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• Rossborough Inn is the oldest building on the campus of the University of Maryland
• It is the home of Maryland Images and a launch point for tours
• The Public Inquiry office can be found here
• Counselors are available for walk-in appointments |
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• International Student Services is located here
• Office of the Registrar
• This is where you can get your student ID
• As well as your official transcript |
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• Campus Recreation Services (Intramurals) office is located here
• The main part of the building is a basketball gym, but many classes are held here as well
• Hootie and the Blowfish filmed their "Only Want to be With You" video (the one where they're playing basketball and the ESPN Sportscenter guys are calling the game) in the Armory in 1995 |
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• Office of the President
• President Mote came to us in 1998 from UC Berkeley where he was a Vice President known for his fundraising skills
• He was a mechanical engineer
• He created Maryland Day
• His house is located on campus
• He is seen often around campus eating in the dining halls and sometimes even stops our tours to say hi |
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• Hub of campus
• Campus is set up in three concentric horseshoes: The inner-most horseshoe is classroom buildings, the middle horseshoe is residence halls and dining halls, and the outer-most horseshoe is parking
• When the University first built the Mall, the president at the time didn’t want to pave sidewalks just to have students trample on the grass. So, he decided to wait a semester. At the end of the semester there were beaten down paths where the students walked most frequently. He had those paths paved. So, the paths on the Mall are all shortcuts from one side to the other.
• Mall Activities
o First Look Fair
o Maryland Day
o Sundial – figurative center of campus |
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• Office of Financial Aid and Bursar
• Tuition, Room & Board figures, Scholarships, Financial Aid: see end of packet
• Graduate Admissions |
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• Intramural sports, informal recreation
• Marching band: Practices here, has 300 members, accompanies football team to bowl games |
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• Main thoroughfare through College Park
• DC is about 5 miles south (9 miles to center of DC)
• Maryland Book Exchange
• Shuttle buses take students to the College Park, New Carrolton, and Silver Spring metro stations.
• From the Metro you can get to Union Station to take Amtrak, to BWI airport from the MARC train, and to National Airport from the Metro |
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• 14 houses: 3 sororities, 11 fraternities
• about 50 fraternities and sororities total on campus including several historically Black, Latino, and Asian
• The movie St. Elmo’s Fire was filmed on the row
• Other houses located behind Fraternity Row called the “Graham Cracker”
• Greek Life: 12%-15% of the undergraduate population is Social Greek |
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| Blue Light Phone (Safety and Security) |
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• There are over 100 PERT or blue light phones on campus and 350 emergency phones in all
• All have video cameras and when you press the emergency button a siren will sound and a uniformed police officer will be dispatched immediately.
• Blue light phones are not the only means of security on campus, just the most visible
• Other Safety
- Shuttle-UM
- Call-a-Ride - call anywhere within a ten mile radius of campus and get a ride back
- Walking Escort Service - You can call the auxiliary police office or stop a member of the police auxiliary on patrol, and they will walk you wherever you need to go on campus. |
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