Prove It! Tally Reaches 1,000--Now It's Your Turn The winner of this year's $35,000 Prove It! competition is being chosen by a vote of all UMBC undergraduates.  As of right now (Monday afternoon), than 1,000 have cast votes already.  If you haven't voted yet, visit www.umbc.edu/proveit, check out the project descriptions and videos, and vote!  The voting ends at midnight Saturday night (4/10), with the winner to be announced on UC Plaza next Monday (4/12) at noon.
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I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty and staff, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses. 
Name: Carlos Urtecho
Hometown: Ellicott City, MD

Q: How long have you been at UMBC? 

A: Two years. 

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

A: President and Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, Founding Father of the Delta Chi Fraternity, Resident Assistant, Tour Guide, and a student of political science.

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

A: I really enjoy making a difference in the lives of my residents, starting up new student organizations, and leading campus tours for prospective students and their parents.  Being a student leader has further enhanced my college experience here at UMBC and in turn I am able to make UMBC a better place by being involved in different areas of student life. 

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

A: The most important thing I’ve learned at UMBC is time management.  Because I am very involved in student life, I have had to learn how to balance my extracurricular activities along with my academics. Along with time management, one of the most important things I learned at UMBC was that it's okay to say "no."  I remember when I was a freshman, I wanted to join every student organization and be a part of every club on campus.  Learning to say "no" was a big deal for me because I always wanted to say "yes" to everything. Eventually over time, I learned to say "no" to different things and realized that I don’t have to please everybody.

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

A: The UMBC Men’s Basketball Team.  This year has been a rough year for us but I am very confident that we’ll bounce back to the top of the America East Conference next year.  I usually go to every  basketball game and love being loud and crazy and supporting our UMBC Retrievers.  You can usually point me out at the games because I’ll be the guy wearing a big yellow wig and yelling like crazy!

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:  There are many favorite spots that I have on campus.  My favorite spot on campus would have to be Starbucks! I love hanging out there and engaging in conversation with my fellow peers.  Another one of my favorite spots is a lake behind the Research and Technology Park.  I went there once for SCIENCE 100 class and immediately fell in love with the place.  Often times I'll go there when I want to be alone or think things out.

As far as anything else I’d like to share, I would like to encourage everybody to get involved in a student organization or in Greek Life. There are over 200 different student organizations here on campus and if there’s not a student organization here for you then it’s really easy to start one up.  I’ve had the unique opportunity of starting two student organizations here at UMBC and it has been a phenomenal experience for me. Getting involved in student life has made my college experience complete. I would also encourage you to seek as many internships during your time here at UMBC.  Go to the Shriver Center early on, even as a freshman, and start applying for internships.  Take advantage of everything that UMBC has to offer.  Finally, be proud that you are a UMBC Retriever.  UMBC is such a young institution and for such a young university we have accomplished so much.  Can you imagine what UMBC will accomplish in another forty years? So, to recap, get involved on campus, check out the sweet internships at the Shriver Center, wear black and gold, and be proud to be a UMBC Retriever.  GO RETRIEVERS!
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As with similar threats made in the past, the legislators' intervention seems to me to miss a crucial point about how people actually learn.  Education is not just academic; experiences teach too.  If legislators try to impose such tight control on universities that nothing they disagree with ever occurs on campus, they take away opportunities for students to learn from making and living with their own choices, and from engaging diverse perspectives and interests.  A college education should be more than a series of exercises conducted within the straight and narrow lines drawn by state lawmakers.
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This was the second of my time capsules, sealed on July 12, 1980.  I remember nothing about the contents other than that in the months after I sealed my first capsule (on March 5, 1980, to be opened on March 5, 2000), I had given more thought to what a person from the distant future might find interesting.  And I had decided to be more ambitious and patient than I had been with the first capsule: instead of a 20-year wait, I left instructions (taped to the cover of one of the boxes) that this capsule should be opened 30 years hence, on July 12, 2010.  I know I hoped that I would be the one to open the capsule, but it was a real challenge to imagine that I might one day be so old, or that the capsule would not be lost at some point on its temporal journey.

A few weeks ago I asked my parents to send me the capsule.  My mother put the whole thing in one big box, and took it to a FedEx office today.  26 pounds of my distant past are on their way to Baltimore, in plenty of time for the July unveiling.

So what do I hope to find?  I can think of some things that I might have gotten my hands on as a 12-year old that would have appreciated significantly in value over 30 years.  But (unrealistic as it is to expect) I think I'd like nothing more than to find 26 pounds of handwritten pages--messages from family and friends, and my own impressions of my life and speculation about the years ahead.
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Maryland Voter Registration Application Form (last day to register in Maryland before the primary election is August 24, 2010).

Maryland Absentee Ballot Request Form (must be received by the State Board of Elections by September 7, 2010 if you want to vote by absentee ballot in the primary election).

National Voter Registration Form (if your state of residence is not Maryland, use this form; all states other than North Dakota, Wyoming and New Hampshire accept it).

Information about all states' election deadlines (from Rock the Vote).

Contact information for all states' election offices (from Rock the Vote).

Maryland's primary election will take place on Tuesday, September 14, 2010.  The general election will take place on Tuesday, November 2, 2010.
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Seven months ago, UMBC was named as the #1 up-and-coming national university by U.S. News & World Report.  Now one UMBC committee wants to ensure that our reputation for quality and flair for innovation are evident to the users of campus facilities.  To that end, the University Council on Grounds and Structures has announced that in August 2011, The Commons will be given a new name that better reflects the distinctiveness of UMBC's faculty, staff and student body: The Uncommons.

Committee chair Richard Astley shows off some remarkable Uncommons graphics explains the reasoning behind the change here.
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Once in a decade, the government of the United States undertakes the great counting process upon which hinges your political representation and funding for government programs.  If you are a college student during the census, you may wonder: Am I supposed to fill out the form?  Will I be counted as a part of my parents' household if I plan to move back in with them after the school year?

The short answer is, you should fill out the form at your current address (whether that's on-campus housing or someplace off campus), not at your parents' address.  Here's a two-page guide prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau specifically to address college students' questions.  Give it a read!
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The Carroll County Times published a front-page story and photo about one of the trips.  Here's a link to the story.
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Name: Michele K. Wolff
Hometown: Baltimore, MD

Q: How long have you been at UMBC? 

A: Over 20 years! I started in 1988, as a full-time graduate student in Sociology. During my graduate studies, I worked part-time in the Office of Institutional Research and just after graduation, I was fortunate to be hired as the first Coordinator of Internships & Service-Learning at what was then called the Office of Professional Practice (later called The Center for Learning Through Work & Service, and ultimately named The Shriver Center). 

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

A: Facilitating creation of opportunities for outreach of university resources to our community.

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

A: I love being able to work with an incredibly diverse group of students and the number of hats you can wear while working: teacher, student, mentor, mentee, and most importantly, difference-maker. 

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

A: Having the opportunity every day to interact with and learn from some pretty inspiring people. The students, staff, and faculty who I get to work with are so committed to creating positive change for themselves and others, ultimately to the benefit our community (whether local, regional, national, or global).

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

A: Spending as much time as possible with family and friends.

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:  Just after I started working here, our office was located in a temporary building on the land where the Physics Building now stands. In actuality, the building was constructed from two double-wide trailers--they tried to make them as comfortable as possible, but from the terrible ventilation and moldy smells, to the unbearably noisy wall units we had for heat and air, you could tell you were in converted trailers! Needless to say, the buildings on campus have come a long way!.
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