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-- ---~-- ~-----...___.,.__~ TI-IE ETRIE WEEKLY "The press is to be used as a mirror in which public figures can see whether they are on the right track." - Nelson Mandela Volume XXXII, Number 15 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 January 27, 1998 On the Winter Graduates Housing Get Pomp and Move? Circumstance Problem, Some Speculate For the first time, winter graduates had a full-fledged Possible UMCP Will Nab commencement ceremony - complete with caps and gowns. Hrabowski Dan Magaha (left) and Enid Butler (right), happy to be finished; Solution (bottom) the graduating class. KARAN LEE Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff KARAN LEE Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff UMBC may be a university "on the move," according to President As more students than ever be­ fore opt to return to campus hous­ Freeman Hrabowski, but for now, ing, Residential Life hopes to tackle he said he's not going anywhere. the problem of increased Speculation that Hrabowski could be the one to replace soon­ recontracting by asking residents to leaving University of Maryland, have their Spring 1998 university College Park President William E. bills paid for by March 2. A non­ "Brit" Kirwan, has shown up in The refundable deposit of $100 will also Baltimore Sun and has been dis­ be required at the same time. The deadline comes a month ear­ cussed within the ranks of higher education since early January when lier than in past years when pay­ Kirwan announced his resignation ment for university bills and the to accept the presidency at Ohio housing deposit - which used to State University. be refundable - were due during The talk, however, was met with the first week of April. Hrabowski publicly saying that he Residential Life is currently try­ is not interested in the position and Close Call With Rabies on Campus ing to solve the problem of an ever­ increasing waiting list for housing, that he wants to stay here at UMBC. which is anticipated to exceed the "I am absolutely challenged and irtg. Within that day, the department infectious saliva. Those in contact ELAINE R. ELGAMIL 418 students on last year's list, said fascinated by my work at UMBC," Retriever Weekly Staff Writer analyzed the remains, which tested with the raccoon after it was Karla Nurczy k, director of Residen­ he said." ... My colleagues are sup- positive for rabies. skinned were put at an even greater tial Life. Approximately 150 stu­ Rabies, a viral infection which risk for the disease because they As students prepared for their fall dents on next years' s waiting list are affects the nervous system in ani­ may have touched the cerebral fluid SEE PRESIDENT, PAGE 4 semester finals, an incident on cam­ expected to be incoming freshmen mals and humans, can be contracted after the carcass was exposed. pus left some worrying about their and new transfers whom Residen­ through contact with an infected Saliva is infectious up to two health. tial Life has given priority to live animal. In Maryland, raccoons are hours after death, whereas the spi­ On December 12, a community on campus. one of the most likely carriers of nal fluid can carry the infection as director reported to campus police Nurczyk said she hopes that the virus. long as it remains wet. that a resident had hung the skin of since the deposit is now non-re­ Barbara McLean, a staff physi­ According to McLean, a group a dead raccoon over a Breton apart­ fundable that it would determine the cian for the Baltimore County of students and non-students who ment balcony to dry and had also number of people who seriously Health Department's division of were driving home from a bar .left the carcass to decompose. Dis­ intend to live on campus in the fall communicable diseases, handled around 1 :30 a.m., found the rac­ gusted with the sight of the remains, while reducing the number of can­ the case: She said that the case was coon lying dead in the middle of another resident of the complex also cellations over the summer. unusual and sensitive. Yohrnan said the road. Two of the group picked contacted the police, said campus However, Nurczyk believed this that the Baltimore County Health up the animal by its tail with a plas­ police Chief David Yohman. measure won't prevent most resi­ Department had an incident simi­ tic bag to protect their hands. One The police were concerned that dents who want to move back to lar to this in the past when a person of the students, experienced in salt­ Photo courtesy of the President's Office the raccoon might have been rabid campus next fall from doing so. skinned a rabid racoon. ing and tanning hides, kept the ani­ and contacted the Baltimore County "We want to send the message to Will he or won't he? Some say Rabies is carried only in saliva mal and planned on using the Health Department. The carcass students that we will be able to Hrabowski may be leaving for and cerebral spinal fluid, but most treated skin for a fur hat. was immediately sent to the Depart­ accomodate the majority of stu- College Park, but he says he's ment of Health and Mental Hygiene people contract the disease if an One of the three people that staying here. lab in downtown Baltimore for test- open wound comes in contact with SEE RABIES, PAGE 4 SEE HOUSING, PAGE 6 new women.ts xg.Q/f team~ ., ...~, .~. PAGE2 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY NEWS January 27, 1998 I.-. ::B:ri_e:f FAFSA Applications Now Available If you apply electronically, be sure to print Roussillon: French Themes and Local Varia­ The new application for financial aid for out, sign and mail the required signature page. tions," at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 11 at academic year 1998-99 is now available. The Johns Hopkins University's Homewood cam­ FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Amnesty International Meeting pus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. Aid) may be picked up at the Office of Fi­ A new Amnesty International group has Alderson will lead the audience to a part nancial Aid or at the Student Information been formed at UMBC. Students interested of France that has been an inspiration to many Giving Heed To Weed ·Center at the University Center. If you want in the organization, which is concerned with artists, musicians, writers and others. The A professor at the University of Toronto to apply for financial aid for the 1998-99 aca­ worldwide humari rights, can attend a meet­ lecture will highlight the architecture, art, has asked school administrators for per­ demic year, you must complete this form. ing February 4 at 1 p.m. in UC 310. geography, history and the music of the re­ mission to grow marijuana for medicinal To receive priority consideration for' all A guest speaker from Amnesty's regional gion. use in the university's greenhouse. types of financial aid, it is recommensfed that office will be at the meeting. -., Alderson received her Ph.D. from ,Ohio If Diane Riley, an instructor of behav­ you submit the FAFSA by the end of January University and retired from the Baltimore ioral sciences, gets her wish, the univer­ _1998. UMBC's priority deadline is a FAFSA Legal Speeding · County Public .School system where she sity could be the first organization autho­ receipt date of March 1 for the next school Students interested in ski racing can com­ taught French for many years. She is a long­ rized under Canada's Controlled Drug and year. Early submission is recommended. pete in the college circuit under the Univer­ time member of Alliance Francaise, a national Substance Act to grow the plant legally. If you completed a FAFSA for 1997-98 by sity of Maryland Ski Racing Team. French society, and is currently president of . The act allows research institutes, phar~ October 25, you should receive a renewal Please contact Vlad Enache at 'the Baltimore chapter. 1 maceutical companies and universities to FAFSA application by mail. [email protected] or at (301) 6l.3--8523 This lecture is part of the Wednesday Noon test and produce illegal drugs. You may also choose to complete your for more details. Series presented by The Johns Hopkins Uni­ If the university agrees to grow the 1998-99 FAFSA ~lectrontcaily. Two options versity Office of Special Events. This pro­ plant, it's more likely the Canada's health available: apply online using FAFSA on the Johns Hopkins University Lecture gram is held in the Clipper Room of Shriver departm~nt will approve the use of mari­ Web at www.fafrn.ed.gov or download Frances Alderson, MLL profe~sc}r at the hall. Admission is free. juana for emergency medicinal purposes, FA!~' SA Express so~tware on the Web at University of Maryland, .Baltimore County, For further information, call the Office of said Dann Michols, who is in charge of www. ed:govloffices/OP£/express. html. will give an illustrated lecture, "Languedoc- Special Events at 410-5 16-7157. regulating all drugs and medical devices in the nation. Bro_wn Students Drop Cl]arges Absolute LOWEST PRICES & LARGES~ SELECTION Of all paper & film! Two Brown University Students have Man Suffers N oboey has more than Abbey! • struck an unusual truce: she's no longer claiming rape, and he's dropped his libel Abbey Camera's Huge suit against her. Broken Nose Adam Lack and Sara Klein recently re­ BACK solved theii differences and are "moving TO SCHOOL 51\LEJ past the troubles of the last two years," In,/ Assault said university spokesman Mark Nikel.

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