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If cities win the power and money the mayors asked for, the plan should be simple: homes before shelters, jobs that use people’s skills and building partnerships among one another.
Despite the common critiques of enrollment numbers and culture war topics, one undeniable but often ignored piece of evidence of this separation between such institutions and the communities they claim to serve is the practice of “career funneling.”
With biology, our first event in a world with a newly prevalent and accessible biotechnology infrastructure may also be our last. Fundamentally, we must be anticipatory instead of reactive.
Once Uber became ubiquitous — just “the way” to get back from BWI — they were suddenly able to employ as predatory a pricing strategy as they wanted. This was the switch investors knew would happen eventually. But what does this story have to do with AI?
The nature of our financially independent newspaper is to record all types of University activity, including student-led advocacy, neighborhood rallies and the administration’s responses to it all.
The influx of STEM majors into humanities classes, degrading the quality of discussion-based humanities courses, has made the FAs just as harmful to non-STEM majors within the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
My great-grandmother was not a threat, neither was the rest of my family who came thereafter or the woman I described at the start of this piece. Immigration policy should exist to give them, as it once gave my family, an honest chance at life and a chance at the American dream.
While SDS is designed to support all students, its initiatives often center on accommodations that suit those with mental disabilities, leaving physical accessibility underemphasized. Examples of accommodations listed on the SDS website primarily address cognitive or sensory disabilities over mobility-related disabilities.
Syllabi are almost always made available by professors on the first day of class, characterizing the first two weeks of the semester as a period where students regularly use the conditional add/drop feature to switch out of courses that they wrongly predicted would be beneficial to them. If syllabi were published before this hectic window, registration and the add/drop period would be much less stressful.
Instead, my argument in favor of streetcars deals with aesthetics. For lack of a better word, streetcars bring a certain level of chic to a city. While buses are undoubtedly more efficient, they’re not considered as sophisticated as rail transit. Streetcars simultaneously represent both modern urbanism and a time before car dependency, an attractive idea to residents and urban planners alike.
Once a week, I still take myself on a date. Sometimes it’s coffee at a new spot in Hampden. Other times it’s a walk down Charles with nowhere particular to be. Occasionally I like to just sit somewhere on campus where no one expects anything from me. The awkwardness of asking for a table for one has long since faded away. What replaced it was something I didn't expect to find by sitting still: a version of myself I could recognize. Turns out she’s pretty good company.
The future of Maryland’s health and our state budget can benefit greatly by removing MCOs. With 1.5 million Marylanders covered by Medicaid and 85% of those individuals enrolled in one of the state’s nine MCOs, a shift to a unified Medicaid program could save taxpayers up to $521 million annually while preventing patients from experiencing disastrous delays in care.
Even though the midterm elections are still more than six months away, many candidates have been campaigning for several months already. This long, dragged-out election season is in large part due to a peculiarity in our system — the primary election.
The U.S. has, since the start of the new year, conducted military strikes and operations in both Venezuela and Iran. This marks a surprising militant turn in U.S. foreign policy in recent decades, which presents a larger issue regarding the role and image of the United States across the world.
From my little desk in the corner of the Housing Office in Wolman 103, I’ve gotten to witness the freshman and sophomore classes grow into the comfort of calling their dorms “home.” Groups of strangers on move-in day leave as best friends on move-out.
In response to “Why I don’t write about being Vietnamese” published Oct. 27, 2025:
Lately, it feels strange to walk into class as if everything is normal. To sit in lecture halls, laugh with friends and plan for the future while so much is happening beyond campus walls. The world doesn’t pause just because we’re students, and yet sometimes it feels like we’re expected to let it.
