Biology
Sophomore
What do you think of your major?
Technically I’m a bio major, but that’s not what I want to be. I want to get into the nursing program, but that’s kind of impossible. I’m doing some bio and some nursing classes.
What’s the best environment to do homework in?
Anywhere really, except if it’s really really loud.
Posters have already started popping up on campus – student leaders are using copycats of beer and credit card ad campaigns to say that they want you (insert classic shot of Uncle Sam) to run for student government.
But what is student government?
The USM Student Government Association (SGA) consists of two branches: the 21-member Student Senate and the Student Body President.
Year: Senior
Major: Athletic Training
Sport: Men’s Track
FP: How many sports did you play in high school?
Adam: I did soccer and indoor/outdoor track
FP: When did you start to become really serious about pole vaulting?
Adam: I started to pole vault my first year of high school, I followed in my big sister’s footsteps.
March 3
Free Press Budget Meeting – Weekly meeting to assign stories. Looking for new writers to help with Apartment & Housing Guide to come out in April/ 92 Bedford Street, Portland Campus/ 5pm-6pm/ For more information email Sarah Trent at sarah.trent@yahoo.
Men’s Basketball
2/16 – Rhode Island College 79, USM 72
2/19 – Plymouth State 54, USM 53
2/23 – USM 75, Western Connecticut 65
2/26 – USM 79, Eastern Connecticut 69 (Little East quarterfinal)
2/29 – Umass Dartmouth 75, USM 69 (Little East semi-final)
Men’s Hockey
2/16 – Connecticut College 3, USM 1
2/22 – New England College 3, USM 2
2/23 – Saint Anselm 4, USM 2
3/1 – New England College 5, USM 2 (ECAC quarterfinal)
Men’s Indoor Track
2/16 – Little East Championships – #1 Keene State 169, #2 USM 148.
Friday’s game versus Eastern Connecticut meant more to the women’s basketball team than most — it was senior night.
Senior night, usually one of the last home games of the season, is one of the toughest moments in an athlete’s career. It signifies the end: unless you’re going professional, which few Division III athletes do, your career as an athlete is over.
Last year, USM shut down an art exhibit for the first time in the school’s history. During the time that “Can’t Jail the Spirit” was supposed to be hanging in the Woodbury Campus Center, Ubu Gallery in Portland’s East End hosted the exhibit. The show then traveled to Philadelphia, Providence, New York City and Cambridge to the Harvard Divinity School.
Listening to Bill Clinton speak last Thursday and sitting in on part of the Student Senate meeting on Friday, I remembered why I avoid politics and political discussions at all costs. First, while I do have strong beliefs on many subjects, I am not always comfortable or knowledgeable enough to defend them.
Twenty-six academic programs have been put on a list threatening their suspension in the latest effort to improve USM’s efficiency and reduce its spending.
The list, released last Friday by Mark Lapping, the university provost, includes many of the sciences, as well as economics, the women’s and gender studies program, several master’s programs and a couple from the Lewiston/Auburn College.
It was released in the form of a letter and also presented to both the faculty and student senates.
Both the letter detailing the list and a “Moving Forward” newsletter issued by Interim President Joe Wood state that these programs are being evaluated – not cut – and that the possible suspensions will affect neither tenured faculty nor students already enrolled in the programs.
Programs on the list are essentially on probation – they are being cited for showing “low retention and graduation trends over time,” inadequate funding, or issues with “internal communications and civility,” among other things.
Stephen Holt is USM’s only male cheerleader. Choreographed into routines with nine women, he provides strength and balance to their aesthetically-focused routines: in any given human pyramid, Holt will be found at the bottom center position.
Despite stereotypes surrounding cheerleaders, the last decade has granted cheerleading national recognition and respect for being a physically demanding sport on par with the football and basketball teams they cheer for.
There’s nothing like a subtle compliment to boost the spirits of your Valentine. Do-It-Yourself projects meet the cheesy world of Valentine’s phrases in just a few simple steps. Hot sauce 1. Cover the label of a bottle of hot sauce. 2. On a new label write a phrase that includes the temperature of your Valentine.
Spring semester is here, and it has happened again: the topic of non-traditional, older students arose, framed by failure. It doesn’t happen in every class, but it happens enough that it has gotten on my last nerve. I am curious if anyone has looked at the withdrawal rate for older students and compared it to those of our younger counterparts.
You’ve seen the ads, heard the buzz, and may have noticed that major construction is not just taking place on our side of 295. Across the highway, there is new student housing coming to Portland — and USM is not involved. Bayside Village, currently under construction on Marginal Way, touts itself as “Portland’s premier student housing community.
They are among the most the most successful sports programs at USM, right up there with baseball and women’s basketball. And they have been entirely ignored.
“They” are the USM women’s track team.
What exactly constitutes a great team or program —- character? hard work? determination? the ability to succeed when all the odds are against you?
These women, 38 of them this season, don’t complain about the coverage that they don’t get, they just go out and do what they do best — winning.
House lights are on high, splashing white and yellow onto the black walls framing the stage. Student actors are positioned around the unfinished set in their street clothes while senior Kristen Peters watches her peers work through the script. They are pacing around the skeleton of a beach house that will, I’m assured, soon be surrounded by actual sand.
Monday, February 11, 2008 Check out “In the Center of It All: Glimpses of African American Life in Central Maine,” the annual exhibition by the African American Collection of Maine. The exhibit is open during library hours/ Glickman Family Library/ Portland Campus/ fmi: http://library.
Interesting that the “discussion” of sex education (“Panel questions abstinence-only sex education,” Feb. 11) only included views from one side of the issue. As a health care provider in rural Maine who sees the effects of children being provided all the contraception they may need, it saddens me that adults will fight for parents to be excluded in this aspect of children’s lives.
“You’re not going to use my name, are you?” she said from the driver’s seat, her long ponytail whipping around as she turned to face me. “You can’t use my name.”
As we pulled into a space in the university parking garage, her voice wavered and her hands fidgeted on the wheel.
Led by senior captains Hattie Landry (Wells), Christa Hutchinson (Gorham) and Emily Poliquin (Lisbon Falls), the women’s indoor track team put a big win under their shoes and grasped the program’s third state championship. Other standouts included sophomores Sarah Hale (Naples) and Emily Artesani (Orono).
From Italy to the South Pole, Russia to Australia, the 59 Seconds Festival has traveled the globe with the goal of presenting their unique film festival 59 times. Last Friday, USM became stop number 51. The one-time-only project, a traveling film festival that changes each time it’s shown based on audience reviews, will have traveled to 59 locations around the world by its end in 2009.
In your article on Adam Gopnik’s talk at the Holiday Inn By The Bay, which I did attend, there is a GLARING error about which Osher donates to the Osher Map Library. It is Dr. Harold Osher, not his brother Bernard, who is the big donor there. I believe he has donated over $15 million to USM, and this error should be rectified as clearly as possible.
A grey-haired man standing on the floor of the Portland Expo waved a large yellow sign that read ‘MEN FOR HILLARY.’ A little girl in the bleachers held up one that read ‘Pave the Way, Hillary!’ Behind former President Bill Clinton, Hillary’s own motto hung: ‘Solutions for America.
Even before he was coordinating 23 sports teams and their facilities, USM Athletic Director Al Bean was doing yeoman’s work for the school. A 1977 USM graduate, Bean was a workhorse on the baseball diamond, compiling a number of records and accolades as one of the school’s best pitchers of all time.
Marie-France Lefebvre, a nationally renowned opera coach, visited the USM School of Music last week to give master classes.
“It’s such a cool opportunity to have her here,” said senior vocal performance major George Eisenhauer. “I wish I could have worked with her more.