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Last updated: Wednesday, May 9, 10:51 a.m.
Sigma Nu appeals to President’s Office
After Conduct Committee dropped 3 of 7 charges of violation against fraternity, 5-year suspension remains,
By Jesse Scardina

A month after the University of Maine’s chapter of fraternity Sigma Nu was suspended for 5 years, the chapter’s president says administration have admitted the brothers didn’t ply two underage girls with alcohol.
In March, two females, …

UMaine’s McMillian drafted by Packers in 4th round of NFL Draft
By Jesse Scardina

Former University of Maine football safety Jerron McMillian was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the fourth round of the NFL Draft Saturday afternoon.
With the 133rd overall pick, the Packers selected the 5-foot, 11-inch, 200 …

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University system stacked with Baldacci-connected administrators, records say

University of Maine System Chancellor Richard Pattenaude walks into Glickman Family Library on the University of Southern Maine's Portland campus for board of trustees meetings amidst a protest over stalled contract negotiations organized by USM's chapter of Associated Faculties of the Universities of Maine.
Michael Shepherd | The Maine Campus
University of Maine System Chancellor Richard Pattenaude walks into Glickman Family Library on the University of Southern Maine's Portland campus for board of trustees meetings amidst a protest over stalled contract negotiations organized by USM's chapter of Associated Faculties of the Universities of Maine.
By John Christie and Naomi Schalit, Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting

Hiring records at the University of Maine System show loopholes, waivers and personal and political connections played a significant role in the appointment of seven state officials into some of the highest paying non-teaching jobs in …

Tales from Dayglow: A wild night, from inside and out

Students packed the Field House on Wednesday night for Dayglow, a electronic music show that bills itself as the world's largest paint party.
Haley Johnston
Students packed the Field House on Wednesday night for Dayglow, a electronic music show that bills itself as the world's largest paint party.
By Derrick Rossignol, and Michael Shepherd

With a 45-foot tall stage, giant video screens, music, lights and paint, Dayglow transformed the normally unadorned Field House into a hedonistic paradise on Wednesday night.
Billed as “the world’s largest paint party,” the buzz surrounding Dayglow …

Groups from all over head to All Points North

Over 30 acts played at two-day festival
Kayla Riley - Copy Editor
By Kayla Riley

When local bands, DJs and reggae, jazz, and rock musicians alike converge to draw crowds to a corner of town for a two-night music festival, all signs point north.
Kingman’s, a Old Town bar, welcomed a total …

Maine Live Music Summer Preview

By Derrick Rossignol

Free Range Music Fest – April 28 in Belfast
Just $18 (or $12 for kids) will get you an all-day pass to the Free Range Music Fest, with stages on eight different venues around town. Over 30 …

Prisoner-penned play soon at Pavilion

Cluchey’s ‘The Cage’ a drama about struggles of dominance in prison life, opens this weekend
By Clint Snyder

American playwright Rick Cluchey’s dark drama “The Cage” opens this Friday at the Cyrus Pavilion Theatre. The play centers around the lives of prisoners as they struggle for dominance over one another.
The play has only ever …

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How I Hear It: Greatest era for music fans happening now

Resources for music discovery make modern day best time for listeners to develop unique tastes
By Derrick Rossignol

How can anyone argue the ’60s and ’70s weren’t the best eras for music?
Jimi Hendrix was redefining how every guitarist after him approached the instrument, Black Sabbath was inventing heavy metal, and a certain four blokes …

Film Review: ‘The Lucky One’

Plot sometimes thin, but grown-up Efron thrills as lead
By Kayla Riley

By now, renowned romance novelist Nicholas Sparks has played out just about every plotline imaginable to fit within the vanilla, boy-meets-girl confines of what he does best.
Seven of these crowd-pleasing stories have made their ways to …

CD Review: The Running Gags, “Yeah, No”

Maine rockers unify variety of influences on cohesive disc
By Hillary Nason

The Running Gags is what happens when music is not placed into just one genre.
The band embraces “no rules” punk, hard rock, pop-punk, reggae and ska. However, the music of this quintuplet can be easily related …

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