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Officer Who Killed Student in Car Collision Gets Off With Speeding Ticket

Officer Who Killed Student in Car Collision Gets Off With Speeding Ticket

Last December, Brian Gray, a UMD student, was driving along Belair Drive on his way to his final examinations when his Chevy Beretta was struck by a speeding police cruiser. The impact hurtled Gray's vehicle nearly 85 feet from the collision site, and the 20-year-old died on the scene.

 

Gray’s mother, who was driving behind her son and bared wi...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: my friend knew him.

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Monday Morning Outrage: Man Shot During Robbery, Two Teen Girls Giggle With Delight

Monday Morning Outrage: Man Shot During Robbery, Two Teen Girls Giggle With Delight

You’re sitting in a Chinese restaurant, and two armed men burst through the door demanding money from the clerk. What do you do?

 

Run? Cry? Hide? Put your jujitsu lessons to good use?

 

All of these are acceptable answers; laughing, however, is not.

 

On August 6th, two 17-year-olds entered the Chinese Cuisine carryout in Northeast Baltimore an...

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Video: UMD Students Raise Awareness About The Sexualization of Women

Video: UMD Students Raise Awareness About The Sexualization of Women

A group of students at the University of Maryland have created the following video to raise awareness about the growing sexualization of women in the media. This video, focusing on magazines in particular, displays various examples of this, its consequences and what we can do/where we can go to learn more and help put an end to it.

 


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Latest comment by Anonymous: I doubt these comments are a sampling of all perspectives, but this video skews reality in the same way that the ads do. You seek to make a point and then choose absolute ex

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Terrapin Hustle: Maryland Upsets #6 Michigan State

Terrapin Hustle: Maryland Upsets #6 Michigan State

Playing down in Orlando for the Old Spice Classic, the Terps looked absolutely lights out in their 80-62 route of #6 Michigan State. What was the common theme for the night? Hustle.

 

ESPN blogger Andy Katz sums it up well:

This was classic Williams. Critiquing Williams' recruiting is moot when Williams can get lower-profile players to bust the...

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UMD Professor Claims Somali Pirates are Islamist Terrorist Buddies

UMD Professor Claims Somali Pirates are Islamist Terrorist Buddies

We’ve heard a lot about Somali pirates over the last several months, but mostly they’ve been laughed off as people imagine bearded guys with striped bloomers, gold teeth, and swords running around on sailboats screaming “Argh!” They may in fact be yelling “Argh,” but they wield AK-47s, not swords. Now a University of Maryland professor, Jana Sha...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: this makes me question my love of pirates

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UMD Terrapin Fan Etiquette

UMD Terrapin Fan Etiquette

Over my career at the University of Maryland, I'd like to think that I've seen a lot of things - highs and lows - championships and embarrassments. Over this past weekend I saw something that left me upset and, to be honest, slightly embarrassed to be a Terrapin.

 

You might be asking what it could be? We won the ACC Tournament in Men's Soccer, ...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: fan etiquette= oxymoron

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The Ten Funniest ACC Alumni

The Ten Funniest ACC Alumni

Some ACC alumni are hot, but others are just plain hilarious.  Here are the 10 funniest grads of the ACC:

 

1. Tina Fey:  This University of Virginia alum, who graduated in '92 with a Drama BA, can see Russia from her house!

 

2. Amy Poehler:  Poehler graduated from Boston College in 1993 and has since appeared in Mean Girls, Blades of Glory, We...

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Latest comment by unc11: I know, I forgot some important people...sorry!

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Bush Cracks Down on Piracy, UMD and Northwestern Alum Art Brodsky Pissed

Bush Cracks Down on Piracy, UMD and Northwestern Alum Art Brodsky Pissed

There’s little so amiable to college students as free stuff, but now the Bush Administration is cracking down on piracy laws, so say goodbye to Entourage Season Nine Hundred (or so it feels) and James Bond Quantum of Solace. You aren’t safe in your dorm room anymore if you’re frequenting LimeWire, and not only that, neither is your computer sinc...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: Idiots ... typical blame Bush for everything you don't like. The DEMOCRATS in Congress passed this bill by a big majority, and bush only signed it AFTER it was

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Famous College Dropouts Who Should Probably Have Stayed In School

Famous College Dropouts Who Should Probably Have Stayed In School

Sure education is important, but sometimes doesn’t it seem like the media glorifies a lack of education just a little bit? There are tons of congratulatory stories about billionaire dropouts and other successful flunkies.
 

Of course lots of people don’t attend college or dropout and still do very well in life. Take Snoop Dogg, for example, who...

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Latest comment by Valencia Chang: Tom Cruise wanted to be clergy? :D This is very giggle inspiring

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Drudge Accuses VP Moderator Gwen Ifill of Obama Bias

Drudge Accuses VP Moderator Gwen Ifill of Obama Bias

The lead story on the oft-conservative website “The Drudge Report” today is that the Vice-Presidential debate moderator and Simmons College grad Gwen Ifill is releasing an “Age of Obama” book on inauguration day. This has everyone all up in arms that the debate moderator will be biased towards Palin, and any “tough” (normal) questions she asks w...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: She was on MEET THE PRESS once and Tim R. answered her question as to whether he would ever have Imus on MEET THE PRESS? When Tim answered..yes, sure I would..she was about ready

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Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog Memorial at UMD

Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog Memorial at UMD
Kermit the Frog and Henson hanging out on a bench at College Park, Maryland.
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New UMD Study Confirms That Mother Nature Hates Maryland, Earth

New UMD Study Confirms That Mother Nature Hates Maryland, Earth

 

In case you haven’t realized this yet, the climate is changing all around the country, and no one really knows why.

 

Nopenot even scientists, as some blame global warming and others point to El Nino.

 

Regardless of the cause for these climate shifts, it’s clear that the effects are already being felt, especially in Maryland.

 

Maryland, w...

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Facebook: UMD Has Invited You To "Serial Killer Alert"

Facebook: UMD Has Invited You To "Serial Killer Alert"

Sandwiched between your friendship requests and your poke from that creepy guy down the hall, you may find something a little more ominous.
 

Colleges like University of Maryland and UCLA are working on projects that use Facebook and MySpace to keep students in the loop when it comes to emergencies.
 

The Chronicle of Higher Education explains:...

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Desperate Schools Bribe Students With iPods

Desperate Schools Bribe Students With iPods

As if Apple wasn’t everywhere already, it may be invading your campus soon.
 

More and more colleges are choosing to hand out iPods and iPhones to incoming students. School officials claim it has to do with integrating technology with education and all that, but there may be an ulterior motive.
 

The New York Times explains:

While schools emph...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: I believe the mild mannered rambler left his nuggets at home today. If you investigate the programs, you will see its not about gadgets and gimmicks, its about teaching our youth in a way they want to learn as opposed to trying to force them into a method that was state of the art in 1894.

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Loyola College in Maryland Changes Name, Angers Everyone

Loyola College in Maryland Changes Name, Angers Everyone

The Loyola College in Maryland is changing its name to Loyola University Maryland in late August, which has ruffled the feathers of many alumni who feel the switch would put the “corporate image in front of [the school’s] principal role of educating men and women.”

 

The Baltimore Sun contacted Loyola’s president and found out why the board of t...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: Well I just googled Loyola University Maryland and found the schools website, not University of Maryland. I agree with the soon to be University, that they should change their name. Loyola is a well rounded school and its name should represent that.

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YouDee Returns Home Victorious

YouDee Returns Home Victorious

Scranton, Pennsylvania is home to many wonderful things -- Dunder Mifflin, the Houdini Museum and of course, Scranton University where this year’s Universal Cheerleaders Association Camp was held. University of Delaware’s hysterically wimpy mascot, YouDee the fighting Blue Hen, took home two first place titles this year.

 

The not-so-fearsome ma...

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Eight Great: Oprah's Most Epic Failures

Eight Great: Oprah's Most Epic Failures

For years, I've heard that Oprah has the Midas touch and anything she so much as mentions turns instantly to gold.
 

In fact, her latest favorite thing to benefit from the “Oprah effect?” Presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

 

New research by economics grad students at the University of Maryland found that Oprah’s endorsement resulted in a whoppi...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: Oprah is an exceptional woman, public figure, entertainer, actress, promoter, inspirer, motivator, empowerer, icon, communicator, business woman, role-model, sage, activist and philanthropist. What are you Mild-Mannered Rambler?

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Brett Favre is a Used Textbook

Brett Favre is a Used Textbook

For the last fifteen years,  University of Southern Mississippi alum Brett Favre has done the Packers proud, holding records for most NFL touchdown passes, passing yards, pass completions, and most consecutive game starts for a quarterback; leading them to two Super Bowls; and earning an unprecedented three AP MVP Awards, much in the same way th...

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Cougar Preys on Male UMD Students

Cougar Preys on Male UMD Students

Students of University of Maryland be warned: A cougar is on the prowl on campus.
 

Described as “light tan and tawny brown,” the creature has been spotted in the area, and the university’s Department of Public Safety is on the lookout.
 

But instead of a cougar of the feline variety, I’m thinking it’s probably more along the lines of an older,...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: um, there's a problem here?

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Diploma Fraud in the Government

Diploma Fraud in the Government

Tsk, tsk… federal employees may be using fake diplomas.
 

According to the AP, immigration officials are investigating employees who may have bought a phony degree from a Spokane, Wash.-based diploma mill. The Spokesman-Review has a complete list of people who bought degrees from this fraud factory. And, from the looks of it, no one seems out of...

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