Hampton University

A 17-year-old Hampton University student drowned while attending a pool party on the Virginia campus on Wednesday. University officials said David Esan, of Randallstown, was at a party at Holland Hall when he drowned. University spokeswoman Yuri Milligan said Esan was spotted in the gymnasium pool after the party broke up, at about 11:50 p.m. Wednesday. She said several people called 911 to report the drowning. "Lifeguards and paramedics attempted to revive him on the scene," she reported in a press release.

A 17-year-old Hampton University student drowned while attending a pool party on the Virginia campus on Wednesday. University officials said David Esan, of Randallstown, was at a party at Holland Hall when he drowned. University spokeswoman Yuri Milligan said Esan was spotted in the gymnasium pool after the party broke up, at about 11:50 p.m. Wednesday. She said several people called 911 to report the drowning. "Lifeguards and paramedics attempted to revive him on the scene," she reported in a press release.

HAMPTON, Va. -- Since the summer, Patricia Bishop and her four hoofed companions have known only the solitude of the breeze and murmur coming off the waters of Hampton Roads. "It's me, the horses and my country music," said Bishop, Hampton University's stable manager. Starting this month, the waterfront stable will get more frequent visits when a small group of students begins to learn the basics of horsemanship as part of a new course being offered at the university. The Western Equestrian class will teach students horse riding for recreation and will include learning about proper care, handling and feeding of horses.

Charles Wilbur "Stretch" Crisp, a retired distillery supervisor and collector of vintage Jaguars, was pronounced dead Saturday at Chester County Hospital in West Chester, Pa. The Woodlawn resident was 66. Mr. Crisp was attending a Cars of England at Oakbourne Mansion classic automobile meet in Westtown, Pa., when, while accepting an award for one of his Jaguars with his wife, he was stricken with the massive heart attack that took his life,...

HAMPTON, Va. - Alien life might look more like Ebola than E.T. That's an understanding a new Hampton University course will focus on and that continued interest in space exploration could depend on. Arthur Bowman and other researchers at Hampton University's Center for Atmospheric Sciences are developing a new course in astrobiology set to be offered this fall. It will be the first offering of the discipline at the university and one of only a handful of programs supported by NASA in the nation.

Tameka S. Taylor and Kenneth T. Brookins were united in holy matrimony on September 13, 2003 at Trinity Baptist Church in Richmond, VA. Tameka is the daughter of Iris Jones, of Richmond, VA. She is a graduate of Hampton University and George Mason University. She is an elementary teacher. Kenneth is the son of Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth F. Brookins, of Baltimore, MD. He is a graduate of Hampton University and is an architect. After honeymooning in Aruba, the couple now resides in Columbia, MD.

The long wait for the official announcement of Donald Hill-Eley's appointment as Morgan State's new football coach ended yesterday, 19 days after it was reported in The Sun that last season's offensive coordinator would be named boss of the Bears. Morgan athletic director David Thomas said Hill-Eley would replace Stanley Mitchell, who had a 5-27 record in three seasons at Morgan. "I was impressed with the way Coach Hill related to our young team last season," said Thomas yesterday. "He made substantial contributions to the program last year, and the players seemed to identify well with him. "I feel he brings a winning attitude and solid experiences to the Morgan State football team.

Christopher B. Weaver, a student at Hampton University and Gilman School graduate, was pronounced dead at a hospital in Hampton, Va., on Wednesday after being shot by an intruder who entered his apartment and opened fire with a handgun. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 22. Christopher Brandon Weaver was born and raised in Baltimore. He is the son of Dr. Jesse R. Weaver, a Baltimore dentist, and Alice G. Pinderhughes, an attorney. He is the grandson of the late Alice G. Pinderhughes, who in the 1980s was the first woman to serve as city school superintendent.

Drew Berry, general manager and vice president of WMAR-TV (Channel 2), will leave the station Dec. 1 to join the faculty of Hampton University in Virginia. The 50-year-old executive has been at WMAR since 1997. He was news director and station manager before assuming his current duties in 2000. Neither a successor nor interim manager has been named by the E.W. Scripps Co., which owns the Baltimore ABC affiliate. "I have some mixed emotions about leaving," Berry said yesterday after meeting with station employees to announce his departure.

Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art presents "To Conserve a Legacy," an extraordinary selection of American paintings, prints, drawings, photographs and sculpture from the collections of historically black colleges and universities, beginning Saturday. Artists represented include Aaron Douglas, Arthur Dove, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.The project, organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Studio Museum of Harlem, was developed to conserve, document and present more than 150 works of art owned by Clark Atlanta University, Fisk University, Hampton University, Howard University, North Carolina Central University and Tuskegee University.

Drew Berry, general manager and vice president of WMAR-TV (Channel 2), will leave the station Dec. 1 to join the faculty of Hampton University in Virginia. The 50-year-old executive has been at WMAR since 1997. He was news director and station manager before assuming his current duties in 2000. Neither a successor nor interim manager has been named by the E.W. Scripps Co., which owns the Baltimore ABC affiliate. "I have some mixed emotions about leaving," Berry said yesterday after meeting with station employees to announce his departure.

HAMPTON, Va. -- Christopher B. Weaver's killers asked for him by name at his door. Then they stormed the apartment of the student from Baltimore -- 22-year-old grandson of a former city school superintendent -- and shot him at least three times as he lay on his bed. As friends gather at Weaver's funeral in Baltimore today, police here say they are attempting to solve the slaying. And students at Hampton University -- an elite, traditionally black college -- are wondering how the violence might affect the institution Weaver attended.

Christopher B. Weaver, a student at Hampton University and Gilman School graduate, was pronounced dead at a hospital in Hampton, Va., on Wednesday after being shot by an intruder who entered his apartment and opened fire with a handgun. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 22. Christopher Brandon Weaver was born and raised in Baltimore. He is the son of Dr. Jesse R. Weaver, a Baltimore dentist, and Alice G. Pinderhughes, an attorney. He is the grandson of the late Alice G. Pinderhughes, who in the 1980s was the first woman to serve as city school superintendent.

Tameka S. Taylor and Kenneth T. Brookins were united in holy matrimony on September 13, 2003 at Trinity Baptist Church in Richmond, VA. Tameka is the daughter of Iris Jones, of Richmond, VA. She is a graduate of Hampton University and George Mason University. She is an elementary teacher. Kenneth is the son of Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth F. Brookins, of Baltimore, MD. He is a graduate of Hampton University and is an architect. After honeymooning in Aruba, the couple now resides in Columbia, MD.

The long wait for the official announcement of Donald Hill-Eley's appointment as Morgan State's new football coach ended yesterday, 19 days after it was reported in The Sun that last season's offensive coordinator would be named boss of the Bears. Morgan athletic director David Thomas said Hill-Eley would replace Stanley Mitchell, who had a 5-27 record in three seasons at Morgan. "I was impressed with the way Coach Hill related to our young team last season," said Thomas yesterday. "He made substantial contributions to the program last year, and the players seemed to identify well with him. "I feel he brings a winning attitude and solid experiences to the Morgan State football team.

HAMPTON, Va. -- Since the summer, Patricia Bishop and her four hoofed companions have known only the solitude of the breeze and murmur coming off the waters of Hampton Roads. "It's me, the horses and my country music," said Bishop, Hampton University's stable manager. Starting this month, the waterfront stable will get more frequent visits when a small group of students begins to learn the basics of horsemanship as part of a new course being offered at the university. The Western Equestrian class will teach students horse riding for recreation and will include learning about proper care, handling and feeding of horses.

HAMPTON, Va. -- Christopher B. Weaver's killers asked for him by name at his door. Then they stormed the apartment of the student from Baltimore -- 22-year-old grandson of a former city school superintendent -- and shot him at least three times as he lay on his bed. As friends gather at Weaver's funeral in Baltimore today, police here say they are attempting to solve the slaying. And students at Hampton University -- an elite, traditionally black college -- are wondering how the violence might affect the institution Weaver attended.

The May issue of Emerge magazine proves once again why it is black America's premier news periodical. Taking a break from the John H. Johnson -- publisher of Ebony and Jet -- "happy news makes happy Negroes" school of journalism, Emerge devoted nearly its entire issue to the drug crisis.The main feature was a special report on an African-American woman named Kemba Smith. "Kemba's Nightmare," Emerge called its story. It focused on how this "model child" -- a student at Hampton University -- got sucked into a vortex of drug dealing and murder.

"ARE YOU smiling?" Kemba Smith asked as we posed for a picture about to be snapped by a Baltimore Times photographer. The last time I wrote about Smith in this column was April 1998. Then, she was a cause celebre - the "winner of the Victim Sweepstakes for 1997," I called her. There were other things I called her too. Stupid was probably the most prominent - and insulting - among them. In 1997, Smith was in the third year of a 24-year mandatory minimum prison sentence for her involvement in a drug ring led by her boyfriend, Peter Michael Hall.

HAMPTON, Va. - Alien life might look more like Ebola than E.T. That's an understanding a new Hampton University course will focus on and that continued interest in space exploration could depend on. Arthur Bowman and other researchers at Hampton University's Center for Atmospheric Sciences are developing a new course in astrobiology set to be offered this fall. It will be the first offering of the discipline at the university and one of only a handful of programs supported by NASA in the nation.