Students Join Protest in DC

I THE ETRIEVER E E KLY "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. " - AJ Liebling Volume XXXIV, Number 25 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 April18, 2000 Student Finds Blood· in Jazzman's Salad. incident and have reprimanded Wood Employee the worker and manager respon Reprimanded for sible for the incident. "[The blood] was enough to Bleeding on Food be noticeable. It wasn't dripping. It looked as if someone had a JOHN C. ROEMER deep paper cut and a few drops of Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff blood were squeezed out," said education major Christine Concerns were raised when a Clausen, the studentwho discov student discovered blood in a ered the blood. Jazzman's sesame noodle salad Clausen took the salad to she purchased from the Admin Connie Cain, the supervisor at Cafe. Wood Company officials maintain that this was an isolated see FOOD, page 4 Jason Putsche I Retriever Weekly Staff Active for Change: Students from around the nation join thousands of people in protesting policies of the IMF and World Bank during the meeting of the IMF Ministers. Students Join Protest in DC ALYSON HARKINS week and are still going on, have come ~hort-term monetary prob Retriever Weekly Staff Writer resulted in the arrests of hundreds lems such as the destabilization of of activists· from around the coun currency. The money is available A group of UMBC students try. The aim of the protests is to only to member countries, the joined thousands of others in draw attention to what critics call leaders of which are required to Washington DC on Sunday in a the abuses of developing countries agree to austerity measures theo rally protesting the practices of the by the IMP and to disrupt the retically designed to control irre International Monetary Fund and meeting of IMP Ministers. sponsible government spending. the World Bank. The IMP was created in 1944, The protests, which began last ostensibly to help countries over- see PROTEST, page 5 Andy Dunmire I Retriever Weekly Staff Mindfest UMBC's Maryland Camarata performed in the library for vistors to CWIT Discussion Proves Tech the school during the sixth annual Mindfest on Saturday. The event showed off the school, its students and programs with tours and per formances. It attracted surrounding community members with local World Needs, Welcomes Women advertisements and a promise of fun and entertainment for the whole family. See story, page 9. Universities Urged to Encourage Female Involvement SARAH ANDREWS Panelist Patricia Bransford, demand for skilled workers far What's Inside: Retriever Weekly Staff Writer founder of the National Urban exceeds the supply. She said an Technology Center, called the estimated 1.6 million IT workers Features The rapid expansion of infor growth of technology a huge mation technology promises an opportunity for women, as the see TECH, page 6 p. 15 array of professional opportuni Lois Maffeo touches down at ties for women, despite the con the Ottobar, Distilled Theatre tinuing difficulties women face in brings Slaughter City to Fine reaching the highest levels of Latino Students Arts, and Persiflage tracks management. This was the gener down the genesis of the ram. al conclusion reached by five Sports panelists who took part last Propose Changes Thursday in a discussion entitled p.28 High Power, High Tech: Women DAHLIA NAQIB dents feel they belong because Opinion Women's lacrosse keeps NEG IT Execs Talk Business. Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff once they feel accepted . they p. 10 unbeaten streak going, baseball According to Jane Brown, will be better students," said climbs to 20-16-1 on season executive director and vice presi The recent "Latin explosion," President of the Hispanic Latino Rosemary Asquino and with lots of help from Ray Hall, dent of the Robert W. Deutsch which has demanded the attention Student Union Jahazial Perez. Jennifer Cohen talk trigger both crew and men's rugby per Foundation, and moderator of the of leaders across the country, has According to studies compiled locks, while Chris Higgens out form well, while Chris Kerner event, "women have tremendous done the same at UMBC where by Dr. Alan Bell, faculty adviser lines the perils of being con analyzes the 2000 NFL draft. servative on a liberal campus. communication skills," and, as Latino students are hoping to to the Hispanic Latino Student Also, Harold C. McDougall IV College News ... p.2 technology and communications make the school more Latin Union, many Hispanic and Latino raises some questions about World News ... p.3 continue to intersect, those kinds friendly. children in the United States do SGA procedures. Classifieds ... p.27 of skills will become more valu ''We need to provide a basis of able. community so that [Latino] stu- see LATINOS, page 7 PAGE2 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY NEWS April18, 2000 I ehind • the Scenes Most Ivies Experience Decline In SonAi Low Acceptance Rates (U-WIRE) PROVIDENCE, RI-The class KIM OWENS art of Aikido. She has been practicing of 2004 set records in admission offices Retriever Weekly Staff Writer Aikido for the past five years. "The across the Ivy League. martial arts are very interesting and dis At the University of Pennsylvania, the What do pottery, Aikido and ciplined. It's an interesting examination large influx of applications for the class of medieval literature have in common? of you as a person when you practice 2004 caused the acceptance rate to drop They are all pursuits of Dr. Son Ai Low. Aikido. It's not just a physical activity, 17.2 percent to 22 percent of its 18,815 Low is an assistant professor of it's in many ways ... a philosophical applicants, which was the largest drop. medieval literature who came to and spiritual endeavor as well. To me, Brown was second with 2,541 accept UMBC in 1998 and has been teaching it's also partly an academic pursuit ~ ances from a record-breaking pool of English 304, a survey course in you are learning all these quiet, compli 16,801 applications. The university's 15.1 percent acceptance rate is its lowest, down medieval and renaissance literature, cated and esoteric techniques of self 10.8 percent from last year. ever since. Low also teaches a variety defense that you would never use on the "The admission rate is just absolutely of other courses in the English depart street," she said. tied to the number of applications," said ment. "I try to bring my own enthusi Low has been selected for a post~ Brown's Director of College Admission asm to my lectures" she said, when doctorate fellowship at the University Michael Goldberger. asked how she manages to keep stu of Wisconsin. Therefore, she will be on Harvard College also saw a decline in dents interested in medieval studies. leave from UMBC next year. its acceptance rate, falling from 11.3 per Originally born and raised in Low is excited about the focus of her Nate West I Retriever Weekly Staff cent of applicants for the class of 2003, to Singapore, Low, the youngest of three research project concerning the old 10.9 percent of the applicants for the class children, received her honors bache She admits that she didn't initially have English words for the mind and what of2004. lor's degree from Oxford University in any specific career plans - she gradually impact those words had on the early Marlyn McGrath Lewis, dean of England. Afterward, she returned to ended up in academics. Low has an analo Anglo-Saxons and how they perceived admissions for Harvard College, said that Singapore and taught high school for gy of how some professors end up in aca the mind and the soul. "I am definitely the large increase in applications is due in two years. She received her masters demic careers: "If you put a frog in a pan of looking forward to publishing a book part to the new early action policy adopted and doctorate from the University of water and heat it up slowly, the frog does about my research findings," she said. by universities like Harvard and Brown. Toronto. She graduated in 1998 and n't know that it's boiling to death because The early action policy states that students may apply early action - a non-binding came to UMBC shortly thereafter. the temperature gradually rises in its envi process - to more than one school in the Since several of her family mem ronment." Unlike the hapless frog, Low is agreement. bers are medical doctors, Low was enjoying UMBC's environment. expected to follow that path. However, Low recently attempted to broaden her Grad Student Finds Oldest Quasar Low, the placid rebel, decided to horizons by taking pottery classes. Though PRINCETON, NJ (AP) - A Princeton choose her own career path. After high she admits that it is not her true vocation, University graduate student has discovered school, she realized that she enjoyed Low feels that the experience served a what scientists claim is the oldest, most English classes more so than math and viable purpose. "It's good discipline for an distant object ever seen by a human being. science classes. While she excelled in instructor to do something they're not good Astrophysics student Xiaohui Fan the sciences, she had a natural prefer at. It's very humbling and can be compared found a quasar that is 12 billion light years ence for English. While at Oxford, she to a student's experience in the classroom," from Earth. became fascinated in medieval litera she said. The discovery gives scientists a better ture and helieves that it is an important In addition to the pottery classes, Low glimpse of what the universe was like in its component of English.

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