This Week's Events: 1/31-2/5
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011:
Breakfast and Bingo
//When: 9:00-10:30 pm
//Sports Zone
Just come out and we supply everything you'll need including a delicious breakfast that we will change up every event. Winners will receive prizes!!!


Thursday, February 3rd, 2011:
Rockband Competition
//When: 7-9pm
//Gameroom
Rock Band Competition in the Gameroom. We supply the instruments, you supply the band members. Sign up in groups of three to compete. The winners can choose which concert they would like to attend at Ram's Head Live in downtown Baltimore. Free pizza!
Ms. Lauryn Hill. 2/10.
Keller Williams. 2/11.
Buckcherry, Hellyeah, All That Remains, The Damned Things. 2/12.
Milkshake. 2/13.
The Young Dubliners, Barleyjuice, The Rovers. 2/16.
Shane Burke & Time Columns, Ricky Barnwell, Stacked Like Pancakes, Swarm The North, The First Condition. 2/17.
Plain White T's, Miggs, Parachute. 2/18.
Medicine Lake, Smooth Kentucky, Cameron Blake. 2/24.

Disney Karaoke
//When: 8-10pm
//Sports Zone
Sing your favorite Disney tunes! We're giving out free cupcakes too!

Friday, February 4th, 2011:
Live Music: The Acoustic Sessions
//When: 9-11pm
//Sports Zone
Free concert performances by Marlena & Billy (Up and coming Harmonically driven duo), Trancedent Third (Identical Twin's and Baltimore University Alumns), The Town Criers (Three time UMBC Battle of The Bands Winners)
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The four tiny Chihuahua puppies were whirlwinds of frantic energy moving across the carpeted sunroom floor.  The two smallest and darkest, male and female littermates, wandered among the watching humans with evident irritation at the intrusion.  The male, which could have passed for an absurdly small Doberman, barked and snapped at onlookers’ extended fingers.  The copper-colored female sniffed with curiosity but growled at every sudden move, protective and untrusting. 

Across the room two males from a different litter were less eager to engage us.  One of them, his white fur attractively tinted with grey and brown blotches, confidently explored the room’s furniture, repeatedly crossing beneath and behind the sofa.  The other, white and tan, was clearly the shyest of the group.  He sought refuge in the farthest corner and watched the action with apparent anxiety.  When approached with an outstretched hand, he sniffed cautiously and offered a tentative lick.

Ten minutes later, Sharon and I sat on a bench outside, trying to decide what to do.  We had agreed that we would adopt two of the puppies.  I know now that in the ensuing years, the two we chose would become true members of our family, and our affection for them would shape our relationship and our lives.  I know now that their health and happiness is necessary to my own sense of stability and well-being, and that a large part of my perspective on life arises from loving these innocent little companions.  But sitting on that bench more than four years ago, we had to decide: Which two?

Sharon favored the two smallest.  She identified strongly with the female’s protectiveness, and worried that no other owner would be patient with their surliness.  She believed that in a loving home those two would blossom.  They needed us.  But I wanted the two slightly larger male pups.  I identified strongly with the anxious one’s shyness, and appreciated their gentleness.  I imagined that we had somehow inspired their friendliness; that their willingness to lick our hands meant we would bond with them easily.

As I sit here typing this today, it is impossible to envision our decision on the bench having gone a different way.  I wonder sometimes about the two dogs we left behind, and hope they found loving homes.  But I know my family was completed by our choice.

Penny, September 2006
Protective little Penny remains skittish around strangers, but she has grown to trust us, and treasures the comfort of Sharon’s lap.  She is ridiculously intelligent, always spotting the nuances in situations, anticipating both danger and opportunities to snack.  She can melt your heart with her imploring gaze; Sharon says she has me wrapped around her little paw.  Penny still snarls when she’s disturbed, especially while sleeping, but she takes care of us all, leaping to check on us when there is trouble; we half-jokingly call her “Nurse Puppy.”

Bucky, September 2006
Anxious Bucky grew from the pup that hid in the corner into a cheerful, eager playmate and explorer.  His shyness still comes out in the form of tail-wagging tentativeness around strangers (human or canine), but when he feels safe, he is an affection-seeking missile, leaping onto laps and thrusting his head forward for kisses.   His energy and charisma make him the one every visitor ends up wanting to take home.  Unlike me, Bucky rarely has any problem identifying and asking for exactly what he wants or expressing his every feeling, and I treasure him partly as a model of emotional health.

I love these dogs for being exactly themselves: so very different from me and Sharon (and each other), and so very much like us.  And I’m grateful that Sharon and I listened closely to each other and our hearts, on that bench perched on the edge of forever.

Penny and Bucky, January 2011


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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: Shivany N Trujillo

Hometown: I grew up on the island of Trinidad and moved to Saint Louis MO for college (I consider this my US Hometown)

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: 3 weeks... I started in Jan 2011

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

A: Community Director of the West Hill and Terrace Apartments

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

A: Develop positive living environments so students have a well rounded UMBC experience.

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

A: Working with my RAs to plan activities that can benefit our community, learning about UMBC students and experiencing the growth and development of stduents.

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

A: I have learned that regardless of what situations I find myself in, I hold firm to my values.

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

A: Glee, reading, scrapbooking & the Saint Louis Cardinals

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: There is a Trinidadian restaurant in Baltimore that I would encourage everyone to try.
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In the final moments of the dream, I watched my 9th grade Spanish teacher throw a portable radio high into the air.  As it landed with a crash, I awoke to the sound of my UCLA roommate, Bobby, bursting through our door.  He had an early class on Tuesdays in that second semester of our sophomore year, but I generally got to sleep late.  I was still caught up in the memory of the dream, but Bobby started talking loud and fast.  “Hey, Dave!,” he said.  “Did you hear that the space shuttle exploded?”

Just as with September 11, 2001, people old enough to have experienced that morning—January 28, 1986 (25 years ago this week)—are almost certain to remember where they were when they heard the news.  Back then the space shuttle still inspired a lot of fascination, and missions got plenty of attention.  This launch, of the Challenger, was more closely watched than most.  Christa McAuliffe was on board: a high school teacher who was the first true civilian selected to fly into space (a couple of members of Congress had flown on previous missions).  There had been extensive TV news coverage of McAuliffe’s selection and training.  Millions of young students watched the launch on TVs in their classrooms that morning.

In my initial shock, some of my thoughts were deeply cynical.  It struck me as suspicious that this shuttle mission, the one that had received so much attention in advance, would be the one to result in a tragedy.   I speculated about the possibility that the launch had been sabotaged, perhaps by people in the government, for someone’s political or financial gain.  But within hours a new sentiment took hold.  As with the shootings in Tuscon a few weeks ago, this was a moment in which everyone was experiencing a sense of horror and loss.  Even as each news cycle brought new, morbid details and finger-pointing, there was a shared feeling of sobriety and common purpose, and there was comfort in the sharing.  When President Reagan spoke on the night of the disaster about the astronauts having "waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God," I felt both moved and connected with everyone within reach of his voice.  I felt like a citizen.

For those of you old enough to recall that day, what are your memories?
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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: Greg Simmons

Hometown: Born in Southington, CT, and have lived in Baltimore City for almost 20 years.

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: Since 1993

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

A: Vice President for Institutional Advancement

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

A: Connect people and companies to the rich creative and intellectual resources of the university. 

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

A: I really love learning about the work of faculty, staff and students, and introducing people to UMBC through those stories.  The really exciting moments come when those stories help inspire people and organizations to invest in the work of UMBC.  

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

A: UMBC has helped me understand what it takes to be an active member of a vibrant community--to be involved, to build relationships across the organization, to pay attention to details, and to be passionate about the work and the people who do it.  

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

A:  The SGA's Prove It! program.

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: Whenever possible, I take the walkway bridge to meetings at bwtech@UMBC.  The little bit of exercise is great, and walking through the woods and past the ponds is a great way to catch my breath and get ready for my next meeting.  
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All public photocopying in the Library now defaults to duplex (two-sided) copying. Patrons may change to simplex (one-sided) photocopying by following instructions posted at the photocopiers.

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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: Heather Kopf

Hometown: Mount Airy, Maryland

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: This is my 10th and final semester at UMBC! I'm both scared and ridiculously excited.

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

A: The really cheesy and generally awesome Assistant to the President in the SGA, I'm the Vice President of Recruitment for our Panhellenic Association and member of my sorority (which shall remain nameless until the end of February... shhh, it's a secret!)

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

A: Helpful, enthusiastic and thoroughly hectic energized recruiter (didya get where that came from?) My alternate: Helping UMBC students find their home and niche at UMBC.

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

A:  Oh my gosh, I love it all. Truly. And that sounds ridiculous, but I love these positions when it's fun and I love it when it's hard, because it provides a challenge for me, and I love challenges. I am such a people person, so I love getting to know so many people through these positions. I meet so many new girls who I think would be wonderful additions to our Greek community to expand our academics, community service, and leadership capabilities. Being our VP of Recruitment this year, I've been able to extend their invitations to them for Greek membership and seeing the looks on their faces when they receive these makes the hard work and stress worth it. It has been one thing I've found at UMBC that makes me totally and completely happy inside. I live to please, it's what I do. I also get to meet so many other students working with the SGA and love getting to hear how passionate they are about changing some injustices of our community. One of my favorite things is getting to see others grow in their roles. Being here for five years, I've gotten to see students come in as freshman, take on these opportunities and really flourish and grow into these amazing people, it's really exciting. And I love looking at things the SGA has done, that I've been blessed to be apart of and saying, "Wow, look, WE DID THAT! We made that happen!" All the positions I've had since my freshman year have really made me grow into the person I am today. I really enjoyed learning about myself, what I do well and what I don't, and finding new tools to use when I'm out in the real world. My friend Catie told me she has probably learned more from being a leader than in some of the classes she takes, and I have to say I wholeheartedly agree with her.

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

A: I've learned A LOT being in college and I want to break this down by year, bear with me:

Freshman Year: Don't be afraid to speak up. I started out as a First Year Ambassador to our SGA Senate as a freshman and was generally very quiet (for those who know me, you know this seems impossible, but I was). But starting out in this role taught me to trust my instincts and speak up, because if you don't then who will?

Sophomore Year: Get involved and don't be afraid to try new things! I rushed my sorority the fall of this year and I never even considered Greek Life as an option for my college career. It has definitely been a growing experience and something I will cherish for the rest of my life, it was one of my best decisions in college!

Junior Year: Know your limits, don't try and take on the world. If you know me, you know I try to do about 10,000 things at once, I love to take on EVERYTHING I can muster. I just really like to be busy! But during this year I came under some hardships and learned that I really needed to step back from everything and take care of myself and my academics for a while. It was hard to do, hard to withdrawal a bit from the world, but it was something I needed to do in order for me to move forward. Another big learning experience.

Senior Year: Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it, and you come first so take care of YOURSELF. I can be very stubborn and feel that I can conquer anything (Junior year ring a bell?). But this year was very hard for me personally, mentally, physically, and socially. I realized I can't do everything on my own, and that is OK. I thought by asking for help that would make me seem weak and incompetent, but what I learned was that it just made me human. This was definitely a year I took to really learn about myself and try and better myself.

SUPER SENIOR Year: Make the most out of every experience and never give up! My very last year (at least my mother hopes so!) and I want it to be the most memorable one! I've learned that most experiences are what you make of it, so if you make it the best that you can, it will be positive, and visa versa. While keeping all of the above in mind, I've gotten back into being super involved and have learned my limits, learned my strengths, and have vowed to make this last semester my very best. It's my last chance, I can't slack now, not when I've worked so hard to get here!

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

A:  Coffee... lists... crafty things... old movies... friends and family: my support system... without it, I would NOT be standing right now.

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:  Honestly, I could probably write a book about my life at UMBC. Half the stuff that happened, you just could not make up, but that is what has made it interesting and I'll always remember my time here at UMBC. 

Memories, hmmm... One birthday, my roommate and sorority sister filled our ENTIRE room with balloons, it was SO funny to come back to, there were balloons EVERYWHERE in our building for days! When the tragedy at Virginia Tech occurred, the whole UMBC community gathered and brought this amazing support to each other and the VT community. That day, the power went out at UMBC and no one really knew what was going on except for hear-say. But hearing the stories from other students and friends was something I will never forget. And well, lets not get me started on the snow storm last February... while it SUCKED because I broke my ankle and didn't get a chance to get to urgent care for a week and a half, some of those in SGA and I built this snow castle in the courtyard of Walker Building 2... mail boxes we used to build the bricks of snow remained in my apartment for weeks!

A place not many people remember (or were at UMBC for) was the Hillcrest building. I thought it was the coolest building and had SO much history. Of course, it had many tall tales to go along with it and embellishing those stories just made the thought of the building more fun. I remember freshman year, my friends and I walked up and sat in front of it after midnight breakfast and I offered up my orange juice to whatever ghost may still be lurking in the building. Reports were that it was haunted but I never got to investigate before they tore it down! (Yeah, I'm one of THOSE nerds) I was extremely sad to see the building go, especially because it housed SO much of our UMBC history and thought it deserved to be preserved. But I feel lucky to have experienced the building while it was here and be able to be a part of its history, even for that short amount of time.

Another place I love is the hill that overlooks the athletic field. My friend William showed it to me one day and it has remained one of my favorite places to go and just sit and think... and of course do silly photo-shoots with my friends. I also love the SGA office. I've had SO many fun experiences and moments in there that make me laugh every time I think of them!

All in all, my experience at UMBC has been an adventure! And as cliche as it sounds, it has definitely been a roller coaster ride with many ups and downs. But like I said, they have given me life lessons that I will take with me for the rest of my life, and for that I am very grateful.

(Apologies for "War and Peace")
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Learn about URA and how to get started by attending upcoming workshops.

Monday February 7th 12:00-1:00 p.m. in Admin bldg. 911

Join us at the follow-up meeting where we will begin the URA application process on:
Friday, February 11th 12:00-1:00 p.m. in Admin bldg. 911

For more information, contact Janet McGlynn at mcglynn@umbc.edu or visit the website below:
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All printing in the Library now defaults to duplex (two-sided) printing. Patrons may change to simplex (one-sided) printing before they send their documents to the printer by following instructions posted here: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/services/printing.php and at Library workstations.

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Based on requests and expressed interest in new or alternate products, the MDL has arranged trial access to the following databases. 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

URLs and log-in information, where needed, are as follows:

EBSCO
Academic Search Complete
Business Source Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Log-in Information

Additional EBSCO Trials - no log in required
Art & Architecture Complete
Film & Television Literature Index, with Full Text

ProQuest (no login necessary) good thru 2/18
ProQuest Newsstand

Oxford Bibliographies Online
www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com
Log-in Information


Bio One 2 (Active for subscribers to BioOne 1, no login necessary)
http://www.bioone.org/search

Past Masters
good thru 2/25
Log-in Information

SAGE good thru 2/28
Criminology and Nursing/Health Science
Log-in Information

H.W. Wilson (no login needed)
WilsonWeb Readers’ Guide Retrospective good thru 2/28

Gale (no login needed)
GREENR - Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources
http://www.galetrials.com/default.aspx?TrialID=8463;ContactID=27220
(if the above link doesn't work, please copy and paste into your browser)

Please let us know what you think.

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