November 26, 2014

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Man pleads guilty in U pedestrian death Liam Adepo, 30, accused of striking, killing student Cory Hubbard on Route 1 in January

By Katishi Maake @TheHavocRat Staff writer

cording to a Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Office news release.

Thirty-year-old Liam Adepo, of Cheverly, pleaded guilty to failure The man accused of a hit-and-run to remain at the scene of a collision that resulted in the death of univer- involving death.

He was also charged with several sity student Cory Hubbard this past January pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, ac- other violations, including driving

with a suspended license and driving he was struck by a dark-colored while impaired by alcohol, but those Toyota, who fled the scene. The were dropped as part of the plea next day, Adepo told a family member about the incident and agreement.

A Jan. 17 video surveillance video the family member called the showed Adepo having difficulty police, who arrested Adepo after walking as he was leaving Looney’s he admitted to driving the car, acPub, and then a dark Toyota sedan cording to the release.

Adepo faces up to two years in leaving the parking lot, according prison. He will be sentenced Jan. 30. to the release.

At about 1:30 a.m., Hubbard, 22, was attempting to cross Route 1 when kmaakedbk@gmail.com the ultimate frisbee club practices inside of Cole Field House. Some students are concerned about how a proposed $155 million renovation will affect their groups. james levin/the diamondback

U groups displaced

by Cole projects Club tennis, ROTC, Muslim student prayer group use field house

By Darcy Costello @dctello Senior staff writer

gave speeches, led chants and refused to buy food from the nine restaurants in the cafeteria.

Their hashtag, #OccupyStamp, was trending in the Washington area.

“This is the most public place on campus,” said junior government and politics major Opeyemi Owoeye. “Stamp is the heart of campus and right now, while we’re hurting, we want to be very visible.”

After Jonathan Kau read the news about the proposed changes to Cole Field House, the Maryland Club Tennis president had a realization.

“When I looked at the actual plan, I realized, ‘Wow, like, wait a minute, they’re trying to get rid of the tennis courts for these outdoor practice fields,’” said Kau, a junior computer engineering major.

University System of Maryland Student Regent Raaheela Ahmed said it’s not just club tennis that would be affected by these changes, and she fears this proposal could negatively affect several organizations and university programs.

Cole is currently home to organizations such as the Veteran Student Life Office, Asian American Studies Department, Air Force and Army ROTC, Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Musullah, the Muslim Student Association’s prayer space on the campus. The facility also hosts intramural sports and group fitness courses with Campus Recreation Services.

Wit h t hese g roups i n m i nd,

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Senior english and theatre major anthony douglas, center, and senior sociology major Myke Hatcher-McLarin, right, console each other during a protest event in Stamp Student Union. The rally, which was held yesterday, called for university President Wallace Loh to support Ferguson protestors and dispose of military-grade weapons that the University Police have in their possession. sung-min kim/the diamondback

‘NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE’ Ferguson-inspired student protests continue with Stamp Student Union food court sit-in

By Talia Richman @TaliRichman Senior staff writer Dressed in an all-black suit, freshman Julian Ivey climbed onto a table in the middle of the cafeteria in Stamp Student Union.

From the tabletop, he led more than 100 student protesters — their arms locked as they formed a human wall around the cafeteria — in four-and-a-half minutes of silence to honor

Researchers: Bats mimic radar jamming techniques Univ alumnus records new hunting behavior

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZimm Staff writer Bats rely on sound to ease their search for prey, but a new study suggests they might also use it to make it harder for their competitors to find food.

While hunting in the dark, bats use sound similarly to how humans use radar. With echolocation, bats can infer their surroundings based on the echoes of their screeches that

Michael Brown, a black teenager who was shot by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, on Aug. 9.

On Monday afternoon, about 50 students led a march around the campus protesting police militarization in light of the events in Ferguson. Monday night, a St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict Wilson.

This combination of events led students to organize a sit-in at Stamp from 12 to 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, during which participants

bounce off nearby objects.

Just as how humans can use technology to interfere with — or jam — sonar and radar signals, some bats use specialized sounds to throw off their competitors and prevent them from reaching their target, according to a study published this month in Science.

Aaron Corcoran, the study’s lead author and former postdoctoral researcher at this university, said bats send out a special signal when they are approaching their targeted prey.

When they are closing in on an insect, bats will make sounds more and more rapidly, so they get more echoes and more information back.

This helps them hone in on the exact location of the food source, but it also alerts other bats to their impending success, Corcoran said, and other respond with another special call.

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Sustainability groups promote local recycling Students call on city bars, restaurants to recycle cups, bottles

By Marissa Horn @MarissaL_Horn Staff writer A lthough th is u n iversity’s sustainability efforts garnered enough student support to divert 78 percent of waste from landfills through recycling and composting in 2013, students are often unable to follow those efforts at off-campus establishments.

University students Annie Rice and Ori Gutin are moving forward this semester with plans to expand recycling initiatives off the campus to Route 1, especially at bars.

“Many students don’t aim their drinks into a receptacle, and if

students sit around the bar at Bentley’s Filling Station, where cups are not recycled. file photo/the diamondback the receptacles were changed from trash to recycling, people would have no choice but to put it in the right bin,” said Rice, a sophomore environmental science and policy

major and director of city affairs for the Student Susta i nabi l ity Committee.

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stamp From PAGE 1 Sen ior govern ment a nd politics major Moriah Ray said the sit-ins will continue for the rest of semester or until the university complies with the students’ demands, including returning weapons t h at were g ra nted to t he University Police through the Defense Department’s 1033 program.

Un iversity Pol ice h ave 16 12-gauge shotg u ns, 50 M16 rif les, two transport veh icles a nd a $65,000 armored truck from the 1033 program, which many students said was unnecessary and dangerous.

But because this university houses nuclear material for its nuclear engineering program, University Police are required by law and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to have such weapons.

“I have spoken with [University Police] Chief [David] Mitchell and we have started to come up with a compromise because these weapons are federally mandated to be on this campus,” Ivey said.

T h e s t u d e n t s a l s o d emanded body cameras for police officers, which Mitchel l sa id shou ld be i mplemented within four weeks, and the creation of a review b oa rd i nc lu d i n g s t u d ent members to address complaints about police.

Additionally, the group requested that the university ad m i n istration issue an official statement condem n i ng the mu rder of Michael Brown.

Un iversity President Wallace Loh sent out a university-wide email Tuesday mor n i ng “[com mend i ng] students for their activism to advance the dialogue on race relations and realize the dream that all persons will be ‘judged not by the color of

their skin but by the content of their character.’” “ I p ro u d ly s t a n d w i t h them,” the email states.

But th is is not enoug h, Ray said.

“He encouraged conversation, but we don’t just want conversation,” she said. “We want action. These actions will only be taken through civil disobedience. The lines at [Stamp] are a lot shorter today. This will have an economic impact on them. We want more than conversation, we want change.”

Di n i ng Serv ices Sen ior A ssociate Di rector Joe Mullineaux said that all of Stamp’s restaurants pay 10 to 15 percent of their sales to the university. This money goes to offset both the meal plan and student union fees students pay, he said.

“This could cost students a lot of money,” Mullineaux said. “T he sales from the food court helps keep student fees lower.”

For some students at the p ro te s t, it w a s n’t a b o ut making an economic mark — they just wanted a place to share their emotions following Monday night’s decision.

“I feel like black lives in America don’t matter,” said Roland Zama, a senior public health student. “This is more than Mike Brown — this is just t he ca se t h at brea ks the dam. W hile the fire is burning, we need to fuel it.”

Damien Pinkett, a graduate student at George Washington University and alumnus of this university, spent the first hour of the protest lying facedown on Stamp’s floor with a picture of Brown in his hands.

“I wanted to show everyone here a moment,” Pinkett said. “[Brown’s] body laid down on the ground for foura nd-a-ha l f hou rs. T hat’s w h a t I w a n t e d t o s h o w.

Someone had to do it.”

T h roug hout t he event,

Myke Hatcher-McLarin, a senior sociology major, gets emotional after speaking out during a protest in Stamp Student Union (top). Protestors led by Opeyemi Owoeye, a junior government and politics major, chant during the rally (left). Abhas Arya, a sophomore computer science major, holds an altered T-shirt that reads “Fear The Police” (right). sung-min kim/the diamondback which ran over its intended two hours, the group broke out in chants of “Hands up, don’t shoot,” “No justice, no peace” and “Darren Wilson, you can’t hide, we charge you with homicide.”

O woeye a lso read the stories of other black men killed by police, her voice boom i ng t h roug hout t he

cafeteria without the help of a microphone. After each story, the crowd echoed a slain man’s name: Kendrec McDade, Timothy Russell, Oscar Grant and more.

Ma ny times, students erupted in tears while chanting, their voices breaking with emotion.

T he event ended w ith

students being welcomed for wa rd to sha re thei r stories, feelings and ideas for change.

One student talked about how, when she was a little g i rl, her fat her wou ld n’t let her walk her dog after sundown for fear she would be shot.

A nother cried out that,

a lt houg h it wa s 2014, he still felt like three-fifths of a person. He said he was sick of having to tell his friends to text him when they got home, when they were safe.

Another student stood up on a chair and let her scream fill the cafeteria. trichmandbk@gmail.com

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terrapin’s turf is one of two bars whose owners have committed to provide more recycling options at the establishments. University student Annie Rice sent a letter to each bar in the city asking them to provide recycling bins. file photo/the diamondback

recycle From PAGE 1 In a College Park recycling survey sent to businesses in June, about half of the 109 businesses that responded did not recycle at least one item, such as glass a nd plastic containers, aluminum cans, steel cans, paper, cardboard and wooden pallets.

Rice and Gutin aim to encourage establishments to at least provide bins for patrons to separate their trash.

Rice sent a letter to each bar in the city earlier this semester to address these ideas. Rice and Gutin, director of the Student Government Association’s sustainability committee, then met with city and county officials Friday to start developing a pla n of student action to work in conjunction with city and county plans.

“It’s really an attempt to connect with city residents and council members to establish a better relationship with the city for sustainability,” Rice said.

Looney’s Pub has committed to the proposed initiative, and Terrapin’s Turf has verbally committed, Rice said.

“When we got approached about it by the school, we said, ‘Sure, why not?’” said Justin Moorman, the kitchen manager at Looney’s Pub. “If we are going to start having to do it, then why not take the school’s help?”

Col le ge Pa rk of fe re d a $ 25 ,00 0 re c yc l i n g g ra nt for businesses and multi-

family properties this year, giving the establishments a chance to purchase recycling dumpsters, compact ion equ ipment, i nter ior storage containers or recycling infrastructure. T he application closed Sept. 8, and two College Park businesses applied. The ad hoc com m ittee recom mended that the City Council award $2,300 to the Clarion Inn and $4,000 to the Quality Inn, which has to meet the grant with $1,000.

Loree O’Hagan, College Pa rk recycl i ng coord i nator, recommended the grant application reopen for city businesses in January so they can apply for the remaining $18,700.

“The county bill doesn’t act u a l ly requ i re t hem to recycle, but to just provide recycling opportunities,” O’Hagan said. “So even if recycling containers are there, are the businesses going to use them?”

As a part of the county recycling program, the Prince G eorge’s Cou nty Cou nci l passed a bill requiring all businesses and multi-family properties to provide recycling facilities. Though the county sent notices to local businesses, many have not followed through with a recycling plan, said Vaughn Barkdoll, an inspector in the county’s recycling section.

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R.J. Bentley’s and Cornerstone Grill and Loft owners cited in a previous meeting with Rice that limited space was inhibiting them from providing recycling opportunities, Rice said. “ We w o u l d h a v e t o separate [the bottles for recycling] honestly,” said Chris Wood, the general manager at Cornerstone.

“It will make things more difficult in the end, but obviously it is good for the environment and we do what we can to help out.”

More than half of the 548 students at this university asked in an SGAsponsored survey said they were more likely to spend money at bars that recycle than at those that do not.

Rice and Gutin aim to have all bars on board with the recycling initiative after winter break, hoping that will help spread the efforts to smaller businesses in the area.

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Ahmed, a senior economics and finance major, proposed an amendment to the Cole Field House renovation plans during the Finance Committee meeting on Nov. 20. After being approved, her changes were added to the proposal: “T he Finance Com m ittee also recommends that with regard to the student groups and activities that will be displaced as a result of the conversion of the Cole Student Activities Building, UMCP shall work with the student leadership and make a good faith effort to ensure t h at t he re s u lt a nt s pa c e needs are met in a timely and cost effective manner.”

A h med sa id she hop ed to require the university to complete a preliminary report of strategies for relocating student programs before the full Board of Regents vote i n December. D u ri ng the meeting, however, university President Wallace Loh spoke out against mandating such a report.

“To tie my ha nds as a n administrator, I don’t think that’s a prudent thing,” he said, in response to Ahmed’s request. “But to ask that we make a good faith commitment a s we h ave a lways, a lways worked w it h students — that is something I can accept.”

Ahmed reached out before the Fi na nce Com m ittee meeting to students she said she felt would be directly affected. Patrick Ronk, Student

bats From PAGE 1 bat’s calls and that causes it to make this jamming call,” Corcoran said.

This call sweeps across frequencies so it interferes with the hunting bat’s signal. The victim of the jamming still tries for the food, but they often miss, said Corcoran, who worked on this study as a postdoctoral researcher at this university and at Wake Forest University.

T h e ja m m i n g b at t h e n swoops in to grab the bug for itsel f, Corcora n sa id, unless the first bat tries to jam him back, in which case a dogfight of jamming and counter-jamming begins.

This might seem spiteful, but bats face tough competition for food. Cynthia Moss, who advised Corcoran during his time at this university, said these bats i n pa r t ic u l a r somet i me s compete against millions of other bats in their nightly search for food and need any advantage they can get.

“When bats are foraging for insects, it’s every bat for him- or herself,” said Moss, who headed this university’s Bat Lab before she and the lab relocated to Johns Hop k i n s Un ive rs it y l a s t

G overn ment A ssociation pre sid ent, sa id he u rge d Ahmed to mention student concerns at the meeting.

“I understand the motivation behind the project, but the university needs to make a commitment to student groups,” said Ronk, a junior government and politics major.

“We don’t want to oppose the renovation, but we do want to make sure accommodations are made, and that’s going to be something we pressure Loh and the athletic department on moving forward.”

Ronk said he believes much of the student body is genera l ly concerned about moving forward with the project. Ronk plans to address concerns with the SGA legislature in upcoming meetings.

Ca rlo C ol e l l a , a d m i nistration and finance vice p re s i d e nt, w a s i nvolve d with planning the proposal and cited “ample time” to address student needs before construction begins.

If approved, Colella said, phase one of construction would begin after the fall 2015 semester, which would affect the seating bowl itself a nd t he nor t h end of t he building. Phase two’s earliest possible start date would be at least a year after that, he said.

“We’re early in the development process still, but the expectation is that we’ll be able to satisfactorily address any displacements,” he said.

“Cole wasn’t always what it was today, and I think we have a history of being able to adjust as a university when

development is underway.”

But w ithout u n iversity officials consulting student groups prior to the proposal, some are left wondering what the changes will mean for them.

Student Entertain ment Events, which hosts its annual Homecoming Comedy Show in Cole Field House, could be forced to relocate to Xfinity Center or Ritchie Coliseum in coming years, said Isha Aggarwal, SEE president.

“We don’t wa nt to lose tradition but we need to keep scale at a price we can afford,” said Aggarwal, a senior communication major. “Ideally, we won’t have loss on the talent side or any astronomical change in price in compensating for a venue change.”

A s for club ten n i s, t he cou r ts’ relocat ion is u ndecided and under review, Colella said.

But for Kau and his 186member, nationally competitive club tennis team, this indecision is concerning. Kau emphasized the team’s desire to be involved in future conversations with university officials to understand the university’s priorities.

“T he ten n is cou r ts a re a p u b l i c a t h l e t i c f a c i lity anyone can use: faculty, students, community members,” Kau said. “If they replace the courts with practice fields that are only for the football team, it seems like they’re prioritizing the football program over the majority of students, the student body at large.”

spring. “They don’t cooperate the way other animals do when feeding on different kinds of food.”

In the Bat Lab, Moss and her researchers had previously found that big brown bats have a similar sound t h at s h e c a l l e d a “ fo o dcl a i m i n g c a l l,” w it h one bat approach i ng a mea l and another calling out to it. T he first bat would f ly away, yielding the food to the other bat.

Yet what Corcora n observed in the field in New Mexico and Arizona seems to be different. By analyzing 3-D fl ight patterns, Corcoran found that these bats weren’t just giving up food when they heard another bat claim it — they still sought out their prey, but they couldn’t fi nd it because their signal had been interfered with, according to the study.

Using a similar sound to the jamming call, Corcoran was also able to foil the dinner plans of bats.

T h is ev idence suggests that this is more than just a claiming call at work, Moss sa id , wh ich c a n g ive researchers new insight into how bats behave.

Gerald Wilkinson, a university biology professor, said he also believed th is study prov ided good ev i-

dence of this behavior, which had previously been speculated about but never demonstrated scientifically. Not all bats display this behavior, he said, but he wouldn’t be surprised if other studies fou nd more bats who ja m their competition.

With their sense of echolocation, bats are very different in their perception of the world, which makes them interesting to study, said Wilkinson, who has researched bats but was not involved with this study.

“We see ou r world. We don’t have to project anything to see. It’s just a passive sense for us,” he said. “These bats actually have to produce sou nd to see thei r world.

T h a t’s a s p e c i a l k i n d o f system that’s outside of what we’re normally used to.”

Corcoran, who has also stud ied si m i la r ja m m i ng behav ior i n moths try i ng to protect themselves from bats, said while this study shows there a re l i m its to echolocation, it also demonstrates how bats ca n use biosonar for advanced purposes.

“It shows a level of soph istication that’s never been documented before,” he said.

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onday night, as news of the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown rocked the nation and protests swept the Midwest and both coasts, students from this university made plans to stage nonviolent protests.

Earlier that day, about 50 students marched through the campus as a response to Brown’s Aug. 9 death protesting race relations with police and police militarization.

They voiced demands of university President Wallace Loh and university administrators — chief among them that the university establish a student review board to investigate citizen complaints, that University Police be required to wear body cameras and that the university issue a statement condemning Michael Brown’s shooting.

Likely in response to those demands, Loh sent the university community an email statement yesterday expressing pride in students’ activism and solidarity with their sympathy for Brown’s family, also encouraging an “open dialogue on critical issues of race and tolerance and justice.”

“As one who participated in the civil rights march in Washington, DC on August 28, 1963 and heard Dr. King deliver his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech,” Loh wrote, “I share our students’ frustration that, over 50 years later, our country has not yet fully bridged our racial divisions.”

Loh’s statement echoed that of President Obama, who delivered a national address shortly after the grand jury’s decision was announced. Surely aware of the weight of the decision

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on his record on race, the president trod cautiously, upholding the judicial process but urging nonviolent activism regarding race relations.

That activism is sorely needed, and the grassroots movement witnessed at this university and around the nation is admirable. It’s comforting to know this university’s president stands on the right side of social justice issues as well.

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We are proud university President Wallace Loh stands in solidarity with student protesters.

It appears as though other university officials are also working toward ensuring equality.

University Police Chief David Mitchell responded reasonably and openly in a town hall meeting Monday night to student concerns over body cameras and the Defense Department’s 1033 program, which granted University Police a number of M16 rifles and shotguns and an armored vehicle, among other surplus military equipment.

Mitchell said he expects the department will begin requiring all officers to wear body cameras in the next four weeks, and he explained that the military-grade weapons would prove crucial in on-campus shooter scenarios.

As Florida State University saw last week and this university saw in September with a potential hostage situation in the Main Administration

Building, which eventually was revealed as a hoax, active shooter scenarios are all too real. This university is also required by federal law to have lethal weapons to protect the nuclear material used in its nuclear engineering program.

Questions regarding University Police’s military-grade weapons have been answered to a satisfactory degree, and the equipment could be essential to protecting the lives of students and other community members in the event of a campus shooter.

Fostering continual dialogue with University Police and other university departments regarding diversity training and responses to student complaints, however, is still essential.

This university should explore the creation of a “political organ” to air institutional concerns, as students demanded Monday. Whether that would come as an arm of the Student Government Association or a new review board is up to administrators and activists to agree upon, but such an organization could provide marginalized students with a voice and checking power.

“The issues presented in Ferguson are issues that face America generally,” Loh wrote in his email. “A university is a place where differing views can be freely and safely expressed.”

With university officials on equality’s side and receptive to student concerns, this university is a haven for constructive action on race relations. Students and officials have proven they can come to the table with reasonable demands and transparent answers, respectively, and that bodes well for everyone in the university community.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

Diversity of belief Excessive labeling belittles individuality not believe in an ‘ism,’ he should believe in himself.”

Operating under the faulty assumption that a group of individuals can have identical opinions, we end up defining our beliefs in the terms used by those before us. In effect, the individuality we are trying to explore is curtailed by an adherence to the preset definitions of the groups we are forced to ascribe ourselves to. In this environment, it becomes safer to limit the scope of our beliefs than risk the isolation and voicelessness that often accompany independent thought.

Schools and businesses pride themselves on diversity, thinking of it only in terms of finite categories like race, political affiliation and religion.

Doing so ignores the individual differences among the members of a given group. That would be like saying the rainbow only consists of the colors in ROYGBIV, effectively dismissing the teals, chartreuses and magentas that not only make a rainbow more beautiful, but help connect and unify all the other hues.

Corny analogy aside, the compulsion to organize our diverse beliefs into discrete, labeled categories fails to recognize the small differences that add up to a person’s unique ideology.

That is not to say that unifying under a single label is inherently destructive.

History was written by those who rallied behind a shared idea and inspired great change. But this cannot be done without acknowledging and respecting the distinct experiences and opinions held by each person, and in doing so, reflecting a deeper and truer diversity than that which we are forced to mark on an application.

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magine your English professor gave you a prompt that read: “What do you believe?”

A million thoughts and ideas probably come flooding into your mind, and your only limit is how fast you can type them all out. Before you know it, you will have a mile-long list ranging in topics from morality to religion to politics. Unfortunately, the majority of the opportunities we are given to define our own belief systems, both personally and in academia, do not allow for this kind of expansive and unrestrained thinking.

Instead of your professor giving you the prompt on a blank page and telling you to write freely, he hands out a checklist of specific criteria to agree or disagree with, and once your data is compiled, you are told your affiliations. Without the chance to discover our beliefs outside of predefined conventions, we are automatically assigned a label that reflects only a majority of our opinions and ignores “outliers” that do not fit comfortably into the existing schema.

Attempts to diverge from the principles of established groups, parties or factions are met with resistance. In turn, we comprise our ideals or prematurely end our philosophical investigation so as not to create conflict.

Without being able to question and ponder uninhibitedly, all ability for personal growth is lost.

Our opinions are far more varied than the “isms” we allow ourselves Danielle Wilkin is a senior biology and to be defined by. Ferris Bueller ex- science education major. She can be plained it best: “A person should reached at dwilkindbk@gmail.com.

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Having the pride to save Cole Field House

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An open letter to President Loh

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remember opening my admissions letter earlier this year knowing in my heart that if I didn’t get accepted to this university, I wouldn’t have the means to learn engineering anywhere else. You see, growing up I had only seen snippets of the university because my cousin had the privilege of going here. I remember my first sight of Memorial Chapel as you go southbound on Route 1 and the first time I saw the soccer wonderland that is Cole Field House, and I recall thinking to myself: I would give anything to go here.

From the very beginning, I did not think I would make it. I had let society label me; from the start of my time here in the United States, I knew that I was undocumented, or an illegal, depending on which side of the issue one’s allegiance lies on.

From middle school to high school, I always questioned my every decision regarding education, wondering, why should I try? After all, in my mind, I had already defeated myself due to my own despair. It was like this for many years up until my last year of high school, when I realized how hard it was to see all my friends applying for college. It was a bittersweet feeling, knowing they had been accepted to college and I couldn’t even get past the residency questions on the application.

At that time, I did not even bother applying because I had no legal documentation whatsoever, and I knew the price to come here was one that my family and I could not fathom.

Yet, seeing my friends’ faces of happiness made me want to fight for my chance at an acceptance letter from a university.

I decided to start at Montgomery College, as I could pay for it by working.

I went on to make the Dean’s List my first semester and felt happy knowing that if I continued this way and fixed my immigration status, I’d be able to come to this university after two years.

However, during midterms my second semester, my family and I were put into deportation proceedings, and my life changed. All of a sudden my point had been proven: Why should I try?

I spent my time in jail with my dad as my cellmate and realized I had indeed wasted my time; I should have just worked and not invested all I had into going to school. I felt ashamed of my dream and where I fell into society. But then, allies like you alongside a raging community stood up and granted me a chance.

When we were released, I came out and realized the significance of my life.

After all, though I was skeptical, I had tried so hard to attain an education that

it ended up being the reason I got out of jail.

Later on that year, I knew that education had to take a backseat and I realized that the only way I’d be able to go to school was if I fought for this state’s Dream Act. I rallied and spoke at so many places, and that’s when I first heard of you, and then I heard your Peruvian Spanish mesmerize whole audiences, when those in the crowd sat in awe thinking, “¡Wow, este asiático habla bien el español!”

Or better yet, I have seen and felt the happiness to know that you were on our side for Question 4 on this state’s ballot. I have been here for a semester, and working to keep putting myself through school is extremely difficult.

Nonetheless, I realized that though my time here is short, I am extremely blessed because of all that you have done for my community.

You have been a warrior for us and have given me not just the chance at an education but a voice.

I commemorate your efforts on this Thanksgiving weekend and wish you the best in all your endeavors.

Thank you for standing up for us.

Jorge Steven Acuña is a junior chemical engineering major. He can be reached at stevenacuna11@gmail.com.

ride. It is defined as “a sense of one’s proper dignity or value.” Maryland Pride is the slogan that has dominated this university’s athletics for the past several years. The more news I hear involving the Terps, I sense that two of our university’s leaders — university President Wallace Loh and Athletic Director Kevin Anderson — do not truly know the definition of the latter half of our athletic department’s current slogan.

There have been signs for more than three years that Anderson and Loh might be misguided in their “fearless” leadership of our university. In the quest for the Terrapins football team to go from “good to great,” university alumnus and former football coach Ralph Friedgen was fired from his position after an 8-4 regular season and bowl win.

Loh called Friedgen and his wife “loyal Terps.” Perhaps they were at the time, but upon being fired, Friedgen said, “They talk about Maryland pride. They didn’t show me a whole lot of Maryland pride.”

Then there was the move. The move from 61 years of history and tradition. The move from 61 years of pride. The move from the ACC to the Big Ten. The Board of Regents held the meetings necessary to make this move a reality behind closed doors and without proper notice, in violation of state law. In addition, the lawsuit that followed cost our already cash-strapped athletic department $31.4 million in withheld profits.

Through all of these events, and throughout life on the campus since 1955, firmly stood Cole Field House. Built for a price of $3.3 million, this building has played host to history in every sense of the word. The latest proof that our “fearless” ideas are leading us farther away from our pride and dignity is the proposal to convert

Cole Field House to a “state-of-theart” indoor football facility.

A few of the more famous events held at Cole include the Final Four in 1966 and 1970, the defeat of seven No. 1-ranked teams, DeMatha Catholic High School’s victory against Power Memorial Academy (and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, then Lew Alcindor) and the first ever nationally televised women’s basketball game in 1975.

Of the men’s basketball jerseys hanging in the rafters at Xfinity Center, all but one played in Cole. The jerseys include those of Len Bias, Juan Dixon — the list goes on.

The entertainment alumni include Elvis, Queen and Bob Dylan, to name a few. Let’s not forget Cole’s global significance in 1972 as it hosted “pingpong diplomacy” with China and the Soviet gymnastics team featuring gold medalist Olga Korbut.

I and many others believe the need for an indoor football facility is debatable, as seen by the success, or lack thereof — see Indiana’s 67-142 record since their indoor facility was built — of fellow conference members who already have such a building. If ever it becomes necessary, then not here, not now.

In solely keeping the facade to this storied building, are we really preserving its history? If the inside of the White House or Monticello or Westminster Abbey were completely gutted, would we in fact be maintaining their histories? This is the question of significance that our university’s leaders must consider before sealing the fate of a building steeped in history.

I firmly believe that the conversion of Cole would eradicate a portion of our university’s history and a center of national significance for more than half a century. My fearless idea: This university should save Cole before it is too late, and with it save our dignity, our value and our Maryland Pride.

Ian Gleason is a 2013 alumnus. He can be reached at ianerhs@terpmail.umd.edu.

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franchise faves fail to level up Latest entries in enormous video game series bring blockbuster talent to the table without ever managing to rise above their glitches

November video games include Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Of the three blockbuster games, only Call of Duty manages to be playable. photos courtesy of (left to right) gamestm.co.uk, youtube.com and brilliantlyepic.com

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Assassin’s Creed: Unity Available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Played on PS4 After two excursions to the Americas, Assassin’s Creed returns to its European roots with Assassin’s Creed: Unity.

Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Unity should have the proper ingredients for a fantastic return to form for the series.

Unfortunately, Unity’s litany of technical issues and bafflingly awful design decisions ruin what might have otherwise been a great game.

The core free-running mechanics have gotten a much needed face-lift — the new buttons dedicated to parkour-up and parkour-down are a godsend — but bugs still abound, compounded by a spectacularly awful frame rate, at least on the PS4 version.

It’s still far too easy to accidentally climb up or over tables while chasing down a

target, and climbing up and down buildings is frequently impeded by finicky ledgegrabbing controls.

Co m ba t h a s so m e h ow fared even worse. The excellent Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor recently managed to make combat both challenging and satisfying. Unity, in contrast, makes every encounter the equivalent of fighting in a giant pit of molasses. The fighting is now more difficult than in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, sure, but it’s also terribly arduous to slog through.

Players are meant to buff fighting stats through the in-game economy, but Unity has a total of four (!) separate currency systems, each of which is earned through different means and is required for different types of upgrades. Oh, and there are microtransactions to boot.

Were it not for the stunning recreation of Paris, Unity would have almost no redeeming qualities. As it stands, the game can be recommended for the historical sightseeing and virtually nothing else.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Available on PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360. Played on PS4.

Credit where credit is due: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare does actually push the aging franchise into new territory. The much ballyhooed exo-suit abilities have, in fact, shaken up the core mechanics of the game. Now that double jumping, boosting and other power abilities are part of the basic tool set, Call of Duty feels like Call of Duty on speed.

Multiplayer is much more engaging than Call of Duty has been in years. Fights are more frenetic and require vertical situational awareness.

Weapons feel more exotic and punchy. Double jumping and then power-punching an opponent never gets old.

The single-player front, however, is more of a mixed bag. While the developers have done an admirable job shaking up the usual Call of Duty mission design, Advanced Warfare still feels like a rigidly scripted corri-

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Here’s looking at you, Selfie (because no one else did)

By Dustin Levy @DustinBLevy Staff writer Oh, Selfie. You never stood a chance.

The already canceled ABC show appeared to have an interesting premise and talented cast, but that didn’t compel me to watch the rookie show this fall. Why? Because it’s called Selfie. The show’s swift and predictable cancellation earlier this month proved that naming a television series should not be taken lightly.

Here’s a tip: When giving a televi-

sion show a title, think about how someone would feel about telling his or her friends about it. Word of mouth is crucial in building an audience for a new show, and fans of Selfie (if they existed) might have felt hesitant about disclosing their latest television obsession to their peers because of its lame name.

It’s unfortunate because Selfie itself showed some promise. The regrettably titled show was a modern reimagining of My Fair Lady in which a romantic relationship is ignited over a man attempting to improve the social status of his love interest. The cast included the talents of Karen

dor shooter.

T h e n e w toys e n d u p making the stifling level design feel more claustrophobic. You can double jump, but only within the designated areas, with a legion of invisible walls forcefully trapping you within the confines of the play area.

Advanced Warfare also continues the series’ ongoing habit of misusing Hollywood talent. Modern Warfare 2 got an utterly anonymous Hans Zimmer so u n d t ra c k , G h os t s wa s written by Stephen Gaghan while Advanced Warfare boasts both Zero Dark Thirty’s Mark Boal as a writer and House of Cards’ Kevin Spacey as its main villain.

Spacey’s motion capture wo rk i s to p - n o tc h , b u t the impressive animation and modeling only serve to breathe life into a confused mishmash of anti-PMC bulls-- and broad, unconvincing characterization.

So while multiplayer gets a much needed shot in the arm, single player is still the same old Call of Duty with a fresh coat of paint.

Gillan (Doctor Who) and John Cho (Star Trek Into Darkness) and garnered a 57 score on Metacritic (with few straight-up negative reviews). So it’s evident that Selfie’s title — and its major yuck factor — played a major part in the show’s brief run.

This appears to be a continuous problem for ABC with such a simple solution. Solid shows like Cougar Town and Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (which would have been slightly better if they left it uncensored) never managed to find an audience on the channel, largely due to names that misrepresented the show or sounded flat-out silly.

ABC managed to avoid turning away viewers with its new comedy Black-ish, the No. 2 top series debut of the fall season, but, in this case, the ill-advised title is also intriguing enough to grab viewers’ attention.

The CW’s Jane the Virgin, which received a full-season order, has simi-

Halo: The Master Chief Collection

even worse. Everything in the menu takes time to load: map selection, game-mode selection, data syncing (whatever that means), etc. If you should have the gall to create your own maps in Forge, then prepare for immense disappointment.

Custom maps and game modes in Halo: The Master Chief Collection seem to constantly exist in a state of quasi-deletion.

We could access a Forge map one round, only for it to disappear from the menu the next.

Worse still, the game would flat out crash half of the times we tried to load up a multiplayer game. Sometimes, the game would crash to menu after a bout of loading, while other times the game would freeze mid-countdown on a terrifying sound effect loop before outright crashing to the system home screen.

All the added value in the world can’t make up for this buggy, borderline unplayable mess. Halo: The Master Chief Collection may very well get fixed in the near future, but it’s damn near unforgivable for this game to have been released in this state.

Available on Xbox One. Played on Xbox One. Halo: The Master Chief Collection is a shambles, an utterly broken and heartbreaking piece of crap. What should have been easily the best value of the holiday season has, instead, turned out to be a frustrating grab bag of bugs, tasteless bling, interminable loading screens and ruined dreams.

In theory, Halo: The Master Chief Collection combines Halo 1, 2, 3 and 4 into one game disc and one UI, allowing players to seamlessly jump between any of the four games at will. In reality, pretty much only the campaigns of each game even work. And out of these four, only Halo 3’s single player runs at a decent clip.

Multiplayer, on the other hand, is completely broken.

I’ve only managed to play one game of Gungoose CTF in the past week through matchmaking. Every other attempt has either resulted in an error message or several minutes of fruitless waiting.

Split-screen is somehow

larly succeeded with an ostentatious name.

ABC should take some pointers from two of the best purveyors of quality television: HBO and Netflix.

The latter manages to build interest with its titles, like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, even if those titles aren’t the best fits for the respective shows (I mean, the jumpsuits are tan now). HBO, on the other hand, is simple and to the point: The Newsroom. Girls. Veep. These titles are just as effective and cut right to the subject matters of each show.

Even Game of Thrones is a particularly impressive title given that the source material comes from a series called A Song of Ice and Fire, which would make for a much less appealing name for a television series.

The title of a show as an indicator for success is not foolproof, but more and more often I find myself scratching my head at the crappy names of

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BROWN From PAGE 8 said. “If they give me more than that, I’m going to take it.”

After sitting out last season because of a universityordered suspension, Wes Brown began his 2014 campaign as the Terps’ thirdstring running back behind junior Albert Reid and starter Brandon Ross.

But as Reid was sidelined with a knee injury and Ross continued to struggle with ball security issues, Brown slowly took on a larger role in the offense. And the powerful tailback has made his first two starts in the past two games.

Brown said the increase in opportunities also stemmed from his steady improvement, both mentally and physically.

After his extended time away from the team, the sophomore struggled to adjust at the beginning of the season despite his raw ability.

“When you have a whole

CYCLONES From PAGE 8 But it was efficient offensive play that dominated the opening few minutes of the contest, as Iowa State scored on five consecutive possessions while the Terps struggled to match their more highly touted foe.

When the scoring barrage slowed, the Terps’ ball movement and balanced scoring shone through. Turgeon’s team dished out nine assists to four turnovers in the first half, and each Terps starter scored at least four points in the opening 20 minutes.

They then took a 10-point lead when Trimble hit fellow freshman guard Dion Wiley for

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year off, you’re not going to remember everything, all your reads, all your keys, what you’ve got to read when the quarterback pulls the ball, who you’ve got to block,” Brown said. “So it was just those small things that I had to get adjusted [to] — the technique, getting my footwork back under me. And then after that, [the coaches] saw that I was progressively working on it and getting better and realized that they wanted to give me a chance and trust me. And I had to take on that responsibility.”

Despite his improvement, Brown said the Terps’ performance on the ground Saturday had less to do with his and C.J. Brown’s play and more to do with the commitment from the offensive line.

Edsall said he challenged the unit during the week after an underwhelming performance against Michigan State.

He also made a switch at left tackle, moving senior Jake Wheeler into the starting lineup.

“As a coach, sometimes you have that gut feeling that you’ve got to make a move, and you make the move because you think it’s going to help your team win,” Edsall said.

“It paid off, and a lot of credit to Jake.”

Now a fixture in the Terps’ starting lineup, Wes Brown was asked after the game if he’s playing the best football of his career right now.

The sophomore said he was, but not because of any personal achievement.

Just as he did on those seven rushes at the end of regulation against the Wolverines, Brown said he’s doing whatever it takes to secure a victory.

“This is the first time I’ve ever played the game and not been selfish. Ever,” Brown said.

“It’s not about me anymore; it’s about this team. So I don’t care what I do in the game. If I make a good block and C.J.’s protected, that’s my job. That’s what I was meant to do.”

a corner 3-pointer with 14:10 to play in regulation.

“The past two days were really good for us playing a ranked opponent, Iowa State, and Arizona State was pretty good, too,” Trimble said. “It was good practice for us going forward.”

Over the next 14 minutes, Iowa State made several pushes at the lead, but the Terps had an answer for each one. Nickens was especially important in putting away the Cyclones by knocking down six of 10 shots on the night.

“The way they were doubling the post, the perimeter shots were wide open,” Nickens said. “Whenever I had an open look I just let it go.”

With Nickens firing away,

the offense moving the ball to post 13 team assists and the defense stifling Iowa State throughout the night, the Terps never appeared outmatched or uncomfortable on the floor.

A n d a b o u t t wo h o u rs after breaking their pregame huddle, they walked off the court with a marquee win early in the season and the belief that the performance was a sign of things to come.

“This is a really coachable team, this is a team that really believes in each other, this is a team that has a lot of really good pieces,” Turgeon said.

“They’re really dedicated, and they have some things they want to try to accomplish.”

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rETRIEVERS From PAGE 8 six seasons. So Sunday’s loss snapped a long streak of playing deep into the postseason.

“Their program has four-year guys,” Cirovski said. “In my 22 years here, we’ve run into great four-year programs. One year it’s American, one year it’s Georgetown, one year it’s George Mason, one year its UMBC. We seem to always be running into a team that is having one of their best years in history.”

During the contest, the Terps largely failed to generate offense and suffered their first shutout since Sept. 30, when they lost to Georgetown, 1-0. The Terps registered five shots against the Retrievers in the first half but were outshot 9-4 in the final 45 minutes.

“The first half, [the Terps] played at a much higher, quicker pace than we ever even thought of,” UMBC coach Pete Caringi said. “But in the second half, we obviously did well, played a lot quicker.”

During their 11-game winning streak, the Terps’ scoring came from an array of players.

But on Sunday, they seemed more like the team from September that appeared in danger of missing the national tournament for the first time since 2000.

UMBC benefited from a swift and efficient counterattack, continually putting pressure on Cirovski’s backline. The Terps, meanwhile, had trouble penetrating the scoring third, as the Retrievers backline stymied many attempts just outside the box.

GREYHOUNDS From PAGE 8 they are only five games into a season in which they lost three starting seniors, including three-time All-American Alyssa Thomas.

Guard Laurin Mincy, the Terps’ lone senior this season, spoke about the importance of the youngsters listening players who contributed to last season’s deep postseason run.

“We have juniors and sophomores that have had Final Four experience as well, so following suit is really important,” Mincy said. “We have all been there and know what to do, so freshmen should follow it.”

The Terps’ freshmen have provided a solid boost off the bench this season. Three freshmen are averaging more than five points per

“IN MY 22 YEARS HERE, WE’VE RUN INTO GREAT FOUR-YEAR PROGRAMS. ...WE SEEM TO ALWAYS BE RUNNING INTO A TEAM THAT IS HAVING ONE OF THEIR BEST YEARS IN HISTORY.” SASHO CIROVSKI

Terrapins men’s soccer coach And in the 70th minute, Harris’ left-footed volley gave the Retrievers a one-goal lead they never relinquished.

“They always get up,” midfielder Dan Metzger said. “They always find a way to get motivated playing against us.”

Cirovski added: “Look, that’s our reality.

Everywhere we go, we play in front of record crowds. We get everyone’s best ‘A’ game.

Ludwig Field is a special stage. We’ve taken a lot of punches from a lot of people, and we’ve been on the top end the majority of times. Today, unfortunately, they found the effort goal, and they get to move on. And that’s soccer.”

The Retrievers will hope to parlay their momentum into a successful third-round match against Louisville, and a victory would leave them one win shy of the College Cup. But in the moments after the contest, the team and its fans celebrated their third-ever defeat of the Terps, and their first since 2000.

“There’s no shame,” Cirovski said. “There’s no shame in losing to UMBC.” jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

game this season, but those three also have turned the ball over a combined 19 times.

Turnovers have plagued the Terps recently with at least 19 miscues in each of the last two games. Frese believes that number will go down as the team becomes more comfortable together.

“We still have to get more games under our belt in terms of having a great feel for one another,” Frese said. “I expect that will clean up.”

But with three formidable opponents lined up in the next week, the Terps will need to make improvements quickly.

“For us, it’s just trying to find our consistency level,” Frese said. “When we are locked in and we are consistent, we can beat anyone.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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MEN’S SOCCER

UMBC makes program history, topples rival in win Retrievers reach NCAA tournament third round for first time, claim in-state bragging rights with 1-0 victory

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Staff writer Sasho Cirovski sat alone at a white table in front of reporters on Sunday, speaking solemnly of the season-ending loss his Terrapins men’s soccer team had just suffered at the hands of intrastate rival UMBC in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

As the coach spoke, chants and hollers from the rejoicing UMBC fans outside the press tent were audible.

The postgame celebration, during which some fans rushed the field, had moved to the parking lot.

The victory marked the furthest a Retrievers Division I team has ad-

vanced in a national tournament in any sport. Not to mention, it came against the Terps, the neighboring perennially dominant program that boasts three national championships.

Sunday’s win didn’t just ensure UMBC a third-round tournament match against No.13-seed Louisville; it served as the upending of a historically dominant rival.

“A lot of people didn’t pick us to win. That’s the thing,” said UMBC midfielder Malcolm Harris, who slotted the game-winner in the 70th minute. “We wanted to prove everyone wrong, and proving everyone wrong makes us feel a lot better about ourselves.”

When the teams played to a scoreless draw on Sept. 5, Ludwig Field was

crowded with fans of both programs, making for a lively environment. The game’s result, though, was anticlimactic for fan bases eager for state bragging rights.

While the Retrievers advanced to the third round, the defeat ensured the earliest end to a season for the Terps since 2001, when Cirovski’s team fell in the second round.

They followed that up with three consecutive NCAA semifinals appearances before winning the national title in 2005.

Cirovski earned another NCAA Championship in 2008, and his teams had advanced past the third round in all but one of the previous See RETRIEVERS, Page 7

MIDFIELDER MAEL CORBOZ sits on Ludwig Field as UMBC players and fans celebrate the Retrievers’ 1-0 victory over the Terps in Sunday’s NCAA tournament second-round game. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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Terps take down Iowa St, 72-63 Squad secures CBE Classic title behind balanced scoring, defense

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazReports Senior staff writer

running back wes Brown tries to evade a Michigan tackler on the outside during the Terps’ 23-16 victory over the Wolverines on Saturday. photo courtesy of greg fiume/maryland athletics

‘It’s About the Team’ Ever-improving Wes Brown cements Terps’ victory at Michigan with gritty late-game running

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer The Terrapins football offense took over possession Saturday at Michigan with a seven-point lead and 4:16 remaining in the final quarter. The Wolverines had one timeout remaining, and a couple first downs running the ball could cement a victory for coach Randy Edsall in the program’s first trip to The Big House as a member of the Big Ten. The Terps never gave the ball back.

Quarterback C.J. Brown handed off to Wes Brown on seven straight snaps. The running back rushed for gains of seven, six, nine, two, six, one and one yards on those seven plays, and two of those carries earned first downs. Michigan coach Brady Hoke called his final timeout with 47 seconds remaining, but the stoppage did nothing to prevent a 23-16 Terps win as

the final seconds eventually ticked off the clock.

And one week after Edsall’s rushing attack compiled just six yards in a loss to Michigan State at Byrd Stadium, the Terps broke 140 yards on the ground Saturday for the first time since Oct. 18 and just the fourth time all season. “The defense has been doing a heck of a job all year,” said C.J. Brown, who led the Terps with 87 rushing yards against the Wolverines.

“For us to go out and end on the offense’s terms, run the ball in [the] four-minute [offense], get those first downs, make them use the timeout and end the game with the ball in our hands is huge.”

Wes Brown rushed for 39 yards and a touchdown in the win over Michigan, but none more important than the 32 he gained on the final possession.

“My mindset is just to punish the guy that comes to try to tackle me and hold onto the ball with two hands,” Wes Brown See BROWN, Page 7

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After the Terrapins men’s basketball team broke its huddle at the Sprint Center Tuesday night, the five starters trotted onto the court for tip-off and the bevy of unfamiliar challenges the matchup with No. 13 Iowa State presented.

For the first time this sea so n , t h e Te r ps we re playing their second game in two nights after finishing off a win over Arizona State about 24 hours earlier. The young group was also facing its first ranked opponent in the Cyclones. And a Terps team that has yet to play a true road game had to cope w i t h a n ove r wh e l m i n g number of Iowa State supporters in attendance.

Despite each daunting aspect to the tilt, coach Mark Turgeon’s squad jumped out to an early lead and never faltered. Behind a well-rounded offense and swarming defense, the Terps stayed in front of the Cyclones throughout the second half and pulled out a 72-63 win and a College Basketball Experience Hall of Fame Classic championship.

Last season, the Terps didn’t knock off a ranked op-

ponent until beating then-No. 5 Virginia in their final game of the regular season. Tuesday’s win also pushed the team to 5-0 for the first time since the 2006-07 season, and has Turgeon, a fourth-year coach, off to the best start of his oftcritized tenure.

“I don’t think of it as my fourth year or this year or that year, we’re just trying to make the most of this team,” Turgeon said. “Right now, we’re really getting better.

This was a great tournament for us.”

Forwards Jake Layman and Jared Nickens keyed the accomplishment with 15 points apiece to lead four players in double figures. Point guard Melo Trimble, the tournament MVP who scored 31 points in Monday’s win over the Sun Devils, added 11 points.

The Terps defense, meanwhile, held Iowa State to 29.7 percent shooting from the field and the Cyclones leading scorer, forward Georges Niang, managed just 10 points — more than 12 below his season average.

“Our defense was really dialed in,” Turgeon said. “We knew personnel. We knew who to help off of and not to help off of.”

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Frese not satisfied despite 22-point win over Loyola Heading into tough three-game stretch, including tournament in Puerto Rico, coach demands improvement

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer Monday night’s game against Loyola offered a final tune-up opportunity for the Terrapins women’s basketball team before it embarks on a threegame road trip featuring three opponents who are either ranked or receiving votes.

The Terps emerged with a 22-point victory over the Greyhounds, a result that would typically provide some reassurance. But coach Brenda Frese’s mood was far from positive after the contest, as her players didn’t show the signs of improvement she ex-

pected after an underwhelming performance Saturday at George Washington. Turnover issues persisted, the Terps struggled shooting the ball from long range and th team lacked agression.

Viable excuses existed. It was the No. 10 Terps’ fifth game in a 10-day span, and they were leaving for Puerto Rico early the following morning. But Frese and her squad acknowledged they need to play better despite all of the outside factors at work.

“There’s a lot to juggle when you’re talking about a college student-athlete academically,” Frese said. “Might have your mind getting ready for that

80-degree temperature at the beach. But at the end of the day, we respect the game in terms of how it needs to look and how we need to play.”

After Saturday’s 75-65 win over the Colonials, guard Lexie Brown said the Terps won’t be able to wait until the second half to hit their stride in future games. But again on Monday, the Terps failed to find a rhythm until after the break.

While it didn’t matter against a winless Loyola team, it could prove costly in the Terps’ upcoming games against James Madison, Washington State and No. 2 Notre Dame.

“We need to come in and start the game off how we

did the second half,” center Brionna Jones said. “It doesn’t matter if we’re going to Puerto Rico or not.”

The Terps lacked the energy they displayed in the first four games of the season. Entering Monday night’s contest, they were averaging more than 22 free throw attempts per game, but they took just five attempts from the line in the win, all courtesy of Jones.

“We can be more aggressive, and I know we will be next game,” she said.

The Terps are still adjusting to a new-look roster that features four freshmen. And Center brionna jones steps to defend a Loyola player during the Terps’ 65-43 victory See GREYHOUNDS, Page 7 over the Greyhounds on Monday night at Xfinity Center. alexander jonesi/the diamondback