A pair of students sit reading in the leather couches in the corner nook of the Abromson Center next to the twenty-foot-tall table-and-chairs sculpture on the first floor. A gray-haired woman smiles from the reception desk, and upstairs the doors to the skywalk swish open and closed.
It has been said a thousand times over and shown in who knows how many different ways, yet it still doesn't seem to be heard. We, as college students and a nation, need to start doing something about our carbon impact on the world today. With gas prices rising and supposedly reaching a new high of $4 next month, it's time to realize that we can't rely on our fossil fuels.
The Maine construction company responsible for building Gorham's technologically apt and efficient John Mitchell Center is at work again-and being watched. The property recently aquired from Portland Plastic Pipe is being filmed from atop the Glickman Library and Masterton Hall and reloaded every few seconds, Wright Ryan's progress on the Wishcamper Center, a part of the University Commons project, is converted to a constant stream of progress available via webcam.
Charlie Colgan started off his annual economic forecast this year with a light-hearted joke, remarking, "the large attendance today is actually really bad news." Colgan, a professor in the Muskie School of Public Service, went on to explain to the more than 500 member audience that the large number could only mean that things must be getting "a little dicey" in the economy.
It's 8 a.m., and Eric Favreau glides silently into a chair. He smiles when I thank him for agreeing to meet me, and softly speaks a few polite words. He speaks them slowly, without rushing a single syllable, and then quickly falls quiet again, giving the impression that he hadn't spoken at all.
Candidates for USM's presidency began touring campus last Wednesday, meeting various factions of university government, including representatives from the various senates and departments across all three campuses. Of the four candidates, two-Bob Smith and Selma Botman-visited last week, and two-David Belcher and Nancy Kleniewski-will be on campus this week.
A Falmouth woman was arrested outside the Sullivan Gym last Thursday afternoon after a Portland Police Department drug dog was called to the scene. Somayeh Kargar, 22, was arrested for having May 2007 tags on her license plates. Having tags older than 90 days is a misdemeanor, according to USM Police Lt.
In this day and age, green and renewable energy is not only for the wealthy or the eccentric: the potential for their use is becoming more prevalent and widely used. USM, for instance, recently finished New Hall, a "green" dorm, making it possible for the campus and its students to be more energy efficient.
The beginning of the spring semester is a time when students can still, for the most part, enjoy a break from looming deadlines. One deadline, however, is fast approaching-one that many students are still unaware of. Although next school year seems far away, this is the time to start preparing for next year's financial aid package by filling out the 2008-2009 FAFSA.
January 24, 2008 TO: The USM Community FROM: Joseph S. Wood, Interim President In accordance with Part VI, Article III of the USM Governance Constitution, I petition formally for an amendment to the Governance Constitution, specifically the section
