By Erica Balanc
Staff Writer
My personal misconception about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was that the main character, Benjamin Button (played by Brad Pitt in his finest performance to date), a man who was born old and grows younger, would be something like “Elwood P. Dowd” in Harvey (1950). They are [...]

The UMBC Chess Team has tied for first place in the 2008 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, hosted in Dallas, TX. The Retrievers tied with the University of Texas at Dallas (B Team) in round 6 of competition. This marks the 8th first place finish for the Retrievers in the Pan-Am Tournament [...]

UMBC is famous for its chess. The Retriever chess teams include chess champions recruited from around the world. Despite the fact that UMBC had only enough money to send one of its teams to compete in the PanAm chess tournament this year, and 2 of the players on this team fell ill, it looks as [...]

By Derek Roper
Staff Writer
This month saw a lot of things, but on Dec. 16, two big names in the new rock industry released their new albums. Fall Out Boy released Folie A Deux and The All-American Rejects released When the World Comes Down. But the two didn’t take long in the [...]

BY Corey Johns
Senior Staff Writer
There is no better way to come back from a very disappointing effort and a loss to American than by beating Big 12  team Nebraska.  UMBC became the first team in 31 non-conference opponents to come away with a win in Lincoln to break the eighth-longest streak [...]

BY Corey Johns
Senior Staff Writer
“We got our [butt] kicked,” said coach Randy Monroe. “We played against a team that [was] hungrier than us. They beat us in every phase of the game. We played lack-luster.”
At one point in the second half against American, UMBC was down by 26 points, which proved [...]

Catonsville was recently featured in an article on the Onion News Network’s website. ONN is a satirical news website, but I thought it would be fun to share the article anyway.

By: Saira Khan
Call me naïve, but I always thought theme parks avoided religious themes and overtones in their parks and shows. That notion of mine changed over the weekend after my first ever trip to Hershey Park in Pennsylvania (don’t ask). In order to get out of the cold, our group of people decided that [...]

A different, satirical look at yesterday’s incident involving President George W. Bush in Iraq:
By Tim Mantegna
A local journalist surprised Bush Sunday with a traditional Arab goodbye ceremony on his farewell visit to Iraq.
During a joint press conference featuring Bush and Nuri al-Maliki, the journalist decided he just could not hold in his excitement any longer. [...]

–posted on behalf of Samantha Jones–
Don’t be alarmed at the fire truck and ambulance driving through campus with lights flashing and sirens blaring tonight. It’s just Santa passing through to offer a friendly wave.
I’ve seen it happen plenty of times at home in a community full of little kids who will run out just to [...]