Intramural Indoor Soccer games will consist of two 20-minute halves, and will be played indoors this semester on Sunday evenings on Court 2 in the RAC.

Outdoor Season Begins: Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015

 Registration: Starting Friday, August 21, 2015 teams will be able to register for the Fall semester. An Indoor Soocer manager's meeting will be held on Monday, September 28 at 12:30pm.

The meeting will cover responsibilities of the manager, as well as rules for the sport. Teams will not be approved to play without a representative from each team present or meeting with the director at another time. Attending the meeting does not guarantee any team a spot in the intramural sports season. Teams that have their $40 deposit and meet the team minimum number of players will be approved on a first come, first serve basis. All teams must be registered on www.imleagues.com.

Team Fee: $40 (Refundable)

Leagues Offered: Open

Outdoor Times: Sunday 4pm-8pm (last game played at 7pm).

Intramural Volleyball games will consist of three sets, and will be played this semester on Wednesday/Friday afternoon on Court 2 in the RAC.

Season Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2015

 Registration: Starting Friday, August 21, 2014 teams will be able to register for the Fall semester. An Indoor Volleyball manager's meeting will be held on Monday, November 2 at 12:30pm.

The meeting will cover responsibilities of the manager, as well as rules for the sport. Teams will not be approved to play without a representative from each team present or meeting with the director at another time. Attending the meeting does not guarantee any team a spot in the intramural sports season. Teams that have their $40 deposit and meet the team minimum number of players will be approved on a first come, first serve basis. All teams must be registered on www.imleagues.com.

Team Fee: $40 (Refundable)

Leagues Offered: Open

Outdoor Times: Wednesday/Friday 12pm-5pm (last game played at 4pm).

Tania Lizarazo, Ph.D., MLLI / GLBL

Asif Majid, M.A., GLBL / INDS

The Intramural basketball games are consist of two 20-minute halves, and will be played indoors this semester on Tuesday/Thursday night on Court 2 in the RAC.

Basketball Season Begins: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015

 Registration: Starting Friday, August 21, 2015 teams will be able to register for the Fall semester. A basketball manager's meeting will be held on Monday, October 26 at 12:30pm.

The meeting will cover responsibilities of the manager, as well as rules for the sport. Teams will not be approved to play without a representative from each team present or meeting with the director at another time. Attending the meeting does not guarantee any team a spot in the intramural sports season. Teams that have their $40 deposit and meet the team minimum number of players will be approved on a first come, first serve basis. All teams must be registered on www.imleagues.com.

Team Fee: $40 (Refundable)

Leagues Offered: Open

Outdoor Times: Tuesday/Thursday 6pm-10pm (last game played at 9pm).

The Intramural Flag Football games will consist of two 20-minute halves, and will be played outdoors this semester on Monday/Wednesday/Friday afternoons at Field 1 inside the UMBC stadium.

Outdoor Season Begins: Monday, September 28

 Registration: Starting Friday, August 21, 2015 teams will be able to register for the Fall semester. An outdoor Flag Football manager's meeting will be held on Monday, September 21 at 12:30pm.

The meeting will cover responsibilities of the manager, as well as rules for the sport. Teams will not be approved to play without a representative from each team present or meeting with the director at another time. Attending the meeting does not guarantee any team a spot in the intramural sports season. Teams that have their $40 deposit and meet the team minimum number of players will be approved on a first come, first serve basis. All teams must be registered on www.imleagues.com.

Team Fee: $40 (Refundable)

Leagues Offered: Open

Outdoor Times: Monday/Wednesday/Friday 12pm-5pm (last game played at 4pm).

The Intramural Soccer evening games will consist of two 20-minute halves, and will be played outdoors this semester on Tuesday/Thursday night at the turf field inside the UMBC stadium.

Outdoor Season Begins: Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2014

 Registration: Starting Friday, August 21, 2015 teams will be able to register for the Fall semester. An outdoor soccer manager's meeting will be held on Monday, September 14 at 12:30pm.

The meeting will cover responsibilities of the manager, as well as rules for the sport. Teams will not be approved to play without a representative from each team present or meeting with the director at another time. Attending the meeting does not guarantee any team a spot in the intramural sports season. Teams that have their $40 deposit and meet the team minimum number of players will be approved on a first come, first serve basis. All teams must be registered on www.imleagues.com.

Team Fee: $40 (Refundable)

Leagues Offered: Open

Outdoor Times: Tuesday/Thursday 6pm-10pm (last game played at 9pm).

Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing a new campus politics of sexual paranoia—and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she’d sent filed Title IX complaints against her. In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,” the headline said. A number of popular comedians, including Chris Rock, have stopped performing on college campuses (see Caitlin Flanagan’s article in this month’s issue). Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can’t take a joke.

Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance. Microaggressions are small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless. For example, by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American “Where were you born?,” because this implies that he or she is not a real American. Trigger warnings are alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response. For example, some students have called for warnings that Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart describes racial violence and that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby portrays misogyny and physical abuse, so that students who have been previously victimized by racism or domestic violence can choose to avoid these works, which they believe might “trigger” a recurrence of past trauma.

Some recent campus actions border on the surreal. In April, at Brandeis University, the Asian American student association sought to raise awareness of microaggressions against Asians through an installation on the steps of an academic hall. The installation gave examples of microaggressions such as “Aren’t you supposed to be good at math?” and “I’m colorblind! I don’t see race.” But a backlash arose among other Asian American students, who felt that the display itself was a microaggression. The association removed the installation, and its president wrote an e-mail to the entire student body apologizing to anyone who was “triggered or hurt by the content of the microaggressions.”

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College and university students have unique stress and risk factors related to the demands of school; balancing academic, social, and employment responsibilities while being independent and away from family, friends, and other supports — often for the first time. Today, 40% of young adults age 18-24 are enrolled in a two or four year educational institution. Statistics show that 75% of mental illnesses develop before age 25, making colleges ideal locations for early identification. However, the number one reason students say they do not use mental health resources is lack of knowledge that those resources even exist.