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First snowfall of the season at UMBC.  It's not much, just flurries, but still . . .


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2.  Your UMBC Bucket List

3.  "Only at UMBC"

4.  Nicknames

5.  Farewell UMBC Underground

6. 11 Holiday Gifts I'd Like to Give UMBC

7.  SGA Election Results

8.  Campus Life and Social Media

9. Why I Like the Sondheim Statue

10. Hamza Siddiqui is UMBC's Student Regent Nominee

Top 10 Most Viewed Posts of 2010

Top 5 Most Viewed Posts of 2009

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SGA and the Peer Health Educators are hosting the end-of-semester Stress Free Zone this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  Come to the Student Organizations Space on The Commons' 2nd floor between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. each day for free snacks, t-shirts and opportunities to relax and learn about stress management.

This is the 14th Stress Free Zone.  How did the whole thing get started back in spring 2005?  The answer is here.

Good luck on your exams.  Have a wonderful break!

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The three finalists will meet with University System of Maryland officials in the next six weeks, and their names will be submitted to Governor O'Malley. The Governor will select the Student Regent early in 2012.

The Student Regent serves as the only student voice on the University System of Maryland's governing board, helping to set policies and priorities relating to academics, financial aid, facilities and budgets. UMBC junior Collin Wojciechowski is the current Student Regent.  Hamza is the tenth consecutive UMBC nominee to be selected as a finalist.

Congratulations, Hamza!

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I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.

Name: Jackie Wilson

Hometown: DeKalb, Illinois

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: 6 years.

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: I am an Assistant Director for Residential Operations in the Residential Life office.

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: I supervise the housing assignment & billing process for on-campus housing assignments.

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A:  I enjoy my work with communication and marketing for our Department.

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A:  In college I learned that finding the humor in everything is key to a healthy life.

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A:  Improvisational Theater

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A: My favorite spot on campus is the former site of the Baltimore Farm School.  When I stand there I can almost imagine the number of children that lived and worked there.  Whenever I take a walk around the loop I make sure and stop there.  http://www.bcpl.info/info/history/hist_ar_farm.html
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If you are a Graduate Student at UMBC, and if you are working on your  graduate school courses, proposal, or dissertation, then this event is for you!

The on-campus setting provides Dissertation House participants with productive and rewarding scholastic engagement. Students who participate in this program will spend each day thinking, writing, and sharing ideas about their doctoral dissertations. Students will learn effective time-management skills; learn how to set small manageable goals, and will meet with a dissertation coach in one-on-one consultations to discuss and address obstacles that might prevent them completing their degrees.

This is a weekday (9 a.m. – 5 p.m., non-residential) commitment set for the week of Tuesday, January 17 – Friday, January 20, 2012.

This information and other details about the Dissertation House can be found on: http://www.thedissertationhouse.com

Seats are limited. Students who are closest to finishing their doctoral dissertations (graduating with PhDs in 2012) will receive priority.  Priority will be assigned in this order: earliest defense dates (January – April 2012 dates), May 2012 graduation, Summer 2012 graduation, December 2012 graduation.  After we fill seats with our 2012 prospective graduates, we will review applications for additional slots. You must officially apply:  http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/apply/.  This information is mirrored: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/9573


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If you are a Graduate Student at UMBC, and if you are working on your  graduate school courses, proposal, or dissertation, then this event is for you!

The on-campus setting provides Dissertation House participants with productive and rewarding scholastic engagement. Students who participate in this program will spend each day thinking, writing, and sharing ideas about their doctoral dissertations. Students will learn effective time-management skills; learn how to set small manageable goals, and will meet with a dissertation coach in one-on-one consultations to discuss and address obstacles that might prevent them completing their degrees.

This is a weekday (9 a.m. – 5 p.m., non-residential) commitment set for the week of Tuesday, January 17 – Friday, January 20, 2012.

This information and other details about the Dissertation House can be found on: http://www.thedissertationhouse.com

Seats are limited. Students who are closest to finishing their doctoral dissertations (graduating with PhDs in 2012) will receive priority.  Priority will be assigned in this order: earliest defense dates (January – April 2012 dates), May 2012 graduation, Summer 2012 graduation, December 2012 graduation.  After we fill seats with our 2012 prospective graduates, we will review applications for additional slots. You must officially apply:  http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/apply/.  This information is mirrored: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/9573


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I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.

Name: David Clurman

Hometown: Bowie, MD

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: I began my 6th year last summer.

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: Assistant Director of Residential Education

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: I help ensure that the residential communities are safe for students.

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A:  I love working with students.  It is great to see them develop over the course of years and grow both intellectually and socially.

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A:  I learned that you need to find a career that you enjoy, not a job that pays the bills.

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A:  The Lord of the Rings

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A: My favorite spot on the UMBC campus is my office overlooking Erickson Field.  It is great seeing students play sports and hang out there.  

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  1. Warm, sunny days and temperate nights for the next 10 Homecoming bonfires and Quadmania carnivals.
  2. At least a dozen new informal gathering spaces like the Student Organizations Space on The Commons' 2nd floor: flexible enough for spontaneity, comfortable enough to lounge around for hours.
  3. For all of the students struggling to make ends meet, my colleagues who have gone years without a salary increase, and potential UMBC donors worried about their savings: an end to this interminable period of economic gloom.
  4. A second ballroom twice the size of the original, with natural light and plenty of room backstage.  And a couple of smaller event venues, roughly the size of the Skylight Room, but with solid floors, and furniture that can moved or stored away.
  5. Chipotle.  24/7.
  6. If we had a Chipotle on campus, we'd also have to have a napping zone with unlimited supplies of clean blankets and pillows. It would make SGA President Catie Collins very happy.
  7. Forty more classrooms of various sizes, each with the latest multimedia technology and cozy, comfortable, movable seats.  Maybe with more room for classes at peak hours, we could do away with 8:00 a.m. classes forever?
  8. Historical markers telling the amazing stories behind familiar features of campus life.  How did the free hour come into being, and who had the idea for a campus pond?  What role did students play in transforming the Student Organizations Space from a storage room into a social hub?  What stately brick building once stood in the shadow of the mighty oak behind Parking Lot 17? (OK, there already is a marker for that one--but I'll bet you haven't noticed it).
  9. A dedicated physical space for free expression and open debate, maybe a little like Towson's Freedom Square.
  10. A state-of-the-art recreational facility open to all members of the campus community, with enough racquetball, squash, basketball and volleyball courts to accommodate every intramural team, sports club and pick-up game anyone wanted to play, 24/7. Plus laser tag. And did I mention the Jamba Juice in the lobby?
  11. Dr. Hrabowski has done a wonderful job of spreading the word about UMBC in recent weeks. To assist in that effort, I'd like to give the UMBC community its first Rhodes Scholarship, MacArthur Foundation Genius Award and Nobel Prize.
Some of these ideas are a little far-out and whimsical. For others, progress might be just a little coalition-building and a Prove It! submission away.  So how about you: What's on your holiday gift list for UMBC?

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I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.

Name: Kaitlyn Snyder

Hometown: Horsham, Pennsylvania

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: 1 Year.

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: Student Government Association Senator, First Year Council Peer Advisor, Orientation Peer Advisor, Tour Guide, Sister, Friend, and Student!

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: Motivating my peers to engage in student life and better our community.

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A:  I love playing a part in getting people passionate about something on campus, whether it’s a club, organization, event, or just something that they want to change about UMBC. I’ve found my home at UMBC and I love helping others find theirs.

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A:  For the majority of my life I have followed a predetermined course of action. I took all the right classes, joined all the right extracurricular activities, and rarely ever stood up for what I believed in. Quite honestly, I didn’t know what I believed in; I was, more or less, told what to believe by authority figures. In college I figured out my own personal positions on hot political issues.  I joined clubs and took classes that I was passionate about. I tried everything and went to tons of events until I found something that made me so excited that I couldn’t stand the idea of not being a part of it. Or something else that made my blood boil and felt as though it was my responsibility to do something to change it. I found what I love but it wasn’t easy. No one is going to come knocking on your door (after welcome week) trying to get you to come to events and opportunities won’t just be handed to you; but that shouldn’t stop you. Try something new just for the fun of it! After you leave college when will you have the opportunity to take salsa lessons for free, or take a class about something you love, or get your scuba diving license? This is your time and your life, not your parents, not your professors, not your friends, nor anyone else’s. I wasted so much time doing tedious things I thought I had to do in order to boost my resume or because that’s what my older sister did so I had to as well. But more than anything, I regret not doing things because I thought it wasn’t cool to be passionate about something.  It took me a really long time to figure out that everyone’s measure of success is different and mine doesn’t necessarily have to correlate with anyone else’s. Now, if I don’t absolutely love something I stop doing it (well with the exception of math class and other gen eds). I don’t love every second of every student organization and I get quite frustrated at times, but at the end of the day I love being a part of it all and wouldn’t trade my experiences for the world. You are not going to be good at everything (I certainly am not), but not trying, for fear of making a mistake, may be the biggest mistake of all. Don’t let anyone or anything hold you back from doing what you love.

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A:  The Phillies, baseball, running, cliff diving, enthusiasm, dancing (badly), singing far too loudly, politics, iced tea, sharks, outdoor adventures, cheeseburgers, and spontaneity!

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A: My favorite UMBC story is the one about how and why free hour was created. “Forty to fifty college students held anti-war signs and sat on the floor of a classroom-lined hallway. The students were staging a peaceful protest in hopes that their "occupation" would bring to mind in passerbys the American lives in jeopardy half a world away. Across campus, hundreds of student sympathizers took note of the sit-in and several faculty members were fired for taking part in the unfolding events. The Vietnam War was close to its end, but students and faculty at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County were determined to speak out against what they believed to be an unjust war. Few members of the UMBC community today are aware of the school's history of activism. Until the 1980s, UMBC was home to numerous protests. The university's 12-1 p.m. free hour is a direct result of this past, created when student protestors convinced administrators to give them a period during the school day to organize.” http://sixties-l.blogspot.com/2009/05/few-students-aware-of-umbcs-history-of.html It was a time of such passion and the student body came together to do something meaningful that is still seen today.  

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