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McDaniel College was named a "best value" by Kiplinger's Personal Finance, and is the only Maryland liberal arts college to make the list. The rankings are available online at http://www.kiplinger.com/links/college, and will be published in the magazine's December issue. Two hundred colleges and universities made Kiplinger's list based on an assessment of cost and financial aid, competitiveness, academic support, graduation rates and student indebtedness. According to Kiplinger's, "All 100 (liberal arts)

Five Carroll County residents, and three others, were recently inducted into the Green Terror Sports Hall of Fame at McDaniel College. The new inductees were formally announced at McDaniel's homecoming game on Nov. 3 against Susquehanna. The Sports Hall of Fame awards are presented to graduates and former athletes who performed as undergraduate athletes and who have contributed to society since leaving the college. Recipients for 2012 are: • John "Jack" Baile, of Westminster, received a bachelor's degree in 1962 and master's in 1973 from then-Western Maryland College.

Dr. Daniel C.W. "D.C. " Finney, a retired Baltimore surgeon and World War II veteran, died Monday of heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Lutherville resident was 88. Dr. Daniel Clarke Wharton Finney — who was known as "D.C. " — was the son of Eben Dickey Finney, an architect, and Margaret Wharton Smith Finney, a homemaker. He was also a collateral descendant of Johns Hopkins and the namesake of Dr. D.C. Wharton Smith, a Baltimore pediatrician, who were both on his maternal side.

McDaniel College in Westminster this week dedicated its new Kenneth R. Gill Stadium. The $8-million-plus, two-story brick and concrete stadium will be home to Green Terror football, women's field hockey, men's and women's lacrosse and men's and women's track and field, in addition to special events. The project includes a new campus entrance and roadway on West Main Street. The architect is Marshall Craft Associates of Baltimore and contractor is Manekin Construction of Columbia.

The wind blew cold across McDaniel College's Kenneth R. Gill Stadium and off-and-on rain pelted the two field hockey teams playing in the Class 2A North regional final Thursday. While the weather made those on the sidelines shiver and wrap themselves in blankets, No. 10 Century and Winters Mill pushed each other toward elimination. With just 1:22 left in the game, Kailey Wolfe, Century's leading scorer, found a rare opening and pushed the ball into the back of Winters Mill's net for a 2-1 victory.

I support marriage equality. Assuring that loving same-sex couples have the same rights my wife and I have to live our lives together is, quite simply, a matter of justice and core civil rights. But I have another reason for supporting Question 6 - less idealistic, perhaps, but just as real: Marriage equality is good for business. It certainly would be good for my organization, Johns Hopkins. Our most important assets, by far, are our people. We compete tooth-and-nail with universities around the world to attract the best scholars, teachers and researchers, and our faculty are the wellspring for all we do. Once they are here, we work very hard to support and nurture them so that they can do their best work - and so that other universities don't swoop in to snap up, say, a potential Nobel laureate.

"Gone, but not forgotten" is the nostalgic slogan adopted by organizers of Discover Daniels Day, a one-time event Saturday that will mark 40 years since the last remnants of the town of Daniels were demolished by Tropical Storm Agnes. Haven't heard of Daniels? You're not alone. The picturesque and bustling mill town, with manufacturing roots dating to the early 19th century, was located four miles north of Ellicott City at a bend in the Patapsco River and straddled the northeastern Howard County border into Baltimore County.

This week's episode promised to change everything, and it delivered. Many of us hoped Amanda would just disappear shortly after she arrived in the Hamptons last season ... and our wish might just have come true. Unfortunately I was actually starting to like her this episode -- clearly whoever writes Nolan's one-liners took a shot at her lines and pumped in a few good ones ("looks like you've hooked your fish" being my personal favorite). Even though last week introduced a few new story lines, the writers had to throw a couple more in this week to keep us on our toes.

Former Francis Scott Key and McDaniel College student and tennis player Steve French has been named McDaniel's interim head men's and women's tennis coach. A 2012 graduate of McDaniel, French has spent the fall as an assistant on the Green Terror staff and takes over as the interim head coach after Brian Kastner announced his resignation to take a head coaching job at Hollins University. "We wanted to keep continuity within the program during this transition," said Director of Athletics Paul Moyer.

Maggi Uhland was happy on Tuesday that she decided to pursue German at South Carroll High School. "It is a lot easier than Spanish and a lot more fun," the 14-year-old freshman said, of the language. "And we can choose to come here. " Uhland was one of more than 1,000 students from around the county, state, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., to participate in German-American Day at McDaniel College in Westminster on Oct. 16. Now in its 18th year, the day focuses on German culture and history through workshops and lectures that discuss everything from German fairy tales and music to chilling survivors' tales of the Holocaust and anti-Hitler resistance movements during World War II. Among those was Rubin Sztajer, of Baltimore, a Polish Jew who told students of his experiences as a Holocaust survivor who endured the Warsaw Ghetto and Nazi concentration camps.