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EDITORIAL: It’s a C+ for admin in our end-of-year grades, p. 4 Men’s lacrosse’s Matt Rambo is a man on a mission, p. 12 campus

‘this is not an isolated incident’

Pruitt, who gets free tuition, will not take full pay SGA pres’s parents work at UMB; hopes to divert some of honorarium to students A.J. Pruitt said he does not plan to accept the full amount of honorarium the SGA would offer him for fulfilling the duties expected as this university’s student body president.

T h e S t u d e n t G ove r n m e n t Association’s bylaws allow the organization to provide honoraria to the president, but after its annual omnibus meeting, the legislature voted to also provide this payment to the vice president of finance.

“The Student Body President shall, at the end of both semesters, receive an honorarium of the current in-state tuition for one by

Carly Taylor @Carly_Taylor97 Staff writer

demonstrators gather in front of the University House, university President Wallace Loh’s residence, during a ProtectUMD protest Wednesday. jay reed/the diamondback

About 100 protest at administration building, demand better response to noose incident

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nationalist posters from groups such as Identity Evropa and American Vanguard have been found in multiple locations around the campus since December.

The students congregated in the Stamp food court before marching to the administration building. ProtectUMD aimed to hold a sit-in there from 2 p.m. until their demands were met, according the group’s Wednesday press release.

They requested immediate responses to hate speech by this university, diversity training for all SGA-recognized and Greek organizations and the creation of an external review board to investigate hate bias incidents that occur on the campus.

About 100 students turned out for the event.

Protesters brandished a long white banner with the words “#A[DIFFERENT]UMD” in black marker, as they marched across the mall chanting, “Stand up. Walk out. We will protect this house.”

The students’ chants also included “Black Lives Matter” and “UMPD, we want transparency” See protest, p. 2

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Distribution intent charge dropped in drug raid case Student still faces marijuana posession charge after 375 THC cartridges found at Dickinson Ave house The state’s a t t o r n e y ’s office has d ro p p e d o n e charge against University of Maryland student Brandon Kraut, who was arrested after a drug raid at his College Park home in March.

Kraut was charged with possession with the intent to distribute illegal drugs and possession of more than 10 grams of marijuana.

The former charge was dropped, but the latter remains.

Kraut’s trial is set for August 3 at the Prince George’s County District Courthouse.

Kraut was arrested after officers discovered 375 THC cartridges

See pruitt, p. 6

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By Kyle Rempfer | @Kyle_Rempfer | Staff writer

ressed in black on the steps of the Main Administration Building, Alesia Robinson faced a crowd of students and lambasted this university’s handling of a noose found in a campus fraternity house.

“This is not an isolated incident or just a Greek life incident,” said the senior public health major through her megaphone. “There is a culture of racism and bigotry on this campus. That’s why we’re taking this to President Loh.” University Police responded to reports of a noose in the Phi Kappa Tau chapter house in April, and are investigating it as a hate bias incident.

On Wednesday afternoon, members of ProtectUMD arranged a sit-in at the Main Administration Building to demand this university take action on this and a recent spate of incidents threatening minority students on the campus.

Chalkings advocating for the deportation of undocumented students, among other pro-President Trump messages, were discovered outside Stamp Student Union about a week earlier. White

semester pending the approval of the Committee on Ethics to ensure all duties and responsibilities of the office have been properly and adequately fulfilled,” according to SGA bylaws. “The Vice President of Finance shall, at the end of both semesters, receive an honorarium of the current in state tuition for one semester pending the approval of the the [sic] Committee on Ethics and the Advisor to the Committee on Financial Affairs to SORC to ensure all duties and responsibilities of the office have been properly and adequately fulfilled.”

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Terrapin Row to get Korean eatery ‘Seoulspice’ set to open later in year under Building A Seoulspice, a fast-casual Korean restaurant, will o p e n l a te r this year within the Terrapin Row apartment complex.

The restaurant will fill the 2,000-square-foot space located next to the Amazon store, which opened below Building A in February. College Park will be the restaurant’s second location after the franchise opened its flagship in Northeast Washington, D.C., in February 2016.

The restaurant blends traditional Korean recipes with a modern, build-your-own approach. The gluten-free and vegan-friendly menu was made popular by its “korrito,” or Korean burrito, although customers can also choose to create their own bibimbap-styled rice bowls, “street tacos” or salads.

Banchan-influenced sides are also available, such as Korean by

Miranda Jackson @thedbk For The Diamondback

radishes, cucumbers, bean sprouts and vegan kimchi.

Restaurant owner Eric Shin said he created the concept as a “passion project.” Shin is also an adjunct faculty member of the University of Maryland’s music department.

“I hear from my students all the time … that there aren’t very many options for food [in College Park],” Shin said.

Matthew Herenstein, the chief operating officer of Orlo Fund, which owns Terrapin Row’s retail space, helped choose Seoulspice as the complex’s first restaurant.

“We thought it would be a great concept for a student body, and that it’s going to be very attractive to the College Park community,” Herenstein said. “It meets perfectly the demands for good, casual, quick dining.”

Seoulspice is a big step up from the typical fast food chains often seen in College Park, Shin said, offering the diversity his students have been asking for.

Sameera Polavarapu, a sophomore international business and marketing major and resident of Terrapin Row, is eager to see something besides a pizza See eatery, p. 2

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THIS house on the 7500 block of dickinson avenue was raided by Prince George’s County Police in March. They discovered 375 cartridges of THC, the main chemical in marijuana. file photo/the diamondback during a raid of his home on the 7500 block of Dickinson Avenue.

Police conducted the search after getting permission from a resident of the home.

A police dog alerted officers to controlled substances found in a package addressed to Kraut.

More than 600 people have since signed a petition for Kraut, a senior communication major, to graduate

and walk with the class of 2017.

The Office of Student Conduct declined to comment on his case, but the possession and distribution of illegal drugs, including THC, the main chemical component in marijuana, are against this university’s Code of Student Conduct. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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CRIME BLOTTER

By Lindsey Collins | @LindsECollins | Staff writer University of Maryland Police responded to reports of a sex offense, hazardous conditions and false robbery over the past week, according to police reports.

Police responded to Fieldhouse Drive at noon for a report of an assault. This case is open.

SEX OFFENSE (TITLE IX-RELATED)

On May 3 at 2:08 a.m., University Police were notified of a robbery that occurred about 45 minutes earlier in the Chapel Field area. The Criminal Investigations Unit began an investigation, and based upon video footage and a follow-up interview with the reporting person, police later confirmed the incident was a false report.

A n emergency v ideo review revealed the reporting person walking in the area where the alleged crime occurred, but no one was seen in her vicinity matching the suspect description.

The same day, detectives applied for and received a cri m i na l su m mons for making a false statement to a police officer. Detectives served 19-year-old Jessica Lynn Devine from Bethesda with the summons, according to a news release.

University Police responded to a report of a n u n l aw f u l touch i n g on May 4 at 12:21 p.m., police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

Witnesses reported a man was seen touching women in an inappropriate manner in the Stamp Student Union and Hornbake Library areas, Hoaas said.

Officers responded to the area and located the man.

He was questioned and issued an immediate denial of access to the campus.

University Police are seek i ng i n form ation about the man involved.

He is described as a black man with short black hair, brown eyes, facial hair and eyeglasses. He stands approx i mately 5 feet 9 inches and weighs about 190 pounds, according to a news release.

Assault University Police responded to the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building on May 3 for a report of an assault at 11:46 a.m. The case remains open.

On May 3, University

FALSE ROBBERY

HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS On May 3 at 1:12 p.m., University Police responded to Technology Drive for a report of a gas leak. A construction worker was digging when he hit a gas pipeline. This case is open. newsumdbk@gmail.com

terrapin row will get a new Korean restaurant later this year. file photo/the diamondback

eatery From p. 1 restaurant come to College Park.

“Since the area is in such a prime location it’s a welcome change not to have just another chain restaurant,” Polavarapu said. “The concept is really unique, and I’m excited to try it out.”

The new location will also feature interior artwork from Peter Chang, who graduated from this university, and painted murals on the walls of the

restaurant’s D.C. location.

The restaurant’s location is also a perk for students, as sophomore Shawn Baek, a civil engineering major and Terrapin Row resident, said he’s traveled to Beltsville for quality Korean food.

“I hope this place becomes a really huge sensation,” Baek said.

“It’s about time a Korean place came close to the campus.”

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Homicide victim found near Lake Artemesia

Prince Lindsey Collins George’s @LindsECollins County P o l i c e a re Staff writer investigating a homicide after a body was found near a walking trail by Lake Artemesia.

A citizen found the man’s body at about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday in the 5 70 0 b l o c k o f N e va d a by

protest From p. 1 as they crossed Regents D r ive a n d c l i m b e d t h e steps to the administration building, where they s t a te d t h e i r d e m a n d s through a megaphone.

Vice President for S t u d e n t A f fa i rs L i n d a Clement came out of the building to address those participating in the sit-in. “[The noose] was a despicable act,” Clement said.

“We’ve outlined a number of things that are in progress around Title IX and undocumented students.”

Clement said university President Wallace Loh was not in the building and the large number of students could not enter due to safety concerns.

Students then shouted Loh was hiding, and the administration was purposefully avoiding taking legitimate action.

After Clement went back inside, students proceeded to pound on the building’s doors and demand action.

“It’s not fair that [Loh] is throwing his colleagues out to us,” Robinson said. “[They’re] taking the bullet that he should be taking.”

In an email sent to The Diamondback, Clement said she “invited [students] to meet and speak with me individually so we can continue to engage in discussions around these important issues we are facing.”

The demands ProtectUMD presented Wednesday were three of the 64 the group had brought to the

Street, about 200 yards into a wooded area in Berwyn Heights, police told Fox 5.

Officers from the Prince George’s County Police Department, Berwyn Heights Police Department and the Maryland-National Capital Park Police Department responded to the scene.

The state medical examiner performed an autopsy

that showed the victim died from blunt force trauma to the body, and his death has been ruled a homicide. Police have not confirmed whether the man was killed in the wooded area or brought there after his death.

The victim’s identity will be released once his family has been notified, police told WTOP.

administration in November.

ProtectUMD held a walkout protest earlier that month.

Danielle Gillis, a senior English and journalism major, said she attended the previous meeting between students from the coalition and the administration.

“It was about six or seven from the coalition,” Gillis said. “Linda Clement was there and then some other administrators. President Loh was not at that meeting.

W h e n eve r so m e o n e sa i d anything that they didn’t like, there would be smirks from administration.”

Today’s protesters did not feel like Loh was taking them seriously, said Lauryn Froneberger, a member of ProtectUMD and the president of this university’s NAACP chapter.

“On a campus where diversity and inclusion is literally on every single poster and we have all these talks about fearless ideas, we’re presenting fearless ideas and no one is listening to us, so why promote these messages?” Froneberger, a senior journalism major, said. “I’m graduating from the university, but I don’t feel proud to be an alumni. If it wasn’t for the black community, I wouldn’t feel safe here.”

Gillis said she was frustrated with the administration’s response.

“They basically told us to figure out how to get all these [demands] done, and then come back to them,” Gillis said.

“I am sorry if I don’t know how to get all these demands done.

I’m a full-time student. This is their full-time job.”

At 3 : 1 5 p . m . s t u d e n t s marched to Loh’s University House on the campus.

JUNIOR FAMILY SCIENCE MAJOR shel eley, in red sweatshirt, raises his fist during the ProtectUMD demonstration in front of the University House Wednesday. jay reed/the diamondback Some expressed their disappointment in the administration’s handling of the protest. “[Clement] shouldn’t have come out,” said Fatima Ahmed, a junior public policy major.

“If Loh was here, he should have come out. He should be our voice. He should be the one speaking to us directly …

He’s who we look up to. He’s our president.”

Kyle Vetrano, a sophomore government and politics major, said he was impressed by the solidarity he saw at the protest.

“You see a lot of students coming together from black organizations, LGBT organizations, Latino organizations and a lot of members of the white community here,” Vetrano said.

Once protesters reached University House, about 10

A suspect has not yet been identified.

The body of former University of Maryland professor Stan Fromovitz was found in the same area in April. His death was ruled accidental, as he died from a heart attack complicated by drowning. newsumdbk@gmail.com

officers from University Police put up caution tape to keep the protesters back.

At 6 p.m., the students decided to disperse and reconvene later because the eve n t i n s i d e wa s fo r t h e Incentive Awards Program, which awards scholarships to minority students, Froneberger said. “ We ’ r e j u s t g o i n g t o regroup and figure out the next plan of action,” Froneberger said. “That could be talking with UMPD and Loh, talking with some other students and figuring out if we want to do a rally, or a teachin so other students could get educated about the issue, or to go down to frat row and do anything.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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‘it’s more than resources’ Some students with disabilites seek unity, services and awareness

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eressa Ferraro has had random people on t h e s t re e t u n we l comely push her wheelchair, which she said is problematic.

“A lot of times, when I am going somewhere and I am crossing the street, someone will just grab my chair and start pushing me, and I’m like, ‘Hello random person I don’t know, please stop touching my chair now,’” the senior Russian and Spanish major said.

Being vocal about her disability, which she describes primarily as a mobility problem, is important and helps raise awareness, she said.

“I yell at them and then people get really offended and say, ‘I was just trying to help,’” she said. “And I am like, ‘Okay, just don’t touch, people. Consider.’”

The Americans with Disabilities Act defines a person with a disability as one “who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a person who has a history or record of such an impairment, or a person who is perceived by others as having such an impairment.” Nearly one in five Americans had a disability in 2010, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

At this university, students can struggle with connecting to other students with disabilities on the campus without a central meeting point, which is essential for raising awareness about disability, Ferraro said.

“Part of raising that awareness is building that community, because without having a community to base that awareness off of, you’re kind of just throwing things into the void,” she said.

Accessibility and Disability Service, located on the lower level of the Shoemaker Building, offers students accommodations and services, including alternate text formats, sign language interpreters for classes, testing accommodations — such as extended exam times, screen magnifiers and text to voice or

By Rosie Kean | @rosiekean | Senior staff writer voice to text dictation software — and Para-transit, according to its website.

ADS is good for helping students with academic accommodations, she said, but another place for students with disabilities to build a community on the campus would be beneficial. In addition to using ADS, students with disabilities can use the Adaptive Technology Lab in McKeldin Library.

Linda Clement, vice president for student affairs, said this university offers many resources for students with disabilities, including the ADS and the Counseling Center’s Learning Assistance Service, which provides free academic support to students.

“We seek to make campus welcoming to all students, in particular students with disabilities,” Clement said.

The President’s Commission on Disability Issues, a group of staff and faculty who advise university President Wallace Loh on issues concerning people with disabilities, held its second annual Disability Summit, a day-long event featuring speakers who discuss topics relevant to the disabled community, on April 21.

Junior information science major Blair Chisholm, who has a disability, said she wants a stronger community of students with disabilities.

Chisholm has been a member of Active Minds, a mental health advocacy group on the campus, since her freshman year and is working on starting a new club for general disability advocacy.

The group’s name is tentatively “Terps for Disability Justice,” and it will focus on educating the campus community about what it means to be disabled, building a community for students with disabilities as well as allies and advocating for policy changes at the campus and local levels, Chisholm said.

Aside from creating a place on the campus for resources where students can meet, students with disabilities also want faculty to be more equipped to have students with disabilities in their classes.

Part of the problem of how disabilities are treated on the campus is that it’s circular, Chisholm said. People who can hide their disabilities will, she added, but because they do, others don’t realize how many people are a part of this community, leading to less awareness.

“If someone is able to hide their disability, a lot of times they will choose to do that, because it’s a way to avoid some of the stigma and discrimination,” Chisholm said. But because of that, people don’t realize just how many people with disabilities they might be interacting with on a daily basis, she explained.

Chisholm once presented an accommodations letter from ADS to a professor, who didn’t “seem to understand that this has already been approved.”

“I don’t know if professors are really taught about how that kind of thing should be handled,” she said, adding that faculty should be trained on having students with disabilities in their classes.

Clement said there is no mandatory training about having students with disabilities in classes. The Office of Diversity and Inclusion offers diversity training for specific experiences of discrimination, such as religious bias, racism, homophobia, ageism, ableism and sexism, according to its website. But these trainings are voluntary, Clement said.

“Typically what happens is that a faculty member gets a student in his class that needs accommodations, and that’s when the faculty member will learn what it’s like [to have a student with a disability in the classroom],” Clement said. “It’s an individual education of faculty one at a time. It’s hard for them to learn everything they need to know to respond to every different kind of disability.”

Ferraro said she makes a point to vocalize accommodations she receives for her academic assignments. Some of her professors have worked with her on her accommodations, whichcaninclude getting extensions on assignments. The

extra time can be very helpful for some students who have physical disabilities, she said.

“When I get extensions on papers, I am vocal about it and I am vocal about why,” she said. “I didn’t get an extension because I didn’t feel like doing it, I got an extension because I couldn’t do anything this weekend because my medication was acting up.”

The normalization of “nonstandard things,” such as getting accommodations for class or using a wheelchair, can help improve the way people with disabilities are viewed on campus, Ferraro said.

“Some of that is on us as disabled students being able to be out there and say those things around our classmates, but I think it is a little on our professors in terms of making that space available,” Ferraro said.

Another way to raise awareness may be to establish a disability studies minor, Chisholm said. Carolyn Fink and Peter Leone, lecturer and professor, respectively, in the special education program, tried to establish the minor more than two years ago with a Moving Maryland Forward grant from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, which supports projects addressing goals of this university’s Strategic plan for diversity. But the program fell through due to various issues including funding, Fink said. “[The minor is] really eye-opening and becomes a way we think about the world in terms of how we can include marginalized groups and just acknowledge diversity,” Fink said. “We wish we could reward students for that.”

Other Big Ten universities, including Ohio State University and the University of Iowa, offer this minor or a certificate for disability studies. But even without this program, Fink said faculty and students “can continue to have a disability studies mindset without having the credential.”

Paul Jaeger, a co-chair of the Disability Summit and director of the information

studies college’s Master of Library & Information Science program, said something as simple as aggregating resources onto a single website could help student with disabilities make connections and find resources.

But there is more to the issue than lack of resources, or a central space for those resources, Jaeger said.

“There’s a long history of disability being socially distanced,” Jaeger said.

“Any dealing with disability in any context, there’s like an extra tension with dealing with it. Certainly more resources would be good, but it’s more than resources. There’s also a lot of perceptional things.”

Last summer, Ferraro traveled to Ecuador through the Education Abroad office’s Disabilities in Global Context program. She said she had previously written a paper about how she would not be able to study abroad because of her disability, but the office’s director, Moira Rogers, talked to her personally and made her apply, she said.

While she was in Ecuador, Ferraro insisted on going on a hiking trip. She dislocated her knee, but she doesn’t regret it.

“Sometimes, when you step out of your comfort zone and push your boundaries, you find that they were there for a reason, and that was one of those instances for me,” she said. “But I was able to have that experience and learn from that, as opposed to just being told that I couldn’t and having that opportunity closed.”

Ferraro will be traveling abroad again this summer to Argentina through Education Abroad.

“The study abroad office has been really great about working with me,” Ferraro said. “One of the things that [the office] has done that I haven’t necessarily seen other places on campus do is see us just as other students who just need something a little bit different.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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University report card Administration: C+ Far too often, this university has sent its students mixed messages. University President Wallace Loh showed support for undocumented students and criticized President Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric, then wrote off several of ProtectUMD’s demands that would have aided marginalized communities, such as when he deemed the need for a sanctuary campus “unnecessary.” Loh censured Trump’s travel ban and stood by international students, but this university will slap them with a new fee in the fall.

And Loh hasn’t shown a commitment to his permanent diversity commissions despite praising this university’s diverse student body. Though we admire his defense of science and higher education, Loh and the university must take a stronger stand for students. After the Student Government Association voted in favor of an annual $34 student fee to help fund the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct, which was later withdrawn, the administration announced four new positions to be added to the Title IX Office and two in the CARE to Stop Violence office. Transparent efforts such as this one that show an immediate commitment to students are too few and far between.

University Senate: AThis university’s senate has pushed for important, progressive legislation in the past year, and this editorial board commends its intentions. Most notably, the senate passed a bill that would require face-to-face training in bystander intervention of sexual assault.

While the bill took nearly two full semesters to pass — it was initially proposed in October and passed in April — we commend their commitment to helping students combat one of the most pressing issues facing college campuses. The senate moved swiftly

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in condemning Trump’s travel ban, however, calling it “detrimental to the national interests of the United States” in its February meeting.

RHA: AFor as long as Loh will hand out turtle pins with an impish grin, the RHA will continue to face a barrage of student complaints, ranging from the quality of our diners to the size our parking lots. This year, they met these complaints with open ears and a willingness to listen. Despite a rocky start, Dining Services assuaged students’ culinary grievances through its transition to Anytime Dining. Meanwhile, the RHA Senate helped curb this university’s carbon footprint through a new Department of Transportation Services environmental impact assessment. Throw a fiercely debated mandatory student metro fee and new diversity outreach efforts, and the RHA’s list of accomplishments begins to tower over even the tallest of residence halls.

SGA: BThe SGA faced an abundance of criticism this year, specifically regarding yet another virtually uncontested election. The One Party swept every race — the vast majority of which were uncontested — after the Unity Party withdrew following a rules violation. This editorial board voiced concerns regarding the SGA’s exclusive pipeline, and acknowledged the SGA is at its best when its resources are put toward student empowerment rather than symbolic legislation. That’s not to say the SGA is entirely out of touch. The SGA’s Title IX fee proposal, though flawed, led to administrative action to aid sexual misconduct prevention. The Student Leadership Grant to aid low-income students displayed keen awareness of the difficulty of remaining engaged on the campus.

This editorial board hopes to see more outreach and advocacy efforts next year.

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A Terrapin at twilight Jack Siglin @_InTheBox Columnist

In May 2013, I felt like I had 27,000 reasons not to come to the University of Maryland. My thinking: too close to home. Too many kids from my high school graduating class.

Too big of a pond with way, way too many undergrads.

Coming from a high school of 1,200 students, the sheer size of this university threw me for a loop.

There are almost exactly as many undergraduate students here as there are National Park Service employees. The difference, of course, is that those 27,000 Park Service employees are spread out over 52.2 million acres. Our campus is about 2 square miles.

Eventually, I came around. The finances made too much sense to ignore, a kid named Melo Trimble had just committed and the school’s proximity to Washington D.C. was a nice perk. With professional school aspirations, I figured I’d take the money and try not to get eaten as a small fish in the proverbial large pond.

With two weeks left, I have yet to be eaten. Truthfully, I’ve loved my time here and couldn’t imagine going anywhere else. Maybe it’s the nostalgia goggles I’m wearing as I type this, but I’m even beginning to fondly remember the North Campus Dining Hall. Truly, time heals all wounds (looking at you, now-defunct quesadilla station).

Emily Dickinson wrote, “By a departing light/ We see acuter, quite.”

Retrospectively, then, let’s process some of the cliches of college and see if they hold water four years hence.

“Follow your passions!” I’d call this one valid, with a slight amendment.

I’d suggest finding an outlet for your passions, which is not necessarily the same thing as pursuing them professionally. Certainly, I’d never make it as a writer, but I do love the process — and by my count, this is my 51st published editorial.

“Step outside your comfort zone!”

This one gets two thumbs up from me. College is the perfect time to get a dumb haircut. It’s also a particularly consequence-free time to test out a bunch of possible interests and see what resonates. Some will hit — I’ve discovered a latent fascination with English Language Learner education policy — and some will miss (I’m still on the ListServ, though, horticulture club. Sorry).

“These are the best years of your life!” The jury’s still out on this one, but I hope it’s wrong. I’m not prepared to resign myself to a downhill slope from here on out.

As it turns out, coming to this university was the best decision I’ve made. That’s not to say it was a perfect experience. Part of the message is to enjoy the good, and to try and learn something from the bad and the ugly.

Four years hence, I’m about 10 pounds heavier and 10 years more grown up.

Maryland, it’s been a pleasure.

Go Terps. jsiglindbk@gmail.com

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Unfortunately, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not improve Joseph Kuttler @opiniondbk Columnist

The IsraeliPalestinian conflict is intensely complex; anyone who argues either extreme as if it were a black-and-white issue does not understand this reality.

Efforts at reconciliation have waxed and waned over time. However, the current status quo represents the best realistic scenario for this conflict. To understand why, we must look at history.

At the turn of the 20th century, Jewish leaders — led by Theodor Herzl — recognized the incessant and vicious anti-Semitism that Jews faced worldwide and understood the need for a Jewish state, where Jews could have autonomy and protect themselves. Jewish leaders considered creating a state in the land of modern Uganda, another British colony, but eventually decided the ancient, biblical homeland of Israel was best. It is important to note the proposals for Uganda and Palestine did not entirely account for the existing populations of those lands.

World War II and the Holocaust created a more urgent need for a Jewish state. In November 1947, the United Nations voted to partition the land of British Mandate of Palestine between Israelis and Arabs. The countries surrounding Israel – Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan – were none too pleased with this resolution and urged the Arabs living in British Mandatory Palestine to withdraw from the country. The invaders planned to push the Jews

into the sea, whereupon the local Arabs could reclaim their abodes.

Unfortunately for those Arabs, the neighboring states failed to conquer the land and murder all of the Jews.

The Arabs, some of whom had willingly displaced themselves, became refugees seeking shelter primarily in the Jordanian-occupied West Bank.

After the Six-Day War in 1967, in which the Arab states again failed to wipe out Israel’s existence, Israel took control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as the Sinai peninsula and the Golan Heights (although the Sinai peninsula was later ceded back to Egypt). Here lies the principal driver of the modern Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with the Palestinian Arabs henceforth under Israeli control.

In 1993, under the Oslo Accords, Palestinians obtained autonomy within the West Bank and Gaza, gaining control of their own judiciary, governance and welfare.

However, they did not receive the right to militarize.

Israel’s decision to not hand over military control to the Palestinians was affirmed in the 2000s. In 2005, Israel destroyed all of its settlements in Gaza and fully withdrew from the Gaza Strip. Gaza then became a completely autonomous Palestinian state, responsible for its own security. The people of Gaza elected Hamas as their ruling party. Hamas’ charter calls for the destruction of Israel, saying, “Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its

predecessors.” Furthermore, it states, “leaving the circle of conflict with Israel is a major act of treason and it will bring curse on its perpetrators.” Since Hamas attained power, Gaza has bombarded Israel with countless rockets and initiated three wars, in 2008-09, 2012 and 2014.

After ceding territory to the Palestinians and facing bombardments and attacks from that territory, Israel is understandably wary of giving the Palestinians any more land.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains far more complex than my summary would suggest. Terrorist attacks and massacres from both sides during the 1940s, failed negotiation attempts,multiple intifadas — uprisings started by Palestinians to express their exasperation over their perceived belittled status — that killed over 1,000 Israelis, Russian and American political influence in the Middle East and differing religious backgrounds and values all influenced the nature of this conflict.

The countless facets of this conflict suggest the actors cannot resolve the situation in a mutually equitable manner.

In an ideal world, the Palestinians would retain their political autonomy while also controlling their own defense. Israel could confidently trade more of its land for lasting peace.

However, we do not live in this ideal world, and we probably never will. jkuttler@umd.edu

Within the first month of my freshman year of college, I found myself in a random classroom, painting coffee mugs and trying to make a good impression on a group of Asian girls who were strangers to me. We laughed about boys and tried not to get our hands dirty.

If you had told me I’d end up joining the University of Maryland’s chapter of alpha Kappa Delta Phi, an international Asian-interest sorority, I would have laughed in your face.

See, I was not a “sorority girl.”

And the last thing I wanted to do was join an exclusive, Asians-only social club. I didn’t want to be a product of “self-segregation.”

Self-segregation is what you see in Mean Girls, when Janis Ian introduces Cady Heron to the racially divided cliques in the cafeteria during lunch.

Janis maps out the room like an explorer surveying entire countries, subtly reinforcing the notion that people of the same race have natural tendencies to hang out with each other.

Few people discuss self-segregation.

It’s the looming elephant in the room, especially on college campuses where young individuals are learning how to live in the real world. Because of the prominence of “segregation,” the term doesn’t sit well in a lot of people’s mouths.

The Atlantic’s Catherine Green reprinted an email she received from one of her readers who grew up in Europe detailing the reader’s experiences with self-segregation in college. “If you only associate yourself with people who look like you, there are a lot of people who won’t be part of the system,” the reader wrote. “And a lot of people who you won’t feel inclined to care about.”

While this is valid, the statement disregards people like me who have found refuge in communities where they have connected with people of similar cultures, backgrounds and upbringings. It tells minority groups — often marginalized people — that it’s wrong to naturally seek those with whom we feel comfortable.

As a first-generation Filipino immigrant in a predominantly white university, I found a home in an Asian-interest sorority. Sure, not all of my sisters were able to identify with my beliefs and practices, but aKDPhi gave me a welcoming feeling of familiarity — one that proved crucial in the weird,limbo state of college.

Self-segregation isn’t the problem.

The problem remains embedded in the

hostile communities that do not fully understand or empathize with our cultures. They continue to marginalize us through microaggressions and false, post-racial “wokeness.”

Just last week, American University student Taylor Dumpson woke up to bananas hung on miniature nooses all over her campus bearing the words “Harambe Bait” and the letters “AKA.” She was the school’s first female black student government president and was a sister of Alpha Kappa Alpha, an international, historically black sorority.

Former Washington University student Andreas Mitchell wrote about his positive experiences in the mixedrace community, justifying the importance of cultural communities. “[P]eople of the same identity might also choose to associate on the basis of common interests, beliefs, or practices.

Slavery and segregation created minority communities that developed their own customs when they were legally excluded from mainstream society,” Mitchell wrote.“The common attitudes and practices that developed in minority communities under systemic oppression deserve to be protected through minority associations.”

Mitchell also writes that the term “self-segregation” puts some demographic groups “on the defensive,” hindering any progress toward muchneeded dialogue.

Rather than making individuals feel like mere numbers in a diversity quota, universities need to foster raw dialogue and face the idea that self-segregation occurs because minority groups are silenced by dominant groups. Colleges need to normalize diversity and address it naturally, rather than flaunting it like a championship trophy. Increased recognition and funding for groups that naturally bring about diversity — such as multicultural Greek organizations — must be on the forefront of any administrative diversity conversation.

I officially became a sister of aKDPhi at the end of last semester. By the beginning of next semester, I will be on our executive board. As much as I previously despised the idea of being a part of an Asian sorority, the experience has given me lifelong sisters, a sense of identity and a community that feels like home every single day. Those who criticize “self-segregating” organizations first need to explore the underlying, institutionalized system that isolates us in the first place. marismedina29@gmail.com

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city From p. 8 have spilled over into the city council when certain agenda items concerning development are voted on or discussed.

“Oh it’s very divided — it’s District 1 and District 4, and then District 2 and 3 take another viewpoint on many things, and then of course the mayor breaks the tie,” Cook said, noting that some older residents may not take advantage of downtown amenities.

D i s t r i c t 2 Co u n c i l m a n P.J. Brennan said that while some of the “high-profile votes,” such as contributing to the IFC PHA Tailgate, get council members riled up, “we are fairly unanimous in our support for a lot of the actions that the city is taking.”

Revitalization of other areas The city is exploring other ways to spruce up the northern areas of the city, such as the Hollywood Streetscape

pruitt From p. 1 $ 5 ,0 9 0.5 0, ove r two se mesters, according to SGA bylaws. Former SGA President Katherine Swanson said she received $2,545 per semester after taxes during the 2016-17 academic year.

The honorarium is funded through the Student Activities Fee. “It should really go toward paying tuition, which is its stated purpose, so I will not accept all of it,” said Pruitt, a junior economics and government and politics major.

When university President Wallace Loh assumed his position in 2010, College Park and this university entered into a phase of unprecedented collaboration.

This partnership has catalyzed the revitalization of the city’s downtown, yet both the residents and city council members have hesitations about the urbanization, especially as northern residents said parking and traffic inhibit them from using these new amenities.

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parking lot, said Judy Blumenthal, who’s been resident of District 1 for more than 20 years.

“There was always traffic, but you never had to work your schedule around the traffic. Now you do,” Blumenthal said.

H owe ve r, 7 1 - ye a r - o l d Adele Ellis, who moved to College Park more than 30 years ago, said “you can’t turn back the clock,” and these developments show progress. Ellis said she’s in favor of the downtown developments, which are within walking distance of her home, but she cautioned over-developing the area.

“There’s a real fine line between wanting to have amenities and wanting to live downtown,” said Ellis, a District 3 resident. “A lot of people moved here because t h ey d i d n ’t wa n t to l ive downtown. They moved here because it was a quiet college town, but at the same time, it didn’t have a lot of things that would make life easier and/or exciting.”

John Rigg, 41, president of the Calvert Hills Civic As-

sociation in District 3, said he’s concerned there’s a possibility this university could assume too much control in the relationship.

Though Rigg, a 10-year resident, said he supports the collaboration overall.

“I don’t accept everything that is put before [the city] as a university priority [is] something we should automatically support,” he said.

University officials declined to comment.

Macknis said a partnership between the two entities is valuable, but the city must retain its history. “ I a p p re ci a te h av i n g the university here, but …

College Park has more than just the University of Maryland,” Macknis said. “I think that is lost not only by the virtue of having the University of Maryland here, but I think the city council, or the government there, tends to focus a lot with the university.”

R o s e G r e e n e C o l b y, a 20-year District 2 resident, said she sees these developments as moving more toward a “balance” between

serving resident and student needs.

“I know a lot of folks who live in the corridor and these n e i g h b o rh o o d s w i l l l o o k forward to going [downtown],” said Greene Colby, 50. “While maybe five years ago it seemed like we were just getting more pizza joints and more Chinese food restaurants, and there wasn’t a mix of opportunities or a mix of amenities for everyone to enjoy.”

Blumenthal, who said she has no resentment toward t h e i n c rea s e d a m e n i t i e s downtown, cautioned that College Park is not meant to be “contained.” Being located on the main artery of Route 1, she said she fears both the city’s residents and commuters will be affected by potential over-development for the area.

“What my analogy is, [is] that if a 75-pound 4-foot person [were] playing profe ss i o n a l fo o tba l l ,” B l u menthal said, “we’re that 75-pound, 4-foot person; we’re going to get crushed.”

Pruitt said he is looking into ways to dedicate some of the honorarium money to helping students with the cost of tuition and attendance at this university.

“I’m going to make sure that any money I don’t accept is going to a good cause and is going back to students, because I think that is important,” he said.

The Student Activities Fee is used to “fund and support programs and initiatives that are undertaken by undergraduate students,” according to the SGA manual on financial affairs. The fee

cannot be spent on items such as charitable donations, scholarships, or giveaways, said Alia Abdelkader, SGA’s vice president of finance.

“If A.J. accepts the money, he can do whatever he wants with it,” said Abdelkader, a junior business analytics and information systems and operations management major.

“Should he choose to reject honorarium, the ultimate approval would lie within my committee with how that funding can be spent.”

Swanson said the honorarium was created to ensure there are no financial barri-

ers keeping someone from running for SGA presidency or carrying out the position.

Most presidents work 40 to 45 hours per week, a time co m m i t m e n t t h a t wo u l d make it difficult for one to hold other jobs at the same time, Swanson said.

“If someone pays for college but does not think they can run for president because they have a part time job on campus that helps them pay for college, then they are being barred from representing the students and we don’t want that to happen,” the senior government and politics major said.

The Committee on Accountability and Ethics, a closed committee within t h e SGA , eva l u a te s t h e president’s progress at the e n d o f ea c h s e m e s te r to determine if they deserve honorarium.

The committee — made up of the financial affairs assistant vice president, three members of the executive branch appointed by the president, three representatives appointed by the speaker pro tempore and a nonvoting SGA member — is called together by the

speaker of the legislature and analyzes a report submitted by the president detailing the work he or she completed that semester, said former speaker Chris Ricigliano.

The committee also discusses its observations of the president’s work, as its members are part of SGA in some capacity, said Ricigliano, a junior government and politics and history major.

Other student government bodies in the Big Ten pay other members of their organizations such as the legislators or speakers, Swanson said.

Before 2004, all SGA members at this university were paid.

During SGA election d e ba te s i n Ap r i l , fo r m e r p re s i d e n t i a l ca n d i d a te Christopher Boretti said it is unnecessary to pay members to serve the student body.

The University of Wisconsin’s student government pays members on its student services finance committee a stipend of up to $20 per meeting, according to the Associated Students of Madison bylaws.

project, which was formed in 2014 to revitalize Hollywood’s Commercial District by improving sidewalks and street lighting, as well as adding a wellness circuit.

D u r i n g a M ay 2 wo rk session, the city council decided to wait before proceeding on this project, in order to get more community feedback.

Some residents of North College Park said they would also like to see revitalization of the current businesses and vacancies in the area’s various strip centers, but the council only has so much authority over what moves into the city, said Terry Schum, the city’s planning director.

The city owns and controls four major properties in the city: City Hall, the Youth and Family Services building, Davis Hall and its adjoining Department of Public Works Yard and the Calvert Road School, Schum said.

Negotiations over all other properties are between the landowners and the potential developers, Schum said.

In these cases, the council can provide comments, but

as long as the development complies with zoning, which is controlled by the county, Schum said, there’s not much the city can do to oppose it.

In 2010, a zoning change was proposed for the Hollywood Commercial District, Schum said, but without community support, it did not pass. Thus North College Park has stricter zoning requirements than downtown, making redevelopment near there less feasible.

Pruitt’s parents, David Pruitt and Laurel Kiser, are professors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and have worked in the university system since 2000, Pruitt said. Because he is the child of a university system employee of at least two years, and because the undergraduate programs Pruitt studies are not offered at the University of Maryland, Baltimore — where his parents work — Priutt said he is eligible to receive 100 percent tuition remission for courses taken at other institutions in the university system.

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guardians of the patriarchy Marvel comics are growing more diverse. The movies aren’t.

By Taylor Stokes | @taylormstokes | Staff writer

guardians of the galaxy vol. 2 is just the latest Marvel film that, while featuring piecemeal diversity, centers a white, straight, cisgender male as its main character who eventually rises above the choas and emerges as the transcendent hero who saves the day.

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here are two main ways to approach the Marvel franchise: through its comics, or through its movies.

And although the latter are based off the former, it’s clear the films are bringing the company the most popularity.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Thor: Ragnarok have been some of the most highly anticipated movies of 2017, and that’s not even mentioning the success that Marvel Studios has had in the past with films such as Iron Man, The Avengers or Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

I became involved with the Marvel universe primarily through its movies. Iron Man and Captain America: The First Avenger piqued my interest in the beginning; they were fun movies that were entertaining to watch, but didn’t totally make me the dedicated fan I consider myself to be today. That all changed with The Avengers. I absolutely fell in love, broadly with the

Marvel universe, but more specifically with Black Widow.

She was the first Marvel character I felt a genuine connection with, and I craved to learn more about her.

It was at this time that I began seeking out the comics.

I tore through Nathan Edmondson and Phil Noto’s Black Widow: The Finely Woven Thread, along with a couple of Hawkeye, Captain Marvel and Winter Soldier comics.

During this time, more Marvel films were being released, expanding the movie universe in seemingly endless directions.

The more time I spent in comic book shops, however, the more I noticed one significant difference between the books and the movies: As Marvel comics seemed to be continuously getting more diverse, the movies weren’t growing to represent that diversity.

I’ll admit, I originally wrote this off as being too nitpicky.

I didn’t want to think that the movies I had grown to love weren’t inclusive of all types of heroes. It honestly wasn’t

until I sat through Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 that I truly accepted what I’m sure many people before me have recognized — Marvel movies have a major diversity problem.

What’s interesting to me about this predicament is that the comics don’t necessarily have this issue. Within the past couple of years, there’s been a major shift in the type of hero people are seeing on the cover of Marvel’s comics. In 2014, Kamala Khan, a 16-year-old Pakistani-American girl, became Ms. Marvel; she was the first Muslim character to star at the center of a comic book series. In 2015, Amadeus Cho, an Asian-American mastermind, took over the form of The Hulk from Bruce Banner.

And just last year, Marvel announced that Riri Williams, a 15-year-old black student at MIT, would walk in Tony Stark’s footsteps as the new iron superhero, Ironheart.

On the flip side, of course, are the movies. Out of the 14 live-action Marvel movies that

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squads to back them up, but even in those, there’s usually only one or two women or people of color present. And when they are present, they are never given the task of being the ‘main’ hero; they’re never responsible for the final push toward victory. They help, of course, as part of the team, but the main struggle almost always resides with the white man.

Yet while an interesting storyline is important, the main reason Marvel needs to start including more diversity is simple authenticity. As crazy as it seems, white men aren’t the only people in this world who have stories worth telling. And although Marvel is a company that deals strictly with the fantastical, superhero genre, it’s already proven it’s capable of sharing different stories within its comics. By adapting these stories to fit on the big screen, it would be reaching out to a whole new set of people who may not have connected with the franchise before.

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popular with the general public, not just within specific comic book niches. Because of this, and to accurately and authentically reflect its audience, the company needs to include a larger variety of stories. By failing to do so, what the company is ultimately saying — whether it’s intentional or not — is that these stories don’t matter, that the story of a 16-year-old Pakistani-American superhero just isn’t as important as Captain America saving the day for the third movie in a row.

Marvel is a multi-billion dollar company that specializes in storytelling. It’s proven it can expand its repertoire to include characters of all different backgrounds in its comic books.

But for the company to rea l ly c o n n e c t w i t h a n d respect its audience, it needs to start doing the same with its films.

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City ‘more than just the university’ S

i n ce m ov i n g to College Park more than 40 years ago, Carol Macknis said the town she knew for many years has entirely transformed.

And though the 70-yearold District 1 resident said the city’s neighborhoods have “ kind of stayed the same,” the increased amount of development and heavy traffic flow are concerning to her and her neighbors.

“When I see people who had come to College Park 15 to 20 years ago, I ask them [if] they had been to College Park recently, and they say ‘No.’ I say ‘You are in for a major surprise,’ because of all the construction,” Macknis said. “Sometimes I feel there’s a little bit too much construction.”

College Park’s population is made up of roughly 70 percent students and 30 percent longterm residents, said Mayor Patrick Wojahn. As the city, university and student populations continue to grow, some

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The high-profile openings of MilkBoy ArtHouse in May and The Hotel at the University of Maryland, scheduled to open sometime in July, are visible markers of the Greater College Park initiative — a partnership between various stakeholders including the

city, Prince George’s County and the state of Maryland.

Some College Park residents, specifically in the northern areas of the city, said they feel left out as development surges downtown, while strip centers and sidewalks remain dilapidated in their regions.

“All of that development [downtown] is really good,”

said 41-year-old Emily Larkin, who has lived in the city for more than four years. “I’d like to see a little bit of development aimed more at the town, [rather] than just the students, and we’ve got a couple of little strip malls up here … I’d just like to see that particular commercial area get a little bit more dressed up and a little shinier.”

The overwhelming majority of the new developments, restaurants and shops popping up in College Park are located in Districts 2 and 3.

Meanwhile, the greatest concentration of long-term residents live in North College Park, which is made up primarily of Districts 1 and 4.

However, the vacancy rate is

14.3 percent in District 1 and 9.9 percent in District 4.

The city’s overall vacancy rate is 7.6 percent, said Ryan Chelton, the city’s economic development coordinator.

District 4 Councilwoman Mary Cook questioned whether the increased collaboration and overall developments are beneficial for the city holistically, specifically to areas north of Route 193.

Oscar Gregory, a 10-year resident of District 4, said residents are speaking up and council members are “opening their eyes to what the residents have been talking about for a while.”

The 62-year-old referenced the council’s recent vote to fund the IFC PHA tailgate, and said “those kinds of things, that kind of narrative, I’m telling you if you want to divide the community, that’s exactly what’s being done.”

Similar concerns and a general sense of separation See city, p. 6

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Terps miss Big Ten tournament Wright’s team confident about future with young talent The Maryland softball team was 0-8.

Northwestern State had just rocked the Terps, 13-2, in six innings Feb. 17. The next day, Maryland lost to Florida A&M before playing No. 1 Florida in the second half of its doubleheader. Signs pointed to a second straight tournament sweep to start the season.

But that’s when the Terps completed one of the largest upsets of the college softball campaign. The Gators lost only five games during the regular season, four of those coming at the hands of Top-25 programs.

The other loss was against Maryland. It was the Terps’ first win of the year.

Pitcher Madison Martin walked out of the circle with a by

Andy Kostka @afkostka Staff writer

HARTSHORN From p. 12 Lacrosse’s No. 1 recruiting class in the country. Hartshorn was listed No. 29 of the freshmen, but she wasn’t even among the five highest ranked Terps rookies.

Still, from the first time Re e s e a n d h e r s ta f f s aw Hartshorn at a camp they hosted, they believed she was a “total stud.”

“Regardless of whether you’re No. 1 or 30,” Hartshorn said, “if you go out there and score, you’re a lacrosse player.”

FINDING A NICHE Hartshorn had few difficulties adjusting to a new state with so many players who knew each other, integrating herself into the Maryland family.

There was one wrinkle in the transition, though. Hartshorn said the style of play between New Jersey and Maryland was not only different, but noticeable the moment she stepped onto the field with her teammates.

Hartshorn’s former coach

calm demeanor, as if knocking off top-ranked opponents were an everyday occurrence. While the Terps defeated then-No. 24 Missouri and then-No. 18 Michigan later in the year — beating three top-25 opponents for the first time since 2010 — those were highlights of an otherwise disappointing season. Maryland finished last in the Big Ten with its worst-ever winning percentage (.216).

“Next year, the big thing to work on is that we’re going to play consistent,” coach Julie Wright said. “We play consistent softball every single game, you’ll win a lot more that way.”

In pitching, batting and fielding, Maryland ranked in the bottom three of the Big Ten. Martin and pitcher Hannah Dewey threw more than 80 percent of the innings. While

the pair was a part of a group that held the second-worst ERA in the conference (4.69), both pitched gems in marquee victories, carrying a pitching staff that consisted of three underclassmen outside the two seniors.

Dewey allowed two runs in 5.1 innings against Florida, while Martin earned the save. Dewey surrendered just one run in 11 frames against Penn State for an extra-innings win. Martin threw one-hitters in complete-game victories over Bowling Green and St. John’s.

B u t t h e t wo p i tc h e rs ’ graduation leaves a 286.1inning hole in the bullpen.

It’s a larger void than the one pitcher Brenna Nation vacated last year. When the redshirt junior graduated, it thrusted pitcher Lauren Graves into the circle, a freshman who wasn’t

at Ultimate Lacrosse Club in New Jersey, Michele DeJuliis, described that difference as a consistency and fluidity in play with players from Maryland.

She said they’re aggressive, yet under control, with a high lacrosse IQ and an understanding of how to play as a unit.

Though Hartshorn didn’t develop in Maryland, DeJuliis knew she’d fit in.

“From the moment you watch her for the first time, you know that she’s that type of player,” DeJuliis said. “She’s smooth with her skills, she’s a fighter and she’s tough like those Maryland players.”

Reese attributed Hartshorn’s seamless transition to her competitive nature, saying it’s “driven her to be a force all over the field.”

extent of her involvement for the time being.

She knew filling Cummings’ job could draw comparisons, but Hartshorn said she wants to start her “own way of playing” rather than emulate the former star, whom she described as “very unique.”

However, she has used Cummings as a resource.

Before the North Carolina game, Hartshorn reached out to Cummings to ask for tips prior to squaring up with Tar Heel attacker Sammy Jo Tracy, one of the nation’s best on the draw.

Hartshorn is the team’s second-leading scorer with 49 goals. With 85 draw controls, she’s nine away from Cummings’ freshman total. The century mark is within reach, as the Terps open their NCAA tournament slate Sunday and could play up to four postseason contests.

“To be able to step on the field coming out of high school, do the draw, get it every time and just be such a staple in our offense, it’s really exciting,” attacker Megan Whittle said. “I don’t even think she’s hit her peak yet.”

‘SETTING HER OWN MARK’ At the team’s media day Feb. 6, Reese announced Hartshorn would take over draw duties, a role occupied by three-time Tewaaraton Award winner Taylor Cummings for the past four years. Even Hartshorn thought that would be the

supposed to pitch much in her rookie campaign.

The White Hall, Arkansas, native struggled out of the gate with her command. In 20 innings, Graves walked 33 batters and allowed 37 runs. While she improved down the stretch by throwing 2.2 scoreless innings against Wisconsin, her ERA never recovered from the earlyseason shock, finishing at 9.45. “[Graves will] help lead this pitching staff [next season],” Wright said. “Her tremendous improvement over the year, in the bullpen and all the work she did, she’s really going to shine. … We just had a plan in place, and we had to change that plan a little bit. It’s tough to rush her process, and when you do that … sometimes you don’t get the end result you want.”

Along with Graves, pitchers Sami Main and Ari Jarvis should move into larger roles.

Main threw five innings while playing in the infield on occasion. Jarvis tossed 14.2 innings during the season-opening Texas Invitational, but finished the year with only 28.2 frames.

Next season, Wright said she’s adding a talented freshman pitcher.

While seniors drove the pitching staff, four newcomers hit above .250 this year. Outfielder Amanda Brashear led the team with a .304 batting average and infielder Anna Kufta hit a teamhigh six home runs.

After Maryland split its midweek doubleheader against Rutgers last week, the team’s chances at a Big Ten tournament berth slimmed. But when Maryland arrived in College Park after its bus trip home from New Brunswick, New Jersey, the freshmen asked their coach to turn the softball field lights on so they could hit more.

“That is a future,” Wright said. “[Kufta] will be a mainstay, that’s for sure.”

Maryland’s 8-3 loss to Wisconsin on Friday ended its hopes of making the conference tournament, causing the team to miss out on the 12-team competition for the second straight year.

Kufta played shortstop for the first time in her career this year as part of a large infield reshuffle to begin Big Ten play. While the team finished the year secondworst in the conference with a .945 fielding percentage, that rate improved in confer-

ence games. The Terps were seventh in Big Ten games with a .957 fielding percentage.

In one of the most complex positions on the field, Kufta faced a constant learning curve. Reese plans to move Kufta, whom she recruited as a catcher and third baseman, behind the plate next year after catcher Kristina Dillard’s graduation.

The move leaves three infield positions open. Juli Strange graduates from third base while Jordan Aughinbaugh vacates first base. Wright said athletes playing in comfortable positions from the beginning of the year spurs consistency.

While six seniors are leaving the program, six freshmen will join. Wright expects her current players to continue working hard by setting the tone during the fall season.

“We’ll be young but very talented,” Wright said. “There’s a lot of work that got done this season that no one, outside of us, will see until next year. Then all of a sudden, you’ll be like, ‘Wow, that looks entirely different.’

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Re e se d o e s n ’t wa n t to c o m p a re H a r ts h o r n a n d Cummings, partly because they’re different players and partly because of Cummings’ legacy at Maryland.

After all, the ten-year coach said Hartshorn is “setting her own mark.”

“She’s got big shoes to fill, but Kali is going to be Kali,” DeJuliis said. “She’s going to do her best to make Taylor proud of what she’s doing, and make Maryland proud of what she’s doing.

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VAUGHN From p. 12 Though Vaughn had little experience, Szefc wanted him to be the Terps hitting instructor.

Now in his fifth season with Maryland, Vaughn has relied on “The Pack,” a hitting philosophy Sawyers implemented at Kansas State, to direct the Terps offense. The Terps are hitting .276, helping the program accomplish its fifth consecutive 30-win season.

The production stems from “The Pack’s” three pillars: toughness, approach and intensity.

“Every kid craves an identity,” Vaughn said. “They crave discipline whether they think they do or not.”

Before giving Maryland’s offense an identity, though, Vaughn had to find his own.

TIRED OF BEING AVERAGE

pursuing him. So was Szefc.

But Vaughn was convinced after touring Kansas State. With major-league aspirations, Vaughn joined the Wildcats.

In his first three collegiate seasons, Vaughn struggled to differentiate himself. He was encouraged to take as many pitches as possible and hit ground balls to the right side of the infield. Then, Sawyers introduced his version of “The Pack.”

Sawyers changed Vaughn’s swing, giving him a leg kick and encouraging him to drive the ball, pulling it to left field. Nothing changed until Vaughn and his teammates were hitting at Kansas State’s indoor practice facility during a fall practice. Sawyers started screaming.

“I remember telling him, ‘Are you tired of being average?’”

Sawyers said. “‘You’ve been average your whole career and you’re being average now. You can be good. I need you to start being good right now.’”

Vaughn responded by batting around .300 and hitting five home runs during his senior year. He notably hit a home run against Wichita State, the Wildcats’ instate rival. He jogged around the bases smirking, displaying his renewed confidence.

Then, Vaughn helped the Wildcats become the first team to sweep Nebraska in the history of Haymarket Park. During one of the games, a wild pitch sent Vaughn to the screen. With A.J. Morris covering the plate, the runner collided with the Wildcats starter. The two fought.

Vaughn got between them and was ejected.

That season, Kansas State qualified for the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history.

“Not softspoken, but well mannered,” Sawyers said. “Underneath that, there’s a real fiery, competitive side.”

In July 2005, Szefc was seeking a catcher to take the helm at Louisiana-Lafayette. Jonathan Lucroy, now the Texas Rangers’ starting catcher, planned to enter the draft after his junior campaign. Szefc wanted a player to shadow Lucroy for a season before becoming the team’s starting backstop.

He admired Vaughn’s arm and poise under pressure.

Sea n M c C a n n n o t i c e d much of the same. As he prepared for his second season as the pitching coach at Kansas State, he attended Vaughn’s s u m m e r ga m e s w i t h t h e Houston Heat. More than half of the Heat’s pitching staff threw at least 90 mph, and Vaughn’s ability to frame pitches was distinct. McCann wanted to rebuild the Wildcats pitching staff, knowing it would take a strong defensive catcher to do so.

On July 1, 2005, the first day coaches were allowed to call rising high school seniors under NCAA rules, McCann planned about REACTING LIKE A PRO 200 calls. His first, at 7 a.m., was to Vaughn. Vaughn wasn’t Vaughn’s senior season inoverjoyed, as Texas A&M was also trigued the White Sox, who

drafted him in the 30th round of the 2009 MLB Draft. But Chicago’s Class-A rookie affiliate played a higher-rated catching prospect ahead of Vaughn. Vaughn’s batting average didn’t pass .250. He knew he wasn’t going to be a major league player.

Vaughn played 19 games in 2010 before Chris Cron, who managed that rookie team, called him into his office. Cron said if Vaughn received an opportunity to coach somewhere where they would pay for him to pursue another degree, Vaughn should take advantage.

“He reacted like a pro,” Cron said.“The bottom line was I think you have a future in this game because you have a passion for it, and that passion is not something that’s taught.”

Shortly after, Sawyers received a call from Vaughn. The Wildcats had a graduate manager position vacancy. He wouldn’t be able to help with recruiting and couldn’t leave campus to recruit.

McCann was surprised he took the job. He anticipated Vaughn would pursue a career in engineering after graduating. Vaughn also faced a learning curve; the first time someone called him coach, he didn’t respond.

Vaughn hosted camps, wrote letters to recruits and conducted campus tours. He was one of the first coaches players interacted with during visits. When the tours ended, parents raved about Vaughn to McCann, saying he would make a great coach.

“I’m like, ‘What, are you talking about Rob Vaughn?’”

McCann said. “The dude’s like 23 years old. All the parents wouldn’t stop talking about our volunteer coach, and I’m sitting here going, wait a minute .… You trust him, leave him alone and you know it’s going to get done.”

Vaughn’s dedication to the Wildcats helped Szefc when he was hired three weeks before the 2011 season. He gave Szefc a list of each player’s strengths and weaknesses.

Vaughn maintained that work

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ethic for the next two years, serving as Szefc’s assistant. So when Maryland offered the job to Szefc, he wanted to take Vaughn with him. Vaughn didn’t hesitate when he received the offer.

He packed his truck and made the 23-hour trek from Kansas the next day.

“Szefc gave me a job when nobody else would,” Vaughn said, “When nobody else trusted me.”

PACK TRAINING M a t t D e g gs s p e n t t h e summer of 2006 figuring out what went wrong. Texas A&M went 25-30-1 in his first season coaching the Aggies.

One night, Deggs stopped channel surfing when he came across a documentary about wolves. The theme was that in a pack of wolves, there is no true lone wolf. A wolf cannot defeat a buffalo by itself.

That’s when “The Pack” was born.

“The mindset I try to get out of our players is you’re going to have to surround that buffalo,” Deggs said, “and everybody is going to have to perform their job in order for us to eat.”

Deggs passed the philosophy to Sawyers, who implemented it at Kansas State. Vaughn was intrigued.

Szefc gave Vaughn full autonomy with Maryland hitters, so during his first fall in College Park, the Terps endured a competition Vaughn deemed “pack training,” which doesn’t include a ball or bat.

Former outfielder Anthony Papio, who now serves as a student assistant coach under Szefc, first believed in the concept’s value when Vaughn split the Terps into teams and had them carry logs across Campus Drive. Second baseman Nick Dunn was amused during a fall game of fungo golf.

Whether the activity is push-ups, extra running or an ab workout, the losing teams face consequences. Vaughn wants his offense to fear losing.

He wants the lineup to adjust and perform in any situation.

Vaughn doesn’t try to perfect any player’s swing until the spring. Instead, he focuses on collectiveness. In the fall, the team builds an identity. In the spring, that identity is revealed.

“Having a great mental approach and buying into what identity we’re going to be as a group,” Papio said, “that makes you more successful than having a team full of pretty swings.”

TRANSFORMING THE OFFENSE Vaughn lifted his hands in the air and sprinted toward home plate to celebrate. Penn State right-hander Sal Biasi held the Terps off the board through eight innings and carried a 1-0 advantage into the ninth on April 14.

Nobody in the dugout was scared. Quickly, that was evident.

Center fielder Zach Jancarski hit a solo home run against Biasi to tie the game, and first baseman Brandon Gum sent Biasi’s next pitch over the left field wall at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium, powering the Terps to a 2-1 win.

It was a familiar pattern for Vaughn’s lineup. It rallied to beat William & Mary on March 7. It did the same against Richmond on April 4. Nothing changed in its win against West Virginia on April 11.

Vaughn didn’t realize how talented the offense was until the spring. Gum was injured in the fall, and designated hitter Will Watson was acclimating after transferring from LSU-Eunice.

Vaughn and Szefc liked the core featuring Dunn, outfielder Marty Costes and shortstop Kevin Smith. After all, Vaughn has specific requirements for recruits he feels can perform within the confines of “The Pack.”

But Maryland’s offense struggled. The team dropped five of its first six games.

“The stuff we talk about toughness, we’re about to see,” Vaughn recalls thinking. “If we’re in March and we’re trying to see

if we’re tough, it’s too late, we’re not.”

Maryland then won eight consecutive games and 19 of its next 23. The Terps have been aggressive on the basepaths, too. Twelve players have stolen at least one base.

“He’s tried to instill that identity in them,” Szefc said. “The test of any coach is, ‘Will his players play hard and show up in battle?’

Clearly our guys do that for him.”

‘HE’S AS GOOD AS THEY COME’ Vaughn stood behind the batting cage at Ripken Stadium while Chance The Rapper’s “No Problem” blasted through an iPhone behind the net as Maryland prepared for its midweek contest against Towson on May 3. Third baseman AJ Lee moved toward the cage for pregame batting practice, smiling after hearing his walk-up song.

“What does it say there?”

Vaughn asked as the chorus started.

“You don’t want no problem,” Lee said.

As Lee hit a line drive up the middle, Vaughn warned volunteer assistant coach Corey Haines, who throws batting practice.

“Watch that arm coach, it’s coming in hot.” Then came another line drive. “That’s a good swing,” he said.

Dunn then prepared for his atbats, sporting a white arm sleeve.

“I like when Dunn adds a little bit of swag to his game,” Vaughn joked.

Vaughn keeps the attitude light during batting practice. Against the Tigers, Lee rewarded that approach.

Trailing by a run in the eighth, Lee crushed a ball over the wall in left field to give Maryland a lead it wouldn’t relinquish.

That resilience stems from Vaughn’s mantra. Toughness.

Approach. Intensity.

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Williamson plays with U.S. Midfielder to bring international success back to Sasho Cirovski’s team Maryland men’s soccer Kyle Melnick midfielder Eryk @kyle_melnick Williamson Senior staff writer had no clue he was about to become an internet sensation.

He didn’t even know his name was circulating online until about an hour after the U.S. U20 men’s national team’s 2-1 win over El Salvador on March 3. There was weak phone service at the stadium.

But when Williamson returned to his Costa Rica hotel, his phone blew up.

He had texts from friends and family. Then, he checked Twitter and Instagram, where people were sharing his volley from outside the box that had rifled into the top-left corner of the goal.

Williamson’s teammates teased him, saying his strike should be on ESPN. Later, one by

RAMBO From p. 12 1974 group possessed more talent than the one that’s earned recognition, but a lot of features had to go right to win the championship, and everything worked out the following year.

Urso, a high school coach at Garnet Valley High School, told his players this past week how difficult it is to move past the disappointment of losing a title game.

“Those losses, man,” Urso said. “They just stay there. So I know what [this Maryland team is] going through.”

In 1975, Urso tallied 39 goals and 19 assists in 10

of them saw a video of the shot on SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays.

The eye-catching goal was a highlight of his experience playing in the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football U20 Championship in Costa Rica, where he started six of seven games and helped the U.S. win its first-ever championship in the tournament.

After traveling between London and Maryland, he flew to Japan on Wednesday to begin training for the FIFA U20 World Cup as part of the 21-man U.S. roster.

“Eryk just keeps surprising me every day I see him, and I wonder how he’s still in college,” American U20 coach Tab Ramos said. “He has [some] of the softest feet that I’ve seen with the National Teams in the last seven or eight years, and that’s something that I value a lot.”

Last season with Maryland, Williamson recorded three goals and five assists, helping the Terps to an undefeated record before they lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament. As a freshman the year before, he tallied the most points on the team (17) during the Terps’ elite eight run.

In January, Williamson was invited to participate in the U.S. U20 national squad’s camp, and he was one of five college players named to the CONCACAF tournament roster the following month. So, he took the spring semester off to gain international experience.

But the U.S. lost to Panama i n t h e f i rs t ga m e o f t h e competition.

After that defeat, Williamson and his team adopted a one-play-at-a-time mindset, similar to how the Terps approach the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments. Plus, he accepted a smaller role than what he holds with Maryland

and D.C. United Academy.

The changes helped the U.S. win six consecutive games and defeat Honduras in the championship. One of Williamson’s most memorable moments came in the U.S.’s 4-1 victory over Haiti, when the 5-foot-10, 150-pound midfielder assisted on a goal.

“In college, you can kind of get away with things here and there,” Williamson said.

“At this level, one mistake can lead to a goal and that can be the game. Whether it’s running back or tracking back one defender off a corner … it’s all the little small details.”

But Williamson said the main difference between international and college play is the faster pace. Teams are only allowed three substitutions per game on the national level, while college clubs are granted

unlimited replacements, which can slow contests down.

“For the type of game that we play internationally, it’s difficult to prepare yourself by getting subbed in and out that many times,” Ramos said, “and I think that happens to a lot of college players.”

Williamson pulled his hamstring in the final game

games, helping Maryland bounce back from its 1974 disappointment. He ranks fifth in program history in points (208) and goals (127).

Rambo, meanwhile, broke the points record with a first-half score against Johns Hopkins on April 29. The Glenside, Pennsylvania, native can also set the all-time goals mark with seven scores in the NCAA tournament.

As a freshman at Abington High School, Rambo scored seven goals against Urso’s nearby Garnet Valley team, an experience Rambo called “unreal.”

“I’ve seen a lot of Matt Rambo,” Urso said. “He’s an absolutely outstanding player.

We couldn’t stop him. … He had a great shot, he was smart as he is now and he knew how to handle his stick.”

When Urso watches Rambo, he recognizes the same onfield intensity he once displayed for Maryland. Coach John T illman labeled the 5-foot-10, 210-pound attackman “a lightning rod” that energizes the team.

In particular, the Terps enjoy Rambo’s wild impromptu goal celebrations. Though he’s registered 147 career strikes, he said the feeling of the ball hitting the back of the net provides the “same adrenaline rush and happiness.”

“When he scores, sometimes I’m not too sure what

he’s doing,” attackman Colin Heacock said. “He’s kind of fist-pounding and screaming. He looks at you and starts getting all loud. You want to make that next play and feed off of him.”

Rambo’s passion, as well as his on-field accomplishments, have vaulted him to the top of the discussion for Maryland greats. Urso called him one of the best to ever compete for the program. Niels called him “topthree all-time.”

His teammates view him in the same light. Rambo n o tc h e d a tea m - h i g h 63 points and 33 goals during the regular season, guiding the Terps to Big Ten regular s e a s o n a n d to u r n a m e n t

championships. Against Johns Hopkins in the rivalry game, he broke the points record, and he notched three goals and four assists.

“I don’t think we’d be anywhere close to where we are now without out him,” attackman Dylan Maltz said. “He’s our leader, and he’s the best player in the country.”

After Rambo broke the points record, Urso congratulated him over text. The two have shared a connection during Rambo’s time at Maryland, and Urso said he’s proud of the senior’s accomplishments.

“That touched my heart a little bit,” Rambo said. “It just gives me motivation because he was on that team that won the last

national championship.”

While the 1975 team appreciates the continued attention it gets from the program — including a 40-year anniversary ceremony in 2015 — its members want to see another team follow its path. Each year Maryland makes a postseason run, the former players gather with the belief the Terps can break their drought.

They’re hopeful Rambo can lead that breakthrough this season.

“The 1975 team is tired of being talked about,” Niels said. “It’s been too long. We want records broken, and we want another national championship.”

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RAMBO attackman matt rambo broke the program’s points record, and he’s seven goals away from shattering the school scoring record. The Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year has cemented himself as one of the best players in program history entering his final NCAA tournament. reid poluhovich/the diamondback

After breaking records, attackman Matt Rambo aims to end the Terps’ 42-year title drought

By Daniel Bernstein | @danbernsteinUMD | Senior staff writer

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hen the Maryland men’s lacrosse team last won the national championship in 1975, it featured star midfielder Frank Urso, one of four players in NCAA history to earn first team AllAmerican honors four times.

Since then, the Terps have lost each of the nine title games they’ve qualified for, including 2015 and 2016.

As Maryland looks to end its 42-year championship drought with the No. 1

overall seed in the NCAA tournament, it’ll lean on attackman Matt Rambo, another program great, similarly to how the 1975 squad relied on Urso. Rambo broke the Terps’ points record earlier this year and needs seven more finishes to establish the all-time goals mark, set by Joe Walters in 2006.

“The main thing we had [in 1975], just like the current team, is that we had a superstar,” said former goalkeeper Gary Niels.

“That’s the thing I like about this Maryland team. They’re very deep but they also have

a superstar player. … Matt Rambo is our Frank Urso.”

Most of the players on the 1975 unit, including Niels and Urso, attended Maryland’s last two national championship defeats. They’re planning on traveling to Foxborough, Massachusetts, if the Terps make the Final Four again this season.

Urso described Maryland’s 2016 title heartbreak — a 14-13 overtime loss to North Carolina — as “pretty tough,” given Maryland’s 16-game winning streak entering the showdown.

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“It was just like, ‘Oh my gosh, are you kidding me?’” Urso said. “But you have to move on. The fact that they just keep getting there, that’s tough enough as it is. If it wasn’t for this long drought, it wouldn’t be this kind of pressure.”

While the 1975 team is remembered for earning Maryland’s last title, many players on that squad lost the 1974 final to Johns Hopkins. Niels, who made 17 saves in the 1975 championship victory, believes the See RAMBO, p. 11

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Hartshorn develops into rookie staple Midfielder leads team in draw controls On February 25, the Maryland women’s lacrosse team played its first game at Maryland Stadium in nearly 10 years. Ranked second in the nation, the Terps were facing then-No. 1 North Carolina in a rematch of the previous two national championships.

For midfielder Kali Hartshorn, the team’s lone true freshman starter, it was just the third game of her college career.

But she didn’t need any motivation.

“I was pumped for that game,” Hartshorn said. “I was just feeling the energy from the whole place.”

Just 31 seconds into the contest, Hartshorn received a pass from midfielder Jen Giles. With her back to goal, she feinted to her right, turned to her left and uncorked a low shot past Tar Heels goaltender Caylee Waters.

With her fifth shot at Maryland, Hartshorn gave the Terps a lead they didn’t relinquish. The following Tuesday, they jumped North Carolina to take the top spot in the national rankings — a position they haven’t surrendered.

Hartshorn’s opening goal ignited a strong rookie campaign. She’s become a staple for the Terps, who enter the NCAA tournament as the No. 1 overall seed. by

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“Between my teammates and me being able to score against such a good team like that,” Hartshorn said, “it definitely gave me the confidence to keep moving forward and keep scoring.”

‘LACROSSE WORLD’ associate head coach rob vaughn has given hitters a distinct identity by preaching toughness, approach and intensity. photo courtesy of maryland athletics Hartshorn’s path to College Park was different than nearly three quarters of the players in the program: She’s not from Maryland.

The rookie hails from Allentown, New Jersey, beginning her recruiting process by looking at Rutgers and Princeton when she was in the eighth grade. However, she wasn’t impressed by the schools just 30-45 minutes from her hometown.

When Hartshorn visited Maryland as a freshman in high school, she loved the atmosphere of a “lacrosse world” in College Park.

“One of our first conversations — she can be kind of straight — and she said something along the lines of, ‘I want to win, and I want to be the best at what I’m doing,’” coach Cathy Reese said.

The midfielder came to Maryland in the fall as part of Inside See hartshorn, p. 9

LEADING THE PACK Associate head coach Rob Vaughn brings unique offensive approach to College Park

By Scott Gelman | @Gelman_Scott | Staff writer

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ndy Sawyers thought Rob Vaughn was being stupid.

While serving as a student assistant coach at Kansas State, his aalma mater, Vaughn called Sawyers, a Wildcats hitting instructor, seeking advice. Pratt Community College asked him to be its hitting coach in 2012.

Vaughn had aspirations to coach Division I baseball, but he thought leaving a Big 12 school might threaten those chances.

Sawyers laughed and instructed Vaughn to accept

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the job, citing the experience he would gain. He told Vaughn even if he became a head coach the next day, Vaughn wouldn’t have cracked his list of assistant coaching candidates. In the small collegiate baseball landscape, Vaughn lacked experience, contacts and the ability to recruit.

Vaughn was a day away from taking the job at Pratt when Maryland coach John Szefc called. Szefc replaced Sawyers as Kansas State’s hitting coach while Vaughn was an assistant.

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