Campus Currents: Abtin Mehdizadegan
Former Vice President of Student Entertainment Abtin Mehdizadegan received mixed feedback from senators in his executive review, which was disclosed to The Maine Campus on Thursday.
The comments in the review reflected the issues raised during the …
During an executive session of the General Student Senate on Tuesday, Abtin Mehdizadegan was not reappointed as vice president of Student Entertainment, a position he had held since spring.
Eleven senators who voted against Mehdizadegan and six …
The General Student Senate’s final 2009 meeting included the resignation of one senator, the removal of the vice president of student entertainment and the swearing in of next year’s executive members.
Sen. James Lyons resigned during the …
The Issue: VPSE Abtin Mehdizadegan’s removal from office by student senate.
What We Think: Some action by GSS was warranted but removal was overkill.
Plan B does not cause ectopic pregnancies
This letter is in response to the op-ed piece about Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center in the Dec. 3 edition of The Maine Campus. Peter Fitzgerald’s piece expressed misguided, false …
Comedian Bob Saget, best known for his role as Danny Tanner on the ’90s sitcom “Full House” and his “Arisocrats” joke, will be at the University of Maine’s Collins Center for the Arts on Tuesday, Dec.1 …
Dierks Bentley’s performance sold out Alfond Arena and garnered more than three times as many audience members as Ben Folds. It was the first time the Alfond had sold out since the Grateful Dead concert in 1983; a non-Student Entertainment event.
President James Lyons initiated one final resolution before leaving office in the last General Student Senate meeting of 2008. Sens. Abtin Mehdizadegan and Samantha Shulman were officially appointed to cabinet positions as well.
Lyons’ resolution amended the standing rules of student senate so that financial resolutions could not be implemented before Thursday at 9 a.m.
Ticket scanning malfunctions resulted in a line stretching around the track at Morse Field at the Dropkick Murphys concert on Thursday, Nov. 6. With the Field House as a first-time concert venue, other problems arose. More than a dozen recorded injuries and restroom issues were cited as reasons for the firing of Student Government’s Vice President of Student Entertainment Andrew Gerke.











