Archive for February 27th, 2006
L.A. Theatre Works has been creating theater for public audiences and radio broadcasts across America, and they’ll be in Orono to perform The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Neil Simon’s bittersweet play about a married New York couple trying to make ends meet in the face of the husband’s unemployment will be performed as a stage reading by actors Sharon Gless and Richard Masur.
It’s one week before spring break, and you know you don’t want to spend our two weeks academia-free on mom and dad’s couch. At the same time, you’re operating on a work-study budget and can’t dish out for the cruise to Cancun. In the meantime, you’re eyeing Boston or Portland as a potential day-trip destination, but haven’t you been there 500 gazillion times already?
Don’t worry.
Last week two editors from the University of Illinois? student-run Daily Illini were suspended and could lose their jobs for printing the infamous Danish Muslim cartoons.
The majority of the media aren?t publishing the cartoon because of the unthinkable responses it has sparked across the world this year.
When the students are away, the arts at the University of Maine won’t miss a beat. Next Sunday, March 5 at 3 p.m., Elizabeth Erskine Patches and Cheryl Tschanz will present an “Encounter Concert” in Minsky Recital Hall featuring “The Book of Hanging Gardens,” a song cycle composed by Arnold Schonberg in 1908.
They were used to playing indoors from practicing inside Mahaney Dome, but not like this.
Last weekend, the University of Maine men’s and women’s rugby teams competed in a barn when they played in the Shameless Rip-Off tournament at the University of New Hampshire’s campus.
By Danielle K. Smith
For The Maine Campus
If you ever ran into Samuel Martin on the street, you might not realize that this seemingly quiet person is a ladies’ man. With his patented “elbow touch” move, Martin is a killer dancer – at least when it comes to replicating the moves of Napoleon Dynamite.
University of Maine junior Hana Pelletier won the 800 meter run at the New England Indoor Championships in Boston over the weekend.
She finished the race in 2:10.00, breaking a 13-year-old UMaine school record by well over a second.
In addition, the Black Bears’ ladies 4×800 relay took home a silver medal while Amanda Virgets was fifth in the 500, Erin Hatch was fifth in the high jump, Heather Zavaduk was eighth in the pole vault and Stephanie McCusker garnered sixth place in the triple jump.
Riding a career high 25 points from junior Rashard Turner and 15 team three-pointers, the University of Maine men’s basketball team beat Stony Brook 87-75 at the Events Center in Stony Brook, N.Y.
The Black Bears’ 15 from behind the arc were a season high and fell one short of the school record, set in 1998.
In a sea of celebration, Rashard Turner clutched his home white basketball jersey and stretched out the navy MAINE stitched across the front to anyone who would look at it. Teammate Ernest Turner’s last-second half-court shot had just catapulted the Black Bears to a 69-66 win over arch rival New Hampshire, ensuring the Bears wouldn’t finish at the bottom of the America East standings and propelling them into the conference tournament having finally found each other.
By Brian Sylvester
For The Maine Campus
Professor of Marine Science Paul Rawson and fourth-year doctoral candidate Erin Nolan are performing a long-term study of sea scallop populations in the waters off the coast of Maine.
The study, which is scheduled to continue into 2007, is an attempt to determine what relationships exist between the scallop populations of different areas.
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