Archive for February 15th, 2007
The irony within Luke deNatale’s article printed on Feb. 8 is so grand, one cannot help but comment on it. Many readers may have missed it since, according to deNatale, college students are too ignorant to decipher between truths and beliefs. He wrote, “I would like to think that college students have a more independent line of thought and can discern between fact and opinion.
UM handles cancellation well
The university seems to have weathered Wednesday’s snowstorm well.
The closing was announced bright and early – just after 6 a.m. – by Joe Carr.
The dining commons and Maine Marketplace were up and running, with meal exchange privileges in the Marketplace running all day instead of just during the meal exchange hours.
“Documentation: Photography as Witness,” the newest exhibit at the Lord Hall gallery, combines the work of international photographers to explore what it means to take a photograph.
“We think Photoshop created the divide between truth and untruth in photography,” said Michael Grillo, curator of the exhibit, at its opening.
Love it or hate it, Valentine’s Day is difficult to ignore. Yet however you spent this year’s romance-filled holiday, chances are you didn’t realize that Feb. 14 also marked the annual V-Day College Campaign – a worldwide effort to raise awareness of domestic violence toward women through campus productions of “The Vagina Monologues: Until the Violence Stops.
1 DEERHOOF Friend Opportunity
2 LONEY, DEAR Loney, Noir
3 EL PERRO DEL MAR El Perro Del Mar
4 ELENI MANDELL Miracle Of Five
5 MEW Frengers
6 GOOD, THE BAD AND THE QUEEN The Good, The Bad And The Queen
7 OF MONTREAL Hissing F
The iTunes Store, the world’s largest distributor of legal digital music downloads, has come under fire in recent months. Members of the European Union, including Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden, have lambasted Apple over its use of “Digital Rights Management” technologies to lock consumers into using iTunes and the iPod.
Perhaps all anyone needs to make a great indie rock record these days is to move to Montreal and hire a cellist. Consider the rousing anthems of the Arcade Fire, the tender orchestral pop orchestration of the Stars and the playful experimentation of Broken Social Scene.
“Stop the Bat Boy! Stop the Bat Boy!”
Good luck. If Wednesday’s blizzard, which shut down University of Maine classes and facilities, couldn’t stop “Bat Boy: The Musical” from overtaking Hauck Auditorium this Friday, nothing can.
The play is so ambitious that a dedicated cast of 21 students, a veteran director and contracted professionals from New York City and Boston were required to realize the goal of a production which features acting, dancing, singing and technical aspects never before seen in UMaine theater.
MUSIC
The Pink Floyd Experience
Thursday, Feb. 15
7 p.m.
Hutchins Concert Hall
$35.00
Generations
Benefit Folk Concert
Sunday, Feb. 18
1 p.m.
Donald P. Corbett Building
Java Jive
“Fat Tuesday Party”
Tuesday, Feb. 20
8 p.m.
Memorial Union
Free
EVENTS
Paul Rusesabagina
Inspiration for “Hotel Rwanda”
Monday, Feb.
Earlier this week I saw a story, courtesy of the Associated Press, about a lady named Julie Amero. Mrs. Amero was a substitute teacher in the town of Windham, Conn., and was recently convicted in the latest of what seems to be an unending string of teacher-student sex scandals.
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