Archive for March, 2003
Spring is not really here. It’s not because it isn’t real. It’s a figment of your imagination, a lie your parents told you so that some cleaning could be done around the house for once. Nature isn’t doing anything different from the rest of the year. It just seems different because the bitter months of frost and snow have finally relinquished the landscape.
I turned 21 this past January. With this birthday came the age-old inauguration into buying and consuming alcohol. I sauntered down to Shop & Save, picked up a 12-pack of my choice beer and headed for the counter.
I’ll admit that I was a bit nervous since this was my first time buying alcohol.
*Ignorant assumptions
I look forward each week to picking up a copy of The Maine Campus and browsing through the articles keeping in touch with campus activity. However, when reading an article titled “Learning about Yourself” by Tracy Collins, I was shocked about just how ignorant some writers can be.
Music has always been a powerful form of expression, and often is a voice for our society and times.
Protest music has had a long history. Its origins can be traced back to slavery and freedom songs, such as “Follow the Drinking Gourd.” Folk music would adopt the protest tradition in the early 20th century with the “Little Red Songbooks” put out to “Fan the flames of discontent.
Before Bob Whelan taught English at the University of Maine, he spent 20 years serving in the United States Army. His experiences on two tours of duty in Vietnam have given him a different perspective on the current war.
You can’t support the troops and not the war, Whelan said.
The war with Iraq has brought both praise and negative criticism to President Bush and his Cabinet from leaders around the nation and the world. In Maine, officials have expressed varying levels of support and opposition. Now that war has become a reality, most opinions have stayed the same; however, all officials have expressed a desire for the nation to come together.
A man was issued a summons following a complaint made Sunday, March 23 at 4:43 a.m. Officers responded to a call about of a man breaking a fence on Mill Street. Upon arrival, they found James Moore, 23, breaking the fence. He appeared to be intoxicated.
The new leadership of the University of Maine Residents On Campus board was sworn in Thursday night at the Buchanan Alumni House.
Scott Reynolds and Ryan Clark were sworn in as ROC president and vice president, respectively.
“I leave ROC in the best hands it’s ever been in,” former ROC president Aaron Sterling said.
More than 175 feet of digging by the University of Maine’s grounds and plumbing department proved a corroded water pipe was the culprit of a breakage and leak outside Gannett Hall Tuesday, March 25.
“Water from the ground seeped in through the basement walls.
The University of Maine Programming Fund, formerly known as the “comp fee,” has used up all of its resources, but will fund events throughout April.
The Programming Fund helped sponsor events such as Family and Friends Weekend, International Students Oronoka parties, Black Student Union celebrations, the Beautiful Project, Pride Week, Rock Against Rape, guest lectures and comedians.
