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Board of Regents approves Byrd Stadium renaming After two hours of heated debate, body affirms Loh’s recommendation with 12-5 vote

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Senior staff writer The University System of Maryland Board of Regents voted Friday to rename Byrd Stadium as Maryland Stadium, marking the official conclusion of a heated monthslong debate over the stadium’s namesake.

The fi nal vote was 12-5.

The decision, which came after more than two hours of testimony and board discussions in Stamp Student Union’s Atrium, sends the message that, “Going forward, we are a university committed to diversity, inclusion and the success of our students,” university President Wallace Loh said.

The name change is effective immediately, and officials Facilities Management will remove the existing signage, Loh said.

Loh sent the board a formal recommendation letter Monday urging it to change the stadium’s name. While the stadium’s namesake, Harry Clifton “Curley” Byrd, served as a former Terrapins football coach, athletic director and university president, many in the university University president wallace loh speaks Friday at the University System of Maryland Board of Regents See STADIUM, Page 2 meeting to vote on renaming Byrd Stadium. The board approved the change, 12-5. tom hausman/the diamondback

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Hogan made call for early differential tuition vote Gov had asked in April for delay on May 6 vote but reneged May 4

By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center on Campus Drive, the Maryland International Incubator on Route 1, The Hotel at the University of Maryland on Route 1, Cole Field House on Campus Drive and the Terrapin Row apartments on Knox Road. tom hausman/the diamondback

Thanks to a spate of redevelopment, College Park is realizing its vision

By Carly Kempler and Hallie Miller @CarlyKempler, @Halliewrites Staff writers Deron Lovaas has lived in College Park for more than 10 years and is tired of the revolving door of lowquality restaurants and lack of retail in the downtown area.

He just wants the opportunity to take his family out to a nice dinner and spend time in a bookstore.

There aren’t many “places where we can enjoy good coffee, good food and good music with family, and I think that’s something that College Park definitely needs and that’s something we’re looking forward to as more development comes to

our town,” Lovaas, 46, said.

With the upcoming developments, Lovaas likely won’t have to wait much longer to see College Park become the kind of college town he remembers loving during his time at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Fund refuses to cover differential tuition

By Jon Banister @J_Banister Senior staff writer

Former mayor focused on safety, development

ANDY FELLOWS addresses the SGA for the last time as mayor of College Park on Oct. 21. Fellows stepped down after three terms in the city’s highest elected office. tom hausman/the diamondback

Andy Fellows’ parents met in College Park while they were undergraduates at this university.

They raised their son only six miles away in Silver Spring, and Fellows was often on the campus to watch the 1960s-era Terrapins men’s basketball team compete under his father, former head coach Frank Fellows.

So when he decided to attend this university for graduate school in 1991, Fellows had no illusions about College Park. He knew it didn’t have

a reputation as a great college town, but he thought it had potential to become one.

Fellows, who stepped down last week after three terms as College Park’s mayor, has spent more than 20 years working to improve the city, and he doesn’t plan to stop now that he no longer holds its highest elected seat.

“College Park really is a good college town, and we have a great plan to become a great college town,” Fellows said during last week’s in-

auguration ceremony for Mayor Patrick Wojahn and the city’s council members. “I’m proud to say I played a small part in that.”

College Park has transformed during the six years Fellows was in office, said Sen. Jim Rosapepe (DPrince George’s).

“We’ll look back 20 or 30 years from now and say the years when he was mayor was the turning point in See FELLOWS, Page 6

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Fellows reflects on three terms in office

By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer

The April riots in Baltimore led Gov. Larry Hogan to make an unusual request to the University System of Maryland Board of Regents, causing the board to add this university’s differential tuition proposal to its agenda less than 48 hours before the scheduled meeting.

“What was unusual was the governor’s interest in scheduling the meeting,” said James Shea, the University System of Maryland board chairman. “That I had never experienced before. I did not know why and I still don’t know why.”

The vote was originally scheduled for May 6, according to emails obtained by The Diamondback through a public records request.

At the end of April, Hogan asked the board to move the vote on the $2,800 gradual tuition increase to later in May while he dealt with the unrest following the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray while in police custody.

Interactions with state agencies were delayed during this time, Shareese DeLeaver-Churchill, a spokeswoman for the governor,

wrote in an email.

“T he deci sion s of t he boa rd are wholly independent from the Governor’s office,” DeLeaverChurchill wrote.

But on May 4, Hogan changed his mind and the board put the proposal back on the May 6 agenda.

The board voted 10-2 in favor of gradually raising tuition for engineering, business and computer science upperclassmen at this university, less than 48 hours after the system sent a news release on May 4 at 3:26 p.m.

“Typical of the schizophrenic political world in which we are embedded, an unfortunate request has been [made] by the Governor’s Office,” former system Chancellor Brit Kirwan emailed Shea. The email was marked “Urgent.”

“None of us are happy about this but, out of deference to the Governor, [university President] Wallace [Loh] would like to do so,” Kirwan wrote.

T he sequence of events lef t little time to inform the university community.

“I look back with great pride of many things when I was chancellor, but I truly regret the way the timing played out on this issue,” Kirwan said, adding that such a request from the governor had never been made in his 13 years as chancellor. “There were very unusual and special circumstances having to do with what was going on in Baltimore City.”

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This potential lawsuit rests largely on whether a 2016 legislative session bill from state Sen. Edward Kasemeyer to change the wording of the trust’s contract to include differential tuition passes. The parents are already reaching out to legislators in Annapolis to lobby for the change.

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individual’s well-being.

The incident resulted in an arrest.

Un iversity Pol ice responded to reports of a Title IX-related incident, a hazardous condition and disorderly conduct in the past week, according to police reports.

TITLE IXRELATED PHONE/ EMAIL MISUSE On Wednesday at 3:31 p.m., Un iversity Pol ice re s p o n d e d to S u s q u ehanna Hall for an incident i nvolv i ng phone/em a i l misuse.

T he i ncident was determined to be Title IXrelated, according to the report.

HAZARDOUS CONDITION Un iversity Pol ice responded to Woods Ha l l o n D e c . 7 at 1: 4 6 p. m . for a report of hazardous conditions from materials that were not disposed of properly, according to University Police.

The incident occurred on Dec. 4 at about 7 a.m.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT Un iversity Pol ice res p ond e d to K nox R oa d on Frid ay at 12:56 a.m. for a report of disorderly conduct, according to the report. The incident resulted in an arrest.

THEFT Un iversity Pol ice responded to Eppley Recreation Center on Dec. 6 at 2:32 p.m. for a report of a theft that occurred at about 1:15 p.m., according to the report.

Another theft was reported at Commons 1 on Dec. 7 at 9:27 a.m., followe d b y on e at Nor t h Ca mpus Di n i ng Ha l l at 10:2 4 a.m. a nd a nother at South Campus Dining Hall at 5:28 p.m.

Officers also responded to two reported thefts at the Computer and Space Sciences Building on Dec. 7 at 9:56 a.m. and 5:24 p.m.

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com mu n ity ca l led for t he remova l of h i s n a me i n l ig ht of h is suppor t of segregation.

Various state policymakers and groups endorse the change, Loh said, including former system Chancellor Brit Kirwan, U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Reps. Steny Hoyer and Chris Van Hollen and the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland. Current system Chancellor Robert Caret voiced his support at the meeting.

Board of Regents Chairman James Shea said he expected the outcome.

“T he rig ht resu lt was reached,” Shea said. “And as you heard, some people changed their mind during the discussion. Isn’t that a wonderful debate?”

W h i le he s upp or ts t he b o a r d ’s f i n a l d e c i s i o n , R e ge n t R o b e r t R a u c h — who voted against the recommendation — expressed concerns about the possible repercussions.

“It goes against my basic belief about name changes and the like,” Rauch said.

“Hopefully it won’t create another form of division.”

T hou g h t he u n iversit y w i l l remove By rd’s n a me from the stadium, officials plan to establish a permanent ex h ibit ded icated to B y rd’s legacy i n sid e one of its libraries, Loh wrote Monday in an email to the university community. The university will also impose a five-year moratorium on ch a ng i ng “a ny honor i f ic naming of other buildings that recog n i ze h istorica l figures,” Loh wrote.

“It’s important to recognize all of the good out of [Byrd’s] very long tenure at the university, while at the same time acknowledging that he was a segregationist

FANS gather in the university’s football stadium for Michigan’s 28-0 win over the Terps on Oct. 3. The University System of Maryland Board of Regents voted to change the name of Byrd Stadium to Maryland Stadium in its meeting Friday. alexander jonesi/the diamondback and that there was a lot of flaws to him as well,” said Student G overn ment Association President Patrick Ron k, who supported the name change.

L oh emph a si zed to t he board the difficulty of his recommendation and said the university does not intend to “purge” Byrd and his contributions from history.

Byrd, who served as this university’s president from 1935 to 1954, oversaw the construction of 60 buildings on this campus and the development of University of Ma r yla nd Un iversity College, among other accomplishments. But he also barred black students from attending the university until 1951 and opposed federal anti-lynching laws.

“I have thought about this; I have prayed about this; I have agonized over this,” Loh said of the decision.

Prior to voting, regents discussed their stances on t he recom mend at ion.

M e e t i n g at te n d e e s, wh o filled the Atrium, also lined up to voice their own arguments.

Some speakers, such as Crisfield Mayor K imberly Lawson, urged the board not

to consider Byrd’s stances on segregation and race using present-day values. “ We say, ‘ W h at a horrible man,’ but then, when look i ng at the contex t of the day, it should be noted t h at t he president of t he United States — FDR — had taken the very same stand,” Lawson said.

Regent James Brady also sa id that focusi ng on the past is misguided.

“The test … is not whether you change the name of the stadium,” Brady said. “It’s about what we do every day on campus to make our campus as inclusive and as nondiscriminatory and as fair as it can possibly be.”

Others disagreed, noting that as times change, the university has a responsibility to follow suit and address current concerns.

“T he d i scu ssion we’ve h a d , t he t hou g hts we’ve put together on the impact of the symbol to the state, to students in the state, to students here, can hardly be overestimated,” Provost Mary Ann Rankin said. “We need to embrace that and embrace these students.”

After learning of the vote, Terps junior defensive tackle

Azubuike Ukandu said he is pleased to see the change go into effect.

“It’s a new day and age,” Ukandu said, “and we are not representing those same values that the name stood for.”

Fol l o w i n g t h e b o a rd’s discussion, Regent Robert Nea l l i nqu i red i f it cou ld consider alternative names to Maryland Stadium — an action the majority of the board rejected.

Col i n By rd, who i s not re l ate d to t he s t a d iu m’s former na mesa ke, a lso opposes the name “Maryland Stadium.” He said the stadium should be renamed to honor Darryl Hill, who became the first black football player at this university in 1963.

“If we want to remember segregation and not honor those who were on the wrong side of t hat h istor y — he really represents probably the epitome,” Byrd said. “We do want to send the signal ... to athletes, to black athletes, that they are welcome here.”

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GOV. LARRY HOGAN, shown above giving his acceptance speech in Annapolis in 2014, reneged on a decision to delay the vote on differential tuition because of the unrest in Baltimore, former Chancellor Brit Kirwan said. file photo/the diamondback

USM From PAGE 1 Then-sophomore materials science and engineering major Robert Kornfeld started a change.org petition against differential tuition after the proposa l was a n nou nced May 4. It gained about 1,000 signatures by the following night.

“I just hope for the administrators to see the student body cares deeply about this issue and they should have consulted us before,” Kornfeld told The Diamondback. “It’s awful to go after these particular students because they’re following their passion.”

Regent F ra n k Reid a nd student Regent R a a heel a A h med voted aga i nst the d i fferentia l tu ition h i ke.

Although Loh’s arguments in favor of the increase were persuasive, “the voice of the students should be heeded in this matter,” Reid wrote to Kirwan.

Current system Chancellor Robert Caret emailed Kirwan on May 2 and said the gov-

ernor’s original decision to delay the proposal was the “right move.” He suggested holding a student referendum for the proposal. Kirwan replied that a referendum was not necessary because “all the folks in Annapolis that matter support it.”

“I think Wallace is afraid to go for a referendum and feels he doesn’t really need o n e ,” K i r w a n re p l i e d to Caret. “He’s spoken to a lot of students and the typical response is, ‘I understand the need and will not object but don’t ask me to endorse.’”

During Kirwan’s 13-year tenure, the board had never held a student referendum on a tuition or fee increase. Universities could not operate that way, he said.

Once Loh secured support f rom Hou se of Delegates Speaker Michael Busch and state Senate President Mike Miller and Kirwan spoke to other regents, Kirwan wrote to Ca ret he was “99.4%” positive the proposal would be approved. It is common for Kirwan and Loh to gather support from legislatures to ensure that proposals would

not be “dead on arrival,” Kirwan said.

Prior to the meeti ng, Ahmed asked Kirwan and Doyle if she could compile a docu ment of student testi mony to subm it to t he boa rd, a nd K i r wa n encouraged her to gather a s mu ch i np ut a s p o ssible. He assured her the board wou ld work w ith her to have a sense of the student perspective.

So Ahmed said she was surprised when, during the meeting, she was “shut dow n” by ot her regents. Her l i st of amendments clarifyi ng the proposa l’s la ng u a ge, wh ic h she s e nt to the board in advance of the meeting, was not seconded.

“The way that the meeting was led and the way that the meeting went down was not conducive to an open, inclusive conversation,” Ahmed said. “It was more of a meeting to get something passed, to get something done.” esilvermandbk@gmail.com

tuition costs. Parents pay into the fund when their children are young, and when they reach college age, the fund promises to pay full in-state tuition at any state university, regardless of rising costs, according to the trust’s website.

In May, when the University System of Maryland Board of Regents approved a gradual tuition increase of up to $2,800 per year for juniors and seniors in business, engineering and computer science programs, the board that oversees the trust elected not to cover the tuition increase. This forced parents — who had been promised years ago that their children’s full tuitions would be covered — to pay the unexpected costs out of pocket.

“For students enrolled in the plan, it’s something that caught us off guard, and it’s an additional fi nancial strain that wasn’t initially in our plans for college,” said Sarah Niezelski, a senior economics and mechanical engineering major. Niezelski, the Student Government Association financial affairs vice president, said her parents enrolled her in the Prepaid College Trust when she was in second grade.

Niezelski’s mother Susan, who is a professional financial planner, has been trying to persuade the Prepaid College Trust’s board to pay the cost.

She spoke at the board’s public meeting Thursday morning, arguing the trust has the contractual obligation — and the fi nancial means — to pay the differential tuition.

Board members argued differential tuition does not fall within the scope of what the trust covers because it is only applied to a portion of students. Business, engineering and computer science majors made up about 20 percent of

Because the trust covers in-state tuition at a number of different state schools, the amount it actually pays to students varies depending on where they enroll.

Students who enroll at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the most expensive state school, have an in-state tuition and fees of $13,895. This is about $1,000 more than this university’s full in-state cost even after the total differential tuition is added.

Bade told the board that because the fund already covers tuition higher than what he is asking it to pay and is overfunded, it should have no problem covering differential tuition.

In response, Kopp said the board wants to maintain a surplus in case there is an unexpected downturn in the market or a tuition hike by Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration.

“We do want an actuarial surplus of some size,” Kopp said. “The problem is the stock market and this economy — and quite candidly, an administration that is not as wedded as the O’Malley administration was to keeping tuition flat.”

Parents said they are not ver y op t i m i s t ic t h at t he board will change its mind a n d p ay t h e d i f fe re nt i a l tu it ion, wh ich prompted them to reach out to lawmakers in Annapolis to try to ch a n ge t he cont ract’s wording and force the board to pay.

K a semeyer, who w rote the bill creating the Prepaid College Trust in 1996, said the board should pay the differential tuition.

“It just strikes me as an element of fairness that they should pay for it,” Kasemeyer said. “Any time you raise the price of anything, some people won’t be able to afford it at some level, so there’s no question it will have a negative impact on somebody.” jbanisterdbk@gmail.com

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university juniors and seniors at the time the system proposed the tuition increase.

“Since the beginning of the program, under Maryland law the tuition that is covered is the tuition paid by all students for enrollment at the campus,” said State Treasurer Nancy Kopp, chairwoman of the Prepaid College Trust’s board. “The board of trustees does not have the option of changing the basic provision that we pay for tuition charged to all students.”

But parents argue the trust’s law is not so explicit. Paul Bade, father of a freshman computer science major and a senior chemical engineering major, spoke at the board’s Thursday meeting and focused on one specific clause in the contract. The contract, he said — which says it will cover instate tuition in full — defi nes tuition as “the actual tuition and mandatory fees assessed to all students.”

Bade argued it is not clear whet her “a ssessed to a l l students” refers just to the mandatory fees or to tuition as well.

W hen the contract was written more than 10 years ago, differential tuition was not something on anyone’s radar, so the board could not have foreseen a tuition increase that applies to only a fi fth of university students.

Bade said the ambiguous wording and unclear intent gives the board flexibility to chose to cover the tuition, and like Niezelski, he noted it is within the trust’s fi nancial means. If a lawsuit does come to fruition, Bade said attorneys think he has a good chance of winning.

T he fund’s 2015 annual report said it had 136 percent of the money it anticipated because of lower-than-expected tuition increases as well as high returns on the investments it had made.

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WALLACE LOH: A The front half of this academic year proved less turbulent than the last, with the university coming off a controversial differential tuition vote, protests calling for University Police to return military-style weapons to the U.S. Defense Department and heated forums regarding official’s handling of a racist, sexist email sent by a former fraternity member. That’s not to suggest Loh didn’t have a rough go of it at times this semester, particularly when it came to renaming Byrd Stadium. Regardless, he made the right call in recommending the change, demonstrating the same commitment to creating an inclusive campus he showed in establishing the President’s Student Advisory Council on Diversity & Inclusion earlier in the semester. Combined with a banner few months for fundraising and development, Loh’s semester earns top marks.

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of student life and academic issues, most notably advocating in-person sexual misconduct training, strengthening the funding appeals process and throwing its support behind the Byrd Stadium name change. On another front, an SGA-authored bill protecting state interns from harassment and discrimination went into effect, a victory for the university’s student governing body, its constituency and young people statewide. With a semester left in SGA President Patrick Ronk’s second term, this editorial board eagerly awaits more legislative accomplishments to come.

ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT: B As the Terrapins football team entered a 2-4 tailspin, fan and booster club ire directed at then-coach Randy Edsall reached its boiling point. In a stark about-face from June, when it signed him to a three-year extension, the athletic department booted Edsall, letting offensive coordinator Mike Locksley ride out the rest of a 3-9 season. While the decision might’ve been a forgone conclusion, the haphazard manner in which Edsall’s termination played out cast Athletic Director Kevin Anderson in a lessthan-favorable light. (Anderson, to his

credit, apologized to Edsall for the department’s handling of the situation, but the damage was already done.)

He staved off any further criticism by hiring former Michigan defensive coordinator DJ Durkin, though. And with Terrapins basketball coach Mark Turgeon’s squad still figuring into the postseason conversation, the pressure’s finally off Anderson — at least for a while.

TITLE IX OFFICE: A In the year since the university established its Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct and named Catherine Carroll its first Title IX officer, administrators and students alike have seen unprecedented progress in combating sexual assault on the campus. The university expelled a record three students for sexual assault in a one-year period from July 2014 through June 30, and it’s investigating more reports than ever before — all with an office that’s still understaffed and lacking resources.

With a look at the office’s first annual report, it’s clear the university still has a ways to go in ensuring all complaints are handled in timely fashion, but thanks to Carroll and her staff, it’s finally turned the corner.

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ithin the realms of aesthetic discourse is the conventional understanding that art is not always beautiful. In fact, art can be beautiful even when regarded as far too challenging to be beautiful.

Despite the artistic pliability, there is an objective value to the characterization of art. Art must refer to the ideal in order to fulfill its essential mission as art or to be regarded as experientially artistic. Regrettably, modern art has deviated gradually from this pursuit of beauty and aesthetic endeavor to what is now becoming a transgressive form of art.

Do not misconstrue my position; I emphatically oppose aesthetic conformity. I reprove of cases in which intellectually and artistically composed arts are dismissed as not beautiful or meriting artistic worth because of the manner that they are presented — for instance, presentations involving tragic or vulgar displays — or the perception that the art differed too much from standard artistic expression.

These sort of assessments are unreasoned criticism, particularly because they seem to emphasize conformity rather than artistic expressivity.

Art should be understood as expression of human freedom. Yet, as was contended by the English philosopher Roger Scruton and echoed by cultivated professionals in the field of aesthetic philosophy, all forms of art, regardless of their style, must possess or celebrate aesthetic qualities in order to be considered as an artistic representation. Art demands that artistic representations be strongly informed by their vehicle of expression, by reason and experience.

Modernism has seen a rise in disengagement with the values of art.

It has capitulated the rottenness of popular culture, celebrating caustic

experimentation and individualism as virtues that supersede the overarching structures of history. Many artistic expressions today, across genres and locales, no longer retaining reverence for traditional art. In fact, many artists aspire for this uniqueness by purposely distorting it to bear little significance to traditional forms. This narcissistic approach to art is damaging to the intent of true art because it spoils the meaning and misrepresents the significance of art.

The issue is that overt artistic expression, even when eliciting subtext and profound emotions, can cloud the artistic intent and message by its elaborate use of strong symbols and vulgarity.

The works of brothers Dinos and Jake Chapman illustrate this point. Their anatomical phantasmagoric creation embodies a desire to desert all artistic boundaries by provoking a disturbing set of tensions that is so ostensibly irking and reprehensibly shocking that it drowns any didactic purpose. This representation of anatomical transgression was meant to scandalize from the start.

These transgressive arts, produced in pursuit of aesthetic iconoclasm, lack civility and graciousness and are firmly a desecration of beauty.

Any serious artistic endeavor, regardless of standards, has the prospect to be considered as artistically beautiful, but the fact is, to echo Scruton, “bland artistic representation with little to no attempt to use the aesthetic faculty to create meaningful art is a desecration to true art.” Being able to recognize and differentiate these types of arts will allow us to appropriately appreciate and live arts to the fullest.

A n d re w A d e o l a i s a s e n i o r philosophy and physiology and neurobiology major. He can be reached at aadeoladbk@gmail.com.

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esigning the perfect human being has always been a topic of deep controversy within our collective anthropology. Eugenics, as it is often referred to, has existed in some form since ancient Rome, where newborns deemed unfit in physical qualities faced legal infanticide. Even in the early 20thcentury United States, forced sterilizations and marriage prohibition prevented the births of people with mental and developmental diseases.

It was not until the 1990s that selecting for traits prior to birth became prevalent. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis is a test used to screen genomes in newly formed embryo shortly after invitro fertilization.

Although parents utilize this procedure primarily to prevent bearing children who would certainly inherit debilitating and lethal diseases, PGD also has the potential to design infants on more cosmetic criteria.

In China, studies, though not involving human subjects, have already been done to examine if PGD can select for traits such as athletic ability or intelligence. Genetic counselors are even hired in China to determine what profession a particular child is most suited for based on his or her genome. This has caused some ethicists to warn against a Huxleyan world, a society based on a caste system that consigns our fate to our genes, stripping us of our self-determination.

In other cases, deaf parents have utilized PGD to genetically select for their own children to be deaf, claiming that they want to share this unique culture and experience with them. In their own defense, they claim that many who are deaf do not view this condition as a disability at all and even oppose the implantation of cochlear implants that could restore their hearing to a degree. Others find these parents’ behavior appalling and unethical.

Slate magazine even referred to this

practice as “the deliberate crippling of children.” It is no surprise, then, that in the past decade, our society has increasingly viewed this new form of eugenics as a harbinger of a dystopic society that could marginalize those who were not designed the right way.

These critical fears of eugenics, which have gripped our collective consciousness for so long, ignite crucial ethical debate. We must examine if it is — as popular media believes — our unrestricted scientific conquests that explains our trajectory into moral oblivion.

When reflecting upon the realities eugenics can play in our future, one finds oneself contemplating what it means to be designed perfect, disabled or with a predetermined fate. Are these things to be feared because they could result in oppression and chaos?

In order to answer these questions, we must look deep into the heart of our own society, where we can find parallels to the supposed consequences of eugenics but with already realized consequences.

Racism, sexism, homophobia, religious intolerance and ableism are just as capable of murder, discrimination, marginalization and constructing a social caste system.

How would a society based on genetic superiority possibly be any worse? Most importantly, we must be willing to face the reality that arguments like the sensationalist dissent on eugenics, which aims to frighten with an imaginary dystopia of the future, blinds us to the very real one we are living in today.

Those who find disgust in the acts of deaf parents who select for their children to share their same unique life experiences need not look into the future to envision a society where those born without the “perfect” genes can lead secondclass lives. Simply examining the plight of racial minorities in our country is adequate. As obvious as it

is that the deaf cannot hear, it is just as true that African-Americans are more likely than any other race to die by police brutality and face incarceration and racial discrimination.

Yet I wonder how many AfricanAmericans feel so hopeless that they are willing to genetically alter their children to be white to elude these racially debilitating challenges.

In this intoxicating exercise of “worrying about the future,” have we once considered which individual truly suffers more in life today?

Which group of children are already born socially “crippled” in the greatest abundance? The average naturally deaf white American or an African-American with all of his senses?

In the midst of all the neurosis surrounding eugenics experiments, claiming that it could conceive children specifically designed to perform particular roles in society “later on,” I wonder if people are aware that right now, we are consigned to our own social institutions by consciously and subconsciously perpetuating ideals of patriarchy, using stereotype and encouraging our own children to conform to harmful societal expectations to the outrage of no one.

What then, makes eugenics feel so nebulous to us? Do the dangers it can offer us tomorrow really matter if we cannot overcome our problems of today? The answer is no. Denis Waitley once wrote, “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” In the same spirit, we must realize that no matter how we are born, our future has always depended on our humanity; this is the responsibility any perfect human being must bear.

Unfortunately, this is a trait not even modern eugenics can select for.

Patrick An, opinion editor, is a senior physiology and neurobiology major. He can be reached at patandbk@gmail.com.

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ast week, the University System of Maryland Board of Regents officially changed the name of the football stadium from Byrd Stadium to Maryland Stadium. The change ended months of heated debate — at least temporarily — over the honoring of former university President and Athletic Director Harry Clifton “Curley” Byrd, an accomplished administrator but also a notorious racist and segregation advocate. The change comes as universities and governments across the country have faced criticism for naming events, buildings and ships after individuals who were slave owners or openly racist.

But Byrd Stadium was not the only place on the campus named after a segregation advocate and racist — or even a slaveholder. One of this state’s founding families, the Calverts, were slaveholders. Charles Calvert, the third Lord Baltimore, is the namesake of both Charles County and Charles Hall on this very campus. He led the charge to enslave this state’s black indentured servants in 1664.

Francis Scott Key, writer of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and namesake of a university building, was a slave owner and advocate for slave owners. John Eager Howard was a Revolutionary War hero, governor, U.S. representative and U.S. senator.

Yet he too was a slaveholder in this state — and his name is preserved in Howard County and Howard Hall on the campus.

I’m sure these aren’t the only examples of people with checkered pasts being honored on this campus — or elsewhere. Some people probably harbored racist and sexist views, denied the vote to certain groups, discriminated against immigrants or didn’t support same-sex marriage.

George Washington, a national hero and our nation’s first president, was a slave owner — and he has more honors than anyone can count, including the capital city and an entire state named after him. Franklin Delano Roosevelt put an entire ethnic population into prison camps during World War II. Mohandas Gandhi, a legendary figure for justice, regarded South African blacks as an inferior race.

This state’s name comes from a queen who helped rule over a global

empire that committed countless atrocities. Future generations might even judge our current leaders as “uncivilized” and “evil” for things we allow to happen today.

So what do we do? Rename many of our buildings, schools, cities and states?

Do we ignore the accomplishments or injustices perpetrated by our forebearers?

It depends.

I should write another column questioning why we honor individuals at all.

But assuming we want to continue to do so, it’s fair to say that we honor them for their contributions to society and hold them up as some example to aspire to, if only in part. It allows us to remember who great contributors were and celebrate what they accomplished for society — benefits that we all reap today.

Naming an institution after a person is a designation of honor. It’s not a complete endorsement of all their thoughts and actions, but it does recognize the person’s accomplishments as being positive for the society. And it’s up to us in society to weigh the good with the bad when honoring and recognizing important people in our past.

We must also view individuals in the context of their time. Few exceptional individuals have been able to hold views — and accomplish significant social progress and outcomes — that varied greatly from the consensus of the time.

Just as doctors and psychologists know far more about their sciences today than in centuries prior, today’s leaders have been able to learn from the shortcomings of our predecessors, yet rely on the very accomplishments of our forebears to build a greater society. We must seek out more individuals whose contributions to society have been missed — and who have set positive examples for its members.

Finally, we must see the whole of a person. Don’t hide the faults and evils perpetrated. If we identify the sins, flaws and triumphs of our past, society doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel and learn valuable lessons for the future. Renaming Byrd Stadium was the right decision, but let’s not forget the flaws in many of our honored leaders.

Matt Dragonette, opinion editor, is a senior accounting and government and politics major. He can be reached at mdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

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FELLOWS From PAGE 1 putting College Park on the track to become a real world-class city,” Rosapepe said. “It’s really almost a historic period.”

The Landmark apartments and the in-progress Hotel at the University of Maryland are perhaps the most visible signs of the city’s “unprecedented economic boom,” Fellows said, with $540 million in active development, according to the city’s 2014 economic development report.

In addition to the new developments changing the face of Route 1, the city’s charter has been updated, too. It now includes a provision stating that the city will not discriminate based on religion, gender or sexual orientation, among other bases, with regards to employment, housing and public accommodation.

That’s one of the changes Fellows said he is most proud of from his time in office.

When Fellows took office in 2009, he pledged to increase collaboration with the university on public safety, housing and development, education, transportation and sustainability. He can rattle off numerous ways each area has seen improvements.

To improve safety, the city implemented speed cameras, lowered the speed limit and built a median barrier after a spate of pedestrian accidents on Route 1, including three pedestrian deaths in 2014. It invested more than $6 million in a supplemental police force to work alongside Prince George’s County Police and University Police, Fellows said, and in 2013, the university’s Code of Student Conduct was expanded to apply off the campus.

Fellows’ tenure also saw the creation of the Neighborhood Quality of Life Committee, which deals with problems between long-term residents and students and the opening of new luxury apartment buildings like

Domain College Park and Landmark, with more on the way.

The city and the university worked to found College Park Academy, a charter school that scored above state and county averages in all categories of the Maryland School Assessment last year.

With plans for the Purple Line light rail on track — following support from this university and the City Council — transportation is poised to improve. And this year, the council voted to support a comprehensive City Operations Sustainability Plan.

The city and this university launched their Greater College Park vision last summer — an initiative encompassing a series of announcements such as the creation of the Maryland International Incubator and a homeownership program to incentivize university employees to live in the city.

Fellows is “easy to talk to and listens well,” said university President Wallace Loh. “We’ve been able to do many things together as a result. His involvement and very open style of communication has been essential to it.”

Fellows doesn’t take credit for many of the initiatives that came about in the last six years.

Instead, he names the council members and city staffers responsible for making them happen. As mayor, he said, one of his primary goals was enabling others to take on leadership roles.

“I wanted to not make it about me as mayor, but to make it about the council,” Fellows said. “I think I did a pretty good job empowering council members to be as good of leaders as they could be. I think we get more accomplished if we’re sharing credit and new leadership is developed.”

That mission is part of why Fellows said he’s known as a “pretty quiet elected official.”

After his 14-minute speech at last week’s inauguration ceremony, newly sworn-in District 1 Councilwoman Christine Nagle joked it was the most she had ever

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“It’s my observation that we can accomplish more with the mayor saying less,” Fellows said.

His style comes in sharp contrast to former Mayor Stephen Brayman, who was “aggressive,” “[had] strong opinions” and was called a “bully” by one councilwoman, according to a 2009 Diamondback article.

But Fellows’ tenure was not without disagreement. The council voted to rebuild City Hall in its current location downtown, ending a decadeslong discussion in which residents expressed interest in relocating the building to a more central spot.

“The location of the City Council should serve all the citizens — more than half of them live in the north part, and I simply do not think it is fair to have them drive all the way down here to do city business when other locations are available,” Arthur Eaton, vice president of the North College Park Citizens Association, told The Diamondback in 2014.

The council also voted 5-3 to lower the minimum age to run for College Park office to 18, which Fellows said created a sense of division.

Wojahn said he learned from both mayors he served under.

The biggest lesson Fellows taught him is how to “build

consensus through patience and listening and allowing others to step forward and take initiative,” he said.

Fellows endorsed Wojahn for his seat after he decided that six years “was about right” to serve as the city’s mayor. Following “lots of 14- to 16-hour days,” he wants to focus more of his time on his full-time job as a program manager at this university’s Environmental Finance Center.

“He has an understanding and ability to relate to and engage, not just leaders and elected officials, but also citizens,” said EFC Director Daniel Nees. “He’s been very effective.”

Fe l l o w s w i l l a l s o b e working as part of Hillary Clinton’s State Leadership Council for Maryland.

“Being mayor was only part of my goal of making College Park and Prince George’s County and the world a better place,” he said. “It’s nice to focus on my full-time work, which is very related to what I was doing as mayor — generally, social change and making the world a better place.”

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generate revenue.

The first phase took place in this semester, Allen said, when late fee parking violations, meter fines and surface lot meter parking fees all ramped up.

The second and third phases could require double-digit registration fees in 2016 and 2017, with increases between 10 and 12 percent for both resident students and commuters with cars, he said.

“I am not optimistic to think they will be successful in mitigating those fee increases again,” Allen said. “I think there will be significant fee increases this coming year and the next following year.”

DOTS plans to help ease resident students through this transition, he said. It will provide more Zipcars for students and launch a bike-share program next spring, DOTS spokeswoman Anna McLaughlin said.

The bike-share will be a partnership between the university and College Park that will allow students to borrow bikes for both leisure and travel purposes.

In addition to using ShuttleUM buses to navigate across the campus and around College Park, DOTS will also encourage carpooling, McLaughlin said.

The department will consider making adjustments to its Shuttle-UM service if necessary, Allen said. DOTS will observe changes in where students are located so it can better accommodate them.

While the reduction in parking will frustrate some students in the short term, Allen implores students to trust the process.

“These projects and every new facility being built on campus makes everyone’s education more valuable,” Allen said. “It’s worth enduring temporary pain for very long-term gain.”

The loss of more than 2,500 parking spaces by fall 2017 will result in increased parking fees and restrictions for noncommuting freshmen, sophomores and juniors, DOTS officials said.

The start of various construction projects at this university — notably the expansion of Cole Field House beginning this month and the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation — will lead to a 2,655 parking space reduction in the next two years, said David Allen, director of the Department of Transportation Services.

To determine parking priority, DOTS is following a pecking order that places freshman oncampus resident students on the bottom, Allen said. As of now, freshman resident students will not be able to park on the campus beginning in fall 2016.

By fall 2017, sophomore and junior on-campus resident students will also be prohibited from parking on the campus, Allen said.

The Residence Hall Association said there should be an evaluative process to determine parking priority, he said. In some instances, a freshman might need a car on the campus more than a junior would.

The department is anticipating that roughly 50 exceptions will be made from the estimated 400 to 500 freshmen who will lose parking next year, he said.

“There will be exceptions, and we will work with RHA to c re ate t h at e xc ep t ion process,” Allen said.

To combat the financial strain parking space reduction imposes on the department, he noted DOTS has initiated a three-year, three-phase plan to mbricesaddlerdbk@gmail.com

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FUTURE From PAGE 1 “There’s no reason that College Park can’t also compete with other world-class college towns, and we should push for that as residents and citizens,” Lovaas said.

University and city officials are collaborating to improve these quality-of-life issues in the city as more projects get underway, College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn said.

Record-brea ki ng fu ndraising has spurred unprecedented campus development projects, and the construction of a $150 million fourstar hotel has attracted more companies and businesses to the city. College Park is on its way to becoming a “top college town,” said Ken Ulman, chief strategy officer for economic development.

A CULTURE OF COLLABORATION Live music, student performances and food that isn’t pizza will soon be joining the mix of bars and restaurants along Route 1.

T he for mer site of T he Barking Dog will be transformed into a multipurpose art house and restaurant as part of a public-private partnership between this university and the Philadelphia-based music venue Milkboy. The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center will sponsor musical performances, while Milkboy will book artists and provide customers with a full food and beverage menu.

This venue will come to embody the developing symbiotic relationship between this university and the city, said Omar Blaik, the founder of real estate development firm U3 Ventures.

“We have been thinking about uses that can be enjoyed by not only students and not only faculty and not only by community members, but all of them,” Blaik said. “That’s what great college towns are about — they don’t segregate; they combine.”

Since university President Wallace Loh took over in 2011, there’s been a renewed sense of collaboration between the city and university, Wojahn said.

“T he cou nty i s a g reat place to do business, the city has shared our vision, and the [university] president has staked a lot for this overall greater College Park vision,”

Ulman said. “The stars are aligned from the public and private sectors.”

The City of College Park and this university have also prioritized the vision of a Greater College Park, which h a s a t h ree-pron ged approach focusing on campus developments, public-private research collaborations and downtown projects.

In the past year, plans developed for the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation, companies announced moves to the M Square Research Park and Innovation District and construction began on The Hotel at the University of Maryland.

The university and city also worked on ways to attract more faculty and staff to the city — about 4.5 percent of university employees live in College Park — with a homeownership program that provides loans to cover a city home’s down payment and closing cost.

Eric Olson , executive director of the College Park CityUniversity Partnership, said the program is “on the right track.” By the end of this year, the homeownership program will have helped five university faculty and staff members close on homes throughout College Park, Olson said.

“You cannot be fully integrated if your faculty and staff are employees that come in the morning and leave in the afternoon, because then they are not part of the community; then there is no symbiotic relationship,” Blaik said.

“By having more faculty and staff live in the community, you basically totally blur the line between us versus them.”

This university and the city worked together to establish a charter school, the College Park Academy, in 2013 with the goal of making the city — located in a county known for poor education — more attractive for families.

To bring more families, faculty and staff, the city is also focusing on creating more market-rate housing for professionals, said Miriam Bader, the city’s senior planner.

Ongoing construction for market-rate apartments and townhomes include The Boulevard at 9091, Alta at Berwyn House and Monument Village.

“We are trying to encourage faculty and staff to live here rather than commuting because we are hoping to reduce the traffic on Route 1, so we are trying to encourage a walkable community,”

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Bader said.

New leadership has catalyzed a greater commitment toward collaboration between the city and the university.

Former university President Da n Mote “never seemed particularly interested in collaboration with the city,” Wojahn said.

“Dr. Loh has willingness to engage and invest in the city, and [former] Mayor Fellows was the right person from the city to really reach across and make that bridge happen to work collaboratively with the university,” Wojahn said.

MONEY MAKES CHANGE This university has invested several million dollars in university relations over the past three years, university spokesman Brian Ullmann said.

The university’s College Pa rk Fo u nd at ion , wh ic h handles donations, recently hired about 25 staff members to increase not only the size of donations, but also the donor base, U llman n said. T h is university already exceeded fiscal year 2014’s recordbreaking donations, which totaled $200 million, he said.

More donors are engaged because of the university’s recent “prominence” with its projects on and off the campus, said Mary Burke, assistant vice president of university development.

“The good execution and the recent buzz — and there you go; that’s your magic sauce,” said Peter Weiler, this university’s vice president of university relations.

The university has four main donation-driven projects, all of which catalyzed over the past one to two years: the $155 million Cole Field House renovations, the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation, A. James Clark Hall and the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center.

Each of the four received major contributions from former university students.

Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank donated $25 million toward the Cole renovations; Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe donated $31 million toward the Iribe Center; A. James Clark donated $15 million toward Clark Hall; and Edward St. John donated $10 m illion toward the St. John Center.

A long w it h t hese la rge gifts, the number of donors increased. During the 2015 fiscal year, 41,000 people

the former barkinG dog location will become a multi-use space for university students and the community to enjoy food and entertainment. Officials said this space is representative of collaboration between the city and the university. tom hausman/the diamondback contributed money to this university, 7,000 more than in the previous year.

“There is no doubt that our campus is in the midst of a transformation,” Ullmann wrote in an email. “What’s remarkable about this boom is the role our alumni have played in making them a reality.”

A CHANGE IN VISION A fter losi ng last yea r’s gubernatorial election with running mate Democratic Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Ulman, a former Howard County executive, said he looked for ways to improve the state’s economy.

“I kept com i ng back to the University of Maryland, which is a tremendous catalyst for economy,” Ulman told T he Diamondback in December 2014.

In 2011 and 2012, the university and the city were facing a lot of “deep-rooted cynicism,” Blaik said. However, since Loh’s inauguration in April 2011, this university has stepped up “to revitalize its edges,” he said.

“When you are in places when the market is dormant, the conventional opinion is that nothing can happen here because nothing has happened here,” Blaik said. “There is always a reflection of the past to predict the future. We have several projects to demonstrate that our past does not indicate our future.”

After the university hired Blaik in 2011, he remodeled the East Campus project — a town center to be located at the current site of The Hotel — which would compete with downtown College Park, Blaik said.

Instead, Blaik, Loh and

Ulman envisioned an Innovation District that would be tied to the research park located near the campus, a place for future technology and other research experts to go after graduation. Ulman recruited startup companies to relocate to the city.

The Innovation District is located near The Hotel and close to the College Park Metro Station, which will make the walk to the Metro much “more inviting and enjoyable” and really “knit together the research park and Innovation District,” Ulman said.

“Our alumni have created some of the great companies in the country and almost none of them are located in College Park,” Ulman said. “We need a place for the companies that are starting on campus, we need a place for them to grow and thrive, we need a place to bring new companies that want to join us here.”

Some companies, such as battery developer FlexEl, need larger warehouses and facilities — which the city does not have — to accommodate manufacturing and labs. FlexEl was scheduled to relocate from College Park to Virginia because it needed more space; however, Ulman worked with the company to quickly remodel a larger facility nearby.

“T here wasn’t a job for someone at this university to say, ‘You’re not leaving; we’ll find you something nearby,’ b u t [re a l e s t a te] i s v e r y limited,” Ulman said. “FlexEl wanted to stay here and work collaboratively,” but finding the space was a problem.

The city and the university have “so much untapped potentia l” to attract a nd retain both small and large compa n ie s, U l m a n sa id , but this will not be possible without “a great university town where faculty and staff want to live.”

“When you have an ecosystem that attracts businesses and the community, then those businesses want to stay instead of leave, and you end up with a very virtuous cycle,” Blaik said.

The Hotel also served as an anchor and catalyst that attracted other businesses to the area, Loh said. After its announcement, many other developers expressed interest in relocating to College Park.

“This was so important in ways that we never quite understood. The reason nobody came here before: They felt

that the demand for their product … was not there,” Loh said. “They key turning point was we had requests for proposa ls a nd we had four or five bids from chains like Hilton or Marriott, all of them submitted bids on the condition it would be subsidized by the university. Once the governor approved, once he started The Hotel, then they started flocking in.”

T h e H o te l p ro j e c t i s a 10-story hotel and conference center w it h 43 ,000 squ a re feet of ba l l roomstyle meet i ng space t h at will completely transform the city, Bader said.

T he Hote l pre s e nt s a n opportunity for more and higher-quality conferences, restaurants and retail in the city, lifetime resident David Toledo said.

“There’ll be a lot more collaborative efforts and working with the university and realestate developers to increase everything we have to offer here and really turn College Park into a legitimate college town,” said Toledo, 25.

The university and the city are doing “something incredible” by “luring” companies to the city, Ulman said during President Loh’s annual State of the Campus address.

“T he go o d news i s t he phone is ringing, whereas two to three years ago, the p h o n e w a s n ’ t r i n g i n g ,” Ulman said. “We’ve created a vision, we just need to carry it out. People are interested, there’s a buzz.”

In addition to the retail and restaurant space below The Hotel, Ulman said, the back of The Hotel will have space for compa n ies that want to relocate to the city.

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ESSAY | MUSTN’T BE SANTA

CONFESSIONS OF A NONBELIEVER What it’s like to grow up celebrating a completely Santa-less Christmas year after year

By Anna Muckerman @annamuckerman Staff writer I never left cookies for Santa. I never snuck out of bed to catch a glimpse of his reindeer. In fact, I never believed in him at all.

Yes, I still listen to Christmas music. No, I don’t burn Advent calendars or shudder a t t h e s i g h t o f l i g h te d houses. But throughout my life, the fact that I’ve never celebrated this dear tradition has plagued me. Sneering high-school comments have sent me on a journey of reconciliation. Will I ever understand the wideeyed wonder of a child on Christmas morning? Maybe I’m forever destined to view Christmas through the lens of a 43-year-old workaholic.

How could such a misfortune have befallen me? This isn’t one of those my-olderbrother-ruined-it-whenI-was-4 scenarios; it was simply never part of my Christmas morning.

Be fo re yo u ca l l m e a Christmas-hating monster, let me pass the blame.

When I was old enough to start believing in Santa, my spawn-of-Krampus parents sat me down to cure me of

santa claus has come to define commercial Christmas for many, but not this writer. all Christmas innocence.

They called Santa “a game parents play with their kids.”

They said they didn’t like the concept of coercing kids into good behavior for Santa’s reward. And they said it was cruel to make kids cry when their holiday fantasy came crashing down around them.

Nipping Santa in the bud was quite possibly one of the worst parenting decisions since Ralphie’s dad (“Santa”) let him get the Red Ryder BB gun.

Nonetheless, I never broke the news to anyone in my class. I should have felt like the smartest second grader

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on the planet. (“Teacher, why must I share crayons with these Santa-believing Neanderthals? Haven’t you a special box for the enlightened?”) And I never had reverse Santa doubt either. My parents snapping, “Don’t look in that bag!” made it pretty clear that Santa wasn’t the

source of wrapping paper joy.

To this day, my dad writes, “To: Anna From: Santa” on my presents, to which I respond with the you-ruined-my-childhood death smile. I don’t think either of my parents regrets the decision to be honest with me, but I know it spawned

from pure selfishness. They wa n te d t h e C h r i s t m a s morning hugs and “Thanks, Mom!” rather than watching it go to some fictitious reindeer herder.

I imagine my Christmas is slightly different than a former believer. I never sat on a mall Santa’s lap until my 14th birthday as a joke at a rundown outlet, and I must say, the resulting picture is enough to scare any hovering mother.

I also know that, for many people, Santa is a cherished memory, reminding them of a time when they were so innocently willing to believe in Christmas magic. And there’s something special about that; it’s the reason so many adults have fond memories of Santa and, perhaps most tellingly, the reason it lives on as a beloved tradition.

Santa represents Christmas cheer, love and warm feelings — sentiments everyone can appreciate, regardless of their Santa past. I’ll never understand what I missed out on, but I do know one thing: If there’s a jolly, bearded man somewhere in the frosty North Pole, I’ll indefinitely be on the naughty list. amuckermandbk@gmail.com

REVIEW | R. KELLY’S THE BUFFET

undercooked The king of R&B returns with an album that’s too familiar for its own good

By Patrick Basler @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback R. Kelly sings about sex, sexy women and having sex with those sexy women.

At this point, it’s to be expected; even his biggest pop crossovers are just as likely to be bumped (literally) in the bedroom as they are on the dance floor. And despite his troubled past with the subject — the 48-year-old R&B singer has been accused of rape more than once and was involved (but acquitted) in a child pornography trial over an infamous sex tape — R. Kelly’s late-career music hasn’t shifted its focus from sex. 2013’s Black Panties was one of his raunchiest releases to date, featuring “my life is a porno” anthems like “Legs Shakin” and “Marry the P----” — both selfserious, absurdly sexual songs, gross enough to make listeners both laugh and swear they’ll become celibate.

But just in case you were hoping that The Buffet — this year’s innocently titled follow-up to Black Panties — would be a change of pace for the King of R&B, the album’s opening track goes out of its way to tell you otherwise.

“The Poem” is exactly what the name suggests, a spoken-word in-

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troduction that doubles as the most uncomfortable minute and 19 seconds of an album in 2015. It’s the type of thing you never want to listen to using earbuds — R. Kelly’s soft-spoken seduction and mid-poem slurping (which lasts for a whole six seconds) are even worse when they’re being whispered directly into your ear.

Luckily, “The Poem” is over quickly (although it seems like an eternity). But considering the actual music begins with the track “Poetic Sex,” which boasts the opening lines “My sex is poetic/ I’m about to get your mind pregnant,” it’s clear from the get-go that The Buffet is a one-dish affair.

Not to say that Kelly isn’t capable of doing that one thing incredibly well.

Mid-tempo R&B cuts like the Jhene Aiko-featuring “Let’s Make Some Noise” and the throwback jam “All My Fault” are modern takes on the type of tracks that made Kelly a superstar.

Musically, many of the songs bear a striking resemblance to Jeremih’s Late Nights: The Album , which debuted a week before The Buffet. But while Jeremih, featured here on the trap-leaning “Switch Up,” has made strides to separate himself from his early cornball sex songs like “Birthday Sex,” R. Kelly continues to shun subtlety in favor of face-value tracks

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And against the odds set by the album’s first few tracks, that decision occasionally works in his favor.

“Marching Band” is immediately attention-grabbing, with a lively, horn-y beat and horny lyrics to match. Sure, the Juicy J verse beats the “sex is like music” concept to death, but it’s a fun track and one of the most unique on the album. Kelly finds a new tempo for his carnal confessions on the upbeat house of “Wake Up Everybody,” an ode to disregarding your neighbors’ sleep patterns.

But these brief excursions aren’t enough to save an album weighed down by Kelly’s preconceived notions of what his own music should sound like. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly about the album, he claimed that he had written 462 songs for The Buffet, and he thought they were all hits. There should barely be any reason to doubt him, as Kelly has been releasing great R&B since the early ’90s. And maybe it’s an album full of hits in his mind, but compared with other R&B albums in 2015, The Buffet has too few choices and enough overindulgence to leave listeners unsatisfied and slightly nauseous.

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9 REVIEW | ‘POWER AND PATHOS’ AT THE NGA

A BRAZEN NEW WORLD “Power and Pathos” at the National Gallery of Art shines a beautiful light on the Hellenistic period

‘POWER AND PATHOS’ finds success through works like “Sleeping Eros” (left) and “Portrait of a Man” (right) that show the best aspects of Hellenistic period art.

By Evan Berkowitz @TheEndOfMyWitz Staff writer I had a medieval history teacher in high school who b e ga n o u r f i rs t c l a ss by framing what he said was the mindset of medieval history.

These were people, he said, who looked upon the ruins of the Roman Empire around them with awe. They saw the long-destroyed viaducts, the once-luxuriant baths, the stunningly beautiful statuary of gods and men they did not know. And they had no idea how people just like them could have produced it.

I n t h e ce n t u r i e s a f te r Ro m e ’s fa l l , a re t u r n to Roman heights of philosophy, science and art dominated the dreams of each conqueror and fantasies of each immortal bard.

To say that medieval art built toward the Renaissance was a desperate attempt to recapture Rome’s ability to portray humanity and the human form is a bit hyperbolic, but not totally out of line.

W h e n t h a t p o i n t wa s finally reached, art exploded, driving the movements and countermovements that

propel visual expression to this day.

But what about before that? Who were the Romans emulating? In our modern notion of lumping Greece and Rome together indiscriminately (for instance: “GrecoRoman,” the “Classics,” using “Parthenon” and “Pantheon” interchangably), it can be easy to forget that a formative few centuries separated the two cultures, along with the Ionian Sea. An immense new exhibition that opened Sunday at the National Gallery of Art shines a light on the Hellenistic period (that between the death of Alexander the Great, king of Greek kingdom Macedon, and the coronation of first Roman Emperor Augustus) and presents an era that helped form our idea of humankind and established a visual axiom that artists follow to this day.

After Alexander the Great’s death, his Hellenistic generals established their own smaller kingdoms across southeastern Europe. Beginning in Greece and spreading throughout this area, a new style of Hellenistic sculpture came

about that prided itself on naturalism.

Notably, the style abandoned the Greek ideal of heroic emotionlessness and perfection for realistic sculptures of sometimes-flawed humans that present a strong sense of feeling.

This attempt to portray humanity through its faults (though there are plenty of heroic, chiseled bodies in the NGA show) was revolutionary and gives the exhibition — “Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World” — part of its title, exploring the empathic pity imbued in these effigies.

It’s a welcome reminder that “brazen,” the adjective for unabashed, bold progression, arrives squarely through the word bronze.

T h e s tyl e b e ca m e i m mensely popular, and its sculptures were bought up or emulated by wealthy Romans near the end of the Republic in an attempt to appear educated and cultured. As the Roman Empire began just before the birth of Jesus, the Hellenistic age came to an end as the indefatigable time of Rome got started.

The sculptures have a

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unique patina, as if discarded among olive groves and great, stone temples. Their haunting beauty recalls that quality that mystified the medieval, here anew to bewilder gallery-goers in the best possible sense.

They have gone ghostly green with age, many with empty metallic eyes that stirringly bespeak the great artistic minds that forged them, fading fast into the long ago. A few uninhabited stone bases whose statues have been lost to history s ta n d l i ke Oz y m a n d i a s ’ pedestal in the great Percy Bysshe Shelley poem: “Look upon their works, ye mighty, and despair!”

The sculptures show a sense of righteous solemnity, some broken by the frenzy of athletics, others by the titular pathos of human flaw, and still others by the cordial undertone of quiet homoeroticism.

Certain sculptural effects — eyeballs crafted from inset marble; mustaches, beards and eyebrows etched into the metal; even stubbly pores and meticulously sculpted eyelashes — showcase great and powerful craftsmanship which

would too long be forgotten.

“The Orator” (as one work can be called) is a master class in philosophy without reading a single word. He is a tour-de-force of learning from his outstretched, steady hand to the inlaid red copper stripe on his toga (recalling the Classical even as the sculpture is inscribed in Etruscan).

The presence of regular p eo pl e — an a th l ete, a n artisan, a balding aristocrat — not heroized but portrayed as they were, often at or under life-size, abandons that Classicism for something truly Hellenistic. Expressions not solemn, per se, but real, clothing draped over rippling musculature with luscious undulation that won’t be equaled post-Rome until the Renaissance — it all builds to a style.

It is meticulous, down to a single curl of hair — on the head or elsewhere — to an eyelash, to a rib. In these great old works is a quality of technique the world had never known before and would desperately yet unsuccessfully try to regain through the Dark Ages.

Roman collectors coveted

these Hellenistic works and displayed them artistically and functionally. An Apollo from Pompeii once used nearby tendrils to hold a tray; the Idolino in the gallery’s last room was likely a lamp holder, according to the exhibition audio tour.

In fact, the “Idolino,” which portrays a young adolescent boy and was given that name after the fact by Italian admirers, typifies the exhibition as it stands centered in the final gallery.

He is an adolescent on the cusp of manhood. Post-Alexander, this new Hellenism grew up wildly. As Augustus was crowned in 27 B.C., Europe stood on a similar cusp: that of the greatest Western empire the world would ever know.

What a beautiful way to show us how – artistically, at least – they got there.

“Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World” runs through March 20 and was organized by the NGA, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy. eberkowitzdbk@gmail.com

REVIEW | THE RIDICULOUS 6

Typical misfire Netflix’s The Ridiculous 6 is a standard Adam Sandler film, for better or worse

By Mel DeCandia @meldecandia Staff writer Back in the 1990s, Adam Sandler made classic movies such as Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison ,and performed the now-famous “The Chanukah Song” as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. But as time has gone on, Sandler’s work has gotten progressively more immature, inappropriate and dull. His new film, The Ridiculous 6, which was released on Netflix on Friday, is simply the latest in a string of disappointments.

Surprisingly, the premise isn’t entirely awful: A man (Sandler) learns he has five half-brothers (Rob Schneider, Taylor Lautner, Jorge Garcia, Luke Wilson and Terry Crews), and the group sets out to find the father who abandoned them.

U n f o r t u n a te l y, a n y w i t o r cogency the plot lends itself is squandered in Sandler’s hands.

Instead, viewers are treated to nearly two straight hours of graphic gags and sexual innuendos, as well

the ridiculous 6 falls well short of being anything really enjoyable, despite having a cast filled with many familiar, famous faces. photo via youtube as myriad poop jokes. Much like most of Sandler’s recent movies, The Ridiculous 6 seems aimed at an audience comprised solely of prepubescent boys.

Worse, the film is set in the Wild West and includes a parade of offensive stereotypes. Native Americans, who in the film raise Sandler’s character, White Knife, are portrayed in the same hack-

neyed and ignorant light that they were in the original Westerns. In April, several news outlets even reported that approximately a dozen Native American extras walked off set because they were so offended by the script.

It’s true: Watching Sandler wear traditional Native American tribal clothes and speak with affected diction is uncomfortable. Thank-

fully it lasts for only the first 20 minutes of the movie.

Native Americans are not the only targets, though. Schneider’s ( Grown Ups ) Ramon is the embodiment of Mexican cliches; h e wea rs a p o n c h o a n d so m brero, speaks with a less-thanauthentic accent, and even rides a donkey while his brothers ride horses. Lautner’s ( Twilight ) Lil’

Pete seems like a gross, mocking portrayal of someone with a developmental disorder.

But anyone surprised by these offensive stereotypes should remember Sandler’s 2008 film You Don’t Mess with the Zohan , in which he and John Turturro play warring Israeli and Palestinian men, respectively.

Here and there we get a glimpse of The Ridiculous 6 ’s potential.

The band of half-brothers sings a clever song about what it would be like to know their father, proclaiming, “It’s fun to have brothers all from different mothers.” Terry Crews’ Chico makes a big show of confessing to them that he’s half black — the only time the film handles race well at all. Yet these moments are obscured quickly by the onslaught of obnoxious and offensive antics.

The cast itself is awesome, featuring cameos from Steve Buscemi, Dav i d S pa d e , Va n i l l a Ice a n d others. But on the whole, The Ridiculous 6 is far from stellar. mdecandiadbk@gmail.com

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the diamondback | sports | MONday, december 14, 2015

auslander From PAGE 12 John is a Terps graduate assistant, not a reserve forward anymore. Instead of the private workouts, John imparts advice to Kent during practices at Xfinity Center. Kent isn’t preparing for Herndon High School basketball games anymore. He’s a Terps reserve guard and part of the scout team.

But those workouts and one-on-one games helped each brother, in their own way, arrive at their current situation. Leading workouts with Kent prepared John for coaching and allowed Kent to develop into a player who walked on to one of the top teams in the nation. And despite the brothers’ hotly contested scrimmages, they have each other’s backs. They want the best for the Terps, their favorite college growing up, and each other.

“To be honest with you, I would do anything for him,” John said. “I’d go to war for him.”

MARYLAND FAMILY guard rasheed sulaimon holds 6-year-old Cameron Hiller before the start of Maryland Madness on Oct. 17.

cameron From PAGE 12 A little more than a year later, the two stand in an empty Xfinity Center. Sulaimon’s a member of the Terrapins men’s basketball team now, but Cameron still adores him. The 6-foot-4 guard grabs the 6-year-old and parades him around the court. Sulaimon tells him he’s the champion as they play pickup basketball for the second straight home game.

“That’s Cameron’s best friend right now,” says Robert Hiller, Cameron’s dad, while watching the two play. “They absolutely adore each other.”

On the trip back to this state the night after the DukeVirginia game, Cameron falls asleep before they’re out of North Carolina. The game tipped at 7 p.m., so by the time they finish dinner after the game it’s long past Cameron’s bedtime.

A day later, he hasn’t forgotten what he witnessed in Durham, North Carolina. Each time he plays mini basketball around the house, he’s playing as Sulaimon, who dropped a game-high 21 points against the Cavaliers.

It makes it that much more special when Cameron meets Sulaimon after Duke’s game against Furman a season later.

Sulaimon picks him up and they flash their index fingers to signal No. 1 as Hiller snaps a photo.

“It was no big deal,” Hiller says. “It was a nice little meeting, but nothing special.”

Hiller, who grew up a Blue Devils fan because of his mom’s ties to North Carolina, knows he has to take Cameron to Maryland Madness on Oct. 17.

The Terps are holding an autograph session in Xfinity Pavilion two hours before player introductions, but Hiller and Cameron are running late. By the time they get inside, the line is hundreds of fans long.

So Hiller stays behind and instructs his son to weave through the masses toward Sulaimon. Maybe the senior would remember him.

Soon, Hiller loses Cameron in the sea of adoring fans.

“I’m standing there in the back of the room waiting and I’m like ‘Where’s my kid?’”

Hiller says. “I can’t see him.

I’m 30 yards away I can’t find my 6-year-old. And then I see Rasheed shaking hands and talking to people and here’s Cameron at his feet.”

Sulaimon does remember him. In fact, Sulaimon’s mother, Angela, has the thankyou note Hiller wrote to Sulaimon after the Furman game.

So Sulaimon and Cameron pose for a picture, holding the photograph they had taken nearly a year earlier after Duke had beaten Furman, 93-54.

The graduate transfer is still getting acclimated to life in College Park, so he can’t help but smile when he sees Cameron.

“When I saw him, it was kind of a bright spot and a familiar face,” Sulaimon said. “He’s a great kid, and like I said, kids are just kind of a soft spot for me.”

The Maryland Madness show is approaching fast and Sulaimon has to go, so he gives Hiller his phone number and tells him to text him afterward. They meet up briefly on the court and play for a few minutes with one of assistant coach Bino Ranson’s sons.

So when Hiller and his son come back to watch the Terps play against St. Francis (PA) on Dec. 4, they bring their own basketball for Cameron to play with on the court.

Long after most of the announced sellout crowd of 17,950 dissipates, Sulaimon remains on the court. The cameras are no longer on. The seats are empty. And most people have begun carrying on with their Friday night.

But there’s Sulaimon, shagging rebounds for 6-year-old Cameron. Hoisting him up to lay the ball in. Instructing him on the perfect shooting stroke.

For nearly 30 minutes, the two play on the court together.

“Whatever I can do to just make their day better, I’m willing and always able to do that,” Sulaimon says.

By t h e t i m e t h ey p a r t ways, it’s long after 10 p.m.

Cameron should have been asleep. He doesn’t doze off on the 25-minute ride back to Columbia, though.

Cameron has to keep telling his dad it’s the best night of his life.

“Over and over again,” Hiller says, “even the next day, it was the best night of his life.”

Eight days later, Hiller and Cameron walk up to the ticket window at Xfinity Center. Sulaimon has left a pair of tickets with their names on them.

“How does he know Rasheed?” the woman at the window asks.

“I’m like, I can’t even explain it,” Hiller says.

Hours later — after doling out a career-high 10 assists — Sulaimon lifts Cameron above his head. Cameron dunks the ball and hangs from the rim.

“You won the championship, bud!” Sulaimon tells him as the ball falls through the twine.

Hiller looks on from two rows behind the Terps’ bench with a smile plastered across his face. He tries to imagine having this chance to play with his sports hero growing up. Hiller says it would’ve been like playing with Cal Ripken Jr. “It’s just beautiful to watch,” Hiller says. “To watch your kid have so much fun, there is nothing better.”

After awhile, Sulaimon makes his way over to the row

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in front of Hiller with Cameron running behind. They take a seat and Sulaimon begins asking him what he wants for Christmas. The conversation lasts about a minute before Cameron grows impatient. He wants to play more basketball.

“Want to see one more good thing I can do?” Cameron asks.

He r u n s ba c k o n to t h e court with Sulaimon looking on from the sideline. He’s losing by one, Cameron says, before beginning a countdown. 5…4…3…2…1… He heaves the ball upward with all his might. It doesn’t make it above the basket.

“Timeout,” Cameron yells.

This time Sulaimon begins the countdown. Again Cameron’s shot falls short, and again he calls, “Timeout!” Sulaimon and Hiller begin laughing.

So this time Sulaimon calls for the ball from the sideline.

He’ll throw Cameron the inbounds pass. One second left.

Cameron shoots again. Swish.

“They win the NCAA championship!” Sulaimon shouts toward the court in an empty Xfinity Center.

Both coach Mark Turgeon’s squad and Duke sit inside the top 10 in the Associated Press poll, so it’s possible the two teams may run into each other at the Final Four. But who does a boy named after the Blue Devils’ arena cheer for if they meet the Terps in Houston — Sulaimon’s hometown — this April?

On a ride down to Cameron’s third game at Duke on Dec. 5, Hiller turns to his son and asks the question.

Cameron doesn’t hesitate.

“Maryland,” he says.

It takes Hiller by surprise, so he asks, “Why Maryland?”

“Because Rasheed plays for Maryland,” Cameron replies.

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The Auslander brothers grew up in a Terps basketball household. Both their parents went to this university, and their hometown of Herndon, Virginia, is about 30 miles from College Park.

“They are Maryland Terrapin through and through,” Herndon varsity basketball coach Gary Hall said.

Their dad, Bill, coaches summer and fall league teams in the area, and John towered above the other kids in his kindergarten physical education class despite being a year younger, said Hall, then an elementary school PE teacher. At age 9, John started playing AAU, and Kent tagged along to every away tournament.

That trend continued when John joined the Terps. Kent went to any home game he could and even made the trek to a few road venues. When the ACC tournament rolled around, Kent made sure he was there.

While Kent didn’t sit in the student section — he usually opted for the front row behind the Terps bench — he rushed the court a few times after a Terps upset. He particularly cherishes a 51-50 win over N.C. State in 2013 and John’s senior day in 2014 when the Terps upset then-No. 5 Virginia, 75-69.

“Growing up a Maryland fan, this is my No. 1 place I’d want to go,” Kent said.

But it wasn’t a foregone conclusion Kent would play for the Terps. Despite his connection to the program, he’d have to earn his spot.

EARNING A SPOT The text would come every night like clockwork.

Hall had an agreement with his players. If they wanted to work out in the gym before school at 6:30 a.m., they had

to text him the night before.

From the end of Kent’s junior season to the beginning of his senior year, he texted Hall every weeknight. There were times when Hall prayed the text wouldn’t come, but Kent never relented.

“There were some nights I got home a little bit late and I was like, ‘Oh God, please don’t text me,’” Hall said. “But sure enough, every single day.”

Those early morning workouts helped transform Kent from a junior who had “more games where he scored zero than double figures,” Hall said, to a senior who averaged 16.5 points, 6.1 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game.

That work ethic came from Kent’s family. Bill always pushed his sons, and John wanted his younger brother to learn from his missteps and used his experience to help his brother become a better player.

During their private workouts, John taught Kent footwork, how to read screens and other basketball intricacies.

At the time, John said he didn’t realize that teaching and mentoring Kent was preparing him for a career in coaching. But it did.

“To be at the University of Maryland, we had to earn it,” John said. “We had to earn everything.”

While Kent transformed his body and his game in the offseason before his senior season, he had one more hurdle to overcome.

‘KENT, YOU’VE FINALLY ARRIVED’ When John and then-Terps center Alex Len walked into the high school gym during Kent’s junior season, everyone would stare at Len. The Terps star at the time, and a future No. 5 NBA draft pick, towered over everyone else at 7-foot-1.

His entrance created a palpable electricity in the gym.

But Kent struggled to feed off that energy.

While Hall admits he’s superstitious, he saw a correlation between John’s and Len’s presence and Kent’s performance. Hall believes Kent struggled in those games junior year because he wanted to please his older brother so badly.

So while the fans loved Len, Hall came to dread the arrival of the two Terps. “ Eve ryo n e ’s exc i te d ,” Hall said. “And I’m sitting there like, ‘Aw man, this is a big game. Why did they have to come tonight? That means Kent’s not going to play well.’”

But before his senior year, Kent buried those superstitious beliefs. For a tournament at Virginia Commonwealth University, John came down for the weekend to watch his brother play.

Kent excelled, drawing praise from Hall. “ I ’m l i ke , ‘ Yo u k n ow what, Kent? You’ve finally arrived,’” Hall said.

While Kent thrived as a senior, John never stopped imparting advice to his

younger brother, even during games. John had played at Herndon when Hall was the coach — he briefly retired after John’s junior season — so before some second halves began while Kent idled in the layup line, John would reinforce Hall’s ideas.

“Kent, I don’t think you’re engaged as you need to be defensively,” John might say.

By that point, John had coaching aspirations.

BROTHERS’ REUNION John admits he’s too tough on Kent.

The rookie, who’s a sophomore academically, will sometimes make a mistake.

John will correct him with technical advice, but John’s tone and a look of disgust can change the meaning.

“Then it can become me becoming too hard on him kind of thing,” John said.

“I don’t really say things that don’t serve a purpose, though.”

In the pickup games during John’s playing career, he talked trash to make his brother tougher. In practice, John admonishes Kent because he doesn’t want the guard to get left behind. It’s always for Kent’s benefit.

The player-coach role hasn’t affected their relationship. After all, John was always one of Kent’s basketball mentors. Now, they watch film together, and sometimes arguments break out. John is usually right, though, Kent admits.

Even when the brothers are with their parents, basketball is never far from their minds.

“If we go out to family dinners it’ll be me, him and my dad talking basketball,” Kent said. “That’s what we do.”

While John doesn’t suit up for the Terps anymore, his college number, 23, is still in use. Kent wears it.

“Everyone’s like, ‘You sure you want to wear the same number as your brother?”

John recalled people asking Kent.

But they had it wrong.

John wore 23 in college to honor Kent. All his life, John wore 34, but that number is off-limits with the Terps.

Former Terps star Len Bias wore that jersey before he died of a cocaine overdose in 1986.

So Jo h n to o k t h e o p portunity to pay respect to his younger brother when he joined the Terps. Years later, Kent got the chance to don that jersey for the Terps as well.

A lo t h as o ccurred in between from the one-onone pickup games to John offering coaching advice.

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PRE-MED From PAGE 12 it’s a balancing act these players have appeared to master.

“I can’t imagine the amount of science classes and the hours that they’re taking,” coach Brenda Frese said. “But all three of them c o m e i n eve r y d ay, a n d they’re consistent — consistent moods, personalities, happy — where I think the general population would have a tough time in terms of everything that they’re juggling as student-athletes.” *** Confroy, a three-sport athlete at Solon High School in Ohio, always knew she wanted to pursue some sort of career in athletics. And toward the end of her high school career, she became intrigued when she saw doctors help her teammates through sports-related injuries.

So before stepping foot on the campus, her decision was made. The 5-foot-9 sharpshooter would major in biology and pursue a career in sports medicine.

Jones flirted with the idea of becoming a doctor in high school, too, though at times, the preseason All-Big Ten honoree considered going into criminology.

“But then I ultimately went back to wanting to be a doctor,” Jones said. “And I just enjoy working with kids.

I think I wanted to be a pediatrician because of that.”

Howa rd d i d n ’t l eave high school wanting to be a doctor. She didn’t think she’d pursue pre-med after her freshman year, either.

But taking two anatomy classes the summer before her sophomore year piqued her interest.

S h e fo u n d h e rse l f i n terested in learning about diseases and the various systems that comprise the human body. The low-post presence is now taking pre-

durkin From PAGE 12 said. “He’s just that kind of a person.”

After the Terps started the 2015 season 2-4, Anderson found himself in Ann Arbor, Michigan, looking for a new coach. The Randy Edsall era had resulted in little success.

The Terps needed a change from the disciplinarian.

E n t e r D J , M i c h i g a n ’s 37-year-old defensive coordinator who led a Wolverines unit that finished fourth in the country in total defense.

Michigan also increased their win total from 2014 to 2015 by

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requisite classes for the MCAT, which she plans to take next fall. She wants to be a cardiologist.

C o n f r o y, J o n e s a n d Howard all want to go into different professions. But as teammates on a Division I team studying pre-med, they’re one in the same.

“It definitely makes it a little bit more easier to go through those times knowing yo u h ave o t h e r p e o p l e around you that can relate,” Confroy said. *** Walk into the living room of their apartment at The Varsity around test time, and you’ll likely see Jones and Howard sitting on their own couch studying silently.

Confroy, who also lives in the apartment, does her best work in her room.

Confroy’s senior year in high school was the first time the Terps decided to have all their players live together in apartments. And having already expressed her interest to go pre-med before enrolling at this university, the staff decided it was best to pair Confroy with older players that had balanced a heavy workload with college basketball before.

“It’s tough because you’re always having to balance finding time to study and then finding time to still work on your game,” Jones said. “It always helps because there’s three of us, so we help each other.”

Howard and Jones spent a lot of time together last season manning the starting frontcourt. But Howard also served as a mentor for her younger teammate, giving her studying techniques and notes for the classes she’s already taken.

Their tracks have since varied — Jones spent last summer outside the classroom in Gwangju, South Korea, representing the U.S. at the World University Games — but Howard isn’t alone.

four entering the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl.

DJ’s success, Dan said, is a product of his son’s desire to succeed and his comfort in a team setting. When DJ was younger, his friends would often congregate at his house.

They looked to him for advice.

After all, DJ frequently made sacrifices for the team.

A trip to the doctor before his junior year at Boardman High School, in Boardman, Ohio, revealed his ACL had disintegrated from years of wear and tear.

But instead of opting for reconstructive surgery that would’ve ended his season, DJ chose to play. He put on

three pre-med students all compete on the Terps. Brionna Jones (left), Malina Howard (top right) and Kristen Confroy (bottom right) all live together. marquise mckine/the diamondback season. She would come into the gym frazzled from a test earlier in the day, and her worries would linger into practice.

B o t h p l aye rs eve n t u ally realized, however, that basketball and grades were unrelated. Bombing a test d i d n ’t g u a ra n te e a p o o r performance, just as acing o n e wo u l d n ’ t e n s u r e a quality outing.

They dedicated themselves to thriving in both aspects separately.

And Howard and Confroy have done just that. Both players have averaged at least 17.5 minutes per game for a Terps team outscoring opponents by an average of 37.8 points, the second-best margin in the country.

“This year, I think I really understand that this is my escape from it,” Confroy said. “To kind of lock in and enjoy the time here and then lock back into school when I’m done here.”

Howard has reacted the same way. While she tends to worry about school while socializing with the rest of the squad, her coaches have helped ease her worries while on the court.

Howard now views basketball as a place to let go.

“I don’t know how they do it to this day, and I’m with them 24/7,” guard Ieshia Small said. “But I think they do a great job with it.”

him on as a graduate assistant.

DJ initially rejected the offer, choosing to pursue a career in marketing. But he couldn’t stand being away from the game and returned to the Falcons.

“UNBELIEVABLE, THE Known as a quality recruiter WAY THESE KIDS JUST and a likable coach, DJ eventuATTRACT THEMSELVES ally landed at Stanford under coach Jim Harbaugh. And after TO DJ. HE’S JUST three years with the Cardinal, THAT KIND OF A Meyer rehired him to serve as PERSON.” an assistant at Florida.

When Will Muschamp reDAN DURKIN placed Meyer as the Gators’ Terrapins football coach DJ Durkin’s dad coach, he wasn’t sure what to end and outside linebacker at make of DJ. That changed when Bowling Green, serving as a Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops captain his junior and senior called Muschamp to ask if he seasons. As DJ’s career neared was going to retain DJ. “If you’re not keeping him, its end, Meyer offered to keep call me first,” Dan recalls Stoops saying. “I’ve got a spot for him.

I want him.”

Muschamp decided to keep DJ on as the linebackers and special teams coach, wanting to see what else he could offer.

DJ thrived, especially on the recruiting trail. He was named the 2012 Rivals.com Recruiter of Year.

By the end of the 2014 campaign, Muschamp announced he would step down.

In his place, DJ was tasked with leading the team into the 2015 Birmingham Bowl against East Carolina.

After the Gators won, 28-20, defensive end Dante Fowler Jr. approached Dan on the sideline and placed him in a friendly headlock.

“Your son’s been coaching us for the last two and a half weeks,” Fowler said. “He’s been coaching us like he’s going to be

While preparing for the MCAT, she found herself sharing some science classes with Confroy. It allowed the duo to start every morning together before reconnecting on the basketball court in the afternoons.

“We leave and start the day together, and it’s just nice,” Howard said.

Though Confroy said each player likes to study individually, they’ll convene if they have questions. They’re determined to help their teammates reach a common objective that extends beyond the court.

“It’s definitely helpful to be around like-minded people just who are committed to their goals and willing to put in the work,” Confroy said. *** Shortly after joining the Terps in 2012, Howard was stressed.

“It was the first time I actually had to completely really try hard at school,” Howard said. “And so sometimes I think I would bring [stress] on the court.”

Confroy faced a similar problem as a freshman last

a brace. He couldn’t let his teammates down. “[DJ] played his whole junior year without an ACL,” Dan said.

He went on to play defensive

pa p e rs — a n ea sy f i n a l s schedule compared to previous semesters — while Howard has four exams.

Confroy may have it toughest of all, as she’ll prepare to take five assessments.

“The last two weeks have “I DON’T KNOW HOW b e e n b r u ta l , a n d f i n a l s THEY DO IT TO THIS haven’t even started yet,” DAY, AND I’M WITH Confroy said Thursday.

The Terps will at least have THEM 24/7. BUT I the luxury of a lightened THINK THEY DO A workweek. Their next game GREAT JOB WITH IT.” isn’t until Sunday against IESHIA SMALL Maryland Eastern Shore, and Terrapins women’s basketball guard Frese used phrases like “short” Added Frese: “They do a and “intense” to describe this remarkable job. You know week’s practice schedule. when they kind of have these Not that Howard, Jones workloads, but you never and Confroy aren’t used really feel they’re stressed.” to a demanding schedule.

Besides, if the workload *** becomes too much, they know where to turn.

Jones and Howard could see “If they’re stressing they themselves playing either in can turn to me,” Howard the WNBA or overseas, while said. “And we always just Confroy wants to go straight to have a positive interaction medical school after graduation. with each other to help each She already has a list of schools other get through. Because it she plans to apply to. North is really tough and it is vigCarolina is her first choice. orous. But I mean it’s just But first, each player will having the right attitude is have to get through finals what gets you through.” week, which starts Monday.

Jones has two tests and two kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

here for the next 10 years. Never once did he mention he didn’t have a job. Never once did he mention ‘I’m out of here.’ He said we were his guys.”

Now DJ has his own guys, with a five-year contract and the resources to construct a program in his vision. His first test to capture a Big Ten win will come Oct. 1 against Purdue.

A little more than a month later, he’ll walk to the middle of Maryland Stadium and engage in a postgame handshake with Ohio State coach Urban Meyer, the architect of the 2015 national champions.

Fourteen years ago, Meyer saw something in DJ. Terps fans certainly hope he was right. jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

A balancing act Confroy, Jones and Howard set sights on medical school after basketball careers

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer

Centers Brionna Jones (left) AND mALINA HOWARD (RIGHT) work inside the Xfinity Center study lounge over the summer.

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FOOTBALL

During home games, the Terrapins women’s basketball team typically has about an hour between its pregame meal and its warm-up.

Some players return to their rooms to take naps, while others cozy up on couches in the locker room.

But for three players, the break is invaluable. To guard Kristen Confroy and centers Brionna Jones and Malina Howard, it’s a period to focus on their studies.

“The hour makes a big difference,” Confroy said.

In addition to leading the No. 5 Terps to a 10-0 record this season, the trio has been grinding through a series of rigorous courses — cell biology, organic chemistry and genetics, among others.

For them, studying doesn’t stop with reading scouting reports.

Confroy, Jones and Howard want to attend medical school.

And as the Terps continue their quest for a third straight Final Four, See pre-med, Page 11

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Durkin gets start with Meyer New coach learns ropes from Buckeyes head man

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer Dan Durkin could hardly believe what he’d just heard. Sure, his son, DJ Durkin, had always been regarded as a leader among friends and teammates. But DJ was just months into his tenure as Bowling Green’s graduate assistant. He barely knew anything about coaching.

But Falcons coach Urban Meyer was steadfast when he pulled Dan and his wife, Marianne, aside at a 2001 fundraiser in Boardman, Ohio. He insisted that DJ was going to be a head coach one day.

“I looked at him and said ‘Coach, c’mon.’” Dan recalled. “He said, ‘I’m being very serious with you. Your son is going to be a head coach.’”

Fast-forward about 14 years to Dec. 3. Dan is sitting in the front row at Glazer Auditorium, watching as his son is introduced as the new head coach of the Terrapins football team. Athletic Director Kevin Anderson champions DJ as a man with a “winning attitude” and an “innovative football mind,” the perfect fit to try to turn around a program searching for an identity.

“Unbelievable the way these kids just attract themselves to DJ,” Dan See durkin, Page 11

Guard rasheed sulaimon lifts up 6-year-old Cameron Hiller while they play basketball after the Terps’ 96-55 blowout victory over St. Francis (PA) on Dec. 4 at Xfinity Center. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

‘Cameron’s best friend’ 6-year-old Cameron Hiller maintains bond with Rasheed Sulaimon from the guard’s time at Duke

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer Cameron Hiller, 4 years old, can hardly wait to grab his mini basketball when he gets home from preschool Jan. 14, 2014. He dribbles through the living room and hoists a shot

on the mini hoop hanging from the door to his backyard.

“Rasheed for three. Virginia loses,” Cameron says.

A day earlier, Cameron attends his first-ever regular-season college basketball game at Cameron Indoor Stadium — the arena he’s named after. So when Duke guard Rasheed Sulaimon sinks the go-ahead 3-pointer from the left corner

with 18.8 seconds left in the 69-65 win over Virginia, he becomes Cameron’s favorite player.

Cameron re-enacts this scene countless times until his second trip to Duke on Nov. 26, 2014, when he meets his idol after the game for the first time.

See cameron, Page 10

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Work ethic fuels Auslanders Brothers, now united on Terps, grew up pushing each other

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writer It became customary.

By Kent Auslander’s junior year of high school, every workout between him and his older brother, then-Terrapins men’s basketball forward John Auslander, ended in Graduate assistant john auslander (left) and freshman guard Kent Auslander (right) talk during warm-ups a one-on-one game. before the Terps’ 96-55 victory over St. Francis (PA) on Dec. 4 at Xfinity Center. alexander jonesi/the diamondback The two brothers, separated by

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But when the two faced off on the court, arguments broke out. John intentionally tried to provoke Kent.

He wanted his younger brother to become mentally tougher.

“I could get under his skin at the snap of a finger if he wasn’t playing well, and I’d make sure to

do it every time,” John said. “It was all calculated.”

That first year, John won every single time, but as Kent matured, he’d win his fair share, too. More than two years later, John guesses Kent would dominate those contests. But the two don’t compete on the court anymore, even though they are part of the same team, the No. 6 Terps.

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