As has been advertised on the UMBC homepage, the basketball season tips off this afternoon and evening. The women’s game is already in progress at George Wasington down in D.C., but the men hit the home hardwood tonight at 7 p.m. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you already know that the Retrievers made…

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The Student Organizations Committee has revoked recognition for thirty student organizations effective November 12. For twenty-nine, loss of recognition was a result of failure to submit the registration form. The other one was unable to maintain the five-member minimum.  According to a memo released by SOC, unrecognized orgs can no longer reserve space, spend UMBC…

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The second of the “underground” ads that UMBC is posting on youtube has just gone up. How do you feel about this secretive advertising campaign? Do you think the school should be more upfront about their ad campaigns or do you like this form of advertising? Would this video make YOU want to go to…

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UMBC administration has hired a production company to sponsor student-created videos that show the “cool” side of UMBC. A total of four videos will be uploaded to video-hosting sites such as Youtube in the following weeks.  Here is the first of the series, created by Senior Adam Kurtz. Awkward ad campaign

A recent report by CNN states that the Obama transition team is looking at all the executive orders that Bush passed and determining if they need revising. At first glance, this seems like a good thing. Off-shore drilling, unreasonable restrictions on stem-cell research and gag orders given to international groups to prevent comprehensive sex education,…

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Yesterday in Baltimore City the mayor, Sheila Dixon pressed a button to start a generator running on methane from the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant. This will save up $2.4 million each year in energy costs. It will also prevent 12.9 million pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year. This trend towards…

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Being rated as the second most diverse university in the nation is even more effective if the perks reach beyond UMBC’s borders. On Tuesday, Nov. 11, UMBC will be conducting the first on-campus Bone Marrow Registration in 4 years. In correspondence with “Colleges Against Cancer”, senior Mike German is the head coordinator for UMBC, working…

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UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski III held two open forums for students on Monday, Nov. 3. Hrabowski spoke in the common room of the Chesapeake Residence Hall, and an hour and a half later, he spoke in the lounge of Potomac Hall. Hrabowski discussed the school year, voting and fielded a variety of questions from the students present. Both…

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According to Tom DeLuca, the Resident District Manager of Chartwells at UMBC, students will be waiting until late January for the Chick-fil-A being constructed in the University Center. Originally promised to students by mid-October, DeLuca said the Chick-fil-A construction and opening has been delayed due to “setbacks from a base building standpoint.” DeLuca said that…

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