UMD’s Title IX office brought on two new staffers this week
The office’s deputy director and two other staffers plan to leave before Oct. 2.
‘Idiot-proof garden’ takes home $50,000 Cupid’s Cup prize
Earth Starter, a company launched by 2011 alumni Phil Weiner and John-Randall Gorby, was the winning entry in this university’s eighth annual Cupid’s Cup Business Competition. This was the first year the traditionally Terps-oriented contest expanded to a national stage, and on Friday the six finalists gathered at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center to give their final pitches in hopes of winning cash awards to help launch or sustain their startup companies.
Hogan Watch Party
Flowers are placed and the stage is set at the Larry Hogan watch party being held at the Westin Hotel in Annapolis on Nov. 4,…
The National Theatre’s American Idiot musical is a flawed but worthy tribute to the album
“The musical serves as an adequate reminder of why American Idiot is worth revisiting. While the story and characters feel underwritten, the songs are…
The Human Capacity
Christian Sullivan, playing Richter, acts out a scene during a rehearsal of The Human Capacity in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on Monday, April…
Social security works well, so we should keep it the way it is
Social security keeps elders out of poverty.
Faculty contracts cause semester to start later
Students were able to hold onto summer a bit longer this year because of a complicated scheduling procedure that caused classes to start after Labor…
New Found Nothing: New Found Glory’s new album Coming Home features the same sort of styles and lyrics of previous works
New Found Glory is clearly betting the answer from its fans is “more of the same,” because that is what the pop-punk band’s fifth studio…
EDITORIAL: Open forum
If we could identify a great Christmas or Hanukkah gift for the university, it wouldn’t be distributing iPods to every student (although that’d be great)…
Guest column: Funding student groups
I’ve got my mind on your money and your money on my mind. I made that Snoop Dogg-inspired promise last year when I was inaugurated…