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The Maine Campus Thursday, March 28th, 2002, 12:00 am in Opinion
Secret Identity
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A state judge recently ruled that New Jersey may not keep secret the identities of the individuals detained after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The decision made by Superior Court Judge Arthur D’Italia was a victory for civil liberties groups battling the decisions of the Bush administration and the U.


The Maine Campus Thursday, March 28th, 2002, 12:00 am in Opinion
Letters to the Editor
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Children’s Center I am a married mother who is a second-year nursing student. My son attends the Children’s Center at the University of Maine and the proposed budget cuts will definitely impact us. If the Children’s Center fees increase or the center closes, my son can no longer attend and I will subsequently be forced to drop out.


The Maine Campus Thursday, March 28th, 2002, 12:00 am in Opinion
Prisoners treated fair at X-Ray
By Tom Arsenault

So the prisoners at Camp X-Ray are being treated unfairly, eh? I don’t think so. Let’s remember that they are being treated better at that camp than they were under the regime of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Let’s also remember that they are not American citizens that are guaranteed the protection of our Constitution.


Thursday, March 28th, 2002, 12:00 am in Style & Culture
Bad Religion, LTJ light up Avalon
By Jason Houle

For at least a small handful of UMaine students, spring break reared its ugly head on Landsdowne Street in Boston on Thursday, March 14, as veteran punk rockers Bad Religion took main stage at the sold-out Avalon Ballroom, in support of their most recent effort, “The Process of Belief.


Thursday, March 28th, 2002, 12:00 am in Style & Culture
World famous ballet to visit MCA
By Jessica Bishop

The Russians come to town this Thursday night when the Grigorovich Ballet company showcases a collection of favorites Thursday, at 7 p.m. at the Maine Center for the Arts. The show will be headed by Yuri Grigorovich, a world-renowned choreographer. A dancer himself with the Maryinsky Theatre for 18 years, Grigorovich followed his soloist career with a 30-year stint as choreographer-in-chief for the famous Bolshoi Ballet.


Thursday, March 28th, 2002, 12:00 am in Style & Culture
Q&A
By Jason Houle

The upstairs of the Avalon ballroom served as the open dressing room for Bad Religion, Less than Jake and Hot Water Music. There The Maine Campus caught up with guitarist Brian Baker of Bad Religion (formerly of Minor Threat and Dag Nasty fame), while tending to an old motorcycle injury.


Thursday, March 28th, 2002, 12:00 am in Sports
Rally for hockey team planned
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A rally for the University of Maine men’s ice hockey team is scheduled for Monday, April 1 at 12:30 p.m. in The Maine Marketplace. The rally will feature interim head coach Tim Whitehead and the Black Bear players. The UMaine band will provide fans with the opportunity to salute the Black Bears on their outstanding season and provide an enthusiastic send-off on the day before the team travels to St.


Thursday, March 28th, 2002, 12:00 am in News
Admired professor dies at 69
By Amanda Hebert

Oscar E. Remick, a University of Maine philosophy professor, Presbyterian minister and Bangor Theological Seminary academic dean died at Eastern Maine Medical Center Monday, March 25. The much-loved professor succumbed to cancer at the age of 69. “He loved to teach, he kept saying it was an honor,” said Douglas Allen, chair of the Philosophy Department.


Thursday, March 28th, 2002, 12:00 am in News
The Southern comforts of volunteering
By Anne Schmidt

Campus photographer Anne Schmidt’s experiences - Georgetown, S.C. Combine one week of group building, mess hall breakfasts, lunches and dinners, practical jokes, classroom teaching, endless games of hangman, swimming in potentially alligator infested waters, fishing, T-shirt dying, countless yo’ mama jokes, games of Truth or Dare, meal time prayers, secret handshakes, implementing ya’ll into my permanent vocabulary, the million trips to Wal-Mart and the hours spent in a 15 passenger van, and you just barely skim the surface of the first week of my spring break.


Thursday, March 28th, 2002, 12:00 am in News
Police Beat
By Kyle Webster

Three people were arrested, one summons was issued and another man was referred to University of Maine Judicial Affairs following a series of events in York Hall Sunday, March 17, at 3 a.m. Officers Jeff King and Amy Nickerson responded to a residence hall staff complaint regarding noise on the fourth floor of the hall.

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