Archive for February, 2004
Images of push-up bras, penis padding and half-naked women bombarded those who attended the American Beauty Myth lecture on Monday night in the Donald P. Corbett business building. Almost every seat in the lecture hall was filled to hear Camille Cooper, a former model and actress, speak about the truth behind images in mass media.
While no huge stories were brought to the forefront of the sports world this week, or at least none you would care about unless you watched four hours of ESPN a day while skipping class and eating 10 bags of Doritos in a half hour, there were certainly a few eyebrow raisers and recurring themes.
Q. Hey Tara and Jay! I was wondering, is a daily vitamin really worth it?
A. Since most of the people reading this article are busy college students who are either eating in the commons or getting their food on the run, we definitely suggest using a multi-vitamin daily.
Changes are in the works for on-campus housing at the University of Maine. Housing Services and Residence Life and Programs have proposed to make all residence halls smoke-free.
The proposed changes have been a long time coming, according to Andrew Matthews, director of Housing Services.
The women’s basketball team got off to a slow start against conference foe Northeastern last night, but The Black Bears would end up grabbing their 20th win of the season with a 66-48 victory. This season makes the second in a row that coach Sharon Versyp’s team has won 20 games.
As of right now, four people are being indicted for their involvement in a steroid operation that supplied many athletes with anabolic agents. It is speculated that between 2000 and 2003 the company known as BALCO supplied athletes in the NHL, MLB and other professional organizations.
We live in a nation where separation of church and state is a given. We have grown up knowing that it is wrong for a teacher in a public middle school to spread the virtues of Catholicism to their students, and we know that religion has no place in a public school agenda.
I am 21 years old and America does not speak to me. It does not speak to me because I am not here, and I am certainly not alone.
As we sit in our apartment watching a hockey game, my roomate asks me “Who’s Dennis Koo-chin…Kucin…Kitchenset?” My roommate asks me.
Raising awareness
Three events have occurred at the University of Maine in recent weeks that serve to raise awareness about rape and violence against women. The Vagina Monologues, Beta Theta Pi’s Sleep Out, and a lecture hosted by Men Can Stop Rape on Thursday served not only to educate the university community about these issues, but also to remind us that rape and sexual assault remain concerns on the University of Maine campus.
What’s the result when someone like writer-turned-director Jeff Schaffer takes a modestly funny movie like “Road Trip” and mixes in poor acting with worse writing and a European, rather than American, setting? The result is “Eurotrip” (2004, Rated R), a feature-length film that serves as the follow-up to the work of “The Cat in the Hat,” where Schaffer worked as a writer, that’s every bit as drawn out and tedious.
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