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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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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.

 


The Sex...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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