Archive for February, 2007
In the midst of Black History Month, which has featured nearly a dozen events at the University of Maine, professor James Varner spoke Wednesday in Neville Hall on the importance of the month and those who benefit from remembrance and education about black history.
Somewhere on the order of two weeks ago, a group of university officials announced at a meeting of Residents on Campus that a new arrangement of living facilities would include six residence halls that would be first-year only.
This news was alarming to the residents of those halls, who are all going to have to move out.
AEWC project grabs attention
Habib Dagher and the people who work with the Advanced Engineering Wood Composite Center deserve to be congratulated by the entire campus.
After working on the Modular Ballistic Protection System, which will help protect soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan from shrapnel, Dagher and the AEWC were honored by speeches from Sen.
In the Feb. 15 issue of the Maine Campus, the headline to the story “Student Senate opposes freshmen-only dorm plan” was misleading. While some senators have spoken against it, the senate has not taken an official stance on the First-Year Residential Experience plan.
A University of Maine Ph.D. student spoke about an example of the United States’ influence in Latin America and the growing democratic-socialist forms of government in the hemisphere at Thursday’s Socialist and Marxist Studies Lecture Series on Thursday in the Bangor Room of Memorial Union.
Yelling driver gets DUI
On Feb. 24 at 1:20 a.m., an officer parked on Pine Street watching the Bear Brew Pub observed a large group exit the building. The officer then saw a vehicle moving up the street, the driver of the vehicle yelling at people as he passed them.
Monday
Conversation with the Provost
Provost Edna Mora Szymanski will convene the second in a series of campus conversations, titled “Strategic Plan Implementation Process and Update on Progress” at 3:30 p.m. in the Bangor Room, Memorial Union.
Intro to Photoshop
Training in Adobe Suite application will be offered from 9:30 a.
Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Michael Michaud spoke Thursday morning at the AEWC Center when the center’s director, Habib J. Dagher, presented and demonstrated modular ballistic panels that were developed at the University of Maine.
The panels, which are called Modular Ballistic Protection System, were developed to help the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan who are constantly on the move.
AUGUSTA – A potential 10 percent cut in administrator pay could lead to a decrease in tuition for University of Maine students through a bill that has been referred to the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs in the state legislature.
A public hearing on the bill will occur in the next two to three weeks.
Over the last four months, Chris Bruff has burst onto the scene for the University of Maine men’s basketball team. A 6-4 forward from Bloomfield, Conn., Bruff is the Black Bears’ second leading scorer and has amassed the best shooting percentage in America East in 2006-07.
