By: Emma J. Walsh, Staff Writer, and Alyson Peabody, Editor-In-Chief Separation from the Senate has been an on and off issue for The Free Press and WMPG for more than thirty years. As it currently stands, the Student Senate does not intend on funding the Student Communication Board (SCB) with 30% of the Student Activity…
By: Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor President Glenn Cummings confirmed in last week’s Monday Missive that the Media Studies Lab & Production Center would not be relocated as the new Career/Student Success Center and Residence Hall in Portland are built. This possibility had been suggested the week before in a discussion about the campus renovations. Protests…
By: Alyson Peabody, Editor-in-Chief Taylor Swift opened up in her documentary Miss Americana about her reluctance to speak up about her political views. Swift broke her longstanding silence on politics during the 2018 midterm elections. Marsha Backburn, a self-proclaimed “hard-core conservative” was running to become Tennessee’s first female senator. Blackburn opposes gay rights and protective…
If you’re living on-campus, then a car isn’t quite the necessity that it is for commuting students. You have the luxury of parking your car for the week and walking or riding a bike to and from class or around campus. Having a car on campus, though, can let you make a run home to…
By: Connor Blake, Staff Writer Peter Del Gallo, of the Men’s Wrestling Team, is dominating his final season with the Huskies. The exercise science major of Gardiner, Maine graduated from Gardiner Area High School (GAHS), as a two-sport athlete in soccer and wrestling. During his time there he earned three varsity letters in soccer and…
By: Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor The Women’s Ice Hockey team put five goals past Suffolk in an emphatic 5-2 victory over Suffolk University. The New England Hockey Conference (NEHC) matchup placed the Southern Maine Huskies in third place over Suffolk following the win on Saturday, Feb 1. The Huskies celebrated Senior Day before the puck…
By: Zoe Bernardi, Columnist Ciao! Welcome to Florence Italy, my home away from home for the next four months. I am a student from USM and was the Community Editor for The Free Press, before placing my life in a checked bag and large backpack to start a new chapter. This column will reflect my…
By: Lillian Lema, Staff Writer As a new semester begins students dread the anxiety of balancing school, work, and classes. Students who study abroad face other worries and concerns. Two weeks before USM student Denae Walton left for England for the Fall 2019 semester, she experienced a bit of cold feet. “I was freaking out…
By: Abigail Nelson, Community Editor Pilot Pete may not have stolen Hannah Brown’s heart in season 15 of the Bachelorette, but he stole ours. Now, he gets a second chance at love as the current Bachelor. Monday nights at 8pm, people all over the country tune in to catch a new episode full of drama…
By: Ryan Farrell, Staff Writer Last weekend marked the release of January’s last horror release. Oz Perkins launched his vision of a classic Grimm fairy tale, alternatively titled as “Gretel & Hansel”. The film puts Gretel at the center of the stage, allowing her to define the story. While “Gretel & Hansel” falls short on…
By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor WMPG has started 2020 with a new film series in the works and the necessary funding to move forward. The Onion Foundation awarded their Discovery Grant to WMPG, donating $2500 to fund the Jazz at the Movies (JAM) film series. The first event will be held on April…
By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor Through two sets of secure doorways, the second requiring a visitor to be buzzed in by a staff member is the Glickman Library Reading Room. This is where the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity and the coveted USM Special Collections of historical documents, artifacts, photographs, prints, manuscripts,…
By: Kate Rogers, News Editor 2020 is Maine’s bicentennial year. In celebration, USM is offering its first-ever Maine Art History course. The course is being taught by Libby Bischof, Ph.D. is a History professor and Executive Director of the Osher Map Library. The course will cover many genres of Maine art both historical and contemporary,…
By: Alyson Peabody, Editor-in-Chief Of the many notable things from President Trump’s State of the Union address, one thing stood out to me the most: green buttons. Pinned on the white lapels of some Democratic women in the audience were green buttons that read, “ERA yes.” For anyone who doesn’t know, ERA stands for Equal…
By: Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor Alexa Henriksen, a sophomore nursing major from Marshfield, Massachusetts returned to the ice after an injury sidelined her for her freshman season. The Women’s Ice Hockey goalie graduated from Thayer Academy, playing between the sticks there for three seasons. She earned the 2018-19 William B. Wise Scholar-Athlete Award her first…
By: Connor Blake, Staff Writer As the spring semester gets underway, winter sports at the University of Southern Maine are still in season. As the teams near the end of their season, they hope to make the final push for playoffs. Men’s Ice Hockey: Their season started back in November against a tough Castleton University…
By: Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor Men’s Basketball sealed a late victory in the closing moments of the game against the University of Massachusetts Boston Beacons. Senior leadership & organizational studies major Jaire Roberts nailed two free throws with a second remaining to put the Huskies ahead 80-78 in their eighth victory of the season. Southern…
By: Abigail Nelson, Community Editor USM adjunct professor Christopher Beam has always been interested in history. After returning from the Marine Core, he graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Ph.D. focusing on early 19th century American history. It was as a graduate student, however, that Beam had closely followed current events…
By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor The WMPG radio station was founded with a private collection of records, a set of turntables and a small pirate-radio transmitter in a dorm room on Gorham campus. Howard Allen, the pioneer who created what would become one of Maine’s major public radio platforms, was an 18-year-old freshman…
By: Alyson Peabody, Editor-in-Chief Lusus Naturae welcomes the bizarre and the grotesque to float freely in the abyss. The title is Latin for ‘a joke of nature.’ Eyeballs, nipples, toes, and ears come together to form creatures projected onto large screens in the Gorham Art Gallery. Some creatures playfully stick out their tongues. Elements of…
By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor After graduating last spring from USM, Belle Fall has strived to carve a place for herself as a professional photographer and videographer in Portland. Armed with a Panasonic GH4, and a growing contact list of local clients and creative colleagues, she has pushed herself to pursue her dream….
By: Chelsea Marquis, Staff Writer Jared Cash was named USM’s Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing on July 1st, 2019 and has been working with other leaders to assume his new role. He oversees a wide range of departments and their directors, which includes “Admissions, Athletics, Student Financial Services, Marketing, Jobs for Maine Graduates,…
By: Amelia Bodge, Staff Writer In March at the polls voters will have to ability to vote either “Yes” or “No” on the following question: Do you want to reject the new law that removes religious and philosophical exemptions to requiring immunization against certain communicable diseases for students to attend schools and colleges and for…
By: Emma J. Walsh, Staff Writer The American Marketing Association (AMA) is a national organization with over 300 chapters at universities across the United States. USM and UMaine Orono are the only collegiate chapters in Maine. The USM AMA chapter is relatively new, as this is their first full academic year. According to AMA Member…