Archive for March, 2007
During their recent spring break, more than 60 University of Maine students skipped traveling to Cancun or California to lie out in the sun, and instead gave their time to help those in need. What they participated in is called Alternative Spring Break (ASB), and has been a regular event every March at UMaine for the past 10 years.
Anchored by a pair of hits from Billy Cather and RBIs from four different players, the University of Maine baseball squad awakened to snap a nine-game losing streak against the New York Institute of Technology yesterday, 4-2. It wasn’t all good news for the Black Bears, however, as the squad dropped the tail end of their doubleheader against NYIT, 6-5 on a walk-off hit, to fall to 5-12 on the season.
Last week, two large, traditional broadcasting companies brought forth demands for money over copyright infringement and royalty fees to a variety of Internet-based content distributors. Viacom, owner of several TV networks including Comedy Central and MTV, sued YouTube to the tune of $1 billion for clips on the video-sharing site, and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has dramatically increased royalties on music played by independent Internet radio stations, which are now higher than royalties paid by commercial radio.
The University of Maine System has refused a request from the Recording Industry Association of America to produce names of students who allegedly downloaded copyrighted materials.
The system has also opted not to forward the RIAA’s pre-litigation letters offering settlements to those students, although the schools those students attend will inform their students of the letters and give them a chance to pick up the letters if they so choose.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Every Tuesday night at 9 p.m., the Discovery Channel has a show called “Dirty Jobs,” hosted by Mike Rowe. For those that favor at-times messy and less glamorous professions, it’s their kind of program.
Next week, however, the show might be better suited if they give the job of host to the University of Maine’s gritty group of upperclassmen.
Dance is life for some students. The six performers of the Hubbard Street 2 (HS2) dance company are no exception. As a youth-training company based on the established school, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, HS2 is a dance group focused on discovering new choreographers and developing young dancers.
Monday
Animal communication
Marty Leonard of Dalhousie University will present “Can you hear me now? How animals communicate in a noisy world” as part of the Department of Wildlife Ecology Seminar Series at noon in Room 204, Nutting Hall.
Preparing for publication
Nathan Stormer will lead a workshop titled “Preparing a piece of academic writing for publication in the Humanities and Social Sciences; for graduate students,” starting at 3:30 p.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – This one goes out to all the disbelievers, critics and fan forum geeks out there: Can you please shut up now?
Or at least pipe down until you have an argument worth listening to.
On Saturday, one of the Internet and college hockey’s biggest whipping boys, University of Maine head coach Tim Whitehead proved once again that he is easily one of the most underrated coaching talents in the game.
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that “all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” In other words, people will put up with crap because it is easier than changing, no matter how important that change may be.
I’m sick and tired of “American Idol.” There, I said it. I’m a fan too; I’ve spent more time than I should have watching the show and defending it to others. More than once, I’ve thought about buying a Kelly Clarkson album before just secretly downloading a few songs on iTunes.
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