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Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.

Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.

Counseling services and support are available for students, faculty or staff who may have been affected. The Counseling Center can be reached at 207-581-1392 and the Dean of Students Office can be reached at 207-581-1406.

The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

Politico piece cites Socolow’s research about NYT op-ed page

June 9, 2020 Opinion, Research, UMaine in the News

Jack Shafer cited University of Maine media historian Michael Socolow in a Politico opinion piece titled “Tom Cotton Did Us a Favor by Exposing a Bad Law with a Bad Op-Ed.” Sen. Cotton had penned a New York Times op-ed titled “Send in the Troops” in response to protests against racism and police brutality. Readers and journalists criticized the Times for publishing the piece and on Sunday, NYT editorial page editor James Bennet resigned. Shafer wrote that while people can “criticize the page for running Cotton’s retrograde views,” the 50-year-old op-ed section of the New York Times “has been outraging or disappointing — depending on your point of view — readers since its founding.” Shafer noted that Socolow, an associate professor of journalism, had explained in his pocket history of the New York Times op-ed page that the “section was conceived as a forum for extreme ideas that did not fit elsewhere in the paper.”