Nearly two-hundred people gathered at USM’s Woodbury Campus Center on Friday, November 21, for a “rally against hate”, prompted by incidents across the state that have made startling – and for many Mainers, embarrassing – international news.
The crowd was largely a mix of activists and politicians, including Maine Governor John Baldacci and USM president Selma Botman, who delivered short statements to a room teeming with signs reading “Hope Not Hate” and “We Will Not Be Silent”.
Every weekday morning, Tabatha Woodside wakes up at 6:30 am. She drops her two sons off at daycare and school and heads to class.
When she gets out, it’s time for studying and running errands; evenings are for taking care of her family and racing to complete homework.
Tech, books, and part-time faculty hit…
“Until when do we have to see this bloodshed?”
The question was posed by Lucy Talgieh, a Palestinian Christian. She emegrated to Isreal from the United States 26 years ago, and works as project director for the Wi-am Center for Conflict Resolution in Bethlehem.
For Aubin Thomas, grocery shopping isn’t about picking foods that look tasty. It’s about picking foods that won’t make her sick. But even more than that, its about picking foods that won’t break the bank.
“I have a lot of dietary restrictions,” she says.
ou see snow falling silently out your window. Class starts soon, but there is no need to brave the elements to free your car from last night’s blizzard, no worrying about getting stuck behind an impossibly slow plow as it clears the roads. You fix a cup of cocoa, settle into your favorite recliner and boot up the computer.
Frustrations are running high over Bayside Village, the independently-owned student housing complex on Marginal Way in Portland.
Tensions between residents, management and the city erupted late last week, after the Portland police department mandated drastic changes to the building’s community guidelines.
Thursday’s “Life of the Party” political forum was formulated as a break from the candidate-driven, partisan forums broadcast over the last year, where answers and platforms are so routine and regimented, a voter could slip into election-induced déj? vu.
As soon as the slam-poetry styling of the Freedom Choir began to echo their rendition of “The Times They Are A-Changin'” from the back of the Woodbury Campus Center’s amphitheater, it was clear this was not going to be another starchy, dry discussion panel.
An estimated 20 percent of Americans live with a disability of some kind, yet the disabled make up just five percent of the workforce in science and engineering. It’s a gap the National Science Foundation would like to narrow.
And they’ve enlisted the help of USM.
USM’s Muskie School of Public Service is one of the primary recipients of “no bid” contracts awarded by state agencies, agreements that are coming under extensive review in the coming months.
The contracts are cooperative agreement with agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services.
Senator Susan Collins and Congressman Tom Allen squared off in their tenth senatorial debate on Thursday, at USM’s Hannaford Lecture Hall.
The debate, moderated by MPBN’s Jennifer Rooks, featured questions from the hosts, as well as those culled from e-mail submissions and video questions from Maine residents.
Students have been toting the ubiquitous Nalgene water bottle around for years. Often plastered with more stickers than a VW Bus, these distinctive, convenient, and purportedly “unbreakable” containers have recently come under suspicion from public health watchdog groups and consumers as a possible source of Bisphenol-A (BPA) contamination.
“I’m not a politician, I’m a community organizer,” says City Council candidate Tina Smith, as fellow candidates and voters shuffle past her on a rainy Wednesday evening, after wrapping up a lively election forum at the North Star cafe in downtown Portland.
Academic departments at USM must undergo a formal review every seven years, according to UMaine Board of Trustees policy. But there is no such requirement for non-academic departments.
It’s something University President Selma Botman is looking to change.
The University has invited two external consultants to review the following departments: Advising Services, Career Services, Early Student Success, Learning Foundations, and Community Service.
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Bayside Village, the independently-owned student housing complex on Marginal Way, has been up and running for little over six weeks. That’s why it’s troubling to some that the Portland police department is already so well-acquainted.
Right from the beginning, law enforcement found themselves heading over on a regular basis.
Ever since she started picking up trash along the Maine shoreline, Sandra Wacholz has been seeing that tell-tale shine – washed up on the sand, in the grass or between rocks.
Another hypodermic needle.
Walchoz, a?professor of criminology at USM, is not just an environmentalist, though friends and colleagues say they can’t imagine a more motivated one.
Appointments have been made to the provost search committee, a 13-member panel that will help select the University’s next vice president of academic affairs.?
The group, which will be vetting and interviewing candidates in a nationwide hiring campaign, includes representatives from across faculty and staff, as well as one member of the student body.
In preparation for the student senate’s first fall elections, student government officials printed 2,000 cards. They stuck them under the doors of dorm rooms, leaned them up against school computers, and otherwise scattered them around USM’s campuses.
Even more promisingly, they scored some real estate on the front page of the University’s website and pushed heavily the web address for online voting, from which students could log in and vote online, any time of the day or night.
As the campaign heats up, USM students watch and weigh in over food and drinks in the Old Port
It’s pasted all over buses shuttling students between campuses, it’s slowly creeping its way online, and it’s coming to a movie theater near you.
It’s the new USM marketing campaign, and it might start to seem like it’s popping up everywhere – but that’s the idea.
A joint effort between the University of Southern Maine and Quantrix seeks to make the McCain and Obama tax proposals easier to understand – by applying them directly to you.
USM’s Nancy Richeson, a student and practitioner of Reiki, is turning her academic eye on the age-old, holistic approach to healing.
Alex Wilbur, a third-year Linguistics student, was surprised when it took him about five minutes to find a parking space before class on Tuesday. So when he returned on Thursday, he made a point of showing up a little earlier, only to find an even bleaker situation.