By Davi Jacobs One of the largest sports clubs at UMD, Ballroom at Maryland, or BAM, offers an elegant and sophisticated social and physical opportunity for all to take up, including faculty, alumni and people from other universities. According to the club’s vice president of daily operations and junior bioengineering major Georgia Hammond, ballroom dance is accessible to both beginners and seasoned competitors.  Hammond explained … Continue reading Ballroom Club Opens Floor to Timeless Activity 

By Ela Jalil The Stamp Student Union Gallery welcomed a new exhibit called “Placeholder,” showcasing work from four artists whose work focused on what is beneath the surface and dives into concepts of gender and race.  The gallery website describes the artists using materials and images “to invoke what is absent, elsewhere, postponed, or in hiding.” The exhibit opened on Oct. 10, and runs until … Continue reading Stamp gallery explores what’s beneath the surface

By Isabella Carrero-Baptista Cow puns were stuck in Paul Leeds’ mind in high school, so much so that he started a list of them. That list eventually became a student-run retail business.  “It really is something that started with just a childhood, random fascination with [cows] and now we’re working together to turn that into something more,” said the University of Maryland alum and co-founder … Continue reading A moo-spiration: Student and alumni-run business uses cow puns to promote sustainability

By Fiona Flowers The UMCP UNICEF Club partnered alongside UMD Share and the Helping Hands Club, two campus social advocacy groups, to host a hygiene kit packing event on Thursday in an effort to  provide resources and relief to victims of Cyclone Mocha in Bangladesh. UMCP UNICEF is one of over 120 collegiate chapters across the nation established to promote social advocacy and humanitarianism among … Continue reading UMD UNICEF Club hosts hygiene kit packaging event to aid cyclone victims in Bangladesh