2008 Woodie Awards
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A view without bordersFourth installment of "Without Borders" annual contemporary art festival melts art and technlogy
Walk into Lord Hall and make your way into the art gallery. What you will find before you is a different kind of art exhibit all together. The thing most likely to catch your attention first will be the life-size skeleton completely bejeweled with thousands of rhinestones in an array of colors.…
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Awareness raised and bodies rockedSig Ep's sixth annual Rock against Rape gets the word out
In a relatively last-minute decision, the Sigma Phi Epsilon Rock Against Rape concert was moved from their planned location - the Lord Hall parking lot - to the field house of the Memorial Gym.
Co-producer of the event Andrew Gerke - a senior environmental engineering major - explained, "The field house was the backup all along.…
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Downtown, late-night poet's slamOfelia's in downtown Bangor provides venue for local wordsmiths
In a noticeably relaxed, casual setting reminiscent to a cafe, the community members gather in an ambient, tastefully decorated room to share their own produced poetry in front of an audience. If they so choose, they can sign up anytime throughout the night to perform their pieces in an interesting little arena dubbed "the cage" through which performers are free to move about and bring animation to their presentations.…
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UMaine students laugh at dummy's expense
As I sat down to enjoy Saturday night's comedian, Lynn Trefzger, I reflected back to my last memories of seeing a ventriloquist. I remembered briefly seeing a funny ventriloquist on Comedy Central. But before that all I could think about was "Bride of Chucky" and scenes from other scary doll movies.…
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Finding meaning in found poetryReknowned poet Ron Padgett shares his work with campus
"… Questioning our assumptions and usual ways of thinking." This statement concluded another one of professor Steve Evans creatively pragmatic introductions and could not ring more true for visiting poet Ron Padgett.
Poet Ted Berrigan once described Padgett in a poem as a "tight-ass," however, Padgett proved to be anything but uptight.…
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One day that should be regarded above all othersSpeak like a pirate day takes the university by storm
I think we, as a university, can all agree that there is one day in the year that should be regarded above all others. It is a day for Americans and foreigners alike to come together and - you may call me a ridiculously good-looking sentimentalist if you like - celebrate our ancestry.…
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