Archive for April, 2005
I have lived on French Island for a little over four months, and it dawned on me the other day that I know nothing about the island other than a few of the street names and which houses sell drugs. Armed with my trusty pencil and notebook I stormed down to the Old Town Public Library to discover the truth about the island and its origins.
With regards to to recent attention to military recruitment, I’d like to say that right-wing sycophants that have hijacked the government in recent years seem to have no sense of causality. It has been said that enlistment – and more importantly, retention – are down and that recruitment quotas have to be increased to compensate for the dwindling numbers in the military.
The Boston Celtics put an emphatic end to their 8-game play-off losing streak Saturday night, dropping the Indiana Pacers 102-82 at the Fleetcenter taking a 1-0 lead in their best of seven series.
The Celtics started off just 1-11 from the field and trailed by eight before taking control in the second quarter, outscoring the Pacers 39-11 in the period.
The University of Maine women’s rugby team won the Maine Cup over the weekend. On a muddy field in the pouring rain at Cumberland Fair Grounds, the Black Bears fought hard and were crowned champions of the Maine Cup, giving them the title of best Maine women’s rugby team.
For those of you who went to Bumstock on Saturday night, you may have heard some of that strange “techno” coming from the other end of the field.
I’m speaking of the infamous DJ Tent that Bumstock has every year. It’s main event is a series of DJ sets spun by local artists.
After 19 years of stagnant activity by past senior classes, the 2005 Senior Council will soon present its senior gift to the University of Maine in hopes of leaving campus a little better than they found it four years ago.
“[The senior gift] is a gift the senior class makes to the university and the students who will be a part of it later,” said Senior Council President Cortlynn Hepler.
Bumstock 2005 is over, and in spite of several obstacles, Student Entertainment officials are declaring it a success. The annual music festival was delayed several hours after a generator blew and caused a power surge on one of the stages at around 5 p.m., according to Josh Luce, vice president for Student Entertainment.
I guarantee that if the student body was polled, we would overwhelmingly confirm that the environment is important to us. We’re young; we like trees and we go hiking every now and then. Our generation is supposed to be more environmentally conscious then the ones before us.
Walk into Abercrombie and Fitch and look around at the oversized photographs of half-naked men on the walls. Then purchase a clothing item and look at the half-naked, bulked up, seemingly “perfect” male specimens that grace the outside of that bag. Sexually idealized male images are popping up every place that images of women have been for years.
* Defending gender dysphoria
Mike Hartwell’s hastily conceived column concerning transgenderism, “Delving deeper into gender dysphoria” [The Maine Campus, April 14], unsuccessfully attempts to discredit rebuttals and twist words. My original reply [The Maine Campus, April 11] was intended to refute his misconceptions, inaccurate definitions and unresearched opinions.
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