Archive for November, 2007
Had the magic really come home? That was the question on the minds of fans who showed up on Thursday night to see the University of Maine women’s basketball team in action.
Cindy Blodgett, poster child for UMaine women’s sports even years after she graduated, had finally returned to the Alfond.
Harold Alfond, a well known philanthropist from Maine, recently passed away at age 93. Alfond founded the Dexter Shoe Company and is recognized on campus, in the names of the Alfond Arena and Alfond Sports Stadium. All told, Alfond has donated over $8 million to UMaine.
The dance department had a brand new dance show Thursday night in Minsky Hall.
The dance show – Emerging Works – “is a new series this year,” Ann Ross, the director of the dance department, said. “It gives dancers a chance to show what they have created and what they are working on for our main showcase in the fall.
Thanksgiving isn’t necessarily a strictly American tradition. Although it has gone by many different names, the idea of Thanksgiving has been celebrated for a few millennia in countries all over the world – even Canada has one – with the intent to show gratefulness to another year gone by and a stored crop to show for it.
Word of advice when going to a show at a small venue such as the 103 Ultralounge: go early. By early I mean when the doors open. If you’re lucky, it will be just you and a couple of kids. Then, if you are really lucky you’ll catch the headlining artist as he’s setting up his CD table.
It was the pencil drop heard round the world when, on Nov. 5, at 12:01 a.m., TV and Motion Picture writers everywhere traded in their laptops and number twos for protest lines and picket signs. This protest doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone, or at least it shouldn’t, considering the buzz it’s made throughout the entertainment industry over the last few months.
Plans to update and modernize the University of Maine Memorial Gym are underway.
While construction is not expected to start before the next academic year, UMaine Athletic Director Blake James is already looking forward to modernizing the athletic facility.
I’ve always been convinced that O.J. Simpson got away with murder. I remember watching the trial when I was just a little girl and thinking he was a filthy murderer. In September, Simpson’s highly anticipated book “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer,” a hypothetical look at how he would have killed his ex-wife and Ron Goldman, was released to the general public.
Fox in the chicken burger house
Police received a report of a stolen beverage from the Union Market Place at 6:47 p.m. on Nov. 13. Staff had observed a male acting suspicious while walking around the cash register without paying. The staff later observed that he had food and a drink hidden under his arms.
Harold Alfond, a philanthropist known for his financial generosity across the state of Maine, died early Friday morning at Maine General Medical Center in Augusta at the age of 93.
“I was saddened to learn this morning of Harold Alfond’s death,” University of Maine President Robert Kennedy said Friday.
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