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UMD community gathers to celebrate Carnaval with music, masquerade masks

The Carnaval celebration — hosted by the arts and humanities college — introduced students to traditions from countries across the world.
  • Freelance Reporter
  • February 14, 2024

UMD students reflect on their international holidays, traditions

Thomas Kai-Wen Chadwick’s family moved from Singapore to England when he was 6-years-old, then to California when he was 12 and Utah when he was 16.
  • Freelance Reporter
  • December 12, 2023

Wimpy kid becomes iron man

Editorial cartoon.
  • Ava Wallace
  • April 20, 2023

UMD PHA sororities continue big/little traditions amid the pandemic

The tradition spans across many generations of bigs and littles.
  • Evan Hecht
  • February 19, 2021

As finals approach, UMD students find new ways to sacrifice to Testudo

A pre-finals campus tradition, many students rub the nose of the mascot's statue and leave a gift underneath it in the hopes of recieving good luck on exams. But this year, many are finding ways to do so virtually.
  • Freelance Reporter
  • May 12, 2020

Recreating College Park: How some students are bringing UMD home

From recreating Cornerstone to looking through mementos.
  • Freelance Reporter
  • May 5, 2020

UMD seniors lost a lot of their final semester. Here’s what they wanted to do with it.

What could've been.
  • Anastasia Marks
  • April 29, 2020

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