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THE ETRIEVER KLY "Your job [at college] is to make a mind that is of value to someone."- Brent Staples Volume XXXIV, Number 29 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 May 9, 2000 Board to Redo SGA Elections ·Judicial Board Rules Original Elections Violated Procedures DAHLIA NAQIB four presidential and vice-presi candidate Jazz Perez. "I think Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff dential candidates who lost the we'll do better [this time] race. They first appealed t<r the because it will be a fair process." The Election Board will be re Election Board, which deemed a Perez and his presidential run conducting the SGA elections redo unnecessary. They then ning mate Regina Wong were this week after the Judicial Board appealed the decision to the running as write-in candidates ruled the first elections illegiti Judicial Board, this time with and were concerned that some mate because student identifica over 200 student supporters who students were not given the tion cards were not checked at signed a petition for a redo. The write-in <;>ption when voting th~ polling sites. This decision Judicial Board overruled the orig online. overruled the Election Board's inal decision last week. The original complainants original decision. · "I am truly happy that we included Perez, Wong and candi- Problems with the first elec were able to have our complaints tion were brought to light by the heard," said vice-presidential see ELECTIONS, page 4 Nate West I Retriever Weekly Staff NY Times editorial board member Brent Staples speaks about overcoming obstacles, being a writer and his mother's hairdresser. NAACP NY Times ·Writer Requests Speaks to Students ASIA2000 JENNIFER SCHILDROTH hoped to impress upon Staples Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff the quality of education and the Encore learning atmosphere at UMBC. RYAN SURBER Brent Staples, ari editorial For most of the presentation, Retriever Weekly Staff Writer columnist for The New York Staples read excerpts from Times, spoke free of charge to Parallel Time, a book that relays The NAACP is looking to members of the UMBC commu many of his life experiences, Courtesy Kate Myers have Asian students from UMBC nity about his recently published especially from his childhood in School Pride: Debaters Emily Bernstein and Chris Kelly went undefeat represent the Asian community novel Parallel Time: Growing Up a factory town just south of ed, beating three Ivy League teams on their way to National Semifinals. of Baltimore City where the . in Black and White and his trip up Philadelphia and the summers of national organization's summer the ladder of success in the world his youth spent in rural Virginia. conference will be held. of writing. "Ever see Leave it to Beaver? Debate Team Wins Big at Asian Student Connection's President Freeman Hrabowski Imagine that in brown," Staples ASIA 2000 was so well received invited Staples to UMBC because teased the crowd, which was· so by the audience that the presen of the writer's interest in and large it was spilling out of the National Championships ters have been asked to perform emphasis on education. "I conference room on the seventh APDA, once again proved itself at several other functions as well. thought he might find our campus KIM OWENS Retriever Weekly Staff Writer up to the standard with its second The Asian cultural organiza- · refreshing," said Hrabowski. He see STAPLES, page 5 Nationals third-place finish in the tions on campus present a show UMBC's winningest two-per team's 15-year history. each year to share their heritage What's Inside: Features son debate team finished out its Bernstein and partner, Debate and stories with the UMBC com- p. 12 year by going undefeated through Opinion the National Championship and see DEBATE, page 6 see ASIA, page 2 The Black Student breezing to semifinals, taking p.l Union finds the Fifth Element, down top teams from Harvard, Should you stay or should you Anna Kaplan finds Princeton, Columbia, Hopkins, go? Summer school vs. vaca Patti Smith and Georgetown and College Park tion in this week's Opinion. Also, Alison Andrews along the way. Debate Team why ivory bans are necessary loses her mind. Captain Emily Bernstein was the and a letter from overturned highest-ranked female speaker, SGA election winners Kafui Sports coming in fourth overall. Dzirasa and Josh Templeton. p.36 The National Championship, held this year just outside of UMBC sports continue their Philadelphia at Swarthmore Focus roll as both women's lacrosse p. 18 and men's golf capture NEC College, is an annual event spon- titles, Retriever track performs sored by the American Ah, the thrills of summer! This extremely well at NEC champi Parliamentary Debate week, Focus helps you tackle onship and Chris Kerner writes Association, which is comprised finals and enjoy the warm his final Take It or Leave ft. of the entire Ivy League as well Amy Banowetz I Retriever Weekly Staff sunny summer season with Remembering the Past: A student looks at a list of people as Stanford, Amherst, the sunscreen tips, summer read College News ... p.2 who died during the Holocaust of Nazi Germany. The display University of Chicago and other ing lists and truly tasty recipes. World News ... p.3 was a part of the annual Holocaust Remembrance organized prestigious schools. UMBC, the Classlfleds ~·· p.35 by Hillel and the Jewish Student Union. See story page 6. first public school to join the elite PAGE2 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY NEWS May 9, 2000 I ehind I the Scenes Andrew Miller Initial Agreement in OSU Strike COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio State and Technology is daily discovering University reached a tentative contract agree KELLI PRIVE ment with an employees' union Thursday that Retriever Weekly Staff Writer applications of technology to look at could end a walkout that began Monday. wildlife and biodiversity. Also, a new The tentative agreement with the Professor Andrew Miller sits in his environmental center has been erect Communications Workers of America Local office amongst shelves of books and a ed at the TRC and focuses on urban 4501 would give the 1,900 workers raises of desk overflowing with responsibili environmental research and educa $1 an hour to groundskeepers, custodial ties. After five years as chair person tional opportunities- as do all proj workers and food service employees, and of the geography and environmental ects offered in Miller's department. increases of 50 cents an hour for each of the systems department, Miller looks for "After all," he said, "a large part of next two years. It was not immediately cle~ ward to the day when, as he says, "I my job is tryi_ng to create opportuni when the increase would take effect. can finally get some research done." ties for students." A shift differential would be added to pay Until then, he fits meetings and While that is the case, another part checks of after-hours workers beginning in 2003. administrative affairs in with cher of Professor Miller's job is the The union was seeking an immediate $2- ished Friday research trips to the river research, and he looks forward to an-hour raise for the workers, who average with his students. every opportunity he gets. Last sum about $10 an hour. Miller came to the UMBC geogra mer Miller had a chance to go to The strike, which began Monday, closed phy department 17 years ago in 1983. Australia, where he studied river val university cafeterias, curtailed bus service Originally from New Jersey, Miller leys with bedrock controls. He is also and hampered trash collection and house did his undergraduate work at Brown studying the impact of floods in the keeping at the 48,000-student campus. University in Providence, Rhode Amy Banowetz I Retriever Weekly Staff mountain environments of Virginia Island. At Brown, Miller took a class has taught are hydrology, water resources and West Virginia. Additionally, he Kent State Remembers 1970 Shootings called The Earth, Moon and Mars, and quality, the natural resources of the has been committed to a long-term KENT, Ohio (AP) -As thousands of people Chesapeake Bay, physical geography and watched, a bell tolled on the Kent State and after realizing the fascinating study of channel changes in a water University campus Thursday at 12:24 p.m., connections and new possibilities, he geology -which will be offered this fall. shed in Rockville. marking the exact moment National was hooked. As a result, he earned his Miller enjoys hydrology best, since it Former undergraduate student Erin Guardsmen opened fire 30 years ago on anti degree in geological sciences. is so close to his own interest. He also Bolton, who is n~w planning to enter war protesters. For a while, Miller did not know enjoys the introductory classes. "We look the Peace Corps, was deeply involved The Victory Bell sounded 15 times: once where his new-found interest would to recruit majors, so I like the challenge in the study and had the chance to for each of the four students killed and nine lead. "I found out in grad school of teaching [introductory classes] also," present her own separate results. And, wounded at Kent State and once each for the though," said Miller. "I didn't want to he said. In the end, helping his students to if three projects and several studies two · students killed at Jackson State spend my life in front of a micro be interested in geography and environ weren't enough, Miller has also University in Mississippi 10 days later. scope. I wanted to study larger struc mental systems is most satisfying to recently co-edited a book, Varieties of The 30th anniversary brought the nine sur tures." Miller.

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