Archive for May, 2006
The minute classes get out on Friday, there is a good chance that students will flock to the library for something other than finals.
Before multiple attempts at a last-minute cram session, students can check out an interactive village and meet some of their favorite bands behind Fogler Library as a part of the mtvU Campus Invasion Tour that will make its final stop of the year on May 5.
Green bikes to swarm campus
Wednesday the brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha will release 50 green bikes to the UMaine community.
For those not familiar with the program, Pi Kappa Alpha refurbishes old bikes and paints them green. They are free for students to use, but the agreement is that they stay on campus and are left where other people can find them.
After watching 10 straight mindless hours of the biggest crapshoot on Earth, the NFL Draft, I find myself looking deep into each team’s selections after day number one.
Of course, everyone and their mother has an opinion when it comes to selection weekend.
Director Paul Greengrass has tackled what will most likely be the most controversial film of his career, “United 93.” While Greengrass has taken on projects before that dealt with tragic events, such as his 2002 film “Bloody Sunday,” this is the first time anyone has taken on a film project dealing with the actual events that occurred on Sept.
At some point, every childhood dream has to bite the dust.
Mine went to bed in sixth grade when I realized that I didn’t have Eddie Matthew’s arm and Jim Lovell’s brain. It just wasn’t in the books. In the end, these dreams are the easiest to say farewell to.
The image is candid: Several young women, swathed in traditional Arabic dress, stand smiling behind a deep-skinned U.S. soldier. He cradles an assault rifle as he kneels in front of them to pose for the photographer. The girl behind him, her head wrapped in a fringed lavender veil and her face touched with a gentle smile, extends her hand out over the soldier’s bleached-out army cap as if in blessing.
Take a situation where your team is basically blowing every other team in the conference out of the water.
Combine that with the notion that your team just lost the game and although life is still good, there is one person on the team who is more distraught about the loss than anyone else.
The final New Writing Series event for the semester featured French writers and translators Emmanuel Hocquard and Juliette Valery. The Soderberg Auditorium was filled with the usual English-major oriented audience and also many Francophones.
“I came because I’m a Franco-American, and I love poetry,” said English major Danielle LaLiberte.
This season has been a memorable one for the University of Maine softball team. It has already set a school record for wins in a season. Currently, the team sits in first place in America East. Senior pitcher Sarah Bennis, who leads the team in wins, has been one of the main reasons.
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