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After winning season, Maryland volleyball looks to aim higher, Sports, p. 12

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Hot Coco Pixar’s latest is entirely perfect, Diversions, p. 9

courts

Sean Urbanski trial pushed six months Ex-student charged in death of 2nd Lt. Richard Collins A Prince G e o rge ’s C o u n t y judge has d e l aye d by six months the trial for Sean Urbanski, a former University of Maryland student accused of murder, after the defense requested more time.

Urbanski, who is white, was charged with murder and a hate crime in the May stabbing death of 2nd Lt. Richard Collins, a black Bowie State University student.

The trial was originally set for January, but a judge agreed to postpone it to July after Urbanski’s lawyer, William C. Brennan, said he had to review a large amount of video.

“We did not object to it because we know there is a lot of materials to go through and we want the defense to have the necessary time they need to prepare,” said John Erzen, spokesman for the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s office. by

FORMER GSG PRESIDENT STEPHANIE CORK, seen speaking at a December 2016 meeting, was impeached by the organization’s assembly Friday after submitting her resignation last week. file photo/the diamondback

GSG impeaches ex-pres Cork

Michael Goodman elected grad pres after body charges her with misusing funds T h e Un i versity of Maryland G S G elected a new president Friday after the assembly voted to accept the findings of the Governance Committee’s impeachment investigation into the group’s former president, Stephanie Cork.

Michael Goodman, a secondyear doctoral student in the Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy program, has served as Graduate Student Government vice president of student affairs since July. He ran unopposed in the special election, which was created to confirm a new president after Cork was impeached based on the findings of the GSG Governance Committee.

The GSG assembly voted 29-5 to impeach Cork, who was absent due to an out-of-state family obligation, she wrote in a message on Thursday.

Impeachment immediately removes Cork as president and prohibits her by

Noah Fortson @nofo34 Staff writer

from holding any GSG office “for no less than one complete legislative session,” according to GSG bylaws.

The committee wrote in its report, which was released Thursday, that Cork violated several GSG bylaws and its approved budget. The committee recommended to indict Cork on charges of misrepresentation of duty and misuse of funds after concluding its investigation.

The GSG voted to launch the investigation during its Nov. 3 meeting after Financial Affairs Vice President Devin Scott noticed about $36,000 in overspending from the fiscal 2017 budget, which Cork had contributed to by spending funds not approved by the assembly on items including extending the director of operations’ contract.

“President Cork was working under a significant and fundamental misunderstanding or ignorance of the GSG budget, Bylaws and Constitution,” the report stated.

See cork , p. 3

Lila Bromberg @lilabbromberg Staff writer

Collins was killed in the early hours of May 20 on this university’s campus, and Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks previously said prosecutors believed it was racially driven. Collins’ murder was caught on security cameras.

Brennan was not immediately available for comment.

Collins, 23, was waiting for an Uber at about 3 a.m. near the Montgomery Hall bus stop on the campus when Urbanski approached

him, according to police.

Police said Urbanski, 22, allegedly stabbed Collins in the chest, resulting in Collins’ death.

Ur b a n s k i wa s i n d i c te d o n murder charges in July and indicted on a hate crime charge on Oct. 17. He could face a life sentence without parole on the murder charges alone, in addition to a 20-year sentence if convicted for a hate crime resulting in death. lbrombergdbk@gmail.com

campus

Amid spike, univ unveils new hate bias protocols U to hire response coordinator, keep up incident log The University of Maryland announced on Nov. 27 it will hire a hate bias response coordinator and issued new policies for addressing hate bias incidents.

The coordinator will meet with individuals affected by hate bias incidents as requested and work with a hate bias response team to develop action plans for these incidents. The position will be posted Monday, said Chief Diversity Officer Roger Worthington. by

james deleonardis | 1998-2017

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY STATE’S ATTORNEY ANGELA ALSOBROOKS, seen announcing hate crime charges against former university student Sean Urbanski Oct. 17, didn’t object to a defense request that the trial be postponed. Urbanski was charged in the death of 2nd Lt. Richard Collins. file photo/the diamondback

Christine Condon @CChristine19 Senior staff writer

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion will also maintain a webpage with a hate bias incident log updated as incidents happen, according to the new protocol. Individuals who opt in will be able to receive email updates about such incidents that have occurred on the campus.

The procedure spells out how the three university entities tasked with responding to hate bias incidents — the ODI, the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct and University Police — will communicate.

Individuals can report campus hate bias incidents to University Police or the OCRSM. According to the new protocol, the entity that receives the report must acknowledge its receipt within

Help us track hate bias at UMD. The Diamondback has partnered with ProPublica’s Documenting Hate project to help track these incidents more effectively.

If you have been affected by or witnessed a hate bias incident, you can share information using an online form at dbknews.com.

48 hours and inform the ODI’s new hate bias coordinator. Affected individuals are to be referred to ODI for support and guidance, and Worthington said they can meet with the hate bias response coordinator if they wish.

See protocol , p. 2

campus james deleonardis, a sophomore at this university and member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, died Nov. 26 at 19. Friends recalled his friendliness and passions for wrestling and music. photo courtesy of david broadwater

‘He was like the sunshine on a rainy day’

By Lila Bromberg and Naomi Grant | @thedbk | Staff writers James DeLeonardis and one of his best childhood friends, Randy Gassaway, used to video chat for hours on end in what they called “virtual sleepovers.” They lived far away from each other at the time, and during the summer, they would stay up all night talking, laughing and playing video games. At one point, a call went on for almost three days, only ending because DeLeonardis had to get his hair cut, Gassaway said.

DeLeonardis always seemed to be in a good mood. He was “the sunshine on a rainy day,” said Skylar Mercer-Graybill, one of his friends and coworkers.

He was the kind of person whose presence could bring a smile to people’s faces and have them laughing within seconds, even at their lowest points.

Gassaway, a freshman at Nassau Community College, said whenever he was upset about his grades, DeLeonardis would give him a look and the two would be laughing within seconds.

DeLeonardis, a University of Maryland sophomore and member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, died on Nov. 26. He was 19.

See deleonardis, p. 3

calendar 2 OPINION 4 FEATURES 5 city 6 diversions 9 SPORTS 12

DOTS wants fee hike to raise bus driver salaries Students could pay up to $14 more toward 5 percent raise for full-timers The University of Brooks DuBose Maryland @b3dubose DOTS proStaff writer posed an increase in mandatory student fees to boost full-time ShuttleUM drivers’ salaries.

The proposal, which was discussed at an open forum at Stamp Student Union on Nov. 27, calls for a $14 increase for full-time undergraduate and graduate students and a $7 increase for part-time students in the shuttle bus student fee for the 2018-19 academic year. This by

would amount to almost $419,000 in increased revenue that would help provide a 5 percent pay raise for full-time Shuttle-UM drivers, according to the proposal.

Forum attendees included members of the Student Government Association and Residence Hall Association, as well as student workers and representatives from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees 1072 labor union.

The groups discussed the proposal and voiced possible concerns about its implementation.

For the 2017-18 academic year,

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full-time undergraduate and graduate students each paid $203 and parttime students paid $101.50 — about 11 percent of the $1,918 in mandatory fees full-time students pay each year — to the Department of Transportation Services for shuttle bus fees, according to the proposal. The proposed fee increase suggests full-time and part-time students would pay $217 and $108.50 respectively in DOTS shuttle bus fee for the 2018-19 academic year.

About $10 of the $14 would go to increasing pay for full-time drivers.

Full-time drivers make a $16 per hour starting rate that ties for the thirdlowest rate among the rates of 16 See dots, p. 7

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2 | news

CRIME BLOTTER

By Lila Bromberg | @LilaBBRomberg | Staff writer University of Maryland Police responded to reports of a weapons violation, disorderly conduct and suspicious persons during the past 10 days, according to police reports.

WEAPONS VIOLATION University Police responded to 10 Fratern ity Row for a suspic io u s p e rs on s re p or t o n N o v. 2 4 a t a b o u t 11:15 p.m., according to police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas.

The Security Operations Center told police four men were looking into houses and bike racks at multiple locations, Hoaas said. An officer tried to stop the men, but they fled the scene on bikes.

A fter sea rch i ng the area, officers were able to stop two members of the group and found dangerous weapons on both men. James Ferrell, 34, of Washington, D.C., was charged with fourth-degree burglary and carrying a concealed dangerous weapon. Tamar Simmons, 24, of Capitol Heights was also charged with carrying a concealed dangerous weapon.Ferrell and Simmons were taken to the Department of Corrections for processing.

This case is closed.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT University Police responded to the 7300 block of Route 1 on Wednesday at 2:18 a.m. when someone

reported seeing two people in bushes, Hoaas said.

An officer found two men, with one requiring medical attention. The officer told the other man, 20-year-old John Moore of Silver Spring, to move so he could assist the man, but he refused to listen, Hoaas said.

The officer handcuffed Moore, who tried to ask about his detention and then shouted at the officer when he didn’t respond, Hoaas said.

Moore cursed at the officer several times, and the officer arrested him on the scene. He was issued a criminal citation for disorderly conduct and released.

This case is closed.

On Nov. 25 at about 5:45 p.m at Maryland Stadium, an officer found a man acting aggressively toward a Maryland State Police Trooper, Hoaas said.

The officer directed the man away from the trooper, accord i ng to Hoaas. A friend of the man then grabbed him, took him out of the stadium and came back to apologize.

The first man then came back and started to yell and curse at the officer. He tried to move toward the officer, who pushed him away, Hoaas said. Another officer arrived, and the man was brought to the ground, arrested and taken back to the police station for processing. He was later released with a criminal citation for disorderly conduct. This case is closed. lbrombergdbk@gmail.com

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From p. 1 The protocol codifies operations that have already been in the works, Worthington said.

“What we’ve done with this is to increase the clarity with which the offices have already been operating,” Worthington said. “So it’s just making clear what is already in existence and trying to refine or to increase the coordination that takes place.”

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University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas wrote in an email that “the protocol doesn’t change how UMPD handles reports of hate bias incidents.”

The announcement also addresses a national trend of increasing hate bias incidents, Worthington said. “ T h a t go e s to a l a rge r context in the United States right now where it seems like there’s a renewed vigor with

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which hate groups are targeting higher education institutions,” he said.

Title IX Officer Catherine Carroll said in a statement that her office approved of the announcement.

“OCRSM is supportive of the new protocols and looks forward to participating in a coordinated response to hate bias incidents on our campus,” she said in a statement emailed by university spokeswoman

Jessica Jennings.

The hate bias response team is currently in formation, Worthington said, and will include representatives from the ODI, the OCRSM, University Police, the Counseling Center, the Health Center and the University of Maryland Chaplains, among others.

Worthington said the hate bias coordinator will represent the See protocol , p. 7

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DeLEONARDIS From p. 1 University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said the department is not conducting a death investigation, as DeLeonardis did not die on or near the campus. Baltimore County Police did not respond to a request for comment, and the Sigma Nu fraternity declined to comment.

He i s s u rv ive d by m o t h e r Diane Broadwater, father David DeLeonardis, sister Danielle DeLeonardis, stepmother Christy DeLeonardis and stepfather David Broadwater, as well as five stepsiblings and several extended family members. The fraternity held a vigil for DeLeonardis on Wednesday, and his funeral service was held on Saturday.

DeLeonardis was born on Long Island, New York, according to an online obituary. He grew up in Reisterstown, Maryland, and briefly moved to South Carolina around the start of high school before moving back to Maryland to attend Franklin High School in Reisterstown, according to his close friends. He lived in Hampstead at the time of his death, according to an online obituary.

DeLeonardis’ stepfather, David Broadwater, said his stepson was an outgoing person without prejudice, and “always brightened up the room.” Broadwater said a girl reached out to him following DeLeonardis’ death to share how big of an impact he had.

She told Broadwater most of her friends stopped caring about her when she had a child while attending Franklin High School, but DeLeonardis was different.

He would call and text her to see

cork From p. 1 “This misunderstanding or ignorance resulted in an expansion of the Presidential powers […] and diminished the oversight assigned to the Assembly, other Executives, and the Governance Committee.”

Cork was not available to comment on the news of her impeachment.

The committee found the director of operations was offered a contract in April that paid $1,218 biweekly and required the GSG to pay Social Security and unemployment

JAMES DELEONARDIS, a sophomore at this university, died Nov. 26 at 19. clockwise from top left: photos courtesy of randy gassaway, austin widerman and david broadwater

“We knew we had a fine young man here, but we didn’t know he was going to bat for these less fortunate people, so that really meant a lot to us to hear ... .”

- DAVID BROADWATER, STEPFATHER OF JAMES D E LEONARDIS

how she was doing, even until his death, Broadwater said.

Even when they first met as kids, Gassaway remembers DeLeonardis helping him learn to bowl after joining a bowling league.

Gassaway was in fourth grade at the time, while DeLeonardis was in fifth.

“I didn’t know what I was doing and kept getting gutter balls, and he would help me … and crack jokes,” Gassaway said.

After moving to South Carolina, DeLeonardis attended Stratford

benefits. The payment terms offered in the contract violated GSG bylaws, the document read.

While the fiscal 2017 budget allocated $5,600 for external programming, records show about $11,000 funded events in fall 2016 and $12,700 in spring 2017, for a total of nearly $24,000, which “far exceeds” the approved budget, the report stated. Executives also agreed to sponsor a Disability Summit held in April for $1,700, reports show. But after the event, the total charges amounted to about $5,200.

Other violations included changing the nature and funding for various positions,

H i g h Sc h o o l , wh e re h e m e t Jonathon Benton, who said the two became best friends through marching band. Benton wrote in a Facebook message that DeLeonardis “never did anyone wrong and wanted people to always be positive.”

Benton said DeLeonardis was going to try to visit him around Christmas if he could.

DeLeonardis and his family later moved to Reisterstown, where he joined Franklin High School’s wrestling team with Gassaway,

receiving donations for events not run by GSG and creating a new category in the budget that about $14,000 was spent on, all without assembly approval, according to the report.

In a statement on Nov. 17, Cork announced she would terminate her graduate assistantship and resign from the position of GSG president on Nov. 20. Although she informed the assembly of her intentions to resign on Nov. 20, her resignation was not formally accepted by an assembly vote, said GSG Chief of Staff Caden Fabbi.

According to GSG bylaws, executives who resign from

who said the two became “closer than brothers.”

“We just had everything in common, but wrestling, that just made us even more close.

He was great on the mat and off the mat, [and] he would always support us,” Gassaway said. “I have my wrestling videos, and you can hear him in the background yelling at me, telling to me get my stuff together.”

Aside from wrestling, DeLeonardis also enjoyed listening to music, especially hip-hop and

their elected positions must notify the assembly and assist with the transition of their position to a new officer.

Legislative Affairs Vice President Adria Schwarber has served as interim president since Cork’s Nov. 20 voluntary departure.

Now that Goodman has been elected, Schwarber will resume her previous position.

“We are ready to go back to be the advocates of the graduate students to work on improving the lives of graduate students, and I’m glad this issue is behind us,” said mechanical engineering representative and Governance Committee Chair Roozbeh Bakhshi.

rap. Cole Walker met DeLeonardis during his freshman year of high school through wrestling, recalling that DeLeonardis could always be seen with his headphones on.

“He just had a lot of heart and he never gave up on anything,” Walker said.

Broadwater said his family has since heard stories of DeLeonardis standing up for friends being bullied throughout middle and high school.

“We knew we had a fine young man here, but we didn’t know he was going to bat for these less fortunate people, so that really meant a lot to us to hear all these stories that we knew nothing about,” he said.

Gassaway said DeLeonardis watched out for all of his friends and supported him in everything he did, from wrestling to rapping.

“He would … tell me to keep writing, and he would listen to [my songs] more than anybody else.

Anything I wanted to do, he was always there for me,” Gassaway said. “He was just the best person to be around. It’s just so sad that he’s gone.”

In a Facebook message, DeLeonardis’ friend, Brady Schindler, called him a “selfless individual” who would put others ahead of himself any chance he got.

De L e o n a rd i s ’ h o m e tow n friend Ricki Stevens called him a jokester who loved to have people laughing.

“He had one of the biggest hearts I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” Stevens said. “He was just such a great person, and he would have done anything for anybody.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

As president, Goodman graduate students. would like the GSG to continue “I think it’s so important discussing collective bargaining that graduate students, like rights for student workers, as me, know that some people are well as improve its transparency and communication with See cork , p. 8

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Not all memes are harmless Nate Rogers @NateRogersDev Columnist

The Confederate flag stu- accelerated. The last few years of mainstream bigotry dents found etched into a bath- and the rise of online extremist communities have room in Somerset Hall earlier primed the country for a total breakdown in memetic this month was clearly a symbol communication. New memes are snatched up and of hatred. The flag is unambiguous in its meaning. It’s reappropriated by countless factions as soon as they unlikely anyone agonized over describing the sketch as are created. Some of those factions inevitably use the yet another hate bias incident. But not all hate symbols new image to further a message of hate. As the meme are so clear. What if, instead of the Confederate flag, spreads, its meaning doesn’t just evolve. It shatters.

Eventually the symbol loses its originally intended the perpetrator carved Pepe the Frog into the stall?

Pepe was not originally created to be racist. Early meaning. Different communities end up using the same words to speak different languages. memes featuring the frog were This fragmentation only aids the innocent enough, but the image rocketed in popularity among “Recognizing hatred spread of hateful ideologies. Social users often unintentionally spread white supremacists. Eventually, the and using symbols media hatred by being ignorant of an image or meme’s racist variations dominated. However, despite its unsavory carefully is the only phrase’s history and context. Regardless, they are playing into the hands of the far connotations, many versions of the way to reclaim right. I’ve known many friends who used meme are still used in non-bigoted online discourse.” the ableist slur “REEEE” without even contexts. That leaves Pepe in a gray realizing the word expresses something area: A meme that seems perfectly benign to its creator will appear hateful to some of other than frustration.

Without context, their usage may have seemed inits viewers. The creator is unintentionally complicit in spreading hatred. Public discourse cannot survive nocent, but nothing is free of context. In public debate, it doesn’t matter whether they intended to be offensive. alongside the casual use of hate symbols.

Pepe isn’t the only symbol stolen by hate groups. The Their use of the word still furthers the cause of bigots. swastika, the world’s most gut-wrenching, sickening The far right doesn’t use their arsenal of memes just symbol of hatred, was originally a religious symbol to spread their message. They seek to infect all discusrepresenting good fortune. But now it is impossible to sion with toxicity. Debate is impossible if both sides disentangle its original meaning from the atrocities it inadvertently spew hatred.

That is the role of Pepe: to make innocent speech toxic represents. Many hate symbols share a similar history.

They weren’t created to promote hatred, but they arrived and toxic speech acceptable. If you don’t know about at that identity after years of reappropriation by bigots. its racist history, it’s just a cartoon frog. But the cartoon The original intent is irrelevant. The only thing that frog has power. Recognizing hatred and using symbols matters is the pain such symbols inflict. Anyone who carefully is the only way to reclaim online discourse.

Next time you’re about to post a “harmless” meme, uses the symbol is partly responsible for that pain.

In the past, it took hate groups years to steal images you should ask yourself just how harmless it really is. and contort them into symbols of violence and bigotry.

In recent years, however, the process has dangerously nrogers2@terpmail.umd.edu

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Univ students need more mental health support Mitchell Rock @OpinionDBK Columnist

T h e H ave n a t College Park will open next fall. This new program will include privately run off-campus housing and outpatient clinical services for University of Maryland students in recovery for substance addiction. This program will create a support system for students in recovery.

Although this program is exciting and necessary for students recovering from addiction, the need for a private organization to create these programs highlights how the university itself is not meeting the mental health needs of its students.

Addiction recovery is one element of mental health treatment that has been particularly lacking on this campus, and the Counseling Center director, Sharon KirklandGordon, has said this university’s services need to improve. While The Haven will help address this particular issue, it does little to address the larger issue of neglected mental illness at this university.

The University of Maryland has a student population of more than 38,000 at the College Park campus. Across the United States, 41.6 percent of college students are reported to have anxiety and 36.4 percent are reported to have depression. In college, 1,100 students commit suicide each year, making it the second-leading cause of death for students. More than half of all college students report having suicidal thoughts, while 1 in 10 seriously considers a suicide attempt. Despite this reality, this university has not provided sufficient resources to its large student population.

The Counseling Center is the main resource for students experiencing mental illness. This center employs 10 staff psychologists, three part-time psychologists and four interns who are psychological doctoral students. With so few psychologists serving such a large student population, there is no way the need can be fully met. In the 2015-16 academic year, 2,264 students made an intake appointment for counseling services. This appointment serves to determine the nature of the student’s issue and the best method of treatment. However, with so many students

Unionizing student workers prepares them for the free college fight Max Foley-Keene @MaxFoleyKeene Opinion editor

Let’s s ta te t h e obvious: In recent decades, a college degree has become increasingly important and increasingly out of reach for the poor, middle and working classes.

Since 1978, a four-year college or university has become 1,122 percent more expensive to attend.

Americans held $1.3 trillion in student loan debt in 2015 — more than their credit card debt.

At the same time, the value of a college degree is at an all-time high, according to a Federal Reserve study. Over the course of a lifetime, a college graduate typically makes $570,000 more than a high school graduate. Brookings researchers Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney found a college degree is the best big investment a young person can make.

The problem is fairly simple: A college education is both unaffordable and critical to one’s success in life. The best solution to this problem is equally simple: Make public college free. Essentials are, well, essential. Success in the market shouldn’t determine access to essential goods. That’s why the government, very broadly speaking, uses tax dollars to guarantee citizens functioning roads, police protection and primary education.

To be sure, the state often fails to secure these public goods, and plenty of essentials — food, medical care, etc. — have yet to be decommodified. That doesn’t deter from

the basic and powerful principle that one should have access to necessities, whether or not one is good at accumulating cash. And, at this moment, in this economy, a college education is becoming a necessity.

Some progressives might claim that it’s silly to make public college free for everyone. Why should Donald Trump’s children have access to free college? My answer is practical: Programs for all have more staying power than programs for a few. Universal public programs — say, social security or public primary education — are easier to protect than means-tested programs — say, Medicaid — which serve less powerful constituencies and are, therefore, vulnerable to cuts.

But a federal program to decommodify higher education is quite unlikely under this president and Congress. Until our representatives in Washington, D.C., are more open to the idea of free public college, students should concentrate their anger and activism on unionizing undergraduate workers.

For most undergraduates, work is a part of the college experience — four out of five college students work part-time, for an average 19 hours a week. Facing spiking tuition bills, many undergraduates must work to limit future debt. And yet, students often lack the protections and dignity they deserve. For example, undergraduates at the University of Maryland don’t have collective bargaining rights, and the university doesn’t have to pay them Prince George’s County minimum wage.

Collective bargaining rights and undergraduate unionization are worthy causes for obvious reasons: Workers get higher pay, stronger protections and a greater say in the workplace. Student dining workers at the University of California, Berkeley organized the Undergraduate Workers Union, occupied a cafe on campus and extracted longer breaks and back pay. At Grinnell College, a union of student dining workers signed a contract with management that raised hourly wages by nearly a dollar and set up a workplace grievance process.

The union struggle perfectly prepares students for the free college fight. Both policy advocacy and worker solidarity require organizing. And the fight for undergraduate labor rights builds student power. It shows the powers that be — from employers at this university to university President Wallace Loh to the U.S. Congress — that they must take undergrads seriously.

Student workers who care about labor rights should check out this university’s chapter of the Student Labor Action Project, which does fine work. In recent years, representatives in Annapolis have introduced legislation to give undergraduates collective bargaining rights. The only way students can win that fight is to organize and build political power. And that political power will be critical in the biggest student fight of all: Making free college education a right. maxfkcap2016@gmail.com

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making these appointments, wait times for an intake appointment could end up being weeks.

Following the intake appointment, students are assigned to individual counseling, group therapy, couples therapy or a workshop. This assignment depends on student preference, recommendations from the intake appointment and availability. Specifically, individual counseling typically has a wait list. While on that wait list, students can utilize the group therapy or workshops, but with mental illness being such a personal and stigmatized issue, it is reasonable to assume many students would not be comfortable being fully honest in those settings.

These students have to wait until an individual counselor has an opening, which may be weeks. In fact, only 47 percent of students start any sort of counseling sessions within two weeks of an intake appointment.

Furthermore, once counseling begins, students are limited to eight sessions in a year. It does not matter how much the student has progressed in that time.

After eight sessions, the student is no longer eligible for individual counseling until 12 months have passed. Thus, students who have serious mental heath concerns may be abandoned from their care after opening themselves up and being vulnerable with a therapist. Their experience likely begins with a lengthy wait for an intake appointment, followed by a waiting period of weeks or months to receive actual counseling. Then, this counseling will be abruptly cut off after eight sessions, regardless of the needs of these students.

This university treats mental illness as something that can be ignored and put on hold. Students deserve better.

They deserve to have an administration that invests more in their mental health.

They deserve a university community that cares about them.

We can’t forget O’Malley’s destructive legacy in Baltimore Sarah Riback @SarahRiback Columnist

Even after his loss in a long-shot presidential campaign last year, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has continued to travel around the country, seemingly in an attempt to situate himself as the great hope of the Democratic Party in 2020. His political positioning ignores a deep aversion from the city in which he began his career: Baltimore.

As a Baltimore native, a generally negative opinion of O’Malley is all I’ve ever known, and the idea of him being a Democratic Party savior indicates the huge issues plaguing the party. Although numerous articles have urged liberals to “Take O’Malley Seriously,” his claim to have positively reformed Baltimore is wholly without merit. Rather, his policies have plagued Baltimore’s most vulnerable, hindering the possibility for reform and reconciliation in one of America’s deadliest cities.

During his tenure as mayor, O’Malley implemented broken windows — or zerotolerance — policing in an attempt to reduce the city’s high crime rates. The apparent result, however, was that police officers were encouraged and emboldened to make arrests for minor offenses, under the theory that numerous minor disorders create an environment in which violent crime occurs.

Baltimore residents still feel the legacy of zero-tolerance policing today; many citizens believe O’Malley’s emboldening of police contributed to Freddie Gray’s death in 2015.

In a Medium post published last April, O’Malley wrote, “Cities, for the most part, are safer and better governed today than ever before. There are exceptions to the rule.

Some cities haven’t yet figured it out. Sadly, my own hometown of Baltimore chose to forget a lot of hard-earned lessons learned about crime reduction.”

It would appear O’Malley suffers from

selective memory. The hard-earned lessons about crime reduction he alludes to — such as zero-tolerance policing — were thwarted by the ACLU and NAACP for abusing and discriminating against Baltimore citizens, particularly people of color. Perhaps he is also referring to the numerous constitutional violations the Justice Department found in its investigation of the Baltimore Police Department — violations that merely echoed what Baltimore citizens have been saying for years and resulted in a $5.7 million settlement.

O’Malley’s revisionist history of his impact on Baltimore is tinted with a veneer of false idealism. The legacy of his administration indicates his inability to stay in one place long enough to serve any agenda other than his own ladder climbing, regardless of his very real effect on the people of Baltimore.

When you see O’Malley positioning himself as our Great White Savior and espousing his plan to restore the American Dream, it’s important to remember his legacy in Baltimore. It’s important to remember that his policies created a climate in which community policing is an oxymoron and propelled Baltimore into the spotlight time and time again as a city of nothing but crime and corruption. Remember George V. King, who was tased by Baltimore police and later died; remember Freddie Gray, who died while in Baltimore police custody; remember Tyrone West, who died during an altercation with Baltimore police.

Remember the actions — and lack thereof — of the O’Malley administration and how they plagued the prospects and experiences of Baltimore’s most vulnerable. riback.sarah@gmail.com

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After 2-year debate, city will ‘ease up’ on yard, garden fences After two years o f d e b a te , t h e College Park City Council unanim o u s ly vo te d Tuesday night to amend the city’s fence ordinance.

The goal of the changes is “to streamline the process, to make it easier to get a variance and make it more clear when a variance is warranted, [and] to ease up on the restriction on front yard fences and garden fences,” Mayor Patrick Wojahn said before the meeting.

In 2005, the city adopted its own ordinance because it wanted stricter regulations than those in Prince George’s County, City Planning Director Terry Schum said at the July 11 meeting.

The ordinance adopted in 2005 did not allow front yard fences and prohibited chain link as a replacement material in front yards, each with some exceptions, Schum said. It also required permits to install fences on residential properties, and established a requirement that fences must be set back 25 feet from any street, she added.

The new ordinance allows front yard fences at or below 3 feet tall, eliminates the setback requirement on corner lots and modifies certain criteria for obtaining variances, among other policies.

Residents spoke at a public hearing in July on the regulations, raising issues with the difficulty of getting a permit or variance, according to the city’s agenda.

On Tuesday, they weighed in again with their concerns.

Donna Weene, a 34-year District 1 resident, spoke on behalf of the Committee for a Better Environment, questioning front yard garden fence restrictions.

“While we are pleased that the council has recommended the front yard garden fences are permitted, our primary concern is that the council should not restrict the front yard gardens to 25 percent of the front yard,” Weene said. “As a city, we are benefit[ted] when the yards are utilized as gardens, which have significant environmental benefits,” adding that gardens provide water runoff benefits and support biodiversity.

City Attorney Suellen Ferguson said the new ordinance exempts homeowners from needing a permit within certain parameters. The policy doesn’t prevent enclosed areas exceeding 25 percent of the front yard with a permit, but the ordinance states garden fences that enclose less than 25 percent of the front yard don’t need permits.

The new ordinance does not require a permit for garden fences in a front yard, if the enclosed area does not exceed 25 percent of the front yard and is at least 4 feet by 6 feet. Materials for these fences are limited to open wire mesh, and fences must be removed once the garden is no longer in cultivation.

Suchitra Balachandran, another commitee member, said she thought someone would need a permit to enclose more than 25 percent of their garden — a provision she thought should be removed. “[The Committee for a Better Environment] feel[s] that any biodiversity and planting should be encouraged, and frankly we feel that lawns should be discouraged,” Balachandran said. “We just by

Leah Brennan @allhaeleah Senior staff writer

T h e C o l l e ge Park Mayor and City Council voted Tuesday to adopt an ordinance authorizing the city to acquire two Route 1 properties to expand City Hall.

The council passed the resolution 5-4, with Mayor Patrick Wojahn casting the tie-breaking vote, to acquire the properties either through negotiation or eminent domain, which refers to the government power to seize private property for public use while compensating the owners.

The city has been in discussion with Margaret Byrd, the owner of the 7409 and 7411 Baltimore Ave. properties, for more than a year, but they have not reached an agreement. Smoothie King, Subway, Hair Cuttery and Shanghai Cafe, which are all located on the properties, would be affected by the acquisition.

If an agreement is not reached, the city can condemn the properties and convert them into part of the new City Hall expansion.

Representatives of north College Park voted against the motion and representatives of south College Park voted for it.

Wojahn said the city has authorized the possibility of exercising eminent domain before, in order to help reach agreements in negotiations, such as when the city parking garage was constructed.

“Sometimes in order to ensure that the people we are negotiating with are taking things seriously, [eminent domain] needs to be put on the table,” Wojahn said.

The authorization of eminent domain will help speed along the negotiation process, District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan said, adding that the city will honor the leases of the affected businesses and will work to keep them in downtown College Park.

“We have an owner that is not motivated,” he said.

For the past 20 years, the city has been interested in expanding City Hall. City Manager Scott Somers said the current location is too small and antiquated and most residents don’t know where it is.

In November 2014, the council chose its existing Knox Road location for the redeveloped building.

The planned redevelopment of City Hall — in partnership with the University of Maryland and Terrapin Development Company — will be about 30,000 square feet and four stories tall facing Route 1. This will help establish a stronger civic presence and revitalize downtown College Park, Somers said.

Part of the planned redevelopment is the construction of a 45,000 square foot university office building and a separate 29,000 square foot office building, both in the City Hall block.

More than two dozen residents spoke at a public hearing before the mayor and council voted to adopt the ordinance.

Thomas Hughes, the franchise business owner of the Smoothie King that would be affected, said the shop has been open for 20 years, pays thousands of dollars in taxes every year and employs by

UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT WALLACE LOH, right, joins Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett, left, and Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker, as well as former College Park Mayor Andy Fellows, at podium, after signing a non-binding community agreement on the Purple Line light rail project at The Hotel at the University of Maryland on Tuesday. lillian andemicael/for the diamondback

signing on the dotted (purple) line University, county leaders sign pact on development near light rail project

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niversity of Maryland President Wallace Loh joined several regional leaders Tuesday to sign a community agreement, titled “Pathways to Opportunity,” that commits to investing in businesses and housing development along the long-awaited Purple Line.

Although the agreement is not legally binding, it aims to support local businesses, provide equitable housing options, promote growth in the labor market and support a sustainable community for the future.

“I want to assure you of my commitment,” Loh said. “I understand it’s not a legal obligation, it is certainly a moral obligation. It is an institutional obligation to make sure that the community and economic benefits of the Purple Line spread throughout our whole region.”

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker and Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett, who both oversee counties the 16.2 mile light-rail system will run through, also signed the agreement at the event held at The Hotel at the University of Maryland.

The agreement is the product of nearly four years of civic engagement among “300 residents, business owners, property owners, nonprofit leaders and public officials,” according to a Purple Line Corridor Coalition news release.

Loh said he understood the importance of building the Purple Line when he had dinner with Baker in 2010.

“For a long time the institution viewed itself as a college in the park, in a oasis, disconnected with the surrounding community,” Loh said. “What Rushern [Baker] taught me is that the future of the university is tied to the future of its surrounding community.”

The line could attract top faculty and staff to work at this university by allowing them to easily commute to campus, Loh said, adding that a large percentage of them live in Montgomery County.

The line will span from Bethesda to New Carrollton and pass through five spots on and near this university’s campus, including Adelphi Road/West Campus, Campus Center near Cole Field House, East Campus near Ritchie Coliseum, the College Park Metro Station and M Square on River Road.

A four-person panel, which included Prince George’s County Councilwoman Dannielle Glaros, CASA Executive Director Gustavo Torres, Enterprise Community Partners Vice President David Bowers and Purple Line NOW Board President Ralph Bennett, outlined the goals of the agreement to a crowd of about 200 people.

They acknowledged the anxieties felt by residents and business owners who live near the line. “ H ow d o we c rea te a co r r i d o r opportunity for all, when often times when we think of these infrastructure projects, the next word that comes out of people’s mouths is ‘gentrification,’ the nex t word that comes out is ‘displacement’?” Glaros asked.

Glaros said public agencies are working to prepare local businesses for the upcoming redevelopment.

Bowers noted there has been a pattern of displacement of low income residents in the Washington area stemming from large investments.

“We can put our heads in the sand and act as if we haven’t seen this happen in other places,” Bowers said. “We know what can happen, in terms of displacement, if we don’t get a comprehensive housing action plan created, if we don’t get investment from the public and private sector that allows us to … ensure that residents who want to stay have the opportunity to stay.”

Leggett noted that “in many ways” businesses in Silver Spring were not protected as the area redeveloped in recent years.

“We are not making that mistake today as we move to redevelop the region,” Leggett said. “We’ve learned … even if you’re against this Purple Line, you should be for this agreement.”

Legal opposition from those who live near the planned Purple Line, which was originally slated to be completed in 2022, have delayed its construction on several occasions.

Most recently in September, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon denied a request by local officials to halt treeclearing along the route of the lightrail line and avoided delaying the line’s construction again. landemicaeldbk@gmail.com

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“Do we want to eliminate any routes? Certainly not. Do we believe that this increase for the drivers is necessary? Yes, but something has to give.”

- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES DIRECTOR DAVID ALLEN

dots From p. 1 transit agencies in the area, according to the proposal.

Only Annapolis Transit and Central Maryland RTA pay lower salaries to their employees, while Montgomery County RideOn pays the highest rates at about $19 per hour, the proposal said.

DOTS spokeswoman Cara Fleck said retention and recruitment of full-time drivers has been difficult because of the low pay. DOTS employs 121 full-time drivers, Fleck said.

The pay increase would bring drivers’ hourly rates closer to that of Georgetown

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University, which pays drivers $16.82 per hour, said DOTS Director David Allen.

“We were seeing drivers leave us,” Allen said. “The driver wage problem is real and could threaten our ability to deliver service.”

The remaining $4 of the upped fee would include funding a 50-cent boost in the student driver hourly minimum wage to $13 per hour, as well as university-mandated increases in employee pay and fringe benefits and higher Facility Management maintenance costs for things such as water and electricity, according to the proposal.

on the proposal to explore other options, such as modification and elimination o f ex i s t i n g S h u t t l e -U M routes, according to a DOTS press release.

“This postponement will allow our student community to weigh in on how the fee increase will affect them compared to the impact of a possible shuttle modification/reduction,” Allen said in the press release.

Allen offered potential reductions in Shuttle-UM services, including the elimination of weekend service for the 104 College Park Metro Station route and 133 Mall at Prince George’s route, as well

as an adjustment to all oncampus bus routes to only run after 5:30 p.m. on weekends.

These routes could be taken away because they are “not necessarily related to going to classes,” Allen said.

Celeste Corona, a sophomore environmental science and policy and international relations major, said she supported the student fee increase but worried that eliminating certain bus routes would limit students’ access to grocery stores. The 133 bus currently connects students to Whole Foods, Safeway, Target and Giant grocery stores. “[Students] don’t know when they are going to be

“The University of Maryland is looking to be a leader in how we address these kinds of things.”

- CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICER ROGER WORTHINGTON

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The response team was announced alongside the president and University Senate’s Joint Task Force on Inclusion and Respect after the killing of 2nd Lt. Richard Collins, a black Bowie State Un ive rs i ty s t u d e n t , o n this university’s campus in May. Sean Urbanski, a white former student of this university, has been charged with a hate crime and murder, in the killing.

The task force’s subcom-

Patrick Fox, a sophomore aerospace engineering major and a representative from AFSCME 1072, said he was in favor of the fee increase but asked why students have to fund them.

“We want [the drivers] to be paid a lot more, but we’re questioning whether that responsibility should consistently fall on students paying this fee,” Fox said.

T h e G ra d u a te S t u d e n t Government’s Committee for the Review of Student Fees, which advises university President Wallace Loh and his cabinet on mandatory a n d n o n - m a n d a to r y fe e proposals, postponed a vote

m i t te e o n h a te b i a s w i l l rev i ew t h e p ro to c o l a n d make recommendations on any changes it thinks should occur. It’s part of a “continuous improvement model” that will solicit input on policy, Worthington said.

“The University of Maryl a n d i s l o o k i n g to b e a leader in how we address these kinds of t hings on our campus in particular,” Worthington said. “My suspicion is that as we move through the approach … we will most likely have other campuses who will look at

our approach, learn from it, and adopt or adapt the approach that we’re using on their own campuses.”

University students had previously raised concerns about administrative transparency on hate bias in.

At a Nov. 16 meeting of the ODI and the Student L e a d e rs h i p C o u n c i l f o r D i v e r s i t y, E q u i t y, a n d Inclusion, students revealed a two-week-old incident, in which a Confederate flag had been etched into a bathroom stall in Somerset Hall.

“I would hope to see more

transparency in the situations with hate speech on campus and I would like to see more of an understanding that people should know what’s happening and it’s not just something the university is trying to contain to cover their asses,” Zach Caplan, a freshman government and politics major who lives in Somerset, said at the meeting.

This semester, this university has seen several hate bias incidents.

A swastika was found on a balcony railing in the plant sciences building on Sept. 13.

Un ive rs i ty Po l i c e a l s o charged a former university employee with malicious destruction of property after a swastika was found spraypainted on a campus trash cart on Sept. 27.

Three incidents involving offensive language and/ or drawings — one including a swastika — were reported in the men’s bathroom of the North Campus Dining Hall between Sept.

28 and Oct. 9.

During the 2016-17 acad e m i c yea r, a n o ose wa s found in a fraternity house,

a beautiful front yard fence and a lot of interesting things From p. 6 growing in there.”

Rick Hudson, a District 1 think that if residents are given the opportunity, they might resident, said the council may have a beautiful garden with want to delay the changes and

table the issue, because it’s “real confusing.”

“Not understanding the laws and not understanding what’s going on really kind of made a fool of us on national TV here

not too long ago,” he said. “So, I would just say I’m against it right now, just because I don’t think it really sounds like anybody really understands it.”

District 1 Councilwoman

Christine Nagle said the ordinance “represents a compromise, between members of the community and the council.”

“The revised ordinance, at least before tonight I believe,

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able to go to the grocery store,” Corona said, adding that “increasing visibility” of bus routes would better inform students about their options and would encourage them not to bring cars to the campus.

The University Senate’s Campus Transportation Advisory Committee will meet again in February to vote on the proposal.

“Do we want to eliminate any routes? Certainly not,” Allen said. “Do we believe that this increase for the drivers is necessary? Yes, but something has to give.” bdubosedbk@gmail.com

and there were five reported instances of white nationalist posters on the campus.

Police said in August there was a person of interest in the noose incident, but there have been no updates since.

Some students said they’d like to receive email notification about such incidents.

“It’s really important to know, especially since we’re o n ca m p u s,” sa i d A l ex i s Ros, a junior accounting and international business major. “Like kind of how we get the emails from the police department, we should get emails about [hate bias incidents], too.” ccondondbk@gmail.com

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“This city hall proposal is a vanity project for [council] and a Christmas present to the university.”

- DISTRICT 1 RESIDENT JORDAN SCHAKNER

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12 full-time workers. He said it “really hurts” that the city may be the one to close it down.

Some said it is not the city’s place to acquire properties by eminent domain, with one District 1 resident, Jordan Schakner, calling the City Hall redevelopment proposal a “vanity project” for the council and a “Christmas present” to this university that is paid for by small business and resident tax money.

“If they don’t want to sell it, the government should not take it by force,” District 1 resident Rick Hudson said.

Other residents were in favor of adopting the ordinance to move forward with the decadeslong project. “[Eminent domain] should be used in exceptional circumstances,” said District 3 Councilman-elect John Rigg. SMOOTHIE KING, Hair Cuttery, Shanghai Cafe and Subway are among businesses occupying two properties the College Park City Council voted to acquire Tuesday. tom hausman/the diamondback

cork From p. 3 doing work that hopefully will lead to policies and conversations and protocols that benefit them,” Goodman said. “It’s easy to feel, as a graduate student, like people don’t know that you exist, and I want students to know that they matter.”

Student employees lack some of the protections and privileges that most Maryland State employees receive under law. A Maryland General Assembly bill, which the GSG supported, that would grant student workers collective bargaining rights was withdrawn by the House Appropriations Committee last April.

Goodman is a graduate assistant in this university’s Undergraduate Student Legal Aid Office and is a program manager at the National Association for Independent Schools, a nonprofit that provides services

“This rises to that occasion.”

While the acquisition of the properties might be bad for small businesses in the short run, it will be beneficial for them in the long run, said District 1 Councilwoman-elect Kate Kennedy.

Bringing more office space downtown that is not dependent on the seasonal student activity helps attract more year-round economic activity, Somers said.

After the public hearing, District 4 Councilwoman Mary Cook moved to table the item until September. The motion failed 5-4.

“This vision that we’ve now been working on for several years to create a high-quality down town, we’ve made a lot of progress in that direction,” Wojahn said. “This particular project is the next step in creating that vision.” jroscoedbk@gmail.com

“I have experience as a student government president in the undergraduate context, but I’ve also worked in higher education for several years so I have an understanding of the needs of student governments,” Goodman said.

Goodman’s professional character as a member of the GSG will translate well to the role of president, said Stephanie Folling, GSG vice president of academic affairs.

“Michael is very good at facilitating,” Folling said. “So for the conversations that need to be had to repair and restore some of GSG’s relationships, I believe he’ll be a great facilitator for that.”

After a month of unusual drama within the GSG concerning the impeachment proceedGSG FINANCIAL AFFAIRS PRESIDENT DEVIN SCOTT, center, speaks at a Graduate Student Government meeting Friday. At the meeting, the GSG assembly voted to impeach former President ings of former President StephStephanie Cork and elected Michael Goodman, right, to replace her. She had previously submitted her resignation but it had not been accepted by the body. julia lerner/the diamondback anie Cork, Goodman hopes to of science in education, higher earned his bachelor’s degree in Goodman was the student body to K-12 schools in the U.S. and refocus the GSG, he said. president at the University of organizational communication education and student affairs abroad.

A s a n u n d e rg ra d u a te , Central Oklahoma, where he in 2008. He earned a master’s from Indiana University in 2012. nfortsondbk@gmail.com

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When 12-year-old Miguel decides to rebel against his Coco disney pixar music-hating family during the Day of the Dead, he finds himself lost in the Land of the Dead, in need of a blessing in order to cross back to the land of the living. Along the way, Miguel learns more about his culture, music and family.

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With his family’s animosity to music, the songs must carry a certain weight and excitement to them, showing how Miguel would really feel. This energy feels real and exciting.

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Coco’s biggest strength is its originality. As with Inside Out, there’s very little out there like this, but

Pixar entered uncharted waters with complete confidence. The plot, character arcs, jokes, songs and general feel of the movie all glow with a creativity that makes it seem like Pixar put in a serious effort to make a fun, family-friendly, original movie. That effort paid off.

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Terps crush Akron behind six 3-pointers Coach Frese’s squad beats Zips, 7554, to earn fifth consecutive victory After scoring Sean Whooley a season-low @swhooley27 60 points at Vi rg i n i a o n Staff writer Wednesday, the Maryland women’s basketball team played with more offensive urgency in its 75-54 win over Akron on Saturday.

Guard Blair Watson kicked off a 10-2 run to open the game after knocking down a 3-pointer from the corner on No. 15 Maryland’s opening possession. The Terps outscored the Zips, 24-6, in the opening quarter en route to their fifth consecutive win.

“We came ready to play in the first quarter,” coach Brenda Frese said. “We relaxed out of that, but by

I thought we can keep playing.”

Guard Kristen Confroy scored 23 points, including five threes in her home state.

Guard Kaila Charles also chipped in 23 while adding 14 rebounds.

“Sometimes the ball goes your way and sometimes it doesn’t,” Confroy said.

“Luckily a lot went my way tonight and really helped us fuel the rest of the game.”

T h e Te r ps ( 7 - 2 ) fo u n d success from behind the arc to take control of the game. They made three of five long range attempts in the opening quarter. Two of those came from Confroy,

guard kristen confroy tied guard Kaila Charles with 23 points, helping the Terps continue their turnaround since their worst ever four-game start under Brenda Frese. file photo/the diamondback playing 35 minutes from her hometown of Solon, Ohio, in front of a large crowd of family and friends.

However, the Zips (3-3) stormed back in the second quarter, minimizing their deficit to as few as eight points.

With fewer than eight seconds left in the half, Maryland guard Sarah Myers grabbed a defensive rebound, sprinted to the opposite foul line and sunk a buzzer-beating jump shot to give the Terps an 11-point advantage.

The Terps maintained a

comfortable lead for the remainder of the contest.

“We talked about it at halftime — we wanted to come out and play at the level we did in the first quarter,” Frese said. “They did a nice job with that.”

All of Maryland’s past four

wins have come away from Xfinity Center. Frese’s squad now returns to College Park for a three-game homestand, starting against Mount St. Mary’s on Wednesday. swhooleydbk@gmail.com

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Wildcats dominate Terps behind four ranked wrestlers Program still pushing for first conference victory since 2015 After going Justin Danziger winless in the @justin_danziger B i g Te n l a s t season and Staff writer dropping its first conference dual meet against Rutgers earlier in the season, the Maryland wrestling team entered Saturday’s bout against Northwestern without a conference win since 2015.

But in the Terps’ second Big by

hometowns From p. 12 for the program.

“It’s a big piece of who we are as a family,” Frese said. “As they sign up to come to Maryland, it’s to be able to afford that opportunity to take them back home. Any time we can, going to the dinner at their home and just bringing them back, I think it makes your team closer, to really have that connection.”

The trips have ignited strong performances from the players back in their home states.

Lewis tallied a career-high 12 points against Miami on Nov. 26, while Small set a personal best with 23 points in the same game.

Confroy’s 23-point total was one shy of her career high, helping the Terps crush the Zips (3-3) and extend their win streak to five games. The senior was especially lethal

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Ten matchup of the season, coach Kerry McCoy’s squad failed to overcome Northwestern, losing 34-12. The Wildcats’ lineup featured four ranked wrestlers.

Maryland started slow with 125-pounder Brandon Cray losing to 12th-ranked Sebastian Rivera.

The Terps then dropped their next three individual matchups,

from long range, making five of seven three-point attempts.

“I need her to think she’s back home every time she steps on the court,” Frese

As they sign up to come to Maryland, it’s to be able to afford that opportunity to take them back home. brenda frese

women’s basketball coach said. “She just shot the ball with an extreme amount of confidence. She was clicking on all cylinders.”

The Zips have two players — guard Megan Sefcik and forward

not getting a win until freshman 157-pounder Kyle Cochran handled Shayne Oster. Cochran accumulated four takedowns in his match, adding a fourth straight individual victory to his resume.

Cochran has impressed the Terps in his first few matches as a college athlete. Youssif Hemida, the team’s top wrestler, said Cochran already performs like a veteran.

“He did a good job wrestling in a tough environment against a tough opponent,” McCoy

Greta Burry — who played AAU with Confroy for about five years, she said.

The night before the game, Confroy said she and Sefcik texted about guarding each other the next day. Both primarily shooters, she said they were going back and forth about having to take that aspect of the game away from one another.

The experience culminated in a standing ovation from Confroy’s supporters as she exited with just over two minutes remaining in the contest. “ I t w a s r e a l l y c o o l ,” Confroy said. “Last night, the team getting to come over to my house and combining my Maryland family and my Solon family, then getting to come here and play two of my AAU teammates on top of it all. It was really fun just to come home and play in this environment.” swhooleydbk@gmail.com

added. “He’s got the mindset of a champion, and that’s going to take him a long way.”

1 6 5 - p o u n d e r B re n d a n Burnham followed Cochran’s individual win with a victory of his own. Burnham secured the win with a last-minute takedown.

According to McCoy, after some early-season struggles, Burnham worked with the coaching staff on adjustments to his game, helping him succeed Saturday.

“It wasn’t the most pretty

win, but he kept attacking against a tough kid,” McCoy said.

Hemida built on his undefeated season with a late pin, marking his fourth pin of the season and his fourth win against ranked opponents this year. Hemida faced 19th-ranked Conan Jennings, but the 285-pounder said he approaches every match the same, disregarding the rankings of his opponents.

McCoy said he’ll look to

Hemida to potentially make a splash in the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments, which McCoy says is “everything” this year.

“It is not about how many wins in dual meets you get, it is not about how many points you score in November or December,” McCoy said. “It is about preparing for the end of the year.

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the terps enjoyed several upset victories this season, including a Sept. 14 win over then-No. 18 Southern California and an Oct. 29 win over then-No. 17 Purdue. Still, coach Steve Aird’s squad narrowly missed its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2005. matt regan/the diamondback

From p. 12 powerhouses. They captured their second top-25 win against Purdue, the first time under Aird that Maryland knocked off two ranked opponents in a season. In their final homestand, the Terps handled Iowa, a team that swept them on the Xfinity Center main floor a year ago.

The addition of top-30 recruits Samantha Drechsel and Erika Pritchard helped spread out the attack. Last year, outside hitter Gia Milana was the go-to option, so Maryland’s opponents keyed in on stopping her. Pritchard and Drechsel finished second and third in kills, respectively, behind Milana.

M i d d l e b l o c ke r H a i l ey Murray and defensive specialist Samantha Higginbothem will graduate, but injured middle blocker Katie Myers should fill in for Murray, an All-Big Ten Honorable Mention. Maryland adds another middle blocker in Rainelle Jones, the No. 32ranked recruit in the country.

“We’ll have a lot more confidence, and kind of like a different vibe,” Milana said Nov. 14 about next season’s prospects. “We know what we’ll be up against, so I feel like we’ll have a good idea of what it takes to really, really compete and even beat some of these Big Ten teams.”

football From p. 12 bad of a team, but we did have a lot of injuries this season.

Those guys get healthy, a lot of games could be different.”

Maryland’s season unraveled three weeks after it beat Texas. That’s when Hill, a highly touted freshman who showed readiness to lead the team after Pigrome’s injury, to re h i s AC L i n t h e f i rs t quarter of Maryland’s loss to Central Florida.

While the Terps rallied to beat Minnesota in their Big Ten opener, they never sustained success.

Double-digit defeats to the ranked gauntlet of Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan, M ichigan State and Penn State were expected, but Maryland still had a chance to become bowl eligible if it took two of three winnable conference games against Northwestern, Indiana and Rutgers. Instead, it split the contests against the Wildcats and Hoosiers before falling by a touchdown to the Scarlet Knights.

Though the year was supposed to be about the development of a promising group of young players that included the best freshmen class in program history, juniors and seniors provided nearly all of the bright spots. Four of the team’s five All-Big Ten members were upperclassmen.

Junior wide receiver DJ Moore set a single-season program record for receptions (80) and led the Big Ten in that category. He also

Maryland displayed its inexperience in its penultimate match of the season. The Terps lost at home in four sets to an underperforming Ohio State team.

Maryland swept Northwestern to end the campaign. But Maryland’s loss to Ohio State could have influenced the selection committee’s decision to exclude Maryland from postseason play.

A groan broke out across the room when Maryland’s name appeared on the screen as the first team left out of the tournament. Still, the result didn’t sidetrack Aird’s plan.

There was no due date in his mind for the Terps’ first tournament berth in more than a decade. Aird is just focused on improving every year.

“When Myers blew her knee and when we lost [libero Kelsey] Wicinski to the upper body injury, we’re down two starters,” Aird said. “For me, it’s amazing that we were in this situation where we had the possibility to potentially advance. At the end of the day, I thought we had an unbelievable year. 18-14 with the group that we had, in the conference we had and the wins that we had was phenomenal. And I’m more proud of them than I am upset.” akostkadbk@gmail.com

paced the conference with 1,033 receiving yards and was named the Big Ten wide receiver of the year.

Johnson built on a standout sophomore campaign in which he led the nation in yards per carry by amassing 875 yards on the ground.

Moore and Johnson are considering the 2018 NFL D ra f t . T h e y s a i d t h e y ’d assess their futures in the coming months.

On defense, Carter led the Terps in tackles as a redshirt senior, and junior defensive backs Darnell Savage and JC Jackson also earned All-Big Ten Honorable Mention recognition. Sophomore cornerback Antoine Brooks, playing in the nickel role for the first time in his career, was the only underclassm a n to ea r n c o n fe re n c e recognition.

Still, Durkin will bring in another top-25 recruiting class next year that features two four-star recruits in defensive lineman Austin Fontaine and offensive lineman Ja e ly n D u n ca n . P i g ro m e and Hill should be back to compete for the starting quarterback job. Many of the freshmen who didn’t play much this year could break through next fall.

The Terps hope that will be enough to put a third straight losing campaign behind them.

“I’m ready to get started right now for next season,” Durkin said. “We’re going to prepare to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.” dbernsteindbk@gmail.com

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volleyball

the terps were the first team left out of the NCAA tournament after finishing with their best record under coach Steve Aird. Maryland’s top underclassmen are returning next season with experience under their belt while just two players are graduating. marquise mckine/the diamondback

Terps went from a Big Ten underdog to almost making the NCAA tournament

By Andy Kostka | @afkostka | Staff writer

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hen the Maryland volleyball team saw it missed out on the NCAA tournament on Nov. 26, the group waited for someone to make the

first move.

It was the inverse of the raucous environment it had been prior to the selection show, or the ear-splitting Xfinity Pavilion, where the Terps blare rap music between points.

The Terps were the first team left out of the tournament. Coach Steve Aird broke the silence, standing in front of his squad at the Old Maryland Grill underneath The Hotel, tasked with corralling his players’ emotions — including those of his crying seven-year-old daughter, MJ. So, he compared Maryland’s progression from

when he arrived four seasons earlier to where he has brought it today. Aird was proud the Terps went from being ranked 150th in RPI following his first season in charge, to having their name on the screen during ESPNU’s bracket reveal.

Outside hitter Liz Twilley took it a step further when she exited the restaurant, her eyes still red from tears after being so close to Maryland’s first NCAA tournament in 12 years.

“We won’t feel like this next year,” Twilley said to opposite hitter Angel Gaskin.

Maryland improved from last season’s 12-20 record, but the 2017 Terps still periodically showed the inconsistency expected of a team with 12 underclassmen as a vital part of its production.

Losing just two players next year, Aird’s squad can use the heartbreaking conclusion to a career-

football

best campaign for the fourth-year coach to further build a Big Ten contender.

“When you go through something that’s gutwrenching, you have a choice,” Aird said. “You say, ‘Hey, we’re never going to do it,’ or the fact that three and a half years into being here that we’re on the board is pretty exciting. I’m hoping the response is we’re going to be a team that’s going to train the right way in the spring and have a great summer and be ready to go in the fall.”

There were moments the talent of Aird’s backto-back ranked recruiting classes shined.

In Maryland’s sweep of then-No. 18 Southern California on Sept. 14, the Terps showed a glimpse of their potential dominance against annual See aird, p. 11

women’s basketball

Terps played ‘two different seasons’ After late skid, Coach DJ Durkin’s squad turns its attention to its young talent The Maryland football team insisted it could compete in its season opener at then-No. 23 Texas, despite having gone 6-7 in 2016 and starting inexperienced sophomore quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome.

So, when the Terps beat the Longhorns, 51-41, for their first road victory over a ranked opponent since 2008, they showed a level of confidence absent from their previous two losing seasons.

“When people doubt you, it kind of gives you that edge,” running back Ty Johnson said after rushing for 132 yards in the win. “You want to prove people wrong. … We have a team that’s ready to play, and people are going to see it this season.”

A combination of injuries and an unforgiving schedule eroded Maryland’s swagger. By the time the team ended its season with a 66-3 loss to Penn State and a 4-8 record, it showed hardly any of the energy it possessed earlier in the year. by

Dan Bernstein @danbernsteinUMD Senior staff writer

“ I t ’s l i k e t w o d i f f e r e n t seasons,” coach DJ Durkin said.

“That Texas game feels about eight years ago right now. We had a plan, had a mindset, had a culture, but we got hit pretty hard with injuries. … We slowly just deteriorated.”

The Terps lost Pigrome and quarterback Kasim Hill to season-ending injuries in their first three games. Leading pass rusher Jesse Aniebonam fractured his ankle against Texas and missed the remainder of the campaign.

Those setbacks drove Maryland’s downfall.

Third-string quarterback Max Bortenschlager struggled when pressed into duty, completing just over half of his passes and turning the ball over eight times. Maryland’s defense recorded only 12 sacks with Aniebonam sidelined. “ We j u s t n e e d e d to g e t healthy,” linebacker Jermaine Carter said. “We weren’t that See football , p. 11

guard kristen confroy scored 23 points against Akron on Saturday, about 35 minutes away from her hometown of Solon, Ohio. marquise mckine/the diamondback

Hometown games emphasize family Kristen Confroy was the latest Terp to thrive in her home state After Kristen Confroy knocked down a three-pointer with her first Sean Whooley shot attempt Saturday in Maryland @swhooley27 women’s basketball’s game against Staff writer Akron near the guard’s hometown of Solon, Ohio, she had a chance to add two quick points with a pair of free throws.

She missed them both.

As an 83 percent shooter from the line last year, Confroy joked with coach Brenda Frese that she’d never missed consecutive free throws in her entire career. Following her brief disappointment from the stripe, Confroy settled back in to score 20 more points and haul in nine rebounds, leading No. 15 Maryland to a 75-54 victory over Akron. “[Missing those free throws] was a little disappointing,” by

Confroy said.“Definitely lighting a fire for fixing that moving forward.”

Confroy’s performance came in front of a crowd of family and friends about 35 minutes from where she grew up.

It marked the second time this season the Terps (7-2) traveled by design to play an opponent close to the hometown of a player. They played in the Miami Thanksgiving Tournament on Nov. 24 and 26, giving guards Channise Lewis and Ieshia Small a chance to visit home as well.

On each trip, the team dined with the players’ families, which created bonding experiences.

Frese said organizing the trips is a huge priority See hometowns, p. 10