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