Our Terps differentiated themselves in a balanced way this week, with Maryland College Park coming in 20th in Princeton Review?s best party list (Texas tops the list) and 18th in total rankings among public “national” colleges, 54th overall in the US News & World Report rankings.
We?ve witnessed College Park?s finest in our early months, with eight of their number reporting the news to you daily.
They?re impressive. We haven?t seen them party, but their spirit suggests they would distinguish themselves in a responsible, non-driving way, of course.
A wag might read this and wonder how our private secondary schools might rank for partying. Which has the most parents that tolerate supervised at home drinking parties? Who would come in second?
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Those who don?t show up for work, those who engineer contract awards, those who appoint unqualified cronies and others deserve the spotlight.
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We?re here through the good times and the bad
When we die, newspapers provide the only effective way to tell friends, associates and the hundreds of others our lives have touched when and where funeral observances will be.
That?s why, as the largest daily newspaper in Maryland, The Baltimore Examiner has started to offer them. None of us wants to mistakenly miss a funeral, consoling a friend saying kaddish, sending flowers or attending a wake.
The Baltimore Examiner offers to toll the bell in 236,000 family households and for more than 14,000 individual readers Monday through Saturday, and not charge an arm or a leg to do so.
Don?t give up on our hometown team
Peter Angelos notched a major victory this summer with the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network launch. Angelos detractors say he should spread the wealth by buying more talent for next year.
He will if it makes business sense. The Orioles are a business, mostly his business.
The Orioles lost Sunday in a 95-degree swelter but, the beer was cold the hot dogs were hot, and there?s never a bad day for enjoying a major league baseball game.
Those of us who live here who once had to travel far to see a game benefit from the proximity of the Orioles. The team enjoyed glory once and will again.
Red Sox fans endured serious team depression, decades of diamond death, not just a few bad years. Home O?s games remain (and Nick Markakis belted three out out of the park Tuesday!).
Go and holler “O” at the appropriate note in “The Star Spangled Banner” and for our O?s, win or lose, thereafter.
Best of Baltimore is a success, as usual
Baltimore Magazine?s Best of Baltimore contest and street festival is so handsomely executed we wish it were ours.
Baltimoreans packed the festival on a recent evening at David Cordish?s Power Plant Live!, a wonderful venue, reminding all of us of the vision of the developer, investors and the city in making it happen.
Michael Phelps is president and publisher of The Baltimore Examiner.
