1st Place with 518″-business major and senior Andy Couture
2nd Place with 501″-industrial tech senior, Chad Alexander
3rd Place with 455″-Political Science sophomore, Mark Moskowitz
4th Place with 428″-our youngest contestant and art student, Donald Zaluski
And closing out the top five at 78″-history major, Brian Farrell
Thanks for playing.
Name: Zachary Violette
Major: History with a minor in Art History
Year: Senior
Where are you from?
“I’m from Augusta, Maine”
What is your favorite sports team?
“Is there a right answer for that?”
What are you doing after you graduate?
“I’ll be moving to Boston.
We, the students of the Gender Studies Student Organization, were disturbed by the glossy insert folded inside of last week’s The Free Press, titled,”Think Outside of the Box.” The box we are trapped in, according to the 12 page advertising supplement, is women’s access to reproductive rights.
Last week, The Free Press ran an advertising supplement titled “Think Outside the Box.” This 12-page glossy insert is a long treatise against abortion and a few connected issues like contraception and sex before marriage. While I appreciate the objections of many of our readers, I have to defend our advertisers’ right to do business with us.
Try to find a smokestack on USM’s new Joel and Linda Abromson Community Education Center (CEC), but you won’t. That’s because it’s practically fossil-fuel free. Our “stackless” building could be the first of its kind built by the state of Maine, I’ve learned from the Director of USM’s Sustainability Office, Dudley Greeley.
hree pairs of skis. Somewhere in the mess there are two pairs of crampons. I have a rack of rock climbing gear and another of ice climbing gear, plus extra gear for special climbing situations. I have all sorts of footwear, from constricting rock shoes to heavy plastic mountaineering boots.
By May 13th, ITMS will finish moving to its new home: A consolidation of the two rooms on the second floor of Luther Bonney, with a new entrance just around the corner from their old one. With this smaller space comes the loss of one staff member, the moving of another and the relocation of some of their lesser used services.
While Capistrano looks forward to the return of the sparrows as a sign of spring, USM has the WMPG Spring Begathon. From April 4 to the 10, WMPG’s sandwich board sign sat in the center of Bedford Street letting the community know it was time to show financial support.
Flynn off to school
WMPG’s development director, Tom Flynn, finished working at his last Begathon this spring. Flynn gave his notice and will be leaving his position at the station on May 27, but he won’t be going far.
“I plan to stay very active as a volunteer at WMPG,” said Flynn.
Apr. 5
Gorham Police reported an attempted kidnapping or robbery at Key Bank. The suspect was described as a white male with a red bandana. The suspect was last seen jumping the fence behind Key Bank.
A suspicious person was spotted at the Glickman Library in Portland.
USM has a variety of illustrious speakers coming here every week. Here is a sample of some of them. This list is not all-inclusive and the number of listings is contingent on space. If you, your student group, club, or etcetera would like to place a listing send an e-mail to joseph.
After years of negotiations with Portland Plastic Pipe, USM purchased the property for $1.95 Million. Since its founding in 1975, the company has found itself surrounded by USM property. Portland Plastic Pipe will relocate in South Portland over the next 18 months.
In response to the Legislature’s challenge to the merger of USM and UMA, two members of the Board of Trustees (BOT) resigned in protest on April 5 and 6: Wickham Skinner, vice-chair of the board and Donald McDowell. Both members’ terms would have ended in May.
Their resignation came after the Legislature added an amendment to next year’s budget that identified the names and locations of campuses that the university system must maintain.
CANDIDATES ANSWERED THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN THE ORDER THAT THEY ARE LISTED: How would you define the direction the University is moving in? What do you see as major issues for USM that you will tackle during your term? What do you see as the role of Student Senate as the University goes through transformation? Candidates are listed by alphabetically by position.
USM faces some challenges if it plans to add a football team. The pigskin gained some attention recently when a state legislator introduced a bill requiring USM to conduct a feasibility study exploring the idea. The bill was defeated, essentially leaving football a flat issue for now.
The USM Women’s Track and Field team capped off a monumental season with a fifth place finish at the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship last Saturday at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. The Huskies’ fifth place finish was the best in school’s history.
Is it that time of year already??The snow may be flying outside your window right now, but the 2004 darlings of Major League Baseball, the Boston Red Sox, are gearing up to defend their first world championship in 86 years.?Following the most improbable comeback in the sport’s history, baseball took a beating this winter in the media.
Name: Meg Myles
Major: Social Work
Year: Junior
Team: Women’s Basketball
Jersey #: 33
Position: Forward
Stats:
12.6 ppg,
5.5 rpg,
54 assists, 27 blocks,
61 steals
Recent Highlights:
Named Most Outstanding Player of Little East Conference tournament
Favorite thing about USM athletics:
The success of the program and the unity within the athletes
Quote from Coach Fifield:
“Meg came up with a big game against (Ithaca) and we rode that
performance to the “Sweet 16.
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Disappointed about something that didn’t go your way? Cheer up. Look at the reasons it happened, and you could find a valuable lesson about what to do (or not do!) the next time.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) It’s a good time to do some reassessing of plans and goals — even how you considered redoing your bathroom.
Admit it. You had no idea USM had a provost until you saw his picture in The Free Press. You still have no idea what his job is. You’re not the only one. Talk of Provost Joseph Wood’s self-created Research Initiative placed him in the University spotlight recently, prompting some students to wonder who the provost is, and what he does.
and in hand. Whether it’s reggae blaring from speakers set in dorm windows on those first hazy days of spring, a car shaking with an ambitious hip-hop bass line, or Mozart playing on a rehearsal piano late at night, it seems the college experience is always set to a distinct rhythm.