Archive for December, 2003
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.
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, 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.
* On Ann Coulter’s Web site this week, the conservative pundit and best-selling author of “Slander” – a book, incidentally, available in paperback in time for the holidays – waxed poetic on the woes the right wing faced in fighting down Roe vs. Wade. All things considered, apparently, it’s not going well: “The first killing of an abortion doctor by an anti-abortion activist happened in 1993.
Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and one man’s mission to find them was the topic of discussion last Wednesday when the Computer Sciences Department sponsored the third part of its Homeland Security Lecture Series. Rocco Casagrande, a former UN MOVIC Biological Weapons Inspector was invited to campus to speak.
Residents of Hancock Hall were awakened and displaced around 3 a.m. Saturday when a fire alarm was set off after two fire extinguishers were discharged inside the dorm, according to University of Maine spokesman Joe Carr.
The Orono Fire Department responded to the call but no fire occurred, according to Public Safety officials.
Often in college basketball the month of December serves as a period of time when a team can collect its breath and prepare for the upcoming rigors of conference competition. For the University of Maine men’s basketball team, things are no different. In fact, this year the Black Bears are getting a lengthy 14 days rest to prepare for their next opponent.
North Andover, Mass. – It would have been conceivable for the University of Maine men’s ice hockey team to come home from Merrimack College with a win and a loss after this weekend. Chances are pretty good, however, that the Black Bears didn’t expect that loss to be to Mother Nature.
Q: I’m unhappy with my marriage and want a divorce. Could you please tell me some basic information about the process and issues surrounding divorce?
A: Divorce is a serious issue, affecting an estimated 2.5 million people every year. According to the Divorce Magazine Web site, there is a 43 percent “likelihood of new marriages ending in divorce” and within the Northeast “only 28 percent of the population has never married.
First off, let me make it clear that I do not consider myself a fashion guru and I do not devote my life to trend-setting, but I am a shopoholic and I am obsessed with clothes. The goal of this column is simply to educate and inform about the fashion Ins and Outs and Dos and Don’ts.
