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Northrop Grumman donates $2.76M to ACES

By Hallie Miller @halliewrites Staff writer

program in the country, its inaugural semester in fall 2013 had a class of 45 students, he said. This fall, 104 students enrolled in ACES, he said.

Growing from a two-year livingThis university announced today a learning experience into a four-year $2.76 million donation from Northrop Grumman Foundation to further program featuring a 16-credit minor, expand the Honors College’s Ad- ACES’s success has attracted students vanced Cybersecurity Experiences from several disciplines, including for Students program, an official said. mathematics, engineering, computer Northrop Grumman Corp., a global science, business, music, criminology security and technology company and psychology, Cukier said.

“The goal is to have the best stuspecializing in deflecting cyberbased threats, pledged these funds dents at cybersecurity in the region,” to help the program sustain an un- he said. “We not only want to bring anticipated increase in students, students into the field, but also bring ACES Director Michel Cukier said. diversity into STEM and keep [stuThis donation will provide additional dents] in the region.”

Cukier said he seeks to not only faculty, classroom and lab space for include students from a diverse range students, Cukier said.

As the first cybersecurity honors of majors, but also to attract women

and underrepresented minority students to the program. As of today, women make up 24 percent of ACES’s student body, and women and minority students together comprise 30 percent of the program, he said.

The program’s hands-on experiences, coupled with the instruction offered by prominent cybersecurity experts and the emphasis on leadership training, provides an advantage for students as they enter the job market, he said.

“It makes them extremely interesting for companies,” Cukier said.

“As an Honors program, it shows they’re the top 25 percent at Maryland … learn[ing] most of the techniques experts need in the field.”

Jake Richard, a freshman computer science major in the ACES

PRINCE FREDERICK Hall houses the Honors College’s Advanced Cybersecurity Experiences for Students livinglearning program. The program received a $2.76 million donation from Northrop Grumman. file photo/the diamondback prog ra m, sa id t he network i ng and resume-building opportunities available to him through the program impressed him.

“I’ve been really satisfied with

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Title IX office trains Univ Police in trauma

Univ PHA decries Safe Campus Act Bill would deter reports of assault, members say

Instruction focuses on investigative techniques

By Darcy Costello @dctello Senior staff writer Under this university’s current Title IX procedures, a sexual assault victim can make a report to school administrators without reaching out to law enforcement officials or filing a police report.

Should the Safe Campus Act pass in Congress, that would be impossible.

The bill calls for institutions of higher education to “report and refer the allegation to the law enforcement agency of the unit of local jurisdiction” within 48 hours of receiving consent from the alleged victim.

Should the victim request confidentiality in their report — including requesting no law enforcement investigation — the bill prevents institutions from carrying out “any institutional disciplinary proceeding with respect to the allegation.”

Though the National Panhellenic Conference originally endorsed the bill, it withdrew its support last week following an outcry from local Panhellenic Association councils, including this university’s. The NorthAmerican Interfraternity Conference also withdrew its support.

In a Nov. 13 news release, the NPC described a “groundswell of concern” among its members that prompted a refocusing of its legislative agenda and ultimately a change of opinion.

This university’s Panhellenic Association council planned to speak out against the act before the NPC’s recent decision, said Noelle Roy, the association’s vice president of social responsibility. To garner support for such an action, the council spoke to chapter presidents who had conversations with members, most of whom did not want the NPC to support the act.

“There should be the option of reporting to the school only,” said junior biology and ecology and evolution major Michelle Zemil, Sigma Delta Tau sorority’s risk manager.

“Our community is doing something good [in] opposing the legislation.

Victims may not want to necessarily report to police for varying reasons, and that’s their decision.

That’s important.”

Supporters of the bill say it would “enhance the reliability of campus See ACT, Page 3

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ADRIENNE BAER poses for a portrait. The junior has waited weeks for a counseling appointment after requesting one in late October.

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THE WAITING GAME

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Senior staff writer

Mental health services unable to meet demand

Adrienne Baer sat on a set of steps facing out toward McKeldin Mall, wearing a gray University of Maryland sweatshirt and holding her planner open on her lap.

Last month alone, Baer lost a high school friend and two grandparents and learned one of her best friends had been raped at gunpoint.

She pointed to Oct. 30, the day she first mustered the courage to reach out to the University Health Center for help coping. It was now Nov. 11.

“It’s hard for people to call. … I didn’t want to call because I wasn’t ready to admit that I needed to see somebody,” the junior information systems major said.

With staffing and funding for the health center’s mental health services and the

Lumberjack club offers cut-rate groundskeeping Landgineers, a club that’s been growing in membership and interest since it started at this university in 2012.

By Eliana Block Club members com m it to @thedbk keeping the grounds in the backFor The Diamondback yard of Hillel, the Chabad Center and any other areas that might Every Sunday in the woods need m a i nten a nce a rou nd t he behind Maryland Hillel, about ca mpu s, t h a n ks to its 6-foot30 students from this univer- 7 president A llan Miller, whom sity have their axes, hatchets t he mem b ers refer to a s t he i r and mauls out and ready to chop “emperor.” some wood for a couple of hours.

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Group maintains Hillel property each week

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Counseling Center lagging behind student demand, Baer has become a part of the backlog.

On a campus of more than 38,000 students, the health center’s mental health services employs seven psychotherapists who offer one-on-one counseling support, while the Counseling Center has 14 psychologists on staff this year.

The current staff is not equipped to meet student needs, said Marta Hopkinson, mental health services director. Even with about 50 to 90 appointments a day, students with nonurgent cases often must wait two to three weeks before meeting with a psychotherapist.

“There is more demand for psychotherapy than we have available,” Hopkinson said.

“We all serve everyone who is in an urgent

The Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct trained University Police officers on conducting trauma-informed investigations of incidents such as domestic or sexual violence.

The training happened over three days — Oct. 12, Oct. 22 and Nov. 9 — and involved all University Police officers as well as some law enforcement officers from Prince George’s County and prosecutors from a state’s attorney’s office, said Catherine Carroll, who assumed her role as the university’s first Title IX compliance director in March 2014.

“We all agreed to work together and make sure we were on the same page,” University Police Capt. Joanne Ardovini said. “We’re working on our relationships with groups that can help us more broadly in dealing with events like sexual assault.”

University Police reported 21 oncampus rapes in the past three years, according to its annual security report. The Title IX office received 20 rape complaints in its first year.

Over three training days, officers learned about how the brain functions in normal and traumatic situations, how to interview victims and how to write an effective incident

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individuals — co-ed, of course — would have,” said Miller, a senior chemical and biomolecular engineering major. “We are a ‘fraternity’ in that sense.”

T he group members consider the club their own kind of fraternity, which they dubbed the LLL, similar to the tri-letter Greek life acronyms, Miller said.

T he L L L re c ord e d a b o ut 30 members who actually chop wood and who signed the group’s constitution as of this past spring, but about See LUMBERJACKS, Page 3

ALLAN MILLER, the club’s president, poses for a portrait with his ax. tom hausman/the diamondback

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STAFF EDITORIAL: Boost mental health resources

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CRIME BLOTTER

By Jessie Campisi @jessiecampisi, @dbkcrime Staff writer Un iversity Pol ice res p o n d e d to re p o r t s o f assault, a Title IX-related incident and damage to state property among other incidents in the past week, according to police reports.

ASSAULT Un iversity Pol ice responded to the University Health Center on Nov. 16 at 12:24 a.m. for a report of an assault, according to the daily crime and incident log.

Wednesday at about 3 p.m., according to the report.

STOLEN MOTOR VEHICLE A stolen motor vehicle was reported to University Police on Nov. 16 at 8:39 a.m. at the police’s impound lot, according to the report.

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY On Thursday at 2:19 p.m., University Police responded to the 3600 block of Campus Drive for a report of suspicious activity, according to police reports.

BURGLARY

Un iversity Pol ice responded to the Varsity Sports Teamhouse on Saturday at TITLE IX Un iversity Pol ice re- 10:34 a.m. for a report of a sponded to Wicomico Hall burglary that allegedly ocon Nov. 17 at 4:51 p.m. for a curred on Nov. 20, according report of a Title IX-related to the report. incident, according to the report. The incident alVANDALISM legedly occurred at about Un iversity Pol ice re4 p.m. and was determined s p o n d e d to t h e C a m p u s to be noncriminal.

Farm’s sheep barn on Nov. 17 at 8:16 a.m. for a report of vandalism.

THREAT According to police ASSESSMENT Un iversity Pol ice re- reports, the incident allegsponded to the A.V. Wil- edly occurred Nov. 16 at 8:40 l ia ms Bu i ld i ng on Nov. p.m.

Other cases of vandalism 16 at about 3:30 p.m. for a report of a th reat as- allegedly occurred at Lot Q sessment. T he incident on Nov. 17 and at the Arena allegedly occurred that Drive parking garage Nov. 17. morning at about 5:30 a.m.

HARASSMENT/ STALKING

THEFT

On Nov. 16 at 1:47 p.m., University Police responded A case of harassment/ to the Leonardtown Comstalking was reported to munity for a report of a theft.

The theft was reported to University Police on Saturday at 1:51 p.m. at Prince have occurred at about 6:30 Frederick Hall. The inci- p.m. on Nov. 14.

Another case of theft was dent allegedly occurred reported Nov. 17 after UniNov. 20 at 2:17 p.m. versity Police responded to Calvert Hall at 3:20 p.m.

DAMAGE TO Other cases of theft were STATE PROPERTY Un iversity Pol ice re- reported at Van Munching sponded to the university’s Hall on Nov. 17, at Lot 1b on apiary on Friday at 10:36 Nov. 19 and at the Kim Engia.m. for a report of damage neering Building on Nov. 19. to state property. The incident allegedly occurred jcampisidbk@gmail.com

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ings shows our commitment to find the best way to do that,” she said.

Although a traumatic event could affect a victim’s memory and emotional state, an officer with the right training can still get a complete picture of what happened, Bronson said.

“Usually, the first person t h at a v ict i m wou ld ta l k to after a crime is a patrol officer or dispatcher,” he said. “Trauma can impact a survivor greatly, and we want this interaction to make the victim feel better and still get the information for a better investigation.”

Mitchell said the main takeaway from the training is that there is more than one option for victims on the campus.

Now, police officers in addition to members of the Title IX office have the skills and techniques to help victims of traumatic events.

Title IX is “a resource for us to assist when we have an investigation underway,” Mitchell said. “It’s a partnership where we’re all seeking the truth to ensure that justice is carried out.”

Ardovini said she hopes that as a result of the training, victims of sexual assault and other crimes would feel more comfortable reporting to University Police and would have a more positive experience.

“No victim is going to get brushed off,” she said. “We want people to walk away saying, ‘I met an officer who actually helped me and listened to me.’ They deserve that compassion.”

rep or t, a c c ord i n g to t he training agenda. The training material was based on i n formation from the International Association of Chiefs of Police, said Josh Bronson, Title IX office assistant director and sexual misconduct investigator.

One aspect of this training focused on the importance of conducting an effective trau ma-i n formed interview, through which officers use their knowledge of the impacts of trauma on victims to gather details and information from the victim.

The training also discussed what a typical offender looks like and how offenders choose their victims and use alcohol to target them.

University Police Chief David Mitchell said this was the first time the entire department, not just detectives, trained in trauma-informed investigations.

“We want to make it so officers have all of the tools in the toolbox that they need to be effective, and we’re finding out what tools Title IX will help us provide,” Ardovini said.

In the past, Ardovini said, different groups have done speci fic tra i n i ngs gea red towa rd t hei r professions — such as detectives going through separate interview training — but the concept of training is ongoing.

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Students start escape room company Escape 45 to offer adventure scenarios

by December

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Senior staff writer Imagine you and your f r iend s h ave been k idnapped from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, trapped in a lighthouse and left with 45 minutes to escape before the kidnapper returns.

With Escape 45, a stud e n t- d e s i g n e d e s c a p e room coming to Baltimore in December, this adventure scenario and others like it can become reality.

Un iversity students Asad Masood, a fifth-year mechanical engineering major; his brother Fahed, a sophomore mechanical engineering major; and D yla n K apoor, a ju n ior biology major, are three fou nders of th is escape room adventure company, which places participants in manufactured situations they must find their way out of.

“A n e s c a p e r o o m i s a t e a m- b a s e d a d v e nture where you and your f r i e n d s , f a m i l y, c o workers, strangers work together to solve puzzles and break out of a locked room,” said Ashraf Afzal, a Johns Hopkins University graduate and the fourth founder of Escape 45.

T he facility will have about 3,000 square feet and six operational rooms, A fzal said. With escape rooms popping up in cities across the country over t h e p a s t fe w ye a rs, h e said, the four decided to try the experience. “ We went to one a nd

ASHRAF AFZAL (left) and Asad Masood stand in an unfinished room at their Escape 45 location in Baltimore.

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it was just really fu n. We thought it would be something great to have in Baltimore,” Afzal said. “And we figured, why not just make it ourselves?”

A fza l sa id the focus on teamwork and cooperation makes escape rooms a great activity for a group of friends or a business looking to do team-building exercises. “ You cou ld even br i n g someone on a fi rst date,” he said. “Find out how they work under pressure.”

T he four visited several escape rooms in New York and Washington to get a feel for good or bad escape room scenarios.

A sad Masood sa id they not iced t he “ bad” room s focused on nu mbers or l i n e a r e x e rc i s e s s u c h a s opening a series of locks.

But the more exciting rooms were different, using more automated features to make the escape scena rio more engaging, he said.

“We really wanted to use that, to fig ure out how to ma ke puzzles more automatic,” Masood said. “So when you solve one thing, it could make something else open up.”

Instead of just numbers

a nd pu zzles, he sa id, the team tried to include both thought-based puzzles and physical challenges to accom mo d ate pa r t icipa nts with different skill sets.

T he team is working on building concepts for each of the rooms, Afzal said. One room will be a jewel heist simulation in which teams have to steal a diamond and esc ap e b efore t he p ol ice arrive, and another will be the lighthouse kidnapping scenario.

T hey hope to h ave two rooms running by early December and the other four ready by Febr u a r y, A fza l said.

Much of the planning for the puzzles takes place in McKeldin Library, Kapoor said. Kapoor plans a list of pu zzle scen a rios a nd t he te a m ta l k s t h rou g h e ach one, picks out the best and plans how they could fit in each room.

“We kind of build off each other’s ideas to figure out what we want our puzzles to be and how we can make them unique,” Kapoor said.

“We really want to make it a n i m mersive ex perience compa red to a ny other escape room. … We wa nt

it to be something no one’s ever done before.”

T h re e o f t h e fo u n d e rs a r e f u l l-t i m e s t u d e n t s , and A fzal has another job w ith h is father’s med ica l company in Frederick, so sometimes they don’t have much time. But Masood said they are all dedicated to the project and have gotten a lot of help from friends. Their network of friends, several of whom are also students from this university, have helped with everything from decorating to assembling furniture to working on lock mechanisms for the rooms, he said.

The team will also launch a Kickstarter campaign to ra i se more f u nd s for t he project and spread the word, Afzal said. The four founders have spent a lot of time and money on the project already and there is still a long way to go, but he said it will all be worth it.

“All we really care about is that the puzzles are exciting and people have fun,” Afzal said. “If we focus on making it a great experience, hopefully every thing else will fall into place.”

data analysis and policy. He also said this breadth of instruction has served to shape From PAGE 1 ACES students into competialready, which I’d say is a tive job applicants.

The success of the ACES really good advantage.”

He sa id the sem i na rs p r o g r a m a n d N o r t h r o p available to him and his Grumman’s commitment to peers offer severa l d i f- its growth helped the univerferent perspectives to the sity win the Association of field of cybersecurity, in- Public and Land-grant Unicluding problem solving, versities 2015 Connections

Award, the organization’s top honor. This award distinguishes institutions that foster talent within a specific fi eld and work toward community development, according to a news release. “ T he s up p or t t h at t he Northrop Grumman Foundation has committed in support of the ACES program shows how important this type of

workforce is to the nation,” Mary Ann Rankin, this university’s senior vice president and provost, wrote in a news release. “This generous gift will allow us to continue to educate and train our students to be future cybersecurity leaders and meet the growing needs in the nation and state.”

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U dietetics program helps host food fair in McKeldin

By Scott Gelman @Gelman_Scott Staff writer

FRATERNITY ROW serves as the center of Greek life on the campus. This university’s Panhellenic Association council has opposed the Safe Campus Act, which calls for institutions of higher education to refer sexual assault cases to police. enoch hsiao/the diamondback

ACT From PAGE 1 proceedings and lend sorely needed credibility to their findings,” according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

“A l legat ion s of se x u a l assault should be investigated by impartial, trained law enforcement officers with the necessary skill and expertise to reach just conclusions,” the foundation wrote in an article published in July, “and the punitive power to hold those convicted accountable to the victim and society.”

Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.), a co-sponsor of the act, said the legislation protects the fundamental rights of all parties in sexual assault cases.

“Congress must work to address this issue in a manner that is fair to all persons,” he wrote in a July news release, “and the involvement of our justice system in these proceedings is an excellent way to ensure that all parties’ rights are protected.”

Conversation about the Safe Campus Act sparked at this university when the Panhellenic Association screened The Hunting Ground, a documentary on how universities handle sexual misconduct, in

late October. Students brought up concerns with the legislation in a Q-and-A session following the fi lm, said Corin Gioia Edwards, the Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life’s associate director of programming and advising.

In the weeks following the screening, Edwards worked with the department to help students figure out how to a d d re s s t h e i r c o n c e r n s , sha ri ng resou rces f rom the Col lege of Wi l l ia m & Mary’s Panhellenic Association council, which took action aga i nst the N PC’s endorsement.

“I’m always happy when students are thinking about issues bigger tha n themselves,” Edwards said, “like thinking about the policy and its potential impact on other students.”

To her knowledge, Edwards said, this university’s Panhel len ic A sso ci at ion h a s not taken any similar action against its national organization in recent history.

This act, though, was a “call to action” for many students, Edwards said.

T h e Fa i r Ca m p u s A c t, a similar bill introduced a week after the Safe Campus Act, has not faced similar withdrawals of support, but Roy said she predicts there

will be similar discussions within the association and potentially action against the legislation.

Unlike the Safe Campus Act, the Fair Campus Act does not prevent institutions from punishing students without an investigation by law enforcement.

Rather, it requires that universities hold a “formal hearing or similar adjudicatory proceeding” in accordance with the requirements set forth in the bill.

Junior criminology and criminal justice and psychology major Hannah Stein said forcing universities to get law enforcement involved could translate into fewer sexual assault reports, g iven society’s cu ltu re of victim-blaming and a history of police mishandling sexual assault reports.

“On an objective level, someone might think this is great because police are getting involved, but that’s not rea l izi ng the other factors behind it,” Stein said. “There are reasons why victims don’t want to fi le a report. … This would act as a deterrent to people a nd leave per petrators unpunished.” dcostellodbk@gmail.com

This university’s dietetics program partnered with Foodie on Campus, an online nutrition blog dedicated to m a k i n g col lege st udents more aware of healthy food options, to host a food fair i n M c K e l d i n L i b ra r y o n Friday.

The event was tied to nut r it ion cou rse N FSC350: Food ser v ice O perat ion s.

Ma rga ret Uda hogora, the dietetics program director and course professor, said the event allowed students to i nte ra c t w it h he a lt hy products and enabled them to better meet i nd iv idua l consumers’ needs.

“I realized it was time to be creative — we needed innovation,” Udahogora said.

Ud a hogora f i rst met i n September with Faye Mitchell, the editor-in-chief of Foodie on Campus and a 1982 university alumna, to begin planning the event. Each dietetics student in NFSC350 was g iven the task of researching a product to the point at which they would be able to sell it to students passing through the event, Udahogora said.

KIND snacks, California Dried Plums and Walnuts, Ku ra Nut r it ion, Ba r ney Butter and Tiny but Mighty Popcor n were a mong t he vendors that had tables at the event and provided free samples. In addition to presenting and supplying samples, Siggi’s yogurt and WeCook also made donations to help fund the event, Mitchell said.

“I love putting on events, and I felt this would be the perfect way to reach college students,” M itchel l sa id.

“I thought about writing a book, but college students don’t always want to read.

We needed to reach college students in a different way.”

M itchel l, who was i n private practice in dietetics in Bethesda for 25 years

JILLIAN MERGRUEN, a senior dietetics major, speaks at the Foodie on Campus event held in the McKeldin Library Special Events room on Friday. tom hausman/the diamondback and was a teacher’s assistant for NFSC350 while she was a university student, said she often spoke to collegebound students who had a desire to learn how to eat healthy in campus dining halls. She decided to start the blog to spread a message of moderation.

“We believe in eating real and healthy foods, but every so often, go ahead and have a cookie,” Mitchell said. With this event, “I wanted to give students that message of moderation.”

“A LOT OF TIMES, KIDS COME TO COLLEGE AND FORGET THEIR BODIES MATTER. THEY FOCUS ON SCHOOL AND GET STRESSED.” JILLIAN MERGRUEN Senior dietetics major

Udahogora said she wanted students attending the event to realize “food the natural way tastes good.” “ We a r e n ’ t t r y i n g t o expand their taste buds,” Udahogora said. “You don’t need to add sugar and chemicals for things to taste good.”

Sen ior d ietet ic s m ajor Jillian Mergruen, who is enrolled in the course and served as a volunteer, said the event should have a notable impact because students sometimes

forget to eat healthy when they get to college.

“A lot of times, kids come to college and forget their bodies matter,” Mergruen said. “They focus on school and get stressed. I think it’s important to remind them there are ways to incorporate healthy foods in their lives.”

Senior psychology major Maureen Johnson said she felt the event was successful in advertising products rat her t h a n d i spl ay i n g a series of facts.

“On campus, there are so many fast-food options so it is easy not to eat healthy,” Joh n son sa id . “I le a r ned about some new ingredients that ca n be used to ma ke meals. This is a great way to advertise healthy options.”

Udahogora said she teaches the class every fall, and next fall she will create a different topic for the event, such as prici ng hea lth ier food options. Moving forward, Mitchell said she hopes to bring the event to campuses across the country.

“I want this to be a template,” Mitchell said. “Nutrition communications is very different from clinical nutrition. … It’s a different way of present i ng information. T here is not a lot of room for that in the curriculum.” sgelmandbk@gmail.com

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400 people have attended t he b on f i res ever y ot her week and the monthly o u t d o o r m o v i e s c r e e nings, Miller said. There are n o re q u i re m e nt s fo r t h e 30 m e m b e rs, ot h e r t h a n coming to the weekly chop with a pocketknife.

T he LLL was orig i na l ly the brainchild of Miller and 2015 u n iversit y a lu m nu s Bernie Kramer in fall 2012.

Miller brought experience from helping his dad in his fruit and vegetable garden in his home city of Chicago, while K ramer learned the trade from his days at Wisconsin Institute for Torah S t u d y, a h i g h s c h o o l i n Milwaukee. “ T hey h ad a bi g fores t i n t he back of t he school that no one really did anything with, so I brought a h atchet a nd ju s t s t a r te d chopping wood in the back and making bonfires by Lake Michigan,” Kramer said. “I got used to using a hatchet and moved on to axes.”

At the club’s inception, K ra m e r b e c a m e re s p o nsible for teaching members safety precautions for using the tools, as well as how to prop erly chu n k wo o d b y hitting the ax to the wood’s g ra i n at a p er p end icu l a r angle.

The Georgia native learned the proper way to cut, clean and care for tools throughout high school while living away from his parents. Being in the woods with his ax, he said, was a place

MEMBERS of this university’s Lumberjacks Landscapers and Landgineers club gather in the woods to clear tree debris. photo courtesy of lumberjacks landscapers and landgineers Kramer found comforting.

“When you live at school, there’s not really any place to go,” K ramer said. “For me, that was the way I relaxed and escaped from whatever was happening.”

After meeting each other through Hillel, Kramer and Miller got the approval they needed to sta r t t he club, collected donations of old tools, gat hered members and created a constitution.

New members are dubbed “saplings,” bonfire builde rs a re c a l le d “em b ers,” lumberjacks are “termites” and the tool instructor will “henceforth [be] referred to as ‘The Bernie,’” according to the constitution.

H i l l e l D i re c to r of O perations Allison Buchman said she watched the group take root three years ago.

She said the titles the students give one another are

“k itschy,” but they don’t joke around when it comes to maintaining the grounds.

“T heir names are really funny and make me laugh, but I actually think that it’s cool that there are people that want to help maintain the grounds and care enough to m a ke t h at a pr ior ity,” Buchman said.

The club also vows, with Miller’s leadership, to only chop and burn tree debris, not anything living.

Buch m a n a nd K ra mer b ot h a g re e d t he L L L e xpanded as it did because of its “emperor.”

“It is very Allan-driven,” Buchman said. “He cares a lot, a nd t h at’s one of h i s best qualities.”

“He’s a huge person and a huge personality,” Kramer added. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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ver the past few years, colleges and universities across the nation have witnessed so-called “invisible epidemics” — sexual assault, mental illness and, most recently, institutional racism have revealed themselves in stark fashion.

This university hasn’t been immune.

Since spring 2014, when Catherine Carroll took the helm of the Office of Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct, the numbers of misconduct reports and expulsions for sexual assault both have risen.

And the debate over renaming Byrd Stadium — whose namesake, Harry Clifton “Curley” Byrd, fought to keep this university segregated during his tenure as university president — has roiled the campus community since the spring, when a racist email from a former Kappa Sigma fraternity member also surfaced.

But considering the corporate funds this university has poured into its health and counseling services in recent years, all to apparently little avail, mental illness might earn the ignoble distinction of the hardest of the three to address.

In spring 2013, about a month after a murder-suicide shook the campus and amid mounting student demand for psychiatric care, this university pledged to spend $5 million on student mental health services over the next decade.

That windfall, courtesy of university contractor and beverage purveyor PepsiCo Inc., allocates $500,000 each year to staff the university’s health and counseling centers with more psychiatrists, counselors and psychologists, thus boosting the counselor-student ratio and shortening wait times for appointments.

Thus far — now three payouts in — it hasn’t been enough.

Students across the campus recounted an intake process that left them in limbo

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for weeks, unable to see a specialist.

Others lamented a Counseling Center policy that allows for just eight therapy sessions per patient each year. Three vacant psychologist positions in the Counseling Center haven’t helped with the backlog, either.

And when students conclude their on-campus therapy sessions, they often struggle to find a Washington-area professional to see them, a costly endeavor that can cost thousands of dollars.

OUR VIEW

This university must expand its resources to meet students’ mental health needs.

Worrisome, too, is a sharp dropoff in state funding this fiscal year for student services, an umbrella budget category that counts the University Health Center and the Counseling Center as subdivisions. As part of a 2 percent reduction in this university’s overall state funding, spending on student services fell by more than $245,000.

That mental health services have failed to keep pace with demand isn’t astounding. Between 2010 and 2012 alone, the Counseling Center saw a 23 percent jump in the number of students requesting its services, according to The Baltimore Sun. In 2012, the percentage of patients considered priority or emergency patients spiked to 24 percent from 14 percent a year prior.

But the fact that officials by and large have failed to address a lack of available appointments for most students not labeled actively suicidal, even after $1.5 million in Pepsi funding, is damning. This behavior runs

contrary to a university that strives to provide a holistic educational experience for students.

This editorial board implores school officials to understand that mental health directly affects students’ ability to attend class, do well in their courses and ultimately graduate in an appropriate time frame.

According to a 2012 survey of current and recent college students diagnosed with mental health conditions, conducted by the National Alliance of Mental Illness, 64 percent said they were no longer attending college due to mental health-related reasons. Additionally, the same survey discovered that “more than 45 percent of those who stopped attending college because of mental health related reasons did not receive accommodations.” Because mental illness is complicated and not something that is easily resolved, this university must do more than send messages for students to seek help and must show students that it is ready to handle the issues that are brought forward.

The university should view an investment in mental health as an investment in nearly every aspect of students’ overall well-being, from their academic performance to their social lives. This editorial board believes university administrators made that connection when they allocated the Pepsi donation toward mental health services, but as cases of mental illness in college students are only increasing, it is time we saw some significant changes.

While the mental health epidemic on this university’s campus and hundreds of other campuses nationwide is no longer invisible, it is far from being cured. Just as they always have, students’ lives and well-being hang in the balance.

Syria: Balancing American compassion with sense

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n regards to Thursday’s staff editorial “Keep our golden d o o r o p e n ,” I co n s i d e re d the many points mentioned in support of allowing more Syrian refugees into our country, and I respond with respect.

As a conservative, I would say that, yes, one has to consider compassion and American values regarding these refugees from Syria. The editorial board should be commended for expressing care for other humans in a difficult situation, but the analysis cannot stop there. One must consider a few other vital things.

The main thing regarding all immigration issues is the question of what is in the best interests of America and its citizens.

First, these Syrians have been raised in a country with a culture deeply inimical to American and Western values. The vast majority of these people have been taught all their lives to hate America and its core values of liberty, representative government and freedom of speech, press and religion. A Pew poll from 2013 shows that majorities of Muslims in several Middle E a s te r n a n d No r t h A f r i c a n nations believe their government should be based on Sharia law. That could be interpreted to mean, among many other regressive notions, that a man who converts from Islam to Christianity should be executed.

Second, because leftism, not Americanism, is now the value system of the Democratic Party, the push for assimilation into

American values is considered xenophobic and intolerant by many.

That is why in leftist Europe, with about 20 million Muslim immigrants and refugees, most live in self-selected cultural ghettos separated from and deeply antagonistic to Western European life. This has bred massive unrest and erosion of Western European life. It has led to millions in Europe intent on degrading or destroying Western European culture. It has led ultimately to large numbers of Islamists rampaging and murdering through the once civil and peaceful streets of the Old World.

Your experiment has been tried in Europe. It is a disastrous failure.

Third, anyone with common sense knows that there is no way to adequately vet the refugees we intend on allowing into our borders. Our government could n o t eve n o p e n a n O b a m a c a re website. It could not properly vet one of our own, Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Muslim U.S. Army psychiatrist who murdered 13 people in a jihadist rampage for Allah.

Compassion is fine. American values are great. But we have to be mature, sensible and wise Americans as well. Our doors must stay closed to these floods of people from this terrorist state of Syria.

We must help them resettle in the Arab Middle East among their brethren. That is not xenophobic, Islamophobic or bigoted. This is true American compassion, justice, and preservation of our beautiful country and its culture.

Howard Sachs is a physician. He can be reached at hsachs@starpower.net.

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Additional security is a waste of time

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fter the heinous and tragic series of attacks in Paris that targeted civilians in crowded p u b l i c p l a ce s, t h i s u n ive rs i ty has increased security measures at sporting events. The changes include prohibiting backpacks and bags larger than 8 by 11 by 12 inches and a metal detector wand scan of all fans entering Xfinity Center and Byrd Stadium.

This is just one step of a creeping national trend toward greater security at sporting events. This past season, metal detectors were added at the gates of Nationals Park and other MLB stadiums. In 2013, the NFL infamously banned purses and bags in favor of clear plastic bags.

Some of these procedures might be motivated by fans bringing outside food or alcohol to the game, which is more of a threat to the bottom line than to public safety. However, due to the timing of the move, it can be considered an honest security measure for Terps games.

It is understandable that the university wants to appear wellprepared in reaction to the violence abroad, so it responds with “security theater.” This might be

quite difficult to swallow, but the reality is that it isn’t possible to completely eliminate the risk of a determined attacker succeeding.

The inconvenience of this type of security outweighs the benefits.

Realistically, the only impact of the changes is to further delay the entry process for the thousands of fans hoping to enjoy Terps games.

At the basketball game last Friday against Rider, most of the students arrived right at game time, causing a jam at the gates that led to significant delays. If the student section hadn’t been so sparse, the same probably would have occurred at Saturday’s football game against Indiana.

I experienced about a 15-minute delay when attending the game, which is not huge by itself, but can add up for a crowd. If all 17,950 experience only a five-minute delay on average, the crowd loses nearly 1,500 hours. At a world-class university like our own, that is an expensive tax on students and alumni who achieve great things every day.

In 2015, results from an internal investigation found that the TSA failed more than 95 percent

of tests, allowing explosives and weapons to pass through the gates in 67 of 70 tests. These are professionals trained by the Homeland Security Department, with quality equipment and funded with billions of taxpayer dollars. Meanwhile, arenas like Xfinity Center are staffed with hastily trained rent-a-guards. If someone truly wanted to attack a Terps basketball game of all things, they would probably find a way through the “security theater.”

Security keeps increasing over time in response to incidents, and the gradual changes over time resemble a boiling-frog scenario.

Security should exist but at a reasonable level. The work that the FBI and CIA do to prevent terror cells from gaining a domestic foothold is more effective than casting a wide net to catch attackers at every public space in the U.S. If we cannot cheer on our Terps without paranoia, then the terrorists have achieved something.

Daniel Galitsky is a senior economics and finance major. He can be reached at dgalitskydbk@gmail.com.

ontrary to popular belief, the Squanto-Pilgrim Convention of 1621 was not the first case of human beings sitting around and giving thanks. I’d be willing to wager that the first time Susan the Neanderthal held the cave door open for Kevin the Neanderthal, she got a grunt of gratitude. As humans, expressing thanks is one of the most time-honored traditions we have.

In fact, it’s one of the things that sets us apart from other species. Plenty of animals run in packs. Only one animal has been successful enough in those packs to do things like build cities and invent the selfie stick. One of the principal reasons? Social cohesion, or the willingness of people to work together. To borrow liberally from The Psychology of Gratitude: “Gratitude is part of the chain of reciprocity, and as such, it has ‘survival value’: It is sustaining a cycle of gift and counter-gift, and thereby essential in creating community.”

Community means cohabitation, compatriotism and comfort.

On the 25th anniversary of the moon landing, Neil Armstrong sent a letter to the team that built his suit for the surface walk. From the man himself: “It turned out to be one of the most widely photographed spacecraft in history. That was no doubt due to the fact that it was so photogenic. Equally responsible for its success was its characteristic of hiding from view its ugly occupant.”

Of all the things to give thanks for, it strikes me that having b e e n p reve n te d f ro m b e i n g sucked into the endless void of

outer space is high up on the list.

Society, in large part, means security. A seminal study by primatologist Robert Sapolsky found that baboons comfortable with their status in the social hierarchy have lower levels of circulating stress hormones than those experiencing “social mobility.” As a species, when we fit in, when we belong, we can relax. We also work together, and as callow as it sounds, we accomplish far more than we ever could individually. Gratitude inclines us to contribute to others’ successes, and for that reason, it’s essential.

Legend has it that in 1934, Henry Ford received a note of appreciation for his work touting the “sustained speed” and reliability of the Ford brand. Soon after, the writer of the note and his well-known partner were both killed while trying to outrun police officers in a Ford V8.

Macabre as it may be, it’s worth noting that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow saw the importance of giving thanks for the important things.

While it might not feel like it when Aunt Phyllis and Uncle Roger are shooting passive-aggressive barbs across the turkey, the very concept of Thanksgiving has been instrumental in creating the world we inhabit today. As a vehicle for social cohesion, it has permitted the zeniths of humanity’s accomplishments. It also means that I’m not currently outside hunting and gathering berries or somesuch. Maybe this Thanksgiving, we should all take a moment to give thanks for gratitude.

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

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D e s p i te L o h’s i n i t i a l pledge, Swanson and Ronk said they find it concerning that the university’s commitment to allocating the alcohol revenue to areas such as mental health services is not entirely fleshed out.

“It is a little bit worrying that there isn’t just this, ‘X amount is going to this, X amount is going to this,’ even if it’s just a ratio,” Ronk said.

Hopkinson and KirklandGordon said their respective departments have not been involved in any direct conversations with the university at this time about how alcohol sales could benefit mental health services.

From PAGE 1 or emergency situation, defined as suicidal or homicidal or if they’re having panic attacks or they’re not functioning.”

As of Sunday, Baer was still waiting for an appointment.

“Through this whole thing,” she said, “I still have not actually talked to a therapist.”

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BY THE NUMBERS When Baer told the health center she didn’t think she was experiencing an emergency, she said she was immediately transferred to the Counseling Center, which told her its earliest opening was Nov. 12.

Furious with the response, Baer said she wrote a heated email to the health center, stating it had not made clear what constituted an emergency situation.

“At the end [of the email] I told them what was happening, and I was like, ‘I don’t know if you consider this an emergency or not, but what the f---,’ basically,” Baer said.

The health center’s mental health services promptly responded and set up an appointment with Baer for Nov. 3.

However, Baer sa id she walked into a mess — a triage appointment and a phone intake with the Center for Healthy Families, another counseling service on the ca mpus that wou ld n’t be able to see her for triage until Nov. 12.

A health center employee told her mental health services was only seeing people who were actively suicidal, Baer said.

“It’s really frustrating when you know you’re in a place where you’re reaching out for help,” she said.

T he menta l hea lth services department has 18 staff members, seven of whom are psychotherapists who can offer one-on-one counseling support, Hopkinson said.

Sharon Kirkland-Gordon, the Counseling Center director, said its Counseling Service — the primary unit for addressing students’ counseling needs on the campus — has four doctoral interns and 14 psychologists, although it aims to fill three vacancies by the spring semester to bump that count to 17.

“This year, because we’re operating without those three positions filled, we definitely feel a stress,” Kirkland-Gordon said. “When the vacancies are filled, I think it will help.”

In the past two fiscal years, the u n iversity a massed a $44.8 million increase in funding from tuition and fees, due in part to general rate increases and the new differential pricing model for business, engineering and computer science majors, said Paul Dworkis, associate vice president for finance.

However, funding allocated toward student services — a university budget category of which the Counseling Center and health center are subdivisions — decreased by $245,908.

The decrease is a result of a roughly 2 percent reduction in overall state funding, the primary source of student services funding, Dworkis said.

This fiscal year, student services received $53.4 million, or about 3 percent of the university’s $1.91 billion budget, according to university budget documents.

Mental health services represented about $860,000 of the health center’s $7 million budget, and the Counseling Center, excluding its Disability Support Service division, received $2.44 million, said Daniel Catalano, senior business manager for the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs.

“I t h i n k t h at t here a re several issues on this university’s campus that the administration does not prioritize, unfortunately, and mental health is one of them,” said Katherine Swanson, a junior government

NOTHING PERSONAL and politics major. “That’s not just a University of Maryland issue, but a nationwide issue for all college campuses.”

KATHeRINE SWANSON, a junior government and politics major, stands on the lawn outside of Shoemaker Building, which houses this university’s Counseling Center. tom hausman/the diamondback

‘YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN NOW’ For Swanson, her routine counseling sessions came to an end because of a Counseling Center policy that only allows students to see a therapist eight times.

“They didn’t refer anyone for me,” said Swanson, who was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder the summer before her sophomore year. “I couldn’t keep seeing the person at the Counseling Center who already knew all of my infor m at ion a nd k new everything I’d been talking to them about. I just had to stop seeing them, and that, to me, was upsetting.”

When she came to school sophomore year and began to fall into depression, she said the Counseling Center sessions helped her and gave her someone to talk to. However, she noted she hasn’t been able to find another therapist in the Washington area since her sessions concluded in fall 2014.

“To have you see someone for eight weeks and then say, ‘OK, you’re on your own now!’ is almost counterproductive for treatment,” Swanson said.

The eight-session limit is “not a hard and fast rule,” and in certain instances the center will offer a few additional sessions, according to the Student Affairs website.

A student is eligible again one year from the date of his or her last counseling session, Kirkland-Gordon wrote in an email, and is also eligible for unlimited psychotherapeutic group sessions.

The Counseling Center and the health center’s mental health services often work closely together and share mutual clients, especially those in need of medication

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“IF SOMEONE’S AT THE END OF THEIR ROPE AND THEY’RE TOLD THEY CAN’T SEE SOMEONE, I DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS; I DON’T KNOW WHERE THAT GOES.” Adrienne Baer

Junior information systems major or severe cases that require hospitalization, KirklandGordon said. She added the Counseling Center offers a variety of therapy focuses, ranging from academic issues to emotional distress.

Wait times for nonemergency patients vary depending on the time of year, with some “peak times” — between mid-October and Thanksgiving break — mostly resulting in a longer wait for services, Kirkland-Gordon said. But students experiencing emergencies can often be seen immediately or within a few hours, she said.

Baer said she’s afraid for the students who are on the brink but don’t have the courage to say so.

“If someone’s at the end of their rope and they’re told they can’t see someone, I don’t know what that means; I

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don’t know where that goes,” Baer said. “People react to things differently.”

PUSHING FOR MORE FUNDING When Student Government Association President Patrick Ronk pushed last year for the sale of alcoholic beverages at Byrd Stadium and Xfinity Center, he said he made it clear that the proceeds should be largely designated for mental health services on the campus.

I n a Ju ne 2015 em a i l to t he c a mp u s c om mu n it y, Loh pledged the estimated $500,000 a yea r f rom alcohol revenues would be earmarked for student ser-

vices, such as mental health counseling, sexual assault prevention and responsible drinking programs.

“In an era of constrained budgets, the student demand for these services exceeds the available funding,” Loh wrote.

T he university recently spent about $150,000 out of the student affairs office budget for the six-week alcohol-free nightlife program Terps After Dark, said Linda Clement, vice president of student affairs. The decision wasn’t completely in line with SGA members’ expectations, Ronk said.

“I don’t think it was a bad investment of the money — Terps After Dark was successful,” Ronk said. “But it wasn’t exactly what we’d had in mind.”

With football season coming to a close, alcohol sales at Byrd Stadium “are underwhelming; they’re not meeting any of our projections,” Clement said, noting the university does not expect to hit the $500,000 goal and still has to incur the additional material and labor costs that come with selling alcohol.

By the end of basketball season, Clement sa id the hope is the university will be able to amass enough money from sales to cover the cost of Terps After Dark and fund additional programs.

“It’s a n u n know n right now,” Clement admitted.

“There’s so many more games for basketball … and the team is expected to do well, which will keep up fan interest, so maybe we’ll fill up Xfinity and meet our goals.”

Until then, it’s become a waiting game, Swanson said.

In the meantime, she said the SGA’s Health and Wellness Committee began work this month to design a one-stop online resource to help students locate various mental health services available on the campus.

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While Baer said she is frustrated with the communication roadblocks and scheduling processes the health center and Counseling Center employ, she said she understands that it is not personal.

“I don’t want it to seem like I’m unhappy with the health center in particular; it’s more the network, the transfers and having to deal with repeating yourself so many times and seeing a new person, telling them what happened,” Baer said.

Brittni Fine, a junior psychology major, said she has been using the health center’s mental health services for more than a year and is always treated respectfully.

“I was having a pretty rough time for a while, and I had been nervous about seeking help for it. … I finally decided to take a chance with the health center,” Fine said. “They put me with a therapist, and it’s been a year now; it’s been working great. … They never pry; they never overstep any boundaries. Overall, it was a rewarding experience.”

Fine said she was able to see a therapist every week or two last year, depending on how busy the center was. This year, she’s only had two appointments because “they did such a great job that I don’t feel that I need more,” she said.

Despite the demand, “staff is working really, really hard to accommodate all students,” Kirkland-Gordon said.

T he menta l hea lt h a nd counseling staff want to help students, Baer said. But sometimes, they just can’t.

“They said, ‘We understand that you need help; there’s literally nothing we can do,’” Baer said. “They said, ‘Yes, this is serious; we’d love to help you. But we simply don’t have spots.’” tswaakdbk@gmail.com

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REVIEW | ADELE

An album worth crashing into Adele is back and with a voice as big and as bold as we remember

ADELE delighted the music world when she released “Hello” on Oct. 23. The single, which launched the British songstress back into the public eye and onto the charts, came ahead of her new album 25, which dropped Nov. 20. screenshots via youtube.com user adelevevo

By Michael Errigo @M_Errigo Senior staff writer Adele at her very best is like an ocean wave. Her vocals — those that made her sophomore studio album, 21, one of the great works of this millennium and made anticipation for this follow-up, 25, ever-growing and nearly worldwide — consume you. At the height of her ability, they come on with swift agility, swell with burgeoning power and then crash with force enough to break you in two.

This is the Adele experience we all want, the one we were all looking for with 25. Make us feel something. And in this sense, the album delivers.

It all begins with a line that has come to define her triumphant return.

“Hello. It’s me.”

There’s a sense of familiarity there but also a sense of vulnerability, and it brilliantly sets the tone for everything that follows. This probably comes as no surprise considering its gargantuan success as a single, but “Hello” is one of the crown jewels of this work. Similar to “Someone Like You,” no amount of overplay on the

radio can diminish its best qualities.

“When We Were Young” was the only other song outside of “Hello” to see the light of day before Friday.

While “Hello” might have a stronghold on the spotlight, this one could be the dark-horse candidate for the best on the entire album. Co-written with Tobias Jesso Jr., it tells the classic running-into-an-ex story with unconventional lyrics, and the late addition of some background vocals takes it over the top.

It’s also a clear indicator of how this release differs from 21, an album that centered on a breakup. While 25 also sees some appearances by a broken heart, it’s more about time, a theme not surprising from an artist who’s a mom now, not a lovestruck girl.

“We were sad of getting old/ It made us restless,” she bellows toward the end of the track, voice crackling with emotion. “I’m so mad I’m getting old/ It makes me reckless.”

The heartbreak that made 21 so good for listeners to latch onto is certainly present in “All I Ask.” It’s the type of song about a single moment, sung with enough power and beauty to pull you back to a similar second

in your own past. In this case, it’s the dying embers of a relationship, the verge of a breakup and the uncertainty that comes with it.

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Because Adele at her very best is not background noise, not other tab or other task music. It’s listening music, appreciating music, eyes closed, headphones-necessary music. Without your permission, it’s thinking music — mind racing to something or someone you want, have or had music. It can be frightening, this kind of music. It’s make you want to say something, do something, scream something music.

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Shared ideological and spiritual values make the U.S. and Israel ideal allies, but Israel also gives us priceless military, political and technological benefits.

Critics of Israel question the value of the United States’ $3 billion in annual aid to the Jewish state. Yet Israel’s contribution to the U.S. on the world stage, in the Middle East and here at home is invaluable. Indeed, many analysts believe our investment in Israel is a bargain, yielding huge returns in vital strategic areas, and should be increased.

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REVIEW | FREDDIE GIBBS

The MOST LOVABLE GANGSTER With Snoop Dogg’s blessing and an arsenal of drug-doused lyrics, Freddie Gibbs is poised to take the rap world by storm

By Cameron Neimand @kneemund Staff writer

On “McDuck,” the sixth track off Freddie Gibbs’ latest album, Shadow of a Doubt, a conversation occurs between Gibbs and another man that cements Gibbs’ legacy as a modernday gangsta rap revivalist.

“Yeah, you gotta think about, what do a Gary n---- sound like,” Gibbs comments on his Gary, Indiana, origins. “You ain’t ever heard, except [Michael Jackson]. So it’s like, you know, I kind of created … I created this sound.”

“Yeah, n----, this is what it’s gonna be,” the other man says after singing Gibbs’ praises for creating a wholly original style. “After me, there will be you.”

That second man? Well, he’s none other than the S-N-to-the-doubleO-P, the gangsta rap pioneer who has blazed his fair share of trails and California’s finest crop since he featured as Snoop Doggy Dogg on Dr. Dre’s

iconic “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang” in 1992. With a Doggfather blessing and Snoop’s anointment of Gibbs as his own second coming, Shadow of a Doubt is 17 tracks of Gangsta Gibbs at his hard-hitting finest.

The album’s first two tracks, “Rearview” and “Narcos,” have Gibbs staying true to the badass persona he’s built for himself. Both tracks feature gloriously gritty hooks accompanied by deepened Gibbs vocals, with “Narcos” including the rapper’s explanation for how his flow seems so effortless: “Dope game hard/ Rap game, rap game easy than a motherf-----.” The album’s fire is fueled by these prolific hooks, and an aura of chill-inducing greatness arises as Gibbs chants his M.O. on “Freddie Gordy”: “It’s Freddie Kane, Freddie Corleone, Freddie Gordy/ Just left the studio and served a birdie for the 40/ I bet my n----- kill the witness if I get reported/ The shit I spit is so realistic shouldn’t be recorded.”

Dope-dealing, coke-slanging, thug-life anthems like these are

what Gibbs fans have come to crave, as rap’s Tony Montana delivers the purest of product.

However, it’s Gibbs’ ability to switch and experiment with styles that adds a standout factor to Shadow of a Doubt . On “Careless,” the melodic Gibbs sounds like a perfectly executed Bone Thugs-Coolio hybrid.

The aforementioned “McDuck” has Gibbs using the same singsong

rap style that elevated 50 Cent to early-2000s superstardom. Gibbs even makes a rare appeal to the radio with a possible mainstream crossover hit in “Mexico,” which features a bass-banging auto-tuned hook from Tory Lanez: “My whip color looks like Rihanna/ And all my b------ like designer/ We flip Diego like Quintana/ That’s why this brother whips a car look like we’re selling dope.”

Yes, Gibbs is still talking about being knee-deep in the drug game, but in such a way that he might find himself being listened to by a carpool of high schoolers tuning into their favorite FM morning station.

At times, however, the style switching puts Gibbs in a place he doesn’t need to be. Following a perfectly used Gucci Mane and E-40 feature on “10 Times,” Gibbs’ overly auto-tuned singing produces a sort of throwaway track in “Lately.” Gibbs’ unadulterated singing is surprisingly dulcet, so it’s frustrating to hear him succumb to the auto-tune that makes him sound just like any other rapper attempting to sing a hook that

should be sung by someone else.

Gibbs uses auto-tune sparingly on the next track, “Basketball Wives,” but it’s a lessened version of the overdreamy production that allows Gibbs to sound almost angelic. Even when it works, tracks like these are a little too much of a break from the beloved gangster character, a disciple of the streets whom you fully expect to keep his money in a Jules Winnfield “Bad Motherf-----” wallet (and absolutely nail the look).

Following his critically acclaimed 2014 Madlib collaboration album, Piñata, Gibbs’ Shadow of a Doubt is another gargantuan step in the rightest of directions. Gibbs remains a beloved thug, one of the few guys in rap who you actually believe does everything he says, criminal or not, on the album. Combining the classic Gangsta Gibbs persona with experimental elements sure to come to fruition in his future projects, the latest of Freddie Gibbs is a surefire success beyond a shadow of doubt. cneimanddbk@gmail.com

CONCERT REVIEW | JENNIFER NETTLES

SOLO SUCCESS Jennifer Nettles lit up the Fillmore stage, no worse without her Sugarland counterpart

JENNIFER NETTLES and her band perform on stage at the Fillmore Silver Spring on Friday. Though she performed solo, Nettles serenaded the audience with a number of Sugarland hits as well as covers and cuts from her own work. molly podlesney/for the diamondback

By Molly Podlesney @biggie_mollz_ For The Diamondback When half of a musical duo goes for a solo career and flops, it’s tragic.

Fortunately, that hasn’t happened to Jennifer Nettles.

Although the other half of Sugarland, Kristian Bush, was notably absent during her performance at the Fillmore Silver Spring on Friday, Nettles held the stage just fine on her own.

Nettles called the 10th stop on her Playing With Fire tour a celebration of m u s i c pa s t , p re se n t a n d future, which was fitting, as the music-hall floor was filled with a mix of older and younger fans.

The night was filled with

Nettles’ music, Sugarland’s h i ts a n d cove rs f ro m a l l genres.

She opened strong with “Baby Girl,” a Sugarland single from 2004. Though it was jarring to realize this song is now more than a decade old, Nettles sounded the same as she did when it first hit the charts.

Following the fire theme, she also did a twangy version of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire,” which was unexpected but solid.

Throughout the night, she took time to interact with audience members and talk about her upcoming album, the tour’s namesake, coming this spring.

Nettles has been making music professionally since 1996, but she still sounded a

bit nervous when she spoke, tripping over her words as they tumbled out quickly.

H e r s i n g i n g , h oweve r, sounded as effortless as if a studio-produced album were playing through the speakers. Her voice hasn’t been affected by the years of performing; if anything, it has gotten richer.

The energy was good but not over-the-top for the majority of the night, but at some point in the window b e twe e n wh e n t h e b a n d slammed into Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” and Sugarland’s “ S o m e t h i n g M o r e ,” t h e crowd lost it.

Twenty-somethings and the middle-aged alike belted out the lyrics and danced with one another, age and

barriers forgotten.

Lauper’s 1983 smash hit is representative of Nettles.

While people might not know her by name, her music is recognizable across generations.

Nettles is country without being too redneck and rock without being too hardcore.

W i t h o u t B u s h , s h e re p resents a continuation of strong female voices outside the typical pop realm. “ T h a t G i r l ,” h e r f i r s t

solo single from 2013, pays tribute to Dolly Parton by referencing the older singer’s “Jolene.” It’s not as wellknown as the Sugarland discography, but avid Nettles fans (of which there were plenty) grooved along with enthusiasm.

Her music transcends generations in a way that brocountry, a la Florida Georgia Line, can’t. Songs like “Stay” show what it means to be a woman in a way that any

woman born in any decade can feel.

At one point in the evening, Nettles pontificated on the state of country music today.

It might be all about “trucks and cornfields and yo u r d og dy i n g ,” b u t “ i t talks about things no other genre can do,” Nettles said.

“Country music talks about realness and brokenness.” diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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FOOTBALL

Locksley confirms play Rowe suffered concussion on Coach unsure who will start final game of season under center; Ngakoue recognized after breaking sack record

By Phillip Suitts and Joshua Needelman @PhillipSuitts,@JoshNeedelman Senior staff writers

back Will Likely suffered a high-ankle sprain Saturday and will have X-rays today.

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Terrapins football interim coach Mike Locksley confirmed yesterday quarterback Caleb Rowe played after suffering a concussion against Indiana on Saturday.

Rowe was on the field for six plays after he suffered the concussion, including a scramble in which he dove headfirst.

The injury occurred late in the first half. At the end of a scramble, Rowe took a hit to the head.

He stayed down for a couple of seconds, then motioned for a substitution. Rowe was evaluated on the sideline before re-entering the game three plays later, Locksley said yesterday.

During his weekly conference call, Locksley was asked if he could “pinpoint on what play [Rowe] was injured.”

“We knew the play,” Locksley said.

“He came out for a play or two after he took a knee to the head and was evaluated and then reinserted.”

The Terps didn’t learn that the injury was a concussion until halftime, Locksley said, after Rowe complained of headaches and was taken for further evaluation. He was then ruled out and didn’t return for the second half.

After the Terps’ 47-28 loss Saturday, Locksley said the Terps followed concussion protocol.

The Big Ten revised its concus-

quarterback caleb rowe falls to the turf after running the ball during the Terps’ 47-28 loss to Indiana on Saturday at Byrd Stadium. alexander jonesi/the diamondback sion protocol in the offseason. Now, there’s an independent medical spotter in the replay booth for all conference games.

With Rowe’s injury and the status of quarterback Perry Hills, wh o m i sse d Sa t u rd ay ’s ga m e with mononucleosis, uncertain, Locksley isn’t sure who will start against Rutgers on Saturday. Redshirt sophomore Shane Cockerille

finished Saturday’s game under center.

QB SITUATION UNCERTAIN Locksley isn’t sure who’s going to start at quarterback in the Terps’ season finale against Rutgers.

Hills, who’s started seven of the Terps’ 11 games, missed the Indiana game with mononucleosis and is

scheduled to undergo further testing today.

Locksley said Rowe is out after suffering the concussion. The interim coach added he won’t know if either Rowe or Hills will be available for the Rutgers game until tomorrow.

The pair of redshirt juniors has received the majority of playing time at quarterback this season.

In addition, Locksley said corner-

BAILLARGEON From PAGE 12

fionn crimmins raises his arms after bowling a ball down the lane Wednesday at TerpZone at an outing with the men’s lacrosse team. christian jenkins/the diamondback

IMPACT From PAGE 12 with local college teams. Wednesday at TerpZone, Fionn hit the lanes with some of his new teammates.

For a few hours, he wasn’t thinking about the hardships associated with living with cancer. He was too busy having fun.

“It’s something exciting that makes him feel like a 5-year-old and distracts him from going to the hospital and having treatments,” Conor Crimmins said. “If you look at him and watch him, you have no idea that he’s dealing with anything.”

Fionn was diagnosed with ALL around Memorial Day in 2014 — close to his fourth birthday.

When doctors discovered the cancer, he spent five days in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for kidney failure before transferring to the oncology department for a 28-day chemotherapy treatment. He achieved remission on the eighth day while the rest of the medicine finished.

Over the next several months, Fionn spent one week out of every month in the hospital for more treatment. His parents would rotate sleeping there while going to work and taking care of their younger son, Deaglan, who was 1 year old at the time of Fionn’s diagnosis. The Crimminses estimate Fionn spent 74 nights in the hospital between his fourth and fifth birthdays.

Now Fionn is in a maintenance phase, receiving a lower dose of treatment once a month, with the final round scheduled for Oct. 7, 2017. But as cold and flu season arrives, his parents have to take him to the emergency room every time he runs a fever, a common occurrence leading up to his bowling trip.

“Every time we think about a vacation or an outing like this,” Crimmins said, “we don’t know until about 15 minutes before.”

On Wednesday, the Crimmins family put on Terps apparel and made the trip to College Park for an evening with Davis-Allen, Morris and Dubick. Coach John Tillman and director of operations Todd MacFarlane joined in, too.

As the Terps sorted out everyone’s shoe sizes, Fionn sat stonefaced in a chair away from his teammates with a lime green bowling ball in his lap. The 5-year-old swung his legs and watched his teammates tie their laces.

Soon, Fionn stepped up to the lane with the green ball in tow and gave it an underhand shove. Davis-Allen knelt beside him and reached out for a high-five as the ball bounced off the bumpers.

That’s when his shyness ended.

Fionn spent most of the time darting between the ball return rack and the lane. At one point when Davis-Allen was in between attempts, Fionn slipped in front of the midfielder and took his second shot.

Fionn also rotated between the group’s two open lanes, using a method his dad described as “just chuck it, and then race back and try to beat the machine.” He did that at one point when his second shot bounced off the pin-setter before it finished clearing.

Fionn only took a break to eat half a slice of pizza, before returning to the game with a handful of peeledoff pepperoni.

“He’s a protein man,” joked his mom, Casey.

Fionn first met the Terps in October, joining them for a fall scrimmage. First, Tillman had a few of his players approach Fionn to ask some easy questions and “break the

ice.” They then brought Fionn into the team room where the rest of the Terps welcomed him.

Fionn was initially overwhelmed.

But soon, he saw the jersey, helmet and stick waiting for him in the middle of the room. By the end of the day, he was running around the field in the equipment and leading cheers in the huddle.

“It got our guys really excited and really fired up, so it was an awesome sight,” Tillman said. “It was a win-win for everybody.”

When Fionn returned to his Kensington home that night, he told his dad he “loved hockey.”

While his parents still have to correct Fionn that the Terps are, in fact, lacrosse players, Fionn wants to learn the game. He also wants a pair of elbow pads to complete his uniform.

Those will likely come in the future, as the team has several more surprises planned for Fionn this season.

But in the basement of Stamp Student Union last week, Fionn wasn’t thinking about any equipment accessories. He wasn’t thinking about cancer, either.

He threw his fists in the air and slapped high-fives with Morris to celebrate his “three strikes in a row.”

The shots actually resulted in spares, and not all of them came under Fionn’s name on the scoreboard. But everyone laughed and cheered.

“A bunch of us are super spoiled here,” Davis-Allen said. “That’s one thing with being a studentathlete. You get a lot of extra stuff, but seeing him — a person who maybe wasn’t given a fair shake — makes all of us actually think and be more grateful.” ccaplandbk@gmail.com

the authority to let it happen.

Sending a player back in after taking a blow to the head and calling for a sub is unacceptable.

The Big Ten is supposed to have an independent athletic trainer in the replay booth who looks out for concussions and can contact officials on the field. Sitting in the press box five stories up, it was clear to me immediately after the play that Rowe had probably suffered a concussion.

So why did it take Rowe complaining of a headache at halftime to finally keep him off the field? Why was he rushed back into the game a minute after suffering his concussion? Why didn’t the evaluation Robinson gave Rowe prevent the signal-caller from playing?

This is by no means an issue exclusive to the Terps. Oklahoma had a similar situation Saturday. Quarterback Baker Mayfield also suffered a head injury during the second quarter of his game and remained in the game until the break. He wasn’t ruled out until he admitted to doctors that he had a headache at halftime, according to ESPN. Then yesterday in an NFL game, St. Louis Rams quarterback Case Keenum was whipped to the ground, causing his head to bounce off the turf. He was down for several seconds and appeared visibly shaken but was never removed from the game. After the contest, it was announced he had a concussion.

The difference between these situations and the Terps’, though, is that Rowe was initially pulled from the game and evaluated. So while some of the blame can fall on other quarterbacks for not removing themselves, the same can’t be said about Rowe.

He motioned to come off, clearly alerting the staff that he had suffered a head injury. And despite being evaluated, he was allowed to return.

I spoke with multiple health professionals, who agreed it would’ve been safer to err on the side of caution and wait to conduct more thorough testing inside the locker room.

They added that pressure to get the player back into the game can be tough on the evaluators. Plus,

Defensive end Yannick Ngakoue was hardly in the mood for celebration in the wake of breaking the program’s singleseason sacks record Saturday. After the game, he sat in Glazer Auditorium with his head down, fiddling with his phone as reporters walked around.

“It’s a great thing to look back on, like years down the road,” Ngakoue said. “But at the end of the day, we still have one more game left, and I really want to just win the last game.”

The junior recorded a sack in the first quarter, pushing his season total to 13.5. But the Terps didn’t recognize the accomplishment after the game, as they were more concerned with their eighth consecutive loss.

But during a team meeting yesterday, Ngakoue was honored. After Locksley asked all of the seniors, who had been recognized before their final game at Byrd Stadium, to stand up, he asked the same of Ngakoue.

The record-breaking sack didn’t come without some controversy. With 6:36 left in the first quarter, Ngakoue forced Hoosiers quarterback Nate Sudfeld to fumble, and defensive tackle Quinton Jefferson caught the ball.

Jefferson was initially credited for an interception, but it was later reversed.

“I just kind of waved to the fans and said thank you,” Ngakoue said. sportsdbk@gmail.com

one professional said a lot of the responsibility falls on the player to admit their symptoms during the evaluation.

While we’ll likely never know what was said between Robinson and Rowe, we do know Rowe voluntarily pulled himself from the game, unlike Keenum and Mayfield. He was willing to admit he was shaken.

How much harm could be done by leaving Rowe, the backup quarterback on a then-2-8 team, on the sidelines for the final three minutes so he could go through a longer evaluation during the break?

Surely less than him hitting his head a second time after returning to the field prematurely.

On Sunday, Locksley said the Terps didn’t learn of the concussion until a second evaluation during halftime after Rowe complained of a headache.

Given adequate recovery time, a single concussion usually doesn’t have long-term effects on an individual’s health. But playing with a concussion is extremely dangerous.

Repeated blows to the head of that nature can cause brain swelling and lasting brain damage. And as the past few years have shown, some former players with a history of head injuries have taken their own lives.

So Rowe scrambling outside the pocket just minutes after he initially suffered the concussion put him in harm’s way. Fortunately, no players hit Rowe during his six-play return to the field.

Saturday’s situation is just the latest in a series of instances in which football teams mishandled a player who had a head injury. The Terps’ mismanagement didn’t even make national headlines, showing how numb we have become as a society to football players and concussions.

A movie on football concussions starring Will Smith is set for release next month, and the NCAA and NFL alike have stressed the importance of more stringent concussion protocol.

As a society, it seems as though we’re making strides.

Yet in a span of two days, three quarterbacks continued playing with concussions. The Terps contributed to that.

Someone needs to put their foot down. The Terps now have that opportunity. Do something about it. rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Pavlech shows strides at point guard in third game Senior floor general scored 6 points, dished out 3 assists

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer Though Chloe Pavlech started at point guard for the Terrapins women’s basketball team in each of its first two dominating victories, the senior discussed her underwhelming performances early on with coach Brenda Frese.

Pavlech scored three points on 1-for-9 shooting over her first two contests.

And while she didn’t commit a turnover, she tallied three assists in 39 minutes.

After talking with Frese before Friday’s contest with Detroit Mercy, though, Pavlech turned in an outing more similar to what her veteran coach expects to see from the Terps’ floor general. In 22 minutes, Pavlech scored six points, grabbed six boards and dished out three assists to help her team cruise to a 97-41 win over the Titans.

“I’m not really sure what I was doing the first two games of the season,” Pavlech said. “Sort of mentally, I wasn’t really there.

Obviously, [Friday] I was ready.”

Former guard Lexie Brown, who ran the Terps’ offense during their back-to-back runs to the Final Four the past two seasons, transferred to Duke in the offseason, leaving a void at starting point guard. Either Pavlech or senior guard Brene Moseley was expected to fill that role.

While Pavlech earned the nod, starting with the team’s opening exhibition against Goldey-Beacom on Oct. 31, Moseley has outproduced her veteran coun-

guard chloe pavlech searches for a teammate to pass to during the Terps’ 97-41 throttling of Detroit Mercy on Friday afternoon at Xfinity Center. daniel jenkins/the diamondback terpart, averaging 18.5 points and 9.5 assists over her first two regular-season games. Against Detroit Mercy, the Burtonsville native continued her offensive tear with 13 points and 10 assists.

Still, Frese was pleased to see Pavlech bounce back after their conversation before the contest.

“I thought she had some uncharacteristic play in terms of where she presented in her first two exhibition games and scrimmages before that,” Frese said.

“So just getting back to how she knows how to play, set the tone for us on offense. Her communication on defense keeps us on the same page. Just the things that I know she’s capable of.”

Pavlech immediately affected the game offensively, assisting on guard Shatori WalkerKimbrough’s 3-pointer just 51 seconds into Friday’s contest.

On the next possession, Pavlech drilled her attempt from behind the arc, propelling the Terps to a 6-3 lead early on.

Overall, the Cincinnati native set the tone for the Terps, who finished with 24

assists on 35 field goals in the blowout victory.

“Love the unselfish play when you talk about the assist-to-turnover ratio, making plays for each other and being dominant on the glass,” Frese said.

With the departures of Brown and former guard Laurin Mincy, who graduated after last season, WalkerKimbrough entered this year as the only returning starter in the backcourt. Pavlech has been a part of the program for more than three seasons, but has averaged just 8.35 minutes per game over the past two campaigns.

But this season is different.

As the Terps attempt to return to the Final Four for the third straight year, Pavlech has a larger role.

“She’s a great leader,” Walker-Kimbrough said. “We appreciate all that she brings to us. I mean, she’s a big part of our team.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

WILLIAMSON From PAGE 12 Williamson’s strike capped a dominating performance for the Terps, who held a 23-8 shot advantage and only allowed Virginia to create chances on counterattacks.

The win means coach Sasho Cirovski’s team will challenge No. 7-seed Notre Dame on Sunday in the third round on the road.

“We’re playing some of our best soccer right now,” Cirovski said. “In five of the last six games, we’ve been just fantastic — no other way to say it. We’ve been really good and fun to watch. The team has come together just the way I thought it would.”

The Terps had seven days off after their win over Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship, and Corboz said his team arguably had its best week of training in the week leading up to last night’s m a tc h u p. T h e re s u l ts i n practice carried over to their performance, as the Terps easily disposed of a top-20 squad and last year’s national champions. “ T h e g uys h ave b e e n buzzing over the past two weeks,” Corboz said. “Everything’s positive and everything’s super energized, and I think it shows on the field.”

Defender Alex Crognale would have put the Cavaliers in a hole five minutes into the contest if it weren’t for Cavalier goalkeeper Jeff Caldwell’s

Defender alex crognale scans the field for a teammate during the Terps’ 1-0 victory over Virginia last night in the second round of the NCAA tournament. christian jenkins/the diamondback quick reflexes in net. Crognale’s header, which came off a free kick from Corboz, flew toward the top of the net, but Caldwell got a hand on the ball to knock it over the top crossbar.

The Terps continued to pressure the Cavaliers’ back line, with their aggressiveness in the attacking third allowing Williamson to break through right before the half.

After struggling to get out to fast starts throughout the season, the Terps have opened the scoring with a first-half goal in each of the past five matches. Plus, Cirovski’s team will enter its contest with the Fighting Irish on a five-game winning streak.

“We’re pushing, we’re not sitting trying to absorb or keep it tied at half or whatever,” Cirovski said. “And that’s more like Maryland soccer —

to come in and punch you in the mouth — and that’s kind of what we want to do with our play.”

Despite holding a one-goal advantage at intermission, Cirovski said he urged his team to keep bringing the pressure in second half. So in the final 45 minutes, they launched 14 shots, five more than they had in the opening period.

None of these looks resulted in an insurance goal, as the Terps clung to the 1-0 lead until the clock hit zero.

It didn’t matter, though.

All it took was one strike.

“I kind of saw it the whole way and knew that there was not really a chance for it to go on goal,” Williamson said.

“So I just stayed with the play, and once it came loose, I just tapped it in.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

ZONE From PAGE 12 spark the Terps. “Once we started throwing the ball in, playing inside-out, that’s when we started being successful on the defensive end and offensive end.”

In the Terps’ 75-71 win over Georgetown on Tuesday, the Hoyas played a 2-3 zone at times. While the Terps had four players with 10 points or more, Turgeon said bad communication and nervousness meant the offense never really got in a rhythm.

But he didn’t pinpoint the Hoyas’ defensive scheme as a cause for concern. It was a different story after the win Friday.

In the fifth-year coach’s opening statement during his postgame press conference, he harped on the Terps’ struggles against the zone.

“Their zone gave us fits,” Turgeon said.

W h e n S to n e ca m e i n early in the second half,

forward damonte dodd kicks the ball out to forward Jake Layman during the No. 3 Terps’ 65-58 victory over mid-major Rider on Friday at Xfinity Center. christian jenkins/the diamondback Turgeon said, he opened up the offense as the freshman phenom “ big-boyed” the Broncs with 10 second-half points and three offensive rebounds. Senior forward Jake Layman also had three

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offensive rebounds in the second half, contributing to a team total of eight.

Stone and Layman brought an aggressive mindset that wa s l a c k i n g fo r m u c h o f the night. The Terps often settled for jumpers instead of attacking the basket in the first half. The Terps’ first three shots were misses from behind the arc. Guard R a s h e e d S u l a i m o n we n t 3-for-7 on 3-pointers while the rest of the team went 2-for-15. “ We d i d a b a d j o b o f getting the ball in the middle of the zone,” Layman said.

“Once we realized that we weren’t doing a good job of that, we started to attack the zone more and just not settle for jump shots.”

The Terps have the tools to beat the zone. Before the season, Turgeon praised the Terps’ ability to play insideout. The Terps’ post players are great post passers, Turgeon said, so if a defense collapses on them, they can kick the ball out.

But the Terps had trouble getting the ball inside Friday, and an inside-out offense n eve r m a te r i a l i ze d u n t i l Stone entered in the second half.

While Turgeon was disappointed with the Terps’ o f fe n s e , h e b e l i eve s t h e players will do better.

“I do think we’re a great zone offense team,” Turgeon said. “Give Rider a lot of credit.”

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Rowe shouldn’t have been allowed to re-enter game Concussed quarterback played six snaps after suffering head injury against Indiana RYAN BAILLARGEON

FOOTBALL COLUMNIST

Watching Terrapins football head trainer Wes Robinson stare into a concussed Caleb Rowe’s eyes before pushing him back toward the field is sickening.

After dancing around exactly when Rowe suffered the concussion during his postgame press conference Saturday, interim coach Mike Locksley confirmed Sunday what everyone else already suspected: Rowe suffered the concussion while scrambling late in the second quarter before he came back in.

Locksley said Rowe was evaluated on the sideline, which can be seen on the Big Ten Network’s broadcast, but about a minute later, Rowe was inexplicably allowed to re-enter the game.

He went on to play six snaps, including a scramble on his first play after returning. While he didn’t take a hit on the play, his head dragged along the turf — hardly something that should be happening right after suffering a concussion.

I’m not sure who’s directly responsible for Rowe playing after his concussion. But whoever was should be stripped of whatever title gave them See baillargeon, Page 9 quarterback caleb rowe throws downfield during the Terps’ 47-28 loss to Indiana on Saturday on Senior Day at Byrd Stadium. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Terps struggle vs zone Offensive woes nearly cost Turgeon’s squad against mid-major foe

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writer

After three trips to the hospital in the past two weeks to treat his acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Fionn finally had something to look forward to.

In October, the Terps drafted Fionn through Team IMPACT, an organization that pairs children facing life-threatening and chronic illnesses

As the Terrapins men’s basketball team’s season continues, it’ll face plenty of zone defenses.

The Terps hope to fare better against those teams than they did Friday against Rider’s 2-3 zone. Coach Mark Turgeon’s squad struggled to break down the compact defense for much of the night.

Shooting issues — the Terps went 5-for-22 on 3-pointers — and an inability to find the zone’s weak spot in the middle led to a poor offensive showing. While the Terps were able to overcome a 14-point second-half deficit in the 65-58 win, they were in that hole partly due to a stagnant offense against the mid-major foe.

The No. 3 Terps practiced offense against the zone Thursday, but that preparation didn’t lead to results early Friday. And the Terps might face more zone going forward, as schools view the defensive scheme as an equalizer.

During the second-half surge, though, the Terps seemed to figure out how to break down the zone. So as they head to Cancún, Mexico, for a pair of games, they’ll have that experience to lean on.

“We were shooting too many jump shots,” said center Diamond Stone, whose inside presence Friday helped

See impact, Page 9

See zone, Page 11

FIONN CRIMMINS bowls as midfielder Isaiah Davis-Allen looks on during an outing at TerpZone on Wednesday. The 5-year-old was diagnosed with cancer last year.

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a lasting impact Terps help Fionn forget about chemotherapy during bowling outing

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer When Conor Crimmins picked up his son Fionn from school on Wednesday, the 5-year-old had a ton of questions. His parents had told him he was supposed to go bowling, but he wanted

to clarify a few things.

Were they actually going bowling with the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team today? Yes. Who were they bowling with? Midfielder Isaiah Davis-Allen, goalkeeper Dan Morris and attackman Louis Dubick.

Where were they bowling, and were they going straight there?

MEN’S SOCCER | No. 10-SEED TERPS 1, CAVALIERS 0

Williamson’s strike lifts Terps over UVA Forward sends Cirovski’s squad to 3rd round

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer When he saw Terrapins men’s soccer defender Chris Odoi-Atsem unload a cross from the right side Sunday night against Virginia, forward Eryk Williamson began sprinting from the penalty spot toward goal.

Williamson slipped between two defenders and into the goal box as the ball fell to the grass. But he couldn’t connect. The ball bounced through the box and out of play, and the Terps

and Cavaliers remained scoreless 18 minutes into the match.

He didn’t blow his next chance.

Twenty minutes later, he finished a free kick from midfielder Mael Corboz to propel the No. 10-seed Terps to a 1-0 win before an announced 2,737 at Ludwig Field in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

“They’ve been pushing me all year to score, and it’s finally coming about,” said Williamson, who scored his fifth goal in as many games. “It’s just looking for the loose balls.”

See williamson, Page 11 forward eryk williamson celebrates his goal during the Terps’ 1-0 win over Virginia last night in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

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