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U to fund 6 Title IX staff Amid pressure over SGA fee proposal, univ announces new positions across 2 offices

The University of Maryland announced Tu e s d ay i t will fund six new positions across two offices to further address sexual misconduct, according to a university statement. The decision comes after the SGA voted in September in favor of an annual $34 student fee to assist the funding of the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct and after Student Government Association executives met with university President Wallace Loh on Sunday to discuss the issue. “Earlier this year, we approved funding for three new OCRSM s ta f f p os i t i o n s, i n c l u d i n g a deputy director, a sexual misconduct investigator and a standing by

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this rendering shows the proposed renovated exterior of Cole Field House, as viewed from the north side near Maryland Stadium. image courtesy of alana carchedi

Univ., UMB officials share developments on partnered sports medical center in Cole Field House

will also contain an orthopedic clinic open to the community that will provide high-level care for sports-related and orthopedic injuries. “The Center for Sports Medicine, Health and Human Performance at Cole Field House will deliver to the state’s citizens the power of partnership,” university President Wallace Loh said in the release. “Bringing together clinicians and scientists from the state’s two biggest public research universities under one roof creates connections that will contribute to breakthroughs in human health.” In addition to the $3 million from MPowering The State, officials expect the facility’s research to attract grants and donations in the future, university spokesman Brian Ullmann wrote in an email. See cole, p. 2

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Clinton, Trump agree on college Both candidates cite disapproval of high costs, student debt Conversation about college Rebecca Rainey affordability has @RebeccaARainey been drowned Staff writer out this election cycle, but presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are similar in more ways than one when it comes to student loan debt. The candidates’ comments specifically on student loan debt are, at times, almost identical. “The students are choking on those loans,” Trump said at a Pennsylvania rally in September, according to a Washington Post article. “They can’t pay them back. Before they start, they’re in trouble. And it’s something I hear more and more and it’s one of the things I hear more than anything else.” Clinton made similar comments at a

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hillary clinton, the Democratic nominee, speaks on the campus in October 2014. file photo/the diamondback donald trump, the Republican nominee, speaks at a 2013 National Harbor event. image via wikimedia commons

January town hall event that took place in New Hampshire. “You know, cost for college should not be a barrier, and debt should not hold you back,” Clinton said as members of the crowd raised their hand acknowledging that they had student loan debt. “Right now, we have 40 million Americans holding $1.2 trillion in college debt. I met — yes, I see hands! Everywhere I go, I see hands.” Although Trump does not have any policy information on his website about his college affordability plan, he has touched on the subject several times at his campaign events. “We would cap repayment for an affordable portion of the borrower’s income, 12.5 percent; we’d cap it,”

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

fficials from the University of Maryland and the University of Maryland, Baltimore announced updated plans Wednesday for what they expect to be the signature program stemming from the new $155 million Cole Field House. The Center for Sports Medicine, Health and Human Performance, which “brings life” to the strategic partnership between this university and the Baltimore campus, will specialize in research on neuroscience and traumatic brain injuries, said UMB President Jay Perman. An initial $3 million from the state of Maryland — provided by the MPowering the State initiative — will be invested into research conducted by experts from both campuses, according to a university communications news release. The center

review committee coordinator,” the statement read. “And effective immediately, we have approved new funding for another sexual misconduct investigator.” University administration has also approved two new positions in the CARE to Stop Violence office “to increase counseling and outreach efforts,” according to the statement. Loh and Linda Clement, the university’s Vice President of Student Affairs, arranged a meeting with three SGA leaders — President Katherine Swanson, Vice President of Student Affairs A.J. Pruitt and chief of staff Mark Russell, Pruitt said. At the meeting, the administrators said they wanted to increase funding for the office and did not want to pass the burden onto students, Pruitt said.

Trump said at an Oct. 13 rally in Ohio, according to the Post. “That gives you a lot to play with and a lot to do.” Trump added that after 15 years of making full payments students could “get on with their lives.” This means he would allow student loan repayments to be capped at 12.5 percent of their income, and after 15 years, if the loan hasn’t been repaid, the remainder would be forgiven. “Students should not be asked to pay more on the debt than they can afford, and the debt should not be an albatross around their necks for the rest of See election, p. 3

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UN leader speaks on global issues Ban Ki-moon gets honorary doctorate at university event When United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon was 18, he visited the United States and met with President John F. Kennedy at a student conference. Kennedy told Ban and about 120 other students, “The national powers are not that important. What is important is that … you are ready to lend helping hands to people who need them.” That moment in 1962, Ban said, inspired him to think about what he could do to best serve his country. He decided that serving as a government official, particularly a diplomat, would be the best way to contribute. Now, just three months from the end of his near decade-long tenure as U.N. Secretary-General, Ban came to speak to a full Dekelboum Concert Hall at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center about the “Do Good Generation” on Friday. by

Naomi Grant @NaomiGrant7464 Staff writer

After Ban co-hosted the global climate summit, Climate Action 2016: Catalyzing a Sustainable Future, with the University of Maryland in May, Robert Orr, dean of the public policy school and a special advisor to the Secretary-General on climate change, invited Ban back to this university to speak. Ban discussed climate change, the international refugee crisis, promoting peace and other topics before accepting questions from the audience. Ban emphasized that college students can play a large role in solving these and other world issues. As Ban is nearing the end of his term, he has received invitations from all over the world, Orr said, to come and reflect about his experience at helm of global politics and diplomacy, having accomplished “a great deal” over the last decade. “The opportunity of having the Secretary-General here talking to youth about their role in solving global problems is very special for our community,” said Orr. “We are obviously doing a lot of good … in our local area and in our state but we want … to also have an impact globally and there’s no better person than Ban Ki-moon … See ban, p. 3

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Poor conditions in STEM buildings inhibit learning

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

University of Maryland Police responded to reports of an animal complaint, a hate bias incident and a dumpster fire, among other incidents this past week, according to police reports.

ANIMAL COMPLAINT Early on Oct. 13, University Police received a report from the Riverdale Police Department. The report said a vehicle had struck a deer, and the animal could still be alive, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said. At 1:52 a.m., University Police responded to the area of Adelphi Road and Curry Drive, where they euthanized the deer, Hoaas said. This case is closed.

DUMPSTER FIRE University Police responded to L ot 4b on Saturday at 12:50 p.m. for a report of a dumpster fire, Hoaas said. This university’s Fire Marshal’s Office handled this incident, she said. This case is closed.

FOUND CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE On Saturday at about 4 a.m., University Police responded to the Shuttle-UM Facility. Once they reached the facility, officers obtained a black backpack, which cont a i ne d m a r iju a n a and paraphernalia that had been found on a bus, Hoaas said. The officers took the property back to University Police Headquarters for destruction, she said. T h is case has si nce been closed.

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Students say aging buildings make class environment “uncomfortable”

On Saturday at 7:38 p.m., an officer responded to University Police Headquarters, where a female student at this university reported that an ex-boyfriend was added to a group chat between her and her friends and no one in the group chat claimed to have added him, Hoaas said. The reporting student was concerned this person had hacked into her phone, Hoaas said, but there is no concrete evidence to support that claim. An officer suggested the victim contact their cell phone carrier to see if they could provide an answer, Hoaas said. “A s i t s t a n d s n o w there’s nothing further to do with this case from our standpoint,” Hoaas said. University Police told the student to contact them if she can obtain more information. The case is suspended.

When Angela Jacob William Wright @angela_jacob13 walks into the Chemistry Staff writer Building every day, he wonders when he’ll see some changes. Built in 1952, the academic building was last renovated 14 years ago. Facilities Management has given it a quality index score of 4, or needing “comprehensive modernization” on a scale where five calls for “demolition, replacement or downgrade use,” according to its website. Wright, a sophomore computer engineering major, said the age and organization of the building and lecture halls are not ideal for students. “I feel like definitely it affects my ability to learn because if I’m uncomfortable sitting down, then I’m not entirely focused on what the professor is teaching in the lecture,” he said. “My taller friends, they have a lot of trouble with the space, so I just feel like the seating arrangements of the classrooms and the lecture halls are just terrible, really.” For freshman computer science major Emily Lempka, the old building and its lecture halls have a negative effect on her motivation. by

HATE BIAS University Police responded to Denton Hall at 5:17 p.m. Saturday for a hate bias incident. A female student rep o r te d t h a t b e t w e e n 4:10 a nd 4:4 4 p.m., a raci a l slu r wa s fou nd on a chalkboard outside her room. Officers searched the area and eventually erased the slur, Hoaas said. T h is case rema i ns open and active.

cole From p. 1 “ We ex p e c t t h a t s e e d funding will lead to new interdisciplinary, inter-campus grants from a variety of foundations and other sources,” Ullmann wrote. “In addition, we envision tremendous interest from the alumni of both universities to support the research enterprise in the Center.” The project will be codirected by this university’s biology professor Elizabeth Quinlan and Dr. Alan Faden of UMB, Perman said. Dr. Andrew Pollak, chairman of the De-

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“It’s just dimly lit, chalkboards everywhere. The color scheme just screams old,” she said. “If the room’s kind of just a downer, I wouldn’t really want to pay attention or do anything.” Both Wright and Lempka said they would like to see the Chemistry Building renovated if possible to create a better learning environment for them. Facilities Management ranks each building on the campus on a scale from one to five, with one indicating the best quality and five indicating essentially the building is ready for demolition. Many of the university’s STEM buildings — including the Physics Building, Glenn L. Martin Hall and the Mathematics Building — are ranked as 4s, which means substantial renovation is needed. “It’s a rating factor to give you an indication of how good the building is and how well it meets the needs of the research, or the teaching, for that matter,” said Jack Baker, Facilities Management’s executive director of operations and maintenance. “It’s not just research related; it’s for whatever the mission of the building is.” Baker said Facilities Management tries to match higherend research with newer build-

partment of Orthopedics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, will oversee the development of sports medicine as well as clinical care. “We intend for this to be a magnet facility for sports medicine in the greater D.C. metropolitan area,” Pollak said. “The same high-level sports medicine care that’s available to the elite athletes at the division one program at the University of Maryland … will now be available to the entire student body on [the] campus, to the greater campus community, the Prince George’s County community and the rest of the [D.C. area].” Although the center will

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Shady Grove biomedical facility breaks ground The new Rebecca Rainey Biomedical @RebeccaARainey Sc i e n c e a n d Education FaStaff writer cility coming to the Universities at Shady Grove could mean more educational and employment opportunities in science, technology, engineering, math and medical sciences for University of Maryland students. “We may very well offer courses at [the Biomedical Science and Education Facility] that are not available in College Park,” university President Wallace Loh said during the groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday in Rockville, the location of the Shady Grove campus. “We’re trying to spread it out, because they have the capacity here.” The 220,000-square-foot facility will bring 11 degree programs, including engineering, biotechnology, dentistry and information science through a partnership of three research by

ban From p. 1 to dialogue with us about what doing good internationally looks like today.” Before Ban’s speech, university President Wallace Loh awarded Ban an honorary doctoral degree in public service. After receiving his honorary degree, Ban declared himself a Terp. “Like your mascot, I spent a lot of time up to my neck in sticky situations,” he said.

election From p. 1 their lives,” Trump said at the rally, according to The Post. Trump has also spoken publicly about institutions’ allocation of endowment funds and how they are rarely student-focused. “Many universities spend more on private-equity fund managers than on tuition programs, but they should be using the money on students, for tuition, for student life and for student housing,” Trump said at the Pennsylvania rally, according to The Post. “That’s what it’s supposed to be for.” Clinton, however, has detailed an extensive college affordability plan on her campaign website, and has also made her plan a key part of her campaign throughout this election cycle. “We should and we will make public colleges tuition-free for families earning less than $125,000,” Clinton said during a September rally in New Hampshire while alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders, according to a Chicago Tribune article. Her campaign website also details her college affordability plan, including promises of free tuition at community colleges, allowing students to refinance their loans at current rates and a $25 billion fund for historically black colleges. “I want to make it absolutely clear that you will not have to borrow money for tuition to attend a four-year public college or university under my plan,” Clinton said at the New Hampshire town hall meeting. “Under my plan, you will be able to refinance to the rate that currently exists,

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universities — this university, University of Maryland, Baltimore and University of Maryland, Baltimore County — said Stewart Edelstein, executive director of the Universities at Shady Grove. “We’re helping the region grow, and we’re helping the regions grow in the industries that are going to be important to its future,” Edelstein said. The building is set to open in 2019, and the facility’s programs will not only broaden opportunities for students in Montgomery County, but also entice local businesses to invest in USG graduates, said USG Board Vice Chair Michael Knapp. “Businesses in Montgomery County don’t need to go looking for talent; we need to cultivate it,” Knapp said to local officials and more than 100 students who attended the ceremony. The facility will be essential to developing a strong local workforce, Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford said.

“We are committed to making sure our schools and universities are creating opportunities that pave a clear pathway to careers,” he said. The building, designed by architectural firm Cooper Carry and its partner Lake/Flato, is set to be “one of the most sustainably sourced and built laboratory buildings in the country,” according to a news release from USG. The multipurpose building will house laboratories, collaborative learning spaces, academic offices and student services, according to the release. The space will “open up a whole new student life,” said USG student ambassador Eleni Stamoulis. “We will be able to do a lot more to help the student population.”

“Unlike your mascot, rubbing my nose will not bring you good luck.” Ban’s visit also ties in well with the recently launched Do Good Initiative on the campus, Orr said. The Do Good Initiative is a $75 million effort to support student philanthropy and work in social change through expanded curricula, extracurricular activities, additional resources and a new campus facility. “The launch of the Do-Good campus just two, three weeks ago certainly reached [Ban’s]

radar screen and he was very excited to see that our campus is mobilizing,” Orr said. “I think he’s attracted to what’s happening from climate change and other big issues, but also that we’re organizing to educate our students to not only to do well but also do good.” Ban said May’s climate summit at this university has helped “to accelerate progress on the ground.” He also tied climate change to the international refugee crisis. Globally, 65 million people have been dis-

so all those students with 5 to 10 to 12 percent, they’re going to be able to drop it to 3.5, 3.8, 4 percent,” Clinton said. Today, the total number of student loan debt is about $1.4 trillion, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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title ix “After meeting with the students from the SGA, [Loh] said, ‘Look, let’s do that one better and put resources in right now,’” university spokesman Brian Ullmann said Wednesday. Pruitt, who originally proposed the Title IX fee, said the fee proposal would stay on the table for now, but he was “very happy with the progress.” “Six additional positions are a great start,” Pruitt said. Pruitt said he and Swanson will meet with Loh again Friday to continue the discussion. Moving forward, Pruitt wants to assure providing sexual misconduct resources is a priority for administration. One of his main concerns is that the current agreement does not address prevention of sexual assault, he said. University spokeswoman Crystal Brown said she believes the administration and SGA are “well-aligned” on the issue, and the administration “has the same goals SGA has in terms of supporting the Title IX office and funding Title IX.” “The university supports the advocacy efforts of the

SGA on these issues,” Brown wrote in an email. “We have the same goal: to properly fund the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct and ensure that the necessary resources are provided to execute the important work of this office.” The university currently spends more than $2 million a year on preventing and investigating sexual assault across all offices, which include CARE to Stop Violence, the University Health Center, Office of Student Conduct, Office of the General Counsel, Office of Resident Life and the Counseling Center, according to the statement. More than $1 million of this money is allocated for the Title IX office, up from $725,000 in fiscal 2016. “My office is collaborating with student government and the university on funding efforts, and this is a step in the right direction,” Carroll wrote in a statement to The Diamondback on Wednesday. “Our partnership is focused on movement forward and best serving our campus community on issues of civil rights and sexual misconduct.” The Title IX office has been operating at an “under-resourced, under-staffed pace,” Carroll said in a Sept. 20 Diamondback article. In an Oct. 12

guest column in The Diamondback, Carroll had urged students to support the SGA’s fee proposal. “Additional resources are needed to properly handle our growing caseload and — critically — to expand education and prevention efforts across the campus,” she wrote. “The responsibility for this effort does not rest with any single group … 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 student-led prevention initiatives.” The SGA voted 32-1 to approve the Title IX fee with no abstentions on Sept. 28, The Diamondback previously reported. The fee will be brought to the Committee for Review of Student Fees in the coming weeks, and if that committee approves it, it will be sent to Loh’s desk. Should Loh approve the fee, the University System of Maryland Board of Regents would then have the deciding vote.

placed from their homes as of 2015 – the highest number of people displaced since the end of World War II, Ban said. The U.N. convened for the first time in its 71-year history to discuss the global movement of migrants and refugees in mid-September, he added. “Climate change is one of the reasons why [their] living conditions are deteriorating,” he said. “Let us build bridges of mutual understand rather than erecting walls and barriers.” Senior Maya Spaur, director

of the Student Government Association’s Sustainability Committee, said she was pleased Ban dedicated so much time to climate change. Spaur, a government and politics and environmental science and technology major, hopes to work for the U.N.’s environmental program and has always been impressed by Ban’s leadership on climate change, she said. “I thought it was going to be more focused on how we can invest in philanthropic human rights oriented ways,” Spaur

said. “This was … a surprise for me to hear to much about climate change.” The event concluded with questions and answers. Orr asked Ban about effective leadership. Ban said although everyone has a different style of leadership, it is important to lead by example. “Sometimes you have to do much more than your staff,” he said. “If they work eight hours, sometimes you have to work nine or 10 hours.”

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New body cam rules necessary However, as of the publishing of this editorial, UniOn May 21, University of Maryland Police responded to a phony 911 call regarding a graduation versity Police officials have not formally specified party at Courtyards, attended by predominantly black which — if any — of these reasons would prevent students.To disperse crowds,police used pepper spray timely video distribution regarding controversial in a context which “did not meet University Police actions, such as the use of pepper spray. By not providstandards,” according to Police Chief David Mitchell. ing concrete standards outlining why footage is or is In response to rapidly spreading video posts on not released, University Police may foster confusion social media, public records requests and community and doubt in the community — the mindsets the supoutcry, the department decided to release footage pression of video attempts to prevent in the first place. There is no uniform national approach to releasing from the body cameras of two of the 12 officers who police video of sensitive situaresponded to the call. However, tions, with “many police departdespite distributing the videos our view ments failing to have clearlyto increase public understandformulated policies,” according ing of the events, University to a BBC article. This, coupled Police labeled this situation with inconsistencies in the re“unique,” and said it would not cording process, could prompt set a precedent for similar circommunities to lose faith in both cumstances in the future. the stringency and impartiality This editorial board believes of internal police investigations. University Police should have This university’s police departused this incident to establish ment could be different. criteria for when body camera In a statement following the pepper spray incifootage will be released. This would increase clarity regarding its current policy of evaluating use of force dent, university President Wallace Loh applauded Mitchell for his “transparency,” and maintained incidents on a “case-by-case” basis. We understand the myriad of potential reasons that University Police “recognize[s] that ‘comthat would justify withholding videotapes from the munity policing,’ not ‘confrontational policing,’ is public. Uncertainty breeds distrust, and an incom- essential to building trust.” And while the departplete description of events, theoretically caused by ment correctly responded to students’ concerns misleading camera angles or videos that begin in the regarding excessive use of force on this occasion, middle of the action, could stir potential outrage even it must establish clear, informative polices about in a situation in which an officer fully acted within when to release body camera footage and why in protocol. Additionally, body cameras often unin- the future. Only then will the department have tentionally record bystanders, who may be entitled finished building the invaluable trust “between the police and the policed.” to certain levels of privacy.

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The absurdity of trying to ban free speech

CAITLIN McCANN @thedbk Guest columnist

If you’re anything like me, when you first heard that the feared, hatemongering, right-wing Milo Yiannopoulos was due to speak on our beloved campus at the invitation of Terps for Trump, the famed Gloria Gaynor lyrics, “At first I was afraid, I was petrified” would have begun playing on repeat in your mind. You’d imagine the words rattling around and conjuring up images of a terrible scene: a horde of Trump supporters running rampant over the campus, tearing birth control off the shelves of the University Health Center and screaming obscenities about women, minorities and immigrants at the top of their lungs from the center of McKeldin Mall before immediately erecting a wall to divide the whole thing in half. A tad melodramatic, I suppose, but with all of the buffoonery of this presidential race, nothing seems out of the realm of possibility, so forgive my overactive imagination. But, I digress. My immediate reaction may have been dramatic. But even the more logical, levelheaded and reasonable part of me was still against Yiannopoulos coming to this university. Hysterics aside, I was outraged a diverse school would consider giving a platform to a speaker whose ideas so blatantly discriminated against and disregarded the interests of minorities on the campus. I read about the online petition circling through students at this university trying to block Yiannopoulos from attending. Then, enter my mother via text message: “Hey Milo is coming to UMD, you gonna go see him just out of curiosity?” she wrote. “Oh I just read about students trying to block him coming here, they might succeed,” I replied. She quipped, “Oh jiminy… No free speech allowed at a PUBLIC university?” And, just like that, my mother once again

reminded me, in her brazen and challenging way, that sometimes, interests and ideals collide in a boxing ring where only one winner emerges victorious. Suddenly I was faced with an ethical decision on both sides: the support of free speech, or the protection of those groups on the campus Yiannopoulos so blatantly discriminates against and spews hate speech about. The two seemed irreconcilable; it was one or the other. That was until I started thinking about the word my mother had chosen to put in all caps: public. This is a public university. And that means diversity. That means accents and religions, ethnicities and skin colors, genders and disabilities. That also means politics, a spectrum of which exists, despite the overwhelming idea that seems to permeate the campus that we’re exclusively liberal. It might be largely unpopular to like Donald Trump or any of his conservative supporters like Yiannopoulos. But don’t those political minorities, such as Terps for Trump, deserve the same consideration of free speech that any other minority group would be outraged to have taken from themselves? Why are politics not subject to the same protections? And so it is with this that I advocate that nobody demonstrates violently or hatefully when Yiannopoulos makes his appearance on Oct. 26. Voice disapproval, petition and make your opinions about his views known — those things I advocate for. But instead of trying to strip a campus group (a minority group, even) of its wishes to see a morally questionable speaker, let it have its delusions and instead offer a more palatable and effective form of protest: Vote. Vote. Vote. caitlinmccann32@gmail.com

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Exposing the pernicious causes and effects of colorism MARIS MEDINA “You’re @marisgmedina s o pretty for someone who’s Columnist s o dark,” my Filipino aunt mused, eyeing me up and down. This was the first contact we’d had in eight years: a microaggression-turned-compliment. It wouldn’t be the last time, either. For the entire month I spent back home in the Philippines last summer, I was branded “pretty dark-skinned girl.” I walked along entire supermarket aisles of skin-whitening products and Papaya soap, was photoshopped lighter in photographs and watched teleseryes, Phillipine television dramas, where lightskinned charismatic girls handled dark-skinned bullies. After 300 years of European and American colonization, Filipino colorism remains a pervasive, driving force behind internalized negative perceptions of dark-skinned individuals. Ronald Hall, a social work professor at Michigan State University, describes this internalization as the “bleaching syndrome,” which has partly resulted in the historic slavery and colonialism imparted by Europeans. During these eras, light skin tones and Anglican features were upheld as the beauty standard. As a result, colorism blatantly persists among a myriad of Europeancolonized countries around the world, including the Philippines. Feminist author Alice Walker first coined the term “colorism” in her 1982 essay,“If the Present Looks Like the Past, What Does the Future Look Like?” She describes it as “prejudicial or preferential treatment of samerace people based on their color.” In other words, skin bias toward those of lighter complexion. Although it’s clear racism still exists within our

country, colorism remains harder to differentiate, and therefore much more pernicious, given its usual existence within a singular ethnic demographic. Matthew Harrison and Kecia Thomas, when they were both psychologists at the University of Georgia, explored this trend within the context of the job market. Different resumes with varying educational levels and skills were assigned to light-skinned and dark-skinned applicants. Each resume was accompanied with the photograph of the applicant and then given to the experiment’s participants to judge the candidate more deserving of the job. Harrison and Thomas concluded that “skin color is such a salient feature of an applicant that it can actually transcend and ultimately overshadow one’s actual knowledge and experience.” They discovered that dark-skinned black males could ultimately possess more educational background and work experience but still not be as highly rated as someone with lighter skin and evidently less qualifications. Mills College sociology professor Margaret Hunter adds that lighter-skinned individuals benefit from the halo effect, a psychological phenomenon in which a perceived characteristic influences one’s overall perception of character. Because lighter-skinned people are closer to the Eurocentric standard of beauty, their worth and value in the workplace may be considered higher than their darker counterparts. Outside the workplace, colorism persists within schools. In a 1990 study conducted by sociology professors Michael Hughes and Bradley R. Hertel, it was found the education gap between whites and blacks were

shockingly near identical to the gap found between light-skinned and dark-skinned African Americans. Colorism doesn’t stop at these institutions, either. It’s prevalent in the TV shows we binge watch every weekend and the box office hits we view on screen. Just a couple of months ago, many fans of the late jazz musician Nina Simone flocked to theaters, only to see a lighter skinned Zoe Saldana portray her character. Many were outraged and cited it as a blatant example of colorism. When was the last time you watched a positive dark-skinned Asian character on TV? This is more difficult to remember than recalling the numerous dark-skinned actors who have played villains and bullies. The once-concealed topic of colorism is finally gaining more awareness through the likes of normal, everyday individuals on social media. #BrownAndUnbothered urged those once chastised for their darker complexions to post selfies, collectively celebrating the pride in having dark skin. With this progress comes the same, still-prevalent stratification found in our workplaces, schools and media. The stigma needs to be removed, and it starts with addressing this issue in these institutions that they commonly prevail in. Last week, I participated in #MagandangMorenx, a hashtag to promote “beautiful dark-skinned” Filipino girls on Twitter. I posted about the ridiculous existence of skin-whitening products and of being told to stay inside in order not to tan. That’s where the change begins, once we become unafraid to address colorism. This issue simply cannot remain black and white.

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The United States legal sys te m h a d a career year in 2016, as countless high-profile lawsuits dominated media airwaves. Corporations, tabloids and billionaire orangutan-demagogue hybrids all got in on the act, producing such classic cases as Oracle v. Hewlett Packard, Peter Thiel v. Gawker and Donald Trump v. Everyone. In fact, there were so many prominent courtroom battles that unless you were as vigilant as a paranoid college student on the lookout for stray clowns at midnight, you may have missed some important legal drama. Therefore, I have assembled a timeline of the most eye-catching lawsuits over the past 12 months that may have slipped under your radar. Oct. 28, 2015: Ted Cruz, professional senator and amateur Dracula cosplayer, is prosecuted for character defamation by the Zodiac Killer. The judge rules against Cruz, declaring that the Texan’s personality was so unpleasant that the constant zodiac allusions were giving the serial murderer too much bad press. Jan. 22, 2016: Fo l l ow i n g E l o n M u s k ’s a n nouncement that SpaceX would send a person to Mars by 2022, Mars files for a restraining order against all of humanity. “We sent a probe down to Florida to check for intelligent life, and when that didn’t find anything, we sent another one checking for any life in general,” Mars explained. “Based on what we

saw you do to your coral reefs, glaciers and beloved Cincinnati gorillas, we’re going to take a hard pass on the whole interplanetary colonization thing.” Feb. 13, 2016: In an ironic twist, famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson litigates Procter and Gamble for unpaid wages, insisting that his sleepy debate performances were actually just 90-minute long advertisements for NyQuil. May 19, 2016: K i m K a rd a s h i a n a r ra i g n s h e r husband for alimony payments, alleging that for months he cheated on her. As evidence, Kardashian cited how he would often sneak off to write long, poetic love notes professing his affection for “some guy named Kanye.” July 8, 2016: Bernie Sanders, Vermont senator and old man who crankily complains about the youth while feeding pigeons from a park bench, sues a Brooklyn restaurant for having the “chutzpa” to charge $7.98 for a corned beef sandwich. He contended that “99 percent of the sandwich is covered in 1 percent of the mayo. This deli is rigged.” Sept. 5, 2016: The Fraternal Order of Fashion Police finally drags one of their most notorious fashion fugitives to court. When asked why they requested Pope Francis be indicted for a first-degree assault on style, the organization explains “every year he wears white after Labor Day. Everyone knows that only Kanye is allowed to do that.” opinionumdbk@gmail.com

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a 77-year-old washington man died last month after being struck on his bicycle at the intersection of the Trolley Trail and Campus Drive. photo courtesy of jeff lemieux of Route 1 and Knox Road within one month, according to a Diamondback article, and after those incidents, Brennan said the city and county “kicked it up a notch” to prevent more accidents from occurring. “[But] I don’t want us to be reactionary again,” Brennan added. The city is working with the county to improve the Campus Drive intersection by either adjusting or removing a sound barrier, Wojahn said, which currently forces bikers to divert from the trail. However, these kinds of improvements have been in the works for at least a decade, Wojahn added. “We’ll continue meeting with them and continue to push them on this … they always talk about walkability … but it seems that the county practice when it comes to adjusting roads doesn’t match what they say,” he said. And some trail users, such as Greenbelt resident Laurie Lemieux who owns the Proteus Bicycle shop on Route 1, are growing frustrated. “You have to go around t h e so u n d ba r r i e r … i t’s awkward,” Lemieux said. “I’ve talked to Mayor Wojahn, he understands … they get it, they know what needs to be done.” The trail provides an alternate mode of transportation for many students, residents and other community members. Lemieux said she and her customers use the Trolley Trail frequently, and although there is a stoplight

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ArtHouse liquor license will go to county board The Hannah Lang College Park @hannahdlang City Council voted TuesStaff writer day night not to oppose a liquor license for MilkBoy+ArtHouse, a food and performance venue set to open on Route 1 early next year. The license must now be approved by the Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners, which administers and enforces alcoholic beverage laws in the state of Maryland. The earliest the license could be discussed is at the board’s Oct. 25 hearing. The bar and restaurant is a partnership between MilkBoy, a restaurant and live music venue in Philadelphia, and the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. It will replace The Barking Dog, a former bar that closed in 2013, and is expected to open early next year. It plans to offer a cabaret-type space on the first floor and a larger performance space on by

the second floor, and will aim to host performances or events three to five times a week, The Diamondback reported earlier this month. MilkBoy+ArtHouse applied for a Class B liquor license, which permits the sale of alcohol in restaurants. The council originally requested the venue implement a foodto-alcohol-sales ratio, which would require the establishment to sell one food item for every alcohol item sold. This is in place at other restaurants in the city of College Park, according to an Oct. 16 council document sent to the council from R.W. Ryan, the city’s public services director. However, MilkBoy+ArtHouse requested at the Oct. 4 council meeting to be exempt from this specification because of its classification as primarily a performance venue. The council agreed to the exemption and made additional structure-related changes to the property use agreement with MilkBoy+ArtHouse and sent the revised agreement to

MilkBoy’s representatives on Oct. 7. They received no response as of Oct. 18. Linda Carter, the attorney for MilkBoy’s partners, was made aware that the council would be voting on the liquor license at Tuesday night’s meeting, Ryan said. The council voted to ‘not oppose’ the liquor license for the venue instead of supporting it because representatives didn’t address their changes, District 1 Councilwoman Christine Nagle said. “In this case, since there are a couple of unknowns I think it wouldn’t hurt to just not oppose it,” she said. MilkBoy+ArtHouse had previously agreed to the Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners requirement to invest at least $1 million in structural improvements to qualify for the Class B liquor license. The board will ultimately be responsible for issuing the liquor license.

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common, Ferreira said: they are all extremely combustible. Ferreira said she routinely sees hay bales in living areas, mainly in the Greek houses, and that students at other universities will sometimes bring in sand and dump it on the floor. Ferreira cited one specific case — though not Halloweenrelated — of an “excessive” amount of string blocking the only stairwell in a sorority house at this university. “I was doing fire drills about 20 years ago, and there was string running up and down entire stairwell,” Ferreira said. “No one could come down the main steps. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.” Blocked exits are among the most frequent violations during Halloween, Ferreira said, but fog and haze machines also tend to be problematic. The penalty for violating these regulations is usually getting written up, Ferreira added. Although these machines are not prohibited, their use at events and parties has to be approved by the department,

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The group has also conChristine Condon Adele’s is “Long-term, we really want @CChristine19 closed for to look at food and how food sidered opening the space for dinner this complements programs and group reservations, and estabStaff writer semester, the space will take on a new purpose. “There will be some events that are scheduled in there during the evenings, things like spoken word that would’ve been held elsewhere in the building,” Stamp Student Union Director Marsha Guenzler-Stevens said. “They are also taking reservations for that space in the evenings.” The restaurant opted to close at 2 p.m. this semester as a result of the new Anytime Dining plan that eliminated dining points, the primary source of revenue for the restaurant in the evening hours. “It’s one of the most beautiful spaces in the building, and it also is a terrifically different kind of eating venue for students who eat in our food corridor and their dining

operating hours.” Stamp will likely bring in consultants to evaluate the student union’s offerings, including Adele’s, in early 2017, Guenzler-Stevens said. “Adele’s and seated-served kind[s] of food[s] will be one of those conversations we have with consultants in the coming months about food in general and how to use that very unique space,” GuenzlerStevens said. The Residence Hall Association’s Dining Services Advisory Board Chairman Ishan Shah said his committee is recommending a number of alternatives for how to use the space, such as moving the Maryland Dairy into the restaurant to free up its storefront for another vendor. “The justification was … when we’re removing a place for students to eat, give them back another place to eat that conforms to the Anytime Dining a little better,” Shah, a

lishing the restaurant as a more casual environment, Shah said. Prior to making a recommendation, the RHA committee would likely seek the opinions of students with dining plans via a poll, Shah added. Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple called the efforts to update the space a “collaborative venture,” and said he hopes that changes will take its legacy into account. “ I t ’s r e a l l y b e c o m e a campus institution,” Hipple said. “It’s been operating as Adele’s for more than 20 years, [and] it provides a service that is not found anywhere else on the campus, so I think we need to move forward really respecting all of that heritage.” O rga n i za t i o n s l o o k i n g to reserve Adele’s for an evening event can visit the restaurant’s website, or do so over the phone, Guenzlerccondondbk@gmail.com

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bout 90 buildings on the University of Maryland’s campus contain asbestos, and five of those are so hazardous that parts of those buildings are restricted to the public. The material, which was used in construction, is harmful only when it is friable, meaning easily pulverized or ground into a powder form, said Facilities Management Operations and Maintenance Director Jack Baker. That is when the material can become airborne and when there is a possibility of exposure. When asbestos is inhaled, it can cause serious lung damage and diseases such as mesothelioma and lung cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute. Director of Residential Facilities Jon Dooley gets calls every summer from parents asking him about exposure to asbestos in dorms. “Every single residence hall is safe,” Dooley said. “We refer students to the residential facilities website if they have any questions about asbestos in their dorm.” But “pretty much any building” more than 30 to 40 years old has it somewhere Baker said. The most common ways it was used in buildings on the campus were in floor tiles, pipe insulation, fire doors, doors between stairwells and ceiling tiles, Dooley added. Most of the South Hill buildings, which includes dorms on the Washington Quad, went through renovations in recent years and therefore don’t have any asbestos in them, Dooley said.

During the 2015–16 academic year, However, many of the North Hill buildabout 250 cubic yards of asbestos were ings still have the material. Cambridge Hall, Queen Anne’s Hall taken out of buildings on the campus, and Somerset Hall also went through said asbestos program manager Jennirenovations over the past few years that fer Rous. During the 2014–15 academic included getting rid of any asbestos. The year, 375 cubic yards were removed. “There is a downward trend in the next dorm up for renovation and asbestos removal is Dorchester Hall, accord- general amount of asbestos being ing to the 2014 On-Campus Housing removed,” Rous said. “Since no more was put into buildings Strategic Plan. after the 1980s, when South Campus you stop adding it and Commons apartcontinue removing m e n ts a n d Co u r t the material, it evenyards do not have astually is going to go bestos, Dooley said. away completely.” As for other buildThe asbestos inings on the campus, ventory at this unimore than 70 contain v e r s i t y, w h i c h i s non-friable asbesreferenced for contos, meaning there struction projects, is no exposure. Five o n ly h a s a b o u t 8 0 buildings — the Engipercent of the total neering Lab Building, amount of asbesH.J. Patterson Hall, tos on the campus the Reckord Armory, because not all of it the Mitchell Building can be safely tested and Francis Scott Key facilities management operations without making the Hall — have hazardous and maintenance director material hazardous, material and restricted areas, according to this university’s Williams said. Third party contractors take care asbestos inventory. Julius Williams, contract construc- of the removal, Baker said. All work tion supervisor for hazardous and ma- is done at night, after business hours terial services, said this university has or on weekends in order to minimize an asbestos management plan and that interruptions, Rous said. The removal the plan will address all restricted areas takes place inside a negative pressure containment area, which is in accoron the campus in the next year. Besides emergency asbestos removal dance with federal and state regulation. in hazardous areas, this university also An industrial hygienist samples the removes asbestos as part of a specific air afterward to make sure there is no asbestos contamination. renovation already taking place.

Most asbestos on campus is perfectly safe and we remove it when doing construction.

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“These are the safest projects that anyone does because of the regulations and also because people are trained to remove asbestos safely,” Baker said. In the past year, the Armory, Toll Physics Building, the Chemistry building, Cole Field House, the Benjamin Building and Kirwan Hall went through some asbestos removal. “Our asbestos management program on campus is top notch,” Williams said. “Our third party contractors, besides being trained specifically in asbestos removal, are collecting samples before, during and after asbestos removal projects in order to ensure the safety of workers, faculty and students on campus.” Currently, room 3306 in Kirwan Hall is going through a renovation and asbestos removal of floor tile, said Bill Olen, capital projects director. This project will be done by the end of October. Since 1979, this university and the state of Maryland have allocated several million dollars toward asbestos removal, according to the Residential Facilities website. The campus currently has its own budget for asbestos removal projects of about $250,000 to $500,000 per year, Williams said. “Any work we do to improve the campus hopefully has helped students and we hope to get to the point where asbestos won’t exist at all on campus anymore,” Baker said. “For now, most asbestos on campus is perfectly safe and we remove it when doing construction because it could break up and then it could be dangerous.” lfeingolddbk@gmail.com

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Why Bob Dylan deserves his Nobel Prize in Literature I n t h e summer of Jay Reed @TheJReed 2013, I dragged a lawn chair For The DBK outside Merriweather Post Pavilion in response to one of history’s most famous requests: “ C o m e ga t h e r ’ro u n d people. Wherever you roam,” singer-songwriter Bob Dylan sang. My father refused to buy tickets, claiming we would essentially get the same experience by sitting along the perimeters of the outdoor venue. So, without a ticket, I sat outside and waited to hear a man weathered by age play “Forever Young.” To this day I still don’t know if he actually did play it. The only song I could understand was “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” which sounded more like “A haaaaaar rainagonnafaa.” He was 72 years old then, what did I expect? “Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” It’s hard to believe that by

a 23-year-old Bob Dylan sang that lyric in 1964. Now 75 years old, he has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan is the first musician to win the award. The Swedish Academy awarded Dylan the prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Dylan’s influence is unparalleled by any American artist of his time — a time when the music landscape was flooded with British musicians. To the protest movement, he had a level of credibility unmatched by any Brit. His songs were rooted in American soil. He was a poet-historian hybrid of the ’60s. Many of his songs were news articles set to a rhythm; songs such as “Hurricane” or “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” that detailed cases of injustice, used quotes, characters and analysis. He was the songwriter of U.S. history. For every dated song, Dylan wrote a timeless one. “The Times They Are A-Changin’”

captured the sentiment of an era and simultaneously remains ageless to this day. Cases such as Rubin “Hurricane” Carter or Hattie Carroll may be in America’s past, but the times will always be changing and new ideas will always challenge society to swim or sink like a stone. The song, full of verses that withstand expiration, will always be relevant because “the present now will later be past” is an infinite reality. T h e re i s n o d o u b t i n g Dylan’s historical significance, but the Swedish Academy’s decision has received some pushback since its announcement Oct. 13. Perhaps it is Dylan’s abundance of music that gives the skeptics ammunition. How can this twangy Dr. Seuss win the Nobel Prize in Literature with lines like, “A fish that walks and a dog that talks”? Eve n I q u e s t i o n why Dylan’s “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” is seven minutes long when three minutes

would have been sufficient. Instrumentally the song repeats the same thing nine times, yet the story pulls you through. I feel like it’s some weird alternative Canterbury Tales prologue. With the ragman, the senator, Mona, the preacher, the rainman, even Shakespeare. At the end of each stanza he asks, “Oh Mama, can this really be the end?” and it’s not the end. I don’t understand everything Dylan writes, but I could easily say the same thing about John Steinbeck, also a Nobel Prize winner. Jokes aside, Dylan is the Faulkner of folk. He spares not a single detail, rhyme or inflection in his songwriting. A magnificent 11 minutes and 21 seconds long, “Desolation Row” is an example of the songwriter’s unconventional style. This song, difficult as any Advanced Placement English passage to decipher, is just one reason Dylan is eligible to win the Nobel Prize in Literature as a musician.

Should more musicians be considered for the award? Perhaps. The line that separates musicians from writers is typically blurry. Dylan is different. He is, without a doubt, more of a writer than musician. His skill with the harmonica has more to do with timing than technique. The harmonica breaks are always timed perfectly and follow stanzas that warrant reflection. “Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist Before it’s washed to the sea? Yes, and how many years can some people exist Before they’re allowed to be free? Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn’t see? The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind The answer is blowin’ in the wind” It’s as if the harmonica’s purpose is to allow a moment to ponder the series of rhetorical questions. “Blowin’

In The Wind” was an iconic protest anthem during the Civil Rights Movement, a movement Dylan was part of until he backed away from politics, feeling that his preaching had become phony. Dylan’s opinions on politics waned down since then. His response to winning the Nobel Prize in Literature follows this trend — it’s minimal. Dylan may never say how he truly feels about winning the award. Perhaps he believes folk isn’t literature at all. But folk is for the people. It’s a genre of music, where words are more important than chords and meaning trumps technique. Not every musician is a writer, but not every musician is Dylan. “Well, I try my best To be just like I am But everybody wants you To be just like them” Dylan is how he is, and how he is deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

essay | edm album issues

Zeds Dead and the problem with EDM albums For a genre Patrick Basler built on repeti@pmbasler tive kick drums and formulaic Staff writer drops, electronic music has an obsession with diversity. Recent albums from the upper class of mainstream EDM — Jack Ü, DJ Snake and Zeds Dead — are littered with a mish-mash disparate sounds and features. Why not throw a festival trap banger featuring 2 Chainz on the same album as a Justin Bieber-starring pop hit? Or blend the percussive stomp of big room house with the bright, shiny synths of ’80sstyled pop music? This “everything-and-thekitchen-sink” mentality is fairly new. EDM has been attracting hordes of neon-clad fans to shows and festivals for years now, but electronic music as we know it today only became an “album genre” in the last couple of years. Prior to that, sites like SoundCloud and Beatport made singles and maybe the occasional EP the format of choice for DJs and producers everywhere. The transition from singles to albums has been a tough one. After all, it’s a lot harder to make 10 or 15 good songs than it is to make one. by

Last week, Toronto dance music duo Zeds Dead released their debut album — seven years after releasing their first song. The group’s music has always blended sounds and subgenres, but their latest, Northern Lights, takes the contrasting sounds to a new extreme. Exhibit one: “Too Young,” featuring Rivers Cuomo and Pusha T. And yes, it’s every bit as bad as it sounds. The song features nauseating saloon piano, weird stabs of day-glo rave synths and middleof-the-road performances by Weezer frontman Cuomo and cocaine connoisseur Pusha T. In three minutes, it illustrates the biggest problem with Northern Lights and EDM albums in general: They can’t make up their damn minds. Even trap forefather RL Grime’s 2014 album Void, while thematically consistent, suffered from its desire to include a number of different genres, styles and guest vocalists. Of course, there are a couple legitimate reasons for EDM’s indecisiveness. First, producers are just that: producers. They rarely contribute their own vocals, so featured artists are the best way to get traditional melodies and engaging

lyrics into their music. Unfortunately, unless it’s a full-length collaboration, like Jeremih and Shlohmo’s No More EP, guest singers and rappers often give EDM albums a scattered feel, like a snapshot of popular music without any of the artist’s personal context. Not to mention that the desire to blend genres and vibes makes sense in dance music. DJs have long been cutting together and mashing up songs of every sort. Early EDM trendsetters like DJ AM drew inspiration from every corner of popular music, and even Zeds Dead’s DJ sets combine rave music, club music and hip-hop in a seamless, fistpumping package. And in a live setting, with an overly-excited, underage/ under-the-influence crowd, the all-over-the-place vibe of festival EDM can be thrilling. But as a template for albums — it just doesn’t work. There are good songs on these albums, but they’d almost always be better as singles. And while producers, compelled by the music industry to be serious artists, continue to make albums, maybe they will find themselves instead of getting lost in the process. pbaslerdbk@gmail.com

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Cirovski’s team shows resilience

Maryland Kyle Melnick men’s soccer @kyle_melnick g o a l k e e p e r Senior staff writer Cody Niedermeier jokes with his teammates that each netminder the Terps face has the best game of his life. As the top-ranked team in the country, the Terps have gotten each foe’s best effort. While the Terps played a tough nonconference schedule, they’ve been fatigued for some of their games while their opponents exert all of their energy in an attempt for an upset. Still, Maryland has displayed its resilience. The team was tired in its 2-1 win over American on Tuesday night after an emotional win against Wisconsin on Friday. The Eagles, meanwhile, gave their best effort against their local opponent. by

While some of their wins, like Tuesday’s, haven’t been the prettiest, the Terps have held off opponents to remain undefeated. “We have a bunch of competitors,” coach Sasho Cirovski said. “They know flat-out what it means to put the jersey on. They know we’re going to get other teams’ best effort. There’s times we’ve matched it for 90 minutes, and there’s times we’ve matched it for less than 90.” Cirovski said Maryland has the best soccer program of the 21st century, so opponents mark the matchups on their calendars. The Terps sitting atop the national standings adds more emphasis on a potential upset, the veteran coach said. By preaching to his team how important each contest is, Cirovski has instilled

a competitive mindset in his players, Niedermeier said. Still, the Terps try to ignore the pressure. To relax before each match, the players play music in the locker room, joke around with each other and pump one another up. “The players on the team, we really hold each other accountable and really try to raise our level each time,” Niedermeier said. “I don’t know what it is, but we’re always battling. Sometimes it takes too long and it takes a goal from the other team to wake up. The chemistry on this team can’t be matched.” After playing each Friday, Maryland has two to three days off before its next contest. With short rest, the Terps have endured slow starts in some of their midweek games. In a 2-0 win over San Diego on Oct. 3, Maryland recorded

forward Gordon wild (middle) scored the go-ahead goal in the Terps’ 2-1 win over American on Tuesday. reid poluhovich/the diamondback one shot in the opening 41 minutes. The next week, the Terps trailed then-No. 22 West Virginia in shooting, but they preserved the victory behind a career-high eight saves from Niedermeier. Maryland’s undefeated season was three minutes from ending Friday. Maryland trailed, 2-1, in the 87th minute but netted the equalizer one minute later and prevailed in overtime. The Terps clinched the Big Ten regular season championship and celebrated, jumping up and down on Ludwig Field with the trophy after the match.

Tuesday, Maryland tried to regroup from Friday’s nearloss but entered halftime tied at one with the Eagles. Cirovski yelled at his players to raise the intensity, and they responded with the game-winning goal in the 70th minute. “We just have to be humble and concentrate and treat every opponent with respect,” forward Gordon Wild said. “That’s how college soccer is. We’re a little bit tired. We gave our best, and thankfully it turned out well.” Cirovski has advocated for the college soccer season to be extended throughout the

year to give players proper rest. His proposed idea hasn’t been implemented, however, and the Terps have a difficult schedule, playing five ranked opponents so far. Yet they’ve still found ways to win, and they understand claiming a national championship will require more quick turnarounds. “There are still things we have to be better at,” Cirovski said. “But it’s difficult to find the time to train in those things. When you’re 12-0-2, it’s hard to be too upset.”

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KOVALCHICK From p. 12 Despite earning first-team All-Central Maryland Conference honors in 2013 and 2014, Kovalchick also began applying to various athletic training internships, which Jones recommended she explore. One of the places she applied to was Pivot Physical Therapy, a sports medicine clinic in Frederick. Kovalchick’s prior experience made her an easy hire, said Preston Anderson, who ended up serving as her mentor during the experience. “She would almost read your mind and knew what you needed and had it ready for whenever you needed it without you asking,” Anderson said. “We’ve had some interns in the past that haven’t been able to do that.”

Making a mark Kovalchick decided to attend this university because of its kinesiology program. But she wasn’t playing soccer at the time, so her parents recommended she explore other alternatives. She sought an internship comparable to the two she completed in high school. She sent several emails to faculty within Maryland’s sports medicine department, though she wasn’t expecting a response. But a week before Kovalchick moved to College Park, she was working with the university’s soccer programs. “We usually don’t have incoming freshmen involved because they don’t hear about the program until they start taking kinesiology classes,” said Amelia Sesma, the Maryland men’s lacrosse team’s head athletic trainer who Kovalchick worked under. “She hit the ground running, which doesn’t usually happen. She was always willing to help out with different games and events.” During her first week at this university, Kovalchick shadowed other trainers and set up

water coolers and equipment. She then became responsible for setting up pre- and postgame treatment in addition to staying up to date with the status of injured players. She assumed a lot of the same roles while working with Sesma and the men’s lacrosse team in the spring. “I was star struck by this big atmosphere,” Kovalchick said. “My high school’s training room was like a janitor’s closet. To be able to do all that already, it was amazing. I was in awe of it all.” On men’s lacrosse game days, Kovalchick arrived two hours before the game started to set up ice and water. As games progressed, she ensured every player was hydrated. After each contest, Kovalchick’s tasks depended on the statuses of different players. She set each player up on machines for post-treatment, organized tape and followed up with injured athletes. “It was just cool being a part of the team,” Kovalchick said. “Being a part of that journey was awesome, especially since they were the team that went to the NCAA championship. They’ll let you help them. Developing that relationship was really cool.” But as the men’s lacrosse team’s season ended, Kovalchick told Sesma she missed playing soccer. Despite playing intramural soccer, Kovalchick wanted an opportunity to compete at the Division I level. Sesma recommended Kovalchick reach out to Leone, who was hired in January. “[Amelia] was like ‘A bunch of people are transferring from the team, and they don’t really have a lot of people,’” Kovalchick said. “I didn’t think much of it at first, but I realized I really did miss soccer and this was a great opportunity.” Shortly after Kovalchick sent Leone several emails and her high school highlight tapes, he insisted she come to College Park to fill out the forms required to have a walk-on tryout.

When Kovalchick drove to campus to submit the forms, Leone requested that she join the team’s practice. She coincidentally had cleats in her trunk. Kovalchick’s speed of play and summer experience playing with other collegiate athletes stood out, Leone said. Three days later, she was on the team. “It’s really risky to put yourself on the line like that and see what you could do in a tryout,” midfielder Hope Gouterman said. “Right out of the gate, she demonstrated a type of confidence you don’t normally see. She made an immediate impact and you could tell she wanted to improve for herself and for the team.” Though she has appeared in only three of Maryland’s games this season, Kovalchick has a specific role. Before and after games, she is the first to play music and start dancing in the locker room. Gouterman said her positivity is contagious. “For me, it was we’re not just taking her because she’s a nice kid,” Leone said. “She plays quickly and we want to play that way going forward. She plays within herself. Not many people do that. She just doesn’t get nervous. She’ll be a good doctor.” Now a p l aye r o n t h e women’s soccer team she worked with last fall, Kovalchick is often in the training room with other interns and certified athletic trainers. On occasion, she will set up the treatment equipment for herself or her teammates before and after games. It’s the same two-sided perspective she had in high school. “[Men’s lacrosse coach John Tillman] said, ‘It’s weird seeing you get the treatment now,’” Kovalchick said. “I’m on cloud nine. I don’t know how I did all this during my first two years. I sent a few emails, didn’t expect to get a reply, got a reply and got the opportunity. It’s surreal.” sgelmandbk@gmail.com

stackpole From p. 12 “In anything in life, there’s no substitution for repetition,” offensive coordinator Walt Bell said. “If you want to be a great kiteflyer, you have to fly kites. You want to be a great weight lifter, lift weights. You want to be a great quarterback, you have to play quarterback.” E i t h e r w a y, t h e starting quarterback w i l l p l ay a ro l e i n the Big Ten’s thirdbest rushing offense (250 yards per game). The unit will look to rebound against the c o n fe re n c e ’s s e venth-best rushing defense after combining for 300 yards on the ground in its past two losses. M ichigan State’s running game, which

seniors From p. 12 Two of the team’s underclassmen reserves, defensive backs RaVon Davis and Elijah Daniels, had that chance as they helped filled Likely’s nickel spot on Saturday. Linebacker Jalen Brooks also played some snaps outside of his SAM position. While Buh said the f ro n t seve n p l aye d one of its best games of the season against the Golden Gophers ground game, he admitted the defense m i s s e d L i k e l y ’s presence. “Obviously, losing Will in the football game, that’s a major hit to us,”

is last in the Big Ten in yards, shouldn’t pose much of a threat to the Terps, who put together an improved performance against Minnesota. Aside from running back Rodney Smith’s 70-yard touchdown, defensive coordinator Andy Buh’s bunch held the Golden Gophers to 3.6 yards per carry. The Spartans’ quarterback situation is also in limbo. Senior Tyler O’Connor and re d s h i r t f re s h m a n B r i a n Lewerke split time in the team’s 54-40 loss to Northwestern last weekend, and they’re listed as co-starters on Michigan State’s depth chart for this week. Still, Durkin knows not to overlook a program that’s won at least 11 games five of the past six years and made the College Football Playoff a year ago. “ Fo r wh a teve r rea so n , they’ve had a couple losses,” Durkin said. “But when you watch tape, you know what you’re getting yourselves into. They’re a tough team.”

T h a t ’s n o t t h e c a s e , though, when comparing Michigan State to Maryland’s remaining opponents. The Terps follow their matchup against the Spartans with a trip to Indiana, an unranked yet formidable opponent, especially in Bloomington. Then they travel to No. 3 M i c h i ga n a n d No. 8 Ne braska, with a game against No. 2 Ohio State wedged between. Those just aren’t games Maryland is built to compete in. While Maryland has also struggled to hang with Michigan State, which has outscored the Terps, 61-22, the past two meetings, the Spartans’ performance has been unusually poor since starting the season 2-0. Maryland has been equally as terrible, if not worse, in its past two losses, but none of that should matter to fans if the Terps can earn a win. After all, it might be their last for a while.

Buh said. “Guys look up to him and listen to him. “Our motto is just next man up.” That’s the mindset safety Josh Woods said he adopted when Conyers suffered a torn ACL against Central Florida on Sept. 17. Woods, who added 30 pounds of muscles in the offseason, has started the past three games after joining the Terps as a wide receiver in 2014. The Terps offense has relied on reserves, too. Quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome made his first-career start against the Golden Gophers. While offensive coordinator Walt Bell appreciated the chance to get the rookie some repetitions, Pigrome committed three turnovers while Hills stood on the sideline in a red baseball cap. Plus, a Terps backfield that featured six co-starters had a

hole during Edmunds’ first game out with a fractured right foot. The players, however, wouldn’t lament the veteran losses. “We don’t have the mentality when one person goes down — no matter who it is — we’re going to be like, ‘Ah, we’re going to really miss him,’” left tackle Michael Dunn said. “We’d love to have him, but the next guy’s got to step it up.” That’s how the defense felt Saturday as their leader limped off the field.Defensive end Roman Braglio said Tuesday the players didn’t often need to verbalize their motivation because they knew the coaches’ expectations. “Whoever is coming up next,” Braglio said, “we’re going to take him in, make sure he knows everything and put him out there to fight with us.”

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Cornerback will likely injured his knee in the second quarter of the Terps’ 31-10 loss to Minnesota and did not return to the game. He’s the latest senior starter to go down, joining quarterback Perry Hills, safety Denzel Conyers and running back Trey Edmunds. marquise mckine/the diamondback

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hroughout the final three quarters of their game against Minnesota last weekend, the Maryland football defenders shared a common thought. “Let’s do this for Will,” defensive coordinator Andy Buh remembered his players saying. “Let’s battle for him.” Two plays into the second frame, defensive back Will Likely fumbled a punt and left the game with an injury. While

he did not return in the Terps’ 31-10 loss to the Golden Gophers, the team pushed for its reserves to fill Likely’s void. For the rest of the game, the Terps played without four senior starters. Quarterback Perry Hills (shoulder) missed the game, while safety Denzel Conyers (knee) and running back Trey Edmunds (foot) are out indefinitely. “You can’t get caught up in, ‘Oh well, this happened, so this happened,’” coach DJ Durkin said. “You’ve got a man down.

The next man’s got to hop up.” In his press conference Tuesday, Durkin said the Terps medical staff would continue to evaluate Likely’s and Hills’ injuries before determining their statuses for Saturday night’s clash with Michigan State. For Edmunds’ and Conyers’ long-term injuries, Durkin has made an effort to include those players in team meetings. In those sessions, the coaching staff highlighted the positive and negative plays from the younger Terps to prepare

them from the future. “We’re treating everything right now, as a coach staff, as an opportunity to learn, a teachable moment because we’re building this thing for the long term,” Durkin said, his eyes looking up and his hand stretching in an upward motion as he stood at the podium. “This thing is going ahead, so we’ve got to take advantage of each and every one of these times.” See seniors, p. 11

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Kovalchick fosters training passions A Middletown Scott Gelman High School @Gelman_Scott m e n ’s l a Staff writer crosse player fell to the ground after suffering an injury in the spring of 2014. Valerie Jones, the school’s certified athletic trainer, ran onto the field. Maryland women’s soccer midfielder Sarah Kovalchick, a high school junior at the time, jogged alongside her. Kovalchick carefully watched as Jones conducted a series of tests. The pair helped the injured starter reach the sideline, and Jones determined he injured his PCL. After she made the diagnosis, Jones quizzed Kovalchick. She asked what tests Kovalchick saw her complete as the player laid on the field. She wanted to know if there was anything Kovalchick would have done differently. Jones also told Kovalchick to determine whether a visit with a physician would be necessary. The sequence followed a familiar pattern for Kovalchick, who also played on the women’s soccer team at the time. Unless the soccer team had a game, Kovalchick shadowed Jones at every sporting event she could attend. The sport didn’t matter, and neither did the day of the week. “She was trying to figure out if she wanted to do physical therapy or athletic training or something of that nature,” Jones said. “You always have to have something to fall back on if you’re an athlete. I never had to ask her to do anything. She’s already there. Just one of those people who is always willing to learn.” Kovalchick’s experiences working with Jones encouraged her to send an email to the university’s sports medicine department, by

The Terps, after two straight losses, have a solid shot to beat Michigan State on Saturday. That won’t be the case in their next four games. matt regan/the diamondback

Capitalizing against Spartans a priority KYLE STACKPOLE @kylefstackpole FOOTBALL COLUMNIST So Purdue really is that bad, huh? After the Maryland football team defeated an FCS opponent and two mediocre FBS foes, it welcomed back this university’s alumni with a 50-7 shellacking of Purdue on Oct. 1 for homecoming. The Terps rushed for 400 yards while the Boilermakers totaled 205 yards in an outcome that moved the team to 4-0 in coach DJ Durkin’s first season. The hype surrounding the program resulted in the Terps receiving votes in the AP and USA Today Coaches Polls, but those advocates vanished after consecutive blowouts losses to Penn State and Minnesota. Maryland was bad in

those games, so bad that fans have been left wondering when it will win again, especially entering the heart of a grueling Big Ten schedule. One of their best opportunities comes when the Terps host a Michigan State team that’s lost four straight games. But if the Spartans manage a win, the Maryland faithful shouldn’t expect a victory until the Terps play Rutgers in their season finale. “We’re still a good team, a really good team,” left tackle Michael Dunn said Tuesday, three days after the Terps’ 21-point loss. “We’re 4-2. That’s not awful. That’s not the end of the world.” Dunn is right. Halfway through the season, Maryland (4-2, 1-2 Big Ten) has time to fix their recent struggles. It starts with Michigan State (2-4, 0-3), which ranked as high as No. 8 in the AP Poll before their season unraveled. North-

western and BYU have blown out the Spartans in East Lansing, Michigan, in recent weeks. If quarterback Perry Hills returns — he missed the Minnesota game after injuring his right shoulder against Penn State on Oct. 1 — the Terps will have back a signal caller that’s done a solid job managing the offense in his redshirt senior season. Durkin said Tuesday he’d have updates on Hills and cornerback Will Likely (knee) before Saturday’s game. Should freshman quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome run out with the first-team offense, he’ll have the experience of starting against a Big Ten defense. See stackpole, p. 11

where she worked as an assistant athletic trainer for the men’s and women’s soccer teams during her first semester on the campus. Though Kovalchick also played intramural soccer during that time, she missed the higher level of competition she saw from the Terps during practices and games. So she sent several more emails, this time to first-year Terps women’s soccer coach Ray Leone. He gave Kovalchick the opportunity to experience Division I athletics from the playing field while she continued to pursue her career goal.

The Right Field Until Kovalchick approached her during the spring of her junior year in high school, no one had ever offered Jones assistance. Jones was familiar with Kovalchick, who visited the school’s trainer with “a foot and leg issue that she was having.” Before leaving, Kovalchick asked if she could get involved. She always performed well in her science classes, and her parents both have science backgrounds. Kovalchick’s father is a dentist, and her mother holds a doctorate in physiology. She loved science and sports, so she sought a way to combine the two. Kovalchick, who wants to become a physical therapist, shadowed Jones, asking questions on the sideline and in the training room. She and Jones reviewed special testing, taping and wound care procedure. She was also curious about Jones’ experiences when she first started working in the industry. “I knew I couldn’t do soccer as a career, so I thought, ‘What’s the next closest thing?’” Kovalchick said. “I love the mental aspect of sport. I thought it was a combo of everything I love, which is sport and helping people.” See kovalchick , p. 11