The Digital Content Associate will be responsible for generating new or increased sales revenue streams and building brand loyalty through a range of digital and e-commerce platforms. The position is responsible for managing and implementing all web content and online initiatives to support the BSO’s goals of driving earned revenue online and deepening patron engagement. This position will serve as the primary lead for maintenance of the BSO’s website (BSOmusic.org). The Digital Content Associate will drive innovation and efficiency with new ways to reach customer segments including current and emerging technologies. Successful candidates must have 1-3 years prior experience in a digital marketing or e-commerce role.
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Ticket Agents represent the face of the BSO and are responsible for all aspects of customer service, including but not limited to subscription sales, single ticket sales, exchanges and resolving customer issues by phone, e-mail/web, mail, fax and in person for all BSO venues, including the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and the Music Center at Strathmore. Ticket Agents must possess a friendly, service oriented demeanor and be willing to go above and beyond to assist BSO patrons. Must be flexible and willing to work daytime, evening and weekend hours.
]]>The Graphic & Digital Production Associate works closely with the Director of Marketing and the organization’s outside marketing agency (Planit) in the development of advertising and marketing collateral, including but not limited to: newspaper and magazine advertising, brochures, posters, direct mail, flyers, banners, signage, and web ads. In all functions, the Graphic Design Associate is expected to contribute a high degree of creativity to the development and production processes.
]]>Since most people only read the title and first sentence, here’s my question that I genuinely want answered:
Why do varsity athletes get to have scheduled lifting sessions in the non-varsity athlete weight room?
I’m not an athlete. I used to be one in high school. But I still want to try to stay physically fit, so I go to the gym fairly regularly to lift weights, since running on a treadmill makes me queasy. The RAC, granted, is small. I know that. I’ve gone at various times every day of the week, and it’s almost always a struggle to find a free squat rack, out of the hundreds if not TWO squat racks available to students (a smith machine doesn’t count, it works the wrong muscles and doesn’t necessitate balance). Now, I know what you’re going to say. “YOU LAZY COLLEGE STUDENT,” you say. “THE WEIGHT ROOM WOULD BE FREE IF YOU WENT EARLIER!!” And you know what, I listened to you. I listened, so I went at 7 am, as soon as the gym opened. And ya know what? It wasn’t free. So then I tried a different day at 7am. Still not free. And then yet ANOTHER day, 7am, and the weight room STILL WASN’T FREE. And it wasn’t full of other students who were CHOOSING to go to the gym at some awful hour when the sun still hadn’t risen. No, the SWIM TEAM had taken over the weight room. Monday and Wednesday (and some Fridays too), they’re in there hogging all the equipment and space. Their coaches are there too, making it seem to ME that they have a scheduled practice in the weight room.
I have no problem with people wanting to be healthier and workout who happen to be trying to workout the same time that I am. I applaud you for that. However, there are two issues I see with this situation.
1: The weight room and cardio balcony are able to be reserved for gym classes, which (given enough credits), is available to anyone on campus, or it is generally open to anyone on campus. The swim team is not a gym class, nor is it open to the general population on campus.
And 2: The varsity athletes get their own weight room! Why do they need to have ours as well?
I try to have a rational, analytical perspective on life, so let’s look at the possible reasons WHY the swim team has taken over one of the few places on campus for UMBC students (who aren’t paid to be athletic) to get rid of that freshman 50.
1- Scheduling problems. Maybe the varsity weight room is busy and already full with ANOTHER team using the weights, and maybe that’s the only time both teams are completely available for their workouts. If this is the problem, get a better schedule coordinator. Split the practices so not everyone is working out at once. Have an A/B schedule. I’m not speaking from ignorance about scheduling issues. I’ve scheduled tournaments for over 100 people and practices for multiple teams. You can make it work.
2- Equipment availability. Maybe the varsity weight room doesn’t have enough equipment for all of the swim team to use, or the right kind of equipment. If this is the case, why haven’t the varsity sports coordinators allocated a portion of the funds available to the athletics department to get apparently much-needed equipment? Or has that money already gone to building the new Athletic Center (which will be a monument of construction for years after we’re all gone).
3- Actually Unscheduled. If the athletics department here functions like many other teams I know of, the athletes are required to lift or run a certain number of extra hours each week in addition to usual practices. Maybe 7am on Monday Wednesday Friday just happens to be when most of the swim team is available, and maybe they can’t use their own weight room if it’s “extra” lifting. This case is also absurd. The coaches are there, the whole swim team is there, and they put up the “weight room is reserved” sign every so often just to make SURE the swim team gets their lifting in.
I’m not attacking the swim team. They’re one of the few teams on campus that actually does a great job, and I sure couldn’t be a Division 1 athlete. It takes a lot of work and schedule balancing, and I appreciate that! But it gets frustrating when the only time and place I have free to workout is taken by people who have access to other facilities.
The pool, I understand them taking that over. That is their turf, their field, their court. But sometimes the swim team has practice there when it’s supposed to be open to the public as well.
So, for any swimmers out there, can you answer my question? I honestly want to know. Why does the swim team get to take over the weight room? And does it happen with any other varsity teams at other times?
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]]>GWST 290: Issues and Phases in Women’s Health provides a detailed overview of the health issues that occur during the various phases of women’s lives.
Explore the biological understandings and social meanings of puberty, menstruation, reproduction and menopause, as you examine the problems/situations facing today’s women, including the specific health needs of women from different races, cultures, and ethnicities.
GWST 290 is conducted entirely on online using Blackboard, UMBC’s course management system.