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College Park Metro riders up 20% amid projects University researchers team up with WMATA to forecast effects of massive SafeTrack efforts

By Samantha Reilly @manthahontas Staff writer T h e D.C . M e t ro s y s te m h a s completed the first of 15 surges of its SafeTrack initiative, which

University student dies at 19 Chi Phi mourns death of engineering student

consists of a series of track maintenance improvements from June 2016 to March 2017.

The first stage focused on the Orange and Silver lines between Ballston and East Falls Church.

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and Green Line won’t be affected until Nov. 12.

The Metro is due for its repairs, said Mark Franz, the assistant director of outreach and technology transfer at the University of Maryland’s National Transportation Center.

“A lot of it is obviously in response to some ongoi ng sa fety problems in the metro in recent

years,” Franz said. “It’s just our response to make the entire track safer, but also in doing so, it makes it more efficient.”

This metro system ranks as the second-largest public transportation system in the country by ridership, and its well-documented delays, frequent derailments and maintenance problems in recent years have inspired sharp criticism

on T w itter accou nts such as @IsMetroOnFire and @unsuckdcmetro. FiveT hirtyEight even lau nched a n i nvestigation into “How Often D.C.’s Metro Catches On Fire” earlier this year.

A mong the most notable i nc i d e nt s i n re c e nt m e mor y : I n August, a train derailed during See TRANSPORT, Page 2

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By Hannah Lang @hannahdlang Staff writer Gregory Speelman, a University of Maryland student and Chi Phi fraternity member, died Saturday, said Corin Edwards, the Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life’s associate director of advising and programming.

Speelman was a rising sophomore and civil engineering major, his parents Jeff and Lori Speelman wrote in a Facebook post. He was 19 years old.

Members of the Greek community, as well as friends and family, have been posting their condolences and memories of Speelman on Twitter and Facebook.

The family will receive friends T uesd ay f rom 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Harry H. Witzke’s Family Funeral Home in Ellicott City. The funeral service will take place Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Church of the Resurrection in Ellicott City.

The family has requested that in lieu of flowers, people make a donation in Speelman’s name to the V Foundation for Cancer Research.

Senior staff writer Carly Kempler contributed to this report. hlangdbk@gmail.com

MAYOR PATRICK WOJAHN, center in shorts, attends a formal inauguration of the Berwyn pedestrian bridge that reopened Saturday after a year of reconstruction after an accident. mark boyle/for the diamondback

Berwyn pedestrian bridge reopens after year’s work

By Mark Boyle @thedbk For The Diamondback A f ter a yea r-long wa it, the Berw y n Bridge reopened on Saturday, connecting College Park and Berwyn Heights through a pedestrian overpass.

The overpass had been out of service

s i n c e A p r i l 2 015 , w h e n a c o n s t r u ction crane collided with the stretch of the bridge that stood between the 5100 block and the 5400 block of Berwyn Road, causing the bridge to collapse onto the Metro tracks.

Workers had been building a set of test tracks to run parallel to the Green Line between the Greenbelt and College Park Metro stations at the time of the crash, but no one was injured, according to The Washington Post.

“I was amazed,” said Mark Shroder, a resident of North College Park. “It seemed like a pretty solid structure.”

New, multi-function project will serve as platform for hightech businesses

Chief research officer to lead his alma mater

By Kimberly Escobar @kimescobarumd Staff writer

PATRICK O’SHEA, the University of Maryland’s vice president and chief research officer, will leave his post to become president of University College Cork, an institution in his native Ireland. photo courtesy of patrick o’shea the 171-year-old university, acW h e n a p p ly i n g fo r t h e j o b, cording to a Baltimore Sun article, O’Shea said, the process for the and will take over on Feb. 1. The president position goes through university has over 20,000 full the University College Cork search time students, according to a video made by the university.

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U, St. John team up on Riverdale development

O’Shea leaves for top post at Irish college

Patrick O’Shea, the University of Maryland’s vice president and chief research officer, will be returning to his native country of Ireland after accepting a job to become the nex t president for his alma mater — the University College Cork.

“I’ve had a great time here at Maryland and had a great experience,” O’Shea said. “I’m conflicted … it’s like I have two homes.

I’m an alumnus of the University of Maryland and an alumnus of University … College Cork, so it’s quite emotional for me.”

He will be the 15th president of

Before the bridge’s collapse, Shroder ran and biked across the bridge from College Park to Lake Artemesia several times a week in Berwyn Heights, a destination that was no longer easily accessible after the collision. After that, biking was difficult due to heavy traffic, he said.

College Pa rk District 2 Cou ncilma n P.J. Brennan said a year of building time was “not too bad,” and the delay in rebuilding was an “exercise of patience” for the community, noting the challenge of constructing a large project in a short

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give companies the ability to have a versatile work space, where they can work on all their projects.”

Doordan said the development is specifically geared toward hightech businesses focused on engineering, computers and virtual

By Samuel Antezana @thedbk reality, among others. The develFor The Diamondback opment’s spaces will allow various types of tech companies to work The University of Maryland on any project, and it won’t be reand St. John Properties are part- quired to go to a special building nering to create a multi-func- for a specific project, he added. tional development in R iver“This particular type of product dale Park to meet the needs of is not readily available nearby,” technology companies that are said Carlo Colella, vice president attracted to the university and for administration and finance at city communities. this university. “These companies “What we are trying to do is need a combination of office space provide a product with a plat- and open space, which traditional form for advanced tech compa- products do not usually have.” nies to be able to work within T he development i s focu sed a more flexible environment,” on att ract i n g h i g h-tech bu sisa id Sea n Doord a n, t he v ice nesses partly because they have president of acquisitions at St. John Properties. “We want to See RIVERDALE, Page 3

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CRIME BLOTTER

By Mina Haq @DBKCrime For The Diamondback University of Maryland Police responded to reports of theft and trespassing, among other incidents, this past week, according to police reports.

THEFT

stolen bike at the Biosciences Research Building.

Police have also requested a camera review for this active case.

TRESPASSING On Sunday at about 1 p.m., University Police arrested and charged a man for trespassing at Courtyards after being “permanently denied from that location,” in May 2016, Hoaas said.

Police charged Fuad D. Hassan, a 23-year-old from Bowie, with trespassing on private property, refusal to leave a building and resisting and interfering with arrest, Hoaas wrote in an email.

An officer told Hassan to stand up so police could place him in handcuffs, but Hassan refused multiple times.

He also attempted to push away officers, at which point he was “taken to the ground and placed into handcuffs,” Hoaas wrote.

“Generally when someone is issued a denial for a previous incident … most of the time it is because they have no affiliation with the university,” Hoaas said, “and have no reason to be here, and are causing a disturbance.”

University Police res p o n d e d to re p o r t s of multiple bike thefts, including one on Wednesday at about midnight.

A woman affiliated with the university reported at Courtyards that her bike had been stolen the previous day, police spokeswoman Sg t. Rosanne Hoaas said.

Police found her bike at Regents Drive Garage and have requested a camera review for the case, which is active.

University Police responded to a repor t of a stolen purse Friday at Stamp Student Union.

A woman affi liated with the university put her purse down on the counter at the University Bookstore cash register, Hoaas said, and at some point noticed it was missing. This case is active.

On Sunday at about midnight, police responded to a not her rep or t of a newsumdbk@gmail.com

O’SHEA From PAGE 1 committee and they then go over the applicants’ qualifications; he was then chosen for the job.

Since his graduate school days, O’Shea has been heavily involved with this university, helping to establish many projects, including the Maryland Center for Applied Electromagnetics, the Maryland Cybersecurity Center, the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, the Language Science Center and even the Frederick Douglass statue near Hornbake Library, he added.

“O’Shea deserves tremendous credit ... not only for initiatives that this university has been pursuing and how successful those initiatives have become, but also because he has helped guide a very complex research organization through some difficult times,” said Kenneth Gertz, this university’s associate vice president for research development.

“He has been a fixture at Maryland for the last decade. … He has this tremendous energy level and optimism and he loves the university,” Gertz said. “Pat’s optimism and passion just kept every-

HE HAS BEEN A FIXTURE AT MARYLAND FOR THE LAST DECADE. ... HE HAS THIS TREMENDOUS ENERGY LEVEL AND OPTIMISM AND HE LOVES

TRANSPORT From PAGE 1 rush hour and closed parts of th ree l i nes; i n Ja nua ry 2015, one person died and 84 people were taken to the hospital after a Yellow Line train filled with smoke from an electrical incident; and in June 2009, two Red Line trains collided, killing nine people a nd i nju ri ng more than 70 others.

Metro’s problems stem from the fact that some of thei r tracks have been i n use for 40 years, which has started to affect passenger safety, Franz said. After the 2015 smoke incident, federal authorities assumed supervision of the Metro’s safety concerns in October and the rail system became the first in the U.S. with that designation, The Washington Post reported.

A s w o rk c o n t i n u e s o n d i f ferent t rack sect ion s, Metro trains will either use one track (instead of two) or shut down all service in that area.

These repairs will amount to som e b ut not s i g n i f icant passenger delays, said Chenfeng Xiong, a research scientist for the National Transportation Center. To estimate these delays, the NTC conducted surveys and model analysis.

“Of course there will be delays and more crowded cars in the metro system,” Xiong said.

T he Post’s Dr. Gridlock reported T uesday that many riders are heading to the Green and Yellow lines.

The College Park and Greenbelt stations have seen 20 percent and 34 percent increases in ridership, respectively, the Post reported.

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body going, and as a result we still have this amazing robust research center for us on campus.”

His new leadership role come February will reflect university President Wallace Loh’s responsibilities, O’Shea said.

“I’ll be responsible for the operation oversight, fundings, students, research … everything that goes on at a complicated university. I’ll be the chief executive officer,” he said.

O ’S h e a , w h o h e lp e d found Maryland NanoCenter, established in 2004 at this university, was determined to fi nd a way to help the university community as well as the surrounding community with this new center, said Gary Rubloff, the center’s director. kescobardbk@gmail.com

TOP: College Park Metro Station has seen a 20 percent uptick in ridership since the D.C. Metro began adjusting to the system’s SafeTrack project, which aims to improve rail safety.

ABOVE: A D.C. Metro train at Fort Totten on the system’s Green Line. images via wikimedia commons those people said they would leave earlier to compensate for expected delays.

Sen ior com mu n icat ion major A l leg ra Ba l mad ier, who com mutes to Wa shington three times a week, said this project was not as publicized or as clear as it should have been. “ T h e o n ly re a s o n t h at

I know anything about Sa feT rack, to b e honest, is because I was forced [by p r o f e s s o r s] t o r e a d T h e Wa s h i n g to n P o s t,” B a lmadier said.

Brittany Cheng contributed to this report. sreillydbk@gmail.com

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The NTC model analysis showed travel time would i ncrease by about 0.2 percent on average, which Xiong said is not a significant impact.

“It’s not going to inf luence people’s travel time a lot,” he said.

D e s p ite t h i s, t h e N T C a i m s t o h e l p c o m m u ters adjust their schedules for potent i a l del ays by keepi ng t hem i n for med about SafeTrack projects, Franz said. “ T y pic a l ly, p e ople a re b et ter at h a nd l i n g shutdowns when they’re notified about it in advance,” F r a n z s a i d . “ I t’s n o t a s frustrating.”

A n d a f te r a s k i n g p a ss e n ge rs, t h e N T C fo u n d more t h a n 96 p ercent of s u r veye d u se rs fe lt t hey were sufficiently informed about SafeTrack delays. The majority of respondents reported they would continue to use the Metro, despite del ays, but about h a l f of

amount of time.

B r i d ge-b u i ld i n g s t a nd a rd s h ave a l so ch a n ged since the bridge was built in the early 1990s, leading to more significant recons t r u c t io n b e i n g n e e d e d , College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn said.

There are very few eastwest corridors in the area, all of which are spread out, College Park City Manager Scott Somers said.

W hen i nsta l lation took place in the spring, it was a relief and “a neat thing to watch,” Wojahn said.

The D.C. Metro completed the project, and the walkway was open for pedestrians in June.

Teachers living in Berwyn Heights who work at Holy Redeemer School — located on Berwyn Road in College Park — now have a connection to bike to work, which is an asset, said Brie Hall, the school’s secretary to the principal.

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THE BERWYN PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE officially reopened in the presence of dignitaries Saturday following a year of reconstruction after a D.C. Metro construction crane accidentally hit the former span, causing it to collapse onto the tracks below. mark boyle/for the diamondback Ber w y n Heig hts Mayor Cheryl Jew itt sa id she was “overjoyed” that the gateway between these communities is active again.

“I love knowing that [C ol l e ge Pa rk re s i d e nt s] want to see Lake Artemesia and all that Berwyn Heights

has to offer,” Jewitt said.

I n add it ion to of fer i ng a more attractive, cleaner steel f ra m i n g, t he newly reconstructed segment has also been designed to stand for a longer period of time, Berwyn Heights Councilman Christopher Rasmussen

said.

Metro officials will consider renovating the entire bridge with the same design within three to five years, a c c ord i n g to t he C it y of College Park’s website. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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U/Brookings survey explores refugee crisis

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By Mia O’Neill @thedbk For The Diamondback The Middle East’s refugee conflict continues to garner global attention as citizens and politicians weigh feelings of moral obligation against safety and economic concerns.

A Ju n e 13 s u r ve y p u blished by Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Chair for peace and development at the University of Maryland, i n conju nction w ith the Brookings Institution, explored Americans’ opinions on letting refugees — particularly those from Syria, Iraq and Libya — into the United States.

Results from the survey, wh ich were presented at the Brookings Institution, fou nd t h at 59 p ercent of A mericans said they supported letting in refugees from such Middle Eastern cou ntries as long as they underwent security background checks.

Democrats were far more likely to support the measure than Republicans, as 77 percent of Democrats sa id t hey favored a l lowi n g re f u ge e s i n w it h t he background checks, while 63 percent of Republicans w e r e o p p o s e d , a c c o r di n g to t he Bro ok i n gs I nstitution website. A mong Donald Trump supporters, 77 percent said they were against letting refugees into the U.S. Millennials were significantly more supportive of

RIVERDALE From PAGE 1 a strong connection to the u n ivers it y, Cole l l a sa id , and many of the programs s t u d e nt s a re g ra d u at i n g f ro m p e r t a i n to c a r e e r s related to those companies’ specializations.

Nestor Cotton, a senior electrical engineering major, said the project could help students in the future.

SHIBLEY TELHAMI, the Anwar Sadat Chair for peace and development, seen here at an April 2015 lecture, published a survey on American’s refugee views. file photo/the diamondback welcom i ng ref ugees tha n older A mericans, with 68 percent saying they would be in favor of the measure, according to the survey.

H o w e v e r, t h e s u r v e y showed a slight dip in ref ugee approva l when it ca me to welcom i ng ref ugees into one’s own backyard rather than on the national scale, with 55 percent of A mericans saying they thought refugees would be welcomed i nto thei r ow n communities, according to the survey.

In March, College Park’s City Council took its own stance on the issue, voting unanimously to welcome all refugees to settle in the city. “[T he vote] was a n i mportant response to [events] around the country,” Mayor Patrick Wojahn said, adding that it was important for the city to “embrace diversity” and “welcome people facing hardship in their own lands.”

T he decision was in response to an online petition created by College Park resident Jackie Pearce Garrett.

T he petition, which rec e ive d 1 45 s i g n at u re s, followed Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s request in November 2015 to temporarily close the state’s borders to refugees due to security concerns.

On Tuesday, Hogan restated these concerns and reaffirmed his stance on allowing refugees to enter t he state, accord i ng to The Washington Post.

Still, the city’s vote was “symbolic — not any kind of commitment,” District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said. “Just very much welcoming language, stating that we welcome refugees into College Park.”

L oca l react ion to t he resolution has been genera l ly positive, Woja h n and Kabir said, but some residents have voiced reservations in online forums — mainly about safety and concerns regarding potential terrorism threats, Kabir added.

“This will give [graduate] students more opportunities if they are interested in working for one of those companies,” Cotton said. “This will also allow the university to step up and compete with other research facilities.”

Colella said he believes t he city w i l l a lso benef it g reatly from the ty pes of companies the development will attract. “ We e x p e c t t h e l o c a l economy to benefit, as well

as the university,” Colella sa id. “T here have been a va r iety of compa n ies that have communicated to us that they wa nt to stay close to the university, and this product will allow them to finally be able to do so.”

Construction is expected to begin toward the end of the year and finish in late 2017, Doordan said.

COACH MARK TURGEON, who led the Maryland men’s basketball team to a Sweet Sixteen berth in the 2016 NCAA Tournament, will face Indiana, Michigan State, Nebraska and Purdue at home only, as announced by the Big Ten Conference this week. file photo/the diamondback

Conference announces Terps home, away games

By Jordan Katz @Jordan_KatzUMD Staff writer

Maryland faced both of these teams on the road last year, so avoiding the hostile environments of Indiana's Assembly Hall and Michigan State’s Breslin Center will be a welcome development for the Terps this season.

Maryland's most important road game looks to be a visit to Wisconsin's Kohl Center.

Trips to Ohio State, Michigan and Iowa could also prove to be tricky games for the Terps.

The Big Ten has announced whom Maryland basketball will be playing at home and on the road this season.

Maryland's Big Ten home slate will be headlined by Indiana and Michigan State.

Last season, the Hoosiers were the regular season conference champions, while the Spartans won the conference tournament. jkatzdbk@gmail.com

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DRAFT From PAGE 8 DIAMOND STONE rises above opponents to lay the ball in when the Terps defeated Connecticut, 76-66, in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Dec. 8, 2015. Stone has the potential to be a first round pick in tonight’s NBA draft. file photo/the diamondback

throughout the season.

An underwhelming showing in the NCAA Tournament may have hurt Stone’s stock — he averaged 7.7 points and 3.7 rebounds per game — yet scouts still see a high upside for Stone and appreciate his soft touch.

DraftExpress.com’s latest mock draft has the Golden State Warriors taking him with the 30th-overall pick, the last selection in the first round.

JAKE LAYMAN Layman was arguably the most consistent player on Maryland’s roster this past season.

Layman displayed stout on-ball defense, and the senior forward was able to break out offensively down the stretch.

He finished the season averaging 11.6 points and 5.3 rebounds per game.

NBA scouts and draft experts like the 6-foot-9 forward’s ability to space the floor with his threepoint shooting, as he shot just under 40 percent from beyond the arc. Layman’s height allows him to play as a stretch power forward, while his speed makes him an viable option to play small forward, too.

DraftExpress.com predicts the Utah Jazz will select Layman in the second round with the 52nd overall pick.

Stone, Carter, Layman look to NBA draft tonight

By Jordan Katz @Jordan_KatzUMD Staff writer

ROBERT CARTER JR. rises up for a one-hand slam during the Terps’ 71-62 defeat of Purdue at Xfinity Center on Feb. 6. He had a unique path to the draft. file photo/the diamondback

ROBERT CARTER JR.

47th overall pick.

This 2016 draft class will likely tie the 2002 Maryland basketball team for most Terps selected in any draft. After winning the NCAA Tournament, former guard Juan Dixon, forward Chris Wilcox and center Lonny Baxter were all selected. Steve Blake played one more season with the Terps before leaving for the pros.

Similar to that year, Maryland had one draft prospect return to school. After initially declaring for the draft but not hiring an agent, guard Melo Trimble will be back for his junior season.

Maryland has not had a player drafted since the Phoenix Suns selected center Alex Len in 2013.

Carter had a unique path to the draft compared to Maryland’s other prospects, as he played his first two seasons at Georgia Tech before transferring to Maryland. As an undergraduate transfer, Carter was forced to sit out the 2014-15 season, but he scored 12.3 points and grabbed a team-high 6.9 rebounds per game during his only season in College Park.

The Thomasville, Georgia, native impressed scouts with a 22-point performance during a game at the NBA draft combine and his 7-foot-3 wingspan. Carter’s versatile offensive game will likely fit well into the evolving power forward position in the NBA. DraftExpress has the Orlando Magic taking Carter in the second round with the newsumdbk@gmail.com

It is looking likely that tonight, Maryland basketball's Diamond Stone, Robert Carter and Jake Layman will get drafted. But who will draft them, and in what round? Well, it depends on which website you look at.

Here is where CBS Sports, Draft Express, NBA.com and Yahoo! Sports see Maryland's three players going.

to get back to being NBA champions again next season. Gary Parrish with CBS describes Stone as “just so much more talented than most other prospects in this range.”

Meanwhile, NBA.com's Scott Howard-Cooper thinks the Clippers will grab him with the 25th pick.

“He turned 19 on Feb. 10 and already has NBA size as a true center, while also moving well with a large frame. That is the obvious selling point.”

DIAMOND STONE ROBERT CARTER JR. NBA.com: Yahoo! Sports: Los Angeles Clippers, No. 25 Houston Rockets, No. 43 CBS Sports: Draft Express: Golden State Warriors, No. 30 Orlando Magic, No. 47 Draft Express: NBA.com: Golden State Warriors, No. 30 Denver Nuggets, No. 53 Yahoo! Sports: CBS Sports: Golden State Warriors, No. 30 Boston Celtics, No. 58 Three out of the four mock drafts have Diamond Stone going to the Warriors, who already look like they will be doing everything in their power

has him heading to Denver, and Howard-Cooper was complimentary of the former transfer's offense. “It's his offense that really jumps out, though. Carter can make shots, and he could possibly play small-ball center.”

JAKE LAYMAN CBS Sports: Dallas Mavericks, No. 46 Draft Express: Utah Jazz, No. 52 NBA.com: Denver Nuggets, No. 56 Yahoo! Sports: Boston Celtics, No. 58 It's likely Layman gets picked toward the back end of the second round. CBS is the highest on Layman out of the group. “Layman is the type of second-round pick who could develop into a real NBA player. He's a shooter with size worth a look in the 40s,” Parrish wrote.

Opinions on where Carter will go in the second round vary, as these mock drafts see Carter going anywhere from 43rd to 58th. NBA.com jkatzdbk@gmail.com

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n Monday, the Republicancontrolled Senate voted against four gun control amendments in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history that left 50 — including shooter Omar Mateen — dead and 53 injured in Orlando.

The failed measures separately would have banned those on terror watch lists from purchasing guns, expanded mental illness background checks and required background checks at gun shows and for online gun purchases.

These common-sense bills would have had little to no effect on the average law-abiding gun owner, yet the Senate — puppeteered by the National Rifle Association — once again decided no progress is the best decision after a mass shooting.

The NRA spends millions of dollars every year to suppress gun regulation via lobbying and campaign contributions, playing a huge part in this consistent failure to act.

A new CNN/ORC study Monday shows a majority of Democrats and Republicans alike favor certain gun control measures, including the ones presented to the Senate, indicating our congressmen chose

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to value their relationships with the NRA over the people they represent.

According to the poll, 87 percent of those surveyed agreed to ban people with existing mental health issues from purchasing weapons, and 85 percent agreed to ban those who have been on terror watch lists — the Orlando gunman was on a terror watch list, though he was later removed — from purchasing OUR VIEW

For mass shootings to end, politicians must value public safety over political survival. weapons. The Senate just rejected bills addressing these exact issues.

Our country’s gun culture is unlike any other country’s in the world, which is why we lead the world in gun violence and mass shootings. It has been proven that countries with higher gun ownership generally experience more gun violence, according to the Tewksbury Lab, and the U.S. has enough

g u n s f o r e ve r y m a n , wo m a n and child.

The U.S. has settled into a perpetual cycle that goes as follows: experience mass shooting, grieve for victims, resume gun control debate, forget about it and repeat.

It’s incredibly frustrating for the average citizen who is tired of waking up to a new mass shooting every day and terribly insulting to those who have lost someone in a senseless mass shooting.

Can you imagine seeing your s e n a to r twe e t o u t “ t h o u g h ts and prayers” to you after your l ove d o n e wa s m u rd e re d , a n d then see him vote against a bill that could’ve prevented it? It’s nauseating.

It was obvious, though, that if the slaughter of 20 innocent children at Sandy Hook couldn’t shake the NRA’s grip on our congressmen, the massacre of an already marginalized LGBT community wouldn’t do it either.

We must reject the subscription that mass shootings are simply a part of our culture. But as long as we allow money to influence our politics, we will continue to have congressional decisions that don’t represent the people’s desires.

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Vaping is more complex than it seems

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have always been rather health conscious. In high school and middle school, I diligently avoided the dreaded “ health class” nightmares of teenage pregnancy and substance abuse. I thought I was above peer pressure, and yet the moment I stepped foot on my college campus, two days before my 18th birthday, I used an electronic cigarette for the first time, and my friends and I vaped through an entire cartridge of mango e-juice.

For a long time, I thought I understood the harmful effects o f c i ga re t te s : Fro m t h e ta r buildup to the lung damage and yellowed teeth, I thought I knew all that there was to know about smoking. However, that night, I didn’t know anything about e-cigs or their sister, vape pens.

Considering how the majority of traditional cigarette danger arises from its deleterious combustion, I figured that the vaporization of the fruity e-liquid to gas would circumvent this concern and that would mean vaping is safe. Hell, according to the e-cig packaging, the e-liquid didn’t even have any nicotine or tar! It was an easy decision to vape, and it’s a dangerous decision that many other teens and minors are currently making.

The reality is that vaping is actually quite complicated.

On one side, vaping seems to be a slightly safer alternative for current smokers, as e-cigs re l ea se fewe r d ea d ly tox i n s t h a n t ra d i t i o n a l c o m b u s tible cigarettes. Furthermore, vaping with an e-cig involves mimicking many of the same physiological actions that are fundamental to smoking, and so e-cigs may be used as a possible

smoking cessation aid.

On the other hand, at least until the FDA’s new regulatory powers are instituted come Aug. 8, there are currently no national laws restricting minors from purchasing and vaping with e-cigs. Altogether, this is exacerbated by the fact that there are no national institutes regulating e-cig components, and so even companies that claim to have no nicotine in their vaporizable eliquids may still have nicotine and dangerous carcinogens. Even worse, other potent drugs like codeine and cocaine may be dissolved and vaporized.

Yes, e-cigs might be able to help current smokers quit smoking, but the opposite is also true. E-cigs are particularly deadly because they may serve as gateway drugs and may influence younger, more vulnerable audiences into smoking cigarettes or worse.

Indeed, within the last couple of years alone, current e-cigarette use among high school students has almost tripled, rising from about 660,000 in 2013 to 2 million in 2014.

Among middle school students, current e-cigarette use has almost quadrupled, an increase from about 120,000 in 2013 to 450,000 in 2014.

Looking back now, my lack of e-cig knowledge — and the overall lack of information available regarding the effects of e-cigs — made them seem safer to use. Unfortunately, this dearth of information still exists across our country.

While the FDA’s newly established regulatory powers are a step in the right direction, more must be done to analyze and inform the public about the health risks associated with vaping.

Max An is a senior physiology and neurobiology major. He can be reached at maxandbk@gmail.com.

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n June 13, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump opened a new chapter in his controversial campaign by declaring his campaign will no longer issue press credentials to The Washington Post. Justifying his decision, Trump slammed the Post’s coverage of his campaign as “incredibly inaccurate,” and called the paper “phony and dishonest.”

Trump’s decision seems to come in response to a Post headline published earlier that day, “Donald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting.” Later, the Post changed the headline to “Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting” — doing so without notice or prompting by the Trump campaign.

Trump’s decision to bar Post reporters from any campaign events might not attract the same attention as that of his comments on Mexicans, Muslims and prisoners of war. But it is evidence of his open disdain for the First Amendment right of freedom of the press, possibly the most dangerous and un-American of his beliefs.

In evaluating Trump’s decision, we should ask whether The Washington Post (or any of the other media outlets Trump has banned, including

Politico and The Huffington Post) have reported inaccurately or dishonestly on him or his campaign.

The answer here, at least based off of several hours of my skimming through reports by these publications, is simply no. Importantly, Trump and his campaign have failed to provide any specific instances of inaccurate reporting.

It is more likely that Trump is upset over the Post’s intense scrutiny of his campaign operations, policy proposals and business practices, and that this latest incident provides him the cover he needs to ban one of the most respected newspapers in the world from receiving press credentials.

As a conservative and a Republican, I will be the first to tell you that the mainstream media (The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, ABC, etc.) has a liberal bias.

In general, I would say the media has scrutinized Donald Trump far more than they have Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders or any other presidential candidate.

But scrutiny, however harsh and intense, is the indispensable role of a free press and is legitimatized by the institutional protections that have made our country the longest standing democracy in the world.

Trump’s actions against The Washington Post are the latest of his long string of attacks on the media, not only on individual journalists (Megyn Kelly, Serge Kovaleski and others), but also on libel laws: “One of the things I’m going to do if I win … I’m going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money.”

One could only imagine what would happen if Trump became president, with the power of the Justice Department behind him to squash media criticism. Would he jail those who criticize him, as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo an has?

Perhaps he might take a note from his friend Vladimir Putin, who has succeeded in a near-total takeover of his country’s media.

If Trump can’t handle the scrutiny of a free press, he should find another country to lead or drop out of the race. The First Amendment, as the cornerstone of our free society, is far more important and valuable than anything he could contribute to this country.

Sam Wallace is a public policy graduate student. He can be reached at samhwallace@gmail.com.

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o, it looks like I’ll jump on the bandwagon of everyone talking about how great their first year of college was. After having about a week and half to reflect, I’d have to say mine was mediocre at best.

It wasn’t mediocre because of the people I met or the friends I made; those were the highlights, really. Everything else (you know, caring about an education), was the problem.

It was mediocre because often times I found myself sitting through some classes, wondering to myself, “Is this what I’m paying $24,000 for? To listen to some two-bit, monotonous professor talk about finding myself and becoming part of the professional world?”

It was mediocre because of the people who loved to talk about soul-searching; people who said every experience in life had meaning attached to i t . No t eve ry t h i n g h a p p e n s because it’s in your horoscope, o r b e ca u se fa te w i l l e d i t to happen. No one’s that special.

No, you’re not changing your major to something unmarketable because you don’t know what you want to do with your life yet. You’re changing your major because you failed a required class. Own it. Live up to it. Wear it like a badge, and be ashamed of it so you do better next time. You either know what you want to do, or you don’t.

It was entertaining (but still mediocre) to witness how good people have gotten at brownnosing. This is another level of sucking up, on a separate plane of existence. Seriously, become an A-list actress. Go to Hollywood. Star in a rom-com and rake in the cash. Let those tear

ducts flow like the most bountiful of rivers. My god, I didn’t realize brown-nosing could be its own art form. I swear, I’m sick to my stomach from the sickly sweet smiles I saw in my professors’ office hours. These people are humans, not puppets.

And most of all, it was mediocre because of the sheer apathy I saw from a lot of people regarding their grades. Man, people just pissed money away on their grades. Sure, don’t go to every class, but go to the ones that don’t record lectures and don’t talk about finding yourself in every other sentence.

Taking pictures of your homework and posting it everywhere with #thegrindisreal and #collegelife is not actually studying. It’s acting like you’re studying, and not actually caring. If you’re going to piss away that much money, please, piss on me. Shower me with the smell of a future and drench me with the fruits of your wasted, half-assed efforts.

You’re already wasting about $24,000 on knowledge you can learn from YouTube and a textbook to earn a piece of paper that may or may not get you a stable job based on what you decide to study.

But hey, good job college administration for figuring out ways students can take extra semesters by giving us this much freedom to do what we want. You’re the main winners in the grand scheme of things.

I don’t know how your institution made your year F-A-N-TA-S-T-I-C, but damn, whatever they’re doing, I hope they keep it up.

Surjo Bandyopadhyay is a s o p h o m o re p h y s i o l o g y a n d neurobiology major. He can be reached at surjobandyopadhyay@gmail.com.

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REVIEW | RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS’ THE GETAWAY

FORGETTABLE FUN The question that Red Hot Chili Peppers’ latest album begs is ‘why?’

red hot chili peppers’ lead singer Anthony Kiedis reportedly saved a baby while doing promotions for The Getaway. Unfortunately, the latest release from the band is not as climactic. If anything, it is a bit frustrating and certainly forgettable.

By Patrick Basler @pmbasler Staff writer The cover of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ latest album, The Getaway , features a small girl traveling through g ra f f i t i - cove re d s t re e ts with a bear and raccoon. Its tracklist stars song titles like “Dreams of a Samurai” and “Feasting on the Flowers.”

To promote the record, the band appeared on James Corden’s Late Late Show segment “Carpool Karaoke,” during which lead singer Anthony Kiedis apparently saved the life of a baby who wasn’t breathing.

So given the classic weirdness surrounding the funkrock pioneers’ 11th album, perhaps the most remarkable part of The Getaway is how normal it is.

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asterisked word. The iconic California rock group — famed for performing in nothing but incorrectlyworn tube socks — has long used its fondness for oddity as a signifier. Absurd stage getups, nonsensical lyrics a n d i n s t r u m e n ta l s t h a t seamlessly blend genres with enthusiasm, if not subtlety, have long served as the band’s go-to record-making technique And if anything, The Getaway ’s first two tracks offer the promise of continued strangeness. After all, on the opening track of the same name, Kiedis rhymes “supercavitation” with “a love hallucination” over a bed of funky bass — courtesy of Flea’s permanently calloused thumb — and a guitar riff that sounds like it was ripped from an ‘80s sy n t h p o p re co rd . “ Da rk Necessities,” the album’s first single, continues the

acrobatic lyrical nonsense over a lively, aggressive bass line, heavy piano chords and funky guitar stabs. But while the writing remains silly (“Bit of light in a touch of dark/ You got sneak attacked from the zodiac”), it’s arguably the most recognizably Chili Pepperssounding song on the album, and as the absurdity fades away during the chorus, it reaches into the darker, seedier world at the core of the band’s best material.

But The Getaway’s biggest fault is hardly that it strays too far from the band’s quintessential sound. In fact, the vast majority of songs on the album would sound at home on any post-One Hot Minute Chili Peppers record. While producer Danger Mouse (The Black Keys, Adele) may have replaced career career-revitalizer Rick Rubin, Mouse’s signature pop sheen doesn’t hurt the album as much as its

often-boring songwriting and lack of experimentation do.

Back-to-back mid-album cuts “The Longest Wave” and “Goodbye Angels” are perfectly pleasant slices of guitar pop, with nearly identical finger-picked guitar intros and fairly standard lyrics, sung with about as much range as one would expect from a vocalist who spent the first half of his career poorly rapping over funked-out rock songs.

While the poppier songs m i g h t b o re , t h ey ’re n o t n ea rly a s o f fe n s ive a s “ D e t r o i t ,” t h e a l b u m ’s attempt at the hard rock the Peppers used to be able to pull off convincingly. An ugly, distorted guitar riff, church bells and shrieky vocals (eventually drenched in vocoder) can’t be saved by a shout out to J Dilla, whose work will always be a better tribute to the city of Detroit than whatever the Red Hot

Chilli Peppers were able to whip up in 2016. “This Ticonderoga” is a slightly better shot at “ bringing back rock, man,” but it still suffers from a general messiness that seems at odds with the rest of the album’s alltoo-careful approach to song composition.

The only time The Getaway truly nails its pop ambitions is on “Sick Love,” an excellent slice of summer jammin’ that features Elton John on the piano and allows Klinghoffer — long stranded in the shadow of his predecessor, John Frusciante — to truly flex his prowess as a guitarist. Not only does “Sick Love” boast what is easily the album’s catchiest hook, but it also showcases some of Kiedis’ best writing in years. “Vanity is blasted but it’s rarely fair/ I could smell the Prozac in your pretty hair,” he sings with some much-needed energy

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Though a mildly enjoyable listen, The Getaway, proves more frustrating than anything. It’s certainly not a bad collection of late-career rock songs, and save for a couple of avoidable missteps, nothing disastrous occurs. But unfortunately, nothing particularly notable happens either. In fact, the only question the album truly begs is “Why?” At this stage in their career, the group’s legacy is secured, a n d wh i l e T h e G e taway doesn’t change that, it certainly won’t serve as anything other than another a s te r i s k to t h e o n e t h a t serves as their logo. Still, at the very least, the members seem to be having fun doing what they do — and it’s hard to fault a group of shirtless 50-year-olds (and a way younger guitarist) for that. pbaslerdbk@gmail.com

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McDOUGLE From PAGE 8 by what he did on the field. His actions just spoke louder than words, and I think that he was a good role model for Dexter to follow.”

*** Several Division I schools, including Maryland, South Carolina and Virginia Tech, sought after McDougle’s talents on both sides of the ball. Rivals ranked him as the 76th-best athlete in the nation. He earned All-District and All-Area honors, in addition to Honorable Mention All-Met from The Washington Post.

McDougle took an official visit with the Terps in 2008.

Having friends who endured the recruitment process before him, McDougle knew not to fall for everything those said to him. Still, he trusted Smith.

“A lot of times you hear the same things over and over with coaches and whatnot,” McDougle said. “But I knew he wasn’t going to lie to me.”

When Smith hosted McDougle on the visit, McDougle saw someone who had already had success at this university.

Smith was coming off a redshirt freshman season in which he led the ACC with 126.7 allpurpose yards per game.

About a month after his visit, McDougle committed to the Terps. Soon after that, he enrolled in summer classes at Maryland. He and his high school teammate would be back on the same field.

“I didn’t really try to sell him on anything,” Smith said. “I felt like he would be able to maximize his potential, get a good degree and his family would be able to see him all the time. He’s a big family guy.”

*** While McDougle said former Connecticut tight end Sean McQuillan had been talking trash for much of the Terps’ game with the Huskies on Sept.

14, 2013, he blanketed McQuillan when former quarterback Chandler Whitmer hit him on an out route in the third quarter.

“I finally had a chance to hit this clown,” McDougle said.

TRACK From PAGE 8 Two of those contacts were Powell’s father, Mike, who competed in the long jump, and her mother, Rosey Edeh, who represented Canada in the games.

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“When I hit him? It felt like hitting a wall.”

Minutes after celebrating his 49-yard interception return for a touchdown to put the Terps up two scores, McDougle was on the ground with trainers checking out his shoulder.

McDougle recounts feeling his shoulder dislocate, though he understood that it was a common injury. This time, though, was different.

“They would put it back in … and it would just slide back out on the field.”

McDougle left the game shortly after making the hit. A day later, former coach Randy Edsall announced one of his top defensive backs would undergo season-ending shoulder surgery.

The disappointing news came after McDougle build a name for himself on the Terps defense. He started all 24 games his sophomore and junior seasons. In 2012, he finished with 71 tackles, the most among Maryland defensive backs.

About 45 minutes down the road, Smith had become a prominent receiving target for the Baltimore Ravens.

Things had been going great for the Stafford graduates. McDougle’s draft stock was on the rise, and Smith was proving his worth in the NFL. That was until McDougle’s third game of his senior season.

It marked his final game in a Terps uniform.

But having worked with McDougle for three years at Stafford, coach Chad Lewis knew McDougle still had the potential to follow in Smith’s footsteps.

As McDougle lay in the hospital bed, Lewis called him and made sure he knew it.

“I said ‘Dexter, the next time I get to see you play will be on Sundays.’”

*** McDougle looks back on his college career-ending experience and plucks out the positives. While he wasn’t supposed to be up and walking one week after his injury, McDougle watched from the sideline as his team clobbered West Virginia, 37-0, in front of more than 55,000 fans at M&T Bank Stadium.

As one of the team’s vocal leaders, McDougle convinced

with, either abroad [or] internationally, that I’ve reached out to them to say, ‘Hey, your kids are now a recruitable age,’” Valmon said. “From the gene pool, you can’t really go wrong in those areas.”

When Valmon first saw Powell run, he had intended to recruit Ashley Taylor, who also ran for the University of Toronto Track Club yet

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Smith also watched the game from the stands.

“I didn’t care, man,” McDougle said. “I just wanted to be there for my boys. I wanted to be that leader. I was still helping my young guys playing corner.”

Just as Smith acted as the teacher, role model and friend to him, McDougle naturally filled the same role for his teammates. He mentored defensive backs Sean Davis, now with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and William Likely, a first-team All-Big Ten performer last season.

McDougle attended every practice and game in his final season. His dedication to the

team in 2013 influenced Edsall to create the “Dexter McDougle Ultimate Team Player Award”.

Fellow cornerback Jeremiah Johnson most recently won the award in 2015.

Overcoming adversity is something McDougle had gotten used to.

“He’s been hurt a lot … at bad times,” Smith said. “So to see him be able to get to the point where he was, it’s a blessing.”

McDougle received an invite to the NFL combine, though he was still nursing his injury.

But the 21-year-old remained confident and optimistic of the days that would come after he completed his rehabilitation.

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provides a window of opportunity for the third-year cornerback. With the recent release of four-time Pro Bowler Antonio Cromartie, speculation has ensued regarding where the Jets will turn at cornerback.

On the other side of the country, Smith will be preparing for his second season with the 49ers after catching 33 balls for 663 yards and four touchdowns a year ago.

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Her resume included qualifying for the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships in the 1500 and finishing second in the Canadian Junior Championships.

The Terps received one of her dad’s emails, and they invited her to an official visit in January 2014. After Lucki ran for Etobicoke Track Club in Canada, Maryland wasn’t too far away from her home.

The university also had an engineering program that drew Lucki’s interest. She committed to the Terps a month later.

At the conclusion of last year’s outdoor season, Lucki Sophomore alexandra lucki runs the 800 and the 1500. photo courtesy of maryland athletics returned home but continued So far, the pair’s stratto compete. She won the Canadian Junior National title egy has worked. While Lucki in the 1500, allowing her to will likely take some time off represent her country in the before preparing for crossPan-American Junior Games. country season, Powell will VOTED COLLEGE PARK’S “BEST BAGELS” “We want kids that want to run in the Canadian Olympic go back home for the summer, Trials in early July with a want to make national teams,” c h a n c e t o r e p r e s e n t h e r Valmon said. “These kids country in Rio de Janeiro. want to race in the summerAnd Huggins, fresh off a time for their country and try third-place finish in the hepSign Up for Our VIP Rewards Card! to make national team, so it’s tathlon at the New Balance a win-win for both of us.”

Nationals Outdoor compeValmon pitches recruits tition last weekend, is set to his desire to help them reach join the Terps in the fall as the their goals. Siebert, mean- latest Canadian product in the while, emphasizes the pro- program’s recruiting pipeline. gram’s family atmosphere and “If you look back on the proximity to Canada. three kids, at least the two BUY ONE BAGEL “It’s only like an hour and a on our team, one is an indoor half flight from D.C., and we MVP and one was a crossWITH CREAM have three major international county MVP,” Valmon said.

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decided to attend Northern Arizona. But Powell continued to improve her times.

Valmon saw the potential for her development and admired her work ethic.

“I was loving the sport,” Powell said. “I’m so new to it, but it helped because every time I’m on the track, I looked forward to running faster than the last time.”

Lucki also fit Valmon and assistant coach Danielle Siebert’s vision for their recruits.

In hoping to earn a track scholarship, which Lucki said is rarely offered in Canada, she and her dad sent emails to coaches in the U.S.

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At Pro Day, McDougle finally had a chance to showcase his skills to pro scouts.

“It was my debut … a lot of pressure obviously,” McDougle said. “That’s just something that comes with this sport.”

McDougle ran a 4.43 and flew through the defensive back drills. The injury didn’t appear to be a factor for him, or for the New York Jets, who selected McDougle in the third round with the 80th overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft.

“Everything still worked out,” McDougle said. “That’s all that matters.”

“Oh, I was hyped man,” Smith recounted.

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Cornerback dexter McdouglE (Right) thrived in the Terps defensive backfield before going down with a shoulder injury in 2013. The New York Jets still used their third-round pick on McDougle, who is entering his third season with the team. marquise mckine/the diamondback

Torrey Smith helps Dexter McDougle overcome hardships en route to making NFL

By RJ Kaminsky @DBKSports For The Diamondback The fans from Falmouth, Virginia, wouldn’t see the royal blueand-gold No. 9 jersey of future Maryland cornerback Dexter McDougle on the field during the 2005 season. The Stafford Senior High School football coaching staff didn’t have much use for the inexperienced defensive back, but their quarterback did.

“Hey,” yelled then-junior quarterback Torrey Smith, a Terps alum who now plays for the San Francisco 49ers.

“Come over here. I’m trying to listen to some music.”

Faced with a request from a veteran standout player, McDougle obliged.

“I put one bud in my ear and he had one in his ear,” McDougle said with a smile. “And that’s how we became cool.

That’s how we really started getting close.”

As their relationship has blossomed throughout the years, so too have their careers. Both players competed for the Terps — Smith was a two-time All-ACC wide receiver while McDougle was a staple in the defensive backfield — and both now compete in the NFL.

McDougle, who plays for the New York Jets, is younger, so Smith accomplished these feats before he had a chance to. But thanks to sharing his music with a teammate early in high school, McDougle sparked a relationship that would hold true as he endured various hardships throughout his college and NFL career.

“Torrey was pretty much the same way [as Dexter],” said Stafford football coach Roger Pierce, who coached McDougle his freshman year. “Self made, strong character, great leader See McDOUGLE, Page 7 TRACK

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Canadians prosper under coach Valmon Powell, Lucki experience success with Terps

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer

forward robert carter jr. (left), center diamond stone (center) and forward Jake Layman (right) will likely get drafted tonight. file photo/the diamondback

Three Terps prepare for draft Stone could go first round; Carter, Layman likely second rounders

By Liam Beatus @notliambeatus Staff writer The 2016 NBA Draft is tonight, and Maryland has three draft prospects — forwards Jake Layman and Robert Carter Jr. and center Diamond Stone — approaching the next phase of their basketball careers. These three players, who were in a starting lineup that was widely touted as being

among the best in the nation entering 12.5 points, grab 5.4 rebounds and this past season, helped the program block 1.4 shots per game.

The Milwaukee native scored make its first Sweet 16 appearance in in a variety of ways using several 13 years. post moves, though his offensive production was inconsistent at DIAMOND STONE times this season. Stone’s defense Stone was widely considered a one- became a liability and rim-proand-done prospect who would be a tector Damonte Dodd continued lottery pick. His freshman campaign to compete with Stone for minutes may not have lived up to expectations, but he was still able to score See DRAFT, Page 3

Maryland track and field coach Andrew Valmon’s view of recruiting began to change after university President Wallace Loh announced the university’s move to the Big Ten starting July 1, 2014.

Valmon knew the track and field programs in the conference featured many international athletes, something his team lacked. He then starting looking at other Terps programs, such as men’s soccer and field hockey, and realized the success they had with foreign players. Valmon wanted to do the same.

The Terps decided to focus on Canadian track athletes, citing their proximity to the United States and desire to receive an education, and the team’s international runners have already made an impact. Junior Micha Powell and sophomore Alexandra Lucki, both of whom hail from Ontario, were two of the three Terps who qualified for the NCAA Championships earlier this month.

With Dallyssa Huggins, another Ontario native, joining Maryland in the fall, Valmon has established an international recruiting pipeline he hopes will help his program make strides at the Big Ten and national levels.

“If we wanted to enter the conference and we wanted to make a statement in the conference, we needed to be able to find our niche,” Valmon said. “It’s a fit because what we bring is a purpose.

We bring these kids in internationally, but we also send them back home better than they came.”

Powell earned second-team AllAmerica honors during the indoor season before finishing 18th in the 400 at the NCAA Championships.

Lucki traveled to Eugene, Oregon, too, competing in the 1500.

The Terps formed connections for their Canadian recruiting by contacting people Valmon competed with and against when he won a gold medal for the U.S. in the 4x400 relay at the 1992 Olympic Games.

See TRACK, Page 7