THE ETRIEVER E E KLY "The overt enemies of the first amendment can be challenged. The ignorant, the irresponsible and the foolish are a greater test. " -Jean Otto Volume XXXV, Number 13 November 28, 2000 Supporting UMBC's Dawgs Win Hate Crime Battle of -Baltimore Retrievers Keep Towson Tigers and Legislation Loyola Greyhounds on Short Leash ALYSON SPURGAS Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff PRATIK S. SHAH - head coach Tom Sullivan. "Our Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff defense played great and we were Passing federal hate crime leg­ able to come out and play well islation would give Americans an In the brief three-year history both games." increased awareness of the sever­ of the Battle of Baltimore Classic, The Retrievers opened their ity of hate-motivated crimes and no one team dominated the tour­ season against Towson with high of the lasting impact these crimes nament like UMBC did last week. expectations heading into the sea­ have on victims and families, said The Retrievers exploded with son. Kirsten Kingdon, executive direc­ 87 points against Towson on "We feel we have the potential tor of Parents, Families, and Saturday and cruised to an 87-72 to win the conference," said Friends of Lesbians and Gays, or victory. In the finals, they gained Sullivan. "With the addition of PFLAG. an early lead and once again our new players and the capabili­ Kingdon's presentation, called sailed to a 74-56 victory over the ty of our young talent, we can "Passing and Enforcing Hate Loyola Greyhounds. · make some noise." Crime Laws", was sponsored by The tournament, hosted for UMBC stumbled out of the the UMBC Public Affairs the first time at UMBC' s RAC gates versus the Tigers falling Scholars Program. Arena, featured local schools behind early in the contest in front Kingdon became involved Loyola, Morgan State, Towson of a record-setting crowd of over with PFLAG after her gay son andUMBC. 3,400 people in the RAC. became the victim of a hate "This is great, not only for the crime. She said she has been con­ school but also for the city of cerned by the national rise in vio­ -Baltimore," said men's basketball see BATTLE, page 25 lent acts based on dislike of a per- Jeremy Wustner-Brown I Retriever Weekly Staff Tigers Tamed: The Retrievers mauled the Towson Tigers and see HATE CRIME page 2 then the Loyola Greyhounds at the Battle of Baltimore. National Role Model for Tech Women Talks to Students Anne Balsamo Shows How Women Can Enter Technology Through Alternative Routes ROBERT REDDING UMBC last week. - dimension to reality. Retriever Weekly Staff Writer Balsamo holds doctoral Balsamo's lecture, "Gendering degrees in mass communication the Technological Imagination," Women who want to enter the and cultural studies and spent 15 was the second in a series of lec­ high tech job market don't neces­ years in academia before being tures sponsored by UMBC's sarily need a degree in computer hired by Xerox PARC to provide Center for Women in Information science or information systems a female perspective on technolo­ Technology, which works to Nate West/ Retriever management to reach that goal, gy. She said that women approach Go Team: A Pep Rally in the UC Plaza Monday kicked off a according to technohumanist Dr. technology from a different per­ - v''"'"''"' of Homecoming activities. Visit the homcoming web Anne Balsamo, who spoke at spective, which can add more see TECHNOLOGY page 3 site at www.umbc.edu/StudentLink/homecoming Stephanie Jim Carrey's Grinch You know you Rawlings and gets a green can do it every­ triumphs in the Anna Kaplan thumb-up, Bounce one does now Battle of Baltimore, argue over the gets a thumb-down and then. Yes, swimming sweeps fate of Napster spotlight on Robert profanity is all Howard and wht/e Lily Crane Deluty's poetry around us, and Towson and volley­ covers global readings and a look now it's in the ball ends season at Jambo night. paper. with NEC finals. PAGE2 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY NEWS November 28, 2000 I ehind I the Scenes Christoph Irmscher: 'A True Naturalist' Dartmouth grad Dr. Seuss adopted pseu­ donym after being caught foralcohol violation JOANA GOMES DA CRUZ thing. (U-WIRE) HANOVER, N.H.- We all ate Retriever Weekly Staff Writer Irmscher urges UMBC students to green eggs and ham on our DOC trips, and make use of the resources they have we've all read "The Cat in. the Hat," but who Passionate and inspirational are the here. "There is a great library and a is the man behind this world of strange char­ best ways to describe Dr. Christoph great staff here. Students should really acters and fantastical images? What many Irmscher. His enthusiastic charisma fills take advantage of this. The collection at people don't know is that Theodor "Dr. his classrooms and impacts the way stu­ the library is underused." Seuss" Geisel was quite the prankster back He also encourages students to in his Dartmouth College days. dents study and understand literature establish and maintain communication Geisel, a member of the class of 1925, and science. spent the majority of his time at Dartmouth Irmscher grew up in Germany, with their professors. This is a small writing and partying. He was frequently where he attended the University of campus with a small faculty and stu­ found in Robinson Hall writing and illustrat­ Bonn and received his masters and doc­ dents should really make use of it, he ing for the college's humor magazine, the torate in English. said. Jack O'Lantem. Geisel spent most of his "My father was a college professor and "Stay curious-," Irmscher advises-. four years at the Big Green "fooling around ... many [of my] role models in college "Re-create the sense of wonder that in the publication offices" with his friends. where teachers so it became automatic often gets lost." He explained that a lot Along with his close friend and editor~in­ for me to pursue a career in teaching," of students have this curiosity drained chief of The Dartmouth, Whitney Campbell said Irmscher. out of them with anthologies and survey '24, Geisel would play poker into the wee Scott Daugherty/ Retriever Weekly Staf classes. "I try to instill this curiosity in hours of the morning_waiting for the paper to He says that he discovered how my students and encourage them to keep be printed. He recognized Campbell as "the much he enJoyed writing while working an-d . literature and describes- literature as­ strongest personal friendship I made at on his dissertation and since then he has "one of the forms in which people have to it alive." Dartmouth." published many books about nature, lit­ account for who they are." Geisel's pseudonym, "Dr. Seuss," origi­ erature and art. Last year he published a Studying the natural world has taught nated at Dartmouth after he was punished for collection of John James Audubon's him to respect knowledge and people who - an alcohol violation. After being caught with writings and drawings for the Library of look at the world with an open mind. He a bottle of gin in his room, Geisel was put on America. fell in love with people who go outside and probation for violating the laws of He first came to the United States in try to approximate what nature is like. Prohibition. As a result, Geisel was banned 1993 as a visiting professor at the from all extra-curricular activities, including "I love the idea of getting down and University of Tennessee. his role as editor-in-chief of the Jack-o­ looking at nature from the same level you Lantern. Thus, in order to continue to write "I had a great time teaching are on," Irmscher says. He has been trying for the Jacko, Geisel wrote under different American students and I didn't want to to incorporate this idea into his life. He sees pseudonyms until he finally stuck with go back to Germany," said Irmscher. artistic -forms as self-expressions on par "Seuss," his middle name. The "Doctor" was He returned to the states in 1996 as a with literature. "I don't share the critic's added later to sound more scientific. research fellow at Harvard University. idea that literature is a privileged area of Again, he was only supposed to stay at insight." Former Minnesota BasketbaU Harvard for a short period of time but Irmscher is not only a teacher but also a Coach Appeals Coaching Ban he met his wife, a classical composer, perpetual student. He always wants to read Imposed by NCAA and decided to stay in the here perma­ and learn new things, constantly looking (U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS - Clem nently. After teaching full-time at for what he calls a "luminous trait - when Haskins has appealed the NCAA ruling bar­ Harvard for two years, Irmscher came ring him from coaching until 2007 without everything comes together in a new way." special approval, said Haskins' attorney Ron to UMBC this semester. He emphasizes that we should all look for Zamansky on Tuesday. Irmscher is fascinated with nature this when reading or experiencing some- "Coach Haskins is not in agreement with the final deteanination. [of the NCAA];' Zam-ansky said. The NCAA Committee on Infractions ruled in October that Haskins was "knowl­ Matthew Shepherd Incident is Proof of edgeable about and complicit" in an academ­ ic fraud scandal within the men's basketball department. Need for Hate Crime Legislation The NCAA banned the former coach from working in an athletics-related position at a member school for seven years unless from HATE CRIME, page 1 would not be abused, if it were passed.