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Archive for April, 2010



Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, 3:00 am in News
By Mario Moretto

After her flight out of London was canceled because of the volcanic ash cloud clogging the airspace between England and the United States, a University of Maine journalism professor has a plan to get back to …


Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, 2:58 am in News
By Michael Shepherd

Libby Mitchell believes the University of Maine System is front and center in the future of Maine’s economic development. President of the Maine Senate and longtime state legislator, Mitchell said the legislature’s support of the system …


Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, 2:56 am in News
JET Programme brings graduates to island nation
By Michael Shepherd

Whether it’s Nintendo, Pokemon, Hello Kitty, sushi or anime, most Americans have been brought up on elements of Japanese popular culture.
For two University of Maine students — senior English student Joseph Kester and senior journalism …


Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, 2:55 am in News
By Mario Moretto

General Student Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointments of next year’s Vice President of Student Organizations and Vice President of Financial Affairs.
Student Government President Brian Harris appointed Giang Vo, a junior accounting student, for VPFA …


Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, 2:54 am in News
By Mario Moretto

Amidst heated discussion and raised tension, Ryan Gavin resigned his seat on the General Student Senate near the end of the body’s Tuesday meeting.
“I have tried for months to give my expertise to this organization,” Gavin …


Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, 2:53 am in News
By Rhiannon Sawtelle

A crowd of excited faculty and students swarmed around Jason Harkins, buzzing like paparazzi, snapping photographs and giving him celebrity-status cheers.
Onlookers leaned over the balcony on the second floor of Donald P. Corbett Business Building …


Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, 2:47 am in News
By Aislinn Sarnacki

Mystery injury
Police were called to investigate a report of two intoxicated people in the Stodder Parking Lot at 11:55 p.m. April 16. A male, Kevin Donohue, 20, Orono, had a cut on his arm. Police …


Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, 2:45 am in Opinion
By Madelyn Kearns

Five decades after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still struggling to walk in stride with their male equivalents in regards to pay rates?


Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, 2:44 am in Opinion
By Jonathan Zappala

Democrats have resorted to spewing deceptions about tax cuts, because in a fair arena of ideas, the socialist desires of the far left cannot compete.


Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, 2:42 am in Opinion
By Joe Mercurio

What you thought was going to be a night you would later brag about to your friends could turn into an experience with the potential to ruin two lives.