Emergency text notification system: 5 questions

TU's top cop urges faculty, staff, students to register

Earlier this month TU implemented a state-of-the-art notification system capable of sending messages instantly and simultaneously to text-message-capable phones, Blackberrys, PDAs and other wireless devices. [more]

So they said...

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that

it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so."

Lucy Larcom (1824-1893), U.S. poet and teacher

Shhh! Make a bid, help the Wellness Center

Fundraiser offers a great time, supports a great cause

What? Fourth Annual Wellness Center Silent Auction

When? Thursday, May 24, 5 to 8 p.m. (Final Bid social)

Where? Administration Building's 7720 Café

Why?This is a once-a-year chance to bid on a huge variety of donated goods, from restaurant gift certificates to sports memorabilia. Auction proceeds will help the center to purchase new exercise equipment and fund educational programming.

How? Tickets are $2 at the door (advance tickets are available at the center). Admission includes dinner catered by Q'doba, free beverages, door prizes and live music.

For more information, call Amanda Shearer, x44555 or ashearer@towson.edu.

TU in the news

Secrets of success: energy, young mental state

The Sun, May 13

In an informal question-and-answer session, President Robert L. Caret told Sloane Browne that he lives “a young life” that includes five to six days of exercise per week. He described himself as a decision-maker, like 90 pecent of executives, but said he liked to have some other personality profiles—a couple of data people and a couple of feeling people—around him.  

Towson University Considers Smoke-Free Campus

WJZ-TV, May 8

Reporter Gigi Barnett spoke to Donna Cox, director, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Center, about TU’s decision to consider becoming a smoke-free campus. “It’s easy to say 40 campuses nationwide do it,” said Cox, a member of the committee researching the ban. “They could be small institutions. We’re a very big campus. It’s a big issue to address.”  

Taxes hang over winnings

The Sun, May 8

With the Preakness just around the corner, Seth Hammer, Department of Accounting, offered tax advice on a silver lining for unlucky gamblers: offset winnings with losses over the course of a year. Hammer said the only way to deduct gambling losses is to itemize. “If they don’t itemize, they are stuck,” he added.