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  <Title>Careers in Student Affairs Month -- Mini-Conference</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Saturday, October 2, 2010
    8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
    Towson University in Towson, Maryland.
    
    Presented by NASPA Region II and Towson University
    
    This conference is an chance for Students (Undergraduate and Graduate Students) to learn more about the field of Student Affairs.  Schools from all over the region will be in attendance so it will also provide valuable networking opportunities.
    
    Please Register Online for the Conference Using the Link Below
    
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  <Summary>Saturday, October 2, 2010 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM Towson University in Towson, Maryland.  Presented by NASPA Region II and Towson University  This conference is an chance for Students (Undergraduate and...</Summary>
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  <PostedAt>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:08:00 -0400</PostedAt>
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    <Title>New Career Services Website</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">The new Career Services Center website is up and running!  Check it out at <a href="http://careers.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">careers.umbc.edu</a>.</div>
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    <Summary>The new Career Services Center website is up and running!  Check it out at careers.umbc.edu.</Summary>
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    <Title>Win a Free Mini Refrigerator Filled with Tea</Title>
    <Tagline>Enter at the Yum Shoppe by September 16.</Tagline>
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          <div class="html-content"><div>Stop by Yum Shoppe on the ground floor of The Commons to enter to win a mini refrigerator filled with New Leaf Tea. Contest open to current UMBC students only. See store for rules and details. </div><div><br></div></div>
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    <Summary>Stop by Yum Shoppe on the ground floor of The Commons to enter to win a mini refrigerator filled with New Leaf Tea. Contest open to current UMBC students only. See store for rules and details. </Summary>
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  <Title>Real People Profiles: Sabah Ghulamali</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div><div><span><em>I’m    asking some of the people you might   encounter on the       UMBC    campus, including students, faculty and staff,  to  answer a   few        questions about themselves and their experiences.  These are    their        responses.</em><strong> </strong></span><br>
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    <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b2T0VNbkzjE/TIaXQ3SAiGI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/Fhagbhr9nao/s1600/Sabah+Ghulamali.jpg" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b2T0VNbkzjE/TIaXQ3SAiGI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/Fhagbhr9nao/s320/Sabah+Ghulamali.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></a><span><strong>Name: </strong>Sabah Ghulamali<strong> </strong></span><br>
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    <span><strong>Hometown:</strong> Germantown, MD<strong> </strong></span><br>
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    <span><strong>Q: How long have you been at UMBC?</strong> </span><br>
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    <span>A:  </span><span><span>This is the start of my fourth year</span><strong> </strong></span><br>
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    <span><strong>Q:  What is your current title (job or student organization position)?</strong> </span><br>
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    <span>A:  </span><span><span>Cultural Peer and Women's Collective Treasurer</span></span><span><strong> </strong></span><br>
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    <span><strong>Q: In 12 words   or less, what       role(s) do you play on campus?</strong> </span><br>
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    <span>A: </span><span><span> I am a student advocate, Mosaic/Interfaith Center representative, advice-giver, feminist, practical joker.</span></span><span><strong> </strong></span><br>
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    <span><strong>Q:  What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?</strong> </span><br>
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    <span>A: </span><span><span>I love meeting new people, getting students mobilized and empowered to make a difference at UMBC, and throwing awesome events.</span></span><span><strong> </strong></span><br>
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    <span><strong>Q:  What is the   most    important    or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned  at     UMBC?</strong> </span></div></div><div><br>
    <span>A:  </span><span><span>Not to be dismissive of an opinion just because I  disagree. Everyone has their reasons, and I find it impossible to debate  without an understanding of the opposing viewpoint.  On a different  note -- network, network, network.</span><strong> </strong></span><br>
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    <span><strong>Q:  Complete this sentence:  “I am a big fan of __________”</strong> </span><br>
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    <span>A: </span><span><span>Making a schedule and then breaking it.  Weekend  trips.  Anthony Bourdain.  Thrift stores. Undergraduate research.  Dancing. The Mosaic Center. Airplanes (I'm still convinced I will be a  flight attendant one day). </span></span><br>
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    <div><span><span> </span></span><span><strong>Q:     Do you have any UMBC    stories, little-known facts about UMBC,         favorite spots on campus,    or anything else you’d like to share?</strong> </span></div><div><br>
    </div><span>A:  </span><span><span>I would just like to say how awesome UMBC  art/music/theatre performances are. It is incredibly fun to go to plays  from the Theatre department, see student musicians/a cappella/musical  theatre groups, or view art displays in AOK Library for example.</span></span><br>
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    <span></span><span><span>Also, take advantage of the fact that UMBC requires  such a variety of classes to graduate. I've found that taking classes  from history, philosophy, american studies, political science, and more  has been really enriching. I even ended up loving french! And if you  can't find a class on what you would like to learn, it is totally  possible to do an independent study. I am completing one this semester  on feminist and post-colonial literary theory.  </span></span><span><span><br>
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    <Title>Did you Like The Translator</Title>
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          <div class="html-content"><p><em>The Translator</em> by Daoud Hari was the New Student Book Experience (<a href="http://www.umbc.edu/undergrad_ed/book/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">NSBE</a>) book for 2010. Did you like it? Was it a good choice for welcoming new students to intellectual life at UMBC? What book would be just as good or better? Each year the book for NSBE is selected from <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/undergrad_ed/book/nomform.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">nominations</a> by students, faculty and staff. Review the <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/undergrad_ed/book/goals_criteria.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">goals and selection criteria</a> for NSBE and <strong>nominate your favorite book today</strong>.</p></div>
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  <Title>Life on an Unfinished Campus</Title>
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    </div><div><span><span>A few weeks ago the big news on campus was that we were once again named the #1 Up-and-Coming university in the United States.  The phrase “up-and-coming” is appropriately kinetic:  It hints at both progress and instability, at sketches and erasures; at flux.  </span>Last week there was the flux of thousands of new students, the campus alive with voices after a quiet summer.  New black and gold banners lined the walkways, the completion of a creative community project two years in the making.  At Involvement Fest, many hundreds of students endured the heat of the day to reach out, make connections, and pull each other into the life of this place.  At Patapsco Hall there was a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new building, and the promise of more beds, a more residential campus, and pickup basketball games to be played on new courts in the years ahead.</span></div><div><span>  </span></div><div><span>At the groundbreaking, Resident Student Association President Carl Grun described having worked with other members of the UMBC community to envision and plan the new facilities.  He spoke of the opportunities students have to make their mark on this campus: to enter a history still being lived, and make contributions that matter.  It was inspiring to hear him name one of the things I appreciate most about this place: It is self-consciously becoming what it will one day be, and is not yet complete, and the flux itself is an invitation to join and create and become.</span></div><div><br>
    </div><div><span>But the construction and the messiness of growing do take a toll, as anyone who waited in a line of cars just to reach Hilltop Circle discovered last week.  I was relatively fortunate—I experienced the full lots but not the traffic—but I was surprised at how disorienting it was to walk in from the outskirts each day instead of parking in my old familiar territory.  I found myself fighting the irrational feeling that I might not be quite as welcome or included in this fresh version of UMBC.  I can understand how other members of our community might be feeling that way.  Here’s hoping that in week two and beyond, the felt experience of the campus is of excitement at boundless opportunities to make history and create community, and that our growing pains subside.</span></div><div></div></div>
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