Some folks are religious about the seasonal elements of music, for example, spring is the only appropriate time to listen to Pavement’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. This topic is subjective and personal, but sometimes it becomes universal. The same way smells transport you to specific times, music can do this.
Taxman
A joint effort between the University of Southern Maine and Quantrix seeks to make the McCain and Obama tax proposals easier to understand – by applying them directly to you.
Husky Hero
Free Press: You’re from Gloucester, MA. What made you want to come to USM?
India Lowe: I was looking at a couple of schools, and I didn’t get in to the Division II school I wanted This was the only other school I applied to.
FP: Are you satisfied with the choice you made to come to USM?
IL: Very satisfied because I have met some of the greatest people and made friends with people I know I’ll stay in touch with my whole life.
Jeremy Edwards and the art of design
Jeremy Edwards gets a buzz from seeing how people dress, behave, and walk down the street-from country to country. The English designer lives and teaches in Paris, France, after spending his life living and working across Europe.
This semester, his work as a designer has brought him to a new country for observation, the United States.
High-Energy Healing
USM’s Nancy Richeson, a student and practitioner of Reiki, is turning her academic eye on the age-old, holistic approach to healing.
Beer + Wings + Sports= Joy
I want to tell you something about my life. I live approximately thirty yards from the glorious watering hole known as Binga’s Wingas. This has had both good and bad effects on my life. Good in that I’ve been able to watch most of the sports I like while enjoying a cheap, refreshing, watery pibbers (read: PBR) while stuffing my face with some of the best comfort food known to mankind.
Jake Cowan on: “Guts!”
“GUTS! D-d-d-d-do you have em? Guts! And let’s go to Moe with the official score.”
Remember “Guts”? Nickelodeon’s old game show that started off as a friendly competition between children from America, then turned into “Global Guts” which was a ruthless, drag out, my country-is-better-than-yours fight to the death?
Of course you do.
Brandon’s Brew Review
Having never drank a barley wine before, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I picked up a six pack of Old Foghorn. I knew that Anchor’s other offerings, like their Steam beer and their Porter, were delightful, so I figured this might be worth a taste.
Cyr, Jasud on top of LEC
There were high expectations for senior Gabby Cyr (Fort Kent) and junior Tyler Jasud (Rumford) heading into this fall’s cross country season. Both were slated to be their team’s leader and top performers in the conference.
So far those expectations have been met.
Huskies heat up, sink Polar Bears
“Sinisa is playing like a man.”
Those were the words of men’s soccer coach Mike Keller in describing the recent play of his senior forward Sinisa Bajic (Belgrade, Serbia).
With two goals and an assist in last week’s game against Bowdoin, Bajic lifted the struggling Huskies to a 3-1 victory over instate rival Bowdoin College in non-conference play.
Young Huskies shake a streak
The USM Huskies stopped a 3 game slide with a 3-0 shutout of Western Connecticut State University on Saturday. Southern Maine scored 1 goal in the first half, and added another two in the second to breeze past the Colonials.
The Huskies spent the first 10 minutes of action defending their own end as Western Connecticut dominated the possession game, while the Huskies looked flat.
Bajic: A Huskier Tom Brady?
John Forestell
Guest Columnist
Just this past week in our neck of the woods, the USM men’s soccer team beat perennially ranked Bowdoin College 3-1 behind senior forward Sinisa Bajic’s (Belgrade, Serbia) two goals and an assist.
It’s efforts like the one he turned in last week that make me think that the Serbian Sensation is USM’s version of a much more vaunted New England athlete: Tom Brady.
Walking the Walk
Nick Beauchesne
Contributing Writer
Choosing a college is the first real-life decision many of people make. For Colin Reilly, it was a decision that would take him across the country and through a host of experiences that have led the senior to cherish his time on the field, in the classroom, and most importantly, in this state.
Fast, Powerful, Punk:
Get ready to kick out the literary jams on Thursday, Sept. 25, at the SPACE, with a “Words and Images” celebration. Sponsored by USM’s yearly literary and art journal and the English Students’ Association, this is just one of four events to take place at or around USM, running from Monday, Sept.
Restaurant Review
Jeff Hodenberg
Contributing Writer
How does one decide on where to eat sushi in a town that has an abundance of sushi restaurants? I would say that it depends on what you want from your experience. For a relaxed evening and inexpensive sushi I would recommend you try Sapporo, on Commerical Street.
Brandon’s Brew Review
With the weather feeling more and more like Autumn these days, I wanted to pick up a beer that reflected those feelings this week. Now granted, technically this Maple Oat Ale from the good folks at Peak Organic is a Spring time release, but it just seems like it should be a Fall offering with it’s packaging and subtle hints of maple.
An Interview with Loki’s Jon Taylor
Free Press: Who is Loki? What do you play?
J.T: I’m J.T. (Jon Taylor) and I am the lead singer. On guitar is Jonathan Boyer. Seth McClellen plays bass, and Adam Nichols smacks the drums.
FP: So just how long have you been a band?
J.T.: We started at the end of ’99, so 8 years, going on 9.
Starting a Fire
Staff Writer
Ask Eben Metivier what he’s doing with his life these days and he has a stock answer ready to go.
“I would say I’m saving the world – 500 people at a time.”
Metivier is the Operations Director of Kaleidoscope, the agency presenting Kindle, a Northern New England Bioneers Conference.
An intern in a haystack
For the past ten days, art professor Micheal Shaugnessy has been knees deep in hay, and getting St. Louis into the hay as well. His sculpture stands as the inagural exhibition of St. Louis’ Craft Alliance, an anticipated new gallery and artist space. He has worked from sun-up until past sundown since the day he arrived, building his signature structures, and completely covering them in hay.
Campus Events
Monday September 22
Step Aerobics-
Stepping, toning, and stretching….all choreographed to music. $10 for semester for current USM students/ Offered Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 6:15-7:15 a.m. Multi-Purpose Room, Sullivan Complex, Portland Campus/For more information or non-student pricing, check out our website at http://usm.
“A Wasted Vote by Any Other Name”
As I begin to see more and more Nader ’08 stickers popping up on vehicles around Portland, I begin to ask a few questions in my head. ‘Who are these people?’, and then invariably, ‘what are they thinking?!’.
I understand the desire to break up the two-party structure in this country, and I am all for it.
Letter From The Editor
It’s a funny ritual to watch. Students trudging down the aisles of the USM bookstores, eyes slowly scanning the shelves until they find their required texts, then begrudgingly lugging them to the checkout.
If sticker shock could kill, college bookstores would be horrific places.
Robie-Andrews chemical spill contained
When the first round of alarms went off at about 9:30 on Tuesday night at Robie Andrews Hall in Gorham, nobody was exactly sure about the cause. There had been a potentially toxic chemical spill in the basement, and all 200 residents had to be temporarily evacuated.
Student Government: Welcome Freshmen
Their resumes are relatively thin. Their candidacies, unprecedented.
But that isn’t stopping several freshman from vying for seats in USM’s Student Senate before the ink has even dried on their student IDs.
It’s the result of several reforms made to the requirements and procedures of the student government over the past few months.