Name?
Julie Smith
Age?
23
Year and Major?
Senior, philosophy
Did you attend the Lecture on “Women in Need” by Shalome Odokara?
“Yes.”
Did you enjoy it?
“Yes, very much. I thought it was really incredible because of the knowledge that she possessed and in the power of her presentation, with all of her supporting facts.
“It makes me want to skip class.”
Rebecca Rasche, sociology, junior
“It makes me want to get in my car and drive to Canada.”
Sarah Lord, undeclared, sophomore
“Makes me feel ready for summer.”
Mat Leighton, music, junior
“It’s making going to classes a lot harder,”
Kristin MacCaffray, media studies, junior
“It’s kind of made me want to be outside more and absorb the sun.
Why did junior English major Gregory Bates submit a story for the 2002 edition of Words & Images?
“It was a logical step,” he said. “A little affirmation of your creative work is always good.”
Words & Images is an annual collection of writings and art by USM students, faculty and regional artists.
Monday, April 15
USM Jazz Combos in concert, 7:30 p.m., Corthell Concert Hall, Gorham, $5 public, $3 seniors/staff/students, 780-5555.
Tuesday, April 16
USM Chorale conducted by Robert Russell, 7:30 p.m., Corthell Concert Hall, Gorham, $5 public, $3 seniors/staff/students, 780-5555.
It started out a day like any other for Gustav Niebuhr. He got on the express train near his home in New Jersey as usual. But as the train approached the famous and beautiful New York City skyline, Niebuhr saw smoke rising from the north tower of the World Trade Center.
Although Student Senators expected a landslide “No” vote on a referendum to eliminate smoking at USM during last week’s elections, they were surprised by a very close count.
“I mean, we figured it would fail. We knew it would be unpopular but I’m surprised that it’s not as unpopular as we expected.
By Erin Zwirn
Gorham Editor
Chants and flyers saying “NO” and “YES” on Question #3 turned the campus into a political war zone on Tuesday and Wednesday during the Student Senate elections.
Students overwhelmingly voted “No” on Question #3: 468 to 88. The 84 percent “No” vote will keep the Student Senate from assuming direct financial control of The Free Press and WMPG.
567 votes say it all. Just over 5 percent of the student body turned out to vote on the 31st Student Senate elections and referendum questions.
A contested Senate race, several write-ins, and high-impact referendum questions appear to have motivated students to get out and vote.
To the Editor:
It is my responsibility to address issues related to the computer labs and classrooms. The Printing Charges Frequently Asked Questions sheet distributed in the labs (quoted by Ms. Pitcairn) was to try to answer the most pertinent anticipated questions.
To the Editor:
Your story titled “New policy: students will pay to print” quotes a student who has the impression that the box that pops up when one prints in the computer labs or libraries is a survey. It is NOT a survey.
It is intended to inform students that a charge will be instituted by the fall semester and to get them to ask themselves if they really need that printout.
To The Editor:
When I first came to USM, I thought that it was a pretty decent place. Sure it had its little problems, but what place doesn’t. Now that my freshman year is almost complete, I honestly don’t think I want to return next year.
It all started with the parking fee hike.
EDITOR’S NOTE: A student who recently travelled to Florida on an Alternative Spring Break trip shares her experience.
Often when people hear the words, “spring break,” what they think is stumbling drunk kids, baring it all. That’s no myth. But there is another side to tell, and it’s about some of us who chose to do some common good through USM’s Alternative Spring Break program.
I like reporting on politics, not being part of them.
But that’s exactly what happened last week during the Student Senate elections when the freedom of the press at USM was challenged. Some members of the Student Senate didn’t think there was anything wrong with asking students to vote on a proposal to dissolve the Student Communication Board, the governing body of The Free Press and WMPG.
Thursday, April 4
In Portland, a theft of a motor vehicle boot was reported. It is currently under investigation.
A motor vehicle hit and run was reported in Portland. It is currently under investigation.
At 11:28 p.m. in Gorham, at Anderson Hall, an alcohol violation was reported.
“In Africa a woman with AIDS is often thrown out of her marriage and abandoned by her family,” said Shalome Odokara of Portland’s Women in Need, Inc.
Last Tuesday, Odokara spoke about the AIDS epidemic’s effect on women in Africa and the United States. She addressed the complex roles that poverty, discrimination, gender roles, stigma and warfare play in the disease as well as what her organization does to support women suffering from the AIDS crisis.
University officials are investigating allegations that a psychology professor used racist and homophobic comments in videotaped lectures.
A committee has been formed to review the videotaped lectures of Associate Professor of Psychology John Broida which were distributed to 70 students in a Web-based introductory psychology class.
A measure to increase the Student Activity Fee is shot down
By Stuart Koretsky
Staff Writer
The Student Senate proposal to raise the Activity Fee by as much as 50 percent was defeated when the issue went to referendum vote in last week’s Student Senate elections.
A letter from the executive editor explaining the ins and outs of a proposal that could give the Student Senate direct financial control of campus media entities. Also see news story by Erin Zwirn.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the student body will make an important decision for two of their campus media outlets, The Free Press and WMPG.
The Senate election ballot will have a referendum question asking students if they want to “discharge” the Student Communication Board.
ST. PAUL, Minn. The University of Maine men’s ice hockey team was 52.4 seconds and a questionable overtime penalty call away from its third national championship. Instead, the Black Bears will come home to Orono as runners-up after a 4-3 overtime loss to the Minnesota Golden Gophers in front of a crowd of 19,324, most of them partisan Gopher supporters, at the Xcel Energy Center.
Words & Images hosts a day long event in conjunction with the University’s Celebrate Writers Festival, entitled Words & Images 2002: The Event, A Celebration of Maine’s Literary and Visual Creativity. The event, scheduled for this Friday, April 12 at the USM, will coincide with the release of the much-anticipated 2002 Edition of “Words & Images.
An Old Port landmark, Three Dollar Deweys has been in Portland for 22 years. With 36 beers on tap and free popcorn, this stop is a haven for the after-work crowd. Located on the corner of Commercial and Union Streets, the pub is a convenient place to unwind at day’s end.
Braden Chapman may be the busiest man in Portland. His days are spent sewing 150 cubits of fabric for the stage on which he will perform a one-man version of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” He’s also going to need props, costumes, and a set.
Don’t worry-he’s got that covered too.
Genital warts are caused by a virus called HPV (human papillomavirus), one of the most common sexually transmitted infections. An estimated 40 million Americans are infected with HPV, with 1 million new cases each year. HPV is the name of a group of viruses that includes more than 60 different types.