Archive for March, 2003
The University of Maine baseball team rebounded from last weekend’s trip to Clemson nicely, taking Friday night’s contest with the University of Rhode Island 6-2 and sweeping Saturday’s doubleheader against New York Tech University 11-8 and 11-7.
With the victories, UMaine’s record now stands at 12-6.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Maine men’s ice hockey team played its first game in 22 days in the Midwest Regional Semifinal of NCAA Division I men’s hockey tournament Saturday. The second-seeded Black Bears had the misfortune of drawing the host school of the Midwest Regional, the University of Michigan, in the first round.
In the spring of 1917, President Woodrow Wilson, pressured by a public German repudiation of the Sussex convention, issued a singular, plaintive plea to the two houses of Congress: “Neutrality,” he said, “is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is involved, and the menace to that peace and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic governments, backed by organized force, which is controlled wholly by their will, not the will of their people.
Portions of documents from the life of former U.S. Sen., Rep. and Secretary of Defense, William S. Cohen, have been made available to the public by the University of Maine’s Fogler Library.
Cohen, who was once a University of Maine faculty member, donated the collection when he retired from the Senate in 1996.
Some friendly advice: If you’re going out to catch The Funkizon live, you’d better bring a second pair of shoes because you’ll burn through the pair you’re wearing before the end of the first set.
The quintet, made up of Anthony Drouin, Nigel Hall, Kyle Patten, Roderick Pinkney and Spencer Nelson, played two sets of its experimental funk and left the capacity crowd wowed at the Stillwater Canal Co.
It seems that recently people have overstepped the bounds of respectfully sharing their opinions. The assumption is creeping onto campus that people with opinions different than our own are flat out wrong, and that is simply ridiculous. FirstClass conference folders are becoming forums for this kind of thought.
Sen. John McCain, who was recently interviewed by USA Today regarding Hollywood’s response to the war with Iraq, summed up my thoughts with the following quote: “If Washington is Hollywood for ugly people, Hollywood is Washington for the simple minded.”
I couldn’t agree more.
Q: My club is considering organizing an athletic event for fundraising purposes, but I’m concerned that the club may be held liable if someone gets hurt. What should we do?
A: As the sponsor of this event, you obviously do not want to have to pay for medical bills when one player knocks another player’s teeth out.
University of Maine students interested in outdoor activities such as hiking, camping and rock climbing will have a new place to live on campus with fellow outdoor enthusiasts when Kennebec Hall’s first and second floors are changed to an outdoor lifestyle experience next fall.
The University Singers’ Sunday concert in Minsky Auditorium was the perfect way to spend a rainy afternoon.
Directed by Dr. Dennis Cox, the University Singers is a select, audition-only concert choir that tours throughout the northeast United States each spring and abroad every four years.
