?The USM committee tasked with enforcing the President’s Council on Climate Neutrality contract met for the first time last Friday, bringing the University one step closer to a greener future.
Still, Student Body President Maggie Guzman says complete carbon neutrality is a long way off.
“Tea and Sympathy,” the Theatre Department’s latest production, opened in Russell Hall in Gorham last Thursday.
Originally written as a loose autobiography of the playwright Robert Anderson, the play presents the story of Tom, a student in a boy’s school in the 1950s who is suspected of being a homosexual.
Four homeless people, one of whom a convicted sex offender, were kicked out of the Glickman Library within two hours on Friday morning, Oct. 30.
According to Lisa Beecher, chief of USM Police, the first altercation occurred at 9:43 a.m. with Dennis M. Sheehan, 54, a transient currently living in Portland.
Firstly,why did you choose USM? Did you apply to many other schools? What are you majoring in? Do you enjoy it?
Coming to USM was a pretty easy decision. I got accepted to other schools but financially for my parents and myself, USM was the most convenient.
Last Wednesday night, Lenny Shedletsky, Professor of Communications, hosted a roundtable discussion about the merits and drawbacks of taking online courses for both the students and teachers.
Shedletsky was joined by a panel of faculty members and students, some of whom have graduated or retired.
Huskies shut out by Western Connecticut in conference tournament
The USM women’s soccer team’s season ended last Tuesday in Connecticut with a 2-0 loss to fourth-seeded Western Connecticut State University in the first round of the Little East Conference Championship Tournament.
??Care to take a trip down memory lane? The celebrated children’s story by Maurice Sendak has finally overcome its “unfilmable” reputation and landed on the big screen. Now don’t lie to yourself, you know you are dying to see it!
??????For those who need a slight refresher on “Where the Wild Things Are,” the story follows a disobedient child named Max.
Roughly 300 protesters marched down Congress Street in Portland on Friday night in reaction to this week’s repeal of the state’s legalization of gay-marriage.
The Free Press rode along with USM Police Officer Russ Swann last Friday night to get a look at how alcohol laws are enforced on the Gorham campus.
To protect the identities of students involved, all names have been omitted.
It’s a little after 11 pm the night before Halloween on the Gorham campus and I’m sitting in the front seat of an unmarked police car while a girl dressed like a cop stands shivering outside in the light rain, her mascara running.
President Botman’s assessment at last week’s town hall forum that “higher education is in a battle for it’s very survival” could well be remembered as the beginning of the end for the current incarnation of USM.
“The fact is USM has far too many small departments that tax our institutional resources,” Botman said.
A live televised debate on same-sex marriage drew 500 people to the Hannaford Lecture Hall last Wednesday evening.
The topic was Question 1, the referendum question that would strike down existing legislation making same-sex marriage legal.
The Maine Legislature passed and Governor John Baldacci signed into law LD 1020 last spring.
When I walked into the Brooks Center in Gorham to get myself some much-needed coffee, I didn’t expect to have a beard-sighting, but this guy was hard to miss. His bright-white, full beard caught my eye and my caffeine kick was no longer the priority. What I noticed about Richardson specifically was that his hairy attire was missing a moustache.
USM President Selma Botman signed an agreement last spring, committing the University to create a climate action plan and to choose the date by which the school would be carbon neutral.
But it’s been slow going. Facilities Management hired Bob Bertram as its new director shortly after the agreement was signed, and the process was shelved while he adjusted to the position.
In the run up to the election on Tuesday, we feel as if we have heard every quip and quote that the ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ On 1 campaigns could hurl at us.
Our mailboxes have been bursting with fliers, our public spaces littered with signs, and the Internet is so overrun with banner ads that we haven’t been able to see the top half of the Press Herald homepage for a week now.
In every backyard battlefield,
hordes of half-grown children play,
plaid cowboy shirts tucked into blue denim,
fringe flying, cheeks blazing.
Shoot ’em up, they scream,
each hand waving a silver pistol,
whirling a limp lasso; stolen clothesline tied to the hip.
Our tuition continues to dramatically outpace inflation, rising 5.8% this year, and 48% over the last six. So much strain has been placed on the students that the Board of Trustees voted to cap tuition increases at 6%, so as to not strain USM students any more than they already are.
Mihku Paul Anderson, a Creative Writing student in USM’s Stonecoast MFA Program, is a proud member of the Maliseet, one of the five groups that comprise the Wabanaki Confederacy. Raised near Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, her indigenous identity flows into everything she does.
“FlashForward,” a new Thursday night primetime sci-fi drama on ABC, might just be television’s most captivating mind-bender since “Lost” first aired in fall 2004.
The show’s premise is bizarre. Everyone in the world blacks out for two minutes and 17 seconds and sees visions of their lives six months into the future.
The low budget crime thriller “Boondock Saints” is a staple of many college students’ DVD collections. Although nobody seemed to notice it in the theaters when it came out in 1999, it’s attained an almost cult-like following, grossing over $40 million in DVD sales.
A pair of psychic fortune tellers used tarot cards to predict the futures of around thirty students in the Brooks Student Center in Gorham last Thursday. The Gorham Events Board organized the event as part of their weekly Thirsty Thursday series.
The GEB decided to bring the fortune tellers in a last minute change of plans when the scheduled main event, a mind reader, was unable to come.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m picky about my coffee. I like to taste coffee. Sometimes I add soymilk, and sometimes I drink it straight up black. No matter how I order it, this particular beverage is a big part of my day.
Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts have their own rivalery story, and I’m not about to dive into that controversy.
The USM men’s soccer team ended their season on a rough note, literally, losing to rival Keene State, 2-1 Saturday.
In a physical game marked by USM’s bad luck and missed opportunities, the Huskies watched their season end thanks to an own-goal and a miscommunication.
‘Bright’ future for USM athletic facilities
Night games. Ah, night games. They give you that adrenaline rush that you don’t get from anywhere else, you know? It’s even better if it’s a nice playing surface too.
As a former athlete, I can attest that there is nothing better than to step out onto a turf field for a 7 o’clock start under lights high above.
The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee put on the 15th annual Halloween Party at the Costello Sports Complex in Gorham on Friday night.
After the student-athletes decorated the gymnasium with everything from ghostly paper streams to giant inflatable slides, the festivities kicked off and children and parents alike were able to enjoy the night’s activities.