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Jeff Barnes Police are investigating the @thejeffbarnes death of a man following a Senior staff writer physical struggle early Sunday morning on College Avenue. At about 1:55 a.m., police responded to the 5100 block of College Avenue for a towing dispute, the department wrote on Twitter. Upon arrival, police found two men involved in a physical struggle and separated them, the posts read. One of the men was unresponsive and taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced d ea d . T h e o t h e r m a n wa s ta ke n i n fo r questioning, according to the department’s Twitter feed. When reached for comment Sunday morning, a PGPD spokesperson said the department could not provide any additional information.

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It’s the day before Jen Shaffer has to come into work at the University of Maryland’s Woods Hall, and she’s already anticipating the headache she’ll have around 3 p.m.

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Visa restrictions keep many Iranian students away from their families W i t h h e r fa m i l y a n ocean away, University of Maryland student Ghazal Arabi Darreh Dor is missing all kinds of things: a sister’s engagement, another sister’s surgery, her mother’s stint in the hospital. She hasn’t seen her siblings in ages, but she doesn’t dare travel home to Iran to visit out of fear she won’t be allowed back in the United States. The country is over 6,000 miles and a 14-hour flight from College Park. But for the international students at this university who call it home — of whom there were 88 last year, according to a count by the Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment office — it’s also years away. More than a year after the Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s travel ban, Iranian students continue to struggle. The increasingly stringent and unpredictable visa application process leaves many in the by

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Within a few minutes of walking into the building, she knows she’ll start to feel her sinuses clog up. Along with a long drive to campus, this is why Shaffer works from home as much as she possibly can — it’s hard to be productive when your head feels like it’s going to explode, she said. The anthropology professor has a pretty good idea of what is causing her symptoms: mold. Mold that shows up on ceiling tiles, walls and bookshelves. Mold that collects on the spines of her books, and made her throw her office couch away. “We want to be able to come into work and do our jobs, and it’s just super frustrating when our work is making us sick,” Shaffer said. “The building itself is making us sick.” Shaffer is just one of at least 15 faculty members and students in the anthropology department who have reported experiencing health problems — including rashes that pop up, respiratory issues and aggravated allergies and asthma — that they trace back to the mold that lingers over Woods Hall. Mold-filled dorms and apartments drew headlines throughout last fall; concerned students and parents reported moldy furniture and belongings in at least 10. Students in Elkton Hall, for one, were sent to hotels in College Park while mold remediation efforts took place. But all the while, the faculty members with offices in Woods Hall kept on working. Read more at ter.ps/woodsmold.

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UMD taps Virginia Tech’s Patricia Perillo as student affairs VP BY Jillian Atelsek & Sahana Jayaraman @jillian_atelsek | @sahanajayaraman Staff writers The University of Maryland announced Thursday that Patricia Perillo will take over as student affairs vice president, concluding a months-long national search. Perillo currently serves as the student affairs vice president at Virginia Tech, a position she’s held for seven years. She received her PhD in Public and Community Health from this university in 2002, university President Wallace Loh wrote in an email to the campus Thursday morning.

She will replace Linda Clement, who held the role for 18 years and worked at this university for over four decades before retiring in August. In the email, Loh called Perillo “a student-centered leader” who “is known for caring deeply about the student experience.” “Her colleagues laud her empathy, her passion to help students who need support, her even temperament, and her evenhanded management in conflict situations,” Loh wrote. When she visited this university last month and made her case to community members, Perillo said she’d draw on her experience at six

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institutions in her work to form relationships with students. Perillo told The Diamondback that understanding the culture and context of this university is among her priorities coming in. While she spent ten years at this university as a doctoral student, she said she acknowledged “ things have certainly changed” in the past two decades. Still, she said she was prepared for the challenge. “I am a solid, strong, thoughtful leader,” she said. “I know that.” She said she plans to work with student leaders to rebuild trust in See VPSA , p.7 Submit tips and corrections to The Diamondback at newsumdbk@gmail.com

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By Jeff Barnes | @thejeffbarnes | Senior staff writer University of Maryland Police responded to reports of theft and issued citations for CDS violations over the last week, according to daily crime logs. In addition, the Maryland-National Capital Park Police responded to an off-campus shooting.

SHOOTING At about 9 p.m. Thursday, park Police were notified of a shooting that occurred at the 4300 block of Metzerott Road by a park near the university’s campus. A woman with no affiliation to this university went to a nearby home looking for assistance, with trauma to her upper body, according to a UMD alert. She was taken to the hospital for further evaluation.

CDS VIOLATIONS On Oct. 2, at about midnight, University Police stopped a silver sedan for a traffic violation near Lot 9B, close to Xfinity Center. As the officer spoke with the driver, a male student, they detected an odor of marijuana, police spokesperson Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas wrote in an email. A search of the vehicle yielded a small amount of marijuana, and the student was issued a civil citation for possessing fewer than 10 grams of marijuana, she wrote. A few minutes later, at about 12:10 a.m., an of f icer obser ved fou r

people smoking marijuana along the treeline behind Oa k l a nd H a l l , Hoa a s wrote. A male student gave the officer permission to search his backpack, and the officer found a small amount of marijuana. The student was issued a civil citation for possessing fewer than 10 grams of marijuana, and all four students were referred to the Office of Student Conduct. Both cases are closed.

THEFT On Oct. 2, at about 3:20 p.m., University Police responded to the Mowatt Lane Garage for a reported theft. A male student reported that his bicycle was stolen some time between Sept. 23 and Sept. 25., Hoaas wrote. The bike had been secured with a chain lock, Hoaas wrote. At about 5:20 p.m. the same day, police responded to the scooter parking area behind Calvert Hall for a report of a stolen motor scooter. A male student reported that his black scooter, which was not locked, was stolen from the area between Sept. 27 and Sept. 28. Video surveillance of the areas in both incidents are being reviewed and both cases are active, Hoaas wrote. newsumdbk@gmail.com

LANGUAGE HOUSE COFFEE AND CONVERSATION St. Mary’s Hall, Multipurpose Room, 4 to 5:30 p.m. Hosted by the Language House. go.umd.edu/w2T

LGBTQ+ MENTAL HEALTH The LGBTQ Equity Center, Marie Mount Hall, Room 2218, 1 p.m. Hosted by the Counseling Center. go.umd.edu/mhaw19

MOVE FOR YOUR MOOD: MINDFUL YOGA McKeldin Mall, 4 to 5 p.m. Hosted by the Counseling Center. go.umd.edu/mhaw19

THE BRILLIANT LEGACY OF MADAM C.J. WALKER PRESENTATION Nyumburu Cultural Center, Multipurpose Room, 6 to 8 p.m. Hosted by the African-American Studies Department. https://go.umd.edu/waK

“THE S WORD” SCREENING Stamp Student Union, Hoff Theater, 6 p.m. Hosted by the Behavioral and Social Sciences College. go.umd.edu/waD

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DEPRESSION SCREENING Stamp Student Union, Student Involvement Suite, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hosted by the Counseling Center. go.umd.edu/mhaw19 TERPS TAKE CARE FAIR Hornbake Plaza, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hosted by the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy. go.umd.edu/waV HEALTH LITERACY IN ACTION CONFERENCE Stamp Student Union, 1 to 4 p.m. Hosted by the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy. hlactionconf.com “HAPPY” SCREENING Stamp Student Union, Hoff Theater, 7 p.m. Hosted by the Counseling Center. go.umd.edu/mhaw19

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HEALTH LITERACY IN ACTION CONFERENCE Stamp Student Union, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Hosted by the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy. hlactionconf.com SELF-CARE DRIVE-THRU Nyumburu Ampitheater, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hosted by the Counseling Center. go.umd.edu/mhaw19 SOFTBALL VS. GEORGE MASON Softball Stadium, 5 p.m. umterps.com/ FIELD HOCKEY VS. IOWA Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex, 4 p.m. umterps.com/ SEE PRESENTS: FALLAPALOOZA WITH CHELSEA CUTLER Ritchie Coliseum, 8 p.m. Hosted byStudent Entertainment Events . go.umd.edu/waF

FARMERS MARKET Tawes Hall, Plaza, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. farmersmarket.umd.edu/ SELF-CARE AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR Stamp Student Union, MICA Suite, 12 to 1 p.m. Hosted by the Counseling Center. go.umd.edu/mhaw19 ONLINE RACISM: RACIAL VIOLENCE IS JUST A CLICK AWAY Shoemaker Building, Room 2122, 12 to 1 p.m. Hosted by the Counseling Center. go.umd.edu/UtS INTERNATIONAL STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH H.J. Patterson Hall, Room 1102, 3 to 4 p.m. Hosted by the Counseling Center. go.umd.edu/mhaw19

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The students in yellow: What it’s like to be police auxiliary at UMD by

Jeff Barnes @thejeffbarnes Senior staff writer

D a y i n campus at the University of and day out, Maryland, clad in bright they walk in yellow shirts. pairs around Unlike other students, they aren’t on their way to class, and they aren’t hanging out with friends. These students are part of the University of Maryland Police Auxiliary — a program through which University Police employs students to help keep the campus safe. “They’re out and about … [they’re the] eyes and ears of the University Police department,” said University Police officer Patrick Dykstra, a 2008 graduate of this university and former police aide. “[And] a link between us and the student population.” The department employs more than 60 aides, said Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas. Most of them work between 20 and 40 hours a week, said Julia Garman, a supervisor. On foot patrol, they monitor who comes and goes from campus every night and work special events and building security. They’ll even provide a safe escort for any student who may need one at any time of day. Garman, a senior government and politics and S p a n i s h m a j o r, b e g a n working as a police aide during her second semester at this university. At first, she said she wasn’t sure if she wanted to explore a career in law enforcement or legislation, but her time as a police aide has reinforced her desire to pursue a career in the field. “ I ’m a ve ry h a n d s - o n person,” Garman said. “I realized that I don’t like sitting behind the desk all the time.” M i c h a e l P i e p m eye r, a sop homore criminology and criminal justice and p syc h o l o g y m a j o r, a l s o began work as a police aide during his second semester. Piepmeyer said he originally wanted to pursue a career in federal law enforcement, but now wants to focus on local police work.

A Southern California native, Piepmeyer said he has already applied for a summer internship with the Los Angeles Police Department. “I’ve really enjoyed just kind of being out in the community,” he said. “In the limited capacity that we do have, in my interacting with people.” Garman and Piepmeyer both said there is a lot of variety in their shifts. One night, they could be manning the Gatehouse at the entrance to this university. During foot patrol, student police aides check the blue lights on and near campus to make sure they’re functional. On other days, they may be working theft prevention — patrolling the campus parking lots and peeking into cars, looking for expensive items. The department then notifies the registered car owners and reminds them not to leave valuables out in the open. “Everyone always thinks that those are us trying to ticket people,” Piepmeyer said. “That’s not what we’re trying to do at all.” Piepmeyer said a common misconception is that student police aides are sworn officers. They’re not. Student police aides don’t receive any formal police training, and are taught to contact officers and step back in the event a dangerous situation arises. “We’re students,” he said. “We’re not officers. We’re just people that are trying to help keep our campus community safe.” Despite a nationwide decrease in those pursuing a career in law enforcement — a September study by the Police Executive Research Forum showed a 63 percent in recruitment over the past five years — both Garman and Piepmeyer said their work has only reinforced their desire to enter the field. “We’re able to see at least part of behind the scenes and just really get to know the, I

guess, the stigma in the community from a different side and a different perspective,” Garman said. In recent years, allegations of police brutality and racial profiling have made national headlines, such as with the deaths of Freddie Gray and Eric Garner. In 2015, Gray, a black man, died from a spinal cord injury sustained in police custody in Baltimore; in 2014, Garner, who was also black, died after a New York police officer choked him during an arrest. No officers were found criminally liable in Garner’s and Gray’s deaths. Cases such as Garner’s and Gray’s, however, have sparked nationwide protests on the role of policing. Piepmeyer said he thinks University Police are doing their best to combat growing negativity surrounding the profession. “It’s not like the police culture is saying, like, all of these things are okay,” Piepmeyer said of recent controversies involving police officers. “Everyone at this department is saying, ‘No, we need to train for this, we need to have the diversity in the training so we know those things aren’t okay.’” Dykstra, who became a police aide in 2007 after transferring to this university, recommended that any student become a police aide, adding that many of his friends he made through the program still keep in touch — and he even shares a tattoo with one of his former fellow aides. His time as a police aide gave him a broader perspective on what police work entails, he said. “I think that as a ‘regular student,’ if you are trying to stay for the most part out of trouble you rarely, if ever, interact with police officers,” he said. “So I was kind of at a loss for how much the department truly does.”

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“the last promise i can keep” Andrea Chamblee’s quest to finish her late husband’s passion project By Matt McDonald | @MattC_McDonald | Staff writer ANDREA CHAMBLEE holds “The Capital of Basketball,” the book her late husband wrote about 100 years of high school basketball in the Washington, D.C., area. JULIA NIKHINSON/the diamondback

ndrea Chamblee strode into her and her husband’s first newsroom, decked out in full battle regalia. She stood tall in The Diamondback’s offices at the University of Maryland, towering over the newsroom in gladiator stilettos. Atop her head sat a gem-encrusted tiara. She had clad herself in multilayered pauldron and gauntlet tattoos, and wore an ornately decorated top and armored skirt. Chamblee said it was her way of reuniting with a part of herself — a “warrior” presence, she called it — that she lost more than a year ago. Last summer, a gunman with a long-standing grudge against the Capital Gazette stormed into its Annapolis newsroom, killing five people. Chamblee’s husband, John McNamara — a sports writer and editor at the paper who graduated from this university in 1983 — was one of them. Before the shooting, for

over a decade, McNamara had been chipping away at his passion-project: a book chronicling 100 years of high school basketball in the Washington, D.C., Metro area. At the time of his death, the book was close to done — but some sections still needed to be written. So, for the past year, Chamblee dug through her husband’s notes and outlines to finish what he started. The Capital of Basketball will be released on Nov. 3. “John always did whatever I could have asked of him, and I never really had a chance to pay him back because he didn’t need much,” Chamblee said. “I thought the book was the least that I could do to pay him back. It’s the last promise I can keep for John.” The book chronicles the players, coaches and teams that made D.C. “second to none in its contributions to the game,” according to its publisher’s website. It tells the stories of figures like Edwin B.

Henderson, an educator and local NAACP leader who introduced basketball to black Americans in Washington, D.C., and Earl Lloyd, the first black athlete to play in the NBA. But as Chamblee sorted through the materials, she came across a stumbling block. Although McNamara had left behind three boxes of notes for the book and had selected photos of players he had planned to include, he hadn’t captioned them. He didn’t need to — he knew all of their names by heart. So Chamblee had to look them up, one by one, from high school yearbooks across D.C., Maryland and Virginia. She visited the homes of coaches and others familiar with the basketball scene to fill in the gaps. And, to pinpoint when the photo was from, Chamblee said she honed in on the players’ style. “I kind of had to look at the

shorts they were wearing and see what decade it might have been from,” she said. “Were the shorts long or short or shiny or not . . . were they pulling up their socks like Walt Williams?” Chamblee met McNamara when his career in journalism was just getting started, as the assistant sports editor for The Diamondback. They both shared a love of sports. McNamara covered them for The Diamondback, and Chamblee for the yearbook, for the most part, but contributed articles to the Diamondback as well. They would both sit in the press box at football games, she said. When McNamara had to turn his attention away from the game to take notes, she would memorize the goings-on and relay what he had missed. And when it came time to interview players after the final whistle, she and McNamara would split up to talk to more players. Joshua McKerrow, a staff photojournalist for the Capital

Gazette, said McNamara’s passion for sports ran deep, and he had a gift for conveying emotion. He remembered the times McNamara would tell him about Len Bias, a University of Maryland basketball player of immense talent who died of an overdose in 1986. McNamara painted a full picture of the young man’s impact on his community and the university, McKerrow said. “He talked about it like you’d talk about a family member dying,” McKerrow said. “He would talk about Maryland sports, and [stories] would just kind of come pouring out of him . . . It was like his special thing.” Rick Hutzell, the editor of the Capital Gazette, said McNamara held the book close as he worked on it, sharing few details of his progress. He said finishing the book must have been an incredibly difficult task for Chamblee. “It’s not only an honor to John, but it’s a testament to her intelligence,” he said.

Back in The Diamondback’s newsroom, a photographer pointed out where Chamblee was standing – right next to the sports desk. “I thought John sat on this side,” Chamblee said with a small smile. Being at the university “brings back a lot of memories,” Chamblee said. She had just visited the Capital Gazette Memorial Seminar Room in Knight Hall, which was an emotional experience, she said. Most of the memories are happy, though. Over the last few months, Chamblee said she’s been asked many times if she felt her late husband’s presence as she worked on the book. But she said that hadn’t been the case. “I felt his absence,” she said. “I’m hoping I’ll feel his presence, but not yet. And maybe never. But I hope he feels mine. I hope he knows that I finished it for him somehow.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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The search for Wallace Loh’s replacement as University of Maryland president is off to a disappointing start. The presidential search committee held two open forums on Sept. 24 — both of which occurred during class time — and the general consensus seemed to be that input from students, staff and other community members fell on deaf ears. The Student Government Association felt it necessary to propose emergency legislation calling for more student input in the selection process. David Rekhtman, the bill’s sponsor and the SGA’s speaker of the legislature, said while referencing the forums, “People would come up with legitimate serious concerns and they would just say, ‘Thank you, next.’” Katie Brown, a communication doctoral student and activist at this university, put it better than I could: “It’s people talking into a void at a bunch of people who will smile at you and turn around and make the decisions that please whatever eight donors they give a shit about this week.” After everything that’s happened over the past few years, are we seriously doing this again? Are the powers that be seriously going to pick, with almost no public input, some glassyeyed administrator who will admirably carry on Loh’s wretched legacy at this university? Will decision-making power seriously rest with a presidential search committee that includes only one undergraduate student and no union representative — but does include Gary Williams?

Will this university seriously operate in 2022 the same way it did in 2018? Ever since this university more or less completely imploded last fall, I’ve written a number of what I’ve come to think of as “Max’s Plan” columns: Max’s plan to fix the Board of Regents; Max’s plan to elect the next university president; Max’s plan to end higher education austerity. Some of these ideas are surely fantastical, but they are proof of my continued optimism, following tragedy after tragedy, that something constructive can emerge out of the chaos. Instead of whining interminably about the status quo, why not try to devise plans for cleaning up the wreckage? But man, does this presidential search look grim. I can’t shake this dread that we will remain in the same endless cycle: Massive tragedy leads to promises of transparency and reform, which leads to a brief period of optimism, which ends when the reform is superficial or absent and gives way to another massive tragedy. Sometimes, though, positive change happens — slowly, gradually — within these awful cycles. Maybe it will in this case, too. Maybe the reforms to the Board of Regents that passed in the last legislative session will make a slightly positive difference. Maybe students and staff can pressure the committee into mandating that presidential finalists appear in open forums. Maybe, during those forums, the finalists will make promises to students and actually keep them. Pessimism about this process is in no way an excuse for complacency. I n d e e d , a t o t h e r, ra re r moments in history, institutions

are able to break out of these cycles. If such a break happened here — if mass dissatisfaction prompted a dramatic change in course — it would be due to the folks who were constantly agitating against this university’s powerful interests, even when their chances of success seemed slim. Either of these types of positive change — the painful, gradual improvements or the the remarkable ruptures borne of years of struggle — require hope. By hope, I do not mean the assumption, absent all evidence, that things will be fine soon. Nor do I even mean an emotion that feels remotely good. I don’t think “finding hope” means turning one’s (eminently reasonable) negative emotions about some awful occurrence — climate change, the Trump presidency — and learning how to feel OK again. As the always wise Elizabeth Bruenig says, “Hope is a thorn in the side of doubt, not a thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” Hope is a thorn in the side of doubt. It’s the nagging thought, which seems, on some level, innate to human beings that truly shitty things could be different. It isn’t fun to have that thought lingering around anxiety, constantly poking at your complacent, stylish despair. It’s painful — but it’s also catalytic. Look to any successful improvement in the human condition, and you will find hope. So let’s steel ourselves for a long year, keeping throughout the courage to hope. And who knows? Maybe the next president will keep handing out those turtle pins! maxfkcap2016@gmail.com

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Students’ activism is being exploited HADRON CHAUDHARY @OpinionDBK Opinion editor

The Key of David counterprotests at the University of Maryland two weeks ago were a moment of campus unity, of organic relationships forming to defend shared values. And we should be remembering the moment for its radical solidarity and community-building, instead of gawking at the taboo nature of certain displays. It’s uncomfortable to see the strength of the protest later turned into spectacle, especially with regard to the women who took off their shirts. In the midst of other people stripping, kissing and other flashy shows of activism, their protest should’ve been just as part of the moment as the rest. Instead, it’s been singled out as something else. The most flagrant example is Barstool Sports’ tweet of Catherine Oberfield flashing the Key of David demonstrators: a few seconds of the scene without context, obviously meant to net social media engagement through an exploitative shot. It’s a basic and easy form of entertainment, presenting an image you’re not supposed to see. But there’s such a lack of critical thought behind what the taboo is; they’re not just promoting an image of nudity, but

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also the exploitation of a college girl in the midst of rejecting a culture of shame, erasing her cause and making it a performance. It also encourages and seemingly makes no attempt to moderate a comment section full of misogynistic viewers voicing their own judgments and unnecessary opinions. She took off her shirt to be listened to, not to be made available for comment. Still, other coverage of the event with extra focus on the stripping women promotes further reductionism. There’s no reason anyone on this campus should have the epithet, “the girl who took off her shirt.” It brings a loss of control when the act was meant to help women take power back from patriarchal attitudes. But it’s in this type of empty celebrity that the subject loses control over their image and identity, instead belonging to everyone. It happens to pop stars and politicians, but it’s so insidious to watch it happen to your peers on campus because they especially shouldn’t belong to any greater audience. They took action for themselves, and that’s not an invitation to let it define them. Of course, a strong element of it is the taboo of female bodies. Even for a space as liberal as College Park, it’s an

unexpected exposure. Rather than dwelling on its shock value, it’s an opportunity to show solidarity and expand our values. By accepting the display as part of the effectiveness of the protest, we’re accepting that women have breasts, and that shouldn’t be a coded thing. When removed from context, when not accepted as part of the whole demonstration, it’s undermining this university’s collective action. The Key of David group was so easy to rally against because of their dehumanizing rhetoric against marginalized communities. By countering in its own ways, this university’s community showed it wouldn’t stand by that. The extravagance of the displays were meant as shows of humanity — people kissing, singing, chanting obscenities and flaunting sex objects in aggressive enjoyment, mocking the demonstrators who say they should feel shame. Stripping should be as par for the course as anything else, recognized more for its radical vulnerability than for its entertainment value. A college protest is not a place for public comment, especially on participating bodies. It’s a space to listen. And what those women were saying was they wouldn’t stand to be silenced. chauds@umd.edu

UMD’s bid for a better football program is doing more harm than good ZACHARY JABLOW @OpinionDBK Opinion editor

The University of Maryland is not good at football. The Terps got some recognition early this season for beating Howard 79-0 and being ranked after a win against Syracuse. But all things considered, this is not an impressive program. The last time Maryland finished in the top 25 was in 2010, when the Terps ended their season at No. 23. It was the only time the Terps have finished as a ranked team in the last 15 years. It’s perfectly fine to be a university that has a bad football team. I wouldn’t be writing a column about it if that were the end of the story. But this university has been making a tireless effort to turn the team around and create a big-time program for years. It’s staking its reputation on a mediocre football team and coming up empty-handed. The Sept. 27 game against Penn State could not have better illustrated the discordance between this university’s prioritization of its football program and the results it’s getting in return. Since moving to the Big Ten — which was probably motivated in part by the conference’s emphasis on football — there has been an attempt to forge a new rivalry with Penn State. With the game scheduled for a Friday night, the administration went so far as to effectively cancel classes after noon. Despite criticism, including a scathing editorial from The Baltimore Sun for putting athletics ahead of classes, the university stood by the move. With students out of class and the team’s supposed rival in town, the Terps lost in spectacular fashion, 59-0. Of course, this was no reason to doubt that the university would continue its push for a headline football team. The Diamondback reported Sept. 29 that Cole Field House, a football facility, will cost $55 million more than planned, bringing its total to $210 million. There’s now a growing list of incidents that should make any right-minded Terps fan

cringe. Take last year, when the university literally started giving away thousands of dollars in scholarship money at every game to a random student who stayed for the fourth quarter in a desperate attempt to boost attendance. There is plenty to be said about how football shouldn’t be a priority at any school because of the serious health-related issues associated with the sport, especially the prevalence of concussions and other head injuries. There’s also a good argument to be made that sports shouldn’t really matter at academic institutions. But even forgetting these concerns for the moment, this university’s pursuit of profits from college football is financially misguided and incredibly risky for a school that has already seen its fair share of scandals. As economist Andrew Zimbalist told The Baltimore Sun in 2018, the university has been “trying to chase the end of the rainbow” by jumping through hoops in the hopes of elevating its football program and reaping the profits of a successful Division I football team. Yet the team is still bad, and its approximately $19 million in operating costs have done little to bring in money for an athletic department that barely breaks even year after year. This isn’t just a fruitless endeavor — it has already had serious consequences at this university. Last year, after the death of Jordan McNair and the abuse of other players, the pressure to create a competitive football program nearly saved the job of the coach who oversaw it all. The scandal that arose from the Board of Regents’ attempt to keep DJ Durkin in place will be a long-lasting blemish on the school’s reputation, and it certainly isn’t going anywhere soon considering that the university’s accreditation is currently under review as a result. This university does not need to be a football school. It definitely doesn’t need to sell its soul in an effort to become one. zachjablow@gmail.com

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A Latinx cultural center is long overdue, but UMD hasn’t been listening LIYANGA DE SILVA @liyangads Columnist

Safe spaces are often mocked for being the demands of “snowflakes,” even though identity groups have always claimed physical spaces. One example is a “gentlemen’s club,” which was a private social space only for wealthy, white men. These spaces allow people with similar backgrounds and experiences to form friendships, find support and develop a social circle. On this campus, there are a few designated spaces for specific minority identity groups, such as the LGBT Equity Center and the Nyumburu Cultural Center, which was created in 1971 to support black students and faculty on campus. But, there aren’t enough — and this university needs to be more proactive about providing physical safe spaces for marginalized students to gather. Therefore, it’s abhorrent that for the past 10 years this university has denied Latinx students access to a space of their own. When the U.S. Latino Studies minor was implemented in 2008, students who had been advocating for the center wrote a manifesto with eight demands — one of which was a Latinx cultural center. In our current political climate, with the separation and deportation of families and plans to build a wall on our southern border, Latinx people are a vulnerable population. Building a community and a support circle is a crucial aspect of college life, and for marginalized students who might otherwise be isolated or persecuted, it is particularly important. A cultural center would do exactly this — it would give Latinx students a place to organize, make friendships and find connections across the university, sharing their culture and experiences

with the campus and surrounding areas. While a Latinx cultural center should be a priority for this university, it generally needs to be more proactive about investing in spaces for minority students. In a perfect world, we would have a big building to house spaces like the LGBT Equity Center or Nyumburu. Multicultural Involvement Community Advocacy in Stamp Student Union functions similarly, but ideally, it would be on a larger and better-funded scale. A big space like this would provide students with a place to gather and meet others with similar experiences, as well as to meet those with other marginalized identities. Plenty of students on this campus have intersectional identities as well, and a space dedicated to minority student support would allow people to make connections between student groups they otherwise might not forge. There is strength in numbers, and yet the administration of this university does not make it particularly easy for minority students to connect with each other. In a shameful attempt to rectify the situation in 2016, this university provided a classroom in the basement of Tawes Hall for Latinx students to use for events. This school should better allocate its funding to things students actually need. Ultimately, students should not have to beg for 10 years in order to get a cultural center for them to gather and find resources. Historically, minority groups have had to carve out underground spaces in order to meet and build a community. If this campus is as welcoming as it claims, a place for us would already exist. liyanga.a.ds@gmail.com

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“It’s like a family” College Park’s weekly 5K brings people together — as much for community as for fitness By Sahana Jayaraman | @sahanajayaraman | Staff writer

ara Mease often jokes that she and her husband only wake up at 4:30 a.m. on the days they want their son to breathe. No matter where they are, what day of the week it is or what the weather is like, Mease and her husband need to make sure their 6-year-old, Xander, gets outside and exercises early in the day. Xander has cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that thickens the naturally occurring mucus in his body. It makes it difficult for him to eat and breathe without a rigorous treatment schedule. Most days, that schedule includes a 10K run with his mom, designed to help clear out his lungs and get him breathing hard with lots of uphill repeats and sprints. Not Saturdays, though. On Saturdays, you can find Mease and Xander on Paint Branch Trail at 9 a.m. sharp, alongside about 100 others. They’ll be preparing for parkrun, a weekly timed 5K in College Park. The run — held year-round, rain or shine — sees attendees from ages 4 to 84, from walkers to seasoned cross-country athletes. No matter their age or ability, a cheer roars up from on-

the communications and community development team for parkrun USA. Around 2,500 different people have completed the run since the program came to College Park in 2016, and it’s seen more than 300 volunteers. It’s an event that helps promote fitness and health, community members say, a race that focuses more on support than speed — and for many, a place to find belonging. “The inclusivity is beautiful,” Mease said. “It’s wonderful to be a part of that.”

“The heart of this community” From the moment she discovered parkrun, Andrea Zukowski knew she had stumbled upon something special. A few years ago, Zukowski and Phillips, her husband, were visiting family in England. One Saturday, Phillips’ brother, a runner, invited the couple to check out a parkrun he attended. They were in a small, quiet town, with nothing but family homes, a grocery store and a pub. But on Saturday mornings, she said, it transformed. “[In] this sleepy little town, the heart of this community is on Saturday morning at 9 o’ clock,” she said. “It’s in the

“I immediately saw the potential it had for building community in places that are not necessarily conducive to having community,” Zukowski said. Parkrun began in 2004 in Teddington, England. Now, it’s a global organization with over 1,500 events worldwide. The initiative spread to the United States in 2012, and by the time it reached College Park in 2016, there were only seven other runs in the country. Launching a parkrun requires a $5,000 startup fee, which helps organizers purchase timers, signage and liability insurance. Zukowski, a self-described introvert, said she initially found the idea of networking to raise money and find volunteers “impossible.” That is, until she attended the launch of the first D.C. parkrun at Fletcher’s Cove in January 2016. “I said, ‘Look, if they just created one 10 miles from us, we can do it,’” Zukowski said. “‘They can help us.’” The Saturday after the Fletcher’s Cove launch, Zukowski, Phillips and various community members began to meet on the Paint Branch Trail, where parkrun has a course now.

the same spot, where the trail intersects Acredale Community Park. Their route winds through shaded trails along a creek, over wooden footbridges and around a golf course. Wojahn is running for reelection in November, and one of his campaign promises is to personally complete 100 parkruns. He’s done 82 so far, 81 of which have been in College Park.

issues last year, he didn’t miss a single Saturday of volunteering, he said. And when he couldn’t make it to parkrun, parkrun made it to him. Several of the event’s regulars came to visit him at his home in College Park and at the hospital while he was recuperating — something Plotts thought was “neat.” He volunteers each week,

College Park’s parkrun is the largest offered in Maryland or D.C., with recent ones averaging 150 runners.

“It’s such a supportive way standing at a part of the course for people to get exercise and get near the Paint Branch Golf in shape,” Wojahn said. Course, where a road intersects the trail. He keeps runners safe Finding Family from passing cars, smiling and For Mease and Xander, bellowing a friendly “hello” to parkrun has become about in- anyone that passes. teracting with other regulars as “It’s like a family,” Plotts said. much as it is about fitness. It’s “It’s a bunch of siblings whose given him a community built names I don’t know.” around something he’s passionPhillips said he thinks the ate about, Mease said. regularity and inclusivity of Mease and Xander take part parkrun is what helps create the in an annual fundraising walk sense of community so many for the Cystic Fibrosis Founda- participants find in the event. tion. And when “all the friends “People feel like they belong,” at parkrun” learned about Phillips said. “They feel conit, they not only encouraged nected in a way they’ve never Xander, but donated to the been before, and they feel cause as well, Mease wrote in valued. People want to feel that parkrun is a weekly 5K that begins and ends at where Paint Branch Trail intersects Acredale Community Park. joe ryan/thediamondback an email. they matter.” lookers when a runner crosses parkrun.” After holding 30 unoffiAnd those who run the the finish line. Some volunteers After that trip, Zukowski and cial Saturday runs — some of weekly parkrun aren’t the only running forward high-five the finishers as they Phillips — both of whom are which were attended by College ones who have found commuWith the College Park parkwhiz past, red-cheeked, panting University of Maryland faculty Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn — nity there. run’s third birthday approachand grinning. — would attend parkruns every College Park parkrun was born College Park resident Hump ing, its founders are thinking This city’s parkrun is the time they went back to England. Oct. 15, 2016. Now, College Plotts and his wife Lisa Wilson ahead to what they want for the largest offered in Maryland or Zukowski, a College Park res- Park’s parkrun is one of 40 have been coming to the event event’s future. Washington, D.C., with a recent ident, began to think about how events in the U.S., according since its beginning. Plotts has Though they’ve culled a few average of 150 attendees a week, she could bring the tradition to the organization’s website. never run on the trail, but until regulars from the graduate said Colin Phillips, a member of back to her own community. Participants begin and end at he experienced some health student and faculty populations at this university, Phillips said he’d like to see more unVOTED COLLEGE PARK’S “BEST BAGELS” dergraduates at the weekly run. “One of the points of connection that we had hoped to strengthen is the connection CARRY OUT AVAILABLE • SILVERDINER.COM between the large student body and folks in the city,” Phillips Sign Up for Our VIP Rewards Card! said. “Actually, that hasn’t really happened.” Phillips said he thinks a mutual mistrust between city

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iran From p. 1 dark, unsure when they’ll be able to return home. Iranians like Arabi Darreh Dor who want to study in the U.S. often have to leave their families behind indefinitely to do so. It’s left the Iranian community at the university homesick and struggling, she said, despite her attempts to ease their pain by bringing them together for cultural events and holiday celebrations. “You’re going to have to choose between building a better life for yourself and your family,” she said, “or going back [to see] them.”

“In limbo” Iran is among the countries most severely affected by the Trump administration’s travel ban — an executive order that bars most travelers from Iran and six other mostly Muslimmajority countries from entering America — because it sends thousands of students to the U.S. every year, according to The New York Times. The executive order claims to ensure foreigners entering the U.S. have no connections to terrorism and don’t pose a national security risk. Organizations, activists and lawmakers almost immediately challenged it in court, though, decrying it as discriminatory. Since then, it has been temporarily suspended multiple times — but the Supreme Court ultimately upheld it in June 2018. Iranian students have never had an easy time getting in and out of the U.S. — how strict the U.S. is tends to ebb and flow with the administration’s relationship with the Iranian government. According to the U.S’s Virtual Embassy for Iran, single-entry visas are the norm, given the U.S. has designated it as a state sponsor of terrorism. And in September, the visas of at least a dozen Iranian students headed to U.S. universities were cancelled last

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minute, without explanation, The New York Times reported. Of those who apply for waivers under the ban, only about two percent receive one, according to a letter the State Department sent in 2018 to Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen. “What makes us angry is that we haven’t done anything, but we’re treated like criminals,” said English doctoral student Mehdy Payam, who started his PhD at this university in August. These policies can make the U.S. seem unwelcoming to international students, acknowledged Ross Lewin, associate vice president of the office of international affairs, in a statement. “Across higher education, we see the difficulties the travel ban Executive Order presents to all current and potential international students, both from Iran and elsewhere,” Lewin wrote. “We remain committed to our international students and are working diligently to help mitigate some of the challenges they are experiencing — whether they’re legal, emotional or academic.” The visa application process can easily rack up costs, Payam said. Some people sell their cars or houses in the hopes of making it to the U.S. Even if they do obtain a visa, most Iranians are issued single-entry ones — essentially a one-way ticket. A commitment to studying in the U.S., then, becomes a commitment to not seeing their families again for several years. Some people, though, take the risk to visit. In 2014, Arabi Darreh Dor’s friend Farhad Saffaraval — a former doctoral student at this university — left the U.S. to see his family for the first time in five years. “You can maybe take it for like, two to three years,” Saffaraval said. “But when it comes to five to six years, at some point you say: ‘Enough.

I’m just going to go back.’” H i s fa m i ly m e t u p i n Canada, where they were in the process of obtaining permanent residency. Seeing family again after years apart, Saffaraval said, can be heartbreaking in a way. There’s a Persian expression he uses to describe it: ‫ریز شتآ لثم‬ ‫رتسکاخ‬. Like fire under ashes. When you’re in the U.S., caught up with the pace of everyday life, you start to forget how hard it is to be so far away, Saffaraval said. You’re distracted from the emotion of it — like ashes covering a burning fire. “When you go and visit them, those ashes went away,” Saffaraval said. “The fire is still there.” Just sitting around the house watching movies together was his favorite part of seeing them again, he said. And because he hadn’t returned to Iran, he thought he’d be able to reenter the U.S. without an issue. A month passed. His family returned to Iran, but Saffaraval’s visa still wasn’t approved — and wouldn’t be for another four months. He scrambled to find temporary housing and a job at Starbucks during a Canadian winter, balancing reaching out to congressmen for help with his work as an online teaching assistant for a fluid mechanics class at this university. He was supposed to serve as a research assistant, but could only grade papers from where he was stuck — hundreds of miles away. At one point, Saffaraval lost his wallet and had no money or identification. At another point, he was sick for three weeks with a bad fever and rash, but was never diagnosed. He couldn’t see a doctor because he didn’t have insurance, he said. For the first few months, he woke up early every morning to frantically check his email for news from the embassy. “It’s like being in limbo,” Saffaraval said. “The uncertainty makes it very distressing.”

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Toughing it out Saffaraval missed a semester, but his visa was eventually approved — he returned to this university in 2015, and finished his PhD in mechanical engineering. He recently got his green card, and was able to go back to Iran in 2018 — a year after Trump’s travel ban was announced. It was Saffaraval’s second time seeing his immediate family in a decade, and the first time seeing his grandparents, aunts and uncles. Finally, Saffaraval said, he feels like he has a country again. And ultimately, he says it was worth it — he is now helping to support his sister, who’s studying in Chicago. She’s much more hardworking than him, he says, and has a bright future— but he knows she probably wouldn’t have come to the U.S. if he wasn’t already there. But in other cases, a student may never return to the US. Some wait for their visa to be processed for

several months, but are ultimately rejected. Even if students get a multiple-entry visa, that ability to go in and out of the country eventually expires. Eventually, almost everyone ends up in limbo, Arabi Darreh Dor said. Arabi Darreh Dor is the president of the Iranian Graduate Student Foundation, which holds cultural events throughout the year to make Iranian students feel more at home. Some Iranian holidays, like Shab-e Yalda, are especially hard. Held on winter solstice — the longest night of the year — Yalda is traditionally spent surrounded by friends and family. The foundation tries to ease any loneliness by hosting a celebration on campus. The original plan was for Arabi Darreh Dor to return around now, halfway through her program, to visit her family. But after seeing and hearing what her friends have gone through, she’s too afraid.

Her mother was able to visit College Park on a tourist visa shortly after Arabi Darreh Dor moved to the U.S. Her little sister wanted to come, too, but her visa was denied because of the travel ban. It’s been two and a half years since she’s seen most of her five siblings. It’s unclear what threat the U.S. government thought her sister posed, Arabi Darreh Dor joked — after all, she’s only 10 years old. Actually, she’s 12 now. Arabi Darreh Dor had to correct herself. Arabi Darreh Dor says she and her mom have always been a team. Her father died when she was four, so they’re used to toughing things out together. But that’s hard when you’re half a world away. “I was always, and still am, the person that is there for their siblings,” Arabi Darreh Dor said. “Not being able to be with your family in those hard moments, and also those joyful moments, that’s the part that I’m really missing.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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By Angela Roberts, Matt McDonald & Rosa Pyo | @thedbk | Staff writers Living in Caroline Hall at the University of Maryland can be a draining experience for sophomore Layla Hudhud when the weather heats up. Caroline Hall is one of eight dorms at this university that doesn’t have air conditioning — and when the temperature spiked up into the 90s last month,

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Data analysis by Jillian Atelsek, Daisy Grant and Angela Roberts where the heat index peaked at 94.3 degrees at 9 p.m. on Sept. 12. Still, he says living there has been bearable, besides having some trouble sleeping his first week. There’s even an upside to the heat: when people flee their rooms, they tend to gather in the hall’s air conditioned lounges, he said. That’s how he met a lot of his friends at the university. “So,” he said, “that’s one thing.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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This is because there are safety issues Residential Facilities has to consider, Moore wrote. An improperlyinstalled unit could fall from a window or improperly-sealed units could allow insects to enter. He also wrote that dorms that haven’t been renovated might not have the electrical capacity to support an air conditioner in every bedroom. Shashwath Athreya, a freshman civil and environmental engineering major, lives in Hagerstown Hall,

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the heat almost drove him away when he first moved in. “The first day when I’m moving in, the temperatures were super hot. I thought, ‘This is impossible. I’m gonna need to switch out,’” he said. But now that it’s fall, Johnson reckons the weather will cool down soon. Back in Hudhud’s room, she said fans don’t do a whole lot — they just circulate warm air around. But she doesn’t really have any other options, as students aren’t permitted to bring personal AC units.

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to sleep without air conditioning. Of the other 11 students The Diamondback spoke with who live without AC, seven reported similar experiences. Resident Life and Residential Facilities recommend that anyone experiencing health issues visit the University Health Center or their family physician, the departments’ statement read. Additionally, when temperatures are “unseasonably high,” Resident Life staff encouraged residents living in un-air conditioned buildings to place fans in their windows, leave their doors open when they are in their rooms, close the window blinds and turn off the lights when possible, the statement read. They also suggested that students seek out air conditioned study areas and stay well-hydrated.

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side], there’s no way the wind can flow through the entire building sections, which means the heat will build up inside the room,” she said. Focusing on schoolwork can be hard in this environment. Some students said they didn’t even try to study in their un-air conditioned rooms anymore, instead seeking out cool havens like the library. When it gets too hot in Julia Glasgow’s single in Wicomico Hall, she can’t get any homework done. So, she heads to the air conditioned lounge instead — but she said it can be difficult to be productive there. “There’s a lot more distractions and noises and people coming in and out, so that makes it kind of harder,” she said. And Hudhud isn’t the only student to suffer headaches when it gets too hot, or struggle

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The bricks that line the outside of the eight dorms without air conditioning might be a factor in why residence halls without AC get so hot, said architecture professor Ming Hu. Like other organic materials, such as stone and wood, brick stores the heat from the sun beaming down during the day. During the night, Hu said, this heat is released. “This can cause overheating inside,” she said. Constructing buildings so windows sit across from one another can help alleviate heat and humidity when there’s no air conditioning, Hu said. In an effect called “cross ventilation,” air can flow in one window and out the other. But the way residence halls are generally designed makes it hard for this to happen, she said. “If you have a corridor in the center and two rooms on [either

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include air conditioning, Kiras wrote in an email. The university plans to transition three of the un-air conditioned dorms — Caroline, Carroll and Wicomico — out of use by fall 2021, according to an update to Resident Life’s Housing Strategic Plan. Kiras emphasized that the strategic plan is a “road map and guide.” “It should not be viewed as something that is set in stone,” she wrote. Also, according to the strategic plan, the HVAC system is set to be renovated in Ellicott, Cecil, Chestertown and Hagerstown halls in the next decade. This will build on an effort that started in the mid1980s to add air conditioning to dorms, Christopher Moore, assistant director of administrative services for Residential Facilities, wrote in an email. But in the meantime, these dorms are still the places where almost 2,000 students live, work and sleep.

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Both Resident Life and Residential Facilities understand the effect heat and humidity can have inside dorms without air conditioning, the departments wrote in a statement provided by a university spokesperson. Before the fall semester began, Resident Life staff reached out to students who would be living in buildings without air conditioning and recommended they bring a fan, the statement read. Additional fans are also available for checkout from the 24-hour residence hall service desks, according to the statements. “The health and well-being of our residents are of the utmost concern to our staff in the Departments of Resident Life and Residential Facilities,” the statement read. T h i s we e k , co n s t r u c tion is set to start on a new dorm that will be located on the current Varsity Practice Fields, Resident Life spokesperson Tracy Kiras wrote in an email. This dorm — like others built after 2011 — will

1. Only three of the eight rooms had an average daily temperature under 80 degrees — Ellicott Hall’s average was 79.4 degrees, Hagerstown Hall’s average was 79.6 degrees and Carroll Hall had an average of 79.9 degrees. 2. None of the dorms had an average heat index below 80 degrees. This measure varied from 80.5 degrees (Ellicott) to 86.9 degrees (Chestertown). 3. Chestertown Hall clocked in with the highest average daily temperature, at 90.1 degrees on Sept. 12. That same day, its heat index was 95 degrees — the highest any dorm saw all week. 4. Throughout the collection period, it was generally hotter and more humid inside the dorms than it was outside. The average heat index across the rooms measured nearly 13 degrees higher than the average heat index outside. 5. This difference was often most striking at night. For instance, the average difference between daytime inside and outside heat indexes in Caroline Hall was 10.5 degrees. At night, it was 23.1 degrees.

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artists Later this month, Refinery 29 is showcasing immersive artwork by two DMV artists in D.C. exhibition. By Joy Saha | @JoySaha0 | Staff writer This staircase was designed by Wahsington, D.C.-based artist Trap Bob for Refinery 29’s travelling arts festival, 29Rooms.

efinery29’s highly anticipated annual festival “29Rooms” is returning to Washington, D.C., this month. The event, both a visual and interactive mass art installation, will feature an assortment of immersive artworks and decorated rooms curated by 11 artists and collaborators. I recently had the pleasure to talk to Tenbeete Solomon — also known as Trap Bob — and Jamea RichmondEdwards, two local artists who will be showcasing their artwork at the D.C. installation. The festival is held from Oct. 18-Oct. 27. My first interview was with Trap Bob. To me, her work resembles pop art, as it uses a bright color palette. And when I asked Trap Bob

to describe her art in her own words, she described it as “bold and relatable.” “I really try to catch my audience’s attention,” she said. She wants her art to put a smile on her audience’s faces and have a positive effect on anyone who has the pleasure to see it, she said. Her biggest inspiration is music. She’s a huge Gucci Mane fan and uses his oeuvre as a frequent source of creativity. “I also really like all genres, and a lot of the times I find inspiration from lyrics and it gives me an idea,” she said. Her daily experiences also serve as inspiration for her art. “I use my work as an outlet,” she said. A lover of all things outer space, Trap Bob uses nonhuman skin colors in her

compositions to promote inclusivity. “Equality, especially activism, has always been a big part of my work because of my personal life experiences — being a black woman, an artist and a creative and dealing with stigmas and barriers in the industry,” she said. “That is something that I definitely applied into my work.” For her “29Rooms” installation, Trap Bob designed a staircase called Stairway to Your Dreams for “The Art Park” — a “geometric playground” that features artwork from five artists and will be shown at all the “29Rooms” tour stops around the country. Trap Bob’s custom-made staircase features bold colors and her signature hand drawings, as well as the words

“follow your dreams.” Although her art carries a simple message, it was inspired by personal experiences. Trap Bob graduated from the University of Maryland with a business degree but didn’t find her calling in life until she followed her dreams of becoming an artist. After my interview with Trap Bob wrapped up, I got the chance to talk with Jamea Richmond-Edwards. We talked on the phone as she drove back to her studio from Union Market. She describes herself as a mixed media artist, specifically a collage artist. “It’s primarily cut paper that I glue onto a surface,” she said. “But I’m also drawing on top of it and painting on top of it. I’m putting glitter. There are also certain structural

elements to it.” Though she’s been collaging for almost 12 years, Richmond-Edwards originally started as an oil painter with a great aversion for acrylics. When she and her husband first moved near D.C., she realized oil painting would not be feasible because of the poor ventilation in their condo. So she got inventive, started collaging, and she’s never looked back. For her collages, RichmondEdwards primarily paints women and draws most of her inspiration from the women in her family and in her everyday life. “The works aren’t necessarily me, but they are autobiographical,” she said. “When I look at my paintings I see myself, I see my sister, my

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mother, some of the young women that I mentored.” Richmond-Edwards will be showcasing her collage b i l l b o a rd p i e c e d u r i n g “29Rooms.” The billboard is not part of a specific room and is unique only to the Washington, D.C., installation. “For me, it’s just about representation and visibility,” she said. To see more artwork from Trap Bob and Jamea Richmond-Edwards, check out their Instagrams: @trapxbob and @jamearichmondedwards. Tickets to “29Rooms” are now on sale.

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holds cultural significance The track is a powerful example of merging cultures By Iris Vukmanovic | @iriswulfe | Senior staff writer ‘chicken noodle soup,’ a remake of the early 2000s hit by the same title, dropped late last month.

hen I was in kindergarten, I came home every day to my after-school snack — my Croatian grandma’s homemade chicken noodle soup. Growing up first-generation in the United States shaped a large part of my identity. At home, I was in Serbia, and at school, I was in America. It was normal for me to have “weird” lunches and answer the phone in a different language because my parents were calling. It was also normal to be obsessed with Snapple and play the Hannah Montana soundtrack on repeat until my parents couldn’t take it anymore. I recognize this experience may not be unique to “first-generation kids,” but I want to paint a picture. I specifically remember my dad playing the same CDs in his car for months on end. And I always learned the lyrics, even though a lot of them weren’t in Serbo-Croatian or in English. They were in Italian, Spanish, French and

even Mandinka. In retrospect, this probably primed my future interest in K-pop. So, when I saw that j-hope of BTS, one of the most popular K-pop groups in the world, came out with a song featuring “Shower” singer Becky G, I was both confused and elated. BTS has been on hiatus for the past month or so, but our hope, j-hope, never rests! On September 27, j-hope released a song and music video called “Chicken Noodle Soup,” based on the 2000s hit of the same name by Webstar and Young B featuring AG aka The Voice of Harlem. OK, OK, but why does this lighthearted song about chicken noodle soup matter? Short answer: because it’s a powerful merger of cultures. Let me explain. K-pop has launched itself into the public eye of the West slowly and steadily over the past decade, with PSY’s “Gangnam Style” as its first global phenomenon. Now the genre has come to a fever pitch

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with BTS becoming the first Korean group to win a Billboard Music Award. We could argue that Latin music has done the same thing — slowly creeped into the American music consciousness with hits like “Vamos a la playa” and the recordbreaking earworm that is “Despacito.” Becky G, once known as a one-hit wonder for her song “Shower,” created a career for herself in Latin urban pop alongside artists, such as Maluma and J Balvin, when top 40 pop didn’t work out for her. Now, I mentioned earlier that I was confused when this song first came out. I wondered, “What do j-hope and Becky G have to do with each other? This is so random.” But since then, my friends, I have realized it is, in fact, genius. By having a Korean pop star and a Latin pop star perform a song together, music executives are basically combining the power of the two largest fandoms in the world. Ac-

cording to Rolling Stone, Latin music dominated YouTube in 2018. And you can take one look at YouTube’s most played K-pop music videos of alltime list to notice how many of those in the top 10 came out in the last two years. K-pop was even (clumsily) referenced in the latest YouTube Rewind. Bottom line: Plenty of people watch and listen to both Latin pop and K-pop, and I’m sure there’s a lot of crossover as well. I’ve seen a fair amount of Spanish and Portuguese comments left on K-pop videos before, so “Chicken Noodle Soup” is probably successfully tapping into that fan base. Not to mention, the fact that this song is a remake gives a nod to the genre K-pop borrows a lot of inspiration from: hip-hop. Aside from the numbers, I want to address the part of this that I believe is the most significant: This song is trilingual. We got English, we got Korean and we got Spanish! There’s something so special

about watching people from different backgrounds come together to make art, and having relatively high-profile artists doing it is even more moving. It makes you feel like, “Yeah, we might be different, but there is something that can unite us all: music.” As a first-generation kid in America, I’ve always been wary of the salad bowl versus melting pot debate. I still haven’t decided which our

country is, but when this kind of art is made, it makes me think it’s possible to have an international melting pot. Every culture is different, but the most exciting part of culture is being able to share that with others and celebrate it. “Chicken Noodle Soup” does exactly that — and it gives me the warmth that I felt while eating my grandma’s soup. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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QB Josh Jackson injured as Terps top Rutgers Tyrrell Pigrome enters in relief during 48-7 rout of Scarlet Knights by

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Andy Kostka N.J. — Maryland foot@afkostka Senior staff writer ball won on Saturday in one of those must-have games against a program in a tailspin, against a team that fired its head coach six days prior and was without two of its primary offensive weapons as they contemplate redshirts. But even as big play after big play materialized into an outpouring of points for the Terps, amounting into a 48-7 victory over Rutgers, a choice to push for one last score before halftime came back to haunt them. As quarterback Josh Jackson dropped back to pass with about 20 seconds re m a i n i n g , two Sca rl e t Knights defenders converged on him. Ja c k s o n re m a i n e d o n the ground for some time, n u rs i n g wh a t a p p ea re d to be a right ankle injury. When he was helped off the field, he hardly put any weight on the leg. And then he made his way into the tunnel — not with his teammates, for the half had already expired, but on crutches and then a cart. T h e b l owo u t a t S H I Stadium, the one that had so much potential to reinvigorate a squad coming off a hellacious performance l a s t we e k a ga i n s t Pe n n State, was overshadowed by another injury to a starting quarterback. Jackson returned to the sideline in the third quarter in sweatpants, a boot and crutches, and coach Mike Locksley announced he suffered a high-ankle sprain. Given Maryland’s history with injury at the position, though, there’s a collective intake of breath anytime a quarterback hits the deck. It’s practically ingrained in

the psyche of Terps fans. “It obviously gives you something to rally behind, something to play harder [for]. One of our mindsets is just, ‘Do your job,’” offensive lineman Ellis McKennie said. “So whoever’s taking the snaps, we’re there for them, but at that point in time we just had to focus back on what we were doing.” To that point, Jackson hadn’t looked as crisp as he had over the first two weeks of the season, when he led Maryland to a total 142 points in shellackings over Howard and then-No. 21 Syracuse. But Jackson was manageable, his first pass going for an 80-yard touchdown to wide receiver Dontay Demus. A f te r t h e Te r ps ( 3 - 2 , 1-1 Big Ten) realized their makeshift offensive line wasn’t opening holes or holding off a pass rush well enough, offensive coordinator Scottie Montgomery made adjustments to the blocking scheme and got creative with his running backs. Tayon Fleet-Davis s n u c k o u t o f t h e ba c kfield and took a short pass 50 yards, then found the endzone one play later on another reception for 23 yards. So despite center Johnny Jordan and tackle Marcus M inor out with injuries against Rutgers (1-4, 0-3) — thrusting redshirt freshmen Spencer Anderson and Austin Fontaine into starting roles at right tackle and right guard, respectively — running backs Anthony McFarland and Javon Leake suddenly found space outside, inside and everywhere in between. “ T h ey h a d to s te p u p today,” Leake said of the young linemen. “It was d e f i n i te ly a c h a l l e n ge .

quarterback tyrrell pigrome came in late in the first half against Rutgers after Josh Jackson’s injury, posting 111 yards on 13-of-18 passing and 25 rushing yards. julia nikhinson/the diamondback Early they were getting to us, you know, with the sacks and stuff. But they calmed down a little bit, got their feet wet. The more the game went on, the more they got comfortable.” After Fleet-Davis’ touchdown catch, Leake broke off a 42-yard rushing score and McFarland punched the ball in from 2 yards out. Then, Jackson’s injury occurred. For a team that’s suffered more than its fair share of injuries at the position, seeing Jackson down on the turf was a cause for c o n c e r n . I n 2 0 17, b o t h Tyrrell Pigrome — Jackson’s replacement Saturday — and Kasim Hill tore their ACLs. Then in 2018, H ill tore his ACL again. Jackson’s addition from Virginia Tech through the transfer portal brought the hope of stability at a position that’s hardly had it of late. But instead of a let-off

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Farland scampered for an 80-yard score and Leake ran for a 12-yard touchdown — all in a dominant third quarter that included Rutgers’ second missed field goal. “It was important to get off to a fast start,” Locksley said. “Getting the big play

on the kickoff return, that ignited us.” Against a Scarlet Knights team without quarterback Art Sitkowski and running back Raheem Blackshear — who both intend to redshirt this season — Rutgers’ breakthroughs came too infrequently. There was an elaborate flea-flicker that led to quarterback Johnny Langan’s 3-yard touchdown run, the only points the Scarlet Knights managed. Without its playmakers, though, Rutgers often found itself swarmed by the Terps’ defense. Linebackers Ayinde Eley, Keandre Jones and Shaq Smith all posted career-high tackle counts. Saturday’s performance, the most points Maryland had scored on the road in a Big Ten game, buried the Scarlet Knights after a week full of tumult. “We really had to deal w i t h a l o t t h i s we e k ,”

Langan said. “It was just kind of a rush to get everything in, and I just don’t feel like we were ready this week.” On a lesser extreme, the Terps had their own issues to deal with. Coming off the clobbering Penn State delivered last week, Maryland rebounded. When Jackson left injured on Saturday, the team rallied around P igrome. Without three starting offensive linemen, the offense made do. So with backups on the field yet the scoreline well in his team’s favor, Pigrome found a moment to appreciate the situation he was in. For all the potential derailers, the Terps got it done. “You just got to smile,” Pigrome said. “Just got to be happy and smile.”

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Maryland hopes to wean off explosive-play reliance Terps look to find balance after bevy of big plays headline 41-point win PISCATAWAY, N.J. — After Andy Kostka a 4 1 - p o i n t victory with @afkostka Senior staff writer b i g p l a y s coming left, r i g h t a n d ce n te r, i t’s a l m os t a m o o t p o i n t to dwell on the shortcomi n gs o f M a ryl a n d fo o t ball’s offense — the same o n e t h a t p ro d u c e d two 80-yard touchdowns Saturday against Rutgers. But there were faults, nestled neatly beside Dontay Demus’ first-play scamper to the end zone and Anthony McFarland’s breakaway speed down the sideline. The Terps manufactured six offensive drives that ended in touchdowns — but also put together s eve n t h re e - a n d - o u ts, stalling drives that went backward as frequently as they went forward. In a 48-7 victory over the Scarlet Knights, a team with an interim head coach and little tape to reveal how it would operate under new leadership, the boom-orbust offense sufficed. The by

b o o m s o u twe i g h e d t h e busts on the scoreline. However, the Terps will face more difficult tests than Rutgers down the road. So while the team certainly won’t shy away from chunk yardage, Maryland will aim to find a more stable offensive output instead of relying on big plays as the Big Ten slate picks up pace. “I would’ve liked to see us … not be so, as I like to call it, big-little,” coach Mike Locksley said, “where we wo u l d h i t ex p l os ive plays but then have series of three-and-outs. So we just need to be a little bit more consistent.” Early in 2019, the Terps hadn’t displayed a propensity for home-run plays. Their offense got nothing going against Penn State l a s t we e k a n d m a n a ge d little against Temple. Even when trouncing Howard and Syracuse in the first two games of the season, Maryland moved the ball efficiently for the most part, chewing clock and racking up yardage.

Four times on Saturday, though, the Terps scored on the first play of a drive — not including running back Javon Leake’s kickoff return touchdown to open the second half. Demus caught a quick slant from quarterback Josh Jackson and ran 80 yards on Maryland’s first play; Leake took eight seconds to run 42 yards to the house in the second quarter and McFarland took just three seconds to punch the ball in from 2 yards out after an interception. McFarland also found daylight midway through the third quarter, adding onto the onslaught. “If we do our job, that’s how our offense is built, for these big plays,” offensive lineman Ellis McKennie said. “A lot of those weren’t even designed big plays. They were just runs that busted. We put a hat on everybody. We have tremendous backs — [McFarland], [Leake] and [Tayon Fleet-Davis] are ridiculous. Get them in open space, and they’re going to score.” There’s nothing wrong with an ability to make big plays, and a comfortable victory showed why.

But last season, when the Terps were so dependent on their big plays, the trait periodically backfired against marquee foes. In a loss to M ichigan, nine of Maryland’s 10 drives ended after six plays or fewer. The first half expired on one, two resulted in touchdowns, one ended with an interception and six capped with Wade Lees punting the ball away. In a shutout loss against Iowa, the Terps had 10 drives with none longer than an eightplay, 28-yard possession. But when big plays don’t appear, there can be big losses. But the team feels this season’s offense can prove different. “If we execute, we can get it done against anybody,” McKennie said. “It may not be an 80-yard run. It may be going for 20, it may be going for 6.” Against Rutgers, Maryland managed to convert four of its 13 third downs, a ra te c o m p a ra b l e to struggles in the same area against both the Nittany Lions and the Owls. Too frequently — particularly early, when the Terps were still adjusting to how

the Scarlet Knights looked — the offense faced thirddown distances of at least 7 yards. Six of their seven three-and-outs occurred in those situations. “We just need to be more consistent on first down, putting ourselves in better situations on second down. And if we put ourselves in a better situation on second downs, then third down can be better,” quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome said. “If we can get 3-to-4 yards on first down, that’s great, you know what I’m saying?” So as Maryland looks to improve its offensive consistency, especially as

conference play gears up, creating some third-andmanageable situations can help to prolong drives. But with a track record of producing big plays on display once again in a lopsided win over Rutgers, the Terps won’t turn up their noses at green grass opening in front of them. “Something coach preaches a lot is, ‘You never know what play is the play,” McKennie said. “You have to play every play like it’s the most important play of the game.”

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Terps come out fast vs. Cal State Fullerton With 2 first-half goals, Maryland pushes its way past ranked team As Mary-

Eric Myers l a n d m e n ’s @EricMyers531 soccer forward Staff writer Justin Harris attempted a header in the box, Cal State Fullerton forward Tre McCalla pulled him down. And when the whistle sounded to signify the foul, a perplexed Titans’ bench raised its hands and voiced disapproval. Regardless, the resulting penalty shot saw midfielder Eli Crognale step up and slot home the opportunity in the 21st minute. Three minutes later, midfielder Malcolm Johnston assumed control of a loose ball in the box and cashed home the opportunity to give the Terps a 2-0 lead during their highestscoring first half of the season,

propelling them to an upset victory over No. 14 Cal State Fullerton on Saturday night at Ludwig Field. “Tonight we came out, we were ready for the fight from the first whistle,” coach Sasho Cirovski said. Cirovski’s team has controlled play in the early stages of its last two games, accumulating a combined 20 shots in the first half against Wisconsin and Rutgers. But despite the pressure, Maryland had nothing to show for its efforts before halftime in those bouts. Saturday night, though, the Terps took advantage of their overwhelming play, as pressure from the Maryland attack put goalkeeper Paul-Andre Guerin under siege from the outset. Guerin succumbed to it in

the 21st minute, with Crognale’s penalty shot sailing past his outstretched arms and inside the post, despite the goalkeeper guessing correctly. On Maryland’s second goal, Crognale’s free kick into the box was knocked down — but not cleared. Johnston was at the right spot in front of the goal to clean up the chance and extend the Terps’ lead. “We felt like it was coming for a while now,” defender Ben Di Rosa said of the first-half effort. “This game, just continuing the momentum from last game.” As Maryland searched for a third goal in transition in the 35th minute, forward Eric Matzelevich and defender Edward Salazar got tangled up. A shoving match ensued between the two, with Matzelevich falling to the turf. After the situation dissipated and the officials reviewed

the video, three yellow cards were assessed. Matzelevich, Salazar and Titans midfielder Rei Dorwart, who joined the fray, were shown the cautions. “I just saw some fussing going on,” Crognale said. “We were getting in their heads, and that’s a good thing.” The hostility extended beyond the players on the field, as Cal State Fullerton’s coaching staff vehemently disagreed with a number of calls throughout the game. After the first half, an assistant coach had to restrain coach George Kuntz during a heated exchange with the group of officials at midfield. Following the encounter, Kuntz was shown a yellow card, the sixth of the match to that point. A seventh card was given in the second half of the physical match. Maryland continued to create threatening chances in the final 45 minutes — including a goal taken off the board in the 84th minute because forward Luke Brown was offsides by a step — while the defense secured its sixth clean sheet of the season. “We knew they were going

midfielder eli crognale slotted home a penalty kick during Maryland men’s soccer’s 2-0 win over Cal State Fullerton, his first goal this season. richard moglen/the diamondback to have bouts of possession,” Cirovski said. “And I thought our guys did a great job of getting back and making things difficult for them. … I think it was a pretty complete performance.” The result marks the Terps’ third win in their past four games — which also included a tie against Wisconsin — after a disappointing showing in a 3-1 loss to Northwestern on Sept. 20 in the team’s Big Ten opener. Since that loss, Maryland

has responded with two ranked victories, exercising control of games early on. For Cirovski, he’s seen the victories pile up even as injuries mount, and he attributes that to the team shaping into form as the season progresses. “Our goal was always to be good in September,” Cirovski said, “and to be great in October, and I think we’re off to a good start.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Goals come from every which way in 6-2 win Against Illinois, Terps score their most goals since joining Big Ten Jlon Flippens raised Jacob Richman her hand near @jacobrichman12 midfield, sigStaff writer nalling the start of a free-kick routine during Maryland women’s soccer’s match against Illinois. She launched the ball into the near side of the 18-yard box, looking to get the Terps on the board once more after their lead was cut in half minutes earlier. The ball found defender Adalee Broadbent in the box, and as she struggled to keep off a defender, she swung her leg by

into the air to meet the path of Flippens’ delivery before tumbling to the turf, watching as her shot sailed past goalkeeper Jaelyn Cunningham into the back of the net. Forward Keyera Wynn was the first Maryland player to reach Broadbent to celebrate the defender’s first college goal. The breakthrough helped the Terps in a free-scoring game, putting away the most goals since joining the Big Ten in Sunday’s 6-2 win over the Fighting Illini. “It was a great accomplish-

ment for us,” Broadbent said. “We’ve struggled in the last couple of games getting goals, so it was nice to finally see them go in.” Maryland returned home after consecutive road games against Rutgers and Ohio State, which included an upset of the then-No. 20 Scarlet Knights before falling 1-0 in Columbus, Ohio. With usual starting goalkeeper Erin Seppi out for the second straight game, freshman Nicole Kwoczka made her first career start. Kwoczka had played the second half of the Terps’ loss to the Buckeyes, where she kept a clean sheet and made a few key

saves to keep Maryland in the match until the final whistle. Her job was made easier Sunday through a lethal attack that found goals early and often. Midfielder Anissa Mose took a corner kick in the fifth minute that took a deflection off an Illinois defender and crossed the goal line. It was the fifth time this season that the Terps have scored in the opening 10 minutes. About 10 minutes later, leading-scorer Alyssa Poarch doubled Maryland’s lead. The forward took a lay-off pass from midfielder Loren Sefcik outside of the box before rocketing a shot to the opposite end of the

goal for her seventh tally this year. “They were flowing,” coach Ray Leone said. “It was really exciting to see all of them get touches on the ball. It was fantastic attacking play by them. It’s not often we see all of them touch the ball the way we did.” Illinois finally found its way on the board in the 35th minute from their leading scorer Makena Silber. A failed headed clearance from Mose found the boot of Silber as she ran into the box, finishing with a volley. However, Maryland was quick to respond, getting itself another goal just three minutes

later through Broadbent’s volley off a free kick. Five minutes later, Mose took another corner kick for the Terps that found the head of Broadbent. Her header went into the top right corner of the goal, narrowly passing a Fighting Illini defender situated on the line. The Terps added two more goals in the second half compared to Illinois’ one, holding onto an impressive 6-2 win. “It was an attacking attitude the whole game,” Leone said. “They really embraced this opportunity and they played fantastic.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

sasho From p. 12 suffered a knee injury that the team fears could keep him out long term. “It doesn’t just happen over a couple-week preseason,” Cirovski said. “It’s taken some time. It’s getting better and better. Obviously, the challenge keeps getting greater because we just keep losing players. But so far, we’re on the right path.” After the Northwestern game, Cirovski made a tactical change to better suit the players he had available. Using a 3-5-2 formation against then-No. 9

St. John’s and Wisconsin, the Terps grinded out a 1-0 doubleovertime win and a 0-0 draw while playing with 10 men for 70 minutes. In the past two games, against the Scarlet Knights and the Titans, the team has shown flexibility with its formations, switching between the 3-5-2 and Cirovski’s preferred 4-3-3 alignment. No matter the formation, though, the style remains the same — press the opposition in its own half, and be aggres-

sive in creating chances on the attack. “We’re a team that has a certain style of play and that tries to apply the principles of the game within our philosophy and culture,” Cirovski said. “Sometimes, systematically, you change a little bit to play to your strengths and minimize the strengths of the opposing team, and we’ve been able to do that the past couple of games.” Aside from the formation alterations, the Terps have come out firing early in matches — a

stark contrast to their first six games. They scored just two first-half goals in the first six matches and often found themselves overwhelmed by the opposition’s possession advantage. Over the course of this four-match unbeaten streak, though, Maryland has been the team to establish itself in the first half, outshooting the opposition 32-16 in that span. After not taking advantage of the early shot discrepancy against the Red Storm, Badgers

and Scarlet Knights, Maryland finally broke through in the first half with two goals against the Cal State Fullerton and turned in its highest-scoring opening 45 minutes of the season. “Just focusing on the fundamentals, what we started in preseason [and] our gameplans going into every game,” defender Ben Di Rosa said. “We’ve been executing a little better, just being a little sharper [and] a little more energetic starting games.” Cirovski said he was “de-

lighted” following the win over the Titans, a marked difference from his feelings after the loss to the Wildcats in the Big Ten opener 15 days prior. But the Terps absorbed that loss and put it behind them to get their season back on course. “We had to learn from that,” Crognale said. “We just had to improve all facets of the game, and we have. That game is completely in the past right now.”

ence season. “That was the loudest I think I’ve heard it this season,” Myers said. “It was pretty exciting to play in the atmosphere.” The team will face another challenge in perennial Big

Ten powerhouse Penn State on Friday. The Nittany Lions are currently ranked fifth in the AVCA Coaches Poll, and Maryland will get two opportunities at them this conference season. In order to extend the

success they experienced against the Spartans, the Terps know they’ll have to maintain their confidence. And while it wasn’t about vengeance on Saturday, Maryland’s poise helped it bring home its first Big Ten

win of the season, proving to Hughes’ team that it can hold its own in a conference that boasts six teams in the top 25. “I’m sure the girls think a little bit sometimes about reve n ge ,” H u g h e s sa i d .

“I think it was more just proving to ourselves that we’re better than how we played last week. I’m glad we showed up tonight.”

in limited minutes, badgering the opposition midfield to break up the play. This resulted in Maryland outshooting UConn 5-0 to maintain its two-goal lead. “We really had to sustain possession for as [long] as possible,” Donnelly said, “and be smart with our opportunities. We want to attack and go forward as much as possible, but [we were] two goals up, so make smart passes.” The Terps continued to probe

in the fourth quarter, with Sprecher denying DeBerdine and Bibi Donraadt’s early efforts. Meanwhile, UConn began to get the ball in more dangerous areas, as Boker saw her shot go wide. The Huskies heightened intensity culminated with a penalty stroke, as Frost took Boker down inside the shooting circle. Boker stepped up to the penalty spot, hoping to get a goal back and set the stage for a frenzied finish. At the whistle’s

behest, she calmly laced a shot toward the bottom right corner of the cage. But Frost was equal to it, stretching out to deny Boker, giving the Terps a clean sheet and their second straight victory over top-five competition. “This is what we do it for,” Meharg said.“I’m super pleased with their resilience, their coachability, and my staff and training.”

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msu From p.1 1 The match was also the program’s “Dig Pink” night for breast cancer awareness, drawing a larger and more energetic crowd of more than 1,400 fans. It was the largest crowd Maryland has seen at home this confer-

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uconn From p. 12 “When we were in the circle right before the second half, we said, ‘Okay, it’s 0-0, we have to play like we’re not leading,’” she added. While the Terps weren’t able to add to their lead, they kept the ball away from UConn’s forwards and midfielders. Maryland’s midfield exerted more influence with DeBerdine and Maguire getting themselves involved in the build-up play. Meanwhile, sparsely-used midfielder Taylor Mason impressed

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After uninspiring start, Terps back on track vs. ranked foes Cirovski’s squad remains unbeaten since losing to Northwestern Eric Myers Following @EricMyers531 a 3 - 1 l o s s Staff writer to No r t h western on S e p t . 2 0 , Maryland men’s soccer coach Sasho Cirovski said he felt “gutted and empty” with his team’s performance.

But since those feelings of disappointment, Cirovski has seen his team rise to the occasion. With a 2-0 win over No. 14 Cal State Fullerton on Saturday, the Terps have now rattled off four consecutive unbeaten results — three wins and a

draw — against two top-15 teams and a pair of conference opponents, steering its season back on track. It’s not just the number in the win column that’s growing. Cirovski’s squad, largely inexperienced at the beginning of the year, has taken shape over the four-game stretch, and the players have become more

confident. “It’s time for people to kind of wake up and understand that we’re the real deal,” midfielder Eli Crognale said. “We had a rough start to the season, but we’re for another national championship.” Coming into the season, Cirovski knew his group would have some growing

pains. Replacing 11 contributors from last season’s national championship roster would entail younger players fitting into larger roles. That mission only became more arduous with injuries to forward Paul Bin and midfielder William James Herve, relegating Maryland’s top-two returning offensive players to the

sideline. Forward Brayan Padilla thrived in his increased playing time, scoring two goals and becoming a threat on free kicks with a strong left-footed shot. But during pregame warmups ahead of Wednesday’s match against Rutgers, the sophomore See sasho, p. 11

volleyball

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Kevin F McNulty to hold a lead @kmcnulty_219 a t a n y p o i n t Staff writer against Michiga n S ta te o n Sept. 28, Maryland volleyball was promptly run out of the gym in three sets. The loss was its second in as many Big Ten matches, putting early pressure on a Terps squad with NCAA tournament aspirations. On Saturday night, however, the Terps brought an unforeseen mojo to their rematch against the Spartans. Maryland came out on fire at Xfinity Pavilion, taking set one by a 3-point margin. While coach Adam Hughes’ squad dropped sets two and three, the Terps remained poised and claimed sets four and five for their first win against Michigan State in program history. Given Maryland’s evident determination, it would be easy to point out revenge as a key motivator for the win. But the rematch was less about revenge for the Terps, and more about proving to themselves that they can compete with anyone in the Big Ten, even after an 0-3 start in the conference. “We were at Michigan State last weekend and got smoked,” Hughes said. “I thought it was a really good response from them.” After last Saturday’s loss, Hughes and his players didn’t dwell on the great play or the gaudy numbers from the Spartans. The Terps were upset and concerned with the errors that they made, prioritizing those inefficiencies in the following practices. Despite their 3-0 loss at home on Friday against Michigan, Maryland was able to remain focused on handing Michigan State just its third loss in 14 matches this season. “We were obviously upset about our performance and the result [against the Wolverines],” middle blocker Katie Myers said. “So we came out angry and played with a purpose.” Libero Allegra Rivas proved to be an important part of the Terps’ offense Saturday. Rivas recorded 27 digs this time out, up from 12 in the last match against the Spartans. “[Rivas] did a really good job seeing the outside hitters well,” Hughes said. “Her quality of digs was good, and we were able to run some offense off of it.” See msu, p. 11

no. 4 maryland field hockey dispatched No. 3 UConn on Sunday, 2-0, finding separation through goals from Linda Cobano and Riley Donnelly and two assists coming from Madison Maguire. gabby baniqued/the diamondback

upsetting the balance Field hockey, men’s soccer and volleyball each pull off upsets in one weekend field hockey

In battle of top-5 foes, Maryland emerges on top Since Duke loss Sept. 8, the Terps have rattled off eight wins Early in Maryland David Suggs field hock@David_Suggs3 ey’s Sunday Staff writer matchup against No. 3 Connecticut, midfielder Emma DeBerdine crept into her own half, hoping to poke the ball off an unsuspecting Huskies defender — just as she did when she scored the double-overtime game-winner against No. 5 Northwestern on Thursday. After taking the ball away from a UPenn defender this time around, DeBerdine again darted the length of the pitch, deking her way beyond the defense before whipping a ball toward by

Cheyenne Sprecher’s cage. And while the shot whistled just wide, DeBerdine’s work rate foreshadowed a highintensity display from the No. 4 Terps, who claimed a controlled 2-0 victory over the Huskies. “Super energy and pressure from young Emma DeBerdine,” Meharg said. “She was unbelievably ruthless in her pressure, and that type of pressure can get you back what you need, and that’s on the board.” Over the course of the season, the Terps have relied on their possession-based tactics to overwhelm defenses. But on Sunday, Maryland was forced into a more pragmatic

approach, with the Huskies taking control of the ball for large parts of the opening frame. So, the Terps defended in numbers, getting players behind the ball and limiting the space for UConn attackers to use. Consequently, the Huskies failed to record a shot on goal. Maryland’s attack was held quiet, though, with DeBerdine’s wide attempt representing its only shot in the first. “I gotta be honest, I thought we were super slow in the first quarter,” Meharg said. “I think our ball speed was slow, our movement after we passed was slow, we were very hesitant.” The game began to open up in the second quarter, though, with UConn applying early pressure on Noelle Frost’s cage. Forward Svea Boker forced the

Terps into two saves within the first three minutes of the period. But just as it looked as if the Huskies were threatening to break the game open, the Terps drove the ball into the shooting circle, with midfielder Madison Maguire laying the ball to an unmarked Linda Cobano, who fired a first-time shot toward the bottom corner of the net. The ball tipped off Huskies defender Antonia Tiedtke and into the back of the cage, giving the Terps a surprising 1-0 lead. Just 10 minutes later, defender Riley Donnelly doubled Maryland’s lead. DeBerdine beat her marker to the baseline before flashing a ball across the shooting circle and toward Donnelly. The sophomore settled herself and rifled the ball off Sprecher to ensure the

Terps would head to halftime with a two-goal edge. “Their goalie went down, and it was just a great opportunity to deflect up over [her],” Donnelly said. “It’s just really exciting, 1-0 versus 2-0 is a huge difference in field hockey.” After Meharg’s squad struggled to translate its shot advantage to goals in Thursday’s matchup against Northwestern, it looked like the Terps had rediscovered their finishing quality, scoring two goals from their first four shots. So with its lead intact, Maryland looked to enjoy more possession and nullify a dangerous Huskies attack. “You always have to expect that the other team is going to score in the second half, so that’s what we did,” Cobano said. See uconn, p. 11