February 11, 2016

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University ranks fifth among DC region schools in cash donations for FY 2015 Donor cash flow spikes to $122.7 million in 2015

“We can’t count on [state funding] always to do the things we need to do at the university,” Kirwan said.

“Philanthropy, private giving really provides the margin of excellence for

By Taylor Swaak an institution.” @tswaak27 About 25 years after Kirwan first Senior staff writer introduced comprehensive fundraisFormer university President Brit ing efforts, this university ranked fifth Kirwan knew reliable state funding among schools in the Washington region for cash donations in fiscal year wouldn’t last forever.

2015, according to Council for Aid to Education data.

This university’s donor cash flow spiked from $81.79 million in fiscal year 2014 to $122.7 million in 2015, topped only by Georgetown University ($172.45 million), the University of Virginia ($233.22 million), George Washington University ($248.03 See FUNDs, Page 3

This university raised about $202 million in fiscal year 2015, including 28 gifts of $1 million or more, and it has already raised $95 million so far this fiscal year, officials said. file photo/the diamondback

Grocery store may open on Route 1 European grocer Lidl looks to Clarion Inn site

By Carly Kempler @CarlyKempler Senior staff writer

nization’s major initiatives for the semester.

Last semester, the collective national network successfully encouraged McDonald’s and Subway to commit to stop using antibiotics in their food supplies.

“That was a huge victory for us,” said chapter president Tom Klotz, a senior government and politics major. “But I think on a chapter, logistical basis, [the biggest accomplishment] is that we’ve grown. That, I think, was the biggest change that we’ve made — is continuing to get more people involved.”

This semester, the group plans to continue working on initiatives including homelessness

As redevelopment of the city continues toward its goal of “One College Park,” city officials see a need for grocery stores to fill the “food desert” in the area, said Terry Schum, the city’s planning director.

Various announcements are underway to reveal some of the new companies, retail locations and restaurants that will soon come to College Park, said Ken Ulman, chief strategy officer for economic development.

“When there are more diverse restaurants, the more diverse retail options, people … speak with their wallets if you will,” Ulman said. “The more options that we give them on Baltimore Ave. and in surrounding communities, the more they’re going to keep their dollars at home.”

According to the most recent development update report, one of the largest European grocers, Lidl, is planning to build a store at the Clarion Inn site at 8601 Baltimore Ave. The store also plans to open a location in Bowie.

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MAYOR PATRICK WOJAHn speaks yesterday about his experience working as a PIRG campus organizer in Wisconsin to members of MaryPIRG in their first meeting of the semester.

Mayor Patrick Wojahn joins MaryPIRG for lobbying group’s kickoff meeting

By Zach Melvin @ZachM3lvin Staff writer When MaryPIRG, the university’s branch chapter of the Public Interest Research Group network, needed a guest speaker for its kickoff meeting, it turned to the mayor,

who has some experience with the national organization.

College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn, who addressed the group Wednesday, worked with PIRG branches in Wisconsin. He credited the experience as vital to his political career.

“I was a campus organizer,” Wojahn said. “I worked with the PIRGs in Wisconsin in the late ’90s. I really attribute the PIRGs to giving me the background I need in running campaigns and doing organizing and all the other stuff I needed to do.”

About 100 students gathered in the Juan Ramon Jimenez Room in Stamp Student Union for the MaryPIRG spring semester kickoff event.

During the meeting, they went over the orga-

University team to compete in national Solar Decathlon

Veteran chef looks to take Good Tidings to new heights

US Energy Dept will award $2M to winner

By Jacob Bell @thedbk For The Diamondback

Executive chef is now developing semester’s Green Tidings menus

By Hannah Lang @hannahdlang Staff writer

Tom Schraa took over as the new executive chef for Good Tidings in September after working with the catering company for years in various other positions. He began his professional career at 18. tom hausman/the diamondback

Chef Tom Schraa first saw an ad for a job with this university’s catering department in the newspaper. After years of working at re s ta u ra n ts i n Da l l a s, M i a m i , Chicago and Washington, the idea of working five days a week was appealing.

Seventeen years later, Schraa has found himself working most weekends and some 12-hour days as executive chef for Good Tidings. He took over the job in September, after working with Good Tidings for years in various positions.

“I have learned over the course of my career that you couldn’t take me out of here,” he said. “It’s what I love to do and I’ve always done it.”

Growing up in Springfield, Virginia, Schraa said he was always interested in cooking and would often stop playing just to watch the cooking show Galloping Gourmet.

At age 18, he began his professional career as an apprentice for chef JeanPierre Goyenvalle at Le Lion d’Or Restaurant in Washington.

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and they drank and they did all kinds of crazy stuff,” he said of the kitchen staff. “But they taught me and I learned their craft. They just taught this little kid how to do things.”

In February 1999, Schraa was h i re d a s a so u s c h e f fo r G o o d T i d i n g s , w h i c h m a n a ge d t h e campus dining halls, in addition to providing catering services, and operated out of what used to be Denton Dining Hall, now 251 North.

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On a stretch of wall in the studio space of the architecture, planning and preservation school are pictures — rows of them, stretching from floor to ceiling — of sustainable housing designs university students have showcased for the U.S. Energy Department.

The designs were part of the Solar Decathlon, a biennial Energy Department competition that challenges student-led teams from across the globe to create innovative, solarpowered homes. This university is getting ready to take part in the competition again.

The department announced in January a team from this university will be part of the 2017 competition for a shot at $2 million. This university’s team, which should have See Energy, Page 2

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CRIME BLOTTER not allowed. The two men then took the items without paying.

This incident is still under University Police re- investigation. s p o n d e d to re p o r t s o f theft, fraud and vandalism, FRAUD among other incidents, in the past week, according to On Feb. 3 at 10:41 a.m., police reports.

University Police responded to the South Campus Dining Hall for a report of fraud.

THEFT Between noon on Feb. 2 and the time of police reUniversity Police responded to a theft in prog- sponse, an individual handed ress at 12:43 a.m. Tuesday a $20 bill to a cashier.

The cashier tested the bill at the Cambridge Commuto see if it was counterfeit. nity Center.

While officers inter- As the cashier called for the viewed a witness, a man manager, the perpetrator left was seen inside the con- the scene.

The counterfeit bill venience store matching was obtained by Univerthat description.

The man had fled on foot sity Police, and the Secret and then returned to the Service was contacted to store. He was intoxicated, move forward with the case, according to the report. according to the report.

“Anytime we get a fake or Po l i ce i d e n t i f i e d t h e man as 18-year-old Alex- fraudulent bill, we contact ander Reardon of Ellicott [the Secret Service] because City. He was arrested and their speciality is currencharged with theft of less cy,” police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said. than $100.

University Police re- “They will generally look sponded to the Commons into it further.”

Shop at 4:30 p.m. Sunday for a reported theft.

VANDALISM Between 3:30 p.m. and the time of the response, On Feb. 4 at 12:29 p.m., two men entered the store University Police responded without enough money to to Commons 2 for a report of pay for their items. vandalism.

The suspects asked the An alarm for an interior people behind them in line d o o r wa s go i n g o f f, a n d for money, and store em- p o l i c e n o t i c e d t h a t t h e ployees told them this was locking mechanism for the

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door was damaged. It appeared that someone had used force in attempt to open the door, according to the report.

Police believe this incident took place that same day between noon and the time of police response.

Officers plan to review area camera footage as the investigation continues.

On Saturday at 8:39 a.m., University Police responded to Commons 1 for a vandalism report. Between 4:30 p.m. Friday and the time police arrived Saturday, two interior walls were damaged within the lounge area of the building.

The walls were adjacent to each other, and the damage appeared to have been caused by a kick, according to the report. The investigation remains active, and police are looking at footage from cameras in the area.

University Police responded to Montgomery Hall on Feb. 7 at 1:20 p.m. for a report of vandalism.

An officer observed a hole in an interior hallway wall.

Police believe the incident took place between midnight and 2:30 a.m. on the day of the report.

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about 20 people, along with 15 other teams, is preparing for the designing, testing, marketing and construction that will take place during t he ne x t 18 mont h s. T he existing photos on display in the Architecture Building serve as a reminder of past successes and ways to improve.

“We’re hoping to create a catalog of all the different strategies that past ones have used, see where we can use some, see where we can bu i ld on some, see where they missed an opportunity and take that opportunity,” said Maryssa Timberlake, a n a rch itectu re g radu ate student and Solar Decathlon team member this year.

This university has been repre se nte d i n t he Sol a r Decathlon four times since the competition started in 2002. Its tea ms placed i n t he top f ive t h ree t i mes, including landing first place overall in 2011 with the “WaterShed” project.

The 2017 team is looking for regenerat ive, or “net positive,” designs for the competition, which can give back more to the environment than they take, Timberlake said.

“We’d like the house to actually be something which is a positive part of the environment, rather than just less bad for t he env i ronment,” sa id M i ke Bi nder, a lecturer in the architecture school and a principal investigator for the team.

“We’d like it to generate not only all of its own power, b ut cle a n its ow n water, help people grow food and really create a very sustainable lifestyle.”

Net positivity has become a growing trend for architects, engineers and busi-

ENGINEERING STUDENTS present Solar Decathlon designs to students in the studio space of the architecture, planning and preservation school. photo courtesy of maryssa timberlake nesses in recent years. The Living Building Challenge, for example, is a program started in 2006 by a branch of the U.S. Green Building Council that certifies buildings for using environmentally positive construction solutions.

Developing a net-positive house likely will earn the team high scores in energy balance, one of the 10 categories the Solar Decathlon jury will use to evaluate the competition.

T h e j u r y l o o k s a t e l ements such as architecture a nd eng i neer i ng, m a rket appeal and affordability and communications, which includes a website, brochures and an audiovisual presentation within the house.

T h e s e c a t e go r i e s h e l p make the project interdisciplinary, which can open the door for students who are not in the architecture or engineering schools to get involved, said Erin B a rk m a n , a a rch itect u re graduate student and Solar Decathlon team member. “ You wou ld t h i n k t h at the architects would work in the architect column, and the engineers would work in the engineering column, and the communications from

a rou nd t he school wou ld work on the marketability,” Barkman said. “But what a lot of people don’t understand is that we all have to be working together from the very beginning.”

Barkman, a 2015 university alumna, said much of her undergraduate coursework i n a rch itectu re was theoretical and done independently. T he Solar Decathlon provides hands-on experience and a real-world collaborative effort.

“In most classes that [e n g i n e e r i n g s t u d e n t s] take, the problems are very well-defined. They compute a solution and then they’re done,” said Ray Adomaitis, a chemical and biomolecular engineering professor and principal investigator for the team. “But this requires some really unique thinking that certainly translates over to any sort of thing they do later, whether it be research or business or starting their own business.”

Adomaitis and Binder said they expect more informat ion on t he compet it ion, which will take place in mid2017, to be released in the coming weeks and months. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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From PAGE 1 million) and Johns Hopkins University ($582.68 million).

The university’s fundraising total for fiscal year 2015 — including Kevin Plank’s $25 million and Brendan Iribe’s $31 million pledged contributions — was about $202 million.

Given the university’s growth, ambitious construction projects and constrained state funds, building a strong donor base has become a necessity.

“Nobody gives you money because you need the money,” university President Wallace Loh said. “People give you money to make an impact, to make a real difference.”

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STATE OF THE STATE Despite state support, the four current main projects on the campus are led by significant donor gifts, university spokesman Brian Ullmann said, reinforcing the importance of philanthropic funding to drive progress.

While the Cole Field House renovations cost a projected $155 million, for example, only $25 million will come from the state, compared with about $90 million from private donations, The Diamondback reported in November 2014.

The state often requires capital projects to have substantial donors to move forward, said Sharon Akers, the executive director of the Edward St. John Foundation who negotiated St. John’s $10 million pledge, announced in 2011, for the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center.

“The state basically said, ‘We’ll give you X amount of money, but what you need to do is you need to find a major donor who will give a large amount and be a naming donor,’” Akers said. “You look at all the great projects that are happening — none of that could have been possible without the private support.”

Public institutions such as this university have also been forced to rely more on donor funding because consistent increases in state funding are never a guarantee.

Between fiscal years 2003 and 2004, state funding dropped from more than $360 million to about $306 million. Between fiscal years 2011 and 2013, funding stayed relatively constant, rising from about $411.5 million in 2011 to about $415.7 million in 2013.

Between fiscal years 2013 and 2015, state funding climbed to about $482 million, only to return to relative stagnancy at about $481 million for fiscal year 2016.

The state’s unexpected budget cuts in fiscal year 2015 also led to a $15.6 million cut from this university’s budget, leading to staff furloughs, a midyear tuition increase and a hiring and construction freeze beginning in December 2014.

“Every state university would tell you the same thing, that they have to count more and more on philanthropy,” said Kathryn Jarvis, chief of staff in Virginia’s university advancement senior vice president’s office. “The other things … you don’t have any control over them, but you can somewhat control philanthropy.”

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tive about raising money, the formal fundraising efforts and campaigns that began at this university in the 1990s were largely playing catch-up to “aspirational peers” such as Virginia and the University of North Carolina, Kirwan said.

Virginia, also a public institution, launched its first campaign in 1979 and began serious, consistent fundraising efforts in the mid-1990s, Jarvis said. It also ran a $3 billion campaign from 2006 to 2013.

Other institutions “had back then very substantial fundraising programs,” Kirwan said. “I recognized that we could only rise to those heights if we also built a strong fundraising program.”

Early on in Kirwan’s administration — he was university president from 1989 to 1998 — Kirwan built a development operation, appointed a development vice president, created an alumni association in 1989 and launched in 1996 the university’s first capital campaign, which ran until 2002 and raised $456 million, said Peter Weiler, university relations vice president.

The next comprehensive campaign, Great Expectations, raised $1 billion from 2006 to 2012.

The university intends to continue the upward trajectory in fundraising and is in the planning stages of its next campaign, Weiler said.

“We’re just working out the planning, putting a volunteer group together, working on some of the larger foundation gifts,” Weiler said. “Campaigns really focus the university on the philanthropic agenda.”

While Loh maintained there are new projects in the planning stages, he and Weiler said discussion of such projects, as well as any potential hefty donor gifts, would be premature. Weiler did disclose that the university has already succeeded in raising $95 million this fiscal year.

To ensure successful fundraising in future years, Loh said the university is also actively filling

fundraising positions, many of which were lost to budget cuts from 2008 to 2011 in wake of the recession. The university currently has 76 professionals on its fundraising team, Weiler said.

“There is a direct correlation between how much money you raise and how many people are pounding the pavement,” Loh said. “We have the wonderful problem of a large pool of potential donors. We don’t have enough people to contact all of them.”

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private institution, Johns Hopkins came early to the fundraising game. Its first fundraiser in 1910 raised more than $1 million, and it’s currently in the midst of a $4.5 billion campaign.

“As a private institution it was kind of a necessity, probably from an earlier standpoint than say Maryland would have, because [the University of Maryland] had states funds to rely on,” Rentschler said.

But sometimes, it’s not about strategy and program maturity; it’s about good timing and the “outliers,” Rentschler said.

Georgetown University received a $100 million gift in fiscal year 2014, catapulting its total funding for that year. Bart Moore, Georgetown’s vice president of advancement, compared the school to a “great public university” in part because it didn’t start its own modern fundraising campaigns until the early 1980s.

“When you get into a position where you’re fortunate enough to be fundraising for an institution that sometimes receives these very large gifts, you have to be prepared for that fluctuation, that variability from year to year,” Moore said.

George Washington University similarly saw significant growth in fiscal year 2015, thanks in part to “assets from the university’s historic collaboration with the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art + Design and the National Gallery of Art,” according to its website.

However, comparing universities’ fundraising successes can be like comparing apples and oranges due to a variety of factors, such as the wealth of schools’ alumni and the resources of their fundraising programs, Jarvis said.

For Kirwan, he said this university’s future in fundraising has nowhere to go but up.

“What I hoped to see 25 years ago has really come to pass,” Kirwan said. “It’s making a huge difference.”

One of the main reasons this university was able to amass 28 gifts of more than $1 million in fiscal year 2015 was the “buzz” circulating around it, Weiler said. “[There’s] a lot of great things going on, and that’s everything from College Park and the revitalization of College Park, just really great academic programs to our athletic teams and the Iribe Center and engineering,” Weiler said.“[It] just gets people’s attention.”

A notable part of successful fundraising — especially when seeking these six- or seven-figure gifts — is knowing how to ask for them in the right way, Loh said.

“We don’t go around like,‘Hey, will you give to cause X or cause Y?’” Loh said. “You ask what they’re interested in, how they’d like to contribute to the university, and then some ideas float and then they zero in on something.”

Asking for transformative gifts that fulfill a “big idea” is key, said Andrew Rentschler, executive director of Johns Hopkins’ campaign operations.

“Anyone can ask for a $50 million gift,” Rentschler said.

“If you can’t actually act upon the gift in a way that the donor finds useful to society and to the institution, the donors will see through that.”

While Johns Hopkins sat atop the Washington region list and ranked sixth in the nation for fiscal year 2015, Rentschler admitted it’s largely because as a tswaakdbk@gmail.com

Worst pollution affects mostly poor, nonwhite areas in US, study finds

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Senior staff writer

it's important to understand what is happening in these communities so these problems can be addressed.

“From a scienti fic perspective, the study is very novel and innovative,” said Sacoby Wilson, a professor with the public health school's Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health. “But from a policy perspective, it shows us we have a lot of work to do.”

To find superpolluters, resea rchers used the Env i ro n m e n t a l P ro t e c t i o n Agency's R isk-Screen i ng Environmental Indicators data, which account for the risk generated by toxic emissions from industrial facilities across the continental United States.

“We know that some societies pol lute more tha n others, some people or organizations pollute more than others,” Collins said. “We wanted to look at industrial facilities to see if there were some that were substantially worse than others.”

When researchers crossreferenced these data with the U.S. Census, they discovered the link between these facilities and disadvantaged communities, Collins said.

Wilson said the research highlights underlying issues of env i ron menta l racism and structural inequality.

To address these problems, Wi lson sa id, resea rchers have to continue to build a better understanding of what caused this inequality.

Collins said this perspect ive bre a k s dow n a hu ge problem like pollution into smaller, more manageable parts, allowing researchers and policymakers to tackle it with a little more optimism.

“If you're a decision-maker or a regulator, you might recognize that pollution production is driven heavily by this group of extreme polluters and maybe design policies or programs that target these groups,” Collins said. “Also, if you did clean up those facilities, you could be doing it in places that are traditionally marginalized.”

“Superpolluters,”a newly identified class of industrial facilities that produce high toxic emissions, disproportionately affect nonwhite, low-income communities, according to a university study.

The researchers found that about 5 percent of 16,000 facilities nationally generate about 90 percent of the nation's toxic emissions risk, said Mary Collins, an environmental sociologist at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The journal Environmental Research Letters published the results in January.

“There is disproportionate distribution of pollution in the U.S.,” said Collins, who led this research as a postdoctoral fellow in this university's National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center. “Looking at t he se s up er p ol luter communities … the data showed these communities could be considered disproportionately poor or nonwhite.”

T he study shows that communities of color and low-income populations face a greater degree of pollution exposure risk, a fact that can help researchers better understand the social systems that might contribute to environmental inequality, Collins said.

Joseph JaJa, a computer and electrical engineering professor who worked on the study, said though his role was primarily dealing with the data and computer science aspects of the research, he was interested in the seemingly “unfair” social science trends they discovered.

Environmental inequalit y a n d e nv i ro n m e ntal justice are big topics these days, Collins said, especially when considering problems such as the water contamination in Flint, Michigan. She said meichensehrdbk@gmail.com

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efore the end of the spring semester, more than a thousand students will exhaust their supplies of dining points.

Hundreds more will scramble to spend the remainder of their meal plan balances while limited by an unyielding spending cap.

They’ll cash out on whole pizzas and boxes of cookies and slip friends their university IDs, beholden to a system that promises flexibility and convenience but too often fails to provide much in the way of either.

It’s a scenario that plays out without fail at the end of every semester, but students could see an end to their long-running battle with the dining point as soon as August, when Dining Services will roll out an anytime-dining plan on par with most of the university’s Big Ten peers, Dining Services officials said earlier this month.

The new base plan kicks dining points and the current a la carte system to the curb in favor of allyou-can-eat fare. Students will have seven-day unlimited access to the North and South Campus dining halls as well as 251 North, which will open for lunch and dinner in the fall as a third dining hall.

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They’ll also have the option to add Terp Bucks-style dining dollars to their plans for use at on-campus cafes and convenience stores, as well as Stamp Student Union locations including Subway, Sbarro, Taco Bell, Auntie Anne’s — and yes, Chick-fil-A. OUR VIEW

The new proposed dining plan isn’t perfect but is a commendable response to years of complaints.

The switch comes as a common sense initiative that addresses student complaints and boosts the competitiveness of this university’s dining offerings relative to other public schools. Eleven of the 14 Big Ten schools offered anytimedining options as of last semester, and students’ satisfaction with this university’s eateries should spike once it joins their ranks.

At least from the university’s standpoint, the plan appears affordable, too. Officials told The Diamondback in November that Dining Services had been frugal

in past years, allowing for the implementation of a $100,000 to $150,000 biometric identification system — scanning some body part or movement to ensure only people with dining plans can eat without paying for individual meals.

Therein lies one of the new plan’s only major issues: Dining halls could become a cost-inefficient dining option for commuters or other students without dining plans. If Dining Services forces students to pay as they enter dining halls, they could lose their status as a place to grab a small bite to eat or meet up with friends and classmates during the day.

Moreover, the plan will eliminate carryout boxes, meaning students on the go will need to commit to dining in or resort to convenience stores and cafes, thus decreasing the value of their dining plans.

None of these drawbacks is enough to condemn the new system on its own, though, and Dining Services is to be commended for hearing out students’ concerns and acting on them.

With an ongoing dialogue between students and officials and an eye toward improving on-campus dining for all, this university can continue to craft options that sate stomachs and wallets alike.

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Fraternity email reflects poorly on greek life

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recent email on this university’s Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity chapter Listserv leaked to the public and expressed racist comments from one of the members.

In the email, a fraternity member encourages his brothers to go out on the night of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, stating that “Black girls are 78.45% easier on this holiday it’s a proven fact. If that doesn’t excite you there are a lot of white people here as well, either way it’s gonna be a good time.”

The fraternity is already taking a great deal of backlash over the recent email, and this comes less than a year after a similar email surfaced from a Kappa Sigma fraternity Listserv.

With all the stereotypes, media attention and negative connotations surrounding Greek life, one would think that fraternities would be much more careful about the things they say, whether it is intended to go public or not. Obviously, the ideal situation would be for fraternities and sororities to not say things like these at all, but evidently some people do hold these racist ideals.

I am a proud member of Greek life here at this university, and it bothers me greatly when people within the same community as me hold these ideas and share them. I’ve heard a lot about chapters getting in trouble throughout the country for saying things like this, and I have always wondered why these incidents continue to occur. And although I do not believe that the beliefs and quotes of one brother reflect the

entire chapter’s viewpoint, the fact of the matter is that such generalization is inevitable. If his actions were simply brushed under the rug and not responded to in the Listserv, that is not a sufficient reaction to such abysmal remarks.

This is an incredibly diverse campus, and despite many misconceptions, Greek life here is very diverse as well.

Not only is this person offending an entire race of people, but he is also offending his peers. As a member of Greek life, I for one am upset not only because of what he said, but also because what he said could impact people’s perceptions of me and others. Fraternities and sororities are meant to be organizations that instill certain values into their members to make them better people, but the individual who wrote this email clearly isn’t representing the values of his organization.

Right now, the fate of the chapter or this particular member should not be the concern. The concern should be what can be done to prevent not only these racist emails from being sent, but also what can be done to stop people who hold these beliefs from bringing them into the university and into Greek life in the first place. This email is hopefully the last of its kind for the time being, though based on emails released in several years, there is no evidence to believe that events like this won’t continue in the near future.

Kyle Campbell is a sophomore government and politics major. He can be reached at kcampbelldbk@gmail.com.

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The absurdity of life

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ll is meaningless; it is the echoes of the inevitable demise called death, reminding us all of our imminent impotence to perpetuate all and any of our wholesomeness that relates to our being. It is this agony of eventual nothingness that terrifies the common man. Yet almost by some communal guidance, we are contrived in the absurdity of life, adhering to the belief that the pursuit of gain and more gain — where gain is subjective to the person — will bring about the feeling of meaningfulness.

But everything is meaningless.

Even the great Russian author, Leo Tolstoy, with his revered passion, purpose, wealth and accomplishments, battled with the common questions “ lying in the soul of every man.” “Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?” he pondered. Can any man speak, affirmatively, of any self-enduring purpose that perpetuates beyond death and that the person continues to accrue stakes or cost?

The fact is, everyone who passes into oblivion is dispossessed of all possessions. They no longer hold any stakes in life’s course.

To appreciate the illustrious undertone of the language, I must emphasize the one key point that makes this thought warrant any existential relevance: the ephemeral nature of all entities under the sun.

The futility of life should permit us to challenge whatever meaning is associated with life when that life is transitory. But then what meaning

is there to life when that life is transitory?

The essence of a transitory state is that it does not persist and must last only for a short time. Comparable to how we commonly refer to the transitory nature of earthly pleasures, logic demonstrates to us that our being is transitory by virtue of its confinement to the state.

Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless. The man who, throughout his life, actively pursued what he perceived to be his life’s work, and the layman, who is riddled with laziness, pleasure and contentment that grew and continues to grow, achieve equal outcomes.

Although the general economic conditions of their lives were dissimilar, they share an equality of conditions by the fact that neither has any claim on their life’s work after death. Their plights cease when the final curtain closes. It does not matter how great or little the deeds they have done; the lifeless no longer have a share.

Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

The magnanimous, the wise and the creative labor with wisdom, knowledge and all of their dexterities, and they too, like all before them, must meet their demise, and everything they have labored must be left to another who has not toiled for it.

Their anxious striving under the sun is like chasing after the wind.

Is there any compulsion of life that outlast death? This is the cruelty of life. This also is vain.

It is a cycle. They come and then they go, they toil and they wish, generations come and generations go.

It is a cycle. “Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income,” according to the biblical book of Ecclesiastes. It is a cycle.

This is an appeal to physicalism and not an impression on the theocracy.

The expression of thought that everything is meaningless, indeed, sounds depressing; however, reconciling the cruelty of life by realizing the transient nature of life and being content with that discovery and knowledge is far more important and worthwhile than the life of pretense.

There’s nothing abnormal in realizing the obvious truth in the finality of the inevitable death. Man must relinquish life. However, he need not do so under the dissolution of false belief, unless the act is intentional.

I must emphasize that this idea is not an impression on theocracy. Now, some may object and argue that, if in fact all is meaningless, then why bother write any of this? That I write this has no implication on whether it is meaningless or not, as long as I’m aware that it is, and as long as I can enlighten others to ponder the fact.

The absurdity of life is just the reality. It is not ingrained; it is a construct. This was reality centuries ago, and it will be reality centuries after.

Understanding reality and realizing your part in that reality is all there is to it.

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

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he battle against disenfranchisement remains the longest running struggle for freedom in American history. A hydra of discrimination, the disenfranchisement of U.S. citizens has reared its countless menacing heads in every decade since our country’s inception. From the Boston Tea Party to women’s suffrage, many valiant efforts have mobilized to combat this injustice, often with extraordinarily successful results. However, this existential threat to our nation’s democratic foundations still lurks in the shadows of our government, preying on the very people least capable of resistance.

As a result of complex demographic trends, voter suppression disproportionately favors Republican political candidates, as Democratic general election turnout drops by about three percentage points more than Republicans’ in states with strict voter ID laws.

So it came as no surprise when on March 9, 2011, Republican Gov. Rick Scott quietly revised the Florida Rules of Executive Clemency, a state document concerning the civil rights restoration of ex-felons. The changes mandated a five- to seven-year crime-free period before felons can apply for restoration of rights, while also requiring a lengthy reinstatement application that can include a hearing. While underreported at the time, this shameless political calculation made it more difficult for about 1.5 million Floridians to regain their voting rights, including 23 percent of the black voting population in the state, allowing Scott to narrowly escape with a one-point victory in the 2014 Florida gubernatorial race.

But this blatant method of government-sanctioned discrimination, affecting 5.85 million Americans nationwide, pales in comparison to the ubiquity of more covert techniques. In its 2013 Shelby v. Holder case ruling, the conservative-dominated Supreme

Court removed an essential provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which required certain Southern states with legacies of race-related voter suppression to consult with the Justice Department before enacting additional voting laws. Incensed by the potential for the return of Jim Crow-era political fraud, dissenting Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likened the decision to “throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.” Her fiery remarks proved exceedingly prescient. Within weeks, several of these states passed laws implementing stringent new voter ID laws, almost exclusively lowering voter turnout among poor minority communities. However, similar veiled incidences of political cronyism had already taken root across the U.S. Thirty-three states maintain voter ID laws, the majority requiring government-issued photo identification.

To begin to justify such an extensive network of systemic voter oppression, supporters of such lurid tactics must overcome an almost insurmountable burden of proof, definitively demonstrating unprecedented scourges of rampant voter fraud. Extensive nonpartisan research studies have investigated this issue. The result? Out of more than 1 billion official votes cast at the state and federal level in the last decade, only 31 credible accusations of voter fraud have emerged. This cartoonishly heavy-handed response to a virtually nonexistent problem illustrates the intellectual depravity of the prorestriction argument.

For too long have demagogues and race-baiters divided our nation to achieve authoritarian longevity.

When we politically marginalize the poor and the oppressed, it tarnishes the very foundation of our shining city on a hill, exposing the rusted core to the rest of the world. So speak up for those whose voices have been stolen, before yours is pilfered next.

Reuven Banks is a freshman enrolled in letters and sciences. He can be reached at rbanksdbk@gmail.com.

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A Grocery Store could replace the Clarion Inn on Route 1, as European grocer Lidl looks to expand in this state.

GROCERY From PAGE 1 Although Lidl is “early in the process,” Schum said a grocery store at that location would be useful to residents. The grocer has yet to officially file anything with the county and will continue to meet with city and county officials, as well as residents, before finalizing any site plans.

This grocery store would meet the needs of various demographics within the College Park area, said Randall Toussaint, the city’s economic development coordinator.

Last year, College Park residents reported spending almost $60 million on food and drink services, but only about $22 million of that was spent on food and drink services within College Park, Toussaint said.

“We want to be a place that you don’t feel like you have to leave in order to get certain things,” Ulman said.

To fill these “leakages,” Toussaint said the city needs to increase its inventory of retailers, but also continue to support local retailers to help them grow.

“By taking this two-fold approach, it will lead to greater levels of retail spending and investment within the community,” he said.

Mayor Patrick Wojahn said the city needs to do more to attract a greater diversity of

restaurants within the community. The city is “starting to see a change” as more restaurants and retailers hear about the demand, he said.

University President Wallace Loh said the university and the city are working to build up the community to meet the demands of students and residents.

“What we want to do is enhance the surrounding community in terms of livability, in terms of retail amenities, in terms of nice, upscale grocery stores and so forth, to attract students when they graduate to stay, live here and work,” Loh said.

The city is using demographic and profiling data to analyze the makeup and spending habits of College Park to get a sense of the restaurant and retail needs, Toussaint wrote in an email.

“We use it to assess the likelihood if certain retail products will be supported if they move into the community,” Toussaint said. “This is allowing us to be more finite in our approach to targeting new retailers that we would like to attract to our community.”

Sc h u m a l so sa i d t h e se reports give the city access to a lot more detail. In the past, the city relied on more traditional market studies and consultants, she added.

“This is very current; we can manipulate it to provide very targeted reports, and so it’s been really great,” Schum

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said . “ We ’ve neve r d one any profiling like [this], but our consultants have done market studies, supply and demand — there was a lot of information about demographics, and gaps in goods and services, but nothing like these specific profiles.”

The city also is using software programming to identify which retail products residents frequently purchase outside the community, as well as an index to assess the likelihood of a resident preferring a particular retail product, Toussaint wrote in an email.

Based on the collected data, a store like Lidl would be highly supported in the area, Toussaint said.

Businesses will like having this data handed to them on a “silver platter,” Schum said, as the city will make the data publicly available. Companies and retailers that see they can fill a specific gap within a market will be encouraged to relocate or develop a site within that community.

“We can seek out specific providers of the goods and services that we show a demand for, and we can back it up with the data showing that there is a gap or a need for these things,” Schum said.

“It’s very compelling [for businesses] when we can do that. It will definitely help us in our business recruitment.”

solutions, hunger advocacy and textbook affordability.

They’re also focusing heavily on voter registration, given the presidential elections in November.

A a ron Aber, a sen ior env i ron menta l science and policy major who was heavily involved with the group’s push for a fracking moratorium in Western Maryland his freshman year, is now leading an effort to increase the state’s reliance on solar energy.

“Being from Pennsylvania, I saw how dangerous fracking can be to the environment,” Aber said. “One of the reasons that I stuck with PIRG is I saw them working on these clean energy initiatives and I thought it was important to make sure that was being advocated for.”

Aber explained the group’s goal is to encourage Gov. Larry Hogan to increase the amount of solar energy use in this state from 2 percent of the renewable portfolio standard to 10 percent by 2020.

The group will be gathering petitions from students

tom klotz, president of MaryPIRG, speaks at a meeting yesterday. tom hausman/the diamondback and endorsements from professors and community leaders — they hope for 800 in total — and delivering them to Hogan’s office in Annapolis at the end of the semester.

Morgan Folger, a senior English and environmental science and policy major, is leading MaryPIRG’s “Save the Bees” campaign — an effort to prevent bees from dying.

Greenpeace estimates the commercial honey bee population has declined 40 percent since 2006.

The first priority, Folger said, is raising awareness for the issue.

“Tomorrow, we have our ‘save the bees’ Valentine’s Day visibility event, Bee My Valentine,” she said. “We’re going to be outside of McKeldin in

the afternoon getting photopetitions to send to the [Environmental Protection Agency].”

The semester goal is 14,000 petitions, Folger said, one for each of the 14,000 bee colonies in this state. The group is hoping to convince the EPA to ban neonicotinoids.

Wojahn praised PIRGs, describing his early experience and training with the organization as instrumental to his later career.

“If you feel a passion about any cause, [PIRG] gives you the skills and the training you need to make a difference,” Wojahn said. “I don’t think I would have been on City Council or been mayor now if it weren’t for my training with the PIRGs.” zmelvindbk@gmail.com

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Title IX office relocates to more spacious, private quarters When the university’s Office of Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct opened in 2014, it consisted of one person: current Director Catherine Carroll.

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Lecturer discusses serving underrepresented minorities Conversation centers around higher education issues in Latino community

By Chris Spencer @thedbk For The Diamondback Speaking to an audience of about 25 students yesterday, Deborah Santiago, co-founder, chief operating officer and vice president for policy at Excelencia in Education, fostered a discussion about disadvantages for the Latino community receiving higher education.

T h e l e c t u re i n S t a m p Student Union was part of the Office of Graduate Diversity and Inclusion’s new initiative, the Spring Speaker Series — a weekly lecturebased series that shows the fundamental concepts of education from the viewpoint of minorities.

She started by establishing the importance of issues within underrepresented minority communities.

“When we think about serving students, there is nothing static about it,” Santiago said. “There is nothing one-dimensional about it.

There is no cookie-cutter approach that gives us an answer.”

Santiago expressed frustration that many institutions tend to think that if a tactic works toward solving Latino higher education issues in one aspect, the same strategy will benefit all areas, which she considers shortsighted.

“If you really want to be serving students, you want to see what works,” she said.

“You really got to get focused on who you’re serving, and that makes a difference.”

Santiago extended the conversation about serving

DeboraH Santiago addresses students yesterday at Stamp Student Union. She advocated for “student-ready colleges,” as opposed to “college-ready students,” thus making colleges more welcoming to all backgrounds. chris spencer/for the diamondback the Latino community in general. One problem, she said, is that there is often not a thorough investigation of crises plaguing the Latino community.

“People don’t invest in crises anymore because you see no way out of it,” she said.

“It’s like feeding a black hole.”

“IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE SERVING STUDENTS, YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT WORKS. YOU REALLY GOT TO GET FOCUSED ON WHO YOU’RE SERVING, AND THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.” DEBORAH SANTIAGO

Spring Speaker Series lecturer Despite helping underrepresented minorities, Santiago expressed her disapproval of the term because it could sound derogatory in context.

There should be a different term to frame the issue that could better help marginalized students as collective assets of opportunity, she said.

She also compared 18-year-old students who finish college in four years with underrepresented students who take a different path. More than 60 percent of full-time students at state flagship universities such as

this university do not finish a degree in four years, according to a 2014 report by Complete College America.

“This idea of the colleges of today, they’re always focused on getting collegeready students,” Santiago said. “Instead of trying to promote college-ready students, what if we were to be called student-ready colleges?”

Stu d e nts shou ld not need to fit a certain description to be qualified as student, and colleges should make themselves more welcoming to all backgrounds, she said.

“This event is really great,” said Ivy Phillips, a graduate student studying education. “It’s really informative. … I really hope a lot more people will come to this event, because it’s really educational.”

Gudrun Nyunt, a gradu a te s t u d e n t s t u dy i n g student affairs, said it was beneficial to hear an expert talk about a subject she understands. “ I t wa s i n te re s t i n g to learn about some of the approaches they are taking and what are some of the questions we should be asking in terms of how we can support underrepresented minority students,” he said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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University View owner seeks to remove current parking spaces

By Jessie Campisi @jessiecampisi Staff writer While this university plans to decrease the amount of parking by the 2017 academic year, it is not the only location proposing to lower its number of spaces.

Clark Enterprises, the owner of both University View buildings, proposed to the College Park City Council to eliminate a 2008 declaration of covenants. The action would decouple the buildings from its adjacent properties, once known as the University View Village I and II, which were originally intended for additional student housing and retail units as well as a parking garage.

By d o i n g so, t h e Vi ew Village would not provide the 109 additional parking spaces for residents of the View, leaving students to park in the View parking spaces or garage, located next to the buildings, or on the campus.

City Planning Director Terry Schum said Clark Enterprises hopes to sell the Village properties to another developer, but the parking covenant is

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Clark Hall construction project set to complete in June 2017 Clark Hall, which is set to provide the university’s bioengineering department with a new home and upgraded facilities, is still on schedule to be completed by June 2017.

At a cost of $169.1 million, the 184,000-square-foot building will stand at six stories tall. To continue reading this story, visit dbknews.com.

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As the campus continued to grow, Good Tidings moved to Stamp Student Union, where Schraa’s tiny office is nestled in a commissary kitchen.

“There’s been a crane on campus somewhere ever since the day I’ve started,” Schraa said.

“They’re always doing something here, so they’re always building new venues for us to cater at.”

Good Tidings operates five major kitchens on the campus: the commissary kitchen in Stamp, a full-service kitchen at the president’s house, Xfinity Center, Tyser Tower at Maryland Stadium and the Green Tidings Food Truck that debuted in 2013.

Schraa is in the process of developing menus for Green Tidings when it reopens in March.

a “stumbling block” that is making it harder to make a sale.

“This is a request to remove t h e re q u i re m e n t fo r t h e [Village] property to provide parking for the existing buildings,” Schum said. “And this is a reasonable request, given the circumstances” that the View already has sufficient spaces and does not plan to develop the Village property.

When the View II was first developed in 2008, it did not include its own parking facility, Schum said, and shared spaces with the View. The plan was originally to redevelop the Village properties and create an additional 1,000 beds for students along with a parking garage, she said. This garage would have included parking for View II residents. However, this project was suspended because of a lack of demand for new student housing.

Francis Lynch, a senior associate at Clark Enterprises, said eliminating this parking requirement makes sense for the city because it is already sufficiently parked.

If built under the 2010 U.S. Route 1 sector plan, 451 parking spaces would be required at the View, Lynch said, and there are

currently 461 spaces on the View properties.

“Based on our boots-onthe-ground experience, we are adequately parked. The covenant requires that we have 451 spaces,” he said. “We have that.”

Natalie Schwartz, a resident of the View, said the building’s parking situation is manageable but is always crowded, sometimes making it difficult to park.

“The garage is always full,” said Schwartz, a junior journalism major. “I have a long car, so it’s hard to park in the tiny spaces.”

But not all View residents park in the buildings’ parking lots. Schum said 325 students have annual overnight permits and park their cars on the campus, and other students have commuter parking passes.

However, as the campus begins to lower its on-campus parking options, and if the parking covenant is eliminated, these 300 View residents will need a place to park their cars by fall 2016, or they can choose to not bring a car at all, Schum said.

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He said he particularly likes using the tomatoes grown at Terp Farm in salsa and sauces.

Schraa also placed second at the National Association of College and University Food Services competition in Baltimore in 2014. Schraa said he competes in culinary contests frequently to evaluate himself as a chef.

“You put yourself out there to be criticized and judged. … It’s that adrenaline rush that you get and you’re just happy that you did it and it’s done,” he said.

Schraa said that even after almost two decades, the long shifts and late hours don’t get old.

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“We change the menu every two weeks, so I have the ability to adjust if I want to change.”

As part of Dining Services’ Sustainable Food Commitment, Green Tidings is aiming to serve dishes made up of at least 20 percent sustainable food by 2020. Schraa works closely with the university’s Terp Farm program to bring produce grown at the Upper Marlboro facility to hlangdbk@gmail.com the food truck.

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PURE EVOL Future’s latest album uses emotive Auto-Tune to explore the hazards of fame and love

By Patrick Basler @pmbasler Staff writer In a 2013 documentary a b o u t h i s ca re e r, C a n a dian DJ and producer Ryan Hemsworth commented on the evolution of Future as a rapper.

“I feel like Future is becoming the rap-game Elliott Smith, in a way,” he said.

“Which is the perfect thing to exist.”

The comparison of the Atlanta rapper to an icon of ’90s alternative music might seem ridiculous, but it’s more apt than some of Smith’s dedicated fans might care to admit. And since 2013, it’s a comparison that has only become more accurate. Following an ugly split with R&B songstress Ciara, Future’s music has become an increasingly insular and debaucherous examination of the failings of life and love — themes that repeatedly appear in Smith’s songs.

Until now, the high point o f Fu t u r e ’s p o s t - C i a ra work was 2014’s Monster , a m i x ta p e t h a t pa i n f u lly probed the still-fresh wounds of an ended relationship — and medicated that pain with codeine, cash and women.

But even following a 2015 that launched him into the stratosphere of rap popularity, Future is still pouring his soul — and lots of lean — into his music. His latest release, the menacing EVOL, is more

future has created an album that explores themes long talked about in hip-hop: women, money, drugs and all that jazz. But the surprisingly dark tone and introspective structure makes the work fresh. EVOL is arguably the Atlanta rapper’s best work since the 2014 mixtape Monster and starts 2016 right. photo via youtube closely related to Monster than it is last year’s whipready Dirty Sprite 2.

While DS2 tracks like “The Percocet and Stripper Joint” offered brief moments of reflection, the vast majority of its songs seemed to serve as a soundtrack to the type of life Future was living. It’s easy to imagine “Freak Hoe” and “Stick Talk” blaring in the background of hotel-room parties and smoked-out studio sessions.

But EVOL ’s 11 songs tell the gut-wrenching stories of Atlanta’s favorite Auto-Tuned trapper instead of solely promising to be party-starters.

While the 808-backed trap beats are deceptively aggressive — and, as the

seasick synth on “Xanny Family” proves, occasionally unsettling — Future’s vocals rarely offer cause for celebration. Alternately using Auto-Tune to hide and create emotion, Future’s vocals come off both broken and ferocious — for every subdued, xanned-out rap track like album opener “Ain’t No Time,” there’s an incredibly emotive chorus like the soaring hook of standout “Lil Haiti Baby.”

For someone who — if his lyrics are to be believed — spends more time faded than sober, Future’s recollections of late nights spent in the company of beautiful women and bottles empty by the morning are remarkably sharp. Lines like “She

wrapped up in plastic, got coke in the mattress/ All of this s--- is about living lavish/ This money, these cars and these b----es, these carats” offer photographic portrayals of scenes too explicit for Instagram.

While rappers have used money, women and drugs as examples of status for d e c a d e s , Fu t u r e ra r e l y sounds like he’s enjoying —

or even proud of — what he raps about. Hollow-sounding brags and ribald rhymes pepper the album, but compared to the generally dark tone, seem more like the contractual fulfillment of some unspoken rap code.

“Low Life,” a late-album h i g h l i g h t , fea t u re s T h e Weeknd, whose verse sheds the newfound pop appeal in favor of a return to his House

of Balloons excess. In many ways, it’s a song that exemplifies the depravity both Fu t u re a n d T h e We e k n d have used as the backdrop of their music for years, but in 2016, any glorification has been replaced with cautionary tales of a party lifestyle gone wrong.

“Turn a five-star hotel to a traphouse/ Roaches everywhere like we forgot to take the trash out,” Future raps without hesitation.

In the six album-length p ro j e c ts Fu t u re h a s re leased since Monster , he’s covered a lot of similar material, namely, the hazards of his post-breakup life.

But EVOL is the first that manages to convincingly blend his banger-oriented beat selection and his moving, occasionally horrifying lyrics. Regardless of whether every story Future tells can be believed — he’s c u r re n t ly i n vo lve d i n a $15 million libel lawsuit with Ciara — he’s still making music that puts the listener in his head. Which, as EVOL shows all too well, can be a scary place. pbaslerdbk@gmail.com

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9 FACEOFF | IS THE “FORMATION” VIDEO POWERFUL OR PLASTIC?

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beyoncÉ has no doubt lived at the forefront of the music industry for some time now. Her latest music video is the most political we’ve seen from her. But is it enough? And is it saying the right things about issues that have far-reaching impacts? photo via youtube

“Formation” symbolism packs a punch

By Maeve Dunigan @maevedunigan Staff writer Beyoncé is all about visuals: The iconic black-and-white “Single Ladies” music video; the towering, illuminated hand-on-hip pose that lit up her 2013 Super Bowl performance; the silhouette of her arched body balancing on a chaise in the “Partition” music video. The woman released an entirely visual album out of thin air with the nonchalance of a stewardess reviewing flight safety.

Her latest visual feat, the music video for her new single “Formation,” has been dubbed by The New York Times as “one of her most political videos yet.” The video deals with police brutality, the Black Lives Matter movement, societal beauty standards and appreciation for Southern black culture.

When separated from the lyrics or watched without context, the video could be misconstrued as a glamorization of Hurricane Katrina and its effect on New Orleans. But Beyoncé and “Formation” director Melina Matsoukas use this event as a backdrop not only to bring to light current tragedies involving police bru-

tality, but also to celebrate the black Creole culture that Hurricane Katrina affected.

Identity plays a huge role in “Formation.” Beyoncé sings, “My daddy Alabama/ Momma Louisiana/ You mix that Negro with that Creole make a Texas bama.” She calls out the media sites that have judged her daughter’s black features, “I like my baby hair, with baby hair and afros/ I like my Negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils.”

Beyoncé is unapologetically proud of who she is, what she looks like and where she is from, and she’s not afraid to use imagery that portrays those sentiments and speaks directly about causes she believes in.

The opening shot of Bey perched atop a police cruiser half-submerged in a body of water covering a Louisiana town is powerful. Sitting on her automobile throne, she tells her audience that the conspiracy theorists and the paparazzi that hound her are missing the point. She’s about to make the real problems explicitly clear, in case her sitting on a police car wasn’t clear enough.

The New Orleans aesthetic that dominates the video does a great job of celebrating Creole culture while acknowledging the less glamorous side of living

Beyoncé could say more under the spotlight

in the South. Shots of Beyoncé dancing in a lavish Southern mansion are juxtaposed against grainier footage of humble single-family houses, people in a working-class convenience store, a person eating seafood with their bare hands and a pastor delivering a sermon in an unpretentious church.

As the video nears its completion, a shot of a young boy standing in front of a line of armed policemen, all with their hands up, near a concrete wall with graffiti reading “stop shooting us” delivers a powerful blow. If that weren’t enough, the very last shots of the video show Beyoncé sinking beneath the water atop the very same police car she once rested safely upon.

Everyone knows that Hurricane Katrina and the floods it brought devastated hundreds of families in the South. The parallel between the havoc wreaked by the flood and the way in which police brutality has affected black communities is made clear with this final shot. Beyoncé is sending a message not only through the song but also through the visual art she’s created, and she’s hoping people will start paying attention. mdunigandbk@gmail.com

By Anna Muckerman @annamuckerman Staff writer When Beyoncé dropped “Formation” just a day before her fiery Super Bowl appearance, the world lined up for a hip-shaking, headheld-high performance like the ones she’s built a name out of. But this time, the message was different.

In the “Formation” video, Beyoncé begins atop a New Orleans police car slowly sinking amid flooded houses.

The image is haunting and twisted, yet beautiful, and hardly subtle: Hurricane Katrina. We see Beyoncé in different scenes and costumes reminiscent of the antebellum South. A little boy dances in front of a line of modern-day riot police.

Few would argue that Beyoncé’s stand is inappropriate. The bigger question is why it took so long for the Black Lives Matter movement to find its way into her music. As a well-known symbol of empowerment, her lengthy silence seems unnatural. And with such influence, it’s surprising she didn’t go further.

Without the video, the lyrics of the song mini-

mally suggest her position on racial tensions. In fact, she spends much of the time talking about her own success (“Paparazzi catch my fly, and my cocky fresh/ I’m so reckless when I rock my Givenchy dress”).

She spends a few lines mentioning her Southern heritage, and although she talks about her pride as a member of the black community, it’s not exactly a clear response to the past year’s heightened racial tensions.

The shots of Beyoncé in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are particularly problematic. The serenely staged car surrounded by toylike houses is certainly eerie, but it does nothing to capture the horror and destruction of the real catastrophe. Beautiful Beyoncé perched atop her police car almost romanticizes the scene.

When juxtaposed with the definitive arguments of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, “Formation” feels like a mainstream approach, as if Beyoncé is supporting popular opinion while being overly careful not to let politics supersede entertainment.

T h e re ’s n o d o u b t t h e “Formation” video is beautifully executed and shows an exciting new side of the Beyoncé persona, but as she turns the image of Southern aristocracy on its head, she adds no representation of the impoverished communities or the horror of police brutality today. With Beyoncé as the central figure of almost every shot, it’s hard to feel her attempt to reference the black community as a whole. The video seems like the fanciful product of a great production team and a lot of money. Without a visual nod to the struggles on which the video’s entire premise is built, it just doesn’t hit as hard as it should.

Americans have latched onto Beyoncé as the perfect embodiment of a bold and confident woman, a role m o d e l wh o ’s a b ove re proach. While “Formation” is an artistic masterpiece deserving of its instant fame, Beyoncé played it safe instead of truly speaking up and using her influence to help the people who need it most. amuckermandbk@gmail.com

ESSAY | THE TREND “FORMATION” FOLLOWS

CARRYING THE TORCH Beyoncé’s video is just the latest sign that hip-hop and R&B have become the protest genre of this generation

By Josh Magness @josh_mag Staff writer There’s something different about Beyoncé and her new single “Formation.”

It isn’t that her stranglehold over popular culture is dwindling. Bey still reigns supreme as the queen of self-marketing, utilizing her tried-and-true method of promotion — releasing music unannounced to the frantic delight of her fans — to maximize her influence right before the Super Bowl. It isn’t that her fiery single is lacking what makes her music so popular. There’s still a dirty dance beat, vocals meticulously edited to perfection and a chorus that is equal parts catchy and culturally relevant (the word “slay,” one of the most popular terms in youth culture, is repeated time after time). And it isn’t that Beyonce, known by many as “Queen B,” is changing her image from a gold-plated icon towering above her modern counterparts to a more gentle and toned-down one. Let’s be honest: Would it still be Beyoncé without that “I’m better than all of you and I know it” attitude?

What’s different is that this

time around, the 34-year-old is aiming to play a new role: social activist, and an uncompromising and tenacious one at that. It’s a drastic change, and Beyoncé wastes no time cutting right to the chase in her “Formation” music video.

T h e vi d e o o p en s with the “Single Ladies” singer crouched over a New Orleans police car as it slowly submerges underwater. The car continues to sink, and with it, Beyoncé, until the floodwaters envelop them both — an allusion to the perception from some activists that the government was slow to provide assistance to the city because of its high minority population. Later, a hooded black child dances before a line of police officers in riot gear, with the phrase “Stop shooting us” graffitied on a wall next to him. Couple that with uncompromisingly pro-black lyrics (“My daddy Alabama, Momma Louisiana/ You mix that negro with that Creole make a Texas bama/ I like my baby hair with baby hair and afros/ I like my negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils”), and Beyoncé’s foray into socially conscious music becomes as subtle as she is humble.

But far from a trendset-

ting decision by Beyoncé, her newfound message reflects an already-occurring shift throughout much of modern music — and R&B and hip-hop in particular — toward addressing social and political issues.

The most obvious example of this is Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city and To Pimp A Butterfly, two albums that detail Lamar’s own personal experiences with institutional racism while growing up in Compton. At a time when the Black Lives Matter movement was gaining steam in response to the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police officers, Lamar’s album had the perfect message for the times.

He has a laser focus on the issue of police brutality during “Alright” (“And we hate popo, wanna kill us dead in the street for sure, n----”), raps about the insignificance of a lover’s skin color on Complexion (“Complexion don’t mean a thing [it’s a Zulu love]/Complexion [twostep]/ It all feels the same [it’s a Zulu love]”) and, with the aid of a two-decade-old recording, participates in an “interview” with Tupac about the state of racial inequality that, sadly, is just as relevant now as it was in the ’90s.

Other contemporary artists have focused on what many perceive as an increase in, or better awareness of, racial tensions in America. D’Angelo’s Black Messiah — declared a “protest album for the ages”

by Mashable — came with a booklet released at the album’s release party explaining the album’s title, saying, “It’s about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen.” Shortly after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, J. Cole dropped his track “Be Free,” a song that encapsulates the downtrodden but resolute nature of many activists following Brown’s death (“Can you tell me why/ Everytime I step outside I see my n----die?”). Alicia Keys released her song “We Gotta Pray” following the decision of a New York grand jury to not indict the officer guilty for killing Eric Garner after using a chokehold.

“We will continue to be loud,” Keys said in an interview about the track with The New York Times. “I hope that this is our 21st-century civil rights movement. You shouldn’t be surprised if you see me out there.”

But the message spreads far beyond issues of racial injustice, touching on the topic of LGBT rights as well as the movement experiences an unprecedented flood of support in America. We all know the major pro-gay songs — with Macklemore’s “Same Love” and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” standing among them — but there has been a mass proliferation of queer songs as the 21st century progresses.

Le1f, a rapper and producer from New York, takes pleasure in blurring the gender binary with his eccentric performance style and outof-the-ordinary aesthetic. He even flipped the perception of what rap can be on its head, with The Daily Beast asking if his song “Wut” proved he was “too gay for hip-hop.”

Rapper Angel Haze, a selfidentified agender individual, documented their experiences growing up as a queer person in a cult in their 2013 album Dirty Gold, an album that viciously advocates for the right of self-expression.

You could argue that these artists are only able to touch on such contentious issues because there is an audience advocating for them to do so.

It can’t be a coincidence that these songs all came out just as thousands of Americans included themselves in the Black Lives Matter movement and public consensus moved toward a pro-gay sentiment.

The same could be said for the anti-war protest songs of the ’60s and ’70s, including “American Woman” by The Guess Who (“American woman/ Stay away from me”), as they profited off the growing public opposition to the Vietnam War. There will always be revolutionary and forward-thinking artists who put out socially conscious music, but there won’t always be a pedestal for those controversial songs to stand upon. In other words, Beyoncé might have always been passionate about racial injustice, but only lately has there been enough demand to make singing about those issues a profitable venture.

Moving forward, new issues will arise and new types of music will gain popularity, but one thing will remain constant — the heart and soul of the people can always be found in the message and spirit of their music. jmagnessdbk@gmail.com

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the diamondback | sports | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2016

brantley From PAGE 12 21 minutes, the sophomore hadn’t played double-digit minutes in any of the previous nine games.

A couple of years ago, Brantley said he wouldn’t have been able to handle the limited minutes. But he hasn’t grown frustrated this year. Coach Mark Turgeon wants him to improve on defense and play harder, Brantley said, so he focuses on that in practice. That effort paid off Tuesday, and Brantley hopes he can build on that performance.

He wants to provide crucial minutes off the bench and allow guards Melo Trimble and Rasheed Sulaimon to take a breather.

“They won’t have to play as many minutes,” Brantley said. “ I can bring another ball handler into the game. When I’m open, I’ll shoot it, try to

guard jaylen brantley passes into the post during the Terps’ 76-66 win over Connecticut on Dec. 8. make a few shots for them.

Take the pressure off them.”

After the blowout win Tuesday, Turgeon was hopeful that Brantley would use his performance as a springboard heading into the final six regular-season games.

guard rasheed sulaimon walks toward guard Melo Trimble during a break in play in the Terps’ 72-61 win over Purdue on Saturday at Xfinity Center. christian jenkins/the diamondback

NEEDELMAN From PAGE 12 which amounts to 80 percent of a regulation college game.

That ranks first on the Terps, while guard Rasheed Sulaimon ranks second with 31.6 minutes per game.

The reason? Guard Dion Wiley suffered a torn meniscus in his right knee in November and is redshirting this season.

Wiley’s injury put a damper on the rotation, as Turgeon said he was slated to start, with Sulaimon coming off the bench as a sixth man with the ability to play the point. The Terps’ other backcourt options — guards Jared Nickens, Jaylen Brantley and Varun Ram — have struggled to contribute offensively during conference play.

There’s no denying Trimble and Sulaimon’s talent. But both have been inconsistent at times this campaign. And the playing time they’ve logged during the regular season could very well slow them down during postseason play, which often requires teams to play on short rest.

“Our guard play is as good as anybody’s in the country,” coach Mark Turgeon said

Against the Bulldogs, Brantley had 10 points on 4-for-8 shooting and added an assist and a block.

“Jaylen played with a lot of confidence on offense,” Turgeon said. “He’s a guy who can score points, which is nice to see. I

commended Brantley’s offense against Bowie State.

If Turgeon likes what he sees enough, it could lead to more playing time for Brantley. That, and improvement from Nickens — he’s been held scoreless in five of 14 conference tilts — would tremendously benefit the Terps come March Madness.

Neither Trimble nor Sulaimon would admit they were getting worn down, even if it was true. But it’s no secret that some rest couldn’t hurt.

The Terps will play a game per day in the Big Ten tournament until they lose or win it all, while the NCAA tournament requires teams to play two games in three days each weekend.

And if Turgeon doesn’t like what he sees from Brantley’s tape? Then we’ll continue to see a lot of Trimble and Sulaimon, who might not perform well against teams with more guard depth.

Their campaign will end before April, a big disappointment for a championshipstarved fan base. Wiley will be there, his eyes fixed on the court but his body stationed in a chair.

The Terps’ starting lineup stacks up with any in the country, but complete teams win championships. Golden State showed the rest of the NBA that last year.

There’s no doubt Trimble was watching Curry and his teammates win the title.

He yearns to bring a nat i o n a l c h a m p i o n s h i p to College Park. But he’s going to need some help.

Monday. “Between games, it’s up to me to keep our guys fresh. Make sure we’re keeping our rhythm. … We seem to so far keep those guys fresh and ready on game day.”

In addition to giving his team Sunday off, the coach was afforded another opportunity to give his starters a break Tuesday.

The Terps beat down on lowly Bowie State in a 93-62 win, with Trimble and Sulaimon playing 17 and 20 minutes, respectively.

That opened the door for Brantley to log a career-high 21 minutes and score 10 points.

Brantley hopes the performance could translates into him playing a larger role.

“We always tell Jaylen we 100 percent believe in him,” Sulaimon said.

Turgeon’s substitution patterns tell a different story.

Brantley has received four DNPs and hadn’t played double-digit minutes before Tuesday since a Jan. 6 blowout jneedelmandbk@gmail.com win over Rutgers. Though he was expected to serve as Trimble’s backup early in the year, the 5-foot-9 Ram has slid into that role.

“I’ll have to watch the film and see how his defense was tonight,” said Turgeon, who

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have to watch the film and see how his defense was tonight, but it should give him confidence.”

At t i m e s t h i s s ea s o n , Brantley has appeared hesitant to shoot the ball, instead deferring to his more experienced teammates. While he’s

shown flashes of potential, such as a season-high 14 points against Princeton in 12 minutes, he’s struggled to secure a spot in Turgeon’s rotation. After playing 10 minutes or more in seven of the Terps’ first 12 nonconference games, Brantley has played 10 minutes or more just once in 12 Big Ten contests. Plus, he didn’t see the floor in four games.

“Today definitely will help me build, just giving me confidence,” Brantley said Tuesday.

“Basketball’s all about confidence. I’m going to have enough confidence on Saturday if [Turgeon] puts me in.”

With Brantley’s minutes declining, senior Varun Ram, a former walk-on, has become the Terps’ backup point guard. The 5-foot-9 Clarksville native is a tenacious defender but is limited offensively. He’s 3-for-17 from the floor, and some teams have left him open on offense.

With neither Ram (4.9 minutes per game) nor Brant-

ley able to secure a stable spot in the rotation, Trimble and Sulaimon are first and second on the team in minutes played, respectively.

While Brantley’s performance Tuesday was against a Division II team hovering near .500, it offers the Terps a glimmer of hope with tournament play looming. Brantley won’t be a starter like he was in high school and junior college, but he could provide muchneeded depth.

“Anytime you have multiple guards on the floor, it can make it easier,” Sulaimon said. “When you have two and three guards on the court at the same time, it can really put a lot of pressure on the defense as far as penetration, IQ, running the team, getting people open shots. It’s definitely something going forward we’re hoping can happen more often.” psuittsdbk@gmail.com

preview From PAGE 12 10 freshmen were ranked among the magazine’s top 50 first-year players, with midfielder Jen Giles, midfielder Caroline Steele and defender Shelby Mercer ranked 15, 16 and 20, respectively.

Among those returning is senior midfielder Taylor Cummings, the two-time Tewaaraton, Honda and IWLCA National Midfielder of the Year awards winner. The Terps also return defender Alice Mercer, attacker Megan Whittle, midfielder Zoe Stukenberg and defender Nadine Hadnagy, all of whom were named preseason All-Americans.

“The last few years we had a pretty big core group of people,” Cummings said.

“As a player, it’s been a lot of fun to have a new look. I think we’ve already done a good job of coming together as a team.”

The Terps, ranked No. 1 in the preseason media and IWLCA coaches polls, averaged just more than 14 goals per game last season — the seventh-best mark in the nation — and scored at least 10 times in all but one contest.

Reese said she and her staff plan to continue using a fastpaced offense consistently.

“We’re going to be fast,” Reese said. “We’re going to be a big transition team.

We’re going to look to push the ball. And we’re going to score a lot.”

To complement the Terps’ productive attack, the team’s defense was among the best in the country in 2015, holding opponents to an average of just

midfielder taylor cummings (21) celebrates with her teammates during the Terps’ 19-8 win over UMass during the NCAA Tournament May 10. file photo/the diamondback more than seven goals per game.

The team lost several defenders, but Stukenberg is excited about the new-look unit.

“It doesn’t matter that we have new faces,” Stukenberg said. “I think we’re going to pick up where we left off as one of the best defenses in the nation.”

In goal, Reese will have to find a replacement for former goalkeeper Alex Fitzpatrick, who started 22 games a year ago. The veteran coach said goalies Emily Kift, Emma Moss and Megan Taylor will compete for the starting job.

“Our goalie play has been outstanding,” Reese said.

“We’ll be playing a lot of them to start. We’re going to split them up and give them chances to show us what they can do.”

The Terps will play three of the top five ranked teams in 2016. And just two weeks after the season opener against William & Mary on Saturday, the Terps will face No. 2 North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Even so, the Terps said they are not looking ahead to the rematch of last season’s national championship game.

“Who’s going to deny the Maryland/Carolina game isn’t fun?” Cummings said.

“We do a really good job of going one game at a time. I think there’s a lot of pressure.

We don’t really feel it.”

The Tar Heels beat the Terps in 1998, and the loss came two days after Duke beat Reese’s team to open the season.

Nevertheless, the young Terps squad bounced back from a rocky start and went on to win the national title. Reese hopes this year’s team, even with several newcomers, can replicate that success in 2016.

“We’re at the point where it’s different, but it’s also an opportunity to embrace other people,” Reese said. “I believe in them, they believe in themselves, and I think this season is going to be one to remember.” sgelmandbk@gmail.com

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Terps seek faster start after loss Uncharacteristic opening proved costly against No. 7 Ohio State

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer The Terrapins women’s basketball team’s game plan entering its rematch with No. 7 Ohio State was to limit Buckeyes guard Kelsey Mitchell in transition. After all, Mitchell, the nation’s fourth-leading scorer at 25.1 points per game, dropped 28 in the Terps’ 80-71 loss Jan. 2 by shooting 10-for-20 from the field and making five trips to the foul line.

But after forcing Mitchell into a contested three on the Buckeyes’ first possession Monday night, the Terps’ defensive scheme faltered.

The speedy point guard received an outlet pass behind halfcourt, sprinted down the floor and knifed between three defenders before converting the and-1.

“They punched first, we took the punch, and we just never threw our punch back,” guard Shatori WalkerKimbrough said.

Mitchell’s three-point play ignited Ohio State’s 7-0 run to start the game, and the No. 5 Terps never fully recovered in their 94-86 loss at Value City Area. So entering a home tilt tonight against Purdue, the Terps hope to get off to a quick start, just as they have in nearly every other game this season.

“With great teams, you can’t afford to do that,” sophomore guard Kristen Confroy said. “I felt a lot of the game we were just trying to fight back from their runs and never kind of have our own runs to kind of give ourselves the fuel that we needed.”

With a veteran-laden starting five of two seniors and two juniors — Confroy rounds out the lineup — the Terps have rarely fallen behind early in games. They’ve trailed after the first quarter just five times this season, including against No. 1 Connecticut.

Plus, they finished the opening period tied or with the lead in 21

guard shatori walker-kimbrough drives toward the rim during the Terps’ 85-76 win over Michigan State on Friday at Xfinity Center. After falling to Ohio State, the Terps host Purdue tonight. christian jenkins/the diamondback of their 23 games entering Monday night’s matchup.

Coach Brenda Frese, who has used the same lineup the past 14 contests, said the Terps’ experience allows them to start games well.

“Our starting five have clicked really strong,” Frese said. “They understand the mentality of kind of coming out and punching first.”

The hot start was absent against the Buckeyes, however, as the Terps were held scoreless and committed three turnovers by the time Frese called a 30-second timeout two minutes, 28 seconds into the game with her team down seven.

The Buckeyes held a 10-point advantage later in the frame, marking the Terps’ largest first-quarter deficit of the season. The Terps got within 24-19 by the end of the opening 10 minutes, but Mitchell and guard Ameryst Alston, both of whom made the Naismith Midseason List announced yesterday, set the tone on their home court the rest of the game.

“Anytime you go on the road, tough environment, you have to come out or you see a direct result of not being prepared and ready to play,” Frese said.

Alston, the Buckeyes’ secondleading scorer at 18.6 points per game, scored 12 points on 4-for-17

shooting in the teams’ first meeting but caught fire from behind the arc early Monday night.

Confroy said Alston received open shots because the Terps focused too much on limiting Mitchell, while Frese insisted her team’s lack of defensive pressure left Alston open for long-range shots against the zone.

Either way, the two-time All-Big Ten performer got into a rhythm right away.

Each time the Terps crept closer during the first quarter, Alston drilled a long ball. She hit three 3-pointers in a span of 75 seconds and finished the game with 22 points. Mitchell, meanwhile, dropped a game-high 33 in the Buckeyes’ victory.

The Terps (21-3, 10-2 Big Ten) will not see a lethal scoring duo tonight against Purdue (16-7, 7-5), but they’ll face a Boilermakers squad eager to avenge their loss to the Terps just more than a week ago.

Frese’s team got out to a 13-4 lead in that contest. It’ll hope to have a similar start after failing to do so Monday night.

“Just being able to play from jump ball,” Walker-Kimbrough said. “We didn’t come out hard, and it hurt us.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

drought From PAGE 12 is this team, and this is this year, and you know, all we did was make our bullseye a little bit bigger.”

The Terps’ formula for earning a 15-4 record last season involved the nation’s top-ranked scoring defense. While the unit lost defender Casey Ikeda, a first-team All-American, to graduation and longpole midfielder Matt Neufeldt to injury, the Terps’ backline returns familiar faces.

G o a l ke e p e r Kyl e B e r n l o h r enters his redshirt senior season as an Inside Lacrosse preseason first-team All-American and the reigning Ensign C. Markland Kelly Jr. Award winner, which is given to the nation’s most outstanding goalie.

Defender Matt Dunn, meanwhile, is a preseason second-team All-American and was the seventh overall selection in the Major League Lacrosse Draft last month. Defender Greg Danseglio is eligible after sitting out 2015 as a transfer from Virginia, too.

“It does take time for a team to find that right click, that right mojo,” Dunn said. “We definitely do have chemistry and a lot of experience returning, but we lost a great guy, a great leader in Casey Ikeda, so now it’s time for new roles to form.”

Perhaps the Terps’ biggest positioning question entering Saturday’s season opener against Navy comes at the faceoff X. Midfielder Charlie Raffa graduated tied for the third-most faceoff wins in program history, and T illman anticipates using a rotation of players at the position to start the campaign.

The coach has also emphasized playing faster on offense with midfielder Pat Young (UMBC transfer) and attackman Tim Rotanz, who missed the season with vertigo, joining a Terps offense that featured attackmen Matt Rambo and Dylan Maltz, who both started 18 games as sophomores.

Tillman said one of the team’s issues on championship weekend has been not having the depth to

prevail in two games in the threeday span.

After watching his squad during the preseason, though, he’s confident the Terps have a variety of players that can contribute from the get-go. The Terps boast the seventh-ranked freshman class, according to Inside Lacrosse, and three juniors — defender Mac Pons and midfielders Colin Heacock and Isaiah Davis-Allen — were named Big Ten Players to Watch.

Plus, the Terps’ six preseason All-Americans are tied for the most players of any team in the country.

“We’ve been really trying to play as a many people as possible,” Tillman said. “If you put guys out there that aren’t quite ready, it could cost you some games, so you’ve still got to win those games to get to where you want to get to.

But in the back of your mind, you are still trying to build maybe that third midfield.”

Program alumni are hoping that chemistry and depth result in another deep postseason run.

Jake Reed, a goalkeeper on the 1975 title team, was in Philadelphia last Memorial Day to watch the team’s championship match along with many other former Terps.

They spent the weekend telling old stories and attended a Terrapin Club pregame tailgate.

“We realize it’s really hard to win,” Reed said. “Just being as good as they have for the last couple of years is better than 99.9 percent of the teams.”

Still, Reed would love to watch the Terps this May at Lincoln Financial Field, again the site of championship weekend.

Tillman left that stadium in 2015 feeling this team “maximized” their season by playing in the sport’s final bout. While he has pushed himself and his players to move past the loss, Tillman wants the Terps to maximize 2016, too.

This time with a first-place trophy in tow.

“Knowing what a championship would mean to our alums, our school, our players,” Tillman said, “it continues to drive you.” ccaplandbk@gmail.com

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Brantley hopes for larger role after win Backup guard played career-high 21 minutes against Bowie State; builds his confidence

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writer Jaylen Brantley isn’t used to sitting on the bench. The Terrapins men’s basketball guard said he played the entire game in high school. And last year, Brantley was one of the top junior college transfer prospects in the country and a regular starter.

But this season, Brantley has grown accustomed to a courtside seat. When

his teammates take the court for the opening tip, Brantley settles into a chair, alongside two other teammates.

He’ll remain there for much of the game, and sometimes even all of it.

As the season progressed and the nonconference cupcakes turned into Big Ten games, Brantley’s role has diminished. Before Tuesday’s 93-62 win over Division II Bowie State, in which Brantley played a career-high See brantley, Page 10 Guard Jaylen Brantley (1) walks off the court with his teammates after the Terps’ 72-61 win over Purdue on Saturday at Xfinity Center. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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run that ends the program’s 41-year championship drought. They want to move past last year’s shortcoming, yet they maintain many of the same goals.

“The biggest challenge has been [hitting] the reset button after last season,” Tillman said.

“It doesn’t matter what our record was. This

It’s an easy comparison to make.

Steph Curry and Melo Trimble. Both are 6-foot-3. Both are shoot-first guards. Both have wowed opponents with jaw-dropping elusiveness and a flair for the dramatic.

And both are the faces of their respective teams — Curry the star of the reigning NBA champion Golden State Warriors, Trimble the most exciting player on the No. 2 Terrapins men’s basketball team.

In fact, Curry recently said Trimble is very similar to “how I was back in college,” during the Jan. 31 episode of Big Ten Network’s The Journey.

But there’s a difference in the way they operate. A big one. Forget the obvious talent disparity between the college and pro levels and the guards’ resumes. Think about their respective team’s depth.

Curry benefits from playing on the most well-rounded team in the league. Trimble plays heavy minutes for a squad with limited backcourt depth. Curry logs 33.9 minutes per game, which amounts to 71 percent of a regulation professional game.

Trimble logs 31.8 minutes per game,

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The Terps run onto the field before their 12-11 win over Johns Hopkins in the NCAA Tournament semifinals May 23 at Lincoln Financial Field. They’ve played in the title game three of the past five years. file photo/the diamondback

CHASING A CHAMPIONSHIP After three title losses in five years, Tillman seeks to end program’s 41-year championship drought

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Senior staff writer Coach John Tillman didn’t want to dwell on the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team’s national championship loss in May. So the day after the Terps’ 10-5 defeat to Denver in Philadelphia — the third time in the

coach’s first five seasons in College Park his squad lost the title match — Tillman delved into preparations for the next campaign.

His squad is now at what Tillman considers the halfway point. The offseason is over. Preseason practices are winding down. The opening faceoff of 2016 is two days away.

Three months stand between the No. 4 Terps and what they hope is an NCAA Tournament

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New-look Terps set to defend title After losing 11 players to graduation, Reese’s squad still ranked No. 1

By Scott Gelman @Gelman_Scott Staff writer Heading into Cathy Reese’s senior season in 1998, the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team had won three consecutive national championships. The club graduated a handful of seniors the year before, forcing it to depend on multiple freshmen as a result.

Reese, now entering her 10th

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season as the Terps’ coach, will likely face a similar scenario in 2016. Eleven players graduated last season, and only five starters are returning.

Last February, Reese’s team returned all but two starters and went on to win its second consecutive national championship. This season, though, the Terps will depend on a handful of first-year players as they attempt to bring another title to College Park.

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“We haven’t had a game yet, but your opening weekend, you don’t know a whole lot about how things are going to go,” Reese said. “These guys have also had so much success.

One thing we really try and emphasize is this is a new team.”

Reese said the Terps’ freshman class, ranked second in the nation

by Inside Lacrosse, will have an immediate impact. Seven of the Terps’ The Terps celebrate with the national championship trophy after beating North Carolina, 9-8, in the national See preview, Page 10 title game May 24. They have won the championship in back-to-back seasons. file photo/the diamondback

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