Archive for October 1st, 2009
Since 2005, UMaine’s crime rate has steadily decreased, its newest crime statistics report shows.
After weeks of debate, General Student Senate passed a resolution affirming its opposition to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR, which it says would a detrimental effect on university funding.
The University of Maine’s work merit program has been suspended for the 2009-2010 school year. The decision was finalized and announced last spring after a monthlong process, which included a review by Vice President for Academic …
Of Maine’s colleges and universities, Bowdoin has been hit the worst by swine flu.
Bowdoin has identified 167 students with flu-like symptoms since the start of school as of Sept. 28, according to Scott Hood, Bowdoin’s vice …
Animal rights and an animal-free lifestyle are interests that weren’t always at the forefront at the University of Maine. Now the Student Action for Animal Rights Initiative is making its case known.
SAFARI was founded this semester …
ROTC programs on campuses nationwide are making an effort to increase the number of students participating in the military program and especially the number of second lieutenants produced each year. The University of Maine is no …
The University of Maine’s Experimental Program for Competitive Research — EPSCoR — has received a $20 million from the National Science Foundation grant for the proposed Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI). The five-year initiative will improve the …
The University of Maine Cutler Health Center started a program designed to diminish the child obesity rates in the state of Maine on Aug. 10.
The program — called WOW, which stands for “the Way to Optimal …
A Google Applications bug resulted in students seeing each others’ e-mail messages on university accounts throughout the country Sept. 10, a problem that almost struck the University of Maine. The problem affected an unknown number of …
Smirnoff in Somerset
A police officer on the third floor of Somerset Hall spied residents drinking through an open door at 11:27 p.m. Sept. 25. When the door opened, he saw five people inside and cans of …
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