By Nex Staples – Staff Writer Its walls ornamented with clean elegance, having made home to pieces of heart and antiquity since its founding by Margaret Jane Mussy Sweat in 1908, the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) is now temporarily housing two new exhibitions. These features highlight the works of men whose awe inspiring visions have…
By Zoe Bernardi, Community Editor The red walls and dim lighting of Blue Jazz bar in Portland are just enough to see the scattered tables adorned with flickering tea candles and people. Once you enter the space the murmur of instruments getting tuned and glasses clinking are paired together with musicians and viewers exchanging hellos and…
By Sydney Morton, Web Editor Six floors up in the Glickman Library, you’ll find Susie Bock, Coordinator of Special Collections and the Director of the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine. Along with the Special Collections, the Glickman Library hosts the triage of the library system; Franco-American Collection, Osher Map Library and Smith Center…
This Fall semester will be the first time that many students have the opportunity to have roommates and be on campus, even as second years. Last year, students spent the majority of their time in their dorm rooms. They acted as kitchens, study rooms, classrooms and places to relax and sleep. This time around, students…
By: Cayley Bowman, Staff Writer As the new school year sets in, students are moving back onto campus. Rushing to get ahold of final decorations, struggling to get our dorm set up to their liking, and getting prepared for the abundance of classes. Excitement thrums through the air as we socialize with our neighbors; strangers that…
Whether you’re doing a research project or looking to explore campus, you’ll want to check out the Special Collections at the USM libraries. But what exactly are these collections, and what makes them special? Susie Bock, the coordinator of Special Collections, shared some information about them and how the university community can use them. What…
Now that we are back on campus and finding the rhythm of actually having to go to class rather than rolling out of bed, we want to do things again. Such as going off campus seeing things outside of our bedroom walls. So below, a list has been constructed. Things to see, people to meet…
As we creep up to the last moments of this 2020-2021 school year, we push as we finish up the last of our assignments, click “join zoom” for the final times and begin to cross off the projects, tests, and finals we have listed on our planners. The burnout feeling has been lingering for just…
Morgan Day and Teri Honeycutt are senior interns at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, located on the Portland campus within the Glickman Library. The purpose of the map library is to preserve and share history, heritage, and information with students and the general public through its archives. They facilitate public…
Today, April 22, is Earth Day. The day on which our Instagram feed is filled with images of the best sunsets, hikes, and waterfalls that we keep in our camera rolls. The day where we choose to eat vegan and bike to work. The day we all try our very best to be kinder to…
Libby Bischof is the university’s Executive Director for the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, located in the Glickman Library on the Portland campus, a comprehensive archive that allows free public access to five centuries of cartographic materials. “It’s amazing that USM has this place,” she said. “I mean, we have half…
Even though Women’s History Month is over, we can still support them and empower as all women-run businesses have increased in numbers in the past few years. Below is a list of women-led businesses in Maine that can be supported. Supporting local businesses is very important because it helps bring back money for the economy…
Life after high school doesn’t always mean college comes next. Some students choose to go the traditional route and jump immediately into a university, some choose to take a gap year, and some may even choose to take a few classes a semester while working full or part-time jobs. Emily Brazee didn’t think she would…
Learning about yourself and growing as a person is one of the most important parts of the college experience. With a student’s transition into independence, there are trials and tribulations involved, but the end product is a person who better understands themselves, how they think, how they learn, and how they interact with the world…
Happy Women’s History Month. As we enter the month to honor the bold, powerful women of the 21st century, it is important to feature stories and platforms that showcase women of color, the queer community, and anyone who identifies as a woman. In 2021, the feminist movements that have been front and center include but…
Bernadette Esposito grew up in the suburbs of Chicago in Wheaton and Downers Grove and attended The Evergreen State College, a small liberal arts college in Olympia, WA. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa and has taught in California and Wyoming. She’s been in Maine for seven years; After five years of…
Tucked between the Sullivan Gym and the empty shell of the Woodbury Campus Center sits a building that goes relatively unnoticed. If you don’t know what you’re looking for, it blends right into the gym, and you would never think it’s the home for a whole media studies major, as it sits within that little…
Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, how and where we spend our time has been a national conversation and collective experience. Our work, academic, and leisure environments have all been impacted by the pandemic. Members of the diverse USM community have adapted to these changes, finding new ways of living that enable them to make the most…
Welcome to the first third of the semester, as students enter their seventh week of the Spring semester, we all sort of fall into this funk. Winter is straggling on, despite what the groundhog said, and the cool winds of Maine make it bitter to be outside. This causes students to be stuck inside their…
By: Asher Close, Staff Writer Elise Hanley is a junior studying biochemistry at USM. She is a Lead Resident Assistant (LRA) in Upton Hastings, and a TRIO Student Support Services peer mentor, a guidance figure helping students who struggle with getting acclimated to college. Upon arriving at USM, Elise, who likes to go by El, was…
By: Cullen McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief Representation matters, for everyone. This simple yet profound idea of representation and inclusion is exactly what sophomore Hussein Maow is passionate about. As the current Student Body Vice-President, political science and finance double-major and former Director of Racial Equity and Inclusion, Maow’s efforts on campus have been incredibly important. “I am able…
The month of February is filled with many celebrations and events, however, all 28 days are notably commendable for Black History Month. The month is a platform for educating, celebrating, remembering, and honoring the African American community. With the current political movement that is Black Lives Matter (BLM), it is even more important to come…
Welcome to the end of the third week of our COVID-19 Spring semester, where many students are still hunkering down and creating a new schedule and routine for themselves. Seniors are probably freaking out about it being three months until graduation, the juniors are hoping the vaccine saves their senior year, and the sophomores are…
As the stores fill up with bags of pink and red candy, and flower sales are increasing we enter our next big holiday after Groundhog’s Day. Give a round of applause for Valentine’s Day. The holiday surrounds love and appreciation of others. While people ask their girlfriends, boyfriends, partners, and friends the big question: “will…