Student Affairs

Campus police at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County say they have a suspect in a weekend stabbing incident that left two students hospitalized.John Cook, the school's interim chief of police, said that heavy drinking led to the fight involving a folding lock-back knife. He said the altercation was confined to one dormitory room in Chesapeake Residence Hall. A window was broken during the fight.UMBC spokesman John Fritz said the fight took place at 5: 30 a.m. Sunday. Kevin W. Blackistone, 20, a junior visual arts major from Avenue, is in stable condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center with severe neck lacerations.

The Johns Hopkins University will sponsor a teach-in on affirmative action tomorrow and has invited the public to discuss the controversial civil rights policy.The teach-in, arranged by the university's office of multicultural student affairs, will be led by Howard Erlich, director of the National Prejudice Institute in Baltimore, and Fred Pinkus, sociology professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.The event, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Merryman Hall on the Homewood campus, is part of a nationwide campaign organized at hundreds of college campuses to support affirmative action.

Diane Troyer, vice president of academic and student affairs at Harford Community College, will be among the members of a delegation from Maryland that will visit women's groups in Japan.The trip is sponsored by the Women's Subcommittee of the Kanagawa-Maryland Sister State Program, which has received a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. The grant, which is being administered by Cecil Community College, will allow the delegation to cement the sister relationship formed in 1991 with the Kanagawa Women's Council.

Donald Hill-Eley has always told his Morgan State football players that life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond. Now, after enduring as strange a few months as any college coach could fathom, Hill-Eley is striving to live by his own lesson. In late November, following the Bears' third straight losing season, Hill-Eley accidentally received an e-mail outlining the university's plan to seek his replacement. For almost six weeks after that, as rival coaches ramped up recruiting for 2013, he heard nothing official about his status.

Charles Stembler, long-time assistant principal at Calvert Hall College, has been chosen the next principal of the Catholic high school in Towson. Brother Thomas Zoppo, president of the school's board announced Stembler will assume his new duties July 1. He replaces Louis Heidrick, who retired after 48 years at the school, spending the last 12 as principal. A 1983 graduate of Calvert Hall, Stembler has been assistant principal for student affairs since 1990. He has coordinated the summer school program and overseen student fundraising, and has taught Advanced Placement government, leadership, English and social studies courses.

Twenty-four graduating high school student-athletes, representing Harford County's 12 senior classes, will be honored at the 28th Annual Al Cesky Scholarship Fund's (ACSF) awards banquet Wednesday at the Richlin Ballroom, beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets are $40 each, with a student price of $35. Call 410-838-6787 or visit http://www.alceskyscholarhsip.org for more information. Two of the scholarship winners, one male and one female, will receive scholarship awards amounting to $5,000 each from the ACSF to help defray the cost of their post-secondary education.

&TC James L. Dollar has been named acting vice president for academic and student affairs at Anne Arundel Community College.The assistant dean and chairman of the humanities division will replace Dennis Golladay, who has taken a post as president of Cayuga County Community College in Auburn, N.Y.Dollar, named as 1986 Teacher of the Year by the State Board for Community Colleges, is a professor of philosophy and director of the school's honor program....

Notre Dame men's basketball coach Mike Brey will wait to deal with the arrests of Eric Atkins (Mount St. Joseph) and Tim Abromaitis on charges of underage drinking. "It's handled downtown. It's handled by Student Affairs and then the old coach will handle it," Brey said Tuesday. Atkins, an incoming freshman, and Abromaitis, the Irish's second leading scorer last season, were among 44 people arrested Friday night after police responded to a call about a fight and discovered a party, authorities said.

University of Maryland president William E. Kirwan was to introduce the school's new athletic director at College Park today.Maryland has been looking for a new athletic director since Andy Geiger resigned in May to become the athletic director at Ohio State. It will be Maryland's fourth athletic director in the past eight years.Sources said last night that acting director William "Bud" Thomas, the vice president for student affairs, will not be named to a permanent position in the athletic department.

Already removed as head of Bowie State University's fund-raising organization, Russell A. Davis resigned yesterday as the school's vice president of student affairs amid accusations that he has been lying about his academic credentials.Davis, who for six years had been responsible for making sure students completed their degrees, appears to have been falsely claiming a master's and a doctorate in education from the University of Maryland at College Park, university officials said.The university has no evidence that he earned those degrees, said John Lippincott, the university system's associate vice chancellor for advancement.