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U expels three students for sexual assault From July 2014 to past June, expulsions mark most in one-year period during Loh’s tenure

By Darcy Costello and Ellie Silverman @dctello, @esilverman11 Senior staff writers A record number of university students were expelled for sexual assaults in a one-year period be-

said Andrea Goodwin, the student conduct director.

But between July 2014 and June 30, the university expelled three ginning in July 2014, according students for sexual assault, acto Office of Civil Rights & Sexual cording to the civil rights and sexual misconduct office’s first annual Misconduct data.

Before the 2014-15 academic year, report published Monday. The unithe Office of Student Conduct fully versity also suspended two students investigated one or two sexual mis- for violating the university’s sexual conduct reports a year, and few inves- misconduct policy.

“In the one year that [Title IX tigations — if any — led to expulsions,

Officer Catherine Carroll] has been here, set up this office, set up this elaborate set of machinery, policies and procedures,” university President Wallace Loh said, “this is the first time I’ve been faced with three expulsions in one year.”

As the federal government sought to address sexual assault on college campuses nationwide, the university See MISCONDUCT, Page 3

Florent Groberg, an Army captain and university alumnus, will speak at his alma mater’s December commencement. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

LARGER THAN LIFE

Army capt to speak at graduation Medal of Honor recipient, U alumnus ran track for Terps

University unveils statue of Frederick Douglass in Hornbake Plaza

By Talia Richman @TaliRichman Senior staff writer When Wael Khudr graduates this semester, the former Navy intelligence collector will be able to relate to the man speaking onstage, he said.

University President Wallace Loh announced yesterday — Veterans Day — that Army Capt. Florent Groberg will be the winter commencement speaker. Groberg, a 2006 alumnus, will be awarded the Medal of Honor today for his service in Afghanistan.

“T he mere fact that he’s a veteran makes it more relatable,” said Khudr, a government and politics major. “He’ll be able to share his experience and spread information on what veterans go through.”

Loh said Groberg “exemplifies the kinds of qualities we like to see in our alumni.”

By Hallie Miller @halliewrites Staff writer A Facilities Management-led team installed a statue of Frederick Douglass outside of Hornbake Library on Sunday after about five years of planning, construction and anticipation.

With construction on the rest of Frederick Douglass Square concluded in September, the roughly 8-foot-tall statue underwent a three-week voyage last month from Ireland to the United States, said Patrick O’Shea, vice president and chief research officer for the university’s Division of Research.

No additional construction will occur on the plaza, said Darwin A Statue of Frederick Douglass stands in Hornbake Plaza after about five years of planning. The placement of the statue, roughly 8 feet tall, follows the construction of Frederick Douglass Square, which concluded in September. An official dedication ceremony will take place Wednesday at 2 p.m. tom hausman/the diamondback

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SGA votes to endorse coalition Demolition opposing fracking in county clears way for County Council will consider ban in 2016

By Katishi Maake @KatishiMaake Staff writer The SGA voted 26-0, with one abstention, yesterday to approve a resolution to endorse a coalition pressuring the Prince George’s County Council to ban fracking.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the process of drilling and injecting highly pressurized fluid into the ground to more easily uncover natural gas or petroleum.

After passing the resolution, Student Sustainability Committee Director Maya Spaur said the Student Government Association will lobby the county once a bill is introduced next year. Until then, Spaur said the sustainability committee will petition on the campus to raise awareness about fracking.

The University Senate’s Governmental Affairs Committee passed the bill on Oct. 22 by a vote of 5-0, with one abstention.

“This bill is directly building off of what we worked on in the past,” Spaur said. “When leaks

happen and they pollute the streams, that’s just not an acute event; it really spreads farther out.”

This past April, this state issued a two-year moratorium on fracking after a coalition of citizen groups led by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network spoke out against the practice.

In February, 25 university students lobbied the state legislators to approve the fracking moratorium, which the SGA endorsed.

“We know from everything we’ve learned about this really dangerous practice that there’s really no safe way of doing it, and we want to ensure that we would have at least a pause on it so we could keep fighting another day,” said Shilpa Joshi, this state’s campaign coordinator with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. “It was really a stopgap measure.”

There is still uncertainty regarding the economic and fiscal effects of banning fracking in the county, said Jake Kotler, SGA governmental affairs director.

“The proponents on my committee agree with the bill on principle,” he said. But “we’re signing a letter without knowing the effects of See SGA, Page 7

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By Carly Kempler @CarlyKempler Staff writer Demolition of the University Professional Center began Monday, making way for a multifamily apartment building to be built in the next two to three years.

Alta at Berwyn House is expected to be a seven-story, 275-unit apartment building with 1,000 square feet of retail space and a two-level, 318space parking garage, said Miriam Bader, the city’s senior planner. The Wood Partners are developing the property.

Located at 4700 Berwyn House Road and adjacent to University Club, the property is about half a mile from the entrance to this university’s campus. It will be District 2’s first market-rate, multifamily development if it is finished before the Metropolitan apartment and retail

Demolition at the 4700 Berwyn House Road property will make way for Alta at Berwyn House, an anticipated seven-story, 275-unit apartment building with 1,000 square feet of retail space. carly kempler/the diamondback complex project, said District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan.

The property will be marketed similarly to Domain College Park, which is geared more toward adults and graduate students, Brennan said.

Bader said they are marketing the building toward young professionals, rather than students, because that

market is “underserved.”

“We are trying to encourage faculty and staff [to live here] rather than commuting, because we are hoping to reduce the traffic on Route 1,” Bader said. “We are trying to encourage a walkable community.”

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2015

CRIME BLOTTER

By Jessie Campisi @jessiecampisi, @dbkcrime Staff writer University Police responded to reports of sexual assault, harassment, assault and disorderly conduct, among other incidents, in the past week, according to police reports.

SEXUAL ASSAULT An officer responded to Lot 11b on Nov. 7 at 7:46 p.m. for a report of an alleged sexual assault that happened at Byrd Stadium during the football game, University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

The officer told the alleged victim to follow the officer to University Police headquarters to continue the interview, but as the officer was driving there, the individual stopped following and drove off.

HARASSMENT University Police responded to Centreville Hall on Nov. 7 at 7:07 p.m. for a report of harassment, Hoaas said.

After a female student told her ex-boyfriend to stop contacting her, he sent the female student messages, such as phone calls, letters and texts, through her friends. The officer spoke with the man and told him to stop contacting the woman.

BURGLARY University Police responded to the Varsity Team House on Nov. 7 at 1:52 p.m. for a report of a burglary, according to police reports.

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Feuerstein, Facilities Management assistant director for site projects.

An official dedication ceremony will take place at the square Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. to honor the famous orator and writer, who spoke passionately in favor of abolition and wrote several books about his life as a slave in Talbot County.

The speakers for the event a re being fina lized this week, said Elise Carbonaro, communications director for the Division of Research.

The dedication ceremony marks the end of an extensive journey that began as early as 2011, O’Shea said.

He said the statue’s presence on the campus is unique in the university’s history. “ T h e re’s s o m e o t h e r statuary here, but this is going to be quite different,” O’Shea said. “There aren’t a lot of people statues on this campus. I think people will notice this.”

The statue, designed in Ireland and cast in bronze in Wales, is mounted on a 3-foot-tall base and weighs about half a ton, O’Shea said.

O’Shea, who has connections in Ireland, said he helped the university acquire the statue upon learning of the university “North Star” committee’s intent to honor Douglass.

He said work on the statue design began in Ireland in 2011, about the same time history professor Ira Berlin and the rest of the “North Star” committee were beginning to discuss ways to recognize the distinguished reformer.

“It was not a l i nea r process,” O’Shea said. “It kind of came together in a loosely collaborative way.”

Frederick Douglass

“ H e i s a n i n c re d i b l y modest, humble person,” Loh said. “He has a certain presence — I mea n he really does.”

S e n i o r B re n d a S h a h , who serves as the commencement speaker delegate, said the selection committee also conside re d t r u s te e s f rom t he Un iversity of Ma ryla nd College Park Foundation and business executives, but everyone “knew immediately [Groberg] was the right choice.”

“We were blown away

by Florent,” the physiology and neurobiology and major. “The fact that he’s getting a Medal of Honor just goes to show he’s not on ly recog n i z ed at ou r school but nationally for his accomplishments and achievements.”

Senior Sarah Niezelski, the Student Government Association representative on the committee, said Groberg represents “fearless leadership.”

“We’re ver y proud to have an alumnus who has sacrificed the way he has,” the econom ics a nd mechanical engineering major said. “We’re honored to be able to involve him in this way. … He represents the best of what our alumni have to offer. ” G ro b e rg w a s b o r n i n France and became a U.S. citizen when he was 18.

While at this university, he competed i n va rsity track and cross country.

Two years after graduating with a degree in criminology and criminal justice, he joined the Army.

I n 201 2 , Groberg was providing a security detail for senior Army leaders in

THE STATUE of Frederick Douglass overlooks Hornbake Plaza. Born a slave in Talbot County, Douglass became a prominent abolitionist, reformer and writer. tom hausman/the diamondback Square cost about $600,000 to complete a nd i ncludes benches, lighting, plant beds and many of Douglass’ quotes carved into pavers and a steel wall. The statue cost about $200,000.

“He was one of the first people to deal with human rights on a broader scale,” O’Shea said. To highlight Douglass’ role in civil and human rights and the abolitionist movement, O’Shea said, the statue’s designer, sculptor Andrew Edwards, drew inspiration from artwork depicting President Obama and Moses.

“T here’s a lot of complicated imagery going on here,” O’Shea said. “It’s so dynamic.”

The statue presents Douglass midspeech with one arm outstretched and a copy of his autobiography tucked under the other. O’Shea said the majority of other statues depict Douglass later on in life, but this one captures him in his mid-20s, when the escaped slave found refuge in Ireland as his book was published in the United States.

O’Shea said during Douglass’ time in the Irish city of Cork, he l ived w it h i n walking distance of a young g i rl n a med M a r y Ha r r is, who eventually immigrated to the United States. In the early 1900s, she “was considered the most dangerous woman in America” because of her ability to organize mine

workers and their families to protest against mine owners, O’Shea said. An elementary school honoring Mary Harris “Mother” Jones is located just a few miles away from this university in Adelphi.

“It’s a curious parallel,” O’Shea said. “It indicates a broader history. This is more than just a statue.”

Architecture Dean David Cronrath, who assisted in completing Frederick Douglass Square, said the statue’s presence relays the university’s mission to its onlookers.

“We’re a university that believes in truth and justice as being just as important as knowledge,” Cronrath said. “It gives us something to believe in.”

He also said the statue’s positioning on the plaza is symbolic as well.

“He’s not on axis with Hornbake for two reasons, the fi rst being that he wouldn’t have wanted to be in absolute authority like a king or a general.

That’s not who he was,” Cronrath said. “The second reason is when you approach the space … the hand moves away from his face, and it helps the statue control the space.”

And in addition to its appearance, Cronrath said the statue serves to connect Douglass to his state’s flagship university. hmillerdbk@gmail.com

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CAPT. FLORENt GROBERG greets university President Wallace Loh at the football game on Saturday. alexander jonesi/the diamondback Afghanistan’s Kunar Province when a suicide bomber approached t he g roup.

Groberg rushed the man and pushed him to the ground, away from the patrol, but the attacker detonated his explosives. A second suicide bomber set off his own explosives within moments.

Four soldiers were killed and Groberg was severely injured in the attack.

Since then, Groberg has u ndergone more t h a n 30 surgeries at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

W hen President Obama presents him with the Medal of Honor during a ceremony at the White House, Groberg will become the 10th living recipient of the award for actions in Afghanistan. He will be the second university alumnus to earn the military’s highest honor.

“He is such an incredible person to have done what he did — to selflessly sacrifice his body for the love of the people around him,” senior kinesiology major Ryan Scott said. “He is someone who is qualified to come talk and inspire the masses.”

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While University Police reported 21 on-campus rapes in the past three years in its annual From PAGE 1 security report, the Title IX created its Office of Civil Rights office received 20 rape com& Sexual Misconduct. Carroll plaints in its first year. assumed her position as the ‘IT’S EVERYWHERE’ university’s first Title IX compliance director in March 2014.

After McLaine Rich was asFrom July 2014 through saulted in October 2014, she June 30, the office fully investigated 13 of 48 complaints, wasn’t going to file a complaint including seven cases of Sexual or make a police report.

But after revealing the assault Assault I (nonconsensual penetration), three stalking and to her Zeta Tau Alpha sorority sexual harassment cases, two chapter at a meeting and realsexual harassment cases and izing the number of people who one relationship violence case. had faced similar situations, The “vast majority” of those the senior psychology major accused in these complaints changed her mind.

“Eight people came forward were men, Carroll said. The Title IX office cannot reveal the and talked to me in a week, and identities of students involved one person that came forward in a complaint and therefore [mentioned] the same person as could not provide a more spe- me,” Rich said. “And that was only in a week, after speaking cific gender breakdown.

Fifteen complaints result- in one meeting.”

She filed a report with the ed in a voluntary resolution between the two parties, ac- Title IX office March 31. Title cording to the report. In 10 IX investigators aim to complete cases, the complainant did not their reports within 30 business want to continue with the in- days, according to the universivestigation, three cases didn’t ty’s student sexual misconduct have enough evidence to com- complaint procedures. After the plete the investigations and six investigation phase, reaching a were pending investigation as resolution takes an additional four to five weeks. of June 30.

“I saw that there was a When the U.S. Education 30-day investigation period, Department released a list in May 2014 of schools under in- so I thought, ‘OK, 30 days. I can vestigation for their handling of give up a few months of my life sexual violence and harassment for this,’” Rich said.

Six months later, on Sept. complaints, this university was 8, her case report was finally not on it.

However, Loh said he re- complete. The Title IX office quested that the university’s was already investigating a case Title IX office provide a public involving the same man Rich report of its cases and outcomes accused and needed to move so the campus community forward with the previous case would know how administra- first, Carroll said.

“I was terrified to go to class,” tors deal with these issues. said Rich. “I’d have nightmares “We should be a campus that he was going to break into free from any sexual assaults,” my house. There was just all this Loh said.

For now, though, the uni- emotional trauma the whole versity must contend with a time when the investigation rising number of sexual mis- was going on.”

The Title IX office employs conduct complaints and a Title IX office ill-equipped to handle two investigators to handle all sexual misconduct complaints. the growing influx.

There are times when complaints go unaddressed because the investigators need to finish current cases before picking up new ones, Carroll said.

While the office aims to resolve complaints within 60 business days, circumstances out of its control — such as witnesses who are unresponsive or winter and spring breaks — can lengthen investigations, Carroll said. If a situation warrants an extension, both parties will be notified in writing, the procedures state.

“Even if you go forward without the information, they’re just going to come in and say, ‘Well you didn’t talk to the people I wanted you to talk to,’” Carroll said. “So it’s sort of a dance.”

Despite working closely with the student conduct office and the Department of Resident Life to complete these investigations, the office is forced to handpick which cases to investigate.

“In the world of triaging and prioritizing resources, the sexual assault cases get more attention because of the severity of the incident,” Carroll said. “You can have a sexual harassment case with a ton of witnesses, but then if you get three rape cases in a week, the timelines get a little mixed up.”

Of the six pending investigations, half are rape cases, two involve sexual harassment, one deals with stalking and one involves relationship violence.

Cases themselves are highly stressful, with students and parents on both sides crying and yelling in the office. Carroll said she worries her staff will burn out. The office recently hired a civil rights investigator to add to its team.

“Three investigators for [52,000] people — I don’t think anyone would argue that’s going to be adequate,” Carroll said.

Had Rich known her case would take a year to resolve, s h e s a i d s h e m i g ht h ave acted differently.

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Complainant declined to continue Source: Office of Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct “We were still on the campus at the same time,” Rich said. “I didn’t want to file a restraining order with the police. It was hard to get out of bed in the morning, much less go to class.”

Rich since has helped found Preventing Sexual Assault, a club that advocates sexual assault prevention and serves as an outlet for members to channel their frustration and sadness and work toward progress.

Hannah Grimes, a sophomore communication major and vice president of Preventing Sexual Assault, also faced a traumatic experience after her Sexual Assault I report to the Title IX office, she said.

“I was having panic attacks because he lived in the same area,” Grimes said. “I was afraid to be on my own. I ended up losing 10 pounds because I wouldn’t eat; I was afraid of seeing him on the same part of campus.”

While the Title IX and student conduct offices found a preponderance of evidence that the alleged perpetrator case did assault Grimes, a standing review committee found him not responsible, Carroll said.

The Title IX office offers a variety of interim measures to ensure the safety of both parties as it investigates a case. Grimes filed a no-contact order through

the Title IX office, but she still dreads seeing her alleged assailant on the campus, she said.

The office provided a total of 19 no-contact orders, 15 academic accommodations, four interim suspensions, two housing removals, one housing transfer and seven miscellaneous measures, according to the report.

Interim measures can include “any sort of things that you can think of in your daily life that may need to shift or change so that you’re not going to be in contact with that person or not wanting to see that person,” Carroll said.

Final sanctions vary as well, with expulsion, suspension and lesser punishments all on the table.

One student charged with rape received sanctions such as disciplinary probation and counseling sessions. Another student charged with rape was suspended through June 2016 and must attend a healthy masculinity workshop, write a research paper and undergo drug testing.

In total, the university assigned seven guilty students an educational or writing assignment, restricted two students’ housing, withheld two students’ suspensions pending good behavior and placed two students on proba-

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A standing review committee of five students, faculty and staff determined the sanctions for these cases, in accordance with previous interim procedures. The university updated these procedures this semester to give the student conduct office the authority to determine sanctions, Carroll said.

In one rape case that ended in suspension rather than expulsion, there was a lack of participation from the student who filed the complaint, Carroll said.

“I don’t want to see similar cases be treated differently because the victim engages or not,” Carroll said. “When you have five people, they can vary in what they think is an appropriate sentence. What creates a problem is, why would I have a similar case where there’s suspension and another one that’s expulsion because five different people on one committee decided expulsion and five people on another committee decided suspension?”

Sanctions aside, Grimes said the university’s response to sexual misconduct complaints doesn’t match the issue’s pervasiveness or severity.

“Right now, I think the university is ignoring that [sexual misconduct] is a blatant problem,” Grimes said. “There’s a problem here, and it’s everywhere, and it’s not being talked about.”

Carroll’s office reports directly to the president’s office, however, Loh said he meets with Carroll “not very often.”

Carroll was on the agenda to present the 2015 misconduct report to Loh’s cabinet last week; however, other issues came up, and she did not end up presenting, Loh said.

“We had other things to discuss and we never got to it,” Loh said. “T he intent was for her to summarize, but the cabinet doesn’t make changes to it, so we basically all got copies of it, and I’ll have an opportunity to chat with her later.”

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OPINION

EDITORIAL BOARD

Matt Schnabel Editor in Chief

NATE RABNER

Jordan Branch

Deputy Managing Editor

Managing Editor

that it’s turning the corner on handling misconduct incidents.

So as universities across the country face increased scrutiny of both their efforts to quash sexual assault and their investigatory standards, this university has positioned itself to tackle the issue harder while mitigating the threat of retaliatory lawsuits.

Leading that charge has been the OUR VIEW

This university should allocate more resources toward its Title IX office.

Title IX office, which to date remains understaffed, underfunded — and sometimes overlooked.

The office employs just two sexual misconduct investigators, responsible for looking into all Title IX-related complaints.

Barring an extension, the office aims to complete each misconduct report in 30 business days, according to university procedures, while reaching a resolution takes an additional four to five weeks. Six of 38 cases filed since July 2014 were still pending as of June 30, though, and Carroll said complaints such as harassment frequently must take a backseat to rape investigations.

The investigations prove grueling for all parties, and Carroll fears her team might burn out.

Of course, the investigations prove most grueling for student victims of sexual misconduct. Students who recounted their cases to The Diamond-

back said the adjudication process left them depressed, floundering academically, even terrified.

This university owes it to some of its most vulnerable community members to investigate their complaints with a thorough efficiency that befits the gravity of the incidents.

For the Title IX office to close more cases, it’ll need more resources, more investigators and more administrative attention. Yet in a recent cabinet meeting that saw Carroll slated to cover the 2015 sexual misconduct report, she ended up not giving her presentation.

“We had other things to discuss and we never got to it,” Loh told The Diamondback.

It’s unclear why top university officials didn’t stick around long enough to hear Carroll summarize how her office’s work led to a record number of expulsions, but it’s nonetheless concerning.

This editorial board wouldn’t deign to suggest that cabinet members don’t care about sexual assault victims; every administrative action Loh has taken with regard to the issue has demonstrated compassion and sound judgment. But while the university has made headway, the problem hasn’t been solved — heartbreakingly evident in every student who bravely discloses their history with sexual assault.

It’s on us to stop sexual assault.

It’s on the whole university, and especially on the Title IX office — but it’s on administrators to give Carroll and her team the means to make it happen.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

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t first, it’s a wave of flu-like symptoms — fatigue, loss of appetite and a mild fever that won’t quit. Rather than pop a couple of NyQuil and go to bed, you tough it out. Because, well, you’re in Uganda, and Procter & Gamble don’t distribute much there. A couple of hours later, the fire starts in your legs and slowly spreads to the rest of your body until you’re lying on the floor, head swimming with the highest fever you’ve ever had. You’re sweating until you can’t sweat any more, feeling as though your body must be trying to burn you from the inside out, wanting to tear your skin off because damn it, even that would be better than this.

That’s malaria, and we can treat it. But you can’t. Because in your country, the average worker makes less than a dollar a day, and effective treatment costs about $2.25 for a single dose. If that seems unfair, that’s because it is.

The two largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, Novartis and Pfizer, made just less than $100 billion in profits in 2014. For those of you keeping score at home, that’s 44 billion doses of effective malaria medication. Vaccines alone are a $24 billion industry. Demand is ticking upward as the population grows, particularly in the developing world. In a perfectly balanced capitalist system, more suppliers enter the market in response to heightened demand.

Need is met, prices remain static and in this hypothetical, children stay vaccinated and you— yes, you with malaria— get your treatment. Unfortunately, this hy p o t h e t i ca l o n ly ex i s ts i n FantasyLand®, where climate change isn’t real and Tupac is still alive.

MATT SCHNABEL, editor in chief, is a senior journalism major.

He has worked as a managing editor, deputy managing editor, copy editor and diversions writer.

Jordan Branch, managing editor, is a senior government and politics and journalism major.

She has worked as an assistant managing editor and copy editor.

NATE RABNER, deputy managing editor, is a senior journalism major. He has worked as a copy editor and assistant managing editor.

Patrick An, opinion editor, is a senior physiology and neurobiology major.

He has worked as an assistant opinion editor and columnist.

MATT DRAGONETTE, opinion editor, is a senior accounting and government and politics major.

He has worked as an assistant opinion editor and columnist.

Liberal logic in Annapolis $34 million in fiscal 2018, $187 million in 2019, $317 million in 2020 and $465 million in 2021, totaling just more than $1 billion.

As the state works to fund teacher and police pensions at an adequate level, pay debt service for debts incurred by former Gov. Martin O’Malley’s administration and take on a greater share of Medicaid costs from the federal government, money in future budgets will be tight.

W h a t a re s ta te D e m o c ra t i c leaders doing? We have two possibilities here: One, they simply didn’t bother to read the OPA report past the first few sentences.

Or two, they understand what’s in the report and simply decided to leave out half of the facts and then demonize Hogan based on only the facts they chose.

I think the Democrats went with No. 2 here, in more ways than one.

If we reflect on what’s happened over the past eight years in Annapolis, I think we can see that the budgeting logic of Democratic legislative leaders has not changed much. They only look at the numbers that are favorable, spend money when it shouldn’t be spent and ignore challenges to bal-

ancing future budgets. This kind of thinking is why this state’s pension fund went from 100 percent funded to 68 percent funded. It’s why the state’s top-level credit rating is threatened every year. It’s why the legislature issued so many bonds that we’ll pay more money on debt service than school construction this year. It’s why the O’Malley administration increased taxes and fees 40 different times during his tenure. And it’s why Hogan was elected.

Responsible budgeting is not a Re p u blican or a De mocratic principle. Spending within one’s means and looking at long-term p ro j e c t i o n s o f re ve n u e s a n d spending should be the top priorities of leaders in both parties in Annapolis.

Leaders need to look at and communicate all the facts before proposing increased spending, and we as citizens are owed that much. State residents shouldn’t be waiting on Democratic leaders to come to.

S a m Wa l l a c e i s a s e n i o r government and politics m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t swallacedbk@gmail.com.

When people discuss Big P h a r m a , t h ey u n d e rs ta te t h e issue. Last week, AstraZeneca bought out a biotechnology firm for $2.7 billion, essentially just to gain access to a single patent for a promising cardiovascular disease drugs. The general pharma model has the feel of an oligarchy: a relatively small number of very large players operating in the shadows at the top. In this case, the shadows specifically pertain to the costs of drug development. The Guardian notes drug companies receive 84 percent of research and development funding from governments and other public sources. Often, companies price drugs for the top 5 percent of the market and justify it with the rationale that the development of a drug is a long and arduous process. That’s no consolation to the destitute dying of curable illnesses around the world every day.

Patent law for drugs is immensely difficult to understand. Statutory royalties make very little sense to me. Trade mechanisms surrounding pharmaceuticals are above my pay grade. What I can and do understand, however, is a simple concept drilled into me by a tiny, portly silver man with a hat: Monopoly.

Ultimately, the pharmaceutical industry is high-demand and highprofit, as it has every right to be.

At the top, however, a small (and shrinking) group of large players have almost complete liberty to price their products however they see fit. This comes at the literal and figurative expense of millions worldwide. To “you” — the malaria-ridden Ugandan — Big Pharma is very small. To be specific, $2.25 a pill. It’s time the rest of us looked at the bigger picture.

Jack Siglin is a junior physiology and neurobiology major. He can be reached at jsiglindbk@gmail.com.

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u s t l a s t we e k , t h i s s ta te ’s nonpartisan Office of Policy Analysis released a document that showed the state budget and expected tax returns had yielded an unexpected $320 million surplus for this fiscal year. After a session of contentious budget battles earlier in the year, Democratic legislative leaders wasted no time calling for this extra money to go toward funding education, in particular the Geographic Cost of Education Index. In this year’s budget, GCEI funding totaled $68 million, half of the formulated amount.

Looking at these numbers, it’s amazing to think that Gov. Larry Hogan would refuse to do as Democrats have asked. Yet he has over the past week. As Democratic state Sen. Rich Madaleno so bluntly said of Hogan’s refusal to increase GCEI funds: “It’s a short-sighted decision. … Governor Hogan, Halloween is over. Stop trying to trick the people of Maryland into believing we don’t have the funds.”

But Madaleno, along with other state Democrats, is so woefully wrong.

T h e pa r t o f t h e O PA re p o r t that Madaleno and others didn’t bother to bring up tells a different sto ry : d e f i c i ts to ta l i n g

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t’s on us. So says the White House campaign to address sexual assault on college campuses nationwide, and since President Obama drew that line in the sand in September 2014, this university has toed it dutifully.

Not that the university hadn’t strived to combat on- and off-campus sexual assault and adjudicate misconduct cases before Obama issued the federal call to action.

In response to recommendations made to university President Wallace Loh by a sexual misconduct task force in 2013, administrators rolled out the Office of Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct in March 2014, when Catherine Carroll assumed her role as the university’s first Title IX compliance director.

“We cannot lump together complaints about drunken student behavior with sexual harassment, but that’s what we’ve been doing,” Loh told The Diamondback in 2014. “That’s why we needed someone who’s a specialist — who’s worked in this area and actually dealt with survivors, people who are the defendants — and is a lawyer.”

Tasked with offering a centralized, specialized space for students affected by sexual misconduct to have their cases resolved in a swift, judicious manner, Carroll’s office got down to business.

The results speak for themselves.

From July 2014 through this past June, the university fully investigated 13 sexual misconduct cases, up from just one or two each year prior.

The university also expelled a record-breaking three students for sexual assault during the same oneyear period, perhaps the surest sign

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Fossil fuel divestment is the smart decision

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he SGA voted unanimously Nov. 4 to pass a bill urging University System of Maryland Chancellor Robert Caret and University System of Maryland Foundation President Leonard Raley to “immediately freeze expansion of all investments in fossil fuel companies, form a task force to assess methods of fossil fuel divestment, sell off those investments within five years, and reinvest in clean renewable energy companies such as wind, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric power, upon selling those assets.” The Student Government Association’s Student Sustainability Committee, along with scores of concerned individuals and groups throughout our university and across the nation and world, believes that this is a step in the right direction.

It is contradictory for this university to simultaneously profess a commitment to clean energy sources and to sustainability — including signing the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment in 2007 — and still maintain significant investments in fossil fuel companies that continue to profit from the destruction of the environment.

Furthermore, from a more pragmatic standpoint, many economic analysts have noted that climate change and the continued improvement of re-

newable-energy technology might cause the performance of fossil fuel companies to decline.

As Olaf Storbeck of Reuters wrote in a column this past June: “The increase in green power alters the dynamics on electricity markets fundamentally. Once installed, wind turbines and solar panels generate electricity at very low additional costs. They can squeeze out rivals which have to pay for their fuel, even if the owners of renewable energy sources are not earning a high return on their original investments.”

Simply put, continuing to invest in fossil fuel companies does not bode well for the university system’s financial future.

With valid reason, some might argue that the immediate financial impacts of divestment are not significant enough to motivate change — that other institutions will quickly buy any of the system’s divested shares. However, the effects of divestment are by nature not immediate. The longterm financial benefits of investing in more sustainable companies, in addition to the university system’s ability to make a bold, visible step toward independence from nonrenewable and environmentally destructive energy, are more than enough to make fossil fuel divestment a worthwhile option.

Marcus Fedarko is a sophomore computer science major. He can be reached at mfedarko@umd.edu.

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U to bring more AEDs to campus University Senate votes to centralize management of life-saving devices

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be made publicly available and that more AEDs will be placed on the campus.

T he issue was raised by a university student, who b r o u g h t t o t h e s e n a t e ’s attention that not a l l the school’s AEDs were registered with the state.

T h is mea nt that not a l l devices necessarily followed state regulations on maintenance and replacement of parts.

“He suggested that the com m ittee consider centra l izi ng the u n iversity’s AED program in one office so that the program can be more effectively managed,” Rooney-Eckel said.

As a result, the committee’s recommendations will ensure that the Department of Env i ron menta l Sa fety, Sustainability & Risk alone manages the devices’ oversight, Rooney-Eckel said.

“T h i s wou ld a l low one of f ice to coord i nate a l l aspects of the prog ra m,” said Willie Brown, chair of the senate. “Campus AEDs w ill be more consistently

managed and overseen as a result.”

Previously, the University Health Center managed the AEDs, in accordance with state law that required they be overseen by a health-care professional, but the department took the reins from it in February following 2013 revisions to those regulations, Rooney-Eckel said.

“With taking that over, it was ou r goal to revamp the AED program and start ma k i ng it a true prog ra m a nd ex pa nd i ng it,” H icks sa id. “With the meetings with Campus Affairs, they saw ou r prog ress was the right direction.”

The department is w o rk i n g o n f i n a l i z i n g a draft of its program, Hicks said, as well as publishing i n fo r m at io n o n l i n e t h at w i l l outl i ne each A ED on the campus, every trained personnel and answers to frequently asked questions.

He sa id he d id not k now when these projects would be completed.

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will also facilitate further development of the program so t h at event u a l ly ever y building on the campus will boast an AED. “The committee has recommended expansion of the AED program through a priority-based approach where new AEDs will be added first to all public assembly and high-hazard buildings, and over time, all appropriate campus buildings will get an AED,” Brown said.

Senators consulted with representatives of the Division of Administration & Finance, the department, the university’s Fire Marsh a l’s O f f ice, t he he a lt h center and others to come to their conclusions.

I n t h e i r re s e a rc h t h e y found that several peer institutions have much more robust AED programs than this university’s, Brown said.

“Some institutions p ro v i d e i nve nto r i e s a n d maps of A ED locations online, and some have establ ished a prog ra m that assigns A EDs by priority,

focusing on criteria like building size and capacity, expected age of building visitors and risk for heart attacks taking place on-site,” Brown said.

There are about 326,200 E M S-a sse sse d c a rd i a c arrests outside of hospitals in the United States each year, according to the American Heart Association. Use of an AED c a n h e lp to more t h a n double a victim’s chance of survival, according to the association.

“A t a u n i v e r s i t y, a n AED tends not to benefit s t u d e n t s , b u t v i s i to r s on-campus or professors who a re more l i kely to have cardiac disease and resultant arrhythmias,” David McBride, the health center director and prog ra m’s me d ic a l d i re ctor, w rote i n a n em a i l.

“Given how many people come on to our campus, having AED’s available is a great idea.”

From PAGE 1 signing the letter.”

During the moratorium, which ends in October 2017, this state is conducting a comprehensive health study to uncover fracking’s publichealth effects.

Josh i sa id, exclud i ng Western Maryland, Prince George’s County is the most vulnerable to fracking with gas-fired power plants and frackable plots of land located in and around the county near Brandywine and Taylorsville.

“It makes sense for us to get out in front of this issue rather than go down a path where we have the really destructive development of this industry,” she said. “We’ve seen in other places where fracking has been going on … those areas become apocalyptic scenes where everyone evacuates.”

Joshi and Spaur said chemicals given off from fracking can cause an increased risk of cancer and impairment of neurological and respiratory systems, outweighing the potential economic benefits brought to the county or state.

“How do you account for the rising medical costs? Those are really expensive,” Spaur said. “People don’t consider the costs to restoring wildlife, to cleaning up their streams and rivers. Those are massive multimillion-dollar projects.”

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ences,” Brennan said. “We hope people who move into those apartments will patronize those amenities and take advantage of things like the pedestrian trails.”

Sophomore A nja A niere said this project is “taking

away space from students” during a time when the university is “expanding.”

“Col lege Pa rk i s d ef in ite ly b u i ld i n g up, s o it makes sense that they want to build up the area before those people come,” sa id

Aniere, who is enrolled in letters and sciences. “But it’d be nice to have various price points for off-campus living, and it would be great to have more options that are cost-affordable, rather than something that’s not really geared towards students, wh ich I g uess i s a little selfish since we already have so much.”

But Bader just i f ied t he apartment’s marketability and said the city has made a “dent” on students’ housing needs.

A nother apartment and retail complex will be built about a two-m inute wa lk

from Alta at Berwyn House.

The site of the Koons Ford showroom at 8315 Baltimore Ave. will be transformed into a 156-room Cambria Hotel, along with a CVS, parking garage and restaurant.

Both the Landmark, which opened this fall, and Terrapin Row, which will open next fall, provide beds for students, Bader said.

“The university has finished a number of student housi ng projects,” Bader said. “Now we feel we need to focu s on non student housing as well.”

T he Un iversit y S en ate voted Tuesday to fill holes in how the university manages its automated external defibrillators and to bring more of the life-saving devices to the campus.

In its meeting, the senate voted to approve recommendations by the Campus Affairs Committee for oncampus AEDs with “overwhelming support.”

T he A E Ds a re por table devices that monitor heart rh y t h m a n d c a n re s to re n o r m a l rh y t h m w i t h a n electric shock in the event of sudden ca rd iac a rrest.

While the university owns and operates 29 on-campus AEDs and 14 off the campus, there is no university policy guiding their management, said Matthew Hicks, deputy fire marshal with this unive rs it y ’s D e p a r t m e nt of Environmental Safety, Sustainability & Risk.

“The university has had A EDs for many years, but it has not had a centralized program and defined processes i n place related to AEDs,” said Erin RooneyEckel, chairwoman of the Campus Affairs Committee.

T he vote ensu res the devices will be managed by a single office, that more information about them will

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Rededicated to wonder Following a two-year renovation, the Renwick Gallery reopens with a powerful show featuring nine contemporary artists

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By Evan Berkowitz @TheEndOfMyWitz Staff writer If you spend just one hour in Washington this season, for the love of art spend it at the Renwick Gallery.

The gallery, part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will reopen tomorrow, following a two-year total renovation.

“This building has been opened as an art museum three times in three centuries,” Museum Director Elizabeth Broun said at a news preview Tuesday morning.

She was referencing its original opening in 1874 housing the Corcoran Gallery, its 1972 reopening as part of SAAM and this week’s event.

It was the first building in the United States specifically intended to be an art museum, Broun said. Hailed as an “American Louvre,” the gallery was to curate and develop an American artistic tradition that its benefactors

deemed necessary for the nation.

“The building,” Renwick Curator-in-Charge Nicholas Bell said, “is the museum’s most precious object.”

With the gallery will open a magnificent, museum-wide show called “WONDER,” featuring newly commissioned site-specific works by nine contemporary artists.

“These had to be people who would make you aware of your surroundings,” said Bell, who organized “WONDER.” “I wanted them to be people that … were passionate about making and materials. “ I wa n te d t h e m to b e people that made things specifically that would create a sense of wonder, that would a m a z e yo u , t h a t wo u l d provoke awe.”

Gabriel Dawe’s utterly beautiful Plexus A1 fits that bill. Each new angle on this prism-like spectrum of shimmering string provides a new warmth and luxuriant gorgeousness. It has a heavenly

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It’s like a rainbow built for the room, casting its cheery light upon all who enter.

But it is not simply to be looked at — it is to be encountered, walked among and loved.

So it is with many of the works on view.

A “stickwork” by Patrick Dougherty — undulating woven willow forms that suggest natural hovels or swaying nests — seems odd without the outdoor landscapes that the sculptures often complement. Upon further reflection, though, it seems to bring a dose of the natural into the human, not the other way around as usual.

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The hanging fiber work by Janet Echelman in the gallery’s grand salon — similar to one that hung over the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston this summer — is a bulbous mass of deceptive lightness. It is a woven, color-shifting net of fibers hanging delicately to create a fluid, cloudlike work fitting for such a grand ceiling.

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Jennifer Angus’ wall pattern of about 5,000 dead insects will give you a new lease on beauty. There are insects that look like leaves, insects of a shining turquoise and insects that will make you wonder — half amazed,

half terrified — how a bug could be so enormous.

The room, titled In The Midnight Garden , features vaguely Mexican patterns, including geometric rosettes, striped paneling and pixellike skulls. Every so often a creature will seem to break free from the pattern, reinforcing the theme of formation flight and flight to freedom.

A n g u s ’ ba c kg ro u n d i s in textiles, and the colorful insects are woven into a tense beauty: It’s a room full of corpses, ultimately, but it’s a room full of captivating beauty.

SAAM has outdone itself thrice over this year, proving it is as much a keystone of the United States’ national art scene as the blocks-away National Gallery.

SAAM’s latest treatment of the space — which was originally built to hold the now-closed Corcoran Gallery before its move to the Flagg Building — has this critic

asking, “Corcoran? What Corcoran?”

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Ornamental C’s still adorn molding and doorframes, but the gallery’s famous engraved stone “Dedicated to Art” motto has been corrupted with a tacky new adornment, luckily temporary according to the Washington City Paper.

A n d w h i l e t h e s i g n ’s execution might be misguided, its point is clear: T h i s i s n o t C o r c o ra n ’s Renwick anymore. It isn’t even the building Jackie Kennedy fought to save from demolition.

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will make his first start this season, but he’s already had more carries than senior Brandon Ross each of the past two games. While Brown’s 4.5 yards per carry is nearly a yard less than Ross’ average, Brown is a solid blocker, interim coach Mike Locksley said. This past Saturday, Brown had a key block on D.J. Moore’s 40-yard touchdown catch and rushed for a 7-yard score.

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is first in the Big Ten in passing efficiency, averages 267.2 passing yards per game and has a 7-to-1 touchdown to interception rate. While Michigan State averages four yards per rush, second to last in the Big Ten, they are fourth in the conference in total offense with 422.3 yards per game (and tied for third with 5.9 yards per play).

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Brown set to make first start of season Junior running back has impressed lately with pass-blocking ability

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer When first asked about his promotion to starter Wednesday, Terrapins football running back Wes Brown couldn’t explain it. He had just been doing his job.

But when prodded, Brown admitted he had been feeling angry recently. As the Terps’ losses started piling up this season, Brown started to feel a sense of accountability. If the offense hadn’t been so stagnant, he believed, the Terps wouldn’t be in the midst of a six-game losing streak.

So in recent weeks, Brown said he’s started approaching practice more focused, sometimes mentally preparing himself the night before workouts.

Interim coach Mike Locksley took notice, as Brown has received more carries than running back Brandon Ross each of the past two contests in addition to provid-

ing a number of key blocks.

When the Terps released their updated two-deep depth chart Monday, Brown was listed as the starter for the first time this season.

“Things only went that way because the offense wasn’t clicking as well,” Brown said.

“I feel like being a part of an offense, I have a role in that so I was like,‘Time to put more into it,’ cause it’s something that’s missing.”

Before the season, Brown made a pact with himself: Don’t allow any sacks. The 6-foot, 210-pound junior said he was confident in his passcatching and running abilities, but noticed he needed to improve his blocking.

As the Terps have transitioned to an offense predicated on quarterback Perry Hills’ legs, Brown has steadily seen more playing time. And after Saturday’s 31-24 loss to Wisconsin, Locksley pointed out that Ross allowed two key sacks early on.

As a result, Hills wasn’t able to get the ball to open receivers.

Locksley mentioned after the game that both Brown and Ross would continue to be a part of the offense moving forward. But Brown being listed at the top of the depth chart could signal a change.

“Wes has really picked it up with his execution, his effort, his practice habits,” Locksley said after the Wisconsin loss. “Today, Brandon made a few mistakes and Wes got the opportunity to go out. And Wes did things the way we wanted them.”

Saturday, Brown led the Terps in carries (10) and scored the first touchdown of the game with 9:17 left in the first quarter. On third and 3, he took a handoff from Hills and bulldozed seven yards before four Badgers wrapped him up in the end zone.

He contributed an important block toward the end of the half, too. As Hills dropped back late in the second quarter, a Badger blitzed from the signal-

caller’s blind side. Brown was there, though, stopping the defender and allowing Hills the time to find wide receiver D.J. Moore for the gametying 40-yard touchdown.

Plus, H ills and Brown have developed off-thefield chemistry.

“We have class together and we talk football all the time,” Hills said. “Just little things of how we can make ourselves individually better and how we can help the team. Wes has just been busting his butt all year trying to do that.”

W i t h l a s t S a t u rd ay ’s defeat, the Terps have been mathematically eliminated from playing in a bowl ga m e . B u t B row n i s n ’t finished with this season.

There are still three games to go, and he’s been feeling a bit ticked off. “[If] I have to be the one in practice pushing everyone hard to be the example,” Brown said, “then I’ll do it.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

Late in the Terrapins men’s soccer team’s game with No. 12 Ohio State on Oct. 31, forward Sebastian Elney slowly walked off the field. He knew he wouldn’t return.

Elney had earned his second yellow card of the match moments earlier, forcing the Terps to play a man down for the final 17 minutes of an eventual one-goal loss. They were without the freshman against then-No.16 Rutgers four days later, too.

“I was pretty disappointed in myself,” Elney said. “Kind of let the team down in that game and in the next game.”

But after serving his onegame suspension in the Terps’ win over Rutgers, Elney made a triumphant return to the pitch Sunday by scoring his first goal since Sept. 27 in the Terps’ win against Michigan in the conference tournament quarterfinals.

And as they enter the final stretch of the season, the Terps hope their leading scorer continues to regain his attacking prowess.

“For a goal scorer, it’s a matter of inches,” coach Sasho Cirovski said. “He’s a pretty calm, cool kid, and I never sensed anything, but it was a big relief when he got the goal. I think he’s a streaky guy, so I hope that streak keeps going positively.”

Elney said he didn’t foster any frustration during the scoring drought, and Cirovski said the striker stayed composed and continued to work hard.

Still, watching from the sidelines allowed Elney to see the game from a different perspective. This was new for Elney — the only other game he missed was because he was competing with the national team in Germany — and he said it made him realize the level of intensity he needs to bring to every match.

“I think it had a positive effect,” Cirovski said. “I think sometimes for young players, just being on the side and seeing it in a situation where they’re not fully emotionally engaged, the light can kind of click on a little bit.”

Cirovski recently sat midfielder Amar Sejdic and forward Eryk Williamson, both freshmen, hoping to relieve some pressure from competing at this level.

They responded well, too.

Sejdic watched the Terps’ scoreless draw with Indiana on Oct. 16 from the sidelines but has started the past three games and scored against Michigan. Williamson, meanwhile, has scored each of three career goals in the past two contests after coming off the bench against the Scarlet Knights in the regular season finale.

“Eryk and Sebastian are two of the best attacking players this country has at their age,” Cirovski said. “They’ve had their moments of great play without production, and now we’re seeing the production back. It was great for Sebastian to get on the board, and having those two kids hot right now is a good time for them to be hot.”

The Terps have been plagued throughout the season by an inability to finish scoring opportunities. Cirovski’s squad averages 17.6 shots per game, the fourth best mark in the country, but ranks 44th in scoring offense with 1.72 goals per contest.

The averages were even worse before the previous two matches — the team had scored once for every 3.5 times they shot during that stretch — and the Terps hope that offensive efficiency continues in the postseason.

“Hopefully the floodgates have now opened, and our guys can start scoring some more goals,” midfielder Cody Albrecht said, “because they’re on a hot streak right now.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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nickens From PAGE 12 the floor and drove toward the basket.

The results were encouraging. He was 4-for-7 from the floor and 3-for-4 on two-pointers.

And while the Terps compiled 23 turnovers, Nickens didn’t have any.

“After this first game his confidence will get better, just like everyone else,” Trimble said. “We all had fun out there.”

On Friday, Sulaimon played 26 minutes and scored five points. He’s drawn praise from Turgeon and his teammates for his defense and passing, too.

But for the moment, Nickens appears to be the starting shooting guard.

Before beginning their Terps careers, Trimble, Wiley and Nickens bonded. They had a group chat and each got the letters “MBK,” which stands for “My Brother’s Keeper,” tattooed on their legs. But last year, Trimble received the most accolades and led the Terps to their first NCAA tournament appearance in five years.

This season, Nickens has the opportunity to seize a more prominent role alongside Trimble. But after a summer in which the Terps added a couple of solid guards, Nickens still views himself as another piece of the puzzle.

“We have so many talented players,” Nickens said. “We’re focused on not caring who gets the credit. I’m buying in.” psuittsdbk@gmail.com

the team’s backcourt. Mincy exhausted her eligibility after last year and Brown transferred to Duke in the offseason to be closer to home, leaving the backcourt depleted.

That didn’t impact the Terps’ preseason status, though, as they garnered a top-10 ranking to begin the year. Plus, the Big Ten media and coaches’ polls projected the team as the preseason favorite after going 18-0 in conference play a year ago.

So according to the national media, the Terps are in contention to cut down the nets at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis come March.

“Especially for Coach B., she wants to get over that Final Four,” freshman forward Kiah Gillespie said. “We have what it takes to get over that bar and to win a national championship, either in the next four years or this year.”

The additions of Gillespie and forward Brianna Fraser, two McDonald’s All-Americans, has eased the departures of Mincy and Brown.

Gillespie started and scored a gamehigh 22 points in the opening exhibition win over Goldey-Beacom, while each freshman notched 12 points in 21 minutes against Indiana (Pennsylvania) four days later.

The duo joins centers Malina Howard and Brionna Jones — two players who were a staple in the Terps’ starting frontcourt last season — creating a plethora of scoring options down low.

And despite having a thin backcourt, guard Kiara Leslie remains confident her in her squad.

“We take each game, game by game, but ultimately, the goal is to get back to a Final Four and eventually go to the championship game,” Leslie said. “We’re very capable. We have every piece that we need. We just have to come together and play like a championship team.”

The future of the program is bright — Frese announced yesterday that the Terps will welcome the No. 1 recruiting class to College Park next season — but the veteran coach remains focused on this season, which begins Saturday afternoon against UMass Lowell.

In the offseason, guard Kristen Confroy said the Terps evaluated themselves and tried to find “the missing piece.”

And after two consecutive Final Four appearances, the Terps believe they’ve found the formula that will propel them to heights they haven’t reached in nearly a decade.

“What we’ve come to is that it’s

guard chloe pavlech looks for a teammate during the Terps’ 101- 56 win over Indiana (Pennsylvania) on Nov. 4 at Xfinity Center. marquise mckine/the diamondback just that little 1 percent,” Confroy said. “Everybody has their weaknesses and their strengths, and if you can get 1 percent better every day and kind of fill in your part of the team, then that’s only going to help us prepare for the long term.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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guard rasheed sulaimon rises to dunk the ball after a fast break against Southern New Hampshire at Xfinity Center on Friday. christian jenkins/the diamondback

NEEDELMAN From PAGE 12 Nearly three years later, the night remains one of the fondest memories of freshman year. This year’s freshman class, though, won’t have the opportunity to experience similar basketball ecstasy.

The Terps are no longer the

fearless underdog of the ACC. Over the past couple campaigns, coach Mark Turgeon has built the Terps into a nationaltitle contender.

“We’re deep enough to beat anybody in the country,” guard Jared Nickens said on media day Oct. 20. “We’re deep enough where we don’t have to play people when they’re tired. It’s just a great feeling

them as its preseason No. 1 squad, and they received Associated Press’ No. 3 ranking.

So unlike Turgeon’s first four years leading the program, the Terps are no longer looking to prove everyone wrong. They want to prove the nation is right about them.

“We still have a lot to prove going forward because we are a very new team, and I think people are kind of judging us off of what they see on paper,” senior forward Jake Layman said. “Our motivation is kind of proving people right, that we are that good of a team.”

It’s an unusual stance for any team, especially a Terps squad that has just one NCAA tournament appearance since 2010.

But they have watched the hype around the program grow since they bowed out to West Virginia in the third round of the national tournament March 22.

On March 27, five-star center Diamond Stone spurned an offer from his home-state school, Wisconsin, to join the Terps, but

to know that we have a lot of good, talented players.”

Various outlets have the Terps ranked in the top five, while ESPN awarded the Terps the nation’s top ranking.

No one around the program will tell you they’re paying attention to the outside noise. Sure, they hear it, but they aren’t internalizing it. No players are making bold proclamations like, “Final

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Turgeon still could have lost his foundation. Layman and star point guard Melo Trimble could have left for the NBA, but both announced in April they would return to College Park.

Then on May 11, Turgeon added the final piece. Former Duke guard Rasheed Sulaimon announced he was transferring to this university.

“We have a little bit of everything that you need in a high-level type team,” Sulaimon said. “We have depth, as well, that can go at every position. As far as the talent level, I think this is up there with the most talented teams I’ve ever played on.”

Despite losing guard Dion Wiley, who Turgeon said was expected to start at shooting guard, to a torn right meniscus for four months, the Terps still boast strong depth at all five positions.

“I think we have eight starters,” Turgeon said at media day Oct. 20 before Wiley’s injury. “If a couple of starters aren’t playing well, different guys are going to play that night. We’ll find out who’s playing the best, and we’ll play them.”

Although the Terps have talent throughout the roster, no one knows how they will mesh on the

court. Turgeon and the players have maintained their on-court chemistry remains a “work in progress.”

Plus, most of the players haven’t played on a team with this much hype. Some got a taste of it last season, though.

“All those experiences that we went through last year with being a big game for our opponent really helped us,” Turgeon said.

“We were not only successful, but we grew, and I thought we handled the bull’s-eye on our back … pretty well last year. It’ll be a different level, obviously, this year, but I think we’re more equipped to handle it. We expect to do really good things.”

Sulaimon said the players often talk about the lofty expectations. The Terps understand they haven’t accomplished anything yet, so they’ve practiced with a “chip on their shoulder,” Sulaimon said.

While Turgeon’s team has been pegged as the overwhelming favorite to take home the conference crown, they have a daunting schedule, including nonconference games against Georgetown, No. 1 North Carolina and No. 20 Connecticut.

“We’ve got six of the top seven teams, not including us, on the road in the league,” Turgeon said.

“We’re going to have to be a great road team to be successful. If we want to be Big Ten champs, we’re going to have to be great against great teams on the road.”

When players walk around campus, they’re often stopped by students looking to take pictures with members of one of the most highly anticipated Terps squads of all time.

Forward Damonte Dodd said it’s constant when they eat food at Stamp Student Union.

Text messages from family and friends flood their inboxes, too.

“My followers are going up,” Trimble said. “My mentions are going up. It’s crazy.”

The Terps still have to justify the hype. But the Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year is confident they will prove everyone overflowing his Twitter right.

“We getting all the hype right now and all the expectations,” Trimble said. “But I think after the season — once we do great things — it’s going to be even better.”

Four or bust.”

“Staying away from having expectations this year and kind of just taking it one game at a time,” forward Jake Layman said. “Kind of enjoying everything and not looking at the future.”

And they’re right not to. To make such a statement would put unnecessary pressure on a program that’s already dealing with more hype than it has in more than a decade.

That being said, these Terps have the potential to be very, very good. Their talent has been well-documented. Despite losing

guard Dez Wells to graduation, the Terps return two NBA prospects in Layman and guard Melo Trimble from a team that set a program record with 26 regularseason wins a season ago.

Trimble is the Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year, and Layman, who averaged 12.5 points and 5.8 rebounds a game last season, is the senior leader.

Add in forward Robert Carter Jr., a transfer from Georgia Tech who many believe could be the best player on the team, freshman five-star center Diamond Stone and former Duke guard

Rasheed Sulaimon, and you have all the necessary ingredients for a powerhouse.

The Terps have plenty of weapons on the bench, too.

Turgeon said forwards Michal Cekovsky and Damonte Dodd made strides in the offseason, while Nickens established himself as a dead-eye three-point shooter last season. He was 4-for-7 from three-point range in the Terps’ 65-62 win over Valparaiso in their opening NCAA tournament game.

And don’t forget about junior college transfer guard Jaylen Brantley, the backup Trimble was desperately missing.

The Terps should win the Big Ten and receive a high seed in March.

From there, it’s a crapshoot.

The NCAA tournament is the most unpredictable sporting event in the country, with upsets and Cinderella stories happening so frequently they’re all but expected.

In the second round of last year’s tournament, five teams seeded No. 10 or lower picked up wins and moved on to the next round.

Yes, College Park, there’s plenty reason to get pumped about this team. The Terps’ chances of winning a national championship are higher than they’ve been since we were in elementary school.

Granted, that doesn’t mean fans should expect to see Melo and Co. cutting down nets in April.

But the Terps are the type of team that, if beaten on the road, could spur an overjoyed freshman from Rutgers, Nebraska or Northwestern to breeze past a few security guards and storm the court.

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The Terps react on the bench to guard Varun Ram banking in a 3-pointer during their 91-55 victory over Southern New Hampshire on Friday night at Xfinity Center. The Terps reached their first NCAA tournament since 2010 last season.

Coach Mark Turgeon’s squad looks to prove the rest of the country right

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer For the first four years of coach Mark Turgeon’s tenure, the Terrapins men’s basketball team set out each season trying to prove the rest of the country wrong.

Coming off a 17-15 campaign and moving to the Big Ten, the Terps were pegged to finish 10th in the conference last fall. They wanted

to show they were better than that. And for once, they did. The Terps notched a programrecord 26 regular-season wins and reached the NCAA tournament for the first time with Turgeon at the helm.

The vibe in College Park is much different now. After finishing second in the Big Ten and a busy offseason of high-profile transfers and commitments, ESPN pegged See hype, Page 11

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Terps will be the type of team other schools storm the court against JOSHUA NEEDELMAN

MEN’S BASKETBALL COLUMNIST It’s time I came clean. On the night of Feb. 16, 2013, I trespassed.

My apologies.

But after watching the unranked Terrapins men’s basketball team outlast then-No. 2 Duke at the former Comcast Center from my dorm

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room, the fact that I hadn’t obtained a ticket to the game was the furthest thing from my mind.

Overcome with joy, I bolted from Bel Air Hall with two of my buddies and ran past the unsuspecting security guards into the arena.

Ignoring the requests of even more security guards, we raced down the stairs and onto the court to celebrate. We had beaten Duke.

We had toppled the giant.

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Nickens expected to assume greater role Guard brings more versatile offensive game

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writer As the Terrapins men’s basketball team reeled in high-profile transfers and recruits this offseason, guard Jared Nickens remained under the radar.

Fre s h o f f a s o l i d f re s h m a n campaign, the sophomore guard watched as five-star center recruit Diamond Stone and transfer guards Rasheed Sulaimon and Jaylen Brantley garnered headlines. But the 6-foot-7 swingman, who played forward at times last season, just kept working.

With Sulaimon, Stone and guard Melo Trimble gone for portions of the summer, Nickens assumed a larger offensive role in scrimmages and hoisted more shots.

Nickens might see a bigger role this season. He was the Terps’ starting shooting guard in this past Friday’s exhibition, and with sophomore guard Dion Wiley likely out for the season, Nickens could be in the starting lineup Friday for the No. 3 Terps season opener.

But Nickens isn’t worried about his role. He only started nine games last campaign, but was fifth in minutes and poured in 14 points during the Terps’ second-round NCAA tournament victory. So this season, Nickens is prepared to be a starter or a reserve.

“I JUST WANT TO COME AND CONTRIBUTE WHEN MY NUMBER’S CALLED. ...

WHATEVER COACH [MARK] TURGEON WANTS ME TO DO I’M GOING TO DO BECAUSE WE HAVE THAT BIGGER PICTURE IN MIND.” JARED NICKENS

Terrapins men’s basketball guard “I just want to come and contribute when my number’s called,” Nickens said at media day Oct. 20. “Whatever coach [Mark] Turgeon wants me to do I’m going to do because we have that bigger picture in mind.”

Wiley was slated to be the Terps’ starting shooting guard, Turgeon said in a news release Tuesday, but the sophomore suffered a torn meniscus Nov. 5.

That injury opened the door for Nickens, one of Wiley’s close friends, to start against Southern New Hampshire. In the preseason contest, Nickens scored 10 points and showcased a more versatile offensive game.

Last season, Nickens attempted 4.2 3-pointers per game, tied for first on the team. He rarely ventured inside, though, averaging 1.2 shots from twopoint range.

But against the Penmen on Friday, Nickens consistently put the ball on See NICKENS, Page 10

guard kristen confroy defends a Crimson Hawks player during the Terps’ 101-56 victory over Indiana (Pennsylvania) on Nov. 4.

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After back-to-back Final Four trips, Frese seeks national title Veteran coach says ‘You come to Maryland to win championships’

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer Terrapins women’s basketball coach Brenda Frese insists she doesn’t build her team around one player.

Not even former forward Alyssa Thomas, who ended her Terps career as a three-time All-American and the program’s all-time points leader.

Two seasons ago, the then-senior led her squad to its first Final Four since 2006.

After Thomas graduated, the Terps continued their strong level of play by qualifying for their second straight Final Four before falling to Connecticut, the eventual champion, in the semifinals.

While Frese’s team lost two starters from last season’s squad, the No.9 Terps believe they still have the pieces to surpass their finishes from the past two seasons and claim the program’s second national title.

“You come to Maryland to win championships,” Frese said. “You

come to Maryland to compete at the highest level, both in our conference as well as nationally. And I think for us, that’s what it’s always been about. Yes, we want to take that final step. We did it in 2006 … and I’m very confident that we’re right there.”

The Terps enter the 2015–16 campaign without former guards Laurin Mincy and Lexie Brown, who started all but one game in See frese, Page 10