wesleyan university
- With the recent uptick of demonstrations and activism on college campuses — in Baltimore especially, but also nationwide as issues surrounding Black Lives Matter and Title IX come to the forefront — student newspapers have a vital, yet delicate, role to play. As Cody Boteler, editor-in-chief of The Towson Towerlight, says: "Often, if something truly significant happens on campus — like when a couple of students occupied the president's office, for example — nobody is
- Cal Thomas: Too many schools fail to teach about the U.S. government and our responsibility to preserve it.
- Four Wesleyan University students were arrested Tuesday in connection with about a dozen hospitalizations among people who took a party drug known as Molly.
- "Picturing Mary" includes Old Masters but no contemporary artworks
-
- In the wake of domestic violence incidents involving Ray Rice, Ray McDonald and Greg Hardy, the NFL is making some additions to its staff to help guide league policies.
- Walkers and tourists paused in their perambulations to read the personal and emotionally wrenching messages that number in the thousands from survivors of rape and sexual abuse across the country that are written on squares that are sewn into the multi-colored and textured quilt on display at Federal Hill.
- James Rogers Miller Jr., a former state delegate from Montgomery County who spent 15 years as a federal judge in Baltimore for the District Court of Maryland, died of congestive heart failure June 25 at HeartFields Assisted Living at Easton. He was 83.
- Sen. Brian Frosh, Del. Jon Cardin and Del. Aisha Braveboy – three Democrats vying to be Maryland's next attorney general – stress different strengths they would bring to the office.
- Dr. Charles J.E. Arnold, former chief of radiology at North Arundel Hospital and more recently at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, died Wednesday of undetermined causes at his Greenspring Valley home. He was 72.
- Gilman graduated two of its best squash players, Michael East (Princeton University) and Grant Lounsbury (Wesley College), which created a challenge for coach Boo Smith this season. He simply inserted three freshmen into the starting lineup -- Mac Await, Brad Levin and Wiatt Hinton -- and the Greyhounds kept rolling.
- In the first year of the Civil War, Maryland lawmakers voted unanimously for a constitutional amendment to bar the federal government from abolishing slavery. Now, more than 150 years later, some want the General Assembly to rescind that vote.
- Dean R. Wagner, a retired mathematics teacher who spent his retirement researching the building of Baltimore residential communities, died of cancer Sept. 11 at his Original Northwood home. He was 77.
- I have great respect for Daniel Handler, creator of the wildly popular Lemony Snicket books (and a fellow alum of Wesleyan University), but I couldn't help but feel let down at his newest: "Who Could That Be at This Hour?"
- Maier was thrust into the national spotlight 16 years ago Tuesday when, as a 12-year-old fan at Yankee Stadium, he leaned over the right-field wall in an attempt to catch a fly ball and re-directed it into the stands for an eighth inning home run by Derek Jeter. That tied Game 1 of the American League Championship Series; the Yankees eventually went on to win in 11 innings and capture the series in five games, igniting their late 1990s dynasty.
- Former senator and presidential candidate McGovern still fighting the good fight
- Brother James Kelly, president of Mount St. Joseph's High School for the last decade, died of prostate cancer early Saturday at his order's residence in Irvington. He was 64.
- Edward Standish "Brad" Bradford Jr., a career educator who had been headmaster of Boys' Latin School in the early 1980s, died Thursday from complications after surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 83.
- The Johns Hopkins researcher was stabbed to death last year by a career criminal as his mother listened on a cellphone from 1,000 miles away.
-
- MacArthur Award-winning choreographer Liz Lerman will leave the Takoma Park, Maryland troupe she founded on July 1 to pursue solo projects. Cassie Meador will become the new artistic director.
- John Waters has mellowed, but his humor remains twisted, his sensibilities bizarre.