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Univ announces review of milk study who drank Fifth Quarter Fresh, Fifth Quarter Fresh — did not test a new h i g h-protei n cho col ate other brands of chocolate milk. milk, during the fall 2014 football After learning of some of these season showed improved cogni- concerns, Patrick O’Shea, the unicalled into question its procedures tive and motor function, even after versity’s research vice president, experiencing concussions. announced an institutional review and results.

Within a week, media compa- out of an “abundance of caution” A news release issued Dec. 22 touted the preliminary results of nies such as Vox and HealthNews- and in response to the questions an unpublished study conducted Review.org began to raise ques- raised about the study, university by kinesiology professor Jae Kun tions about the study’s validity spokeswoman Crystal Brown said.

Shim. The study reportedly found and integrity.

The study — partially funded by that high school football players See Milk, Page 2

Multiple media outlets questioned controversial study’s methods and early news release

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer

Chocolate milk was tested. tom hausman/the diamondback

A u n iversity com m ittee w i l l conduct an institutional review of a university study on chocolate milk after several media outlets

In a Snow Daze

Student dies off the campus No foul play suspected, police say; further details to come after investigation ends

Winter Storm Jonas slams city with 19 inches, delaying start of semester

By Michael Brice-Saddler @TheArtist_MBS Staff writer A university student died yesterday at an off-campus residential area along Route 1, Prince George’s County Police said.

T he student d ied at about 5:30 a.m., pol ice spokesma n Harry Bond said, and no foul play is suspected. Police will not release the student’s name until the department completes its investigation.

“We won’t release anything until the investigation comes back and lets us know exactly what happened,” Bond sa id.

“We’ll go from there to determine whether we release a name or not.”

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By Hannah Lang and Zach Melvin @hannahdlang, @ZachM3lvin Staff writers

University students pelt one another with snowballs Monday on McKeldin Mall during a snow day following Winter Storm Jonas. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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FBI headquarters move could spell growth for U programs

City plans for further downtown development

Relocation could spur economic development

By Carly Kempler @CarlyKempler Senior staff writer

New City Hall, public plaza forthcoming

Cybersecurity and criminal justice programs at this university could see increased collaboration and growth if the General Services Administration chooses to relocate the FBI’s headquarters to Greenbelt, Chief Strategy Officer for Economic Development Ken Ulman said.

Last year, the FBI announced it would be relocating its headquarters to one of three possible locations. Two of those locations are within Prince George’s County,

By Carly Kempler @CarlyKempler Senior staff writer The City of College Park is planning to rebuild a City Hall that is “bursting at the seams,” said Terry Schum, the city’s planning director.

City staff and officials occupy of f ice s i n Col lege Pa rk’s Cit y Hall as well as the former Friends School on Calvert Road, which is in “desperate need of repair,” Mayor Patrick Wojahn said.

Despite its downtown location, College Park City Hall is not an icon ic site on Route 1, Woja h n said. The City Council approved the redevelopment plan last year; however, the plans are still in the predevelopment phase.

“It would give the city and our downtown area something with prominence,” Wojahn said. “Every

City Hall will be rebuilt as part of continued redevelopment downtown, also slated to include a new public plaza and a joint office space for the city and the university. file photo/the diamondback prominent city has a civic space in their downtown area, and in terms of our downtown area, we need that.”

The city is also partnering with this university to create a joint office space and a public plaza, according to the current concept design plan. The idea presents a

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While university students hunkered down Friday to prepare for Winter Storm Jonas, university employees bundled up to dust off the snow plows.

The storm, which dumped about 19 inches of snow in the area and delayed the start of spring semester by two days, hit right before spring move-in, forcing the Department of Resident Life to push the first day of move-in to Friday with the hope that some students could beat the storm.

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si ngle bu i ld i ng w ith “sepa rate spaces and identities” for different offices.

T he u n iversity, t h rou g h its College Park Foundation, owns some of t he storef ronts a lon g Route 1 and will combine those See CITY, Page 2

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one in the nearby city of Greenbelt and another in Landover. The third is in Springfield, Virginia.

While the decision is not likely to come out until December or later, the City of College Park is already gearing up for this potential development, said Terry Schum, the city’s planning director.

“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Prince George’s County and for [the University of] Maryland,” Ulman said. “[The] county and Maryland have to seize this opportunity. These opportunities just don’t present themselves, and we cannot miss this one.”

In addition to creating benefits for the university, the potential FBI See FBI, Page 8

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CRIME BLOTTER

By Michael Brice-Saddler @TheArtist_MBS Staff writer Un iversity Pol ice responded to reports of theft, a stolen motor vehicle and vandalism, among other incidents in the past week, according to police reports.

THEFT On Monday at 10:30 p.m., a convenience store employee flagged down an officer in the 4400 block of Knox Road after an individual took several food items from the store, according to reports.

The same perpetrator had also taken an apparel item from another convenience store in the 7300 block of Route 1. Police located the thief near Knox Road and made a n a rrest shor tly after the crimes took place.

He was charged for theft of less than $100 and released that same night.

All items were returned to their respective stores, according to the report.

an officer responded to Lot 15 for a report of vandalism. A woman reported that her right windshield wiper was bent between Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 21 at 7 a.m. Police were again called Tuesday at 12:40 p.m. for a dent over the right front wheel of the car.

Pol ice a re rev iew i ng footage from the parking lot.

Police were also notified of a report of vandalism at Ellicott Hall on Tuesday at 11:30 p.m. This incident is now closed.

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DAMAGE TO STATE PROPERTY

On Jan. 20 and Monday, Un iversity Pol ice were called in response to three different fi re alarms which occurred at the University Health Center, 10 Fraternity Row and Tawes Hall.

According to the report, officials determined that water leakage, caused by burst water pipes, triggered the alarms. Fire officials and Facilities Management were STOLEN MOTOR consulted in each instance.

“When it gets really cold, VEHICLE pipes begin to freeze and Police were notified of a sometimes burst,” police motor vehicle stolen from spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Lot Y at 9 p.m. on Monday. Hoaas said. “Depending The incident is still under where they’re at, they can cause a lot of damage — investigation. so we’re always ready to respond.”

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Milk From PAGE 1 A c om m it te e h a s b e e n for med to ex a m i ne t he study’s procedures, Brown said.

Issuing a news release on a study that has not yet been published is very abnormal, O’Shea sa id. He sa id th is was an isolated incident and one that required further examination.

“That is precisely why we have launched an institutional review: to answer the questions of how this happened a nd why th is happened,” O’Shea said. “The rev iew w i l l e x a m i ne t he institutional and specific issues of this study that led to the decision to send out a press release.”

He said the review will also consider issues of improving the process to ensu re something like this does not happen again.

Sh i m a nd Hagerstow nbased Fifth Quarter Fresh were matched through the university’s Maryland Industrial Partnerships program.

“T he goal of M IPS is to create jobs in Maryland,” said Joseph Naft, the prog ra m’s d i re c tor. “ We d o that by helping innovative Maryland companies. … We provide funding matched by pa r t icipat i n g compa n ies that help fund universityba s e d proje c t s t h at he lp promote job creation in the state of Maryland.”

Resea rchers f rom the University System of Maryland, St. Mary’s College of Maryland and Morgan State University can participate i n t he prog ra m. O f ten, a company will already know a researcher with whom it wants to work, Naft said. If it does not, the program’s staff will reach out to faculty to find the best match in research expertises.

Once a company is matched with a faculty member, they prov ide a joi nt proposa l, which is put through an extensive review process, Naft said. An evaluation board ra n k s a n d c on s id e rs t h e proposals, and the primary criterion is the proposal’s likelihood of creating jobs, Naft said.

T he project w it h F i f t h Quarter Fresh was a twophase project that began in May 2014, he said.

Both the program and any company involved in a project contribute a percentage of the project’s funding, Naft said.

The amount of money contributed by each depends on the size of a given company.

For sta r t ups l i ke F i f t h Quarter Fresh, or companies with 20 employees or fewer, participating firms are required to contribute about 10 percent of a project’s total funding each year. For up to two years, the program can contribute up to $90,000 in funding and the company can contribute up to $10,000.

For larger companies, the program can contribute more funding per year, with the partnering firm matching a larger percentage of funds.

“We require those matches for a number of reasons,” Naft sa id. “P ri ma ri ly because w e w a n t to s e e t h a t t h e company is serious about the research and to see they are able to raise at least that much money. We also want to help raise the probability

“THAT IS PRECISELY WHY WE HAVE LAUNCHED AN INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW: TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS OF HOW THIS HAPPENED AND WHY THIS HAPPENED.” PATRICK O’SHEA

Research vice president of success of job creation in Maryland.”

As a leading research university, this university is committed to the “highest standards of research” and relies on the integrity of its academics for its reputation, which is why this issue is important, O’Shea said.

“We take the matter very seriously and the questions are of concern, and that’s why we instituted the review and the inquiry to try and get a better understanding of this study and the results that it yielded,” Brown said. meichensehrdbk@gmail.com

CITY From PAGE 1 foundation properties with the city’s to move forward on redeveloping the entire block, said Ed Maginnis, the university’s assistant vice president for real estate.

Maginnis said this partnership will not only move university staff downtown, which will bring a new customer base, but will also add a retail mix to the surrounding area.

“Beyond the fairly obvious advantage or symbolism of having the university and the city cooperate so well, t h i s i s f a i rl y c o m p l e x ,” Maginnis said. “Being able to say, ‘Hey, we’re going to work shoulder to shoulder for you for a project that benefits both of us,’ that’s a big deal.”

Wojahn also said the city is exploring options to keep City Hall open during construction in order to keep costs down, but Schum said there is “no way we can stay here a nd do the k i nd of project we envision.”

PATRICK WOJAHN addresses City Council members after being elected as the mayor of College Park. file photo/the diamondback T h e c it y c o n t i n u e s it s redevelop along Route 1, and b ot h Woja h n a nd Schu m said this is an opportunity to expand and create an active public space.

“For several years the city has been discussing what to do with City Hall,” Wojahn sa id. “We don’t have a ny room to spare, and as our cit y h a s g row n , we ne e d more room.” ckemplerdbk@gmail.com

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SNOW From PAGE 1 when students are coming b a c k t o c a m p u s ,” s a i d Armand Scala, Department of Transportation Services senior associate director.

“In our case, we’re having to use our Bobcats in front of our plow to move snow because the snow is so heavy.”

DOTS, Residential Facilities and University Recreat ion & Wel l ness tea med up to s upply most of t he equipment and staff necessa r y to clea r t he snow, La ndscape Serv ices a nd A rboretu m & Bota n ica l Ga rden A ssoci ate D i rector Bill Monan said.

Monan’s 42-member staff arrived Friday morning and sta r ted work i n g 1 2-hou r shifts to shovel steps and sidewalks. Additionally, 10 employees worked through the night, and 40 contract laborers rotated throughout the day.

I n p re p a ra t i o n fo r t h e u n i v e rs i t y ’s o p e n i n g o n Wednesday, about 150 employees were assig ned to buildings around the campus to treat sidewalks with ice melt and remove snow and ice from ramps and steps.

Elmer Rodriguez, a subcontractor for this university, has worked about 86 hours since Friday, taking two fourhour breaks each day.

“I have never seen th is much snow,” Rodriguez said.

“Since living in the United States, t h is has been t he biggest storm that I have ever seen.”

To allow facilities management staff to plow snow m o r e e f f i c i e n t l y, D O T S u rged students a nd other parking registrants to move their vehicles to on-campus parking garages.

Clearing the snow from

STUDENTS throw snowballs on McKeldin Mall. Winter Storm Jonas delayed the start of spring semester by two days and dropped about 19 inches of snow. christian Jenkins/the diamondback p a rk i n g l o t s w a s n e c e ssa ry for the u n iversity to reopen, DOTS Di rector David Allen said.

“The part that’s the most pressure-packed is: ‘How am I going to get to school?

Where am I going to be able to park? What’s going to be available?’” Allen said. “ It’s i mp or t a nt t h at p e ople ke ep up w it h ou r T w i t t e r f e e d a n d Fa c e book page so they ca n know what’s going on with parking and what’s going on with the shuttle system.”

There is usually no Shuttle-U M ser v ice when the university is closed, but this week was an exception, Allen said. Shuttle-UM ran on a modified Sunday schedule Monday and Tuesday that included on-campus circulation routes.

W h i le tra nspor tation around the campus was up a nd r u n n i ng on Mond ay, T uesday ma rked the first day that ma ny students were even capable of leaving their homes.

Isaac Lerman, a freshman finance major from Owings Mills, had originally planned on moving in on Saturday, but the snow kept h i m at home until the roads were clear enough to drive.

“Our roads weren’t plowed f o r t w o d a y s ,” L e r m a n said. “We couldn’t get here because the cou nty was overbooked with plowing,

so we cou ld n’t get to the streets.”

T he stor m proved pa rt icu l a rly ch a l leng i ng for s t u d e nt s f ly i n g i nto t h e region. Senior Spanish major Ashleigh Bondoc was set to return from a winter term in Argentina on Saturday, but the snow caused major changes to her flight plan.

“On Friday afternoon we found out that our layover in Chile was extended from two to 15 hours,” she said.

“Our connecting flight from JFK to Reagan was canceled.

My f l ig ht got rebooked from JFK to La Guardia and would have left at 6 p.m. to Boston, but at that point my friend’s dad just decided to drive us down.”

Karen Petroff, assistant director of Arboretum and Hor t icu ltu ra l Ser v ices, w rote i n a n ema i l that “ w e a re a p p ro a c h i n g 95 percent completion [of snow removal] in terms of area.”

“We will continue to work on all remaining obstacles, b o t h d a y a n d n i g h t , i ncluding removing remaini ng snow pi les f rom road plow i ng f rom sidewa l ks, widening of roads and restoration of full connectivity,” Petroff wrote.

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University soured by corporate study NAFTA exploits workers “The magic formula for the ultimate sports recovery drink starts with cows, runs through the University of Maryland and ends with capitalism,” according to the university news release that had the research world abuzz in late December.

That particular magic formula also ended up meeting with welldeserved outrage — after all, the university was touting unverified results of an unpublished study funded in part by Fifth Quarter Fresh, a high-protein chocolate milk startup based in Hagerstown.

The study, conducted by university kinesiology professor Jae Kun Shim, asserted that high school football players who drank Fifth Quarter Fresh exhibited improved cognitive and motor functions — even those who had suffered concussions.

It did not, however, mention the cognitive and motor variables for which athletes showed improvement. Nor did it test competing brands of chocolate milk on its student-athlete subjects.

These shortcomings, though cause for academic alarm, haven’t stopped Washington County schools from seeking to adopt the product for their sports programs.

“There is nothing more important than protecting our student-athletes,” Clayton Wilcox, superintendent of Washington

County Public Schools, said in the release. “Now that we understand the findings of this study, we are determined to provide Fifth Quarter Fresh to all of our athletes.”

Given that concerns over the safety of football players at every level have reached a fever pitch, it’s certainly understandable that schools would mull over purchasing Fifth Quarter Fresh for their students.

OUR VIEW

The university’s flawed milk study tarnishes its reputation.

However, it’s not this university’s place to push a product that has more calories and almost as much sugar as a can of Coke (possibly at a premium) without so much as considering an alternative.

To nobody’s surprise, officials have distanced themselves from the study in the weeks since the university first trumpeted its preliminary results. The full results haven’t been published — and they might never be, according to a HealthNewsReview.org report.

Patrick O’Shea, the university’s research vice president, announced that a committee will conduct an institutional review of the study

to investigate what led to the early release.

The fiasco leaves this university, ranked No. 19 among national public universities by U.S. News & World Report, with something of a black eye. It also finds the university’s Maryland Industrial Partnerships program in a less-than-desirable position.

First Quarter Fresh had partnered with the university through the MIPS program, which offers firms funding and matches them with researchers in an effort to create jobs within the state. Partnering companies must match a portion of the university’s funding to conduct their research projects.

While commercialized research is nothing new at this university — many departments, particularly in STEM fields, receive grants from large corporations — this episode confirmed skeptics’ fears regarding the practice.

In an ostensible bid to boost the state economy, this university violated the integrity of its research program and tarnished its reputation.

With the university’s growing role in the private sector, it needs to take greater care in distinguishing and disclosing the closing gap between entrepreneurship and academics.

If it manages that, the university can ensure this debacle remains an anomaly.

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ecently in Massachusetts, a group of some 1,500 women went on strike. Protesting exploitatively long workdays and unsafe working conditions, they formed an independent union. After pressuring local authorities, they laid the groundwork for future successes: shorter workdays, improved conditions and wage raises.

If that sounds to you like it wasn’t all that “recently,” you’d be correct.

The above transpired in the Lowell textile mills in 1836. One of the first victories for organized labor in the United States, the “Lowell girls” strike set a precedent for the major labor reforms of the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Recently in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, hundreds of workers went on strike. Protesting exploitatively long workdays and unsafe working conditions, as well as unfair wages, the Mexican employees of American printer manufacturer Lexmark tried to form an independent union. After several days of pressuring the corporation, about 120 workers were terminated. Wages remained the same.

The bilateral trade agreement between Mexico and the United States as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement is worth in excess of half a trillion dollars each year. American companies are increasingly turning away from Asia and instead using NAFTA provisions to establish manufacturing bases in Mexico. Workers say conditions haven’t improved in the past 20 years. There are no independent labor unions in Juarez.

The exploitative nature of multinational corporations in Latin

America has written a dire history for the poor laborer. The flower industry in Colombia, the soy plantations in Paraguay and of course industrial manufacturing in Mexico would all have Marx rolling in his grave. What is it about Latin America that permits manufacturing conditions straight out of the 1800s?

Ultimately, NAFTA has a large hand in the situation. It permits tariff-free raw good imports and easy export of finished products. Modern infrastructure and transportation make the whole of Mexico available for manufacturing plants. Local governments compete to draw in multinationals — like Lexmark — with the intent of bringing in foreign dollars. Competition exerts downward pressure on wages for workers, and dubious industrial safety measures have many laborers calling for reform. These complaints fall on deaf ears; compounding the problem is a large cultural (and legal) pressure against unionizing. In Colombia, trade union leaders have often been targeted for paramilitary assassination — more than 2,800 since 1986.

Exploitation is the name of the game, and it allows Lexmark and similar American giants to turn huge profit margins with low overhead costs. In the 1830s, organized labor in America won a huge victory over a similarly abusive system. Almost 200 years later, Mexican workers cannot achieve the same.

In February, Pope Francis is visiting Ciudad Juarez. Perhaps some oldfashioned Catholic guilt will push for change.

Jack Siglin is a junior physiology and neurobiology major. He can be reached at jsiglindbk@gmail.com.

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MATT SCHNABEL, editor in chief, is a senior journalism major.

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NATE RABNER, managing editor, is a senior journalism major. He has worked as a copy editor and deputy managing editor.

Patrick An, opinion editor, is a senior physiology and neurobiology major.

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Millennials must embrace politics

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t’s 2016. That means the most grueling election season since at least 2008 — and probably much earlier. For political junkies, this is like the World Cup, Olympics and NFL playoffs combined. For the sane, it’s probably somewhere on the spectrum of waterboarding, reality television and an economics lecture.

Throughout the semester, you’ll see a variety of opinions on presidential candidates, their platforms and the issues important to Americans in 2016. Every Monday, I will write an “Election Update” column highlighting and breaking down some critical moments in the primaries. Other columnists will approach the election from their own angles so The Diamondback can feature a full spectrum of political opinions.

It might seem overwhelming.

When comedians, news programs and that annoying kid (me) on Twitter are all discussing “Election 2016” just about 24/7, it’s easy to tune it all out. We often would rather not hear about what some excitable pundit has to say about Iowa, what comb Donald Trump uses or the number of songs Martin O’Malley can sing.

We get election fatigue and tune out current events. We fail to do research on key political issues and don’t obtain a basic understanding of these issues. We don’t make an effort to see multiple perspectives.

Thus, we miss opportunities to identify real political topics that should matter to us.

With our incomplete — or nonexistent — understanding and prioritization of the issues, we are unable to nominate and support candidates who can solve problems the way we’d prefer. As such, we forego our political education and remove ourselves from the political process — or perhaps worse, we make uneducated voting or political decisions. In essence, we destroy our own democratic voice and damage the fundamental structure of our republic.

This is incredibly dangerous.

As citizens in a democratic republic, we are supposed to be the ones forming educated opinions on the role of government and government policy at all levels. We are supposed to be the ones selecting qualified leaders who can pursue the policies we desire.

But if we’re just checking boxes and not voting, we are weakening democracy — and relying a smaller voter base, a smaller politically educated class, to make all the decisions.

Today, we live in the information and technology age in which an incomprehensible amount of data and opinions are accessible in seconds.

We are able to communicate instantaneously with people around the country — and the world. Millennials are at the forefront of this new era, with our array of phones, computers and apps. We could easily educate ourselves and our neighbors and inspire political movements and ideologies far more rapidly than previous generations.

But we don’t.

We fail to use this information to better our government. We don’t educate ourselves on the issues, leaders, or even the very structure of government. We don’t vote at the same rate as our elders. We might claim to want to “make a difference,” but we can’t even bother to vote, much less cast an educated one.

Millennials let older generations pursue policies that may be damaging to them because they don’t make their voices heard or don’t put effort into understanding said policies. We can’t blame the “1 percent” for that — the vote you cast is equal to the vote of Donald Trump.

So when you see those columns next week, don’t roll your eyes and avoid them. Instead, read them and use them as a starting point for enhancing your political beliefs. Gather information, weigh perspectives, consider what matters to you and then form your opinion on an issue.

Prioritize those issues that matter most. Look up a candidate’s platform, experience and political history.

Once you’ve done these things, you should be able to reasonably defend your choices in both political opinion and candidate. Then go participate in the political process: petitioning, protesting, campaigning and voting are just some of the ways you can start. Take back your democracy from apathy.

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

new semester comes with new opportunities to i m p rove o n e ’s G PA , b u t when conventional methods fail, students can always try to garner those few extra points through grade negotiations.

Chronicle Vitae published a collection of sample emails w r i t te n by p ro fe sso rs f ro m across the country telling imaginary students off for requesting certain grades be re-evaluated. These professors’ vicious remarks are fully justifiable considering the desperate pleas and pitiful reasons these hypothetical students seemed to have provided.

Most prevalent among them is the “I worked hard” argument made by students who fail to grasp the important concept that college, indeed, should be about competency and achievement, not just fruitless effort.

As professor Jennifer P. Simms from the University of Wisconsin at River Falls said:“I don’t know about you, but I would much rather that papers for Surgery 101: How Not to K ill the People You Cut Open and for Architecture 101: How to Build Bridges That Do Not Collapse and Leave People Plummeting to Their Deaths were graded on students’ demonstration of correct understanding of the concepts, not how much effort they put into writing it.”

As college students, it’s important to understand the harsh reality that what matters, above all, is results. Effort without accomplishment is, in the end, failure, and we should not be content with just the knowledge of having worked hard.

This is not to say that I believe grade negotiations are unacceptable, for I believe grade negotiations serve a vital purpose in ensuring the fairness of this university’s grading system.

In classes in which grading is subjective, students deserve to k n ow wh e re p o i n ts we re taken off on every assignment and for what reason. Students have many reasons to question a grade they were given on an assignment or exam, whether

because of the illogical deduction of points or the belief that the professor might have misunderstood or overlooked an important argument in a paper. In either case, a student has a right to confront his or her professor about the grade he or she received.

Additionally, when anonymous grading is not used — i.e. a speech for a communication class or any assignment that includes giving a presentation — bias or favoritism toward certain individuals is certainly possible. (Not to question the integrity of this school’s professors.)

However, the abundance of students begging professors for grades they do not deserve overshadows the benefits of grade negotiation by making professors wary and quick to dismiss students who contact them regarding grades. At the end of my first semester here at this university, one of my professors sent a mass email to the class clearly articulating the point that emails about grades would not even get a response unless they were to report inaccuracies about entering them into the system.

In another instance, when I approached one of my professors last semester to ask a quick question about a presentation I gave, the professor’s first instinct was to shun me away, thinking I was trying to talk my work up for better grade. In fact, I was just asking for clarification regarding one of the comments that was made.

Through conversations with my classmates and other students who go to this university, I know that these situations are not unique.

When approaching professors about grades, students should be prepared with valid arguments and sound reasons for why they deserve a better grade on that assignment or exam. But professors also need to be welcoming of such discourse from students. If this can be done, we can maintain the accuracy of the grades given at this university without our professors worrying about being pestered for unreasonable grade bumps.

William An is a freshman finance m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t willandbk@gmail.com.

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General Assembly decriminalizes pot paraphernalia, makes use of drug in public spaces a civil offense

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Senior staff writer The state General Assembly decriminalized marijuana paraphernalia and smoking in public last Thursday, overriding Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of the bill last spring.

The law aligns paraphernalia charges with the state’s previous decriminalization of marijuana and defines use of the drug in a public place as a civil offense punishable by a fine up to $500.

Supporters of the veto override said the vote was a solution to an existing flaw in the law, which could allow a person to receive a fine for possessing marijuana and charges for the drug paraphernalia.

On this campus, stud e n ts w i l l l i ke ly se e few changes, as this university is smoke-free.

Still, the bill could have an impact on policing, said Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas, who noted University Police look forward to receiving guidance from state police on implementation.

But just another incremental step in the direction or legalization is good enough for sophomore Grace Porter, who said friends of hers have been charged for using small amounts of marijuana.

“I’ve seen people have to deal with the repercussions of things that are, in my opinion, very harmless,” the communication major said.

“I’m really glad that they were able to come together because [both parts of the

law] are really important for a lot of reasons.”

T h e Ho u se a n d Se n a te both passed the override of Hogan’s dissent with a three-fifths majority — primarily helped by Democrats, as many state Republicans voiced their opposition to the bill.

On the campus, though, many Republican students support the new law, said Breyer Hillegas, president of this university’s College Republicans chapter.

“I don’t think the bill goes too far,” said Elliot Hazzard, College Republicans treasurer. “I think that the war on drugs has largely been a failure. It’s really none of the government’s business what people are smoking, particularly marijuana.”

Of College Republicans’ 7 7 m e m b e rs, 4 6 p e rce n t support recreational marijuana legalization and 86 percent support legalized medicinal use, based on a survey the organization conducted in November.

“Hogan is a little bit behind the curve on that.

He’s kind of old-fashioned when it come to drug policy,” said Hazzard, a geographical sciences major. “This shows that there’s a lot of impatience and disgust with the war on drugs.”

But concern over the law remains, even among Democrats. Though Del. Geraldine Valentino-Smith (D-District 23A) voted in favor of the law, she joined in the discussion about how the bill creates a potential public safety issue by attaching

too lenient a punishment to smoking in public.

She introduced a bill the same day that would make smoking marijuana in public a misdemeanor, or criminal offense, and explicitly prohibit consuming marijuana in a vehicle as a driver or passenger.

“It is only rational to limit the public consumption of marijuana,” she wrote in a news release. “Our public parks, beaches, sidewalks and boardwalks are for the enjoyment of all. Just as we, as a State, limit the public consumption of alcohol and prohibit smoking tobacco products publicly, it is good public policy to place marijuana in these same categories.”

The General Assembly also overrode four other bills that

“I DON’T THINK THE BILL GOES TOO FAR. I THINK THAT THE WAR ON DRUGS HAS LARGELY BEEN A FAILURE. IT’S REALLY NONE OF THE GOVERNMENT’S BUSINESS WHAT PEOPLE ARE SMOKING.” ELLIOT HAZZARD

College Republicans treasurer Hogan vetoed in the spring.

Two focus on hotel taxes from Internet booking sites, one prohibits police from seizing assets of less than $300 during an arrest and the last funds an Annapolis art center. The Senate will

A Student (top) smokes marijuana out of a glass pipe. The General Assembly voted to override a previous veto and decriminalize marijuana paraphernalia. File Photos/the diamondback vote on Feb. 5 to override a veto of a bill that would give ex-felons the right to vote.

Po r te r s a i d s h e h o p e s decriminalization policies will continue so that a small infraction won’t affect students’ financial aid, housing

status and future success.

“It’s a pretty victimless crime,” she said, “so I hope college students don’t have to pay for such a small thing for the rest of their career.” gtooheydbk@gmail.com

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City Council votes to remove exemption areas for surcharges Residents also discuss severe weather response after storm

By Jessie Campisi @jessiecampisi Staff writer T h e C ol l e ge Pa rk C it y Council voted T uesday to remove exemption areas for a student surcharge fee in city housing and add exemption areas for multi-family housing, while also discussing severe weather preparat ion a f ter t he weekend snowstorm.

A student surcharge fee, a county tax on new housing, has been in place to help pay for elementary and secondary school facilities. Certain areas in College Park were exempt from this fee, which incentivized the creation of more off-campus housing options for u n iversity students.

The council voted 8-0 — just in time to meet Tuesday night’s deadline to submit new legislation — to remove the student exemption areas

i n pl ace a nd add exemption areas for multi-family housing in College Park, designated as graduate student housing.

Since 2003, when the exemption areas were created, 3,400 off-campus “beds” have been created for undergraduate and graduate students at this university, including The Varsity, the Un iversit y View a nd t he Landmark. The construction of Terrapin Row will add more than 1,500 beds.

But while the exemption areas encouraged housing construction, the units did not cater to the g raduate student population.

“I want to propose legislation to create incentives for graduate student housing,” said District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan, who created the motion.

W hile the council mentioned exempting areas surrounding College Park, such

as Riverdale Park and Hyattsville, some members said it would not be fair to vote on legislations for other cities without further discussion.

“A l o t o f p e o p l e h a v e someth i ng to say about this,” District 3 Councilman Robert Day said. “I’m a little nervous about speaking for Hyattsville and R iverdale Park.”

The council voted that the city and the county would joi ntly desig nate exemption areas in College Park as graduate student housing.

College Park would not be fiscally responsible for any ch a nges, a nd t he cou nty would pay the surcharge fee.

Cou nci l members a nd residents also discussed the city’s response to the snow blanketing the area.

Anna Ubeda has lived in College Park for more than 15 years. During that time, she said, several snowstorms have affected the city.

DOTS ups buses FBI for Courtyards

By Hannah Lang @hannahdlang Staff writer Shuttle-UM has added a second bus to the 105 Courtya rd s route for we e kd ay afternoons in response to overcrowding, Department of Transportation Services officials said.

“T i me to ti me, we’ve reached capacity on t h at route,” said Armand Scala, DOTS senior associate director. “We k now there’s a demand for that service, so we added a second bus to get ever yone back a nd forth from where they need to go.”

DOTS was able to increase the weekday service by reducing late evening service Friday and Saturday on the Purple route, Scala said.

“Courtyards still gets the same amount of service; we just took some of the service from Friday and Saturday nights and moved that over to weekdays, where we knew it was needed,” Scala said.

“A m ajor it y of t he 7 3 2 Courtyards residents rely on the University of Maryland shuttles to get to and from campus,” said Ashley Ladyman, Courtyards resident life assistant director.

Junior computer science major Colin McGrath said

A SHUTTLE-UM BUS picks up students. DOTS added a second weekday bus for Courtyards this semester to decrease congestion during the busiest hours. file photo/the diamondback the added bus should help more students get to t he campus when they need to.

“It’ll help a lot because the buses have been way too crowded in the afternoons, sometimes even being literally to capacity,” he said.

“During the weekend nights the bus is ba rely used, so t hey pretty much h it t he nail on the head with it.”

T he 105 Cou rtya rds schedu le esti m ates a bus will arrive at the complex about every 10 minutes on weekdays.

Ladyman is optimistic that the changes will help students arrive to class on time.

“We have a great partnership with [DOTS],” she said. “ We re a l ly l i k e wo rk i n g with them.” hlangdbk@gmail.com

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But the most recent winter stor m, wh ich brou g ht 19 inches of snow to the area, left her stuck in her house for three days. Her driveway and her street, Paducah Road, were unplowed and undrivable, and the roads were attended to more quickly in previous storms, she said.

“This was similar to the storm in 2010,” she told the council at Tuesday night’s meeting. “They have done good jobs before, and they

did a poor job where I live.”

City Manager Scott Somers sa id he has hea rd multiple complaints from residents about how the city dealt with the aftermath of the storm.

“T he primary source of frustration has been residents plow i ng out thei r d r iveways to h ave plows come a day later. And I can empathize,” he said. “I spent four hours on mine.”

Several schools in Prince George’s County remained

closed on Wednesday, but the this university had its first day of classes, operating on a normal schedule.

Somers added that a conversation with the Department of Public Works has begun to discuss what could be done better for future episodes of severe weather.

“We’re continuing to talk about this very important issue,” he said. “The timing is very appropriate.” jcampisidbk@gmail.com

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relocation would support the econom ic development of the area, Schum said. Although the headqua rters wou ld be i n Greenbelt, Schu m sa id she believes many of the employees would want to live in College Park. “ Fo r u s , i t’ l l b e a ccessible jobs, [and] it’ll be more dema nd for housi ng,” Schu m sa id.

“One of ou r goa ls is to create more housing types for people of all ages, so w e ’ r e g e t t i n g [a] f a i r amount of multi-family homes bu i lt; we’d l i ke to improve our housing s to c k . I t h i n k G re e nbelt will create demand for that, and it will also create a need for spin-off businesses.”

Plus, the FBI’s potent i a l move to Greenbelt cou ld e ncou ra ge more compa n ies to relocate, allowing for additional retail and restaurant opportunities in the area, Ulman said.

“The more people that are going to work right up the road are more potential customers to support restaurants and support new ret a i l opp or t u n it ies a nd con ferences,” he said.

T he u n ive rs it y s upports the FBI coming to this state, said Brian Darmody, associate vice pre sid ent for t he u n iversity’s corporate and foundation relations, who cited t he p otent i a l for partnerships with existing university programs and the FBI. “Proximity matters,” Darmody said. “We have a lot of programs that align

By Michael Brice-Saddler @theartist_mbs Staff writer

spokesma n Ma rk Brady said.

Brady could not confirm the person's affiliation with A sick person was trans- th is u n iversity or deta i ls ported at 6:30 p.m. to a n about his or her condition. area hospital from the South Campus Dining Hall, Prince George's Fire Department mbricesaddlerdbk@gmail.com

THE J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING serves as the current FBI headquarters, but the organization might move to Greenbelt in the coming years.

This relocation could bring increased development in College Park and contribute to university programs. image via aude/wikimedia commons well with the FBI. We have a fire protection engineering program; we have one of one the nation’s strongest criminology programs; we have a very strong computer science and computer forensic programs — and the FBI is very involved with those programs.”

Michel Cukier, the director of the university’s Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students, also said having the FBI closer to the university would be a “positive” move.

“We could build stronger cooperation with them like we are doing with Northrop Gr u m m a n, [t he Nat ion a l Security Agency] and other partners,” Cukier said. Students “could have the opportunity to have instructors from the FBI and have guest lectures or seminars.

There would be the opportunity for FBI [employees] to work as research mentors for ACES students.”

The headquarters would be located on the eastern e d ge o f t h e Wa s h i n g to n Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, taking up about 4.5 acres of l a nd , Schu m

sa id . T he env i ron menta l impact report and residents have both expressed concerns about this location.

M ayor Pat r ic k Woja h n said the city has been work i ng w ith developers to add ress cha l lenges with corresponding noise, density, traffic and building heights.

Another concern is the accessibility of the Greenbelt wetlands or conservatory la nd, Dist rict 1 Cou nci lwoman Christine Nagle said.

About 75 protected acres of state-owned land would no longer be accessible to residents if the FBI relocated.

Although this land does not currently have trails for residents, the plan was to develop trails for residents in the future, Nagle said.

“It’s considered an eco-

logical wonderland. Being so close to the urban area, it’s a real treasure to have that,” Nagle said. City officers want to “config ure a compromise so [the FBI] can have their security and t he people ca n st i l l h ave access.”

Despite these challenges, both Nagle and Wojahn said they are eager about the potential and see it as a great opportunity to improve and increase amenities and job opportunities.

“Everybody wants to see the FBI come to their site; it’s a pretty heated political thing,” Wojahn said. “If you look at it objectively, I think Greenbelt is the best site, and we’re very excited to hear [the decision].” ckemplerdbk@gmail.com

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Tawes renovation completes, other projects continue

By Lindsey Feingold @lindseyf96 Staff writer S t u d ents m i g ht not ic e some changes to the university campus as they prepare for the spring semester, including a completed Tawes Hall renovation and continued progress on other construction projects.

TAWES HALL T he $15.9 million renovat ion project for Tawes Hall was finished ahead of schedu le, sa id Bi l l Olen, capita l projects d i rector.

T he project was complete d b y t he e nd of t he fa l l semester.

“We now have six brandnew classrooms, four that were available for finals for fall session,” Olen said.

A cafe was added on the second floor of the building, and the A merican studies department moved its offices from Susquehanna Hall to Tawes Hall during the first week of January.

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STAMP STUDENT UNION The construction project in Stamp Student U n i o n w i l l a f fe c t t h e Student I nvolvement Suite and student organization offices. The renovation project has started and should be completed

by July.

T he project will cost $3 million and renovate 1 2 ,0 0 0 s q u a re fe e t of space, Olen said.

OTHER PROJECTS Renovation of the grou nd f loor of the Reckord A rmory has continued for the ROTC programs. It shou ld be completed this May and is primarily used by Air Fo rc e a n d Nav y, Ol e n said.

Cambridge Hall construction is on schedule to be completed by July, Olen added.

Olen also said that the $115 million Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center project is on schedule to continue until January 2017.

Cla rk Ha l l, a project costing $169.9 million, is set to be finished in June 2017, according to Olen. “ Fo r t h e S t. Joh n Center, the shell is up and they are putting glass in the windows,” Olen said.

“The Clark Hall site is up to the third f loor of the building.”

Cole Field House renovations have begun but won’t be noticeable on the outside until spring, Olen said. The project is estimated to cost $147.4 million, according to the university facilities website.

Construction crews completed some of the renovations to relocate university employees with offices in Cole Field House, Olen said.

The top floor has already been renovated. lfeingolddbk@gmail.com

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College Park sets aside $23,000 in grants to improve, refurbish local businesses

By Carly Kempler @CarlyKempler Senior staff writer The city of College Park has committed about $23,000 in conditional grant funding to local businesses through its Retail Business Improvement Fund initiative, said Randall Toussaint, the city’s economic development coordinator.

The businesses slated to receive funds include R.J. B e n t l e y ’s , C o l l e g e P a r k Liquors and A roy T hai. A few appl ications a re sti l l b e i n g re v i e w e d , To u ssaint said, as the city plans to issue $30,000 in grant funding during this year’s grant cycle.

T h e s e te n t a t ive f u n d s will go toward refurbishing establishments, Toussaint said. T he grants are cond it ion a l upon a bu si ness completing its project and obta i n i ng i nspection approval. The fund is a match-

By Jordan Fox @jrfox12 Staff writer The Pi Kappa Alpha fratern ity w i l l retu rn to the university campus after its charter was suspended four years ago.

Matt Supple, Department of F rate r n it y & Soror it y Life director, said Pi Kappa Alpha, or PIKE, fulfilled the “terms of the conditions that we set b efore t hey cou ld come back.”

During the fall 2011 semester, chapter members caused thousands of dollars in damages to hotel rooms during a weekend trip while the chapter was on probation, leading to the suspension of its charter.

Backed by both the university and the fraternity’s international headquarters, the new endeavor has been in the works for more than a yea r. Josh Mu r phy, d irector of expansion for the fraternity, said he has been work i ng closely w ith the Department of Fraternity & Sorority Life to ensure the success of the new chapter.

“It was truly a joint effort between the university and the fraternity,” Murphy said.

“I don’t want anyone to view it as PI K E just com i ng to campus. It was methodically thought out.”

want, and it helps us to have a g reater d iversity of appearance and their ability to serve the community, which is important for any small city like ours to be able to attract residents and people coming from other cities, too, to dine and shop here.”

Joh n Brow n, the ow ner of Bentley’s, ag reed w ith Woja h n a nd sa id the city has done a great job of “encouraging local businesses to improve their properties.”

“A lot of these things you put off because they’re not necessarily revenue-produci n g projects, but you need to do them. It’s going to make downtown look a l o t b e t te r,” B ro w n s a i d .

“The city has done a great job to assist businesses with this, and it surely benefits everyone.”

Bentley’s plans to use the grant money to replace some skylights, roof shingles and gutters on the front of the building, Brown said.

Toussaint said he believes construction should begin between February and April, depending on the business.

“All of them will be noticeable [a nd] we’l l see a ra nge, from ex terior a nd interior changes,” Toussaint said. “We’ll see changes to a few of the main staples and people’s favorites as you drive along Baltimore Ave. … This kind of capital investment breathes new life into the local economy.”

Wo j a h n a l s o s a i d t h a t supporting the city’s local businesses will encourage the city’s growth as a college town.

“Any high-quality college tow n — col lege tow ns a re ty pica l ly know n for a diverse array of small businesses, and College Park is currently lacking in that,” Wojahn said, “so anything that promotes solving this is important.” ckemplerdbk@gmail.com

Univ to offer new master’s program in psychology

Pi Kappa Alpha to return to campus Fraternity had charter suspended after damaging hotel rooms during probation period

ing award program, reimbursing up to 50 percent of a project’s cost, up to a ceiling of $5,000.

To u s s a i nt s a i d h e w a s excited about the applications the city received this year. “ We a re pleased to say that we had a very strong pool of applicants,” he said.

“A lot of our local businesses have used it in the past for improvements, so they were able to put together strong application packages.”

T h e p ro g ra m b e g a n i n 2013. In its first year, the c i t y g ra n te d $ 25 ,0 0 0 to seven loca l busi nesses i n awards ranging from $1,125 to $5,000.

M ayor Pat r ick Woja h n said the project gives local businesses an “opportunity to shine.”

“A s a c i t y, w e n e e d to p ro m o te o u r l o c a l b u s inesses,” Wojahn said. “It helps us to create the commercial areas that residents

Industrial organizational psychology degree to focus on studying behaviors and mentalities of workplaces

By Jordan Fox @jrfox12 Staff writer THE Pi KAPPA ALPHA HOUSE on Fraternity Row. The fraternity will now be returning to the campus after the university suspended its charter in 2012. file photo/the diamondback To begin recruiting new members, the fraternity’s New England and Atlantic coast regional consultants Jeff Farris and Devon Teixeira will be on the campus to meet with faculty, staff, clubs, sororities and other organizations from Feb. 12 to March 12 to seek out interested candidates.

T he fratern ity finds its members through a recommendation-based process, which Murphy said he considers one of its best qualities.

Anyone can recommend male students considered to meet the fraternity’s standards.

“The recruitment process is very unique and special,” M u r p h y s a i d . “ I ’m v e r y proud of ou r ex pa nsion process and how we literally target the best men on campus, the men who can truly take a responsibility like this and create a new fraternity.”

He sa id t he ex per ience of creating something new at t h is u n iversity’s PI K E chapter shou ld bri ng i n a number of members.

“There are a lot of great fratern ities a l ready on ca mpus, but [PI K E is] a n opportunity to create their niche as opposed to joining a n iche,” he sa id. “We’re recruiting anywhere from freshman all the way up to senior.”

Supple said he hopes the new chapter will boast young men “who embody the values that PIKE embodies

and are hoping to create in t he i r n ew orga n i z at ion” — s p e c i f i c a l ly s c h ol a rs, leaders, athletes and gentlemen, as the fraternity’s website touts.

A lt hou g h Mu r phy sa id all of the characteristics of a worthy member should not be overlooked, he stresses the importance of being a gentleman.

“You might find someone who’s a scholar, a leader and an athlete, but if he’s not a gentleman, then there’s no room in our organization,” Murphy said. “We’re looking for men who a re goi ng to treat the ca mpus a nd the community with the respect and dignity they deserve.”

Christine Licata, Interfraternity Council adviser for the Department of Fraternity & Sorority Life and a key liaison between the fraternity and the university, sa id she appreciates how organized, upfront and communicative the fraternity has been.

“I hope that they recruit a large number of fraternity men who are interested i n why f rater n it ie s were created: to build better men and to make our community stronger, healthier and more inclusive,” Licata said. “I am looking for scholars and leaders — people who give back to their community and build others up through the Greek experience.” jfoxdbk@gmail.com

T h is u n iversity w i l l o f f e r a n e w m a s t e r ’s program in industrial organizational psychology, which applies psychological theories to workplace behavior, beginning next semester.

The program aims to i mprove t he wel l-b eing of the workforce by “focusing on preparing people to work in organizations to make [them] better for the employees that work there,” sa id Ju l iet A i ken, t he program’s director.

T h i s n e w m a s t e r ’s program will thoroughly equip people for an industrial organizational psychologist job, a task in which similar programs may fall short, Aiken said.

“A l o t o f p r o g r a m s in industrial organizational psychology tend to prepare people for more academic careers,” Aiken said. “However, a lot of jobs are applied helping organizations function better, so our program is highly applied.”

Industrial organizational psychologists can work for a variety of industries, including government, academia and consulting, according to the master’s program’s website. What makes the program unique, Aiken sa id, is how it enables students to read data on organizations and employees and use the findings to make informed

decisions on training, recruiting and improving the f u nct ion of re sou rce s to better the businesses they are working with.

“Increasingly, organizations are getting more and more interested in, excited ab out a nd , to b e honest, a l ittle obsessed w ith the idea of using data to drive policy,” A iken said. “One of the things that has been bu i lt i nto ou r prog ra m is a very deep, data-centric core.”

Although there is a doctora l prog ra m a l ready i n place for industrial organizational psychology at this university, Aiken said this program will give those who are not pursuing a doctorate “an option to come in and just focus on getting really applied experience and really deep skills.”

Receiv i ng i nput f rom g raduates of the doctora l program in industrial organization was invaluable for getting the program started, said Paul Hanges, the program’s academic director and psychology department professor. “[We] asked them: What [are] the skills that someone with a master’s in industrial organizational psychology should have, and what skills d o yo u w i s h t h e y wo u l d have?” Hanges said.

Marc Sokol, the sole proprietor of Sage Consulting Resou rces a nd a member of the program’s advisory board, said he considers it a “g reat oppor t u n ity for people who want to really a dva nc e t hei r e du c at ion and skill set going into the workplace.”

The skill sets offered by the program are what Sokol said organizations will be most i nterested i n, such as the abi l ity to not on ly “u ndersta nd the ra nge of individual team and organ i zat ion a l pract ices, but to recognize the difference between a good practice and a bad.”

T hese ski l l sets a re not only taught to the students, Aiken said, but are used on them.

“We teach in our program how to t ra i n people, a nd we try to apply those same principles in our courses, so it’s a very practical degree,” Aiken said. “It’s one that is designed specifically with getti ng ex perience wh i le you’re in the program.”

A goa l of t h i s m a ster’s prog ra m is to “develop s t u d e nt s w it h t h e s k i l l s that make them stand out from other schools offering a similar kind of program so that we will become one of the recognized deliverers of prepared students,” Hanges said.

For Sokol, the reason to consider the degree is a strategic one. “ Yo u c o u l d g o t o a n y bookstore and look at the busi ness shel f a nd you’l l see hundreds of books that all look wonderful, but how would you know which ones or which ideas will actually make a difference?” Sokol said. “The graduates of this program will have a leg up in being able to tell where to place your bets, and that’s pretty good if you want to get hired by a company.” jfoxdbk@gmail.com

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | THURSDAY, January 28, 2016

GSG takes steps to improve student-adviser relationships Working group tasked with investigating and conducting surveys on this issue will disclose findings in the spring

By Rokia Hassanein @rokiahass Staff writer This university’s Graduate Student Government is intensifying its Mutual Expectation Agreement initiative and hopes to improve studentadviser relationships by the end of this academic year, said Deborah Hemingway, the organization’s president.

T he MEA’s main goal is to promote a better relationsh ip a mong g raduate students and their advisers, especially for those in a t hesi s-ba sed doctorate or master’s program, said H e m i n g w a y, a d o c t o r a l student studying biophysics.

“We want it to be a good process for students,” she said, “but that’s not always a case. Depending on their relationship, [students] will have a hard time.”

Stephanie Madden, a communication doctoral candidate and GSG’s vice president of public relations, said the GSG will push the MEA campaign into GSG’s “Lobby Day” on Feb. 11 and encourage graduate students to reach out to their deans.

“We thought this would be a great opportunity to lobby our own administration to implement this type of accountability measure across all graduate programs,” Madden said.

Madden said the GSG has been raising awareness about the MEA initiative at the upper administration level, but it is extending that awareness to the graduate student body by conducting email outreach and launching a petition in order to gain support.

“We see the MEAs as an important dialogue-facilitating tool that is designed to help protect graduate students by setting clear and concise expectations between student and adviser,” she said.

Factors such as some advisers’ “lack of accountability” inspired this initiative, Hemingway said.

“Because of the nature of the relationship, a student gets into a lab and your adviser has complete control of your life because everything you do is to impress them,” she said.

“Basically, when your adviser and your committee agree is when you get your degree.”

In efforts to enhance graduate students’ experiences, the MEA would require adv isers to meet w ith thei r students at least once during the semester to discuss their progress. The adviser would be required to give both positive and negative feedback, Hemingway said.

“It helps the professor, too, because if you spend time training a student who isn’t a good fit, we just want to help everyone be on the same page,” Hemingway said.

A lack of feedback could fo s te r a l o p s i d e d p o w e r dynamic, Hemingway said.

“Because the adviser has a lot of power over the student, students could be scared of approaching, or the adviser would let the power get in their head and, for lack of a better term, they can become

abusive,” Hemingway said.

This power dynamic causes some graduate students to experience stress in labs, have research funding pulled after it is orally promised and miss out on qualified pay raises, Hemingway said.

“All this stuff should not be happening, because it’s really dirty and unhealthy,” Hemingway said. “People shouldn’t be treating you like this, but all this happens because of the nature of the relationship. Nobody can talk bad about their adviser because you need their approval to graduate, and then they are your key to networking and getting jobs.”

But this problem continues after receiving a degree.

Hemingway said unlike undergraduate alumni, graduate alumni do not donate much money to the university.

“It’s an ethical issue, student health issue, a cultural issue and an alumni relations issue,” she said.

However, Graduate School Dean Charles Caramello wrote in an email statement that faculty members who support graduate students on their grants “do an excellent job of mentoring and communicating with them.”

“In an extensive survey of UMD graduate assistants, research assistants registered a high degree of satisfaction and reported very few significant problems,” Caramello wrote.

Caramello also wrote that the graduate school’s policies for assistantships provide graduate assistants, including research assistants, with

“CLARIFYING MUTUAL EXPECTATIONS BOTH ENHANCES THE MENTORING PROCESS AND HELPS TO ANTICIPATE ANY POTENTIAL PROBLEMS.” CHARLES CARAMELLO Graduate school dean

both informal and formal processes for resolving potential problems.

“Graduate assistants can also report problems confidentially to the Graduate School Ombuds Officer for investigation and mediation,” he wrote. “In response to a request to the University Graduate Council by the Council’s GSG representatives, I appointed a Working Group on [Research Assistants/Principal Investigators] Mutual Expectations to investigate best practices at UMD and at peer institutions for establishing mutual expectations between research assistants and faculty principal investigators.”

The working group, which includes faculty and GSG members, is investigating and conducting surveys on the issue and will report its fi ndings as well as recommendations to the Graduate Council during this spring semester.

“Clarifying mutual expectations both enhances the mentoring process and helps to anticipate any potential problems,” Caramello wrote. rhassaneindbk@gmail.com

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By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Senior staff writer BergisJulesandEdSummers developed a vision to efficiently amass millions of tweets and make them more accessible to the public after the social media explosion that followed Michael Brown’s death in August 2014.

“The images and the videos were so powerful,” said Jules, the university and political papers archivist at the University of California, Riverside.

“That got me thinking ... we need to try and capture this as best as we can.”

A year and a half later, this university’s Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities — in collaboration with UC Riverside and Washington University in St. Louis — announced Jan. 20 a $517,000 two-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their “Documenting the Now: Supporting Scholarly Use and Preservation of Social Media Content” project.

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“A lot of [Twitter] content is ephemeral,” Summers said. “It’s there and then it disappears.”

Chris Freeland, a co-principal investigator with the project and Washington University’s associate university librarian, said one of the most exciting aspects of the Web application is that it will allow people to conduct research more easily.

“Really what we’re envisioning with the ‘Doc Now’ application is an environment where scholars can be using this tool for their research on their own topics,” Freeland said.

To get informed feedback from potential users, the team has also created an 18-member advisory board of scholars, including activists, journalists, librarians and software developers, Jules said. The board will meet once virtually in the spring, once in person this summer and again in 2017.

“We wanted a good mix of people because they’re actually going to help up develop the application,” Jules said.

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The grant will mainly fund hiring Web developers, a designer and a project coordinator, said Summers, the project’s technical leader and the university institute’s lead developer.

While social media archiving is not a new concept, what will set this project apart, Jules said, is its projected accessibility.

“The people mostly doing this right now are people with a high level of technical skills. ...These tools are in places where not a lot of people can get to it,” said Jules, a co-principal investigator with the project. “We want to build something that will be really easy for people.”

During the events in Ferguson, Summers collected more than 13 million tweets and teamed up with Jules to begin planning the project. The two later sought out Washington University as a collaborator after seeing its involvement and “Documenting Ferguson” archive, Summers said.

While there is potential for the project to expand to other social media platforms, Summers said the plan is currently focused on Twitter, for which a major research tool only allows people

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REVIEW | THE X-FILES

SOMEWHAT SKEPTICAL If the first two episodes are any indication, FOX’s X-Files revival is going to produce mixed results diculousness of the conspiracy at hand. In order to subscribe to it, you already need to believe in aliens, UFO crash cover-ups and At its core, The X-Files has a world order.

Despite its obsession with conalways been a show about paraspiracy, the majority of X-Files noia. Take away Fox Mulder’s g u n a n d F B I ba d ge , a n d yo u episodes strayed from the alienstill have the story of a troubled centric plots of the show’s myman, suspicious of everyone in thology. These “monster of the a dark suit and sunglasses (inweek” episodes offered some of cluding, at times, himself). The the series’ most mysterious mysshow’s original nine-season run teries and monstrous monsters. explored seemingly every imagSo when the second episode of inable aspect of that paranoia, the premiere, “Founder’s Mutafrom secret human cloning to an tion” begins with a gruesome cold impressively complex governopen in which a scientist apparment conspiracy to collaborate ently goes insane in a meeting and commits suicide with a letter with aliens and destroy Earth. opener, a sigh of relief could You know, the type of things you almost be heard during the iconic might expect to see on B.o.B’s Twitter. theme: “Finally, The X-Files is back.”

In a way, a 2016 revival of the series made sense — if there were The second episode is more or ever a time for a little mistrust less the antithesis of “My Strugof government, today’s postgle.” It’s fast-paced and brutal, Snowden world seems like a good mulder and scully are both back for the long-anticipated revival, but the balance between reminiscing on past success and inventing new story lines leaning heavily on its impressive, choice. So when FOX announced that can find success amongst fans and critics in 2016 may tie down both the show and its stars (David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson). photo courtesy of fox disturbing visuals to tell the rivit was bringing back the series for eting story of a twisted doctor a six-episode revival, fans were thrilled — reminiscing and reinventing — an early Scully are soon reunited in Washington to who performs genetic experiments on the and, as all X-Files diehards should be, more flashback to the Roswell incident is vintage meet the host of a right-wing conspiracy children of single mothers (including his than a little suspicious. After all, with more X-Files , somehow mysterious and capti- theory Internet show, Tad O’Malley, played own son and daughter). It’s every reason than 200 episodes under its belt, how much vating while being as straightforward as by an utterly believable Joel McHale (seri- that fans of the show were excitedly awaitmore could there be for everyone’s favorite possible — there’s never any question about ously, are we sure this guy doesn’t already ing its return. Take away the legacy of The host a show like this?). paranormal investigators to do? whether such an event actually occurred.

X-Files , and “Founder’s Mutation” is still It’s with the addition of O’Malley that the damn good television — even if it does follow But while 1947 might still be the same, But as the revival’s two-part premiere reveals almost immediately, a lack of ideas when the show finally finds itself in 2016, show hits paranoia overload — a scene that a less-than-stellar premiere. things begin to falter. Mulder, the once-leg- lasts seemingly forever shows O’Malley and is hardly the show’s biggest problem.

If anything, the revival of The X-Files For fans hoping for an immediate return to endary bad boy/sadboy of the FBI is cooped Mulder explaining their newly discovered proves that even in 2016, paranoia is a form, “My Struggle” quickly becomes one. up in his home watching YouTube (oops, global conspiracy to take over the world double-edged sword. For a show like this An opening photographic montage serves “MindQuad”) videos — which really makes using alien technology to Scully, who half- one, so deeply rooted in suspicion, it can be as both a “previously on…” and a reminder you wonder what a guy like Mulder’s search heartedly reprises her role as resident non- the driving force in an edge-of-your-seat of the show’s storied past. Mulder might history is like. Scully, on the other hand, is believer before jumping on board. thriller, or it can be the roadblock of delu“My Struggle” shares the same (alien) sion that stops a show in its tracks. And, if be talking about the gravity of government working as a medical doctor — both are a far DNA as the show’s original “mythology” the first two episodes of the series are any conspiracy, but the actual message is clear: cry from their basement office at the FBI. Of course, while an hour of Mulder surfing episodes — and with it, the same problems. indication, we’re in for a little bit of both.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | diversions | THURSDAY, January 28, 2016 ESSAY | POLITICS AND HIP-HOP

Rap the vote How the relationship between Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders signifies larger shifts in both the hip-hop world and the campaign landscape

By Patrick Basler @pmbasler Staff writer When Kendrick Lamar said “I don’t give a f--- about no politics in rap” on last year’s To Pimp a Butterfly, he probably wasn’t talking about the 2016 presidential election. But if he was, some of his peers clearly disagree.

“In my heart of hearts, I truly b e l i e ve t h a t S e n a to r B e r n i e Sanders is the right man to lead this country,” Atlanta rapper Killer Mike, born Michael Render, roared to an excited crowd at a November campaign rally in his hometown.

Behind him, a woman proudly holding a sign that read “Hotlanta Feels The Bern 2016” cheered on the rapper’s endorsements.

For Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont running for the Democratic presidential nomination, grassroots support like this has been the key to his campaign so far, in “Hotlanta” and the rest of the nation. When Sanders, a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist,” entered the primary race, some wrote off his call for a political revolution as the talk of an outsider candidate destined to stay there.

B u t n i n e m o n t h s l a te r, a n d just days from the Iowa caucuses, Sanders’ outsider status has brought him closer to the mainstream than ever before. According to a new CNN/ORC poll, he leads Hillary Clinton — long considered the Democratic frontrunner — in Iowa, a surge that few would have expected just months ago.

In fact, it’s a surge that echoes

killer mike, the Atlanta rapper, sat down with Bernie Sanders, the 2016 presidential hopeful, in a barbershop to discuss the issues. t h e g ro w t h i n p o p u l a r i t y o f another longtime cultural outsider: hip-hop.

While artists supporting candidates is a political tradition, in 2016, rap endorsements like Killer Mike’s are more important than ever. A Spotify study in July claimed hip-hop was the most listened-to genre in the world. And hip-hop’s popularity isn’t just apparent in record sales and song streams; political endorsements by rappers can provide similar buzz for candidates.

When Killer Mike went to an Atlanta soul food restaurant with Sanders, photos of the event went

viral online. And who could forget the drama when Lil B dropped Clinton in favor of Sanders — a change that resulted in several lengthy cable news appearances by the Based God in support of his new favorite politician.

Of course, Sanders isn’t the only politician to receive endorsements from hip-hop stars. Clinton, his chief rival in the primary race, has the benefit of immediate celebrity recognition — a perk that has nabbed her support from rap royalty such as 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg and A$AP Rocky. But despite these artists’ relative commercial success (compared to those on

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the Sanders campaign trail), their words of advocacy often came in the form of inconsequential tweets and interview quips — a far cry from the inspired speeches and interviews of Sanders’ hip-hop allies.

So what is it about the 74-yearold senator — whose musical tastes are more Beethoven than Biggie — that draws endorsements from the likes of Killer Mike, Bun B and Scarface?

For many who support Sanders, it’s about what he says he can do for the country.

“A lot of people started talking to me about Bernie Sanders, and

they’re like, ‘You need to pay attention to him,’” said Lil B, who once rapped the Hillary-supporting “B----, I’m Bill Clinton.” “Bernie was a part of fighting segregation, which was something that really touched my heart … as well as I heard he was for free education, which makes me so happy.”

In a six-part interview with Sanders on Killer Mike’s YouTube channel, the rapper repeatedly mentions how Sanders’ policies would benefit the black community — a message Sanders has struggled to get out on his own.

Vermont, Sanders’ home state, is 95 percent white, a lack of diversity shared by both Iowa (92 percent white) and New Hampshire (94 percent) where polls have him leading. But among black voters, Sanders has struggled; polls show Clinton significantly ahead of Sanders when it comes to nonwhite Democrats.

“I need for my community to understand that your message directly impacts them,” Killer Mike told Sanders in his interview.

And with the help of rappers like K iller Mike and Lil B, who have large fan bases and influence among young black voters, Sanders hopes he can prove to those groups that his ideas are worth voting for. It certainly won’t be easy, but Sanders believes it’s possible.

“Here’s the very good news,” he told Killer Mike. “Everything we have talked about, the vast majority of people — white, black, Hispanic — they’re on our side.” pbaslerdbk@gmail.com

REVIEW | ANDERSON .PAAK’S MALIBU

Malibu the masterpiece Anderson .Paak proves his worth on what should be an early contender for Album of the Year

By Cameron Neimand @kneemund Staff writer I have an urgent message for the 2016 Grammy voters (and please read that in caps lock if you are associated with the throng of buffoons responsible for the current Macklemore versus Kendrick Lamar Best Rap Album tally standing at an embarrassing 1-0). Just a few weeks into 2016, an Album of the Year-worthy masterpiece is already making a subtle, soulful plea for your unwavering attention. Its name? Malibu. Its creator? Anderson .Paak (a name that, if currently unfamiliar, you should pretend you’ve known way before he rose to prominence as hookmaster

supreme on Dr. Dre’s comeback, Compton). Brutally transparent and undeniably smooth, Malibu establishes Anderson .Paak as an artist with talent as mysteriously deep as the blue-green waters of California’s iconic oceanside destination.

Spanning 16 tracks with a runtime just more than an hour, Malibu is chock-full of R&B, rap and soul cross-genre glory. On the album’s first track, “The Bird,” Paak’s pain, the result of a struggle-riddled life that included homelessness and his parents’ incarceration, is piercingly tangible in a bluesy ballad: “My sister used to sing to Whitney, mmm/ My mama caught the gambling bug, mmm/ We came up in a lonely castle,

mmm/ My papa was behind them bars, mmm.” On songs such as “The Waters,” Paak’s silky, complex flow over funky Madlib production is To Pimp a Butterfly -esque: “I bring you greetings from the First Church of Boom Baptists/ United Fellowship of Free Nationals/ Residing pastor is thy Paak/ and the first lady is a bad b----/ with slanted eyelids and thick asses/ Sunglasses, Martin Luther King fan for you bitch n---- sweating on my patent leathers.” Whether with the neo-surfer sound of “Parking Lot,” disco/hip-hop fusion on “Am I Wrong” (including a stunning ScHoolboy Q feature) or the Jack Johnsonmeets-Andy Grammer “Celebrate” (sure to be a future

graduation ceremony walk-off track), Paak reaches elite status in each genre he pursues.

In a post-T-Pain/Akon era when the next go-to hook guy is still waiting to be named, Paak’s catchy choruses are unrivaled. His ode to those who cease to let far-fetched dreams turn to faded opportunity is passionate and sincere: “This one’s for all the little dreamers/ And the ones who never gave a f----/ I’m a product of the tube and the free lunch/ Living room, watching old reruns/ And who cares your daddy couldn’t be here/ Mama always kept the cable on.”

Fro m b e i n g u n a b l e to provide shelter for his family to acting as Dr. Dre’s next prodigy, Paak is an unmatched

candidate to deliver such a message of perseverance.

The album’s most powerful track, “The Season/Carry me,” is a two-part odyssey of helplessness and survival fueled by Paak’s enchanting hook work. On the song’s latter portion, “Carry Me,” Paak’s soul singing is on a Ray Charles/James Brown/Otis Redding level of sheer perfection: “Knees hit the floor, scream to the Lord/ Why they had to take my ma (Mama can you carry me?)/ To the early morn (Mama can you carry me?).” It’s the type of sound that continually warrants an audible “Oh, damn.”

Like Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange or any of the post2010 Kendrick releases, An-

derson .Paak’s Malibu aims for and accomplishes success through innovative musicality and complete lack of conformity. It’s an album worthy of both millennial-driven car speakers and the headphones of those same kids’ parents.

Rarely am I able to leave an album on weeklong repeat without eventually growing weary, but Malibu is currently surfing a 10-day rotation period. If the Grammys continue their string of debacles in terms of proper recognition, I truly hope Anderson .Paak is content with receiving the holy, prestigious honor of earning my first four-Testudo review as a music critic. cneimanddbk@gmail.com

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THURSDAY, January 28, 2016 | diversions | The Diamondback

13 FEATURE | 9:30 CLUB WORLD’S FAIR

35 years of 9:30 9:30 Club celebrated its anniversary with a five-day ‘World’s Fair’ to showcase the venue’s eclectic past

9:30 Club, located on V Street in Northwest D.C., celebrated turning 35 with a dream spectacle for music lovers. Attractions included a wall of photos and the CDs of all the past performers, stacked in chronological order.

By Brianna Patterson @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback Some people take years to decide on their first tattoo.

For Megan Lahman, it was a simple, more impulsive decision. On Thursday, the third night of the 9:30 Club’s 35th anniversary exhibition, Lahman, an alumna, got the club’s logo inked on her wrist.

“It makes sense that the one place that made me want to have a tattoo, I get a tattoo there,” said Lahman, who graduated in 2009 with a civic journalism degree. She attended her first show at the club in 1998 and numerous shows since where she admired the tattoos on the arms of musicians in her favorite hardcore punk bands.

“I have so many memories of coming here with friends … and my family,” she said. “We would come here so often that the door staff started to say, ‘Oh, it’s the Lahmans from Frostburg.

How was the drive down?’”

The 9:30 Club is a cornerstone for music lovers like Lahman in the D.C. area. In 35 years it grew from humble beginnings as a punk-rock oasis in a cramped F Street enclave to the renowned venue currently at V street in Northwest Washington. Last week, the club celebrated this history and all those who were a part of it with the 9:30 World’s Fair, a five-day free event that transformed the familiar concert venue into an interactive multimedia museum.

From Backbar to the dressing room to the stage, galleries displayed old club schedules and fliers, classic concert footage from the club’s initial F Street venue and countless photos of staff and musicians.

It was a sensory overload that triggered intense nostalgia. Spectators took trips down memory lane as they reached a recreation of the former F Street location, complete with the recordings of bands such

as Green Day and Jesus Lizard from their original shows and even a slight stench made to emulate the distinct scent of cigarettes, sweat and rat feces of the smaller, crowded venue.

And if the smell wasn’t enough to bring back memories of crowded concert halls, a mosh pit simulator let patrons step between two projector screens that showed concert footage from the vantage point of the sweaty mobs below the stage.

“I haven’t stopped grinning,” said Jon Pacella, a Washingtonian who’s been coming to the club for 25 years. “Seeing all of the schedules and the chair where they recorded the shows at F Street brought back memories.”

The interactivity was a reminder that as a fan and an attendee, you were a part of that history. From watching footage of Leon Bridges’ concert from inside The Cube — four enormous screens that projected concerts from all angles — to writing old memories from the

club on the chalk wall on the first floor, the exhibits reinforced the intimacy that makes the 9:30 Club such a beloved venue. Spectators of all ages got to live out iconic moments in the club’s history and relive their own memories, scanning set lists and fliers along the way, exclaiming: “Look, David Bowie was here!” or “I missed that one because of my sister’s wedding.”

“I always felt like I was a part of the history in a way because of having seen a lot of amazing stuff here over the years,” said Lahman, one of at least 100 attendees to take advantage of free tattoos of the club’s logo offered on the main floor of the venue. “But for me [the exhibit] is just this lovely celebration of everything I love about this place.”

Those feelings extended to the longtime members of the staff. A whole wall was dedicated to photos of staff throughout the years, often described as “family.” Mini documenta-

ries played along the balcony in which many senior staff members got emotional while talking about the club’s many achievements.

For members of the staff like Karim Karefa, operations manager and head of security, the exhibit was a learning experience and a celebration of the people and the music that he has been working with for 13 years.

“I learned so much more about the club than I thought I knew.” said Karefa, who started working at the club in September 2002. “There’s a lot of history in the music that’s been played here; there’s a lot of history on those shelves.”

The shelves he referred to are a part of the music library designed for the exhibit. The permanent fixture houses 8,813 vinyl records and CDs of all the artists — from George Clinton to Little Dragon — who have played at the club, arranged in chronological order of their shows.

photos courtesy of jamie lecuyer/9:30 club

“Looking at the CD installation and trying to figure out how many of those shows I was actually present at — I stopped counting because it was just too much.”

With this many shows, “every day is something different,” Karefa said. But the 9:30 Club family is what keeps him coming to work. “I love the music, I love the shows, I love the atmosphere that it creates, but what keeps me coming to work is my staff.”

The World’s Fair exhibit was a celebration of music, history, D.C. and those who love all three. It brought out locals who have made the venue their home and proved that despite the passage of decades, new venues and changing demographics, the club is still a hot spot for D.C. culture.

“Growing up in the late ’90s, the 9:30 Club was the coolest place on earth,” Lahman said.

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Terror sprees in Paris and Jerusalem were both wrought by radical Islamists—part of a global jihad seeking to conquer the world and kill infidels.

ISIS terror acts in France—and more recently in San Bernardino—are motivated by the same Islamist obsession that inspired the 9/11 bombings in the U.S., as well as deadly knife, gun and car attacks in Jerusalem and throughout Israel—a fanatical conviction that Christians, Jews and moderate Muslims must be driven out of “Muslim lands.”

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imperial, terrorist aggression are perpetrated by selfavowed Muslims—as some notable politicians still ISIS, the latest, most brutal and militarily do—we will surely fail to understand or defeat them. successful Islamist terror group, grew as an offshoot of French President Francois Hollande took the first step al Qaeda, responsible for 9/11 and recent terror attacks when, just following the Paris massacres, he said, “We in Mali. Last year, ISIS has murdered more than a are at war with jihadi terrorism.” While this is correct, thousand innocent people in France, Egypt, Lebanon, France has conspicuously not stepped forward to Libya and Turkey, in addition to thousands of condemn identical attacks against innocent civilians in Christians, Yazidis and Shiite Muslims killed in its Israel. This misunderstands the global jihad that conquest of broad swaths of Syria and Iraq. ISIS’s plagues us, and it misses the opportunity to form avowed goal is to create an Islamic caliphate— solidarity with the world’s empire—consisting of land most effective at it perceives to belong to ISIS and Palestinian terrorists share nations fighting radical Islam, of Islam, including most of the Middle East, North a fanatical commitment to drive which Israel is preeminent.

Africa and Spain. ISIS’s 2) Take the battle to the infidels from “Muslim lands.” bloody conquest has been enemy. Likewise, the virtually unimpeded by United States, the world’s Syrian and Iraqi armies and, until recently, almost most powerful military force, has been a reluctant ignored by Western nations, despite the group’s player in fighting ISIS. For example, the U.S. currently downing of a Russian airliner and warnings to the U.S. flies just a handful of sorties a day against the Syriathat “we will drown you in blood.” Indeed, U.S. based terror group, compared with the 1,100 daily intelligence affirms that ISIS’s long-term goal is to sorties we flew against Saddam Hussein in the first Iraq attack America. war. The U.S. and other nations have proven equally Likewise, Hamas and other Palestinian jihadists have passive in condemning a steady drumbeat of Hamas killed hundreds of innocent Jews in Israel in suicide terror missiles and other Palestinian terror attacks bombings and missile attacks with a similar mounted against Israelis. In fact, if we are to defeat objective—to conquer Palestine and expel nonIslamist terrorism, we must vigorously oppose all Muslims. Indeed, since Hamas violently seized control forms of it. Most critically, military experts agree that of Gaza in 2007, it has ruled with an iron Islamist enemies like ISIS and Hamas must be engaged hand, imposing strict sharia religious law and driving forcefully not just by air—but on the ground—in order Christian Arabs out by the thousands. Hamas’s charter to defeat them. states its goal is to conquer the entire Holy Land and 3) Enjoin moderate Muslims to fight the enemy. kill all its Jews. The Palestinians’ latest “knife intifada,” Finally, while Western diplomats speak eloquently of which has already killed 20 innocent people and “moderate Islam,” the world has seen precious little injured more than 350, underscores this commitment. assistance—either symbolic or material—from No surprise that recent polls confirm an overwhelming Muslim leaders who oppose radical Islam. While there majority of Palestinians—over 80%—agree that all of are Christian and Jewish organizations dedicated to Palestine belongs to them and there can be no Jewish opposing Islamic extremism, for example, Muslim state. leaders are nearly always silent in the face of Muslim How Should the World Respond? terror attacks on Israel and elsewhere. While several French Muslim community leaders condemned the While no Western nation seeks another war in the Paris assaults, U.S. Muslim groups are generally inert, Middle East or Africa, the pattern and frequency of as are leaders of major Muslim countries like recent terror attacks compel us finally to unite in a Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan. In order to defeat concerted campaign to defeat this barbarity. In order extremism among any group, the leaders of that group to end the escalating slaughter of innocents, we must must not only disapprove, but they must actively fight adopt a three-pronged strategy: it in word and deed.

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Laugh UNtil you cry Zach Galifianakis shines in the surprisingly experimental, subtly tragic Baskets on FX

By Maeve Dunigan @maevedunigan Staff writer On recent television, you’ll commonly see a show that blurs the lines between drama and comedy. From Orange is the New Black to Weeds and even The Office, it’s not unusual for a show to make you cry from laughter one minute and sadness the next.

Some of the greatest comedy is born out of tragedy, and this idea is brought to life in FX’s new show Baskets.

The premiere of Baskets , which stars Zach Galifianakis as Chip Baskets, at times feels solely like a showcase of Galifianakis’ ability to play characters who are funny in the most believable ways.

The show gives Galifianakis a chance to combine his knack for comedy with his grasp of sincerity. Because Galifianakis’ most famous roles are in all three The Hangover films, it’s easy to forget that he also appeared as a more dynamic character in 2014’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Innocence).

It’s not crazy to assume that the storyline for the first episode of Baskets looks underwhelming on paper.

It follows a quirky man in

his 50s (Galifianakis) as he tries relentlessly to live out his dream of being a professional clown. He goes to Paris for clown school and drops out, he marries a Parisian woman who just agrees so she can get her green card, he works in miserable conditions as a rodeo clown, he rides a moped. A summary would chalk this show up to be another portrayal of the tired TV “bitter white guy makes the best of a funny scenario” concept.

THE SHOW GIVES GALIFIANAKIS A CHANCE TO COMBINE HIS KNACK FOR COMEDY WITH HIS GRASP OF SINCERITY.

But what separates Baskets from the rest is its ability amp up its average concept by combining well-written dialogue, slapstick pratfalls, cult-style absurdity, true tragedy and beautiful filming into about a half hour of television.

T h e B a s ke ts p re m i e re rested on a line between the experimental and strict-

ly visual comedy in BBC Two’s 2015 series Pompidou and the sharp wit found in shows such as 30 Rock or Arrested Development. In the premiere, Galifianakis gets caught with his pants down in Parisian clown school and is struck by a bull, while in the same half hour an ad for Baskets’ twin brother’s career college presents a hilarious bit bolstered by priceless dialogue.

It’s the little moments in Baskets that helps to remedy some of its downfalls. Moments such as a quick visual of a skirt getting stuck in a car door or a painfully funny rodeo rendition of the national anthem. These nuances distract a little from the fact that Louie Anderson plays Chip Basket’s mother, a character in drag who isn’t quite funny enough to justify giving a female comedic role to a man.

Despite its problems, the premiere of Baskets still laid the groundwork for what is potentially a unique comedy classic. In the end, the premiere was all about gray areas: the area between comedy and tragedy, between boring and bizarre, between slapstick and wit. Somewhere in those areas lies Baskets. mdunigandbk@gmail.com

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL | No. 5 TERPS 89, NITTANY LIONS 53

Second-quarter spurt lifts Terps to blowout victory Coach Brenda Frese’s squad uses 16-0 run in second frame to spark dominating win against Penn State

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer Wi t h a s h a d e ove r s i x minutes to go until halftime in last night’s game with Penn State, Terrapins women’s basketball guard Kristen Confroy went up to defend a layup.

Instead of altering the shot or blocking the attempt, Confroy fouled guard Brianna Banks, who scored the basket and went to the foul line. She hit the free throw moments later, completely erasing the ninepoint advantage the Terps held entering the second quarter.

While center Brionna Jones made two foul shots to put her team up 21-10 with 26 seconds remaining in the opening p e r i o d , t h e Te r p s we n t scoreless for more than four minutes. Penn State scored 11 points over that stretch, and coach Brenda Frese’s squad was suddenly in a tight bout with a middling Big Ten foe.

But the N ittany Lions weren’t prepared for the Terps’ dominant response.

Starting with forward Brianna Fraser’s foul shots at the six-minute mark of the second quarter, the Terps used a barrage of layups and jumpers to go on a 16-0 run and blow open the game.

And after entering the break up 39-24, the Terps never looked back in an 89-53 win over the Nittany Lions at the Bryce Jordan Center.

“Defensively, we were able to do a lot of great things,” Frese said. “And I thought when we were challenged — when the game was tied when they came at us in the first half — we went on that … run that was able to be able to help us kind of pull away early.”

Guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough followed her 22-point performance in the Terps’ win against Wisconsin on Jan. 20 with 25 points on 8-for-11 shooting. Her fifth make from behind the arc in the third quarter brought her within one point of tying her career high, which she achieved in her 26-point performance Nov. 18 against High Point, but she couldn’t achieve that feat.

She didn’t play the final eight minutes of Wednesday’s contest, but the Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, native excelled against her home-state school.

“In high school, this is where the state championships were played, and I never made it to the state championship,” Walker-Kimbrough said. “So I kind of like to think this is like my state championship every time I come to play.”

The other half of the scoring duo was Jones, who added 17 points and was the only other Terp to score in double figures.

Walker-Kimbrough and Jones, who were two of 20 players to make the Wooden Award midseason list, combined for eight points during the Terps’ 16-point outburst.

Guard Lindsey Spann broke the drought for Penn State (8-12, 3-6 Big Ten) with a long ball, but Jones added a layup right before intermission to give the Terps (18-2, 7-1) a 15point advantage.

“That’s where you get your inside/outside play when you have Shatori and Bri clicking on all cylinders,” Frese said.

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coach mark turgeon shouts instructions at his team during the Terps’ 62-56 overtime victory against Northwestern on Jan. 19 at Xfinity Center. christian jenkins/the diamondback

needelman From PAGE 18 It wouldn’t reach four. Feeding off a raucous home crowd Saturday, the Spartans played desperately against the then-No. 7 Terrapins men’s basketball team en route to a 74-65 win.

Which brings us to today, when No. 3 Iowa heads to Xfinity Center. The No. 8 Terps, who haven’t beat a ranked team, need a signature win to bolster their tournament resume.

Yes, coach Mark Turgeon’s team has looked impressive at times. It’s looked dominant at others.

But if the Terps want to be a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, they should expect to win Thursday. Fittingly, it’ll have to come against the team that first sent Michigan State into a tailspin.

“It’s a great opportunity for us,” Turgeon said. “We are playing a great team that is playing as well as anybody in the country and just killing teams.

Their games aren’t really close.”

The Terps would be smart to take a lesson or two from the Spartans’ performance last week.

Michigan State played angry. Determined. Hungry. They overpowered the Terps on the boards.

They weren’t going to lose.

And after such a demoralizing fall from the top of the national rankings, who could blame them? In less than a month, the program fell from No. 1 to outside the top 10.

The Terps are hardly in an identical situation. They’ve won all the games they’ve been expected to win — a road loss at unranked Michigan hurt, but it was far from catastrophic.

Yet they also haven’t surprised anyone. Granted, that’s not the easiest accomplishment when you spend the entire season with a single digit affixed to the front of your name.

This season was supposed to be special, though. This was the season that everything came together for Turgeon and Co., with a perfect storm of talented

transfers and reliable mainstays banding together in hopes of bringing a second NCAA title to College Park.

A number of games have been hyped like heavyweight bouts — Georgetown (win), North Carolina (loss), Connecticut (win), Michigan State (loss).

But appearances can be deceiving. Georgetown is 13-8.

UConn is 14-5.

So the Terps need a signature win, right? Right.

Guard Melo Trimble wouldn’t use that terminology, per se. “I think tomorrow is a big game for us,” he said Wednesday.

Senior forward Jake Layman echoed that sentiment but didn’t take it any further. When asked to gauge what kind of impact a win against the thirdranked team in the country would do for the Terps’ postseason implications, Layman answered plainly: “We don’t really look at it like that.”

The key for the Terps against Iowa will be defensive rebounding. In the Terps’ past two games — an overtime win and a loss — they’ve allowed opponents to secure 16 and 17 offensive boards, respectively.

“Our first-shot defense is great, but our first-shot rebounding is what we need to work on,” Layman said.

“Giving up offensive rebounds has kind of been our thing the past few games.”

That’s not what the Terps’ thing was supposed to be. It was supposed to be slicing through opposing defenses with the best backcourt in the country. It was supposed to be rookie center Diamond Stone dunking over less talented big men.

Precisely no one thought Iowa was going to be this good, especially after the Hawkeyes fell to Division II Augustana in a preseason scrimmage.

But here they are, rolling into College Park with the national spotlight hovering over their every move.

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In what may have looked like a favorable game for the Terps during the preseason has turned into the firstever top-10 men’s basketball game played at Xfinity Center. And the No. 8 Terps will lean on the crowd tonight against No. 3 Iowa in hopes of avoiding their first home loss since Dec. 3, 2014.

Re t u r n i n g to C o l l e ge Park is a welcome reprieve for the Terps (17-3, 6-2 Big Ten), who had to play in a hostile environment in East Lansing, Michigan, on Saturday night. Before an announced 14,797, many of whom were rowdy students clad in lime-green T-shirts, the Terps led for about two minutes in a 74-65 loss to Michigan State.

weight From PAGE 18 was already dripping in sweat. So when he threw on an extra jacket and hopped on a stationary bike, the sweat kept flowing and his weight kept falling.

While Simmons acknowledged some wrestlers still adhere to unhealthy and illegal habits, he and Bannister believe that persistence and dedication to wrestling supersedes the alternative.

“If it means coming in at 10 o’clock and running,” Simmons said, “you’ve got to do it.”

The Terps also follow strict diets, and Colleen Davis, the university’s sports nutrition

guard shatori walker-kimbrough drives to the basket during the Terps’ 89-53 win over Penn State last night at the Bryce Jordan Center. photo courtesy of linsey fagan/the daily collegian “And then everyone else can kind of play off the two of them.”

Jones’ teammates kept feeding the 6-foot-3 junior, especially in the opening

minutes of the third quarter when she scored the Terps’ first six points on three layups.

And while multiple Penn State players switched off guarding Jones, none of them

could stop her from consistently scoring inside. Frese credited the backcourt for getting the ball to Jones, who finished 7 of 14 from the field in 19 minutes. The veteran coach also noted the Havre de Grace native has expanded her game as the season has gone along.

“You see in terms of her low post presence, what she brings to us,” Frese said. “But she’s been able to expand to the high post. Running the floor tonight, I thought she was exceptional in terms of the plays she was able to make.”

Penn State got out on the break early though Frese said, which was part of the reason it was able to build an 11-0 run. In an otherwise disappointing season, the Nittany Lions were staying right with a top-five squad.

Ye t i n t h e f o l l o w i n g minutes, the Terps had an even better answer en route to their seventh Big Ten win.

“We were able to just lock in on both ends of the floor,” Frese said. kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

“It’s so hard to win in college basketball. You play so many games,” coach Mark Turgeon said. “So when you can have a home game and it’s going to be packed … it can make a huge impact on the game.”

While the Terps played five home games during winter break when students were away from campus, they didn’t experience a noticeable dip in attendance.

They sold out all but one contest, continuing their string of games this season with at least 17,000 fans in the building.

Their average of 17,816 fans per game ranks first in the Big Ten, and only Wisconsin joins the Terps as a Big Ten school averaging more than 17,000.

Despite the Terps’ attendance numbers, Iowa coach Fran McCaffery seemed to

shrug off the idea of College Park being a tougher place to play than other venues they’ve experienced.

“It happened the other day at Rutgers,” McCaffery told reporters this week.

“We’re used to those kinds of facilities on the road — big crowds, loud. Nothing different there.”

Rutgers ranks last in the Big Ten in attendance (4,482) and has gone winless in seven conference games.

And it’s the number of people that pile into Xfinity Center, Layman said, that has made it such a distinct home-court advantage the past two seasons. “ I t’s a b i g b u i l d i n g ,” said Layman, glancing at t h e 17,9 5 0 e m p ty s ea ts in Xfinity Center before practice Wednesday. “A lot of people can fit in here. It gets loud.”

After Turgeon’s squad knocked off then-No. 5 Wisconsin last season and fans stormed onto the court to celebrate the Terps’ 59-53 win, Turgeon said, “It started with our student section.

They were great tonight.”

Though Iowa (16-3, 7-0) doesn’t boast the prestige of former Terps rivals Duke or North Carolina, the Hawkeyes have claimed one of the top spots in college basketball. And students are clamoring for tickets, hoping to see the Terps knock off a top-five team for the fourth straight season.

“Our students are back for the first time,” Turgeon said. “It’s our fifth league home game and it’s our first time our students will be here, so we are looking forward to that.”

director, meets with the team often. Davis gave the team diet plans at the start of the season, with differentiations made between different weight classes.

Davis pushes them to eat their healthiest, and she also sprinkles in some extra healthy options: sushi or sandwiches with one slice of bread, among others.

In high school, many of the wrestlers found success despite unprofessional habits and not eating healthy. After finishing his high school career as the winningest wrestler in this state’s history, Bannister had trouble shaking some of his bad routines.

“I’m just one of the more hardheaded guys who think they can still eat Sour Patch

Kids and all that other junk,” Bannister said. “I’ve started to come around. I had no choice.”

While most of the team splurges during the offseason, they focus on what they’re putting into their bodies when the season rolls around.

Both Simmons and Bannister have felt their metabolism slow down in recent years, so they’ve buckled down on maintaining their health.

“Coach always tells us it’s about discipline,” Simmons said. “You may not be able to eat the extra piece of chicken; you [may] not be able to eat that last piece of salad. No soda, less Gatorade, a ton of water.”

The discipline and constant worrying about weight can get tedious for the Terps over

the course of a five-month season. Simmons says he often checks his weight between 10 and 15 times a day, with many of his teammates doing the same.

Still, Simmons acknowledges the importance of it all. With an opportunity to be part of the Terps, indulging in temptation isn’t worth it. Even if he has to struggle to make weight before every competition.

“It’s those times, like, ‘Damn, I just want another piece of food,’” Simmons said. “You have to think, ‘I’m here to help the team out.’ So it’s a sacrifice you make, but I love it. It’s all worth it in the end.”

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Forward Robert Carter Jr. has been an offensive staple for the Terps, scoring at least eight points in every game this season. But he will likely draw a tough defensive assignment tonight against Iowa star forward Jarrod Uthoff, the top scorer in the Big Ten.

Iowa ranks third in the Big Ten with a

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Forward Jarrod Uthoff

has dominated this season. The 6-foot-9 senior leads the conference in scoring at 18.9 points per game and shoots an impressive 48.3 percent from deep despite averaging 4.7 attempts from beyond the arc per game. If the Terps want to hand the Hawkeyes their first conference loss, slowing down Uthoff will be key.

Guard Peter Jok has more than doubled his scoring average from his sophomore to his junior year. He joins Uthoff as Iowa’s other top scoring threat, averaging 14.7 points per game. The 6-foot-6 junior likely will draw assignments from guard Rasheed Sulaimon and forward Jake Layman.

ON THE RECORD “We are playing maybe the hottest team in college basketball with maybe a national player of the year guy in [Jarrod] Uthoff. I mean, they got a heck of a team.”

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RYAN BAILLARGEON: 78-71 TERPS The Terps continue their home success by handing Iowa its first conference loss.

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PHILLIP SUITTS: 76-74 TERPS The Terps’ late-game magic returns as they grab a signature win.

“I just can’t wait to play against Iowa. I’ve been seeing them play all year. It’s a great team.”

KYLE STACKPOLE: 73-68 TERPS The Terps rebound from their loss at Michigan State by holding off Iowa in front of a raucous home crowd.

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Terps struggle to get to foul line Turgeon’s squad attempting three fewer free throws per game this season

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writer The Terrapins men’s basketball team was supposed to run a post play on the first possession of Saturday’s matchup against Michigan State.

But forward Jake Layman, who struggled for position on the interior, never touched the ball.

The possession ended with guard Melo Trimble missing a 3-pointer, the first of three misfires from deep to start the contest.

Instead of attacking the rim, the Terps settled for jump shots early against the Spartans, coach Mark Turgeon said yesterday.

That passive mindset has been a problem for the Terps as of late. A team that lived on the foul line last year — nearly 25 percent of its points came on free throws — is struggling to get there this season, with three fewer free-throw attempts per game this season. So heading into the No. 8 Terps’ highprofile matchup against No. 3 Iowa today, the Terps want to attack the basket more.

“We have shot too many jump shots,” Turgeon said.

“It’s something we’re continuing to work on.”

Trimble was at the center of the Terps’ free-throw frenzy last season. He ranked seventh in the nation with 240 attempted free throws, averaging nearly seven per game.

This season, he isn’t even first on the team. After T r i m b l e m a d e 5 . 9 f re e throws a game last year, he’s averaging two fewer freethrow attempts per game

guard melo trimble converts a layup during the Terps’ 62-56 overtime win over Northwestern on Jan. 19. christian jenkins/the diamondback this season (3.9).

“The league is doing a better job of defending him,” Turgeon said before the Northwestern game on Jan. 19. “I do think he’ll keep driving. … Melo will keep being Melo.”

While Trimble admitted yesterday he was frustrated with his inability to get to the line this season, he said free-throw shooting isn’t his singular focus. “ G e t t i n g to t h e f re e throw line is going to come with me being aggressive and hopefully just us being aggressive on the offensive end,” Trimble said.

The Terps’ inability to get to the charity stripe has come with referees providing more leeway for defenders to guard without fouling in the paint. Still, the Terps

have maintained their dip in free-throw shooting has come from passive play.

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“GETTING TO THE FREE-THROW LINE IS GOING TO COME WITH ME BEING AGGRESSIVE AND HOPEFULLY JUST US BEING AGGRESSIVE ON THE OFFENSIVE END.” MELO TRIMBLE

Terrapins men’s basketball guard Michigan on Jan. 12, freshman center Diamond Stone said the Terps needed to be more aggressive. Stone leads the Terps with 4.5 free-throw attempts per game and set a program record with 25 attempts in a 70-64 win over

Penn State on Dec. 30.

This season, less than 20 percent of the Terps’ points have come at the line, which ranks 227th in the nation, according to kenpom.com.

The Terps’ 24.7 percent mark last season was 18th in the nation.

While the Terps are more than halfway through the regular season, there’s time for them to work out their free-throw shooting kinks, starting today against the Hawkeyes.

“We’ve settled a little bit too much here and there,” Layman said.

“So I think staying aggressive and trying to get to the rim whenever we can is going to be big for us, especially early in games.” psuittsdbk@gmail.com

beardmore From PAGE 18 Beardmore was also innovative in the way he coached, giving his players freedom to modify their style.

Urso, who was named a recipient of the Tewaaraton Legends Award last week as one of four players in NCAA history to be a four-time first-team All-American, said Beardmore would let him talk in the huddle if the midfielder wanted to make an in-game adjustment.

Beardmore’s love for organization extended off the field, too.

His players dubbed him the “Silva Thin man” — a nod to the Silva Thin cigarettes advertisements — because Beardmore was “always perfectly dressed and he always wore his sunglasses and he always stood there and just looked out over the field like he was the king of the land,” Reed said.

Beardmore demanded the same appearance from his players. They had to keep the locker room spotless and polish their white Puma cleats the day before games, using a Q-tip on the red stripe.

“Be the best on the field, be the best in the classroom, be the best off the field,” Reed said.

“That was just something that we tried to live up to for him.”

But there were times, Reed said, when Beardmore “was great at looking the other way.”

At the 1975 national championship, a 20-13 thrashing of Navy, some Midshipmen in the stands were heckling Reed during warm-ups, so Urso started to shoot past the cage to clear them out.

And in their practice trips to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, each spring, Beardmore toughed out 24 hours on a bus full of college student-athletes.

“It was the ’70s, so it was a pretty wild time,” Reed said.

“Somehow, Coach Beardmore

never came back to the back of the bus. He never had to use the bathroom for 24 hours. He just sat in the front seat and looked straight out of the window.”

Beardmore retired from this program in 1980, the same year he was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

Since then, four Terps coaches have looked to hoist the championship trophy but have fallen short in six combined titlegame appearances.

“IT WAS THE ’70S, SO IT WAS A PRETTY WILD TIME. ... SOMEHOW, COACH BEARDMORE NEVER CAME BACK TO THE BACK OF THE BUS. HE NEVER HAD TO USE THE BATHROOM FOR 24 HOURS. HE JUST SAT IN THE FRONT SEAT AND LOOKED STRAIGHT OUT OF THE WINDOW.” JAKE REED

Former Terps men’s lacrosse goalkeeper And while usage of “Be the best” dwindled in the years after Beardmore’s departure, current coach John Tillman has revived the phrase.

T h e wo rd s a re p o s te d throughout the team’s locker room, mounted on the back wall of the film room and written on the metal bar of every player’s facemask just underneath his eyes. It’s a constant reminder of the former coach’s philosophy as this year’s Terps try to add a third trophy to the collection Beardmore started.

“Coach Beardmore was a legend in the game of lacrosse and will go down as one of the all-time great coaches,” Tillman said in a statement after Beardmore’s passing. “He was truly ‘the best.’” ccaplandbk@gmail.com

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NO PLACE THEY’D RATHER BE

Terps fans donning all white cheer on the Terps prior to their 75-71 victory over Georgetown on Nov. 17 at Xfinity Center. The Terps haven’t lost a game at Xfinity Center since falling to then-No. 7 Virginia, 76-56, on Dec. 3, 2014.

Terps look to extend 24-game home winning streak

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer The list of the Terrapins men’s basketball team’s achievements at home the past two seasons is extensive. They range from a 24-game winning streak at Xfinity Center to a 14.1 point margin of victory to 12 sellouts.

So what challenges does that pose for

opposing players? Iowa standout forward Jarrod Uthoff told reporters, “There are none.”

“I mean, it’s a tough place to play,” Terps forward Jake Layman said when asked about Uthoff’s comments. “They have never played here, so I wouldn’t expect them to know how it is here.”

See hawkeyes, Page 14

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Iowa provides chance for much-needed signature win JOSHUA NEEDELMAN

MEN’S BASKETBALL COLUMNIST What happened in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Dec. 29 created a ripple effect through the top of the Big Ten men’s basketball standings.

It was on that day then-No. 1 Michigan

WRESTLING

State fell to Iowa. Hawkeyes fans stormed the court, and the team proceeded to storm through the conference.

They picked up three more wins over ranked teams, including another defeat of then-No. 4 Michigan State on Jan. 14. That marked the beginning of a three-game losing streak for the Spartans.

See needelman, Page 14

BUD BEARDMORE: 1939-2016

‘Be the best’ Two-time national champion coach instilled long-lasting motto

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer

Jhared simmons, wrestling at 125 pounds, battles against a Drexel opponent during the Terps’ 24-10 win over the Dragons on Dec. 5 at Xfinity Pavilion.

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Wrestlers struggle to meet weight Terps forced to eat healthy, wear sweat suits to stay in appropriate class

By Josh Schmidt @joshj_s Staff writer On Jan. 10 at about 10:30 a.m., 125-pound Jhared Simmons arrived at Xfinity Center, prepared for the Terrapins wrestling team’s conference dual with Michigan State, which was set to begin at 1 p.m. After an hourlong workout with the res t of th e Te r ps i n the wrestling room on the bottom floor of the arena, Simmons arrived in front of a scale.

He stepped onto the scale.

It blinked: 125.4.

At 0.4 pounds over weight, Simmons would be ineligible for competition. With 20 minutes to go until the official weigh-in, the sophomore tossed on his sweat suit and started to run.

“Wrestlers, they know their weight more than their schoolwork, probably,” Simmons said. “I know how much I’m weighing when I’m at home, when I’m here, when I’m on the road. It’s kind of funny — we’re all pretty OCD about it.”

Making weight is unique to wrestling, with no other sport putting the same regulations on weight control.

If a wrestler weighs just one-tenth of a pound over the NCAA-regulated weight requirement, he is disqualified from competition. All his hard work is lost.

“There are very few sports where the measure is how much you weigh; it’s the only thing that matters,” coach Kerry McCoy said. “You have to be committed to it. It’s just like going on a diet.”

For years, wrestlers forced to cut weight engaged in unhealthy habits. Before the turn of the millennium, things were much less regulated, according to McCoy. Since the institution of those rules,

McCoy has seen a drastic shift in “weight management.”

“Years ago, wrestling was much more crazy, like during my career,” said McCoy, a former Penn State wrestler.

“They put these different things in for the health and safety of the athletes. A lot of steps have been taken by the wrestling community to make things a lot better. Definitely a lot healthier than it was, say, 15 years ago.”

There are many ways the Terps cut weight. After going through a recent practice, 141-pound Alfred Bannister See weight, Page 14

When Frank Urso, a Terrapins men’s lacrosse midfielder from 1973 to 1976, was raising his kids, he’d often tell them the same mantra his coach, Clayton A. “Bud” Beardmore, used with the Terps: “Be the best.”

The same went for Jake Reed, a Terps goalkeeper from 1974 to 1977, in his high school teaching and coaching careers.

It was a life path he said Beardmore inspired.

And when the Terps alumni send one another emails, the messages always end with the same three words.

The motto originated from Beardmore, who coached the Terps to national championship victories in 1973 and 1975 — the only two national titles in program history.

Beardmore died Jan. 20 at age 76 from complications from Parkinson’s disease, but his former players said his philosophy will continue to have an impact on their lives as well as those of future generations of Terps.

“His motto of ‘Be the best’ still stands there at Maryland, and it’s something that I think that everybody tried to do while they played there,” Urso said. “It helps you grow as a player, but it also helps you grow as a person.”

In coaching the Terps from 1970 to 1980, Beardmore compiled a 91-26 record over 11 seasons, including eight ACC Championships and nine straight final four appearances from 1971 to 1979.

“HIS MOTTO OF ‘BE THE BEST’ STILL STANDS THERE AT MARYLAND, AND IT’S SOMETHING THAT I THINK THAT EVERYBODY TRIED TO DO WHILE THEY PLAYED THERE.” FRANK URSO

Former Terps men’s lacrosse midfielder As a player, Beardmore was a three-time All-America midfielder for the Terps from 196 to 1962. He set the school’s career points record for a midfielder (108), only to see that record broken when he coached Urso.

“He was the first one to congratulate me,” Urso said. “I remember him saying that he expected it and congratulations.”

But Reed said Beardmore wasn’t “what you would call a players’ coach, where he puts his arm around you and he hugged you.”

The coach would run the Terps ragged during practice, often incorporating drills he learned from the Terps track coach.

See beardmore, Page 17