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UMD to hire new hate bias response staffer The current program manager says the role is too much for one person The University of Maryland is searching fo r a n o t h e r p e rso n to help manage its hate bias response program.

Neijma Celestine-Donnor, who started as the program manager in April 2018, told The Diamondback on Friday that she estimates she began working in a higher position — the director for hate bias response and advocacy — about six months ago. A job posting for a new program manager was posted on a hiring site close to a month ago.

“There’s a lot of work to be done,” she said.

“When you’re doing the responding, the recording, the data, the programming, the training — you can imagine that it’s probably not a one-person show.”

Celestine-Donnor largely handles the response to reported hate bias incidents — from slurs on whiteboards to anti-LGBTQ vandalism — by herself, with some support from a graduate assistant and from other administrative staff in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

“We’re still angry” angry A year after a UMD freshman died of adenovirus, her friends maintain that the tragedy could have been prevented

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Indigenous students want land recognition A group is pushing UMD to acknowledge it’s built on Piscataway land The American Indian S t u d e n t Un i o n a t t h e University of Maryland is trying to gather support for a campuswide statement acknowledging the university’s campus was built on Piscataway Conoy tribal land.

Although university entities such as the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, MICA and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center have acknowledged the land already, AISU members say it’s not enough. In addition to an official, campuswide statement, they also want the university to install plaques and signs across the campus.

“We’re going to students,” said Jazmine Diggs, an executive board member of the AISU. “We’re bringing awareness of where we are.”

The effort began in October, after members of the AISU attended the Big Ten Native American Conference at Indiana University.

There, they met native and indigenous groups from other Big Ten universities, some of which had seen much more progress. Indiana University, for example, has a First Nations Education & Cultural Center, dedicated to helping Native American students.

Inspired by the students at other institutions, Diggs and other AISU members wanted to spark a conversation about American Indian representation on the campus. So, after the conference concluded, Diggs started to plan a petition. It launched about two weeks ago, and had garnered about 28 signatures as of Thursday night.

“UMD just hasn’t started this process at all,” she said. “And the biggest problem is that the student body doesn’t even know.” by

Amanda Hernández @thedbk Staff writer

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nearly 100 posters that Olivia Paregol’s friends put up around UMD’s campus aimed to educate students on the circumstances of her death last year. julia nikhinson /the diamondback

By Nora Eckert | @NoraEckert | Senior staff writer

The moon shone down on Riley Whelan as she walked around the University of Maryland on Sunday night. She glanced up at it, thinking about what her friend Olivia Paregol would have done if she were there.

“She was obsessed with the sky,” the sophomore communication major said. “She would just stop and stare at the moon, and we would be like, ‘Olivia, come on!’”

On the eve of the first anniversary of her death, a group of Paregol’s friends — still hurting from the loss and aiming to call attention to the circumstances that surrounded it — trekked through the cold to post flyers on doors and windows across the campus. “ O l iv i a P a re go l d i e d a yea r a go to d ay o f adenovirus,” the sheets of paper read. Then, in bold: “This could have been prevented.”

Paregol, a freshman criminology and criminal justice major, died from pneumonia last November after contracting a serious strain of adenovirus, which afflicted more than 40 students in an outbreak last academic year.

The university didn’t alert the campus until 18 days after it first knew of the outbreak. Paregol’s family didn’t know she could have had the virus until her father called then-University Health

Center director David McBride, looking for answers.

Paregol’s doctors switched course after that phone call, The Washington Post reported in May, but it was too late. She died five days later.

“We’re still angry,” Whelan said. “And we still think about it.”

The group hung nearly 100 posters on dorms and academic buildings. Some of them, including one on the door of the health center, were quickly removed.

Any flyers that were posted in buildings the student affairs department manages, including dorms, the health center and Stamp Student Union, were moved to nearby bulletin boards in accordance with university policy.

The flyers, Whelan added, were the group’s way of encouraging students to become familiar with the events that led up to Paregol’s death, which she believes many still don’t understand.

T h a t wa s rea f f i r m e d fo r R a c h e l Je sse e , a sophomore government and politics major, after she hung signs outside of McKeldin Library. She said she was approached by students who wanted to learn more about Paregol and how she died.

Paregol lived in Elkton Hall, the dorm hit hardest by an outbreak of mold last fall. Experts say mold doesn’t cause adenovirus, though it can result in respiratory irritation and increase susceptibility to a viral infection. Ian Paregol, Olivia’s father, has expressed concern that the mold in her dorm worsened her condition.

Paregol had been taking medication for Crohn’s disease, weakening her immune system and making her more prone to contracting the virus, which typically isn’t serious for people with healthy immune systems. The university considered — but ultimately decided against — notifying students in Elkton and those with compromised immune

campus

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Students urge admin toward climate action Loh sat alongside a group of about 40 gathered for a teach-in on Friday by

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administrators to take action.

Staring up at the gathered Eric Neugeboren what University @eric_neugeboren o f M a ryl a n d crowd from the sidewalk, environmental s e n i o r M a x S k o g l u n d Staff writer activists hope will be a weekly demonstration next semester, about 40 students gathered at the steps of the school’s administration building Friday to raise awareness for climate change.

In the first “Terra-Teach-In” — hosted by the university’s Sustainability Cooperative and environmental student organization Fossil Free UMD — student leaders addressed the audience, sharing projects their groups are organizing and calling upon

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stressed the demonstration’s importance. “ I t’s n o t j u s t s t u d e n ts that need to be educated on issues, but I think [the] administration also needs to b e f u r t h e r e d u ca te d o n t h e rea l i ty o f c l i m a te c h a n ge ,” s a i d S ko g l u n d , communications chair for SCoop. “Once you know all the facts and the urgency of the issue, you know that you have no other option but to fight for our future.”

About 10 minutes into the

students demonstrated on the steps of the administration building. julia nikhinson / the diamondback The activists want a event, university President Wa l l a c e L o h e x i te d t h e university sustainability general administration building and sat education requirement, the down on its steps. He listened school to end the direct use as Skoglund laid out a series of demands for the university.

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By Rina Torchinsky | @rinatorchi | Staff writer Pol ice resp ond ed to reports of trespassing and attempted abduction over the past week.

Trespassing A 24-year-old College Park man was arrested Wednesday after Prince George’s County Police said a city resident found him hiding in her closet, wearing only a towel.

T he m a n, E r ic Tata, is facing burglary, trespassing and trespassing/ peeping Tom charges, according to online court records. He was released on a $2,500 bond, according to a Prince George’s County Police Department press release.

At around 11 p.m. on T u e sd ay, p ol ic e s ay a woman heard a noise in her apartment — located in the 4600 block of Knox Road — and went to investigate it. When she found the man in her closet, she screamed and the man ran away. The woman was not hu r t, accord i ng to the press release.

Officers immediately began to canvass the area, and Tata was taken into

custody without incident, police said.

Case records show he has a trial scheduled for Jan. 6.

Attempted abduction Police are investigating an attempted abduction that occurred near the College Park Metro Station on T hursday night, according to a UMD Alert.

At about 11:45 p.m., a fe m a l e s t u d e n t w a s walking in the 4700 block of Harvard Road when a male “knocked her over and attempted to pull her in the opposite direction,” the alert read.

The student screamed, grabbing the attention of two people who came over to help her before the suspect fled toward Route 1, according to the alert.

T he suspect, a 30 to 35-year-old man with “an unhealthy thin” build, carried a black backpack and was wearing a black hoodie and sunglasses, the alert read.

A review of area camera footage is underway.

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Student liason: social gathering ban “misused” Despite a grace period, residents claim officials have already enforced the controversial ordinance Just two Angela Mecca months after @AngelaMecca2 t h e Co l l e ge Park City Staff writer Council passed an ordinance barring “unruly social gatherings” despite significant student pushback, a liaison to the body said it’s already “being misused.”

The council unanimously passed the ordinance after a public hearing on Sept.

24, after about 60 students and residents had spoken — many not in favor. The ordinance redefines “unruly social gatherings” as a nuisance and subjects landlords and residents who violate the ordinance to fines.

At a re g u l a r m e e t i n g and work session for the c o u n c i l Tu e s d ay n i g h t , Dan Alpert, the student liaison to the council, reopened discussion of the ordinance, making a stateby

ment to the council about its enforcement.

There is currently a grace period that restricts the ordinance from being enforced in the city until Jan. 1. But on Tuesday, Alpert said he had been made aware of two incidents in which the police allegedly cited the ordinance when breaking up gatherings.

In response to Alpert’s concerns, Wojahn asked city staff to look into each of the incidents.

Bob Ryan, the director of the city’s public services department, said that no one has been “busted” for violating the unruly social gatherings ordinance yet, b u t t h e c i ty h a s i s s u e d tickets for noise ordinance violations in the past month.

During the grace period, Rya n s a i d , t h e re c o u l d still be warnings given out related to the unruly social

gatherings ordinance, but a f te r J a n . 1 , v i o l a t i o n s could result in a municipal infraction.

Alpert said both incidents — on Oct. 18 and 21 — were related to celebrations of a Jewish holiday that took place over that weekend.

The first incident was a dinner at an apartment near the end of Knox Road, Alpert said, and the second was at a house in Old Town. Alpert said that, to his knowledge, police did not issue citations, though he heard that the police referenced the threshold of “eight people,” which is language specific to the unruly social gatherings ordinance.

“The fact that police are being called to people celebrating a holiday, and people celebrating in general, and then being told that because they had over eight people there and they were being

a bit too loud, is very concerning to me,” Alpert said.

The Diamondback reached out to several students who attended these two gatherings but they declined to comment.

At the meeting, city manager Scott Somers said that while the unruly social gatherings ordinance hasn’t gone into effect yet, the city’s noise ordinance — which defines quiet hours in the city and levels of noise deemed disruptive — has been in effect for a number of years. He said he thinks that could have been the ordinance in play during these incidents.

“I think the noise ordinance is really the issue that is being enforced at this time,” Somers said.

Six full-time and three part-time code officers, as well as 15 police officers who directly work for the

city, enforce ordinances in College Park, Ryan said.

For the noise ordinance, they use sound meters to measure noise in decibels at the property line or beyond.

In order to avoid an interaction with enforcement officers, Ryan said in an interview that if residents are planning a social event, they can ask the city for advice on how to make sure they aren’t in violation of either the noise or unruly social gatherings ordinances.

City code changes from the unruly social gatherings ordinance are not aimed at anyone in particular, and don’t prohibit socializing in general, according to Ryan.

“It’s not necessarily targeted to students,” Ryan said. “The council created this amendment, with the associated fines, to provide another tool for trying to improve the quality of life

in our neighborhoods.” He added that noise complaints sometimes come from students themselves.

But to Alpert, the unruly social gatherings ordinance has already had negative effects.

Council members said the ordinance shouldn’t be a cause for concern for most residents; Wojahn previously said the ordinance cracks down on the “worst of the worst” behavior.

Alpert said the two incidents where police were called to break up holiday d i n n e rs h a rd l y f i t t h i s criterion.

“Are people celebrating a holiday or getting together for dinner the ‘worst of the worst’?,” Alpert said. “Or is this ordinance going to continue to make people feel uncomfortable?” newsumdbk@gmail.com

UMD’s OCE director joins push for better Latinx census response Gloria Aparicio Blackwell is teaming up with at least 15 leaders and organizations in Md. for the effort To work Carmen Molina Acosta toward @carmenmolina_a a more Staff writer accurate count of Maryland’s Latinx population for the 2020 U.S. census, the University of Maryland’s office of community engagement director has teamed up with at least 15 Latinx leaders and organizations across the state.

T h e o f f i c e ’s d i re c to r, Gloria Aparicio Blackwell, helped form the coalition with U.S. Census Bureau partnership specialist Daniel Jones in June. The coalition is working to identify barriers that could prevent the Latinx community from filling out the census and connect different partners by

working on the same goal. “[It’s] so we don’t have to reinvent the wheel,” Aparicio Blackwell said. “Rather than one area spending every single dollar that they may have, they can share costs and share opportunities.”

The coalition includes representatives from groups working with Latinx people across the state from nonp ro f i t s to m e d i a o rga nizations, said Aparicio Blackwell, who works with t h e C o l l e ge P a rk C o m plete Count Committee to improve the city’s census response rates, which have been low in the past.

The U.S. census data determines legislative boundaries and distributions of congressional seats, com-

munity services and more than $675 billion annually in federal funds. So, Jones said, its accuracy is extremely important. “[Census data] affects eve r y s i n g l e i n d iv i d u a l aspect of our community greatly,” he said.

Historically, the country’s Latinx population has been one of the hardest demographics to count — factors such as immigration status and language serve as barriers for much of the population, according to Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality.

And after a controversial proposal in 2017 to add a citizenship question to the upcoming census, advocates worry that getting accurate

data on this community will be even more difficult this time around.

Even though the Supreme Court struck down the proposal over the summer, some are concerned that Latinx residents who are undocumented will opt out of filling out the census for fear the information would be used against them.

“There was a lot of damage done, and it was intentional damage to dissuade people from filling out the census,” said Nora Morales, program director for Identity, Inc., an organization serving Latinx youth.

Besides these concerns, however, the coalition found one of the biggest factors playing into a low Latinx

response rate was lack of information. People might not know what the census is, or understand the laws that protect their personal information, Jones said. By connecting with Latinx communities through already trusted organizations, the coalition hopes to bridge that gap.

Aparicio Blackwell, for exa m p l e , i s p l a n n i n g to encourage other members of the Latinx community — especially students who may be looking for extra cash — to consider working for the Census Bureau’s outreach team. People feel more comfortable if they’re approached by a member of their community, she said.

It’s important to contin-

ue to remind, educate and reach out to members of the community who might not otherwise know about the importance of the census, Jones said — a pamphlet isn’t enough.

But while privacy and misinformation concerns still abound, Jones is optimistic that the coalition’s efforts will pay off.

“At the end of the day, this is going to be a very successful census for the Hispanic Latino community — in spite of all the challenges that we know we have gone through already,” Jones said.

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UMD research produced 500 pounds of black beans — and an unexpected gift for Dining Services

By Shreeya Agarwal | @ShreeShree16 | Staff writer photo illustration by elliot scarangello

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hen Dana Rushovich began her master’s research project in the spring of 2018 to test plant yields from different soil qualities, she knew she would end up with quite a few black beans. But the nearly 500 pounds her research yielded was a bit more than she knew what to do with.

So, she reached out to the University of Maryland’s Dining Services department, leading to the first dining hall meals made with food grown in a student research project.

“Instead of letting the beans go to waste, I figured I could give it to them,” Rushovich said.

Dining Services staff was excited — and shocked — by the gift.

“Our senior executive chef — who cooks a lot of food for the whole department — even he said, ‘Wow, that’s a lot of beans,” said Allison Tjaden, Dining Services’s assistant director for new initiatives.

T h re e c a m p u s d i n i n g halls served 100 pounds of the legumes on Nov. 6 during the Field to Campus special dinner, and about 50 pounds were given away at the Farmers Market on Nov. 13 for a cooking demonstration on how to make bean chili, Tjaden said.

Dining Services will keep the nearly 300 pounds of re-

maining beans to serve during a spring special, and about another 100 pounds will be given to the campus pantry in the coming weeks.

This bean surplus could be thanks to sulfur, which Rushovich said she added to the soil to test if it would result in larger yields of highprotein foods such as beans and lentils.

Her adviser, Ray Weil, began his research on the relationship between sulfur and legumes decades ago in Africa.

The professor and researcher in the university’s environmental science and te c h n o l og y d e pa r t m e n t observed that soil in the

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continent had low levels of sulfur, resulting in a lower yield of beans and lower protein quality in the seeds themselves. “ I t’s a p l a n t n u t r i e n t that nobody investigates or thinks about,” said Weil, who added he had been encouraging farmers in Africa for decades to consider using more sulfur in their soil in order to improve nutrition.

When Weil returned to the U.S., he found there was little research money available to study African foods such as lentils and peanuts, so he decided to focus his attention to soybeans instead, a popular legume used to make products like soymilk and tofu.

For years, Weil and his research team planted and harvested soybean seeds by hand in order to analyze the samples back at their labs. Then, an undergraduate student worker from El Salvador on Weil’s team told Weil about her grandmother back at home using the same hand-picking harvesting processes to grow and harvest black beans.

T h a t i n s p i re d We i l to expand the research to include them. He also thought their research would have more impact if they added the dark legumes.

“We also wanted to have a global reach with the project so we decided to plant the black

beans since they’re more traditionally consumed around the world,” said Rushovich.

Rushovich decided to plant the black beans at the Central Maryland Research and Education Center in Beltsville in June and had them harvested at the end of October.

With the success of this collaboration, Tjaden welcomes the idea of allowing more student-led projects to partner up with Dining Services.

“It would be so much fun if there are foods that are grown in the context of research and safe to eat that we can put on our menus,” Tjaden said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Students graduate from the University of Maryland every year with new skills, experiences and insights, eager for a new start and hoping to contribute to the world in some way.

However, graduates of our generation have a new challenge to face: They need to balance not only the typical unpredictability of finding a job, but also an increasingly uncertain future due to global environmental problems.

Whether or not graduates are prepared to tackle issues of sustainability in the 21st century, the reality is that these issues aren’t going away and will only become more pressing as we enter adulthood.

It’s undeniably unfair that young people currently carry the burden of solving these problems. Some of this stems from a lack of priority for sustainable education in the past.

Until we educate students about the impact humanity has on our environment and encourage thoughtfulness about our relationship and responsibility to the natural world, we will continue to m a ke t h e sa m e m i s ta ke s that have brought increased drought, famine, displacement and mass biodiversity loss in our own lifetimes. This university can help reverse this trend by providing environmental literacy as a general education requirement, a way to involve future leaders from every discipline in sustainable solutions.

GreenEdu, a student-proposed mandatory training program similar to AlchoholEdu, is one suggested way to help incoming students navigate sustainability on

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Sustainability should be a gen ed requirement SONJA NEVE @Sonja_Neve Columnist

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campus and increase awareness on practices such as recycling and lowering one’s personal carbon footprint.

However, this student-driven orientation is intended to inform new Terps about what actions they can personally take, but doesn’t provide enough of a foundation of knowledge about the types of environmental problems pervasive in the world today or necessarily spark curiosity about how the natural world is part of our lives and future careers whether we notice it or not.

The university’s responsibility to not only create a culture of sustainability among students, but also take real action on climate change is advocated for by student activists, faculty and fellow columnists alike. In a recent article, my colleague Maya Rosenberg outlined one way this is being pursued, through research initiatives with this university’s Center for Environmental Science. Programs that provide a scientific basis for mitigation are extremely important, but are not accessible to all students. In order to increase environmental literacy among all students who graduate from Maryland, environmental education needs to be institutionalized. It should be a core part of every student’s curriculum rather than just taught to students pursuing some STEM fields or in an environmental science major.

Climate change touches every sector of our society, from public health to development to food production, and will play a larger role in the future as Earth’s temperature rises, creating more volatile weather and displacing more and more

people. Without a basis for knowledge about ecology, environmental policy and renewable technology, students entering the “real world” will find themselves unequipped to solve the problems we have inherited unless our university does a better job ensuring all students are versed in the skills and knowledge needed to become environmental stewards.

Sustainability Cooperative, a coalition of student groups invested in sustainable education and advocacy, has listed environmental education as one of three demands to the university. A general education requirement for incoming students goes farther than GreenEdu, research opportunities or an opt-in sustainability minor because it institutionalizes the need for a background in environmental education. Regardless of your major or path forward, we are all citizens of our planet and need to learn to protect what SCoop has defined as “our life support systems”: the air we breathe, the water we drink and the natural environment that we depend upon for existence.

Other schools have already adopted a general education requirement for environmental literacy due to pressure from the student body, but Maryland should take initiative rather than depend on students’ labor. The university declares its mission is to educate and advance “knowledge in areas of importance to the State, the nation, and the world” — and it’s time for this to extend in practice to educating every student at this university about the natural world. sonjan@dbknews.com

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Why you should be a killjoy at Thanksgiving Ah, the feminist killjoy effectively: LIYANGA DE SILVA in their natural habitat: @liyangads Preying upon the idyllic, 1. The first thing to do is to determine Columnist wa r m T h a n k s g i v i n g family dinner. Waiting to pounce upon the first ignorant comment and ruin the entire evening.

But seriously, a lot of us probably find ourselves in a position where a family member or friend says something insensitive, racist or homophobic at the dinner table and we have no idea how to react. We know in our gut that wasn’t cool to say, but we often push back against the impulse to argue back.

Here’s why you should call that person out: 1. It’s important to resist the bystander effect. When we’re in bigger groups of people, it’s easy to think that someone else will step in and confront the person in question. What’s more likely to happen is that no one will say anything, and the person will continue on without having their beliefs challenged.

2. Perhaps this person has never had their beliefs questioned — maybe their social circles serve as an echo chamber that only reinforces oppressive understandings of our world. You — especially as a family member or close friend — are someone who they probably trust. Your opinion of them perhaps matters more than that of a stranger online or an acquaintance.

3. Similarly, research has shown that it is important and common to disagree about politics in familial relationships.

Psychologist Vaile Wright argues that we have nothing to lose by going beneath the surface of our relationships. In fact, when these difficult conversations are handled effectively, they can strengthen relationships overall by demonstrating that it is a safe place for learning and making mistakes without judgment.

what your goal is for this conversation.

Is it to provide the other person with examples that disprove their claim? Is it to let them know that what they said was insensitive to an experience that you or your friends have had? Or is it to try and change their mind? Whatever it is, try and choose a goal that is realistic for the potential length of this conversation and doesn’t put too much pressure on you as an individual.

2. The most important thing to remember is this: stay calm. It’s definitely easier said than done, but no matter how angry the other person gets, don’t yell back.

People love to say that people who care about social justice are emotional, and while there is nothing shameful about empathizing with the oppressed, it’s easier to make your argument while you’re calm.

3. Don’t insult or verbally attack the person, as angry as you might be about their beliefs. This will only make the person less inclined to listen to you and will also devalue your logical arguments.

4. Don’t expect to change someone’s beliefs entirely through this single interaction. You are making a valuable contribution toward improving society by addressing ignorant comments, but addressing one comment or having one argument is unlikely to change a person’s whole belief system. Plus, you shouldn’t be responsible for changing that person’s entire mindset! The goal of this intervention is simply to let the individual know that bigoted comments are not acceptable and that they should question their beliefs as well. Sometimes things don’t go as planned, and you shouldn’t blame yourself if you don’t get through to the person.

4. Finally, you should only engage in such dialogue with someone if you feel safe doing so. This means that you don’t foresee any economic, physical or verbal consequences in calling out a person at the dinner table. This also means that you feel like you have the emotional labor available to educate someone.

The next time your uncle or grandmother says something offensive, don’t ignore it in fear of disrupting the peace. You’ve seen the reasons you should address these situations, and you’re armed with the tools to handle them effectively, so let’s go kill some joy!

And here’s how to address these issues

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DOTS’ fee hike isn’t about sustainability RAY NEWBY @OpinionDBK Columnist

As the climate crisis escalates, attempts to solve it have become more varied and widespread. Many companies are taking action to correct their excessive pollution, but there is also a neoliberal push for climate action to come from individuals alone rather than big businesses.

Efforts and programs that encourage environmentalism on the individual level shouldn’t be disregarded, but the ways capitalism is adapting to profit from the not-so-slow death of our planet is unnerving to say the least — and unfortunately, the University of Maryland isn’t far removed.

The Department of Transportation Services at this university has recently proposed an increase in student commuter and resident parking fees. David Allen, the department’s executive director, shared the proposal at a recent RHA meeting, and it was framed, to some extent, as an extension of DOTS’ ongoing goal to reduce single-occupancy vehicles on campus. As Allen said, “We want everyone on a bus, a bike, scooter or walking.”

DOTS’ sustainability goals

in this context are admirable — or they could be, if they were honest. In addition to tacking on this environmental rhetoric, Allen admitted that funds from this proposed price hike would cover new costs the department is facing due to the rising minimum wage and reduced parking spaces available on campus. The truth seems to be that this initiative would exist in order to offset these budgeting concerns regardless of its environmental impact.

DOTS’ desire to profit off marked-up parking prices is evidence of its dependency on single-occupancy vehicles, and it demonstrates the falsity of its sustainability “goal,” at least in connection to this proposal. If the department really anticipated this price hike would turn a substantial number of students away from on-campus parking, it wouldn’t raise the money Allen admitted the department hopes to make. With this proposal, DOTS is going through the motions of environmentalism without actually practicing it.

Using the climate crisis to justify what is likely to be an unpopular proposal if passed is not only exploitative of a

terrifying, life-threatening issue, but it’s also an affront to students and others in the university’s community who are genuinely trying to save the planet. DOTS’ insincere attempt to connect this price hike to environmentalism disrespects the hundreds of students who missed class earlier this semester to attend the climate strike as well as the environmental clubs and organizations students continue to participate in.

If DOTS needs to hike prices for student parking in order to continue providing the services this university benefits from (although other options have been introduced such as extended hours for paid parking), so be it. The department has many initiatives — such as carpooling incentives, electric car charging stations and the shuttle system — that seem genuine in their attempt to protect the environment.

But DOTS should own up to the real reason for this proposal instead of using environmentalism to sugarcoat a funding initiative. Otherwise, it’s cheapening its actual sustainability efforts, as well as everyone else’s. raynewby00@gmail.com

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City Long-awaited projects coming to North CP

The area is set to see $10 million in developments — including a new park, bike lanes and sidewalks

hollywood gateway park’s construction has taken longer than expected, and the long-anticipated northern College Park site still isn’t scheduled to be finished until the end of this year. elliot scarangello/the diamondback by

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and many of their constitu-

design plans for protected

city’s solid financial stand-

the kind of support she said are a positive sign though,

SahanaJayaraman Melissa Blain ents — say they’re excited to bike lanes along Rhode Island ing while undergoing these she would like to see from the Blain said, and she doesn’t @sahanajayaraman m o v e d t o see long-expected growth in Avenue. According to the developments. community. want improvements on the Staff writer North College the area. city’s website, a planned park “I don’t think it can be “I just hope that people Hollywood commercial disPark five years ago, she liked her house, but wasn’t sold on the area.

“I feel like North College Park is like the forgotten stepchild of College Park,” said Blain, owner of local business Posh Cycling and Fitness. “There’s not much love given to us over there.”

B l a i n wa s n ’t t h e o n ly one who thought the community needed renovating. District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said action on multiple city projects comes after many years of community members “asking and crying and begging” to see more development.

And with seven development projects taking place simultaneously, the city is trying to answer these cries.

District 1 council members —

The seven projects, which include the construction of parks, bike lanes and sidewalks, don’t all have a set price tag at this time. Rough numbers indicate they will cost nearly $10.5 million, factoring in the estimated $5.5 million Kabir said could be spent on Duvall Field, and leaving out the undetermined cost of the Odessa Road playground.

Two projects are set to be finished by the end of this year: the long-anticipated Hollywood Gateway Park and a feasibility study and design project for the construction of a sidewalk along Hollywood Road.

At least another two are estimated to finish by the end of 2020 — one, a public dog park, and the other, final

on Odessa Road could also be finished by the end of next year, though it might carry into 2021.

Timelines on the last two projects are more nebulous.

T h o u g h t h e H o l ly wo o d streetscape— a project aimed at making the Hollywood commercial district more vibrant — is slated to finish by 2021 at the latest, construction on the project will not begin until next summer, Kabir said.

The city’s website does not list an expected completion date for Duvall Field, a project paused earlier this year to allow time for research into what kind of turf surfacing would best fit the field.

District 1 Councilwoman Kate Kennedy stressed the

emphasized enough that we’re doing all of this development — all of it … and we’re not increasing taxes,” Kennedy said.

The council members said most of the residents they’ve spoken to have responded positively to all the development in the district.

“It’s been building for a long time,” said Erin Meyer, a 13-year resident of North College Park. “This is a lot of change, but it’s really been the result of a lot of years of hard work on a lot of people’s part, and I think it’s fantastic.”

But that doesn’t mean every resident fully supports the developments; Meyer said she’s seen posts on message boards such as Nextdoor that don’t express

can give it a chance. It’s a lot of change, but it’s positive change,” Meyer said. “This benefits everyone. So, you know, it’s a community. Let’s try to act like it.”

And among the residents who do support the development, there are some who are concerned about how they feel the city prioritizes projects.

Blain said she’s anxious to see movement on the Hollywood streetscape. The promise of the streetscape, she said, was a major factor in her decision to put Posh in its District 1 location — and she’s frustrated to see construction on the project hasn’t begun yet, she said.

“I’m kind of disappointed with that,” Blain said.

The current renovations

trict to end there — she’d love to see the area’s facades and storefronts repainted, and its streets beautified with some flowers.

Her husband, Antonio Haileselassie, agrees with her. Going forward, he’d be interested in having a water feature, like the one that was discussed for the new city hall, added to the streetscape project instead.

While the community is making strides to improve District 1, Kennedy said it needs to maintain the momentum even after these developments are completed.

“We need to keep moving, yes,” Kennedy said. “Always improving!”

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Council flags concerns about potential tree cutting ordinance If passed, the rule would require property owners in the city to secure permits for felling trees On Tuesday, SahanaJayaraman College Park’s @sahanajayaraman T r e e a n d Staff writer Landscape Board presented recommendations to the city council for a potential ordinance that would require residents to obtain permits to fell trees on their property — but council members flagged a number of concerns.

The recommendations detailed which trees the ordinance would cover, how permits would be issued and what penalties there would be for those who failed to obtain permits or violated a permit’s terms.

As the board recommended, the ordinance would require citizens or commercial bodies that cut down trees to either replace them with new ones or pay a fee to the city’s Tree Canopy Enhancement Program fund. The number of trees to be replanted and the fee amount would both depend on the size of the tree felled.

W h i l e seve ra l co u n c i l members said they understood the need to protect College Park’s tree canopy — which a citywide study found to be declining — they said their constituents were worried that the by

possible ordinance would encroach on their property rights and lead to escalating costs.

“People aren’t questioning the value of a strong tree canopy,” said Mayor Patrick Wojahn. “The question that people have is: Is this the right solution to protect and enhance our tree canopy?”

The board’s recommendations follow an April report that found College Park tree canopy — the layer of tree branches, stems and leaves that cover the ground from a bird’s eye view — has declined from 44 percent to 38 percent in roughly the last nine years. The study indicated resident engagement would be key in boosting city tree cover.

Board members met for months to compile a series of suggestions for the potential ordinance. And over more than an hour of discussion, some members adamantly stood by their recommendations in the face of critiques.

At one point in the meeting, University of Maryland professor John Lea-Cox interrupted District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir as he discussed the obligations that would be associated with felling trees.

“The point is, we’re declining in canopy, we need to

replace trees,” Lea-Cox said.

“It’s as simple as that.”

The ordinance would require residents and commercial developers to get a permit to cut down or prune more than 20 percent of two kinds of trees: those on government land and those on private land with trunks greater than 36 inches in circumference.

The permit requirement would only be waived if a tree presented an immediate threat to life or property unless it was cut down.

Anyone interested in pruning or cutting down a tree would be required to apply for a permit, at which point public works staff would assess the condition of the tree in question. If they determine it to be dead, diseased, hazardous or a member of an invasive species, staff would grant the removal permit. Additional factors such as overall tree health could also factor into permit approval, according to meeting documents.

If granted a permit, people who desired to remove a tree would be required to either plant new trees to replace those lost or pay a fee to the city. Between one and five trees would need planting to replace a single lost one, and

the college park city council listens to tree ordinance recommendations at their Nov. 19 meeting. julia nikhinson/thediamondback fees would depend on the she said. “What carrots can we here is a lot of sticks and not a felled tree trunk’s circumfer- offer instead of sticks? Because lot of carrot.” ence, costing between $150 and what we’ve been talking about newsumdbk@gmail.com $1,000.

People who remove trees without a permit or fail to replant replacement trees within six months of receiving a permit, would be fined $500 per replacement tree they owed the city. Those who overpruned trees without a permit would face a $1,000 flat fee.

District 1 Councilwoman Kate Kennedy signaled her support of the ordinance as recommended but wondered how she and her colleagues could garner resident support for its passage.

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Shuttle-UM to resume Seven Springs service After months of pushback, residents will get service three times daily - but only for next semester by

After

its financing.

In a statement emailed by Angela Roberts m o n t h s o f a university spokesperson, @24_angier emphatic DOTS wrote that it is temSenior staff writer pushback featuring a state senator, a nighttime protest march and dozens of phone calls and emails, the University of Maryland’s Graduate Student Government and residents of Seven Springs Apartments finally have reason to celebrate.

Shuttle-UM will resume service to Seven Springs after winter break, picking up after a semester-long h i a t u s t h a t b e ga n ove r t h e s u m m e r, w h e n t h e apartment’s management company cancelled its partnership with the university’s Department of Transportation Services.

For the next semester only, the shuttle will stop at Seven Springs three times per day — belatedly providing residents with the transportation that remained advertised on the apartment’s website until mid-July, well after many had signed onto leases.

Even though the shuttle’s service is limited and has a set end date, residents and GSG executives still take heart at the small victory.

“I think it’s safe to say that this is probably the best we’re going to do,” said Patrick Banner, a physics doctoral student who lives at the apartment complex.

“I’m thankful for that.”

DOTS is working with the GSG to find funding for the service. Seven Springs has not offered to contribute to

porarily offering the service so that residents can find housing “more suitable to their transit needs.”

After Seven Springs cut the shuttle service — citing a declining pool of riders and a $4,000 hike in the price to host a stop — its management company supplied residents with SmarTrip cards to cover the $2 fare to ride the WMATA Metrobus. But the company, Ross Management, plans to stop offering the cards at the end of the fall semester.

Still, Banner predicts the return of the Shuttle-UM will ultimately save him hundreds of dollars. It will also provide him a way to get to campus until his lease ends next summer, at which point he plans to start looking for a new place to live.

Ross Management did not respond to a request for comment.

Infuriated by the company’s short-notice announcement, the GSG launched a campaign over the summer to seek justice for the residents of Seven Springs.

E xe c u t ive s o rga n i z e d group visits to the property manager’s office, sent emails to Ross Management and encouraged residents to file complaints with the Consumer Protection Division in Maryland’s Attorney General’s office. They even got in touch with Sen. Jim Rosapepe, who represents

shuttle-um’s service to Seven Springs Apartments was suspended over the summer, leading to months of pushback from residents and the GSG. Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties in the General Assembly.

Most recently, a group of residents and GSG members hiked the three miles it takes to get from Stamp Student Union to Seven Springs, marching along Paint Branch Trail after dark to flag safety issues on the path and call out Ross Management for unscrupulous business practices.

Last week, GSG President Annie Rappeport and Student Affairs Vice President Q-mars Haeri walked into a meeting with three university officials, prepared to make the case yet again for the shuttle’s reinstatement. Instead of resistance, though, they were met with a plan to renew the service.

“I’m still kind of stunned,” Rappeport said. “We fought for so long.”

But it’s not over for the G S G. S i n c e t h e s h u t t l e won’t start coming by Seven Springs again until next semester and Ross Management plans to stop offering SmartTrip cards at the start of winter break, residents are facing a month with no free motorized transportation. So, Rappeport said, the group plans to continue pressing the company to subsidize the Metrobus through winter term.

Rappeport added that the GSG is currently circulating a survey to Seven Springs residents to determine when the shuttle should stop by the apartment every day.

“The last thing we want is to go through all of this effort, actually have a positive solution, and then we pick the wrong times and the shuttle’s empty,” she said.

Additionally, Rappeport said she plans to work with

graduate student groups to organize a fundraiser to assist DOTS in paying for the shuttle service. The GSG is thankful for the bus’s reinstatement, she said, and wants to chip in to help cover the cost.

Some residents aren’t rejoicing at the route’s return quite yet, though.

Danielle Koonce, a sociology doctoral student, is waiting to see if the shuttle’s service meshes with her schedule before she decides not to buy a spring parking pass. She’s seven months pregnant and bought a fall parking pass rather than walk a mile to and from the Metrobus stop near Looney’s Pub to the Art-Sociology Building every day.

In the four years Koonce and her family have lived at Seven Springs, she said it has done well in fitting their needs. But Ross Manage-

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ment really “pulled the rug out from under” them when it cancelled the shuttle, she said.

Since her family only has one car, which Koonce’s husband needs to get to work, they chose the apartment building partly because it offered the service. Koonce had to borrow a car from her parents to get to campus safely this semester. And she feels bad for encouraging friends to move into Seven Springs, only for the shuttle to be cancelled.

T h o u g h i t ’s b e e n a stressful semester, Koonce stressed how grateful she is for those who advocated for her and her neighbors. “ I ’m t h a n k f u l fo r t h e people who are fighting for us,” she said. “A lot of them don’t go named, but I’m really thankful for them giving this issue a voice.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

RHA criticizes DOTS’ plan to raise parking fees

This proposal would have increased student commuters’ parking fees by $26 and residents’ by $50

umd’s residence hall association meeting on Nov. 19, 2019. The body voted 26-2 to formally register its displeasure with DOTS’ plan despite the department citing a need for a sustainable funding model. elliot scarangello/thediamondback The Univ e rsity of Rosa Pyo Maryland’s @RosaPyo R H A o p te d Staff writer against supporting the DOTS’ proposed budget at its Tuesday meeting, harshly criticizing the department’s pitch to increase parking permit fees for students and residents.

Earlier this month, the university’s Department of Transportation Services unveiled its annual budget proposal, which features a $26 hike to student commuter parking fees and a $50 hike to resident fees to help cover salary increases, utility costs and account for decreased parking availability next year.

Although the Residence Hall Association doesn’t have a say in whether the budget gets final approval, it voted 26-2 with 0 abstentions to formally register its displeasure.

DOTS executive director David Allen told the RHA on Nov. 6 that the department has struggled for years to find a sustainable funding model. That explanation by

didn’t satisfy the association, though.

“There are three things I know for certain: death, taxes and that DOTS has no plan,” said RHA senator Hunter Marsh, a junior government and politics major. “It’s a tale as old as time. Every year we see the same thing.

DOTS doesn’t have anything concrete except for parking tickets and parking passes.”

The RHA’s rejection of the resolution comes after representatives from the association, the Graduate Student Government and the Student Government Association all voted against supporting DOTS’ proposed budget at a Campus Transportation Advisory Committee meeting.

“DOTS needs to figure something out,” said Julian Chiveral, the RHA’s vice president. “We’re tired of the burden falling on the students.”

During debate, senators repeatedly pitched increasing parking rates for employees who make over $150,000.

Under the current system, employees who make more

money are required to pay higher parking fees. But there are only five “tiers” of employee salaries. Those who earn $80,000 or above are required to pay the most for parking.

Some senators called upon DOTS to establish a sixth tier — a proposition previously introduced during DOTS’ budget reviewal process last semester. Since the review, this university’s administration has not implemented these suggestions.

“The administration said no to a sixth-tier parking plan because they are going to be the ones to pay more,” Marsh said.

“We intend to continue to strengthen our relationship with RHA through collaboration on ways to further reduce the overall number of vehicles on campus while addressing cost increases related to this goal,” said university spokesperson Hafsa Siddiqi.

Many senators complained about the department’s reliance on parking permits and fees for funding. Last year, the RHA passed a resolution

suggesting DOTS find other sources of funding.

Others, though, tried to be supportive of the budget proposal, such as senator Lucas Hamrock.

“I’ll play devil’s advocate and try to support the bill because DOTS is really losing a lot of money as we push more people to be sustainable and lose parking spaces spaces due to construction,” Hamrock said.

The department has long said it’s aiming to incentivize alternative methods of transportation. In an effort to cut down the university’s carbon footprint, Allen told the RHA at a meeting earlier this month, it hopes members of the university community can decrease their reliance on cars.

“We want everyone on a bus, a bike, scooter or walking,” Allen said. “That’s what our goal is.”

Construction across the campus has also decreased the amount of available parking spaces, and projects like the new Cole Field House and the Purple Line will only

compound that problem.

Due to the parking shortages, DOTS has proposed banning sophomore resident students from obtaining a parking permit.

N e x t , D O T S i s s e t to present its proposal to the Committee for the Review of Student Fees on Dec. 3.

The committee — composed of students, faculty and staff — will take into account the RHA’s dissatisfaction with the proposed budget before voting for or against it.

The group’s decision will then be passed to university President Wallace Loh’s cabinet. Finally, President Loh will submit the school’s proposal to Board of Regents, which has the final say over fee rates.

But RHA senator Neal Rodin said the association will continue to fight against higher parking fees.

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bias From p. 1 “The hate bias response program is me,” she said with a laugh.

Currently in the recruiting phase, she hopes to have the new program manager in place “sometime during the spring.”

The university first a nnou n ce d t h e p rog ra m manager role about two years ago alongside a slew of new protocols after the

native land From p. 1 While the majority of other Big Ten universities have started this process by crafting land acknowledgment statements — a fo r m a l d e c l a ra t i o n saying an entity respects and acknowledges the history of American Indian tribes and the areas they resided in — with tribal elders, the AISU wanted to take the issue to students first.

The group plans to co l l e c t s i g n a t u re s f ro m students at different e ve n t s i t ’s h o s t i n g f o r Native American Heritage Mo n t h . T h e n , m e m b e rs

paregol From p. 1 systems about the virus, the Post reported.

Gov. Larry Hogan called for an investigation into the university’s response to adenovirus in May, prompting the University System of Maryland to assemble a panel dedicated to the issue. Its findings, released in a 141-page document last week, said the university didn’t break any protocols, but that communication between departments was lacking.

death of 2nd Lt. Richard Collins.

Collins, a black student at Bowie State University, was fatally stabbed on this u n i ve rs i t y ’s c a m p u s i n May 2017. Sean Urbanski, a white former student at this university, is set to stand trial on hate crime and murder charges in the killing this December after multiple delays.

The new program manager will join an office that’s seen h i g h t u r n ove r i n re ce n t

yea rs. O D I ’s l ea d e rs h i p changed hands four times in about three years.

I t s c u r r e n t l e a d e r, diversity and inclusion vice president Georgina Dodge, to o k t h e h e l m i n J u n e .

And this academic year, the university announced Dodge would also oversee the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual M isconduct, which previous leadership said was understaffed and underfunded.

Eleven hate bias incidents

h ave b e e n re p o r te d so fa r t h i s a c a d e m i c yea r, compared to 19 by the same time in 2018, according to ODI’s log. The log doesn’t show any u p d ate s since Oct.16 of this year.

ODI plans to have a report related to hate bias response “soon,” though CelestineDonnor said she couldn’t give an estimate yet of when that would be. “ My h o p e i s o n ce t h e s e m e s te r s o r t o f w i n d s down, and I’m not doing a

bunch of other things, that I will be able to wrap this up,” she said.

Since the program doesn’t hand down punishments fo r h a te b i a s i n c i d e n t s a n d d o e s n ’ t “ h a ve a n y information about sanctioning,” the report i s “ n o t rea l ly ” go i n g to include information about punishment, she said.

O f te n , c o n ve rs a t i o n s a b o u t h a te b i a s a t t h i s university focus on outcomes for the person

wh o c o m m i t te d a n a c t , Celestine-Donnor said, and they should center around what happened with the person who was affected by an incident.

“Are they okay? What support are they receiving?

How are they being advocated for?” she said.

“My goal, really really, is to make sure that those impacted are being centered in the conversation.”

will take the petition to elders from the Piscataway Conoy tribe to create a land acknowledgment statement, which will later be presented to the administration.

As of fall 2019, 30 undergraduate students identified as American Indian or Alaska Native, d ow n f ro m 3 3 s t u d e n ts in fall 2018, according to the Office of Institutional Re sea rc h , P l a n n i n g a n d Assessment. Out of an undergraduate population o f s l i g h t ly ove r 3 0,0 0 0 students, these students make up less than one percent of the student body.

Despite low enrollment trends among indigenous

populations, AISU’s copresident Isabelle Wilson found that being a part of the student group eased her transition into attending a p re d o m i n a n t l y w h i te institution. “ W h i l e eve ryo n e h e re is from a different tribe, we can all come together in the fact that we are all indigenous,” said Wilson, a junior animal sciences major. “We bring issues to light to the student body a b o u t w h a t i n d i ge n o u s people go through.”

In fall 2016, ProtectUMD, a coalition composed of 25 student groups, released a list of 64 demands f o r t h i s u n i v e r s i t y ’s

administration improved support of marginalized communities. Several of these demands pertained to the representation of the American Indian community both academically and socially, such as the creation of an indigenous studies m i n o r a n d re c o g n i z i n g Indigenous Peoples’ Day as a university holiday. While the university has created the minor, the holiday has yet to be recognized.

Although the minor is currently being revamped, AISU members want to make sure that the university hires p ro fe sso rs o f A m e r i ca n Indian descent who can speak more authentically

to native traditions and culture, and add their personal stories. “ I f yo u wa n t to tea c h somebody about a minority o r a b o u t a c u l t u re , yo u wa n t to h ea r i t d i re c t ly from someone who is of that culture,” said Brenee Butler, co-president of the AISU and junior studio art major. “You hear the impact that it has on someone — you’re looking into a face of somebody who’s seen this happen … You’re not learning it from like a white professor who just happened to go on a reservation and says ‘Oh, I saw this.’”

In the past, groups such as the Student

Government Association and the Graduate Student Government have passed resolutions calling for this university’s administration to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day — one of the requests from ProtectUMD that the university has yet to meet.

“We have lots of tribes here present on campus.

But all of these tribes still only make up less than one percent of its population.

And that’s depressing, that’s kind of pathetic,” said Diggs.

“My main goal is to change that and to bring awareness like, ‘Yes, we’re here.’”

Still, Ian Paregol said the report didn’t answer his main question.

“Why didn’t they contact Olivia or my family and tell us there was an adenovirus outbreak?” he asked in an interview with The Diamondback earlier this month. “That’s still not answered.”

Sarah Hauk, a close friend of Olivia Paregol’s who had also hung posters, said the release of the report so close to the anniversary of her death felt “a little careless.”

She was sitting in English class when she saw it had

been finished and said it “sent [her] into this spiral.”

Whelan and her friends had been considering different ways to honor the anniversary of Paregol’s death, but the report spurred them to take public action.

“It just fueled the fire,” she said.

Olivia’s friends visited her grave on Monday, and — “by the grace of God,” Hauk said — ran into Olivia’s mother.

They told her about their posters, and Ian Paregol said the family treasured the gesture.

“We greatly appreciate

it to keep this issue alive, because we know that report has issues,” Ian Paregol said.

A campus email sent Nov. 13 with the report’s results also touched upon the anniversary of Paregol’s death, with the university offering “condolences to her parents, family and friends.”

University spokesperson Natifia Mullings wrote in a statement that the Division of Student Affairs is working to plan a memorial service close to the end of the academic year “to honor students who have passed away.”

But the university did not release any statements on the anniversary — something that angered her friends, who said she deserves more public acknowledgment.

“I don’t know how someone can get up and go to work on that day, and not think about how it affects her friends and family,” Hauk said. “It’s an everyday thing for us.”

Before the group gathered to hang the posters around the campus, they met for a more private celebration of Paregol’s life at Whelan and Hauk’s apart-

ment. They shared pizza and traded some of their favorite memories of “Liv,” a young woman they say was quick to make friends and had an unparalleled spirit.

It’s a memorial Ian Paregol said his daughter would have loved.

“Olivia would not want to be, necessarily, the center of attention. And she would be much more at home just kind of sitting around and telling stories and eating pizza,” he said. “That’s definitely what she would want.”

“Now is a really critical t i m e ,” t h e f r e s h m a n chemical engineering major said. “People are starting to get really nervous about what climate change is going to look like for our planet.”

Toward the end of the event, Sustainable Ocean Alliance president Maya Zambrano-Lee explained the group’s waste management prog ram, which aims to i n c rea s e t h e n u m b e r o f waste bins on campus.

S h e a l s o h i g h l i g h te d the movement’s urgency: The fates of entire nations hang in the balance.

Indeed, Maldives, an island country located southwest of Sri Lanka and India, has already seen an increase in intense rainfall and flooding, cyclonic winds and storm surges, according to the World Bank.

Still, the senior environmental science and policy major encouraged the crowd not to despair.

“It’s also really important to re m e m b e r,” s h e sa i d , “there is never — in any case, under any circumstances — reason to give up hope.”

climate From p. 1 of fossil fuels and the University System of Maryland to divest from the fossil fuel industry, Skoglund told Loh and the gathered crowd. “[The] combination would really make Maryland stand out as a leader in trying to combat climate change, and I think would inspire other universities to follow,” he said.

Students also want the campus to be powered by 1 0 0 p e rc e n t re n e wa b l e e n e rg y. T h e u n i ve rs i t y currently has a contract with a natural gas plant located behind the service building on Route 1.

Katherine Rush, MaryPIRG campaign c o o r d i n a t o r f o r Fo s s i l Free UMD, said that she u n d e rs ta n d s re ly i n g o n renewable energy may be more expensive, but that the switch is necessary. “ C o n ve r t i n g to c l ea n energy is critical for our planet’s survival and future,” the junior environmental science and policy major said. “We cannot afford to take no for an answer.”

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demonstrating students called for a sustainability gen-ed course and a transition to renewable energy. julia nikhinson / the diamondback Some students, such as Fossil Free UMD grasstops organizer Reese Barrett, appreciate administration’s efforts to listen to their concerns — Fossil Free UMD has met with the Office of Sustainability, she said.

Meanwhile, though, Sasha Kahn, a member of the Student Government Association’s Sustainability Co m m i t te e , d e sc r i b e d a different experience with university officials.

Kahn said the group has received pushback from

administrators regarding i ts a t te m p ts to c e m e n t a s u s ta i n a b i l i ty ge n e ra l education requirement.

Skoglund said SCoop and Fossil Free UMD developed the idea for holding TerraTeach-Ins after hearing about environmental activist Greta Thunberg’s Fridays For Future initiative — a weekly climate strike that has inspired others like it around the world.

While hundreds at the university participated in Se p te m b e r ’s wo rl dw i d e

climate strike, Skoglund said holding weekly teachins would allow students to participate in the movement while keeping up with school.

“A s c o l l e ge s t u d e n ts, I would love to stand in solidarity with this action, but it doesn’t make much sense for us to be skipping classes when we’re paying for them,” he said.

Still, Barrett and other leaders encouraged students to a t te n d a n u p c o m i n g climate march on Dec. 6.

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By Audrey Decker | @audreydeck_r | Senior staff writer we polled a series of GroupMe chats to bring you the best of the best in Thanksgiving cuisine.

T

he week leading up to T h a n ksg iv i n g is tough. You can practically taste the holiday on the tip of your tongue … but school isn’t off just yet.

And the past few days I’ve been dying to get out of College Park.

Don’t get me wrong, I live and breathe this city. But sometimes I need a break from the constant rush of college life. Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to eat and relax with family and friends.

It’s a needed breather before finals come to terrorize us all.

Like many holidays, Thanksgiving festivities revolve around food.

But unlike other holidays, Thanksgiving is a day where it seems like almost everyone eats the same foods, ones that have been made and remade for decades. That still leaves us to wonder, though — which foods are

the most loved?

From a survey I sent to my various class and sorority GroupMes, mixed in with a little personal opinion, I have ranked Thanksgiving Day foods. See how your favorite stacks among the rest.

7. gravy Gravy is definitely the underdog of the Thanksgiving meal. I think of it as the glue that brings all the holiday food together.

Though simple, the sauce adds some more “jus” — as my father would say — to the plate. While it’s not the most stand-out part of the meal, it unites the plate into one saucy and scrumptious meal.

6. turkey It’s interesting that turkey is supposed to be the centerpiece of the Thanksgiving

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meal, yet most people ranked it near the bottom of their lists. I’m not a big meateater, so it’s at the bottom of mine too. But like most American meals, a protein has to be included. Turkey by itself is fairly plain, but when it’s dressed up with seasoning and all of the side dishes, it can be elevated.

5. cranberry sauce It took me a while to try cranberry sauce with my Thanksgiving meal, and I didn’t come around to it until a few years ago. But the tangy sweetness of cranberry sauce grew on me and added a whole other dimension of flavor to the meal. Some people love it, some people hate it, but it’s unique to the holiday regardless. It’s also a versatile side: You can pair it with both sweet and savory foods. Cranberry

sauce is a key ingredient in topping — it’s sweet, but not my father’s Thanksgiving too much of a sugar bomb. leftover sandwiches.

This belongs in my top three; not just because I love every potato, but also because it 4. mac and cheese reminds me of my amazing My family has never served grandmother. Food has the mac and cheese at Thanks- power to conjure specific, giving dinner, but I know it’s beautiful memories. No one a staple for other families, else could bring sweet potato and it was highly ranked casserole to Thanksgiving, in the survey. I’ve never or it would simply be wrong. thought of it as a typical “Thanksgiving” food, but 2. mashed potatoes mac and cheese can’t be a bad thing. It’s good any time Mashed potatoes were of the year, any holiday. Es- a very close second in the pecially if it’s baked with survey. Mashed potatoes are a c r u n c h y, b rea d c r u m b a staple part of Thanksgiving topping — it really just hits dinner. It’s creamy, carb-y the spot. and comforting. I love potatoes in every form, but I 3. sweet potato casserole usually only eat them mashed at Thanksgiving, making Controversial, but I don’t it special and greatly anlike marshmallows on top of ticipated. Mashed potatoes sweet potato casserole. My are hard to mess up — what grandmother makes hers could go wrong with potatoes with a crunchy, cinnamon-y and butter and milk? It is a

beautifully universal food and very hard to dislike.

1. stuffing I have fond memories of helping my mom lay out many pieces of bread the day before Thanksgiving. I never understood why the bread had to be stale for stuffing, but I always knew it created an amazing product: crunchy, golden brown on the outside and gooey on the inside. T h e s m e l l o f my mom’s stuffing baking in the oven makes me wea k a t t h e k n e e s. T h i s i s m y p e rs o n a l favo r i te T h a n k s g i v i n g fo o d a n d wa s ra n ke d No. 1 i n m y s u r ve y r e s u l t s a s we l l .

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charmingly cheeky This silly post-breakup tale is one viewers will root for.

By Jason Fontelieu | @JasonFontelieu | Staff writer

W

h e t h e r yo u ’ ve known her, been her or complained about her for hours on end, we all know that one girl who’s just way too into her boyfriend.

Well, in Hulu’s latest original series, Dollface, we follow that girl, Jules (Kat Dennings), as she’s dumped by her grossly obnoxious — yet obnoxiously hot — boyfriend, Jeremy (Connor Hines). The newly single Jules must then navigate her fresh new world, where she must shed the pet name “Dollface” that her ex called her and forget how to just be someone’s girlfriend, all while learning how to be a good friend again.

After the sudden split, Jules attempts to make amends with her old college friends, Madison (Brenda Song) and Stella (Shay Mitchell), that she blew off somewhere along the way during her five-year stay in Cuffed City.

Madison, a high-strung, highly organized perfectionist, is initially unhappy to see Jules after being left in the dust for a guy, and begrudges her initial attempts at rekindling their friendship. Stella, the uberbeautiful, laissez-faire party girl, on the other hand, couldn’t

kat dennings stars as Jules in this new Hulu series about about friendship and self-discovery. photo courtesy of youtube care less about the wrong Jules has done and is eager to have some fun with her old friend.

While it may seem like a light comedy on its face, Dollface dips its toes into absurdity.

As socially awkward Jules tries to figure out her life out, we watch her thought processes play out on screen with the help of a CGI, cat-lady moderator (Beth Grant) who advises Jules on what she should or shouldn’t do.

We get to see some of the other craziness going on inside Jules’ head, including her attempted escape on a runaway

train with a stripper in tow or having the paramedics arrive to try and resuscitate her phone after liking someone’s mega-old Instagram post.

Dennings gives a terrific performance as a sympathetic protagonist. While she’s undoubtedly been a bad friend to those close to her, we can see inside her psyche that it wasn’t her deliberately trying to distance herself from them, but rather her insecurity in not seeing herself as “one of the girls.”

Watching her slow progression into the quality friend her loved ones deserve is a journey that

you’ll be happy to go along with.

Song’s character seemed stilted at moments, like she was trying to get her lines down more than she was acting them out. It would’ve been nice if it felt like she was having more fun with the role, like the other actors were. Mitchell does a decent job at playing the typical party girl, with some more depth than initially portrayed and expected.

While you feel like you’ve seen this character a dozen times, her charm and ditzy, deadpan humor make you want to root for her.

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Izzy is one of Jules’ co-workers, who has been known by the rest of the company as “Alison” for years, to fit in with the other women at work named Alison.

Izzy is kooky, chaotic and a little bit crazy, but Povitsky brings enough humanity to her role to always keep her grounded and likable.

The bevy of star cameos is delightfully silly, including Macaulay Culkin as a potential serial killer, Matthew Gray Gubler as a potential love interest for Jules and Margot Robbie — who also

executive produces the show — as a psychic guru.

Not to mention the silly, fun soundtrack throughout the show, with bops such as “Woman” by Kesha, “Cover Girl” by RuPaul and “Rainbow,”

by Kacey Musgraves that felt like they were specifically catering to me.

Dollface is nothing new or especially groundbreaking. We’ve seen these characters and this narrative before. However, the show feels fresh because of the talented crew of actors holding it up. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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volleyball

Terps falter down the stretch on Senior Day After a strong first set, Maryland couldn’t get past offensive inconsistencies in 3-2 loss to Northwestern After Maryland Kevin F. McNulty volleyball @kmcnulty_219 quickly fell Staff writer behind 4-0 in the fifth set against Northwestern, coach Adam Hughes elected to take a timeout, imploring his team to continue battling down the stretch.

The first four sets had been back and forth, with both teams flashing their f i r e p o w e r. O u t o f t h e timeout, the remainder of the fifth set was no different, but Hughes’ squad had dug itself too deep a hole and dropped the frame, 15-8.

The Terps’ offense got off to a hot start with a convincing first-set win Sunday. But as the match progressed, offensive inconsistencies cropped up that a hot Northwestern team took advantage of, topping Maryland in five sets Sunday on Senior Day (25-17, 27-29, 17-25, 25-22, 15-8).

“They made a couple big plays to put the pressure back on us,” Hughes said.

“Eventually in the fifth, we never found enough time to get back into it.”

The Terps were again w i t h o u t l i b e ro A l l e g ra Rivas, the only player averaging more than three digs per set for the team.

Northwestern entered College Park coming off a straight-set victory at by

Ohio State, a team fighting to make the NCAA tournament. But in the early going against Maryland, the Wildcats still looked like the underdogs.

“I thought we were in a pretty good spot in the first set,” Hughes said.

A 5-0 run capped by a kill from outside hitter Rebekah Rath — who finished with 12 kills and a .150 hitting percentage — put the Terps in good position to steal the first set.

Rath’s put-away gave her team a 10-7 advantage, and it prompted Northwestern coach Shane Davis to take his first timeout. Maryland remained aggressive on offense until the end, and it took the set, 25-17.

T h e W i l d c a ts t u r n e d things around in the second frame, however. They began challenging Maryland’s first touch, and they jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the set.

The Terps found their groove from behind the endline, and two straight service aces from middle blocker Katie Myers put them up by five in the frame.

Hughes’ squad dominated the service game in the first two sets; it tallied eight service aces while Northwestern notched just one.

But serves didn’t matter to w a r d t h e e n d o f t h e second set, and Maryland allowed Northwestern to sneak away with a 29-27 win.

maryland volleyball beat Northwestern earlier this year, but the team struggled to put together a complete performance Sunday in a rematch against the Wildcats. The usually reliable Erika Pritchard totaled more errors than kills, and the Terps were without starting libero Allegra Rivas, who is a cornerstone in the serve receive. gabby baniqued/the diamondback “ O u r s e r ve a n d p a s s started to let us down,” setter Taylor Smith said.

“The first touch and their service pressure was a lot.”

The offense that propelled Maryland in the first set and a half disappeared completely in the third. The team was out of rhythm for most of the frame, and they

lost it by a score of 25-17.

Rath and Myers led the attack in the fourth set. As the Terps fought to push the match to a fifth frame, the duo combined for 30 kills, with middle blocker Jada Gardner adding another 13 put-aways. The trio helped keep the team’s hitting percentage at .213 while North-

western attacked at a .243 clip.

In the final set, the Wildcats put together a 5-0 edge and continued from there to go up 8-2, forcing Hughes to call his second timeout.

The squads traded points, but Northwestern’s large advantage allowed it to pull out a five-set match win,

spoiling Maryland’s hopes o f co ncluding its ho me finale on a positive note.

“We knew it would be a tough match,” Hughes said.

“Neither of our records really indicated how good we are. I think the conference is just challenging.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Terps’ losing streak extends to six games In Maryland’s final home game of the season, miscues mount into a 54-7 Senior Day loss to Nebraska by

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Andy Kostka got one hand on Adrian @afkostka Senior staff writer Martinez’s overthrown pass early in the second quarter, but the Maryland football safety couldn’t corral the ball. It tipped up in the air, yet safety Jordan Mosley couldn’t quite grasp it, either.

JD Spielman could, though.

The Nebraska wide receiver pulled down the twice-tipped pass for a 25-yard score on third-and-11, furthering the Terps’ dismal start on a dismal afternoon. Through a cacophony of errors — fumbles, penalties, and bobbled would-be interceptions — Saturday turned from Maryland’s last best chance at obtaining often-elusive victories into just another blowout.

The onslaught of miscues began on the Terps’ first offensive play, when running back Javon Leake coughed up the ball at the end of a 14-yard gain. And it continued from there at every headscratching turn.

This was predicted to be a six-point game, a matchup of two sub-.500 teams on ugly losing streaks. This could have been the start of the Terps’ path back toward mediocrity, with two opportunities remaining to pick up wins that would symbolize progress and hope. This should have

been a tight performance to send off the team’s seniors in their last matchup at Maryland Stadium.

Instead, the 54-7 result displayed how the “small victories” coach Mike Locksley notices from his rebuilding program are non-apparent on Saturdays. Coming out of a bye week, Maryland was never in the contest, folding in front of a Cornhuskers-dominated crowd in College Park in its worst loss this season — not by point differential, but by level of embarrassment.

There have been other blowout defeats before this one — a 59-0 shellacking at the hands of Penn State; a 40-14 defeat to Purdue and its backup quarterback; noncompetitive affairs against Minnesota, Michigan, and especially Ohio State. But Nebraska was another squad languishing with a losing record on its four-game losing streak.

“We’re better than what we’re showing on Saturdays each and every week,” Locksley said. “It’s my job as the head coach to figure out a way to play to our standard.”

For two teams that looked relatively similar on paper, this weekend’s performance shows the breadth of improvement required. It’s one thing to lose to then-No. 3 Ohio State. It’s another for a

similarly struggling team to run up the scoreline.

On Leake’s first carry of the game, he broke into the second level, but cornerback Dicaprio Bootle popped the ball out of his grasp to set up the Cornhuskers’ first scoring drive. When Maryland’s defense forced a thirddown stop on the next series, a leaping penalty on Isaiah Hazel gifted Nebraska a new set of downs and another touchdown drive.

Then, on the ensuing kickoff, Leake tried to scoop up a pooch kick on the first bounce. But the ball tipped off his fingers and Nebraska recovered again, setting up a field goal and a 17-0 lead after about 12 minutes of play.

“That’s honestly just lack of focus, lack of mental toughness,” offensive lineman Ellis McKennie said. “That was one of our keys going into the week, too, was taking care of the football. We knew what type of weather we were going to have, so it’s disappointing that we weren’t able to execute on that front.”

Next would be the twicetipped Nebraska touchdown pass, and then another Spielman touchdown, and then another field goal, sending the Terps into the locker room down 34-0. The Cornhuskers kept the pressure on when they retook the field, too.

maryland football allowed 531 yards against Nebraska, with turnovers keeping its defense on the field. julia nikhinson/the diamondback “Really, it is as simple as shoulder. The rest of the it and would go on to find going out there and finishing a Terps’ four passers — Josh the end zone once more. As team off,” said Martinez, who Jackson, Tyrrell Pigrome Leake walked off the field, he led Nebraska with 194 passing and Tyler DeSue — managed flailed his arms in anger over yards, two touchdowns and an to throw for 57 yards. They a day gone wrong for him and interception. “Just having the picked up 206 total yards his team.

W h i l e h e b ro ke o f f a compared to the Cornhuskkiller instinct.”

58-yard touchdown run late in It was during that stretch ers’ 531.

“The fumbles, the inabil- the fourth, Leake’s rough day before intermission when the rain began to fall at Maryland ity to throw the football, just mirrored that of his squad’s.

Stadium, and the student continues to just kind of piss Saturday’s lopsided defeat section crowd — not that me off a little bit,” Locksley was Maryland’s fifth 30-plus there were many to begin with said. “We just can’t execute, point loss this season, another — well and truly cleared out. whether it’s protection, quar- blow in Locksley’s first season For Maryland, when it terback decision-making, as full-time head coach.

“It’s hard to see now, esperains, it pours. On his second pitching and catching.”

Three quarters after his cially from the outside,” lineseries in what would likely be his most playing time of the first fumble, Leake sat on the backer Chance Campbell said, year, freshman quarterback turf around midfield, seem- “but there’s some stuff that’s Lance LeGendre scrambled ingly too stunned to move. trending in the right way.” for gains of 26 and 17 yards Another ball slipped out of before dislocating his left his grasp, Nebraska recovered sportsdbk@gmail.com

With season in free fall, Terps hit latest new low Despite a bye week to prepare, Maryland looks flat on Saturday When Andy Kostka Mike Locksley arrived @afkostka Senior staff writer at the lectern inside Tyser Tower at Maryland Stadium for his Tuesday press conference, the coach was effusive in what seemed to be genuine belief his Maryland football program would soon reap its on-field rewards for the incremental improvements off it.

But when Locksley arrived at the lectern inside the Gossett Team House after Sa t u rd ay ’s 5 4 - 7 d e fea t against Nebraska, a similar soundtrack began to play following another lopsided loss.

“I am disappointed in our performance today, especially for those 16 seniors that we honored before the game,” Locksley began. “I thought from top to bottom we need to be better; I expected us to be.

I have high expectations for this team and I’m not going to lower my expectations.” by

Whatever Locksley’s expectations may be, the reality has been this: the Terps have suffered five 30-plus point losses this season, the most in a single campaign in the history of the program. Maryland punted as many times as it converted on third down.

Its four quarterbacks — each nicked up in their own way — managed to throw for 57 yards. And Javon Leake, who has emerged as the Terps’ best running back this season, put the ball on the turf three times.

Crippling mistakes early pushed the game far out of reach. At its core, Saturday’s home finale was a lot like Maryland’s other blowout losses — an offense incapable of staying on the field, a defense that struggles to get off it and self-inflicted miscues that exacerbated the mess. But against a Cornhuskers team that entered on a similar losing streak, Locksley admitted it was the low

point of the season.

“Definitely. For me, it is,” he said. “For us to not play to our ability is disappointing.

We had a couple of weeks to prepare. The thing that continues to sit in my craw is the fact that it’s us hurting us.”

And for the seniors who ran out onto Maryland Stadium one last time in front of a Nebraska-heavy crowd, Saturday was a bitter pill to swallow. It’s a senior class that overcame several coaching changes and the death of offensive lineman Jordan McNair in June 2018.

They banded together and still managed to finish 5-7 on the field during a season in which the on-field product was an afterthought. In Locksley’s first year at the helm, though, the best the Terps can finish is 4-8, depending on the result of next week’s finale in East Lansing against a Michigan State team playing with its bowl eligibility on the line.

The players say they see the small improvements inside the program that one

day might culminate in wins.

But they’re left at a loss over outcomes such as Saturday’s, when the game plan during the week seems to crumble and the even field quickly tilts in the opponent’s favor.

“We’re still missing the overcoming adversity part,” offensive lineman Ellis McKennie said. “I don’t get it. The team that’s overcome adversity in the real life can’t do it on the football field for some reason. I don’t understand. It’s frustrating. We get down a little bit, heads start to drop and it just spirals out of control before you know it. I wish we were better, and I thought we could be better.

But it’s just difficult.”

At one point, when Maryland’s season was still in its infancy and Locksley’s squad had flexed its muscles by outscoring Howard and then-No. 21 Syracuse 142-20, the Terps snuck into the top-25 rankings. They’ve gone on to lose eight of their next nine games — a 48-7 win over Rutgers serving as the lone salve on a season-defining skid.

In the buildup to the latest calamitous defeat, the teamsponsored message from seniors and underclassmen alike focused on the promising future of the program.

Maybe there will be one; it’s only Locksley’s first year. But if this season is the figurative foundation for bigger things yet to come, it doesn’t seem like it can hold much.

“If you guys have been to our practices, they look crisp, clean, guys are playing go o d b a l l ,” l i n e b a c k e r Chance Campbell said. “It’s just getting that to translate to Saturday.”

Maryland hasn’t been able to translate it with much frequency this season, and this week’s outing continued that tepid form. Locksley has one more chance next week to secure the Terps’ second conference win this year, something he’s never done as a head coach.

At the helm of New Mexico, Locksley managed one conference win in both 2009 and 2010 before he was fired in 2011. As Maryland’s interim

head coach in 2015, his squad knocked off Rutgers to close the season, salvaging one win from the Big Ten slate.

The Scarlet Knights are the lone bright spot in 2019, too, bringing Locksley’s career record to 6-39.

But these issues trickle down through the program, from the head coach to each individual player trying to complete their individual assignments each Saturday.

And on this Saturday, in a 54-7 blowout loss to Nebraska, the blame goes beyond Locksley. As does the pain.

“Coach can’t play the ga m e ,” Mc Ke n n i e sa i d .

“Coach can put you in the right spot, but if you can’t execute it, it doesn’t matter.

The coach can’t play. It’s on the players. It’s on the players, it’s on the leadership. 16 seniors. I feel so bad for us.

The guys will have to walk out of here like that. The last taste of Maryland football. It’s on us to make it happen and we didn’t.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Tayon Fleet-Davis charged with driving under influence of drugs by

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Andy Kostka land football @afkostka running back Senior staff writer Tayon FleetDavis has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs after he was stopped by University of Maryland police early Friday morning near Ritchie Co l i se u m o n B a l t i m o re Avenue, according to electronic court records.

Fleet-Davis was pulled over at 3:51 a.m. Friday and charged with seven trafficrelated violations, includ-

ing driving a vehicle while impaired by a controlled substance, reckless and negligent driving, driving a vehicle on a highway without the required license and authorization, and a failure to “display two lighted front lamps.” The fines totaled $760, records show.

The junior tailback did not dress for Saturday’s 54-7 loss to Nebraska at Maryland Stadium, and coach Mike Locksley said after the contest it was for “non-football reasons.”

“He’s still practicing with us, he’s still coming to meetings, but I held him out for a non-football issue,” Locksley said.

Fleet-Davis will be held out of next weekend’s season finale at Michigan State, a statement from a team spokesperson read.

“We are aware o f th e charges filed against Tayon Fleet-Davis,” the statement read. “We will work with the Office of Student Conduct to gather all of the information.”

Earlier this season, wide receiver DJ Turner was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol after

a Sept. 20 traffic stop. He was charged with 12 traffic-related violations, which records show amounted to a total of $1,450 in fines. Turner has redshirted the 2019 campaign and should be eligible to return next year.

Fleet-Davis has been a key rotational piece for Maryland in the backfield this year. In 10 games, the Oxon Hill native has picked up 265 rushing yards and scored four total touchdowns. Without FleetDavis, the Terps are down to Anthony McFarland and Javon Leake in the backfield. sportsdbk@gmail.com

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men’s soccer

A SUDDEN END Maryland’s national title defense is over after a 3-0 second-round loss to Wake Forest

By Eric Myers | @EricMyers531 | Senior staff writer

forward justin gielen hangs his head following Sunday’s 3-0 loss to Wake Forest in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The Demon Deacons outshot the Terps 13 to eight. julia nikhinson/the diamondback WINSTON SALEM, N.C. — A through pass led Wake Forest midfielder Machop Chol into the box for a one-on-one chance with Maryland men’s soccer goalkeeper Niklas Neumann. Chol decisively fired his shot into the back of the net to stake a 2-0 Demon Deacons lead in the 50th minute.

Less than 10 seconds of game action after Chol’s score, Terps midfielder Malcolm Johnston sprinted into the opposite 18-yard box and accepted a similar leading pass. But Johnston’s shot flew to the center of the frame, where goalkeeper Andrew Pannenberg was stationed to stave off the chance.

The dichotomy between the thrilling goal celebration for Wake Forest and the exasperated reaction from the Terps captured the difference between a team that finished

its chances and one that saw dangerous chances go awry.

The Demon Deacons finished three of their attempts and won 3-0, ending the Terps’ season in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Sunday night.

“We had two or three highquality chances that if they go in, the game changes,” coach Sasho Cirovski said.“We maybe didn’t have the legs to keep the ball as much as we normally like to keep it, or maybe the quality or crispness in the final third that we normally do.”

Possession control was split evenly in the first 25 minutes, but Wake Forest took advantage of its time on the ball while Maryland’s attack struggled to create. The Demon Deacons found three dangerous scoring chances early on, yet they squandered those opportunities with

mishit shots.

Midfielder Bruno Lapa and forward Kyle Holcomb ran unmarked in the box on two of those attempts and sent onetime shots wide right. But the Demon Deacons’ luck took a turn in the 26th minute.

Wake Forest sent a corner kick to the top of the 18-yard box, where midfielder Joey DeZart stepped into a strong shot. As the attempt sailed toward his right, Neumann shuffled to that side of the net.

But DeZart’s attempt took a deflection off a Terps defender and fell to Lapa inside the box.

With Neumann out of position and unable to recover in time, Lapa capitalized to give the home team a 1-0 lead.

“Those are moments in games where it just energizes the group,” said Wake Forest assistant coach Steve Armas,

who was co-serving as acting head coach while Bobby Muuss served a suspension.

“For us to get a couple of those chances early, and then to be able to capitalize on that opportunity, I think it just allowed us to push.”

Maryland nearly found the equalizer in the 31st minute when forward Luke Brown received a pass at the top of the box and suddenly turned for a lofted chip attempt. The Terps’ first shot of the game floated toward the goal, but it deflected off the crossbar and out of play.

In the second half, the Demon Deacons harassed Maryland’s backline with a press and forced a turnover.

The giveaway catalyzed a quick counterattack that ended with a through pass to Chol, who slotted his break-

away chance past Neumann and into the back of the net.

“We had one sloppy turnover that they caught us on,” Cirovski said.

When play resumed, Maryland immediately got forward, and Johnston received a through pass into the box to create his one-on-one chance that Pannenberg fought off.

As Maryland desperately sought two goals to extend its season at least to an overtime session, the Terps’ attack leaned on its crossing ability to create chances in the second half. Defender Matt Di Rosa saw a header fly just wide of the post in the 65th minute.

Then, in the 83rd minute, defender Johannes Bergmann couldn’t connect on a volley attempt off a cross from midfielder Eli Crognale.

Bergmann fell to the field in

anguish as the ball scooted beyond the end line.

Wake Forest delivered the clinching blow in the 89th minute with a counterattack that Holcomb finished off, and the forward leapt up onto the wall behind the goal to celebrate with fans.

A l l sea so n , M a ryl a n d talked about pursuing a second-consecutive national championship rather than defending last season’s crown. The Terps’ pursuit of that goal ended as their scoring chances fleeted away repeatedly.

“Regardless of the chances, any defeat kind of feels the same,” forward Eric Matzelevich said. “It’s obviously the end of the season, and we don’t want that right now.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

women’s basketball

With standout defense, Terps blow out Bobcats Quinnipiac turns the ball over 26 times in Maryland’s 107-52 win by

Maryland

Gus Martin women’s @gusmartin321 basketball Staff writer already held a commanding 21-point lead as the second half started Sunday, but coach Brenda Frese sought to put the game away. So with a fullcourt trapping defense, the Terps turned their contest w i t h Q u i n n i p i a c i n to a no-doubter.

Frese wants her team to create offense from defense whenever possible, employing full-court pressure that aims to force turnovers for leaking Maryland guards to take advantage of. And with two fastbreak layups to open the third quarter — spelling the start of a 33-4 barrage in the period — the transition style ended the Bobcats’ chances.

The Terps executed their

fast-paced strategy to perfection Sunday in a 107-52 win over Quinnipiac, marking the team’s second triple-digit scoring effort this season.

Freshmen guards Ashley Owusu and Diamond Miller led the way with careerhighs in points, part of a balanced offensive performance that saw six players reach double-digits.

“I thought it was a really inspired game by our team. … I just thought you saw from the minute of the tip it was a balanced attack on both ends,” Frese said. “[It was] probably one of our most complete games. Really excited to be able to see how far we’ve grown as a team on both ends of the floor.”

The Terps jumped on the Bobcats early, locking down on defense and turning re-

bounds into nine fastbreak points in the opening quarter.

Owusu led the charge, showcasing her deceptive handles en route to easy layups or feeds to cutting teammates.

Maryland had arguably its best defensive start of the season, holding Quinnipiac to just seven points on 17.6 percent shooting and rendering it scoreless for a fiveminute stretch. The team’s full-court trap didn’t initially produce many steals, but the halfcourt defense allowed few open looks and forced numerous contested 3-pointers.

Some contested shots started to fall for the Bobcats as they outscored the Terps 12-11 and grabbed three more rebounds in the first half of the second frame, with most of the damage coming while forward Kaila Charles sat with two early fouls.

A timeout from Frese got her players back into attack

mode, and forward Shakira Austin began to impose her will soon after. She finished with 16 points and a pair of steals in the half, missing just one of her eight shots.

“We definitely realized from the jump they don’t have the height to be able to stop us inside, and coach is always enforcing we’re going to start going inside-out,” Austin said. “I think that helped us the first half a lot, and in the second half everybody else was able to get their shot and be able to ease it out because of the great first half.”

Charles fueled her team to a dominant defensive effort in the third period, holding the Bobcats to just four points on 1-for-8 shooting and forcing 12 turnovers through the team’s press. Even with a commanding lead, the senior forward continued to dive for loose balls and fight for offensive rebounds that helped

derail any chance of a Quinnipiac comeback.

It was yet another game for Charles in which scoring wasn’t her biggest impact.

The preseason All-American was the team’s fourth-leading scorer coming into the game, averaging 11.7 points per game, often taking a step back and allowing her teammates their chance to shine.

After averaging 17.5 points per game over the last two seasons, she says she’s embracing her role as one of Maryland’s all-around assets, hoping to provide consistent play in all facets that her teammates can follow.

“I’m just doing whatever the team needs me to do,” Charles said. “Getting more rebounds, getting steals, more assists, just being an overall player so I can make impacts even if my shot is not going in.”

Shooting became Mary-

land’s strength in the fourth, with guards Taylor Mikesell and Sara Vujacic each hitting a pair of 3-pointers. The hothand was spread throughout the team, as the offensive onslaught in the second half propelled the Terps to a 55point win, their second-largest victory of the season, on 59.7 percent shooting.

It was Maryland’s most consistent display of defense and rebounding through its six games, two of the biggest points of emphasis for Frese this offseason.

“I thought [the defensive effort] was sensational.

I thought the tone was set when we started,” Frese said.

“They came out, the energy was sensational and I thought even when we ascended to our depth there was never a letoff. That’s the kind of pride we have to be able to take.” sportsdbk@gmail.com