Archive for February 3rd, 2003
I was sitting in my apartment with my roommates the other night unwinding and listening to my friends carry on about something. I’m not sure what they were talking about because I was too engulfed in reading the dictionary.
Yes, you heard me correctly, I was reading the dictionary.
*Republican hot air
Columns such as Brynn Lary’s recent one focusing on the University of Michigan’s admissions policy add very little to any reasonable debate on affirmative action. Like others who merely parrot the Republican National Committee view points, Lary decides to omit key facts and outright lie about others.
There’s an old sports adage by Yogi Berra that says, “It’s not over until it’s over.” Both the University of Maine women’s hockey team (7-11-4) and the Cornell Big Red (2-14-1) learned that the hard way this weekend as both teams lost leads with 14 seconds left in regulation and then lost in overtime.
Ranked seventh in the conference standings and in the midst of a three-game losing streak, the University of Maine men’s basketball team went searching for a win Sunday. The Black Bears bench, keyed by senior forward Clayton Brown’s career-high 31 points and a few new faces, led Maine to an 82-71 win over the University of Hartford at Alfond Arena.
MANCHESTER, NH–The University of Maine men’s ice hockey team lost the opening game of a two-game set with the fifth-ranked University of New Hampshire Wildcats Saturday night in front of a sellout crowd of 10,104 at the Verizon Wireless Arena. The Black Bears battled back to tie the game twice, but could not pull it off, falling 4-2 behind UNH senior Lanny Gare’s two goals.
In the sports world, big discussion has been revolving around everyone’s favorite amateur basketball star, LeBron James.
In case you haven’t heard, James took $845 worth of free jerseys. Common sense would tell you that he knew that we got away with a lot when it came to the Hummer situation, but for him to accept gifts knowing that he is under a microscope everywhere he goes was dumb.
The Student Art League and the Student Women’s Association have come together to organize an all women’s student art show.
The show, titled “Womyn Create,” will be on display in the lobby of Hauck Auditorium from Feb. 8 to March 6. A celebration of V-Day, the art display is devoted to raising awareness of violence against women.
Punk music has had staying power for the last 25 years because of the size of its audience and its sheer energy. While Saturday night’s punk show at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Old Town lacked an audience, those who did attend were treated to three local bands, all of which had the intensity of an atom bomb.
Recycled Percussion is not your ordinary band. Lacking guitar players, a bassist and lyrics, the four drummers attacked a stage literally filled with junk, using drumsticks, lead pipes and even each other. The group brought their unique sound and style to the Maine Center for the Arts Friday night for the Campus Activities Board-sponsored “Maine Event.
Nearly half of the books sold this semester at the University of Maine’s Bookstore were used, saving students approximately $170,000 more than last year.
The Bookstore’s director, Bill Hockensmith, says it was a team effort to save students this money.
“Part of it had to do with technical things on how we did our ordering to get more used books from companies,” Hockensmith said.
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