Loyola College

Loyola College used a history lesson and the most explosive player in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference to end a two-game losing streak last night, beating visiting Canisius, 77-74, to regain a share of first place. Gerald Brown, who had a game-high 29 points on 11-of-18 shooting, was coming off a rotten weekend up North, where the Greyhounds dropped two games and he picked up a cold. The lost weekend led coach Jimmy Patsos to tell his basketball team about his experiences as a Maryland assistant in 2001, when the Terps recovered from a pair of brutal losses to Duke and Florida State to reach their first Final Four.

The Rev. Francis Charles Bourbon, a Jesuit priest, former Loyola College faculty member and Baltimore City Fire Department chaplain, died Tuesday of pneumonia at Lankenau Hospital in suburban Philadelphia. He was 80. Born in Baltimore and raised on Belvieu Avenue, he was a 1944 Loyola High School graduate. He entered the Jesuit order that year and was ordained a priest June 23, 1957, by Archbishop Francis P. Keough. He joined the Loyola College faculty in 1959 and became dean of men and a theology teacher.

With the help of a $1 million grant, Loyola College is launching a program to provide advice about college to low- income students in nine Maryland high schools. Loyola's education department will select eight to 10 spring graduates to work full time as advisers to high- achieving students who might not be considering going to college, according to Courtney Jolley, a Loyola spokeswoman. "I am extremely excited about it," said Victor Delclos, chairman of Loyola's education department. "We have been talking over the year about ways we can get more involved in Baltimore City and working with students who are disadvantaged in terms of educational opportunities.

A great afternoon's work by the 12th-ranked Loyola College men's lacrosse team almost was erased during one, final, wild minute yesterday against visiting No. 11 Syracuse. But in the end, after the Greyhounds had nearly blown a four-goal lead they built by controlling the Orange throughout the fourth quarter, Loyola sophomore goalie Alex Peaty saved the day. Peaty stepped up to stop a point-blank shot by Syracuse sophomore attackman Kenny Nims as time expired, and Loyola escaped with a huge, 11-10 victory before 3,582 at Diane Geppi-Aikens Field.

Paul Cantabene swivels a chair in his Owings Mills office, converted space that used to be the Ravens' and Colts' headquarters. Stan Ross text-messages his former players and plots a career change from his mother's home in Lutherville. Cantabene and Ross were teammates at Loyola College in the early 1990s. They were assistants at Towson University when it reached the NCAA semifinals in 2001. They had plenty of shared experiences during their respective love affairs with college lacrosse - until they became head coaches, one in a division that's booming, the other in a level that doesn't reflect the game's growth.

McDermott at Loyola Alice McDermott will read from her books at Loyola Col lege at 5 p.m. today. She will also accept the college's An drew White Medal for her con tributions to Maryland's literary tradition. The event will be held in the fourth-floor program room at the Andrew White Stu dent Center, Loyola College, 4501 N. Charles St. Informa tion: 410-617-5025.

Joseph A. Reiter, a retired attorney and certified public accountant, died of pneumonia Tuesday at his Catonsville home. He was 81. Born in Baltimore and raised in the Walbrook area, he was a 1943 graduate of Polytechnic Institute. He enlisted in the Navy and served in the South Pacific during World War II in an amphibious unit. After the war, he earned a bachelor's degree from Loyola College and was valedictorian of the Class of 1949. Mr. Reiter was an auditor with the Arabian American Oil Co. in Saudi Arabia.

A Loyola College student who was walking along York Road on Sunday night was confronted by a group of juveniles, one of whom threw a rock that hit him in the head, causing minor injuries, authorities said yesterday. The area where the aggravated assault occurred is commonly traversed by Loyola students, who walk along York Road to various bars and other entertainment spots. The head of the college's public safety department said that the school did not issue an on-campus alert to students about the incident.

Loyola College, which has been locked in a lengthy dispute over its proposal for a retreat center in northern Baltimore County, should receive approval for the project, the state Court of Special Appeals decided this week. The ruling reverses a decision by a Baltimore County Circuit Court judge, who sided with Parkton-area residents opposed to building the retreat center in an area designated for agriculture. A lawyer for the group that objects to the retreat center said he will ask the state's highest court to review the appellate decision, which was issued Wednesday.

From the time he first kicked a soccer ball as a child, Loyola coach Lee Tschantret knew he wanted to be around the game for the rest of his life. Tschantret blossomed into a two-time All-American at Albany State and carved out a 17-year professional career, including seven seasons with the Blast. As he contemplates whether he will return for another season with the Blast, he has embraced another aspect of his soccer life. Tschantret, 38, is one of several former or current professional players coaching high school soccer in the metro area this season.

Today, Loyola College in Maryland celebrates a milestone. Today, we become Loyola University Maryland. Since announcing our plans to make this change, I've often been asked why we are doing so. After all, Loyola College in Maryland has an illustrious 157-year history, an established reputation in the Baltimore community and beyond, and an alumni network with few rivals. But we needed - and need - to do more, to say more, about the institution we've become and what we expect to achieve in the years ahead.

William E. Schaffner, a Jesuit educator who later was chaplain at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, died of pneumonia Sept. 15 at Manresa Hall Jesuit Community in Merion Station, Pa. He was 91. Father Schaffner was born and raised in Wheeling, W.Va. After graduating from Central Catholic High School in Wheeling, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1935 and professed his vows in 1937. He studied at the Novitiate at St. Isaac Jogues in Wernersville, Pa., from 1937 to 1939, and for the next two years, he studied philosophy at the St. Ignatius Jesuit Retreat House at Inisfada in Manhasset, N.Y. Father Schaffner completed additional philosophical studies at West Baden College in West Baden Springs, Ind., from 1940 to 1942.

Joseph M. Healy, a former Jesuit priest who was associate director of institutional programs at Loyola College, where he also taught theology and philosophy, died Aug. 13 of esophageal cancer at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The longtime Charles Village resident was 75. Mr. Healy, the son of a copy editor and a telephone operator, was born and raised in Jersey City, N.J. After graduating from St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City, where he was an honors student, Mr. Healy enrolled at St. Peter's College, also in Jersey City, earning a bachelor's degree in 1955 in marketing.

Jonathan Reid Harding, director of the college counseling corps at Loyola College and adjunct professor of English at York College and Pennsylvania State University at York, Pa., died in his sleep June 19 at his Towson home. He was 40. "We are waiting for the results of an autopsy for an exact cause of death, but we've been told it was probably heart failure," said Joanne Riley, a longtime Loyola College friend and teacher. Mr. Harding who was born in Richmond, Va., and raised in Towson, was a 1985 graduate of Loch Raven High School.

Loyola College is mourning the death of a professor who was killed along with her 7-year-old daughter when part of a large tree struck their minivan in Montgomery County. Police said Kelly M. Murray, 40, was driving south on Connecticut Avenue near East-West Highway on Friday. It was raining and windy as a branch of a large tree struck the minivan about 7:20 p.m. near the Murray family's home in Chevy Chase. "We're terribly shocked, and there is the tragedy of her daughter dying with her," said Joseph Ciarrocchi, a psychology professor in Loyola's department of pastoral counseling.

A letter Tuesday by recent Loyola College graduate Richard M. Fogal objecting to the school's plans to make the SAT optional generated a significant response from readers. The systematic effort by college administrators to lower the ceiling to attain diversity is disgusting. This bending over backward to accommodate students who don't test well bodes poorly for institutions like Loyola. It also insults the intelligence of students who come from poorer neighborhoods. If coached by interested volunteers in their communities, they can study hard for the SAT and score as high as their compatriots from more affluent neighborhoods.

James Phillip Bowman, a mechanical engineer who enjoyed sports and the outdoors, was stricken with a heart attack while playing street hockey and died June 3 at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The Parkville resident was 33. Mr. Bowman was born and raised in Lancaster County, Pa. He graduated from Hempfield High School in Landisville, Pa., in 1993, and earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Pennsylvania State University. Last month, Mr. Bowman earned a master's degree in business from Loyola College.

I write to express my displeasure, in the strongest terms possible, at Loyola College's decision to no longer require standardized testing for undergraduate prospects ("Loyola joins SAT-optional colleges," June 7). This decision threatens to directly undermine, financially depreciate and otherwise academically devalue the bachelor's degrees granted by Loyola. Many of my fellow alumni, current students at Loyola and many others within the Loyola community are in agreement that this decision is an ill-conceived and disingenuous way to achieve the university's stated goal of increasing diversity.

Loyola College's Jesuit tradition calls for it to serve students who did not start with every economic, social or geographic advantage. Widespread research, meanwhile, shows that standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT favor those from privileged backgrounds and that such tests are less predictive of college success than excellent grades and a rigorous course load in high school. So, in search of a more diverse and accomplished student body, Loyola has joined a growing list of colleges and universities that no longer require applicants to submit an SAT or ACT score.

An alert sent out to faculty, staff and students Thursday about shots fired on the campus of Loyola College of Maryland was a test of the school's emergency response process, officials said. At 10:56 a.m., the school sent out an e-mail that said an "active shooter" was on campus. It read: "Seek inside safe refuge and lock yourself in a room. If off campus, stay away. Follow instructions from authorities. Check e-mail. An armed person has been reported on campus. If you are on campus, go to the nearest room and lock or barricade the door.