Ten years before the terrorist attacks of 2001, the Free Press asked students, “Are you concerned about the threat of terrorist action within the United States?”
Most of the respondents said they were not especially concerned, though a couple expressed mild awareness of the possibility.
Ten years before the terrorist attacks of 2001, the Free Press asked students, “Are you concerned about the threat of terrorist action within the United States?”
Most of the respondents said they were not especially concerned, though a couple expressed mild awareness of the possibility.
Students from California to Maine are feeling the pinch of the increasing cost of education and that includes everything from tuition to textbooks. While the rising cost of tuition stands in the spotlight every year, the rising cost of textbooks has largely been ignored, until now.
Freshman pitcher Josh Armandi attempts to pick off a runner on first base during Thursday’s game vs. Salem State.
When she learned that the University had decided not to renew her annual contract, Erika Anderson, Lecturer in Communication was dismayed, she says, not for herself, but for the already short-staffed department she served. In an email sent to many communication majors on April 5, she urged students to organize and protest the communication department’s dwindling resources.
“Excuse, sir, can we see your passport?” the Chinese conductor said in broken English. “Sure, one moment,” I said as I searched my money belt. I patted my waist, looked through my bag and anywhere else it could have been, but to no success….
This year’s USM Job Fair drew 48 exhibitors and hundreds of job seekers to the Sullivan Gym in Portland last Thursday afternoon. Students wandered up and down the aisles of employers eager to answer questions about job openings at their organizations. Senior accounting major Melissa Hayman was pleased.
Juniors Kim Brewer, Bristol, VT, and Kristen Sinclair, Manchester, ME, have excelled early in the outdoor season for the USM Women’s Track Team. In fact, Brewer and Sinclair, two of the team’s captains, recently led the team to a victory in the Rhode Island Invitational.
Next time you walk down Congress Street in Portland, stop and look in the window of SPACE Gallery at 538 Congress. The latest urban mural by San Francisco artist Andrew J. Schoultz will be taking shape throughout the month of April at the gallery.
George W. Bush is not that different from Osama Bin Laden, and that scares me.
When her professor thought she spoke some Yiddish, Sara Ehrmann, a third year music education major said, “he came up to me and asked me to teach him something because as he said, the only Yiddish word he knew was “schmuck.”
The Maine Scholar, a publication that in the past has represented the entire University of Maine System, has recently become a department solely under the University of Southern Maine.
From tennis elbow to biker’s knee, there’s hardly a sport that doesn’t have an injury associated with it. But don’t let concern about injuries keep you from exercising. Studies show that the benefits of exercise exceed the risk of injury.
Somewhere between the Pixies and the “New Rock” bands like the Strokes and Jet lies a pleasantly in-your-face band from Sweden called Randy. They know how to craft engaging songs with bountiful energy and meaningful punk lyrics, and their accomplished sound sets them apart from the average rock band.
Purchasing textbooks from overseas distributors has been called unethical by some entities, namely those affiliated with the National Association of College Stores (NACS). NACS is currently pressuring publishers to do something about the “problem” of reimportation of textbooks originally sold by American publishers to foreign markets.
Kani Xulam, a Kurdish activist with 11 years of experience serving in Washington, D.C. as an advocate for Kurds in the Middle East, spoke Wednesday night at a packed Moot Courtroom in the Law Building. With nearly 50 people in attendance, many USM students, Xulam presented a detailed history of Kurdish “oppression and genocide” at the hands of a divergent range of Islamic nation-states with a “culture of violence” in the Middle East.
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The Brides of Destruction were formed by Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx and L.A. Guns guitarist Tracii Guns in 2002 under the provisional name Cockstar (which, personally, I think is a brilliant name for this band).
Their debut studio release, “Here Come the Brides,” came out this year, and as a fan of heavy metal and modern rock, I jumped at the chance to review it.
I was screwed in the national guard…. Achewood, indicative of PC model of society…. Democrats, not Bush, trying to reinstate draft…. Hypocritical Christians follow flawed word…. Moldy house? Don’t burn it down…. Police no longer idle….
Sexually transmitted diseases previously not found on campus are now showing up. “Since I’ve been here I think we’ve had two positive cases of Gonorrhea,” said Larisa Semenuk, Clinical Manager since November at University Health Services. “I’ve already, myself, [seen] three positive cases [of chlamydia].
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The top three floors of the Glickman Library in Portland were officially opened to the public last Friday, to much pomp and fanfare.
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