Undergraduates

The University System of Maryland is considering putting a center in Hagerstown that would offer graduate and undergraduate degree programs run by institutions in the system."

Carroll County students are among the 1,500 undergraduates who enrolled this fall at Western Maryland College. The 1998-1999 academic year marks the college's 131st year of education in the liberal arts and sciences.Local students include:Eldersburg: Ryan C. Flynn, Elizabeth A. Meade and Emily L. Stuard.Finksburg: Robert R. Biden, Erin M. Clarke, Joshua D. Pinner and Toni A. Whelan.Hampstead: Holly A. Carswell, Rebecca F. Carswell, Amy N. Davidson, Jeanette E. Frye, Laurina M. Gee, Jennifer L. Geiman, Guy H. Sheetz, Erin N. Stacks and James M. Stull.

Some years fade fast. Others keep coming back again and again. More than any other single year in the last half-century, 1968 is the year nobody forgets, the year everyone remembers, the year when apocalypse and the millennium both reared their heads.Even in the midst of 1968, we knew it was special. I know I did. I was a professor of English literature at the State University of New York and at the same time a member of Students for a Democratic Society.Thirty years ago this spring, I was arrested and locked up in jail along with nearly 700 other protesters on the campus of Columbia University.

LOST amid the heat and smoke of the debate regarding public schools is the equally tragic failure of our elite private research universities. A startlingly frank report recently issued by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has put this issue squarely in the public eye.The report takes the country's research universities to task for largely ignoring their duty to undergraduates and for substituting platitudes and slick public relations for...

SALISBURY -- Nearly 2,000 students and professors from 270 universities are converging on Salisbury State University today for what frazzled organizers say is the largest event ever held at the 73-year-old former teachers college.The National Conference on Undergraduate Research is intended to promote collaborative scholarship with faculty or other mentors. It takes place during the same week that a national report criticized research universities for neglecting undergraduates.Conference participants have booked nearly every hotel room in the town of about 20,000, along with another 500 rooms in Ocean City and a handful in nearby Princess Anne.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Alex Myers sits down to breakfast inside Harvard's Memorial Hall. Amid the marble busts of graduates and historic stained glass, Myers fits right in. Dressed in a loose-fitting running outfit and wearing a baseball cap backward, he is every inch the Harvard stereotype: a lacrosse-playing Exeter preppie whose daddy went here.Except for one thing, which may be a very big thing or a very insignificant thing depending on how you think about things.Under the running outfit, or the conservative blue suit, or the hockey goalie's equipment, he -- strictly biologically speaking -- is a she. Without hormone treatment or a sex change operation, Myers is living as an articulate, intelligent, funny, straight young man with a bright future in science.

Alas, poor Shakespeare, we knew him well.That was the baleful cry from conservative critics as they watched the Bard disappear from required reading lists across the United States, part of a wave of revisionism as colleges embraced multiculturalism.Two-thirds of the nation's top 70 universities no longer insist that English majors take a Shakespeare course, according to one recent study. Still more schools are considering whether to follow suit. To traditionalits, this is political correctness run amok, an academic mistake that challenges the cultural legacy of the greatest author in the English language.

BALTIMORE'S STANDING as a college town owes much to the eminence of Goucher College among small liberal arts institutions that give undivided attention to the complete education of undergraduates. Anything that helps Goucher grow stronger, do its job better and face the future with more confidence is good for all of Central Maryland as a center of learning.The Campaign for Goucher College, now on its way to increasing the endowment $40 million by June 1999 (it is $93 million today), will provide stronger foundations for the college now numbering 1,050 full-time undergraduates and 200 graduate students on 285 forested acres just north of Towson's shopping district.

Ursinus College junior Laura Seidel of Westminster is one of 26 psychology majors from the college to present research at the 10th annual Undergraduate Psychology Conference in Scranton, Pa.Thirteen undergraduates represented Ursinus. Miss Seidel's research project, entitled "College Student Personality Correlates with Self-Esteem," was presented in collaboration with five sophomores.A graduate of Westminster High School, she is the daughter of Barbara Guthrie and Ethan Seidel of Westminster.

Maybe now Hopkins can make Homewood a proper campus for undergraduates at a top college, and kick the extraneous bits out to Eastern High School.The Pope is coming to Baltimore after all. Quick, build us a bigger stadium.Eight hundred eighty-eight physicists have found the top quark. Can 888 physicists be wrong?