Free Republic

The frantic 911 call from a University of Maryland dormitory came in at 6:32 a.m. June 19, 1986. A 22-year-old campus hero -- the finest basketball player in the Terrapins' history, just two days earlier the second player chosen in the NBA draft -- was sprawled on the floor between two narrow beds, unconscious, without a pulse. "It's Len Bias. . . . He's not breathing right," one of his closest friends, a Maryland dropout named Brian Tribble, told the dispatcher in a shaky voice. "You've got to bring him back to life." Bias was rushed to a hospital less...

Over the years, politicians and, especially, college and university administrators, have led us to believe that federal aid to education was a ticket out of poverty, but that may be just another urban legend. “The more money a college-bound student’s family makes, the more likely he or she is to apply for federal financial aid, electronic records show,” Kara Wedekind of the Capital News Service writes. “It’s a situation that some experts say is caused by families scared off by college costs, even as the federal financial aid application deadline passed Monday.” “Dependent students in the lowest income bracket submitted...

I apologize for the vanity but thought we'd all enjoy a good laugh at the extent to which PC has invaded the University of Maryland. A friend of mine who is a student there recently complained (in an e-mail dripping with sarcasm) that the university president's "Holiday Greeting" e-mail was offensive. Below is my friends initial complaint and the response he received from the diversity office. From: DELETED Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 To: PRESIDENT MOTE Cc: DELETED Subject: Re: Holiday Greeting President Mote, I wanted to let you know that I was deeply offended by your recent mass e-mail...

Cindy Sheehan, a fallen soldier’s mother whose pursuit of a meeting with President Bush made her a national anti-war figure this summer, will speak at the university Sept. 27 — a stop in her journey to attempt to talk with Bush. Sheehan drew national attention when she camped outside Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas for weeks, demanding to meet with him and discuss why his administration is still engaged in what she calls an “unjust” war in Iraq. Sheehan, along with university professor Shibley Telhami and antiwar activist Kevin Zeese, will speak at 8 p.m. next Tuesday at the Memorial...

College Park, Md., (CNSNews.com) - Students at the University of Maryland in College Park on Wednesday experienced what some called the graphic realities of discrimination in a display called the Tunnel of Oppression. Others called it vulgar. The tunnel consists of about a half-dozen often graphic museum-like displays that focus on what organizers consider different forms of oppression. Several universities such as the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Ohio State University and Illinois State University use the Tunnel of Oppression as part of their diversity programs. The program last appeared at the University of Maryland in 2000. But the "mixed...

I would've posted this last night, but I was too busy celebrating! God Bless my Maryland Terrapins! Maryland 99, puke 92

Maryland 75 duke 66 GO MARYLAND!!! We shut up the cameron crazies tonight! duke is all talk!

WASHINGTON — Even though thousands of pictures have been taken during the U.S. occupation in Iraq, Maj. Benjamin Busch doesn’t think many Americans have really seen the country. The Marine took hundreds of photos of his own during his 13-month tour following the invasion of Iraq, and will be displaying 100 of them at University of Maryland University College in College Park, Md., next month. He thinks they show an unfiltered look at everyday Iraqis, and their reaction to the war. “This exhibit does not insist that the war was a mistake or that it was necessary; those positions have...

Last week Robert Meeropol visited the University of Maryland to excoriate the United States’ War on Terrorism. Don’t fret if the name doesn’t ring a bell. Meeropol isn’t a mainstream figure in American politics, academia or the arts. His opinion was sought not for any particular experience or expertise he can bring to the subject. Meeropol was selected for the forum on a more superficial basis: His parents were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the American Communist Party members turned Soviet spies who were executed for helping Soviets acquire the secrets of the atom bomb.Meeropol (he took the name of the...

On Monday, April 22, nine members of TFP Student Action traveled to the College Park campus of the University of Maryland to collect surveys and pass out flyers in defense of traditional marriage. In 4 hours, Student Action collected more than 150 surveys, asking the opinion of students on homosexual “marriage,” and passed out nearly 2,000 “Stop Same-Sex Marriage” flyers. These flyers refute the scientific arguments used by the homosexual movement to push their agenda. Radical Moral Relativism Perhaps the most striking and pervasive aspect of those on campus in favor of same-sex “marriage” was their radical moral relativism. According...

In the end, it was the hedgehog vs. the lesbian. Porn king Ron Jeremy wasn't a master orator, but his name alone carried about the students in last night's 90-minute debate against author Susan Cole. Jeremy didn't have to speak - he had already won. The debaters made short opening remarks and launched into questions from responsive audience members, who booed, screamed, laughed and jeered. About 825 students packed the Stamp Student Union's Colony Ballroom, and Student Entertainment Events security had to turn away about 200 students at the door, said Joi Freeman, SEE public relations coordinator. Jessica Werner, a...

Sep 24, 2003 Kermit, Henson to take a seat by Stamp Union today By Julie Dietrick Staff writer   Campus Drive is temporarily renamed Sesame Street in honor of Jim Henson's birthday and statue dedication. CHRIS LAUBER-THE DIAMONDBACK There are few celebrities who can draw giant parade-style balloons, the renaming and closure of a main university road, a $217,000 bronze statue and the adoration of children and adults worldwide. One is Kermit the Frog. The celebrity puppet and spawn of famed university alumnus Jim Henson, who graduated in 1960 and would have been 67 today, is part of today's...

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 3 [AScribe Newswire] -- University of Maryland researchers have developed a technique to help the FBI track the origins of deadly anthrax spores. The FBI asked Maryland professor Catherine Fenselau to turn her mass spectrometry lab to the forensic task of sleuthing how bacillus spores, such as anthrax, are prepared. "There are several common types of chemicals that are used to grow anthrax spores," said Fenselau. "One is agar, and another is a blood-based medium containing heme. People tend to develop and use their own recipe to grow the spores." "By analyzing for traces of these...

<p>Are you prone to fear and aggression? Resistant to change? Intolerant of ambiguity? If so, you have the mind-set to be a political conservative, according to a recently published study in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.</p> <p>Four researchers from Berkeley, Stanford and the University of Maryland sorted through decades of speeches, court opinions and field studies to see what motivates that strange species known as the conservative. They found, according to a release from Berkeley's press office, "Disparate conservatives share a resistance to change and acceptance of inequality."</p>

<p>Area college leaders applauded the U.S. Supreme Court's twin decisions yesterday regarding the University of Michigan's use of race in its admissions policies, saying the rulings offer a pragmatic way to achieve student diversity and a 25-year time limit to revisit affirmative action.</p>

<p>COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A group of 30 former student journalists at the University of Maryland say disgraced reporter Jayson Blair wrote questionable articles and manipulated his mentors while on campus in the mid-1990s - just as he did at The New York Times.</p>

On ESPN now...

<p>COLLEGE PARK, MD. -- While interviewing for a job teaching journalism ethics at the University of Maryland in 1999, I fielded questions from a student representative called in to assess me, one Jayson Blair. Blair was poised to begin his first full-time reporting job, not at the Frederick Post but at the lofty New York Times. He was confident, witty, charming and charismatic. He seemed oh so serious about ethics. Talk about appearances being deceiving.</p>

Jayson Blair is a journalism student at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has worked as a Metropolitan intern reporter for The New York Times, where he will return as a reporter in May. He has covered national and local news as an intern reporter for The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. He continues working for The Globe as a freelance national correspondent. Professional Experience: Jayson began his professional journalism career in 1994, when he joined the staff of the Times Community Newspapers as a summer intern. He later worked as a summer intern for The Fairfax...

<p>May 18, 2003 -- Alcohol, like the truth, had an on-again, off-again relationship with former New York Times scribe Jayson Blair, The Post has learned. Those who know the 27-year-old admitted plagiarist have expressed differing views about his apparent battle with what Blair called in a statement "considerable personal problems."</p>