Analysts suggest budgetary trim
ANNAPOLIS – The university’s funding survived its first encounter with the General Assembly yesterday, as virtually no cuts to funding for the university system were…
Losing Our Hold on Privacy
Senior computer engineering major As President Obama calls on congressional leaders to restrict NSA collection of telephone records, I wonder about the future of…
Confessions from Dashboard
Since Dashboard Confessional’s first album in 2000, The Swiss Army Romance, frontman Chris Carrabba’s indie-rock band (read between the lines: emo) has built a steady…
College Park: A love story
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. I never fully understood that phrase until now. See, I spent my summer in Annapolis, which is a great…
Sneaker Cartel hosts first major event
The crowd that assembled Tuesday night to hear from the founding fathers of sneakerology came prepared, sporting an array of Nikes, Vans LP slips and…
Microblogging: Democratizing truth
Senior government and politics major “I’m learning as much on Tumblr as I do in my classes most days.” This phrase, written in Ezra…
Grading curves: Solving the mystery
When I was a young, spry sophomore, I took a computer science class because of the succubus known as CORE. Needless to say, I haven’t…
The worst policy
Once again, university officials are leaving students out of the loop. And this time, their silence makes it even more clear that they consider the…