Archive for January, 2004
The season marches on this weekend for both the University of Maine’s men’s and women’s indoor track teams as they host Central Connecticut State on Saturday at 12:00 p.m.
The womens team is looking to follow up a strong finish last weekend at the University of Rhode Island.
The University of Maine men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams will face Boston College in a non-conference meet at 11 a.m. Saturday at Stanley M. Wallace Pool in Orono. The women’s team will also face American East rival Northeastern for a home match-up at noon on Sunday.
A goalie’s job is not easy.
There is an old hockey adage that says, “a goaltender can be revered for making nine out of 10 saves, but if the 10th shot beats him at the wrong time, he can be seen as a goat for years.”
It takes a special breed to be a goaltender in hockey.
Maine entered Wednesday night’s game knowing it was going to be a battle and the 40 minutes of regulation play that ensued was nothing short of one. In a game that was being billed as one of the more pivotal games, the Black Bears fought their America East rivals the Northeastern Huskies to the bitter end.
The fourth-ranked University of Maine men’s ice hockey team has probably its most important weekend series of the season so far, when the Black Bears renew the “Border War” with the eighth-ranked New Hampshire Wildcats on Friday and Saturday.
“Both teams are shooting to sweep this weekend,” UMaine coach Tim Whitehead said.
Call me crazy, but I want this to continue. Maybe not to the extreme fashion that has been displayed recently, but intense enough to warrant excitement. I’m talking about the physical play and heated scuffles the University of Maine men’s hockey team has found itself involved in the past two weeks.
A growing desire by President Bush to drill for oil in the pristine natural habitat of native people and wild animals alike has sparked much debate between environmentalists and developers in Alaska and the Northwest Territory.
On Monday evening, a lecture was given at the University of Maine addressing these concerns.
In November of 2003, The Maine Campus published a two-part series detailing two brothers’ fight to end a life-threatening degenerative disease. Both would have to undergo risky and complicated surgeries in order to make this dream a reality. One would receive a gift that would change the course of his life, the other would give his love, support and so much more – a lung.
The landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, which legalized abortion in the United States, happened 31 years ago last Thursday, but it has some University of Maine students talking today.
Sarah Weddington, who at age 26 argued on behalf of Jane Roe, an unmarried woman who was prevented from having an abortion because of Texas law, will speak at 7 p.
Four University of Maine students were arraigned last Friday for their involvement in a bicycle “chop shop” operation.
Flann O’Brien, Mark Phelps, Daniel Jassey and Matt Nieves were arraigned at 3rd District Court in Bangor on charges of receiving stolen property.
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