By Ashley Berry The fall semester of 2015 has brought some exciting changes to Southern Maine Community College, the most important being that the campus is finally tobacco/smoke- free. It’s a little […]
SMCC Goes Smoke-Free…Finally
The Perils of PC Culture: How Overzealous Political Correctness Corrupts Academia and Individuals
By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major The cover story of the The Atlantic magazine’s September issue of this year, titled “The Coddling of the American Mind,” has garnered a considerable amount of attention. […]
SMCC…We’re Still Not Failures
By Ashley Berry Wallethub has recently released a study that casts Southern Maine Community College in a most unflattering light. In the study, they ranked 670 community colleges based on things like […]
African Gospel Singer CD Release
One of seven children, Fiston Bujambi Seba remembers fleeing war-torn Congo with his little brothers in hand and running with thousands of others toward the Rwandan border. Fiston Bujambi (known as Seba […]
Swallow This…I Guess?
A dining review of South Portland’s Easy Day By Koren Sullivan Art Major It seems that I am quite possibly the last person in South Portland to set foot through thedoors of […]
Poetic License
By Patrick Doyle Last night I went on some sort of inspired writing spree. All of the poems here will remain nameless, like all of the nameless that wander the world; those […]
Fledgling Artists Flee the Nest
By Koren Sullivan Art Major As a graduating senior of the SMCC art program, I’ve got to say it’s been an awesome semester. (And not just because I’m graduating!) Spring 2015 started […]
Metal Up Yr Ass: The Final Edition
By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Album of the issue: Metallica, aka “The Black Album” (1991) One of Metallica’s most controversial albums, Metallica exploded on the charts, and has now been certified sixteen […]
Maine’s Gun Control Should Not be Lessened
By Ashley Berry Political Science Major Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Columbine, Aurora, and the list goes on. Everyone knows those names because they carry such immense weight. They are not just names […]
We Are Not Failures
By Ashley Berry Liberal Arts Major Governor LePage, please hear us, the Maine Community College System is not a failure. If there is a failure it is your policy of flat funding […]
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