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By Asha Tompkins, Arts and Culture Editor An artist, a devoted teacher, an innovator, a close colleague and a brilliant mind were all things that made up Raphael Diluzio, a USM associate professor of digital art and design. It was with great sadness that the USM community learned of his sudden passing over the weekend…
By: Connor Blake, Staff Writer On what felt like a perfect Tuesday night to honor the seniors on the USM Men’s Lacrosse team, the Huskies took on the UMass Boston Beacons. They fought hard but ultimately came up short to the Beacons, losing 13-7. Prior to the start of the action on Tuesday, the Huskies…
By Asha Tompkins, Arts and Culture Editor President Glenn Cummings was first in his immediate and extended family to receive a four-year degree. He likes to eat a raspberry Sorbetto from Gelato Fiasco. He listens to soulful Irish pop, a combination of U2 and Van Morrison. He is a normal guy with an immense passion…
By Hailey Wood, Staff Writer This week, for the first time in five years, there will be a Spring Fling Concert. The concert is being headlined by Young M.A., B. Aull and Mugen Chopped It. Spring Fling is a week of events put on every year at USM with the help of departments, student clubs…
By Asha Tompkins, Arts and Culture Editor Even with limited space for creating their art, those involved with the USM Art Department make do with their current spatial conditions, using the room in their minds to utilize their full artistic abilities. USM artists are good at making do with what they have, as the university…
By Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor Winning has become a culture for the city of Boston. Since the year 2000, Boston has watched four of their major sports teams lift a total of 12 championships. The most coming from the New England Patriots dynasty, who have won a total of six Super Bowls since their first…
By Zoe Bernardi, Staff Writer USM fraternities and sororities have spent nearly ten years strengthening their reputation. In 2010, Gorham banned all fraternities and sororities houses, resulting in ordinances and zoning codes that restrict Greek life housing. This ordinance put a restriction on current and future Greek life houses in both Gorham and Portland. The…
By Katie Letellier, Staff Writer For years now many shows have captured the attention of viewers with stories of star-crossed lovers. The writers play with the characters, teasing the viewers into rooting for the two people to get together. This is known as the chase. Then, the couple finally gets together towards the end of…
By Kate Rogers, Community Editor Karen Wilson, with a Ph.D in limnology, gets to study freshwater areas like lakes and rivers, and her research has taken her all over the world. She also happens to be an associate research professor in USM’s department of environmental science. At USM, Wilson does everything she can to get…
By Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor Following the proposal by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to eliminate the funding for the Special Olympics in the 2020 federal education budget, there was an outcry across the nation for the funding to be upheld. The Special Olympics is an important event not only to those who compete, but those…
By Alyson Peabody, News Editor Governor Janet Mills announced a proposal in late February for Maine to transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. Maine has joined the United States Climate Alliance. The alliance is a bipartisan coalition of 21 states committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, Gov. Mills proposed the creation of…
By: Lauren McCallum, Design Director Over spring break, five USM students discovered Iceland, from the differences in their educational system to the natural beauty that makes up the country. They prepared themselves through their online AED 299 class, which focuses on art and education in Iceland. While there, they interacted with Icelandic artists, various schools…
By Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor While many students took the week of Spring Break off to relax and get ready for the rest of the semester, spring sports teams headed south to Florida for preseason. The USM Baseball team competed in seven games during their spring trip, winning six out of the seven games in…
By Max Lorber, Staff Writer Tucked away on the corner of Chestnut and Congress Street is an unassuming set of glass doors, with a small glass pane overhead reading Portland Masonic Temple. First you have to ring a doorbell. After a minute or two, Jim Dufresne, a Freemason and the founder/director of the Maine Masonic…
By Gus Pignatello, Staff Writer Maine legislators are considering passing a bill that would tighten restrictions on vaccinations. According to the bill, the legislation would eliminate the option for students to opt out of immunization requirements for religious and philosophical reasons, only allowing medical exceptions. Rep. Ryan Tipping from Orono and Sen. Linda Sanborn from…
By: Melissa Fraser, Staff Writer The U.S. Senate released a report last week criticizing the Confucius Institute (CI) at U.S. universities. Despite the global political controversy, USM’s relationship with the Chinese learning center remains intact. The report states that CIs are currently operating in over 100 U.S. universities and are largely staffed and funded by…
By: Kate Rogers, Community Editor Between on-campus and online classes, fall, spring, summer and winter sessions, USM offers roughly fifty undergraduate programs and twenty graduate programs, according to the 2017-18 academic catalog. With undergraduate majors alone requiring anywhere from 36-65 credit hours, and each class only 2-4 credits, that amounts to a lot of classes. Not…
By Ryan Farrell, Staff Writer Many of us, whether we like to admit it or not, are dealing with some sort of mental dilemma. While many choose to reveal their struggles behind closed doors, some feel that expressing these feelings in a public setting is most effective when learning to move on. In order to…
By Asha Tompkins, Arts and Culture Editor A stream of people flow around the tables covered with aromatic pots of hearty food. Music from the heart of New Orleans drifts through the air. WMPG’s Cajun Cooking contest has visited the USM campus. To celebrate Mardi Gras and put on a mid-winter party for the communities that…
By Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor Baseball USM Men’s Baseball team comes into this year off an outstanding 30-15 record from last season, where the team ended the season with a 9-3 loss to Swarthmore College from Pennsylvania in the NCAA Division III Regional Tournament Championship. The Huskies, under head coach Ed Flaherty who was recently…
March 3, 2019
Robert Cohen There’s 9 million artists and they’re all great in their own way. You’ve got to find your own way. If you can find a way that’s a little bit different and be the best you can be at it, that’s all you can really ask for. The biggest thing of all is that…
By Ben Theriault, Staff Writer The Osher Map Library and Smith Center For Cartographic Education at USM holds tens of thousands of rare and historical maps, making it the second largest collection of publicly available maps in the country. This semester, the map library attempted to broaden its student and faculty reach. Under the instruction…
By Nick Schleh, Staff Writer Single-use plastic drinking straws may be banned from USM. Universities, restaurants, and businesses across the nation are transitioning away from the environmentally harmful plastic straws in order to promote sustainability. Katelyn Seavey, Student Body President and President of the Campus Kitchens Project at USM, is leading the student initiative to…