Archive for January, 2009
This year, more than 100 employers will attend the University of Maine’s annual Career Fair in hopes of finding new employees. The Career Fair, organized every year by the UMaine Career Center, is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 28 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Student Recreation and Fitness Center.
Hype is defined as “to promote or publicize showily.” This definition could be no more relevant than with LeBron James. Garnering significant public notice during his sophomore year at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio, James was being promoted and publicized as “The Chosen One.
The Issue: University surveillance of student athletes’ online conduct.
What We Think: UMaine shouldn’t seek out inappropriate online behavior.
Not a lot of things are funnier than old people swearing – especially if the old person is Clint Eastwood. “Gran Torino” shows a side of Eastwood that nobody expects to see at his age, and it’s a treat.
Eastwood plays grizzled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski.
The University of Maine turned campus health services over to Eastern Maine Medical Center last semester, a decision that forced employees at Cutler Health Center to request severance packages in order to avoid losing benefits by being employed by EMMC.
About four years ago, the university decided it would be in the best interest of students and UMaine to remove Cutler from the public sector.
Women’s Hockey
Durham, N.H. – The University of Maine women’s hockey team was swept by the No. 7-ranked University of New Hampshire on Friday and Saturday at the Whittemore Center. Friday night UMaine fell 3-0, and on Saturday afternoon they fell 5-1. The Black Bears dropped their sixth-straight game, falling to 4-19-2 on the season and 1-11-1 in Hockey East.
President Obama’s inauguration speech may someday be plastered on the walls of political science classrooms everywhere. But will we remember only the words, or will the meaning be also preserved?
Cannibal Corpse are back, like it or not. 2009 offers up “Evisceration Plague,” the group’s 11th studio album. In a 2008 interview, bassist Alex Webster said this album would be their heaviest to date.
It’s hard to say how much heavier this New York death metal quintet can get, but “Plague” is an impressive follow-up to 2006′s highly successful “Kill.
The University of Maine’s Athletic Department is taking a closer look at what student athletes post on the Web.
Sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Badjocks and Thedirty are prime suspects for posting pictures or comments that could harm the university’s image.
Each time the University of Maine men’s hockey team prepares for the start of a game, Josh Van Dyk takes a moment to reflect on the fact that there is more to life than hockey.
The sophomore defenseman from Ontario has experienced at 22 years old an event most fear as an unequaled tragedy.
