Board of Visitors assumes activist role
With six new members, revitalized advisory board goes to bat for TU
There may have been a time when few knew much—or heard much—about TU’s Board of Visitors. Those days are over, says board president Michael Gill. . [more...]

Express yourself
TU’s Community Art Center can teach you how
Yearning to break from routine to explore your creative side? The Community Art Center provides outlets for your inner painter, sculptor, photographer, jewelry designer, glass-bead maker, computer animator and more—all in convenient noncredit, noncompetitive classes taught by professionals. [more...]

Great game, gratis
Faculty/staff to score freebies at Towson Center
Treat your family to an adrenalin-charged evening of college basketball on Faculty and Staff Appreciation Night, compliments of TU Athletics and Chartwells Dining Services. [more...]

Recent Media Highlights
Spin on the laws
The Washington Times, January 22
David Schaefer, Department of Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences, told Christian Toto that chaos theory helps explain why it’s so difficult to predict results in bowling. The theory suggests that if even the tiniest of conditions changes in a scenario, the results can be dramatically different from what one might expect. “Most bowlers learn just by trial and error,” he said.

State of the Union Address commentary
ABC Radio Network, January 21
Richard Vatz, Department of Mass Communication and Communication Studies,
told a national radio audience that President Bush’s State of the Union Address made the wars against Iraq and terrorism the preeminent national issues to reinforce their centrality in the administration’s agenda and also to exploit divisions on Iraq in the Democratic party.

Fortress Bush: How the White House keeps the press under control
The New Yorker, January 19
Martha Joynt Kumar, Department of Political Science, told staff writer Ken Auletta that by January 1, President Bush had held just 11 solo press conferences, far fewer than presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, [George H.W.] Bush and Clinton.