THE ETRIEVER WEEKLY "These are the times that try men :S souls. " - Thomas Paine Volume XXXV, Number 26 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 April 24, 2001 Room to Grow Inside the Loop Two New Academic Buildings to Open in 2003 SCOTT DAUGHERTY Two new academic buildings are eering building will provide var­ Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff on their way in the coming years, ious departmental offices, as well with construction scheduled to as several new classrooms and Construction is changing the lecture halls. face of the UMBC campus. Since Construction is a way of life 1990, the university has built the at UMBC. A building is PUBLIC POLICY Engineering and Computer always being renovated, The Public Policy building Science building, the Physics demolished or built as UMBC will be located between the Building, the Retriever Activity attempts to better itself and Physics building and the Center, and is building the prepare for future generations Susquehanna Residential Hall, Commons. The Potomac of students. This is the fourth where the temporary facility, Residential Hall, both Erickson in a series of articles focusing housing the English Language Halls and the soon-to-be-com­ on construction at UMBC. Center, currently stands. pleted New Hall are all new to This week's concentration is Tentatively opening in 2003, the the UMBC campus as well. The on the new academic build­ new building will house the Library Tower was built in 1995, ings, the problems facing Shriver Center, as well as the the Theatre received a large addi­ them and the advantages they sociology, anthropology, eco­ tion in 1998 and the Biological will eventually offer. nomics, political science and pol­ Sciences building was just reno­ icy sciences departments. Two vated. The Library Field used to general purpose classrooms and a be a parking lot and a baseball start by year's end. The Public Nate West I Retriever Weekly Staff field. Policy building and the Hippie Chicks: Jen AI Naber and Carolyn Mete enjoyed the The construction is not over. Information Technology/Engin- see CONSTRUCTION, page 4 music and the weather Saturday as Agents of Good Roots jammed at the Earth Day Concert. See the full article on page 15. Saturday, April 28, noon until whenever Increase in Crime The Fine Arts Field The Acknowledged by 12:00 Catonsville High School Steel Drum Band 1:00 Charm City Klezmer 2:00 Nen Daiko Campus Police 3:00 UMBC Gospel Choir 3:20 Hilby: The Skinny German Juggler Boy stolen from the Fine Arts building. ROBERT REDDING 3:45 Three Prong Outlet In the week of March 25 there Retriever Weekly Staff Writer 4:15 UMBC band Steakhouse were 17 thefts on campus, includ­ 4:50 Hilby: The Skinny German Juggler Boy ing a series of vehicle break-ins. UMBC police released a crime 5:15 Doug E. Fresh Several in-dash CD players were alert last Thursday acknowledg­ 6:30 American Hi-Fi taken from cars parked on Hilltop ing complaints of thefts from aca­ 8:00 Our Lady Peace Circle. At least eight break-ins demic buildings and vehicle took place on March 29 alone, break-ins near residential areas. many of them during a heavy rain­ The alert is in response to a series • Ferris Wheel storm. Police believe that the of campus crimes, including 26 • Cobra. SEB is still looking for volunteers same individual or group of indi­ thefts that were reported in just • Rock-Q-Piace to help out on Saturday. Sign up viduals perpetrated all of those one week. • Loop-0-Piace. outside the SEB office in UC The afterparty will take thefts. Campus Police Chief John Since March 16, four laptop • Moon Bounce 204. For more information place in the UC Ballroom Cook suspects non-students com­ computers and a pressure washer • Rock Climbing Wall about Quadmania 2001. check from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. with DJ mited the thefts. were taken from various locations • Dunk Tank out www.umbc.edu/quadmania. K Swift from 92 Q. around campus. In addition, a camera valued at $1,000 was see CRIME, page 3 Ride tickets will cost $1 for a book of 10 with a UMBC ID. $2 without. 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(U-WIRE)- Nearly 50 members of the Progressive Student SORAYA KHALJE Golf clubs are not the only thing Labor Movement began a sit-in at Harvard Retriever Weekly Staff Writer Worchesky makes himself. "Coffee is University last Wednesday, planning to another one of my hobbies," he stated. remain indefinitely in an administrative .· "I live for 'Oh!"' Dr. Terrence He grinds his own coffee beans and building to demand a living wage of at least Worchesky says about his favorite owns many books on the subject. "I like $10.25 per hour for all Harvard employees. PSLM members said their protest - in aspect of teaching. The moment when a it with just enough cream to make it the building housing the university presi­ student having difficulties finally com­ look muddy,"· he added. dent's office - also demands that the uni­ prehends a difficult concept is why Worchesky developed an interest in versity join the Worker's Rights Consortium, Worchesky, a professor in the UMBC physics at a very young age. He boasts an independent factory monitoring board. physics department, loves to teach. "It getting into trouble as a child for tear­ Student activists entered the building is the joy of knowing that they under­ ing apart things like toasters, radios and armed with bags of food and tanks of water. stand something because you helped such. His interest in how the things They secured themselves in the halls of the them," he stated. work made physics a natural choice building by linking arms while singing, Worchesky's dedication to making when he entered college at to Drexel chanting and reading testimony from physics exciting and accessible is University in Philadelphia At Drexel, Harvard workers. apparent in the admiration and respect Worchesky studied in a co-op program About six police officers remained in the he receives from his students. "He's and nourished his interests. building throughout the afternoon, while very energetic in his teaching and After receiving his Bachelor's others monitored the crowds outside. enthusiastic about his students learn­ degree, Worchesky went straight to Two students stood outside holding a ing," said Adele Poyner, a senior graduate school at Georgetown large banner reading "Workers Can't Eat physics major. "Even if you're not in Scott Daugherty/ Retriever Weekly Staff University. In his second year there, his Prestige: Rally for a Living Wage." his class or you haven't had him for department that they needed him. "They wife gave birth to a daughter. The new About six members of Harvard's three years you can go up to him and didn't have an opening, but that always addition to his family prompted him to Facilities Maintenance Organization joined he's happy to help you." happens to me," Worchesky said. He work full time and continue to pursue the students marching outside the building. For many students, physics can recalled two earlier times - once as an his doctoral degree. part time. This They said they were hopeful about the seem dry and overly challenging. undergraduate at Drexel University and experience provided Worchesky with a action's success. Fortunately for UMBC physics stu­ again at Martin Marietta - when he con­ unique perspective into students who "I think it'll work," one worker said as he vinced employers with no openings that work and attend school simultaneously. marched. "It's worked in the pll;_st." dents, Worchesky understands the diffi­ they needed him. At midnight, after a few hours of quiet culty students face and goes out of his When Worchesky isn't at UMBC protest, the students both inside and outside way to help them learn difficult materi­ Worchesky's experience can be a lesson fulfilling his duties as a professor, or began yelling. The activists inside the build­ al. "He makes quantum physics come for his students. He said he "always tells pursuing one of his many hobbies, he ing turned on their radios and began clapping alive. He will make himself look fool­ students to not just look in the want ads for loves to spend time with his wife, his and banging on wastebaskets. The support­ ish or silly in front of the class just to a job, look everywhere. Find somet~ng now 24-year-old daughter, and 5-year ers outside yelled, "No justice, no quiet!" keep us interested," says Gonzalo you really want to do." old son. Many past and present UMBC Ubillus, another physics major and stu­ "Frankly, I could do research elsewhere physics students would agree that Dr. U. Michigan Naked Mile: dent of Worchesky. "By asking ques­ and get paid a lot more money but I would- Worchesky's presence in and out of the Few Naked, No Mile tions of everyone, he keeps the students , n't get to work with students," he said.