Explain your main platform and how you will implement it. Mona: Our platform is based off the three C’s: campus health, campus communication and campus…
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What we consume at UMBC is often a mystery: True Grit’s provides healthy greens, but students don’t know where those eats are sourced from. UMBC’s student run…
Voter Awareness Initiative discovers Baltimore County Board of Elections distributing misinformation
The Voter Awareness Initiative, a project taken on by the Student Government Association, College Democrats, College Republicans and People United, officially began in Nov. 2015…
The Student Government Association is currently considering a new approach to voting. Rather than the standard majority wins voting system, the instant run off voting…
One of the most enduring and damaging arguments to come out of academic pantsuit feminism is that women who choose to present themselves as objects…
On Feb. 24, the gender and women’s studies department hosted its ninth Joan S. Korenman Lecture in Albin O. Kuhn’s Library Gallery. This year featured Alice…
Crafting the SGA budget, which currently sits at a value of just over one million dollars, is a process which requires collaboration amongst many different…
William Blake, an assistant professor of political science at UMBC, and Hans Hacker, an associate professor of political science at Arkansas State University, wrote an…
On Feb, 9, a spotlight shone on one of UMBC’s faculty diversity initiatives, the Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity. “Developed by the Executive Committee on…
On Feb. 4, UMBC Chief of Police Mark Sparks informed the student body via email that the UMBC Police Department would undergo on-site assessment to…
On Feb. 10, Democratic legislators in the Maryland General Assembly proposed a bill to prohibit guns from college campuses. The legislation, brought forth on a…
Early in January, Baltimore County Councilman David Marks of District 5 proposed a bill that addressed the recurring issue of disruptive party houses. The bill…
We seem to live in an age of increasing risk management and overly protective safety precautions and, as a result, many educational institutions are taking…
This summer UMBC will update its clicker model. The model currently used is TurningPoint 5. Under this system, a new clicker cost approximately $60, while the…
As in December’s commencement ceremony, students with outstanding credits will not be allowed to walk across the graduation stage. In years past, UMBC has allowed…
On January 7, a $1.6 million dollar initiative between Baltimore City Public Schools, UMBC and the Northrop Grumman Foundation was announced at Lakeland Elementary/Middle School…