The FREE PRESS Adviser Bonny Rodden will resign this year after four years working with the newspaper. She will stay on until the last paper of the semester is finished in April. Her replacement will be chosen by the beginning of August.
USM student begins Appalachian Trail for Alzheimer’s Association
Mary Cameron shed her name for the next six months to don the moniker “Lawn Ornament.” The sophomore anthropology and geology major began the 2,168.9 mile Appalachian Trail on Feb. 22, her twenty-first birthday, laden with sponsorships which she will donate to the Alzheimer’s Association’s Maine chapter.
8th annual WMPG Mardi Gras celebration expanded
The key to the jambalaya contest is to make the most. Even if you have the best jambalaya, if you don’t make enough then you might as well not have made any. The gumbo and jambalayas are judged by ballots of the tasters, essentially anyone who attends the Eighth WMPG Mardi Gras celebration Tuesday at Woodbury Campus Center rooms A, B, and C. It runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., so your secret recipe has to endure hundreds of people throughout the day.
Award-winning youth radio show plans fundraiser for national conference
Sitting around their microphones in a cramped booth at WMPG, a group of local high school students wait nervously until they hit the airwaves. Hannah Champange, 16, from Portland High School, and Samantha Raymond, 17, from Gorham High School, are the engineers for the show. Hurriedly they make hand signals at the hosts through a sound proof window. “Use your headphones,” Champange points. As the seconds count down until Champagne and Raymond hit the promo, the group bustles around making sure microphones are on. The show is called Blunt, and since 1994 the group has brought local youths on air to discuss issues important to them.
Earmarked funds secured for USM
USM has seen over $2.8 million in budget cuts this year. The state has withheld these funds in an effort to deal with its own $1 billion shortfall. Certain programs, however, are still being funded through newly received federal monies.
Athlete of the Week: Jason Levecque
This week’s athlete of the week is Jason Levecque, a men’s basketball guard
Husky hoops in action
Scenes from men and women’s basketball games.
USM four lead athletics honor roll
For the past few weeks it has become a frequent occurrence to see multiple Huskies named players of the week by their respective conferences. Last week was no exception.
Sports scores and Schedule
Weekly sports scores and upcoming schedule
Health Beat: Ortha Evra
The new Ortho Evra birth control patch is a highly effective, weekly hormonal patch that is worn on the skin to prevent pregnancy. It’s worn continuously for one week and replaced on the same day of the week for three consecutive weeks, with the fourth week “patch-free.” You can expect your menstrual period to begin a few days after removing the third patch (during the patch-free week). Ortho Evra is 99 percent effective when used correctly.
Planet Digest
Astrology shows possibilities… you have the power of choice! This week’s Planet Digest
Meet Joe Student: Alex Steed
Meet Alex Steed, 19-year-old history/linguistics major… a “damn sexy” guy
Is Phish regressing or are we just maturing?
In the early 90s the world was introduced to a band that fed into young people’s desire to wear homemade clothes, eat burritos, sell jewelry, hacky sack, and most importantly, do a lot of drugs and dance wildly around to music that seemed to have no end. The band that brought us to this crazy state: Phish.
It may be cliche, but it’s got Pacino
“The Recruit” is a non-event movie that offers nothing new to the spy genre. The filmmakers may think they have a clever plot on their hands, but it is nothing but a re-read of “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,” “Three Days of the Condor” and the recent “Spy Game” molded together to form movie mush. A major theme of this film is deception, but it can’t even deceive us into believing this is a good movie.
The Food Connection
My friend and I feel adventurous. The sports bar scene just doesn’t do the trick for two secure young women looking for something new to do. Neither of us has time for an escapade to a foreign land for dinner. The cure to our exotic itch is Indian cuisine at Tandoor on 88 Exchange St.
Yoga-a voyage to peace
How can we keep ourselves healthy? Yoga instructor Amanda Curtis Kezal might suggest taking a few deep breaths and easing yourself into frog position. Frog is just one of the many yoga postures that focuses on deep breathing and awareness of the body and mind. Curtis Kezal,who teaches the only one credit yoga course offered at USM, is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor.
Count me OUT: B? What’s the B for?
Bisexuality is the outcast sibling of the queer community. Often viewed with suspicion by gay men and lesbians, bisexual people are at the same time not completely members of the straight community either. My best friend Kyle and I took a break from our incessant, coffee-fueled chewings of tangential life issues to continue an ongoing conversation on paper, for the benefit of you all.
Footprint: Sun, fun and garbage
Ingredients for a great day: spectacular fall weather, a boat ride through Casco Bay, crashing surf, sunshine, yummy sandwiches, hot cider, homemade pies, good company, and 430 pounds of garbage. Garbage?? That’s right! On a late September weekend last fall, a group of 10 USM students, faculty, staff, and alumni spent the day picking up trash from the rocks and beaches of Long Island in Casco Bay. USM’s new Office of Environmental and Economic Sustainability sponsored the outing as part of International Coastweek Cleanup.
Staffer talks: Please don’t take me seriously
Okay, so my editors, Nicolette and Elise, tell me that it is my turn to write the weekly column in which a “staffer” speaks. For those of you who aren’t down with THE FREE PRESS jive, a staffer is someone who works here. Right. You knew that, it’s not hard to figure out.
Letters to the Editor: War talk
This week’s letters to the editor run the gamut of war and peace in fiery response to a letter last week in support of war.
Letter from the Editor
This weeks letter from the editor
Senate Update
Weekly report of the happenings at the Student Senate
Frat finds money in couch
The Interfraternity Council (IFC), the student-run governing body of USM, is short a few members due to the absence of those associated with the Gamma Omega chapter of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. This is because Gamma Omega owes about $3,700 to the Phi Kappa Sigma national office, based in Pennsylvania.
Renovations possible for Bailey Hall
Students on the Gorham campus all have to venture into Bailey Hall for class, business, or just to hang out. A few may even go into its library to study. Being the largest building in the University of Maine system, Bailey Hall is hard to avoid.