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By Arlene Ehrlich | May 30, 1993
And now, for those who have mastered the basics of supermarket sociology, a few guerrilla tactics for pursuing an advanced degree:* Before you leave the house, make a detailed list of everything you need to buy. (Later, when you get to the store, you can forget where you put the list.)* Dress for success. Wear a leather vest unbuttoned over your chest. Augment the outfit with lots of gold and silver chains and a prominent tattoo that reads, "Nobody Bothers ME!" This look works especially well for women.
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By J.D. Considine BTC and J.D. Considine BTC,SUN STAFF | September 15, 1996
"Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music," by Simon Frith. Harvard University Press. 352 pages. $27.95.One of the great terrors of junior high school math was the proof. As none of us particularly cared what, if y equaled 26, x might turn out to be, the notion of supporting those calculations with layers of mind-numbing logic seemed especially perverse. Sensing this, the teachers tried to put our puny efforts into perspective by observing that university-level mathematicians were expected to work lengthy proofs demonstrating that one plus one did, in fact, equal two.Many of us, I suspect, gave up then and there.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen and Frederick N. Rasmussen,SUN STAFF | April 30, 2002
The Rev. Charles Chapman Herrman Jr., a Methodist minister who taught urban sociology at Western Maryland College for 20 years, died Saturday of melanoma at Belle Grade, his home in Pylesville. He was 66. Born in Salem, N.J., the son of a DuPont Co. executive, Mr. Herrman was raised in Pennsville, N.J., and Pensacola, Fla., where he graduated from high school in 1954. Mr. Herrman, who was called "Chap," earned bachelor's degrees in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1958, and divinity from Emory University in Atlanta in 1960.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | May 3, 2013
Edward L. "Mac" McDill, former chairman of the Johns Hopkins University's sociology department who was also the founding director of the Hopkins Center for Social Organization of Schools, died April 25 of prostate cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Mays Chapel resident was 82. "Mac was a friend and a mentor. He was the pillar of the department and held it together when we went through some pretty rough times," said Karl Alexander, who succeeded Dr. McDill as department chair.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen and Frederick N. Rasmussen,fred.rasmussen@baltsun.com | February 6, 2010
Daniel Randall Beirne, a West Pointer and retired Army officer who later had a second career as a University of Baltimore professor of sociology and history and was considered an authority on Baltimore history, died Wednesday of heart failure at his East Lake Avenue home. He was 85. Dr. Beirne, whose parents were both writers, was born in Baltimore and raised on Berwick Road in Ruxton. His father was Francis Foulke Beirne, the longtime Sun and Evening Sun editorial writer, whose Christopher Billopp columns entertained newspaper readers for decades.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen and Frederick N. Rasmussen,fred.rasmussen@baltsun.com | February 6, 2009
John Iverson Toland Jr., a retired sociology professor and former chairman of the department of sociology at Towson University who also volunteered at a Govans food pantry, died Saturday of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease, at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 79. Dr. Toland was born in Birmingham, Ala., and was raised in Atlanta and Columbia, S.C., where he graduated from high school in 1948. After serving in the Navy from 1949 to 1951, he served in the Army from 1953 to 1955.