Archive for December 13th, 2001

Dear President Hoff and elves, Here are a few things that are on our wish list this holiday season: Help initiate a policy that will give students more of a break when it comes to parking. Let us have a freebie ticket once a semester for a parking mistake.

In 402 Neville Hall, students sit in pairs bent over an essay and discussing its contents in hushed tones. They toss ideas back and forth, clarify sentences and look at the written work from different angles. Before the essay leaves the room, it will have been revised, developed and polished by a trained writing tutor and the author.

The following events took place at the Tuesday, Dec. 11 meeting of the General Student Senate. Out-going president, Pearce Paul Creasman, appointed vice presidents of student entertainment and financial affairs. Margaret O’Brien and Matthew Martin were appointed and sworn in to their positions, respectively.

Student Government elections will be held today on FirstClass. By now, a folder labeled “Student Gov’t Elections” should have appeared on your desktop. To cast your vote, click on the icon. Information regarding the elections can be found by clicking on the “Student Government Elections” icon.

The upcoming winter break means most residents will be packing up their belongings and vacating the dorms. However, not everyone will be checking out of the residence halls and heading home. Four occupants of Stodder Hall are already home. Meet Jeff and Kristen Powell.

ARTS FUNDING While the administration may claim to support the arts, it seems our peers have stepped up to provide theatre students with some funding we so desperately need. When UMaine cut budgets across the board, the theatre division was hit severely. No longer can the program afford to send its students to the American College Theatre Festival’s regional conference this year.

‘Tis the season for giving, buying, consumer debt and excessive consumption in the developed world. Each year it seems we forget more and more the true meaning of the holidays-or so many say. People are angered by the commercialization of the holidays as though they have no part in it.

There’s nothing quite like the embarrassment of being hunched over your knees while sitting on a toilet seat, clutching your buns together and biting your lip, worried that the person in the next stall or the urinal near you will hear the telltale “hunnhhh-plop” or “ffffpllblbpl” and know what you are doing.

With the recent popularity of fantasy novels turned blockbusters, J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” proves to be the focus for the next poised celebration of the mythical creatures of Tinsel Town, and promises to cast out Harry Potter and his band of witches and wizards out of the limelight and into the dungeons.

The uncoiling legacies of great men are footprints on a sandy beach that can’t be washed away through all of tide and time. John Johnson of Bangor, music major and friend of the UMaine community, passed away at age 44 on Nov. 12 after a hard-fought battle with cancer.

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