This Week's Events: 4/4-4/10

This Week's Events: 4/4-4/10 Tuesday 4/5:

Halo Reach Tournament

//When: 7pm

//Where: Gameroom

Wednesday 4/6:

Independent Film Series: Tapped

//When: 7pm

//Where: Skylight

SEB and the UMBC Climate Commitment Task Force have banded together to bring yoooooouuuuu...........Tapped! Come join us as we bring to light the injustices of water bottle companies. Plus, there will also be some light refreshments!

Thursday 4/7:

Open Mike Night: Best Mashup

//When: 8pm

//Where: Sports Zone

Weekly Movie Series: Little Fockers

//When: 10pm

//Where: lh1

Tickets are $2 and are available at the Commons Info Center. Buy before the movie. Popcorn included.

Friday 4/8:

Weekly Movie Series: Little Fockers

//When: 8pm

//Where: lh1

Tickets are $2 and are available at the Commons Info Center. Buy before the movie. Popcorn included.

Live Music: Chasing Scarlette, Kabob-O-Taj, Kyle Blair

//When: 9pm

//Where: Flat Tuesdays

Saturday 4/9:

DC Bus Trip

//When: 8am

//Where: Commons Circle

CHERRY BLOSSOMS CHERRY BLOSSOMS CHERRY BLOSSOMS CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL

Weekly Movie Series: Little Fockers

//When: 8pm

//Where: Sports Zone

Tickets are $2 and are available at the Commons Info Center. Buy before the movie. Popcorn included.

Breakfast and Bingo

//When: 8pm

//Where: Sports Zone

Nothing's better than a rousing game of bingo while you stuff yourself full of pancakes and bacon. Come out and play bingo!!! Its free and there are awesome prizes for winning as well as free breakfast for everyone. We'll have different prizes and breakfast items at each event.

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Tuesday 4/5: Halo Reach Tournament //When: 7pm //Where: Gameroom Wednesday 4/6: Independent Film Series: Tapped //When: 7pm //Where: Skylight SEB and the UMBC Climate Commitment Task...

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I’m 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: Claudia Valenzuela

Hometown: Nashville, TN

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: 3 years

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

A: Vice President of the Hispanic Latino Student Union (HLSU), Meyerhoff Scholar, MARC U*STAR Trainee

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

A: Help oversee HLSU and do research

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

A: I like the amount of people I have been able to meet through HLSU and my major. I feel like UMBC is small enough that everyone is connected in one way or another!

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

A: I think it’s really important to get involved with the things you are most interested and passionate about. UMBC offers a wide variety of groups and organizations that can cater to this, and if they don’t have what you’re looking for—you can start it!

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

A: Fashion and music!

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 has a lot of nice relaxing spots like the rock garden or even the physics building balcony. My favorite is the lake behind the Research and Technology Park. It’s really beautiful in the fall, and a great place to sit, read, and just think.

Also, the dining hall is GREAT for lunch!

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I’m 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...

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Name: Jennifer Bohn

Hometown: Woodstown, NJ

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: This is my fourth semester!

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

A: Susquehanna Desk Staffer for Residential Life, Event Programmer for SEB, Undergraduate Researcher

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

A: I am someone who people feel comfortable coming to for information about anything on campus!

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

A: I love that I am able to be a friendly face that people recognize and that I am able to interact with so many different people on a daily basis! Everyone knows me from work at the desk so its great to get so many friendly smiles and hellos while walking around campus. Now people are starting to know me from SEB too so I get questions about events while I'm at the desk! My jobs make it so easy to get to know such a diverse group of people on campus and I love it!

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

A: You have to take advantage of every opportunity you are offered here. Always put yourself out there and never underestimate what you are capable of doing! Sometimes, on my most overwhelming days of the week, I think maybe I have committed myself to too many things, however I love everything I do. On campus there are so many opportunities to find your niche and I feel like I've found quite a few for myself: desk staff, SEB, research, and most recently Phi Sigma Sigma :)

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

A: Chips and salsa! Completely and totally the perfect snack, always!

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 never used to study at the library, but recently I have discovered that the first floor of the library is hoppin!!! Seriously, sometimes its a recipe for unproductiveness, BUT there is always someone to say hi to! So eventually when you realize you actually need to crack open the backpack you know there is always someone to take a study break and talk to and theres almost always someone to study with! Its the best!

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UMBC sophomore Collin Wojciechowski (Real People Profile here) is going to be taking on some huge responsibilities in the coming year. In a state university system with 13 institutions, 168,000 students and an operating budget of over $4 billion, he's going to be the one student with a voice and a vote on the official governing board. Collin has been appointed by Governor O’Malley to be the University System of Maryland's Student Regent for 2011-2012.

The Regents have tremendous power to support and improve higher education in this state. Their decisions on matters including tuition and fees, the hiring of university presidents and the creation of new schools and programs will affect students for generations. Having the Student Regent position filled by a UMBC student creates opportunities for all other UMBC students to share their concerns and priorities with somebody with a voice and a vote where it counts.

Collin will be the third UMBC student to serve in the role. Phil Shockley (2003-2004) and Josh Michael (2008-2009) also served while they were UMBC undergraduates.

Collin is an approachable, self-deprecating person who has devoted himself to studying, writing about and helping to shape state policy. In high school he served as the student member of his county Board of Education. At UMBC he's a Sondheim Scholar, SGA's Director of Government and Community Affairs, and Opinion Editor of The Retriever Weekly. Last fall he was a student in the course on social change I teach with Delana Gregg (that's POLI 205/AMST 205/SOCY 205, for those of you about to start registering for fall 2011 courses). He's going to be a great ambassador and resource for UMBC. Congratulations, Collin!

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UMBC sophomore Collin Wojciechowski (Real People Profile here) is going to be taking on some huge responsibilities in the coming year. In a state university system with 13 institutions, 168,000...

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Beginning Tuesday, April 5, UMBC is instituting single sign-on for Library resources. This means that once you have logged into myUMBC you will be able to access your catalog account, Research Port, and our other electronic resources without an additional log in. All Library resources will be accessed using your myUMBC username and password instead of your 14-digit Library ID.

Will this change the way I renew books or check my catalog account?
You will still renew books through your catalog account, but the log in process will be different. After clicking on the "My Library Account" link you will still be asked to select your campus. After selecting UMBC, you will be taken to a standard UMBC log-in screen where you will log in with your myUMBC username and password. This last step will be bypassed if you are already logged into myUMBC and you will be taken directly to your catalog account.

Special borrowers and alumni card holders are currently unable to access their library accounts. We are working on this problem and hope to have it resolved soon. In the meanwhile, please contact the Circulation Desk at 410-455-2354 or e-mail circlib@lists.umbc.edu if you need to check due dates or renew items.
Will this change the way I access Library resources (article databases, e-journals, etc.) from off-campus?
There will be no change if you use the UMBC VPN for off-campus access.

If you access Library resources directly from the Library's website, or if you use Research Port for off-campus access, the log in process will be different. As noted above you will still need to select UMBC as your campus, but from there you will be taken to a standard UMBC log-in screen where you will log in with your myUMBC username and password. If you are already logged into myUMBC you will be taken directly to your selected resource once you select UMBC as your campus.

Some patrons have reported receiving a message stating that their account has expired when trying to access Research Port through single sign-on. If you receive this error message please send the following information to Janet Hack:
- Your name
- Your campus ID
- Your Library ID (from your myUMBC Profile)
- The 14-digit number above the barcode on your UMBC ID card
- Please indicate if you have ever used a different 14-digit number to access Research Port
If you are not able to access Research Port through single sign-on, please try using the UMBC VPN for access. See our page at http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/services/remoteaccess.php for more information on using the VPN.
Will this change the way I use Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad)
ILLiad is not part of the switch to single sign-on. You will still need to use your self-selected ILLiad username and password for all ILL requests.

Thank you for your assistance as we work our way through the unanticipated problems encountered during the switch to single sign-on. We hope that this change will ultimately make it easier to access Library resources. Please send any comments or concerns to Janet Hack, or contact the Reference Desk at 410-455-2346

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Beginning Tuesday, April 5, UMBC is instituting single sign-on for Library resources. This means that once you have logged into myUMBC you will be able to access your catalog account, Research...

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UMBC undergraduate Ecaterina Coman has explored the unusual sinuous bright markings found on the surface of the Moon.

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The Healing Arts

The Restoring Power of Imagination

by Cathy Malchiodi

Telling without Talking: Breaking the Silence of Domestic Violence

Art breaks the silence of domestic violence.

Published on September 26, 2008

Speaking the truth about domestic violence is a step toward healing for all survivors. But when talking about violence brings shame, ambivalence, and fear, art therapy gives survivors not only a voice, but also is a way to raise consciousness about the profound effects of battering and all forms of abuse between partners.

While I have no explanation for the psychology behind the current financial crisis, as a therapist I am certain of one psychological effect of an economic turndown -- an increase in domestic violence. In this time of economic uncertainty, job loss, home foreclosures, and increased costs of living, pressures mount in families and frayed tempers inevitably will give way to an increase in battering and abuse. According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, domestic violence is a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. Physical, sexual, emotional, economic or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person may all be part of the dynamics, including any behaviors that frighten, intimidate, terrorize, manipulate, hurt, humiliate, blame, injure or wound another individual.

While domestic violence can happen to anyone of any race, age, sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic status, or gender, for the past 25 years I have worked with adult women and child survivors and mostly those who have found refuge in shelters and safe houses. I suspect that with the continuing economic rollercoaster, we will see a rise in not only reports of domestic violence, but also a strain on these community-based programs that help women and children leave abusive relationships.

Although personal safety and a violence-free life are the first and foremost issues for anyone who is the victim of domestic violence, the long term healing process involves recovery from cumulative trauma, often posttraumatic stress reactions, and almost always personal shame and loss of self. Art therapy, which formally began as a field and treatment shortly after World War II, continues to be widely adopted to help battered women and children deal with their physical and emotional scars. Art as a healing force does not come easy for those whose lives have been controlled, are accustomed to betrayal and punishment, and have learned self-hatred. But inevitably when it does, creativity and imagination restore a sense of possibility, identity, and reconnection with parts of the self that were silenced in order to survive the violence. While survivors often feel shame in talking about abuse, talking about their artworks is an experience of finally coming home.

The tradition of art as a voice for domestic violence survivors has spawned a number of well-known programs, including the Clothesline Project, a project to address violence against women. In 1990, visual artist Rachel Carey-Harper, inspired by the AIDS quilt, presented the concept of using shirts hanging on a clothesline as a way to raise consciousness. Since doing the laundry was always considered women's work and women often exchanged information over backyard fences while hanging their clothes out to dry, the concept of the clothesline became the vehicle. Each year thousands of women now tell their stories of survival—and commemorate victims who died from domestic violence—by using words and/or artwork to decorate a t-shirt to be exhibited on a clothesline. And programs such as A Window Between Worlds in Venice, CA, serve as models for how art helps both women and children develop a sense of hope, possibility, and safety.

In her seminal volume, Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman echoes the very reason that violence must be transformed in some way in order for recovery to begin: “Certain violations are too terrible to utter out loud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable …Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried.” Domestic violence is one of those atrocities that continues to plague lives and for its survivors, is often too horrific to verbalize. Unfortunately, it may increase and intensify in these weeks and months if the expected financial crises continue. And while art is not the panacea for abuse, it is certainly a way through it and one that not only transforms the atrocities of violence, but also sends a powerful message that ultimately breaks the silence.

If you need help, please contact National Domestic Violence Hotline at http://www.ndvh.org/ or phone 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

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Source: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-healing-arts/200809/telling-without-talking-breaking-the-silence-domestic-violence

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UMBC now has trial access to the database Filmmakers Library Online. The trial runs through May 30, 2011.

Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.

For off-campus access, please login via VPN first (http://vpn.umbc.edu). Then follow the link under "News & Events" on the library homepage. For more info on remote access, see http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/services/remoteaccess.php

Please let us know what you think. Leave a comment or send your comments to Eric Jeitner at ejeitner@umbc.edu.

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