Walking into the carnival, the chatter of hundreds of students and families is mixed with the hum of machines running. The sparkling lights and low…
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In the age of Netflix and Hulu, fewer millennials than ever are going to the movies. According to a Nielsen report, young people between the…
UMBC transformed into the ancient world last week with guest speakers, readings of Homer and a performance of one of Aristophanes’ plays– all to celebrate…
Some students may have noticed a green shelter that was recently erected on the Commons Terrace. This tent is called a Sukkah and is a…
Over 3000 people waited in a line that stretched from the Retriever Activities Center (RAC) all the way down academic row on Friday night. Students,…
“Sing it just how Cardi B. would, but clean.” Despite these instructions, the first audience competitor was very engaged in his performance and accidentally dropped…
“It’s a new experience. If you’re always stuck in one place you’ll never see the world, you’ll never see the people.” Xiaolin Su is a…
What started as a PowerPoint presentation became a candid discussion of experiences with mental health, and the sometimes blatant discrepancies in services available to those seeking help.…
Driving north on I-695 past I-95, looking off to the right it is possible to see a restaurant with an unusual name in big red…
On Friday evening, poets, lovers of poetry and friends gathered in the atrium of the Performing Arts and Humanities Building to listen to nine poets…
Flashing lights, balloons and music can only mean one thing: the return of the Retriever Dance Marathon, an annual event on campus, organized by a…
Claudia Lopez sits by herself at a table outside the Commons collecting donations for U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico whose lives have been devastated by…
According to The Banned Books Week Coalition, Banned Books Week was first started in 1982 as an effort to celebrate the freedom to read and…
Corrine Janet and Paulomi Dholaki, usually the Student Life Coordinator for Leadership Development and Coordinator for Transfer Student Success with Off Campus Student Services, respectively,…
“What does undocumented mean?” “To not be afraid.” Halfway through Angy Rivera’s Peabody award-winning film, “Don’t Tell Anyone,” her little sister says that she is…
It is midnight on Friday and True Grit’s, whose doors have usually long been locked and tables empty, is bustling with students. For the first…