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Adenovirus report doesn’t satisfy family

A panel wrote that the university could improve its communication during emergencies

Ian Paregol said the investigation left important questions about his daughter’s death unanswered

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An independent report on the Unive rs i ty o f M a ryland’s response to last fall’s adenovirus outbreak found the school complied with state, federal and campus protocols but faltered in its communication between departments.

Gov. Larry Hogan called for an investigation in May into this university’s response to the outbreak. Freshman Olivia Paregol, a criminology and criminal justice major, died Nov. 18 from complications of adenovirus.

The university first became aware of a case of adenovirus on Nov. 1, but didn’t notify the campus until the day after Paregol — who had Crohn’s disease and lived in Elkton Hall, one of the dorms most affected by a campuswide mold outbreak— died. The virus wound up spreading around campus, affecting more than 40 students by the end of the academic year.

In July, the University System of Maryland named a five-person panel — who had expertise in areas ranging from public health to communications — to assess the university’s response.

After reviewing over 25,000 pages of documents and interviewing more than a dozen people, the panel concluded student health was a paramount concern in the university’s response and no employee withheld or delayed relevant information.

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“That is not to say that the University’s response to these events was perfect,” the panel wrote in their report.

“No response ever is.”

For one, the panel found that the University Health Center largely handled the adenovirus outbreak, while Residential Facilities addressed the mold outbreak.

Both were treated as “departmental emergencies” rather than problems for the entire campus, it said.

“Both issues should have been viewed and handled as campus-wide emergencies which would have made available additional personnel, talent and resources,” the report read.

Experts say mold doesn’t cause adenovirus, though it can cause respiratory irritation and generally increase the likelihood of contracting a viral infection. Olivia Paregol’s father, Ian, has expressed concern that mold in his daughter’s dorm worsened her condition — and that the university did not communicate adequately with him about her illness.

T h e p a n e l fo u n d t h e u n ive rs i ty d i d n o t a p p ea r to h ave a “ m a t u re culture of emergency management” across its campus, which would have allowed officials to more effectively respond to the mold and adenovirus outbreaks.

Moving forward, the panel recommended that the See REPORT, p. 8

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UMD students and staff were among the protestors who gathered outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday See daca , p. 7

OLIVIA PAREGOL died last fall after contracting adenovirus, which had broken out across the campus. (photo courtesy of ian paregol) The father of the University of Maryland student who died during an outbreak of adenovirus on the campus said Wednesday that he wasn’t satisfied with the findings of an independent investigation into the school’s response to the infection.

“It’s not the glowing report that the university makes it out to be,” Ian Paregol told The Diamondback.

Paregol’s daughter, Olivia, died lastNovemberfromcomplications of a serious strain of adenovirus, a common illness that doesn’t often prove serious for people with healthy immune systems. Olivia Paregol,though,was taking medicine for Crohn’s disease before she died, which made her more susceptible to illness — and Paregol has long said the university’s lack of communication about the outbreak hindered her treatment.

Paregol said his daughter’s treatment would have been different if the doctors knew she’d been exposed to adenovirus. He didn’t find out the virus was spreading across the campus until he called David McBride,who was acting as the university’s Health Center director,in mid-November,begging for answers as Olivia grew sicker in the intensive care unit of John by

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Hopkins Hospital. Doctors then started treating her with an antiviral drug,but she died five days later.

Gov. Larry Hogan told the University System of Maryland in May to look into the university’s handling of the outbreak. A sixperson team interviewed 15 people, including Paregol, and released its findings Wednesday. But for Paregol,the most important question remains unanswered.

It’s not the glowing report that the university makes it out to be.” ian paregol

father of olivia paregol “The first question I asked them when I started my interview,” he said, “is why didn’t they contact Olivia or my family and tell us there was an adenovirus outbreak? And that’s still not answered.”

An attorney who worked on the review,Charles Simmons,wrote in an email to The Diamondback that the report doesn’t address why Ian Paregol wasn’t contacted about a campuswide adenovirus outbreak because “a response would

require disclosure of information protected by HIPAA and FERPA” — privacy laws that protect health and educational records. “[A]ll communications by the University, through University Health Center staff, were timely and appropriate and supported by local, state and federal agencies that specialize in infectious disease matters,” Simmons wrote.

In May, the Washington Post reported that officials discussed notifying students with compromised immune systems and those living in Elkton Hall about the outbreak, but decided against it.

At the start of USM’s 141-page report, the independent panel charged with reviewing the university’s actions states that officials“worked tirelessly”to address the crisis, that student health and safety was of “paramount concern” during the response and that“no employee ever intentionally withheld or delayed disclosing pertinent information.”

But whether the delay in communication was “intentional” doesn’tmatter,wroteParegol,who believes withheld information caused his daughter’s death.

The university has repeatedly stated it acted in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

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SGA calls on administration to review free speech policies The vote comes two months after radical religious demonstrators sparked protests on McKeldin Mall Two months after protesters shouting sexist and homophobic rhetoric sparked protests at the University of Maryland, the SGA voted Wednesday to call for the enforcement and revision of the university’s policies regarding free speech for on-campus demonstrations.

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members of the Key of David Christian Center stood on McKeldin Mall taunting LGBTQ+ people, Muslims and women — prompting hundreds of students to surround them and shout them down.

Now, claiming that the group’s threatening and disruptive nature was a violation of university guidelines, the Student Government Association passed a bill to work with campus

officials in order to ensure they hold future violators accountable.

The bill received a vote of 28-0 with one abstention.

Alyssa Miller, the Greek residential representative and one of the 32 co-sponsors of the bill, said she believes that passing this bill is crucial in terms of protecting and preserving the rights of protest attendees.

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By Jillian Atelsek and Rina Torchinsky @jillian_atelsek & @rinatorchi | Staff writers University of Maryland Police responded to reports of a home invasion, theft and sexual assault over the past week, according to daily crime logs.

BURGLARY Prince George’s County Police are investigating a burglary at the University of Maryland after a female student awoke to a noise and found a male at the foot of her bed Sunday morning.

The incident occurred in the 4200 block of Knox Road, and University Police were contacted at about 12:20 p.m., according to a UMD Alert. The male ran out of the student’s room after she woke up, the alert read.

County Police Cpl. Nicholas Clayton said he couldn’t provide any additional information when contacted for comment on Sunday.

Theft Police responded to two reports of theft on Nov. 11.

At about 11 a.m., a student reported to police that her wallet had been stolen three days before at Hornbake

Library, police spokesperson Rosanne Hoaas wrote in an email. The student said an unauthorized transaction had been made.

At about 4 p.m., police responded to Van Munching Hall for a reported theft, Hoaas wrote. A female student reported that her bike — which was secured to a rack with a cable lock — had been stolen earlier that day.

Both cases are active.

Sexual assault & Title IX incident A female student reported a rape to police on Tuesday, Hoaas wrote. The suspect is a male with no affiliation to the university, and the parties know each other, she added.

On Wednesday, police responded to the University Health Center for a report from a female student of a non-criminal Title IX incident that happened off-campus, Hoaas wrote.

Police explained the student’s options regarding a criminal investigation.

Both cases are active.

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How a class project is becoming a campuswide initiative to provide free period products

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ack in August, Claire Mudd was in Denton Hall at the University of Maryland, helping students move in, when she realized something troubling.

She had gotten her period.

With no friends nearby, the senior accounting major was stuck across campus from her dorm with no products.

“Panic was probably the first thought,” Mudd said. “A lot of stress, a lot of anxiety.”

With no choice but to stick it out, she waited until her lunch break to rush to the Stamp Student Union — one of only a handful of buildings on campus that provides free pads and tampons.

The university do more to advertise the availability of these products, Mudd said, but still — it sometimes just isn’t an option for people to trek across campus to pick up a pad or tampon if they forgot one.

“It comes down to accessibility,” she said. “To be able to quickly get what you need

is so important.”

To alleviate this issue, Mudd — along with four other women — are pushing for the installation of free tampon and pad dispensers in 15 commonly-used bathrooms around the campus, taking what began as a class project to the next level.

Currently, free pads and tampons are offered by Stamp Student Union, the University Health Center, McKeldin Library and the Campus Pantry, if the facility receives donated products.

But it’s not always immediately clear that they’re available at no charge. For instance, Stamp’s bathrooms host dispensers that feature coin slots, even though they don’t actually require payment.

And to pick up a free pad or tampon at McKeldin Library, students must get them from the front desk. Having products available in bathrooms would save students from inconvenience and, at times, embarrassment, said Zoe Weisberg, a

freshman marketing major and one of the girls who’s working with Mudd.

She said she’s been in multiple situations where she’s gotten her period unexpectedly and didn’t have a tampon — and she knows others who have too.

“Personally, I’ve been in situations where I’ve been really stressed,” she said.

The stakes are even higher for those who aren’t able to afford to purchase pads or tampons regularly. Over the course of a lifetime, the average woman will spend more than $2,000 on menstrual products, HuffPost reported.

“College students have to worry about so much,” Weisberg said. “They shouldn’t have to deal with like ‘should I buy food or should I buy a box of tampons.’”

The initiative started when the girls were assigned a semester-long project in a public policy class, where they were simply challenged to “do something good,” said Lauren Anikis,

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a senior journalism major and another team member.

But the group took the opportunity further than they ever anticipated, submitting a proposal to the Student Facilities Fund and sending around a petition to raise awareness and support for their cause. So far, over 300 students have signed on.

“We want the school to be responsible for paying for it the same way they’re responsible for paying for toilet paper and paper towels,” Anikis said.

Several colleges have made these products free on their campuses. Just last month, the University of Illinois replaced many of their buildings’ dispensers, which previously required payment, with free machines.

Though Anikis said that the group has some concerns about how the project will be funded for future years, she believes raising enough money to promote such an important cause would be feasible.

“This is important, but it’s

also possible,” Anikis said. “It does not seem ridiculous to me that there would be money for something so necessary for the day-to-day life of students.”

The group is asking the Student Facilities Fund for $18,000 — a sum that will cover the installation of 15 dispensers and $15,000-worth of pads and tampons, a year’s supply.

To gauge interest in the initiative, the team left baskets of tampons and pads in three bathrooms in McKeldin, the South Campus Diner and the Edward St. John Learning Center. As students exited the bathrooms, they asked them what they thought of the free products.

They also recorded how many products were taken.

In addition, they sent out a survey to different university Facebook groups, asking students what bathrooms they used the most. The group settled on placing dispensers in Edward St. John, Knight Hall, Tydings Hall, McKeldin, Hornbake Library and 10 other facilities.

Abigail Bauserman, a freshman economics major, said she hopes the university supports the group’s initiative.

“Periods can be an added pressure for people,” she said.

“I feel like it would be really beneficial and I would feel encouraged seeing that.”

As the semester comes to a close, the girls hope to get the program going and then hand the project off to an established club, like PERIOD. @ UMD — and eventually see it expanded to every academic building on campus.

They’ve even had a bunch of students contact them, offering their help after seeing the petition.

After all, Anikis said, menstruation isn’t a choice.

“Our society, the way it is right now, expects … that women can figure it out by themselves,” she said. “Students need this. Girls need this.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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recently clashed with Gov. Larry Hogan over a “thin blue line” flag carving gifted to a county police station. In a statement, Elrich said the carving would not be displayed publicly within the police department because of its divisiveness.

This prompted strong blowback from Hogan and members of the public. It also inspired my fellow columnist, Kevin Hu, to write about how this controversy over Blue Lives Matter is overblown and dismissive of the positive contributions of law enforcement.

Unlike my colleague, I believe that the toxicity between the police and the policed is further stoked by movements such as Blue Lives Matter.

In his column, Hu claims, “the inclusion of the blue line [in the flag] has been labeled by some as a slight against Black Lives Matter by apparently conveying the opposing message, Blue Lives Matter.” It is objectively true that the Blue Lives Matter movement came about in response to increased criticism of law enforcement after highprofile police killings, such as the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. This criticism — focused on deadly, racially-biased policing — became encompassed in the Black Lives Matter movement.

As more and more police shootings occurred with fewer repercussions, many wondered whether police are actually accountable to those they swear to protect. This criticism sparked fears of a “war on cops,” and,

coupled with a few incidents of targeted shootings of police, inspired the adoption of Blue Lives Matter as an opposing rallying cry. Blue Lives Matter is not only a response to a movement for police accountability — it is also a movement that views police accountability to the public and police safety as a zero-sum game. This in itself is toxic for police-community relations.

Hu also notes, “It’s ludicrous that a mundane artistic choice here is being labeled with a politically charged motive.” First, the American flag is a national symbol. Any modification of it is inherently political. Second, Blue Lives Matter is also political because it has an associated legislative end — making the targeting of first responders a hate crime. I am obviously opposed to violence against first responders, but it’s important to note that there are already laws that impose harsher charges and sentences on those who attack police.

Classifying an occupation as an oppressed group is what’s really ludicrous here, especially because this might actually increase enmity and violence — and decrease cooperation and stability — between police and the communities they police.

Instead of addressing a deadly epidemic of police brutality that, at the moment, often allows police to act with impunity, Blue Lives Matter seeks to further divide police and the policed, feeding into the narrative that cops are at war with the public and must protect themselves accordingly.

Finally, in his case for appreciation for police, Hu mentions the very real dangers they face on the job. He accurately points

out that “[p]olice officers can be injured in the most unsuspecting situations, such as in what investigators called a routine traffic stop. The constant, subliminal fear of death is a real concern.”

Just last month, a 24-yearold black man was left partially paralyzed after police arrested him during a traffic stop in Prince George’s County. In 2016, Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man, was fatally shot as he stood outside his car; the officer who shot him was acquitted. Philando Castile was shot during a traffic stop in 2016: The officer who killed him was acquitted. Michael Brown was killed in 2014. The officer who killed him was not indicted, and the U.S. Justice Department did not pursue federal civil rights charges.

The constant, subliminal fear of death is a real concern not just for the police.

Ultimately, equating the issue with Blue Lives Matter to a flag design choice is harmful and reductive, and it ignores the political power this movement wields. Blue Lives Matter pushes the narrative that not only are police a separate class from civilians, but also that what is good for police is in direct opposition to the public will. This movement seeks to stifle legitimate criticism and punishment of police, and foster enmity between police and the communities they are sworn to protect. As for “over-criticizing” police, perhaps if officers faced real consequences like the rest of us, the public would feel less obligated to take matters into their own hands.

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decision to engage with and, to some extent, participate in that violence. Because the classroom can never exist as a space completely isolated from the heavy connotations of the threatening use of slurs and the bias that comes with them, uttering these words in full will always carry this weight.

The most frequently argued use for racial slurs in classrooms is when reading or referencing a text that uses the word in full.

Some argue that removing the use of the word is inauthentic and degrades the original content. But students have the ability to read and engage with these words on their own terms without them being spoken. In addition, this kind of thinking and practice gives an unnecessary validation to the deeply bigoted practices of our past and can be harmful to students who belong to groups targeted by slurs. When professors who do not hail from the culture the slur attacks vocalize them, they perpetuate the violent use of the slur rather than working toward reclamation.

In spring 2019, I had a white professor who chose to say the n-word during class. The use of this racial epithet was uncontextualized, and there was no real meaning behind its utterance. My professor argued that “using” and “referencing” words were different — even when vocalizing them in full.

The gig economy exploits workers SONJA NEVE @Sonja_Neve Columnist

It’s a snowy day in College Park. You could brave the weather to get groceries, but as a student, you had a busy week, and it’s finals season, so work is seemingly endless. To give yourself a break, you order groceries through an app, knowing you can run downstairs in a couple of hours to pick it up. Just like that, your grocery shopping is done. It seems inexpensive and convenient, until you realize the real cost: the time a driver spent braving the weather and the roads only to be paid, at minimum, a measly $7 an hour.

Or you decide to get an Uber to the grocery store, and the driver taking you there can’t afford food for themselves because they’re making as little as $3.75 an hour. The gig economy is brutal and dehumanizing, and it needs to change.

Instacart, a grocery delivery service that employs “shoppers” to pick up your handpicked groceries and bring them to your door, is the latest company exposed for exploitative labor practices. Shoppers spoke out this month about the problems they faced, including company-pocketed service fees and a low 5 percent default tip on the app on top of an extremely low minimum wage, causing full-time workers to make as little as a few hundred dollars a week.

Workers organized a strike, made demands to their employer and wrote an article sharing their experiences. Instacart retaliated by flagging the article to be taken down and cutting employee bonuses.

Amazon uses similar tactics to increase efficiency. Though warehouse workers are not contracted workers — despite still signing a non-compete agreement — they face their own share of abuses, from receiving low pay to being overworked without breaks.

Flex delivery workers are members of the gig economy and face inconsistent pay, with Amazon refusing to protect them against parking ticket fees or accidents and creating a competitive work environment that pits drivers against each other. These workers are afraid to speak out, but have called for changes to conditions, with one worker likening it to treatment of “animals or robots.”

Asking people to stop using these services altogether is hard. Many concerned people

looking to switch delivery service providers took to Twitter for recommendations, as grocery delivery makes life much easier for those who aren’t mobile enough to go to the store due to a disability or other personal reasons. I have gone through similar guilt each semester, not wanting to contribute to the exploitation of Amazon workers but needing to find the most affordable textbooks available as a student with a long list of other expenses. This isn’t to say you shouldn’t boycott when workers go on strike, as Instacart workers did earlier this month and Uber workers did earlier this year. But for the rest of the year, how do we reckon with our dependence on these companies that bring convenience and affordability to our busy lives?

The real villains of this story are not college students taking Ubers and ordering groceries.

It’s the companies turning a profit by exploiting workers and skirting labor laws. Companies like Uber, Lyft and TaskRabbit pull employees in by offering them the chance to be their own boss, then classify them as “independent contractors,” absolving companies of legal responsibility to provide workers with benefits, overtime or minimum wages, and denying them the right to form labor unions and negotiate contracts.

Workers bearing the costs but not receiving the profits is the real way these companies make their money — and these companies are certainly making money. Jeff Bezos, who owns Amazon, is the second-richest person in the world.

The only way to change the way these employees are treated and compensated for their work is to hold companies accountable for the fair payment of workers. Laws must be passed to stop companies from avoiding existing labor laws by classifying their employees as independent contractors. Employees need to be able to organize with fellow gig workers and negotiate better conditions by unionizing. And until they do, these companies will continue taking advantage of their employees, as it keeps them competitive and helps them get rich. As college students, we benefit from the convenience of services like ridesharing and food delivery — but it comes at a cost beyond the obvious price tag. sonjaneve55@gmail.com

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Millennial humor isn’t meaningless

Professors need to stop uttering racial slurs College i s u s u a l ly considered a time for people to broaden their horizons and deepen their understanding of previously unfamiliar cultures and concepts. Some professors choose to push the boundaries with lessons on difficult and sensitive content. But in light of recent hate bias incident reports on campus, the use of slurs and offensive terms in the classroom must be reevaluated at every level.

Regardless of policies in place, racial slurs such as the n-word have been used in classroom pedagogy at the University of Maryland, and it’s time professors bring this practice to an end.

While discussion about racial slurs will always be important to understanding our past and approaching historical content with well-rounded background knowledge, this educational context can easily be established without saying slurs aloud in the classroom. Though some argue that pushback against the use of slurs in the classroom is a sign of coddled and sensitive students, it must be recognized that pedagogical success at any given time in no way relies on the active vocalization of slurs.

No matter their intent, when the authority figure in a classroom chooses to use words with violent histories by speaking them in full, they are consciously making the

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Though action was taken and apologies were issued, this kind of mindset is certainly not restricted to just this one professor. When educators vocalize slurs in this way, students are forced to engage the violent histories they invoke without consent or acknowledgement.

Students I spoke to had varied thoughts on the issue.

Some said that repeating racial slurs may be acceptable if used minimally and in reference to historical documents along with a contextual debrief. Others said racial slurs are never acceptable, regardless of the context.

Some conveyed uncertainty about the use of racial slurs such as the n-word, but it was clear that there’s uneasiness felt around the topic. Many expressed the belief that it’s not their place to comment on the utterance of racial slurs if they are not of a demographic targeted by a slur.

But it’s this exact type of inaction that can work to unintentionally endorse slur use in the classroom.

Ultimately, speaking racial slurs in full in the classroom reaps no true educational benefit, and referring to words without speaking them is more than adequate for facilitating discussion. Professors should strive to respect students and cease saying racial slurs in educational spaces. lexiew@terpmail.umd.edu

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There’s a certain tension I’ve noticed in some of my classes when someone references a generational joke or meme in general discussion. Last week, while discussing a poem about the apocalypse, a few students explained the phrase “yeeting into the void” to my professor in order to relate to the poem’s neutrality about the end of times. I found myself embarrassed for a minute, worried my professor would see it as a trivial connection.

But he affirmed it was a good comparison, and spent the rest of class discussing the potential comforts of “yeeting one’s self into the void.”

I’ve been thinking about the broader applications of Gen Z and millennial memes and humor a lot. Over the last few years, several op-eds have been written about it: some critical, but others understand humor plays a big role in younger generations’ media consumption and communication. It’s been called “shocking,”“absurdist” and “dark,” but the recent injection of our generation’s humor into my class discussion has made me consider its role in academia, political conversations — and, further, its worthiness to exist in these spaces.

One recent meme that’s been circulating on social media has also made a noticeable impact on the real world: the “OK, Boomer” meme.

The phrase is often used to shut down members of the baby-boom generation in a simple and unarguable manner, invalidating any point in an argument by invoking their age as a disqualifier to participate. It’s gained attention from a recent New York Times article proclaiming the joke as the “end of friendly generational relations,” and its use by New Zealand lawmaker Chlöe Swarbrick during a parliament session. It’s also attracted criticism — one conservative radio host called it the “n-word” of ageism.

The “OK, Boomer” meme is only the most recent crossover between young people’s online humor into broader conversations about political and social issues. After memes comparing Chinese president Xi Jinping and Winnie the

Pooh began circulating, censors in the country banned any images of the cartoon character.

The Anti-Defamation League has categorized multiple popular memes, such as “Pepe the frog” and the OK hand gesture, as official hate symbols because white supremacists used them online. Even our president posted a clip from a Nickelback song, which has been used as a meme in the past, to criticize Joe Biden’s potential involvement with Ukranian gas executives.

The reach of this phrase and other memes demonstrates the broader cultural impact our generation’s humor can have, as well as its deeper roots in generational anxieties and trauma. The “OK, Boomer” meme could just be read as young people mindlessly getting a dig at older generations — or, it could reflect our generation trying to cope with the rising costs of living and education, a potential recession and the climate crisis. Some view these stressors, especially climate change, as direct results of baby boomers’ actions. The phrase “OK, Boomer” is a rhetorical attempt to reflect that belief.

The idea of humor as a coping mechanism isn’t new, but the implications of anxiously telling jokes at an awkward house party are widely different than those of a widespread, generational pattern of expression. Considering memes as a representation of generational anxiety and as a rhetorical tool could help to understand the mindsets and philosophies dominant in our generation. Understanding how, as a whole, young people are feeling and thinking about big social issues could create new conversations in academia, activism, government, economics and more.

Gen Z and millennial humor — and the time young people spend online participating in it — is not wasteful or meaningless. While not every meme or joke will provide us with an earthshattering glimpse into young people’s minds and opinions, this form of communication is useful as a whole, both on and offline. raynewby00@gmail.com

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Local College Park City Council grants $40K for public school programs The funding will go toward supporting educational initiatives both in and out of the classroom by

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Angela Mecca College Park S i n c e 2 0 0 8 , t h e c i t y periences that take place ementary and Paint Branch While two members ab- program.” @AngelaMecca2 City Council has given several grants to outside of traditional class- Elementary; $2,750 to schools stained from voting on the District 1 council member Staff writer granted schools that teach children room settings. such as Berwyn Heights El- grants, many of the council Fazlul Kabir echoed Rigg, $40,000 to nine public schools in and around the city during a meeting on Tuesday night.

Carolyn Bernache, who worked in the Prince George’s County school system for 40 years and currently chairs the city’s Educational Advisory Committee, thanked the mayor and council for their contributions.

“We get a lot of feedback from our school about how useful and supportive these

who live in College Park neighborhoods, according to meeting materials. Bernache said schools such as Paint Branch Elementary, Greenbelt Middle School and Hollywood Elementary have all benefited greatly from previous city grants.

In the past, Bernache said, schools have used the money from the city to fund afterschool activities, field trips, literacy and math programs and Extended Learning Op-

“This is a way to have students have real world experiences that connect to the classroom,” Bernache said.

While the county supports these learning opportunities for elementary schools, middle and high schools aren’t given the same county funding, Bernache said, which is where the city’s grants come into play.

This year, the council passed a motion granting $8,000 to some schools,

ementary and Cherokee Lane Elementary; and $2,250 to College Park Academy — a charter middle and high school located in Riverdale Park.

The grant applications note that funding awarded this year will support programs that help kids with reading, writing, math and science, Bernache said.

The funding comes from the city’s fiscal budget, District 1 council member Kate

members said they supported the measure.

District 3 council member John Rigg said he has children in two of the schools mentioned as grant recipients, and he thinks supporting local schools is one thing the city does that is “really meaningful.”

“Small amounts of money can really go a long way,” Rigg said. “So thank you for that and thank you to my colleagues for continu-

saying he supports granting money to the schools.

B u t h e sa i d t h e co u n c i l shouldn’t stop at granting money. Instead, they should continue to move forward by encouraging neighboring municipalities to follow College Park’s lead.

“I’m not criticizing anyone,” Kabir said. “I think we should be coming from an encouraging perspective.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

A federal grant will boost counseling services in Prince George’s County schools

Fifty graduate students from UMD, Bowie State will be able to get more mental health training by

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Eric Neugeboren as a middle cation department. With the room activities and school Mental Health Symposium — a awareness and prevention.” the end of the day,” Mitchell @eric_neugeboren school money, 50 graduate students campaigns. Researchers have multi-day event in the spring This creates a tough bal- said. “It’s really not about the Staff writer teacher for from the University of Mary- found that after participating that includes mental health ancing act for county offi- tests, and it’s not about the two years made Phixavier Holmes sure she wanted to become a counselor.

“I saw all of the personal, the social, the emotional barriers and obstacles that my students were facing,” Holmes said. “They didn’t care [about school] because they were having all of these other issues that were happening at home and in their neighborhoods.”

So for the past eight years, Holmes has been a counselor with Prince George’s County Public Schools. During that time, there’s been an increase in mental health awareness, she said. Still, though, she — and others in the system — recognize that there’s room for improvement.

“We’ve heard the cry of counselors who are wanting more training and wanting a greater level of understanding to be able to meet the needs of students,” said Elizabeth Faison, the director of student services for PGCPS. Last month, the county received a grant of more than $1.3

land and Bowie State University will be able to receive more training as counseling interns across the district.

The graduate students will be placed in 10 schools — two high schools and eight middle schools — that the county has deemed “high-need,” Faison said. To make that designation, she added, county officials looked at the counselorto-student ratio, the percent of students receiving free or reduced lunch as well as attendance and discipline data.

This university already has a partnership with PGCPS, but the grant, which will be distributed over five years, will allow the interns to receive more training, said Natasha Mitchell, a clinical professor of school counseling at this university. They’ll help implement Sources of Strength — a schoolwide youth suicide prevention program — across the county.

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in the program, students are four times more likely to refer someone who is suicidal to an adult, according to PGCPS’s grant proposal.

In its proposal, PGCPS officials emphasized the results of a 2016 Youth Risk Behavior Survey that found about 32 percent of the 3,368 respondents in the district’s high schools had recently felt sad or hopeless almost every day for at least two weeks. The statewide average was about 30 percent.

The survey also found that 17.7 percent of 3,493 PGCPS high schoolers had seriously considered committing suicide over a one-year period. That state average was 17.3 percent.

“They’re experiencing trauma. And then we are sending them to school, and we expect them to learn,” Mitchell said.

The county will pay for the graduate students’ participation in a required course called Introduction to Mental Disorders. The students will also receive a stipend and

workshops for students and their families.

At William Wirt Middle School — where Holmes works — there is about one counselor for every 280 students, which nearly aligns with the American School Counselor Association’s recommendation of one counselor for every 250 students.

But at other public schools in the county, there’s an overload.

Countywide, in the 2017-18 school year, the counselorto-student ratio was 376 to 1, slightly more than the state average of 373 to 1 in the 2015-16 school year.

“When you look at it from that perspective, and when we look at the gravity of when we’re talking about mental health, it’s not enough,” Holmes said.

The county school system’s proposal — written by a team of county officials, including mental health coordinator Scott Showalter — says the lack of counselors causes mental health providers to “spend more time on crisis situations

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De s p i te t h e se t re n d s, Mitchell said legislators are becoming increasingly aware of mental health concerns — a development she called “critical.”

grades. It’s ultimately about creating youth to become citizens of Maryland who are productive, functioning and able to contribute and live a great life.”

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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neither rain nor wind stops the movement As the Supreme Court heard arguments on the future of DACA, UMD community members turned out to show support for the undocumented community

By Carmen Molina Acosta | @carmenmolina_a | Staff writer University of Maryland students and community members walk to the protest in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. The court heard arguments on DACA on Nov. 12, 2019, and despite rain and sleet, thousands of demonstrators spent hours waiting outside the court. (photos by julia nikhinson/the diamondback)

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uddled up against the cold and waving signs that read “Dreamers Belong Here” and “Defend DACA,” a crowd of thousands collected Tuesday morning before the Supreme Court, spilling from the plaza that stretches before the building onto the street.

As rain turned to sleet and sleet briefly into snow, a cry started to ring out in Spanish from under patches of umbrellas: “¡Ni la lluvia, ni el viento, detiene el movimiento!”

In English: Neither rain nor wind stops the movement.

More than 20 members of the University of Maryland community joined the congregation of protesters. Shouts of “Undocumented, unafraid!” and “Home is here!” echoed in the wind as inside, warm and dry, the nine justices heard oral arguments for a case that will determine the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

For many of the protestors, the cause is personal. Sophomore communication major Cindy Morales made the trip to Washington, D.C., to support one of her best friends, who she said is a DACA recipient.

“I can see her struggle,” Morales said. “She wants to better herself and she’s just afraid for DACA being taken away and not being able to pursue a higher education. So I’m here for her.”

Established by former President Barack Obama under executive action, DACA shields undocumented immigrants who arrived to the U.S. before turning 16 from deportation. The program also provides its roughly 700,000 recipients documentation to study and work legally in the United States, though it does not provide a path to citizenship.

President Trump tried to fulfill a campaign promise to rescind DACA in September 2017, but federal courts blocked the administration’s phaseout plans — which automatically rejected all new applications after Sept.

5 of that year — and ordered DACA renewals to continue.

The Trump administration appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court, which announced in June that it would consider the topic in three consolidated cases. The court is ultimately evaluating whether the administration provided sufficient justification for its elimination of the program.

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The university’s undocumented student coordinator, Political Latinxs United for Movement and Action in Society, The Coalition of Latino Student Organizations and leaders from CASA — a regional Latinx organization — arranged a bus to bring interested students, faculty and staff from campus to the protest.

“This is another way for them to show that their support goes beyond here, UMD, as an institution— that we’re really thinking about you beyond your time here at UMD,” said Laura Bohorquez Garcia, the undocumented student coordinator. “It’s important to show that solidarity.”

Thirty-two-year-old retail manager Brenda Flores, a DACA recipient herself, also arrived alongside university protestors with CASA. Flores, who immigrated from Mexico when she was 8 years old, said CASA helped her with the DACA renewal process multiple times.

Being a DACA recipient has allowed Flores to get a driver’s license and a job. She’s been saving money to go back to school— hopefully in the next year, she said. The program provided her a Social Security number that allowed her to take a course at a community college, where she learned sign language to take care of her deaf younger brother.

The relief Flores felt when the program was announced was enough to almost bring someone to tears, she said.

“You don’t have to hide from other people,” Flores said. “There’s no words.”

The stakes are high, but the protestors were jovial — chanting, drumming and even dancing for hours in the 40 degree temperatures. Some came from as far as California or Pennsylvania; others walked out of local high schools or universities. Monarch butterflies — a symbol of migration — adorned pins, T-shirts and signs. One giant butterfly, with orange wings supported by at least three protestors, floated over the throng.

When the plaintiffs of the DACA cases left the courthouse, holding hands at the top of the staircase, the

crowd erupted into cheers.

Anthropology professor Christina Getrich teaches classes on the effects of immigration policy, and encouraged her students to come to the rally.

“That’s just as important a lesson as whatever we would’ve been talking about in class,” Getrich said. “It’s important to me to sort of walk my values instead of just transmitting them in the classroom.”

Some members of the crowd — senior marketing and supply chain management major Jaime Atilano, for instance — had experienced immigrating to the U.S. firsthand. After moving from the Philippines in 2006, Atilano said they were “lucky enough” to get citizenship.

“But knowing that I have this privilege here, I feel like it’s my duty to fight for this,” they said.

In October, this university joined 164 other universities in signing onto a brief supporting the continuation of DACA. The President’s Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, a group of university leaders from across the country that formed in November 2017, coordinated the argument, which came in the form of an amicus curiae brief — a report submitted to provide expertise or insight by a party not involved in a case.

At the time, Latinx leaders on this campus criticized the university for signing the brief and not supporting student-led efforts, such as their push to make Bohorquez Garcia’s position a permanent one. Many at the rally, like Atilano, reiterated these concerns.

“The undocumented coordinator program needs to be a permanent position,” Atilano said. “It doesn’t make sense for it to be temporary because it’s just not sustainable and its not helpful for the community who needs that as a resource.”

But the university knows the role is an important one, Bohorquez Garcia said — especially if the Court rules in favor of terminating the DACA program.

Still, while she can’t predict the future, Bohorquez Garcia said she’s been inspired by how the immigrants’ rights movement has become m o re c o m m u n i t y - o r i e n te d a n d multi-generational.

“I feel optimistic in that I know there’s a lot of energy from the community to continue to organize,” she said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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report From p. 1 u n ive rs i ty d e s i g n a te a person in charge of crisis communication who has direct access to decision makers, and act faster in mobilizing its emergency plans during campus events.

“Emergency operations can be scaled back as appropriate but earlier activation is far better than activation that occurs too late,” the report read.

The panel also recommended that the univer-

paregol From p. 1 “Our campus works tirelessly on behalf of the health and safety of our students, faculty and staff, and we will carefully consider the report’s recommendations,” university President Wallace Loh wrote in a campuswide email.

“The panel unanimously found that university employees priori-

sity review the roles and responsibilities its employees have during campus emergencies, provide crisis management training to staff members and establish procedures for reaching students who have underlying health conditions during infectious disease outbreaks. “ I a m i n c re d i b l y i m pressed by, and grateful for, the work of these experts a n d t h e c o m p re h e n s ive nature of their findings,” B o a rd o f Re ge n ts C h a i r Linda Gooden wrote in a news release. “We appre-

c i a te G ove r n o r Hoga n ’s request that we undertake this review because it will inform the future work and emergency response protocols of every one of our campuses.”

In May, the Washington Post reported the university had considered telling students who had compromised immune systems and re s i d e n t s o f t h e m o l d laden Elkton Hall about the outbreak, but opted against it.

However, Ian Paregol has said that if his daughter’s d o c to rs h a d k n ow n s h e

had been exposed to adenovirus, her treatment would have been differe n t . Pa re go l wa s n ’t i n formed that the virus was spreading on campus until mid-November, when he called McBride from John Hopkins Hospital’s intensive care unit.

Up until then, Paregol had been treated as if she had bacterial pneumonia.

A f te r h e r fa t h e r ’s c o n versation with McBride, though, her doctors started treating her with an antiviral drug. But her condition didn’t improve, and she

died five days later.

At the end of last semester, the Paregol family took steps to sue the univers i ty fo r i ts re s p o n s e to the spread of adenovirus and mold on the campus, w h i c h I a n P a re go l s a i d endangered students. He has also called for Loh to be removed as president immediately and sharply criticized his reaction to the crisis.

The panel interviewed Ian Paregol, but redacted p a r ts o f h i s te s t i m o n y, citing privacy law.

In a campuswide email

on Wednesday, Loh wrote that the university offers its condolences to Olivia Paregol’s parents, family and friends as the one-year anniversary of her death approaches.

“Our campus works tirelessly on behalf of the health and safety of our students, faculty and staff, and we will carefully consider the report’s recommendations,” he wrote. “ O u r wo rk o n ca m p u s safety is always ongoing.”

tized student health and safety above all else.”

Though the report largely commended the university’s handling of the outbreak, it outlined ways it could improve its communication for future emergencies.

For example,the Health Center took the lead on the virus, while the Residential Facilities department largely handled mold. The

issues could have been tackled as a campuswide problem, the report said, which would’ve “made available additional personnel, talent and resources.”

“That’s the finding right there,” Paregol said. “They weren’t handled properly.”

In a news release, the university said it will “carefully review the recommendations as part of a continuing effort to evaluate

current policies and practices.”

“UMD is currently studying ways to implement trainings that build upon existing tabletop exercises and reviewing the role of the safety committees now in place,” the release said.

Paregol also said his conversation with the panel “wasn’t even an interview.” After the experts asked Olivia’s family to make a statement, he said, they only

asked him three questions. And they interviewed him last, only a few weeks ago,making him feel as if “report was already done by the time they talked to me.”

Simmons confirmed the panel asked “only a few questions,” but they were “designed to be very broad and open-ended to give Mr. Paregol an opportunity to explain, in detail, his concerns with the way the University

handled adenovirus and mold in the fall of 2018.”

“The interview was lengthy and the Panel found the information incredibly useful and helpful in the investigation,” Simmons wrote.

Senior staff writer Leah Brennan contributed to this report.

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According to the “All that the things that c u r re n t g u i d e l i n e s, t h e were said were things that university prohibits “ha- definitely could be traumarassing, physically abusive, tizing to people — whether threatening or intimidating that’s because of any of conduct toward any person” their identities or any of — which the bill said the the experiences that they’ve demonstrators violated by had,” said LeVan. “There are including slurs targeting things that would fall under people’s gender, gender our Title IX policy as sexual the sTUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION voted on the measure asking for policy enforcement at their general body meeting at Stamp Student Union on Nov. 13. joe ryan/the diamondback identity or sexual orienta- harassment or intimidation.” the demonstrators failed to in the guidelines that pro- disrupting classes or other line and they go over the line tion, among others.

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squirrel snapshots squirrels appear all over Lin’s Instagram account, which contains original photos and submissions from students. spencer lin/via instagram

meet the man behind the instagram account that documents UMD squirrels Sophomore Spencer Lin captures the fuzzy creatures’ antics around campus for @umd_squirrels_

By Eric Harkleroad | @DBKDiversions | Freelance reporter

spencer lin takes photographs in his spare time, with a special focus on UMD campus squirrels. eric harkleroad/for the diamondback

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pencer Lin is a sopho m o re psyc h o l og y major at the University of Maryland. He works with Scholars in Action, a service organization on campus, and likes to take photographs in his spare time.

He also happens to run an Instagram account with more than 300 followers documenting squirrel sightings around this campus.

The account, @umd_ squirrels_, showcases Lin’s original photographs of the furry denizens as well as submissions from others on the account’s story.

“The squirrels here and near metropolitan areas are more friendly, so you can get nicer pictures of them since they don’t run away,” Lin said. “Plus, the school setting lets them do random stuff like eating out of the trash cans, or half a fry, or fried

chicken in their hands.”

As I followed the student photographer one afternoon, it was hard not to notice how prevalent squirrels are on the campus. Lin even has a video of a Maryland squirrel eating a chicken wing.

capturing the shot Dozens of students walk around in the middle of the day. Some are hurrying to class, others walking to their cars. And yet, squirrels still scamper between the trees, through the grass and on the walking paths.

Lin said his most consistent sighting is a black squirrel with red markings on its tail by the parking lot near Francis Scott Key Hall.

Some get closer to people than others, but Lin assumes the squirrels are probably just used to the commotion.

As we walked around the Skinner Building, his favorite spot for taking pictures, two squirrels dashed across the sidewalk chasing each other. Two girls screamed, and Lin crouched onto his knees and took the shot. But the shaded area was too dark for a quality photo.

“Sometimes you see something interesting happening, but you can’t really capture it because they move so fast,” Lin said.

We lingered by the building for a while longer as Lin scouted potential backdrops, good lighting and a suitable rodent subject.

He locked on to one, but a woman walking a large dog frightened the dark gray critter, and it scurried up a tree onto an overlooking branch. Finally, the good elevation he desired.

“Don’t come down!” he

yelled with a laugh.

Squirrels are not always the most cooperative models. Lin had a staredown with a skinny black squirrel in front of the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center. The soft afternoon light hit the left side of the tree perfectly, and he waited in his position for a moment, moving his lens in lockstep with the squirrel until it ran away.

“Sometimes I’ve sat there and waited for a good five m i n u te s fo r t h e m to d o so m e t h i n g i n te re s t i n g ,” Lin said.

Lin said he has learned a lot about squirrels’ behavior from taking their pictures. He has a trick he sometimes uses to get them to look at him.

“If you hold your hand up, they’ll think you have snacks,” Lin said. He held his arm out and upturned his palm, closing his hand

slightly as if he was holding something.

Lin puts a lot of consideration into his pictures.

He said he always thinks about principles of photography when he takes his photos: foreground, middle ground, background, lighting and texture. He also ra r e l y r e t o u c h e s t h e m except to sharpen photos blurred from the squirrels’ fast movement.

“Ideally, I don’t want to edit my pictures,” Lin said.

He credits his high school photography teacher for instilling in him the philosophy that the best photos require the least amount of editing.

campus fans The page has drawn a bit of a cult following in the campus community. Lin said even @cat_on_shoulder_, an

account run by a cat owner who walks his pet around campus on a leash, has interacted with his page.

Karenna Foley, a freshman psychology major and fan of the page, likes that Lin encourages others to take their own squirrel pictures and share them.

“I think the page is absolutely adorable,” Foley said.

“A super wholesome way of documenting the campus and its little rodent residents.”

Jared Gill, a senior computer science major and self-described “huge squirrel fan,” saves the pictures Lin posts of his submissions on the page’s story. Gill has been featured twice so far.

“All squirrels are great, and UMD squirrels are especially great,” Gill said.

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Thanksgiving Break-up?

WHY DO SO MANY COLLEGE STUDENT RELATIONSHIPS END NEAR TURKEY DAY? Examining reasons for the mass breakup phenomenon known as the “Turkey Drop”

By Audrey Decker | @audreydeck_r | Senior staff writer

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hough I ended things with my high s c h o o l b oy f r i e n d the summer before starting college, many of my peers decided to stay with their significant others into freshman year. Some survived the college shock to their relationship, but the majority of high school couples I knew are no longer together.

I recently discovered that a popular time to break up with your high school boo is around Thanksgiving — cleverly coined the “Turkey Drop.”

The term describes college freshmen who break up with their significant other when they are home for the holidays, after experiencing a new and exciting environment.

student couples may break up near Thanksgiving in a phenomenon known as the ”Turkey Drop”. julia nikhinson/the diamondback The data visualization we b s i te I n fo r m a t i o n i s Beautiful used data from Facebook status updates to find that the weeks leading up to the holiday season are one of the two peak times to break up. The other peak time is around March (a spring break-up, one could say?). While Facebook statuses definitely shouldn’t be taken for complete truth, the Turkey Drop trend makes sense, for both college and non-college relationships.

The weeks around Thanksgiving are a good time to end a relationship before the holidays make it serious. Especially if it’s a new-ish relationship, breaking up avoids dealing with

the questions that come with the holidays, such as whether you should buy a gift or if you’ll invite your partner to family functions.

The holidays are a meaningful time for most, and if the relationship isn’t serious (yet), it could put unwanted pressure on the couple.

College is a new and hectic experience. Freshmen might realize they want to focus on themselves, rather than worry about another person during a formative time in their lives. Spending time making friends on your dorm floor or around campus is crucial to creating bonds during your first year. While everyone’s college experience is unique, I can person-

ally vouch for the importance of figuring out yourself first and worrying about how someone else could fit into your picture later.

Thanksgiving is a holiday when almost everyone will go home for break, making it an easy time to break up in person, rather than via call or text. Especially if the relationship is long-distance, as it might be the first time college freshmen are seeing their significant other in a few months.

The Turkey Drop isn’t just a break-up time for college freshmen; it can be a logical time to end a relationship in general. Right before the holidays is a good time to consider how serious you

are with the other person.

If you feel confident and happy in the relationship, the holidays should be an exciting time for you and your S.O. But, if you are dreading the introduction between family and partner during the season, take the time to evaluate what you want from the relationship.

During my research into the Turkey Drop phenomenon, I also discovered there’s a rom-com airing on November 23 titled Turkey Drop.

This Freeform holiday movie stars Olivia Holt and tells the story of a girl who suspects her high school boyfriend is going to dump her. I watched the trailer and it looks very cheesy, like most holiday

movies, but I am interested to see how Freeform portrays the phenomenon.

This isn’t meant to be pessimistic, but it’s interesting to consider different trends in college culture.

W h e t h e r yo u d e c i d e to stay cuffed or go single this holiday season, it’s definitely an individual decision. I will always advocate for self-discovery first and a relationship second, especially while in college.

But above all, have a happy Thanksgiving season with your family and friends, even if you drop the turkey.

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men’s soccer

Despite loss, Niklas Neumann shows guts The freshman goalkeeper couldn’t keep out a game-winning penalty, but recorded a career-high eight saves by

Maryland

Eric Myers men’s soccer @ EricMyers531 goalkeeper Senior staff writer Niklas Neumann stood 12 yards away from Indiana defender Jack Maher, who was poised at the penalty spot with a chance to clinch the Hoosiers’ berth in the Big Ten tournament final.

T h e o f f i c i a l awa rd e d the penalty kick after an attempt deflected off Terps defender Matt Di Rosa’s hand inside the box.

Maher sent the shot to his left. Neumann guessed the correct direction and sprawled out to his right.

But the Maryland shotstopper narrowly missed his bid to fend off the effort and keep the Terps’ Big Ten tournament run alive.

Although Neumann c o u l d n ’t ge t a h a n d o n Indiana’s game-winning penalty — securing a d o u b l e - ove r t i m e H o o siers victory — the freshman goalkeeper was the reason Maryland was still alive in the 103rd minute.

Neumann secured a careerhigh eight saves, instilling confidence in his team that he will thrive even as the pressure ramps up in the NCAA tournament.

“He kept us in the game,” coach Sasho Cirovski said.

“That’s what you need.

Yo u n e e d a go a l k e e p e r who’s going to play at a high level.”

Indiana overwhelmed the Terps in total shots, firing 22 attempts to Maryland’s six. It was a stark contrast to the first match between the two sides, when the Hoosiers didn’t force Neumann to make a single save because of their inaccurate shooting.

I n d i a n a ’s sca t te rs h o t shooting marked the Big Ten tournament semifinal, too, especially early on.

The top-seeded Hoosiers threw away prime chances in the first half with several errant strikes.

But in the second half, I n d i a n a a d d re s s e d t h e issue, forcing Neumann to make seven saves. The keeper put on a clinic late in regulation, making three leaping saves and a diving stop to force overtime.

“He’s totally the type of kid to react positively to pressure, and this sort of environment, this sort of game,” forward Justin Gielen said.

Playing in just the second elimination game of his career, Neumann was unfazed throughout the match.

Despite being the lower s e e d , t h e Te r p s w e r e playing at their home stadium, with a chance to earn a spot in Sunday’s Big Ten final at Ludwig Field.

A s t h e Ho os i ers continued to pepper the cage, and the angst in a partisan crowd grew, the freshman

remained poised.

Playing in a college tournament is certainly new territory for the Germany native, but he understands t h e m o m e n t — h e ’s n o stranger to the spotlight he’s under as a goalkeeper.

I n t h ose h i g h - p re ss u re games, though, Neumann emphasizes maintaining the same mindset he has anytime — and anywhere — he steps between the pipes.

“A s a goa l ke e p e r, i t’s always about pressure and that you have to make the saves and you have a lot of responsibilities. But for me it’s all about enjoying the game,” Neumann said.

“That’s my mindset. Every time I step on the pitch, I just try to have fun and not overthink it.”

That mindset will be put to good use as Maryland turns its attention toward the NCAA tournament.

The Terps know what having a shutdown goalkeeper and defense can do for a title run. The returning players on this year’s team saw it transpire last season, when five straight shutouts led Maryland to a national championship.

The result against I n d i a n a wo n ’t h e l p t h e Terps’ seeding in the tournament, which will be announced during Monday’s selection show.

As Maryland awaits its fate, Cirovski’s team can be sure of one thing: If

goalkeeper niklas neumann kept Maryland men’s soccer afloat in Friday’s 1-0 overtime loss to top-seeded Indiana in the Big Ten tournament, with eight saves. The Hoosiers racked up 22 shots to the Terps’ six attempts. richard moglen/the diamondback its season comes down to needing a big save in the NCA A to u r n a m e n t , t h e Terps have a goalkeeper

who’s now proven he can deliver in big moments.

“He was outstanding,” Cirovski said. “He showed

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men’s basketball

No. 7 Terps roll past upset-minded Oakland A 23-6 run to close the first half propels Maryland to 80-50 win It started with Donta Scott’s 3-pointer from the corner midway through the first half and ended with Aaron Wiggins’ trey from the other side of the floor as the buzzer sounded.

The bookend threes, some 10 minutes apart, turned Maryland men’s basketball’s narrow deficit into a comfortable lead. They were the beginning and end of a 23-6 run late in the opening period, a stretch that helped the Terps overcome the early turnovers that allowed Oakland to remain close.

In short, it looked like the No. 7 team in the country imposing its will at home against a scrappy but inferior opponent. These are the kind of displays Maryland can get used to this year, particularly with a lofty ranking beside its name.

So l o n g a s t h e Te r p s manage runs like those — facilitated through dogged defense and fast-paced offense — early-season tests should play out like Saturday’s did. Maryland burst past the Golden Grizzlies, 80-50, leaving any concern in the rear-view mirror en route to a dominant win.

“Sometimes when you get the No. 7 in front of by

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your name and you haven’t quite earned it, you think you’re supposed to beat everybody by 25 in each half,” coach Mark Turgeon said.

“That’s not the case in college basketball.”

To that point, Oakland had asserted its size down low — when so many teams opt for speed over bulk, the Grizzlies started four players 6-foot-5 and taller. But with Maryland boasting size, too — the tallest team in the Big Ten — Turgeon opted to match up with Oakland’s length by putting out his own big lineup, starting forward Makhi Mitchell for the second straight game.

It had taken about three minutes against Rhode Island for Mitchell to pick up two fouls. He beat that on Saturday, heading to the bench less than two minutes into Saturday’s outing with two personals to his name.

“Makhi fouls in practice,” Turgeon said. “If he stops fouling in practice, it usually takes two or three weeks to carry over to a game. So we’ll see. I know he wants to play.”

While guard Anthony Cowan splashed from deep to establish a five-point lead just a minute later, the Golden Grizzlies took advantage of three straight Terps turnovers — part of nine first-half giveaways — to narrow the game

and force Turgeon to make wholesale changes at the 15minute mark, getting guard Eric Ayala into the game.

Scott’s triple at the 10:02 mark in the first half signaled the start of Maryland’s improvement. The Terps turned the ball over just once in the final eight minutes of the half.

“We just played a little bit more composed in the second half,” Wiggins said, “played like the team we knew we were.”

And while center Brad Brechting had scored a joint team-high six points in the opening 20 minutes, his decision to take on forward Jalen Smith with under a minute to go before intermission proved costly.

Smith stuffed him, corralled the rebound and dished to Cowan — who finished with 11 points and seven assists. The Mount St. Joseph’s grad continued to run the floor, and Cowan found him streaking through the paint for an alley-oop that brought the Xfinity Center crowd to its feet.

Those fans would have reason to get loud once more about 30 seconds later, when Cowan found Wiggins in the corner for his 3-pointer as time expired on Maryland’s 11-0 run. Maryland’s 35-22 lead would only expand in the second half, especially as guard Darryl Morsell piled on 12 points in the final 20 minutes on 5-for-6 shooting.

“Darryl put a lot of work

guard eric ayala posted six points off the bench Saturday, as coach Mark Turgeon went with a larger lineup. joe ryan/the diamondback in,” forward Makhel Mitchell said. “It wasn’t surprising.

It felt good, everybody was happy for him and riled up on the bench.”

Oakland wanted to slow the contest down to get Maryland into a half-court offense. But when Morsell and his teammates began to pick up the pace, particularly in the second half, the Terps ran away with it. They posted 30 fast-break points and three players finished in double figures.

“I’m an athlete. I like to run. I like to get up and

down,” Morsell said. “Kinda told the guys at halftime, ‘We’ve got a lot of athletes on this team. Let’s make this a track meet.’”

And against Oakland’s interior size, the Terps began splashing from deep with the first signs of regularity this season. They finished 8-for-26 from three-point range. Guard Reese Mona entered and knocked down a trey and a long 2-pointer.

And the once-close game had slipped away, long forgotten.

With a top-10 ranking and expectations that lead

the mind to March, these early season matchups can become traps. But Maryland’s 23-6 run to end the first half proved the difference, displaying — at least through three games — that this squad can weather a storm.

“We love the pressure of being the No. 7 team in the country,” Morsell said. “We just embrace it. We know we’re talented, but it’s just about execution and just coming ready to play every single day.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Serve and pass struggles surface against Purdue Boilermakers notched seven aces while Maryland went without one Purdue defensive Kevin F. McNulty specialist @kmcnulty_219 Jena Otec Staff writer tossed the ball up to open proceedings against Maryland volleyball Saturday, floating a serve toward a waiting Erika Pritchard.

While Pritchard was in position to bump the ball to a teammate, it instead glanced off her arms and fell harmlessly to the floor — the first of seven service aces for the Boilby

ermakers in a 3-0 trouncing.

The Terps failed to replicate Purdue’s dominance in that aspect, going without a service ace in the match.

In Maryland’s Friday night triumph over Indiana, the team got just six service aces over five sets in a match it won 3-2.

On the road against Purdue, the No. 16 squad in the country, Maryland displayed its immense troubles with the serve and pass game, plaguing them en route to a swift defeat.

“We lost the serve and pass plain and simple,” coach Adam Hughes said. “They were serving some short balls, then some deep balls, and we had no answer.”

Receiving has been an issue for the Terps this season, sitting last in the Big Ten in digs with an average of 11.91 per set. On Saturday, Hughes’ squad continued to struggle — particularly on serves — posting 34 digs, which was 10 fewer than the Boilermakers.

Maryland lost the dig game in its win against the Hoosiers, too, making its back-row defense and serve reception

problems a glaring concern heading out of the weekend.

“I think the main difference was our serve and pass,” Pritchard said. “I was in a lot of bailout situations, so I was trying to do as much as I could with what the situation gave me.”

The Terps flashed some consistency in the serve receive early on in the third set, and they led by three at a point thanks in part to quality digs. But the first Purdue ace of the frame came on its 10th point, foreshadowing the Boilermakers’ eventual takeover, eventually claiming the

set by a six-point margin.

Maryland players saw the Purdue match as uncharacteristic of their abilities, but they’re confident that they can get back to their old serving ways in their four remaining matches.

“We are a great serving team, but I guess tonight we couldn’t get the serves to end up where we wanted them to,” middle blocker Rainelle Jones said. “We’re right there; we just need to be more consistent on our three touches.”

The Terps’ troubles against ranked opponents this season have been well documented.

They stand at 0-8 in matches against top-25 teams, which accounts for nearly half their losses.

And with two more currently ranked teams still on the slate — No. 25 Illinois on Friday and No. 6 Nebraska on Nov. 29 — Hughes knows his squad needs to be better with its serve and pass in order to knock off the some of the best units in the country.

“It’s something we’ll have to get better at if we ever want to beat a top-20 team on the road,” Hughes said.

When Delaware did advance the ball, the Terps continued to trap its ballhandlers, causing 17 firsthalf turnovers and three shot-clock violations. On the other end, there was no answer for Maryland’s offensive firepower as the team hit open shot after open shot on its way to 58.3 percent shooting in the opening 20 minutes.

“I don’t think I’ve seen a

team of ours … have three shot-clock violations in the first half,” Frese said.

“I thought we were really locked in. I thought we took great pride on the defensive end and that defense led to our offense.”

The Blue Hens stayed aggressive in the third despite the game already being out of reach, trying to be physical on defense and causing multiple Terps to hit the deck

hard in the process. But they were simply overmatched by Maryland’s size and shooting as the lead continued to grow.

Coming off its most aggressive quarter, in which it had 18 rebounds and got to the line 10 times, Maryland took its foot off the gas a bit in the final period with the game already in hand.

The defense became more lackadaisical, allowing 18 points and forcing

only three turnovers as the Blue Hens got better looks.

But the Terps continued to shoot well, nearly reaching triple-digit scoring for the second time this season.

The crowd chanted “One more point” in an effort to break the mark, but Maryland elected to hold the ball in the game’s final seconds, wrapping up a strong team performance in which Frese’s squad had 27 assists on 37

made shots.

“I think we just played together,” said guard Sara Vujacic, who finished with seven points, six rebounds and six assists off the bench.

“Also, the alumni came to our practice [yesterday] and they talked about playing together, playing strong, being competitive, and I think that was just the turning point.”

land that came closest to finding a breakthrough. Keus, a constant threat on penalty corners, rifled a long-distance attempt at Hausheer.

But as the ball dribbled to the Cavaliers netminder, it took a deflection, rising above her and toward the top-left corner of the cage.

At the last second, though, the ball struck the post, keeping the game deadlocked at zero as the game headed for the fourth frame.

“Today [we] played a great brand [of hockey],” Meharg

said. “But not quite good enough — you got to score on the penalty corners that you have … we had two penalty corners that hit the post.”

And as regulation wound down, the Cavaliers continued to apply pressure on Maryland’s backline. Frost — among the top-five goalkeepers in goals-against average and save percentage in the country — continued to keep the Terps in the game, making six saves in the fourth.

“She’s just exceptional.

She’s patient, and she’s a Terp,” Meharg said. “She will just defend that goal cage at wits’ end, and I’m just so happy she’ll be back for another season.”

However, the Glenwood native was helpless a minute into the fourth period, when McDonough flicked an effort beyond Frost’s grasp and into the back of the cage.

As McDonough celebrated with her teammates, though, the referees walked to the tent to inspect whether any Cavaliers attacker committed

a foul in the build-up to the goal. And after deliberation, the referees returned to the pitch, signaling that the goal was disallowed and sending Maryland’s bench into pandemonium.

The Terps had new life, forcing an overtime period.

But Virginia continued its pressure, and after Frost turned away one shot on a penalty corner attempt five minutes into extra time, McDonough wouldn’t be denied a second time, sending the ball over the goalline and

triggering Cavaliers celebrations.

There would be no review this time, no life-line for Maryland to grab hold of.

Instead, as their opponents spilled onto the pitch, the Terps ambled off it, their season done before the final four for the first time since 2016. “[We] really showed up today, we were just unlucky,” Keus said. “That happens, we’ll get over it and we’ll try [again] next year.”

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delaware From p. 12 “So it’s in us, it’s just the ability to be that disciplined and that consistent all the time,” Frese continued.

Maryland built off its fast start and put together a nearly identical second quarter. Outside of 4-for-6 shooting from behind the arc, the Blue Hens could barely get the ball over halfcourt without a Terp stealing it for a quick score.

virginia

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“We were in the game and our emotions were just [out].”

But in the third quarter, it looked as if Virginia had finally cracked the code on how to get past Maryland’s staunch backline, taking up increasingly threatening positions in front of Frost’s cage.

The Cavaliers recorded five shots in the third, with Maryland’s defenders making a series of crucial blocks to keep the game scoreless.

For all of Virginia’s dominance, though, it was Mary-

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THIS WEEK’S GAMES

TWEET OF THE WEEK Volleyball

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women’s basketball

NCAA tourney Maryland’s offense erupts loss to Virginia ends Terps’ year Annie McDonough scored in overtime to secure trip to final four When the final horn David Suggs buzzed on @ David_Suggs3 M a r y l a n d Staff writer field hockey’s season, all defender Bodil Keus could do was look up at the sky.

Moments earlier, the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year had been standing outside her goalmouth in overtime, hoping to fight off another wave of pressure from Virginia’s attack.

And as midfielder Annie McDonough fired an effort toward Keus, it seemed like another Cavaliers’ threat had been averted, with Keus getting her stick down quickly to deflect the shot out of danger.

But Keus was unable to divert the ball away from goal, and once the ball trickled past goalkeeper Noelle Frost, the junior looked on in despondency as the Cavaliers rushed to McDonough to celebrate their 1-0 win and impending trip to the final four.

“We’re disappointed,” Keus said. “We put our whole heart on to the field — every single girl.”

Defender Hannah Bond started on Sunday after taking a ball to the forehead during Friday’s matchup with Saint Joseph’s, giving the Terps a much-appreciated boost.

“I’m not surprised,” coach Missy Meharg said.

“Hannah’s one of the toughest kids I’ve ever coached … no question, hands down, she has the heart of a champion.”

Meanwhile, forward Madison Maguire — the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year — returned to the lineup after also sitting out Friday’s contest.

And while their leading goalscorer routinely by

occupied dangerous areas within the Cavaliers’ shooting circle in the first half, the Terps looked far less ruthless than they did in the second half of Friday’s game.

“The last two games really signified a dominance — a dominance from start to finish,” Meharg said, “We just didn’t finish.”

There was forward Jen Bleakney’s chance late in the first quarter — the graduate senior scampered into the circle after receiving a delicate feed from Maguire before skying her subsequent shot. And Keus sent a driven effort off a late penalty corner in the opening frame, forcing goalkeeper Lauren Hausheer into a diving save.

But in all, the Terps struggled to create much against a Cavaliers defense that entered Sunday’s matchup with the seventh-best defensive record in the NCAA. Maryland’s defense, however, continued to impress after handing Saint Joseph’s potent attack in its first shutout of the season, conceding two shots on goal in the first half — both of which were sent away

by Frost.

“Our back five players — Noelle Frost, Bodil [Keus], Nathalie [Fiechter], Bond, and Kelee Lepage — that was our strength and our core,” Meharg said.

With neither offense looking particularly imposing in the game’s opening 30 minutes, halftime provided both sides with an opportunity to refresh and figure out ways to create dangerous scoring chances.

“We were very calm and composed,” Keus said.

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maryland women’s basketball rolled past a winless Delaware squad Sunday, 99-55, with guard Taylor Mikesell leading the way with an 8-for-12 clip. tyrin gray/the diamondback

Taylor Mikesell led the Terps with 23 points, including five triples When Taylor Mikesell’s first longrange make hit nothing but net, it was clear the Maryland women’s basketball guard was out of the shooting slump that plagued her last two outings.

Her 3-pointer, coming off a Delaware turnover two minutes into Sunday’s contest, proved to be a blueprint for how the game would play out. Mikesell hit four more times from deep, playing a large role in the Terps’ 44.4 percent shooting clip from three-point range. by

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Maryland scored at will in a dominant 99-55 victory over a winless Delaware team, with Mikesell’s resurgence perhaps the most promising part.

“I just play the game the right way, play through my teammates and know that [my shot] is going to come back to me,” Mikesell said.

“It starts on the defensive end, it’s going to give us our offense, and just playing through my teammates and knowing it’s going to come back.”

A suffocating full-court trap and hot long-range shooting put the contest away within the first few minutes, and the Terps

we n t o n to p l ay t h e i r most complete game of the season with contributions from the entire roster.

Mikesell led the way with 23 points, tying a career high.

“I love where Taylor’s at right now. She’s taken great pride on both ends of the floor and understands … how we want to play,” coach Brenda Frese said. “She’s just making a ton of great plays for us.

Obviously, nobody shoots the ball better than Taylor.”

Fre s e a d d e d fo r wa rd Shakira Austin and guard Blair Watson to the starti n g l i n e u p a ga i n s t t h e Blue Hens, replacing guard Diamond Miller and forward Stephanie Jones for the first new look of the season, aiming for more

experience and defense to start the game.

The change paid off early as the Terps opened the game on a 20-4 run, playing inspired full-court defense and hitting open 3-pointers courtesy of Mikesell and Watson.

Coming off poor shooting performances against South Carolina and James Madison — before a fourthquarter comeback helped ove rco m e t h e D u ke s — Maryland looked determined to take control early against Delaware.

“You saw it in the fourth quarter at JMU, to have a team that was that far down to make that comeback to win,” Frese said.

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men’s basketball

Run-and-jump press shows defensive prowess The Terps learned the full-court scheme Friday, used it Saturday When Oakland Andy Kostka @ afkostka guard Kevin Senior staff writer K a n g u r e ce ive d t h e inbounds pass following the under-16 timeout in the second half Saturday, his indecision was plain to see. As soon as Kangu attempted to get up the court, Maryland men’s basketball guard Anthony Cowan met him. Then forward Donta Scott joined in, forcing a pass to Golden Grizzlies guard Blake Lampman in the backcourt.

But when Lampman finally separated from guard Eric Ayala, the whistles blew. The Terps pulled out a run-and-jump full-court defense for the first time by

this season, and after they forced a 10-second violation on the first possession, guard Darryl Morsell jumped and threw both arms into the air, Cowan and Ayala high-fived and Scott clapped.

For an eight-minute span in the second half of Maryland’s 80-50 win, the new press defense bamboozled Oakland. And if the Terps h a d fa ce d t h a t d e fe n se before coach Mark Turgeon introduced it this week, their offense may have been stifled in a similar way.

Turgeon’s newest addition to Maryland’s defensive arsenal proved mightily effective, picking up the pace of the game and forcing turnovers — and converting

them into points — as soon as he initiated a variation of former North Carolina coach Dean Smith’s signature trapping scheme.

“We literally just put it in yesterday,” guard Aaron Wi g g i n s sa i d . “A n d we walked through it. [Turgeon] wasn’t planning on using it today, but he trusted us, and he knew that we were capable of bringing it out and being able to make a difference.”

The Terps first pulled out a press in their exhibition game against Fayetteville State on Nov. 1, counteracting their pace with a zone scheme that slowed down the Broncos and helped create easy buckets — a steal and score for Cowan, a transition lay-in for Morsell.

Adding in extra press defenses has been on Tur-

geon’s mind for some time.

After seeing the success in that preseason matchup, the ninth-year coach said he would begin to work in some presses meant to speed up a game. His team showed off one Saturday, despite little preparation.

“We put a press in this week, they hadn’t seen it,” Turgeon said. “It worked for us. Guys were good in it. Got the game going a little bit better.”

The run-and-jump press proved pivotal in turning Saturday’s second half into what Morsell called a “track meet.” After forcing the 10second violation, the Golden Grizzlies tried to break the press with a quick pass to forward Xavier Hill-Mais. In space and with forward Jalen Smith between him and the basket, the redshirt senior

attempted to go up strong.

The 6-foot-10-inch Smith blocked him — one of his three that day — to trigger a fast break. On Oakland’s next inbounds pass, Scott and Ayala trapped forward Daniel Oladapo in the corner. Morsell picked off the ensuing feed and faked a behind-the-back pass before finishing at the rim himself, part of a 9-0 Terps run.

“Our defense is one of our strong points,” Morsell said. “In the first half, the game was kind of slow. We switched up in the second half, kind of did a run and jump, and I feel like that picked up the pace of the game.”

Maryland racked up 10 steals Saturday — its most since a 104-67 win over Marshall last year — with

Wiggins collecting three for the third straight game.

And with a deep bench — nine players featured for 11 or more minutes — a highenergy defense such as the run and jump is manageable.

The Terps won’t need to u s e a p re s s d e fe n s e every game, particularly in early-season matchups they’ll likely be in control of throughout. But as the season progresses and opponents improve, Maryland can make use of the presses it’s perfecting now to impact tighter contests.

“Run and jump was good fo r u s to d ay, t h e 1- 3 -1 was good for us the other game,” Turgeon said. “We have multiple defenses that really help us and change the tempo of the game.” sportsdbk@gmail.com