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Are the schools traumatizing our students?
With the rapid approach of finals, I have noticed a phenomenon in myself and many other students here at SMCC: increased anxiety and fear about finals and the stress involved in testing. Why does this burnout or shutdown happen? From my experience as someone who grew up with a father who suffers from PTSD, I… Read more
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Trump and Mills Go Head-To-Head
The highly publicized heated exchange between President Donald Trump and Governor Janet Mills at a White House event for the National Governors Association in February has had adverse consequences for the state of Maine. President Trump was not happy with Governor Mills defiance and refusal to comply with his executive order to ban transgender women… Read more
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The Weight of Time
The Weight of Time By: Samantha Wozich Waiting.Some call it stuck.I call it comfort. Time drags me away—I refuse.I grasp at what’s left of the past,but my hands find nothing. I glare at what I’ve become:Every wrinkle,meant to be a badge of living,but for me, it’s a reminder,a reminderof the comfortI clung to for so… Read more
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SMCC Students Flooded Out of Their Rooms on USM Campus
Approximately 50 students, many of them from SMCC, were displaced from their dorm rooms on the USM Portland commons, some of them for almost a month, due to flooding from a burst hot water pipe. On January 17th at 6:00pm, Quinn Denis was enjoying a movie in his dorm room on the USM Portland campus… Read more
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