Archive for 2004
This past weekend, the University of Maine men’s and women’s swim teams competed in the Harold Anderson Invitational held at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI. The invitational, in which the Black Bears have not competed for the past few years, saw UMaine take advantage of a championship atmosphere and many swimmers came away with first-place finishes.
And the 2004 award for college football’s Most Selfish and Unnecessary Personnel Move goes to … the University of Notre Dame. Congratulations, just last week your beloved Fighting Irish fired head coach Tyrone Willingham after three seasons of pacing the sidelines.
With last weekend’s sweep of Northeastern University, the University of Maine women’s hockey team will look to continue their recent success against Quinnipiac on Saturday and Sunday.
The two-game set against the Bobcats will be the Black Bears last game until Jan.
Boston has not been a kind place for the University of Maine men’s ice hockey squad in the past 10 months. Dating back to last April, the Black Bears have strung together a troubling three-game losing streak in Beantown. With the first loss coming in the National Championship game, the streak has since escalated this season with defeats coming against Boston University and Northeastern in November.
Last Thursday, a conference was held at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast to promote the ideas of sustainable living, ecovillages and ecopeace. Speakers came from as far away as the United Kingdom and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
There are some six billion people in the world, according to the United States Census Bureau.
Gannett dispute leads to summons
A man was issued a summons following an altercation in front of Gannett Hall at 12:06 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 5. Officers responded to the hall following a fight in progress report. En route, they received word that the original fight had stopped; however, a new fight had developed.
Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004
Men’s discussion group
The Catholic Student Organization, in conjunction with the Newman Center, will host a Men’s discussion group to discuss issues of importance to students. The groups are student-led and the topics are picked by students.
As the formidable week of final examinations approaches, with all its looming fury as usual, let us now consider a hypothetical situation: What if the University of Maine exempted those with grades of A in any given class from having to take the final? How many final exams would that leave you with next week?
Elitist as it may seem, I argue that such a Final Examination Exemption Policy – which I will abbreviate as FEEP – would encourage student accountability and improve grades.
The University of Maine women’s basketball team will look to extend its winning streak to four games on Friday, when Indiana comes to Orono to take on the Black Bears.
The Hoosiers, who are also 3-3, are looking to bounce back after losing to Indiana State.
* For those about to rock
How shocked I was to read the review of WMEB 91.9 FM’s local band showcase, “Bands fail to impress at WMEB show,” which appeared in the Dec. 6 edition of The Maine Campus. I think the problem lies with the fact that, quite obviously, McNamara spent the bulk of the evening under the influence of some sort of drug that impairs one’s judgment when it comes to rock and roll.
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