University Of Virginia

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- A national movement is under way, combining the best efforts of communities, businesses and government, to clean up and reclaim the country's numerous pollution-scarred landscapes known as brownfields. These former industrial sites, often in poor areas, present complicated challenges and usually aren't toxic enough to receive massive federal aid. A varied group of University of Virginia faculty members, all affiliated with its environmentally conscious School of Architecture, are closely involved with this national effort.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- America's highest-paid newspaper editors like to beat up on themselves, over and over again.They gathered in the nation's capital a few weeks ago for their annual exercise in self-flagellation. The theme: Why don't people love us? Why don't they respect us? Why don't they believe us?The American Society of Newspaper Editors actually scheduled what it called a "Credibility Day" during its convention to grapple with why the public ranks newspaper people somewhere down the list with used-car salesmen.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Getting in to see John Casteen III is no easy matter. As president of the University of Virginia, one of the nation's premier colleges, he is often on the road, raising money for a $750 million capital fund drive that does not end until the year 2000. When he is on campus, he is tightly scheduled. Early in the morning, appointments begin to back up in the elegant waiting room outside his Madison Hall office. Alumni, faculty, undergraduates, doctoral candidates, state legislators, bankers, the student reporter from the Cavalier Daily Q - they all want a few minutes.

Baltimore is the cradle of lacrosse, and the cradle was rocking yesterday at Maryvale Preparatory School in Brooklandville, where teams of 6- to 8-year-old boys raced up and down, checking, scrambling, passing and shooting, just like the big guys.Passes didn't always connect, sticks flailed and shots flew way wide of the goal, but with their coaches running up and down the field with them, correcting mistakes as they happened, the boys learned as they played and nobody kept track of who won and who lost.

Gilbert J. Bland Jr., a Florida rare maps dealer suspected in the theft of valuable maps last month from the George Peabody Library in Baltimore and other rare books libraries, was being held yesterday by police in Coral Springs, Fla..Police said Mr. Bland, 46, turned himself in Tuesday after learning of three warrants issued by University of Virginia police last month.The warrants charge him with felony grand larceny in map thefts from books at the university's Alderman Library on Dec. 5 and 6.He remained in custody yesterday, awaiting an extradition hearing scheduled for today in Coral Springs, police said.

An article in yesterday's editions about the genetics and crime conference in Queenstown inaccurately described a study cited by Dr. Irving Gottesman of the University of Virginia. The study, conducted by researchers in Minnesota, showed that identical twins reared apart tended to have similar scores in tests for anti-social personality disorder.The Sun regrets the error.

Robert P. Fuller, a prominent Eastern Shore businessman and former athlete who coached the University of Virginia's lacrosse team to a national championship, died Friday of lung disease at his home in Oxford. He was 76."My father was never really a supertalented athlete or businessman. He just never saw limitations," said Wade R. Fuller, his son and former business partner.The elder Fuller grew up in Baltimore, where his interest in sports developed as a boy. He attended the St. Paul's School, where he was captain of the lacrosse, football and wrestling teams before graduating in 1939.

WASHINGTON -- Crossing a constitutional divide for the first time, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 yesterday to allow a government agency to pay for the operations of a strictly religious group.Specifically, the majority told the University of Virginia that the Constitution permits it to subsidize, with activities fees that students must pay, the printing costs of a student-run magazine devoted to Christian religious views.In fact, the court ruled, the university could not constitutionally deny that subsidy if it underwrites other student publications.

McDonogh three-sport standout Sean Sullivan will enroll at the University of Virginia this fall on a track and field scholarship, enabling him to pursue a possible career as an Olympic decathlete.Sullivan (6 feet 5, 195 pounds) chose Virginia despite a strong recruiting pitch by the Naval Academy."The Naval Academy is too slanted toward one field of endeavor," said Sullivan of Sykesville. "I've felt for a long time that Virginia is the right fit for me."Sullivan is the only metro area athlete who was ranked in five track and field categories this spring -- the pole vault, high jump, discus, 110 hurdles and 300 hurdles.

Marvin B. Perry Jr., the seventh president of Goucher College, died Monday of cancer at a retirement community in Charlottesville, Va. He was 76.Dr. Perry was president from 1967 until 1973, when he left Goucher to become president of Agnes Scott College, a women's college in Decatur, Ga., from which he retired in 1982.Dr. Rhoda Dorsey, now retired, who succeeded him as president of Goucher, said yesterday, "It was a very difficult time in American higher education. He dealt with unrest and currents of change in an open manner and tried to include the whole community in the resolution of issues."