Archive for 2004
Eric DeGrass spent a better part of his days earlier this week answering nonstop phone calls and some 200 e-mails from students wondering why they couldn’t vote.
DeGrass, who is the chair of the fair elections practices commission, had the responsibility of informing the student body at the University of Maine that the FirstClass system used to facilitate the election had, in fact, crashed.
After a semester of discussions and red tape, a live feed of the campus radio station will soon replace the current music played in the Starbucks area of the Memorial Union.
Bobby Strauss, a DJ at WMEB, approached union management early in the semester to determine both the possibility of the project and to gain support.
The General Student Senate had expected their new leaders to be voted on when they met this week. This was not the case, and meant many questions for Fair Elections Practices Committee Chair Eric DeGrass who visited the meeting. DeGrass admitted his own frustration with the delay.
Next week, University of Maine students will be able to stop by a “Lucy Booth” in Memorial Union not to chat with the would-be psychiatrist from the Peanuts cartoon gang, but with psychologists from the UMaine Counseling Center as part of Stress Free Finals Week.
Halfway through “Sideways,” director Alexander Payne’s comic masterpiece about male friendship, main character Miles Raymond tenderly gushes about his love for wine. It is here in this wonderfully written scene that every movie connoisseur will, in quiet unison, look to the heavens and thank the movie gods for giving us Payne.
Fresh off a 79-66 win over Harvard in their only Orono home game of 2004, the University of Maine men’s basketball team is headed back on the road this weekend. The Black Bears will open America East play at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County tonight and face Morgan State on Saturday.
“Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.”
A cliche, yes, but when it comes to homeland security, the warning still rings true.
For history buffs, the Trojan horse was a classic failure of homeland security. Three millenia later we are still struggling with how we can protect ourselves, our country and our world.
Allison Fernstrom is mad. The freshman from Buxton is being moved from her double room in York Hall to a single in Estabrooke Hall against her will. Fernstrom is being moved to Estabrooke due to her perceived impact upon the York Hall community.
“I have a lot of life-threatening allergies,” Fernstrom said.
After a two-day delay in the voting process, the preliminary results have been tabulated and Kate O’Brien has been unofficially named the victor in the race for president of Student Government and the student body at the University of Maine.
Brigham McNaughton has been declared the unofficial winner of the office of vice president of the student body, a position that also requires him to serve as president of the student senate.
Because I’m a kind, caring gentleman – and because my parole officer made me – I chose to do some community service. About two weeks ago, I decided I was going to fulfill my civic duty by coaching a youth basketball team. I figured that by coaching kids, not only would I appease the judge, but I would also make a real lasting impression on a few youngsters.
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