Archive for November, 2005
Durham, N.H. – On any other day, against any other team, it would have been enough. 47 points, a record-breaking four touchdowns by Kevin McMahan, and 555 yards of offense. But on this day, top-ranked University of New Hampshire did them one better, handing the University of Maine football team a 59-47 defeat to end the Black Bears’ season and claim the Brice-Cowell Musket for the third straight year at Cowell Stadium on Saturday.
Monday, Nov. 21
Diversity talk
A talk on diversity in the field of science will be held at 3 p.m. in Room 114 of Bennett Hall. Melissa Dancy of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a UMaine Visiting Libra Diversity Professor will speak. For information, contact Leisa Preble at 581-1016.
A $100 laptop that could last 10 years and only cost $10 a year: That idea was the impetus behind a joint project between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Seymour Papert that has come to be called, “The Hundred Dollar Laptop.”
The objective should be “one laptop per child, not one per seventh-grader,” Papert, a mathematician, author and computer science pioneer, said during his lecture Wednesday at the Donald P.
React. Exude confidence. Be aware.
These were the most important concepts taught Tuesday night during the first-ever coeducational seminar in self-defense at the University of Maine. The defense techniques combined practical martial arts as opposed to ones more concerned with the art form.
AUBURN – Last weekend, a group of University of Maine students strapped on tool belts and set aside their typical Friday night plans to lend a hand to Habitat for Humanity in Auburn. No carpentry experience was required, and students were asked to bring an open mind, an open heart and an adventurous spirit.
A diverse college campus chock-full of hippies, yuppies and flunkies rarely comes together to accomplish anything. The simple act of marketing aimed at college kids is a mistake often made by companies who underestimate our finely tuned B.S. detectors. With that in mind, I’m going to paint a little picture for you that will arm you with information which could ensure your financial future.
Thanksgiving is a great time of year – what’s better than stuffing your face with mashed potatoes and turkey while celebrating the pilgrims slaughter the Indians, I mean Native Americans? As important as Thanksgiving is, it has become eclipsed over the past few years by “Black Friday.
The University of Maine volleyball team lost a tightly contested match to Binghamton Friday night in the America East Championship Semi-Finals in Albany, NY. The Black Bears went 8-4 in conference play and were seeded third to the Bearcats No. 2, and the two teams split their regular season series.
It had the makings of the perfect spring break: five best friends from Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island and a seven-day, six-night stay in Sanibel Island, Fla.
For Mark Sterner, those seven days turned into three years of hell and a lifetime of regret.
The College of Education and Human Development has maintained an almost 30-year tradition of providing reading materials to needy youngsters during the holiday season. This year marks the 28th installment of a consecutive series of book drives catering to under-privileged members of the Orono and Old Town areas, especially the younger generation.
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