Author: USM
Meet Joe Student
What brought you to the area?
“I moved to Maine after my senior year of high school when my dad was transferred here.”
Why did you choose USM?
“Because I love it up here and I want to stay in Maine.”
What would you do to make life better for the USM student?
“Have more classes at the Gorham campus.
Simic strikes again
“The Voice at 3 A.M.”
By Charles Simic
Harcourt, Inc., 2003
177 pp.
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Charles Simic is no stranger to praise. During the 44 years his writings have been published, he has become one of the most respected poets in America.
Calender of Events
MONDAY
Craft workshop
The People’s Free Space Free School will hold a craft workshop in knitting, crocheting, soap making and pumpkin pie baking in the Community Room at Unity Village, 24 Stone St, behind Portland City Hall. It begins at 6:30 p.m and is free.
Letter from the Editor
For the Celtic people who inhabited Ireland, the UK, and Northern France over 2000 years ago what we now know as Halloween was called the Samhain festival. This festival rang in their new year, which began on Nov. 1. Their new year began with the end of the harvest and they believed on that day the barrier between the worlds of living and dead was thinned allowing spirits to easily pass through.
Department of Defense stickers found on University phones
Members of the Student Senate voiced concern on Oct. 23 over stickers affixed to the handsets of phones on the Portland campus, including ones in the Student Senate office and WMPG. The stickers bear the statement: “DO NOT DISCUSS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION: This telephone is subject to monitoring at all times.
Monday Night Football
I sat down for drinks with Red Sox president Larry Lucchino this past weekend. We met at the Eastland Hotel’s Top of the East Bar, and got pretty heavy into bourbon. Lucchino, a long-time friend and business associate, was in town to seek my advice on who should become the next manager of the Boston Red Sox.
Jack Duffy
Ten Mile Tide LP: beautiful but flawed
Don’t deny it. I know it is hard for you to even try and count the number of times you have thought to yourself, “I wonder what it would sound like if you put the Dave Matthews Band and the Dixie Chicks in a blender, with a pinch of bluegrass and Elton John, and poured it into a ten-song LP.
Footprint
Much of Maine’s forested landscape is described by some as “working forest.” This same land area is viewed as an industrial fiber farm by others. On the coast, communities are taking steps to protect their “working waterfronts.” On both fronts, people are finding it increasingly difficult to find work themselves.
Former student senator alleges discrimination
A former Student Senator’s resignation letter accuses University officials of discrimination and drug trafficking. In a letter that was also sent to The Free Press and WMPG via Email, Moses Sawyer charges President Pattenaude with ignoring Sawyer’s letters and visits.
Health Beat
Streptococcal (strep) bacteria is the cause of strep throat infection. The infection spreads person to person by droplets released into the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It takes two to five days after becoming infected for symptoms to develop.
Achewood
300 artists featured in the “Flat Files”
The traveling Flat Files exhibit, from the Brooklyn, NY gallery Pierogi 2000, is now showing at USM’s Gorham Art Gallery. Over 300 artists from around the world are featured. Owner of Pierogi 2000 and artist Joe Amrhein founded the exhibit, which has traveled around the country and through Europe.
Staffer Speaks
What exactly is the economy? And how come it’s doing so badly? I know that those of you majoring in economics could probably help me with these questions, but I want to try to figure this out by myself.
From what I hear it sounds like just about everyone these days has less money.
Briefly…
Convocation’s keynote speech this week
The keynote speaker of this year’s convocation, author Bill McKibbon arrives on campus this week. He will speak at 2:45 p.m. and at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 6 in the Luther Bonney Auditorium in Portland. His appearance is free and open to the public.
Schedule & Results
SCHEDULE
Tuesday, Nov. 4th
Field Hockey vs. Little East Conference first round, at Gorham, 2:30 p.m.
Opponent to be determined
Wednesday, Nov. 5th
Women’s Volleyball vs. Keene State, at Gorham, 6:00 p.m.
First Round of Little East Conference Tournament
Saturday, Nov.
Tim Hoffman
Phil Collins: an overlooked classic
In the past few years, popular music has produced a new wave of stars like the White Stripes, Interpol, and the Strokes who have revived the early raw sounds of rock bands who hit the scene twenty, thirty, even forty years before them. To be retro now seems commonplace in all genres of modern music.
Letters to the Editor
Activity fee inquiries
Before anyone votes YES for an activity fee (TAX) increase there should be a critical look at how much of the student activity fee goes to WMPG and how much of that money actually goes to the benefit of students of USM.
Another area to look at is the salaried staff paid for by the activity fee.
Author Jonathan Lethem reads, signs latest book on campus
Nationally published author Jonathan Lethem read from his new novel “The Fortress of Solitude” as part of Words and Images’ kickoff to their open call for submissions, last Wednesday night in Portland’s Woodbury Campus Center.
Lethem read a chapter from his latest novel, in which one of the characters tries to sell a movie pitch.
Sports for the Layperson & Trivia
SPORTS TRIVIA
Question:
Which Southern Maine Volleyball player was recently named rookie of the week by the Little East Conference?
Answer:
Catherine “Cat” Lewis (New Gloucester, Maine) was named rookie of the week on Monday Oct. 27th. She helped the Huskies capture three wins (Oct.
Down with SCHLOCK & AWFUL
With a presidential election coming up in a little over a year, political analysts will soon be hard pressed for material. Why is this, you might wonder. You see, since it will soon be time for people to vote, the issues that matter most for the wellbeing of this country will be cast aside.
Senate considers newspaper program
The Student Senate is contemplating implementing USA Today’s Collegiate Readership program, which will make copies of local, regional, and national newspapers available in all University of Southern Maine residence halls without charge. The papers are not free however, as the program would cost about ten tuition dollars per student every semester.