University Of Maryland

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.

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.

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.

COLLEGE PARK - Shout and scream at the opposing team. Chant and cheer until your voice grows hoarse. But by all means, do it with class. That was the message from University of Maryland athletic coaches last night at a forum organized by a student task force charged with a more challenging task than winning games: curtailing offensive behavior by sports fans. Putting the University of Maryland at center court in a national debate over how to limit rowdy fans without violating free speech, the 16-member task force asked coaches, members of the Board of Regents and students to voice their suggestions last night.

Fearing donors would cut off financial support of Maryland's public colleges, University System of Maryland officials urged lawmakers in Annapolis yesterday to kill a bill that proposes letting the state review financial records of nonprofit organizations affiliated with government agencies.The university system's opposition to the bill, which will likely come up for a vote in the next few weeks, renewed a decade-long debate about whether such authority is warranted."These audits will damage donor confidence," said system Chancellor Donald N. Langenberg, speaking to the Senate Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee.

COLLEGE PARK -- Emily Dammeyer doesn't have the most gilded transcript in the class that graduated yesterday from the University of Maryland, nor does she have the most exotic post-commencement plans. But in a sense, it would be hard to find a more representative member of the Class of 2002 than Dammeyer, a 22-year-old journalism major from Annapolis. That's because the class will forever be defined by the traumatic events that occurred in its senior year -- events with which Dammeyer had an especially close association.

Charles Jackson and his daughter, Christyn, were lugging a huge plastic bin with an overstuffed duffel bag atop it up the steps of Cumberland Hall at the University of Maryland, College Park yesterday. His son, Aaron, a strapping 12-year-old, was managing just a small plant."What's with that?" Christyn, 18, asked. "You're the football player."Aaron shrugged. It was move-in day for more than 900 freshmen in UMCP's Scholars program, a sort of small college within the university that occupies a quadrangle of dormitories.

Donald J. Schuerholz, a retired co-owner of a Baltimore consulting engineering firm and a former captain of the University of Maryland men's basketball team, died of heart failure May 2 at the Fairhaven Health Care Center in Sykesville. The former Ellicott City resident was 86. His father, William Schuerholz, who coached the Loyola College men's basketball team from 1912 to 1926, had 10 children. Donald Schuerholz's elder brother, Gilbert, was an All-American soccer goaltender. His nephew is Atlanta Braves President John Schuerholz.

Ruth H. Young, the retired dean of the University of Maryland's School of Social Work who fought child abuse while promoting the rights of children, died of respiratory failure Feb. 15 at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The former Sykesville resident was 86. "She was a real trouper, a role model for women, was a dedicated individual and a free thinker," said Maryland Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp. "She had a strong personality and a very clear vision." Born Ruth Harney in Framingham Center, Mass.

Margaret C. Zell, a retired visiting nurse who helped establish a nursing museum at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, died of kidney failure March 1 at Frederick Villa Nursing Home in Catonsville. She was 90. Margaret Culler was born in Frederick and raised in Feagaville, Frederick County. She was a 1934 graduate of Frederick High School and earned a degree from the University of Maryland School of Nursing in 1939. Mrs. Zell began her career at what was then University Hospital, and during the 1940s was in charge of a medical-surgical floor.