By Richard E. Vatz and Jeffrey A. Schaler The suspect in the killing of three workers in a Smithsburg, Md. factory -- the dead are Mark Alan Frey, Charles “C.J.” Edward Minnick Jr. and Joshua “Josh” Robert Wallace -- has been found “not criminally responsible.” ...
Towson University has picked its Presidential Search and Screening Committee (TUPSC) to choose its new president to replace Kim Schatzel, who went to become president at University of Louisville. The search committee is traditionally advisory, as is the main...
Maryland Reporter does not endorse candidates or accept political advertising. This commentary is the opinion of the author, and not the publisher. Opposing comments and commentary are welcome. In a related commentary, there are not just two choices for governor –...
In evaluating political debates, which I have done in classes and public as a professor of rhetoric for over four decades, it is reasonably expected that one reveal his biases: I am a Howard Baker conservative, and I have had some interaction with some of the...
I should just like to offer a few reflections on the passing a few weeks ago of Towson University’s most charismatic president during my 48-year career here: James L. Fisher When I applied to Towson University for an instructor-tenure-track position, it was 1973, and...
Last month, CNN cancelled Brian Stelter’s Reliable Sources show, the media criticism program he had hosted for nine years. Richard E. Vatz I should like to offer a few background notes, some unknown to the public, concerning my former reprobate student, Brian Stelter,...
Richard E. Vatz This writer was a resident of Baltimore City years and years ago when it was run by serious people, people like William Donald Schaefer and Kurt Schmoke. In the last few years, reasonable people concluded its prospects per the violence,...
By Richard E. Vatz The Maryland General Assembly adjourned with the ritual over-applauding by its legislator perpetrators. It is difficult to understand how at a time of murders, non-fatal shootings, violence, and bullying in schools dominating Baltimore,...
On Sunday, the Baltimore Sun wrote what they called “an apology,” but which is better described as what my field of rhetoric calls an “apologia.” Rhetorical scholars B. L. Ware and Wil A. Linkugel wrote the article of record on apologetic discourse about 50 years ago...
“Competency to stand trial,” hundreds of years old in Anglo-Saxon criminal justice, is considered fundamental as a concept, but is unwieldy in practice. Everyone agrees that if a person truly does not understand the charges faced and literally cannot help his counsel in defense, there is a basic unfairness inherent in the process.
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