Archive for January, 2011
A Jan. 24 letter from University of Maine President Robert Kennedy to Faculty Senate President Michael Grillo indicates that three majors — Latin, German and women’s studies — are a step closer to the chopping block.
In …
A contract to build a gas pipeline from an Old Town landfill to the University of Maine, which would fulfill most campus heating needs for the next 20 years, was signed with little fanfare on Dec. …
Members of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, a group that has drawn national attention for picketing funerals of fallen American soldiers and events regarding members of the GLBTQ community, were a no-show at a planned protest of …
Plagiarism, aided by online sources like Wikipedia and SparkNotes, has become the most common type of academic integrity violation at the University of Maine, and faculty members have different ideas about how to solve the problem.
“Right …
Maine college graduates have one of the highest debt burdens in the country to look forward to, according to the Project on Student Debt.
Coordinated by the Institute for College Access and Success, the Project on Student …
Following the death of its founder, the work of a Portland-based think-tank and venture capital fund devoted to addressing the creation of renewable offshore energy within the United States will soon fall under the auspices of …
Cancelled bail
A University of Maine Police Department officer responded to a report of the smell of marijuana on the second floor of Oak Hall at 11:14 p.m. Jan. 26. According to UMPD, the resident of the …
Incoming students to the University of Maine’s Honors College will have the opportunity to conduct genomic research on bacteriophages — viruses that destroy bacterial cells — that are found in soil.
The program, the National Genomics Research …
If you perform it, they will come — or so the members of the Westboro Baptist Church would have all producers of “The Laramie Project” believe.
But when they failed to follow through with their warped …
Apology to Readers
The Maine Campus regrets to inform readers that instances of plagiarism have been identified in several political columns written by Pardis Delijani. Thirteen of her 15 columns contained varying amounts of lifting from national …
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