Archive for March, 2006
Five minutes into “Silent Surrrealism” is enough to get one wondering; ‘nice music, but what about the films?’ Well, the Hot Club of San Francisco – made up of Paul Mehling, Ari Munkres, Jason Vanderford and Jeff Magidson – will get to the films, but they are not shy about displaying their showmanship first.
Don’t cry for me, America.
I know it’s supposed to be Argentina and even though I am not Evita Peron, what I can say is that after the last few Olympics and World Baseball Classic, lately crying is all I have seen.
During the finals of the WBC, all I kept hearing was, “The reason the USA did not make the finals is that they did not have all their best players.
Derek Mitchell said that $10 was the magic number and hopes other students will feel the same way.
Mitchell, the vice president of Student Entertainment, authored a resolution to increase the Student Activity Fee by $10. The student body will vote on the resolution Wednesday.
Blame where it’s due
I am astounded that Derek Mitchell would claim that the three students who ran for town council lost because students were disenfranchised in this election. That claim is entirely unfounded. Absentee voting was available for students and advertisements for voting absentee were posted all over campus for quite a few weeks before the election.
Award-winning poet Fred Wah read selections of his works to enrapture members of the academic community of the Univeristy of Maine last Thursday. The lecture was part of the New Writing Series and was free to the public in the Soderberg Center of Jenness Hall.
Heading into the weekend, the University of Maine baseball team was set on improving its pitching. Mission accomplished.
Sophomore Nolan Boike and junior Josh Zyskowski each turned in an outstanding effort from the mound as the Black Bears took two-of-three in a weekend set against the New York Institute of Technology at President’s Field in Old Westbury, N.
A speech by Sen. Susan Collins about the ethics of conscience in government turned into a protest by an anti-war group over the republican senator’s support of the Iraq War.
Robert Shetterly stood near the conclusion of Thursday’s lecture at Hauck Auditorium and accused Collins of supporting an unethical war against a sovereign nation.
I live two lives at the University of Maine. The first one is that of a student. And like most students at the University of Maine, I receive federal financial aid because I can’t afford to fully fund my college education. In Laymen’s terms, that means I don’t have a lot of money.
The unicorn was believed to be an real animal all the way up to the 19th century. Tests had been devised to tell real horns from fake ones: Put three scorpions in a jar with the horn, and if the scorpions were killed, the horn was pure.
Baron Georges Leopold Cuvier, a French naturalist, is the man who discovered the Pterodactyl.
For University of Maine senior forward Derek Damon, all the pieces are falling into place. The Bangor native is two games away from ending his career with a national championship in storybook fashion.
But it almost didn’t happen. In fact, the Black Bears’ eldest son nearly ended his career in the most unlikely of places – the stands.
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