By Sarah Tewksbury, Staff Writer The USM Student Government Association (SGA) is determined to hit…
Category: News
The implications of eliminating Obamacare
Last Friday, President Donald Trump signed his first executive order, which included a set…
President Cummings used first semester to repair and heal USM
By Bradford Spurr/Free Press Staff & Troy Bennett/Bangor Daily News Midway through the month of May…
First Somali Woman Police Officer in Portland
By Seth Koenig, Bangor Daily News Pious Ali — who was touted as the first…
Police Beats
01/15/2016 Reading Books Deemed Illegal Unwanted person, Glickman Library. Officer located a person that…
Michael Berube chairs the AAUP investigation
Last week, a team was sent to USM by the American Association of University…
Senate works to retain and train new members
The student senate shot down a motion last week that would have changed the…
‘We are on the verge of being censured.’: Faculty senate worried about possible AAUP sanction
In response to recent cuts by administration, as well as the threat of a…
Enrollment continues to decline this semester
Classrooms this spring semester will have 374 fewer students in them than last year,…
USM professors help The Phoenix rise from ashes
USM professors Ronald Schmidt and Jason Read have been filling holes left in the…
Obama proposes two free years of community college
Less than two weeks ago, President Barack Obama announced a proposal that would make…
Interview process for new president to start soon
University of Maine System administrators will soon be interviewing candidates who have applied to…
Majority against academic calendar change
When the faculty senate reached out to the USM community in early December for…
Administrators layout goals for the spring semester
Now that the framework to balance USM’s budget has been drafted, the administration has…
Men’s head ice hockey coach retires mid-season
After 28 years as head coach of the men’s ice hockey team, Jeff Beaney…
Retrenchment Retrospective: Dean Kuzma explains criteria for cuts
Though the retrenchments and position discontinuances that were announced last March have since been…
Honors morale high as funding drops and program reviews
The time has come again, after more than a decade, for the USM honors…
Student profile: A commuter for community
Brendan Butler is first year student with a lot going on. He has not…
Phi Mu Delta strengthens community partnership
The Phi Mu Delta fraternity and University Neighborhood Organization co-hosted a cleanup of Longfellow…
Residential Life says goodbye to Dickey-Wood
Come next semester, Dickey Wood Hall will be entirely offline to students. Due to…
Stonecoast MFA may soon be out of a house
One of USM’s most prestigious pieces of architecture may have reached the point where…
New student body president pushes to dissolve BSO
After 23 years of controlling student activity fee funding for student groups, the Board…
News Analysis: Same deficit, different decade
As a university news source, the Free Press tries to do a few different…
Recent grads discuss their level of career preparation post-USM
One of the arguments made by protesters of the recently retracted faculty layoffs and…