Archive for March, 2005
Think about getting a summer job
It’s not easy paying for school. In fact, higher education is one of the greatest financial burdens an individual will ever undertake. This is why many students will be dismayed to learn that tuition is scheduled to jump again for this upcoming school year, based upon “leveling” enrollment numbers.
Graduation is less than two months away, and some University of Maine seniors marked that timeline by attending Wednesday’s graduate fair. The fair offered seniors the opportunity to prepare for commencement, purchase memorabilia and review services offered to UMaine alumni.
MINNEAPOLIS – That Pepsi cap said it all.
Now, I am not normally one to receive wisdom or tutelage from soft drink containers, but at this precise moment it all made sense.
All I needed to know was right in that little half-inch yellow cap. I did not need to go back to Arden Hills and stuff myself with half a pint of ice cream.
MUSIC
Java Jive – The Project
8 p.m.
Tuesday, March 29
Memorial Union
Free
Gavin DeGraw
7 p.m.
Thursday, March 31
MCA
$10
ART
“Anya Lewis: Freezetag”
Through Saturday,
April 2
Norumbega Hall
Free
“Persian Impressions”
Through Friday, June 10
Hudson Museum
Free
“Across the Sands of Time:
Art and Artifacts
from the Middle East”
Through Friday, June 10
Hudson Museum
Free
THEATER
“Six Characters in Search of an Author”
7:30 p.
AUGUSTA – Have problems with your landlord? The state Legislature wants to help. If a landlord fails to correct an unsafe condition in a rental unit, the tenant may be able to withhold $500 or half of the monthly rent, whichever is greater, if a bill presented to the Maine legislature in Augusta last Monday is passed into law.
The University of Maine announced it’s plan for the 2006 fiscal year, covering issues big and small. Janet Waldron, vice president of administration and finance for the university spoke to a room full of faculty and staff about the financial projections for the next year.
On Tuesday night, we learned of yet another tragic event in schools. This time it happened on an Indian Reservation in Minnesota. Jeff Weise, a student at Red Lake High School, apparently opened fire on not only his schoolmates, but also his grandparents.
Among the dead were five students, a teacher and a security guard, the shooter’s grandfather, companion and the shooter himself.
Although it may not surprise many, Congressional action has placed the spotlight upon morality and social values once again, in an extraordinarily brisk turn of events over the weekend.
The dilemma of whether or not to reinsert the feeding tube of an incapacitated woman in Florida, caused the ideologically-driven Republican Congressional leadership to frantically pass legislation in order to uphold what Sen.
*Oppressing true speech
In response to the column entitled “Oppressing free speech” [The Maine Campus, March 21, 2005] the author, Michael Rocque, provided no facts to back his Bush-bashing tirade. The word “likely” appeared in numerous key places throughout the article, suggesting even Rocque realized he lacked concrete evidence.
You say potato, I say Spud-Tacular
On Wednesday at the Maine MarketPlace, in the Memorial Union, students were able to become reacquainted with a familiar food – potatoes – in many different ways. Spud-Tacular 2005 succeeded in that it both reintroduced the university community to local produce and drew attention to state plans to include more Maine-made products in state facilities.
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