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Students mobilize after noise ordinance

For over three hours in late September, Kraz Greinetz watched the College Park City Council look on as a parade of students and residents decried an ordinance that would bar “unruly social gatherings” from the city.

The ordinance’s language was too vague, students argued, and could easily be implemented in a way that discriminated against them. They said its enforcement would levy fines against an already financially-strapped college-aged population.

But after tacking on four amendments that — among other changes — adjusted the definition of a social gathering from four people to eight people, the council’s eight members unanimously voted to support it.

Greinetz, a junior government and politics major at the University of Maryland, felt the council hadn’t heard student concerns.

“They clearly have no interest in listening to any kind of feedback that doesn’t come from the incredibly small number of people that turn out for municipal elections,” he said.

So, he switched his voting registration from his hometown of San Francisco to College Park — just in time for the council’s Nov. 5 election.

And this university’s Student Government Association said he wasn’t the only one.

PJ Saumell, one of the SGA’s directors of civic by

Carmen Molina Acosta @carmenmolina_a Staff writer

an exam room at Ideal Option, a substance abuse clinic focusing on treating opioid addiction. Its new location opened in College Park this week. Julia nikhinson/the diamondback

New center aims to curb opioid crisis in PG County Osnayer Del Toro remembers the first patient he saw. She had lost her job and stopped contacting her kids after beginning to abuse drugs, and wasn’t going to attend her son’s upcoming wedding.

One year later, Del Toro — who was working for the outpatient addiction treatment program Ideal Option — saw the woman a ga i n . I n t h e t i m e t h a t h a d passed, she’d witnessed the birth of her grandson and gotten her business and farm back. She’d gone to her son’s wedding.

“It’s insane. It’s emotional,” Del Toro said. “We’re a very small part that enables the whole process.”

A new Ideal Option branch opened in College Park on Monday, a development state officials say will remove barriers for those seeking addiction treatment in Prince George’s County.

Tucked away next to a Long & Foster Real Estate building on Route 1, the center is easy to miss. It focuses on providing medication that — when used correctly — can limit a patient’s opiate withdrawal symptoms and cravings and lessen the effects of opioid molecules in the brain.

Right now, there are more than 60 locations nationwide, said Bryce Kelly, the company’s operations vice president. But Del Toro said that number is growing “exponentially.”

Some of Ideal Option’s busier locations can attract more than 100 patients a day, said Del Toro, who now works as a development coordinator for new branches.

Patients can walk in on their own, friends can refer them or a court can mandate that they attend.

But nurse practitioner Florence Nguh said she sees by

Eric Neugeboren @eric56101 Staff writer

See ordinance, p. 8

campus

Grad students protest bus cancellation A beam of light from a bike lamp cut through the darkness of Paint Branch Trail as the crew marched — and sometimes stumbled — along, their voices echoing in the quiet night.

“This just isn’t right,” Martin Sanders said, glancing back at the group walking behind him. “It’s not right.”

He periodically whipped his cell phone out to record the largely unlit path, which winds its way from the University of Maryland to Seven Springs Apartments — about three miles away.

“Look at this,” Sanders exclaimed, pointing his phone’s camera in front of him. ”Ross Management, this is what you’re asking graduate students to do.”

To flag safety issues along the trail and call out the by

Angela Roberts @24_angier Senior staff writer

all the patients as the same.

“When I look at you, I don’t look at you as a court order,” she said. “I look at you as somebody who’s struggling, that needs help.”

A promising trend College Park and Prince George’s County haven’t been spared from the nationwide opioid epidemic.

There’s at least one opioid overdose in Prince George’s County every day, according to the county’s website.

“The current offering of services in College Park is very, very minimal,” Kelly said.

But numbers have appeared to plateau recently. In the first quarter of 2019, there were 6 fewer opioid intoxication deaths in the county than there were in the first quarter of 2018, according to a report from the state’s Opioid Operational Command Center.

The county had the lowest rates of unintentional opioid-related deaths in the state from 2013 to 2017, along with Montgomery County.

The county has a medication-based treatment program, which connects recently incarcerated opioid users to treatment centers, said Andrew Cephas, the county’s Department of Corrections public information officer.

Still, the Ideal Option clinic is College Park’s first “low barrier MAT clinic,” wrote Melody Clark, a senior marketing manager at the company, in a news release. Patients who don’t have insurance aren’t turned away, and no referrals are necessary.

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Where is High Five Guy now?

The campus icon says he made lasting friendships through the gig by

Luke Makris

Maryland student,’” he said.

giving out daily high-fives on the

Victoria Ebner is used to seeing Makris’ moniker comes from campus are done, his persona has @victoria_ebner people’s faces light a m i ss i o n h e d eve l o p e d h i s had a lasting impact on his life — Senior staff writer up in recognition senior year at the University of and other former students. at BaltimoreWa s h i n g to n I n te r n a t i o n a l Thurgood Marshall Airport, where he works for American Airlines.

They’re not family or close friends, and they often don’t know Makris by name. To them, he’s just High Five Guy. “People run up to me sometimes and literally put their hand up in my face before I realize, like, ‘Oh, it’s probably a

Maryland: Spreading the message of “God’s unconditional and consistent love” by high-fiving s t u d e n ts pa ss i n g by S ta m p Student Union, McKeldin Library or the South Campus Dining Hall.

He continued to greet students in his signature way around the campus during the spring 2018 semester, after officially g ra d u a t i n g i n D e c e m b e r 2017. Though his days studying supply chain management and

At first, Makris said, many people thought his habit was some kind of social experiment.

But a few months in, people began to catch on. It didn’t hurt his feelings when people avoided him, he said — he’s offering high fives, not forcing them on people.

Though many of his interactions were as fleeting as a handclap, he’s developed some long-lasting friendships through the role. He can count at least ten See high five, p. 8

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By Jeff Barnes | @thejeffbarnes | Senior staff writer University of Maryland Police responded to reports of a drug violation, thefts, unlawful touching and a non-criminal Title IX incident over the last week, according to daily crime logs.

thefts On Tuesday, at about 12 p.m., University Police responded to Leonardtown Building 248 for a reported theft.

Hoaas wrote that a female student reported her bicycle and cable lock were stolen sometime the previous day.

About an hour later, University Police reported to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center for another theft report.

A female student told police that she had left her wallet at the cafe and returned to get it the next day, only to find that her driver’s license and cash were missing, Hoaas wrote.

Police are reviewing surveillance video, and both cases are active, Hoaas wrote.

At about 4 p.m. that same day, University Police responded to La Plata Hall for a report of a stolen laptop.

A male student reported his laptop was stolen on Oct. 18, Hoaas wrote.

The next day, at about 11:30 a.m., a male student reported his bicycle and u-lock were stolen from South Campus Commons 3. The theft occurred sometime the previous day, Hoaas wrote.

Police are reviewing surveillance video, and this case is active.

Most days Colleen Neely of the week, i t’s ea sy to @thedbk Freelance writer find Timothy Pilachowski.

For the past five or six years, the senior math lecturer’s familiar refrain has been audible throughout the area around Kirwan Hall at the University of Maryland, telling bicyclists to stay off campus sidewalks.

“Please protect pedestrians by following campus bicycle regulations, which clearly state that you should never ride on the sidewalk,” Pilachowski often says.

But with a recent change the university’s Department of Transportation Services made in campus bike guidelines, Pilachowski said he will need to change his message.

Earlier this month, DOTS amended its guidelines to read that while cyclists are encouraged to ride in the street, they are permitted to ride on the sidewalks as long as they yield to pedestrians and dismount the bicycle to walk in crowded areas. Previously, the guidelines prohibited riding on campus sidewalks.

Now, Pilachowski said he feels limited in what he can say. by

unlawful touching O n We d n e s d a y a t about 6 p.m., University Police received a report that a female student was touched inappropriately by an unknown male near H.J. Patterson Building and Jimenez Hall, according to a UMD Alert.

University Police have identified the male involved in the incident and more details will be provided as the investigation continues, Hoaas wrote.

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title ix incident At about 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, University Police responded to a noncriminal Title IX report at Elkton Hall.

A female reported that a male was behaving in a way that made her feel uncomfortable.

This case is closed, Hoaas wrote.

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drug violation At about 3:45 a.m. on Tuesday, a University Police officer stopped a red vehicle for a traffic violation near the intersection of Route 1 and Campus Drive, police spokesperson Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas wrote in an email.

T he of f icer smel led marijuana, and a search of the vehicle yielded a small amount of the drug.

The driver of the vehicle was issued a civil citation for possession of less than 10 grams of marijuana.

This case is closed, Hoaas wrote. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Though he plans to continue protesting those who ride bikes on sidewalks, he’s amended his original statement to tell cyclists to “please be careful when you’re riding past pedestrians.”

Pilachowski said he has tried to work with the university to make it aware of the problems pedestrians face and recently met with DOTS director David Allen to discuss the issue.

During that meeting, Pilachowski said Allen was mostly concerned about Pilachowski’s activism and “strongly discouraged” him from continuing his request that cyclists refrain from riding bikes on campus sidewalks.

A university spokesperson sent a statement from DOTS confrming the meeting and said the department is “committed to creating a safe, inclusive and secure campus for students, faculty, staff and guests.”

“Bicyclists and e-scooter riders are encouraged to always wear a helmet and to travel via roadways, but should utilize sidewalks in scenarios they feel is best for their safety, including high traffic times and hazardous weather,” the statement read.

“DOTS will continue to monitor best practices to align with the

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A UMD lecturer’s crusade against biking on sidewalks Campus regulations were recently changed to permit cyclists on sidewalks, but Timothy Pilachowski’s concerns about injuries persist university’s ever-changed community.”

Pilachowski called the change “a recipe for disaster.”

While Pilachowski said he estimates between 80 and 85 percent of campus cyclists ride safely, it wouldn’t surprise him if someone sustains a major injury by riding on the sidewalk.

“There’s always that remaining percentage who are on the sidewalks when it’s crowded and weaving in and out of pedestrians and giving no warning,” he said.

Pilachowski’s activism on campus started with his own experience of nearly being hit by a cyclist who he said was weaving through pedestrians.

When he got to his lecture a few minutes later, he told his students about the incident — and there was a chorus of responses from those who had similar experiences, he said.

During his next lecture, he said he asked for a show of hands of how many people have had a bicycle come within two inches of them while walking on a sidewalk. Nearly 80 percent of the class raised their hands, Pilachowski said.

“And that’s when I began to think, ‘Oh, this is more of an issue than, you know, it’s not just

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me,’” he said. “So I looked up the university’s bicycle regulations and saw where it said sidewalks are for pedestrians, and [I] began saying something to students.”

Encounters with Pilachowski are often shared on this university’s subreddit, with dozens of students documenting their experiences. Many of the cyclists posting on the subreddit say riding in the street is dangerous because cars don’t treat them as they should, tailing them closely.

Others say that riding on sidewalks is faster.

Neither reason is compelling enough to sway Pilachowski.

“By making the choice to ride on the sidewalk, you are inflicting the same fear on pedestrians that you say you have from drivers,” he said. “Being late for class does not give you the right to put other people at risk.”

Nathan Sears, a sophomore computer science and mathematics major, said he rides his bike on campus sidewalks if it’s faster. He said Pilachowski asked him to stop riding on sidewalks on one occasion. While Sears said it’s “reasonable” for Pilachowski to request that cyclists stop riding bikes on sidewalks, he knows the comment will not affect his habits.

Sophomore Breanna Gary, a biology major, said she had a recent incident with a cyclist on a sidewalk.

Gary said she was walking on a sidewalk near South Campus Commons when a cyclist turned a corner and had to swerve into a fence to avoid hitting her. The cyclist had several gashes, and his bike seemed to be broken.

Though she’s glad she wasn’t injured, she said it could have

been worse. And this wasn’t the first “close call” she’s had with nearly being hit by a cyclist.

“If [cyclists] want to ride that bike, you know, it should definitely be on the street where they’re not putting anyone at risk,” Gary said.

Hearing from students like Gary is one of the reasons why Pilachowski said he has continued his activism over the years.

“I’d like to think that I’ve prevented some injuries,” he said.

Pilachowski said he’s well aware of the reputation he has created for himself, but he doesn’t think much about the criticism he receives online.

“I’m glad [they] find this very amusing, but I’ll tell you that my students who have gotten hit don’t find it amusing,” he said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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New voting options for College Park For the first time, residents can cast their ballots for city elections at Stamp and Ritchie Coliseum by

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Patrick Saumell, the civic

Angela Mecca P a r k e l e c - engagement director for this @AngelaMecca2 tions are set university’s Student Gov- students line up to vote in Stamp Student Union on Nov. 6, 2018. This year will be the first time that people can vote for College Park elections there. julia nikhinson/the diamondback to b e g i n i n ernment Association, said Staff writer j u s t ove r a week. And this year, for the first time, residents had the option to cast their ballots early — and will be able to vote at two locations on the University of Maryland’s campus.

Early voting took place on Oct. 27 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the College Park Community Center. And on election day, Nov. 5, Stamp Student Union and Ritchie Coliseum will be transformed into voting centers, after years of pressure from student groups.

Any voter can go to one of the voting centers between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. on election day, no matter which district they live in. In addition to the Stamp and Ritchie locations, Davis Hall will serve as a polling place.

Mayor Patrick Wojahn said the goal is to make voting convenient. Stamp is one of the most trafficked places in the city, he added. “ We a r e w o r k i n g o n making it easier for all residents to go out and vote, including students,” Wojahn said.

City Hall — which has served as a polling place in the past — is temporarily closed for renovations.

Ritchie was chosen for its close proximity to the building, said Dan Alpert, a junior marketing major who is also the student liaison to the City Council.

When Alpert was a freshman, he said, he had to navigate the bus system and find a way to Davis Hall — about two miles from the university’s main entrance — in order to vote. This year, he said, the process should be more accessible.

“It’s better when more people have a say, so I think it’s great,” Alpert said.

students should make an effort to be involved in local politics.

A junior economics major, he runs an initiative called TerpsVote, which encourages student participation in government.

The council deals with issues of police and public safety, rent cost and affordable housing, public transit and Metro access, Saumell added — all topics that could affect students’ quality of life.

District 2 council member Monroe Dennis said the flexible center options, along with early voting, should help voter turnout. During the last election, less than 15 percent of the city’s eligible voters showed up to cast ballots.

Dennis, who has been a council member for almost eight years, said that there have been periods where he has run uncontested. This year, though, he’s running a ga i n s t re s i d e n t O s c a r Gregory and current District 2 council member P.J. Brennan.

This year’s elections will see 14 candidates vying for spots on the council.

Wojahn, who is finishing out his second term, is challenged by Lalzarliani Malsawma — who ran for the seat in 2017 — and Nikesha Pancho.

This year’s candidates h ave d e b a te d a s l ew o f common discussion points, such as city spending and safety, City Hall renovations and term lengths — but there’s also been outcry against poor conditions in local public housing and homophobic comments made at forums and debates. Some residents walked out of a debate last week after Malsawma made homophobic

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Saumell said he’s con-

stantly encouraging students to vote — and that he’s optimistic about the impact of the new centers.

“It’s important students

have a voice in the College Park community,” Samuell said. “Even though we are by far the largest population in the College Park community,

sometimes our voice can get drowned out by not participating as much as we should be.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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UMD’s policy on demonstrations is inadequate CATERINA IERONIMO My biggest participate in demonstrations cally abusive, threatening or @cate_ieronimo concern was on campus “only upon the in- intimidating conduct toward Columnist making sure vitation of a bona fide student, any person.” The penalty for my friend was OK. I ran down the steps in front of McKeldin Library and grabbed her hand. I told her those people were just irrational reactionaries. I didn’t interact with the demonstrators — members of a religious group called the Key of David Christian Center. But as I pulled her away, I heard one of them yell at me, saying how that weekend might have been the “lucky weekend” I would be raped.

If this had occurred on a random street, I would likely have been shaken but would’ve moved on and avoided the area.

But seeing a random group have such abusive power on my own campus made me burn with outrage and fear. In the aftermath of the infamous Key of David protest, these feelings compounded into a needlessly long investigation into the University of Maryland’s policy on demonstrations. My monthlong trip down this rabbit hole showed me that the guidelines must be clearer and interpreted to safeguard the free expression of vulnerable students who are protected under the First Amendment just as much as demonstrators are.

Upon leaving the protest that had erupted in response to the demonstrators, I decided to research the university’s policy on demonstrations. Under the First Amendment, the protestors were allowed to be at the university and speak openly.

However, things are not this simple. According to the university’s Guidelines on Demonstrations and Leafletting, non-university members may

faculty or staff member engaged in such activity.”

When I spoke to a university official, they were not able to obtain a response as to whether this section of the policy applies to outside groups starting demonstrations uninvited or joining existing demonstrations uninvited. They directed me to a new University Senate policy — which outlines how groups can go about requesting and using spaces on campus in a way that won’t interfere with university events or student safety — that President Wallace Loh approved a week after the protest. So, while we can now better understand how groups may reserve certain places on the campus for activities that protected under the First Amendment, the question of whether outside groups can simply create their own demonstration unannounced and uninvited on university property remains unanswered.

In addition to the section on non-university members, it’s important to discuss how the Guidelines on Demonstrations and Leafletting apply to the kind of speech the Key of David demonstrators were using. The university should be clearer in its language and interpretation — what happened last month is definitely not the last or the worst event of its kind, so the university needs to have transparent guidelines that protect the free speech of individuals while balancing the rights of those who are the targets of hate speech.

In the guidelines, there is a rule stating that “persons shall not engage in harassing, physi-

individuals who do not belong to the university and break its demonstration rules is “appropriate action under State and Federal law.” In my frustratingly lengthy exchange with the aforementioned university official, I learned that this university defers to the University of Maryland Police Department in matters concerning what “conduct” is acceptable, and that “conduct” is interpreted as applying only to physical conduct. This can be rather confusing given that “physically abusive” conduct is singled out among other words such as “harassing” and “threatening,” which carry a verbal connotation. If the university is really only referring to physical conduct, it should specify that, given that most students don’t have time to incessantly email administrators over the course of a month to deduce the meaning of this policy.

In the end, the paradox of free speech lies in the way that hate speech, when allowed to flourish, directly attacks vulnerable groups’ freedom of expression.

And while the demonstrators may have been protected by the First Amendment, this university’s policy on demonstrations does not appear equipped to deal with situations like the Key of David protest — events that demand transparent and decisive action to protect students. If we can’t strive for perfection, let’s at least strive to make students feel as protected expressing their identities on this campus as the Key of David demonstrators felt hurling epithets and threats. ieronimocaterina@gmail.com

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LIYANGA DE SILVA As a society, to account for dips in academic In a 2018 report by The Edu@liyangads we standard- achievement and blips in our cation Trust, it was shown that Columnist i ze t h i n gs careers. But well-rounded ad- high poverty districts received missions don’t address how often those issues are linked to systemic racial and socioeconomic inequality.

For example, the SAT’s Writing and Language portion focuses on “grammar, vocabulary in context, and editing skills.”

But the grammar on the SAT is Standard American English, inherently discriminating against people who speak other dialects of English — such as African American Vernacular English — that have their own grammar and syntax rules.

Would a portfolio-based assessment be able to properly recognize a student who is intelligent, with the ability to think independently, who writes in AAVE? Would it be able to understand that a student who does poorly on math exams and projects went to an underfunded high school with a shortage of math teachers? Or, just like the SAT, would it presume that fluently speaking SAE is an important marker of intelligence?

We can make small revisions to college admissions, but they won’t change the fact that the U.S. education system is inherently racist and classist. At the most basic level, communities of color frequently receive lower education funding than white communities.

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Changing vaping culture will make youths safer HADRON CHAUDHARY @OpinionDBK Opinion editor

On Sunday, I stepped o u t o f t h e m ov i e theater with my older paramour to a historic haunt of clandestine smokers — the back alleyway. He asked, do you mind if I vape? To which I said, no, but while you puff, let me proselytize about the dangers and underlying theories that make vaping a cultural phenomenon for youths. The other vaper standing outside was gracious enough to join the audience and follow my thread connecting Ethan Klein’s Vape Nation video to my roommate who spends hours tinkering with his modular vaping devices to the kids who’d vape in the bathrooms of my high school, hanging out three in one stall and often slithering out to chat when I’d go to wash my hands.

When I finished, my partner said that sounded all right, but he had just started vaping a couple months ago to kick a nicotine addiction. He also said I sounded awfully millennial.

But it’s the sum of these charms of vaping — it’s cool, it’s complex, it’s communal — alongside some people’s relative immunity to them that suggest a response to the outsized crises of vape illness and youth nicotine addiction. Instead of relying on public panic to take the vapes from the hands of America’s children, it would be more effective to integrate the kids into a healthier vaping community.

Social integration isn’t about endorsing vaping, but practicing harm reduction. Teenagers shouldn’t be encouraged to pick up nicotine products at all. But already more than a fourth of high schoolers have used a tobacco product within the last 30 days, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey.

It’s a crisis. The government responses thus far — primarily vaping bans — are a reprisal of methods used in the “war on drugs,” and so we already know they don’t work. Moreover, many cases of vaping illnesses were linked to counterfeit or street vapes, so restricting the supply of regulated vape products may endanger people more, as the demand for products still exists.

So rather, vapers should cultivate a culture of safe practice and allow younger people to participate in it. This can be easily accomplished

through online forums and social media, which have the power to endorse certain behaviors and practices and direct people away from illegitimate ones. Vaping can be codified as a hobby as much as keeping an aquarium or whittling wood, and emphasis on the right equipment and proper use shouldn’t be any more taboo to share. The same sentiment should extend into physical spaces with the emergence of more designated smoking/vaping areas. The younger vapers can interact with other vapers who understand what they’re doing, providing more opportunity for education. The community should allow them that space.

Moreover, vaping is so new that most everyone is a first generation user. The first modern e-cigarette was created in China in 2003, and according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection database, the first e-cigarette was imported to America in 2006. There isn’t a significant population of elder vapers in the community, just young adults with varying levels of experience. This allows for a unique level of accessibility, with adults able to engage with teenagers in non-hierarchical ways. This is one way of changing the mode of communication about vaping from reprimands to genuine conversation. We’re always trying to legislate to save the youth from external corruption, but they’re rarely given a way to respond and show us what isn’t working.

And teenagers should be able to speak as more than just statistics. The vaping demographic could give a place for that as their identity becomes more politically defined.

By uniting vapers, they can communicate to policymakers that their current approaches aren’t working — but gradual nicotine harm reduction is. The switch from tobacco to ecigarettes was one great step — safer vaping practices can be the next.

Ultimately, vaping has become a tool for identity formation in youths, and the best way to contend with that is to change what that identity means. Strict rules and proselytizing rarely change what’s cool, but social in-grouping does. The pressure has to come from within. opinionumdbk@gmail.com

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Standardized testing isn’t conducive to equity

such as food safety and emergency procedures — and college admissions.

Standardization can be beneficial when people are provided with the resources to meet those standards. However, when it comes to college admissions, standardization will never account for the educational disparities across this nation or for the huge range of applicant backgrounds.

Last week, my colleague Kevin Hu argued that standardized testing should be replaced by a standardized portfolio-based assessment of student ability.

Despite acknowledging there are disparities in our education system, his argument still presents forms of standardization as the solution.

Even with a portfolio-based assessment, how can we compare a student who grew up in a lowincome community with underfunded schools to a student who attended private schools all their life? These two students would have wildly different experiences; the lower-income student might not have had the educational tools or the time necessary to complete projects with the same quality as a higher income student.

This is an age-old argument — higher education admissions need to be more well-rounded

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about $1,000 less per student than those with low poverty rates.

Additionally, districts with the most students of color received approximately $1,800 less per student than districts with the fewest students of color. These structural issues are not in the hands of the students, so students shouldn’t be punished for them. Standardized assessments can’t account for these inequalities, even if they are portfolio-based.

The tasks assessed in the portfolio still rely upon having received a higher standard of education that may not have been possible depending on one’s socioeconomic status. It’s not just a matter of not being able to afford tutoring and supplemental help to pass the SAT, but a result of a structural flaw in our education system that is out of one’s control.

Ultimately, the only way to have a truly “fair” college admissions process is to revolutionize the education system as a whole.

There shouldn’t be educational disparities because of one’s socioeconomic status or race — and any standardized assessment that doesn’t account for these systematic issues is placing equality over equity. liyanga.a.ds@gmail.com

MAYA ROSENBERG Sexual assault is a per- the Red initiative, highlighting “The Red Zone” @mayarosenberg_ vasive part of college life, or the time of the year when the most sexual Columnist especially during the first assaults occur. few months of the academic year. More than 50 percent of college sexual assaults occur in August, September, October or November. It’s time to take a proactive, forceful stance on preventing sexual assault.

The University of Maryland should do away with exclusively online sexual assault prevention training and implement in-person training for all students instead.

At this university, all incoming students are required to complete three “wellness” trainings: Alcohol EDU, Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Sexual Assault Prevention.

All of these programs are online, optimizing convenience but not necessarily effectiveness.

These online programs aren’t taken seriously by students because, well, they aren’t that serious: It’s absurdly easy to complete them. Students don’t view Alcohol EDU or the Sexual Assault Prevention programs as the holy grail of preventative information.

Instead, they’re seen as irksome gateways to simply click through and finish as quickly as possible.

If the university implemented in-person sexual misconduct training, students wouldn’t have the option to ignore it. In-person education and training enhances focus and enables students to be active participants. When it comes to preventing sexual assault, students need to take the tools and education provided to them seriously.

What would in-person sexual assault prevention training look like? Other universities, businesses and corporations have implemented sexual harassment prevention workshops for their employees and students. The best place for this university to start is by adapting the training the university’s Student Government Association underwent for its Reclaim

At the mandatory training for SGA members, students learned about “powerbased violence, consent, rape culture, handling disclosure of sexual assault and confidential resources on the campus.” In creating the training, the SGA partnered with CARE to Stop Violence, a confidential reporting resource on campus for survivors of sexual assault, sexual harassment and other sexual misconduct.

If there’s already a sexual misconduct workshop established, there’s an existing plan the university could adapt for the general student body. Modifying the SGA’s training is less of a hassle for the university than creating a brand new program, and there’s already a space for the training in first-year courses.

The purpose of first-year classes such as UNIV100 is to orient students with their new surroundings at the university. And unfortunately, sexual assault is a part of the new environment. These courses have the potential to educate, inform and empower students about sexual assault and harassment in a way they can’t just click through, and they have a more substantial and concrete impact than online training.

If there’s no time for sexual assault prevention education in these courses, the university could still mandate in-person workshops outside of class. If it shows it takes sexual assault seriously, so will students.

It’s important that the university require online sexual misconduct training, but it’s simply not enough. Coupling the current online prevention with in-person workshops and training would provide the best education for students and provide them with the skills and tools they need to be aware of sexual misconduct and how to prevent it. maya.b.rosenberg@gmail.com

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City set to get new dog park by this summer Construction is expected to begin in the spring by

Rufus Perti-

likely conclude this summer, toward design and engineer-

SahanaJayaraman cari knows just said District 1 council member ing costs. @sahanajayaraman a few English Fazlul Kabir.

For the past few months, city Staff writer words — the Nestled between Eutaw staff have been working through most important being “cheese,” “chicken” and “dog park.”

At 12 years old, the energetic 80-pound mixed breed pup loves to play and hang out with other dogs, said his owner and “mom,” Rosemary Perticari.

But there aren’t any dog parks within walking distance of their home in North College Park for him or his “sister” to socialize with their canine neighbors, she wrote in an email.

But in a few months, the dogs will have a park to play at after all.

Construction on the new Hollywood Dog Park is expected to begin this spring and will

Place and Fox Street in northern College Park, the park will feature two separate play areas — one for small dogs, and one for bigger dogs — along with several waste disposal stations and a doggy drinking fountain, Kabir said.

And every time Kabir talks to dog owners in the area, they ask him when the park will be finished.

“I see excitement there,” he said.

The total anticipated cost of the project is nearly $376,000, with construction totaling an estimated $329,000, according to the city’s planning website.

The rest of the funds will go

the permitting process with Prince George’s County, which owns the entire 19-acre plot of land the park will sit on.

Though the park will take up less than an acre, the county is requiring College Park to submit a stormwater management and a tree conservation plan that account for the entire land parcel, Kabir said.

“In North College Park, we need it,” said Awilda Cruz, a District 1 resident and owner of a Pomeranian named Hero.

“Almost all my friends have a pet, and my neighbors also have pets.”

The park comes amid a slew of development projects in Dis-

the 9300 block of 51st Avenue in North College Park will be home to a new $376,000 dog park this summer. julia nikhinson/the diamondback trict 1 — including Hollywood Gateway Park, Duvall Field and the Hollywood Streetscape project — that are set to reach completion in the next two years or so, Kabir said.

“It’s a very exciting time for North College Park,” he said.

“It’s an opportunity to bring the community together in one place, in one way.”

The spot will also feature benches for owners to sit on while their furry charges romp around the park.

“It’s not only the dogs who’ll be playing in the playgrounds, but the dog owners also will be sitting and chatting with each other,” Kabir said.

This will be the first dog park within walking distance from homes in the area. Unlike the dog park at the Acredale Community Park — which isn’t city-owned and requires people to become members and pay annual dues in order to access it — the new dog park will be free, Kabir said.

“I really, really like the idea,”

Perticari said. “I take [the dogs] to all the other dog parks around here, but, you know, it would be nice to have one in the neighborhood.”

Perticari wrote in an email she thinks both her dogs would share in her excitement about the park’s impending opening.

“It is only at a dog park that they can run free, unfettered [from] a leash attached to a human,” she wrote. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Future of Downtown College Park Farmers Market unclear Facing low customer and vendor turnout, the farmers market closed a month ahead of schedule this year by

After years decline in vendor and cus-

back council members receive

“We didn’t want to get

the market had more than

anymore,” said Beavers, who

SahanaJayaraman of business, tomer attendance, Beavers from vendors and customers, anyone established in a two vendors. About six years also manages the nearby Hol@sahanajayaraman the future of said. And in the last few it’ll decide whether the market market that was going to ago, when she started working lywood Farmers Market.

Staff writer t h e D o w n - months, the market had only should continue — and, if so, close anyway,” she said. “So there, she said vendors sold As manager, Beavers said she town College Park Farmers M a r k e t i s unclear.

Earlier this month, the farmers market — which typically lasts from April through November — announced it would be wrapping up a month ahead of schedule due to low customer turnout. Julie Beavers, the market’s manager, says it might not return next year.

Over the last few years, the market has seen a steady

two vendors — a Thai restaurant and a gluten-free bread vendor, she said.

“Both vendors were losing money every Sunday,” Beavers said. “It didn’t make sense to be there any more if they were going to lose money on it.”

Ryan Chelton, the city’s economic development coordinator, said he plans to collect data from vendors and bring the market’s fate to the College Park City Council in late winter. Based on the feed-

when.

The market was set up in the parking lot behind City Hall — a building the city is currently vacating to prepare for its demolition, which is set to start early next year.

College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn said the market isn’t likely to continue while the new city hall is under construction.

Beavers said the market’s imminent closure factored into the decision to end it early.

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we really didn’t … seek out new vendors.”

Chelton said almost everything in the old building had been moved out, including most of the items used for the farmers market, such as tents, tables and chairs.

If the market returns, District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said it would likely be held in the plaza planned around the new City Hall building, which is set to be finished in 2022.

Beavers remembers when

water ice, different types of prepared food and crafts. The market also had two produce vendors.

The market began in College Park when it was still considered a food desert, Beavers said — Target, Whole Foods and Lidl hadn’t opened yet.

But now, customers have other grocery shopping options.

“Honestly, I think the major factor that really caused the market to close was that … [residents] didn’t need it

fought for the market to stay open and adapt to customers’ needs. But she said she knew its closure was inevitable.

Still, Beavers said she wants to think of this ending as more of a break than a final goodbye.

“While I am sad that it’s not there now, “ she said, “what’s to say that in a couple years we might not revisit and come back, and maybe have a different type of market?” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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catching hate early With the help of a $1.67 million grant, UMD researchers are testing a program to reduce biases in young children

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melanie killen, a professor at the University of Maryland’s education college, leads a project where children grades 3 through 5 go through an eight-week, web-based curriculum designed to reduce racial, gender and ethnic stereotypes.

From 2016 to 2017, the number of reported hate crimes across the country increased by 17 percent — a n d t h e n u m b e r o f h a te crimes and hate bias incidents jumped by 35 percent in Maryland.

But a group of University of Maryland researchers want to curb hatred by spotting it early. They’ve developed an interactive program, called Developing Inclusive Youth to push against prejudice in the classroom and encourage students to build friendships with children of different backgrounds.

“What we are essentially trying to do is catch [hatred] before it becomes deeply entrenched,” said Melanie Killen, the project’s lead and a professor in this university’s education college.

Now, with a $1.67 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, the team will work to evaluate the program’s effectiveness.

They’ll be studying whether students hold fewer biases than they did at the start of the eight-week curriculum.

The university announced the grant in a press release earlier this month. For the past three years, the team has been funded by the National Science Foundation, which Killen said assisted the researchers in getting the program up and running in six schools in Montgomery County.

The web-based program aims to break down racial, gender and ethnic stereotypes — and foster a greater sense of inclusion in schools — through a series of ani-

mated videos that illustrate different scenarios involving biases and exclusion.

For example, one video shows two male characters d e l i b e ra t i n g wh e t h e r to include a female character in their lab group, since they don’t think girls know anything about science. Other v i d e o s s h ow s i t u a t i o n s that play out at recess and a birthday party, amongst other locations.

After each video, the curriculum instructs teachers to ask their students questions about how they thought the scene’s characters felt and what they would do i f t h ey e n co u n te re d t h e s a m e s i t u a t i o n . Tea c h ers are also encouraged to guide students in discussing whether they have had similar experiences.

“We don’t want to make it extreme, we want to make it real for the kids,” Killen said. “Each scenario is very subtle.”

The curriculum is meant fo r c h i l d re n i n g ra d e s 3 through 5 — which Killen says i s t h e p e r fe c t t i m e to intervene and address misconceptions and stereotypes. It’s right before children enter middle school and begin to encounter all sorts of complications, such as puberty and romantic relationships.

While Samantha DeLullo wasn’t involved in the study, she has worked with younger students as an elementary education major. She said children younger than eight often don’t have a complete understanding of racial and ethnic differences.

“They just don’t care,” said DeLullo, a senior. “If you ask them about their friends, ‘Oh are they black or white?’ they have to think about it. That’s not something they initially pick up on.”

DeLullo also speculated that teachers would be an integral part of the program — she says they can help students learn to advocate for themselves, not just in their academics but also in their friendships.

Jacquelyn Glidden, a doctoral student on the research team, said she hopes the program benefits teachers as well as their students.

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While the program is currently only implemented in Montgomery County elementary schools, K illen hopes it can be expanded to as many schools as possible once it has been evaluated.

DeLullo agreed, emphasizing that “hateful children grow up to be hateful adults.”

“Hateful children grow up to be hateful adults. If we can get them while they’re younger and talk to them about how we can be friends with people who believe in different things than us,” DeLullo said, “then that skill can truly carry on into adulthood.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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gsg From p. 1 company that oversees Seven Springs for unscrupulous business practices, the Graduate Student Government organized a walk from campus to the apartment complex Friday night.

Their goal, explained Sanders, the group’s legislative affairs vice president, was to drive Ross Management “back to the negotiating table.”

Late in the summer,after many residents had already signed or renewed their leases, the apartment’s management announced it was canceling its participation with Shuttle-UM’s #110 Seven Springs route, citing rising costs.

To cushion the blow to residents — many of whom are graduate students — the apartment’s management company provided them with Metro cards to fund their commute on WMATA’s #83 College Park route,which stops at

ordinance From p. 1 engagement, said more students — especially those in Greek life — have registered to vote in College Park and expressed an interest in local politics since the ordinance passed.

So far this year, Saumell said more than 400 students have registered to vote through software run

by TerpsVote, a nonpartisan voter registration advocacy group on this campus.

About 100 of these students are in Greek life, Saumell said.

And while the software Te r p s Vo te u s e s d o e s n ’t track where students register, Saumell estimates that a good number of Greek life students who registered did

clinic From p. 1 Ideal Option offers naltrexone and buprenorphine prescriptions, both of which can help people who have an addiction transition away from opiate abuse. Only three other providers in Prince George’s County are authorized to prescribe buprenorphine in an outpatient setting, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

high five From p. 1 people he still talks to re g u l a rly wh o m h e m e t through high fives, he said.

“It’s so weird how seeing somebody for two seconds every single day makes you feel like you’ve known them for years,” he said.

Kishan Patel, a senior economics and finance major, thought Makris was a little odd when they first met. But they continued their occasional conversations, discovering they were both from Annapolis and that Makris went to the same high school as Patel’s friends.

A f te r f o l l o w i n g e a c h other on social media, Patel discovered Makris’ YouTube channel and his inspirational social media posts.

“I realized that what he was doing was a lot more than just giving high fives,” Patel said. “It was all just for the sake of spreading

Seven Springs and along Route 1 and costs $2 to ride. But next semester, Ross Management plans to stop giving out Metro cards.

This will leave some students with few choices other than to hike or bike the three miles it takes to get to campus on the Paint Branch Trail, said governmental affairs vice president Rachel Lamb. They could take an Uber, pay for the Metro themselves or buy a parking permit if they own a car, but she said those costs can quickly stack up for people who are already financially strained.

“You shouldn’t have to be forced to walk in unsafe conditions for an hour to and from campus just because you can’t afford to take other alternatives,” she said.

So, Sanders said, the GSG is calling for Ross Management to either continue providing Metro cards to residents through the spring semester or reinstate the shuttle service from December

through the end of June.

Ross Management didn’t respond to an emailed request for comment.In the past,its residential management operations vice president has described the Metro cards as an “immediate shortterm solution,” and has advised students with concerns about safety on Paint Branch Trail to contact Prince George’s County.

The vice president also wrote that Seven Springs is not in the right financial position to subsidize a shuttle “based on the current ridership participation of Seven Springs’ residents and thecurrentdisproportionatecosts passed on by UMD.” This year, it would have cost Seven Springs $107,000 to host a shuttle stop — a $4,000 increase from last year.

After Seven Springs canceled its partnership with ShuttleUM, the Department of Transportation Services announced it would eliminate the #110 route.

It increased the number of buses running the #127 Mazza GrandMarc route — which hits the same stops along Rhode Island Avenue and Edgewood Road that were previously served by the #110 — but the closest stop is about a mile from Seven Springs.

In a statement sent by a university spokesperson, DOTS recognized the students’ concerns, adding that it “remains willing to work with all parties involved, includingtheGSG,indetermining a transit solution.”

The group — six GSG members and two other graduate students — started its hike Friday at Stamp Student Union around 8 p.m.One of the marchers, a public health science graduate student named Marque Long, came along even though he doesn’t live at Seven Springs and wasn’t affected by the shuttle’s cancellation. He joined the walk to support the apartment’s residents,he said,who had thought they would have access

to a free shuttle service when they moved to the complex.

Entering Paint Branch Trail behind the Computer Science Instructional Center, the group’s walk was at first illuminated by street lamps that stretched along the path. But the lights dropped off after about half a mile.

“It looks like a dark hole!”

Lamb exclaimed, as the crew walked past the last of the lamps and stared down the unlit path.

Maggie Curran, a GSG representative studying community planning, lit the way, rolling her bike along the trail.

“This is my trusty steed,” she joked.

Curran lives in the Hollywood neighborhood, which was previously served by the now-canceled #110 route. Now, the #127 bus stops along her street, but it only takes her as far as Regents Drive.

The #110 used to stop on the west side of campus, she said, which is where most of her classes are.

Most of Curran’s classes are after 4 p.m., when parking is free in some lots, so she typically drives to campus — and if she has to show up before then, she bikes. On days that she has her car,Curran drops classmates off at Seven Springs so they don’t have to walk home.

“Seriously, could you imagine walking this at night?” Curran asked the crew. “I’m scared, and I’m with a group.”

Near the end of the hike, the group took a wrong turn, and wound up at the Mazza GrandMarc apartments. They decided to cut their march short rather than continue the extra mile to Seven Springs.

They groaned and laughed when they saw what sat in the GrandMarc’s parking lot.

There, its tail lights blinking in the darkness, was the Shuttle-UM.

so locally, in response to the ordinance. The majority of the Greek life registrations happened after the ordinance’s passage.

Saumell added that he received a few emails from students who mentioned the ordinance, and asked him how they could register to vote in College Park.

“The ordinance really put into perspective for a lot of students how important voting in College Park is,” he said. “Once it was passed, it became a lot more real to students.”

Un d e r t h e o rd i n a n c e , social gatherings of eight or more people including certain activities — such as underage drinking — are defined as nuisances. Residents found in violation, and their landlords, can be fined up to $1,000.

Students, many of them m e m b e rs o f G re e k l i fe , turned out en masse against the ordinance on Sept. 24.

They gathered in a sprawling line outside of Davis Hall, waiting to share their concerns.

Junior public policy major R o r y N o l a n wa s o n e o f them. He said the meeting left many feeling frustrated with what they saw as a lack of transparency. “[The city council] did try to appease some of the student concerns, but I feel like it was just so rushed and it was so obvious that t h ey we re n ’t co n ce r n e d at all about how students would feel about passing something,” Nolan said.

Nolan was already registered in College Park before the ordinance’s passage.

He’s planning to vote in

the upcoming city elections — and he said the biggest thing he’s looking for in a candidate is someone who will listen to students.

District 1 council member Kate Kennedy argued it’s not that she and other council members didn’t hear students, they just disagreed. Long-term residents vote too, she said.

Nonetheless, Kennedy a p p l a u d e d s t u d e n ts fo r re g i s te r i n g to vo te a n d making their voice heard at the polls — that’s what elections are for, she said.

“Democracy right now is so important,” she said.

“Voting is incredibly important and everyone s h o u l d b e e n ga ge d i n i t as much as they possibly can at every level, so I am excited to hear more engagement — that makes me

happy.”

Less than 15 percent of eligible voters turned out for the city’s 2017 elect i o n s, a cco rd i n g to c i ty documents.

SGA President Ireland Lesley changed her own voter registration to College Pa rk a f te r t h e co u n c i l passed the ordinance.

“This is a very, very easy example of a way to engage students and to say that what a city government does really does matter,” Lesley said. “Even though you’re a student and living here temporarily, the things that they do, do impact you.”

The deadline to change your voter registration for the election passed on Oct. 8, but Lesley said students c a n s t i l l b e i nvo lve d i n local politics by attending

council meetings.

Before the deadline passed, Greinetz — a member of Phi Sigma Kappa — said he encouraged his f ra t e r n i t y b r o t h e r s t o change their voting registration. Though he wishes more students would have changed their registration, he said the people he spoke to seemed committed to electing fresh faces to the council.

“The city council seems to want students to bring publicity to the town, to go to the university, to spend a l l t h e i r m o n ey a t l o ca l businesses, to pay exorbitantly high amounts to rent rooms around College Park — and then they want all their students to shut up,” he said.

Rep. Steny Hoyer, the House of Representatives’ majority leader, wrote in a statement that it’s “critically important” to help those who have an addiction.

“The opioid epidemic affects communities throughout the nation, including many in the Fifth District,” Hoyer wrote.

“We must work together in Prince George’s County to fight this crisis, and I am hopeful that these additional resources help individuals in our area.”

Inside the treatment program Most Ideal Option centers have at least two providers — certified nurse practitioners, physicians or physician’s assistants.

During a patient’s first visit, they’re put on the standardized treatment schedule. Soon, though, the schedule and treatment plan becomes individualized, said Nguh, who has been with Ideal Option for three years. Patients who regularly show up for treatment

are able to get more medication until they decide to taper off it.

The centers use a practice known as telemedicine, in which providers can communicate virtually with patients who are miles away. The patient’s prescribing provider needs to sign off on any prescription, but the system, Nguh said, ensures that people living with addiction can receive treatment even if providers at the Ideal Option center nearest them are too busy for appointments.

Though the centers focus

mainly on treating opiate abuse, they also offer programs for other substance addictions.

Despite the stigma that often surrounds addiction, Nguh said, employees work to make patients feel comfortable and secure.

She has a patient who had been addicted to cocaine for more than four years. But after going to counseling and receiving treatment at the center, the patient has been clean for three months, Nguh said.

To her, transformations like that make the job worth it.

Relapses still happen “quite often,” though, she said. She’s seen patients relapse after two years of being clean.

“I feel like they can do it,” she said. “And then they keep relapsing and relapsing.”

Still, she said, her work with the center leaves her hopeful.

“We have a lot of people that are transforming,” Nguh said.

“And that’s why they really like us, and they keep coming.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

“I was in this transitory time in my life where I was e n d i n g my ca re e r a s a n athlete,” said Winik. “Luke saw me go through that.”

Winik said he sees Makris as “somewhere between a mentor and a friend.”

“We’ll always shoot each other a text or a phone call if we have a job interview or something with a girlfriend … If there’s something I need to get off my chest I know Luke’s the guy I can reach out to,” he said. “He’s always very reliable and honest.”

Aside from the friendships he formed, Makris said the persona he forged at this university also helped him hone his social skills and gave him an outlet for his already-bubbly personality.

After he went to work for Southwest Airlines, Makris made a point to greet a few of the customer service workers every day, until he had said hello to every single one of the over 200 customer service personnel.

When one of his flights to F l o r i d a wa s d e l a ye d overnight because of thunderstorms and he had to sleep at the airport, he struck up a conversation with a worker named Hannah who was looking for a travel partner.

A few co nve rsa t i o n s later, Hannah became his girlfriend.

N o w, e v e n t h o u g h Makris works at American Airlines and she remained at Southwest, the two travel together. They recently got back from a trip to Europe.

“It was a matter of a day that I would have never met her,” he said.

For now, Makris is working at the airport and makes extra money working for DoorDash. But someday, Makris hopes to become a station manager for an airline, where he said he will use his social skills to manage others.

Students have felt Makris’ absence around campus.

In a University of Maryland Reddit thread titled “I miss High Five guy,” users chimed in: “We all do” and “I’m glad to have met him.”

M a k r i s s a i d t h e re ’s a chance he’ll return someday.

He co u l d h o p i n h i s o l d Toyota Camry (which he calls Diana) and make the trip back.

The trunk of the car has the typical array of items,

including spare clothes and a phone charger. But there’s also a huge blue sign with wh i te w r i t i n g t h a t says “High Five!”

“I think it will always be a tradition of mine — even if I move out west — to come back once in a while,” he said, “and do a round of high fives at Maryland.”

positivity, which I thought was really cool.”

Even after Makris graduated, the two remained friends. When Patel was going through a rough time, he reached out to Makris for advice. He received a call back within a minute.

“I didn’t expect him to d o a l l t h a t ,” h e sa i d .

“Whenever I needed some wo rd s o f a dv i c e o r j u s t some positivity, I would just talk to him, and he’d make everything better.”

Eric Winik, a senior information systems and operations management and business analytics major, said he had a similar experience after becoming friends with Makris.

He met Makris when he was an underclassman at the university and saw him giving high fives. And, after seeing Makris’ Instagram posts about traveling, the two decided to meet up to talk recommendations on where Winik should go.

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‘countdown’ tries too hard to achieve

a scary moment Despite one or two good jump scares and a couple of gross body-horror moments, this flick could’ve been a whole lot spookier.

By Iris Vukmanovic | @iriswulfe | Senior staff writer

countdown isn’t too scary — it’s just another silly, quirky and sometimes spooky Halloween release. photo courtesy of youtube

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o u n t d o w n , probably one of the year’s m ost a n t i c i pa te d horror films, did not need to be a full feature length movie. It could’ve been a 10-minute short film that stopped after the first death and it would’ve been effective.

It would’ve been scary, cool and suspenseful.

But after the first 10 minutes, the movie goes downhill.

The movie revolves around the titular app, which tells you when you’re going to die once you download it. The film loosely explains that when you accept the terms and conditions of the app that you’re signing a deal with your “fate.” So, it tells you when you’re naturally — or otherwise — about to die.

The main character, Quinn

Harris (Elizabeth Lail) finds out that she’s going to die in three days, while all her colleagues get to live to their 80s and 90s. She previously made plans to visit her mother’s grave on Saturday with her dad and her sister, but once she realizes that coincides with the time she’s scheduled to die, she cancels.

However, by canceling her plans, she breaks the user’s agreement with the app.

This part of the plot is not explained very well. But if you break the terms by not going where you’re supposed to go for your death, then a demon comes after you to kill you instead.

The demon torments you until the moment you die, because you broke the rules.

Out of this, we get maybe one

or two good jump-scares, but the rest are pretty baby.

The film relies heavily on “scary” music to tell the audience when they should be scared — which, to me, is a horror movie cop-out. If the only thing scary about the scene is the sound effect, then you’re not doing it right.

There’s a scene where a character, Matt (Jordan Calloway), is in the bathroom of a hospital. Suddenly he sees (as we discover later) the feet of a demon, walking through the stalls. When the feet stop, they suddenly flip backwards. Disgusting, yes.

But scary, not so much. Of course, scary dun-duns and high pitched noises paired with cracking sounds tell you this is a scary moment™ but alas, to me it was not.

This isn’t the first time the movie does weird backwards body stuff to try to make you scared. It happens in a stairwell of the hospital, where a young man sees the backwards body of his dead girlfriend sprint toward him (ew). He falls down the stairs to his death. Whether it’s because he was scared or the demon pushed him, it’s not super clear.

The acting was actually pretty good, which saved the film from being completely horrible. There was a quirky priest and a cynical tech guy who were the funniest and most entertaining parts of the movie, but mostly unnecessary to the plot in retrospect.

The best line in the movie was in the beginning vignette when a girl said to her

friend, “Come on, don’t be a beyotch,” when her friend didn’t want to download the app. It was so out of place and awkward that it made me laugh out loud.

I do appreciate that this movie wasn’t annoying about being rooted in technology and phones. Some movies tend to use technology as a crutch to move the plot forward with texting between characters for example. But in Countdown, the phones only show up when the app screams at them, warning them of their impending death.

There’s also a quasi-deep moment when the characters reveal to each other things they’re guilty about doing to their loved ones in the past, which I can only assume is supposed to make this movie

a metaphor for wrestling with your inner demons – which is pretty lame. They would’ve had to put way more work into that metaphor to make it meaningful. One short scene in the middle of the film isn’t enough for something like that.

Overall, the movie was pretty entertaining, and kind of funny at parts. It’s quirkiness and overall style is very reminiscent of Happy Death Day, and its sequel, Happy Death Day 2 U. So, if you want to watch a silly horror movie with grossness and slight spookiness, see Countdown when it comes out in theaters Friday. Otherwise, I would skip this one and stick to actually frightening movies. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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homecoming Hustle to these online shops to find dope tailgate gear for whatever event you end up at this weekend.

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omecoming weekend is just over a week away, and you still haven’t gotten your look together. You’ve seen loads of cool tailgate gear on your classmates, but have no clue where to buy your own. No worries — we’ve got you covered with six places to shop for trendy tailgate attire.

different from the tailgate norms and allow fans to express their individuality with a uniquely designed shirt.

custom university 1

New York-based Custom University 1 has been on Etsy since 2017 and has proven to be quite popular, with nearly 900 sales. The shop sells cusshirts by soph tomized tube tops, sweatshirts, halter tops and cutout crop tops Shirts by Soph is an online for any team. shop with the goal of combinIn addition to the tube tops ing fashion and school spirit. It and cutout tops we’re used to features customized T-shirts and seeing at tailgates, this shop also sweatshirts and options for male has shirts with long plaid sleeves tailgaters as well. for a more trucker-inspired look.

Unlike thetypical spirit wear Paired with some cute combat we usually see during home- boots or booties, you’d have a coming weekend, these pieces great outfit that doesn’t comfeature repeated logos and promise your warmth. designs inspired by band merchandise or the popular PLAY tailgate tailor logo by Comme des Garçons.

Shirts by Soph also does cusTailgate Tailor, based in tomized orders and bulk custom Belmar, New Jersey, is another orders for student organizations. Etsy shop dedicated to college tailgate apparel. With a wide college label selection of styles and designs — including lace-up tube tops Inspired by the popular (or and daisy-lined halters — the should I say “notorious”) Gucci store features pieces that monogram tees and sweatshirts, match the typical tailgate aesthe College Label shop on Etsy thetic seen on a Maryland game specializes in tees and sweat- day with a twist. shirts of college teams stylized Some of their designs are in the same Gucci design. These particularly unique, such as luxury-inspired logos are quite their fringed tube top, lace-up

tailgate tailor, a go-to Etsy shop for your homecoming needs, has on-trend clothes with an edge.

tube top, lace-up halter top and customized varsity cheer skirts. They even have customized flannels for those colder game days. This shop is ideal for those who love the current game day looks but want to add a little edge or individuality.

include a side-tie tube top, drawstring cropped tee, bardot top, basic tube tops and halter tops. If you’re someone who gets overwhelmed by too many options, this shop is perfect for you — because they specialize in custom orders, you don’t have to spend hours scrolling to figure out which of their pieces best fits your style.

Etsy shop. Unlike the aforementioned shops, this store specializes in customized denim jackets. The shop features white denim as well as dark and light wash denim.

Fans can choose from the selection of hand-painted jacket designs featured or select the oh my tailgate 100 percent custom denim jacket option. This is a great The Fort Lauderdale, Floriway to spice up your homeda-based Oh My Tailgate featailgate jackets co. coming game outfit — honesttures five customizable tailgate ly, we don’t see denim jackets top designs that they apply to Tailgate Jackets Co. is not being customized as spirit wear tees from any team. Designs your average tailgate fashion often enough, even though it’s such a cool and edgy way to add a different flavor to your fit.

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tomization options, bundles and shipping. Considering the fact that most homecoming attendees will be adorned in some spirit gear of the same color, it’d be best to spend some time thinking of how you can individualize your look by incorporating your own personal style. Try adding some cool combat boots, a customized denim jacket, statement jewelry or a bold pattern into your outfit and see how you can express school spirit without losing your individuality.

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Terps fall to Minnesota in another blowout Inconsistency plagues Maryland in 52-10 drubbing to Golden Gophers MINNEAPOLIS—

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As Maryland Andy Kostka football @afkostka coach Mike Senior staff writer Locksley sat d ow n a to p the podium in the bowels of TCF Bank Stadium, the biggest issues of Saturday’s 52-10 demolition flooded back to him.

T h e re we re t h e two dropped passes turned into interceptions, a gargantuan possession time differential and an inability to stop Minnesota’s rushing attack.

H e t h o u g h t a b o u t h ow the Golden Gophers were more physical, how they converted third downs and how they held the Terps to 13 second-half plays.

H e wa s l e f t b e m u s e d over Maryland’s quarterback situation, didn’t have answers for how one week his team showed fight and the next it seemed to fold, and circled back to matters of consistency — that is, how the Terps are thoroughly inconsistent.

“Every Saturday we go play is like Christmas for

me,” Locksley said, expression somber, his head shaking occasionally. “I h a ve n o i d e a w h a t I ’ m getting until we get on the field. And that’s not a good place to be as a coach.”

It was one of those days for Maryland, ending in a n o t h e r b l o wo u t l o s s .

And it’s been one of those s e a s o n s , to o , w i t h t h e defeat to No. 17 Minnesota (8-0, 5-0 Big Ten) driving home just how wide the gap stands between the Terps and the Big Ten’s top teams.

Saturday’s display was hardly out of the ordinary for Maryland (3-5, 1-4) this season under Locksley, whose career head coaching record falls to 6-36 with this lopsided loss. Last week against Indiana, two late turnovers squandered a chance to earn a comefrom-behind win. There was the debacle in West Lafayette against Purdue, and another in College Park against Penn State.

And through it all, the only sort of consistency M a ryl a n d h a s m a n a ge d

to m u s te r l i e s i n l e s s than-desirable attributes: difficulties defending against the pass, crippling turnovers and ill-timed penalties.

“We didn’t do ourselves a n y fa vo r s ,” o f f e n s i ve lineman Ellis McKennie said.

It began on Tyrrell Pigrome’s second passing a t te m p t o f t h e ga m e , a throw to Dontay Demus on a slant route delivered on time and on target. The 6-foot-3 wideout let it slip through his hands, and the ball bounced to defensive back Antoine Winfield, who returned it 30 yards to the Terps’ 20-yard line.

Four plays later, quarterback Tanner Morgan looked to wideout Rashod Bateman, tossed up a jump ball to his 6-foot-2 target and wound up with seven p o i n ts to c a p i ta l i z e o n Demus’ miscue.

“Your best players should play at their best,” Locksley said of Demus. “He’s a receiver. He’s paid to make those catches. And he’s a guy who’s made a bunch of plays for us.”

For the third straight

week, Maryland’s adversary scored on its first two possessions, with a Seth Green rush from a wildcat formation putting Minnesota ahead 14-0 before Morgan found Tyler Johnson for a 16-yard touchdown on his team’s next drive, beating safety Deon Jones on the slant route.

Minnesota doesn’t rely on the pass — Morgan entered averaging fewer than 22 attempts per game — and the team didn’t rely on it Saturday, either. But Morgan’s 12-of-21 day for 138 yards, two touchdowns and an interception was effective, supplementing running back Rodney Smith’s 103 yards on 17 carries.

T h e G o l d e n G o p h e rs racked up 321 yards on the ground, the most the Terps have allowed this year.

“We didn’t probably get as much penetration as we wanted, but we tried our best,” said cornerback Marcus Lewis, who intercepted Morgan on a deep ball. “We’re just going to try to put this one in our back pocket.”

Meanwhile, Demus’ second drop of the game

proved costly once more.

Late in the second quarter, Pigrome threw to Maryland’s de facto No. 1 target.

The ball was slightly behind Demus, but the wideout got both hands on it before tipping it to cornerback Coney Durr, who ran 72 yards to the house to establish a 28-0 edge.

Pigrome, who left in the second quarter with an injury and was ruled out at halftime, has now thrown four pick-sixes in his career.

Quarterback Josh Jackson appeared for one series — a three-and-out — as he works back from a high ankle sprain.

“My gut instincts was that he probably wasn’t as ready as he needs to be,” Locksley said. “I didn’t have the confidence that he was prepared, in terms of just my conversation with him.”

So when Pigrome departed, it was down to redshirt freshman Tyler DeSue. He helped lead the Terps to a field goal before halftime and finished 4-for-12 with 88 yards, including a 59-yard touchdown pass to r u n n i n g b a c k Tayo n Fleet-Davis.

But Saturday’s contest was far out of reach by that point. The final 30 minutes of action — filled with fireworks for scores and clockchewing drives — offered little for the visiting team.

Fo r t h e h o m e s q u a d , an undefeated unit that managed a touchdown drive lasting nearly eight minutes in the third quarter, Saturday went about as smoothly as it could. The Golden Gophers racked up 498 yards of offense, converted seven of their 11 third-down attempts and held Maryland to 210 total yards of offense, its second lowest output this year.

“It’s an elite feeling, to get in here with our teammates and celebrate together,” Morgan said. “This is what you live for.”

In the opposing locker room, though, there was a much different feeling.

“Minnesota does a better job of executing their stuff than we do on offense,” Locksley said. “And for m e , b e i n g a n o f fe n s ive guy, that’s just really, really disappointing.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

Minnesota chews clock — and through Maryland Short throws and a potent running game tired out the Terps’ defense MINNEAPOLIS —

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Minnesota’s

Andy Kostka 12-play, @afkostka 63-yard drive Senior staff writer — s ta r t i n g with nine minutes left in the third quarter and ending with a touchdown about eight minutes later — was everything that Maryland football’s offense isn’t.

W h i l e t h e Te r ps h ave been reliant on big plays to generate scoring, the Golden Gophers seemed content to nickel-and-dime t h e i r way d ow n f i e l d . A second-and-8 turned into a 19-yard pass, the largest chunk play of the drive. A third-and-7 became a first down through the air, too.

And while a third-and-9

became a fourth-and-1, Seth Green’s six-yard rush from a wildcat formation converted it with ease.

Running back Rodney Smith finished off that possession with a 1-yard touchdown, an exclamation point on a 103-yard day. But Smith wasn’t alone in the backfield, part of a group that ran for 321 yards and four touchdowns.

For Maryland, which had struggled mightily against the pass in its previous Big Ten onslaughts, Minnesota’s commitment to chewing clock and yardage alike was both new and disheartening. The Golden Gophers possessed the ball for about 25 more minutes than the Terps in Saturday’s

52-10 beatdown, leaving Maryland coach M ike Locksley with a bitter taste in his mouth.

“I really felt like they out-physicaled us,” Locksley said. “I mean, they’re big. But there’s still no reason for us to not be able to control the gaps, have guys running to the football. You know, they didn’t try to throw the ball. So we needed to be able to load the box and get the ball tackled, and we didn’t do a good job.”

Before facing Minnesota, Maryland hadn’t allowed m o re t h a n 1 9 8 r u s h i n g yards in a game this season, with teams instead passing for over 300 yards on four occasions. Locksley has said throughout the season he would prefer to not let the opposition establish its

running game, because in his mind it’s the quickest way to lose.

But the Golden Gophers managed to whittle away with steady gains, capita l i z i n g o n a n a ve ra ge gain of six yards on first down to keep third-down a t te m p ts rea so n a b l e — coach P.J. Fleck’s squad converted seven of its 11 third downs, as well as two fourth downs.

“It’s tough, because when you look up, it’s secondand-5 and then it’s thirdand-2, and it’s another first down,” Locksley said. “It’s mentally demoralizing.”

The Terps’ offense struggled to even get on the field, being held to 46 total plays and just 13 in the second half, a far cry from the average of 70 plays through the first seven games this

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year. M innesota, meanwhile, ran 76 plays to a familiar tune: 22 passing, 54 rushing.

They picked up 190 yards on the ground from firstdown plays at an average clip of 6.6 yards per carry compared to Maryland’s 3.5 yards per carry in the same situations. They managed a season-high 498 total yards of offense while the Terps posted 210.

In Locksley’s view, it all goes back to the idea of how the Golden Gophers “out-physicaled” his team, a term he used througho u t h i s p os tga m e p re ss conference.

“You try to stop them as much as you can on first and second down, get them into a third-and-long situation,” cornerback Marcus Lewis said, “but it was obviously tough for us.”

As injuries mounted in M a r yl a n d ’s s e c o n d a r y, teams have noticed opportunities to spread out and pass. In four games so far, the Terps’ opponents have attempted 40 or more passes. And by using spread formations, those foes have successfully forced Maryland’s most seasoned defender, Antoine Brooks, away from the box and into coverage.

Minnesota showed those spread formations, too. But it didn’t pass — it didn’t need to. Instead, Fleck’s offense lined up with rec e i ve rs ga l o re a n d ra n

anyway, which Locksley said was the first time he’d seen an offense do that to his defense in 2019.

More worrisome, though, were the number of solo tackle attempts on ball carriers rather than a swarming defense enveloping a runner.

“That means guys aren’t getting off of blocks,” Locksley said, “and guys aren’t running to the football.”

Locksley noted the G o l d e n G o p h e rs ’ s i z e , and it is considerable — the listed weights of their s ta r t i n g o f fe n s ive l i n e averages at 340 pounds while Maryland’s starting five linemen clock in at an average of 307. But in his view, much of the debacle at TCF Bank Stadium came down to effort and physicality, two facets a team can’t afford to lose in against an undefeated squad. “ We h a v e a l o t o f weapons across the board — a three-headed monster in the backfield, a lot of talented receivers, and we even had a pick six today,” M i n n e so ta q u a r te rba c k Tanner Morgan said. “We can do it from any way and just continue to change our best and get better.”

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Justin Gielen shining for Terps in the air Both of the sophomore forward’s goals this season have been headers In recent training Eric Myers @ EricMyers531 sessions, Maryland Staff writer men’s soccer has emphasized executing in the final 25 yards of both ends of the field, something coach Sasho Cirovski calls box defending and box attacking.

One of the leading tactics the Terps employ for box attacking is getting the ball wide and serving crosses into the 18-yard area, where Cirovski feels confident the forwards can make a play.

Justin Gielen has only bolstered that confidence by

in recent weeks, flashing his proficiency in the air to get on the end of crosses. And Cirovski said the team needs to continue to give Gielen good chances to convert on headers, just as he’s done twice in the past five games with goals against Michigan State and Ohio State.

“Whenever we can get the ball in wide positions, we want to find a way to give him a chance,” Cirovski said.

“It’s a matter of him making the correct run, and also the delivery’s got to be such that gives him a chance.”

Maryland has executed on both sides of those deliver-

ies on Gielen’s two goals this season.

Against the Spartans, defender Johannes Bergmann served in a long free kick from just within midfield. Gielen timed his break on the ball and skied to match the header, leveling the game against Michigan State.

Then, in Friday’s 2-0 win over the Buckeyes, the sophomore started his run as soon as midfielder Eli Crognale received the ball at the edge of the box. Gielen got inside position on his defender and knocked the header in to get the Terps on the scoresheet.

“I always look for the header. I love getting on the end of crosses. I find that it’s a lot more about timing and effort than it is about luck,”

Gielen said. “I feel like when the ball’s in the air, you can create your own opportunity.”

Gielen began the season as a reserve player, working his way up the ranks to become a regular starter. The Edgewater native has started the past seven games as a forward on the wing.

Early in the season, Gielen was using his vertical to find chances with his head but was narrowly missing on his shots. His confidence never wavered, though, and the team knew the forward was close to breaking through with his aerial acumen.

“He’s definitely grown into his role,” defender Brett St. Martin said. “He’s definitely gotten better over the season, and you can see it now. He’s

finally getting rewarded for it.”

At nearby DeMatha High School in Hyattsville, Gielen starred on the soccer field.

Across four seasons, Gielen scored 52 goals and dished out 22 assists. During his illustrious high school career, he was named the 2017 Washington Post All-Met Player of the Year and a United Soccer Coaches-Adidas High School All-American.

But during the soccer offseason, Gielen also played basketball at DeMatha. Gielen believes there’s some translation from grabbing rebounds to getting in the air for headers.

Still, he’s convinced his proficiency is derived mostly from an attacking mentality.

“Subconsciously, there’s probably some things that

carry over from basketball,” Gielen said. “But in total, I think it’s a lot more about me wanting to score goals, that’s my favorite thing to do.”

Cirovski wants to continue making strides in box attacking as the team prepares for its final two regular-season games before embarking on the postseason. With attacking options such as Gielen, Luke Brown, Malcolm Johnston and Eric Matzelevich, Cirovski believes there’s always potential for a score when a service is accurate.

“This is something that we have to keep working on and becoming more efficient in,” Cirovski said. “And today was a good start.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

women’s soccer

Michigan imposes its will in 4-1 win over Terps Maryland will face off again with the Wolverines in Big Ten tourney Maryland Jacob Richman @ jacobrichman12 women’s soccer Staff writer defender Adalee Broadbent positioned herself squarely in front of Michigan midfielder Sarah Stratigakis, who threatened to add to her team’s lead with the ball in the penalty box.

Stratigakis was up for the by

challenge. She deked with her feet and cut left, throwing Broadbent off balance before smashing the ball home, curling the shot around Erin Seppi in the second half of the Terps’ regular-season finale Sunday.

Stratigakis’ goal put the final touches on No. 16 Michigan’s dominant 4-1 victory over Maryland, as the Terps conceded four or more goals for the

fourth time this season.

Maryland was coming off a 1–0 victory over Michigan State to clinch its first Big Ten tournament berth in school history. Michigan entered the match reeling from a 1-0 loss to Rutgers, hurting its chances at securing a top-two seed in the conference tournament.

The Terps were on the back foot early on, conceding in the 10th minute. A well-placed through ball got behind their backline for midfielder Nicki Hernandez to pick up and fire

past Seppi.

Eight minutes later, Maryland conceded its second goal of the match. A failed clearance gave up possession in the Terps’ own half, and the Wolverines moved players into the box to set up a clear shot for midfielder Brooke Cilley.

Chances for Maryland were hard to come by in the first half.

The Terps were unable to register a shot in the opening half of play, exhausting most of their squad in defense.

They broke the drought with

an early shot to open the second half. Forward Kaylee Kozlowski found space from just past midfield to rocket a shot at goal.

But Michigan shot-stopper Hillary Beall was equal to it, catching the ball and stifling the Terps’ first real chance of the game.

In the 67th minute, everything broke down for Maryland, as it surrendered an own goal followed quickly by the fourth goal courtesy of Stratigakis.

Freshman Mia Isaac found a consolation tally for the Terps

in the 84th minute, finishing her shot in the bottom left corner. A free kick in Wolverines territory allowed the squad to move forward and get on the board.

The matched ended with an uninspiring 4-1 scoreline for Maryland, and it won’t be the last time the two squads meet this season. The Terps will make their Big Ten tournament debut next Sunday against none other than Michigan. sportsdbk@gmail.com

volleyball

Penn State’s potent defense overpowers Maryland The Terps’ offense struggled to find holes in the Nittany Lions’ back row by

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off with more dominance. The unit held the Terps to a team hitting percentage of .174, preventing any Maryland player from reaching double-digit kills in the straight-sets win.

The Terps failed to get anything going offensively on the main court of Xfinity Center.

In a match where Maryland was looking to earn its stripes in the 10/22/19 1:13 PM Big Ten, Penn State’s defense

overwhelmed early and often, proving too much for coach Adam Hughes’ squad.

“We know they’re a good team, and they have one of the best liberos in the country,” middle blocker Katie Myers said. “Historically, they’re a great defensive team, so we need to keep swinging when that stuff happens.”

Myers understandably took

notice of libero Kendall White, who currently sits fifth in the Big Ten in digs per set and finished the match with a gamehigh 12 digs. White was the anchor of the Nittany Lions’ back-row defense, and Maryland struggled to get anything around her.

Meanwhile, the Terps struggled to reciprocate Penn State’s defensive prowess, tying for a season-low in blocks.

“They did do better defensively compared to us,” middle blocker Rainelle Jones said.

“Personally, I couldn’t get the ball down.”

The Nittany Lions recorded seven more digs than Maryland, and their attack supplemented the effort with a .291 hitting percentage.

A l t h o u g h t h e Te r p s ’ defense wasn’t running quite as smoothly as Penn State’s, Hughes’ squad was more concerned with its offensive output.

In its first meeting with the Nittany Lions on Oct. 11, Maryland hit .273 as a team — higher than Penn State hit.

Though they expected the Nittany Lions to adjust after the last match, the Terps were still disappointed they couldn’t get anything down.

“We took some OK swings

at times, and they were still keeping the ball alive,” Hughes said. “We weren’t good enough offensively to score in the middle.”

Maryland pushed Penn State to five sets in the first meeting on the back of its ability to find openings for kills. But Saturday, the Nittany Lions tightened up, and the Terps couldn’t string together points.

“We are a good team when we play really well,” Myers said.

“We know the things we need to improve on, so we’ll have to come in with the right mindset during practice.”

Maryland was hoping to come out of Saturday’s match showing they are a force to be reckoned with in the Big Ten. But with seven matches remaining against ranked opponents, plenty of opportunities remain.

Still, Hughes and his team were disappointed they couldn’t prove themselves against Penn State and its formidable defense.

“This was a big match for us because we wanted to show that we can stand at this level,” Hughes said, “and that wasn’t the performance that we needed.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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forward madison maguire (21) polished off a hat trick against Michigan State on Senior Day, helping Maryland clinch at least a share of the Big Ten regular-season title in the 5-1 win.

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s soon as the final horn bellowed across the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex Friday, M a r yl a n d f i e l d h o c key huddled at the center of the pitch, ghost-quiet save for coach Missy Meharg.

Meharg congratulated the team on its accomplishment — clinching at least a share of the Big Ten regular-season crown — before diverting attention to the Terps’ seniors.

Once the spotlight drifted to forward Madison Maguire, Maryland’s silence was broken, with the surrounding crowd of underclassmen roaring in appreciation for Maguire’s hat trick performance before giving her the

“game shell” — an award granted to Maryland’s player of the game.

It was a memorable display for the senior, who has been at the heart of the Terps’ attack throughout her fouryear career.

“Tonight, I think Madison played the best game off-ball — in her counter defense, work rate,” Meharg said.

“When she plays like that, the rest of the front six respond off of her.”

Emotions were running high prior to Friday’s game, with Maryland’s seniors spending much of the preceding week reminiscing on their first three seasons in College Park.

Maguire was no exception, recalling the initial wobbles she experienced as a freshman while she adjusted to the heightened tempo of the college game.

“I only played on astroturf when we played with our club teams,” Maguire said earlier this season. “If you’re just on a high school team or a club team, you learn very quickly that you need to get the ball and give the ball.

You have to receive it under a certain amount of time with pressure.”

But the Rumson, New Jersey native eventually found her way, becoming a crucial member of the midfield, starting 61 of her 71

games during her first three seasons.

Summarily, Maguire’s role in the attack was magnified.

Her point total grew steadily in each of her previous three seasons, too.

“Madison is a basketball player by nature,” Meharg said. “She understands on-ball, off-ball and all the things [to] manipulate and get [herself] in position to score.”

After earning the National Field Hockey Coaches Association All-Mid Atlantic Region second-team honors last season, Meharg tipped Maguire to have a big season — this time, in the front three.

The senior responded

to the challenge of playing further up the pitch, scoring a team-high 12 goals so far to help push the Terps up to No. 2 in the rankings.

And Maguire was at the peak of her powers Friday, with teammates teeing her up with a series of slick feeds — trusting her ability to put pressure on Michigan State goalkeeper Jade Arundell.

The senior lurked around the goalmouth early, rocketing an early strike into the bottom corner to give Maryland the lead by the seventh minute of the game. And in the second half, Maguire helped secure the victory for the Terps, corralling midfielder Brooke DeBerdine’s

fizzed pass before sending a shot into the bottom corner.

Late in the fourth quarter, Maguire secured her hat trick, backhanding a stroke past Arundell to record her first three-goal game since Oct. 22, 2017, against Rutgers.

Maguire’s performance was indicative of a player who has grown substantially over the course of her four seasons. And the Terps will be looking for more performances like Friday’s from Maguire, especially as the focus shifts to the postseason. “ I h o p e s h e ca n ke e p playing like that for the next three weeks,” Meharg said. sportsdbk@gmail.com

women’s basketball

Terps showcase size, freshmen in exhibition Three takeaways from Maryland’s 109-67 preseason win over Cal U With only a sixpoint lead at the half, the Maryl a n d wo m e n ’s b a s k e t ball team trotted into the Xfinity Center locker room Friday night, frustrated by its play against California University of Pennsylvania.

S e ve n te e n f i rs t - h a l f turnovers were the root cause. But in the second h a l f , t h e Te r p s l o o k e d m o r e l i k e t h e m s e l ve s , taking care of the ball and scoring in bunches en route to a 109-67 victory in their first preseason action of the 2019-20 season.

Guard Taylor Mikesell led the way with a teamhigh 17 points. But it was an all-around effort as every p l aye r sco re d ove r f ive points and played at least 16 minutes. by

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Here are three key takeaways from the game.

strength and size will overwhelm most opponents T h e Vu l c a n s h a d n o player taller than 6-foot, a n d M a ryl a n d wa s a b l e to dominate the paint on both ends. The Terps outrebounded their opponent by 24 and shot 73.8 percent from the field, with a large portion of buckets coming near the basket.

Forward Shakira Austin didn’t play much to start the game but made an immediate impact when she was on the floor, powerfully imposing her will in the post and sending shots back on the other end. While playing a team-low 16 minutes, she stuffed the stat sheet with 14 points, five rebounds, three steals and two blocks.

Forward Stephanie Jones started the game and finished with 15 points on 5 - o f- 6 s h o o t i n g i n 2 0 minutes. She showcased an all-around skillset and poise when the team struggled early, as well as the ability to run the floor.

“I’m really looking forward to playing with Shakira again,” Jones said.

“Me and Shakira are going to be pretty hard to stop inside, especially with her length.”

Guard Diamond Miller, pa r t o f M a ryl a n d ’s No. 3-ranked freshman class, provided length and tenacity at the guard position. At 6-foot-3, she’s a mismatch for most college wings and was able to take advantage on the boards, grabbing a team-high eight rebounds that she frequently turned into fastbreak opportunities.

It remains to be seen if this Terps’ interior presence will be as dominant against better teams during the

regular season, but it made an impression Friday night.

perimeter defense on quick guards Coach Brenda Frese described her team’s defensive communication as “spotty,” specifically acknowledging its struggles to keep up with Vulcans guard Monica Burns.

Burns kept her team in the game early and finished the night with a game-high 29 points and five threepointers. At 5-foot-6, she wa s a b l e to sq u i r m h e r way around guards Ashley Owusu and Mikesell, often penetrating and scoring on floaters and quick moves to the rim.

“I thought [Burns] was sensational. Obviously we had no matchup for her both in our man-to-man and in our zone,” Frese said. “As we move forward, we have to have better personal pride

when it comes to allowing somebody to come into our building and score 29 points, but I think we’ll be able to grow in that area.”

Guard Channise Lewis was the only real answer to Burns on the night, but the team will need to keep talented scorers like Mikesell and Owusu on the floor and defend the perimeter better if it’s to succeed against the nation’s top programs.

the freshmen are ready now Two of Maryland’s three healthy freshmen started in Friday’s exhibition, with forward Faith Masonius providing key minutes off the bench as all three put their stamps on the game.

Owusu came out of the gate firing with her quick handle and ability to take players one-on-one. The highly touted recruit proved she can have an immediate impact on offense and in

transition for the Terps.

Masonius played a gamehigh 25 minutes and factored into multiple facets of the game. But where she made the biggest impact was with communication. Throughout the game, she made her voice heard — whether it was calling out defensive switches or supporting her teammates. Frese highlighted Masonius’ communication as a bright spot in the win after the game. “[The freshmen] were tremendous,” Frese said.

“The moment wasn’t too big for them. I thought they just came in and played hard.”

Miller was tenacious on the glass and on defense throughout her 20 minutes.

At times she was moving too fast, which led to some of her team-high five turnovers — but her effort was apparent and her length was suffocating. sportsdbk@gmail.com