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Building fire sends 17 to hospital Police say a chemistry experiment went wrong Seventeen people were taken to the hospital after a fire in the University of Maryland’s Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building on Wednesday morning, according to the Prince George’s County Fire Department.

Michael Yourishin, a department spokesperson, said they were sent as a precaution and their conditions were not life-threatening. Four students, eight county fire department officials, two University Police officers, a university employee, one assistant fire marshal and a contractor were transported to the hospital, he said.

The department did not know how the fire started, he added.

University of Maryland Police wrote in a campus alert that “a chemical reaction caught on fire” during a lab experiment. The building was evacuated and closed while first responders investigated the scene, another alert read.

There wasn’t any “imminent danger to life or health within the area,” Yourishin said, and the building was cleared of smoke.

In a campus alert sent just after 4 p.m.

Wednesday, University Police wrote the building was open, but certain rooms — 2113 through 2235 — would remain closed “until the clean up is done.”

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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND plant sciences professor Christopher Walsh stands in an orchard of Antietam Blush apple trees in Keedysville, Maryland. JULIA NIKHINSON/THE DIAMONDBACK

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SGA rejects adding diversity vice president The amendment was shot down at the last meeting of the legislative session The University of Maryland’s SGA rejected an amendment that would have added a diversity and inclusion vice president to its executive board, following an emotionally-charged debate early Thursday morning.

The amendment failed in a vote of 11-14 — taken at about 1 a.m. at the last meeting of the body’s legislative session — after about an hour-long discussion about the current state of diversity and cultural group representation on the campus. by

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By Jeff Barnes | @thejeff barnes | Senior staff writer

On an early spring day a few miles away from the Antietam National Battlefield, a group of busy honeybees land on the blossoms of a small apple tree.

That tree, a 20-year-old Antietam Blush, is the byproduct of nearly three decades of work by the University of Maryland — and of course, those buzzing insects.

Christopher Walsh, a professor in the plant science and landscape architecture department at this university, set out to breed an apple tree that would thrive in the mid-Atlantic climate in 1991. He planted just over 100 trees — then relied on the bees to do the rest.

“I didn’t go out and hand pollinate, I let Mother Nature do it,” Walsh said.

Twenty-eight years and a patent later, Walsh’s goal bore fruit: the apple he co-invented with a student from this university now grows in about ten different orchards.

But it all started at the Western Maryland Research and Education Center.

That’s where Walsh planted about 100 Gala trees around two McIntosh Wijick trees to start the breeding process.

On top of being able to withstand the hot and rainy mid-Atlantic summers, he wanted the trees to be disease-resistant and have a late October harvest, which Walsh said would encourage more people to flock to pick-yourown orchards.

Then, Walsh said he used seedlings from those parent trees and combined them with heat tolerant commercial varieties like Fuji, Cripps Pink and York.

In 2007, he enlisted the help of Julia Harshman, who had recently transferred to this university from Rutgers University. She was a sophomore at the time, and Walsh’s advisee, when she said he approached her and asked if she wanted to be part of a research project.

“I said sure, not really knowing what I was getting myself into,” said Harshman, who still works as a plant breeder today.

The project had a bit of a rocky start, according to Harshman.

“So we get up to the orchard for the very first day, he’s showing me everything — I won’t say chaos, but something close to that,” she recalled. “Nothing had been labeled, we didn’t have counts on anything, almost no data had been collected.”

Walsh said the agricultural team started with about 2,000 seeds, but ended up having to remove many of the newly planted trees due to issues with disease and fruit quality.

After a few years, one tree stood apart from the rest for its size, health and the taste of the apples it produced: Tree #101.

“101 was unique, in my experience, in that it stood out from very early on, that that was going to be the winner,” Harshman said.

Harshman named the new breed the Antietam Blush, both for the color of the fruit it bore and the orchard’s proximity to the historic Civil War battlefield, which saw the bloodiest day in U.S. history, with more than 22,000 casualties.

“It’s a Maryland name, but also to honor the many, many, many Americans who died there,” Walsh said.

Because the tree does not grow very tall, Walsh said, its limbs droop as the fruit grows larger, making the apples easier to pick without a ladder. Because more sunlight can reach the apple, the result is a better-tasting fruit, he said.

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UMD, Bowie State students remember Richard Collins, discuss racism hasn’t forgotten that it really could have been any student of color who was killed that night — including him.

Collins went anyway.

“We are Lt. Collins,” he said.

Later that night, he was stabbed to death while waiting “We really are — we are young, for an Uber on the University of our lives are ahead of us, and it Maryland’s campus. Sean Ur- was just a matter of anyone in banski, a former student at this the group chat being in town.”

For much of the evening on university, is awaiting trial on hate crime and murder charges Friday, students, faculty and officials from both universiin the killing.

Two years later, Amadu stared ties joined together to celebrate out into a crowd of at least 100 Collins’ life, discuss race relapeople who came together in tions on their campuses and a gathering of the Bowie State share ideas for eradicating the and Maryland communities. He See collins, p. 8

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By Jeff Barnes | @thejeffbarnes | Senior staff writer Un iversity of Ma ryland Police responded to reports of a DW I/DUI, CDS violation, theft and a stolen scooter in the past nine days, according to police logs.

DWI/DUI On April 27 at about 1 a.m., University Police saw a stationary vehicle near the intersection of Route 1 a nd Ca mpus Drive, which had a green traffic light.

When approaching the vehicle, the officer saw that the male driver of the vehicle had an open alcoholic beverage and that he and the passenger appeared to be asleep, wrote police spokesperson Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas in an email.

After police knocked on the window several times, the driver woke up and rolled down the window, Hoaas wrote.

The officer smelled alcohol and marijuana coming from inside the vehicle. A search of the vehicle found drug parapherna l ia a nd a la rge bag of marijuana, Hoaas wrote.

Police charged Samuel I r v i n g Av e n t s , 37, o f M o u n t R a i n i e r, w i t h driving under the influence and driving while impaired, and issued him traffic citations. T hey a lso issued a cri m i na l citation for possessing more than 10 grams of marijuana.

This case is closed.

CDS VIOL ATION On April 27, at about 4:15 p.m., a vehicle approached a Un iversity Police officer working a traffic post on Regents Drive near Memorial Chapel.

As the officer was speaking to the driver, they smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle, Hoaas wrote. After the officer asked the driver to exit the vehicle, police found more than 10 grams of marijuana inside, as well as a small amount of marijuana on the driver, Hoaas wrote.

Police arrested Charrell Montifah Green, 22, of District Heights, and issued her with a citation for possessing more than 10 grams of marijuana.

This case is closed.

THEFT On April 29 at about 10 a.m., University Police responded to a report of theft at South Campus Commons 2.

An exit sign was stolen a nd a not her e x it si g n w a s d a m a ge d , H o a a s wrote.

Police are reviewing surveillance video of the area. This case is active.

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STOLEN MOTOR VEHICLE Also on April 29, at about 6:30 p.m., University Police responded to Regents Drive Garage for a report of a stolen scooter.

A female student reported to police that her scooter was stolen from t h e ga ra ge s o m e t i m e between 3 and 6:30 p.m., Hoaas wrote.

University Police located the scooter within the garage, but it would no longer start, Hoaas wrote.

A review of surveillance video of the area has been completed. This case is active.

UMPD charges minors in scooter theft Three minors were charged in juvenile court after attempting to steal two scooters from a campus parking lot University of Maryland Police apprehended three minors Jeff Barnes @thejeffbarnes S u n d ay i n t h e t h e f t Senior staff writer o f t w o s c o o t e r s o n campus.

The suspects — who are 12, 13 and 14 years old — were charged in juvenile court with theft and disorderly conduct, among other charges, said police spokesperson Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas.

At about 4:15 p.m. Sunday, two witnesses reported to police that by

they saw two minors walk a scooter away from Lot R3, next to Maryland S ta d i u m . T h e s u s p e c ts t h e n a t tempted to steal a second scooter, Hoaas said.

When approached by one of the witnesses, the two individuals ran away and met up with a third minor near the garage.

Hoaas said the department’s Security Operations Center was able to use the witnesses’ descriptions and security cameras to find the minors.

Two of the suspects were appre-

hended at about 4:35 p.m. and the third at about 5:15 p.m., when he returned to the abandoned scooter in Stadium Drive Garage, Hoaas said.

Police recovered the two scooters, which both belong to university students, she said.

Hoaas said there does not seem to be any correlation with any other thefts on campus.

“As far as we know, it’s just a onetime incident,” she said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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“we’ve broken new ground” Madlen Simon (right), a professor in the University of Maryland’s architecture school, instructs a student on April 15. Simon was the second woman ever to be promoted to a full professor role in the program’s history. richard moglen/the diamondback

Two women’s promotions are a step forward for UMD’s architecture program

By Carmen Molina Acosta | @carmenmolina_a | S taff writer From the day the University of Maryland’s architecture school opened its doors in 1967 until it celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2017, no female faculty member was ever promoted to full professor within the architecture program.

But in 2018, Ronit Eisenbach became the first. And last month, Madlen Simon became the second. “ We ’ v e b r o k e n n e w ground,” Eisenbach said.

Though some of the college’s other programs had promoted women to full professor positions before Eisenbach, the architecture program — its largest a n d l o n ge s t - r u n n i n g — re m a i n e d ove rwh e l m ingly male. Eisenbach and Simon’s promotions from associate to full professors show the school is trying to turn over a new leaf, Eisenbach said.

“I hope that the school will continue to find ways to diversify our faculty as we move forward,” Eisenbach said. “We have some really complex issues to address that our disciplines can work on, and I think having different voices with different points of views, different disciplines and different life experiences at the table can enrich those conversations.”

The architecture program’s website lists eight faculty members with the title of “professor,” six of whom are men.

As of fall 2018, there were 157 male architecture students — making up about 53

percent of the major, while female students represented about 47 percent, according to the Institutional Research, Planning & Assessment office. For the six years prior, though, female students outnumbered males.

Still, Simon said she had to overcome bias both in the field of architecture and the world of academia, and she hopes her promotion shows female students what they can accomplish.

“I think that seeing more women in stations of authority in the school reinforces the message that architecture is for all of us,” Simon said.

Daniela Pardo, a senior a rc h i te c t u re m a j o r a n d Women in Architecture club president, said she hasn’t felt a lack of opportunity as a woman in the school.

Many of her peers and her teachers have been women, she said, and her club holds discussions, networking and workshop events to promote women’s empowerment in the field.

So Pardo was taken aback when she first heard that E i se n ba c h wa s t h e f i rs t woman promoted to full professor.

“I think it’s a good start,” Pardo said. “It’s kind of sad and surprising that it took so long.”

While Pardo doesn’t necessarily feel a stigma within the school, she’s prepared to face inequity in the professional world. Beyond representation, she’s worked toward fostering discussions

on the topic among her peers as the club’s president.

“I think a lot of it we’re working on, and I think that’s where Women in Architecture come in play,” Pardo said. “We’re a very tight-knit community. Being part of the group is already ronit eisenbach (right), was the first woman promoted to full professor in the architecture program. making change.”

Brian Kelly, the architecture program director, said he’s glad to see more women and minorities taking leadership roles.

“Fifty years ago, it was not uncommon for architecture schools to principally enroll males. Today it is common to have enrollments approaching and sometimes exceeding 50-50,” Kelly wrote in an email. “The glass ceilings are not entirely gone, but we are living in an age of true progress on this front.”

Eisenbach remembers the impact that watching other female architects advocate for themselves early in her career had on her. Her promotion felt like an accomplishment for the entire community, she said.

While she felt honored by the achievement, Eisenbach also said it came as a relief. In the year since her promotion, she said, she’s been able to focus more on the work she loves.

“I think a lot about the women who came before me, and the men that supported me, and the women who inspired me along the way,” Eisenbach said. “I hope that I can do the same.”

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SGA elections are in need of change HADRON CHAUDHARY @OpinionDBK Opinion editor

In a recent election, the parties running for the University of Maryland’s SGA chose not to build toward any meaningful ideals of student expression. Instead, they adopted a general air of unaccountability and hand-waving.

While some amount of electoral tomfoolery is expected every year, you’d expect the rules to curtail said tomfoolery to get clearer and more established with time. Not just as a mark of institutional history getting passed down, but to also show growing influence and adherence to some system of values you’d hope your representatives have. And even if that’s too optimistic, passivity is both the worst response the Student Government Association could provide and the thing that delegitimizes the body the most.

Even if this university won’t give it meaningful power, the SGA could stand for a lot if it organized itself around democracy and fairness. It could be a vehicle for student activism, grassroots change and political engagement for a broader community, rather than the tight orbit of students who stay in the SGA’s circles — a group that’s been called out for its homogeneity multiple times.

Student groups on the campus are capable of powerful change at this

university, and a reasonable SGA could be organizing and amplifying those voices and interests through a centralized governance system.

But even in this mess of a campaign alone, the SGA has shown a lack of accountability and organization bordering on incompetency. It postponed elections without indicating why; it reneged on its decision to disqualify the YOU Ticket for violating multiple campaigning rules because the initial decision was “too harsh”; it didn’t realize that one of the people voting to reinstate the YOU Ticket was affiliated with it — though the SGA’s official election rules never define what an affiliate is, and she was apparently unaware she was part of the party — and ultimately did nothing about it; and then, it stood idle after MaryPIRG leaked student phone numbers to two parties in the election.

If the SGA isn’t willing to stand for their constituency, then it has no weight. If it doesn’t want to “do harm to the democratic system” of this university’s student body, as was a reason for not disciplining the YOU Ticket for its rule violations, their democratically devised rules need consequences.

A body claiming to represent the best interests of students wouldn’t accept a blatantly unsolicited violation of their privacy because the “rules are kind of vague.” This disorganized approach to discipline

is entirely the SGA’s fault, and it’s a pretty disrespectful to the students who had their data exposed.

Instead of taking accountability and initiating actionable future safeguards against this situation, the chairwoman of the elections c o m m i s s i o n l u k e wa r m l y suggested,“maybe the people who are editing and revising the rules for next year may want to take it into consideration.”

There’s no use for a student government that can’t govern itself. Political organization is about proper organization as much as posturing, and the latter without the former has rendered the SGA inconsequential. That’s why the SGA isn’t really considered a resource for political organizing on this campus, nor does it have much of an identity at all beyond that posturing.

Instead of being a fake government based around good ideals, the SGA is a fake government embracing all the murky squirrelishness of this university’s administration.

Students at this university don’t need more of that, and I’m sure the SGA realizes it’s failed to enforce its own meager authority. It’s not doing good by its self-defined rules or principles — and all that leaves us with is a couple weeks’ electoral drama gone by, the same as every other year. chauds@umd.edu

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Dems can learn from Gravel’s platform ZACHARY JABLOW @OpinionDBK Opinion editor

If you’re generally aware of current events, you probably know that big names such as former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Kamala Harris are running for president. If you closely follow politics, you might even know more obscure candidates such as former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro or the University of Maryland’s own Rep. Eric Swalwell.

But chances are you’ve never heard of former Sen. Mike Gravel, who is, in fact, in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

As a senator from Alaska during the Vietnam War, Gravel became famous by reading the Pentagon Papers on the floor of the Senate, putting them into the Congressional Record. This was an incredibly significant act — the Pentagon Papers chronicled widespread wrongdoing in Vietnam by the U.S. government, which was shielding the reports from the public. Because of this, Gravel’s role in the anti-war movement can’t be diminished.

Since then, he has run for president twice: in 2008, and now, 2020. His campaigns have been unusual, to say the least.

At 88, Gravel is 11 years older than the next oldest candidate, Sanders, who would already be the oldest president ever elected.

And his age is just the tip of the iceberg. He was recruited to run by 17-year-old David Oks, who’s now his campaign manager, and Henry Williams, a college freshman. The pair help to run his fiery Twitter account, which he evidently exercises no supervision over and has almost no knowledge of. In

one interview, after being read one of the tweets on his account, he responded, “Well, I think I better call them on that.”

What’s more, Gravel had openly stated that he has no intention of becoming president. But on April 29, via a tweet accompanied by a crudely edited GIF, his campaign announced that Gravel is indeed running to win — not just get to the debate and shake things up, as previously planned.

Perhaps nothing better sums up the bizarreness of Gravel’s presidential campaigns than his now-famous 2008 campaign ad, titled “Rock.” For a full minute, he stares straight into the camera before he walks away, picks up a rock and hurls it into a pond, while the camera keeps rolling for another minute as he walks out of frame. And that’s it. To put it briefly, it’s nuts.

But maybe what’s craziest about Gravel is beneath the spectacle, a lot of what he says is actually right. Weirder yet, he has put forward a clearer and bolder anti-war platform than any of the major candidates.

Gravel has rightly called out U.S. foreign policy for often failing to uphold standards of international justice, specifically American involvement in countries such as Nicaragua and Iraq. He has also decried the backlash to his criticisms of the “military establishment” while making the case against a militaristic culture and the military-industrial complex.

He is advocating for reduction of the military budget by half, eliminating aid to Saudi Arabia, closing Guantanamo Bay and ending the practice of drone strikes, to name a few. His platform also promises not to invade any foreign countries without a first strike by said country, and it includes support

for whistleblowers such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, who have exposed governmental overreach and wrongdoing.

With virtually no chance of winning the nomination anyway, Gravel is under no pressure to adopt a less disruptive approach to foreign policy. Even Sanders, whose 2016 campaign was highly influential in pushing the Democratic Party left, went so far as to leave foreign policy off his website entirely for the initial five months of his campaign. To be fair, Sanders has embraced a more active role in the foreign policy debate in the current race, but Gravel is more direct in both his critiques of current U.S. foreign policy and his proposals to improve it.

This is by no means an endorsement of Gravel. Despite some genuinely good ideas, his strange public persona isn’t entirely misleading: He has some downright terrible ideas and has exercised poor judgment, bordering on malice, in the past. He believes that 9/11 was an inside job and has been associated with anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists.

But that’s exactly the point. It shouldn’t take an 88-year-old rock-throwing 9/11-truther to buck the status quo on foreign policy and put forth a decidedly anti-war platform. In Gravel’s words, “Our leadership is certifiably insane, and we’re all trapped in this situation.”

This is a lofty accusation for a politician whose campaign manager may have to take time off school to run his presidential campaign. Yet until our politics change to reflect a clear commitment to peace and democracy abroad, it’s hard not to see where he’s coming from. zachjablow@gmail.com

UMD must fix its facilities JOHN-PAUL TETI @uhactually Columnist

There are some questions that everyone must confront at some point in their lives: Why am I here? Is there a God? What am I having for lunch today?

For students at the University of Maryland, however, one question towers over the rest: Why is this university infested with dysfunctional automatic sinks?

More than once this semester, I have had to use the men’s bathroom on the bottom floor of Francis Scott Key Hall (though I’ve encountered this issue in almost every building on this campus). When it comes time to wash my hands, I have to play the world’s dumbest game of chance. The game works like this: You rub your hands together in front of the little dark red spot that marks the infrared sensor.

If you’re lucky, water comes out of the faucet for about 2 seconds.

David McBride, director of the University Health Center, regularly sends campuswide emails urging students to avoid disease by, among other things, thoroughly washing their hands. It would be a lot easier to follow this excellent advice if every sink on this campus reliably dispensed water. Instead, finding an automatic sink that keeps the water going until you move your hands away is like finding water in the desert. When I find one, I say a prayer of thankfulness to God — he has seen fit to bless me, unworthy as I am of his great mercy.

This university’s facilities problems go well beyond sinks. The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center — one of the nicer buildings on this campus — does not seem to have a working climate control system. Even in the winter, the choir rehearsal room regularly feels like a sauna, which makes rehearsals uncomfortable in late fall and winter and downright unpleasant in early fall and spring.

A different rehearsal room, however, almost always feels like a walk-in freezer. This seems like a solvable problem — yet it has not been solved in the four years I’ve been in choirs here.

At least The Clarice has air conditioning, even if it doesn’t work correctly. Eight dorms — eight! — do not. There are plans to demolish some of them, but they’re on hold. Meanwhile, at the beginning of the fall semester, students were sleeping in air-conditioned common

areas because it was, to quote one student, “hot as shit” in the dorm rooms without air conditioning.

Even the newest buildings seem to have been designed without regard for the simplest of student needs. The brand-new Iribe Center has a ton of bizarre glass flaps covered in dots waving off the side of the building. You know what it doesn’t have? Power outlets.

There are, without exaggeration, none in the central common areas as far as I can tell.

It’s a truly mystifying decision for a building that the university promotes as “a hub for … collaboration”. How does one design a building for computer science without making power outlets widely accessible? Don’t get me wrong, I’m very glad the computer science department has a new building. We desperately needed the space. But is it asking too much to ask for a building that was not designed by aliens? Let’s not even get into the fact that somehow, more than 20 years after the invention of Wi-Fi, this university’s wireless network is still unreliable.

This is not a criticism of maintenance staff.

As my colleague, Kevin Hu, wrote earlier this week, this university’s janitorial staff has a difficult job to begin with, and many of us only make their lives harder. The same is true of facilities and maintenance workers. Yet, this university’s administration repays their hard work by getting them sick, shaming them for speaking their native languages and allegedly giving them the worst, most dangerous jobs because of their race.

The university’s facilities are maintained rather well. It is not as if the custodians are choosing the sinks to install or designing the air conditioning system in The Clarice, let alone determining how many outlets should go in the Iribe Center. Administrative figures — bureaucrats with no sense of, or regard for, student and faculty needs — make these decisions. We can do better. As a search committee begins to look for university President Wallace Loh’s replacement, I suggest it asks a basic question about every candidate: Will this candidate fix this university’s basic facilities, or will they instead just give us more Iribe Centers? jp@jpteti.com

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DOTS’ latest initiative isn’t enough RAY NEWBY @OpinionDBK Columnist

Earlier this week, my colleague Liyanga de Silva wrote about the benefits of DOTS’ new “Will You Stand Up For Me?” campaign, which aims to bring attention to those dealing with invisible disabilities on public transportation. I agree with many of her points, especially those about the importance of raising awareness. But much like thoughts and prayers, there’s only so much change that stickers on bus seats can bring.

Campaigns and good thoughts can’t fix the multiple areas and entire buildings that Adith Thummalapalli, a junior mechanical engineering student who uses a wheelchair, recently identified in a 43-page report as inaccessible to people with some disabilities.

Thummalapalli identified areas such as the stairs to the bathroom in the South Campus Dining Hall and the entrance to Kent Hall as boundaries that make everyday commutes impossible for people who use wheelchairs.

These obstacles are easy for the university to address on a surface level — while not implementing any real change. The “Will You Stand Up For Me?” campaign has its benefits in raising awareness. But it feels like an image-driven Band-Aid on the overarching problems that exist for students and faculty with disabilities.

Although the university has a transition plan to improve accessibility on this campus — one mandated by the state for any accessibility funding to be provided — the amount of funding put toward the project by the university is meager, and the money set aside for academic and administrative facilities is mostly provided by the state.

These lackadaisical procedures further represent the indifference this university

has for its students with disabilities. The university shouldn’t wait for inaccessible areas to become a problem for people before fixing them, especially because it often ignores such complaints anyway.

In 2016, it took a lawsuit filed by several deaf sports fans for the university to finally construct adequate captioning screens in the Xfinity Center and Maryland Stadium.

Last year, several markers pointing to accessible entrances were removed due to lawn maintenance and misleading signage and remained down for nearly a year despite community backlash. Students with disabilities shouldn’t have to threaten the university with legal action for accessibility — the university should want to fix these issues and begin to do so as soon as they are aware of them.

Though the campaign — which was started by Cassidy Henry, a linguistics doctoral student with disabilities — addresses a serious issue, the university’s compliance on this matter without more concrete initiatives speaks volumes. In considering the very recent history of the community’s fight for accessibility at this university, I can’t send praise their way for an abstract, low-budget campaign.

We should recognize and applaud students such as Thummalapalli and Henry and build on their work to effect more change on the campus. But DOTS and the rest of the university don’t deserve our praise for simply complying with a student’s proposal when they have repeatedly shown a disregard for the disabled community. Hopefully, the university will begin to take responsibility as more students fight for equal accessibility. raynewby00@gmail.com

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House of Delegates elects first black, woman speaker Adrienne Jones will take over the role after Michael Busch’s death by

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Speaker Michael Busch, who

Jacob Richman l a n d H o u s e died unexpectedly April 7.

She had previously dropped @jacobrichman12 of Delegates unanimously out of the race. Going into Staff writer elected Del. Adrienne Jones (DBaltimore County) as its next speaker in a special session Wednesday, making her the first person of color and first woman to hold the role.

Jones, who is black, will serve as successor to the late

Wednesday, the only two candidates poised to take the gavel were delegates Maggie McIntosh (D-Baltimore City) and Dereck Davis (D-Prince George’s).

Either candidate would have marked a first for the position, as Davis is black

and McIntosh is an openly gay woman. Since the formation of the legislature, all speakers have been white men.

Jo n e s, wh o s e r ve d a s Busch’s deputy speaker for 16 years, became the first to announce her candidacy on April 10. But she chose to drop out of the race and back Davis so that the Legislative Black Caucus would be united behind one candidate. Davis and McIntosh both announced their candidacy hours after Busch’s funeral on

April 16.

At 10 a.m on Wednesday, both the Democratic and Republican Caucuses went into closed-door meetings to decide who they would be supporting in the election.

After debate, the Republican Caucus announced its unanimous support for Davis, but the Democrats remained divided between the candidates. Wanting to avoid a rift within the party, the delegates continued to debate until about 2:15 p.m.

Then, in a move that Jones said put the House’s unity “before their own ambition,” McIntosh and Davis separately approached the speaker pro tem to ask her to take the position, Jones said.

After over four hours of d e ba te , t h e De m o c ra t i c Caucus eventually decided to back Jones for speaker. She was nominated on the floor

by McIntosh, with the motion seconded by Davis, and was ushered into the role with a unanimous vote.

“I didn’t think I would be here when I left my out of my house this morning,” Jones said when she took the chair on Wednesday.

In a tweet, Gov. Larry Hogan called Jones’ election a “proud and historic moment for our state” and praised the candidate for “pledging to be a Speaker for all delegates.”

“That is exactly the kind of bipartisan, collaborative spirit our state needs right now,” he wrote. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Gov. Hogan signs bills to reform the Board of Regents The law will expand the board and aim to increase transparency Maryland G o v. L a r r y Jacob Richman Hogan signed @jacobrichman12 legislation Staff writer T u e s d a y to reform t h e B o a r d o f Regents, guaranteeing that the widely-hailed bills will become law.

The legislation, which aims to increase the board’s transparency, comes after the University of Maryland faced criticism for its handling of football player Jordan McNair’s death and the regents’ alleged overreach into the affairs of this university. It requires the board to expand its membership from by

17 to 21 and publicly stream its open meetings.

The board, which sets policy for the system’s 12 member institutions, became the subject of intense scrutiny in the fall for its actions after the released results of two investigations — one into the death of 19-yearold McNair, who suffered heatstroke during a May workout and died two weeks later, and the other into the football program’s culture.

Despite one investigation’s finding that the university’s trainers had failed to identify McNair’s condition and treat him properly, the regents re-

portedly recommended the school retain them.

In an October press conference, the board also recommended that the university keep then-football coach DJ Durkin and athletic director Damon Evans on staff, despite having found widespread abuse in the football program through the other investigation. Still, the board declined to deem the team’s culture“toxic,” contrary to prior reports by ESPN. During the same press conference, university President Wallace Loh announced his plans to retire in June 2019 — and a day later, he fired Durkin.

Reports later surfaced that the regents had told Loh they’d fire him if he didn’t keep Durkin,

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despite the fact that the board has no control over personnel decisions other than hiring and firing university presidents.

These moves represented a “complete disregard for transparency and shared governance,” Student Government Association president Jonathan Allen said at the legislation’s hearings in Annapolis in February. Board chairwoman Linda Gooden joined him in voicing support for the bills at the statehouse.

The legislation, which passed unanimously on the House and Senate floors, requires the four new spots on the board be filled by the state commerce secretary, two appointees from state-

house leaders and a nonvoting student member, in addition to the current voting student member.

At least one regent will be required to have a background in higher education administration, one in finance and one in diversity and workplace inclusion. The bills also double the student regents’ terms to two years, which will allow the nonvoting student regent to gain experience on the board before becoming a voting member.

“It provides considerable oversight and reforms both to the openness of the process and to the structure for the board itself,” Del. Ben Barnes (D-Anne Arundel and Prince

George’s), the bill’s sponsor in the House, told the Diamondback earlier this month. “We are going to see a much more open, cohesive board.”

Freshman computer science major Tilak Patel praised the legislation for increasing the transparency of the board.

“We’re ultimately the ones being affected by their decisions,” he said. “So if the general public knows what they’re thinking, that would be beneficial.”

Hogan signed the legislation along with 172 other bills on Tuesday, in the second of four planned signing sessions after the end of the General Assembly session. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Walsh From p. 1 said each tree can produce about three to five bushels o f f r u i t . At 4 0 p o u n d s a b u s h e l , ea c h t re e c a n product between 120 and 200 pounds of fruit.

Growers look to get about

1,000 bushels to the acre, Walsh said.

For much of the tree’s history, it resided on just one orchard. But six years ago, fear that a disease outbreak would kill all specim e n i n o n e f e l l - swo o p prompted another faculty member in Walsh’s depart-

ment to look into dispersing the trees.

T h e fa c u l t y m e m b e r, Bryan Butler, approached the owner of Catoctin Mountain Orchard in T h u r m o n t , M a ryl a n d — Bob Black — who agreed to bring nine of the trees to his property.

T h e t re e s h ave b e e n doing very well in Black’s orchard. For the last couple of years, he said he’s taken t h e a p p l e s to g ive away at the Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and the response has been overwhelming.

“We were getting such p o s i t ive re s u l ts, i t wa s u n b e l i e va b l e ,” h e s a i d .

“We’ve given away six to eight bushels a year, people coming back for seconds and thirds.”

Although the apples are still a few years away from commercial availability,

Black said he’s happy to be part of history.

“It’s an apple from Maryland. And that kind of means something to a lot of people — that this was developed for here and for Maryland,” he said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

“It’s an apple from Maryland. And that kind of means something to a lot of people — that this was developed for here and for Maryland.”

- BOB BLACK, CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN ORCHARD OWNER

Under the proFrom p. 1 posed amendment, a vice president of d ive rs i ty a n d i n c l u s i o n would have replaced the Student Government Association’s current diversity and inclusion director — an elevation for the role, said M a l e e h a Co l e b u r n , wh o serves on the diversity and inclusion committee and sponsored the amendment.

The body currently has vice presidents for student, financial and academic affairs.

Coleburn was inspired to propose the amendment after the SGA’s former diversity and inclusion director, Taylor Green, resigned from her position in February. In her resignation letter — posted online earlier this month — Green accused the

SGA of racism and ignoring marginalized students. “ W h e n h e r l e t te r o f resignation came out, it became very clear that the director of diversity and inclusion was not being listened to,” said Coleburn, a junior government and politics and public policy major. “Director of diversity and inclusion should become a vice president position because that gives them more power, more say.

It allows them to have a seat at the table where they need to be.”

In her letter, Green, who ra n fo r S G A p re s i d e n t , alleged she’d “witnessed patterns of racist, sexist, ableist, and transphobic behaviors, mirroring institutional discrimination experienced by so many of those marginalized and silenced within our campus

community.”

“Every step I took within this organization was an attempt to begin dialogue around diversity issues as it related not only to SGA itself, but to the campus a s a wh o l e ,” s h e w ro te . “ Eve ry s te p I m a d e wa s undermined.”

Legislators argued against adding a diversity and inclusion vice president for a variety of reasons, but each focused on the central argument that creating the role would not fix the issues students say they face.

Ju n i o r e co n o m i c s a n d i n te r n a t i o n a l b u s i n e s s major Samay Kindra voted against the amendment.

Kindra said he worried the role would discourage the other vice presidents from focusing on diversity and inclusion efforts.

“To me, it seemed like it

created even more issues that it solved,” he said.

However, Kindra emphasized the need for change.

“I am in full agreement, in this sense, that there are diversity and inclusion i ss u e s,” h e sa i d . “ T h e re is a disconnect with SGA and how we navigate that realm.”

E v e r y y e a r, t h e S G A reviews its governing documents, including its bylaws and constitution, to add any amendments or issues that come up during the semester, said outgoing president Jonathan Allen. “ I f yo u a l l ow a m e n d ments to go on the floor at any time, then you would have amendments every week so it would distract from our regular business,” the senior government and politics major said.

While many legislators

felt adding the diversity and inclusion vice president role was not a beneficial solution, they did not offer suggestions in its place.

“This is at least a step in the right direction to showing this campus, to showing the cultural groups and the cultural communities that we care about them and that we want to make up for all the wrongdoings in the past,” Coleburn said.

“Only criticizing and not offering any solutions — it’s not helpful.”

Coleburn said her committee had been working to achieve those goals all semester, and that “not a single one of those legislators who had criticisms showed up to any of those meetings.”

Although the bill failed, p re s i d e n t - e l e c t I re l a n d Lesley said she hopes to

use the momentum of the debate to address the issue of diversity both in and out of SGA moving forward. “ T h e se co nve rsa t i o n s show when we’re hitting hard issues, and I think they’re really good tells of what people care about,” the junior government and politics major said. “It’s a go o d wa y to m e a s u re whether or not we’re talking about real issues.”

As part of her new administration, Lesley said s h e wa n ts to fo c u s o n building relationships with student groups on the campus.

“I’m very committed to making sure that our diversity and inclusion chair is an integral part of all decisions that we make as an organization,” she said.

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emulate their son’s values a n d t h e w a y h e m o ve d through the world.

“Richard was light — if you knew anything about him, he was light all the way,” his mother said. “Be that light, be that beacon.

Do not let anyone put your light under a basket.”

Amadu also joined Maryland sociology p ro fe s s o r R a s h aw n R ay a n d Ta f e n i E n g l i s h , a

re p re se ntative f rom the So u t h e r n Pove r ty L aw Center, in exploring the pervasive nature of violence against African Americans a n d h ow a t te n d e e s c a n fight against hate in their respective roles in society.

The panelists also d i s c u s s e d h ow C o l l i n s ’ death impacted both university communities.

Amadu noted that since his friend’s killing, he has

b e e n s c a re d to go b a c k to College Park — he said being there gives him a kind of “sinking-heart feeling.”

A f te r t h e pa n e l , R ay ex p re s s e d s a d n e s s t h a t some students of color are afraid to visit the campus where he works. While he said he appreciates what the school does to prevent hate bias incidents, he added that there is still more that could be done.

“One of the primary issues –– particularly for students –– has to do with transparency,” he said. “I t h i n k s t u d e n ts wa n t to know more about incidents and the way that incidents are rectified.”

Last fall, this university established a report log fo r h a te b i a s i n c i d e n t s that happen at the school.

During this academic year, there have been 22 total i n c i d e n t s a d d e d to t h e log, four of them directly involving racist rhetoric against black people at this university.

Later, students had the o p p o r t u n i ty to a d d re s s the crowd in an open-mic forum that was closed to the media, university officials and faculty members.

“Everyone who was there could not help but be moved,” said Zita Nunes, an English professor a t t h i s u n ive rs i ty wh o helped organize the event, describing the panel.

“Each one of us who was there will leave and talk to other people, will use our various means of spreading the information –– these events will build on one another.”

While several Maryland professors made appearances at the event, university President Wallace Loh was absent, d raw i n g c r i t i c i s m f ro m

some of those in attendance.

Early in planning, Nunes said she had reached out to him, and he had said he had a prior engagement at the time of the event.

Linda Clement, the u n i v e r s i t y ’s o u t g o i n g student affairs vice president, came in Loh’s place.

Others expressed dismay at the low student attendance at the event — just over ten from this university came. Kumam Khasar, this university’s Black Student Union president, said this number didn’t match up with 3,582 black or African American undergraduates who were enrolled at the school this fall.

No n e t h e l e ss, Co l l i n s ’ parents expressed gratitude fo r a l l wh o ca m e to t h e event.

“So many people come up to us and say how strong we are but we — let me just tell you — there is no strength in us, we are a mess,” Collins’ father said.

“But there’s moments, such as this one, that give us the strength and give us the courage to get out of bed one more day and face the world.”

SGA

From p. 1 culture of hate.”

The event, held at Bowie State University’s student center, began with a panel discussion, featuring musical performances from students at both schools and a video tribute to Collins. Collins’ parents addressed the audience, encouraging listeners to

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The univerisity administration doesn’t care enough to save the Co-op

By Manuela Lopez Restrepo | @mamueca | Staff writer The Maryland food collective located in Stamp is set to close at the end of this month Ryan Romano/for the diamondback

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ou know that incredibly annoying saying, “this is why we can’t have nice things”?

In its typical usage, I think it’s supposed to allude to a certain home-life dynamic, where a reckless child knocks over some ornamental vase, and their mom slowly loses the will to own anything of value due to its inevitable destruction by her little bundle of joy.

M o r e r e c e n t l y, t h i s s a rc a s m a p p l i e s to t h e mounting feeling of desperation from existing in this weird, dichotomous timeline. Historically, we’re in the most peaceful time of humanity, but we’re also being forced to constantly process the tragedies of the entire world through

our phones and media. As a result, the world as of late seems to suck more than ever, and the planned closure of the Maryland Food Co-op in Stamp Student Union is right on theme.

Let me clarify some things before I further explain myself. I am so, so grateful for the space that the Co-op has provided for so many people in our community. Being the grassmunching, earth-loving snowflake that I am, the Co-op was a place I always felt welcomed. I would likely find other grass-munchers there who shared my values a n d fos te re d a s pa ce o f respect and understanding.

My best friends and I have spent so many afternoons there doing work, chatting

and, of course, enjoying the healthy and affordable food that can’t be found elsewhere on campus.

To enter an environment where the workers were g ive n a ge n cy ove r t h e i r workplace and a voice for their concerns made me feel more comfortable spending my money there. The $10 spent on my sun-dried tomato wrap — the “Vegan Paradox” — with a side of dill pickle potato chips and unsweetened green tea was spent happily if it meant supporting a business that brought me joy. There is still hope and activism toward keeping the Co-op open, so I’m hesitant to accept defeat at this point. But this essay is a criticism of the system that created this crisis.

The impending closure of the Co-op is an unfair and upsetting loss for our community, but it does make sense. It’s a worker-owned center for activism and art.

It focused on rejecting so many of the uglier aspects of not just capitalism, but our society as a whole.

Do you really think this university is the type of institution that would lift a single finger in order to ensure a space like the Co-op survives? I lost hope in this u n i ve rs i t y ’s l e a d e rs h i p long, long ago, somewhere between the apathy toward t h e d ea t h s o f two b l a c k students, white nationalist propaganda on campus and other repeated missteps in feigning any semblance of genuine concern for the stu-

dents they serve.

Stamp is owned by the university, and the workers of the Co-op have repeatedly proposed resolutions that would involve some debt forgiveness from this university. Their GoFundMe has raised over $10,000, with over 200 individual donors looking to preserve this community cornerstone that has persisted for more than 40 years.

I have to admit, there is a tiny shred of hope somewhere deep in my chest that the administration or the Student Facilities Fund will realize there is more than enough money in the budget to find a solution that allows the Co-op to exist. But their agenda has been made clear, through the purchases of nap

pods that cost $21,818, a field house for an underachieving football program that cost $155 million and a no-optout athletics fee that costs each full-time undergraduate student $203 for the current school year.

The Co-op is the little beacon of light that college students need in this phase of life — a safe, welcoming space that is geared toward unity, creativity and providing nutritious options for those that it serves. But take a look at the way our administration has established its relationship with the student body and their focuses on development in the coming years, and ask yourself this: would they really give a damn? diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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By Eric Myers | @ EricMyers531 | Staff writer PISCATAWAY, N.J. — For the second time in six days, Maryland men’s lacrosse built a four-goal lead over Johns Hopkins in the first half. And for the second consecutive game, the Terps were helpless in their attempts to stop the Blue Jays’ subsequent rally.

Maryland entered halftime with a 6-2 lead following a dominant defensive display in the second quarter. But when the teams returned for the second half, the game began to resemble the onesided affair of last Saturday’s Johns Hopkins win.

No. 2-seed Johns Hopkins poured in 10 second-half scores in the rematch Thursday night and held No. 3-seed Maryland to one goal in its 12-7 Big Ten tournament semifinal win over the Terps at HighPoint.com Stadium.

“You knew they were going to make a little bit of a run,” coach John Tillman said.

“We just didn’t do enough in that third quarter to stave that off.”

In the last matchup against Maryland, Johns Hopkins scored at will and made necessary defensive adjustments to slow the Terps’ quick 5-1 start. In that 16-11 win, the Blue Jays decisively outshot Maryland and controlled the game’s last 45 minutes.

The Big Ten semifinal win offered a similar showing following halftime, as Johns the Blue Jays outshot the Terps 44-28 and committed 10 fewer turnovers to overwhelm Tillman’s defense in the final 30 minutes.

During the first quarter, while the Terps were probing the Johns Hopkins defense,

Maryland goalkeeper Danny Dolan held the Blue Jays’ offense in check with four saves in the first seven minutes of the game.

Dolan’s efforts helped keep the game scoreless until Maryland broke through midway into the opening quarter. A quick passing sequence broke down the Blue Jays’ cohesive defense, and the ball ended up in attackman Louis Dubick’s stick in front of the crease for the interior score.

The goal was the first of a four-score effort in the first quarter, doubling up Johns Hopkins on the scoreboard at the end of the opening 15 minutes.

In the second quarter, midfielder Roman Puglise recovered a tough ground ball on the defensive half of the field and immediately absorbed an illegal crosscheck.

As the official’s flag flew to the turf, Puglise — still with possession — got to his feet

and advanced the ball to the offensive half. Seconds later, Bernhardt unleashed a righthanded shot for his second goal of the game.

On the extra-man opportunity resulting from the hit Puglise took, attackman Logan Wisnauskas received a pass from DeMaio for the 6-on-5 score that gave the Terps a 6-2 lead.

That two-goal sequence within 49 seconds, combined with a stout defensive effort, allowed Maryland to take a four-goal advantage into the halftime break.

But despite Maryland’s halftime lead, Johns Hopkins coach Dave Pietramala felt the game was playing out similar to Saturday’s, when the Blue Jays held a 9-6 advantage at the break. His team was outshooting the Terps once again, but Dolan was making saves to preclude the scoring success.

“When you look at shots in the first half, the only dif-

ference was saves and goals,” Pietramala said. “The half was so eerily similar, yet the difference in score was dramatic.”

After surrendering the program’s most goals since 2013 against the Blue Jays on Saturday night, Maryland’s defense matched its best defensive showing for a half this season. But the stout defense did not carry over into the second half, as the Terps relinquished their early lead just as they did mere days ago.

Johns Hopkins reeled off five goals from five different scorers, capped off by Epstein’s extra-man shot from the wing, to take its first lead of the night at 7-6.

“We’ve been preaching this ‘reset button’ basically,” Blue Jays goalkeeper Ryan Darby said. “So after a game or after a goal, whatever happens, you just hit the reset button and focus on whatever’s coming next.”

Maryland leveled the score early in the fourth quarter, with Bernhardt shaking off his defender and firing home after wrapping around the crease.

But Johns Hopkins had the answer. Midfielder Alex Concannon nailed a wideopen shot, and attackman Cole Williams’ followed with a score resulting from a Terps’ turnover.

The No. 2-seeded Blue Jays added three more to solidify the result and propel themselves into the Big Ten championship bout on Saturday night against Penn State.

Meanwhile, Tillman’s squad will have to wait until Sunday to see how two consecutive losses impact its NCAA tournament seeding.

“They just got momentum,” Bernhardt said.

“We had our run in the beginning, then they started to get theirs. ... They were able to put it on us.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Despite scare, Terps make NCAA tourney for 17th year in a row After a second Eric Myers @EricMyers531 consecutive loss to Johns Staff writer Hopkins put the postseason hopes of Maryland men’s lacrosse in a precarious spot, the Terps can breathe a sigh of relief.

In Sunday night’s selection show, Maryland heard its by

name announced.

Coach John Tillman’s team will play Sunday against No. 6-seed Towson at 2:30 p.m. in Baltimore.

Following the loss to Johns Hopkins in the Big Ten tournament semifinal, attackman Jared Bernhardt summed up the mentality going into the weekend, saying, “All we can

hope for is a selection.”

The Terps were powerless in improving their resume and could only watch as other conference tournaments altered the NCAA tournament field.

When Loyola lost in the Patriot League tournament semifinals, the number of at-large spots decreased because the Greyhounds still had a season

worthy of a berth in the NCAA tournament.

But even with the small number of at-large bids remaining and multiple teams vying for one of those coveted spots, the committee deemed Maryland’s season to be enough for a spot in the tournament field.

The Terps had a win over Penn, the No. 3 team in the

Inside Lacrosse RPI rankings — a metric to gauge a team’s wins, losses and strength of schedule.

Cornell, the first team held out of the tournament, did not have an RPI win over an opponent rated that highly.

Maryland’s RPI was also higher than Cornell’s and included more wins over teams in the 11-through-30 range of

the RPI rankings, showing a deeper collection of wins than the Big Red. With the selection in the NCAA tournament, the Terps’ season is extended. The team narrowly avoided being the first Maryland team to miss the tournament since 2002. sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Terps make NCAA tourney for first time in 7 years Despite lack of experience, coach Diana Cantu’s close-knit squad feels ready for regionals in Alabama Despite Maryland women’s David Suggs @David_Suggs3 golf’s impressive regular Staff writer season, its eighth-place finish at the Big Ten C h a m p i o n s h i ps confirmed the young group’s status as a bubble team heading into the NCAA selection show.

As coach Diana Cantu’s squad packed into a small Xfinity Center conference room April 24, the team was uncertain of its tournament prospects. So when the Terps finally heard their name called, they were elated, celebrating vociferously as they learned they were headed to the NCAA tournament for the first time in seven years. by

It was the culmination of a rebuild under Cantu that has triggered promising campaigns in the past few years.

But none yet had resulted in the glory that comes with an NCAA tournament berth.

Now, Maryland has a chance to further build upon its impressive season, as it looks to show off its realized potential on Monday when the Terps travel to Alabama to compete in regionals.

“We’re just going to do our best,” sophomore Virunpat Olankitkunchai said, “and kick their ass.”

Last season, featuring a lineup that included three freshmen, the Terps just missed out on postseason play. However, after impressing at the 2018 Big Ten

Championships with a second-place finish, Maryland felt that it was on the brink of a major turnaround.

“Once we did that at the Big Ten Championships, it was like, ‘There’s no doubt, we’re going to come back next year and get it done,’” Cantu said. “We knew that with the experience that they had last year, we were going to be ready to do it this year.”

Cantu, in her fifth season as Maryland’s coach, has used a unique international scouting system to bring in top players. As a result, the team is international-laden, with all but one golfer coming from outside the United States.

Despite some early adjustment difficulties — players come from a wide swath

of countries, ranging from France and Italy to Thailand and China — the Terps have developed a strong team spirit, something that has helped push the team to new heights over the course of the past two seasons.

“We are our family away from home and we are always there for each other,” senior Ludovica Farina said. “I know that if I’m in a bad situation, I can rely on my teammates.

They’re there for me, no matter what language they speak.”

Maryland has seen a number of solid showings t h ro u g h o u t t h e sea so n .

Olankitkunchai has had an especially impressive campaign for the Terps, earning All-Big Ten first team honors

after picking up six top-ten finishes. While Olankitkunchai is hoping to impress this week, she has no expectations going into Monday’s round.

“Obviously this is my first time [in regionals], and it’s the [team’s] first time since 2012,” she said. “It’s really big for us, but we’re not going to put pressure on [ourselves].

Olankitkunchai’s comments reflect the overall feeling of Cantu’s squad as it readies for regionals. The team is looking at its lack of experience as a positive.

“We don’t have anything to lose and we don’t have to prove ourselves,” Farina said.

“So we just want to go out there and enjoy it.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

virunpat olankitkunchai, a sophomore on the team, has played a key role for the Terps this season, helping them qualify for the NCAA tournament. photo courtesy of maryland athletics

softball

With eight straight losses, Maryland ends season on flat note Michigan outscores Julie Wright’s squad 26-4 in season-ending sweep by

Down 6-0 on Hannah Fields a ra i ny @ hannahfields__ Senior Staff writer Day, Maryland softball’s offense had just one hit through four innings against Michigan pitcher Meghan Beaubien, who entered Sunday with the fifth-best ERA in the Big Ten. T wo d ays ea rl i e r, s h e racked up six strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings to easily dispatch the Terps, 6-1. She stayed the course in her start Sunday, not allowing a hit through three innings and ensuring the Maryland lineup didn’t break out of its slump.

But in the fifth frame, the Terps suddenly had life.

Catcher Gracie Voulgar-

is drove a single to rightcenter field, and two more singles loaded the bases.

Left fielder M icaela Abbatine came through with a two-RBI single up the middle, cutting Michigan’s lead to 6-2.

Pitcher Alex Storako took over, issuing two walks — one that drove in a run — to reload the bases. But Maryland’s rally was short-lived.

The right-hander tightened up with three consecutive strikeouts, abruptly ending the Terps’ comeback bid.

Despite Maryland’s brief offensive surge, Michigan’s firepower proved too much for the Maryland pitching staff, and the Wolverines swept the Terps on Senior Day with a 12-3 win. Maryland ended its season on a

eight-game losing streak, after being eliminated from Big Ten tournament contention with Saturday’s loss.

“I thought there was good fight there,” coach Julie Wright said. “I would have liked to see a little more clutch hitting there with the bases loaded, but [Storako] did a good job pitching.”

Both senior pitchers — Sydney Golden and Sami Main — manned the circle for the first five innings, before the younger players on the pitching staff took over.

The first inning was scoreless for both teams, but as the rain picked up later on in the game, so did Michigan’s offense.

The Wolverines stranded two runners in the first, but Maryland answered by retiring in order, a familiar se q u e n ce fo r t h e Te r ps ’ offense this weekend.

M ichigan plated three runs on three hits in the second frame. After right fielder Haley Hoogenraad reached second on a fielding error from third baseman Anna Kufta, the Wolverines sent her home on an RBI double from second baseman Faith Canfield.

Then, just three pitches later, center fielder Natalie Peters brought home two more runs on a single to center field to give her team a 3-0 lead.

The Terps could not string together any offense for the next two innings, with no hits until the bottom of the fourth. Beaubien struck out center fielder JoJo McRae to lead off the inning — McRae’s second of the day — but right fielder Amanda B ra s h e a r f i n a l l y b r o k e through for the team’s first hit with a bunt single.

Kufta was then hit by a

pitch, putting her on first, but both she and Brashear we re l e f t o n b a s e a f te r shortstop Natalia Rodriguez snagged a line drive off first baseman Taylor Wilson’s bat.

Riding the defensive momentum, the Wolverines hit back-to-back singles to open the fifth inning. And Michigan took advantage of its opportunities to go up 6-0 on the Terps.

And though Maryland’s offense came to life in the bottom half, it left three r u n n e rs o n ba se a f te r Storako carefully worked her way out of the jam. “[Storako] kind of kept u s o f f ba l a n ce w i t h h e r change-up and her rise,” Boyd said, “and it was just about being a little more disciplined, so ... that’s what we could have done better.”

Kiana Carr — the Terps’

third pitcher of the day — entered in the circle in the top of the sixth, but the pitching change did nothing to stop Michigan’s powerful lineup. The Wolverines scored two more runs off Carr before redshirt freshman Victoria Galvan c l a i m e d t h e c i rc l e , a n d Michigan added two more to go up 10-3.

In the top of the seventh, the Terps’ deficit grew to nine runs, enough to easily down a Maryland squad that stumbled to the finish line this season with its eighth straight loss, playing itself out of the postseason. “[The younger pitchers] are very malleable,” Main said. “There’s definitely some up-and-coming leadership that’s going to prove dividends for the team in the future.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Michigan wallops Terps to sweep series in rain-delayed game Wolverines take advantage of Maryland’s shaky pitching to pull away in 13-1 drubbing on Sunday by

When Maryland baseball righthander Trevor LaBonte walked to the mound at the start of the third inning against Michigan, the rain was just starting to pick up.

The weather had been subdued for much of the first two frames Sunday, and the Terps’ struggling freshman starter — LaBonte entered with an inflated 6.56 ERA — appeared to be on his way to a Big Tenbest start, giving up just one run on two hits before toeing the rubber in the third.

But whether it was the baseball’s slippery laces, a puddling

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mound or his mud-clogged spikes, LaBonte unravelled.

He walked four Wolverines and plunked one more on the helmet, allowing three runs to cross and gifting the visitors all the runs they needed to secure the sweep, as Maryland fell 13-1 in another subpar outing from its pitching staff.

“It’s kind of really the story of the weekend,” coach Rob Vaughn said. “When you’re playing a team that’s leading your conference and is wellcoached and has good arms and good tough players, you just can’t afford to allow guys to score without giving up hits.”

After dropping the first two games of the series, the Terps (23-25, 8-10 Big Ten) entered

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Sunday clinging to seventh place in the Big Ten standings. Since only eight squads qualify for the conference tournament, the final matchup still carried significance despite the series loss.

However, for the second year in a row against Michigan (34-11, 14-3), Mother Nature didn’t cooperate. A combination of blistering cold and a travel curfew shortened the two squads’ series finale in 2018, a 6-3 Maryland loss, as part of a weekend limited to two games.

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seeing-eye RBI single from first baseman Maxwell Costes.

“We got some momentum going after that first inning,” Costes said.

When the rain picked up in the third, any momentum the Terps had quickly dissipated.

LaBonte missed the strike zone on 13 of the next 16 pitches, as the first five batters in the frame reached base without taking the bats off their shoulders. Coach Rob Vaughn made the call to the pen with his team trailing 3-1, one more would come home on a sacrifice fly one batter later, and then play was halted for a 45-minute rain delay.

“He just lost command of the zone,” Vaughn said. “And when

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that happens, it’s really tough against a good team.”

When play resumed, Michigan scored two more in the fifth and seven in the sixth to extend its edge. And though the conditions adversely affected the Terps’ staff, right-hander Jeff Criswell stayed the course. He gave up just one unearned run on three hits in five innings.

“He threw strikes and attacked the zone,” Costes said.

“If you do that with good stuff like he has, it’s going to be hard to hit.”

Shortstop AJ Lee did extend his on-base streak to 23 games by forcing a free pass in the third, but baserunners were few and far between.

“Our at-bats in the first were

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awesome,” Vaughn said. “We competed with [Criswell] pretty good. But he’s good. He’s very, very good. That staff they have over there is very impressive.”

Maryland’s arms, meanwhile, surrendered 11 hits and walked 10 more, giving the Big Ten’s top squad one scoring opportunity after another. The Terps were swept after failing in nearly every phase of the rain-soaked matchup.

“I didn’t think we put a very good foot forward this weekend,” Vaughn said. “I wasn’t really happy with our execution. I wasn’t really happy with the way we competed for a full 27 innings.”

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women’s lacrosse

maryland women’s lacrosse suffered its first loss of the season to Northwestern in the Big Ten championship game after beating the Wildcats in April. Star midfielder Jen Giles notched two goals in that game, but was held scoreless Sunday. photo courtesy of maryland athletics

undefeated no more After going 17-0 in the regular season, the Terps fell to the Wildcats in the Big Ten tournament title game

By Tom Hindle | @ Thomas_Hindle_ | Staff writer BALTIMORE — All season, Maryland women’s lacrosse goalkeeper Megan Taylor has stood tall in front of her cage, putting together another standout year as a shot-stopper. But as time wound down in the Big Ten championship game Sunday, the senior watched on from the sideline.

With the Terps facing a four-goal deficit against Northwestern with 2:57 remaining, coach Cathy Reese elected to pull Taylor.

And although Maryland tried to force a turnover to supplement a would-be comeback bid, attacker Lauren Gilbert broke through the defense and fired a shot that reached just beyond the outstretched stick of defender Meghan Doherty, covering where Taylor normally holds court.

While the Terps outscored the Wildcats in the second half, Northwestern’s first-half outpouring created enough of an advantage to weather Maryland’s last-ditch attempts. And Gilbert’s score with less than two minutes to go sealed the Terps’ fate in a 16-11 loss, ending their undefeated run as they watched Northwestern lift the championship trophy.

“Tough day for us but congratulations to Northwestern,” Reese said. “It was a hard-fought game.”

Just moments into Sunday’s contest, Maryland found itself trailing, conceding the opening goal for the sixth straight contest. Midfielder Brennan Dwyer, the Big Ten leader in draw controls, pushed the pace downfield for the Wildcats. She found attacker Izzy Scane, who bounced a shot past Taylor.

Scane added a second with a rocketed shot two

minutes later, establishing an energy that would carry the Wildcats for the rest of the contest.

“We were really fired up,” Wildcats attacker Selena Lasota said. “And ultimately, really excited to be playing against a great Maryland team.”

Attacker Caroline Steele was on hand to orchestrate a quick Maryland response. Goalkeeper Mallory Weisse equaled Steele’s initial shot, but Steele pounced on the rebound and finished comfortably to bring the Terps back within 2-1.

Northwestern continued to find openings, though, as attackers Liza Elder and Lindsey McKone added goals to give the Wildcats a threescore advantage less than 10 minutes in.

“They came out with a lot of energy, a lot of intensity,” Reese said, “and made it a very difficult day for us on defense.”

Midfielder Erica Evans caught a feed from attacker Catie May and finished to bring the Terps within two. But the Wildcats continued to tack on more goals. While Lasota didn’t get on the board until six minutes before halftime, a bevy of others scored. Midfielder Claire Quinn got a step on midfielder Jen Giles and beat Taylor to produce a 5-2 lead.

“We knew we had to take advantage of every possession that we got,” Northwestern coach Amonte Miller said, “and really fight hard for some of the possessions down the stretch.”

Maryland dragged itself closer when defender Lizzie Colson stripped Quinn of possession and Evans scooped the loose ball, igniting a fast break.

The graduate transfer then found Griffin streak-

ing down the field, who calmly side-stepped her defender and finished from close.

Then, Steele added another off a free-position look five minutes later, slamming her stick into the soaked turf after making it 5-4 with 10:48 remaining before halftime.

But Northwestern didn’t let up, dominating the remainder of the first with five straight goals to enter the break ahead, 10-4. Meanwhile, the Maryland offense struggled and shot 25 percent in the first half.

“They’re a great defense,” Griffin said. “Super athletic, really aggressive. In goal, Mallory was great.”

The Wildcats’ 11-3 halftime advantage on draw controls provided the squad extra possessions, leaving the Terps facing their biggest halftime deficit since 2007.

Maryland started the second half with a renewed energy. Reese’s squad forced a turnover and started a fast break that caught the Wildcats sleeping. After a missed free position, attacker Hannah Warther found herself in space and bounced the ball in.

Despite the strong start offensively, the Terps couldn’t handle the Wildcats’ offense. Lasota found space inside and converted from close range to restore Northwestern’s six-goal edge. “[Lasota] is great,” Colson said. “She’s just a really great shooter. She was finishing on a lot of her possessions.”

With 15:13 remaining, Griffin pulled one back for the Terps. The junior burst inside — taking

advantage of a Northwestern breakdown — and shot-faked before slotting in a comfortable finish to make it 12-7. Yet the Terps couldn’t maintain any momentum. Back-to-back goals from McKone extended the lead to seven as the rain began to pour.

“They scored 12 unassisted goals on us,” Reese said. “That’s just communication and help and making sure we’re getting there.”

A short-range finish from attacker Kali Hartshorn gave the Terps a glimmer of hope with under 14 minutes remaining. Warther added to it with a short-range finish less than a minute later. But Northwestern continued to find ways to score.

And although Maryland cut the deficit to 15-11 with 3:33 remaining, they couldn’t quite find an extra goal to get any closer.

Steele had a chance to further shrink the deficit, but Weisse smothered her short-range strike to effectively end the contest. The Terps pulled Taylor in a last-gasp attempt to make something happen, but it was to no avail.

“We dug ourselves in an early hole,” Reese said.

“And we just kinda couldn’t get our footing under us to get out.”

As the clock expired, Wildcats players sprinted off the bench onto the field, lifting a Big Ten championship trophy as the Terps looked on, their undefeated season undone at last.

“I don’t have a reason or excuse,” Reese said.

“We just weren’t good enough.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

For 7th year running, Terps are No. 1 seed in NCAA tourney by

Maryland women’s lacrosse is the No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament despite losing to Northwestern in the Big Ten tournament championship game Sunday. It’s the seventh straight year coach Cathy Reese’s squad earned the top seed.

The Terps (18-1, 6-0 Big Ten) were the presumptive No. 2 seed for most of the regular season due to the spotless record of Boston College.

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However, when the Eagles fell narrowly to North Carolina last Sunday, the Terps leapfrogged into the No. 1 spot.

Meanwhile, the Terps completed an undefeated regular season, surviving two overtime matchups against the Tar Heels and Syracuse en route to a 17-0 mark. Maryland beat Penn State in the Big Ten tournament semifinal Friday. The committee decided that Maryland’s loss against Northwestern was not enough to knock them down.

The Terps will receive a first-round bye and

will play the winner of Stony Brook and defending champion James Madison at home Sunday.

Maryland has made it to the final four in each of the past 10 seasons. The Terps fell to Boston College in the semifinal in 2018.

After losing to the Wildcats in the Big Ten championship Sunday afternoon, the Terps hope to replicate a similar path as the 2015 championship-winning squad. That team completed a perfect regular season before losing in the Big Ten tournament. Maryland looks for Sunday’s loss to

be a springboard come next week.

“2015, we lost in the Big Ten tournament,” Reese said. “And that was something the team really used to fuel their fire.”

Reese has won four national championships as Maryland head coach. The senior-heavy Terps squad has eight All-Big Ten acknowledgements and four Tewaaraton Award nominees, and Maryland won a national championship in 2017. sportsdbk@gmail.com