On March 5th, 2024, UMBC’s Student Government Association (SGA) voted in favor of passing a joint resolution, J.R. 01-2324, which asks SGA to request UMBC to…
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This is a developing story. As needed, updates will be posted on The Retriever website and in future print issues. On March 18th, the Department…
The two catastrophic flash floods in Old Ellicott City made national headlines. One occurred in 2016, killing two people, and the second flood occurred two…
For the past year, UMBC’s independent, student-run newspaper, The Retriever, has been quiet. Running a newspaper as college students with virtually no professional business experience…
The Graduate Labor Union (GLU) at University of Maryland, College Park led a coalition of academic laborers and labor organizers at a rally on Wednesday,…
On October 3, 2023, a shooting broke out during a homecoming football game at Morgan State University, only a 30-minute drive from the University of…
Graduate students at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County testified in the Maryland Senate in February 2023 in support of SB0247, which would allow all…
Wednesday, February 15th, the Student Government Association at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, held a Student Fee Forum. The forum was an opportunity for…
In the 1970s, there began a push for more space in academia for Black people, particularly in America, which was surviving out of the “turbulent…
On Thursday, September 29th at 8:00pm, This Is My Brave, a national non-profit organization dedicated to mental health storytelling, hosted a virtual sharing event titled,…
Day-to-day life for women living in Iran is underscored by fear of an omnipotent oppressor. It is no secret that Iran’s laws are disproportionately cruel…
With election day arriving on November 8, 2022, Maryland residents will soon have the opportunity to elect key figures to represent the state. The positions…
UMBC’s Women’s Center will once again host biweekly Tuesday meetings for the We Believe You Discussion Group at 4 p.m. throughout the 2022-2023 academic year.…
Retriever Essentials, a University of Maryland, Baltimore County organization that provides free food and other supplies to community members on campus, has been expanding its…
The new president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Dr. Valerie Sheares Ashby, began her term this summer on August 1, 2022. Since her…
At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Chick-fil-A and Starbucks Coffee are metonymic for the University Center. Long before the smell of waffle fries filled…