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SGA backs Title IX fee

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The legislature voted to support a new $34 fee proposal for the Title IX office The SGA voted on Wednesday night to support a proposed student fee that would fund the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct.

Representatives of the Student Government Association had submitted a fee proposal Sept. 19 that would require students to pay $34 per year, generating nearly $1 million for this university’s Title IX office.

The vote was 32-1, with no abstentions.

“We worked really, really hard to get this done and it means a lot to me,” said Taylor Aguiar, sexual misconduct prevention committee director.

The added fee would provide much-needed funding for the Title IX office, which has been underfunded since its establishment in 2014, director Catherine Carroll said. The office’s operating budget for fiscal 2016 was $725,000, paling in comparison to the $1 million Carroll requested. by

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Renita Smith, a three-year veteran bus driver, embraces College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn in a ceremony during the City Council’s meeting on Tuesday. Smith saved 20 schoolchildren from a burning school bus on Sept. 12 before the bus went up in flames on the 9600 block of 51st Avenue. tom hausman/the diamondback

City Council pays tribute to bus driver who saved children from fire

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By Hannah Lang | @hannahdlang | Staff writer

enita Smith was driving the afternoon route for a Glenarden Woods Elementary School bus on Sept. 12 when she smelled smoke.

After seeing flames in her rearview mirror, Smith safely evacuated 20 young students from the burning school bus and then went back inside to ensure no one had been left behind. Shortly after she exited, the bus went up in a blaze on the 9600 block of 51st Avenue, according to reports.

At its meeting Tuesday, the College Park City Council recognized Smith and residents of the north College Park neighborhood that assisted the schoolchildren.

“I’ve only been mayor for about nine months and I’ve had the honor and privilege of greeting many people in our community … but no honor

has been as much [as] to have you here tonight after what you did for these kids,” Mayor Patrick Wojahn said to Smith Tuesday.

Neighbors and nearby residents — including District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir — sheltered the children in their yards and allowed them to use their phones to call their parents.

“I also want to thank … some residents who helped in sheltering the children,” Kabir said.

“One of our residents … claimed she came over with her kitchen fire extinguisher.”

Smith, whose act of bravery has made national news, was presented with flowers and a plaque detailing the council’s recognition, while surrounded by parents and some of the children who were on her bus.

See smith, p. 7

U police undergo overdose training Univ cops can now administer Narcan during emergencies After passing a special training program, University of Maryland Police officers are prepared to combat heroin and other opioid overdoses.

The training teaches officers to administer Narcan — a drug that competes for the same receptor in the body that opiates attach to, reversing the effect of an overdose, said Capt. Ken Ecker, emergency manager for University Police.

When opiates such as heroin enter the body, they attach to receptors in the brain, providing a calming effect and reduced breathing rate, Ecker said. During an overdose, however, breathing slows drastically and bodily funcby

Garage to house new gym $750k project will transform basement room on Regents Dr Starting spring semester, a multipurpose room and a cycling room will be available to University of Maryland students, faculty and staff for designated programs at the bottom of the Regents Drive Parking Garage.

Construction for the $750,000 renovation of this 3,500-square-foot space — which used to be a computer lab and was turned into a storage space for IT equipment about a year ago — is scheduled to start by the end of September, said David Flumbaum, University Recreation and Wellness Project representative who’s also RecWell’s assistant director for facilities and projects.

The cycling room will include 24 bikes. Three showers with changing spaces built-in, including an American Disabilities Act-compliant by

Lindsey Feingold @lindseyf96 Staff writer

A REGENTS DRIVE PARKING GARAGE basement room, which was formerly used as a computer lab, is being converted into a multipurpose and spinning room for fitness classes to use. ryan eskalis/the diamondback shower with a bathroom in it, will be added as well, Flumbaum said.

“Regents is obviously a space we never programmed in before, so it will be interesting to see how that location on-campus affects how frequently the facility will be used,” said Kate Maloney, assistant director for communications and marketing.

“We might reach a different population of people due to the location of the building.”

The space will be open only when programs are going on, Maloney said, mainly because there won’t be checkin staff to verify IDs. Instructors will have the ability to open up the rooms.

Groups can rent out the multipurpose room space as well, Flumbaum said.

“It’s a weird spot in the corner of

a garage, so we wanted to make sure it’s controlled access,” he said. “However, the space will be programmed heavily with classes, similar to what the current schedule is. The goal is to have more classes and add a few more bikes if we see the demand for that in the future as well.”

Both spaces will have morning, afternoon and evening classes, Flumbaum said.

The multipurpose room and cycling room used to be located on the north side of Cole Field House on the ground floor, which has since been torn down. In December, the cycling room was See gym, p. 6

See sga , p. 2

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“It’s incredibly challenging and need I say frustrating,” Carroll said Wednesday. “We just aren’t staffed to meet the demand … These issues are massive and the university has done very little, frankly.”

The funding would create five new positions within the office and hopefully make investigations more efficient.

The Title IX office currently has four investigators that handle both sexual misconduct and civil rights cases and investigations take more than twice as long as university policy suggests.

During the debate surrounding the bill — which was largely in favor of the legislation — several representatives expressed concern that this fee would set a precedent of students paying for services that the university might otherwise fund.

“I don’t think we should be charged for something that’s sort of a right we should have,” said Rachel Walker, a senior English and French major.

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tions begin to shut down — almost causing a victim to go into a coma, Ecker said.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the nasal spray version of Naloxone hydrochloride, or Narcan, in November 2015, according to an FDA news release.

“Narcan removes opiates from receptors, allowing organs to start working again,” Ecker said.

Though opiate overdoses are not a problem on the campus, heroin and opiate-related deaths have risen annually since 2011 in the state of Maryland, Ecker said. Taking note of this upward trend, University Police Chief David Mitchell initiated Narcan training as a preemptive step, ensuring his officers are ready in the event of an emergency.

In Maryland, heroin-related deaths rose from 238 in 2010 to 748 in 2015, according to the state’s health and hygiene department. From 2014 to 2015 alone, heroin deaths jumped by 170.

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By Michael Brice-Saddler | @TheArtist_MBS | Senior staff writer University of Maryland Police responded to repor ts of a ssau lt, t hef t a nd va nd a l i sm, among other incidents this past week, according to police reports.

ASSAULT O n Sept. 2 1 at 9:19 p.m., an officer responded to the lobby of University Police Headquarters for a report of an assault that took place on Aug. 7 at the South Campus Dining Hall, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

The male victim, who has no affiliation with this university, reported that a man became upset after the victim told him he couldn’t sit where he wanted to in the dining ha l l, Hoaas sa id. T he suspect, who also has no affiliation with this university, then allegedly struck the victim, Hoaas said. This investigation is ongoing.

THEFT On Friday at 3:20 a.m., University Police responded to the bike rack on the north side of Stamp Student Union for a report of a bike theft in progress, Hoaas said.

Their Security Operations Center identified two men trying to cut a cable lock off a bike.

An officer located the two men, who fled into Un ion L a ne Pa rk i ng Garage, Hoaas said. Their vehicle was stopped on University Boulevard as they attempted to escape.

The suspects, who had

SGA From p. 1 Pruitt, who worked closely with Carroll to draft the student fee proposal, spoke in favor of the bill, adding that he hopes “this does not establish a new status quo.”

University students currently pay $933 in student fees, and the Title IX fee is the second largest proposed fee this semester behind IT, according to a Diamondback article. Students had the opportunity to learn more about the Title IX fee, among other student fees, at a town hall meeting Tuesday.

“I didn’t know [about the fee proposal], but I guess it’s a good idea,” said junior sociology major Jess Glassman. “Any funding that goes to combat sexual violence is good in my book.”

Moving forward, a committee must approve the fee proposal along with all other proposed fees. Four SGA members serve on the committee alongside representatives from the University Senate, Residence Hall Association, Graduate Student Government and faculty. University President Wallace Loh must approve the fee before sending it along to the Board of Regents, which would make the final decision.

Naomi Grant, Julianne Heberlein and Josh Magness contributed to this report.

bolt cutters, were both g iven a n i m med iate denial of access to the u n iversity’s c a mpu s, Hoaas said.

B o t h 1 9 - y e a r- o l d Brandon Xavier Wiggins a nd 21-yea r-old Sea n Anthony Woodland of Washington, D.C., were charged with fourth-degree burglary: possession of burglar’s tools, Hoaas said. This case is closed.

University Police later responded to Dorchester Ha l l on Su nday at 5:41 a.m. for a report of a bike theft in progress.

Their Security Operations Center observed two men at a bike rack, and one of them had just stolen a bike, Hoaas said.

Officers responded and were able to apprehend one of the two suspects — a 15-year-old male, Hoaas said. The suspect was referred to juvenile court and charged with fourth-degree burglary: possession of burglar’s tools, in addition to three other charges.

T h is case rema i ns open as officers search for the second suspect, Hoaas said.

Corey cauley (left) and Doug Jones (right) are both members of the disabilities march that took place from Baltimore to Washington, and it was hosted by Maryland’s chapter of the ADAPT organization. Cauley and Jones help put together tents for the marchers’ tent city on Friday, Sept. 23. tom hausman/the diamondback

March highlights disabilities

ADAPT members march from Baltimore to Washington for awareness Behind Naomi Grant Berwyn Baptist @NaomiGrant7464 C h u r c h o n Friday, there Staff writer was a little city of tents. Two little girls played on the jungle gym. A dog walked freely around the area.

A few men and women sat in a circle eating pizza, talking and laughing and oldies music played in the background. It could have been any group of friends on any Friday night.

These individuals, however, all had a purpose.

On Wednesday morning, they marched from McKeldin Square in Baltimore via Route 1 and finished at the National Mall in Washington Sunday afternoon to raise awareness for the disabled vote. Thirty people participated in the march, according to the National Center for Independent Living.

“The minority of [people with a] disability is the only minority that includes all others,” said John Sorenson, a member of ADAPT, a national grassroots organization that coordinates disability rights activists to engage in direct action. “Anyone from any race, any religion can become a member of the disability minority at any time.” by

VANDALISM University Police responded to Gossett Team House on Saturday at 8:26 a.m. for a report of vandalism, Hoaas said.

A woman told the officer that there was graffiti on the wall.

Officers will review nearby cameras as they continue the investigation, Hoaas said. This case remains open. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Nineteen percent of the U.S. population in 2010, or about 56.7 million people, had a disability, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. More than half of those people had a severe disability, which means that they require extensive support on more than one major life activity in order to participate in community communities, according to the Office of Head Start, which administers grants and oversees private forprofit and nonprofit agencies that provide the office’s services.

“We’re trying to let everybody know that our population is large enough that if we all get out and vote, we can sway an election,” Sorenson said.

Maryland’s ADAPT chapter organized the march, but because it is a national organization, some participants hailed from other states. Charlie Miller, a senior at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, attended the march as a participant with the national ADAPT organization.

“This march has been a blast,” Miller said. “It’s been truly a family setting the whole time.”

Similarly, Ericka Jones, a systems advocate, is part of

Rochester ADAPT. She’s also the voting advocate at her center for independent living.

“It’s been tiring, but it’s so worth it because when you see these people stopping and trying to figure out what you’re doing and asking questions … now they know more about the disability vote than they did when you first got there,” Jones said.

Though spirits are high in the morning, the march gets hot quickly, said Crosby King, a Maryland ADAPT organizer, because some people have to push manual wheelchairs and some walk.

Joanie Bacashihua, a participant on the march, said she thinks some people get annoyed with them interrupting traffic.

The group was accompanied by a police escort along the way.

“But on the other hand, I think we’re being noticed and that makes it all worthwhile,” she said.

And the group has received plenty of support.

“Onlookers clapping and supporting us, cars honking at us and the support we’ve seen on social media has been tremendous,” King said. Some

participants on the march even start chants along the way.

The group blogged and posted on Facebook about the experience. King said he can’t even look at his Facebook app anymore because of all the likes and comments he’s been getting.

In addition to empowering the disabled vote, the group is also pushing for the Disability Integration Act, which King calls “the most significant legislation since the ’80s.” If passed, this civil rights legislation, introduced by New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, would address how people who need Long Term Services and Supports are forced into institutions and losing their basic civil rights, according to ADAPT. “We have civil rights just like every other American,” said Patrick McMurtray, board president of the Freedom Center, an organization that assists people with disabilities in independent living. “If given the opportunity, we can live successful, productive, independent, self-directed lives and be an asset to others and to our community.” ngrantdbk@gmail.com

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presidential pioneer 60 years after he lobbied for televised debates, an alumnus who fled the Nazis tells his story Fred Kahn, the University of Maryland alumnus Adam Zielonka who pioneered the idea @thedbk of televised debates For The Diamondback between presidential candidates, is excited for his interview. He stands in the front entrance of his Bethesda home, prepared with two scrapbooks and copies of certificates, newspaper clippings and photographs documenting his days as a student.

Kahn, 83, explains each memory in detail.

When asked a question, he’s prone to go on a tangent. He’s a talker, perhaps because he has important stories to tell.

He fled Nazis in his native Germany at 5 years old and grew up in Belgium. The United States drafted him into the Korean War before he was an American citizen. And his desire to increase civic involvement among his classmates left a lasting impact on American politics.

“If somebody would tell me my story,” Kahn said, “I wouldn’t believe it.”

This election cycle’s first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was held on Monday at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. The date also marked the 56th anniversary of the first-ever presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960 — an event that took place only because Kahn got the right person to listen to his idea.

In 1959, Adlai Stevenson wrote, “I would like to propose that we transform our circus-atmosphere presidential campaign into a great debate conducted in full view of all the people,” according to The New Yorker. Stevenson was the Democratic candidate for president in 1952 and 1956, and he lost twice to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The New Yorker never credited Kahn, but it was his attempt to bring those candidates to the University of Maryland 60 Septembers ago that inspired Stevenson to write such a proposal and nudge the nation into the era of debates.

a political economist for the Labor Department, where he wrote position papers on issues regarding guest workers and national ID cards. But substance often takes a backseat to sound bites and divisiveness in modern, primetime affairs.

“The thing I’m against is name-calling,” Kahn said about this year’s election.

He suggested that if one of the candidates engages in this on the debate stage, the other should say “Here you go again” — citing Ronald Reagan, who said “There you go again” in an effort to rebut Jimmy Carter in a 1980 debate — and move the focus back to the issues at hand.

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Candidates in Cole Field House Kahn says the idea came to him while discussing the 1956 election at a summer conference at Cornell University. In August, he went to New York City and proposed the idea to six newspapers. The

‘Do not take democracy for granted’

FRED KAHN, a University of Maryland alumnus, holds memorabilia at his home in Bethesda.

Associated Press picked up his story.

Kahn also wrote letters to former university President Wilson Elkins, then-Maryland Gov. Theodore McKeldin and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt forwarded the proposal to Stevenson’s campaign manager and wrote that a debate “might be something that would arouse the interest of young people all over the country.”

With the clout he had as vice president of the International Club and a columnist for The Diamondback, Kahn presented the specifics of his plan to the Student Government Association.

Fill Cole Field House with students, he proposed, and have them ask Eisenhower and Stevenson their questions, with television networks filming the action.

The SGA Culture Committee unanimously chose to send official invitations to both men.

But the Board of Regents, which sets university system policy, stepped in that October and ordered a retraction of the invitations, citing a university rule that outlawed partisan political speech on the campus.

The ruling dampened neither the idea’s momentum nor Kahn’s ambition. In 1958, the student who once hid from Nazis in Belgium returned to that country as a guide at the Brussels World’s Fair. While there, he met Stevenson in

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person and learned that he also favored Kahn’s debate idea.

“He kept his promise,” Kahn said about Stevenson. “He pushed it.”

Debates then and now Because the first presidential debate is said to have affected the outcome of the 1960 election between Nixon and Kennedy, Kahn’s activism may well have changed the course of history.

Irwin Morris, chairman of the university’s government and politics department, said although many things could be considered the “deciding factor” in that election, “most research suggests the debates, particularly the first debate, [were] beneficial for Kennedy.”

Americans who listened to the event on the radio widely considered the result a draw. Those who watched on television, however, were far more likely to say Kennedy won. They saw Nixon — sweaty and sickly without makeup because he was recovering from a hospital visit for an infected knee — juxtaposed with a younger, well-dressed Kennedy.

“The visual component was important,” Morris said.

Kahn prefers the focus of debates to stay on the issues. He spent most of his career as

As a Jew growing up in World War II Europe, Kahn learned early on that survival is never guaranteed.

“Every single day is a blessing,” he said. “I could have been killed if I’d remained in Germany.”

In 1938, Kahn was living with family in Germany while his parents had already moved to Belgium. European powers agreed to let Nazi Germany annex part of Czechoslovakia through the Munich Agreement. This worried Kahn’s father so much that he arranged for his 5-yearold son to leave for Belgium the next day.

So Kahn “made the most of every day” growing up, even during periods when his family was forced to hide.

“Do not take democracy for granted,” Kahn said.

Maryland U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen honored Kahn’s contribution before Congress in 2014.

For Kahn, the “what” of his legacy is more important than the “who.” Despite the presence of moderators (who were not part of his plan), name-calling and divisiveness, Kahn remains passionate about his brainchild.

“The televised presidential debates give the students a view of what is at stake by hopefully learning about the position of the presidential contenders on their views on the future of the country,” he said. “That is, the national interest of the country.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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New bag security rule is justifed Unfortunately, as technology grows expoSome students attending the first Maryland home football game against Howard University nentially more sophisticated so do weapons and were surprised and frustrated to find out about explosives. Violence and terroristic attacks are the primary reasons why security at sporting a new bag policy when entering the stadium.

The new policy only allows entry for transpar- events has been so beefed up in recent years, and ent bags not exceeding 12-by-6-by-12 inches, it’s not unwarranted.

Earlier this year, a suicide bomber targeted an clear one-gallon Ziploc bags or small clutch bags measuring 4.5-by-6.5 inches. A clear medical Iraqi soccer stadium and killed at least 25 people policy is not outlined on umterps.com, and some and injured 90 others.

The heinous Boston Marathon bombing, which students with medical conditions have not been excused from the policy, according to testimony killed three spectators and injured more than 260 others, is still in our heads as well. Although the provided to The Diamondback.

Boston Marathon is not held This new bag policy went in a stadium, it still suggests into effect in April 2016 our view that crowded sporting events during the annual Red-White are an ideal location for a terspring football game and will rorist attack. be enforced at all football and And while displaying fear men’s and women’s basketto your enemies is never wise, ball games. there is a clear distinction While this new bag policy between showing fear to teris clearly inconvenient for rorists and taking commonTerrapin fans who need to sense precautionary measures bring essential belongings to prevent attacks.

— such as medical parapherFor those who still need to nalia — into the stadium, for most, this minor nuisance is a small price to pay bring belongings into the stadium, there are the permitted see-through bags for sale outside the for our community’s safety.

This university is now the 13th of 14 Big Ten stadium for $15, a large clear plastic bag or small schools to implement a stricter bag policy, ac- clutch bag. While this editorial board will be cording to Zack Bolno, senior associate athletic sighing along with you while we shove our belongings into pockets and wallets and advocate director.

Not only are many colleges and universities for a laxer system for those with medical condiusing these bag rules, but also professional sports tions, we commend the effort to keep Maryland stadiums nationwide have adopted these poli- fans safe.

This new policy might be an inconvenience for cies as well. The NFL even has a blanket rule for all of its stadiums similar to this university’s those wanting to bring their favorite Maryland drawstring with them into games, but let’s realize new policy.

There’s reason for all these annoying safety this decision will do more good than harm in the long run. measures, though.

Maryland Athletics’ new bag policy is inconvenient but necessary

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Why I went to the new African American museum MAX AN @thedbk Columnist

O n S a t u rd ay m o r n i n g , I se t out at 7:30 a.m. to catch the dedication ceremony for the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington and the Freedom Sounds Festival that accompanied it. Having registered for tickets the first day they came out, I looked forward to seeing the exhibits there.

But before I even left the campus, I found myself plagued with racially charged questions: “Why are you going, Max? You’re not even black.

Why don’t you give your tickets to someone else?” These two questions almost made me doubt my reasons for going.

While I will not offer too many spoilers, my trip to the museum was quite transformative. The museum is set up chronologically so the basement floors begin with the history of African-American slavery. As you progress up from each floor, you gaze through all the different eras of African-American history, from African-American roles in the Revolutionary War, to the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras, to the culmination of modern African American culture.

And sure, I am not black. I am a Chinese-American, but it seems absurd that possessing such a racial identity would diminish my experience of the museum. In fact, being there for the opening, seeing and reading the exhibits and being able to live vicariously through them allowed me to gain a better appreciation and better connection to others.

This museum is a manifestation of the breadth of the human experience, and it is certainly not exclusive to a particular race. It is not just an African-American history and culture museum. It is an American history and culture museum, and as various cultural heritages have influenced African-American culture, AfricanAmerican culture has influenced all others. Seeing the terrifying Ku Klux Klan robes and Emmett Till’s casket is an experience that teaches us the undeniable value of unity and cooperation in the face of tyranny and injustice.

It is truly a lesson that still remains relevant today. If anything, these last couple of years have shown that institutional racism exists in this country, and it is not just an “African American problem”; it is an American problem, one that requires equal action by all.

The idea that we shouldn’t be involved in African-American issues because of the different colors of our skin is absolutely ridiculous, and the idea that we can turn a blind eye to institutionalized racism and prejudice simply because it does not involve some of us is also ridiculous. So, if you’re harboring second thoughts of going to the museum because you aren’t African-American, trust me: Just do it. It’s well worth your time. maxandbk@gmail.com

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Jose Fernandez mattered because he was human RYAN ROMANO @triple_r_ Columnist

What makes a human life valuable?

I f yo u h ave something resembling a soul, you’d probably answer that the value is intrinsic — a life matters simply because it is a life. This shouldn’t strike anyone as a controversial statement, yet it seems to become one in a time of mourning. We must remind ourselves that, beyond accomplishments and transgressions, abilities and flaws, every person has a life worth living.

On Sunday morning, an unfathomable tragedy occurred in the baseball world: Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez died in a boating accident. The 24-year-old hurler had a justified reputation as an exuberant competitor, a player who loved every second he spent on the diamond. Virtually all of Fernandez’s teammates were in tears at the club’s morning press conference; the team canceled its game for later that day. Players across the majors honored Fernandez throughout the day, each in his own way, and baseball fans expressed their grief.

Some onlookers, however, mourned Fernandez in a different manner. Sporting News c o n t r i b u to r Rya n S p a e d e r spent the day promoting his fa vo r i te Fe r n a n d e z s t a t s ; S p a e d e r ’s c o l l e a g u e Rya n Fagan argued Fernandez may have become a Hall of Fame member had he kept pitching. Yahoo Sports’ Chris Cwik

made the case that Fernandez deserved to win the Cy Young award posthumously. H igh Heat Stats, a popular baseball Twitter account, lamented that “Fernandez’s death really hurts the Marlins,” since the pitcher wouldn’t have become a free agent for another two years.

Similar observations percolated through the Twittersphere, as fans expressed their sorrow that Fernandez wouldn’t live up to his full potential.

With the exception of the now-deleted High Heat Sports tweet, all of this may appear benign. Fernandez might have wished to be remembered as he lived — an ace pitcher, a Cy Young winner and Hall of Famer in the making. But we walk a fine line between praising his skill on the mound and equating that skill to his worth as a person. Implicit in the discussion of Fernandez’s greatness is the inverse: A lesser man’s death wouldn’t be nearly as tragic.

That sounds like a big leap; co u l d a nyo n e m a ke i t ? We needn’t pose that as a hypothetical when examples surround us. In a now-notorious p ro f i l e o f M i c h a e l B row n , the black teenager killed by a white police officer in August 2014, The New York T imes’ John Eligon wrote that Brown was “no angel,” as “police say he was caught on a security camera stealing a box of cigars.”

When discussing Keith Lamont Scott, whom a police officer shot and killed last week, CNN correspondent Polo Sando-

val focused on his criminal history and emphasized past violence. The New York Post’s Bob McManus has carried this mindset to its logical conclusion, writing in December 2014 Eric Garner, who died in July of that year after a police officer put him in a chokehold, was “a career petty criminal” who resisted arrest and therefore “was a victim of himself.”

Brown, Scott and Garner d i d n ’ t h a ve m a j o r - l e a g u e careers, much less aspirations to fame and greatness in the world of baseball. But each of them brought something good into the world — Brown was kind and quick with a joke; Scott was a family man who treasured his mother; and Garner was a gentle giant nicknamed “Teddy Bear.”

And Fernandez was entirely the same. During an unsuccessful defection attempt from Cuba, he saved his mother from drowning. He enjoyed spending time with his teammates’ children, and he always had fun on the field, regardless of what happened.

There’s no harm in reflecting on Fernandez’s talents, bountiful as they were. However, our focus as we memorialize him should lie elsewhere, just as it should with Brown, Scott and Garner. Fernandez was a great pitcher, and his life mattered: Both are true, and the former has nothing to do with the latter.

He will be missed, not for his pitching, but for the happiness he gave to those around him.

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REUVEN BANK @moneyindabank97 Opinion Editor

Anyone who has friended me on the Tweeter or followed me on the Facebooks knows that I’m not great with modern technology.

My collection of accidental pocket FaceTiming experiences has grown so large it rivals the population of Wyoming. If someone asked me what happens when content goes viral, I’d probably refer them to an infectious disease specialist.

My favorite artists and musicians have fan bases with an average age on par with those interred at Arlington National Cemetery.

Yet as The Diamondback’s selfappointed expert humorist and u nive rsally acc la imed memequeen, I’m tasked with generating cutting-edge social lampoonery, and more importantly, getting people to read it. However, as a hopeless curmudgeon with the social media presence of a grandmother who can’t forward you an email from her AOL account without accidentally hitting caps lock, I needed a bold new strategy to rack up those all-important likes, shares, swipes, snaps, loops, pokes, pinches, snuffles and retweets.

Enter the art of clickbait. For t h o s e o f yo u wh o h ave n eve r been tricked into visiting a page titled, “Scientists discover shocking new cure for elbow jaundice,” “ T h e H a ra m b e v i d e o O b a m a doesn’t want you to see” or “All

101 Dalmatians ranked from hot to not,” clickbait is the hyperbolic exaggeration of an article’s headline, crafted for maximum attention and minimal effort and accuracy.

Because the latter stands as the guiding principle of my personal journalistic ethics, I’ve assembled the top five phrases to raise my clickbait game to the level of Gawker (R.I.P. 2016), followed by the stories they represent.

• Has science gone too far? Researchers discover shocking new animal hybrid: a story exclusively containing photos of dogs wearing hot dog costumes.

• Scandalous video revealing Bill Nye hidden camera footage: Somewhere on YouTube lies a six second video of Bill Nye seductively eating a Twinkie.

• Leaked photo of K im riding bareback almost breaks the internet: The glorious leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea appreciates a good horseback ride now and then, and I have the photos to prove it.

• Nicholas Cage as you’ve never seen him b efo re: Literally any picture of Nicholas Cage, that man has no limit on the number of facial expressions he can produce.

• You won’t believe Trump’s epic sideboob clapback: a live stream of the orangutan exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo (it’s second most popular enclosure). reuven.bank@yahoo.com

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SGA discusses seven proposed fee raises $40 IT fee hike proposal largest among those discussed at town hall by

The proposed increases account for cost of living and minimum wage changes, or pay hikes that ensure student employees within RecWell and ShuttleUM earn 50 cents more than minimum wage, Pruitt said.

The fees would also allow for a new staff member to handle fundraising and grant writing for the Nyumburu C u l t u ra l C e n te r ; a n e w Stamp policy allowing registered student groups $100 in free printing; and a fulltime CARE To Stop Domestic Violence advocate for the Hea l t h Ce n te r, Swa n so n said. This salary was previously covered by state and federal grants that are now running out.

Of the proposed IT fee increase, $10 would go toward fixing the Wi-Fi system, while $30 would contribute to security enhancements t h a t wo u l d h e l p p reve n t hacking, Swanson said.

Offices that collect fees had to submit increase proposals by Sept. 19. These proposals are then checked by the Office of Administration and Finance and university counsel.

After that, a committee including Swanson, Pruitt, SGA Vice President of Financial Affairs Perry Bloch and Academic Affairs Vice President

Fasika Delessa — as well as officials from the University Senate, Residence Hall Association, Graduate Student Government and faculty — votes on the fee proposals.

If approved, they pass the recommendation to university President Wallace Loh's cabinet, and then to Loh, who submits his final proposals for review to the Board of Regents, Swanson said.

Most student concerns raised at the town hall were about the Title IX fee proposal.

Katie Dolan, SGA public health school representative, asked whether the governing body had communicated enough with university administrators about their expectations for the fee.

“If this hasn't been communicated at all, that, once they see that this is the step that we are taking to properly fund the office, that there might be some backlash,” the junior behavioral and community health major said.

Pruitt said he's seen two D i a m o n d ba c k e d i to r i a l boards call for the university to “take a bigger role in ensuring that this office is fully funded,” but every year, the funding gap remains.

“This was the path that we cou ld e nsu re that we didn't go a whole other year without the office being fully funded,” said Pruitt, a junior government and politics and economics major.

“It should not be a longterm solution.”

Others raised questions a b o u t t h e a t h l e t i c s fe e , the university's highest at

$406 per year for full time undergraduates, according to university documents. There is no proposal calling for that fee to go up.

“We're exploring … how we go about either bringing this fee down or having people opt out of it, because … we all think it's way too high,” Swanson said of the athletic fee.

Swanson said her administration is meeting with the athletics department Thursday to discuss the issue.

“Fees are something that take time, especially taking them away or letting people opt out of them, but it's something we're completely aware of,” she said.

Ju nior gove rnme nt and politics major Sam K o ra l n i k e x p r e s s e d concern about the Student Activities Fee, most of which is d irectly administered by the SGA. It will also not increase this year.

Swa n so n sa i d t h e SGA plans to increase transparency in that and other areas.

“As far as transparency goes, I think that our organization has a lot of things we could do,” Swanson said. “That's part of the reason we're here right now, because we're trying to be transparent.”

Flumbaum said. “Keeping it in the middle of campus is something we really wanted to do.”

A lot of the space will still be dedicated to IT storage, said Bill Olen, Facilities Management interim executive director of planning and construction.

Overall, the space available for RecWell is smaller than the amount of space that they had in Cole for the two rooms. The new 980-square-foot multipurpose room is a few hundred square feet smaller than the old

space, but the cycling room, which will be about 860 square feet, lost only about 80 square feet of space. The showers, bathrooms and IT storage space will take up the rest of the area.

From the Cole renovation project, $650,000 is going toward this renovation. RecWell added another $100,000 just for the creation of the showers, Flumbaum said. The renovation consists of upgrading the lights, heating and air conditioning.

The exterior walls, floors, ceiling and both the men’s and women’s bathrooms will remain the same.

“This area is isolated from Eppley and Ritchie, so you can’t run over to either of those places to clean up after a workout,” Flumbaum said. “If a faculty member or a student is in a hurry to get to class after working out, they will be able to shower quickly.”

Before Cole renovations started, a Facilities Management

F u l l t i m e time students would pay

Evan Berkowitz undergradu- less, Swanson said, and full ates could pay details will be made available @thedbk $ 40 m o re to on the SGA website.

For The DBK the Division of Information Technology next year if a proposed fee increase unveiled at a town hall Tuesday night is approved.

That increase is the largest among seven possible hikes addressed before a crowd of about 30 during the Student Government Association's “What the Fee?” event in the Reckord Armory. The second largest is a new $34 fee for the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct.

SGA Student Affairs Vice President A.J. Pruitt, who spoke at the event with President Katherine Swanson, submitted a proposal for the Title IX fee two weeks ago. The fee would generate $998,563 in fiscal 2018 for an office the SGA says has been understaffed and underfunded since its inception in 2014.

Other proposed fee increases discussed include an $8.56 increase for Shuttle-UM, an $8 increase to the Stamp Student Union fee, a $4.17 increase for the University Health Center, a $4 increase for the Nyumburu Cultural Center and a $2 fee increase for RecWell, Swanson and Pruitt said.

The fees apply to full-time undergraduate and graduate students and cover the full academic year. Part-

gym From p. 1 temporarily moved to the third floor of Cole in room 3109, an old classroom. The multipurpose space was never given an interim location, Flumbaum said, but this semester there are more group fitness classes on the top floor of Eppley to make up for the absence of that space.

“Spinning got its legs and became popular only when it moved to Cole a few years ago,”

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academy and are constantly retrained on,” said officer From p. 1 Brian Naecker, who com“Chief Mitchell decided pleted the training earlier this that basically, if there’s some- semester. “[The Narcan] now thing out there that can better is another tool we can use as a prepare our officers to help the first- responder.” community in case someNaecker also said that for thing like [a heroin overdose] himself and many other patrol happens … there’s no reason officers, this was their first time that we shouldn’t carry it,” learning about opiate overdoses Ecker said. in a training-type setting. ParThe trainings are a joint ticipants were taught about effort between University the signs and symptoms of an Police and the University opiate overdose, as well as how to Health Center, Ecker said. properly respond and administer In fall 2015, Ecker, along Narcan, he said. with five other officers, were Narcan, which is injected trained by the Prince George’s nasally, is an effective treatCounty Health Department ment for both pharmaceutical to become certified instruc- and synthetic opiates, Ecker said. tors of the It’s safe enough drug ’s adto give to both ministration, pregnant said police wo m e n a n d spokeschildren and woman Sgt. has no adverse Rosanne effects — even Hoaas. Ecker if there are no then trained opiates in the some of the body, he added. staff, pharIn the past, macists and officers were doctors at the c e r t i f i e d to health center provide CPR university police officer so they would for an overdosalso be prepared to answer ing individual only while waiting questions about the drug. for Emergency Medical Services “If a student, parent, to arrive, Ecker said. However, faculty or staff were to ask now that officers are able to carry either an officer or somebody and utilize Narcan, University within the health center staff Police are equipped to take more questions about Narcan and effective action. either what it does or how to Although the health center administer it, we would all also keeps Narcan on hand, be saying the same identical they have never had to use it, thing,” Ecker said. health center director David Forty-one officers were McBride wrote in an email. An trained to administer Narcan opiate overdose typically causes on Sept. 16, and other officers a person to “drop” wherever they will be trained throughout the used the drug, making immedisemester, Ecker added. The ate on-site care a critical step to majority are patrol officers, saving a victim’s life. who would likely be first on “The UMPD are in the field the scene in the event of an responding to incidents,” opiate overdose.

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planning team was tasked with finding spaces to replace all of the RecWell spaces lost in Cole.

The basement of Regents Parking Garage was the only underutilized space that could function for both activities, Flumbaum said.

Other spaces RecWell lost or will lose because of the Cole construction include tennis courts, an indoor turf arena and storage space for various groups that are a part of RecWell, Maloney said.

Erik Mayer, a junior material sciences major, lives off the campus but goes to Eppley about three times a week.

“Going to Eppley is a little bit inconvenient,” he said. “A small gym in Regents Garage would be helpful to me because there is a bus stop right there and all of my classes are along Regents, so it will be great to just go right there after classes.” lfeingolddbk@gmail.com

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Poll finds many voters motivated by dislike for opposing candidate A large perRebecca Rainey c e n t a g e o f @RebeccaARainey v o t e r s w h o support Hillary Staff writer Clinton or Donald Trump have something in common: They dislike the other candidate.

For 33 percent of Donald Trump supporters and 32 percent of Hillary Clinton supporters, their main reason for backing one of the candidates is because Trump is not Clinton or vice versa, according to a Pew Research Center survey on voter attitudes released on Sept. 21.

For some politically active students at the University of Maryland, those findings ring true.

Jacob Veitch wrote in an email that from his experiences as College Republicans president at this university, many students are falling in line with the Republican Party “because of their disdain for Hillary Clinton,” as opposed to fully giving Trump their backing.

Twenty-seven percent of Trump supporters said they are voting for him this November because he is a “political outsider” and “will bring change,” according to the polling data.

“Even one of our most vocal ‘Never Trump’ members has by

eased up since the primaries, opting to support Donald Tr u m p to s to p a H i l l a ry Clinton presidency,” wrote Veitch, a junior government and politics and international business major. Veitch noted in an email that College Republicans is made up of “a wide ranging set of opinions, from those that support Donald Trump, to those that support a third party candidate, to even some that support Hillary Clinton.”

For students voting at this university for the first time, partisanship is an attitude that can take time to mature, government and politics professor Lilliana Mason said.

“As for new voters, we tend to say that you become partisan after voting for the same party in three consecutive presidential elections,” Mason said. “Students voting for the first time still have eight years to go before their partisan identities are firmed up.”

Despite the poll's findings, Jake Polce, president of this university's College Democrats, wrote in an email that many members are just as enthusiastic about voting for

Clinton for her policies — not just because she isn't Trump.

“The results of that poll don't mirror the vast majority of conversations that I have had with members of our organization regarding why they are voting for [Clinton],” wrote Polce, a junior government and politics major. “As an organization we are supporting Hillary Clinton primarily based on the fundamental values that members of our club share with her.”

In addition to the 32 percent who said they are voting for Clinton because she isn't Trump, another 32 percent of Clinton supporters responded saying they are backing her because she is “experienced/ will get things done,” according to the survey.

Overall, the polling data revealed a trend of concern among the electorate, with 49 percent of all voters saying they would feel "disappointed" or "angry" if Clinton became president and another 59 percent of all voters sharing those feelings if Trump were to be elected.

These attitudes among voters could be bad news for turnout at the polls this November, Mason said.

“This sort of negative voting can reduce turnout by reducing enthusiasm,” he explained.

Clinton is leading Donald Trump 47.4 to 44.4 percent nationally, according to the Real Clear Politics polling average, which was updated on Sept. 28. rraineydbk@gmail.com

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CLAUDIA RANKINE in conversation with Sheri Parks Thursday, Sept. 29 5:30 – 7 p.m.

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howard lane is currently under construction for a new housing development in Old Town with seven homes. ryan eskalis/the diamondback

Old Town plot will become seven homes by

Carly Kempler T h i s i s n ’ t the number of faculty and @CarlyKempler just another staff in the city.”

Kidwell said he hopes the Senior staff writer development story, College Park resident Bob Kidwell said. That’s not the point.

Kidwell and his family have a long history with the city, and now they’ve sold the remainder of their “family garden” — a plot of land from their family’s estate — to create a “pocket neighborhood” in Old Town College Park.

The neighborhood will co n s i s t o f seve n h o m e s, situated off of Rhode Island Avenue on Howard Lane, and each unit will be custombuilt, said David Kacar, the project’s architect and the co-owner of Classic Design and Buildcheck, the company designing and building the homes.

“A lot of people are looking for homes in the area, but they need a lot of work,” Kacar said. “Most homes need a lot of work and upgrades, but to be able to do exactly what you want for it to meet your needs is very unique.”

Growing up on Knox Road, Kidwell — a 1969 graduate of the University of Maryland — was surrounded by classmates whose parents worked at the university and lived in the surrounding area, which inspired him to help his community and leave his legacy on the city, he said.

“We really want make this attractive to faculty and staff,” Kidwell said. “We’re trying to accomplish the goal of not only having owners living in College Park, but increasing

home’s location, customization and efficiency will be enough to sway faculty and staff members of this university to move in.

Walkability, along with faculty and staff moving into the neighborhoods of College Park, are two strategies within the Greater College Park initiative, said Ken Ulman, chief strategy officer for economic development for the university’s College Park Foundation.

As faculty and staff blend with other residents within College Park neighborhoods, it creates a “true living-learning community,” said Eric Olson, executive director of the College Park City-University Partnership. Olson has been discussing this project with Kidwell for about three years, he added.

“When you have people who work and live in the community, they’re walking to wo rk , yo u se e p e o p l e o f te n go i n g to a n d f ro m work — more social interactions, those create innovation dynamic,” Olson said.

These homes are also eligible for the partnership’s Homeownership Program, wh i c h p rov i d e s $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 in “forgivable loans” to a “full-time, benefits-eligible University of Maryland employee” or a “full-time employee of the city of College Park” who is looking to buy a home in the city, according to the partnership’s website.

This city is also providing $5,000 in grants for purchasers of new single-family homes in the city, said Patrick Wojahn, the city’s mayor.

This project will also support local businesses, as more residents will be in the area over the summer, which is something the city is encouraging, Wojahn said.

“There’s several benefits from them living in College Park,” he said. “It means they have to travel less to work, and that’s less of a burden on our transportation infrastructure … and I think another one that it helps create more stability for College Park businesses that faculty and staff will support more of the higher end restaurants.”

Community members may ask questions about the project at City Hall on Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m., Kidwell said. He also encouraged any faculty or staff who are interested in learning more to attend the meeting.

“With Dr. Loh’s goal of more faculty and staff l iv i n g i n Co l l e ge Pa rk , t h e co m p l a i n ts h av i n g always been they’re small and need a lot of maintenance … my goal is that t h e se h o u se s w i l l h e l p deal with these issues,” Kidwell said. “And as the neighborhood improves, maybe the older houses will be improved.” ckemplerdbk@gmail.com

voters head to the polls this N o v e m b e r, t h e y ’ l l see a referendum that could have far-reaching impacts on county governance.

The charter amendment proposes adding two at-large representatives to the county dais, which is currently composed of nine members.

A similar measure was c o n s i d e re d , a n d u l timately defeated, in 2004, according to The Washington Post.

The council is now made up of representatives who are elected by voters in their district, but the proposed atlarge delegates would be elected by the county as a whole.

College Park leaders have mixed opinions on the idea.

“As somebody who moved from being a city council representative from a single district of College Park to be mayor, I certainly understand how different that can be … to look at the jurisdiction as a whole,” College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn said.

Nearby legislatures, including those from Montgomery and Arlington counties, include some at-large members.

District 3 Councilman Robert Day said he’s in favor of the referendum.

“It’s a great opportunity, it’s a great idea.

It gets some people in there that have to take a l o o k a t i t f ro m t h e holistic point of view,”

smith From p. 1 “I am so overwhelmed with joy in my heart,” Smith said. “It has b e e n u n ex p l a i n a b l e , e ve r y t h i n g t h a t h a s

he said. “I know sometimes they often get carried away with looking at their own little pieces of the world, but we need to look at the county as a whole.”

But District 4 Councilwo m a n M a r y C o o k s a i d she’s worried that at-large members may become too attached to the interests of the county executive, rather than their constituency.

“It would be very easy for the county executive, whoever that may be at the time, to have those at-large

It’s not like the county put together some kind of focus group or asked even their constituents, ‘Do you feel like you need two at-large seats?’ jennifer dwyer

progressive md. county organizer council members push his or her agenda,” she said.

Suchitra Balachandran, president of the West College Park Citizens Association, said she was also against the proposal.

“If you’re going to run for an at-large position in the entire county, the estimate is that it would cost $300,000 to $400,000,” she said. “It’s not possible really for a grassroots candidate to compete against money at that level.”

The measure would also a l l ow a d i s t r i c t c o u n c i l member who was elected to the maximum two terms to then run for one of the at-

large seats. Balachandran said council members’ attempts to extend their terms are “getting kind of old.”

Wo ja h n s u g ge s te d a d justing the referendum to address this concern.

“I do think it might help if the council were to consider applying term limits across the board … or at least to maybe exempt the current county council members who are serving in those seats from running for the at-large seats in the future,” he said.

John Rigg, president of the civic association in Calvert Hills, said his group doesn’t have an official position, and he can see both sides of the debate.

“I certainly would be concerned with a county-wide co u n c i l p os t t h a t wo u l d serve principally to extend the terms of county council members who were formerly representing one district,” he said, “but it seems like there are benefits too.”

Jennifer Dwyer, the Prince George’s County lead organizer for Progressive Maryland, said her group opposes the measure.

“Adding two seats, that is going to add on a cost of about a million dollars per year,” she said. “It just hasn’t been demonstrated exactly what benefits the residents would get from spending another million of their taxpayer dollars on that.”

D w ye r a l s o e x p re s s e d concern about the council’s p ro ce ss fo r c rea t i n g t h e measure.

“It’s not like the county put together some kind of focus group or asked even their constituents, ‘Do you feel like you need two atlarge seats?’” she said. “We at Progressive Maryland feel like the residents deserve more than that.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

been taking place, and, you know, after everything that happened on that day, to be standing here and to be able to be honored.”

Cecelia Jones-Bowlding, the principal at Glenarden Woods Elementary School,

called Smith a hero.

“It’s wonderful when … we see the love of community,” she said. “It’s just a fa n ta s t i c a n d wo n d e r f u l thing to see.”

“ I t ’s a g re a t re s o u rc e through my own experiences with it, even through just everyday things,” Thomas said.

Thomas said he’s noticed t h e r e ’s b e e n a s u rg e i n mental health initiatives in both the Greek and campus community at this university. The health center, for e x a m p l e , r e va m p e d t h e Greek Health Center Liaison program this semester to create events and initiatives targeting increased awareness about mental health issues. It was initially established in 2014 but did not have the student involvement that the founders had hoped for.

The Greek Health Center Liaison program, comprised of 22 student representatives from different sororities and fraternities, had its first meeting Sept. 15 and will meet for mini workshops once a month. The liaisons each work on different projects for either their own chapters or the wider community to educate people about mental

health and decrease stigma.

Molly Higgins, a junior p syc h o l o g y m a j o r a n d a program liaison, said there’s an open conversation about mental health issues within her sorority, Phi Sigma Sigma.

“Maryland’s Greek life definitely is more accepting,” Higgins said. “I haven’t really seen any instances of harm coming from a stigma of mental illness. I’ve seen a lot of acceptance.”

Smiley said a significant number of Alpha Tau Omega’s 10,000 national members have already begun to use the service.

“We were just excited that we were able to offer this to our members and we’re one of the first fraternities to be offering anything like this,” Smiley said. “Hopefully this will open up the door for other fraternities and sororities to consider this or other types of programs because we believe mental health is really important.”

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Fraternity partners with online therapy program for counseling A l p h a Ta u NatalieSchwartz O m e g a N a @Nmschwartz23 t i o n a l Fr a te r n i ty a n Staff writer nounced that they have partnered with Talkspace, an online therapy platform, to give its members free counseling whenever they need it.

Talkspace allows users to communicate with a licensed therapist via text messages, audio recordings and live video sessions. Typically Talkspace’s messaging therapy costs $128 a month, but the fraternity is providing up to three consecutive months of the service to its members for free, which they can then continue to use if they choose to pay the monthly fee. Wynn Smiley, the CEO of the fraternity, said the fraternity apby

proached Talkspace after a staff member proposed that the service could be helpful to the fraternity’s members.

Smiley brought in Talkspace representatives to educate t h e f ra te r n i ty ’s c h a p te r presidents about the platform during a convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, over the summer. On Aug. 31, the fraternity sent out Talkspace vouchers to all its members.

Smiley said the fraternity partnered with Talkspace because counseling centers on college campuses are often overbooked. University counseling center appointments have increased by about 38 percent since 2009, and some health centers have had difficulty keeping up with the demand, according to a 2015 Pennsylvania State University study. The University Health

Center’s mental health services at the University of Maryland can book 50 to 90 appointments a day, while students with non-urgent cases may wait as long as two to three weeks to see a therapist, according to a November Diamondback article.

Katherine Glick, a Talkspace therapist, said she has seen more students across the country join Talkspace over the past year. According to the Talkspace website, the therapy service currently serves more than 300,000 users.

“Students are starting to realize that you don’t have to be broken and messed-up to talk to a therapist,” Glick said. “You can actually just be looking for … an objective ear to kind of guide you through a process of change

or somebody to just give you some basic suggestions about how to improve your life.”

While there are some disadvantages to losing faceto-face contact, Glick said online therapy can be a great resource for people who otherwise would not seek out counseling. It breaks down affordability and time barriers, she said, which allows people to “build therapy into [their] life in a way that’s convenient.”

Christopher Thomas, a senior kinesiology major and this university’s Alpha Tau Omega chapter president, said it can be especially tough for men to seek out therapy. Talkspace makes it easier for people who are worried about the stigma attached to mental health to receive therapy privately in their own home, he said.

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Poetry in the age of social media The Diamondback’s Raye Weigel examines the advent of poetry posted on Instagram and its big impact.

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Why historical drama is a winning formula From Madison Avenue to the boardwalk, the genre remains on top “ Tr u t h i s John Powers stranger than @DBKDiversions fiction.” This saying seems Staff writer untrue, bordering on impossible.

How could the fantasy worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin compare to the monotonous mumbles of a history professor? How could a dull textbook come close to the inventive fiction of H.P. Lovecraft and J.K. Rowling? The answer is simple, perhaps even obvious.

These authors all used history as a source of inspiration. But the point is understood. Orcs and dragons, daemons and wizards — these fictitious elements can certainly add drama and intrigue to a story.

But bringing the past to life in the form of the historical drama, especially on television, has been an effective way to captivate and compel over this past decade.

The genre provides an allyou-can-eat buffet of differby

ent time periods and tones for the viewer, ranging from the ancient to the contemporary. If the WWII bloodshed of Band of Brothers is not for you, perhaps you would enjoy the subtlety of Downton Abbey’s family squabbles. Is the womanizing of Don Draper in Mad Men boring you?

Switch over to an action-packed episode of Vikings, set around the 9th century.

Bloodshed, family drama, politics and sex are some of the most compelling elements a story can include, and many historical dramas try to encompass them all.

While this genre is fictitious far more than factual, the premises of these stories are based in reality. Each show sets a metaphorical chess board with characters, same as a fantasy, sci-fi or any other TV drama.

Once the shows begin, the chess pieces are making the same moves: The protagonist has a love interest, a life-long

friendship is ruined or a family member dies. The shows are on an equal playing field when it comes to human drama.

While the non-historic shows have an advantage because they aren’t tethered to reality, a show with its roots in history can draw in an audience that is trying to see the past come to life.

Sometimes small historic elements of the show can pull in viewers due to their contemporary appeal. The jazz music of Boardwalk Empire and the hairstyles and fashion of Peaky Blinders are both resurging in popular culture, making the shows seem modern despite their historic accuracy.

The word sonder is used on the internet to describe the realization that every person lives a life as vivid and complex as your own. Perhaps that is what viewers are seeking with historical dramas.

When someone becomes a name in a textbook, they seem

larger than life. This genre humanizes historic figures and groups that had only been known in the abstract, allowing the audience to see the multifaceted lives they led. The inherent humanity and experiences we share with these celebrated people allow us to understand how the person may have lived.

So, is truth stranger than fiction? Maybe not. But the historical drama’s strength is in its familiarity. We want to relate to these lionized figures of the past.

We want to equate their stories to our own. We want to understand, scrutinize and analyze them to remind ourselves that they too were only human.

The historical drama genre continues to grow along with our fascination with it. The trend is undeniably valuable because the stories of the past deserve a more engaging medium than a PowerPoint slide in HIST200. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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In 6 seconds, Ruth B becomes a pop star The “Lost Boy” singer will be performing with Alessia Cara tonight at The Fillmore Silver Spring It all started Josh Magness with a post on @josh_mag Vi n e a n d a n Senior staff writer episode of Once Upon a Time.

Ruth Berhe was just 19 when she posted a six-second snippet of herself singing a line inspired by the popular fairy tale-based TV show. That Vine was far from her first, but it quickly proved to be special, as thousands of likes and views rolled in.

That was December 2014.

Now, she’s known as Ruth B, the girl with the crystalclear and haunting vocals who earned massive radio play with “Lost Boy,” her piano-driven ballad that originated from that seconds-long clip.

Ruth B will bring those velvet vocals and delicate piano chords to the Fillmore Silver Spring tonight in support of Alessia Cara’s “Know-It-All Tour Part II.” The sudden rise in fame has been “crazy” for Berhe who has gone from a relatively unknown figure on Vine to someone just one or two hit songs away from mainstream attention. She’s currently at that in-between moment where her songs are gaining traction, but she can still maintain a level of privacy in public.

Just take the one time “Lost Boy” started playing while she sat in an airport, for example.

“It was pretty funny just because I was just like, ‘Holy crap, that’s my voice, and nobody here knows that right now,’” she said. “It’s always such a cool feeling to hear yourself on the radio, and to hear a little song you came up with just for fun. That’s always really rewarding.”

Berhe didn’t join Vine in hopes of signing with Columbia Records, releasing an eerily peaceful single that the Recording Industry Association of America certified as platinum or receiving a nomination for a Teen Choice Award.

She’s now accomplished all those things at the young age of 21, but really she created an account on the social media platform for the same reason most others do — just for fun.

Yet before she knew it, a swiftly recorded Vine altered the course of her life.

“It was really crazy,” she by

said, “especially because it was a Vine that I put zero effort into.”

T h a t o n e -ve rse v i d e o transformed into “Lost Boy,” a nearly five-minute song of Berhe’s somber vocals lightly weaving around strippeddown piano. The song makes continual references to the fantastical world of Peter Pan, but its lyrics underlie a deeper message.

“It’s about going through being lonely, being with okay with being lonely and then finding yourself in something that’s bigger,” Berhe said.

There’s nothing unconventional about Berhe’s sound.

Piano-based singer-songwriter tracks dripping with raw emotion, if occasionally heavy-handed, is a well-tried musical formula.

What’s strange is her rise to prominence with “Lost Boy” in a time dominated by the likes of the Chainsmokers.

The majority of popular songs today are electro-based, often centered on an ear worm of a dance beat that is anything but intricate and is purposefully crafted to lodge itself inside your mind and get you grooving on a sweaty dance floor.

Sure, megastars like Adele can seize worldwide attention with stripped-down power ballads. But many younger listeners have short attention spans and are rarely able to sit through a slow song from a newcomer before asking, “When’s the bass drop?”

Berhe said she isn’t opposed to playing around with different musical styles in the future. Just expect the tracks

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“In the future, just discovering my sound and growing is really important to me,” she said. “But I know I always want

to keep it about the song, about the lyrics and about the music.” diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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keihn From p. 12 “Honestly,” Keihn said, “the worst feeling ever.”

Keihn hasn’t seen his mom in 13 years. He’s grown up in that span, transforming from a troublesome boy who struggled speaking English to a burgeoning Division I athlete with a singular goal in mind.

He wants his mother to make the plane ride, too.

‘A LITTLE RELIEF’ Keihn’s mind raced as he realized he’d been tricked. He thought back to a recent exchange with his mother when discussing his move to America.

“Don’t forget me,” she pled.

“I’ll never forget you,” he responded. “Doesn’t matter what.”

As soon as he landed for an overnight layover, he hated America. It was the middle of winter in 2004. He had only known Liberia’s heat.

He stayed with his stepmom in a hotel that night. Keihn had been living with her in Monrovia for about three years before leaving, his dad’s request after he sought political asylum in the U.S. in 1999.

Bainda worked in America to earn money to help his wife and Melvin move. But he wasn’t related to or ever married to Keihn’s mom, so she didn’t have immigration rights.

At one point while living in Monrovia, Keihn and his stepmom went into hiding at a friend’s house, which had a metal door to keep intruders out. They never opened it when people knocked, because Keihn “didn’t know who was the good guy and who was the bad guy on

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him to mispronounce words.

Kids didn’t understand and often ridiculed him.

Teachers had informed his father that kids told Keihn he was “from the jungle.” They laughed when he tried to speak English but stumbled.

Keihn had retaliated before, but the boys’ incessant taunts on the playground continued.

Keihn snapped.

He hopped off the swing, and the next thing he remembers was the boy, bloody from either Keihn’s kick or punch — perhaps both — running to the teacher. Keihn later had a stern talk with his dad about his past experiences.

In Liberia, Keihn remembers walking home from school and sometimes hearing loud booms.

Within seconds, people would be sprinting up the hill, screaming.

He said soldiers “would just shoot pretty much anyone they see, like they didn’t care at all.”

His mom was once held up at gunpoint, and Keihn laughed because he was too young to understand the significance.

So after disciplining his son for the altercation, his dad pled for Keihn to adjust.

“Look, this country is not like back home where there’s no laws,” Bainda said. “If you fight somebody, I’ll be in trouble, and you’ll be in trouble.”

Keihn heeded the words. Soon after the incident, the family moved to Baltimore and Keihn ‘NOT LIKE BACK HOME’ started at Edmondson Heights One day at recess in second Elementary School. As he grade, Keihn was playing on the walked to school one morning, swings when a boy came over he saw a boy, James Wood, and mocked the way he spoke. waiting to cross the street.

Keihn introduced himself, Keihn’s English hadn’t yet developed to match that of his learned Wood liked video games classmates,’ and the accent and brought his friend home to from his African dialect caused play FIFA that afternoon. They the outside.”

One night, though, Keihn awoke to soldiers standing in the house, demanding everyone evacuate. He still doesn’t understand how they broke in. They lined up the women outside and drew their guns.

“It was pretty terrifying,” Keihn said, “to stand there and watch that.”

Almost as harrowing was the morning Keihn woke up in the American hotel and sobbed while looking at the one picture he had of his mom. She would visit while Keihn lived with his stepmom, but now he didn’t know when he’d see her next.

He soon arrived in Maryland and lived with his dad, stepmom and another family of Liberian immigrants in a two-bedroom apartment. Keihn slept on a comforter on the floor, often dreaming of soldiers chasing him or experiencing flashbacks to the terror he witnessed in Liberia.

When his dad went to work or nursing school early each morning, he’d leave the room with a stinging heart, seeing his son lying uncovered on the bare floor after rolling off the blanket.

Keihn didn’t mind.

“I’m glad I can wake up in the morning knowing I’m safe,” he said. “It was just like a little relief.”

Still, the instincts he developed in his volatile homeland took time to disappear.

spent almost every day together for the rest of elementary school.

Aside from video games, they’d watch TV. Keihn improved his English while wa tc h i n g M i c k e y M o u s e Club House, The Wiggles and Dora the Explorer. They also loved Disney Channel — Even Stevens, Kim Possible and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody were favorites — and followed Full House and Friends.

Before they could have fun, though, Keihn’s dad insisted the two did homework. Wood helped Keihn pronounce words in their readings and correct misspellings in book reports.

Keihn also started to understand the importance of schooling, which his mother tried to instill in him years before. He’d ask his teachers questions after school and spend some recess periods in their classrooms for extra help in English and reading.

‘BETTER THAN LEGAL’ During one recess that year, Sean Mayberry, who played for the local AAU basketball team, had a question for Melvin, the tallest kid in the grade.

“You’re huge,” Mayberry said. “Have you ever played basketball?”

Keihn hadn’t. He played soccer in Takoma Park but couldn’t find a league in Baltimore. He didn’t know what basketball was.

Mayberry invited Keihn to his house, a less-than-twominute walk up the hill, and “next thing I know,” Keihn said, “I’m going to basketball practice with Sean.” Keihn didn’t know the rules — he would pick up the ball and walk around the court — but the coaches taught

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He went home and told his dad, who took Keihn to Walmart to buy his own ball. Keihn spent the next eight years playing in the AAU circuit, first with Team Future and then on Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs’ Team Sizzle. He traveled everywhere from Nevada to Rhode Island to Texas.

His prowess on the court caught the attention of the Calvert Hall High School football coaches, and they convinced his dad, who, at first, assumed they meant soccer, to enroll Keihn.

In eighth grade, private high school brochures flooded Keihn’s mailbox. Coaches called the house each night and gave Keihn’s dad presentations to pitch their programs.

Biff Poggi, who coached at the Gilman School, was also impressed with Keihn’s prowess on the field, as he played everything from quarterback to running back to defensive end.

But when the coach approached him to talk afterward, Poggi thought Keihn was arrogant. He didn’t say much. He just smiled and nodded.

Poggi then learned about Keihn’s Liberian roots, tumultuous childhood and separation from his mother. He offered Bainda an opportunity his son couldn’t decline.

Poggi knew Keihn couldn’t balance school and practice with finding someone to drive him 30 minutes to and from Gilman each day. Plus, with younger siblings at home, Keihn often assumed childcare responsibilities while his dad and stepmom worked.

Moving in with the Poggis, the coach hoped, would eliminate the outside distractions.

Bainda didn’t want his son to leave but remembered the promise he made about better opportunities with Keihn’s mother.

That’s why, after Keihn succeeded in his first season with Gilman, his fall stay with the Poggis turned into Keihn becoming the honorary sixth Poggi sibling for the rest of high school.

While emerging as a consensus top-15 recruit in the state, Keihn celebrated Christmas with the Poggis, opening the same number of gifts as the other kids.

When the family went on vacation to South Carolina each summer, Keihn went too, learning to swim in their pool.

Poggi paid for tutors to come three times a week, helping Keihn write papers and keep up in history, political science and math classes.

Above Keihn’s bed, he hung the picture of his mom. But when Keihn had friends over to the house, he introduced the Poggis as his mom, dad, brothers and sisters, though they never formally adopted him.

“It’s better than legal because my wife and I and my five children love Melvin like he’s our very own child,” Poggi said.

“There truly is no distinction.”

Keihn committed to Virginia

Tech for his collegiate freshman year, appearing in 13 games, but never shook his homesickness.

He missed the Poggis. He longed for home-cooked African food. His dad, who worked almost every weekend, couldn’t make the five-hour trek to Blacksburg, Virginia, for his games.

So he transferred to Maryland as a sophomore, taking a redshirt year to comply with NCAA regulations. Keihn never complained about the season off.

He worked on the Terps’ scout team. He attended Gilman’s games and came home on the weekends the team traveled without him.

“When you’ve been through what Melvin’s been through,” Poggi said, reflecting on Keihn’s stories of bombs and killings in Liberia, “when you go through that, let me tell you, sitting out football games or coaches yelling at you or Cs on tests, that’s not frustrating.”

‘DO SOMETHING’ Keihn’s spirits, however, dipped during spring practice this season.

Last semester, Keihn’s dad was in Liberia for the first time since his asylum. He cried for more than 30 minutes upon seeing the lack of infrastructure and control in the country, but his presence made communicating easier for Keihn and his relatives.

It’s usually a lengthy process for Keihn to call his mother, who doesn’t have a cell phone or reception in her village. He first tells his dad he wants to call. Then his dad contacts his uncle in Monrovia because the two set up a calling card to reduce long distance fees. The uncle goes to her village and brings her back to the city.

With his father in Liberia, Keihn had easier access and spoke to his brother for the first time in years. The conversation left him in tears, silence lingering on the line.

The message was clear.

He pled for Keihn to work hard. Keihn served as a symbol of hope for his mother’s chance at a better life. His relatives at home were all proud.

Their conditions were even clearer through the pictures and video Keihn’s dad emailed.

He had brought pictures of Keihn at prom and in his football uniform to show his mother, who bawled at the sight of her young boy turned young man. Keihn received a picture of his biological mother, brother and sister and a video of their mud walls leaking in the rain.

“I don’t want to say it made me mad, because I couldn’t have done much being there to help her,” Keihn said. “But it made me wish I could do something.”

Keihn bottled up his emotions and didn’t speak to his father for about a week.

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Midfielder earns Cirovski’s praise Coach says Williamson played best game against MSU by

Maryland men’s soccer’s Eryk Williamson played midfield growing up, so when coach Sasho Cirovski moved him from forward to midfield this season, the sophomore reminisced about his prior experience.

Last year, Williamson starred for the Terps up top, but Maryland lost key players in the midfield this offseason, so Cirovski converted him to attacking midfield. Though Williamson’s transition hasn’t always been smooth, Cirovski said he’s progressing each match.

Despite missing most of two games because of a head injury,

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keihn From p. 9 his defensive end’s enthusiasm slip in practice and called him in for a meeting. Keihn left their talk with a renewed purpose to one day support his mom in America.

He started by plastering the picture of her everywhere.

It’s his header photo on Twitter. It’s the lock screen background on his phone. He had photocopied the original picture of his mom, which he has kept in his wallet, for years, and now he had another reminder of why he wants to be a therapist or psychologist and travel to war-torn countries to help children.

The drive continued in his Terps debut against Howard

Williamson’s five points are tied for third-most on the team, and the coach deemed the midfielder’s performance in the Terps’ 2-0 win over Michigan State on Friday his best game of the year.

As Williamson continues to improve, Cirovski said, so will the No. 1 Terps.

“Eryk Williamson is a fantastic player,” Cirovski said.

“He’s an explosive, dynamic, attacking talent. He’s capable of breaking a game open in an instant. He looked real fluid and comfortable, and his work rate was off the charts last week.

He’s settled into the best spot on the field for him right now.”

Last season, Williamson started 21 of 23 matches and broke out in the postseason. He

on Sept. 3 when he finished second on the team with five tackles, two for a loss, with his dad and Wood in the stands.

It was one of the two games he played before not traveling with the team to Central Florida for what Durkin called a “minor incident,” though Durkin said Keihn will return fo r h o m e co m i n g a ga i n s t Purdue this weekend.

His mom won’t be there.

She’s never seen Keihn play, but Keihn knows he’ll feel her presence on the field.

Like he did as his pregame ritual before facing the Bison — starting his new life with a new program — he’ll tuck a copy of his mom’s picture into his sock and lace up his cleats. ccaplandbk@gmail.com

recorded his six goals and two assists in the squad’s final seven games.

The Terps have started each 2016 contest with only two forwards, though. Forward Sebastian Elney, who led Maryland in scoring last year, locked up one spot, and forward Gordon Wild, who leads the Big Ten with eight goals after transferring from South Carolina Upstate, claimed the other this summer.

Meanwhile, former midfielders Mael Corboz and Tsubasa Endoh, who combined for 32 points in 2015, graduated this offseason. Cirovski has used Williamson, who plays attacking midfield on the U-20 Men’s National Team, in their roles.

“Eryk is one of the best play-

stackpole From p. 12 “We’re into the real time now,” defensive end Roman Braglio said. “We’re in Big Ten week, so yeah, everyone’s fired up. We’re ready to play.”

First and foremost, Maryland is winning under first-year coach DJ Durkin. Yes, the wins came against Howard, an FCS school, and two mediocre Florida programs. The Terps needed double overtime to beat UCF, a team that finished 0-12 last year.

But to casual fans, many of whom will fill Maryland Stadium this

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ers in the country,” Wild said Sept. 2. “We’re slowly getting a really good relationship together.”

Cirovski has moved Williamson around the midfield while trying to find his fit against opponents’ formations.

In the Terps’ 2-1 win against then-No. 24 Georgetown on Sept. 2, Cirovski moved Williamson to left wing at halftime to spread out Maryland’s attack.

Ten minutes into the frame, Williamson scored his lone goal of the season off a cross from midfielder Amar Sejdic.

The 5-foot-9, 154-pound Williamson stuck the ball past the Hoyas’ charging goalkeeper to spark a celebration from The Crew.

“We kind of tried different positions in practice, and he throws me out there sometimes,” Williamson said after the match. “Me and Amar have a really good connection, so right when we switched, I told him, ‘Hey, I have a little more space, if you need to put me in a space to run, I’ll do it.’ That’s what happened. It’s something

we do every day in practice.”

Williamson played four minutes against South Florida on Sept. 5 before a Bulls defender ran into him, making contact with his head. The Alexandria, Virginia, native sat out the remainder of the contest and missed Maryland’s following match against Indiana.

Though the Terps tied the then-No.4 Hoosiers, 1-1, Maryland relied on a late equalizer from defender Alex Crognale.

While it was frustrating to watch his squad lose the possession battle against Indiana, Williamson used halftime and overtime breaks to encourage his teammates to stay calm, reminding them they were talented enough to win the contest.

When Williamson returned against Rutgers on Sept. 13, he made a difference on the field.

In double overtime, Williamson sent a cross to Elney. The Scarlet Knights goalkeeper blocked Elney’s look, but midfielder Jake Rozhansky netted the rebound for the game-winner.

Then, against Michigan State

on Friday, Williamson received a cross in the box from defender Chris Odoi-Atsem in the second half. He one-touched the ball toward Rozhansky on the right goal post for his third assist of the year.

“When Eryk gets the ball, I already have to be ready to move and be ready for his pass,” Rozhansky said. “He has an amazing passing ability. He can put the ball right at my foot. When he’s on the field, you can just see his poise on the ball.”

Still, Cirovski said Williamson needs to become more comfortable with the spacing and responsibilities of playing midfield. Williamson played a huge role in the Terps’ 2015 postseason run, and Cirovski expects the same this season.

“That kid’s soccer knowledge and his vision on the field is second to none,” goalkeeper Cody Niedermeier said. “He has to be the best in the country. What he does with the ball really just defines who he is.”

weekend, the team’s undefeated record holds the most importance. The Terps matched last season’s win total and are at the halfway point to bowl qualification, which is an exciting development considering what happened a year ago.

What makes Saturday even more intriguing is, throughout the Terps’ success, Maryland’s fanbase hasn’t had many opportunities to see Durkin’s bunch play.

The Terps opened the season at home with a 52-13 win against Howard, but the majority of the fans exited when the starters swapped out of the game, leading 42-0 midway through the third quarter.

Then they played in Florida on back-to-back weekends.

CBS Sports Network streamed

the games, stripping students with housing on the campus and viewers who have Comcast or Verizon of the chance to watch either matchup. A bye week followed, their first in September since 2013.

By the time their contest with the Boilermakers (2-1) rolls around, the Terps (3-0) will not have played in College Park in almost a month.

“Being back at home is nice,” Durkin said. “It feels like forever ago since we’ve had a home game here. Our guys are excited about that.”

When the Terps step on the field, they’ll play what may be the worst team in the nation’s best conference.

Maryland also hosts No. 17 Michigan State and No. 2 Ohio State this season, but the Spartans

and Buckeyes won’t visit until Oct. 22 and Nov. 12, respectively.

Instead, the Terps open their Big Ten slate with the Boilermakers, who received the fewest votes in cleveland.com’s Big Ten preseason football poll. Betting websites have the Terps favored by about 10 points.

They’re not only hoping to start the season 4-0, which last happened three years ago.

They’re expected to.

All of these factors amount to what should be an electric atmosphere around the campus and inside Maryland Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The players are poised to put on a show.

“There’s no better feeling,” left tackle Michael Dunn said, “than winning a homecoming game.”

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PLAYERS TO WATCH

RB Wes Brown The senior started the season with a three-game suspension, which stemmed from last year when he was suspended indefinitely, but Durkin’s crew expects Brown to make an immediate impact.

Despite his absence, the Terps didn’t limit his reps in practice, hoping to ease his transition to games and build on his 317 yards and three touchdowns from 2015. He’ll join running backs Lorenzo Harrison, Trey Edmunds and Ty Johnson as another weapon in the backfield.

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FAST STATS In its first three games of the season, Maryland has combined to score

123

points, which is the program’s highest total since the Terps scored 130 in 1951.

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QB David Blough

Against the Terps, the redshirt sophomore will aim to tie a Boilermakers record with his third consecutive 300-yard passing game. Despite his impressive numbers and 60 percent completion percentage, Blough hasn’t displayed much ball security with seven interceptions through three games. Defensive coordinator Andy Buh’s bunch has forced two picks so far and will look to bait Blough into more mistakes in the conference opener.

Defensive tackle Jake Replogle In his press conference Wednesday afternoon, offensive coordinator Walt Bell highlighted the senior’s dominance, saying “when [Replogle] puts his hands on out, people tend to go backward.” The Terps have focused on controlling him on the line, as he’s recorded 18 tackles, including two for a loss, and one sack to start the season. The Terps have focused on pass protection during the bye week after surrendering five sacks against UCF.

Safety Josh Woods

When safety Denzel Conyers suffered a torn ACL against UCF and Woods took his spot on the field, the junior decided to “ball out” for his injured teammate.

With Conyers out for the season, Woods will start his first game as a Terp against the Boilermakers. He and Conyers were in a tight battle for the starting spot throughout the preseason, and now Woods wants to capitalize on his opportunity by providing control and physicality in the defensive backfield.

After switching to his third position in his fourth year, linebacker Shane Cockerille has

25

tackles to lead the team, including a career-high 14 stops against UCF. In their nonconference slate, the Terps have rushed for an average of

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ON THE RECORD “Opening up the Big Ten season, for sure, there’s a different level of intensity about that, I believe. We’re playing conference games now. Not to diminish any game we’ve played to this point, either. All the wins and losses count, but these do count a little extra. You’re now playing in conference, and it will be nice to be back at home.”

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yards per game, which is the second-best mark in the Big Ten.

KYLE STACKPOLE: 34-28 Maryland Quarterback Perry Hills makes enough plays with his arm to help Terps hold off Purdue for team’s best start since 2013.

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DJ Durkin Head coach “It’s basically a new season for us. Every game counts a little bit more now, and we’re prepared for it. We’re ready for it. We’re excited for it, that’s for sure, and ready for Purdue.”

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HOMECOMING FOOTBALL PREVIEW

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COMING HOME Melvin Keihn left Liberia for Maryland as a child. He longs for his mother to join him.

By Callie Caplan | @CallieCaplan | Senior staff writer

L

ong before Melvin Keihn donned a red-andblack uniform as a Maryland football defensive end, he sat on an airplane in Liberia, waiting for his mother, Satta, to board.

The two had just finished a conversation about why Keihn needed to move to the United States. The civil unrest and war climate in Liberia was too violent. She wanted her 8-year-old son to live with his dad, Bainda, in America for the chance at a better education and lifestyle.

They had the same discussion about 10 days earlier, but Keihn ran from the airport gate when he realized he’d be moving without her and missed his flight. This time, his mother said, she’d come with him.

That’s why the possibility of separating for more than a few minutes in the boarding line didn’t cross Keihn’s mind, even when they hugged and said goodbye.

He went first and watched as people filed on with no sight of his mom. More people, still no mom.

She’s going to come, Keihn thought. She’s going to come.

Then he looked out the window and saw the scenery moving. The plane was taking off. His mom wasn’t on it.

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See KEIHN, p. 9

It’s the perfect time for Terps’ Homecoming KYLE STACKPOLE @kylefstackpole FOOTBALL COLUMNIST The Maryland football team’s annual homecoming game always garners buzz as the university’s alumni return to the campus, but the circumstances for last year’s edition were less than ideal.

The Terps were 2-6 entering their game against Wisconsin on Nov. 7, 2015, more than a month later than Maryland’s homecoming game this season. They were coming off their fifth straight defeat in an eightgame slide and playing their third contest after Randy Edsall’s firing.

The losing continued with the Terps’ 31-24 loss to the Badgers, another blemish in the 3-9 campaign.

Maryland’s struggles last season seem like a distant memory entering Saturday’s game against Purdue. The vibes surrounding the program have changed, and it’s the perfect time for homecoming in College Park.

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