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By Carrie Wells, The Baltimore Sun | April 16, 2014
Nita Strickland and Sidney Garland, best friends since the sixth grade, have shared a lot - their hopes and daily frustrations, an interest in some of the same music and TV shows. Now in college, even though they are of opposite sexes, the students share a tiny dorm room on Towson University's campus. What would have been considered taboo just a few decades ago has become more common. Coed dormitories, which shocked some when introduced in the 1970s, have given way to coed rooms.
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By Carrie Wells, The Baltimore Sun | March 27, 2014
Enrollment at the University System of Maryland is expected to decline in the coming academic year and the following year, the first projected drop since the 1990s. More than 153,000 graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in fall 2013 at the state's public college system, but officials don't expect to surpass that number again until 2016. USM officials believe the colleges are still on track for longer-term growth, however. Much of the decline expected this coming fall is driven by a 6.5 percent expected drop at the University of Maryland, University College, which offers online and continuing education courses.
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By Carrie Wells and Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | February 15, 2014
An early-morning fire swept through a rental house just off the campus of Frostburg State University on Friday, leaving a student dead and destroying the building. University President Jonathan Gibralter wrote in an email to the campus community that Lateef Gazal, a senior business administration major from Bowie, was killed. "We offer our deepest condolences to Lateef's family and friends, and we ask you to keep them in your thoughts and prayers and offer them support in these difficult days to come," Gibralter wrote.
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By Jonathan Gibralter | February 11, 2014
As I listened to the conversation in the Maryland Senate regarding the bill to ban extremely high alcohol content beverages (SB-75), one argument said a ban would fail, and we should instead focus on educating our students. Well, incoming freshmen at Frostburg State University don't wait long before their education on the dangers of high-risk drinking begins. I start talking about it at the very first summer orientation session, and we keep telling parents and students about high-risk drinking and its consequences throughout.
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By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun | February 6, 2014
Robert Joseph Shockley, a former Loch Raven Elementary School principal, died of cancer Jan. 13 at Metropolitan Hospital in Miami. The former Towson resident was 92. Born in Greensboro in Caroline County, he was the son of William Harvey Shockley, who operated a milk route, and Margaret Shockley, a teacher. Raised in Cumberland, he was a 1938 graduate of Fort Hill High School and earned a bachelor's degree at what is now Frostburg State University. Dr. Shockley served in the Army's Signal Corps and Air Forces during World War II and was assigned to Japan and the Philippines.
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By Tom Hearn | September 19, 2013
When the regents of the University System of Maryland meet on Friday, they need to add to their agenda a discussion of Derek Sheely, the Frostburg State University student who died two years ago of head trauma sustained in football practice. Last month, Mr. Sheely's family filed a complaint against two Frostburg football coaches alleging that their son's death resulted from the coaches' conducting dangerous helmet-to-helmet "Oklahoma-style" tackling drills over three days. These drills, they allege, were so violent that they caused Mr. Sheely to sustain a bleeding gash on his forehead on the first day. The Sheelys allege that the football coaches encouraged their son to continue the drills without being evaluated for a concussion by the team's athletic trainer.