Student Affairs

Morgan State will begin its search for a new athletic director during the current school year, although school officials say a timetable to replace Ken McBryde has not been determined."

Ken McBryde, who took over as the director of a troubled Morgan State athletic department 19 months ago, has been fired and reassigned to the student affairs office."

Yesterday was filled with landmarks for Carroll Community College as the board of trustees met for the first time and appointed the Joseph F. Shields as the first president.Dr. Shields already had been running the college for two years -- to the day -- but his title had been executive dean. Until July 1, the college was a branch campus of Catonsville Community College.After the board came out of a brief closed meeting to announce the appointment, one staff member applauded the decision that most had expected.

A racially charged speech by Dr. Leonard Jeffries Jr. last night at the Johns Hopkins University brought a hail of protest, some applause, a few tears and a long, tense evening to the school's Homewood campus.Dr. Jeffries, a black tenured professor at City University of New York known for speeches denigrating whites and Jews, was a guest of the Black Student Union.RTC His topic was "Assessing Current Political Interaction and the Role of Student Activism in the Political Arena."A group of about 75 student protesters, many of them Jewish and a few of them black, were angry that the university's Office of Multi-Cultural Student Affairs gave the Black Student Union $1,500 to bring Dr. Jeffries to Baltimore.

A racially charged speech by Dr. Leonard Jeffries Jr. last night at the Johns Hopkins University brought a hail of protest, some applause, a few tears and a long, tense evening to the school's Homewood campus.Dr. Jeffries, a black tenured professor at City University of New York known for speeches denigrating whites and Jews, was a guest of the Black Student Union. His topic was "Assessing Current Political Interaction and the Role of Student Activism in the Political Arena."A group of about 75 student protesters, many of them Jewish and a few of them black, were angry that the Office of Multi-Cultural Student Affairs gave the Black Student Union $1,500 to bring Dr. Jeffries to Baltimore.

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.

Comedian and activist Dick Gregory delivered a message to a meeting of black educators yesterday in Towson that was at times funny, at times angry, and always demanding.And none of it was lost on the Rev. Nathaniel B. Thomas, head residence counselor at Howard University in Washington, D.C."The message you brought touched my heart," Mr. Thomas told Mr. Gregory, one of the keynote speakers at the annual conference of the National Association of Personnel Workers of historically black colleges and universities.

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Drinking among college students has declined over the past decade, studies show, as society has grown less tolerant of alcohol. But that decline masks a trend that is proving both stubborn and lethal: the persistence of abusive or "binge" drinking."