Student Affairs

Police are looking for a man who raped a woman on the University of Maryland Baltimore County campus last month.The 34-year-old victim, a nearby resident, was attacked about 4 p.m. Sept. 10 in a wooded area on the eastern edge of campus as she walked her two dogs, authorities said.The woman eventually was able to escape from her assailant and hide in the woods until he left the area.UMBC officials yesterday released a composite sketch of the rapist in the hope of developing leads in the month-old case.

A 17-member search committee has begun meeting to select the University of Maryland's next athletic director. "We're having a meeting today," committee member Len Elmore, a former Maryland and NBA basketball player, said in an interview Thursday. The committee will recommend a replacement for Debbie Yow, who left Maryland on July 10 to take the same position at North Carolina State. Elmore said he expected the committee would act in an advisory capacity to the university's next president.

Notre Dame of Maryland University will introduce its new president in style next month, with a week-long series of events including an installation ceremony on April 5 and a Presidential Day of Service on April 7 to benefit Baltimore City Head Start. James Conneely, 55, is the first man to lead the university in its 116-year history. The board of trustees hired him last February to succeed Mary Pat Seurkamp, who was retiring after 15 years as Notre Dame's president. Conneely came from Eastern Kentucky University, where he was associate provost for enrollment and vice president for student affairs.

When Rick Perry, Morgan State's vice president of student affairs, introduced Stump Mitchell as the university's football coach on Dec. 7, he said a full-time athletic director would be named within the next couple of weeks.As it turns out, the hiring of a new AD won't be announced until after the first of the year.Tanya Rush, the acting AD and head of the 11-member search committee, said the appointment should come in January. "That's what we're hoping," she said.Rush, who also serves as an assistant vice president of student affairs, said the committee has made its recommendations to Perry, who then will forward his recommendation to the university's president, Dr. Earl Richardson.

In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, it is the "if onlys" that bombard us for days afterward. For me, as a psychiatrist who has worked in college health for more than 25 years, the crucial hypothetical is: "If only the killer had gotten appropriate help." In attempting to make sure that someone like Seung-Hui Cho gets the critical assistance he needs in the future, we may wish to dissect the lines of responsibility for providing that intervention. In our culture of self-reliance, the essential responsibility for getting help when distressed lies with ourselves.

$50,831 in grants awarded to enhance after-school efforts The Anne Arundel County Local Management Board has awarded $50,831 in grants to enhance after-school opportunities for children in the county. The grants, given Friday to seven organizations, were selected from 23 proposals. The applicants were required to have a collaborating partner and provide a cash or in-kind match of 50 percent of the grant's value. The Annapolis Housing Authority was awarded $10,000 to support a learning-oriented summer camp for 100 children ages 6 to 13. St. James Church in Glen Burnie was awarded $10,000 to support an after-school program for children in grades four through eight at Marley Elementary and Marley Middle schools.

Ed Kilcullen has been awakened countless times to the sound of college students hollering at 2 a.m. Corinne Becker routinely finds beer bottles and other trash in her neighborhood when students gather for parties at a nearby apartment complex. And Don Gerding says he and his neighbors sometimes see students vomiting and urinating on lawns and in the street. They and other Towson community leaders say such annoyances are why they're so eager to hear how Towson University plans to deal with disruptive students off-campus.

The Morgan State University band struck up "Pomp and Circumstance" when Clayton Stansbury waved his white-gloved hands from atop the promenade at the other end of the football field. The faculty - flanking him on his left and right - paraded off the promenade and down the steps when he said, "OK. Go." The soon-to-be-graduates turned to the left when he turned and sat when he motioned them to sit. And they moved their gold tassels from right to left as he moved his tassel for the 35th consecutive year, as the students took a symbolic step into adulthood with yet another class.

The 19-year-old man shot inside the Morgan State University student center Wednesday was on campus visiting his cousin, a member of the school's football team, according to Baltimore police. It was a football player who first spotted the victim, said Donald Hill-Eley, Morgan State's head football coach. The player, whom Hill-Eley would not identify, saw the victim collapse outside the student center, he said. The player described the victim as bleeding profusely from the mouth and torso.

For the first time in the history of the Johns Hopkins University, the image of a non-white person now looks out from a wall on the Homewood campus. And for many, yesterday's unveiling of a portrait of Thurgood Marshall was symbolic of deeper changes in the institution.The ceremony comes amid a surge in the hiring of non-white faculty, the creation of an inter-departmental major designed to look at the African diaspora and a rise in activism by committees and groups dedicated to diversity on campus.