Distinguishing People
Fozzie, Animal and Gonzo are character names that were created by this UMD alumni.
Who is Jim Henson?
For $20,000, Charles Benedict Calvert sells the state of Maryland 428 acres of his Rossburg Farm slave plantation for the site of this institution.
This department assists all students who are in need or students of concern.
What is the Dean of Students office?
We believe fraternities and sororities have the potential to be the most transformative part of the college experience. We should do everything we can to make this happen.
What is the DFSL mission?
This is when weekly reports are due.
What is Mondays at 9am?
This person received his BS degree in 1891, and was
the first Korean student to graduate from any American college or university. He has a room dedicated to him in the STAMP Student Union.
Who is Pyon Su?
This campus building is named after the first Dean of Women.
What is the Stamp Student Union?
This department assists students who have been impacted by power and gender based violence.
What is CARE to Stop Violence?
A process by which Multicultural Greek Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council members are selected to become new members of an organization.
What is intake?
This is the department who is in charge of maintenance for campus resident spaces (including Fraternity/Sorority houses).
What is the Department of Residential Facilities?
This person in 1959, exactly 100 years after the first group of students enrolled in Maryland Agricultural College and became the first African-American women to graduate from UMD. You can also find a photo of her in the STAMP Student Union.
Who is Elaine Johnson Coates?
The University of Maryland College Park campus is on the indigenous land of these people that is stolen by European colonists.
Who are the Piscataway?
This department gives confidential counseling and mental health services to students and others in the University Community.
What is the University Counseling Center?
A community that uses its values to guide choices and decisions.
What is the DFSL vision?
This is the resource you call in case your washer/dryer unit breaks.
What is the fraternity/sorority housing corporation?
This person was integral to the desegregation of UMD. His successful suits on behalf of multiple African American students led to the landmark Brown vs. Board ruling. He eventually became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
This statue brings people luck when you rub its nose.
What/Who is Testudo?
This unit within the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) gives diversity training and education to students.
What is Diversity Training & Education?
An example of this DFSL guiding philosophy is when a student decides to have a party in their facility, and understands this is wrong.
What is you have a choice/decision?
This time period is when RD Duty Days occur during the academic year?
What is Thursday-Monday morning?
One of the two first women to enroll at the University of Maryland in 1916.
Who is either Elizabeth Hook and/or Charlotte Vaux?
Due to the former UMD president’s support of segregation, this facility was renamed.
What is the Maryland Stadium?
This unit within ODI responds to hate-bias incidents and gives support to community members who have experienced hate-bias incidents.
What is Bias Incident Support Services (BISS)?
This is any willful act or practice by a member, which, with or without intent, is likely to: cause bodily harm or danger, offensive punishment, compromise the person's dignity, cause embarrassment or shame in public, etc.
What is hazing?
The following things are what DRF does not cover.
What are drink machines, washer/dryers, and furniture?