The phone dilemma
By: Garrick Hoffman, USM Media Studies, ‘20 The phone dilemma: an exhortation to faculty and students I have a professor who, in his syllabus,Read More…
Category: Perspectives
How to manage classes during summer vacation
By Lydia Libby, Web Editor Every summer since I was 15, I have worked, balanced some form of classes and attempted to remain active and social.Read More…
Letter From the Editor: Thank you to all who supported me
By Julie Pike, Editor-in-Chief I’m sad to say that this is the last letter from the editor that I will write for the Free Press. It’s a hard reRead More…
Working on Wellness: Beware of the bugs
By Lisa Belanger, Director of Health Services With the arrival of spring, Ken and Ethan are eagerly anticipating the end of the semester and are taRead More…
Sustainability and Me: How to be a sustainable college student
By Shereen Toolabi, USM EcoRep As the semester comes to an end and I finish up my undergraduate career, I realized that throughout my four years atRead More…
Extroversion as the American ideal
By Alyson Peabody, News Editor Carl Jung never intended for introversion and extroversion to be recognized as prominent personality types. Jung, a Read More…
Letter from the Editor: Valuable lessons from the Free Press
By Julie Pike, Editor-in-Chief It’s hard to believe this time is nearing, but my time at USM and with the Free Press will soon be ending. Four yeRead More…
Student Poetry: My Mother’s Kitchen
By Zoe Bernardi, Staff Writer Above me, she carefully walks around the white and blue flowered floor our soil, where we are grounded, our mealsRead More…
Cullen’s Column: Boston could truly claim the nickname ‘Titletown’
By Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor Winning has become a culture for the city of Boston. Since the year 2000, Boston has watched four of their major Read More…
Letter from the Editor: Preparing for the end of the year
By Julie Pike, Editor-in-Chief We’re just one week away from the last week of classes, and two weeks away from finals, rounding out the end of thRead More…
Sustainability & ME: Discovering the importance of sustainability, a personal story
By Oona Molyneaux, USM Eco-Rep The goal of this weeks Sustainability & ME piece is to give a little background of what brought me, Oona, to becRead More…
Working on Wellness: The Impact of Current Events and Technology on Young Adult Stress
By Janis Malon, Training Director USM Health & Counseling Services John Della Volpe, Director of Polling at the Institute of Politics at HarvarRead More…
TV teaches unhealthy relationships
By Katie Letellier, Staff Writer For years now many shows have captured the attention of viewers with stories of star-crossed lovers. The writerRead More…
Cullen’s Column: It’s time for Robert Kraft to sell the New England Revolution
By Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor Major League Soccer is enjoying their highest rate of growth in viewership and fanbases, but the team that competRead More…
Sustainability and Me: Pallet for the planet
By Tom Dolloff, USM Eco-rep I have been a vegetarian for six years. My decision did not stem from health concerns, animal ethics, or flavor prefereRead More…
Working on Wellness: Students and suicide
By Liza Little, Psy.D, Director of Counseling Services & Samantha Seebode, Graduate Assistant and Suicide Prevention Coordinator We don’t oftRead More…
Letter from the Editor: If I had to do college all over
By Julie Pike, Editor-in-Chief This is incredibly cliché, but it’s so true how fast your college years go by. Four years of working, taking clasRead More…
Art History taught me that semiotics is everywhere
By Alyson Peabody, News Editor “A chair is not a chair when it is art.” I stared at my art history professor. From the corner of my eye I saRead More…
Working on Wellness: Let’s talk about sex
By Samar Post Jamali, Family Nurse Practitioner To quote the forever amazing Salt-N-Pepa: “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby.” As a nurse practitionRead More…
Letter to the Editor: Dear President Cummings and Provost Uzzi
By Nikki Farmer, USM Student I’m writing to express my frustration at USM’s inaction on real Maine issues. For example, Maine’s high rates of dRead More…
Letter from the Editor: There’s hope for student journalists
By: Julie Pike, Editor-in-Chief I’ve been advocating for the rights of student journalists ever since I became Editor of the Free Press last FebrRead More…
Are the Cleveland Browns Superbowl contenders?
By Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor Just two years after failing to win a single regular season game, the Cleveland Browns have added one of the bigRead More…
Are the Celtics struggles over?
By Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor The Boston Celtics were labeled as the favorite in the Eastern Conference this year, and as the challenger to theRead More…
Keep calm and know your limits
By: Katie Letellier, Staff Writer Student journalists are storytellers. They strive to find the story and tell it in a thorough, accurate way. TheyRead More…