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Smith Launches New Online Source of Business
Management Knowledge and Best Practices for
Chinese-speaking Executives
This month, the Smith School announced
the launch of Smith Business Intelligence in
China – a free, online source of research
articles, and videos and audio downloads
that deliver business management knowledge
and best practices in English, Mandarin and
simplified Chinese. Business professionals
can go to
www.rhsmith-umd.cn/sbi to stay ahead of
topics covering management-critical areas
and to sign up to receive Smith’s quarterly
e-newsletter, Leading the Digital
Economy.
The English counterpart of Leading the
Digital Economy is available at:
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/newsletter/leading
and Smith Podcasts are online at:
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/news/rss/podcast
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Prominent Biotechnology Investor Joins
Smith as Senior Fellow
Wei-Wu He, general partner and
co-founder of Emerging Technology
Partners LLC (ETP), a Maryland-based
venture capital firm focused on
investing in the life science industry,
has joined the school as a senior Smith
fellow. In this role, Dr. He will
concentrate on supporting the Dingman
Center for Entrepreneurship.
“Wei-Wu has had exceptional success
as an entrepreneur and in identifying
viable business ideas and opportunities
in the United States, and in key
developing markets such as China,” said
Howard Frank, dean of the University of
Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of
Business. “He brings a wealth of
knowledge that complements the Smith
School’s support of entrepreneurship
regionally, nationally and
internationally. We are pleased to
welcome him.”
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Smith CIBER Event: Inside
International Washington Seminar
The Smith Center for International
Business Education and Research (CIBER) will host an
Inside International Washington
seminar on December 6 - 8, 2006. This
three-day seminar will provide
participants a unique opportunity to
explore and experience the international
and diplomatic Washington – at the
intersection of business and public
policy – on themes such as: American
foreign policy, international economics
and trade, national security,
intellectual property protection, and
emerging markets. Smith full-time
faculty may attend free of charge if
registered by November 30. Contact Vinod
Jain for more information,
vjain@rhsmith.umd.edu,
or register
online at
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/ciber/
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Score One for Smith! First-year MBA
Berber Rischen Takes Women’s Field
Hockey to NCAA Title
 First-year
MBA Berber Rischen took time off from
writing a leadership and teamwork paper
to help the Maryland Terrapins to their
second consecutive National Championship
in Field Hockey on Nov. 19. Rischen
joined the team this fall, using her
final year of eligibility from her
undergraduate work at Kent State. Since
then, she has met the unique challenge
of pursuing her MBA in the classroom
while pursuing wins on the field. She
started as midfielder in all but one
game this season.
Berber contributed 25 points this
season, but none were as memorable or
valuable to the team as her decisive
penalty stroke in the NCAA semifinal
last weekend. This point gave the Terps
the edge in strokes over the University
of Connecticut. The Terps went on to
defeat top-ranked Wake Forest, 1-0 to
take the NCAA title.
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Lunch Raises Funds for Children of
Darfur
 Smith
students, staff and faculty lunched to
raise close to $800 to feed the children
of Darfur, Sudan, on Wednesday, November
15, in Van Munching Hall. The event was
sponsored by NetImpact, a student-run
organization dedicated to
socially-responsible business.
 "I was glad to see so many people out
for an excellent cause," second year MBA
and NetImpact member Nathan Groce said.
There were few dishes left after
merely an hour of fund-raising in the
atrium. At least 200,000 people are
estimated to have been killed in Darfur
since 2003 as a result of the conflict
between Government forces, allied
militias and rebels seeking greater
autonomy, and more than 2 million others
have been displaced.
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Executives Discuss IT Trends &
Investment Opportunities in Japan
 Japanese
and American business people met at the
Smith School on November 20 to discuss
IT trends and investment opportunities
in Japan. The luncheon was part of the
State of Maryland’s sister state program
with the Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan.
Kanagawa is a prefecture located in the
southern Kantō region of Honshū, Japan.
The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is
part of the Greater Tokyo Area.
Officials from both governments attended
the luncheon.
Dr. Stephen J. Anderson, commercial
officer at the U.S. Export Assistance
Center in Baltimore, began the luncheon
with a presentation about investment
opportunities in the Japanese market. He
said that the best U.S. export prospects
to Japan are in the areas of health
care, biotechnology, tourism, and
lifestyle products.
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Ethics Lecture Series: Recap of The
Truth About False Advertising
 Smith students had the opportunity
to hear from an expert in the field
of ethics in advertising Wednesday,
November 08, 2006. Lesley Fair,
senior attorney at the Federal Trade
Commission’s Bureau of Consumer
Protection, gave a talk entitled,
“The Truth About False Advertising:
Why ‘Ethical Marketing’ Isn’t an
Oxymoron.”
Fair introduced her discussion by
giving examples of consumer behavior
in response to false advertising.
“When a company receives a complaint
letter there are an average of nine
people who know about that
complaint, according to some
studies,” she said.
Fair then listed the guidelines and
best practices for ethical
advertising and presented examples
of companies that presented false
claims with various breaches of
ethics.
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DuPont Executives Speak about Biofuels
and Sustainable Growth
 Net Impact, Smith's Healthcare
Business Association, and the Office of
Career Management organized an extremely
successful talk by Dr. William Frey,
global business director at DuPont
Biofuels on November 29, 2006. Frey
spoke on “DuPont’s Sustainable Growth:
Bio-based Chemicals and Biofuels.” He
was joined by his colleagues Dennis
Magyar, North America Industry Manager
at DuPont Biofuels, and Nathan Arbitman,
marketing specialist.
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Smith Students Learn about Nutrition
and Exercise
 First-year Smith MBA students learned
about nutrition and exercise from a
business perspective last Friday. Vikram
Khanna, founder and CEO of Galileo
Health Partners, LLC, advised students
on the things every business
professional must know about nutrition
and exercise risk management.
Khanna draws from his experience as an
exercise specialist certified by the
American College of Sports Medicine and
as a physician’s assistant. An
entrepreneur and former consultant,
Khanna also understands the daily
stresses and problems that business
people typically face. Khanna has a
close relationship with the Robert H.
School of Business and is an executive
fellow at the school.
 His presentation was evidenced and
fact-based, an aspect that MBA students
appreciated. He condensed information
into easily digestible tidbits and
summarized health success in the
following steps:
1. Develop a written, evidence-based,
and strategic plan for fitness.
2. Lose weight and profit by reducing
your risk of disease.
3. Outsource saturated and trans fats,
exercise and nutrition fads.
4. Import good carbohydrates, healthy
fats, protein, calcium, and daily
exercise.
5. Balance your approach, doing both
endurance and strength work.
6. State and restate your goals and
expectations to keep getting stronger.
7. Merge good habits with rational
decision making to acquire long-term
success.
One first-year Smith MBA student
commented: “I found Vik’s presentation
helpful. It was a reminder for us
students to take care of our bodies
during the next two years. Nothing is
worse for a body than a student diet of
ramen noodles and no exercise.”
To learn more about Khanna, please visit
Galileo Health’s Web site,
www.galileohealth.net. The company
also publishes an online exercise and
nutrition newsletter that reports on new
scientific findings in the fields of
exercise and nutrition. To request a
copy of the bimonthly newsletter, e-mail
Mr. Khanna at
vik@galileohealth.net.
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Recent
Publications by Smith Faculty
Besides being outstanding teachers, Smith
School faculty also continue to produce
world-class research. Some of the recent
books published by Smith School faculty (in
alphabetical order) are as follows. Note:
Smith School faculty has been identified by
the bold font.
1. S. Raghavan, G. Anandalingam,
Telecommunications Planning: Innovations in
Pricing, Network Design and Management,
Springer, 2006.
2. J. Baum, M. Frese & R. Baron.
The
Psychology of Entrepreneurship, Mahway,
N.J.: Erlbaum, 2005.
3. S. I. Gass and A. A. Assad,
An
Annotated Timeline of Operations Research:
An Informal History, Springer + Business
Media, New York, 2005.
4. L. Gordon and M. Loeb,
Managing Cybersecurity Resources: A
Cost-Benefit Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 2006.
5. L. Gordon, Managerial Accounting:
Concepts and Empirical Evidence, 6th
edition, McGraw-Hill, 2005.
6. C. Grimm and K. Smith,
Strategy as Action: Competitive Dynamics and
Competitive Advantage. Oxford Publishing,
2005.
7. L. Lesser, Business, Public
Policy, and Society, 2nd edition,
Thomson, 2006.
8. R. Rust, K. Lemon, D. Narayandas,
Customer Equity Management with Software,
Prentice Hall, 2005.
9. D. L. Shapiro, M. Von Glinow and
J. Cheng, Managing Multinational Teams:
Global Perspectives, United Kingdom:
Elsevier/JAI Press, 2005.
10. K. Smith and M. Hitt, Great Minds
in Management, Oxford Press, 2005.
11. M. West, D. Tjosvold and K.
Smith, Essentials of Teamworking,
John Wiley & Son, 2005.
12. K. Smith and M. Hitt, The Oxford
Handbook of Management Theory: The Process
of Theory Development, Oxford Publishing,
2005.
13. J. Coyle-Shaprio, L. Shore, S. Taylor
and L. Tetrick, The Employment Relationship:
Examining Psychological and Contextual
Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2005.
The complete list can be found online at:
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/research/books.html
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Spotlight: Senior
Associate Dean Arjang Assad
 Having
been at the business school since 1978, long
before it was the Smith School of Business,
Arjang Assad has seen a lot of change. But
that’s okay, because he likes change.
Without a doubt, the most significant
transformation Assad has seen during his 25
years at the business school has been the
tremendous growth during the last eight
years. “It’s not just in the numbers,” he
says, “but also in the quality and
professionalism of the faculty, the staff
and the students.” Early changes during his
time here included the evolution of the
decision and information technologies
department, which was a merger between the
two areas of management science/statistics
and information systems.
After completing most of his undergraduate
and graduate studies at MIT in the field of
chemical engineering, he received his PhD
from the Sloan School in management
operations research. Joining the business
school as a new faculty member in 1978,
Assad spent 20 years rising through the
ranks of professorship, assuming the
position of chair of D&IT in 1998.
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Student Leadership Profile:
Arindam Basu
Vice President, Career Development,
Full-time MBAA
When you create a photograph, the
"point" is more important than the
"shoot." Lighting and composition create
the image... which, of course, is
everything!
Before coming back to school, Arindam
Basu created a lot of images. His work
was featured in a couple of photography
exhibitions in his native India.
Unfortunately, he finds less and less
time for it now.
But he draws on these skills in his role
as vice president of career development.
He supports the MBAA by acting as a
liaison between students and the Office
of Career Management (OCM), focusing on
developing the image of the department
with students.
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Smith School in the News |
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►Washington
Times – Nov. 27, 2006 – P.K.
Kannan, Harvey Sanders Associate
Professor of marketing and director of
the Center for Excellence in Service, is
quoted in a story about the online
holiday retail outlook that forecasts
D.C. will be tied with Boston for
highest percentage of online shoppers at
88 percent. He said it’s not surprising
that people in the Washington area would
rather shop online than brave traffic.
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►The
(Baltimore) Sun – Nov. 25, 2006 –
Marketing professor P.K. Kannan
is quoted in a story about Black Friday
holiday shopping.
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►The
(Baltimore) Sun – Nov. 24, 2006 –
Marketing professor Amna Kirmani
is quoted in a story about stores using
Christmas, rather than more general
holiday terms, to market to shoppers.
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►China
Economic Review – Nov. 21, 2006 – An
announcement of the Smith School’s China
launch of the
Smith Business Intelligence Web site
in Chinese is included in the China
Economic Review’s MBA News and
Updates.
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►CNET
News.com– Nov. 20, 2006 – A story
about holiday spam mentions the 2004
National
Technology Readiness Survey results,
pubished by Smith School's Center for
Excellence in Service.
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►Washington
Examiner – Nov. 17, 2006 – MBA
student Berber Rischen, a key
player on the University of Maryland’s
National Champion women’s field hockey
team, is the subject of a sports
profile.
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►Wall
Street Journal – Nov. 16, 2006 –
Business professor Peter Morici
contributes a quote to the regular
“Economics React” column, commenting on
a decrease in U.S. consumer prices. “Now
the outlook is for core inflation to
fall within Ben Bernanke's target range
of one to two percent,” said Morici.
“The Federal Reserve should not change
interest rate policy before its March
meeting, and economic growth should
recover to between 2.5 and 3 percent by
the first half of next year. Holiday
shopping should give retailers a boost,
and along with more robust commercial
construction and business investment,
sustain the economic expansion. All of
this is great news for the stock
market.”
►BusinessWeek
Online – Nov. 15, 2006 – A story on
the Dow closing high includes a quote
from business professor Peter Morici.
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►CNN:
Lou Dobbs Tonight – Nov. 14, 2006 –
A story on the “big three” U.S.
automakers includes an interview from
business professor Peter Morici.
►Read a
transcript
►The
(Baltimore) Sun – Nov. 12, 2006 – A
long feature on DeWalt, a brand of Black
& Decker, looks at brand loyalty and the
company’s marketing strategy with a
quote from marketing professor P.K.
Kannan.
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Technology@Smith |
If you have an e-mail client you prefer to
Lotus Notes, you can use it with the Lotus
Domino e-mail servers, as they support
several different standards. You could use
Thunderbird, Eudora, Mac OS Mail, Outlook or
many others. Generally the other e-mail
clients are fairly easy to setup if you
consult your e-mail client's help files and
follow the instructions there. You can use
either IMAP or POP clients with the
following settings (and caveats):
IMAP:
If you set your IMAP client to use the
following servers:
Incoming mail server:
imap.rhsmith.umd.edu
Outgoing mail server: smtp.rhsmith.umd.edu
Your username and password are the same as
your iNotes login (used to access your Lotus
Webmail). Authentication is required for
outbound emails (same username/password
combination as used for incoming e-mail).
Notes: With IMAP your e-mail is stored on
both the server and in your local (IMAP)
client, so if you use an IMAP client
remember to monitor your mailbox size to
prevent you from reaching your mailbox
quota. What you delete in your IMAP client
will be deleted on the server. You will
continue to be able to see all the messages
stored on the server when you use iNotes or
the Lotus Notes client. The server side copy
of your mailbox will continue to be backed
up. If you wish to use IMAP, we recommend
you e-mail the Helpdesk so that we can run a
conversion process on your mail file that
will make it work better with IMAP.
POP:
If you set your POP client to use the
following servers:
Incoming mail server:
pop.rhsmith.umd.edu
Outgoing mail server: smtp.rhsmith.umd.edu
Your username and password are the same as
your iNotes login (used to access your Lotus
Webmail). Authentication is required for
outbound e-mails (same username/password
combination as used for incoming e-mail).
Note: With POP clients, you are
downloading your email to your local client
and therefore your data will not be backed
up. You will be responsible for backing up
your local data in your email client.
Additionally, if you login into iNotes to
look at your email, you will only see new
messages that you have not yet downloaded to
your local client.
Discounted Personal Computers!
Dell and Apple discounts exist for
anyone with a University Directory ID. These
discounts are only available to individuals
– not to campus purchasing units. The
bundles displayed offer deeper discounts
than the individual configurations, but all
are discounted. Check out the deals at
http://www.act.umd.edu/.
Update your Virus Protection
Smith IT installations of McAfee are set
to automatically update virus definitions,
however, when security exploits are
announced, this needs to be done more
frequently. To protect your computer please
manually update your McAfee virus
definitions as soon as possible. To do this,
1. Right click on the red "V" in the taskbar
at the bottom right of your computer screen.
2. Choose "update now" and it will update to
the latest version of "dat."
Of course, new viruses or "exploits" are
most likely being created, so you should
routinely manually run McAfee updates daily.
Update Your Windows Critical Patches
If you have a computer with the Smith
School software image (such as your office
computer), that PC is set to automatically
update critical Windows patches overnight.
We recommend that you remain logged into
Novell overnight, and THEN RE-BOOT YOUR
COMPUTER IN THE MORNING. This will download
the latest critical patches available for
Windows, and when you re-boot your computer
in the morning they will be installed.
►More information on the latest Microsoft
Advisories
As always, the Office of Smith IT
recommends that you distrust all
communication (attachments, files, links,
etc.) that comes unannounced to best protect
yourself from malicious attacks.
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Bulletin Board
Start Your Online Holiday Shopping Now!
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If your to-do list still says “purchase
holiday gifts,” consider using your spending
power to benefit the Smith School’s
scholarship funds, which help undergraduate
and MBA students with financial needs attend
the Smith School. |
►Music for
Fundraising
If you’re in the market for CDs or DVDs, you
might want to check out this site, founded
by Smith alumnus Fred Ehrlich ’84. 35
percent of all purchases made through this
link will benefit the Smith School’s
Scholarship Fund. |
►Shop at
Amazon.com and Build the Smith School’s
Scholarship Funds!
Any purchase at Amazon.com using this link
will automatically donate a referral fee to
the Smith School; the money we generate
through this link is applied directly to
scholarships. The referral fees are tiny,
but they add up. Thank you for using our
link to benefit students at Smith!
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►Unique Games from
Smith Alumni
Start-up Company North Star Games “Cluzzle,”
invented by game designer, North Star Games
founders and Smith alumni Satish
Pillalamarri, MBA ’04, and Dominic
Crapuchettes, MBA ’04, has already
proven to be a hit with game players around
the country. “Wits and Wagers,” the
company’s newest offering, features a
trivia-style game in which players bet on
the correct answers, trying to out-bluff and
out-think their opponents. Their games can
be purchased through the Smith Store online
or directly from the company.
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►Smith Store
Online
Don’t forget your Smith Store paraphernalia,
which can be purchased at the Smith Store
online. Purchases benefit the Dingman
Scholars program.
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the bulletin board? Send items to
newsletter@rhsmith.umd.edu for
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December 1, 2006
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Smith Newslink MBA
is a production of the Office of Marketing Communications in
cooperation with the Masters Programs Office.
Smith Media
Group
Editor
Susannah Campbell
MBA Candidate 2007
Webmaster
Mark Mulvanny
MBA Candidate 2007
Sachin Agarwal
MBA Candidate 2007
Loretta Goodridge
MBA Candidate 2008
Camille Hoff-Kain
MBA Candidate 2008
Other Contributors:
Office of Marketing Communications
Office of Smith IT
Send comments or submissions to:
newslink@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Upcoming Conferences, Career Fairs & Forums
12/19 – 12/20 Tokyo Career
Meeting for Japanese and bilingual students (Tokyo Dome
City)
12/21 – 12/22 Tokyo Winter
Career Forum (Ikebukuro Sunshine City)
1/12 2007
Wharton
Energy Conference (Philadelphia, PA)
2/1 idealist.org Nonprofit
Career Fair (Indianapolis)
2/2-2/4 European Career
Fair, MIT (Boston, MA)
2/6 idealist.org Nonprofit
Career Fair (Boston)
2/9 MBA Media and
Entertainment Conference (NYC)
2/22 idealist.org Nonprofit
Career Fair (San Antonio, TX)
02/27 Women for Hire Career
Fair (NYC)
03/01 idealist.org
Nonprofit Career Fair (Minneapolis, MN)
03/06 Women for Hire Career
Fair (Washington, DC)
03/13 Women for Hire Career
Fair (Chicago, IL)
03/15 Women for Hire Career
Fair (St. Louis, MO)
03/29 Women for Hire Career
Fair (Dallas, TX)
04/TBD Illinois Business
Consulting 3rd Annual MBA Consulting Conference
(Chicago, IL)
04/03 Women for Hire Career
Fair (Tampa, FL)
04/03 idealist.org
Nonprofit Career Fair (Philadelphia, PA)
04/05 Women for Hire Career
Fair (Atlanta, GA)
04/10 Women for Hire Career
Fair (Los Angeles, CA)
04/17 Women for Hire Career
Fair (Boston, MA)
05/15 idealist.org
Nonprofit Career Fair (Chicago, IL)
Asian and Japanese-English bilingual students also
should check out DISCO Internationals job fairs.
Upcoming
Competitions
12/10 National University
of Singapore Global MBA Challenge (online)
12/15 GE/Dow Jones
Environmental Business Plan Competition (online)
Online Procter & Gamble’s Just-in-Case Online
Competition & Job Application
Online Group Danone’s Trust 3 Competition
Online L’Oreal’s e-Strat Challenge (REGISTER
09/28 – 11/28)
May/07 Booz Allen’s CEO Challenge (Register in
April 2007)
Internal Events
Fridays Pitch Dingman
(11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
12/01 Smith Speakers
Series: Dr. Russ Ackoff, Professor Emeritus of the
Wharton School and Chairman of Interact, the Institute
for Interactive Management
12/01 Dingman Day Lunch
featuring Haroon Mokhtarzada, CEO of Freewebs
12/08 Pitch Dingman $500
Competition
05/04 Cupid’s Cup $10,000
Competition
Companies Onsite
REGISTER on SOURCE now! Visit SOURCE for the most recent
updates on companies recruiting on campus.
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The four
official colors of the University of
Maryland are drawn from the striking and
distinctive Maryland state flag. The red,
white, black, and gold represent the shield
in the coat of arms of George Calvert, first
Lord Baltimore and original colonial
proprietor of Maryland. Early athletic
uniforms were simply gray or maroon and
gray, and it was commonplace for each
graduating class to select its individual
colors. The transition to black and gold
occurred in the early 1920s and these two
hues dominated until 1942, when then
football coach Clark Shaughnessy switched
the team uniforms to red and white. Black
and gold remained in the mix as accents and
occasionally returned as the predominant
colors, as in the case of the men's
basketball uniforms of the mid 1980s. Today,
all four colors are proudly featured in
Terps' athletic uniforms.
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Find out more about
Maryland Traditions
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