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Dec 16, 2006

Budget Committee Minutes – November

I have posted the November 15 minutes of the Columbia Association's Budget Advisory Committee. The meeting for December 20, 2006 has been canceled. The next meeting will be on January 3, 2007…

Dec 16, 2006

Budget Committee Minutes Posted

I have posted the November 15 minutes of the Columbia Association's Budget Advisory Committee. The meeting for December 20, 2006 has been canceled. The next meeting will be on January 3, 2007…

Oct 19, 2006

Terrapin Scholar Sold

Terrapin Scholar sold tonight for $10,000 to an anonymous bidder at the University of Maryland's Fear the Turtle Sculpture auction. Congratulations to his new owners. The total amount collected by the University…

Oct 10, 2006

Budget Committee Minutes – September 20

The minutes for the September 20 meeting of the Budget Advisory Committee have been posted. The Committee will present its first report of the term on Thursday, October 12, 2006.

May 11, 2006

Pre-Citation Address, 2006

Howard, James. "Pre-Citation Address, 2006" Speech, Pre-Citation Celebration, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, May 11, 2006. Good afternoon and congratulations to each of you. At this midpoint in your undergraduate careers,…

Oct 2, 2005

A Different Picture

Last week's Traffic Talk column in the Baltimore Sun raised some eyebrows when it reported on a reader’s concern about men seen photographing cars along Route 32. While the reader suspected something…

Aug 27, 2005

An Evolving Argument

Bringing pseudo-science into what should be a rigorous classroom experience weakens the school curriculum and will produce a generation of graduates incapable of understanding real science. A theory is a hypothesis that…

Oct 14, 1999

Letter to the Diamondback

In Tuesday’s Diamondback , Vince Weaver, while discussing computer viruses, wrote: "There are no viruses that affect the Linux or Unix (sic) operating systems. None ... It does not happen." As a…