Archive for October, 2003
Thursday, October 30th, 2003, 12:00 am in Sports
Thriller
By Matthew Conyers
There are always games that stand out in a season. Games that seem to shine so bright, games that from the very first whistle will be hard to forget. They become classics because for a mere two hours or so they represent the game at its finest. On Wednesday afternoon the University of Maine men’s soccer team came away with a dramatic 3-3 draw against the University of Hartford.
Thursday, October 30th, 2003, 12:00 am in Sports
Women’s soccer drops out of second with loss
By Matthew Conyers
On Sunday, Oct. 26, the University of Maine women’s soccer team ended a two game road trip the same way they started it: in bitter defeat. Playing nearly five hours from home in West Hartford, Conn., the Black Bears suffered their second consecutive loss after dropping a game to the University of New Hampshire on Friday afternoon.
Thursday, October 30th, 2003, 12:00 am in Sports
Football heads to undefeated Delaware
By Erinne Magee
No member of the 2003 University of Maine football team has ever played at Delaware Stadium, but this Saturday, each player will get to play in the best football atmosphere of the conference. The stadium, home of the undefeated Blue Hens holds 22,000 fans, and has averaged almost 21,000 in attendance for each of its five home games this season.
Thursday, October 30th, 2003, 12:00 am in Style & Culture
A variety of frights, lights and sights
By Kyle Webster
For the eighth year in a row, the brothers of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity are making every effort possible to scare the hell out of the University of Maine and surrounding communities. Their annual haunted house, which benefits the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, is scheduled to be held tomorrow from 7 p.
Thursday, October 30th, 2003, 12:00 am in Style & Culture
Dealing with weight
By Jay Fonseca and Tara Hire
You buy larger clothes. You try to act happy and proud when seeing old friends who managed to stay trim since you saw them last. People think you’re lazy, you’re a slob and you’re ugly. Your doctor preaches to you about how you’ll die of a heart attack at 30, but that is the least of your concerns right now.
Thursday, October 30th, 2003, 12:00 am in Style & Culture
Are you scared yet?
By Derek Francis
Fear is a universal emotion. Few things in life are as exhilarating as being absolutely frightened. We’ve all been afraid of something at some point or another. That is the very reason why horror films have had a continually enduring popularity. They allow us to become scared but within a realm of safety.
Thursday, October 30th, 2003, 12:00 am in Style & Culture
Horror rock lives on
By Jesse Davis
As Halloween approaches, fans of death metal and grind-core may find themselves wondering whatever happened to so many of their favorite horror metal bands. Many of these underground (and not quite so underground) bands are hard to locate information about, much less learn what they are up to at any given time.
Thursday, October 30th, 2003, 12:00 am in Opinion
Editorial
By The Maine Campus
The trend begins? After quite some time, Student Entertainment managed to satisfy the student body’s thirst for talented, well-known acts by bringing Maroon5 and Gavin DeGraw to campus. The overall enjoyment and talent presented by the headliner kept those in the crowd entertained from beginning to end.
Thursday, October 30th, 2003, 12:00 am in Opinion
Letters to th editor
By The Maine Campus
* Just another ‘civilian?’ I’m writing in response to a Letter to the Editor that appeared in the Oct. 20 issue of The Maine Campus. Seth Mitchell responded to Marshall Dury’s article on misguided American pride in the “post-Sept. 11 United States.” Mitchell chastised Dury for his “Nalgene bottle-toting, granola-eating, anti-everything-American [stereotyping].
Thursday, October 30th, 2003, 12:00 am in Opinion
A political pill-popper
By Andre Sirois
You know society is crumbling when media pundits Matt Drudge and Bill O’Reilly are sympathizing with a drug abuser. When these two hard-nosed pushers of rightist ideals exhibit sorrow and loss for someone addicted to legal heroin, apocalypse is upon us. Just as the locusts are about to sweep in and as those mythical horsemen gallop along leaving a cloud of doom in their paths, Rush Limbaugh emerges clean from rehab to save America.
