Campus Currents: Andrew Gerke
var uslide_show_id = “8911d6e1-b439-4959-bd74-de2fa5e0f142″;var slideshowwidth = “300″;var linktext = “”;When Andrew Gerke told me in an interview he’d booked the Dropkick Murphys for a concert at UMaine, I said “cool” and wrote it in my notebook. The next thing he told me was that it was on a Thursday – and we started laughing about it being a thirsty Thursday with an Irish-punk band from Boston.
Most photographs of Andrew Gerke show him striking a wide-open smile. The possibility that these were artificial, “say cheese” moments fades as a true picture surfaces of the short life of the University of Maine alumnus. The stories his friends and loved ones tell paint Gerke as a spirited, driven man with passions as varied as his grins.
University of Maine alumnus Andrew Gerke died Tuesday morning from injuries sustained in a car crash, according to a hospital spokesperson and university officials.
According to a news release by Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland, Gerke was traveling northbound on the Maine Turnpike in Saco when he lost control of his 1987 Nissan 300 at 5:45 p.m.
The death of a close friend gives us opportunity to reflect.
UMaine alumnus Andrew Gerke died this morning from injuries sustained in a car crash, according a hospital spokesperson and university officials.
According to a news release by Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland, Gerke was traveling northbound on the Maine Turnpike in Saco when he lost control of his 1987 Nissan 300 at 5:45 p.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.
Vice President of Student Entertainment Andrew Gerke was fired Monday afternoon less than a week until O.A.R.’s performance at the University of Maine – shifting the control and planning of the second major concert of the semester.
Abtin Mehdizadegan will assume the VP of Student Entertainment responsibilities for O.
The University of Maine will host two major bands in 11 days this fall – Dropkick Murphys on Nov. 6 and O.A.R. on Nov. 17. Both acts will perform in the Field House.
“With these two groups, you’re covering everything. There’s not going to be a single student that won’t be able to go to a show and enjoy it,” said Vice President of Student Entertainment Andrew Gerke.
University of Maine students will pay just $10 to see Dropkick Murphys at the Field House on Nov. 6. The price is a welcome reduction from $14.50 for Guster in November 2006 or $15 for Rusted Root in the April 2007.
Vice President of Student Entertainment Andrew Gerke also pioneered a deal for all college students across Maine to receive Dropkick Murphys tickets for $15 – $5 less than the $20 public fee.
University of Maine students will taste an early drop of St. Patrick’s Day with Boston-based Irish punk group Dropkick Murphy’s launching their fall tour at the Field House on Nov. 6.
“They put on a hell of a show,” Vice President of Student Entertainment Andrew Gerke said in a Friday announcement of the first of two reported major fall concerts at UMaine.
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