Securing the home front

TU is poised to launch a one-of-a kind graduate program designed to enable motivated adults to earn M.S. degrees in an expanding, critically important field. [more]

Infographic: Graduate enrollment, 2000-2005

TU's graduate population has soared in recent years, thanks to increasing demand and TU's attentiveness to student and work force needs. [more]

So they said ...

"How can we not speak about war, poverty and inequality when people who suffer

from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?"

Isabel Allende, Chilean novelist, 1942-

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Feting a founder

TU to host Alexander Hamilton exhibition, reception, lectures

What: Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America, based on the New-York Historical Society’s 2004 exhibition commemorating the 200th anniversary of Hamilton’s death and the society's 200th anniversary

When: The exhibition runs from March 9 to April 28; the opening reception is March 15, 3-4 p.m., followed by a lecture by Jack Fruchtman, Department of Political Science, 4-5 p.m.

Where: The exhibition and opening reception will be on the main floor of the Albert S. Cook Library; faculty lectures will take place in the Towson Room, Cook 507.

Why: Learn more about one of the most brilliant and controversial figures in U.S. history and promote interest in and scholarship on the 18th century

How: Admission to the exhibition and lectures is free and open to the public. For additional information and a complete lecture schedule, go to http://cooklibrary.towson.edu

The Alexander Hamilton exhibition was organized by the New-York Historical Society, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the American Library Association and made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

TU in the news

Policy focuses on 'nuisance houses'

The Jeffersonian, Feb. 28

President Robert Caret explained what TU could and could not do about students living off campus at the Greater Towson Council of Community Associations' Feb. 16 meeting. Reporter Loni Ingraham wrote that Caret told the group, "We will send people to talk with [students]," later noting that college towns have historically had these issues."We're talking about a handful of problem students," he added. "If we can minimize it, we'll all be better off."

Another White House briefing, another day of mutual distrust

The New York Times, Feb. 27

Reporter Katharine Q. Seelye asked Martha Joynt Kumar, Department of Political Science, for her take on relations between the White House and the press. Describing the institutional relationship as "pretty tattered," Kumar said that the press was becoming more defensive in part because of the constant scrutiny. "{Reporters] want to be where they can determine what they do and how they do it," she said. "At the White House, it's decided for them."

Holocaust comment has roots in anti-abortion rhetoric

Maryland Gazette, Feb. 23

Staff writers Douglas Tallman and Thomas Dennison consulted Richard Vatz, Department of Mass Communication and Communication Studies, about the controversy sparked by Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele's comment comparing embryonic stem cell research to the Holocaust, noting that the reference "is part of the vernacular of the pro-life movement." Vatz said people use the Holocaust analogy so frequently because it is so dramatic.