Special Camden Conference Course on China Sold Out
Contact: Cindy Thomas, (207) 581-3072, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
ORONO — The intensified special topics class the University of Mainetraditionally designs around the three-day Camden Conference has grownso popular after nine years that it now is filling up almost as fast asword gets out about registration.
This year’s course, structured around the Feb. 24-26 conference,focuses on China. It reached its 40-person cutoff within just weeks ofits announcement and had 17 frustrated students sitting on a waitinglist, according to Cindy Thomas, student academic services coordinatorin the Division of Continuing & Distance Education, who coordinatesthe classes with Marlene Charron, assistant director of the Division ofConference Services.
UMaine graduate student Jayne Lello ofSebec was on the waiting list, but got lucky when a slot becameavailable for her to join the class.
“I took the class lastyear on Iraq and I learned more about the Middle East and the historyof the conflict and our nation