Three professors in the Social Work Department were given an opportunity to write a textbook on international child labor.
The textbook will be included in a series of books examining child labor issues from country to country, and will be used by high school students.
After disappearing from campus for over a decade, Reserve Officer Training Corps, or ROTC, may be coming back to USM.
ROTC is an opportunity to earn money for college and represent the country while working towards a degree.
The program was active at USM until 1990, but fell through due to lack of awareness and funds, according to Bob Caswell, executive director of Media and Community Relations.
Nestled up on a hill, set back from route 114 just north of College Avenue, Academy Hall blends in with the rural splendor of Gorham.
At first glance, the Academy building might seem like a typical New England structure, with its cupola, stark white clapboard exterior and typical green shutters.
Name?
Ryan Curry
Major and year?
Undeclared, sophomore.
Age?
22
Where are you from?
Union, Maine
What brought you to USM?
The city atmosphere.
Do you enjoy the city now that you are here?
Yes
What do you do for fun?
The usual college stuff, I work and go to school full-time.
Chapped lips are a result of very dry skin on the lips. Dry skin occurs when the moisture, or water, content of the skin is decreased for any reason. The surface of the skin holds a certain amount of water and when the water content decreases, the skin becomes dry, itchy, and uncomfortable.
For the sixteenth time in the last 17 years, Southern Maine women participated in the NCAA Div. III basketball tournaments, as well as brought home the Little East Conference Tournament Championship trophy for the eighth time in the last 10 years.
“We play our best ball at tournament time,” said coach Gary Fifield.
Men’s indoor track wound down this season with the setting of three school records at the New England Div. III Championships at Bates College in Lewiston. Freshman Adam Lang broke the 600 meter record for the second week in a row at this meet with a time of 1:25.
Editor’s note: ECAC playoffs and the printing of this publication occurred simultaneously. All efforts were made to make this write-up interesting and pertinent to any situation coming out of the weekend.
Only four seasons since its inception, Southern Maine women’s hockey is at the top of the rankings.
The women’s indoor track team has gone from practicing in parking lots and crowded hallways in its first year as a recognized team four years ago to practicing and competing in the sparkly new field house built a few years ago. This has not only raised the level of play, but also given Southern Maine a home field advantage this year for more meets than ever before.
Southern Maine men ended their season in the first round of Little East conference playoffs Feb. 19 in a game against the UMass Dartmouth Corsairs. The Huskies started out very favorably with a 27-21 lead just short of halftime. They played hard throughout the rest of the game and remained in striking distance, however giving up the win to UMD with a score of 78-67.
The NCAA, or National Collegiate Athletic Association, is a voluntary association of over 1200 schools. It is through this organization that colleges make decisions on athletic matters on a national level. They enact rules and guidelines used throughout college sports.
A sorority that was recently de-recognized for hazing its pledges is actively recruiting new members.
Such activities violate the intent of the University sanction, but the sorority isn’t technically doing anything wrong, according to Rodney Mondor, assistant director for Student Involvement and Greek Affairs.
University officials are trying to decide whether or not to expand coverage at the front desks of dorms following a series of dorm break-ins, including one in which a man was discovered in a women’s closet in Philippi Hall earlier in the month.
Currently on the Gorham campus there are security desk assistants working at the front desks of each residence hall every night between the hours of 7 p.
Joseph Westphal, a former official in the U.S. Department of Defense, will be the new chancellor for the University of Maine System, officials announced last week.
Westphal, who currently works as an attorney in the Washington D.C. area, was most recently the acting secretary of the U.
After recently purchasing another house on School Street in Gorham, the University now controls most of that street. It’s the fifth house USM purchased in Gorham in the past 15 years.
During that same time, the University has purchased 24 houses around the Portland campus, causing several neighborhood groups to complain to the city about overcrowding and parking problems.
Flowers, candy and cards, signed, sealed and delivered.
It’s that time of the month. The holiday that has a love/hate relationship with society. Valentine’s Day.
Girls fantasize what their boyfriend will give them, or frantically worry whether or not they’ll have a date by Feb.
The University of Maine system is in the process of expanding its health insurance coverage to extend the same benefits to unmarried heterosexual couples that are now enjoyed by married couples and unmarried same sex couples. These benefits apply only to employees and faculty of the University of Maine System and their domestic partners, and not students and domestic partners.
The temperature drops, the snow arrives, winter returns and the University community begins to plan for spring break in March.
There are plenty of vacation opportunities for students to take advantage of this year. Advertisements are posted around promoting traditional spring break trips to places like Daytona Beach or Cancun.
Jen Decker knows first hand the struggles of a woman with an eating disorder.
Hers started when she gained weight due to a medication she was on. Soon, she decided to go on a 500-calorie diet.
The junior social work major and event coordinator at the Women’s Resource Center said she felt good when she saw the numbers going down on the scale.
February commemorates Black History Month, and the University is holding nine campus events to celebrate it. Even though Maine is one of the whitest states in the country, organizers want to make the campuses a welcoming atmosphere that celebrates, as well as understands, the diverse cultural, ethnic, and racial experiences of students and the surrounding community.
Eating Disorders –
The Basics
– Are you, or is someone you know, preoccupied with dieting, weight control, or body size?
– Do you fast or significantly restrict your diet in order to lose weight quickly or to avoid gaining weight?
– Do you feel “fat” even though others reassure you that you are of normal weight and size, or even “skinny”?
– Have you ever taken a laxative or made yourself vomit after a meal in order to avoid weight gain?
These behaviors are some of the most common and observable symptoms associated with eating disorders.
No one is talking.
Kelly Busby starts her motion by swinging her left arm. Five. Four.
With a twist of her wrist she brings her arm across her body and swirls the 20-pound weight over her head like a cowboy getting ready to lasso a calf. Three. Two.
The intensity builds as she lowers the weight to her mid section and explodes into a final full-body twist.
Be it our Puritan origins, or over 80 years of curse on our beloved Red Sox, New England sports fans are some of the most superstitious people on Earth.
Hence our pessimism.
The number one rule of the New England fan is to cheer our team, but never ever say out loud that they could win.
Imagine returning to your dorm room one day, only to find that it has been broken into. Maybe the intruder is still in the room. Imagine the fear you’d experience at that moment, and from then on every time you enter your room.
That’s exactly what happened recently at Philippi Hall when two girls returned to their room around noon on Jan.