ETRIEVER WEEKLY "The possibility that journalists could be used as covers for intelligence operations should be forcefully and officially renounced by the president and also by congresion­ - alleaders ofintelligence committies. "-jimmy Carter 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 ---~~~~--------~----------------- SGA Interested in Increasing Involvement, Fundraising JOANA DE LA CRUZ rent members of the SGA House Until In-House elections are Retriever Weekly Staff Writer and Senate, who internally decide held, the SGA will work to how to fill an open position from resolve old matters remaining The Senate and the House of a pool of applicants. from last year. New matters will Organizations of the UMBC Freshman Elections will also become the focus of the SGA Student Government Association take place September 24-25. · after the remaining seats are have several open seats, and will Freshmen will only be eligible for filled. continue to have open seats until three new student positions in the However, the. current mem­ In-House Elections occur Senate. bers of the SGA Executive and September 24-25, according to "We are making some cabi­ Legislative branches do have Suran Desioba, the president of net positions where they will be plans for the future. The encour­ the SGA. The SGA Web site in charge of getting people to go agement of fundraising through shows five open seats in the to games and things of that sort. the House of Organizations is a House of Organizations and nine We want the students to be more key goal of this year's SGA, open seats in the SGA Senate. In­ involved in school activities," Jeremy Wustner-Brown I Retriever Weekly Staff House elections are held by cur- Desioba said. see SGA, page 4 Camp Out: Students will eat in white banquent tents, complete with industrial lighting and fans, while the Residential Dining Hall is remodeled. Convocation Ushers in New Year JENN SCHILDROTH Mozie-Ross; the ceremony con­ Association's Suranjith DeSilva. Renovation of Dining Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff cluded with the new students put­ Each offered advice to the cam­ ting on their UMBC pins. pus community, particularly the The regalia-adorned faculty Speakers at the service incoming freshmen class. Hall Underway and staff marched into a packed included President Freeman Speakers offered a variety of RAC Arena last Tuesday with all Hrabowski with his State of the tips to the incoming class and New Services, Options will be the pomp and circumstance University address. Director of words of encouragement and expected for the 2001 convoca­ Admissions Yvette Mozie-Ross, motivation to the rest of the cam­ Available in Redesigned Facilities tion ceremony. Convocation, an Vice President of Student Affairs pus community. Much of the annual tradition at UMBC, for­ Charles Fay, Provost Art Johnson LOGAN COOPER mally marked the start of the and Student Government see CONVOCATION, page 3 Retriever Weekly Staff Writer The Tents 2001-02 school year. The Residential Dining Hall "At least the tents are clean," Convocation will be under construction until said Phu Pham, a sophomore and offers an opportu­ late September according to a Chesapeake Hall resident, nity for the leader­ Oscar Berninger, General regarding the temporary seating ship on campus to Manager of Wood Food Service area outside of the Residential usher in the new Management, forcing the use of Dining Hall. Four groups of white year. In past years, tents erected outside the structure banquet tents, providing 800 with the celebration was for temporary seating. the seats still available inside, ' held a few weeks The dining hall was designed were erected before the start of into the school in the late 1960s and in school to handle seating of the year. This year's Berninger's opinion, no longer residential stUdents for the next event, however, met the expectations of the stu­ month. The tents have wood was moved to late dents. floor~ and are equipped with August and added The renovation, expected to industrial lighting and fans. to the Welcome cost over $500,000, began in mid­ "We realize that there is Week calendar. July and will happen in three some inconvenience, but in the The change was phases: wing two, where most of end the inconvenience will be adopted with new the food service facilities were well worth it," Berninger said. students in mind. previously located, then wing Gaps and holes present in the The incoming three and finally wing one. The tents have been dealt with accord-. class was formally entire renovation's "target for ing to Berninger. presented by Jim Burger I Retriever Weekly Staff completion" is the end of UMBC Director of Welcome Back: Awards were issued and students were welcomed back at September, said Berninger. see DINING, page 4 Admissions Yvette UMBC's Covocation ceremony held Tuesday, August 28. 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Other things to check out: College News .......................... page 2 Wortd News ............................page 3 Classifieds .............................. page 23 Page 2 Tin~ RETRIEVE!~ Wt~EKLY NEWS Septemer 4, 2001 Jane Hamblin: Donor Withholds $60M for Student Affairs Jock Research SCOTT DAUGHF;RTY SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff Jeremy Wustner-Brown I Retriever Weekly Staff Netscape founder Jim Clark, protesting federal restrictions on stem cell research, Lone nails and a wall clock are all A graduate of Perdue University with said, "I think I feel sort of an urgency." says he is withholding $60 million he that decorate the bare walls of the office a degree in mathematics and a degree in For the next year, Hamblin will be pledged to build a biomedical research of Jane Hamblin, Acting Assistant Vice law from Indiana University's School of working on policy writing and general center at Stanford University. President of Student Affairs. Filling the Law, Hamblin is not the average Student administrative assistance to make Announcing the decision in a New position for Jamie Washington while he Affairs official. In her own words, she is UMBC more interesting and fun for its York Times op-ed piece Friday, Clark attends divinity school for the next year an "aging student activities jock" who students. wrote that because of recent decisions at Howard University, Hamblin moved never stopped loving the various activi­ limiting stem cell lab work, "Our country into the office August 6 and hasn't been ties carried out by her alma mater, Perdue Quick Questions risks being thrown into a dark age of able to find the time to decorate her University. After earning her law degree, medical research." work space. "We've been going a mile a Hamblin . worked in Student Affairs at Clark said he will keep the money­ minute since," she said from behind a Perdue University from 1980-1997, What is your favorite Television the balance of $150 million he pledged in desk strewn with UMBC activity before corning to Maryland to end a long­ show? 1999- because it would be futile for pri­ announcements and paperwork. distance relationship and start The "Will & Grace. I think the writing is vate funding to supplant federal medical Eventually she hopes to put up Stunning Group, a higher education con­ just fabulous . I would watch reruns of research grants. He also cited recent deci­ some photographs: students she grew to sulting firm. For a portion of the 2000- it." sions to limit research to existing stem be friends with at Perdue, her family, 2001 school year, Hamblin served with cell lines. her partner, her dog and pictures of a UMB to work directly on molding their What is the last book you read? "It now seems that creating geneti­ lake in Wisconsin where she vacations Student Affairs. "How about the last book I finished ... cally compatible new skin cells for bum and enjoys the outdoor life of mountain Old-fashioned networking landed Making the Most of College by Richard victims, pancreas cells for diabetics, biking and water skiing. her at UMBC for this short one-year stint Light:' nerve cells for those with spinal cord · Hamblin's current office is only a as Washington's interim replacement. "I injuries and many, many other potential temporary home, since the entire Office had the good fortune to hear about their What was your favorite activity advances will soon be illegal in the of Student Affairs will be moving into needs to fill Jamie's position," she said. while attending coUege? United States," wrote Clark, a billionaire the Commons at the end of the Fall "I think it is actually a good thing to "I was the editor of the Greek newspa­ who also founded Silicon Graphics, semester. know I have 11 and a half months," she per ... The Greek." Healtheon and MyCFO. "Driven by ignorance, conservative thinking and fear of the unknown, our political leaders have undertaken to make Laundry laws that suppress this type of research," Clark wrote. Earlier this month, President Bush, Machines, Thinking about an opponent of abortion, announced a policy to limit federal funding for med­ ical research on embryonic stem cells. He Stoves grad school? said it was important that "we pay atten­ tion to the moral concerns of the new frontier." Missing Stem cells are created by removing an inner cell mass from a 5- to 7 -day-old GRE embryo.