FP: What is your major?
AD: I am an Athletic Training major.
FP: What has your experience been like in your three years here at USM?
AD: I’d describe my experience here at USM as rewarding. The Athletic Training major is a difficult one, especially because of the 150 clinical hours we are required to do each semester.
The USM men’s indoor track and field team finished second out of the 66 teams competing in the Eastern College Athletic Conference’s Division III Championship which was held at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. on Friday and Saturday.
Southern Maine was locked in at fourth place after the first day of the two-day meet.
The USM baseball team was back in action this weekend after an outstanding 2009 season that saw the Huskies go to the Division III New England Regional Tournament for the second consecutive year. USM opened their 2010 season with a 7-3 win over Old Westbury on Saturday, and a 15-4 win over Albertus Magnus at the Baseball Heaven Complex in Yaphank, N.
The USM women’s basketball team is known for their great program and it showed this year as they played in NCAA tournament for the 16th straight season. After their last two seasons were cut short in the first round of the NCAA DIII tournament with loses to Brandeis and Emmanuel, the Huskies earned a first-round, 74-63 win against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at LeFrak Gymnasium on the campus of Amherst College on Friday.
After garnering the title as the first two national qualifiers in one season in USM wrestling history last weekend at the New England Wrestling Association Championships, senior Mike Morin (Fryeburg) and junior Matt Ulrich (Garfield, N.J.) amazed the Husky faithful once again as they both claimed All-American honors at the 2010 NCAA DIII Wrestling National Championship this past Friday and Saturday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Over 150 students, faculty, and staff packed the Woodbury Campus Center Amphitheatre on Thursday for a teach-in where two panels of speakers expounded on the crisis of funding public universities.
The event was part of the nationwide March 4th Day of Action to Defend Education, in support of California collegs students, who have protested a 32 percent tuition hike.
Vanessa Nash graduated from Hampden Academy last year with a clear plan. She only applied to USM and its competitive nursing program.
The committee in charge of redesigning the academic structure of USM released the first draft of a plan on Monday, which calls for reducing the number of colleges from eight to five, eliminating three deans’ positions and eight department heads in the process.
Brian Greene isn’t like most students at USM. For one thing, he’s a 55-year-old sophomore.
“I don’t really have any idea what I want to do,” said Dylan Webber, an undeclared sophomore. “It’s easier to come here, knowing what you want to do.”
As a girl growing up in Uzbekistan – a country where unmarried women rarely travel abroad – Malika Umarova dreamed of getting a world class education and then returning to her home country to improve public health. Umarova is a 24-year-old first year graduate student in the Muskie School Health Policy and Management master’s degree program.
Jelena Price has been working full-time since starting college, first waiting tables at Olive Garden and now working in collections for TD Bank. She enrolled in USM after graduating from Westbook High School in 2005 and plans to graduate with a Spanish degree this May.
A convoluted evolution over the course of 207 years led to what we know today as USM.
USM evolved haphazardly through the years, morphing according to the needs of the day, and only took the name the University of Southern Maine in 1978.
The school began when the Gorham Academy was founded as a preparatory school for boys in 1803 – when Maine was still part of Massachusetts – on what is now the modern Gorham campus.
For the past two years, USM – the second largest college in the University of Maine System, and the premier school in Maine’s largest city – has been embroiled in a series of budget crises, beginning with the discovery of a massive deficit in 2007 when Richard Pattenaude was president.
Last Wednesday, I pulled up to Stephen Ricci’s house at 915 Brighton Avenue in Portland to find out if he’s as dangerous as police say he is.
You may have heard Mr. Ricci’s name in the news. Originally charged with indecent conduct in August of 2007, Ricci ignited public controversy last year when he threatened to rape and mutilate a woman upon his release from jail unless he got the mental care he said he needed.
Somewhere in the history of American education, the ideas seems to have emerged that college is college, and the real world is something distinctly different.
Maybe it’s this notion that accounts for our tendency to let things slide in the college atmosphere.
The cultural critics over at Family Guy have once again aired grievances about an often ignored social issue: women and aging. Network television shows in this comedic genre often address civil rights, but the underlying points can get lost in layers of crude satire.
As many of you are aware, our University is the process of closing a $3 million dollar budget gap, and thus making large scale changes that will directly effect you and all future USM students.
As the process of restructuring takes place, we have held 2 convocations; in which many members of the USM community came together to define USM’s strengths and identify what; as an institution we should build upon.
Stephanie MacDonald isn’t afraid to get naked.
When not in class, the undeclared junior runs her own business as a freelance model booking her own shoots, which sometimes involve nude modeling.
In MacDonald’s opinion, freelance modeling is completely different from what you see on shows like Americas Next Top Model.
On the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 24, seven students came together at the Woodbury Campus Center in Portland to compete in Portland Events Board’s first USM Idol competition. The students competed for the first place prize of $100 while performing a variety of compositions, ranging from “When You Believe” from the Prince of Egypt Soundtrack to cult classic, “Rocky Raccoon.
Martin Scorcese’s newest movie begins in 1954 on a tugboat carrying US Marshal Teddy Daniels, played by Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, The Departed) to Shutter Island, a small island off the coast of Boston and home to a renowned high-security mental institution.
This is the story of Leisel Memminger, a foster child in Nazi Germany. In 1939, her brother died on the train to Molching, their new home, and nine year-old Leisel stole her first book. She couldn’t read, but she would learn. The act was a prelude to what she would become: A book thief.
The USM women’s basketball team earned a spot in Little East Conference Championship game but failed to reclaim the title they won a year ago as they lost 61-46 to Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Conn. on Saturday.
The top-seeded Colonials, who won their first LEC Title since 1994, were led by junior forward Melissa Teel who led all scorers with 23 points on 9-for-13 shooting from the field and pulled down a game-high 13 rebounds.
You could say the USM women’s indoor track and field team has dominated the Little East and Alliance Conferences in the last decade. The Huskies posted several standout performances as they went on to win their 10th straight LEC and Alliance Championships on Sat.