Journalism has a long history of walking a thin line between objectivity and subjectivity. Since their beginnings as more-or-less agenda-driven pamphlets over four hundred years ago, print (and later radio and television) media has manipulated the written word and people’s inherent trust of it to benefit writers and their causes. Though modern journalists have generally…

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According to an e-mail circulating through the campus community, former Baltimore Ravens head coach Brian Billick will be at UMBC Wednesday, Nov. 12. Billick, who led the Ravens to their first playoff berth and won Super Bowl XXXV in his second year as coach, has a home on the Eastern Shore and has stayed in…

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–Posted on behalf of Quinn, TRW’s resident Advice Columnist– Q.        My roommate saw my Facebook status supporting McCain during the election Tuesday night. He is an avid Obama supporter, so we got into a friendly argument that night. Now that the election is over and went in his favor, he won’t stop giving me grief about it. It’s…

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By passing Proposition 8, Californians have enshrined discrimination in their state constitution. The passage is a major blow to same sex couples in California. The brief window during which they could be married has now slammed closed. The existing 18,000 same-sex marriages are unaffected by the passage but new marriage licenses are not being granted…

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Google Street View finally comes to Baltimore. The Street View was also rolled out in Washington D.C. and Seattle. If you have never used Street View it is part of Google Maps that allows a user to view actual photos of streets in a city. The neat part of the rollout is that Google photographed…

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Initially following the announcement at 11 p.m. Tuesday that Barack Obama was officially the 44th President of the United States, I have to admit I was in a state of shock. For some reason, in spite of the polls, in spite of his poorly run campaign, and in spite of what I was hearing from…

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The ladies of Alpha Sigma Alpha have postponed their Mr. UMBC Pageant to November 19 due to scheduling issues.  Details to follow on the specific place and time.  Applications can still be sent to Kelly at kellb1@umbc.edu or Stasi at akowale1@umbc.edu.  Show off your talent and benefit the Special Olympics and the S. June Smith…

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Significant changes this election season have not been limited to the national scene. Though all the absentee ballots will not be counted until November 14, it looks like voters have decided pretty soundly to permit early voting and slots in the state of Maryland.  Question one, which permits voting up to two weeks in advance…

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Last night I noticed that on Facebook many people were updating their status to reflect their political convictions as the night progressed. The statuses ranged from “X is hopeful.” to “X keeps reminding herself that even thought the election did not turn out how she wanted God is in control and He knows what is…

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An editorial in the NY times today points to the fact that Bush can still do a great deal of damage in the time that he has left in office.