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Title IX office to lose three staffers Only four employees will remain in office after Oct. 2 Catherine Carroll isn’t the only one who’s decided to leave the Unive rs i ty o f M a ryl a n d ’s Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct lately.

By the beginning of October, three more staffers will be gone, including Deputy Director Leslie Annexstein, Annexstein said Wednesday.

An investigator and the office’s intake specialist also plan to leave before Oct. 2, Annexstein said.

Annexstein is leaving to become Howard University’s Title IX Director, she said.

When asked about the hiring timeline and reasons for the employees’ departures, a university spokesperson sent an emailed statement from general counsel Mike Poterala stating the university will “be working diligently this semester to fill other vacancies currently in the office to ensure they are fully staffed to support our campus community.” by

Leah Brennan and Christine Condon @thedk Senior staff writers

students sleep and relax in North Hill lounges, which are among the only air-conditioned rooms within the “historic district’s” residential dorms, julia lerner/the diamondback

‘Just not a comfortable place’

After shuffling through the first week of classes in 90-degree heat, some University of Maryland students returned home to the relief of airconditioned dorms.

By Rachel Hunt, @rachelsuzhunt, Staff writer

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But those living in North Hill’s “historic district” had a different experience.

Students in Wicomico, Worcester, Carroll and Caroline halls received a heat advisory email from the Department of Resident Life warning of “higher than average temperatures and humidity,” then spent the week looking for ways to sleep comfortably.

Resident Life has attempted to combat the heat by distributing fans to students in dorms without air conditioning and opening up multipurpose and study rooms in a variety of buildings for students with valid identification. Prince Frederick Hall, for example, opened 24-hour access to its lounges and multipurpose room for students seeking refuge from the heat.

Rather than stay in his room in Wicomico

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Chemistry wing to be demolished A new state-funded wing to be built by 2023 Part of the University of Maryland’s Chemistry Building will be demolished and rebuilt in an effort to modernize and upgrade the 66-year-old building, which has been riddled with infrastructure issues.

Wing 1 — which primarily houses laboratories and the chemistry library and is the oldest section of the building — will undergo a $104 million demolition and reconstruction, scheduled to begin in 2020 and be completed in 2023.

The new, state-funded 105,000 squarefoot wing will be constructed “on the existing footprint of Wing 1” and include “research labs, collaboration space for faculty and students, advanced instructional labs and a flexible meeting space for events,” according to university spokesperson Jessica Jennings.

The wing’s update was prompted by numerous issues the section had developed over the last 20 years, according to chemistry and biochemistry department chair Janice Reutt-Robey and chemistry professor Efrain Rodriguez.

“I think if you were to try to make a list of everything that is wrong with Wing 1 of Chemistry for doing modern research, the list would be way too long,” Rodriguez said.

Reutt-Robey and Rodriguez said the building lacks working air conditioning and adequate ventilation, which interferes with the quality of experiments and research in addi-

Prince Frederick Hall, above, opened its doors to provide a refuge for students without air conditioning in their dorms. Rachel Hunt/For the diamondback

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See heat, p. 3

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Ex-diversity officer criticizes admin Roger Worthington is the second to resign from position in two years by

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Jeff Barnes University of role,” he said. “I’m a better, more effective member of the @thejeff barnes Maryland’s former interim community as a full professor Staff writer chief diversity officer criticized the school’s leadership at a meeting of the Black Faculty Staff Association on Tuesday.

Roger Worthington, who resigned from his post this summer and returned to the college of education faculty, spoke at an emergency meeting for the association in the Nyumburu Cultural Center, as organizers called for the president’s office to release the findings of an external review of campus diversity efforts.

“Unless I get the kind of real backing to do this work, I can’t

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with a full voice where I can come forward and work together with you without [The Office of ] Strategic Communications saying, ‘Here is what you can say and here is what you can’t say as an administrator.’”

University spokesperson Jessica Jennings said the office “partners with all administrative units and university leadership to provide media relations guidance.”

Worthington said the report from the external review, which he called a “major endeavor,” was delivered to the office of

university President Wallace Loh in June.

University policy allots “no more than one-year, and ideally no more than six months” for such reviews. This one began last semester, according to Jennings. “ T h e n ex t s te p i n t h e p ro c e s s i s a m e e t i n g to gather stakeholders to review recommendations and discuss what is actionable, feasible and appropriate to adopt,” Jennings wrote in an email. “The process will move forward according [to] university policy.”

Solomon Comissiong, BFSA president, said officials may be hesitant to release the results of the external review because it could reflect unfavorably on this university. If the results were positive, he said, they would have been released a “long, long time ago.”

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Comissiong said he talked to people interviewed during the external review — which included the full spectrum of students, faculty and staff members — and the responses were candid and detailed. “ Be ca u se I k n ow wh a t was said when I was being i n te r v i ewe d , b e c a u s e … students who I work closely with told me what they said, I believe that is the reason why it was not released,” Comissiong said.

Worthington said he is working with an external consultant to complete the final report on the campus climate survey, which was commissioned last year and sent out in January. The preliminary results of the survey indicated that some See diversity, p. 3

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University of Maryland Police responded to reports of robberies, thefts and telephone/ ema i l m isuse a mong other i ncidents over the past week, according to police reports.

ROBBERIES University and Prince George’s County Police are investigating reports of one attempted on-ca mpus robbery and two offcampus robberies f rom ea rly Su nd ay morning, all of which University Police say are connected.

A male student said he was wa l ki ng nea r R itchie Coliseum, a long Rossboroug h Lane toward Leonardtown, at about 3:02 a.m. when the driver of a dark vehicle asked him for directions, according to a UMD Alert update. T he d river asked about his property, and the student fled when the passenger-side door started to open, the update said.

The suspects implied that they had a weapon, but the witness did not see one, a nd was not i nj u re d .

The vehicle, which w a s re p o r t e d l y o ccupied by five males, has been described as a four-door Volkswagen with a Maryland plate, 5DH5117, alerts read. It had a broken rear tail light that was brighter on the passenger side than on the driver side.

The other two robberies occurred at the intersection of Route 1 and Greenbelt Road, near Rita’s, and at the intersection of Dartm o u t h Av e n u e a n d Rhode Island Avenue in south College Park, according to the alerts.

THEFTS University Police responded to 251 North on Aug. 28 at 4 p.m.

for a reported thef t, a c c o rd i n g to p ol i c e logs. A male studentemployee reported that on Aug. 27 between 4 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., his wallet went missing, and the following day, he wa s not i f ied of a fraudulent charge on his credit card account.

The same day at 4:54 p.m., University Police re s p ond e d to S o ut h Campus Com mons 4 for a reported bicycle t h e f t , a c c o rd i n g to police logs. A female university student told p ol ic e t h at he r bicycle was stolen from a rack located between Commons #4 and Allegany Hall between Aug. 25 at 10 a.m. and Aug. 27 at 8:30 a.m., sa id pol ice spokesperson Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas.

TELEPHONE/EMAIL MISUSE On Aug. 29, University Police responded to El k ton Ha l l for a telephone/ ema i l misuse report at 1:08 a.m., accord i ng to police reports.

A male student reported to police that he met a female on a social med i a pl at for m a nd the two “engaged in a mutually consensual conversation regarding services the female provides for a fee,” according to Hoaas. The student later changed his mind and ended the chat.

A fter end i ng the chat, an unknown male called the student back insisting that he pay for the fema le’s services. After the student refused to pay, the male caller threatened him, according to Hoaas.

The officer to whom the student reported told him to report the incident to the social med ia platform, according to Hoaas.

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University wants to build first practical quantum computer If built, quantum computers could perform advanced calculations Students a n d re Zoe Rader searchers @Zoe__Rader a t t h e Un i Staff writer versity of Maryland are joining the world’s top scientists racing to build the first practical quantum computer, a device that could solve some of the most difficult questions in science.

If successfully developed, quantum computers could be used for very specific and advanced operations; calculations such as cryptography and business logistics would be able to be performed much faster than a regular computer, said Kristi Beck, a postd o c to ra l s t u d e n t i n t h e Joint Quantum Information group at this university.

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to this university and six other institutions across the country to pursue this project. “ I t o p e n s t h e d o o r to problems that could never, ever be solved otherwise,” said Chris Monroe, a physics professor at this university and the founder of quantum research company IonQ. “It makes weird stuff that we do in the basement of the p hys i c s b u i l d i n g u se f u l to anybody on the street.

That’s the opportunity.”

Monroe and Alexey Gorshkov, an adjunct professor at this university, will lead the project. Monroe said he’ll develop the hardware, while Gorshkov will be the theorist behind it.

The project will span the next five years, Monroe said.

“What this specific grant allows us to do is interact in a more purposeful and exciting way with everyone and across all of these disciplines to make it work,” Gorshkov said.

Re s ea rc h e rs f ro m t h e seven institutions in the g ra n t — f ro m co m p u te r science, physics, engineering and other fields — will a l l co l l a b o ra te o n t h e i r findings.

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PHYSICS PROFESSOR Chris Monroe, a physics professor at the University of Maryland, will help develop hardware for a quantum computer. zoe rader/for the diamondback p r o g ra m k n o w n a s t h e Software-Tailored Architecture for Quantum codesign, which aims to study the hardware and software n e c e s s a r y to d eve l o p a functional quantum computer, Gorshkov said. STAQ will also explore various applications of this new technology.

“We’re going to build it and program it and hopef u l ly f i n d n ew a p p l i ca tions,” Monroe said. “This is a fringe field, in a way.”

There are currently much s m a l l e r a n d l e ss u se f u l quantum computers in existence that mainly serve as “preliminary proof” that a practical quantum computer can be achieved, said Andrew Childs, co-director for the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. “ T h e d ev i ce s t h a t we h ave n ow a re d e f i n i te ly stepping stones to having a full-fledged quantum computer,” Childs said. “There’s still a lot more to be done.”

Despite the prospective applications of the quantum

computer, it is still unclear what will result from the project, Gorshkov said.

I n c rea s i n g e f f i c i e n cy in financial, business and pharmaceutical industries are also goals of the project, Monroe said.

“These are huge sectors of society that are not directly related to fundamental science or fundamental quantum physics, and this is what we need to find,” Monroe said. “Optimization is a very general and important task that quantum computers can be used for.”

Large technology companies such as Google and Intel are also battling to create the first useful quantum computer, which Monroe said demonstrates the vast possibility and promise of this technology.

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HEAT From p. 1 Hall, Kyle Nichols, a freshman enrolled in letters and sciences, slept in the dorm’s air-conditioned lounge throughout the week, alongside a co-ed group of sweaty students.

“It’s hot as shit,” Nichols said.

After multiple requests for comment, Resident Life spokesperson Tracy Kiras said she was not available for comment before publication.

Freshman English major

DIVERSITY From p. 1 minority respondents felt unsafe on campus.

The university said that new diversity-related initiatives were to be released in response by the end of the spring semester, but those have yet to be announced.

“The clearest, most definitive, most convergent set of findings from that campus climate study is that there are racial tensions on this campus that have been longstanding that still need a great deal of attention,” Worthington said.

Loh signed the re c o m m e n d a t i o n s f ro m

CHEMISTRY From p. 1 building has had plumbing problems in the past, limited ceiling height and no proper freight elevator for delivering chemical materials, among other issues.

Rodriguez, who served on the ad hoc committee for planning the building’s construction, said the new space will enable students to better

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Jonah Lecker — who’s been sleeping in his room in Wicomico Hall with the help of three fans — said students without air conditioning face an “almost impossible” task in getting a good night’s rest.

“We feel like we’re at a disadvantage compared to the other students,” he said.

“They’re probably more energized and ready in the morning than we are.”

On Sunday, Resident Life opened the multipurpose rooms in Annapolis Hall — which is

not a dorm — and Denton Hall for students to sleep in from 11 p.m. to 8 a.m. The department also offered students a limited number of mattresses, available on a first-come, first-served basis, to soften the experience of sleeping in a lounge.

Sleeping in common areas raised questions of security, with a Resident Life email warning students to bring “your own bedding and keep your valuables and personal belongings locked in your residence hall room for safekeeping.”

Bridgette Hammett, a fresh-

man environmental science and technology major, said she and her roommate were getting creative with ways to avoid the heat in their room in Wicomico Hall.

“It was 95 degrees in our dorm,” Hammett said. “We slept on towels on the floor in our bathing suits because we knew we were going to be sweating.”

A missive titled “A Hell Away From Home” was found last week in the Carroll Hall lobby, which has air conditioning, although the rest of the building does not. The one-page docu-

ment, signed “Anonymous,” is written from the perspective of a Carroll Hall resident, who shares their experiences in the dorm and their frustration with Resident Life.

“You enter the [Carroll Hall] lobby, and sure it’s nice and cold for a brief moment,” the missive read. “But you make your way into the rest of the building, and the illusion of the cold fades into a heat-induced mirage.

All that surrounds the resident is a blazing hellfire that sweats weight off of them.”

While dorms in the historic

district received new lobby floor coverings, whiteboards, bathroom drain lines and fresh paint over the summer, nothing cooling-related was installed due to the limited electrical infrastructure of the buildings, according to a Resident Life email.

“It’s just unfortunate,” Lecker said. “We want to come back to our room, we want our room to be a place we can hang out, and it’s just not a comfortable place.”

h i s d ive rs i ty ta s k fo rc e o n M ay 3 , wh i c h se t u p a policy for punishing threatening conduct, and a campus diversity survey to be conducted every two years. The task force was commissioned after 2nd Lt. Richard Collins, a black B ow i e S ta te Un ive rs i ty student, was stabbed to d ea t h o n t h e ca m p u s i n May 2017. Sean Urbanski, a white former student at this university, is facing firstdegree murder and hate crime charges in the killing.

Collins’ death came after several hate bias incidents on campus, including the h a n g i n g o f a n o ose i n a campus fraternity house and of white nationalist posters

in a handful of locations on the campus.

In an open letter to Loh sent to The Diamondback, the BFSA expressed concern regarding Worthington’s resignation. He is the second person to resign from the position in the last two years. Kumea ShorterGooden, who became the u n i ve rs i t y ’s f i rs t c h i e f diversity officer in 2012, resigned from the post in January 2017. “ T h e t u r n ove r o f two Chief Diversity Officers in such a short period of time has us concerned that the job of CDO at the University of Maryland may be tainted and cause anyone of similar s ta t u re a n d re p u ta t i o n

hesitant to consider coming to UMD,” the BFSA wrote in the letter.

Although Worthington was hired amid controversy — he was initially part of the search committee for the position and wasn’t required to interact with student leadership in the same ways as other candidates — the BFSA praised him for his work and the path he set for the ODI. In his email to the community Monday, Loh announced Cynthia Edmunds as the new interim chief diversity officer, with plans to launch a national search for the new position of vice president for diversity and inclusion.

Edmunds is an assistant to the university president, and the acting chairperson of the Equity Council in the president’s office, according to the office’s website. She has held the interim chief diversity officer position in the past, prior to Worthington’s hiring.

Several people who spoke during Tuesday’s meeting likened the university’s handling of the external review with officials’ response to the death of Maryland football player Jordan McNair, who suffered heatstroke at a team workout in May. The university accepted “legal and moral responsibility” for McNair’s

death in August, following ESPN reports that indicated the football program had a toxic culture.

Erica Puentes, co-founder of ProtectUMD, the UMD Social Justice Coalition and former PLUMAS president, said during the meeting that the failure to release the external review continues a trend of inaction from the administration. To a roomful of applause, Puentes called for the resignation of Loh a n d P r o vo s t M a r y A n n Rankin.

“We aren’t going to move fo r wa rd i f we c o n t i n u e under the same leadership,” she said.

complete their work.

“Not only do you want to do high-level research, but you want to do it safely,” he said. “You want it to be space that’s also welcoming to the graduate and postdoctoral students and associates that come and do their research in the laboratories.”

For senior chemistry major Sarah Bender, the building’s outdated equipment was a

major concern.

“The fume hoods are quite old, and I don’t trust them,” she said. “I do trust that they’d inspect them properly, but eventually they’re not going to be good anymore.”

Re u t t - Ro b ey sa i d t h e upgrade is long overdue, and that the new facilities will better serve students like Bender during their research.

“University of Maryland

students deserve to have laboratories that are of a modern standard,” she said. “We want our students to have the lab environments that are at least as good, if not better, than what they would find at … other major universities.”

In preparation for the redevelopment, existing material for research labs in Wing 1 was moved to the Edward St. John Teaching and Learning Center,

where it will remain for the duration of the construction.

The other wings of the building will also house additional temporary lab space and the chemistry library until the new Wing 1 is completed, according to Rodriguez. Those labs will be constructed beginning this winter, Jennings said.

Bender said the upgraded infrastructure would make her feel more comfortable during ex-

periments. It “would make it so we don’t have to do weird workarounds, and it would make me trust the engineering controls in the lab a little bit more,” she said.

“It’ll help us have better synergy with engineering and the surrounding research space on campus,” Rodriguez said.

“We’ve been waiting for this for a very long time.”

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TITLE IX From p. 1 Come Oct. 2, the office is expected to have only four of its staffers remaining: an administrative coordinator, a training manager and two investigators, since an investigator also left the office in May. Carroll’s resignation was reported by The Diamondback in August.

The office has dealt with staffing strains in the past. In

2016, Carroll said it had been operating at an “under-resourced, under-staffed pace” since its creation about two years earlier.

“It’s almost like we can’t grow fast enough,” she said.

I n t h e m ea n t i m e , t h e office will be co-directed by Andrea Goodwin, director of the university’s Office of Student Conduct, and Steve Petkas, the associate director of Resident Life, according to an email sent to the campus

community from the president’s office on Aug. 27.

SGA President Jonathan Allen said he has confidence in those officials, since they’ve been involved in how the university handles sexual misconduct before. The Office of Student Conduct determines punishments for students found responsible of sexual misconduct, and Petkas was the chairperson of the university’s task force on sexual assault.

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Allen said while it’s “premature” to say that the departures are indicative of higher-level administrative problems, he’s concerned about how the offices will function in their wake.

These new announcements come after a tumultuous summer for university staffing.

The announcement of C a r ro l l ’s re s i g n a t i o n i n August came a few weeks after the university an-

nounced interim chief diversity officer Roger Worthington would do the same.

At a public meeting Tuesday, having returned to the education department as a faculty member, Wo r t h i n g to n c r i t i c i z e d higher-ups, saying he didn’t have enough support and felt more able to speak freely after returning to his previous role as a professor.

“The biggest question I have is are those two offices

just going to be in a state of limbo?” Allen said.

Annexstein said she hopes the work Carroll began will continue after her departure.

“OCRSM is a very important and critical department for the university, and I think under Catherine Carroll a lot of the foundation was laid for a strong office. My hope for the university is that it continues that way,” Annexstein said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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It’s been a bad summer for the Maryland football team, but the truth is that it’s been a bad couple of years. The team has finished with a winning record just three out of the past nine seasons, during which time the head coach has been replaced twice (with another replacement potentially on the horizon).

Maryland football ranked third-to-last in attendance in the Big Ten last year, which should come as no surprise to anyone who’s witnessed the rows of empty bleachers that have become a fixture of home games. Most salient among the program’s woes is, of course, the recent death of Jordan McNair and emerging reports of a toxic culture that may have led to it.

In light of these problems and others, the time has come for frank discussion of a question seemingly absent from the discourse surrounding athletics at this university — namely, whether this university should continue to sponsor a varsity football program at all. There are a few compelling reasons to think the answer is a resounding “no.”

For one, this university has committed and continues to commit enormous sums o f m o n ey to t h e fo o t b a l l team. While it’s true that the program has operated in the black in terms of its day-today operations for the past few years, I speak more of the multi-million-dollar ancillary costs that crop up with alarming frequency.

Maryland spent $2 million to buy out the final year of coach Ralph Friedgen’s contract when he was fired in 2010, then repeated the process several years later with Randy Edsall for a buyout of $500,000 plus $4.2 million in salary. Strength and conditioning coach Rick Court resigned this summer

after accusations of verbally abusing players, but took home a $315,000 settlement in the process. The $196 million for the re-envisioned Cole Field House currently under construction is perhaps the largest testament to just how much money goes into this university’s football team.

These sorts of expenditures would be egregious even if the university had more money than it knew what to do with.

I n t h e a ge o f d i f fe re n t i a l tuition and disappearing #104 buses, they are nothing less than insulting.

It’s true that most of Cole Field House is being funded by donations. It’s also true that those donations — in addition to millions of dollars of university money — are being spent on a project that will be useless to the vast majority of the student body. The

columnist’s view

Playing college or pro football seems to be a ticket to permanent brain damage. problem is as much about the appearance that the university prioritizes athletics over its commitment to education as the actual dollars being thrown away.

Even if the team cost this university nothing, there are compelling reasons to think that no one should play college football, period. A 2017 report from researchers at Boston Un ive rs i ty fo u n d c h ro n i c traumatic encephalopathy, a debilitating neurodegenerative disease linked to repeated head trauma, in the brains of 48 out of 53 deceased former college football players.

The evidence on this front is abundant and sobering: Playing college or pro football seems to be a ticket to perma-

nent brain damage. If playing field hockey dramatically increased the likelihood that one would need to have both legs amputated later in life, it seems unlikely the university would sponsor a field hockey team. It’s unclear why similar logic doesn’t apply in the case of CTE and football.

While the players are presumably aware of the risks involved and choose to play anyway, one wonders why this might be the case. The national obsession with the sport — perpetuated in large part by highly visible universities that continue to promote it — likely plays a significant role in their calculus.

This university would be neither unprecedented in axing its football team nor alone among large universities in failing to sponsor one.

The University of Chicago is perhaps the most cited football apostate, having abandoned its troubled program in 1939, gone team-less for 30 years, and returned in a much reduced form to what was the equivalent of Division III in 1969, where it has remained.

In better comparison with this university: CSU Long Beach, George Mason, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UC Irvine, University of TexasArlington and Virginia Commonwealth University are all NCAA Division I public research universities, with enrollments of at least 30,000 students, that do not sponsor football teams.

President Wallace Loh’s favorite metaphor for athletics is that they’re the “front porch” of the university, the face we present to the public. Allow me to extend the metaphor.

If your front porch regularly required multi-million-dollar improvements, caused brain disease in those who sat on it and recently left someone dead, wouldn’t you consider removing it? fmarcel1@terpmail.umd.edu

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UMD needs fee transparency OLIVIA DELAPLAINE @ODelaplaine Columnist

I know I’m not the only one who cringed on July 26 when I opened my email to the subject line: “Your University of Maryland Billing Statement is available.” Scanning each column, seeing the familiar line items, I thought: “Tuition, right, housing, yeah, but hold on. $972 for mandatory fees?”

For those of you just as confused as I was, mandatory fees are what all students have to pay to cover student support services.

Since 2014, fees for full-time, in-state, undergraduate students have increased from $907.77 to $972. Instead of complacently accepting the fee hikes, we must demand transparency and control over how our dollars are being spent.

First, students need to know how much they are paying; at the very least, the university should inform students six months in advance of any increases. A raise as small as $20 each semester can make a big difference in weekly and monthly budgets, especially for students deciding between taking more classes, working more hours or helping family at home.

Second, students deserve to know exactly what their money is being used for.

The university offers a spending breakdown on the student financial services website, explaining the general distribution of students fees. The biggest areas are athletics, which receives about 21 percent of the total fees,and recreation services,which receives about 20 percent.

To increase transparency and aid student decision-making,directors of departments funded by student fees should publish even more detailed spending breakdowns on their websites, and regularly disclose and

publish information to the student financial services website.

Finally, students should have a say in how the university uses student fee money.

Since fees go toward funding services that students depend on, students deserve to be directly involved in dictating where their priorities lie by setting caps on fee increases and deciding what percentages of student fee revenue ought to go to each department.

For example, given the recent proposal to cut Shuttle-UM routes due to a budget deficit, students should be able to advocate for more of their fee money going to DOTS rather than athletics if they think Shuttle-UM service is a higher priority.

(Given the current state of Maryland athletics — a student-athlete dying from staff negligence,reports of a culture of abuse and physical violence in the football program — I certainly don’t want my money funding it.)

The SGA could be the entity in charge, or the University Senate could create a subcommittee to manage student fees. Either way, student representatives should have a seat at the table, and all students must be proactively informed so their representatives can respond to student needs in real time, whether they be for more transit, improved internet access or fully funded health services.

We are in a tense moment in our campus history, as students don’t feel like the administration listens to our concerns or prioritizes our well-being. Right now, any step toward increased transparency and more effective shared governance would be a welcome — and overdue — improvement.

And maybe it would make us cringe a little less when we get our billing statements. odelaplaine15@gmail.com

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Maryland Today isn’t journalism — it’s PR MAX FOLEY-KEENE @MaxFoleyKeene Columnist

At t h e ve r y end of university President Wallace Loh’s back-toschool message earlier this week came a surprise: The university launched a news website, named Maryland Today, which claims to offer “all of #UMD’s news, all in one place.”

Maryland Today is run by the university’s public relations team. The site features the address of the Office of Strategic Communications, and nearly all of the stories are written by employees of that office.

Any resemblance to existing campus publications is, of course, purely coincidental.

There’s something tragicomic about PR flacks at this university creating their own news outlet as the administration is embroiled in scandal. But aside from the obvious clumsiness of this endeavor, it does provide a disturbing look into the future of news consumption — we’re getting more and more of our news from PR professionals. And without major changes in the economy, we’re facing a future of glossy videos and cloying writeups that prize self-promotion over truth.

PR people are good at plenty of things; news reporting is not one of them. This should be self-evident: PR professionals are tasked with promoting the image of a person, company or institution. That role is fundamentally incompatible with the values — skepticism, curiosity, and transparency — of journalism.

But the economic incentives favor a PR career over a journalism one. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 2013, there are nearly five times as many public relations specialists as news reporters. And there’s also a widening pay gap between the two professions — the average journalist makes only 65 cents for every dollar their PR counterpart gets.

It’s entirely reasonable for journalists to leave the profession in search of greater economic security — and many have done just that. When Ryan Kelly won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of chaos at the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, he had already left his newspaper for a more stable job in PR. So as PR grows and journalism hollows out, news content becomes more, well, PR-y. With reduced information-collecting capacity, journalists must increasingly rely on PR folks with a vested interest in how information is spun. Robert McChesney and John Nichols, the authors of The Death and Life of American Journalism, have noted, “As editorial staffs shrink, there is less ability for news media to interrogate and counter the claims in press releases.”

Maryland Today is a bit more brazen because it bypasses journalists altogether.

If the trends in news media continue, not only will PR folks hold major influence over journalists, they could become our journalists. And that would be a major tragedy.

Since Trump’s election, we’ve all been subject to a wave of platitudes about the importance of a free and independent press. Loh even included such sentiments in the letter where he announced Maryland Today’s launch, describing a free press as “an institution essential to our democracy.”

But after a while, repeated insistence that “Democracy dies in darkness” can turn into background noise.

As heavy-handed as it is, Maryland Today is a useful reminder of why those platitudes are valuable. Without a vibrant press, we could end up getting our news from PR flacks slapping happy faces on institutions that are thoroughly rotten. opinionumdbk@gmail.com

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campus development

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NORMAn STARKEY, a graduate from this university, is among numerous advocates calling for a halt on proposed developments on the golf course. Starkey cites environmental and personal reasons to keep the course as is. mateo pacheco/the diamondback

For some, proposed developments on the golf course are not up to par

By Jillian Atelsek | @jillian_atelsek | Senior staff writer

W

hen the University of Maryland announced in July that it was

considering converting part of its 150acre golf course into new athletic facilities and a parking lot, Norman Starkey steeled himself for an all-too-familiar fight.

Starkey, the chair of the Maryland Golf Course Coalition, said the success of the community activism he oversaw five years ago — after a commercial development firm proposed building an academic village on the property — encouraged him to launch his efforts anew.

“We didn’t shut down five years ago,” Starkey said. “We kept active because we knew that valuable green space would be under siege.”

This university is now considering a “very preliminary” proposal that would convert the course’s first, ninth, 10th and 18th holes into five intramural fields, a new track and field complex and a 600-space parking lot, said administration and finance vice president Carlo Colella.

While officials tout the plan — which would require approval from the university’s facilities council and university President Wallace Loh — as a solution to the campus’ growing pains, it has received pushback from athletes, environmentalists, alumni and community members.

The university’s men’s and women’s golf teams play between 500 and 600 rounds of golf on the course each year and utilize the facility for practice on a daily basis, athletics department spokesperson Rose DiPaula wrote in an email. High school tournaments, clinics and lessons also take place there, Starkey added.

But Colella said the golf course plan was borne partly out of desire to help other university athletes.

Currently, the university’s track and field facilities border the soccer field at Ludwig, and the upcoming Purple Line light rail will cut through the throwing events area, bringing new urgency to the push for separate track and field facilities.

College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn said he’d prefer to see the golf course remain undeveloped — not for its sporting value, but for the sanctuary it provides to the surrounding urban environment.

“To me, the main priority is just keeping that area and its natural beauty,” he said.

THE GOLF COURSE was picked from about a dozen locations on campus to house a new track and field complex, a 600-space parking lot and five intramural fields. But some want to keep the green space untouched. mateo pacheco/the diamondback

“It’s not so important to me that it be a golf course.”

His worries echo those of Prince George’s County environmental advocates who wrote a letter to Loh expressing concern about the effects the construction could have on wildlife and stormwater runoff to the nearby Anacostia River.

“The University’s role in the river’s restoration begins with a visible commitment to maintain ... your remaining open spaces,” read the letter, which was signed by officials from five environmental organizations. “If we lose these places — including significant areas of this golf course — we cannot get them back.”

The golf course is more environmentally friendly than most, the letter to Loh added, thanks to its bioretention systems, rain gardens and large tracts of milkweed, which provide a sanctuary for monarch butterflies.

State law requires new developments to have a net positive environmental impact, Colella said — a standard often met by the installation of green roofs, bioretention systems or stormwater management technology — and any golf course construction would be subject to strict environmental regulations.

The golf course was chosen out of about a dozen potential locations — including the Chapel Fields, Fraternity Row and the south lawn of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center — to simultaneously address the need for new track and field facilities and more intramural fields, Colella said.

The plan is also part of a growing story surrounding campus construction, particularly that of the Purple Line, which is eating up campus parking areas and has already prompted the university’s transportation department to plan construction of a new garage.

While Colella said he sympathizes with golf enthusiasts who are reluctant to see the size of the course reduced, he added that 14 of the holes would remain intact and the function of the course could continue.

But Starkey said golfers familiar with

the game, which typically features either nine or 18 holes, would be turned off by the truncated course.

“That’s like saying, ‘Make a football field 80 yards long,’” he said. “That’s ridiculous.”

If the course is reduced to 14 holes, Starkey said he fears it would “inevitably” be converted to a nine-hole course — and the membership, community and donations that sustain it would dry up. He’d be open to the placement of fields on the 150 acres of wooded land that surround the course if all 18 holes could be maintained, he added.

Over the summer, the university hosted a meeting for golf course members to go over the proposal and its potential implications.

For Starkey, that re-ignited both the Save the UMD Golf Course campaign — which targeted local politicians, environmental activists and community members — and his passion for the course, which Starkey said he can trace back more than 50 years.

Born and raised in rural Indiana, Starkey moved to an apartment in Adelphi with his mother in 1960 after his father died. A selfdescribed “farm boy,” he felt out of place in urban Prince George’s County until a university faculty member who lived in his building offered to take him golfing at the course.

“I played there, and that was my rural setting that I missed from my younger years,” said Starkey, a three-time graduate of this university and former NASA engineer. “This is personal for me.”

Forums for the campus community to learn about the project and share their thoughts will be scheduled in the coming weeks, Colella said.

Starkey said he plans to continue his fight against what he sees as a “going-out-of-business” proposition.

“We’re gonna bring pressure,” he said. “Word is out there.”

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“I played there, and that was my rural setting that I missed from my younger years. … This is personal for me.”

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A YEAR IN REVIEW As the new school year begins, here’s a recap of some of the biggest stories from the UMD community over the past year. august

september

Following the violent white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, this university’s marching band, in conjunction with the athletic department and university president’s office, decided to remove “Maryland, My Maryland” from its repertoire. The song is an ode to the Confederacy; its lyrics deride the Union as “Northern scum.”

Texas’ new head coach and highly ranked freshman class didn’t stop Maryland from pulling off a 51-41 upset on the Longhorns’ home turf. After starting quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome went down in the third quarter, true freshman Kasim Hill stepped in and held off the Longhorns to seal Maryland football’s first win over a ranked opponent since 2010.

october

After months of heated debate, it appeared College Park would allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. But three days after the city council voted 4-3 to approve the measure, officials announced that it had failed to pass, because amendments to the city charter required at least six votes. (A month later, the rule requiring six votes was found to violate state law, though the measure still didn’t pass.)

november

At about 6 a.m. on Oct. 1, 2017, university freshman Maria Fisher was crossing Route 1 at the Campus Drive intersection when an SUV hit her. She was taken to the hospital and died later that morning.

The A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation pledged to give the university $219.5 million over 10 years, the largest donation it had ever received. The money is largely for need-based scholarships, new engineering fellowships and a new engineering building.

march Two years after becoming College Park’s first openly gay mayor, Patrick Wojahn won re-election in the most crowded mayoral race in the city’s history, receiving 1,568 out of 2,632 votes to beat three other candidates. After his victory, he said he was “glad and humbled” that residents had “put their trust in [him] for another two years.”

december

may

The Graduate Student Government voted in December to impeach its president, Stephanie Cork, after the Governance Committee found she had violated the organization’s bylaws and misused its budget.

Amid calls for more robust mental health resources on campus — led by a student group called Students Promoting and Revitalizing Care, which then-senior Anthony Sartori (pictured) founded — the Counseling Center announced it would add four new full-time psychologist positions, one of which filled a vacancy.

june As the one-year anniversary of 2nd Lt. Richard Collins’ killing approached, the university held a reflection service. Community members gathered to reflect on Collins’ life and reflect on the impact of his killing, for which a former university student is facing murder and hate crime chages.

august

At a Maryland football team workout on May 29, offensive lineman Jordan McNair suffered heatstroke as he completed a conditioning exercise. The rising sophomore was taken to the hospital, where he died June 13.

Three University of Maryland community members were killed when a gunman opened fire at The Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis. Rob Hiaasen (left) was a lecturer in the journalism school, and Gerald Fischman (center) and John McNamara (right) were alumni of both the university and The Diamondback.

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After ESPN reports described an abusive culture in the football program, the university put head coach DJ Durkin and other staffers on leave. More trouble for athletics came when Diamondback reporting showed former athletic director Kevin Anderson intervened in two athletes’ sexual misconduct case.

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Reimagining cartoons with depth and meaning,

‘disenchantment’ simply enchants

By Samantha Subin | @samantha_subin | Staff writer

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etflix is giving Game of Thrones

a run for its money with i ts n ewe s t a n i m a te d series, Disenchantment.

The ten-part series, produced by The Simpsons a n d Fu t u ra m a c rea to r M a t t G ro e n i n g , ta ke s place in a medieval alternate universe decim a te d b y p l a g u e a n d destruction.

With Disenchantment, Groening puts 21st-century problems in an old-world context. From hookup culture, to chastity and binge drinking, the show serves up relatable and smart social commentary with a medieval twist.

For an animated series, Disenchantment has more depth and meaning than Family Guy and American Dad! combined. And unlike other animated comedies, Disenchantment knows to quit when it’s ahead. Throwaway jokes are fleeting; the show steers clear of tedious extended sequences like Family Guy’s famous chicken fight scenes.

Disenchantment follows Princess Tiabeanie (Abbi Jacobson of Broad City), the rebellious teenage daughter of overbearing King Zøg. While Disenchantment looks like Groening’s other series, the characters are more complex and likable.

The princess, also known as Bean, has a foul mouth, a serious drinking problem and

an irrepressible free spirit.

S h e ’s a c l a ss i c w i l d c h i l d , but she has depth, edge and a feminist character arc. She runs around in pants, ruins her arranged marriage and seeks random hookups for the sole purpose of fulfillment.

Each episode follows Bean as she upsets her father with a n o t h e r d r u n ke n e sca pa d e or costly adventure with her friends. Though the adventures are absurd and unrealistic, they highlight a very real dynamic; Bean is sarcastic and awkward because she’s been cooped up her whole life. As the series progresses, the detrimental effect of this lack of attention becomes apparent.

Character dynamic is one of the series’ strengths. There’s a refreshing power play between Elfo, Bean’s runaway elf friend (Nat Faxon), and Luci, her personal demon (Eric Andre).

The two chara c te rs p u t a

twist on the stereotypical angel-and-demon dynamic. Elfo aims to make Bean do good, but he’s insecure, innocent and entirely self-conscious about his capabilities. Unlike most angelic figures, Elfo succumbs to peer pressure, causing chaos.

On the other hand, Luci represents an overpowering evil influence that — like a stereotypical older brother — peer pressures Bean into committing the unthinkable. The two characters feed off of one another in an enjoyable and refreshing way.

Rarely in an animated comedy series do people find continuity and stability. But in Disenchantment, story arcs flow through each episode and past adventures are

mentioned in conversations between characters. Somehow Disenchantment is one of those series that manages to cast a spell on viewers. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

fashion

‘divine transcendence’

‘Heavenly Bodies’ divinely meshes fashion and the Catholic faith

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“Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” hit its millionth visitor since opening in May, making it the most attended exhibition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute to date.

The exhibition gives visitors a peek into the op u le nt history of the Catholic Church and the i n c re d i b l e a m o u n t o f fashion inspired from it. “ Heave n ly Bo d i e s ” shares its theme with this year’s Met Gala, where celebrities wore outfits resembling the Pope, priests and other religious icons.

Mo re t h a n 4 0 ge n u i n e Catholic vestments ranging from the 18th to early 21st century are displayed as well. Papal dal-

matics, mitres and robes were sent on loan to the Met from the Vatican.

“What struck me is how religion — Catholicism in particular — has really shaped the mind of these designers with a richness of imagery, a storytelling tradition, and seeing the world through metaphor,” the Met’s head curator, Andrew Bolton, said in a Vogue article.

B o l to n c o u l d n o t b e m o re r i g h t . “ H eave n ly Bodies” tells a story that weaves together the ancient and the modern perfectly.

The Met did more than just display Catholic garb — the exhibit transports onlookers to an unearthly place. Immediately after e n te r i n g t h e Me d i eva l

Sculpture Hall, visitors are struck with awe as grandiose classical music plays on speakers and tall displays of costume are brightly lit.

Dresses from the Gala s h ow t h e o p u l e n c e o f the historical Catholic Church.

High profile designers, such as Versace, Saint Laurent and Dolce & Gabbana, went above and beyond to adorn celebrities’ outfits. The exhibit effortlessly connects these pieces to the papal accessories on display, decorated in diamonds and precious gems.

The dresses displayed in the Met’s Medieval Sculpture Hall are larger than life. Designer John Galliano for House of Dior

conceived a gown called the “Madonna Ensemble,” mirroring a white angel. The awe-inspiring angel had massive wings, a sw i rl i n g d re ss a n d a golden, shooting starsendorned crown. Galliano’s figure is jaw dropping, captivating everyone’s attention.

Curators of the exhibit teach visitors the beliefs of the church — how ancient Catholics thought beauty and opulence was “divine transcendence.”

There was an emphasis on religion throughout the exhibit, but it is never too much. “Heavenly Bodies” strikes the perfect balance b e twe e n fa s h i o n a n d religion. adeckerdbk@gmail.com

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volleyball

Pritchard takeover Sophomore stepping up into void left by transfers by

After four of Maryland knowing in our minds that we can serve it

volleyball’s top five at- over and be more aggressive.”

Ben Fischer Last year, Pritchard showed she can be @thebiggestfisch tacking options departed the program, outside hitter a force from the endline, hitting a conferStaff writer

erika pritchard has 100 kills in the Terps’ first six matches. The Terps lost four of their top-five attackers from 2017. file photo / the diamondback

Erika Pritchard remained.

A n d n ow, a s the Terps’ top pin hitter, Pritchard has stepped up in Maryland’s 5-1 start to the season, including a sweep of its tournament in Akron this weekend.

Pritchard registered a double-double in each of the three matches, totaling 56 kills and hitting over .450 twice. She now leads the Big Ten in total kills with 100 and is second in kills per set at 4.76.

The sophomore has featured as the Terps’ primary front-line attacker, leading them in kills in four of the team’s six matches.

Last season, Pritchard notched 331 kills as a second option to outside hitter Gia Milana, who transferred to Baylor in the offseason.

While an outgoing transfer elevated Pritchard to top of the rotation, she credited a new transfer, setter Nicole Alford, for her standout weekend in Ohio.

“I finally clicked with my setter Nicole against Akron,” Pritchard said. “I finally got in a rhythm and from there it was really easy to hit off her balls.”

So far this year, Pritchard has been the Terps’ most prolific attacker, and numerous other players have filled in around her.

Outside hitter Liz Twilley had a breakout match against Canisius, totalling 11 kills.

Twilley, a senior, totalled just four kills in eight matches last season.

While Pritchard has been consistent from open play, her biggest shortfall this season has been her serving game. She has made 10 service errors with just two aces. Pritchard said she is trying to stay positive and focus on fundamentals from the service line.

“We are definitely not focusing on the errors,” Pritchard said. “We are just doing what we do in practice, and it’s just more

ence-high 48 aces.

Twilley echoed Pritchard, saying that the Terps are attempting to carry over their work in practice into their matches.

“We just want to keep fighting as a team and a unit,” Twilley said. “We are trying to implement what we have been working hard on in practice.”

As a team, Maryland has also struggled to limit unforced errors from the endline.

This weekend, the Terps had 16 service aces but made 21 service errors.

It was one of the lone areas in which Maryland struggled.

Coach Adam Hughes said that while the statline is important, Maryland’s coaching staff is not solely focused on the outcomes of each serve.

“It’s tough, and we don’t always just look at the end result of aces versus errors,” Hughes said. “Sometimes we just look person by person. Some people I’m okay with them going for some home run swings and striking out once in awhile and there’s other people who are just putting it in play and playing tactically.”

Pritchard has thrived when Maryland has had a chance to enter its offensive sets this season, limiting the need for as many aces.

Once Big Ten play begins, the Terps may need to take more chances at the service line to steal points from some of the nation’s top programs.

But in the meantime, Hughes believes Pritchard has yet to hit her ceiling.

“Erika has got the potential to be a really special player,” Hughes said. “She showed some of that potential this weekend.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

field hockey

No. 4 Terps topple No. 3 Duke Maryland stays perfect with 2nd ranked win of B1G/ACC tournament In the 14th minute of Maryland field hockey’s game against Duke on Sunday, forward Bibi Donraadt received a pass close to the net from fellow forward Mayv Clune and knocked the ball into the goal despite tight pressure from two defenders.

About two minutes later, defender Bodil Keus scored on a penalty corner. Less than 16 minutes after the opening whistle, the Terps already had a 2-0 lead over the Blue Devils, matching the score Duke beat Maryland by last year in the Big Ten/ ACC Cup. With a lead established, No. 4 Maryland scored twice more in the second half, which was enough to hold off Duke’s late comeback and secure a 4-3 win.

“These women — for the first time this season — really for 70 minutes just played completely in-sync with each other,” Meharg said. “Even when we were on our heels, our intent and our momentum was positive.”

With the victory, Maryland took its second win against a top-15 opponent in three days, going undefeated in the Big Ten/ACC Cup for the first time since its creation in 2015. The Terps defeated Boston College 3-2 in a tight defensive matchup Friday.

Meharg, who’s championed Big Ten field hockey since the Terps joined the conference in 2014, said the team “did justice” for the conference.

The win moves the Terps to 5-0. The last time the Terps began the season with five victories hannah bond tallied two assists against the Blue Devils. The sophomore has tallied four points this season. matt regan / the diamondback was in 2013, where they went undefeated in the by

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Goalkeeper Sarah Holliday starred for the Terps, saving 10 of the Blue Devils’ 15 shots. She had an injury scare in the second half after she and defender Nike Lorenz collided into each other, but returned promptly after an injury timeout.

“Most of the time when I step into the game, I tune completely in,” Holliday said. “My first priority is to make sure my teammates know where they are … So I have to be focusing on them and giving them instruction and then focusing on myself and my play comes naturally to me.”

Lorenz and forward Melissa Wilken scored second-half goals that proved to be crucial insurance for the Terps. Wilken — who was also celebrating her birthday Sunday — scored on a hard shot from the left side of the net in the 56th minute. Lorenz took advantage of a penalty corner pass from forward Sabrina Rhodes to score in the 63rd. “[Duke] had spurts of momentum, but I thought we kept them at bay,” Meharg said. “I was really pleased with that.”

Lorenz’s goal was Maryland’s second penalty corner score of the game. The Terps converted half of their corner opportunities in the game, a significant improvement after not scoring any in Friday’s contest.

“We focus on penalty corners a lot … because we know that you can win if you score penalty corners,” defender Sophie Giezeman said. “[Nike] can drag flick amazing, and we have Bodil and she’s also an amazing drag flicker. So we have so many combinations we can do in the future as well …

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FIELD HOCKEY

maryland goalkeeper sarah holliday had a 15-6 record and a .752 save percentage last season, but coach Missy Meharg hasn’t handed her the starting role this year, having her split time with junior Noelle Frost in the earlygoing. matt regan / the diamondback

A battle at goalie No. 4 Terps have alternated between two top netminders After Maryland field hockey’s 4-3 Lila Bromberg win over No. 3 Duke @lilabbromberg on Sunday, goalStaff writer keeper Sarah Holliday walked over to her postgame press conference still holding the fake turtle coach Missy Meharg gives to the game’s MVP. Holliday recorded 10 saves in the game. Just two days earlier, Meharg commended goalkeeper Noelle Frost for her six saves after the No. 4 Terps’ 3-2 victory over No. 13 Boston College.

Holliday, a senior, started all 23 games last season with Frost serving as backup, but the two goaltenders have been switching off contests so far this season. Both keepers have been integral parts of Maryland’s 5-0 start, the team’s best since 2013.

“Goaltending is an art and the biggest thing is that you have a unit that supports each other,” Meharg said. “Noelle works so hard. This is her third season by

here. She redshirted [her freshm a n yea r] , l a s t yea r s h e go t minimal minutes, and this year she’s done so well and is able to open up a match. It seemed logical just to rotate them and give them both that opportunity that they deserve.”

Meharg said she will name a starting goalkeeper at some point this season to increase stability for the squad. But as of now, who that will be remains uncertain.

It’s not the first time Meharg has alternated goalkeepers. In 2016, Holliday and goalkeeper Sarah Bates traded starts and split minutes for nearly the entire season.

Before Sunday’s matchup, Holliday received her first start in goal during Maryland’s 3-0 win over Pacific in the first game of the year and then played 52:47 in a 6-1 victory over UC Davis on Aug. 27. The senior shut out the Aggies while she was netminder, but was substituted to offer freshman Skye

Joegriner some experience.

Frost, who only saw action in two games last season for a combined 30:34, has already doubled her playing time in 2018. She played the entirety of the Terps’ 5-0 win against California and started against Boston College to open Maryland’s Big Ten/ACC Cup. Despite Holliday’s 15-6 record in the net last year with a .752 save percentage and 1.4 goals against average, she is embracing the competition with Frost, despite her former backup’s lack of experience.

“Given my career in the past, it’s always motivating to play with other goalkeepers. I’ve always competed with other goalkeepers to be able to be playing my entire career,” Holliday said. “Different goalkeepers have different styles of talking, and they need to be able to know how to work under all types of pressure.”

That motivation showed against Duke, where Holliday consistently shut down attackers. At one point

holliday was also in a competition for minutes in 2016, when she and Sarah Bates traded starts throughout the season. Bates was no longer on the team in 2017, and Frost took over as the backup. matt regan / the diamondback early in the first half, Holliday stepped out of the goalmouth to cut down the angle for a Blue Devil on a breakaway.

Meharg said Holliday’s saves allotted the Terps a buffer. The senior shot-stopper maintained Maryland’s lead throughout the contest.

But so far, the two goalies have remained largely even. Both have a save percentage of .800. When asked what she likes most about each goalie, Meharg focused on how

they’ve handled the rotation.

“What I love about both of them is their energy for and with each other,” Meharg said. “They’re looking forward to helping each other shine, and that’s a hard place to be when you’re defending 12 feet and you think you’re better than the other, and I’m pretty sure each one thinks they are. And that’s how it needs to be.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Jones scores thrice in Terps debut Freshman wideout was a third-stringer on the depth chart but won Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors

M idway through the second quarter Saturday, Maryland football’s Jeshaun Jones sprinted right and lofted a fluttering, wobbling duck toward the corner of the endzone.

When wide receiver Taivon Jacobs slid to haul in the catch, a 20-yard completion that established a 17-point edge over No. 23 Texas at FedEx Field, Jones thrust his arms into the air. The serviceable throw gave the freshman wideout three touchdowns on his first three college football touches. As the defense gave up several scores in the second half to let the Longhorns back in the game, Jones’ efforts proved crucial in preserving Maryland’s 34-29 victory.

Entering the year, questions surrounded Maryland’s receiving corps after DJ Moore left for the NFL. Jacobs, a sixth-year senior, was figured to be the go-to option. But there was a mass of unknowns below him — Jahrvis Davenport and DJ Turner, listed as starters on the Terps’ depth chart released last week, combined for 18 catches and 155 yards last year.

Yet it was Jones, the No. 118 receiver in by

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247Sports’ class of 2018 rankings, who traditional 65-yard touchdown reception, emerged as a playmaker in multiple facets with the wideout running past Longhorns of the game in the season opener, proving defensive backs to the end zone. As he apto be a valuable piece of interim head coach proached the goal line, Jones turned his head and seemed to taunt the Texas defenMatt Canada’s offense. sive back chasing him.

“The trick play down in the Referees threw a flag, red zone — we had it, we kind but later decided not to of auditioned it,” Canada said. charge Jones with an un“We had three or four guys throw sportsmanlike conduct it in practice [and] his was the penalty, which would best, and you’re only going to h ave w i p e d away t h e do it one time. He won. That’s touchdown. how it went. He did a great job.”

“Obviously Jeshaun Jones was listed as a thirdhad a great game today, s t r i n ge r o n t h e d e p t h c h a r t and I’m very happy to before his record-breaking debut see that,” Hill said. “But made headlines and earned him I think all of the young Big Ten co-Freshman of the Week guys are doing a great job honors. football interim head coach of learning the playbook, On Maryland’s opening drive, exe c u t i n g a n d go i n g Jones took a handoff on a jet sweep, broke a tackle in the backfield and about their business. I think that’s hard cut upfield, finding a seam in the defense as a young guy coming into college with for a 28-yard score. In Canada’s offense, all of the distractions that you can have.”

Saturday’s win showed Canada’s offense Jones found himself as a key contributor.

Later in the first quarter, quarterback in full, including frequent pre-snap moveKasim Hill found Jones deep for a more ment, a barrage of jet sweeps and ample

He is versatile.

He’s a very good football player. ... He did a great job. matt canada

rotation of players. Eleven different players ran the ball Saturday, and 10 had a reception. Plus, Canada rotated between his two quarterbacks and swapped offensive lineman at times, utilizing numerous players against the Longhorns.

Last year, when Maryland toppled Texas in Austin, five players took a handoff and four caught a pass. The greater depth, highlighted by Jones’ involvement, helped fend off a Longhorns squad that added the No. 3 recruiting class, per 247sports, this offseason.

Though Jones finished with only one other catch, he still tied Jacobs for a teamhigh 73 receiving yards, while he finished 101 all-purpose yards.

Running backs and tight ends caught passes, wide receivers ran the ball and Jones threw a touchdown pass, showing Canada’s willingness to get creative.

“He is versatile. He’s a very good football player,” Canada said. “It was really good for him; good for our football team.”

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TEXAS From p. 12 Last year’s upset was meant to be a statement win for the Durkin era. The rematch was more about a return to normalcy after an unimaginably disastrous offseason.

“There was a real focus on this football team to win this game,” interim head coach Matt Canada said. “We talked about our room [and] our building, and everybody else outside of our building really doesn’t matter. They really don’t matter.”

There were plenty of reminders of McNair, as there are sure to be be all year. The stadium held a moment of silence, Durkin was somewhere far away from the sidelines on administrative leave and the Terps took an intentional delay of game penalty taken with 10 men on the field before their first play from scrimmage.

But the final marker was a triumphant

one. After linebacker Antoine Brooks intercepted Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger to seal the win, offensive lineman Ellis McKennie immediately grabbed the red-and-white flag with McNair’s No. 79 emblazoned on it and carried it onto the field in celebration. He hadn’t stop waving it as he disappeared into the tunnel several minutes later.

“I just can’t say enough about our players, everything that they’ve been through,” Canada said. “This was a win for Jordan.”

The Terps defense was all over Texas for the majority of the first half, stuffing virtually every run attempt and dominating the line of scrimmage. The Longhorns gained just 60 yards on their first six drives, and 39 of those came on a spectacular diving touchdown catch from wide receiver Devin Duvernay to tie the game at 7.

To respond, Maryland turned to wide receiver Jeshaun Jones. The true freshman tallied three touchdowns in the first

half — one as a rusher, one as a receiver and one as a passer — to help the Terps to their 24-7 lead.

But Texas’ offense came alive late in the second quarter. Longhorns quarterback Sam Ehlinger led two touchdown drives using an up-tempo offense, and Maryland fumbled a handoff in the end zone for a safety, narrowing the deficit to 24-22 at the half after a failed twopoint conversation.

Midway through the third, the Longhorns took a 29-24 lead after a gamble from Canada. The Terps went for it on 4th-and-1 from their own 36 and quarterback Kasim Hill’s sneak went for no gain, giving Texas a short field it quickly turned into a touchdown.

Maryland responded with an 11-play, 75-yard trip capped by running back Tayon Fleet-Davis’ 17-yard run.

By then, the Terps defense had locked back in. While Hill and the offense struggled after a delay for inclement weather, only scoring on an 18-yard field

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goal in the final 14 minutes, linebacker Darnell Savage and the defense picked up the slack.

“Our motto was to stick together,” wide receiver Taivon Jacobs said. “Day in and day out during camp and even now. [Today] was the result.”

The Terps forced Texas into three consecutive turnovers to close the game.

The first two bled time from the clock with the Longhorns trailing by five.

The third, with the Longhorns threatening to score a game-winning touchdown with under two minutes left, allowed the Terps to celebrate like they did a year ago, when it seemed they were part of a program ready to reach new heights rather than suffer tragedy and upheaval.

“It’s been a long time since we played a football game,” Hill said. “It was just good to be out there with your brothers.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

football

DON’T CO-OPT MCNAIR MEMORIALS The university accepted blame for his death, then tried to use it to get students to come to games. That’s shameful.

By James Crabtree-Hannigan | @JamesCrabtreeH | Senior staff writer

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f you watched Maryland football’s upset win over Texas on Fox Sports 1 or via the Terps’ social media pages, you saw plenty of touching footage of Maryland players paying tribute to Jordan McNair in a variety of ways, from carrying his jersey to midfield for the coin toss, to waving a flag with his number on it, to lining up with 10 men on the first play.

If you’re a student, you’ve heard university officials assert that McNair’s death is a reason you should attend football games and support the team. At the athletics kickoff August 25, athletic director Damon Evans told incoming freshmen that “our football team needs you and our university needs you”; in his “Welcome!” email sent to all students last week, university President Wallace Loh expressed the same sentiment before promoting this university’s buses to FedEx Field.

What you didn’t hear was any meaningful engagement with how and why McNair died, or an explanation for why it took two months to acknowledge this university’s responsibility for it, which had been obvious to outsiders for nearly as long.

In recent weeks — and repeatedly on Saturday — the university and team officials have glossed over the details of McNair’s death and used his team-

mates’ reactions to strengthen the Maryland brand and drum up support.

Though hardly surprising, it’s nevertheless an off-putting development that only serves the university and the members of the athletic department who played a role in McNair’s death, tried for as long as they could to avoid admitting to it and, are now hoping to use him to their advantage.

It’s the players’ prerogative to honor McNair through whatever means they deem appropriate. To its credit, Maryland has (to our knowledge) allowed them to do so, as interim head coach Matt Canada specified after the game.

The players were the ones who played with McNair, went to classes with him and were told to “drag his ass across the field” as he suffered heatstroke, which was made fatal through the negligence of the university employees tasked with protecting them.

Obviously, those players don’t deserve to be condemned for the death of their teammate, and the actions they took Saturday were truly moving.

But statements from the university — such as the tweet from the Maryland team account on Saturday that proclaimed the win was not only “For Him” but also “For You,” accompanied by a clip of offensive lineman Ellis McKennie waving the No. 79 flag — nullify the team’s self-stated inten-

tions of allowing players to control the narrative surrounding their tributes.

Given Evans’ previous actions, his co-opting of the players’ cause is particularly brazen. At the press conference two months after McNair’s death where Loh said the school accepted “legal and moral” responsibility for it, Evans did all he could to distance himself from the football program and the athletic department as a whole.

He spoke as if his time at Maryland began when he took over as permanent athletic director in July, failing to mention that he’d been acting as athletic director since October and served as the football program’s administrative liaison before that.

After the win Saturday, Evans tweeted a picture of the celebratory Maryland locker room, featuring the players he allowed to continue practicing all summer under the same training staff that was responsible for the death of their teammate, the players he elected not to have speak to an independent investigator until the beginning of fall camp.

“This team came together,” Evans wrote, “and I couldn’t be more proud of them.”

Whether online or in-person, the tone-deafness and selfishness of this university’s statements has not been lost on their audiences.

“I’m still honestly not sure what to think about how [Loh] encouraged us to go support the team,” one freshman said after the kickoff event. “He’s right in the idea that we should be supporting the players. ... But, on the other hand, I’m worried that supporting the team by going to the games will look more like we’re supporting the athletic department and their practices.”

Last year, Carlos Sanchez, a high school linebacker in Phoenix, died from a head injury he suffered during a game. After Sanchez’s death, his head coach Seth Millican said he was “in a weird spot” regarding how to honor him.

“I obviously want to remember him,” Millican told The Arizona Republic. “But I’m very cognizant or I’m very worried about exploiting it. …

Every idea we have to honoring him, I want it sincerely vetted and make sure it’s done in the right way.”

The university has failed to meet that standard, just as it repeatedly failed McNair and his teammates over the summer. The school’s shameful attempts to use McNair to sell tickets, bolster school pride and cash in on social media shouldn’t fool anybody into forgetting who bears responsibility for his death. jamescrabtreehdbk@gmail.com

women’s soccer

Forwards still recovering The Terps’ top scoring threats haven’t come into form yet When Maryland Alex Rychwalski wo m e n ’s s o c c e r @arychwal f o r w a r d J a r e n a H a r m o n to o k o n Staff writer Drexel goalkeeper Libby Baeza in the early stages of Sunday’s matchup, it seemed the Terps’ leading scorer would put her side on the board for the first time since their 3-1 victory three games earlier.

But Harmon couldn’t capitalize on the opportunity. Her shot trickled wide left, and the Terps were shut out for the third time in four games.

Despite her three goals so far this season, Harmon is still acclimating to her scoring role after missing much of last season because of an injury. Between Harmon’s occasional hiccups and by

fellow forwards Mikayla Dayes and Alyssa Poarch working to return to form after suffering season-ending knee injuries last year, the Terps’ front line remains out of rhythm early in 2018.

“Their touch is off and all that kind of stuff,” coach Ray Leone said. “It takes longer than a month to get back in when you’ve been out a year.”

Maryland’s 2018 scoring average of .83 goals per game isn’t far from its 2017 average of .89. But last year, the Terps went cold in Big Ten play, failing to find the net in their final six outings of the season; against nonconference foes, the team averaged 1.71 goals per game.

Leone has varied his lineups and used frequent substitutions to help

his recovering players reacclimate to the pace of play and remain healthy. In Sunday’s match with Drexel, he subbed out Harmon midway through the first half; her replacement, Dayes, played about 20 minutes before getting a rest.

T h e ro ta t i o n a l so a i m e d to prolong the Terps’ strong start, as they outshot the Dragons 5-4 in the first half. But Drexel wore Maryland down; after halftime, Leone’s team was outshot 14-5 and fell 1-0 in overtime.

“We subbed a lot in the first half, and that got us through,” Leone said. “I thought energy-wise we were able to survive it, but maybe in overtime that was a little difference they had on us and that’s all it took.”

For the Terps to be successful

Forward Alyssa Poarch sufffered an ACL tear and damaged meniscus in 2017 before joining the Terps. Now in her first season in College Park, she’s working to regain her high school form. (Corey Hart/The Diamondback) down the stretch, they’ll need to strike the right balance between playing a consistent lineup to get a sharper attack, and resting the main contributors to keep them healthy for conference play, which begins next week.

“We’ve got several players that have been out a year, and now

are being asked to play quite an amount of time,” Leone said. “So it’s going to take them a little bit. “ We ’ve go t a n o t h e r co u p l e weeks before we get to the Big Ten, and we’ve got work to do.”

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two for two Last year, beating Texas was a statement win for coach DJ Durkin. The rematch was about a return to normalcy.

By James Crabtree-Hannigan @JamesCrabtreeH Senior staff writer

LANDOVER — Early last month, amid chaos in the Maryland football program following the death of offensive lineman Jordan McNair and media reports of an abusive culture under coach DJ Durkin, the players — not given the chance to talk to reporters — had one message on social media: “Sept. 1.”

See texas, p.11

men’s soccer

Terps take another scoreless draw against No. 7 UVA Unranked Maryland has opened the season on a 310-minute scoreless streak.

A f te r t h e Maryland men’s soccer team failed to score for the second straight match in a draw to No. 10 Stanford on Friday, coach Sasho Cirovski vowed goals were going to come soon.

The chances have been frequent in the early stages of the 2018 campaign, but the wait for the end product will continue. For the first time in program history, the Terps started a season without a by

Joe Capatano @JoeCapatano_ Staff writer

goal in their first three games after playing to a 0-0 draw against No. 7 Virginia at Audi Field, D.C. United’s stadium.

The current stretch marks the longest goalless streak to start a season since 1981, when Maryland didn’t record a goal in its first two matches.

Goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair and the defense carried the Terps again to salvage a draw, posting a second straight clean sheet against a top-10 ranked team in the country. Their effort, despite the offensive slump,

has kept Maryland (0-1-2) to just one loss in three games.

St. Clair had an uneventful night in net, as he didn’t have to make a save until the 84th minute, when defender Spencer Patton’s attempted cross from outside the box wound up on goal. Virginia sent 10 shots off target.

After making six saves in the first game of the season against Washington, the redshirt junior has made only two in his last two outings — but Stanford only sent one shot on goal, and Virginia offered little going forward, either.

Offensively, several players tested Virginia goalkeeper Colin Shutler to no avail. The Terps’ best opportu-

nity rose above the crossbar in the 66th minute, when forward Eric Matzelevich set up an open shot in the box for midfielder William James Herve. The shot rose just above the bar, and the match remained in a scoreless deadlock.

Six different Terps put shots on goal, as Maryland recorded six in the second half and overtime. But Shutler finished his night with seven saves to hold the Terps scoreless and without a win to start the year.

Dating back to last season, the Terps have netted only two goals in their last nine games.

Cirovski has played around with a new formation this season but it’s yet to pay dividends.

Forward Sebastian Elney has been shifted around the field, being utilized as more of a midfielder than he has during his first three years in College Park, and he didn’t play the final 19 minutes of Sunday’s game, which was the first ever college game played at Audi Field, the new home of D.C. United.

Maryland outshot the Cavaliers, 15-11, but Virginia had a 6-5 edge in corners.

Cirovski called the team’s draw with Stanford a step forward, but it’s struggling to find a high enough gear to rack up quality wins in the earlygoing. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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