Archive for November, 2008
The candidates for student president debated Monday, November 24. The forum was moderated by Michael Maberry and Michael Moody, presenters of the show Late Night with Mike and Mike, a weekly program on WMEB. The debate can be listened to, in its entirety, on MaineCampus.com. Voting is December 1.
The University of Maine’s electric bill reached $5.9 million for the 2008-2009 school year, a figure students and the university can improve on with conservation habits and more efficient computer labs.
The problem has less to do with old light bulbs than it does with attitudes students have about their energy use, said Misa Saros, the UMaine sustainability coordinator.
I write to you today as a student and a customer of this great institution. I have seen so many individuals come and go with ideas and plans to make the student life at this university worth our tuition and meet our standards of excellence. As students, we have the right to question and the right to judge.
Not many students would understand the terms huck, pull, handler, greatest or jambalaya on the field of play, but the University of Maine ultimate frisbee team lives and dies by these words. Also known as the Frozen Fury, the UMaine ultimate team is something of an underground club.
I love reading, but I’m not so sure about everything that comes with it. I take Stephen King’s mantra, “If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the tools to write,” and try to apply it to journalism. If I don’t have the time to read publications – if I struggle to get through a cotton-candy-light Entertainment Weekly in its titular timespan – how can I hope to write capably in the field?
So I decided to swear off fiction.
Student Government executive elections have been postponed until tomorrow at 9 a.m. due to FirstClass issues. Fair Elections Practices Commission Chair Tavian MacKinnon and Student Government President James Lyons chose to postpone the election at 11 a.
The University of Maine Graduate School is moving to newly renovated Stodder Hall in January 2009. This new location will hold administrative offices, graduate student housing and something that no other graduate school offers – a live-in faculty member for mentoring.
I am Rob Goodwin, and I am running for president of The University of Maine Student Government. My intentions for running for president are simple, and I hope students, administrators, the press, family and friends believe me when I say this.
I have been a senator in Student Government for more than a year and I feel that my positive, optimistic and passionate attitude can bring the university, Student Government and students together to overcome the great challenges that we are faced with at UMaine.
As the University of Maine football team took on the University of New Hampshire Wildcats at home on Saturday, there were a number of former Black Bears crowding the sidelines. Despite the blizzard conditions during the first half of the game, there were many alumni there in support of the team.
My years of college courses have left me burned out. I have grown tired of turning over page after page of boring text. My eyes ache from hundreds of hours staring at tiny textbook fonts and computer screens. My back hurts from hundreds of pieces of paper held together by a hard, protective covering crammed into heavy backpacks.
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