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By Childs Walker | October 7, 2009
The student editor of Towson University's independent newspaper The Towerlight has stepped down after a standoff with President Robert L. Caret over the publication of an explicit sex column. Editor Carrie Wood, a junior from Reisterstown, resigned Friday after exchanging e-mails with Caret over a column called "The Bed Post." The newspaper's editors have since discontinued the column because it was published under a pseudonym and the author wished to remain anonymous. But they have said they might continue to publish it online.
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By The Washington Post | October 4, 2009
MERRILL PETERSON, 88 Scholar of 19th-century America Merrill Peterson, a University of Virginia professor whose writings on Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and other figures made him a renowned historian of 19th-century America, died Tuesday at a retirement home in Charlottesville, Va. He had pneumonia. Dr. Peterson was teaching at Brandeis University when he wrote his first book, "The Jefferson Image in the American Mind" (1960), which explored the relatively new field of intellectual history by focusing less on Jefferson's life than on the wide-ranging influence of his ideas.
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By Childs Walker | October 1, 2009
A brightly banded chameleon, a strongman tattooed in academic symbols and a guy with the gears of his mind exposed all took their places above midtown Wednesday when the University of Baltimore unveiled a series of banners depicting the connection between institution and city. The illustrations are musings on UB's campus slogan, "Knowledge That Works." Officials also hope the 50 banners will be a flamboyant manifestation of the university's overall quest to be more recognized. "The whole idea when I came here was to begin defining our borders," said UB President Robert L. Bogomolny.
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By Brian F. Linnane | September 25, 2009
Today, Loyola College in Maryland celebrates a milestone. Today, we become Loyola University Maryland. Since announcing our plans to make this change, I've often been asked why we are doing so. After all, Loyola College in Maryland has an illustrious 157-year history, an established reputation in the Baltimore community and beyond, and an alumni network with few rivals. But we needed - and need - to do more, to say more, about the institution we've become and what we expect to achieve in the years ahead.
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By Childs Walker | August 22, 2009
Johns Hopkins medical professor Lloyd Minor will become the university's new provost, or chief academic officer, Hopkins announced Friday. Minor, 52, has been a Hopkins professor since 1993 and has led the medical school's head and neck (otolaryngology) department for six years. In announcing the appointment to the university's No. 2 post, Hopkins President Ronald Daniels lauded Minor's commitment to scholarship and his skills as a consensus builder. "His passion is surpassed only by his ability to build consensus and implement ambitious, strategic priorities that are characterized by an uncompromising commitment to academic excellence," Daniels said in a statement.
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By Childs Walker | June 29, 2009
A former employee of the University of Maryland University College improperly used a corporate credit card to purchase $8,800 in electronic equipment and had it shipped to her home, according to a state legislative audit released last week. The audit says that in August and September 2005, the employee used the card to buy laptops, music players, cameras and other items. Upon discovering those transactions, auditors found four other purchases worth $2,800 that could not be accounted for on campus.
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By Liz Bowie | March 18, 2009
The pleas for more financial aid have come pouring in to College Park and to other campuses, public and private. There's the family whose college savings have been "depleted because we used them to pay bills during unemployment" and another whose income dropped by $50,000 in December. Suddenly, they can't live up to their obligations to pay the college tuition. Even as the need for aid has grown, the University of Maryland, College Park has less money to give because of a $1 million drop in the amount of income generated from one of its endowments.
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By Stephen Kiehl | March 2, 2009
As Ronald J. Daniels becomes the 14th president of the Johns Hopkins University today, he's expected to eat lunch with students in a dining hall and take a campus tour. That's about the most fun he'll be allowed. "There's actual work happening," a Hopkins spokesman said. No wonder: Daniels is walking into a financial storm. University revenues over the next two fiscal years will be $100 million below projections, the endowment has lost 20 percent of its value and layoffs are expected. The crunch might make it more difficult for Daniels, known for his aggressive, energetic style, to quickly implement an agenda of his own. Hiring professors will be hard to do. And with philanthropy declining with the economy, raising money for new buildings or renovations will be a challenge.
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By Lorraine Mirabella | February 19, 2009
Barnes & Noble College Booksellers Superstore will open in The Fitzgerald at UB Midtown apartment tower under construction near the University of Baltimore, university officials said yesterday. The 20,000-square-foot store, slated to open in fall 2010, will include a Starbucks-branded cafe and sections for University of Baltimore textbook sales. It will be similar to a Barnes & Noble in Charles Village near the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University. The lead developer, the Bozzuto Group, started building the 275-unit market-rate apartment project in October on a university-owned site at West Mount Royal Avenue and Oliver Street and plans to complete the residential portion by spring 2011.
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By Mary Gail Hare | February 12, 2009
Rodgers Forge residents and Towson University administrators said yesterday that they have reached a tentative compromise on the location of a new $45 million athletic arena on the campus and expect to sign an agreement today. Representatives of the community and college had been at odds over the original site, which was within a few hundred yards of several backyards. Neighbors had pushed to have the proposed 5,000-seat arena built on the other side of Unitas Stadium, but university officials insisted that the facility had to be next to the current athletic center, which is to become practice courts and classrooms.