The library is worth funding
Dear Dr. Wood, Dr. Lapping, and the whole USM community:
As you examine ways to cut the budget, please also look for valuable resources to sustain.
One of these resources is the library.
Librarians on all three campuses regularly collaborate with each other and with subject faculty to foster information literacy.
They may be brand new, but they’re ready to go. Amnesty International, USM’s newest student organization, is already busy planning a week-long series of discussions, music and films for Human Rights Week.
Amnesty, which was officially recognized as a group by the Board of Student Organizations (BSO) at their meeting on March 7, seeks to inform and sensitize USM students, faculty, and the public to human rights issues.
An excited and slightly damp crowd came out to see a rock show in Gorham’s Brooks Student Center last week. Organized by sophomore Jeff Beam, the show featured his own band and local acts The Leftovers and Dominic and the Lucid.
The first band to take the stage was Dominic and the Lucid.
USM’s budget shortfalls are no secret. Maine’s budget deficit of nearly $200 million isn’t either.
As a result of these shortfalls, the students, Mainers, and taxpayers alike suffer.
The Maine economy suffers as people tighten their spending. Twenty-six academic programs are suffering.
2/27 – In the annual Little East Conference coaches preseason poll, the Huskies were ranked 3rd of 8 in the conference, below Eastern Connecticut, ranked 6th in the nation, and Keene State College, ranked 30th in the nation. They open their season in Arizona over vacation, and have their home opener on April 1 versus Bowdoin College.
Vogue and Bazaar may be breathing hopes of spring fashion to style-enthusiasts across the country, but for the still snow-covered USM, sundresses and high-waist shorts may be some time coming.
For the fashion-forward who may be fashion-depressed as they wait out the winter and don their ‘warm puffy coat’ for the 234th day in a row, a quick fix has crossed into main-stream social circles.
Major: Psychology
Year: Freshman
Do you have a favorite class at the moment?
Yes I do — my psychology class (Intro to Psych) with Kenneth Gardiner. It’s a little bit long and a little bit tedious, but it’s psych, and as cliche as it sounds, it’s my major, so I love it.
1. Benjamin Taylor is a sophomore economics major.
Current Activities: USM Student Senate, Vice Chair
Greatest concern: A lack of student involvement. Without enough students involved, there’s a lack of quality events being planned. Also, student voice is diminished and not taken seriously.
Pisces
February 19-March 20
Time to switch to light beer. Your mellow demeanor and the upcoming vacation could have you lying low-too much time on the couch paired with March Madness and catching up on Lost could result in a few extra pounds.
This week, try blogging your hopes.
1. Robert W. Ellis is a junior political science major.
Current Activities: Public relations chair of the Student Senate, Amnesty International, I am also a USM democrat that understands the importance of bi-partisan cooperation.
Greatest concern: My greatest concerns are the opportunities available to you before and after graduation.
1. Julie F. Brewer is a junior biology and math double major.
Current Activities: Hall council, student leader trainings, sailing club, chemistry club, biology club, STRIVE, New England Science Bowl, Change ’08
Greatest concern: I feel the greatest concern to the USM student body is its lack of good communication and awareness of campus proceedings and activities.
A car of one’s own Feb. 13- 4:48 p.m. Welfare check: Checking on occupant of vehicle. Subject was writing a term paper, all set.
The phantom car of G-16 Feb. 24 – 11:55 p.m. Suspicious Incident: Vehicle flashing headlights in what appeared to be SOS pattern.
Monday March 17
Student Government Elections- Vote USM! Decide who will represent you on the Student Senate and as Student Body President./ Vote online: www.usm.maine.edu/studentlife/vote08/ All week/ For more information, stop by the Involvement and Activities Center in Woodbury Campus Center.
On Friday night, the women’s basketball team walked off the court for the last time this season. It was the first-round game of the NCAA national tournament-the Huskies received an at-large bid to the tournament after losing the conference championship game in overtime to Eastern Connecticut-and though they played one of their best games of the season and led most of the game, the Huskies couldn’t hang on in the end.
He’s published. He’s accomplished internationally. He has appeared on Oprah, and besides serving as an adjunct professor, he heads up projects that aim at uniting Southern Maine’s immigrant community and the university. His community outreach has spanned the last 20 years.
After five years at USM, I have this semester found myself seeing this university in a new light.
Just last week, I was walking across Bedford St. from my office toward class in Payson Smith. The soon-to-be-setting sun caught the iced-over trees in the most perfect way.I wished I had had my camera, it was a school-brochure moment.
Selma Botman will be recommended as the next president of USM at the Board of Trustees meeting on Monday. The announcement came last week from the office of system Chancellor Richard Pattenaude.
Though the BOT must approve the recommendation, it is unlikely that they will go against Pattenaude’s decision, which came after hearing a report from the Presidential Search Committee in February that detailed results from surveys filled out by students, staff and faculty across all three campuses.
Early in the season, head wrestling coach Joe Pistone commented that one of the toughest parts of his sport is that athletes train for 20 to 40 hours for each seven-minute match.
On Friday, after two weeks of training, six hours on planes and four days in Iowa, sophomore Mike Morin (Fryeburg) had just 14 minutes on the mat before he was eliminated from the tournament in a heartbreaking final match.
WMGP is not exactly a college radio station. It sits on one edge of campus – the first of the white houses as you drive past the garage – but bumper stickers, t-shirts, banners and DJs all proudly proclaim it as southern Maine’s community radio.
If you were tuned in last Tuesday morning, you might have heard DJ Deirdre Nice cue up Jeff Tweady’s rendition of “Simple Twist of Fate,” but you didn’t see her sit back in her chair and gaze out toward the parking garage at the gray, rainy day.
In last week’s “From the Right,” Dustin Gilbert advocates the censorship of prisoners and their art. I would like to ask him and you, the reader, a question. Could we imagine a world in which Martin Luther King Jr. or Nelson Mandela had their voices silenced while imprisoned? We would have lost the inspiration of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and the education of Mandela.
A campus safety alert arrived in USM e-mail inboxes on Friday afternoon, alerting the community about a man who had been found acting suspiciously on the Portland campus.
He has a history of frequenting college campuses, and has been reported to police at Bowdoin College as well as in Portland’s Old Port.
The annual rite of spring that captivates millions of American sports fans is rapidly approaching: students around USM are not immune to the frenzy that is March Madness in college basketball.
From casual fans to die-hard Dukies and those who bleed Tar Heel blue, the annual college basketball tournaments draw a boatload of attention and even more speculation.
March 10
Come tango at the North Star Cafe with Tango Mucha Labia, and show off your moves. The lesson starts at 7, and the dancing at 8. $5/ 225 Congress St., Portland/ 699-2994
March 11
Want to be an actor? Come audition for student films at the USM media studies production facility.