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SUPPORTING CAMPAIGNS
A look into how Maryland faculty and staff are supporting political campaigns with money and their bully pulpits

By Nathan Burchfiel
Editor in Chief

University officials and faculty members have been pouring money into political campaigns the past four years.
Liberal candidates are seeing the majority of that money. The Terrapin Times spent the summer exploring data made available through the Federal Election Commission, which oversees elections and donations to political campaigns and Political Action Committees. For the full story click here.

 

Mote 'State of the Campus': Improving
President optimistic on future, fails to address SGA president’s concerns
by Matt Kinnear
Staff Writer

University President C.D. Mote addressed a small crowd Monday of mostly University Senate members and a handful of students with his annual “State of the Campus” speech in the Hoff Theater. Referring to his 1999 speech that presented several goals for the university, Mote explained in detail how he thinks he has achieved his goals through three major themes. The first theme was "marking the road to excellence.” According to Mote, the university has come a long way in accomplishing this. He cited the U.S. News rankings, where the university’s number of top-10 programs jumped from 10 in 1999 to 24, one short of his projected goal, and the University’s standing among other public institutions jumped from 30th to18th—shy of the goal of 15th. Click here for more...

SGA President Reviews Summer, looks to fall
SGA President Aaron Kraus sits with The Terrapin Times

Rushing into the Student Government Association offices on a Saturday afternoon, SGA President Aaron Kraus seemed a bit flustered. The day most students were just starting to think about getting back to school was just another day of hassles for Kraus, who in addition to his dealings as SGA president complained about his struggles with the Office of Information Technology. More on this story by Nathan Burchfiel....

Group to promote voting

Student groups all across campus have been planning various events to prepare University of Maryland students for the upcoming presidential election, and many of those student organizations have come together to create one comprehensive group called UMVotes.
UMVotes is a nonpartisan group made up of between five and seven faculty members and representatives from more than 15 different student groups. The group is devoted to not only encouraging students to become registered voters, but to also become active voters. More on this story by Kelly Shelton

 

UMD Earns ‘B’ from web site

CampusDirt.com rates the University of Maryland at College Park with an overall grade of B and a ranking
of 116 out of 765 schools evaluated by the site.
CampusDirt.com, a relatively new Web site, joins The Princeton Review and U.S. News and World Report as one of many companies and Web sites that rank colleges on academics and student life. More on this story by Nicholas Sinlock....

Kraus Pleads for support
from on-campus media

In his State of the Campus speech earlier this month, the SGA president implored The Diamondback to be less critical of the student government. SGA President Aaron Kraus, who delivered the speech at the first student government meeting of the semester on Sept. 1, said, “I and the SGA will make plenty of mistakes, and we should be
called out for each and every one of them,” but he asked The Diamondback to also focus on positive steps taken by the student government.  More on this story by Rob Garner (full transcript, audio file and poll findings available)

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At The Movies: Garden State

Image courtesy of Dreamworks Pictures

Boasting a hugely talented cast, sublimely dry humor and an incredible soundtrack, Garden State really takes the trash out of Jersey. Written, directed by and starring Zach Braff, star of NBC’s “Scrubs,” Garden State captures the essence of being truly lost and unexpectedly found.
Andrew Largeman (Braff), a semisuccessful Los Angeles actor living an incredibly bland, lithium-based life, comes home for the funeral of his paraplegic mother. Click here for the full review by Megan Lipke

Meet the Greeks: Alpha Delta Pi


Winning “Outstanding Senior Involvement” in the spring of 2004 and placing third at Greek Week in spring of 2004, the Alpha Delta Pi sorority has its foot in the door in many arenas on and off campus.
The women of Alpha Delta Pi have something special. The bond and lifelong friendship they share can be seen simply by their motto, “we live for each other.” Involvement in their sorority certainly does not end with a group of friends. It spans over community involvement, philanthropy activities, and campus and social activities. More on this story by Megan Lipke

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Students Deserve Disclosure

We ran into a surprising amount of resistance from the administration in putting information together for the article on campaign contributions. We expected that they wouldn’t be too happy about the general idea, but had no idea they would be so hostile to it.
President Mote refused to comment on several different occasions, claiming that it wasn’t his position to comment on this issue, as it isn’t a campus policy issue. Then what, pray tell, is a campus policy issue, Dr. Mote? Click here for more

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Fighting Bush On the Issues?

With the election just around the corner, I thought this would be a good time to examine a couple of the issues the Democrats think they can beat Bush on and what reality of the matter is.
Vice President Richard Cheney. Democrats are trying to burn Bush saying Cheney is some grand wizard pushing some diabolical agenda. However, look at this character that the
Democrats have for the same office.  More on this Opinion piece by Marion Tallent

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