Category: News

The Interfraternity Council (IFC), the student-run governing body of USM, is short a few members due to the absence of those associated with the Gamma Omega chapter of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. This is because Gamma Omega owes about $3,700 to the Phi Kappa Sigma national office, based in Pennsylvania.

Weekly report of the happenings at the Student Senate

A group of students gathered on the Gorham campus to protest the possible war with Iraq. The group behind the protest was the University Student Activists (U.S.A.). The group advertised all over the campus via fliers, urging students to meet in the courtyard of Upton-Hastings Hall at noon on Jan. 26. The request was met by a small but passionate group of people who brought drums, pots, and bottles to use as noisemakers.

Sen. Jessica Roy was voted out of her position as chair of the Violations Inquiry Committee (VIC) and thus out of her position as Senate parliamentarian by the 31st Student Senate Friday. Two-thirds of the present members voted her out of her position through a secret ballot.

Sen. Jessica Roy is in shock. In a matter of minutes Friday morning she went from Student Senate parliamentarian and executive board member to an e-board outcast and trod-upon member of the Senate.

Although she heard complaints about Sen. Jessica Roy’s performance, Sen. Leah Wentworth was surprised at the motion to have Roy removed from her position as chair of the Violations Inquiry Committee and thus as Senate parliamentarian.

The four and a half hour Student Senate meeting on Friday was filled with heated debate.

It’s 1:35 p.m. on the Portland campus and Lauren Rioux is freaking out. The senior music major needs to get to Gorham for class, but her only hope just pulled out of the parking lot without her. And about 20 others.

The parking crunch has hit Portland. There are a substantial number of open parking spaces in the Marginal Way lot and at the Scarborough Sam’s Club to alleviate the stress of parking. Both lots have been sanctioned by USM and are available to students throughout the construction of the parking garage.

USM has added two new Libra professors from Duke University to teach temporarily for the English Department. Nawal El Saadawi and Sherif Hetata are no ordinary teachers.

A report of crime on campus culled from the USM Police Logs

Weekly news briefs include, you guessed it, something about parking

The Portland Events Board, Outing Club (PEB), and Ski Club came together recently to raffle off a “golden parking space.” This is a dedicated parking spot in front of the USM Police Department building on the Portland campus.

Our time is one of cynicism. It is a world of irony and apathy, where war and suffering is inevitable… Or so I thought.

The Woodbury Campus Center became a ground zero of sorts as people of all descriptions descended on the Portland campus to discuss today’s social and political climate. USM’s “Teach In for Peace” ran all day last Friday. The event was prompted by the controversy over Iraq, but the event’s scope was on pacifism.

Portland city traffic officials extended no-parking zones on sections of Deering Avenue near USM’s Portland campus in January. According to city officials, changes allegedly stemmed from a petition filed by community members concerned with an excess of street parking following the closure of the main parking lot on the Portland campus. When asked for a copy of the petition, Larry Ash, traffic engineer for the City of Portland, said the petition was “misplaced.” He denied further requests for information on the changes.

Associate Professor of Criminology Dusan Bjelic returned from the Iraqi-American Academic Symposium at the University of Baghdad Jan. 18. “This was a fact-finding mission. The first fact we found is that there are human beings [in Iraq],” he said.

Recent crime logs show a rise in theft and vandalism on both Portland and Gorham campuses. The past few weeks are rife with stories of car vandalism, trombone snatching, and theft of money and personal belongings.

With the sounds of anti-war protestors everywhere in the country, the one voice recently quieted is the voice of those in support. Local Gulf War veteran Rich Lyons served as a machinist mate in the Navy from 1989 to 1992.

This week’s report of the happenings in the Student Senate

A report of weekly crime on campus culled from the USM police logs

Early Saturday morning University of Maine System servers were attacked by a rapidly spreading computer worm known as “Sapphire” or “SQL Slammer” which slowed or halted Internet traffic all over the world.

Assistant Professor of Art Ray Chen began doing ceramics 15 years ago after obtaining a music degree He felt frustrated as music was something he merely performed, not created.

The construction of a 1,200-space parking garage has begun. Excavators digging up the pavement is causing the Portland campus to lose most of the spots in widely used Bedford Street lot. Limited parking has made driving to the Portland campus frustrating for many students.