Archive for January, 2003
The University of Maine women’s basketball team gets by with a little help from its friends–each other.
The tight-knit group has won eight straight games and boasts a 5-0 conference record (12-4 overall), making the Black Bears the only undefeated team in the America East conference.
The University of Maine women’s basketball team increased its winning streak to nine games with a 59-37 win over Boston University at Case Gymnasium in Boston Wednesday night.
The Black Bears improved to 13-4 on the season and a perfect 6-0 in America East Conference play.
Scene: Huddled in front of my living room TV, watching the 2004 National Basketball Association draft.
The NBA commissioner: “With the first pick in the 2004 NBA draft, the (insert terrible NBA team here) select Tommy Wilson, guard, from Middlebury Junior High School.
Shannon Martin, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Maine, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award for teaching and research at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Fulbright Scholar Program was founded by the U.S. Congress in 1946, and focuses on strengthening U.
* Two minors were caught drinking alcohol from unmarked containers just after midnight Jan. 24.
Public Safety received an anonymous complaint about underage drinking on the third floor of Penobscot Hall at 12:28 a.m. An officer arrived to find a large group making noise in the hallway.
Maine will soon be losing some more of its brilliant, young minds.
Come May 17, I, along with many other graduates, will become another statistic in the startling trend that finds Maine’s young people heading south in search of more fruitful endeavors.
Can you blame us? The weather is enough to drive people away.
Any adult will tell you that punk music is nothing more than a bunch of whiny kids banging on guitars. Any teenager who has suffered through a bad relationship, the horrors of high school or parents and teachers and the trials of growing up will appreciate the hard riffs and hard topics that most punk music laments.
After starting the new year with a 3-0-2 record, the University of Maine women’s hockey team has suffered three consecutive losses, the last two coming against Niagara University 4-2 and 4-3 last weekend. One of the reasons for the recent lack of success is a lack of confidence, according to head coach Rick Filighera.
The mix tape. Perhaps its creation is one of the most difficult arts to master, yet at one time or another, we have all attempted to make one. Of course, for those of us who have actually embraced the 21st century, mix tapes are a thing of the past, pushed aside by the lesser art of CD burning.
Two former University of Maine students have been named winners of Sundance Film Festival’s Project Greenlight and will have the chance to work with actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
Project Greenlight, designed to help aspiring filmmakers, is a contest composed of two categories: best screenplay and best director.
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