Students may have been so thrilled to finally see the pond filled up with water that they may not have payed much attention to the new streetlights that have gone up along the freshly paved paths. Over the past few months, the new lamps have been cropping up around campus. They can also be found near the quad outside Math/Psych, as well as throughout the Hillside apartments, where they are standing but unlit.

“I haven’t noticed them because they aren’t turned on and I’m not sure why,” said Hanan Guzman, a junior studying psychology. “They look pretty, though.”

To illuminate our readers on the plans behind the new campus lighting, The Retriever reached out to Joseph Rexing, director of facilities management. Rexing is one of the driving forces behind the new lighting projects.

“The decision to replace the site lighting throughout campus was based on improving campus safety,” said Rexing. “Large site projects like the new campus entrance, West Hill Apartment renovation and the Storm Water Management Facility [library pond] renovation provided UMBC with the opportunity to apply new technologies to better address night lighting on a large scale.”