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Your lab partner is out with mono. You have a history paper due in 2 days and have barely begun your research. Your computer has crashed three times today and you’re about ready to explode. But before you do something dumb like punch a hole through a wall, take a deep breath, count to ten, and take a look at the list below.

Editor’s Note: We sent staff writer Tyler Stanley out into the cold wilds of Windham to get the scoop on an alternative winter sport and he came back with this fish story…

Pettengil Pond is a little close to the Windham Super-Center Wal-Mart, but a peaceful alternative to the streets of Portland indeed.

By Elise Adams

Alive Editor

Deep in the depths of the Sullivan Gym, past the stairs and on the brink of the emergency exit, is a hall lined with oddly tiny doors like a scene from Alice in Wonderland. Behind each door is a court. Behind one door with a waxy window is the squash court.

Name?

Tim Normand

Age?

22

Year and major?

I’m a senior and my major is in business administration.

How long have you been in school?

This is my fifth year, I’ll be graduating in May.

Is USM the only school you’ve attended?

No, I went to Fort Lewis College in Colorado and UVM in Burlington.

Increases in the number of part-time instructors at the University of Southern Maine are causing concerns and raising complaints.

“I’m concerned for the quality of education at the University,” said Briggs Seekins, a part-time English instructor. “It’s a scandal the way the administration treats the status of part-time workers.

A decision by the Portland Planning Board will force the University to take serious steps in building a parking garage, perhaps sooner than it planned.

Last week the board voted to approve the University’s plan for a two-story $10 million bio-science facility on the Portland campus, but with a major stipulation.

The USM Office of Community Standards is still reviewing the actions of Anthony Pergola, Cyrus Dulac, and Jonathan McCorkill in order to determine whether or not conduct charges should be brought against them for taking over a thousand copies of The Free Press.

We’ve all had the phone call from our respective mothers, fathers or someone else with supervising status. Have you registered for classes yet? Why not? When are you going to?

Surely these motivating phone calls will move many students to register for classes on time.

It’s not the fact that she drives a fire-engine red 2000 Kawasaki Ninja 600 that makes her well known on campus, although it probably helps.

Marcy Muller is a senior sociology major. She is the Chair of the Student Senate, member of the Gorham Events Board, a representative to the Board of Trustees, captain of the volleyball team and has done Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field.

Last summer, Maine’s leading AIDS activist and exemplary member of the Portland community, Frances Peabody, passed away. Members of her estate recently donated a large number of her files to USM and the Glickman Library. The collection includes hand-written journals on her activities, photographs, and a collection of VHS movies.

Monday

Activate.

Lecture by author, poet, activist and journalist John Ross entitled “Killing Hope-Mexico Rejects Indian Rights Law,” detailing the conflict between the Zapatista movement and the Mexican government. 7-8:30 p.m. Woodbury Campus Center rooms A, B, C.

Amid the cold cement floors, stone pillars and orange extension cords of the Glickman Family Library’s unfinished fifth floor stood hundreds of supporters gathered to support USM’s president. The celebration marked Richard Pattenaude’s tenth anniversary in that position.

Apthous ulcers (“canker sores”) are the most common oral irritation in young adults. An apthous ulcer is a shallow erosion with a yellow-white center surrounded by a narrow, red ring. They are most often oval-shaped, with a diameter of 1/8 inch to one inch.

What’s your name? Donna Mead What year and major are you? A senior, social-behavioral…

The University community breathed a sigh of relief after learning voters approved a bond issue in last week’s election that will bring $8 million to USM and $36.7 million to the University of Maine System (UMS).

University officials said the money would be used to build a parking garage and a multi-use community education facility.

Three students who had been issued summonses for the theft of hundreds of copies…

A few knitters sat among the books exchanging ideas and techniques with each other…

For over a decade David Wagner has been involved with the poor and homeless….

Being homeless hurts enough as it is. But one professor’s research revealed that aside…

The Student Senate is not the only elected board on campus. The Residential Hall…

Set Yourself Free Maybe you are tired of being herded outside whenever you want…

All it takes is 15 minutes and a pinprick to find out your cholesterol…

Name? Peet Chamberlain. Age? Twenty-one. Year and major? Senior, media studies. How long have…

More than 1,000 issues of The Free Press were stolen from the Portland and…