BOOOOO Terpitos! It’s been such a long week for me; meetings on top of meetings, projects due, work, and everything else that it means to be a college student. But guess what…tomorrows FRIDAY!!!! And it’s Halloween weekend, parties galore, haunted houses, dressing up in cute or scary costumes, and CANDY. If you can’t tell by [...]
It has been an EXTREMELY long day (I kind of wish it was still Sunday). The sun was shinning and it was a little toasty outside, or it could have just been the scarf around my neck but whatever I was hot. I decided to go take a trip on the Metro after my class [...]
Hey, Hey, Hey! The rain came back yesterday, what a bummer! I hope everyone’s week went well; mine was mediocre. I went to the movies Friday night, and ended up seeing Paranormal Activity. If anything that movie made me even more paranoid about what is beyond than anything. Like I understand that it might just [...]
Are you guys watching Latinos in America right now? Well I am. I feel like its stating a lot of the things that we as Latin@s face everyday; immigration policies, education, culture, family, identity, assimilation into the U.S. mainstream without losing your identity. Just seeing the sea of empty seats at the Freemont High School [...]
Hey, Its been such a long week already and it’s only Wednesday. There’s not only a lot going on campus this week, but there’s just a lot of things going on period. On Monday night, I attended the weekly meeting for the student activist group, College Park Students for a democratic Society. It’s an organization [...]
Students are turned away by lengthy waitlists during registration, which decreases enrollment and opens spaces after classes begin by Andres Gonzalez Editor in Chief After losing two faculty members and two failed attempts to hire a professor, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (SPAP) is gearing up to hire a new faculty member. Overcrowded waitlists [...]
As workers tend to prefer the food trucks, Latino restaurants are being affected By Amanda Donohue Staff Writer Food trucks, which are already popular in many prominent cities, have found their way to College Park, while some Latino restaurants have seen their business affected by the convenience and variety that food trucks offer to construction [...]
By Juliette M. Ebner Staff Writer MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew (ABDC) ended its fourth season on Sept. 27. Afroboriké, a Cuban-Puerto Rican dance group, won public support throuh their accentuated Latino dance style, which they incorporated with their hip hop routines. In this season, nine crews competed for the title, each doing their best [...]
Professors from the Instituto Universitario de Barlovento in Venezuela, a historically Black institution, rallied for love and pride of the African heritage influence in the Venezuelan culture Sept. 12.
It was a Monday. At 6:45 p.m., the sun was lazily setting beyond the west side of U-Md.’s Symons Hall while endless cars on Route 1 stood still behind its intersection with Campus Drive and Paint Branch Parkway. In the middle of it all, a flurry of activity defied a lethargic scene as Latinos and non-Latinos hustled and weaved across a plot of grass they transformed into their soccer field.