Jan. 29
Women’s Ice Hockey v. Colby 7pm
Jan. 30
Women’s Basketball @ St. Joseph’s 5:30pm
Men’s Basketball @ St. Joseph’s 7:30pm
Feb. 1
Women’s Ice Hockey v.Sacred Heart 7pm
Men’s Ice Hockey @ St. Anslem 7:30pm
Feb. 2
Wrestling @ Roger Williams/Rhode Island College 12noon
Men’s Indoor Track @ Bowdoin invitational 1pm
Women’s Basketball v.
Vermont native Jaime Zahm is one of the league’s strongest players. She leads the Huskies in rebounds, and the league in field goal percentage.
“She has a nose for the ball,” says Coach Gary Fifield regarding Zahm’s rebounding skill. “It’s instinctive, and she has decent quickness to get to the ball.
Southern Maine Women’s basketball is impressive again this year with a 14-game winning streak, and looking towards NCAA Tournament action this March.
2000 saw the Huskies to the National Championship Finals in Danbury, Connecticut.
This year the team has had a very strong showing against conference teams, and historically has done well in the tournaments to follow the regular season.
Full-time students will pay almost three times more to park at USM next year, according to a plan released by University officials late last week.
The proposed $4 per credit hour fee will force a student taking 12 credit hours to pay $96.
The following year the fee will double, costing a full-time student at least $192.
Florence Aliardo wants to go home. She wants to graduate from college, and see her family again. But, most of all, she wants to return to Kenya to save children’s lives.
Aliardo, who immigrated to America from Kenya at the age of 17, is a student at USM. She is learning English and working to become a matriculated student through the English as a Second Language (ESL) program.
The University of New Hampshire doesn’t have one. Neither does UMaine Orono.
Their campus operators didn’t even recognize the word.
An ombudsman [om-buds-man] is somebody who tries to work out problems the easy way, according to Nolan Thompson.
“When there’s tension, people can sometimes step on each other’s toes hard,” Thompson, who works as USM’s ombudsman.
In 1979, Audrey Jankucic made a decision that changed her life.
The USM sophomore received an invitation to join the Phi Mu sorority, and she accepted.
From that moment on, Jankucic devoted her time and energy to the philanthropy of Phi Mu.
Earlier this month she donated funds to create a sorority scholarship, called the Phi Mu Leadership award.
Maine has been a proven national leader in progressive legislation in the past on issues such as health care and campaign finance reform.
The state has once again taken a step ahead of the game. In the first week of the new year, the Maine Department of Education signed a four year, $37.
You’re 6 years old, walking down the street with your dad when two men walk by holding hands. Your father mumbles something as they pass and you ask daddy why he is suddenly upset.
This is an example of the kind of everyday occurrences people deal with, explained Sarah Holmes resource coordinator of GLBTQA Resource Center.
Tuesday
Diaspora lecture “The Diaspora as a Blessing in Disguise? Sephardic Trade Networks in the 16th and 17th Centuries,” by Willem Klooster, reception and lecture to celebrate the opening of the exhibit “Exodus and Exile: The Spaces of Diaspora” (see Ongoing).
Name?
Theresa Mary Rowe
Major and year?
Psychology, freshman
Age?
19
Where are you from?
Camden
Why are you majoring in psychology?
I really enjoy helping other people.
What do you want to do with your degree?
Become a guidance counselor, or maybe a clinical psychologist.
Widely used throughout South America, Mexico, Egypt, parts of Europe and China since 1962, and now approved by the USFDA, Lunelle is a once-a-month contraceptive injection. It contains ingredients similar to the estrogen and progesterone hormones that naturally regulate a woman’s menstrual cycle.
In hockey, icing is when a player hits the puck from one side of the red center line down the ice past the goal line on the other side of the rink, but not into the goal, and a member of the other team then touches the puck first.
The offending team is penalized by a face-off in their defensive zone, or, the area of ice in front of their goal.
Practice for the women’s hockey team begins with more than 20 women of an average height of five-foot-four skating laps around the ice. As they skate by, one can see pony tails of varying lengths peeking from beneath their white helmets bearing their numbers.
Just before the winter break asbestos was discovered in the basement of the Gorham Child Care program facility at 39 School Street.
None of the 50 children who attend the day care program were in the building at the time of the discovery.
After finding traces of asbestos in the basement of the building, Child Care Services was immediately relocated to the Hastings Formal Lounge.
David Carey Jr. is a man with a determination to speak, or in this case write, the truth. Carey, an assistant professor of the History Department, has spent the past seven years traveling to Guatemala to give a little-known indigenous Mayan language an everlasting voice.
USM reported a decrease in most crimes on or near its campuses for 2000, including rapes, assaults and drug and alcohol disciplinary cases.
Each year USM provides reports on campus crime to protect the safety of the campus community and to help prevent similar incidents.
The USM Police Department is urging people to guard their belongings following a rash of thefts on the Portland campus.
“In just a week, we’ve had six thefts reported and four of them were around the Sullivan Gym,” said Det. Sergeant Ron Saindon. “It seems to be a growing problem over the last week so we want to deal with it head on.
One of the state’s best-known economists has forecasted that Maine’s economy will sustain no growth over the next six months. It will, however, start to improve again in the early summer.
Last Friday’s USM Corporate Partners monthly meeting at Portland’s Woodbury Campus Center drew an unusually large crowd.
As classes resume, things will be up and down again in Corthell Hall. But over the winter break, the elevators were grounded in the Gorham building that houses USM’s music program.
The elevators in Corthell and one of the elevators in Portland’s Payson Smith Hall were completely upgraded over the winter break.
Have you ever considered becoming a mentor? How about serving food in a soup kitchen? For those of you who are interested in community service, this Thursday’s Martin Luther King event will be one not to miss.
The event titled “Building Bridges to Overcoming Racism” will take place in the Woodbury Campus Center amphitheater in Portland at 1 p.
Monday
Examine the new art editor’s first pages. Wonder if he has those cute dimples you really like.
Wait in line for checks and books. Again.
Tuesday
GLBTQA Brown Bag Lunches, 12-1 p.m., every Tuesday through May 7, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland, 228-8235.
Director Michael Mann’s career has been leading up to this point. From his achievements in television with creating Miami Vice to his increasingly impressive films such as Heat and especially The Insider, he has developed a keen sense of storytelling and film direction.
Name?
Charles Foehl
Age?
37
Year and major?
Graduate student of education
Where did you go for your undergraduate degree?
Williams College in western Massachusetts.
Where are you from?
The Boston area.
How long have you been in Maine?
I’ve been living here for about nine years.