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Senate OKs assault prevention training Univ Senate votes 95-5 to mandate sexual assault, bystander intervention program The University of Maryl a n d Se n a te voted Wednesday to mandate more sexual assault prevention and bystander intervention training for students, faculty and staff.

The senate voted 95-5, with one abstention, to support the proposal, which would require all first-year students to complete face-to-face bystander by

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intervention training along with already-mandated online sexual misconduct compliance training, said Sexual Assault Prevention Task Force Chair Steve Petkas. The task force drafted and presented the proposal.

The bill now moves to university President Wallace Loh, who can veto or approve it.

If approved, incoming undergraduate students — starting with fall 2018’s class — would have to complete a 50-minute

in-person training by April of their first year at this university. Second-year students would have to complete new online training starting in fall 2019, and third-year students would also have to complete new online training starting in fall 2020. Fourth-year students would not face additional mandatory training.

The second-year online training would focus on consent and healthy relationships, along with the role alcohol and drugs can play in facilitating sexual assault. Third-year online training would discuss “the complex relationship between alcohol and sexual assault,” according to the bill’s senate document.

“We are trying to achieve a cultural shift of intolerance of sexual assault,” Petkas said at the meeting. “We want to send massive and multiple signals that we don’t allow it and that we don’t sanction it.”

Graduate students, who are currently required to complete online sexual assault training, would also have to view sexual misconduct prevention presentations at their orientations starting fall 2018. Graduate assistants, who currently aren’t required to complete any additional training, would start mandatory sexual assault prevention training online as well starting in fall 2019.

If Loh approves the programs, they will all be fully implemented by 2021, Petkas noted.

This university currently requires online compliance training for faculty, staff and first-year students, as well as a video viewing on sexual assault and bystander intervention during the two-day summer orientation programs for incoming students.

But it isn’t enough, Petkas said. About 40 percent of male students and about 38 percent of female students surveyed in the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual See senate , p. 7

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State: Fromovitz suffered heart attack, drowned

“We see the blatant corruption that exists in our University’s political climate and we sought to change it,” Unity Party leaders wrote in a statement. “In doing so, we believed the ends justified the relatively harmless means.”

The remaining two presidential candidates — SGA Student Affairs Vice President A.J. Pruitt and unaffiliated newcomer Chris Boretti — have faced off in

A former University of Maryland professor found dead near Lake Artemesia on April 1 died of a heart attack complicated by drowning, a spokesman for the state medical examiner said Wednesday.

Stan Fromovitz was reported missing on March 13. A university student discovered his body along the Indian Creek Trail during this university’s sixth annual Good Neighbor Day. The death was ruled accidental, said Bruce Goldfarb, spokesman for the Chief Medical Examiner’s office in Baltimore.

A Holocaust survivor originally from Poland, Fromovitz was a statistics and quantitative methods professor in this university’s business school from 1971 to 2001.

The business school will name its building’s third-floor library after Fromovitz, and will put a plaque there in his honor.

Fromovitz is survived by his two first cousins and two second cousins, all of whom live in Ontario, Canada.

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the trail ends here After Unity Party withdrawal, One Party unopposed in all but two races; Boretti and Pruitt to face off for student body president as polls open

By Taylor Swaak | @tswaak27 | Senior staff writer

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oting for the 2017 SGA election began Wednesday, with a single-party ticket unopposed in all but two races.

Student Government Association executive and legislative candidates for the 2017-18 school year include all One Party members and two unaffiliated candidates, who are running for student body president and Off-Campus — Neighboring positions, respectively. Voting continues until Friday.

The election initially included two party tickets, but the Unity Party dropped out of the election on April 13 after news broke that group leaders had accepted n o n - m o n e ta ry co n t r i b u t i o n s f ro m Turning Point USA, a conservative nonprofit, and had not disclosed the donations in the preliminary financial reports.

Accepting donations from a nonprofit, as well as failing to disclose any type of donation, is a violation of SGA campaign finance regulations.

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Search for chief diversity officer to enter interview stage in early May Quest for second such official is ‘going well,’ search committee co-chair says With the end of the semester approaching, the search committee tasked with finding a new chief diversity officer is closing in on possible candidates for the position.

The search committee will meet next week to identify applicants they would like to come in for interviews during the first week of May, said by

Rosie Kean @rosie_kean Senior staff writer

committee co-chair Warren Kelley.

“The search is going well,” Kelley said. “The search firm says there is a lot of interest expressed nationally about this position.”

After becoming this university’s first chief diversity officer five years ago, Kumea Shorter-Gooden announced her resignation in January, and Cynthia Edmunds — a staff ombuds officer — became the interim position-holder.

Though Edmunds is not one of the

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possible candidates for the position, she is a member of the search committee.

“My priority as the interim CDO has been to support the great work and partnerships that are already happening,” Edmunds wrote in an email.

“We have many great colleagues across campus who care very deeply about sustaining a community and culture of respect for diversity and inclusion.”

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By Lindsey Collins | @LindsECollins | Staff writer Un iversit y of M a r yland Police responded to reports of hate bias incidents, disorderly conduct and theft over the past two weeks, according to police reports.

HATE BIAS INCIDENTS On April 19 at 10 a.m., University Police responded to Caroline Hall after a report of a hate bias incident. Earlier that morning, a student reported to a resident assistant that a swastika had been drawn on the wall, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said. It appears the swastika was drawn in pencil, and officers notified building authorities to have the drawing removed. The drawing will remain covered by a piece of paper in the interim. The case remains open.

University Police responded to Ritchie Coliseum for a hate bias incident on April 12 at about 8:20 p.m. A university student told officers he was walking near Fraternity Row when he heard someone behind him yell a racial slur, Hoaas said. The student turned around and asked three people if they were talking to him. According to reports, one of the individuals continued to call the student offensive

names and tried to start a fight. University Police will review video evidence. The case remains open.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT On April 6 at 1:32 a.m., an officer saw a man standing on top of a pedestrian signal pole and a crowd cheering him on at the intersection of Knox Road and Route 1, Hoaas said. The officer stopped the man and asked for identification. He is a student at this university and possessed two fake IDs. The officer confiscated the IDs and issued the man a citation.

The student will also be referred to the Office of Student Conduct, according to reports. The case is closed.

THEFT University Police responded to the biology-psychology building for a theft report on April 11 at 12:40 p.m. A female university employee reported to police that her cellphone was stolen from the building on April 10 between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., while she was in Stamp Student Union to get lunch, said Hoaas. The case remains open. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Pro-Trump chalking sparks student reaction, erasure

Members Evan Berkowitz o f f o r m e r student @thedbk group Terps For The DBK fo r Tr u m p chalked pro-deportation and President Trump messages in front of Stamp Student Union Monday night, instigating swift counter-reactions from fellow students.

The original messages included phrases such as “Deport Dreamers,” “Build the wall,” “CNN is fake news,” “Wage gap myth,” “Trump 2020” and “MAGA” — a n a b b rev i a t i o n fo r Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”

Matt Morris, former Terps for Trump president, confirmed the now-defunct organization’s link to Monday night’s chalkings. The group obtained temporary status to campaign in support of Trump during the 2016 presidential election, the junior mechanical engineering major said.

In response to the chalkings, at least four counterchalkers used buckets of water to obscure the original messages Tuesday morning, while others passing by added to the effort using their own water bottles.

Junior Cole White, one of the counter-chalkers, said this university is vocal about by

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From p. 1 Edmunds’ responsibilities include heading this university’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion and being involved with outreach efforts to reinforce this university’s commitment to diversity, such as meeting with the President’s Commission, Diversity Advisory Council and University Equity Council.

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“The more you see stuff supporting bigotry around campus, the more real it becomes in people’s minds,” the Japanese and linguistics major said.

This university has 20 students covered under Maryland’s DREAM Act, which grants instate tuition to undocumented students. As of fall 2016, this university also had 113 students under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows certain undocumented immigrants to work and study in the U.S. in two-year increments. While DACA is currently protected under Trump’s administration, the Department of Homeland Security began rolling out plans in February for a wider crackdown on people coming into the U.S. illegally.

Stamp Student Union Associate Director Stephen Gnadt said the establishment was “aware of” the chalking, but the original messages, as well as any counter-chalking, fell within campus guidelines.

“It’s free speech,” Gnadt said. “There’s nothing in the chalking policy that would prevent people from chalking.”

Messages must be written on flat surfaces in water-soluble materials and cannot deface

walkways aside from sidewalks or decorative symbols such as Testudo or the ODK Fountain on McKeldin Mall, according to this university’s chalking policy. It does not make distinctions based on the messages’ content.

“Stamp wouldn’t do it, so we took it upon ourselves to do it,” said Ashli Taylor, a junior government and politics major who was among those pouring water. Taylor is running with the One Party to be an SGA offcampus neighboring legislative representative.

“It’s hate speech,” Taylor said. “I’m not going to condone hate speech on my campus.”

The American Bar Association defines hate speech as “speech that offends, threatens, or insults groups, based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or other traits.” It is protected by the First Amendment.

“We decided to counterchalk instead,” said Ajay Mahesh, a junior public health major. Mahesh is running unopposed with the One Party to be the SGA legislative representative for the public health school, but stressed the counter-chalking was not affiliated with the ticket.

They decided to “write different messages, like ‘Support DREAMers’ instead of ‘Deport DREAMers,’” Mahesh said.

“I don’t necessarily think it’s hateful,” Morris said of the Terps for Trump chalking. “I think it’s thought-provoking.

I think it’s trying to bring up issues that really are serious issues for people, that do make huge impacts on people’s lives.”

In another case, counterchalkers replaced “CNN is fake news” with “Fox is fake news.”

Trump has repeatedly criticized CNN and other termed “liberal media” news organizations during his campaign as well as his presidency; he has barred them from a press gaggle and denied a CNN reporter the opportunity to ask a question during a presidential news conference. Trump has also praised Fox News programming as a candidate and as president.

“I heard that people had thrown water over ours and replaced it with their message,” Morris said. “And while I would love for other people to chalk, I think that erasing our message is kind of what we’re getting at.”

The Stamp’s Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy office is not affiliated with the counterchalking, MICA community organizing student intern Nasreen Baten-Tschan said.

MICA has chalk available to any student organization at any time, she said.

sion’s education director, said the chief diversity officers’s role is “to look structurally and systemically and support efforts to make [this university] more inclusive in terms of diversity in representation, so we become a more diverse environment and also inclusive of the diverse population we have.”

In addition to her other duties, Shorter-Gooden participated in panels on issues about diversity, such as the Black Lives Matter movement and Rise Above grants, which are to be used to address bias issues. As the first chief diversity officer, Shorter-Gooden also created an infrastructure for diversity and inclusion in each college at this university.

The chief diversity officer looks at all facets of diversity — such as race, religion, gender, sexuality, immigration status, socioeconomic status and disability — and examines how these factors affect students’ experiences on the campus.

Edmunds also works with all members of the campus community, including senior leadership, faculty, students and staff, and she sits on

university President Wallace Loh’s cabinet.

“In service to campus, the CDO’s work has to be properly informed by the campus community,” Edmunds wrote.

Students can face certain barriers throughout college, and the CDO considers both “larger systemic barriers to being part of the community” and smallerscale issues like “cultural or climate issues” in classroom environments, Cohen said.

“It can be everything from not being able to financially meet the needs of tuition for a lower socioeconomic status student to navigating higher education when you’re first in your family to go to go college,” she said.

Chief diversity officers are “content experts that are strong at advocating, influencing, cultivating, and being a change agent,” Edmunds wrote.

While other faculty and staff should also pursue this university’s goal of inclusion, it is important to have someone who is an expert and is accountable and effective in addressing issues of diversity, she said.

“It’s everyone’s job, but this

is someone who really makes sure that occurs and supports that process,” she said.

Bria Goffney, a freshman sociology major, said the position is important because it heads the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

“The office itself is really important,” Goffney said. “The events they host makes the campus feel more open and welcoming, and that’s especially important for people that are minorities on campus.”

Goffney said the next chief diversity officer has to be open to listening to ideas of others.

“That person would have to be really receptive of all the different things they’re told and be able to make a good decision for the campus while protecting rights of individuals and marginalized groups,” she said.

Following closed interviews with applicants during the first week of May, the committee hopes to identify three or four finalists to return to the campus about a week later so students and other faculty can meet them, Kelley said.

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USM won’t commit to divestment deadline

Patterson Hall a hub for int’l students

After agreeing to walk away from fossil fuels, system won’t release progress, pledge date

H.J. Patterson’s newly renovated wing has new role

h.j. patterson hall has recently become an international cemter. josh loock/the diamondback

T h e n ewly Angela Jacob renovated @angela_jacob13 wing of H.J. Patterson Hall Staff writer has taken on a new role as an international center on the University of Maryland’s campus.

Formerly a science lab building, H.J. Patterson now houses several international entities, such as the Office of International Affairs, the Maryland Language Science Center, the Education Abroad office, International Student and Scholar Services, the Latin American Studies Center and the Arabic and Persian flagship programs. The Maryland Language Science Center was previously located in the basement of Taliaferro Hall, said Caitlin Eaves, the business manager for the Maryland Language Science Center, said. The Office of International Affairs was located in Susquehanna Hall during that time.

In H.J. Patterson, rooms for the Arabic and Persian flagship programs have culturally themed lounges, and there is an Arabic library on the same floor. The building also features a main atrium space with a cafe and lounge area. One of the atrium’s walls is decorated with maps of eight major global cities, including Rio de Janeiro, London and Tel Aviv.

“Culture can’t be divorced from language or academic

work, so part of what we’re seeing is that these units really integrate the culture,” Eaves said.

For Colin Phillips, the director of the Maryland Language Science Center, one benefit of its new location is the facilitated collaboration between international offices and departments.

“We work closely with the Office of International Affairs, so having them in the same hallway is incredibly useful so that we can go back and forth,” he said.

With this centralized location, Eaves said the office can host events for students — including guest speakers and global social hours for people of the international community to gather — that would be easier for students to see, compared to activities hosted on the top floor of any campus building.

The Office of International Affairs has already used the space for the Greek ambassador to deliver a speech.

“It kind of helps people get a better idea of everything they have available to them,” she said. “You have people coming to the Language Science Center and seeing on a daily basis what OIA is having in the main atrium. It gives you a better feel of what’s going on in the international community at UMD.” Eaves noted that because the building’s units work together and many students tend

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Almost Jack Roscoe a y e a r @Jack_Micky a f t e r a UniversiStaff writer ty System of Maryland Foundation committee created formal recommendat i o n s to d ive s t f ro m fossil fuels, it hasn’t committed to a deadline and has refused to release its progress to the public.

The foundation, which oversees investments for the University System of Maryland’s 12 institutions and 11 other institutions affiliated with the system, formed an ad hoc committee in May 2016 to evaluate a proposal created by the s t u d e n t g ro u p Foss i l Free MD to divest from fossil fuels.

The committee agreed on five initiatives that promote socially responsible investing, but none that would decrease the foundation’s investment in fossil fuel companies.

The five initiatives included establishing a position to seek renewable energy investments and pushing investment fund managers to choose renewable energy over fossil fuel investments, when possible.

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to be involved with more than one office or department, having everything in the same place has helped students and faculty.

“It had an immediate effect on bringing people together in ways they weren’t before,” Phillips said.

Ross Lewin, associate vice president for international affairs, said the building’s design makes it an ideal place to host classes with students from partnering institutions around the world. These are project-based, collaborative classes, he said, that take 10 to 15 students from this university and 10 to 15 students studying at a university in another country and make them work side-by-side.

While these classes are an asset to the building, Lewin said he sees the atrium becoming a place for students to gather and watch things such as the World Cup, the Olympics or news coverage of events including countries signing peace treaties.

“By placing all of these international offices in the heart of the campus — right on the mall,” he said, “the university is making a clear statement that international education and international research are of value to the institution.” ajacobdbk@gmail.com

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100 public coal companies or the top 100 public oil and gas companies in a May 2016 statement. However, the foundation told Sally DeLeon, the Office of S u s ta i n a b i l i ty ’s p ro j e c t manager, it had no plans to sell its fossil fuel investments this year.

The foundation’s endowment pool was $986 million in June 2015, according to its website.

A b o u t 2 p e rce n t to 4 percent of the endowment is currently invested in fossil fuel companies, declining from about 7 percent in 2014, said Maya Spaur, director of Fossil Free MD. However, Spaur said this is likely caused by market forces, rather than student advocacy, because fossil fuel companies’ stock prices have been declining. If left to economic forces, it could take 30 to 40 years for the foundation to completely divest in fossil fuels, she added.

Despite repeated requests for updates from Fossil Free MD, the foundation has not committed to a deadline to divest from fossil fuels, nor detailed its progress on the five measures.

The foundation said it couldn’t provide data to Fossil Free MD because it could violate confidentiality agreements and because it had no way of knowing how much of its money is invested in fossil fuels, said senior individual studies major J.T.

Stanley, a member of the student advocacy group.

Fossil Free MD issued a public letter in April to the foundation. The letter requested an update on the foundation’s progress and for more transparency and accountability so donors could know if their money is going toward fossil fuel companies.

“We’re profiting off of these companies, and we’re helping fund them,” Spaur said. “We’re [allowing] these dirty energy companies to keep doing what they’re doing.

If we want to say we’re a sustainable university … then why are we still making money off of these companies?”

Spaur said the system has fallen behind other university systems in a national movement toward fossil fuel divestment. Fossil Free MD said more than 706 institutions — from faith-based organizations to government agencies — have committed to divestment from fossil fuels.

Fifteen percent of these are educational institutions, including the University of California system and University of Massachusetts system.

The foundation also declined a request by Fossil Free MD in 2013 to study the feasibility of fossil fuel divestment, Spaur said.

“They haven’t really done their part as far as making sure we’re on the same page and making sure that we can see that they’re really trying to realize their commitments,” said Willem Klajbor, a director of the SGA sustainability committee. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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We endorse A.J. Pruitt for president, but he must change SGA culture Students will face few choices in this year’s SGA Swanson,” Pruitt told The Diamondback editorial election. The One Party, composed almost entirely of board Wednesday. “We have different visions.”

While Boretti accurately assesses that the SGA is current Student Government Association members,is running mostly unopposed and is poised to continue a out of touch, his policy proposals rarely extend beyond legacy of student government dominance. The Unity pushing for student engagement. When they do, they Party’s withdrawal following campaign violations line up almost entirely with the One Party’s platform.

Except for some disagreement on metro fees and elitist shattered any hope of an organized opposition.

The presidential race is down to One Party candi- attitudes, Boretti is a less experienced and prepared date A.J. Pruitt, the current vice president of student version of Pruitt.

The latter appears routinely under-informed reaffairs, and unaffiliated contender Chris Boretti, a garding most important legislative decisions. He even freshman new to the SGA stage.

The SGA is on a concerning path. This editorial deferred to One Party legislators on issues such as sexual assault prevention, telling board has made clear in the past the editorial board, “I’m going to that the revolving door of stuour view have the years of experience of the dents in legislative and execuOne Party to help me out when it tive positions excludes a large comes to any policy proposition.” portion of the student body Where Boretti plans to rely on from the leadership pipeline. advice from standing members Student involvement is seemof the SGA, Pruitt lays out a plan. ingly nonexistent, and the SGA While previous initiatives remust immediately focus its garding mental health resources attention on community enand the campus minimum wage gagement to better represent did not come to fruition under its constituents.

This editorial board will still endorse Pruitt for his predecessors and mentors, Pruitt proposes a the presidency. He represents the very pipeline that change in attitude as well as practice. His prodiscourages student involvement, but his legisla- posal for this university to set up a telepsychiatry tive experience, preparedness and policy proposals system, featuring trained counselors and psychiindicate a desire to empower student advocacy and atrists through an established partnership with prioritize community needs such as mental health the University of Maryland School of Medicine, resources, sexual assault prevention, inclusivity on demonstrates an understanding for the necessity of immediate change. the campus and, yes, engagement.

This editorial board understands student frustraPruitt’s acknowledging the need for a drastic culture shift in the SGA — specifically a shift from tion at stagnated initiatives that cycle through SGA passing ineffective legislation to encouraging student agendas year after year. But voting for inexperienced representatives based on discontent, will only comadvocacy — outlines a clear path to improvement.

“I’m not Patrick Ronk and I’m not Katherine pound the problems within our representation.

This editorial board endorses Pruitt for his experience and policy proposals.

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We must stop victimblaming our women Maris Medina @marisgmedina Columnist

Just a few days ago, the world witnessed what h a s b e e n d u b b e d t h e “ E a s te r Day Slaughter,” through a series of Facebook videos and posts by a man named Steve Stephens.

I even scrolled through my own Twitter feed to witness a horrific point-of-view video shot by Stephens, where he stops an elderly man on the street and shoots him point-blank.

In the same fashion, I also happened to read comment after comment victim-blaming Stephens’ ex-girlfriend, Joy Lane, saying she should call him to put to rest the entire ordeal, as Stephens rationalized his killing spree based on their breakup, and said he would stop if she called him.

This malicious phenomenon, in which women are used to justify the actions of men, leads to the neglect of real issues at hand — in this case, the clear case for gun control.

This isn’t the first time something like this has happened, either. Placing the responsibili ty o n wo m e n to e n s u re m e n behave is a regular hurdle I often have in my own household. My parents have chided me countless times, telling me to cover up or not go out too late in order to prevent men from harassing or attacking me. While these instructions come from a place of good intentions, the remarks perpetuate the idea that women must be held responsible for the behaviors of men.

I n t h e C l e ve l a n d s h o o t i n g example, much time was wasted again, as the conversation was

diverted from the actual crime to Stephens’ ex-girlfriend, rather than focusing entirely on crowdsourcing and pinpointing the shooter.

We can also look to the Stanford rape incident, when Brock Turner was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious and intoxicated woman behind a dumpster. The woman’s moving account of her trial involved a lengthy list of questions she was b o m b a rd e d w i t h : H ow m u c h does she usually drink? Where was the party? Does she party at frats? Does she have a history of cheating?

Instead of focusing on the victim’s ordeals and the proper way to healthily address such a traumatizing event, the defense attacked her with questions that suggested her actions warranted her rape.

In the same light, Stephens’ exgirlfriend’s refusal to call seemed enough for people to blame her for Stephens’ actions.

In a time when women appear to be significantly more free than they were centuries ago, it’s still jarring that we continue to be held responsible for incidents that involve the heinous actions of men. Time, effort and the dignity of women everywhere are wasted at the expense of alleviating real issues at hand. It can be as minor as claiming that my exposed legs will attract unwarranted catcalls, or telling a woman that just because she was intoxicated, she loses the right to her body. Regardless, the victim-blaming of women must stop, and this must happen now. marismedina29@gmail.com

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Chris Boretti: a letter to the student body Chris Boretti @ChrisBoretti1 SGA candidate

To the students of this university: You haven’t been listened to. You haven’t been reached out to enough. Your input hasn’t been valued by previous Student Government Association administrations. All of this will change.

I decided to run for president this year not as an individual, but as a representative of the student body as a whole. After talking with a host of students around the campus, my thought was the SGA was out of touch and not listening to its constituents. There needed to be some revolutionary change implemented, and we could not trust the same members of the SGA again and again, year after year, with that task.

The required change to improve our clubs, campus and community would have to be directed at what has been inhibiting the SGA from performing its designated task of representing the students and allowing campus life to be enjoyable for all. To start with these structural issues that have been hindering student life was the goal I saw ahead. After all, it is an arduous task to represent the students and legislate on the issues when the SGA does not have the capacity and the solid relationships to truly listen and hear the voice of the students.

A lack of outreach and engagement, isolation, an inability to listen and a discouragement of competing

ideas are structural aspects that have proven problematic for the SGA and have had a ripple effect on students. The evidence shows the damaging effects of the SGA’s disengagement. With some of the past few elections producing 3 percent or 6 percent turnout and featuring, ironically, one-party competition, the level of discourse offered by our present SGA is not healthy — especially in comparison to other Big Ten institutions, which post higher levels of turnout, with some numbers reaching more than 20 percent.

Voter turnout in this university’s SGA elections from 1998 to 2011 rarely dipped below about 15 percent and routinely had more than two parties contesting each other. On top of that, the vast majority of students I have reached out to in the past week have cited a lack of communication and interest in them by the SGA. These systemic problems are rarely highlighted by an SGA that eases through, year after year, content with low turnout and competition. Because after all, it’s easy for them to keep their positions, and it’s easy to focus on what position to assume next for a padded resume, when no one is running in opposition. Not only in their comfort, complacency and isolation have they been lacking any investigation into these issues, they have forgotten their role and have neglected their duty of being humble, public servants.

I have advocated for the solutions to these problems throughout the campaign season. They are as follows: 1. To remedy the issue of outreach and engagement, representatives will be required to invite their constituents to town halls and debates they lead and moderate. SGA legislators will also be tasked with assisting their constituents, who serve as the presidents of student clubs, in the funding process.

2. In the spirit of listening to the student body, the SGA will be required to put any proposed fee increase to a referendum.

3. Finally, to encourage competing ideas, the SGA will provide public funding for campaigns so the best ones can emerge. It will also eliminate uncontested elections by extending and broadcasting the election so that a competitor can emerge. Finally, the SGA will reach out to their constituents with the end purpose of opening, and then recruiting, them to the prospect of running.

Ultimately, the ideas needed to improve student life on the campus do not start or end with a reform of SGA representation. But, it is the starting point because when everyone can voice themselves, the best of us comes to the forefront.

This true opportunity for the campus to be great is all that is needed. cboretti@terpmail.umd.edu

A.J. Pruitt: a letter to the student body A.J. Pruitt @pruittdidit SGA candidate

My name is A.J. Pruitt, a n d I ’ m running to be your student body president in this year’s SGA election. My motivation for running is the fundamental belief that students at our university are not being provided full access to the resources they need to be successful. In my time as a member of the Student Government Association, and the campus community, I’ve come to believe that in order to bring about meaningful changes and improve the quality of life for each student on this campus, we need to work together.

For the past year, it has been my absolute privilege to serve as your vice president of student a f fa i rs. My go a l c o m i n g i n to this year was to do everything I c o u l d to i m p rove t h e l i ve s of students. The SGA is not perfect, but I’m proud of the efforts we made this year. In the fall, alongside other student leaders, the SGA successfully advocated for the additional allocation of resources to the Title IX office to reduce investigation times in cases relating to sexual violence and civil rights violations.

As the year has gone on, I’ve been on the front lines in advocating for free menstrual health products, so no student has to choose between buying food or buying a box of tampons. I’ve fought to have the campus minimum wage equal to that of Prince George’s County so student workers on campus can be fairly compensated for their work. My latest initiative has been the TerraPin project — we want to help you, the students, access the College Park economy through expanding the existing Terrapin Express project.

While we’ve made extraordinary progress on these issues over the past year, hard work remains.

I would be remiss to ignore the criticism that has been directed toward me, and the SGA as a whole, over the course of the past week. What I can say is this: Our doors are always, and have always been, open to you. We serve the students. We have no interest in exclusivity or secrecy. We want to see you at our Wednesday meetings, in committee meeti n gs a n d i n o u r i n b oxe s. O u r website, umdsga .com, lists accurate meeting times and provides contact info for your representatives. We livestream our meetings on Facebook weekly and respond to m e s s a ge s p ro m p t l y. Eve n beyond this voting period, please reach out to us. We truly, genuinely care about every single one of you, and we want your voices to be heard.

If you give me the great honor of being your student body president, you can expect fundamental changes to the way our university operates. I want students to have a health center that’s open more — because your body does not operate on a 9-to-5 schedule and your wellness is paramount to your ability to succeed as a student. I want students to have a Wi-Fi network that can handle the demands of a top-10 public research university — because your life is easier when the technology you use works. Finally, I want you to help me and the rest of my ticket transform the SGA into a proactive organization, ready to lead in student a dvo c a cy. I c a n o n ly d o t h a t with your vote. ajpruitt@gmail.com

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Alex Carolan City Council and the @alexhcarolan University of Maryland’s SGA addressed Staff writer the division between the city and this university at a town hall Monday night.

About 45 students and faculty, along with the city’s eight council members and Mayor Patrick Wojahn, gathered in the public health school for the event.

The council answered questions from the Student Government Association about the city and its relationship with this university at what was the first town hall between the two in recent memory, said Chris Keosian, the SGA’s city affairs director.

“The more dialogue that you create between students and council members and residents, the faster the city will feel a sense of oneness,” said Keosian, a junior government and politics major and the event’s moderator. “We are a little bit divided right now, and we need to not be.”

Junior economics and government and politics major A.J. Pruitt, SGA’s vice president of student affairs, asked the council what the organization can do to bridge the gap between city residents and students.

“What we’re doing today,” District 3 Councilman Robert Day said.

“The fact that we’re sitting in here today, having this discussion with you, is another huge step.”

If the SGA keeps holding events like town halls, it will help lessen the distance between them, he added.

This university’s students make up 70 percent of College Park residents, Wojahn said.

District 4 Councilwoman Mary Cook said students should get involved with the city by attending civic association meetings.

“Unless you come out and meet some of the neighbors out there, you’re not going to really know what College Park is all about,” she added. “You’re going to know about this one area.”

Keosian also voiced his perception that the city council itself can sometimes be split.

Wojahn said it’s natural for the council to disagree, adding it’s important for the council to view the city as different parts of a whole. For instance, not every part of the city needs to have the same standard of economic development, he said.

“We ultimately work together … and it’s important for us to recognize that commonality,” Wojahn said.

District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said he would rather label the different opinions as “diversity.”

Kabir cited “a good fight” he had with Day at a March 28 council meeting about a joint child care facility scheduled to be built on Calvert Road, where he introduced a failed amendment to explore other options for the site.

“We do fight at the meetings, and those are good fights,” Kabir said, adding most of the council’s decisions are unanimous.

Other topics discussed at the town hall included the council’s split opinions regarding the on-campus Interfraternity Council tailgate, revitalization and gentrification, recycling at bars and University Police’s shared jurisdiction over residential communities.

While District 1 Councilwoman Christine Nagle and Kabir questioned the city’s role in funding the IFC PHA tailgate, others, such as District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan, said it helps create the vision of a cohesive College Park.

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where we landed,” she said, adding she’s happy construction on the Old Parish House is underway so her group can get back to meeting there.

While the youth and family services building on Nantucket Road across Route 1 from Shoppers, can feasibly serve as a meeting space, there are concerns about confidentiality, Wojahn said, as family services hosts counseling services there.

To combat the need for more space, Sites has changed some of the events CPAE offers.

Instead of running hands-on and visual art workshops that were easy to clean up and could hold 12 to 15 people at the Old Parish House, such as paper-making, she hosted a creative writing workshop at the College Park Community Library on Rhode Island Avenue this fall.

Certain events, such as a “mini-bop kids disco” — a two-hour disco for children and their parents complete with Sites’ own strobe lights — wouldn’t work as well in a space other than the Old Parish House, Sites said.

The upcoming child care center on Calvert Road and the new city hall that will be built within the next few years will help fill the need for more space, Wojahn said. He added the council will consider buying an empty College Park Woods Swim Club clubhouse for community space.

Sites, McClellan and Montroll said they look forward to the increase in community space that will be made available in years to come.

The child care center, which is slated to open in fall 2018, is a partnership between the city and the University of Maryland that will provide community space for residents at night and on the weekends.

The new city hall will be a partnership between the city and this university as well and will be located on the same block of Knox Road as the current building, Wojahn said. He added it will break ground in two years, and be completed within four to five years.

The joint city-university hall will also have an adjoining office building with a ground floor for retail, Stullich added. “[College Park] basically outgrew City Hall about 20 years ago,” she said.

Though the city space will continue to be an issue for the College Park Arts Exchange for the time being, Sites said the issue helped the group branch out and interact with more of College Park. The group has partnered with local churches to host events at places other than the Old Parish House, she said, and now hosts a yoga class at the White Lotus Wellness Center on Berwyn Road.

“That’s kind of what the College Park Arts Exchange wants to do,” Sites said. “ It’s kind of a blessing in disguise.”

said Monday.

Free Wi-Fi is already offered at six underground stations as part of a pilot program that began in August — Union Station, Metro Center, Gallery Place, L’Enfant Plaza, Judiciary Square and Archives — and it’s used by hundreds daily, Metro told The Washington Post. Monday’s plan expands the free Wi-Fi coverage to 24 underground stations, including the Smithsonian and Farragut West stations, The Post reported.

WMATA media relations manager Sherri Ly wrote in an email there are currently no plans to expand the free Wi-Fi to above-ground stations, such as the College Park Metro Station.

In December, Metro General Manager and CEO Paul Wiedefeld greenlighted a program to make free Wi-Fi available for customers in all underground Metro stations, Ly wrote.

Emma Nold, a freshman international business major, thinks the free Wi-Fi should “definitely expand” to the College Park Metro Station, adding it could make it easier to check arrival times on her phone.

“Sometimes your cellular data doesn’t work,” Nold said. “Some people are busy, and Wi-Fi helps everywhere. … I think that it would be very useful.”

Cellphone service is already offered in underground stations, but passengers have complained it can be spotty and unreliable, The Post reported.

Mitchell Kenyon, a junior animal science major, said Wi-Fi could make it easier for passengers to use the Metro.

“Even though I’m a native to the area, I don’t really ever remember when the hell I’m supposed to get off,” Kenyon said. “We should definitely have Wi-Fi, especially because there’s so many students that take [the Metro] that aren’t from around here.”

Metro plans for “nearly every Red Line station from Union Station to Medical Center” to have access to free Wi-Fi, with the exception of Woodley Park, The Post reported. The plan should also cover a broad section of the system’s core.

The internal Wi-Fi “build out” costs about $5 million and provides network access both to customers and personnel across the system, The Post reported.

Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said this expansion comes at little cost to Metro, because it’s making existing networks, which are used by workers on tablets and portable devices for maintenance purposes underground, available for customer use.

Metro has already taken its first steps by increasing its network capacity to support the added web traffic, and stations will be added “incrementally” beginning by late summer, Stessel told The Post.

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he College Park Arts Exchange “didn’t necessarily envision” teaching ballet and yoga in city council chambers, exchange director Melissa Sites said. While it’s an “odd” location for the classes, Sites said that’s what the group, a grassroots organization that promotes arts and cultural activities in College Park, has resorted to since the Old Parish House in Old Town closed last spring.

“Since the Old Parish House has been closed, all of our events have had to be scheduled elsewhere,” she said. “It’s curtailed the types of workshops we’ve been able to do.”

With meeting space in the Old Parish House and Davis Hall in northern College Park unavailable recently, city groups and committees have been struggling to find places to gather, District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich said.

“We have needed additional space for staff for a long time,” said Mayor Patrick Wojahn.

“We’ve been really constrained in our ability to expand the city staff even as the city’s been growing over the past several years.”

The public works department has occupied the meeting space in Davis Hall for several months while the city replaces an attached building the department regularly uses, Wojahn said, noting that construction will be completed within the month.

The Old Parish House, where CPAE used to hold classes and workshops, will open

by June, the city clerk’s office said. It is the second-oldest building in College Park, and closed in May 2016 after a city inspector deemed it unsafe. “[The College Park Arts Exchange was] rolling right along and then I was like — one day — ‘I’m sorry, the Parish House is locked, the roof could fall at any minute,” Sites said about holding events in the space.

For Bonnie McClellan, a College Park Woods resident and member of the Explorations on Aging group in College Park, accessibility has been an important factor in finding space to meet now that the Old Parish House is closed.

The group, which focuses on seniors who wish to “age in place” in the College Park community, is holding a senior arts exhibition at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church on College Avenue on May 12.

Even the Old Parish House had a hard time accommodating the 200 people who showed up to the arts exhibition last year, McClellan said.

College Park resident Leslie Montroll started a needle arts group 14 years ago that used to meet every Friday at the Old Parish House.

Now, it meets in the Berwyn Heights Town Hall.

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As students roll up to Savannah McKeldin Mall Williams o n t h e i n fa @thedbk mous April 20 For The DBK date, various student groups will be advocating for the legalization of marijuana and other drugs.

A coalition of various University of Maryland student organizations are collaborating with Students for Sensible Drug Policy to spread awareness and advocate for the legalization of drugs during a protest on Thursday. The group is taking advantage of the date because it’s commonly associated with smoking weed. by

senate From p. 1 Misconduct Report said they had not received information on how to prevent sexual assault since enrolling at this university.

“Our students are not getting the training they need to protect themselves in our community from sexual assault,” senate chair Jordan Goodman said at the meeting.

The sexual assault task force — a 16-member group whose members include SGA President Katherine Swanson, Title IX Officer Catherine Carroll and CARE and University Police representatives — formed in October after recommendations from Loh and Goodman.

On top of proposing the new mandatory initiatives, the task force’s bill also pushes for the establishment of a campuswide campaign strategy and the creation of a centralized website to house all campus sexual assault prevention programs and information starting in fall 2018.

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sga From p. 1 two exe c u t ive ca n d i d a te debates in the past week.

Here’s a rundown of their main platforms and debate points:

platforms Pruitt’s One Party has marketed itself as a ticket running on “One Promise — to make this campus better for all students,” according to its campaign materials. The party’s main goals include extending University Health Center hours, fixing the campus’ Wi-Fi, reducing tuition for internship classes and demanding a campus minimum wage that is equal to Prince George’s County’s $10.75 wage. Campus workers are currently paid the $8.75 state wage.

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“I think what’s going to surprise [people] is that we’re not just preferring marijuana,” said sophomore Yusuf Mahmood, an economics and philosophy major who coleads SSDP. “It’s 4/20, and of course in college culture, that’s a very important date.

We aren’t just advocating for legalizing marijuana, we’re advocating for ending the prohibition on all drugs.”

Mahmood compared the effects of outlawing drugs to alcohol prohibition in the 1920s. He said relegating drug trade to the black market increased the danger associated with drugs.

The event is geared toward legalization, said sophomore Maille O’Donnell, an environmental science and policy major, but every club participating is not required to hold that stance.

“Maybe they think they should be decriminalized — that’s definitely a step,” O’Donnell said. “Personally, I don’t condemn or condone drug use. I think that there are more medical uses for drugs than we allow, or we think.”

O’Donnell and Mahmood both said they hope to draw students in to learn about this issue with live music and tie-dyeing T-shirts that say “Legalize.”

Nine clubs, including Our Revolution UMD, Students for Liberty and VegTerps, are involved in the protest. Each organization has an opportunity to inform university students about its position on the war on drugs and encourage students to sign a petition to change drug policies on campus.

Though not all students hold the same view about drug legalization, senior Ethan Pritchard, a management major, said he’s taking a stand because he doesn’t believe the government should control people’s bodies. Pritchard, who also

leads the club Students for Liberty, said he most looks forward to “getting [people] to think a little differently.” “ Un d e rs ta n d t h a t j u s t because something is legal, doesn’t mean that it’s good,” Pritchard said. “Our take i s t h a t t h e go ve r n m e n t shouldn’t be the one restricting you from using drugs, it should be yourself.”

This university’s Student Code of Conduct prohibits unauthorized distribution, possession for purpose of distribution and the use or possession of any controlled substance or illegal drugs o n u n ive rs i ty p re m i s e s,

according to this university’s drug and alcohol abuse policy.

Violating this policy can lead to expulsion, suspension or disciplinary probation, according to the policy.

However, Mahmood predicted that if drugs were legalized, in addition to fewer overdoses and lower rates of addiction, “we’ll see half the number of prisons, half the number of prisoners. We’ll see people in inner cities at least having a chance of getting out, [and] we’ll see many thousands fewer deaths from gun violence.”

cluded a recommendation that a student group’s leader and at least one other leader be required to complete online sexual assault prevention training before the group becomes a recognized organization. The task force’s initial report at a Feb. 9 senate meeting had proposed mandating training for all student group members, which some student senators were against.

The bill also included a recommendation to form a committee to implement a prevention plan, which would provide annual reports to the senate and Loh’s cabinet.

“The recommendations ... help UMD make continued progress toward prioritizing prevention and creating meaningful change on our campus,” Carroll wrote in an email.

Pe t ka s sa i d ta s k fo rce members want to enforce these training programs through registration blocks, but Goodman said this might be difficult to implement without an automatic process, as blocks must be manually removed.

While many approved the bill, others didn’t think it went far enough.

“It lacks training that directly confronts perpetration — dynamics of sexual violence, rape culture, rape myths, the profile of a perpetrator — and is dominantly composed of training on positive bystander intervention and risk-reduction,” undergraduate senator J.T. Stanley said.

Stanley, a senior individual studies major, joined students from other groups such as the SGA’s Sexual Misconduct Prevention Committee and Preventing Sexual Assault in proposing four amendments — including recommending the university create a Sexual Violence Prevention Fund and recommending online training that confronts perpetration — on the senate floor. All of them failed.

“The idea is valuable, but has nothing to do with our charge,” said Petkas, referencing the proposed student amendments.

He added that the prevention fund was also outside the task force’s purview because the

force “was not called upon to create budgets.”

Undergraduate student senator Benjamin Douek proposed another failed amendment to allow students to opt out of a sexual assault prevention program if a certain lecture or discussion focuses on topics contrary to what their religion preaches.

“It’s a hard time for minorities on this campus, and we want people to feel welcome here,” the junior history major said during Wednesday’s meeting.

“If we don’t accommodate religious students, the university will become a hostile place for students with religious needs.”

Petkas said there is already a mechanism in place through the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct that lets sexual assault survivors opt out of the trainings on a case-by-case basis, and he noted that this could work for religion as well.

Boris Lushniak, public health school dean, also submitted two amendments to the bill that called for adding faculty

with sexual assault prevention expertise to the task force’s proposed prevention plan committee and ensuring the public health school’s office of planning and evaluation plays a role not just in helping the prevention committee evaluate the recommendations but also improving them as well, if they’re implemented.

This university’s shifting approach to addressing sexual misconduct dates back to 2012, when Loh and the Senate created a Joint President/Senate Sexual Harassment Task Force.

In October 2013, the task force presented recommendations to the senate, including the creation of a more comprehensive university policy on sexual misconduct, the establishment of the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct — which formed in March 2014 — and the development of the Rule of Thumb campaign to educate the campus community about sexual misconduct, according to senate documents.

University efforts to improve

sexual misconduct education have led to an increase in the number of reported cases and investigations, according to senate documents. Sexual misconduct reports increased by 64 percent between the 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years, according to The Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct’s 2015-16 Student Sexual Misconduct Report.

Even though his amendments failed at Wednesday’s meeting, Stanley said he believes these recommendations will further improve sexual assault prevention education.

“At the end of the day, it was the fruition of 17 months of work, and to see it through from beginning to end is wonderful,” Stanley said. “It’s a watershed moment in terms of success with this issue, and I’m proud to have seen it get here.”

has also expressed interest in focusing on politics and higher education funding at the state level, as well as advocating for underserved communities.

Pruitt worked with Title IX Officer Catherine Carroll last semester to draft an SGA bill that requested a $34 annual student fee to aid the underfunded office. The University of Maryland allocated six new positions within the Title IX and CARE to Stop Violence offices soon after.

“I’m running to be an advocate for every student. … and I think my experience in the [SGA] will allow me, on day one, to have already hit the ground running,” Pruitt said in an April 13 Diamondback article. He has previously served as an SGA parliamentarian, the deputy city affairs liaison and a Leonardtown Community representative.

Boretti, a freshman finance

major, is not running under an established platform, but told The Diamondback last week that the SGA’s lacking engagement with the student body encouraged him to run. He’s also voiced concerns with the “nonsensical” 10-day campaign restrictions for candidates, along with the general student turnout at SGA elections. About six percent of students at this university voted in last year’s uncontested SGA election.

“When we compare Maryland to some of the other Big Ten institutions, the SGA truly falls short, and I want to change that,” Boretti said during the first executive debate.

While Boretti has not previously held an SGA position, he has worked on political campaigns, such as Kathy Szeliga’s senate campaign, and as a page for the Maryland Department of Legislative Services.

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During the second debate on Tuesday, both candidates also acknowledged the high tex tb o o k cos ts s t u d e n ts have to shoulder, with Pruitt noting the importance of expanding the publication of open-source resources.

Pruitt and Boretti differed, however, in their response to Monday night’s Terps for Tr u m p c h a l k i n gs, wh i c h included pro-deportation and pro-President Trump messages. Pruitt said other students’ counter-chalking and decision to wash away the messages was an appropriate response to the situation, though he noted the SGA needs to make a more concerted effort to make all students on the campus feel welcome. Boretti argued wa s h i n g away m e s s a ge s wasn’t the solution.

“Sentiment doesn’t just dis-

appear when you cover it up,” Boretti said. “People need to stand up and state their beliefs and prove a message is wrong.”

In looking toward the future, Boretti noted this university needs to build partnerships with the Maryland Transit Administration and Washingtonbased organizations. Pruitt also said he aims to support students seeking leadership opportunities. Earlier this semester, SGA President Katherine Swanson created the Student Leadership Grant project to provide funding for students who want to assume leadership roles on the campus but face socioeconomic barriers.

“That is how we help the student body as a whole,” Pruitt said. “By making sure leadership opportunities aren’t only available for those who have enough privilege.”

During the past two debates — held in Reckord Armory on April 13 and McKeldin Library on Tuesday — Pruitt a n d B o re t t i to u c h e d o n topics that included sexual assault prevention training, the Residence Hall Association’s proposed Metro fee, textbook affordability and campus inclusion.

Both Pruitt and Boretti agreed during the first debate on the need for expanded sexual assault prevention training and allocation of more university resources. On the proposed $130 semesterly Metro fee for on-campus students, Pruitt said the fee as it stands is too high, and needs to be discussed more moving forward. Boretti disagreed with the proposal altogether, noting that it’s an “unfair tax” on students who don’t

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DNA study Senior staff writer Patrick Basler analyzes Kendrick Lamar’s new, intense music video for “DNA.”

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On the bold, beautiful DAMN., Kendrick Lamar remains a head above the rest.

Five writers Diversions Staff b rea k d ow n @DBKDiversions wh a t m a ke s Kendrick Lamar’s new album so great.

Put your headphones on and go outside. Push play. Wait for the build of “BLOOD.”, get angry, run through “DNA.”. Hit your stride with the lull of “YAH.” Stop looking for a Sherane — you won’t find her. Nor will you find the building dialogue of To Pimp A Butterfly. Don’t skip a song.

Enjoy DAMN. as its own work or turn it off. After all, the latest album from Kendrick Lamar thrives outside of evaluation.

In its ever-changing energy, DAMN. makes room for both unchecked pride and the low points not even someone as accomplished as Lamar can escape.

Love, religion and the passage of time trouble him. In “PRIDE.” he raps, “In a perfect world, I’ll choose faith over riches/ I’ll choose work over bitches, I’ll make schools out of prison.”

He would give up his vices and fight injustice — if only he could.

Lamar doesn’t hide the fact that he still struggles through the fears and hindrances of years by

always functions on two levels — it creates fun and exciting hip-hop classics and tells stories about his life and American culture. These dual dynamics are often held together by an underlying narrative arc.

One of the most cerebral hip-hop artists of this generation, Lamar requires several listens of his album to track the story he is trying to tell or the point he is trying to make. This album, DAMN., opens by asking questions that are repeated throughout the project: “Is it wickedness?/ Is it weakness?”

This mirrors Lamar’s “I remember you was conflicted” spoken mantra from To Pimp a Butterfly and parallels Christian teachings that weakness can become wickedness as someone becomes consumed by a life of sin. Lamar has religious symbolism all over this album, with two title tracks pertaining to deadly sins of Christianity (“PRIDE.” “MY LEFT STROKE JUST and “LUST.”), countless religious references in the music video for WENT VIRAL.” I’d ask for an explanation for “HUMBLE.” and a release on the this lyric, but it’s so damn fun, I Christian holiday Good Friday.

Lamar opens with a parable, don’t need one.

Kendrick Lamar’s music something that has appeared before in his music as well, which results in (spoiler alert) his getting shot. The vocals come right back, asking “Is it wickedness?” Presumably, this is a reference to the actions of the woman who just shot him, but the song quickly changes to a sample from Fox News discussing his song “Alright” from his previous album.

The question of wickedness versus weakness pops up throughout the album — Lamar applies the question to himself and the world he lives in. Is it wickedness or weakness that makes Lamar feel lust? Is it wickedness or weakness that makes Geraldo Rivera say hip-hop causes more problems for the black community than racism?

Another puzzle of the album is Kung Fu Kenny — a hype man yells “New Kung Fu Kenny” at the beginning of a few songs.

Kenny seems to be some sort of new title for Lamar. This intro appears on “YAH.,” “ELEMENT.” and “XXX.” These songs don’t have a clear connection, but the most striking theme from “ELEMENT.” was that the beat sounded almost exactly like Drake’s “0 to 100” while using a flow that is very similar to Drake’s flow in various songs complete with melodic background vocals provided by Lamar.

Honestly, before any of us come to complete conclusions about what Kendrick wanted to do with this album, we should all listen to it again. And then again.

It’s sure to reveal new secrets with each new listen.

- John Powers gone by. In “XXX.” he’s fed up with violence and gun politics, but in the same breath threatens to pick off those who challenge him. He wrestles with the meaning of perfection, only to conclude he lacks the power to change himself or the world at large. Wealth and fame fuel his pessimism and apathy, while hard times leave him dreaming of a better future.

Lyrically, DAMN. is a B-grade essay — if you feel comfortable grading the inner ramblings and reflections of an artistic, arrogant and sometimes troubled mind.

Lamar is pensive, yet hardened and honest in the midst of appearances. In DAMN. he offers you a choice: Embrace the juxtapositions and enjoy the album’s versatility, or stay a skeptic, and Lamar might teach you something about the dichotomy of human nature.

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Whether he is rapping about growing up in Compton or critiquing the state of race relations in America, Kendrick Lamar can always be counted on to tell a captivating story.

DAMN., the rapper’s fourth studio album, sees K-Dot approaching music from a different direction, away from spoken word and jazz influences toward pop hits like the Rihanna-featuring, radio-ready “LOYALTY.” Kendrick’s newest project also sees him embracing the production aspect of his music in a more obvious way than in the past.

DAMN. includes credits from 15 producers including Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, the CEO of Top Dawg Entertainment, Mike WiLL Made-It and James Blake, who foregoes soulful indie music to produce the hypnotizing “ELEMENT.” Kendrick uses DAMN. as a way to experiment and grow as an artist, something he wasn’t really able to do fully on 2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city or 2015’s To Pimp a Butterfly. His newest album sees him singing more on tracks like “PRIDE.” and “LOVE.”, and showing off his verbal acrobatic skills on more traditional raps like “DNA.” and “GOD.”.

At its core, DAMN. is Kendrick rapping to rap (and doing it damn well), and in the process, showing us that the music — how it sounds, what it’s about — is important.

Make no mistake though, DAMN. doesn’t fully remove itself from the mold of its predecessors. The album still boasts its fair share of political commentary such as “XXX.” where Kendrick raps “Donald Trump’s in office/We lost Barack and promised never to doubt him again” and the spoken word intro “BLOOD.,” which includes a news clip from Fox News — one of many in Kendrick’s arsenal for his crusade against the media giant.

Lamar also saves masterful storytelling reminiscent of his earlier works for the last song on the album, “DUCKWORTH.”.

Kendrick recounts an incident between his father and Tiffith that, had it played out differently, could have prevented or inhibited Kendrick’s progress in becoming the face of West Coast rap for a new generation.

While To Pimp a Butterfly was a shout for attention, a project dedicated to shedding light on the issue of race in America through a spectacle, DAMN. is more of a reminder to listen to the music as well as the message.

The political messages and social commentary are there — subtle projections of discomfort — but the music is the focal point of the album.

On “PRIDE.”, Kendrick raps “I don’t love people enough to put my faith in men/ I put my faith in these lyrics, hoping I make

amend”, showing the level of care and “faith” that he has put into this album.

In a spring crowded with hip-hop and rap releases, Kendrick has given us a project that separates itself from the others through its pairing of hard trap beats and airy melodies, creating an entertaining album that is true to who Kendrick is as an artist and shows growth and change.

- Jarod Golub Usually when stories begin with “So I saw this lady walking down the street,” they end with being, well, just a lame-ass story.

DAMN. indeed starts its narrative in this fashion, except it’s kind of different because the next 55 minutes light your whole body on fire, throw you into an ice bath, hide any thoughts you may have ever had about Gerardo Rivera having a kind of sick mustache, teach you quantum physics and, ultimately, make you write some sort of incredibly far-fetched yet, like, totally necessary Facebook status claiming Kendrick Lamar to be the greatest MUSICAL artist of the past 50 years.

Of course, I did that.

I live in Spain right now and nobody knows who Kendrick Lamar is and I have a single comparison I usually use to get people to listen because it really is important that everyone experiences Kendrick. On here, I’ll write the comparison in English instead of my broken Spanish.

In basketball, Michael Jordan is and will always be the greatest player of all time. The title is his whether or not someone ever has been/is/or will ever be better than him, because, well, it just is.

Then comes a LeBron James.

No one wants to say it, and most would be quick to rattle off a hairline joke if you did because LeBron is so freakin’ good that the only thing people can say to diminish him is he’s kind of bald. But, whether the words are escaping people’s mouths or remain tucked into that tiny room in the brain of ‘opinions I should not voice but know are right,’ immediately next to the idea that Friends is actually a horrible show, you know he may just be the very best to ever do it.

Tupac, for all Los Angelesborn rap fans like myself (and many outside of the city), is that Michael Jordan. With DAMN., Kendrick is that LeBron James.

The Spanish speaker to whom I’ve been explaining this wild theory while using an uneducated 6-year-old’s level of grammar, simply replies, “¿Que?” - Cameron Neimand The shitty thing about streaks is that they have to end.

That’s the challenge Kendrick Lamar faces with each new release — he doesn’t just have

to make good music, he has to make music that’s better than that made by all other rappers, including himself.

And let’s face it — so far, he’s done a crazy good job. Since reaching the mainstream, he hasn’t released a bad album yet, and his major releases good kid, m.A.A. d. city and To Pimp a Butterfly remain two of the greatest modern rap releases, period.

DAMN. , Lamar’s latest, looked to challenge listeners from the beginning. With Microsoft Paint album art and a Mike WiLL Made-It banger of a single in “HUMBLE.” — fans weren’t sure what to expect.

The album was being billed as the follow up to To Pimp A Butterfly, but it didn’t feel like it.

So how does the album stack up with the rest of Lamar’s discography? Even after many, many listens, it’s hard to say.

DAMN. is a suitably dense work, full of breakneck flows, evolving beats and found-footage snippets of music, poetry and life. A first listen reveals almost nothing — except that you want (and need) a second.

Album opener “BLOOD.” and real album opener “DNA.” are breathtaking, setting up a puzzle of an album narrative and then immediately obliterating any concern for it with “DNA.,” another Mike WiLL track that brings the heat without sacrificing the lyrical depth. It’s accessible on a surface level (“Damn, this bangs.” – me) but also deeply impressive (it uses a sample of Fox News host Geraldo Rivera as a backdrop to discuss black life in America).

Accessibility is the biggest struggle in DAMN., which offers a number of Kendrick’s poppiest songs since 2012 – like the Rihanna-assisted “LOYALTY.” and the quasi-ballad “LOVE.” — but as a whole, Kendrick’s flow and voice is about as hard to decipher as it has ever been.

Thin, and wiry, he weaves between constantly shifting beats, leaving behind strings of syllables, some brilliant, some near-nonsensical. It’s the type of album you could actively listen to and only uncover an inkling of what he says, and never grasp the big picture.

It’s a weird album, taking Lamar’s gift for storytelling and stripping it of any actual narrative. Where good kid was a film and Butterfly was a novel, DAMN. is just an album and doesn’t try to be anything else.

It can be a difficult listen, and it’s not as flawless as Kendrick’s other work, but it’s not trying to be. It’s simply an album from modern rap’s most brilliant mind, and a damn good one at that.

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goalkeeper megan taylor has averaged the second-most saves and has allowed the third-fewest goals per game in the Big Ten. She’ll look toward the Washington Capitals goalkeeper for inspiration against Penn State.

Taylor leads Terps defense Reese’s defense expects to rely on the sophomore’s vocal leadership against Penn State’s potent attack Goalkeeper

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Sean Whooley Megan Taylor equaled a career-best 47 saves For us, it’s really focusing on @swhooley27 left the Mary- in a Game 2 defeat, for inspira- us playing together as a unit land women’s tion in the crease Thursday at defensively because you can’t Staff writer lacrosse team’s locker room before practice at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex on Monday wearing a Washington Capitals jersey signed by several players.

Taylor has displayed her support for the NHL team – and netminder Braden Holtby in particular – since the squad began its playoff run on April 13.

morris From p. 10 what happens in a college game.”

Morris appreciates the mind games Surran played in high school. The hostile environments and pressures he’s faced at Maryland don’t live up to his former coach’s training, so when road fans try to heckle Morris, he doesn’t get rattled.

His steady mindset has spread to other Terps.

Whenever defender Curtis Corley hears crowd re m a r k s d i re c te d a t t h e squad, he turns, smiles a n d te l l s M o r r i s, “ M a n , these guys just aren’t smart enough to chirp us.”

overcoming disappointment After three-time All-American goalkeeper Niko Amato graduated in 2014, Maryland searched for a new netminder.

Morris, who redshirted the season before, hoped to win that role. But he faced stiff competition from Bernlohr, then a junior.

T h o u g h Be r n l o h r p os sessed m ore exp e r i e nce, Morris thought he would take the competition. After all, he had been the No. 4 goalkeeper recruit in the nation, and he had never been a backup before joining Maryland.

But in a tight battle, Tillman said Bernlohr performed “just a little bit better,” earning him the starting nod.

At first, the news stung Morris. He had arrived at fall camp cocky and out of shape, and he felt his complacency cost him the job. Morris said the “to ug h - to - swa l l ow ”

No. 5 Penn State.

But entering the showdown with a Nittany Lions attack led by Madison Carter, one of the nation’s top scorers, No. 1 Maryland’s defense emphasized the need for a team effort. “ T h ey ’re p re t ty we l l balanced on offense,” coach Cathy Reese said. “They’ve got a couple of really strong

just focus in on one person.”

Reese cited Carter and attacker Steph Lazo as Penn State’s most dangerous offensive players. Carter ranks seventh in the nation with 52 goals, while Lazo’s 72 points is tied for eighth in the country.

Midfielder Katie O’Donnell has chipped in 42 scores.

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setback was the biggest frustration of his career.

But he kept an optimistic outlook and pushed Bernlohr in practice.

“He handled it well and continued to be a positive guy on our team,” Bernlohr said. “I honestly think he handled it better than the way I handled things in my first couple of years.”

Morris sat behind Bernlohr for two seasons as he won the Kelly Award for the nation’s best goalkeeper in 2015 and All-American honors in 2016. Morris compared the wait during those campaigns to a young NFL quarterback backing up a veteran.

“Since then I’ve tried to work as hard as I can,” Morris said. “I just tried to push, challenge and compete to make Kyle better and make myself better.”

Morris’ history with Carson-Banister also shaped his response to being named the Terps’ No. 2 goalkeeper.

The two were “inseparable” friends in high school, according to Surran, though Morris received most of the playing time.

Rather than hoping for Morris to commit missteps so he could take his job, Carson-Banister said “it was just about wanting each other to become the best players we could be.”

Given that connection, their bond has continued into college, as they FaceTime every Friday to catch up and relax before weekend games.

“Dan learned a lot from his buddy CB,” Surran said.

“When he was playing at

Jesuit, CB didn’t play as much as Dan did. But CB never complained. He just took the opportunity he had and did a great job with it.”

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and slow the Nittany Lions, the Terps (15-0, 4-0 Big Ten) will rely on strong communication, defender Nadine Hadnagy said.

That means they “won’t leave each other out to dry” against Penn State’s prolific attackers.

Taylor said she acts as her defenders’ eyes in some instances and lets her teammates know when to crash on the ball. The added pressure can force the players into difficult shots, allowing her to make straightforward saves.

“Penn State has seven great attackers so we’re going to have to talk a lot,” Hadnagy said. “We

trust each other enough that we can stop them one-on-one.”

But Carter’s abilities aren’t limited to the attacking zone – she’s also excelled at faceoffs.

Carter leads the Nittany Lions (14-1, 4-0 Big Ten) with more than six draw controls per game, an average that ranks No. 8 in the country.

Though the Terps have been successful in the circle this season, Reese wasn’t thrilled with their effort against Ohio State.

Despite winning the game, 18-9, the Terps were beaten by the Buckeyes on draws, 15-14.

So improving loose ball pickups would be crucial moving forward, Reese said.

“The numbers were kind of

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close, but it didn’t feel that way when we were in the moment,” Reese said. “It’s everybody being involved and once it hits off their sticks and goes down, we need to be all over it.”

Maryland’s matchup with Penn State will be just its second road game against a ranked opponent this season.

However, the Terps aren’t overthinking the magnitude of the game.

“I don’t think it changes much,” Taylor said. “Every team is going out there and playing their best lacrosse against us. We just need to go out and play our best Maryland lacrosse and have fun.” swhooleydbk@gmail.com

a dream come true When Morris visited Maryland as a recruit, an unexpected sign pushed him to commit.

Walking with his parents and former defensive assistant Kevin Warne by the Riggs Alumni Center to pick up homecoming football tickets, Morris noticed an alumni band playing music.

The drummer for the group wore a No. 8 Maryland jersey. Morris couldn’t believe it.

He’d played the drums for more than a decade and donned No. 8 since he was a youth soccer player. Warne, noticing the goalkeeper’s excitement, offered his own assessment.

“There you go, Danny,” Warne said. “That just means you’re coming here.”

“I was like, ‘This is awesome,’” Morris remembered. “This must be the place for me.’”

I t to o k t h re e yea rs fo r Morris to become a starter, but his faith in his future at Maryland never diminished.

Surrounded by a group of “really supportive” teammates, even the distance from home didn’t unsettle him.

Still, his increased playing time this season has provided a boost.

“He’s definitely gained a lot more confidence,” Muller said.

“It’s hard, as everyone knows, to sit back for a couple of years

goalkeeper dan morris took over for Kyle Bernlohr and saved a career-high 16 shots against Rutgers on Sunday. reid poluhovich/the diamondback and watch every other person play. You can definitely see as the weeks have gone on he’s grown.”

Morris made a career-high 16 saves in Maryland’s 13-12 triple-overtime win over Rutgers on Sunday, with seven of those coming after the start of the fourth quarter. He won US Lacrosse Magazine’s National Player of the Week and Big Ten Co-Specialist of the Week for his effort.

After becoming Maryland’s starting goalkeeper, an accomplishment he called “a dream come true,” Morris said he now wants to make his parents, supporters and home state proud.

But to the people who’ve witnessed his fortitude over the past few seasons, he’s

already done enough to meet that goal.

“It’s amazing to see what he’s accomplished,” said Patricia Morris, who choked up as she considered her son’s

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“[Morris is] very evenkeeled, and I think that goes back to his southern mindset.”

Isaiah Davis-Allen goalkeeper dan morris played in the 2013 Under Armour All-American game with attackmen Matt Rambo and Colin Heacock and defender Mac Pons before waiting for his chance to start as netminder. photo courtesy of patricia morris

morris From p. 12 continued to display in-game competitiveness. When Morris puts his chest protector and helmet on in the locker room before a matchup, midfielder Tim Rotanz said, he “goes into his own little world.”

“As a goalie, you’ve got to do that,” Rotanz added. “He doesn’t really talk to anyone, he just gets into his own zone.”

However, Christian CarsonBanister, Morris’ best friend and backup goalkeeper at Dallas Jesuit high school, remembers the time Morris let his inner determination show.

In their sophomore season, Carson-Banister, known as “CB” to close friends, said Morris became frustrated with his play and the defensive effort of his teammates. Entering a contest against an underdog opponent, Morris had allowed goals on the first shot of the previous three games.

So, when Morris let another opening effort pass him, he turned and slammed his stick

them and comfortable pants. He often dons band shirts for Weezer or Blink-182 with shoes that don’t match.

And he doesn’t mind that people think he looks ridiculous.

“His fashion sense is non-existent,” said Chris Surran, Morris’ high school coach and mentor.

“His basic matching of clothing is horrific. But he doesn’t care, which also makes it pretty funny.”

With his unusual attire and Texan mannerisms, Morris drew immediate attention from teammates when he arrived in College Park.

In his first few weeks on campus, defensive midfielder Isaiah Davis-Allen asked Morris what he meant when he kept using the colloquialism “hoofin’ it.” Morris explained the regional phrase referred to a person walking somewhere far away.

“Isaiah gave me so much crap for that,” Morris remembered.

But Morris returned the friendly banter to teammates. a southern vibe He said players from near Morris likes to wear bright- Philadelphia, such as attackman colored socks, ties with penguins Matt Rambo, pronounce water as or little green Yoda characters on “wooter.” And when he gets New against the goal’s frame, snapping it in half. With the ensuing faceoff about to take place, he held the shattered pole together and called out to his friend on the sidelines.

“I was like, ‘CB! I need a stick!’” Morris said. “He started scrambling.”

After Dallas Jesuit won the draw, Morris sprinted off the field and grabbed CarsonBanister’s backup equipment before returning to his post.

During the next timeout, Carson-Banister moved “like a NASCAR pit crew” to screw the undamaged head of Morris’ stick onto the backup pole.

“It was crazy,” Morris said.

“I try to be even-keeled, but that was a little [exception].”

“He’s a very laid-back guy,” Carson-Banister explained, “but when he’s on the field, he becomes a highly competitive person.”

Yorkers Rotanz and defender Tim Muller talking fast, their Long Island accents emerge.

“It’s just fun to pick up on that kind of stuff,” Morris said.

“You give them crap for a couple of minutes, and then they’ll just give it back to you.”

Morris admitted he uses “y’all” less than he did as a freshman after spending so much time in Maryland. But for the most part, he’s held onto the characteristics he brought with him from Dallas.

Through almost four years playing with Morris, the Terps still sometimes poke fun at his unique traits. But they’ve also come to appreciate his unchanged persona.

“Dan brings that southern vibe,” Davis-Allen said. “One thing he does a great job of is he never gets too high and he never gets too low. He’s very evenkeeled, and I think that goes back to his southern mindset.”

a big inspiration As a budding goalkeeper in Dallas, Morris worked under Surran, whose strenuous training

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through middle and high school prepared Morris for college.

Surran, a former All-American goalkeeper at Syracuse and 1993 national title winner, first arrived in Texas as an attorney.

Ultimately, though, he became the goalkeeping guru who helped establish Dallas lacrosse.

About 10 years ago, Surran began organizing annual winter youth lacrosse camps that brought 30 to 40 NCAA coaches to his state. In addition to highlevel instruction for athletes such as Morris, the camps gave Dallas players exposure to college programs that had previously overlooked the area.

Surran introduced Morris to Maryland coach John Tillman, and he pushed Carson-Banister to play at Boston University. The three goalkeepers in Surran’s current Dallas Jesuit class are headed to North Carolina, UMBC and Hofstra. “[Surran] has been a big inspiration to me,” Morris said.

“He’s a tremendous goalie coach and a tremendous coach in general. He just knows how to get kids going.”

When Morris was in eighth grade, Surran anticipated he would develop into a Division I talent. He considered Morris’ hand speed to be near the level of Mickey Jarboe, the legendary two-time All-American former Navy goalkeeper.

“So I knew he could be pretty damn good,” Surran said.

In high school practice, Surran aimed to frustrate Morris and test his patience in preparation for NCAA lacrosse. Each time someone took a shot, Surran lashed out at Morris’ positioning, regardless of whether the ball went in.

At the first workout session of junior year, with Morris and Carson-Banister slightly out of shape, Surran demanded they run laps until he said stop.

Morris refused to crack against tactics he called “brutal.” “[Morris] was fairly unflappable no matter what I said,” Surran recalled.“That was the goal, to try and get under their skin a little bit.

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ellazar From p. 12 was always at the park with her father, Marcos Ellazar, and her brother. When Skylynne Ellazar was 10, she was a cheerleader for her brother’s football team, too.

“What would you rather have?” her dad asked one day.

“People cheering for you or [you] cheering for people?”

Soon after, when Marcos Ellazar dropped her off at cheerleading practice, he received a call from her coach telling him to come back. His daughter wanted to go home.

From then on, softball was all she focused on.

“Because of her brother and his work ethic,” her dad said, “that kind of got into her, too.”

‘before my eyes’ When Ellazar was 14, her dad left her with her mother while moving his father into a care home. Not long before, he and Ellazar’s mother had divorced, and she “took it really hard.”

On the second day of his trip, his friend, who rented a room from his house, called.

“Hey,” the friend said, “your daughter just crashed your truck.”

Ellazar had found her dad’s keys and went for a joyride with her friend. It ended with the truck totaled after rear-ending a car.

Marcos Ellazar, furious, planned to fly back the same day, though he was relieved his daughter wasn’t hurt.

The truck was two years old and uninsured — it was canceled after the divorce. Skylynne Ellazar wanted to quit softball and get a job to pay her father back, but he refused.

Ellazar matured after the crash, her father said. They grew closer while he worked about 16 hours a day to make up the money.

They knew if she stayed focused, Ellazar would have a chance to play in college.

“Life flashed before my eyes a little bit,” Ellazar said. “It changed pretty much my whole outlook

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on what I needed to be doing and what was important.”

“Her work ethic,” her dad added, “was unreal.”

california dreamin’ That drive propelled Ellazar’s rising success on the field.

She was a natural right-handed hitter but switched to left as a high school freshman. That caught the attention of the California Cruisers, an Orange County-based squad, who had a connection to a former Hawaiian player and were looking for a lefty slap hitter.

So, she flew to California for a weekend tournament during the fall of her freshman year and made the team. She played each summer until she graduated.

She stayed with Cruisers assistant coach Dill Jaquish’s family and became best friends with her teammate, Sahvanna Jaquish, who now plays at LSU. Maryland pitcher Hannah Dewey and Ellazar played together on the Cruisers for about three weeks as Dewey was staying in shape before joining the Terps.

She witnessed the Ellazar-Jaquish friendship firsthand.

“It was like you guys were sisters,” Dewey said, sitting next to Ellazar. “It was the tough love, just because that’s how both of them are. They’re both super stubborn, very outspoken, but in the best sort of way.”

When Dewey first met Ellazar, she was shocked by her commute.

“You fly in a girl from Hawaii to play on your travel team in the summer?” Dewey asked. “That’s unheard of.”

But playing only in the summers put Ellazar at a disadvantage. In California, travel seasons are year-round. Division I scouts didn’t go to Hawaii to see Ellazar play for Baldwin High School.

“My biggest setback was being from Hawaii,” Ellazar said. “A lot of people use it as an excuse because we do not get exposed as much as the other kids.”

The summer before her high

infielder skylynne ellazar was close to signing with UCLA before a Terps assistant coach flew to California and was impressed with her play. reid poluhovich/the diamondback school senior year, Ellazar didn’t know whether to return to California. It was expensive, and while she garnered college attention, the offers didn’t entail much scholarship.

The Jaquish family, however, promised to lend financial support for her final travel season.

“They took care of Skylynne like their own,” her dad said. “I’m a single dad, and [Jaquish] said ‘Send her up here, don’t worry.’”

‘what? no way. maryland?’

While playing in California, Ellazar focused on the PAC-12.

She almost signed for UCLA after practicing with the team for half a week, but her father told her to wait. The Bruins wanted Ellazar as a walk-on.

The next week, former Maryland assistant coach Amber Jackson came to a Cruisers practice. She watched Dewey and was also interested in the team’s catcher.

But after watching Ellazar workout, Jackson went to Ellazar’s coach and said, “I want her.”

“What?” Ellazar remembered saying. “No way. Maryland?”

Ellazar knew Dewey had signed for the Terps and remembered Shannon Bustillos,

a former Cruiser and Maryland player, visited over the summer, but the school didn’t cross her mind until Jackson pushed her initial interest.

Jackson followed the team to Reno, Nevada, to watch the Cruisers play a tournament in 2013. In the first game of the series, Ellazar peered into the stands and saw the coach. Jaquish hit behind her and noticed Ellazar’s glance.

“Just do you,” Jaquish said.

In Ellazar’s first at-bat, she hit a home run. In her second, she had a double. She was “seeing the ball like a watermelon.”

Jackson called Ellazar that night to promise an offer by Friday.

“Maryland wasn’t fooling around,” her dad said. “By Friday, they had an offer.”

The two agreed it was a good

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Bowen highlighted Prince and Gray as two of the most impressive and polished players he

option, and Ellazar wanted to attend a school in a big conference. Plus, her dad likes to travel and was eager to visit the East Coast.

“You know what Sky?” Ellazar asked his daughter. “I don’t even know where the University of Maryland is. Did you look it up? … Because you’re going, not me.”

tries to instill a work ethic in upcoming prospects. She works with youth teams for free, just like the help she received from her mentors.

“A lot of kids are afraid to leave,” Ellazar said. “They get homesick; the culture is different.”

But Ellazar is an example for possible achievement.

In a year, she plans to graduate from Maryland with a criminology and criminal justice degree, ‘a big thing’ one of her main goals when she Three years into her career in embarked on her rigorous journey College Park, Ellazar has become through the sport. a cornerstone in coach Julie “That’s a big thing in Hawaii,” Wright’s rebuild. As a sopho- her dad said. “A local girl goes out more, she held the third-high- there and goes to school four years est batting average in Maryland and graduates. history (.399). This year, she’s “Everything happened for started all 40 games and had the a reason, [but] it happened in third-most RBIs. strange ways.”

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inherited when taking over for former offensive line coach Dave Borbely, who moved into an offfield position with the program.

The players appreciate Bowen’s incremental approach, focusing on perfecting one aspect of a scheme before adding another element. They feel that’ll help

them continue to progress into Maryland offensive line anchors.

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goalkeeper dan morris leads the Big Ten in saves per game and is the US Lacrosse National Player of the Week. He was inspired to play goalkeeper at youth lacrosse camp before gaining recognition in high school. photo courtesy of maryland athletics

southern stopper Dan Morris transforms from eager Dallas kid to Terps’ starting goalie

By Dan Bernstein | @danbernsteinUMD | Senior staff writer

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aryland men’s lacrosse goalkeeper Dan Morris, then a fifth-grader in Dallas, agreed to participate in a one-week lacrosse camp if the counselors let him play goalkeeper.

He just liked how the stick looked.

In his first-ever drill, he stood in front of a net while a high school player fired tennis balls at him. Rather than becoming upset as the powerful shots struck his legs, he left the session excited to show friends his bruises.

That afternoon, counselors asked Morris to play goalkeeper during a scrimmage, telling him to just stop the ball.

Though Morris “had no idea what was going on” as older players launched efforts toward his goal, he enjoyed his role in the hectic game. So, when the day ended, he told his mom he wanted to join a team.

“He got in goal the first game and that was just kind of his thing,” his mother, Patricia Morris, said. “He absolutely loved it.”

Dan Morris’ camp experience started an unlikely journey from northern Texas to a crucial spot on the No. 2 Maryland men’s lacrosse team. After not starting his first three years in College Park, the redshirt junior ranks first in the Big Ten with 11.09 saves per game this season.

But while his playing time has increased, his calm demeanor, on-field competitiveness

and eccentric style haven’t wavered.

“He didn’t try to become someone that he wasn’t,” said Kyle Bernlohr, the former All-American Maryland goalkeeper who started ahead of Morris for two seasons.

“Dan has always been exactly who he is and he never tries to change for anyone else. That’s why he gets respect.”

‘his own little world’ In fourth grade, Morris wanted to be the king.

So, in a four square game, he defended his area from the threat of a bouncing rubber ball, waiting patiently to reach the highest ranking. At last, he moved into the king

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square, thinking, “I’m not giving this up.”

That desire led to the worst injury he’s suffered. When someone spiked the ball into his space, he turned to make a dramatic save. Instead, he broke a growth plate in his ankle.

The next day, Morris went to school unaware of the hairline fracture. He played soccer in gym, ignoring the note his mom gave him to sit out. When he cleared the ball, pain shot through his ankle.

“I just thought I’d rolled it,” Morris said.

“I got the ball … and I remember I hit it and I was like, ‘Oh my God, that hurt so bad.’”

Since the four square battle, Morris has See morris p. 10

softball

Prince, Gray bolster offensive line spots Redshirt juniors bond over shared journeys Sometimes when sitting at their neighboring lockers, Maryland football offensive linemen Damian Prince and Derwin Gray reflect on their shared journeys.

As four-star prospects from nearby high schools, the two have known each other since 10th grade, experiencing the same ups — starting games last season — and downs — the rigors of adjusting to college during initial redshirt seasons — since arriving in College Park in 2014.

Their recent conversations, though, have centered on their roles as emerging leaders of a young offensive line playing under its third positional coach in three seasons. The duo started at tackle in Maryland’s spring practices leading up to Saturday’s annual spring game.

“We just try to grow with each other because if you’re not growing in really anything that you’re doing, you’re dead,” Prince said. “We just try to take that in stride and just try to get better each and every practice, every time we come out.”

In their first few years, Prince and Gray were timid in meetings and workouts.

Prince didn’t want to ask a “stupid” question. He anticipated his teammates, though not malicious, would laugh at the simplicity of his queries, so he was reclusive.

Gray, meanwhile, missed his first two spring practice slates with shoulder injuries.

However, their on-field production increased as redshirt sophomores in 2016. Prince started all 13 games at right tackle, while Gray appeared in every contest, opening three at left tackle. by

Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Senior staff writer

They helped block for the Big Ten’s fourth-best rushing attack — the Terps averaged 199.5 yards a contest — but endured difficulties in pass protection. While offensive coordinator Walt Bell declined to blame just the line last season, citing quarterback timing and running back lapses, too, Prince and Gray are determined to help the offense avoid another conference-worst 49 sacks.

“If the defensive line doesn’t get there, there would be no sacks,” Prince said. “We have to take that personally. We have to put that chip on our shoulder and kind of go about it during the season with that chip on our shoulder, and not just forget, because I’m confident we’re going to have a good, productive season.”

That starts, Prince and Gray said, with the energy of new offensive line coach Tyler Bowen. Coach DJ Durkin hired the former Maryland offensive lineman during the offseason, and he’s taken a modern approach to building the unit.

Bowen uses videos and text messages to remind players throughout the day about techniques and drills they’ve discussed.

Last week, Bowen sent Prince, Gray and the reserve tackles a video of a perfect technique set they did in practice. He also scours the internet for videos of NFL linemen to supplement his message and cues.

“These guys are all visual learners,” Bowen said. “Any way we can find a way to do that, as many tools we can use to keep it light, to keep it new, to keep it fresh, See football , p. 11

infielder skylynne ellazar holds the program’s third-best batting average years after she was told she wouldn’t play Division I. reid poluhovich/the diamondback

sky high Skylynne Ellazar leaves her Hawaiian home to become a Division I starter

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By Andy Kostka | @afkostka | Staff writer

aryland softball infielder Skylynne Ellazar attended a recruiting camp as a high school sophomore, hosted by her team’s rival, Maui High School.

When she arrived, there were only Division II colleges, and she told the coach she wanted to play Division I softball.

“Well, Hawaii girls don’t go to D-I,” he responded. “It’s because we don’t get recruited to go.”

So, she left.

Ellazar had traveled to California in previous summers to play on elite-level travel teams because her native Hawaii didn’t offer the same exposure. Since middle school, she had her heart set on playing for a major school in a top conference.

“I’m not going to California every summer and spending all those hours and games to just be like, ‘Well, I just want to go to D-II,’” Ellazar thought as she left the prospect’s showcase.

That determination paid off when she earned a scholarship from Maryland. She’s started 89

games in the past two seasons as the first member of her family to attend a four-year university.

‘park rats’ It was a typical summer day in Hawaii: Ellazar’s friends were at the beach, but she was at the park. Her brother, Tevan Devera, dragged her out of bed and they jogged, gear and all, to a field about two miles away.

After hitting in the cages, fielding groundballs and working out, Ellazar ran home. If there were weekend tournaments going on, the pair often stayed to watch.

“We were park rats,” she said.

That’s when Ellazar was in eighth grade and Devera was a senior. Under his supervision, she adopted a work ethic and love for baseball, and later, for softball.

She started playing tee ball around age four and See ellazar, p. 11