“Budget challenges are, regrettably, part of the DNA of public education,” said President Selma Botman, a day after touring USM with grim news about the school’s finances.
In recent emails and speeches, Botman has stressed the difficulty of cutting anything from USM’s already cash-strapped operating budget.
Women’s Basketball
Demillo named MWBCA Player of the Week
Sophomore guard Kaylie Demillo (Jay) was named Maine Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Player of the Week for the week ending Nov. 23. Demillo’s honor comes after a red-hot week for the Huskies.
We had been in my 2001 Ford Focus since 9am. It was now 6pm. Usually our 1996 GMC Savanna chauffeurs us to our next destination but without the burden of equipment, the much more economical car let us keep some money in our pockets. After crossing through Buffalo and the great Niagara Falls, the border came quickly, but not without our plan of attack.
Upon entering the University of Southern Maine in the fall of 2005, I took an instant liking to the University’s website. When I wanted to register for classes, check my student bill, or just print out my schedule, it was simple. A few clicks and I was on my merry way.
Nearly two-hundred people gathered at USM’s Woodbury Campus Center on Friday, November 21, for a “rally against hate”, prompted by incidents across the state that have made startling – and for many Mainers, embarrassing – international news.
The crowd was largely a mix of activists and politicians, including Maine Governor John Baldacci and USM president Selma Botman, who delivered short statements to a room teeming with signs reading “Hope Not Hate” and “We Will Not Be Silent”.
The University of New England Nor’easters blew into Warren Hill gymnasium a couple of weeks ago. The newly revamped team from Biddeford, complete with a roster-full of transfers from Texas, stormed out to a 15-5 lead early, a run that was punctuated by an emphatic breakaway dunk.
Pork tenderloin en croute is an impressive entrée to adorn a holiday table as well as an overall excellent meal to savor in the fall when mushrooms are in abundance. Simply, this recipe consists of pork tenderloin that has been seared, cooled, and wrapped in puff pastry that has been covered in duxelles.
In 2007, Zeitgeist: The Movie, undoubtedly one of the most important films on our culture, was released. The movie aims to evolve human consciousness, or at least to educate some unknowing citizens. The German word “zeitgeist” translates into “spirit” of the “time”, and is defined as the general thought process and mood of society during a particular period of time.
Every weekday morning, Tabatha Woodside wakes up at 6:30 am. She drops her two sons off at daycare and school and heads to class.
When she gets out, it’s time for studying and running errands; evenings are for taking care of her family and racing to complete homework.
The Monks documentary will show for first time in America beyond New York City or Chicago this Friday at USM. For more than thirty years this band of American GI’s were not able to talk about their strange experience as a rock band in cold war Germany. In the film they recount their story for the first time.
As I sunk into the couch after a heavy Thanksgiving dinner, my eyelids heavy and unable to concentrate on the one-sided NFL offering, the family elders gathered mischievously over their wine glasses in the kitchen, scheming to end Christmas as I know it.
With the youngest of my cousins now entering high school, the extended family gift-giving regimen had lost the wild-, eyed, wrapping paper tearing frenzy of Christmas pass.
The interior of the blue trimmed shop features oddly precious prints, vintage shoes for a few dollars, and a bowl of ceramic peach pits. The wallpapered dressing room is lit as friendly as the little studio that is visible in the back of the shop. This shop, Ferdinand, is the quirky child of Diane Toepfer, who made her home in Portland as she shaped the shop-that-could.
With Thanksgiving gone and the commercial blitz in full force, it’s a good time to grab some good beers and get away from it all. Unless, of course, you are Sebago Brewing Company by the mall, in which case, well, drink more.
Craft breweries around the country are introducing their winter selections, which come from two basic schools: the malty and the hoppy.
Tech, books, and part-time faculty hit…
It’s hard not to marvel at the skill and dedication of student athletes. Balancing school, sports and social life isn’t an easy task.
With commitments all over the place, scholar-athletes are often faced with critical time-related decisions. Should I go out tonight or do my required reading? Go to the gym or the library?
But there are some decisions our athletes shouldn’t have to make – like what’s more important, failing a class or playing in your final collegiate soccer game.
It was a busy off-season for the USM women’s basketball team.
After suffering a heartbreaking loss in the first round of the NCAA tournament to Brandeis, the Huskies have since had to rebuild their roster and install a new coach.
But despite all of the changes, the Huskies are still picked to finish second in the Little East behind Eastern Connecticut and even received votes in the D3hoops.
ture looks bright.
With a host of transfers and freshmen, this year’s squad look like they’re a year or two away from being a force in the Little East Conference.
In the meantime, though, there’s a season to be played and the Huskies’ success will rely on getting better every game.
When I arrived in Robie-Andrews and scurried into Burnham Lounge for the monthly coffee house, a crowd of 40 or so were gathered around Kurt Perry, singing “If I Didn’t Believe in You” from the musical The Last Five Years. It was a solo act; he was focusing on the vocals.
James Bond is number three on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest movie heroes of all time. For many filmgoers he is the epitome of sleek, badass, male, danger on a path to destroy evil and willing to take out time to bed the ladies. After Sean Connery’s iconic portrayal as author Ian Flemming’s fictional MI-6 spy character, audience enthusiasm dropped.
Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 masterpiece Rashomon, released on DVD as part of the esteemed Criterion Collection, remains one of Japan’s most influential and visually stimulating films. Kurosawa worked closely with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa in creating a stunning display of light, shadows and virtuoso camerawork.
A large cast. A highly referential, period-specific text. A cavalcade of outsized, eccentric characters. A run time of nearly three hours, with two intermissions.
Moss Hart and George S Kaufman’s 1939 play, “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” is a dramaturgical minefield.
It’s still dark out as I hop in my car and head west on Route 25 towards the New Hampshire border. The drive lasts about 45 minutes until I finally reach my destination as the sunrise takes full effect. I’m just off Route 160 in Brownfield, at the trailhead for Burnt Meadow Mountain.
During this chilling transition into winter, things can start to look grim for the coming months. Shorter daylight hours can get anyone down, and if winter sports aren’t your thing, the prospect of snow might do nothing more for you than conjure up images of backbreaking, early-morning shoveling.
“Until when do we have to see this bloodshed?”
The question was posed by Lucy Talgieh, a Palestinian Christian. She emegrated to Isreal from the United States 26 years ago, and works as project director for the Wi-am Center for Conflict Resolution in Bethlehem.