Lecture

25 years ago: At the most recent meeting of the Carroll County Board of Education, a change was ordered in the policy relating to "off-campus" social functions. All such activities must hereafter be approved by the principal of the school and should preferably be a senior activity. -- the Community Reporter, Oct. 18, 1974.75 years ago: Attorney Brown was tipped off Friday night that a cargo of moonshine was on its way from Baltimore for Carroll County and would arrive about 5: 30 in the morning on the Manchester road.

In Baltimore CountyMan who climbed phone tower is talked down after four hoursKINGSVILLE -- A distraught man climbed a 300-foot cellular telephone tower near Kingsville Elementary School yesterday morning, but police negotiators talked him down without incident.The man was taken into custody after he descended and was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at Franklin Square Hospital Center, said county police spokeswoman Cpl. Vickie Warehime. The man's name was not released by police.Dozens of police officers clustered near the school, which was closed for spring vacation, after a passer-by reported seeing the man about 7 a.m. near the base of the Cellular One tower.

Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)Emerson was a main practitioner of New England Transcendentalism. His 96-page book "Nature" helped initiate Transcendentalism.In it he answered the questions to his spiritual doubts. His later writings were, in a sense, annexes of "Nature."In his lecture "The American Scholar" he explained what he believed were the duties of a liberated intellectual. It was in essence a lecture against Harvard intelligentsia, although Emerson himself was a Harvard graduate.-- Encyclopedia of LiteraturePub Date: 01/17/99

THERE'S NO ROOM for doing things wrong in this profession. Sometimes people do die. But that doesn't keep you from doing your best effort," said Dr. Ben S. Carson Sr., director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.He was speaking to about 400 elementary and middle school students, including 40 sixth-graders from North Carroll Middle School, in Baltimore Monday.Carson gives a half-dozen motivational lectures each year to students at Turner Auditorium on the campus of the hospital.

THE SEX TALK used to be a 10-minute lecture with no eye contact delivered by a parent who seemed to be leaking from the armpits. It is a whole different thing now.Today, the sex talk is supposed to be a "lifelong conversation and conveyance of values."What that means to most parents and teens is that the awkward moment when your father wordlessly handed you a condom or that day when a box of sanitary products mysteriously appeared on your bed has been stretched out to the horizon.The sex talk can now happen at any time, night or day, in the name of teachable moments.

In January 1998, Barb Haley started her first "real" job, as an assistant professor at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce.Fresh out of the doctoral program at the University of Georgia, Barb was focused on her new position and making a good impression on her colleagues. So when a fellow professor asked Barb to lecture a group of the university's master of business administration students, she quickly agreed.Chris Wixom was among the 60 or so students at that lecture.

A lecture by poet Maya Angelou that had been scheduled for tomorrow night at Loyola College has been postponed because of illness.Loyola officials said they hope to reschedule the lecture for mid-April.For information on the new date, call 410-617-5151 beginning Wednesday. Those who bought tickets can use them for the rescheduled date or call TicketMaster for a refund.

In a lecture at Loyola College last night, author James Howard Kunstler blamed the suburban car-centered lifestyle for the breakdown in U.S. communities.The author of books and articles critical of post-World War II development, Kunstler claimed that post-World War II architecture and civic design chased people from increasingly unappealing, characterless cities into equally unattractive, isolated housing developments.Using slides, he showed a picture of what he considers typical -- expanses of streets surrounded by traffic lights and strip malls.

Michael Schudson, a professor at the University of California, San Diego and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, will lecture on "What It Means to be an Informed Citizen" at 7: 30 p.m. tomorrow at McManus Theater on the campus of Loyola College, 4501 N. Charles St.His lecture will address how the mass media can overwhelm the public about political issues and how the public can better use the news provided to become informed citizens. The event is part of the school's Clarence Caulfield Memorial Lecture Series.

A brief in yesterday's Maryland section gave the wrong date for a lecture at Loyola College by University of California professor Michael Schudson. The lecture, "What It Means To Be an Informed Citizen," was held last night.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 10/08/98

FRIDAY STAR-SPANGLED BANNER WEEKEND: Defenders' Day is celebrated with a parade, War of 1812 living history re-enactors, a patriotic band concert, musket firing and fireworks. The weekend-long festivities start with the parade from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. from the Star-Spangled Banner Museum, 844 E. Pratt St., to Locust Point. Saturday and Sunday events take place at Fort McHenry, 2400 E. Fort Ave. Park admission is $7 for adults, free for children. Saturday evening activities are free.

This is not how you want a judge to begin your court hearing: "You have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13 previous convictions." Circuit Judge Wanda K. Heard pronounced each number slowly and sternly, like a mother scolding a child who had repeatedly misbehaved. Found guilty time after time after time on minor theft and drug charges, Lennette Priscilla Johnson adamantly refused to get help. The judge pleaded. Johnson shook her head no. She's 36, the mother of two, including a 3-year-old boy. She chose three years' probation over treatment, and she faces the possibility of nine years in prison if she messes up again.

Randy Pausch, a terminally ill professor whose earnest farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University became an Internet phenomenon and best-selling book that turned him into a symbol for living and dying well, died yesterday. He was 47. Mr. Pausch, who was a computer science professor and virtual-reality pioneer, died at his home in Chesapeake, Va., of complications from pancreatic cancer, officials at the Pittsburgh university announced. When Mr. Pausch agreed to give a theoretical "last lecture," he was participating in a long-standing academic tradition.

Shakespeare, a guy who knew a thing or two about reeling in an audience, wrote, "The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony." Four hundred years later, last words are apparently no less compelling. Millions of people tuned into a dying professor's last lecture on YouTube, and millions more bought the book based on it. Tuesdays With Morrie, similarly stocked with deathbed life lessons, became a publishing phenomenon a few years back. And dozens of anthologies, both online and in print, compile final utterances of the famous and infamous.

Baltimore : Northeast Man blown into air with manhole cover A man was blown off the ground and injured last night when the manhole cover he was standing on at a Northeast Baltimore intersection flew into the air, a city Fire Department spokesman said. The 18-year-old man, whose name was not available, suffered head and elbow injuries, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, the spokesman. The man was taken by ambulance to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The incident also caused a power outage in the area, and Baltimore Gas and Electric crews were on the scene restoring power to homes and businesses, he said.

The College of Notre Dame's 2008 Baldwin Lecture in the Humanities is set to be delivered at 7 p.m. tomorrow by Marjane Satrapi, the best-selling author of Persepolis. The book tells the story of her youth in Iran in the 1970s and '80s, including the Islamic Revolution and war with Iraq. The book was published as four volumes in France and two volumes in the United States. A film based on the book - also titled Persepolis - received the Jury Prize Award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award in the animated feature film category.

Orioles manager Dave Trembley has strict rules about being on time and they apply to everybody, including his 17-year-old son. Kevin Trembley has been serving as an Orioles bat boy and helping his father by performing various other duties over the past couple of days. But he arrived at the back fields yesterday long after the workout began and quickly received a lecture from his father about punctuality. It couldn't have helped that the lecture, which was administered in a playful tone, came in front of Nick Markakis, who is Kevin's favorite player.

Dance lecture -- The Anne Arundel Community College Cultural Events Committee will present "Dancing on Air" at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in Room 112 of the Humanities Building, 101 College Parkway, Arnold. Part-time faculty member Megan Morse Jans will lead the lecture and a DVD demonstration of aerial dance. Free. 410-777-7021.

Fire forces evacuation of residents from city high-rise A single-alarm fire yesterday evening at a high-rise apartment building overlooking Druid Lake forced the evacuation of at least 50 residents, some of them in wheelchairs, said a Fire Department official at the scene. Reported shortly after 7 p.m. at the Lakeview Tower Apartments in the 700 block of Druid Park Lake Drive, the fire was confined to a seventh-floor apartment. The occupant was not home at the time, said Battalion No. 3 Cmdr.

History lecture -- St. John's College will present "History of the Negro Spirituals" at 8:15 p.m. Friday in the Francis Scott Key auditorium at 60 College Ave., Annapolis. James Weldon Norris will give a presentation, "The Negro Spiritual: A Choral Art Form," and will be accompanied by a members of the Howard University Choir (above), who will perform Negro spirituals. Free. 410-625-2539.