Archive for February, 2011
A Maine state representative is returning home from Madison, Wis., where protesters are fighting a possible limitation of collective bargaining rights for state employees through demonstrations that threaten to cripple government and education systems.
Rep. Diane Russell, …
The presentation of University of Maine Student Government’s website in front of the General Student Senate came and went Tuesday with no content on the page, leading to criticism of Student Body President Nelson Carson on …
The University of Maine’s General Student Senate passed a resolution Feb. 22 condemning two bills circulating in the Maine Legislature that would restrict voting rights statewide, most notably for college students.
The resolution was proposed by Caleb …
Senators at the Feb. 22 meeting of the University of Maine Student Government reprimanded President Nelson Carson for his admitted failure to finish the organization’s new website by deadline.
Though Carson acknowledged senators could remove him from …
How many people who grew up drinking from a well have bothered to test the level of arsenic in their drinking water?
According to a University of Maine alumnus, that knowledge could be a matter of life …
The Maine Principals’ Association announced new guidelines last week limiting the number of fans and team members allowed to attend the high school state championship swim meets at the University of Maine and Bowdoin College held …
A room full of second-, third- and fourth-year students, looking to leave traditional residence halls behind for greater independence, gathered in the Woolley Room of the University of Maine’s DTAV Community Center on Monday to learn …
Pay attention on campus Wednesdays and you may see a woman with a tree on her cheek. That tree represents membership in All Maine Women, a prestigious honors society at the University of Maine …
An imperfect union
An altercation between a male and a female student outside the Memorial Union at approximately 2 a.m. Feb. 19 resulted in two summonses. University of Maine Police Department Detective Bill Flagg said the male …
In a business where effects hinge on percentage, diplomacy is very much a vocation of numbers. When all of the numbers are heaping up against you on the senate floor, the most important unit becomes one.
Following …
