Archive for March, 2008
At Tuesday’s meeting of the General Student Senate, Sen. Samantha Shulman announced that new meal plans would be available for the fall semester. Currently, the average price for an individual meal varies depending on the meal plan students select.
Students who chose the meal plan with 260 meals are paying $7.
I’d like to take a look at consumer privacy from a deeper point of view, especially regarding the recent credit card info leak – more like flood – at Hannaford.
If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, here’s what happened: In the period from December 7 to March 10, a breach occurred somewhere between when credit card information was taken from the point-of-sale terminals to the authorization server.
Not to sound like an old geezer here, but I remember back in the day when there still was the option to select a smoking room on your housing application. That’s right: way before first-year only housing, there was smoking housing. It was a reality in Penobscot Hall as recently as five years ago.
Students signing up for housing will find the process – and possibly their halls – different from past years.
“The major change is we decided to use the same criteria for our apartments in the residence halls,” said Housing Assignment Coordinator Andrew Matthews.
Nobel Peace Prize winner, leading cardiologist, inventor of the defibrillator, peace activist and 1942 University of Maine graduate Dr. Bernard Lown returned to his alma mater for a series of lectures and discussions starting Wednesday.
“He is arguably the most important graduate to come out of the University of Maine,” Honors College Dean Charlie Slavin said.
For Fall 2008 class registration, students will be using MaineStreet instead of WebDSIS. MaineStreet can be accessed by going to mainestreet.maine.edu or accessing it through the University of Maine Web site, which has MaineStreet listed under the quicklinks list on the bottom left of the page.
It’s finally upon us. The biggest, most heralded, most heavily advertised collegiate sporting event of the year: the NCAA basketball tournaments. The single elimination excitement makes March Madness a genuine cultural event.
This year, the men’s tourney seems to be all about bubble teams proving themselves, while the women see one of the strongest fields in years as some lower seeds try to gain attention for themselves by disrupting what was originally expected to be a long road to yet another Connecticut vs.
When University of Maine baseball coach Steve Trimper first set foot on the Orono campus in 2005, he made one thing clear – his team will play a tough non-conference schedule.
After seeing his team struggle in their annual spring trip last season as they played one of the toughest non-conference schedules in recent years, Trimper could have changed his philosophy and scheduled a cupcake slate for the Black Bears this season.
Whether it is the environmentalist on the edge of extinction, artists on the edge of culture or immigrant workers on the edge of legality, everyone talks about edges. Leave it to a philosopher to ask us what the word actually means.
Edward S. Casey is the author of “The World on Edge,” an exploration of what we mean when we talk about edges.
Many students are highly anticipating the upcoming guest lecture featuring the two personalities from the Discovery Channel show “MythBusters,” The event has sold out the 2,300-person capacity of the Field House and is more popular than initially anticipated.
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