In this year’s SGA elections, UMBC student voters approved Referendum A to increase the annual student activity fee from $78 to $88. It turns out that the activity fee will not be the only increase students will experience on their bills for academic year 2010-2011, according to information from the SGA, available at: http://sga.umbc.edu/finances/forms/Mandatory_fee_proposals_for_student_fee_forum_2011.pdf All [...]

By: Corey Johns While none of the games count towards anything, the men’s soccer season looks to be improving after a last place finish in the America East Conference having finished their spring schedule with a 5-1-2 record. Last fall the men’s soccer team was riddled with injuries and full of inexperience but look much [...]

On Sunday night between 9 and 10 p.m. on the top floor of the University Center after the SEB-sponsored girl talk concert, an unidentified male stole two purses belonging to SEB members. The purses were in a box under a table in the lobby outside of the UC Ballroom, where the concert took place. The [...]

The UMBC crew team is having a good year. Here is some information on how their season is going. Info about the Race: Called the John Hopkins University Invitational Regatta Length of Course: 2000 meters Wind Conditions: Not a factor throughout the day Format: 2 semi-final races. Top 2 boats from each heat advance to [...]

According to numbers released by the SGA Election Board this afternoon, a school record 2,448 students voted in this year’s Student Government Association Election. The record number accounts for 25.5 percent of the student body, a higher percentage turnout than fellow University System of Maryland schools University of Maryland, College Park (19.3 percent turnout) and [...]

According to Mike Carlin of UMBC’s OIT office, 25% of the campus’ inboxes were rendered inaccesible, after a server collapsed completely at 6 a.m. this morning. According to OIT, the collapse effects 12,000 active UMBC webmail accounts belonging to students, staff, and faculty. The problems was resolved this afternoon  and e-mails were moved to a new base from [...]

Chartwells has just announced that their chef will be performing an Earth Day presentation on the Quad on Wedenesday 22th from 11-1. The chef will be tossing and offering samples of a special “Earth Day” organic salad made with local fruits and vegetable.

Today’s edition of the The Retriever Weekly incorrectly states that VPSO candidate Brian Frazee did not respond to requests for comment. Frazee responded to TRW‘s e-mails and we failed to answer him. For the benefit of student voters and out of fairness to the candidate, we sent him a list of questions when the oversight [...]

The SGA library committee recently attended the President’s Council in which Hrabowski announced his support of the committee’s initiative to extend to library hours. Later a  ”pilot program” to push back the library’s closing time by two hours starting the week before finals until the end of the finals was approved.

Room 369 in the Biology Building is clear for use, according to a text message from the UMBC Emergency Alert System. A source in UMBC Facilities Management suggested that the chemical hazard was the result of a broken mercury thermometer in the lab, though this report has not yet been verified.