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UMBC Web Site Redesigned of Institutional Advancement and overhauling the home page, the ROBERT-REDDING Office of Information Technology group had to plan the design, Retriever Weekly Staff Writer developed the new look in-house, looking at navigation, scripting with support from the Graduate and review. UMBC launched its School and Student Affairs. The Suess could not place an redesigned Web site Aug. 18 in an lead graphic designer was Peggy exact dollar amount on how much effort to put more information on Boney, a UMBC alum. John Fritz, the Web site's redesign cost, since the front page, emphasize campus director of New Media Learning the design and programming was events and support the universi­ & Development handled content done in-house. The project took ty's student council, according to and navigation. Lisa Akchin, four months to complete. Dr. Jack Suess, chief information associate vice president of UMBC's Web site is over­ officer at UMBC. Institutional Advancement, also hauled every year, usually during "People get tired of seeing helped in the creation of the new the summer. "We keep the same the same design repeated forever, look. basic design and navigation and our campus Web presence The group of staffers who through the fall and spring semes- keeps evolving," said Suess, who worked on the project is called Jeremy Wustner-Brown I Retriever eekly Staff helped oversee the project. Emedia and meets regularly to Face Lift: UMBC's Web site was redesigned this summer to pro- Staff members of the Office plan Web-based initiatives. In .see WEB, page 2 ·vide and invigorated appearance and enhanced Web presence . ·. "· . Freshman Parking Restricted Library Shortens Hours, Construction of Satellite Parking Lot Underway SCOTT DAUGHERTY After the parking lot is com­ students are required to register Raises Copy Rates Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff plete, freshmen living on campus their vehicles to receive a free will not be allowed to park their parking permit. Upperclassmen, Budget Restrictions Impact Students New resident student fresh­ cars in a main campus lot returning freshmen and new com­ BRR{! MCKENZIE ing the fall. "There's a lot of man will not be allowed to park between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., muter freshmen will receive Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff competition amongst priorities on campus during peak hours Monday through Thursday, or white parking permits. New resi­ for funding," explained come October, once a new satel­ from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Fridays. dent freshmen will receive red Due to budget hortfalls, LeBreton. "The extension of lite parking lot is completed at A shuttle will depart for a 20- parking permits. the Alvin 0. Kuhn Libr~ our hours was contingent upon UMBC's South Campus location. minute round-trip from the inter­ "If I have to take a shuttle to be cutting its hours of operation receiving this funding, which A shuttle bus will run to and from section of Center Road and my car it will really suck," said and increasing its copy and we did not.'~ the satellite parking lot. Poplar Avenue approximately Laura Moy, echoing the feelings prinitng rates. Printing and copy prices "We are expecting parking to every hour, from 7 a.m. to mid- of many incoming freshman. The library had pushed will increase this fall for the - be really tight at the beginning of . night. The schedule for the shuttle Others are more understanding . back its closing hours during first time in 20 years, according the semester," said Helen service is available at "All of the other colleges I the Spring 2001 Semester from to LeBreton. Last year, ~he cost Garland, manger of parking at www. umbc.edu/transitlsatellite.htm. midnight to 2 a.m. on week- of making a photocopy in the UMBC. For the first time, all UMBC see PARKING, page 5 days, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on library was 8 cents with a cam- Fridays and from 6 p.m. to 8 pus debit card and 10 cents p.m. on Saturdays. The library with coins. This fall, copies will resume its traditional hours will cost 10 cents with a cam- eonstruction hasbeglin on.the this fall due to a lack of funds. pus card, 15 cents with cash. <~;IT~ building, ~jacentto "We had some funds left "Printing prices· don't .c- . £CS])u~g • •'J.lle~- over from salary savings, which bother me so much as the copy ·lure-wm ev~: IQ~; ~-:-·'"·· we used as an experiment," said prices. Some of the reserves IfSM department..thelnlaging Library Associate Director that we need to check out for the · :aesource Centet• . College Jonathan LeBreton, as he classes are pretty hefty ... the {)f£t'lgineering, the Center for explained the hour changes. extra 5 cents [a copy] will real- ·Women, as well as other "The library was the only ly add up and make our studies departments and programs. The place I could ever get serious expensive," said senior Flissy building will also house four 60-seat classrooms, three 40- studying done," said senior Bunch. se;at d.a.ssrooms. one 250-seat Matt Siegel. "I often don't start The cost of printing from lecture ball, one I 25-seat lec­ studying until 10 or 11 to begin the library's computers has also ture hall and a presentation/fac­ with, so that makes it a waste to been raised to 10 cents a sheet. ulty seminar room. The Office go to the library [with a mid- "It is very expensive to of Capital Planning expects the night closing]." maintain the copy machinery, building to cost $ 37 ,430.,000. Unfortunately, the library supplies such as paper and was not awarded enough fund- ing to maintain these hours dur- see LIBRARY, page 2

Stem cell research Anna Kaplan All right all you touts an impres­ ·~ -- the good the chats with artist sports buffs, sive academic bad and the ugly, Chuck AdkinsJ here's the scoop. profile, and the and President Kathryn Rouse The fall Retrievers technology center Freeman ponders Cafe Zen are profiled expands with Hrabowski ushers and Scott explains explicitly for your three new compa- in a new year. the dos and viewing pleasure. don'ts of laundry. Page 2 TIIE RETRIEVER WEEKLY NEWS August 28, 2001

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.• Sad but True. Not only a good •··· ·. description of your love life1 its also weekly contest in the Retriever Weekly. • If you choose the news story that is .indeed ficti~nal, and the news · ·checks his email, you can get a free pass Palestinians Raid Israeli ·~·for two to an up-coming movie Outpost •. preview. Think of it as a pathetic way KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) - In ·. impressing a guy you met at freshman one of the boldest and deadliest raids against ·orientation or that cute girl in Israeli forces, two Palestinian militants nn,gm~n class with the tight sweater. climbed into an isolated military outpost in READ the column. DECIDE which the southern Gaza Strip, killing three soldiers •··1s and wounding seven before they were shot t GET free movie passes. Ifs fast, it's. dead Saturday. l easy, it's kind oflik:e your mom, pnly In a second lethal attack, two Israeli :•. can get movie tickets for doing it. men and one Israeli woman were killed and two children were wounded when their car was ambushed Saturday night by gunmen on a road just north of Jerusalem, near the West Bank settlement of Modiin, the Israeli army said. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, made up of militants linked to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility. The deaths of six Israelis was one of the highest single-day tolls in the 11 months of Mideast fighting, and prompted Israel to send tanks, armored personnel carriers and bull­ dozers into Palestinian areas in the Gaza Strip late Saturday and early Sunday mom- All Are Welcome So long As They Respect Women in g. Their Experiences - Their Stories - Their Potential "Whether attacking Israeli soldiers in Gaza or attacking Israeli civilians on roads near Jerusalem, Yasser Arafat is escalating his war of terrorism against the state of Israel," said Israeli government spokesman Dore Gold. The Israeli forces surrounded Rafah and cut off aJI roads leading in and out of the Palestinian town in southern Gaza, on the border with Egypt, residents said. The Israeli tanks and armored vehicles came under heavy Palestinian gunfire, and bllt,://nO\letl.umbc.edu/~o•nenscenlet• shot back with shells and machine guns, they added. At least two Palestinians were wound­ Visit our website or stop by the Retriever Activities Center (Fieldhouse) 226 ed, hospital doctors said. At mosques in Rafah, calls went out YOGA MEDITATION SElf-HYPNOSIS over the loudspeakers urging residents to join WOMEN OVER 40 FEMINIST CAUCUS WOMEN'S RAP GROUP MOTHERS MEETINGS ·., ~J&it us Qnline: a "holy war" against the Israeli forces. 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The cash, in denominations of $20s, $50s and $100s, was displayed at a news. conference Saturday at national police headquarters in Foundations ofLeadership Foundations ofLeadership Bogota. In Washington, U.S. Customs Retreat Seminar spokesman Dean Boyd said it was "one of the largest single seizures of U.S. curre~cy September 3 (Labor Day) Septe~r 6J 13J 20, 'l7 ever." g.j()_,:j:3() PM UC Ballroom October 4 & 11 Police found $15 million hidden behind a bathroom wall in one apartment in northern It's Free and Lunch is Provided! $10.00 (this includes all materials) Bogota and $20 million behind a kitchen wall in the other apartment about a mile away, officials said. One person was detained during the raids, but police did not release his identity. Defense Minister Gustavo Bell said the confiscated fortune would be spent on jails and to beef up Colombian anti-drug forces, including to purchase technical equipment. Page 4 -filE RETI~IE\'EI~ WEEKLY NEWS August 28, 2001 Undergraduate Admissions UMBC Admissions Stats Ross predicts that the averages will contin­ JENNIFER SCHILDROTH ue to rise gradually. FaCC!-lty Maryland Residents Retriever Weekly Editorial Board The typical entering undergraduate, by 500 full-time, 335 part-time Mozie-Ross' account, is well equipped to FY 2001 Tuition, Fees, Sitting in the office of UMBC's direc­ handle a rigorous academic experience. Students - FaJl 2000 Room & Board tor of admissions Yvette Mozie-Ross is an "We're finding that [students] are far more 10,759 Resident $11,843 abrupt contrast from the soft gurgling of the savvy in terms of technology; they've trav­ Undergraduate 9,101 -Tuition & fees: $5,490 library pond just outside her window. eled, they've done research- even before Graduate 1 ;658 -Average room: $3,933 Between answering the phone, assisting they get here," she notes. -Average board: $2,420 admissions staff, and coordinating recruit­ The increase in the number and caliber Full-.titne 8~032 ing efforts, one wonders if she ever finds of students applying to UMBC is partially ParHime 2,727 Non-resident$16,611 time to spend with the family staring out of a result bf the university's own efforts to -Tuition & fees: $10,258 the frames on the desk behind her. define itself as an "honors university," but Minority Enrollment -Average room: $3~933 Mozie-Ross and her staff control the is largely due to the school's much­ African American 15% -Average board: $2,420 floodgates to enrollment at UMBC. Every improved reputation, according to Mozie­ Asian American 6% undergraduate, freshman and transfer, must Ross. "Part of this is strategic as to where J Hispanic & Native American 3% Operating Budget go through the admissions office. the university wants to go; part is due to Total34% $239.9 million in FY 2001 This year's admissions committee, necessity of attracting better students," she (28% in state support) made up of admissions counselors, said. Freshman Class 2000 reviewed over 5,500 applications, accept­ Mozie-Ross maintains that considera­ First-time freshmen 1,327 Sponsored Programs ing roughly two thirds. Harvard typically tion is not given to factors such as ethnic or Living on campus (67%) 884 $63.6 million for research and training accepts 10 percent of applicants; College economic background, alumni affiliation or SAT percentiles contracts and grants FY 2000 Park and Johns Hopkins accept about half geographic location of the applicant. 1100 of all applicants. The criteria for admis­ "Maintaining a diverse community is 25th 75th 1270 Academic Programs sion is primarily the same for transfer stu­ important," the admissions director insists, 33 ~jors, 37 minors withende~~­ dents and incoming freshmen, but there are conceding that targeted recruiting efforts Ave~~Be S~"f; ·t347 .ate progfams in the physical afi(fbiolam~ slight differences. The admissions board address many of those institutional expec­ ~p•·quartile s~iences~ .social and ~havio~ scie~~~, evaluates potential freshman based on their tations. The admissions staff spends much enginee~ng. mathem~tics, htformation high school grade point averages, the of the fall pursuing an aggressive recruiting FY2000 TUiti()n~ Fees. Room & Board technology, humanities and visual and per­ strength of their curriculum, standardized campaign through college fairs and high forming arts. test scores and a required essay. Letters of school visits. The spring is spent convinc­ $11~340 Non-resident $16~1 08 recommendation are strongly encouraged ing admitted students to enroll. and will probably be required in the future. "We've worked hard to build our insti­ Transfer students are measured by their tution's reputation, but on the flip side, GPAs, strength of curriculum, letters of we're playing in a whole different ball­ recommendation and academic trends. game," remarks Mozie-Ross of those The incoming freshman class has an admitted students who opt not to enroll at Technology Center Gains average high school GPA of 3.5 and an UMBC. According to a survey conducted average SAT score of 1200. This is a slight of these students, many cite student life as increase from previous years, and Mozie- a major factor in their decision not to attend Three New Companies Boston Life Sciences, Emeron, LeaTech, LLC Move into South Campus Locations Emeron, whose name was derived SCOTT DAUGHERTY from "emerging online," is an employee­ Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff owned Internet development, hosting, pro­ motion and consulting company. Emeron's Three new companies have joined the clients include Farmers and Mechanics UMBC Technology Center. Boston Life Bank, MBNA America, Wawa Markets and Sciences, Inc., a publicly-traded biotech the National Adoption Foundation, among firm developing diagnostics and treatments others. for Parkinson's disease; Emeron, an inter­ The new UMBC Technology Center net firm dedicated to commercial hosting, location is the company's first foray away promotion and consulting; and Lea Tech, from its headquarters in Wilmington, LLC, a specialist in fluid dynamics and Delaware. According to Gregory Robleto polymer chemistry, will join more than 20 of Emeron's Baltimore office, the company other privately held companies at the South chose the UMBC Technology Center after Campus location. investigating several locations in Greater Boston Life Sciences, Inc. was found­ Baltimore. "The Tech Center provides ed in 1992 and went public in 1995. The Emeron with room for continued growth biotech firm is in development of products and convenient access to surrounding busi­ for the diagnosis and treatment of nesses," Robleto said in a UMBC Press Parkinson's Disease and Attention Deficit release. Specifically, the Technology Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), as well as Center offers easy access to highways, treatments for cancer, autoimmune disease, allows the office to grow at its own pace, and central nervous system disorders. and provides the technological needs BLSI currently has products in Phase required by an internet firm, including dual III clinical trials, but doesn't have ·an T3s for fast Internet access and available approved product on the market yet. Once conference rooms. Emeron is actively hir­ approved, BLSI's first product will be ing UMBC students for internship posi­ Altropane, a radioimaging agent for the tions as web designers or developers, said early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and Robleto. ADHD. LeaTech, LLC, a member of UMBC's The technology center location will be small business incubator, is an engineering used to expand BLSI's Research and research and development fum, specializ­ Development endeavors, according to ing in the fields of fluid dynamics and statements made by Senior Vice President polymer chemistry. The R&D firm already Jeremy Wustner-Brown I Retriever Weekly Staff Irene Gonzalez, Ph.D, in a UMBC press has a contract with the U.S. Navy's Office release. Since its founding, BLSI has raised of Naval Research for technology develop­ Due to the construction of the ITIE Building, the first row of Lot 9 has become gated more than $65 million to fund its research ment for pressure sensitive paint. parking for faculty while part of Lot 16, which is a gated, faculty parking lot, will be programs, which have primarily been con­ LeaTech developed from collaborative used for service vehicles and handicap parking. Priority parking for students will proba­ ducted at Harvard Medical School and its research with Lisa Kelly, a member of bly be moved to Lot 8B, according to Parking Services. affiliated medical centers. UMBC's Chemistry faculty. August 28, 2001 TnE RETRIEVER WEEKLY NEWS Page 5 Satellite Parking to Begin Maryland College Roundup

certain university positions to 'clarify who in October 2001 JENNIFER SCHILDROTH the new law will affect. Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff Maryland Schools Recognized as Collective Bargaining Initiative Among Top Schools for Minority Graduate Degrees Gov. Paris Glendening appointed the members of Maryland's frrst ever higher University System of Maryland education labor board this past July. The schools faired well in the July 19 edition of board will oversee the implementation of Black Issues in Higher Education, which the collective ·bargaining intiative which outlined the results of the annual graduate was signed into law last May. The measure school survey. The poll ranks institutions will affect all 16 University System of according to the number of minority stu­ Maryland campuses. dents graduating with advanced degrees. The law allows certain university staff Three separate Mary land schools to elect whether they want to be represent­ topped off different categories, all pertain­ ed by a union or employee organization. If ing to the number of master's degrees employees adopt a representative organiza­ earned by African Americans. The tion, the law details limits within the orga­ University of Baltimore took the gold in nization's power, including certain issues law and legal studies, Bowie State ranked that are exepmted from collective bargain­ frrst in computer and information science, ing dicussions. The organizations are also and the University of Maryland, Baltimore prohibited from participating in strikes. ranked first (among traditionally white "We are taking another bold step for­ schools) in all disiplines combined. ward in our efforts to create a more fair, "The USM institutions are showing just and inclusive Maryland," said real movement in attracting qualified Governor Glendening in a press release minorities who go on to graduate. In a issued over the summer. "This Board will diverse state like Maryland, success in this play a vital role in ensuring that those on area is of vital importance," said Karen R. the lower rung of the economic ladder in Johnson, Maryland secretary of higher edu­ the University System have a voice at the cation. negotiating table when decisions are being College Park also had a significant made about their future." showing, and was mentioned almost 40 J amin B. Raskin of Montgomery times in the article. College Park ranked County will head the board. Other mem­ second after Texas A&M for the number of bers include Susan J. Schurman of Calvert physical science doctoral degrees granted County, Harriet E. Cooperman of Anne to Hispanics. Arundel County, David R. Merkowitz of Towson, University of Maryland - Prince George's County and Leo A. Gant University College, Coppin State and the of Baltimore City. E astern Shore campus were all mentioned UMBC hosted information sessions in the report. over the summer to educate staff about "To have so many of our campuses options and resources available. According place quite high in such a broad range of to Joan Kennedy, director of Community categories is indicative of a student recruit­ and Government Relations, the administra­ ment and retention strategy that works. tion can facilitate discussion and provide Let's keep moving in this direction," said resources, but must remain neutral. USM Chancellor Donald N. Langenberg of The USM Board of Regents is current­ the results. Jeremy Wustner-Brown I Retriever Weekly Staff ly in the process of specifically defining PArk and Ride: Construcion is currently underway for a new satellite parking lot at South Campus.

from PARKING, page 1 The decision to require new resident freshman to park off-campus was made at the end of the spring semester by the applied to didn't even let me have a car on administration, as a way of alleviating campus ... at least I have a car in the area," some of the parking shortages currently said Justin Costa, another incoming fresh­ experi_enced on campus. man. Garland says she is very proud of how The satellite parking lot will have 300- the new freshmen are handling the parking plus spaces according to Garland, but the situation. "We couldn't have asked for any exact number will be unavailable until con­ better," she said. struction is completed. The UMBC campus There are loopholes in the university's has over 6,000 parking spaces. vehicle registration process, · allowing A new parking garage, currently under freshman to bypass the restrictions placed construction behind the Albin 0. Kuhn on them by the red parking permit. Library, is expected to be completed by the Specifically, upperclassmen without cars Fall 2002 semester. A parking garage was on campus could register a vehicle in order completed near the UMBC Theatre last to receive a parking permit, which could in fall. turn be passed on to underclassmen friends. Page 6 1-IIE l~ETI~It:\'EI~ \XrEEKLY NEWS August 28, 2001

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Quotes from the Quad

The Possibilities are Endless

UMBC is off and running with the start of another year. The possibilities are endless. (And, apparently, so is the construction.) There are many changes awaiting students, from the addition of a new University Center, an ambitious student life, a dynamic incoming freshman class with an outstanding average academic profile, an ever-increasing resident and near-campus commuter population and the list goes on. Every year the hallways of UMBC echo with cries of boredom. Bemoaning UMBC's lacking social life is pastime number one for countless students. For many, this is obviously much too pleasurable an activity to bypass, but for those of you who really are looking for some quality activities, both social as well as intellectually stimulating, don't give up hope. There are over 100 organizations on campus that hold regular meetings and sponsor events. Asian Student Connections coordinates a variety of cul­ tural events open to the entire campus·, particularly ASIA, held each spring. Hillel is another frequent sponsor of events both large and small. The Student Government Association and the Student Events Board are highly active organizations. SEB hosts events ranging from weekly movies in Lecture Hall II to comedy acts, karaoke, conceits and Quadmania in the spring. SGA will host the second annual Homecoming this October. Not only are students invited to attend, but active involvement in organizing events is also encour­ aged. We musn't forget our media organizations, all of which are actively seeking staff members - WMBC, the yearbook, the literary magazine, and of course, yours truly; the student newspaper. The university itself hosts numerous activities as well. The second formal Welcome Week from Aug. 25-Sept. 3 includes events to usher in the new school year. Convocation has been formally included in the Welcome Week schedule this year. Yes, it is somewhat nerdy, but it's a ceremony rich with tra­ dition and intrigue. Faculty and staff are honored during the convocation, and president Freeman Hrabowski will issue his State of the university address to kick off the new year. For the more active students, there are thriving intramural and club sports programs offered through the athletic center. The department offers soccer, tennis and many others. Clearly, the sentiment regarding the university's social atmosphere, or supposed lack thereof, is not entirely accurate. And for those students who are not enticed by current options, there is a wide array of opportunities to create new programs. Make the most of your time hear at UMBC; that's why you - (or Maryland taxpayers) are shelling out the dough. Worse than an Over-Due Book Fine

If you read the rest of this paper, then you already know that the Albin The Retriever Weekly staff edi­ 0. Kuhn Library has been forced to increase the cost of some of its most pop­ torials reflect the views of the edito­ ular services. Copies, which previously cost 10 cents if you were paying with ~RETRIEVER rial board; signed columns and spare change and 8 cents if you were paying with your flex card, have been advertisements represent the opin­ increased to 15 cents cash or 10 cents with a flex card. Documents·printed ~ WEEKLY ions of the individual writers and from the library's computers that once cost 8 cents per page now cost 10 Edtior in Chief ...... Jennifer Schildroth advertisers, respectively, and do not cents per page. Though the pay increases seem minimal, they will have a seri­ Managing Editor ...... Anna Kaplan necessarily reflect those of The ous impact on the student body. Last semester, one member of our staff had General Manager ...... Nate West Retriever Weekly or the University to copy nearly 100 pages of reserve journals that could not be removed from News Editor ...... Scott Daugherty of Maryland Baltimore County. the library. What cost her $10 last semester will now cost her $15. Asst. Opinion Editor ...... tracy Williams Letters to the Editor are printed As you read on page 1, the library staff is extremely displeased about the Features Editor ...... Kathryn Rouse verbatim, although the editors price increase, and feel the library was short-changed when this year's budg­ Sports Editor ...... Brett McKenzie reserve the right to edit any letter et was drafted. We couldn't agree more. Many UMBC students don't have Asst. Sports Editor ...... Brandon Dudley deemed lengthy, repetitive, libelous their own printers, and have no choice but to print term papers and the like Photography Editor ...... Jeremy Wustner-Brown or otherwise in need of revision. on library computers. As for copies, reserves cannot be removed from the Production Manager ...... Nate West The editors further reserve the right library, and therefore also must be copied on the library's machines. Production Assistant ...... Chris Krieg not to print any letter for any rea­ In order to save as much money as you can, we urge you to keep your Production Assistant ...... Carl Cabradillia son. Letters to the Edit9r must be flex card well stocked with copier money and to take advantage of free print­ Production Assistant ...... James Hamilton typed or written legibly and include ing whenever and wherever possible. Most friends and classmates will con­ Technology Manager ...... Ray Shaw the author's name and telephone sent to loaning their printer, especially if you offer to pay for some paper. As Circulation Manager ...... Nate West number. Letters must be received for copies, some grocery and conveience stores may have better prices, so be Advertising Manager ...... Owen Palmquist by 12 p.m. on Thursday and may on the lookout. Faculty Adviser ...... Christopher Corbett not exceed 400 words. This is not our only complaint with the library. Though the library is Administrative Adviser ...... Dan Balon The Retriever Weekly publishes open for over 16 hours Monday through Thursday, it closes at midnight. 1be weekly on Tuesdays during the reg­ hours are woefully shorter on Friday and Saturday, when most students ular school year. Editors can be would prefer to use the library, opening at 7:30a.m. on Friday and 10:30 a.m. reached at (410) 455-1260 during on Saturday only to close at 7 p.m. and 6 p.m., respectively. Check us out online: normal business hours or at We understand that it takes money to run a library and that the library is University Center 214; 1000 not the highest profit endeavor at UMBC. However, it is important to invest trw.umbc.edu Hilltop Circle; UMBC; Baltimore, in the library as it provides students with services and materials essential to MD 21250. The Retriever Weekly is learning. At a university, shouldn't learning be slightly more important than an equal opportunity employer. the profit margin? Page 8 -ruE l~ETI~IEVEI~ WEEKLY OPINION August 28, 2001 Stem Cell Research Would Take a Life but Could Save Millions

,.------, cells have this: would you kill a child not yet born to BRETT MCKENZIE save a million living, suffering children? I Unless you've spent your summer • t Ialready don't really consider myself pro-life or vacationing somewhere outside the pro-choice. I recognize that there are situ­ atmosphere of planet Earth, you've prob­ P0 ations where a woman cannot have a child ably at least heard of all this cloning, I I []- :E:2:I:i and feels that she must have an abortion. stem cell hoopla that President Bush, is okay to fund research on these sixty I also believe that human life is some­ Congress, scientists worldwide and embryonic cells because they are already thing sacred. I don't know whether or not Christian pro-life organizations have dead. So basically, his hands are clean. a fetus, eight days, eight weeks or eight been raising.' And for some of you, the But what happens if this research proves months old is yet a human. What I do very word "clone" may drive fear into to be a g:ganti~ success and cures various know IS, women will have abortions, and your heart ... the fear that a person iden­ cancers, viruses and diseases? What if we imagine if the stern cells from that one tical to yourself may be brought into use up the stem cells out there and need embryo helped discover the cure for ovar- existence and take over your life. Be not just a few more .to end ian cancer. So much joy afraid. That won't happen for at least ten the AIDS epidemic in 1 · and health would come years. Africa, where nearly a '1 don't know whether from one, tiny unwanted Stem cell research could potentially third of the population File Photo or not a fetus, eight embryo. Multiplying Wonder: Scientific break­ be one of the greatest scientific advance­ suffers? In the Seattle Times, thoughs like cloning could save lives. ments in the history of mankind. Some I don't know how, days, eight weeks or the story of a girl named studies show that stem-cell research may when or why these 60 Savannah Jantsch was attempting to manipulate embryonic cells result in treatments (and possibly cures) embryos fell into the eight months is B published. Savannah was to regenerate heart cells, which cannot for several terrible diseases such as hands of scientists. 1 diagnosed with leukemia repair themselves. This would be remark­ ' human." What I do Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. For years, What I do know is that and a rare blood disorder, able for patients with disabled hearts. the stern cells from umbilical cords have there are thousands of know is, women will and at the age of four, her Other cells that cannot regenerate include already been used to treat patients suffer­ women out there who parents feared she would cells of the human eyes. Birds, fish and ing from blood diseases to advanced find themselves in sit­ have abortions, and not live for much longer. frogs have successfully accepted stem HIV. The potential for this research is uations where they imagine if the stem cells Fortunately, she received cells manipulated as retinal cells. This monumental. So why would there be any cannot bring them­ stern cells from an umbil­ could potentially cure blindness. opposition? Well, it all boils down to that selves to have a baby from that: one embryo ical cord of a newborn So in fact,. this whole cloning thing pesky pro-life/pro-choice argument. and will or have abort­ baby. Five years later, isn't so bad. Well, at least for now. I mean So stem cells come from embryos. ed the fetus. Rather helped discover the cure Savannah is nine years now they're only cloning cells ... imagine Duh. President Bush would never agree than simply abort the for ovarian cancer." old and the stern cells when they can clone organs, body parts to the destruction of thousands of new fetus and dispose of it, have constructed a new and someday, people. Well, it wouldn't be embryos for scientific purposes because I think it would be a blood-cell system inside so bad. Then I could be writing the then he would lose his grip on the pro-life much better alternative to allow it to be her body. Her suffering is over and she Point/Counterpoint ... against myself! population of America, and therefore be used for stem cell research. It may not be lives a happy life. Umbilical cord cells unwittingly taking a pro-choice stand on up to us to make martyrs out of these work fairly well, but embryonic cells may Brett McKenzie is the assistant Sports abortion. Fortunately for him, there are unborn babies, but one of them could save have even greater potential. At the editor of The Retriever Weekly. She can these sixty mystery embryos from which millions of people. It all comes down to University of Washington, scientists are be reached at [email protected]. Haste Makes Waste: Use What We Have Available

using the stem cells from umbilical cords ADAM HOPKINS research is still very young (no pun intended) and needs time for people to as opposed to cloning new embryos. There In early August, at his ranch in understand it entirely. Should scientists is also research that suggests that stem Texas, President Bush addressed the clone more cells could be nation about his decision whether or not embryos and the "Scientists around the world acquired from human to use federal funds for stern cell research not placentas. If so, this research. He compromised that there amount to much clailf,l that there are ils many as would be remark­ should be limited research on the existing at all, imagine the able, as ~llions of lines of embryos only, instead of making hundreds, maybe 65 lines of embryos waiting to lives could be spared new ones through cloning. He also rec­ even thousands, be used for such research. without even having ommended that human umbilical cords of - destroyed to destroy one be used for their stem cells. In doing so, embryos gone to Although this number may not unborn embryo. the President is right on the money; the waste; there are Cloning is an world should accept his compromise and already 100,000 be enough, it could be. a good extremely experi­ go to work on its research. to one million starting number for .Scientists, mental and contro­ There are those on the Christian embryos in labs versial issue. Our File Photo Right who claim that stem cell research across the nation as this field of research is still world is still a few Brave New World: The field of stem - which involves destroying the embryo about to be years - at least a cell research has a long way to go. to get the cells - equates to abortion. destroyed because WIJ: ,iyoung (no pu!' ... intended} few months, anyway While it may be true that stem cells can they have no pur­ and needs time for ·people to - from producing There is even hope that stem cells extract­ be used in a variety of means, it does not pose for anything the first clone of ed from domesticated animals could be make sense to some because it involves else. It may be understand it entirely:' Homo sapiens. It used to provide cures for ailing patients. killing an unborn embryo. This, accord­ wise to take the does not seem logical -With that said, President Bush made ing to the Right, is not a pro-life move­ 65 current lines of embryos and clone the for scientists to be wasting time desperate­ the right decision in his compromise. ment. President Bush has promised that stem cells from them after being extract­ ly attempting to create a cloned embryo Although finding cures for various dis­ no more embryos will be made for ed. This may a way to keep the Christian while people are dying from Alzheimer's eases may require more embryos than what cloning, simply for usage of their stem Right off of are currently on the lines, it probably is not cells. While the embryos may yield all the President ---• a good idea to clone. Scientists have other sorts of new ways to use cells for medical and scientists' ways to find and experiment with stem advancements, it may not be wise or fair backs. cells, plus this research is not fully under­ to destroy them before they have a In addi­ stood even by our brightest scientists. We chance to live as human beings. tion, the will find cures for all of the aforemen­ In fact, scientists around the world umbilical tioned illnesses and more, but we should claim that there are as many as 65 lines of cords, which are cut off after babies are disease, diabetes, .cancer and other illness­ not waste what we already have available embryos waiting to be used for such born, are rich in blood and stem cells. es. Scientists should take the opportunity to help. research. Although this number may not Unfortunately, these cords are almost presented by this compromise and find out be enough, it could be a good starting always discarded shortly after birth. what they can use the stem cells for from Adam Hopkins is a junior majoring in number for scientists, as this field of President Bush's compromise involves the current embryos and other methods. English. August 28, 2001 1-,,,_ RI:tt~JL\Tt~ \X1t-I:JZLY OPINION Page 9

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(insert name here] The Art of Self-Justification Adkins' Photos Expose the Man and the Controversy by anna kaplan Once upon a time, in a land things, the abandoned column far, far away ... oh, wait, no, fell upon the shoulders of a cer­ ANNA KAPLAN wrong story. It's always diffi­ tain Adam Craigmiles (who Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff cult to get started on these currently finds his home in. things. Well, actually, before Yellowstone National Park). By You definitely have to leave story-time starts this column this point, [inh] was getting your sexual hang-ups and inhibi­ supposes it should welcome its annoyed with being so rudely tions at the door when dealing readers to the brand-spanking­ passed around between authors. with Chuck Adkins' photography. new fall semester. It doesn't Grudgingly, it allowed itself to From half-naked, crucified self­ really feel like doing so, but be written by Mr. Tracy portraits superimposed on Bible that's probably because this Williams for a year or so. After text to girls seductively eating particular fall is the seventh he, too, abandoned the task, it spoonfuls of ice cream to ciga­ semester [insert name here] is rebelled and decided to write rette-smoking penises, the black spending at this fine institution. itself, which it has successfully and white pictures on the walls of The novelty wears off real been doing for a little over a Xando's coffee bar in Charles quick. So, for the wide-eyed year now. Village certainly have the poten­ new freshlet readers out there: By this point, you must be tial to shock the conservative and welcome to the fall semester. wondering whether the exis­ the sexually faint-of-heart. But Anna Kaplan I Retriever Weekly Staff It'll be fun. And for the non­ tence of this amazing self-writ­ the man who does sociology The Man Behind the Camera : Chuck Adkins, whose show was freshlets: well ... blah. ing column is sustained purely research for fun in his spare time displayed at Xando's cafe for the month of August kicks back and takes a breather. Adkins' work will be displayed on the fifth With that out of the way, it by self-indulgent blabber. The would have it no other way. is story-time. The story [inh] answer to that question is essen­ Adkins is a 24-year-old sen­ floor of the Fine Arts building in the near future. has to tell is really meant for tially yes. Or rather, unfortu­ ior getting ready to graduate in those of you who are being nately yes. The real purpose of December with a queer studies Since then, he's progressed on his with a piece of paper that warns of introduced to the wonders of its existence is to offer its read­ degree from UMBC's interdisci­ own, calling the only college pho­ the work's explicit sexual nature. this column for the first time - ers contests, which the said plinary studies program. He tography class he's ever taken "a Another picture features a girl its own history. Once upon a readers enter to compete for divides his time between school, joke." with her shirt precariously blown time (four years ago, to be worthless but cute and amusing independent research, odd jobs, Sitting in the cafe surrounded open by a breeze (the same girl exact), in a land not far away at prizes. The trouble is that few writing and photography. He by his own work, the self-pro­ that's seductively eating ice / all (the Retriever office), there readers enter, thus [inh] is plans to continue his studies in claimed "photographing sociolo­ cream in a different picture- one lived (not lived exactly, just forced to compose itself in a graduate school next fall and gist" sips his iced coffee and of Adkins' friends). And there's · worked and spent more time vacuum on a weekly basis. write a book between the academ­ chain-smokes Marlboro Reds. He no missing the triptych self-por­ there than she should have, as Well, all right, if the col­ ic endeavors (a how-to manual laughs a lot, talks even more and trait as Jesus - a shirtless Adkins do most other Retriever staff umn had to compose itself in a for anal sex called Poking in the could pass as a taller Brad Pitt. with his jeans unzipped, standing members) a very cool girl complete vacuum on a weekly Dark). During the month of He's out, proud and ready to open with his arms out with Bible text named Jen Siciliano. She was basis it would have long ago August, Xando's featured an the world's eyes to what goes on over his body. The religious the Features editor at the time, committed suicide (which it exhibit of the work of this multi­ behind closed doors. "I view the imagery continues with a self­ and in her run as such she start­ really did threaten to do about a faceted self-taught photographer. world in a much more liberal sex­ portrait in a New Orleans ceme­ ed a column called [insert name year ago when it was not get­ Adkins has been taking pictures ual way [than most]," he admits. tery - the artist leaning on a here]. When Ms. Siciliano ting any entries whatsoever). since the age of 10, when he was There's no mistaking that in mausoleum with a cross in front moved on to bigger and better see [ inh ], page 14 inspired by his uncle to pick up a his photos. Three of the pictures see ADKINS, page 17 not-point-and-shoot camera. on display are actually covered up

This Chinese Restaurant Inspires a Few Meditations on Delicious, Fresh Food and an Aesthetic Atmosphere KATHRYN ROUSE er, tend to keep coming back. decibel level. Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff Though it's a bit of a drive from If the atmosphere doesn't the UMBC campus, the diverse charm you, the wait s~aff will. "Zen (n): A school of menu, excellent service and mod­ They are fast, efficient and well, Mahayana Buddhism that asserts erate prices are worth hiking up to they actually wait on you. The that enlightenment can be North Baltimore. water glasses are always filled. attained through meditation, self­ The first thing you notice The tea kettle (hot tea is compli­ contemplation, and intuition walking in is that while the phys­ mentary with orders over $5) is rather than through faith and ical space occupied by the restau­ always full. Dishes are whisked devotion and that is practiced rant is small, it's anything but away when you are finished and mainly in China, Japan, Korea, crowded. Walls painted with deli­ replaced with your next entree and Vietnam." cate fish, kanji characters and def­ just as quickly, but you won't It's also a great place to eat. initions of Zen Buddhism com­ feel rushed. Cafe Zen is a favorite of the plement the simple furniture and The best part of eating at artsy crowd and anyone else who keep the entire space airy, even Cafe Zen is that with your check enjoys quality Asian food served when packed with 100 customers. come enough fortune cookies for at mouth-watering prices. While it's not cozy, the atmos­ everyone in your party accompa­ Located right across from the phere is comfortable - you can nied by little cups of ice cream, Senator Theater at the comer of have a quiet conversation with which counter the spicy food York Road and Belvedere friends while surrounded by full wonderfully Avenue, this low-key restaurant tables. The noise levels tend to go The menu is moderately with simplistic decor doesn't up during the busy nights, Friday priced. Appetizers run from $2 attract too much street traffic. Jeremy Wustner-Brown I Retriever Weekly Staff and Saturday, but on a weeknight to $6, and entrees from $8 to Those who have found it, howcv- Peaceful, Calm: Cafe Zen is tucked away on Belvedere Avenue. the clatter resonates at a decent see ZEN, page 16 l Page 12 -r, 11- f~t. n~tL\·: ~~ \\TI-t·I~LY FEATURES August 28, 2001

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Media Open House & Brown Bag 8:30am-7:00pm Contact the Office ofStudent Life fo·r more Volleyball Tournament 2.001 Workshop UMBC Bookstore information (x3462) 1:00pm & 7:00pm Retriever Athletic Center (RAC) 12:00 pm Chemistry Faculty & Student Social Dramatic Performance - Jesus: A Life Academic N Bldg., Rooms 215 1:00pm 7:00pm-9:30pm SEB Party (Overpass) and 220 (B Wing). Check the Fall Frenzy homepage for location Check the Fall Frenzy homepage for location 8:00 pm - 1:30 am Graduate/Professional School Seminar UC Ballroom Dealing with Procrastination Sylvia SrnitJt, percussionist 1:00pm-3:00pm 1:00pm 8:00pm SUWf)AY, SfPTE,tlefR 16 UC Ballroom Lounge University Counseling Services, Fine Arts Studio 508 Hispanic Latino Welcome Reception Math/Psychology 201A Women's Soccer vs. Central Connecticut Women's Volleyball Practice 1:00pm t :00 pm - 2:00 pm Pre-Graduation Seminar 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Soccer Stadium UC Ballroom 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Retriever Athletic Center (RAC) Math/Psychology, Room 210 Sunday Funday Tournament Pre-Graduation Seminar FRIDAY, SfPTE,tiSE.R 2.8 (pool, spades, etc) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Women's Rap Sessions: Women's Bodies, 1:00pm-5:00pm Math/Psychology, Room 210 Women's Lives Established Leaders Retreat UC Intercultural Entertainment Center Women Over 40 Discussion Group 6:00pm Through Sunday, September 30 (Game Room) 1:00pm W'llmens Center, Retriever Athletic Center, Contact the Office ofStudent Life for more 226 information (x3462) The Rosary & Catholic Mass W'llmens Center, Retriever Athletic Center, 4:30 pm & 5:00 pm 226 Women's Volleyball Club Interest (See September 2•d for more information) Ballroom Dance Club Meeting f'IOWMY, SfPTE,tiSE.R 6:00pm - 10:00 pm 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm 17 UC Ballroom Retriever Athletic Center Baptist Student Ministry: Bible Study 1:00 pm at Math/Psychology 105 Volleyball 7:00 pm at UC 314 6:30pm Behind tht Chesapeake Residence Hall Biology Council of Majors {BCOM) · First Meeting Understanding the Catholic Faith OC.edu/frenzy 1:00pm 7:00pm Social Sciences 110 (See September 2nd for more information) SEB Movie Night Volleyball vs. George 2.9 Mothers Meeting le Night 7:30pm & 10:00 pm 7:00pm 10:00 pm 1:00pm Lecture Hall II Retriever Athletic Center (RA · 'dallii W'llmens Center, Retriever Athletic Center, "Pearl Harbor" will be shown Revolutionary Association of the Women rns" will be shown 226 1HU RSI)AY, SfPTE,tiSE.R 2.0 of Mghanistan (RAWA)Visit td UMBC Party Time Management Workshop 7:30pm 1:00pm Balancing the Personal & Professional UC Ballroom Counseling Services 1:00pm SUWMY, SfPTE,tlefR·3 o Tutorial on the (X)emacs text editor Club Interest W'llmens Center, Retriever Athletic Center, Build a Sukkah 226 7:00pm- !O:OOpm Engineering & Computer Science Building, 12:00 pm International Game Night Room 122A By the pond 6:00pm~ 10:00 pm Men's Soccer vs. Quinnipiac UC Intercultural Entertainment Center 1:00pm (Game Room) Free Pop Tarts Soccer Stadium SEB Movie Night 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Sunday Funday Tournament 7:30pm & 10:00 pm UCP/aza 1:00pm-5:00pm Ltcture Hall II "Major Decision" Workshop Series Intercultural Entertainment Center "Pearl Harbor" will be shown 1:00pm-1:50pm (Game Room) Lisa Cella, flutist University Counseling Services, Ballroom Dance Club 8:00pm Math/Psychology 201A 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Fine Arts Recital Hall uitment "What do you want in your yearbook?" 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- l ugust 28, 2001 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY FEATURES Page 15 Yet Another Tasty Slice of American Pie Everybody knows of the old and tastes, something nasty in the sequel. Jim much-perpetuated idea that movie sequels (Jason Biggs) has a sexual encounter Clean Clothes Equal Sex are always far broadcast on the Internet were everyone Movie Review inferior to their can watch in the original; he has a sexual The amount of dirt on your body and ------predecessors. encounter broadcast on a CB radio where clothes is inversely proportional to the by Ryan Bloom Critics and everyone can listen in the sequel. It goes on number of sexual partners you will have cynics alike and on, but you see where I am going with in college. No one likes dirty people. have made strong arguments in favor of this. Sometimes when people re-make old Laundry is new to this very point, yet they always seem to movies they tum out really well, but they many incoming freshlets. ignore some of the most compelling exam­ will never be exceptional simply because ,-_:~~or.W...... _...., For 18 years, mommy and ples to the contrary. It's been said before, they aren't original. Originality is key. daddy have been washing but .the one reliable way to prove this theo­ Now, having said that as well, your .tighty-whities, and ry is quite simply by mentioning The American Pie 2 is quite a funny movie. now, armed with nothing Godfather. Though it is only a matter of· Though nothing in it is really new, every­ but a hand-written note opinion, anybody who claims that they like thing still retains at least some percentage from your mother outlin­ Universal Pictures the ori~inal movie better than the sequel is of its original humor. Stifter being a macho Blow That Horn: Jason Biggs demon­ ing the finer points of either lying to you or just plain crazy. jock is still laughable, Jim being a geek is clothing care, you have strates his lung capacity in AP 2. With that in mind, American Pie 2 still cool and Finch still lusting for his been told to go out into the (i:rtrk out of four) is not nearly as good as friend's forty-year-old mother is still, well, world and wash your own clothes. the first film. I know that goes completely hilarious. The film succeeds in changing of love. Jim learns Nadia is coming to visit, A few pointers, observations, and against the whole point I was just making, the jokes just enough so that they aren't Finch prays Stifter's mom will visit, things to do before starting your laundry: but that was just a point. (It doesn't always straight copies of already used material Heather visits Europe and everybody has 1. Laundry is not free. Although work in the sequel's favor either.) This while also leaving the original themes that visited with their old pal embarrassment by UMBC would like to have all of its stu­ movie wasn't Godfather-esque in its fol­ made you laugh the first time intact. the end. dents be clean and intelligent, the school low-up for one simple reason ... they had This time around, as the movie opens, Formulaic, yes; derivative, yes; but settles for wealthy and intelligent. Each nothing new to offer. While the jokes were the guys are just fmishing up their fresh­ when all is said and done it's pretty simple: _load of laundry done in a UMBC resi­ funny and the visuals even funnier, they man year of college and preparing to head if you liked the first movie, you'lllike the dential facility will cost $1.50: 75 cents were all recycled from the frrst film. Stifter home for the summer. Convinced that they second. If, on the other hand, you didn't for 38 minutes in a washer and 75 cents (Seann William Scott) drinks something must relive and reinvent past glories, the like the first movie, well then don't even for 60 minutes in a dryer. nasty in the original; he drinks, or at least group heads down to the lake for a vacation take a whiff of this pie. 2. Separate your colors. If you wash your white T-shirts with a red sock, you will look silly. Aside from that, almost all colors can be washed together. Green and An Old House of Horrors in Classic Style red, okay. Blue and red, okay. White and The Others is a 1\visted, Terrifying Ghost Tale with Plenty of Suspense red, NO. 3. Separate your types of clothes. · The world we live in today is a scary The story takes place in an old isolated Whites equal most other cheap cotton place, plain and simple. It has gotten to the island mansion just as World War II has outfits that happen to be ... white. Colors point in time where the old saying "seeing ended. _The house is occupied by Grace are colorful stuff. Brights are bright stuff. is believing" is a vestigial proverb of the (Nicole Kidman) and her two children, Catching on? Use permanent press for • R • past that no Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James nicer cotton shirts and things you don't MOVIe ev1ew longer holds Bentley). Both children are a little too want to get extremely wrinkled. Delicates by Ryan Bloom any sort of rele- stereotyped,· Anne being the typical I'm­ are nice clothes I can't afford. The differ­ vance in mod- smarter-than-you-are child while her broth­ ent cycles will wash clothes at different em society. Our high-tech wizar9ry can er plays the old scared-of-everything kid. temperatures, chum the washer for longer create nearly anything anyone could possi­ Their father has gone off to war long ago and shorter periods of time, and perform bly imagine and the movie theater is the and has yet to return, leaving just the three other types of magic to get your clothes clean and not ruin them in the process. perfect place to find evidence of this. Fifty­ of them alone in the house. Mirimax Films foot snarling lizard creatures? Jurassic They had servants at one time, but it But Are They Dead People?: The Really, you can wash almost every­ Park. Aliens invading the Earth? seems they just up and left in the middle of Others, while reminiscent of another thing on permanent press. Just keep your Independence Day or Men In Black. the night one lovely evening. Not to worry film, is still spellbinding. colors separate. Overblown ghosts and ghouls? The though, three new ones arrive soon enough 4. Bleach. Bleach makes your whites Haunting, House on Haunted Hill and so and, amazingly, they claim to have previ­ whiter. It also is a pain to work with and on. In a world full of ultra-fast-paced­ ously worked at the very same house. house begins to have visitors of the more can easily ruin anything that is not white. graphically-enhanced sensory overload of Regardless, Grace lays down for them the spooky persuasion. An old lady with "bad If you absolutely, positively n.eed to every kind, it sure is nice to slow down and very strict rules of the home. When you breath" and spooky eyes as well as a little bleach something, let your mom or some­ meditate on the more subtle things every enter a room through a door, before you boy named Victor make up just two of these one who knows what they are talking once in awhile. open the next, you must first lock the pre­ unwanted intruders. about do it. So it goes with Spanish director vious door that you came through. The cur­ It's a shame that certain movies have to 5. GO HOME. Take your dirty, Alejandro Amenabar's frrst American film, tains must be drawn at any and all times come out after another similar movie skanky, not-so-fresh clothes and let your The Others (i:rtrk out of four). What he when the kids are around due to their already has. When this happens it is almost parents wash them. If they don't feel it is has concocted for us is a movie that relies extremely adverse reaction to the light. It always the case that they will draw strong their parental duty to pay your college not on what you see, but what you don't seems that they both have a medical condi­ comparisons that inevitably leave some tuition and do your laundry, use their see. He shows us that what you know does­ tion that won't allow for them to be people feeling more ripped off than paid machine and save the $1.50 per load. n't matter, but what you hear means every­ exposed to anything much stronger than off. I think that in this case, mentioning the 6. Do not ask your sweetie to do your thing. He delivers a classic Twilight Zone candlelight. movie that everyone will find obvious com­ laundry. Ever. Your underwear will be twisty tale on a much grander scale. Soon enough, things start getting weird parisons with would only serve to lessen washed with Tabasco. Though you could easily imagine the film around the house. As is often the case with the fun and respect that this movie 7. Every building has only so many fitting into a nice tight 30-minute package, movies of this type, saying any more would deserves. Instead, I suggest simply that you washing machines and so many dryers. for once I believe the extension of time and chance taking the fun away from seeing the go in with a fresh mind, someone to hold You may have to do laundry at four in the the slight drag aid the overall outcome. movie for yourself. Suffice it to say that the close and a change of clean underwear. morning to guarantee a washer and dryer in succession. Realize that if you do leave Get free tickets your clothes unattended, someone may remove them from a washer and throw free COs them on the ground. People have also had jeans and shirts swiped from the laundry free passes room. 8. If it says Dry Clean Only, it means free work experience free good times Dry Clean Only. The Dry Clean at Home stuff apparent! y does work, according to some of my Dry Clean Only friends, but only if you use it correctly. Shell out the Write for Features. Get Free Stuff. $1.75 and get your club gear cleaned right. contact Katie at katie @trw. umbc.edu. It's free and easy. +- Page 16 1-IIE l.(ETI~IE\'ER \X'EEKLY FEATURES August 28, 2001

and have a field day. It's open from Aug. 24 to Sept 3, the admission is $5, Three women, all with cult-like fol­ and if you need more information call lowings, are playing near or around (410) 252-0200. Baltimore in the near future. Considering the cult-like followings, Through Sept. 1 you might want to order tickets now. Local Artists Do Print Art Things Stevie Nicks, formerly of Fleetwood The Goya-Girl Press, the creation of Mac, is performing at Merriweather Martha Macks, is a new way to make Post Pavillion as a part of her Trouble prints. It allows one to avoid contact in Shangri-La tour on Sept. 19. Tori with icky, nasty noxious acids and is a Amos stops by DAR Constitution Hall new (and convienent) way for artists to in D.C. on Oct.r 6 and 7 on her Strange save time and money having other peo­ Little Tour 2001, and Janeane Garofalo ple make _prints of their work the old­ will single-handedly command the fashioned way. Through Sept 1st, you Warner Theatre on Sept.r 21. Tickets can go down to the Goya-Girl Press in for all the shows can be purchased the Mill Center building in Hampden, through Ticketmaster at where she both makes prints of artists' ticketmaster.com or (410) 481-SEAT. work and displays them, and see lots of prints by local artists. Support Monday, Sept. 10 Bohemia! Support Baltimore! Go get College Kids Take the Inner Harbor pretty pictures to hang in your dorm By Storm room! Her gallery is located at 300 The Baltimore Area Collegetown Chestnut Ave. in Baltimore, and there's Network, the organization that pro­ no admission. Call (410) 366-2001 for vides students with fun things to do in info. Maryland and promote Baltimore as a great college town, is hosting College Weekends Only Through Oct 21 Night at the Power Plant Live, held at Period Costumes! Lemonade the Have a Nice Day Cafe, Bar Wenches! Meat on a Stick! Baltimore and the Power Ally. The The Maryland Renaissance Festival event is geared to all college students opened for its 25th season this past in the local area, especially incoming weekend. If you've never been ... go! freshmen new to Baltimore's college There's a whole crowd of people who scene. The party expects to draw dress up and talk with accents, there's around 4,000 students for a night of a whole village created just for music and dancing. For more informa­ RennFest ·and where else can you joust tion, visit www.colltown.org. in this day and age? It has plays, games, food, entertainment and some­ Ongoing times even random people from your Our State Fair is a Great State Fair middle school. RennFest is held in Full and Contented. Bellies ... If You Like the Smell of Cow Crownsville, Md. near Annapolis and The Maryland State Fair is being held, is open on Saturdays and Sundays from ZEN, page 11 avoiding the sounds of traffic on York as always, at the Timonium from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tickets run Road, there is almost no parking in the $18. The portions are generous- a bowl Fairgrounds. If you have any desire to from nothing to $14.95 . For more immediate area. The best bet is to park in of vegetable soup (fresh diced vegetables look at farm animals, ride merry-go­ information call the box office at (41 0) the lot for the Senator Theater (which is with a hint of crunchiness in spiced broth rounds or win your sweetie a bulky 266-7304 or check out the www. renn­ right across Belvedere from Cafe Zen) and with a pinch of ginger) and two egg rolls is stuffed animal by popping deflated fest.com. - Kathryn. Rouse plan for dinner and a movie, but during the a filling lunch. balloons, you should truck on up there week you can usually find a space on the The vegetables are always fresh and street. cooked just long enough, which can be dif­ Cafe Zen a classy joint, but there is no ficult to find at inexpensive Chinese dress code. It attracts a lot of fa_milies, busi­ restaurants, and every dish has an individ­ ness lunches and groups of friends with Singer Aaliyah Dies in Plane Crash on July 17 ual blend of spices. Cafe Zen offers a vari­ good taste, depending on the time of day. ety of dishes and has lots of vegetarian You don't need to make reserva- Singer and actress Aaliyah, 22, died in a Top 10 on the pop chart. Her second album, dishes as plane crash Aug. 25 on an island in the One in a Million, went double-platinum. well Bahamas July 17, Aaliyah released her third album, All nine passengers aboard the twin­ Aaliyah. The album debuted on the charts engine Cessna, all U.S. citizens, were killed at No. 2, selling 186,000 copies in its first when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff week and it remains in the Top 30, with from the island of Abaco, authorities said. sales just short of a half million. The plane experienced engine failure Aaliyah made her feature film debut last after take-off and went down 200 feet from year, playing the love interest of Chinese the runway, bursting into flames upon martial arts master Jet Li in Warner Bros.' eating a impact. Seven passengers, including Romeo Must Die, a modem-adaptation of healthy, Aaliyah, were pronounced dead at the William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. filling scene; two others died later from their More recently, she was scheduled to appear a n d injuries, authorities said. in two sequels to the science fiction movie we 11- Aaliyah was visiting the islands, which The Matrix. are about 170 miles east of south Florida, Aaliyah began singing professionally at filming a music video. the age of 9, auditioning for television Aaliyah's 1994 solo debut album, Age pilots and record companies. At 11, she per­ Ain't Nothing But A Number, sold more formed with the Gladys Knight troupe in a than a million copies and catapulted her to Las Vegas. can fill two hungry stomachs. A new addi­ college student's dream come true. fame. Two singles on her first album went Aaliyah is survived by her mother, tion to the menu is an increase in sushi Cafe Zen is located at 438 E. gold: "Back and Forth," which rose to No. father and brother. dishes, which pretty much rounds out the Belvedere in Baltimore. It's open 11:30 1 on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues chart, - Compiled from news sources by Scott extensive selection. a.m.to either 9, 10 or 11 p.m. depending on and "At Your Best (You Are Love)," which Daugherty The location of Cafe Zen can cause the night. They also do carryout. For more reached No. 2 on the R&B chart and the problems. While it's off the main drag, information call (410) 532-0022. August 28, 2001 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY FEATURES Page 17 persijlage by erica smith

Welcome back, Persiflage readers (all thing in for you. I can see it now - six of you) l The banter was 'specially .. They are sitting around a large round active over the. summer, and now it's table in a room with walls painted black. ready to get nice and idle again. So One of They says, sounding worried, Persiflage is ready for you ... but are "What do We do how? I think We're you ready for it? Oh-ho, a question for running out of ideas.'' you to ponder for once. Well, if you've Another one says, 'We're not We. got a question for me, send it straight­ We're They.'' away to [email protected]. The first one replies, "Sorry. Sheesh. So what does They do now?" as English "Why won't anyone buy me a refrig­ teachers everywhere go into apoplectic erator?" -Robin HNon~Perishable seizures. Food Items Only, Please" McAdams A third, frowning hugely around a Because you're cool enough as it is. pencil-thiR moustache (strangely No, seriously, it's probably because, enough, this is one of the women), well, fridges are expensive tJlese days. replies, "There is a student at UMBC Why, back in my day, you could get a named Robin McAdams." good quality icebQx for a quarter. That's There is silence. No one gets it until right. It didn't work, but the point is a fourth says suddenly, "No refrigera- that you had an icebox. Who's going to tor." dU kvetch about something like functional­ And then all of They smile slo'Wly. ity? I admit that this may seem like an Nowadays, however, refrigerators outland!sh scena:iio. For example, why are pricey. That probably has something are (is?) They at such a large table, if umDeadline is September 17th in the Provost's Office to do with the fact that they work- go there are only four of them (They?)? figure. In order to get a good-quality Perhaps there are other members of '1he Journal of Undergraduate Reseal"C!h and Creati'ire T,,•lorl~ refrigerator, be prepared to either a) They, and t!They're just taciturn. And v;elcomes submissions !rom all disciplines. spend quite a lot of money, b) concoct a why are the walls black? Does it matter? rather elaborate heist, or c) spend a [Note: The Authoress apologizes for the l'Jl wor¥..s must be submitted in hard copy and disk forr.na t along v1ith a faculty recmnmendation V-~ilich is available at while in a junkyard with a truck and a tense/number confusion in the above the Provost's Oft1ce or on-line at: toolbox, and maybe parts to a Window­ paragraph, only shes not at all well.] W\NW. utnlx!. edu/provost /UMBC RevievAV"e b. pjf mounted AC unit. [Addendum to Note: The Authoress fur­ more lnf•::.rmation cc•niact Ru1han.ne Dc•et?Er c•r F...et•elr.ah Maybe, however, there is a bigger ther apologizes for the lie in the above Ivlc:COJ!"Tn<;~ek. at: umbcrev.iEn'i' . umbt: .ed u force at work here. Maybe They don't Note. Shesfin_e. Healthy as a horse.] want you to have a refrigerator. You've So, Robin, there you have it. Either heard of They (not Them- that's your potential r~frigerator-buying another group entirely); They're those friends are broke, 'or there's an enor­ people who cover up conspiracies, such mous world conspiracy making ~ure you as Roswell or JFK or mattresses in haven't got a way to keep your cheese dorm rooms {this la.St being the most fresh. Whkh leads me to bring up that nefarious). "Keep Your Cheese Fresh" would be a Perhaps, Robin, They have some- superb name.for a PUllk song~ . The Human Context of Chuck Adkins Explains His Science and Technology A new undergraduate course this fall Social Agenda and Lifestyle HCST 100 and HCST 100H

from ADKINS, page 11 degree is self-justification." of him. With his widely varying interests and HCST 100 meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:00- Despite the obviously intentional eclectic background, Adkins has quite a bit 3:15 pm. HCST 100H has an additional hour for shock effect, Adkins' work is neither osten­ to justify. He grew up in West Virginia, and discussion on Wednesdays from 3:15-4:05 pm. tatious nor vulgar. Rather, it is the skillful although his parents have always been very and calculated effort of a very intelligent supportive of his endeavors and lifestyle This course bridges the sciences and the humanities. It and socially conscious academic. Through choices, it was still a very conservative and both his studies of gender relations and his homogenous environment. When he came stands alone as a course (and carries AIH GER credit), photography, he has set out to debunk the to UMBC, it was as a math major. He later and it also introduces a new certificate program for societal notion that sex is bad. "People switched to dance, then settled on queer UMBC undergraduates in "The Human Context of wonder why there are so many problems in studies. "I have to have the artistic side of Science and Technology." A full syllabus for the course, the U.S.," he says and lists things such as my head and the logic side. People limit as well as a list of requirements for the certificate can be teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted themselves way too much," he says of the diseases. "No one can even deal with any­ discrepancy between his interests. By viewed on t:Be program's website: www.umbc.edu/hcst. thing related to the human body. People refusing to limit himself, he gets the best of have a hard time with sex." By employing both worlds. "I usually pick up my camera There are six topics to be addressed in the course: controversial elements in his work, Adkins ... when I need to say something that I lin­ wants to show his audience that human guistically cannot understand," he adds, 1. Science, Technology and Culture sexuality is a natural phenomenon that explaining how art fits into the rest of his 2. Creativity in Science: Some Examples from Biology should be celebrated rather than censored. life. 3. The Ethics of Science: Use of the Environment Social agendas aside, Adkins' art is Although this Tuesday marked the end 4. A Case from Physics: The Human Use of Metals still highly personal. Even though the of Adkins' show at Xando's, the Xando's exhibit has made him face his self­ Interdisciplinary Studies Department is 5. Exploring the Heavens consciousness, he stands fast by his work planning to put up his photography in the 6. Human Subjectivity and Experience and lifestyle. "What I'm expressing about hallway on the fifth floor of the Fine Arts myself is true, no matter if I'm comfortable building this semester. Contact the depart­ Students who wish further information are encouraged to with it or not," he says. "All art to some ment at x2004 for more information. contact Dr. Sandra Herbert ([email protected]), Dr. know something going on? we might not. Phillip Sokolove ([email protected]) or the tell the features section what you want to see in the paper. advisement coordinator for the HCST program, Ms. Faye contact [email protected] Adams ([email protected]). Page 18 TIIE RETRIE\'EI~ WEEKLY FEATURES August 28, 2001 Gothic Invasion at the Black Cat a Successful Venture Infamous Whiny Goth Boys Cruxshadows, Bella Morte Confuse Local Indie Kids at Club

ROBIN McADAMS good, most were pretty standard guitar­ beats throbbed in the background, ed absence of about .0049 nanoseconds Retriever Weekly Staff Writer and-drum-machine Gothic rock fare, set accompanied by low, droning guitars they returned for an encore. Before they apart from the rest only by lead singer and an electric violin played by the left the stage for good, the band cranked Considering the Black Cat's reputa­ Andy Deane's rich tenor voice. amazingly talented Rachel McDonnell. out a very loud, very spooky song called tion as a host for local indie rock outfits, The cover songs, however, were impres­ As if this scene wasn't already "Monsters" that sounded like Bauhaus s0me found it odd to see prominent sive. Their punked-out rendition of "My gloomy enough, Rogue frequently broke playing video game theme music. Gothic artists Bella Morte and the Heart Will Go On," the theme song from into random recitations of Gothic After the lights went up, the house OJ Cruxshadows take the stage, but there Titanic, showed that they had a sense of Victorian poetry by the likes of Edgar resumed the neverending stream of they were. In a haze of hairspray and humor, ~nd their totally rockin' cover of Allan Poe between songs. Some fans felt Switchblade Symphony remixes and the clove cigarette smoke, the creatures of Berlin's hit "The Metro" underscored that the impromptu coffeehouse sessions frontmen of both bands stationed them­ the night took over the Washington, their strong roots in new wave and were a wee bit on the· ridiculous side, but selves near the merchandise table to sign D.C. nightclub last Thursday evening, synth-pop music. others, like senior English major autographs. Unlike their onstage person­ Some of the clubgoers got up and During the intermission, the OJ start­ Rebecca Rosen, quite liked them. Quoth ae, they were surprisingly mellow and danced to the house OJ' s rather monoto­ ed another set of run-of-the-mill dance the Rosen, "I like [the poetry]. It down-to-earth guys who seemed to real­ nous playlist while waiting for the show remixes of mediocre tunes, and the reminds me of English class!" ly appreciate their fans' support. to start, but most of them sat down at the crowd gravitated forward toward the While they weren't reciting poetry or The whole gloom-and-doom schtick tables near the back of the club and stage to wait for the headlining act of the prancing around spookily, the doesn't appeal to everybody, and while attempted to look bored. Still others evening: a Florida-based band called Cruxshadows totally rocked out. Instead the music itself was excellent, the vocals milled around in impractical clothing The Cruxshadows. of their dirgelike rendition of the were a often little too anguished, as were and ordered drinks from the suddenly The Cruxshadows' set was, simply Eurythmics' "Here Comes The Rain some of the lyrics. Expressing your very out-of-place bartenders, who all put, an exercise in hyperbole. Lead Again," they treated the audience to a anger and pain is one thing, but rhyming wore· green thrift-store T-shirts and Elvis vocalist Rogue started the set standing very evil-sounding cover of "It's a Sin" "tragedy" with "agony" in a nasal faux­ Costello glasses. in the back of the club, parting a Dead by the Pet Shop Boys. British accent while doing so is entirely Eventually the lights went down, the Sea of black-clad audience members on Other notable songs in their set another (thank you Cruxshadows). house OJ gave it a rest, and the opening his way up to the stage. Once on stage, included "Eurydice," "Deception" and But aside from the whining and the act started. Hailing from Charlottesville, he towered over the crowd with his the club hit "Marilyn My Bitterness." occasionally dumb lyrics, both bands Va., Bella Morte are an up-and-coming slight frame and gravity-defying hair, The audience cheered wildly (well, as put on a great show. All in all, the act heavily influenced by new wave and belting out anguished ballads of lost wildly as goths can cheer) as the band evening was a lot of fun- even for the punk. While their original songs were love and inner turmoil. The synthesized finished up the set, and after a calculat- goths.

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Volleyball player wins silver medal22 Field hockey prepares for second season 20

UMBC Soccer Prepares to Kick Offthe New Season Men Look to RecaptureNortheast Conference Title in Postseason and Advance to the NCAAs

UMBC, according to Caringi. So injured players in the preseason. JENNIFER SCHILDROTH far they have set the example . . . The pieces are all there, they Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff through their hard work. just aren't out on the field yet," There will also be a number said Caringi after a 3-2 victory People from across the nation of new faces out on the field as against Radford in a scrimmage are watching UMBC's men's soc­ the Retrievers may depend of last Saturday. cer team, many noting that this some of the promising recruits. With the first NEC face-off will be a rebuilding year for the "The young players have come in still weeks away, the Dawgs will previously nationally ranked and worked hard. We were have an opportunity to recover team. Head coach Pete Caringi, impressed with their potential before heading into conference however, is not so quick to over­ before they got here, and we're play. Caringi remarked that in look what he considers the poten­ still impressed," said Caringi. The order to have success in the NEC, tial of this year's squad. Retrievers will especially look to UMBC will have to take each "My expectations have freshmen George Bakoulas, game seriously as the level of always been the same; our goal Derek McElligott and Franco Del play has gone up. "Two years ago, has always been to win the Priore to help fill the offensive we tore up the NEC. Last year we Northeast Conference tournament hole left by UMBC record holder took a lot of teams for granted .... and go to the NCAAs." Giuliano Celenza. This year we will have to play The challenge may be largely The team will also look to every game better. It's a tough uphill this season, however. The new players to help out in the conference." Retrievers face the loss of six back. Senior Andy Wells will like­ starters from last year and a long ly be playing alongside Senior Youth Helps Invigorate injury list before the season even David Jones and sophomore starts. The Retrievers will also be Jus tin N all. Several freshmen will Lady Retrievers forced to start the season without also be vying for playing time. senior captain P.J. Wakefield, who Juniqr keeper Brian Rowland The UMBC women's soccer will be sidelined the first two recorded eight shutouts last sea­ team is looking to dominate in the games due to a penalty in the last son, a school record, and is Northeast Conference and qualify game of the 2000 season. expected to start this season. for this year's tournament after a Even with the loss of so Senior Tom Wunk will also be a disappointing 6-9-3 season last many key players from last year's big contender in front of the net. year. squad, Caringi feels the senior With so inany people sitting With eight new recruits - six leadership will carry the team on the bench, the coaching staff freshmen and two transfers - through much of the season. has found it difficult to establish joining this year's team, head 'File Photo Many of 2001 seniors have not Lady Dawgs: UMBC's young womens soccer team looks to .the starting lineup. "In my time at see Soccer, page 22 received the credit they deserve UMBC, it's probably the most improve this season. after three successful years at

BRANDON DUDLEY the NEC tournam~nt, just miss­ always high. We try to stay in the have high expectations. We want Joanne Marshall who made a ter­ Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff ing an NCAA tournament berth. top of our conference. It's not to maintain the top standing in rific comeback from knee sur­ This season, the team was easy because this team this year our conference," said Hou. gery and led the squad in kills The UMBC volleyball team picked to win the NEC champi- will be a totally new team. We UMBC lost the NEC Most (3.60 kpg.) and digs (3.15 dpg.). UMBC Volleyball Plans to.Repeat Success from Last Season Retriever Head Coach Felix Hou Prepares Team for Northeast Conference Competition

is looking to r~peat its success onship in a pre-season poll. have only one player who played Valuable Player, Kara Welniak, Returning to the team this from last season this year. Last Robert Morris was selected as all around the court last year to graduation. She hit .500 in season will be junior setter season, the team finished 19-13 the second favorite while who is still on the team. We have conference play and averaged Heather Kerley, who was also a and swept the Northeast Central Connecticut State was another player who has only 2.52 kills and 2. 70 digs per member of last years All­ Conference with a perfect 9-0 selected third. played the front row, not the game. She also led the Conference team. Kerley led the conference record. The team is led by 2000 back row, the past two years. Retrievers in blocking with .80 league in assists (10.35 . apg.) Unfortunately, Robert Morris NEC Coach of the Year Felix The rest of them are all new. We bpg. Another loss to graduation Also returning will be senior upset the team in five games at Hou. "Our expectations are have a new team but we still was NEC First-team member see VOLLEYBALL, page 21 Page 20 ""filE I~ETRIE\'ER WEEKLY SPORTS August 28, 2001

Field Hockey's Second Season Off to a Sensational Start position, swinging between midfield or wing BREIT MCKENZIE as needed. Bragg brings strong stick skills to Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff the team along with an ability to gain and maintain possession of the ball in key The UMBC Field Hockey team is eager moments of the game. Hartmann is also opti­ and ready to open its second season as a mistic about her new freshmen players, who Division I, varsity team. This year, the coach­ possess "goods stick skills and focus." ing staff, led by Kristy Hartmann, is empha­ . Hartmann is also comfortable with sizing strength. Whereas last year the team the conference that the team is in: ''The com­ was trying to win a few games and make a petition within the conference is good com­ name for itself, this year, according to petition and we are in a good place in our Hartmann, "the expectation is that we're conference within our sport. We have a cou­ going to be competitive in our conference, ple conference teams that are strong and we that's one of our goals." The coaching staff is also have some teams that are younger pro­ placing a lot of emphasis on overall strength grams." as a team. "Last year," Hartmann recalled, Field Hockey's first game of the season "the skill gap that we had between our strong is on Sept. 8. Hartmann was one of the four players and our weak players was too great founding members of the UMBC varsity so we have the subs or wanted to put subs in Field Hockey team, which sprung up from a and we'd lose a lot of ground and we can't sensational club team a year ago. The club "'~.f . have that. We have to have everyone strong." team had 24 members and a .700 average in Leading the team on the playing its final year. Hartmann says that there's "a For more information: field this year are junior Jessica Hall and sen­ nice humbleness" to the new time, which www.umbc.edu/SEB ior Jessie Bragg. Hall, who is also a lacrosse comes from its youth and foundation in the player, is bouncing back from an injury suf­ club team. ~rsEB or call x3618 fered during lacrosse season. "She's been in For all those who have experience rehab since the spring and she has confidence and are interested, the field hockey team is Student Even1s Boord from playing last season and that defmitely still looking for some walk-ons. Be on the shows on the field," Hartmann said. Jessie turf field at 4:30 on Wednesday, Aug. 29, if Bragg will be a valuable asset to the attack you are interested.

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The team has seven newcomers this from VOLLEYBALL, page 19 season, and will be relying heavily on Dana Cookson. Cookson averaged 2.65 them throughout the season. Two of the kills per game and won a NEC Player of players are international students, one the Week award. Another key component from China who has not yet arrived to UMBC's game plan will be junior mid­ because of problems with obtaining a dle hitter Jennifer Thomas, who averaged Visa, and another from Malaysia who will 2.74 digs, 1.73 kills and 0.61 blocks per not arrive until mid-September because of game, but sat out all last season with an traveling with the Malaysian national injury. Also returning will be senior out­ team. "They work pretty hard. I hope they side hitter Jill Engel and sophomore mid­ perform well. Right now they are fresh­ dle hitter Colleen Morton, who red-shirt­ man and when we get to practice some­ ed last season. "I think we have the poten­ times they are ok, sometimes they are tial to do really well," said Thomas, "I unstable. This is a year when we have no think we are bonding really well as a team choice and we have to rely on freshman," and I think we are really going to progress said Hou. as the season goes on. We have a lot of "They've been adjusting really well," enthusiasm and discipline and we have a said Thomas about the newcomers to the lot of hard workers. Everyone is just real­ team. "It took them a little while to get ly motivated and it's going to pay of for into it but they're awesome and I think us. It's a totally new team this year and now they're ready to go." Thomas that could be a good thing. We're starting believed that the late addition of the inter­ fresh and we're definitely going to be national students might not be easy, but missing a lot of great skill and a lot of the that the team will definitely try it's best to great players but I think it's just going to adjust. "It's probably going to be a hard File Photo be the start of rebuilding and the program transition because we've just really bond­ New Team on the Block: The UMBC volleyball team looks to repeat the success is going to get really strong from here." ed as a team, but I think all the girls here from last year, but will have to rely heavily on freshman.

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from SOCCER, page 19 "We're becoming a more well-round- returning upperclassman, indicating that even more dynamic this year, however, as coach Michelle Salmon is confident this . ed team every time we step on the field." their leadership has helped shaped the several players will step up, with points season will be a positive experience for Senior captain Viviana Saraceno noted team during the preseason. coming from a variety of players rather the Retrievers. "The youth has raised the the intensity as welL "Our freshmen have Offensively, the loss of star striker than just depending on one. According to intensity level to where every practice is a hunger to score." Erin Lesh will be a difficult spot to fill. Salmon, this should make the offense like a game. Salmon also touted the strength of the Salmon believes that the front line will be more difficult to mark than in the past. The Retrievers will tum to incom­ ing freshman Missy Moore and West Virginia transfer Kristen English to capitalize on scoring opportunities. Freshmen Lauren Cunningham and Roula Adams will also be a part of this year's attack squad. Saraceno will help carry the team in the middle, assisted by teammates Laura Motley, Katie Zoller, Caitlin Kinsella and Lori Quintivalle. Freshman Julie Libertini and transfer Angie Byrd will also get some playing time in the midfield. Captain Jennifer Wilhelm, who will be assuming the starting sweeper position after a great showing last spring, will dominate in the back. Juniors Milana Ward and Staci Grider will help defend Retriever territory. Sophomore Jessa Karko, who is expe­ riencing a successful recovery from her knee injury, will also be a domi­ nating force in the defensive third. Senior Jamie Gerhart also may get some time in the back, though she is currently resting from a pulled mus­ cle. According to Salmon, Gerhart will play a pivotal role this season, either in the midfield or on the back line. Salmon noted that the coaching strategy for this year is to just take each game one at a time, in order to maintain focus. The pre-NEC games include teams that Salmon notes are as good or better than any team in the NEC, in hopes to prepare the Retrievers for what lies ahead. Wilhelm and Saraceno both emphasize the strong chemistry of the team, especially the cohesion between the returning and new players. "You can feel it on the field, by just the way File Photo we look on the field," noted Wilhelm. Bare Boned: The men's soccer team is short many experienced players due either to graduation or injuries. August 28, 2001 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY SPORTS Page 23

CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER MUKYOUR Fall2001 Events CllEIIDIR FOR THESE IMPORTIIIT Weekly DATES II Wednesday ... a series of career focused workshops Workshops for all students of all majors. FALL 2001 SCHEDULE GRADUATE/PROFESSIONAL ScHOOL FAIR- DATE 09/05 Resumes and Cover Letters (MP 104 - l-2pm) FAIR: Wed., September 12~ 2001, 12-4pm, at Morgan State University SEMINAR: Wed., Sept. 19, 2001~ l-3pm, UC Balllroom Lounge 09112 Schmooze or Lose {UC Ballroom Lounge - l-3pm) 09/19 Graduate School Seminar (UC Ballroom Lounge - l-3pm) FALL ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWING BEGINS­ 09/26 Law School Forum {UC Ballroom- 1:30-4:30 prn) ~onday,Ckrtober 1,2001 10/03 Acing the Interview (MP 104- l-2pm) 10/10 What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? (MP 104- 1-2pm) CAREER FAIR 2001- 10/17 Policy and People Careers (UC Ballroom Lounge- l·3pm) Thursday, October 11,2001, 12-3:30pm, UMBC RAC Arena 10/24 Employment Tips for International Students (UC Ballroom Lounge- 1-Jpm) RETAIL JOB FAIR- 10/31 Business Management Consulting Careers (MP 104- l-2pm) Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 1-3:30pm, UC Ballroom ll/07 Retail Job Fair (UC Ballroom- 1-3:30pm) 11/14 Government Employment Seminar (UC Ballroom Lounge- I-3pm) EDUCATION INTERVIEWING DAY - 11/21 Pre-Graduation Seminar (MP 210 - l-2pm) Thurs,9ay, November 15) 2001, MP 204 11/28 Acing the Interview (MP 104- 1-2 pm) ALUMNI RELATIONS NETWORKING EVENTS- TBA 12/05 Jump Start Your Job Search (MP 104- 1-2pm)

For details, contact the career Development Center, UMBC, Math-Psychology 204, 4:10.455.22161 Email: [email protected], www.careers.umbc.edu

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