Archive for March, 2009
Marc Hernandez has a 2,500-mile ride to school. Good thing he likes driving long distances.
Hernandez is from Southlake, Texas. A second-year student, he road trips to the University of Maine every August and back to his hometown, near Dallas and Fort Worth, every May.
There’s a been a lot of talk lately about the fate of newspapers, but one force changing journalism hasn’t been addressed: Our new president.
Plans are moving rapidly to keep parts of Memorial Union open around the clock.
Student Government President Owen McCarthy proposed a rough plan the first week in February. Now Kenda Scheele, senior associate dean for students, predicts the Union will be open 24-7 before the end of the semester.
A room with a view Residence Life employees of Edith Patch Hall suspected underage drinking in a second-floor room and called police at 12:32 a.m. March 22 when the residents became uncooperative. Officers found five underage students in the room. They all admitted to drinking.
The eighth-seeded University of Maine men’s hockey team wasn’t supposed to be hanging around Agganis Arena for an extra day. The Terriers were the nation’s top team, nearly doubling UMaine’s scoring average, and allowing almost a goal less per game.
The better team prevailed in the decisive third game of the Hockey East quarterfinal series with a 6-2 win and advanced, but not without a renewed sense of the reputation UMaine hockey carries.
Letters to the editor: Glad the chancellor is safe
Web Comments: Change we can believe in
Fernald Hall smelled like melting glue and watercolors last Monday. National Geographic Magazines dating back to 1987 covered the floor. Newspaper cutouts, feathers, markers and paintbrushes were strewn among old photographs.
Emily Fortin kneeled on the floor gluing pictures of important people in her life to a cloud-colored posterboard.
The Maine Campus will live stream today’s (Monday’s) budget discussion for those unable to attend.
At 10 a.m., VP for Administration and Finance Janet Waldron will give a presentation on the university budget, both in the past and future. Following the presentation a three-member panel, including Waldron and President Robert Kennedy, will answer questions.
Working for the style section of The Maine Campus, we get many CDs in the mail. Usually they’re new releases by artists we’ve at least heard of, but every once in a while, a weird artifact from the past shows up. Lewistown, Penn.’s Caeser Pink & The Imperial Orgy’s 2006 opus “All God’s Children” is one of those gems.
