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What makes Netflix’s Stranger Things so good? p. 9 state

EpiPen hike spurs debate Lawmakers weigh in on pharmaceutical firm’s price for allergic reaction drug

Brad Eeren remembers when the camp nurse pierced his upper thigh with a needle of lifesaving epinephrine.

Eeren, a junior criminal justice and criminology major at the University of Maryland, has learned to be careful with his airborne allergy to peanuts and tree nuts since going into anaphylactic shock as a fifth grader at summer camp. All it took to be rushed to the hospital was sharing a fishing rod with someone who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich earlier that day.

“You’re in such shock it’s hard to even feel anything,” Eeren said.

“It’s very scary.”

Despite EpiPen manufacturer Mylan N.V.’s announcement by

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under construction Cole field house undergoes a $155 million renovation to install an indoor football field, administrative offices, a center for innovation and entrepreneurship and a sports medicine center. The construction began December 2015 and is expected to be completed by May 2017. tom hausman/the diamondback

Campus projects continue and finish, while new sites dot the campus

By Lindsey Feingold | @lindseyf96 | Staff writer

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reshmen and returning students at the University of Maryland have started fall semester amid a slew of on-campus construction. Here’s a status report of the projects — completed, ongoing and new.

Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation This $142 million project started July 6 after virtually breaking ground in May with the use of virtual reality headsets and shovels. So far, parking lot GG1 has been closed, trees on the site have been removed and fences have been installed. Additionally, relocations are in progress for the water, sanitary sewer and natural gas lines, said Bill Olen, executive director of planning and construction. The Iribe Center is

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expected to open in 2018 and will have 13 computer labs, eight collaborative classrooms, five seminar rooms and 785 seats of instructional space, according to a previous Diamondback article.

The center will also feature 20,000 square feet of community space for studying and other activities, as well as a rooftop garden.

McKeldin Mall renovations Phase one of the mall renewal, which started May 26, was supposed to be finished before classes started, but heavy rain this summer delayed the project, Olen said. The $2 million project will finish Sept. 16. The construction will replace anSee construction, p. 6

diversity

After policing incident, town hall discusses race Tense panel in Stamp draws more than 100 students, faculty, staff Months after University of Maryland Police used pepper spray to disperse a primarily black party at Courtyards on May 21, Sydney Parker still wonders why such incidents happen.

“Why did [the police officers] feel threatened in the first place?” the junior communication major a s ke d a s i x- m e m b e r pa n e l o n Wednesday night.

More than 100 students, faculty and staff attended a tense, but conversational town hall in Stamp Student Union’s Colony Ballroom to hear panelists discuss the incident and how to tackle race relations within the community. About 10 people in attendance participated in the about 45-minute questionand-answer session that followed the panel.

The Student Government Association and other campus organizations hosted the dialogue. Panelists in-

Monday that it will offer a pair of generic EpiPens at a 50 percent discount — $300 instead of about $600 — Maryland legislators such as Reps.

Chris Van Hollen and Elijah Cummings have expressed criticism of the pharmaceutical company’s prices in recent weeks. The price hike to about $600 in May marked nearly a 500 percent increase from when Mylan first purchased EpiPen in 2007, according to The Chicago Tribune.

Jason Chaffetz, chairman on the House’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Cummings, a ranking committee member, called on Mylan for transparency earlier on Monday, sending a letter requesting a committee briefing “to help us better understand the increasing cost of the EpiPen” no later than close of

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Kimberly Escobar @kimescobarumd Staff writer

No shuttle stop for Terrapin Row Knox Road stop cut when housing complex failed to join paid partnership with DOTS The Shuttle-UM bus stop in front o f Co l l e ge Park Towers is no longer being serviced after Terrapin Row did not respond to a partnership offer made by the Department of Transportation Services, director David Allen said.

DOTS currently has partnerships with seven or eight local apartment complexes such as the View, Varsity and Enclave, he said. The apartments pay DOTS to bring the bus service onto their property and pick up their tenants.

“We offered the same thing for the same price [to Terrapin Row],” Allen said. “In order to be fair to those who make this contribution, those who don’t, we don’t serve.”

The stop previously existed for students on the campus who lived in South Campus Commons, and before Terrapin Row opened, it didn’t matter that people who lived by

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in College Park Towers used the stop because there weren’t enough people living in those apartments to make the buses overcrowded, Allen said. But Terrapin Row brought an additional 1,432 residents into the picture, according to data provided by a leading consultant.

“With 1,400 new people in Terrapin Row, they would have just crushed that route, and those who we were hoping would use it would never even have an opportunity to use it,” Allen said.

There will still be a stop that lets students off at the College Park Shopping Center, which is a little further down on Knox Road.

Junior community health major Mary Elizabeth Lees tweeted at Shuttle-UM on Monday after the Blue Line bus she was on didn’t stop at College Park Towers stop as she’d expected.

For Lees, not having a stop is an added inconvenience for getting around.

“Most of my classes are in the public

advertisement Kumea Shorter-gooden speaks at Community Conversations, a discussion panel between University of Maryland Police and the campus community, on Aug. 31. ornelle chimi/the diamondback cluded chief diversity officer Kumea Shorter-Gooden, University Police Chief David Mitchell, SGA President Katherine Swanson and NAACP director of membership outreach, Trey Huff. Christine Hagan, SGA director of sustainability, moderated.

In addressing police relations, Mitchell said a recurring problem is the lack of community understanding about officers’ roles.

“Police officers in their daily context are not explaining why they’re there and why they’re doing what they’re doing,” he said. “It is

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imperative for us to be straightforward, transparent and open and honest in our dialogue.”

Mitchell also admitted the pepper spray incident shouldn’t have gone as far as it did, adding that policies surrounding the pepper spraying incident need to be reviewed. Investigation results released in mid-July found that deployments of pepper spray fell within UMPD use of force guidelines.

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CRIME BLOTTER

By Michael Brice-Saddler | @TheArtist_MBS | Senior staff writer Un iversity of Ma ryla nd Pol ice responded to rep or t s of a s s au lt, sex u a l a ssau lt a nd a n animal complaint among other incidents this past week, according to police reports.

ASSAULT University Police were on foot nea r the 4 400 block of K nox Road on Satu rd ay at 2:48 a.m. when they noticed a woman standing in the street speaking with the driver of a vehicle.

An officer approached the woman and requested she either get in the car or get out of the street, but the woman ignored the officer and continued talking to the driver, Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

The officer attempted to escort the woman out of the street a nd wa l k with her to the sidewalk, Hoaas said.

The woman then began to pull away and “smacked the officer’s hand,” Hoaas said.

University Police a r re s t e d 2 2-y e a r-o l d Jasmine LaMonica Grays of Landover as a result of the incident, Hoaas said.

shuttle From p. 1 health building, so already it’s a really far walk,” Lees said.

“That’s why I was hoping for a bus stop this year.”

For junior economics major Josie Kidwell, the lack of a bus stop near her apartment in Terrapin Row doesn’t affect her too much.

She said the Green Line has two other bus stops that are each about a five-minute walk away.

“I do think it’s inconvenient if you’re going anywhere on North Campus, but if you’re only going on South Campus, that’s not really that big of a deal,” she said.

Grays wa s ch a rged with disorderly conduct a nd se cond-d eg re e assault, Hoaas said. This case is now closed.

SEXUAL ASSAULT O n Satu rd ay at 5:23 a.m., University Police received a repor t t hat a s e x u a l a s s a u lt to o k place at Com mons 1, Hoa a s sa id. A n a r rest was made, and this case remains active.

ANIMAL COMPLAINT On Friday at about 9:30 p.m., Un iversity Police took a report for an animal complaint.

Members of the Student Pol ice Au x i l i a r y were going door-to-door near the 4600 block of Guilford Road, handing out pamphlets offering safety information for local residents, Hoaas said.

While stopped at one of the houses, a small dog bit one of the Police Auxiliary’s student employees on the leg, Hoaas said.

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“It is kind of hard to get to the gym or to Stamp, but going to Route 1, you wouldn’t even want to take the bus anyway,” she said.

Although Terrapin Row chose not to respond to Shuttle-UM’s business inquiry, Allen said if the apartment’s management changes its mind, the bus service could start at almost any time.

According to David Allen, it’s now up to the students living in Terrapin Row to reach out to the management if having a bus stop is something that is important to them.

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Andrew Dunn s i t y Sy s te m @AndrewE_Dunn o f M a ryl a n d leader told Staff writer state lawmakers he would seek to eliminate bonus pay for future chancellors at a state legislative hearing Thursday.

For James T. Brady, Chairman of the Board of Regents, the decision to talk to lawmakers comes amid a backl a s h a ga i n s t t h e c h o i c e to awa rd US M C h a n ce l lor Robert Caret a $75,000 bonus and a $30,000 raise at a closed meeting in June, according to The Baltimore Sun. C a re t’s c o m p e n s a t i o n package includes a $600,000 base salary, housing at a mansion in Pikesville, a car with a driver and $53,000 in annual contributions to his retirement fund.

The contract also allows for a merit bonus of up to 15 percent of his salary per year if Caret meets performance goals.

Caret is still expected to receive the previously approved $75,000 bonus, as B ra dy fo c u se d o n f u t u re chancellor contracts.

T h e u n ive rs i ty sys te m already does not provide bonuses to campus presidents.

The package was designed to be competitive with the level of pay Caret previously received as chancellor of the University of Massachusetts system, Brady said.

He acknowledged confusion about the pay arrangement but defended the bonus, saying Caret deserved it.

“In retrospect, the rationale supporting the bonus component could have been better articulated and explained by the board when the contract was made public,” Brady said. “I trust that this rationale has been clarified by my testimony today.”

Brady pointed out a statewide bus tour that Caret we n t o n to ra i s e US M ’s profile, as well as his work to create an improved partnership between this university and University of Maryland,

university system of maryland chancellor robert caret, seen speaking at a March 9 University Senate meeting, received a $75,000 bonus in a closed meeting in June, but a new effort by USM officials may end the practice. file photo/the diamondback Baltimore, as examples demonstrating Caret’s worthiness for a bonus in his first year as chancellor.

Caret took over summer 2015 and is responsible for leading the 12-campus, $5.1 billion university system.

Caret earned more than $700,000 in total compensa t i o n wh i l e a t U- M a ss, making him the 22nd highest paid chancellor in the nation, according to The Sun. Lawmakers took issue with his bonus at a time when many schools have increased tuitions and students have s t r u g g l e d w i t h l o a n s to afford an education.

“At a time when we are raising tuitions, the questions come to us as to, ‘OK, why is the chancellor getting all this increase when we’re raising tuitions?’” said Maryland Sen. Nancy King, a Montgomery County Democrat.

“It is really hard to justify this to the students,” King said.

Maryland House Speaker Michael E. Busch also disagreed with the pay bump.In June, he called the bump inappropriate as many college

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Caret defended his bonus to reporters after the hearing took place.

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U, city officials lay out noise guidelines

As new resiAlex Carolan dents arrive in @alexhcarolan College Park for the beginning of Staff writer the school year, University of Maryland and city officials are going door-to-door to talk with local renters about community expectations for students, said College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn.

This is the fourth year of Knock and Talk, a joint program between Prince George’s County and the University of Maryland Police, the City of College Park Code Enforcement and the Prince George’s Property Owners Association. The Office of Student Conduct and the Office of Student Engagement also take part in the program, Robert Ryan, College Park director of public services, said.

“The idea is to just have a police officer, a code enforcement officer and maybe somebody representing the landlords to just come in and talk,” College Park Mayor Wojahn said. “The purpose is to help remind residents what the obligations are of living in College Park.”

Between the 2010-11 and 2013-14 school years, the highest number of calls to the Code Enforcement hotline during the academic year was in September 2013 with 117 calls — 106 of which were noise-related — followed by 95 calls in September 2014 and 68 in September 2012, by

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In addition to on-campus tailgates during home football games, Knock and Talks have “certainly reduced the number of complaints that we’ve gotten about large house parties on the days of home games,” Ryan said.

Wojahn added that on-campus tailgating and the expansion of the student code of conduct to outside the campus have also helped lower the number of complaints.

D i s t r i c t 3 Co u n c i l m an Robert Day, who represents Old Town on the College Park City Council, said he supports the Knock and Talks.

In Old Town, there have been ongoing issues with house parties from students, he said.

But the Knock and Talks are sometimes directed at nonstudent renters as well.

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when you have a lot of police officers,” Day said. “[But] we want to have the conversation now, instead of waiting afterwards and saying, ‘Well, you should’ve known that’” to code violators.

Wojahn has attended one Knock and Talk in the past and said the goal is for students to understand that College Park and university officials are here to help.

“People just moving to College Park often don’t realize what type of community this is,” Wojahn said, adding that student residents aren’t always aware of the long-term residents who are unaffiliated with this university.

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Thanksgiving break to begin on Wednesday this semester by

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had been doing this already,” still "really excited" to learn

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Hannah Lang Wednesabout the extra day off. day before The system requests drafts @hannahdlang “I'm hoping that my Thanksof future academic calendars professors will give me off Staff writer giving will no the University of Maryland starting this year, after requests from parents and students.

Stakeholder offices on the campus that draft the calendar — including the Department of Resident Life, Student Affairs and the Office of the Provost — took these requests into consideration and determ i n e d t h e c h a n ge wa s possible after consulting the deans of the academic colleges, Betsy Beise, the associate provost for academic planning and program, wrote in an email.

This change required an earlier start day for the fall semester in August in order to maintain the same number of class days, Beise wrote. The university will still adhere to normal business hours on Wednesday, she added.

“This schedule is helpful to students who have to travel a distance for the Thanksgiving holiday, and it also better aligns us with our sister schools within the [University System of Maryland], many of whom

every five years. The current set of calendars was drafted during the 2013-14 academic year and approved by the system in 2014, Beise said.

This change will put this university in line with the T h a n k s g i v i n g b re a k s a t nine other Big Ten schools that also start their breaks Wednesday or earlier, The

Tuesday now as well, but it'll be good because I can have my parents come get me a day before on Tuesday night instead of having to take off work on Wednesday as well,” she said.

The additional day may also help facilitate student travel, said Anna Weinrich, a German exchange student in her fifth semester.

I have American roommates, so I don't know what they do, so I wanted to check wh a t ' s co m m o n h e re fo r Thanksgiving," said Weinrich, who is studying international management. "I plan to somehow spend it abroad and not on campus."

In addition to the Thanksgiving break change, reading d ays d u r i n g t h e fa l l a n d spring semesters will no associate provost longer fall on a weekend starting this academic year Diamondback reported in a n d c o n t i n u i n g t h ro u g h 2021, according to the acaNovember 2015.

Junior computer science demic calendars. and math major Gwen For the past three fall seM c G u i r k a c k n o w l e d ge d mesters, reading days — days many of her professors had designated for students to canceled the classes that study for final exams — have had fallen on the Wednes- fallen on Saturdays. day before Thanksgiving in past years but said she was hlangdbk@gmail.com

This schedule is helpful to students who have to travel a distance ... betsy beise

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Throughout much of the 20th century, the U.S. had set itself apart with its strong welfare state. Former presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson created numerous anti-poverty programs of various forms and criteria, and they worked — the proportion of Americans below the poverty line went down pretty consistently.

However, that progress did not last. In August 1996, former President Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, colloquially known as welfare reform.

Twenty years later, far too many Americans still live in destitution, primarily because of this catastrophic piece of legislation.

Welfare reform had one principal effect on the American safety net: It replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children, or AFDC, with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or TANF. Unlike the former program, TANF carries a stringent work requirement, puts a cap on lifetime benefits and most importantly, gives state governments an obscene amount of freedom to determine how they spend money for welfare. These changes have devastated poor Americans and will continue to do so.

Despite the common conservative complaint that poor people could escape their plight if they worked harder, many do not have this option. Poverty in this country chiefly afflicts children, students, the elderly and the disabled — groups that have much less ability, if any, to get and keep a job. Unsurprisingly, attaching work requirements to welfare, as TANF stipulates, makes it much more difficult for people to move ahead and often pushes them further behind.

And even if those on TANF can hold down a job, they’ll stop collecting any federal assistance after 60 months in most states. Once they hit that threshold, they’re on their own regardless of their employment or income level. With wage stagnation persisting, unemployment remaining a problem and renters spending much larger shares of their income on housing, scores of people need a hand for more than five years, but they won’t get one. In large part because of this cutoff, fewer poor families receive aid from TANF than they did from AFDC. These reforms haven’t saved the gov-

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Welcoming a new academic year Teaching Center opens in January.

A. James Clark Hall’s state-ofthe-art bioengineering and animal care facilities open in June. Work has begun on the Brendan Iribe Computer Science and Innovation Center, a home for virtual reality, robotics research and technological development.

The rebuilding of Cole Field House is underway. The indoor football practice field — available also for student recreational use — opens next spring, while planning continues on new academic, research and clinical facilities.

Cole’s neuroscience, sports medicine, health and human performance and innovation facilities will engage UMD and UMB researchers and students.

Off campus, the Hotel and Conference Center commands Route 1 and opens next spring. A food hall and innovation incubators will soon rise next door.

Real estate development (new housing, retail), community development (arts and culture, public transit, public safety), and economic development (new startups and businesses) are underway along Route 1 and in the innovation district stretching from the Hotel to UMD’s research park. Private investment powers almost all of it.

Driving this place-making is our vision of Greater College Park — a regional hub of innovation and entrepreneurship anchored by UMD. We want to incubate and recruit scores of startups, create thousands of jobs, and transform this area into a more vibrant, urbanized, walkable, residential community. This will help attract and retain top students, faculty, staff and new residents. It will help fulfill our land-grant, service mission to the state.

In the coming weeks, important community development will

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A welfare reform disaster

After a long, strenuous three months of the fall less stress on them to see their families and friends semester, Thanksgiving break provides a much- over the break.

Having to wait until Wednesday night to travel needed respite from College Park chaos and allows students to go home, see their families, pet their dogs home, which was the case for many students who and shamelessly shovel pounds of turkey and gravy had classes during the day, left the opportunity for traffic nightmares. Even worse for DMV travelers is down their throats.

Up until this year though, many students and that Washington, D.C., Thanksgiving traffic is ranked faculty have had to hastily pack their belongings the second worst in the country behind Los Angeles, and travel to their destinations at the last minute, or according to Google traffic data.

The study took traffic data from the Tuesday possibly even miss Thanksgiving with their families before Thanksgiving through altogether because this univerthe Sunday after the holiday sity usually holds classes the day our view and found that the worst of those before Thanksgiving. Thankdays to travel is, of course, that fully, that will change this fall.

Wednesday, only adding to these Campus stakeholder offices Washington travel woes. including the Department of Forcing the nearly 50,000 stuResident Life, Student Affairs dents and faculty at this univerand the Office of the Provost sity to funnel onto the roads on finally decided, following pathis highly-congested Wednesrental and student requests, day was a serious injustice and to add the Wednesday before potential safety hazard.

Thanksgiving to the holiday In fact, the Thanksgiving weekend. holiday was found to be the deadThis university now joins the likes of nine other Big Ten schools that begin their liest holiday to drive,according to a 2014 Forbes report.

Thanksgiving breaks Wednesday or earlier. Of those The data showed that there were nearly 50,000 car nine schools, Pennsylvania State University, the Uni- accidents during the holiday in 2012 and 764 involved versity of Iowa, the University of Illinois and Indiana fatalities, beating Christmas and Labor Day in car fatality rates.

University have off that entire week.

With the volume of people on the road during While we Terrapins won’t have a full week off like the aforementioned universities, the change comes the Thanksgiving holiday, there will always be obas an enormous relief to students and faculty who stacles when traveling. But having one extra day will now have the opportunity to hit the roads or get to get moving will significantly reduce the stress their plane tickets significantly earlier, putting much and safety risks of going home Wednesday night.

Welcome to our new students, faculty and staff! And to our stalwarts who make this a great university, welcome back!

We welcome new deans this year: Keith Marzullo at the iSchool and Jeffrey Franke, interim graduate school dean. Next month, Sonia Hirt joins the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

This year’s freshman class is again among the most academically talented in our history and remarkably diverse: 44 percent are students of color, nearly 25 percent are from historically underrepresented groups. Transfer students’ credentials continue to reach new highs, and incoming graduate students are among the nation’s finest. We welcome all new students’ enthusiasm and promise.

Our quality, affordability, graduation rates and alumni success are reasons Money Magazine this summer ranked UMD a top-10 U.S. public university. Forbes put us at No. 14, based on quality and value. Whatever their validity, these measures matter to the public. This might explain why we see record numbers of applicants and soaring acceptances by admitted students.

Faculty research continues to set new levels of excellence and competitiveness. In July, research grants again reached a record $550 million.

New state research funding will come to us under the Strategic Partnership Act, taking effect Oct. 1. It declares one University of Maryland with two distinct campuses — College Park and Baltimore — to drive educational, research and technological collaboration that benefits students and the state.

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also take place on campus. With student input, we are launching anytime dining, designed, in part, to foster a greater sense of community, while eliminating counts and cards. Terps After Dark will increase alcohol-free, late night programming to support safe, responsible social behavior.

Our commitment to safety also requires sustained efforts to prevent sexual assault. Incoming students now get online training, as do faculty and staff. This year a task force will seek new ways to make our campus as safe and respectful as possible.

These are fraught times for the nation. America is divided. What steadies and binds this campus are shared values. The bedrock principle of a university is freedom of expression. Without it, there can be no learning or scholarly inquiry.

Diversity and inclusiveness have raised this university’s excellence and prominence. But when campus members feel excluded or unwelcome, they need to feel free enough and safe enough to speak up, and then heard. We all need to listen and talk with respect and civility, and then walk the talk. We must strive to be both open and safe.

Our continuing Maryland Dialogues offer an opportunity for genuine conversation, more frank than comfortable. The nation and our university have come far on social, racial and economic justice, but it remains for us to realize the ideal on our country’s Great Seal: E pluribus unum, “out of many, one.”

Facing these challenges and opportunities will help us meet the state’s charge that its flagship university provide education, research and service“equal to the best”of U.S. public institutions. Together, we are rising to the occasion. president@umd.edu

ernment any money, either. Even after adjusting for inflation, we still spend just as much on welfare now as we did before reforming it. Why? TANF gives states the budget for welfare in the form of block grants, removing many restrictions on how they can spend the money. This has led to frivolous, ostensibly anti-poverty initiatives such as marriage promotion programs — which don’t work — and drug tests of TANF applicants — which are pointless — among countless others. With money that should be helping the needy diverted toward ineffective side programs, the U.S. has exacerbated both its poverty and budget problems.

One of the most pernicious of welfare reform’s lesser-known provisions, thankfully, has begun to go away. Under the law, states have the power to deny benefits to anyone who commits a drug crime, no matter how severe. Because poverty correlates strongly with recidivism, this strategy hasn’t reduced crime, but instead created penury for ex-criminals. Luckily, most states have opted out of this ban, giving a break to the myriad of people who desperately need it. Getting rid of these restrictions does not, however, compensate for the other negative consequences of welfare reform, which continue to make life harder for those who already deal with immeasurable hardship.

It’s clear that the U.S. needs a new approach to combating poverty, and ample alternatives exist. Albuquerque, New Mexico, and other cities have experimented with jobs programs for their most indigent residents, while companies such as Y Combinator have endorsed and tested a universal basic income. Although there remains some debate as to what will work, we can say for sure that the current welfare system doesn’t work. Over the two decades since it came into being, welfare reform has harmed innumerable amounts of the most vulnerable Americans whose circumstances we must improve. tripler26@gmail.com

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The problem with today’s dating trends Hope Hynson @epohepohepoh

Dating is one of those topics that almost automatically makes people cringe. It feels awkward, induces anxiety and leaves a lot of people unsure about themselves. Pair this with the expectation to look and act perfectly, and you end up with people who are completely reluctant to date at all.

Everyone faces issues concerning image and looks, but women specifically tend to experience them on a different level. There has always been this not-so-subtle expectation for women to look and act a certain way in order to be seen as acceptable. This standard changes throughout time along with different beauty trends, but it hasn’t truly gotten better in recent years despite some progress being made.

Body and self-image positivity movements, as amazing and important as they are, have difficulty standing up against sheer ignorance and immaturity. Women are often overlooked and bashed based on their non-conformity to the various standards of beauty. A very popular trend as of late is to have a “beat” face, meaning a well done and precise full face of makeup.

Women — and men — have found new ways and products to achieve stunning looks that were not previously achievable. These new ways to enhance facial features and create art on the face have rapidly developed and evolved in a very short period of time.

This trend has women all over finding new confidence within themselves and delving into their creative sides. So, of course, a select few have to come along and rain on this parade. Because of the extensive dramatic changes in looks that can come with a beat face, a lot of people have been joking about having to take women swimming for the first date in order to show “the real them” and avoid being duped into dating someone unattractive.

The problem I have with this phrase, and others like it, is rather simple and nononsense. First of all, waterproof setting

spray exists and is highly effective, so even if you do decide to take someone swimming, that beat is not coming off. Secondly, some men often claim they prefer a woman’s natural face but cannot seem to understand that no one’s plain face is flawless. If women follow the #nomakeup trend, their potential partner might have an issue with blemishes, acne, hyperpigmentation or other skin problems that they have limited or no control over. These women use makeup as a tool to build confidence but are then told they wear too much makeup. Women simply cannot win this fight. Lastly, compatibility, personality, tastes, interests and goals are all aspects of relationships that have a much greater importance than how the person looks. At the end of the day, you are not dating a person for their face. You’re dating them for who they are. If you cannot see past a person’s physical appearance in consideration of all of this, then you don’t know what real relationships entail.

Interactions with other people are decreasing in value and becoming short-lived. We have gotten to a point where other people have become disposable to us if they don’t meet very shallow standards. This is a very dangerous slippery slope. If we don’t learn to value people for who they are, then we will live in a world where every person in our lives can be temporary.

Human beings need real interpersonal connections to survive. We cannot live on ephemeral relationships, and we cannot base our relationships on trivial characteristics. At the end of the day, we all need other people in our lives, and limiting who we allow into our space because of looks will only drown us in that pool that has apparently become a hot spot for first dates. hopehynson@gmail.com

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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: A. James Clark Hall; Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center; the Student Involvement Suite in Stamp Student Union. These projects join others finishing, continuing and beginning on the campus this semester.

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June 2017. The outside of the $152 million building is just From p. 1 about complete, the windows tiquated underground utility are finished and the tower crane systems and install a new irri- for the project was just removed gation system, a new water line in the past week, he added. and an improved storm drain, which “will stop flooding and Edward St. John Learning improve the quality of turf,” and Teaching Center Olen said. Phase two — which will launch the same construcConstruction, which started tion on the lower part of the in June 2014, will continue mall— will start next summer. through the end of year, Olen said. He hopes the project will be complete by the end of DeSchool of Public Health cember, but the building won’t I n a n o t h e r two - p h a s e be open for classes until June project, 6,100 square feet of 2017. During the spring, equipold locker rooms on the first ment will be moved in, AV floor of the building will be systems will be installed and transformed into offices and labs will be set up. The building conference rooms, Olen said. will officially open for summer The $3.2 million undertaking session I, and will host more began in June, and phase one than 12,000 students per day is expected to be complete in next fall, Olen added.

November. Phase two will begin at the end of year and consists Cole Field House of converting more locker space into labs on the ground floor.

Construction for the $155 million project started in December 2015. Phase one — a A. James Clark Hall $45 million investment for Construction — which began an indoor practice facility — in June 2015 — continues as is estimated to be complete planned, Olen said, and is in May 2017. So far, demolischeduled to be completed in tion has been completed and

EPIPEN From p. 1 business on Sept. 6. They requested other financial documents such as net revenue, sales and any funding through state and federal programs by this month as well.

“While families and schools are struggling to keep up with your company’s unreasonable price increases, Mylan has profited richly from its pricing strategy,” Cummings and Chaffetz wrote. “Your company made EpiPen its first billion-dollar product, generating $1.19 billion in sales revenue for the company’s specialty drug segment in 2014.”

Before announcing the discounted generic brand on Monday, Mylan said on Aug. 25 it would lower out-of-pocket costs to some patients needing

EpiPens. Cummings released a public statement that same day on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform site that the change wasn’t enough.

“Offering a meager discount only after widespread bipartisan criticism is exactly the same tactic used by drug companies across t h e i n d u s t r y to d i s t ra c t from their exorbitant price increases,” Cummings said in the statement. “… Drug company CEOs are using a corrupt business model to profit off of our most vulnerable citizens and using them like ATMs. I will continue to fight to ensure that all Americans can afford the drugs they need.”

Mylan is the only FDAapproved manufacturer of EpiPens on the market. With the price of EpiPens out of

the stands inside of the bowl have been removed. The roof is being taken down and the north side of the building has been demolished.

“There is this big gaping hole, it’s pretty spectacular to see the north side of the building gone and to be able to see inside the building now,” Olen said.

P h a se two, wh i c h w i l l include a research facility and clinic in addition to the indoor practice facility, will cost $110 million and will be completed in late 2018.

H.J. Patterson Hall The renovation of wing one is estimated to be complete in November. Construction started in October 2015 and the renovations cost $18.5 million — consisting of updating the first, second, third and fourth floors of the wing, Olen said. The Offices of International Education Services, Chinese Affairs, certain education abroad offices and other programs — which are all currently scattered around the campus — will be combined into this building over

reach for many Americans, some have resorted to pushing EpiPens past their one-year shelf life — including junior broadcast journalism student Ryan Sevel.

“I always have one in my backpack, one in my apartment and two in my room,” said Sevel, who can have t ro u b l e b re a t h i n g f ro m t h e s m e l l o f p ea n u ts. “ I think they’re all expired at this point — the medicine would still be good, you just wouldn’t be able to sue them if it didn’t work.”

Others aren’t as willing to take that risk.

“For the risk of having an expired one, it’s not worth the risk — for me that means d ea t h ,” E e re n s a i d . “ No matter what I have to keep paying the price. The only reason they get away with it

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winter break after the renovations. So far, construction crews have replaced windows, installed new Americans with Disabilities Act-approved restrooms, a new elevator, a new HVAC system, a new electric system as well as new fire alarms and sprinklers.

“This is the biggest project we will finish up over the fall semester,” Olen said. “We are close to finishing; all that is left is final flooring, ceilings, carpet and final paint.”

The construction crews are currently waiting for the air conditioning to activate in the building before making those final renovations.

Floors two through four each added two additional study rooms, and there were study rooms added to the basement that vary in size, said Laura Tan, Department of Resident Life assistant director. The study rooms include various types of furniture to help support different kinds of study activities that students might use the spaces for, she added.

“It now has a warm and inviting feel for students,” Tan said. “It feels like a home, supports academics by supporting so many flexible study spaces for them, and of course it’s great that we have another airconditioned building.”

Entertainment Events, the Student Organization Research Center and other campus groups, according to a previous Diamondback article. Only the SEE and SGA offices remain in the suite, and the renovations also included new walls, furniture and carpet, Olen said.

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A one-year renovation shut down the dorm for the 2015-16 school year, but the $15 million project finished Aug. 3 and students moved into the building last week, Olen said. The renovations included new bathrooms and dorm rooms that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act standards, new HVAC systems, air conditioning, new windows and more study rooms.

The $3 million renovation of the student organization suite finished July 1, after construction started in December 2015, Olen said.

The 12,000-square-foot space was redone to include more meeting rooms that groups can reserve, instead of individual offices that previously housed the Student Government Association, Student

is because it’s a life-saving device. … The company is taking such clear advantage of their customers.”

Both Sevel and Eeren have researched alternative brands, including Auvi-Q, a thin red square injector the size of a cigarette box. But Auvi-Q tanked after a manufacturer quality review found the injec-

tor administered inaccurate dosage and was recalled.

“If more companies begin competing with EpiPen, you’re going to see a reduced rate, you’re going to see competitive pricing,” Sevel said.

Until then, people are being forced to pay the price to keep their loved ones safe, said Tina Thorburn, nursing supervisor of

Jimenez Hall Jimenez Hall received classroom renovations, new air conditioning and new HVAC systems on the south side of the building in a $2.8 million project, Olen said. Renovations began in March and were completed Aug. 25, Olen added.

The Army and Air Force ROTC programs have moved to the Reckord Armory from Cole Field House. The Navy and Marine Corps, new programs at this university, have joined them on the ground floor of the building after a one-year, $1.6 million project to create additional space was completed July 15, Olen said. lfeingolddbk@gmail.com

this university’s health center.

“If it were me … even if they hadn’t lowered the price by half, and it was going to save my kid’s life, you better believe I’d be getting it,” Thorburn said.

Mylan could not be reached for comment. eblockdbk@gmail.com

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ConstrucCarly Kempler tion appears to @CarlyKempler be the theme Senior staff writer this semester as students at the University of Maryland return for their classes, but it’s not all taking place on the campus.

The College Park Shopping Center, located at the intersection of Hartwick Road and Route 1, has been under construction since the beginning of summer, said Dana Green, the property manager for JBG Companies.

The complex, which is owned

by JBG Rosenfeld Retail Properties, hosts a number of restaurants and retail shops including Starbucks, CVS and Jason’s Deli.

The construction is for a relatively “minor renovation,” said Terry Schum, the city’s planning director. The project involves “painting, structural modifications for new entry fea-

tures and use of new materials to give a fresh look to the center,” according to a JBG Rosenfeld tenant memo sent in May. The center will have a new, “up-to-date” look, featuring gray colors and “a lot of stone,” Green said.

Despite the size of the renovation, the project “is taking longer than expected,” said Patrick Wojahn, the city’s mayor.

The construction teams experienced some delays that have been resolved, and “the main work is going on as we speak,” Green said.

“As with construction, nothing really goes exactly as planned,” Green said. “There’s always room for hiccups and there have been some.”

The work was supposed to be finished before the semester started — about early September, Green said. However,

“according to retailers in the shopping center, the initial time they were told the construction would finish was in July,” Ryan Chelton, the city’s economic development coordinator, wrote in an email.

“Hopefully they’ll get through it soon,” Wojahn said. “Some of the real estate in our downtown area is getting old and [this renovation] certainly helps.”

Although the site will have an updated look, senior Vidal Serfaty, a journalism major, said he is more concerned with the current “awful” parking situation.

“The parking is garbage there,” Serfaty said. “It’s going to make it worse because it’s already terrible to begin with.”

As these renovations continue this semester, Miya Treadwell, a senior journalism and Spanish language, literature and cultures

The college park shopping center is still undergoing construction, despite an initial July completion date. tom hausman/thediamondback major, said she sometimes hears the work going on both on and off the campus.

“I live in Commons 3 and I’m right across the street from it,” Treadwell said. “Knox Road is always busy. … and it just kind of goes along with all the construc-

tion happening on campus.”

There are several projects happening on the university’s campus, including the Cole Field House renovation, the Brendan Iribe Center and most recently, the construction on McKeldin Mall.

“I think the university is getting a whole face lift,” Treadwell said. “They’re trying to make it a little better and little newer for the new students coming in.” ckemplerdbk@gmail.com

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BSOS offers new international gov track Elifnaz CalisSamantha Reilly kan has always @manthahontas had “diplomat” in her future.

Staff writer Whether living in her birthplace in Turkey, in Spain or in the Netherlands, international relations has always been on her mind, and more recently, her transcript.

The sophomore government and politics major is one of the first students in this university’s history to declare a concentration in international relations.

The Maryland Higher Education Commission approved a proposal by the University Senate last spring allowing students majoring in government and politics by

to declare a concentration in international relations starting this semester.

Representatives from the behavioral and social sciences college were not able to provide the number of students who have declared the concentration because the drop/add registration period is still underway.

Caliskan began applying to schools in the Washington, D.C. area when she found out her father would be relocated to the nation’s capital in 2015. She decided to attend this university to pursue a degree in government and politics, knowing she was choosing a school that, unlike many others, did not offer

a degree in international relations.

Her father’s colleague encouraged Caliskan to take advantage of the broader opportunities at this university and to learn about U.S. government, Caliskan said.

“She told me,‘I know you want to be a diplomat, but you can’t be a representative without knowing U.S. politics, and you can’t negotiate without knowing the laws here,’” Caliskan said. Still, there was demand for a more solidified path in international relations coursework, said Scott Kastner, director of undergraduate studies in the government and politics department.“Initially, it was a lot of students who were pushing for a more formal course of study in

international relations, and that kind of put it on our radar,” Kastner said.

Andrew Harris, University Senate programs, curricula and courses chairman, presented the proposal to the University Senate for the concentration in August 2015. The concentration requirements include existing government and politics courses. The university is not offering any new international relations courses this semester, but “one of our goals is to offer more moving forward,” Kastner said. Having a concentration within the government and politics major can help students with job opportunities by showing they focused their

studies in a more specific field of study, Kastner said.

“Now that I can focus on [international relations], I have the holistic education, but I also have that specialty that will appear on my transcript,” Caliskan said.

Junior government and politics major Giselle Miranda has also declared the concentration.

“American politics is cool, but I feel like I have more ties to other countries,” Miranda said.

Both Miranda’s parents are Salvadoran, and she recently returned from a three-week study abroad program at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The outlined proposal re-

quires students completing the concentration earn 24 credits in existing government and politics classes that focus on international relations.“I heard rumors about [the school] adding [the concentration], but didn’t think it would be during my time at Maryland,” Miranda said. “It’s perfect. I’ve done pretty much half of the concentration already.”

Students who have already completed some of the requirements can count their earned credits toward the concentration coursework without being required to retake any classes, Kastner said. sreillydbk@gmail.com

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New wood material provides insulation In May 2016, Rachel Kuipers researchers at @raykuipers the University of Maryland Staff writer d eve l o p e d a new material made from wood that’s transparent like glass.

But on Aug. 11, a second study revealed that this wood can also by

lower the amount of heat or air conditioning lost within a building due to its “excellent thermal insulation.”

The material, created by removing the wood’s coloring and adding epoxy to strengthen it, has several properties that show promise for use in windows, said

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Tian Li, an author of the study. Li worked with nine other authors, ranging from faculty in the department of materials science and engineering and the department of mechanical engineering, to researchers in the Energy Research Center.

First, the transparent wood has “very good light management,” Li said, “and can be used to guide sunlight into the house and distribute it very efficiently.”

The material has up to 90 percent of the transparency of glass, and it’s also better at resisting impact, according to the first report, published in May 2016.

“If you hit the glass with the

hammer, it shatters, but the wood has a much better [ability] to absorb energy,” Li said.

The material is advantageous — it allows light into a room but protects against heat loss because it’s a better insulator than glass, said Eric Wachsman, the director of this university’s Energy Research Center.

Researchers took pictures of the wood in the university’s Advanced Imaging and Microscopy Lab, where materials can be photographed at a very close range, said Sz-Chian Liou, a research associate and electron microscopist with the lab. This image formation is similar to

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Rather than using microscopes that focus on a subject with light, the lab used electron microscopes, which use beams of electrons, to magnify materials at a high resolution.

“All of those materials have properties that … are related to the microstructure,” said Wen-An Chiou, director of the lab. “People want to study [them] because they want to know the properties.”

That’s why researchers use electron microscopes — they get a much closer view of the material itself, all the way down to the atom, Chiou said.

So far, the material has only been tested on a small scale using blocks of wood that were up to five inches in diameter. For a portion of their testing, they created a tiny model house to analyze the insulation properties of the material and used this model to determine the improved insulation property of the material.

The next step, Li said, is to enlarge the size of the wood for more testing. In theory, this material could become the new standard for windows, but it will be several years before the research reaches that point, she said. rkuipersdbk@gmail.com

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County nabs single medical pot license Univ Health Center still won’t give medical marijuana prescriptions The medical

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Rebecca Rainey marijuana in- Living Handbook. dustry might be coming to Staff writer Prince George's County, but for University of Maryland students, marijuana prescriptions at the University Health Center won't be.

Holistic Industries, located in this county, received one of 15 pre-approved licenses from the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission to grow and process medical marijuana, according to an Aug. 15 news release. The commission reviewed 145 grower license applications, 124 processor license applications and 811 dispensary license applications and ranked the applicants to decide who should be awarded the licenses, according to the commission's website. Holistic Industries was ranked at No. 14.

“I'm excited that we have a great number of outstanding companies willing to help sick people in Maryland,” Dr. Paul Davies, Medical Cannabis Commission chairman, said in the release.

But even though medical marijuana will be growing close to the campus, students will not be able to reap any of the benefits.

Prescribed marijuana “is prohibited under the University and Resident Life Drug policies, regardless of Maryland state laws permitting marijuana to be used for medicinal purposes,” according to the Department of @RebeccaARainey

And these rules are not likely to change by the time distribution is ready in the state.

“Although state laws are changing over time, marijuana remains illegal under federal law," David McBride, health center director, wrote in an email. “As such, I don't anticipate prescribing medical marijuana from the University Health Center.”

The Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act is a federal regulation that requires any higher education institution receiving federal funding to implement programs preventing drug and alcohol use on its campus, according to the Higher Education Center for Alcohol Abuse and Violence Prevention.

“It creates barriers,” said Owen O'Keefe, a senior community health major and president of the Students for Sensible Drug Policy at this university. “There are students at other schools where the state has legalized marijuana, where they can't let their students who have prescriptions stay in student housing because of federal rules.”

Accessing marijuana is an issue that the Residence Hall Association will be keeping an eye on, Vice President Sasha Galbreath wrote in an email.

“The Residence Hall Association is always here to represent the student body; so, if the tide of public opinion changes, and this federal regu-

lation is overturned, we will certainly make it a priority to advocate for the voice of on-campus students concerning this issue,” Galbreath wrote in an email.

Universities such as this one are prevented f ro m c h a n g i n g t h e i r rules regarding students possessing marijuana on the campus — even if it is for medical reasons, or if recreational use is legal in the state — until federal law is changed.

“Students shouldn't not be able to have the traditional college experience just because their medication is more controversial,” O'Keefe added.

Even with these new licenses, companies such as Holistic Industries still have a long way to go before they can even begin growing marijuana, Patrick Jameson, Medical Cannabis Commission's executive director, said in the news release.

“Now that the Commissioners have made their selections, the real work begins for these companies,” he said.

This stage one license pre-approval allows applicants to begin submitting background and financial checks and will have a year to purchase real estate, have zoning approved and essentially set up their business, according to the news release. rraineydbk@gmail.com

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THE Q TRUCK, owned by David Engle and Chris Szeluga, will serve quesadillas along Route 1 near the Subway restaurant on Sept. 2. It is one of many food trucks set to premiere in the city this weekend as part of a new initiative. photo courtesy of chris szeluga

Food trucks to arrive in city this weekend University Carly Kempler of Maryland @carlykempler students and Senior staff writer College Park residents will soon have a variety of new food options as the city prepares to launch two food truck hubs Sept. 2 along and near Route 1.

Prince George's County officials passed legislation in October 2015 to allow food trucks to operate and vend products within the county's boundaries, according to the DC, Maryland and Virginia Food Truck Association's website.

S i n ce t h e n , o f f i c i a l s f ro m t h e c i ty, co u n ty, university and the College Park Foundation have all collaborated to bring food trucks into the area.

The former site of the Little Tavern, located near the Route 1 Subway restaurant as well as the MSquare Research Park, will host a variety of food trucks throughout the week, said by

Ken Ulman, chief economic development strategist for the university's College Park Foundation.

The Foundation owns the land of the former Little Tavern site and decided to lease it to College Park Ventures, a company directed by 2015 university alumnus David Engle and senior finance major Chris Szeluga.

Co l l e ge Pa rk Ve n t u re s m a n a ge s t h e fo o d t r u c k hubs, Engle said, and is also in charge of recruiting and rotating food trucks through those locations.

The site along Route 1 will be hosting the launch on Sept. 2 at 5 p.m., Engle said. “ We ' ve e m b a rke d i n a substantial marketing outreach to get a handful of trucks to take the risk and start vending in the county,” Szeluga said. “Marketing food trucks has been a collaborative effort. Dannielle [Glaros] and the county … put the foundation down.”

Glaros, a member of the county's council, helped to

spearhead this legislation, Glaros said. Despite previous negative experiences with food trucks in the county, Glaros said she is “thrilled” the city will have two hubs with more food options. “ We h ave a l o t o f e m ployees all in our research park who need more and more food options, and I'm expecting more and more hubs to open up around the county,” Glaros said. “Food trucks are a gateway for a lot of folks to get into the business and then they turn into brick and mortar shops … increasing food opportunity in areas where we just don't have that.”

Up to four food trucks will be at the M-Square Research Park location Mondays and Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Engle said. The Route 1 site accommodates a maximum of two food trucks, which will be there Thursday through Saturday from 5 p.m. to midnight, he added. ckemplerdbk@gmail.com

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panel From p. 1 “We have good cops that sometimes make bad choices ... just like anybody else does,” he said. “Sometimes it’s up to us in leadership to decide what the punishment should be.”

One question asked to the panelists was whether they feel the campus is divided.

“It all comes down to institutional changes,” said Jason Nichols, an AfricanAmerican studies professor.

“You here at UMD, in my opinion, have really great leadership, and that’s why we have 60,000 calls and [only] 17 complaints.”

A large part of coming together as a campus is engaging incoming students on the matter so they can lay the groundwork for future activism, said Johanna DeGuzman,

former SGA director of diversity and inclusion.

T h e S G A re c e n t l y e s tablished a police advisory board, which first met in April, to help encourage conversation between students and police.

“Those who are in leadership positions, invite freshmen to pick up those leadership positions because they will learn and they will grow,” DeGuzman said.

While the onus is largely on the student body to incite change, SGA President Kathe r i n e Swa n s o n s a i d s h e would like to see more commitment on the administration’s behalf as well to create a more cohesive environment in the future.

“I’m really looking for a commitment from those who are going to be here longer than four years, because we can’t do it without you,”

Swanson said. “We need more from you than what we can give ourselves.”

Shorter-Gooden said she agreed with Swanson that faculty and staff need to do more.

“Administrators, faculty and staff have responsibility to carry these issues forward,” she said.

“We need to be constantly nudged and pushed by you, but [faculty] have responsibility,” she said. “We need to make some of these changes and engage the entire force.”

At the end of the panel discussion, Huff emphasized to not let the discussion stay in the room but to make sure to keep the discussions alive outside of this setting.

“Say it to your friends, spread it around the world and around campus,” he said. kescobardbk@gmail.com

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Stranger Things earns the hype Netflix’s latest original hit mixes some wonderfully unconventional sci-fi action with subtle emotion I expected Taylor Stokes t o r e v i e w @taystokess Stranger Things pretty For The DBK easily. I expected to find a tiny wood-grain cubicle in McKeldin Library, whip out my laptop and print a rough draft in an hour or two. I expected for the words to come almost effortlessly, to clearly and articulately describe how great of a show Stranger Things is.

But as I’m sitting here in my cubicle, the usually inspiring white noise of a library does nothing for me. Instead it seems like all conscious thought has been derailed as my inner nerd harps on one thought: an adolescent runaway girl with unidentifiable — but definitely lethal — powers and a wicked buzz cut claimed the hearts of millions this summer. Awesome.

Set in 1983 Indiana, the f i rs t sea so n o f S t ra n ge r Things primarily follows t h e s to r y o f M i ke ( Fi n n Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) and Lucas (Caleb Mc L a u g h l i n ) , a m i d d l e school trio searching for answers after their friend, Will (Noah Schnapp), mysteriously disappears in the dead of night. In doing so they stumble upon Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), the girl by

with the buzz cut and super powers. The beginning of a rocky friendship forms, and soon they find themselves in the midst of nosy parents, evil supernatural forces and a government conspiracy gone horribly wrong.

One of the traits I fell in love with right off the bat is the traditional ’80s setting.

It’s not the overdone neon leg warmers and ratted hair ’80s either. It’s the banana bicycle seat, ten-hour long Dungeons and Dragons campaign, inch-thick lenses ’80s that dominates this thriller and evokes nostalgia in all age groups, — even when the show scares you to death.

Speaking of scared, let’s talk about Winona Ryder.

Ryder plays Will’s mom, Joyce, and she is freaking out. Not only does Ryder phenomenally portray the gut-wrenching terror produced by a missing child, she also delivers a frightening mental breakdown. At one point she’s literally hiding under a desk with a ball of Christmas lights, shaking as she frantically waits until the next time Will communicates with her through faint flickers. It’s disturbing, yet you can’t look away.

Millie Bobby Brown also shines as Eleven, absolutely

kicking ass in this show.

Eleven grew up isolated in a government institution, forced to use her powers by the Department of Energy.

Brown’s incredibly distant and unresponsive interpretation of Eleven not only adds the perfect counterpoint to the rest of the cast, it also provides yet another layer of creepy to the show. At the same time the actress makes it clear that Eleven is still just a misunderstood little kid, one that audience members can identify with and love.

Even when Eleven snaps people’s necks and throws kids across yards with her mind, we still adore her.

What really makes this show work though is the pure foundation of it. Instead of creating a huge season full of filler episodes and irrelevant subplots, creators Matt and Ross Duffer focused their attention on making eight quality episodes. Each episode is not only relevant to the plot, but clearly well thought out and detail-oriented, not to mention beautifully shot.

There’s no lack of character development (save for Barb), no gaping plot holes and no dull moments. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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‘The Office’ star talks about experimentation, college life and directing his second movie By the time I Michael Errigo arrived at The Ritz-Carlton @M_Errigo Senior staff writer in Georgetown a little after 1:15 p.m., I was sweating profusely.

This was not nervous sweat.

Trust me, it had nothing to do with the reason why I was at the upscale hotel — to interview the actor John Krasinski — nor was it related to the e-mail asking me to arrive at 1:05 p.m. I’ll admit that The Office has its place in my television canon, and the opportunity to talk to Krasinski about his new movie, The Hollars, was a late-summer highlight on my calendar.

But the reason I felt like one of Dali’s clocks as I passed by a suspicious doorman on that August afternoon was purely because it was 97 degrees out and some bold Metro decisions on my part had made the now extensive walk to the Ritz feel somewhat like a stroll through the depths of hell.

As I tried to get myself together with some long sleeve brow wipes (the only upside of choosing to wear that shirt), I was led with another journalist to the elevator that would take us up to Krasinski’s room. I had spent much of the last 24 hours thinking a lot about the actor’s career, and the fruits of this labor were now scribbled in the notebook in my hand. But my thinking also had another effect — a kind of uptick in excitement beyond what I felt as an avid fan of The Office and 2009’s Away We Go: I realized when looking at Krasinski’s IMDB page that one of America’s golden boys is much harder to pin down than I originally thought.

Krasinski is at a point in his career — coming off of a bigbudget curveball in the form of the Benghazi thriller 13 Hours, having recently wrapped up an off-Broadway play and now directing his second film where it’s become clear that he’s trying anything and everything in search of art he’s passionate about. It’s the kind of thing that you don’t see enough in Hol-

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lywood — something you root for. John Krasinski, right now, is wonderfully unpredictable.

We got off the elevator and quietly entered his room. He stood up, gave us that smile and shook our hands, introducing himself as “John.” Wearing a dark, long-sleeve shirt (great minds think alike), black jeans and a pair of Oxfords, he seemed comfortable and relaxed. We sat down on a couch as he pulled another one closer and planted himself on the edge of it. He sat perched on the edge of a cushion, seeming eager, excited and inviting for the entirety of the interview.

The Diamondback: Good thing you’re not staying in D.C. for long because this is the worst form of D.C. that you can see.

John Krasinski: Really?

Because it’s so hot?

DBK: Yeah, D.C. is great, but this is the worst. Because it’s so hot and people get nasty.

J.K.: But New York is this hot, too, so it’s bad everywhere.

My co-interviewer, Trisha Brown of Brightest Young Things, nicely offers me the first question.

J.K.: Look at that, very cordial.

DBK: So recently you did a play [Dry Powder at The Public Theater in New York], you were in a full-fledged blockbuster with 13 Hours and now you’re directing a movie for a second time. Are you viewing this as a period of experimentation?

How are you picking your projects right now? Because they’re so varied.

J.K.: I hope the rest of my career is experimentation. I

think we’re in the wild west of storytelling mediums in general, so for me that’s really exciting. There’s this idea that we’re oversaturated with things to watch, which may be true, but it also forces people to do new and cooler things.

For me, coming off of [The Office], it was all about trying new things and doing things that really pushed me as an artist — or whatever sounds less pretentious than that.

I feel so lucky to do be doing what I’m doing, so part of the way I try to express how lucky I feel is to keep doing new things and not get stagnant because if anybody else had the opportunity that I have I’m sure they’d try to do a whole lot with it. Certainly my friends that I came up with would do that, so I’m doing it for all of us.

DBK: As I watched [ The Hollars], some of the smaller, quieter moments with Anna Kendrick’s pregnant character reminded me of one of my favorite films, and that’s Away We Go— J.K.: Oh nice! Thanks!

DBK: So when you’re directing a movie or acting in a movie, do you think back to previous projects or does that get in the way of your creative process?

J.K.: No, one of the cool things about being an actor is that you basically are watching directors work all day for free. You can make a professional living out of stealing what works and what doesn’t because you watch these unbelievably talented people do great work and you remember

what works for you.

I think I stole a lot of different things from all these different directors. What I tried to do most as a director on this was create an environment in which the actors could do what they needed to do.

DBK: As a writer from a college paper, I always have to ask one question about college.

So when you were in college, what kind of movies were you into and would you have liked this movie?

J.K.: Oh, good question. I definitely would have liked this movie. This probably sounds like a canned line, but it has that independent spirit and that’s what I loved about movies. For me, bizarrely, movies and I had an interesting relationship in college because when I first went to school, if it wasn’t in a Cineplex I didn’t see the movie, and if it wasn’t on the radio I hadn’t heard that song. Then I went to Brown University,

where there was a lot of interesting people and I basically challenged my friends to give me a new album and a new movie every single week.

So my college experience was two-fold: one, the real college experience, and then this separate almost-as-important if not more important experience of a whole new renaissance for me of filmwatching and music-listening.

The movies I was watching were people’s favorite indies that I never would have seen myself, and I felt like a kid in a candy store. It was a whole new awakening to all this awesome film. I was watching art house movies and movies that I still can’t really make sense of but my super smart friends could and that was really fun. It was such a community thing and a conversation-starter. And I take that with me as I choose projects, when I put effort into a film as a director I want it to resonate with that era of my

film-watching life.

DBK: We talked earlier about taking on different projects and there’s obviously a ton of talk right now about how big T.V. is, so would you ever consider getting back into T.V.?

J.K.: Just did this morning!

[Interviewer’s note: I wasn’t wildly unprepared, alright? I just did my research the night before instead of that morning.

Bad timing.] I’m doing the Amazon series of Jack Ryan.

The pitch to me that really worked, because I just wanted to do something interesting; I don’t care what medium it is, so that pitch was that Jack Ryan’s superpower is just intelligence. So everything needs to be longer and drawn-out and more cerebral so maybe movies aren’t the best way to capture him. So every season is going to be like a ten-hour movie instead of a T.V. season.

Hopefully all goes well. merrigodbk@ g mail .com

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Leone, three players visit children’s hospital Experience builds team togetherness by

Two days before

Scott Gelman t h e M a r y l a n d @Gelman_Scott w o m e n ’s s o c c e r team’s first win of Staff writer the season, coach Ray Leone learned to whip and dab.

Leone and midfielders Darby Moore, Sarah Kovalchick and Emily Kift visited Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 23, to host a radio and TV show broadcast throughout the hospital.

One 7-yea r- o l d e ntere d t h e studio and “acted like he ran the show,” Moore said. He immediately recognized the group and felt comfortable after introducing himself.

Then, he insisted on giving the Terps, particularly Leone, a dance lesson.

The visit created a sense of togetherness for the Terps as the team develops cohesion on a roster featuring new players and a firstyear coach.

“It was great to see [the children’s] energy,” K ift said. “We k n ow t h ey a re go i n g t h ro u g h battles that are super tough. It was cool to see how positive they were. A couple of kids taught us some dances, and they were very comfortable in that environment.”

Since February, Leone had been planning a trip to Children’s National Health System. So when Morgan Hall, a former Georgia soccer player who manages the Seacrest Studios at the hospital, expressed interest in hosting

midfielders darby moore (Left), Emily Kift (Middle) and Sarah Kovalchick (right) went to Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C. They hosted a radio and TV show. photo courtesy of maryland athletics some of his players, Leone didn’t hesitate.

When they arrived, they received headphones and were told they would be broadcasting a live radio and TV show in Seacrest Studios.

Children throughout the hospital could follow it and call in from their rooms.

The hospital also has an “open door policy,” Moore said, so any children and their parents would be able to watch the show from the studio. “ We d i d s o m e D J s t u f f a n d

dancing,” Leone said. “For me, watching our Maryland girls, how they just immediately got to their level and connected with them, that was my favorite part. It really moved me to see them do that.”

During the show, some of the viewers were starstruck. A handful treated the players like celebrities.

Afterward, Moore, Kift and Kovalchick passed the ball around with the children in the studio and gave out soccer balls signed by the whole team.

“For us, it’s another day of being on the soccer team,” Kovalchick

said. “[But] they thought [the signed soccer ball] was the coolest thing, when it was just something we put all of our names on.”

For the players, the visit served as another attempt to create more chemistry on a team with 14 new players.

Kift, who is also on the women’s lacrosse team, joined the program in the fall. Kovalchick, a sophomore walk-on, is a new addition, too.

Moore sat out as a redshirt freshman last season.

In its first game after the visit,

Maryland topped William & Mary, 3-2. Regardless of whether they involve dance lessons, Moore said consistent volunteer experiences should help the Terps bond with their new teammates and build on their outcome against the Tribe.

“The more that we have those experiences off the field, the more we’ll be cohesive on the field,” Moore said. “We’ll be even more prepared having … that experience with my teammates.” sgelmandbk@gmail.com

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DURKIN From p. 16 getting “in the grill of the coverage team,” Brandon said.

So as Durkin built his own staff, he made special teams a priority. He appointed Pete Lembo, a Division I head coach for the past 15 years, to lead the unit and coach the tight ends.

When Lembo joined the staff in late December, he was the third former head coach in Durkin’s crew. It was one example, the coaches said, of Durkin bringing experience into their collaborations.

M i ke L o n d o n t h o u g h t about taking a year off after resigning from Virginia, but he became Maryland’s associate head coach after a conversation with Durkin about their families less than two weeks later.

Scott Shafer, who led Syracuse from 2013 to 2015, was

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the first to arrive in College hung up the phone, Durkin Park but stepped down as had accepted a job with the defensive coordinator for Cardinal and would lead the personal reasons in April. special teams and defensive His vacancy gave Durkin the ends groups for the next chance to reach out to a past three years.

B e fo re B u h a r r i ve d i n colleague.

College Park, Durkin and Durkin formed defensive his offensive coordinastaff around tor Andy Buh former Arc o a c h e d to kansas State gether at Stanoffensive ford from 2007 coordinato 2009. They tor Walt Bell. met when The 31-yearBuh picked up old prepared Durkin from fo r “ t h e i n the airport for terview of my his interview. life” before A week after Maryland offensive tackle t h e two m e t their ride, Durkin hadn’t heard back. in New Orleans last DecemWith prompting from his ber, but after 10 minutes of mentors at Bowling Green, talking football, they had Durkin called then-Stanford a three-hour conversation coach Jim Harbaugh about about team plans, personalia decision. By the time he ties and life.

He’s not always running around with his head on fire. He’s cool.

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Sometimes, though, Durkin reverted back to the traditional interview process.

When offensive line coach Dave B o r b e ly a r r ive d i n College Park, Durkin had him introduce himself to the assistants before drawing his daily drills on the whiteboard.

When Borbely stepped to the front and grabbed the marker, he turned around to take off his coat. He was comfortable and ready to get to work.

“He’s a young guy, but he’s an old-school guy,” Borbely said. “I could tell he had a vision for where he wanted the program to go.”

Has that impression — the one Durkin claimed would involve the country’s best coaches — panned out as the Terps enter his first regular sea so n Sa t u rd ay a ga i n s t Howard?

“He’s lived up to his word,”

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Hills said. “Every single thing.” weekend this winter, he and Abdul-Rahim played ping p o n g a t t h e p ros p e c t ive ‘VERY ON A MISSION’ players’ hotel. Durkin won the Once Durkin recruited his first match, dishing out some staff, he set out to build the roster. trash talk before Abdul-Rahim First up was convincing took the second. defensive back Will Likely to When Durkin was at Standelay his entry into the NFL ford, he and Harbaugh once draft. In their first one-on-one battled in one-on-one basmeeting in his office, Durkin ketball, neither willing to call confessed he spent hours the other for a foul in a game game-planning against Likely that took more than an hour before the Terps and Wolver- to reach seven points. ines met last season.

Not much had changed as The two have since met the rookie leader refused to alone multiple times after let the ping-pong clash end Likely decided in January to in defeat. return for his senior season. At Abdul-Rahim didn’t feel that time, Durkin also focused like playing anymore, but on filling out his first recruit- Durkin insisted, unrelenting. ing class as a head coach.

Abdul-Rahim gave in, and Durkin had two months Durkin took Game 3, though and one day between taking Abdul-Rahim may or may not the reins at Maryland and have eased up to ensure his the Feb. 3 signing day, but boss wasn’t too upset around Rivals.com’s 2012 Recruiter the recruits. of the Year managed to sign “I thought this guy was 10 players from this state and going to play me all night if he seven from Florida to highlight didn’t beat me,” Abdul-Rahim the 23-player class. said. “All night, seriously.”

H i s f i rs t c o m m i t m e n t came from Archbishop ‘ABSOLUTELY BANANAS’ Carroll guard Richard Merritt, one of four consenThis year’s campaign isn’t sus four-star recruits in the Durkin’s first experience group. Guard Terrance Davis, taking charge of a team that’s the No. 1 overall prospect in struggled to win with consisthe state, joined him a few tency. In his four-year lineweeks later, giving the Terps backer career at Bowling Green four commits from DeMatha from 1997 to 2000, the Falcons Catholic High School. finished 15-29.

Durkin hit the recruiting The shortcomings left the trial hard, even when the con- team fractured. Durkin, a twoditions weren’t ideal. time captain with a no-nonA snow storm prevented sense attitude, carried himself him from flying to a home in a way that left quarterback visit with three-star quar- Josh Harris, a true freshman in terback Tyrrell Pigrome, the Durkin’s final year, feeling like Alabama Gatorade Player the Youngstown, Ohio, native of the Year. While running hated him. backs coach Anthony Tucker But as Harris watched film pitched in person, Durkin after one game his rookie joined via FaceTime. year, reviewing a play he H e u s e d h i s p h o n e to dodged defenders to weave reach out to three-star de- along the Falcons’ sideline, fensive backs Elisha and Durkin’s reaction proved Elijah Daniels, too, calling anything but disdain. the twins while they made W h i l e t h e re s t o f t h e dinner one night to offer them Fa l c o n s d i s p l aye d l i t t l e scholarships. emotion — some weren’t Soon after, he visited them even watching the play — at Cardinal Gibbons High Durkin went berserk on the School in Florida. Sitting sideline. Jumping. Clapping. in their high school coach’s Yelling. Waving his arm in a office with their dad, Durkin circle. organized their College Park “Going absolutely bananas tour and talked about his ex- trying to will me down the pectations for the brothers field,” Harris said. “It said, as Terps. ‘ T h i s g uy, a l t h o u g h h e ’s Elisha Daniels’ first impres- scary, he cares even about sion: Durkin was taller than the little people.’” he expected. His second: The So when Harris saw the Big coach was intense.

Ten Network video of Dur“Very on a mission to get kin’s spring practice speech everything going in the right go viral on Facebook, he direction,” he said. “That’s wasn’t surprised. what I love about him.”

D u r k i n h a d t h e Te r p s gathered in a group, all on ‘MOST IMPORTANT THING’ one knee, as he preached accountability.

Defensive backs coach The vein in his neck bulged Aazaar Abdul-Rahim felt the as he slammed his hands same vibe when he was the in front of his body while coach at Friendship Colle- talking about last year’s 3-9 giate Academy in Washington, record. His voice cracked D.C., and Durkin was the de- and his face deepened into a fensive coordinator at Florida, shade of red, almost matchrecruiting Knights five-star ing his shirt, as he shouted cornerback Jalen Tabor. his abhorrence for losing.

Durkin didn’t say much “That is 100 percent DJ in the meeting, deferring to Durkin,” Harris said. “That then-Gators coach Will Mus- energy is contagious, ridicuchamp. But when Abdul-Ra- lously contagious.” him drew on the board, Durkin Durkin’s emotions and watched over his shoulder, facial coloration had calmed asking questions. down by his first media day as “He’s always on a spot,” a head coach in mid-August, Abdul-Rahim said, “looking but his mental drive hadn’t. around, lurking, just seeing Midway through his press what’s going on.” conference, a reporter asked He still does the same. about his perceived honeyAbdul-Rahim has adopted moon period — if, in his first Durkin’s tendency to take year on the job, Durkin might notes on everything. No detail have a reprieve from reachis too small to record on the ing immediate success. After recruiting trail or to press all, the new staff might need upon the Terps once they join time to gel, Durkin hasn’t the team. filled the roster with his own Players run onto the field recruits and the Terps are for practice. Their toes must still learning to reflect Durbe behind the white line in kin’s competitive, winning stretching formations. Durkin edge. urges them to sprint through Standing in the same room the sideline, rather than to it, in he listened to questions from drills. Off the field, their shirts his new players almost nine are tucked in and their cafeteria months earlier, Durkin raised trays go in the correct spot. his eyebrows before break“Something so simple and ing into a smile and shaking subtle,” Buh said. “He can es- his head. calate that detail into being Just as the reporter finished, the most important thing you Durkin dismissed the leeway. can possibly ever do.” “ So m e s l a c k ? ” D u rk i n That’s not to say, however, quipped. “There is no slack.”

Durkin can’t let loose.

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While the redshirt senior struggled at times last season — tossing 13 interceptions and battling quarterback Caleb Rowe for starts — he led the team in passing yards (1,001) and touchdowns (eight) and established himself as a threat on the ground. He instilled confidence in the new coaching staff with his offseason commitment and leadership to earn his third season-opening start.

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Linebacker Jermaine Carter Jr. The redshirt junior led the Terps with 103 tackles in 2015, and after three veterans were selected in the NFL draft in the offseason, Carter is now one of the focal players in defensive coordinator Andy Buh’s scheme. This summer, Carter earned a spot on the preseason watch list for the Butkus Award, given to the nation’s best linebacker.

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points, though Maryland beat Richmond 50-21 in the first game.

“That’s one of the things I appreciate about (the new coaching staff) coming in. They made football fun again. Even though we work so hard, it’s so much fun to work.”

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points in their last two season openers.

Offensive coordinator Walt Bell’s up-tempo offense shows flashes early, and the Terps rotate through their reserves in the second half.

“We’re a young team. We’re certainly learning new schemes and all that other stuff, but no one really cares. We’re just like, ‘Let’s go play.’”

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STACKPOLE From p. 16 Defensive lineman Roman Braglio called this year’s fall camp “way harder” than last year’s. Wide receiver Te l d r i c k Mo rga n , a New Mexico State transfer, said the August slate was “by far the hardest camp I’ve been through.”

“What we’ve been going through — and coach Durkin tells us this all the time — we ’re go i n g t h ro u g h t h e hardest stuff that any college team in the nation is going through,” linebacker Jalen Brooks said.

Durkin understands what it takes to be successful at the highest level. He worked under Ohio State coach Urban Meyer while Meyer was at the University of Florida. He learned from Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh with the Wolverines and at Stanford years before. He’s established a process, and the Terps have bought in.

Then there’s the schedule, Durkin wasn’t concerned one that affords the Terps an with wins or losses, though, as opportunity to bring a 4-0 he sat and spoke to the media record into Penn State on Tuesday afternoon. He wanted Oct. 8. After to h ave “ t h e its opener best Tuesday with Howard, we can possiDurkin’s bly have” and bunch plays then improve a pair of meon that perdiocre Florida formance each schools day throughbefore out the week. hosting “I really feel Purdue to that we have start Big Ten a talented p l a y. T h e enough team to m e d i a p re go play well this dicted the year,” Durkin Boilermaksaid. “What maryland linebacker ers to finish equals that, I last in the don’t know.” conference.

One day at a time, Durkin Take the Big Ten’s three insisted. That’s the best way ranked teams out of the Terps’ for Maryland to navigate its schedule, and Maryland would season. need two wins against NeBut for the Maryland faithful, braska, Penn State, Minnesota, it’s OK to look ahead. And after Indiana and Rutgers. Only one a disappointing 2015 season, team (Nebraska) was picked to expect the Terps to play into finish third or higher in their late December this time around. respective division, according to cleveland.com. kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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The stage is set for No. every game. We want to be Kyle Melnick ty President @kyle_melnick Wa l l a ce L o h 7 Maryland to win a fifth the last team standing and Senior staff writer has served at straight conference tourna- the last team smiling.” this university since 2010 and followed the Maryland men’s soccer team as it’s competed for national championships. Yet after watching the Terps’ 5-0 win over Hartford on Mo n d ay, L o h to l d coa c h Sa s h o C i rovs k i t h a t t h i s year’s squad is the best he’s seen. The championshipcaliber teams Cirovski has coached in the past 22 years along with Maryland have featured a large number of returning starters. The Terps

ment, as the coaches picked this team to win the Big Ten in their preseason poll. But the Terps are determined to go all the way this season, a feat they haven’t accomplished since 2008.

“The team is very motivated to play in the final w e e k e n d o f t h i s y e a r,” C i rovs k i s a i d . “ T h ey ’ve shown that with their work in the summer and their preparation in the preseason.

We’re a process-orientated team. We’re a team that tries

Midfielders Mael Corboz and Tsubasa Endoh — who combined for 32 points in 2015 — graduated this past offseason, but Maryland (1-0-1) returns most of its key players. And through transfers and adjustments in their lineup, the Terps added more talent to their midfield.

Midfielder Jake Rozhansky, who was named secondteam All-ACC with Virginia last season, transferred to Maryland this past spring.

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The Terps return eight starters from last season’s squad, which fell to Clemson in the NCAA quarterfinals. reid poluhovich/the diamondback attacking midfield after primarily playing up top last year, while Gordon Wild, the country’s leading scorer at South Carolina Upstate a season ago, joins Sebastian Elney in the attack.

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sky has taken over Endoh’s They’re great players, all of role on the right side of the them. We can do something midfield, and Wild leads the special this year.” team with two goals.

After the Terps allowed the “ H e ’s a m i x b e t w e e n second-fewest goals-perTsubasa and Mael,” Cirovski game in the Big Ten (.85) last said of Rozhansky. “With the season, they returned three way we play, our wide guys starters on their backline, all are more like central mid- of whom are seniors. fielders. He’s got quite a bit Cirovski said a strong backof freedom to get involved in line is crucial to winning a nathe attack.” tional championship, and he The Terps have gotten out believes this year’s backline to slow starts the past two will evolve into one of the best seasons, with in the country a combined throughout the record of season. Cody 7-6-5 before Niedermeier, October. They wh o s ta r te d s t r u g g l e d to his first full score consisseason last te n t ly f ro m year, anchors game-tot h e Te r ps i n game. net.

With a bevy In 2015, o f ta l e n t o n Maryland the attack, went on a sixMaryland game winning Maryland men’s soccer coach hopes to solve streak to that issue this advance to the season. Elney led the Terps NCAA quarterfinals but lost with seven goals last season, to Clemson in penalty kicks. while Wild adds another Defender Alex Crognale — scoring threat on the oppo- who said the Terps should site side. Maryland’s mid- have made the College Cup fielders have a knack for — said the Terps have used scoring — Endoh was third that loss as motivation this on the team in goals last past spring and summer. year— and Cirovski gets deTwo games into this fenders involved offensively season, the Terps’ quest as well. for their first appearance Cirovski said he doesn’t in the College Cup since want his attacking players to 2013 has begun. Cirovski play the entire game early in said this is one of the best the season. He wants to save teams he’s ever coached, and their legs for the later part he’s not shying away from of the year. discussing the team’s lofty The veteran coach has the expectations. luxury of not losing much “The standards at Maryp ro d u c t i o n w i t h o u t h i s land are high, and our goals starters on the field. For- are even higher,” Cirovski wards DJ Reeves and George said. “We don’t expect to win Campbell have played sig- every game, but we expect n i f i ca n t m i n u te s o f f t h e we’re playing our best soccer b e n c h a n d co m b i n e d fo r late in the year and hopefo u r p o i n ts t h ro u g h two fully have a magical season. games.

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Intensity and passion propel 38-year-old on road to first head coaching job

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By Callie Caplan | @CallieCaplan | Senior staff writer

o sooner had Maryland Athletic Director Kevin Anderson introduced DJ Durkin to his new football team early last December than did the rookie head coach start pacing.

With his team sitting in rows of cushioned seats in Gossett Football Team House auditorium, Durkin laid out his plans for righting a program that had hit a crossroads with the midseason firing of former coach Randy Edsall about two months before.

Durkin, still walking back and forth at the front of the room, asked his players not to make any rash decisions about transferring. He wanted to push the Terps to match

his vigor and intensity. He promised to assemble the best coaching staff in the country.

“Right away,” quarterback Perry Hills said, “you just want to buy into everything he says.”

Then came time for questions. Offensive tackle Damian Prince, one of Edsall’s prized recruits, raised his hand in the back row, wondering about the style of offense Durkin wanted to run.

The conversation wasn’t their first.

Durkin tried to recruit Prince to Florida entering the 2014 season, his fifth year as a Gators assistant. Then after a one-season stint as Michigan’s defensive coordinator, the 38-year-old earned the chance to revive Maryland’s program as the youngest

football coach in the Big Ten. Still, when Prince finished his question, he figured Durkin would take a pragmatic approach to explaining his expectations.

“But he didn’t really have a response,” Prince said. “He was just like, ‘What’s up, Damian?’”

“He’s not always running around with his head on fire. He’s cool.”

‘LIVED UP TO HIS WORD’ Bowling Green started the second half of its game against Florida International Sept.

16, 2006, by kicking off, only to watch the Panthers returner scamper 98 yards for a touchdown.

The Falcons special teams players hadn’t

done their jobs. Durkin, the unit’s coordinator, was furious.

While reviewing the breakdown after the game, Bowling Green coach Gregg Brandon, now at the helm of the Colorado School of Mines program, thought about changing the scheme or personnel.

Durkin had another idea.

“Coach, there’s nothing wrong with the personnel,” Durkin told Brandon. “It’s the way I’m coaching. I’m going to get this fixed.”

What relieved the problem — Bowling Green didn’t allow a return touchdown in its ensuing five games — was Durkin See Durkin, p. 13 graphics by evan berkowitz and julia lerner/the diamondback

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Fans should expect team to make bowl game in Durkin’s first year New coaching staff, stability at quarterback reasons for optimism entering 2016 season Sitting at a round table in Maryland Stadium’s Tyser To we r p r e s s box on Wednesday afternoon, Maryland football starting quarterback Perry Hills spoke about what would make his last year in the program a successful one.

“A successful season?” H ills a s ke d . “ Wi n n i n g eve ry s i n g l e game. Winning a national championship. Because you don’t put in all this work that we’ve put in to go out and say, ‘Oh, it’s OK to lose two games here. It’s OK to go whatever and whatever.’”

In the week the Terps kick off the DJ Durkin era against Howard on Saturday, Hills’ answer mirrored those of his teammates’ when asked the same question a day earlier.

That’s what every Maryland fan

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wants to hear, and I’m sure that’s what the players believe, but it isn’t realistic. With Ohio State, Michigan and Michigan State — three of the nation’s top 12 teams — in their division, the Terps are going to lose. Sometimes it might be ugly.

There is a more realistic goal, though, one that many of the veteran players have experienced before last year’s 3-9 season.

Not only is Maryland capable of making a bowl game, but Terps fans should expect the team to earn a berth.

In former coach Randy Edsall’s last two full years, the Terps posted 7-5 records before falling during bowl season. The second appearance came after the program’s first regular season in the Big Ten when it picked up wins over Iowa, Michigan and Penn State.

Inconsistency at the quarter-

back position plagued the Terps as they fell short of the six-win bowl standard in 2015. Hills and quarterback Caleb Rowe and Daxx Garman combined for 29 interceptions, the most in the country and six more than the second-highest team. They also endured a midseason coaching change, which saw former offensive coordinator Mike Locksley replace Edsall halfway through the campaign.

E n te r i n g t h e sea so n o p e n e r against Howard, Maryland appears to have addressed these issues.

Durkin named Hills the starter Aug. 24, later saying the redshirt senior left “no doubt” in his mind about who the No. 1 signal caller should be. Hills also earned new offensive coordinator Walt Bell’s praise for his toughness and determination throughout the offseason. And his experience? Hills will be starting his third season opener, the other two in 2012 and 2015.

None of those have come under Durkin, who was hired in Decem-

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Quarterback Perry Hills will start under center against Howard on Saturday. file photo/the diamondback ber, but Hills said it didn’t take coaching staff, and it continued with long for him to buy into what an intensity the players haven’t seen the 38-year-old wanted for this at the college level before. program.

It started with a completely new See STACKPOLE, p. 14