Newsroom.........(410) 455 1260 E Advertising......(410) 455 1261 Editor in Chief....(410) 455 1262 ETRIEVER Business fax.......(410) 455 1265 Web site................trw.umbc.edu H [email protected] T WEEKLY “The agingR process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.” – Doug Larson Volume ?,37, Number Number ? 18 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 FebruaryMonth Day, 18, 2002Year Inside Blizzard Shuts Down Campus Students Frolic in the Snow as Worst Storm in Years Covers Campus, Cancels Classes. Events JOE HOWLEY Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff News..........page 01 One of the largest snow- storms in years shut down campus Overturned SGA this weekend and cancelled class- veto causes es on Monday and Tuesday as it mixed feelings, dumped two feet of snow on the Reslife alters area. recontracting. All University events from Sunday to Tuesday were also can- celled, though the Northeast Conference Swimming and Diving competitions did continue. Snow reached depths of two feet in many parts of campus. Opinion.....page 06 Physical plant teams worked hard to keep roads and paths clear, There’s an uproar though most academic sidewalks about library were not cleared. hours and praise The Dining Hall was on for the Gyros at weekend schedule on Monday, the dining hall. opening for brunch at 10:30 a.m. The entire Commons, including food services, was shut down. Students took the opportunity to build snow sculptures and engage in winter sports such as snowball fights, sledding and Features.....page 16 even snowboarding. In one popu- See what Matt lar sledding spot behind Hillside McConaughey Apartments, students constructed and Ali Larter had a ramp, sledding on everything to say from gym mats and mattresses to cardboard sheets. The dining hall staff was stranded on campus Sunday night and spent the night in Chesapeake Hall’s temporary rooms. Freshman Julie Caparratto noted that while the blizzard pro- vided an opportunity for relax- Sports........page 26 ation, it also inconvenienced Swimming domi- many, including sports teams. nates at the NEC “I’m loving the snow because it’s championships giving me a chance to catch up and baseball Lakin Jones / Retriever Weekly Staff swings into action see SNOW, page 3 Snowed in: UMBC students spent Monday and Tuesday playing in the snow. Also check out: National Code Orange Terrorism Warning college news........page 2 world news..........page 3 classifieds.............page 31 Causes Increased Security Measures at UMBC Security, a High Condition is Higher Education’s Web site, declared when there is a high “The UMBC Police AMY SEGRETI colleges are possible targets of four day forecast risk of terrorist attacks. The Department has been communi- Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff attacks because they are poorly Tuesday: cloudy with a high of threat level was raised to orange cating regularly with local and defended, host large events and 36 and a low of 25 The nation’s threat level because recent intelligence federal authorities and there is contain materials for nuclear Wednesday: partly cloudy was recently elevated to orange, reports suggest an increased no indication of threat to this weapons, such as in research with a high of 38 and a low 27 or High Condition, and on likelihood that the al Qaeda ter- campus at this time. Should laboratories. Tuesday, the FBI announced rorist network may attempt to there be an indication of possi- Thursday: rain with a high and As stated in the email, low of 37 that colleges and universities attack Americans in the United ble danger, we will inform the increased security procedures could be “soft” targets for ter- States or abroad. The decision campus community immediate- Friday: partly cloudy with a will be implemented throughout high of 51 and a low of 28 rorist attacks. UMBC Police to raise the threat level was ly,” Manny Lewis, UMBC campus. UMBC Police officers have responded to this with made after conferring with the Police Chief of Operations stat- will continue to patrol both the increased security measures Homeland Security Council and ed in an email to the campus perimeter and the grounds of around campus. based upon specific information community. campus and students can According to the analyzed by the intelligence According to an article Department of Homeland community. posted on The Chronicle of see TERROR, page 3 Page 2 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY NEWS February 18, 2003 BehindtheScenes Loving Father Robert Deluty Combines Poetry and Psychology College News ior,” said Deluty. These influences prompt- has made me a better psychotherapist ed him to think deeper about what kind of and my work as a psychotherapist has Princeton Electronically Tracks AMY SEGRETI thinking and motivations were at the heart Foreign Students made me a better poet because these Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff of such destructive behavior. common goals and processes reinforce Deluty attended NYU as an under- each other in all aspects of my work.” Princeton, N.J. (U-Wire) - Princeton The walls of Robert Deluty’s office graduate and SUNY at Buffalo as a gradu- The undergraduate classes Deluty University has started using a new electron- are a collage of pictures of his two chil- ate student. In college, Deluty couldn’t teaches include Abnormal Psychology ic system to report information on interna- dren, a 14-year-old girl named Laura and stand poetry. “I couldn’t fathom what the and Introduction to Clinical and tional students to the Immigration and an 11-year old by named David. His chil- teachers were talking about,” he said. But Therapeutic Psychology. Naturalization Service, said Mary Idzior, dren were adopted from Korea. “My top he soon realized that he very much enjoyed director of visa services for the University’s priority is my children – all of my free poets who made life experiences under- Quick Questions general counsel. time is taken up by spending time with standable. Deluty has since published over The INS originally set a deadline of them, entertaining their friends, driving 500 poems in a variety of publications, What is your favorite book and Jan. 31 for schools to begin reporting infor- them to school, and so forth,” he said. At including his book, Within and Between. why? mation, but the deadline was extended until the center of one of the walls is a plaque Deluty’s poetry takes many forms, “I don’t have a single favorite book, Saturday. The University started complying from Phi Kappa Phi, honoring him for his although he most frequently writes in a but I do have favorite authors and par- with the regulations on Jan. 30, Idzior said. achievements. “I don’t belong to Phi Japanese poetic form called senryu. ticular books of theirs that I love, e.g., Because of a timeline set by last year’s Kappa Phi – but they did give me an Senryu share the same structure as haiku, Mark Twain (Adventures of Patriot Act bill — passed in response to the away,” Deluty said laughingly. but it usually describes human experi- Huckleberry Finn), John Steinbeck (The Sept. 11 attacks — the University must for- Robert Deluty is a man of many tal- ences and is often satirical. A large amount Grapes of Wrath), short story writer ward information on all international stu- ents. He is a published poet, a clinical of his poetry is influenced by his own Raymond Carver (Where I’m Calling dents and visiting faculty to the INS by psychologist and professor here at experiences with his wife and his children. From), and poet Billy Collins Aug. 1. UMBC. Deluty’s latest research combines the (Questions about Angels).” Schools that fail to disclose the infor- There were two major influences in two fields of poetry and psychology. In a If you could be any animal, mation properly may not be allowed to Deluty’s life that led to his decision to be recent article entitled West Meets East: what would you be and why? accept international students. a psychologist. He is the son of a Processes and Outcomes of “Human beings are, by far, my Until August, the University is Holocaust survivor, and every night at Psychotherapy and Haiku/Senryu Poetry, favorite animals. Who else reads fic- required only to report new students or vis- dinnertime he and his family would sit Deluty explores the common processes tion, writes poetry, performs modern iting scholars and to report changes in the around the table and discuss people and and goals of a psychotherapist and a dance, makes movies, and acts irra- status of any current international students their motivation to hurt others. “We writer of haiku or senryu poetry. “The tionally? I wouldn’t want to be anyone using the system, Idzior said. would ask ourselves and each other, psychotherapist and the senryu writer or anything else.” Through the new Student and ‘How could people treat others like share characteristics such as the desire to What is your favorite flavor Exchange Visitor Information System, this?’” he said. Deluty also grew up in the bring about new awareness or insight in SEVIS, the INS will track specific Bronx. “I was surrounded by a lot of their audience and the need to be of ice cream? attributes of international scholars, aggressive behavior and it got me to think absolutely genuine in the feelings and “Vanilla fudge.” such as enrollment, field of study, about what the effects of poverty were attitudes they express,” said Deluty in an name and address changes, full-time and to try and make sense of this behav- article in Insights Weekly. “My writing status and graduation date. Date of arrival and port of entry will also be checked.