A job worth the drive

Alumnus helps DC United make history as Account Executive

By NIck Di Marco

Anyone who's ventured to our nation's capital from Baltimore can probably tell you that morning traffic is a miserable experience. Unless you happen to be in love with your job, like Patrick Letts Jr. Letts, a Nottingham resident and a 2006 alumnus from Towson University, works for four-time Major League Soccer Cup champions, the DC United.

Uptown-Downtown

Maryland Renaissance Festival, Art-ket @ the Market

Uptown- Take a trip back in time by catching a bus leaving from Towson University going to the Maryland Renaissance Festival. The bus, sponsored by the Student Honors Advisory Committee will leave the University Union Loading Docks at 9:30 a.m. At the Renaissance Festival, food, drinks, Shakespeare and jousting can be enjoyed.

Pigskin, a new kind of charity ball

Althletes run to benefit Special Olympics

By Krysten Appelbaum

Before the football can be kicked off at Johnny Unitas Stadium Saturday night, it will be run 58 miles from the University of Delaware to Towson, in the arms of student-athletes from both schools. The relay, which was also held last year when the Tigers took on the Blue Hens, serves as a charity for Special Olympics Maryland and Special Olympics Delaware.

Tyler Tech: Shop around for HD

Quality entertainment affordable with research

By Tyler Waldman

"High-Definition" is one of the hottest buzz words these days. Everybody wants a high-definition television. Everybody wants HD-DVD and Blu-ray players. Everything's offered in HD. Not too long ago, actually getting this experience required thousands of dollars along with maybe getting a second mortgage and offering up one's first-born.

Tackling a new beginning

Sororities welcome new pledges, new experiences at Bid Day on Burdick

By Krysten Appelbaum

With the air at a crisp 67 degrees and the first fall leaves on the ground, members of Towson's Panhellenic Association sororities and their new pledges took to Burdick Field Sunday for the "Running of the Bulls," otherwise known as Bid Day. Gathered under bright balloon arches, and wearing their Greek letters, the members of Alpha Gamma Delta, Kappa Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Phi Mu, Phi Sigma Sigma, Alpha Xi Delta and Zeta Tau Alpha cheered, danced and waited in expectation of receiving their new sisters.