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Adrian, Odenton: Are there any plans to expand the stadium capacity at Byrd Stadium? Yes, a $95 million expansion is planned, but that can't happen until the naming rights for the field are sold. When I last spoke with AD Debbie Yow about it, she said the university was still in the process of finding and interviewing bidders. The plan includes 10,000 seats and luxury boxes. Mike G., Miami, Fl.: With the great recruiting classes of the last few years, do you think the Terps will contend for the ACC football title in 2006?

COLLEGE PARK -- Bill Bradley brought the presidential race to the University of Maryland, College Park yesterday morning, seeking to sharpen the differences between himself and his rival for the Democratic nomination, Vice President Al Gore. "If a candidate does not tell the truth as a candidate, how can we trust him to tell the truth as president?" Bradley said, renewing his most persistent attack on Gore to about 500 people in the main ballroom at the student union. Most of the student-dominated crowd members listening to the half-hour stump speech acted as if they were at a 9 a.m. class taught by a favorite professor -- they appeared interested but not overly enthusiastic.

James Otis Williams, longtime director of the Nyumburu Cultural Center at the University of Maryland College Park and a friend and mentor for scores of students over the years, died of a heart attack Friday. He was 57.An accomplished poet, blues musician, songwriter, author and storyteller, Mr. Williams joined UM as an educational counselor in 1971, the same year the Nyumburu center was established as a social and cultural resource on campus.Nyumburu (pronounced Nim-boo-roo) is a Swahili word that means "freedom house."

COLLEGE PARK -- Roll out of bed five minutes before that 8 a.m. class, but still get there on time. MTV, CNN and local phone service at no extra charge. Need to do some research for that term paper? The library is just steps away. For legions of college students, campus living is a wonderful mix of independence and convenience. A feeling of security, a sense of community and relatively low rent for an on-campus dormitory room are all incentives that students at the University of Maryland, College Park say keep them signing up for dorm space, even for their senior year.

Edward W. Campbell Jr., a retired University of Maryland professor of urologist who trained numerous medical residents, died of cancer Tuesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Lutherville resident was 76. Born in Philadelphia, he was an Episcopal Academy graduate and earned a degree at Amherst College. He was a graduate of Hahnemann Medical College, where his father had been a urology professor. In 1959, Dr. Campbell moved to Baltimore and had additional study at the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Doris Patz, a musician and arts activist who assembled a statewide collection for the University of Maryland, College Park and endowed a scholarship there, died of respiratory failure March 8 at her Pikesville home. She was 96. "She was the muse who allowed the arts to soar at the University of Maryland," said William E. "Brit" Kirwan, chancellor of the University System of Maryland. "When she had an idea and made up her mind to do something, she was unstoppable. She was a remarkable person who worked out of the limelight to make a difference in a lot of lives."

Dr. Nathan Carliner, a cardiologist and University of Maryland School of Medicine professor who practiced at the downtown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, died of bone cancer Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Cross Keys resident was 66. Born in Baltimore and raised on South Road in Mount Washington, known as "Pill Hill" for the many medical professionals who lived there, he was the son of Dr. Paul Carliner, who in 1947 co-discovered Dramamine. "My father died of a heart attack at age 46 in 1956.

JOHNS HOPKINS may be Baltimore's internationally acclaimed hospital, but its cross-town rival, University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), is becoming the hospital with the best statewide network. This week's acquisition of North Arundel Hospital continues that trend. The 329-bed North Arundel, in Glen Burnie, is a thriving general hospital that serves a growing middle-income suburb south of the city. But North Arundel lacks the medical firepower University can deliver as its partner.

University of Maryland Medical Center doctors reported today they are using a new non-surgical method of implanting radioactive "seeds" in prostate cancer patients that holds potential for a cure.The technique, also described as less traumatic and more economical than a surgical approach, is designed for men who have early prostate cancer which has not spread to other sites and who are over 70 or in poor health and cannot undergo major surgery.The current "gold standard" treatment for younger men is radical surgery which removes the prostate gland but with state-of-the-art techniques preserves potency.

Eighty years ago last July, a Tennessee courtroom erupted in a furious battle over the teaching of evolution in schools. As legal titans William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow clashed in the landmark Scopes "monkey" trial, the country tuned in to listen -- a first, thanks to the youthful medium of radio. To commemorate that event, L.A. Theatre Works has re-created the 1925 "trial of the century" radio experience for a 24-city, live radio theater tour of British playwright Peter Goodchild's docudrama The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, based on the trial transcripts.