Archive for September 10th, 2009
UMaine President Robert Kennedy serves on the Board of Directors at FairPoint Communications — a paid position he has held since March 2008.
More than 50 people — many of them students — were charged over Labor Day weekend on the UMaine campus and in Orono and Old Town with alcohol- and drug-related offenses.
After construction problems, their house was condemned and the brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha were forced to move out. Now, in the new year, the fraternity has moved back into its house and started its own corporation, which is “brother-owned and brother-operated.”
When Maura Roche walked through the doors of Stonewall Kitchen in York this summer, everything seemed to be the same. It was the same atmosphere she had been working in for the past five summers. Knowing …
The University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism is cutting back. The department announced at the end of August it will discontinue the advertising sequence of the journalism major, and has said it plans to …
Maine has another chance to weigh in on the issue of same-sex marriage.
On July 1, one day before the deadline, nearly 100,000 signatures opposing the new law were submitted to Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, almost …
Senators delved into comments about the Maine Tax Relief Initiative and the General Student Senate’s stance on the issue at their Sept. 8 meeting.
Sen. Nate Wildes’ Committee Report for Legislative Relations gave rise to conversation about …
Noise Pollution
An officer helped a Resident Assistant of Somerset Hall search for a resident who left their third-floor room door open with music blasting at 10:33 p.m. on Sept. 7. They located the resident, Samuel West, …
Everyone heard the new joke? When Barack Obama announced he was running for president, someone said a black man would win when pigs fly. Well, Obama was elected, and sure enough, six months later, swine flu. …
Somewhere between worrying about swine flu and obsessing over Iran’s elections, the country apparently lost all sense of reasoning.
Obama’s address to schoolchildren on Tuesday was more controversial than it should have been. He wasn’t breaking new …
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