Archive for September, 2003
Dear Mr. President
President Peter Hoff will deliver his State of the University address at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1. Aside from the typical discussion of fund raising and kudos for another year of increased enrollment, students want Hoff to address our real concerns.
The Big East needs to break up. The current rift in the conference between football schools and basketball schools is similar to a high school couple who try to transition their relationship on to college. They alternate between phone calls cursing each other out and phone calls saying how much they need one another.
Picture this: A huge stadium filled with more than 14,000 screaming fans, most of them girls under 14 accompanied by two parents who only want to give their daughters everything they desire in life. What are you imagining? A Justin Timberlake concert, or maybe the concert of some other major pop star who is a magnet for preteen girls? While that situation is possible, try to imagine something else.
Sometimes the early buzz on a film can be deceiving. Sometimes when a studio has zero faith in its own picture and spends little to nothing on promoting it, it can still prove to be a quality flick. Sometimes, however, a movie can just plain suck. My misgivings of “Duplex,” directed by Danny Devito, were indeed present but I’ve been surprised by movies before, so I gave it a chance.
Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico and former U.S. Secretary of Energy and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations will be at the University of Maine on Tuesday, Oct. 7. He will speak at the Maine Center for the Arts at 1 p.m. His lecture, entitled “The United Nations, Iraq and the United States: Meeting the Challenge, Sharing the Burden,” is being presented as part of the University of Maine Governor’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
One woman was injured in a collision between a motorcycle and a car on Park Street in Orono Saturday.
A female driver in a car collided with a motorcycle driven by a male in front of the Orono House of Pizza around 4 p.
What do we bitch about here at the University of Maine? Of course, there are the two perennial favorites: parking and housing. There’s also the endless amounts of construction, dining services, smokers on campus, wishy-washy Internet connections and overpriced books at the bookstore, as well as myriad other superficial complaints.
FirstClass is a beast that few of us will ever fully comprehend. She’s fast, efficient most of the time and even gives us a small amount of server space to post … anything really. The forums are laden with strong opinions, information and most of all, useless crap.
*Slim pickins’ at UMaine
Jackie Farwell’s article, “Breaking the Sound Barrier,” was very entertaining and caught my interest. I’d almost feel empathy for the columnist but reality suggests that would possibly be an unwise emotional investment.
It was very funny to read her descriptions of the five foot nobodies who are out of shape, major-league wannabees bragging that they were a knee injury from going pro.
Safer lots for UM students
Given last week’s abduction and murder of Colby College senior Dawn Rossignol at a satellite parking lot on campus and the recent attempted abduction in the Beta/Sigma Nu parking lot at the University of Maine, parking concerns are no longer a matter of inconvenience, but a crucial safety issue.
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