6 News February 24, 2004 THE RETRIEVER Sexual UMBC’s Music What Ever Happened to...? Assault Department Ector Cooler Reported on Recognize

from MUSIC, page 1 A New Feature in the News Section, in Which Campus the Intrepid Retriever Staff Investigates the Fates that the Music Department has presented classical of Beloved Cultural Oddities of Days Gone By music composed after 1980 on at least ten of its con- JOE HOWLEY cert series. Other recipients in this category are the Los Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff Angeles County Museum of Art and the Cornish Music Series. concoct their own mix using Lemon- PATRICK TYLER An incident of sexual assault was reported on This year, UMBC was the only university recog- Lime Kool Aid and vanilla extract Retriever Weekly Staff Writer campus recently, according to UMBC Police. nized at the ceremony. “Most universities program tra- (recipe available at http://www.pur- A summary in the Weekly Incident Log states ditional standard repertoire – music composed from dueonline.com /drinks/ ddshow A lunchbox staple for any child of that a female student was sexually assaulted on- 1750 –1910 or so,” said Linda Dusman, the chair of /?id=10514). Oddly, the former juice the early 90’s, Ecto Cooler was the campus by a non-student acquaintance. Charges UMBC’s Music Department. “UMBC is unique in its box favorite is also the name of a cock- result of a partnership between those will not be pressed. emphasis on immersing students in the music of their tail made with vodka, Southern heavyweights of film and Saturday Lauren Lasher, Victim Assistance Specialist for own time,” she noted. Comfort, amaretto and a variety of cit- morning cartoons, “The Voices Against Violence, an organization which Dusman feels that it is an honor to receive such rus extracts. Ghostbusters,” and juice box icon Hi- helps students to prevent and deal with sexual award “and especially to be the only university recog- Yet there is a way to get Ecto C. The drink was very popular when assault, was unable to comment further on the mat- nized.” Cooler today without resorting to odd first released but some time after the ter, but emphasized ways students can protect “UMBC prides itself on being at the cutting edge concoctions or the bar. Some diligent cartoon was cancelled Ecto Cooler was themselves from sexual assault by friends or of research and creative work; in music this translates fans have discovered that Hi-C has removed from Hi-C’s lineup. This acquaintances, including being aware of one’s sur- into our valuing that our students and community merely recycled the recipe in their new news was met with dismay by fans roundings. “Watch your alcohol intake, and watch have access to and an understanding of the music of drink, Shoutin’ Orange TangeGreen, unable to let go of their favorite four your friends’ [intake],” Lasher said. “Be aware.” their own times,” Dusman added. whose box bears an oddly Slimer-esque paranormal investigators and lovers of Lasher also emphasized the importance of For more information on upcoming music events at green mouth on its front. green beverages alike. establishing limits with one’s partner. “Define your UMBC visit http://www.umbc.edu/arts. For those who may have missed Hi-C, however, has launched a limits, voice them,” she said. “It’s about talking… out, Ecto Cooler was a green juice new campaign of beverages that will it’s not always, ‘carry mace with you.’” drink made by Hi-C in the early 90’s not cause stains, so in many cases the The peer-based component of Voices, which featured a picture of the drink has lost its characteristic green Advocates Against Violence, has struggled with Ghostbusters’s loveable sidekick, color and is a milky yellow. But fear funding challenges in the past year, but Lasher was Slimer (the friendly one from the car- not, there are some juice boxes in cir- confident that this has not affected the organiza- toon, not the paranormal nuisance culation that do not bear the no stain tion’s ability to support victims of assault. from the first movie), on the front. guarantee and have Ecto Cooler’s same Advocates offers peer counseling and an overnight Ecto Cooler was in production as late green color. Shoutin’ Orange support hotline, amongst other services. as 1997, far after the Ghostbusters’s TangeGreen can be found at most More than six in ten sexual assaults reported franchise had passed its prime; but supermarkets and costs under five dol- in 2002 were committed by acquaintances of the shortly thereafter it ceased to be. lars. victim, according to the Department of Justice. Hi-C recently confirmed in a let- The Voices website states that a rape occurs on a ter to a fan that the drink had been Is there something you’d like to see college campus in the u.s. every 21 hours. “discontinued permanently.” This in What ever Happened to…? E-mail it The Voices website is at news led crafty Ghostbusters fans to to [email protected]. http://www.umbc.edu/uhs/vav/. Advocates Against Courtesy of Google.com Violence staffs an overnight hotline at 410-455- Adventurous Programming: UMBC was the 1999 (on campus, x5-1999). only school recognized with the award this year.