Check out UMBC's page about the US News & World Report America's Best Colleges Guide: http://bit.ly/6mSqE # Are there enough UMBC tweeps to make UMBC a trending topic? I think @UMBCFreebo needs to lead this initiative! # I'm always down for free food! RT @umbcinsights Mark your calendars for Convocation on Monday, August 31, 3:30…

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RT @bcollierjones UMBC students. Prepare to have your head blown. # Bravo and Disney are baaaaaaaack!! # http://twitpic.com/ee5jv – Cute new parking permits with REAL retrievers are in!! #

On August 11th 2009, Americans across the country mourned the death of Eunice Kennedy Shriver. UMBC’s very own Joby Taylor, Director of the “Shriver Peaceworker Program” mourned Shriver’s passing in an opinion letter published by the Baltimore Sun. In this letter, Taylor spoke of Shriver’s accomplishments most specifically her founding of the Special Olympics. Taylor…

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Media outlets all over the United States are abuzz about a Florida State University student’s idea to have rapper T-Pain be the university’s new president, after current FSU President T.K. Wetherell stepped down. While many will agree that Dr. Freeman Hrabowski is a great president for UMBC, he does have his fair share of dissidents.  If you…

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Greenspace, the winning concept from the UMBC SGA’s Prove It! campaign, has finally come to fruition. This video, posted on UMBC’s new YouTube channel, highlights some of the features of Greenspace. Former UMBC SGA Vice President Elani Odeyale (09) narrates the video. She states that picnic tables will be forthcoming to the area. Wireless Internet…

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How do you feel about the current political situation in Iran?

According to today’s Baltimore Sun, Detroit police have admitted an “error” in their homicide submission to the FBI…an error that pushed the Motor City to the number one spot in deaths for cities with over 500,000 people. The mistake added 33 bodies to Detroit’s count, giving them a rating of 37.4 murders per 100,000 citizens….

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The next time somebody tries to tell you that Baltimore doesn’t do anything well, you just sit them down, grab a computer, and refer them to this article in the Baltimore Sun. According to FBI data collected last year, Charm City is first in the nation among 500,000 plus cities at producing dead people.  Baltimore’s…

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Hi Everyone, The Retriever is constantly changing and growing and we want advice from you so that we can best cater to your needs and interests. As News Editor, I have heard from several students who love the Retriever and many others who have compained that the Retriever doesn’t write about anything that interests the UMBC…

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Senator Cardin believes that UMBC is positioned to solve the biggest 3 problems of our generation: 1) the lack of affordable healthcare, 2) the lack of affordable and effective education, and 3) the seemingly competing interests of environmental health and energy security. In a speech with UMBC faculty and students today, Cardin addressed the third…

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