Last Thursday, comedian Bob Marley performed a free stand-up set at the Brooks Student Center in Gorham. I caught up with him afterwards to talk a little about leaving Los Angeles, remembering Maine college life, and not being able to get into his own shows. How often do you try to make it to USM? I come, gosh, it seems like once a year now. It depends on where I live, like when I lived in LA I didn't come much. But I always try to do it, cause you know, it's USM, it's Portland, I'm from here. Do you perform at many colleges? Colleges, I like to do 'em, when I first started -- oh gosh, I would do like 40 or 50 a year. And then when I moved to LA I stopped doing 'em all together. It's weird because I'm 41. I don't feel like I disconnect with them, because I never made my set about being, you know, an older person. I just make it about whatever's funny. I still feel like I connect with them. Some guys get to a point where they're doing a lot of political stuff, and they can't connect with the audience as much. Have you ever done political material?
Dreaming and designing "This is going to look just right," says Elissa Levin as she wraps a navy blue sash around her body and skips a couple steps across her hardwood living room floor, which is covered in pieces of fabric. It's just after midnight, three days before the WMPG fashion show benefit, and the 22-year-old political science major is busy putting the finishing touches on a piece that she's designed for the event, held last Friday at the SPACE gallery.
April 14 If you've got kids, siblings, or friends who never quite grew up, you might just enjoy a family concert by Matt Loosigian, which is part of the Week of the Young Child. This event is sponsored by the USM Child and Family Centers. 4:30 to 5:15 p.m.
As I write this column, which was due about two hours ago, I am a stressed out student. I know I am not alone. The semester is coming to an end, the rest fiercely uphill. On top of my classes and an independent study, the $250 speeding ticket I got a few days ago isn't sitting well with my empty pocket book, and I'm attempting to figure out my summer.
As a deaf child, Wayne Betts Jr. watched E.T. for the first time, and knew instantly that he would be a filmmaker. After years of education, including time at Rochester Institution of Technology's School of Film and Animation, he has reached his lifelong goal.
It is, in fact, a small world. And with the many options available through international and domestic study abroad programs at USM, traveling that world has never been more convenient. Each year, hundreds of students go through a somewhat lengthy process to apply to study in other parts of the world.
Latvia Brianna Allen, a senior art major at USM, was abroad last spring. For the price of USM tuition, she studied in Riga, Latvia. She says the insight she gained academically, culturally and personally was "exponential." Her first impression: "it's cold.
