Working on Wellness: Resilience
By Janis Mallon, Ph.D. University Health & Counseling Services Depression and anxiety rates are trending up among teens and young adults. More Read More…
Category: Perspectives
Guest editorial: Food insecurity on college campuses
By: Hawraa Rikan, Food Studies Intern The food industry produces massive amounts of surplus each year, yet food insecurity remains an issue throughRead More…
Letter from the editor: Protecting student media
By Julie Pike, Editor-in-Chief An editor’s job doesn’t end at just getting out the paper, they also have to work to ensure that their staff hasRead More…
Sustainability and ME: Eating sustainably in Maine
By Oona Molyneaux, USM Eco-Rep Are you interested in living more sustainably? Do you like food? If your answer is yes, this article is going to be Read More…
Working on Wellness: Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea … oh my!
By: Lynn Howard, MSN, ANP-C, FNP-C USM Health & Counseling Services When these symptoms are present it is near impossible to function. What is Read More…
Letter from the editor: Let’s talk about mental health
By Julie Pike, Editor-in-Chief Recently I’ve been having conversations with both family and friends about the state of our mental health. The facRead More…
Working on Wellness: Perfectionism
By Conan Deady, USM Health & Counselling Intern Are you a perfectionist? If so, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Psychologists have long soRead More…
The curious case of the USM pub
By Katie Letellier, Staff Writer When I first moved into the dorms at USM, my mom, who was an alum, mentioned something about a pub that was on caRead More…
Guest Editorial: Queer Representation in Digital Media
By Cameron Ramich, USM ‘20 Queer representation in all sorts of media is something that LGBTQIA+ activists have been fighting for, for years. GorRead More…
Shifts in residential communities through the years
By Cooper-John Trapp, Staff Writer “Freshman year I was young, wild, and free. We would go outside and lay in the grass. Get people together. HavRead More…
Letter from the editor: It’s okay to not have a plan
By Julie Pike, Editor-in-Chief Young adults are expected to make a big decision early on their lives. That million dollar question is, “what are Read More…
Working on Wellness: Love thyself
By Amy Hinshaw, FNP-BC It’s February. We are being bombarded with visions of glittery hearts, deep red roses and cherubic cupids. Our minds are iRead More…
Sustainability & ME: Sustainable laundry
By Hanna Lima, USM Eco-Rep Doing laundry is unavoidable. What most of us probably don’t think about is the impact doing laundry has on the enviroRead More…
USM’s daycare dilemma
By Katie Letellier, Staff Writer In 2009, USM closed it’s daycare for students, faculty and staff due to university-wide budget cuts. The daycareRead More…
Working on wellness: It might be meningitis
By: Lisa Belanger, NP, USM Health & Counseling Services Remember Ken? Last semester, Ken was challenged with a sports-related injury and sleep iRead More…
Working on Wellness: Seasonal Affective Disorder and Light Therapy
By Liza Little, Director of Counseling Services USM Health and Counseling Services staff see many students who complain of “winter blues” or “wRead More…
Reflections on the College Experience: Responsibility and the Hesitation to ‘Grow Up’
By Cooper-John Trapp, Staff Writer Sitting at home this past December, I came to what I had long put aside: paying for the semester. I had money in Read More…
USM: The path to sustainability is laid out, but it will take work to get there
By: Steven Sweeney & Chelsea Malacara, Resource Recovery Supervisor & Sustainability Education and
Outreach Coordinator When you think of suRead More…
Guest Editorial: Hidden fees
By: Connor Blake, USM ‘21 Most students at USM are boosters of university athletics, but most of those same students probably don’t realize what iRead More…
Working on Wellness: Dealing with holiday stress
By: Sarah Kelly, Staff Counselor, USM Health & Counseling The holiday season is often associated with words like peace, love and joy with idylliRead More…
Winter safety tips from USM Public Safety
By Noel March, Chief of Police Hello Husky Nation and congratulations to us all on a thus far very safe and very successful fall 2018 semester. We’veRead More…
The life of a non-traditional student
By: Valerie Kazarian, Staff Writer Coming back to college after being a working professional was quite an education in itself. There are certainly sRead More…
The College Experience Deconstructed: Procrastination
By: Cooper-John Trapp, Staff Writer Procrastination station, about to depart to nowheresville at never o’clock. All aboard! Just kidding, you missRead More…
Letter From the Editor: Time for a break
By: Julie Pike, Editor-in-Chief Within a couple weeks USM students will be wrapping up their last finals and assignments of the semester. Afterward,Read More…