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Three reviews of horror’s latest — one from behind a sweater, Diversions, p. 7

city

Amid snafu, noncitizen voting fails After announcing passage of charter change, city reveals votes insufficient for amendment College Park officials said Fr i d a y t h a t a proposed c i t y c h a r te r amendment allowing non-U.S. citizens to vote in municipal elections would not be adopted, days after the city council announced its passage.

After hours of debate, the College by

Leah Brennan and Angela Jacob @thedbk Staff writers

Park City Council said the amendment passed with a 4-3 vote in favor of the proposal Tuesday night. The provision was set to go into effect in time for the 2019 elections.

Most of the council’s actions only require a simple majority among the eight voting council members to be adopted, but as of June, changes to the city’s charter require at least six affirmative votes, according to a city

press release sent to media and residents Friday night.

“It is with a considerable degree of embarrassment and regret that I share this announcement from the city regarding the proposed charter resolution to allow voting by non-citizens in College Park,” Mayor Patrick Wojahn wrote in a Facebook post Friday with the news release attached. “I accept my fair share of responsibility for not realizing the impact of recent charter amendments on this issue.”

The mayor and council published a statement addressing the oversight on

the city’s website Saturday following an administrative function session and closed session that morning in which they consulted with counsel on legal matters pursuant to the city’s charter.

“It is with considerable embarrassment and regret that we acknowledge our oversight regarding the vote on the proposed Charter Amendment to allow voting by non-U.S. citizens in College Park City elections,” the statement reads. “We each accept our responsibility for not realizing the impact of the June charter amendment on Council procedures and we apologize to our

community

residents […] we will continue to seek ways to make everyone feel welcome and included in our City.”

The only thing that came out of Saturday morning’s meeting was the statement that was released, Wojahn said. He said that the council will read the statement at Tuesday night’s worksession, but nothing else regarding the issue will take place Tuesday night.

“The council realized that after reviewing the charter and the See council , p. 6

campus

SGA: Carroll called Title IX shift ‘demotion’ Officer will answer to general counsel, not U chief of staff University of Maryland T itle Christine Condon IX Officer Cath@CChristine19 Senior staff writer erine Carroll’s re p o r t i n g l i n e has been changed from university President Wallace Loh’s chief of staff to the school’s general counsel.

Carroll previously reported to Loh’s chief of staff, Michele Eastman, until being reassigned to General Counsel Michael Poterala.

In a statement released on Twitter late Wednesday night, SGA President AJ Pruitt said Carroll categorized the move as a demotion during a Sept. 7 conversation.

Pruitt, who said he learned of the change during the conversation with Carroll, called for more transparency from this university’s administration after U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos recently announced plans to rewrite Obama-era Title IX guidelines. “[A] decision of this magnitude should not, and cannot be made in the dark,” Pruitt said in the statement.

Carroll did not respond to a request for comment.

Loh said the reassignment was meant to ease the reporting process, which consists primarily of performance assessments and salary judgments. Carroll should not be reporting to Poterala about her office’s daily work, Loh added.

“Since a lot of the issues are by

KASSANDRA BISHOP, top, a 2013 Bowie State University alumna, and Gail Medford, chairwoman of Bowie State’s fine and performing arts department, help paint a unity mural, meant to symbolize peace, at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s NextNOW Fest on Saturday. tom hausman/the diamondback

‘ARTISTIC HEALING’ Bowie State, this university come together for unity mural at NextNOW

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By Noah Fortson | @nofo34 | Staff writer

trokes of warm red and deep blue fill the panels’ blank space.

Laughter erupts as hands pass b r u s h e s a n d pa i n ts to o n e another. Birds fly toward the edge of the canvas, unraveling vines tangled around two wrists.

The mural’s center panels depict open hands for freedom, doves for peace and a sun for hope.

Semicolons make the sun’s rays, symbolic of a continuing story.

Students and faculty from the University of Maryland and Bowie State University gathered in The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center this week to sketch and paint a mural honoring peace, justice and unity.

It expresses a theme of positivity in the midst of hatred and injustice, said Jennifer White-Johnson, a visual communications and digital media art professor at Bowie State.

See mural , p. 3

state

Alum to run for local delegate seat Dernoga campaign for District 21 seat kicks off at Fishnet University o f M a r yl a n d alumnus Matt Dernoga kicked off his campaign for Maryland state delegate on Saturday in front of a crowd of about 40 people at Fishnet, a College Park restaurant.

Dernoga, who announced his campaign for District 21 delegate on June 26, told the crowd when he was a senior at this university, he and a group of students helped convince university administration not to cut down the Wooded Hillock, a 24-acre forest area, in order to make room for new facilities.

As a candidate for Maryland state

SGA President AJ Pruitt speaks at a Sept. 13 meeting in Stamp Student Union. mateo pacheco/the diamondback also legal issues, [Eastman] ends up running back and forth to the legal department,” Loh said. “We finally said, ‘Look, let’s make this simpler. And let’s have — you know, Catherine Carroll’s a lawyer, general counsel’s a lawyer. Let her report directly to general counsel.’”

University spokeswoman Katie Lawson said in a statement Wednesday that the president’s office, general counsel and Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct are “aligned in [the] commitment” to protect the rights of the campus community, including victims of sexual assault.

“This is simply a change in reporting structure,” the statement read. “Our work to create a campus that is free of sexual misconduct does not change.”

At least three other Big Ten schools have reporting structures through the general counsel’s office, Lawson said.

While both Poterala and Eastman report directly to Loh, Pruitt raised concerns in his statement about what he called a conflict of interest between See title ix , p. 2

by

Naomi Grant @NaomiGrant7464 Senior staff writer

university alumnus matt dernoga announces his candidacy for the District 21 House of Delegates seat, which includes College Park, at local restaurant Fishnet on Saturday. naomi grant/for the diamondback delegate, his focus on environmental ban. And in 2013, he helped make issues hasn’t changed. Dernoga, a Prince George’s County the first Prince George’s County Council policy jurisdiction on the East Coast to analyst, worked to pass this state’s first explicit countywide legislative fracking See dernoga , p. 6

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By Lila Bromberg | @LilaBBromberg | Staff writer University of Maryland Police responded to reports of a hate bias incident, suspicious activity and theft, among other incidents this past week, according to police reports.

a nd was a rrested a nd charged with trespassing on school grounds, and he was issued a denial to campus, Hoaas said. This case is closed.

THEFT

HATE BIAS INCIDENT University Police responded to a hate bias i nc id e nt on t he f i f t h floor of the plant sciences building on Sept. 13 at 11:34 a.m. An offensive phrase and a swastika were found on a balcony ledge, pol ice spokeswom a n Sg t. R osa n ne Hoaas said.

Pol ice do not k now when the incident occurred. A notification was made to have the a rea clea ned, a nd the phrase and swastika are now cleared. No further information was reported, Hoaas said. This case is active.

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY University Police responded to Lot 15 for a report of suspicious activity on Sept. 10 at 1:10 a.m. An officer arrived on the scene to find a man pulling on car door handles, claiming to try and locate his car.

The man’s car was not in the parking lot, and the officer told him he was trespassing, Hoaas said.

The man was escorted off the property but proceeded to return a few more times. The officer told him if he came back again, he would be arrested. He ca me back to the property anyway

On Sept. 11 at 4:4 4 p.m., police responded to Boteler Lane for a bicycle theft, Hoaas said. A male student reported that his road bicycle was stolen between approximately 3 p.m. on Sept. 8 and 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 10.

University Police submitted a request for a v ideo rev iew of t he cameras in the area and is awa it i ng rev iew of the footage. This case is active.

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE/ DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED University Police charged two people with DWI/DUI arrests, one on Sept. 9 and the other on Sept. 10, Hoaas said.

In both cases, an offi cer stopped a motor vehicle for a traffic violation and then detected the smell of alcohol while talking with the driver.

In the Sept. 9 incident, which happened at 3:10 a.m., the driver failed standardized field sobriety tests and was arrested.

In the Sept. 10 case, which occurred at 3:12 a.m., the driver was unable to complete the sobriety tests and was arrested. Both cases are closed. lbrombergdbk@gmail.com

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title ix From p. 1 Poterala’s responsibility of “limiting the liability the University faces” and the independence of the Title IX office, which is tasked with investigating sexual misconduct cases. Pruitt did not immediately respond to requests for further comment.

The general counsel manages this university’s legal representation — including in cases regarding the university’s handling of sexual misconduct — and provides legal advice to Loh and other university officials.

In each of the first two academic years since the Title IX office’s creation in 2014, a record number of students were expelled for sexual assault. The university is facing a lawsuit from a former student alleging his due process rights were violated after he was expelled following

TITLE IX OFFICER CATHERINE CARROLL speaks at a University Senate meeting on April 28, 2016. Carroll will now report to the university’s general counsel, not university President Wallace Loh’s chief of staff, a move panned by SGA President AJ Pruitt. file photo/the diamondback an investigation that found him responsible for sexual assault.

This university is currently under federal investigation for its handling of sexual misconduct cases, and Carroll has previously called the Title IX office underfunded and understaffed.

When the Title IX office was created, Carroll reported to the provost, Loh said, but this was eventually changed as Carroll began drafting new university policy.

The university garnered national attention last year when the SGA proposed a mandatory

student fee to aid in funding the Title IX office. The SGA withdrew the proposal after this university announced it would create six new positions across two offices to help address sexual misconduct on the campus. ccondondbk@gmail.com

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AERIKA ANDERSON, a senior studio art major at Bowie State University, helps paint the unity mural at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s NextNOW Fest on Saturday, intended to symbolize peace and unity between the two universities. tom hausman/the diamondback

mural From p. 1 “There is an artistic healing process that is happening between both schools,” she said.

The mural comes after the two universities were shaken by the murder of 2nd Lt. Richard Collins — a Bowie State student who was three days shy of graduating — on this university’s campus in May. Collins was visiting friends and was fatally stabbed at

the Montgomery Hall bus stop at about 3 a.m.

Megan Pagado Wells, associate director of The Clarice Artist Partner Program who leads the curation and management of NextNOW Fest, reached out to Bowie State in August to discuss the possibility of the two schools collaborating on a project.

“A partnership formed really quickly,” Pagado Wells said. “Everyone was excited about the idea and saw the value of having the two campuses come together.”

Both schools’ arts departments sprung into action, some professors — including White-Johnson — incorporating the mural into their class agendas. Art students coordinated strategy and style ideas over the web, sharing sketch concepts via Skype and GroupMe, White-Johnson said.

Their work came to fruition Thursday when the two groups met at The Clarice to begin the preliminary sketch of the mural. All students and faculty were welcome to contribute to the mural during the Friday and

Saturday painting sessions, and dozens poured into The Clarice to contribute their own artistic touches.

“It’s exciting working with the Bowie State students in person instead of through a screen,” said Isabel Divinagracia, a senior education and studio art major.

“Seeing how passionate they are about this and all our effort paying off is pretty awesome.”

Each university will have the opportunity to display the final product on its campus. Afterward,

the mural will be split in half for each school to hold onto as a reminder of the good that comes from unity, Pagado Wells said.

“Art is a great way to bring everyone together,” said Angel Tillery, a senior visual communication and digital media arts major at Bowie State. “I see a lot of potential between our two schools stemming from this mural. We should be doing more things like this together.” nfortsondbk@gmail.com

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PLUMAS will fund DACA renewal fees Org using $3K from gala for those reapplying to Trump-axed program by

PLUMAS

is no longer accepting first-

Natalie Schwartz is using funds time DACA applications after @nmschwartz23 raised from a Trump announced an end to Senior staff writer gala it held in the program on Sept. 5 and February to help University of Maryland students in the DACA program pay for their renewal fees following President Trump’s announcement that the program will be phased out in six months.

Political Latinxs United for Movement and Action in Society is partnering with the University of Maryland’s undocumented student coordinator to use about $3,000 raised from its Dream Gala to assist students in Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — a program that allows some undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to work and study in two-year blocks — to pay for the $495 renewal fee, said Madelyne Ventura, the student organization’s president.

PLUMAS raised about $1,000 from ticket sales and $2,000 from a crowdfunding campaign.

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

ARE YOU

called on Congress to provide a replacement. However, those with permits that expire before March 5 can reapply until Oct. 5.

W i t h o n ly a m o n t h o f warning, this has left some scrambling to put together $495 before the deadline, which can be difficult for those who don’t have savings or who are experiencing financial hardship, Ventura said.

“Our communities are in danger right now,” said Ventura, a senior mathematics major.

“We all know someone who will be affected by this.”

DACA has granted nearly 800,000 people temporary legal status since it was created under then-President Obama in 2012.

As of fall 2016, this university had 113 DACA students.

Ventura said PLUMAS had raised these funds in February to prepare for this kind of possibility.

“We are going to continue fighting for them,” she said.

Nadia Salazar-Sandi, hand raised, leads a chant with Cosecha MD as they march on Campus Drive to protest the then-imminent rescinding of DACA on Aug. 29. tom hausman/the diamondback PLUMAS is also providing information to DACA participants about renewal clinics, such as those held in nearby Langley Park on Sept. 16 and Sept. 30 by CASA, an immigration rights advocacy organization.

Laura Bohorquez, this university’s undocumented student coordinator, is “providing direct, personalized guidance to impacted students and connecting them to resources inside and outside of the university,” university spokeswoman Jessica Jennings wrote in an email.

Bohorquez did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

“Her focus is on direct support to students and [she] prefers not to serve as a spokesperson on this sensitive topic, so our office facilitates all media requests for her so that she can remain focused on helping students,” Jennings wrote.

This university is providing resources to students reapplying through pro bono legal counsel from volunteer alumni and community members, as well as financial support for application

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Counseling and informational workshops for undocumented students will also continue to be offered, she added.

María Berbery, a staff psychologist, said some DACA students have come into the Counseling Center following Trump’s announcement. The center considers this an emergency, so students don’t have to schedule something in advance to get an appointment, she added.

Berbery said she advises students participating in DACA to focus on “taking care of themselves,” to acknowledge any feelings they are experiencing and to reach out to trusted friends or family members.

Other student organizations have also been finding ways they can assist those with DACA. Jocelyn Nolasco, president of the Latinx Student Union, said the organization is looking to hold informational events to help affected students determine what they should do next.

“It’s important that we protect every DACAmented student and undocumented person in any way possible,” Nolasco said.

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Don’t undermine Title IX Late Wednesday night, an SGA statement revealed assault on college campuses, but to prohibit sex disTitle IX Officer Catherine Carroll’s reporting line crimination and to secure a safe education for everyone. has switched from University of Maryland President Women face disproportionate violence at universities and colleges across the country, and Title IX guarantees Wallace Loh to the school’s general counsel.

Student Government Association President AJ Pruitt all students the right to learn without fear. In sexual wrote in his statement that he learned of the change misconduct cases, the rate of false accusations is mithrough a Sept. 7 conversation with Carroll, who he nuscule, yet DeVos pretends this is a greater problem than sexual violence itself. said described the move as a “demotion.”

DeVos and her supporters miss the point. They perLoh did not specify to The Diamondback when the sistently misidentify the problems change occurred. The university regarding sexual assault investigadid not publish a statement alertour view tions, in which drawn-out proing the students of the change, cesses often retraumatize victims. inadvertently deeming it not relYes, it’s important to thoroughly evant to students despite national adjudicate sexual misconduct, controversy surrounding Title IX ensuring fairness and safety for and the SGA president calling this all parties, but raising the stanswitch a conflict of interest. dard of evidence would lead to the “This is simply a change in same problems facing the crimireporting structure,” university nal system — in which research spokeswoman Katie Lawson said suggests only 1 in 15 reported rape in a statement.“Our work to create cases ends in a conviction. Expula campus that is free of sexual mission from one institution cannot be equivocated to a conduct does not change.”

This editorial board cannot understate the need for prison sentence, and institutions must prioritize the transparency regarding Title IX, especially after Edu- safety of its students.

At a time when gathering evidence is prohibitively cation Secretary Betsy DeVos announced she plans to rescind the Obama administration’s guidelines meant challenging, DeVos plans to make it harder for victims to protect sexual assault victims on college campuses. to prove the reality of their experiences. At a time when DeVos’ announcement has been polarizing. Oppo- many officials are unequipped to handle sexual violence, nents are criticizing her rollback of guidance meant to DeVos wants to take investigations out of the hands of prioritize victims of sexual violence, while others are trained professionals. At a time when victims are gaslauding her promise to protect the due process rights lighted and perpetrators forgiven, DeVos thinks Obama’s guidelines stigmatize the privileged and the protected. of the accused.

In every way, President Trump’s administration The debate about rights of victims and the accused — which are not mutually exclusive — has exposed a is moving backward. This editorial board hopes fundamental misunderstanding of Title IX among many Loh’s administration will refrain from doing the observers. This misunderstanding underscores the same. Only by facilitating discussions for all to hear need for this university to have more public discussions and making decisions openly will this university respect its commitment to secure an education, for explaining the office’s role on this campus.

Title IX’s purpose was never to adjudicate sexual all students, free from fear.

After DeVos’ decision, Loh must show transparency on Title IX

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Students can live simply My freshman year dorm room looked like a page out of a furniture catalog desperately vying for customers. Tapestries lined our walls, string lights obnoxiously hung from our ceilings and every other square foot of 2127 Caroline Hall was plastered with stuff. Granted, we didn’t have much room to work with, but, all in all, our room was flat out cluttered with things we didn’t need.

Minimalism combats this tendency to own more than we need. Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things is a film by Joshua Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus that forces its audience to reevaluate their possessions. The term describes a lifestyle in which one owns only absolute necessities rather than building up stockpiles of useless junk.

Millburn and Nicodemus explore minimalism through the lens of American consumerism and excessive personal possessions, arguing that, with fewer physical items, Americans can lead happier and more content lives.

“Minimalists don’t focus on having less, less, less; rather, we focus on making room for more: more time, more passion, more experiences, more growth, more contribution, more contentment,” the two write on their website.

It may be difficult to conceptualize materialism because it’s an integral part of daily life. A study of 1,000 American women found the average woman owned a whopping 103 items of clothing. On top of that, the average American woman claims 21 percent of

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her clothing is unwearable and she won’t ever wear 12 percent of her wardrobe. Even more shockingly, women under 25 are predicted to spend around $200,000 on clothing over their lifetime.

Often times, people are stuck on the “hedonic treadmill,” a faulty and endless cycle of excessive consumption of material goods in pursuit of happiness, according to psychologist Daniel Kahneman.

With minimalism, this cycle can be easily halted.

And thankfully, this is a lifestyle that can be easily adopted in college with simple, physical decluttering of spaces and an honest reevaluation of the things we need.

Before deciding whether to throw away an object, one should consider whether it serves a purpose.

Millburn says he only owns possessions that add genuine value to his life. “Each of my belongings — my kitchenware, furniture, clothes, car—functions either as a tool or gives some sort of positive aesthetic value to my life,” he said in an interview. “That is, as a minimalist, every possession serves a purpose or brings me joy.”

Besides being a cheap lifestyle that requires nothing new, minimalism has the potential to combat American consumerism. It forces individuals to consider the value of material goods, the ways to avoid unhealthy consumerist desires and what it means to be content with what you have. marismedina29@gmail.com

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Prof. Landa should still work here To the University of Maryland Community: On June 8, as The Diamondback reported earlier this month, Melissa Landa was dismissed from the University of Maryland’s education college without any explanation. We are writing as current and former students, and people of color, expressing surprise and shock upon learning this. For 10 years, Landa has provided a safe environment, in which students learned about the roots of racial bias.

Despite a string of escalating incidents, it was not until black Bowie State University student 2nd Lt. Richard Collins was murdered on the campus in May — and Sean Urbanski, a white former student at this university, was charged in connection with the killing — that many of this university’s faculty seemed to finally acknowledge the prevalence of racism here.

Landa, however, recognized and addressed the reality of racism in all her classes while advocating for faculty and students of color for more than a decade.

The Diamondback editorial board recently noted that the administration appears to finally recognize the “degradation, prejudice and violence marginalized communities experience at this university.” However, this university’s commitment to combating racism requires more than just responding to biased professors; it must also hire, and protect from capricious firing, instructors like Landa and

other faculty who actively support and mentor students of color.

After the riots of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, the singular cloth weaving together the various patchworks of prejudice has been laid out for all to see, in one great quilt of American hate. And while Landa herself may not be identified as a person of color, she is a woman, a Jew and an immigrant.

She is someone who understands the experiences of marginalized people, and has done her utmost to convey these experiences to nonmarginalized students and future teachers.

Landa is our ally and was one of the best professors at this institution. She taught us that we are each a product of our upbringing, and that it is our responsibility to question what we have been taught to believe — especially when it comes to stereotypes. She created a classroom where we felt comfortable discussing our beliefs, and even our biases, without the fear of being judged. If something was said that caused tension, she helped us explain our feelings and led us toward a path of respect and understanding.

She taught us the difference between diversity and integration, and made sure that we left our comfort zones to work with classmates from unfamiliar cultures. Most importantly, she taught us that violence against groups of people does not occur out of nowhere, that discrimination

builds with each condoned act of oppression and that it is up to each of us wrespond to discrimination.

It is not right to dismiss, without cause, one of the few professors who is an expert in helping students examine their own biases.

Now, more than ever, this university needs Landa’s expertise to move forward.

We need Landa’s knowledge and compassion so we feel unafraid to speak our minds and know we will be heard. Landa’s presence made us feel safer. Knowing that we attend a university that does not value her enough to retain her makes us feel the exact opposite.

Publicly grieving the murder of Collins is important, but it’s not enough. The university community needs to understand that for people of color like us, racism is nothing new; it will not just fade away because of good intentions.

Landa understood and taught this.

If this university wants to show it is committed to lessening racism on our campus, it can begin by reversing this careless decision and bring Landa back to this university.

Sincerely, Former Students of Professor Landa: Ihechi Akwuole Heena Ali Clara Allsup Carina Ferreira Ileanna Gama Abhishek Goel Jenee Greenwood Riya Gupta

Jamar Hawkins Nahl Ilyas Laura Jaramillo Jazz Jordan Alicia Martinez Rosa Quintanilla Andrea Perez Anika Prather Naty Tsegaw

Co llege Park would love — like, Max Foley-Keene really love — to @maxfoleykeene host Amazon’s Opinion editor second headquarters. Ken Ulman, economic development officer at the University of Maryland, exclaimed Amazon’s request for proposal “screams the University of Maryland and College Park.” University President Wallace Loh, proving his fidelity to this university’s tedious branding campaign, called the prospect a “fearless idea” — the highest compliment in the Loh lexicon.

If Amazon brought HQ2 to CP, it would be located in the Discovery District, a feature of the Greater College Park initiative to stimulate the regional economy.

This university is committed to rapid economic growth in areas surrounding the campus, with the eventual goal of becoming the “Silicon Valley of Maryland.” In large part, we should applaud this effort. Growth yields prosperity, which, in a justly ordered society, can ensure material dignity for a broad swath of citizens.

But unfettered pursuit of economic efficiency encourages moral rot and denigrates human dignity. And to see the human cost of mindless growth, we need look no further than Amazon itself.

Amazon is, in many ways, an amazing company. On the consumer end, it has made retail intuitive and efficient. It’s turned Jeff Bezos into one of the richest men in the world, giving him the resources to transform The Washington Post into the best damn newspaper in the nation.

But for many Amazon employees, the company is a living nightmare.

A New York Times investigation detailed the brutal conditions among white collar Amazon workers. Employees are pushed to the brink, encouraged to undermine their coworkers and coerced into secrecy. The highest achievement in Amazon culture is to become an “Amabot,” an employee that has become “at one with the system.” One worker was punished for traveling to care for her cancer-diagnosed father. Another longtime employee revealed, “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”

Amazon blue collar workers may have it even worse. A report by Allentown,

Pennsylvania’s The Morning Caller described warehouse workers fainting in 100 degree conditions. During summer heat waves, paramedics parked outside a warehouse to treat those who fainted. At Amazon, blue collar employees work long hours on their feet, often covering more than 12 miles in a shift. One former warehouse supervisor warned new workers, “You are going to crawl into bed and pray you can get out in the morning.”

Bezos and Amazon, by grinding workers and crushing industry opponents, have built a monopolistic behemoth. It has grown from a startup based in Bezos’ garage into one of the biggest companies in the world.

Amazon can teach us a lot about the modern economy, from the dilution of antitrust laws, to the transformation of retail, to the waning power of the labor movement.

But, for our purposes, Amazon illustrates the consequences of unfettered economic expansion. Efficiency and growth looks great on a report to shareholders, but it doesn’t feel great to weeping employees. Unfettered growth may create jobs, but it’s spiritually exhausting. Amazon workers know this. Employees at the company reduce themselves to machines (or Amabots), all to secure a faster shipping time and a bigger bottom line.

In light of Amazon’s history, I worry about College Park and its own quest for growth. What does it say about our city when it genuflects before a company so morally bankrupt?

Because if Amazon locates HQ2 right outside this university’s doors, it will export its corporate culture. If this city relies on Amazon for economic growth, it will mirror Amazon’s values. If College Park becomes the Silicon Valley of Maryland, it will inherit the industry’s heartless technocracy, relentless pursuit of progress and disregard for human dignity.

So, as we debate whether to pursue a company that eats workers alive, we should consider this fearless idea: Let’s decline the glamor of growth and let Amazon pass us by. opinionumdbk@gmail.com

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Council votes to buy swim club College Park Woods site will alleviate demand for space A f te r n e a r l y two years of negotiations, the College Park City C o u n c i l vo te d early Wednesday to submit an offer to purchase College Park Woods Swim Club to acquire more meeting space.

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20 to submit a purchase offer to the swim club’s board of directors.

College Park has an interest in purchasing the property because it is still used as a public meeting space, District 4 Councilwoman Mary Cook said, adding that with less meeting space in the Old Parish House and Davis Hall, they are in high demand.

City Manager Scott Somers said College Park Woods is relatively isolated and there aren’t many other closed meeting spaces in the area.

The swim club property includes a clubhouse where neighbors regularly gather if there is an issue, District 4 resident Joseline Peña-Melnyk said.

“There has been controversy over whether or not the city should purchase the property, if it’s actually worth saving or should it just go to a developer,” said Steven Mudd, an attorney for the swim club.

The city reported the cost of acquiring and improving the property will be between $500,000 and $750,000, according to a regular council meeting agenda item.

“To have meeting space in your own neighborhood is a real asset,” Somers said. “That’s an asset that the council and the residents really want to make sure was preserved going forward.”

The pool, which was built in 1962 when College Park Woods was first developed, has seen declining membership, and the board has been struggling to be maintain it in recent years.

Mudd said the pool “was in desperate need of repairs” last year, by

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COLLEGE PARK RESIDENT EMILY WEANT holds up a sign during the Sept. 12 council meeting, shown below, that expresses her opposition to a charter amendment that would have allowed noncitizen residents to vote in municipal elections. The city had initially said it had passed. tom hausman/the diamondback

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From p. 1 amendments that we had passed this summer, and it was brought to my attention by one of my colleagues yesterday afternoon,” Wojahn said, noting that the colleague had contacted city staff and the city attorney to review the impact of the six-vote requirement on the proposed charter amendment, after which he and the rest of the council were contacted.

Re ga rd i n g wh o i s i n c h a rge of making sure that necessary process is followed, Wojahn referred back to the statement and added that “one thing we are going to do moving forward is when a charter amendment does come up” is include the requirements needed to approve that amendment in any notice about it.

The charter amendment requiring that changes to the city’s charter need at least six affirmative votes passed in April and came into effect 50 days later in June, Wojahn said.

“We are taking steps to make sure that this never happens again in the future, but I don’t want to get into what happened, in this case,” Wojahn said. “We’re taking steps to make sure it never happens again, and we all take responsibility for the oversight as it says in the statement.”

There are no plans at this time to revisit the proposed charter

dernoga From p. 1 require clean energy on all new and heavily-renovated public buildings.

“It is unjustifiable that we’re permitting the construction of new natural gas power plants and dangerous new pipelines when we should be investing in clean energy, infrastructure to create more jobs and less pollution,” Dernoga said.

Several of his supporters said they were drawn to his environmental activism.

Del. Carlo Sanchez, (D-Prince George’s) said he got to know Dernoga through his environmental work and the two of them “just really hit it off.”

“To see someone that young who’s been that effective already in actually pushing real policy through at the county level, I think it’s exciting to see what he can do at the state level,” Sanchez said.

State delegates like to stay in their own districts and mind their own business, said Del. Jazz Lewis (D-Prince George’s).

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amendment, which would allow noncitizens to vote in municipal elections, Wojahn said, but he added that it’s up to the council if they want to bring it up again.

“At this point, what I would like us to do is move on and explore other ways that we can work with the immigrant community in College Park, help ensure that they do feel fully part of our community,” Wojahn said. “I think there are other ways that we can do that in the course of this discussion. … I would like to continue with that dialogue without any further discussion of this amendment.”

Since the amendment was proposed earlier this year, it has

brought controversy among council members, residents and people nationwide.

Supporters of the amendment said it would allow representation to community members who pay local taxes, while others say this privilege should only be for those who are U.S. citizens.

Hyattsville became the first city in Prince George’s County to allow noncitizens to vote in December. There are at least 10 municipalities in Maryland that have adopted similar policies.

state delegates in attendance to support him, he added.

Dels. Benjamin S. Barnes (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), Barbara A. Frush (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) and Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk (D-Anne Arundel and Prince Georges’) are the current representatives for District 21.

“You don’t elect somebody because you think they’re amazing,” Lewis said. “You vote for somebody because you think that they have something in them that will help you accomplish the goals that you’re trying to accomplish for your community just a little bit easier. And Matt knows that because he grew up here.”

Dernoga grew up in Laurel and graduated from this university in 2010 and received a public policy master’s degree in 2013. In 2010, at age 21, he ran Prince George’s County District 1 Councilwoman Mary Lehman’s winning campaign.

“He has this amazing work ethic, tireless,” Lehman said.

Since 2011, he’s been working as

a policy analyst for Lehman and has helped draft more than 30 pieces of legislation, Dernoga said.

“My legislative successes, your legislative successes are also Matt’s because Matt is the one who — without being an attorney — drafts legislation, does all the research,” Lehman said.

In addition to environmental issues, one of the priorities in his campaign is improving Prince George’s County Public Schools.

“One of the keys for me is going to be school construction funds,” Dernoga said. “We’re sending too many of our young people to schools that are falling apart and it sends the wrong message to them, that we don’t value their education.”

Dernoga said the current state minimum wage, $9.25 an hour, and this county’s minimum wage, $10.75 an hour, are not sufficient so he wants to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Dernoga also supports free community college. His determination to improve public schools in this county resonated

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“I was born and raised in PG County, which is covered a lot in his district and I know he’s working on trying to rebuild some schools,” she said. “Since I grew up there, it’s just close to my heart.”

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noting “30 or 40 health code violations.” The county did not renew the swim club’s pool license permit that year, which meant it could no longer operate as a pool.

“It was not in a condition for people to be swimming in,” Mudd said.

The city plans to demolish the pool, which will cost around $330,000, Somers said.

“There’s many residents and council members that feel the city has to step in to make sure that particular property doesn’t continue to degrade, because it’s a neighborhood quality of life issue,” Somers said.

Cook said the more than 650 households in the area surrounding the property “have paid huge amounts of money in taxes over the years,” but don’t have as many amenities as other neighborhoods.

After the three interested parties submit a purchase offer, the pool board will decide which to sell the property to, Mudd said.

Negotiations between the city and pool board have taken almost two years because there is uncertainty about who owns the property, Cook said.

There is a record gap of whom the owners were because the board has changed hands so many times, Mudd said.

This means even if the pool board decided the city should be the property buyer, the council is uncertain the pool board has the authority to transfer the property.

Mudd has filed a petition that would allow the property to be sold by giving the authority to accept the purchase offer to the courts. The pool board would notify the court of whom they recommend to buy the property, and a court-appointed trustee would sign a deed transferring the property to that buyer, who would then have full ownership of it.

“This is something that can be very positive for College Park, particularly for west College Park,” Cook said. “I really hope that we end up being the purchasers of that pool property and that we can shape it into an amenity that we can be proud of as a city and as a neighborhood.”

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Most boys spend their summers riding bikes around town, relaxing at the beach or chasing love interests. When you’re that It young, you feel like you’re andrés muschietti going to live forever. But the kids in Andy Muschietti’s It adaptation felt quite the opposite when they spent their summer fighting off individual traumas and the infamous Pennywise the Dancing Clown.

It draws upon the anxieties of a group of young children, collectively referred to as “The Losers Club” by the most sociopathic bullies I’ve ever seen in a film, led by crazed and troubled bad-boy Henry Bowers (N icholas Hamilton). These schoolyard bullies don’t just terrorize their victims with harsh taunts or allusions to the untimely death of our lead’s younger brother — they literally torture middle schoolers.

The film has its moments of genuine suspense, building dread in viewers by reminding them just why they were afraid of the dark and unknown as a child. The young Georgie Denbrough (Jackson Robert Scott) falls to his graphic demise in the film’s opening scenes, and one thing becomes abundantly clear: This movie doesn’t fuck around.

G e o rg i e ’s o l d e r b ro t h e r B i l l (Jaeden Lieberher) somehow manages to convince a group of prepubescent kids to follow him on his quest to find his lost brother, convinced that he is still in the storm drain that “dragged” him in. His friends — Stanley (Wyatt Oleff), Eddie (Jack Dylan Grazer), Ben (Jeremy Ray Taylor), Richie (Finn Wolfhard) and lastly, Beverly (Sophia Lillis) — reluctantly agree to help him, as they are all terrorized by their own apparitions. The film’s fright factor did not quite live up to the hype, but the humorous lines delivered by charismatic young faces added a pleasant comedic relief to the movie.

Fans of Stephen King’s novels would agree that attempts to bring the author’s macabre concepts from page to screen are hit-or-miss. Trying to condense a book that’s over 1,000 pages into a 135-minute long film is an ambitious task, especially given King’s willingness to criticize adaptations of his works. You would think with such consistent horror sequences, the film would feel menacing, but the constant gore eventually felt gimmicky and shallow.

Yet because the young cast effortlessly captures both the fun and turmoil in coming of age, coupled with the nightmarish visions the children suffer, the film is still worth seeing. Expect to jump at cheap jump scares, cover your eyes at the ghoulish transformation of the typically dreamy Bill Skarsgård and feel an unexpected emotional void by the end of the film.

To be honest, I don’t have a lot of experience with killer clowns. In fact, I somehow managed to spend my entire childhood biking around the It neighborhood with my friends andrés muschietti and still never ran into a murderous jester with six rows of sharp teeth and a taste for human flesh. No, all I ever ran into was some poison ivy.

Unfortunately, the gang of nerdy kids at the center of Stephen King’s It weren’t as lucky — they somehow managed to run into Pennywise the Dancing Clown not once, but literally dozens and dozens of times in the film’s two-hour runtime. And even if I couldn’t relate to the whole clown thing, I certainly found it as terrifying as those kids did.

On its surface, It shouldn’t really be that good. It’s a horror remake of a made-forTV miniseries from the ’90s, which itself is based on a 1,000-page Stephen King novel.

That’s a lot of room for shit to go wrong, but somehow It is not only frightening, but also intense, well-made and, most importantly, a fun movie.

There’s not a ton going on in terms of plot. There’s a killer clown in a small town and kids are going missing. After our group of young heroes figures out what’s going on, the clown comes after them, and they have to fight/survive/scream. Pretty standard stuff.

While there are some normal movie character-building scenes — Beverly, the only girl of the group, has an abusive father, for instance — functionally, It is more like going to a haunted house. The movie is crammed with scares, either from Pennywise himself or various dreamlike illusions. Each scene is like another room in the house, with something new to terrify you. In between, there’s just enough downtime for you to re-open your eyes, shift in your seat and forget that this movie isn’t The Sandlot.

While it’s a simple trick, and it makes the film a tad shallow, it’s incredibly effective — just ask the guy next to me who watched the movie in the fetal position. Even though you know something is coming up VERY soon, you’re never quite sure what it is or how it will happen. The sheer quantity of jump scares means that if you’re a horror film frequent flyer (hello!) then you’ll get used to it. But if you’re not, It is probably the scariest movie your friends will talk you into seeing this year.

Of course, it’s not all brutal homicides and terrifying twists — It also has the hilarious charm of many “kids in the ’80s” flicks. The characters are all likable and unique, and they say wacky kid things that will make you “LOL” Out Loud. And whereas the movie’s structure is simple and shallow, the characters are what brings it to life. Because if these characters feel real, so does their fear.

And so does what they’re afraid of — a killer clown.

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n hour into the latest film adaptation of Stephen King’s It, I had cocooned myself so deeply inside a Forever 21 cardigan that my skin had become faux wool. All I could see through the fabric were shadows on the screen and all I could think was “Dear God, please, no more clown.”

What follows is a review of the film based on what I saw from behind my sweater.

It arrived in theaters Sept. 8 and has been making viewers inadvertently pee themselves ever since.

The film is the product of Andrés Muschietti, best known for directing the 2013 horror film Mama, another movie that does not make viewers feel calm in any way. It had a killer

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Very soon into the movie, I could tell It was an incredibly well-crafted addition to the horror genre. The most obvious giveaway being that, as soon as it started, I wanted to leave.

The better a horror movie is, the faster it encourages me to run away and never watch it again. If this trend were to be graphed, scientists would call it the “Cowardly Quitter Curve.”

Though my vision was largely obscured — due to the fact that the images on the screen made me feel incredibly unsafe the entire time — I was able to pick up on a few plot points. In the town of Derry, Maine, there are many children, which is unfortunate because about every

27 years, a demonic shape-shifting entity dubbed “It” emerges and starts eating them. But before It eats them, It terrorizes them. This is simply It’s way. Though It can take any form, the monster is usually seen as a chilling showman who calls himself “Pennywise the Dancing Clown.”

There are many adorable children, mostly boys and one girl, who, after being scared out of their goddamn minds, team up to try and defeat the hellish creature once and for all.

I wish I could tell you more about them but, as you know, I was actively trying not to watch the movie.

Stephen King’s 1986 novel goes into much more detail, I assume. I have not read it, as it is very long.

I would like to take a moment just to emphasize how scary Pennywise

is. He is a monster of epic proportions, unbelievably frightening, with a haunting cadence and eyes somehow both alien and human.

He is always drooling or taunting or biting off someone’s arm for no good reason. I hate him, though I respect him. Pennywise was often the reason I was trying to burrow directly into the reclining theater chair. The creature is played by Bill Skarsgård, who is a very handsome Swedish man, though you would never know under the mountain of makeup it takes to turn him into a horrible monster.

It features pop-out scares, slow building scares and non-stop scary sequences. The makers of this film have gone above spine-chilling and straight to spine-freezing. Though I couldn’t always see the screen, it was

exciting to hear reactions from the packed theater as viewers were taken on a cinematic journey through the terrifying twists and turns of haunted houses and dark sewers.

With countless monsters, a classic story and fast-paced scares, It is proving to be the exact flick box offices needed to appease audiences in the upcoming spooky months. It’s a non-stop nightmare that builds upon the original novel and 1990 film.

Granted, I was curled into an anxious ball the entire time It was playing, so these are all just guesses based on the little I saw when I wasn’t busy screaming.

3/4 sweaters. mdunigandbk@gmail.com

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Ace Cosgrove , 26, performs a set of upbeat, frantic hip-hop at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on Sept. 15, 2017 during NextNOW Festival. Cosgrove is a Gaithersburg native and has performed at various venues around the Washington, D.C., area. charlie deboyace/thediamondback

next big thing Ace Cosgrove’s set was too hot for the NextNOW Festival

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t’s pretty hard to make the public entrance to The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center feel like the floor of a nightclub, but on Friday, Gaithersburg native Ace Cosgrove managed to do just that. His performance was so lit that it made the fire alarm go off.

(Just kidding. The fire alarm did go off, but it was merely coincidental and had nothing to do with Ace’s impressive performance.)

Ace took the stage wearing a shirt with the late Aaliyah’s enlarged face on it. Ironically, the student he pulled from the crowd had the same name, making this tribute much more memorable. His arms were covered

By Lillian Andemicael | @lillianandemicael | Senior staff writer in tattoos, which he called “kinda pointless, f---ing meaningless.” The descriptor was unexpected given that the artwork was filled with potentially telling material like an angel, a clock and the words “open minded genius.”

Although the alarm cut his set short, Ace had students wrapped around his fingers in the first few minutes. With a confidence that radiated and an infectious energy, Ace got the crowd swaying, clapping and waving their arms like he was some sort of conductor.

This self-assuredness occasionally translated into a need to control the crowd. At one point, Ace told students to make noise

if they had money and “if they broke as shit, keep quiet,” then proceeded to shush a student that made noise anyway.

When I saw Ace a year ago at All Things Go, it was clear that audience interaction was a large part of Ace’s set and a large reason why the 26-year-old rapper leaves such a lasting impression when he performs.

During his set, Ace joined the crowd to encourage students to get hype. His presence quickly attracted a larger gathering in front of the stage.

Between songs, Ace encouraged the crowd to laugh, playfully poking fun at the Redskins as he declared his allegiance to the

Cowboys, a bold move for someone from the D.C. area. The rapper admitted he thinks every performance he puts on is epic, and to put on a show like Ace’s, you really do need to have that much faith in yourself.

At what felt like the peak of his performance, the fire alarm suddenly sounded, Ace’s mic cut off and students were quickly rushed out of The Clarice. With such a dramatic conclusion to his set, you would think the rapper would have been livid, but Ace wasn’t sweating it; his laid-back demeanor was constant on and off stage. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

MILCK can’t keep quiet, and she hopes you won’t either

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onnie Lim, better known as MILCK, silently walked onstage and took a seat at her keyboard. The title of the singer’s hit song “Quiet,” which unintentionally became an anthem at the Women’s March in January, contrasted with the power of MILCK’s loud voice. Her Friday night set during The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s NextNOW Fest was a hybrid of discussion and song, brimming with stories, tears and laughs.

MILCK was accompanied by a single guitarist — longtime friend and collaborator Rod Castro, who also provided minimal backup vocals. The chemistry was obvious, with the pair exchanging short, knowing glances and smiles throughout the set. The stage was lit with a rotating array of solid colors, appropriately aligning with the moods and themes elicited by the sound. Purples, blues, greens, white. Her menacing performance of “Devil Devil” was accented by a rich red.

“As you can tell, I’m kind of emo,” she joked, wearing an all-black ensemble.

Poise and power characterized MILCK’s presence on stage. Her face often donned a concentrated frown. She swayed when approaching the pinnacles of her music, and when she wasn’t on the keys, her fingers fidgeted in the air. On “I Don’t Belong to You,” she played the piano with one hand and the keyboard with the other. Her voice ranged between higher and lower notes, crescendos and decrescendos.

“It was invigorating and just lovely … a lot of tears, too,” said Zoey Warecki, an engineering and materials science doctoral student.

“I like that she can do classical piano, but also some electronic and keys and reverb.”

The consistent theme was liberation. “I Don’t Belong to You” is a fierce, valiant deliverance from toxic relationships. “Devil

By Ayana Archie | @DBKDiversions | For The Diamondback

connie lim , .the singer-songwriter better known as MILCK performs at the NextNOW Festival at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on Friday, Sept.15, 2017. Her set was minimalist and blended discussion with music. charlie deboyace/thediamondback Devil” chronicles the release of inner demons.

“Black Sheep” reminds us that being yourself shouldn’t be conditional.

“There’s a lot of crazy stuff going on in the world, and I think a lot of it, we have so much access to it so quickly, so I always try to remind myself, ‘OK, this is not the end,’” she said before her performance of “The End.” In a Q&A session following the music, Lim expounded on these short bites of her experiences, taking a moment to chronicle the start of her artistic journey. By the age of eight, Lim was enrolled in opera and piano classes. However, she told the audience she often thought being a singer was inappropriate, as she was raised in a family of doctors.

In college, she interned at an investment banking firm, where she worked 12 hours a day, wearing a suit and entering values into Excel. She eventually quit, realizing that

she could no longer justify suppressing her dreams.

“I was like, ‘Oh, everyone has that thing that they really wanna do, but they just deny it, and then you just do what everyone else does. That’s life,’” she said.

After eight years as an independent artist, the California native signed a deal with Atlantic Records in May, just months after garnering attention for her song “Quiet” — a vow to speak out, irrespective of consequence.

The song’s success after its January release was highly unexpected. Her management wanted her to hold it until she found a label, but she credits her intuition with ignoring that advice and letting the piece be heard.

She performed the song during the final flash mob in a series at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., alongside 25 a cappella singers that she rallied together about a

month in advance. “Quiet” was cycled around by way of cell phone videos. It hit the internet, making its way to celebrities, such as Tegan and Sara and Emma Stone, as well as publications such as Vice, Buzzfeed and NPR. It was how new fans like Warecki, who attended a sister march in New Mexico, found her. Emma Walz, a freshman biology major, attended the D.C. march, and MILCK’s name was the only one she recognized on the NextNOW lineup.

“Most of her songs talk about self-love and self-confidence,” Walz said. “It’s really inspiring. I felt like crying.”

Ryan Dott, a sophomore architecture major, learned of her through his women’s studies professor, who recommended the class see Friday’s show.

“A lot of people want to say stuff they’re not able to say,” he said, adding that the performance was “wonderful, fantastic, no complaints. It was poignant, fantastic artistry, but the message was still strong.”

These feelings of inspiration are what MILCK aims for in her music.

“I’m hoping the more storytelling I can do, it will inspire others to tell their stories from their own perspectives, and we can convince the rest of the world that we are all the same in our uniqueness,” she said in an email.

The concert concluded with “Quiet,” which the singer said has allowed her to connect with women all over the world who have shared their vulnerabilities with her.

She created the #ICANTKEEPQUIETFUND, which she said is dedicated to “changing and building and helping communities.”

MILCK plans to release an EP in January, with one of the tracks scheduled to come out in October. A full album and tour are expected in late 2018. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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By Natalie Schwartz | @nmschwartz23 | Senior staff writer

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uth Elizabeth Morris, an academic coordinator at the University of Maryland, wore a small pink button with the word “she” on it during orientations with incoming freshmen and transfer students in August.

Some students questioned why she was wearing it, she said.

“It’s a good conversation starter,” Morris said.

“It gives me a chance to say, ‘Well, the pronoun that I use is ‘she,’ and it’s important on campus that we’re respecting each other’s pronouns, and sometimes it’s not obvious the pronouns someone wants to use, so a button can be a great way to help people out.’”

The buttons are part of the LGBT Equity Center’s #TransTerps campaign, which aims to improve the campus climate for transgender people. The campaign was officially launched Thursday during Quelcome, a welcome event in Stamp Student Union’s Colony Ballroom for members of the LGBTQ community and their allies.

The campaign involves sharing good practices for transgender inclusion, sharing campus resources for transgender people and holding trainings and events.

“A lot of people want to be more inclusive but don’t really know how, and so we wanted to provide more concrete tools for that,” said Nic Sakurai, the Equity Center’s acting director.

The campaign’s website lists about 40 participating departments and groups at this university, and about 60 task force volunteers who have signed onto the project.

Campus offices and departments that choose to participate can complete an online internal assessment of their own practices to

nic sakurai, the LGBT Equity Center’s acting director, helped kick off the #TransTerps campaign that launched Thursday. file photo/the diamondback see what initiatives they could implement to foster more inclusion, Sakurai said, adding that nothing in it is mandatory.

“We definitely encourage every organization and unit that’s engaging in this to think about their own context and what makes sense to [them],” Sakurai said.

The project has already seen engagement before the official launch, Sakurai said.

Before Thursday, the Equity Center distributed 60 baskets all over the campus, Sakurai said, with materials such as pronoun buttons and stickers with a terrapin sporting the colors of the transgender flag — blue, pink and white.

“Now we’ve had people telling us, ‘Oh, we’re running out of materials already,’” Sakurai said.

“And the semester just started. So we have a

happy problem of not having enough materials and needing to raise more funds to get more.”

The campaign has already raised almost $12,000 that has gone toward T-shirts with the #TransTerps logo, baskets and pronoun information cards, among other things. Some of these items were dispersed during the official launch.

Sakurai said they started to think of the idea for the project after the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, that left 50 dead.

“We were really thinking as a center, ‘How can we make a broader impact on campus?’” they said. “There’s a lot going on, and how do we improve the climate?”

Along with a list of resources for transgender people on the campus and best

practices for the university community, the campaign’s website also includes a new video about sharing pronouns. The video, posted in late August, has received about 900 views on YouTube and almost 10,000 views on its Facebook in less than a month.

Sakurai said they hope to create more of these types of educational videos to reach more people.

“You can only train so many people face to face without hiring more staff,” Sakurai said.

“And so that can be quite a limitation when you can only train a couple hundred people in a year when you have basically a small city of 50,000 students and employees.”

Morris, a task force member, said she’s been active in the letters and sciences office to help its staff become more “visible as allies on campus to our students.” Morris added that most of the staff has been very receptive about the program.

“Part of creating a welcoming community is being visibly there,” Morris said. “We don’t want it to be a secret. … We want them to see us wearing pronoun buttons and know that this is a place where people talk about these things in a really positive way.”

Cecilia Franck, a senior Spanish major, said they became a task force member after receiving an email about the campaign over the summer.

“It’s such a big issue with trans people and inclusion right now,” Franck said. “There’s a lot of places where it’s really unsafe to be trans. I really want this campus to be safe for people like me and my friends and my partners.” nschwartzdbk@gmail.com

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Loh to receive $75k raise for ‘strong performance’

U president’s pay hike to take effect retroactively starting on July 1 by

University

Maryland Board of Regents

Christine Condon of Maryland news release.

The board approved @CChristine19 President Wallace Loh the pay hike at its Sept. 15 Senior staff writer w i l l re c e i ve meeting. It will begin retroa $75,000 raise, according actively on July 1 of this year.

Loh earned a $600,314 to a University System of

salary last academic year, according to The Diamondback’s 2017 salary guide. For each of the two years before, he earned $526,590.

The increase was based “primarily on strong performance,” according to the news release. Before the raise, Loh’s salary placed him in the 43rd percentile

of comparable university presidents, according to a report commissioned by the Board of Regents. “ T h e n e w l y a p p r o ve d compensation philosophy targets the 50th percentile on average for system presidents, dependent on several other factors, strong performance first among them,”

the statement read.

Loh’s base salary ranks seventh among the 14 Big Ten university presidents.

University of Maryland University College President Javier Miyares and Salisbury University President Janet Dudley-Eshbach also received raises of $50,000 and $20,000, respectively.

The change is part of a new system for compensating system senior executives, which will make use of more “systematized performance assessments” so that system presidential salaries

more closely match their performance.

“Performance and accountability must be key,” James Brady, Board of Regents chairman, said in the press release.

“In accepting the Sibson report, approving the new compensation philosophy and, based on the data and new guidelines, adjusting the salaries of three high-performing presidents, the Board of Regents today further strengthened the tie between pay and performance for all USM leaders.” ccondondbk@gmail.com

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City wooing Amazon for second national HQ

County to donate $500k to nonprofits supporting domestic violence survivors

As tech giant searches for second home, College Park says it’s perfect Amazon is conducting a national search to find a home for its second headquarters, and College Park officials say the city should be a contender to house HQ2.

The University of Maryland announced Monday that it is ready to partner with the state, Prince George’s County and the city to “position College Park as a top location in Amazon’s national search for a second headquarters.”

“Our collaborative efforts to create one of the most desirable places to live, work and learn makes Greater College Park the perfect location for Amazon’s second headquarters,” greater College Park officials wrote in a statement. “With thousands of potential employees in our cities and beyond, a talented pipeline of students coming out of the university and a growing innovation ecosystem, we […] know our community will keep Amazon competitive and future-focused in our global economy.”

Amazon issued a release stating its preferences, which by

Kaanita Iyer @kaanitaiyer_ Staff writer

include a metropolitan area with a population of more than 1 million, a businessfriendly environment and an urban or suburban location with technical talent. A development-prepped urban site, with a layout similar to the company’s current Seattle headquarters, is also preferred, but not required, according to the proposal.

“When you read through the entire Amazon [HQ2 req u e s t fo r p ro p osa l ] , i t screams the University of Maryland and College Park,” Ken Ulman, this university’s Foundation’s chief strategy officer for economic development, said in a statement.

“We hit the marks in every category – land availability, business friendly environment, labor force, logistics, cultural community fit and so much more.”

T h e c i t y w i l l p ro p o s e putting the new headquarters in the Discovery District, wh i c h e n co m pa sse s t h i s u n i v e r s i t y ’s M S q u a r e re sea rc h a n d i n n ova t i o n districts and includes the Metro-accessible community a l o n g R ive r Roa d . T h e

Discovery District is part o f t h e G rea te r Co l l e ge Park initiative, a $2 billion private-public project aiming to rev italize the Rou te 1 corridor and improve the relationship between the city and this university.

“We are shovel ready and can handle the entire requirement in our thriving Discovery District,” Ulman said in the statement. “Our highly educated, diverse community welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with one of the world’s great companies.”

The city is already home to a pickup location that opened underneath the Terrapin Row apartments in February. Amazon Prime and Prime Student members are able to get same-day or next-day delivery for certain items at this location. In August, it became one of the first five Amazon Instant Pickup service locations, which allow Amazon Prime and Prime Student members to pick up “daily essential” items within two minutes of ordering them.

The city has until Oct. 19 to submit a proposal, and the site selection will be announced next year. kiyerdbk@gmail.com

By Evan Silvera | @esilvera23 | Staff writer In an effort to end domestic violence and abuse in the county, the Prince George’s County Council will give $500,000 to nonprofit organizations that support victims for this fiscal year.

The council created the Domestic Violence Grant Program, which is accessible through an online application, last year when it noticed an increase in domestic violence crimes, said Council Chairman Derrick Leon Davis.

Last fiscal year, 11 nonprofit organizations were awarded grant funding.

From July 2015 to June 2016, there were 55 domestic violence fatalities in Maryland. Prince George’s county saw 18 domestic violence-related deaths during the same period, the highest figure out of any county in the state, according to a report from the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence.

“We discovered that there were several entities in our communities that attempted to provide resources to persons who were going through the horrible reality of domestic violence,” Davis said. “It then became a matter of collaboration in ensuring that there were some dollars or financial resources designated so we can attempt to see opportunities for collaboration.”

To address domestic violence, the council relies on a “safety net,” made up of courts, police and sheriffs, as well as the departments of social, family and health services, Davis said.

A proposal analysis team, a group

of people who have experience with agencies that serve domestic violence victims, evaluates the applications in four categories: housing, prevention, counseling and advocacy. Each category requires its own application and eligible organizations can submit applications in all four categories.

The team seeks to be “objective and discerning” in the application evaluation process, adding that collaboration and partnership opportunities are key to ending domestic violence in Prince George’s County, Davis said.

“We know by ourselves, we can’t take care of this problem, and we know the government and police aren’t the answer,” Davis said. “We know that our nonprofits and our people in our community coming together to create solutions to situations is the way to go, and that’s what we seek to do.”

DeMatha Catholic High School, which qualifies as a nonprofit organization due to its tax-exempt status, was awarded $40,000 last year in the prevention category. The all-boys school is “known for athletics,” said Maureen McCart, the school’s advancement officer, adding that the school’s initial focus is educating athletes and coaches in the county about domestic violence.

“We felt that athletes were kind of a contained group,” McCart said. “The grant gave us a place to start and we aren’t necessarily targeting athletes as a problem, but just as a group to start with to promote this education.”

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Terps’ unbeaten streak ends vs. Rutgers Ray Leone’s squad doomed by own goal as seven-game run closes by

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Knights a score.

Rutgers added another goal Sean Whooley 6 5 m i n u te s, the Maryland to win, 2-0, handing Maryland @swhooley27 women’s soccer its first loss this season in its Big Staff writer team held one of the nation’s top offenses scoreless. Despite constant pressure, No. 13 Rutgers couldn’t break down the Terps’ defense.

But Maryland suffered a selfinflicted letdown.

Defender Hope Gouterman attempted to clear a cross before it reached an open Rutgers attacker at the back post, but she instead headed the ball into her own net, gifting the Scarlet

Ten opener.

“The result was not what we were hoping for,” goalkeeper Rachel Egyed said. “But just walking away from that game, everybody was able to walk away with a new experience and learn something from it.”

The Terps (6-1-1) faced the daunting task of scoring against Rutgers (7-0-1), which had not allowed a goal this year. The challenge increased after two of the Terps’ top forwards left

with injuries in the opening 21 minutes.

Jarena Harmon, who has a goal and an assist this season, limped off in the 15th minute while Chelsea Jackson, tied for the team lead with three goals, required a cart in the 21st minute.

Harmon later returned, while Jackson did not.

Midfielder Hope Lewandoski said the Terps’ main goal was to “get right back into the match” after the injuries.

“Obviously, they wish they could be out there playing for us,” Lewandoski said. “So we just have to give it our all for them because we know they’d be doing the same if they were out here.”

Meanwhile, after an open start to the match, Rutgers took

control. For about 25 minutes, the Scarlet Knights dominated possession against a new-look Maryland backline.

The unit included freshman Malikae Dayes, who has primarily played forward this season.

Dayes filled in for Jlon Flippens, who moved into central midfield.

Egyed said learning how to play with each other’s styles and adjusting on the fly has been a process this season for the Terps in the back, but she feels they’ve done a good job with it. And, despite the rotation, the Terps held strong until the own goal on Sunday.

“The backline did a really good job today,” coach Ray Leone said.

“We did a pretty good job defending them for the majority

of the game. The backline was amazing and Rachel [Egyed] was stellar.”

Their attack, while not in possession as often as the Scarlet Knights, created solid chances on the counterattack. After Gouterman’s own goal, the Terps pushed forward and created several in front of goal.

Rutgers’ defense remained compact and denied the Terps any opportunities, though. Any time the Terps tried to get behind the Scarlet Knights’ back line, they never let them through, Lewandoski said.

“It was tough but we did a good job and we definitely got a lot of good chances, a lot of good looks,” Lewandoski said. “That was very positive. They just were

also a solid group.”

Then, nine minutes after their first score, Rutgers took advantage of the strategy, hitting Maryland on a break to put the contest out of reach.

While not the result the Terps wanted, Egyed said it doesn’t detract from the team’s overall goals and postseason aspirations.

“We got a lot of things that we can take away from this,” Egyed said. “Games like this help every player individually but also the team as a whole in understanding what we need to change, how we need to adjust going forward and what we can do to make ourselves better for the future.” swhooleydbk@gmail.com

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Penn State forward Christian Sload headed the ball toward the upper-right corner from about eight yards out, but Maryland midfielder Eryk Williamson jumped to head the ball away and preserve the Terps’ 1-0 lead.

A few minutes later, Williamson scored to secure No. 3 Maryland’s 2-0 win and move the Terps to 6-0-1. Earlier in the contest, the junior notched an assist on forward Sebastian Elney’s 50th-minute goal.

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While the Nittany Lions (1-3-2, 0-2-0) managed just one shot in the first half, they generated the best chance of the period in the 37th minute.

However, Terps midfielder Jake Rozhansky cleared a ball off the goal line.

Rozhansky and Williamson created Maryland’s first goal shortly after halftime, much like they did in the Terps’ 3-0 win over Rutgers on Tuesday.

Against the Scarlet Knights, Rozhansky found Williamson making a run down the right wing, and Williamson crossed to forward Gordon Wild for a 52nd-minute score.

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The goal gave the Terps a 1-0 lead over a Nittany Lions team that hadn’t attempted a shot in nearly 30 minutes. Penn State midfielder Ethan Beckford was issued a red card in the 73rd minute for a late tackle on Rozhansky, making the Nittany Lions’ uphill climb even steeper.

With five minutes left in regulation, Williamson bailed out the Terps with his goal-line clearance, helping secure the squad’s fourth consecutive clean sheet.

Rozhansky slipped another pa ss b e h i n d t h e d e fe n se to Williamson in the 89th minute, as the Nittany Lions pushed numbers forward to try to steal an equalizer. He finished the 1-on-1 chance a ga i n s t goa l ke e p e r Eva n Finney to seal the Terps’ sixth win of the season.

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Terps’ offense dominates in win Missy Meharg’s squad scores three second-half goals against Bucknell

the Bison.

Maryland connected, securing its fourth straight win in advance of hosting No. 15 Princeton on Tuesday night.

“We work so hard in practice to get everyone in the right spot and having big variety on our corners,” Holsboer said. “We just work really hard capitalizing on those opportunities.”

The Terps were unable to execute on their first four attempts, but still, Maryland’s various penalty corner tactics kept the Bison guessing on the Terps’ fifth try.

Freshman midfielder Kyler Greenwalt sent the ball in defender Bodil Keus’ direction, but her shot was saved. The

dynamic of Maryland’s personnel, though, left Greenwalt positioned in front of the leftcorner of the net. She tucked the ball into the lower-left corner of an unguarded net to give Maryland a one-goal edge.

The Terps took that advantage into the intermission and capitalized on one of their six first-half penalty corner attempts. The backline, meanwhile, didn’t allow the Bison (3-6) to attempt a shot in the opening period, the second time Maryland’s defense has held a team without a shot in a half this season.

“We’re always going to have a variety,” Meharg said. “You’re going to see a lot of different people and a lot of different looks on our penalty corners because we’re playing a super front field, high pressing running game, so we’re going to play a lot of people.”

Bucknell opened the second half with an aggressive offensive approach, which enabled

most because it gives me the opportunity to go have fun in space and show who I am.”

Still, Moore enjoys using his size to outmuscle defensive backs for deep balls. On a crucial third-and-19 in the fourth quarter of Maryland’s win over then-No. 23 Texas on Sept. 2, Moore made a leaping 40-yard grab to move the chains and set up Hill’s game-clinching touchdown run.

When Moore played at Imhotep Institute Charter

H igh School in Philadelp h i a , h e d i d n ’t fo c u s o n making downfield catches.

His mindset changed after coming to Maryland.

Inspired by a couple of long receptions as a freshman, Moore developed his deep ball ability. The Terps’ tw i ce - a -we e k j u m p ba l l routine helped him improve.

The session begins with Maryland’s wide receivers starting down the field and holding off defensive backs from catching the ball. Then,

During half- primary passer off such attempts

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Scott Gelman t i m e o f t h e in the past, Meharg put differ@Gelman_Scott Maryland field ent players in unusual places Senior staff writer hockey team’s during penalty chances against 4-1 win against Bucknell on Sunday, head coach Missy Meharg urged the No. 9 Terps to consider the theme of the last few weeks before taking shots. Maryland’s roster boasts six freshman, so the coaching staff urged the team to prioritize making connections.

That meant emphasizing personal skills and understanding how the players can help their teammates. It also resulted in practicing two-touch passes and executing when in the offensive zone.

On Sunday, that cohesive outlook helped the Terps capitalize on their 13 penalty corner opportunities. Though midfielder Lein Holsboer has served as the

MOORE From p. 12 Bell’s spread offense, which puts skill players in space through screen passes and trick plays. Moore cherishes the creativity of the scheme because it allows for moments like his memorable end-around against Towson.

“It helps me get the ball in different ways besides just down the field,” Moore said. “The short yardage, the screens is what I like the

midfielder lein holsboer scored twice against Bucknell on Sunday. She leads the Terps with five goals this season. matt regan/the diamondback forward Nicole Rupnik to breakaway and tie the game at one minute into the second half. Still, Maryland’s distinct strategy on its corner attempts helped it establish a substantial lead.

In the 43rd minute, Holsboer passed the ball to defender Carrie Hanks, who was also integrated into Maryland’s corner game Sunday. Hanks sent the ball back to Holsboer in the left side of the

circle, and Holsboer deposited it into the upper-left corner to push Maryland’s lead to three.

By the time Holsboer scored the second time about a minute later, the game was seemingly out of reach. The Bison earned just three corner attempts, and Maryland boasted a 36-6 shooting advantage.

After similarly taking advantage of corner opportunities in

their conference opener against Indiana on Friday, the Terps’ different personnel groupings on penalty attempts Sunday led them to their third straight home victory.

“Corners are a huge deal,” Greenwalt said. “Once you get a corner, it’s a guaranteed shot on goal.”

the units swap places, and t h e re ce ive rs a t te m p t to run past defensive backs for big plays. Often, Moore and fellow receivers Taivon Jacobs and Jacquille Veii reel off impressive catches.

“You come into practice, a n d i f yo u ’re [ re l a xe d ] ,” safety Darnell Savage said, “they’ll make you look bad.”

Last season, Maryland’s quarterbacks ranked seventh in the Big Ten in completion percentage (57 percent). Through two games this year, they’ve

improved to 79 percent.

Moore’s emergence, as well as Jacobs’ improved health and Veii’s return to College Park from Towson, has aided the signal-callers.

Moore is the No. 1 target on the much-improved receiving group, and his earlyseason production puts him on track for a historic campaign. The 5-foot-11 receiver is on pace to become the first Terps pass catcher to reach 1,000 yards in a season since Torrey Smith in 2010.

Though Moore’s ability to gain yards after the catch is reminiscent of Smith and Diggs, his size offers a more physical approach.

So, while he talks to the former Maryland standouts on occasion and appreciates their role in the program’s history, Moore wants to bring something new to College Park.

“I just go out there,” Moore said, “and play my own game.”

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THIS WEEK’S GAMES

TWEET OF THE WEEK Volleyball

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Maryland 18 USC

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Field Hockey

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9 Maryland

Bucknell

Men's Soccer

Sept. 17

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3 Maryland

Penn State

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football

a new no. 1 wide receiver d.j. moore has led the Terps’ passing game since former wideout Stefon Diggs graduated in 2015. He has paced the team with 1,224 yards and 13 total touchdowns in his three years in College Park. He scored three times against Towson on Sept. 9. Matt Regan/the diamondback

Wide receiver D.J. Moore’s big-play ability has transformed the Terps’ offense

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By Daniel Bernstein | @danbernsteinUMD | Senior staff writer .J. Moore laughed as he recalled the Sept. 9 play that cemented his status as a breakout candidate for the Maryland foot-

ball team.

The wide receiver’s amusement didn’t stem from the absurdity of his tacklebusting 21-yard third-quarter touchdown run against Towson, which put an exclamation point on a 63-17 victory. It came because he wasn’t even supposed to get the ball.

Moore expected quarterback Kasim Hill to fake to him before handing the ball to running back Lorenzo Harrison.

But Hill surprised him with a handoff, pitting him face-to-face with Bryce Carter, a 6-foot-3, 230-pound Towson defensive end, seven yards behind the line of scrimmage.

Moore stiff-armed Carter to the ground, turned upfield and broke six more tackles on the way to the end zone.

“The defensive end came up so fast I didn’t really have nothing to do but try to get him off me,” Moore said. “Everybody was like, ‘How did you do that?

He’s a defensive end.’ I was like, ‘I don’t know, it just happened.’”

Moore’s touchdown underlined his ascent from lanky three-star high school

prospect to Maryland’s most feared receiving threat since Stefon Diggs. Moore leads the Terps in receiving yards and touchdowns over the past three seasons.

After amassing 637 receiving yards and six touchdowns in 2016, Moore has racked up 230 yards and four scores through two contests this year. He’s caught a pass in 23 straight games, and he’ll continue to be the focal point of a revamped offense as the Terps aim for bowl eligibility.

“I’ve been around a lot of great players in my time here, but … D.J. Moore is one of the better receivers I’ve seen,” said defensive end Andrew Isaacs, who

played with Diggs for two seasons.

When offensive coordinator Walt Bell was an assistant at Oklahoma State in 2009, he witnessed All-American pass catchers Dez Bryant and Justin Blackmon. Bell said Moore’s physicality and ability to gain yards after the catch reminds him of those stars.

Moore weighed about 180 pounds when he arrived in College Park. Over the past three years, he’s bulked up to 220 pounds, making him difficult to tackle in the open field.

That’s allowed him to thrive under See moore , p. 11

volleyball

Murray helps depleted squad survive injury to top blocker Senior middle blocker offers support to younger teammates after lineup change in Maryland Challenge Maryland volleyball coach Steve Aird pulled middle blocker Hailey Murray aside before Friday’s match against Oklahoma to tell her that starting middle blocker Katie Myers would miss the contest with an injury.

The Terps relied on Murray and freshman middle blocker Jada Gardner to step up in place of Myers, who entered play with a team-high 43 blocks, in their Friday doubleheader against Oklahoma and No. 7 Washington.

M u r ray wa s a s tea dying presence on the court, helping Gardner excel in her first-ever start against the Sooners. Maryland beat by

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Oklahoma in straight sets before suffering its first loss of the season to Washington.

“For us, it’s all about the team,” Murray said. “Individual people play roles, but at the end of the day, it’s about how we work together.”

Without Myers, Murray posted Maryland’s best hitting percentages in both Friday matches. Murray posted a combined 16 kills with 11 blocks, while Gardner added eight kills and seven rejections.

A i rd e x p e c te d a s o l i d showing from Gardner, as she displayed her athleticism by playing each frontcourt position in high school.

T h e Te r p s o u t b l o c ke d the Sooners, 13-3, with six different players notching rejections. Outside hitter Gia Milana combined with

middle blocker hailey murray racked up 16 kills and 11 rejections as the Terps competed without leading blocker Katie Myers against Oklahoma and Washington. file photo/the diamondback Gardner for a block in the second set, and Milana celebrated with her usual energy, raising both arms in the air as she yelled.

But Gardner just smiled as she made her way to the huddle.

“I pulled [Gardner] over before the match and I was like, ‘It’s your time to shine, it’s time to go,’” Murray said. “ S h e ’s g rea t . S h e wo u l d never show you that she was

nervous or anything.”

Murray often sits by freshmen on the team bus, explaining parts of the college game the group may not have grasped yet, such as speed of play and balancing their course load with training.

Her connection with Gardner is especially close.

“Having a freshman middle, she’s someone that I’ve been able to spend a lot of time with and kind of talk to and kind of

figure things out with,” Murray said. “So I was happy to see her get her first start.”

W i t h o u t M ye rs i n t h e lineup, Murray needed to serve in Friday’s matches.

Generally, the D.C. native leaves the floor before having to step behind the end line.

She picked up her first ace of the year against the Huskies.

Murray also took care of the ball, hitting above .650 in each Friday contest. Her

experience in big matches in past seasons helped her s tay eve n - ke e l e d i n t h e Terps’ first matchup against a top-10 team this year.

“I hope I calm the people on the court with me down a little bit,” Murray said. “I always try when the freshman come in … to get them little words of encouragement to keep going.” akostkadbk@gmail.com