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. […]
Autumn Shows and New Releases
By Garrick Hoffman If you’re an audiophile, bibliophile, cinemaphile, and livemusicphile such as myself (indeed, that I just coined that last term), you’ll be ecstatic to know what kind of entertainment is […]
Dining With Dierdree
By Dierdree Glassford Major? Hello everybody! Hello readers! This summer has been full of so many adventures, from visiting family in Canada, to swimming in the local watering hole, to getting together […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Gilded Age
By Ian Ziller Political Science Major Through the 19th century and early 20th there was a period in U.S. political history known as the “Gilded Age,” which was a time marked by […]
Skin Cancer Facts, as presented on the Skin Cancer Foundation website.
Each year there are more new cases of skin cancer than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and colon.2 Treatment of nonmelanoma skin cancers increased by nearly 77 […]
Tanning: Suicide on the Surface
By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major If you’re reading this, summer is either right around the corner or is already here. The advent of the summer invariably denotes that we’ll be stepping […]