Like women’s swimming and diving before them, the Retrievers men’s swimming and diving team defended their third straight Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) Championships, taking…
Posts published in February 2017
When James Comey, current director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, publicly released a letter he wrote to Congress twelve days before the presidential election,…
Before “Art As Protest” began, we sat down with Shawntay Stocks, Frank Anderson and Tahira Mahdi, the graduate students who put the event together, to…
With the 2016-17 regular season complete, eight America East teams vie for bragging rights and a spot in the NCAA tournament in the America East…
After snapping their three-game losing streak last Saturday against the University of Massachusetts Lowell River Hawks, the UMBC men’s basketball team heads into their final…
Renowned primarily for his installation and new media art, Antoni Muntadas focuses on addressing social, political and communication issues in nontraditional mediums. In 2011, Muntadas…
In order to help address universities’s sexual assault issues, the U.S. Department of Justice Office has given UMBC and nine other participating members of the…
The UMBC Women’s Center is hosting multiple events this semester related to the current political climate in the United States. These events are aimed at supporting…
Janice Jackson, a music professor at UMBC, held up her hands in surprise in front of her class of fifteen. “It costs how much?” she…
Mandatory meal plans have plagued the halls of UMBC dorms for as long as students can remember. Some are happy with the service, as it…
In past years, controversy surrounding Student Government Association elections has abounded, meaning that serious reform was needed. Starting at the beginning of the semester, the…
There are few meals better than a meal that comes with seconds. Late Night at True Grits used to serve seconds and thirds every night…
In their season opener, UMBC’s women’s lacrosse team fell 20-5 to their neighbors to the north – 19th ranked Towson University Tigers. Their impact is…
Despite ending the season with a loss at the University of East Carolina, UMBC swimming and diving team still finished strong. Facing Howard University first…
First impressions can be overrated. During his first semester at UMBC, transfer student Kristofer Castro decided that he disliked a student from a lab on…
This week, I sat down with Sally Shivnan, who has been teaching creative writing at UMBC since 2000. Shivnan, in addition to being a beloved English…