Category: Perspectives

Name: Hamida Suja Year: Freshman Major: Biology What are your future plans? To become a medical doctor. Where is your hometown? South Portland, but I was born in Somalia and also lived in Saudi Arabia. When did you move to the USA? In 1998 when I was 12. My father played the lottery and won.

Question: What is your most memorable parking garage moment? “I haven’t been in one, I walk to school.” Ralph Burns (Undeclared Junior) “When I had to wait a half an hour to get out of it.” Sarah Wentworth (Undeclared Sophomore) “I always get good parking spots.

To “sandbag” someone is to tell them a climb is easier than it really is. When they go up, they flail all over the place. This provides amusement for those on the ground. Sounds kind of sick, doesn’t it?

Perhaps every male-dominated sport has a similar degree of machismo.

Part-time USM student, Dana Artz, writes about her travels in Australia where she is currently living and working as a waitress.

Australians call their country Oz-as in that exotic land peopled by Dorothy, Toto and the Tin Man. After just two weeks here, it’s clear that I’m not in Kansas anymore.

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Change is still dominant for Rams and Ewes, both in the workplace and their private lives. This is also a good time to look at a possible relocation if that has been one of your goals.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Doing things for others is what you do well.

Most people who have been mountaineers for any length of time have friends who have died climbing. Many of my friends have more dead partners than they have fingers. I have been lucky in that regard throughout my outdoor career, with only one death and a couple major injuries among my partners.

USM students, faculty and staff are working to “green” USM’s campus, but we’re not alone. USM is a founding member of the Green Campus Consortium of Maine, a group of a dozen Maine colleges, universities and a number of state and private agencies that meet every six weeks to share information on how to become more sustainable institutions.

So, as the semester continues at USM, many of you will begin to write papers and take exams. This tradition is quite stressful, often leading to student behavior that is questionable, provocative, and unethical.

I have been told that I teach the largest-enrolled three-credit course at USM called Introduction to Communication (COM 102J).

Name: Richard West Age: 19 Major: Health Fitness What do you like about USM? It’s close to home. Laid back, not too big, because it’s smaller you get to know people. What year will you graduate? 2007 Where is your hometown? South Portland, Maine. Do you live on or off campus? On the Gorham campus.

Dave Burnham

Junior

“I think they’re all bad. damned Dif you do, damned if you don’t.”

Brenda Crane

Administrative Assistant

“I’ll tell you about my worst Christmas present ever…the year my husband ran out to LaVerdieve’s Christmas Eve and bought me a cheap set of knives.

Last week, a $1 million study sponsored by a group called John S. and James L. Knight Foundation made a lot of headlines when it found that, among other things, “more than one in three high school students said the First Amendment ‘goes too far’ in the rights it guarantees.

fear (f?r) : n. A feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger; v. To be afraid of.

Sometimes dictionary definitions are useless.

I could hear the wind before I felt it. It was like a locomotive approaching at 70 mph. I leaned hard against the rock, trying to protect myself from the blasts.

Name: Yamato Yamaura

Adam Demmons Junior

It’s wintertime, a.k.a. stay-indoors time, right? I used to think so. I’d hustle from English class to calculus, calculus to history and then quickly home. I’d finish all my homework and housework and wonder what to do with myself (indoors of course). Movies? Museum? A book? Maybe visit a friend or go to the gym? Evading chilly temperatures and blustery arctic air was my winter lifestyle; I sidestepped the great outdoors at all costs and paid for it.

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Your natural Arian leadership qualities make you the person others will follow in tackling that important project. But don’t get so involved in the work that you neglect your personal life.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Aspects favor sorting through your possessions, both at work and at home, to start giving away what you don’t use, don’t need or don’t like.