From insurance payments to oil changes, cars can be just as limiting as they…
Musicians riff to pay the bills
Singers and musicians whose passion is pouring hours of practice and rehearsal into honing…
Movie Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Go down the road that splits at the Starbucks until you see the statue…
Azaria Chamberlain set to perform last show
Two USM students, Nick Decker and Chris Armstrong, have been bringing new sounds to…
Hartley’s latest album is full of lyrical twists
No, Portland is not the home of Willie Nelson or Townes Van Zandt, but…
Watts releases solo album after 31 years
Ben Watt, an accomplished writer, DJ, BBC radio personality, and musician, gives a peak…
President Kalikow surprises at senate with a reversal of all 12 faculty layoffs
President Theo Kalikow surprised those in attendance at today’s Faculty Senate meeting when she…
Sustainability and ME: An Eco-Rep Program Begins at USM
By: Jocylin Egan The USM Assistant Director for Sustainable Programs, Tyler Kidder, and a…
Who will lead the pack this summer?
As the weather warms up and athletic events move outdoors, so begins the season…
You Are Wrong: The cuts you should have made
I’m Thaddeus Moriarty, and you are wrong. Why? Because you didn’t think that I…
Our Opinion: Everyone is watching, USM
During the slew of recent cuts at USM, we had to bring you the…
Local electronic band deviates from the norm with their latest album
S/T, released by Contrapposto, is some of the strangest electronic music to come out…
USM students zip their lips for the National Day of Silence
Students at USM and across the world will join in a vow of silence…
Roman decadence thrives in The Great Beauty.
Whether he is walking down a cobble stoned street, dancing to pulsating electronic music…
Heroes and misfits and jazz
Heroes + Misfits, released by up-and-coming jazz pianist Kris Bowers, exemplifies the emerging trend…
Sign of the rhymes: Poetry serves as a medium for change
Poetry reading has evolved from coffeehouses and dusty leather bound books into packed bars,…
Spring enrollment drop surprises administrators
Enrollment numbers for spring 2014 have come in lower than anticipated by the USM…
CAHS talks consolidation, considers proposals to reorganize
Retrenchment and program cuts aren’t the only changes in the College of Arts, Humanities…
Colleges cope with retrenchment of faculty
Since President Theo Kalikow announced the layoffs of twelve faculty members on Friday, March…
Students for #USMFuture demand funding reform for UMaine System
Two weeks after over two hundred students stormed the law building to protest faculty…
Students push back against proposed program cuts
The difference between the faculty members who were laid off last Friday and the…
Students continue to organize after denial of bill at state house
Update: March 27, 6:27 p.m. Students who proposed a bill to analyze the distribution…
Muskie students respond to cuts
Earlier this evening, nearly 40 students from the Muskie School of Public Policy met…
Doyle on 2014 election: Maine needs a plan to serve students in longterm, and Cutler’s will do it
This letter was contributed by Andrew J. Doyle. The University of Maine system has…