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IT’S ON US

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Terps aim to balance run game with aerial attack, p. 12

DIVERSIONS

Netflix documentary 13th is a sobering watch, p. 9

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Courtyards incident sets no precedent

Despite releasing video, summary report in May 21 case, future use of force incidents to be publicized on a ‘case-by-case basis’ Friday marks three months since the University of Maryland Police’s pepper spray investigation came to a close. During this time, not much has changed.

The department has not yet implemented diversity training or completed a use of force policy review, by

Michael Brice-Saddler @TheArtist_MBS Senior staff writer

and it does not expect the amount of information released from this incident — a chief summary report and select body camera footage — to set a precedent.

Students posted videos and photos on social media expressing outrage after police used pepper spray to disperse a graduation party of predominantly black students at Courtyards on May 21. These videos, the community outcry

and public records requests were among the reasons the department released footage, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

Hoaas labeled the pepper spray incident “unique,” and whether footage will be released for other use of force incidents in the future will be determined on a “case-by-case” basis, she added.

The publicized footage helped tell the complete story from the incident, said David Lloyd, chief of staff for University Police, but not all of the available footage was released.

Lloyd said the footage provided —

which came from the body cameras of two out of 12 responding officers — offered what police considered pertinent information.

“A lot of the other video that was shot was just people standing around after the fact,” Lloyd said. “… It wasn’t anything interesting or points of note, and there was a lot of it.”

Because the information released during the pepper spray investigation will not set a standard for future incidents, Student Government Association President Katherine Swanson said it’s up to the community to hold University Police accountable.

community

The SGA and University Police are committed to improving student and police relationships, Swanson said, citing the SGA co-sponsored town hall event in August with Police Chief David Mitchell and tonight’s University Police-sponsored dinner with members of the campus community.

“While it worries me that it doesn’t set a precedent, I do think that the people in the community — it kind of did set a precedent for them,” Swanson said.

“That they do need to call out the police when they’re doing something wrong.”

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community

Univ expels record 4 students for rape First-time survey finds 15 percent of students have experienced sex assault at univ For the second year in a row, the Univers i ty of Maryland expelled a record number of students for sexual assault, according to Office of Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct data.

This university handled 15 student rape investigations last academic year, leading to four expulsions, three suspensions and one disciplinary probation, Title IX Officer Catherine Carroll told the University Senate on Oct.6.

During the 2014-15 academic year, this university expelled three students, suspended two and placed two on disciplinary probation.

Carroll said her office needs more resources to adequately handle the increased caseload. During her address to the senate, she shared concerns that included staffing, policies, procedures and coordination, as well as the institutional culture.

“We generally lack, and still do to a large extent, the signifiby

kendra goodson poses for a portrait in her office in the Service Building. tom hausman/the diamondback

Andrew Dunn @AndrewE_Dunn Staff writer

CATHERINE CARROLL, Title IX officer, speaks at a University of Maryland Senate meeting on April 28. Carroll spoke to the senate on Oct. 6 regarding the importance of funding the Title IX office. file photo/the diamondback cant infrastructure needed to address these issues and to respond effectively and promptly as we’re required to do under Title IX,” Carroll said.

“We’re a work in progress. We’re building the ship as we’re driving the ship.”

The Office of Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct, established in 2014, employs four investigators, not including Carroll. The office handled 243 total reports last academic year, which led to 56 investigations. With this staff, sexual misconduct investigations and resolutions usually take twice as long as the recommended 60 business days, The Diamondback reported on Sept. 20.

“The floodgates are open and we don’t have the infrastructure to navigate it,” Carroll said during the 10 minutes that were allotted

to her during the meeting.

She said the culture surrounding sexual assault and discrimination at this university is “very fragmented” and lacks the strong, centralized structures needed for a coordinated response.

That environment is not unique to this university, Carroll said, but it does not bode well for her office, which is responsible for responding to all discrimination claims.

Title IX requires all schools that receive federal funding to have a procedure for handling sexual misconduct, harassment or violence reports. The law states the office must promptly respond to these reports, and as of June, 195 institutions faced Title IX investigations.

See title ix , p. 3

‘everyone should be themselves’ First transgender Facilities Management employee navigates a new identity

By Naomi Grant | @NaomiGrant7464 | Staff writer

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h e n K e n d ra Goodson was still a man in the summer of 2015, she and her daughter, Miranda Goodson, were at a Renaissance Festival. Goodson decided to come out then as transgender by showing her daughter a picture of herself in women’s clothing.

“Cool,” Miranda Goodson had said.

Then they went and got beers.

Goodson, a customer response center program manager, is the first Facilities Management employee at the University of Maryland to come out as transgender.

Although Goodson said she has known she is transgender since she was 10 — “as soon as I realized there was a difference between boys and girls” — she only came out to friends and family in June 2015 and at work this past May. After returning from a cruise to Mexico in fall 2015 and facing security problems in customs, Goodson realized she had to change her legal documents, which included her payroll information. There was no way to change her name and gender on payroll without her manager knowing, so she came out at work as well.

See goodson, p. 3

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Leaders react to lewd Trump tape Gov. Larry Hogan, already not supporting nominee, calls 2005 remarks ‘disgraceful’ A ta p e re leased on Friday of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump making lewd comments about women has caused a stir in the Maryland U.S. Senate race.

The video recording, reported by The Washington Post on Friday, showed a conversation between Trump and Billy Bush of Access Hollywood, in which Trump described how he tried to have sex with a married woman. He also boasted in the video about how he kisses women without waiting — because “when by

Rebecca Rainey @RebeccaARainey Staff writer

you’re a star, they let you do it” — and mentioned grabbing women by their genitals. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, never endorsed Trump for president and further criticized the nominee Tuesday for his remarks, calling them “disgraceful and outrageous,” according to The Post.

“I am appalled by Donald Trump’s comments,” Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kathy Szeliga said in a statement Friday. “I raised my sons to never speak about women like this and to defend women against just these kind of comments. Donald Trump should sincerely apologize to all women immediately.”

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But Szeliga, who is running against Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen for retiring Sen. Barbara Mikulski’s seat, said she will still be voting for Trump this November.

“Donald Trump’s values are not Maryland’s values,” said Bridgett Frey, a spokeswoman for Van Hollen’s campaign. “What will it take for Delegate Szeliga to finally walk away from a candidate who has not only attacked women, but immigrants, minorities, people with disabilities, [prisoners of war], Muslims and President Obama with his racist birther comments?”

Voters have not been left with an easy choice, Szeliga said.

“Both of these candidates are seriously flawed,” she said. “One says appalling things and one has done appalling things.

Like most Marylanders, I wish we had different options, but we don’t.”

High-profile Republicans across the country have retracted their support for their party’s nominee since Trump’s recording was released, including Arizona Sen. John McCain and New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte. House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned Trump’s comments, but didn’t rescind his endorsement of him, though he will stop actively campaigning for the presidential candidate.

“From day one, Governor Hogan made it clear that he would not support Donald Trump,” Van Hollen’s campaign statement read. “In recent days, we’ve seen 12 Republican Senators or Senate candidates say that enough is enough and they can no longer support Donald donald trump, the Republican presidential candiTrump. These people are putting country date, speaks to the National Guard Association of the before politics.”

United States on Sept. 12 in Baltimore. Trump’s recently unearthed remarks about women from 2005 have put See trump, p. 3 him under fire nationwide. tom hausman/the diamondback

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CRIME BLOTTER

By Michael Brice-Saddler | @TheArtist_MBS | Senior staff writer

University of Maryland Police responded to reports of assault, suspicious activity and an overdose, among other incidents this past week, according to police reports.

ASSAULT O n F r id ay at 5:43 p.m., University Police responded to Nor th Campus Dining Hall for an assault that took place between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. that day, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

A w it ness repor ted that a man brushed past another man in the dining hall, causing an altercation between the two.

The two men, who are affiliated with this university but are not students, were exchanging words when one of the men hit the other in the face, Hoaas said.

The men were separated and then sent on their way.

The victim opted not to press charges, and this case is closed.

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY University Police responded to the Terrapin Trail Garage on Friday at 12:24 a.m. for a report of suspicious activity.

Officers stopped five individuals on the top level of the garage who had drug paraphernalia with them, Hoaas said.

One of the suspects

ad m it ted to smok i n g marijuana, Hoaas said, although the marijuana was gone.

A not her one of t he suspects, a female student, attempted to cover up their activity and interfered with the officer’s investigation of the incident, Hoaas said. This student was referred to the Office of Student Conduct, and the case is closed.

THEFT University Police responded to the Chemistry Building on Oct. 6 at 10:22 a.m. for a theft report.

Between 8 a.m. a nd 10:20 a.m. that day, a victim’s backpack, which included electronic items and personal property, was taken from a secured locker, Hoaas said.

A broken lock was found in a nearby trash c a n a nd wa s ta ken i n for ev idence, Hoa a s s a i d , a n d Un i v e r s i t y Police will review area ca meras. T h is case is active and ongoing.

On Oct. 5 at 4:14 p.m., Un iversity Pol ice responded to Lot 19 for a theft report. A rear license plate was stolen from a vehicle between 5:45 a.m. and the time of the report, Hoaas said.

University Police will rev iew a rea ca meras, Hoaas said. T his case remains active. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Support for Hogan at record high, U-affiliated poll finds Support for Lexie Schapitl Republican Gov. @lexieschapitl Larry Hogan has Senior staff writer hit a record high in the state of Maryland, but his popularity does not translate to support for the GOP as a whole or presidential candidate Donald Trump,according to a University of MarylandWashington Post poll released last week.

Hogan’s approval rating is up to 71 percent — his highest ever since becoming governor in January 2015, the poll found. In a state where registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by about a 2:1 ratio, the governor has fostered popularity by avoiding controversial issues and focusing on the state’s economy, said Stella Rouse, director of this university’s Center for American Politics and Citizenship. The center regularly conducts state public opinion polls with The Post.

“He’s not only been able to sort of tell his Republican constituency that, ‘Look, I’ve addressed the things I promised during the campaign and things that matter to you,’ but then he can also say, ‘You know, I haven’t really messed with the social issues that matter to Democrats in Maryland,’” Rouse said.

“He’s walked a very nice balance in that respect, and I think that has gone a long way.”

Jacob Veitch, president of this university’s College Republicans chapter, said Hogan’s actions — such as lowering taxes and tolls and supporting birth control access — are popular with most people in the state. Veitch called Hogan a “special politician” who is governing in a way Marylanders want.

“He has an ‘R’ in front of his by

name, but he’s doing his best to be the governor and not the Republican that’s in charge of the state,” Veitch said.

On the other hand, UMD Democrats President Jake Polce said Hogan has “done a really good job of not doing a whole lot of anything.” While avoiding hot-button issues and staying out of national politics may help the governor’s reelection campaign, the junior government and politics major said the 2018 race will not be a sure thing.

Despite Hogan’s popularity being on the rise, 63 percent of Marylanders disapprove of the Republican party as a whole, the poll found. The governor’s refusal to support Trump has been “hugely popular” in the state, Rouse said. The poll found 75 percent of Marylanders — 91 percent of Maryland Democrats, 75 percent of the state’s Independents and 43 percent of state Republicans — approved of his decision.

While there are some more conservative pockets in the state, Maryland’s Republican base is “certainly more moderate” than others, Rouse said.

Matt Morris, Terps for Trump president, said although members of his organization support Trump’s stances on the economy, immigration and jobs, as well as his socially liberal positions, Hogan’s refusal to support the candidate is a “smart move” for the governor of such a liberal state.

“He’s more focused on running his campaign and making sure that he stays in office than really what’s happening nationally, and I believe that that is important — he’s keeping state politics separated from federal politics,” said Morris, a junior

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“Trump has really shot himself in the foot many times, and there is definitely a price to be paid if you come out in support of him.”

The poll was conducted Sept. 27 to 30. On Oct. 7, The Post published a leaked video from 2005 in which Trump is heard making lewd comments about women.

Morris said these and other comments have hurt Trump throughout the election season but there is, “more substance behind some of the wrong Clinton has done” while in office. He said the leaked video should not have as much of an impact, and that the media does not necessarily offer a fair portrayal of the candidates.

“While that is something that should not be said and while that is something that is very negative toward our view of women, that really is more of an emotional issue about Trump and more of a personality factor for him than Hillary Clinton deleting 30,000 emails,” Morris said.

WikiLeaks released thousands of emails last week between John D. Podesta, the chairman of Clinton’s presidential campaign, and aides, Clinton family members

and donors that involved Clinton saying her personal wealth made her “kind of far removed” from the middle class, according to The New York Times.

“The news cycle is going to have [Trump’s comments] on for three or four days probably talking about it, whereas I don’t think they’ll play more than five minutes about Hillary’s email leaks that just came out,” Morris said.

Veitch said the leaked video of Trump “basically 100 percent explains” why many people, including some Republicans, do not support him for president, adding that Trump has been saying negative things about Hispanics, Muslims and other groups throughout the campaign.

“It’s just disappointing to see that it took attacks on … white women to be the thing that set people off,” he said.

Democratic candidate Clinton leads Trump 63 percent to 27 percent, according to the poll.

Democratic Senate candidate, Chris Van Hollen, also leads Republican opponent Kathy Szeliga 58 percent to 29 percent, according to the poll. lschapitldbk@gmail.com

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title ix From p. 1 “Our response is designed to interrupt the sex discrimination; then we have to prevent it from reoccurring and remedy its effects,” Carroll said. “That’s a pretty comprehensive, involved process.”

Carroll also presented the senate with findings from the campus’ first sexual assault climate survey that was completed in June. The survey was sent to 10,000 randomly selected undergraduate students, and of the almost 4,000 who responded, 15 percent reported an experience with sexual assault — 9 percent of males, 20 percent of females and 21 percent of transgender students.

More than half the students surveyed said they were undecided or did not believe sexual assault was a problem at this university.

And about half believed that

trump From p. 1 This university’s College Democrats and College Republicans chapters have both condemned Trump’s comments.

College Republicans chapter President Jacob Veitch called the nominee’s remarks “shameful.”

“I don’t think there is any gray area; he should be ashamed,” Veitch, a junior government and politics and international business major, said. “His

goodson From p. 1 “We always had a very, very good relationship, but this brought us even a little bit closer,” Facilities Management manager Marie Dory said. “As her manager in a working relationship, it will be my responsibility to make sure that she’s in a comfortable environment.”

Dory added that regardless of Goodson’s transition, she is still the same person.

“Kendra knows I’m there to support her all the way,” Dory said.

In June 2014, Goodson had a major heart attack and was told she shouldn’t have lived through it. At that point, she said she realized she was going to die either by medical reasons or suicide if she didn’t transition. She told her wife and kids the following June when she was told her heart was in perfect condition and “they were all accepting,” which encouraged her to come out to everyone else.

Although Goodson is a straight woman, she is still married to her wife, Kimberly James. They’ve “figured it out,” and James calls them “sister wives,” she said.

“It was difficult because I’m not gay and now she’s a girl,” James said. “She’s so much happier now that that makes all the difference in the world. She’s fantastically happy, so I’m happy for her, because I do love her.”

M iranda Goodson, who is 26 years old, said she and Kendra have done a lot of bonding “[and] ended up going shopping … a lot right after that.”

“Once I did come out to my family, my friends … I’d lost no one, and from my understanding, that’s really unheard of,” Kendra Goodson said.

None of Goodson’s family members — her wife, her daughter or her son, Brendan

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sexual assault can occur unintentionally, according to the data presented to the senate.

Carroll mentioned the Student Government Association’s proposed $34 mandatory student fee, which if approved and implemented would generate $998,563 in fiscal year 2018 and go toward funding five new positions within the Title IX office.

Rachel Novick, events coordinator for the student advocacy group Preventing Sexual Assault, said it’s essential for Carroll’s office to be properly funded.

PSA is working with Title IX to continue addressing these issues.

“Without the funding ... none of these students or survivors will be able to get justice,” Novick said.

There was no discussion about the information presented because the senate shot down a proposal to extend the meeting an additional 15 minutes.

University Senate Chairman Jordan Goodman said he can’t

blame the senate for voting against the extension, as many of them have commitments and families to attend to. A time extension requires two-thirds majority, Goodman said, which was missed by three or four votes.

“I can’t blame people who have commitments with children and other things like that,” he said after the meeting. “I think if we asked for 10 minutes, we could have swayed a few more people.”

Goodman said Carroll was invited back to speak at the senate’s next meeting, scheduled for Nov. 2.

“That’s what happens when you’re at the end of the agenda,” Carroll said after the meeting.

“But I’ll be at the start of the agenda next time.”

apology was not for his remarks, but it was ‘for if anyone was offended.’”

“We found it was disgusting and disheartening that any major party nominee of the United States to say things like that, for any person to say things like that,” said Jake Polce, president of this university’s chapter of College Democrats.

Polce, a junior government and politics major, added he supported Van Hollen’s statement and recent polling, which

shows Van Hollen nearly 30 points ahead of Szeliga, indicates that Marylanders aren’t going to vote for a candidate “who spans hand-to-hand, shoulder-toshoulder with Trump.”

College Republicans declined to comment on Szeliga’s support for Trump. The latest Washington Post-University of Maryland poll, published on Oct. 6, showed Van Hollen leading Szeliga 58-29 percent.

Goodson, who is 23 years old — said they were particularly surprised when she came out to them.

“I knew something was up, I just couldn’t put my finger on it,” M iranda Goodson said, indicating she thought Kendra may have been gay before she transitioned.

Despite her transition, G o o d so n ’s c h i l d re n s t i l l call her “Dad” at home and “Kendra” in public.

“She’s always been my parent, and whether … she was male or female, it hasn’t changed how anyone in the family perceives her or how we feel about her,” Brendan Goodson said.

Others now feel comfortable discussing their own transitions with Brendan because he has a transgender parent.

“I know a couple other people who are current ly transitioning and they h ave n ’t rea l ly c o m e o u t and told people,” he said. “ T h ey ’re a b l e to te l l m e

because Kendra’s so open about it.”

Goodson said realizing how lucky she was to not lose anyone made her want to start volunteering. She now serves on the city of College Park’s Education Advisory Committee and regularly gives advice to transgender girls.

“If anybody ever gets to the point where I was, when I was laying on the couch and realized that I was going to die, and it was either [transition] or kill [myself] … the only thing that they have to fear is their imagination,” Goodson said. “It’s not as bad as people think.”

This university is “very open” toward the transgender community, Goodson said, noting that she attends speech therapy at LeFrak Hall.

The process is “a complete transformation,” Goodson said. “Everyone should be themselves.”

Senior staff writers Talia Richman and Ellie Silverman contributed to this report. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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police From p. 1 M i tc h e l l s a i d i n his summary report about the May 21 pepper spray incident investigation that the officers’ hostile app ro a c h c a u s e d t h e situation to escalate, and ordered all officers to receive training on diversity and implicit bias. This training has not happened yet but is scheduled to occur in the winter solely for patrol officers and their direct supervisors, Lloyd said.

These officers will receive the first batch of training because they have the most “direct involvement” with the campus community, Lloyd said.

Lorie Fridell, a professor of criminology at the University of South Florida, who is coordinating the training, said she is working with the department to schedule command-level training sessions in 2017.

The training, titled Fa i r a n d I m pa r t i a l Policing, examines the manifestations of implicit bias, which, for example, could l e a d a n o f f i c e r to assume a gathering of black college students “bodes trouble,” according to training materials. It is customized for differing officer and management levels and includes various modules to promote unbiased policing.

M itchell’s report also mandated a review of the department’s use of force guidelines with community

feedback, however, this is not complete either. The department is still examining its guidelines internally, and there is no set date for when the policy review will be finished, Lloyd said.

Senior finance major Bria Sladden, who is also president of the Black Student Union, said University Police should disclose a timeline of this process to students, notifying them as steps are completed. “ I t l o o k s l i k e t h e r e ’s nothing being done, and that’s the issue,” Sladden said. “Students that were affected are kind of sitting and waiting on the edge of their seats trying to figure out, ‘Hey, what’s next after this happened to me?’”

Although university President Wallace Loh commended the department for “transparency” following the release of M itchell’s 1,015-word summary report, it is unusual for the university community to receive this much insight into use of force incidents.

Typically, such occurrences are aggregated into a yearly internal affairs report, and there are no detailed explanations for the 331 use of force incident reviews from 2010-15. The incidents that do require the department to conduct an internal affairs investigation are summarized in a relatively vague, threesentence summary.

L a s t ye a r, 3 8 o f f i c e rs amassed 91 individual uses of force, including one pepper s p ray d e p l oy m e n t . T h ey pointed firearms at someone 54 times. All of these uses resulted in 43 total reviews, which the department has not released information for. The annual reports are designed to give an “overall picture,” and more information would not be of use to most students, Lloyd said.

“Each [incident] had a inquiry and investigation

related to it,” Lloyd said. “It would take volumes of information that we would have to release — that no one would read other than a editor or someone like [that].”

The Diamondback sent a public records request for the 2013 internal affairs reports — including the initial complaint, final written disposition of each case and records that report when a use of force occurred.

The university denied each part of the request on March 4, 2015, stating these records fall under the exemption categories of personnel records, intra-agency memoranda and investigatory records, and therefore are exempt from public disclosure.

Sladden said this information is important to students and therefore should be presented in a more obvious and accessible manner.

“How many students realistically go to the [University Police website] and say, ‘Hey let me look at this annual re p o r t ? ’ ” S l a d d e n s a i d .

“Ninety percent of students don’t even know that exists.”

Swanson added it is unreasonable to expect University Police to release extensive information every time a use of force incident occurs, but they should consider the impact on the campus community when debating whether or not to publicize it.

“It’s important for UMPD to be transparent — they s h o u l d m a ke a c o m m i t ment to being more transparent and to releasing this stuff more often, especially when there’s any chance that people might be upset about it,” Swanson said.

“This makes me want to go to them and say, ‘I’m not sure what the issue is about making a commitment to b e i n g t ra n s pa re n t a b o u t these things,’” she said. mbricesaddlerdbk@gmail.com

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The landscape of the University of Mary- but equal” legislation during the budding land is changing. Frederick Douglass has civil rights movement, and yet this university a statue dedicated to his legacy in Horn- maintained the football stadium’s name — bake Plaza. The Board of Regents voted to Byrd Stadium — for upward of 50 years, not change Byrd Stadium’s name to Maryland counting the era of Old Byrd Stadium.

Hill is a college graduate, an entrepreneur, Stadium in December because of its former namesake’s opposition toward racial inte- a living legend. He broke many color barriers, gration. Currently, students are advocat- being the first African-American football ing for a statue to be erected in honor of the player to enter a southern athletic conference and the first African-Amerfirst African-American ican to be hired by Washto make the football team our view ington’s fire department at this university, Darryl as well. The Atlantic Coast Hill. Students think the Conference celebrated him decision as to whether the in 2012 on the 50th anniverstatue should be built is a sary of his first Maryland “no brainer.” This editofootball game. This unirial board wholeheartedly versity is lucky to have the agrees and endorses the opportunity to honor Hill immediate building of such while he is still alive. Why a monument. hasn’t it already?

This university’s — even This university owes it to this state’s — racist history cannot be erased. In January, this state’s song the student body — especially the Africanwas criticized by news outlets for its racist American student body — to honor students undertones. The Civil War-era song dis- who innovated, who were fearless, who paved cusses joining the Confederacy, which sup- the way forward. A statue of Hill is a small ported the oppression of African-Americans. token this university could extend to demFurthermore, former university President onstrate its support of minority students Harry “Curley” Byrd believed in “separate and inclusivity.

Erecting a statue commemorating Darryl Hill is a “no brainer” for this university.

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CATHERINE CARROLL @RuleofThumbUMD Title IX Director

As the Director of the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct (often referred to as the Title IX Office), I am charged with overseeing and implementing the University of Maryland’s response to sexual misconduct and other civil rights laws. But our mission goes beyond our obligation to investigate complaints. We are attempting nothing less than a culture change — to tackle an environment that tacitly permits “locker room” talk and forms of sexual violence.

Students I work with on a daily basis report sexually aggressive behavior.

Sometimes it takes the form of texts and snaps, and sometimes it is physical, resulting in sexual harassment and assault. Our responsibility to address these issues is clear.

The university has funded the office since its inception in 2014. Each subsequent year, the funding has increased, and now the office has a current budget of just over $1 million. However, reports of sexual misconduct and the number of investigations continue to increase, likely the result of increased awareness and outreach. Additional resources are needed to properly handle our growing caseload and — critically — to expand education and prevention efforts across the campus.

The responsibility for this effort does not rest with any single group. If we are to truly change the culture and create an environment of respect and safety, it will take our entire community working together and participating. President Obama had it right when he launched the It’s On Us campaign against campus sexual assault. That campaign, which we adopted here at this university, en-

courages everyone to make a personal commitment to keep people safe from sexual assault. This is a promise not to be a bystander to the problem, but to be part of the solution.

The Student Government Association reached out to me several months ago, offering to be part of the solution. They proposed a new student fee to augment the university funding of OCRSM. The fee would generate $1 million in revenue for hiring additional investigators to help conduct investigations promptly, and a full-time prevention manager to coordinate campus-wide prevention efforts and set aside funds to support studentled prevention initiatives.

The funds would also be used to improve data collection and analysis, create a Student Advisory Board, enhance online training for undergraduate and graduate students, help analyze data from the annual climate survey and improve coordination and training for adjudicating sexual misconduct cases.

I applaud and fully support the students’ efforts to contribute to the important work of our office.

This funding, together with the continued $1 million per year from the university, will enable this university to respond more effectively to sexual misconduct and to create an environment where discrimination, in all its forms, is not tolerated.

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Why Colombians should have accepted the peace deal with FARC past decade scrutinized so heavily, it’s easy to forget the success stories.

In our own near-abroad, Colombia has been the benefactor of one of the most bipartisan and direct foreign assistance campaigns in recent memory.

Plan Colombia was initiated under Bill Clinton’s administration at a time when fears of the Colombian national apparatus descending into a failed narco-state weren’t far from the realm of possibility. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or the FARC, provided much of the internal distress during this time through extortion, kidnappings and illegal drug trade.

Today though, the value of the illicit drug market in Columbia has shrunk by 40 percent since 2008. The FARC’s reserves of fighters have been cut to less than half of their 1999 levels, and the FARC has signed a ceasefire accord as of June 2016. Colombian President Juan Santos, with indispensable U.S. aid, was close to ending a 52-year war. That is, until the peace deal went to referendum and failed to pass by a slim margin.

I won’t waste time equating this to Brexit, Donald Trump or any other populist movement. If that’s what you’re a f te r, t h e re a re p l e n ty o f pundits already on that trail of thought. Instead, I want to illustrate a simple point: The rejection of this deal is not necessarily indicative of what Colombians actually

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affected by the conflict wanted and certainly isn’t what they needed.

Many of the Colombians who voted no argue the peace deal is too lenient on FARC fighters who committed atrocities and fear that war criminals will be legitimized by the government as a political party, rather than held accountable.

This is a legitimate complaint.

After all, under the deal, FARC members will submit confessions for their term of service and only face a period of five to eight years of restricted liberties. Only the most egregious violations will be prosecuted further. However the reasoning behind this is more nuanced than the no camp makes it out to be. President Santos’ administration has taken this position in order to eliminate a cycle of retribution that has plagued Colombia for decades.

Going back to La Violencia of the mid-20th century, a titfor-tat escalation between left and right wings groups in Colombia has proven unending.

Additionally, the atrocities have been far from one-sided. One instance showing the Colombian government isn’t blameless in this conflict is the “false positives scandals.”

During this incident, Colombian forces killed poor and mentally disabled civilians in order to frame them as FARC combatants and bolster the numbers of reported enemy killed. The casualties in this scandal highlight something important. The main victims of this conflict are not the FARC or the Colombian government, but rather the poor and already

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disenfranchised peasants in rural parts of the country.

According to La Nueva Televisora del Sur (TeleSUR), a Latin American news agency, t h e n o c a m p a i g n wa s l e d by former president Alvaro Uribe and urban elites, wellinsulated from the violence of the past decade. Indeed, when looking at this map of Colombia’s vote distribution by the BBC, inland provinces outside of densely forested, FARC-controlled territory are shown to have generally voted against the peace deal. Chocó, home to the Bojayá Massacre of 2002 in which 119 people were killed by FARC guerrillas, is a province that was hit especially hard by this conflict. Despite their history, the BBC reported that 96 percent of Bojayá and 80 percent of Chocó voted in favor of peace. The issue that many are noticing is that the no votes were from a portion of the population that hasn’t been suffering the FARC incursion to the same degree. Those who voted yes had a brief glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel.

In the wake of the referendum, both President Santos a n d FA RC l ea d e r Ro d r i go Londoño, better known by his alias T imochenko, have indicated their first priority is going back to Havana for more negotiations. Unfortunately for the negotiators, the current ceasefire agreement only holds until the end of October. After then, the situation becomes much more tentative. krempfer@terpmail.umd.edu tripler26@gmail.com

P-hacking: the quest for statistical significance JACK SIGLIN @_InTheBox Columnist

For many scientists, there is a God, and its name is P. The p-value, an indicator of statistical significance, has become something of a benchmark for scientific publication — and it’s destroying the credibility of science.

Say I’m a scientist studying whether or not soccer referees are biased against players with darker skin tones. I’m hypothesizing such players are disproportionately red-carded, so I’ll analyze my data and run a statistical regression.

At the end, I’ll get a p-value: the percentage chance that my results would happen if there’s no bias. A p-value less than 0.05 is the Holy Grail: a lessthan-5-percent chance of a given result randomly occurring is considered statistically significant.

This study actually happened. A University of Virginia researcher culled a data set that included more than 140,000 soccer matches and sent it out to 29 different data analytics groups.

The results were all across the board: Twenty groups found there was a positive association between darker skin tone and more red cards, ranging from weak to very strong, and nine teams found no relationship at all. From the same data, they all derived different p-values (and conclusions). And that was the point of the study: It was never really about soccer at all.

The lesson here is data values do not speak for themselves. In interpreting research outcomes, scientists must make decisions that are inherently subjective and that change the p-value at the end. Most published data have been analyzed just once. That gives researchers the freedom to choose an analytical method that gives the results they want.

P-hacking is the process of selecting variables and defining terms to create a significant p-value — and

scientists have every incentive to produce statistically significant results.

Psychologist Uri Simonsohn analyzed all of the reported p-values in a large set of psychology papers and found that they cluster suspiciously close to 0.05 — what we would expect if scientists shoot for that target in how they choose to do their analysis.

The problem is p-values don’t tell you whether or not your hypothesis is correct or important. They’re just the odds that the outcome happens given certain assumptions. But when they’re used as benchmarks for publication, researchers have strong incentive to artificially create significance by manipulating variables and sample sizes.

Contrived data — or p-hacked data — is a huge problem. A 2005 meta-analysis of science determined it’s more likely for a scientific claim to be false than true.

That is to say, more than half of published results can’t be replicated.

That’s staggering. It’s also the result of a system that lavishes rewards on novel results and is much less concerned with replication studies. It’s difficult to convince a researcher to spend his or her hard-earned grant money to prove other peoples’ studies false, when instead they could be p-hacking their way to publication glory.

That’s not to say there isn’t hope.

The journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology has decided to do away with p-values entirely in favor of strong descriptive statistics. Blogs such as Retraction Watch monitor papers redacted due to scientific impropriety and shame disingenuous researchers. “Open-source science” is becoming a real movement.

Statistics are only part of the picture.

Every data set tells a story, and scientists have an ethical obligation to interpret it within the boundaries of common sense and integrity. That might mean ditching p-values for good. jack.siglin@gmail.com

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Hannah Lang P a r k C i t y said Matt Tedesco, who is the @hannahdlang Council voted land use and zoning attorney Tuesday night for Lidl. “We are excited Staff writer to approve a detailed site plan for German grocery store chain Lidl.

If the city’s planning board approves the proposal at an Oct. 20 hearing, the Clarion Inn on Route 1 will be torn down and Lidl will be constructed in its place.

Lidl could change College Park’s U.S. Department of Agriculture designation as a “food desert,” or a region that lacks access to fresh food, largely due to a shortage of grocery stores.

“We are extremely pleased and happy to have an application

about it.”

District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan said he was pleased with the cooperation between the council and Lidl officials on the project. Lidl representatives agreed to the city’s recommendations after an initial discussion at the council’s Sept. 20 work session.

“I believe the store is a grocery store that the community wants to have great pride in,” Brennan said. hlangdbk@gmail.com

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Hannah Lang on the city of of the bike-share program @hannahdlang College Park’s mBike and the evaluation of the strategic plan Hollywood Commercial District Staff writer during a work session after the City Council meeting Tuesday night revealed that more than half of the plan’s action items are on track.

Assistant City Manager Bill Gardiner presented the update on the plan, which identified six goal areas and an associated 42 action items to complete by 2020. The plan was adopted in August 2015 in alignment with the city’s vision, which aims to make the city a “top 20 college town.”

The goal areas are “One College Park” — an initiative to unite neighborhoods — as well as environmental sustainability, high quality development and reinvestment, quality infrastructure, effective leadership and excellent services.

“The council recognized a need to try and bring together some of the seemingly different distinct aspects of College Park,” Gardiner said about the plan.

Gardiner and City Manager Scott Somers generally meet with department heads at least once a month to ensure “everyone’s on track and moving forward,” Somers said.

Of the 42 action items, three have been achieved,eight have not been started, five are considered off track and 27 are considered on track. The city has used software to track the progress of each of the action items, Gardiner said.

The achieved areas include the adoption of a City Operations Sustainability Plan to reduce solid waste and increase

for redevelopment.

The off-track items are projects to build a new City Hall, to implement an online payment system for parking permits, to develop a continuous learning program with consistent training for staff and to prepare for staff retirements.

“Off track is probably not the right phrase, but they don’t let you say ‘behind schedule,’” Gardiner said during the meeting.

“We’re not as far along as we’d like to be.”

The items that have yet to be started include the development of a community sustainability plan and marketing plan for the city, the creation of a network of trails and sidewalks and the promotion of cooperation between the city’s neighborhoods.

“To some extent the civic associations have been doing that on their own, so I’m not exactly sure what that might mean, other than having city events that bring neighborhoods together,” Mayor Patrick Wojahn said.

District 1 Councilwoman Christine Nagle and District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan proposed a council-sponsored tour of the neighborhoods to introduce residents to different areas of the city.

Some of the on-track projects include developing a plan for community gardens in partnership with residents and organizations and improving public schools.

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eady. Set. Go. Three words almost every runner is fairly familiar with, but participants of the city of College Park’s first parkrun event don’t have to be runners. They just have show up and do their best, said Kim Fisher, a parkrun participant and volunteer, as well as the program manager of the University of Maryland’s PALS program.

Parkrun is an international organization that arranges weekly meetings in which participants run a 5k together for free, according to its website. But it’s not a race, said Colin Phillips, a run director for this city’s parkrun and a professor of linguistics at this university.

“It’s not about competing against other people,” Phillips said. “It’s the community supporting each other in fitness.”

The event will take place on Oct. 15 at 9 a.m. at the Paint Branch Trail on Metzerott Road and continue every Saturday after that date. It will mark the first parkrun held in the state of Maryland, Phillips said.

There are parkruns in 14 different countries, with seven locations in the U.S., two of which are located in Washington near Fletcher’s Cove and Roosevelt Island, according to parkrun’s website.

Those interested in participating can visit parkrun.us and register online just once for free. Those registered will receive a barcode that individuals can bring to each event, Phillips wrote in an email.

With a growing global presence, parkruns have become somewhat of a tourist destination, Fisher said. Nick Huang, a third-year graduate student studying linguistics at this university, said he researched the event before visiting Singapore over the summer after hearing about parkrun from Phillips and other department officials.

just just than than “When I was back in Singapore to visit family I thought maybe I should see what it was like,” Huang said. “It was a really good experience — it was nice to go somewhere else and run a 5k and not feel out of place.”

Phillips, along with his wife Andrea Zukowski, the event director of this city’s parkrun and a linguistics research scientist at this university, first heard about this initiative three years ago while they were visiting family in London, he said.

After returning to this state, the couple said they wanted a parkrun location in College Park, but they didn’t know where to begin.

“We loved the enthusiasm of these different events and how they made it so easy for everyone to participate,” Phillips said. “We were really impressed by that and we were leaving London and thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if they had this in College Park?’”

After attending Washington’s first parkrun last January, both Phillips and Zukowski said they were determined to bring the event to this city.

“In College Park, it bridges the city and university communities,” Phillips said. “... There’s been all these initiatives in building the city-campus connection and a lot are through buildings [and] service activities … but I don’t think there’s been anything in the area of recreation and wellness.”

Zukowski and Phillips approached Andres Falconer, the event director of Fletcher’s Cove parkrun, about bringing the event to this city, Falconer said. In order to prepare for a parkrun, the couple has held very “small” and “informal” practice parkruns in the city almost every Saturday since this past January, Phillips said.

College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn attended the group’s final “dress rehearsal” on Oct. 8, where he said he supports the

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“There really is a vision for us to make the metropolitan area, the DMV, [extend] further into Maryland, into Baltimore, down to Virginia,” Falconer said.

This city’s event has received support from various organizations, including $1,000 each from the College Park Community Foundation, University Recreation and Wellness and this city, Zukowski said.

The event also received a small donation from the Berwyn District Civic Association and raised money via a crowdfunding site, she added.

When communities want to start a parkrun, the organization expects new events to raise $5,000 as a one-time contribution toward startup costs for equipment such as timers, route signage and liability insurance, Phillips wrote in an email. After these initial costs there will be no additional fees ever, Phillips added.

However, this event would not be possible without the partnership with Prince George’s County Department of Parks and Recreation, which allows them to hold the event on the Paint Branch Trail every Saturday morning, Zukowski said.

This event is all about building community connections, Phillips said, which rings true for students such as fourthyear linguistics doctoral student Lara Ehrenhofer, who said parkrun has introduced her to new people and broken down participation barriers.

“For me, it’s been a really fun way to … make sure that I’m doing something sporty on a Saturday morning,” Ehrenhofer said. “… There’s this really nice tradition and grabbing that coffee [at the Board and Brew] together afterwards. I really like this social aspect.”

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U office hopes for kids’ soccer league To continue Kimberly Escobar building rela@kimescobarumd tionships with Prince George’s Staff writer County schools, the University of Maryland’s community engagement office is working to create soccer programs for county elementary and middle school children.

This university’s Office of Community Engagement hopes to bring students from county schools to the campus to play friendly games of soccer, and eventually create a championship game for the students in these clubs, said Gloria Aparicio Blackwell, director of community engagement. The games would be held on the campus, while practices would be held at the respective schools.

This idea stems from university athletic department plans by

to bring children and their parents from Cherokee Lane Elementary School in Adelphi and Paint Branch Elementary School in College Park to watch the men’s soccer team play Oct. 18, Aparicio Blackwell said.

“This is a way to keep our youth healthy and to stay away from trouble, as well as becoming part of a team and doing something that they will enjoy,” she said.

When students at Cherokee Lane requested a soccer club for their school, Assistant Vice Principal Andrew Karnes thought this would be a great opportunity to grow the school’s relationship with this university, he said.

“Our students love soccer, but not all of them have access to playing for a team,” Karnes said. “Some of them don’t have the money to play for traveling teams in their community.”

The program is not “set in stone” yet, but the community engagement office is planning on showcasing the university’s soccer field and soccer athletes to the kids who really want to participate in this program, Aparicio Blackwell said.

After the success of a 2014 “Hispanic Heritage Celebration Night” hosted by this university’s men soccer team, the athletic department has striven to continue engaging the local community, said Marcus Wilson, senior associate athletic director and chief administrative officer.

“With the [Oct. 18 soccer game] that we will do, we really want to show our support to the community,” he said.

Wilson and Aparicio Blackwell have also discussed the p oss i b i l i ty o f u n ive rs i ty soccer players interacting with the kids at student

soccer club games at their respective schools.

“Our men’s soccer player are heroes to a lot of these kids,” Wilson said. “The makeup of our players are first generation soccer players and come from all over the world… they can serve as role models to [the kids].”

Having university students come to Cherokee Lane for practices would be beneficial to the kids, Karnes said.

“They are going to be exposed to college and university students,” he said. “If we’re thinking that we want our students to be college and career ready, exposure to a college student or employee is something that sparks interest for college.”

If officials can finalize plans this semester, the Office of Community Engagement is prepared to begin the program in the spring of 2017, Aparicio Blackwell said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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council works closely with Angela Jacob people p a s s b y P r i n c e G e o rge ’s C o u n ty @angela_jacob13 College Police to make sure domestic Staff writer Park City Hall at night throughout the month of October, they will see an unusual sight — purple lights shining around the building.

City officials hope that after driving past the scene, people will do a quick online search to discover the lights are part of a larger campaign to raise awareness about domestic violence, Mayor Patrick Wojahn said.

The Purple Light Nights campaign began in 2007, when founder Victoria Throm launched it in Covington, Washington.

The program has now grown to span across 32 states, four providences in Canada, and the territory of Guam, said Throm, who now serves as Purple Light Nights CEO. “Purple is a symbolic color of domestic violence, so I thought of shining a purple light in everybody’s front porch as a symbol to remember those that died, support the survivors and give hope to those still living with abuse,” Throm said.

“Each county and city kind of does their own format; we just ask that people maintain the integrity of the name and logo.”

A rea s pa r t i c i pa te thro ug h tree, po rch , bridge or building lighting, and 5k walks, Throm said. Congress recognizes October as National Domestic Violence Awareness month.

“What your county is doing is being very proactive, and I will not be surprised if more people, because of this, will come forward and ask for help,” Throm said.

This is the first year the council is participating in the campaign, Wojahn said. After initially receiving information about the program, he proposed support for it in a council meeting, and that motion passed unanimously.

“I think it’s a great idea.

We certainly need to raise awareness about domestic violence,” Wojahn said.

“This is especially important given the murdersuicide that took place a couple weeks ago right here in College Park.”

violence victims are receiving treatment if needed. Some resources available to victims include social service agencies, non-profit agencies and county courthouses, which can assist victims with the legal side of things.

“This is something I would like us to keep on doing in years to come,” Wojahn said.

“This problem is not going to go away, and this is a fairly simple and easy thing that we can do to raise awareness and help combat domestic violence.”

The Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Office has been very involved with the Purple Light Nights campaign, Throm said.

Corporal Ricardo Dennis said the office has been participating for about three years.

The office first became involved because officers see many domestic abuse situations firsthand while responding to 911 calls, Dennis said.

“We’d like everyone to be able to shine a light either in their window or their porch light, to let the community know that we stand as a community against domestic violence,” he added.

Every year, the office hosts various events during October, which are kicked off by a Purple Night Lights lighting ceremony.

This year’s lighting ceremony took place Oct. 3 at the Family Justice Center in Upper Marlboro, which opened in the county June 10.

Dennis said the center is a significant new addition to the fight against domestic violence because it offers a wide range of services for the victims.

“It’s a place where anybody who is a victim of domestic violence can go to, and they have different advocates and resources … everything is in one location, including child care,” he said.

Advocates from the sheriff’s office work with counselors at the center, with a shared goal of making domestic violence victims as comfortable as possible, Dennis said.

“There are a lot of resources out here, and there are a lot of things that we can do, but if people don’t speak up and people don’t let us know that they need help, we can’t help them,” Dennis said. “We want to be able to help everyone who suffers from this.” ajacobdbk@gmail.com

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A review of Nate Parker’s divisive, important The Birth of a Nation In 1915, thouJosh Magness sands of people @josh_mag swarmed the Senior staff writer s t r e e t s o f Boston to protest a screening of The Birth of a Nation. The film garnered immense critical praise for its visionary cinematography, enthralling audiences across the nation with its suspect depiction of how the Civil War and Reconstruction led to wanton oppression of white southerners. It portrays black characters — often played by white actors in blackface — as intellectually inferior and sexually depraved.

It reaches its climax when a group of Klansmen, armed with weapons and on top of horses, confront black people outside their homes to prevent them from voting. It then ends with a happy wedding, heralding the Klu Klux Klan as the white knights who restored order to a once-lawless town. It’s no surprise, then, that the NAACP, not even a decade old at the time, helped plan mass demonstrations against the movie, decrying it as historically inaccurate and wholly racist.

Yet the beleaguered film went on to be a box office smash, raking in millions of dollars despite the rallying cry against it.

Just over 100 years later, another film with the same name has stoked praise and controversy. But this time, the message couldn’t be any more different. This year’s The Birth of a Nation is about Nat Turner, an enslaved preacher from Southampton County, Virginia, who led one of the bloodiest slave revolutions in U.S. history. The ill-fated insurrection, which resulted in the deaths of around 60 white people, spread mass panic throughout southern supporters of slavery, who killed nearly 200 free blacks and slaves in retaliation.

Visually, the film is a masterpiece. Much like the historical figure, The Birth of a Nation’s Nat Turner continually experiences dreamlike visions proclaiming his heroic fate. The movie begins with a youthful Nat immersed in a foggy wilderness where he encounters a tribal ritual. There, a birthmark on his chest is revealed, and the spiritual head of the group says those markings mean Nat is destined to become a prophetic leader. The scene is eerie but captivating, painting Nat almost like a Christ figure within the opening moments.

We see Nat as a young boy with a childlike innocence, playing hide-and-seek with his master’s son, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer) and receiving reading lessons from Samuel’s mother, Elizabeth Turner (Penelope Ann Miller). Nat then grows into an adult preacher enslaved under the law but respected for his fiery sermons from the Bible, the only book he was taught to read. Under the direction of Samuel, his childhood friendturned-master, Nat (Nate Parker) travels to different plantations in an attempt to subdue resistant slaves with Bible passages condoning slavery. But Nat begins to question his actions as he witnesses the horrific degradation slaves endure from their masters, by

soon believing that God is calling him to lead a bloody rebellion against the practice of slavery.

Parker, also the film’s director, runs through Nat’s wide array of emotions with ease. He displays loving tenderness with his wife Cherry (Aja Naomi King) and an uneasy sense of admiration for Samuel that devolves into a righteous hatred. Most impressively, acute confliction is etched upon his face, the guilt of encouraging his fellow slaves to “obey your earthly masters” weighing heavily on his spirit.

Nat is a proud man trapped between obedience and rebellion, and Parker expertly conveys that tumultuous duality, even at the moment of his character’s death by hanging after the revolt crumbled.

King herself delivers a masterful portrayal of Cherry that drips with raw emotion. She

begins as an erratic woman damaged from her experience at a slave auction but sheds her standoffish veneer as she falls in love with Nat. She soon becomes the foundation of Nat’s bravery, and the duo finds itself enveloped in a love so powerful that, when they are together, not even the harsh reality of their world can pierce it. King’s best moment comes as Cherry lies on her bed, recovering from the gang rape she suffered, and Nat informs her that he will spearhead a rebellion. Her face deformed and her breathing labored, she looks up at Nat with the only smile she can muster. It’s a moment of loving support and anguish — one of those rare scenes in a movie when time seems to stand still

as you are enveloped in a vortex of pure feeling.

But the film is also fraught with troublesome aspects. Nat is displayed as infallible, the only person with enough guts and wit to rally the slaves around a single banner. It’s easy to get caught up in the heroic nature of the character. It feels quite formulaic, though, stretching the legacy of the true Nat Turner to such a point that he seems inhuman, almost like a 19th-century superhero rather than an ordinary man with his own shortcomings standing up against America’s most depraved institution.

The true issue with the character, however, has less to do with The Birth of a Nation itself and more to do with its lead actor and director. News of

rape allegations against Parker in 1999 recently resurfaced as he moved into the spotlight. The victim’s brother, identified only as Johnny in a Variety article, revealed that his sister committed suicide in April 2012 and that the alleged rape played a major role in her mental downturn. Parker has denied the accusations. The news is troubling enough, but it’s made even more problematic when considering that multiple fictional rapes were added into The Birth of a Nation, including one of Nat’s wife, to help spur his radicalization against white oppression. The film was an immersive, jarring experience — but that wasn’t enough to distract from the awkward reality that hung like a spectre over it.

There’s no denying that the controversy muddles The Birth of a Nation’s otherwise impassioned message. But it’s still an

important film. Movements for racial equality, cyclical as they are, have bubbled back up to the forefront of our political discourse. Black Lives Matter has become a rallying call for a new generation of activists and the end of Barack Obama’s historic presidency nears. In that context, the film — a fearless recording of Nat Turner’s legacy as one for black uplift — could not have come at a better time.

It serves as an answer to the 1915 The Birth of a Nation, pushing back against the film’s unsettling revision of 19th-century racial injustices. But most importantly, The Birth of a Nation stands as a reminder of our nation’s ugly history, prodding us to realize our historical place in the larger scope of struggle endured by our nation’s black community. jmagnessdbk@gmail.com

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review | 13th

In 13th, a system that refuses to die Ava DuVernay’s powerful documentary focuses on how mass incarceration functions as modern slavery Black Lives Taylor Stokes Matter is not @taylormstokes an unknown movement Staff writer in modern America. Despite provoking a slew of differing ideological reactions, there’s no way to ignore its participants, especially not in the digital age.

We see them splashed across headlines, demonstrating their outrage over the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland and Philando Castile, just to name a few. We see the group’s hashtag in Twitter bios and on t-shirts, demanding attention from idle peers. We hear their chants, their cries and more frequently their screams on live television and social media platforms, voices of anger and anguish from across the country. Whether you agree with their message is another matter; the fact is they’re here, and they are being heard.

When 13th dropped on Netflix last week, I automatically assumed it would follow a story similar to the ones already heard through Black Lives Matter. After all, the whole point of director Ava DuVernay’s documentary is to discuss mass black incarceration and the idea of modern-day slavery. Following a chronological timeline by

from the moment the 13th Amendment was ratified to the 2016 presidential election, it discusses the various ways policy makers and the 13th Amendment allows for a form of slavery to continue to exist — namely, in our prison systems. A short read of the summary allowed me to expect all of this. What I didn’t expect was to find myself curled into a stiff seat in McKeldin, struggling to hold back tears as the ending credits rolled.

What makes the story so powerful is that while it’s historical, there are numerous ties to modern day life, which makes the message all the more relevant.

The documentary begins with covering the 1915 Civil War drama, The Birth of a Nation, focusing in particular on how the black man was portrayed in such a film. With the recent release of a movie of the same name by black filmmaker Nate Parker (review on page 8), including the original in 13th showed why exactly the movie needed to be replaced.

Perhaps even more sobering was the way the documentary closed. Right before the closing statements, nine short, low quality videos were played one after the other — each depicting the death of a black man by the hands of police.

Another refreshing trait in this documentary is that while the story clearly leans left, it didn’t pass up the opportunity to criticize both sides of the aisle. From Ronald Reagan’s war on drugs to Bill Clinton’s “three-strikes” policy, each movement was analyzed and thoroughly discussed, allowing a new perspective on each.

They even featured both 2016 presidential candidates as part of the problem, sparing neither in regard to race relations. It created the feeling that this wasn’t a political or ideological issue — this was, and still is, a human issue.

What truly makes this documentary so successful is the call to action it brings.

It’s one of those stories that demands change, and as a viewer it’s hard to disagree.

This change can be through the legal system, political lobbying or by being more conscious of inherent prejudices. No matter what course of action you decide to take, at least you’re doing something, which ultimately is the whole point of the film itself.

13th is bold, graphic and an absolute must-see.

13th features a powerful mix of images (such as the top photo), both recent and long-archived video and interviews done with leading minds in diversionsdbk@gmail.com the worlds of politics, race relations, justice reform and community activism. Pictured above is author Michelle Alexander. photos via youtube

interview | coast modern

Getting to know indie pop duo Coast Modern On the verge of a new album, the “Hollow Life” singers discuss creativity, life on tour and sliding into the DMs Rising indie Miranda Jackson p o p b a n d @DBKDiversions Coast Modern found its way For The DBK to the nation’s capital Oct. 6, where it took the stage at 9:30 Club as the opening act for The Temper Trap’s U.S. tour. Earlier that week, the band played a set at The Meadows Music and Arts Festival in New York, a slight derailment on the small venue path that the tour was originally taking.

Between photo shoots, 9:30 Club cupcake tastings and exploring the streets of northwest Washington, the duo, comprised of Luke Atlas and Coleman Trapp, sat down with me to discuss performances, production and good laughs.

The Diamondback: How did the two of you meet one another?

Coleman Trapp: We were by

introduced.

Luke Atlas: Mutual friend.

I had just moved to L.A., been there for like a week. Moved from Seattle. I didn’t know a single soul, so someone was like, you should meet this guy. We played tunes on the first day, each other’s tunes.

We were like, “This is cool.

We should work together. We should write.” Soon after that, we started writing together, just random weird projects. Never stopped.

DBK: What is creating music with each other really like then?

Do you share the same creative process?

CT: We have a similar process. I feel like … there’s a common thread that you’ll hear from a lot of writers and producers, which is like cultivating a chill environment where ideas can flow without judgment and keeping an open mind and not

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LA: Yeah, it has to be kind of like playtime. We create this environment where we can get really weird and basically just mess around until something sounds right, creates a vibe — CT: It’s like surfing. You’ve got to ride the wave.

LA: Sometimes you crash and you go under, too deep.

CT: Sometimes you try too hard and you’re just out of energy, and the day is over and your ass has been kicked and you have nothing to show for it.

DBK: What was recording your first single, “Hollow Life,” like?

LA: It was just in my little home studio, like all the rest.

We write and record everything in the same small studio.

CT: And the writing and recording process isn’t a separate process. In fact, a lot of the vocals that we’ve released are the original demo vocals from the writing session, like “Hollow Life” and “The Way It Was.” LA: Yeah, because we work so quickly it’s like, the beat starts forming … it’s like Coleman is on the side humming shit and then we get on the mic — it’s a very whirlwind process and at the end you’re sort of just like,

where did that come from?

DBK: Who or what inspires your music the most?

LA: It’s hard to choose.

CT: Who’s like the archgod of the scientology religion?

Whoever that is. Zanthor or whatever.

LA: Maybe it’s just like nature, a tree.

CT: Mama nature?

LA: Yeah. It’s all wiggly.

There are no straight lines.

DBK: What can fans expect from your upcoming album?

LA: It’s going to be a wild ride.

CT: If you’ve heard our live show, you’ve heard some of it.

But you’ll get to hear the actual recording of it with all the bells and whistles and vibe. Maybe some new songs that aren’t in our live show, but our live show is already packed with stuff that people haven’t already heard.

DBK: You guys played your first show ever back in March.

Do you have any good tour stories to tell?

LA: Tour is a mind eraser.

Because you’re so much in the moment, finding food — CT: It’s very much like survival mode, in a weird way. …

I feel like there’s no reflection on the tour, and then you get off the road and everything just

sort of hits you. And it’s like, “Whoa, what just happened?”

But days off just exploring — like on our last tour we found ourselves at Yale University. It was across the street from the venue.

LA: We tried to sneak into the Skull and Bones, the secret Yale society.

CT: I noticed the huge, ominous black doors and I was like, “Wait, that’s the Skull and Bones.”

DBK: Did you get in?

LA: It’s very secure.

CT: But we took some irreverent photos from the steps.

LA: Meeting Matt Healy the other day was cool. He was very nice.

DBK: You two look a lot alike.

LA: Yeah I’ve been getting that for a while, so I was like, “I need to go talk to this guy.”

Plus, they stole our dressing room at the festival. It’s not their fault. We were in one half of the trailer and they were in the other. After we played, they were like, “OK, you guys need to get out. The 1975 needs the whole trailer.”

So I was like, I told him, “You took our trailer.”

CT: What did he say?

LA: Like, “Sorry, sorry I didn’t see you guys.” He was very nice.

DBK: Any last thoughts, questions, theories you want to expand upon?

CT: Can we tell the readers to not forget to use the force?

LA: Send us a DM. Slide into our DMs. CT: We want to meet the people. We like people.

LA: We’re creating a global task force.

CT: What’s the task?

LA: We’re going to discover the task later.

Later that night, Trapp and Atlas joined their touring bandmates onstage to play through a setlist of mostly unreleased music. At first, there was that blanket of endearing awkwardness that artists wear onstage early in their careers. Midway through the performance, synthesized rain sounds echoed through the room, and stage lights began to flash. Atlas pulled a rainstick on stage and asked the audience to close their eyes and picture themselves in the Amazon rainforest, an ambiance that led them into “The Way It Was.” By the end of the show, Coast Modern made sure everyone knew the band owned the stage. mjacksondbk@gmail.com

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10 | sports

BIG TEN GAME DAY

Maryland vs. Minnesota

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WR D.J. Moore A deep backfield has paced the team to four victories, but the Terps couldn’t generate a passing attack when Penn State limited the backs on the ground.

Coaches have emphasized a balanced offense this week, and Moore will likely play a role if the team achieves that status. The sophomore leads the unit with 17 catches for 239 yards and two touchdowns and should use his speed and elusiveness to power through a Minnesota secondary that allows 232.6 passing yards a game.

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LB Shane Cockerille Cockerille moved to linebacker this season after playing at quarterback and fullback to start his Terps career, and he’s soared to start his redshirt junior slate. While working to improve his eye control and reads, the Gilman product leads the Terps with 45 tackles, 10 more than the second-place defender. Cockerille’s next task comes against Minnesota’s two-headed backfield that averages 203 yards a game.

Through the first five games of the season, running back Lorenzo Harrison has posted

72.4

rushing yards per game, the second-most of any true freshman in the nation.

Coach DJ Durkin has emphasized improved pass blocking because the Terps have allowed

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Cornerback Will Likely, the squad’s top special teams returner, is 36 yards from

DL Steven Richardson The junior has been a force in the trenches this season with two sacks, one pass defended and one fumble recovery. Six of his 17 tackles have been for a loss as he’s improved to one of the leaders on the Golden Gophers’ defense. The Terps will have to focus attention on Richardson as they look to improve their offensive line play. The Terps surrendered four sacks and nine tackles for a loss against Penn State last weekend.

“It’s all about how you bounce back, how you respond. And that’s life. So yeah, we just got hit in the mouth.

I’m looking forward to going back out there swinging, seeing how we respond.”

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punt return yards in his career. He would be the second player in program history to reach that milestone.

KYLE STACKPOLE: 27-17 Maryland Despite struggling to stop the run, the Terps make enough plays on defense to bounce back from their first loss of the season.

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RB Rodney Smith

Smith has averaged 89.2 yards through the Golden Gophers’ first five games, pacing the backfield that features three players who have racked up at least 200 yards. This week, Smith should shoulder more of Minnesota’s offensive production with backup quarterback Conor Rhoda under center. Maryland’s rushing defense has been spotty this year, so defensive coordinator Andy Buh’s unit will look to buckle down against the redshirt sophomore runner.

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“We’re not like stressing out or freaking out about anything, like, it’s football, you know what I’m saying? So our mindset was ‘We’re going to go out there. We’re going to play hard and have fun.’”

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volleyball

Rookies connect in starting roles When the Daniel Bernstein M a r y l a n d @danbernsteinUMD v o l l e y b a l l team faced Staff writer then-No. 24 Illinois at Xfinity Pavilion on Oct. 2, freshman setter Taylor Smith had to combat an unexpected obstacle.

Coach Steve Aird said after the match the temperature in the building was too hot, which made the ball sweaty and difficult to by

pass. Nonetheless, Smith notched 47 assists in the 3-2 loss.

That effort impressed outside hitter Gia Milana, the Terps’ other rookie starter. The two players have developed a close connection this year, which has helped them push through the ups and downs of their first college season.

“I cannot even imagine how hard it is to come in and be a setter,” Milana said. “Setting in general

is difficult, and when we passed the ball [against Illinois] there was sweat on the ball when she was going to set, so it was really hard to keep that ball clean.

I think she did a really good job of working with the environment and coming up with sets when we needed them.”

Smith and Milana developed a bond living in the Leonardtown community during the summer. Smith said spending

time with Milana, whom she called “very laid back” but also “very fun,” set the foundation for their friendship.

Their chemistry has helped them handle oncourt adversity this season.

After practices and matches, the first-year players talk through what went well and areas for improvement.

Whenever one struggles, Milana said, the other is there for support.

“I’ll look at her and she’ll look at me when we make a mistake, and we’re both like, ‘OK, just chill out for second,’” Milana said. “We both know that we’re new at this and we’re going through it together, so it’s nice to have someone else who is in the same boat on the court.”

Smith and Milana have each endured rough patches in their first campaign in College Park.

In the Terps’ opening weekend of conference play against thenNo. 2 Minnesota and then-No. 3 Wisconsin, Smith was benched for inconsistent ball handling, and Milana recorded more attacking errors than kills.

Both have bounced back in recent weeks, though.

Smith regained her place in the starting lineup against Illinois, while Milana posted double-doubles in kills and digs at then-No. 23 Michigan and then-No. 21 Michigan State this past weekend.

That resiliency has made an impression on Aird, who views them as important pieces to the future of the

program. Smith leads Big Ten freshmen in assists per set this season, and Milana leads conference newcomers in kills per set.

Even so, the coach said they must continue to work hard to maintain their starting roles when talented recruits arrive in coming seasons. He believes next year’s recruiting class could end up ranked top-10 in the country. “[Smith and Milana] are having a pretty good start to their careers,” Aird said. “I think they’ve got bright futures. But we’ve got a truckload of talent coming in over the next few years … so they’ve got to keep improving.” dbernsteindbk@gmail.com

football

Durkin pleased with Pigrome’s demeanor Backup q u arterJordan Katz back Tyrrell @Jordan_KatzUMD Pigrome has Staff writer made an appearance in each of Maryland football’s first five games.

His most notable moment came against Central Florida, when the true freshman came in for injured quarterback Perry Hills and produced a 24-yard touchdown run to give Maryland a double-overtime victory in Orlando. After Pigrome’s first four games, he had 14 carries for 88 yards to go along with six completions for 76 yards.

Pigrome’s fifth game, however, was a different animal.

After Hills left the game with an injury, Pigrome was thrust into the toughest situation he has been in all year: down 10 points on the road against Penn State.

On his first drive, Pigrome found the end zone on a QB keeper to pull the Terps withby

stackpole From p. 12 numbers despite entering Saturday’s contest last in the Big Ten in rush yards per game (108.2). Now the Terps will go up against the conference’s fifth-best rushing offense, which, thanks to Smith and Brooks, rushes for 203 yards a game.

The Terps will have the advantage if they can limit the duo, especially because Minnesota will be without starting quarterback Mitch L e i d n e r, wh o s u f fe re d a concussion against Iowa on Saturday.

Leidner rushed for 174 yards on 40 carries over

in three points of Penn State.

However, the Pigrome-led offense failed to find the end zone in the second half as Maryland went on to lose, 38-14.

Given the tough situation Pigrome was in, coach DJ Durkin had praise for his quarterback’s poise after the loss on Saturday.

“I do like how he came in, and he doesn’t get too high, too low, he just stays even-keeled, which is good, what you like out of your quarterback, and I thought he did some really good things,” Durkin said.

Offensive coordinator Walt Bell echoed the sentiments from the coach.

“I will say this: He is a very cool character,” Bell said. “I’ve been in a bunch of those situations where you can visibly tell that on the inside they’re boiling; they don’t feel real well about it. And there is none of that in him.

I thought he had a really admirable performance.”

the Golden Gophers’ first five games, but he’ll watch from the sideline as redshirt junior Conor Rhoda, a former walk-on, takes the field at Maryland Stadium having attempted two career passes.

Rhoda will likely manage the game, handing the ball to either Smith or Brooks and dropping back to pass only when necessary. The Terps can derail that plan by shutting down the run, forcing Rhoda to make plays with his arm in front of what should be a solid crowd on Saturday afternoon.

In preparation for Minnesota’s run game, Buh brought some drills from fall camp to

quarterback tyrrell pigrome rushed for 88 yards and passed for 76 over his first four games, but his numbers dipped in the Terps’ loss to Penn State. marquise mckine/the diamondback Bell also knew that playing in a hostile venue such as Beaver Stadium would be an important moment for Pigrome’s growth as a player.

practice this week — he called them “oldies but goodies” — to emphasize hand placement and getting off blocks.

The “Terp drill” emphasized aggression and individual clashes.

“Just one-on-one blocking,” Buh said. “Man-to-man, nose-to-nose.”

D e fe n s i ve e n d M e l v i n K e i h n s a i d t h e e x e rc i s e h e l p e d t h e Te r p s “ h y p e things back up” and allowed players to hit each other more than they had earlier i n t h e sea so n . Sa t u rd ay, they’ll target that physicality toward defending Minnesota’s two-headed running attack.

The task will be a major factor in determining whether Durkin’s squad can avenge its first 2016 loss. kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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odoi-atsem From p. 12 see me when I get the ball in one-on-one situations, and they expect me to beat that defender every time.”

Odoi-Atsem had never played right back and spent two years withou t mu ch

“As we go forward, if he’s gonna play more reps, that’s one more life experience for him to build on so he can be better the next time,” Bell said.

Leading the team against Bell said, should pay off as Penn State garnered Pigrome Pigrome develops as a sigmeaningful playing time in a nal-caller in his scheme. hostile homecoming environment. The experience, sportsdbk@gmail.com

passing From p. 12 t h ro u g h Fr i d a y o f giving me a reason to do that? Absolutely.”

While the Terps surrendered four sacks, and Hills’ two turnovers came under pressure, Durkin didn’t place all of the blame on the offensive line. The first-year coach said the running backs’ reads, the receivers’ lack of separation downfield and the quarterbacks’ progressions also contributed to the breakdowns.

“We can effectively throw the ball,” Durkin said. “We’ve just got to do a better job all the way around — protection, routes, decisions, times to call passes, all of that.”

offensive involvement. So over the summer, the 5-foot-10, 150-pound defender crossed ba l l s i n to t h e b ox to h i s teammates almost every day on the Terps’ practice fields.

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wide receiver DeAndre Lane has 98 yards receiving this season. matt regan/the diamondback The team’s next test comes against Minnesota on Saturday afternoon.

Bell said the Terps will “overdo” everything in practice to work on all facets of their offense.

He expects the repetitions will help instill passing plans as Maryland prepares for a Golden

Gophers secondary that ranks second-to-last in the Big Ten. “The way coach Durkin runs his program, there’s always a sense of urgency whether you win or lose,” center Brendan Moore said. “It’s not an option.”

29, Odoi-Atsem sprinted down the right side of the field and crossed to midfielder Eryk Williamson in the box. Williamson then headed the ball to forward Sebastian Elney for a point.

After assisting forward Gordon Wild’s goal against South Florida on Sept. 5, Odoi-Atsem sent almost an identical cross to Williamson against Michigan State on Sept. 23. for midfielder Jake Rozhansky’s score.

When he hasn’t recorded an assist, Odoi-Atsem has worked to create opportunities by beating his defender one-on-one and pushing the ball into the attacking third.

“That kid’s the man,” goalkeeper Cody Niedermeier said. “I don’t know if any team should underrate him with his speed and what he can do with the ball. I love playing with him. He’s one of the most soft-spoken

guys who leads by example out there, which is awesome.

He’s going to have a successful future in the MLS.” Odoi-Atsem’s offensive skills have helped him log the most minutes (1,099) on the team this season, and he’s also shut down the right side of the field when foes test the Terps defense.

Maryland has recorded five straight shutouts, tied for the longest streak in school history, after struggling to defend counterattacks earlier this season. Odoi-Atsem isn’t the flashiest player — he’s one of a few Maryland players who doesn’t have a Twitter account, and he doesn’t speak much off the field — but he’s been a mainstay in the roles Cirovski has assigned him.

“He’s the most unsung, underrated, big-time player in college soccer,” Cirovski

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quarterback perry hills has had more success on the ground than through the air this season. In the Terps’ 38-14 loss to Penn State, Hills and freshman quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome combined to complete 10 of their 16 passes for 100 yards. marquise mckine/the diamondback

NOT PASSING THE TEST Rushing success creates imbalance with Terps’ production through the air

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n the first four games of the season, opponents didn’t force the Maryland football team to stray from its ground-centric game plan.

The team racked up 1,200 rushing yards, twice cracking the 300-yard mark and never recording fewer than 239. Running back Lorenzo Harrison emerged as a freshman phenom, while Ty Johnson showcased his breakaway speed with a career day in the Big Ten opener against Purdue.

The duo flashed its presence in the Terps’ loss to Penn State last weekend, but the Nittany Lions limited the backfield’s impact to 170 total yards.

The offense, meanwhile, struggled to generate passing production, an aspect

of the unit the coaches want to improve as the conference slate picks up.

“Part of our strength is we’ve been very effective running the ball and part of our weakness is we’ve been so effective running the ball, so then it’s become kind of a crutch for us,” coach DJ Durkin said. “When you’re in a game and you’re running the ball effectively, it’s hard to get away from that. I mean, why would you?

“So, you keep running the ball, but when you’re in a situation when you’re forced to throw it or you need to throw it, obviously we’re not as far along in our development in that area of our game.”

Johnson posted the Terps’ longest play of the game, scurrying 66 yards along the sideline on a checkdown from quarterback Perry Hills to tie the game at

seven midway through the first quarter.

Hills and quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome, in his longest relief appearance after Hills suffered a second-quarter shoulder injury, combined for 10 completions on 16 attempts for 100 yards. Excluding Johnson’s score, the Terps averaged 3.8 yards per completion.

In his weekly press conference Wednesday, offensive coordinator Walt Bell attributed the unit’s play distribution — 38 rushes to 16 throws — and stifled passing game to the Terps’ confidence on the ground.

He said that showed in the Terps’ play calls on first down. They rushed the ball 15 times compared to eight throws.

But Penn State, which ranks third in the Big Ten in passing defense and posed the most stout front seven the Terps had faced this season, didn’t allow the Terps

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to create shorter distances in later downs.

Maryland’s offense completed three of its eight first-down passes for a combined 11 yards. The other five plays ended with three incomplete passes, an interception and a sack.

The running game averaged about six yards a carry on 1st-and-10, and Harrison gained 26 and 44 yards on two of the attempts.

“You go out and you look at our first downs and how run heavy we are, and some of that can be confidence in what you do,” Bell said.

“Some of that can be confidence issues in what you don’t do great. But, you know, that’s all part of the balance of putting together a plan.

“Do we need to do a much better job of throwing the ball on first down? Absolutely.

Do we need to do a much better job Monday See passing, p. 11

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Cirovski believes in Odoi-Atsem

Senior helps team score, prevent goals Chris Odoi-Atsem played forward until he joined the Maryland men’s soccer team in 2013, but he didn’t like the position just for the scoring chances it offered.

Odoi-Atsem loved to set up opportunities for his teammates with his passes. The senior defender still gets the same feeling when he assists on goals now, and he’s done so three times this season by sending crosses into the box as a right back.

After playing center back his first two seasons, Odoi-Atsem converted to right back, where he had to develop familiarity through the attacking tendencies he used growing up. Now, Odoi-Atsem is one of the No. 1 Terps’ most dangerous two-way players.

“Chris has improved every year that he’s been here,” coach Sasho Cirovski said. “He’s incredibly competitive, super focused and very disciplined. He’s been a delight to coach. He’s a staple on our team every time we put our lineup on the board.”

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The Terps allowed Penn State to rush for 372 yards in their 38-14 loss. They can’t let Minnesota’s Rodney Smith and Shannon Brooks do the same. matt regan/the diamondback

Terps must limit Golden Gophers’ rushing attack KYLE STACKPOLE @kylefstackpole FOOTBALL COLUMNIST One play stood out in Maryland football defensive coordinator Andy Buh’s mind as he spoke at his weekly press conference Wednesday afternoon, three days before the Terps attempt to bounce back against Minnesota.

With eight minutes left in the third quarter of Penn State’s 38-14 win Saturday afternoon, Nittany Lions running back Saquon Barkley took a pitch and ran to his right.

Cornerback Will Likely charged up to make the stop about four yards behind the line of scrimmage, but Barkley hurdled him, beat the other defenders to the edge and tightroped

along the sideline for a 13-yard gain.

Buh cited Barkley’s speed, elusiveness and ability to “stop on a d i m e ” a s rea s o n s M a ryl a n d struggled containing the sophomore, who rushed for 209 yards on 31 carries. In preparation for the Golden Gophers, Buh noticed some of the same traits in running backs Rodney Smith and Shannon Brooks.

For the Terps to move one win away from bowl eligibility, it’s imperative they force Minnesota to try to beat them through the air.

“They can break tackles. Several teams that they have played have had a hard time tackling them after first contact,” Buh said. “So a lot of hats to the ball, keeping our eyes up, practicing good fundamentals, swarming the ball … and limiting the times we are in one-on-one situations with them

because they are pretty dynamic.”

On the surface, the Terps run defense excelled over their first four games, allowing 119 yards a game en route to starting 4-0.

But look closer and you’ll see signs of weakness. Central Florida rushed for nearly 200 yards.

Florida International had 202 on the ground. Maryland’s versatile running attack provided more than enough offense to secure victories in the contests, and the success hid the Terps’ flaw.

Then came the Nittany Lions, who exploited the Terps by rushing for 372 yards, 81 of which were from dual-threat quarterback Trace McSorley.

Penn State posted those See stackpole, p. 11

High School, earning WCAC Player of the Year and first team All-Met honors in 2012. In 2011, DeMatha went undefeated and was No. 1 in NSCAA’s high school rankings.

But when Odoi-Atsem arrived in College Park in 2013, the Terps were stacked on offense. Cirovski needed help on defense, so he asked the Mitchellville native to play center back.

Odoi-Atsem worked with Cirovski on his one-on-one defending and communication throughout the summer. Odoi-Atsem describes himself as quiet, so yelling to his teammates about spacing was one of the hardest parts of his transition.

He earned the starting job as a rookie on the team that lost in the NCAA championship to Notre Dame.

Cirovski recruited Odoi-Atsem to play right wing with his speed and ability to shut down counterattacks.

The veteran coach said center back was a “short-term solution.”

So, after Odoi-Atsem’s junior year, Cirovski moved him to right back.

“I told [Cirovski] I can play anywhere he needed me,” Odoi-Atsem said. “At right back, you have to worry about the same defensive responsibilities as well as the attacking responsibilities. [My teammates] See odoi-Atsem, p. 11