Towson will offer additional graduation tickets to all six commencement ceremonies starting Tuesday, May 14 at 8:30 a.m. Seniors with their OneCards can visit the Chesapeake rooms Tuesday morning to obtain up to three additional tickets on a first come, first serve basis, Toyia Younger, assistant provost, said. The largest ceremony will be the College of Liberal Arts. Last year, some CLA graduates were forced to walk with the Fisher College of Science and Mathematics. [...]

On the afternoon of Dec. 8, 2011, news quickly spread on Virginia Tech’s campus that a fatal shooting had occurred. Michelle Sutherland and her colleagues at the Collegiate Times, the school’s student newspaper, immediately took to social media to begin researching the incident. Sutherland, then a staff writer for the Collegiate Times, searched for, and found, the profile of the suspect in the shooting that left a campus police officer dead. “The current managing editor, [...]

The 2014-15 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) will use income and other information from a dependent student’s legal parents regardless of marital status or gender if they live together. The U.S. Department of Education will collect this information, according to a White House press release. The new form will have the option for students to check “unmarried and both parents living together.” It will also use terms “Parent 1” and “Parent 2” as [...]

The attorney general position in the Student Government Association is going to change drastically, Attorney General Glorimar Quinones said. Traditionally, the attorney general’s responsibilities include overseeing the judicial branch, obtaining new student groups and revising their individual applications. But because of a policy created in February 2013, the position no longer includes revising individual applications and preparing them for approval or denial. The power for approving student groups is now with the University instead of [...]

Towson graduate student Erika Brannock shows her love to everyone, as a teacher and friend. In return, while in recovery from having her leg amputated from the knee down after the Boston bombing, friends and family set up a fund to help ease the burden of medical bills. “We just want to show the love because that’s all Erika ever does, she loves everybody,” Ashley Cook, Brannock’s friend since childhood, said. “Just returning that with [...]

A groundbreaking for the Towson satellite campus building at Harford Community College will be held May 30. The facility, dubbed “2+2” is meant to enable students to enroll in psychology, sociology, criminal justice and education courses, among others, without a tedious commute to the central campus. “About 1,500 students attending Towson University come from Harford and Cecil counties,” Nancy Dysard, an HCC spokeswoman, said in an earlier Towerlight article. “The majority go on to attend [...]

The Union Garage will be closed over the summer for an estimated $450,000 renovation project. The garages are updated every three to five years and the Union Garage is due, Director of Auxiliary Services Pam Mooney said. The overall structure needs repairs, such as the seals on the floors. The renovations are set to begin after commencement and will continue through the summer, she said. While the Union Garage will be shut down, all other [...]

When Junior Heath Naylor was at resident assistant training, he had the opportunity to try the revamped Glen Dining Hall before most students were on campus. Back then, he said everyone was talking about the Glen. At the beginning of last semester, Glen received a complete overhaul with retrained employees, fresh food, more international choices and new equipment. “It is definitely a lot better,” Naylor said. “They have more options that change regularly. They don’t [...]

Overall crime rates in Baltimore County were down in 2012, compared to 2011 and the average over the past five years. Baltimore County Police Chief Jim Johnson announced the 6.7 percent decrease at a press conference Wednesday, along with County Executive Kevin Kamenetz. While the total crime in the county was down, overall crime in the Towson precinct was up. Towson was the only precinct in the county to have an overall increase in crime. [...]

When Towson volleyball coach Don Metil was considering coming to Towson after spending six years at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, there were a number of factors he said that influenced his decision to come to Towson. One factor was the prospect of the new Tiger Arena opening. “The addition of the Tiger Arena was an added bonus,” Metil said. “Every time I go in they make progress. It’s pretty exciting.” After years of [...]