Campus Currents: Student Deaths
The body of former UMaine student Collin Bates was found Wednesday in Orono, and police have ruled his death a suicide.
Two women were sentenced after pleading guilty to furnishing a place for minors to drink.
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.
There’s a hole in the University of Maine community. It extends to Presque Isle and to the Maine Air National Guard base in Bangor. It reaches deep into the hearts of students, soldiers and a close-knit family.
Brian James, 22, died this weekend in a snowmobiling accident in Aroostook County – doing what he loved, in a place he loved.
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.
University of Maine student Brian James died from the result of a neck fracture in a snowmobile accident Saturday night, according to Sgt. Tom Ward of the Maine Warden Service.
James, 22, was a third-year public administration student and a member of the Maine Air National Guard.
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.
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University of Maine student Brian James died from the result of a neck fracture in a snowmobile accident Saturday night, according to Sgt. Tom Ward of the Maine Warden Service. James, 22, was a third-year public administration student and a member of the Air Force Reserve.
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