July 14, 2016

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Armed suspect robs Pokemon players Suspect steals phones from four victims, including three students, in three nighttime incidents on campus, two armed, one weapon implied

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Senior staff writer

playing Pokemon Go. The three separate incidents involved four victims — one who was not a university student, accordT h re e Un i v e r s i t y o f M a r y- ing to a University Police report l a nd students were robbed on released Wednesday morning. No the campus Tuesday night while one was injured.

The first incident occurred near Tydings Hall at 9:08 p.m., where a “weapon was implied,” the report stated. The other incidents transpired at 10:12 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. near Queen Anne’s Hall, and the victims reported seeing a black handgun.

The suspect, described as a male wearing a black mask and dark clothing, confiscated the victims’ c e l l p h o n e s , a c c o rd i n g to t h e report. Initial attempts to locate the suspect were unsuccessful.

The investigation is still open, a nd more i n for m at ion w i l l b e posted as it becomes available. tswaakdbk@gmail.com

Town Hall liquors has new owner

SCREENSHOTS of the instantly popular Pokemon Go mobile game, which transposes Pokemon characters over real-life locations, include stops at the fountain and the Jim Henson statue. An armed suspect stole the smartphones of four people, three who were playing the game Tuesday. photos courtesy of brittany cheng

‘TRAGEDY AFTER TRAGEDY’

Buyer may add TVs, juke box and revamp sign, craft beer menu

By Michael Brice-Saddler and Danielle Ohl @TheArtist_MBS, @DTOhl Senior staff writers

A month after Orlando, a tired nation grieves a new set of tragedies.

Tow n H a l l, t he h i stor ic College Park dive bar and liquor store, is under new ownership.

A shuta Ta ndon pu rch a sed the establishment and intends to upgrade it to include a new lighted sign, updated decor and an expanded craft beer menu, according to a press release from Coakley Realty, a company that facilitated the sale.

T he ba r, ow ned by Joseph Burdoo since 1959, opened in 1949. Ron Burdoo, who worked under his father since age 12, decided to sell Town Hall upon h i s re t i re m e nt a n d move to North Carolina, the release said.

“The owner wanted to retire, but was also passionate about keeping the historic property operating and maintaining its

By Samuel Antezana and Mina Haq @thedbk For The Diamondback Juan Ramon Guerrero. Javier JorgeReyes. Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan.

A nervous silence hung over the crowd as they gathered outside the Nyumburu Cultural Center, listening to a group read the names of the 49 people killed at a gay nightclub in Orlando last month. Faces of all colors lined the rows — black, white, brown — but all shared the same impression: There was no mirth in the air that evening.

“Does anyone want to say anything?” one of the organizers at the front asked.

No response.

ABOUT 60 PEOPLE attended a vigil Tuesday night at Nyumburu Amphitheater, marking one month since gunman Omar Mateen killed 49 people at Pulse, an Orlando, Florida, gay nightclub. marquise mckine/the diamondback

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Homeowner program now covers city employees

Student athlete average GPA breaks 3.0 for spring term Feat reached for first time in seven years

By Alex Carolan @ckempler Staff writer

Year-old effort helps univ employees buy houses in College Park

University of Maryland student athletes are again proving that they not only have the brawn, they have the brains, too.

Spring 2016 was the first semester in at least seven years that student athletes at this university earned a collective GPA greater than a 3.0, according to a report by the Academic Support & Career Development Unit. The spring 2016 GPA was 3.093.

“We’ve made our mark athletically … from an academic stand-

By Carly Kempler @ckempler Senior staff writer One year after announcing its homeownership program to assist University of Maryland employees with purchasing nearby housing, the College Park City-University Partnership is expanding the program.

The university, the city and CPCUP are working collaboratively on the homeownership program, which began in July 2015. The program provides $15,000 in “forgivable loans” to a “full-time, benefits-eligible University of Maryland employee” or a “full-time employee of the city of College Park” looking to purchase housing in College Park, according to the partnership’s website.

And while it was previously only for university employees, the program has recently grown to include city

Osvaldo Gutierrez’s HOUSE in the Hollywood neighborhood of College Park. Gutierrez, a new university instructor, is one of ten new homebuyers in the Partnership’s homebuying program. photo courtesy of osvaldo gutierrez employees, CPCUP Executive Director Eric Olson said.

The program is also an initiative of the University District Vision 2020, which focuses on making College Park a top 20-college town. It has helped 10 university employees move into homes in the city between July 2015 and June 2016, according to the

program’s annual report.

“T he prog ra m creates more, stronger community,” Olson said.

“Frankly, when you have people living and working in that community, they’re spending more time in that community … in the stores and See PROGRAM, Page 3

point it was great to hit that 3.0,” said Chris Uchacz, the associate athletics director and director of the Academic Support & Career Development Unit.

Former Maryland women’s basketball center Malina Howard would know, since she made the public health school’s Dean’s List every semester except for spring 2016, which was her last.

“Since I’ve gotten here, we’ve created a culture of student being first and athlete being second,” said Howard, who graduated with an undergraduate degree in kinesiology.

“But we’ve done a great job of being able to balance the two — obviously, with the success we’ve had in the [basketball] program.”

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CRIME BLOTTER

By Mina Haq @DBKCrime For The Diamondback

Un iversity of M a r yl a nd Pol ice responded to reports of vandalism, disorderly conduct and a n a n i m a l c o m pl a i nt, a mong other i ncidents this past week, according to police reports.

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conduct on Knox Road last Thursday at 1:50 a.m.

ANIMAL COMPLAINT Un iversity Pol ice responded to a report of a n a n i m a l c ompl a i nt at t he University Health Center on Thursday at about 9:30 a.m.

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Un iversity Pol ice resp onded to t wo sepa rate Title I X-related incidents this past week, according to reports.

The first incident occurred Friday at about 11:30 p.m. near at the Alpha Epsilon Pi WEAPON fraternity house. The second VIOLATION occurred Saturday at 4:45 On T uesday at about a.m. at Looney’s Pub. Both cases are closed.

11:20 p.m., Un iversity Police arrested an individual in connection with THEFT a weapon violation report at the chemistry building.

University Police responded The suspect was a male to two reports of theft this past charged with concealing a week, according to reports. deadly weapon.

The first incident occurred at Leonardtown building 245 on Monday at 9:30 a.m. The DISORDERLY second incident occurred at CONDUCT the public health school at University Police re- 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

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NIH awards univ researchers $1M to study cancer cell spread Bioengineering faculty to study cells’ decisionmaking process

By Lexie Schapitl @lexieschapitl Senior staff writer Researchers in University of Maryland’s bioengineering department have received a $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to further explore how cancer cells spread through the body.

Cells respond to the physical environment around them, making decisions based on the “stiffness” of materials they touch, said Giuliano Scarcelli, a researcher in the university’s Optics Biotech Lab. When cancer cells break off of a tumor, they can travel through the bloodstream and form new tumors through a process called metastasis, he added.

But i n order to move t h ro u g h t h e b o d y, t h e cancerous cells must overcome physical obstacles in their path.

Scarcelli and his team’s research suggests cells do this by changing their own stiffness, allowing them to move more easily through constrictions and vessels in the body, he said, and they are working to improve a microscope they have developed to better understand the mechanics of this process.

“The nasty thing [about cancer] is the little cells that can break off and go to another site … it’s a terribly difficult process from a physical standpoint,” Scarcelli said. “So the purpose of this grant was to basically observe all of these challenging processes that occur during the metastasis and see if the … metastatic cell has mechanical machinery that is turned on in order to accomplish

UNIVERSITY RESeARCHER GIULIANO SCARCELLI received a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study cancer cells’ spread in his university laboratory, above. lexie schapitl/for the diamondback. these goals.”

Scarcelli’s team will receive $1 million over the next three years from the Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies Program of the National Cancer Institute of the NIH to develop the instrument even further, he said. They hope to make their instrument faster, more accurate and more user-friendly so that it can have more practical applications, he added.

Using a technique called Brillouin spectroscopy, researchers place a dish of cells under a microscope, shine a laser onto a cell and use equipment to measure the light that the cell scatters, said Jitao Zhang, a postdoctorate in the Optics Biotech Lab. The scattered light will have a slightly different wavelength than the original laser, and this difference is related to the stiffness of the cell, Zhang said.

Scarcelli previously used this technique to measure the stiffness of eye tissue related to cornea surgeries, he said. Applying the technology on the cellular level requires a much higher resolution, which many people thought would be “fundamentally impossible,” he said.

Using light instead of physical contact on the cell with a small needle is less damaging and allows researchers to see more details of the cell, Zhang said.

In the process of metastasis, tumor cells must make holes in blood vessels and squeeze themselves through the tissue, said Emad Moeendarbary, a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has been collaborating on the University of Maryland project.

In a lab setting, researchers can observe how individual cancer cells migrate through gel in a glass or a dish, and also add a layer of cells representing blood vessels to mimic the environment of the body, Moeendarbary said.

“We’re starting to see that, indeed, in these processes the metastatic cells have this … ability to adapt their mechanical properties to the task that they need,” Scarcelli said. “So when they need to be soft, they’re soft; when they need to be stiff, they’re stiff.”

While it is “a little bit tricky” to predict the clinical implications of this technique, a better understanding of how cells

change during migration may help biologists better prevent migration and spread, Moeendarbary said.

Ninety percent of all cancerrelated deaths result from metastasis, rather than a primary tumor, said Kimberly Stroka, an assistant bioengineering professor who also studies the spread of cancer.

In the future, Scarcelli said this technique could be used to combat cells’ ability to spread through the body and test drugs that aim to prevent metastasis.

While there are many challenges to applying this technology to real, clinical settings, Zhang said the NIH grant is “very exciting,” as researchers aim to provide more information to biologists in order to fight cancer.

“We want to have a way to diagnose the cancer with this new measure, and also we want to understand how the mechanical property of the cell relates to its function,” Zhang said. “It’s powerful instrument, but … there’s still a far way we have to go.”

ed from the university with a 3.709 GPA and plans to go to medical school.

Of the 485 student athletes, 56 percent earned a GPA higher tha n the bench ma rk 3.0.

Fifteen of those student athletes earned a 4.0, and more than 100 were named on their college’s Dean’s Lists, according to the report.

“Having that support system just made it a lot easier,” Howard said.

A lot of that support came from Arianna, who introduced Howard to people who had similar experiences balancing athletics and academics, she said.

“Just having people who have done it before me was really big … being able to take their advice and learn from it,” Howard said.

Student athletes’ average GPA has stood around 2.9 for the past seven years, Uchacz said. The GPA accounts for all 20 varsity sponsored sports at

this university and is averaged each semester.

“B a sic a l ly wh at t h at’s telling you is that we have a serious academic institution,” Uchacz said.

Si nce she g raduated, Howard said she plays basketball recreationally and plans to start a job at this university in the fall.She will be a Big Ten fellow in the Athletic Department’s Lifeskills Programming office.

“You get the opportunity to come to a wonderful school and get a degree,” Howard said. “You have to make sure

that you take that seriously — because your sport’s only gonna last so long.”

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TOWN HALL LIQUORS is under new ownership after Ashuta Tandon bought the establishment from Ron Burdoo, whose father, Joseph, took ownership in 1949. file photo/the diamondback

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as a consultant for Tandon to help her purchase the property, said the proposed changes to Town Hall will help to make it more appealing for both longtime customers and University of Maryland students.

“My first bar beer was in Town Hall. … It’s been there since the beginning of time, and everyone loved it,” said McGinnis, who graduated from this university in 1981.

“They’re going to try to get some students in there,” McGinnis said. “They’re bringing some new electronics in to try and make it a little more fun to be there. … It’s a fantastic institution.”

Severa l new T Vs a nd a juke box are just a handful of possible additions to the bar, he added.

Town Hall closed Monday to begin renovations, McGinnis said. Tandon plans to reopen the bar the second week of August.

landmark status,” Coakley Realty president Rory Coakley said in a statement. “We were able to find a buyer interested in doing just that, while also excited to improve the property going forward.”

Coakley said Burdoo app ro a c h e d h i m i n Fe b r uary 2015 about selling the bar. Their original idea was to merge w ith the nearby Campus Village shopping center or the BP gas station next door.

But after several months of t r y i n g to m a ke a de a l happen, discussions fizzled out, Coakley said.

“We were unsuccessful in getting [Campus Village or the gas station] to come on board,” he said. “In the future, there could be development there, but for now, the new owner will operate the bar as Town Hall.” mbricesaddlerdbk@gmail.com, Jim McGinnis, who worked dohldbk@gmail.com

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That discipline began Howard’s freshman year, when she had eight hours of tutoring each week, which she said is a requirement for freshmen on the women’s basketball team that varies based on grades as students progress.

Howa rd completed her major requirements i n spri ng 2015 a nd has been prepa ri ng for the MCAT exa m i n classes since then. She graduat-

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U-developed laser measures forests

By Maria Volkova @thedbk For The Diamondback

much carbon dioxide a tree holds, Dubayah said. The mapping of forests will help scientists to discover the amount of carbon emitted into our atmosphere from deforestation or forest fires, said Laura Duncanson, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and a researcher on the project.

“GEDI will provide measurements we can use to make a 3-D map of the Earth’s forests at a relatively high resolution,” Duncanson said. “This is really exciting because we have picture of the top of forests, so we know essentially how much of the Earth is covered by forests, but we don’t know how tall the trees are or how much carbon they store.”

Forests act like a sponge, absorbing somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of industrial fossil fuel emissions, Dubayah said.

“When forests are mature, they stop absorbing carbon dioxide and there’s no place for the carbon to go,” Dubayah said. “The carbon at this point can potentially go back into the atmosphere, but let’s hope that that’s not the case.”

The laser will also help in understanding what drives biodiversity and what the forest structure is, Dubayah said. Alongside this, GEDI will help scientists in making predictions about how to protect habitats and species, he added.

“Biodiversity is globally under threat and one of the main indicators of specie richness, and abundance has to do with the vertical structure of the trees,” Dubayah said.

During a time where scientists are frequently discussing climate change, Duncanson said this project could help “mitigate” its effects.

“This [project] will hopefully help provide incentives to protect forests, which will help mitigate climate change,” Duncanson said.

The University of Maryland held a climate action forum in May, and scientists at the university are continuing their innovation to track and lessen the effects of climate change.

Various researchers at the university are working on a project known as the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation Lidar, a laser technology used to measure 3-D areas of forests — from trunk to canopy. By using this instrument, researchers are hoping to be able to determine the net impact of deforestation, as well as predict how much carbon is actually stored in forests, said Ralph Dubayah, the project’s principal investigator and a professor of geographical sciences at this university.

Since the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases have increased, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s website. While the increase of these gases in our atmosphere can partially be attributed to the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation is also playing a role, Dubayah said.

“Our ability to track deforestation is greatly enhanced by satellites, but we have been missing a key piece which is how tall the trees are,” Dubayah said.

NASA is funding the lidar, which will be sent to the International Space Station in 2018, according to NASA’s website.

From this vantage point, the laser will be able to map out most of the forests around the world.

“The laser instrument shoots a beam at the surface of the Earth and records the light that is reflected back, so we can record an initial return from the top of the canopy to the trunk of the tree,” said Scott Goetz, a previous adjunct professor at this university.

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Wednesday evening, about 40 people arrived at Stamp Student Union to voice their thoughts on what Puentes called “a violent summer.”

Participants attempted to understand how to move forward, and found comfort in listening.

“It’s not about getting your facts or needing to feel a certain way, it’s just: How are you? What are you doing for yourself and for others?” said Jacqueline Mac, a consultant for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and a facilitator of the event.

Like Tuesday’s vigil, the gathering at Stamp aimed to create a space for people to voice their thoughts, frustrations and experiences with others who could relate.

“When we put on an event like this, it shows that these issues matter,” said Dominic Rollins, another facilitator and a specialist at the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. “It creates a space for people to come and talk about the recent events in ways that some of them may not be able to in other spaces.”

Neither the vigil nor the Stamp dialogue were organized to solve issues like homophobia, police brutality or racism overnight. Conversations like these remind people there are moments of peace before they return to a news cycle filled with violence, protest and frustration.

But Cornelius Griffith, who spoke in front of a crowd of 60 at Nyumburu Amphitheater, emphatically reminded everyone of how easy it was to return home and tune out all the noise.

“We’re going to need to be consistent and diligent about these things,” he said. “Don’t just leave here and let everything be forgotten.”

These were the faces of a tired nation, and on Tuesday night, all they could do was feel.

Grief for their fallen brothers and sisters who were gunned down. Rage at the violation of sacred spaces that were supposed to be havens from a prejudiced world. Fear of what would be next.

In the midst of recent tragedies, the University of Maryland and campus organizations including Political Latinxs United for Movement and Action in Society and the Black Student Union have created gatherings to provide students, faculty and staff with support. They discuss topics like inclusivity and intersectionality while allowing safe spaces for self-reflection.

“Sometimes we can’t talk to our families about these types of issues very well,” said Tricia Homer, an instructional designer at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and a recruited facilitator of a Wednesday evening event focused on dialogue following a three-day stretch of constant violence.

“Everything right now that’s going on, it kind of worries me, you know?” said Elizabeth Garcia, aseniorbehavioralandcommunity health major, at the vigil. “You don’t know what could happen.”

Tuesday’s vigil wasn’t the first for Erica Puentes. As she sat surrounded by friends in the thick of the crowd, the African American studies senior thought about another one she went to with her sorority sister, who is black and queer, at Stonewall.

Something her friend said after that vigil struck her: “It was almost like I was at my own funeral.”

The hour of reflection at Brittany Cheng contributed to Nyumburu wasn’t the only safe this report. space on campus this week. On newsumdbk@gmail.com

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TASTE OF HOME In his latest album, Schoolboy Q is complex and beautiful

By Cameron Neimand @kneemund Staff writer Although Kendrick Lamar has long solidified his spot as the top dog in TDE’s roster of rappers, the debate for runner-up is about as clear-cut as a botched surgery. Ab-Soul is a sunglasses-donning prophet to his dedicated followers, Jay Rock brings unparalleled grit in an undeniably west coast fashion and Isaiah Rashad, the label’s relative newcomer, dazzled on his 2014 extended play debut Cilvia Demo. Last but not least, there’s Schoolboy Q, a lovable rapper straight out of Hoover Street with underrated versatility and an ability to create mainstream hits (“Studio,” “Man of the Year”). On his fourth studio album, Blank Face LP, Q crafts his most complex and transparent project to date, a beautiful and haunting portrayal of the social background that turned Quincy

Matthew Hanley into Schoolboy Q. Complete with 17 songs clocking in at a 74-minute runtime, Blank Face LP is packed with unwavering emotion and passion.

A single line from Anderson Paak during the beginning of the album’s scintillating first track, “TorcH,” summarizes Q’s message and desire: “I’ll trade the noise for a piece of divine.”

That noise, gang-fueled gunfire and accompanying screams of pain and fear, is the reality of the harsh Los Angeles streets that raised Q. Schoolboy understands that rap music is his vehicle to acquire his desired divinity, evident in the lyrics of the Swizz Beatz-produced “Lord Have Mercy”: “Guess I’m bein’ a real n---- like I’m ‘posed to be/ But bein’ real never once bought the groceries and/Top told me keep rappin’, you’ll make it hopefully/ And hope was all that I needed, dreamin’ myself to work/This workin’ affair was better than bullet holes in my shirt.” Now an established success, Schoolboy Q is able to offer stunning self-

assessment through reflecting on the road that got him here.

A major contributing factor to the exceptionalism of Blank Face LP is Q’s ability to be both a hard-hitting gangsta rapper and a funky, melodic presence.

The aforementioned duality of Schoolboy is perfectly exemplified in “JoHhn Muir,” a standout track that Q is rumored to have entirely freestyled. As the song begins, Q rides the booming Sounwave production as he emphatically declares “Bellin’ through the m----------’ street, y’all/Never had a m---------weed card/I’m down to flatline a n----, never been soft/Bellin’ through the m---------- street, y’all.” By the time the hook comes around, the beat switches to more of a dulcet, heavenly sound complete with groovy horns as Q poetically recites “Bellin’ through the m--------- street, y’all/Bellin’ through the m---------- street, y’all/ We love, we go/ We rise, we low/ Our pride, we show/ We love, we go.” This is where Schoolboy Q is at his best, straying from

more radio friendly tracks like the Miguel-featured “Overtime” and honing in on the nostalgia and pain of the neighborhood that raised him.

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Researchers use $2.6M grant to build air conditioning robot Still in prototype stage, personal robot would store heat inside itself

By Angela Jacob @thedbk For The Diamondback University of Maryland researchers are using a $2.6 million grant to begin the process of building a robot that would follow people around and keep them cool or warm.

The personal air conditioning robot, known as Roving Comforter or RoCo, is still in the prototype stage, but it has the potential to conserve energy by storing the hot air within itself — unlike a traditional air conditioner — and “regenerat[ing] itself” at night, said Vikrant Aute, an associate research scientist at this university.

“Imagine a scenario where you have an entire house, and there is only one person in the house,” said Aute, who is also the Integrated Systems Optimization Consortium director. “Instead of running an air conditioner for the entire house, you could just turn the AC down a lot and use RoCo to keep you comfortable.”

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Thermal Amenities, a subprogram within the Department of Energy. There are 11 projects in total that received funding.

“We fund programs that are very high-risk, high-reward, transformational programs to do things like save energy or generate new sources of renewable energy and things like that,” said Jennifer Gerbi, a program director for Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, which oversees DELTA. Some of the other teams funded by DELTA are trying to develop a smart fabric that can heat or cool you, Gerbi said.

There are four main groups, both university and private, involved in RoCo’s development. The researchers at this university, who make up one of the main groups, are led by Professor Reinhard Radermacher and are spread among two subgroups focusing on two aspects of the development. The lead subgroup, headed by Aute, is developing the air conditioning and putting the final product together. The other subgroup, which professor of mechanical engineering and researcher Jelena Srebric leads, focuses on the thermal comfort aspect.

Researchers working on the project include Jiazhen Ling, Jan Muehlbauer, Yilin Du, Darren Key, Daniel Dalgo and Rohit Dhumane .

Dalgo, a mechanical engineering doctoral assistant on Srebric’s team, said the group is moving into the second stage

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The program also creates at $337,040, the program an opportunity to strength- helped sell approximately en community and univer- $3,370,400 in property, said sity relations, said Carlo Valerie Woodall, a CPCUP Colella, vice president for program associate.

One of the recent homeadministration and finance buyers, Osvaldo Gutierrez, at this university.

“You get to participate 33, moved into his new home in the community … the with his wife and daughter in more we can have univer- the Hollywood neighborhood sity and community indi- at the beginning of June. Gutividuals [have] sort of an errez said he will be teaching a overlap … I think that helps class at the university during us continue to strengthen the upcoming semester, as well our relationship with the as running a research lab.

A short commute, more time surrounding community,” Colella said. “There’s a with his family and a sense of number of mutually ben- community are just some of the reasons Gutierrez chose eficial outcomes.”

More than 20 people have to move to this city.

FACULTY SPECIALIST JAN MUEHLBAUER, left, and Assistant Research Professor Jiazhen Ling present RoCo, which they helped create, at Maryland Day on March 25. photo courtesy of mary baugher of the project. The first stage involved online simulations.

“We want to develop a sensing unit that allows us to infer the thermal comfort of the user,” Dalgo said. “RoCo will be intelligent enough to determine if a person is hot or cold, comfortable or uncomfortable.”

Dalgo stressed the importance of teamwork throughout the process, noting that his collaborative work with Srebric, postdoctoral researcher Mohammad Heidarinejad and research assistantNicholas Mattise helped them progress in developing RoCo’s innovative sensing unit.

In addition to the university researchers and graduate students working on RoCo, researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and FirstBuild are also working on different parts of the project.

Oak Ridge specializes in robotics, electronics and sensors; Sandia specializes in design-

ing high-performance heat exchangers; and FirstBuild is a feedback partner because they have a showroom where new technology is displayed, Aute said.

T he tricky part is what happens when RoCo is fully developed and put on the market, Du said.

“We’ve rel ied on space heating and cooling for so long,” said Du, a graduate assistant who just completed her master’s degree in mechanical engineering. “There is still a long way to go for all of our potential customers to accept this concept and to really purchase RoCo.” Ultimately, the researchers intend for it to become a marketable product after the three-year funding period, Aute said.

“The end goal … is essentially to have a product in the market, and we are working in that direction,” he said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

“I’ll be spending a lot of age more people who work at time at the lab, and I wanted to the university to live here,” limit my commuting, because I Wojahn said. “The word will wanted to spend time with my spread that if you work for the family,” Gutierrez said. “The university, you can live close to balance between those two where you work … there are a was critical for me.” lot of benefits to living in the Gutierrez added that he and city besides [that].” his wife wanted to live someMaryland Sen. Jim Rosawhere safe that had access to pepe, who is also focused on a school for his daughter, and the program’s expansion, said College Park was “very fam- it has been a success and that it ily-oriented” and “away from is critical to create a top college all the students, but not too town. far away.”

“It’s just a first step, [and] Without this program, Guti- if we’re really going to revierrez said he would not have talize and protect some of the been able to afford buying a single family home communihouse in this area. ties, we’re going to need a lot “It didn’t even cross my more families buying houses,” mind,” he said.

Rosapepe said. “If we can get M ayor Pat r ic k Woja h n the resources to scale this up, said he thinks the program it will have a major impact on will have a large effect on the city.” the community.

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Trusting in the police

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ore than a month has passed since University of Maryland Police launched their investigation into an incident at a May 21 Courtyards graduation party, where two people were arrested and officers used pepper spray to disperse the predominately black crowd.

And after two separate incidents in which police shot and killed two black men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Falcon Heights, Minnesota, and the shooting deaths of five police officers during a peaceful protest in Dallas, relations between black citizens and police seem to be historically tense.

T h a t ’s w h y, n o m a t te r t h e outcome of the Courtyards investigation, it’s crucial that the community can trust University Police to fairly and objectively conduct its investigation.

Too often we’ll learn months after an incident that no officers involved will be charged. And too often the community affected has little-to-no insight as to how these decisions are reached, leading to further distrust in our officers and criminal justice system.

While there are instances when no punishment might be the correct conclusion because some-

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times the use of force is necessary for an officer’s safety, there seems to be as many cases in which the public is left dumbfounded as to how no punishment was handed down to these officers meant to protect us.

OUR VIEW

Slow and closed investigations won’t build trust between police and their citizens.

In the Courtyards case, University Police Chief David Mitchell told Student Government Association President Katherine Swanson in an email that the police were still waiting to hear student accounts of the incident. “ I d o n ’ t t h i n k [ U n i ve r s i t y Police are] purposely trying to hide anything,” Swanson told The Diamondback earlier this month.

“I think they’re trying to do a thorough investigation, but I am a little worried about how long it’s taking.”

And that’s one of the primary i s s u e s wh e n ra c i a l ly c h a rge d

events like this occur: It’s not always the guilty or non-guilty verdict that upsets community members, but rather the community’s concern in our justice system’s ability to objectively reach that decision.

Each time another officer goes unpunished in one of these cases, it adds to black citizens’ feelings of helplessness and disposability, while strengthening their growing distrust toward police.

That is not to say every officer deserves to be punished, or even that the ones from the Courtyards incident should be, as we still do not have all the information. But trust is the most important factor here to fix our burning bridges.

It is apparent that in today’s social climate, there is deep distrust between police officers and the citizens that they purport to protect. Misunderstandings on both ends can turn everyday interactions into volatile situations, an unfortunate truth that must be mended.

The Courtyards pepper spray investigation is an opportunity to allow the community access to t ra n s pa re n cy a n d , i n t u r n , regain some trust in the school’s police force.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

Pass policing reform legislation

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ichael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and now Alton S te rl i n g a n d P h i l a n d o Castile. Black men are dying at the hands of an institution t h a t i s s u p p ose d to p ro te c t them: the police. Unsurprisingly, these events have ignited protests across the nation. There are many white Americans who h ave c r i t i q u e d t h e p ro te s ts and movements, such as Black Lives Matter.

The black community’s rage stems from a long history of oppression and persecution.

For the black community, the deaths of black men at the hands of police officers are comparable to lynchings. Between the late 19th to early 20th century, black men were lynched, primarily in the South, for the allegation that they had raped a white woman. Those responsible for the lynching were never brought to justice.

White America needs to understand that the American experience for black people is completely different. As “the other” in the United States, black people are forced to constantly be aware of how they are perceived by the dominant, white society. This means being aware of your speech, your appearance and your interactions with the “white” dominant society’s institutions, such as the police. For instance, a mother whose son is white does not have to teach her son how to properly deal with police in the same way that a mother whose son is black.

The authority and autonomy enjoyed by America’s police explains how some white Americans continue making excuses for the actions of law enforcement. It is unfathomable to them that cops could ever abuse their

power of authority. In the community, the police believe they are upholding the law, but this is not the experience of the black community.

There needs to be increased transparency and accountability on the behalf of the police. And on the national level, there needs to be increased oversight of law enforcement by the Justice Department. Since county, city and state police departments are administered differently, reforms need to be implemented on a local level.

Whether on a federal or state level, policing reform has the potential to reach across political party lines. This is an issue that both liberals and libertarians can agree on. For libertarians, the actions of the police is an example of liberty being relinquished from the individual because law enforcement is a civil liberties violation.

The biggest obstacle to passing policing reform legislation is the power that police unions hold.

However, it is possible to defeat them, as demonstrated by the policing reform legislation that was recently passed in Maryland.

Enacting legislation that reforms policing policies is perhaps the easier task than improving the relationship between law enforcement and the communities that they serve. In order to tackle these challenges, there will need to be collaboration between policymakers, community leaders and nonprofit organizations.

Regardless of color, Americans should be outraged by how black men are being victimized by the police. This is not a problem for the black community to solve on its own. We are all responsible.

Leslie McNamara is a public policy graduate student specializing in health policy. She can be reached at lamcnamar@gmail.com.

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Pokemon Go: a risky nostalgia trip

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Divestment will only hurt us

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n case you missed it, the University System of Maryland Foundation — which oversees the $1 billion endowment that funds your scholarships — announced on June 30 that they would stop investing directly in coal, oil and natural gas companies. This is part of a larger “divestment” movement, which is pushing for universities and public pension fund trustees to sell off investments in fossil fuels. While The Diamondback has published a smattering of columns on the subject of divestment, don’t be fooled: The decision to “divest” is simply an empty gesture. The USMF “has no direct investments in coal, tar sands, or any companies on the Carbon Underground 200 list,” according to The Diamondback’s own reporting.

Leonard Raley, president and CEO of the foundation, said the vote was inspired by “the students and the positions they took that caused us to focus on it this year,” according to The Baltimore Sun. However, I don’t recall being asked if I wanted my scholarship funds to be jeopardized because a small group of 600 students out of a student body of more than 150,000 feels that divestment is the best way to fight climate change.

And while the USMF’s decision is an empty gesture, you might ask,

“would full divestment really hurt my scholarship if only 7 percent, or $70 million, of the university system’s endowment is invested in the energy sector?” Good question.

Study after study has shown that divestment actually causes more harm than good.

A recent report by professor Hendrik Bessembinder of Arizona State University found that the t ra n sa c t i o n a n d m a n a ge m e n t costs related to divestment have the potential to rob endowment funds of as much as 12 percent of their total value over a 20-year time frame. This could mean millions of dollars lost in desperately needed financial aid, research and program grants, and funding for vital facility renovations, solely to participate in what has been called a bumper-sticker campaign.

As a student of public policy, my first instinct is to consider the costs and benefits of a policy before implementing it. Economist Milton Friedman argued further that we ought to judge a policy by its results rather than its intention. For this reason, the USMF ought to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of divestment, the result of which will likely find that divestment would cost students, faculty and staff millions of dollars.

T h e fa c t i s t h a t d ive s t m e n t

fails to have any tangible impact on climate change and only hurts the individuals and systems that rely on the endowment: students, professors, staff, research services and more.

Chris Ailman, CIO of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, said “I’ve been involved in five divestments for our fund. All five of them we’ve lost money, and all five of them have not brought about social change.”

T h e U S M F ’s o w n m i s s i o n statement highlights its task of “advocat[ing] and support[ing] the advancement of public higher education … through visionary leadership in philanthropy, asset management, and stewardship.”

USMF should follow the lead of universities like NYU and Cambridge, who have chosen to leverage their investments in the energy sector to engage the industry while saying no to empty and costly divestment. Engagement, rather than divestment, is in line with the USMF’s mission statement and will facilitate, rather than hinder, the growth of this system.

Josh Wilson is a public policy graduate student specializing in public sector financial management. He can be reached at jhw028@gmail.com.

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here was a day earlier this week that I spent entirely outside. I walked close to 17 miles and scaled close to 2,000 feet in vertical elevation. I also played video games the entire time, thus disproving everything my mother had eve r to l d m e a b o u t m o d e r n entertainment.

Last week, a former Google startup called Niantic, using the best of “real-time geospatial querying and indexing techniques,” managed to turn the clock back to 2003.

Classified as an “augmented reality” game, Pokemon Go has turned College Park into a local center of a worldwide network o f v i r t u a l a c t iv i ty. L e g i o n s o f s l owly- s h u f f l i n g co l l e ge students triangulate virtual P o k e m o n a l l ove r c a m p u s .

C a m p u s l a n d m a rks, re p u rposed as hotspot locations to visit in the game, have been getting more attention than ever before — surely, the class of 1991 didn’t anticipate that a quarter of a century later, their class gift would be a hub of Pokemon activity on Hornbake Plaza.

Already more popular than Tinder, Pokemon Go owes its success to a couple of keystones.

The nostalgia factor is a huge driver — us early 20-somethings grew up with the original games (and show). The real-world augmented reality aspect is a great application of complex technology to entertainment. The social side of the game is a novelty too: There’s a sort of sheepish kinship in bumping into another player of what is, let’s face it, a children’s game.

T h i n g s to o k o n a d i f fe r ent complexion this Tuesday,

however. Around 9p.m., a robbery with an “implied weapon” happ e n e d . S o o n t h e re a f te r, t wo m o re we re c a l l e d i n , a n d t h e “ i m p l i e d we a p o n ” b e c a m e a black handgun.

This is serious: For the morally deficient opportunist, herds of distracted kids walking around with their phones up is too good to pass up. This isn’t a one-off event either — it’s been happening around the country. One presumes it’s only a matter of time u n t i l so m e t h i n g t r u ly d ra s t i c happens. Remember that a fair contingent of the user base for this game is around ten years old.

If we are fortunate, it won’t be a child’s kidnapping that forces a policy change.

Pokemon Go has quite literally changed the game. As with any novel technology, there are kinks to work out. One of the most appealing aspects of the game — that it makes players go outside — comes with the caveat that the real world can be a scary place.

Pokemon Go is fundamentally different than a stationary console game, and that brings a different set of requirements: attention to one’s surroundings and basic application of common sense. With those in hand, the game is a fresh take on a nostalgic childhood keystone. Without them, the risks are unsustainably high.

It’ll be interesting to see the lifespan of this recent cultural juggernaut. One hopes that Pokemon Go is remembered as a groundbreaking foray into augmented reality, instead of a dangerous dive into the reality of urban crime.

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

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FEATURE | POKEMON GO

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It’s official— Pokemon Go has taken over the campus

By Anna Muckerman @annamuckerman Staff writer At t h i s p o i n t , i f yo u r grandma has a television or a Facebook, she knows about Pokemon Go. It transcends college students, smartphone users and original fans. The virtual reality-like game is a phenomenon.

In Hornbake Plaza, students scurry between summer classes, eyes glued to the phones in their outstretched arms. Then one will stop, bring the phone closer and furiously swipe.

The app uses GPS to allow users to follow a map where they can see Pokemon characters’ locations. When they find one they’d like to collect, the phone’s camera puts

the creature in their world.

It’s impossible to know, of course, what number of passersby have stumbled u p o n a Z u ba t o r s i m p ly stopped to change the song streaming into their ear buds.

But compared to last week, the answer certainly favors the former.

In the Cambridge Community, high school student and member of the Young Scholars Program, Noor Mobarek, is certain she’s in good company.

“There’s definitely other people playing it, there’s so many Pokestops here,” she said excitedly.

She points at a boy outside of Cumberland Hall. “There’s someone here that’s playing Pokemon because I didn’t put this lure module there.”

She’s referring to one of the game’s features that attracts Pokemon (and thus players) to a certain area.

L u re m o d u l e s go t a b i t scary when robbers in Missouri used them to draw in players who were vulnerably distracted by their phones.

A s i m i l a r i n s ta n ce eve n happened on this campus.

A Forbes.com article puts another spin on the module’s usage, titled “How ‘Pokemon GO’ Can Lure More Customers To Your Local Business.”

On the campus, however, Mobarek didn’t seem concerned with much beyond the prospect of catching more Pokemon.

“I’m going to go sit over there to profit off of someone else’s lure module,” she said

LASTING IMPACT | WILLY WONKA

WONDERFULLy WEIRD In every rendition, Roald Dahl’s masterpiece surprises and delights

By Maeve Dunigan @maevedunigan Staff writer In 1964, Roald Dahl, who three years before had released James and the Giant Peach , published what would become one of the most well-known children’s stories of all time: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Seven years later in 1971, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, a movie with a slightly different name but largely following the book’s plot, was released. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory celebrated its 45th anniversary this past June, marking over four decades in which Gene Wilder, who played the title character, terrified us during that surprisingly unsettling psychedelic boat tunnel scene.

The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory franchise was far from being over. In 2005, Tim Burton directed yet another film based on Dahl’s book, which gave the title-character role back to little Mr. Bucket. This time, the world would be perturbed both by Johnny Depp’s alarmingly pale complexion

and by Deep Roy’s portrayal of every single Oompa Loompa.

The second film also celebrated an anniversary, as it turned 11 on July 10.

The lasting legacy of Charlie Bucket’s story is amazing considering just how dark and unusual it is. It starts innocently enough: a giant colorful factory that makes any variation of chocolate or candy imaginable is opening its doors to a handful of lucky children. There are golden tickets that can be found and little men called Oompa Loompas who like to sing and dance. All of this makes sense, children’s movie-wise.

What makes this iconic fantasy so intriguing, and what may nfluence its staying power, are all of the not-so-deceptive dark undertones that follow.

Each one of the notoriously horrible children are subjected to fates that, if you’re willing to go out on a fairly melodramatic limb, seem like sweetly kaleidoscopic versions of torture methods found in Saw films.

A girl is blown up to the size of a blueberry. A little boy is shrunk and then told he must be stretched to normal height in a taffy-pulling machine. In the

book and the second film, angry squirrels attack a little girl (well, she had it coming). How many children’s movies end in a way that makes the viewer unsure whether or not four of the central characters, who are all children, lived or died? Is Willy Wonka a murderer? Maybe! But he’s super nice to Charlie and has a teacup made of chocolate, so who cares?!

Although the last movie came out in 2005, versions of the story have stuck around today. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the musical premiered in London in 2013. Middle schools and summer theater camps around the nation regularly put on performances of Willy Wonka JR. For a story with such an odd plot, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has stayed alive decades longer than its writer and shows no sign of being forgotten anytime soon. Like the fictional everlasting gobstopper candy, the story of Charlie Bucket’s journey through Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory may change and take on different forms, but odds are it will never be finished. mdunigandbk@gmail.com

as she hurried off.

Campus seems to be prime Pokemon hunting ground with the location of gyms (where you can train your catches) ranging from the Chapel, to the public health school and along Route 1.

“You’d be surprised how many Pokestops there are on campus,” senior kinesiology major Dan Kim said.

“It’s the only thing that gets me through summer classes.”

For the game that came out in the late ’90s, college s t u d e n ts a re i n a swe e t spot. Nostalgia is one of the primary reasons for the Pokemon Go explosion, especially after a few years where the franchise’s popularity dipped.

“I got into Pokemon Go because I grew up watch-

ing Pokemon, collecting Pokemon cards and playing Pokemon video games,” Kim said. “The app really makes me feel like a little kid again and it’s awesome.”

K im often plays on the Washington Quad, where he is a resident assistant.

His most common catches include Pidgeot and Weedle.

“Every dorm is a Pokestop and it’s so convenient,” he said.

While he sometimes plays with friends, he often wanders by himself, thankful for the chance to get outside. The app warns users to watch their surroundings, but those following the neon green map and viewing the world through their phone camera might find themselves sacrific-

ing safety for fun. Campus, however, is one of the best places to play, with large, traffic-free plazas, lawns a n d c r i ssc ross i n g s i d e walks populated by only a handful of pedestrians (read: Pokemon players).

Richard Bool has caught about 40 or 50 Pokemon and often plays on his trek from Lot 1 to the Math building.

In Stamp, he was huddled over the map with a friend.

“I never thought it was going to happen that we could use our cell phones a n d i n te ra c t w i t h o t h e r people,” the senior information science major said.

“I’m living my childhood dream, becoming a Pokemon master.” amuckermandbk@gmail.com

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former midfielder Taylor cummings is one of six Terps alumni who are on the U.S. national team. marquise mckine/the diamondback

demic success while also c o m p e t i n g i n D iv i s i o n I basketball,” Turgeon said.

“Trevor … has an extremely bright future. He was always a pleasure to coach and have as a member of our basketball program.”

In pursuing majors that are traditionally more difficult,

mented each other,” Ram said. “Whenever I was tired of one of them, I used the From PAGE 8 other as an escape.”

Trinity College in ConAlthough playing basketnecticut before transferball took away Ram’s opporring closer to home. In tunity to gain internship exaddition to being a part perience while at Maryland, of two of the best seasons he accepted a consulting job in Maryland history, Ram around Washington, D.C. was an All-Big Ten AcaAnzmann said that for the “IT’S A GREAT demic selection and twopast six to eight months, he’s time recipient of the Big been teaching himself the comHONOR TO BE Ten Distinguished Scholar puter programming language, ON THAT LIST. I award.

C, with the hope of creating MEAN ESPECIALLY different types of mobile apps.

Anzmann began his acaWITH GUYS LIKE demic career at Maryland He said he’s always been inbut didn’t join the Terps terested in starting a business, VARUN, WHO until his senior season. and this is one of three he’s OBVIOUSLY ARE He actually played for the currently working on.

EXTREMELY women’s basketball scout He also continues to work team his sophomore and INTELLIGENT.” out, playing basketball and junior seasons before his lifting five days per week to TREVOR ANZMANN friends convinced him stay in shape.

Former Maryland basketball guard to try out for the men’s With real-world problems squad. Despite limited both players said basketball looming, the basketball court playing time, Anzmann helped with their academ- affords him a chance to get away. experienced two NCAA ic s. It fo rced Ram to set “ I t’s a lways b e e n s o r t Tournaments after the aside time to complete his of a stress relief for me,” program failed to make coursework, even if it meant Anzmann said. “It still kind the dance the previous sacrificing part of his social of functions like that for me five seasons. life or other interests he had where I can go work out for “Somehow Varun always outside of school. an hour and not worry about made it look easy, but I “I feel like playing bas- anything but my jump shot.” know how challenging it ketball for the school and was to achieve such aca- being a student comple- kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

Cummings, Whittle battle

Former teammates compete on international stage Scott Gelman @Gelman_Scott Staff writer I m m e d i a te ly a f te r t h e Maryland women’s lacrosse team’s final four appearance in Chester, Pennsylvania, attacker Megan Whittle took a flight to Melbourne, Australia.

A f te r c o m m u n i c a t i n g with Team England players and coaches and deciding to join the team in January, Whittle met her teammates in Australia for a three-week, eight-game tour.

“I told her this was kind of her dream coming true,” said former Maryland defender Alice Mercer, one of 24 players selected to be on the U.S. national team roster. “I told her all of her hard work payed off and asked her about international phone bills and planning.”

A month later, Whittle went up against Mercer and former Terps midfielder Taylor Cummings as a part of the U.S. team’s fivegame foreign tour in England.

Mercer’s squad came away with a 20-2 win, but Whittle enjoyed going against players she competed with in College Park the past two seasons.

“I really looked up to [Mercer], and it’s always fun having the best defender I’ve ever played against challenge me,” Whittle said. “To play against her in a different uniform was different. It was similar to practice, but at the same time not wearing the same

Maryland jersey.”

Whittle’s mom was born in England but left the country to pursue a swimming career at Villanova. Now, Whittle is one of about 25 girls on England’s performance squad.

Unlike the process for the U.S. national team, England’s program does not have formal tryout. Instead, 50 players compete daily for a roster spot on the performance squad.

Whittle and Mercer were u s e d i n t h e d ra w c i rc l e throughout the U.S. team‘s win over the England. It was an unfamiliar task for both, as former midfielder Taylor Cummings took almost every draw for coach Cathy Reese’s team while at Maryland.

On occasion, Mercer defended Whittle, who tallied a go a l a n d a n a s s i s t , i n transition.

“Being on the other side of it, all of [Whittle’s skills] you take for granted when she’s on your team you really key in on when you’re going against her,” Mercer said.

“It was a cool experience to play in a different country with someone I’ve played with for the past two years and someone, even though she’s younger than me, I’ve looked up to.”

The U.S. national team, which features six Maryland alumni, won all five of its games on its foreign tour in England.

Tea m E n g l a n d , m ea n while, won five of its games i n Au s t ra l i a l a s t m o n t h , earning two victories over the Aussies and one against New Zealand, Western Australia and New South Wales.

Whittle, who attributes her offensive success to facing Mercer often, recorded 12 goals and an assist in the tournament.

“I don’t think I would be the same player I am today without Alice to challenge me every day,” Whittle said.

“We set the bar really high fo r ea c h o t h e r a n d wo rk really hard to make each other better every game we play.”

After the match between the U.S. and England on July 2, both teams met for a barbecue at the field complex.

Whittle and Mercer briefly discussed the game, noting it might not be the last time they face each other wearing different uniforms.

The 2017 FIL Women’s World Cup in Guildford, England, is next July, and the U.S. and England have already qualified for the event.

“I think that’s something really special when you come out of Maryland and see great players going on and doing great things,” Mercer said. “[The conversations were] positive and happy.” sgelmandbk@gmail.com Cornerback Will Likely has been named to several award watch lists so far this preseason.

auslander From PAGE 8 doing it. It’s like a lawyer learning more on their first case than at law school. It’s a way for us to see if certain things we believe in work or if they don’t.”

T h e pa s t two sea so n s, Dixon assisted Auslander’s tea m s i n T h e B a s ke tba l l To u r n a m e n t . B u t s i n c e Auslander is seeking jobs, Dixon took the head coaching duties this summer.

Team Maryland general manager Muhammad Smith and assistant coach Tony Durant put together a roster of former-NBA players, athletes playing overseas and former college players, most of whom are from the state of Maryland.

Smith asked Dixon, his longtime friend, to coach his team, and Dixon brought Auslander with him.

“Those guys coach and show detail so you get it,” Smith said. “Those guys bring the experience to the team and the structure to the team.”

There are 64 teams in the tournament from different regions of the U.S. Each team has about a dozen players

with different basketball backgrounds. Former Terps D.J. Strawberry and James Gist, who play in the Greek Basketball League, are participating in the tournament.

Former Maryland forward Evan Smotrycz played last summer.

come in that have really been practicing together and really have offensive plays,” Smith said. “You got some teams come in who think they’re just playing pick-up. You’re competing for two million d ollars. Eve ryone knows what’s at stake.”

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CERTAIN THINGS But first, Auslander hopes WE BELIEVE IN to coach Team Maryland to the championship.

WORK OR IF THEY “It’s a fun environment,” DON’T”.

Auslander said. “Juan and JOHN AUSLANDER I enjoy coaching. We enjoy Former Maryland men’s basketball game-planning and preparing graduate assistant people. There’s an opportunity Coa c h i n g p ro fe ss i o n a l to do that. That’s what makes athletes, most of whom are it fun. If you want to be a good older than Auslander, is part coach, you got to coach.” of his challenge.

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Cornerback Will Likely was placed on the watch list for the Jim Thorpe Award, given to the top defensive back in college football. He was also ta b b e d fo r t h e B ro n ko Nagurski Trophy and Bednarik Award, which honor the best-overall defensive player in the nation.

Likely has been a first-team All-Big Ten member during the past two seasons. He registered 44 tackles, four of which were for a loss, and three forced fumbles. He also led the team with 11 pass breakups as a junior in 2015.

In addition, the cornerback led the country with 1,197 return yards last season.

L i n e ba c ke r Je r m a i n e C a r te r Jr. , m ea nwh i l e , was named to the Butkus Awa rd wa tc h l i s t . T h e honor, now in its 32nd year, is awarded annually to the nation’s best linebacker.

Carter started all 12 games last year and recorded 14 tackles for a loss, the most for a Maryland middle linebacker since E.J. Henderson in 2002. His 103 total tackles also led the team.

SHEPTOCK RETURNS Maryland wrestling coach Kerry McCoy hired Jimmy Sheptock to join his staff as an assistant coach, according to a release Monday.

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McCoy said he hopes Sheptock, whom he once coached, can use his experience and energy to become “a great example for our guys.” “[Sheptock] is one of the best wrestlers to ever put o n a Te r ra p i n u n i fo r m ,” the veteran coach said in a release. “It’s exciting to b r i n g a fo r m e r Te r p l i ke Jimmy on board with our program.”

When Drexel traveled to College Park last December, Maryland honored Sheptock for his past contributions. He’s now back with the Terps, beginning a new chapter with the program.

“I’m excited to be back at Maryland and help out the program that gave me so much,” Sheptock said. “This is a fantastic opportunity for me and I want to thank Coach McCoy for bringing me back.”

Sheptock, who was an assistant at Drexel for the past two seasons, was one of the most accomplished wrestlers in Terps history.

He was a two-time All American and three-time ACC Champion during his career in College Park. In the 2013-14 campaign, he finished with a 32-1 record and became the first Maryland wrestler to earn a No. 1 ranking. dbernsteindbk@gmail.com CORRECTION

CORRECTION: Due to a reporting error, the story “USM gives $1.5M to U programs” in the July 7 issue of The Diamondback stated two advisers from this university will be placed in four community colleges including Howard. Only one adviser will be placed, and the fourth college is instead the College of Southern Maryland. The story has been updated.

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Huerter makes national team

Incoming freshman guard one of 12 players to make U-18 squad

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer

coach mark Turgeon is an assistant coach on the U.S. U-18 men’s basketball team. file photo/the diamondback

Maryland basketball guard Kevin Huerter was one of 12 players who made the U.S. U-18 men’s basketball team, which was announced Wednesday.

Huerter, a consensus four-star recruit and the No. 49 player in the 2016 ESPN 100, will compete with the squad in the FIBA Americas U-18 Championship in Chile from July 19-23.

The Clifton Park, New York, native played at Shenendehowa Central High School, leading the program to its first state title since 1987 as a junior. At 6-foot6, Huerter will likely compete for

playing time with returning guards Dion Wiley and Jared Nickens and fellow incoming freshmen Micah Thomas and Justin Jackson.

“He has great point guard vision and instincts and also has the ability to stretch the floor with his outstanding shooting range,” coach Mark Turgeon said in a release Nov. 11. “Kevin is young for his class and his development for someone so young is just outstanding.”

By making the squad, Huerter will have a chance to continue developing under Turgeon, who is an assistant for the national team.

The U.S. team will open play in Group B against Puerto Rico on July 19 before going up against Chile and the U.S. Virgin Islands the

following two days. The top two squads from each group make the semifinals. The winners will play in the gold medal game July 23.

Should the U.S. fare well in this tournament, Huerter will possibly have an opportunity to earn more international experience. The top four finishers qualify for the 2017 FIBA U-19 World Championship.

“I’m really excited about the make-up of our team,” said U.S coach Shaka Smart, who also coaches at Texas. “First of all, we have 12 high character guys, they are guys who really seem to get along well with each other, and that’s important on any team. kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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Powell to sprint at Olympics Dan Bernstein @danbernsteinUMD Staff writer Maryland track and field sprinter Micha Powell qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after her performance at the Canadian Olympic Trails last weekend.

She will represent Canada in the 4x400 meter relay, the Canadian Olympic Committee announced Monday.

Powell starred for the Terps last year, qualifying for both the indoor and outdoor NCAA Championships.

She set program records in the 400meter dash during both the indoor and outdoor seasons.

She said her “ heart stopped” when she found out via email she would represent her country this summer, according to an email from the athletic department.

“Having the opportunity to represent my beautiful homeland is a dream come true,” Powell said in a release.

“It’s incredible to know that little Canadian girls and boys are going to be looking up to me and seeing me on TV, saying, ‘wow she’s at the Olympics maybe I’ll be there too someday.’”

“She has worked hard towards these goals and to see her progress over these past few years has been exciting,” coach Andrew Valmon added. “This will be a special moment for her and our staff is so proud to see her qualify.”

T E R PS M A KE W A T C H L IS T S Two Maryland football upperclassmen were named to defensive award watch lists this past week, See Roundup Page 7

Guards Trevor anzmann (Left) and Varun Ram (middle) did not receive much playing time during games but excelled in the classroom. Each player had at least a 3.7 GPA this past academic year. file photo/the diamondback

BIG TEN SCHOLARS Anzmann, Ram earn conference recognition for academic excellence

Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer Maryland basketball guards Varun Ram and Trevor Anzmann didn’t lead the team in minutes played, scoring or rebounding last season.

Those honors went to guards Rasheed Sulaimon and Melo Trimble and forward Robert Carter Jr., respectively, all of whom were starters for a Terps squad that reached the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2003.

Ram and Anzmann, meanwhile,

averaged 4.4 and 2.4 minutes, respectively.

Still, the duo attended every wo rko u t , p ra c t i c e a n d ga m e , putting in as much time on the court and in the weight room as the rest of their teammates.

They excelled in the classroom, too, which was evident from both players being named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars on July 6. Ram and Anzmann were two of 32 Maryland student athletes to receive the honor, which is given to those who have achieved at least a 3.7 GPA the previous academic year.

“It’s a great honor to be on that

list,” Anzmann said. “I mean, especially with guys like Varun, who obviously are extremely intelligent.”

Anzmann graduated in May with a degree in aerospace engineering, while Ram earned a degree in physiology and neurobiology the year before. In returning to play his redshirt senior season with the Terps, Ram pursued his master’s degree in supply chain management.

Both players knew what they wanted to study before stepping on Maryland’s campus.

Anzmann excelled in math and science courses at Westminster Senior High School, so when he

made a short trip to College Park, he visited the aerospace departm e n t . S h o r t ly a f te r c h e c k i n g out the departmental facilities, which included the subsonic wind tunnels, he was sold.

Ram said he had a passion for science since elementary school, making his decision of what to major in a simple one as well.

Yet it took both players much longer to wind up with Turgeon and the Terps basketball team.

A Clarksville native, Ram started his college basketball career at See scholars Page 7

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Auslander gaining coaching experience Former Terp assists local team in tourney Kyle Melnick @kyle_melnick Senior staff writer

Former graduate assistant John Auslander (left) hopes coaching in The Basketball Tournament will help prepare him for the future. file photo/the diamondback

Former Maryland basketball graduate assistant John Auslander is used to watching Maryland coach Mark Turgeon run practices, conduct film sessions and draw up plays. Auslander specialized in scouting with the Terps, but he aspires to be a college head coach. He knew he needed some type of experience in the field to reach his dream.

So Auslander became a head coach for teams in The Basketball Tournament, an annual national 5-on-5 tournament that began July

9, in which the winning team earns $2 million. Auslander managed D.C.’s Finest the past two seasons, and he’s assisting former Terps special assistant Juan Dixon with Team Maryland this year.

After leaving Maryland this spring, Auslander isn’t certain what he’ll do next in his coaching career. But he’s already gained valuable experience from coaching in The Basketball Tournament, where he holds the same duties Turgeon does with the Terps.

“Every time you coach, you get better,” Auslander said. “There’s some stuff you can only learn from See Auslander Page 7