Today (11/17) registration for the Spring semester began. Students who had a sign-up time around 6pm were able to register for classes but by 6:30pm online registration had stopped working. For seniors who need to get certain classes to graduate this creates a problem. What if they don’t get the necessary classes? Will teachers grant…
Filed under: News, Opinions | Comments (2)The Student Organizations Committee has revoked recognition for thirty student organizations effective November 12. For twenty-nine, loss of recognition was a result of failure to submit the registration form. The other one was unable to maintain the five-member minimum. According to a memo released by SOC, unrecognized orgs can no longer reserve space, spend UMBC…
Filed under: News | Comments (3)The second of the “underground” ads that UMBC is posting on youtube has just gone up. How do you feel about this secretive advertising campaign? Do you think the school should be more upfront about their ad campaigns or do you like this form of advertising? Would this video make YOU want to go to…
Filed under: Features | Comments (7)UMBC administration has hired a production company to sponsor student-created videos that show the “cool” side of UMBC. A total of four videos will be uploaded to video-hosting sites such as Youtube in the following weeks. Here is the first of the series, created by Senior Adam Kurtz. Awkward ad campaign
Filed under: Features | Comments (8)Yesterday in Baltimore City the mayor, Sheila Dixon pressed a button to start a generator running on methane from the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant. This will save up $2.4 million each year in energy costs. It will also prevent 12.9 million pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year. This trend towards…
Filed under: Opinions | Comments (2)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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