Archive for April 25th, 2005
As we embark on a new century, information is traded at speeds seemingly unimaginable only a few years earlier. News, statistics and communication are available to many with the simple click of a mouse. With knowledge accessible at great ease, why have most of the super powers in the world turned a blind eye to the travesties being committed to mankind as we speak? Most Americans are unaware of the genocide that has been happening in Sudan within the last two years.
In reply to Margaret Cruikshank’s editorial last week [The Maine Campus, April 14], in which she calls for evidence supporting a need for a student rights bill to protect conservative students. While she is correct in saying there are current mechanisms in place to prevent students from receiving bad grades for having different opinions from their professors, there are some incidents in the past few years that may suggest they might not be enough to ensure equal rights in colleges and universities across the United States.
Rec. Center’s progress a novel change
Time has come for the University of Maine to break ground for the once-proposed Recreation Center. It will soon become a reality, or at least for those students just arriving at UMaine.
The university has kept a steady pace for the past two-and-a-half years; students completed a survey about a proposed recreation center in the fall of 2002.
Grammys and platinum plaques haven’t made Kanye West lazy; in fact, he’s striving for more perfection. West, along with Jay-Z, premiered “Diamonds,” the first single from his upcoming “Late Registration” album, Wednesday on New York radio station Hot 97.
Jay told the station’s Angie Martinez that West mixed his record about 14 times before he felt comfortable enough to put out the album.
Gray clouds hovered in the air all day, but the threat of rain was unable to dampen the moods of both concertgoers and bands at this year’s Bumstock. While the concert could have ended in disaster, thanks to a blown generator which resulted in three hours of music-less stages, the bands were able to salvage the event with high-energy performances.
MUSIC
Maine Steiners Annual
Spring Concert
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 28
MCA
Bang on a Can
3 p.m.
Saturday, May 1
Hauck Auditorium
Brigham Young
University Singers
7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 7
MCA
$10
ART
“Student Art Exhibition”
Through Friday, May 6
Carnegie 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
“Noises Off”
7 p.
The University of Maine men’s rugby team traveled to Providence, Rhode Island last weekend, where they competed in the 22nd annual Beast of the East tournament. The Black Bears’ bracket included Holy Cross, Northeastern, Vermont, Rutgers, Albany, Hartford and Rhode Island.
Dynasty or dollars? A national championship or a Nike endorsement? School pride or stupidity?
Now those are not the questions players ask themselves before deciding to declare early into the NBA Draft, but maybe these are the things that they should consider.
Coming off their worst hitting performance of the season, a two-hit 14-1 loss to UMBC, the University of Maine baseball team wasted no time getting the bats going again at Boston College Friday. The Black Bears scored 13 runs on 20 hits and held off BC 13-12 to record their twentieth win of the season.
The rain is steady as Tony Morgan prepares to throw the discus. The thick rain soaks everything in sight, saturating Morgan’s University of Maine track uniform. As water drips from his hair, Morgan takes a deep breath. He steps into the circle and his fingers curl around the metal disc.
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