Archive for September 27th, 2007
Week three of the NFL season is in the books. As usual we had the blowouts, the nail biters and, well, the boring games. Some things remained constant: Tom Brady, the Cowboy’s offense and Favre’s legacy. Struggles continued for the New Orleans Saints, Ladanian Tomlinson and the atrocious mess we call the Atlanta Falcons.
The University of Maine field hockey team suffered a tough loss to Providence on Sunday afternoon, bringing their record to 4-5 and breaking up their winning streak. Courtney Veinotte and Nicole Emery each scored goals for the Black Bears, with assists by Brooke Anderson and Amy Zdrojesky.
The Red Sox have been on a rollercoaster ride ever since the All-Star break. Their lead over the New York Yankees has been gliding up and down in spurts for the entire second half of the season. They’ve been up 14 games, back down to four, back up to seven, all the way back down to one and a half and finally back to three, where it stood as of Tuesday night.
Graduating with a degree in Business Management is an accomplishment in itself, but to be the vice president of one of the University of Maine’s most successful athletic clubs adds a certain level of fulfillment to a student’s life. Eric Anderson handles this responsibility perfectly.
On a breezy fall day in Orono, the winds of change were blowing for the Maine Black Bears. Entering the game, Maine was 1-6-0, and had netted just two goals on the season. After being shut out in five of their past six games, the home field atmosphere finally brought the Black Bear offense out of hibernation.
The past week or so has looked unusually bad for law enforcement in Maine and nationwide. After two unrelated fatal shootings by police in Maine this weekend alone – something that is, thankfully, nearly unheard of in our state – and allegations of police brutality in Florida stemming from the Tasering incident at a John Kerry question-and-answer event, law enforcement will continue to be under a microscope and will suffer constant criticism.
I can’t wait until 2009. Maybe then the constant nagging in the back of my head about a right-wing extremist with total disregard for the law is running our country will silence. My jaw and fingers are tired from talking and writing about all of the social injustices that the Bush administration has created and fostered through these harrowing eight years.
Imagine a world where video games are not devices used to train children how to kill in an enjoyable fashion. Imagine that games are simply a form of entertainment, with the interactivity of a game of Monopoly, accompanied by the jaw-dropping, visually aesthetic pleasures of a box office movie like a modern-day “Star Wars.
In his recent op-ed, Eryk Salvaggio addressed some reasonable concerns regarding the name of Campus Crusade for Christ. I agree that “crusade” is not the optimal word to use – at the very least – given his point that the term could be associated with the bloody Crusades of the Middle Ages.
This week, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia University. The decision to invite the controversial political leader was met with resistance by those critical of the Iranian regime.
It has been argued that Ahmadinejad is hostile to basic democratic ideals in his own country and, therefore, should not be extended the opportunity to exercise those freedoms in the US.
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