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JOHN KELLY’S WASHINGTON

Watch them blossom:

At N Street Village, a D.C.

charity, homeless women

create floral art. B3

MARYLAND

Advocates for four HBCUs

are seeking resolution of a

13-year-old lawsuit over

inequitable funding. B5

OBITUARIES

Buddhist monk Thich Tri

Quang wielded formidable

political power during the

32 Vietnam War. B6

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BY DAN MORSE

On a Monday in August, au- thorities say, Percell “Pete” Ar- rington sold purported Percocet pills to two women at a restau- rant in Germantown, Md. One woman went home, swal- lowed a single tablet and within 15 minutes had passed out, ac- cording to court records. Her boyfriend called 911. Paramedics revived her with doses of nalox- one and took her to a hospital. She survived. The second woman also went home and, alone, took a single tablet. She was not found until hours later, slumped at the edge of her bed, when her daughter arrived home just after 11 p.m. “She was cold and stiff,” the daughter said recently in an in- terview, barely audible as she described the memory, “and obvi- ously gone.” The pills the women took, po- lice say, were stamped as “Perco- cet,” a brand-name pain medica- tion. But they were fake and contained fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful SEE DEATH ON B5

Overdose

death leads

to charge

of murder

BY MARISSA J. LANG

AND PETER HERMANN

Demonstrators angry with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gath- ered outside the White House on Wednesday to protest his visit to Washington, chanting “Turkey out of Syria” and “Turkey is a terrorist!” The gathering came amid height- ened security to avoid a repeat of Erdogan’s last visit in 2017, when clashes broke out between his security guards and a group protesting him outside the Turkish ambassador’s resi- dence at Sheridan Circle.

BY DONNA ST. GEORGE

Responding to concerns about a possible conflict between Ad- vanced Placement exams and a major Muslim holiday next school year, the College Board will expand testing options for the holy day of Eid al-Fitr in 2021. College Board officials said Wednesday that tests planned for May 13 of that year — the expected date of the Eid holiday — would be given a second time on May 18, to support students observing the

holiday. “We understand that obser- vant students may not be in school on Thursday, May 13, 2021, and that some schools may choose to close for the holiday,” College Board spokesman Jerome White said in an email. “Our goal is to provide flexibility in the exam schedule to best support students and schools.” The move goes a step beyond the College Board’s usual ap- proach. It routinely provides an alternative testing time for stu-

dents who miss exams for reli- gious reasons, emergencies or other circumstances. But next school year, a full exam day will be repeated. The complete AP exam schedule for 2021 will be posted in mid-December. Muslim advocates and parents in suburban Maryland cheered the change, which they said they hoped would lead to a day off for students in the state’s largest school system, in Montgomery County.

With AP testing in mind, Mont- gomery County school officials drafted three 2020-2021 calendar proposals, all of which showed Eid al-Fitr as a regular school day — in contrast to the past several years, when Eid holidays were marked as teacher professional days, so that students could be off. Muslim advocates, students and parents learned of the conflict in late October, turning out for a school board meeting with signs saying “Equality for Eid” SEE MUSLIM ON B4

2021 AP tests to be o≠ered outside Muslim holiday

On a wall above a light switch, just inside the Washington dorm room of Arlin Karina Téllez Martínez, hangs a card no bigger than a man’s palm. It is not a decoration. It is a reminder. On one side is the image of a guardian angel. On the other, a prayer. The college sophomore was 4 years old when her grandmother in Mexico handed it to her and said goodbye. Martínez kept it close in the days and months that followed. She kept it close as she and her mother crossed the Rio Grande and took refuge in a stranger’s remote trailer. She kept it close as another stranger drove her to the Houston house of an aunt and uncle she didn’t recognize, with the promise that her mother would soon join her. She kept it even closer after she learned that her mother had been caught by immigration SEE VARGAS ON B8

‘Our fight

is beyond

DACA,’ says

recipient

Theresa

Vargas

MICHAEL ROBINSON CHAVEZ/THE WASHINGTON POST

Demonstrators at Lafayette Square on Wednesday included people upset with Turkey’s invasion of northeast Syria targeting American-allied Syri- an Kurds, which followed President Trump’s ordered withdrawal of troops along the border. Other protest points

Erdogan visit mobilizes

Lafayette Square protest

‘TURKEY OUT OF SYRIA’ AMONG RALLYING CRIES

No repeat of 2017 violence amid heavy security

included the century-old mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, which the U.S. House of Representa- tives recently recognized as genocide. The demonstration came as Erdo- gan visited with Trump in the White House and the leaders held a news conference. The two leaders discussed the situation in Syria and Turkey’s purchase of a Russian missile defense system, and Trump referred to Erdo- gan as “a very good friend.” Several lawmakers voiced concern over Erdo- gan’s visit, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who SEE PROTEST ON B2

In a video called “Oath,” U.S. Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) recites the pledge she took during her years in the Navy.

District and federal officers keep watch Wednesday over protesters in Lafayette Square during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to the White House. There were some minor skirmishes in the crowd, and when a motorcade pulled out of the White House, demonstrators broke into shouts of “Terrorist Erdogan!”

BY JENN ABELSON

Nearly a year after an adenovirus outbreak killed a freshman at the University of Maryland, an outside review found the college followed protocols in how it re- sponded to the crisis but made numerous recommendations for handling campuswide emergencies. Olivia Paregol, an 18-year-old freshman, died of adenovirus on Nov. 18, 2018, after suffering from health problems during the several months she lived in a mold- infested dorm. A Washington Post report in May revealed that university officials waited 18 days to tell students about the pres- ence of adenovirus that eventual- ly sickened about 45 students. The 141-page report concluded the university’s response to the adenovirus and mold outbreaks at the College Park campus “should have been viewed and handled as campus-wide emergencies... which would have provided earlier opportunities for escalation and more effective emergency management for both incidents.” In the wake of the outbreaks, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) requested an investigation, and the University System of Mary- land Board of Regents picked six individuals with “subject matter expertise” to conduct a review. The panel said it examined thou- sands of documents and inter- viewed university employees, contractors that worked for the college and Paregol’s father. The report concluded that the university “adhered to the re- quirements of all local, state and federal regulations and statutes governing reporting and commu- nication concerning infectious diseases” and “the response to adenovirus was in accordance with the University’s own inter- nal policies and procedures.” But the report identified “areas of weakness” and included SEE REPORT ON B2

U-Md. met

protocol on

outbreaks,

report says

Outside panel identifies ‘areas of weakness’ in wake of campus death

BY JENNA PORTNOY

As the nation tunes into im- peachment hearings into Presi- dent Trump, U.S. Rep. Elaine Luria is circulating an unusual, cine- matic video that lays out her support for the proceedings — a peril- ous position for a Democrat from a Virginia Beach district that Trump carried in 2016. In the 2½-minute video, Luria

recites the oath to protect the Constitution that she took six times during 20 years in the Navy and a seventh time in January when she was sworn in to Con- gress — a sacred promise that she said resonates with her military- heavy district. The video, which has been viewed 1.8 million times since its release on Veterans Day, is Luria’s attempt to inoculate herself against attacks from Trump sup- SEE LURIA ON B4

Va.’s Luria uses video to argue for House inquiry

MICHELLE LURIA

Risky move for congresswoman whose district Trump won