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How creative is Maine’s economy?
Spring is in the air. The flowers are in bloom, Back Bay is rife with runners wearing only the bare essentials, and USM is overflowing with students anxiously awaiting that magic moment when term papers are done and finals behind them. For seniors completing their degrees, the wonders of imminent summer are overshadowed by questions…
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Editor’s Picks for Summer
So you’ve got a whole summer ahead of you-here are a few of the freakish festivals offered around the state, for those weekends when beer and blackouts in the Old Port seem just a little dull. Fiddlehead Art and Cultural Festival. If mimes unnerve you, this may not be the festival for you; or, you…
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Question of the Week
What fun and exciting plans do you have for the summer? Amy Nolan Music, Sophomore “I’m going the circus.” Kristen Onos Psychology, Sophomore “I plan on SCUBA diving.” Alex Petropoulous Flute Performance, Sophomore “Taking and giving flute lessons.” William Silva Fine Arts, Junior “I’m going to Germany for two weeks.
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Meet Joe Student
Name: Charmaine Willis Major: Political Science Year: Sophomore Age: 20 What are you doing right now? I’m dancing at WMPG’s 70’s vs. 80’s dance party at USM. Do you know anyone from WMPG? Yeah, I work at the campus radio station. Is that what you want to do after graduation? Don’t know, maybe.
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Letter From the Editor
Every year, The Free Press goes through a kind of ritual changing of the guard. The paper must be re-staffed as people graduate, burn out and move on. In my two-plus years here, I’ve watched the slow churning over of an ensemble cast of some of the most excellent people I’ve ever worked with.
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Letters to the Editor
To the Editor: Since I have been a student at USM, I have noticed that there are always negative statements about Greek Life. It’s either we don’t do anything, we don’t get along, we’re drunks, etc. Just because we all have different beliefs, traditions, different philanthropy ideas, etc, doesn’t mean we don’t get along.
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From the mountains
In less than two months, I’ll be in Peru. I’ll be there for four weeks. I’m leaving on Independence Day. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it. That’s a problem of mine. I don’t know if anyone really wants to hear about it, but my hands sweat a lot. Nine months ago it was…
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An interview with this year’s student commencement speaker
Aaron Keller, a chemistry undergrad, will give this May’s student commencement address. Keller will graduate this December, and is working toward his goal as a high school science teacher. Chemistry will be his second degree. He obtained a B.A. in both philosophy and German from the University of Connecticut in 2000.
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The Crypt Caf? and pints with Shakespeare
On the train from Paris to London, a student fainted. His best friend found him in the bathroom, curled around the toilet, looking as though he had decided to take a bit of a snooze right there on the floor. We woke him, poked him, assessed his damage and then promptly alerted a train conductor.
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Campus Crime
April 25 A vehicle belonging to a resident of Portland Hall was burglarized. Food coolers in Bailey Hall were broken into and some beverages stolen. Obscene graffitti was found in the elevator of Upton-Hastings Hall. The perpetrator, a resident of the hall, confessed to police who are still investigating the case to determine the student’s…
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In Brief
Student groups add one to their number The 34th Student Senate voted to recognize a new student group: the USM Mathematical Society. “It’s pretty self-explanatory,” said Deborah Penham when asked to explain the purpose of the organization. “It’s a math club.
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Students left out of UMA task force
Maine State Governor John Baldacci recently ordered the formation of a task force whose purpose is to create a plan for higher education in the Augusta area. The 10-seat committee was filled only last Friday. In the run-up to Baldacci’s appointments, many worried the task force was already drifting in the same direction that made…
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Senate approves budget
The numbers are in, sort of, and the Student Senate budget for the 2005/2006 fiscal year is out, having received approval from both the 33rd Student Senate, and the newly seated 34th Student Senate. The projected $350,000 that make up the budget come from the Student Activity Fee, of which 70 percent is allotted to…
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Letter from the editor
The Free Press hasn’t criticized the actions of the university’s administration very much this year. For the most part, I get the impression that the school does the best that it can and, considering the resources available, does a phenomenal job. Unfortunately, in the past year, there has been some slippage between the actual and…
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Husky Hero
Name: Melissa Bellemore Major: Psychology Year: Sophomore Age: 20 Team: Women’s Track and Field Events: Pole Vault/Jumps/Hurdles Stats: Bryant Invitational (4/9/05): 1st in pole vault (9-6) and Long jump (16-2); Corsair Classic (4/16/05): 1st in pole vault (11-0), 3rd in Triple jump (9.
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Run for the children a success
The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee collaborated with a wide array of USM student organizations to put on the second annual 5k Run for the Children road race on Sunday April 17 in Gorham. The groups were able to raise over $2,000, more than twice the amount they made last year, for the Maine Children’s Cancer Program.
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One Fan’s Perspective
As the end of the semester nears, students are busily finishing up the mountains of work this time of year brings.?This leaves professors scurrying to correct these assignments, giving us the grades we have worked to hard achieve.?This unenviable task of assigning a letter ranking to a body of work put forward by people who…
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Bound for Z
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Hoopleville
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Salome’s Stars
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) The Lamb is usually excited about taking on a new challenge. But if that’s a touch of doubt you’re feeling, maybe it’s you telling yourself to go slow on this until you learn more about it. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Accepting new commitments when you haven’t yet…
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Poets, poets, everywhere
Words & Images hosted a poetry reading last Tuesday to present the Stephen Dunn Poetry Awards to this year’s winners. Keith Foster said “The thing I always say about a small audience is that everyone who matters is there.” Foster is a member of Words & Images opened the poetry reading on the seventh floor…
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Gorham Spring Fling best yet
Last week’s annual Spring Fling, hosted by the Gorham Events Board and Residential Life, went off without a hitch, providing not only merriment and general ribaldry for all involved, but also raising much-needed cash for Habitat for Humanity. The Spring Fling is held every year in Gorham, with events this time around including a casino…
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A life of crime
When I was a kid, from about ages seven to, say, 12 or 13, I wanted to be a jewel thief. Other girls in my class wanted to be teachers, veterinarians, ballerinas; I had no interest in any of these vocations. I wanted to scale fences, steal golden monkeys, frequent remote locales, invariably pursued by…
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Question of the Week
Michelle Braley “I think that it’s great in terms of organization but, I fear that this merger may cause Augusta to loose vital central support as part of that organization.” David Chicoine “I think it’s a good idea it would be nice if all the UMaine campuses would all merge.
