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Campus hate symbols ban not possible

Residents react to six-vote provision College Park mayor’s announcement stirs mixed responses College Park residents have mixed Leah Brennan reactions after the @allhaeleah College Park mayor Senior staff writer and City Council announced that a six-vote provision to pass future charter amendments does not comply with state law.

In an Oct. 18 statement, city officials said that an independent legal review of an April charter amendment, which included the six-vote provision, determined that state law for a municipal charter amendment requires affirmative votes from a majority of a city’s legislative body to approve charter amendments. Because the city has eight council members, this means that the city charter cannot require more than a minimum of five of their votes to approve such amendments.

“We’re going to take a look at the charter amendments that were passed earlier this year to make sure that they’re fully in compliance with state law and then making whatever changes are necessary to make sure that they are in compliance,” Mayor Patrick Wojahn said after the statement was released, adding that it would likely be early next year that they “would work with our attorney and [independent counsel] to come up with whatever changes are necessary.”

Carol Macknis, a District 1 resident since 1972, said she’s pleased that recent changes to the city charter are being reviewed to ensure they’re not in violation of state law.

Macknis added that she would like to see all future charter amendments come to nonbinding referendum on city ballots.

“I wish we could have the supermajority, but given the state law, I can abide with that,” Macknis said. “I am very pleased that

Univ. officials say ban would restrict First Amendment rights

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VALERIA A., a freshman computer science major at this university, moved with her family from Peru to the United States when she was 7 years old and is a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. evan kramer/thediamondback

her own DACA status in early 2016, it ended years of stress.

Her parents burst through the door with mail containing her work permit and Social Security number after months of talking with immigration lawyers, hours standing in lines at immigration advocacy centers and days of document preparation. Both Valeria and her parents cried when they received it.

“I was able to say I’m a DACA student,” Valeria said. “I have this now. I don’t have to be as fearful as I was to study and to work.”

To protect her DACA status and her ability to become a citizen, Valeria, a freshman computer science major, stays hypervigilant at all times.

While driving, she’s extremely cautious and always stays under the speed limit. In school, she makes sure that she never engages in academic dishonesty and has excellent

After the University Senate’s discussion of a campuswide ban of hate symbols, school officials said such a policy would not be possible.

University Police Chief David Mitchell and Diane Krejsa — this university’s deputy general counsel and chief of staff — told the University Senate’s Campus Affairs Committee Wednesday that the ban would limit First Amendment rights.

“Free speech is still a First Amendment right of citizens, students, faculty and employees and they probably have the right to express themselves in most of these places,” Krejsa said.

“This is not a home. If people are paying money to come to college because they want a home — where people all think alike and everybody has the same political views, and the same social views and the same views on sexual orientation and transgender and whatever religion or whatever it is — they should stay at home,” she added.

The Campus Affairs Committee decided at its previous meeting that it must first understand legal boundaries of the potential ban before evaluating whether it could be implemented.

This university bans hate and intimidation symbols at athletic events, but Krejsa said this ban cannot be expanded throughout the campus because athletic

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See SYMBOLS, p.7

‘undocumented and unafraid’ With the looming repeal of DACA, an undocumented student shares her story

By Natalie Schwartz | @nmschwartz23 | Senior staff writer When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced last month that DACA would be coming to an end, University of Maryland student Valeria A. watched it on a live stream in her dorm room while shaking in tears.

After the announcement ended, Valeria kept refreshing the page, hoping more information would pop up to answer her questions.

“I was an emotional wreck,” Valeria said.

Valeria is one of the 132 students at this university protected under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — a program that allows undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children and meet certain requirements to study and work in two-year blocks — who have been left uncertain about their future following the announcement. Valeria is not identified by last name to protect her identity.

When Valeria, who is from Peru, received

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Genderinclusive restrooms slated for stadiums

University’s music school is hosting a contest for students to revise lyrics

All family restrooms at Xfinity Center and Maryland Stadium will become gender-inclusive, Joshua Kaplan, the associate athletics director, announced at a University Senate committee meeting on Oct. 23.

Kaplan met with the University Senate’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee to announce the incorporation of gender-inclusive restrooms in some athletic venues as part of a larger discussion on how to proceed with establishing these facilities around the campus. The department began discussing gender-inclusive facilities between a year and a half and two years ago, he said.

Lillian Andemicael @LAndemicael Staff writer

After the University o f M aryland’s marching band cut the proConfederate state song from its lineup, the music school is hosting a contest for students to write new lyrics to “Maryland, My Maryland.”

University President Wallace Loh said the lyric change could permit the marching band to reinstate the song, which was previously featured in its football pregame show. The band stopped performing the song — which has lyrics referring to Abraham Lincoln as a “despot” and the Union as “northern scum” — in August, weeks after white supremacist protests turned violent in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“Once you have [the new lyrics], if the band wants to play the music … at sports events, that’s up to them,” Loh said. “And if people want to sing along the new lyrics that go with it, that’s up to them, too.” by

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restrooms in Athletic venues, including family restrooms on the second floor of Xfinity Center and those on various levels of Maryland Stadium, will soon become gender-inclusive. file photo/thediamondback “It was a very hot-button topic, something that is still being discussed and digested, but one of the things we thought about was what could we immediately change … for our larger venues,” he said. “Obviously, the easiest piece for us was to make sure our restrooms that could be, would be gender inclusive.”

All signs on family restrooms at Xfinity Center and Maryland Stadium will be relabeled to indicate they are gender-inclusive, Kaplan said. This includes both of Xfinity Center’s second-floor family restrooms and one restroom on each level of Maryland Stadium.

Venue maps will tell guests where restrooms are located, but do not specify which are gender inclusive.

So on-site staff can direct guests to gender-inclusive restrooms, Kaplan said.

The senate committee wanted to meet with Kaplan to learn more about how the proposed policy impacts the campus, committee chairman Eric Grims said.

Last month, the committee met with Facilities Management Capital Projects Director Bill Olen to discuss how single-user restrooms would be counted to adhere to the international plumbing code, which requires a certain number of separate female and male restrooms.

The code will be updated in the next few months, Olen said.

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The Maryland General Assembly would have to approve an official lyric change. The body adopted the state song in 1939, sung to the tune of German folk song “O Tannenbaum,” or “O Christmas Tree.”

“I’ve been here for several years and I always wondered, ‘Why is the band playing a Christmas tune?’ I never knew it was the Maryland state song,” Loh said. “We have no authority over the lyrics of the Maryland state song … so, this contest, as I understand it, is not a contest about changing the lyrics, … it is a contest for students to express their pride in the state of Maryland.”

Music school director Jason Geary said he is excited that the competition will create a platform for students to address the state song.

“I think the point here is that it does give students a voice,” he said.

“This is something that engages not just school of music or the college of arts and humanities, but really reaches out across the university. It’s an issue that clearly inflames passions on both sides, and also something that is timely and relevant.”

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DACA From p. 1 grades. And when she discloses her status, she’s careful about whom she chooses to tell.

“One of the biggest things is just making sure that you’re d o i n g eve ry t h i n g r i g h t ,” Valeria said. “Any wrong thing that can happen to you — from plagiarism to getting a speeding ticket or anything like that — could just taint your record, and who knows what the next policy may be?”

In the past, her parents urged her to keep her status a s e c re t b e c a u s e p e o p l e could use it against her. The first person Valeria told was Zachary Weilminster, a friend she has known since high school. She confided in him their junior year, he said.

Weilminster, now a freshman mechanical engineering major at this university, didn’t know what DACA was at the time, so he did some research.

“I didn’t think it was something for anyone to be judged by, and I didn’t judge her [for] it,” he said.

Weilminster said he was surprised when he found out. He knew there were undocumented immigrants in his school, but hadn’t been familiar with Valeria’s background.

“A lot of people think that people who are Deferred Action, people who are not naturalized citizens, look different, act different [and] sound different from everyone else,” Weilminster said.

“But they’re just part of everyday society, and they’re here like the rest of us.”

The Trump administration’s announcement was “extremely upsetting” for Weilminster, who started to worry about Valeria’s welfare and safety. Since the decision, he’s informed others on what the program is and whom it covers, especially as more and more people have begun talking about it.

Janelle Wong, a member of this university’s undocumented student working group, said faculty and staff ca n b e i n se n s i t ive wh e n talking about these issues during class or with students.

“Sometimes they might use inappropriate language, or just make an assumption that, let’s say, all students are citizens, or all citizens are able to travel easily, or all students are able to register to vote,” said Wong, an American studies professor.

T h i s u n ive rs i ty o f fe rs U n d o c u Te r p T r a i n i n g fo r s ta f f a n d fa c u l ty o n handling issues surrounding u n d o c u mented students.

Demand for the program has

increased since Trump’s election and his administration’s DACA announcement.

Although Valeria said she’s tried to keep her emotions in check when people discuss DACA around her — so they won’t suspect her status — she’s recently begun embracing an “undocumented and unafraid” attitude.

After one of her friends was making jokes that made her uncomfortable, she decided to share her status as a way to educate him.

She said that while she was worried about outing herself to him, “sometimes it’s for the better that there’s one less ignorant person in the world.”

Valeria’s friend was understanding, and they’ve grown closer since she told him about her status. In conjunction with an outpouring of support from people who said they stand with undocumented students following Trump’s decision, this has spurred her to be more open about being a DACA student.

However, she still remains fearful that even though many people seem supportive, some may come after her or make fun of her situation, she said, adding that it’s hard to know who will hear her story and what they will think of her.

“It was hitting at sens i t ive s p o ts fo r my pa t h — the way I or my family had to go through,” Valeria s a i d . “ I d e c i d e d to j u s t embrace this fact that I am undocumented.”

‘ THIS IS HOW AMERICA IS GOING TO BE’ Valeria’s parents moved her and her sister to the United States in February 2007 because of ongoing violence in Peru and to seek out better education for her and her sister.

In the early 1980s, opposition groups began rebelling against the South American nation’s government. Guerilla armies sowed chaos throughout the country by deploying bloody tactics that targeted civilians as well as the army, while state security forces cracked down on civilians suspected of supporting the rebels. At least 61,000 Peruvians died during the conflict, which lasted until 2000, according to a commission established by the government in 2001.

“My parents did not want us growing up in an environment where we could be a part of anything that might ruin our lives,” said Valeria, who was born in 1999.

When Valeria’s parents decided to move, they pulled

her out of school — she was in second grade and 7 years old at the time — and told her they were going to Disney World.

But they didn’t tell her they wouldn’t be coming back.

“They wanted to treat my sister to something before having this realization that we wouldn’t have everything we had in the past,” she said.

So the family left the warm, arid summer of Peru and landed in Orlando, Florida, in the middle of winter. It was Valentine’s Day — which is now a special anniversary to the family.

When the plane touched down, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer stopped Valeria’s parents in the airport. While she sat in a lobby daydreaming about Disney World, her parents were experiencing what she said was one of the “most nerve-wracking moments” in their lives, trying to hold it together and make sure they made it to America.

They had obtained visitor visas, which can allow nonc i t i z e n s to c o m e to t h e United States for six months for tourism, visiting family or receiving medical treatment. They were lucky the ICE official didn’t choose to question them further, Valeria said.

W h e n Va l e r i a a n d h e r family finally made it to Disney World, it was like a dream come true.

“This is how America is going to be,” she said, recalling her thoughts on first arriving at the amusement park. “I remember driving from the airport to the Walt Disney resort and seeing these neon signs and … everything looking big, and cars and all these buildings.”

D i s n ey Wo rl d wa s t h e “ be st two we e ks” of he r life, she said. She remembers being bundled up in the lines of the cold amusement park trying to communicate with almost everyone while only 7 years old.

“I thought I was the ‘Queen of English,’” she said.

But those dreamlike two weeks came to an abrupt end when Valeria and her family flew to Dallas — not back to Peru.

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“I didn’t know what Texas was or what Dallas was,” Valeria said. “It was really odd for me.”

Back in her hometown in Lima, Valeria had lived in a three-story stone house overlooking a park in a nice neighborhood. They had a large kitchen and a room for dinners and special occasions.

She had her own room with pink walls and every toy she wanted. She even had a nanny and her own transportation to school.

But now, everything was different.

For the first time in her life, she was sharing a room with her younger sister. And her dad and mom — who both held master’s degrees in accounting back home — now worked at a factory and at McDonald’s, respectively, because their degrees were nontransferable.

“Sometimes my mom would go out to work at 5 p.m. and come back at like 8 a.m. from McDonald’s,” Va l e r i a s a i d . “ I re m e m ber staying up sometimes, watching TV waiting for my mom to come and she would … always be tired, stressed, her body would hurt and everything.”

Even the school buses were strange, Valeria said. She had seen the bright yellow ones in cartoons, but never in person.

“It was a mix of being excited, but also a little terrified and anxious,” she said.

“I didn’t know if I was going to an English school. I didn’t know how I was going to get to school [or] where we were going to live.”

Valeria was put into the second grade again because she wasn’t proficient enough in English. From second to fourth grade she was in ESOL classrooms where the teachers would talk to the students in English, but the students

would speak to one another mostly in Spanish.

“I think the word that can describe it is shock — both from being happy, but also being really distressed and not knowing what was going on,” Valeria said.

The family bounced around to different cities in Texas before moving to New Mexico and eventually to Maryland in July 2014. One of the reasons Valeria’s parents chose this state was that students with DACA have the option of obtaining in-state tuition, which saves the family thousands of dollars.

W h i l e m ov i n g a ro u n d around state to state, Valeria received different qualities of education. New Mexico has ranked among the worst state educations in recent reports, while Maryland ranked fifth in the nation in 2017, according to Education Week.

“That transition really affected me,” Valeria said. “ S e e i n g m y s i s te r, w h o doesn’t have to go through t hat, [and] fo r her to go through this great, amazing education system here in Maryland … she’s going to have better opportunities than me.”

UNCERTAIN FUTURE Following the Trump administration’s announcement, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services s a i d a l t h o u g h i t wa s n o longer accepting first-time DACA applications, it would process renewals up until Oct. 5.

Valeria had submitted her renewal only a week before.

For others, the announcement left them scrambling to scrape together $495 for the renewal fee in only one month. Some have felt like they had to pick between their rent or their renewal

fee, said Laura Bohorquez, this university’s undocumented student coordinator.

After the announcement, Bohorquez said, students asked themselves, “‘Do I need to worry about my in-state tuition or classification, do I need to create a contingency plan, what are some of the resources in terms of emotional and mental health and wellbeing on campus?’”

Since the announcement, Bohorquez has seen a spike in undocumented students seeking her advice, and the University Health Center has allowed those with DACA to make emergency appointments.

Maria Berbery, a staff psychologist at the Counseling Center, said many students may be feeling increased anxiety. “[There’s] a lot of uncertainty about the future — their future in college, what their future careers are going to look like, whether they’re going to be able to work,” Berbery said. “[They’re] worrying about whether they’re safe on campus, whether they’re safe just going out and about in the world.”

Berbery suggested students focus on self-care, reaching out to trusted ones and finding a sense of community to help cope.

“That announcement hit me both ways,” Valeria said.

“I was very happy because I was one of those who was able to renew, but I also know, and my parents also remind me to keep in mind that all other kids who were turning 15 that day and weren’t able to apply for DACA.” Fifteen was the earliest age undocumented immigrants could file for DACA, and Valeria worries about those who may not be able to apply for it — including her 12-year-old sister.

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We endorse Wojahn for mayor As our national politics remain fractured, local committees and local groups. A mayor who politics matter more than ever. College Park’s mayoral meets the needs of underserved residents, as election is almost a week away, with four candidates she’s pledged to do, would lead this city well.

But while Cook has talked about reaching out in the race — the most in city history. Mayor Patrick Wojahn is pitted against District 4 Councilwoman to immigrants in the city, she voted against the Mary Cook, District 4 resident Zari Malsawma and noncitizens voting measure, which would have District 3 resident Tom Chen in the run for City Hall. given noncitizens a voice in local politics. And The candidates in office have made their share of her opposition to displaying the Pride flag at City mistakes; the ones outside office don’t have much Hall during Pride Week makes her unfit, in this experience, if any, in the political sphere. But this board’s opinion, to succeed College Park’s first editorial board believes — despite the city govern- openly gay mayor.

Cook’s focus on longterm resiment’s recent ineptitude — Wojahn dents is admirable, but Wojahn’s is still the best candidate for the job.

OUR VIEW desire for development that would Any discussion of the incumbent help both permanent residents and must begin with the noncitizens students — such as a grocery store voting disaster. After claiming it had and pedestrian safety, which he given non-U.S. citizens the right to emphasized in an interview with vote in local elections, the council the editorial board — comes in the announced the measure had fallen form of concrete goals. short due to changes made to the Chen and Malsawma have deep city charter several months earlier. ties to the community as well, It later found the changes were in having lived here for 22 and more violation of state law. than 40 years, respectively. But Though embarrassing, this episode should not tarnish the rest of Wojahn’s tenure. neither has enough experience in public service to Since he took office about two years ago, College warrant the mayorship. Though they have experience Park has defended undocumented residents with in management roles, this editorial board doesn’t sanctuary city policies, brought numerous businesses think either is ready to take on the responsibility of to the downtown area and worked to improve the overseeing a city with tens of thousands of residents.

With President Trump attempting to undo generatense relationship between longtime residents and students. Such achievements reflect well on the first- tions of American progress and Gov. Hogan standing idly by, College Park residents cannot afford to term mayor, who has proven he deserves a second.

Cook has assembled an extensive resume in neglect local politics. Wojahn’s time as mayor has her nearly five years on the council, serving had its bumps, but his record makes clear he deserves in leadership positions for a plethora of a second term.

Despite bumps in his first mayoral term, Wojahn is still the best candidate.

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Cole Field House is an important investment Moshe Klein @mosheklein Opinion columnist

Students have frequently criticized the University of Maryland’s $155 million investment in Cole Field House as a misuse of university money.

I have heard a number of class presentations argue the money could be better spent on mental health care, classrooms, student facilities and other important causes. And they do have a point. The university currently spends less than that amount on the scholarships and fellowships offered to the entire school.

Granted, much of the $155 million is from gifts and grants, but the university and state still invested significant funds in the project.

However, just because the university spent an exorbitant amount on a new practice facility does not decrease the importance of that facility. Sports are an integral component of forming collective identities. Athletic competition has been around since the beginning of recorded history, and while its mediums change, its message of pride, drive and unity has remained constant. Sports have long been expressions of collective pride, a feeling this university is trying to cultivate.

Terp pride is an important reason many potential students come to Maryland in the first place and become so invested once they get here. By encouraging alumni donations, these investments often pay off in the long run. As sports help construct our identities, it is only natural to make investments in our athletic success.

This is not only true on a local scale but a national one as well. Historically, national sports teams have drawn incredible amounts of attention, and

national athletes often hold significant influence. I spent this past summer in the Philippines, and I vividly remember the entire country stopping in the middle of the day to watch Manny Pacquiao fight Jeff Horn. Such athletes, considered national heroes, advertise the latest fashion, support political candidates, and, in one case, even ended a civil war.

Didier Drogba is a soccer player and the most popular man in the Ivory Coast. In 2005, while his country was enduring a bloody civil war, Drogba led his team to qualify for the 2006 World Cup where he took the microphone and asked everyone in his country to lay down their arms.

The war ended less than a week later.

Sports are powerful, and their role in the creation of a collective identity looms large, so it is no waste for this university to invest in its teams’ success. While moderation in spending is necessary, the reality is that we all benefit from our football team’s success. Whether we go to all the games or don’t know anything about football, our teams help inform our collective identity as Maryland Terrapins.

As this university looks to improve itself, attracting more applicants, creating a positive college experience and facilitating college pride all play a critical role. Therefore, I encourage our student body to support our athletic endeavors, from basketball to Quidditch, and make this university a prouder, more spirited and better place. mosheylklein@gmail.com

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We must protect our DREAMers Wallace Loh and Steny Hoyer University president; House minority whip

They are friends and neighbors, students and colleagues. They serve in the military, care for the sick and elderly and assist those recovering from natural disasters. We call them DREAMers — young people whose parents brought them to this country at a young age, who only know the U.S. as home. They are every bit as American as the rest of us; many have no memories of living anywhere else. And nearly 10,000 of them call Maryland home.

Several years ago, President Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program so that these DREAMers could come out of the shadows and go to school, apply for school loans and apply for employment, among other things — allowing them to follow their dreams and fully contribute to their communities.

Yet, as a result of the Trump a d m i n i s t ra t i o n ’s d e c i s i o n last month to end the DACA program, these young people now live in limbo, uncertain of their status, fearful of deportation and afraid they will be torn away from their families.

We believe Congress must take action as soon as possible to prevent such unconscionable outcomes. As a nation, we must provide a permanent solution to ensure these young people can stay here and continue

contributing to our nation’s future.

At the University of Maryland, more than 100 DREAMers and DACA students face the future with dread. The same is true for countless others around Maryland and the nation. These students work hard — many juggling both coursework and employment — while constantly facing challenges associated with their immigration status.

They have done everything by the book in the pursuit of productive lives. Now, we must do all we can to assure them that we have their backs.

Not only is it the wrong thing to do to kick thousands of hardworking young people out of the country and send them to places they don’t know, but it would also result in severe economic harm nationwide.

According to the Center for American Progress, the state of Maryland would see an estimated annual loss of more than $509 million in the state’s gross domestic product. Many DREAMers are entrepreneurs and chose to build their businesses in Maryland communities — we should not be sending those entrepreneurs away.

Business leaders throughout the U.S. recognize the innovation and economic productivity DREAMers bring to their communities and support allowing them to stay.

Deportation would have a severe impact on local economies, and we can’t afford to lose the innovative talents of DREAMers.

To us, the injustice and waste of sending these talented, productive young people away from the communities they call home is simply wrong.

That’s why we both support the passage of the DREAM Act in Congress. This legislation would give certainty to thousands of young DREAMers, allowing them to remain here and providing a pathway to citizenship. Together, we urge members of Congress to support this critically important legislation and give DREAMers assurance they can remain here and continue contributing to our nation.

According to a poll conducted by The Washington Post and ABC News, 86 percent of Americans agree with us and support a solution to allow DREAMers to remain in the U.S. We both remain firmly committed to protecting DREAMers throughout Maryland, and support establishing a pathway to citizenship for them. This is consistent with the values our nation was built upon. They came through no fault of their own. This is their home, and they want to build lives of consequence here. We should give them this opportunity.

They are future leaders of our country, and we will not rest until the DREAM Act is passed and they have a permanent solution that allows them to continue to build their lives in the country they love and call home.

John Lewis teaches students ‘good trouble’ Sarah Riback @SarahRiback Opinion columnist

The first time Rep. John Lewis took part in a sit-in he was a young college student. There are photographs of him then — the young son of sharecroppers and mentee of Martin Luther King Jr. — unwaveringly enduring the violence that accompanied the fight for civil rights. From that point on, Lewis could be spotted at many major civil rights protests in the South.

Lewis sat at lunch counters during sit-ins, rode Greyhound buses during the Freedom Rides, led the infamous “Bloody Sunday” march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and spoke at the March on Washington.

As leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Lewis was the backbone of the student-led arm of the Civil Rights Movement.

On Oct. 12, Lewis delivered a moving speech at the University of Maryland about his and Andrew Aydin’s graphic novel, March: Book Three. At the age of 77, in a time of great political unrest and the rise of internet “slacktivism,” Lewis fuses the lessons of the past with the lessons of the present to educate young people about their duty to get into “good trouble.”

Lewis reminded students to “act as headlights, not taillights” in the fight for civil rights and equality. This ethic creates a culture of proactive, student-driven activism surrounding issues of injustice, something particularly salient at this university, where numerous incidents grounded in hatred and bigotry have taken place in the past year.

College campuses have long been spaces in which activism and organizing occur, sparking necessary discussion and moving the needle on issues of equality and justice. All students at this university, not just those directly impacted by hate, need

to consider and honor the activists before them.

T h i s u n i ve rs i t y h a s a l o n g history of student activism reaching back to the 1960s and ’70s.

After four students were killed at Kent State University, massive protests against the Cambodian bombing campaign embroiled this university for several days. Students occupied the ROTC office and the administration building.

More than a thousand National Guard troops were activated to tamp down the student uprising.

The photographs and accounts of these protests are a reminder that students have immense power and a responsibility to use it.

As Lewis reminded us, “[We] have a moral obligation, a mission and a mandate when you leave here to go out and seek justice, for all. You can do it, you must do it.” The urgency of Lewis’ call to get into good trouble is magnified by the extremity of the current political climate, in which the powerful undermine marginalized groups’ rights and safety at an alarming rate.

It is not the responsibility of the most marginalized to convince others their humanity matters, rather those in positions of power must employ their privilege to support them however they can.

As students, we collectively hold tremendous power over the spaces we inhabit, whether classrooms, stadiums or performance halls. As Lewis taught us, it is our collective responsibility to use our voices and talents to partake in the fight for equality and justice throughout, and beyond, our four years at this university. Let’s keep our eyes on the prize. riback.sarah@gmail.com

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Proposed zoning rules could boost Route 1 development Building height limits would not apply within city under new plan New Prince George’s County zoning regulations could make it easier for commercial development near residential neighborhoods along Route 1 in College Park, said Chad Williams, the zoning rewrite team’s project manager, at a meeting Monday.

Under the new plan, regulations limiting construction of buildings more than three stories tall within 150 feet of a residential dwelling or vacant lot, or four stories tall within 200 feet, would not apply within College Park. These regulations were outlined in an initial draft of the zoning rewrite.

“None of the developments in College Park that have been realized in the past 15 years would have been allowed under these regulations as initially proposed,” Williams said. “Not a one.” by

Jack Roscoe @Jack_Micky Senior staff writer

The team is now seeking community input before a draft of the ordinance is presented to the Prince George’s County District Council in January.

The newest plan also doubled a previous draft’s limits on residential density so that developments like The View and The Varsity could operate legally.

Before, officials had to make amendments to zoning law to allow this type of construction.

Amendments weren’t applied uniformly across the county.

Now, officials are trying to streamline the process by writing a new code altogether.

In order to make the communities along the Route 1 corridor stronger economically, the zoning ordinance was in need of standardization, Williams said. The successful redevelopments along the Route 1 corridor happened in spite of the old zoning ordinance’s regulations, not because of them, he added.

“You have the strongest m a r k e t i n t h e c o u n t y,”

Williams said. “We have a very high priority for much of the [Route 1] corridor.”

Prince George’s County Council Vice Chair Dannielle Glaros said the three municipalities along Route 1 under her jurisdiction are covered by four different zoning plans, each with different design standards. This has made the Route 1 corridor not as responsive to market opportunities as the county or residents would like, Williams said.

P l a n n e d d e ve l o p m e n t zones and a newly-created “transit-oriented activity center base” zone, which provides developers with more flexibility in exchange for including more amenities in development proposals, were extended to cover all of Route 1 in the new plan.

So m e re s i d e n ts a t t h e meeting felt the new ordinance did not do enough to protect residential dwellings from redevelopment along the corridor.

U n a P a l m e r, a N o r t h Brentwood resident, said she had no say in the developments that occurred

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in her neighborhood, including the recent addition of several houses that no current residents can afford. This is a form of gentrification of the county’s first incorporated black community, she said.

“That is not fair to us, and our legacy and our history in this country,” Palmer said.

It is also “ ex tre me ly challenging ” to remove an existing legal business that has operated under the original zoning ordinance, Williams said.

S h e i l a B u t l e r, t h e Cottage City town commission mayor, said the county should change the ordinance so that rundown businesses can’t be grandfathered in.

“How do you get them to change this grandfathering when you can get some better respectable business in your community versus looking at junk shops every time you go up and down the street?” Butler said. jroscoedbk@gmail.com

THE COLLEGE PARK CITY COUNCIL and Mayor Patrick Wojahn said Oct. 18 that a six-vote provision to change the city charter violates state law. tom hausman/the diamondback

COUNCIL From p. 1 they’re going to look and make sure that nothing else in our charter violates state law, or at least goes with it, and I hope that any future charter amendments are put to the non-binding referendum, so that the citizens who can vote at least can express their desire, yes or no, whether they think whatever change is proposed should or should not be implemented.”

“Even though the elections are only every two years, I don’t think there’s any reason to rush to have something changed,” Macknis added.

The six-vote requirement was what the council initially cited to explain why

the charter amendment allowing noncitizens to vote did not pass in September. After the council voted 4-3 in favor of noncitizens voting in municipal elections, officials announced the proposed charter amendment didn’t get the six votes it needed to be adopted.

After this occurred, the mayor and council worked with attorney Victoria Shearer to conduct an independent legal review of the April charter amendment that included the six-vote policy, Wojahn said. It came to their attention after “news got out about the supermajority requirement … that the supermajority requirement itself may not have been legally valid,” Wojahn added.

He wrote in this week’s mayoral update that it was the Maryland Municipal League, among others, that said the six-vote requirement See COUNCIL , p. 7

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MaryPIRG’s appeal for funds approved by SGA The student activist group will get $25,362 to pay campus organizer After the SGA denied MaryPIRG’s request for funding earlier this semester, the legislature voted in favor of the student activist group’s appeal during Wednesday’s meeting in City Hall.

The vote, 20 to 9 with three abstentions, means MaryPIRG will receive $25,362 from the Student Government Association’s appeals fund.

The approved funds will be used to pay the salary for the campus organizer, who helps “create long-term change on campus,” said MaryPIRG Presiby

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COUNCIL From p.6 might not be legally valid.

Chris Keosian, the student liaison to the council, said he was surprised to learn the news about the six-vote requirement potentially not being valid a month ago, especially in light of the noncitizens voting situation.

“It was kind of two big blunders at one time. But, I admire the council and staff

RESTROOMS From p. 1 “There were some basic [questions] last month about how single-user or genderinclusive restrooms would be counted in terms of X number of [restrooms],” Grims said.

“According to building codes, depending on the size of the building, you need X number of [restrooms] for men and women. This doesn’t really include gender non-specific restrooms.”

While the athletic department is working to install more gender-inclusive re-

DACA From p. 3 or an enhancement or there’s new legislation that will protect immigrants who came as young children, that does not resolve the issue of mixed-status families where parents might not have documentation,” Wong said. “That does not alleviate the fears of family separation.”

Valeria said she’s lucky to have had the resources to obtain DACA and her renewal.

“Not only do you have to have good resources to get through this, you also have to have money,” Valeria said. “And if you don’t have both, it’s such a

CONTEST From p.1 Tonie Johnstone, a senior international business major, said the decision connects to past university events, such as the renaming of Byrd Stadium to Maryland Stadium. In 2015, the Board of Regents voted to change the stadium name, stripping it of the name of former university President Harry Clifton “Curley” Byrd, who opposed admitting black students.

“I do like the fact that we’re putting effort forward into creating a whole new dynamic, or a whole new song,” she said. “If it’s really successful, who knows how far it could go.”

Sophomore marching band member Lauren Cain praised the contest, adding that if the

dent Ary Papadopoulos, a senior public health science major.

T h e c a m p u s o rga n i ze r is a resource for not only MaryPIRG members, but all students on the campus, Papadopoulos said.

“The campus organizer also provides grassroots training.

This kind of training cannot be found anywhere else in the student government,” said junior economics major Michael Trim, the student groups defender.

The group’s appeal was amended from their original request on Oct. 5, when the SGA Financial Affairs Committee denied to fund $25,362

for MaryPIRG’s campus organizer, and an additional $9,426.38 for their state director for “salary, taxes, and benefits,” according to a document submitted to the committee.

MaryPIRG representatives amended their appeal to include only the salary of the campus organizer for a total amount of $25,362.

SGA Finance Vice President Alia Abdelkader said the organization’s requests did not comply with the SGA’s bylaws.

“It has nothing to do with the amount requested,” Abdelkader said.

The bylaws state “no SGA recognized group shall be authorized to allocate any of their SGA funded budgets or any compensation that may be interpreted as wages or salaries.”

However, the SGA does allow student groups to appeal any decision made by the committee and, if necessary, a second appeal to the legislature.

The bylaws also state that student groups, such as MaryPIRG, may request an exemption from this rule every two years with a referendum by the student body.

During the meeting, MaryPIRG representatives cited a 2016 referendum held

on this campus in which 75 percent of the 1,576 students who participated voted to support funding the MaryPIRG staff through a portion of the student activities fee, while 16 percent were against this action.

Although, the referendum exemption is “non-binding,” Abdelkader said.

“This means the committee is not required to fund salaries solely based on the

outcome of that referendum,” Abdelkader added.

Previously SGA has approved similar funding requests. In fiscal 2015, the SGA funded about $32,800 in salaries for these same positions, according to an SGA referendum document.

However, these funds were never spent and were returned to the SGA, Abdelkader said.

for dealing with it professionally, and efficiently and effectively, and not trying to hide it or bury it, but coming right out and front and owning their mistake and doing the best they can to correct it,” said Keosian, a senior government and politics major, said. “It’s important to realize that mistakes happen, and this is a very big mistake, but we can’t re-litigate the past at this point. What we can do is move forward in an efficient

and effective manner to represent everyone in College Park.”

District 2 resident Chris Dullnig, whose family moved there in 1964, said he thinks the mayor and council messed up. But he said he would be more concerned if these were their full-time jobs.

“I don’t think there’s any malice here, I don’t think there was anybody trying to do anything evil. I do believe they messed up,” Dullnig said. “This is not their day job. If it was

their day job, I’d have a little bit more concern. I would’ve expected more of them.”

Dullnig added that he thinks state law and its effect on the six-vote requirement should have been further investigated before it passed.

Kerry Snow, a District 1 resident for about 12 years, wishes someone had advised council on state law before the April charter amendment passed.

“I wish someone had been around to advise the council

on what was legal in Maryland before we spent a lot of energy going through that,” Snow said.

“My only thought is, these things should’ve been clear to council before they spent so much energy on [the non-U.S. citizen voting measure and the sixvote requirement]. As far as the outcome, it is what it is I guess.”

District 2 resident Rose Greene Colby, who has lived in the city for 20 years, said the mayor and council are addressing the invalidity of

the six-vote requirement the right way.

“They’re taking the time to bring in an independent legal counsel to review all of their policies related to voting on these different types of amendments,” Greene Colby said. “I agree with the outside legal counsel, I agree with taking a step back and reviewing their whole process, I think that makes sense.”

strooms, Kaplan said some existing facilities, such as men’s and women’s locker rooms, are “landlocked” and can’t be easily converted to gender-inclusive. But the department will make sure Cole Field House — which is expected to open in 2019 — will have a gender-inclusive locker room, he said.

“A lot of our buildings, unfortunately, I’m sure like many others, are somewhat landlocked in our department, as far as locker rooms go,” Kaplan said. “There is no athletics facilities master plan for gender inclusive facilities.”

The athletic department’s office of Facilities, Operations and Events reached out to Contemporary Service Corporation — a crowd management and security company — as well as peer institutions and venues, including the Redskins’ FedEx Field, to ensure this university adopts proper ushering and security procedures when converting single-user restrooms to gender-inclusive, Kaplan said.

“No one is permitted to deny anyone access to their respective restrooms,” Kaplan said.

M o n d a y ’s d i s c u s s i o n comes after LGBT Equity

Center Director Luke Jensen proposed a bill to the senate in March to urge for the campus to have more gender-inclusive facilities. The bill proposed gender-inclusive locker rooms, changing rooms and restrooms, as well as relabeling singleuser restrooms to make them gender-inclusive.

The bill proclaims “the University should address the issue of providing gender-inclusive restrooms in existing buildings where no major renovation is planned.

This would likely require a multi-year plan to convert some existing restrooms

into multiple-user genderinclusive restrooms.”

Committee member Phillip Staniczenko presented research results on gender-inclusive restroom policies at 15 universities on Monday, which included the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Oregon and Oberlin College. Staniczenko, who worked with fellow committee members Beth St. Jean and Jennifer Dindinger on the project, highlighted the language of restroom policies and conversion plans from several of these schools at the meeting to draw distinctions based on previous discussions of the topic.

The committee is still researching the bill and hopes to complete it by January or February, Grims said.

“There is a range of different policies we can draw on, depending on the different outcomes we are hoping to achieve, plus some good reference documentation from other universities,” Staniczenko said. “This is a great starting point to think about how the University of Maryland can frame its policy and some resources that could help flesh that out.”

difficult process to get through.”

While this university created the undocumented student coordinator position in March after student demand, some groups have begun advocating for a full-time immigration lawyer as well.

Although Bohorquez offers assistance to undocumented students, her ability to provide legal advice is limited, said Madelyne Ventura, the president of student organization Political Latinxs United for Movement and Action in Society.

“While our undocumented student coordinator had a lot of resources available, a lot of

these students needed complete re n ewa l p a c ka ge s,” s a i d Ventura, a senior mathematics major. “That’s something our undocumented student coordinator couldn’t necessarily do herself — she can only refer the students to someone.”

Valeria said immigration lawyers were helpful in her own pathway to obtaining DACA. ProtectUMD, a coalition of student groups, plans on presenting a proposal to this university’s administration for the position.

her future computer science degree to help underprivileged children and adults learn to code, among other technical skills.

And Weilminster said Valeria is one of the most hardworking people he knows.

“I have a lot of faith in her ability to succeed, and I would hate to see that taken away from her by something that seems kind of trivial,” Weilminster said. “She doesn’t deserve to have [protection] stripped away.”

Trump tasked Congress with creating a solution for undocumented immigrants with DACA. The legislature has crafted several proposals, including the

Dream Act of 2017, which has bipartisan support and would provide a pathway to citizenship for those with DACA. The president has also reportedly indicated that he may extend the deadline if Congress doesn’t push through legislation by the March 5 deadline.

While he doesn’t have much faith in Congress, Weilminster said he hopes they can create a bill to protect those with DACA. “People are people,” he said.

“Whether you are a citizen of the United States, whether you are someone who is covered under Deferred Action, whether you are an illegal immigrant who’s not a naturalized citizen,

people deserve respect. … They shouldn’t be treated as anything less than human or looked at as a number or statistic.”

Valeria said she’d like DACA to change from a “BandAid” solution into a bridge to citizenship.

And she retains hope that she and her family will have a future in America. “[My parents] always tell me … maybe God — because we’re very Catholic — his intention is not for me to stay here, but to just push through,” Valeria said.

“But I really hope my intention is to stay here.”

song’s lyrics were officially changed, the band could play it again.

“A lot of people recognize it by the tune and not the lyrics,” said Cain, a criminology and criminal justice major. “I never really knew that it had negative connotations to it.”

Marching band member Sara Tatum said rewriting the lyrics might not be enough. “ I f t h e m u s i c d o e s n ’t change, people might still have negative opinions on it, so it goes both ways,” the senior education and mathematics major said.

The contest is open to all undergraduate and graduate students, and submissions are due Nov. 20. Entries must be at least one verse in length, and co-authored lyrics will be

accepted, according to a music school news release.

Officials should open the contest to submissions from across the state, Johnstone said. “ Eve n i f t h ey d i d a statewide contest, like not only Maryland students … that’d be really cool,” she said.

A c o m m i t te e m a d e up of students, faculty and staff will review the submissions. The winner will receive $1,500, with second and third place entries receiving $750 and $500, respectively, and awards will be ann o u n ce d i n ea rly De cember, according to the news release.

expressions of views and don’t violate any conduct policy. To issue any consequences for a hate bias incident, it must be investigated thoroughly on a case-tocase basis, they said.

“The hate crime statute in Maryland is predicated on crime occurrence, it begins with criminal misconduct. The hate crime statute is not there for placing a noose without committing a crime,” Mitchell said. “I don’t want to diminish the act … but, the law is such that [just] placing a noose … doesn’t rise to the level of criminal misconduct. I think the difficulty is that folks rationally could maybe accept that … but emotionally it’s very difficult to accept that.”

Catherine Carroll, director of the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct, said at the meeting that it is hard to establish

similar policies because this university is a public institution.

The Senate committee discussed taking a different approach to reviewing the policy. Committee Chair Gene Ferrick suggested that the group divide into smaller groups to discuss topics including similar policies at this university and other Big Ten schools.

“I am a lot more interested in promoting inclusion than I am in preventing hate,because preventing hate is something that you’re just never going to do,” said Luke Jensen, the LGBT Equity Center director. “But having said that, I do think we do have a charge that asks us to look at these things, and we might conclude that we can’t do a policy, but we do recommend that the campus respond in a way that is different that what it has.”

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“It is not [an open] public forum, as the rest of the campus is towards free speech,” Krejsa said.“I don’t see [the ban from athletic events] as a parallel situation at all to the rest of the public areas of the campus.”

Mitchell and Krejsa said while a misconduct incident involving hateful expression — such as vandalizing a building with a swastika — can lead to punishment, because the action violates the Code of Student Conduct, hate symbols are

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fanning the fame In ‘Beach House 3,’ a sobering look at notoriety’s pitfalls “Everybody wants to be famous,” explains Ty Dolla $ign on the opening track of Beach House 3, the 20-track cap to the Beach House mixtape trilogy.

In a period of rising notoriety for Dolla $ign, his latest project is wholly obsessed with the pros and cons of celebrity. “Famous Lies,” “Famous Excuses,” “Famous Friends,” “Famous Amy” and “Famous Last Words”, the short, fleeting interludes the project structures itself around, establish Beach House 3 as a cautionary tale preaching purpose over instant gratification.

Sonically, Dolla $ign’s latest is a 51minute, genre-bending cocktail of R&B, rock, pop and hip-hop. Despite a perfectly executed “Mustard on the beat, hoe” beat switch on “Love U Better”, “Ex” — a track featuring YG that oozes promiscuity — packs Beach House 3’s most powerful potential for radio play.

“I just text my main chick,” sings Dolla $ign at his sultriest. “I told her I ain’t coming home.”

It’s an anti-monogamy proclamation, fueled by the perks of celebrity, that the artist himself later refutes on by

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Breek,” though not nearly as unbelievably sexual as one might expect a Dolla $ign/Jeremih track would be, finds the two singers beautifully riding the bouncing instrumental that seems destined for a viral music video. “Stare,” featuring Wiz Khalifa at his best and Pharrell Williams continuing his “Neon Guts” vibe, proves that the world truly needs a Skateboard-P-sounding-likehe’s-tripping-acid album.

“Seein’ things isn’t a good enough excuse/ when you are just sitting right there,” sings Williams from what sounds like a realm beyond our universe. “I know you ain’t just gon’ stare.”

“Don’t Judge Me”, featuring hitmaking specialists Future and Swae Lee, is the Beach House 3 show-stealer.

Succumbing to fame’s downsides, Dolla $ign is noticeably paranoid as he reveals his troubles.

“I can’t trust no one, I can’t trust nobody now,” laments Dolla $ign during an emotional peak. “Only thing they want, only thing they want is money now.”

With multiple albums and mixtapes, countless hook-crooning features and even a supporting role in Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa’s iconic Mac and Devin go to High School, Ty Dolla $ign is indeed famous. Though indulging in the benefits of his status brings ephemcover art via atlantic records eral pleasure, Dolla $ign’s Beach House 3 Staying in line with the mixtape style illustrates the unrelenting permanence “Lil’ Favorite.” Featuring MadeinTYO, f---ing with you only,” pleads Dolla the clapping, catchy track is an anti- $ign with tangible remorse. “I’m that fueled the trilogy, Beach House 3 of fame’s pitfalls. trying to make it so I’m down and up is headlined by standout tracks with Shakespearean ballad of love. skillfully utilized features. “Dawsin’s “I’m done with chasing love, I’m your homie.” cneimanddbk@gmail.com

review | hasan minhaj

Minhaj takes the stage Comedian of Netflix, ‘Daily Show’ fame well received in two sets by

Hasan Minhaj him especially right after that

Allison O’Reilly wa s o n ly o n show came out, and that’s the @allisonoreilly s ta ge fo r 3 0 reason I came.” minutes, but Much of Minhaj’s short set was Staff writer in that time he managed to discuss a wide array of serious issues using anecdotes, statistics and visuals — all under the guise of comedy.

Minhaj headlined this university’s Student Entertainment Events’ annual Homecoming Comedy Show a few months after the debut of his Netflix special Homecoming King. His performance on Oct. 26 at Ritchie Coliseum drew in a huge, diverse, eager crowd, many of whom started lining up around 5:30 p.m. for his 8 p.m. set. He performed a second show at 10:30 p.m.

As a Muslim-Indian comedian, Minhaj focused on his background in a way that resonated well with his audience.

“I watched [Homecoming King] and that was the first time I watched a show that basically resembled my life in America.

I wasn’t born here but basically grew up here since I was 5, and it was so relatable because everything he was saying resonated with my life,” said Sihrish Noureen, who graduated from this university in May. “It was really cool for Maryland to host

spent discussing the issue of refugees coming to America and how fearful many people are of that.

He looked at terrorism, Islamophobia, his personal experiences with racism and more through a comedic lens.

“I’m glad that he does it,” junior math major Bhaswanth Potarlanka said of Minhaj using his platform for political issues.

“That’s where he got started too, he’s always been a political comedian, so I’m glad he stuck with that. That’s his niche, that’s what he’s good at.”

Some audience members were unfamiliar with Minhaj’s work, like sophomore business student Milena Chavin, but were still impressed.

“I thought it was just going to be a comedy show, I’ve never seen his Netflix [special] Homecoming King so I didn’t know it was going to be political but I thought it was really cool that he used his platform to speak on [issues],” she said.

Laughter from the audience was often juxtaposed with dead silence as he transitioned from a joke to a jarring statistic, but it

wasn’t awkward or unnatural.

“I feel like he had a very creative way of showing the importance of what his message was,” sophomore bioengineering major Shanza Khan said. “Refugees are something that we need to focus on and he [spoke about it] in a way everybody could relate to and come to a solid ground on.”

Many others also recognized Minhaj’s ability to resonate with various groups, making it one of the most salient aspects of his performance.

“I thought it was great that he used comedy to appeal to the masses on a more political standpoint,” said Sumiyya Raheem who graduated from this university in 2015. “The audience was really diverse and he was able to connect with everyone at some point and

I appreciated that. As a Muslim female in America, he touched on each one of my identities and I really liked that.”

M inhaj is among many comedic greats who have performed at this university, but his unique ability to lighten up some of the darkest issues in America sets him apart from other comedians. Many students left with smiles on their faces and a new perspective in their brains.

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Terps improve in second season under Ray Leone Terps are relying on young talent to continue rebuild after shaky year A f te r d e Sean Whooley f e n d e r J l o n @swhooley27 Flippens scored a n ove r t i m e Staff writer penalty kick to defeat George Mason on Sept. 3, she sprinted toward the Maryland women’s soccer team’s bench with her teammates just behind, raised her hand and waved, as if to say “goodbye.”

The Terps advanced to 5-0-1 with the victory, but they won only two of their remaining 12 matches and ended their season with a 564minute scoreless streak.

Injuries to key players and inconsistent performances contributed to Maryland’s tumble through the second half of the schedule. Still, the Terps showed improvement just one year after finishing 3-15-1 in coach Ray Leone’s first season in charge.

“We’ve improved, just in by

our competitiveness, against the teams we played last year,” Leone said. “We’re totally different, even with all the injuries, with how we actually competed against these top-level teams. … It’s not even the score, it’s how you’re playing.”

The Terps (7-8-3, 1-8-2 Big Ten) started strong behind the play of forwards Chelsea Jackson and Mikayla Dayes. The pair opened the season with three goals apiece through the first five games.

However, Dayes and Jackson soon suffered season-ending ACL injuries. Dayes’ came on Aug. 31 against Richmond, while Jackson’s occurred three games later against Rutgers on Sept. 17.

While these injuries hindered the Terps’ play, they also provided valuable experience for a large group of first-year players from Leone’s 25th-ranked recruiting

defender jlon flippens and other players stepped up due to injuries that sidelined Maryland’s top two scorers. The Terps missed out on the Big Ten tournament. matt regan/the diamondback class. Flippens said the newcomers matured immensely during the season.

“Ray just reminds us to trust the process,” freshman midfielder Hope Lewandoski said.

“It’s not going to happen overnight. This year, this freshman class has brought a new energy to the group, and we’ve been able to jump forward a little bit.”

Dayes is one of those freshmen, as is her twin, defender Malikae Dayes, who played in only four matches due to an unspecified injury. The sisters have played for the Canadian youth national team, while

forward Alyssa Poarch, who missed the season with a torn ACL suffered in high school, has experience with the United States youth setup.

They made up part of the class that has Leone feeling confident moving forward.

“That top-25 recruiting class, half of them didn’t even play,” Leone said. “The twins have been out the whole season. Poarch didn’t play at all. These were all the national team players. Those were the ones. But I’m really pleased with how everybody did improve, the young players.”

Eleven freshmen debuted for

the Terps this season, and two — Lewandoski and defender Sydney Staier — played more than 1,400 minutes. Only redshirt senior midfielder Hope Gouterman was on the field more often.

Leone started up to six freshmen in some instances during the season. With the injuries and Leone’s preference to have versatile players, most played more than one position. Lewandoski, for instance, played along the backline and as a forward along with her natural role as a midfielder.

The second-year coach said

that while players were forced out of their comfort zones, the variety of situations he put his team in were “experiences that we at least had together.” Leone and Gouterman believe those experiences have Maryland primed for even more growth in the coming years.

“Looking at the future, the opportunities can only go up from here,” Gouterman said.

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Homecoming will mean more once freshmen develop DJ Durkin and his staff are forging NFL talent behind revamped culture Leading up

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White, quarterback Boomer Esiason, and more recently, wide receivers Stefon Diggs and Torrey Smith have succeeded in the NFL following their careers in College Park.

Almost all Maryland alumni can serve as examples of the work ethic it takes to play college football. But overall, have former Maryland teams and coaches set a high on-field standard for their successors? Not really.

Maryland has won just nine bowl games since 1956. The Terps have finished with a winning conference record once in the past 10 years.

Durkin is in the process of resurrecting the program by changing its culture and bringing in top-20 recruiting classes. So while learning about Maryland’s history is meaningful before homecoming, it’s equally important to focus on the brighter future.

“Learning about the history and the guys that played in the room that you play in and sat in

the same seats as you and learn- Maryland Stadium, the fans ing the history behind every- would give him a rousing thing — it’s awesome,” running ovation as perhaps the most back Jake Funk said. “Obviously accomplished former Marydown the line when I’m gone, land football player.

But Maryland’s recent history there will be other guys doing isn’t as pretty. Friedgen was fired the same thing.”

Ultimately, future players will in 2010, and the Terps didn’t do watch highlight tapes of Mary- enough to retain former wide receivers coach land’s current James Frankfreshmen. lin — who’s led Don’t be surPenn State’s prised if more rebuild — to NFL stars come replace him, f ro m M a r y instead hiring land in the next the widely 20 years than criticized Randy in the past 125 Edsall. years.

While the It’s hard to Terps are 10-20 pinpoint parin Big Ten play ticular teams since moving Maryland could c e l e b ra te a t maryland football running back to the conference in 2014, homecoming.

The 1951, 1953 and 1955 teams Durkin hopes blowouts at the finished in the top three of the hands of perennial national title AP poll. Under Jerry Claiborne, contenders such as Ohio State the Terps went undefeated in and Wisconsin can be learning the ACC three straight years in experiences.

“When you look at the grand the mid-1970s. In 2001, Ralph Friedgen’s Terps won the ACC scheme of things, where we’re and lost in the Orange Bowl — an at and the adversity that we’ve accomplishment that was over- been hit by, it’s going to make shadowed by Maryland men’s us better in the long run,” basketball’s NCAA title run a few Durkin said Tuesday. “There’s a lot of guys right now in pomonths later.

I f E s i a so n re t u r n e d to sitions they haven’t been in

before, in terms of mentally and having to fight through things, or young guys playing that maybe aren’t ready to do what they’re supposed to do.

It’ll make us stronger as a team.

“It really makes you look in the mirror and decide, OK, how much does your teammate mean to you, how much do you care about being accountable for one another and all those things, when you go through some adversity. We’re building this thing the right way and for the long term.”

Many Maryland players are inspired by former teammates who led the squad when they were underclassmen.

The defensive players found motivation in seeing defensive end Yannick Ngakoue, who plays for the Jacksonville Jaguars and graduated from Maryland in 2016, come back to College Park on Saturday. Former defensive lineman Azubuike Ukandu and running back Kenneth Goins, who both graduated earlier this year, encouraged teammates on the sideline.

Likely still motivates defensive players without even visiting.

“I watch Will in the slot a lot,” defensive back Josh Woods said Tuesday.“His patience for routes,

his technique was flawless.”

Some recruits are drawn to schools by their rich history.

Alabama can point to quarterback Joe Namath, defensive end Derrick Thomas and wide receiver Julio Jones. Southern California can reference running backs Marcus Allen and O.J. Simpson or wide receiver Lynn Swann.

Maryland is still building its brand of successful professional players. While that process takes time, the next wave of NFL Terps is near.

Behind the bevy of four-star prospects Durkin has drawn to College Park, the Terps might compete in the Big Ten in two years.

In 15 years, Maryland players will watch highlights of freshman quarterback Kasim Hill’s poise and versatility leading up to homecoming. They’ll see first-year running back Anthony McFarland break defender’s ankles and rookie offensive lineman Marcus Minor deny the conference’s most feared pass rushers.

When that happens, the annual ceremonies and nostalgic trips will take on a new tone, becoming a celebration of a revitalized program.

that established local clinics and one-on-one lessons.

Tjerk van Herwaarden, the head coach at Harvard and a Terps assistant while Bam was a player, took notice. In 2016, he offered her an assistant coaching job.

Meharg called and asked if Bam could return to College Park instead, but she had already accepted the position with the Crimson. After Bam spent one season at Harvard, Meharg returned with open coaching spots for Bam and her husband. They accepted the offer.

“I had an opportunity for a world-class player to come back and be with me in the office,” Meharg said. “Katie represents every bit of the culture that we’re creating and that is vital for field hockey.”

When Meharg revealed the news to the team, forward Linnea Gonzales’ jaw dropped. She admired Bam growing up and mimicked her technique. She has five sticks with Bam’s signature.

Midfielder Brooke DeBerdine was also ecstatic.

“She was like kind of the Bam, whose competitiveness n a m e o f M a r yl a n d f i e l d has energized the squad. hockey,” DeBerdine said.

Even weekend cornhole and pool games with the LEARNING TO ATTACK coaching staff have become a competition. Bam pracBam’s first season coach- t i c e s w i t h t h e te a m . I n ing Maryland’s offense didn’t recent weeks, she’s worked with DeBerdine on shootstart well.

During a stretch at the ing technique. She’s helped end of September, the Terps midfielder Madison Maguire dropped three of four con- gain confidence in one-onte s ts, a l l a ga i n s t ra n ke d one scenarios.

The Terps have responded. teams. They scored a comAfter Maryland’s initial bined seven times.

Bam wasn’t pleased with struggles to generate offense Gonzales at halftime in the early in games, the team has Terps’ win against Ohio State scored 27 times in its last on Oct. 13. Maryland carried a one-goal lead into the intermission, but Bam felt the attack’s energy was subpar.

She demanded more.

Facing pressure from her From p. 10 childhood idol, Gonzales re s p o n d e d . A b o u t e i g h t “A lot of people always minutes into the second half, saw that I was good she took a shot from the left enough,” Brooks said. side of the circle that landed “They just kept me going.” in the net. She clenched her Antoine Brooks Sr. sat fists and screamed toward on his couch at home, the sideline, her most exeyes fixed on the TV, pressive reaction to a score as Texas lined up for this season. its 44-yard field goal She didn’t want to disappoint attempt in the second

seven matches. The Terps e n d e d t h e sea so n w i t h a 6-0 shutout of then-No. 21 Rutgers before beating Michigan State, 3-0, in the Big Ten tournament first round, highlighting a stretch of attacking dominance entering next Sunday’s Big Ten tournament semifinal game against Penn State. “[Bam] is a winner,” assistant coach Stefanie Fee said.

“Whatever she does, she sets for 100 miles per hour.”

That much is evident during her in-game sideline conversations.

De Be rd i n e wa s ove rw h e l m e d a s t h e Te r p s ’ contest against Michigan in Ann Arbor on Sept. 29 went into a second overtime. She breathed heavily. She struggled to calm down.

Bam approached DeBerdine and encouraged her to relax.

As DeBerdine regrouped and entered the game, Bam marveled at her courage, having been in a comparable predicament years prior. “[Bam’s] just a legend,” Gonzales said.

quarter of Maryland’s season opener. He saw his son, who was wearing No. 25 in his first career start, positioned at the right edge of the line of scrimmage.

Fo r a m o m e n t a f t e r lineman Derwin Gray blocked the attempt, Antoine Brooks stood upright, surveying the field. When he bolted forward for the loose ball, his father joined family members

in his living room in shouting, “Oh, he’s gone!”

Like he experienced while kneeling next to his injured son two years before, Antoine Brooks Sr. struggled to control his emotions. This time, though, his feelings were positive.

Antoine Brooks was back in the open field.

Durkin is right in some

Kyle Melnick to the Maryland aspects — Maryland has pro@kyle_melnick football team’s duced a handful of talented players. Defensive tackle Randy Football columnist homecoming win over Indiana on Saturday, each position group watched highlights and learned the history of some of the top former players at their respective roles.

The defensive linemen watched tape of Shawne Merriman, who played at Maryland in the early 2000s and was an All-Pro NFL linebacker. The running backs learned about LaMont Jordan, an All-ACC running back in the late 1990s.

Some defensive backs observed the play of Will Likely, an AllAmerican punt returner who graduated after last season.

“When you’re sitting in a room, whatever your position is, you’re sitting there — there’s a standard that’s been set by those that came before you,” coach DJ Durkin said Tuesday. “And it’s your job to uphold that standard or raise that standard. That’s what you do when you enter a program.

And our program has had a lot of great players.”

BAM From p. 14 B a m b o u n c e d b a c k by helping Maryland win the 2010 title. She ended her c a re e r a s t h e p ro g ra m ’s leader in goals, points and assists. Those records remain intact.

“The speed of her hands and the explosiveness of her first three steps,” Meharg sa i d o f B a m ’s s t re n g t h s.

“She’s exceptional.”

A DIFFERENT PATH Bam wanted to be a teacher when she was in high school.

Her mother recommended coaching, but she didn’t give much consideration to the suggestion.

However, Bam became a student assistant coach on Meharg’s staff after returning from the 2012 Olympics.

Due to her calm but honest n a t u re , Me h a rg sa i d t h e players listened to her even though she was just a few years older than them.

Bam also started a company with her husband

Learning the history behind everything — it’s awesome.

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BROOKS From p. 14 Brooks, now a sophomore at Maryland, returned from his setback to become one of the Terps’ best defenders this season.

The former two-star recruit leads the team in tackles (53) and tackles for loss (7), and he’s one of two players to have both forced a fumble and recorded an interception.

Yet Brooks highlighted his first career start on Sept. 2 as a ballcarrier, returning a blocked field goal 71 yards for a touchdown to help Maryland beat then-No. 23 Texas for its first road upset since 2008.

“No one was going to stop him from scoring,” Antoine Brooks Sr. said. “He wasn’t going to let nobody catch him.”

Prince George’s County celebrated Brooks’ breakthrough.

On a bus returning home from a Charles H. Flowers High School road football game in Baltimore, Dameon Powell, who coached Brooks at DuVal, whooped and hollered with his staff as they witnessed the play from a mobile stream.

An hour before DuVal kicked off its own season opener, Carlos Lockwood — Brooks’ defensive coordinator in high school — wondered why his phone kept buzzing in his pocket. The nowhead coach looked away from pre-game warmups to check the device, clicking on one of the many messages he received. It was an ESPN highlight of Brooks’ score.

Lockwood pulled aside DuVal senior wide receiver Jalen Brooks, Antoine Brooks’ brother, from the warmup session to share news of the touchdown.

“You should have seen his eyes light up,” Lockwood said. “That guy looks up to his big brother almost like you look up to your dad.”

Antoine Brooks had that sort of impact on his community. He

helped bring TV stations and college recruiters to a high school that had never generated much excitement.

After Brooks’ senior season ended prematurely, almost every high school coach in the area called his home to offer support.

DuVal players wore stickers on the back of their helmets with Brooks’ initials and his No. 2 for the remainder of the year.

“It was amazing to see the impact he had not only on DuVal and our student body, but also on the whole county,” Lockwood said. “It’s big for public schools.

Hopefully it opens the door for the P.G. County guys to invade that campus up in College Park.”

‘THE BEST PLAYER I’VE EVER COACHED’ Before Brooks arrived at DuVal, the school had only made the playoffs three times, and once in the previous two decades. DuVal qualified for the postseason each year Brooks attended, including a Class-4A semifinal appearance in 2014.

Brooks was a two-time All-Met honoree and earned the Prince George’s 4A Offensive Player of the Year in 2015.

Defenses struggled to contain his blend of speed and strength.

“He was unstoppable, man,” Powell said. “Nothing you could really do to scheme [against] him.”

In the first round of the 2014 Class 4A playoffs, DuVal faced Wise, which won the championship two years before. Brooks wasn’t intimidated by the matchup.

The dual-threat quarterback broke through the middle of the Wise defense for a game-winning 17-yard touchdown run, causing a man on the sideline to shout, “He’s gone!” Brooks didn’t celebrate after the play. He just tossed the ball to the referee.

But when teammate DeMarco Seay clinched the 20-14 upset

with an interception in the end zone, setting off another round of cheers from the stands, Brooks turned to the crowd and thrust both arms into the air. He then acknowledged Seay with a leaping embrace.

“That’s just Antoine,” Powell said. “He’s the ultimate team player, and he loves his guys.”

Brooks grew up idolizing former Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor, who was known for his ability to swarm to the ball, force turnovers and deliver big hits. Brooks was 9 when an intruder killed Taylor in his Miami home.

Antoine Brooks Sr. provided reassurance when Brooks asked his dad to explain what happened. “[He] told me to just keep going,” Brooks said, “and maybe you can be like him.”

Brooks’ defensive game mirrored Taylor by the time he reached DuVal. In practice, Lockwood said, Brooks made such aggressive plays that coaches worried he might accidentally injure one of his teammates. Like Taylor, Brooks could recover from bad reads by sprinting across the field to make a tackle because of his strong frame and athleticism.

Lockwood said opponents were afraid to throw the ball near Brooks, simplifying his defensive game plan.

“He was the best player I’ve ever coached,” Powell added. “He would throw his body in there and make plays just like he’s doing now. Just a joy to coach, you just don’t come across kids like that everyday.”

Still, Brooks struggled to garner attention from highcaliber Division I schools. He was an undersized 5-foot-11 quarterback, and he never attended the offseason camps scouts used to assess players.

“It is tough being at a smaller school that at one point in time wasn’t used to winning,” Powell said. “It’s not the same as [a place

where] coaches come in and see your kids, so you have to do different things and be strategic as to how you get your kids to be seen.”

People outside Prince George’s County noticed Brooks as he amassed impressive plays early in his senior season. In one game against Parkdale High School, Brooks lined up as a running back and took a handoff down the left sideline, breaking five tackles and staying inbounds before speeding away for an 85-yard score.

DuVal started the year 5-0.

“Everybody wanted to come and see how this kid is,” Powell said.

‘A ROUGH TIME’ Brooks could have cemented his college prospects during DuVal’s much-anticipated rematch with Wise, the team he helped upset in the playoffs the year before. Both schools were undefeated.

Brooks began the game with a long touchdown pass to Seay. But on a bootleg designed to set up an outside throw, Brooks crumpled after taking a hit.

He stayed down.

Lockwood was among the first people to run onto the field. He didn’t notice Brooks’ misshapen ankle at first, instead focusing on the broken wrist Brooks cried out about.

When he looked down, Lockwood thought Brooks’ shoe came off. Lockwood only realized Brooks suffered a broken ankle by the sight of his bone. It was the worst injury he’s ever witnessed.

Brooks remembers flashes of this scene. He saw people crying.

His mother grabbed his hand and assured him he’d be all right. He left in an ambulance.

As Brooks considered his commitment to football at the hospital, his teammates struggled to regroup in the locker room.

Powell considered forfeiting during a 45-minute delay.

When the teams restarted,

Wise scored six unanswered touchdowns. “[Brooks] was the heartbeat of the team. He put the team on his back,” Powell said. “The team was down there and crying at the time of the injury. … It was a rough moment.”

Brooks said the next few months were nerve-wracking, as the payoff of his standout play unraveled. His inability to return to the field to support his DuVal teammates added to the frustration.

Many of Brooks’ top-choice schools stopped calling. He verbally committed to Buffalo, but his father worried about the distance from home.

Just before signing with the Bulls, Maryland coach DJ Durkin extended a scholarship offer in the week prior to National Signing Day, making good on his promise to recruit more DMVarea talent. Brooks took an official visit to College Park and finalized his decision when Powell advised him to commit to the Terps.

Brooks appreciated Maryland for believing he would bounce back from his gruesome setback.

It wouldn’t take long for him to repay the program.

‘NO ONE WAS GOING TO STOP HIM’ Brooks put his wrist and ankle injuries behind him as a freshman at Maryland. He participated in six games, mostly as a special teams member.

The Terps knew he could translate the explosiveness he displayed at DuVal into collegelevel production. Brooks, who as a high school freshman surprised his former coaches by locking down eventual Maryland wide receiver Levern Jacobs, waited for an opportunity to prove himself.

Brooks used the 2017 spring game exhibition to make a statement.

On the third drive, quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome unleashed a deep

throw to wide receiver DJ Moore, who beat Brooks downfield by almost three yards. Moore turned his head back to haul in what should’ve been an easy touchdown catch. But Brooks, at full stretch, leapt from the 6-yard line to prevent the score with an acrobatic interception, skidding past the goal line with the ball in his hands.

“OK, this guy is definitely one of our top 11 [defenders],” Durkin remembers thinking. “He needs to be on the field somehow, someway.”

Maryland made Brooks its starting nickel back, a position he never played before. Though Brooks called that transition “shaky at first,” his versatility at DuVal helped him succeed.

Brooks took turns at quarterback, running back, safety, kick returner and punt returner in high school.

Brooks secured his first career interception against Towson on Sept. 9. Defensive lineman Kingsley Opara marveled at the confidence of his performance, claiming Brooks was the “swag on the defense.”

“Boy, it was fun watching him,” defensive coordinator Andy Buh said after the Terps’ win. “Us moving him from linebacker to that nickel position was a big, big deal to our defense. You saw his impact all over the field, not just in the coverage aspect, but in the run stopping.”

This season, Brooks has competed against four and five-star recruits, most of whom attended football pipeline schools and attracted boundless recruiting consideration.

Brooks, who didn’t have those luxuries, said he’s cherished chances to prove himself against highly touted opponents. He recorded a seasonhigh 13 tackles at then-No. 10 Ohio State and 10 tackles at then-No. 5 Wisconsin.

See brooks, p. 9

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‘just a legend’ Terps assistant coach Katie Bam has a history of winning

By Scott Gelman | @Gelman_Scott | Senior staff writer

assistant coach katie bam focuses on the Terps offense, helping them average 3.86 goals per contest in their seven-game win streak. She played with Maryland between 2007 and 2010, finishing as perhaps the most decorated player in program history. marquise mckine/the diamondback

Katie Bam was burnt out.

Seve n ty m i n u te s wa s n ’t enough time for the Maryland field hockey team to defeat North Carolina in the national championship game Nov. 21, 2010. Neither was an overtime period.

When coach Missy Meharg called a timeout at the start of the second overtime, she felt Bam, who carried the surname O’Donnell at the time, would be unable to contribute because of fatigue. Bam told the veteran coach she didn’t have any energy left, something she’d never said in her four years in College Park. She walked past her teammates and coaches to the end of the bench.

Bam had won three consecutive ACC Offensive Player of the Year Awards. She would later win a fourth after her senior season. So Meharg told her she had to return. The program’s seventh national championship was on the line.

Bam sprinted onto the field after the timeout. About 40 seconds later, she possessed the ball and drove into Maryland’s offensive zone. Megan Frazer wound up with the ball, and in the 98th minute deposited it into the net to secure the title.

Now an attack-minded assistant coach on Maryland’s staff, Bam has emerged as the latest Meharg disciple to earn a collegiate coaching opportunity.

As one of the most decorated athletes in Terps history, Bam has transformed the team’s offense, increasing its average goals per game since last year despite a young roster.

Her title-winning contribution serves as one instance of her perseverance, which has inspired Maryland to overcome a slow start this season.

“She really was wondering if she could do it, and I had so much respect for what I saw in her eyes and she just did it,” Meharg said. “Her trust and belief at that time in leadership — that’s why she’s such a great coach today. She understands what that trust is about.”

GETTING NOTICED Lucy Gil was with her family on her way to South Carolina for a summer vacation when Bam called. Gil had coached field hockey in New Jersey for 10 years before accepting the job at Wissahickon High School in Pennsylvania, where Bam was an incoming freshman.

Bam called to tell Gil that she might be late for the school team’s tryout that fall. She was busy playing with the U-16 U.S. team.

“It was at that moment that I knew she was going to be very special,” Gil said.

Bam managed to attend the tryout on time, impressing

with her distinct speed. Gil was blown away by her ability to anticipate where the ball would be on the pitch, a valuable skill to make up for her height discrepancy with other players.

At 5-foot-1, Bam was almost always the smallest player on the field. But despite regularly taking hits that her mother, Kathy O’Donnell, said sent her flying, she would stand up without complaint.

At the time, it was uncharacteristic for freshmen to make the varsity field hockey squad.

Bam’s sisters were forced to wait a season before joining the team.

But Bam contributed right away and helped Gil adjust to local competitors. During practices, Bam explained how the U.S. team approached practices and game scenarios. Gil listened to her first-year player.

At the end of Bam’s freshman season, the Trojans played a game at a stadium in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Four college coaches approached Gil after the contest to express interest in Bam. “I had to say, ‘She’s a freshman, back off,’” Gil said. “They knew nothing about her at the time. They were immediately interested.”

In one matchup during Bam’s junior season, the opposing team fouled her each time she received the ball. First, they

just hit Bam’s stick. Then, they tripped her. Gil wanted to take Bam out of the game. It wasn’t worth the risk of an injury. Bam refused.

Bam paced Wissahickon in assists and goals every season.

The school won two district titles during her stint with the program.

However, Bam didn’t enjoy the recruiting attention that came with her standout play.

Her yearlong field hockey training didn’t help her attitude toward the sport.

“She was sort of sick of [field hockey],” O’Donnell said. “But now you have these coaches calling.”

Bam received a negative reaction from a coach for ordering chicken fingers during a visit to North Carolina, providing another reason to dread the recruiting process.

“I read the coach’s reaction when I got chicken fingers as being like ‘Oh lord,’” Bam said.

“Like, ‘Really, you think you’re going to have that here?’’”

When Bam made the same order during her visit to College Park, Meharg, who had tracked her development since eighth grade, provided a different response. Rather than looking down on Bam, Meharg encouraged her to get what she wanted, something that indicated to Bam she would feel comfortable playing with the Terps.

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“When I came here and ordered chicken fingers, Missy was like, ‘All right. Let’s go,’” Bam said. “There were massive seafood platters and all this awesome food. And I ordered chicken fingers. And she was like, ‘OK, that’s who you are.’”

Bam wore number 16, so Meharg would send emails with the subject line “16 reasons you’re not responding to my emails.” She changed her recruiting style based on Bam’s personality.

It’s something Bam remembers as she’s helped Meharg with recruiting this season.

Meharg’s persistence and the family atmosphere in College Park were enough to convince Bam to join the Terps.

“She just wanted me to be here so bad and she wanted me to know she thought this was the best place for me personality-wise,” Bam said. “We were pretty honest with each other.”

A NEW ROADBLOCK After a dominant freshman campaign in College Park, Bam left for California in December 2007 with hopes of earning a place on the 2008 U.S. Olympic Field Hockey team. While most of her counterparts were in their 20s and 30s, Bam had recently received her driver’s license.

An All-American in her first

season, she had already established herself as one of the best one-on-one offensive threats in the game. But she struggled as she vied for a national team spot, missing open shots and making uncharacteristic passing mistakes.

Bam didn’t make the roster.

She blamed an inability to play relaxed under the pressure of earning a role. Meharg said the setback pushed her intensity to a new level.

“If I’m able to play naturally, I’m so much better,” Bam said.

“I wasn’t playing well at all.

It’s because I was overthinking things.”

W h i l e B a m u l t i m a te ly achieved her international ambitions, competing for the United States in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, she endured a setback with the Terps in 2009.

Maryland hadn’t lost a match leading up to the national championship game that season. But the Tar Heels held Bam scoreless in a 3-2 upset.

Bam, then a junior, believed she had let the senior class down with her performance.

She cried.

“She felt like she could have played better, like she could have done more,” O’Donnell said. “It was really telling that she was more upset for them than she was herself.”

See BAM, p. 9

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ANTOINE BROOKS celebrates during Maryland football’s 37-21 loss to Northwestern Oct. 14 at Maryland Stadium. matt regan/the diamondback

Maryland football defensive back Antoine Brooks waited in the hospital with his father, Antoine Brooks Sr., on Oct. 12, 2015, reliving the sequence that ended his promising DuVal High School career earlier that evening. ¶ Brooks, playing quarterback, took a hit from a Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School defensive lineman after releasing a second-quarter pass. He shattered his wrist trying to prevent his fall and suffered a gruesome ankle fracture that left a bone sticking out of his sock. ¶ The season-ending injury halted the work he put in over the previous three and half seasons, when he used highlight-reel plays on both sides of the ball to build a local following. He’d fielded offers from multiple Division I schools. ¶ So as he laid helpless on the field — surrounded by coaches, teammates and family members — Brooks told his hyperventilating father he wanted to quit football. Antoine Brooks Sr. agreed, not wanting to see his son endure a similar injury in the future. ¶ At the hospital, however, Antoine Brooks realized he couldn’t give up his dream of competing in college. ¶ “I think I’ll just play defense,” Brooks said to his father.

See BROOKS, p. 10

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