Archive for September, 2011
The hand scanner system at dining halls, a pilot program last semester, will soon become mandatory for all unlimited meal plan holders.
Kathy Kittridge, director of dining operations for Black Bear Dining, said the new program will …
The University of Maine System will play a crucial role on a task force created by Gov. Paul LePage that aims to expand postsecondary education opportunities for Maine high school students.
LePage appointed 19 representatives to the …
At a Thursday lecture, an Israeli history professor at the University of Maine didn’t shy away from criticizing his country over policy regarding Palestine’s recent United Nations request for statehood.
Alexander Grab’s speech in the Bangor Room …
Green teen
The University of Maine Police Department received a report of the odor of marijuana on the second floor of Somerset Hall at 10:28 p.m. Sept. 19. Officers found Michael Duncan, 18, who admitted to smoking …
The Collins Center for the Arts celebrated its 25th anniversary on Sept. 24 with an entertaining evening featuring k.d. Lang and the Siss Boom Bang.
With strong, stirring vocals and an ease that was tangible from the …
This Sunday, piano trio chamber ensemble The New Trio held a performance at the Minsky Recital Hall in 1944 Hall.
A piano trio is a chamber music group, consisting of a piano and two instruments. Musical compositions …
On Thursday, two women shared their lives through poetry to a small gathering of people in Soderburg Auditorium in Jenness Hall. The two speakers were Laura Mullen and Kathleen Ossip.
Ossip began the event, reading pieces from …
Jimmy Carter was president; Michael Jackson released his first huge album, “Off The Wall; and it snowed in the Sahara Desert for the first and only recorded time.
This was 1979 — the last time R.E.M. was …
This year’s Tokyo Game Show was a hit.
The annual video game expo and convention is held in Chiba, Japan for developers to show off their latest hardware and software developments.
Many impressive new games and ideas were …
Roommates can be hit-or-miss, even if the two are the same sex.
But imagine having three guys living together who are all set in their macho ways, then throwing in a girl into the mix.
Not just any …
