Archive for September, 2006
Dahr Jamail, the U.S. independent journalist who spent eight months reporting from Iraq between 2003 and 2005, will hold two talks today on the University of Maine campus. The first talk, entitled “Update on Iraq: Future U.S. Plans for the Middle East,” is part of the Socialist and Marxist Studies Series and will take place from 12:45 p.
On Friday, September 22, the 30th annual Common Ground Fair kicked off in Unity, Maine. Along with booths dedicated to agriculture, natural health and organic farming, the University of Maine was represented with exhibits from the Hudson Museum, the Page Farm Museum, and the Maine Folklife Center.
You might say the General Student Senate tackled some key issues last Tuesday, or you might say a key issue tackled them. The Senate united Tuesday to vote unanimously on a resolution voicing its opposition to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. Senators also disagreed on the issue of who should pay for a lost key to the Wade Center.
A revolutionary research project at the University of Maine will help breathe new life into Old Town’s former Georgia-Pacific mill and, according to projections, bring more than 1,000 jobs to the area over the next two years.
A group of investors calling itself Red Shield Environmental plans to use the mill and its biomass boiler to break into the field of biorefining ethanol fuel from wood.
One week ago, University of Maine philosophy professor Doug Allen was arrested as part of an anti-war protest in U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe’s office along with 10 other people. They had planned the event, complete with press releases, in commemoration of International Peace Day.
It was a brisk Tuesday morning. I just sat through an hour and 15 minutes of creative writing and was anxiously awaiting my return home to shower or go back to bed. As I neared my car I noticed something on the windshield, and it was at that moment, at approximately 10:47 a.
This editorial is being printed to warn readers about a danger that is corrupting the youth of our society. Now, the first thoughts that come to mind when thinking about corruption are drugs or alcohol.
However, the real danger is hidden deep within society.
The University of Maine rugby teams continued their winning ways this weekend, with the men posting a 32-5 victory over Bates College and the women’s team beating the University of Maine at Farmington 15-0. The men improved to 2-0, and the women started off their season 1-0.
1 BEN KWELLER S/T
2 RAPTURE Pieces Of The People We Love
3 BOB DYLAN Modern Times
4 TV ON THE RADIO Return To Cookie Mountain
5 BECK The Information
6 THE DECEMBERISTS O Valencia
7 KASABIAN Empire
8 BANGKOK FIVE Who’s Gonna Take Us Alive?
9 VARIOUS ARTISTS PDX Pop Now!
10 RISE AGAINST The Sufferer And The Witness
11 GRIZZLY BEAR Yellow House
12 BLACK KEYS Magic Potion
13 PETER YORN Nightcrawler
14 JUCIFER If Thine Enemy Hunger
15 R.
In Hitchner Hall on Wednesday, students, faculty, and anyone who chose to volunteer could be found slurping and chewing products created from maple syrup. Tests like this are a routine process at the Department of Food Science and Nutrition’s Consumer Testing Center.
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