Archive for February, 2009
Tire slashing frenzy A student parked his 2003 Saab in the York Parking Lot on Feb. 14 at 1:15 a.m. and returned at 1:45 a.m. to find his front driver’s side tire slashed. The estimated damage is $120. Throughout the day, Public Safety received five additional reports of vehicles with slashed tires in the York Parking Lot.
With leases ending in May, students have begun the search for apartments. In Orono, some leases contain clauses reflecting a town ordinance in effect for five years – one that penalizes residents for having police called on them.
The Town of Orono can take a resident to court for civil action if the police have been called to their house often or have a considerable amount of disorderly conduct slips.
University of Maine student Dylan Lyford – a 19-year-old who friends described as someone who would always make them smile – died of complications related to a skull fracture, according to an autopsy.
Lyford, 19, of Milo, Maine, was found unconscious Sunday, Feb.
With their two archrivals in the rearview mirror, the University of Maine men’s hockey team shifts the focus to their neighbor in the Hockey East standings.
The Black Bears travel to Amherst, Mass. this weekend for a pivotal pair of games against the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with whom they share the seventh spot in the conference standings.
The cover of Zombi’s “Spirit Animal” is really lame, like, “hey, check out my ‘Masters of the Universe’ tattoo” lame or “Yeah, I think it’s a good idea to make ‘Naruto’ anime music videos with Linkin’ Park songs” lame. The image in question, a heavily airbrushed photo of a charging elephant with lightning striking in the background, looks like the box art of a video game an out of touch middle-aged mother would buy for her rebellious 11-year-old – or a rejected Zoobooks cover.
A Nevada woman auctions her virginity and the highest bidder admits to buying because he’s never “had” a virgin. A case of liberating self ownership, or the same old objectification of women?
Ogheneovo Dibie laughed and clapped from the sixth row of the Collins Center for the Arts as he watched fellow students perform.
The packed auditorium cheered along as Forrest Dantzler took center stage and danced a solo hip-hop routine in tribute to Black History Month.
Re: Constitution be damned
Debate arose over a $790 allocation for Club Canada’s trip to Montreal in the nearly four-hour General Student Senate meeting on Feb. 17. Club Canada modified its itinerary of the trip from the club’s last presentation to the senate to include a leadership conference.
