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 […]
We Are Not Failures
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 […]
Hoffman on Hollywood
“Lost in Translation” By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major “So what are you doing here?” Charlotte asks. “Taking a break from my wife, forgetting my son’s birthday, and getting paid $2 million […]
Art and Culture Class
Aboriginal Australian Paintings Teacher: Mary Hart These paintings were inspired by our study of Australian Aboriginal culture, one of the oldest continuous cultures in the world. They are based on the idea […]
“Get Hard”: Ellsmere BBQ and Wood Grill
By Nicholas James Miller If there’s one thing I’m certain I always will be, it is an extreme cheapskate. Now, I almost never am willing to pay the ten dollars required to […]
Poetic License
By Patrick Doyle Liberal Arts – English Major Poems about internet videos should exist more. ‘Fail videos’ are little bits of time captured that make us either go “eek!” “ahhh!!!” or “haha.” […]
Metal Up Yr Ass, Part 4: A 5-Part Review of Metallica’s ‘80s Albums
By Garrick Hoffman and Patrick Doyle Liberal Arts and Liberal Arts – English Majors Review of the Issue: …And Justice For All (1988) Garrick: My second-least-visited ‘Tallica album of their […]
Roman Senate vs. the U.S. Congress
By Ian Ziller Political Science Major When we think of democracy we often look back to the Romans, and by the same extension, we think of the Roman senate as being […]
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