Temple University

Lenora Howze has been named vice president of advertising at The Sun, the newspaper's publisher and chief executive officer, Michael E. Waller, announced yesterday. Howze, 40, an employee at the newspaper since 1990, was formerly the director of classified advertising. Waller said she was chosen for her accomplishments in the classified department as well as in her other positions, which included classified telemarketing manager, a sales manager in national advertising and division manager in advertising marketing.

SALISBURY -- Yes, comedian Bill Cosby left 390 University of Maryland Eastern Shore graduates, their families, friends and faculty laughing yesterday, but not without tackling the issue that pushed the small institution into the national spotlight this spring -- fraternity hazing.The veteran television actor donned a ceremonial academic gown but topped it with a baseball cap, complete with traditional commencement-day tassel. When he stepped to the lectern at the Wicomico County Youth and Civic Center, the Temple University graduate touted his membership in the Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

John Chaney recruited Aaron McKie from one of Philadelphia's most impoverished neighborhoods, just a short walk from Temple University's inner-city campus.He recruited Huey Futch from Naranja, Fla. -- just outside Homestead -- and the ravages of Hurricane Andrew.And once, as legend has it, he recruited a 7-footer named Eddie Geiger out of a car wash. That was back in the late 1970s, before Temple, when Chaney still coached at what is now Cheyney (Pa.) University.When Chaney brings his 24th-ranked Owls to the Baltimore Arena for a nonconference game against Maryland tomorrow, you can glimpse all their distinctive trademarks.

Once again, Kinetics Dance Theatre has reinvented itself. Since last August, choreographer Anne-Alex Packard has held the artistic reins for the Howard County-based dance company. The company's recent debut performance at the Baltimore Museum of Art demonstrated that Packard has friends in high places willing to help the choreographer put her best foot forward.Kinetics' newly reconstituted company of eight women relied heartily on guest artists to pull the performance together. Overall, this established a rocky sense of accomplishment with Packard's dances almost lost in the shuffle of personalities.

It is one of Baltimore's untold stories, one laden with irony in this time of debate over the use of affirmative action to attract bright young university prospects.For more than two decades spanning the midpoint of this century, hundreds of black Baltimore teachers traveled to the finest graduate schools in the land, their tuition, travel and living expenses paid by a Maryland government intent on keeping them out of the segregated state university.A half-century later, these educators are in their 70s and 80s, retired, many still living in Baltimore.

Ted McGhee caught the entrepreneurial bug during the weekend of AFRAM, the yearly black festival held in downtown Baltimore, in 1982. The following Monday, he went to his job of six years, packed up everything in a cardboard box and quit.What had caught his attention was a "jewelers rolling mill," a 500-pound machine with which he and a friend could turn dimes into flat, sailboat-shaped charms for earrings and bracelets. While that particular project fell through, it served as an introduction into the world of being his own boss.

UMBC holds AU to 23 in 2nd half, romps, 71-53The University of Maryland Baltimore County (2-2) checked American University (2-4) on 23 second-half points and breezed to a 71-53 victory at the UMBC Fieldhouse last night.Junior Karyn Swann (Wilde Lake) headed the defensive effort by restricting Felicia Young, AU's top scorer with a 17-point average, to 13 points, and shared the offensive honors with senior Felice Pinkney, as each collected 16 points.Each side made 21 field goals (UMBC shot 32 percent to 35 for the visitors)

David Bradley has one burning question on his mind: Why? For the author of the 1982 PEN/Faulkner Award winner, "The Chaneysville Incident," that question is the starting point for his writing.Lately, Mr. Bradley, 40, who was in town last week to read selections from "Chaneysville" at Goucher College, has been concentrating on the problem of that old American evil, racism. It's the subject of his current work in progress, "The Bondage Hypothesis." And his examination begins with a question.