• Volleyball gets competitive

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    If you ask Braden Zamore to describe his teams passion for volleyball, he’ll tell you they live and breathe it. Zamore teamed up with Recreations Coordinator Robert Prince to help plan and organize the intramural volleyball club that exists at USM today. “It hasn’t been easy, but I’ve been able to do it,” said Zamore.

  • YOU GOTTA CHECK THEM OUT!

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    This column is a musical soapbox. It’s about passion. It’s about a band or musician that everyone should check out.

  • Doin’ it write

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    Imagine a room full writers talking, criticizing and comparing story ideas, subject matter and style. Enter: The Wordsmith Syndicate. There are over 50 students groups at the University of Southern Maine as part of the BSO (Board of Student Organizations).

  • Letter From The Editor

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    In this week’s paper, we’re running a news brief about a letter President Pattenaude wrote to faculty and staff. It included a few paragraphs about TABOR and why he thought it would have dangerous effects for the university. This follows Pattenaude’s announcment a few weeks ago that USM already was about 2 million dollars in…

  • More rooms, less parking

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    Construction of a new dorm is changing the skyline of the Gorham campus. A large building emerges in Gorham where fields once were. The dorm, located near Bailey Hall, is designed for 296 upper-level and graduate-level students. The new building is scheduled to be finished for the fall of 2007.

  • Health Nut

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    Everyone knows bananas have lots of potassium. We know this is good for us. Our mothers told us so. And it’s true. Potassium is an essential nutrient for all animals. In ion form, (K+) it works with the positive sodium ion (Na+) in cells to help with the passage of electrical impulses such as nerve…

  • Game schedule

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    Day Date Opponent Time Sat. 11/11 Women’s XC 12:00 p.m. @ NCAA Division III New England Regional CHAMPIONSHIPS @ Springfield College Sat. 11/11 Men’s XC 11:00 a.m. @ NCAA New England Regional Championships @ Springfield College Sat.

  • Don’t stay home

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    Things to do instead of getting drunk with your boring roommate.

  • Media Whore

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    Most Americans learn more about the political process from political advertising than they do anywhere else. Being so informed by political media, we better comprehend rhetoric like “cutting and running”, “congressional rubber-stamping” and “staying the course” than we understand the basics of our own government.

  • USM should be proud

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    Dear Editor, I wanted to let readers know that USM should be proud of the job its Resident Assistants did to help the kids of our community recently. Some may have noticed the Noyes moving van parked near the Campus Center for three days. It was there to gather donations for the Big BIG yard…

  • The debate that was not

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    The so-called debate between Professor Herb Adams and his student Jason Lavoie last Wednesday was much less contentious than one would expect from candidates of two very different parties. Absent from the debate was Matt Reading, of the Green Party, leaving Lavoie (Republican) and Adams (Democrat) face to face.

  • Husky scoreboard

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    Women’s Field Hockey (10-10 After first round tournament play): 10/29 – Bridgewater State 2, USM 0 10/31 – USM 1, Westfield State 0 Women’s Soccer (5-13 Season Completed): 10/28 – Western Connecticut 2, USM 0 10/31 – RIC 4, USM 1 Women’s Cross Country: 10/28 – Southern Maine placed second at the 2006 Little East…

  • Pop your socks off

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    A new art display on the Glickman Library’s 7th floor features the 12 students of Rebecca Goodale’s Special Topic Book Arts class. Their assignment was to make a pop-up book of any topic of interest. A reception was held this past Wednesday night opening the student’s art and a few of the pop-up books they…

  • Jelly Donut Series

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    Stephen Schlesinger, director of the World Policy Institute and a recent guest at USM for United Nations Day tried his best to answer the question: Why does the United Nations seem so ineffectual when faced with a military crisis? A tough question, yet one that so many have asked before.

  • Police move Portland office

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    USM’s Portland Police left their offices in the Steego Building on Bedford Street for a new and improved space in the Sullivan Fitness Complex last Monday. Upcoming construction of the University Commons is displacing them. Lt. Jim Stanhope said the new area is smaller, but there is more office space than before.

  • Vast right-wing conspiracy

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    Chandler Woodcock is your average Mainer; he’s not a career politician. His resume includes teaching for 25 years as an English teacher at Livermore Falls, Mt. Blue, and a Skowhegan area high school. As coach of the Mt. Blue girls basketball team, he led them to two Class A state championships.

  • Commons to change USM’s look

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    The old warehouses that mar the Portland campus between Glickman Library and the Abromson Center will be torn down beginning Monday and transformed into the University Commons, a new building, promenade and plaza that Craig Hutchinson, vice president of student and university life, describes as “the gateway to campus for the community.

  • Blue plate special

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    A cozy cottage near Pine Tree Shopping Plaza houses two remarkable restaurants-The Blue House Caf? open for breakfast and lunch, and Francisco’s, open for dinner. The tight two-room dining space was nearly full at about 11:00 a.m., but we managed to get the last table.

  • USM fights back against bomb threats

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    After two bomb threats last month, a bomb expert is arriving on campus to help USM Police train faculty and staff in evacuation procedures and identifying explosives. Police Chief Lisa Beecher has secured the services of Tim Culbert, president of New England Chemical and Explosive Disposal, Inc.

  • News briefs

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    USM | Pattenaude Urges Campus to Vote PORTLAND–President Richard Pattenaude released a statement via e-mail urging all members of USM’s community to vote tomorrow on TABOR, no matter if it is supported or not. He gave the positions of the Board of Trustees and the Board of Visitors, who oppose it.

  • Stanley discovers Livingstone in Africa

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    Nov. 10, 1871-UJIJI, ZANZIBAR– Seven years after Scottish doctor and missionary David Livingstone’s disappearance in the heart of Africa, a search party led by journalist Henry Stanley found him. Stanley and his party had been searching for Livingstone for eight months.

  • CARDS AND STARS

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    Rather than just looking at the sky for some insight into your week, I perform a single card tarot reading to see what challenges and blessings are approaching you during your journey through life. ARIES (KING OF SWORDS) ????: Energy and zeal, Aries.

  • Rock ‘n roll not dead in Portland

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    When Loverless stepped on to a red-lit stage, there was an intense wail over the crowd. Some were requesting older songs like “50 Dollar Ticket” and “Trying to Avoid Your Love,” and ladies screamed “Elijah, take your shirt off.” In the back of the crowd a high pitched voice yelled: “Dan if you don’t give…

  • LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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    This week, we were confronted with an unusual circumstance: One of our columnists, Alex Steed, planned on writinga review of the film, “Jackass II.” Instead, he decided at the last minute to use his “Media Whore” column to criticize The Free Press for what he thought was our biased coverage(Sept.

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