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Junior Meyerhoff Scholar Jamie 

Heard was found dead in his Erickson 

Hall dorm room Sunday morning, 

according to UMBC police. 

An undergraduate student pursuing 

a bachelor’s degree in Biological 

Sciences, Heard died in his sleep. He 

was 21. 

“He always said ‘life is beautiful,’” 

said Amara Bukhari, one of Heard’s 

close friends. “He was just the type 

of person that it didn’t matter what 

you did, he liked you.” 

A candlelight vigil will be held 

Thursday, May 1 from 7 p.m. to midnight 

on Erickson Field. The theme 

of the vigil is “Start Monkeying 

Around for Jamie.” The theme comes 

from a running joke among friends 

that Heard, who always carried fruit 

in his pockets, was the “best looking 

monkey” they’d ever meet. 

Heard was discovered in bed by 

his roommates at noon on Sunday 

morning. The students called the Erickson 

Hall front desk, which alerted 

police, when Heard was found unre- 

sponsive. 

According to UMBC Chief of Police 

Antonio Williams, Baltimore County 

police and paramedics were immediately 

notifi ed of the situation. Williams 

said that UMBC police “take 

more or less a secondary or support 

roll” in the investigation of a death 

on campus. Heard was pronounced 

dead on the scene. 

Heard was diabetic, and though 

no offi cial cause of death has been 

released, friends said Heard was in a 

constant battle to control his illness. 

Earlier this year, police and paramedics 

were summoned when Heard 

was found seizing in his Erickson 

dorm room. 

“The one thing he said he was 

afraid of was going to sleep and 

not waking up,” said a teary-eyed 

Bukhari, watching videos of Heard 

with friends on her laptop in the 

Academic Services building conference 

room. 

Bukhari and Abraham Khan, who 

both attended school at Suitland 

High in Prince George’s County with 

Heard, said that the three were more 

like family than friends. 

“I still remember the fi rst time I 

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER 

met him,” said Khan. Heard moved 

to Maryland from Seattle, Wash. and, 

according to Khan, immediately fi t 

in. “He just walked up to me, shook 

my hand and said ‘Hi, I’m Jamie. I’m 

new here.’” 

“Seeing him was always the brightest 

part of my day,” he said. 

Friends said that Heard could 

“make a stranger feel like a best 

friend,” and that he dressed up for 

class every day. It was on one such 

day that Tamara Nicholls, Heard’s 

girlfriend, “fell in love immediately.” 

“[Heard was] simply a wonderful 

soul with limitless capabilities,” 

Nicholls said. 

The junior was an active member 

of the UMBC community. According 

to an e-mail sent out to the campus 

by Interim Vice President of Student 

Affairs Nancy Young, Heard worked 

as a Welcome Week Woolie, Residential 

Life staff member, and played 

recreational soccer. 

He also had a passion for reading, 

playing the piano, and writing poetry. 

According to friends, Heard was 

known as “Mr. Have You Read That 

Book?” because of his penchant for 

> see JAMIE [3] 

04.29.08 

UMBC student found dead in dorm room 

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> Jamie Heard passed away in his 

sleep, and was found in his dorm 

room Sunday morning. 

JOHN FARRELL — TRW 

> This past Sunday, the UMBC Imaging Research Center Fellows class went to New York to be honored as the winners of the Booklyn Philharmonic’s “Believe You 

Can Win” contest. Students (not pictured) Evan Devine, (top) Ernest Powell, Tommy Truong, Christian Brown, Timothy Brosius, (bottom) Ivy Flores, Helen Zhang, 

Megan Zlock, Robert Yu, Andrej Bevec, and their professor Eric Dyer stand holding their “cinetropes” used to create their animation. See more on page 14. 

Students show 

Looking at marijuana 

off at URCAD. laws and nationa national 

drinking age. 

Guten 

tag! 

We take a look at She 

Stoops to Conquer 

and stop by the 

Bartleby Celebration. 

Men’s lacrosse 

gears up for the 

AEC tournament. 

Low voter 

turnout 

affects 

2008 SGA 

elections 

Only 19.5 percent of 

students cast votes 



Steven Gilmore may have been 

elected the new Student Government 

Association president, but who 

at UMBC actually voted him in? 

According to statistics released by 

the SGA Election Board immediately 

following the announcement that 

Gilmore had beaten out Michael 

“Steelwolf” Comberiate, only 1,844 

undergraduates (19.5 percent of 

UMBC’s student population) voted 

in this year’s election. The number 

is down from last year’s vote total 

of 2,180, which constituted 23.2 

percent of the student population. 

UMBC enrolls 9,464 undergraduate 

students, according to collegeboard. 

com. 

Current SGA president Jay Lagorio, 

for one, was surprised at the 

lower turnout. “The election board 

did a much better job, in my opinion, 

of publicizing it [the election] 

this year,” he said. 

Gilmore, who garnered 55.4 percent 

of the popular vote, says the low 

voter turnout compared to the 2007 

elections can be easily explained. 

Jake Steel, Marina Haddad, James 

Valentine, and Lagorio ran for offi ce 

in the 2007 elections. After current 

SGA vice president Elani Odeyale 

abruptly dropped out of the race in 

early April, only Gilmore and Comberiate 

were left to battle for the SGA’s 

top job in 2008. The fewer number 

of candidates, according to Gilmore, 

is why the voter turnout was lower 

this time around. 

“Last year, you had people coming 

out to vote for four different candidates,” 

the junior music education 

major said in a telephone conversation. 

“This year there were only 

two.” 

Despite the low percentage of 

students voting, Gilmore called the 

showing “still a pretty good number,” 

and said that receiving almost 

1,000 (actually 989) votes gives him 

confi dence that the student body is 

comfortable with his ability to run 

> see ELECTION [4]

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04.29.08 

foreign desk 

Obey the law or get Das Boot 

Randi Leyshon 

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT 

One thing in Germany that I have 

had to perfect, besides my German, is 

my patience. Ask my mother; I was 

not born the most patient of young 

ladies. It seems that this country is 

trying to teach me that virtue. 

Let's talk about stoplights. In 

America, as soon as traffi c starts to 

slow down, you cross the street, preempting 

the change of the little man 

from red to green. It makes sense; 

you save time and will probably even 

be able to cross the next street before 

traffi c starts fl owing again. 

You would think that Germans and 

their obsession with punctuality and 

effi ciency would help them appreciate 

the 20 seconds saved by a minor case 

of jaywalking. This is not the case. 

Instead, I am forced to stand in awkward 

anticipation for the rest of the 

crowd to cross the road, even though 

there are no cars in sight. On the several 

occasions that I have ignored the 

little red man and the waiting crowd 

of obedient Germans, I have received 

such stares of distaste and rebuke to 

frighten me enough to obey the law. 

Besides, my law-abiding friends are 

still on the other side of the road and 

I have gained nothing because in the 

end, I still have to wait for them. 

Let's talk about university courses. 

On my schedule it says that history 

starts at 9 a.m., so I get there ten 

minutes early. To some Germans, if 

you are not fi ve minutes early then 

you are late. I can respect that, so I 

arrive early, especially on the fi rst day 

of class. I am alone in the classroom 

for 20 minutes. I start to worry that I 

am in the wrong room, that an email 

was sent and I was the only one who 

didn't get it, or that I failed to understand 

what the email said. I start 

biting my fi ngernails. Then other students 

start coming in and I ask if they 

are all there for the same class that I 

am. They are, phew. 

Apparently, for some classes in 

Germany it is implied that, even 

though the schedule says 9-11, it really 

means 9:15-10:45. Who knew? 

But what keeps me on my toes is that 

all of my classes are not on that weird 

schedule. So, I arrive on (American) 

time for each class. And usually end 

up sitting by myself, wishing I had remembered 

that I could have slept for 

15 more minutes that morning. 

Let's talk about actually speaking 

German. I am sure that it requires a 

lot of patience for the people listening 

to me stutter my pre-thought-out 

phrases. My teachers must be saints. 

But I get so impatient when I am trying 

to make a point in class. I have 

MAGGIE LEBHERZ — TRW 

> Maggie pauses for a picture at the mouth of the cave. 

> The Sonnenschiff (Sun Ship) is a completely solar-powered building in Freiburg. 

intelligent thoughts and ideas that are 

either impossible for me to articulate 

or just take a really long time to express. 

As I slowly speak, I think out 

each syllable, each word placement, 

and each verb tense. Yes, this is the 

right way to speak when learning a 

Are we there yet?! 

Maggie Lebherz 

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT 

In continuation from last week, 

we arrive at the mountain where we 

are about to go cave diving. Now, we 

get here expecting to see the cave entrance 

and walk inside, but oh no! We 

actually have to walk up the mountain 

in front of us in order to get to 

the entrance of the cave. So we start 

hiking. 

At fi rst, it is fl at and mild, slowly 

winding up the hill. Claire and I, relieved 

at the minimal amount of effort, 

start saying things like, “Well this 

sure isn't bad!” or “I'm not sweating a 

bit! I don´t need this extra shirt!” At 

one point, we actually have to get on 

our hands and knees to crawl under 

a barbed wire fence, which we think 

is pretty hard! Then we trek through 

mud up to our shins, so it’s a good 

thing we wore hiking boots like the 

other guys with us—oh wait, we 

didn't! 

So, two kilometers later, we’re sure 

we are there because we are at the 

base of another mountain, and sweat- 

language, but it is also time consuming 

and frustrating. 

After two months of waiting to 

cross the street, waiting for class to 

start, or waiting to be able to utter a 

complete sentence, I am starting to 

feel O.K. moving at a slower pace. If 

ing like crazy. Now, I have a bone to 

pick with whoever created caves at 

the tops of mountains, because we 

literally have to now climb vertically 

up a rocky mountainside in order to 

get to this damn cave. Just picture fi ve 

girls in space suits with muddy Keds 

on, clinging to the side of a mountain 

without ropes or anything. The bachelor 

party goes ahead of us climbing 

like spider-men, and there’s one guide 

behind us to catch us before we fall to 

our death. 

So we literally grab onto anything 

we can to pull ourselves up this 

mountain. We are sweating through 

our shirts--thanks Juan--and I unfortunately 

have Julie in front of me. 

We latch onto anything we can to get 

higher up the mountainside: a branch, 

some grass, prickly roots sticking out, 

thorn bushes, the leg of a passing 

mountain goat... Julie rips her pants 

in the butt, right in front of my face! 

This is going so well. 

Twenty-three years later, we get 

to the top. Everyone else is sitting 

comfortably having a cup of tea and 

crumpets because the Americans 

took so long. There goes all hope of 

The RetrIever Weekly 

RANDI LAYSHON — TRW 

it is patience that I need to acquire in 

order to become more like my German 

neighbors, then patience it is. 

Randi can be reached for comment 

at randi.leyshon@gmail.com. 

impressing our future Spanish husbands. 

Juan hands us gloves, puts an 

oxygen tank on his back, briefl y goes 

over what not to do so we don't die 

(in Spanish), and we head into the 

darkness. 

Now I’m freakin’! We have to 

squeeze through openings about as 

big as my head--not to mention I 

don´t know how I will get my hips 

through there! At some points we have 

to put one arm fi rst, then our heads, 

and then our other arm to squeeze 

through. I’m actually really terrifi ed 

because we keep going farther and 

farther down. I’m sure he will never 

be able to fi nd his way back, and we 

will perish like skeletons stuck on 

spikes you fi nd in ancient caves like 

in the movies. Well, minus the spikes 

because I would assume it would be a 

slow, painful death of starvation… 

Maggie Lebherz would appreciate 

food sent to her current address: 

101 Cave in the middle of nowhere, 

Spain. Thank you. Tell her what 

ya think at mal2@umbc.edu.

The RetrIever Weekly 04.29.08 News 3 

UMBC students 

mourn the loss of a 

community member 

> from JAMIE [1] 

reading everything he could get his 

hands on. Khan said the last book 

his friend had been reading was the 

Quran. 

From students to the administration, 

Heard is remembered as an exceptional 

young man, who touched a 

great many people in his three years 

at UMBC. 

“He made me want to be a better 

person,” Brad Hinkleman, another 

friend, said. “Everyday of my life.” 

“Jamie was an upbeat, motivating, 

inspiring guy,” said Kim Leisey, 

UMBC’s Assistant Vice President of 

Student Affairs. Leisey got to know 

Heard through his employment with 

Residential Life. “He was a good guy, 

very real, very positive. Just a really 

good guy.” 

Keith Harmon, assistant director 

of the Meyerhoff Scholar program, 

described Heard as “a friend to the 

world.” 

“If you didn’t like Jamie Heard, 

there was probably something wrong 

with you,” Harmon said from his offi 

ce in Academic Services. 

“He [Heard] was a top UMBC student,” 

Harmon said. 

According to friends, Heard was 

planning to pursue a Ph.D. upon 

graduation, maybe at Rutgers University, 

where he wanted to research 

Type-1 Diabetes. Others say that 

Heard sometimes talked of being 

president one day. 

“Most of all, he just wanted to 

make an impact,” Khan said. 

If the popular social networking 

Police log 

APRIL 15, 2008 

Commons 

Theft from Buildings 

A UMBC student reported he 

placed $20 on the counter prior to 

paying for food and someone took 

the money. 

APRIL 16, 2008 

Walker Ave. Apartments 

Alarm, Fire 

A UMBC police offi cer responded 

to a fi re alarm in the Walker Avenue 

Apartments. The cause of the alarm 

could not be determined. 

Parking Lot 9 

Theft from Automobile 

A UMBC student called police 

after fi nding a parked vehicle with 

its window broken out. The vehicle 

owner, a UMBC student, responded 

to the scene and reported that besides 

the broken window, a GPS unit 

was removed from the vehicle. 

website Facebook is any indication, 

Heard succeeded in making an impact. 

As news spread Sunday night 

that Heard had passed, hundreds 

of posts from UMBC students who 

knew Heard appeared on his profi le 

page. 

“It would take us so long to get to 

eat sometimes, because Jamie would 

be talking to everyone in the Commons,” 

Bukhari said. 

In addition to Thursday evening’s 

vigil, friends plan to work with the 

music department at UMBC to dedicate 

a piano in the Fine Arts building 

– the one that Heard would often 

play – to the late student. A slideshow 

presentation is also scheduled 

for Sunday afternoon, and plans 

to take donations for a scholarship 

fund in Heard’s honor are being discussed. 

“He was such an angel,” Bukhari 

said. “He always said ‘Don’t worry 

about me, I’m going to outlive you 

all.’” 

While Heard may not have outlived 

his friends in days, they all 

agreed that the affable scholar, musician, 

and athlete outlived them in 

experiences. 

Jamie Heard is survived by his father 

Robert Heard, and Robert’s wife 

Jeanine. Jamie also has a brother, 

Brooks Heard, and fi ve step-siblings. 

Alexander Pyles can be reached 

for comment at apyles@ 

retrieverweekly.com. 

Walker Ave. Garage 

Theft from Automobile 

A UMBC student reported that 

while he was in the library studying, 

someone removed the temporary license 

plate from his vehicle while it 

was parked. 

West Hill Apartments 

Theft from Buildings 

A UMBC student ordered a book 

and when he went to retrieve the 

package from the front desk the 

envelope the book came in was unsealed 

and empty. 

APRIL 17, 2008 

Hilltop Circle 

Recovered Property 

A UMBC police offi cer stopped a 

vehicle that appeared to be eluding 

a posted Seatbelt Enforcement Zone 

into Lot 13. The offi cer stopped the 

vehicle and the operator, a non-student, 

had a UMBC Parking Permit in 

the vehicle that wasn’t issued to the 

vehicle or the operator. 

Students strut stuff at URCAD 

Iva Patel 

STAFF WRITER 

The URCAD is the largest of the 

events to substantiate UMBC’s claim of 

being a research university. It provides 

a glimpse into the depth of the curiosity 

of the university’s undergraduate student 

population, while showcasing endeavors 

in fi elds ranging from the sciences to the 

arts, and in subjects ranging from the 

Baltimore Orioles and Swarm Robotics 

to the Mycenaean Kingdom and tattoos. 

The 12th annual Undergraduate Research 

and Creative Achievement Day 

(URCAD) attracted over 1,300 presenters, 

visitors, and volunteers. This event, 

organized by the Offi ce of Undergraduate 

Education (OUE), represented 130 

students along with over 100 faculty 

mentors, and wowed visitors with myriad 

topics and innovative directives. 

In an e-mail to this year’s presenters, 

Janet McGlynn, the event organizer, 

wrote, “Congratulations on a job well 

done. We received many compliments 

on the quality of poster, oral, and artistic 

presentations. You did great work in 

preparation and delivery.” 

Oral and poster presentation topics 

included “Analysis of the Mechanical 

Behavior of Bovine Descending Aorta,” 

“Two Media, Same Metamorphoses: 

The Works of Ovid and Bernini,” “Black 

Women’s Attitude on Interracial Dating: 

A Qualitative Study,” and many more 

along with the Dance, Visual Arts and 

Theater performances are summarized 

in an URCAD booklet and available 

through the OUE offi ce and website. 

“This is one of our favorite days on 

campus,” Diane Lee, Dean of Undergraduate 

Education, said. “We get to really see 

what our students are doing.” 

Lee admired the students’ initiative in 

taking up a role traditionally reserved for 

graduate students and faculty; however, 

APRIL 18, 2008 

Hillside Apartments 

Alcohol Violation 

A UMBC police offi cer observed 

a UMBC student with an open 

container of alcohol in the Hillside 

Apartment complex. The student 

was issued a Judicial Referral for the 

violation. 

Poplar Ave. 

Driving on Suspended License 

A UMBC police offi cer discovered 

during a traffi c stop that both the 

license of the driver and the registration 

to the vehicle were suspended 

through the MVA. The driver, a 

UMBC student, was issued traffi c 

citations for the violations. 

APRIL 19, 2008 

Retriever Activities Center 

Indecent Exposure 

A 10 year-old girl reported that 

while outside of the RAC a boy had 

pulled down his pants and exposed 

the students thanked the university for 

creating resources that facilitate undergraduate 

research. Most presenters agree 

that the day was a great opportunity. 

“It is great to have the opportunity 

to present your research and learn from 

other students,” Simran Noor, a presenter, 

said. 

“It is really great! I never imagined that 

I would be doing research or presenting 

here like this as an undergraduate,” Audrey 

Hillman said. 

The research is often made possible 

due to grants and funding available to 

the students. Janet McGlynn, who is also 

the Director of Communication and Outreach 

at the university, explained some of 

the ways that undergraduate research is 

funded: 

• The Undergraduate Research Award 

is granted to about 30 students annually. 

• Students in the sciences frequently 

fi nd research opportunities in faculty 

labs and tap into to the faculty research 

funding. 

• Quite a few researchers are funded 

by the Undergraduate Scholars Program, 

the National Institute of Health, state 

grants and by alternate sources such as 

the Maryland Cancer Research Fund. 

• Various summer programs pay students 

to conduct research. 

• Some of the research can be conducted 

without specifi c funding by using 

the university library resources. 

Getting started in research is simple, 

according to McGlynn. Although, often 

faculty will recommend a student for 

URCAD, students can self-nominate as 

well. Detailed information is available 

through the OUE website. 

“Each of the 130 student presenters at 

URCAD was recommended by a faculty 

mentor, demonstrating the support and 

encouragement faculty members give to 

students,” McGlynn said about this year’s 

event. 

“Having URCAD and the Under- 

his buttocks. Police located a juvenile 

in the area who the victim identifi ed. 

The 14 year-old juvenile was taken 

into police custody and charged as 

a juvenile with incident and was released 

to the custody of his parents. 

Retriever Activities Center 

Sick Person 

The UMBC police received a call 

from fi re department personnel of an 

intoxicated non-student juvenile at 

the Quadmania concert. Her father 

was contacted and she was released 

into his care. 

APRIL 20, 2008 


Alcohol Violation 

While on foot patrol, a UMBC 

police offi cer discovered an unresponsive 

female UMBC student 

inside a vehicle and suffering from 

what appeared to be alcohol poisoning. 

An ambulance responded and 

the student was transported to the 

hospital. 

graduate Research Awards really adds 

substantially to the productivity of our 

lab,” Kevin Omland ,of the Biological 

Sciences department, said. “Several of 

our undergrad students have authored 

peer reviewed publications from their 

URA supported projects. This is a great 

experience for the students, but also 

helps the lab and department, and leads 

to more visibility for research at UMBC 

as a whole.” 

Professor Liang Zhu of the Mechanical 

Engineering Department added, “It 

is important to expose students in their 

early stage to current developments in the 

research fi eld and apply what they have 

learned in class to practical problems. 

The fi nancial support from the URCAD 

enables [support of] the undergraduate 

students working in my laboratory.” 

UMBC president Freeman Hrabowski, 

who was “amazed” by the accomplishments, 

said: “I have had the privilege of 

talking about URCAD and our “UMBC 

Review” at a number of institutions this 

year, including Oberlin College, in Ohio, 

and Carleton College, in Minneapolis, 

and faculty around the country are 

amazed at our campus because we represent 

a great model for fi rst-rate research, 

student engagement, and extraordinary 

achievement.” 

During the opening remarks, Provost 

Arthur Johnson said, “We are proud of 

how [URCAD] has grown, how there has 

been an increase in the breadth and the 

depth of student research.” 

This increase in the breadth of student 

research was noticed by student visitors 

as well. After browsing through the 

posters, Emily Blair, an Ancient Studies 

and Biology major said of the research, 

“There was a lot of science, and to get 

something from Ancient Studies and 

History was nice.” 

Iva Patel can be reached for comment 

at news@retrieverweekly.com. 

APRIL 21, 2008 


Destruction of Property 

A UMBC student reported 

person(s) unknown had punctured 

three of his vehicle’s tires with a 

knife. 

Police Headquarters 

Destruction of Property 

A UMBC student reported 

person(s) unknown had punctured 

one of his tires with a knife. 

Walker Ave. Apartments 

Alarm, Fire 

The UMBC police received a 

fi re alarm from the Walker Avenue 

Apartment. Upon arrival, offi cer 

discovered person(s) unknown had 

pulled a fi re alarm station on the second 

fl oor. No fi re was found.

4 News 

Igor Kukelyanksy 

CONTRIBUTING WRITER 

04.29.08 

At the start of summer, Americans 

begin to shed their pasty dry winter 

skin for that shimmering bronze glow. 

In their quest for the “ideal glow,” 

many turn to artifi cial indoor tanning 

to build a “base tan” to further infuse 

their skin cells with melanin. 

With an annual customer base of 28 

million Americans, the two billion dollar-a-year 

tanning industry expanding 

rapidly. Indoor tanning is especially 

popular among adolescents and young 

adults aged 18-30. 

Despite the lobbying efforts by state 

and federal physician groups, the FDA 

has placed minimal regulations on the 

tanning industry. Thus, the tanning 

industry has been able to grow and 

prosper. The unrestricted and accelerated 

growth of the tanning industry 

combined with a paucity of studies 

concerning the long-term effects may 

spell disastrous consequences for the 

future. 

Melanin is a pigment that is released 

in response to ultraviolet radiation exposure 

in order to protect the nuclear 

DNA within a cell. The ionizing radiation 

of UV light can wreak havoc on 

a cell’s DNA and produce harmful genetic 

mutations that manifest as malignant 

skin cancers. However, the innate 

safeguard afforded by melanin is not 

completely effective and high levels of 

ultraviolet radiation can still penetrate 

into the nucleus. 

The tanning industry has vigorously 

touted the perceived health benefi ts of 

UV radiation exposure. UV light is an 

essential ingredient in the synthesis of 

endogenous vitamin D by the body. 

Although vitamin D can be obtained 

from a variety of foods, such as fi sh or 

milk, the body is especially adept at 

producing large quantities of vitamin 

D when exposed to sunlight. It is for 

this reason that ethnic groups with 

large amounts of melanin pigmentation, 

such as those who live near the 

equator, have a lower incidence of malignant 

carcinomas but a higher incidence 

of vitamin D defi ciency. Recent 

studies have shown that vitamin D has 

signifi cant anti-cancer properties and 

can ward off debilitating conditions 

such as osteoporosis. 

The tanning industry has alleged 

that indoor tanning stimulates vitamin 

D synthesis while controlling the 

amount of UV exposure. In addition, 

tanning salons have argued that indoor 

tanning beds are safer than typical 

sun exposure because they limit the 

amount of UVB (notoriously known as 

the “burning ray") exposure, which is 

generally unpredictable with sunlight. 

However, a study of salons in North 

Carolina revealed that the average 

tanning salon exceeded FDA recommended 

levels of UV exposure by 95 

percent. Furthermore, the tanning industry 

has repeatedly stated that since 

indoor tanning is more controlled, a 

person can reduce their risk of burning. 

However, studies have shown that 

melanin synthesis is induced by DNA 

damage. In other words, the act of tanning 

is essentially a response to DNA 

damage. 

Physician groups have staunchly 

opposed the salubrious claims by the 

tanning industry with a multitude 

of studies. A 1994 study of Swedish 

women aged 18-30 who frequented 

a tanning salon 10 or more times per 

year increased their risk of melanoma 

seven-fold compared to woman who 

never frequented tanning salons. 

Furthermore, a Dartmouth Medical 

School study found that those who 

use tanning beds increase their risk 

for squamous cell carcinoma by 2.5 

times and basal cell carcinoma by 1.5 

times. According to The Skin Cancer 

Foundation, people who have participated 

in 10 or more full-body tanning 

sessions have the same level of skin-repairing 

proteins typically seen in sundamaged 

skin, thus weakening the argument 

stating that tanning beds emit 

less damaging ultraviolet radiation. 

Although physicians agree that vitamin 

D can have potentially life-saving 

qualities, they urge patients to obtain it 

through less damaging methods. 

Despite the consensus in the scientifi 

c world concerning the benefi ts of 

vitamin D, there remains some disagreement 

upon the minimum amount 

needed to see signifi cant reduction in 

cancer and the best method to obtain 

it. While the current RDA (recommend 

daily allowance) of vitamin D as set 

forth by the FDA is 200 international 

units per day up to age 50, some scientists 

believe somewhere between 1,000 

IU’s to 1,500 IU’s per day are necessary 


The Bronze Effect: Americans turn to indoor tanning 

Changes reduce footprint of 

PAHF building in planning stage 

Elizabeth Silberholz 

SENIOR STAFF WRITER 

Some signifi cant changes have been 

made to plans for the $1.4 million Performing 

Arts and Humanities Facility 

(PAHF) since last year’s community forum. 

Most notably, the building’s footprint 

has been reduced and the facility 

might become environmentally certifi ed. 

The project is slightly behind schedule 

following a signifi cant fl oor plan reduction. 

To get back on schedule, the architectural 

team has been asked to shorten 

upcoming project phases, according to 

Joe Rexing, UMBC’s Associate Director 

of Planning and Construction Services. 

However, he said, “The project is progressing 

well.” 

Though the governor’s proposed budget 

includes multiple installments of the 

$1.4 million, UMBC has not seen any 

money yet. 

The building will be constructed 

in two phases because of this funding 

method. One of the architects on the 

project said: “It is a long and complex 

[construction] schedule.” 

Environmental Dedication 

Since Grimm & Parker Architects 

are dedicated to environmental design, 

they currently plan to have the building 

Leadership in Energy and Environmental 

Design (LEED) certifi ed. As of last year’s 

community forum, this was not a level 

of environmental commitment that the 

architects were considering. 

If funding is available, Rexing indicated 

that the university will seek a silver 

LEED certifi cation level. 

Some of the building’s environmental 

features include natural lighting, a cistern 

to collect runoff, and a greenway complete 

with smaller outdoor areas which 

can be used for relaxing or teaching. 

Active Interior 

The architect’s plan for the building is 

that it will “celebrate innovation right at 

the leading edge of campus.” The PAHF’s 

central spine will run parallel to Academic 

Row. The building’s two performing 

areas will be located at opposite ends 

of this spine, while the Drescher Center 

overlooks the building’s interior from the 

second fl oor. 

Since the architects “have a real concern 

with…dead lobby syndrome,” each 

space will be given multiple uses to “activate” 

it. 

The architects are currently working 

with the departments of Ancient Studies, 

Dance, English, Music, Philosophy, 

and Theatre as well the three centers that 

will be housed in the PAHF to discuss 

each group’s placement in the building 

and help them understand their planned 

spaces. 

The English department, due to its 

large size, will be split over two fl oors. 

Rexing said that they are “working 

closely with the architects to create the 

ideal setting for their large department.” 

He pointed out that departments such 

as the biology, chemistry, and physics 

span multiple fl oors or even fi ll an entire 

building. 

English department chair Jessica Berman 

was disappointed that the department 

has been divided in the latest fl oor 

plans. However, she noted, “The architects…have 

worked with me on developing 

ways to create department spaces 

that build community. We will have an 

open stairway between our fl oors which 

will encourage faculty and students to 

move up and down, and other areas 

where we can gather.” Berman was hopeful 

that these plans will work out. “It certainly 

will be better than the space now,” 

she said. 

The PAHF will also have many general-use 

classrooms, conference rooms, 

and even a café area on the fi rst fl oor. 

Parking Problems 

The PAHF is charted to be built where 

parking lots 16 and 9 currently stand. 

Grimm & Parker architects commented 

that building on parking lots is part of a 

university’s natural growth. 

UMBC is currently investigating ways 

to replace the two displaced parking areas. 

“A parking planning study is currently 

underway to assess parking needs and 

to recommend solutions," Rexing said. 

"Numerous student groups supported 

this study effort by participating in an allday 

survey to count parked cars across 

campus.” 

It has been recommended that the 

Fine Arts building be renovated after 

the PAHF is built. The building would 

unite scattered parts of the College of 

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to 

become the Global and Cultural Studies 

building. 

Learn more about the PAHF at umbc. 

edu/pahf. 

Elizabeth Silberholz can be 

reached for comment at esilberholz@retrieverweekly.com. 

> from ELECTION[1] 

the SGA. Still, Gilmore admits that 

there is work to be done in getting 

students to come out to the polls. 

“It’s a big challenge,” Gilmore said. 

“Students don’t think it’s a worthwhile 

investment [to vote]. People 

ask ‘why will you be different?’” 

Part of the problem in getting students 

to believe their vote matters 

is the feeling among some that the 

election is a popularity contest. Going 

back to the 2004 SGA elections, 

Gilmore is the fi fth consecutive member 

of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity to 

be elected president, after Dom Cirincione, 

Jordan Hadfi eld (twice), and 

Lagorio. Carrie Mann, who inherited 

the presidency in January 2007 after 

Hadfi eld resigned mid-year, is the 

only exception to the Pi Kappa Phi 

trend. According to Gilmore, however, 

the recent winning streak for 

his fraternity is coincidence, and the 

election is “more about being wellconnected 

than being popular.” 

“I’ve been involved with the SGA 

since my freshman year. For the most 

part, people voted for me because 

they’ve seen me around,” Gilmore, 

who is closing out his term as the 

Speaker of the Senate, said. “Campaigning 

starts when you fi rst get to 

UMBC. I’ve been involved, and I’ve 

contacted as many student organizations 

as possible. I introduce myself, 

and it’s more than just an e-mail. It’s 

a real person in front of you.” 

Visibility and a track record, 

Gilmore says, is what gave him the 

victory – not his popularity. 

“Ultimately, we had a good bal- 

to signifi cantly reduce cancer risk. 

Although vitamin D can be obtained 

from foods such as fi sh, leafy greens, 

and fortifi ed milk, the quantities recommended 

by scientists are diffi cult to 

obtain through diet alone. Vitamin D-3 

supplement pills are available but may 

cause a dangerous buildup of calcium 

in the body if more than 2,000 IU’s a 

day are consumed. 

To promote the anti-cancer benefi ts 

of vitamin D without subverting health 

warnings about unprotected sun exposure, 

some scientists have proposed a 

level of “safe” sun exposure for 15 minutes 

a day without sunscreen, which 

blocks the UV light needed for vitamin 

D synthesis. Those with a darker pigmentation 

should expose themselves 

for a little longer to compensate for 

the degree of UV blocked by the melanin. 

Nevertheless, the jury is still out 

on this one and all scientifi c evidence 

should be evaluated with scrutiny. 

Igor Kukelyanksy can be reached for 

comment at ikukelyansky@gmail.com. 

Gilmore, Elegbe 

win SGA election 

ance,” Gilmore said. “We [he and 

running mate Tokunbo “Toks” 

Elegbe] didn’t just rely on people we 

knew.” 

Though some may be dismayed 

that the new SGA president was 

chosen by less than a quarter of the 

undergraduate enrollment at UMBC, 

Lagorio says that Gilmore is the right 

man for the job. 

“You can’t make everybody happy, 

but you have to make the right decisions,” 

Lagorio said. “Steve is good at 

that. He knows how to do what’s best 

for the most people.” 

Gilmore will take his new post on 

May 15 at 5:01 p.m., but work starts 

now for the president-elect as he prepares 

to take the SGA reigns for the 

2008-09 academic year. 

“I’ll start getting in contact with 

the people elected,” Gilmore said, 

stressing the importance of getting 

the new SGA on the same page. “The 

ball is already rolling.” 

According to the University of 

Maryland, College Park’s student 

newspaper, UMBC is not the only 

school that has diffi culty getting students 

to vote. A report in The Diamondback 

states that only 15.3 percent 

of the student body in College 

Park voted in the most recent SGA 

elections, in which president-elect 

Jonathan Sachs received only 1,855 

votes. According to collegeboard.com, 

UMCP enrolls 25,813 undergraduate 

students. 

Alexander Pyles can be reached 

for comment at apyles@ 

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Losing our spirit bit by bit 

With the basketball season over, UMBC once again stopped caring about 

sports. The momentary fl icker of interest was mere bandwagon jumping on a 

successful team. Now that the season is over, there is no longer the pervasive 

spirit that we felt through the winter. People are once again doing their own 

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A government plan for responsible drinking 

Nick Jamison 


Isn’t it a little odd that we live in 

a nation where a man or woman can 

be old enough to go to war, yet not 

old enough to enjoy a beer? 

It’s this kind of backward circumstance 

that is inspiring some people 

and organizations to reopen the 

debate on lowering the minimum 

drinking age. And while the action 

has always proved futile time 

and time again because of MADD 

(Mothers Against Drunk Driving)’s 

efficient campaigning, I can’t help 

but feel that there is reform in the 

air. 

In all 50 of the United States, it 

is illegal to purchase or consume 

alcohol before the age of 21, but 

this was not always the norm. Before 

an extensive lobbying effort 

by MADD during the 1980’s, each 

state was free to decide what was 

best for their residents in regards 

to the alcoholic consumption age. 

States are still allowed to choose 

their own minimum drinking age, 

but it comes at a cost if the age they 

select is lower than 21. States who 

fail to uphold the 21 age minimum 

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I am glad that Sodexho is leaving. This morning I went to the Spot for an early breakfast, only to discover that not only was the place 

experiencing an apocalyptic dearth of food (I believe they were behind on shipments; last I checked they closed every morning from 2:00 to 

2:30 AM for re-stocking), but they were not taking meals, they were not taking cash, and the cash-to-card machine was broken. I, without 

fl ex, was forced to go hungry. I almost shoplifted a yogurt bar. It would have served them right. 

I can only pray that Chartwells will not screw us over like this. I am tired of being wrung for money and receiving so little nourishment 

in return. UMBC has allowed its food service provider to suck us dry. I hope the administration will choose to grow a spine and stand up 

for its students. 

Katie Mettle 

Political Science 

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will lose a percentage of their federal 

highway funding. More than 

half of the states had their age limits 

set younger than 21 before legislation 

was passed in 1984, but now 

all comply to the 21 age limit. 

From an international perspective, 

the United States minimum 

drinking age of 21 is higher than 

our neighboring countries, higher 

than all of Europe, and higher than 

most of the world. 

This new big push for a decrease 

in the drinking age is occurring 

because of the war in Iraq and the 

large number of young recruits. The 

fact that one can enlist at 17 years 

old in the United States, but must 

wait another 4 years to consume 

alcohol legally is insulting to our 

men and women in uniform. By that 

calculation, at 17 years of age the 

government believes you are mature 

enough to handle an assault rifle, but 

popping a beer is asking too much. 

Any soldier who has served this 

country gallantly should be entitled 

to a drink if he/she wants it. While 

some efforts are hoping to lower the 

drinking age for all citizens either 

> see DRINKING [8] > Looks like a party! 

doesn’t the student body have more Retriever pride? These are questions that 

we can’t answer. It takes individuals coming together to pull for our teams, 

and without that focused drive there is no crowd, no victories, and no spirit. 

We need to stand behind our school and its teams even when they are losing. 

Marylanders stand behind the Orioles even when they are losing, why can’t 

we stand behind our Retrievers? Let’s do it, let’s get back the spirit that we 

have lost. 

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The RetrIever Weekly 04.29.08 oPINION 7 

A fiscal look at 

marijuana laws 

Brian Tschiegg 

STAFF WRITER 

A police offi cer in Asheville, N.C. 

spots a car driving 10 miles-per-hour 

over the speed limit. The car is pulled 

over, and what started out as a simple 

traffi c stop ends in a simple possession 

charge. Farther north, a man 

is arrested for drug traffi cking. He 

was accused of moving hundreds of 

pounds of marijuana from California 

to West Virginia. What’s the difference 

between these two cases? The 

drug traffi cker was given a Presidential 

pardon recently. 

A student at UMBC, who wishes to 

be known as Ben, was visiting his girlfriend 

in Asheville. While his girlfriend 

was driving, a police offi cer pulled her 

over for a speeding violation, but a 

subsequent search of his person and 

the car revealed about an ounce of 

marijuana and various paraphernalia, 

a misdemeanor under North Carolina’s 

law. If convicted, Ben, a fi rst time offender, 

faces up to 120 days in prison 

and a $500 fi ne. 

Anthony Foglio, Jr. was arrested in 

West Virginia for drug traffi cking. He 

stood accused of bringing hundreds of 

pounds of marijuana from Santee, California 

to West Virginia while he held 

a residence in both places. Foglio was 

convicted and given three years probation, 

but recently he received one of 

the 15 presidential pardons given out 

by President Bush. 

Why did Foglio receive the pardon 

while a college student is forced to face 

charges that could haunt him forever? 

Foglio is an associate pastor at Sonrise 

Community Church in Santee, Calif. 

Plus, numerous contributions to the 

Bush campaign have been made by 

members of the church. Is this how 

George Bush plans to spend the rest 

of his time in offi ce? Punishing college 

students and helping his buddies out 

is no way to run a country. 

Foglio calls it “God’s mercy,” but he 

already received some mercy when 

he got probation instead of the oneto-fi 

ve years in prison that West Virginia 

law mandates. Not only did he 

receive a pardon, but his congregation 

decided to give him another chance. 

Now Foglio continues to preach, using 

his “troubled past” to connect to 

the gospel. 

Both Ben and Foglio are casualties in 

the “War on Drugs” which costs United 

States taxpayers about $7.6 billion 

a year. Both California and New York’s 

budget for marijuana law enforcement 

is about $1 billion every fi scal year. 

This means that each marijuana arrest 

costs about $10,400. Is the cost worth 

the results? You would expect usage 

and availability to go down while costs 

go up, but the exact opposite is occurring. 

Marijuana related arrests rose 165 

percent from 1991 to 2003. The increase 

in arrests has not led to a reduction 

of new users, reduction of 

availability, reduction of potency, or an 

increase in prices. 

Obviously these statistics point 

out the truth: The so called “War on 

Drugs” is not working. The prohibition 

of marijuana is actually harming 

the efforts of law enforcement agents 

and fi scally harming the United States. 

Most marijuana arrests are made on 

people who have no intentions to sell 

it. By focusing on street arrests, law 

enforcement agents spend less time 

trying to arrest suppliers, the people 

who are actually harming this country. 

These outdated laws ruin future opportunities 

for good people. Ben will 

now have to spend numerous hours in 

court and thousands of dollars hiring 

a lawyer. Isn’t it time that we take a 

second look at who the real criminals 

are? 

Brian Tschiegg can be reached for 

comment at btsch1@umbc.edu. 

NYC restriction on cellphone 

useage compromises safety 

Tiffany Johnson 

CONTRIBUTING WRITER 

September 11, 2001 was a horrifi c day 

that still remains in the hearts of many of 

those who weren’t there, but watched the 

chilling event on television. Imagine then 

how it must have been for the thousands 

of people involved who were reaching out 

to loved ones on their cellphones before 

the towers collapsed, or before they became 

a hero while saving others from being 

targeted by terrorists on Flight 93. 

Now imagine what it would have 

been like if those people couldn’t contact 

their children because of a silly ban on 

cellphones in one of the nation’s largest 

school systems, New York City. 

New York City’s Department of Education 

made a terrible mistake in September 

2005 when they decided to ban 1.1 million 

students from bringing cellphones to 

school. Offi cials claim one of their reasons 

for placing the ban was due to students 

using their phones for cheating. Give me 

a break. With or without cellphones, students 

will fi nd a way to cheat. When it 

comes to cheating, students morph into 

the most strategically precise individuals. 

Cell phones only make-up a small fraction 

of the numerous ways teens can cheat. 

With that being said, since cellphones can 

become a small problem during testing, I 

believe it’s okay for them to be confi scated 

for that small frame of time. However, 

what happened to the days when teachers 

would walk around the classroom making 

sure students didn’t cheat? 

According to offi cials, another reason 

for the ban is the distraction it causes for 

teens. With the increase of sexual activity 

taking place in school, sleeping in 

class, drug abuse, and fi ghting, it seems 

as though teachers would be begging offi 

cials to allow students to use cellphones. 

That may be a stretch, but honestly, students 

will be distracted with or without 

phones. 

The main and most important reason 

why cell phones shouldn’t be banned is 

safety. Nowadays, with all the crime and 

violence, phones are truly a precious gift. 

When my cell phone is dead or if I don’t 

have it with me, I honestly feel a bit unsafe. 

Cell phones are a necessity for minor 

to extreme cases, from your car breaking 

down, or leaving your wallet or purse in 

a store at the mall, to being kidnapped or 

a burglary. 

There was an incident not too long 

ago where someone attempted to rob a 

woman’s house. She was smart enough 

to lock herself in the closet and bring her 

cellphone. She called the cops and got out 

safely with none of her belongings stolen. 

Let’s not forget about the incident that 

occurred in Baltimore when a teacher 

was beaten by a student in a classroom 

while another student caught it all on 

their phone. The issue was brought to 

light, and if the student didn’t videotape 

the incident, the teacher could have been 

blamed for triggering the violent behav- 

ior. 

The sad reality is that stories like this 

happen every single day. In some New 

York schools students are searched for 

weapons before they enter the building. 

If there are that many students entering 

school with weapons, then why wouldn’t 

you want them to carry devices that they 

could use in the case of emergencies? It 

seems like common sense to me that they 

would want students and teachers alike 

to be armed with anything that could 

help save, or prevent, other students and 

teachers from harm. 

Unfortunately, our world is manifested 

with crime and violence, but fortunately, 

we have cell phones. When you hear stories 

like the ones I previously mentioned, 

you can’t help but to realize how valuable 

phones are. 

Tiffany Johnson can be reached 

for comment at tj5@umbc.edu. 

The artifi ciality and hypocrisy of a timetable for Iraq 

Matt Mainen 


There is no common sense basis for 

the repeated demands for a timetable 

of withdrawal from Iraq, when there 

are no such demands for a withdrawal 

from Afghanistan. It has been made 

abundantly clear that both fronts in the 

war on terror are equally important, 

and considering that our troops in Afghanistan 

are being forced to sit on their 

hands while al-Qaeda has rebuilt to full 

operational capacity in Pakistan, our 

stay in Afghanistan will remain indefi - 

nite. 

This is on account of the fact that 

in the foreseeable future, Pakistan will 

neither make the sacrifi ces necessary 

to fully eliminate al-Qaeda from its 

territory, nor allow the United States 

and coalition forces to take care of the 

problem. The U.S. has not taken the 

initiative, thus insurgents will be pouring 

into Afghanistan for years to come 

because their primary base of operation 

is being left intact. 

Another common argument against 

the war in Iraq is that “our military is 

being stretched thin,” but this seems 

to assume that some more imminent 

threat will arise. It makes little sense to 

keep our military “on guard” to face a 

hypothetical threat at the sacrifi ce of 

dealing with a very real threat in the 

here and now. The biggest threat right 

now is coming from Iran, and it seems 

that most of those who are making the 

“stretched too thin” argument are the 

same individuals arguing that a war 

against Iran will be entirely provoked 

by the Bush Administration. Using 

their logic, then, our military is being 

stretched too thin in order to have the 

military capacity necessary to act on an 

artifi cial threat. Those fearful that the 

Bush Administration will declare war 

on Iran should be happy that our troops 

are bogged down in Baghdad. We cannot 

conduct a successful war with Iran 

while we are trying to make ends meet 

in Iraq. 

Beyond Iran, there are no current 

threats that would require ignoring the 

deadly fallout from a premature withdrawal 

from Iraq. North Korea is cooperating 

with dismantling its nuclear program, 

and even if it weren’t, deterrence 

theory would prevail as it has for Russia 

and China. Additionally, North Korea 

wants a closer relationship with the 

United States, not war. The chances of 

a more important threat arising than the 

current situation in Iraq is about on par 

with Lord Zolgermere of an unknown 

alien race landing on earth and declaring 

war on mankind. There are innumerable 

hypothetical situations that require 

a military ready to confront them, 

but the necessary resources should be 

centered on the here and now. 

A fi nal point of hypocrisy found in 

calling for a timetable of withdrawal 

from Iraq and not Afghanistan centers 

on pressuring the Iraqi government 

to make changes because then it will 

know that there will come a time when 

it cannot get a free ride off of the United 

States. The problem with this line of 

reasoning is that it centers on a reward/ 

punishment model, but compared to 

> Pry this from my cold dead hands. 

Afghanistan, Iraq is making far more 

progress, thus making it more deserving 

of being rewarded with a U.S. troop 

presence. While oil has been pumping 

out of Iraq at a steady pace thanks to the 

dedication of its politicians, Afghanistan 

has been exporting its own local 

product with the help of its politicians: 

opium. Political progress in Iraq may be 

slow, but at least it’s measurable. 

Beyond the reward/punishment model, 

we should also consider the necessity 

of maintaining a high presence of troops 

in Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s important 

to keep in mind that the invasion of Afghanistan 

was almost solely conducted 

by the Northern Alliance on the ground. 

Coalition forces mostly stuck to air support 

and tactics. This should make clear 

that Afghan forces have proven that 

they are less in need of U.S. troops. 

Considering that both fronts are equally 

important (we’re fi ghting the same al- 

Qaeda), and resources are limited (our 

military is being stretched too thin), it 

makes sense that a heavier allocation is 

deferred to Iraq. 

GREG DEWEY — TRW 

Allies, such as France and Germany, 

have made clear that our battle in Iraq is 

ours alone. That’s fi ne, but they should 

keep in mind their commitment as a 

NATO ally in Afghanistan. If it becomes 

necessary for a prolonged high troops 

presence in Iraq or a more available 

military to face a potential threat, NATO 

should take the bulk of responsibilities 

in Afghanistan. 

Finally, as long as the real threat in 

Northwest Pakistan continues to be ignored, 

and victory in Afghanistan cannot 

be achieved without eliminating this 

threat, we’re going to be in Afghanistan. 

A decision needs to be made whether or 

not we are going to continue to fi ght the 

bees as they come or attack the hive. On 

the other hand, all steps necessary are 

being pursued in Iraq, and, although 

General Petraeus has been accused of 

keeping a fuzzy picture of what winning 

in Iraq means, we know that all steps 

are being taken to get to that point. 

Matt Mainen can be reached for 

comment at matm1@umbc.edu.

8 oPINION 

04.29.08 

Personal responsibility or 

government intervention? 

> from DRINKING [6] 

nationwide or just statewide, 

there are some strides aiming 

to just grant military personnel 

exemptions from the 21 

minimum drinking age. I believe 

these exemptions have 

a strong chance of becoming 

reality. Not only are we a nation 

who loves our heroes, 

but I don’t see the bill having 

many opponents. 

While the minimum drinking 

age of 21 may seem like a 

good thing, I believe the imposed 

restriction causes more 

harm than good. Whether 

there is a law or not, teenagers 

are going to drink. Any 

law hoping to stop underage 

drinking is worth nothing 

more than a good laugh. 

By making the drinking age 

21, it turns underage drinkers 

into criminals. Rather 

than this being an issue they 

should talk to their parents 

about, they feel they must 

now hide it from their parents. 

Teens become reluctant 

to go to their parents with 

questions or concerns, and, 

to further conceal their actions, 

they will drink away 

from home. While the main 

intention of MADD was to 

decrease drunk driving and 

drunk driving related fatalities, 

I feel like this is doing 

the complete opposite by 

forcing teens to drive where 

they can drink. Not only 

does this lead to an increase 

in drunk driving, but because 

of the lack of supervision, 

this leads to more binge 

drinking. 

MADD has stated that 

the 21 age limit has saved 

20,000 people over the 

years who would have died 

in drunk driving accidents. 

While MADD does deserve 

some credit, the number 

seems inflated and doesn’t 

seem to account for outside 

factors that could have prevented 

death, like car safety 

standards increasing over the 

years, or increased law enforcement 

on the road. 

The two main combatants 

in the minimum drinking 

age debate seem to be MADD 

and Choose Responsibility. 

While both want a world 

where there are no alcohol 

related deaths, the two nonprofits 

are going about it 

in different ways. MADD is 

veering on the side of prohibition 

and hopes to end 

drunk driving related deaths 

through greater restrictions 

on alcohol. 

Choose Responsibility, on 

the other hand, is aiming for 

the same goal but through a 

lowered minimum drinking 

age, greater alcohol education, 

and an approach to 

bring underage drinking out 

of basements into a more 

monitored environment. 

While MADD should be 

commended for their efforts 

and for the number of lives 

they have saved, I believe the 

policies they lobbied for in 

the 1980’s are creating negative 

side effects too large to 

ignore. Even if the minimum 

drinking age is not reduced 

for everyone, it would still 

be nice to see our young men 

and women in uniform have 

the right to an ice cold beer 

if they so choose. 

Nick Jamison can be 

reached for comment at 

jamison1@umbc.edu. 

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Arts 

EntertaInment 

> The IRC Fellows, Professor Eric Dyer, and Randall Woolf after their fi rst performance of the day. 

COURTESY HEIDI DYER 

Visual Arts students present 

winning piece in New York 

Gaby Arevalo 

Megan Zlock 

RETRIEVER STAFF 

UMBC’s Visual Arts Imaging Research 

Center Fellows participated 

in two performances with the 

Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra 

this past Sunday. The visual arts 

students entered a competition in 

which they created a video that 

accompanied a fi ve-minute contemporary 

violin composition. The 

piece, entitled “Try to Believe,” was 

written by Randall Woolf and is a 

sprightly, surreal song. The video 

was screened during two performances 

by the Orchestra in New 

York City. 

For the fi rst month and a half of 

the project, starting at the beginning 

of this semester, the ten students 

worked tirelessly to create no 

less than thirty of these spinning 

sculptures, called “cinetropes.” 

Then, fi lming and editing had to 

be done before the deadline of 

March 7th. The contest was held 

over youtube.com and everyone 

watched and waited to see how 

the Fellows’ submission would fare 

against the nine other candidates 

for the competition. The winner 

was clear only days after submissions 

had closed since the Fellows’ 

“Try to Believe” had earned more 

views and a one star lead on any of 

the other contributors. On Friday, 

April 18, the offi cial results were 

announced with the UMBC IRC 

Fellows as the winners of the “Believe 

You Can Win” contest. 

The IRC students created more 

than 28 paper, foam core, and 

mixed media sculptures that they 

then used in the video, resulting 

in “live” animation. The animation 

was infl uenced by the concept of 

the zoetrope, a pre-cinema optical 

toy. The animation shows a girl, a 

modern-day “Alice,” walking down 

a street, and this is juxtaposed with 

high-paced kaleidoscopic images. 

The bright colors and quick changes 

result in a video that is erratic 

and jarring, perfectly exemplifying 

the music. 

“The IRC Fellows ran with this 

project from the start and they 

poured an enormous amount of 

smart creativity and enthusiasm 

into it,” said Professor Eric Dyer, 

who taught the IRC Fellows Program 

this semester. “The public 

presentation of their video in 

New York City is a well-deserved 

award.” 

During the presentation on Sunday, 

a representative of the Philharmonic 

then enthusiastically introduced 

the Fellows, saying “our 

winners are actually here from Baltimore,” 

emphasizing “Baltimore” 

as if it were surprising, but then 

followed that by saying that their 

work had “surpassed any of the 

our [the Philharmonic’s and Randall 

Woolf’s] expectations” for the 

contest. The Fellows rose and were 

recognized before violinist Jennifer 

Choi took the stage to perform the 

violin solo to accompany the prerecorded 

digital track. Following 

the performance, the Fellows were 

asked to stand again to great applause 

from the small crowd at the 

Brooklyn Museum. 

The IRC Fellows Program is a 

seminar-style course that brings 

together art majors who display 

exceptional talent in their fi rst two 

years as undergraduates. The small 

class works on projects and focuses 

on emerging technologies and media 

criticism. 

The IRC Fellows will perform 

the animations live on May 13 at 

the Baltimore Creative Alliance. 

They will be accompanied by violinist 

Martin Shultz of the Peabody 

Conservatory. 

Gaby Arevalo is the Assistant 

Arts and Entertainment 

Editor of The Retriever Weekly 

and can be reached for comment 

at Arevalo2@umbc.edu. 

arts@retrieverweekly.com 

She Stoops 

conquers hearts 

Asmara Qamar 

STAFF WRITER 

The theater department’s production 

of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to 

Conquer proved to be a hilarious, fl ashy 

frolic, involving highly fashionable gentlemen, 

mistaken identities, an overbearing 

mother, alternating shyness and 

lechery, an inheritance, and of course, 

lots of love and a happy ending. 

Young Charles Marlow (Kevin James) 

is meant to pick a wife in Kate Hardcastle 

(Daphne Gardner), but is cripplingly 

shy around women of a higher class, 

though very forward among women 

he perceives to be of a lower class. 

Tony Lumpkin (Michael Houk) plays a 

trick on Marlow and his friend, George 

Hastings (Travis Hudson), by directing 

them to Hardcastle’s manor while 

calling it an inn. At the “inn,” Marlow 

meets Kate, and although he is mortifi 

ed with shyness during the meeting, 

she is enamored with him. In order to 

get through Marlow’s shy exterior, Kate 

pretends to be the inn’s barmaid around 

Marlow, and is thoroughly fl irted with. 

The sub-plot is about love between 

the foppish Hastings and Miss Neville 

(Barbara Madison Hauck), who is 

Kate’s cousin. Tony Lumpkin’s pranks 

and mischief tie it all together, while 

Mrs. Hardcastle’s (Kelly Cavanaugh) 

efforts create more and more obstructions. 

Finally, the benevolent fathers, 

Mr. Hardcastle (Alexander Scally) and 

Sir Marlow (Mikey Cafarelli), create a 

happy ending. 

The acting was solid; James’s shyanguish 

and fl irtation drew endearment 

and laughs, and so did Gardner’s 

quickness, Scally’s objections (including 

at being ordered to fetch some 

warm punch for the gentlemen), and 

Cavanaugh’s rage as she crawled upon 

the stage, dress torn. Houk owns his 

big pink wig and makeup, reeling and 

staggering while delivering antic after 

antic. The Hastings-Neville affair drew 

plenty of laughs and “awws” through 

Hudson and Hauck’s great performances; 

he showed his love-longing and 

even sang away his desire for a quick 

elopement, but she couldn’t leave behind 

her inheritance, and dragged her 

lover back in time for everything to 

fall orderly into place. The maids and 

servants, played by Samantha Nelson, 

Nik Diener, Partick Letterii and Kevin 

Driscoll, did a great job as well, from 

depicting a proper militia stance, to 

passing out drunk. 

Rather than choose the very familiar 

Ye-Olde-18th-century-England 

details, the production gave a new 

fl are by showing exaggerated, striking 

costumes: ruffl es and spheres 

of silk and taffeta, generous amounts 

of makeup, high heels, and glittering 

jewels adorned the main characters, 

more the men than the women. The female 

characters wore dresses that were 

spherical below the waist, kept round 

by hoops, and narrowed around the feet 

in a small circle. When they had to walk 

they would skip about in quick, giggleinducing, 

mini-steps. The stage cleverly 

used lifting discs to switch from manor, 

to tavern, to nighttime garden. However, 

the disc, once erected, remained 

somewhat slanted, which kept making 

me think that it was going to fall and 

crush the actors. Fortunately, nothing of 

the sort happened. 

If you missed it--well, then, sir, or 

madam, you missed a jolly “toroddle, 

toroddle, toroll,” some tiff-taff-taffety 

cream, the little star on Hudson’s 

painted cheek, and a fortune (of a play) 

chiefl y consisting of jewels: for shame, 

pshaw, pshaw! 

Asmara Qamar is a Staff Writer for The 

Retriever Weekly and can be reached 

for comment at asq1@umbc.edu. 

MARIA SATYSHUR — TRW 

> Daphne Gardner and Kevin James fl irted their way to success in She 

Stoops to Conquer.

The RetrIever Weekly 04.29.08 ARTS 15 

Bartleby awards honor creative achievement 

Liz Omberg 


The program to the Bartleby release 

event sums up the experience 

in which it titles itself, “a celebration 

of writing an art” and labels itself, 

“a unique collaboration between 

authors and artists.” This event was 

a merge of the creative arts journal 

along with the English and Visual 

Arts departments at UMBC and was 

sponsored by The Friends of the Library 

& Gallery. Writers read their 

poetry, fi ction, and creative nonfi 

ction while the visual art students 

designed posters that were their interpretation 

of the words. The mesh 

of art forms was a huge success and 

having the posters really brought 

another dimension to the stories, 

demonstrating how all art is related 

and that there are many ways to express 

oneself — either through ink or 

through paint or charcoal or graphic 

design. 

The Library Gallery was shockingly 

full for an event like this. One of my 

gripes with UMBC is the lack of arts 

on campus. Have you seen the Fine 

Arts building? However, the house 

was packed and ready to hear and 

see some of the best art that UMBC 

has to offer. The fi rst performance, 

Jessica Dotson’s poem, “Mechanics 

of a Man,” was stunning and written 

Art Student of the Week: Andre Cawley 

A guy with natural talent and a 

need to achieve. These are just two 

ways to describe this week’s UMBC 

Art Student of the Week. Having met 

many art students over the past year, I 

would have to say that this one is the 

humblest of them all. He has a real 

gift, and yet has no desire to show it 

off. The art student I am referring to 

is none other than Andre Cawley. 

Andre is a 20 year old junior here 

at UMBC. He is majoring in Graphic 

Design in the Visual Arts department. 

Andre has not always lived here in 

Maryland, nor has he attended UMBC 

his whole academic career. He was 

originally from San Diego, California. 

From there he spent some time in Sicily, 

Italy before moving to Baltimore in 

the mid ‘90s. You may be wondering 

why someone would move so much 

when he was growing up. Maybe it 

has to do with the fact that his father 

is in the Navy. 

While you may think that having a 

Navy father would be hard because of 

the constant orders and strict house 

rules, Andre says that his father was 

the person he looked up to the most. 

He said he loves the way his father 

is very persistent and yet extremely 

loving and accepting of everyone. 

Andre also mentioned how his entire 

family has been supportive of his decision 

to be a Graphic Design major. 

But this has not been done entirely 

here at UMBC. Andre is a transfer student 

who used to attend a school in 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is his 

second year here at UMBC and he has 

no regrets. 

After Andre is fi nished at UMBC, he 

is scheduled to graduate in the spring 

of 2009, and he has full intentions of 

remaining here in Baltimore for a little 

while longer. However, don’t think 

about the seemingly diffi cult subject 

of a mechanic but managed to give 

the mechanic a gentle side. She is an 

English and Visual Arts student, so 

she was given the task of designing 

her own poster, on which she did a 

great job of. 

My favorite writer of the night was 

Mariana Rivera Rodriguez who read 

> Andre Cawley is humble about his talents in graphic design. 

that he will try to stay home forever. 

His ultimate goal and aspiration is to 

move somewhere on the west coast 

and hopefully work for some high 

paying music magazine. Short of 

that, he would settle for moving to 

the west coast and working for any 

magazine. He did mention that if he 

had never taken graphic design, he 

would have probably tried to work in 

the public relations arena. 

Surprisingly enough, Andre never 

took art in high school; it was always 

just a hobby of his. Maybe it is because 

of this fact that he has no outside 

infl uences on his work. He likes 

to invent his work as he sees things 

that give him ideas. In this sense, he 

can be viewed as a true original. Not 

that he doesn’t respect or admire 

what people did in the past, but just 

like them, he wants to be his own individual 

and different. 

her fi ction story, “Moffi ts in A Shoebox,” 

which won the fi ction award 

for the new Bartleby publication. 

This eerie story was about a family 

> Jessica Dotson, a Visual Arts and English major, discusses her work with her mother. 

on Christmas morning, but rather 

than opening presents, they were lying 

dead on their bed. The language 

and descriptions in the story caused 

an immediate connection to the 

As with most things in life, if you 

love to do it, you will probably be 

very good at doing it. In Andre’s case, 

he loves print media the best out of 

every form of art. Perhaps that is why 

he has his art work displayed so much 

these days. From what I could see, his 

art work was very precise and professional. 

He takes great pride in what 

he does and takes it very seriously, 

which is what will undoubtedly allow 

him to make it in the real world. 

Some of his art work is featured on 

the newly designed Visual Arts website. 

He even said that it took him a 

whole month to plan, prepare, and 

create one of his pieces of art (the 

large piece in the picture). 

While here at UMBC, Andre said 

that his favorite class was Graphic Design 

with Guenet Abraham. This was 

because he was able to apply what he 

had learned from other fundamen- 

characters and when I realized that 

the story did not have a happy ending 

I felt that I actually lost people 

that I had personally known. This 

LAUREN KASMIR — TRW 

story was accompanied by three 

posters, designed by Dominique 

Chirinciuc, that were mostly done 

in muted grays and whites with a 

few red words printed on them. The 

by Matthew Jones 

MATTHEW JONES — TRW 

tal graphic design classes into actual 

work that he will be using later on. 

When asked about his favorite teacher, 

he said that he had two: Guenet 

Abraham and Peggy Re. He said that 

they are both very encouraging and 

friendly, but also helpful because they 

try to push him to be better, yet be 

practical in everything that he does. 

Also while being here at UMBC, Andre 

said that his least favorite class 

was French 201 because he just found 

it hard to grasp. 

Whenever Andre has free time, 

which is not too often, he likes to 

go out with friends, usually to DC or 

downtown Baltimore. He sometimes 

likes to go to local clubs and party every 

once in a while as well. Andre said 

that one crazy fact about him that 

most people probably don’t know is 

that when he was in high school, he 

participated in the Future Farmers 

posters really added to the shocking 

and downcast aspects of the story. 

There is a common misconception 

that poetry can mean whatever you 

want it to mean. As a poet, I know 

that this is false and that there are 

different aspects of the poem that 

different people can relate to and 

take away from the poem. However, 

when writers craft their poems, they 

do have a concrete idea in their mind 

and do not write in abstracts to relate 

to everyone. Having the art with 

the writing illustrates that the meaning 

behind the art was the same as 

the meaning behind the words, but 

the artist picked up on one specifi c 

aspect of the writing and crafted a 

poster around that. It was really interesting 

to see someone else’s take 

on a piece of writing and to see them 

create something from that. Brandon 

Dottin presented his poem “Hyacinth 

Lost” and said he got the inspiration 

from a painting. This event had the 

same circle, art inspiring art, and it 

worked perfectly. 

The new issue of Bartleby came 

out last week so make sure to pick 

up your copy anywhere around campus 

and get reading! 

Liz Omberg is a Senior Staff 

Writer for The Retriever Weekly 


at eomberg1@umbc.edu. 

of America (FFA) program. Here they 

went to reservations and did various 

experiments and testing on the land. 

He said that while most people don’t 

understand it, he had a lot of fun doing 

it, even though he is thought of as 

an urban guy. 

Before the end of the interview, 

Andre wanted to make it clear to everyone 

that he doesn’t like it when 

people assume that he took the easy 

road in college by being an art student. 

He said that art is in no way “the 

easy way out. It is hard to do and it 

takes time and talent. Just because I 

am not memorizing data or information 

for an exam doesn’t mean I am 

not working just as hard as someone 

who is.” He also wanted to give some 

advice to people who are new to college. 

“Don’t be afraid to do something 

new. Step out of your comfort zone 

and experience different things in life. 

That is what college is all about.” 

On behalf of the staff at The Retriever 

Weekly and the Visual Arts 

Department, we would like to congratulate 

Andre Cawley for being 

this week’s UMBC Art Student of the 

Week. I have no doubt that Andre 

will be able to accomplish anything 

that he sets his mind to. He has the 

talent, skill, and drive to be great in 

everything that encompasses graphic 

design. So remember, if you happen 

to see Andre walking around campus, 

don’t forget to congratulate him, and 

don’t forget to ask about his latest 

piece of art work! 

Matthew Jones is a Staff Writer 

for The Retriever Weekly and can 

be reached for comment at 

joma1@umbc.edu.

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04.29.08 

Escape this weekend and see 

Harold and Kumar 

COURTESY NEW LINE CINEMA 

> After saving lives as a prodigy teenage doctor and a bug-battling psychic, Neil Patrick Harris has met his match in 

two lovable stoners. 

Matthew Jones 

STAFF WRITER 

And yet another comedy. It would 

appear as if most movies of recent have 

been focusing on the aspect of comedic 

viewing pleasure. But how do you 

work out which ones are worth seeing 

over the ones that are a total bust? It 

all depends on what sort of comedy 

you prefer. If you like to see a comedy 

that is a mix of crazy visual humor and 

humor depicted through the dialog, 

then this movie is for you. 

The fi lm Harold and Kumar Escape 

from Guantanamo Bay is your basic 

story of mistaken identity. After falling 

in love with a hot, vivacious woman 

at a hotel, Harold (John Cho) decides 

to chase after and declare his love to 

her. He boards a plane with his best 

friend Kumar (Kal Penn). Kumar has 

a story of his own. He fi nds out that 

his ex-girlfriend is about to get married 

to this guy that Kumar just can’t 

stand. While trying to fi gure out how 

to break their engagement, Kumar 

agrees to fl y to Amsterdam to try to 

fi nd Harold’s love interest. During this 

fl ight, Harold decides to be stupid on 

Nyonsuatee Kollue 

STAFF WRITER 

This week, the UMBC African Student 

Association celebrated Jambo Night, 

ASA’s most anticipated event of the year. 

The event was hosted in the University 

Center ballroom, which was fi lled to 

capacity with a proud representation 

of the UMBC community, friends, well 

wishers, and guests from neighboring 

colleges. Faces lit up with excitement as 

guests exchanged warm greetings with 

classmates, parents, and old friends. 

This year’s theme was "Africa: The 

Evolution." The program sought to 

showcase African culture and its evo- 

the plane, and his actions make one 

passenger believe that he is a terrorist 

who is trying to kill everyone on 

board. 

After the plane makes an emergency 

landing, Kumar and Harold are 

mistaken for terrorists and are sent to 

Guantanamo Bay by the United States 

government. Due to some freak accident, 

Harold and Kumar are able 

to escape from Guantanamo Bay and 

make their way back to the U.S. They 

eventually realize that they are being 

hunted down by the government, and 

thus try to fi nd a way to clear their 

names. It turns out that the only man 

who can help them is the man who is 

about to marry Harold’s ex-girlfriend. 

So, Kumar and Harold try to make it 

to get help while Harold tries to fi gure 

out how he can ruin the marriage 

and get his ex-girlfriend back. Along 

the way, Harold and Kumar encounter 

many different people. There is even 

an appearance by Neil Patrick Harris, 

playing himself, and George W. Bush 

(or at least his look-alike James Adomian). 

The trailer for this fi lm is what inspired 

me to go see it. It looked very 

lution in modernism through brilliant 

displays of dance, fashion shows, music, 

food, and drama. 

The program kicked off with former 

SGA presidential candidate, Elani Elegbe 

singing verses of the South African, 

Nigerian, and African-American national 

anthems. Her beautiful voice moved 

the audience and set a perfect tone for 

the evening. Masters of ceremony Abba 

Udofa and Chidinma Ukonne brilliantly 

conducted the order of the program. 

ASA’s drama team performed “Breaking 

boundaries,” a comical piece that 

addressed core issues of social and ethical 

problems faced by African youth in 

their native countries and abroad. The 

funny, but in a realistic way. This fi lm 

is a sequel, but in case you never saw 

the original, don’t worry, it makes no 

difference. This is a whole new story 

that is very easy to follow. I was a little 

disappointed that there weren’t as 

many funny parts in the fi lm as I had 

thought there would be, but there are 

still plenty of moments that kept the 

audience laughing. 

This movie has very graphic and has 

harsh nudity displayed throughout, 

and it contains strong language and 

drug use. In other words, it is nothing 

new to the typical college student, but 

don’t feel free to take your ten year old 

cousin. 

This movie had some of the weirdest 

story lines anyone could think of, 

but what made it so enjoyable is how 

the characters are complete opposites 

of each other, and yet remain best 

friends. Harold is the stupid, crazy, 

and wild one, while Kumar is the 

smart and sensible of the two. The actors 

make their characters very believable, 

and it seems so effortless. 

The cameo of Neil Patrick Harris 

was well worth the wait, and the few 

scenes with President Bush were so 

drama illustrated the pressure that 

African youth experience in trying to 

impress their traditional parents as well 

as keeping apace with their colleagues 

in a fast and ever changing world. The 

drive for success and wealth, as well as 

peer infl uence reminded the audience 

of an ever-growing struggle to maintain 

decency and cultural ethics. 

The fashion show, which was the 

highlight of the evening, was a masterpiece. 

It was composed of fi ve scenes, 

each depicting an aspect of "The Evolution." 

The fi rst scene, "Freedom," 

showcased traditional designs spiced 

with brightly-colored body arts. "Erotica" 

was composed of modern designs 


Coming 

to theaters 

by Jeremy 

Hentschel 

This week 

IRON MAN (PG-13) 

The next big superhero movie actually looks pretty promising. When I 

heard they cast Robert Downy Jr. as the lead role, I actually shuddered. 

Their reasoning was that his actual history of substance abuse would 

relate well to Iron Man’s fi ctional history of substance abuse. Is that 

how we cast acting roles nowadays? Should we have a casting call to 

prisons for the next crime drama? But the trailers and initial reviews 

for Iron Man actually lead me to believe it will be good. How fortunate 

for them, as my ten dollars will soon become their ten dollars, and they 

can get right to work on Ghost Rider 2. It gives me the same feeling 

as when I think that my particular portion of tax money actually goes 

toward a bomb for some orphanage in Iraq rather than the “roads, 

hospitals, and schools” most people think of when they imagine where 

tax money goes. 

MADE OF HONOR (NOT YET RATED) 

This, ladies, is the equivalent of a total solar eclipse right at midday in 

rarity. This looks like the most clichéd, monstrously tacky chick fl icks I 

have had the displeasure to read a synopsis of in years. Patrick Dempsey 

has this best friend who goes away on vacation for a few months. He realizes 

he’s in love with her when she’s gone, but fi nds out she engaged 

a man on the trip. Now, he will be her MAID of honor (you get it? That’s 

the best damn pun title I’ve ever seen. You know, they say puns are 

the highest form of humor. Oh wait, did I say highest? I meant YOU’RE 

TERRIBLE!!!) and has only a few weeks to woo her and win her away 

from the foreign man. Women, if you want tangible proof that your 

boyfriends really love you, make them go see this movie on opening 

day instead of Iron Man. If he’ll do this for you, you are in complete and 

total control, and you can pretty much start picking out the curtains. 

FUGITIVE PIECES (NOT YET RATED) 

This movie is about a child who was orphaned in World War 2, and the 

story revolves around his growing up and coming to terms with the 

atrocities that surrounded his childhood. It sounds beautiful and touching. 

Too bad nobody is going to see it because they’re seeing Iron Man, 

or, God forbid, Made of Honor. RIP, Fugitive Pieces. Perhaps we will 

know you better on DVD. 

funny that the audience couldn’t stop 

laughing long enough to hear the next 

comedic line that was delivered. Don’t 

expect this movie to win any honors 

this year, which are not its intentions. 

But if you want to see something that 

can take a fare jab at topics such as 

racism, discrimination, and sexuality, 

then this movie is right up your alley. 

I enjoyed this movie and would recommend 

you to go see it while it is out 

in theaters. It is one of the few movies 

worth the price of the admission 

ticket, and you will feel good as you 

incorporated into original traditional 

fabrics. "Scene Africa" showcased models 

in vibrant designs, each displaying 

an African fl ag. "Provocative" was another 

modern display, with a very highfashion 

sense about it, and "Sensual 

Touch" showcased models in stunning 

white attire that was a beautiful blend 

of purity and sensuality. 

Dance performances were not left 

out. UMBC ASA’s dance troupe sent the 

audience wild with harmonic twists 

and turns (in all the right directions) 

to the sounds of African Soukus music. 

Dance troupes from Bowie State 

University and Morgan State University 

performed, as well as Les Savages danc- 

are walking out of the movies. It easily 

earns a three star rating and will undoubtedly 

do well at the box offi ce for 

a while. So if you need a good laugh, 

then escape from your dorm at UMBC 

or your house and go see Harold and 

Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay 

before it escapes from a theater near 

you! 

Matthew Jones is a Staff Writer for The 

Retriever Weekly and can be reached 

for comment at joma1@umbc.edu. 

African Student Association’s Jambo Nite a success 

ers and the Ethiopian dancers. The 

UMBC Nautch girls also delighted the 

audience with Indian cultural dance. 

Musical performances from N.S, Riz, 

and Dicky added to the excitement. 

Their performances were a mix of hip 

hop, rap, and other styles. The event 

was brought to a close by ASA Advisor 

James Kamonjo, who expressed profound 

gratitude to ASA, SGA, OSL, and 

the entire UMBC community at large 

for the success of the event. 

Nyonsuatee Kollue is a Staff 



at nyko1@umbc.edu.


Putting Baltimore 

on the Map 

COURTESY THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM 

> Made by the Luba people of eastern Congo, the Lukasha maps memories. 

Christianna Stavroudis 

STAFF WRITER 

If you’re looking for something cool 

and local to do this weekend, don’t miss 

the Maps: Finding Our Place in the 

World exhibit at the Walters Art Gallery 

in downtown Baltimore City. The 

exhibit coincides with the Baltimore 

Festival Maps (http://www.baltimorefestivalofmaps.com/), 

which is running until 

June 8 at various locations throughout 

the city. Maps touts itself as “the most 

ambitious American show since the 

great show mounted in Baltimore more 

than 50 years ago.” Its rich display of 

cartographic specimens certainly fi ts 

the bill. 

Maps consists of three parts: the 

main exhibit on the ground level of 

the museum which features maps from 

around the world, stunning images 

from the Hubble Space Telescope in the 

Horoscopes 

by Morgan Hammett 

Gemini (5/21-6/21): Clearly it’s not 

your birthday yet, but you’re so awesome 

we’re celebrating early. Gemini, 

you are curious and love to learn. 

You are the fi rst to know about any 

new concept or person that comes 

along. You are sociable and don’t 

like to be tied down. For you, witty 

banter is like a second language. One 

of your greatest challenges is turning 

talk into action. You can avoid coming 

across as fi ckle and superfi cial 

by taking the time to explore what 

fl oats through your brain. This week 

be prepared for some serious critical 

thinking. 

Famous Gemini People: Carson Daly 

(5/22), Jewel (5/23), George Washington 

Carver (5/24), Mike Myers (5/25), 

Lenny Kravitz (5/26), Rachel Carson 

(5/27), John F. Kennedy (5/29), Walt 

Whitman (5/31), Alanis Morissette 

(6/1), Josephine Baker (6/3), Angelina 

Jolie (6/4), Mark Wahlberg (6/5), Paul 

Gauguin (6/7), Michael J. Fox (6/9), 

Anne Frank (6/12), W.B. Yeats (6/13), 

Venus Williams (6/17), Paul McCartney 

(6/18), Paula Abdul (6/19) 

Gemini Matches: You have a tendency 

to get bored, so the dynamic 

personalities of Aries and Leo keep 

you entertained. Libra and Aquarius 

share the air sign element, providing 

similarities. Pisces is creative and 

imaginative like you, but is more 

emotional than you might be used to. 

Cancer (6/22-7/22): The school year 

is almost over- relax! Get outside and 

try to take things as slow as possible. 

Your emotions will probably dominate 

any quick decisions, so think 

things through. Another way to keep 

your emotions in check is to ask questions. 

It’s also a good way to make 

conversation with people you might 

not have talked to recently. Use your 

mental strength over the weekend to 

solve any lingering issues. 

Leo (7/23-8/22): Don’t let jealousy 

bring down an otherwise fantastic 

week for you. Get that positive 

energy fl owing by enjoying yourself 

completely on your own. Go to the 

gym or sit outside and rejuvenate. As 

you’re relaxing think about new ways 

to spice up relationships. Your creativity 

is strong and you are ready for a 

change. After some solo time you are 

back to being the life of the party. 

Virgo (8/23-9/22): Having focus is 

Pretty good music 

by Scott Redding 

Oh, ye olde Charm City (f)Art 

Space, can your stench ever be 

tamed? Likely not, but on Friday 

the smell will be worth tolerating, 

because it’s for a good cause. That 

cause: YANA place, a drop-in center 

for women and girls working the 

streets. The bands playing this benefi 

t: Caleb Stine, Among Wolves, 

Beans, Lost Tourists, Heavy Hangs 

the Head. The vibes: Positive. The liquor: 

Sorry pal, around the corner. 

Also around the corner: The 

Maryland Film Fest. It’s happening 

this weekend at the Charles Theatre. 

Given a lack of events this 

week, I’ll take this space to highlight 

a few of the music-related 

fi lms that will be screened: 

I Think We’re Alone Now by 

Sean Donnelly is about two Tiffany 

superfans. One has Asperger’s and 

the other is a hermaphrodite. So if 

you enjoy watching people wallow 

in their pathetic ridiculousness, or 

ridiculous pathetic-ness, or if on the 

other hand you yourself simply enjoy 

the music of Tiffany, this movie’s 

for you. 

If you enjoy good music, you 

want to check out Upsetter by Ethan 

Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough, a 

documentary about who else but 

Lee “Scratch” Perry. This should be 

at least entertaining, provided that 

Perry himself is in it. This is a guy 

who is rumored to have burned 

manuscript gallery on the third fl oor, 

and community art pieces centered on 

the theme of maps on the fourth fl oor. 

The breadth of the main exhibit’s pieces 

is truly impressive: maps of Florence by 

Leonardo da Vinci, sketches of Middle 

Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien, marginalia by 

Benjamin Franklin. Other interesting 

pieces include a reed structure that 

great, but sometimes it’s better to 

view things from a distance. This 

is especially the case right now for 

relationships. Friends and loved ones 

may seem frustrating, but you lighten 

up later in the week. When you’re not 

being critical, that energy of yours 

needs to be directed elsewhere. Use 

the weather and just spend time with 

people. It will help you understand 

others better. 

Libra (9/23-10/22): Communication 

comes easily to you. Be precise about 

your feelings and you will reap the 

rewards. Keep the dialogue going 

throughout the week. Don’t back 

down because you sense trouble 

coming; by talking about it you might 

even avoid a problem. The people you 

are close with are a priority for you at 

this point. Put them fi rst and they are 

likely to do the same for you. 

Scorpio (10/23-11/21): Proceed with 

caution. Keep this thought in mind 

as the week progresses. New ideas 

are coming at you from all angles 

and you crave change. Change is fi ne 

but take it slow. Instead of diving 

headfi rst into something new, try it 

out fi rst. You are incredibly passionate 

right now. Use this to make progress 

in relationships, and don’t be afraid 

to make the fi rst move! Over the 

weekend try to simmer down a bit. 

Sagittarius (11/22-12/21): Others 

Now Playing 

DAVE IDEN — TRW 

> The Lexie Mountain-fronted “Crazy Dreams Band” played the 

Floristree last Saturday. 

down his own Black Ark Studios 

back in the seventies. 

But if you seriously don’t like 

good music, and mostly just like 

weirdos, we have Song Sung Blue 

by Greg Kohs, about a husband and 

wife music duo called Lightning 

& Thunder (I guess the costumes 

will clear up the debate regarding 

which person corresponds to the 

weather phenomenon). Yeah, I bet 

things start off good and end up 

bad. 

A non-fi lmic event of interest for 

represented the currents of the waters 

around a South East Asian island and 

the original print of the iconic London 

Tube map. 

My only gripe with the exhibit was 

the fact that audio guides have been 

replaced by a toll-free number that you 

punch into your cell phone at each 

featured piece to get information. The 

are fl ocking to you this week for your 

advice. You’ll need your insight to 

help others, and yourself deal with 

all the issues. Not all of them are bad 

though. To make progress romantically 

you’ll have to let go of people 

from the past. Do this and there are 

many new possibilities that await you. 

This weekend you take a break from 

the ordinary and have fun in ways 

you never thought of before. 

Capricorn (12/22-1/19): Romance is 

in the air, so what are you going to 

do about it? Finances preoccupy your 

thoughts early in the week. Money is 

nice but just make sure you’re making 

room for other matters as well. 

Instead of doing all your work at 

once, spread it out and do a little bit 

each day. This way you can be more 

spontaneous and truly listen to your 

heart. You are your own inspiration 

right now. 

Aquarius (1/20-2/18): Divine inspiration 

is zeroing in on your sign this 

week. If you’ve been lacking brilliancy 

lately it’s coming back to you 

now. You have all sorts of ideas and 

thoughts that open up new doors for 

you. It’s up to you where you want to 

go. Mid-week take care of the technical 

issues, especially if they involve 

others. Afterwards there is fun all 

around you, so sit back and enjoy. 

Pisces (2/19-3/20): You’re smart 

you literary types may be had at the 

Carriage House for the i.e. readings 

series, at 8 o’clock on Saturday, the 

third day of the month of May. 

Reading will be the Shattered Wig 

impresario Rupert Wondolowski, 

the mysterious Maureen Thorson, 

and Buck Downs, who has been 

sending me cryptic poetry postcards 

for like two years now. I don’t get 

it; maybe you’d like to step up to 

the plate. It is located in an alley, 

underneath the yellow light, 2223 

Hargrove Street. 

result is having to type in a string of 

14 numbers each time and the echoes 

of bleep-bleep-bloop-bleep-bleep resounding 

throughout the gallery. And 

hey, what if you don’t own a cell phone, 

right? The printed information provided 

with each map, however, is nicely 

> see MAPS [19] 

and everyone knows it. Sometimes 

people get so wrapped up in their 

knowledge that the idea gets lost in 

the process. Keep the thought process 

going but make sure you’re communicating 

clearly as well. Creativity runs 

high, and should help you with any 

changes you want to make. You are 

also very in tune with others. Amplify 

your connections with the people 

you’re close to. 

Aries (3/21-4/19): Independence is a 

good quality, but there comes a time 

to work with others. That time for 

you is right now. Things are much simpler 

when you don’t have to do everything 

by yourself. The challenge in 

working with others is remembering 

that you can’t always be in charge. 

Seek input from everyone instead 

of making tyrannical decisions. This 

weekend is a more appropriate time 

for direct action. 

Taurus (4/20-5/20): You are a little 

more sensitive than usual. Or maybe 

temperamental is a better word. 

People know exactly what makes 

you tick, and you’re in a no-nonsense 

mood. Don’t give others the pleasure 

of knowing that they’ve annoyed 

you- just ignore them. Luck is back 

on your side later in the week. You 

feel especially close to friends, and 

there are adventures in store for the 

weekend.

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04.29.08 

Free DVD and CD rentals, the 

second fl oor of the AOK Library at the 

Media Desk. Get your groove on for 

free with the wide selection of music 

that the library offers. And in case 

you’re in a TV mood, the library offers 

a bunch of movies and TV shows for 

you to borrow for a full seven days 

as well! 

True Grit Tuesdays in the Gameroom 

7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wear your 

UMBC gear and play pool, table tennis, 

and air hockey for free! 

Paradoxes in Modernism. Albin O. 

Kuhn Library Gallery. April 14-June 13. 

This photography exhibition surveys 

photographs from 1900 to the 1970s. 

The Gallery is open Monday through 

Friday, 12- 4:30 p.m., Thursdays 12-8 

p.m., and Saturday and Sunday 1-5 

p.m. Admission is free. 

TUESDAY APRIL 29 

Black Light Pool. Game Room 7-10 

p.m. Play some black light pool…for 

free! 

Pink Party. UC Ballroom 7-11 p.m. 

Come out for this free 

party that supports and seeks to raise 

awareness about breast cancer. 

WEDNESDAY APRIL 30 

Blood Drive. Commons Main Street 8 

a.m.-8 p.m. Help save lives and donate 

blood. Plus, you get a snack and a 

free gift! 

Halo 3 Tournament. Game Room 

6-10 p.m. Show off you shooting 

abilities as teams of two compete in 

a single elimination bracket. Winners 

get gameroom free play passes! 

UMBC Top Model. Sports Zone 8-10 

p.m. Come out for the last week of 

UMBC Top Model and see who has 

what it takes to be on top. 

THURSDAY MAY 1 

Artist Presentation. Albin O. Kuhn 

Library Gallery 7 p.m. Motion graphic 

designer/animator Jon Berry will give 

a presentation on his work, which has 

won Emmy awards. 

UMBC Wind Ensemble. Fine Arts 

Recital Hall 8 p.m. The Department 

of Music presents the UMBC Wind 

Ensemble under the direction of Jari 

Villanueva. Donations accepted. 

Spring Dance Concert. UMBC 

Theatre 8 p.m. Watch the talented 

students of the UMBC Dance Department 

as they present the last dance 

concert of the school year. $10 

general admission, $5 students and 

seniors. 

Open Mic Night. The Cabaret 8-10 

p.m. Give it your all at SEB’s open mic 

night! 

FRIDAY MAY 2 







seniors. 

Vocal Arts Ensemble. Fine Arts 

Recital Hall 8 p.m. The Department 

of Music presents the Vocal Arts Ensemble 

under the direction of David 

Smith. Admission is free. 

SATURDAY MAY 3 

Vocal Performance. Fine Arts Recital 


Rock Creek Trio puts on captivating performance 

Sarah Evans 


When musicians can capture and 

hold the attention of an audience 

for a full hour and 30 minutes while 

playing some of the true classics, it is 

a sign of immense talent. Many of the 

classical pieces by legendary composers 

like Bach and Brahms are incredibly 

diffi cult to play in a way that does 

them any justice. This was a challenge 

taken on by the Rock Creek Trio in a 

performance brought to campus by 

the UMBC Department of Music; a 

challenge in which these musicians 

unquestionably came out on top. 

Comprised of pianist Robert Boguslaw, 

violinist Regino Madrid, and cellist 

Charles Powers, the Rock Creek 

Trio brought a program consisting of 

the three major classical composers 

with the fi rst letter of their last names 

in common: Bach, Beethoven, and 

Brahms. With only three pieces and 

an hour and a half long show, you do 

the math, each piece was relatively 

lengthy. Yet the music never dragged, 

and I didn’t once wish for the end of 

the program. These three musicians 

brought life and feeling to real classical 

pieces, something I have been 

around 

campus 

reasons not 

to go home 

this weekend 

waiting to see happen in the Fine Arts 

Recital Hall for awhile now. 

The fi rst piece, tackled by Bogus- 

law alone, was “Prelude and Fugue 

#8 (WTC, Book 1)” by Johann Sebastian 

Bach. Boguslaw’s entrance for 

his piano solo was taken simply, with 

no frills, just the single man walking 

on stage to a light applause and sitting 

down at the piano to play. The 

smooth, sweet, ringing notes fi lled the 

Recital Hall, at a pace slow enough to 

SLIGHTLY A MASOCHIST 

savor each note. It was a wonderful 

showcase piece for the talented pianist, 

demonstrating the lovely, light 

> Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms were all played beautifully. 

LAUREN KASMIR — TRW 

touch he holds, and starting the show 

on a great note. 

For the next piece, the other two 

musicians made their appearance on 

stage for the fi rst piece as a trio. After 

a simple tuning pitch from the piano, 

a four movement piece, “Trio in Cminor 

Opus 1, #3” by Ludwig van 

Beethoven began. Powers and Madrid 

worked together, seamlessly weaving 

the sounds of the cello and violin together 

and playing off of the piano’s 

melodies. This fi rst movement, “Allegro 

Con Brio,” ended with a loud, 

abrupt end to contrast with the 

second movement “Andante Cantabile 

con Variazioni.” This was a much 

lighter section, with counter melodies 

between the violin and cello. The piano 

got a change for a beautiful solo, 

with the violin and cello just plucking 

the strings instead of actually playing. 

The third movement “Menuetto” began 

much quicker, with sharp notes. 

It bounced along like a dance, with 

quick runs of notes between the 

cello and piano, then the violin and 

piano, which were performed with a 

good restraint and contrast in loudness. 

The “Finale, Prestissimo” had a 

very bold start, and incorporated the 

quick runs of the previous movement 

with the fast pace of the others. 

After a brief intermission, the trio 

returned with what I consider their 

best work, “Trio in B-major, Opus 

#8” by Johannes Brahms. The fi rst 

movement “Allegro Con Brio,” began 

with the rich sound of the cello and 

piano, then adding the violin. The 

musicians displayed the contrasts 

found in the speed and volume of the 

piece extremely well in this section, 

leading into the second movement 

“Scherzo, Allegro Molto.” This part 

of the piece was so bouncy that the 

bows of the cello and violin were literally 

bouncing off of the strings on 

the instruments, a great contrast to 

the third movement “Adagio.” As the 

name means, this section was much 

slower, even somber by comparison 

to the rest of the piece. This feeling 

was added to by the deep ringing 

chords on the piano that were present 

throughout the section. The piece 

was then concluded with the movement 

“Allegro,” a faster section, again 

as the name designates. A more aggressive 

playing style changed the 

mood of this section. 

Overall, the Rock Creek Trio put 

on a beautiful show, capturing the 

feeling that the legendary composers 

were most likely aiming for, and 

proving why the classics are considered 

the true standard for musical 

achievement. 

Sarah Evans is a Senior Staff 



at sevans6@umbc.edu. 

HELEN ZHANG lokklyn.deviantart.com 

Hall 7 p.m. The Jubilee Singers under 

the direction of Janice Jackson and 

the UMBC Gospel Choir will perform. 

Donations accepted. 







seniors. 

Saturday Night At The Movies. 

Sports Zone 8-11 p.m. Watch Ellen 

Page be a pregnant teenager in Juno. 

Free admission and popcorn! 

SUNDAY MAY 4 

UMBC Jazz Ensemble. Fine Arts 

Recital Hall 3 p.m. The Department of 

Music presents the UMBC Jazz Ensemble 

(Big Band) under the direction of 

Jari Villanueva. Donations accepted. 

MONDAY MAY 5 

UMBC Chamber Players. Fine Arts 

Recital Hall 8 p.m. The Department of 

Music presents the UMBC Chamber 

Players under the direction of Gita 

Ladd. Admission is free.


Walters Art Museum: Keeping Baltimore on the Map 

> from MAPS [17] 

presented. 

While you’re in the area, why not 

make a day of exploring Mount Vernon? 

Just around the corner is the 

Peabody Conservatory (one of the 

most prestigious music conservatories 

in the world), the conservatory’s music 

shop, An Die Musik! Live recital hall, 

the Washington Monument (you can 

climb to the top for a great view of 

Baltimore), Meyerhoff Symphony Hall 

(afternoon performances on many Sundays, 

evening performances on Fridays 

and Saturdays: ask for the fi ve concert 

student pass for $25 if you don’t mind 

less-than-prime seating), Centerstage 

Theatre (also have great student deals), 

Enoch Pratt Free Library, and National 

Basilica of the Assumption (America’s 

oldest cathedral). Mount Vernon’s also 

got a great restaurant scene with some 

of my favorites including Donna’s Coffee 

Bar (antipasti, pasta, sandwiches, 

desserts), Abacrombie (fancy and cool), 

Akbar (Indian), Ban Thai (um…Thai), 

and Copra (classic American). An afternoon 

matinee or late-night fl ick can 

be caught a little bit up the road at the 

Charles Theatre. You’ll have to move 

your car, but there’s $2 parking directly 

across the street. 

Planning a visit? The Walters Art 

Museum is located on 600 N. Charles 

Street in the historic Mount Vernon 

district of Baltimore. Visiting hours run 

Wed-Sun from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 

student tickets to Maps are $6 (general 

admission to the museum’s permanent 

QUESTIONS FOR QUINN 

Questions? E-mail advice_trw@umbc.edu 

collections is free). Metered parking 

can be found along neighboring streets 

(many of these spots are free on the 

weekends) and in numerous pay-topark 

lots in the area. 

Christianna Stavroudis is a Staff 



at stavroudis@googlemail.com. 

Q: I’m 22 years old and I have never had a boyfriend. I’m about to graduate college and I’m starting to realize that while I’ve done well academically 

I have failed socially. I want a boyfriend, how can I go about getting one? 

A: First, I want to make sure that you’re congratulating yourself on this remarkable accomplishment. Not many people have the ability to graduate college, and you 

are now one of the elite and I applaud you. Now, having a boyfriend is great but that’s not the only thing that is good in life. Try not to place so much emphasis 

on having a boyfriend or on being social because there are many things that defi ne whether you’re social other than having a boyfriend. Think about it: there are 

many single, intelligent and popular women out there. Also, don’t think that you can just go out and fi nd a boyfriend like “that” because that’s not the type of 

relationship that you want. Having a boyfriend is only everything that you imagine it to be if that boyfriend is special and unique. You should never try and rush 

into a relationship because then you won’t be able to judge if that person complements you or not, and that is really what your looking for. So my suggestion is to 

go out there and let people know that you’re available, but don’t be desperate; make that special person work for it! Good luck and congratulations again. 

Q: My boyfriend recently went to get his haircut and he got his eyebrows done. Now, I understand when he tells me that he does it for his 

uni-brow, but he gets the entire thing done. Should I be worried? Does he have a tendency for wanting to live the “alternative lifestyle?” I need 

advice please! 

A: Believe it or not, there are a lot of guys who get their eyebrows done, but this doesn’t mean that they are homosexual. Just like how women feel they need to 

look a certain way, men also get that type of pressure from the media to be a certain way. Some men do this because they think that their eyebrows are overwhelming, 

or like in your boyfriend’s case they have a uni-brow. Maybe they do it just because they like the way it looks. Being homosexual is not about wearing fl amboyant 

colors and tight shirts. There are many homosexuals that are not fl ashy and out there. Considering the fact that this is your boyfriend we’re talking about, I 

don’t think that we have anything to worry about. But if him getting his eyebrows done bothers you that much, then sit him down and talk to him about it, but 

don’t assume that just because he gets his eyebrows waxed, that it means anything about his sexual preference.

20 ARTS 

04.29.08 

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10. Newts 

14. An impressive display 

15. Chocolate cookie 

16. Hare-like rodent 

17. Noise made while sleeping 

18. Portent 

19. Rascal 

20. Dotage 

22. Unfaltering 

24. What people sleep on 

25. One who accumulates 

DOWN 

1. Lowest part of the musical range 

2. Sea eagle 

3. A metal used to make steel 

4. A loose high-necked blouse 

5. Grommet 

6. Honks 

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8. Confederate general 

9. Spouse 

10. A glowing piece of coal 

11. Unit of electrical capacitance 

12. Exchange 

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37. Streets 

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41. Pass through 

44. Serene 

45. Long periods of time 

46. Tele- and micro- 

48. Jobs 

52. Groan 

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23. Seized 

25. Medieval serf 

26. Indian dress 

27. Black 

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54. Apex or pinnacle 

58. Exhort 

59. Formerly, the shah's 

61. Male singing range 

62. Line formed by joining 2 pieces 

63. Units of electrical resistance 

64. Plucked instruments 

65. Like a snake-like fi sh 

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67. Jagged 

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sports 

With two losses to Vermont, 

softball put in tight spot 

FILE PHOTO — TRW 

> Kali Shirk got her 200th career hit against Binghamton in the last home game of the season. 

Featured 

Featured 

COURTESTY ATHLETIC COMMUNICAIONS 

athlete: joe fowler 

Joe Palmer 


This past weekend UMBC 

won a four-game series versus 

Hartford. Senior left fi elder Joe 

Fowler went 8-for-17 (.470) on 

the weekend, with two homeruns, 

fi ve runs scored, and seven 

RBIs. 

Fowler has been a constant 

on a team of turnover. A fouryear 

starter at UMBC with a ca- 

reer batting average of .313, he 

has led the Retrievers in nearly 

every major batting category at 

some point during his career. 

Last year, Fowler started all 

53 games for the Retrievers and 

tallied eight homeruns to tie 

for most in the conference. He 

ranked second on the Retrievers 

squad with 33 runs scored and 

54 total hits. 

In 2006, Fowler earned First- 

Team All-Conference America 

East honors by batting .345 and 

04.29 

sports@retrieverweekly.com 

THIS WEEK IN SPORTS 

Baseball vs. Towson at 7:00 p.m. 

04.30 

Softball vs. Delaware (Away) at 2:00 p.m. 

Men’s Lacrosse vs. Binghamton at 7:30 p.m. 

05.02 

Baseball vs. Albany at 3:00 p.m. (DH) 

Softball vs. Maine (Away) at 1:00 pm (DH) 

Baseball vs. Albany at 1:00 pm 

Track & Field at America East Championships 

05.04 

Baseball vs. Albany at 12:00 p.m. 

Softball vs. Maine (Away) at 11:00 a.m. 

Track & Field at America East Championships 

Donald Daniels 


As the season comes to a close, UMBC 

softball is in a fi ght to keep their postseason 

hopes alive. With the fourth spot 

still on the line, last years’ America East 

Conference runner up is in danger of not 

making the tournament. 

Last week the Retrievers played their 

last game at home against Binghamton as 

they defeated the Bearcats 5-0. Freshman 

pitcher Stephanie Weigman threw her 

second career shutout, as she struck out 

eight batters in seven innings of work. 

In the fi rst inning senior catcher Kali 

Shirk got her 200th career hit when she 

hit a single off Binghamton pitcher Egan. 

Second baseman Dana Shepherd reached 

fi rst base on a throwing error, stole second 

and scored when sophomore third 

baseman Amanda Fefel drove her in with 

a single. UMBC would add one more run 

in the third via a Shirk homerun as she 

leading the Retrievers with 43 

runs scored, 69 hits, 26 doubles, 

two triples and eight homeruns. 

In his freshman season, 2005, 

Fowler tied for the team lead in 

homeruns and ranked second in 

RBIs with 30 in only 44 games 

played. 

Fowler graduated from St. 

Mark’s High School, Delaware, 

in 2004. There he led his team 

to consecutive state championships 

in 2003 and 2004. He 

was awarded All-State honors in 

2004. 

Honorable Mention: Stephanie 

Weigman, reliever, for her 

efforts in softball’s loss to Vermont. 

Up Next: UMBC vs. Towson 

at The Baseball Factory Field 

(UMBC) April 29, 7 p.m. 

Joe Palmer is a Senior Staff 

Writer for The Retriever Weekly, 


at jpalm1@umbc.edu. 

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went 2-for-3 on the day. The Retrievers 

would go on to drive in three runs in the 

bottom of the fi fth. Senior fi rst baseman 

Ashley Gray and freshman Lauren Brummell 

both picked up RBIs, followed by 

a wild pitch to give UMBC the fi ve run 

victory. 

After the win the next stop was Burlington, 

Vermont for a three game weekend 

set against the Catamounts, featuring 

a double header on Saturday. In game 

one of the double header, UMBC quickly 

went up 2-0 when Shepherd and Shirk 

reached base on infi eld singles and were 

both driven in by a fi elder’s choice by 

Fefel and a throwing error by Vermont. 

The home team’s pitching and defense 

settled in and their offense trimmed the 

Retriever lead down to one in the fourth 

when a Retriever throwing error allowed 

a runner to cross home plate. 

In the fi fth inning UMBC saw the lead 

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The RetrIever Weekly 04.29.08 SPORTS 25 

Overshadowed, but not forgotten 

A look into UMBC’s tennis program 

Zak Bratcher 


In the midst of a groundbreaking 

spring for UMBC athletics, it’s unsurprisingly 

simple to overlook lesser-known, 

less publicized success stories. 

Everyone is familiar with Randy Monroe’s 

high-powered offense launching 

the men’s basketball team to uncharted 

NCAA Tournament heights in March. 

Similarly, most people recognize that 

Don Zimmerman’s impenetrable defense 

has the fi fth-ranked men’s lacrosse 

team– poised to make serious noise 

come tournament time this May. 

But is anybody aware of Keith Puryear’s 

men’s and women’s tennis teams? 

Despite falling just short in the 

America East Championships this past 

weekend, both tennis squads, and their 

coaching staff, have garnered noteworthy 

accomplishments this season. 

The men, freshly removed from last 

season’s fi rst AEC title and an NCAA 

Tournament berth, earned conference 

runner-up this year. They fi nished with 

a 15-5 record, rattling off eight consecutive 

wins, including their fi rst ever over 

neighbor Navy, before stumbling in the 

championship game against Binghamton. 

Not to be outdone, the women followed 

up their 2007 AEC runner-up 

campaign with a 13-4 record, completing 

a stretch in which they emerged 

victorious 12 straight times. They were 

defeated in the conference semifi nals, 

also at the hands of the Bearcats. 

Guiding these prominent programs 

has been head coach Puryear, no stranger 

to personal success himself. Puryear, 

who, along with assistant coach Ale 

Pedergnama, was recognized as America 

East Coaching Staff of the Year last 

year, was named the 2007 Mid-Atlantic 

College Coach of the Year by the U.S. 

Professional Tennis Association earlier 

this year. 

Puryear admitted that the award was 

nice, especially considering coaches 

from bigger schools, such as those in 

the Atlantic Coast Conference, typically 

receive the honor. He, also, was quick to 

> Softball has lost seven of their last ten games. 

share his achievement. 

“It’s more a testament to the kids than 

to me,” said Puryear in an interview 

at the Retrievers Activities Center last 

Wednesday. “To be recognized is always 

great, but I try to put it in perspective: 

It’s not so much about me; it’s about the 

team.” 

His women’s team embarked on their 

Spring season with a bit of uncertainty, 

securing only one win in their fi rst four 

contests while succumbing to eventual 

AEC champion Boston University, 

Columbia, and Atlantic-10 champion 

Temple. However, Puryear calmed his 

Retrievers by preaching the merits of 

playing hard every point, maturation 

through adversity, and mental toughness. 

“Those (fi rst four matches) were the 

toughest matches we had,” said junior 

Cornelia Carapcea. “I think the team 

kind of got scared and started to pick it 

up. We fi nally started to take care of the 

things we could take care of.” 

Finally settled, the women didn’t lose 

again until this past Saturday, an impressive 

span of 12 straight match victories. 

“The ladies fi rst started off a little 

rough, but we saw potential,” said Puryear. 

“They needed to learn what to do 

to be successful.” 

With a youthful Retriever squad who 

stands to lose only two graduating seniors, 

who earned AEC runner-up a year 

ago, and who generated an impressive 

campaign this season, the women’s ship 

is navigating toward bountiful lands. 

“We’ve done the work this year, and 

we’ve had very good results,” Puryear 

said. “The ladies have taken a major 

step to become one of the top teams in 

the region.” 

On the men’s side, the season-long 

journey followed a different course. 

Despite an opening loss at powerhouse 

Virginia Tech, the Retrievers emerged 

strong, indicative of a more experienced, 

senior-loaded team. In the beginning of 

March, however, the Retriever voyage 

became turbulent, as the team lost three 

of six games. 

“(The men) had some challenges,” 

said Puryear. “We started off pretty 

quickly, but had a period in the middle 

of the season where we sort of needed to 

fi nd ourselves again.” 

Not surprisingly, led by seniors 

David Jackson, Irfan Shamasdin, and 

Fernando Ferreira, the Retrievers steadied 

themselves and started stringing 

together victories, culminating with an 

eight-game streak and a spot in the AEC 

fi nals. 

In the heart of their streak was a statement 

win, a hard fought 4-3 triumph 

over the Naval Academy, the fi rst for 

UMBC tennis. Jackson helped will his 

team to succeed by eking out a grueling 

three-set singles victory. 

“I think especially the match against 

Navy teaches you how to deal with situations,” 

said Jackson. “You learn how to 

deal better. We might not be playing 

well, but we’ll be able to draw on past 

matches and be able to dig deep, knowing 

we’ve done it before.” 

Puryear said he stresses to his upperclassmen 

the importance of leading by 

example, even – especially – in defeat. 

He understands that this infl uence on 

younger players sets a foundation for 

them to fall into place within the structure 

and the mentality of the team. 

“Anytime you lose a match and you 

don’t learn from it, you’ve lost twice,” 

Puryear said. “I think it’s all part of a 

journey – the wins and losses themselves 

– and often you learn more about 

yourself when you lose than when you 

win.” 

With effective senior leadership and 

younger players ready to make an impact, 

it’s no wonder Puryear has had 

such success. Furthermore, hopefully 

this spring’s trials and tribulations have 

provided both the men and women 

with lessons by which to mature and to 

prosper on the tennis court. 

Hopefully, their future success won’t 

be overlooked. 

Zak Bratcher is a Senior Staff 

Writer and the Advertisements 

Manager for The Retriever Weekly 


at zbratcher@retrieverweekly.com. 



> Both the men and women lost to Binghamton University in the 

conference tournament. 

Softball in must-win 

situation this weekend 

> from SOFTBALL [23] 

get away from them when Vermont got 

a double from Caroline Goddard and 

two RBI singles from Haber and Connolly. 

Weigman gave up three runs, one 

of them unearned, in six innings pitched. 

In game two a seesaw battle took place 

as UMBC and Vermont exchanged the 

lead on multiple occasions. Gray got the 

Retrievers on the board in the fi rst with 

an RBI double giving the Retrievers a one 

run lead early. In the fourth Vermont took 

the lead at 2-1 off of a two run double 

by Kern. 

Sloppy play by the Catamounts allowed 

UMBC to reclaim the lead as 

Vermont committed three errors turning 

into four black and gold runs. Gray 

drove two runs that inning after junior 

outfi elder Randi Wiley scored on a wild 

pitch. Gray had good performances both 

on the mound and at the plate. Gray had 

nine strikeouts in seven innings and also 

went 3-4 with three RBI’s at the dish. Her 

three RBI’s alone outscored the entire Catamount 

offensive output as the Retrievers 

won 5-2 and split the double header. The 

series concluded on Sunday when both 

teams faced off in the rubber match at 

Archie Post Field. 

UMBC for the third straight time in 

the series jumped out to an early lead 

in the fi rst inning. The Retrievers loaded 

the bases with one out and were in position 

to have a big inning. Shepherd, Gray 

and Shirk all reached base as Fefel drove 

in a run and junior catcher Allison Duff 

got Shirk to cross home plate off of a RBI 

single. The runs scored in the fi rst would 

be the only of the game for the Retrievers 

as they would have their struggles at the 

plate. Catamount pitcher Kern retired the 

next 18 batters she faced and put a halt to 

UMBC scoring efforts. Vermont chipped 

away at the lead in the second and then 

scored four runs in the third of Gray, who 

pitched 2.2 innings. Weigman came in 

relief in the second inning and closed out 

the game. The freshman allowed no runs 

and two hits but the damage was already 

done as UMBC fell to Vermont 5-2. The 

loss also had some extra sting to it as 

Maine won their series over Hartford with 

a 11-1 win on Sunday. The win pushes 

the Black Bears conference record to 10-8 

while UMBC sits at 9-9 in the AEC. 

This sets up a pivotal AEC three game 

series at the end of the regular season that 

carries a lot of weight. The Retrievers will 

play their fi nal AEC regular season series 

when they travel to Orono, Maine. This 

will determine if their season will continue 

as they will play a double header 

on Saturday and fi nish up the series on 

Sunday with an early 11:00 a.m. start. 

Both teams are in a battle for the fourth 

spot and this series will hold its share of 

drama. If UMBC loses one game out of 

the series over the weekend they are out 

of the tournament, but if they sweep the 

Black Bears they are in. This is a tough order 

for the Retrievers and with the series 

being on the road it makes the task even 

more diffi cult. 

Before this, UMBC will play Delware 

away on Wednesday starting at 2 p.m. 

Donald Daniels can be reached for comment 

at ddaniels@retrieverweekly.com.

26 SPORTS 

MEN’S LACROSSE 

WOMEN’S LACROSSE 

BASEBALL 

SOFTBALL 

Men's Lacrosse 

04.29.08 

amerIca east statistics 

STANDINGS LEAGUE LEADERS 

AMERICA EAST OVERALL 

SCHOOL W L W L 

UMBC 5 0 10 3 

Albany 4 1 7 7 

Stony Brook 3 2 7 6 

Binghamton 2 3 4 7 

Vermont 1 4 5 11 

Hartford 0 5 0 13 

STANDINGS 

Women's Lacrosse 


SCHOOL W L W L 

Boston University 6 0 16 2 

Vermont 5 1 9 8 

New Hampshire 4 2 12 6 


UMBC 2 4 4 12 


Hartford 0 0 0 0 

Binghamton 0 6 4 11 

STANDINGS 

Baseball 


SCHOOL W L T W L T 

Stony Brook 11 5 0 24 16 0 

Binghamton 7 5 0 19 21 0 

UMBC 8 8 0 16 23 0 

Vermont 6 6 0 19 17 0 

Hartford 6 6 0 14 24 0 

Albany 6 10 0 11 31 1 

Maine 4 8 0 16 21 1 

STANDINGS 

Softball 


SCHOOL W L T W L T 

Boston University 15 3 0 29 17 0 

Albany 13 5 0 26 15 0 

Stony Brook 11 7 0 26 18 1 

Maine 10 8 0 11 36 0 

UMBC 9 9 0 20 26 0 

Hartford 7 11 0 18 18 0 

Vermont 6 12 0 13 25 0 

Binghamton 1 13 0 6 29 0 

Points per game 

Team G 

Jordan McBride Stony Brook 4.15 

Kevin Crowley Stony Brook 3.69 

Brian Caufield Albany 3.36 

Corey Small Albany 3.27 

Terry Kimener UMBC 3.23 

Ryan Smith UMBC 3.15 

Rhys Duch Stony Brook 3 

Bo Tripodi Stony Brook 2.87 

Jordan Levine Albany 2.07 

Kyle Wimer UMBC 2 

LEAGUE LEADERS 

Points per game 

Team G 

Sarah Dalton Boston 4.31 

Diana Caroleo Stony Brook 4.27 

Kaitlin Leggio Stony Brook 4.07 

Ali Levendusky UMBC 3.69 

Kristen Miller Vermont 3.59 

Tee Ladouceur Albany 3.36 

Lauren Morton Boston 3.28 

Michaela Hardy New Hampshire 3.22 

Melissa Cook Stony Brook 3.13 

Sarah Von Bargen New Hampshire 3.13 


Batting average 

Team G 

Will Delawter UMBC .420 

Scott Peddicord UMBC .402 

Curt Smith Maine .393 

Joe Fowler UMBC .391 

Witkowski Stony Brook .383 

Mycie Lugbauer Maine .367 

Amendola Hartford .366 

Justin Milo Vermont .357 

Jarret Lukas Maine .356 

Ethan Paquette Vermont .356 


Batting average 

Team G 

Setterlund Boston 370 

Dubay Boston .366 

A. Maisonet Albany .359 

Ashley Gray UMBC .355 

Ashley Waters Maine .350 

Amanda Fefel UMBC .350 

M. Butsch Albany .350 

Fleury Stony Brook .338 

M. Connors Albany .330 

Eloschuk Vermont .328 


Saves per game 

Team G 

Jon McMahon Hartford 11.83 

Justin Lubas Vermont 11.44 

Alex Kajencki Stony Brook 10.80 

Jeremy Blevins UMBC 10.15 

Brett Queener Albany 9.07 

Larry Kline Binghamton 8.60 

Rob Camposa Stony Brook 8.20 

Andy Cook Binghamton 5.00 

Lee Malandrino Hartford 4.00 

A.J. Babnik Albany 2.50 

Saves per game 

Team G 

Rachel Klein Boston 8.50 

Katie Neer Albany 8.24 

Ashley Milley New Hampshire 7.67 

Mickey Cahill Stony Brook 7.19 

Sandra Alvarez Binghamton 6.73 

Jamie Carlson Stony Brook 6.70 

Susie Sweeney UMBC 6.50 

Meaghan Hanley Vermont 6.09 

Lauren Scott Binghamton 5.92 

Kate Quick UMBC 5.75 

Earned Run Average 

Team G 

Nowak Stony Brook 3.15 

Joe Serafin Vermont 3.20 

Joe Miller Maine 3.48 

Koehler Stony Brook 3.49 

Justin Albert Vermont 3.75 

Matt Jebb Maine 3.95 

Greiner Hartford 4.03 

Mu. Smith Binghamton 4.31 

Groh Binghamton 4.47 

Novakowski Stony Brook 4.83 

Earned Run Average 

Team G 

Jacobs Stony Brook 1.19 

Amanda Singer Hartford 1.88 

L. McIntosh Albany 1.95 

Hardy Boston 1.95 

Brittney Sratton Hartford 2.01 

Struzenberg Stony Brook 2.12 

Suker Binghamton 2.71 

S. Wiegman UMBC 2.82 

Kern Vermont 2.85 

M. Powell Albany 3.18

The RetrIever Weekly 04.29.08 SPORTS 27 

Tennis falls in America 

East Tournament play 

Zak Bratcher 


Two spectacular UMBC seasons 

came to unfortunate fi nales this past 

weekend as the men’s and women’s 

tennis teams both suffered defeats to 

Binghamton University in the America 

East Conference Tournament at Yale 

Tennis Center in New Haven, Conn. 

The No. 2-seeded Retriever men, 

hoping to defend last year’s AEC title, 

fi nished as runner up in the conference 

tournament, defeating No. 3 

Stony Brook, 4-3, in the semifi nal 

round on Saturday afternoon, but losing 

in the championship game to the 

No. 1-seeded Bearcats, 4-3, on Sunday. 

The UMBC women, also a 2-seed, 

suffered a similar 4-3 defeat at the 

hands of No. 3 Binghamton in the 

semifi nals on Saturday. 

After conceding the doubles point 

to the Bearcats in the championship 

game, UMBC sophomore Chris 

Meyer, senior Irfan Shamasdin, and 

senior Fernando Ferreira each won 

singles matches at the fi rst, third, and 

sixth positions, respectively, setting 

up a critical match at the fi fth singles 

position. 

Retriever sophomore Fredi Voorman, 

playing at No. 5, held a 5-3 

advantage in the third and deciding 

set. However, Binghamton freshman 

Arnev Jain, who was awarded Most 

Outstanding Player of the tournament, 

valiantly fought back, winning 

four straight games to capture the set 

and the match 4-6, 7-6, 7-5. The AEC 

title was Binghamton’s fourth in the 

past six years. 

On Saturday, the UMBC women’s 

doubles pairings of freshmen Ana 

Mungo and Emily Mannix and of juniors 

Joy Adewumi and Cornelia Carapcea 

both earned victories over their 

Bearcat counterparts, garnering the 

doubles point for the Retrievers. 

Carapcea at 7-5, 7-6, and Mannix 

at 7-5, 6-0 – in the fourth and sixth 

positions, respectively – were the only 

two Retrievers to emerge triumphant 

on the singles side, however. Senior 

Pascaline Cette and Adewumi suffered 

diffi cult three-set losses. 

The Binghamton ladies lost 4-2 in 

the fi nals on Sunday to No. 1 Boston 

University. 

To reach the men’s championship 

game, UMBC secured the doubles 

point and the third-through-sixth singles 

positions to upend the Seawolves 

4-3. 

The pairings of junior Nick Savage- 

Pollock and Ferreira and of Meyer 

and Voorman triumphed 8-4 and 8-3, 

respectively. Voorman and Ferreira 

also won at No. 5 and No. 6 singles, 

respectively, in straight sets. Senior 

David Jackson ensured the Retriever 

advancement with a hard-nosed 6-2, 

5-7, 6-4 victory at No. 4 singles, reminiscent 

of his amazing three-set effort 

at Navy earlier in the year. 

The UMBC men conclude their 

spring campaign with a 15-5 record. 

The women fi nish at 13-4. 

Zak Bratcher is a Senior Staff 

Writer and the Advertisements 

Manager for The Retriever Weekly 


at zbratcher@retrieverweekly.com. 

club sports update 

Club basketball fi nds success 

The club basketball team was chartered this 

year by President of Basketball Operations 

Ozell Sanders and Lead Adviser Kelvin Harris. 

The team has already begun league play in 

the East Coast Basketball League. 

Thus far, the team has competed in the James 

Madison Basketball Classic, and the Battle of 

Baltimore. In the James Madison Basketball 

Classic UMBC fi nished 3-3 and lost in the semifi 

nals to eventual champions James Madison. 

In the Battle of Baltimore, UMBC was the 

runner-up to Morgan State University. 

Over the semester UMBC has had notable 

wins over UVA, Towson, Georgetown, and 

Johns Hopkins. The team currently is looking 

to play one more game against rival school 

Loyola. 

UMBC is led in scoring by the strong play of 

Nick Shade (16.3 ppg), Tobechi Mlemchukwu 

(11. 4 ppg, 8.6 rpg), Ozell Sanders (12.4 ppg) 

and Timi Fadirin (10.2 ppg). In addition, the 

team is helped by the defensive presence of 

Cameron Moultre and Dapo Lajubutu. 


> Lacrosse has defeated all fi ve of its America East Conference opponents this season. 

Men’s lacrosse wins finale 

Prepares for America East Tournament 

Corey Johns 


With their ninth straight win the lacrosse 

team did two things. They have 

won the most consecutive games in 

UMBC lacrosse history and stand at fi fth 

in the country. The Retrievers beat Vermont 

8-6 on last Saturday afternoon. 

Vermont came into the game with a 

5-10 record and they were looking to 

spoil the fi nal regular season game for 

the Retrievers on their senior day. The 

Catamounts took an early lead as they 

outscored UMBC 3-2 in the fi rst period 

and started off the second period with 

an early score, but the Retrievers fought 

back and on three occasions followed a 

Vermont goal with two of their own to 

give them the 8-6 win. 

Three Retrievers got the ball in the net 

twice in the game, two being the team’s 

leading scorers Terry Kimener and Ryan 

Smith. Both also had an assist. The third 

though was freshman Dom Scalzo. He 

has scored three times this year and 

once in each of the last three games. 

Also scoring were Matt Latham to ex- 

tend his streak to eight games. Latham 

now has 20 goals, and freshman Bobby 

Stockton scored once. Last week Stockton 

scored three times in his breakout 

game and followed that performance 

with his fourth goal of the season. The 

game showed a great defensive effort 

by UMBC as they allowed just 20 shots 

with the most in any period being six in 

the fourth. In the net Jeremy Blevins had 

seven saves on just 13 shots on goal. 

“It’s a huge advantage to play at home, 

we have the second longest home streak 

in the nation,” said Bobby Atwell. 

Next weekend the Retrievers will be 

hosting the America East Conference 

tournament and will be playing Binghamton 

in the fi rst round game Thursday. 

UMBC beat Binghamton earlier in 

the season with in a 10-5 win and they 

haven’t lost to the Bearcats since 2004, 

when they loss was just by one goal. 

The Retrievers have beaten Binghamton 

six straight times but know they have to 

be careful because streaks come to an 

end. 

“We have to take things one game at a 

time and Binghamton is a very good and 

improved team. With such short notice 

to prepare we just have to make minor 

changes and make sure that we are 

ready and go out an play good lacrosse,” 

said head coach Don Zimmerman.” 

The focus right now for the team is 

obviously Binghamton, but if they win, 

two days later they will play the winner 

of No. 2 Albany and No. 3 Stony Brook. 

Both teams played close to UMBC, Stony 

Brook lost 14-12 and Albany lost 14-10. 

Both teams have high scoring offenses. 

Both of the last two AEC championship 

games have been the match up of 

UMBC vs. Albany. Last season, Albany 

hosted the tournament and won. Yet 

two seasons ago UMBC also hosted and 

were victorious. Either way the Retrievers 

are not looking at the past and are 

only focused on beating Binghamton 

right now. 

“It is nice that this team has accomplished 

something no other team has 

accomplished,” said Zimmerman. 

Corey Johns is a Senior Staff Writer for 

The Retriever Weekly and can be reached 

for comment at cjohns2@umbc.edu.

28 SPORTS 

04.29.08 

Baseball wins four 

straight in sweep of 

Hartford 

Corey Johns 


As long as UMBC has had a baseball 

team, 41 years, the team has never 

sweep a four game series until this past 

weekend. Earlier in the year UMBC 

sweep their fi rst ever series which was 

against Navy, which was a two game series, 

but this weekend Hartford fell four 

times to UMBC. “We’re doing better at 

everything right now. We have a solid 

nucleus of offense but we’re playing very 

good defense and pitching we well with 

good command which is key said head 

coach John Jancuska.” 

Game one of the series was a slugfest 

that in the end favored UMBC. Dan 

Blewett started the game on the mound, 

though he did not pitch great as he gave 

up six runs to fall behind 6-1 after four 

innings. He fi nally got some run support 

as UMBC matched the six runs to get the 

lead back. 

Austin Drewyer came into the game 

with a 9-8 lead in the six and gave up 

just one run to close out the game for 

the win. Shawn Retz hit is fi rst home 

run and he also contributed four RBIs 

and 12 player outs. Also, Joe Fowler 

went 2-4 with three runs and 4 RBIs. 

One of his hits was his sixth home run 

of the season. Rich Conlon hit his fi rst 

collegiate home run in the game too and 

Steve Russo had a solo home run. “It’s 

a little overdue but I just had to wait for 

it to happen but I wasn’t trying to hit it 

said Retz.” In game two of the series Ed 

Bach started and looked to be his old 

self. He struggles his last few appearances 

but he gave up one earned run, 

three total in 6.1 innings. Dave Divita 

got the win though with non runs given 

up in 2.2 innings of work. The game was 

tied after the fi fth inning and stayed that 

way until the ninth inning, the game 

was a seven inning double header game, 

when UMBC tallied two runs to get the 

5-3 win. 

With the fi rst two games ending in 

UMBC’s favor the team looked to win its 

fi rst four game series as they sent Will 

Delawter to the mound, Delawter was 

hot from the mound going into the game 

as he pitched very well his last two appearances 

before this game. He looked 

good again in this game as in six innings 

he recorded eight strikeouts and only 

allowed two runs. R.J. Morse came in 

for his fourth save after Delawter’s performance. 

“Will is a special competitor. 

He is still not 100% because of his knee 

surgery in the summer but he’s playing 

well. He’s a presence in the batters box 

because of his power and high average 

but on the mound when he gets his 

breaking ball going he is tough to hit 

said Jancuska.” 

In the game Fowler recorded 

his second home run of the series and 

Wink Nolan seconded his third double, 

one in each game, and his second triple. 

In the fi nal game of the series UMBC 

looked to do something they never did 

in UMBC baseball history: sweep a four 

game series ad that is what they did. 

Last week Divita pitched his best game 

of the season and this week he followed 

up with another phenomenal outing. In 

six innings he gave up just seven hits 

and four runs. When he came out of the 

game after giving up two runs early in 

the seventh round he had a 7-4 lead but 

Drewyer gave up three runs to tied the 

game. Luckily UMBC got one run in the 

tenth and held on for the win. 

In the tenth inning, Delawter was the 

fi rst Retriever at bat and he delivered. He 

hit a homerun to give UMBC the eventual 

winning run. Also Steve Russo hit a 

home run in the game four his third of 

the season and second of the series. 

“It is always about pitching and I am 

confi dent that our pitchers are ready 

and should be able to compete against 

Albany said Jancuska.” 

With the win UMBC has improved 

to a 16-23 record and most importantly 

8-8 in the conference, third place and 

three games behind Stony Brook with a 

four game series still to go with them. 

UMBC has eleven games left in the regular 

season and needs to win nine to go 

.500 in the regular season. 

Prior to the series UMBC fell to George 

Washington 11-3 in a game Fowler 

Relay teams improve at Penn State Relays 

Corey Johns 


This weekend’s meet was different 

than a normal meet as both track 

and fi eld teams competed in a total 

of eight events. The men’s team 

competed in three and the women’s 

in fi ve. In the Penn State relays the 

teams improved though. 

“The women’s team improved 

and obviously we would like 

them and hope that they continue to 

get better at the rate they have before 

we go to the NCAA championship 

meet head coach David Bobb.” 

The women’s 4x100 meter relay 

team consisting of Tierra Gregory, 

Tawana Wilson, Jennifer Kalkstein, 

and Britney Forman fi nished sixth 

overall with a time of 48.33, just 

.01 seconds away from the school 

record. 

“The Penn State relays is 

the biggest event on the east coast, 

there are 300 colleges and 500 high 

schools competing. It is very good 

in a lot of ways because we get to 

see recruits and our athletes can 

see Olympians compete right before 

their own eyes.” 

Another season best relay time for 

the women’s team came in the 4x400 

meter relay consisting of Tierra 

Gregory, Wilson, Kalkstein, and Kierra 

Gregory with a time of 3:59.82. 

Also competing in non relay events 

were Ashley Hyland in the 5000 

meter run. She fi nished 23rd with a 

time of 17:31.55, Suzie Richards also 

competed and fi nished 30th with a 

time of 17:55.62. 

> Baseball outscored Harford 31-21 in their sweep of the Hawks. 

recorded his 700th at bat, the most in 

UMBC history. 

Next the baseball team has fi ve home 

games this week including a game against 

Ashley Fauntleroy also had an 

impressive outing in shot put with 

a distance of 13.80 meters, good for 

a seventh place fi nish, and Rachelle 

Wright fi nished 15th with a 12.83 

throw. 

The Men’s team only 

competed in three events, all being 

relays. The team started off in 

the 4x800 meter relay with a team 

of Josh Okoniewski, Chris Snyder, 

Michael Christmas, and Chris Hart. 

The team fi nished 21st with a time 

of 7:46.85 

In the 4x100 meter relay Mohamed 

Koroma, Adrian Arthur, Brian Pendleton, 

and Antonio Thomas fi nished 

51st with a time of 42.25. Finally in 

the 4x400 meter relay Koroma, Marcus 

Dickerson, Thomas, and Jimmy 

Mildenberg fi nished 54th with a 

Towson and a four game series against 

reigning AEC champions, Albany. 

time of 3:21.03 

Next the track and fi eld 

team will be running in the America 

east Championship meet on May 

3-4. 

InsIde 



Corey Johns is a Senior Staff Writer for 

The Retriever Weekly and can be reached 

for comment at cjohns2@umbc.edu. 

Corey Johns is a Senior Staff 



at cjohns2@umbc.edu. 

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