In just a short while they’ll be here – the dreaded FINALS! Many students have already experienced the fear and anxiety of finals and how to prepare or what to expect. Others have no clue on where to start and find it all very intimidating. A little stress can help you stay alert and ready to do your best, but too much stress can make you feel exhausted and miserable.
Author: USM
“Crunch time for graduates”
During the waning days of the spring semester, USM seniors are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. After enduring many years of the collegiate gauntlet, students will feel primed to don their mortarboards and ceremoniously march into the real world.
Scoreboard
Sports scores, 4/24 through 4/28
Take Back the Night supported at USM
Nearly one quarter of women in the United States are victims of domestic violence or sexual abuse. By the time you have finished reading this article, another person in America will have been victimized by sexual assault.
Take Back the Night is an international rally and march meant to unite men, women, children and families to promote awareness of domestic and sexual violence in society.
Students recognised for achievements
Last Thursday night the Office of the Dean of Student Life sponsored the USM Student Involvement Recognition Night. This ceremony awarded outstanding student leaders for the 2003 – 2004 school year. After a dinner catered by ARAMARK dining services, Joseph Austin, the dean of student life, acknowledged the stress students cope with while carrying a full course load while being involved with student organizations and student government.
New agreement has USM Police working in Gorham
USM Police have secured the ability to work outside of University property in Gorham under special circumstances and USM Police Chief Lisa Beecher says she is working to extend that arrangement to Portland and the other towns that lie between the two campuses.
Sports Trivia
Which USM baseball player was recently named LEC player of the week?
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Eldemur Krimm lashes listeners with foreboding fury
Hey kids, take another hit off that bong and tell your mother you love her, because Eldemur Krimm and their new album “Dirigo” is here to kick your fucking ass. Featuring straight up, balls-to-the-wall speed metal and breakneck Iron Maiden-esque guitar riffs, Eldemur Krimm is Portland’s finest hard rock attraction.
Schedule
Sports events for the week of 5/3 through 5/8.
Question of the Week
Name: Chris Morrell
Year: Senior
Major: Geo-science
Answer: I think in the long run, if it makes sense financially, it might be a good idea. In the interim, it might be tough but if it’s better for the long term, than it’s a good thing.
Name: Ryan Lowe
Year: Junio
Major: Economics
Answer: It’s a good way to cut costs without losing professors.
Economist Galbraith’s new book tells of “innocent fraud”
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith’s new book isn’t a bombshell like some of the other political books coming out this year. In its pages you won’t find zealous accusations about the present administration or revelations about its inner workings. In fact, you won’t even find Bush mentioned by name.
But “The Economics of Innocent Fraud” is an important book at an important time.
In Brief…
Phone cards and groceries for troops…. USM Bookstore buyback and coursebook info…. Business ethics symposium this Friday…. Public invited to discuss marine ecosystems with experts.
Achewood
Read the strip that started all the controversy.
Draft not strong enough to ignite a fire
Students are talking about the draft and they’re talking about it in panicked tones, which is understandable if the only information they’re privy to is that it’s being considered. Christy examines the facts of the Universal National Service Act.
First time co-ed rooms fill up fast
Philippi Hall on the Gorham campus and Portland Hall in Portland will be the first dorms at USM to offer gender neutral (co-ed) housing.
Urgent news of the past: 1937
It was the middle of the Great Depression in America and World War II was looming ahead. Yet the mood was light at Portland Junior College, a forebear of USM, judging by the 1937 edition of its student newspaper. The award-winning Portland Junior College News began publication that year as a four-page biweekly.
Beale Street Barbeque invokes blood lust in savages
In an escapist mood one soggy night last week, I surrendered my credit card to Beale Street Barbeque in South Portland. I wanted a taste of something decidedly not Maine-on-the-eve-of-finals-week.
While I can’t say for sure that their barbecue is anything like the real thing (let’s be honest, my Wisconsin upbringing gives me authority on two things only: cheese and bratwurst), authenticity doesn’t matter when you’re ravenously hungry and staring at a pile of tender, smoky meat.
There can be only five
After an epic 7 hour and fifteen minute meeting, USM’s Student Senate successfully elected a new executive board last Friday.
1937: “Puns, Jokes, Cracks”
Anecdotes:
Jimmy and Shirley
It so happened that Jimmy Jordan and Shirley Mewer were walking along a dark country road returning from a scavenger hunt. And Jimmy was loaded down with an automobile tire, a bulldog on a string, a rooster and an old brass kettle.
USM baseball team surging
After getting off to a slow start, the Huskies’ baseball team is on a roll. Following their first 11 games, USM was struggling at 4-6-1. Since then, the Huskies have caught fire, winning ten out of their last twelve games and outscoring their opponents (103-44).
Terrific dialogue in Tarantino’s genre-crossing “Kill Bill, Vol. 2”
After seeing “Kill Bill Vol. 1” last fall, I could hardly wait to see its conclusion, “Vol. 2.” When the release date was announced, I started counting down the weeks until it opened. Usually when my anticipation of a new movie gets that high, there is nothing but disappointment in store.
Iraq and Achewood
The Free Press is routinely criticized for a bias that we apparently have toward the political left. It has come up in letters to the editor, it has surfaced in a survey we handed out on the Portland campus, and I have even been personally accused of this bias as soon-to-be Executive editor.
Law school’s rating slips
The University of Maine School of Law, located on USM’s Portland campus, slipped from the third to the fourth tier in US News and World Report’s “best graduate schools” report this April. The report, which is released each April, is widely regarded by applicants to the school and by those who employ lawyers.