Author: Keira Hardesty

UMD SGA to ask university to rename rooms titled after US defense, military companies

The University of Maryland SGA passed a resolution calling on this university to rename four rooms in the engineering school and one room in the computer, mathematical and natural sciences college

Keira Hardesty
4 days ago

Trump signs government funding bill, ends longest shutdown in US history

The 43-day shutdown left many Americans without food stamps and furloughed hundreds of thousands of federal employees.

Keira Hardesty
4 days ago

UMD SGA condemns student-hosted event with IDF soldiers, demands university issues apology

The resolutions come weeks after this university’s Students Supporting Israel chapter hosted three Israeli Defense Forces soldiers at an event on Oct. 21.

Keira Hardesty
November 6, 2025

UMD SGA encourages College Park City Council to pass early lease ordinance

The ordinance would prohibit landlords from asking tenants to release their apartments until 180 days before their current lease expires.

Keira Hardesty
October 30, 2025

UMD president disappointed in SGA’s timing of boycott, divestment and sanctions bill vote

Darryll Pines wrote in a memo that he was disappointed SGA held a vote for a boycott, divestment and sanctions resolution on the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur.

Keira Hardesty
October 11, 2025

UMD SGA passes boycott, divestment and sanctions resolution on Yom Kippur

Many Jewish community members said scheduling the vote on the religious holiday restricted them from participating in SGA’s democratic process.

Keira Hardesty
October 2, 2025

UMD SGA to consider boycott, divestment and sanctions resolution

This is the first time SGA will consider a resolution about divestment since students voted in support of divestment in a campuswide referendum last April.

Keira Hardesty
September 26, 2025

SGA resolution demands UMD recognize Israel’s offensive in Gaza as genocide

The resolution came in response to a United Nations commission report released Tuesday that urged Israel and all countries “to end the genocide” in Gaza.

Keira Hardesty
September 18, 2025

UMD SGA disapproves of Pelosi, Hoyer attending event near campus

A resolution said SGA is against the representatives’ presence because of their political actions that are tied to war and human rights violations.

Keira Hardesty
September 11, 2025

Here’s what UMD SGA leaders hope to accomplish this year

Student leaders plan to collaborate with local lawmakers to improve student life.

Keira Hardesty
September 8, 2025