Presidential-candidate hopeful Ron Paul to visit USM on Saturday
USM student makes run for state house
Posted on February 08, 2010 by Paul Koenig in News
Brad Watts is taking 18 credits this semester – a work load that would send most college students scrambling – and has a 3.4 GPA.
Convocate away, but not at my expense
Posted on February 08, 2010 by Matt Dodge in Perspectives
The current series of convocation events are an olive branch from the school’s administrative branch to the faculty, staff, and students ofUSM, allowing them a say in the restructuring effort that, upon completion, will likely totally change the university.
USM community brainstorms new ways to restructure
Posted on February 08, 2010 by Dave Holman in News
Over the course of three sessions last Thursday and Friday, groups of over 200 faculty, staff, administrators and students brainstormed ways for USM to innovate to offset yearly budgetary gaps and declining enrollment.
Fewer than 30 students came to each session.
Graduate students aim to form government
Posted on February 08, 2010 by Dan MacLeod in News
A group of graduate students are looking to create their own government at USM to represent the roughly 1,700 graduate students who have, until now, lacked formal representation.
COO talks restructuring with student senate
Posted on February 08, 2010 by Matt Dodge in News
Jim Shaffer, chief operating officer for USM and head of the committee in charge of drafting a restructuring plan for the university, met with student senators at their weekly meeting last Friday to solicit opinions and concerns from students who, unlike faculty, have no seats on the committee.
Otten makes pitch at USM
Posted on February 08, 2010 by Dan MacLeod in News
“If I were a democrat, there would be two to three times the people,” gubernatorial candidate Les Otten said last Tuesday as he surveyed the 20 people assembled in Masterton Hall waiting to hear him speak.
The next day, he was a more philosophical about the turnout.
Student mugged in Gorham
Posted on February 08, 2010 by Dan MacLeod in News
A female student was assaulted and robbed near the intersection of School and Church Streets in Gorham in the early hours of Monday, Feb. 1 while returning to the Gorham campus, according to a campus safety alert sent out last Monday.
Senate votes for heads-up on faculty lay-offs
Posted on February 08, 2010 by Paul Koenig in News
The faculty senate last Friday continued to push for their incorporation into USM’s restructuring process and presented alternate options to faculty retrenchment, passing a resolution requesting they be informed before any faculty are laid off.
