Archive for April, 2008
On Tuesday, April 29, WMEB, the University of Maine’s radio station, welcomes comedian Ryan Waning to Woodman’s Pub in downtown Orono for an evening of alternative stand-up comedy.
Making his name as part of New York’s hip comedy underground, while maintaining a residence in Maine, Waning has become a regular at some of the most prestigious venues in comedy.
Last Thursday the Maine Channel held their 2nd Annual Film Festival in Room 101, Neville Hall. The festival, which featured a multitude of student films, drew a large crowd, filling much of the lecture hall. The audience was treated to popcorn, candy, soda and pizza before the films were shown, but when the lights finally went down, after some technical difficulties, the crowd was eager to see what kind of film talent the University of Maine had to offer.
When hunger strikes
Police received a call from a Memorial Union Marketplace employee on April 24 at 12:47 p.m. She reported a male had ordered a steak and cheese sandwich and placed it in his pants pocket. He then put a ham and vegetable sandwich from the cooler in his other pants pocket and a juice in his jacket pocket.
The University of Maine men’s rugby squad came off a somewhat disappointing weekend at the Maine Cup tournament a few weeks ago but bounced right back in the Beast of the East Tournament on April 19 and 20 in Providence, R.I. The team went 3-2 overall and took fourth place out of the 32 teams that competed.
The students in the lecture hall are taking notes from the overhead when a cell phone rings, loudly. The professor, clearly irritated at being interrupted, walks over to the offender and motions for him to hand over the phone. He takes it and throws it against the opposite wall, where it shatters.
Baseball is a game of breaks – sometimes they go in your favor, and other times they don’t. Over the weekend, the University of Maine baseball team hosted the second-place America East team, the Stony Brook Seawolves.
After coming back from an 8-1 deficit on Friday to defeat the Seawolves, UMaine dropped both games of a doubleheader on Saturday, despite having the winning run either on base or up to the plate in the last inning.
The door to the future is wide open for the University of Maine’s graduating class, but fears of leaving the familiar and moving on persist.
New media major Kevin Mitchell is worried about keeping in touch with his friends at UMaine.
“I have met so many wonderful people, and I am really nervous to be leaving them behind, being hundreds of miles away.
Before coming to the University of Maine, I never followed the news, gas prices, politics or anything having to do with current events too closely. I only knew about issues that I heard my parents or teachers speak about, but I never cared too much about any of it.
When flying over vast fields – probably in some state between Louisiana and Washington – it is impossible to compare your size to the tiny-looking buildings below. People look like marching ants digging in and out of the earth. I start sinking into ontology; there wasn’t much else – being stuck in tight seats, a busy man sitting next to me eyeing his reports on Sarbanes Oxley.
Dominick Varney knows how to multi-task. He is an academic advisor for the Exploration program at the University of Maine, teaches acting classes and played eight roles in the Penobscot Theatre’s “Little Shop of Horrors” performance.
As he began to rattle off all the parts he played, he paused nervously to ask how he’s doing.
