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OPINION

We commend student protesters for civil dialogue, p. 4

DIVERSIONS

Remembering Rocky on its 40th anniversary, p. 8

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Athletes charged in BB gun incident Harrison, Turner get 6 counts each

Local statute prohibits anyone from threatening “with bodily harm any student, employee, administrator, agent or any other individual” who is on or by near the grounds of an institution of Maryland higher education. football running Callie Caplan “We are aware of the situation and back Lorenzo @CallieCaplan take these matters very seriously,” the Harrison and Senior staff writer wide receiver athletic department said in a statement.

DJ Turner have been charged with “The two student-athletes involved three counts each of second degree have been suspended indefinitely for assault and reckless endangerment violating the student-athlete code of for firing a BB gun at students on the conduct. This matter has also been recampus, according to University of ferred to the Office of Student Conduct for further review.”

Maryland Police.

On Nov. 6, police received three reports of students struck by BB pellets, Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

Police have determined that airsoft guns were used.

A male student first reported the incident on Paint Branch Drive near parking lot 11b at 7:30 p.m. At 8:30 p.m., another male student reported being struck by a BB pellet about an hour earlier while walking between Stadium Drive Garage and Ellicott Hall. A female student also reported she was struck walking on Paint Branch Drive near the Kim Engineering Building at 7:20 p.m.

Hoaas said no one suffered injuries, and the vehicle associated with the shootings was dark and had two or four doors.

The team announced about an hour before facing Ohio State on Saturday that Harrison, along with Turner and linebacker Antoine Brooks, were indefinitely suspended for violating the student-athlete code of conduct.

Brooks was not charged and is no longer suspended, according to the university’s athletic department.

Coach DJ Durkin declined to provide details about the three freshmen’s

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offenses, but admitted their absences were a “distraction.”

“Those guys violated the student-athlete code of conduct,” Durkin said after the loss Saturday. “I have tremendous respect for this university and for Dr. Loh on down to the great people who make up this community. Certainly, we take those things very seriously, and that’s how they’re dealt with. I also have a tremendous amount of respect and love for those guys involved. I love those guys like my own, so it’s tough both ways.” ccaplandbk@gmail.com

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Missing junior found in Texas After more than five days, Kaitlyn George found hysterical in Houston parking lot

University of Maryland junior Kaitlyn George was found in Houston on Wednesday, according to University Police.

On Wednesday at 8 a.m., the Houston Police Department told University Police it had located George, 21, at an area fast food restaurant, University Police said.

Although she was alone and a p p ea re d to b e u n h a r m e d , George was reportedly “hysterical” when Houston police located her in a McDonald’s parking lot, according to a report from WJZ. A s o f We d n e s d ay n i g h t , George remains hospitalized in Houston, authorities told WJZ. George was reported missing on Nov. 10, after she was schedu l e d to m e e t a f r i e n d n ea r Eppley Recreation Center to go hiking at about 5 p.m., University Police said.

When George did not show up as planned, her friend reported her disappearance to University Police at 6:36 p.m. that day.

Campus security footage from Nov. 10 showed George leaving Allegany Hall at 4:42 p.m. with a camping-style backpack and a pink bag, University Police said.

Two minutes later, George got into a white taxi cab on her own accord.

Investigators located and interviewed the taxi driver who by

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SHRADDHA GOPAKUMAR (LEFT) AND EMILY MELIA (IN GLASSES) hold a sign at Friday’s Love Trumps Hate rally, which began on the steps of Mckeldin Mall before participants marched to the Administration Building. A series of speakers addressed at least 150 people in attendance julia lerner/the diamondback

At protest Friday, at least 150 people demand action on sexual assault

By Naomi Grant | @NaomiGrant7464 | Senior staff writer

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niversity of Maryland students at Friday’s Love Trumps Hate rally had a message for the campus and administrators that echoed Michelle Obama: “They go Loh, we go high.”

In response to Donald Trump’s election early Wednesday, a series of speakers — many of whom were sexual assault survivors — addressed an audience of at least 150 people on the steps of McKeldin Mall for about an hour before marching to the Administration Building to demand further sexual assault prevention efforts and funding.

Many participants remained in shock about the presidency going to Trump, whose campaign was marked by accusations of sexual assault against women.

“I never thought this would happen,” said junior public health major Elizabeth Reis, a Terps For Hillary member. “I did my part for the election, in a way, but I feel like I didn’t do enough, almost because I just assumed that she would [win].”

Junior psychology major Molly Higgins spoke See protest, p. 3

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Loh: Univ ‘being sued left and right’ over sexual misconduct expulsions At RHA meeting, Loh says recent lawsuit holds him responsible, but no records found University President Wa l l a c e L o h said Tuesday night that the University of Maryland is facing legal backlash in response to its expulsions of students for sexual misconduct.

“We’re being sued left and right,” Loh said at the Residence Hall Association Senate meeting. “We just had a lawsuit filed very recently against the university. They’re holding me by

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personally responsible for expelling a student.”

He added that, “In other words, my commitment, I want to tell you, goes beyond providing resources for our office. It is putting myself on the line in this way.”

However, there are no open cases formally filed against Loh or this university, according to state records.

This university currently employs “the equivalent of a ¾-time lawyer” to handle sexual misconduct cases, Loh said.

Last year, this university expelled four students for sexual assault, and expelled three during the 2014-15 academic year, The Diamondback reported in October. Each of these was a record number of expulsions for this university.

University administration approved six new positions within the Title IX Office and CARE to Stop Violence earlier this semester after debate surrounding the offices’ funding, The Diamondback reported. newsumdbk@gmail.com

KAITLYN GEORGE was first reported as missing to University Police on Nov. 10. photos courtesy of university police had dropped George off in front of a marina in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Baltimore City on Nov. 10, University Police said.

Security footage from the marina revealed that George later entered an SUV that was waiting in the area.

A witness then reported seeing George on a Charm City Circulator bus on Friday at 8:40 a.m., University Police said.

More security video showed George entering the Baltimore Greyhound bus station at 11:32 a.m., where she purchased a ticket and boarded a bus at 1:33 p.m. headed toward Norfolk, Virginia.

No foul play is suspected in this case, University Police said. mbricesaddlerdbk@gmail.com

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CRIME BLOTTER

By Michael Brice-Saddler | @TheArtist_MBS | Senior staff writer University of Maryland Police responded to reports of telephone/email misuse, vandalism and a harassment/stalking incident, among other incidents this past week, according to police reports.

to the 4200 block of Farm Drive for a report of Title IXrelated harassment/stalking incident that took place on Nov. 10, according to police.

This case is closed.

CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE VIOLATION

University Police responded to the 7500 block of Preinkert Drive on Saturday at 7:15 p.m. for a report of vandalism that took place 15 minutes earlier, according to police reports.

This case remains open and active.

University Police responded to the 4000 block of Stadium Drive on Monday at 10:03 p.m. for a controlled dangerous substance violation report, police reports stated. This case is closed.

On Monday at 1:20 a.m., University Police responded to the Maryland Stadium ticket booth for another controlled dangerous substance violation, according to police.

This case is also closed.

HARASSMENT/ STALKING (TITLE IX-RELATED) On Sunday at 9:29 p.m., University Police responded

protest From p. 1 first, introducing herself as “a woman who is terrified about what a Trump presidency is going to do to my rights.”

She called Trump’s election a “tremendous loss” in the fight against sexual assault.

“This man makes light of sexual assault. He validates this victim-blaming culture that permeates society,” she said. “His presidency says, ‘I can do this and I can become president.’”

In October, The Washington Post published one such incident — a video showing Trump bragging “in vulgar terms about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women” during a 2005 conversation with Billy Bush.

Trump called this “locker room banter.”

Among the sexual assault survivors at Friday’s event was sophomore government and politics major Jocelyn

VANDALISM

TELEPHONE/EMAIL MISUSE (TITLE IX-RELATED) O n Mond ay at 1 2:20 p.m., University Police responded to the 4100 block of Fieldhouse Drive for a report of a Title IXrelated telephone/email misuse incident that took place at 12:06 p.m. that same day, according to police reports.

This case is closed.

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20 university students join anti-pipeline protest in DC

As hunNaomi Grant d r e d s o f @naomigrant7464 protesters, Senior staff writer i n c l u d i n g m o re t h a n 20 University of Maryland students, marched Tuesday evening from the Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters to the White House to protest the Dakota Access pipeline, bystanders joined in. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders even made a short speech.

But once the group neared the White House, some were told to step back. “‘Thank you for being allies … but we need the youth and we need the native people to lead this, because this is their battle,’” they were told, senior environmental science and policy major Julia Keane said.

To Keane, it was the most powerful moment of Tuesday’s rally.

The Dakota Access pipeline is a proposed line of oil transmission in North Dakota that environmental activists and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe oppose. Tuesday was

a national day of solidarity in which about 300 protests against the pipeline took place across the country, said Maya Spaur, a senior environmental science and technology and government and politics major.

“It’s really important for D.C. specifically to be kind of the hub of this movement, just because there are so many influential policymakers and activists and organizations that are centered here,” Spaur said.

Beginning at the Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters, a few speakers addressed the crowd, including actress Shailene Woodley, civil rights leader Ben Jealous, labor union leader Larry Cohen and Eryn Wise from the International Indigenous Youth Council.

The activists spoke about how the pipeline is “violating these people’s rights to clean water and … to community, because it’s their burial grounds — disrupting their sacred space,” Spaur said, referring to the Sioux land where the pipeline would be constructed.

An Army Corps official also came out to entertain protesters’

questions and concerns. The official assured the protesters that their concerns about the pipeline would be taken into consideration, but protesters responded by saying, “Shut it down!” Spaur said she thought this was “not totally necessary.”

The protesters stopped a few times along the march, including in front of the Trump International Hotel and some banks, said sophomore math major Phil Reiter.

“Everyone would stop … you could see workers from restaurants coming out and recording,” Reiter said. “You could see people looking from the buildings at the windows. We got a lot of people

who were smiling, cheering us on, honk[ing] from cars.”

Once the group arrived at the White House, Sanders, as well as some tribal activists, spoke .

Having Sanders and Woodley at the rally “definitely made people excited and [feel] like we’re going to have to keep organizing,” Spaur said. “What we’re doing now, we’re going to have to double it once [Donald] Trump is actually in office.”

While protesting the pipeline itself is a start, there are other important players involved such as banks, construction companies and the corporations funding it, she added.

the country may see the same thing and try to do something similar, and it’s a snowball.”

The rally was meant to localize a national issue, Brennan indicated, in order to enact bottom-up change.

“It’s really important for us to take this passion and frustration,” Brennan said.

“Instead of just yelling at t h e wo rl d a n d n o t d o i n g anything about it, we need to make some change and organize and make sure that we use this moment to advance our interests.”

Senior sociology major Oliver Owens said although he felt “hollow [and] very empty inside,” after the results of Tuesday night’s election, he’s seen encouraging signs in how others in the community have gotten together and been proactive in pushing forward.

“It’s important that we hit the ground running and a lot of people in the aftermath of the election, they’re angry, they’re frustrated, and it’s

important that we get out there and show people that we don’t stand for this sort of rhetoric,” Owens said.

The rally also had significant male turnout, and Owens emphasized the important role men can play in advocacy against sexual assault.

“A lot of the times sexual violence is framed as sort of a women’s issue,” he said, “but it’s really important right now that we show solidarity.”

After nearly an hour of listening to speakers, attendees climbed over the fencing on McKeldin, leaving an extra article of clothing they’d brought on the grass to show solidarity with survivors of sexual assault. From there, the group marched, while chanting, into the Administration Building. Upon arriving, they continued chanting for a few minutes before sitting down and listening while students continued to share stories of sexual assault and speak out against Trump.

“So many people sharing some things that they’ve never shared before showed it was a really safe space [and] just blew my mind,” said Casey Webbert, a sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences.

Some of the students met with Carlo Colella, vice president of finance and administration, and handed in a petition demanding mandatory in-person sexual violence training before incoming students arrive, a sexual assault prevention task force and adequate funding for prevention.

“UMD students have gathered in front of McKeldin Library and the Main Administration in a show of solidarity for students and communities who feel marginalized by the result of our democratic process,” university President Wallace Loh wrote in an email on Friday. “I stand in support of their right to have their voices heard.”

Several students wrote notes and put them on the

door that led to administrators’ offices.

“I am not a victim of sexual assault,” one person wrote. “I am a warrior of it.” “ We d e m a n d c h a n ge ,” wrote another.

Senior government and politics major Meredith Lightstone emphasized coming together to lend a hand to those who need it.

“After the election, we have to make sure that the microphone is in the hand of the people that are hurting most,” Lightstone said.

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ERYN WISE (RIGHT) of the International Indigenous Youth Council led anti-pipeline protesters marching toward the White House Tuesday night. photo courtesy of julia lerner/the writer’s bloc

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Nolasco, who said she was raped a week into her freshman year at this university.

“My professors don’t understand that this election is triggering, and I have to get up every day,” she said. “On Wednesday I did not get out of bed because I was scared of everything. One of my suitemates was told to go back to her country and one of my friends got a rape threat.”

These sentiments were exactly what Michael Brennan, the president of Our Revolution UMD, was hoping to harness when his group hastily planned this event in a meeting directly after the UMD United After The Election rally on Wednesday night.

On Thursday night, a group of about 25 people met to continue the planning.

“When people stand up, they send a message to all the other communities surrounding them,” the sophomore government and politics major said. “Campuses all around

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Loh rails against Trump in speech to RHA senate by

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Christine Condon P r e s i d e n t @CChristine19 Wa l l a ce L o h denounced Staff writer President-elect Donald Trump’s rhetoric and called last week’s election a “struggle for the soul of America” at an RHA Senate meeting Tuesday night. “‘Make America great again’ — when I hear those words what I really hear is ‘make America white and Christian again,’” he said of Trump’s campaign slogan.

With more than one protest materializing on the campus in wake of the election, Loh called on University of Maryland students Tuesday to seek unity and consider advocating change by other means.

“What I don’t understand is all these protests against the results of this election,” he said.

“We live in a democracy. That’s what the voters chose. If we’re going to protest, we’ve got to protest the policies, the actions of the next president.”

Students should remain optimistic and devoted to unity, Loh said, echoing the message he conveyed in his Nov. 11 email to the university community.

“You’ve got to have hope, especially if you’re committed to social change,” he said.

“Secondly, we have to bring people together.”

RHA administrative officer and sophomore Emily Franzone, a psychology and management major, echoed the sentiment that students have an obligation to give back to their community.

“As President Loh discussed, it is our duty to give back to the community that has given so much to us,” she wrote in an email Tuesday night.

Loh also tried to shed light on

STUDENTS JOIN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT WALLACE LOH (CENTER, IN SUIT) at the National Museum of African American History and Culture Wednesday. natalie schwartz/the diamondback

Loh, students visit African American history museum by

UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT WALLACE LOH speaks at the RHA senate meeting in Stamp Student Union on Tuesday night. tom hausman/the diamondback the election’s outcome. While calling Hillary Clinton a “good friend” who recruited him for law school, Loh admitted that she struggled to connect with voters. “[Clinton] is this cerebral person who understands policy backward and forward, but leadership is not about policy expertise,” Loh said. “Leadership is about connecting with your stakeholders. I hate to say this, but Donald Trump, our president-elect, connects with people.”

In response to the election, this university must provide opportunity and education for those of all socioeconomic backgrounds in order to bridge the divisions afflicting the country, Loh said.

“What we have is a whole group of folks in this country, working class folks, who for the past 30 years, their wages have been stagnant, their jobs are being exported abroad, they have very little hope,” Loh said. “And what has higher

education done for them? I’m not so sure.”

Inclusive dialogue on the campus is key, he said.

“I think people of different ethnic, racial backgrounds need to sit down and have hard, uncomfortable conversations,” Loh said, noting his plans to take 100 students and 20 faculty and staff members to the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Wednesday.

Loh initially took a group of students to the museum last month, and called the experience “emotionally overwhelming.”

“How many presidents go around taking college students on a field trip?” he said. “This is no ordinary field trip. We need to have more of these conversations on campus.”

Loh also took time during the meeting to voice his disagreement with Trump on climate change policy.

“I think President-elect Trump is totally wrong if he

thinks that the way to go is to gut the [Paris] climate change accord,” said Loh, who has pledged his support for increased funding for alternate energy sources. “You guys are the first generation in human history who’s going to feel the full effects of global climate change, and you’re the last generation who can do something about it.”

RHA President Steve Chen said he would focus on Loh’s message to student groups surrounding activism.

“We should identify the areas where we as campus groups feel passionate about and work within the democratic process to create change, and I think that’s the message [from Loh] that I will implement,” the biology and individual studies major said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Adam Zielonka H e a l t h a n d @Adam_Zielonka Wellness Committee fostered Staff writer discussion Monday night about mental health stigma and ways campus resources can be improved at “What’s on Your Mind?” — the organization’s first-ever town hall focused on mental health.

Melanie Zheng, Student Government Association director of health and wellness, led the hour-long discussion in the ArtSociology Building. The panel included Sharon Kirkland-Gordon and David Petersen, the director and associate director of the University Counseling Center, respectively; Steve Chen, Residence Hall Association president; and Rachael Clinton, an executive board member for the Help Center, a campus hotline students can call to speak to a trained peercounselor. About 30 people were in attendance.

“We certainly see every year increasing interest for us to come out and talk to student groups as well as faculty and staff members about counseling center services, about how to help people who are in distress, about recognizing signs of mental illness,” Petersen said. “There’s a lot of interest for us in a lot of the campus community to talk about these things.”

Chen and Clinton both cited addressing the stigma around mental health topics, such as depression and general anxiety, as part of their organizations’ goals.

“It’s not ‘cool’ to talk about mental health,” said Clinton, a senior psychology major. “It’s not cool to disclose any kind of mental illness that you’re struggling with, and I think especially in that huge transition from high school to college, it’s not easy to

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Issues protesters took on

NatalieSchwartz of Maryland years ago such as police vio@nmschwartz23 P r e s i d e n t lence toward blacks are still Wallace Loh found in present day politics, Staff writer

UNIVERSITY COUNSELING CENTER DIRECTOR SHARON KIRKLAND-GORDON (THIRD FROM LEFT) participated in a panel discussion about mental health challenges at the SGA’s “What’s on Your Mind?” town hall event on Monday night. adam zielonka/for the diamondback talk about the things you’re struggling with, and you rarely find that normalized.”

One of the main challenges with providing efficient mental health resources is the number of practitioners available to students. The Diamondback reported in 2015 that students often wait two to three weeks between calling for an appointment with the counseling center or the University Health Center’s mental health services and meeting with a therapist because of the high volume of cases. The health center’s mental health services had 50 to 90 appointments a day as of late last year.

The counseling center is in the process of determining what additional funding it may need to expand its resources, KirklandGordon said. She identified the university’s ratio of mental health practitioners to undergraduate and graduate students as one to 1,712 — lower than the International Association of Counseling Services recommendation of one professional for every 1,000 to 1,500 students. The Counseling Center hires temporary psychologists to increase its staff in the fall and spring semesters, she said.

Kirkland-Gordon called the center’s staffing challenge “an interesting kind of dilemma” to have, noting that she believes the demand for counselors is a result of the center’s advocacy to reduce stigma.

“We’re doing such a great job that we haven’t caught up with the demand,” she said. “You bring more and more people in, but your staffing kind of remains the same.”

When the center thinks it has found the right balance of students and practitioners, “we end up having a bump [in the number of cases],” she added.

Kirkland-Gordon and Petersen also addressed the limit of eight therapy sessions a student can have in an academic year, which they said was reduced from 12 about four years ago. The center lowered this maximum based on data they’d collected that showed students’ needs were being met before eight sessions. That average was down to 5.5 sessions for last year, Petersen said.

However, one student in attendance said students might not be motivated to continue therapy off-campus after their sessions

were finished, and accessibility to counselors might be hindered by their distance from the campus. Zheng said she and SGA President Katherine Swanson were exploring the possibility of a “ride service” to transport students to off-campus counseling services.

The Health and Wellness Committee is also working with the SGA Information Technology Committee and other campus groups to create an online portal listing all the mental health resources on the campus to help students decide what kind of help they need, Zheng said.

Zheng said she hopes the SGA can move forward on even more mental health initiatives after this town hall.

“I know that I personally have ideas on what to work on moving forward just from our conversation and what people were saying, and that’s always the goal,” she said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

took a moment Wednesday to take in the silver letters that spanned the wall of the last room in the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

“I, Too, Am America,” it read, signaling Langston Hughes’ famous poem on African-Americans’ centrality to the American narrative.

“I’ve learned more about my country here than I have my whole life,” said Loh, holding back tears. “This is a very difficult time for all of us, but I think I still remain hopeful.”

L o h to o k a b o u t 1 0 0 students and 20 faculty m e m b e rs to v i s i t t h e museum in Washington on Wednesday. The trip encouraged both university students and faculty to engage in difficult but necessary conversations about race and the oppression and resilience that define the AfricanAmerican experience.

T h e m u s e u m , wh i c h opened Sept. 24, documents the 400-year history of African-Americans through its extensive collection of more than 36,000 artifacts. These items span over the entirety of American history, from whips used by slave owners to a dress worn by Michelle Obama.

The floors are chronologically arranged, starting with the slave trade in the basement and working to w a r d c o n te m p o ra r y America on the top floor.

Navigating through the dark, narrow halls in the basement, which depict the realities of slavery in America, was a “sobering” experience, said Kris Marsh, a sociology professor at this university.

“It helps you understand h ow h i s to r y i s wh i te washed in a lot of ways,” Marsh said. “The museum did a really good job of doing an accurate, historical depiction of blacks in America. That historical depiction comes with a lot of pain, a lot of sorrow, a lot of angst and anxiety.”

As visitors move through the museum’s levels — dedicated to Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement and so on — the rooms become more spacious and well lit.

The experience culminates with a bright top floor celebrating AfricanAmerican achievements in arts, sports and politics.

Among the array of artifacts in the museum were items such as Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves and Jimi Hendrix’s vest. “ Ups ta i rs I wa s l i ke , ‘Yes! I’m not giving my black back. This is why I’m unapologetically black,’” Marsh said.

Many students said they couldn’t help but notice a strong parallel between current events and historical moments presented in the museum.

said Joshua Singer, a senior behavioral and community health major.

“You look at the protests during the Civil Rights movement and compare it to today — it looks exactly the same, just in black and white,” Singer said.

After Donald Trump secured the presidency last week in one of the most divisive elections in recent history, the museum is a reminder of how important it is for students to learn about African-American’s contributions and experiences before deciding how to move forward, Marsh said.

“We need to talk about what the next four years are going to look like and how m a rg i n a l i ze d g ro u ps a re going to feel and how they’re go i n g to b e a d d re s s e d ,” Marsh said. “This is a great space to really start having those conversations.”

Langston Hughes’ poem s e r ve s a s a re m i n d e r o f the importance of unity in America, Loh said.

“Way back when [Langsto n H u g h e s ] w ro te t h i s, those issues were the same — who belongs and who’s excluded from the country,” he said. “‘Make America Great’ — we’ve always been a great country so long as we bring people together, and we forget that. I think this museum is a reminder of that.”

Loh had taken a smaller group of about 20 students to the museum in mid-October, and had been particularly moved by a room that housed a statue of Thomas Jefferson against a wall of more than 600 bricks — each representing one of his slaves.

In large letters on the wall behind Jefferson was the portion of the Declaration of Independence that read, “All men are created equal.”

The room had sparked a difficult conversation about race on the ride back to the campus, Loh said during a Residence Hall Association meeting on Tuesday before the trip.

It motivated him to take 120 more people back to th e museum th is past Wednesday.

“It’s something we all need to experience,” Loh said. “I wish I could bring 26,000, [but] 120 tickets was the most I could get.”

The message of the museum is so important to present-day America that visitors may need to spend hours and many visits to absorb the full impact of it, he said.

“This is my second or third time and it’s still just an overwhelming experience,” Loh said. “ … If there’s one country I want to be in, it’s this country because of its ideals. We fall short of its ideals, but it’s up to our next generation to bring us back together again.”

Staff writer Christine Condon contributed to this report. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Protests lead to progress and empathy University students also gathered Friday to Last week, this editorial board urged University of Maryland students to unite after Donald Trump rally against sexual assault in the wake of Trump, won the presidency following one of the most divisive whose campaign featured multiple sexual assault election cycles in recent memory. Shielding ourselves allegations.

At a Tuesday Residence Hall Association Meeting, from the other side’s grievances and fears would only lead us backward, we argued. This editorial board university President Wallace Loh — who has deencouraged empathy, compassion and dialogue nounced Trump’s rhetoric — called for unity among students and encouraged them to find alternatives to at a time when all seemed distant and impossible. protesting, according to The Diamondback.

The university community answered the call.

“What I don’t understand is all these protests Protests in major U.S. cities and on college campuses erupted in the days after the election, and against the results of this election,” he said. “We many that began peaceful turned violent. In Port- live in a democracy. That’s what the voters chose. land, Oregon, police countered smashed windows If we’re going to protest, we’ve got to protest the and a dumpster fire with pepper spray, USA Today policies, the actions of the next president.”

This editorial board would reported. our view like to respectfully counter Portland protesters also Loh’s recommendation. We vandalized 19 cars at a Portland commend the protestors’ comToyota Dealership and smashed mitment to nonviolent dialogue the windows of several busiand the spreading of ideas. nesses. In Los Angeles, a Protesting in the wake of the primarily peaceful protest results is not the same as profeatured some vandalized testing a democratic process. property and thrown bottles.

Students can respect the results This university, however, has of the election and still engage been home to nonviolent and dialogue-driven protests emphasizing positivity. The in significant and relevant dialogue about what the night after Trump won the presidency, more than results mean for the future of our country and this 300 students gathered in front of McKeldin Library campus. That is exactly what they have done.

Peaceful protests about issues that matter to stuto rally for minorities and marginalized groups who dents — sexual assault, immigration, affirmative felt affected by the results.

Meredith Lightsone, a senior government and action, racist rhetoric — effectively broadcast student politics major and co-president of Terps for Hillary, concerns to all sides and make way for meaningful organized the event and said if people were not cour- discussion and understanding. They are the first teous and tolerant, they would be asked to leave, step to progress and empathy. This editorial board The Diamondback reported last week. The protest encourages students to continue marching for what maintained a theme of positivity despite people who matters to them, whatever that may be. After all, it is their right. walked by and yelled “build a wall.”

This university has featured positive, nonviolent and dialogue-driven protests.

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Congressional diversity ASHA KODAN @thedbk Columnist

This has been a tough week for America. In particular, it has been a tough week for the women of America.

Regardless of whether you are pleased with the results of the presidential election, it is undeniable that Hillary Clinton’s loss was a devastating blow to the progress our society has made when it comes to gender equality and women’s rights. However, a small beacon of hope still shines through; this week Congress welcomed a few firsts, as three new women of color were elected to the Senate, along with several other women who were voted to the House. As of now, 38 women of color serve Congress, an unprecedented number that brings hope to many around the nation.

Among these notable firsts includes Jamaican-American and Indian-American Senator-elect Kamala Harris, Latina Senator-elect Catherine Cortez Masto and Thai-American Senator-elect Tammy Duckworth among many other female legislatorswho will add diversity to a white, male-dominated government.

As a result, Congress will benefit from an increase in different perspectives while passing legislation. This country’s long and egregious history of suppressing the voices of disenfranchised demographics must come to an end. Now more than ever, we need strong voices and tenacious representatives fighting for people who have been ignored by the government for far too long. We need people who understand the plights of the impoverished, the barriers that racism and sexism have created for generations and the urgent need for society to become more

inclusive and provide equal opportunities for everyone regardless of their background. The recent election of these women to Congress will hopefully lead us one step in the right direction.

We must all be open to having a thoughtful dialogue about the future of this nation. Regardless of personal beliefs, it is crucial for all of our representatives (new and old) to be willing to listen to each other’s thoughts and concerns and to be willing to compromise — that is why the new wave of representatives should give hope to so many people. An increase in the diversity of viewpoints means that there will be more conversation about how legislation will affect every American, and not just one demographic. As trite as it may sound, the United States is a melting pot of people of all creeds, and it’s time that both houses of Congress reflect that.

As disheartened as I was about not having a woman in the Oval Office, the results of the congressional elections still give me hope. I urge everyone — especially the younger generations — to not become disillusioned with the state of our nation and our government. Although the next four years are bound to be tough for some, we must remember we still have control over the future and direction this country will move in. Congress’ new representatives are pioneers for change and embody the vision of a new, more tolerant America, and that in it of itself is magnificent. ashakodan@ymail.com

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Dear America: You have failed me HOPE HYNSON I can’t even @epohepohepoh really say that you’ve failed Columnist me. You were never really meant to work in my favor, but your recent progress made me a bit more hopeful for the future. For my future. For the future of millions of people marginalized by the hateful rhetoric spewed by our newest president-elect. Maybe you haven’t failed me, but I’m incredibly disappointed.

This has been the most depressing election that I’ve witnessed to date. I don’t feel safe anymore, and I am legitimately scared for a lot of my friends and other innocent people whose identities have been attacked

by Donald Trump and many of his supporters. In just the few days following the election, so much hatred and racism are surfacing, showing just how emboldened Trump’s supporters have become.

I’ve cried countless times, and I’ve felt sick ever since I heard the news. Americans elected a leader who campaigned on bigotry, xenophobia and ignorance. The demographic that won Trump the election is overwhelmingly homogeneous, and this goes to show that the majority of the American population is still white. This doesn’t say all white people voted for Trump, but the majority did, and that’s a major reason why he won.

A lot of think pieces that have come out since election night have centered on the demographics of voters and how people voted by gender. Though

it can seem overdone, it’s important to look into these things because they say more than just, “I voted for ____ because I agree with their policies,” or the like.

Race and gender have played a role in every election in America where all races and genders were allowed to vote, but I can’t shake the feeling that this election is quite different from the rest.

Looking at the numbers, if only women (all races included) voted, Hillary Clinton would have won easily. Women overall support her even though their support for her across the map varies. Clinton, though not the first woman to run for president, has been one of the most highly qualified and well-known women to run for president in the United States. She has held positions in government even when the public thought she should stay out of the spotlight for her husband’s career’s sake.

All that being said, Clinton did not win the support of those at the intersection of her race and gender. White women prioritized their race over their gender, and the majority supported Trump in this election.

Another factor to take note of is race. If only minorities voted, Clinton would have won in an embarrassing landslide. This says that the majority of minority voters either could see their best interests within Clinton’s campaign, or that they were threatened by Trump’s promises. A lot of people believe that the latter holds the most truth, and if that is the case, there is a problem. Even if the candi-

date the people end up voting for does have their interests at heart, no one should feel the need to vote for anyone out of fear of what the other candidate will do. That is not freedom, and the fact that American people elected a candidate like that is sad.

America has always been racist, and it has always been home to hateful people. Full stop. A lot of efforts have been made to cover it up, and those who are racist have kept quiet for the most part, but Trump has given these racist people a platform and a voice to spew their hatred and ideas of supremacy and oppression. The people who have always had harmful ideas of minorities and women have been told that their beliefs are wrong (which in the case of ignorance, they are), so it makes sense for them to jump on a candidate who validates their innermost feelings about other people.

Anyone able to look past Trump’s racism, sexism and xenophobia is clearly standing at a point of great privilege and has no real working knowledge of how Trump’s words alone have already had an impact on the lives of so many people.

Although Trump cannot undo eve ry p o l i cy t h a t h a s b e e n put into place to improve the lives of minorities, his candidacy, and now his election, has exposed racist America for what it always has been.

God damns America.

On Jan. 20, Donald J. Trump will officially inherit the Oval Office from President Obama, rendering the White House the newest victim of rich, white gentrification of a black neighborhood. But first, the mandarin-imbued oligarch must finish appointing his ragtag team of misfits, ne’er-do-wells and anti-Semitic frog retweeters to the highest political positions in the land. This motley crew of men and, well … even more men, will then attempt to navigate the intricacies of a four year term laden with quagmires regarding foreign and domestic affairs alike, all while trying to ignore that weird old-man smell emanating from Rudy Giuliani’s office. To understand just how complicated this process can be, I’ve created a convenient choose your own adventure guide to help you better envision yourself in Donald’s tiny, gold-plated shoes.

1. It’s the day before your inauguration, and Chancellor Angela Merkel releases a statement chiding your decision to employ Gary Busey as chairman of the inauguration ceremony. If you back down and swap Busey for a less controversial pick (Scott Baio, perhaps?), go directly to step two. If you decide to wait until 3:00 a.m. to fire off a series of tweets berating the German leader while also imploring your followers to check out a tape of Merkel suggestively eating a bratwurst sausage, move on to step five.

2. The inauguration flows smoothly, and you find yourself settling into the Oval Office. Suddenly, your aides bring word that Joe Biden has built a wooden clubhouse on the Rose Garden Lawn and is refusing to vacate the premises. When you arrive at the scene, you see a tattered shack with the phrase “No Trumps Allowed” scrawled across the side in Sharpie. If you leave Joe alone, proceed to step three. If you decide to evict him from the grounds faster than a black tenant from one of your apartment buildings, skip to step six.

3. Vladimir Putin calls the White

House hotline and invites you on a shirtless horseback riding adventure into the Russian wilderness. If you accept, continue to step four. If you decline, skip straight to step seven.

4. After your plane lands in Moscow, Putin leaves you stranded at the airport, while Chris Christie sheepishly informs you that he left your luggage sitting on the tarmac.

You return to America to blame the incident on “radical Islamic terror,” and begrudgingly arrive at step seven anyway.

5. The German people are führious, and vow to flog you into sauerkraut if you ever set foot on their soil again, as even they admit that your stunning rise to power was just a little too Hitler-ish (with the exception of several neo-Nazi organizations, which award you a sterling 3/3 Reich rating).

Retreat back to step two.

6. Just as you begin to disassemble Joe’s clubhouse, he fires a rock from his slingshot out of the window, knocking your toupee, crafted from the pelt of an endangered Golden Takin, off of your scalp. The paparazzi nabs a photograph and you spend the rest of your term holed up in Trump Tower shopping for Rogaine on the internet. The end.

7. After finalizing your administration’s top brass by replacing Attorney General Loretta Lynch with Judge Judy, the NAACP denounces your cabinet selections for being whiter than the sounds coming from Steve Bannon’s sleep noise machine. If you ignore this critique while instead emphasizing your “yuge” relationship with “the blacks,” continue to step eight. If you take this criticism to heart and actively try to reform the inherent structural racism permeating the U.S. criminal justice system, stop reading this column immediately, as I don’t think you get how this whole “pretending to be Trump” thing works.

8. The outrage towards your administration grows; during a Thanksgiving ceremony you refuse to uphold the longstanding gobbler pardoning tradition, stating that you prefer to only pardon wild turkeys that didn’t get captured. The end. opinionumdbk@gmail.com

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Hannah Lang Maryland’s Center @HannahDLang for Health Equity, along with several Staff writer other organizations, has partnered to bring a free health clinic and wellness center to Temple Hills in Prince George’s County.

The Catholic Charities Susan D. Mona Center will offer primary care, as well as dental care, legal and immigration services and a wellness facility.

“To actually have the chance to build something from the ground up to meet the health needs of our most vulnerable residents and neighbors … you wouldn’t build your grandfather’s clinic,” said Stephen Thomas, the Maryland Center for Health Equity director and a professor in this university’s public health school.

After Thomas helped orchestrate a two-day free dental clinic in Xfinity Center in 2014 that served more than 1,200 people, the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington approached him with the idea to bring free health care services to a former restaurant building in Temple Hills that was donated to the Archdiocese.

Together with the Doctor’s Community Hospital, the organizations have worked to design and begin construction on the center. They plan to include a teaching kitchen, a studio, a healing garden, a space for family science faculty to conduct counseling and a space for kinesiology faculty to do body composition and physical activity prescriptions, Thomas said.

The county approved plans for the construction of the site last week, at 5859 Allentown Way in Temple Hills, and Thomas said he expects the center to be open within 18 months.

“We believe that in this facility, we will be able to put in one place an example of the health, emotion and disease prevention facility of the future,” he said.

Students are also playing a role in the center’s development. This fall, 20 students enrolled in HLSA484: Redesigning Health Care: Developing a Clinic to Meet Community Needs, the public health school’s first fearless ideas course. Throughout the semester, the students in the class have been conducting interviews with members of the community and brainstorming ideas for the clinic, said Dylan Roby, one of the class’ professors.

“We are usually engaged in fast moving, interactive activities,” he said. “We let the students work in groups doing brainstorming, defining problems ... coming up with ideas, prototyping them, testing them and then going back to make adjustments.”

The class will continue next semester, Thomas said.

The Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington plans to fund the dental clinic at the health center and offer additional programs that benefit community members.

Other funding will come from the state of Maryland, and health professionals will be provided by the Doctor’s Community Hospital and this university.

“Workshops could include tenantlandlord disputes, wills and estates, domestic violence matters, immigration, expungement and others,” wrote Joseph Dempsey, director of stewardship at Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese in Washington, in a 2015 Maryland Senate bill.

The partnership is the ultimate collaboration between local organizations along with schools and departments at this university, Thomas said.

“It is my hope that these very people who have lost all hope in the system will have hope that those of us here at the University of Maryland who control a little bit of the system can make their lives better,” he said. hlangdbk@gmail.com

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Carly Kempler City Council unani@carlykempler mously approved Senior staff writer $35,000 in education

Leizear said he has been a s k i n g P r i n c e G e o rg e ’s County Fire Department for data and statistics on how Branchville’s service has been affected since career firefighters were cut.

Seve ra l c i ty c o u n c i l members have expressed concern for the safety and well-being of the community and its residents if the department is severely understaffed.

“Many of us live in north Co l l e ge Pa rk a n d we s t College Park and are directly affected by this,” said District 4 Councilwoman Mary Cook at the Oct. 18 council work session.

The city council had also ex p re sse d so m e co n ce r n when career staff were initially eliminated, according to the letter the council sent to the Prince George’s County Fire Department.

The council is also worried that with the growth of the city’s aging in place population, the demand for emergency medical services will increase.

grants for local public schools Tuesday night.

These grants, which were recommended by the city’s Education Advisory Committee, can be up to $7,500 for the four main schools catering to the most students from College Park — Hollywood Elementary School, Paint Branch Elementary School, Greenbelt Middle School and Parkdale High School, according to a mayoral update from the city on Oct. 31.

Other schools that serve at least 14 kids from College Park neighborhoods can receive up to $2,500 in grants, according to the same mayoral update.

The city awarded $7,500 each to Hollywood Elementary, Paint Branch Elementary, Parkdale High School and $2,500 each to Berwyn Heights Elementary, Cherokee Lane Elementary, University Park Elementary, Buck Lodge Middle and Hyattsville Middle, according to the council’s agenda.

“We’re thankful to the City of College Park for being able to provide [these grants] for us,” said Emmett Hendershot, the principal of Paint Branch Elementary.

The money will be put toward improvements such as additional programming, technology and field trips. More specifically, Paint Branch Elementary School will be using its grant money to purchase Chromebooks “to provide instruction in literacy and reading,” according to the mayoral update.

Hendershot said the school is excited to upgrade technology for all of its students, particularly those with special needs.

“A lot of [our students] have language needs and special education needs … learning disabilities,” he said. “The technology and the visuals [are] helpful for those with disabilities [because] the technology aides their learning.”

Other schools such as Hollywood Elementary School are also using the money for assistive technology “for investment in iPads and iReady Diagnostic and Instructional licenses for teachers,” and Cherokee Lane Elementary will be using the money for their Lego robotics programming, according to the mayoral update.

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THE BRANCHVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, which serves half of College Park, has lost nine volunteers alone in 2016. tom hausman/the diamondback

‘stripped so thin’ Branchville Volunteer Fire Department continues to suffer serious staff shortages since 2013

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hile the College Park City Council awarded each of the city’s fire departments a $20,000 grant to purchase new equipment Tuesday, one department is facing a severe staff shortage since it eliminated career firefighters in 2013, according to the department chief and city officials.

B ra n c h v i l l e Vo l u n te e r Fire Department serves half of College Park, including College Park Woods, some homes on Greenbelt Road and University of Maryland residence halls located on University Boulevard.

Last month, the fire department was out of service for 36 hours because nobody was around to staff the station, Chief Richard Leizear said at the College Park City Council’s Oct. 18 work session. In 2016 alone, the department has lost nine volunteers, he added.

“Right now, we’re stripped so thin, I came down here tonight to meet with you

all, I had to put the company out of service,” Leizear said. “There’s nobody there right now to drive.”

The city council approved a letter to Prince George’s County Fire Department Chief Marc Bashoor at the Oct. 25 meeting to express concerns about the shortage of volunteers at the station and to request restoration of career staff at the station.

Before full-time firefighters left three years ago, Branchville Fire Department had 80 members.

Now, the station is down to 15 members — and only five or six of them actually live in College Park.

The rest come from West Virginia or southern Maryland, Leizear said.

If an emergency were to be called in from one of these areas during a time when no one was at the Branchville station, the 911 call would be dispatched to a neighboring fire department, which would increase emergency response time.

“Sometimes that means a matter of just a couple of minutes, but if it were me, I would prefer to have an ambulance a couple minutes sooner rather than later,” said Robert Ryan, College Park director of public services, at the council’s Oct. 25 meeting.

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New yoga studio opens in city After Numi Alex Carolan Yoga opened in @alexhcarolan College Park, its owner, Kelsey Staff writer Starr, sought to create community relationships.

The yoga studio, located at 4513 College Ave across from the Landmark, opened on Nov. 5. Since opening, Starr has already partnered with Yogi Terps, a student organization at the University of Maryland that began last spring.

“I really value community partnerships,” said Starr, a certified yoga instructor.

“And I like the idea of being established in a community as a business, but also as a voice in how this develops or how we can connect with different venues that are coming.”

Before coming to this city, Starr taught yoga classes at studios near the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois. She said she had been looking to open a studio after by

relocating to the Washington area with her husband Evan Starr, a professor at this university’s business school.

Though the White Lotus Wellness Center, which opened a little over a year ago on Berwyn Road, holds occasional yoga classes, Starr said Numi Yoga is the only studio in College Park that offers daily yoga classes. Class times range from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. depending on the day of the week.

“Certainly College Park has room for this, so we thought we would kind of be the first ones to open doors and make [yoga] a possibility seven days a week,” Starr said.

In addition to Starr, some university students are also instructors at the studio.

“All the yoga classes offered through campus Recreation and Wellness — there’s like this fitness aura to it exclusively,” said Sam Allen, a family studies doctoral student and instructor at the studio. He added that Numi Yoga has a more inviting atmosphere than gym settings as it provides an opportunity for students who want to get “a yoga studio feel.”

However, Katie Goetz, a junior mechanical engineering major who lives near the studio, said she doesn’t know if Numi Yoga fills a need because yoga is offered at Eppley Recreation Center.

In addition to working with Yogi Terps, Starr said she plans to further collaborate by scheduling events with Greek life, for example.

“I like the idea of being almost like a blank canvas for community space, and then of course being able to offer the yoga, which speaks a lot to me,” Starr said.

The partnership with Yogi Terps has proven to be important, as the groups support each other with resources, said Sherry Gholami, a junior physiology and neurobiology major and Yogi Terps founder.

Starr said she provided instructors for Yogi Terps earlier in the year, and the club also plans to host sessions at the studio as the weather gets colder.

“It’s important to have that space in any community where you can go in and focus on you for a little bit,” Gholami said.

NUMI YOGA studio opened Nov. 5 at 4513 College Ave. in downtown College Park. tom hausman/the diamondback In addition to yoga classes, Starr sells yoga gear such as mats and clothing. It costs $18 to take one class, while studio memberships are available on Numi Yoga’s website and range from $28 to $198. The studio will be having a grand opening on Sunday.

“I think College Park has a lot going for it … and I’m excited to see how the big institutions with the university and the foundation and the city come together and create an even greater College Park,” Starr said. “I feel like a little piece of that.” acarolandbk@gmail.com

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community

Some professors cancel class after Trump’s victory by

nation

Many stu- president whose own words have t o c o l l e c t m y s e l f ,”

Rebecca Rainey dents exhib- painted him a moral and physical Hoffman said.

Hoffman, who teaches @RebeccaARainey ited stress and hazard to many of us.”

He added that he was con- courses in digital media and anxiety after Staff writer the unexpected results of the presidential election on Nov. 8, and some University of Maryland professors took note.

Several professors at this university opted to give students more time to complete assignments that were due shortly after the election. After a letter he sent to his students became national news, Alan Peel, an astronomy lecturer, chose not to speak in an interview with The Diamondback, but agreed to share the reason why he postponed an exam in one of his classes.

“The letter I sent students has been widely and sometimes erroneously interpreted to mean something about my political leanings, which are not relevant to my work at the University,” Peel wrote in an email. “But, the message to students was not phrased that way — which I think you can see if you carefully re-read it. In point of fact, I was responding to what I thought might be some students’ perceptions about their own safety, regardless of politics.

“The test was merely postponed until the next class lecture period two days later.

Tests are fairly frequently postponed for far less interesting reasons,” Peel wrote.

In his original message sent to students via ELMS, Peel said he thought it was necessary to postpone the test, “given that the nation in which you currently reside decided last night to elect a

cerned that exam scores would “reflect circumstances far beyond the mastery of the current material,” Peel wrote in the ELMS message.

Agriculture and resource economics professor Kenneth Leonard said his decision to postpone a world hunger, population and food supplies exam originally scheduled for last Wednesday was not a “political statement.” But after students began to email him with concerns they would not be able to study properly as the results were coming in, Leonard said he made the decision that was best for his students.

“I recognize that many of you did not have a fruitful day of studying for the next exam,” read an ELMS announcement sent at about 11 p.m. on Tuesday.

“No matter what happens, we will all be OK, but if you can’t take your eyes off the coverage, I understand.”

Leonard said several students emailed him thanking him.

“I could clearly tell that nobody was going to be thinking about anything else,” Leonard said. “I wanted to remind students life doesn’t stop, but eight hours later, 10 hours later, that’s not the answer students want to hear.”

But for communication professor Jon Hoffman, the choice to cancel his Wednesday class was personal. “ W h e n we f i n a l l y go t the call, I needed the day

democracy, said he decided to change his Thursday lecture into an open discussion so students could voice their thoughts about a Donald Trump presidency.

“On Thursday I couldn’t ignore what happened, I was debating it all morning so I decided to start class by talking about what happened and related it to some class concepts like social media,” Hoffman said. “I was creating a space for students to talk about concerns and fears, some of which I feel personally.”

Jennifer Wessel, a social psychology professor, sent an ELMS message to students on Nov. 10 regarding noticeably lower grades on a quiz taken by half the class before the election and taken by the other half on Nov. 10.

Wessel offered to give students back some points, noting that it has been “a particularly tumultuous and disruptive week for many.”

Wessel also wrote that her office hours were available to hear the thoughts of students who needed to talk about anything that was bothering them.

“I am willing to listen if you need a faculty member to hear you with an open mind,” Wessel wrote.

FORMER Gov. MARTIN O’MALLEY speaks on the campus during an Anthony Brown rally in October 2014.

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O’Malley bows out of race for top spot in Democratic Party Less than Jessica Campisi a week after @jessiecampisi considering Senior staff writer running to be Democratic National Committee chairman, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has changed his mind.

“While I’m grateful to the su p p ortive f rie nds wh o h ave u rge d m e to consider running for D N C C h a i r, I w i l l n o t b e se e k i n g o u r Pa r ty ’s by

Chairmanship,” O’Malley wrote in an email to supporters on Wednesday. “ T h e n a t i o n a l i n te re s t must come first,” he wrote.

T h e co m m i t te e c h a i r needs to be someone who will do the job fully and impartially, he added.

O n Fr i d a y, O ’ M a l l e y tweeted that he was “taking a hard look” at the position after fellow Democrats approached him looking for new party leadership.

O’Malley tweeted Friday t h a t t h e p a r t n e e d e d to “ re c o m m i t o u rs e l ve s to higher wages and a stronger middle class, and return to our roots as a nationwide, grassroots party.”

O’Malley, who previously served as the mayor of Baltimore, ran for president in 2016 but ended his bid in early February during the Iowa caucuses. jcampisidbk@gmail.com

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A Black Lives Matter platform accuses Israel of genocide.

The assertion is false, it’s racist and it sabotages efforts to achieve justice for African-Americans.

Black Lives Matter (BLM) asserts that Israel is responsible for “genocide taking place against the Palestinian people.”

Given the definition of genocide, this accusation is groundless—and because it singles out the Jewish state, it ranks as racist anti-Semitism. Just as bad, this libel drives away BLM supporters who otherwise oppose police racial bias.

What are the facts?

An Arab man who attempted to stab a police officer presentation of how that could apply in Israel.”

Why is it racist to accuse Israel of genocide? at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem was shot and killed by police. A 17-year-old Palestinian, who Those who condemn Israel falsely—for crimes it infiltrated a Jewish town near Hebron, murdered a does not commit—are attempting to delegitimize sleeping 13-year-old Israeli girl. The murderer was the Jewish state. Delegitimization is one of the killed by a security team when he attacked them. classic signs of racist anti-Semitism: Those who The fact is, most of the 200 Palestinians killed over use this strategy are asserting that of all the world’s the last year by Israeli nations, only Israel’s forces were involved in attempts to defend itself “I haven’t seen any presentation of violent attacks on Israeli from sworn enemies civilians, soldiers or how [genocide] could apply in Israel.” are criminal. That’s a police. Their response double standard—also Sari Bashi, Palestine Director, was not genocide, it was anti-Semitic.

Where Human Rights Watch self-defense. is Black Lives Matter’s condemnation of Syria, Even in the 2014 Gaza war, which killed about 2,100 Palestinians, only which has killed hundreds of thousands of its 45% were non-combatants, one of the lowest citizens? What about Iran, which hangs LGBTQ civilian death ratios in modern warfare—due people? How about China, which has occupied largely to Israel’s extraordinary efforts to avoid Tibet for more than 50 years? attacking residential areas and warn civilians in In truth, Jews have every right to selfadvance of bombings. determination in the Middle East. Jews have had Indeed, a close look reveals not a shred of an uninterrupted presence in the region for 3,000 evidence that Israel intends or is in fact committing years, including their own nation state. For some 2,000 of those years, following their exile from genocide.

What is the definition of genocide? Genocide ancient Palestine, the Jewish people have strived is one of the most horrific crimes against to resettle in their Biblical homeland. Finally, in humanity—and it was exemplified by Adolf Hitler’s 1948, with United Nations approval, Jewish selfplan to exterminate Jews and his killing of some six determination was realized as the State of Israel. In million of them. These are the two legal elements short, those who deny Israel’s right to exist—those of genocide: There must be deliberate intention who delegitimize it with accusations of genocide— to destroy a national or ethnic group, and there are guilty of anti-Semitism. must be a concerted effort to effect that goal, such How does the genocide libel harm Black Lives as the methodical killing of that group’s members Matter? Jewish Americans have been among or inflicting conditions calculated to bring about the most stalwart leaders and supporters of the group’s physical destruction. As one quickly the American civil rights movement from the sees, neither of these conditions exists in Israel or beginning—they were among the founders of the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria (“the the NAACP—and powerful Jewish support for West Bank”). defeating racism continues to this day. Moreover, Israel has no plan to eliminate Palestinians, nor the State of Israel enjoys strong approval from is it methodically killing them on ethnic grounds. the overwhelming majority of Americans. When In fact, some two million Palestinians are citizens a movement, such as Black Lives Matters, strays of Israel and enjoy full democratic rights and one from its core purpose into peripheral issues— of the highest standards of living in the Middle particularly when it resorts to wildly false East. The Palestinian population within Israel accusations— that movement quickly loses broad and in the disputed territories has doubled since public support. In short, if Black Lives Matters 1990 and continues to grow apace. According truly cares about stopping police racial bias, it to Sari Bashi, Palestine country director for will marshal all its forces to dramatize disturbing Human Rights Watch, “[Genocide] is an attempt law enforcement practices and gather support for to destroy an entire people. I haven’t seen any reform—not alienate supporters.

Libels of genocide against Israel are attempts to delegitimize solely the Jewish state among all the world’s nations and are therefore anti-Semitic. What’s more, such racist accusations alienate not only Jewish allies of the Black Lives Matter movement, but also other political progressives who will be repulsed by defamation of Israel.

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Rocky goes the distance 40 years after its release, the movie still stands as the perfect mix of sports action and human emotion It’s the fight of the century.

The crowd roa rs a s t h e Italian Stallion, Rocky Balboa, lands an uppercut on the heavyweight champion of the world, Apollo Creed. It was supposed to be a one-sided bout in the champ’s favor, but as it progresses the bruised-up pair of fighters find by

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themselves in their respective corners, waiting for the last round of the fight.

R o c k y ’s fa c e i s b a d l y bruised, his right eye entirely swollen. His concerned coach, Mickey Goldmill (Burgess Meredith), tries to convince him to concede, but the fighter says no.

“You stop this fight, I’ll kill ya!”

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Rocky is a classic story of triumph that is considered by many to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film premiered in theaters 40 years ago on November 21, 1976 and has left its mark on cinema.

The powerful story and performance that Sylvester Stallone delivered onto the world spawned several sequels and it remains an inspiration for modern boxing films. One of the most compelling aspects of the film is its focus on a less-privileged individual, an underdog both inside and out of the ring.

This thematic element has been replicated multiple times throughout various boxing films, though not always effectively. Some of the most successful iterations include The Fighter, Million Dollar Baby, Cinderella Man and Raging Bull.

However, none have ever been able to pull off the charismatic nature that Stallone brought to the screen as Rocky. At first glance he seems like a brutish man with the personality of a child, but upon further examination I find that it is this simple characterization that makes him incredibly entertaining to watch. Whether h e i s wav i n g a t p u p p i e s behind the window of a local pet store or trying to make small talk with a shy Adrian Pennino (Talia Shire), Rocky is hard to dislike.

To me, the beauty of Rocky lies within the relationships that Rocky has with the people closest to him outside of the ring. During the course of the series, we witness Rocky’s romantic relationship with Adrian, a once timid young woman who develops into a powerful force who lifts Rocky up when he is at his lowest points. We see the incredible bromance Rocky and Apollo (Carl Weathers) form after their second fight in Rocky II when Apollo trains the Italian

rocky stars Sylvester Stallone (above) as a true underdog boxer. The movie’s original tagline was “his whole life was a million to one shot” and that idea has influenced scores of sports movies in the decades since. This year, Rocky turned 40. photo via flickr Stallion. Rocky would later go on to repay the favor by training Apollo’s estranged son, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), in Creed.

But, what would the film be without it’s stunningly s h o t b ox i n g s e q u e n c e s.

Many films try to recreate the blend of intense action and emotion within similar fights, but none up the stakes like Rocky. The group of colorful opponents that Rocky faces within the series make for some unique dynamics in and out of the ring.

From Apollo to Drago, all of the opponents symbolize personal conflicts and struggles that Rocky must

be overcome.

Amongst all the film’s memorable aspects, the one that left the biggest impact on me is the relationship b e t we e n R o c k y a n d h i s mentor/trainer Mickey. He is arguably the most quotable character within the entire series. His talks with Rocky may sound harsh at times, but the underlying messages beneath all of his words hold immense value to Rocky, as well as the audience. The relationship between the two is something that can never be fully replicated.

Sure the dynamic in Creed came close, but there is still nothing quite like it.

Even with his absence from the series after Rocky III , Mickey’s words are never forgotten by the champ nor the audience.

“Get up you son of a b----, cause Mickey loves you.”

Ro c k y ’s g l o b a l p ra i s e and impact is something few films can accomplish.

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breaking down victory vs. hoyas CALLIE CAPLAN @CALLIECAPLAN MEN’S BASKETBALL COLUMNIST With about 10 minutes left in Tuesday night’s game against Georgetown, Maryland men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon stepped out of his box one too many times and argued one too many plays with the referees. He drew a technical foul, and the Verizon Center crowd exploded.

It started with “Let’s go Hoyas” chants from the Georgetown faithful, egging on the Terps’ leader after the Hoyas suffered a four-point loss in College Park a year ago.

When Georgetown guard L.J. Peak stepped to the line to sink both of his foul shots for a 51-47 lead, Maryland fans drowned the cheers with jeers.

While the crowd settled in to marvel at the drama and excitement unfolding through the rest of the thriller, the noise reached its crescendo — a verbal duel of “Let’s go Georgetown” against “Let’s go Maryland” — during one of the final timeouts.

“I loved the arena at the end,” Turgeon said as he tried to put into words the energy of the Terps’ 76-75 triumph.

“That was really cool.”

Turgeon and Georgetown coach John Thompson III wouldn’t commit to a future for the local rivalry, which completed the back half of its home-and-home deal as a part of the Gavitt Tipoff Games on Tuesday night.

But the two team’s crowds were clear. This series needs to continue annually. Here are the grades from what, for now, is the final installment.

Guard Melo Trimble

A-

Guard Kevin Huerter

Forward Damonte Dodd

Ball distribution and offensive balance have been a few of Maryland’s focuses to start the season as the squad works through the growing pains of integrating so many new players into the rotation.

The Terps should also emphasize finding Huerter more open looks. The freshman had six points on 2-of-3 shooting from three, and his length should be an asset as the offense gels. Huerter’s defense, though, stole the show Tuesday with a gem of a block with one second left.

Huerter wasn’t the only one to swat a shot. Dodd finished with four blocks despite playing as one of the many Terps in foul trouble. He snagged five rebounds and provided energy on both sides of the floor in his 24 minutes of action.

A-

For the majority of the game, Trimble’s performance wasn’t the same dazzling display he exhibited when he scored 24 points in last year’s clash. After all, Turgeon emphasized a balanced offensive approach entering the contest. But the junior carried the team in the final minutes, helping execute traps and making clutch free throws to put the Terps ahead at the final buzzer. On a night the Terps battled foul trouble, Maryland needed its star’s 22-point, two-assist, one-rebound performance as a steady lead.

Forward Justin Jackson

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Guard Anthony Cowan

B

B+

At the team’s media day in mid-October, Jackson paused for a moment while thinking about the arena he was most excited to visit this season. Then he decided: Verizon Center.

So it’s not surprising the freshman capitalized on his 26 minutes on the court where he’s watched some of his NBA role models perform. Jackson finished with 17 points, including three connections from beyond the arc. After a quiet freshman debut last weekend, Jackson flashed the versatility and readiness Maryland lauded throughout the preseason.

Cowan built on Jackson’s spark with his speed.

Turgeon commended Cowan’s defense after the game, highlighting his ability to match up with Georgetown’s top scorers in just his second taste of college action. His five assists helped Maryland space the floor in transition, but Cowan and Trimble have progress to make in sharing the ball-handling responsibilities. Still, the Bowie native hit four foul shots in the final 20 seconds, displaying poise that should only grow with experience.

ON THE RECORD “The last two years, it’s been great games, and we’ve been fortunate at the end to come out on top in both games.”

guard kevin huerter was one of three Maryland freshmen to earn a start against Georgetown. The New York native put the finishing touch on the Terps’ combeback that helped him earn one of the group’s top grades. marquise mckine/the diamondback

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McCoy’s squad aims to improve in Big Ten After a season in Sean Whooley which it @swhooley27 finished Staff writer 1-8 in Big Ten action, the Maryland wrestling team wants to improve. To do so, the Terps expect to rely on a large contingent of young grapplers.

In coach Kerry McCoy’s ninth year with the program, t h e Te r p s a re a i m i n g to improve on last year’s 12th place conference finish. They expect 133-pound redshirt junior Tyler Goodwin and 149pound redshirt sophomore captain Alfred Bannister, who earned spots in the InterMat Wrestling polls this week and won their respective divisions at the Southeast Open on Nov. 6, to lead the team this season.

“Last year, Geoff [Alexander], Lou [Mascola] and Dawson Peck were in and out of the rankings,” McCoy said Tuesday. “So to start off by

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the season with two newer, younger guys, it’s pretty good.”

David-Brian Whisler joined Goodwin and Bannister with a first-place finish in the 197pound division two weekends ago. Plus, 184-pound Youssif Hemida, also a captain, and 285-pound Jaron Smith earned second-place honors.

The five finalists were underclassmen, following the pattern the Terps displayed last year, when they started six freshmen at least once.

With that experience, the Terps are optimistic about their teammates’ abilities in the early stages of their college careers.

“I’m really excited for this year,” Rappo said after the team’s wrestle-offs Oct. 30.

“We can do some big things.

We’ve still got a young team, b u t I ’m l o o k i n g fo rwa rd to lead ing this team and helping them move higher in the Big Ten.”

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“It’s great that they had that experience getting out there in the Big Ten as freshmen,” redshirt freshman 165pounder Josh Ugalde said at media day in late October. “But we also had a good amount of our freshmen redshirt and get that experience and get bigger, get stronger, get better. We’re going to be tough this year with the freshmen that we have and with a year under our belts.”

Rappo is expected to start, as Bannister, who wrestled in the 141-pound class last year, moved to 149 pounds, though he could transition between classes. Junior 125-pounder Michael Beck will be the starter in that class, while Goodwin highlights the lower weights.

Several middleweight spots are still in contention, too.

McCoy said four or five grapplers are competing for the 157-pound spot, while Ugalde faces pressure at 165 from freshman Spencer Woods and redshirt sophomore Patrick Gerish.

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may redshirt after offseason shoulder surgery. Garrett Wesneski and David-Brian Whisler are also competing for the starting spot in the 197pound class.

With three weeks before the Big Ten schedule begins, the squad’s look will continue to develop, the Terps said.

However, McCoy wants the Terps to focus on daily improvements in a season they hope to improve their conference record.

“It’s taking it one day at a time, trying to get better every day,” McCoy said. “The thing that I’ve said most with these guys is to recognize the work they’ve been doing, and not just recognize that they’re working hard, but putting a purpose to it. When you do that, you know it’s going to pay off; it’s going to have a result.

“Keep putting the work in, recognize that we’re doing good stuff, and that gives you the feeling that, yes, you do deserve to go out and be successful.”

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Seniors power Terps past UMES At one p o i n t l a te James in the third Crabtree-Hannigan quarter, the @JamesCrabtreeH Maryland Staff writer women’s basketball team turned the ball over on four consecutive possessions.

Guard Ieshia Small clapped several times in frustration after her pass went off forward Kiah Gillespie’s hands and bounced out of bounds.

Forward Brianna Fraser stared toward her bench after turning the ball over in the corner.

B u t so o n a f te r, ce n te r Brionna Jones returned to the floor and promptly hit a lay-up.

During a game in which the Terps didn’t always look crisp, big contributions from Jones and fellow senior Shatori Walker-Kimbrough buoyed the team and helped it cruise to a 106-61 win over Maryland Eastern Shore.

“It wasn’t one of our sharpest outings,” coach Brenda Frese said. “A lot of areas for us to tighten up as we move forward.”

The Terps jumped out to an 8-0 lead, but Maryland Eastern Shore stayed in it with three 3-pointers early in the quarter.

Frese’s team led, 16-11, halfway by

through the first period.

Maryland Eastern Shore couldn’t maintain its longrange shooting, but the Terps didn’t play the suffocating defense they showed in its season-opening win against UMass Lowell.

“We gave up 61 points — that’s way too many points,” Frese said. “Our defense has to improve. I was not happy with our defense tonight at all.”

In Sunday’s matchup against UMass Lowell, an aggressive full-court press helped hold the River Hawks to 16 first-half points and never allowed them more than 15 in any quarter.

The Terps didn’t utilize the press as much Wednesday, and struggled to keep Maryland Eastern Shore off the board or away from the free-throw line.

Maryland Eastern Shore went to the charity stripe 12 times in the first half and 18 overall, converting 10 of those shots.

Thanks to Walker-Kimbrough and Jones, though, the game’s outcome was never in doubt. The senior duo took over from the start, scoring more than half of the team’s 54 first-half points and shooting a combined 11-for-15 before intermission. Walker-Kimbrough opened scoring with a

3-pointer en route to 11 points in the first 10 minutes. Jones had eight first-quarter points in seven minutes.

“We just took what the defense gave us,” WalkerKimbrough said. “We have so many weapons. … We all had open shots. It was just about knocking them down.”

That allowed Walker-Kimbrough and Jones to spend most of the second half on the bench, watching and celebrating as the Maryland reserves polished the finishing touchs.

“The last game, [Jones] only got three attempts,” Frese said.

“I talked a little bit with our guards [about] really being able to establish that insideoutside presence. … It makes all our guards’ job easier when they have to figure out how to defend [Jones] inside.”

With guards Destiny Slocum and Small in foul trouble early, freshman Sarah Myers saw increased playing time and took Frese’s advice.

All three of her first-half assists went to Walker-Kimbrough or Jones.

“I know there’s a lot of great players on our team who can score the ball,” Myers said. “I was just hitting the ones that were open.”

guard shatori walker-kimbrough scored 19 points to lead the Terps to a 106-61 win last night. marquise mckine/the diamondback Walker-K imbrough and Jo n e s m a s ke d m i s ta ke s, however. In addition to the defensive struggles, Frese wasn’t happy with her team’s 15 turnovers.

Plus, the Terps went to the free-throw line just 14 times and made nine of those shots.

But with Walker-K imbrough going 4-for-5 from 3 - p o i n t ra n ge a n d Jo n e s grabbing eight rebounds to pair with a 7-for-11 shooting performance, the team’s shortcomings were washed away in a 45-point win.

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Fernando displays leadership traits In early Josh Schmidt August, IMG Academy coach @joshj_s John Mahoney Staff writer brought in two United States Marines to run a leadership boot camp for his basketball team. The Marines came in barking orders, throwing bags around the room and getting in the players’ faces.

The Marines chose different players to help organize their team. After each one failed, the Marines took a more aggressive approach. Then, they chose Maryland men’s basketball commit Bruno Fernando.

Fernando promptly delegated tasks to his teammates and took charge of the situation, impressing the Marines enough to point him out to Mahoney.

“They came up to me and said ‘That’s your leader.

trimble From p. 12 Between the 2:47 and 1:37 marks of the second half, Trimble scored all six of Maryland’s points to bring the Terps within five. Maryland spaced the floor with shooters, so the Hoyas were hesitant to collapse more than two defenders on Trimble.

Then, with about 19 seconds remaining and Maryland down four, Turgeon yelled for his squad to foul. Trimble, who Turgeon said is the leader of the team, didn’t agree.

“I said go for ball first,” Trimble said. “They were expecting us to foul.”

Hoyas guard Rodney Pryor traveled after Maryland trapped him in the corner. Georgetown forward Isaac Copeland fouled Cowan, and the rookie drained two free throws to cut the Terps’ deficit to one point.

Georgetown guard Tre Campbell then made a free throw, and Trimble sprinted coast-to-coast for a layup. About four seconds later, the Terps regained possession after Campbell stepped out of bounds on the inbound pass.

Hoyas guard L.J. Peak pushed

He’s got greatness in him’,” Mahoney remembered.

Now, Fernando is ready to bring his leadership and composure to coach Mark Turgeon’s squad. He committed to the program on Oct. 2 as the first member of the Terps’ 2017 class and signed his National Letter of Intent on Nov. 9.

“He’s a fairly skilled, but strong, big man,” Mahoney said. “He’s never been on the perimeter before, so he must get used to facing the basket and working on his handles.”

The 6-foot-10, 225-pound center is the No. 6 center and the No. 70 overall prospect in the nation, according to 247sports. Fernando is the highest-rated frontcourt recruit for the Terps since fivestar Diamond Stone joined the 2015 class.

As a coach for three years at Michigan, Mahoney un-

derstands Big Ten basketball and said he has no worries a b o u t Fe r n a n d o f i n d i n g success at the next level.

Mahoney said Fernando’s leadership and personality stand out as much as his talent on the court.

Trimble when Maryland tried to inbound the ball to him, and the 6-foot-3, 185-pound guard drained two free throws to give the Terps a one-point lead.

in close contests. He’s made clutch shots throughout his threeyear career, such as the game-winning threepointer against Wisconsin on Jan. 9 last season and a layup that put the Badgers out of reach the year before.

Even against American on Friday, Trimble led a late run keep the Eagles from recording an upset.

So as Trimble walked toward the locker room after the game, a M a r y l a n d fa i t h f u l yelled: “Melo!” Trimble pointed his index finger toward the fans with a wide grin while giving out high-fives. It was another day in the spotlight for the Terps star.

“He’s an outstanding player,” Georgetown coach John Thompson III said. “It’s not like there’s a breakdown. He’s going to have success. He’s very good in those situations. He does what good players do: make plays.”

[Melo’s] going to have success.

He’s very good in those situations. He does what good players do: make plays.

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2017 men’s basketball commit “I wish I could have another one of him,” Mahoney said.

G u a rd Kev i n H u e r te r blocked Hoyas guard Jagan M o s e l y ’s l a y u p o n t h e e n s u i n g p osse ss i o n , a n d guard Kent Auslander sprinted off the bench to pound Trimble’s chest and hug him.

“Melo is just good,” Turgeon said. “He has good poise.”

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Part of his command stems from growing up on the west coast of Angola with six siblings. He was the youngest of the group, but his family always viewed him as an equal.

“My dad and mom taught us how to respect and be a leader,” Fernando said. “They got us on the right path.”

The values and skills he learned growing up on the West African coast have translated to America, where he views himself as a leader for the Ascenders. Fernando said Mahoney’s unwavering faith helps his self-confidence in guiding IMG as a captain.

While he’ll be a newcomer for the Terps next year, Fernando is excited to compete for immediate playing time and mold into a leader for Turgeon’s program.

“I’m excited for the team,”

hoyas From p. 12 a formula the sixth-year coach said wouldn’t work against stiffer competition.

“I don’t want to make it a Melo show with 35 minutes to go in the game,” Turgeon said.

Maryland moved away from that style of play for much of their game against Georgetown, as Trimble had 11 points at the final media timeout. Players such as Jackson (17 points) and Cowan (11 points), playing in their second college games, found ways to score, while forward Ivan Bender added nine points off the bench despite still recovering from a fractured right wrist.

But with the Terps trailing, 65-56, with less than four minutes to go, Turgeon thought he might have waited too long to defer to Trimble. From then on, he told his All-Big Ten guard to drive the ball into the lane.

If the defense collapsed, the Terps touted capable shooters on the perimeter as an

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Fernando said. “I can bring a lot to the table for us.”

He admits that he’s become a better leader this season and part of the credit belongs to the Marines.

While there were times in the exercise he thought, “Oh man, I don’t do this” or contemplated leaving, he said he controlled his emotions and stayed calm.

H e l i s te n e d to h i s teammates and helped t h e m wo rk toge t h e r, skills Fernando strives to bring to the court.

“An amazing experience, we all learned a lot,” Fernando said.

“It’s learning how to be a leader and a follower.

Lessons you’ll carry with you all your life.”

Goins Jr. said Tuesday afternoon before practice.

“Preseason was a lot of hitting, a lot of running at each other, keeping your hands inside, things like that. So yeah, that definitely will help us then.”

“A lot of hitting and a lot of running everywhere, but it’s football,” defensive lineman Roman Braglio added. “You’ve got to get back to what we did.”

That approach focuses on the two qualities their leader harped on before the team’s first full practice of the week.

“We somehow allowed the circumstances to change how we played,” Durkin said.

“We did, and so it’s getting back to the technique and fundamentals — just playing how we play and not worrying about everything else and who we’re playing or whatever.”

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Trailing by nine with two minutes and 21 seconds to play, Trimble got to the rim for a layup. He hit two free throws on the ensuing possession before Huerter knocked down a 3-pointer. The Hoyas’ lead dipped to four with a little under a minute to play.

Needing to foul, the Terps hacked guard L.J. Peak, who hit Georgetown’s 33rd and 34th free throws of the night.

But Jackson responded with a layup, and on the next two Maryland trips, Cowan drew fouls. The 6-foot Bowie native brought his team within one with by sinking four straight from the line.

“We played with a group of freshmen out there who have never been in that environment before,” said Trimble, who led all scorers with 22 points. “For them to go out there and play the way they did and step up when we needed them to was very special.”

Turgeon related his squad’s late-game execution Tuesday night to their offensive efficiency in the final minutes against American in their season opener. Then,

Maryland didn’t commit a turnover in the final seven minutes and made enough stops to fend off the Eagles at Xfinity Center. While the Terps went without a giveaway for the last five minutes Tuesday night, they couldn’t stop fouling, allowing the Hoya s to m a i n ta i n t h e i r slight advantage.

But after Trimble went the length of the floor for a layup, cutting the deficit to one, Georgetown forward Tre Campbell stepped out of bounds. Peak then compounded the giveaway by fouling Trimble.

“Just too many mental errors at the end,” Georgetown coach John Thompson III said.

“You can rattle off a bunch of them. We put them in a position to win the game.”

Like the previous seven, the Terps’ eighth offensive possession since the 2:21 mark ended in points, opening the door for Huerter to seal the Hoyas’ fate.

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wild From p. 12 “He wasn’t in the mood for that,” said Johnny Meyer, Wild’s father. “Soccer was his passion. We let him have his own passion. We didn’t want to force him.”

Wild stuck with soccer, which he began playing as a 3-year-old. He fell in love with the sport, the most popular hobby in Germany, and could play it whenever he liked.

Wild’s hometown had five soccer fields.

“We didn’t have anything else,” Wild said. “We could just walk there. There was no crime.

Kids just came over, ‘Hey, you want to go kick the ball?’ That’s what we did all day.”

Until he was 11, Wild played with his friends from 1-7 p.m. each day. That training helped Wild develop a strong shot, one that has allowed him to score from virtually anywhere in the attacking third.

Wild’s parents signed him up for his first soccer club when he was 4 years old. At first, Wild was intimidated by his peers, many of whom stood taller than him because of his late growth spurt. But as he continued to practice with his friends, he became the star of the club before playing for some of Germany’s top youth leagues.

“Germany is a complete soccer country,” Wild said.

“Everyone looks up to soccer players. It’s like basketball, football and baseball players combined into one sport. It grabs a lot of attention, and everybody wants to try it out.”

Wild took notice of his parents’ day-to-day circus training. Between practicing, eating healthy and stretching, they dedicated the majority of their time to it. Their work ethic taught Wild what it took to reach his soccer goals.

“We always said, ‘Gordon, if you want to become a professional soccer player, you just have to train twice as much as

the others, whether you have talent or not,’” said Wild’s mother, Irene. “To show your talent in front of an audience, that’s nothing new to him. You have to overcome your ego while working in a team. He was sucking this life into himself since he was born.”

As one of the top German soccer players in his age group, Wild was invited to Mainz’s youth academy when he was 16.

Mainz is one of 18 teams in the Bundesliga, the highest division of German soccer, and soccer was a priority there.

The team held practices every morning and evening. Wild watched film daily and learned from his teammates, some of whom got called up to play for the Mainz first team and train with the German national team, which is the reigning World Cup champion.

Living at a boarding school 90 minutes from his home, Wild saw some of his friends quit due to the intensity of the training.

Some days were a challenge, but Wild said he made his largest developments with Mainz.

“That was really a hard change,” Irene Wild said. “You have to imagine that there are hundreds of thousands of boys that it’s the biggest dream of their life to be scouted by a Bundesliga club.”

Coming to America Irene Wild couldn’t stop crying for two weeks.

After two years with Mainz, Gordon Wild and his parents felt he should go to school in the U.S., and Irene Wild couldn’t contain her emotions.

“At 16 to move out of the house was tough too,” Irene Wild said. “I thought, ‘We’ve done that already.’ But we really didn’t expect it like that. It was really, really tough.”

Competing in the circus, Gordon Wild’s parents knew how important an education

was as a backup to athletics in case of an injury. In Germany, many of the soccer players play professionally without getting a strong education. America offered a different option.

Wild could land a scholarship to pursue a business administration degree while chasing his athletic goals.

“We would not let our son who we loved more than anything else in the world be away from us if we didn’t know it would be for something really good,” Irene Wild said. “Gordon is a very positive thinking and very ambitious, very wantingto-win person. We had a feeling the U.S. suits his character.”

Wild signed up for SportScholarship, a recruiting agency that sends international players’ information to American college coaches.

USC Upstate coach Greg Hooks has recruited German players for years through this service — the team currently has five Germans on its roster.

Wild’s video impressed him.

Hooks contacted Wild and his parents in May. It was late in the recruiting process, and most schools had given out their scholarships by February.

One of Hooks’ players left the team before the season, though, so he had room for Wild and offered him a scholarship.

When Wild arrived in Spartanburg, South Carolina, he and the other four Germans on the squad clicked. Defender Lukas Sommer, who’s from Nordwalde, Germany, took Wild around campus, showing him the soccer fields, stadium, facilities and weight room. They talked about the program and their similar culture. The pair became best friends, and Wild felt at home.

Wild’s brother also had a friend living in Spartanburg, so Wild visited him whenever he needed a ride or a homecooked meal.

Both of Wild’s parents can speak English, so he was comfortable with the language.

Wild said the biggest change

was not having home-cooked meals, especially some of his favorite foods, such as schnitzel and spaetzle. But he and his German teammates found a substitute in Chipotle.

“It’s not that different from Germany or Europe,” Sommer said. “It’s pretty much the same.”

Wild didn’t score in any preseason games, but in the second match of the regular season, he notched four goals.

That performance gave Wild confidence, and from there he scored 12 more times en route to winning Atlantic Sun freshman of the year.

“They come from a culture that soccer is very important,” Hooks said. “They tend to be technical and skillful players. All of them, Gordon included, have been exceptional students. They’ve all been hard workers and they’re very serious about soccer.”

the country,” Wild said. “What Sasho created here is special and unique. It’s something I’m enjoying every day. His whole mentality, passion, his whole commitment to this program, how he sees things — that’s something that inspired me.

I couldn’t say no to this. There was no way.”

Before offering Wild a scholarship, Cirovski spoke with two Atlantic Sun coaches. He also spoke to Hooks, who coached against some of the nation’s top talent as an assistant at Clemson. He told Cirovski that Wild was capable of the switch.

Cirovski then spoke with Wild’s parents over the phone, and both parties were convinced Wild would fit into the Terps program. Wild’s parents said former coaches had promised Wild would have a certain role on past teams, only for those verbal commitments to fall through.

They knew Cirovski would be different.

‘I couldn’t say no to this’ “I’ve had many trainers in my soccer mom life, and I’ve never When Maryland traveled to play Clemson in the NCAA heard someone so convincing and with so much experience Tournament quarterfinals as Sasho Cirovski,” Irene Wild last December, coach Sasho said. “I was convinced that this Cirovski’s iPhone buzzed.

It was an email from Wild, is absolutely the best coach who was interested in transfer- and the best program. No false ring to Maryland to compete promises. No bullshit.” against the nation’s top talent.

Cirovski had heard about “some The American Dream freshman” who led the NCAA in scoring, but he had never When defender Chris Odoispoken to Wild.

Atsem saw Wild shoot for the While Maryland competed first time this past summer, for a national championship, it reminded him of one of the Wild visited Syracuse, UCLA, Terps’ former stars.

San Diego and San Francisco, Forward Patrick Mullins, some of the other historically who played for Maryland strong college soccer pro- from 2010 to 2013, had a quick grams. But Cirovski made and powerful strike similar to Wild promise to visit Maryland Wild’s. He’s Maryland’s second before making a decision. all-time leading scorer (47 Wild visited College Park goals) and now plays for D.C. over the winter. He met the United. coaching staff, saw the team’s “Gordon is a great player, and facilities, and toured Land- I love playing with him,” midmark, where a lot of the soccer fielder Eryk Williamson said. players live.

“I kind of [expect] it from him He committed on the spot. because he’s scored so many “It’s the best soccer school in goals this year. It’s kind of like,

‘Oh, there’s Gordon again.’”

Cirovski thought Wild would hit his stride by October, guessing it would take some time for him to integrate into the coach’s up-tempo and high-pressure system after arriving over the summer. But early in the season, Wild proved he could thrive at this level.

A f te r sco r i n g tw i ce i n Maryland’s second contest of the season, Wild took off.

The sophomore has scored 16 goals, which ranks third in the country. He’s also stepped up in multiple situations with Maryland on the verge of losing for the first time this season.

Wild leads the Big Ten with six game-winning goals.

Wild played in five German clubs growing up, so he said the experience of adapting to several different systems helped soothe his transition.

Off the field, Wild had no problems fitting in. He lives in Landmark with defender Alex Crognale, forward George Campbell and Niedermeier.

“There was no doubt in my mind that Gordon could do it,” Hooks said. “He had the desire and the work ethic to allow him to succeed. It probably would’ve been more surprising had he not succeeded.”

Wild hasn’t forgotten those who helped him get here, though.

Every game, Wild wears a wristband on each arm. He wrote “IW,” his mom’s initials, on his right band. His left reads “JM,” his dad’s initials. Each time Wild scores, the German striker kisses both wristbands and points his index fingers to the sky.

Two years ago, Wild couldn’t have guessed he’d have this opportunity. Back then it was just a dream.

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After slow start, Trimble takes over in final moments

After grabbing the final rebound Kyle Stackpole of the Maryland @kylefstackpole men’s basketball Senior staff writer team’s 76-75 win Tuesday night, guard Anthony Cowan sprinted to midcourt to celebrate with his teammates, who jumped off the bench and ran onto the floor as the final buzzer at the Verizon Center sounded. Coach Mark Turgeon rejoiced on the sideline, fist pumping and twirling around as though he were in the midst of a ballet routine.

Guard Kevin Huerter had just blocked the Hoyas’ go-ahead layup attempt, capping the Terps’ improbable comeback that left Georgetown wondering how it lost a nine-point lead in the final three minutes.

Two turnovers in the last 19 seconds didn’t help. Neither did fouling guard Melo Trimble in the backcourt with 7.6 seconds to play and a one-point advantage. But Georgetown’s collapse wasn’t all its own doing. With Trimble at the point and his teammates spread around him, Maryland scored 17 points in its final eight possessions, putting pressure on the Hoyas until they cracked.

“We had great shooters around him — Jared Nickens, Justin [Jackson] hit some threes, Anthony can make shots, and Kevin Huerter,” Turgeon said. “Try to guard that lineup when we space it.”

Turgeon preached offensive balance entering Tuesday’s contest. Against American, Trimble’s 19 shots were 13 more than the next highest Terp,

Coach Mark Turgeon didn’t wa n t to re ly on guard Melo Trimble at the beginning of the Maryland men’s basketball team’s game against Georgetown on Tuesday night. But by the time the final buzzer blew on the Terps’ 76-75 comeback victory at the Verizon Center, Trimble had taken control.

At halftime, Trimble had five points. But the junior finished with a game-high 22 and converted the game-winning free throws with seven seconds left to lead his squad to victory.

“We just spread the floor and put it in Melo’s hands,” Turgeon said. “He’s the best guy in the country at going down hill.”

Trimble let his teammates take control at the start. Guard Anthony Cowan and forward Justin Jackson, two of Maryland’s freshmen who also thrived in the Terps’ season opener against American on Friday, made the largest contributions offensively.

They combined for 28 points and 12 rebounds.

Trimble, meanwhile, didn’t attempt his first shot until the 13:12 mark of the first half — a three-pointer he drained.

The Upper Marlboro native missed his following four shots before making two free throws at the end of the half.

But as the second half progressed and the Terps trailed, Trimble stepped up.

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Guard Melo Trimble led all scorers with 22 points. His two free throws with 7.6 seconds left put the Terps ahead for good. marquise mckine/the diamondback

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Durkin reinforces original principles Coach preaches effort, fundamentals During t h e preCallie Caplan season, @CallieCaplan coach DJ Senior staff writer Durkin’s first with the Maryland football team, he preached for hard work, sound fundamentals and constant effort. After all, he inherited a team that posted a 3-9 record a year earlier and suffered a talent gap from the upper echelon of its Big Ten competitors.

While the disparity has shown in the Terps’ past two losses — opponents have outscored them by a combined 115 points — Durkin’s belief in his original principles hasn’t wavered.

With this in mind, he stood at the podium in Tyser Tower on Tuesday afternoon and knew the exact two qualities the team would focus on entering Saturday’s game against Nebraska, Maryland’s third consecutive outing against a top-25 foe.

“Technique and effort,” the rookie leader said, repeating the phrase. “That’s what our program’s built on when you start back on day one, I believe.

It’s how we made great strides as a team. We focused solely on technique and effort, teachi n g g uys t h e f u n d a m e n ta l s of playing their position and getting them to play hard.

“And we haven’t done that.

Obviously we’ve played some very good teams, and that’s again not taking any credit away from them, but we haven’t done that for the past couple weeks.

We just haven’t.”

As the Terps pushed through a grueling fall camp, Durkin tried to create hardships as practice for when adverse situations popped up. He scheduled by

forward gordon wild led the nation in scoring last season at USC Upstate. Now he’s the top scorer for the nation’s best team. matt regan/the diamondback

a wild ride Germany native Gordon Wild navigates his way onto Terps’ attack

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s the red Ford F-250 Crew Cab pickup truck rolled down Interstate 85, Gordon Wild had his eyes glued on the surroundings beyond the front seat window.

Wild had just gotten off his nine-hour flight to the Charlotte Douglas International Airport – the first time he’d stepped foot in the United States.

As South Carolina Upstate assistant coach Scott Halkett drove Wild toward the German’s new home, each fast food restaurant, from Bojangles’ Famous Chicken ’n Biscuits to Chick-fil-A to Cracker Barrel, astonished Wild as they passed by.

It was all new to Wild, who was accustomed to his mom’s home cooking in Cologne, Germany.

Little did Wild know at that time he was about to take college soccer by storm.

Wild played soccer growing up, but his parents wanted him to get an education, too, so he attended school in the U.S. He ended up at USC Upstate, where he led the nation in scoring with 16 goals.

The 5-foot-10 forward has scored the same number of times this season — the third-best

mark in the country — only his production has come as a part of the undefeated Maryland men’s soccer team, which enters the NCAA tournament as the No. 1 overall seed.

When Wild left Germany two years ago, he didn’t know how he’d stack up against American competition. Now, he’s at the helm of the nation’s second-best scoring offense that will be the focal point of Maryland’s national championship pursuit.

“The kid’s a monster,” goalkeeper Cody Niedermeier said. “That man just scores goals. It’s something in his blood or something. I’m glad he’s on my team.”

Growing up When he wasn’t playing soccer growing up, Wild learned how to perform somersaults and backflips. Wild’s parents performed in the circus, so they brought Wild to practice.

He hated it.

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practices at the hottest times of the day and claimed his regimen was one of the most physically demanding of any team in the country.

Though he didn’t know it in August, one of the team’s most tumultuous moments struck just before facing Ohio State.

The team announced about an hour before the game running back Lorenzo Harrison, wide receiver DJ Turner and linebacker Antoine Brooks were suspended indefinitely for violating the student athlete code of conduct.

This university’s police department announced Wednesday Harrison and Brooks have been charged with three counts each of second degree assault and reckless endangerment for the BB gun incident on the campus.

Brooks was not charged and is no longer suspended.

“There are distractions and as we keep growing as a program, you’ve got to learn to get over those distractions,” Durkin said after the 62-3 loss. “Then [to] really even play at a higher level because of it is really what you do when you become a great team.”

In Harrison’s absence, the Terps recorded their lowest rushing total (47 yards) of the season against the Buckeyes’ stout front. For the second consecutive week, the backfield, which paced the Terps to a 4-0 start, failed to eclipse 100 yards.

It’s one of the aspects the coach wants his squad to improve, admitting it has strayed from some of the qualities that made it successful earlier in the season.

That’s why Durkin said the Terps plan to arrive in Nebraska feeling “like we’re back in training camp.” “ I t’s go i n g to b e so m e t h i n g crazy,” running back Kenneth See Terps, p. 10