Category: News

WMPG community radio launches the Beg-A-Thon fundraiser today in the face of “the death of Internet radio,” said Jim Rand, station manger, in an e-mail interview. The campus and community radio station’s bi-annual event has been a station tradition since the early 1980s, he added, and a way to keep in touch with the community it serves.

Two of USM’s graduate school offices will host a workshop day and a graduate school information day in response to the growing requirements for master’s degrees and other even higher education.

“So You Want To Go To Graduate School” is a workshop scheduled for Oct.

SANTA ROSA, California-When cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) joined United Features Syndicate in 1950, the company decided to run his new comic, which the company named “Peanuts.”

Schulz’s famous comic featured characters Charlie Brown, siblings Linus and Lucy, Schroeder, Marcie, Pigpen and Charlie Brown’s beagle Snoopy.

crime of the week

September 21 (2:06 a.m.)

Someone in Gorham’s New Residence Hall reported an intoxicated naked male running around outside and urinating everywhere. Officers could not make contact with the man.

Sept. 24

You probably kick puppies, too 1:26 p.

Oct. 1

Opportunity Maine presents Tax Credit Card-The campaign for the new student debt legislation holds a press conference announcing the method of payment for taking OppME’s tax credit. Presented by Governor John Baldacci and the past two Maine governors, Angus King and John McKernan/ Abromson Community Education Center, Portland campus/ 3 p.

USM students criticized two petition circulators last Thursday for using forceful techniques to gather signatures and because they are not residents of Maine.

Dean of Student Life Joe Austin was called on to speak with two men, Bart Sanso and Jack Murdock, both of Florida.

Erin Grade, one of two former USM students charged with last year’s Dec. 4 bomb threat, entered a plea of “not guilty” before Superior Court Judge Andrew M. Horton at her arraignment last Monday in Portland. The other former student, Geneva Benner, had previously entered a “not guilty” plea.

Several of USM’s 36th Student Senate have resigned their posts and several more threatened to resign last week due to scheduling conflicts. Senate Chair Emily Fitch, a senior chemistry major, said the executive members were working hard to fix the problem and also fill the open positions.

A Gorham fraternity house escaped court-ordered shutdown last week because its residents complied with the fire department’s requirements to resolve several violations, including a third-party monitoring system for the alarm.

Gorham Fire Chief Robert Lefebvre said an Aug.

Two USM students were indicted on Friday, July 6, for bomb threats against the university last year. The results of the investigation spearheaded by USM police chief Lisa Beecher and Detective Penny Belanger allowed the Cumberland County District Attorney’s office to indict Erin Grade, 20, of Rockland and Geneva Benner, 19, of Thomaston in the December 6 threat.

Opportunity Maine scored a victory last Monday when the Secretary of State’s office informed USM’s Student Body President Andrew Bossie that enough signatures had been gathered for the bill proposal to be considered for legislation. A press conference was held in the State House’s Hall of Flags by supporters of the citizen’s initiative.

The NCAA released a report Feb. 22 detailing work-study violations by students in USM’s athletic department during the 2003-2004 academic year. The report also reflected the collegiate sports organization’s decision to follow recommendations set by the university to resolve the violations and safeguard from further fraud.

An e-mailed bomb threat was received at USM’s School of Law in Portland on Monday, Feb. 19, giving the Critical Incident Response Team (CRIT) a chance to prove that new measures for handling these incidents adopted last year can work to better reduce the chaos caused by bomb threats.

A class designed for sufferers of dementia titled “LIFE 101: Coping with Mild Memory Loss,” was cancelled by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) due to a shortage of participants. The class, scheduled to begin mid-March, had a successful session during the Fall 2006 semester.

The University of Maine System (UMS) has gained a new chancellor and USM has lost a president.On Feb. 5, the UMS Board of Trustees (BOT) unanimously chose President Richard Pattenaude as the next chancellor. Pattenaude accepted the position.Margaret Weston, chair of the BOT, said, “In the end, the Board concluded that Dr.

Director of Career Services and Professional Life Development Larry Bliss announced during February break that the deadline for USM’s General Awards and Scholarships program has been extended.

Students now have until 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 9, to submit an application for the program.

USM Crime Logs

Corrects of previous issues

Construction of a new dorm is changing the skyline of the Gorham campus. A large building emerges in Gorham where fields once were. The dorm, located near Bailey Hall, is designed for 296 upper-level and graduate-level students. The new building is scheduled to be finished for the fall of 2007.

There are countless days we, as college students, saunter with glazed over eyes, passing the tucked away Sullivan Fitness complex on our way to Payson Smith. In Gorham too, we slowly drive by the Costello Sports complex without notice. Too angry in our scavenger state, prowling around for those lacking parking spaces to care about working out.

The so-called debate between Professor Herb Adams and his student Jason Lavoie last Wednesday was much less contentious than one would expect from candidates of two very different parties. Absent from the debate was Matt Reading, of the Green Party, leaving Lavoie (Republican) and Adams (Democrat) face to face.

Everyone knows bananas have lots of potassium. We know this is good for us. Our mothers told us so.

And it’s true. Potassium is an essential nutrient for all animals. In ion form, (K+) it works with the positive sodium ion (Na+) in cells to help with the passage of electrical impulses such as nerve impulses and muscle contractions.

USM’s Portland Police left their offices in the Steego Building on Bedford Street for a new and improved space in the Sullivan Fitness Complex last Monday. Upcoming construction of the University Commons is displacing them. Lt. Jim Stanhope said the new area is smaller, but there is more office space than before.

The old warehouses that mar the Portland campus between Glickman Library and the Abromson Center will be torn down beginning Monday and transformed into the University Commons, a new building, promenade and plaza that Craig Hutchinson, vice president of student and university life, describes as “the gateway to campus for the community.