This semester, Eric Favreau took over as president of the USM Outing Club, one of the university’s most active student organizations.
The group, which has an email list-serv of nearly 500 students, has grown by “leaps and bounds,” he says, but he admits that implementing his larger vision for it is sometimes a struggle.
April 14
If you’ve got kids, siblings, or friends who never quite grew up, you might just enjoy a family concert by Matt Loosigian, which is part of the Week of the Young Child. This event is sponsored by the USM Child and Family Centers. 4:30 to 5:15 p.m.
Dear Free Press,
This letter is in response to “Don’t believe the hype around Democrats” published on April 7.
First and foremost I would like to thank you for allowing Mr. Gilbert to contribute to our school newspaper. It is very important for a publication such as The Free Press to contain varying view points, different ideas, and suggestions which allow its readers to obtain different perspectives on a myriad of issues.
Three USM students are concerned about genocide in Darfur.
Well, perhaps there are more than three, but in a year when involved students seem to be less involved than usual, and facing a lack of general knowledge about what’s happening in Darfur, three are trying to reenergize a student group dedicated to the issue.
The Huskies improved to an impressive 15-7 after a busy week, earning three wins in their last four games. A robust offense delivered 41 runs over the four-game week, with the defense keeping opponents in check by allowing only 24 runs.
On Wednesday against Husson College, an offensive battle went the Huskies’ way as the hot bat of sophomore Chris Burleson (Portland) lit up on Husson’s pitching, earning him four runs, including two doubles and a triple.
As I write this column, which was due about two hours ago, I am a stressed out student. I know I am not alone.
The semester is coming to an end, the rest fiercely uphill.
On top of my classes and an independent study, the $250 speeding ticket I got a few days ago isn’t sitting well with my empty pocket book, and I’m attempting to figure out my summer.
I am a minority. When I go into a class where I know politics will be discussed, I usually come braced for debate.
In an American government class last semester, however, I wanted to see what would be discussed if I didn’t make my conservative presence known.
Ben Taylor could just wait in the wings for his term to begin.
After the announcement of his landslide victory in last month’s student government elections, Taylor could just kick up his heels on the Student Senate desk in the campus center office. He could coast until next semester, patting himself on the back for earning 44 percent of the vote and enjoy a nice, stress-free month.
I know a few Huskies who are looking for a good home. This isn’t a classified ad: they play baseball, softball and lacrosse. Their fields, wet and brown, are so far unplayable.
After the long snowy winter and with fields that take forever to dry, our athletes have been forced to travel all over — to play their home games.
As a deaf child, Wayne Betts Jr. watched E.T. for the first time, and knew instantly that he would be a filmmaker.
After years of education, including time at Rochester Institution of Technology’s School of Film and Animation, he has reached his lifelong goal.
How long have you been in Maine?
Since the early 1970’s. I moved here immediately after graduating (undergrad) and was part of the back-to-the-land movement, and built a little place out in the woods.
A place in the woods?
That was a time when people were disillusioned with the Vietnam War, and there were a lot of young people throughout the country moving to rural areas.
A local radio station is enticing its listeners with encouragement for its latest contest: “What will it take to stimulate your economy? A new television or maybe free gas for a year?”
Everywhere you turn, the buzz of recession is eminent.
Talk of an economic slump is all over news headlines; “jobs slashed” and “pointing to a recession” have become commonplace.
“Gas prices have affected how much I drive, but the shuttle bus is helpful. Traveling internationally is getting harder because the U.S. dollar isn’t worth as much because of adjusting exchange rates in Europe.” Miranda-May Beaubien, Sophomore Environmental Science “I don’t really pay attention to that stuff.
Year: Senior
Major: Health Sciences
Sport: Softball
FP: How long have you been playing softball?
Kristina: Since I was 9 years old.
FP: Did you fall in love with it right from the start, or did someone push you towards it along the way?
Kristina: When I first started out playing, my parents said that I didn’t like it, but about a year went by (without playing) and I got back into it and started playing on a little league team and as I got older I played ASA ball (and) it became my favorite sport.
It is, in fact, a small world.
And with the many options available through international and domestic study abroad programs at USM, traveling that world has never been more convenient.
Each year, hundreds of students go through a somewhat lengthy process to apply to study in other parts of the world.
Baseball
4/6 – Rhode Island College 3, USM 1
4/6 – USM 7, Rhode Island College 1
4/9 – USM 11, Husson 10
4/10 – USM 13, Salem State 2
4/11 – USM 4, Eastern Connecticut 2
4/11 – Eastern Connecticut 9, USM 6
Softball
4/10 – USM 8, Salem State 7
4/10 – US
Latvia
Brianna Allen, a senior art major at USM, was abroad last spring. For the price of USM tuition, she studied in Riga, Latvia. She says the insight she gained academically, culturally and personally was “exponential.”
Her first impression: “it’s cold.
UMass Dartmouth always proves to be a season-deciding opponent for the women’s lacrosse team. The Huskies and the Corsairs usually end up as the middle pair in the Little East Conference, and have met each other for the first round of play-offs three of the last four years.
Tuesday April 15
Club Volleyball Team, Guys and Girls- Weekly meetings on Tuesdays and Sundays/ Hill gym-Costello Sports Complex, Gorham Campus/ 7-9 p.m./ For more information Please email Dani Netland [email protected].
Women and Spirituality- Women in leadership in their diverse religious communities discuss their paths to religious life, the mentors who encouraged them, how they have persevered/ Woodbury Campus Center Amphitheater, Portland/ 12:30-2 p.
Baseball
Huskies earn key split with Eastern Connecticut
4/11 – Sophomore Mark Schmidt (Gorham) pitched 5.2 innings in relief of an injured Collin Henry (Penobscot) to help lead USM to a 4-2 victory over conference rival Eastern Connecticut. Schmidt allowed only two hits and one run and improved his record to 4-0.
After one of their most impressive seasons in recent memory, the 2008 men’s tennis team started right where last year’s Huskies left off. In their home opener, they took down Little East Conference rival UMass Dartmouth 6-3.
The close competition was led by sophomore Josh Warren (Hermon) and junior Derek Stevenson (Raymond), two of only three returning players on this year’s squad, who is looking to extend their LEC supremacy by vying for their fourth conference title in a row.
Warren, playing in the number one singles slot, took over the court with a 6-2, 6-3 win over the Corsair’s senior Dave Gogoi, and Stevenson floated through at number two, taking a 6-1, 6-1 win over junior Chris Forster.
Steve Lent (Sharon, NH) and Adam Mitchell (Windham, ME) each won their singles matches against UMass as well, Mitchell taking home his first collegiate victory, filling the number 5 position for USM.
Anime Boston invaded Beantown’s Hynes Convention Center over Easter weekend, and just like Christians flocking to midnight mass, anime fans from all over the East Coast made their yearly trek to this nerd-Mecca.
While home in Massachusetts for Spring Break, I set out early Saturday morning, accompanied by my friend Al, to indulge in the prolific art form that is Japanese animation.
Neither of us had attended an anime convention before, and unfortunately, neither of us will be attending Anime Boston again.
Being super-negative isn’t usually my bag, but taking part in Anime Boston was like waiting in line (for four hours!) to see a unicorn and then when it is your turn to finally see the mythical steed, it turns out to be a giant ugly horse.
Newspapers are dying. Apparently. So they say.
Call me na’ve, but I’m not convinced.
Over vacation, in an interview with Justin Ellis, who was writing about the same topic for his Monday column in the Press Herald, I told him that I thought newspapers were simply finding themselves again.
Finding themselves in the face of a supposedly apathetic public, or an apathetic young public; in the face of losing ad revenue and viewers to the worldwide web; and all of this under an economy that seems to get worse every day.
Just before campus cleared out for vacation, the USM Board of Visitors presented a report on the future of the university.
The report, called the “Southern Maine Imperative II,” calls on the local community to make a substantial investment in the university, which they think is in the best interests of both the region and the school.