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Maryland football cornerback sentenced to 3 years probation

Dontay Joyner watches Nebraska score a touchdownl during Maryland's 34-31 loss to the Cornhuskers on Oct. 11. (Ryan Bowie/ The Diamondback) Maryland football cornerback Dontay Joyner was sentenced to ...
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Belonging vice president Georgina Dodge reflects on the highs and lows of her time at UMD

Georgina Dodge, the University of Maryland’s former vice president for belonging, speaks to the audience during a Black faculty and staff association diversity, equity and inclusion meeting in the ...
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College Park City Council restricts how early landlords can ask tenants to renew leases

The College Park City Council unanimously passed a policy Tuesday that restricts when landlords can ask tenants to renew their leases. The approval of the early lease ordinance comes after months of ...
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UMD town hall provides updates on system that will replace Testudo

Roughly 200 University of Maryland community members attended a town hall Thursday to receive updates about Workday Student, the online platform that will eventually replace Testudo. “This effort ...
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For those raised in College Park’s Lakeland, the wounds left by its destruction remain

Any time George Randall was up to no good when he was a kid, not only would he get a scolding and a spanking before even getting home, but by the time he opened up his door, his mother would already ...
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Recruiting roundup: Maryland football lands Zion Elee, flips 5 2026 recruits

Coach Michael Locksley watches from the sidelines during Maryland football's loss to Michigan on Nov. 22, 2025. (Gurnoor Sodhi/The Diamondback) After dropping the final eight games of an abysmal 2025 ...
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UMD student leaders’ letter spurs university communication workgroup

The University of Maryland must provide clearer, timelier crisis communication — that was the message student leaders sent to administrators in a January 20 letter. The next month, university ...
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UMD tuition, mandatory fees to increase after USM budget passes

The University System of Maryland Board of Regents passed increases in tuition and mandatory fees across its 12 member institutions, including the University of Maryland, on Friday. Tuition at this ...
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Launching cartoon careers: Diamondback comic strips through the years

Jeff Kinney, Frank Cho and Aaron McGruder all published comic strips in The Diamondback early in their careers. (Images courtesy of University Archives) In 1994, Drew Weaver, The Diamondback’s ...
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Hiding homelessness through hostile architecture only hurts the community

A homeless veteran on the streets of Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo courtesy of Matthew Woitunski) Views expressed in opinion columns are the author’s own. When I think of cities, I imagine a ...
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USM receives small funding increase from Maryland’s 2027 budget proposal

The University System of Maryland would receive an $18.1 million funding increase under Gov. Wes Moore’s proposal for the fiscal year 2027 state budget. In the current fiscal year’s state budget, the ...
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Power restored to UMD after campus-wide outage struck more than 60 buildings

Power has officially returned to all University of Maryland buildings Tuesday night following a three-day, campus-wide outage that began on Saturday afternoon. Fifty buildings on campus had remained ...