The presentation by Professor Bowen about academic freedom (Last Thursday, in Luther Bonney’s Talbot Auditorium titled “Academic Freedom in American Democracy,”) is worthy of praise. It ably showed the dangers facing that freedom today, and what Jason Lavoie wrote (last week’s Letter to the Editor, Sept.
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Strength, speed and sex appeal on skates
More than forty women from all walks of life came together at the Portland Expo on Sept. 22. Their purpose? To kick some ass.
Dressed in brightly colored roller skates, tube socks, fishnets, booty shorts or skirts, matching team tank tops and jersey dresses, these women have enough energy to put most rock bands to shame.
One step at a time
They want people’s signatures, they want people’s voices, but most of all they simply want people to be aware. Students of USM’s new MainePIRG chapter are working hard to change the world one step at a time.
Maine’s Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) is part of a national organization that links student chapters from across the nation.
HUSKY HERO
Alicia Croteau
Major: Exercise Physiology
Year: Senior
Sport: Cross Country
She isn’t the best runner on the cross country team-she took last place in the recent Codfish Bowl, and placed in the last ten in the race previous. But you don’t have to be good or fast or perfect to be a hero.
Abolishing Columbus Day
USM senior Bethany Tremblay has organized a rally and protest against Columbus Day. She is the social-work intern for the Multicultural Student Affairs office and works with the organization to get the protest off the ground. She’s making moves, and we wanted to talk to her about them.
Academic freedom should concern USM students
I write in response to USM student, Jason Lavoie, who, in my opinion, missed the point in his letter to The Free Press last week, regarding what forces constitute the greatest threats to the academic freedom of students here at USM and elsewhere.
USMers make award-winning impacts
Getting students involved with their community is what USM alumnus Marie Stolzenburg and Professor Robert Sanford are all about. Their work this past year bringing civic engagement to USM earned them both a Maine Campus Compact Award, presented during a ceremony held at the State House last April.
Getting up to par
Hard work and determination have the USM golf team headed in the right direction. Nearly halfway through the season, the Huskies are starting to slowly cash in the fruits of their labor with low scores and team triumphs.
Brent Profeno (Standish) epitomized the rewards of hard work on Sept.
An apple a day in October
Fall is the time to catch up on all the apples you’ve missed over the year-it’s your last-minute cram session before flu season hits (if, that is, you follow sage advice). All it takes is a short drive toward Bar Mills-10 minutes outside Gorham-following the signs: “Snell’s Farm this way.
Bistro article will line my hampster’s cage
I have not written before, but after reading one of the most biased articles in the history of me reading the news (and I’m subscribed to Fox news), I felt I must say something. How much did they pay you to print that garbage?
I hope it was a lot if “It’s too healthy, I want more chocolate” was the only protest you could find.
Music Review – Foo Fighters
Released Sept. 25 2007
Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace marks the Foo Fighters’ sixth studio release. After 2005’s In Your Honor double-album, Dave Grohl and the gang take a different approach, only releasing 12 tracks. In Your Honor split the Foo Fighters’ normally melodic driving alternative rock sound and spread it across the two CD’s: Disc One boasted the hardest rocking, guitar-crunching scream-fests the band has ever mustered, while Disc Two was an all-acoustic affair featuring the likes of Norah Jones.
Beyond the bachelor’s degree
Two of USM’s graduate school offices will host a workshop day and a graduate school information day in response to the growing requirements for master’s degrees and other even higher education.
“So You Want To Go To Graduate School” is a workshop scheduled for Oct.
WMPG fights for the return of radio
WMPG community radio launches the Beg-A-Thon fundraiser today in the face of “the death of Internet radio,” said Jim Rand, station manger, in an e-mail interview. The campus and community radio station’s bi-annual event has been a station tradition since the early 1980s, he added, and a way to keep in touch with the community it serves.
Class should be Bill Belichick’s middle name
Amidst increasingly negative press, the New England Patriots are showing the world how to deal with flack: they’re winning. They’re rallying behind a common cause and are looking like the greatest football team to ever grace an NFL field.
Patriots fans drooled during the off-season, waiting patiently to show off their newly revamped roster including Randy Moss, Kyle Brady, Dante Stahlworth, Adalius Thomas, not to mention a fully-recovered Rodney Harrison.
This Week In History
SANTA ROSA, California-When cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) joined United Features Syndicate in 1950, the company decided to run his new comic, which the company named “Peanuts.”
Schulz’s famous comic featured characters Charlie Brown, siblings Linus and Lucy, Schroeder, Marcie, Pigpen and Charlie Brown’s beagle Snoopy.
Crime Logs
crime of the week
September 21 (2:06 a.m.)
Someone in Gorham’s New Residence Hall reported an intoxicated naked male running around outside and urinating everywhere. Officers could not make contact with the man.
Sept. 24
You probably kick puppies, too 1:26 p.
Husky Highlights
A wrap up of Husky Sports
Don’t Stay Home
Monday, Oct 1
Show some love to our campus’ contribution to culture in the area. WMPG hosts its annual Fall Begathon starting today and lasting the entire week. Listener support pays for 1/3 of all that you hear and all that they do so very well. A few dollars is much nicer than blowing them kisses from afar.
Campus Events
Oct. 1
Opportunity Maine presents Tax Credit Card-The campaign for the new student debt legislation holds a press conference announcing the method of payment for taking OppME’s tax credit. Presented by Governor John Baldacci and the past two Maine governors, Angus King and John McKernan/ Abromson Community Education Center, Portland campus/ 3 p.
Upcoming Games
Opponents names written in capital letters means the game will be played at home
Monday, October 1
Golf, USM FALL CLASSIC, Sable Oaks GC 10 a.m.
Tuesday, October 2
Men’s Soccer vs. BATES 4 p.m.
Women’s Tennis vs. PLYMOUTH STATE 3:30 p.m.
Field Hockey vs.
Where’s my money going?
My Fellow Students:
Hello there! How’s it going? Enjoying your classes? Don’t lie to me; I know you think your lit teacher is a little crazy. It’s ok, you can be honest with me, I’ve been there, and done that. I know how unpleasant it is. Well don’t worry; everything is going to be fine.
Unwelcomed guests
USM students criticized two petition circulators last Thursday for using forceful techniques to gather signatures and because they are not residents of Maine.
Dean of Student Life Joe Austin was called on to speak with two men, Bart Sanso and Jack Murdock, both of Florida.
“She did not make the call”
Erin Grade, one of two former USM students charged with last year’s Dec. 4 bomb threat, entered a plea of “not guilty” before Superior Court Judge Andrew M. Horton at her arraignment last Monday in Portland. The other former student, Geneva Benner, had previously entered a “not guilty” plea.
Student senators rapidly resign
Several of USM’s 36th Student Senate have resigned their posts and several more threatened to resign last week due to scheduling conflicts. Senate Chair Emily Fitch, a senior chemistry major, said the executive members were working hard to fix the problem and also fill the open positions.