This week’s letters to the editor critique professors’ civil disobedience and the administration surrounding them for neglecting the canon
Greeks celebrate with roasted meat
Pictures from a Greek barbecue held last Friday in Gorham.
Sports scores and schedule
An update of the latest sports scores and schedule
Health Beat: Smallpox basics
Smallpox is a contagious and sometimes fatal disease caused by the variola virus. No one has naturally contracted smallpox since 1977. In 1980, the World Health Assembly declared that smallpox was eradicated throughout the world.
Former USM Husky makes the big leagues
USM alumnus Michael Paul Welch’s childhood dream of playing baseball in the major leagues became a reality in July 1998 in New York’s Shea Stadium.
Planet Digest: Week of April 14 ~ 20, 2003
Astronomy shows possibilities… You have the power of choice! Charlie Gould’s Planet Digest
Joe Student: Joseph Marquis
This week’s Joe Student is Joseph Marquis, who thinks the man-eating cow will go bck to the Earth like all of us
Rent a flick: It’s cheaper!
Sometimes films slip through the grasp of the faithful moviegoer. While it is preferable to see a film on a big screen as it is intended, it is impossible to see everything that hits the theaters, especially those films that fail to find an audience in their first week and are hurried out of town to make room for the next one.
The Ataris: mindless pop to please the “easy”
“So Long, Astoria” is the major label debut for former indie rockers The Ataris. Having several independent releases under their belts with sales in the hundreds of thousands, Columbia Records has given The Ataris a shot. This move will most likely pay off big for Columbia and give The Ataris much more fame, notoriety, and airtime.
Bull Feeney’s taps Joe out
Spanking new food critic Joe Reynold is out on the prowl for copious amounts of food. His search brings him to Bull Feeney’s
Students dream of festival scene
So it’s the end of the year and most students are hustling to finish their final projects. The fate of most final projects is most likely the bottom of a cardboard box if you’re a packrat; the garbage can if you’re happy to feed the trash monster; or, for a few students, your professor’s archives to be presented to future pupils.
Footprint: The sphinx looks for Earth Day
I was supposed to write an article generating excitement about USM’s Earth Day celebrations. I poked around on the Internet looking for some inspiring Earth Day tidbits to share. Oddly, and perhaps appropriately, given the current state of the environment, the first few sites I looked at were not uplifting and celebratory.
Letters to the Editor…
This week’s letters to the editor bring up responses to senate coverage and elections, civil disobedience-related arrests, and to criticism of the weekly column “Count me OUT”
Staffer Talks: Clam Chowder and Finals Week
This week’s staffer talking is News Editor John Bronson, who “brings up” a story from the past to help us deal with the inevitable stress of crunch time
Letters from the Editor: Dear Ndugu,
This week Executive Editor Elise talks about the elusive spring and changes in life in general as well as other philosophical stuff
Low election turnout sparks reform ideas
Last year over 5 percent of the student body voted in these elections. This year drew just shy of 2 percent of the student body. The current Senate and many of the Senate candidates recognized in the Student Senate meeting April 11 that the tiny outcome of the elections is a problem and the process needs to be reformed.
Building Habitat for Humanity
Senior Fine Arts major Lisa Emery began her school year with a goal. She wanted to set up a collegiate chapter of Habitat for Humanity (HFH). She began in October setting up a table every Monday afternoon in the campus center to recruit students for local builds as well as an alternative spring break in Florida.
Marijuana activist pickets in front of Law School
Michael Dee, a local activist, protested last Thursday April 10 outside USM’s law building. He said he has been barred from Portland courts after filing multiple failed suits against the State’s drug laws. He also said May 1 is an international marijuana protest day.
Budget crunch squeezes students
A tuition raise at USM is likely in 2003 school year as costs rise across the entire University of Maine system. Officials cite rising insurance and benefit costs and flat funding from the State of Maine as factors in the budget crunch. A tuition raise is likely to be small, which would follow a long precedent of 1 to 2 percent increases each year.
Briefly…
Weekly news briefs
Senate Update
A report of the happenings at the latest Student Senate meeting
USM’s set to instate unified fee
Don’t be surprised when reviewing your student bill this fall that most of the fee lines have disappeared. The University is remodeling the fee system to create a single all-inclusive fee to cover University operational costs.
University dining services looking to change
Most students living on campus have no choice but to use University dining facilities everyday, and many have complaints about quality and cost. According to a recent survey of Student Senate candidates in The Free Press (April 7, 2003), food quality and price was a major problem.
Fresman dies in car accident
Seamus Nee, a freshman business major, died unexpectedly April 5 when the vehicle he was riding in spun out of control in snowy conditions and collided with oncoming traffic. He was 19 years old. Police are still investigating but have ruled out alcohol or speed as factors in the crash.