University Of Baltimore

Ronald Weich, an assistant U.S. attorney general and former aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, is to be named the next dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law on Wednesday, nine months after his popular predecessor resigned amid a public dispute with the university's president. Given his lengthy experience on Capitol Hill and his lack of time in academia, Weich, 52, is an unconventional choice to lead the law school. But faculty leaders, alumni and students said that's part of the reason they're excited about him after last year's tumult involving former dean Phillip Closius.

The University of Baltimore has selected five finalists in its search for a new law school dean. The candidates are: Nicholas Allard, a political lawyer at Washington firm Patton Boggs; Penelope Bryan, the dean of Whittier Law School in California; Alfredo Garcia, a professor and former dean at St. Thomas University Law School in Miami; Patricia Salkin, a professor and associate dean at Albany Law School in New York; and Ronald Weich, an assistant...

Police said a 24-year-old man walking home from a club was shot early Friday near the University of Baltimore campus in Mid-Town Belvedere. The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting, which police believe occurred some time around 1 a.m. in the 1400 block of Maryland Ave., at the intersection near Mount Royal Avenue. The victim walked in to an area aroudn 1:30 a.m. hospital for treatment, at which time police were notified of the shooting.  Police spokesman Jeremy Silbert said police believe the victim was walking home from a club on North Avenue, but he did not provide a motive or suspect description.

A new recycling campaign at the University of Baltimore is urging residents to vote with their trash. University officials are inviting Baltimoreans to answer questions about the city by placing their recycled trash in one of four see-through bins on campus. The first question: "Who is Baltimore's greatest team sports icon?" The possible answers, each with his own bin, are former Baltimore Orioles Brooks Robinson and Cal Ripken Jr. , Baltimore Raven Ray Lewis and former Baltimore Colt Johnny Unitas . The campaign, "Talking Trash: UB Votes to Recycle," is part of a larger effort by the midtown institution to help preserve the environment by reducing energy, promoting public transportation, using sustainable building techniques, and pursuing other "green" initiatives.

Water that leaked into an underground substation Wednesday morning caused a power outage at the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus downtown and closed at least 40 academic buildings, canceling classes. By 5:30 p.m., power had been fully restored but the university grounds remained closed because of the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday and Friday, according to Ed Fishel, spokesman. The medical center and doctors clinical offices, which are on a separate power system, were not affected by the outage.

After a hospital patient was shot and seriously wounded in an apparent robbery Thursday evening, University of Maryland officials sought to assure students and staff that its campus is safe and pledged to step up patrols. Police confirmed Friday that the 45-year-old victim was a Frederick County man who, according to sources, was a patient at the University of Maryland Medical Center where he was receiving treatment after being stabbed in a home invasion in March. Officials declined to give a motive, but according to a copy of an incident report, the victim told a woman who found him suffering from gunshot wounds on the sixth level of an underground parking garage that he had been robbed and shot in the back.

Thomas F. Cardegna, who taught at the University of Baltimore for more than three decades and was also dean of the accounting department, died Aug. 16 of heart failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 85 and lived in Towson. The son of a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad mechanical engineer and a homemaker, Mr. Cardegna was born in Baltimore and raised in the 900 block of Eastern Ave. in Little Italy. He was a 1943 graduate of Loyola High School and earned his bachelor's degree in 1947 from Georgetown University.

The University of Baltimore's president issued a sharp response Monday to allegations aired by the university's former law dean after he was forced to resign last week. In an e-mail to faculty and staff, President Robert L. Bogomolny disputed financial arguments used by former dean Phillip Closius to portray a university taking advantage of its law school to support other programs. Bogomolny said he had met with key alumni and faculty members and that "the overwhelming conclusion was that a change in leadership was in the best interests of the School of Law and the University of Baltimore.

The other morning I did a double take. I was coming south on Maryland Avenue and reached the old Lyric. There, for the first time, I spotted workers installing an exterior corridor to our venerable opera house. It must have been 50 years ago that plans were first discussed about making it easier for performers to get from one side of the stage to the other. The Lyric's stage is not so deep, and with today's elaborate sets, the chorus, tenors and sopranos had to descend into the basement and reascend steps.

Barry Virum Bowen, a retired University of Baltimore professor of political science, died May 30 from complications of a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Lutherville resident was 80. The son of newspaper parents, Dr. Bowen was born and raised in Milwaukee, where he graduated from high school. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1955, he served in the Navy as a flight instructor for three years. He earned a master's degree from the University of Hawaii and his doctorate from George Washington University.