Archive for April, 2004
*A local resident called authorites Sunday to report that while walking on a local bike path she discovered a bag, which she believed contained marijuana. The resident asked that an officer be dispatched to take care of the bag and discuss the dangers of drugs with her children.
Commencement on the University of Maine campus next weekend will likely draw people from distant places – from their cars, that is. In an effort to control traffic and increase comfort for those expected at graduation next Saturday, the university has set up a shuttle bus service from four campus lots that will travel to Morse Field throughout the event.
Three new resolutions were passed by Residents on Campus last week, one dealing with the ROC constitution and the other two with financial policies.
According to Dean Wilber, president of the organization, the changes to the constitution were designed mainly to clarify wording conflicts involving the veto structure.
Both sides of a disagreement over the denial of tenure for three University of Maine professors have agreed to extend the deadline for formal resolution. UMaine’s tenure process remains suspended as the result of a motion passed at a February faculty senate meeting requiring that administrators first prove the denials were fair.
More than 10,000 people are expected to attend the University of Maine’s commencement ceremony next month, including honored graduates and their friends, families and loved ones. Also among those thousands will be Michele Montas, a broadcast journalist and Haitian native who will deliver the keynote address.
Being in college is most often synonymous with drinking. So naturally, I decided to put myself through college making money off the behavior of my peers that I know will never die out. I opted to join the ranks of the few, the proud, the bartenders.
I can’t say I’ve regretted my choice either.
Central Station
Central Station
Demo CD
Central Station’s demo CD may be short and may be a bit on the amateur side, but the band has obvious talent that shines through in the seven songs.
The band has a Dave Matthews Band feel to it, but creates its own identity throughout the demo.
Palestinian students from An-Najah National University in Nablus are afraid to leave their homes at night.
“We can’t even go on the balcony or look from the window,” one student said during a live video conference Tuesday in Soderberg Auditorium. “We feel we can’t go anywhere, we feel we are disabled.
With plenty of Maine Day activities taking place on Wednesday, it was the softball game that proved to be most exciting.
Boston University traveled to Orono for a doubleheader with the Black Bears. Sarah Bennis gave up just three hits in the first game but Maine could not do much offensively against BU pitcher Ashlee Freeman.
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