April 9, 2018

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Title IX process affirmed process violations, as students are not entitled to “triallike” proceedings, such as confronting or cross-examining The former student, referred an accuser, in educational to as John Doe, claimed this settings. The findings also state university violated his due that there was no evidence of process rights after he was found gender-based discrimination responsible for committing or a biased investigation.

“Doe received adequate sexual assault in an on-campus notice, a meaningful investdorm and expelled.

The court found that Doe’s igatory process, and sufficient claims did not constitute due opportunity to be heard by an

Judge dismisses lawsuit from former student expelled for sexual assault A U.S. District

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Christine Condon C o u r t j u d g e @CChristine19 d i s m i s s e d a Senior staff writer lawsuit Thursday against the University of Maryland from a former student who alleged he was wrongfully expelled for sexual misconduct.

FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE, seen speaking on the campus in 2016, will give the spring commencement address. file photo/the diamondback

independent decision-making body in connection with his expulsion,” the court finding read. “Despite Doe’s conclusory statements otherwise, UMCP’s proceedings taken as a whole satisfy the requirements of due process.”

Doe was expelled after a university investigation found he slipped into bed with a See case, p. 7

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Al Gore to speak at ceremony Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore will be the University of Maryland’s spring commencement speaker, campus officials announced on April 2.

Gore, who was elected to four terms in the House of Representatives and two terms in the Senate, is also the chairman and founder of Generation Investment Management, a London-based investment management firm, and the founder and chairman for The Climate Reality project, a nonprofit that aims to address climate change.

The 70-year-old lawmaker-turned-environmentalist, along with The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for spreading awareness about man-made climate change and how by

Leah Brennan @allhaeleah Senior staff writer

See gore, p. 7 SARIT EISEN, a junior computer science major, stands near the under-construction Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation. The building will soon house her department, which is less than 20 percent female. Eisen said that she didn’t consider the field an option as a young girl who enjoyed math and science. tom hausman/the diamondback

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‘A little intimidating’

Pay for grad assistants may go up

By Jillian Atelsek | @jillian_atelsek | Staff writer

Pay for University o f M a r yl a n d g ra d u a te Angela Roberts student assistants could @24_angier soon be on the rise, uniStaff writer versity President Wallace Loh told NPR on Thursday.

In an appearance on The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Loh said campus officials are working on a plan to increase stipends for graduate student assistants. The plan is still in its proposal stage and is not ready to be shared, university spokeswoman Katie Lawson wrote in an email.

Graduate Student Government President by

Gender makeup of computer science majors

For Mira Baliga, a sophomore computer science major at the University of Maryland, the lack of gender diversity in her major-related classes is sometimes “uncomfortable.”

“It is sometimes very difficult when you walk into a room and it’s all men,” Baliga said, adding that she estimates there’s often two or three men to every woman in her courses. “It can be a little intimidating.”

Based on data from the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment, for the 2016-17 academic year, women made up less than one out of every five declared computer science majors at this university, according to Jan Plane, director of the Maryland Center For Women In Computing. Of the

Each icon equals about 29 people, to nearest whole icon. Data for 2016-17. Source: Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment. Graphic by Evan Berkowitz/The Diamondback

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See gender, p. 3

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Duke found a professor responsible for sexual harassment. Now, he works at UMD.

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By Leah Brennan | @allhaeleah | Senior staff writer

former Duke professor found responsible for sexual harassment last semester now works at the University of Maryland.

William “Tony” Rivera, who was previously a visiting professor with the Social Science Research Institute at Duke and director of the Laboratory for Unconventional Conflict Analysis and Simulation, had numerous sexual harassment allegations against him, according to an Office of Institutional Equity report obtained

by The Chronicle, Duke’s student newspaper.

The report covered allegations including sex-related jokes and “unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature,” according to The Chronicle.

A Jan. 24 news release announced Rivera had

joined this university’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. The center’s website lists him as the director and lead scientist of its Strategic Influence Initiative, as well as an investigator and research affiliate.

Rivera was also slated to teach BSST630: Motivations and Intents of Terrorists and Terrorist Groups, an online course, in fall 2018, according to this university’s schedule of classes.

But START’s executive director, William Braniff, told The Chronicle in an email that Rivera will no longer be teaching the course.

“Upon hearing these allegations, we

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By Brad Dress | @brad_dress | Staff writer University of Maryland Police responded to reports of a carjacking, auto theft and damage to state property over the past eight days, according to police reports.

CAR THEFT On April 1 at 11:47 a.m., University Police assisted Prince George’s County Police for a report of a carjacking at the 8700 block of Route 1, according to police reports. A woman got out of her blue Nissan Rogue at 11:05 a.m. to pump gas at a gas station when an unknown man jumped into her car and drove off, headed in an unknown direction, Prince George’s County Police spokeswoman Officer Ameera Abdullah said.

County police are labeling the case a “jump-in” car theft, not a carjacking, which involves a forceful attempt to break into a car, Abdullah said.

This case is closed by exception for University Police, but Prince George’s County Police’s auto theft unit is still investigating.

THEFT FROM AUTO On April 3 at 2:05 p.m., University Police responded to the 3400 block of Tulane Drive for a report of a theft from auto, according to police reports.

Between 1:40 and 2 p.m., the passenger-side front window was smashed, and property was taken from the car, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

This case is active.

THEFT University Police responded to the bus stop area near Stamp Student Union for a report of a theft on April 4 at 5:36 p.m., according to police reports.

A male university employee reported to police that a 30-year-old female shuttle bus passenger, identified as Sade Latoya Barnes, took a clipboard

that contained documents related to the bus before she got off, Hoaas said.

Barnes was last seen getting onto another bus heading toward the College Park Metro Station, and once an officer found her, she was arrested and charged with theft of less than $100, Hoaas said.

She was released from the police department with a criminal citation and issued a denial of access to the campus. The documents were returned to the owner, Hoaas said.

This case is closed.

On April 2 at 6:32 p.m., police took a report of a theft that occurred at 251 North, according to police reports. A female student reported to police t h at she h a d le f t he r property at the dining hall between March 28 at 5 p.m. and April 1 at 11:20 a.m., Hoaas said.

When she returned, she found that someone had turned in her backpack, but her laptop was gone, Hoaas said.

This case is active.

Police also responded to the Pla nt Sciences Building for a report of theft on April 3 at 11:01 a.m., according to police repor ts. Hoaas sa id a female student reported that between 9:15 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., she left her cell phone outside a room.

W hen she returned, it was gone.

This case is active.

DAMAGE TO STATE PROPERTY University Police responded to a report of damage to state property on April 4 at 3:27 p.m., according to police reports. Police responded to parking lot C1 for a light pole that was laying in the road, Hoaas said. No one was injured and no cars were damaged, she added.

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claims against the employee through a student journalist, a n d i s n ow l ea r n i n g t h e extent of them through The Chronicle’s story.

Braniff, who said in the January release that Rivera was “highly recommended,” told The Chronicle in an email that he was not aware of the sexual harassment allegations, and declined to comment before the publication of its story as to how the matter would be addressed.

D u k e ’s g o v e r n m e n t relations and public affairs v i c e p re s i d e n t , M i c h a e l Sc h o e n fe l d , d i d n o t s ay whether the university had punished Rivera, citing privacy concerns and “the integrity of the investigative process,” according to The Chronicle.

T h e O I E i nve s t i ga t i o n gathered enough information to conclude that “Dr. Rivera’s conduct created a hostile work and learning environment,” a c c o rd i n g to t h e re p o r t

obtained by The Chronicle.

“The interviews indicated Dr. Rivera consistently made sexually explicit comments to staff and students,” the report stated. “Given the information obtained from the investigation, there is a sufficient showing that Dr. Rivera engaged in unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature with … students and s ta f f u n d e r D r. R ive ra ’s supervision.”

I n a s ta te m e n t R ive ra submitted to The Chronicle, he said the investigation into the allegations was unfair, citing concerns with the statute of limitations and “incompetence, or malice” from the investigator.

“I categorically deny, in the strongest possible way, any accusations that state or imply that I have inappropriately touched someone. Anyone who knows me knows I would n eve r v i o l a te so m e o n e ’s physical space and anyone who knows me well, who knows my personal history, knows why that’s the case,” he wrote. “I have a very

strict code of personal ethics regarding people’s physical space and any allegations to the contrary originate from malice and abide in falsehood.”

In a statement submitted to The Diamondback Wednesday, Rivera reiterated that the Duke investigation was unfair.

“The University of Maryland community should know the following,” Rivera wrote. “The same person who lied, who fabricated stories, also went to the press. It is a deliberate attempt to ruin my reputation and career and to hurt me in the worst possible way.”

Rivera wrote that in his time at Maryland, his project has hired three students, but he has not met them.

He wrote he recognizes that his “communication style, particularly in trying to create a flat organization, needs adjustment,” and has asked for additional training.

Schoenfeld wrote in an email that “[w]e don’t comment on personnel matters.”

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From p. 1 i m m e d i a te ly co n ta c te d this individual’s previous employer and are seeking i n f o r m a t i o n s o t h a t we may take appropriate a c t i o n s,” B ra n i f f w ro te .

“The safety and wellbeing of our students is of paramount importance. We have removed him from the online course he had been assigned to teach this fall and will reassign it to another instructor while we review these allegations. At no time has this individual interacted with students during his brief time at the University of Maryland.”

On Monday, Braniff sent a m e ssa ge to t h e STA RT community about the matter, university spokeswoman Jessica Jennings wrote in a n e m a i l . He w ro te t h a t START first heard of the

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From p. 1 2,942 students who were enrolled in this major, 559 students — or almost 19 percent — were women.

“As far as research institutions go, that’s not bad,” said Plane, director of the center — which works to increase diversity in the computing industry — and a faculty member in this university’s computer science department.

The share of women with computing jobs in the United States has declined from 37 percent in 1995 to 24 percent, according to a report released in 2016 from Girls Who Code, a nonprofit aiming to get more women into the industry. The report predicted this number would fall to 22 percent by 2025.

But at this university, the amount of female computer science majors has steadily increased over the past four years. During the 2014-15 academic year, for example, 313 women were enrolled in the program, making up less than 16 percent of the total, which was then 1,977 students.

Still, Baliga said she’d like to see the gender gap shrink even more because of the fresh perspectives that female representation can provide when developing new technologies or ideas.

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“If you’re designing an app, or trying to tailor something to a specific audience, I think it would be interesting to have male and female team members,” she said.

“You can create a more robust product that way.”

Jake Facius, a freshman in the major, agreed.

“If you have the same types of people looking at a problem, looking at code, then you’re going to get the same results every time,” he said.

In the fall, there were seven female faculty members in the computer science department, compared with 54 male faculty members, according to the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment.

Sarit Eisen, a junior computer science major, said she’s never had a female computer science

professor, and Baliga described the idea as “pretty unheard of.”

As the department grows by hundreds of students every year, Baliga said she thinks “its priority is hiring faculty members who are qualified and making sure the students have guidance,” leaving diversity of applicants a “secondary” concern.

“The major’s been growing very rapidly — we’re shorthanded,” said Rance Cleaveland, a professor in the department and chair of its faculty hiring committee. Cleaveland has been charged with leading the search for five new faculty members for the upcoming academic year, he said.

Cleaveland said his committee removes demographic data from faculty job applications before reaching hiring committees — like his — to ensure that gender,

ethnic, racial or religious biases don’t affect the hiring process.

Names, however, still appear on the applications, he said.

“It’s a little bit of a Band-Aid thing, because you can usually tell from somebody’s name or pictures on their website — you can sort of figure a lot of the information out,” he said.

While he cannot actively favor female job applicants, Cleaveland and his team encourage “strong female candidates that we know of to apply” by sending them letters and emails as they finish their schooling and enter the job market, he said. Of the 23 candidates for next year’s positions who were invited for job interviews, seven were women, he said.

“The gender imbalance … is certainly something that the

department as a whole is concerned about and has been talking about for several years at this point,” he said.

“There’s still a lot of women who don’t feel at home in computing.”

T h o u g h E i se n a g re e d t h e department is welcoming, she said she wished more girls were encouraged to pursue computer science in elementary and middle school, ideally leading to more female students and professors.

When Eisen was younger, she enjoyed math and science but “just didn’t consider [computer science] as an option,” she said.

Plane said she aims to “fix the pipeline” by exposing all children to computer science concepts at a younger age. She serves on a task force that develops pre-K-12 curriculums to help introduce kids to computing and organizes daylong workshops with organizations like the Girl Scouts to help introduce girls specifically to the field.

Students at this university often volunteer with Plane’s workshops and participate in tutoring programs for young girls interested in computer science — something which gives her hope for a continual decrease in the disparity, she said.

“They realize they need to help fix the problem,” she said. jatelsekdbk@gmail.com

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Driesell deserves renewed scrutiny When looking back on Lefty Driesell’s 17-year run with Maryland men’s basketball, some will highlight his on-court accomplishments — 16 straight winning seasons, two first-place finishes in the ACC, eight trips to the NCAA tournament. But with the legendary former coach slated to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, we must not sugarcoat his tenure in College Park. To make this school a basketball powerhouse, Driesell went to great lengths, and not all of them were honorable.

In March 1983, a student judicial board put Herman Veal, a starting forward for Driesell’s Terps, on disciplinary probation after a female student said he’d attempted to sexually assault her. The team’s second-leading rebounder became ineligible to play in the final game of the regular season and the ACC tournament. Driesell then escalated the situation: The student said the coach had called her repeatedly the day after Veal was sidelined, threatening that her name “would be dragged through the mud” for keeping Veal off the court.

At first, Driesell outright denied the accusation, digging his hole deeper in the process (as the university women’s center criticized him, he remarked, “I don’t care about the women’s center — I’m the men’s center”). Eventually, after Chancellor John Slaughter reprimanded him, Driesell issued a lukewarm apology; he confessed to calling the student, claiming harassment was not his intention before admitting “some of [his] comments made in the heat of the moment were not appropriate.”

Players expect their coaches will go to bat for them when warranted — indeed, Driesell defended himself by saying, “I’m taking care of my players and myself.” But Driesell’s actions go far beyond loyalty to his team.

This wasn’t a jeering fan or a rival coach he was responding to; this was a sexual assault allegation.

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Intimidation of sexual assault victims can have a chilling effect, especially when it’s coming from a person with power. Among female college students who are assaulted, only 20 percent report it to the police, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. And the single most cited reason for not coming forward is a fear of retaliation.

The threat of blowback from one’s assailant is bad enough; when it comes from a prominent authority figure, a venerated campus leader, it would understandably make future victims stay silent.

While Driesell’s actions sparked censure at the time — The Diamondback’s editorial board called for him to resign, deeming his actions “a slap in the face to women” — he hardly faced any consequences for them. He remained Maryland’s coach for three more seasons before stepping down in the wake of Len Bias’ death. After that, he spent nine years at James Madison and six years at Georgia State en route to 786 total victories, which earned him a spot in the Hall of Fame this year.

More than three decades after the scandal, it’s mostly faded from the public memory.

When current coaches does something similar — such as Michigan State coach Tom Izzo allowing an undergraduate assistant accused of assault to continue to live in his basement as the resulting trial unfolded — we should hold them accountable. To create an atmosphere where victims are comfortable coming forward, coaches must get their priorities in order and realize that there’s more to life than wins and losses.

The #MeToo movement has shown that even old allegations reveal a cultural failure that’s still alive today. As fans celebrate this long-awaited honor, they cannot ignore the grim details of Driesell’s tenure. The epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses will not be resolved unless everyone, regardless of their position or stature, is held accountable.

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Consent education must start young The Maryland General Mitchell Rock Assembly just passed leg@OpinionDBK islation requiring instruction in public schools Columnist about sexual consent. The measure ensures that, during their schools’ Family Life and Human Sexuality units, students learn what consent means and how to respect personal boundaries. This bill is absolutely necessary to reduce the incidence of sexual assault on college campuses and represents what the #MeToo movement is capable of accomplishing.

As Lisae C. Jordan, director of the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault, has said, “If we wait to teach them about consent when they are a freshman in college, it’s already too late.”

This sentiment couldn’t be more true.

By the time students enter college, their ideas of what consent means have likely already been determined.

If we want the next generation of college students to respect consent, we have to teach it to them when they’re beginning to develop as adults. Because middle school is the juncture where many children begin puberty, sexual consent education should begin there. Putting this off allows students to develop opinions about sex and consent based on what they hear from friends, or what they see depicted in TV, movies and pornography.

Sexual assault and rape are rampant on college campuses. More than 23 percent of female and more than 5 percent of male undergraduate students are raped or sexually assaulted. We can — and should — try by

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Female religious leaders encourage inclusivity Asha Kodan @OpinionDBK Columnist

Whether i t’s i n Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism or Islam, women have always drawn the short end of the stick. From male leaders deeming menstruation spiritually impure, to encouraging women be submissive, misogyny is an unfortunate stain on many religions. In fact, Religion News Service conducted a study and found that twothirds of religious people in the United States belong to a religious community that generally prohibits women from taking a leadership role in the community.

But women across all faiths are not letting centuries of oppression weigh them down. The first female president of New York City’s Union Theological Seminary, Rev. Serene Jones, reported that 60 percent of her current students are female.

Jones compares the magnitude of this new wave of female clergy to the Protestant Reformation.

A similar phenomenon is occurring in Judaism, with 63 percent of new rabbis since 1998 being female. Many of these rabbis now refer to God with gender-neutral pronouns instead of the traditional masculine ones. Jones argues that more female leadership will

transform the understanding of God by challenging the idea that “inequity is actually sacred.”

Female Hindu priests are also on the rise — as of 2014, there were 1,600 in India. Unfortunately, there are people who “write female priesthood off as a ‘hobby’,” claiming women desire to be spiritual leaders only after their children are grown and they have nothing to do. It is not uncommon for male priests to diminish a female priest’s role as a spiritual leader and denigrate her accomplishments. Despite male objection, no Hindu scriptures explicitly prohibit women from being priests.

Female imams are also gaining more support from male scholars in the Islamic community.

Khaled Abou El-Fadl believes that “if the woman in question was the most learned” then there should not be a problem with her leading prayers. He also says that the controversy stems from traditional “maleconsensus” of who should be allowed to lead rather than from religious texts.

Howeve r, t h e re a re s t i l l several hurdles for female imams to overcome. In one terrifying example in 2005, Muslim scholar Amina Wadud faced bomb threats and yet continued with the prayer she was leading.

Twelve years later, people were

still condemning her actions on the “About Islam” website.

History and religion have largely been written from the male perspective. Increasing the number of female religious leaders will fundamentally change how people view both religious institutions and the lessons that they teach. Female leaders serve as positive role models for girls — when a young girl witnesses a woman in an important position of authority, it gives her reassurance that she herself is capable of accomplishing her goals. Likewise, when a young boy sees a woman with religious authority, the idea that men and women are of equal worth is reinforced in his mind.

All faiths must preach inclusivity. By preventing half the population from pursuing their passion to preach their beliefs, religious institutions are essentially claiming men have a more direct pipeline to God than women. This belief perpetuates misogyny and abuse, and makes it acceptable for women to be treated as second-class citizens, as they have for most of history.

Humans grow and evolve as time progresses, and so should religious institutions. ashakodan@ymail.com

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Howard Univ protests are asking for too much Sona Chaudhary @OpinionDBK Opinion editor

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to prevent these incidents from occurring; however, the efforts we can take on college campuses may not resolve their root causes.

There is still a significant lack of knowledge about sexual consent in our society. Just go to a College Park bar on a busy night, and you’ll be sure to see men groping women without any form of consent. Many men believe they have the right to touch a woman’s body without her permission. They may think it’s a compliment, or that it’s a necessary part of flirting. In reality, it’s assault.

The #MeToo movement has made it clear women are fed up with being treated as sexual objects, leading to a renewed conversation around sexual misconduct. In fact, sponsors of this new legislation have cited the #MeToo movement as the spark that helped move the measure forward this year.

Our actions and collective voices can make an impact.

T h i s l e g i s l a t i o n s u p p o r ts a movement to change the way our society views consent. Changing this view is our best hope for a society where consent is understood and respected. Moreover, the #MeToo movement highlights the impact we can have by collectively saying “enough is enough.”

I implore you to keep shouting and breaking the silence.

Howard University students have a lot to complain about. A month ago, they were speaking out against the abysmal conditions of their dorms — plagued with pests, broken heating units and bureaucratic errors — and as of Wednesday, they’re in their seventh day of protests in the university’s administration building.

This building occupation was triggered by the discovery that several university employees had misused financial aid funds for nine years, but that was just another grievance among many. Now that the tension has broken, it’s only natural that students demand the university address all its shortcomings; the protesters have leverage for this fleeting period, and they want to make the most of their position. They’ve consolidated their needs into nine demands, which range from improved mental health resources on campus to the immediate resignation of Howard University President Wayne Frederick.

This protest is well-coordinated, justified and overdue. It’s commendable that students are taking control in a meaningful and peacefully disruptive way.

However, their protest has become too amorphous and taken on too many causes to make effective change at this point. By trying to address every shortcoming of the university, they’ve undermined the cohesiveness and unity of their movement.

Even the list of demands they created has conflicting aims. At once, they’re trying to freeze tuition costs and have the university show greater financial accountability while also allocating funds to fight gentrification in their communities. The university can’t allocate funding to these new projects if the students aren’t supplying it. Money can’t be put into the surrounding neighborhood when the university’s facilities are already inadequate; these causes drain resources from each other.

Moreover, gentrification is a function of people with money coming to the area.

Howard University is an expensive private institution in an expensive part of an expensive city. Students come in paying high tuition and struggle to make rent, but they’re already part of a wealthier class compared to the surrounding areas.

They’re inconvenienced by the elevated cost of living in Washington and tasking their university with doing something

about it, but that’s a limited framework that disproportionately benefits students’ quality of life, as opposed to people in the surrounding areas.

While it may be an attempt to bring their civic unrest out of the bubble of their university, these protesting students can’t address issues so large and outside their scope effectively. However these protests end, the requested funds and manpower can’t be sent internally to increase mental health and sexual assault resources while also being sent externally to fund food pantries and community outreach efforts.

Moreover, some of these requests are asking too much. At the end of their list is the demand that students have the ability to participate in administrative decisions through popular vote, immediately after demanding the current executive committee of the university resign. While this protest is all about students reclaiming power from a corrupt administration, I don’t think the latter will acquiesce to this democratization of power. It’s a major systemic change that also won’t occur over weeks or months of protest. Restructuring power dynamics on this scale takes a lot of time and consideration of consequences that don’t fit the actionable timeline for these students.

And ultimately, it pushes students to ask, what is this whole thing about? Are they protesting because their housing is bad, because their money is being misused, because their school perpetuates oppressive power structures? Not every issue touches every student as deeply, not every issue has a clear solution, and not every issue can be resolved in one campaign.

While it’s reasonable for students to expect ethical decisions and change from Howard University, the demands they’ve made can’t all be accomplished in the scale of their current protests. By taking on every cause, they’ve weakened their message and hindered their own progress. As of Saturday, one demand of the nine has been met, and the future for the rest remains unclear. sonachaud@gmail.com

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No tax increase next year Property tax rate to stay at 33¢ per $100 assessed value College Park residents’ property taxes will not increase in fiscal 2019, city officials said Thursday night.

District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir made the announcement to about 20 residents at an annual budget compound meeting, held by council members from Districts 1 and 4, during which they explained highlights of the proposed budget to residents and allowed them to ask questions. It’s a tradition for the meeting to be led by only District 1 and District 4 council members, Kabir said, though some of their colleagues had joined in the past.

Of the city’s proposed $20.6 million budget for fiscal 2019, the largest funding source is real estate property taxes, accounting for $9.4 million — or 46 percent — of the budget, according to the proposal. That’s followed by other taxes, which make up $4.4 million, or 21 percent, of the budget.

Kabir said property taxes could be raised to be above the current rate of roughly 33 cents per $100 of assessed value. But the state found the city’s Constant Yield Tax Rate — the rate for the following year that will generate the same amount of revenue as in the current tax by

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LOCAL and state officials celebrate as they cut the ribbon on a new sidewalk connecting College Park and Riverdale Park Station on Thursday, April 5. jack roscoe/for the diamondback

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he mayors of College Park and Riverdale Park, along with city, county and state officials, met at the corner of Albion Road and Route 1 at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open a sidewalk connecting the two communities.

College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn and Riverdale Park Mayor Alan Thompson were joined by State Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), Sen. Paul Pinsky (D-Prince George’s), Prince George’s County Council Chair Dannielle Glaros and multiple College Park City Council members in welcoming the new 300foot sidewalk — which underwent construction from December until a few weeks ago — that connects downtown College Park and Riverdale Park Station and allows local pedestrians and bicyclists to get to the Whole Foods,

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Council talks trash, gives award Body also mourns death of library co-director Stillwell The College Park City Council discussed city t ra s h p i c k u p s a n d t h e Good Neighbor Award, among other agenda items, at its weekly meeting Tuesday night.

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Rigg said, some people used hatchets and machetes to clear a path through the bamboo forest to the Riverdale Park shopping center from College Park.

Before the construction, the bike path on Route 1 in front of Riverdale Park Station abruptly ended in front of the development, Wojahn said, forcing cyclists into traffic. The bike lane now connects to the side path, allowing cyclists to get from Riverdale Park to College Park and vice versa, Wojahn said.

“I wanted to make sure that we had the bike lane actually connect into this to make it more than a sidewalk,” Wojahn said, “a multi-use pathway to bring pedestrians and cyclists from Riverdale Park to College Park and vice versa.”

As a nod to the area’s history, the path

which donated pastries to the event.

“The word of the day today is collaboration,” said College Park City-University Partnership Executive Director Eric Olson. “Because this took the city, the town, the state, the county, the developer and everybody else to make this happen.”

Thompson said people have been complaining about a lack of sidewalks in this area for at least 20 years. The two communities are divided by Route 1, he said, and without sidewalks, the two communities won’t interact.

“The town of Riverdale Park and the town of College Park share a boundary,” District 3 Councilman John Rigg said, “and yet until this was open, you couldn’t get between the two without getting in your car and driving around, which is really silly.”

Olson said the lack of pedestrian and bicycle access was a safety issue.

Before the sidewalk was completed,

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“Until this was open, you couldn’t get between the two [localities] without getting in your car and driving around, which is really silly.”

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Assistant directors of the city’s Department of Public Works, Brenda Alexander and Robert Marsili, gave a presentation to the council on bulk trash pickups.

The City of College Park provides bulk trash pickups at no cost to residents for most items, who can call 24 hours in advance for a pickup on any Thursday or Friday, though this service costs the city more than $373,000 annually, according to the presentation. Electronic pickups alone cost the city about $1,600 per ton or about $48,000 annually.

“All over the city … we have examples of where a property will call up every few weeks and they put out an appliance and we know since it’s a single-family home there aren’t that many appliances coming out of that home,” City Manager Scott Somers said. “So I think word has gotten out in Beltsville and other communities that College Park will pick up your stuff for free.”

District 3 Councilman John Rigg described residents’ high regards for the department.

“Our residents know it, our residents appreciate it, our residents brag about it to members of other jurisdictions,” he said of the department’s services.

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by March, it had seven drop points, none of which were on North Campus. There are now four times the original number of drop points, which include points near McKeldin Library and the Ellicott and Denton communities. Many of the new points serve the North Campus community, Doumar said.

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The restaurant is also expected to begin offering a brunch service in the next couple weeks, Doumar said. Those offerings will be available Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings, he said, adding that customers will be able to order meals — such as bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches or breakfast burritos — in the next couple weeks.

Sophomore Arabic major Tamir Stahler also said the menu didn’t have a lot of options, but he was looking forward to the prospect of Good Uncle brunch.

“Their menu’s a bit slim right now,” Stahler said. “It’d be nice to see something in the brunch realm.”

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The company’s menu, which includes sandwiches, pasta and subs, also expanded to include healthier options such as stir fry, salad, wraps and bowls, Doumar said.

“We heard a lot of feedback about wanting more wholesome, everyday eating,” Doumar said, “so we delivered on that for the customer.”

C a l e i g h C raw fo rd , a sophomore bioengineering major, said Good Uncle still doesn’t have as large a selection as she’d like. She said unless she is feeling “particularly lazy,” she would get something to eat on Route 1.

“Route 1 has Asian food and pasta and pizza or whatever I could possibly want,” Crawford said.

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case From p. 1 woman, referred to as Jane Roe, without attempting to identify himself and engaged in sexual contact with her while she thought he was another man.

Doe wanted to have the expulsion removed from his record, to be reenrolled at this university and to be compensated for fees he incurred during the process.

The court’s affirmation of this university’s procedures comes as schools across the country struggle with obtaining a fair and equitable process for victims and the accused while complying with federal regulations under Title IX, a law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. This university is currently the subject of three federal investigations into its handling of sexual violence cases.

Mike Poterala, this university’s ge n e ra l co u n se l , w ro te i n a statement that the ruling sends an important message.

“The court’s decision in this case sends an important signal to victims about the willingness and ability of this university to hold perpetrators of sexual m i sco n d u c t re s p o n s i b l e fo r their actions,” Poterala wrote in a statement sent by university spokeswoman Katie Lawson.

T h e d e fe n d a n ts i n c l u d e d university President Wallace Loh, Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct Director Catherine Carroll, Student Conduct Director Andrea Goodwin, Student Affairs Vice President Linda Clement and former lead Title IX investigator Josh Bronson.

Doe has until the end of April to

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appeal the case in federal court, and could also refile it in state court.

His legal team is still considering both options, said his attorney, Bob Clark.

“It is some very tricky business of trying to regulate romantic and sexual conduct on campus,” Clark said, adding that there should be a more uniform way to address the concerns of everyone involved.

D o e wa s ex p e l l e d a f te r a university investigation into a December 2014 incident in Frederick Hall found he sexually assaulted Roe. Roe left the dorm and called University Police, who investigated and declined to bring criminal charges, according to the court documents. Police alerted this university’s Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct, as the department is required to when it receives reports of sexual assault involving students. Roe also reported the case to OCRSM. The office conducted its own investigation — which has a lower burden of proof than criminal proceedings — and found that Doe committed Sexual Assault I, or an act of sexual intercourse without consent. Doe was notified in May 2015 that he violated this university’s sexual misconduct policy, according to the documents.

Doe appealed the determination, but his appeal was denied in September 2015, and he was informed that he was expelled effective immediately.

Doe alleged in the lawsuit that he was the subject of a biased investigation, and Bronson, the OCRSM investigator on the case, questioned him in a “prosecutorial manner.” He claimed Bronson

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didn’t contact all the important witnesses and selectively provided evidence to the Standing Review Committee that determined the outcome of Doe’s case.

But the court determined he was granted a constitutional investigation and hearing, as Bronson’s report detailed which witnesses he interviewed, as well as the versions of events that Doe, Roe and other witnesses each gave. Doe was also able to question Bronson, testify about the incident and submit affidavits from witnesses.

T h e c o u r t a l s o fo u n d n o ba s i s fo r Do e ’s c l a i m s t h a t certain university-sponsored programming aiming to support sexual assault survivors reflects a gender bias toward female survivors of sexual assault over men accused of sexual misconduct.

Doe had pointed to Carroll’s comments in a September 2015 Diamondback article about her training of students, faculty and staff to serve on a sexual misconduct review committee.

He claimed her use of hypothetical scenarios referencing female victims and male perpetrators re f le cts a bias and “ hostile environment” toward men at this university, the documents read.

The court found no evidence such training adversely impacted the outcome of Doe’s case.

The ruling found that “simply because Carroll, in the past, had taken up the cause of female victims does not render her hopelessly biased against men as UMCP’s Title IX Director.”

Carroll declined to comment on this case.

Doe filed the suit in September 2016, and in February 2017,

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this university filed a motion to dismiss it on the grounds of qualified immunity, which keeps government officials from being held accountable unless they consciously violated a person’s “clearly established” constitutional rights, according to the Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute.

A month later, Doe challenged the officials’ motion, arguing that the administrators should not be granted qualified immunity.

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ourt documents detail the 2014 incident that led to Doe’s expulsion.

On Dec. 14, 2014, Roe arrived at Frederick Hall with Doe and several others after spending time at a College Park bar. After arriving, she went to sleep in the bedroom of one of the others, identified in the lawsuit as K.P. The documents state K.P. initially went in the bed next to Roe, but after he was unable to get comfortable, he suggested Doe sleep there instead, and that he sleep on the couch.

Documents state that at first, K.P. stated that Doe “brought up a dare,” suggesting Doe would “play a joke” on Roe by cuddling with her until she realized he was not K.P. Doe denies bringing up the dare, the documents read, and K.P. “now disclaims that Doe suggested a dare.”

About an hour after Doe joined Roe in bed, the two woke up and began engaging in sexual contact.

Shortly after, Roe realized and exclaimed that Doe was not K.P., and Doe left the room. Roe left the dorm and called University Police.

Police began taking oral and written statements from Roe, and

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interviewed Doe as well as K.P. and another person who lived in the dorm, referred to as A.S. in court documents.

The assistant state’s attorney for Prince George’s County and the head of the ASA Sex Unit agreed there was no crime in the incident, because Doe immediately stopped after Roe “revoked consent,” according to the police report.

This university’s Standing Review Committee, however, found that Doe engaged in sexual contact with Roe without “reasonable attempt to identify himself to [Roe,] who had no reason to believe the person who began touching her was not the person she went to bed with,” which constituted sexual misconduct, according to the documents.

The committee recommended Doe’s expulsion for his violation a n d t h e l a c k o f “ m i t i ga t i n g factors that would warrant a lesser sanction,” according to the court documents.

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rik Delfosse, the lead defense attorney on the case, said Monday that he could not comment on the case, and instead provided information for state’s attorney’s office public relations officials. State’s attorney’s office officials did not immediately respond to an email request.

Bronson said the ruling validated the office’s work investigating sexual assault cases.

“The university followed the procedures,” Bronson said. “It was a fair process for all those involved, and it sounds sort of cliché, but justice was done.”

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‘choking on their cornflakes’ With cheers and with jeers, 600 attend Nigel Farage/Vicente Fox debate

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hile Brexit — the United Kingdom’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union — had people “choking on their cornflakes,” British politician Nigel Farage told a University of Maryland crowd on Thursday, that was nothing compared to what would come next: the election of U.S. President Trump.

“Recognize that the world changed in 2016,” he said, later adding that the votes were not “a short-term outburst of anger,” but rather “marked a fundamental political revolution that will go on sweeping through the West over the course of the next few years.”

Former Mexican president Vicente Fox debated with Farage, often referred to as the “architect of Brexit,” on nationalism versus globalism and a host of political issues in front of the crowd, 600 strong and chattering with excitement, which wrapped around the Edward St. John building ahead of the evening event.

A few protesters clustered outside of the building, holding signs and handing out pamphlets condemning Farage’s nationalist sentiments.

Yvonne Slosarski, an adjunct in this university’s Honors Humanities program, was one of them. She held a sign to protest Farage’s invitation that read “Why does UMD ban Coca Cola but not white nationalism?”

“I think that the university has a choice about who they invite to campus and who they don’t invite to campus,” she said. “I see no reason why they should invite a white nationalist supporter onto campus and legitimize his position by asking him to debate.”

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former mexican president vicente fox, right, speaks during a debate with former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, moderated by Wall Street Journal editorial board member Mary Kissel. About 600 people attended the debate, which drew some protesters, on Thursday. mateo pacheco/the diamondback president from 2000 to 2006, argued in support of immigrants’ rights and organizations such as NAFTA and the United Nations, while Farage decried the EU as an “anti-democratic monster.”

Farage argued throughout the evening that countries should have the right to be the “masters of their own destinies.” He decried lax immigration policies and “bad trade deals,” often drawing parallels between his own country’s dramatic vote and the 2016 election of President Trump. Farage has a history of espousing inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants and once said British employers should be allowed to discriminate against foreigners.

University President Wallace Loh said his office received “ m a n y ” l e t te rs a n d e m a i l s asking that the debate be canceled — something he pointed to as evidence of intolerance on this campus of controversial ideas.

“I am not so sure that we have been so successful in training you

to be responsible citizens who know how to live rightly in a free society,” he told the crowd. “The role of a university is not to make ideas safe for students, it is to educate students.”

The event was hosted by this university’s Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets along with The Steamboat Institute, a right-wing nonprofit organization based in Colorado.

Jennifer Schubert-Akin, cofounder and CEO of the institute, said the goal of the tour was to introduce students to “reasoned and intelligent” debates — even if they disagree with the participants’ views.

“It seems like people don’t really have open debates anymore, they just scream at each other,” she said. “It doesn’t take a whole lot of intellectual rigor to just call the other side stupid.”

During the debate, Fox criticized Farage’s stance on immigration and expressed a desire for more welcoming policies, emphasizing his disdain for Trump’s proposed

wall along the Mexican border.

“We’re not paying for that f---ing wall,” he said to laughter from the crowd.

Throughout the debate, statements from both Farage and Fox attracted scattered applause and jeers from the crowd.

Ken Johnson, a sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences, said he thought it was important for students to be exposed to views like Farage’s.

“I actually thought Nigel brought up a lot of interesting points that a lot of people would not have considered before,” he said. “I don’t think it’s appropriate to stifle the ideas of others just because we don’t agree with them.

Zoey Warecki, a graduate student studying materials science and engineering, also protested outside before the event. She said that even though the event was free, students who chose to attend were implicitly showing support for Farage’s “racism and xenophobia.”

Warecki argued that recent

events on this campus, such as the May killing of Richard Collins — a visiting Bowie State University student — made it inappropriate for this university to host the event. A white former University of Maryland student, Sean Urbanski, is charged with murder and a hate crime in the killing.

“Having these speakers on campus doesn’t actually engage in a dialogue. This is a fake debate scripted by a right-wing think tank … where both sides are actually on the same side,” she said.

While the two debaters have differing views on the issue of globalism, Fox, like Farage, is a right-wing politician whose views and tactics are often described as populist.

Shubham Chattopadhyay was one of the students who consistently clapped for Farage’s comments. He said he attended the event specifically to hear Farage speak, adding that he thought those offended by his presence on campus were misguided. “ I mys e l f a m n o t a wh i te man, and I came from a different country to the United States and naturalized just like Loh and everybody else did,” the junior fire protection engineering major said. “I don’t in any way think that [Farage] is xenophobic or racist.”

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Jack Roscoe Media Inc., The anything. I want to make sure @Jack_Micky Diamondback’s everyone around here, everySenior staff writer parent company, one who has an interest in what named current deputy managing editor Ryan Romano as the newspaper’s editor in chief for the 2018-19 academic year on Thursday.

Romano, a junior journalism major, joined The Diamondback as a copy editor in January 2016, during his freshman year. He became deputy managing editor in April 2017, after working as an assistant online managing editor and opinion columnist.

“I like stuff we publish,” Romano said. “I like the way we write, the way we report.

I want us to keep doing that.

council From p. 6 pickups or impose a fee for residents. District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan warned t h a t i m p l e m e n t i n g co n struction materials pickup fee may cause residents to attempt to bury the materials in their yards, but praised the department’s operations. “ T h e o p e ra t i o n , t h e timing, the scheduling is incredibly impressive and most of us get to come home at the end of the day to a nice, quiet and beautiful community as

food From p. 6 The company has plans to keep building upon its service after this semester, Doumar said. Lunch hours and Good Uncle meal plans will likely come to this university in the fall semester.

At both Syracuse University and Delaware, G o o d Un c l e o f fe rs m ea l plans where users can g u a ra n t e e t w o , f o u r o r seven Good Uncle meals per week, Doumar said. It gives students a way to supplement

we’re reading, can see it.”

Romano said his experience editing content from multiple desks — diversions, opinion, news and sports — as well as working on the engagement desk helps him better understand The Diamondback’s audience.

Since Romano joined the engagement desk in January 2017, the paper’s newsletter and Facebook strategy were “revamped” to try to expand its reach — a priority for the junior.

Romano initially planned to graduate in three years,

Current editor in chief and senior journalism major Mina Haq said Romano is uniquely prepared to serve as editor in chief because of the many positions he has held at The Diamondback.

“He has this kind of rare ability to make difficult judgment calls while also having a pretty set-in-stone vision for where The Diamondback should go because of his experience on the engagement desk,” Haq said.

Haq said she was also impressed by Romano’s ability to RYAN ROMANO, a junior journalism major, was named The Diamondback’s editor in chief for bring out the best in others. If 2018-19 by Maryland Media Inc., the paper’s parent organization. tom hausman/the diamondback The Diamondback looks differbut decided against it over want to leave this place. I want ent under his leadership, it will only be a good thing, she said. to stick around a little bit.’” winter break.

MMI Board President Tom Romano said The Diamond“The more I worked with The Diamondback,” Romano said, back is his primary focus for Madigan said Romano’s ability “the more I learned about it, the now, but he would like to work to see news in a larger context more involved I got, I was like, at a copy desk “out in the real made him a good fit for editor in chief.

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a student “who serves as a model to demonstrate that students do wonderful work in our city in many areas,” Brennan said, adding that his time on council has allowed him to see various ways in which students contribute to the community. “ T h e re a re so m e a rea s where students are involved that they’re highly visible and I’ve heard other stories where we don’t realize where students are impacting parts good neighbor award of our neighborhood,” he said.

He gave examples of stuThe annual Good Neighbor Award would recognize dents providing vet tech

services and going to senior facilities during the holiday season to give choral and instrumental performances.

D i s t r i c t 3 Co u n c i l m a n Robert Day cautioned against excluding College Park residents who are students at universities aside f ro m t h e Un ive rs i ty o f Maryland.

“Some would see that as saying students who don’t go to the University of Maryland cannot be good neighbors,” he said.

Student liaison Chris Keosian said this university

“does not have a monopoly on good students and there are good people all over our city,” adding that it’s a great way to encourage unity in the city.

Dennis, Rigg and District 4 Councilwoman Dustyn Kujawa volunteered to be on the committee for the award.

in dorms more options for food, he said.

“This semester is about raising awareness of Good Uncle, getting people to fall in love with the brand and the food,” Doumar said. “After the first semester, we give students the opportunity to become a Good Uncle member and all of the perks and benefits that that affords.”

Good Uncle’s model is the future of restaurants, said Good Uncle co-founder Wiley Cerilli last month. Cerilli said it will take time to get people to understand that Good Uncle’s vans are cooking

food on their way to the drop points, and not delivering food prepared earlier.

Freshman biology major Brian Hersey said he didn’t know what the vans were for

when he saw them until his friends told him. He said he still hasn’t tried it, but thinks it’s a good business model.

“I usually don’t order food, but I guess if maybe one of my

a result of your work.”

Unlike Brennan, District 2 Councilman Monroe Dennis had no qualms about introducing a fee, saying that “there are sometimes abuses to our system.”

“I’m for taking the hard s ta n ce ea rly ra t h e r t h a n taking baby steps and having to try to come back later and fix something we’re trying to do,” he said.

or replace their university meal plans, he said.

Good Uncle’s website says the meal plans cost $24 for two meals, $48 for four meals and $84 for seven meals at the University of Delaware.

Signing up for the meal plan also comes with perks such as access to exclusive items, Doumar said.

Students in dorms without private kitchens are required to have a meal plan at this university, Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple said.

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“I like that he’s thinking big picture,” Madigan said, “I like that he’s thinking in broad terms about these things that are not only local stories, campus stories but they echo so many things happening in the country at large right now.”

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No. 3 Maryland has another sluggish second half in victory Maryland

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Lila Bromberg women’s la- Senior Day played a factor @lilabbromberg c r o s s e h a d in the drought as well, with a s e r i e s the Terps unable to get into Staff writer of scoring droughts in its victory over Virginia on Wednesday. Two days later against Rutgers, the pattern continued.

The No. 3 Terps opened the second half with two quick goals but couldn’t find the back of the net for the next 15 minutes.

With a 9-4 lead at halftime and stellar defensive play holding Rutgers scoreless for over 27 minutes, Saturday’s result was never in doubt, but Maryland’s struggles were still apparent.

No. 3 Maryland (12-1, 3-0 Big Ten) took a 14-6 victory over the Scarlet Knights but only scored five goals in the second half, two coming in the final three minutes. This season, Maryland has scored 128 first-half goals compared to 82 after halftime.

And while Maryland battled strong winds and cold temperatures against Virginia, against Rutgers (6-8, 0-3) in perfect weather, the Terps simply missed the mark. Plus, Virginia was ranked 10th in the nation, whereas Rutgers is unranked and sits at the bottom of Big Ten standings.

“We just kind of got ourse lve s i n to a r u t ,” coa c h C a t h y R e e s e s a i d . “ We need to make sure that even though we have a nice lead, which we had, we need to not just shoot to shoot, but demand excellence of ourselves and make sure that we’re playing every play to execute it to the fullest.”

Reese also said that rotating players in and out to

a rhythm on offense.

Reese called a timeout with 12 minutes remaining in hopes of revamping her team’s offense. Attacker Kali Hartshorn completed her hat trick shortly after, but the team then went scoreless for nearly 10 minutes.

“We always try and pull it together obviously. We just have to do it more on the field together instead of having to take that timeout and get it all together,” attacker Caroline Steele said. “We’ve just been waiting a little bit too long sometimes.”

Still, the defense continued its strong play through goalkeeper Megan Taylor.

The junior only allowed two goals and had seven saves, her best percentage of the season. “ T h e n e x t s a ve i s t h e biggest save, that’s always go i n g t h ro u g h m y m i n d whether the goal goes in or I make the save,” Taylor said. “Every time they shoot they have the opportunity to score. The defense does their job, I have to do mine.”

Steele notched three goals on four shots, and attacker Brindi Griffin earned two go a l s a n d t h re e a s s i s ts.

Hartshorn added nine draw controls and two ground balls.

Griffin said Senior Day motivated her play. “ We w e r e j u s t s u p e r e x c i t e d ,” G r i f f i n s a i d , “coming out and playing for the seniors. sportsdbk@gmail.com

fortnite fever has swept the nation, and the Maryland baseball team is no exception, even incorporating references to the game in their on-field celebrations. courtesy epic games

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fter Maryland baseball second baseman Nick Dunn doubled against William & Mary on Tuesday, he bent down, faced the dugout and rotated one arm around the other, mimicking the characters in Fortnite: Battle Royale, the team’s favorite video game.

When the Terps first started the post-double tradition in their season-opening series against Tennessee, coach Rob Vaughn thought it was a dance move. His bench informed him it was the motion avatars from the popular online survival-based game use when applying bandages.

He liked the community aspect of the display.

Amid a season in which the Terps are 15-17 and hitting just .234, bonding over Fortnite has provided a positive outlet.

“That was just one of the things that we thought kind of symbolized our offense healing back up or kind of getting things going,” left fielder Will Watson said. “You gotta pay attention equally on Fortnite as you would on the baseball field.”

The Fortnite craze began during winter break, when first baseman Kevin Biondic and catcher Justin Morris started playing it. They called themselves the “Bush Gang,” hiding in bushes throughout the map to pick

off unsuspecting players. Now, as more adept players, they’ve adopted more aggressive strategies.

Pretty soon, Biondic said, it felt like the whole team was online with them. The competition was intense.

One time when Biondic was playing with his roommate, righthander Taylor Bloom, he heard something slam in the room next to his and noticed Bloom’s microphone was muted. Bloom’s character was dead.

“I was trying to put the pieces together while I’m still playing,” Biondic said. “Then I realized that he died, and he rage quit.”

“Bloom is the epic rager,” Watson said. “He throws many controllers.

Pitches fits.”

Most of the team plays on PlayStation 4, although Watson and three others run squad games on Xbox One. In the locker room before practices, players tell each other about how they played the night before.

Watson said it builds a connection with his teammates because they have to work together to win the game by sharing ammo and helping to revive each other when they’re knocked out.

“All I know is that it’s a combination of Hunger Games and something.

I know you drop people in and somebody wins,” Vaughn said. “If they’re

together doing stuff, it doesn’t matter whether they’re playing horseshoes, Fortnite, whatever it is.”

Over the past couple of seasons, Dunn has brought a TV onto Maryland’s team bus. Other players pack video game consoles along with their clothes.

Without an internet connection, the Terps often take turns playing NHL or MLB games in the back of the bus. Vaughn has watched them play several times. While Dunn claims he’s the best player, Vaughn said he’s never seen him win a game.

With downtime during road trips, Vaughn often finds his players awake playing Fortnite when he does room checks. At home, they play most nights after practice.

Watson said he hopes Maryland’s offense can improve at the plate and break out the bandages more often.

The Terps left 17 runners on base against the Tribe and have struggled to score consistently throughout the year.

“Sometimes you might be frustrated after the game,” Watson said.

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Parsons leaves game with leg injury Team hopes starting pitcher’s hamstring issue is simply a cramp Maryland baseball starter Hunter Parsons departed in the sixth inning of his outing against Illinois on Sunday with an apparent right leg injury.

After throwing a pitch midway through the frame, Parsons grabbed the back of his right leg.

He exited following a couple of test pitches and was replaced by left-hander Sean Fisher. by

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At h l e t i c t ra i n e r T yl e r Cronin got Parsons water — a possible indication of a cramp — but Maryland opted to withdraw the right-hander after 5 2/3 innings. He surrendered one run and struck out seven.

“His [hamstring] just kind of locked up on him,” coach Rob Vaughn said. “We’re h o p i n g i t ’s n o t h i n g to o serious. We think it was just kind of a cramp and we’ll have

a lot more information hopefully in the next day or so.”

Parsons struggled in his season-debut against Tennessee, allowing eight runs in one inning. Since then, he’s held down the Terps’ Sunday role, including two complete game showings. He left his Sunday start with a 2.96 ERA. Parsons showed promise his freshman year, pitching to a 3.50 ERA in 36 innings, mostly as a reliever. He regressed in 2017, as his ERA ballooned to 12.05, but has rebounded with a stellar year to this point.

“It’s always bad to see a guy go down,” shortstop AJ Lee said, “especially when he’s in a groove like he was.”

Vaughn is hopeful Parsons will be available to start next weekend against Michigan as the Terps continue Big Ten play.

“As long as he’s good this week and we have him healthy in Ann Arbor next weekend, we’ll be OK,” Vaughn said.

“It’s obviously not ideal. …

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starter hunter parsons has had a resurgent junior season but left his outing against Illinois on Sunday in the sixth inning with right hamstring pain. file photo/the diamondback

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grads From p. 1 Michael Goodman said when Loh — who appeared on the show to talk about his desire to invest in the surrounding College Park community — mentioned this idea, it was the first time he heard that one was in the works.

While Goodman said he is excited to see the plan, he is disappointed the GSG was not involved in its creation.

Goodman said he hopes the plan includes feedback from the Fearless Student Employees Coalition, which was founded to fight for legal employee status and collective bargaining rights for this university’s undergraduate and graduate student workers, according to its OrgSync website. Under Maryland law, undergraduate and graduate student workers

“I’m very hesitant to be excited that there’s actually a plan in place to increase stipends.”

- GRADUATE STUDENT GOVERNMENT PUBLIC RELATIONS VICE PRESIDENT KATIE BROWN

are not afforded collective bargaining rights.

Loh’s statement came in response to the coalition’s president, communication doctoral student Yvonne Slosarski, who tweeted at the show asking why Loh is “investing in College Park and not Graduate Assistants (GA) and Adjunct Professors.”

The minimum stipend for a nine-and-a-half month assistantship of a graduate student worker is $16,144, according to the graduate school’s website. In February, more than 100 graduate students and faculty members from across the University System of Maryland submitted testimony to the state’s Senate Finance Committee in favor of a bill that

would grant graduate student workers at system institutions collective bargaining rights.

With these rights, graduate assistants could negotiate wages and other terms of employment with the graduate school. Under the current meet-and-confer system, which allows graduate students and the graduate school to debate job-related issues without a structured agreement, many assistants say they can’t effectively do this.

The bill has not been sent to the floor for a vote in either the House or the Senate, and with the final day of the 2018 legislative session on Monday, it will likely fail to pass.

GSG Public Relations Vice President Katie Brown said

she was “thrilled” to hear Loh talk about a plan to increase stipend levels. But the communication doctoral student added that she is also “wary to get excited,” as graduate school Interim Dean Steve Fetter and a system representative testified against the collective bargaining bill.

In his testimony, Fetter said collective bargaining would “foster an adversarial relationship between University administration and graduate students.” The system representative added that while the meet-andconfer process “doesn’t always work terribly well,” the group believes collective bargaining would not necessarily improve the situation.

In the March 2018 issue of GradTerp Magazine, Fetter said current funding for graduate assistantships and fellowships is inadequate, but focused on the need for more fellowships “to attract and to retain the best and brightest students from around the country.”

“As we set our sights on the next 100 years of graduate education here at Maryland, this is something we will be working on with you and our graduate program partners,” he wrote.

The GSG also tweeted at the radio show the day of Loh’s appearance, asking what the school’s president is “doing to ensure that there is affordable housing for graduate students in College Park.”

G ra d u a te G a rd e n s a n d Graduate Hills are the only two all-graduate housing communities on university property, according to the Department of Resident Life’s website. Monthly rent starts at $1,247, according to the apartment complex’s website.

Loh said the university is “looking into” ways to make housing more affordable in the College Park area, but Brown was not satisfied with his response.

“I’m very hesitant to be excited that there’s actually a plan in place to increase stipends when he’s on a radio show talking about building the College Park community and he can’t adequately answer the question as to how he’s going to make sure students can afford to live here,” she said. arobertsdbk@gmail.com

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Terps fall to Illini, 20-2 18-run loss completes sweep in Maryland’s first Big Ten series loss of the Illini’s offensive outburst in their 20-2, five-inning win against Maryland, securing the series sweep.

“They’re just really talented hitters,” Wright said. “They swing it big and we didn’t pitch great. They’re one of the best offenses in the country, and we just did not match up well against them this weekend.”

Maryland’s 18-run loss is its worst loss this season. Their previous worst was a 12-0 defeat to No. 2 Florida on Feb. 24. It was the Terps’ fifth loss in five innings.

After Denhart departed, reliever Sami Main struggled in similar fashion. Illinois added four more runs against Main to stretch its lead to eight. It was the second

time in the series that Illinois had an eight-run second inning.

The Illini added four runs in the third to stretch their advantage to 12. Illinois swept the Terps by a combined score of 38-3 with two run-rule victories.

The offensive explosion was not uncharacteristic. Entering Sunday, Illinois hit .327 as a team and had scored 238 runs on the season, 23 more than the next best team in the Big Ten. Outfielder Maddi Doane led the Illini with two home runs and six RBI on Sunday.

Illinois’ pitching, meanwhile, had not been on par with its offense coming into the series but still dominated Maryland’s hitters. Illinois hurlers, led by Taylor Edwards, allowed just two runs on twelve hits over the weekend.

“It wasn’t really anything they did,” infielder Skylynne Ellazar said. “We just took a lot of pitches and we didn’t score when we had runners in scoring position.”

Maryland struggled hitting in the clutch on Sunday,

going 2-for-12 with runners in scoring position. Maryland had a series-high six hits but was only able to translate that into two runs. “ I j u s t d o n ’t t h i n k we played well,” Wright said.

“We’re just looking forward to being at home, being in warm weather, forgetting a b o u t t h i s we e ke n d a n d moving forward.”

struggling offense.

The Illini (19-8, 6-3) then From p. 14 gave the Terps the go-ahead f i e l d e r J a c k Ya l o w i t z run after two walks — one bobbled second baseman intentional — and a basesNick Dunn’s single. Vaughn loaded hit by pitch.

But key strikeouts from gave Lee a thumbs-up after the junior slid safely into Mo r r i s a n d r i g h t f i e l d e r home, his aggression having Randy Bednar limited the created a run for Maryland’s Terps’ production.

“We’re just not finishing the inning,” Vaughn said.

“It doesn’t always have to be sexy, it’s just a matter of executing. We have bases loaded and one out and get a [strikeout] instead of a deep fly ball.”

With Illinois designated h i t te r M i c h a e l M i c h a l a k

on second in the seventh, a s t r i ke o u t p i tc h e l u d e d Morris for a passed ball.

After retrieving it, he made a n e r ra n t t h row to f i rs t that allowed M ichalak to level the score at two, and walks from the Terps’ most reliable bullpen arms this season helped Illinois grab

a two-run lead in the next frame.

Maryland failed to cash in on a bases-loaded opportunity in the eighth inning and managed only a single in the ninth, clinching its first Big Ten series loss.

“The biggest thing for us is just trying to execute in

those situations,” Lee said.

“The biggest thing to do that is knowing who we are as a team and as individual players. Just staying in our approach and doing what we do. It’s going to have to come eventually.”

Maryland softball pitcher Ryan @TheBiggestFisch Denhart held Illinois’ dynamic Staff writer offense to just one run in the first inning Sunday afternoon, and after an inning and a half, the Terps remained competitive with the Illini. Coach Julie Wright’s team struck back to tie the game in the top of the second and had five hits through two innings.

But the Illini opened the second inning with four consecutive hits, culminating with outfielder Kiana Sherlund’s grand slam to break the game open. The grand slam knocked Denhart, who allowed six hits and five runs in an inning, out of the game. It was the start by

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ILLINOIS

WISNAUSKAS From p. 14 dominated the fourth quarter.

It marked a breakthrough for the Terps, whose late struggles cost them their lone loss of the season against the Great Danes.

Led by Wisnauskas and Kelly, the Terps outscored Penn State,

Coach julie wright’s team won five straight games to take its first two Big Ten series, but the Illini’s potent offense feasted on Maryland’s pitching and outscored the Terps, 38-3, in a sweep that included two run-rule games. file photo/the diamondback

the Terps their first lead of Black beat the buzzer to force 4-3, in the final frame. a tie game entering the fourth.

After entering the inter- the game.

Wisnauskas then set the tone But the advantage didn’t last. mission trailing by a goal, m i d f i e l d e r W i l l S n i d e r Penn State midfielder Robby down the stretch, rallying the opened the second half by driving past two defenders to tie the game at six. Snider’s second goal of the quarter, which came with 44 seconds left in the third quarter, gave

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Essential Album: Big Fish Theory, above Staples’ latest album, Big Fish Theory, is his most unique and defined work yet — it features quick-witted sharp raps over electronic production that sounds more extraterrestrial than almost anything out there. It also has the wild Kendrick Lamar collaboration “Yeah Right,” which is definitely worth a listen.

Essential Song: Norf Norf “Norf Norf” is Staples’ most popular single, featuring the hazy Clams Casino production that graced early A$AP Rocky mixtapes, but with raps that get to the point faster than anyone in the game. “I ain’t never ran from nothing but the police” is a line that crams the entire thesis of Staples’ career into nine words — smart, clever and most importantly, honest.

Since 2014, every iteration of SEE’s annual spring concert series, Art Attack, has featured a rapper.

They’ve ranged from the self-serious (Wale) to the silly (Lil Dicky), from rappity rappers like Big Sean to rappas ternt sangas like T-Pain.

But this year’s lineup, which features Long Beach rapper Vince Staples and Atlanta Auto-Tuner Lil Yachty, is probably the most modern yet. Both artists have small, niche and totally separate fanbases in rap music that, together, provide a pretty all-encompassing look at the diverse sounds of modern rap.

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Essential Album: Lil Boat, above Yachty’s debut mixtape is the perfect blend of,“Wow, this is horrible,” and, “Good God, this song’s been stuck in my head for two weeks.”

It was the world’s introduction the red-haired rapper, and to date, he hasn’t surpassed it. It’s simple, charming and extremely catchy, and it doesn’t quite sound like anything else.

Essential Song: One Night “One Night” is quintessential Lil Boat, and the song that catapulted him into the mainstream.

It features none of his frequent and frequently misguided attempts at rapping, and its sweet, simple melody is incredibly catchy without bordering on obnoxious. It’s Yachty at his best, and most of his other big hits follow the formula of “One Night.”

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This follows City Manager trict 1 Councilwoman Kate Scott Somers’s recommen- Kennedy said.

District 4 Councilwoman dation not to raise the rate, Denise Mitchell was one of Kabir said.

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1863, Olson said.

The side path is built on From p. 6 land owned by the Washington also runs between two pillars Metropolitan Area Transit that marked the entrance Authority and extends into to the historical MacAlpine both communities, Olson said, House, which was built by which made the permitting for Charles Baltimore Calvert in the project difficult. Building

to discuss funding for Meals on Wheels, a program that delivers food, which she thought “should be fully funded at whatever cost they need to make it work.”

Ke n n e dy a l so sa i d s h e would like to advocate for the program to receive more funding, calling it “really important.”

Resident Marci Booth said

unnecessarily large amounts of money were allocated to the Boys and Girls Club, the College Park Arts Exchange and the University of Maryland’s IFC-PHA on-campus tailgates, which she derided as “helping the college police their children — no offense — while they’re drinking.” She asked the council to tell her at a later date whether these

funds could instead be redirected to Meals on Wheels.

The proposed fiscal 2019 budget currently allocates $39,000 to the College Park Arts Exchange, $12,500 to the Boys and Girls Club and $10,000 to the Interfraternity Council Tailgate Program, while awarding $6,500 to Meals on Wheels.

Neighbors Helping Neighbors, a program geared toward

helping senior citizens, received its $11,500 funding request from the city, but some residents said the group shouldn’t help seniors only.

“It’s for everybody. You can be 20 and need help,” said Carol Macknis, who attended the meeting.

the side path itself was also difficult, city engineer Steven Halpern said. More than 1,600 cubic yards of dirt — enough to fill City Hall— had to be removed to make the ground level enough for an ADAcompliant sidewalk, he said.

Halpern said he couldn’t get one consecutive week of work on the project due to the cold, rain or snow. The path is made of permeable concrete that is temperature-sensitive, he said.

Halpern said construction usually doesn’t occur in the

winter, but there was an urgent need to give people access to Riverdale Park Station.

Olson said there are still a few finishing touches left for the sidewalk, such as the addition of trees along the path.

“It seems like it’s not very long as a piece of sidewalk,” Wojahn said, “but it’s amazing how complicated it was to build a piece of infrastructure that’s just 300 feet.”

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sophomore kirsten peterman bested her average with a 9.8 on floor at Saturday’s Raleigh Regional, but Maryland’s 48.925 team score on the event was uncharacteristically low and prevented it from breaking 196 overall. marquise mckine/the diamondback

“Our season ends now, but this is actually just the beginning of our journey and what we’re going to do for this program.”

- GYMNASTICS COACH BRETT NELLIGAN

NCAA From p. 14 disappointing Big Ten Championships performance and the NCAA Regional, Peterman said she had time to focus on all of the inconsistencies in her beam routine.

“The atmosphere at regionals gave me a boost,” Peterman said. “Just go out there and do the best for the team.”

The squad’s overall beam score also

improved at the regional, matching its season-best score with a 48.95. Nelligan said it was the “sharpest it’s ever been.”

“Our beam has improved so much this year from start to finish,” allaround Audrey Barber said. “What really helped us was coming in the gym and making our routines perfection.”

But the team paired its strong beam performance with a disappointing floor rotation. The Terps scored 48.925 on floor after posting at least a

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Terps relievers falter late Bullpen allows lead to slip away as squad drops series to Illinois When starter Hunter Parsons left in the sixth inning of Sunday’s Maryland baseball game due to an apparent right leg injury, coach Rob Vaughn had the bullpen arms he wanted thanks to an off day Saturday.

The Terps’ top four relief options were available to complete the final 3 1/3 innings against Illinois, but Vaughn’s plan derailed when catcher Justin by

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closer john murphy was one of three Terps relievers to issue costly walks in the eighth inning of Sunday’s 4-2 defeat to the Illini. file photo/the diamondback

capitalize on a bases-loaded opportunity in the bottom of the eighth.

“Unfortunately, we put Morris’ error on a dropped third strike allowed the Illini to plate three guys on in a row, and the tying run in the seventh off they cashed in,” coach Rob Vaughn said. “We come back left-hander Sean Fisher.

In the next frame, three the next inning, put the first relievers — right-handers two guys on, and just can’t Mike Vasturia, John Murphy execute. Really, that’s the and Kevin Biondic — issued story of the game right there.”

The pitchers Vaughn most consecutive walks to load the bases before two straight wanted on the mound with sacrifice flies put Illinois the game on the line fell short.

“Those are our three guys out ahead, 4-2. The Illini carried that advantage to a of the pen,” Vaughn said. “They’re rubber-match victory after going to continue being our three Maryland’s offense failed to guys out of the pen. … It didn’t

line up and work, but I think we had the guys in the right positions today.”

Parsons (3-2) supplied the Terps (15-17, 3-3 Big Ten) with 5 2/3 innings, surrendering one run while striking out seven. His day was cut short after he grabbed the back of his right leg midway through t h e s i x t h w i t h M a r yl a n d trailing 1-0.

In the bottom of the sixth, the Terps evened the score, as shortstop AJ Lee blew through Vaughn’s stop sign when right See illinois, p. 11

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men’s lacrosse

Tillman’s squad tops Penn State Midfielders Wisnauskas and Kelly lead Terps in 13-12 win Maryland men’s lacrosse midfielder Logan Wisnauskas clenched both of his fists and ran to meet defenseman Bryce Young for a high-five in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s contest against No. 15 Penn State.

Young had just found Wisnauskas open on the right-side of the circle with about seven minutes remaining, giving the Syracuse transfer an easy look for his second goal in less than a minute.

In a span of 28 seconds, Wisnauskas took control of a game in which Maryland trailed for longer that it had all season. His three goals and midfielder Connor Kelly’s six helped Maryland top Penn State, 13-12, to remain unbeaten in conference play.

The win helped push Maryland to 6-0 against the Nittany Lions since 2015 and will likely result in a boost in the rankings. The Terps could jump to No. 1 after top-ranked Albany fell to UMBC on Friday.

For the second straight week, Maryland by

Scott Gelman @Gelman_Scott Senior staff writer

See wisnauskas, p. 11

gymnastics

Terps focus on positives after Regional Fourth place finish for gymnastics at NCAAs met with optimism for future Though the Maryland gymnastics team failed to accomplish its goal of breaking 196 points at Saturday’s Raleigh Regional, coach Brett Nelligan’s squad still views the performance as a positive sign for the program.

After missing the postseason the previous two seasons and being the lowest-ranked team at the regional, the Terps’ 195.85 earned them a fourth-place finish and marked a successful return to the NCAA tournament, where they feel they belong every season.

“The team was feeling really good,” allarounder Kirsten Peterman said. “Competing at regionals was just icing on the cake and just showed how good this team really is and how much potential we have for the future.”

Maryland had no seniors and just two juniors in its NCAA tournament lineups, using underclassmen to perform 21 of the 24 routines.

Peterman posted a 39 all-around mark — a higher score than her previous three meets — thanks to an improvement on beam. The sophomore earned a 9.625 on beam after scoring no better than a 9.5 at the previous three competitions.

W i t h t wo we e k s b e twe e n t h e tea m ’s by

Rachel Bucchino @DBKSports Staff writer

See ncaa , p. 13

Attacker kali hartshorn ended scoring droughts of more than 15 minutes in the Terps’ recent wins over Virginia and Rutgers with key conversions. marquise mckine/the diamondback

cool under pressure Kali Hartshorn delivers clutch goals as dual-threat attacker

By Lila Bromberg | @lilabbromberg | Staff writer

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aryland women’s lacrosse attacker Kali Hartshorn has gained attention for her talent in the draw control circle, where she’s led the team with 183 pickups over the past two seasons. But she’s also excelled in open play, helping the Terps break out of scoring droughts.

That’s been particularly apparent in Maryland’s past two wins over No. 10 Virginia and Rutgers.

She converted in those contests to end two scoreless stretches of at least 15 minutes.

“When we go through those droughts … it’s really cool when Kali comes up with the big draw controls,” attacker Brindi Griffin said. “It gets the momentum back on our side, and then having her able to go down and score on the attack is even better.”

The Terps started slow on Wednesday against the Cavaliers, and went scoreless for about 15

minutes as Virginia cut its deficit to 9-8. Then, Hartshorn drove in from the right side before unleashing a shot from just inside the eight meter line to give the squad a cushion.

Maryland’s bench reacted in wild celebration after staying relatively quiet throughout the scoreless stretch. Hartshorn’s finish sparked a 6-0 Maryland run to finish the contest with a 15-8 win.

She delivered a similar moment on Friday against Rutgers.

After Maryland scored two quick goals to start the second half, the Terps went through a n o t h e r e x te n d e d d ro u g h t .

Following a timeout, however, Hartshorn scored to give her team a commanding 12-5 advantage en route to a 14-6 victory.

“She’s such a tough competitor,” coach Cathy Reese said.

“She’s always analyzing and thinking of what can she do, where can she go, how can she

place herself in the best position to help her team.”

Hartshorn was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year last season, leading Maryland in draw controls (112) and ranking second in goals (58). But she had a much quieter start to her sophomore season, tallying just four goals in the first five games.

Her seven goals and 10 draw controls over the past two games seem to indicate she’s regaining her form down the stretch.

Reese attributed the uptick to her improvement in oneon-one situations, where she’s dodged more effectively, and to her ability to pick apart zone defenses with her positioning.

“You’ll see her be totally emotionally in control and trying to do her best in everything that she does,” Reese said. “She’s somebody that’s going to compete for the whole 60 minutes.” lbrombergdbk@gmail.com

“[Hartshorn’s] somebody that’s going to compete for the whole 60 minutes.”

- WOMEN’S LACROSSE COACH CATHY REESE