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Acting Up and Speaking Out

Julia C. '13
The civil unrest in Baltimore this past spring provided a platform for several UMBC faculty, staff, and students to speak out on the state of the city: the events of the past, the problems of the present, and solutions for the future. Breaking Ground compiled a diverse range of voices on Baltimore from the UMBC communi...
Julia C. '13
Check out this 2013 interview with Michele Wolff, director of the Shriver Center, about the Center's origin and UMBC's tradition of social responsibility: http://bit.ly/1M4grDe Were you involved with the Shriver Center? Tell us about your experience in the comments.
Julia C. '13
Free Hour, otherwise known as the reason for all the long lines in the Commons between noon and 1 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays (seriously, can a girl just grab a box of sushi and skitter back to class already?), was actually the result of grassroots student organizing back in 1970. UMBC formed its first Student ...