Big changes are coming to The Hare’s online presence.

For too long, our website has leaned into the modern sensibilities of the internet. All for what? To be accessible and easy to read? That won’t do. It’s time for us to finally embrace the true roots of the world wide web: Times New Roman, scrolling marquee text, and repeating image backgrounds.

Clearly we’d need a new domain to accompany this change. Dropping the “UMD” from our name would cost us the cool price of $11,000 (yes, really), which we don’t exactly have lying around. We’re not even a company so .com has never really made sense, and I don’t think they have .registeredstudentorganization domains for sale yet. We could always pivot to being a tech startup and pick theumdhare.ai, but theumdhare.gay seemed like a natural choice, because, well, you know.

Dear readers of The Hare, I hope you’ll appreciate this new direction we’re taking. In the words of Steve Jobs, “Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity — not a threat.” As an innovator, pioneer, trailblazer, vanguard, and trendsetter myself, humbly, I present to you: theumdhare.gay.

Image Credits: Zachary Robinson