60 Year Anniversary of Maryland's first African-American Student

It's been 60 years since Hiram Whittle, the first undergraduate African-American was admitted to the school. There have been major improvements to diversity on campus since 1951, and in the fall 2011 semester there was 3,256 undergraduate African-Americans attending the school, according to the Institutional Research Planning and Assessment.

African-Americans, Africans, and Caribbean face large divide in the U.S.

        African-Americans, Africans, and Caribbean face large divide in the U.S. even as the country as a whole makes strides to become racially tolerant. According to the journal article "Black versus Black: The Relationships among African, African American, and African Caribbean Persons" in the Journal of Black Studies, ideas about relations between groups of people affected by the slave trade still permeate all the cultures to this day.

New University Program to teach Indigenous Languages and Cultures

        The university's Nyumburu Cultural Center and the Black Faculty and Staff Association are creating theNyumburu Indigenous African Language Program, which will expose students to a number of different languages and cultures of Africa.

Students and Faculty Educate on Staying Healthy

  Every year, diabetes claims more lives than breast cancer and AIDS combined, and someone is diagnosed with the disease every 17 seconds, according to the American Diabetes Association. Many students at the university have been diagnosed with diabetes in their teenage years.

    I secretly hoped that upon coming to college Facebook would be less prominent than I expected- not because I oppose Facebook, I just felt that if I got any more hooked on social networking, I would be too distracted from my schoolwork. No matter what my addiction level was before becoming a Terp, I quickly realized that the rumor was true, and Facebook not only gets bigger once college rolls around, it also redefines the meaning of relationships, and promotes artificial self-expression.

Millions of children in Somalia and the Horn of Africa are starving and malnourished due to widespread famine.  There are 13.3 million people in the countries of Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya who need assistance, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Reality vs. Imaginary of Cultural Ideals

  The majority non-Hispanic white population is growing slowly, while Hispanics, Asians and other minorities are increasing steadily in numbers, according to a 2010 U.S. Census Bureau report. There is no doubt that America is a melting pot of races and cultures; yet, most television shows and movies feature an overwhelming domination of whites both on and off the camera.

Crime Down as University Police Begin New Policy

  Uniform crime at the University of Maryland is down from August 2010, as the UMD Police Department has begun a series of new policing tactics. The campus had a dramatic reduction in crimes since 2006, even while the number of crimes around campus continues to rise.

  The Skin I Live In (now playing) Director Pedro Almodóvar (Broken Embraces) brings another dark psychological thriller to the screen with Antonio Banderas (Spy Kids, Shrek) leading his cast. The story revolves around Dr. Robert Ledgard (Banderas), a disturbed plastic surgeon determined to find a solution to what could have saved his wife years ago.

Lionsgate Makes Offer to Hit Director

  In August, The New York Times reported that Lionsgate and Tyler Perry are currently working on forming an all-Tyler network. Does this mean more shows than those already on TBS? TBS currently airs Perry's ‘House of Payne,' and  ‘Meet the Browns,' and will also run a new series, ‘For Better or Worse' starting sometime this month.