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INSIDE Volume 39, Issue 24 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 April, 12 2005 Habitat for Humanity Sleeps out During a Week of Homelessness THE RETRIEVER UMBC’s Student Newspaper INSIDE Volume 39, Issue 24 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 April, 12 2005 Habitat for Humanity sleeps out during a week of homelessness News 02 BRIAN ARNOLD Outs began as single-night affairs change was made. “We used to do awareness event. We wanted to Retriever Editorial Staff designed to raise poverty aware- it just at night,” says Habitat pres- publicize Habitat and let people ness. Students sleep outside in ident Kristina Golden. “And then know what was going on,” Golden boxes, wrapped in blankets, to last year I was like ‘why do we continues. “People just wanted to Students walking by the rear of demonstrate the harshness of sleep out at night when no one give donations, and so we started the Commons last week would have homeless life. However, these sin- walks around campus at night and collecting them and we made a lot been treated to a strange sight; sever- gle-night outings were deemed too no one knows what we’re doing?’ of money.” al large cardboard boxes lined up short to truly demonstrate the We decided to do it 24 hours a day While last year’s Sleep Out against the wall, filled with blankets, harshness of homeless life, so for the entire week so we could get was sponsored, this years was pillows, and in some cases, people. Habitat made it a week long event the whole campus involved.” based purely on on the spot dona- SGA candidates, IRC Habitat for Humanity held in the Spring of 2004. The Sleep Outs were not ini- tions. When asked to gauge their its second annual Sleep Out After consideration of last tially intended to be fundraising success, Golden optimistically at Cherry Hill, posting through last week. Habitat’s Sleep year’s results, however, another events. “It started out purely as an flyers on campus, and see HABITAT page 4 more HFH. Opinion 08 A look at the pro- posed ArtsXChange, our ulture and death, and mens role in end- ing violence. Features 16 Ian Bukowski [Retriever Staff] Slumber Party: Habitat for Humanity members hunker down for another night under the stars as part of their week-long fundraising and awareness project. Shakespeare History Professor receives Faculty Internet new social medium, claims unlocked on campus and Beck gives Award for Excellence from Regents former Dean campaign manager white boys a good GRACE M. LO PORTO JOE HOWLEY the democratic process. “Information is name. Regents and the other system Retriever Staff Writer presidents what a great Retriever Editorial Staff power,” he said. “The internet distrib- research (in addition to teach- utes information and power to the bot- Sports 27 John Jeffries, chair of the ing) university UMBC is.” The next presidential election will tom.” history department, describes Despite the many awards he’s be decided on the internet, and college Using the example of the reaction Warren Cohen as “one of the received for his research and students and other internet-savvy citi- to the death of a popular member of a most distinguished and writing, Cohen is “most grati- zens will play a pivotal role, according to video game bulletin board Trippi fre- accomplished historians in the fied” by his “reputation for the compelling vision presented by pres- quented – an example that clearly United States and a towering teaching.” idential campaign manager Joe Trippi earned him the respect of his audience - figure in the field of American Jeff Taylor, one of last week. he explained how the internet is a new foreign relations…[he has] Cohen’s former students, said Trippi, who was the brain behind type of social medium, a paradigm shift made an especially large that he was “extremely fortu- the internet-driven campaign of former he compared to the advent of television, impact in the history of nate” to have his graduate Democratic presidential candidate but with the added benefit of two-way Accolades for base- American-East Asian rela- studies here coincide with Howard Dean, spoke at the invitation communication,. ball players and an tions.” Cohen’s arrival. Taylor said, of the UMBC College Democrats last “The internet put back into the indepth interview UMBC history professor “My grad work concentrated Wednesday. He explained that even democratic process what TV screwed with Anna Jacobs. Dr. Warren Cohen received on contemporary U.S. diplo- though Dean did not get the over,” Trippi said. “People.” the Regents’ Faculty Award for matic history and I couldn’t Democratic nomination, the amount of The subject of the talk then moved Excellence from the Maryland have asked for a more quali- money that he raised offers a new way easily from “improving democracy” to Board of Regents in the cate- fied academic mentor and to campaign that the Democrats would “getting a candidate elected.” As an gory of Research, Scholarship guide. In my case, he was do well to capitalize on. example of the political power of the and Creative Activity. incredibly supportive in my Trippi lays out the theory in his internet, Trippi cited the fact that Dean’s ALSO: Cohen said that he is own protracted journey to recent book, The Revolution Will Not campaign, after nine months, had raised “delighted, of course—and Be Televised. Trippi explained that the college news 02 pleased to demonstrate to the see COHEN page 2 nature of the internet ought to reinforce see TRIPPI, page 4 world news 03 Four Day classifieds 30 trw.umbc.edu 410.455.1260 Forecast tues: 55/37o wed: 59/41o thu: 58/39o fri: 54/035o 2 News April 12, 2005 THE RETRIEVER BehindtheScenes From Skipjacks to Goldies: College News UMBC’s yearbook journey from 1966-1986 Ohio fire kills 3 college PAT TYLER students Retriever Staff Writer Skipjack 1969: Page 58- In a mosaic picture a student with summed up in the quote, “The opening of OXFORD, Ohio (AP) - A fire ripped There are ways that those who came Beatles hair plays a sitar on the quad, youth cul- dorms in the spring semester may soon have through a two-story, brick home filled with before us speak. We have letters, writings, old ture and rebellion was on the rise. more far reaching consequences than merely 11 people near the Miami University cam- photographs and, in the case of one UMBC Page 60- A tug of war took place between causing campus traffic to be rerouted.” pus, killing three students, injuring two relic, yearbooks to show us what came before. rival classes the Freshman and Junior over the others and forcing one person to jump to Between UMBC’s inception in 1966 and newly constructed “Library Lake” - the pond in Following the 1970 production the year- safety from a second-story window. 1986 members of the campus crafted five year- the center of campus. The Freshman, who out- book went into a 6 year hiatus before being res- School spokesman Richard Little said books, snapshots of years past. The small numbered the Juniors significantly, won the bat- urrected as the Golden Retriever in 1976. it was the deadliest fire involving the uni- leather-bound volumes contain not only hap- tle, leaving very wet Juniors swimming around versity since a student died in an off-cam- penings and faces of UMBC’s past but also the lake. Golden Retriever 1976: pus blaze in 1994. “This is as severe as any- speak of the larger culture arising as college stu- Page 67: Students protest tuiton hikes at thing we’ve ever dealt with,” he said. dents moved to the forefront of politics and Through perusing the old yearbooks one campus by picketing. Signs from the protest Investigators believe the fire was acci- culture in a post-war America. gets the sense that the apathy of today’s UMBC read “Stop cutbacks. Stop Tuition Hikes dental and may have started in a recreation The yearbook has gone under two is not a phenomenon of our location or size but Now!” room downstairs. Police said they arrived at monikers in its run. Between 1966 and 1970 merely an erosion of the ages. On nearly every the house at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday and the publication was known as the Skipjack. page there is a sense of community present in Golden Retriever 1986: the final year- saw flames in the first- and second-story When the book was re-launched in 1976 it the old yearbooks, as though the students knew book windows. went under the name the Golden Retriever. that they were a part of something new and Page 7- A ten story administration build- “Nobody understood what was hap- desired to make it work. ing begins construction on campus, a rough pening until we saw the huge flames com- Skipjack 1966-68: UMBC’s political awareness flared in the frame is photographed for the book. ing from the house,” said Muna Osman, Page 5- UMBC opens to 750 students on final Skipjack published in 1970. 21, a Miami student who lives next door. September 19, 1966. The students walk along Page 50- The Senior Dinner Dance, an “It was terrible, just terrible. The smoke was plywood planks laid out like sidewalks over Skipjack 1970: odd bit of a tradition in a campus, was a “trib- thick and white, and it just covered every- dirt fields in an area near the fine arts building. Page 108- UMBC students went on strike ute paid to seniors by undergraduates, alumni, thing.” The buildings appear sparse; from the photo- for two days in 1970 following the shootings of faculty and staff.” The event was attended by Two students, Julia Turnbull, 21, of graphs there appear to be only 3 and student Kent state students killed protesting the war in nearly 400, who all donned formal attire and Milford, Ohio, and Kathryn Welling, 21, traipsing between them.
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