Archive for December 8th, 2003
The Maine Friends of Animals has formed a political action committee called “Maine Citizens for Fair Bear Hunting” and are seeking to prohibit the use of bait, dogs and traps to hunt, pursue and capture bear. As a Maine hunter and trapper, I am horror-struck by this proposal.
Three people were stopped from killing other innocent people two weeks ago. As those three people traveled through the University of Maine premises, our university’s Public Safety officers charged them with operating under the influence. Lives were quite possibly saved by a quick 30-second check of cars driving through campus two Fridays ago.
Tell me if any of these scenarios sound familiar to you:
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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