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SGA advocates for sanctuary campus Legislature urges admin to declare status, but Loh has said measures already in place The SGA passed a resolution Wednesd ay n i g h t i n Stamp Student Union urging the University of Maryland’s administration to declare this university a sanctuary campus.

The resolution vote was nearly unanimous, with one dissenting vote and no abstentions.

“This is something a lot of marginalized communities have been fighting for, and it came to fruition in this bill tonight,” said Erica Fuentes, PLUMAS president and the Student Government Association’s diversity and inclusion committee deputy director.

There has been widespread concern over the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — a 2012 executive order implemented under the by

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Obama administration that allows undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to stay in the country to work and study — as President Trump has signaled in the past that he plans to repeal it.

On a sanctuary campus, a university’s administration commits to not sharing the immigration status of students unless the federal government obtains a court order demanding the information. While this university does not have formal sanctuary campus status, it still follows sanctuary campus policies, making a designation “unnecessary,” university President Wallace Loh wrote in a campus letter on Jan. 26.

Standing before about 40 people, six students testified to the importance of declaring this university a formal sanctuary campus, including the presidents of PLUMAS and

Muslim Political Alliance.

“DACA students are extremely vulnerable to immigration enforcement activities because they submitted their personal information and the federal government has access to their personal information, such as names, addresses, what school they attend,” said Fuentes, a senior government and politics major.

There are 113 students at this university who are covered under DACA as of fall 2016, according to Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment data. Twenty students are also covered under Maryland’s DREAM Act, which grants an in-state tuition discount to undocumented college students.

Fuentes said she was excited the vote was nearly unanimous, and added that she hopes the See sga , p. 3

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Bill calls for 24/7 Plan B access on state campuses ‘People don’t just have sex during regular business hours,’ activist says

clock access to over-the-counter emergency contraception, also known as the “morning after pill.”

If a student in Maryland needs emergency contraception, “they should be able to have access to it 24 hours a day,” Morales said. “A by A Montgom- forward-thinking state that undere r y C o u n t y stands kind of the day-to-day of a Lexie Schapitl d e l e g a t e i s college campus student … should @lexieschapitl sponsoring a have that access, especially at a time Senior staff writer bill that would when we don’t know how health care make over-the-counter forms of and access to reproductive health emergency contraception available care is going to be affected by what’s on college campuses throughout the going on at the national level.”

Donald Trump’s election and Restate 24/7. publican control of Congress has T h e b i l l , s p o n so re d by De l . raised concerns about the future of Maricé Morales, would require u n i ve r s i t y h e a l t h c e n te r s to reproductive health — as Trump and provide “on-site access to speci- party leaders have called for the repeal fied emergency contraception” of the Affordable Care Act, which during regular hours of operation. subsidizes birth control in some cases, The bill also calls for health centers and defunding Planned Parenthood.

The proposed legislation is “necto provide contraceptive counseling or referrals to other health care essarily vague” so institutions providers, and requires colleges and can tailor the policy to serve their universities to ensure around-the- student populations, said Annal-

delegate maricé morales (D-Montgomery) sponsored a bill to make over-the-counter emergency contraception available 24/7 on college campuses. edward kimmel/via flickr iese Johnson, an organizer with NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland.

While colleges and universities may not be able to afford staffing and operating a student center 24/7, Johnson said they

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the umdloop team took fifth place overall in a global SpaceX hyperloop competition. photo courtesy of neel patel

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n Ju n e 2 0 15 , Un ive rsity of Maryland senior Kyle Kaplan — a selfproclaimed Elon Musk fan — heard about the SpaceX CEO’s global hyperloop competition.

SpaceX, a corporation that manufactures and launches rockets and other space technology, had created the competition to accelerate development of a hyperloop prototype, according to the company. A hyperloop is a high-speed ground transportation system that would be run with the most powerful magnets commercially available.

Developing a prototype worthy of the competition started as a hobby, Kaplan said. But that hobby soon became a team, about 60 students strong, with over 10,000 hours of work.

“It started as us trying to figure out what we were doing,” said Kaplan, an aerospace engineering major and team leader of UMDLoop, this university’s competition team.

“And it actually evolved into a real team that actually had the skill set to do it.”

Hyperloop pods, which would be the size of trains, would levitate through the use of magnets,

The University of MaryLindsey Feingold l a n d Se n a te @lindseyf96 voted to amend Staff writer the campus research policy on Thursday, allowing for restricted research to continue on a case-by-case basis under new guidelines.

The proposal passed 98-14 with three abstentions, and aims to create guidelines and procedures for anyone

who wants to conduct restricted research at this university. The Senate Executive Committee voted to unanimously approve the recommended actions on Jan. 30.

Restricted refers to limiting what findings can be published. Corporations may decide to restrict their findings, or research may be classified due to national security concerns, among other reasons.

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reducing friction and allowing the pods to move much faster than traditional methods of travel. Pods could travel seven times faster than a train — fast enough to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes. In comparison, a car ride would typically take between six and seven hours.

The group built its first pod to be a third scale size of an actual pod, Kaplan said. The team’s pod is designed so it starts by moving on wheels, but as it picks up speed begins to levitate on magnetic currents that are generated in the track of the pod.

Members work in two labs in the Physical Sciences Complex to design and construct the pod, and have also conducted simulations there.

UMDLoop brought its pod to SpaceX’s first competition weekend in California from Jan. 27 to Jan. 29, where 27 teams participated. The team — which went through an initial design weekend in January 2016 to make it to the first competition — placed first in the performance and operations category, and fifth overall.

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University Senate alters restricted research policy that says we don’t allow restricted research because it doesn’t allow anyone to publish their research openly, but there are in extreme cases exceptions that can be made,” University Senate Director Reka Montfort said in a January Diamondback article. “However, there is no clear guidance on that, and this proposal will clarify those guidelines.”

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By Michael Brice-Saddler | @TheArtist_MBS | Senior staff writer University of Maryland Police responded to reports of controlled d a n gerou s s ubsta nce violations, theft and a non-criminal T itle I X incident, among other incidents this past week, accord i ng to police reports.

NON-CRIMINAL TITLE IX INCIDENT University Police responded to the area of Un ion La ne a nd Field House Drive on Feb. 7 at 9:58 p.m. for a report of an altercation between a man and woman, University Police spokeswom a n Sg t. R osa n ne Hoaas said.

T he man, who has no affiliation with this university, was arguing with the woman, who is a university employee.

Police gave the woman materials from the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct, Hoa a s sa id .

This case is closed.

THEFT On Feb. 8 at 6:50 p.m., Un iversity Pol ice responded to the Stamp St udent Un ion b ookstore for a theft that had ta ken pl ace moments earlier, Hoaas said.

A suspect had stolen apparel from the store and walked out.

Pol ice w i l l rev iew ca meras as pa r t of a n i nvestigation for th is incident, Hoaas said.

This case is active.

CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE VIOL ATION University Police responded to Denton Hall on Saturday at 8:14 p.m. for a cont rol led d a ngerous substance complaint, Hoaas said.

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th ree m a le students inside a room and explained why he was there.

One of the students gave the officer marijuana, Hoaas said.

The marijuana will be destroyed, and the students will be referred to t he Of f ice of Student Conduct.

This case is closed.

On Su nday at 1:40 a.m., University Police stopped a vehicle near Berwyn House Road for a traffic violation.

T he officer smel led marijuana coming from the vehicle, and the female driver and male passenger got out of the vehicle while the officer searched it.

Police found contraband inside the vehicle, so both the driver and passenger were ta ken into custody, Hoaas said.

The driver was a juvenile and was released to a guardian, Hoaas said.

She was charged with possession of marijuana a nd d r iv i ng a veh icle without a license.

The man was arrested, but his information a nd cha rges a re not available at this time, Hoaas sa id. T h is case is closed.

TRESPASSING University Police responded to M a r yl a nd Stadium on Saturday at 11:31 p.m. for a report of trespassing, according to police reports.

This case is closed.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT University Police responded to Route 1 on Satu rd ay at 3:58 a.m. for a report of disorderly conduct, according to police reports.

T he case resulted in an arrest.

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Amazon pickup store opens Terrapin Row’s first retail space offers same-day Prime shipping Amazon’s Jessica Campisi newest pickup @jessiecampisi location will Senior staff writer open underneath the Terrapin Row apartments Wednesday, becoming the complex’s first retail space.

University of Maryland students and other local residents will be able to pick up and return Amazon orders at the fully staffed store under Terrapin Row Building A, Carly Golden, an Amazon public relations representative, wrote in a news release Tuesday. by

The 3,000-square-foot retail space, complete with a lounge, will operate from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, according to the release.

The store will not sell retail.

Amazon Prime members will able to choose same-day pickup for items shipped to the store, Golden wrote. Prime Student is available for a free six-month trial, and at half the price of a regular membership, or about $50 per year, after the trial ends.

About one in five U.S. adults are Amazon Prime members

the amazon store under Terrapin Row opened Wednesday. as of January 2016, according to CNN. As of December, 18 other college campuses nationwide have Amazon pickup locations, including the University of

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Chick-fil-A eyeing another location by Rita’s on Route 1 A n e w Carly Kempler Chick-fil-A @ckempler location may Senior staff writer b e c o m i n g to Route 1 in College Park, but city officials say it’s too early to tell if the project will happen.

R e p r e s e n t a t i ve s f r o m Chick-fil-A have approached the city about the site at 8907 Baltimore Ave., where Cass Trailer Sales is currently located and across from Rita’s, Mayor Patrick Wojahn said.

Though it’s very early in the process, Terry Schum, the city’s planning director, said at this time the city has no way of knowing how quickly this project will move through the application process.

The potential developer is working on submitting a storm water concept plan to Prince George’s County, which is the first step in the process of creating a proposal to develop a property, Schum said.

“It’s a very early heads up to [city and county of-

ficials] that there may be a project coming their way,” Schum said. “Sometimes projects never materialize beyond this, sometimes things happen, and people don’t go forward.”

Chick-fil-A has previously tried to bring another store to College Park besides the on-campus location in Stamp Student Union, said District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan.

A proposed restaurant would have been located in the Shoppers strip mall, but the nearby community opposed it, Brennan said.

The county will handle this proposal, Schum said, and if the proposal is approved, the city council and various civic associations will review a detailed site plan for community feedback.

This developer is still several months away from putting together a full application to submit, Schum said, but some city councilmembers, as well as Wojahn, are already discussing the site’s potential impacts.

Wojahn said he has some concerns about the site’s proximity to the Veterans Memorial, located at the corner of Greenbelt Road and Route 1.

“I hope they will come together and work with us,” Wojahn said. “I would want to make sure they respect the appearance and the feeling of the Veterans memorial, and not let it be something that interferes with the appearance of the memorial and the city holding its ceremonies there.”

Other councilmembers including Brennan expressed concerns about the memorial, and said developing a fastfood restaurant at this location goes against the city’s ultimate vision of walkability.

A city plan prohibits drivet h r u s so u t h o f De l awa re Street in order to promote walkability, Brennan said.

“I know it’s hard to envision in today’s context … but the future vision for the city is all the way up to that particular area is supposed

to be a vibrant, pedestrian-accessible experience,” Brennan added.

Brennan sees some potential benefits of the chain coming to the city, he said.

“The Chick-fil-A development … would certainly be an improvement to the site,” Brennan said. “They could be a good addition to our city.

I’ve even noticed when I’m at the University of Maryland, when I go to [the] food court it’s one of the popular places to get food. There’s always a long line there.”

While there’s currently no way of knowing if the Chickfil-A will actually locate and when it could open, Brennan said if it’s approved, things can move “pretty quickly.”

“Every project has its own timeline,” Brennan said. “Depending on things like community support, the use of the site … [and] the ability to get it approved through the city’s planning board.”

we pursue the research, what are the criteria that are used to decide whether we should, what are the safeguards and oversights?”

University President Wallace Loh must approve the changes to the policy for them to take effect. If Loh signs off on the changes, the Division of Research will adopt a checklist of terms and conditions to assist principal investigators in evaluating restricted research opportunities. This university will also implement mandatory training before a researcher can serve as the principal investigator on a restricted project, and create a quarterly report for internal use on the restricted research activity, among several other changes. The Research Council will then annually report the contents of the four quarterly reports generated over the last year.

The Research Council will also

review the activity, practices, guidelines and reporting of restricted research one year after the new guidelines are implemented and every three years after that.

Criteria for promotion and tenure will not account for unpublished or otherwise undisclosed research activity.

To create these recommendations, the subcommittee met periodically throughout the fall and winter and reviewed the existing university system policy on classified and proprietary work. The group also surveyed Big Ten and peer institutions, held a campus-wide open forum Sept. 7 to solicit input from the campus community and consulted with the Office of General Counsel, according to supporting documents.

“The positive to restricted research is it gives you access to data, technology a n d e q u i p m e n t t h a t yo u otherwise wouldn’t have,”

Marzullo said. “The downsides are, if expert control l aws a re n o t fo l l owe d , people can go to prison.”

Limits on publication and questions of the motive behind projects can also be drawbacks to conducting restricted research, Marzullo added.

“Our recommendation is to have these risks mitigated by education, so laws are followed, and by having a review of what the restrictions are,” he said.

Approval for restricted research is rare and “ has only happened two or three times,” Montfort said. But creating specific guidelines doesn’t mean restricted research on this campus will occur more often, she said, emphasizing that it will still be extremely uncommon.

Of the 14 Big Ten institutions, only Northwestern University completely denies restricted research, according

to an Aug. 5 University Senate report. Marzullo noted that other Big Ten schools approve restricted research proposals “in the single digits, but the highest number [has] been 12 in one year.”

The University Senate also approved a proposal to create an online version of the master’s program in business analytics for the business school, updated the use of visiting faculty titles for professional track faculty appointments and endorsed the Academics Against Immigration Executive Order Petition, which has more than 42,000 signatures from academics denouncing President Trump’s 90-day ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The ban is currently suspended as the result of a federal restraining order.

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Keith Marzullo, the University Senate’s Research Council From p. 1 subcommittee chair, sought to change the 1991 policy and recommended this university make the guidelines clearer.

“What this [existing] policy continue to allow restricted research on a case-by-case says is you can do the work, basis, following the current but it requests a waiver,” said working University System Marzullo, the information of Maryland policy from studies college dean. “But 1991, but with more specific what it doesn’t say is how to go g u i d e l i n e s a n d g r e a t e r about getting this waiver; who transparency in the process. makes the decision on whether

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students hold protest signs during Wednesday’s SGA meeting in Stamp Student Union, where the group voted on sanctuary campus legislation. ornelle chimi/the diamondback

sga From p. 1 administration will follow the lead of other Big Ten schools.

Rutgers University and the University of Minnesota have already given their campuses formal sanctuary status.

“It signifies to the country that the University of Maryland is going to stand with its students no matter what,” she said.

Junior mathematics and p h i l o s o p h y m a j o r S a ra h Es hera a l so s p o ke to t h e legislators about the importance of sanctuary status, noting “sanctuary” is more than just a word. “[Sanctuary is] a label that shows we do not cower to the threats of a bigoted and hateful government, and that we will stand with our undocumented students,” said Eshera, who is also MPA’s president.

Madelyne Ventura, a junior mathematics major, said she is optimistic the administration will heed student voices and take action.

“They will take a stance on this issue and finally listen to what we’re saying and declare this campus a sanctuary campus,” she said.

Legislators spoke on only the affirmative side of the resolution, emphasizing the SGA is responsible for listening to students’ needs and rebutting the idea that being a

sanctuary campus would threaten federal funding for this university. Trump expressed intentions to hold federal funding from designated sanctuary cities in a Jan. 25 executive order.

“The fact that two of our Big Ten peer institutions are sanctuary campuses, not to mention several others, and yet no one has come for their funding, says something,” said Ellicott community representative and freshman international business and finance major Doron Tadmor.

The SGA is not the only student organization showing support for undocumented students this semester. The Graduate Student Government pa sse d a re so l u t i o n i n January to support any legislation that would protect undocumented students at this university.

The College Park City Cou n ci l a lso sh owed support when they voted Feb. 14 to send federal officials a letter in support of DACA. In January, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) co-sponsored a bill as well that would protect confidential information of immigrants who applied for DACA. newsumdbk@gmail.com

can provide emergency contraception in other ways while the center is closed.

Schools in other states — such as California’s Pomona College and Shippensburg University, located in Pennsylvania about 30 miles north of the Maryland border — provide emergency contraception in vending machines, Johnson said.

“People don’t just have sex during regular business hours, Monday through Friday,” she said.

One student group at St. Mary’s College has discussed stocking these machines with other health products such as ibuprofen, pads, tampons and condoms as well as snacks to make their use less stigmatizing, she added.

Because Plan B is available without a prescription, a 24-hour university convenience store may also opt to “have it accessible next to the aspirin,” said Diana Philip, NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland executive director.

Currently, University of Maryland students can buy a generic version of Plan B emergency contraception at a discounted rate at the University Health Center pharmacy, said Jenna Messman, the health center’s sexual health coordinator. The pill is available without a prescription and costs $15, compared to $40 or $50 at other local pharmacies, Messman said. Students can also receive a prescription for Ella, a more effective type of emergency contraception, with a health center office visit.

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pharmacy is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m, according to the health center’s website. More information about different contraceptive methods are available on the health center website.

“We are committed to providing the best services that we can to students,” Messman said. “We also really want students to be informed about all of the various options and not necessarily to be feeling coerced into making decisions that they wouldn’t necessarily want to make, but rather being informed and empowered by those decisions.”

At times when the health center is closed, emergency contraception is available at several local 24-hour pharmacies, David McBride, director of the health center, wrote in an email. The center provides contraceptive counseling through health promotions and wellness and its primary care and women’s health providers, McBride wrote, as well as free condoms while it’s open.

“We could improve our promotion of the availability of [emergency contraception],” McBride wrote.

At other institutions, students need to drive to their nearest off-campus pharmacy if the health center is closed or does not offer emergency contraception, and not all students have cars, Philip said. Colleges may also require appointments to receive emergency contraception in some cases, she added. Bowie State University, for example, does not offer emergency contraception on site, and refers students to local pharmacies.

Despite the availability of emergency contraception on and near this campus, the

the university health center currently offers emergency contraception during normal business hours, but a new state bill would make it available 24/7. file photo/the diamondback university would still need to make some adjustments under this bill, Philip said.

Emergency contraception is much more expensive at offcampus pharmacies, which can pose a financial hardship if the health center is closed and a student needs to take a pill as quickly as possible, she said. The Maryland Contraceptive Equity Act, which was signed into law in May and goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2018, will require health insurers in the state to cover emergency contraceptives at no cost.

The bill would also help sexual assault survivors across the state access emergency contraception more easily when their campus health centers are closed, said Alanna DeLeon, president of this university’s Preventing Sexual Assault and a senior community health major. If a center is closed for the weekend, survivors shouldn’t have to go out of their way to prevent a pregnancy after being sexually assaulted, DeLeon said.

“I know that a lot of people

need this just for reproductive care,” DeLeon said. “This is something that as women we should be able to have access to.”

PSA is working to gather w r i t te n te s t i m o n i a l s i n support of the bill, DeLeon said. The SGA also plans to consider a bill this semester supporting the General Assembly measure, said SGA President Katherine Swanson.

The cost to universities is “the No. 1 counterargument” against providing emergency contraception 24/7, Morales said. But she added “that’s just something that you have to deal with when you have good public policy.” “ T h i s i s n ’t so m e t h i n g t h a t ’s g o i n g t o m a k e a campus go bankrupt, especially with incredible high tuition even for in-state institutions,” she said.

The House of Delegates appropriations and health and government operations committees will examine the bill. Committee hearings have not yet been scheduled. lschapitldbk@gmail.com

correction Due to a reporting error, the story “Behind the Badge” on page 2 of last week’s Diamondback incorrectly described exit methods from the Main Administration Building and the nature of active shooter situation trainings there. The Provost’s Office, not the entire building, has one entryway and while the office has not received formal trainings, active shooter scenarios have been addressed on a few occasions.

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Flynn’s fall is a victory for facts Jack Siglin @_inTheBox Columnist

The most convenient isn’t the cheeriest of work environments at the t h i n g a b o u t b e i n g a n moment. opinion columnist during What a time, though, to be a reporter. For all his President Trump’s ad- cries of “fake news,” Trump just keeps giving the m i n i s t ra t i o n i s t h e s to r i e s p re t ty m u c h press material to work with. In the early days of his write themselves. A brief summary of this campaign, when he was lampooned over and over for his apolitical temperament and knack for misweek’s drama: To kick things off, The Washington Post broke speaking, that material was fairly inconsequential.

As his campaign grew more realistic, coverage the story that Michael Flynn, the recently-resigned national security adviser, had private dis- tightened up. His cries of “fake news,” once considcussions with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak ered the whining of an out-of-touch narcissist, have about U.S. sanctions against Russia before Trump been rightly treated as dangerous ever since. And it’s was inaugurated. Flynn then misled the vice presi- true; the ultimate duty of the media is to hold people dent about the nature of the aforementioned and institutions accountable. Texas Rep. Lamar Smith recently encouraged Americans to “get [their] discussions and was subsequently resigned.

Then, The New York Times stepped up to the news directly from the president” because “it might be the only way to get the unpiñata and broke the news that varnished truth.” That’s an despite the administration’s excerpt astoundingly flawed viewrepeated denials, members of His resignation point and should set off critTrump’s campaign team and other is a tangible ical-thinking alarm bells the associates had “repeated contacts world over. with senior Russian intelligence manifestation of This week’s developofficials” during the campaign. what happens when ments prove a point. Trump All of these stories cite American has gone out of his way to intelligence officials. Trump doesn’t all of the spin and discredit both the maincondemn the sources as false — in bluster falls away. stream media and American fact, his Twitter-barrage response intelligence agencies — two to the stories included the gem, “Information is being illegally given to the failing institutions particularly well-suited to dig up N.Y. Times and Washington Post by the intelligence dirt. And, as it turns out, there’s dirt aplenty in community (NSA and FBI?)” Certainly, Flynn’s the White House. Reporting on it isn’t inherently resignation makes it clear there’s truth in the leaks. partisan or political — it’s the news media doing Other items of note include the House Over- its job to report sourced, cited facts.

The Washington Post and The New York Times sight Committee’s investigation into a security breach involving an open-air discussion of didn’t so much strike a blow this week as they sensitive information at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago maintained their due diligence in holding the exestate. Further, the Office of Government Ethics ecutive branch accountable. The facts themselves is taking Kellyanne Conway to task over her plug forced the president’s hand. Flynn’s resignation is for Ivanka Trump’s clothing line. It bears repeat- a tangible manifestation of what happens when ing that Trump has been president for less than a all the spin and bluster falls away. Score one for month. Both the diversity and density of his ad- “fake news.” ministration’s missteps have been remarkable, if unsurprising, and one imagines 1600 Penn jsiglindbk@gmail.com

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A love story from the occupied territories Aiyah Sibay @opiniondbk Columnist

The taxi was pulling away, and I turned to face him one last time. He was standing on the sidewalk, his face slightly tilted back. His hands were in his pockets. There was a strange look on his face, a look that harbored a certain familiarity with suffering. It was steady amidst the pain of departure we both felt very deeply. He had a knowing look of surrender. It was the face of a man imprisoned. I could leave.

He couldn’t, not without great difficulty. I could return to Palestine, but he couldn’t follow me to where I had to go.

In the end, I did exactly what I had been warned against. I fell in love with a man in Palestine, and I cannot think of a fate more terrible than that.

There is long distance, and there is loving a man in Palestine. At times, there is more fear than love. When I call and he doesn’t answer, the first thought that comes to my mind is that the occupying military has taken him, or killed him. There is no exaggeration or irrationality to these fears. Plenty of mothers in Palestine consider this very same possibility when their sons don’t answer, particularly at night. And they are not always wrong.

It is war, and it isn’t. It is something vaguer than that. It is a situation of fear, uncertainty and danger under the less understood title of occupation. Technically, there is no current conflict between the occupier and the occupied.

But there is constant tension, frequent outbreaks of violence and random and nightly imprisonments of boys and men. A night when we have spoken over the phone without an Israeli Defense Force tank passing by his house is a good night. On nights when the tank stops just outside his house, we stay silent until it passes. Sometimes, he has to hang up, and I don’t know what has happened until the following morning.

It is distance, and it isn’t. Physically, we are separated by thousands of miles, but we do not always have the luxury of safety or the possibility of some other time to speak what is on our mind. We fight considerably, but his circumstances make me seek forgiveness from him quickly. It is a little like being in a relationship with a terminally ill patient. You are never sure you will

have another time to ask for forgiveness.

Emotionally, distance is hardly possible in a relationship that is never certain about tomorrow.

It is a mode of loving so unfamiliar to most westerners. From the time you depart your significant other, you pause your life to resume another set of lifeless months. The months apart are the most testing you will live through, and you persevere only by making sure you are constantly consumed by some task or another. It is a passionless period where you become nothing more than a body consuming and sleeping just enough to remain alive.

It is, as the poet Edmund Spenser wrote, a “sorrow sought through willfullness,” but also a sorrow that “one loving hour … can dispense.”

But a relationship with a Palestinian man, even without distance, remains far different from any other. Their pains and their troubles are so far removed from ours. Since I met him two years ago, he has buried several friends. He has disappeared many times, for hours at a time. And when he does, I know that the occupying military has stopped him on his way home. They have searched him, made him wait for hours and if he’s lucky, he returns home only slightly hurt. It is how it goes for many men in Palestine. In the eyes of the occupier, each one is a suspect. But as the man I love once told me, “Love is the only request from those who have been deprived of their freedom.”

Yet, stories such as mine harbor the potential to be so much more than mere tales of love. If read and heard by the occupier, by the very men who put our loved ones at risk, I believe these stories can alter the status quo. Suddenly, these Palestinian men are not mere men in the eyes of the occupier. They are men with women holding desperately onto them, and at times, waiting out their sudden disappearances. A Palestinian man who knows a woman is waiting for his return will hardly risk endangering that prospect. As it is, many men in Palestine are viewed under the suspecting lens of occupation, which distorts their faces into faces of destructive, violent men. Our love stories, I hope, can change that. ak_sibay@hotmail.com

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Why I can no longer respect Paul Ryan Max Foley-Keene I used to love @MaxFoleyKeene Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan and I rarely Columnist agreed on policy, and our objectives were routinely at odds. But there was something about him, with his charts, starched shirts and wonky vigor that charmed me.

Over the past year, this all changed.

This column is an elegy to the Paul Ryan I thought I knew — the misguided but earnest wonk, the tribune of intellectual conservatism — and a lamentation of what he’s become.

My one-sided relationship with Ryan began when I was in 10th grade, when I was in the throes of my wonky phase. Graphs, charts and data engrossed me. I spent hours investigating the nitty-gritty mechanics of credit default and researching the merits of replacing a minimum wage hike with a more robust earned income tax credit. I wore button-down shirts a lot. In response to the budget crises of the time, I maintained that Congress could get working again if it only adjusted its hyper-partisan posture and received the unsexy wisdom of technocratic truth.

Enter Paul Ryan: the blue-eyed and widow’s-peaked young congressman from Janesville, Wisconsin. In my post-partisan pipe dream, Ryan was the Republican Party’s only hope. If he could wrest power from the GOP’s demagogues, conservatism would be more thoughtful, data-driven and, ultimately, compassionate. He and my favorite liberal wonk, Ezra Klein, had a good

relationship, prompting me to fantasize about a Klein-Ryan presidential ticket. Surely, with the assistance of a few charts, Klein and Ryan could cut through partisan nonsense and set policy based on data and reason.

I was thrilled when Ryan was elected Speaker of the House. I thought his takeover of the Republican Party was almost complete.

Donald Trump was a passing annoyance who would surely selfdestruct. After Trump’s inevitable collapse, I assumed compassionate technocracy would be the ruling ideology of the GOP. But, of course, the Trump train kept on chugging to the White House. And instead of wresting power from Republican demagoguery, Ryan acceded to it.

The 2016 election was a moral test for him. His political cowardice guaranteed failure.

After Trump wrapped up the Republican primary, Ryan didn’t commit to supporting him. But, after weeks of hand-wringing, he endorsed Trump. When Trump explained that a Mexican-American judge shouldn’t hear a case to which Trump was a party, Ryan stood firm in his convictions; that’s the textbook definition of racism, he declared.

But still, he reaffirmed his support for Trump. Ryan was offended by Trump’s proposed Muslim ban. But did this change Ryan’s decision to endorse him? Of course not. When Trump was caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women, Ryan couldn’t handle it anymore.

He was “sickened” and insisted he

wouldn’t campaign with or defend Trump anymore. However, in the days leading up to the election, Ryan offered to campaign with his party’s nominee.

My love for Ryan was driven by one faulty assumption: I thought wonkery could be a governing ideology. In reality, the wonk’s tools — math, data and reason — are just tools. Tools can be used for good or ill, governed by the wonk’s values.

Ryan’s morals were tested in 2016 and, like trees surely will in Trump’s America, they fell, one by one. His self-professed faith in pluralism, liberty and fiscal conservatism couldn’t stand the test of Trump.

In the soul of Paul Ryan, alongside the scattered remains of his discarded values, one principle stands proudly undamaged. He maintained his support for Trump because his political career echoes a belief of one of his favorite authors, Ayn Rand, that wealthy people are marked by their success as worthier than others. Now that Trump has won, Ryan can get to work cutting taxes on millionaires and billionaires, paid for by cuts to services for poor people. He got what he wanted.

I wish this weren’t the case. For years, I was as ardent a Paul Ryan apologist as they come. But Ryan has sacrificed country for ideology. He joins those cowards who accede to authoritarianism, despite knowing better. I can love and respect him no more. maxfkcap2016@gmail.com

humor: an inconvenient youth

Zeus fires Cupid over leaked Valentine’s Day audio Reuven Bank @moneyindabank97 Opinion editor

Reporters swarmed the base of Mount Olympus on Tuesday, as controversy still raged following the sudden firing of Cupid over an explosive Valentine’s Day audio tape. Rumors had emerged earlier in the week that the god of love and desire had been caught injecting divine levels of romantic affection into mortals without their consent.

Initially, though, those rumors were brushed aside by the erotic deity as “lies and fake myths” from “that loser Hermes.”

However, an incendiary recording soon leaked, confirming reports that Cupid had indeed bragged that “when you’re the god of love, they let you do anything.” The full transcript of the tape revealed Cupid had extolled how “my arrow moved on her like a bitch,” while lamenting the lack of accessible Tic Tacs in 776 B.C.era Greece.

“That kind of ‘bath house talk’ has no business in Athens,” Zeus

asserted following Cupid’s termination. “Rape, murder and war are one thing, but spreading the existential joy of romantic fulfillment to the plebeians? That’s over the line,” the thunder god co n t i n u e d , ba re ly pa u s i n g to transform into a magical bull and abduct an unsuspecting demigod.

Local patrons seemed to agree with the chief of gods’ sentiment. “I guess he flew a little too close to the sun,” a local nymph m u s e d , c o m p l e te l y u n a wa re of the confusing nature of her metaphor.

Update: Cupid has since re s u m e d h i s p re s e n c e i n t h e heavenly Greek social scene after staging an upset primary campaign over Dionysus for the god of grape harvesting position.

Despite losing the popular vote, Cupid persevered, riding his platform of building a wall around the Mediterranean Sea (and making the Romans pay for it) all the way to an Electoral College victory. opinionumdbk@gmail.com

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Laura Spitalniak had never been and refugees from certain @LauraSpitalniak to a College Park countries.”

City Council Staff writer Because of it, Siddiqui

greenbelt metro station is served by the B30 bus to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, which is at risk of being cut.

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end of the line Metro contemplates cutting bus to BWI, but some city residents aren’t on board

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lizabeth Fost Maring uses the B30 bus — which goes from Greenbelt Station to BWI — when she travels by plane because public transportation is more economical and environmentally friendly for her family of four.

But that could change if the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority eliminates the bus as part of its 2018 budget proposal.

“We much prefer to take public transportation when we can,” said Maring, a Calvert Hills resident and director of global health initiatives at the University of Maryland. “I walk to work [and] bike to work every day.

Our first inclination is to always think about how we could do something without driving. That’s just the way we think about it.”

College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn attended a public hearing at Metro Headquarters on Jan. 30 to speak out against WMATA’s proposal to eliminate the B30 bus. Residents and leaders of surrounding communities spoke out against proposed Metro cuts at the meeting, he said.

The bus allows city residents and visitors to take the bus from Greenbelt

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Station to the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Wojahn said. The bus also supports the College Park City-University Partnership’s 2020 vision to become an innovation hub because it provides easy travel access, he said.

“It helps to really fuel that easy access to the airport … for the people that are living in College Park, the people that are doing innovative work [here] and need other people to easily access them for conferences, for academic work [or] research,” Wojahn said.

Wojahn said one reason WMATA chose to propose the B30 bus cut could be because it only has two stops, and therefore fewer passengers. But a hike, which would raise the $7 price of the bus by a few more dollars, could help pay for the bus and convince Metro to keep it, Wojahn said.

WMATA proposed eliminating the B30 bus a few years ago but did not go through with it because of council opposition.

Maring doesn’t oppose the hike, though she said she worries about BWI employees who use the bus to get to and from work. But if the bus

Three teams, who came from Massachusetts InstiFrom p. 1 tute of Technology, Delft University of Technology in of the teams’ models.

The “ultimate” goal is to the Netherlands and Tech“accelerate this idea of this nical University of Munich, form of transportation,” Germany, were able to run their pod designs on SpaceX’s Kaplan said.

were eliminated completely, “it would limit” her use of BWI and she would travel to Dulles International Airport or Reagan National Airport instead.

The bus runs every 28 minutes daily, and CPCUP Director Eric Olson said the B30 bus is “really a convenient extension of the Green Line,” which runs from Greenbelt to Branch Avenue.

“It connects us to the world, really, in a convenient way that is unlike others,” Olson said.

In November, the College Park City Council sent WMATA a letter opposing the Metro’s budget cuts, which also include a measure to shorten rail-system hours earlier than midnight depending on the day. While the council does not plan to take further steps to oppose the elimination of the bus, as it already formally wrote the letter, Wojahn and Olson remain hopeful about its fate.

“WMATA leadership should listen to the local jurisdictions here,” Olson said. “And hopefully the arguments that are being made in support of keeping the line are heated.” acarolandbk@gmail.com

one-mile vacuum-sealed test track. The UMDLoop team and teams from Virginia Tech and the University of Washington qualified to test their pods on the track, but the competition ran out of time, said Neel Patel, the team’s project manager.

Members did, however, get to test the pod for the first time in an alternate openair track at the competition.

The pod worked, Kaplan and Patel said.

UMDLoop is now continuing to the second competition weekend in Hawthorne, California, which will be more focused on the maximum speed pods can go. It is open to

any student team that wants to enter. Teams that took part in the first competition weekend have to make significant changes to the design of their first pods or build a new design for the second competition in order to enter.

In preparation, UMDLoop is building a new pod that will retain certain parts from the old pod. Many design elements will also be reused, such as the general frame of the structure, as well as the levitation and magnetic control concepts.

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meeting before Tuesday night.

“We’ve lived here for 14 years and this is the first time I’ve been in city hall,” the 40-yearold said. His wife, Julia Gage, said she had only come to the meeting for dog licenses.

But two items regarding immigration policy on the week’s agenda led the couple to break their streak.

The council unanimously voted to send federal officials a letter of support for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and pass a resolution condemning President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants of seven predominantly Muslim countries.

Before the meeting, Rickard said he was not sure if he was going to speak.

But when he addressed the council, he said the city’s measures on immigration were very important to him and his family, and “a big part of why we enjoy living in this community.”

“We cannot allow the laws in this country to become arbitrary enforcement subject to the whims and caprice of this president or any future president,” he said.

Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 27 barring citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries — Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — from entering the United States for 90 days in an effort to boost national security. Critics have decried the order — which also suspended the entry of refugees into the United States for 120 days and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely — as a Muslim ban.

A federal judge suspended the order on Feb. 3, and an appeals court Feb. 9 refused to reinstate the travel restrictions.

College Park resident Hena Zuberi Siddiqui said the order was “a blatantly discriminatory and

sa i d , t h e re a re m e m b e rs in the community who are afraid to travel and exist in public spaces.

“A f r i e n d ’s d a u g h t e r [wearing hijab] was told by a teacher to remove ‘that terrorist rag’,” she said, as a man in the audience cried. “This is not a fluke.”

S i d d i q u i sa i d t h e C i ty Council’s actions are a step in the right direction.

D i s t r i c t 1 Co u n c i l m a n Fazlul Kabir, who described himself as an immigrant from a majority Muslim country, said he was proud to see College Park taking a lead on immigration issues.

“I don’t think any of our neighboring cities are doing what we’re doing,” Kabir said.

Kabir also called supporting DACA “the right thing to do.”

Former President Barack Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA program in 2012. DACA allows some undocumented immigrants who came to the United States before age 16 to work and study legally for two-year intervals without the threat of deportation. DACA also allows students to receive instate tuition at the University of Maryland. As of fall 2016, there were 113 graduate and undergraduate students attending this university under the DACA policy.

The council will send the letter expressing its support for DACA to College Park’s c o n g re s s m e n a n d o t h e r fe d e ra l re p re s e n ta t ive s.

Mayor Patrick Wojahn said that while the letter is a small action on the national scale, it could mean a lot to College Park residents.

“College Park is a college town and we want to take care of the students,” Kabir said.

being that we want to go faster,” Kaplan said. “We want to build something that is undeniably the best pod there.”

Kaplan and Patel, a senior aerospace engineering major ,helped form the team on June 20, 2015 after a friend told Kaplan about the competition. Since the group’s inception, members of the team have individually put in up to 40 hours a week into the project on top of full course loads, Kaplan said.

The team has “probably put in over 10,000 hours of work” since the project started, said Noah Ryder, chief faculty adviser for the team and fire prevention engineering lecturer.

The team is mainly student driven, although the group does get advice from faculty members. It has partnerships

with the engineering school, computer, mathematical and natural sciences college and the Office of the Provost in addition to private sponsors such as Northrop Grumman and Siemens, which have provided supplies and materials to help build their model.

UMDLoop is not just restricted to STEM majors, Patel said. The team is also looking for graphic designers and students with experience in public relations.

They recruit students in the fall and take on anyone who is interested and who can dedicate their time to the project, Patel said.

“It’s been pretty remarkable; the entire team is composed of undergrads,” Ryder said. “It’s pretty impressive compared to other teams.”

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Univ institute has DeVos ties by

Newly confirmed worldwide, according to its

Christine Condon Education Secretary website, including the Dick and @CChristine19 Betsy DeVos, whose Betsy DeVos Family Foundation, nomination spurred the State Department and Staff writer protests in Washington and nationwide, has ties to the University of Maryland.

In 2001, Michael Kaiser, then-president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, created the Kennedy Center Institute of Arts Management. DeVos and her husband, Richard, donated $22.5 million to the Kennedy Center in 2010 so Kaiser could further his work in supporting arts management initiatives. The institute was then renamed the DeVos Institute for Arts Management in their honor.

Kaiser and the institute moved to this university in 2014, linking with the arts and humanities college. University President Wallace Loh deemed the move part of the initiative to make this university a “STEAM” institution — supporting STEM and the arts.

“We are a very, very strong STEM institution, and one of my goals has always been to make it also a STEAM institution — science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics,” Loh said in 2013.

“One step in this grand strategic vision is of course to bring in a superstar.”

The institute provides training and support for arts managers and boards that employ artists, according to its website. This year, the institute has sponsored a series of debates surrounding the role of technology in the arts, and also announced this week a free, six-week online course for arts managers, students and “arts enthusiasts around the globe.”

The DeVos Institute receives donations from funding partners

Bloomberg Philanthropies.

DeVos currently serves on the board for the institute, according to the DeVos Family Foundation website.

The arts and humanities department at this university also receive support from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, which have given about $2.5 million for research, performances and projects since 2010. President Trump’s administration has debuted plans to defund the two endowments during his time in office.

While DeVos is known for her philanthropic donations to education, she has never attended nor been employed at a public school. DeVos’ nomination by Trump to the office of education secretary led to widespread criticism, with opponents calling her inexperienced and unqualified.

Democratic lawmakers have also criticized her support of charter schools and vouchers, which they say fail to address achievement gaps and segregate students by class and race.

Her confirmation required a historic tie-breaking vote from Vice President Pence.

University administrators were unable to provide comment before the time of publication. newsumdbk@gmail.com

Alum Plank clarifies remarks on Trump Under Armour CEO and University of Maryland alumnus Kevin Plank responded to his controversial statements praising President Trump with an open letter to Baltimore on Wednesday.

Plank had commended Trump in a Feb. 7 interview with CNBC, saying “such a pro-business president is something that is a real asset for the country.” His statements were immediately met with backlash, with many people taking to social media to voice their concerns.

Taking out a full-page ad in The Baltimore Sun more than a week later, Plank wrote that Under Armour stands for equal rights and that his statement on CNBC did not reflect his intent.

“We stand firmly for equal rights,” Plank wrote in the letter.

“Through our investment, hiring, and in everything we do, we expect to be leaders in the advancement of all forms of diversity and gender equality.”

Several Under Armour representatives, including Steph Curry, Misty Copeland and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, have denounced Plank’s Feb. 7 comments. Johnson called the remarks “divisive.”

“I agree with that description, if you remove the ‘et’ from ‘asset,’” Curry told the San Jose Mercury News, adding he’d spent countless hours on the phone with people from the company to “understand what was going on.”

T h e W h i te Ho u se we bs i te published a statement Jan. 27 announcing Plank would join Trump and other business leaders to discuss his Manufacturing Jobs Initiative, which works to develop innovative ways to support American manufacturing and promote job growth. by

Carrie Snurr @csnurr18 Staff writer

under armour ceo and university alumnus kevin plank clarified in a Baltimore Sun advertisement Wednesday controversial remarks he made about President Trump’s policies. photo courtesy of under armour Some consumers, many of whom opposed Trump’s travel ban — which temporarily barred citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. — pledged to boycott Under Armour because of the CNBC interview, The Sun reported.

Last week, Under Armour issued two statements after the interview clarifying the company is against Trump’s travel ban, writing “immigration is a source of strength, diversity and innovation for global companies based in America like Under Armour.”

Plank’s open letter Wednesday also reaffirmed Under Armour’s opposition to the travel ban. On Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously to uphold a block on the ban.

“We are taking other public positions on legislation around the country in support of the interests of our teammates whenever policy conflicts with human rights,” Plank wrote.

Plank also wrote about Under Armour’s efforts to invest in Baltimore

and hire locally, citing the opening of the UA House at Fayette in East Baltimore in November. The center, created through a partnership with the Baltimore Ravens and the Living Classrooms Foundation, is part of a greater plan to revitalize East Baltimore through educational, recreational and workforce-oriented programs, according to a Baltimore Business Journal article.

Plank has donated tens of millions of dollars to this university, including $25 million for the renovation of the Cole Field House complex. This university and Under Armour also signed a 10-year contract extension in 2014, giving this university nearly $33 million.

“We are always mindful of the responsibility that we have to those who choose our brand,” Plank wrote.

“I can promise you that we will never compromise these values. We will continue to stand for equality, diversity and opportunity for all.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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the play focuses on five main characters, played in this revival in unconventional ways by Radcliffe Adler (Lady Bracknell), Kristen El Yaouti (Jack), Montana Monardes (Algernon), Alicia Grace (Gwedolen) and Claire Wink (Cecily).

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rarely pure and never simple In a new, unconventional show, Being Earnest is as important as ever by

“The truth is rarely pure Jarod Golub @jarodgolub a n d n e v e r simple.”

Staff writer This line from The Importance of Being Earnest knowingly s u m s u p t h e u n d e rly i n g theme of the entire play: Things are rarely what they appear to be, and society i s n ’t a s p u t toge t h e r a s people make it out to be.

Earnest has been pushing boundaries and making fun of societies since 1895 when it premiered at the St. James Theater in London. And today, when Oscar Wilde’s farcical comedy seems more pertinent than ever, the University of Maryland theater s c h o o l ’s p ro d u c t i o n o f Earnest provides a sliver of hope in a time that has been difficult for many.

A number of things in the show connect to problems in our society today, including a long rant about the state of education in Victorian society reminiscent of the

co m p l a i n ts p e o p l e h ave about our Education Department now.

This university’s production of the show, directed by Amber McGinnis, pushes the social consciousness of the play even further.

Lady Bracknell and her daughter, Gwendolen make the audience question the nature of their society. The mother-daughter dynamic is different than the relationship between any other two characters in the play, giving them space to critique the stereotypical family structure of Victorian society.

The characters are not the only subversive elements in this production of Earnest .

McGinnis uses unconventional casting choices to bring the play into a contemporary theatre landscape that often aims to reflect the world around it.

McGinnis cast a woman to play the show’s main character Jack, a male character; a black woman to play Jack’s

love interest Gwendolen, a traditionally white character; and a transgender man to play Lady Bracknell.

“The amazing thing about being able to play this strong, ridiculous, empowering, terrifying woman is that I get to perform womanhood on my own terms,” said senior theatre major Radcliffe Adler on playing Bracknell. “I also get to access the feminine upbringing that I had. I didn’t have a boyhood, I had a girlhood. I was taught all the things that a girl is taught.”

Junior theater major Alicia Grace, who plays Gwendolen, turns in a stunning performance. She brings with her a taste of modern culture, performing as a Gwendolen who knows more than she should and thus recognizes a lot of the constraints of Victorian society.

“The way that [Wilde] wrote the play, he wrote Gwendolen’s character so that she did break a lot of

rules of Victorian society,” Grace said. “You know, a woman was supposed to take up very little space, she wasn’t supposed to make her opinion known, but Gwendolen’s character is very outspoken. I really connect to her need to be independent but also a hopeless romantic, and that’s what I try to convey.”

While Grace’s performance is captivating, Adler’s performance is truly eyeopening, and the passion behind it shows how much the role really means to him.

“For me, it’s very liberating to be able to use my knowledge,” he said. “It feels good, it almost feels like self-righteous in a way, like, yes, they chose me because I was able to do the best audition, but I was able to do the best audition because I know what it’s like to be a woman. I am not a woman, but I know what it is like to be seen as a woman.”

In addition to comment-

ing on gender roles, Wilde also used Earnest to look at class distinctions in society, including servants to provide contrast to the upper-class protagonists. “[The servants’] voices aren’t really heard throughout the play, but when they are, they have something substantial to say,” Grace said. “Wilde made sure that the servants had these little sarcastic moments to prove that they’re smart despite the position that they were put in in society.”

O u ts i d e t h e s u bve rsive nature of Earnest , the theater school production was beautifully executed.

The set was elegant while remaining simple, and the actors mastered the Victorian accent. Even the set change in between Acts I and II seemed like it had its own choreography.

The Importance of Being Earnest is a play that has been recreated and revised many times to mirror the

society in which it is performed. Perhaps no society has been more equipped to put on a play so comfortable with its sense of self and its characters’ identities than 2017 America.

“Each of these characters is very much themselves, they don’t apologize for anything, they don’t apologize for who they are,” Adler said. “Maybe that’s the interesting thing about identity; if you hold an identity, you have to sometimes unapologetically live your identity — otherwise it gets glossed over or misunderstood … and these characters just unabashedly do it. And we can even take notes from that in everyday life: Just be you, just be you to the most that you can be.”

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Amid political chaos, SNL finally goes rogue The show’s writers have replaced goofy political caricatures with biting, anger-filled satirical sketches Say Hannah Yasharoff goodbye @HannahYasharoff to the days of goofy For The DBK politician caricatures. Gone is the overeager, goody-two-shoes Hillary Clinton. No more sleepy Ben Carson. Forget “I can see Russia from my house!”

A month into a presidency some argue has felt more like a year, Saturday Night Live is done portraying politicians as wellintentioned if unequipped goofballs. The writers have snapped.

They’re not here to just make people laugh anymore. They’re here to make a point and they don’t care what anyone has to say about it.

Saturday’s episode of the show, hosted by Alec Baldwin, was a turning point for a program that has provided topical, political parodies for the past 42 years. Humorous commentary on current events has been replaced by a new kind of anger-tinged satire. by

The “Trump People’s Court” skit this week served almost to voice the public’s frustrations — or even the cast and writers of the show. Cecily Strong’s character, a television judge — which is okay, because we have a “television president,” as Baldwin’s President Trump declares — is so exasperated by the end of the skit it’s almost tough to tell where the character stops and Strong begins.

“I want one day without a CNN alert that scares the hell out of me,” she says.

The Diamondback’s Taylor Stokes wrote in October that “the political humor is saving the show right now, but with the election finally ending next week it’s hard to say whether SNL will be able to pull itself out of the rut it seems to be stuck in.”

Ironically, the very same political humor that had been saving the show just recently nearly doomed it into a rut.

How many more times could we watch Alec Baldwin, eyes

squinted and mouth puckered wide open, sitting on an Oval Office set as he’s visited by a rotating cast of his closest confidants?

Enter: Melissa McCarthy.

For two episodes now, her press secretary Sean Spicer impression has not only mixed up the monotony of what seemed like a perpetual Trump cold open spell, but set a new precedent for the show itself: The SNL writers know the president is watching, and they’re not afraid to hold up a huge, metaphorical middle finger to him.

Not only are Trump cold opens becoming too expected, but they’re not even necessary at this point. SNL skits and shorts are uploaded online individually the next day — viewers don’t need to be hooked with Baldwin right away, because they can watch in any order on their own time. SNL’s Trump impersonations will go — and have gone — viral regardless.

For all the praise and notori-

ety this episode got for taking a firm stance, the “Jake Tapper” skit was cause for outrage on social media. In a Fatal Attraction parody, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway breaks into CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s apartment to beg/ seduce/threaten him into allowing her back on TV. Some viewers thought the skit was offensive, others found it funny, still others considered it just plain bizarre.

The episode mostly criticized the current political climate, but there was also an underlying criticism of news and late night TV in general for not taking more firm stances against Trump’s administration. But SNL’s new, unprecedented stance begs the question: Are they crossing a line?

The answer, though perhaps unsubstantial, is that it doesn’t really matter. SNL doesn’t care if it crosses lines anymore. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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Terps at a Glance Men’s Lacrosse The Terps have scored

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goals in their first two games, the most they’ve recorded to start a season since 2013.

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on Maryland’s attacking success:

“It’s a lot about experience and knowing how to play with one another.

[Heacock] and [Rambo] work really well together.”

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points over his last eight games, dating back to last season.

Rambo and fellow senior attackmen Colin Heacock and Dylan Maltz have now scored a combined

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career goals.

Rambo, Heacock and Maltz have combined to score

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“With Matt Rambo coming up [to Philadelphia] and being in his hometown for potentially the last time, I thought that was a really great performance by him.”

RAMBO’S RETURN

Senior attackman Matt Rambo played in his home state, Pennsylvania, for likely the final time on Tuesday afternoon against Saint Joseph’s . He responded with his best-ever statistical performance, setting a career-high with seven points on three goals and four assists in the 16-8 win.

Rambo netted twice during a 52-second span in the second quarter to give the Terps a 9-6 lead. Overall, he has totaled 40 points in nine career games in Philadelphia.

NO FLY ZONE Before the season, coach John Tillman called his defense

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a work in progress because it graduated three starters and is missing senior Mac Pons to a lower-body injury. Against Navy, the Terps allowed 12 goals, which was more than they conceded in any regular-season matchup last year. But after giving up six first-half scores against Saint Joseph’s , the squad limited the Hawks to two after intermission.

THIRD QUARTER DOMINANCE Maryland has used halftime to its advantage this season.

The break gives Tillman an opportunity to rehash his game plan with the players in the locker room, helping them overwhelm teams in the third frame. The Terps have outscored opponents by an average of two goals in third quarters this season. In other periods, they’ve topped teams by an average of 1.17 scores.

HAT TRICKS GALORE Through two contests, four Terps have registered hat tricks.

Last Saturday at No. 11 Navy, attackman Dylan Maltz scored four goals and Matt Rambo had three to lead the team to a 15-12 victory. Then, against Saint Joseph’s , Rambo, attackman Colin Heacock and midfielder Jared Bernhardt each netted three times.

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through the half, Trimble scored seven straight points.

He put the finishing touches on his breakout frame by first assisting forward Damonte Dodd’s dunk. Then, with three seconds remaining, Trimble finished an and-one layup before staring down a group of Northwestern fans who were yelling at him.

Turgeon said he added plays in practice over the past two weeks that opened the lane for Trimble.

“Once I saw that first shot go in, right then and there I knew it was going to be my game,” Trimble said. “My biggest thing is getting to the basket and getting to the line. I was just taking what the defense gave me. Tonight was my night.”

The Terps, who are 10-1 in contests away from Xfinity Center, said improving their defense would be vital to winning this week’s games.

While some of the Wildcats’ misses in the first half came on open looks, Maryland held them to 32 percent shooting and 17 percent from beyond the arc in the opening period.

No r t hwe s te r n p l aye d without its leading scorer,

preview From p. 12 Saturday starter. Blohm and sophomore right-hander Hunter Parsons, who is from Fruitland, will battle for the Sunday job.

“We’re definitely a lot deeper than we were last year,” Shaffer said. “A lot of guys coming in confident after their summer.

It’ll be fun.”

For Maryland’s starting staff, which in Szefc’s eyes can include up to five arms to complement “four to five experienced bullpen guys,” could be pressured to keep teams off the scoreboard if the Terps hit like they did last year. They collectively batted .256 last season, the third-worst

Scottie Lindsey (15.4 points per game), who missed his fourth straight game with mononucleosis. Guard Bryant McIntosh, who entered as the team’s second-leading scorer (14 points per game) and the Big Ten’s assist leader (5.4 per game), never found a rhythm as he picked up three first-half fouls. The junior finished with nine points. Guard Isiah Brown paced Northwestern with 19 points.

“The development those players have made is amazing,” Turgeon said. “It’s going to be a great story coming into March.”

The Terps knew they had to continue their momentum in the second half, and Trimble ensured the team didn’t falter.

The Upper Marlboro native scored 11 points in the first six minutes of the second half, including two 3-pointers, to help extend Maryland’s lead to 17.

When Turgeon granted Trimble rest in the middle of the half, his teammates penetrated to create open shots on the perimeter. Maryland finished shooting 50 percent from the field and 44 percent from beyond the arc.

Trimble maintained a serious face through his breakout performance. But with about nine

minutes remaining, the 6-foot3, 185-pound guard, who said he likes to play with “swagger,” finished an and-one layup and flashed a smile to the cameras after falling to the ground. His floater with five minutes and 38 seconds left broke his previous career-high of 31 points.

“I never thought the old Melo left,” Dodd said. “He’s still there.”

Trimble didn’t score the rest of the contest, but Dodd (12 points) sunk a layup with about two minutes remaining to end Northwestern’s 15-4 run.

As the final buzzer sounded, forward Justin Jackson put his arm around Trimble while the pair walked off the court. Some other Maryland players then hugged Trimble on the sideline. The spotlight never left Trimble, as he smiled while signing autographs and taking pictures with fans before and after speaking with reporters.

“Even though he hasn’t been shooting the ball well, he’s been doing a lot of things to make our team win,” guard Anthony Cowan said. “I didn’t know he had to prove anybody wrong after everything he already does.”

average in the Big Ten. But this season’s offense, which features preseason AllAmerican shortstop Kevin Smith and Baltimore native Marty Costes, who posted 37 RBIs and nine home runs last season, factored into several outlets projecting the Terps to win the conference.

“A lot of guys want to get to Omaha,” Smith said. “The problem with trying to classify the season as successful before you even play it is that sometimes you sell yourself short. We want to win a championship. How you do that is go about your business on a daily basis.”

As Szefc prepares to lead the Terps, who didn’t make the

NCAA tournament last year for the first time in three seasons, his recruiting strategy hasn’t changed. The fifth-year coach will continue to pursue local athletes while stressing the importance of the depth they can provide. Soon, he might be able to use Blohm as an example.

“Over the last four and a half years, things have been elevated,” Szefc said. “Now I think we have a little bit of a track record too, as far as success in the field and having success with the pro draft. They can’t look at it and say, ‘I don’t know if I’m going to progress there,’ because a lot of guys have.”

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Peterman makes all-around debut A day before

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“I wasn’t nervous because event that don’t count toward Conner Hoyt the Maryland gymnastics I d i d n ’t h ave t i m e to b e the total score, Peterman @ConnerHoyt27 t e a m e m nervous,” Peterman said. gained live practice.

Staff writer barked on its drive to Rutgers, freshman Kirsten Peterman peered at the Terps’ lineup at practice and was surprised to see herself slated for all four events.

Though it marked her first time competing in the allaround as a Terp, Peterman downplayed her promotion, citing an experience with the Canadian national team that prepared her for it.

When she was 16, one of her teammates tore her ACL on beam at the World Championships in China. Peterman expected to perform vault only, but the void forced her into duties on all four events.

She finished 32nd in the

Coach Brett Nelligan acknowledged that prior experience contributed to her poise against the Scarlet Knights.

“You could tell that she loved being back in the allaround,” Nelligan said. “She comes from the elite world of gymnastics — she was on the world team with Canada — she’s used to training all the events, competing the allaround. I thought she actually looked more comfortable being in the all-around.”

Nelligan said Peterman earned the all-around position with her improved exhibition performances on bars.

Because NCAA rules allow teams to perform as many as

Peterman, one of several Terps who had never competed at Rutgers before Saturday, earned a 38.750 total, the meet’s second-best allaround score. She became the first Maryland gymnast to compete in all four events since Kathy Tang last season.

Tang got to know Peterman during her recruiting visits and camps at Maryland, and she recognized her intense work ethic and desire. “ S h e rea l ly b u s te d h e r butt,” Tang said. “I know it’s just camp, but she still put in 110 percent on all four events.”

Tang commended Peterman for preparing to compete all-around with only a day’s

freshman kirsten peterman reflected on her international elite experience to pace the Terps at Rutgers. marquise mckine/the diamondback notice, but the former Terp wasn’t surprised.

“This is gymnastics — things happen,” Tang said. “ I ’m rea l ly p ro u d o f h e r for being able to do that as a gymnast. That’s why we practice all four events. You don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Peterman’s expanded role wasn’t official until she saw

her name in the lineup Friday, but Nelligan had anticipated she’d make her all-around debut at some point in her rookie season. “ Fr o m t h e r e c r u i t i n g process, we pegged her as a n a l l - a ro u n d e r,” Ne l l i gan said. “Each week, she’s going to keep getting better.

I’m excited to see how far she can go.”

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Peterman thinks she could continue to be effective competing all-around in the future. Nelligan agreed.

“She worked hard, she really focused and she made the small corrections we asked her to make as coaches,” Nelligan said. “She’s going to win some meets this year.” choytdbk@gmail.com

softball

Ellazar serves as leader, provides offensive burst After posting the Maryland softball team’s third-highest batting average in program history last season, infielder Skylynne Ellazar was named one of fastpitchnews.com’s “10 NCAA Softball Juniors to Watch in 2017” at the end of January.

The praise was a “big shock” for the junior. Last year, she said, she focused on hard work to produce better results. It paid off when she led the Terps with a .399 average, .458 on-base percentage and .574 slugging percentage. She added 29 RBIs and a team-high 32 runs scored.

Her offseason preparation stalled when she had knee surgery, but Ellazar returned to the field at full strength in last weekend’s Texas Invitational tournament to hit .467 and score three runs in five games.

“She’s as diligent as ever.

She’s one of the hardest working kids I’ve ever coached,” coach Julie Wright said. “Even when she was a little bit limited with the injury, she still did everything she possibly could to make sure she was staying as sharp as she could for as long as she could.”

When a Michigan State player slid hard into Ellazar last April, she missed the remainder of the game. While she returned to finish her sophomore campaign and then participated in Maryland’s fall season, Ellazar had knee surgery after the by

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goalkeeper megan taylor made eight saves on William & Mary’s 11 shots in the Terps’ 13-3 win Saturday. As a result, she earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week. matt regan/the diamondback

Taylor garners Big Ten honor to begin season When Sean Whooley m e m b e rs o f @swhooley27 the Maryland women’s laStaff writer crosse team hear goalkeeper Megan Taylor’s name, they all grin.

“She just makes me smile,” coach Cathy Reese said Feb. 6 at the team’s media day. “You say her name and she just makes me smile. She’s such a fantastic person and an amazing goalkeeper.”

The sophomore’s performance last Saturday against William & Mary brought the Terps joy, too. Taylor stopped eight of the Tribe’s 11 shots on goal during the 13-3 win. After the game, midfielder Zoe Stukenberg said she “could not be more impressed” with Taylor’s performance.

Taylor was last season’s Big by

Ten Goaltender of the Year and added to her personal accolades when the conference named her Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week on Tuesday.

“That’s Megan,” Reese said.

“We’re going to see her come through as the stud goalkeeper that she is. She comes up with some big stops. It’s definitely an honor that is well deserved right now, and I bet it’s not the last time we hear that.”

However, Taylor refuses to take all of the credit.

“It just shows I’m playing with some of the best defenders in front of me,” Taylor said.

“They’re making my job so much easier than it should be.”

Taylor earned the starting role as a freshman, playing in all 23 games and putting together an impressive campaign. She allowed 6.78 goals per game for a

.471 save percentage as the Terps finished the regular season undefeated before making a run to the national championship game.

Reese said Taylor’s experience entering her second season is an asset. She’s better able to stay focused on the present and move past mistakes.

“I anticipate her to continue to get more confident as the season goes on,” Reese said. “She’ll just keep doing her thing.”

Junior attacker Megan Whittle heaped praise on her teammate, too, emphasizing her importance as the final line of defense.

Whittle described Taylor as a “legend” and “amazing” and admitted the Glenelg native has helped improve her shooting.

“We all love her to death,” Whittle said. “I’m really excited that she’s on our team and not playing against us. She saves us

back there. She’s the backbone of our defense, and I’m really excited that she’s on the team and that she’s playing so well.

“It’s only going to get better for her. She’s going to have a great year.”

Reese said Taylor has embraced her opportunities.

Last year when she battled rookie nerves, she “just giggled and did her thing,” the coach remembered.

While others had extensive explanations of what Taylor’s “thing” is, the goalie keeps it simple.

“I know every team is going to be pretty good,” Taylor said. “So I just go out there and try and save the ball.” swhooleydbk@gmail.com

fall season and recovered over winter break in her native Hawaii.

“That little time that I lost was hard on my endurance, my conditioning,” Ellazar said.

“But when I got home and I went through rehab, I hit it really hard. It helped being home in the warm.”

Throughout the offseason, Ellazar also mentored freshman outfielder Amanda Brashear.

Wright paired Ellazar and senior outfielder Sarah Calta — who also hit above .300 in 2016 — with Brashear to help her transition to college-level hitting. After last weekend, the rookie leads the Terps with a .500 average and hit a double and a triple.

Ellazar is “really good at offering that advice and talking to them about what she looks at and how she handles it and some of the things she does that’s made her successful,” Wright said.

“She’s really eager to share that stuff because she knows it’s going to make everyone just a little bit better.”

The junior shared her plate discipline techniques with Brashear. Ellazar focuses on hitting pitches in her zone, and Brashear has adopted a similar patience and confidence.

Over the weekend, Brashear said Ellazar kept it simple, trying to hit the ball back through the middle. The Hawaiian hit seven singles as a result.

Ellazar “has a name, and she’s backed it up,” Brashear said. “She has a really small zone she wants, but she sticks to that zone. She doesn’t make it different depending on which pitcher is pitching. Once it’s in that zone she’s going to swing for it and try to make the best of it.” akostkadbk@gmail.com

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badgers From p. 12 digits in either the first or second frame.

The Terps (26-1, 14-0 Big Ten) didn’t appear hampered by Slocum’s absence. Wisconsin coach Jonathan Tsipis called a timeout after guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough went coastto-coast following a steal to put Maryland up 11-0 with 5:27 left in the first quarter.

“This team set the tone,” Frese said.

Maryland scored five more points before a midrange jumper from forward Malayna Johnson got the Badgers (6-20, 1-12) on the board more than six minutes into the game.

Tsipis said he “would be remiss” not to credit Maryland’s defensive positioning for why his team struggled to score.

That wasn’t the only scoring drought for Wisconsin. The Badgers scored just 14 points before halftime and went about six minutes without a point spanning the first and second periods. Wisconsin finished the game with 40 points, the lowest total from a Terps opponent this season.

Frese said she’s emphasized defense in recent weeks after recognizing it as the one area the Terps were lacking in that could “come back to cost” them.

“We’ve just been attacking our defense,” Jones said. “We

know it’s something we can improve.”

Midway through the second quarter, guard Kaila Charles split a pair of free throws to put the Terps up by 30 points, 37-7. Maryland led, 43-14, at intermission.

Walker-Kimbrough paced the offense in the first half with 16 points on 5-for-5 from the field.

Center Brionna Jones finished the contest with 16 points and 11 rebounds for her 19th doubledouble of her senior season.

Guard Kristen Confroy buried a 3-pointer on the first possession after halftime and Wisconsin never got back within 30 points. The shellacking comes days before Maryland travels to No. 12 Ohio State, its first ranked

opponent since December, on Monday.

“Coach has been emphasizing consistency,” said WalkerKimbrough, who finished with 22 points and five steals. “No matter what, no matter who we’re playing, we’re trying to focus on ourselves.”

The Terps shot 51.6 percent from the field while the Badgers made 31.5 percent of their shots.

Wisconsin had 20 turnovers, doubling Maryland’s 10.

“We did a really good job from start to finish, continuing to send waves and continuing to be competitive on both ends of the floor,” Walker-Kimbrough said. “Today was a really good win.” jcrabtreehdbk@gmail.com

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Trimble dazzles in team’s 74-64 win at Northwestern Junior guard scores career-high 32 points on 12-of-17 shooting EVANSTON, Ill. — Maryland men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon wasn’t worried about his star guard.

Entering the Terps’ game against Northwestern on Wednesday night, guard Melo Trimble had been shooting 31 percent from the field in his past four outings.

Last year in conference play, Trimble went through a similar slump that derailed the Terps’ postseason seeding. But Turgeon went out of his way Monday to tell reporters Trimble is fresher at this by

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point in the season than he was a year ago and felt Trimble was primed for a breakout performance.

In Welsh-Ryan Arena, Trimble flashed the offensive prowess that led the Terps to two NCAA tournament berths and likely another one this season. He finished with one of the best performances of his three-year career, scoring a career-high 32 points on 12for-17 shooting to lead No. 23 Maryland to a 74-64 victory.

“I could sense something about Melo tonight,” Turgeon said. “I just told Melo to play with confidence. He has to be borderline cocky out there.

He played that way a little bit tonight.”

As the Northwestern players and students jumped around moments before tip-off, not the slightest smirk appeared on any of the Terps players’ faces. They were locked in, knowing the importance of beating the Wildcats (19-7, 8-5 Big Ten) before facing No. 11 Wisconsin on Sunday.

After Maryland (22-4, 10-3) opened a 9-2 lead, it didn’t score for almost five minutes while Trimble sat on the bench for the majority of the drought.

But with the Terps up by four midway See wildcats, p. 10

Guard Melo Trimble silenced the critics with a supreme offensive outing. jeremy yu/the daily northwestern

baseball

The Terps feature a plethora of local stars on the mound and at the plate. Coach John Szefc’s in-state recruiting success helped the Terps garner significant preseason hype. They’re ranked No. 22 and are the favorites to win the Big Ten. (photo courtesy of maryland athletics)

livin’ la vida local In-state talent gives Maryland the pieces to make another postseason run

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year ago, Tyler Blohm wasn’t on the Maryland baseball team’s radar.

As coach John Szefc listed the players he wanted to target, the left-hander hadn’t emerged as a prospect. That changed in April, about two months before the Baltimore Orioles selected him in the 17th round of the 2016 MLB Draft.

Blohm, who grew up in Severna Park and pitched to a 0.74 ERA over 66 innings at Archbishop Spalding High School, still had to decide whether to join the Terps. Szefc

By Scott Gelman | @Gelman_Scott | Staff writer increased his recruiting efforts after learning Blohm’s goal was to be an effective college pitcher before beginning the draft process.

Eventually, Blohm made the decision to pitch for his home-state program, which is ranked No. 22 entering the 2017 campaign, and is now competing to be the team’s Sunday starter. He’s one of 14 Maryland natives on the Terps roster, reflective of Szefc’s success recruiting local talent.

“We get a lot more [Maryland-based players] now than we did five years ago,” Szefc said. “Hopefully guys recognize they can stay

at home so to speak … I can tell you [the 2017 team] is one of the better teams we’ve had since I’ve been here on paper and maybe since I’ve been a head coach.”

Right-hander Mike Shawaryn headlined Maryland’s squad last season. He’s the Terps’ all-time leader in wins, strikeouts and innings pitched, someone whom Szefc called “a little bit of the face of our program.” The Red Sox drafted Shawaryn in the fifth round of summer’s draft.

Now without a clear ace, Szefc and firstyear assistant coach Ryan Fecteau have to

assemble a new starting pitching staff. There are plenty of locals to choose from.

Right-hander Brian Shaffer, a Pylesville native, threw three complete games last season and ended the year among the Big Ten’s best pitchers in terms of innings pitched and ERA. He’s slated to be Maryland’s Opening Day starter against Ball State on Friday.

Taylor Bloom, a right-hander from Crofton who, like Shaffer, walked fewer hitters than he struck out in 2016, will remain the Terps’ See preview, p. 10

women’s basketball

Terps crush Wisconsin with Slocum sidelined Walker-Kimbrough contributes 22, her fourth straight 20-plus point performance If Wisconsin was going to upset the No. 2 Maryland women’s basketball team Wednesday night, the Badgers were likely going to need everything to go right with some lucky breaks along the way.

When the Terps announced before the game starting point guard Destiny Slocum — the team’s third-leading scorer — wouldn’t play due to an illness, it seemed fortune might favor the lastplace Badgers.

But any hope of Wisconsin shocking Maryland in Xfinity Center was dashed by

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Guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough shouldered the scoring load with the Terps’ starting point guard out with an illness. (photo courtesy of maryland athletics)

soon after. Maryland scored the game’s first 16 points and led by 30 midway through the second quarter.

Maryland went on to win, 89-40, staying perfect in conference play with its largest margin of victory in a Big Ten game since joining the conference two seasons ago.

“It was one of our most complete games as a team, collectively,” coach Brenda Frese said.

The Wisconsin offense couldn’t solve Maryland’s defense in the first half. The Badgers shot just 2-for-16 from the field in the first quarter and didn’t reach double See badgers, p. 11