Archive for April, 2006
Luckily March Madness is over and we can get on to predicting games that are less of a crap shoot than college basketball. Everyone knows in a one game match, anything can happen. Just ask Iowa or Memphis fans about that one. The NBA playoff experience is still difficult to call sometimes since this is often the first time you see an entire team trying to win a basketball game.
ORONO – Even with the best start in school history, the University of Maine softball team almost lost their game as quickly as they came back.
A four-run sixth inning was the driving force behind the team’s 6-4 comeback win against America East rivals Boston University on Tuesday afternoon at Kessock Field.
I considered not writing back to Paul Goodman’s April 20 article “America: the great whipping boy,” because I thought, is it worth it? In the end, I decided that correcting basic facts and pointing out flat and unjustified judgements was important.
“When was the last time anyone from the peace movement actually looked at what they were saying?” Well, Mr.
The Flaming Lips
“At War With The Mystics”
Warner Brothers
The Flaming Lips released their album, “At War With The Mystics,” as their first record in three years, and the results, musically, are about what you’d expect. But lyrically, as you might guess from the title, the band seems to have a soft anti-war axe to grind.
Welcome to the inaugural edition of 13 Questions in The Maine Campus. My name is Will Cleveland and I will be your host every Thursday as I will attempt to get to know a random athlete here at UMaine with 13 random questions. Most of the time, the questions will have little or nothing to do with that athlete’s sport.
Thursday
Candidate Forum
Athletic Director finalist Blake James. 11 a.m. in Dexter Lounge of Alfond Arena.
New Writing Series
Readings by French writers, Emmanuel Hocquard and Juliette Valery. 4:30 p.m. in Soderberg Center in Jenness Hall.
“Invisible Children”
A film about “night commuters” in northern Uganda.
Another year, another several thousand dollars in student loans. Given that next week is the Year in Review issue for the paper, sort of a Greatest Hits album for The Campus, if you’re new here. This pretty much wraps it up for me until the fall.
Looking back, I can’t help but think that most of the high-profile moments at UMaine this year were marked by conflict.
MUSIC
Jazz Ensemble in Concert
Part of the School of Performing Arts season
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 27
Minsky Recital Hall
Bloozapalooza
With Belmondo, Eric Green, Chez Cherry, Myke Billings and Souder ‘n’ Williams
8 p.m.
21+ after 10 p.m.
Saturday, April 29
The Blues Cafe
$5 cover with one free drink
LITERATURE
“Queer Forgetting”
By Judith Halberstam
7 p.
University of Maine sociology professor Steve Barkan was recently honored with a 2006 ‘Texty’ textbook excellence award from the Text and Academic Authors Association.
Barkan’s textbook, “Criminology: A Sociological Understanding, 3/e” from Prentice Hall Publishers was selected as the best textbook published in humanities or social science this year.
With us or against us
The title is more of a full disclosure than a drawing of the battle lines; it should be noted that I am a conscientious objector. In my view, the Student Government’s censure on the Student Women’s Association was aimed at fairness, fairness protected by Maine statutes Title 5 Ch.
