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Officials plan, reflect on Big Ten move After anniversary of move announcement, university looks to finish transition’s tasks

By Yasmeen Abutaleb @yabutaleb7 Senior staff writer When the university joins the Big Ten in July, administrators and athletic officials expect to see Byrd

About 36,000 fans filled the 5 4,000-seat By rd Stad iu m on average during the 2012-13 football season, hardly enough to compete Stadium at its fullest. But not with with Big Ten turnouts — Michigan set an NCAA record for home attenfans cheering for the Terps.

It will likely be full of die-hard dance last season with an average of college football fans who trekked more than 112,000 fans.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if our from the likes of Ohio State, the University of Michigan and Indiana jim delany, Big Ten commissioner, at a panel on the University.

See b1g, Page 2 campus in November. lena salzbank/the diamondback

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U Senate to examine medicinal marijuana Exec committee set to decide on campus use

By Alex Kirshner @alex_kirshner Senior staff writer Though medical marijuana is well on its way to becoming fully legal in this state and has already been legalized in 20 others, it’s strictly outlawed on this campus.

But a University Senate subcommittee will examine whether that should change.

The Senate Executive Committee preliminarily approved a proposal last week to allow use of the drug on the campus for strictly medicinal purposes. The executive committee voted to charge the senate’s Campus Affairs Committee with a comprehensive review of the idea, after which it will recommend either to allow or to reject the drug’s medicinal use. Currently, possession of medical marijuana is just as punishable as possession of recreational marijuana under the Code of Student Conduct.

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Dining Services to extend finals week hours

MARGARETHA LUCAS, 1949-2013

‘She was a confidant’

In first, later hours for halls, shops instituted

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28-year univ employee leaves loving legacy

By Laura Blasey @lblasey Senior staff writer When Margaretha Lucas laughed, it came from her belly; when you heard it, you knew she was sincere, said Sharon Kirkland-Gordon, university Counseling Center director.

Lucas, a Dutch expatriate, was assistant director of the center’s testing and research unit. She died at age 64 on Nov. 13 after a battle with cancer.

“She loved her job here, and the staff really cared about her as well,” Kirkland-Gordon said. “She is a person who the students really celebrate as

margaretha lucas, 64, worked at the Counseling Center since 1985. photo courtesy of sharon kirkland-gordon a mentor, a colleague, a therapist, a psychologist and a friend.”

Over a 28-year career at this university, Lucas proved herself a seasoned scientist, strong leader and faithful friend. At one time or another, she helmed four different See lucas, Page 3

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Students enduring finals week all-nighters in libraries or lounges won’t have to scramble for snacks before vendors close, as Dining Services will extend the hours of dining halls, campus shops and Adele’s for the first time.

In May, the dining halls did not offer late-night hours during finals week and many campus shops closed at their reg ular hours, leaving students studying through the night with few food options other than the 24 Shop in the Denton Community. This year, the Commons Shop will stay open until 2 a.m. from Dec. 14 to Dec. 20, Footnotes will be open for 24 hours

energy drinks and other Commons Shop items will be available later in the night for the duration of finals week.

Dining Services will extend the hours of dining halls, campus shops and Adele’s. james levin/the diamondback from Dec. 15 to Dec. 21, Adele’s will serve dinner through Dec. 19 and the dining halls will be open for normal late-night hours beginning Dec. 15 for North Campus and Dec. 16 for South Campus.

The dining halls will also open at 6:45 a.m. rather than their typical 7:30 a.m., said Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple. The Coffee

Bar, Chick-Fil-A and Union Shop, all located in Stamp Student Union, will open earlier — at 7 a.m. — and all academic buildings holding commencement festivities will open their food venues for visitors.

Junior government and politics and history major Josef Danczuk said he See dining, Page 2

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b1g From PAGE 1 stadium is packed,” said university President Wallace Loh, who remembers up to 15,000 fans traveling with the University of Iowa football team while he was provost there. “And packed with fans from the Big Ten.” But boosting home attendance is only one item on a laundry list of tasks to complete before this university offi cially joins the revenuesharing conference in July.

It’s been just more than a year since Loh’s unanticipated announcement that the university would leave the ACC, a conference it helped found 60 years ago, for the Big Ten. Officials barely had time to contain the range of emotions and outcries that accompanied the announcement before preparing for the switch.

Loh said the reasons behind the move were largely fi nancial. After cutting seven athletic teams in 2012 because of the athletic department’s mounting deficit — largely due to slumping football and men’s basketball ticket sales — Loh opted for the revenuesharing conference, which would secure the athletic department’s financial future.

Sports Illustrated has said the university is expected to make nearly $100 million more than it would in the ACC by 2020.

E ve n a f te r it joi n s t h e Big Ten, though, the university w ill likely still be embroiled in a legal battle with the ACC over the $52 m i l l ion ex it fee. A Nor t h Carolina court ruled Nov. 19

against the university’s bid to dismiss the lawsuit, and a Prince George’s County judge ruled earlier this year to halt this state’s lawsuit against the ACC. One of the more immediate daunting tasks is exploring whether to add an indoor practice facility. W hen it joins the Big Ten, the university will be the only conference member without such a facility. Officials have looked at preliminary concepts for a state-of-the-art facility that would replace practice fields and the Bob “Turtle” Smith baseball diamond in the center of the campus.

T hen there’s the travel challenge, which Loh and Athletic Director Kevin Anderson said is largely worked out. Teams won’t be able to take buses to most of the conference’s universities in the Midwest, so travel costs will rise to about $6 million as all of this university’s teams will travel by plane.

“Add itiona l cha l lenges all sides are facing is it’s a new geography, and I think traditionally we have been a M i d w e s t c o n fe re n c e ,” B ra d T ra v i o l i a , B i g Te n deputy commissioner, said in September.

And although the move is largely accepted now, initial reactions were vitriolic. Fans, students and alumni questioned whether the Board of Regents violated the state’s Open Meetings Act by making the decision in secret.

(The board did not need to approve the move; the decision rested with Loh alone.)

To garner support, university officials dropped messages

on comment boards, newspaper articles and various websites commending the conference switch, according to emails obtained by The Baltimore Sun. “T h is is not someth i ng where you just issue a press release,” Loh said. “We hire fi rms to advise us. … I can tell you every single university does that simply because you can’t afford to have all these specialists in-house.”

While many mourned the loss of h istoric riva l ries, s u c h a s M a r yl a n d-D u k e basketball games, officials pointed to the unparalleled academic benefits that the Big Ten brings, particularly the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, an academic consortium between all conference members and the University of Chicago.

This university joined the CIC in July.

“It’s been very welcoming and enabling and extraordinary,” said Provost Mary Ann Rankin, who has overseen the university’s integration into the CIC. Adapting to an entirely new conference will be an ongoing process, Loh said.

The challenges will be far from over come July. A nd as the university fi nishes its last year of ACC play, officials said they are looking to the future to establish new rivalries and forge a new path.

“We were reluctant to leave the ACC,” state Senate President Mike Miller said. “We recognized the advantages [of the Big Ten] far outweighed staying with the ACC.”

dining From PAGE 1 was often in McKeldin “24 hours a day” during fi nals a nd wou ld appreciate having an open cafe on the fi rst floor.

“I rely on ca ndy a nd Red Bull to get me through my finals,” Danczuk said, adding it was annoying to have to “make a trip through the tundra” to get to an oncampus convenience store.

Over the past few years, Dining Services has worked to staff campus eateries for longer periods of time during fi nals week, Hipple said. This included opening the diners earlier last year and extending Footnotes’ hours on some days to 1 a.m.

This year’s extensions are a continuation of that trend, Hipple said.

“We’re trying to extend our hours as much as we can while still providing good service,” Hipple said. “Students during finals are under a lot of pressure.”

To m a k e s u re i t h a s enough staff for the extended hours, Dining Services plans to ask student employees their availabilities and then fill empty slots with full-time workers’ shifts, Hipple said. Student workers will then be scheduled based on their own exam and study schedules, he said.

Sti l l, H ipple sa id the dining halls will likely need to have fewer staff members during the extended hours, so some food stands’ layouts

Several on-campus eateries and convenience stores will be open later during finals week.

Dining Services made the change in response to student input. james levin/the diamondback may change. For example, Brenda Shah said she was some stations may become happy about the cha nges self-serve so Dining Services a nd t houg ht keepi ng t he only needs chefs and not addi- dining halls open later was tional employees to serve food. “common sense.”

“I’m always excited when “Some students, like myself, we can give students an ad- have tons of dining points left ditional service that they really at the end of the semester,” want,” Hipple said.

Shah said. “While studying Some logistics still need to late at night, which is what be finalized, including figuring college students are known out student employee hours for, sustenance is required, and ensuring dining halls and and most students then turn shops are staffed, but Hipple to junk food when the diner said the new hours were set. is closed.”

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Mikayla Hellwich, a senior horticulture and crop production major who proposed the legislation to the senate, said the university shouldn’t prevent sick students from using medical marijuana if they could derive health benefits from it.

“I think that it’s necessary to be compassionate for people who are sick. I know that this is considered a taboo issue, but really it shouldn’t be,” Hellwich said. “It should be commonsense that people who are sick should have access to the medicine they need.”

Medical marijuana has been used to treat a variety of illnesses and ailments, such as cancer, glaucoma, AIDS and chronic pain.

Senate chairman Vincent Novara stressed the senate’s review of the issue would not go beyond marijuana as medicine.

“T hat is the on ly place where we have interest in this,” Novara said. “As far as recreational use of marijuana, we weren’t even entertaining that notion.”

Nationally, support for legalization of the drug is higher than ever before. An October Gallup poll reported that for the first time ever, 58 percent of the country — a majority — supported it.

Hel lw ich, a u n iversit y chapter leader for advocacy group Students for Sensible Drug Policy, requested the university “streamline” its marijuana policies with those of the state. Under former Gov. Robert Ehrlich, the state

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the senate executive committee is re-evaluating university policy on marijuana as the state moves closer toward legalizing it. Officials gave preliminary approval last week to a policy allowing the drug’s use on the campus for medicinal purposes. file photo/the diamondback passed an affirmative defense law covering medical marijuana, which frees drug users from prosecution if they can demonstrate they have used marijuana exclusively for a medical purpose.

“This goes all the way back to Robert Ehrlich’s administration, when he, to his credit, supported the medicinal use of marijuana,” Novara said.

“The proposer is really just try i ng to see the ca mpus aligned with what the state actually recommends.”

Though the university’s legislature will not take it up, Hellwich said she supports a broader legalization of the drug. Her preference, however, is to think of it as “taxing and regulating” like with ordinary medicine and pharmaceuticals, not “legalization,” which she said gives marijuana a stigma. “ T h at’s not wh at t h at means,” she said. “It means taxing and regulating a product just like we do tobacco, just like

we do alcohol, and putting it into a system that ensures that what you’re actually buying is what you’re intending to buy and meeting safety requirements.”

Josh Ratner, an undergraduate representative on the executive committee, said the university should take steps to avoid punishing users of the drug.

“I would like to see the decriminalization of marijuana on campus,” he said. “That’s to say, we can’t change the state or the federal law, but what we can do is change things like the code of conduct punishments for having marijuana on campus.”

The senate has passed and university President Wallace Loh has signed several pieces of legislation in the past few years that have made drug use on or around the campus less punishable.

The university passed a responsible action protocol in 2011, making students immune from university punishment

if they call for medical services when a peer faces an alcohol-related emergency.

An expanded version of that Good Samaritan bill, made to include all drugs, was approved in February.

Legalizing medical marijuana on the campus, Ratner said, will be more difficult than passing the Good Samaritan policy because of state laws regarding marijuana usage.

“It’s going to be a long process,” Ratner said. “It’s going to take years. It’s not a few-months-and-done kind of issue.”

For Hellwich, the fight to allow medical marijuana on the campus is a personal one.

“I have friends whose lives have literally been changed because of medicinal marijuana,” she said, “and to have them have a risk of losing their education or being kicked off campus, I just think, is morally reprehensible.” akirshnerdbk@gmail.com

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tion school.

D u r i n g her c a re er, she met with clients and students, conducted research, mentored graduate students and led several Counseling Center u n its to stabi l ity.

She served as interim assistant director of the Counseling Center, the Learning Assistance Service and Disability Support Service. She also worked as a training director, overseeing graduate interns in the Counseling Center, and as the assistant director of testing and research until her death.

“She was always the person who seemed to be best suited to take on these leadersh ip roles i n ti mes of tra nsition,” K i rk la ndG ordon sa id. “She wou ld stabilize it and ready it for a permanent director.”

As busy as she was, Lucas always made time to help others. She played classical music in her office and was always there to talk.

“If someone was working on a project, and she would drop what she was doing at any time to help someone — answer a question for them, find some information for them,” K i rk la nd-G ordon said. “She was a confidant.”

Lucas was a lso a fierce leader outside of the university community. When her son, university alumnus Pieter Lucas, was struck by a car while on duty as a volunteer police officer in Howard County, she fought to pass the Officer Pieter Lucas Act, which guarantees worker’s compensation for volunteer police in Howard County.

Lucas is survived by her husba nd Peter Lucas of G le nwo o d , son P iete r of Woodstock a nd daug hter Anna of Washington. A memorial service for Lucas was held in Memorial Chapel on Nov. 23.

subdepartments within the Cou nseli ng Center, built up an impressive research resume and mentored dozens of graduate students as they prepared for careers in psychology.

“She wa s rea l ly k i nd of quiet,” said KirklandGordon, who worked with Lucas for 25 years. “She didn’t boast about her accomplishments, but they were many.”

There were times when Lucas held two or three positions, Kirkland-Gordon said. Lucas enjoyed doing research and working on the administrative end, c o -w o r k e r s s a i d , b u t helpi ng students c a me naturally to her as well.

No matter how much work she took on, she was happy to do it.

“She love d wh at she was doing,” said Patricia Hunt, a Counseling Center research analyst and close friend of Lucas. “She was a lot of fun, and she loved research.”

Luca s wa s bor n Aug. 19, 1949, i n Don gen, Netherlands. She and her husband immigrated to the United States in 1972. She brought with her a bachelor’s degree in education from Teacher’s College in Tilburg, Netherlands, and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in education from Ohio State and both a master’s and doctorate in counseling psychology from Iowa State.

But it was at this university that Lucas built her c a re er. Lu c a s f i rs t arrived in 1985 as a Counseling Center psycholog i s t a n d p ro fe s s o r fo r what is now known as the counseling, higher education and special educa- lblaseydbk@gmail.com

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Catering to students’ needs University students probably sat down with family at the end of last week to partake in a communal Thanksgiving dinner. More likely than not, they stacked their plates high with as much food as they cared to eat, food that was by and large delicious and — best of all for students on a budget — didn’t cost them a cent.

Today, students undoubtedly returned to this university with a renewed sense of appreciation for home-cooked meals. However, many also returned to a university dining program in which costly, frequently inefficient meal plans are not only the norm but also required.

This university mandates that every student living in traditional campus housing — defined as “an on-campus room without a private kitchen” — purchase a dining plan, regardless of class standing, housing location and dietary preference.

These plans range from the $1,838.50 Red plan, the cheapest offered, to the $2,338.50 Gold plan, the most expensive for first-year students.

This university has proven its commitment to combating the rising costs of college for all students with initiatives such as the three-year tuition freeze from 2007 to 2010 and its support of the state’s DREAM Act. In addition, administrators have made progress toward meeting a wide variety of students’ individual needs, from aiding international students’

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transition to a new country and culture to constructing new housing for LBGT students.

This obvious willingness to fulfill students’ needs renders it all the more frustrating that the university has yet to re-examine something as fundamental as its dining plans.

OUR VIEW

Dining Services needs to craft a better system than mandatory dining plans, which harm more than help.

With the end of the semester swiftly approaching and the 40-point spending cap in effect as of yesterday, students begin to feel the pressure to exhaust their resident points and Terp Bucks, if they haven’t already.

Throngs of students will inevitably flock to the dining halls in the last few weeks before winter break hoping to purchase enough food to expend their remaining points. Some will go so far as to hand their university ID cards to other students, urging them to use up more of their points — anything to help wind their soon-expiring accounts down to zero.

Students’ biannual rush to deplete their remaining balances in December and May provides perhaps the most visible indicator of one of the dining plans’ paramount flaws: Students are forced to pay for points they often won’t use.

Walk around the dining halls, and another shortcoming will quickly become apparent. A piece of fruit costs 99 cents. A grilled cheese sandwich costs $2.79. A single slice of cheese pizza costs $2.35. A “value meal” typically costs between $7 and $8, easily three or four times the cost of a home-cooked meal.

Elsewhere on or just off the campus, other dining options provide similarly priced (or cheaper) food, often of higher quality. Green Tidings, a Dining Services initiative, consistently offers the highest-quality menu on the campus at comparable prices and manages to do so from the back of a truck.

It’s understood that students are largely paying for convenience when eating at the university’s dining halls.

And the university’s stance — that dorms “have equipment for occasional cooking but not enough for routine use” — makes sense as well.

But the fact remains that the dining plans fail to offer students the flexibility they want, flexibility this editorial board believes is deserved.

As the dining plans stand, it is far more cost-effective to purchase food solely with Terrapin Express or cash than with the required meal plans. Dining Services’ food offerings are not the most economical, hurting students in the long run.

And if that’s ever to change, Dining Services needs to come to the table to determine how to better serve students’ needs.

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Black Friday laments TOMMY CREEGAN

consumerism. The market is arguably the most highly treasured institution in this country, and Black Friday has come to epitomize its worst representation. Only during the 2000s did Black Friday become a norm.

While it was previously in the top 10 busiest shopping days for Americans, it didn’t gain the top spot until 2003. It has retained that spot every year since, except in 2004, when it slipped to second place. Companies hold their biggest sales of the year on Black Friday to tantalize our consumerist taste buds.

It’s truly a shame we have allowed ourselves to fall victim to this capitalist scheme. In no way does the existence of a “holiday” such as Black Friday reflect our society’s positive values; in no way does it work to advance the well-being of others.

One might argue that people who participate in Black Friday are simply trying to buy gifts for children, an innocent enough activity. However, why should this mean we actively participate in mass consumerism that benefits the wealthy and exploits the lower working class of the world? Even further, why do we instill the values of consumerism in our children, instead of teaching that being rich doesn’t equate to material possessions? This phenomenon is especially strange considering this activity surrounds religious holidays.

From my interactions, it generally seems people are aware of how odd it is that we follow a national day of thanks with a national day of consumerism. While gifting is popular during these winter holidays, it’s important to understand that the best gifts aren’t material. Participating in this zombie consumerist holiday is a complete slap in the face to the values we try to remember on Thanksgiving.

As I was watching the football games on Thanksgiving, as a good American should, I saw the same Wal-Mart commercial almost every commercial break. “Black Friday isn’t over yet!” proclaimed the enthusiastic advertiser. Funny, I thought. It wasn’t even Friday.

This year, Black Friday deals started at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving. As if Black Friday wasn’t already an inherent contradiction to what Thanksgiving means, stores decided they couldn’t risk starting their sales at midnight on Friday — they must begin on Thanksgiving Day. Leave it to 21st-century Americans to celebrate being thankful for what they have and on the same day stampede and trample one another for door-busting sales on the new things they want.

People have actually died and been injured from these herds of deal chasers. Black Friday serves as an unfortunate reflection of our society’s consumerism.

I’d be lying if I said I’m not a consumerist, but that’s the thing: We are all consumerists because we are all surrounded by it.

The other day, a friend and I were doing research on the gifts we are asking for this year. It was weird, we agreed: While having numerous choices among all these products is good because we are able to select exactly what we want based on reviews and specifications, it’s a lot to handle as a consumer.

These truly are “first-world problems.” Pardon my cliche, but first-world problems aren’t really Tommy Creegan is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached problems at all.

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Don’t bounce Looney’s beer pong TIFFANY BURBA Before I continued reading The Diamondback’s Nov. 21 article “City Council scrutinizes Looney’s for beer pong games,” I skeptically thought, “Why?” Looney’s Pub is a bar. Like any bar, its goal is to maximize profits through the sale of alcohol. Hosting beer pong games seems like a great idea to bring in more money from the surrounding college population.

Surely, city officials must have a legitimate reason for criticizing Looney’s beer pong tournaments.

Further reading simply made me less and less inclined to agree with the city on this one. Essentially, for whatever reason, the bar signed a city property use agreement that prohibited providing tables for use in drinking games. Furthermore, Looney’s could not “sponsor or support” drinking games on the premises.

However, the agreement said nothing about holding beer pong events. In the profit-maximizing spirit of good capitalism, Looney’s allowed Maryland Beer Pong to hold weekly competitions at the bar.

County liquor board officials visited the pub in February 2012 to evaluate these beer pong events and determined that no permit violations were occurring. The pong cups were filled with water and all participants signed waivers indicating they did not have to consume alcohol to play. Now, all of a sudden, these same actions magically constitute a permit violation because

of a sexual assault that allegedly occurred after two men met at one of the tournaments in October. If no one else’s nonsense radar is going off, here’s why it should be: Is it tragic, awful and wrong that a sexual assault occurred at all? Absolutely. Should Looney’s be blamed and have its beer pong games prohibited as a result? No. As established last year, the pub was working well within its property use agreement. Maryland Beer Pong came out to foster some fun competition and most likely could not have prevented what occurred. As a result of the incident, Looney’s has decided to cancel Wednesday beer pong, “a move [Mayor Andy] Fellows said is an important step toward ensuring that nothing like the sexual assault happens again.”

Really? Taking beer pong tournaments out of a bar will prevent serial rapists from preying on college students? This guy allegedly assaulted at least 10 college-age males at bars and entertainment events over the past 10 years. How can it be this specific bar’s fault that this individual probably has some sort of mental health problem and commits egregious acts as a result?

Aside from the fact that I am still not convinced that eliminating Wednesday beer pong competitions at Looney’s is the answer to preventing sexual assaults — which, by the way, didn’t seem to be a concern until one happened — I am further confused by the following excerpt: “But council members said the absence of both alcohol and the pressure to drink was not enough; there

is an indirect relationship between holding the beer pong event and encouraging alcohol consumption.”

Let’s see the syllogism for this one: Alcohol is absent. The pressure to drink is absent. Therefore, you are encouraging people to drink. The conclusion simply does not logically follow the premises. Someone please rush these council members to PHIL 170: Introduction to Logic with Allen Stairs to be acquainted with rational thought.

Let’s assume for a second that the City Council can somehow draw the conclusion that Looney’s was encouraging alcohol consumption. Looney’s is a bar. By their very nature, bars encourage alcohol consumption. The point of going to a bar is not for the fantastic mozzarella sticks and good company — the point is to buy drinks.

Looney’s absolutely should be encouraging alcohol consumption because that is how it will stay in business … unlike some of its canine-affiliated compatriots. (Too soon?)

I am confused and appalled by city officials’ insinuation that Looney’s and Maryland Beer Pong are somehow to blame for the actions of an alleged serial rapist. Furthermore, punishing these organizations does little to resolve the issue and much to infringe on the needs of College Park’s majority population: college students. If only we had elected university graduate student Matthew Popkin to the City Council in last month’s election.

Tiffany Burba is a senior government and politics major. She can be reached at tburbadbk@gmail.com.

Instead, these parents are opposed to the HPV vaccine because they are afraid it will promote promiscuity in their children. Also, the parents believe that if they have their child treated with the HPV vaccine, then they will have to have the classic talk about “the birds and the bees” with their children earlier than high school, something with which the parents are uncomfortable.

The reasons why parents refuse the HPV vaccine for their children make me believe that these parents are incredibly ignorant and weak.

I understand being hesitant about having your children injected with something that might make them deathly ill. But not wanting to have your child treated because you’re afraid that having a talk about sex with your preteen will be uncomfortable is a completely different story.

News flash, parents: The birds and the bees talk will be awkward with your children at any age. Wanting to hold off on a vaccine that can prevent genital warts, which are considered a sexually transmitted infection, seems to be incredibly ignorant and, well, bad parenting.

We also can’t forget that the HPV vaccine also helps prevent cervical cancer in women. According to the National Cancer Institute, the HPV vaccine is one of only two approved cancer-preventive vaccines, the other being the hepatitis B virus vaccine, which helps prevent liver cancer.

If you look at it in black and white, when parents refuse to have their children treated with the HPV vaccine, they are endangering their children’s health by not protecting their daughters against cervical cancer to the full extent. Also, if and when their children become sexually active, those parents are not helping them to prevent genital warts.

Parents need to check their beliefs at the pediatrician’s door and do everything they can to ensure healthy lives for their children.

As I was participating in mandatory Sona Systems surveys for COMM 107: Oral Communication: Principles and Practices, I came across a survey about awareness of human papillomavirus vaccination. The study asked participants how they felt about the HPV vaccination, and as a woman who received all the components of the HPV vaccinations, I answered that I was glad my parents had me treated during my preteen years.

However, I was confused as to why it was study-worthy to gauge a participant’s feeling toward a vaccination that can be more beneficial than harmful. The HPV vaccine, recommended for girls and boys aged 11 or 12 and administered in three different treatments over six months, is used to prevent cervical cancer in women and protect against genital warts for males and females, among other health concerns.

To me, receiving the HPV vaccine is akin to receiving the chicken pox vaccine. Why would young people or parents hesitate to prevent HPV in themselves or their children? In a modern medical society, I just assumed all parents would want to prevent their children from contracting any type of infection.

I then did some research and discovered that my thought process was all wrong. After some digging, I found through WBALBaltimore that some parents and even adolescents in the BaltimoreWashington area are in fact against having children treated with the HPV vaccine.

However, they are not against the vaccination because of potential freak accidents that could result in the death of their chil- Maggie Cassidy is a sophomore dren. They aren’t against the po- English major. She can be reached at tential side effects of the vaccine. mcassidydbk@gmail.com.

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When it comes to your personal affairs, you may not fare as well, for you are destined for at least two very difficult periods marked by heartbreak and bouts of self-doubt that threaten to poison your every endeavor, private and public.

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Also born on this date are: Britney Spears, singer; Nelly Furtado, singer; Monica Seles, tennis player; Lucy Liu, actress; Cathy Lee Crosby, TV personality; Gianni Versace, fashion designer; Maria Callas, operatic soprano; Charles Ringling, circus mogul; Georges Seurat, painter.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) -You want to put yourself in just the right position so that you can see and hear everything that makes a difference.

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BLAST FROM THE PAST Ab-Soul, Joey Bada$$ and Pro Era resurrect classic hip-hop for live audience at the Fillmore

By Brianna Patterson @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback Rap concerts these days are often defined by overproduced theatrics or mediocre performances in which rappers do little but jump around and yell over prerecorded tracks.

With Kanye West and Drake on tour with light show extravaganzas in arenas with thousands of fans, hip-hop concerts aren’t as intimate or enjoyable as they once were.

But The Smokers Club Tour brought back that classic hip-hop experience Friday night at the Fillmore in Silver Spring. Headliners Ab-Soul and Joey Bada$$ and the Pro Era crew gave an incredible show blessedly free of gimmicks, the way hip-hop is supposed to be presented.

The crowd in the Fillmore was a sure representation of underground hip-hop culture. Everyone was clad in beanies, hoodies and snapbacks as if they were required entry attire.

As the “Smokers Club” moniker suggests, weed culture is an inescapable part of the experience, as if imposed by law on the arena. Puffs of marijuana smoke sporadically

sprouted from all corners like smoke signals. Without fail, each artist arrived on stage and asked, “Who’s smoking tonight?”

To p D a w g E n t e r t a i n m e n t member Ab-Soul hit the stage with his trademark shades and wild mane, performing hits such as “Illuminate,” “Terrorist Threats” and “Soulo Ho3” from his 2012 album Control System. He further turned up the crowd by playing some hits by fellow TDE members Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q. Ab-Soul had a relaxed Cali-style swag in his stage presence — it was just him and the DJ onstage for most of the set, and he received help from the crowd members, who shouted out many verses word-for-word.

But it was Pro Era — the talented crew out of Brooklyn, N.Y., making seismic waves through the hip-hop industry with its ’90s-throwback style and incredible wordplay — that stole the show.

Bada$$ began the group’s set with “Summer Knights,” the first track off his hit debut mixtape, 1999, which put him on the map in summer 2012.

It was the “classic” songs, the ones everyone knew the words to and

shouted requests for, that got the crowd hyped. Feeding off the crowd’s energy, Bada$$ launched into hits such as “Snakes,” “World Domination” and “Funky Ho.” But he truly shined when performing with his crew. The 11member collective has incredible chemistry and, despite Bada$$’ exponential career growth in the past few months, keeps up with its frontman every step of the way.

The members came out one by one to join Bada$$ on features and to perform their own tracks, interacting with one another onstage and hyping up their set. At any given point they could be seen laughing, dapping each other up and cheering on their fellow members.

CJ Fly performed tracks off his recently released mixtape Thee Way Eye See It, and Kirk Knight performed songs from his own upcoming release. Each member sounded exactly like his recordings.

From Joey Bada$$’ grimy flow on songs such as “95 Til Infinity” to A la $ole’s signature fast-paced delivery, each proved that his success is defined not by fancy studio editing but by pure talent.

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By Leo Traub @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback This year, for the first time, I decided to go hunting for Black Friday sales and put to the test some of the myths surrounding the annual mob scene.

Years of hearing stories about crazed shoppers had given me a distorted concept of the whole ordeal. I arrived expecting to find armies of savage bargain-hunters rampaging through the store, taking home a bounty of goods at ridiculously reduced prices and leaving dazed employees in their wake. I assumed most of this was purely fiction, created by years of media hype, but I wanted my own taste of Black Friday to confirm or bust the mental images I had formulated.

As my friends and I parked outside

the local mall close to midnight after our Thanksgiving meals, the massive yet packed lot — which normally should have provided more than enough parking spaces even on a busy night — gave us a hint of what we would find inside the mall’s double doors.

Hastily taped to the inside of the glass doors, like a silver cross to ward off vampires, was a handwritten sign on a ripped piece of lined paper that read, “STORE OPENS AT 8PM TONIGHT.” A security guard said the sign hadn’t done much good, considering one guard had mistakenly opened the doors half an hour too early.

By midnight, the crowds in Macy’s, where I spent most of my time, were in full force. No one was trampled, and there was no evident irreparable damage — but that’s not to say the store was anything but a mob scene.

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PRO ERA and Joey Bada$$ (right) are a throwback to the early days of hip-hop, when shows were about flow and showmanship, not ego and expensive arena-rock light shows. photo courtesy of jeremie lecuyer Skillfully showing off is what Pro Era does best. The crew recreated pieces from the freestyle cypher it released in response to its lack of recognition at the BET Hip Hop Awards in mid-October. Together, the members rap with the arrogance of knowing they’re the best newcomers in the game right now, while still maintaining the hunger of up-and-comers fighting for the respect they deserve. Their solidarity showed when they honored fallen member Capital Steez, who committed suicide last December.

With two fingers in the air and the entire crew onstage, rappers and audience both rapped Steez’s verse

store were choked with people hunting for bargains or standing at counters, examining expensive jewelry or testing luxurious fragrances. Each line at the checkout counters was at least five people long, frequently closer to 10. A variety of people graced the store, from groups of teens to young couples to children and their parents, who presumably could not find a babysitter.

Shoppers’ discarded clothes were littered all over the store. Lost cardigans were tossed on shelves, while jeans, coats and socks mingled in the gloom under hanging buttondown shirts and heaping piles of unwanted pants. Jackets and sweaters sat dejectedly on changing room floors. Clothing racks were pushed in all directions, obstructing aisles.

The store employees were cordial and handled the crowds well. There were more employees than usual, either anchored behind counters or clothing racks or standing vigil at the store exits. Whether from suspicion or exhaustion, one security guard seemed to eye passersby warily, like a silent but ever-watchful sphinx.

Though nearly everything in the store had

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some degree of discount, the prices were not outrageously low. I did not leave the store paying $60 for a $300 suit; the expensive items were still expensive, only 40 percent less so.

The rest of the mall was packed, too. My friends and I opted to skip Urban Outfitters, which looked nearly bursting with customers. We walked past Aldo Shoes and a couple of electronics stores, where neverending crowds that even the busiest Sundays would be envious of flowed. Every store was booming with business in the wee hours of Friday morning.

At nearly 3 a.m., we decided to call it quits and returned home with our plunder.

Overall, the Black Friday sales, though usually storewide, did not floor me. The crowds were certainly competitive and pressing, but I did not see any of the anarchy and destruction I had guiltily hoped for.

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WOLFPACK From PAGE 8 and they took advantage. The Terps’ six first-half scoring drives — four touchdowns and two field goals — averaged 5.3 plays and 42 yards, as Wolfpack special teams woes were compounded by a Terps defense that forced four three-and-outs in the first half.

Brown scored two more to u c h d ow n s i n t h e f i rs t half and finished the game with 138 rushing yards — the third-highest total for a quarterback in program history — as the Wolfpack defense locked in on running backs Brandon Ross and Albert Reid in the option scheme. Brown also was 13of-25 for 259 yards and two touchdowns through the air.

Saturday marked the second time Brown accounted for five touchdowns this season.

The other came in the Terps’ season opener against Florida International.

“They respected what Brandon and Albert were doing out there, and even with the option pitches, everyone was flowing for the pitch, and I was able to knife them up and take them in for the score,” Brown said. “Guys up front were covering, and I was just making the reads.”

BEARS From PAGE 8 end Friday as Layman and Smotrycz combined to shoot 11-of-16 from three-point range. For Layman, the performance bested his previous career high of 20 points in a win against Virginia Tech in January.

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The Wolfpack scored a touchdown just before halftime to cut the Terps’ lead to 34-14, and the teams traded touchdowns to open the second half. Memories of the 2011 season finale, when N.C. State erased a 41-14 lead with 42 straight points for a 56-41 win, started cropping up, and the crowd at Carter-Finley Stadium started to come alive.

But the Terps’ defense strengthened, exhibiting the bend-but-don’t-break play that has characterized it at times this season. N.C. State marched into Terps territory four times after it cut the lead to 41-21, but the Wolfpack came away with zero additional points.

The defense came up with the plays it needed. Midway through the third quarter, Monroe sacked N.C. State quarterback Brandon Mitchell to help push the Wolfpack out of field goal range.

Safety Anthony Nixon tackled Mitchell in the open field on the fourth down to end the next possession. Defensive end Quinton Jefferson and outside linebacker Marcus Whitfield sacked Mitchell at the 10-yard line early in the fourth quarter. Inside linebacker Shawn Petty ended N.C. State’s final possession with a sack after the Wolfpack drove inside the 10.

“We knew it’s Senior Day for [N.C. State], desperation,” Brown said. “They weren’t going to a bowl, so they were going to go for it. They have nothing to hold back. For our defense to go out there and shut it down like that, it was huge. It was huge.”

For the first time in Edsall’s tenure, the last weekend in November didn’t feature another loss punctuating a lengthy losing streak to send the Terps into the offseason battered and bruised.

Instead of watching Brown get sacked at Carter-Finley Stadium two years ago or watching North Carolina bleed the final seconds off the clock last year in Chapel Hill, N.C., Edsall saw Brown take the snap from center and kneel down in victory fo r m a t i o n . A s t h e c l o c k hit all zeros, the winning record and positive end to the season were secure. “ C o u l d n ’t b e h a p p i e r for our guys and how they fought through adversity all year long,” Edsall said. “Never backed down. We hit a little spot there that wasn’t good for us, but we turned it around.

And then to come down here and finish it like we did today puts an exclamation point on who these kids are and what they’re all about.”

time taking shots with former guard and graduate assistant Eric Hayes, who ranks fourth in school history with 196 career 3-pointers. The extra work paid off in the form of a 27-point outing, so the Wrentham, Mass., native seemed naturally upbeat after the performance.

But he still wishes he hit that corner three in the second half. Layman leads the team with 16.4 points per

game, and he’s shooting 51.1 percent from beyond the arc on the season, so he expects to deliver when opponents leave him unguarded.

And he gets peeved if he doesn’t — even though it is a pretty rare occurrence.

“Knowing that I have to score when I’m open,” Layman said. “That’s what I know my role is.”

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RECAP From PAGE 8 that since she was 15,” Frese said. “She wants the ball and we’re starting to see that really consistently. She can score and distribute and it’s just great to have so many options.”

Brown led the team in scoring against the Bobcats, and forward Alyssa Thomas had 13 points and 10 rebounds to increase her double-double streak to seven games.

The team reached 100 points for the first time in two seasons Friday when they faced Texas Southern (3-4). Thomas shot 9-of-14 for 23 points and

ANTEATERS From PAGE 8 attacking players failed to finish.

With about 27 minutes remaining in the first half, Ambrose found Mullins wide open just outside the 6-yard box, but the senior’s header floated just wide right.

Mullins ended the scorel e s s t i e w i t h j u s t m o re than 10 minutes remaining in the half, though. Defender Jereme Raley made a strong run with the ball from midfield before dropping a pass to midfielder Tsubasa Endoh down the right sideline. Endoh beat several defenders on his way to the goal line and crossed

grabbed 10 rebounds.

Three other players reached double digits against the Tigers, with guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough pouring in 17 points.

“We played our game from start to finish,” Thomas said Friday. “We know we can play on both ends of the floor and that’s what we want to do every single game.”

The Terps’ height advantage helped them control both matchups. The team outscored Texas Southern and Ohio in the paint, 88-44, and outrebounded them, 90-47, throughout the weekend.

The team also returned to form at the free throw

line, shooting more than 80 percent in each contest after hitting 56.3 percent of its free throws against Drexel.

That was key to the Terps’ wins this weekend, but consistency may have been the team’s biggest improvement from its game against Drexel. Frese often mentions how the Terps’ balanced roster will prevent dropoffs during games, and that was on display this weekend.

“Really, really glad to see our production on both ends of the floor,” Frese said. “Everyone contributed and that’s what you want to see at this time of the year.”

low to Mullins, who buried a short-range shot into the back of the net for his 16th goal of the season.

“That’s one of those plays [where] it feels like everybody’s just getting sucked to the near post,” said Mullins, who reached 40 points for the second straight season last night. “And sometimes, it’s those delayed runs — I think I was probably the third guy on our team running in. I just took a hard, strong run and I kind of split two defenders and at that point it’s just sort of putting your body on the line.”

The Terps continued to push the ball forward after scoring the go-ahead goal.

M idfielder Alex Shinsky entered for midfielder Michael

Sauers on the left wing and drove a cross in front of the goal with just more 9 minutes left in the half, but no Terps could get to it.

Shinsky disrupted the defense again with four minutes remaining in the half.

Mullins passed to forward Jake Pace at the top of the box, and Pace left a slow rolling pass for Shinsky, who blasted a one-time strike to the bottom right corner that goalkeeper Michael Breslin dove and caught to keep the Terps’ lead at one goal entering halftime.

The Anteaters bounced back after the break and nearly tied the game with 32:33 left in regulation. The Terps backline failed to pick up forward Enrique Cardenas at the top of the box. Cardenas took two touches before blasting a left-footed strike for the top left corner. Goalkeeper Zack Steffen, who made five saves in the match, rose, extended and tapped the ball over the crossbar, preserving the Terps’ onegoal advantage.

The Anteaters pressured in search of an equalizer for the remainder of the game. Steffen was forced to make another game-saving stop with just more than four minutes remaining, denying forward Lester Hayes III on a pointblank header.

“That’s a talented team,” coach Sasho Cirovski said.

“We knew this would be a really tough game and I think we showed them a lot of respect by coming out with a good performance.”

The Terps and N.C. State faced off at Ludwig Field on Nov. 1 on Senior Night, but Cirovski said he viewed last night as more of a celebration of his seniors than the game against the Wolfpack.

And while emotions were running high after the win, the Terps have comfort in knowing there is at least one more game to be played.

“We always say we want to win our last game at Ludwig in the playoffs, and that’s our Senior Day,” Cirovski said.

“This is a special group of seniors. I said at the beginning, this is a seven-member class that’s made up of the best stuff on the planet.”

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Mullins’ goal pushes Terps into tourney quarterfinals Terps will face California after dispatching UC Irvine

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Staff writer Patrick Mullins wiped tears from his eyes as he walked into the press tent at Ludwig Field last night.

The forward’s goal in the 32nd minute propelled the No. 5-seed Terrapins men’s soccer team to a 1-0 victory over UC Irvine in the NCAA tournament third round, setting them up for a rematch

on the road at No. 4-seed California in the quarterfinals Saturday afternoon. The moment was bittersweet, though.

With the win, the senior had played for the final time at the Terps’ home field. And it didn’t take long for the reality of the situation to set in after the final seconds ticked off the clock.

“It’s emotional,” Mullins said.

“I like to keep my emotions in check sometimes and I don’t think about it too much, but after the game it definitely [hit me].”

A f te r t h e two tea m s traded possession during the opening 10 minutes, the Terps found their groove offensively and started producing dangerous chances.

Sophomore defender Mikey Ambrose pushed forward from his position at left back and was able to clear space down the sideline, sending several threatening crosses into the 18-yard box that

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UC IRVINE GOALKEEPER MICHAEL BRESLIN (right) reacts after allowing the lone goal to forward Patrick Mullins in the Terps’ 1-0 win over the Anteaters last night at Ludwig Field. The victory put the Terps into the NCAA tournament quarterfinals. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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Terps roll in Puerto Rico trip

Ohio, Texas Southern offer little resistance

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer

They also boosted their bowl resume and recorded their largest margin of victory since their 37-0 win over West Virginia on Sept. 21.

And early Saturday, it came with ease.

After N.C. State (3-9, 0-8 ACC) scored on a 10-play, 80-yard drive to open the game, the Terps (7-5, 3-5) scored on each of their first six possessions to build a 34-7 lead late in the first half. They struck quickly with big plays, as Brown connected with wide receiver Nigel King on a 53-yard touchdown pass to put the Terps up 10-7 and then broke off a 49-yard scoring run on the next possession.

The defense set the Terps up with short fields,

With nearly 13 minutes left in the first half, Ohio guard Quiera Lampkins made a layup to give the Bobcats a 14-11 lead over the Terrapins women’s basketball team, tying Ohio’s largest lead of the game.

Guard Lexie Brown responded with a game-tying 3-pointer on the next possession, starting a 9-0 run to make it 20-14. The next play after Brown’s three proved to be the final lead change of the game, as the team pushed on to win its final game of the San Juan Shootout, 84-60, on Saturday.

Unlike their slim victory over Drexel on Nov. 25, the No. 8 Terps maintained a consistent level of play throughout both games this weekend in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, which led to a pair of lopsided wins. A day before topping Ohio, the Terps beat Texas Southern on Friday, 100-59.

“I was really proud how we kept up our level of play on short rest from yesterday,” coach Brenda Frese said Saturday. “Just proud of how we got down to business when we needed to this weekend.”

After the Terps’ 69-63 win against the Dragons, in which they struggled to hold a second-half lead, the Terps (7-1) never allowed their opponents within 15 points in the second half of both games in Puerto Rico.

Brown scored a career-high 16 points against Ohio (3-3) and added two assists.

“Lexie is a player, and we’ve known

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INSIDE LINEBACKER COLE FARRAND (left) and outside linebacker Marcus Whitfield (right) celebrate during the Terps’ 41-21 victory over N.C. State in their ACC finale on Saturday in Raleigh, N.C. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

MASTER STROKE

Dynamic offense, stifling defense let Terps put finishing touches on ACC play in win at N.C. State

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer

RALEIGH, N.C. — During the Terrapins football team’s undefeated start to the season, the offense and defense complemented each other perfectly.

The zone-read, keyed by quarterback C.J. Brown, racked up yards and points, distancing the Terps from inferior opponents. Meanwhile, the defense held to give the Terps breathing room and helped them cruise to easy victories.

It was a winning formula, one that disappeared in the second month of the season, when the Terps lost three of four games.

In the Terps’ 41-21 win over N.C. State on Sat-

urday, that early season interplay returned. The defense tightened early to allow an unstoppable offense to put the game out of reach at halftime and thwarted any second-half comeback attempt before an announced 43,023 at Carter-Finley Stadium in the program’s final ACC game.

“I like to think of it like art,” defensive end Andre Monroe said. “We put the canvas on there for them, and then they go out there and they just stroke the pen, brush, whatever you want to call it and just make it look beautiful.”

For a season that had turned ugly, the Terps’ win provided a bright ending. The Terps finished the season winning two of their last three games and clinched the first winning season of coach Randy Edsall’s tenure in College Park.

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Layman scores 27 in blowout win over Morgan State Career-high scoring from sophomore, outside shooting prowess power Terps past Bears on Friday night

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer After Jake Layman clanged his only miss of the second half off the rim Friday, the Terrapins men’s basketball forward sprinted back to contest Morgan State forward Justin Black’s missed layup on the other end.

Once teammate Roddy Peters snagged the rebound, Layman turned and beat several Bears down the floor in transition, received a pass from Peters and attacked the rim before center Ian Chiles fouled Layman to stop him. Afterward, Layman admitted the aggression came because

missing the three ticked him off a bit.

“It gets me going when I miss them,” Layman said.

The sharpshooting sophomore wasn’t too aggravated for most of the Terps’ 89-62 win over the Bears, though. Layman finished with a career-high 27 points on 7-of-10 shooting from beyond the arc, including 4-of-5 in the second half.

Layman had plenty of open looks from outside against Morgan State, and he didn’t have a reason to feel frustrated after 70 percent of those shots fell through the hoop. His seven 3-pointers also marked a career best.

“I think he had fresh legs,” coach Mark Turgeon said. “He took two days

off, didn’t go hard yesterday and then guys found him on the break. Guys were making the extra pass to him.”

It didn’t seem difficult for the Terps to find Layman, either. The Terps’ leading scorer said it was “weird being this wide open,” considering his reputation as a potent shooter.

Turgeon theorized that the Bears were overly concerned with stopping guard Dez Wells from driving, which allowed openings for Layman and others on the perimeter. The tactic didn’t work for Morgan State as the Terps shot 65 percent from threepoint range as a team and posted a season-high 89 points.

“When we drove it, they came to help,

so you had to make a pass,” Turgeon said. “And we kept making shots.”

Layman benefited from the Bears’ plan, but the Terps understand that he probably won’t be left wide open throughout the year after future opponents get a chance to watch tape of Friday’s performance.

“I’m sure it’ll change,” forward Evan Smotrycz said. “If guys haven’t already, they’ll get the scout. But he can hit contested ones too, so I’m not really worried.”

Layman wasn’t the only Terp who flashed a smooth stroke from three-point range against the Bears.

Smotrycz hit 4-of-6 from beyond the arc, and Wells went 2-of-2.

The Terps’ barrage of shooting, headed by Layman, adds a new dynamic to the offense that they haven’t had in recent years. If opponents decide to take an approach opposite Morgan State’s game plan and fan out to defend the Terps’ shooters, the team’s athletic guards — including Wells and Nick Faust — will have more space to slash to the rim.

“It’s tough to guard because they have to respect it even more, and then Nick and Dez will dunk all over you,” Smotrycz said. “If we’re hitting and they’re finishing, we look good.”

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