SPORTS
By Glenn P. Graham and Glenn P. Graham,SUN STAFF | January 26, 1996
The Western Maryland College Honor and Conduct Board found 17 students -- including 12 athletes -- guilty of falsifying time sheets for college work-study jobs in the intramural program.The board, consisting of two faculty and two student members, completed the hearing last Friday, following a campus investigation that began in December after a routine monthly check of student payroll statements turned up discrepancies.Joyce Muller, the school's director of public information, wouldn't release any names.
NEWS
By Carol L. Bowers and Andrea F. Siegel and Carol L. Bowers and Andrea F. Siegel,Sun Staff Writers | April 8, 1994
School system officials have recommended the expulsion of four black students from Severna Park High School who were involved in two race-related brawls there last month, The Sun has learned.But white students involved in the fights have not been disciplined, according to a lawyer for two black students.Alan Legum, representing two of the black students who will be appealing their punishment, questioned the fairness of the disciplinary action."Insensitive is too mild a word," the Annapolis lawyer said.
SPORTS
By Pat O'Malley and Pat O'Malley,SUN STAFF | March 21, 1997
An Anne Arundel County arbitration panel has ruled that North County's varsity football team, 9-2 last fall, has to forfeit all nine victories for using an ineligible player.Confusing terminology caused the ineligibility of a little-used reserve.The Knights, who were ranked 11th in metropolitan Baltimore and lost to Lake Clifton, 58-30, in a state quarterfinal after winning the Class 4A East region, used a player involved in home schooling, a program in which the student is taught at home by a parent.
NEWS
June 5, 1997
SCHOOLS must not tolerate outrageous, senseless behavior. That was the message in Howard County from the expulsions meted out to participants in a melee that preceded the death of Wilde Lake High School teacher Lawrence Hoyer.Whether administrators have cracked down hard enough in the past on fighting in school is a question that can spark endless debate. But the expulsions this week of five students and extraordinarily long suspensions for four others were the act of a system putting its foot down.
NEWS
By Deidre Nerreau McCabe and Deidre Nerreau McCabe,Staff writer | March 29, 1992
Sitting in their guidance counselor's small office, the students were soft-spoken, polite, almost deferential.Without knowing why thestudents had been assembled, it would be hard to guess what they hadin common.But this group of boys and girls from MacArthur Middle School in Fort Meade had been gathered to discuss fighting. Each had been in fights serious enough to warrant suspension.At MacArthur, however, they were given another option -- attending a program on conflict resolution.The students, most of them under directives from their parents, chose the classes.
NEWS
By Tanya Jones and Suzanne Loudermilk and Tanya Jones and Suzanne Loudermilk,Sun Staff Writers Sun Staff writer Mike Farabaugh contributed to this article | March 11, 1995
Two North Harford High School seniors accused in the slaying of a Jarrettsville family's pet goat were charged yesterday with animal cruelty, theft and malicious destruction of property.The 17-year-old boys are two of three students who authorities believe were involved in the theft and death of the 9-year-old goat, which was found lying in a pond in a courtyard at the rear of the school Tuesday morning. The arrest of the third student is expected soon, said Sgt. Edward Hopkins, sheriff's office spokesman.