Retriever Essentials Update!
Hello everyone!
First of all, we hope you all had a wonderful and safe holiday. Secondly, Retriever Essentials currently has a lot of things going on, and we wanted to share with you!
As you may know, Giving Day is tomorrow, December 1st. Because of our Home for the Holidays Food Drive being such a success, we are low on a lot on a lot of items, including the following:
Toiletries (soap, toothpaste, and deodorant)
Soups (especially vegan and vegetarian soups)
Baby items (formula, diapers, baby food, soap, and lotion)
Feminine health products
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Condoms
If you would like to donate to our pantry, items can be dropped off at our 24 hour Campus Police Station or donated contactlessly via our Amazon Wishlist. If using the Amazon wishlist, use the following address and contact information:
Deveraux Smith
Retriever Essentials
Sherman Hall 205
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Delivery Instructions: This is not College Park. Please deliver to UMBC (on campus). If you have trouble finding the building, please get in touch with 202-704 7840!
The Stay Black and Gold Fund also gives aid to the students of UMBC. Please consider donating to this fund as it helps provide financial support for things such as food, transportation, off-campus rent, medical care, child care, and utilities.
Lastly, we would like to invite you to our Community Dinner on Thursday, December 3rd at 7 PM via Google Meet. We are so thankful for all of the donors and donations who made our food drive possible.
Wishing you all a safe and great end of the semester,
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GSA Newsletter
Bi-weekly News, Tips, and Events
Enjoy this edition of the Graduate Student Department Biweekly Newsletter
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A Special Thank You!
Retriever Essentials wants to give a big thank you to some special people that played a huge role in Home for the Holiday's success.
To our volunteers Fariha, Nyla, Sabrina, and Rebecca, thank you so much for helping get our Thanksgiving bags all together and ready to be given out.
A shoutout to The Chapter of Young Alumni, who raised a total of $813 for our food drive. We are so thankful for their gracious contribution.
And last, but certainly not least, a big thank you to our donors. We appreciate everyone who donated items for our food drive.
Please join us in celebration of the holidays and in the spirit of (virtual) togetherness for our
Home for the Holidays Community Dinner. This event will take place on Google Meet on December 3rd at 7 PM.
by Meghan Lynch '18, M.P.P. '21
Chair, Legislative Concerns, Graduate Student Association
On the day after Election Day, I felt exhausted. I had followed the election closely and participated actively in what had felt like the longest campaign season I had experienced. I struggled to process all that was happening:the messiness of democracy playing out on a 24-hour news cycle, on top of the long overdue reckoning on racial justice and the global pandemic.
But what struck me most about that anything-but-ordinary Wednesday morning was a conversation I had with my neighbor about the events of the night before. For her, it had been like any other night, but with her favorite TV programming replaced election results coverage. I asked her what she thought of all of it, and she noted that while she had gone out to vote the day before, it had been no big deal: “the sun was still going to rise the next morning.” Life would go on.
Initially I was impressed by her untroubled perspective. But in the days since, I’ve been thinking about her remark and the other versions of it I have heard from friends, neighbors, and loved ones. What strikes me is that they share the assumption that politics--or at least the need for them to participate--begins and ends on Election Day. I think that perspective misses both our power and our responsibility between elections.
Voting is not and has never been enough. Is there an area in your neighborhood that could use a stop sign? Do you need a sidewalk to connect your community to the next one over? A thriving democracy takes time, commitment, and perseverance. I keep thinking of the work of a local group of Baltimore residents who over the years organized to prevent CSX trains from carrying volatile crude oil through their backyards. It was because they connected with their community members, organized, and pulled together that they were able to work with local government to bring about change/advocate for the safety of their community.
There is still a lot to process after the election and the coming weeks will be difficult. But if you need a reminder that the work is not over, let this be it. Our duty as members of a community and as participants in a democracy is to keep working to bring about the changes we want to see.
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by Meghan Lynch '18, M.P.P. '21 Chair, Legislative Concerns, Graduate Student Association On the day after Election Day, I felt exhausted. I had followed the election closely and participated...
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Use Your Voice on the Inclusion Council
Grad Students: Make an Impact on subcommittee of your choice
The Inclusion Council is
looking for graduate students to make their voices heard and work towards
meaningful change in our community. The GSA highly encourages anyone looking to
make a difference!
Follow this link to sign up and to provide your proffered
subcommittees.
"We have consulted with campus leaders to appoint a UMBC Inclusion Council, consisting of students, faculty, staff, and alumni working with the campus community. The team’s work begins immediately, and their first meeting will be held in July. The Inclusion Council has been given the charge of providing advice and guidance from a variety of perspectives to the Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI), to act as ambassadors for the office across campus, and to provide a venue for discussion of issues as they arise. The Council will hold monthly joint meetings with the University Steering Committee (USC) and the Campus Equity Advisory Council (CEAC), a subcommittee of the USC. The Council will work with the campus community to identify short- and long-term goals and recommendations. In addition, they will bring many more colleagues into this work by establishing subcommittees."
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We Have Each Other
by Kate Drabinski
Senior Lecturer, Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies
Director, WILL+ Program
I love voting. My mom took my twin sister and me to the polls with her every time, and sometimes even let us poke the hole in the ballot. We voted in our elementary school gym where there was always a bake sale going on, and we always got a treat. Cemented in my body and mind is the knowledge that I have to vote, and voting day, no matter how it goes, will always come with a little treat. This year, it was pizza and mini Snickers bars, and a whole lot of TV.
What I have learned from 27 years of voting, though, is that it is just one tiny little part of what it means for me to be an engaged citizen. Our representative democracy means that whomever we elect, the chances they’re going to share my values are really tiny. Elected officials represent huge swaths of a diverse population with diverse needs, demands, and priorities. I can count on zero hands how many times I’ve felt like my whole self was at the political table due to my vote. If I really want to build the world I want, I have to do that building outside the voting booth, even as what I do in the booth can make a real difference.
This November, the importance of organizing beyond the vote has become even clearer to me. We elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, but I know that doesn’t mean they are coming to save us. I look out at a world where one in three families with children is food insecure, where unemployment rates are high—and even those with jobs often don’t make enough money to make ends meet, and where a global pandemic is raging through the nation with nary a hint of aid or leadership at the national level. So, I voted, and I’m glad for the results, but I know that the results will not change the lives of people in my community any time soon.
In the wake of the pandemic I am increasingly drawn to the work of people organizing mutual aid projects. Mutual aid means coming together and sharing resources—skills, food, emotional support, etc.—with each other. It means that we organize to save ourselves at the same time we organize to challenge the state and its structures that produce the very precarity that threatens so many of us.
I voted, gave myself a treat, and am doubling down on my efforts to use the resources I have to support the communities I am in and that I actively build—in my city, my neighborhood, and in my classrooms. All we have is each other, and that is what is getting me through a rough 2020, and it will be my balm through the challenges ahead.
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by Kate Drabinski Senior Lecturer, Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Director, WILL+ Program I love voting. My mom took my twin sister and me to the polls with her every time, and...
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Quarterly patching downtimes - 11/20, 11/21, 12/04
As
part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure
group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, November 20th, Saturday, November 21st and Friday, December 4th. While many of the systems will be
patched without any service disruption, there are some systems which
require the downtime of key services. The schedule below outlines which
key services will be offline and for how long.
Friday, 11/20/2020 between 5pm and 10pm (most systems will only be down for a short period during this time):
- Access to Cyrus and UMBC Webmail (accounts not migrated to UMBC Gmail)
- All mail will be queued up and delivered after the server is patched
- All HFS (afs) servers - gl.umbc.edu home directories will be offline
- Between 9:15pm and 10pm only: Certain software licenses will be unavailable (autodesk, cadence, idl, schrodinger, xilinx, mathematica).
- Between 9:15pm and 10pm only: The
web hosting environments (virthost) will be partially unavailable
(pages will be available but any database calls will not work)
Saturday, 11/21/2020 between 9am and 11am(most systems will only be down for a short period during this time):
- myUMBC lite page will be up resulting in reduced myUMBC functionality
- The sites (wordpress) web hosting environment will be unreachable
Friday, 12/04/2020 between 4pm and 5:30pm:
- LDAP-Master and Webadmin will
be taken down for system maintenance. During this time account
creations and password changes will be unavailable. Account
authentication and logins will not be affected.
Please let us know if you have any concerns or questions.
Thanks!
Tim Champ
Manager of Unix Infrastructure
UMBC DoIT
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Only a Few Days Left for the Food Drive!
Home for the Holidays
Hello UMBC Community,
There are only a few days left to donate to the food drive! The deadline for donating items in person or through Amazon, is Friday, November 20th.
We still are in URGENT need of the following items:
- Visa Giftcards for families to purchase perishable foods($25-$100)
- Boxed Stuffing
- Canned or Instant Gravy
- Canned Cranberry Sauce
- Shelf Stable Milks
- Canned Sweet Potatoes
- Jello Pudding
- Boxed Instant Mashed Potatoes
- Can Openers
- Baby food
- Shampoo and Conditioner
- Deodorant
- Toilet Paper
- Toothpaste
Donations can be dropped off to our Campus Police Station or contactlessly donated via our
Amazon wishlist. If you are donating through Amazon, please make sure that the
delivery date is by Friday, November 20th.
Ship to this address:
Deveraux Smith
Retriever Essentials
Sherman Hall 205
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
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Hello UMBC Community, There are only a few days left to donate to the food drive! The deadline for donating items in person or through Amazon, is Friday, November 20th. We still are in URGENT...
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The Sun through Dark Clouds: Optimism in a Challenging Time
by Candace Dodson-Reed, '96
Chief of Staff
Executive Director, Office of Equity and Inclusion
Office of the President
Like many of you in the UMBC community, I am watching the post-election situation with a deep hope that our democratic institutions and calmer heads will carry us through this transition period. It is often said that democracy can be messy and I am truly hopeful that this is one of those messy times that we’ll get through sooner than later.
It is stressful enough to live through the most important election in our lifetime, but we are also living through a once in a century public health crisis that continues to sweep through our country. And as some in our country mourn and protest the murders of Black people due to senseless police brutality and mistreatment of people of color, we continue to reckon with the undeniable truth of systemic racism.
It is a lot to handle. And it is important to acknowledge that. Yet, it is at times like this that we look to our UMBC community to share and be heard, and to find common ground where we can.
I am generally an optimistic person, but this year has tested my brighter nature. The missed family gatherings (including my parent’s 50th anniversary celebration), birthday parties, and time with my family and friends have taken a toll, but I know that these are temporary losses. What has affected me more deeply, because I know it reaches beyond the lifespan of this global health crisis, is the trauma of witnessing continued racial injustice, the loss of so many lives, and my sadness at seeing our country so divided. I am fully vested in everything that is happening and want to do my part while also feeling fatigued by the conflict and chaos I see on my computer and TV screen and cell phone for hours each day.
But even during these challenging times, my optimism somehow finds its way to the surface and I find myself looking for opportunities and solutions to the big challenges that we’re grappling with--like I’m looking for the sun that cracks through the dark skies after a summer thunderstorm. So, I want to share some of the reasons for my optimism and why I remain hopeful.
I remain hopeful because I interact with students, faculty, and staff members who are committed to addressing injustices and solving this country’s big problems.
I remain hopeful because I watch young people of all races, religions, political beliefs, identities, and cultures stand up for what’s right.
I remain hopeful because I watch dedicated scientists work with haste to deliver a safe vaccine.
I remain hopeful because I hear Dr. Hrabowski and Dr. Rous talk about “demonstrating the moral leadership necessary to unite our nation in true pursuit of both liberty and justice for all.”
I remain hopeful because I see our democracy grinding away towards certifying a true and fair election. And then because I think about how many young people in our UMBC community and beyond exercised their right and voted.
I remain hopeful because I talked with my daughter, a college junior, who after standing in line for two hours in 38 degree weather to vote in Pennsylvania said, "We're ready to do our part too, mom.”
I was recently reading an excerpt from President Barack Obama’s new book, “A Promised Land”. He says, “In [a] world—of global supply chains, instantaneous capital transfers, social media, transnational terrorist networks, climate change, mass migration, and ever-increasing complexity—we will learn to live together, cooperate with one another, and recognize the dignity of others, or we will perish.”
I’m committed to doing my part—for my daughter and her future, for our democracy, and for all of you.
And so I encourage you to continue to raise your voices against injustice, continue to stand for the truth and what is right, continue to work on real solutions in collaborative ways with others in our campus community and beyond, and continue to make time to listen to each other.
Let’s strive to live in a world where we can celebrate what makes us unique while acknowledging our similarities. As my favorite poet and activist, the esteemed Dr. Maya Angelou said in her poem, Human Family, “I note the obvious differences in the human family…[but] we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
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Bike & Build: Pedaling for Affordable Housing (11/17 @12:30)
Info Session hosted by Dr. Kerri Evans (UMBC Social Work)
Join UMBC Professor, Kerri Evans, and Bike & Build to learn about the affordable housing cause and how to make an impact.
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Join UMBC Professor, Kerri Evans, and Bike & Build to learn about the affordable housing cause and how to make an impact. Register here.
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