Category: Perspectives

It was Halloween, and I was getting dressed for one of the biggest Portland gay society events of the year. After many debates, I rejected my old standards: the vampy thirties-woman, the standard goth, and the hippie-chick. Prompted by my recent knowledge of the how-tos of female-to-male drag, I instead decided to go as a man.

This week’s letters to the editor respond to last week’s article “Is diversity discrimination” and, you guessed it, parking

Staffer talks: It has come to my attention that there is not sufficient student involvement in campus activities. I wonder at this phenomenon. Is it that our busy lives refuse to permit a few spare moments to contribute to our community?

To me it seems that ideal situation of racial integration and full acceptance of all is color-blindness. To see people as people, and judge them based on their accomplishments, not by the color of their skin.

I was sitting at my computer this week when a thought crossed my mind: I really don’t watch as many professional sports as I used to.

This week’s letters to the editor. Talk of events surrounding the Supreme Court’s reassessment of the Roe v. Wade decision and a response to Dusan Bjelic’s “Fact-finding” trip to Iraq.

Many people feel the fairest solution to the allocation of parking is the principle of first come, first served. The carpool lot violates this concept of fairness. However, there are many ways to think about fairness in distributing on-campus parking spaces

Executive Editor Elise Adams has a “Letter From the Editor”

Elizabeth Baish, copy editor, in this week’s “Staffer Talks”

Just as there is no free lunch, there is no free parking either. Not even your own driveway is truly free (e.g., think about property tax on the land and snow removal). In fact, parking is darned expensive. You are probably nodding, and thinking about USM’s new transportation fee. However, I’m not referring to what you pay for parking; I’m talking about what you don’t pay for parking.

Count me OUT is a weekly column written by members of the GLBTQA Resource Center.

Guest column discusses alternative holidays to celebrate this winter season.

Fat, fluffy flakes falling lethargically from the sky as they do in a snow-globe. A roaring fireplace. Hot chocolate with plush marshmallows… Is this winter?

For the past 14 years, few in Portland haven’t picked up the Casco Bay Weekly for movie listings, a favorite column, a political cartoon, or a giggle at obscene personals. It has been a staple of Portland culture, a source of information on the sometimes seedy underbelly of Portland politics, a voice for the non-mainstream.

Staffer Talks this week

Executive Editor Elise Adam sololiquizes about Harry Potter

This week’s “Count me OUT” column

This week’s letters to the editor include a petition against fingerprinting in arts education programs and an invitation to an anti-war rally

After two years of research, collaboration and public dialogue facilitated by the USM Tobacco Task Force, I am pleased to announce the approval of a greatly strengthened tobacco policy for the USM community. The intent of this policy is to respect the rights of smokers and non-smokers while reducing exposure to second-hand smoke, providing an environment that supports a tobacco-free lifestyle, reducing the risk of accidental fire, and reducing the environmental impact of cigarette litter.

I love thinking about sports. I love pondering baseball, analyzing it, absorbing it. I miss writing sports, hanging out with the team. There are many things that we enjoy so much, hold so dear that we have to let go in order to pursue greater things. In this trade-off, one may wonder: Is it worth it?

Who am I? And why does that matter to you? After all, my last solution is to waste your time, least of all mine. I was never good at writing, though I’ve kept journal excerpts on and off my whole life. I should pursue it though – a photograph with even the best intentions can lose its meaning and purpose with the addition of a misleading story.

I moved to Portland two years ago for several reasons. First, of course, was to go to school. After spending a year and a half at UMA’s Thomaston Center watching ITV classes, I was ready to have some real-time interactions with teachers who were actually in the room with me. Besides school, however, I knew that Portland had a friendly attitude towards gay people, as the non-discrimination ordinance seemed to suggest. I wanted to be in a place where it was safe to be whoever I was, and Thomaston, Maine, was not that place.

“Inflated What?” – a response to last week’s article on the men’s soccer team

Last week The Free Press published an article by Sports Editor Peter Dugre about the men’s soccer team that was incredibly critical. Was it over the top? Probably. Was I too hasty to publish it without more revision? Most likely. Was it more suited for a column than as a straight news story? Most definitely.