Archive for April, 2009
The Maine Campus will live stream tomorrow’s open forum on gay marriage. The stream will start at 8 a.m. and reporting will start at 8:45 a.m. The Maine Campus will report on the proceedings throughout the day, and will also interview legislators and attendees.
Sharpie frenzy
Graffiti was reported at 8:50 a.m. April 14 by custodial services. The north stairwell of Neville Hall had four sets of images drawn with black permanent market, one per floor. The four sets cost $200 in damages.
Custodial services reported criminal mischief on the door of the north end of Androscoggin Hall at 2 p.
Several new bills for food safety legislation, recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, have local farmers and small farm supporters disgruntled.
The new legislation attempts to establish increased regulations to ensure food safety.
People against the bill say legislators are “viewing all agriculture as big agriculture” and that the new laws will adversely affect small farms.
As a friend, when and how do you tell a person what he’s doing with his life is not OK?
“Fist of God,” the second album from electronica duo MSTRKRFT (pronounced “Master Craft”) can be defined in one word: collaboration. The band, which is often mentioned in the same realm of the recent electro greats like Justice, Digitalism and Boys Noize, has crafted yet another classic dance album that delivers the kind of quality electronica fans have come to expect.
var uslide_show_id = “8911d6e1-b439-4959-bd74-de2fa5e0f142″;var slideshowwidth = “300″;var linktext = “”;When Andrew Gerke told me in an interview he’d booked the Dropkick Murphys for a concert at UMaine, I said “cool” and wrote it in my notebook. The next thing he told me was that it was on a Thursday – and we started laughing about it being a thirsty Thursday with an Irish-punk band from Boston.
The Maine state legislative committee for Education and Cultural Affairs turned down a bill aimed to increase state funding for higher education brought before Maine’s legislature in February. The bill’s sponsor believes it is doomed to fail.
The Education and Cultural Affairs Committee voted to recommend against adopting the bill.
Chancellor Richard Pattenaude highlighted the University of Maine System’s benefit to the state, as well as the financial problems the system faces and the solutions his task force and the universities’ administrations are pursuing, during his State of the University Address before state legislators last week.
Most would assume an obese Hispanic getting a shotgun shoved up his ass would make for an awkward, gruesome situation. “Crank: High Voltage” proves otherwise. The follow-up to the 2006 cult hit “Crank” is as grisly as it is hilarious, and as politically incorrect as it is electrifying.
