Major: Psychology
Year: Freshman
Do you have a favorite class at the moment?
Yes I do — my psychology class (Intro to Psych) with Kenneth Gardiner. It’s a little bit long and a little bit tedious, but it’s psych, and as cliche as it sounds, it’s my major, so I love it.
1. Benjamin Taylor is a sophomore economics major.
Current Activities: USM Student Senate, Vice Chair
Greatest concern: A lack of student involvement. Without enough students involved, there’s a lack of quality events being planned. Also, student voice is diminished and not taken seriously.
Pisces
February 19-March 20
Time to switch to light beer. Your mellow demeanor and the upcoming vacation could have you lying low-too much time on the couch paired with March Madness and catching up on Lost could result in a few extra pounds.
This week, try blogging your hopes.
1. Robert W. Ellis is a junior political science major.
Current Activities: Public relations chair of the Student Senate, Amnesty International, I am also a USM democrat that understands the importance of bi-partisan cooperation.
Greatest concern: My greatest concerns are the opportunities available to you before and after graduation.
1. Julie F. Brewer is a junior biology and math double major.
Current Activities: Hall council, student leader trainings, sailing club, chemistry club, biology club, STRIVE, New England Science Bowl, Change ’08
Greatest concern: I feel the greatest concern to the USM student body is its lack of good communication and awareness of campus proceedings and activities.
A car of one’s own Feb. 13- 4:48 p.m. Welfare check: Checking on occupant of vehicle. Subject was writing a term paper, all set.
The phantom car of G-16 Feb. 24 – 11:55 p.m. Suspicious Incident: Vehicle flashing headlights in what appeared to be SOS pattern.
Monday March 17
Student Government Elections- Vote USM! Decide who will represent you on the Student Senate and as Student Body President./ Vote online: www.usm.maine.edu/studentlife/vote08/ All week/ For more information, stop by the Involvement and Activities Center in Woodbury Campus Center.
On Friday night, the women’s basketball team walked off the court for the last time this season. It was the first-round game of the NCAA national tournament-the Huskies received an at-large bid to the tournament after losing the conference championship game in overtime to Eastern Connecticut-and though they played one of their best games of the season and led most of the game, the Huskies couldn’t hang on in the end.
He’s published. He’s accomplished internationally. He has appeared on Oprah, and besides serving as an adjunct professor, he heads up projects that aim at uniting Southern Maine’s immigrant community and the university. His community outreach has spanned the last 20 years.
After five years at USM, I have this semester found myself seeing this university in a new light.
Just last week, I was walking across Bedford St. from my office toward class in Payson Smith. The soon-to-be-setting sun caught the iced-over trees in the most perfect way.I wished I had had my camera, it was a school-brochure moment.
Selma Botman will be recommended as the next president of USM at the Board of Trustees meeting on Monday. The announcement came last week from the office of system Chancellor Richard Pattenaude.
Though the BOT must approve the recommendation, it is unlikely that they will go against Pattenaude’s decision, which came after hearing a report from the Presidential Search Committee in February that detailed results from surveys filled out by students, staff and faculty across all three campuses.
Early in the season, head wrestling coach Joe Pistone commented that one of the toughest parts of his sport is that athletes train for 20 to 40 hours for each seven-minute match.
On Friday, after two weeks of training, six hours on planes and four days in Iowa, sophomore Mike Morin (Fryeburg) had just 14 minutes on the mat before he was eliminated from the tournament in a heartbreaking final match.
WMGP is not exactly a college radio station. It sits on one edge of campus – the first of the white houses as you drive past the garage – but bumper stickers, t-shirts, banners and DJs all proudly proclaim it as southern Maine’s community radio.
If you were tuned in last Tuesday morning, you might have heard DJ Deirdre Nice cue up Jeff Tweady’s rendition of “Simple Twist of Fate,” but you didn’t see her sit back in her chair and gaze out toward the parking garage at the gray, rainy day.
In last week’s “From the Right,” Dustin Gilbert advocates the censorship of prisoners and their art. I would like to ask him and you, the reader, a question. Could we imagine a world in which Martin Luther King Jr. or Nelson Mandela had their voices silenced while imprisoned? We would have lost the inspiration of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and the education of Mandela.
A campus safety alert arrived in USM e-mail inboxes on Friday afternoon, alerting the community about a man who had been found acting suspiciously on the Portland campus.
He has a history of frequenting college campuses, and has been reported to police at Bowdoin College as well as in Portland’s Old Port.
The annual rite of spring that captivates millions of American sports fans is rapidly approaching: students around USM are not immune to the frenzy that is March Madness in college basketball.
From casual fans to die-hard Dukies and those who bleed Tar Heel blue, the annual college basketball tournaments draw a boatload of attention and even more speculation.
March 10
Come tango at the North Star Cafe with Tango Mucha Labia, and show off your moves. The lesson starts at 7, and the dancing at 8. $5/ 225 Congress St., Portland/ 699-2994
March 11
Want to be an actor? Come audition for student films at the USM media studies production facility.
Believe it or not, you can find conservatism in some pretty strange places. I read Dustin Gilbert’s original letter to the editor very closely.
When I introduced myself in this column, I tried to describe some of the many facets that make up who I am.
A mother and English major, gay and very close to being 45, deep within me beats the very conservative heart of a woman whose oldest brother was a police officer who was shot and later died of his injuries.
Dressed in jeans, a white T-shirt and a dark sweater, carrying a briefcase, face obscured by a beard, Alex Peppe resembles a normal neo-hippie 20-something grad student about to teach a lab. He was once a lab instructor, but Peppe is not anywhere near normal.
Men’s Basketball
Seniors Drew Coppenrath (Barnet, VT) and Jamaal Caterina (Portland) were named to the Little East Conference (LEC) all-conference team. Caterina earned a spot on the first team, and Coppenrath on the second and also the all-defensive squad.
Leaning against the wall in one corner of the Gorham art gallery are six paintings, all in various stages of completion. There’s also a record player and a comfortable old yellow chair speckled with paint.
Empty coffee cups, album covers, and paintbrushes are strewn about the drop cloth surrounding an easel, and stale tortilla chips crunch underfoot.
Monday March 10
Free Press Budget Meeting – Weekly meeting to assign stories/ 92 Bedford Street, Portland Campus/ 5-6 p.m./ For more information email Sarah Trent at [email protected].
Safe Zone Project Session- Join us to learn more about the LGBTQ community at USM/ 10-11:30 a.
If you happened to wander through Bailey Hall around lunchtime on Friday, Feb. 29, you had to weave through a crowd of students (one of them dressed as the Husky) lounging in the lobby with plates of Aramark pasta salad and sandwiches.
These students – including the Husky – were gathered for “Change ’08,” a day-long summit for student leaders to reflect on what’s wrong with their USM experiences, and what they might do to make them better-for everyone.