The University of Maine Safe Campus Project has become a full member of the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and Safe Campus Project coordinator Carey Nason has joined the coalition’s board of directors.
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Economic downtown. Property being seized. Available revenue declining. Sound familiar? Those headlines from the Great Depression are eerily similar to what we are hearing today.
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mtvU, MTV’s college channel, is looking to cast a few UMaine students for a series called “Dean’s List.” The episode will be produced in conjunction with the Campus Consciousness Tour taking place on campus Thursday Oct. 20. Specifically, producers are searching for students who are involved in initiatives that promote green/sustainable living. “Dean’s List” list […]
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The University of Maine has been awarded a second year’s funding in a five-year grant to assist 400 first-generation, low-income students and students with disabilities to pursue UMaine bachelor’s degrees. The U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Programs has provided $561,225 this year to the TRiO Student Support Services Program at UMaine, allowing them […]
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the University Bookstore, the official bookstore of the University of Maine. To commemorate the occasion, a “birthday party” will be held this Friday from 1-3 p.m. at the store, located in the lower level of the Memorial Union. Students, faculty and staff members, alumni and […]
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The University of Maine’s The New Writing Series is hosting poets Laura Mullen and Kathleen Ossip for public poetry readings Thursday, Sept. 22 at 4:30 p.m. in Soderberg Auditorium in Jenness Hall. Mullen is the author of the newly published “Dark Archive,” and Ossip recently published “The Cold War.” The event is free. The New […]
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Justin Martin, a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences-Honors College Preceptor of Journalism at UMaine, wrote an opinion column, ” Anti-Israel speech should be protected, not banned, on American campuses,” for the Sept. 19 Christian Science Monitor. In the column, Martin provides his perspectives on a published call for colleges and universities to limit anti-Semitic […]
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The University of Maine has joined the growing number of communities that have made the shift to single-stream recycling, a system that simplifies recycling for the entire campus community. Casella Waste Management was selected to manage the new recycling method through a competitive, publicly advertised process in July of 2011.
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Prof. Mark Brewer of the UMaine political sciences faculty was quoted in a Friday Maine Today Media (Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Central Maine Morning Sentinel) story about a new executive order issued by Gov. LePage. Brewer says that the governor’s order that his office approve all new agency rules is not “out of the […]
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Comments from Lauri Sidelko, UMaine’s director of Drug and Alcohol Education Programs, were included in a Wednesday Bangor Daily News editorial about binge drinking among college students. Sidelko described some of the tactics she and her colleagues use to educate UMaine students about the dangers of excessive alcohol use.
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