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Mitchell responds to protesters’ list of demands UMPD will implement body cameras, advisory council; loaned military weapons to remain By Joe Antoshak and Talia Richman @Mantoshak, @TaliRichman Senior staff writers University Police Chief David Mitchell has penned a public response to demands student protesters demonstrated throughout the past two weeks, according to a document sent to The Diamondback
by university officials. The document, an 800-word letter addressed to the university community, contains a statement from Mitchell that commends students for peaceful activism and notes that the relationship between the police department and the campus community is “one that is based on transparency, trust and dialogue.” The most noteworthy of Mitch-
ell’s responses to the students’ five demands is the pending establishment of the Police Chief’s Advisory Council, which will meet on a regular basis with student group representatives a nd u n iversity faculty to bridge the gap between the department and the university. He named Grassroots, Do Better, the on-campus NA ACP chapter and the UMD Social Justice Coalition as groups to which he would reach out. See umpd, Page 3
University police chief david mitchell speaks to student protestors Nov. 24. Mitchell wrote a response letter Friday in regards to the demonstrators’ concerns about police militarization. james levin/the diamondback
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Hiring halt uneven in univ effects Number of tenure spots slows as enrollment rises By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer Despite university officials’ recent efforts to increase the size of the student body, professors have not been hired at a rate to accommodate those students. University President Wallace Loh told the Residence Hall Association at its Nov. 18 meeting that the student body has increased by about 5,000 but there have been no major hires for faculty members. Steve Fetter, the associate provost for academic affairs, clarified that the university has gained new faculty members and more than 5,000 new students since the fall of 2000, but the former have been mostly nontenure-track faculty members or lecturers. There has not been a significant increase in tenure-track faculty and professors at this university, which Fetter said can be attributed to a lack of available funds. “I suppose it’s a combination of factors, but mostly I think it’s a budget issue,” Fetter said. This university employed 4,387 faculty members as of fall 2012, which increased to 4,410 in fall 2013 and to the current 4,467, according to See faculty, Page 3
junior kinesiology major kassie coulson collected and donated 750 stuffed animals to the Riverdale Fire Department on Friday as part of a Care Bear Project at her church. Firefighters plan to distribute the toys to children who have been affected by incidents as a way to comfort them. The project spoke to Coulson, who spent part of her childhood in an orphanage. james levin/the diamondback
Junior organizes drive for local fire department, donates 750 stuffed animals for kids in need By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer For the first two years of her life, junior Kassie Coulson had nothing — no toys, no
family and no idea who her parents are. She lived in an orphanage in St. Petersburg, Russia, before an American couple adopted her in April 1996 and brought her home to Howard County. Coulson, now a kinesiology major at this
Panel talks past, future of sports journalism By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Staff writer
Asian engineers group visits Goddard center
Utmost caution is a necessity for the men in the bunny suits. So much as an eyelash in a solar panel or some molecules of perfume in the spectrometer could be the difference between the successful deployment of the world’s most powerful space telescope and $8.8 billion down the drain. The workers wore full-body white
the society of asian scientists and engineers sent 12 student to tour NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt on Friday. The group debuted this semester and this was its first event. tom hausman/the diamondback scrubs, complete with gloves, booties and hoods, ensembles colloquially known as “bunny suits.” The suits minimize their exposure to the enormous room, or rather, limit the room’s contact with them, a tour guide said. From about a story above these workers, 12 students stood against
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university and a volunteer at the Riverdale Volunteer Fire Department, said the memories of growing up in an orphanage fueled her desire to help others. Now, thanks to Coulson’s Care Bear Project, Prince George’s County Fire Department vehicles will each be equipped with a handful of stuffed animals to give to children involved in an incident requiring the fire
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the glass. They are part of the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, a national organization with about 40 chapters worldwide. A new chapter was established at this university this semester, and on Friday, they held their first event: a tour of NASA’s See nasa, Page 3
On June 23, 1986, sports writer Susan Fornoff received a box from Oakland A’s player Dave Kingman while covering a game from the press box. It was a rat, with a label reading, “My name is Sue.” And this past Thursday, a security guard denied Rachel Nichols, a reporter for CNN and Turner Sports, access to a reporting area under the assumption that she was an anthem singer rather than a journalist. “I have gotten that at least a half dozen times, as well as, ‘The players’
wives aren’t allowed back here’ and things like that,” Nichols said. Nichols and five other female sports journalists — Monica McNutt, Andrea Kremer, Marcia Keegan, Lesley Visser and Mary Byrne — gathered in Knight Studio at the Newseum in Washington on Saturday afternoon for the “Women in Sports Media” panel. They addressed the current state of women in sports journalism and how to keep moving forward. In a packed room of about 160 audience members, George Solomon, the director of this university’s Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism, which hosted the event; and Christine Brennan, USA Today sports columnist, mediated the onehour discussion and subsequent half hour Q-and-A session. See newseum, Page 2
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care From PAGE 1 department’s response. “I have no idea why I was adopted or put up for adoption to begin with,” Coulson said. “I want [kids] to have something I didn’t necessarily have.“ With the help of the Linden Linthicum United Methodist Church, the Maryland Open Horse Show Series and the Prince George’s County Fire Department, Coulson was able to collect about 750 stuffed animals, which she delivered to the county fire department on Friday. However, this is not the first time the department has participated in a project like this. In the late 1990s, the department had about 550 stuffed animals, which they went through in about a year, said Mark Brady, county fire department spokesman. “You know how kids like security blankets? They don’t always have it with them, especially at the scene of some kind of crisis,” Brady said. “So we give them [the stuffed animal] as a security blanket to hold onto and maybe help them
newseum From PAGE 1 “We had a great turnout, we had a great venue and we had great questions from the audience,” Solomon said after the event. “It was a terrific day.” On the state of women in sports journalism, panelists agreed that opportunities for women have increased significantly, especially since the installment of Title IX in 1972. “For Lesley, Christine and I, when we were your age, we did not exist,” Kremer, the
cope with their emergency.” EMS Duty Officer and Paramedic Captain Roland Berg, who m a n ages t he a mbulances and paramedics, said he remembers the effect the program had in the past. “When you see a smile on the kid’s face when you give them a bear … when you offer a toy to a child, the child’s anxiety level decreases immensely,” Berg said. “The child feels more at home and feels more comfortable.” Coulson had a horseback riding accident in 2005 and said she was scared, confused and could have used a stuffed animal to cling onto. After a truck driver honked his horn, Coulson’s horse became spooked. Coulson fell off her horse and was unconscious for a couple of minutes. When the ambulance arrived, responders strapped her to a backboard, took her to Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore and administered IVs. “I didn’t really know what was going on. A stuffed animal definitely would’ve helped at a time like that,” Coulson said. “I had bruises on my hands from all the needles and stuff and it was scary.”
This accident sparked her involvement with the Care Bear Project at her church. A senior member of the church community reached out to her about the program and, based on her previous experience, Coulson said she wanted to be a part of the project. “I don’t want younger kids to have to be alone,” Coulson said. She started the project with the Baltimore City Fire Department and continued for about seven years, but said she saw this year as an opportunity to bring the project to the community she now serves in as a volunteer. In February 2013, Coulson volunteered at the College Park Volunteer Fire Department and then transferred to the Riverdale Fire Department i n Ju ly. Du ri ng th is time, she said she ran multiple calls in which children were involved. There were a couple fires where entire families became displaced, pediatric calls where a parent is unsure if a child ingested too much medicine and a call for a mother of two who was having suicidal thoughts, she said. This last call resonated with Coulson, who said she tried to
overdose on Aspirin when she was in seventh grade. “It’s turned into someth i ng where I don’t wa nt them to have to go through the same thing. … We run a lot of suicide calls where it is people attempting suicide or they tried,” Coulson said. “It kind of pushed me to want to help other people.” Brady said that although the
department hopes the stuffed animals will last a long time, it is hard to estimate exactly when they could run out. But this week, children involved in an incident will be able to receive one of the hundreds of stuffed animals Coulson collected as a volu nteer. Cou lson sa id she might be able to hand one of these bears to a child when
she responds to an incident. “When we were kids, our stu ffed a n i ma ls were the things that kept us safe,” Coulson said. “Just to give them some sort of hope almost that it is not the end of the world, [and that] they’re going to be OK. Everything is going to be OK.”
chief correspondent for player and health safety for the NFL Network, said. “W hen we were your age and we would think about what we wanted to do with our lives, the idea of being a female journalist, not even just a sports journalist, didn’t exist. That’s how far we’ve come.” However, Byrne, the USA Today sports managing editor, noted that the panel itself was evidence enough that there is still a long way to go. “T he state of women in sports media is summarized by the fact that this panel,
which features very distinguished journalists, also has an adjective next to it that they are women journalists,” Byrne said as murmurs of agreement circulated in the studio. Nichols also pointed out that a 2012 study revealed 88.3 percent of sports journalists are men. Panelists maintained that this “glass ceiling” was due to a lack of women in decision-making positions. “[Everywhere] people are more comfortable with people who look and think and talk like themselves, and I find that very dangerous,” said
Keegan, ESPN’s vice president of production. “T he next generation is going to be a very diverse group, and we need diverse opinions at the decision-making table.” To encou ra ge a s pi r i n g journalists in the audience, the panelists and moderators offered support and advice throughout the event on how to succeed in the future. McNutt, sports anchor and reporter for News Channel 8, reminded female audience members to embrace and be proud of their gender, rather than comparing themselves
with their male counterparts. “ We wa nt to b e b et ter journalists and not necessarily female journalists, but at the end of the day I am a woman, and I celebrate that,” McNutt said. Kremer encouraged female sports journalists to move out of their comfort zones and reach higher. Visser and Brennan also emphasized the ability to write as a key to success. “People w ill say to me, ‘Didn’t you start out as a writer?’ and I always say, ‘No, I’m still a writer,’” said Visser, a CBS Sports reporter. “There
is no higher element.” Fresh ma n jou rna l ism major Samantha Waldenberg, who considers all of the women on the panel her role models, said she learned a lot from the event. “One of the biggest takeaways is don’t let the current status of women in sports media hold you back from doing whatever you want,” Waldenberg said. “Taking the word ‘can’t’ out of my vocabulary … I can do whatever I want to do.”
junior Kassie Coulson, center, stands with Assistant Chief Tommy James, fourth from left, and volunteers from the Branchville Fire Department in front of the vehicles that transported the stuffed animal bears Coulson collected to donate to kids. james levin/the diamondback
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“This is something that all police departments nationwide should have to give the From PAGE 1 citizens a little more feeling “You can’t erase hundreds of transparency and as a show of years of police misconduct,” of good faith that the police Mitchell said. “I’m proud of are really here to protect us,” my profession, but frankly, my the government and poliprofession has had moments in tics major said. “It goes to history that we are not proud show [Mitchell’s] true charof. We, the police in the United acter that he is starting this States, over the years, have council. It’s not mandated by given people plenty of exam- law but he’s doing it to show ples to pause and wonder and transparency.” criticize and demonstrate.” BODY CAMERAS Mitchell said similar programs have proven effective in Mitchell’s letter also noted his experience, citing similar councils he established during University Police officers will former positions in Prince adopt body cameras starting George’s County and Delaware in January. He said this implementation is not a result of the police departments. Freshman Julian Ivey, who protests, as the department has been an active participant proposed the changes “about in on-campus protests and a year ago.” Officers will be responsible meetings, said the announced council is a great step forward. for turning the cameras on and
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off for recording incidents, he said, and the video files likely will be stored anywhere from 60 to 90 days. If an officer fails to record an incident, Mitchell said disciplinary measures will result depending on the circumstances. The cameras will be visible, he said, and citizens will be alerted of the filming. “The officers want these ca meras,” M itchel l sa id. “They realize and they have se en t h at t he se c a mera s protect you, the officer, as well as the public.” PUBLIC STATEMENT ON FERGUSON Protesters called for the university to take a public stance against police action in Ferguson, Missouri, where officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown,
an unarmed 18-year-old, in August. In the letter Mitchell said he has taken a public stance against police action there and does not plan to issue a formal statement. “Without a doubt, what happened in Ferguson is a tipping point in American policing,” he said. “When I saw it happen, I knew that based on my experience, which is why we began im mediate dialogue that Ferguson isn’t College Park.” Un iversity President Wallace Loh also released a statement Nov. 25, the day after the grand jury decision, in which he said he stood with the student activists. “I am proud to be associated w ith students who speak up for their beliefs,” he wrote in an email sent to the campus community. “I join them in expressing my
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members of the society of asian scientists and engineers snap photos of the James Webb Space Telescope at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt on Friday. It was the first event the group took part in during its inaugural semester. tom hausman/ the diamondback
NASA From PAGE 1 Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. T he f i rs t s top wa s t he “cleanroom,” a massive space with an entire wall covered in filters to keep particles out of the air. There, parts of the James Webb Space Telescope were being built by the men in bunny suits — with the help of a robot or two. T hey fol lowed the tou r guide as she explained how the Webb Telescope’s infrared cameras would allow it to see through nebulae and deeper into space than ever before. “We’re hoping it can see the beginning of the universe,” said Joyce Wineland, a volunteer tour guide for NASA. The members of SASE, including graduate and undergraduate students, plan to go into fields including everything from electrical engineering to physics, and asked questions about the mechanics of spaceflights and other astronomical concerns. Students touched models of insulation sheets that will be
used in the satellite and took selfies in the beryllium mirror. The SASE board chose to come to NASA for its first event because of its proximity to campus and its reputation as a world leader in science and engineering, said Ruoyu Lei, the SASE coordinator. He said the idea of the event fit in with the greater goals of the group. “We want to inspire students to be i nterested i n science a nd en g i ne er i n g and we want to give them more opportu n ities to be involved in their field,” said Lei, a sophomore computer science major. In addition to seeing the Webb Telescope, the group toured a number of other facilities on the Greenbelt campus. T hey saw resea rchers work i n g on t he OSI R I SR E x p ro j e c t , w h i c h w i l l send a spacecraft to an asteroid, and a space environment simulator, which is an immense metal silo where the vacuum and temperature of space can be replicated in order to test satellites. T h e d ay c lo s e d w it h a presentation on internship
opportunities and a speednetworking event, at which students spoke with NASA employees in small groups. Lei said SASE aims to do more events next semester and hopes the organization will continue to draw more members and build up a community. A chapter of SASE was brief ly established at this university from 2009 to 2011 before being discontinued, he said, but they are now once again starting a chapter with a new group of students. Nachiket Dessai, a telecommunications graduate student, said he joined SASE as a way to con nect w ith peers and network. He said he has an interest in aeronautics and would consider working for NASA. Others, like Aboli Kumthekar, said the tour gave them a look into the great work of some scientists and engineers. “I’ve always wanted to come to NASA,” said Kumthekar, a senior computer science major. “I like space, and I wanted to see what they were working on.” jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com
Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment data. But the percentage of faculty members who are tenured or on the tenure track has decreased from 34.6 percent to 33.8 percent during that time. Loh said at the November meeting that the lack of new faculty members is a problem. IRPA data show the student-to-teacher ratios across colleges vary and can be affected differently with more students. For example, the ratio at the engineering school was 23 to 1 in 2013, while it was 10 to 1 that year in the journalism school, according to IRPA college profiles. The percentage of tenured faculty also differs across disciplines, the data show. Journalism school Dean Lucy Dalglish said some educational disciplines in recent years including journalism have seen increases in the number of adjunct faculty instructors. The journalism school this year has more than 60 adjunct faculty members and had 15 adjuncts 10 years ago, she said. Dalglish said while she is happy with the adjuncts, she would like to be able hire new professors for the journalism school. But being a professor “is a very demanding job,” she said, and requires a lot of university participation and continued research. Because
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versity Police has 33 officers certified to operate the rifles, the letter states. 1033 PROGRAM Additionally, Mitchell cited potential shooter situations in Mitchell maintained that justifying the weapons. University Police will not “ T h e e q u i p m e n t f ro m return its arsenal of mili- the 1033 program is here to tary-grade weapons obtained augment our efforts to keep t h roug h t he federa l 1033 our campus as safe as posprogram, though students sible and respond to the most asked for them to be replaced severe threats, such as an with nonlethal alternatives. active shooter on campus,” “The M16s have to go, and Mitchell wrote in the letter. we’re not settling for anything Ivey said students plan to less,” Ivey said. shift their efforts from onFederal regulations require campus protests to lobbying the department to possess in Congress. these weapons because of “We want to work with nuclear material housed on the people in Congress to get campus for the nuclear engi- this program repealed,” he neering program. The stock of said. “There’s no place for weapons and vehicles include this amount of artillery on a 16 12-gauge shotguns, 50 M16 college campus.” rifles, two military Humvees and a lightly armored Emer- jantoshakdbk@gmail.com, gency Rescue Vehicle. Uni- trichmandbk@gmail.com
of current budget realities, Dalglish said, she is unable to hire the professors and specialists she would like. She also said journalism classes are usually limited to 20 students or fewer, but as the student body grows, there could be class size increases that impact the quality of learning the students receive. The behavioral and social sciences college also reported a 23 to 1 student-to-teacher ratio in 2013. Scott Kastner, the director of undergraduate studies for the government and politics department, said he has not seen a dramatic increase in the department’s class sizes in his 11 years at this university. “If the budget situation in the future prevents us from being able to hire tenure-track faculty to replace faculty who retire or leave, it will become harder to maintain a model where we have both relatively small courses and tenured or tenure-track faculty teaching those courses, given the large size of our department,” Kastner said. “Still, to date, our track record has been good in this regard.” T he process of ga i n i ng new faculty members can be complicated, Loh said. He mentioned one solution m ig ht be to att ract more highly ranked students. “You are going to attract great students if you have great faculty, and great students will only come if there are great faculty,” he said. Dalglish said as the university brings in money through tuition, which might help pay for more tenured faculty in the future.
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Sophomore senator Michael Dunkelberg, a bioengineering major, raised the initial question at the November meeting about how this university could continue to attract the best faculty with a growing student body. “To be honest, I feel like he didn’t really fully answer the question,” Dunkelberg said. Dunkleberg said he doesn’t want to see new on-campus infrastructure and the push for gaining more students taking precedence over academics. Having faculty members who are able to support the growing volume of students is just as important as new buildings or students, he said. “We want to make sure that either we hire or find more faculty to try and lower the ratio,” Dunkelberg said. “And we should be trying to find the best professors and secondary educators to really create the best programs and academics for our growing student body.” meichensehrdbk@gmail.com
CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, Wednesday’s story “100 turn out for activism plan in wake of Ferguson protests” incorrectly stated that Shane James said police brutality is not a concern specific to one racial group. He said police brutality is a concern for all students on the campus, especially students of color.
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everal weeks ago, a story was published about a University of Virginia student (referred to as Jackie in the story) who was allegedly gang-raped by seven men at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter house during fall 2012, her freshman year. The account of this harrowing sexual assault was documented in the Rolling Stone article “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA” written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely and published online Nov. 19. Jackie’s story reverberated across college campuses nationwide, inciting protests at the UVA campus and bringing up the heavily debated question of whether Greek life on college campuses breeds an environment that fosters sexual assault. Jackie’s account sounded the alarm on an already systemic plague of sexual assault on college campuses. The story gained so much notoriety that UVA President Teresa Sullivan suspended Greek life at the university until Jan. 9. However, after Jackie’s story seemed to spark widespread outcry, it was revealed that there was a serious lapse in reporting her story. According to Will Dana, managing editor of Rolling Stone, Erdely did not contact certain individuals mentioned in Jackie’s story due to the sensitive nature of the accusations and because Jackie asked her to refrain from doing so. Also, the UVA chapter of Phi Kappa Psi swiftly denied her allegations regarding the gang rape, saying no event like the one described happened at the fraternity
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The media need to find a balance of transparency and sensitivity when reporting on sexual assault. While it is deplorable to publicly and potentially falsely accuse an individual or a group of people of sexual assault, it is just as disgraceful to trivialize an individual’s sexual assault and to devalue them as a victim. Dana’s original apology letter — a post that was updated Saturday — appeared to act in the interest of the magazine and their poor fact-checking and to essentially devalue Jackie’s claim. While there might be factual inaccuracies in Jackie’s account, by no means does that mean she was not sexually assaulted. Situations like this one contribute to a climate in which people doubt sexual assault victims’ experiences, allowing this nation’s rape culture to persist. According to a study done by the National District Attorneys Association on violence against women, Rape Trauma Syndrome sometimes causes a sexual assault
survivor to repress certain memories because of the trauma associated with them. Jackie could have easily experienced, and could still be experiencing, Rape Trauma Syndrome. Unfortunately, due to faulty fact-checking, Jackie’s reliability and other sexual assault survivors’ accountability have been questioned. Thankfully, on Saturday, Rolling Stone uploaded an edited version of their apology to their website, acknowledging that the factual errors in the article were their fault — not Jackie’s. Though Dana’s new letter is an improvement, the first letter seriously damaged the accountability of sexual assault survivors. Sexual assault advocates are worried that Rolling Stone has erased a great deal of progress that the movement for sexual assault awareness has made. In an article in The Huffington Post, Monika Johnson Hostler, president of the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, said that this event has the potential to be a “huge, huge distraction” to the work that the alliance has already done. The battle against sexual assault will carry on after coverage of the Rolling Stone debacle dies down. However, Jackie has a hard road ahead of her and an even harder one behind her. For victims like Jackie, the media — including Rolling Stone — should strive to find a balance of transparency and sensitivity so that another victim is not trivialized by poor reporting in the future.
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The pros and cons of skipping class MARGARET ZELENSKI SENIOR
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t’s that dreadful time of the semester when we are faced with the impending doom that is finals, and all we have to battle it with are random class notes (that make no sense now anyway) and a lack of motivation. The combination of stress, laziness and this state’s weather, for so many of us, leads to a surprisingly enlightened outcome: skipping class. It’s bad, I know. Miss class, miss notes, miss assignments. But there’s actually something about missing class that feels kind of … liberating. In a world in which unintended consequences hit us like a train and we have no idea what we’re doing, the act of skipping class is a knight in shining armor, the light at the end of the tunnel, the curly fry in the french fry dish. When we make the conscious decision to skip a class, we fully acknowledge the risks associated with it. We have time to think about how many notes we will miss, whether we could get them from a classmate, the chances of a new assignment being posted and every other consequence. And when it comes time to make that final decision, we are confident about the outcome. Sometimes we throw all caution
to the wind and say, “Screw it,” too. But either way, we exercise control over something, and it just feels good to have that power once in a while. The freedom to do whatever you want also feels amazing to exercise. Sure, we college students have the autonomy to never do our laundry or to drive to McDonald’s at 3 a.m., but something about exercising the freedom to not go to class is more significant. If anything, it’s an adult decision because we recognize the potential consequences and go through with it even though it’s risky. And last but not least, it’s fun to talk about skipping with friends. In the weeks leading up to finals, we change from the competitive hopefuls we were during most of the semester into pitiful sacks of misery, feeding off one another’s pathetic circumstances. If admitting to your friend that you skipped your morning class to lie in bed isn’t bonding, then I don’t know what is. So should we skip class? I can’t answer that for you. Teachers would likely say no. However, in the midst of the guilt (or lack thereof) incurred while skipping class, you can think of yourself as a functioning adult who makes tough decisions through logical reasoning. I’d like to think that’s an accomplishment. M a rga re t Z e l e n sk i i s a s e n i o r criminology and criminal justice and English major. She can be reached at mzelenskidbk@gmail.com.
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his Thanksgiving, I spent more time staring at the blinking cursor on my blank M icrosoft Word document than with my family. My poor little puppy stared up at me with eyes begging to cuddle. But I could not. I had a 10-page paper due the Monday after Thanksgiving weekend, a final project due Tuesday and a group presentation Thursday. I was in over my head. It is now our second week back since Thanksgiving break, and I can do nothing but repeatedly bang my head against my stack of books. The workload has only increased. My teardrops join the river of sorrows flowing through McKeldin Library. “After this, you have a month without school. An entire month without school,” I tell myself. But I know that month will not help me in the long run. Sure, a month off in January will allow me to relax a bit, go back to my horrible job at home to make a few bucks and force me into gaining 10 pounds
because I will eat every single crumb of food my mother makes for me. But a month off in January will not help me now. For our sanity, we need a weeklong fall break that will give us the time and strength to mentally prepare for these three horrific weeks of December. Many universities give their students a five to seven day-long fall break in addition to their Thanksgiving break. It is a way to relax after midterms and to prepare for the last heavy-duty bit of work before the holidays. But apparently university President Wallace Loh and other administrators think our university’s students can go hard for three months straight with no breaks whatsoever unless we lie about having the stomach flu so we can stay in bed and watch Netflix to avoid a mental breakdown. We are then given two days off to go home and eat turkey and then are expected to return to school to ace our exams, which apparently are now no longer being held on the week dedicated to finals, but can be held any day after Thanksgiving, like, oh, I don’t know — THE MONDAY AFTER THANKSGIVING! How kind.
This year, we were also gifted with a Saturday reading day. How generous! Reading day is that one glorious day when classes are canceled and we can all take the time to breathe in deeply and acknowledge that we are approaching the beginning of the end. I am truly grateful that my Saturday classes were canceled. That is my busiest day! We have been ripped off, people. I think we can all agree that by the end of winter break, we are begging to get out of our hometowns anyway. Our parents start giving us chores, we have to undecorate the house and all of our friends have fled to their sunny southern schools. We just rot. Therefore, for the sake of future Terps’ health, I request that the last week of winter break be removed and placed in November instead to give students the chance to catch up on sleep, plan out their study schedules and actually relax instead of constantly staring at their depressing computer screens. All in favor, say “help.” Katie Stuller is a junior English m a j o r. S h e c a n b e re a c h e d a t kstullerdbk@gmail.com.
ver the past six months, the conversation about sexual assault has been elevated to levels never before seen at this university. University administrators have created a new Office of Sexual Misconduct & Relationship Violence (also known as the Title IX office), established a new sexual misconduct policy and rolled out a comprehensive sexual assault prevention and bystander intervention training for all students. While fantastic improvements have come to this university, the student body has been rightfully vocal about its concerns with certain aspects of the new policy. We want to reassure students that their concerns are being heard. T h e c u r re n t p o l i cy i s a n interim one — there is still plenty of time to propose changes before it is finally approved by the University Senate. The senate is slated to examine and make recommendations regarding the policy during the spring semester, and as student leaders, we are working with students and administrators to propose amendments that will craft a stronger, more inclusive policy. We have been listening attentively to the various petitions, protests and postings of concern about this policy, and we are continuing conversations with university President Wallace Loh and Catherine Carroll, Title IX director, to come up with an inclusive policy. Over the next couple of months, we will work with the Title IX office and other administrators to hold open town hall meetings for students to voice their concerns with the interim policy, so we know exactly how to amend the policy in the senate. Besides attending town halls, feel free to reach out to us directly and share your concerns at facebook.com /WTFumd, on Twitter @wtfUMD or at my personal email, sgapresident@umd.edu.
No matter what the policy is, the presence of sexual violence on our campus is a culture issue, and the best thing we can do as a student body is to foster the conversation and show our peers that we will not tolerate sexual violence. We strongly urge students to take the new online sexual assault training. To be frank, the comments I have seen from students on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and other social media platforms regarding the training have been extremely disheartening. Sexual assault is the most important student life problem facing this university, so to see some students taking this training lightly is disgusting. It’s on all of us to stop sexual assault; the training provides students with valuable knowledge and tools to do just that. All students have a responsibility to be informed about sexual misconduct and to know that such behavior is unacceptable, on this campus or anywhere. Be sure not just to complete the online training, but take it seriously. Sexual assault is a horrible and traumatic experience, and survivors need to know they are not alone. There are many fantastic resources on the campus for survivors, and we hope that anyone who is dealing with a sexual health issue is aware of the help available to them through this university. Students who choose to report sexual misconduct can do so through the Title IX office, the Office of Student Conduct or the Department of Resident Life’s Office of Rights and Responsibilities. For a confidential resource, feel free to reach out to CARE to Stop Violence in the University Health Center (the phone number, 301-7413442, is on the back of student ID cards) or the Help Center (301-3144357), the peer counseling student group located on the third floor of the South Campus Dining Hall. If you or a friend has experienced a traumatic sexual experience, please do not be afraid to speak up and utilize these available resources. Patrick Ronk is SGA president a n d a j u n i o r go v e r n m e n t a n d politics major. He can be reached at sgapresident@umd.edu.
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tyler cohen, a senior aerospace engineering major, pilots the Experimental Flying Club’s rigid glider on the hill outside Dorchester Hall on Sunday. tom hausman/the diamondback FEATURE | EXPERIMENTAL FLYING CLUB
DEFYING GRAVITY The Experimental Flying Club’s self-constructed hang gliders lift off behind McKeldin Library By Danielle Ohl @DTOhl Senior staff writer Most people only dream of flying. The Experimental Flying Club makes that dream a reality. Tyler Cohen, a senior aerospace engineering major, started the club in 2011, but he’s wanted to fly since the age at which most children learn to ride a bike. “Ever since elementary school, I’ve wanted to build airplanes,” he said. The Experimental Flying Club has its roots in the birthplace of human flight. Cohen took hang gliding lessons in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the town where the Wright brothers made their first powered airplane run. After that, Cohen decided that if he wanted to fly, he should do something about it. So he started building hang gliders while in high school. “I used to fly them at my
high school,” Cohen said. “My dean would come out and cheer me on.” Cohen built his first glider in 2006, but when he came to college, Cohen realized there weren’t many opportunities for flight lovers on the campus. He took it upon himself to gather flight enthusiasts, and in 2011, he created the Experimental Flying Club. Anyone can join the club, regardless of major or experience. “It started with nothing, just a glider that I had built at an internship. It was tied against a fence in an area owned by the aerospace department,” he said. “Now we have storage space indoors, three gliders and university funding.” The club built all three of the gliders they now use behind McKeldin Library on “flight days.” They usually use the Rogallo, a triangular-shaped glider that is based on Gertrude and
Francis Rogallo’s famous design. The club also has a biplane and a brand-new “rigid” glider modeled after the 1970s-era Quicksilver. The gliders cost, on average, $900 to build. Made of aluminum, tarp and a special roping, the Rogallo took an hour a week for an entire semester to construct. “What makes this one different is that it’s a high performance glider,” Cohen said of the new rigid glider. “It will fly about twice as good as the Rogallo. It’s a little more complex; harder to assemble.” The club meets weekly in the Engineering Lab Building, where they store their gliders. About one Sunday a month, they wheel their creations down to the hill behind McKeldin and take flight. “I got here freshman year — my first reaction was, ‘OK, that sounds crazy,’ but I’m
glad that I got to be a part of this,” said Joey Cozzo, a junior aerospace engineering major and the club’s newly appointed president. “It’s very exciting.” Cohen confirmed that the flyers are very cautious — they don’t jump off buildings or attempt extreme stunts, and no members have injured themselves in the club’s three years. They are, however, dedicated to their craft. Some S u n d ays, t h ey ’ve s p e n t upward of five hours running down the hill with their gliders, trying to defy gravity. “A good flight is probably about five or six feet in the air, and you’ll be in the air for a couple of seconds,” Cozzo said. “They’re not long — this hill isn’t great, the wind isn’t always in our favor — but the flights are pretty good, all things considered.” The point of the flying club
isn’t to get all the way across the bowl-shaped area behind McKeldin, as some people might think. “When you get in the air, you can feel yourself flying,” Cozzo said. “It’s always exciting [to get long flights]. Everyone’s always like, ‘Oh, man, that was a great flight, I got so high, it felt so awesome,’ but we’re here to have fun and learn and get experience.” The flying logistics aren’t too complicated: Simply run down the hill, push out and let physics do the rest. “The important thing to maintain is that angle,” Cozzo said. “You run real fast and basically the glider will start pulling itself up.” Once a semester, the club goes to a professional flying location; this semester, they visited Blue Sky Hang Gliding in Manquin, Virginia. The hang gliding school gets people in the air for about 30 seconds,
tyler cohen (above) has built hang gliders since high school. tom hausman/the diamondback Cozzo said. Some members join only for the trips, which club members call “air meets.” While some prefer to design, others prefer to glide. “You can build your own wings and fly,” Cohen said. “ T h a t ’s w h a t e ve r yo n e would love.” dohldbk@gmail.com
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the other umd Here’s why the University of Minnesota Duluth (the school everyone knows from Google searches gone awry) should change its acronym By Zoë DiGiorgio @zozoembie Staff writer When this university announced it would be moving to the Big Ten, the first question many Terps asked was what school would be chosen to replace our (rather one-sided) rivalry with Duke. While it seems after this past football season that there is fertile ground for a rivalry with our northern neighbors at Penn State, I feel that there is another unexplored rival most students already resent. I’m speaking, of course, of the other UMD: University of Minnesota Duluth.
I know very little about this other school, much less Duluth, Minnesota, besides what I learned from the Saturday Night Live skit “Fly High Duluth” and what I’ve gathered from Google searches. But that is precisely why we need to draw a line with the other UMD. You see, I, like many other students at this university, often struggle to find the university resource I am looking for on our main school web page. To look up terms ranging from what it means to audit a class to how much a massage costs at the University Health Center, I usually just pop a keyword into a Google search bar
with the letters “UMD” in there to make sure I’m getting results directly related to this university. But the University of Minnesota Duluth also likes to delude itself into believing that it, too, is fit to bear the abbreviation “UMD.” That means our school’s good name is dragged through the Minnesotan mud. I wasn’t even aware of that university until freshman year, when an errant Google search brought me to an oddly Terrapin-free Web page about dining services. The schools even have similar school colors! What nerve. We are a university with enough humility to understand that there are
eight states in this great nation that begin with the letter “M.” We rarely are proud enough to call ourselves “UM,” except within the confines of the mid-Atlantic region, but we proudly embrace our state’s abbreviation and wear the mantle of “UMD” proudly. It’s in our blood. It’s in our URL. After all, our school’s website contains umd.edu. It is frustrating to find yourself taken to the wrong page on a site when making a Google search, much less the wrong university’s Web page. University of Maryland, Baltimore County knows better than to haughtily leech off our abbreviation, and the
University of Minnesota Duluth should follow suit. They must acknowledge Terrapin supremacy and rebrand themselves “UMnD” or else forever subject themselves to our wrath. Sure, this rivalry won’t ever turn into a sports-themed smackdown, but it’s more than a matter of athletics; it is a matter of pride. I’m sure all the Bulldogs in Minnesota are great students and nice people, but here in College Park, we are busy students hunting for information in a flash — and we won’t let any other university stand in our way. zdigiorgiodbk@gmail.com
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The Terps celebrate one of their five touchdowns in their 38-31 win over Iowa on Oct. 18 at Byrd Stadium. alexander jonesi/the diamondback
BOWL From PAGE 8 Instead, the SEC’s Mississippi State jumped Michigan State in the final College Football Playoff rankings and got the nod for the Orange Bowl, while the Terps slid comfortably into an open slot for the Foster Farms Bowl. “It kind of came out the way we wanted,” Edsall said. “When they asked us to give three bowls that we wanted, this was right there at the top of our list. So from that standpoint, we were excited about the opportunity.” Having finished 7-5 and in second place in the Pac-12’s North division, Stanford is in the midst of a down year. The Cardinal hasn’t lost this many regular-season games since 2008 and has qualified for a BCS — now known as New Year’s Six — bowl in each of the past four seasons. Still, with the nation’s second-best scoring defense and an experienced quarterback in senior Kevin Hogan, Stanford
will provide the Terps with a stiff test even with the return of standout wide receiver Stefon Diggs, who missed the past three games with a suspension and a lacerated kidney but returned to practice this past week. “They’re extremely well coached,” Edsall said. “They’re an outstanding football team.” Edsall said with finals looming, the Terps’ practice schedule over the next few weeks will be on the lighter side. The team will have off through Thursday before practicing Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Terps will then take a five-day break from Dec. 15 to Dec. 19 during exams, though Edsall said the weight room would be open for optional workouts while the coaches game plan for the Cardinal. The Terps return to the field Dec. 20 and practice every day until Dec. 23, after which the team will go home to celebrate the holidays. They will then hop on a plane to San Francisco on Christmas afternoon before practicing each day until the game Dec. 30.
“IT KIND OF CAME OUT THE WAY WE WANTED. WHEN THEY ASKED US TO GIVE THREE BOWLS THAT WE WANTED, THIS WAS RIGHT THERE AT THE TOP OF OUR LIST.” RANDY EDSALL
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points, 10 rebounds and two assists, all of which set new career highs. “His defense was good; his recognition was good; his awareness was good; and then he got things going offensively,” Turgeon said. “He did a lot of really good things.” Dodd helped the Terps respond to a shabby start with a thunderous dunk about eight minutes into the game that ignited a 12-2 run and pulled the team out of a nine-point hole. For the rest of the game, Dodd found success attacking the basket after dump-off passes or offensive rebounds and shot 5 of 6 from the freethrow line. On defense, Dodd patrolled the middle of the floor and, as Turgeon pointed out, he significantly altered four or five Winthrop shots in addition to his three blocks. “He played really well defensively and gave us a spark offensively, offensive rebounds, altering and blocking shots on defense,” guard Jared Nickens said. “He helped a lot.” Dodd, who saw limited time as a freshman last season, has started eight straight games and has already recorded 18 blocks through nine contests this year. Neither of the Terps’ two most-used interior players last season — Charles Mitchell and Shaquille Cleare, who both transferred in the spring — totaled more than 16 blocks all of last season. The 6-foot-11 Dodd also had his best game on the boards Saturday, grabbing eight defensive rebounds and two off the offensive glass. “Once I get one [rebound], I know they are going to have to box me out hard,” Dodd said. “So now I can just swivel and get around them.” Though Dodd produced his
forward Damonte Dodd passes the ball out of the post in the Terps’ 82-62 win over Winthrop. Dodd had four career assists before recording two Saturday. alexander jonesi/the diamondback most eye-popping numbers against Winthrop, he has shown flashes of his rebounding, shot-blocking presence and finishing ability in the past. But Dodd had just four career assists entering Saturday, and he had a pair of assists in the second half against the Eagles. The first one came when Dodd controlled the ball in the high post and guard Richaud Pack cut hard from the left wing toward the rim. Dodd whipped a pass by a Winthrop defender and Pack flipped the ball into the hoop for the score. “Everything was going so smoothly, and then he just went backdoor and I was like, ‘Man, this must be our
night,’” Dodd said. “You don’t get many backdoors in college basketball.” But to Turgeon, it wasn’t the team at large that was rolling Saturday night. Dodd was also in a rhythm all afternoon. And as the Terps continue to search for consistent production from their interior players — Dodd, Cekovsky and senior forward Jon Graham — Turgeon took notice of Saturday’s performance. “We need them to play well, all three of those guys or two of those guys,” Turgeon said. “It was nice to see Damonte have a game like that. It’s good for his confidence.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com
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285-pound sean twigg pins a Davidson wrestler Nov. 2. Twigg was a part of the Terps’ struggles in the upper weight classes during Friday’s loss at Pittsburgh. marquise mckine/the diamondback
PANTHERS From PAGE 8 earned a decision. Snook fell 4-2 in the first tiebreaker, while Twigg suffered a two-point defeat to close out the dual. When the Terps host No. 4 Penn State in their next dual Thursday, they’ll again have to tussle with a slew of talented wrestlers in heavier weight classes. The Nittany Lions, who have won the past four NCAA Championships, feature top-10 wrestlers at
174, 197 and 285 pounds. But even if his wrestlers at these weights struggle against the four-time defending champs, McCoy understands there is still plenty of time to improve. “No one wants to lose, but as we keep talking about it, our focus is on March,” McCoy said. “When we get too caught up with what’s happening in November and December, then we lose sight of the ultimate goal.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com
squad was getting second- and third-chance opportunities behind 11 first-half offensive rebounds. The Terps used their rebounding success to score 16 second-chance points and outrebound Towson 48-32. At the other end, the Terps defense repeatedly stymied the Tigers squad, which had a stretch during which it went 1 of 12 from the floor. Towson finished the half shooting 5 of 25 after its first seven shots and struggled to beat the shot clock at times. “When you can force a shot clock violation on another team, it is great energy and it’s a great transition to the next time down the floor in terms of what we want to get done,” coach Brenda Frese said. The Terps found similar success after halftime with a quick 9-0 run in the opening two minutes. Walker-Kimbrough led the way, scoring
Guard Laurin Mincy battles for a rebound in the Terps’ victory over Towson yesterday at Xfinity Center. marquise mckine/the diamondback 11 of her 15 points in the final 20 minutes. And even with Mincy’s contributions limited to one mile-
stone-clinching 3-pointer, the Terps coasted to the win. “It was great to be able to … use our bench depth like
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Terps to play in Foster Farms Bowl Edsall’s team concludes season against Stanford on Dec. 30 in Santa Clara By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer After the Terrapins football team wrapped up its regular season with a loss to Rutgers on Nov. 29 at Byrd Stadium, the ensuing week featured speculation and whispers as to where the Terps would land in the postseason. Some questioned whether they would qualify at all. But when the dust settled
Running back Wes Brown sprints up the field during a 20-19 victory at Penn State on Nov. 1. The Terps earned a bowl berth for the second straight season. marquise mckine/the diamondback
WRESTLING | No. 11 PANTHERS 26, TERPS 9
and the bowl slate was set yesterday afternoon, coach Randy Edsall and his squad had accepted a bid to play Stanford in the Foster Farms Bowl, hosted at Levi’s Stadium on Dec. 30 in Santa Clara, California. And in the process, they officially punched their ticket to the postseason for the second straight year and achieved something the program hasn’t done since 2007: reach a bowl game played outside this state against a Power 5 team.
“Our kids played hard all year long and gave everything that they had,” Edsall said in a conference call last night. “Then to be able to have this opportunity extended to us from what we did on the field, it goes to show that the work that they put in was worthwhile.” The Terps’ bowl outlook reached a low point on Thursday, when ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg reported a Big Ten team with six wins or more
could miss a bowl if a member of the conference earned a bid to the Orange Bowl. In that case, Rittenberg wrote, the Big Ten would lose its spot in the Citrus Bowl, leaving the conference with eight bowleligible teams for seven spots. At 7-5, the Terps were one of four teams along with Penn State (6-6), Illinois (6-6) and Rutgers (7-5) that could have lost out on a bowl-game opportunity. See BOWL, Page 7
MEN’S BASKETBALL | No. 21 TERPS 82, EAGLES 62
In defeat, upper weights struggle Terps lose to Pittsburgh, drop third straight match to ranked opponent By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer Entering intermission in its dual against No. 11 Pittsburgh on Friday night, the Terrapins wrestling team held a slim advantage thanks to its lighter weight classes. Geoffrey Alexander, the No. 7-ranked wrestler in the 133pound weight class, opened the scoring for the Terps and secured his fifth straight win with a two-point decision against Nick Zanetta. The Terps picked up six additional points before the break from No. 13 Shyheim Brown at 141 pounds and Lou Mascola at 157 pounds. Both wrestlers won their bouts, 5-2. But the Terps (4-4) failed to carry their success into the second half of the meet. They allowed Pittsburgh (4-2) to claim the final five matches in a 26-9 loss at Fitzgerald Field House in Pittsburgh. “In the matches that we lost, some were within reach and some were out of reach,” coach Kerry McCoy said. “I think they were a better team than us, and I think we could have wrestled a little bit tougher in some matches.” The loss marks the Terps’ third straight defeat after they fell to then-No. 19 Wisconsin and then-No. 7 Nebraska in their past two matches to open the Big Ten season. Among the five bouts after the break against the Panthers, the Terps were outscored 19-0, and 184-pound Tony Gardner lost by fall to Pittsburgh’s Max
“NO ONE WANTS TO LOSE, BUT AS WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT, OUR FOCUS IS ON MARCH. ... WHEN WE GET TOO CAUGHT UP WITH WHAT’S HAPPENING IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, THEN WE LOSE SIGHT OF THE ULTIMATE GOAL.” KERRY MCCOY
Terrapins wrestling coach Thomusseit. But McCoy did not criticize the performances turned in by his wrestlers in heavier weight classes. Instead, he praised the opposition. “Their strength of their lineup is in their upperweights,” McCoy said. “They’re really good up top, and we’ve got to get a little bit better.” Gardner competed with one of the nation’s best wrestlers at 184 pounds. Thomusseit, a three-time NCAA qualifier, is ranked No. 2 in his weight class and entered the match unbeaten in eight matches. At 197 pounds, Pittsburgh sent another top-20 grappler to the mat in No. 13 Nick Bonaccorsi to face Rob Fitzgerald. As a redshirt senior wrestling as a starter for the first time in his career, Fitzgerald was outmatched and suffered a 12-5 defeat. Josh Snook and Sean Twigg competed in close matches at 174 and 285 pounds, respectively, but neither wrestler See PANTHERS, Page 7
forward damonte Dodd records one of his three blocks in Saturday’s 82-62 victory over Winthrop. Dodd has a team-high 18 blocks this season. alexander jonesi/the diamondback
MIDDLE MAN
Dodd posts career highs in points, rebounds, assists to lead Terps past Winthrop coach wanted to have a few words with his starting big man. “I yelled at him,” Turgeon said. “I just said, ‘You got to play better. You have to play better, Damonte.’” The rest of the game played out a bit better for Dodd. About two hours after that conversation, Turgeon stood in front of a group of reporters and said the Centreville native had the best “all-around game” of his career in a 82-62 victory over the Eagles at Xfinity Center. Dodd played his typically impactful defense by recording three blocks and a steal. But he also added nine
By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer After a travel on a post move marked his second turnover in the opening three minutes of Saturday’s contest against Winthrop, Terrapins men’s basketball forward Damonte Dodd heard the buzzer sound. Forward Michal Cekovsky then trotted onto the court and signaled for Dodd to come off. As Dodd jogged toward the bench and prepared to plop into a seat, Mark Turgeon grabbed his arm. The fourth-year
See EAGLES, Page 7
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL | No. 15 TERPS 81, TIGERS 52
Balanced offense helps sink Towson Four Terps score in double figures to key win, end of two-game losing streak By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer
Guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough rises for a shot against Towson yesterday. The Terps had lost back-to-back games before topping the Tigers. marquise mckine/the diamondback
Just more than a minute into the second half of Sunday’s Terrapins women’s basketball game, guard Lexie Brown sent a pass to guard Laurin Mincy, who was spotting up behind the arc. The redshirt senior rose up and sunk the 3-pointer to become the 29th Terp to eclipse 1,000 career points. But Mincy, who entered the game averaging 14.9 points per game, didn’t hit any other shots all game. So the Terps needed to lean on others to contribute to a balanced scoring attack that ended a two-game losing streak.
Be h i n d 17 p o i n ts f ro m center Brionna Jones and 16 from guard Shatori WalkerKimbrough, the No. 15 Terps defeated Towson, 81-52, at Xfinity Center. T h e Te r p s ( 7 - 2 ) h a ve struggled to slow their opponents’ top scoring option this season, and it appeared that trend would continue when forward LaTorri Hines-Allen — who leads the Tigers at 17.9 points per game — knocked down her first four attempts from the floor. L e d by H i n e s -A l l e n , Towson (3-6) opened the game 5 of 7 from the field to take an early 10-7 lead. The Terps used multiple defenders on Hines-Allen in an attempt to contain her.
“We just tried to cut off the right, then she’d go left,” forward Tierney Pfirman said. The redshirt senior finished the day with a gamehigh 21 points, but she didn’t receive much help from the rest of her team. As a result, the Terps cruised after the Tigers’ hot shooting to start the game. T h e Te r ps co n t i n u a l ly worked the ball into the paint, which led to seven layups during a 20-2 run that gave them a 27-12 lead with eight minutes left in the first half. Jones and Pfirman sparked the scoring outburst with three baskets apiece. “Maryland’s interior play obviously gave us problems from beginning to end,” Towson
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center Brionna Jones scored to lead the Terps yesterday
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guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough scored in yesterday’s win
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the Terps scored after offensive rebounds yesterday coach Niki Reid Geckeler said. Pfirman, a 6-foot-2 junior, led the Terps with 11 points at the break. And even when it wasn’t hitting shots, Frese’s See Tigers, Page 7