As times have changed and classes have become more technologically-based, so have the offices that handle student records. Here at UMBC, the Office of the…
Posts published in September 2015
With wetheretrievers’s recent return from its unexpected hiatus, The Retriever newsroom has been abuzz with discussions of Snapchat and, by extension, students’ expectations of privacy…
The student-run, online radio station WMBC threw a live DJ party in lower Flat Tuesdays on Thursday night. Their goal was to spread the word…
Students clustered around tables at last Wednesday’s (seb) Notebook Crafting event to decorate their own original notebooks. Amid an array of stationery supplies such as sharpies,…
Shannon McSheffrey visited the UMBC community last Thursday to give a riveting lecture entitled “Digital Humanities and Imagining Medieval Women’s Lives: Putting Marriage and Sex…
What do meat, mead and college students have in common? You can find all of them at the Renaissance Fest. This annual event is one…
Contributing Photographer Eva Anzola is bringing back UMBChic for the Fall Semester! UMBChic is a weekly column featuring stylish UMBC students strutting their style on…
Contributing Photographer Eva Anzola is bringing back UMBChic for the Fall Semester! UMBChic is a weekly column featuring stylish UMBC students strutting their style on…
Coming off the heel of a three game losing streak, UMBC women’s volleyball team returned to the RAC on Tuesday, Sept. 22 to face the…
Back in June, junior track and field athlete Vincent Rentzsch travelled to Eugene, Ore., as the lone Retriever, to compete in the NCAA Championships in…
Women’s soccer played their fourth double overtime game of the season as they opened conference play against The University at Albany at Retriever Soccer Park…
The definition of a mascot is an animal, person or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck.…
Every time UMBC’s men’s soccer team plays, there’s a wild and lively section dressed in gold where the chants are tumultuous, the school pride is…
This past September, Congressional Republicans obsessed over defunding Planned Parenthood, a reproductive health program that came under controversy after videos surfaced of conversations on fetal tissue…
With textbook prices rising at almost three times the rate of inflation from 2002 to 2013, buying them every semester costs students a fortune. Luckily,…
At UMBC, stairs and uphill walks make getting to an early morning class seem like the end of Moses’ journey to the promised land. It…