You know the types of foodstuffs that tend to accumulate in cupboards that you never seem to eat, want, or need, and are not really sure how they got there? Things like cans of salmon, chopped clams, artichoke hearts, stewed tomatoes, or boxes of jello, pudding, tapioca, bouillon cubes, or those varieties of soup that maybe you bought on sale but aren’t actually that appetizing? Plus the straggler boxes of penne, linguine, spaghetti, or elbows, that all together make just about a pound? How about those frosty little tidbits from the freezer from when the kids were home from college this summer? A handful of crinkle fries, a few deformed looking buffalo wings, and some largely unidentifiable hunks of meat.
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Department Evaluation
Academic departments at USM must undergo a formal review every seven years, according to UMaine Board of Trustees policy. But there is no such requirement for non-academic departments.
It’s something University President Selma Botman is looking to change.
The University has invited two external consultants to review the following departments: Advising Services, Career Services, Early Student Success, Learning Foundations, and Community Service.
Catch up on your dogs
Women’s Soccer
The women’s soccer team has lost five of their last six games and has been shutout in three of those contests. With losses to Western Connecticut, Framingham State, Eastern Connecticut, UMass-Dartmouth and Bates, the Huskies have watched their season record fall to 4-10-1.
Jake Cowan on:
“I don’t sweat, I rain.” Famous lines from the not-so-famous 1995 film, Angus. For men like me everywhere, this is our mantra. We sweat as if we were stuck in the Sahara Desert being dutch ovened by Roseanne Barr. It’s out of our grasp, we just can’t help it.
Restaurant Review
When I mention the words “Hot Suppa,” I’m disappointed when people don’t know what I’m referring to, I am talking about the one and only Hot Suppa, an eatery I’ve come to appreciate, located on Congress street a little ways up from Longfellow Square.
Perhaps the reason no one knows what I’m talking about is that Hot Suppa serves breakfast and lunch, not dinner, and many of my peers are not ready to leave the house before 2 pm.
Free Press on holiday
Cram for the elections with our exclusive voting guide, plus more award-winning news, arts and sports coverage when the Free Press returns. Next issue hits newsstands and the web October 27th!
Green & Grain
For years coaches and players alike have longed for an artificial turf field. The fields are safe, playable in inclement weather and very expensive.
For just as many years the money hasn’t been available to install such a field.
Until that money comes in, Bill Lamont, the facilities supervisor and Tim Cronin, the groundscrew leader, are working hard to provide athletes with the best, and safest, facilities possible.
Fool For Love
I slunk into the Theater at Russell Hall at 7:31, just in time to take stock of the opening tableau: country music, a large man in a Stetson and overalls. When the first character opened his mouth, affecting a Southwestern accent, it became apparent: I was watching a play about poor white people.
Profenno and Reid lead Huskies
Senior Brent Profenno (Standish) dropped a 140-yard approach shot to within a foot of the hole and classmate Matt Reid (Cape Elizabeth) made the birdie putt to cap off the pair’s even-par-70 and power the USM Golf team to a victory in the Southern Maine Cup at Sable Oaks Golf Club.
Comedy coming to USM
Tim Hoffman is a Portland comedian. He joins 4 other comics for a comedy show on October 23rd at USM. The Free Press chatted with Tim to learn about his connection to comedy and how it works as a Portlander.
Free Press:
Tim, what’s your story?
Tim Hoffman:
Well, most of my jokes are influenced by parties, life, I joke a lot about food, monsters and ghosts.
Imported environmentalism
Ever since she started picking up trash along the Maine shoreline, Sandra Wacholz has been seeing that tell-tale shine – washed up on the sand, in the grass or between rocks.
Another hypodermic needle.
Walchoz, a?professor of criminology at USM, is not just an environmentalist, though friends and colleagues say they can’t imagine a more motivated one.
Bayside fights downslide
Bayside Village, the independently-owned student housing complex on Marginal Way, has been up and running for little over six weeks. That’s why it’s troubling to some that the Portland police department is already so well-acquainted.
Right from the beginning, law enforcement found themselves heading over on a regular basis.
Get Out!
Some night’s, Portland is so dead and quiet that you can pedal your bike down the center line as you navigate the city streets. I’ve found that Portland, and the surrounding areas, are the perfect playground for a lover of the night. sit back and let me explain to you the thrill of nocturnal exploration.
What is a Mola?
The USM Art Gallery in Gorham is displaying a collection of molas, reverse appliquéd fabric panels worn on the blouses of Kuna women.
The Kuna are an indigenous people from Panama and Columbia. A mola, which means “shirt” or “clothing”, is an intricately produced textile made up of many layers and colors and is a prominent form of artistic expression for Kuna people, as well as an economic asset.
McKenney’s Two Pennies
Now hiring for the position of Vice President of the United States. Minimum requirements include the following: carefree attitude, folksy catchphrases, an unfounded sense of “Maverickness”, ability to memorize talking points, and a general incompetence of every major issue.
Provost Search Committee Named
Appointments have been made to the provost search committee, a 13-member panel that will help select the University’s next vice president of academic affairs.?
The group, which will be vetting and interviewing candidates in a nationwide hiring campaign, includes representatives from across faculty and staff, as well as one member of the student body.
Husky Hero
Free Press: So who are you?
Matt Reid: I am a 22-year-old English major and I play golf. I’ve been playing golf for about ten years and it’s a big part of my life. But it’s not just the golf. I’ve made a lot of great relationships being on the team. I am from Cape Elizabeth and I am very family oriented.
USM professor and student team up to build and install art show in 10 days
Last week, Ryland Cook spent ten days in St. Louis as an intern for USM art professor Micheal Shaugnessy. Shaugnessy was the artist chosen as the inaugural solo show at a gallery and artist workspace called The Craft Alliance. Cook, a recent USM grad kept a day-by-day journal for the Free Press to chart the daily progress of building and installing the sculpture show.
Elephant hunt –
In the past few years I’ve become more passionate about politics than I ever thought possible. I started to question the government around the time of 9/11, and later on scrutinized it even more when I fell in love with a soldier. I have always been unquestionably liberal, and have never felt particularly judgmental of other peoples’ opinions until fairly recently.
Student senate holds first fall elections
In preparation for the student senate’s first fall elections, student government officials printed 2,000 cards. They stuck them under the doors of dorm rooms, leaned them up against school computers, and otherwise scattered them around USM’s campuses.
Even more promisingly, they scored some real estate on the front page of the University’s website and pushed heavily the web address for online voting, from which students could log in and vote online, any time of the day or night.
Epicurean Epics
The first time I ever made dough it was a goopy sticky mess that ended up baking up like a brick. The anticipated soul satisfying experience eluded me that time, yet I was drawn to the process, due in part to the unique flour bin, under the counter like a secret compartment, in the pantry of our apartment.
Album Review:
In this day and age, it is becoming more and more difficult to find artists and bands that have an inherent sense of honesty in their music.
For a while now, Pete Kilpatrick has been at it solo, and along with a revolving-door team of Portland’s finest, he has been delivering the honesty I speak of.
Wearing two hats: USM coaches do more
Bonny Brown-Denico’s office is littered with mementos of past triumphs. Field hockey trophies sit next to game softballs from years past, photo collages of old teams adorn the walls, but sprinkled ever so carefully around the room are Brown-Denico’s most prized possession: pictures of her children.
Educating USM about Eid
The professor scowled at his student, “You’re going to have to make the decision-how important is this class to you? You’ll be missing class for a family gathering? How big is your family? ”
This is what I overheard my professor asking a student who said he might not be at the next class.