Julie Pike, Editor-in-chief In the wake of the school shooting at the high school in…
Category: Letter From The Editor
Letter from the editor: New changes and new challenges
Julie Pike, Editor-in-chief My first letter from the editor, a piece of writing that…
Memorialization of American Nationalism
By: Sarah Tewksbury, Editor-in-Chief Today marks the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on…
Letter from the Editor: How interviews have changed my perspective
Last week, I sat down with Andrew Kiezulas for an interview about the Students…
Letter from the Editor
We all know that imminent, beautiful doom that comes with the dawning of a…
Editorial: USM’s future trumps press access debate
Since the start of the Direction Package Advisory Board meetings in November, the group…
A clarification from the Oct 28 issue:
On Oct. 28, the Free Press reported that the College of Arts, Humanities and…
Koenig: Colleges debate how to lose $1 million without students noticing
You can find at least one story from The Free Press every year with a headline like this: “Faced with massive budget shortfall, colleges forced to make large cuts next year.” There’s a good chance the University of Southern Maine has been scrambling to make its budget every year you’ve been a student. A few weeks ago the deans of the colleges were informed they had to slash an extra $1 million from their budgets.
A case against holding the spring concert on campus
USM’s lack of community may be a reason for the unimpressive concerts in recent years, yet the university needs attractions like concerts to boost community.
Revamping The Free Press newsroom
Do you read any websites that only update once a week? How about one that takes a three week break with school vacations? Well if you read our website then you do.
The Free Press has improved the last couple semesters, but our online effort is still lacking.
A low tolerance for highbrow snobs
I hate NPR. OK change that. I hate some people who love NPR —…
Maybe I’d start a riot, if I had the time
The other day I asked a friend what I should write my impending letter…
Taking cues from a party metal band
This week I decided to deviate from my routine of only writing straightforward news…
USM shouldn’t offer Coddling 101
A professor of mine last semester spent each class reading his slide show to…
A modest proposal to improve campus parking
I had a revelation last Wednesday in the parking garage on the Portland campus:…
On standing your ground
I believe in a few things pretty strongly: Bill Murray, the First Amendment, the…
Reflecting on a decade in academia
By the time I graduate in December, I will have been a student as long as Tommy Callahan in “Tommy Boy.”
Free Press launches new blog
To be more transparent with our readers, we have set up a blog to promote an active dialogue about our coverage.