Year: Senior
Major: Therapeutic Recreation
Sport: Women’s Track
FP: How long have you been running track, and what made you want to do it in the first place?
Hattie: I started running track in the 4th grade with an after-school program. I soon realized that I was pretty fast, and enjoyed getting the little ribbons if you won.
LAMINATED CAT
A band from Maine! This quartet from the Augusta area changed their name from Interobang to Laminated Cat and moved to Boston, where they’ve recently opened for Apples In Stereo. They even played 2007’s Athens PopFest in Georgia, with the likes of Ted Leo & The Pharmacists and Daniel Johnston.
My Fellow Students:
After my last letter, a student named Rob came into the Student Government Office in the Woodbury Campus Center looking for me. He read my article and told me he appreciated it, but expressed doubt that the majority of USM students would be stirred by it.
Several hundred people rose early in support of Republican Presidential hopeful Dr. Ron Paul as he addressed the USM and Portland communities Monday morning at USM’s Abromson Center.
Flyers bearing Paul’s face and his slogan “The Doctor is in” plastered the walls outside the Hannaford Lecture Hall in the event hosted by the USM College Republicans.
Men’s Basketball
Huskies get fifth straight against Plymouth State
1/29 – The USM men’s basketball team recorded their fifth straight win with a
The door says Wise Laboratory, and they aren’t kidding around.
When walking in, you could be greeted by its director, Dr. John Wise Sr., who relocated the lab from Yale in 2002.
Or by his wife, Sandra Wise, who acts as the Director of Cytogenetics and Genomic Instability.
Walking through the Portland campus these days, it’s hard to believe that USM is in a budget crisis. The constant drone of heavy machinery and glass-paneled brilliance of the Wishcamper Center seem like signs of a university on its way up.
The $8.2 million loan recently granted to the school tells a different story.
New semesters bring with them fresh starts, especially for the USM men’s basketball team. The spring term brought with it the return of three seniors who were forced to sit out the fall semester due to NCAA requirements.
Foster Oakley (Mt. Vernon), Nick Gooding (Concord, CA) and Jamaal Caterina (Portland) have all rejoined Coach Karl Henrikson’s Huskies and have proved to be valuable additions, leading the team to five wins in their last six games and changing the team’s entire make-up.
The Brooklyn-based Fiery Furnaces played at SPACE gallery last Saturday in support of Widow City, their sixth full-length release in four years. Portland’s Phantom Buffalo opened, playing a few songs from their previous Shishimumu, but mostly selections from their forthcoming Take To The Trees.
Given the theme of this week’s issue, I should probably be writing a column that has to do with being Green. But after writing about the presidential search USM is currently undertaking, and after meeting two of the candidates, I felt compelled to leave my favorite color alone for a little while.
A pair of students sit reading in the leather couches in the corner nook of the Abromson Center next to the twenty-foot-tall table-and-chairs sculpture on the first floor. A gray-haired woman smiles from the reception desk, and upstairs the doors to the skywalk swish open and closed.
After an 11 game undefeated run that made them the number seven team in the Division III nation, the men’s hockey team is in a slump, going five games in a row without a win.
The streak began with a 1-3 loss to Trinity College, and continued as they tied Wesleyan 2-2 and Amherst 3-3, lost 1-6 to Hamilton.
“Oh, the weather outside is frightful.” the song begins innocuously enough. It isn’t just frightful: it’s cold, sloppy and no fun. It seems to me that aside from experience and knowing better, along with age comes an appreciation for road conditions. Somewhere, around this time of year, it gets old schlepping from work to school, and home again.
It has been said a thousand times over and shown in who knows how many different ways, yet it still doesn’t seem to be heard. We, as college students and a nation, need to start doing something about our carbon impact on the world today.
With gas prices rising and supposedly reaching a new high of $4 next month, it’s time to realize that we can’t rely on our fossil fuels.
Upon hearing that the showers at the Sullivan Gym are solar-powered, I had to investigate. So I worked up a good sweat, grabbed a towel and jumped in to see how the water was.
And although the water doesn’t whistle through the showerhead like a teakettle, it is adequately warm and stays so throughout the bathing process.
Forty-five minutes after the reception opened some of the professors had trickled in.
A gallery employee stuck a tiny red dot next to a painting by professor Richard Brown Lethem, indicating that it had sold for hundreds of dollars. Gallery curator Carolyn Eyler slowly made her rounds.
Free Press: Why did you decide to become a professor?
Robert Sanford: Too weak to work and too nervous to steal. That’s what my dad said. Seriously, I’m not interested in making a lot of money. I’m optimistic that education is the best way to make a change.
The Maine construction company responsible for building Gorham’s technologically apt and efficient John Mitchell Center is at work again-and being watched.
The property recently aquired from Portland Plastic Pipe is being filmed from atop the Glickman Library and Masterton Hall and reloaded every few seconds, Wright Ryan’s progress on the Wishcamper Center, a part of the University Commons project, is converted to a constant stream of progress available via webcam.
Dear Editor:
I am a non-traditional student and I know a good professor when I have one. Professor Jura Avizienis is exemplary. Last semester I took Professor Avizienis’ “Intro to Literature” course and currently I am taking her “Honors 100: Thinking and Writing in Honors” class.
The thought of the next Paul Pierce or Kevin Garnett playing at the Portland Expo is a nice one. It’s filled with fancy and hope and dollar signs, but it’s a notion that couldn’t be farther from reality and it could ruin an already good thing for the city of Portland.
The room was buzzing with energy. Parents had video recorders, students were leaning in to pay delicate attention to each other’s performances, and in the back was a row of standing smilers. The beaming back row, it was obvious, were the coordinators of the program, showing gestures of success, nodding to one another in delight of what was going on onstage.
Charlie Colgan started off his annual economic forecast this year with a light-hearted joke, remarking, “the large attendance today is actually really bad news.”
Colgan, a professor in the Muskie School of Public Service, went on to explain to the more than 500 member audience that the large number could only mean that things must be getting “a little dicey” in the economy.
To the Editor:
As a member of USM Faculty Senate, I wish to express my thanks to students AJ Chalifour, Marie Follaytfar and Alex Bresler for effectively representing the interests of students at our December meeting.
Their comments on a pending proposal to weaken the ban on exams during the week before finals week were cogent, diplomatic, and carried the day.
Year: Junior
Major: Business
Sport: Men’s Track
FP: How long have you been running track?
Jimmy: I’ve been running track since the 7th grade. When I got to middle school I didn’t feel like trying out for baseball and basketball. The two sports that I didn’t have to try out for were football and track.