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Blue Light System Continuing Despite Outages and Declining Student Use
First published Sept. 24, 2021 in Stories Beneath the Shell. By Molly Zatman The University of Maryland’s blue light system includes over 300 emergency phones stationed on and off campus for callers to directly contact the University of Maryland Police Department. Despite declining use, it will continue to operate. Blue light calls can range anywhere…
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Dedicated maintenance man provides welcoming presence for UMD community
First published Dec. 21, 2021 in Stories Beneath the Shell. Stanley Proctor is as close to a superhero as a maintenance guy can get. Timothy York, Proctor’s supervisor, said students and professors routinely request Proctor to fix whatever needs fixing. “Stanley’s work ethic is like not too many people. I can give him any task…
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UMD enters second phase of more than decade-long Campus Creek restoration
First published Wednesday, July 7, 2021 in the Diamondback. The Campus Creek at the University of Maryland, instead of providing a healthy ecosystem and serving as a home to aquatic animals, is home to water bottles and algae. Now, the university is fully restoring the creek, and experts said the restoration could again provide a…
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Behind the scenes, these employees ran the quarantine and isolation housing at UMD
First published Wednesday, June 30, 2021 in the Diamondback. Donning an N95 mask, Mike Butler drove students from their dorms to their quarantine or isolation housing in his black Suburban, separated by plexiglass. Butler serves as the vice president of Special Events Medical Services, a medical transport company that provides emergency medical and ambulance services…
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MaryPIRG is pressing Wendy’s in fight against antibiotic overuse
First published March 26, 2021 in the Diamondback. Students in the University of Maryland’s chapter of MaryPIRG are pushing Wendy’s to stop using antibiotics in their beef as part of an ongoing campaign to highlight antibiotic overuse — a system they say could impel the downfall of modern medicine. The initiative comes after McDonald’s, KFC,…
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UMD is failing to support Black faculty, leaders say
First published Feb 26, 2021 in Stories Beneath the Shell. by Jon Meltzer Despite the adoption of new programs to increase the number of Black faculty, the University of Maryland is failing to truly represent county and state demographics, campus labor leaders say. “The University of Maryland’s upper administration have a long history of [being]…
