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SGA urges minimum wage hike on campus County wage exceeds university’s by $1.30

All 29 candidates are running unopposed

By Samantha Reilly @manthahontas Staff writer T he SGA voted unanimously Wednesday to pass a resolution encouraging this university’s administration to raise the minimum wage for workers on this campus to match Prince George’s County’s minimum wage.

T he vote wa s 23-0 w it h no abstentions.

This university currently abides by the state minimum wage of $8.25 per hour, rather than the county’s minimum wage of $9.55 per hour.

“Since we’re a state entity, we follow the state minimum wage guidelines,” said Aiden Galloway, the Student Government Association’s speaker of the legislature.

Christopher Bangert-Drowns, a Student Labor Action Project organizer, did not enroll in classes this academic year in order to work more hours at his job in concessions on the campus. He will take classes at this university as a junior economics major in the fall, he said.

The low wages for jobs on the campus make it difficult to balance schoolwork and paid work, BangertDrowns said.

“It doesn’t make sense to ask students to enhance their education,

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year ago,” Rowe said.

Construction of a replacement for the pedestrian bridge that collapsed onto Metro tracks a year ago this week — April 15, 2015 — is set for April 24, relieving traveling inconveniences for those who once used it, Berwyn Heights Mayor Jodie Kulpa-Eddy said.

The Green Line will be closed during the installation process, but Kulpa-Eddy

In the upcoming SGA elections, students will have one choice in party ticket for all 29 positions with candidates running, as only one party is eligible to campaign to represent the student body.

The Bold Party, headed by Katherine Swanson, the current vice president of student affairs who is now running for student body president, was the only party to successfully fi le for a ticket and candidacy by the deadline, March 25. One student who registered as an independent, not on the Bold Party ticket, was eligible to run but withdrew her name.

J.T. Stanley, a senior individual studies major who will be returning to the university next year and had planned to run for Student Government Association president but missed the deadline, appealed his ineligibility unsuccessfully. He contends that there was misconduct by the Elections Board and requested a three-week extension for elections, which he said would allow other interested parties to register.

To apply for candidacy, a student was required to attend both an information session and an SGA general

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The bridge connecting College Park with Berwyn Heights collapsed when heavy equipment used by a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority contractor damaged it. A new bridge will be installed this month. tom hausman/the diamondback

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Bridging Construction on collapsed bridge to begin April 24

By Alex Carolan @alexhcarolan Staff writer Ian Rowe, a College Park resident and alumnus of this university, said he ran to Lake Artemesia every week until the pedestrian bridge that con nected Col lege Park with Berwyn Heights collapsed.

“I’ve only been there probably three times since it happened a

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Women face catcalls near campus construction areas Facilities Management asks those harassed to file official reports

By Lindsey Feingold @lindseyf96 Staff writer When sophomore history major Noel Sitnick walks down Paint Branch Trail on her way home to the University View after a day of classes, she passes groups of construction workers who greet her with a variety of catcalls: shouts of “Hey, baby” accompanied by kissing noises.

“It’s terrifying because I can’t really defend myself against a group of three or four of them, and they are all a lot larger than me,” Sitnick said.

“If you have a bunch of adult men who have this power over you, it’s pretty scary.”

There have been two recent complaints fi led with the Office of Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct about construction workers on the campus, said Charles Reuning, a university administration and fi nance associate vice president and chief facilities officer. Investigations surrounding the two reports are not ongoing, as the student complainants did not provide enough information to identify specific individuals, said Catherine Carroll, director of the Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct Office.

“The real issues are if we can’t identify them or if we don’t have jurisdiction over them,” Carroll sa id. “Someti mes people on campus are a guest. If they are not employees or students, it’s hard to

hold them accountable.”

When investigating complaints against construction workers, Reuning said, it can be difficult to ascertain whether the harassment is from Facilities Management employees or contractors hired by the university. Facilities Management employees would face disciplinary action, he said, and contractors would be “removed from campus immediately,” as their contracts contain language prohibiting sexual harassment.

Sitnick fi led a complaint with the office after noticing a post on Reddit two weeks ago in which this university’s students documented their experiences of harassment by construction workers on the campus and others suggested that victims report the incidents.

“Right after I saw the post on Reddit, I filled out a report using a link a guy posted on there,” Sitnick said. “It’s cool how people started sharing this online at the same time, and I think it will help make a difference.”

The Office of Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct contacted Sitnick afterward, alerting her that it would look into the complaint, and Reuning later reached out directly to Sitnick to apologize and offer to meet with her to investigate the incident further.

Evie Monroe, a sophomore communication and women’s studies major, said she was catcalled by construction workers on the campus three or four times See CATCALLING, Page 6

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Francis Scott Key Elementary School Sixth-Graders involved with a proposal to curb the influence of gang violence in their community pose for a photo. The group is working on finding sources of funding for its proposed after-school enrichment program and presented the initiative to the state education board. photo courtesy of georgina stephens

Francis Scott Key Elementary sixth-graders develop proposal to combat gang influence Group presents project to state representative, university professors

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Senior staff writer When Francis Scott Key Elementary School sixth-grade teacher Georgina Stephens asked the 20 students in her social action enrichment period what issue they were most concerned about, they overwhelmingly agreed: gang violence.

Within a year, those same students were presenting to Rep. Donna

Edwards (D-Prince George’s) their self-created proposal for a multifaceted academic enrichment program designed to curb the influence of gang violence in their community.

“She was really impressed with it, which was so, so amazing for the kids,” said Stephens, a 2013 alumna from this university with a degree in elementary education. “They were on top of the world, they were so excited.”

Their class also presented their proposal to education professors at this university, Board of Education leaders and student groups in early March, hoping to gain support and raise awareness.

“It’s things that are happening in our community and we’re trying to figure a way out to help stop it; that’s why we made this program,” said Jarred Lewis, one of the sixth-graders involved in the project.

But that didn’t come without a lot of hard work, the students said. They formed and worked on six committees — introduction/closing, inspiration, background/literature review, proposal, budget and fundraising — to thoroughly understand the issue, prepare their proposal and make realistic decisions. They even formed incentive, discipline and hiring policies.

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CRIME BLOTTER SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY

By Michael Brice-Saddler @TheArtist_MBS Staff writer Un iversity Pol ice responded to reports of assault, trespassing and vandalism, among other incidents, this past week, according to police reports.

ASSAULT University Police were in the area of Knox Road and Route 1 on Sunday at 1:08 p.m. when officers noticed a woman assaulting a man.

As police were investigating the incident, two others came forward and said the woman had assaulted them as well, police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said. One victim was a student, another had no affiliation with this university and the third victim’s affiliation is unknown.

Police charged the suspect, 20-year-old Marcella Anne Fegler of Mount Airy, with three counts of second-degree simple assault. This case is now closed.

TRESPASSING On Sunday at 12:19 a.m., University Police responded to Stamp Student Union for an anonymous report of a suspicious man talking to himself. Officers located the man, who had previously been denied access to all buildings and grounds in May 2014.

Police arrested 40-yearold Charles Philip Miller, charging him with school trespassing and refusal to leave a building, Hoaas said.

This case is now closed.

University Police responded to the North Campus Dining Hall on Tuesday at 2:39 p.m. after someone used the Rave Guardian app to report that two men were catca l l i ng women as they were walking by, Hoaas said.

Officers located the two men, who are not affiliated with this university, and issued them denial of access to all buildings and grounds, Hoaas said. This case is now closed.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON University Police responded to the South Campus Dining Hall area on Monday at 3:57 a.m. when security cameras picked up three people attempting to steal a bicycle.

An officer located the three men but determ i ned that no theft was taking place.

Because they had no business being on the campus, Hoaas said the officer issued all three men a denial of access to the university.

TELEPHONE/EMAIL MISUSE On Tuesday at 9:27 a.m., an officer responded to University Police headquarters, where a female student reported that she was receiving unwanted phone calls from an ex-boyfriend, Hoaas said. Officers provided her with resources from the Office of Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct and information on how to obtain a peace order, Hoaas said. mbricesaddlerdbk@gmail.com

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sity of Washington and the University of Illinois at Chicago — face a similar wage differential on their campuses.

North Hill representative Kevin Johnson co-wrote the bill with Ellicott representative Mihir Khetarpal after SLAP approached them the week before spring break. The bill was introduced to the legislature last week.

“The college needs to embrace the fact that it’s part of the community of P.G. County and not an ivory tower on the hill,” said Johnson, a sophomore government and politics major.

Freshman Lillian Hallmark said she received $8.75 per hour when she began working at Potbelly Sandwich Shop on Route 1 in August, when the county minimum wage was lower.

“Having our address in P.G. County is not a separate part of our identity as a school,” the biochemistry and physiology and neurobiology major said.

The Maryland General Assembly passed a bill in April 2014 raising the state minimum wage gradually to $10.10 by 2018. The county, on the other hand, voted in 2013 to raise its minimum wage from $7.25 to $11.50 over the course of four years.

There was an effort in the General Assembly this legislative session to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2020, but the bill died in committee.

SLAP met with university President Wallace Loh in February, Bangert-Drowns said, but the meeting was inconclusive. SLAP is encouraging the

university to stop waiting for a mandate from the state to raise the minimum wage.

Despite student support for the increase, SGA President Patrick Ronk noted that because this university relies on state funding, it might not be feasible to increase wages for workers on the campus unless change first occurs on the state level.

“While this is very well-intentioned, it just isn’t very practical in the current fiscal situation,” Ronk said. “The reason this won’t happen is because the university really can’t afford to pay for something like this. They have a pretty significant structural deficit they operate on from year to year.”

College Park, said the alternatives to the pedestria n bridge — a th i n sidewa l k From PAGE 1 along a major road and an said the construction will underpass — are too far out hopefully occur during off of the way for him.

The bridge collapsed when hours or at night.

The contractors are set heavy equipment used by one to complete the installa- of the Washington Metrotion that weekend, but the politan Area Transit Authorbridge will not be open to ity contractors, Skanska, the public until fencing and damaged the bridge. Since electricity are installed and then, Kulpa-Eddy said, there have been delays in getting inspected, she said.

The bridge served as the the bridge replaced.

Insurance issues between most convenient way to get from one side of the metro W M ATA a n d Sk a n s k a , a tracks to the other, College change in the concrete manPark District 1 Councilman ufacturer and concerns over P.J. Brennan said. The re- shutti ng dow n the Green placement w i l l con nect Line at popular times, such the two cities again and as during the Cherry Blossom prov id e resid ents w it h Festival, all contributed to access to businesses and further delays. In addition recreation areas, such as to the concrete that needs to be replaced, new fencing Lake Artemesia.

“It’s really disengaged, and lighting must also be sort of an essential middle installed, Kulpa-Eddy said.

In a January Washington l i n k fo r t h o s e w h o a re walkers or bikers,” said Post article, Metro spokesAaron Marcavitch, the ex- man Dan Stessel laid some ecutive director of Anacos- of the blame on delays from Skanska, a global constructia Trails Heritage Area.

Rowe, who lives in North tion company.

“They’ve made a number of commitments as to a date, and those dates have come and gone,” Stessel told The Post. “We are not happy.”

College Park Mayor Patrick Woja h n said the lack of a replacement bridge has adversely affected both residents and businesses.

People who live in Berwyn Heig hts a nd work on t he u n i v e rs i t y c a m p u s u s e d the bridge to commute, he sa id , a nd re sid ents h ave less access to busi nesses in the commercial district of Berwyn Heights, such as Fishnet, a local restaurant.

“People have had to change their lives around because of that bridge not being there,” Wojahn said.

Fa m i l ies wa l k i ng t hei r children to Holy Redeemer E lementa r y School on Ber w y n Road a lso prev io u s ly u se d t he br id ge a s a n a lternative to wa l ki ng along busy streets, KulpaEddy said.

Though Brennan and his husband used to walk their dogs around Lake Artemesia

every day before the bridge collapse, he said a number of residents “haven’t been frequenting that side of the train tracks” now.

T he underpass in the Lakeland com munity is often muddy, he said, and there is only one way to get in and out of it.

“Once you go over to the other side, it’s a pretty big commitment to do the full walk of the lake,” he said.

Eric Olson, executive director of the College Park City-Un iversity Pa rtnersh ip, sa id the bridge was — and could again be — the best and most reliable route for pedestrians and bikers. “ W h e n I w a s a g ra d uate student a nd I l ived i n Berwyn Heights, I rode my bike over that bridge all of the time to get to campus,” Olson said. “I mean, that was 20 years ago, but still I know that it’s well-used.

Ever y t i me I [wa s] dow n t h e r e t h e r e ’s s o m e b o d y crossing.”

From PAGE 1 when you’re paying them $8.25 an hour, and also be successful in classes,” BangertDrowns said. Students “literally have to choose between food and textbooks.”

Nearly 80 percent of college students hold down jobs while attending school, and the average student works 19 hours per week during the school year, according to a 2013 Citigroup national study.

Several other universities — including San Francisco State University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, the Univer-

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SGA CANDIDATES AND VACANCIES FOR 2016 ELECTIONS

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SGA From PAGE 1 body meeting. The Elections Board listed three potential dates for each required meeting, asking students to attend one of each. A total of 53 students met that requirement, said James Gray, Elections Board chairman.

“Those are people who, as far as I’m concerned, should they have chosen to file for candidacy and should they have been deemed financially, academically and judicially eligible by the registrar, would be on the ballot no problem,” he said.

Instead, 29 appear.

Stanley had planned to also file for candidacy for the rest of the candidates on his ticket, but because he missed the deadline, a number of students expecting to run under Stanley’s Voice Party do not appear on the ballot.

He contested this with a formal appeal submitted April 1 to the Elections Board, an appointed board of five students who oversee the election

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election events, improperly exercised their discretion on excused absences and had inappropriate connections to the current SGA and to members of the Bold Party.

“The complaint filed is on my behalf, my party’s behalf [and] also the students disenfranchised by the process. This is more than just me,” Stanley said. “This is really an issue of severe, gross negligence.”

Gray was nominated to serve as Elections Board chairman

by Ronk, as is set up in the SGA bylaws. During the SGA’s approva l process, members brought up the fact that Gray is Ronk’s roommate — a relationship that Stanley finds problematic. Ultimately, Gray was unanimously approved by the legislature.

Ronk pointed to the open discussion about their relationship as proof that there was nothing hidden or underhanded.

“Frankly, I thought it was smart to appoint my roommate, because I trust him,” Ronk said. “He’s graduating, so he has no stake in who’s really SGA president next year, so he

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process. The Elections Board responded to the appeal April 2 and denied the extension, citing that a three-week extension would push campaigning and voting into finals week.

Stanley then appealed to the Governance Board, a body within SGA used to settle disputes. The board confirmed it had received Stanley’s appeal a nd decided not to move forward with a hearing.

Cu rrent SGA President Patrick Ronk said he is disappointed there is only one party running, as a contested election makes the process more legitimate and allows students to hear different points of view.

“It reflects really poorly on the SGA,” he said. “What does it say when we only have one person ru n n i ng? You know, it’s not a choice then.

There’s no write-in option, so it’s not like anyone else can run. It’s unfortunate.”

Stanley said the one-party race is a result of misconduct that stems further back than his missed deadline. He contends the Elections Board failed to properly publicize the

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Stanley also found issue with the advertisement of the SGA election process, as he discusses in the appeal. This year, the Elections Board advertised the election application through a Facebook event rather than a website, as had been done in previous years.

The Facebook event was announced at SGA meetings and members were encouraged to share it on their personal pages, Gray said. But, as Stanley points out in his appeal, it was not posted to the main SGA Facebook page until March 22 at 11:44 p.m., when only one information session and one general body meeting were left on the calendar.

Currently, the Facebook event “Learn More about 2016 SGA Elections,” shows 150 invited students, 29 who went and four who were interested — a fraction of the entire undergraduate student body.

“If you look at the election rules … it says that it’s our job to publicize the elections and the application process as we see fit,” Gray said. “Nowhere does it mention that we have to create a website.”

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In lieu of a website, the election rules and other documents were also posted on the main SGA website and are available there, Ronk said.

Additionally, Stanley fi nds fault with the Elections Board’s process of excusing absences for interested candidates unable to attend either an information session or SGA meeting.

At different times, he said, it would accept class excuses and religious excuses for absences without notifying the general public of what would qualify as an excused absence.

T he Elections Boa rd members said they responded to each excuse that they got on a case-by-case basis.

“Some people I was able to work something out with. … One person had a class commitment; the other person it was a religious holiday and they couldn’t come,” Gray said. Stanley “created the impression that there were throngs and throngs of people who this was a huge problem for, and then I never heard from any of them, with the exception of one or two.”

Ronk said the election application process was advertised to the same extent as previous

years and that Stanley’s failure to file was not the fault of the SGA or the Elections Board.

“There was no large barrier to entry; all [Stanley] had to do was fi le for candidacy, and he never did,” he said. “I just don’t understand why he’s trying to accuse us of this big corrupt thing when it’s really his fault.”

Stanley, however, argues that the Elections Board made the application process unfairly difficult — violating practices and procedures in the process — thus going against the spirit of the SGA, which he believes ought to encourage openness and fairness.

“The point is, is that the bar that they elevated, it was elevated against the spirit of SGA, it was elevated breaking away from SGA election rule guidelines, it was elevated in a way which reaches a breach of administrative law,” he said. They’re “effectively, whether that is their intention or not … going to coronate Patrick’s vice president without any discourse.” dcostellodbk@gmail.com, lschapitldbk@gmail.com

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about a 15 percent undergraduate turnout rate, Joe Calizo, the governing body’s adviser, told The Diamondback last year.

OUR VIEW

The SGA’s lackluster elections promotion this year has led to a less-thandemocratic ballot.

But this year’s elections could very well see historical lows at the virtual voting booth, and in a decidedly undemocratic process, more than 25 percent of next academic year’s SGA assembly will be appointed instead of elected.

It’s not as though this year’s assembly has done itself any favors, either. The SGA did not publicize the candidacy filing period via its Twitter account, and a March Facebook event titled “Learn More about 2016 SGA Elections” involved fewer than 200 invited guests.

Even the organization’s website — located after a Google search amid a sea of inactive Web pages formerly

associated with the SGA — failed to publicize information about the elections effectively, especially related to filing for candidacy.

In an even more confusing turn of events, J.T. Stanley, leader of the Voice Party and a presumed presidential candidate, missed both a March 25 deadline to file for candidacy and register his ticket, rendering most of his party unable to run. One student who registered independently later dropped out, and Stanley’s appeal to the Election Board proved unsuccessful.

Stanley alleged that the board had committed violations of multiple administrative documents and “applied a double standard in their discretion,” but what the situation boils down to is a mind-boggling lack of professionalism exhibited by the board, Voice Party leadership — namely, Stanley himself — and the SGA at large.

The SGA’s lobbying and legislative efforts mean nothing if the body doesn’t represent its constituents. For the past two months, the SGA has fallen short in its promotional efforts and outreach. This time around, there’s no reason to get out the vote.

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n 2003, Brazil elected president a man with a second grade education.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula da Silva or simply Lula, is considered to have been one of the most popular politicians in the history of Latin America. His social programs cut poverty in Brazil by almost 30 percent during his first year in office, which is pretty impressive considering he didn’t learn to read until he was 10.

Lula da Silva, the seventh of eight children, was born in 1945 in a small town in northeast Brazil.

His father worked to support the family from afar in Sao Paulo.

When Lula was 7, his mother decided to bring the family back together by moving to Sao Paulo herself, where she discovered that her husband had a second family.

Following his parents’ separation, Lula dropped out of school to work.

Working in a copper-processing factory at age 19, Lula lost a finger to an electric lathe. Funnily enough, dealing with the hospital system as an injured laborer integrated him into the world of labor unions, and he quickly became the president of Brazil’s Steel Worker’s Union. Despite his lack of formal education, he became involved in political advocacy and championed a movement to elect a president of the country via popular vote, as opposed to the canonical military caucuses.

In 1989, his movement was successful, and Brazil elected its first president via popular vote since 1960. In the late 1990s, soaring inflation, political corruption and rampant poverty marked a low point for Brazil. Lula ran for president as the “candidate of the

get injured. Athletes start to play badly, or at least not as well. This is uniformly true, and Kobe is no exception.

B u t , wh a t exa c t ly i s Ko b e ’s legacy? Right, one of the best of all time — we already covered that.

I mean, more abstractly, what has been his impact on the NBA, on the culture? It seems to me, when considering this question, Kobe is something like the last of his kind.

That terminology almost always feels trite and unsubstantiated to me, a close cousin to the tired old “they don’t make’ em like they used to” refrain of Golden Era thinkers blinded by nostalgia. Yet, in Kobe’s case, it seems true. It is possible that the end of this season could also see the retirement of Vince Carter, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan—the post-Jordan Y2K generation finally stepping back from the association. None of them, though, quite had Kobe’s sustained impact, and none his exact legacy.

Kobe, it seems to an outsider like me, took pride in being hated.

And there’s a part of me that respects him for that, especially in contrast with the social media brand-bots who make up so much of professional sports now. They sell themselves and the products they sponsor with likability and image. Certainly, Kobe is aware of his image, but I sincerely believe he never much had time for being likable. I find that refreshing, and I might even find it honest.

Then again, he also teetered on the line between admirable gruff-

ness and true abhorrent behavior quite often. He infamously shut out teammate Smush Parker for not being good enough, has admitted to making teammates cry and broke up his nearly dynastic team with Shaquille O’Neal because they couldn’t get along.

Most disturbingly, he was accused of rape in 2003, a stain on his career that strikes me as, if anything, being the most obvious signal of how attitudes have changed. It’s hard to imagine this much mainstream adulation pouring out for a public figure accused of such a heinous crime today, and that’s undoubtedly a good thing. Just as the Internet has given us brandobsessed athletes, it has provided larger and louder forums for the victims of sexual assault, and more people than ever are being held accountable.

So what if Kobe Bryant is just an excellent jerk? If he’s a transcendent talent and worker who just also happened to be a raging bully? Thinking of it that way, concerns over era and social media proliferation seem less important.

There have always been successful jagoffs, and there always will be.

Kobe’s legacy, then, is maybe more so a reminder: Like other masters of their craft, he isn’t expected to owe us anything, niceness least of all.

Then again, would it have killed him to try anyway?

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people,” drawing strong support from the working class. He handily won — in fact, he received the second most votes for president in the history of any country in the world at the time, behind only Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Perhaps unsurprisingly given his humble beginnings, Lula made social support programs his primary objective. Fome Zero — which translates to Zero Hunger — promoted family agriculture, brought fresh water cisterns to arid regions of the country and otherwise worked to eliminate hunger in the poorest parts of the country. Bolsa Familia, another social support program, distributed cash to poor families, with one contingency: The family’s children must be enrolled in school. Education — the resource that was never an option for Lula — became the key to his programs.

When Lula left office in 2011, infant malnutrition had fallen fourfold. Extreme poverty had been cut in half. The country’s food infrastructure allowed it to weather the global economic downturn much better than its neighbors. More than anything else, the working class of Brazil had experienced the first political voice catering to its interests. Lula left office with an approval rating of 87 percent.

The current president — Dilma Rousseff, currently under pressure to step down because of an ongoing federal investigation into corruption — has an approval rating of 11 percent.

Preceded by poverty and corruption, and succeeded by just corruption, Lula da Silva changed what it means to be poor in Brazil. Perhaps we could learn a thing or two from Brazil’s nine-fingered, second-gradeeducated ex-president.

Jack Siglin is a junior physiology and neurobiology major. He can be reached at jsiglindbk@gmail.com.

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esterday at 10:30 p.m., the 1 6 - 6 5 L os A n ge l e s L a ke rs played their final game of the NBA season, a meaningless contest that had a real shot at challenging regular season ratings records, because Kobe Bryant’s employment with the team will end immediately after.

Yes, as everyone knows, Kobe is retired. It wasn’t a surprise when he announced his imminent personal finale in late November (with a poem!), and no one believes he is making the wrong decision. Kobe has been awful this season — his athletic burst is kaput, he isn’t coming close to playing passable defense in the hyper-fast NBA and he is shooting just above 35 percent on the season. His lowlight reels have become something of a Twitter commodity, GIFs and Vines passed around by gleefully snickering commenters of, say, Kobe being unable to shake DeAndre Jordan and having his shot crushed by the 7-footer, reminiscent of a bored older sibling playing Nerf basketball with an overeager 9 year old.

Still, Kobe is one of the greatest players of all time, probably the second best off-guard after his idol, Michael Jordan. Everyone also knows this. Part of the fun of this Kobe season has also been the rare (very rare) flashes of his former greatness, like when he dropped 31 in a win on my sorry, no good, fraudulent, sham-of-a-favoriteteam Washington Wizards. This year doesn’t “ruin his legacy,” obviously: athletes get old. Athletes

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s things stand, this year’s SGA elections will feature a grand total of 29 candidates, all from the same party. No races will go contested, and 11 of 40 legislative and executive positions up for grabs won’t even have a single eligible candidate.

Campaigning began yesterday, but what’s the point? Unless their hot-button issue lies with drumming up applicants for unfilled positions — the Student Government Association will appoint representatives itself as needed next academic year — candidates have little reason to hit the trail. Each only needs one vote to win, and they’ll all presumably vote for themselves.

In recent years, SGA elections haven’t been nail-biting affairs.

About 900 students voted in 2014’s election, in which current SGA President Patrick Ronk emerged as the only option after onetime candidate Josh Ratner was ruled ineligible just before the deadline to finalize a bid. Last year, which saw Ronk pitted against Voice Party candidate Ori Gutin, Ronk secured 75 percent of 4,256 votes cast online en route to re-election. For a twoparty election, the SGA can expect

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his state has been making strides over the past few years to fully legalize marijuana. Before California passed Proposition 215 in 1996 legalizing medical marijuana, no state in decades had countered the federal government’s classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug.

Currently, 22 other states and D.C. have made some forms of medical marijuana legal, and some states have either decriminalized small amounts of it or fully legalized it recreationally.

This state, by comparison, now has one of the most relaxed marijuana laws. In 2014, Gov. Martin O’Malley signed legislation to replace criminal penalties for marijuana with just a civil fine.

In 2016, the General Assembly fully decriminalized marijuana, making both small amounts of marijuana and the possession of marijuana paraphernalia legal. All these policies are steps that appear to be leading to the inevitable full recreational legalization of marijuana in this state.

When the General Assembly first introduced and passed the full decriminalization law in 2015, it was vetoed by Gov. Larry Hogan. Though this veto was overridden and the legislation eventually passed, the ultimate takeaway from this is that Hogan clearly has no desire to fully legalize the drug yet. The Republican Party typically supports keeping marijuana illegal, and being that Hogan is a first-term Republican governor of a deep-blue state, he likely wasn’t going to support such drastic marijuana laws. He was honestly better off vetoing the legislation to protect his own image, knowing very well that the General Assembly would likely override it.

However, the interesting key to the puzzle is going to be what will happen if Hogan is re-elected.

Winning a second term as governor would give Hogan much more

room to make unpopular and difficult decisions. One of these, I believe, is going to be the full recreational legalization of marijuana. Democrats control this state, and many of them support the legalization of the drug. In fact, according to the Marijuana Policy Project, “54 percent of Marylanders want the legislature to go further and tax and regulate marijuana.”

As of now, four states and D.C. have legalized marijuana, and many other states are beginning to consider it as well. Obviously, there will always be two sides to the debate, but the states that have legalized it have generated huge revenues from taxing marijuana. However, many believe that legalization will put marijuana in the hands of people who aren’t supposed to have it. They also cite dangers in driving while high and the fact that soft drugs like marijuana may lead to the use of harder drugs.

I personally have formed no opinion on the subject because of the sheer amount of debate associated with legalization and the fact that the states that have legalized it have done so fairly recently, meaning the consequences of such legalization are not yet entirely clear.

I think that given this state’s recent strides in marijuana relaxation, it is inevitable that this state, as well as several other states, will soon follow suit of those that have already legalized the drug recreationally. It is clear that marijuana does not warrant a Schedule I drug classification by the federal government, and even many federal officials are beginning to realize this too. But marijuana still clearly has health and safety consequences, no matter how trivial some might think they are, and the people and representatives of this state ought to seriously consider the pros and cons of legalization before making the decision.

Kyle Campbell is a sophomore government and politics m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t kcampbelldbk@gmail.com.

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PLUMAS members fasting in support of DAPA, DACA Supreme Court to vote on whether to unfreeze executive orders on Monday

By Kimberly Escobar @kimescobarumd Staff writer

up to the Supreme Court’s meeting Monday, when it will argue United States v. Texas, a case that claims programs such as the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and an expanded Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals program would increase prices of health care, law enforcement and education, according to The Hill. During this meeting, the Supreme Court plans to decide whether DA PA and DACA can be unfrozen; PLUMAS is fasting in hopes of these programs resuming.

For junior Erica Puentes, fasting for a cause can help starve out negative energy and strengthen a community.

“We have a collective spirit as a community, and all of our energies and all our souls connect “FAMILIES THAT ARE to form that community spirit,” said Puentes, an African-Amer- DEPENDING ON BOTH ican studies major. “If I’m starv- OF THESE EXECUTIVE ing myself, I’m detoxing myself ORDERS ARE GOING and I’m figuring out how to not THROUGH SO MUCH give more negative energies into MORE THAN WHAT the collective spirit.”

Fasting is when someone WE ARE GIVING UP.” chooses to not eat, drink or both ERICA FUENTES for a certain amount of time of Junior government and politics major his or her own will. The type of B o t h DA PA a n d DAC A fasting that PLUMAS is doing is known as a short-term fast, have been frozen since Febmeaning participants rotate ruary 2015, according to the between an unrestricted diet Los Angeles Times. The group and avoiding foods and usually got the idea from immigrant consuming low-calorie drinks, activist group Virginia Coaliaccording to OrganicFacts.net. tion of Latino Organization, P uentes a nd fou r other Puentes said.

“T hey h ave somet h i ng PLUMAS members at this university are fasting leading called the DAPA chain: One

person would go outside of the Supreme Court and fast for two days and pass it on to the next person to fast for another two days,” Puentes said. “A lot us decided to join in the fast and do something more intensive than just two days.”

The students are fasting while at this university, as well as outside of it, posting their fasting details on social media to keep others updated on their fast and progress.

Junior Erica Fuentes, one of the PLUMAS members, started her fast — which consists of smoothies and shakes as a meal replacement — on March 28, she said. She noted she has been taking small breaks because of illness but plans to fast for the last few days until Monday.

Having a personal connection to DAPA and DACA also made her decision to fast a lot easier, said Fuentes, a government and politics major.

“I understand the significance that both of these executive orders have because of people in my family who are depending on them,” she said. “I have cousins who are recipients of DACA, who are applying to become recipients, and I have aunts and uncles who would be benefit-

erica puentes, a junior African-American studies major, has been fasting on and off since March 28 to support DAPA and DACA. Her fasting consists of water, vitamin pills, nuts and smoothies during the week, and regular calorie intake on the weekends. photo courtesy of erica puentes ing from DAPA because they have children here in the U.S. I understand that fear of one day being separated from your family.”

Puentes said her fast consists of water, vitamin pills, and if need be some nuts and smoothies during the week.

She takes the weekends off to eat regularly to consume enough calories to get through Monday through Friday.

“I am being careful, and as a college student I have to be realistic,” Puentes said.

Puentes has been fasting off and on since March 28, while some of the other members

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“I don’t like being objectified, and no female does,” Monroe said. “When walking past them, it makes me feel uncomfortable, and it’s sad that if I wanted to say something back they would be offended by me not taking their words as a compliment.”

One Facilities Management employee, Eric Marshall-Main, commented on the Reddit thread and posted it on Facebook so students or other university community members might see it, he said.

About a dozen people either commented on the Facebook post or messaged him privately, he said, and everyone seemed to have a trouble spot, whether walking past a certain parking lot or somewhere else on the campus.

“Many people came out of the woodwork with their stories being catcalled and how it is an everyday occurrence and is a real problem,” Marshall-Main said.

Reuning sent emails to Facilities Management employees and contractors clarifying that sexual harassment is prohibited by university and

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“The campus, and FM, are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which everyone can work and learn without being harassed,” Reuning wrote in the email.

“FM will take appropriate action against those who violate the provisions of the policy, including disciplinary action up to and including termination.”

Facilities Management employees currently go through four sensitivity training programs to prevent these issues, including Title IX training, Faci l it ies M a n a gement’s sexual harassment prevention training, “As Simple As Respect” training and “Guide to Conduct” training. The Title-IX training was required for all university employees

last fall, and the others occur when department employees are hired.

Reuning advised university community members who experience sexual harassment from Facilities Management employees or contractors to call Work Control at 301-4052222, using the number on the back of Facilities Management trucks to help identify the employees who harassed them.

Sitnick also advocated filing a report to alert officials to what is going on and create meaningful change.

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“ T h e k i d s fe lt, f ro m thei r ow n ex periences, a s t h o u g h l a c k o f e mployment opportunities and mass incarceration of the older generation was the reason for gang violence,” Stephens said. “[We asked,] ‘W hat can we do to stop the cycle?

W hat can we do so th is next generation has employment opportunities, has access to academ ic opportunities?’”

The students decided to create an after-school enrichment program to better support at-risk students so they can find positive outlets and, eventually, career opportunities.

This program first aims to serve fourth- through sixth-graders, incorporating a self-defense class, elective time, academics, counseling sessions, parental involvement and snacks.

After the program gets off t h e g ro u n d , h op e f u l ly next fall, students hope to expand to older age groups as well, said Ciara Person, a sixth-grader who also worked on the proposal.

They are estimating their program will cost more than $400,000 to fu nd food, tutors, self-defense

started to fast Wednesday.

Doing this fast is a test of commitment, Fuentes said, and is “a small sacrifice we are making. … Families that are depending on both of these executive orders are going through so much more than what we are giving up.”

Nancy Mirabal, an American studies and U.S. Latina/o s t u d i e s p r o f e s s o r, s a i d PLUMAS’ actions are powerful and noted she is not surprised PLUMAS is being proactive about something its members care about.

P u e nte s sa id PLU M A S plans to take a bus from this

university to Washington on Monday to participate in the rally and stand in solidarity with the families who could be affected by this decision.

A fter Monday comes a rou nd, M i raba l sa id she hopes the members who are fasting will have a good meal because of the great amount of activism they bring to the university community.

“I hope they eat soon,” Mirabal said. “I want them to be healthy and to continue their work to move forward.

We need them.”

instructors, social workers and counselors, and other personnel and programming for Francis Scott Key. “It feels good to help our community out in different ways, a nd that’s just one step to helping out the whole world,” sixth-grader Tyree Muschette said. “This is important because too many young people are dying; it’s affecting us as a group of black people, and we’re just trying to decrease it.”

T h o u g h S te p h e n s s a i d gang violence might not be as prevalent or structured the same way in her students’ neighborhoods as it might be in some areas of Washington, there’s a reason they wanted to focus on this problem.

“A lot of our students, they do face certain dangers,” Stephens said. “Some of my students have been attacked or jumped, or people in their families have been. … It still is an issue for them.”

The students are working on finding different avenues for f u nd i ng, apply i ng for g ra nts a nd prepa r i ng for another proposal presentation to the education board on May 12. The students are a lso pla n n ing other ways to spread awareness on the issue, such as a mural, play or open mic night.

“I have to say that I was very impressed,” said Francine Hultgren, an education

professor who attended the students’ presentation in M a rch. “T he c apacity of Georgina as a teacher to work on social justice dimensions with a group of students of that age took a lot of courage and thoughtfulness … and it took courage and imagination and compassion on the part of the students to come up with the ideas that they did.”

T h e g ro u p of s t u d e nt s i s deter m i ned to prevent gang violence in the commun ity and combat any negat ive stereoty pes a ss o c i a t e d w i t h A f r i c a nAmericans in the area.

“Us being black AfricanAmericans, the world is hard on us because they th i n k we’re out there gangbanging,” said Jalen Williams, another student involved with the proposal. “We need to show them that we are people, too.”

T he students sa id they were thankful Stephens gave them this opportunity and pushed them to succeed. “ My f a vo r ite p a r t w a s h o w w e e x p r e s s e d o u rselves a nd how we represented ourselves as schola rs,” si x t h-g rader Jaba r i Webster sa id . “Stoppi n g ga ng v iolence is a very special thing in the world, so I’m very proud of us.”

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Hasan Elahi earns Guggenheim Fellowship for his art project recording his life

By Naomi Grant @NaomiGrant7464 Staff writer Hasan Elahi began documenting his entire life in photos 14 years ago — long before it was normalized by social media.

But he wasn’t doing it to attract Instagram followers; he did it to avoid FBI suspicion.

“When your country, your government basically accuses you of being a terrorist, that’s a little off-putting,” said Elahi, an art professor at this university and the director of the Design | Cultures + Creativity program in the Honors College.

Ultimately, capturing these photos did more for Elahi — who is of Bangladeshi descent and was once under investigation by the FBI because of a mistaken tip identifying him as a terrorist — than keep him out of trouble with the government.

On April 5, Elahi received a Guggenheim Fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards an artist can earn.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 178 scholars, artists and scientists out of nearly 3,000 applicants from the

TRACKING TRANSCIENCE, university art professor Hasan Elahi’s ongoing art project, documents his daily actions and movements. Through photos, Elahi has tracked meals he’s eaten, visits to grocery stores and other inane happenings from his life for the past 14 years, starting when the FBI began investigating him based on a mistaken tip. photo courtesy of hasan elahi United States and Canada this year, according to a news release. Carla Peterson, an emeritus professor of English at this university, was also recognized.

Elahi said he had lost count of the number of times he had applied, so when he received another email from the foundation after his Monday night class, he assumed it was another rejection. But when he opened it, he realized it looked different from the emails he’d been getting for years.

William Richardson, the chairman of the art department, said he wasn’t surprised by this kind of recognition for Elahi.

“There are artists and scholars whose work is considered sort of field-defining, and

[Elahi’s] work in privacy, surveillance and of government intervention into private life is, in my estimation, fielddefining,” he said.

In a world of post-9/11 paranoia, authorities found it easy to accuse someone with Bangladeshi heritage of committing terrorist acts, Richardson said. The FBI began requiring Elahi to give them updates on his work and travel over a span of six months after the couple Elahi rented a storage facility from suspected him of illegal activity because of his name and for emptying a storage unit on Sept. 11, 2001.

Elahi decided that if the FBI knew everything about him, he would make their information irrelevant by putting his entire life on the Internet for

A new Sa feway opened April 6, but this university’s students are still victims of the College Park food desert.

College Park is part of the larger U.S. Agriculture Department-classified food desert in Prince George’s County, meaning the city is located in an urban area where it’s difficult to find fresh, affordable food. The new Safeway is another location for students to purchase groceries in the surrounding area, so long as they have cars or are ready for a long walk.

Safeway seized the opportunity to locate in Hyattsville because officials recognized there were not many prospects for residents to buy high-quality, reasonably priced food in the area, said Stacey Brown, a vice president of Safeway’s

him, including the FBI, would have to dig through everything he’s publicized.

“One thing that I really like about his website is that it doesn’t preach; it doesn’t prost hely t i ze; it doesn’t explain,” Richardson said.

“It just presents this incredible photographic record of the food he’s eaten, every urinal he’s peed in. He’s completely transparent as to where he is.”

The number of photos Elahi uploads depends on the day.

Working in the same office space every day, he doesn’t upload the same photos every day — only when he makes what he considers a significant change in location.

If he goes from the kitchen to the bedroom, Elahi explained, you’ll see the same ngrantdbk@gmail.com

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everyone to see. His project is still going today on his website, trackingtransience.net.

“When I first started doing this, people thought I was crazy. ‘Why would you want to photograph everything? …

Why do you want to tell people what you’re doing? Why do I need to see your food?’ It’s kind of funny — now you look at Instagram and it’s basically not that drastically different,” Elahi said, laughing.

Yet the public doesn’t know that much about him, he said.

“I live this weirdly and surprisingly anonymous and private life,” Elahi said.

By putting so much information out there, he said, people can’t tell what’s valuable and what isn’t, so anyone who wants information on

house image, but if he goes from house to grocery store, he’ll upload a new image from the grocery store.

Elahi calls this university a “phenomenal school” and came here to help expand the Design | Cultures + Creativity program. The program aims to apply humanistic and artistic ideas to interdisciplinary digital work, said Bonnie Thornton Dill, arts and humanities college dean.

The college sees Elahi “as a leading scholar and creative artist,” Dill said, “someone whom we are eager to support and promote and who in turn gives back to the college and students in a number of important ways.”

Elahi said he enjoys being at this university and is amused by its proximity to many government headquarters.

“If you triangulate the FBI headquarters, the CIA headquarters and the NSA headquarters, they practically end up on our campus,” Elahi said.

“All these organizations can watch me at the same time, so I’m just closer to everyone. I’m just helping out, doing my civic duty … just being close to all of them,” he joked.

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SAFEWAy is now open in Hyattsville, 1.5 miles from the campus. tom hausman/the diamondback Eastern Division.

“We thought that we could really contribute and really offer them an exciting retail shopping experience,” she said.

Brown also said the chain is looking forward to gaining customers from this university.

“We’re huge fans of [the Un iversity of Ma ryla nd], q u ite f ra n k ly, a nd we’re hoping that [students] could become huge fans of Safeway as well,” she said.

The Hyattsville location on 3702 East-West Highway is about 1.5 miles away from the campus. The store is open 24 hours daily so it can serve members of the community who might not have typical work hours, Brown said.

District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich said she wishes there were a grocery store located closer to down-

town College Park so residents without cars — such as students — can get there easily.

“It’s great to have another one, but I’m still really holding out hope for a grocery store that will be more in the heart of College Park downtown, where there really are a lot of people who need access to it,” Stullich said.

However, Kristen Pellicot, a junior criminology and criminal justice major, said she does not find this location very convenient for students.

“Even though there’s a shuttle bus to Hyattsville, I just think it’s super inconvenient,” she said. “We’re building all of these huge apartment complexes for students to live offcampus and there’s no access to get food.” acarolandbk@gmail.com

Congressman John Sarbanes (D-3rd District) outlined his plan to create a way for citizens, rather than money, to “power the campaigns and policy” during a panel co-hosted

by MaryPIRG and Maryland Discourse yesterday.

The three panelists — Sarbanes, Maryland PIRG Executive Director Emily Scarr and Common Cause Maryland Executive Director Jennifer Bevan-Dange — spoke to about 60 students at Stamp Student Union about the influence of big money in politics.

“Big money is distorting the way the system operates,” Sarbanes said. “People who go to Congress want to do the right thing, but the pressure to raise this money is so intense that it pulls you away from this.”

Sarbanes told students how he hopes to change the way money is handled in campaigns. He wants to implement a $25 refundable tax credit to help small donors get into the game and create

a six-to-one federal match to donations of up to $150 from a newly created public fund, meaning that a person’s $50 donation would become $350, he said.

Sarbanes said he realized campaign funding was an issue after he was first elected in 2006.

“Even before I was sworn in, my staff was approached by a representative from a very large industry employer in my district, and what this turned out to be was a PAC fundraiser,” Sarbanes said. “I called an emergency meeting of my team, and I said I don’t want to do this, because I felt like an animal being led into a trap.”

Bevan-Dange told students that when she was involved in land-use work land developers would fund local governments, meaning they had the influence.

“The more we engaged in local campaigns, the more it felt like we were hitting our heads on a brick wall,” she said. “Laws were passed at the state level, but nothing was changing on the ground in the counties.”

For decades, people with more money have had more say in politics, Scarr said, which she said needs to change.

“Everyone, regardless of race, income, et cetera should have more opportunity to take part in the government,” Scarr said.

The two organizations hosted the panel as a way for students and professionals to come together to discuss the 2010 Supreme Court case Citizens United v. FEC, which removed barriers on corporate political

spending on elections, according to a news release.

“The court made the case that money is speech,” Sarbanes said. “It then unleashed this new torrent of money coming into politics.”

Sophomore economics and government and politics major Christian Knapp, CEO of Maryland Discourse, said he thought the panel went well.

“The panel was really deep as far as the knowledge they had,” Knapp said. “They covered both federal, state and local levels, and I think that is really key to showing students that money in politics doesn’t just affect presidential races, but also things like zoning and development.”

Andrew Kovar, a sophomore accounting and finance major, said campaign financing is the major political issue he focuses on.

“It’s really important that corporations don’t have a large voice,” Kovar said. “They have enough of a voice just by being a major part of the economy that they are.”

Scarr ended the panel by asking students to take part in the local efforts.

“The thing we need on all of our issues are people,” she said.

“We have all of these ideas, but unfortunately no one is participating much in our democracy.

The fundamental thing is registering and turning out to vote, because that is one thing corporations can’t do.” lfeingolddbk@gmail.com

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LIST | AMERICAN CRIME STORY

WhAT’s next?

A look at some other crimes that could follow the O.J. trial on American Crime Story

By Patrick Basler @pmbasler Staff writer O.J. Simpson might still be in prison, but that didn’t stop the former NFL star-turned-murder suspect from appearing on TV screens nationwide.

Well, sort of.

The first season of FX’s true-crime anthology American Crime Story ended last week, bringing its 10-episode exploration of the Simpson murder trial to a close. It rekindled an interest in the biggest court case of the 1990s and boasted ratings that not only set records, but almost certainly also ensure that the show will be back at some point.

But with the Simpson trial over (again), what other “American crime stories” could the critically acclaimed show brilliantly recreate for modern audiences? It’s a question that fans (and presumably the show’s creators) will probably keep asking until either the second season is announced or Simpson is released from prison, accused of another crime and put on trial again

ted bundy, the notorious serial killer, had the kind of grisly crimes and wild trial that would be perfect for re-creation on American Crime Story. photo via youtube (season two, baby!).

But until then, here are five cases that could make for some stellar true-crime television.

1. Third Person: Ted Bundy’s arrest and trial Part of the suspense of the O.J. Simpson trial might have been the uncertainty regarding his guilt, but when

a trial is as crazy, disturbing and actionpacked (not even legal action, but like, action-action) as this one, does it matter if Ted Bundy was guilty beyond doubt from the moment he walked into the courtroom? The onetime law student would eventually admit to killing more than 30 people before his execution in 1989, but during the late ’70s, when his

trials took place, he was hardly open to confession. In fact, he represented himself in court, spoke largely in the third person during interviews and successfully escaped from prison not once, but twice. Much like the Simpson trial, Bundy’s captured the public’s attention at the time — and could easily do so again on American Crime Story.

2. International Crime Story: the Amanda Knox case While not strictly an American crime story, the trial of Amanda Knox, an American college student who was charged with the murder of her roommate in 2007 while living abroad in Italy, could be an excellent choice for the television show. The case was covered heavily but disparately in both the United States and Italy and led to a trial in which the press was not an innocent bystander, but an active participant in shaping the verdict — considered by many in the U.S. a “miscarriage of justice.” Following not just Knox’s story, but those in America who worked toward her freedom could give viewers a season of American Crime Story that would be both a fascinating look at a more modern case and an exploration of legal systems other than that of the United States.

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FEATURE | HANDWRITTEN VS. TYPED NOTES

SPIRAL-BOUND SUCCESS New research finds students who handwrite notes do better in school than their typing counterparts

By Anna Muckerman @annamuckerman Staff writer Scan any lecture hall and you’ll probably find laptops loaded with e-books and electronic notebooks, overlaid with a few tabs of social media. Typing up notes saves time and backpack space and is an easy (though not-sosneaky) way to get work done for other classes.

But researchers at Princeton and UCLA say lugging around a notebook or two and actually using it in class can benefit you in the long run.

T h e s t u dy fo u n d t h a t s t u d e n ts wh o sc ra tc h e d it out the old-fashioned way generally did better on

tests, remembered the information longer and were higher-achieving.

Can’t remember any vocab from Spanish class? Try writing it out. Researchers say you’ll grasp new ideas better that way. By physically moving the pen, you focus on the information, transform it and cement it in your brain.

But this university’s students seem to be ahead of the news. Senior Luke Snellings has always taken notes by hand — and he takes a lot of them.

“I think handwriting helps you remember. I also study that way,” the history major said.

Sophomore Christopher Bernard said he used to type

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his notes, but switched when he realized he wasn’t remembering as much.

“When I write stuff down it forces me to think about what’s important,” the aerospace engineering major said.

“When I use the computer, I’m just writing down what the professor says or what’s on the PowerPoint.”

Researchers agree. Taking n o te s by h a n d fo rc e s a student to paraphrase, especially because writing is slower than typing. Concentrating and selecting each word embeds the topic in your brain as you transform the teacher’s drone to visual information. Students who handwrite their notes can usually capture about

22 words per minute compared to 33 for their typing counterparts.

“I’m very slow at typing,” sophomore English major Keith Wise said. “And if I had my laptop open I might get distracted by other websites.”

Freshman Mia Carmel said typing isn’t her strength e i t h e r, b u t o t h e r c o n straints make handwriting her method of choice.

“I don’t like to have a ton of documents on my computer and also I can draw graphs or math equations,” the economics major said.

Bernard said his major pretty much makes handwriting the only option.

“As an engineering student it’s very hard to write down

some of the notations on the computer. I’m pretty much forced to write them down pen and paper,” he said.

There are short-term advantages to typing, however.

Researchers found students who type remember the information better right after class ends. Handwriters have a better grasp on the content just a day, or even up to a week, later.

Freshman Jessica Grayson understands just how important handwritten notes are to her own learning.

“When I’ve tried to do it in the past, I get distracted with other things and I don’t pay attention in class,” the English major said. “Even when I do take my notes on

the computer I end up transcribing them later.”

When researchers tested participants, they found that students with handwritten notes did far better, even though typers had many more notes to look at.

B u t s o p h o m o re M i h i r Khetarpal types his notes and doesn’t see himself switching any time soon.

“If I write them down I can’t read them later,” the economics and government and politics major said.

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9 FEATURE | THE HYYER LIFE

A HYYER CALLING The African Students Association T-shirts are just the latest success for upstart brand The Hyyer Life

By Miranda Jackson @mirandanjackson Staff writer Many months ago, while riding a late-night shuttle to the Enclave, Kenneth Geh spoke to his friends about a collaboration he and a few other members of the African Students Association were working on. He pulled out his phone and passed it around to show off pictures of the longsleeve T-shirts they had created with one of the most prevalent brands on the campus, The Hyyer Life.

“Yo, those are dope!” one of the friends said.

“I know!” Geh said. “The Hyyer Life hooked it up.”

The brainchild of university alumni Malachi Fuller, The Hyyer Life was born four years ago, an acronym that stands for “Have Your Years Earned Revenue?” The brand started with only a promotional T-shirt, a gray base tee that featured its now-signature “H” logo on the left chest and the hand-written “The Hyyer Life” print on the back.

Shortly after this, Fuller brought Najee Williams, a senior agricultural and resource economics major, on board as the chief designer of the company. Williams and Fuller both recognized the potential of the former’s skill set as a talented illustrator who could “put things down on paper really quickly,” Williams said.

Around this time, the company first partnered with

the Fillmore Brand Ambassadors to conduct a ticket giveaway for shows at its Silver Spring venue through The Hyyer Life’s Instagram page.

Since then, the company has been able to give away tickets for performances by the likes of Curren$y, Wale and Migos.

Within a few months, the company released an additional promo tee with a print of this state’s flag in the “H” chest. Much like Under Armour, The Hyyer Life aims to pay homage to its hometown through design.

“We want Maryland to be the focal point of The Hyyer Life and expand from there,” Williams said. “It was created in College Park.”

For that reason, the company often allows online orders to be delivered via local pickup, which entails that the consumer “link up with us and we’ll just hand it to you as opposed to shipping it out.”

A long-sleeved version of the state-themed tee was the next product to roll out.

Williams, Fuller and other fo r m er m e m b ers o f The Hyyer Life were able to work out a partnership with Eppley Recreation Center to sell the long-sleeved tees in the gym.

Although they are no longer being sold in the gym, they are still available online.

The Hyyer Life then featured the 2013 Maryland women’s basketball team in the promotional photo shoot it organized for the longsleeved tees. The photographs

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proved to be a networking opportunity for the brand after they were posted online. The company then started to see a real campus representation of its brand outside of the organization’s leadership’s own friend groups.

“Malachi once saw a guy in the library who had [one of our shirts] on just because he liked it, and that was a really cool experience for us,” Williams said.

In conjunction with the launch of its official website, the company came up with its INTL (pronounced “International”) Collection, which has “The Hyyer Life” written on it in a variety of languages including English, French, Arabic, Chinese and more. It comes in a cranberry and cream color combination for the tee and a light gray for the hoodie.

“We try to make the Hyyer Life inclusive of anyone, of any demographic,” Williams said. “Everybody can live the Hyyer Life.”

Williams considers every new release the company makes as a “step-up.” The next step it made after the INTL tees was its Conscience Tee, its first attempt at a shirt with an allover print.

“We worked with a guy named Mbari, an aspiring artist and friend of Malachi’s,” Williams said. “He came up with this portrait and it started out as just this design.”

Fuller then decided to take that print and turn it into a T-shirt design.

“That whole process was a little bit difficult, because you don’t really know how an allover print is going to look until you get it,” Williams said. “We got the first initial sample and weren’t that satisfied with it.”

Consequently, the company had to get the Conscience Tee actually cut and sewn, manufactured with very soft fabric.

The response was so positive that it released the design on a pillow as well.

A few months ago, the company’s second-most recent unveiling came when it noticed a gap in the image of its market. While brainstorming on the next move to make in the streetwear industry, the company realized that through the logos, patchwork and machine-made rips, there

the hyyer life collaborated with the African Students Association to make this T-shirt for the organization. photo courtesy of malachi fuller was something painstakingly obvious missing: tie-dye.

With no knowledge whatsoever of how to tie-dye material, Fuller sought a business partner to aid them. He came across senior marketing major Fei Mancho, who at the time was advertising for her pop-up shop in a local Urban Outfitters.

“I’ve never seen tie-dye done that well to that extent, especially with the color blends that she does,” Williams said.

“And when we found out she went to Maryland that motivated us even more to want to work with her, because we always try to build up that sense of community of working within Maryland.”

Around this time, The Hyyer Life was receiving an influx of requests to create something specifically for women. Thus, on top of a regular tee, they decided to incorporate crop tops into the line for the first time.

They brainstormed color palettes together, Williams manipulated and scaled a mountain image for the logo and then the shirts were pro-

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duced, each and every one hand-dyed. The Arabic version of “The Hyyer Life” print was also something the company hadn’t done before, and saw a gap for in the urban image.

“Fei really brought the design to life, because without the tiedye, it would just be a shirt,” Williams said. “She blended the color palettes seamlessly.

Her hand-dying looks like the equivalent of mechanical.”

All of these steps led up to the company’s newest and perhaps most recognizable collaboration with this university’s ASA. Those Stussy-style baby blue and black shirts that exhibit the “There is no community without unity” slogan on the back are the result of a few months of collaboration between The Hyyer Life and ASA members.

Fuller, before graduating, had many friends who were members or actively involved in the ASA. Through those relationships, they linked up for a collaboration to represent the community and came up with the concept: “There is no community without unity.”

“What we wanted to do was really represent the togetherness of the Maryland campus, and just working together as student organizations,” Williams said.

Now the shirts can be seen all over the campus and have sold out completely online.

The Hyyer Life’s next move involves a lot of cross-country communication. Fuller graduated last spring and moved to California, leaving a great deal of the state-oriented side of the company to Williams.

The company is now focusing a lot of energy into building a following on the West Coast while maintaining the network it has here.

As for the company’s next step, Williams expects it to turn international and wants a flagship store in the coming years. Nevertheless, whether in conversation between friends on the bus or in the tie-dye shirts that move directly from person to person, The Hyyer Life will continue to grow from this campus. mjacksondbk@gmail.com

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Marijuana

& the university of Maryland

Univ alumni bid for dispensary license in state

By Laura Spitalniak @thedbk For The Diamondback Marguerite Santos graduated from this university in 2012, and it never would have crossed her mind then that she would be trying to sell marijuana professionally.

“If you asked me three years ago, absolutely not,” said Santos, who graduated with an English language arts education degree. “I wasn’t educated enough to know it was something worth doing.”

Santos is now one of the founding partners of A ltPharm, a medical marijuana grower, processor and dispensary run by university alumni. It’s also one of the f i rst i n t he state to h ave applied for licensing from t he Nata l ie M. L a P rade Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission.

James R iordon, another founding partner and a 2014 alumnus of this university, said he is excited to begin working and hopes the application will be approved this summer. Marijuana can act as an alternative to harsh pharmaceuticals, and he hopes to build its reputation, he said.

“I have had family members going through illnesses that could have been helped by medical cannabis,” Riordon said.

When the commission announced early last year it would be accepting third-party applications for medical marijuana businesses, Riordon and Santos approached it as party banter.

“We talked and joked about it over dinner,” Riordon said.

“Then, we stopped laughing and thought this would be the perfect opportunity to jump in a new industry on the ground level.”

The application process closed in November 2015 and the commission received 811 dispenser license applications, 146 grower license applications

and 124 processor license applications, according to the commission website.

Prospective businesses had about six weeks to submit the necessary information, including proof that they had enough money to run a dispensary, and proof of residency in this state.

Moreover, staff had to submit to background checks, the website stated.

Per state law, there can be no more than two dispensaries in each of the state’s 47 districts and no more than 15 growing facilities statewide. AltPharm is looking to open its cultivation facility and dispensary in Prince George’s County, specifically the Bowie area, where the community needs it most, Riordon said.

If AltPharm’s license is not approved, Riordon and Santos said, they have no intention of abandoning the business.

“I plan to stay in the medical cannabis industry,” Riordon said, “be it in the state of Maryland, a state with an established medical cannabis industry or otherwise.”

Moving forward, Santos and Riordon mostly hope to educate the publ ic about med ica l cannabis.

“Marijuana has a stigma, especially with the federal law against it,” Santos said, and the business aims to end that.

Even she had hesitations about it originally, she added.

Part of fighting the stigma comes in the form of creating a program for children age 12 and under who qualify to use medical cannabis but cannot afford it. A July news release from AltPharm stated that insurance companies generally do not cover the cost of marijuana as medical treatment, even as it becomes more common in doctor’s offices and in the medical community.

Riordon said this could be a way to give back.

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and exciting community” of Washington cannabis users.

“I’d been an enjoyer of cannabis for a long time now, and this When Stephen Barber was my first experience being in hopped on the Green Line to a place where it was legal,” he shoot some video of Wash- said. “I saw that there was just ington’s Capitol CannaShow huge untapped potential for a in February, the senior jour- whole variety of business and nalism major had no idea it journalistic enterprises.”

Since Capital Canna News’ would be the start of somei n a u g u r a t i o n e a rl y l a s t thing new for him.

Barber, who previously month, Barber has taken his worked for The Diamond- broadcast journalism skills to back, isn’t shy about his love the D.C. subculture, creating for pot. The show got him 11 YouTube videos and interthinking — maybe he could viewing growers and activists take his passion beyond the who handed out free cannahigh. He started Capital bis outside a Veterans Affairs Canna News, a news source hospital. But now he’s gleanfor the latest on marijuana ing an audience for his media policy, events and local buzz source from closer to home.

“There’s a lot of people in that would serve the “vibrant

College Park that love smoking pot, and I figured they would be just as interested and thrilled about what was happening in D.C. as I was,” he said.

He’s put up fliers and started an email list as ways of gaining a following while a website is under construction.

While one focus of Barber’s is to make students aware of cannabis that can be available to them, another is to showcase the news while making money. He envisions the site becoming a local leader in cannabis news, he said.

“I want to familiarize people in the area about these brands, familiarize them with the fact that they can go into the city, get all of the edibles and concentrates and the marijuana that their little

pothead hearts desire,” he said.

While marijuana is legal in Washington, it isn’t as simple as walking into a pot shop — growers are not permitted to sell what they make.

Public policy professor Peter Reuter said Washington’s form of legalization is unique.

Other states “are allowing commercial production and promotion,” he said. “What we have in D.C. might actually be the right kind of legalization.”

But Reuter said legal marijuana doesn’t need to be advertised, and he does not believe it is beneficial for public health or the community in general.

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omprehensive medical marijuana laws exist in the District of Columbia and 23 states, including this one. Eighteen additional states introduced bills in their most recent legislative session to create medical marijuana programs, according to the Marijuana Policy Project. With dispensaries up and running in Washington and a robust licensing process on the way in this state, it is easy to forget that a much larger battle still exists at the federal level in medical marijuana reform.

Without change in the federal classification and regulation of marijuana, patients, physicians and researchers will continue to have to overcome unnecessary obstacles to obtain and understand this thousandyear-old medicine.

The passage of the Controlled Substances Act in 1970 created a system for federal drug scheduling. Marijuana was determined to be Schedule I, meaning it has high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use. This ranks marijuana as more dangerous than cocaine, methamphetamine and oxycodone (all Schedule II

substances). Today, this federal regulation still stands despite the many known medical applications for marijuana and patients who rely on it daily to survive. Even in states with the most complex medical marijuana programs, doctors are still unable to legally prescribe marijuana because of its scheduling and can only make recommendations.

But believe it or not, the federal government actually supplies patients with marijuana. The Investigational New Drug compassionate access research program was developed in 1976 and granted patients up to 9 pounds of marijuana a year.

While it is no longer taking applicants, four individuals still receive marijuana from the government through this program.

You may be thinking to yourself, “Wait, this doesn’t make sense — why is the federal government telling me marijuana has no accepted medical use but still sending it to patients in the U.S.?” Congratulations! You have now reached the plane of confusion that federal marijuana policy calls home.

The legal status of marijuana has not only made the lives of

patients and physicians more difficult, but it has resulted in a slew of bureaucratic roadblocks for scientific researchers who want to learn more about the drug. The Controlled Substances Act not only scheduled marijuana, but also put the Drug Enforcement Administration in charge of regulating cultivation for research purposes. The DEA has only ever issued one license to grow marijuana for research, to the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Directly funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, this monopoly on federally legal marijuana significantly increases the amount of time researchers must wait before they can undertake studies. When only one farm in the United States is able to produce marijuana for every research proposal accepted, and that farm is funded by NIDA, there is no surprise that only 6 percent of current U.S. marijuana studies investigate the benefits of medical marijuana, with the rest of the research focusing on the harms.

T he time to reschedu le marijuana is now. The Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States

Act of 2015, more commonly referred to as the CARERS Act, seeks to make these important legislative reforms and has slowly been gaining momentum in congress since it was introduced by Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) in March of last year. The bill not only reschedules marijuana, but gives medical dispensaries access to banking services, requires the DEA to issue at least three licenses to cultivate marijuana for research (ending the NIDA monopoly), as well as authorizing Veterans Affairs clinicians to recommend marijuana to their patients in states with existing medical marijuana programs.

To learn more about the CARERS Act and how to get involved in drug policy reform of all types, contact the university’s chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy at umd@chapters.ssdp.org.

Olivia O’Keefe is a junior community health major. She is the president of the UMD chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. She can be reached at ookeefe@terpmail.umd.edu.

“Medical cannabis is much lower in THC than recreational varieties,” Riordon said in the release. “For kids, we will be producing strains with near zero percentages of THC but high levels of therapeutic compounds.”

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ally legally buy the substance or grow it in this state.

“Unless they’ve got a friend in D.C. who wants to give it to them, there’s no loophole,” Reuter said. “You cannot legally buy marijuana in D.C.” Like Barber, others in the area are planning for the day when pot is a booming industry. Anne Arundel Community College professor Shad Ewart said he started receiving requests for a class on the economics of marijuana and created one about five years ago.

While he doesn’t discourage students from applying for growing licenses, he said the money is in supporting industries. He compared it to the gold rush — some people find nuggets, but the cash is in the “picks and shovels.”

“If one is selling T-shirts or stickers or rolling papers or accounting systems or all the other businesses that are necessary to support the licensed growers, processors, dispensaries, you are not restricted in any way,” he said.

Barber said while he understands the current laws, he’s also seen firsthand how they play out. He’s banking on new regulations within the next few years, and when the laws change, Capital Canna News will be in prime position. As for promoting the purchase of marijuana, he’ll let students make their own decisions about what to do with his content.

“I don’t deal in drugs,” he said. “I deal in information.”

For now, Barber is working by himself, heading to Wash-

ington whenever he has time between classes. But he said Capital Canna News will soon have office space and a studio.

While his studies at this university have taught him to carry no agenda, the idea of creating a brand — whether weed or journalism — is important to him. He wants Capital Canna News to be the vital link between distributor and consumer.

He said he wouldn’t mind building a team of journalism students to work together, but

From PAGE 10 and you shouldn’t have to run the risk of being arrested for using marijuana,” he said.

D.C. marijuana laws say a person can grow up to six plants but not more than three mature plants for personal use.

But most users won’t want to go through the trouble, Reuter said, and while College Park students live temptingly close to Washington, they can’t actu-

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alternative forms of ingestion, so younger patients do not need to smoke.

Santos described medical cannabis as a movement and said it’s important to tell people who are still unsure about it to educate themselves.

“Immerse yourself into this culture,” she said. “This is actual medicineanditdoesgreatthings.”

he thinks other students don’t respect the style of 21st-century digital news he’s aiming for.

“While I applaud the purehearted journalist, the economics of the business really leave your hands tied,” he said. Other student journalists “either don’t understand what I’m doing, or they look at it with a very dim view. … It’s really shifting from being a bunch of giggling stoners to being serious, serious business.” amuckermandbk@gmail.com

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third baseman andrew bechtold has been steady recently. reid poluhovich/the diamondback

Bechtold From PAGE 14 on the roster, and he wanted him to be in the lineup. But Bechtold knew the transition to third wasn’t going to be easy.

This season, Bechtold has committed the most errors on the team (eight). Szefc said the Terps defense has struggled this year, resulting in an inconsistent start, and Bechtold was the center of those difficulties at times.

“Our defense is crucial to our success,” Szefc said. “Our infield defense in particular, because they just get more chances. Without consistent infield defense behind a guy like [Friday starter right-hander Taylor] Bloom who gets a lot of ground balls, you’re not going to have success.”

Freshman A.J. Lee has started over Bechtold at third base in six games this season. During Maryland’s weekend series at Iowa from March 25 to 27, it seemed as though Lee might

gain a bigger role, as he started two of the three contests.

But Szefc valued Bechtold’s experience over Lee’s, and he stuck with the redshirt freshman through his struggles.

It’s paid off.

In his past four games, Bechtold has assisted on a total of 14 outs while not committing an error. That defense has allowed the Terps to stay competitive in games, as they won all four of those contests by three runs or fewer.

“That’s huge,” Bloom said.

“Obviously, he struggled there at the beginning of the season.

He’s getting a lot of reps in practice. He’s really starting to get better. We have a really solid infield now.”

Bechtold said he’s focused in practice on setting his feet for whichever way a ball might be hit toward him or how hard the ball is hit at him.

Szefc said Bechtold didn’t get down enough in his stance earlier this season, so balls hit

low bounced underneath him. By improving on those mechanics every day in practice, though, Bechtold has shown progress.

“Some guys come a little sooner than others,” Szefc said. “Baseball is a game of patience, and it’s a game of overcoming failure. He’s had his share of it. He’s coming along.”

Third basemen need strong arms to throw runners out at first. And Bechtold fits that role, as Szefc said the 6-foot, 185-pound third baseman probably has the strongest arm on the team.

It’s just another skill that has helped Bechtold adjust to his new role.

“I’m used to feeling the ball, and I’m used to being a big defensive guy,” Bechtold said. “That’s showing a lot more recently as opposed to the beginning of the year.” kmelnickdbk@gmail.com

NOTEBook From PAGE 14 Buh is critical, Aniebonam said, but his intensity at practice benefits the Terps. Aniebonam’s teammates agree.

“He’ll be a good asset,” defensive lineman David Shaw said. “He’s as energetic as Coach Durkin.”

Buh inherits a unit that lost two starters along the defensive line, defensive ends Quinton Jefferson and Yannick Ngakoue. The duo combined for 20 sacks and 27.5 tackles for loss last season, and both opted to leave school early to pursue NFL careers.

Aniebonam, who started three games last year, is one of the players who will try to replicate their production. Last season, the Silver Spring native was a defensive end. In the Terps’ new scheme that alternates between the 4-3 and 3-4, Aniebonam is more of a hybrid end.

“It’s not a major shift,” Aniebonam said. “It’s all really the same thing.”

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national headlines by traveling around the country and working at satellite camps.

As a guest instructor at camps hosted by other schools, Harbaugh got to meet highlevel football recruits and skirt the NCAA rule that prohibited schools from holding camps outside a 50-mile radius of their campuses.

After seeing Harbaugh’s success, Durkin planned to follow that same route with the Terps. But Friday, the NCAA banned satellite camps.

“It was one of those things where you could see they were probably going to rule that way,” Durkin said Tuesday in his first public remarks since the ruling.

“The satellite camps was a good thing. It was beneficial. You get to see a lot of guys. You get to take your camp somewhere else and put the expense on the school.”

But Durkin also understands why the NCAA decided to prohibit satellite camps.

“It becomes more things they’ve got to regulate,” Durkin said. “You can see these things going both ways.”

SPRING GAME

Before Durkin came to Maryland, he worked for a year at In Durkin’s first spring Michigan. The Wolverines’ game with Maryland this head coach, Jim Harbaugh, made Saturday, he will pit the offense versus the defense.

The scoring system will be announced later in the week.

“We’ll get the most out of that,” Durkin said. “It’ll be a great day for people to come and watch and see what we’re doing on both sides of the ball.”

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HEACOCK

Forward robert carter jr. is projected to go No. 51 overall in the latest mock draft by draftexpress.com. christian jenkins/the diamondback

DRAFT From PAGE 14 Trimble began this season as a likely first-round selection but is a projected secondround pick in the latest mock draft by draftexpress.com. He led the Terps with 14.8 points and 4.9 assists per game, nearly two more assists than he averaged as a freshman. His three-point shooting percentage, however, dropped from 41.2 percent to 31.5. “ I a m l o o k i n g fo rwa rd to taking advantage of this opportunity and entering my name in the NBA draft,” Trimble said in a statement.

“I am excited that the new rules allow me the chance to go through this process.”

Stone, meanwhile, finishes his Maryland career after one season. The former No. 6 overall ESPN recruit from Milwaukee arrived as a potential lottery pick after dominating at Dominican High School and is projected to go No. 23 overall to the Atlanta Hawks in draftexpress.com’s latest mock draft.

The rookie, who finished second on the Terps in points per game (12.5), second in

rebounds (5.4) and first in blocks (1.6), signed with Tandem Sports and Entertainment on Monday.

“My family and I spent a great deal of time discussing my future and we felt this was the best decision as I pursue my dream of playing professional basketball,” Stone said in a statement. “I want to also thank all of the Terp fans and the students on campus who have been very supportive since the day I arrived to College Park.

It means a great deal to me. I’ll always be a Terp for Life.”

Carter also ends his Terps career after playing one season in College Park. The 6-foot-9 forward, projected to go No. 51 to the Denver Nuggets, transferred to Maryland after his sophomore season at Georgia Tech.

After sitting out the 2014-15 season due to NCAA rules, Carter finished third on the Terps in points per game (12.3) and led the team in rebounds per game (6.9) this past season.

“This past year, Robert was a very productive player and embraced his role as a team leader,” Turgeon said in a statement. “I am proud that he achieved his goal and will graduate with a degree in

Family Science from Maryland and can now begin to pursue a career in professional basketball.”

With the Terps’ other two regular starters from this past season — seniors Jake Layman and Rasheed Sulaimon — out of eligibility, Turgeon will need to replace his entire starting lineup if Trimble doesn’t withdraw his name from the draft before May 25.

Maryland will return key contributors in forward Damonte Dodd and guard Jared Nickens. Plus, guard Dion Wiley, who missed the season with a torn meniscus, is expected to step into a bigger role next season. Turgeon also has two recruits signed — fourstar point guard Anthony Cowan and shooting guard Kevin Huerter — along with a verbal commitment from three-star small forward Micah Thomas.

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Instead, Heacock spent his freshman year scrutinizing the team’s veterans to learn their From PAGE 14 approach to the college game.

Tillman watched Heacock He converted from playing and defender Mac Pons share attack at Boys’ Latin to midfield the basketball court a few at Maryland. He worked on his times before the Lakers duo shot, building on the footwork arrived in College Park in and vision he used on the bas2013. Heacock put on a show, ketball court.

“It was a thing for me to Tillman said, even throwing down a few dunks when he kind of work for,” Heacock said. “It’s a way for me to had the opportunity.

The sixth-year coach knew follow in their footsteps his future player had the and see how they’ve actuprowess to excel in his program, ally done what they’ve done but he anticipated Heacock’s here and try to follow in their “learning curve would be footsteps and be as successhigher” because he never spe- ful as they are.

“I kind of enjoyed it, actually.” cialized in one activity.

Last year, Heacock started So looking on from the s t a n d s , h i s g r a n d f a t h e r to find his groove, starting two watched as Heacock took of his 19 game appearances. on a smaller role for the first He capped his 21-point season time in his athletic career. with a goal in the Terps’ national He saw action in 15 games, championship loss.

But a few months later, his managing nine points and 17 shots, but the production grandfather was gone.

Heacock worked throughout paled in comparison to his 48 goals and 26 assists as a the offseason to earn a starting role, all while knowing the Lakers senior.

man he called “probably one of my biggest supporters growing up” wouldn’t be cheering from the stands.

Still, he totaled a team-high 23 goals and started all 10 contests, notching at least two goals in eight of those performances.

“He’s just been tremendous for us in the last couple years,” midfielder Bryan Cole said. “He’s taken his role as a freshman of putting in a certain amount of minutes a game and plugging him in here and there, to now as a junior, he’s taken a step up, and he’s more of a vocal leader.”

Before the season, Heacock decided to dedicate his play to his grandfather this year. He also became the first person in his family to get a tattoo.

Inked across his left bicep is his grandfather’s signature, with his birthday underneath.

“Pretty basic,” Heacock said, “but I just know that he’s always with me.” ccaplandbk@gmail.com

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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016 MEN’S BASKETBALL

Three Maryland starters declare for NBA draft Stone, Carter to leave; Trimble tests waters

By Ryan Baillargeon and Phillip Suitts @RyanBaillargeon, @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writers Maryland men’s basketball’s three starters with eligibility remaining announced they’ve all declared for the NBA draft this past week. Freshman center Diamond Stone has signed with an agency while redshirt junior Robert Carter Jr. plans to hire an agent, meaning the big men won’t be allowed to withdraw their names after the combine.

Sophomore guard Melo Trimble, though, doesn’t plan on hiring an agent.

A new rule allows players to enter their name in the draft, but if they don’t hire an agent, they have until May 25 — 10 days after the NBA combine — to withdraw their name from draft consideration and return to school. So Trimble may still play in College Park next season.

“Melo will go through the draft process, which will provide him a stronger understanding of where he could potentially be selected,” coach Mark Turgeon said in a statement. “Melo has worked very hard and we will continue to support and guide him throughout this process.”

See DRAFT, Page 13 MELO TRIMBLE (2) AND DIAMOND STONE (33) shouldered the scoring load by averaging 14.8 and 12.5 points, respectively. reid poluhovich/the diamondback FOOTBALL

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Buh fits energetic new staff

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Former Kentucky assistant brings intensity to practice

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writer

Heacock’s grandfather saw his grandson develop throughout his first two years in College Park but died before the 2016 campaign. It’s a year in which Heacock has found that success, emerging as a mainstay on the Maryland frontline and the team’s leading scorer through 10 games.

“He’s just really determined to try to make himself one of the best players,” Tillman said.

“The best player he can be.”

When newly hired Maryland football defensive coordinator Andy Buh met the Terps, he got straight to the point.

With spring practice already in full swing, Buh didn’t give a lengthy introduction or devote much time to icebreakers.

“I’m the coach. You’re the player,” defensive lineman Jesse Aniebonam recalled Buh saying.

“We’re going to have a good relationship, but we have to get right to work.”

When Scott Shafer resigned as defensive coordinator for undisclosed personal reasons earlier this month after taking the job in December, head coach DJ Durkin quickly filled the void with Buh. The former Kentucky assistant coach was introduced April 5 and has hit the ground running.

On a staff full of energetic young coaches, Buh fit in immediately.

“He’s brought the same type of intensity that the rest of the coaches brought,” Aniebonam said after practice Tuesday. “He came in with a mindset that we have to keep everything rolling and have the same type of intensity as we’ve been having throughout the whole entire spring and the winter.”

While the Terps have been practicing for less than two weeks under Buh, they already like his energy.

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ATTACKMAN COLIN HEACOCK has become a mainstay on the Terps’ frontline and leads the team in scoring through 10 games. He’s scored at least twice in eight of those performances. christian jenkins/the diamondback

playing for pops Junior Colin Heacock dedicates breakout season to late grandfather

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Senior staff writer Growing up, Maryland men’s lacrosse midfielder Colin Heacock would look to the crowd at his sports games and find one face.

His grandfather attended almost all of the contests Heacock starred in as a four-year starter on the Boys’ Latin lacrosse field. He also watched his grandson become a standout basketball player

for the Lakers, garnering attention from various Division I programs before choosing to play lacrosse for coach John Tillman’s squad.

Though his grandfather wasn’t a coach, he would often offer up some pointers, “even though he may not have known a lot” about the strategies, Heacock said. When they weren’t at sporting events, his grandfather often watched Heacock and his siblings play outside.

“We were always pretty close,” Heacock said.

“He always wanted me to be successful.”

BASEBALL

Bechtold’s offseason practice helps ease defensive transition Redshirt freshman played shortshop before joining Maryland

By Kyle Melnick @kyle_melnick Staff writer Maryland baseball third baseman Andrew Bechtold and his father, Scott, developed a routine over the summer. Every night when Bechtold was at his Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, home this summer, his dad would hit ground balls at his son.

Bechtold had played shortstop his entire life before coming to College Park, but after an injury set him back, the redshirt freshman knew he needed to practice in his free time to start at third base this season.

Though he struggled adapting to

the new position to start the year, Bechtold has transitioned into a reliable third baseman for the Terps.

“We took so many ground balls over there; I’m adapted to it,” Bechtold said. “I worked a lot on the footwork, the preparation, making a longer throw. By the time it became fall, it was second nature.”

The Texas Rangers drafted Bechtold in the 37th round of the MLB draft the summer before he entered college.

Bechtold was in a competition with fellow freshman Kevin Smith to start at shortstop when he joined the Terps.

Smith, who was a freshman AllAmerican last season, won the shortstop job while Bechtold started at first

base. But Bechtold played in just eight games before he tore a ligament in his left thumb, leading him to redshirt.

As Smith locked up the job at shortstop and Kevin Biondic cemented his role at first while Bechtold was injured, Bechtold knew he would need to learn a new position in the infield to earn playing time.

The Milwaukee Brewers drafted the Terps’ former starting third baseman, Jose Cuas, in the 11th round of the MLB draft last offseason, and Bechtold saw an opening.

Coach John Szefc said Bechtold is one of the most versatile players See Bechtold, Page 12

third baseman andrew bechtold earned the starting job before this season. reid poluhovich/the diamondback