Feature Story on Communication Media Studies Professor Leanord Shedletsky By Chris Tiner | Co-Editor-in-Chief Leanord Shedletsky is a professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at USM and has served as a prominent figure at USM for forty-five years. You especially know him if you are a part of the Communication Media Studies…
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A new era for female Husky athletes
Mackenzie Kingsbury trailblazes a path for future female Husky athletes By Chris Tiner | Co-Editor-in-Chief In what has become one of the most competitive landscapes in the women’s athlete sports world, women’s golf has greatly increased in popularity over the last decade. After years of men’s golf existing at USM, women’s golf was finally added…
USM Acadia Trip: 4/20/2024
Photos by: Emilyn Smith, Director of Photography
When in Rome
Since my freshman year at USM, my best friend, Bethany Desrosiers and I have used the term “friendship field trip” to describe an excursion that creates a fun memory for the two of us to reminisce on later. It includes going to Old Orchard to meet with photographers for her budding modeling career, or going…
The New Husky Hub
On Tuesday, January 24th, a school-wide email was sent out from Director of Student Engagement and Leadership David Lewis about a new online community called The Husky Hub, introducing a brand new platform to USM with the plan of connecting people across all majors and locations to help everyone find commonalities with their fellow peers. …
Indigenous Peoples: How They’ve Been Impacted
On Monday, November 14, Intercultural Student Affairs and the Student Body President’s Office hosted an event in which they streamed “Dawnland,” and “Bounty,” to educate about Indigenous history in the Bailey 10 lecture hall on the Gorham campus. Two guest speakers, Dawn Neptune Adams and Esther Anne, attended the event. Both women were featured in…
Online College Supplies Checklist
Most college students seek the “college experience”—whatever that is exactly. Let’s just say COVID-19 is giving you one of the most unique college experiences. Whether you planned on doing some or all of your classes online, the novel Coronavirus forced millions of students into online classes. While you might need a backpack, notebooks, and pens,…
Celebrating the wish that started it all and coping with Covid-19
By: Lydia Libby, Web Editor Celebrating 40 years of granting life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses is not only amazing, but truly inspiring. In late January, I sat down in my seat in my Service Learning Practicum class and realized I needed to find a non-profit to collaborate with. Luckily for me, my mother…
Preparing for the End of the Semester
By: Cristina Kerluke, Academic Support Program Specialist We hope you have settled into the online learning environment and have found ways to successfully navigate our current circumstances. This may mean taking it week by week, or even day by day. However, with just a few weeks of classes remaining, it’s important to know where you…
Checking In
By: Samar Post Jamali, Nurse Practitioner Hello to members of the USM Community: We at Health Services miss seeing your faces around campus. We hope you are safe and supported during this unprecedented time. Please know that while Health Services is currently not seeing patients in person, we are happy to schedule telehealth appointments. …
Artists displaced by COVID-19
By: Ryan Farrell, Staff Writer It is no secret that COVID-19 has displaced the spring semester, let alone the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the globe. Students living on campus were sent home and courses were forced to create an alternative online curriculum. While this epidemic has strained students and faculty alike,…
MovieTalk: Tigertail
By: Ryan Farrell, Staff Writer Last week, longtime producer Alan Yang released his sixth directorial release. Tigertail is a Taiwanese film that tells the story of an immigrant through multiple points in his life, slowly revealing his dramatic plots. While this is a competent film, at points it feels like it has bitten off more…
COVID-19 puts a hold on study abroad applications
By: Asha Tompkins, Staff Writer According to an update on March 23, students who planned to join the fall study abroad program were informed of the decision to pause applications in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. “We, along with our colleagues both domestic and abroad, continue to closely monitor the situation,” said Emily Zider, the…
A valuable resource for USM students during COVID-19 outbreak
By: Asha Tompkins, Staff Writer While students across the map are thrown for a loop in their academic careers, USM continues to remind its own students that valuable resources have been established in these times of crisis, specifically the Student Emergency Fund. This fund is available for “students facing immediate financial crises, from unforeseen travel…
Mechanical Engineering professor and students use MIST lab to prototype face shields
By: Kate Rogers, News Editor Two students in the mechanical engineering program with the guidance of Assistant Professor Asheesh Lanba are using USM’s Maker Innovation Studio (MIST) to make personal protective equipment to send to hospitals in need. Daniel St. Peter, a junior, and Berkeley Elias, a sophomore, helped Lanba to make more than 28…
Faces of US: Prashiddhi Pokhrel
By: Lillian Lema, Staff Writer Accepting oneself can be a very long and exhausting journey, but the outcome is freedom. USM student Prashiddhi Pokhrel opens up about her struggles with coming to terms with her appearance and mental illness. Growing up in Kathmandu, Nepal, Pokhrel felt like the odd girl out. She despised her image,…
MovieTalk: Coffee and Kareem
By: Ryan Farrell, Staff Writer Last Weekend, Netflix added another exclusive comedy feature to its streaming catalog. From director Michael Dowse comes Coffee & Kareem, a lackluster buddy cop movie with an adult sense of humor. While the cast is experienced enough, its linear and predictable story and characters make for a mediocre film….
Cullen’s Column: A world without sports
By: Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor March 26 was supposed to be Opening Day in Major League Baseball (MLB), the beginning of a 162-game season of America’s pastime. Instead, every sport across the world has come to a standstill due to the outbreak of COVID-19. The NCAA Tournament March Madness would have been heading to…
UMaine system cancels all commencement plans across all universities
By: Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor Chancellor Dannel Malloy announced in a statement that all May commencement celebrations would be canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The statement, issued last Monday, said: “It is with a sober sense of responsibility that our Presidents and I have therefore decided that we cannot proceed with our planned in-person…
Three Streaming Sites That Offer Something Different
By: Cormac Riordan, Staff Writer Self quarantining? Already ran through the selections on your favorite streaming sights? Here are a few lesser-known gems to keep you from going stir crazy in these isolating times. Arthouse streaming on a schedule, Mubi only ever has thirty movies available. Every day a new film comes on the site,…
MovieTalk: Onward
By: Ryan Farrell, Staff Writer Disney Pixar’s newest film Onward was released into theaters in early March, however preventative measures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic closed theaters and prevented many from viewing it. As a result, Disney made a historic move and added it to their streaming service Disney+ less than a month after…
Making the Pivot to Online Learning
By: Cristina Kerluke, Academic Support Program Specialist Any change can be challenging, particularly when sudden or unexpected. The pivot to a completely online experience for the remainder of the spring 2020 semester certainly falls within this category. Please be patient with yourself, your classmates and your instructors during this time. We’re in this together. During…
Adventures in Europe
By: Zoe Bernardi, Columnist Ciao! Welcome to the last reflection from Italy. By this time I have been sitting in my bedroom in New York for 12 days in quarantine. But, before this, I was soaking up my last few days in Florence. This is what happened. The first step was to create a bucket…
Panel debates effects of public school policing
By: Amelia Bodge, Staff Writer On March 5th USM held a Panel Discussion titled “The End of School Policing?” The Panel was cosponsored by the Sociology and Criminology departments at USM. The main speaker was Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing. He came to speak to the city of Portland and the State…