Presidential-candidate hopeful Ron Paul to visit USM on Saturday
Faculty crafting new core curriculum
Posted on November 29, 2010 by Noah Hurowitz in News
A group of faculty are designing the new core curriculum that requires students enrolling in the fall of 2011 to take a class with an international focus.
According to Susan McWilliams, assistant provost for undergraduate education at …
Self-study examines USM’s strengths and weaknesses
Posted on November 29, 2010 by Paul Koenig in News
A group of roughly 200 faculty and staff have completed a draft of a comprehensive self-study (PDF) of USM’s strengths and weaknesses and are now looking for feedback from the university community.
The self-study is required in …
‘Stitch and Bitch’ on the bus
Posted on November 29, 2010 by Marina Douglas in Commuting Introvert
This week, even though I’m in the midst of deadlines and a jam packed schedule of meetings and classes, I’m finding myself drawn to crafts. Not grandma style crafts, but knitting projects with skulls and crossbones …
Crazy cat lady at age 26?
Posted on November 29, 2010 by Amanda Pleau in Misadventures In Portland
I’m concerned that I’m currently running the risk of turning into a crazy cat lady at the age of 26.
One of the first indications is that right now, I’m writing this column about her. I adopted …
Elvis Costello’s ‘Ransom’ a nice surprise
Posted on November 29, 2010 by Kevin Steeves in Album Reviews
During Elvis Costello’s heyday in the late 1970s and 1980s, albums like “Get Happy!!” and “This Year’s Model” owed a large part of their New Wave commercial success to the artist’s seemingly boundless knowledge and unparalleled …
10 years later, USM drag show grows in popularity
Posted on November 29, 2010 by Dylan Martin in Arts & Culture
While the show had a humble beginning with around 150 people in the Woodbury Campus Center dining hall, it has since grown to become one of USM’s largest events, and more notably, one of the largest community drag shows in northern New England.
Men’s basketball at 4-1 in best start since 1998-’99
Posted on November 29, 2010 by Joel Neill in Sports
The USM men’s basketball team came into the 2010-2011 season with a different kind of confidence than Huskies’ fans saw last season when the team went 2-23.
The Huskies are now 4-1 and are in the midst …
Supermarket showdown: Hannaford vs. Trader Joe’s vs. Whole Foods
Posted on November 29, 2010 by Noah Hurowitz in News
With the recent opening in Portland of the new Trader Joe’s less than a mile away from both Hannaford and Whole Foods, The Free Press decided to see how the three stores compare. We purchased several …
