Real People Profiles: Alex Lee We're asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Name: Alex Lee
Hometown: Gaithersburg, MD

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: This is my 3rd semester here at UMBC. 

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: I am a member of the Leadership Development Team in SGA, a STRiVER, Representative of Taiwanese Student Association, STRiVE 2012-2013 coach, and Tour Guide of the Undergraduate Admissions Office.

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: Friend, Listener, and Brother. I love helping people in any way possible. 

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A: The great thing about UMBC is that it is so diverse. Not is it only diverse in ethnicity, culture and religion, but it is also diverse in unique personalities, backgrounds and experiences.

Being a Tour Guide at UMBC gives me the opportunity to engage with other potential students and their parents from all different walks of life. These students are different in their own ways, coming to these tours with their own perspectives on what college really is. It is a great feeling when at the beginning of a tour students may be against or not sure if they like UMBC, but by the end of the tour both the students and parents are in love with the school. Its such a great feeling knowing that you made a difference in changing the minds of these students in coming to UMBC. Knowing that I am able to make a difference on campus as well as meeting new people, learning new things and having fun while doing it is the best feeling ever.

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A: I think the most memorable as well as life changing experience for me at UMBC has to be going to STRiVE. STRiVE in a nutshell is a Winter Leadership retreat where the participants hone leadership skills, develop campus and social change projects, build community and have a lot fun. The activities will keep you engaged, and you'll emerge feeling confident, inspired and connected. STRiVE was an amazing experience because not only did I meet some amazing people who I truly can call my friends, but I have grown in so many ways.

Before STRiVE and even before college, I was a shyer more reserved type of person. I was anxious to voice my opinion let alone going out of my comfort zone. It seemed like I had reached an epiphany moment in my life during and after STRiVE. I became so much more motivated to get involved, my confidence in every aspect had increased ten fold, along with my better refined social skills. Not only had I changed for the better as a person, but I was doing actual things on campus where it made a big difference. I started to join clubs/student organizations on campus, and even holding executive positions in them. I met so many new people and really started to enjoy college.

I think STRiVE was a great experience and a great segway to help people find themselves. It gave people a chance to grow, and use that growth to help others develop their life skills. STRiVE was the gateway for me to loving UMBC even more.

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A: Learning new things, trying new things, constructive criticism and BUNNIES  

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A: UMBC squirrels are infamous. They are so cute and entertaining to watch, one time I was walking to class and I saw a squirrel holding an entire muffin just nibbling on it.
I spent a lot of my time in the SGA Office and the Student Organization Space. Its a great place to just hang out, eat and do work. The 7th floor of the library is nice, especially when its empty and they have the big round tables up. There is so much to UMBC, and its so hard to name a few of the countless exciting and interesting things about UMBC. I'm just glad to be part of this great community.

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 A few minutes before the zero hour, people begin to stir in the large lecture hall. I look around nervously. I want to go to the protest at noon, but that would involve standing up and walking out of class, which is exactly what the organizers have called for. My feelings are mixed, and I'm not sure what I will do. I want to see the action. I want to stand for justice. But I don't feel close enough to the cause of the protest to claim it as my own. Such a big gesture would seem vaguely fraudulent. I'm just an anonymous freshman, cautious, unsure. The activists who have been visibly involved to this point seem to be operating with vastly greater assurance and passion than I feel. They seem full of concern for the victims of injustice, and driven by righteous rage on their behalf. I find their intensity alluring and repellent at the same time. I want to feel just as deeply, and because I don't, I wonder whether their passion can truly run as deep as it appears, or whether they just wish they could be involved in something big, a cause as stark and important as those of U.S. civil rights heroes from decades past.

 People start to stand up. I hesitate. But when my T.A. stands and shoulders his pack, I feel safe enough to follow, and join the stream of students heading to the rear of the hall. Minutes later I find a spot on the outskirts of a crowd of 2,000 people near the heart of UCLA's campus, and watch the Student Body President and other speakers address the cause: apartheid (a system of legal oppression of blacks by whites) in South Africa, and the University of California's investments in companies doing business there. The purpose of the protest is to demand that the university to divest (sell off) its South Africa-tainted holdings, in order to put pressure on the oppressive government to abandon the apartheid system. When some of the protest leaders move to occupy part of the administration building, I walk away, recognizing that they have crossed a line I feel I cannot, and wondering again about their motives and the source of their capacity to act on love and anger. The date is April 23, 1985.

 Fast forward more than a year, to July 18, 1986. Activists have built shantytowns on University of California campuses to dramatize conditions for black South Africans, and repeatedly have pressed their case to the university's Board of Regents, which has rejected proposals for divestment. But the activists have succeeded in shifting the politics of the issue. This time, when the divestment question comes to a vote of the Regents, they prevail, 13-9. I am one of the 13; the vote takes place at my first meeting as the Board's student member. I'm proud of this, but also well aware that I have done little to earn the glory of the moment. In the coming months other universities also will decide to divest, and will contribute to the international effort that ultimately will bring down the apartheid regime. 

 Fast forward more than 26 years, to the week before last: I am sitting at the front of a room full of UCLA students, part of an all-day conference. The students are mired in the everyday messiness of pursuing positive changes on campus and in the wider world. They have a lot of questions, but what seems to lie behind them is wanting the assurance that what they are doing is meaningful. The issues they face involve (as always) race relations, fair access to education, and social justice. To my surprise, they want to know what it was like to have been involved in the great and successful fight for divestment, which appears to occupy the same space in their imagination that the Civil Rights Movement had in mine. Walking in the shadow of a past they envision as pure and stark in its emotional imperatives, they seem to yearn to contribute to causes and actions equally big and bold, and to tap and harness their empathy, and perhaps their anger.

 To my left sits John Sarvey, who, like me, served as a UCLA Student Body President and pursued a career in higher education that has allowed him to do a lot of work with student leaders. John and I started as freshmen the same year. I never knew it, but he too was at the big divestment protest in spring 1985. He shares with the students what he felt that day: ambivalence. As it turns out, John hovered at the outskirts of the crowd, and tried to wrap his head around the motives and emotions of the activist leaders, and to understand what they signified for him. Just like me. Even after all this time, it's stirring to hear someone else voice these thoughts, especially given that John has devoted himself passionately to various causes in the years since. Just like the students in the room, I'm sifting through the meanings, processing the implications.

 In a few hours, at a gathering of the living former Student Body Presidents, I will talk with the president who led the 1985 protest, and let her know that her actions sent ripples forward in time to inspire and provoke a new generation of student leaders. After 27 years, I find I'm swimming in new lessons from that long-ago day.

 Fast forward to today: John Sarvey passed away yesterday at age 45, leaving behind his wife and two children. My mind is reeling. The meanings I made of the divestment protest, and the session with UCLA's student leaders, and the gathering of former Student Body Presidents are all in flux, all being reshaped again by my knowledge of their place in John's story. I see no resolution, no stable point where ambivalence, and love, and righteous anger, and the convergence of present and past all fit neatly into a narrative with an outcome and a moral. I only know that we are all vulnerable, all incomplete, and must strive with imperfect foresight and hindsight to find our causes and make our contributions.

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Name: Valerie Koury
Hometown: Osceola, Arkansas

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: I've been at UMBC for 5 semesters. 

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: I am a Resident Assistant in Chesapeake Hall. I am an ally for QUMBC.

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: I impact the experience of residential students and spread smiles across campus!

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A: I love how many opportunities UMBC presents to its students. My role as a Resident Assistant has showed me that there are tons of ways to make a difference in someone's life or to get involved with something that will change your life. I love that I am able to interact with residents daily and influence their residential experience.

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A: The most important thing I have learned at UMBC is to get involved! There are a lot of unique opportunities presented to us as college students that you can't get (for free, anyway) many other places. Take advantage of every opportunity and have fun!

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A: Nutella, nail polish, and Mexican cuisine.

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A: I think campus is very beautiful and I feel at home walking around here. Especially at this time of year with the trees changing colors and the view from the bridge near Library Pond, it's a wonderful place to live and to learn. 
BONUS VIDEO QUESTION: What else would you like to share? Ask yourself a question and answer it.



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Name: Amir Ali
Hometown: Englewood, NJ

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: This is my second year at UMBC

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: I work in the Office of Student Life, serve as a staff member in the Department of Environmental Affairs in SGA. I also serve on the executive board of the Black Student Union. 

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: My roles involves a LOT of smiling, writing, talking, laughing and meetings!

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A: I most enjoy talking to people in a completely natural, unforced way. Formal conversation is nice, but informal conversations shows me that a person is really going to allow me to see a side of them that they really don't have to show me. It is endearing!

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A: The most memorable thing that I have learned at UMBC is something that older students who I admired would say all the time: there is no excuse for you not to enjoy the UMBC experience! Being bored in college is never, ever, ever fine when there is literally SO much to do and be involved in! The most successful and admirable graduates that I've met are the people who did a ton of things on campus. That's where I want to be.

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A: Beef jerky

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A: I think an interesting story is the first time I played Humans vs. Zombies. It reminded me of being a kid again and it was so easy to get lost in the game! I had such a fun time out there running around Academic Row and hiding in crevices of buildings! It is really funny to me because the first time I saw the players on action I thought it was so, so, incredibly weird. Just goes to show that you shouldn't knock something 'til you try it!

BONUS VIDEO QUESTION: What else would you like to share? Ask yourself a question and answer it.



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 This is a story of a distant place, and memory, and time.

25 years ago tonight, I stood in a hall full of photographs come to life. I was a senior in college, serving as Student Body President of UCLA, and the people around me were the others who had held the same office through the long decades. Their portraits lined the walls of the President's office. Each stood for a year, of work and friendships, of meetings and conversations and arguments into the night. Their presence at that gathering, a once-in-a-very-long-while chance to share stories, made visible something I had only sensed: that here was something enduring, a living story to which I had linked my own. Forever.

 Very shortly I will travel to UCLA for another nighttime gathering of the Student Body Presidents, and I'm going to have the special privilege of spending the morning and afternoon speaking with members of the current student government. I've been thinking a lot about what I have to share with them. In one sense I'm a visitor from the past, bearing living memories of ancient history. In another sense I'm an ambassador from the distant future, who has lived years beyond graduation that the students can now only imagine. But I'm also a stranger, a portrait on the wall, totally disconnected from their everyday reality. The deeper thoughts I have to share, these vast quarter-century musings, seem too weighty for a mere conversation. 

 But if I can find a way, there are some things I'd like to communicate ...

The newest of the display cases, showing the most recent presidents
(My photo is in the top row, fourth from the left)
November 12, 1987
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 The application deadline for UMBC's annual STRiVE leadership retreat is this Thursday, November 15th at 5:00 p.m.  To learn about STRiVE, follow this link.  To apply, follow this one. Don't miss your chance to be a part of this amazing experience.


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Name: Anthony Costulas
Hometown: Pittsburgh

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: Roughly 4 months

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: I work as the Assistant Community Director in Harbor Hall.

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: I advise students to improve the projects they take that build community. Shorter Answer: I support students.

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A: I think the best part of what I do is the fact that I get to spend a good part of my day just brainstorming with students. I love sitting around and discussing ways that they can improve the building they live in. Sometimes, trying to find different ways to reach students can be like a puzzle. It's a great feeling when you work together to figure it out and find the answer. 

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A: I think the most important thing I learned in college is that the best way to make the most out of those 4 years is to be as involved as possible. The more you participate, the better chance you have of uncovering those opportunities that are hidden all over campus. Sometimes you learn more outside of the classroom then you could ever dream of learning within. 

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A: Netflix television (particularly Arrested Development).

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A: I've been here a short period of time, but I'm coming from a school where literally, the city sidewalks are your campus. This is a big change for me, so it's fantastic just to walk around the campus at night. I know it sounds strange, but before coming here, I never realized how much I missed fresh air. It's a beautiful campus. 

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Preparations
A stark choice

SGA Director of Community & Governmental Affairs Meghan Carpenter,
lead organizer of the Election Night Extravaganza
A crowd around the coffee station
So, this happened.

State Senator Ed Kasemeyer spoke and fielded questions.
State Delegate John Olszewski, Jr., a UMBC graduate student
SGA's Michael Collins
UMBC Vice President for Institutional Advancement Greg Simmons
Photo op
At the pizza station between deliveries. 200 large pizzas were consumed.
Win a game, get a t-shirt

University System of Maryland Student Regent Steven Hershkowitz

UMBC Associate Vice President & Baltimore City School Board Member
Lisa Akchin

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by David Hoffman

 Here are the rest of the life lessons I mentioned earlier this week: Things I had not yet worked out or did not feel confident about when I was in college, but began to gain clarity about later. Many of these observations also have been made by others, but I came to them through my own experiences.
What lessons of your own can you add? Which of my observations resonate with you?

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Name: Jennifer Chin
Hometown: Gaithersburg, MD

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: My fourth year, SENIOR!

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: I am a Residential Life Desk Staffer at Chesapeake Hall. 
I am in Phi Mu Fraternity for Women. 
I am an Environmental Science Major focusing on the study of Hurricanes & Meteorology.

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: I give outfit suggestions that go along with the weather I forecast.

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A: Everywhere I go on campus, I always know someone. It is nice being able to walk to class with peers and meeting more people in the UMBC community.

 Also since I forecast the weather and give suggestions on what to wear the next day, I enjoy that my friends on facebook actually listen to me and bother me if I have not yet posted a weather status. :)

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A: All of the professors in the Geography & Environmental Systems department are the nicest people I know. They have been so helpful to me through out the years I have been at UMBC. They are greatly appreciated!

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A: Smart biochem men.

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A: I discovered during my freshman year that the Administration Building serves breakfast and lunch. BEST DISCOVERY EVER!

 Also whenever I walk to class and it is cold outside, I walk through all of the buildings on academic row.

BONUS VIDEO QUESTION: What else would you like to share? Ask yourself a question and answer it.

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