In August of 2007 the owner and builder of the Gorham Sports Center, Stephen Martin, began to explore the possibilities of turning the indoor turf field into a non-profit enterprise.
Martin founded a board of local coaches and businessmen who were interested in this community resource.
The University of Southern Maine Music Department will be holding its 32nd Honors Recital in Corthell Hall on the Gorham campus Saturday, April 4th at 8 p.m. This recital will display nine of the music department’s most talented musicians performing solo pieces on their primary instrument.
With April 15th just around the corner, gay and lesbian people are outraged. This day brings much discrimination upon same-sex partners. There are 1138 benefits of marriage that LGBTQ people do not receive, even if they are “legally married.” Although a gay or lesbian couple can officially marry in one of the (only two!) gay-marriage-friendly states, their relationship is not recognized by the federal government as that of two spouses.
On April 6, Meg Weston will take over the position of Vice President of Advancement, USM President Selma Botman announced last week.
The VP of Advancement is one of seven vice presidents operating under the president of USM. The position is responsible for finding donors to help with large-scale projects and endowments for scholarships and academic programs.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer shut down its presses last week after 146 years in operation, and moved it daily newspaper to a web-only format.
The New York Times is currently over one billion dollars in debt. With New York and the world’s economy still cowering under the specter of a prolonged recession, advertising rates just aren’t what they use to be.
Taoism urges its followers to consider the gains and losses of a neighbor as their own.
The Samyutta Nikaya, a Buddhist scripture, asks how we could inflict a state that’s not “pleasing or delightful” onto somebody else.
And as Jesus of Nazareth has been quoted saying, often in red print: “Just as you want men to treat you, treat them in the same way.
There are several things one can count on at a Space Gallery show. It will be dark. There will be dozens and dozens of hairy and/or horn-rimmed hipsters. The drinks will be relatively inexpensive-$2 PBR and $5 Maker’s Mark. The employees with whom you exchange money for wristbands will be smiling and grateful.
Quentin Tarantino is God. Not in the religious sense, but when it comes to movies. Maybe King Midas is more fitting: everything he is involved with turns to gold. Either way, it is well known that Tarantino is an encyclopedia of every genre of film, due to all the quirky elements his films are based on.
With a new website and snazzy new buses, USM’s most recent marketing campaign has been hard to miss.
These efforts – and others – are part of a recent marketing campaign which includes television commercials, online ads, cinema spots, and increased recruiting efforts at high schools.
Good news for WMPG fans: USM’s campus and community radio station is working towards increasing their signal strength further into Maine, widening the station’s broadcast coverage area to reach more listeners.
“We want to be able to reach listeners beyond our current coverage area,” said station manager, Jim Rand, “to places where USM has campuses, like Lewiston, Saco and Bath.
The spring ’09 election results are in. Maggie Guzman has been elected student body president with 148 votes (98 commuter, 50 resident). Runners up, Norman Miller received 113 votes (52 commuter, 61 resident), Brendan Morse received 96 votes (26 commuter, 70 resident), Thomas Lapierre got 42 votes (28 commuter, 14 resident), while Gerald Shannon got only 4 votes (3 commuter, 1 resident).
Sudoku & Crossword puzzle answers for the March 30th issue.
It’s been hard to miss that Portland’s newest acquisition: a minor league basketball team.
But what exactly is the NBA Developmental League?
The D-League, as it is affectionately called, was founded in 2001 as the NBA’s official minor league system. It was conceptualized in much the same way as other minor leagues like those in baseball and hockey, where players who aren’t ready for the highest level of competition are able to play and hone their skills.
If you have always wanted to see an opera, but have never had the opportunity nor wanted to pay for pricey tickets, check out the two one-act Puccini operas “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi,” beginning March 13 at USM.
Full and professional operas are only put on once every four years by the USM Music Department.
On the evening of Wednesday, March 4, a group of people gathered in USM’s Woodbury Campus Center to discuss the Marriage Bill for same-sex couples in Maine. Representatives from Equality Maine and the Maine Freedom to Marry Coalition came to share some information about legitimizing same-sex marriage in Maine and what we can do to support the cause and the bill.
At last Tuesday’s “Town Meeting” held in Gorham, USM President Selma Botman announced that the university’s budget for 2010 is already projected to be $4.3 million in the red.
This deficit may end up being larger if tuition from this year’s summer session doesn’t bring in $3.
A group of sports management students at USM have been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Working alongside Jon Jennings of the new Maine NBA Developmental team, the students in Joanne Williams’ sports marketing class have been getting first-hand experience and real-life glimpse of what it takes to start a professional sports team from scratch.
There is something lovely about getting a new book; protecting the cover, trying to keep it crease free while you tear into the meaty text, ingesting each word, illustrating the story in your mind as you faithfully follow the narrative. When you reach the last sentence, you tuck your friend on a shelf where it waits to be revisited, borrowed, or perhaps for you to walk by, tracing your finger down its spine as you reminisce over the time you once spent together.
Last Friday morning, a group of eighteen USM students set out on a ten hour road trip toward Washington D.C. to attend the second annual Power Shift conference.
Upon arrival, they received ID lanyards labeled with ‘Leader’ status before joining almost 12,000 other leaders at the conference, which organizers say is the largest youth summit on climate change in history.
With the women’s basketball team bowing out of the NCAA tournament, it’s time to put our hopes into another prominent sports team: baseball.
It’s been 12 years since baseball won its second of two national championships, and I think it is about time for another one.
Peapod Recordings has released a new compilation, Winter 2009-an overview of the label’s 2008 releases and a preview of what’s to come in 2009.
The 15-song collection is a solid assemblage of some of Maine’s most eclectic and interesting musicians. Ron Harrity’s growing Portland label boasts an impressive roster that covers a range of sounds and styles.
According to last year’s Pew Research poll on the country’s religious landscape, 71 percent of those surveyed expressed absolute certainty in the existence of a God. An additional 17 percent weren’t without doubts, but counted themselves as believers nonetheless.
Women’s Hockey trounced in semis
Making their first appearance in the ECAC semi-finals since the 2003 season, the USM women’s ice hockey team got all they could handle from Norwich University, losing 8-2 on Saturday.
The loss ends the Huskies’ impressive turn-around season and leaves their record at 14-9-4 on the season.
he last of the big Oscar contenders to land on DVD this spring will be “Frost/Nixon,” April 21.
Until then, journalist David Frost will continue to reap the benefits of his 1977 gamble by filling that vacuum with the DVD release of the actual Frost/Nixon interviews.