2008 Woodie Awards
Selma Botman will be recommended as the next president of USM at the Board of Trustees meeting on Monday. The announcement came last week from the office of system Chancellor Richard Pattenaude. Though the BOT must approve the recommendation, it is unlikely that they will go against Pattenaude's decision, which came after hearing a report from the Presidential Search Committee in February that detailed results from surveys filled out by students, staff and faculty across all three campuses.
A campus safety alert arrived in USM e-mail inboxes on Friday afternoon, alerting the community about a man who had been found acting suspiciously on the Portland campus. He has a history of frequenting college campuses, and has been reported to police at Bowdoin College as well as in Portland's Old Port.
Dressed in jeans, a white T-shirt and a dark sweater, carrying a briefcase, face obscured by a beard, Alex Peppe resembles a normal neo-hippie 20-something grad student about to teach a lab. He was once a lab instructor, but Peppe is not anywhere near normal.
If you happened to wander through Bailey Hall around lunchtime on Friday, Feb. 29, you had to weave through a crowd of students (one of them dressed as the Husky) lounging in the lobby with plates of Aramark pasta salad and sandwiches. These students - including the Husky - were gathered for "Change '08," a day-long summit for student leaders to reflect on what's wrong with their USM experiences, and what they might do to make them better-for everyone.
It's August in the Ein Beit Ilma refugee camp in Israel's West Bank. Argentina is playing Nigeria in the World Cup. "Listen man," says an Israeli soldier to his lieutenant, an Argentina fan "here and there, this house and that house, they're all the same, but here they have a TV, man.
Standing in front of the trophy case in the School of Business office, you might think we have a dynasty on our hands. Trophies fill the display case, each proclaiming the accomplishments of SIFE. It's impressive, but it raises a question. What is SIFE? The Students in Free Enterprise, or SIFE, is one of the largest student non-profit organizations in the world, with over 1600 participating colleges in the U.
It wasn't until 9:26 a.m. that students at Virginia Tech received an e-mail from the university letting them know that a "shooting incident" had taken place earlier that morning. It was not a call to evacuate the premises or engage in any kind of lock-down procedure.
Tax season is upon us. With April 15 looming ahead, it's easy to get overwhelmed with talk of W-2's, 1040's, and other number-letter combinations of seemingly endless paperwork. Most students avoid the "pen-and-paper" route towards their federal income taxes, opting increasingly for tax-prep software, e-filing, and online preparation.
