From Camden Yards to Granada – you can find McDaniel students almost anywhere. Here are some of the places they’ve been lately.

•The Green Terror Color Guard performed during the first Orioles home night game of the season. Cadets included McDaniel students Daniel Gonski ’09, Daniel Spurrier ’09, John Stewart ’09 and Tyler Bilohiavek ’10, Hood College’s Leif Vestermark and Stephanie Hanlon, and Anna Lebo and Zach Jacobson from Mount Saint Mary’s University.

•Students in Philosophy and Religious Studies Professor Greg Alles’ class, “Hinduism,” attended a celebration for the festival of “Holi” at a Hindu temple in Finksburg. During the celebration, held in the northern part of India, people smear each other with bright colored powders that represent energy, life and joy.

From left, Kathryn Griepentrog ’08, Kevin Heron ’09, Daniel Pretz ’08 and Warren Herman ’10.

•McDaniel College’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, in which students offer free tax filing for community members with low to moderate incomes, has been selected by the Internal Revenue Service as one of two test sites in Maryland for electronic filing. For 15 years, students have offered free tax filing to low-income community members through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. They have been filing electronically for seven years.

•Timothy Neeson ’08 is studying abroad in Spain as part of the API-Granada, Spain (Hispanic Studies) program. Here, he is in Granada.

•McDaniel College Associate Professors of Sociology Lauren Dundes and Debra Lemke were awarded a $20,000 grant from the Maryland State Department of Health to develop a leadership program for middle school boys. This program, T'N'T - Trust and Teamwork – which began in January in cooperation with East Middle School in Westminster, is directed and run by male students at McDaniel College.

“This program gives our students leadership roles, which is important to their education,” says Associate Professor of Sociology Lauren Dundes. “Plus, they serve an important mentoring role for other young males.”

Currently, 20 students are involved in the twice-weekly program. They are paid for their time.