Archive for April 15th, 2002
The University of Maine track and field teams hosted their first and only home meet in the outdoor season Saturday.
The UMaine women took second place, finishing behind UNH by a score of 94 to 88. The UMaine men took first defeating UNH, 107 to 93.
In the women’s meet, Silvia Scaldaferri of UMaine took first place in the 100-meter dash, beating another UMaine runner, Brooke DeForte, by .
The University of Maine baseball team, opening its America East schedule with a pair of doubleheaders against the Northeastern Huskies this weekend, swept Saturday’s double session, 6-4 and 3-2.
The Black Bears’ record now stands at 17-7, while the Northeastern Huskies fall to 12-8, 2-4 in conference play.
Tim Whitehead, named head coach of the University of Maine men’s ice hockey team last Monday, is the 2002 winner of the Spencer Penrose Award for the nation’s best Division I hockey coach.
The Coach of the Year Award is chosen by members of the American Hockey Coaches Association.
The turnout to hear Nicole Brossard read her poetry was, to say the least, entirely impressive last Thursday at the New Writing Series poetry reading.
Usually, the seating at Soderberg Auditorium is adequate enough, spacious to accommodate the usual group and then some.
Animal House it is not, and anyone who expects it to be is crazy. Who in their right mind would actually try to top, let alone meet that classic college flick?
John Belushi is beyond imitating.
However, “Van Wilder” upholds the National Lampoon’s idiotic comedy narrative that thrives in its senselessness.
Editor’s Note: This column was first run April 8, on the front page of the University of Southern Maine’s student newspaper, The Free Press. In support of USM’s student media and free speech everywhere, we’ve chosen to reprint part of the editorial as it appeared in The Free Press.
In defense of vagina metaphor
In an April 11, letter to the editor, Holly Williams wrote: ” … don’t ever compare anything to a vagina again! Even if you had a vagina or had even seen one, I would still be pissed off.”
Well Holly, lots of things are like vaginas, actually.
The Safe Campus Project at the University of Maine is a program working to improve awareness and prevention of sexual assault and dating violence on campus. April’s events for Sexual Assault Awareness Month will help further their message to the university community.
Fifteen engineering students at the University of Maine spent last semester preparing for the 2002 Energy Challenge in Atlanta, Ga. on April 6, hoping to bring a first place finish back to Orono.
The Energy Challenge, a yearly competition sponsored by the U.
A new print-management system at Information Technologies computer clusters will cut down on the amount of waste in printer paper and toner, IT Help Center Coordinator Robin Shaler, said. Pharos UnipriNT was implemented in Fogler Library on April 1, and will soon be in other clusters across campus, as well as in the College of Natural Resources, Forestry and Agriculture.
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