University officials are unresponsive to questions about drug use at USM while the search for statistics on drug abuse violations on campus continues.
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Teach-in examines the U.S. presence in the Middle East
Lorrayne Carroll, assistant professor of English, discusses issues with William Burke and others in her presentation, “Investigating Rhetoric in Public Discourse” at the English Studies Association’s Teach-In. The teach-in’s theme covered the U.S. presence in the Middle East.
Marginal Way parking faces extinction
USM’s Marginal Way parking lot may be turned into office space as the city of Portland considers proposals from land developers willing to fork over up to $1 million for the Bayside land which USM currently leases. City leaders expect to meet by the end of this month to choose one of four proposals, two of which include new housing for USM.
Potential student group changes spark controversy
Soon student groups may be able to dictate the make-up of their leadership beyond the election process. Currently, student groups are open to all USM students, and elected leadership positions are also open to all students. If proposed changes to the Student Senate constitution are adopted, student groups would be allowed to write specific requirements for leadership eligibility into their constitutions.
Earth Day highlights University’s conservation efforts
It’s the end of the class. Nancy Artz and Dudley Greeley anxiously click through a PowerPoint presentation, interrupting each other as they lecture or, more accurately, yell at the class. More than once, the husband and wife combo speak simultaneously, each trying to drown the other out. The students appear accustomed to this behavior.
Sports scores and schedule
Weekly sports scores and schedule
Letters to the Editor…
This week’s letters to the editor critique professors’ civil disobedience and the administration surrounding them for neglecting the canon
Greeks celebrate with roasted meat
Pictures from a Greek barbecue held last Friday in Gorham.
Sports scores and schedule
An update of the latest sports scores and schedule
Health Beat: Smallpox basics
Smallpox is a contagious and sometimes fatal disease caused by the variola virus. No one has naturally contracted smallpox since 1977. In 1980, the World Health Assembly declared that smallpox was eradicated throughout the world.
Former USM Husky makes the big leagues
USM alumnus Michael Paul Welch’s childhood dream of playing baseball in the major leagues became a reality in July 1998 in New York’s Shea Stadium.
Planet Digest: Week of April 14 ~ 20, 2003
Astronomy shows possibilities… You have the power of choice! Charlie Gould’s Planet Digest
Joe Student: Joseph Marquis
This week’s Joe Student is Joseph Marquis, who thinks the man-eating cow will go bck to the Earth like all of us
Rent a flick: It’s cheaper!
Sometimes films slip through the grasp of the faithful moviegoer. While it is preferable to see a film on a big screen as it is intended, it is impossible to see everything that hits the theaters, especially those films that fail to find an audience in their first week and are hurried out of town to make room for the next one.
The Ataris: mindless pop to please the “easy”
“So Long, Astoria” is the major label debut for former indie rockers The Ataris. Having several independent releases under their belts with sales in the hundreds of thousands, Columbia Records has given The Ataris a shot. This move will most likely pay off big for Columbia and give The Ataris much more fame, notoriety, and airtime.
Bull Feeney’s taps Joe out
Spanking new food critic Joe Reynold is out on the prowl for copious amounts of food. His search brings him to Bull Feeney’s
Students dream of festival scene
So it’s the end of the year and most students are hustling to finish their final projects. The fate of most final projects is most likely the bottom of a cardboard box if you’re a packrat; the garbage can if you’re happy to feed the trash monster; or, for a few students, your professor’s archives to be presented to future pupils.
Footprint: The sphinx looks for Earth Day
I was supposed to write an article generating excitement about USM’s Earth Day celebrations. I poked around on the Internet looking for some inspiring Earth Day tidbits to share. Oddly, and perhaps appropriately, given the current state of the environment, the first few sites I looked at were not uplifting and celebratory.
Letters to the Editor…
This week’s letters to the editor bring up responses to senate coverage and elections, civil disobedience-related arrests, and to criticism of the weekly column “Count me OUT”
Staffer Talks: Clam Chowder and Finals Week
This week’s staffer talking is News Editor John Bronson, who “brings up” a story from the past to help us deal with the inevitable stress of crunch time
Letters from the Editor: Dear Ndugu,
This week Executive Editor Elise talks about the elusive spring and changes in life in general as well as other philosophical stuff
Low election turnout sparks reform ideas
Last year over 5 percent of the student body voted in these elections. This year drew just shy of 2 percent of the student body. The current Senate and many of the Senate candidates recognized in the Student Senate meeting April 11 that the tiny outcome of the elections is a problem and the process needs to be reformed.
Building Habitat for Humanity
Senior Fine Arts major Lisa Emery began her school year with a goal. She wanted to set up a collegiate chapter of Habitat for Humanity (HFH). She began in October setting up a table every Monday afternoon in the campus center to recruit students for local builds as well as an alternative spring break in Florida.
Marijuana activist pickets in front of Law School
Michael Dee, a local activist, protested last Thursday April 10 outside USM’s law building. He said he has been barred from Portland courts after filing multiple failed suits against the State’s drug laws. He also said May 1 is an international marijuana protest day.