The Retriever Weekly is seeking a Circulation Manager for the Spring 2009 semester. Responsibilities include distributing new copies of The Retriever Weekly on Tuesday mornings and maintaining copies of the newspaper in the TRW archives. Applicants must be enrolled no less than part-time at UMBC with a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0. This is [...]

BY Corey Johns Senior Staff Writer It was not a fun game to watch but UMBC got the job done against Central Connecticut State in front of the smallest crowd of the season as students are getting ready for finals. It was the 30th meeting between the two schools as they are familiar with one [...]

Wondering what you need on your final to squeeze out that A, B, C, or at least avoid an “Incomplete”? This grade calculator is easy and helpful: http://www.conquercollege.com/gradecalc/ Good luck!

The coffee shop in the A.O.K. Library atrium is finally open and pouring. Pura Vida, which boasts fair-trade organic coffee, opened this week, just in time for the final exam caffeine rush. The coffee shop will have special Finals Week hours as follows: Wednesday, Dec. 10 – Friday, Dec. 12: 9 a.m. – Midnight Saturday, [...]

Today, Dec. 11 2008, demolition of the Grill in Wing II of the Campus Dining Hall will begin so that a new oven can be installed in January.  Chartwells will be making accommodations to ensure that the food that is usually in the grill area is still served at another location in the dining hall.

Effective at 9:30 a.m. on December 11, the UMBC campus will have new cable channels. It looks like there will be more movie channels and sports channels. What channels are you happy about that were added? And on the flip side, what channels are you upset about that were taken away?

Sitting three rows behind the Retriever bench at last night’s men’s basketball game versus Towson was former Super-Bowl winning Baltimore Ravens coach Brian Billick. This is the second visit Billick, who now is part-owner (with founder Nestor Aparicio) of sports-based radio station/website WNST in Baltimore, has made to the UMBC campus in that last month. [...]

UMBC Alumnus Alan M. Scherr (’85 Visual and Performing Arts) and his daughter Naomi were among the victims of the terrorist attacks at the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai, India on November 26. Scherr was a part of the early days of the visual arts department at UMBC, teaching photography here in the 1980s. Scherr worked [...]

There have been rumors swirling around about President-elect Obama’s choice for Secretary of Education with UMBC president Freeman Hrabowski rumored to be in the running. However UMBC spokesman Mike Lurie has indicated that President Hrabowski “has no interest”. Lurie also said that “[Hrabowski is] quite happy at UMBC and not interested in that option as [...]

The Retriever Weekly will be hosting its semesterly Open Forum on Wednesday, December 10, from 12-1pm in UC 214.  Come to the forum and tell us what you would like to see more of in the paper (or blog!), share any suggestions, grievances or questions.  Everyone is welcome and your feedback is much appreciated. If [...]