Name: Steve Atwood Age: 23 Major: Physics Where are you from? East Wilton, Maine What brought you to the area? Why did you choose USM? The price of the school. It was a lot cheaper than other schools I was looking at. I went to a few other colleges before I came here.
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Men’s Outdoor Track Preview
The USM Men’s Outdoor Track team kicked off their season on Saturday, April 3 at the Springfield College Quadrangular Meet (after press time). The Huskies figure to be more competitive than last season and are looking to build off the success they enjoyed this past indoor season.
Meet Joe Student
Name: Joseph Carter Age: 24 Major: Media Studies Where are you from? Caribou, ME What brought you to the area? What do you think of it? I wanted to get out of a small town and I wanted to find a city with more live music and more going on. Why did you choose USM? It had a good media studies program and it was the farthest south I could get and be in Maine.
Santa Claus, washing machine featured in student art exhibit
Gorham Art Gallery Director Carolyn Eyler describes this year’s juried student art exhibit as “a snapshot of the art department” here at USM. The pieces displayed range from painting, drawing, photography and linotypes to pottery, wooden and metal sculptures, and a film.
UMaine System May Face Cuts in Aid
A proposal from President Bush’s administration to reallocate federal student funding threatens to severely deplete financial aid funding for New England schools, especially here in Maine.
Hope springs eternal in Red Sox nation
April is the cruelest month — especially in Maine. Spring won’t break until mid May or even June, and we may be facing another snowstorm. Nonetheless, the baseball season officially got underway Sunday night and we can only hope that it brings milder temperatures.
Dainty delights aplenty at Portland’s Dogfish Caf?
The “casually decadent” Dogfish Caf?, located across from the Greyhound Bus Station on St. John Street.
The Privacy of the Dead
Imagine opening a magazine one day and seeing a photograph of your sisters mutilated body and face twisted with the metal of a trainwreck. Imagine being able to see her face, the pain of her death still frozen upon it. Perhaps you already knew your sister had died and were wanting more information on the events.
UMA student leaders object to merger plan
At USM students seemed to greet the news of a planned merger with UMaine at Augusta with a mixture of surprise and mild approval.
Unnecessary spending
USM’s financial practices are a conundrum. We have no money and then we have even less money, yet the University continues to spend.
Trustees’ proposal would merge USM with UMA
USM would absorb the University of Maine at Augusta under a new University of Maine System strategic plan recently submitted for public comment. The plan would also merge the Machias, Presque Isle and Fort Kent campuses to create the University of Northern Maine.
Sports Scoreboard
Softball (9-3)
3/27 vs. Western Connecticut, 2-1 Win
3/27 vs. Western Connecticut, 5-3, Loss
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Women’s Lacrosse (1-3)
3/25 vs. Curry College, Loss 14-3
3/28 vs. Bowdoin College, Loss 18-1
4/1 vs. UNE, Win 12-6
Women’s Track
The USM women’s track team had a successful trip to Florida with both Kristen Sinclair and Kim Brewer meeting provisional qualifying standards for nationals in separate meets.
Question of the Week
How is your financial aid now and are you worried about future cuts?
Local music: Harpswell Sound & Now Transmission
Local music is often a treat to listen to because it can be so different from almost everything you hear on the radio. This week the Free Press reviews two short CDs by Maine bands: Portland-based Harpswell Sound and UMO-based Now Transmission.
A Chilean adventure
“We had last week off and so I went back to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile to visit friends and talk with some of the local women about the work they do in weaving and other textiles….”
Athletics Schedule
Tuesday 4/6
Softball vs. Bridgewater State, 3 p.m.
Men’s Lacrosse at Plymouth State, 4 p.m.
Women’s Lacrosse at Plymouth State, 4 p.m.
Wednesday 4/7
Baseball at Bowdoin, 3:30 p.m.
Thursday 4/8
Baseball at Bridgewater State, 3 p.m.
Softball vs. St. Joseph’s, 3 p.
Count Glum
Why vampires should not suck their thumbs.
The Wild, Wild East
“I met a crazy Yank named Tim from Colorado at the train station in Mongolia and that’s where it all began….”
WMPG ushers in spring with 2004 Begathon
The first sign of spring in Portland has happened, and no, it is not the arrival of the robin. It is WMPG’s Spring Begathon. The Begathon started March 29 and ended on April 4. As of March 31 everything was on track to meet the goal of $25,000.
Sports for the Layperson
What does the statistic “on-base percentage” indicate?
The ‘Moosey Fate’ of Local Politics
This election year, we in the state of Maine have a new political force we can look towards and call our own: Bull Moose Music.
Blunt rolls in the dough
Blunt Youth Radio raised over $650 in a spaghetti dinner fundraiser last Saturday, according to students and supervisors who organized the event. The Blunt crew is currently fundraising so they can send nine students and three chaperones to the annual National Youth and Training Project Conference, which will be held in Albuquerque, NM this year.
Soggy season doesn’t dampen performance
Katie Mainville, caught mid-pitch during softball practice, was named Little East Conference Pitcher of the week last week.
Sports trivia
Which USM softball player was recently named LEC player of the week?