The UMBC Student Events Board has booked Wale and Third Eye Blind for this spring’s Quadmania. Third Eye Blind is known for late 1990s hits such as “Semi-Charmed Life” and “How’s It Going To Be.” They will be performing in the RAC on Sunday, April 16. Wale, a local rapper-turned-national phenomenon has garnered recent [...]

Emily Jackson
Contributing Writer
During the week that students had off from classes because of the snow, Facilities Management staff as well as dining service staff members had to live on campus and work long extended hours. A Residential Life e-mail sent February 10, 2010 during the blizzard week said “True Grit’s employees are as anxious [...]

Students have recently complained about the Registrar’s system which some say has cost them credits or classes. In response to these complaints Ken Baron, the Director of Academic and Pre-Professional Advising, would like these individuals to come forward so he and the Registrar can assist them. He encourages students to contact him at kbaron@umbc.edu, giving [...]

Emily Jackson
Contributing Writer
Early on the morning of January 28 2009, between 12 and 12:45am, the lights dimmed and flickered before plunging the entire UMBC campus into sudden darkness and confusion. The power outage, which ranged across the UMBC campus as well as parts of Rt. 40 in Catonsville, was the result of the loss “of [...]

In mid-November after I signed up for my classes I heard about a sports writing class that was going to be offered. It is being taught by Mark Hyman, a writer for Business Week who covers the business of sports, the author of two books, Confessions of a Baseball Purist and Until it Hurts, [...]

Rima Kikani, Staff Writer
On January 6, the prosecution entered a Nolle prosequi, dropping all pending criminal charges against UMBC chemistry professor Ramachandra Hosmane. The Catonsville District Court had charged Hosmane with second degree assault and fourth degree sexual offense in relation to an on-campus incident that occurred in September 2009.
Entering a Nolle Prosequi implies a [...]

UMBC’s ranking among the best college chess teams has been continuously challenged, but at the Pan American Intercollegiate championships in Texas, UMBC won with an undefeated run.
“This is maybe the greatest chess accomplishment for UMBC, because it came against the strongest competitive field ever assembled on college chess,” Alan T. Sherman, director and founder of [...]

Much of the East Coast, including UMBC campus, was shut down this weekend due to the winter storm that left record amounts of snowfall in some areas.
UMBC sent out a mass text just before 6am on December 19 to alert those signed up for e2campus that the university, including the campus library, was closed due [...]

An additional $362 million in state budget cuts were approved by Maryland Board of Public Works, which resulted in a 25 million dollar budget cut for The University System of Maryland (USM). The money instead will be transferred to the state.
This filters down to UMBC in the amount of $2.3 million in budget cuts. Nevertheless, [...]

Join the staff of The Retriever Weekly in a discussion about journalism and the first amendment! A first amendment rights lawyer will be present to answer questions. This will take place today in Lecture Hall 2 during free hour.
See you there!