UMBC Magazine put a call out for questions about our institution’s history and mysteries, and alumni responded by submitting inquiries about True Grit, secret campus tunnels, UMBC football, Hillcrest, and more. What questions do YOU have? Continue Reading UMBC’s Top 9 Histories and Mysteries
UMBC Magazine answers alumni questions about True Grit, secret campus tunnels, football, Hillcrest and more… Even though UMBC is a fairly young university, it still has mysteries and legends and stories of its founding. Why does UMBC look the way it looks? Why is a Chesapeake Bay Retriever our mascot? Why don’t we have a football team? What was Hillcrest? And what about those tunnels under the university? YOU ASKED. WE ANSWERED. Why was the Hillcrest Building torn down? What was the history behind this structure? —Perry Alexander ’91 The silo on UMBC Boulevard suggests a connection between the university… Continue Reading Histories & Mysteries
