Nearly one year after becoming USM's president, Selma Botman is finally sworn in at a formal ceremony attended by roughly 300
Muskie school student tries once more to break into public service, this time as part of an effort to change the face of Portland politics.
It all began with an art exhibit. In 2006, Marie Follayttar participated in a controversial art show called "Can't Jail the Spirit," that was shut down by the university. She went to a Student Senate meeting to get approval to be a student voice on a subsequent panel called "Controversy in the public university: who decides?" "I saw a senate poster, walked in.
On Wednesday April 22, over 3,000 people packed in to the Augusta Civic Center for a public hearing on two new bills on gay marriage in Maine. The event, which originally was to be held at Cony High School, was moved to the larger venue to accommodate the expected crowd.
This summer, all students within the UMaine System will have their Horde e-mail accounts transferred to Google Apps, in an effort to make the university's e-mail system more user friendly. Those who already use this service know that the step from Horde to Gmail is like trading in Zach Morris' cell phone from Saved By The Bell for a new Blackberry.
With spring semester coming to an end, Alicia Pyle, a junior social work major, began registering for her fall semester classes when she noticed an increase in online courses. "I went to sign up for my fall semester classes, and every class I wanted to take was an online course."
