Senior staff writer Vaman Muppala thinks Michael Oher's inspirational story doesn't translate in The Blind Side...

Senior staff writer Vaman Muppala says Without Bias offers a sensitive depiction of Len Bias, the Terrapin men's basketball star whose life was tragically cut short before he reached his full potential....

Senior staff writer Vaman Muppala says The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas' new solo album, Phrazes for the Young, is a well-rounded and worthy achievement....

Senior staff writer Jon Wolper says Weezer's latest LP. Raditude, is uninventive....

Though they failed to sell out the Grand Ballroom Friday night, Matt and Kim’s performance as part of Student Entertainment Events’ HalloWeek turned the show into a pre-Halloween dance party. Midway through the set, bandmember Matt Johnson off...

Prompted by the worldwide financial crisis, the business school is launching a new center, featuring a series of speeches on executive compensation in the financial industry held in Washington, geared toward examining the causes of the financial crisis an...

In the 1990s, The Diamondback gave rise to a slew of well-known comic artists including Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows) and Aaron McGruder (The Boondocks). The cartoons appeared one after the other, building a legacy o...

The university kicked off the re-branding effort to emphasize academics and research, facets officials said “Fear the Turtle” failed to flaunt as the slogan has become more and more associated with athletics, but most students say the slgan is...

Prince George’s County Police are searching for a man who raped a female student in her off-campus home early yesterday morning. At about 5:10 a.m., the suspect entered the 21-year-old student’s residence in the 7500 block of Dickinson Avenue,...

Council members Mary Cook and Karen Hampton are asking voters to send them back to City Hall because of their experience and track records, while dismissing their challengers as uninformed newcomers. Denise Mitchell and Marcus Afzali insist that the incum...

The Green March to the Vote begins at 5 p.m. at the sundial on McKeldin Mall and will feature a speech by alumnus Davey Rogner, a founding member of the group. Following Rogner’s speech, students will march down to the city hall in green shirts and ...

With less than a week to go until the College Park City Council election, two District 1 candidates have each raised thousands of dollars to blanket the city with signs, door hangers and fliers. Meanwhile, District 2 incumbent Bob Catlin said he should pr...

These professors don’t just spend their nights grading papers. At the first annual “Dancing with the Professors” event last night, four professors paired with Ballroom at Maryland student dancers to hop, trot and waltz their way to glory...

Municipal politics in College Park is often defined by a single issue: the tug-of-war between longtime homeowners, often raising families, and short-time student renters, for whom the city is sometimes little more than a faceless background to a blurry fo...

The motto “First in Flight” is emblazoned on North Carolina license plates, hinting at its great flying history. In Ohio, license plates read “Birthplace of Aviation,” a phrase intended to claim the Wright brothers as their own. Bu...

The university is one of the 20 most sexually healthy colleges in the country this year, largely thanks to a revamped website, according to a study by Trojan, the well-known condom company. In Trojan’s annual sexual health report card, the universit...

Nearly every faculty member with a hand in shaping the university’s academic future has a different buzzword for how classes are changing. University President Dan Mote stresses that they’re becoming “more interesting.” Ira Berlin,...

District 2 — central College Park, including most of the campus — has been represented in the College Park City Council for more than a decade, by Bob Catlin and Jack Perry have represented the district, but challenger Bob Weber says it's time...

Students dressed up and danced to Michael Jackson's Thriller as a part of the Eppley Recreation Center's annual dance class....

In an hour-and-a-half-long discussion, the university’s disabled population focused on everything from a lack of building access and transportation, to widespread insensitivity, to the frustrations the disabled community has with university administ...

The College of Education will merge seven departments into three next fall in a radical overhaul administrators hope will leave it better positioned to cope with budget cuts and prepare the next generation of teachers....

The senate is considering changing the current final exam policy to limit the maximum number of exams per day to two, and making the procedure for reviewing allegations of unfair grading more student-friendly. The two Student Government Association bills ...

A week after the College Park City Council expressed reservations about a landlord’s request to legally house more students in his College Avenue rental home, council members unanimously voted Tuesday to write letters to the county opposing his plan...

Student artist takes her own experience as an athlete and incorporates it into visions of Jesse Owens ...

Staff writer Reese Higgins says Pelican's latest effort, What We All Come to Need, is not nearly as enjoyable as the band's previous release....

Staff writer Kyle Lucas says Creed's reunion album, Full Circle, is familiarly atrocious....

Senior staff writer Jon Wolper says Florence and the Machine's debut album, Lungs, features inspiring pop songs....

The Bentzen Ball, which starts tomorrow and runs through Sunday, will feature performances from about 60 comedians including Sarah Silverman....

The Fashionista discusses brand-name items that support Breast Cancer Awareness Month....

Senior staff writer Alex Rush says rapper Royce Da 5'9 brings hard-core hip-hop on his new LP, Street Hop....