Speaker sparks controversy at USM

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Sidney Dritz in News

Students, many of whom are a part of the Alpha Omega student group affiliated with the Casco Bay Church of Christ, listened intently to Hammond’s practiced but impassioned oration at Friday night’s “Caring Beyond the Margins” event in Gorham.

In an interview with The Free Press, Guy Hammond expressed a hope that his event Friday and Sunday, “Caring Beyond the Margins,” would help to provide a bridge between the LGBTQ community and the Christian community, a hope which was borne out, after a fashion, in the diversity of the population which turned out to [...]

Students attend Washington rally

Posted on March 06, 2013 by Sidney Dritz in News

Thousands of people from across the country gathered in front of the White House in an environmental protest on Feb. 17.

Glen Brand, director of the Maine branch of the Sierra Club, said the message the nearly 50,000 protestors at 350.org’s Forward On Climate rally in Washington D.C. this Presidents Day were hoping to send to the president “was to let him know we have his back.” The Feb. 17 rally was attended by protesters from [...]