Skidmore Junior Alex Mykolenko scored a shorthanded goal that proved to be the game winner in an ECAC Men’s quarterfinal playoff game as they rallied past USM to earn a 6-3 victory on Saturday in Gorham.
Even a great USM student body turn out wasn’t enough to put the Huskies on top.
The USM men’s indoor track and field team captured their second consecutive Little East Conference and Alliance Championship on Feb. 6 at the Costello Sports Complex in Gorham.
Six years ago Julio Santiago was working in Boston and had been out of the wrestling game for a year. Being involved in wrestling virtually his entire life, he jumped at an opportunity when USM head wrestling coach Joe Pistone called him up and offered him the assistant coaching position for the Huskies wrestling program.
Over the course of three sessions last Thursday and Friday, groups of over 200 faculty, staff, administrators and students brainstormed ways for USM to innovate to offset yearly budgetary gaps and declining enrollment.
Fewer than 30 students came to each session.
The current series of convocation events are an olive branch from the school’s administrative branch to the faculty, staff, and students ofUSM, allowing them a say in the restructuring effort that, upon completion, will likely totally change the university.
Brad Watts is taking 18 credits this semester – a work load that would send most college students scrambling – and has a 3.4 GPA.
A group of graduate students are looking to create their own government at USM to represent the roughly 1,700 graduate students who have, until now, lacked formal representation.
Jim Shaffer, chief operating officer for USM and head of the committee in charge of drafting a restructuring plan for the university, met with student senators at their weekly meeting last Friday to solicit opinions and concerns from students who, unlike faculty, have no seats on the committee.
“If I were a democrat, there would be two to three times the people,” gubernatorial candidate Les Otten said last Tuesday as he surveyed the 20 people assembled in Masterton Hall waiting to hear him speak.
The next day, he was a more philosophical about the turnout.
A female student was assaulted and robbed near the intersection of School and Church Streets in Gorham in the early hours of Monday, Feb. 1 while returning to the Gorham campus, according to a campus safety alert sent out last Monday.
The faculty senate last Friday continued to push for their incorporation into USM’s restructuring process and presented alternate options to faculty retrenchment, passing a resolution requesting they be informed before any faculty are laid off.
Police made two arrests on Saturday, Jan. 30 on the Gorham campus.
USM Multicultural Student Affairs and high school students from around Portland will come together in celebration of Black History Month to spread the message of non-violence. Each year the MSA develops a new theme to honor Black History Month. This year the celebration is all about bringing the community together.
When I’m not reporting for the Free Press, compulsively updating Twitter or avoiding homework, I like to read trashy books about cut-throat political campaigns. The most recent contribution, Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, has captivated my attention for the past week with its fly-on-the-wall look at the 2008 presidential race, so revealing that at times I physically cringe while reading.
I hope this message finds you enjoying the beginning of the semester. Much has already changed at USM this academic year, and that my friend, is just the beginning. Due to the current financial climate of our state and our university, the administration is forced to make difficult decisions regarding what aspects of USM to preserve and what not to.
“Do you have a Band-Aid?” I had cut myself and stopped into my campus’ Health Center.
“No, we don’t. Sorry.” As the lady behind the desk looked up at me and my blood, I waited for the punchline. When none came, I looked around for the sign that would assure me that I was in the right place.
Last Friday, in his column in The New York Times, Paul Krugman fired back against what he calls “the sudden ubiquity of deficit scare stories.” Krugman claims that the short-term deficits are no cause for major concern. He equates the current “hysteria” with the groupthink prevalent amongst Americans in 2003, which helped support the decision to invade Iraq.
Greetings USM Students! In order to keep all of you better informed about what’s going on with your student activity fee money and with what student government is doing to make your voice heard by the university administration we are going to be writing a press release every few weeks telling you what SGA has been up to.
Europe for a month. And this was coming after only being home for two days. I was not prepared. I wasn’t trying to be, and I didn’t pretend to be, but by then we were all used to being on the road together. It was an old hat. We just took it off for a few days, put it in the wash and put it back on before it was dry.
If you’re ever wandering around the Old Port craving sushi, head down to Yosaku for some excellent Japanese cuisine. Yosaku is located at 1 Danforth Street, just outside the Old Port. In less complicated terms, it’s just a walk to the far end of Fore Street to Gorham’s Corner.
A friend of mine explained, “it’s like ‘Harry Potter’ except with Greek Gods,” which turned out to be an apt description of “The Lightning Thief,” the first in a five book series by Rick Riordan. Perseus “Percy” Jackson is a “troubled” kid. He’s an aggressive, sarcastic, ADHD dyslexic with terrible grades, who gets into fights on a daily basis. Percy’s been to five boarding schools in six years and is about to get kicked out of his sixth. When his pre-algebra teacher morphs into a Fury, right out of Greek mythology, and tries to kill him, a chain of events is set in motion leading him to Camp Half-Blood, a safe haven for children of divine parentage. It turns out that Percy is the son of Poseidon, the Greek god of the seas and is suspected of a supernatural theft. Percy, his satyr friend Grover, and Annabeth – daughter of Athena and wholly unimpressed with Percy – are sent on a cross-country divine quest to the underworld to retrieve Zeus’ thunderbolt from the fiery depths of Hades and prevent Olympian war.
Ladies, are you looking for a girls’ night out movie? Tired of the same old chick flicks? You know, the ones with a really obvious plot line and poorly written jokes? Despite the fact that this film is aimed at a middle-aged female audience, “It’s Complicated” is the type of movie that will make you laugh until you cry.
The anticipation radiated from everyone in front of the stage before the band came on. As the lights went down, the chatter stopped and hands went up as the band ran in front of eager fans. They picked up their instruments and played the first chord as the fans’ hands flew into the air and they got ready to rock.
This year’s baseball team is going to be very different than any other team I’ve been a part of here at USM. This year we have a very young lineup as we lost our entire starting defense besides four players. However, we have a very experienced pitching staff that has a lot of depth both in starting and relief pitching. If our young players can play up to their ability and our pitchers can pitch as we are capable, then we should have a very successful season. The LEC is a very tough conference each and every year, but I believe we will have another good year and will be competing for the conference championship in May.