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22 Features October 19, 2004 THE RETRIEVER AROUND Beginning [October 20] Events Happening Throughout Incidentally... the Greater Baltimore-Washington Area TOWN Events Happening On and Around the UMBC Campus Wednesday, October 20 tonight at Thunderdome in Baltimore, Beginning [October 20] Laughs for Liberty because two of the hardest of the hardcore are I know there’s plenty of you people out there locked and loaded, ready to mount a full who are fans of stand-up comedy. I know… sonic assault on your eardrums. First up it’s Love Fest 2004! Friday, October 22 because it’s my job to. So, tonight at the the ridiculous demonic rantings of the Thrill Wednesday, October 20 8 p.m. – 11 p.m. Hippodrome Performing Arts Center in Kill Kult, then synthcore industrial madmen 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. It’s time to celebrate Homecoming in style. downtown Baltimore, there’s a big show fea- Ministry grace the stage. Come early for the Come celebrate your body in the Women’s Come to this year’s Retriever Ball on Friday, turing lots of national acts, many of whom music, and stay late for god-knows-what… it Center with healthy snacks, body/face paint October 22 at 8pm in the UC Ballroom. have been on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” all begins at 7 p.m. TM* and henna, reiki, reflexology, hand massages, Purchase your ticket at the Information Desk. and Comedy Central’s Tough Crowd with letter writing to combat negative images of For more information, contact Eric Grollman Colin Quinn and Premium Blend, including Make it Happen women in the media and much, much more! at [email protected]. Tess Drake, Rich Vos, Bonnie McFarlane, As the leading member of The Miracles, Admission: Identifying 3 things you LOVE Alonzo Bodden and Robert Kelly. Smokey Robinson was and still is one of the about your body! For more information, con- Men’s Soccer vs. Northeastern (Additional local performers will also be fea- most beloved singer / songwriters of tact Mikhel Kushner at [email protected]. Saturday, October 23 tured.) The theme of the night is “Comics American music, so much so that just awhile 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. with Conviction,” and procedes will go to back, the group was elected into the Rock UMBC Homecoming Pep Rally UMBC Soccer Stadium. Come out and sup- benefit the Maryland Justice Coalition, and Roll Hall of Fame. Today Smokey’s Wednesday, October 20 port our men’s soccer team!! Students are free which aims to reform the criminal justice sys- doing his solo thing, but not without a little 9 p.m. – 11 p.m. with their ID. For more information, go to tem with regards to sentencing and treatment help from another legendary performer, Who’s got school spirit? YOU’VE GOT www.umbcretrievers.com, or contact Maria of drug offenders. Be there at 7:30 to support Gladys Knight. The two are playing tonight SCHOOL SPIRIT! Come to this year’s Reyes at [email protected]. a worthy cause and enjoy a hearty chuckle or at the D.A.R. Constitution Hall, beginning Homecoming Pep Rally to show that spirit at three. TM* at 7:00. It’s bound to get awful hot in here, 9pm on the Quad this Wednesday, October Whose Line is it Anyway Comics at UMBC!! for as they say: “Where there’s smoke…” 20. WOOOOT! GO RETRIEVERS! For Saturday, October 23 Thursday, October 21 TM* more information, contact Eric Grollman at 8 p.m. Morgan Hospitality [email protected]. Come out and see Colin Mochrie and Brad He’s called the Mouf of the Souf, head hon- O(ntario,) Canada! Sherwood at the RAC!!! Tickets can be pur- cho of DTP, but otherwise known as With something of an insatiable fanbase both UMBC Homecoming Talent Show chased at the Commons Info Desk! For more Ludacris, lord and master of all that is crunk. north and south of the border, Canadian jam Thursday, October 21 information, contact the Homecoming He played UMBC just a few years back, and band the Tragically Hip are coming to the 8 p.m. – 11 p.m. Committee at [email protected]. now he’s taking on the Morgan State Recher Theatre. Bring your bootlegs, because C’mon, you’ve got talent! Come to this year’s Homecoming Concert in full force, begin- there’s sure to be plenty of fans willing to Homecoming Talent Show to show off that Blue and White Get Right ning at 8. TM* trade tapes and CD-Rs of past shows with talent. This event will be at 8pm in the UC Sunday, October 24, 2004 you. Guess it’s kind of like a Maple syrupy Ballroom on Thursday, October 21. For more 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. Friday, October 22 Phish or Dave Matthews show. You supply information, contact Eric Grollman at egroll- Please join the brothers of Phi Beta Sigma It’s Still *The Word* your own Mountie/hockey/“aboot” cliches, [email protected]. Fraternity, Incorporated (Zeta Upsilon Nostalgia freaks, come get your fix! Tonight commencing at the magic hour of 7. TM* Chapter of UMBC) every Sunday from 12pm at the Hippodrome in B-more, it’s the Video Game Tournament - 6pm at the Albin O Kuhn Library for our coolest, rock’n’rollinest musical of all time: Head Over Heels Friday, October 22 Blue and White Get Right, a program designed Grease. It’ll take you back to the days of drive Musical hitmakers Tears for Fears stood pret- 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. to help the community find an inviting atmos- thrus, poodle skirts and hula-hoops. Relive ty tall in the mid-1980s, holding their own Are you a hardcore gamer looking for some phere to STUDY. Bring your books, home- the magical romance of Sandy and Danny, with the Cure, Depeche Mode and New real competition? Are you just an average per- work, study groups and friends with you and set to such classic musical numbers as Order. Now that alternative music has taken son that likes video games? Come to the SEB study in a fun, relaxing, yet SERIOUS atmos- “Summer Nights,” “Hopelessly Devoted to a swing back toward the ‘new wave’ sound Video Game Tournament, every other Friday phere. See ya there!!! For more information, You” and everybody’s favorite, “You’re the (Interpol, The Rapture anyway?), it’s high at 4pm in the Commons Gameroom. For contact Leve Amuleru-Marshall at zetaup- One that I Want.” Take your parents and time for TFF to get back in the recording stu- more information, contact Eric Grollman at [email protected]. grandfolks as well; it all begins at 8 o’clock. dio and on stage live. They hit the Lisner [email protected]. The curtain also rises tomorrow at 2:00 and Auditorium at 8:00. TM* Got an upcoming event? Email Liz Alcott at 8:00, and Sunday at 1:30 and 6:30. TM* Retriever Ball [email protected] *TM = Ticketmaster: (410) 481-SEAT; Saturday, October 23 www.ticketmaster.com Just a Couple of Preacherboys Got an upcoming area event? Email swi- Tons of metal mayhem will surely go down [email protected] (min. 2 weeks notice).

Spinning the Globe by Joe Howley Third week of classes and I’m up to your consciousness like the storm clouds quite as interesting now that I’m removed basement (doesn’t work on foggy days), my kilt in coursework – what better time that gather and abate daily over Glasgow. from the omnipresent American media. But but I prefer to use my own machine, for another installment? I still meet Scots who look at me with which means I can only get online at the Yeah, that’s another thing: the weather somewhat plaintive expressions and ask library. Some days I’m only online for They do it differently here, I tell here is absolutely nuts. I don’t care if it’s so whether I think Bush will really get reelect- fifteen or thirty minutes (half of which is you. Typically, a student only takes three foggy you can’t see the university across the ed. They’re hoping against hope here. slogging through e-mail generated by courses a semester. Rarely does one have park when you wake up, by the time you get UMBC’s recent entry to www.theface- regular homework (unless it’s a class like out of class in the afternoon, it’s The University of Glasgow book.com), reading American newspa- Latin or Greek where it makes sense) or entirely possible that the sky will beats the hell out of UMBC in pers and so forth. Social interactions are even evaluations. Aside from the occa- be crystal blue with intense one regard: location. At carried out via mobile (text messaging is sional end-of-term exam, assessment is sunshine that’ll have you UMBC, without a car or dri- a favorite) or in person, if you can believe based almost completely on a paper or a boiling. Oh, and don’t forget ver’s license, I’m basically it. I can’t roll out of bed and check the set of papers due either at the end of the the umbrella when you go trapped on campus (sorry, news anymore, and frankly, I don’t miss term or during the term. out later in the evening. don’t let me forget it. Arbutus). In Glasgow, I can I ain’t complaining. Although this Reading lists are anoth- walk down the block to the All in all, I’m adapting to the bizarre does kind of pin your grade on one er difference. You might have grocery store, down the hill way of life (did I mention that they drive assignment, it means that you have to one absolutely required text for for a subway station, and just on the left side of the road?) here. I’m demonstrate some sort of basic level of a course, and then a list of about a few blocks into town to the sure that by the time I’ve completely comprehension of the material, even in a dozen other books you could read. main shopping center. A plethora of adapted, I’ll be getting on a plane to what we’d think of as a cakewalk 100- Don’t bother trying to get them all; instead, bars, pubs and cafes are within stumbling come home, but so it goes. level survey course. And if you’re not just hang on to that bibliography, maybe pick distance. The wonders of going to school in thinking about passing, it means you’re up one or two that catch your eye, and con- an urban environment never really occurred Finally, a Glasgow Personal Safety guaranteed to learn something. sult it in greater depth for one of those to me, and I don’t know how I’ll live with- Report: Times I have been… Mugged: 0. papers. out them. Beaten: 0. Raped: 0. Attacked by mag- Which is all well and good, but pies: 0. Hit in the head with a rock by an when there’s (hypothetically) six of these Outside of school, I’ve stopped caring I’m also really digging not having elementary school student: 1. bad boys due over the course of two about American politics. Well, I still care Internet access in my dorm, actually. months, the pressure starts to loom over about the outcome, but the horserace isn’t There’s a miserable computer lab in the Welcome to Glasgow.