Archive for December, 2003
Monday, December 8th, 2003, 12:00 am in News
UMaine community calendar
By The Maine Campus
Monday, Dec. 8 * Jane Wellman-Little and education students will read to preschool children 10-11 a.m. in University Bookstore. * A Catholic holy day mass will be held at noon in the Bangor Lounge of Memorial Union. The event is sponsored by the Newman Center.
Monday, December 8th, 2003, 12:00 am in News
UM Volunteers launch adopt-a-child program
By Diane Belanger
Ten dollars does not seem like much these days, but that’s all it takes to brighten a child’s holiday. During its fourth annual Adopt-A-Child program, Black Bear Volunteers, a student-run organization, is asking campus groups and offices to help make a wish come true by sponsoring a child this holiday season.
Monday, December 8th, 2003, 12:00 am in News
Yearbook, ‘Dirigamus,’ documents student life
By Ernest Scheyder
With the semester drawing to a close, the University of Maine yearbook is steaming straight ahead, on schedule and on budget, according to Editor in Chief Jonathon White. With $5,800 allotted to the project from Student Government, White has been compiling pictures, text and ads since the beginning of the year and is now sifting through the material to compile pages for the first publishing deadline.
Monday, December 8th, 2003, 12:00 am in News
Researchers to present evidence for rapid climate change events
By The Maine Campus
University of Maine scientists will give presentations about the sun’s influence on global climate, thinning of the Earth’s crust and volcanic dust in Antarctic ice at one of the world’s largest annual gatherings of geophysicists this month. Researchers from the UMaine Climate Change Institute and the Department of Earth Sciences will participate in the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, today through Dec.
Monday, December 8th, 2003, 12:00 am in News
Defamatory graffiti litters Hancock Hall
By Rick Redmond
An investigation is under way to find the person or persons who vandalized walls, doors and a stairwell in Hancock Hall with anti-gay defamatory epithets Saturday night, according to Joe Carr, spokesperson for the University of Maine. No report is available as of press time to confirm whether or not residents’ accounts concerning a possible suspect are accurate.
Monday, December 8th, 2003, 12:00 am in Sports
Nomar on the next bus?
By Matt Williams
Ted Williams played in Boston for 21 years. These days you’re lucky if you get 10 seasons out of your franchise players. Recently, Drew Bledsoe, Lawyer Milloy, Curtis Martin, Mo Vaughn, Ray Bourque and Antoine Walker have all exited the Boston sports scene, and many of us fans have closets full of jerseys that we can’t wear anymore because our heroes skipped town (or were run out).
Monday, December 8th, 2003, 12:00 am in Sports
Home sweet home
By Matt Hritz
Heading into a series this weekend between Northeastern and the University of Maine, everybody knew that goals were going to be a precious commodity. The series featured two of the best goalies in Hockey East in Chandra Gunn for Northeastern and Lara Smart for the Black Bears.
Monday, December 8th, 2003, 12:00 am in Style & Culture
A little Phish-y
By Noelle Richard
Her students knew to show up Friday morning for a surprise guest speaker, but no one in Laura Lindenfeld’s Introduction to Mass Communication class knew who to expect. Lindenfeld teased the curious crowd by introducing the speaker as her husband’s friend, who took up drums and joined a college band that was “kind of sucky at first.
Monday, December 8th, 2003, 12:00 am in Style & Culture
A Suite Success
By Julia Hall
For those who are not familiar with the Robinson Ballet and what it’s all about, this weekend’s performances of the holiday classic, “The Nutcracker,” by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, at the Maine Center for the Arts would have been a disappointment. But considering the production featured all local dancers, including students from River City Dance Center in Bangor and Ellsworth, Thomas School of Dance in Bangor, and the University of Maine, and further considering the MCA stage is not large enough to perfectly execute a production as grand as “The Nutcracker,” the Robinson Ballet did a fair job.
Monday, December 8th, 2003, 12:00 am in Opinion
Editorial
By The Maine Campus
Endangered Greeks The recent University of Maine decision to discontinue recognition of the Phi Eta Kappa fraternity has dealt the Greek system on campus another hit. While Phi Eta Kappa is certainly guilty of violating University regulations – providing a place for minors to drink, chief among them – the community reaction will likely favor the fraternity.
