Archive for 2008
Earlier this semester, I wrote an opinion piece about how H.R. 800, S. 104 (The Employee Free Choice Act, or EFCA) will restore democracy to the American workplace by allowing workers to choose for themselves whether or not they’ll join a union, without fear of intimidation, coercion, retributive action or illegal firing by their employers.
$12 billion per year go into the bottled water industry, which capitalizes on a basic human need in the U.S., including Maine, according to Amy Dowley, a spokesperson for Food and Water Watch, a non-profit Washington D.C.-based lobbying organization.
In Maine, local bottled water companies don’t pay for the water they profit from, and do not provide jobs to local people or support the local economy, according to Jim Wilfong, an adjunct with the University of Southern Maine.
With 2004′s “Hot Fuss,” Nevada foursome The Killers became one of the biggest new alternative rock bands everyone thought were British. In the four years since, “Hot Fuss” has gone platinum three times over and the band has added “Sam’s Town” (2006), “Sawdust” (2007) and this year’s “Day & Age” to their discography.
The University of Maine is exploring the possibility of changing its academic calendar, its workweek and the number of campus buildings kept open during breaks in an effort to save costs and energy, according to an announcement made during the Dec. 17 Faculty Senate.
Drinking does not keep you warm. There is no such thing as a “beer jacket,” even though you might feel ready to trek back home from Woodman’s or the Bear Brew sans coat after tipping a few back. Be responsible. No one wants to dig you out of a snow bank. With that winter safety message, let’s start sippin’.
5 to 8 percent of the University of Maine’s dining services food was locally-grown during November and December , according to university Culinary Director Glenn Taylor. Maine buys from several local farms, including Lakeside Farms, owned and operated by university Professor of resource economics and policy Stewart Smith. Lakeside Farms in Newport, as well as several others, sell their food to local grocery stores and universities to try to increase the impact of local food.
International affairs expert Thomas Remington visited the University of Maine on Monday to talk to students and faculty about what Obama must focus on whenever dealing with Russian-U.S. relations. Remington, along with part-time UMaine professors Paul Holman and Seth Singleton, answered questions from students and faculty members on Russia’s current political status and its relationship with the U.S. Remington worried the end of the START II treaty in 2009, which deters first-strike nuclear weapons, will create an unstable Russia that Obama will have trouble dealing with.
Pig Destroyer are an enigma. Originally a three-piece grindcore band from Virginia, they’ve expanded their lineup to include a member specifically listed as providing “noise” and occasionally put out 38-minute doom songs on 5.1 surround sound. Existing somewhere in the nebulous space between high intelligence and devastating neurosis, Pig Destroyer are at once sublime, frightening, piercing, hyper-intellectual, misogynistic, feminist, honest, emotional and perhaps most obvious – intensely violent.
The University of Maine men’s basketball team did exactly what they needed to on Monday night, coming away with a 67-56 win over the Colgate University Raiders.
The game was much closer than the final score would indicate.
The Raiders entered the game hoping to snap a five-game losing streak.
