fiscal 2018.

The second phase of the project includes transitioning service roads into linear parklets with shaded pavilions, bike racks and potentially a bike repair station.

“These service roads, because they are unnecessary for access, present a really unique opportunity to do something really great

for the commercial district — something that has been lacking in the downtown,” Schum said.

Floura Teeter, a landscape architecture firm based in Baltimore, was hired for concept preparation and design work. Zolna Russell, the firm’s sustainability director, incorporated room for public art in the designs and emphasized its potential uses.

“Public art really enlivens places, and Prince George’s County certainly has an amazing wealth of local artists who are more than qualified to create something unique for Hollywood,” Russell said.

Even with the outline in hand, some council members, such as Nagle and Kabir, expressed concern that not enough resident input had been incorporated.

“I don’t think the delay would be significant if we took some time to have a community meeting and put this information online for feedback,” Mayor Patrick Wojahn said.

Once the city approves the plans, architects will prepare construction documents.

“I’m sorry for slowing you down but I think that we really need to get the community on board with this,” said Scott Somers, the city’s manager. “I just don’t feel like we’re quite there yet.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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pruitt From p. 1 own voice,” said Pruitt, a junior economics and government and politics major.

As a freshman, Pruitt served as SGA parliamentarian for the 2014-15 academic year, before becoming deputy city affairs liaison his sophomore year.

Pruitt then took on an executive cabinet position as the vice president of student affairs before running for president with the One Party for the upcoming academic year.

After working with Pruitt this year as a member of the student affairs committee, Elizabeth Crosley, the new off-campus neighboring representative, said he inspired her to run for a legislative position.

fest From p. 1 without being too political — to show people what the culture is really like without the politics involved,” she said. “Everyone knows it’s when the Jews have the weird camel, but I think it’s very important to understand that Israel is more than just the headlines of ‘this person was bombed today’ or ‘sanctions.’”

JSU increased security at the event this year after protests led by Students for Justice in Palestine were held at last year’s Israel Fest. Last year, students protested on McKeldin Mall with megaphones and signs. University Police arrived at the scene to keep protesters from blocking walkways. No one was arrested, but an officer did push a student toward the grass.

Greenberg said they weren’t prepared for those protests.

This year, however, JSU had discussions with SJP about

milkboy From p. 1 Pe r fo r m i n g A r ts Ce n te r, which will schedule 15 performances at the venue during its 2017-18 season, announced on May 23. MilkBoy will also arrange various shows.

There will be a variety of genres and performances to host at MilkBoy ArtHouse, including jazz and global music, as well as low-tech theater performances,

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“Every time he talks, he inspires me to make changes and voice concerns,” said Crosley, a sophomore criminology major.

“I’m excited to be a part of his presidency because I know he can do such great things.”

Fasika Delessa, the SGA’s former vice president of academic affairs, addressed the new legislature with advice, which included the importance of treating one another with respect.

“I remember sitting where you are today as a freshman years ago and being told that the SGA is what you make of it, and while that is true, I think that is only half the story,” said Delessa, a junior management major. “So much of the SGA is not only what you make of it, but is really grounded in teamwork and what coming together

means and being surrounded by these people.”

Christine Hagan, who is taking over Delessa’s position, said she would like to continue a lot of the things Delessa started working on, such as increasing textbook affordability for students and proposing an initiative for a student shuttle from the campus to Annapolis. Hagan said she looks forward to initiating her own ideas as well, such as diversifying SGA committees by reaching out to more students.

“I want to make sure I am doing more outreach and bringing more students into SGA and get more diverse students, and to get a better sense of what students want,” said Hagan, a junior environmental science and government and politics major.

During the inauguration, Clement said she was proud of the initiatives the SGA accomplished this year, including supporting sexual misconduct prevention training, raising money for the Student Leadership Grant and establishing an online mental health information portal.

Madelyn Schaeffer attended the event to support Crosley, but noted she “liked a lot of things on the One Party’s platform,” including promises to improve campus Wi-Fi. The sophomore public policy major is excited to hear more about the SGA’s plans, as she knew little about the SGA before Crosley became involved, she said.

Outgoing student body President Katherine Swanson, in her final speech to the SGA,

said the organization should work together like a family.

“The best thing they can do is become friends and help each other and work together in that way,” said Swanson, a senior government and politics major.

“But I want them to remember to work as hard as they can and that this is an opportunity that a lot of people don’t get, so they should make the most of it.”

how both groups can express themselves respectfully in an effort to avoid a repeat of last year’s Israel Fest. The festival and boycott remained separate, and there was no police intervention.

“We’re having our event here; they’re having their event there,” JSU President Sam Fishman said. “Neither is getting in the way of anything.

It’s been very peaceful.”

Hundreds of feet down the mall, more than 100 students gathered in front of McKeldin Library to boycott the event.

Several student groups endorsed the boycott, including Students for Justice in Palestine, the Muslim Political Alliance, the Organization of Arab Students, Political Latinxs United for Movement and Action in Society, the Student Labor Action Project, the Prison Resistance Project, Community Roots and the UMD International Socialist Organization.

Members of SJP chalked “Boycott Israel Fest” all over

the campus in the week preceding the festival, advertising a teach-in instead. The teach-in outside McKeldin Library officially started at 3 p.m., but some people were there from 10 a.m. when Israel Fest started, said Sarah Eshera, president of Muslim Political Alliance and a boycott participant.

SJP and the Muslim Political Alliance released a statement coinciding with the boycott, which was distributed to attendees and students walking by and read aloud.

“The University of Maryland does not stage an annual celebration of any country except for the country of Israel,” the statement read, “and we find this not only unnecessary, but insulting to students and faculty who come from the occupied territories of Palestine and Gaza and who have suffered a great deal of loss and pain as a result of a brutal occupation.”

This university does not hold Israel Fest. Instead, JSU and

other organizations and clubs, such as Maryland Hillel, host the event each year.

Members of JSU and SJP had discussions before the event, but Eshera said the union wasn’t compliant with some of the suggestions they proposed, such as changing the name of the event to “Jewish Culture Festival.”

She added the protesters don’t have a problem with Judaism, but they have a problem with Israel. JSU declined to change the name, Eshera said.

“A lot of times people will say it’s a cultural celebration, not a political one, but the reality is that you can’t separate the two, especially when it comes to this region,” Eshera, a junior mathematics and philosophy major, said.

“Israel is a very oppressive country to many people, and we don’t see a reason to be celebrating it.”

The current Israeli–Palestinian conflict centers on land ownership and control of the

West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

While Palestinians control the West Bank, it is under Israeli occupation. A proposed twostate solution would establish Palestine as an independent state but leave remaining land to Israel, while the one-state solution advocates all land to go to one nation or the other.

Mandy Stussman, a junior sociology major, organized and participated in the boycott, calling it “a demonstration of what Israel really means to a lot of people.”

Stussman, who is Jewish, said she grew up as “more of a Zionist” — Israel’s national ideology that moves to create a Jewish state in the Middle East — but changed her perspective as she researched the issue.

“The more I learned about the conflict, the more my opinions about Israel have shifted,” she said, noting it wasn’t primarily a religious debate. “Really, this is a human’s rights issue.”

About 100 people — including Jewish students — came to the boycott and listened to the talks, which focused on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as the aggression and human rights violations committed against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Israel Fest saw no physical confrontations.

For senior physiology and neurobiology major Angela Wu, the main benefit of Israel Fest was the education incorporated into the day — learning about Israeli Independence Day and Israeli culture.

“I think it’s critical, especially given the climate that we’re living in today,” she said. “Having people exposed to different cultures and different aspects of other people’s lives just to understand their perspectives, I think that builds a lot for our campus community.”

Bondarev Rapach said. While these shows are planned to begin playing during the fall semester, she said there’s a possibility of pop-up shows over the summer.

These performances will be ticketed, said Bill Hanson, coowner of MilkBoy. The price range has not yet been determined, Hanson said, but the venue aims to keep costs reasonable so as not to “price people out.”

Though no artists are currently planned to perform

before September, the venue’s restaurant is fully operational, offering “elevated and inspired American food,” Hanson said.

The restaurant is open Sunday through Wednesday from 11 a.m. to midnight, and Thursday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.

During the restaurant’s soft opening on April 29 and its opening day, Hanson said he saw a mix of University of Maryland students and local residents enjoying the space and the food.

“It’s been flattering and an honor to see the enthusiasm with which we’ve been received so far,” Hanson said.

“Everybody walks in with a smile and leaves with a smile, it’s been great.”

The restaurant’s spring menu includes a variety of housemade soups, salads and sandwiches, as well as options for fresh donuts. So far, menu favorites have been the summer salad, cheesesteak and the corn and crab chowder, Hanson said.

Junior biochemistry major Mitchell Porter said he enjoyed picking out beers with the restaurant’s draftist on opening day.

“I really like how it’s a new bar that’s open and different from the other ones,” Porter said. “The atmosphere of it, it’s more casual, I’d expect an older kind of crowd to come through.”

The venue is a great place to bring friends and family, said senior family science major Adri Mnkande, adding that her

experience at MilkBoy ArtHouse was unlike anything else in the city.

“We completely forgot that we were in College Park,” Mnkande said. “While sitting in here and just being around in here, we thought we were in D.C. It was a completely different atmosphere than all the other places around here. It was very refreshing and very nice.”

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corrections Due to a reporting error, the story “SGA votes to pay financial affairs VP” on page 2 of last week’s Diamondback incorrectly listed the position’s proposed payment.

It is $10,18o per year and, according to the SGA, works out to $5,090 per year after taxes.

Additionally, due to a design error, a chart of voter turnout for the SGA financial affairs vice presidential race in the graphic “SGA voter turnout 2017” on page 3 of last week’s Diamondback incorrectly listed the constituency’s Fall 2016 population. It is 28,472.

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Lee leads Terps past Towson Sophomore hits go-ahead home run in Szefc’s squad’s 6-5 victory Maryland

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30th win resembled its previ-

Scott Gelman baseball third ous midweek contests, when the @Gelman_Scott b a s e m a n A J squad struggled to hang on to an Lee smiled as he early advantage.

Staff writer rounded third base after belting a go-ahead home run in the eighth inning against Towson on Wednesday night.

He jumped and hugged center fielder Zach Jancarski after crossing home plate. He swung his arm in the air twice and then bumped right fielder Marty Costes’ chest. Lee’s sixth home run this season lifted the Terps to a 6-5 win over Towson at Ripken Stadium. After failing to maintain a pair of earlier leads, Lee’s blast over the leftfield wall lifted Maryland to its third Ripken Cup victory.

From the outset, Maryland’s

CROSS From p. 13 doubleheader against Howard on April 26. After practice and study hall, Kassidy Cross’ mom drove her to her sister’s game. When the pair saw each other, they ran toward each other and hugged. Then, Cross taped each of her sister’s at-bats.

“It’s really fulfilling to see her succeed without me, because we had so much success together,” Cross said.

“I just enjoyed the fact we can still enjoy the game without each other.”

NORTHERN DOMINANCE Cross and her friend, Natalie LaPlaca, were the only freshmen to make the Northern varsity team. At a practice early in the season, her coach, Robert Radford, told the team if the newcomers didn’t get their bunts down in fair territory, the rest of the squad would run until they did.

“But thankfully, we got them both down,” Cross said. “He was willing to put the pressure on us, and we were able to rise to the challenge.”

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Maryland baseball coach John Szefc, who is now the lone manager in Maryland history to post five consecutive 30-win seasons, said Tuesday that righthander Ryan Hill would start the contest. It was the earliest he’d made such an announcement ahead of a midweek game since right-handers Hunter Parsons and Cameron Enck struggled to secure the job.

Hill, who has emerged as a consistent middle reliever for the Terps this season, kept the game close through the first few innings, allowing Szefc and assistant coach Ryan Fecteau to use several other relievers as the

game progressed. He allowed just one hit over two scoreless innings.

However, Maryland’s offense had difficulty scoring against Tigers right-hander Matt Allen, who entered Wednesday with a 6.31 ERA. Shortstop Kevin Smith’s fourth-inning sacrifice fly and first baseman Brandon Gum’s double down the thirdbase line in the sixth provided

without expectations. She didn’t know if she would play, or even make cuts.

But she played all 23 games, hit .519 and scored 34 runs from the leadoff spot, both team highs. The Patriots went undefeated and won their sixth straight state championship.

Cross and her sister helped Northern to state championships in their sophomore and junior years, too. Radford, now an assistant coach at Catholic University, laid the groundwork before them.

He scheduled games against teams from different states to find the highest competition.

Of all the championships, Cross’ junior year stands out the most. After she hit a leadoff double, she swiped third base and scored the first run of the game. But in the bottom half of the first, her sister allowed four runs to C. Milton Wright.

N o r t h e r n wa s a b l e to bounce back, though. Kaylee Cross pitched six scoreless f ra m e s a n d t h e P a t r i o ts added eight unanswered runs in the final three innings to clinch their eighth straight state championship.

“There’s just a lot of pressure on you to keep the streak alive,” Cross’ dad said. “They

just didn’t want to be the group that got there and didn’t finish it.”

Northern has a lineage of softball players at Maryland.

Beth Radford, the former Northern coach’s daughter, played at Maryland, and Lindsey and Kaitlyn Schmeiser competed at the school. Cross grew up watching them play at Northern, and they also played in her travel ball league.

“It’s really cool to say, ‘I’m from where KK and Lu are from,’” Cross said.

During Callaway’s second stint as a Maryland assistant coach, she held a camp at the university, which the Cross twins attended. It put them on the radar of then-coach Laura Watten as freshmen. Amid coaching turnovers, Cross remained on the Terps’ radar.

Fo r m e r c o a c h C o u r t ney Scott Deifel offered the sisters walk-on spots their junior year. While Kaylee Cross committed to Mount St. Mary’s, Kassidy Cross signed for the Terps.

When coach Julie Wright took the helm in 2015, she reached out to Cross to assure her the offer would be honored.

“Her heart was set here,” Cross’ dad said.

third baseman aj lee holds the team’s third-best batting average. He gave his squad the edge in the eighth inning before right-hander Ryan Selmer earned the save. reid poluhovich/the diamondback most of the offense.

But a 3-1 lead wasn’t large enough for Maryland’s busy bullpen, which allowed three runs in the seventh. By the time Towson left fielder A.J. Gallo singled to give the Tigers a one-run edge in the frame, Maryland had used five pitchers.

But the offense rallied late, largely due to a burst that started in the seventh, when Smith hit

a sacrifice fly to tie the game at four. With Allen out of the game in the eighth, the offense completed its comeback via Lee’s home run and designated hitter Will Watson’s bases-loaded, RBI single, pushing the Terps’ lead to two.

Right-hander Mike Rescigno’s two-strikeout, scoreless eighth inning kept the game within reach, and after

he allowed a run with an out in the ninth, right-hander Ryan Selmer secured the win.

Catcher’s interference and an infield single, during which Lee collided with Smith loaded the bases with two outs, but right fielder Colin Dyer struck out to clinch the Terps’ ninth win in their past 11 games. sgelmandbk@gmail.com

outfielder kassidy cross was one of two freshman to make the Northern High School varsity team, hitting .519. photo courtesy of david cross

The trip to the stadium allowed her dad to see how much the venue had changed since his last visit, and it served as further bonding experience between the former and current players.

They related experiences with college ball, including what it’s like to be a walk-on, how to balance school and their experiences traveling.

“You couldn’t be equal to a scholarship player, you always had to be a tad bit better,” her dad said. “And in the end that kind of gave her a chip on her shoulder to work hard.”

FAMILY LEGACY Hearing the stories of her dad’s experiences made Cross Cross’ dad hadn’t watched a game at Bob “Turtle” Smith want to play in college.

“He always told me to work Stadium since he played his final baseball game there in hard,” Cross said, “and the 1984. After Cross’ softball chips will fall in their place.” game finished against Ohio State in March, the freshman STILL SOFTBALL proposed the pair attend the Terps’ baseball game against Cross attended a Maryland Michigan. softball camp in July. She was

primed to play for the team, and was “here and doing nothing,” so she participated.

Other players were impressed with her performance and asked if she was playing in college.

“Yeah,” she said, “I’ll actually be here in the fall.”

After her sophomore year state title with Northern, Cross posted a photo at the Maryland Softball Stadium on Instagram with the caption, “Maybe I’ll go somewhere with this.”

But she never thought she would stand on that field as a Division-I contributor.

After playing in the summer camp, it hit her that she would continue a family legacy at Maryland.

She wanted to prove herself for the fall season, knowing she had a decent chance at earning playtime with only two returning outfielders.

So, during the summer she made the trip to College Park

frequently to work out, and she developed a bond with assistant coach Lisa Carey. The pair worked on hitting and Cross learned specific drills to use. The whole family got on board with the idea that as a freshman, she had to be just a little bit better to earn playing time. But she wanted the ch allenge o f playing higher competition.

Since then, she’s started 39 of Maryland’s 48 games this season, and her .362 on-base percentage is the second-highest on the team. She came to College Park with memories at Maryland, but she’s made new ones since. Against Ohio State in March, she made two diving catches in center field, igniting flashbacks of her time as a high school star.

“It’s still softball,” Cross said.

“It’s still the same game I’ve always played.” akostkadbk@gmail.com

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Slocum transfers to Oregon State Freshman star moves closer to home Former Maryland women’s basketball guard Destiny S l o c u m w i l l t ra n s fe r to Oregon State, she announced on Twitter Monday.

Last month, Slocum announced she would leave M a r yl a n d a f te r w i n n i n g WBCA National Freshman of the Year. It was widely reported the Meridian, Idaho, native had a desire to play closer to home.

Slocum started all but one by

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game this season, averaging 11.5 points and six assists.

Her 204 assists were the most in the country for a rookie and a program freshman record, as were her 71 3-pointers.

Oregon State went 31-5 in the 2016-17 season under coach Scott Rueck, losing to Florida State in the Sweet 16.

The Beavers were the Pac-12 regular season champions for the third consecutive year.

ESPN ranked Slocum the No. 7 player in the country of her high school class, and

she headlined Maryland’s No. 1-ranked recruiting class last year.

S l o c u m c o m m i t te d to Washington in high school before decommitting and s i g n i n g w i t h t h e Te r p s.

Last weekend, she reportedly visited Arkansas, where former Huskies coach Mike Neighbors is the head coach.

Two weeks ago, Maryland signed four-star class of 2017 point guard Channise Lewis, the only member of the Terps’ 2017 recruiting class. jcrabtreedbk@gmail.com midfielder ben chisolm received support from his teammates when his father passed away in 2014. photo courtesy of maryland athletics

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Terps win three Big Ten awards

Tillman, Rambo, Muller take home season honors Maryland DanielBernstein m e n ’ s l a @danbernsteinumd crosse coach Seniorstaffwriter John Tillman was named Big Ten Coach of the Year, while attackman Matt Rambo was awarded Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year and defender Tim Muller was tabbed Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year on Tuesday.

Si nce ta k in g c h a rge of the Terps in 2010, Tillman has guided the program to a 90-29 record. He’s led the by

team to five Final Fours and four NCAA championship appearances.

This year, T illman has managed Maryland to a 10-3 mark and third straight conference regular-season title, earning him his first-ever Big Ten recognition.

Meanwhile, Rambo has paced the Terps’ revamped offense, which has scored over a goal per game more than it did last year. The senior ranks first on the team in goals (33), assists (30) and

shots (104). Against Johns Hopkins, the senior broke the program’s all-time points record with his second of three goals.

M u l l e r p i c k e d u p t wo ground balls and caused a turnover in the 12-5 win over the Blue Jays, continuing his impressive season as the veteran anchor of Maryland’s defense. Overall, the senior has picked up 23 ground balls and caused 13 giveaways. dbernsteindbk@gmail.com

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a p p ea ra n c e s a n d s c o re d t h re e go a l s during that span.

B u t i n p ra c t i c e , where Chisolm helped the starters prepare for their opponents, he improved at dodging and drawing defenders out of position.

While he admitted facing Maryland’s top defenders was a challenge, going up against All-Americans such as defensive midfielder Isaiah Davis-Allen and defender Tim Muller helped him grow.

“It helps you build the confidence you n e e d fo r wh e n yo u do get on the field,” Chisolm said. “If you beat one of those guys, i t ’s n o t h i n g l i g h t .

inspirational figure.

“He’s a great guy to look at if you don’t play as a freshman or a sophomore,” Rambo said. “You can always look at him as an example and say, ‘Look at Ben Chisolm. He didn’t play his first few years.

Now he’s on the second line [making an impact].’”

Though Chisolm’s father attended most of his lacrosse games growing up, he never witnessed his son play at Maryland due to various sicknesses. He didn’t get to see Chisolm experience the senior season he had always dreamed about. men’s lacrosse coach But Chisolm is still playing stronger physique to better for his dad as he’s found results on the field. He’s success. played in all 13 games, setting “This year and last year, I career highs in goals (6) and think about how he’s able to assists (4). watch us,” Chisolm said. “I Attackman Matt Rambo, think a lot about him looking who lived with Chisolm when down on us and just being his father died and is one of there.”

Chisolm’s best friends, views the fourth-year player as an dbernsteindbk@gmail.com They’re some of the best [defenders] in the nation.”

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Terps split games against Rutgers Wright’s squad remains in last place in the Big Ten with postseason near Maryland softball split its doubleheader with Rutgers o n We d n e s day to remain last in the Big Ten. The Terps won game one, 4-3, before falling by the same score in the second contest.

In the first game, Rutgers outfielder Carly Todd reached first base on an error in the sixth inning with the game tied at three. After stealing second, she advanced to third on a throwing error.

But when Scarlet Knights infielder Bridget Carr laid down a suicide squeeze with one out, pitcher Hannah Dewey fielded the ball in front of the circle and passed it to catcher Kristina Dillard, who tagged the diving Todd to keep the score knotted at three.

Coach Julie Wright knew Rutgers coach Jay Nelson likes to run squeeze plays, so she checked her defense’s assignments before that sequence. “ S h e d i d a n i ce jo b o f challenging and going hard after the ball, and then made a great glove flip,” Wright said. “Usually when you make a great defensive play, a lot of times you come up [to bat], you’re locked in, and do by

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MEGAN From p. 14 start of her lacrosse career because she was so young.

However, she remembers her brother, Alex, insisting she would become a goalie because he played the same position.

When she got her chances in goal, if only for a half, Taylor was the “smallest, most unintimidating kid on the field,” Whittle said. But she made herself known.

Whittle said nobody at that age knew how to shoot or do much with their sticks, but Taylor, at least a year younger than the other players, was “making saves she probably shouldn’t be making.”

Taylor played for Hero’s Lacrosse Club early in her career before switching to M&D Lacrosse Club, where several current and former Terps developed.

Taylor’s eventual coach at M&D, Amanda Brady, said while watching Taylor play for Hero’s she would think, “Oh my gosh, that kid is amazing.”

Taylor made saves Brady wouldn’t expect a college goalie to perform.

“My dad and brother would say to me, ‘All right, yo u ’ re p re t t y d e c e n t a t goalie; you should just stay with it,’” Taylor said. “I was just like, ‘OK.’”

GROWING FROM AFAR While Taylor was performing beyond her years as a goalie, Whittle’s success as a scorer was evident.

The rec league mandated a team must complete three passes before it was allowed to score. Though the rule was meant to teach the players a b o u t ba l l m ove m e n t , i t frustrated Whittle because many of her teammates had difficulty catching. So, she improvised.

“I would throw it, someone would drop it, I would run and scoop it up,” Whittle said. She repeated that three times, then she would score.

Along with lacrosse, Whittle and Taylor played youth field hockey together, and Taylor said the game plan was similar in both. Hit or throw the ball to Whittle, let her run after it and watch her do the rest.

something great on offense.”

In the fifth, Dewey hit an RBI single to bring home the tying run. Then in the seventh, her two-out walk led to her scoring the goa h ea d r u n o n o u t f i e l d e r Sarah Calta’s RBI single into shallow left field.

Dewey threw six innings and allowed three runs. Despite giving up seven hits and three walks without a strikeout, she worked out of jams, “which is the mark of a pitcher having a good day,” Wright said.

Pitcher Madison Martin earned her fourth save of the year after retiring the Scarlet Knights (14-34, 5-15 Big Ten) in order in the seventh, securing the victory.

In the second game of the doubleheader, the Scarlet Knights took an early lead en route to a 4-3 win. After R u tge rs i n f i e l d e r N i co l e Bowman reached on a fielder’s choice in the second inning, outfielder Hailey Hoklotubbe hit an RBI single.

Rutgers then picked up a couple of runs off Maryland miscues. In the third, shortstop Anna Kufta’s error allowed designated hitter Rebecca Hall to advance from first to third, and she scored

“Now I look at her and she has, like, 100 goals a year,” Taylor said. “It’s fine though, not a big deal.”

After playing a season together under Chris Robinson with M&D early in their teenage years, Taylor dropped down to play for Brady with her own age group. Although they were apart, Whittle and Taylor continued to grow as lacrosse players.

Robinson said Whittle’s combination of speed and skill made her a force. She had “God-given speed and ability,” but she never stopped perfecting her craft.

In Whittle’s junior and senior years of high school, Robinson, the McDonogh School coach, saw significant improvements in her speed. Robinson was watching the Terps play at Penn State on April 20 when he noticed Whittle drive to goal looking for a shot from her natural right side. When the Nittany Lions blocked her off, she switched to her left and scored, a skill Robinson developed with her.

While Whittle continued to improve, Brady said Taylor was always “a force in the cage.”

Brady said Taylor’s confidence grew as she aged and developed a mentality that no shots would pass her. Robinson called it a bold personality statement, saying the goalie is either the hero or the villain, and Taylor usually ends up the former.

Brady said Taylor’s knowledge of angles and space often made up for the fact that Taylor, currently listed at 5-foot-3, was not the biggest goalie.

“Opponents never underestimate that kid,” Brady said.

“She’s fierce and mighty.”

REJOINING FORCES Though Whittle had a year’s head start, the two rejoined forces in College Park last season. They won the conference’s player of the year award for their respective positions as the Terps reached the national championship game.

This season, they’ve helped each other improve.

When Taylor allows a goal in practice, she tells the scorer how impressed she is. When she compliments Whittle, the junior gets extra excited because “that’s when you know you actually make a great shot.”

off Martin’s wild pitch. In the fourth, infielder Jordan Aughinbaugh bobbled the potential inning-ending grounder, allowing Todd to score after her leadoff double.

“We’ve got to play a bit better defense behind our pitching staff,” Wright said.

Maryland’s .944 fielding percentage is second-worst in the Big Ten. The Terps (11-36-1, 4-16) plated one run in the fifth after outfielder Destiney Henderson scored on a single from left fielder Amanda Brashear. But Hall smacked her 12th homer of the year to push the Scarlet Knights’ lead to 4-1.

Maryland loaded the bases in the seventh and added two runs. Kufta reached on a fielder’s choice to score infielder Brigette Nordberg, and Dewey drove home infielder Skylynne Ellazar with a single. But Dillard grounded out as the Terps suffered their seventh loss in the past nine games.

“We ran out of time, ran out of innings,” Wright said. “That’s exactly what I told them after the game. … We have to adjust sooner and make things happen earlier. Because, quite frankly, we could’ve won that game if we played nine [innings].” akostkadbk@gmail.com

Coaches criticize Whittle for not scoring in training, but she shrugs it off because Whittle said Taylor is “the best goalie in the world.”

Midfielder Zoe Stukenberg said the Terps run a drill in practice for attackers called “not for the goalie.” Goalies aren’t supposed to stress if the shots go in.

Even in that drill, Taylor makes stops.

The Terps boast the nation’s top scoring offense, and Whittle said it’s because of Taylor. Naturally, Taylor claims her success stems from the talented attackers she faces in practice and the strong defense in front of her.

Taylor’s relationship with her defenders has always been important to her. She developed handshakes or rituals with each of her M&D defenders, including Terps defender Meghan Doherty. To this day, the two do their special handshake before every game.

That camaraderie has driven Taylor to make a massive leap from her freshman season.

“She’s faced all the top shooters in the nation,” Reese said. “She’s come into this season playing at a whole other level.”

Meanwhile, Whittle is on the brink of becoming the sixth Terp to break the 200-goal mark. She’d be the only junior in program history to do so.

Stukenberg called Whittle a “force of nature” and said her mindset was always centered on becoming the best attacker in the country.

This season, Stukenberg believes Whittle’s repertoire has grown. Though she’s always been a dynamic attacker, the captain has seen Whittle’s game evolve beyond scoring goals, especially since she’s been faceguarded often since her freshman year.

“She’s done a really good job of working out of faceguards to get other people open,” Stukenberg said, “the kind of dirty work she doesn’t get as much credit for.”

Whittle and Taylor’s progression began when they were a step above the competition with the Green Gators. It’s continued through their second and third seasons in College Park as they helped lead the Terps to a third-straight unbeaten regular season.

outfielder kassidy cross and her twin sister, Kaylee, were inseperable growing up on and off the field. photo courtesy of david cross

cross From p. 14 “I’ve played against good people, and now I’m going to get to play against better people,” Cross thought when entering college. “I just wanted the challenge.”

“TWO PEAS IN A POD” “That girl can’t pitch every game,” Cross’ dad remembers an opposing coach protesting at a little league game.

The twins, Kassidy a n d K ayl e e C ro s s, looked so alike it was hard to distinguish who was pitching and who was catching. But the duo won the state championship — the

They find it funny that, with lacrosse’s offside rule, Whittle doesn’t enter Taylor’s end of the field, and as the goalie, Taylor doesn’t advance beyond the defensive area. Whichever

first of many in their careers — with their dad as the coach.

“You get to the point that I could go out and I could throw a ball at them as hard as I could, hit them as hard as I could,” their dad said, “and they could catch it and they could throw it.”

For Northern and the Bayside Blues, their travel team, the twins met at the pitcher’s mound and completed a handshake before every game. They first shook hands traditionally and then added fist bumps and a snap of their fingers.

The handshake was passed down through the family, originating with her dad and her grandpa.

“They were like two peas in a pod,” her dad said. “Kaylee wouldn’t start pitching until they did that.”

The Cross twins were about 6

when they first attended a camp run by former Maryland player and assistant coach Jillian Callaway. Throughout the years, the pair took hitting and pitching lessons.

Callaway noticed the girls were talented right away, calling them spitfires.

“They constantly wanted to win,” Callaway said. “Often it was the biggest battle between each other.”

Kassidy and Kaylee Cross played on every team together until college. Kassidy Cross walked on at Maryland while Kaylee Cross accepted a scholarship at Mount St. Mary’s.

Before separating, they did everything together, from wearing each other’s clothes to getting into occasional fights.

Mount St. Mary’s played a See cross, p. 10

side the ball is on, one enjoys “It’s good seeing Meg back watching the other. there,” Whittle said. “You’re “I like when it’s on [the at- always like, ‘Oh, she’s got it. tacking] side,” Taylor said. “I’m She’s fine. She’ll figure it out.’ like, ‘Ah, so relaxing.’ I get to watch some fun times.” swhooleydbk@gmail.com

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attacker megan whittle, left in both, and goalkeeper Megan Taylor played recreational lacrosse and field hockey growing up. They competed at different in-state high schools before arriving at Maryland. photos courtesy of maryland athletics

megan mania Megan Taylor, Megan Whittle continue childhood friendship in College Park

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egan Taylor couldn’t believe her eyes. All she could do was look at defender Nadine Hadnagy

for confirmation.

The Maryland women’s lacrosse goalkeeper had just watched attacker Megan Whittle rifle a shot from around the eightmeter arc into the top corner against Princeton on April 12. The goal was called back due to a shooting space violation, but Taylor didn’t care.

“I went up to her and was like, ‘Thank you for never doing that to me in practice,’” Taylor said. “I would literally close my eyes.”

But Whittle wouldn’t be scared to unleash that blast in training.

“Meg definitely would have stopped it,” Whittle said.

The Megans, despite their disagreement over that shot, are close friends and lynchpins for the No. 1 Terps, anchoring them on opposite ends of the field for the past two seasons.

Whittle led the team in scoring each of her first two campaigns and is on track to do so again this year. The junior stands three tallies away from 200 career goals, is the reigning Big Ten Attack Player of the Year and received her third nomination for the Tewaaraton Award.

In Taylor’s second season in goal, she’s grown from the Big Ten Goaltender of the Year as a freshman to one of the nation’s best.

Her 55.5 save percentage places her second in the country, and she had career performances against then-No. 4 Syracuse and No. 3 Florida, making 18 and 20 saves, respectively. She was also one of 25 players nominated for the award given to the nation’s top player.

Both have put together distinguished resumes since joining forces in College Park last season, but the Megan connection goes back further than their college careers.

AN EARLY BOND When the pair was about 6 or 7, they played for a Howard County recreational league team called the “Green Gators,” which brought inflatable gators to the

men’s lacrosse

games. They were just beginning their lacrosse careers, but the players saw the talent in each other.

Not before some missteps, though.

Every player was required to play a half as goalie. Because of her affection for scoring, Whittle thew a fit, but eventually gave in.

Whittle stood in goal with her hand on her hip and allowed about seven goals in a half. The Green Gators were undefeated that season, but their lone tie came when Whittle played in goal.

“I totally ruined that for the entire team,” Whittle laughed. “We should have had Meg in there.”

Meanwhile, Taylor barely recalled the See megan, p. 13

softball

Chisolm dedicates play to late father Former scout player develops into second-line midfielder entering playoffs After Maryl a n d m e n ’s lacrosse midfielder Ben Chisolm donned his gear before practice on Oct. 13, 2014, he received an unexpected call concerning his father, Gwyn Chisolm.

Ben Chisolm’s older brother informed him their father was dead.

While the 53-year-old had battled heart problems and been in and out of the hospital, the news surprised Chisolm, a freshman at the time.

C h i so l m t h rew h i s t ra i n i n g equipment to the ground, descended the stairs of the Varsity Team House and cried. Then, midfielder Nick Manis, who grew up near Chisolm’s hometown of Davidsonville, hugged him and told him the squad supported him.

“I’ll never forget that moment,” Chisolm said. “I was in one of the worst places I’ve ever been, and he was there to give me support.”

This season, Chisolm continues to hold the pain of losing his father, whom he called one of his greatest motivators. But with the support of his mother and three siblings, as well as his teammates, he’s carved a role as a second-line midfielder after three years on the scout team. He’ll look to continue progressing when the Terps play for their second consecutive Big Ten tournament title this weekend.

“It hasn’t happened easily for him,” coach John Tillman said. “He is a major success story. Just how by

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hard he’s worked and the sacrifices he’s made to be where he is … to me is pretty awesome.”

Chisolm shared a close relationship with his father. They built their bond during summer family fishing trips on the Chesapeake Bay. His father came to almost all of his lacrosse games when he was growing up. Often, he critiqued Chisolm’s on-field performances, trying to ensure his son was grateful for the opportunity to play.

A f te r h i s fa t h e r ’s d ea t h , Chisolm and his relatives continued to be grateful, making an effort to cherish each other.

Chisolm’s older brother, mother and sister have tried to attend more of his games over the past three years.

“It brought our family a lot closer together,” Chisolm said.

“Our family started talking every day … just to make sure we were OK and no one was allowed to be left behind.”

While Chisolm’s heartbreak took a toll, he also struggled to obtain playing time. As one of the smallest players on the squad when he arrived at Maryland, he remembered getting “bullied on the field.”

T h a t l a c k o f p hys i c a l i ty forced him to play on the scout team for his first three campaigns. He made just 16 of 56 See chisolm, p. 11 UMD

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outfielder kassidy cross holds the team’s second-best on-base percentage after winning three state championships at Maryland Softball Stadium with Northern High School. She didn’t earn a scholarship but has had a connection with this university since she was a child. photo courtesy of maryland athletics

crossing new roads Kassidy Cross transforms from recruited walk-on into freshman outfield starter

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utfielder Kassidy Cross trudged to the plate with two outs, the bases loaded and a tie game in the bottom of the seventh. The then-Northern High School freshman dug into the batter’s box with the state semifinal against River Hill on the line. The Patriots’ five-year Maryland 3A Title run was in the hands of a rookie.

Cross sent a walk-off RBI single into right field to break the scoreless tie and move Northern into the state finals. The Patriots then defeated Eastern Technical at Maryland Softball Stadium, winning the first of three state championships Cross was a part of.

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Cross never lost a game at the Maryland softball team’s field before college, winning three state championships with Northern there. Despite being a two-time Calvert County Player of the Year and a 2016 first-team All-Met selection, Cross was a walk-on recruit. She continues a family legacy at the University of Maryland, started by her dad, David Cross, a former baseball walk-on.

Because she didn’t earn a scholarship, Kassidy Cross has a drive to prove herself. Since arriving in College Park from Northern, she’s established herself as the Terps’ starting center fielder.

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