Archive for October, 2004
The University of Maine volleyball team started a five-match road trip with a victory over America East rival University of New Hampshire 3-1 at Lundholm Gymnasium in Durham, N.H., Tuesday night. The win was the Black Bears’ second in a row, moving them into sole possession of third place in the conference.
After having last weekend off, the University of Maine women’s hockey team returns to action this weekend with an explosive match against nationally ranked Brown University. The Black Bears will also host Waterloo and St. Jerome’s University Saturday and Sunday in two exhibition games.
As every baseball fan in America knows, our beloved Red Sox have finally won the American League pennant and are now in the running to be the World Champions. This win is not only important just because they won but for the fact that the monkey named the Babe Ruth curse is now leaving the backs of the Red Sox.
The University of Maine field hockey team will play Northeastern in the first round of the America East tournament on Friday, Nov. 5. The teams are both 4-1 in conference play, with each of their losses coming against first place Boston University, the team that will host the conference tournament.
As they head to New York, the University of Maine women’s soccer team has put itself in a position to declare “mission accomplished.”
“Our initial goal was to finish in the top four in the conference,” said head coach Scott Atherley, “and hopefully get a seeding in the tournament where we get home field advantage or we get in a position to get a bye in the first round.
“One day, we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.”
Martin Luther King Jr. spoke those words which embody the ideals of the University of Maine’s 11th annual Peace Week celebration going on this week.
This semester marks the beginning of the Adopt a High School Library program. This program was first envisioned one-and-a-half years ago by Holly Williams, the general books-publications coordinator at the University Bookstore. She felt it would be a good way to help out the local schools.
The Halloween spirit could faintly be seen at this week’s meeting of the General Student Senate. While a couple students arrived in full costume, most kept their festive garb to an odd hat, mask or exaggerated makeup. Besides the attempts at a costume party and the presence of Doritos and candy, it was business as usual.
This week, the University of Maine has been filled with closet-free events promoting pride, support and acceptance for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, as well as heterosexual members of the campus community.
So far, Coming Out Week appears to be a success, according to GLBT liaison to the Deans of Students and counselor education graduate student Matt Small.
A man was charged following an incident with a knife in York Hall at 1 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20. Officers responded to the hall following a person-wanted-out complaint. It was believed that the individual the complaint referred to was in a third floor room and was in possession of an illegal knife.
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