Archive for 2002
In less than a week, part of Maine’s underground music scene will be defunct.
The rudies, punks, skinheads and skankers will have one final time to sweat to the music performed by The Skatistics and The Taxis at their farewell show Sunday, Dec. 15 at The Skinny in Portland.
As the fall semester winds to a close, so does the first half of the college hockey season. For the University of Maine men’s team, it’s been a first half to remember. The team’s record of 11-1-2 overall and 5-0-1 in Hockey East has the Black Bears ranked No.
*What a shame this Stephen Cooper and steroids thing is. It reeks from so many different angles. Would the information concerning his run-in with the law even have been released had the Black Bears topped Georgia Southern last week and were getting set to host University of Western Kentucky in a Division I-AA semifinal? You know as well as I do that it wouldn’t have, and if anything needed to happen discipline-wise, it would have to wait until the season was over.
The University of Maine’s Center on Aging has been awarded a $90,000 grant to administer the region’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program.
As part of the RSVP program, older adults with time to help others in Penobscot and Piscataquis counties will be able to aid their communities and charitable groups in need of volunteers.
A team of eight University of Maine construction management technology students took third place in the heavy highway construction category at the Associated Schools of Construction’s northeast regional competition in Fairfield, N.J.
The UMaine students who competed in the heavy highway division, one of three possible divisions, included Matt Hebert, Ian McCarthy, John Phillips, Travis Whitehead, Tom Carey, and Adam Lawson.
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, many people have harbored feelings of uncertainty regarding the state of the human race. To this day, many of us question the threat of terrorism. Is terrorism merely a trend that will disappear in a few years? Or is it something we should truly worry about?
Eric Klien, founder of the Lifeboat Foundation, feels the threat of terrorism will only increase in coming years.
The musical landscape in 2002 was dotted with all kinds of sounds and styles. While the popularity of rap-metal and teen-pop seems to be waning, hip-hop and post-grunge rock are stronger than ever. Of course, retro-rock ala The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Vines and The Hives was huge.
The Department of Public Safety at the University of Maine is broadening the Campus Walking Companion program in an effort to assist officers on campus.
This expansion will create a stronger tie between Public Safety and the college community by involving more students in the program, according to Public Safety.
Now that we’ve reached the end of another semester, I seem to remember something about the student body. One, it comes in two varieties: male and female. And two, there are probably some out-of-staters among us. Now is not the time to become paranoid. Chances are that if you don’t know whether your friends are or not, they don’t want you to know.
It seems that Al Gore has started controversy once again. On Friday, Nov. 15, Gore traveled to China to speak at a forum sponsored by “BusinessWeek.” This is what Gore’s team is saying, but unfortunately, it looks like this might not be the truth. Instead, this so-called “BusinessWeek” forum may have been run by a communist sponsored think-tank.
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