Archive for September 30th, 2002
The University of Maine women’s soccer team played at home for the first time since Sept. 2 on Saturday when they hosted the Marist College Red Foxes at Alumni Field.
The Black Bears hadn’t won a game since that day in early September, but that trend changed Saturday as the Black Bears exploded late in the half to pull away and take a 4-0 win.
University of Maine junior Ed Caron finished first in the men’s cross country team’s meet at the University of New Hampshire, but the team fell to the Wildcats 35-20. First-year runner Ian Fraser and Matthew Ross placed eighth and ninth respectively for the Black Bears with times of 26:28 and 26:37.
The Black Bear field hockey team continued to roll over its opponents Saturday, this time defeating Hofstra University 2-0 in Hempstead, N.Y. UMaine improved to 7-1 on the season, shutting out the Pride (6-3) on four saves from junior goalkeeper Colbey Smith.
The University of Maine volleyball team dropped its fifth consecutive match Sunday, losing 3-1 (17-30, 21-30, 30-23, 33-35) to the host school at the Dartmouth College Invitational.
First-year outside hitter Kaili Jordan and sophomore setter Carmen Gabriel were named to the All-Tournament Team for their efforts, despite the fact that the Black Bears returned home without a victory.
What began as the suspension of two prominent University of Maine football players has turned into a legal firestorm, rife with allegations of foul play and potential racial implications.
Juniors Paris Minor and Stefan Gomes are suing the UMaine Board of Trustees and President Peter S.
In life there are usually two types of people: football people or baseball people, IBM people or Macintosh people, hot dog people or hamburger people. Like anything else in life, groupwork falls into this category: there are those of us who can maturely tolerate it and those of us who cannot.
Two teenagers are accusing McDonalds of “luring” them in to eating. This, of course, isn’t the first case of its type that has been seen in the news media. Only a few weeks ago, a man sued McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s and KFC. These have got to be the silliest cases I’ve seen in a long time.
Students stopping in for lunch at Memorial Union on Friday were treated to some big jazz sounds. Most would have been surprised to see that the mellow music was produced by just two sets of hands – those of pianist and soprano saxophonist Karel and Terry Lidral.
Every now and again in everyone’s life, an opportunity to remove yourself from the comforts of your culture and home comes along that cannot be neglected. Such an opportunity was seized by a small group of Resident Assistants here on campus. We call ourselves the RA Multicultural Ambassadors.
I am not a big drinker. For some, that might be interpreted as drinking on Thursdays and Fridays but not on Saturdays. So, allow me to be more specific.
I don’t drink at all. Of course I have before and I’m sure I will again at some point or another, but for all intents and purposes, I detest alcohol.
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