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Hillary Clinton plans to pass a plan to invest in infrastructure and clean energy in her first 100 days in office if elected, according to her website. She plans to create jobs by repairing and expanding roads, bridges and public transit options. She would also introduce new taxes on multimillionaires, raise the minimum wage, fight for workplace policies like paid family leave and expand Social Security.

Clinton said she will provide tax relief for working families and guarantee equal pay for women.

Donald Trump plans to create 25 million new jobs over the next decade by increasing GDP growth and cutting taxes, according to his website. His plan includes decreasing regulations like the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan and scrapping the TransPacific Partnership.

He a l so p l a n s to h i re “trade negotiators” to renegotiate NAFTA, and raise a case against China’s “unfair subsidy behavior” and “theft of American trade secrets,” according to his website.

foreign policy and immigration Clinton wants to create a pathway to full citizenship for immigrants. Clinton will detain and deport individuals who pose a threat to public safety and defend refugees seeking asylum, according to her website.

If elected, she plans to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and build ties with Cuba, and take out ISIS by dismantling global terror networks. She also said she will stand with European allies, deter Russian aggression in Europe and hold China accountable on human rights, trade and climate change.

“America’s network of allies is part of what makes us exceptional,” Clinton said in San Diego in June. “Our armed forces fight terrorists together; our diplomats work side by side.”

health care Clinton wants to uphold the Affordable Care Act, expand Medicare from the current 65-year-old age requirement to people 55 and older and create a “public option” insurance plan. She also plans to reduce prescription drug costs, allow families to buy health insurance regardless of immigration status, and defend access to affordable contraception and legal abortions.

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Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Democrat, looks for win

Delegate Kathy Szeliga, Republican, vies for seat

When he isn’t working or campaigning, Rep. Chris Van Lexie Schapitl Hollen likes to camp, fish or @lexieschapitl hike and bike on local trails Senior staff writer with his family.

But with the 2016 election looming, the 57-yearold from Kensington said they “haven’t had a lot of time in the last couple months.”

Van Hollen, who has served as Maryland’s 8th District congressman since 2003, has spent more than a year vying for the state’s vacant Senate seat in wake of Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski’s retirement. After focusing in the House of Representatives on issues surrounding education, economic opportunity and, “just making sure everybody gets a fair shake,” he now hopes to continue this work if elected to the Senate on Nov. 8.

Growing up part-time overseas and part-time

Kathy Szeliga stood in the parking lot outside Naval Rebecca Rainey Bagels in Annapolis on Oct. @RebeccaARainey 22, a windy Saturday. She had Staff writer just finished rallying canvassers at a campaign event at Graul’s Market next door and had stopped at Naval’s to get a coffee.

Szeliga, the Republican minority whip in the Maryland House of Delegates and the party’s candidate for Democrat Barbara Mikulski’s vacant U.S. Senate seat, said she has one message for voters who are okay with how Washington currently functions: Don’t vote for her on Nov. 8.

“I’m a wife, a mom, a grandmom and a small business owner,” said Szeliga as she sipped her coffee. “I ran for office in 2010 for the Maryland House of Delegates because I realized that there weren’t enough small business owners in office,

See van hollen, p. 6

See szeliga , p. 6

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foreign policy and immigration If elected, Trump said he plans to repeal the defense sequester and grow each branch of the military, investing in a missile defense system, emphasizing cyber warfare and auditing the Pentagon.

He also hopes to bring down ISIS through international cooperation.

“Our military dominance must be unquestioned,” Trump said this past April.

He would also establish new screening procedures and enforce immigration laws, including temporarily suspending immigration from certain regions of the world “that have a history of exporting terrorism,” according to his website.

Maryland’s congressional delegation may be all-male for the first time in more than 40 years

health care Trump would repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a system of “Health Savings Accounts,” allowing individuals to purchase insurance across state lines and providing block grants so local governments can design Medicaid programs to serve their low-income citizens, according to his website.

“Obamacare means higher prices, fewer choices and lower quality,” Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania on Nov. 1.

By Lexie Schapitl | @lexieschapitl | Senior staff writer

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hile the country may elect its first female president on Tuesday, Maryland is facing the prospect of sending an all-male delegation to Congress.

With the retirement of Sen. Barbara Mikulski — the longest-serving woman in U.S. Senate history — and the Democratic Party running all male congressional candidates in this election, this state may lose its female voices in Congress for the first time in more than 40 years.

U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, is facing Maryland Delegate Kathy Szeliga, a Republican representing Baltimore and Harford counties, in the race for Mikulski’s seat. Van Hollen led Szeliga

among likely voters 58 percent to 29 percent in a University of Maryland-Washington Post poll conducted Sept. 27 to 30.

Mikulski, who is known as the “dean” of Senate women, was the first female Democrat elected senator in her own right, rather than filling a seat vacated by a husband or father. She previously served in the House of Representatives and represented Maryland’s 3rd District for 10 years.

Republican Amie Hoeber is challenging incumbent John Delaney in the state’s 6th District, which Delaney won by 1.5 percentage points in 2014. If both women

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Board OKs $18.3M in system budget cuts T h e M a ryland Board of Adam Zielonka Public Works @Adam_Zielonka unanimously Staff writer voted Wednesday morning to approve $82 million in state budget cuts, including more than $18.2 million in reductions to the University System of Maryland.

Gov. Larry Hogan, one of the by

board’s three members, proposed job cuts requiring the system to eliminate 41 currently filled positions and 60 vacant ones.

But USM Chancellor Robert Caret said at Wednesday’s meeting that the system will be able to eliminate the necessary positions though attrition and a hiring freeze, without laying off any of

its current employees.

“At the level of this cut, we immediately took the stance that a tuition increase is not appropriate, it’s not a cut that would warrant such a move, and that people should not be eliminated at a cut of this See USM, p. 2

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CRIME BLOTTER

By Michael Brice-Saddler and Jessica Campisi @thedbk | Senior staff writers University of Maryland Police responded to reports of suspicious act iv it y, t respa ssi n g and vandalism, among other incidents th is past week, accord i ng to police reports.

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVIT Y University Police responded to La Plata Hall at 5:26 p.m. on Sunday.

An officer met with a resident assista nt and other Department of Resident Life staff, who reported that they had seen a suspicious person in the building’s common areas, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

T he person had left by the time University Pol ice a r r ive d at t he scene, Hoaas said.

University Police will continue to investigate the incident by looking at area cameras.

This case is open.

On Saturday at 2:04 a.m., University Police responded to the bike rack outside of William K i r wa n Ha l l, where t h e S e c u r i t y O p e rations Center detected a person who appeared to be pulling on bicycles in the area, Hoaas said.

An officer stopped the man and issued him a Denial of Access to this u n iversity’s ca mpus, she said.

This case is closed.

University Police responded to the Mitchell Building on Saturday at 2:04 a.m. for a report o f s u s p i c i o u s a c t ivity, according to police reports.

This case is now closed.

TRESPASSING University Police responded to the Shuttle Bus Facility in the 8500 block of Paint Branch D r ive on Satu rd ay at 12:33 p.m. An employee there reported a suspiciou s i nd iv idu a l wa s inside a gated area and had been told to leave, Hoaas said.

Officers located the individual in Lot 11B and determined he had been issued a Denial of Access to the campus in 2012.

Police arrested 3 2-y e a r- o l d K e r w i n Lucien Batie of Olney in relation to the incident, Hoaas said.

He was charged with unlawfully trespassing on the this university’s grounds.

OTHER INCIDENT On Frid ay at 7:36 p.m., University Police

responded to the Manufacturing Building for a report that smoke was coming from the battery of a power tool.

T here was no fi re present and no one was injured, Hoaas said.

This case is closed.

HATE BIAS University Police responded to Denton Hall at 5:17 p.m. Saturday for a hate bias incident.

A female student rep or te d t h at b e t we e n 4:10 a nd 4:4 4 p.m., a racial slur was found on a chalkboard outside her room.

Officers sea rched the area and eventually erased the slur, Hoaas said.

This case is open and active.

VANDALISM On Friday at 1:20 p.m., University Police responded to the Engineering Annex Building, where a ma le student reported that his rear bi ke wheel wa s bent, ma king it u nusable, Hoaas said.

Pol ice w i l l rev iew area cameras, and this case is active.

CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE VIOLATION On Oct. 27 at 10:07 p.m., University Police responded to Terrapin T ra i l G a ra ge , w h e re t h e S e c u r i t y O p e rat ion s Center h ad detected four individuals smoking marijuana, Hoaas said.

Officers responded to the area and located them near Eppley Recreation Center.

T he fou r m a le students were no longer in possession of the marijuana, but were referred to the Office of Student Conduct, Hoaas said.

This case is closed.

INJURED/SICK PERSON On Saturday and S u n d a y, U n i v e r s i t y Po l i c e re s p o n d e d to nine separate reports of an injured or sick person at Dorchester Hall, Ellicott Hall, the 7500 block of Yale Avenue, Knox Road, the 3900 block of Campus Drive, the 4100 block of Farm Drive, the 3900 block of Denton Se rv i ce L a n e a n d 2 0 Rossborough Lane according to police reports.

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Police ask for caution after Uber driver’s assault charge Greenbelt resident is accused of kidnapping intoxicated woman in College Park, using her credit card

After an U b e r d r i ve r Michael Brice-Saddler was arrested @TheArtist_MBS a n d c h a rge d Senior staff writer l a s t we e k i n connection with kidnapping a woman, taking her to College Park and assaulting her, the Prince George’s County Police Department is reminding students to use caution while using ride-share apps, Officer Tyler Hunter said.

A preliminary investigation of the incident by county detectives revealed 29-year-old Westagne Pierre of Greenbelt was working as an Uber driver on the night of Oct. 18, when he picked up the woman in Washington, according to a news release.

The woman’s friend had requested an Uber ride to

b r i n g t h e wo m a n to h e r h o m e i n Fa i r fa x Co u n ty, Virginia, because she was intoxicated, according to a report from The Washington Post. But instead of taking her home, Pierre drove her to the Budget Inn, a College Park motel, The Post wrote.

At the motel, Pierre took the motionless victim from his car and took her into a room for an unspecified period of time, according to the news release.

Police learned that the suspect used the woman’s credit card at a nearby 7-Eleven a short time afterward, according to The Post.

Pierre — who is in custody at the Department of Corrections — faces charges of kidnapping, assault and fraudulently using the victim’s credit card, Hunter said. There are

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irresponsible budget, Kopp said at the meeting.

“I wouldn’t want folks to think that the budget was passed in deficit or that the problem we face today, at the moment, is due to excess spending,” Kopp said.

Hogan referred to the legislative analyst, Warren Deschenaux, who told lawmakers on Oct. 25 they needed to “get real” in addressing their budget gaps.

“The legislature’s budget team used the ‘Groundhog Day’ analogy that we keep reliving the same day over and over again every year,” Hogan said. “In order to get out of our fiscal predicament, we need to change our ways.”

Fra n c h o t s a i d t h i n g s could be worse by comparing Maryland to Virginia, wh i c h h a s a $ 1 .5 b i l l i o n budget deficit. He also referred to larger budget gaps t h e s ta te h a s p rev i o u s ly faced.

“Today’s actions really pale in comparison to the magnitude of the cuts, slightly over $2 billion — that’s ‘ b’ as in ‘ boy’ — $2 billion that this unique Board of Public Works made in the deficit of the great

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From p. 1 level,” Caret said. “There will be no one eliminated from their positions.”

US M s p o ke s m a n M i ke Lurie said the system experiences “fairly routine vacancies” and could choose to eliminate newly vacated jobs rather than fill them.

Lurie did not know whether a deadline to eliminate the positions had been set.

Hogan, Comptroller Peter Franchot and State Treasurer Nancy Kopp voted 3-0 in favor of the cuts at the board’s meeting on Wednesday at the State House in Annapolis.

Hogan’s proposed job cuts will save $11.5 million, and the system will also cut “various operating expenditures” by $2.7 million, according to the meeting’s agenda.

The state will also allocate more than $4 million to the system from the Higher Education Investment Fund, leaving the system with net cuts of $14.2 million, according to the agenda and a Baltimore Sun report.

The decision for budget c u ts co m e s a f te r a s ta te revenue shortfall and not an

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no additional charges at this point, but police are working with the State’s Attorney’s Office to determine if more charges are applicable, he added.

Hunter said he suggests U n i ve rs i t y o f M a r y l a n d students take extra steps to ensure their safety while using any type of ride-share app, such as having a friend or family member track their location or calling police if a rider notices something out of the ordinary.

“As these applications b e c o m e m o re a n d m o re p o p u l a r, e s p e c i a l ly w i t h ride-sharing, just keep in mind that the person you’re getting in a car with is a stranger,” Hunter said. “Use the safety tips you may have learned when you were very young that your parents may have told you.”

Junior government and politics major Jessica B ro d s k y, wh o u se d U b e r

almost every day during the summer, does exactly that.

“I’ve always been very skeptical and cautious about using Uber, just because it’s a complete stranger [driving],” Brodsky said. “So before I get in the car, I make sure I screenshot the driver information that they send and send it to a local friend or my parents.”

When using Uber, Brodsky rarely rides alone and makes sure her location is being t ra c ke d o r s h e i s o n t h e phone with someone she trusts during the trip, she said. She forces her friends to take the same precautions when they use any ride-share app, she added.

“My mom is very on top of that and drilled it into my head,” Brodsky said. “This [incident] just kind of reaffirms that it’s not me being crazy, but me being smart.” mbricesaddlerdbk@gmail.com

usm chancellor robert caret speaks to the University Senate . Caret and the USM will have to deal with $18.3 million in state budget cuts approved Wednesday. file photo/the diamondback recession,” Franchot said.

“What we need to focus on is how we do better with less, more with less.”

The state will also reduce $ 2 0 m i l l i o n o f g e n e ra l

funding for Medicaid but compensate for that cut with resources from the cigarette restitution fund. azielonkadbk@gmail.com

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Univ town hall discusses possible restricted research policy changes Current policy prohibits such work without USM chancellor’s approval The University of Maryland h e l d a to w n hall Wednesday in Stamp Student Union to discuss with faculty and students how this university should change its restricted research policy.

About 70 students and faculty attended the town hall in the Colony Ballroom to share suggestions and concerns about a new policy for restricted research — which occurs when constraints are placed on research before publication — and regulation of its use.

This university’s current policy does not allow stuby

Natalie Schwartz @nmschwartz23 Staff writer

dents and faculty to conduct restricted research, except when the University System of Maryland chancellor grants a student the ability to do so, which has occurred before, said Keith Marzullo, dean of the information studies college.

Provost Mary Ann Rankin charged this university’s Research Council in August with examining the policy and providing her with future recommendations.

The council’s Restricted Research Subcommittee has 16 members, including two students, from a variety of university departments, and the group has met three times this year.

However, “[the] policy is basically a non-policy,”

Marzullo said, and it does not provide clear guidance for when and how restricted research is allowed.

The committee is hoping to propose changes to the policy that make both confidential and commercial research more accessible to university faculty and students. It has looked toward other universities, such as the University of Michigan and Purdue University, for examples of how to model this university’s policy.

While these schools don’t conduct a large amount of similar research, it is generally allowed after being reviewed by a committee, Marzullo said.

The town hall’s purpose was “to make the process more definitive — basically saying, ‘Here’s the condi-

tions you should think about [when] doing restricted research,’” Marzullo said.

Issues surrounding the safety of restricted research surfaced at the event, with b i o c h e m i s t r y p ro f e s s o r Jason Kahn noting that this type of research may “skew to be more dangerous.” For example, a company may own a material that students would be working with for their research. If there is no published work on the safety of those materials, it’s hard to assess how dangerous or risky it would be to use it for research, he said.

Marzullo said while the committe e ha d not co n sidered safety risks in its discussions, it would plan to have a panel thoroughly review any potential restricted research and would

reject a potentially dangerous proposal.

The Department of Environmental Safety, Sustainability and Risk, which deals with research safety on campus, may advise the future panel on any safety issues that could arise during proposed restricted research, said Maureen Kotlas, the department’s executive director.

Several professors, such as mechanical engineering professor Ashwani Gupta, were strongly in favor of changing the restricted research policy, noting that they’ve missed out on millions of dollars of grant money. Gupta said he lost out on a $1 million grant because their sponsors wanted to review and approve the publication, which this university does not allow.

“There’s a lot of interesting research that can fall into this category, and faculty a n d s t u d e n ts wo u l d l i ke the opportunity to decide whether they want to work on it,” said Robert Briber, associate dean for research at the engineering school.

“There are many projects that we haven’t had recently that we would liked to have worked on but were prevented because of potential publication restrictions.”

The Restricted Research Subcommittee will present i ts f i n d i n gs a n d re c o m mendations to the University Senate and the provost by next January, and these groups will take the suggestions into consideration before drafting a new policy.

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Security cameras are a no-brainer Security cameras are set to be installed in North thefts reported by University of Maryland students Hill dorms by February 2017, Residential Facilities living in campus dorms. In 2014, a 34-year-old Director Jon Dooley told The Diamondback earlier man was arrested after stealing cash and a credit card from Centreville Hall and then breaking into this week.

Dooley added many dorms already have Ellicott Hall, where he was found asleep in a pile these cameras. However, there are no plans for of the resident’s clothing.

Every student knows how easy it is to tailgate into adding security cameras outside South Campus Commons apartments because they’re part of apartment buildings and dorms on this campus; it a partnership with a private company. Nor are usually only takes a friendly smile or a phony explanathere plans for cameras outside the Leonardtown tion of a friend living inside to gain entrance.

The implementation of these apartments because they don’t our view cameras will not only reduce the have main lobbies. likelihood of theft, but will also This editorial board commake the investigation after a mends the Residence Hall burglary much easier for police.

Association for unanimously Many will argue these cameras, endorsing the implementation while supplying a sense of security of these security cameras last to their buildings’ residents, will December and thinking about also threaten students’ privacy in campus safety. However, it their dorms.Shouldn’t dorm resishould be looking further into dents be able to walk to their room installing security cameras without feeling like Big Brother is watching? Of course. outside all on-campus living quarters.

Cameras installed at only dorm and apartment There is no reason why the university can’t come to an agreement with Capstone On-Campus Manage- entrances and exits would enable this university and ment, the university’s private partner that manages University Police to see who is entering and leaving leasing and facilities for South Campus Commons, your living quarters, while keeping a safe distance to install security cameras outside the buildings for from more intimate living quarters.

There would be virtually no loss of privacy as a the residents’ safety.

And for the Leonardtown apartments, placing result of security camera installations. The added these cameras on stairwells or another strategic sense of security, though, would be immeasurable.

This editorial board has read enough UMD Alerts location would capture people approaching the buildings and be equally as effective as putting detailing dorm or apartment robberies. It’s time for every on-campus dorm and apartment to be properly cameras outside dorm entrances.

Over the past few years, there have been dozens of monitored, for students’ safety and peace of mind.

Our view: Installing security cameras outside campus dorms is an easy decision.

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General education matters JACK SIGLIN @_InTheBox Columnist

A few we e ks ago, I made a friend on the Chicago metro.

She was 20 years old and on holiday from Germany, where she’s in her final year of university. I know nothing at all about higher education in Europe, so I took the opportunity to grill her about her coursework. As it turns out, she’s studying electrical engineering — which, as I learned, means a specialized high school curriculum and three years of university engineering classes. She got off the train at the center of the city, presumably thrilled to get away from the stranger interrogating her about school.

I’m currently trying to schedule my classes for next semester — one last time here at the University of Maryland. I was fortunate enough to have gone to a high school that encouraged taking AP classes, and thus I came in with a veritable mountain of college credits. Fast forward to now, and I’m done with my major and essentially done with two minors as well.

My only requirement for next semester: 15 credits of classes. Any classes. Literally anything at all.

It doesn’t work that way in Germany.

Students don’t have general education requirements. Rather, the idea is that one attends university to specialize in a discipline, and it’s silly to stay an extra year to take some extraneous classes.

After all, it’s exceedingly unlikely that an electrical engineer is going to find a practical application for a seminar on the creative process in dance.

I think that’s a shame, actually. The

pragmatism of treating college solely as a means to a professional end misses out on a key sentiment: “When else?” For the rest of their careers, engineers will be engineering. English majors will be writing.

Philosophy majors will be doing, well, something philosophical, probably.

What they won’t be doing is intermediate yoga or horticulture or speculating about World War IV. When else but now?

I think our education system should aspire to produce students who know a little bit about a lot of things. While I will confess to having been irritated with the spirit of taking classes just to satisfy requirements, I’ve enjoyed being pushed to take classes outside the scope of my major.

College shouldn’t be strictly pre-professional. After all, it’s pre-adult-life.

Adult life is a lot more than just work, and students should be well-rounded enough to cope with that fact.

My upcoming semester of electives means I’m going to graduate knowing a little more about the intersection of botany and history, mass incarceration and perspectives on gender. I could have graduated earlier — maybe I should have — but I’m glad I didn’t.

For many of us, college is our last chance to breathe before being forced into adulthood. Might as well try to get something unique out of it. After all, in the words of Canada’s greatest living philosopher, you only live once. jack.siglin@gmail.com

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There is far more at stake than the White House. The president is only as effective as his or her allies in Congress. Voting for your U.S. senator and representative is equally important. Laws originate in Congress; presidential agendas succeed or fail depending on the composition of Congress, and Supreme Court nominees must be confirmed by the Senate. Voting for every office, not just the presidency, is critically important to our collective future.

Further, in this internet age in which ideas and ideology spread rapidly through social media across both state and party lines, one person’s decision to sit out influences others. Your outlook, choices and perspective on the voting process resonate far beyond your zip code.

You can only make an effective case for others to participate if you do.

The perennial questions of each generation have always been, “How can we do better than the last?

How can we surpass expectations and build a better life than those who came before us?” Unfortunately, I know many of you have lost the optimism that underpins those questions.

From my travels across our state to meet with college students like yourself, I know that today the questions many young people ask themselves are more somber: “I’ve worked hard to earn a college degree — will the economy reward that work? Will I be able to find a job in my field?”

“Will I be able to pay back my student loans? At what cost? What will I have to sacrifice to make ends meet?”

“Could I afford to attend graduate school? What kind of health

insurance options will I have once I’m off my parents’ plan?”

Sometimes the questions are even more fundamental: “Will I ever be able to own my own home and start a family?”

Those are all astute questions.

But if I could suggest one more, it might be this: “How engaged am I in choosing the people who will pursue sound, thoughtful answers?”

Democracy should be a verb. You must be the action that makes it move. And, as the famous adage goes, decisions are made by those who show up.

Becoming educated and informed, learning from your professors, participating in social clubs and learning from your peers — those elements comprise the beginning of your story as an engaged citizen, not the end. The chapter that comes next should be the one wherein those skills, and all the knowledge you have worked so hard to attain, are applied through civic engagement.

We are all shaped by the society we share — and that society is shaped by you.

Each of us has a stake. Each of you have hopes for your lives, expectations of your government and ideas to improve your country.

But perhaps businessman Arnold Glasow said it best when he wrote, “Ideas not coupled with action never grow larger than the brain cells they occupied.”

Your hopes, your expectations and your ideas deserve to be larger.

Early voting is happening now, and Election Day is Nov. 8. I hope to see you at the polls. www.cardin.senate.gov

There is frequent talk about what black people today receive in the forms of entitlements and welfare, but the dialogue surrounding it never really touches on why such things should be afforded to black people. It also avoids the truth about where welfare goes : The majority of food stamps go to white people. The dimension most often missing from this conversation is the history behind why many black people are at a disadvantage in the socioeconomic sphere. This goes back to — you guessed it — slavery.

Coming out of the status of being enslaved, black people were not afforded many (if any) rights to help establish themselves in society. Along with this lack of rights came racism — outright and institutionalized — which disenfranchised black people and continues to do so to this day. Now, the tragedies of slavery may have seemingly ended with the Emancipation Proclamation, but their residual effects have spilled over to greatly affect black people today. Laws put into place that essentially built the white middle class in America (such as the GI Bill) have destroyed the chance for black people to build their wealth in the same way.

Based on this, black people should absolutely be afforded some kinds of reparations for slavery. The enslaved African people were kidnapped, sold, tortured and forced into hard labor for hundreds of years, and their ancestors to this day are at a disadvantage in almost every aspect of life. When atrocities are committed, it makes sense to remedy the wrongs and compensate those who are affected. There is never a question as to why Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, Japanese people forced into internment camps or Native Americans forced onto reservations should have been reimbursed; it should be a no-brainer that black people deserve to be compensated as well. In fact, these groups have been given some form of reparations, and pretty recently, too.

I believe many consider it to be difficult to determine who would deserve reparations if it came down to it, and rightfully so. But it is very possible to accomplish.

Though not every black person living in the United States is a direct descendant of a slave, black people in America — no

matter their background — are at a disadvantage in many aspects of living. The black struggle is not exclusionary. If you are black in America, you carry the history of the black struggle on your shoulders.

Because of this reality, if reparations are ever to be awarded, those who identify as black, or who are a product of the African diaspora, should benefit from them.

When reparations for slavery are discussed, the monetary value is often when most people disagree. People want to know where the money will come from and how much will be given and whether it will affect their taxes. People also wonder how it will be calculated. Well, it has been calculated before. University of Connecticut researcher Thomas Craemer estimated the monetary value of what the United States owes black people for reparations is between $5.9 and $14.2 trillion. These numbers account for the hours of labor completed by all slaves multiplied by hourly wages for labor at the time with a compounding interest rate of 3 percent per year. That accounts for the time the United States was officially founded in 1776 to the Civil War in 1865. So, this number leaves out the years of slavery that occurred prior to and after this time frame.

Another problem arises in just alloting set amounts of money to individual people.

This money will eventually funnel back into the pockets of oppressors or toward the various vices that currently plague the black community. What many suggest is an institutional approach for the reparations. If the money is used to pay for higher education for black Americans, as well as to fund the organizations that have the black community’s best interests at heart, that would be a better and smarter use of the money overall.

Giving black people reparations will not fix or undo slavery. Though it would immensely help the black community mobilize and stabilize itself, it will not be sufficient enough to put black people on the same socioeconomic playing field as their white counterparts. What it would do is acknowledge the atrocities black people faced that have been ignored and swept under the rug for so long. This would force people everywhere to look at the history of this country and admit this country was built on racist principles, a fact which is an atrocity in and of itself. hopehynson@gmail.com

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van hollen From p. 1 in the United States as the son of a foreign service officer and a Russian expert, Van Hollen sai d h e b ega n h i s ca reer working with national security and foreign policy issues. He wasn’t “one of those people who thought of running from the day [he] was born,” Van Hollen said.

But later, as Van Hollen became more involved in his community and started a family in Montgomery County, his interest in the local school system led him to pursue a seat in the Maryland General Assembly in the 1990s.

“If [voters] look at my record, they’ll find a record of fighting for Maryland values and Maryland priorities since my very first days in public office,” Van Hollen said.

Van Hollen faces Maryland Delegate Kathy Szeliga in the race for the Senate. In an October poll conducted by the University of Maryland and The Washington Post, Van Hollen led Szeliga among likely voters 58 to 29 percent in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1.

The Senate is currently controlled by Republicans, with 54 Republican senators, 44 Democratic senators and two Independents.

Van Hollen served for four years in the House of Delegates and eight years in the Maryland Senate before his election to Congress. In 2002, he defeated incumbent Rep. Connie Morella after Democratic-led redistricting made the 8th District more competitive.

In Congress, Van Hollen — who is the ranking Democrat of the House Budget Committee — said he has worked to expand educational and e c o n o m i c o p p o r t u n i t y, doing so whenever possible in a bipartisan way. He has teamed up with colleagues

women From p. 1 are defeated, Maryland will send 10 men to Congress in January.

In 2016, women held about 19 percent of seats in Congress, with 20 women serving in the Senate and 84 women in the House.

“Women in public office change the agenda … and change the way that issues are talked about,” said Kathy Kleeman, senior communications officer for Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics. “Having women’s voices there makes a difference; having women of color there makes a difference … so that’s going to be a hole in Maryland’s political fabric.”

When women run, they win as often as men do, but they often don’t run because they are not encouraged to do so or don’t “see themselves as elected officials,” said Diane Fink, the executive director of Emerge Maryland, an organization that trains Democratic women in Maryland to campaign and run for public office.

“As we build this pipeline and we have more women who see what they can be, and young girls that see what they can be … we believe that that will help to grow the numbers of women at the decision-making tables in the state,” she said.

Meredith Lightstone, copresident of Terps for Hillary, said having female role models is “invaluable” for young women who want to enter politics or other fields.

“A quote that really represents my feelings here is, ‘You can’t be what you can’t see,’” said Lightstone, a senior government and politics and global poverty major.

“Kids grow up and they think, ‘I want to be a doctor, I want to be a lawyer, I want to be a fireman’, but they look up to people and when so many of them are white, so many of them are male, it’s difficult to picture yourself in that seat.”

After a competitive primary, Van Hollen defeated Rep. Donna Edwards, the first black woman elected to Congress in this state,

to pass bipartisan legislation protecting the Chesapeake Bay; expanding investments in infrastructure, including the Metro; and preventing retaliation against federal employees who come forward as “whistleblowers” about system abuses or wrongful spending, he said.

“I think we need more people who are willing to fight for their values and priorities but also are willing to look for common ground to move the country forward,” he said.

“That’s what I’ve tried to do.”

Van Hollen said the biggest challenge facing the country is ensuring the economy benefits all Americans and “not just folks at the very top.” He noted he plans to focus on this in the Senate by working to improve early and K-12 education, implementing a debt-free college plan, investing in the country’s infrastructure and scientific research and closing loopholes in the tax code that serve special interests.

“There’s a lot of work to do on a lot of different fronts,” he said.

Van Hollen has also worked on legislation to support families with children with disabilities, and he fought Tea Party efforts to cut Social Security and Medicare funding in the Budget Committee. He also stressed the importance of supporting the state’s seniors and veterans.

Regarding the presidential race, Van Hollen said it is “really worrisome” that Szeliga has endorsed Donald Trump, calling him “probably the least qualified person ever to run for president.

“Unlike Gov. [Larry] Hogan, who put country over party in this election, my opponent has not,” Van Hollen said.

Maryland Delegate Al Carr, D-Montgomery, said Van Hollen has been his neighbor, his representative and his constituent. Van Hollen is a good communicator, down

to earth and willing to “reach across the aisle” to get things accomplished, Carr said.

“He is someone who I believe is incredibly talented as a legislator,” Carr said. “He truly cares about his constituents.”

Van Hollen defeated Rep. Donna Edwards for the Democratic nomination in April. University of Maryland government and politics professor Michael Hanmer said the primary race was “ to u g h e r t h a n m o s t people thought,” which required Van Hollen to spend more time campaigning in areas such as Baltimore, where he was less known.

“When it comes time for the general election, you know, I think that’s going to pay off for him,” Hanmer said.

“People will know him better, know more about his policies.”

Van Hollen has also s u p p o r te d “ co m m o n sense gun legislation,” a woman’s right to choose, and “family-friendly” employment policies — all of which Szeliga has opposed, he said.

Van Hollen lives in Kensington with his wife, Katherine, and has three children: Anna, Nicholas and Alexander.

Anna Van Hollen said her father “fundamentally believes that government can be about really making positive c h a n ge s i n p e o p l e ’s lives.” She added that Van Hollen coached all three of his children’s soccer teams, enjoys sports and is an “intense board gamer” who never lets the kids win.

to win the Democratic Senate nomination on April 26. In her concession speech, Edwards called upon Democrats to do more to foster diversity and inclusion in a “so-called progressive state.”

“So what I want to know from my Democratic Party, is when will the voices of people of color, when will the voices of women, when will the voices of labor, when will the voices of black women, when will our voices be effective, legitimate, equal leaders in a big tent party?”

Edwards said, according to a transcript provided by The Baltimore Sun and WJZ. Many more Democratic women serve in the U.S. Congress and the Maryland legislature currently than Republican women.

But Maryland Republican Party Executive Director Joe Cluster said this year that Republicans are “hoping to save Maryland from this embarrassment of having an all-man delegation by electing Amie Hoeber.”

He added that Hoeber has “a really good shot out in western Maryland.”

Szeliga said it “would be a shame” if the state sent an allmale delegation to Congress.

“I never tell anyone, ‘Vote for me because I’m a woman,’ but we need women to represent us,” Szeliga said. “I am a woman, and because of that, I bring a diverse view about life and lawmaking to the table.”

Katti McNally, a government and politics doctoral student, said studies have shown women are much more likely to pursue women’s interest legislation and speak out on the floor on issues relevant to women, which is why “it’s really important to have those voices there in committee rooms [and] on the floor.”

But Van Hollen has consistently voted in favor of abortion rights and other measures intended to benefit women, McNally said.

Van Hollen noted that leading women’s organizations like NOW and NARAL Pro-Choice America have endorsed him, while Szeliga has opposed measures like a woman’s right to choose.

“I’ve been fighting for and representing interests that are important to women and families and all of us since my first days in the legislature,” Van Hollen said.

“And we need to continue fighting for those issues.”

While Maryland might be losing its women in Congress, Kleeman said women are still a presence in the state’s politics.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake serves as mayor of Baltimore, while former reporter and Marriott executive Kathleen Matthews and Maryland Delegate Joseline Pena-Melnyk were among several Democratic women who vied for Congressional nominations in April.

“It’s not as though women aren’t visible in politics and running, it’s just that they don’t always win,” Kleeman said.

This state currently ranks seventh in terms of women’s representation in state legislatures, according to the Center for American Women and Politics.

Sixty of Maryland’s 188 state lawmakers, or about 32 percent, are women, according to the center.

Fink said she thinks Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, as well as some of the language Donald Trump has used to describe women, may empower women to get involved with the political process.

“It’s raised the discourse and … has empowered women in certain ways to say, ‘You know, this is not okay,’” she said. “‘I always knew it wasn’t okay, but now I can say it out loud, and I have a lot of support and I want to follow Hillary’s lead.’”

Student Government Association President Katherine Swanson said while opponents have said some “pretty awful things” about Clinton and her gender, having a woman running for president and surrounding national conversations should be encouraging to young women.

“It’s encouraging to me, that’s for sure,” Swanson said.

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szeliga From p. 1 and it really makes a big difference.”

Thirty-one years ago, Szeliga started a small construction business with her husband, Mark, and at 32 years old graduated from Towson University with a degree in elementary education and teaching, after taking night classes and while raising her two sons.

Now, as the Republican minority whip, she holds the second most powerful position in the House Republican party in the House of Delegates and is the second-most powerful woman Republican in this state.

Her platform is focused on reducing government spending, keeping college affordable for students, reforming the veteran affairs department and reducing the cost of health care. She has historically voted against tax increases and against gun control measures during her time in the House.

“I absolutely value the importance of a higher education, a college degree, but also working in construction I know that there are a lot of jobs out there that do not require a college degree,” Szeliga said.

Szeliga decided to run for the House of Delegates in 2010, and during her time in the house she served on the Veterans Caucus — a main tenet of her current campaign.

She was then elected minority whip in 2013.

Her unique background as a business owner will bring diversity to the Senate, Szeliga said, noting that her opponent, Democractic Rep. Chris Van Hollen, is a career politician.

Szeliga beat out Chris Chaffee in the Republican primary in April, taking 35.6 percent of the vote. Chaffee came in second with 13.7 percent. “[Students should] think abou t what my grandmother told me: ‘What’s

the definition of insanity?

Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result,’” she said. “I would say that about Washington. If people are unhappy about Washington, they need to put new people there representing them.”

Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1 in the state of Maryland, and an October poll by the University of Maryland and The Washington Post showed Van Hollen led Szeliga among likely voters 58 to 29 percent. However, there is currently a Republican majority in the Senate, with 54 Republican senators, 44 Democratic senators and two Independents.

The differences between the two candidates — Van Hollen, a Democrat from Kensington and Szeliga, a Republican from Baltimore — are stark, said Stella Rouse, director of the University of Maryland’s Center for American Politics and Citizenship.

“I just think Kathy Szeliga is much more of a conservative Republican in terms of her economic and social positions, whereas Van Hollen is a pretty liberal Democrat,” she said. “They’re much more on the opposite sides of the spectrum than even somebody like Larry Hogan, who has tried to sort of straddle the middle a little bit.”

And those differences between the two candidates are exactly what Szeliga is emphasizing in her campaign.

Szeliga said if she is elected to Congress, she plans to cut the things that affect the lives of everyday citizens — tolls, taxes and regulation — and to make her first priority in the Senate veterans issues, which she said have long been neglected. “[There is a] moral obligation to care for the men and women who fight for our country,” Szeliga said. “If the federal government is not doing this most imperative, bipartisan action that they have a moral and fiscal obligation to do, what else are they not doing?

What else is broken?”

Her plans also include combating the growing national debt by reducing government spending and taking the burden off of future generations.

“If politicians today do not get this under control, your generation is going to pay for it, and that is part of the reason that we’re running,” Szeliga said. “We’ve got to get the fiscal house of this government under control.”

Mark Plaster, a Republican from this state’s 3rd district who is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, said he agrees with Szeliga’s stances.

“Every time a politician tells you they’re going to give you something, what they’re really doing is saying they’re going to borrow from your future, and your children and your grandchildren, to pay for what you’re having now,” Plaster said.

Szeliga’s campaign as an everyday Maryland business woman is garnering support from Republicans across the state — including state Gov. Larry Hogan, who endorsed Szeliga this past July.

“She’s tough,” Hogan said outside an Annapolis restaurant She’s a fighter. She’s a businesswoman. She understands the issues of everyday Marylanders, and I believe she will make an outstanding U.S. senator. I believe she can win this race.”

Jacob Veitch, president of the this university’s College Republicans, said Szeliga’s background in the business world gives her a different perspective than someone traditionally in politics.

“She is a Republican, but works for Maryland,” Veitch said in a Sept. 1 interview. “… She’s looking at policies that are going to be most effective for everyone.”

If she secures the seat in November, Szeliga said she intends to take a two-year term limit.

“I want to go there, shake it up,” Szeliga said, “I do not want to be a career [politician] in Washington. Twelve years, get it done and get out.” rraineydbk@gmail.com

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A newly constructed “keystone” piece of the Anacostia River Trail was unveiled to the public on Oct. 31 after a 10 a.m. ribbon cutting ceremony at the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Washington, said Katie Harris, trail coalition coordinator of the Washington Area

tia River Trail in Washington to more than 40 miles of trails in Prince George’s County.

“In terms of connectivity, this is pretty massive,” Harris said. “It’s a key link from D.C. to Prince George’s County that was really missing.”

The project secured a $10 million federal grant back in 2012, according to the Greater Greater Washington’s website, but “it’s been a long time in the making,” Harris said. Marcavitch said it

— and at times, through downtown — to get all the way to Bladensburg from College Park, Marcavitch said.

But with this new path connecting Benning Road in Washington with Bladensburg Waterfront Park, students, faculty and staff can “easily” and “safely” reach Washington all on trails, said Aaron Goldbeck, campus bicycle coordinator of the University of Maryland’s Department of Transportation.

“This is a really big deal — this is the first connection to a wider regional bike trail network,” Goldbeck said. “It’s going to be a very safe and direct connection, [and] open up a lot of possibilities for recreation and exercise.”

Various municipalities and jurisdictions worked together on this project to ensure its completion, Harris said. The Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission, District Department of Transportation, National Park Service and Prince George’s County’s transportation department all collaborated, as the entire trail runs through their jurisdictions.

“It takes so much commitment by all of the jurisdictions to build trails in this region. … You’ve got

two states and a federal district and different counties,” Harris said. All of these people have a role in building trails here.”

Some of the project’s other advocates included the Anacostia Trails Heritage Area, Washington Area Bicyclist Association and the Anacostia Watershed Society. All of these organizations — specifically the Anacostia Watershed Society — are thrilled about what this trail means for the community and the Anacostia River, which runs along parts of the trail, said Erin Castelli, the senior vice president and COO of the Anacostia Watershed Society.

This connection means “more and more people helping to clean and restore [the river],” Castelli said. “Also thinking about daily

practices and how they could benefit the river or not.”

The trail is not only useful for commuters, but it also provides a connection to nature “in the midst of an urban area,” said Eric Olson, the executive director of the College Park CityUniversity Partnership.

“It’s a gorgeous trail … it serves to connect us and our community, to the wider metropolitan area, certainly to Washington, D.C.,” Olson said.

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The partnership’s homeownership program, which launched in summer 2015, aims to increase the number of University of Maryland and city employees living in College Park, according to the partnership’s website.

T h e p ro g ra m p rov i d e s $15,000 in zero-interest, 10-year loans to full-time city or university employees looking to buy a home in the city, Olson said.

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The Community Investment Tax Credit Program awarded the partnership $20,000 in tax credits, according to its website.

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The donation incentive will end when the organization runs out of tax credits to give, which would happen i f i t re c e ive d m o re t h a n $40,000 in donations.

Olson said he hopes these tax cuts and this program will encourage more people to live in the city — a goal outlined in the University District Vision 2020, an initiative focusing on redeveloping this city into a top 20 college town.

“It means shorter commutes,” Olson said. “It means people spending more time in their community, it means more customers are around for local businesses, [it] helps stabilize neighborhoods.”

partment of Housing and Community Development, Olson said.

“We thought, ‘Hey this is a great opportunity to raise additional dollars for the homeownership program,’” he said. “We know there’s a lot of support of what we’re d o i n g i n t h e co m m u n i ty [and] we look forward to raising the money.”

There are members of the ca m p u s co m m u n i ty wh o have participated in this program, such as sociology professor Long Doan, who added that the program and tax cuts are a “great way to revitalize the city.”

“It’s good way to invest in the community,” said Doan, a f i rs t - t i m e h o m e b uye r.

“As someone who’s gone through the program, it’s a really nice program … It’s an easy process if you want to encourage more faculty and staff to live near campus.”

College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn and Doan both noted that they hope this program will not only reduce the amount of traffic on Route 1, but that it will also continue to build the city’s community.

Wojahn noted that building this community with faculty and staff members is “really something we’re trying to focus on.”

The partnership received an award for its homeownership program in October from the Community Development Network of Maryland, a state-wide organization, for significant community development impact.

“People tell us they were originally looking elsewhere … anywhere in a 25-mile radius,” Olson said. “But our program has made the difference in people choosing College Park in some instances, and that feels good.” ckemplerdbk@gmail.com

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review | atlanta

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In its debut season, Atlanta has announced itself as elite TV Atlanta is a CameronNeimand city located in @kneemund Georgia, and is the capital Staff writer of the Peach State. It’s also arguably the best new show on television, brought to you by entertainment’s Swiss army knife, Donald Glover.

Just nine episodes in, the FX show is looking more and more like the next program that everyone will reference in their T inder bio as, “Swipe left if you don’t watch (insert show here).”

The show feels so piercingly real, and not without reason.

Its main characters, up-andcoming Atlanta rapper Paper by

Boi (Brian Tyree Henry) and his cousin, Princeton dropout, manager and struggling new father, Earnest “Earn” Marks (Glover), fill societal roles Glover himself has experienced first hand.

G l o v e r w a s ra i s e d i n Stone Mountain, Georgia, a n At l a n ta s u b u rb. L i ke Earn, he attended a topflight university — NYU. Like Paper Boi, Glover is an emcee, his Childish Gambino moniker a result of the same Wu-Tang Clan ra p n a m e ge n e ra to r s i te that turned my name of C a m e ro n Ne i m a n d i n to “ L a z y- a sse d M a g i c i a n .”

And, also like Earn, Glover

recently entered the terrifying and rewarding world of fatherhood.

Glover’s baby is with his current girlfriend, and, in Atlanta , Earnest’s partner in parenthood is his maybe-girlfriend, Van (Zazie Beetz), an amazing, intelligent woman doing just about anything and everything to provide for their daughter.

She does not have the money a n d I n s ta g ra m - f r i e n d ly lifestyle of her professional athlete-dating friends, but as a mother, Van is thankfully content with having a purpose. Her relationship with Earn, never stable and oft-tumultuous, is an all too

familiar situation for youthful minority parents looking to establish a family in a world set for their failure.

For Earn, the opportunity to create a comfortable life for Van and their daughter comes through his cousin Paper Boi, a local rapper and drug-dealer receiving enough radio buzz to milk a career out of music. Educated by a Princeton experience that brought him outside of his Atlanta origins, Earn looks to bring Paper Boi’s c a r e e r to a b ra n d - n e w monetary level and provide a bump to their respective tax brackets.

Paper Boi is a trap rapper

with street smarts and a warm heart. A la 2 Chainz a n d h i s l i ve te l e v i s i o n schooling of enemy to marijuana Nancy Grace, Paper Boi goes on a hilariously fictional news talk show called “Montague” and is faced with a barrage of anti-feminist criticism from a hyperbolized female pundit.

By the show’s end, Paper Boi and his former feminist enemy are cordial friends joined through empathy, leaving the host, Montague, at a beautifully frustrated loss for words.

In just one scene, Paper Boi effortlessly proves an a lways fo rgo t te n p o i n t .

Rappers, despite the stereotypical associations of jewelry, crime and clubbing, are simply people.

A t l a n t a ’s s e a s o n o n e finale aired Nov. 1 on FX, a n d , u n l e s s G l ove r a n d company come up with some Hamlet-esque ending where every character dies, the show’s first season will be viewed as a unanimous success. Already renewed for a second season, Atlanta is not just another notch on Glover’s belt of creative endeavors, but an accurate and important tale of survival. cneimanddbk@gmail.com

review | black mirror

Black Mirror’s third season is a scary, sobering watch The show’s move from the British screen to Netflix expands available resources available to create a high-quality, enthralling television series “There’s no cure for the Taylor Stokes i n te r n e t , i t @taylormstokes would never go away” This isn’t a n e w l i n e .

Since the dawn of social media, this sentiment has been broadcasted pretty much everywhere, inherently laced with foreboding and worry. Parents use it as a reproach while potential employers offer it as a notso-gentle reminder. There is no cure; once content is out there, it’s not going away. With this message constantly surrounding us, it seems insignificant to have it explicitly laid out in a television show. Or so it was thought until the British satirical science fiction hit, Black Mirror , dropped its third season.

The concept of Black M irror is simultaneously simple and intricately complex. Each episode features a stand-alone story with completely different plots, casts and settings.

While they share little to no overlap in terms of plot, every e p isod e i s l o osely structured around the relaby

tionship between technology and modern society, often times laying out the dangers associated between the two.

The show’s third season is no exception to precedent, with each of its six episodes providing new examinations of topics such as social media addiction, virtual reality and internet trolling.

While the disjointed episodes and one-shot plotlines are refreshing, what really makes this show so unique is the incredibly dark satire found throughout. Season three in particular takes familiar, almost mundane concepts and completely exaggerates them, ironically blowing them up so u n rea l i s t i ca l ly t h a t yo u can’t help but witness the horrible reality they reveal.

“Nosedive,” the season’s first episode, captures this element perfectly, describing a world in which each person’s worth is calculated by how many “stars” he or she receives via social media.

The more stars you receive, the higher your social class is, dictating whether you receive amenities such as l u x u r y h o u s i n g , a i rl i n e

tickets or simple conversation among peers. “ S h u t Up a n d Da n c e ” also manages to capture some of the grotesque elements of modern society.

The episode follows antisocial teenager Kenny (Alex Lawther), as he struggles to meet the demands of a group of unnamed hackers who happened to obtain an incriminating video of the teen. The majority of the episode is spent following Kenny and his assignments, which include robbing a bank with the help of fellow blackmailed narcissist, Hector (Jerome Flynn). After all the assignments are completed, Kenny is instructed to drop off money in the middle of a small forest — where he is then told he will have to partake in a fight to the death with another stranger. The best part is, the fight will be filmed. While this sounds like a total stretch from reality, the key message is pretty sobering: With the help of technology, society has found a perverse pleasure in inflicting pain on others and watching the aftermath.

While the majority of the

season is drenched in negativity, there’s one episode that takes a break from the pessimism. “San Junipero” focuses on the love story between two dying women, living out their romance as their younger selves in an alternate reality. This is arguably the best episode o f t h e s e a s o n , p a r t i a l ly because there’s no underlying message to learn. That’s n o t a fa u l t fo r t h e o t h e r five episodes — all of them are certainly good, and the satire they use is necessary for them to be successful.

But in “San Junipero,” you see the emotional side of our technologically-driven world. It’s just two women dealing with the concept of love, commitment and emotional vulnerability. It’s because of this captivating human simplicity that makes it the highlight of the season.

Black Mirror is unlike anything else on television, but by no means is that a negative trait. Season three is without a doubt a refreshing, worthy watch for fans and newcomers alike. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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Terps fall to Purdue During Tuesday’s @danbernsteinUMD practice, Maryland Staff writer volleyball coach Steve Aird told his players to treat each match like it’s the Super Bowl. While his squad is unlikely to make the postseason, he wanted to see consistent effort for the remainder of the campaign.

In particular, he hoped Maryland could improve its play on the road, where it had a 2-8 record entering Wednesday night’s matchup with Purdue.

Instead, Aird watched the Terps (10-15, 2-11 Big Ten) suffer another defeat away from College Park. They struggled to finish sets and fell, 3-1, to the Boilermakers (15-9, 5-8) to mark their second straight loss.

“We have to find a way to close out sets and win matches on the road,” Aird said. “We have to … break that pattern and get this thing going.”

Outside hitter Gia Milana led the team with 23 kills, bouncing back f ro m two d i s a p p o i n t ing performances against then-No. 19 Ohio State.

M i d d l e b l o c ke r H a i l ey Murray, meanwhile, continued to show offensive improvement with 10 kills.

After earning one opening-set kill against Ohio State on Friday, Milana started the match against the Boilermakers with four kills on Maryland’s first nine points. She notched seven kills in the frame.

The Terps lost the set 25-23, despite Purdue making six service errors. At one point, Maryland held a 20-18 advantage but couldn’t close out the frame. “ G a m e o n e wa s k i n d of the key to the match,” Aird said. “If we won that, it’s a different feeling. But [the Boilermakers are] an awfully good team. They beat Stanford and they beat Kansas … so they have good volleyball in them.”

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Maryland James Crabtreefield hockey Hannigan @JamesCrabtreeH coa c h M i ssy Meharg looks Staff writer forward to November all year.

“I always say, ‘November’s the month,’” Meharg said.

“That’s what we do everything for.”

The first weekend of November features conference tournaments, and the NCAA tournament begins a week later. After finishing as Big Ten regular-season champions with a 15-3 record, the No. 3 Terps feel ready to begin Meharg’s favorite month.

“The physical sacrifices, we talk a lot about that,” Meharg said. “Back in February, we were in indoor, they were with their heart rate monitors and they were doing sprints facing a video camera. It’s really pretty interesting where they’ve come.”

The Terps celebrated Halloween on Monday by practicing in costume, and they prepared for the turn of the month by holding a meeting with mental performance coach Evan Brody.

“ We ta l k e d a b o u t o u r strengths, and we didn’t actually focus on our weaknesses that much,” midfielder Lein Holsboer said.

“We just wanted to keep it positive and work on opportunities rather than the weaknesses.”

Holsboer thought the discussion helped prepare the freshmen for their first ta s te o f t h e p os tsea so n , which comes Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament against Rutgers.

Wednesday, though, the conference recognized some of the team’s most experienced players.

Holsboer made the All-Big Te n s e c o n d tea m , wh i l e forward Welma Luus and d e fe n d e r G ra c e B a l s d o n won Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year honors, respectively.

The team complimented the duo for their composure and leadership, but Meharg was also quick to spread the wealth.

“I’m so pleased for them … but I’m always hesitant when awards are given out because it could have a tendency to make others feel like

they’re not good enough,” Meharg said. “And boy, the only reason that those two in particular are as good as they are is the team that’s playing with them.”

Balsdon, whose 12 goals t h i s yea r h ave c o m e o f f penalty corners, didn’t score in the team’s Big Ten-clinching victory over Rutgers on Saturday, but she picked up an assist with a no-look pass to defender Carrie Hanks on a corner.

Despite pulling out that trick, Meharg said her team held back some strategies because it knew it would p l ay t h e Sca rl e t K n i g h ts again. She said her players are ready to combat Rutgers’ similar tactics.

“They can’t change their players,” Meharg said. “They can change their shapes and how much pressure they bring, but I think Maryland has done a good job adjusting to what people [do].”

At to u r n a m e n t t i m e , Hanks said practices become less physical as the team focuses on tactics. Facing Rutgers in consecutive games made that easier, and the Terps will have home field

advantage by hosting the Big Ten tournament for the first time. “ W h e t h e r i t’s knowing that more of our fans from campus c a n c o m e , o r fa m i ly doesn’t have to go to Iowa or Indiana or wherever, it’s definitely nice to be home,” Hanks said.

The Terps are 9-0 in College Park this year and in line to host the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament.

Meharg said that’s not what the Terps are focused on right now, t h o u g h . T h e tea m i s keeping its “one game at a time” mantra and l o o k i n g to re p ea t a s B i g Te n to u r n a m e n t champions.

“Knowing now that all the teams that are going to play in a tournament need that win, it makes it a great co m p e t i t i o n ,” Ho l s boer said. “No one has anything to lose. It’s an all-or-nothing.”

through set two with a 5-1 run that gave it a 12-11 lead.

But following the stoppage, middle blocker Ashlyn MacGregor made a service error and a misplaced pass from setter Taylor Smith caused opposite hitter Angel Gaskin to make an attacking error.

The Boilermakers used those mistakes as a springboard for a 14-3 run to conclude the frame.

Aird was displeased with the effort his players displayed during that collapse. He said it was the result of subpar energy in practice this past week.

“I didn’t love their approach in practice, and I didn’t love their approach in game two,” Aird said.

“Every day should be a Super Bowl. It’s a full-time gig and people have to come hard every day and compete.”

Facing a must-win third set, the Terps jumped ahead 16-9.

With the help of four more kills from Milana, they notched a 25-16 win in the third frame.

Maryland failed to hang on in set four, though.

Milana gave the squad a 13-6 lead with a spike. But with a set point opportunity at 25-24, Milana, who i s u s u a l ly s u b b e d o u t to let outside hitter Megan McTigue serve, remained in the game. Milana then committed a service error, which helped Purdue score four of five points to win the frame, 28-26, and clinch the match.

Aird stood by his decision to let Milana serve.

“She’s arguably our best player and you want to have your best player on the floor,” Aird said.

“She just needs to finish. I’m sure she would have wanted to be a little more clutch down the stretch.”

Milana agreed with the assessment from her coach. She has talked about becoming more clutch throughout the season, so she was disappointed with how the contest ended.

“It hurts because that is what I play for,” Milana said.

“I live for those points in the game to really make my mark and help my team out. So it was really frustrating.” dbernsteindbk@gmail.com

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Curry,Layman: A comparison Jake Layman made his recordsetting NBA debut with the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday night.

Layman scored 17 points in eight minutes against the Golden State Warriors, and he tied an NBA record by making five 3-pointers.

Now that Layman has put some points on the board, we have the statistics to confidently say that Layman is better than the NBA's reigning MVP, Stephen Curry. by

Jordan Katz @Jordan_KatzUMD Staff writer

Career field goal percentage Layman: .750 Curry: .477 Layman has made exactly three-fourths of his shots from the field, while Curry has failed to make even half of his shots.

While Curry has a reputation as being one of the best scorers in the league, it is clear Layman is more efficient when it comes to getting points.

Career three-point percentage

minutes in his NBA career.

However, if you extrapolate his minutes to what a normal NBA starter gets, Layman is averaging more than triple the amount of points Curry normally scores. It should be clear based on this not only that Layman is better than Curry, but that Portland should be giving him more playing time.

Career boring shoes endorsed Layman: 0 Curry: 1 Layman has yet to come out with a signature shoe of any variety. Curry, meanwhile, infamously released the Curry 2 Lows in June. The shoes were relentlessly and deservedly roasted for looking like the type of footwear only people over the age of 50 would wear.

Layman knows his reputation will never be tarnished by horrendously boring shoes.

The same cannot be said for Curry.

lees From p. 12 Lees admitted he was nervous for his first kick against Howard, but he’s become more comfortable since, averaging 39.8 yards on his 43 punts.

Perhaps his best boom — and his personal favorite from the first eight games — was his 41-yarder to pin Central Florida on the one-yard line late in the fourth quarter. “ T h a t w a s h u g e ,” Durkin said after the Terps’ double overtime victory on Sept. 17. “To go execute that punt in that moment, that’s perfect.”

Lees said his Australian training has helped him develop versatility by building his leg muscles and honing techniques for different punting styles. But the Australian form allows for more physicality. He

played as a midfielder and down past me,” Lees said. “So relished tackling opponents I’m sort of hoping to get down — so m e t h i n g h e d o e s n ’t there to make a tackle, but I’m sort of hoping it doesn’t.” often do now.

That enthusiastic apHe tried to square up on Jacquille Veii in Tuesday’s proach has endeared Lees practice, but the wide re- to his teammates, too.

T h e Te r p s l a u g h wh e n ceiver sidestepped him with Lees tries to quickness. pronounce Other times, certain slang Lees has asked words, escoaches to pecially the participate in ones the tackling drills. team’s Florida “They just, natives use like, whisked from back me out of the home. They w a y ,” L e e s laughed, too, said, “and said when coaches ‘Just go back asked Lees to over there and get in a stance punt.’” a s a b l o c ke r Still, in the and he instead few long gains lowered into opponents a s p r i n te r ’s have managed position. against the maryland football defensive end Lees, meanTe r p s ’ p u n t coverage, Lees’ eyes have while, dished back some ribbing when he told fellow “lit up.”

“I suppose it’s not a good freshman Jake Funk he made thing if the ball’s coming back o n e o f t h e tea m ’s ro o k i e

graphics on social media “look ugly.”

“He’s got a funny accent, he says a bunch of funny words,” defensive lineman Roman Braglio said, pausing with laughter. “I don’t have a specific story, but yeah, he’s definitely a character.”

He can poke fun at himself, too. He sits a middle seat during plane rides, a Terps freshman tradition despite his mature age. And on social media, he embraces his foreign adjustment as the Terp nicknamed “the Godfather.”

Last week, he tweeted, claiming he would “be a millionaire” if he had a dollar every time people referenced his age when talking about him. “It’s just a bit of fun to sort of reach out to people,” Lees said. “I’m sort of down on followers at the moment, so I’m trying to get them up as well.

“At least people are talking about me, I suppose.”

huddles together on the field and encourages each other.

On 14 of 15 of those occasions, they’ve responded with a score.

And when Cirovski becomes intense, yelling at his players and the referees, the Terps know it’s because he wants to get the best effort from his team.

“It makes you believe in the process,” Niedermeier said. “If you’re not playing, keep working hard. If you’re on the field, just keep working. Everything in the end works out, especially here at Maryland. Sasho has the best interest for everyone on and off the field. If we do all the little things, there’s nothing that can stop us.”

Cirovski has coached dozens of players who’ve brought his mental tactics with them to the professional ranks. Niedermeier said Cirovski’s upbeat style has given him confidence to set goals for a professional career.

For now, however, Niedermeier and the Terps are focused on winning their third national championship in the past 11 years.

And whenever they feel pressure throughout this postseason, the players will be able to look toward their locker room walls and coach’s wrist for assurance.

“It’s everything from when a player makes a mistake, and I say, ‘It’s OK. File it and move on.

I believe in you,’” Cirovski said.

“Things that encourage them and have them get over the hump of feeling down. More than anything, I want them to know I’m their biggest backer.

“Our program is about nurturing, it’s about caring and it’s about developing great people.

If you do those things right, you have a good chance to win championships.”

He’s got a funny accent, he says a bunch of funny words. I don’t have a specific story, but yeah, he’s definitely a character. roman braglio

Career 3-1 series leads blown in the NBA Finals Layman: 0 Curry: 1

Layman: .714 Curry: .444 Once again, the reigning NBA MVP pales in comparison to Layman. He is tied for first in the NBA this season in threepoint percentage, while Curry is not even in the top 20. It appears that Layman should be receiving the acclaim that Curry gets for his success behind the arc.

Career points per 36 minutes Layman: 76.5 Curry: 23.2 Layman has played only eight

In case you haven’t heard, Curry and Golden State Warriors had a 3-1 series lead in the 2016 NBA Finals over the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Warriors, who had won an NBArecord 73 games in the regular season, blew a 3-1 lead in that series, failing to win the final three games as the Cavaliers won their first-ever NBA title.

Layman, on the other hand, has never been part of a team that has blown a 3-1 series lead in the NBA Finals. sportsdbk@gmail.com

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cirovski From p. 12 we have to be to win something this year,” Wild said.

“All this stuff we do about mindset, it really got into our DNA. We try to embrace it. You also see when we don’t do it; we’re struggling.

Thankfully we’re always

able to bounce back.”

The team emphasizes positivity every practice and game.

Robert Kehoe, the founder of the Winning Ways national program, helps that cause by sending letters with lessons throughout the year.

That optimism has helped Maryland through the trying times this season. After the Terps let up a goal, the squad

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guard destiny slocum (left) and Center Brionna Jones (Right) combined to score 18 points in the Terps’ 146-17 win Wednesday night. They finished the game on a 78-0 run and did not allow Bluefield State to score in the second half. marquise mckine/the diamondback

Terps shellack Bluefield State for 2016 debut By the end of the MaryJames Crabtree-Hannigan land women’s @JamesCrabtreeH basketball team’s exhibiStaff writer tion Wednesday, as the possibility Bluefield State could go scoreless in the second half increased, the Xfinity Center crowd rooted for the Big Blues.

Fans groaned when their shots clanged off the rim or a Terp corralled a steal. By the time the clock hit zero, the by

sympathy hadn’t helped.

Maryland shut out Bluefield State for the final two quarters and finished on a 78-0 run. After the first two possessions, Bluefield State led, 3-2, but it didn’t take long for the Terps to storm back for a 146-17 win.

The Big Blues made six field goals, five of which where 3-pointers.

“This is the start of something super special — that’s the way it feels,” freshman guard

Destiny Slocum said. “Everything’s falling into place.”

The Terps shot 64 percent from the field and 46.4 percent from 3-point range. Maryland had 82 points in the paint, boosted by fast-break layups after one of its 35 steals.

Two of those points in the paint came at the buzzer entering halftime on a putback from freshman center Jenna Staiti. The shot gave the Terps a 74-17 lead at the break, and Staiti was mobbed by three of her teammates, who

hit her with towels as she tried to walk to the locker room.

“I loved our energy and our enthusiasm,” coach Brenda Frese said. “[We] didn’t play the scoreboard, but really competed.”

Center Brionna Jones scored the Terps’ first four points from under the basket and ended up one of the seven Maryland players in double figures.

Slocum finished with nine points and nine assists, showing her prowess early and often. The Meridian, Idaho, native grabbed a rebound with about six-anda-half minutes left in the first quarter and led the fast break before dishing a no-look pass to freshman guard Blair Watson for the layup.

“The growth here is amazing,” Slocum said. “We’re kind of just getting each other, now.”

Then, about a minute later, Slocum swished a three-pointer and stole a pass after the

Blues’ inbound. She didn’t hit the ensuing layup, but Watson was there to clean it up.

Guard Shatori WalkerKimbrough kicked off her senior year with 18 points, four steals and six rebounds in 13 minutes. She did not enter the game in the fourth quarter.

That left more action for Watson, who took over in the game’s latter stages. Thirteen of her game-high 29 points came in the fourth quarter and she finished with a double-double on 10 rebounds, which also led all players.

“We were kind of following her lead a little bit today,” Walker-Kimbrough said.

Several of Watson’s boards came off her own miss. She had six assists and made five three-pointers.

“She just played free,” Frese said. “She gave a phenomenal effort on both ends of the floor

… Shooting the three for her is like shooting a layup.”

Watson, who underwent s u rge r y to re p a i r a to r n labrum this summer and didn’t play in the Terps’ preseason trip to Italy, said she wanted to announce “that [she’s] back” Wednesday, which Walker-Kimbrough responded to with an enthusiastic “ayeee.”

Frese also had little to complain about in the Terps’ 2 0 1 6 d e b u t . S h e wa s n ’t pleased with her team’s free throw shooting percentage (19-for-32), but she commended her team’s effort.

“Tonight was a really good tune-up for us,” Frese said.

“We recognize the fact that the competition is going to improve for us, but I just loved our energy tonight.” jcrabtreehdbk@gmail.com

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B e n d e r wo rke d o n h i s defense, because in a conference as strong as the Big Ten, “we have to be able to guard every night,” he said.

He d i d d r i l l s to i m p rove his ball handling, shooting, passing and catching.

He’s also projected to be the Terps’ top ball-screen and post defender, according to the program’s preseason notebook. “ H e c a n r e a l l y p a s s ,”

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Turgeon said after Maryland’s to showcase his skills this open practice Oct. 22. “He’s season as he plays a larger role very smart defensively, too.” for the Terps, who Turgeon said will operate by committee in the low post. Dodd, Bender and Cekovsky should all get minutes at the center position, while Duquesne graduate transfer L.G. Gill and freshman Justin Jackson will play at the four spot.

It’s a welcomed change for Bender after rarely seeing the floor since arriving in College Park.

“He’s been the biggest s u r p r i s e o f t h e s ea s o n ,” Turgeon said.

He’s really starting to trust his knee now, so he’s really... improved a drastic measure.

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punter wade lees is the oldest player on the team. He’s older than some of the coaches. After coming over from Australia, the 28-year-old freshman has emerged as an asset on special teams and sparked laugher with his teammates off the field. photo courtesy of maryland athletics

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a ryl a n d p u n te r Wade Lees knew living in the U.S. wo u l d re q u i re some adjustment as soon as he stepped off the plane last January. He had left the 95-degree heat in Melbourne in flip-flops and board shorts. Maryland greeted him with what he estimated was four feet of snow.

Other than the weather, though, Lees said his transition to life as the Terps’ 28-yearold freshman punter has been smooth.

He’s continued the lineage of Australian special teams players excelling in college football, while forming bonds with his teammates, some of whom are 10 years younger than him and coaches, a few of whom are his junior, too.

“I just go out there and get excited to go out there and punt,” Lees said, “even though it’s not really great if I’m punting.”

Lees’ chilly arrival wasn’t his first time in America. He had taken a fourmonth trip throughout Europe a few

years ago, and ended the vacation with four weeks in the U.S., visiting the likes of New York, Los Angeles and Miami.

He also came in 2015 with Prokick Australia, a breeding program for future NCAA kickers and punters, to visit the academy’s former players’ schools. Lees stayed with former Michigan punter Blake O’Neill in Ann Arbor, where the Terps play this weekend, and learned about NCAA options.

L e e s d i d n ’t g ra d u a te f ro m h i g h school, so he earned his GED and took

college placement exams while working and playing Australian League Football. One of his contacts from Michigan also connected him with coach DJ Durkin soon after he took the head job at Maryland.

When Durkin extended the offer to join the Terps, Lees announced his decision on Twitter and soon boarded his plane.

“I just jumped in with two feet,” Lees said, “and haven’t looked back.”

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Bender draws praise from coach Turgeon Veteran coach called sophomore big man ‘most improved player’ entering season by

When fans discuss the Maryland men’s basketball team’s starting lineup, names such as Melo Trimble and Damonte Dodd come to mind. The players have started games for the Terps before, and coach Mark Turgeon has highlighted them for stepping into leadership roles.

Iva n Be n d e r, a 6 - fo o t - 9 sophomore from Bosnia-Herzegovina, is not one of the focal players. He made 10 appearances last year, averaging 4.3 minutes per game.

But as Turgeon stood at the podium in Heritage Hall at Maryland’s Media Day Oct. 25, Bender was a part of that conversation.

“If we would have started a game Saturday, he might have been the starter,” Turgeon said.

“He’s improved that much.”

Tu rgeo n d i dn ’t revea l whether Bender will assume that role when Maryland hosts American in its season opener Nov. 11, but he added the team’s “most improved player” will be in the rotation as the Terps search for frontcourt production.

“His jump shot, his scoring, his passing,” Dodd said about Bender’s improvements at Big Ten Media Day Oct. 13. “He’s always been a good passer, but he’s really starting to trust his knee now, so he’s really … improved a drastic measure.”

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Coach sasho cirovski’s encouragement has helped the Terps remain optimistic, even at times when they’ve struggled. file photo/the diamondback

Positive demeanor helps Terps remain undefeated Inside the Maryland Kyle Melnick men’s soccer @kyle_melnick team’s locker Senior staff writer room, signs of positive words cover the walls.

No matter where the Terps players look, they’re reminded of the squad’s values. In one corner the Maryland players see “Perseverance,” while in another they see “Commitment” and “Concentration.” On the field, the positive messages don’t stop. Coach Sasho Cirovski writes “WW” on his wrist, which stands for “winning words.”

Since Cirovski took the Terps heading coach job in 1993, he’s made positivity a core value of the team. By doing so, he’s led Maryland to two national championships and 18 Sweet 16s.

The Terps relied on an upbeat mindset as they completed their first undefeated season since 1968. As by

Maryland attempts to win its third consecutive Big Ten conference tournament title and first national championship since 2008, it’ll continue to lean on their coach’s optimistic message.

“It’s a core of who I am,” Cirovski said. “We want to keep a positive but inspirational tone the way we communicate player-to-player and playerto-coach. We wanted to show trust and confidence through the idea that winning words leads to winning ways.”

Before each season, the Terps hold a program called Winning Ways. It involves a week-long personal development workshop and has been a mainstay in Cirovski’s 23 years with the squad.

During that week, the players have sessions with Cirovski and other coaches to learn how to stay positive even if they’re unhappy about their performance.

Cirovski’s slogan for Maryland is “Building Champions and Pursu-

ing Championships,” and this program is one of the ways he develops players to do so. A player’s personality is also one of the biggest factors in Cirovski’s recruitment process. For example, before adding transfer Gordon Wild to the roster this past winter, Cirovski called Greg Hooks, his former coach at South Carolina Upstate, and Wild’s mom, Irene, to make sure his personality would fit his program.

Goalkeeper Cody Niedermeier credited the Terps’ chemistry as a reason for their success this season, and the senior said the team wouldn’t be as united if Cirovski didn’t bring in selfless players.

“It showed me how ambitious See Cirovski, p. 10

Bender arrived at Maryland in January 2015 after playing for KK Split in the Junior Euroleague. He didn’t see the court during his first season with the Terps as he continued his rehab on a torn ACL. While Bender was healthy last year, making his debut in the Terps’ win over St. Francis (PA) on Dec. 4, he spent more time acclimating to the American lifestyle than making oncourt contributions.

Former big men Diamond Stone and Robert Carter Jr. manned the frontcourt last season as the Terps’ second- and third-leading scorers, respectively, combining to score 24.8 points per game. In practice, they helped Bender adjust to the college game. “ I rea l ly ga i n e d s o m e c o n fidence from last year playing against Diamond, [forward Michal Cekovsky], Damonte and Rob, and it really helped me this season,” Bender said. “I feel more comfortable on the court.”

The pair has since moved on — Stone is now with the Los Angeles Clippers and Carter plays for Enel Basket Brindisi in Italy — leaving minutes for players such as Dodd, Cekovsky and Bender.

So, to enhance his game, Bender spent part of the summer working with a professional within his own family.

After taking classes, playing pickup games and working with strength and conditioning coach Kyle Tarp in June and July, Bender spent the month of August at home training with his younger brother, See bender, p. 11