University Students

A controversial student group at Towson University has again drawn criticism from other students who claim it is racist. But school administrators say they won't be taking any action against the group. On Saturday night, the group, Youth for Western Civilization, chalked messages that included the words "White Pride" at several visible locations on campus, including the Student Union and Freedom Square, said its president, Matthew Heimbach. When discovered Monday, the messages angered other student groups, who saw them as having nationalist connotations.

There's little question that George Huguely V, the former University of Virginia student on trial for murder, had a problem with alcohol. He had been arrested twice for drinking-related infractions, one of them violent, in his early 20s. And he admits to consuming at least 15 drinks - and likely had more, witnesses said - the day he confronted Yeardley Love at her off-campus apartment in 2010, assaulting her so severely she later died, according...

At funeral services for Nathan Krasnopoler held at Sol Levinson and Bros. Funeral Home on Aug. 12, the 20-year-old was remembered by a Johns Hopkins University professor for his "keen and incisive intellect. " Mr. Krasnopoler died Aug. 10 at Gilchrist Center in Columbia from a severe irreversible brain injury that he sustained Feb. 20 after being hit by a motorist while riding his bicycle on West University Parkway near the Hopkins Homewood campus. "Nathan was very bright, very creative and very self-motivated," said Edward R. Scheinerman, professor in the Johns Hopkins University Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, who is also vice dean of engineering education at the Whiting School of Engineering.

Last month, an estimated 2,000-3,000 copies of the Towerlight, the Towson University student newspaper, were stolen from a dozen sites on campus. University police had little trouble cracking the case, as security cameras captured the half-dozen perpetrators in the act. The information was promptly referred to the office of the Baltimore County state's attorney. Although the newspaper is free, the suspects had apparently broken a 1994 statute that specifically prohibits the theft of free newspapers in Maryland.

A student at Stevenson University has been hospitalized in stable condition with a suspected case of bacterial meningitis, an often contagious and potentially deadly infection that causes inflammation in the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord. School officials have contacted other students who may have been exposed and treated them preventatively with Cipro, according to Linda Reymann, associate dean and director of Stevenson's Wellness Center. High fever, headache and stiff neck are the most common symptoms, which can develop over several hours or a day or two, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Four men, including two Morgan State University band members and the band's former drum major, have been arrested after a woman said they held her down and sexually assaulted her in a Northeast Baltimore apartment complex. Renard James, 30, Dante Green, 24, Dale Lawton, 23, and Howard Smith Cook, 21, were each arrested July 12 and charged with eight counts of sex offense, assault, perverted practice and conspiracy charges. They are being held without bail. According to court records, the alleged assault took place June 30 in the 6500 block of McClean Blvd.

When people ask Allison Murray in 20 years how she got her first job out of college, she'll have a doozy of a story for them. She'll explain how there was this preposterously self-important real estate mogul named Donald Trump who became the star of a television show by telling preposterously fame-hungry people, "You're fired." Murray will tell them that "The Apprentice" became so popular that it spawned a knockoff known as The Associate at her alma mater, Towson University. She'll note that she was a little shy when she began competing with seven fellow seniors for a job marketing spices at McCormick.