It is well known that UMBC is a school that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math. In fact, under the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s classification system, UMBC is classified as an undergraduate research school, with a very large funding budget for research in the STEM fields. The science departments here are nationally renowned for their research and quality of teaching.

However, with the increasing demand for well-rounded students, UMBC’s focus has begun shifting to its arts and humanities programs. Employers, even those in tech fields, are beginning to look for students with a working knowledge of or a degree in the humanities.

Some of the employers believe that knowledge of humanities increases creativity and fosters diversity in ways of thinking and approaching problems. Schools are consequently beginning to emphasize the arts and humanities, even for their science majors.

With this national focus on the valued study of arts and humanities, UMBC is trying to switch its focus from being a STEM school to being a STEAM school — science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics.

For example, the new Performing Arts and Humanities Building, completed just last year, shows the increase in funding and attention that the arts departments are receiving. This building is filled with state of the art, million dollar equipment, for the theatre and music departments.

Dr. Sally Shivnan, the associate director of the writing and rhetoric division of the English department commented that, “the humanities at UMBC are really dynamic. I don’t think they’re an afterthought to the STEM fields.  I think they’ve always been important at UMBC; the difference is that in the last few years they are getting the recognition and attention they deserve.  Certainly, building PAHB was a way of showing that recognition.”

Shivnan says the new PAHB building is a good indicator of the kinds of resources UMBC is putting toward the arts and humanities, as it is the most expensive building ever built on the campus. The Fine Arts building is also being completely renovated to update it and to give more space to departments like Visual Arts.

However, among students there is some dissent. Adam Savage, a senior visual arts major, says, “As much as Dr. Hrabrowski tries to fairly distribute money and attention, UMBC remains primarily a STEM school.”

Long known as a STEM school, UMBC has been trying to prove that it can be a STEAM school. With the increasing focus on the humanities and arts departments, the university needs to emphasize its well-rounded departments.

However, UMBC still advertises itself as a STEM school to its current and prospective students. Majority of the advertisements about UMBC that appear on other websites and the radio profile engineering and the sciences.

If UMBC still bills itself as a STEM school, then the university cannot expect recognition for its arts-related departments. UMBC needs to follow through on the promise the funding has made and truly become a STEAM school by honestly focusing more on all the departments, not just the sciences.

Though college can be full of stress, anxiety and hectic schedules, Peace@UMBC is working to eliminate these unhealthy habits. Held each Friday at 1 p.m. in the Women’s Center, Peace@UMBC offers weekly meditation classes to help soothe the soul. These sessions are open to faculty, staff and students, be they novices or masters. 

Led by Jill Wardell, Manager of Workplace Learning & Wellness in Human Resources, each session begins with the silencing of cell phones and the mutual agreement that “what is said in the room, stays in the room.” Next is a quick lesson on proper posture, where participants can sit upright in a chair or on one of the center’s zafu and zabuton sets, special cushions and mats made for meditation.

The group sits in a circle, and at the sound of a bell, all eyes close and the silent meditation begins. Wardell gives short instructions on breathing techniques and what to think and reflect upon during the silence. She calls this an “open” or “guided” session. Longer silent meditations are also offered, as well as master classes with guided audio recordings, and beginner classes on the first Friday of every month.

Wardell had always wanted meditation to become a widespread practice in the school community. “In 2008, I was helping plan the university retreat for faculty and I brought up the subject of stress management, and a lot of interest was shown,” Wardell said. “I had a vision of meditation happening all over campus.”

Wardell mentioned how she started Meditation Bootcamp, an eight-week program which helped launch the weekly sessions a few years later. “Year after year, we’d have a waiting list for the bootcamp. The need was growing so we opened the weekly sessions for faculty, staff and students, and that was in 2012.”

While Peace@UMBC has a few committed members, the group is always looking to expand. Anyone and everyone on campus is encouraged to attend these free meetings. “The goal is to support continual practice in order to reach that total embodiment of peace,” said Wardell. “We really want the entire school community to have these resources available to them. It’s just one way, one small way, of bringing peace to the world.”

In the ever-evolving world of video game development, it is rare for a game to withstand the test of time. With technological advancements, improved graphics and a greater respect for video games as a legitimate medium for telling stories and producing art, video games have only been getting better through the years.

In 2002, Microïds published Syberia, a video game that was, at the time, groundbreaking in its design and characters. Though the game was well received and critically acclaimed, it did not gain the massive following that it deserved. Despite the sequel that came out two years later which seemed to leave an opening for an entire series, the company stopped making the games, and both Syberia and Syberia 2 became something like cult classics in the gaming world.

In terms of story, these games are imaginative, both depicting Kate Walker, an American lawyer who is trying to negotiate the sale of a major corporation. The task proves to be more than she bargained for, however, and she is quickly whisked off on an adventure across Europe with only an automaton train conductor as her guide. As the story progresses, she meets more characters, all of whom are complex and multifaceted, making each level unique and compelling.

Both of these games are gorgeous, especially considering the time period in which they were produced. Most gaming graphics had not mastered the art of the human face yet, and when compared to more modern games, Syberia does leave something to be desired in terms of human animation. Where it does succeed, however, is in the backgrounds. Every single location looks like something that came straight out of a painting, and the amount of intricate detail that went into each and every location is astounding.

The atmosphere of Syberia is by far the strongest thing about the series. Set in an alternate version of Europe that has been described by both critics and fans alike as “steampunk” or “desolate,” it is nothing like the Europe that is romanticized in the imaginations of people all over the world. Rather, it is a crumbling, tired remnant of a glorious civilization clinging to the past. Each location has its own unique soundtrack to it, and each song is beautiful and haunting, perfectly representing the atmosphere the developers wanted to express.

As Kate travels from one location to another, the player experiences entire towns that feel creepy, lonely and downright exhausting. Kate travels from an aging village in the South of France all the way to the northern-most expanses of Siberia throughout the events of the game. During the game, she visits countless locations such as an all-but-abandoned college town, an industrial plant occupied by two lunatics, a hotel that had once been exclusive to the world’s biggest stars, a monastery that refuses to abandon their traditional values and countless other memorable locations, each more depressingly desolate than the last.

A central theme to both games is the incorporation of automatons in everyday life. Players must interact with humans and machines alike in order to progress through the story. This makes the time period of the game difficult to place, with the humans and architecture reminiscent of a bygone age, while the technology and atmosphere create an odd combination of rustic and futuristic. It makes for a compelling setting, with characters simultaneously using cell phones and zeppelins.

Though the game is beautiful and filled with diverse characters and locations, it is not without fault. Kate is controlled by the player and moves very slowly from one place to another. It is possible to make her move faster, but even her running speed is slow. Even if this allows the player more time to admire the beautiful scenery, it can still make playing the game tedious, especially considering that most of the puzzles are solved by running back and forth from one place to another. Many of the bugs that made the first game irritating are resolved in the second game, which makes it a lot easier to play.

When it comes to games standing the test of time, it’s surprising that both Syberia and Syberia 2 are not more widely considered to be classics. Over 10 years after the games were released, the graphics are still remarkably impressive, the story is intriguing and creative and the characters show a large amount of growth over the course of both games. These games are on par with many of the more modern video games that are being produced, and considering they were developed a decade ago, that is a pretty incredible feat.

On July 30th Governor Larry Hogan spontaneously announced the closing of the Baltimore City Male Detention Center, the only local jail in the nation that is run by a state. Although Hogan failed to consult with local legislators before making the decision, he was confident in this risky action. “We know it’s the right decision,” he said.

Some argue that Governor Hogan should have consulted with local leaders and legislators before making this big decision. His objective of reducing spending in an attempt to tame Maryland’s budget deficit could be blinding him from seeing that economic stimulation is worth more than budget cuts.

Consulting the legislators would’ve made no difference in this case because shutting down the detention center was clearly the right move.

Hogan’s radical efforts to make budget cuts have come with potential negative consequences in the past, which we witnessed after he decided to turn down the Red Line Light Rail project this past June. An endeavor that was intended to stimulate employment rates and economic activity in impoverished West Baltimore.

Hogan perceived the Red Line project to be wasteful, and was ultimately wrong because it had potential to help build better communities in West Baltimore. Similarly, Hogan thought that the detention center was unnecessary, but this time he was right.

Hogan was successful in saving $3 billion on the Red Line project, and has estimated that closing the prison will save anywhere from $10 million to $15 million annually.

Thankfully, Hogan refused to follow his predecessor, Martin O’Malley, who planned to spend $500 million for the renovation of the prison. Hogan was reluctant to follow these plans to any extent, and decided to terminate the prison immediately. Thus, he decided to avoid consulting legislature, which he said would “bog down the process”.

“The practice of continuously dumping hard-earned taxpayer money into this disastrous facility will not continue under my watch.” said Hogan. With its history of corruption and gang activity, the detention center was not doing what it was intended to — keep criminal activity off of the streets. In 2013 the Black Guerilla Family was able to run a drug-trafficking and money-laundering operation from within the prison, which also involved the help of corrections officers.

This action could help create a better community by making finances available to better causes. Closing the jail would create an “opportunity for the state to re-evaluate it spending priorities,” simply put by the Justice Policy Institute.

Perhaps this money would be used to address the $60 million dollar deficit that Baltimore City schools are facing. There is major need to stimulate growth and create a better community in the city. Maryland has become the second most violent city in America in 2015, after surpassing Detroit this year. This is something that we should be concerned about because it can severely hinder the development of safe communities, and create a negative snowball effect.

Hogan made the right decision by cutting spending to increase spending flexibility. He should consider using the money to fund economic growth by helping stabilize the violence-ridden communities.

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Got Time? is the first, and luckily only, two-month-old creation from app developer Vianki. It can be found by searching Got Time? on the App Store, and is located below the apps Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That! – Soundboard and Famous Cartoon Shadow Quiz.

Vianki promised that Got Time? will, “rather than [force me] to figure out when [I] need to do stuff, track how much free time [I] have left.” Though this sounded promising, when I saw the horribly contrasting yellow-gold and bright purple of the logo, I immediately lowered my expectations.

I tapped the app and what I saw impressed me even less than the logo did. A set of five simplistic, and not intuitively simplistic, screenshots stared back at me. Basic, contrasting colors and what looked to be a default font continued to lower my hopes for the utility of this application. I pressed download.

While I was waiting for the app to finish downloading, I decided to glance at the reviews. It turns out that a glance was all that I needed to get a gist of the what the app would provide, as there were only two reviews.

One review gave Got Time? a single star, while another, in stark contrast, was glowing, declaring in the header that the app was “quick and easy.” Parts of the review reminded me of the description of the app, and I quickly began suspecting that the author was somehow affiliated with Vianki and stood to profit off of enthusiastic app reviews.

Once the app was finally downloaded I was greeted with a large green box that told me “you have no current tasks,” alongside a large ad adorned with a pair of breasts promoting the app Game of War. Initially, I was unsure of what I was supposed to do. Upon closer examination though, I saw three minuscule buttons in the lowest region of the screen.

The only three buttons in the entire app, aside from the buttons you use to toggle the amount of time you see at once, read “Dashboard,” which I was on, “Task List” and “Routine List.”  I decided to enter in my weekly routine first.

As I began to add my weekly class schedule, I encountered another small but annoying problem. Once I was done typing in the name of my routine I tapped the “Starts” field to enter the start time, only to find that nothing happened. I tried again and finally realized you must press “Done” on the keyboard first —something that is not at all convenient.

Another annoying aspect was setting the start and end times. Instead of a scroll wheel, users must fight with a slider to select their times. This problem resurfaces in the “Task List” section when entering due dates. Here, a scroll wheel is used when trying to schedule multiple events on top of each other. However, a calendar where all events can be represented next to each other would be more ideal.

A noteworthy feature in the app is a slider that you can adjust based on your progress on a certain task, which seems like a good idea. When entering a task though, you must type the name first, because if you forget, there is no error to alert you, and the task will not save and instead be lost forever. At this point, after I entered a due date for an assignment, the app decided to crash. This was not a one-time crash either — this was a crash where the app would not even re-open and had to be re-downloaded entirely.

To my dismay, all my painstakingly added routines were gone. However, I was determined to see how this app worked and what made it so much better than a normal calendar and to-do list. Once again, I added my routines, and this time, I was able to enter in a few things from my to-do list.

Ten minutes later, I returned to the dashboard and saw a sentence telling me to “Relax” because I had five hours of tasks to complete out of eight hours of free time. This was nice, so I decided to enter in the rest of my to-do list in the task section.

Unfortunately, this was a bad decision because once again, the app crashed and would not re-open. Rather than trying again, because I knew a crash was inevitable, I gave up.

Got Time? is a good idea, but the “unique algorithm” that Vianki flaunts as revolutionary is basic arithmetic. It shows you the time of the day minus the time you estimate you have to work on your tasks. Combining a to-do list and a calendar could be useful but doesn’t present enough benefits to overcome the massive hindrances that this app creates.

I found that I wasted precious time that I could have used to work on assignments while using Got Time?, and until the developers totally revamp this app, it cannot prove useful to any human being. One advantage that Got Time? does have though, is that is available only on the App Store and not the Google Play Store, therefore only wasting the time of a portion of smartphone users.

There’s an old Roman proverb that reads “homo homini lupus.” In English, this roughly translates to “man is a wolf to man” — no one is crueler to humankind than humankind itself.

“Rambo: First Blood” exemplifies this attitude of cruelty quite well. It’s a regular “Heart of Darkness” with an important wrinkle: this one takes place in the audience’s backyard.

The movie follows Sylvester Stallone as the titular John Rambo, a former Green Beret and Vietnam War hero turned homeless vagabond, wandering the Pacific Northwest in search for a now-dead member of his platoon. After being kicked out of a small town by its Sheriff, Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy), Rambo returns and is arrested for vagrancy.

While being mistreated by Deputy Art Galt (Jack Starrett), Rambo has a flashback to his time as a prisoner of war and attacks the officers, escaping and starting a guerilla war in the forest by the small town. After the death of Galt, who Rambo accidentally kills in self defense, the State Police, National Guard, and Rambo’s former commanding officer Colonel Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna) all arrive to try and capture him — or, in the case of the Colonel, to try and protect the police from Rambo.

“Rambo: First Blood” was released in 1982, so a sizable chunk of the special effects and camera work may fall short to a modern audience. However, as the film progresses and the action beats go more and more over the top, they both improve, culminating in an excellent final scene where Rambo takes on Sheriff Teasle and destroys most of the town in order to distract and kill him. The cinematography is also quite good when it avoids cheesy slow-motion shots typical of the genre.

On top of the engaging action and cinematography, the film features incredible acting from Stallone, Dennehy and Crenna, all giving dynamite performances. Stallone especially manages to add depth to, and evoke sympathy from, a man who is stressed over and over again by the filmmakers and Colonel Trautman to be a relentless weapon of war.

The strongest part of “Rambo: First Blood” has to do with the aforementioned proverb and what it means to the film. The audience is shown the dehumanization of war veterans, both in their experiences in war and in how they are received when they return home.

Rambo returns and is mistreated by the people who are supposed to protect him in the same way that he was mistreated by the Vietcong, and he finds that he has no place in a society where war is absent. In fact, the time he fits in the most at home is while he is fighting off the police.

There is an exchange at one point in the film between the Colonel and Rambo where the latter remarks that his friend and fellow soldier Delmar Barry, who had been exposed to Agent Orange and passed away due to cancer, “had died in Vietnam and not even known it.” This applies to Rambo as well. No one from his platoon ever really “came back” from Vietnam. Barry carried the war with him physically, in the form of his poisoning, and Rambo carried it psychologically, through his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and flashbacks.

Despite anything that could be said about how well this film has aged, its excellent performances and its “on the nose” critique of the way veterans are dealt with upon returning home makes this a movie that stands the test of time.

There have been subtle structural changes to the UMBC pond, including removing the water altogether. Rusty Postlewate of UMBC’s Facilities Management has been sending out updates about the pond throughout the 2014 – 2015 academic year, and the timeline of the pond’s reconstruction goes as follows:

November 24, 2014: Postlewate announces plans to add a fence surrounding the pond, which will prevent pedestrian and vehicular access to the Residential Life area.

March 13, 2015: Crews begin to build a new walkway between the Meyerhoff Chemistry Building and the Library.

May 8, 2015: The promenade in front of the Admissions and Orientation and Financial Aid Scholarships Offices will be closed so construction can begin at the North side of the pond.

Postlewate explained how the pond has been restructured over the summer, “Most of the work that has been done since last semester has been structural in nature. The concrete retaining walls on the library side and the Schwartz Hall side of the pond’s edge had to be completely removed and replaced due to structural deficiencies, and the significant water outfall structure – next to the chemistry building – has to be completely reconstructed to meet dam safety criteria.”

Postlewate also shared the whereabouts of the pond’s water: “There has not been water in the pond … the water is intercepted upstream of the pond, pumped past the pond and discharged in the storm water line downstream of the pond, so the construction work can continue.”

The water is projected to return to the pond by mid-September.

According to Postlewate, the pond will be able to support marine life after the project. “The pond will be stocked with fish,” he said. He also intends on making the pond a more “pleasant place to gather together.”

“100 or so trees and over 1,000 plantings will be installed as part of the project,” Postlewate said. These modifications should be completed by November, according to Postlewate.

The plan to revamp the pond was first announced in June of 2013 and was estimated to be completed the following October.

Having been closed since the Fall of 2013, it has been under construction for approximately two years.

M. Night Shyamalan’s newest cinematic outing “The Visit” is both ambivalent and confusing. That’s not to say it’s not enjoyable. — it’s the type of movie that’s definitely worth viewing while it’s in theaters. Still, that doesn’t mean it’s a great movie, or even a good movie. Shyamalan’s name is now synonymous with “career in a downward spiral,” so what by any other filmmaker would have been a C- at best gets a little extra credit.

The problem with reviewing a Shyamalan film is that it’s no longer a simple analysis of black and white, good and bad. There has to be a discussion about why some things happened at some point in the movie. For instance, all of the jump scares in the movie come as a result of the grandmother wandering around the house at night and the majority of them were more goofy than frightening.

If this is meant to be funny, then that’s fine. But if it’s meant to be scary, the fact that so many people found it funny means that the point was too difficult to get across. At any rate, it was entertaining and that’s what is most important.

What stops the film from being good and makes it, instead, just a passable distraction, is the writing. The script is so poorly written that it would be unfair to mention and critique the performances of the actors, because no actor in the business could save a script that is so bad.

Shyamalan needs to stop writing child characters because he obviously has no idea what children are actually like, with this film portraying them as either rappers or pretentious film wannabes. After this, we can also add the elderly to the list of groups that he has no idea how to write, as he believes that wandering around the house naked at night and tackling people for no reason is just the sort of thing that old people do.

Also, there are no ifs, ands, or buts about it: the cinematography is just awful.

Shyamalan chose to film this movie in “found footage” style, in turn detracting from a lot of moments that could be scarier or funnier since the audience can’t actually understand what is going on through the maddening shaking of the camera.

Despite the poor writing, there are some great parts of the movie, including how the child characters deal with their father leaving. Moreover, there is an excellent act three twist reminiscent of “The Sixth Sense” or “Unbreakable” that will catch audiences by surprise, with a delivery that will have them either gasping in horror or screaming at the characters to take action.

There are kernels of better movies in here — movies that people would want to see far more than what they got. Like Shyamalan’s “After Earth,” one of the main problems of this film is that it lacks focus and purpose. The more interesting parts are meant to serve the more boring ones instead of the other way around. In spite of this, the movie was still entertaining and is, without a doubt, worth seeing for, at least, a tiny peek of the same Shyamalan who was great all those years ago.

It has been seven long years since UMBC’s men’s baseball team qualified for the America East Tournament. Players have come and gone and even long-time coach John Lancuska retired in that time.

For the first time since, not only did the Retrievers qualify for the tournament, but they stormed in with an agenda. The team entered the tournament with a 10-2 record in May and for the first time since 2002, they earned more than 30 wins in a season, with a 32-18, 14-10 America East record.

Four qualifying schools played in the double elimination tournament at LeLacheur Park in Maine, home to the Lowell Spinners.

The Retrievers quickly earned their first win of the tournament against the University of Maine. The Retrievers defeated them 9-5, thanks to an early scoring spree. The team scored the runs starting in the second inning with a double home run by sophomore Connor Hax.

The team’s next game did not go as smoothly. They faced Stony Brook University to qualify for the championship match. Both teams were on the board by the third inning, scoring three runs each. The Retrievers led Stony Brook to the game-winning score by an error, ending it 3-4.

However, the Retrievers were not ready to give up yet. Next, they faced Hartford University in a match for the last spot in the championship game. The Retrievers dominated Hartford throughout the game, earning their spot in the championship 10-2.

In the game against Hartford, Senior Vince Corbi continued his impressive season, heavily contributing to the one-sided match. Corbi went to bat five times, earning two hits, two runs and two runs batted in.

Finally, the championship game came and brought a rematch with Stony Brook along with it. The game turned into a high scoring affair between the two powerhouses, ending in a 16-11 win for Stony Brook.

The Retrievers got the scoring started with a walk-off single from junior Kevin LaChance. The team continued the scoring and took an early 7-0 lead, normally a death sentence in baseball. However, Stony Brook quickly retaliated in the second inning by scoring 11 runs of their own.

The two teams continued to go back and forth throughout the game, but Stony Brook earned the game winning runs in the fourth inning. Sophomore Toby Handley and senior Cole Peragine scored the game winning runs for Stony Brook, extending their lead to 13.

Despite only taking second place in the tournament, the Retrievers and their 34 wins are the second most in the program’s history.

During the summer, senior English major Kelly Purtell began ordering her textbooks, including Geoffrey Chaucer’s “House of Fame,” from Amazon.com.

“Three books were packaged together and marked to arrive on August 17,” she said, “however, come August 17, they had yet to arrive.”

Purtell then called Amazon’s customer service line, where a representative gave her a refund for the books because they were allegedly unable to provide replacements. However, soon after the call, the representative ordered a replacement of “House of Fame,” which arrived two days later.

“Two days after that,” Purtell said, “my original order showed up, with all three books inside. So, now I had two copies of ‘House of Fame.'”

Soon, however, Purtell discovered that neither copy contained any text.

“The first three chapters are printed,” she said, “but nothing is printed thereafter.”

The following 300 pages of both books were blank save for small captions, “CHAPTER010,” “CHAPTER150” at the center.

Purtell found this disappointing considering she’d spent $21.90 on the first copy, but received the second for free as a replacement. She bought the books from the vendor Amazon LLC, through the publishing house The Perfect Library.

“I’m currently crying and laughing simultaneously at the irony,” she said.

The listing for this edition of “House of Fame” allows the viewer to flip through the first five pages — the only pages of both of Purtell’s copies that have any content.

The Perfect Library offers hundreds of classic literature editions available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The reviews for these books vary, as most of the books reviewed have both five-star and one-star ratings.

One Amazon user claims that the Kindle version he bought never appeared on any of his electronic devices, rating their edition of “The Tragedies of Eurypides – Volume I” one-star.

His review is titled “Who knows?” and reads as follows:

“I can’t rate this book, because I have been unable to download it. It is listed on my Kindle account page, but none of my e-book readers (apps or kindle) can find it. I really got what I paid for ($0.00).”

There are several other one-star ratings under James Freeman Clarke’s “Orthodoxy;” their reviews range from the inability to download as mentioned above to its being dictated and not read — leaving many noticeable grammatical errors — to two users only receiving a book full of pictures.

Under their edition of Elizabeth Prentiss’s “Stepping Heavenward,” similar complaints are made about bad formatting, sloppy editing and one user even claiming that their edition was photocopied.

However, most of their editions have also received more good reviews than bad. Some books’ bad reviews include nothing about the formatting or editing, such as the reviews under “Steps to Christ’s” one-star ratings.

John Conroy Hutcheson’s “The Ghost Ship” received over 1,000 reviews with only seven one-star ratings, none of which mention the formatting or editing.

As of September 12, 2015, “House of Fame” has yet to receive any reviews on Amazon.

“I have not contacted Amazon because I’m kind of exhausted and inconvenienced by the whole thing,” Purtell said. “However, after checking the price … I think it will be worth contacting Amazon to get my $22 back.”