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Connecting students, administration in creating university goals
- The USM Free Press (new window)
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2008-03-03 |
| If you happened to wander through Bailey Hall around lunchtime on Friday, Feb. 29, you had to weave through a crowd of students (one of them dressed as the Husky) lounging in the lobby with plates of Aramark pasta salad and sandwiches. | |
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Give public transportation top seat at planning table
- Portland Press Herald (new window)
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2008-02-13 |
| I couldn't agree more with your "Too many cooks in transportation planning" editorial (Feb. 9). It proved yet again that the PACTS plan will be met with sweeping opposition if it continues to deny the extreme importance of public transit options. | |
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Crowd resists windening I-295
- Portland Press Herald (new window)
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2008-02-13 |
| A Portland meeting on transportation spending draws supporters of investing in public transit. | |
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City Officials Mulling Portland's Transportation Priorities
- WCSH (new window)
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2008-02-11 |
| Portland area officials will meet Tuesday night to discuss which transportation projects get federal funding. The meeting is to discuss the Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation Committee's (PACTS) list of transportation priorities. | |
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We're Getting Greener
- The Free Press (new window)
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2008-01-28 |
| As universities nationwide are "going green," USM is keeping up with the pace. | |
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We're Getting Greener
- USM Free Press (new window)
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2008-01-28 |
| As universities nationwide are "going green," USM is keeping up with the pace. | |
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PIRG Seeks Wind Power on Campus
- USM Free Press (new window)
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2008-01-28 |
| Collecting signatures in February, Eric Favreau will take wind energy petition to Board of Trustees. | |
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USMers Make Award-Winning Impacts
- USM Free Press (new window)
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2007-10-01 |
| Getting students involved with their community is what USM alumnus Marie Stolzenburg and Professor Robert Sanford are all about. Their work this past year bringing civic engagement to USM earned them both a Maine Campus Compact Award, presented during a ceremony held at the State House last April. | |
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One Step at a Time
- USM Free Press (new window)
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2007-10-01 |
| They want people's signatures, they want people's voices, but most of all they simply want people to be aware. Students of USM's new Maine PIRG chapter are working hard to change the world one step at a time. | |
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Great Maine Bike Swap on April 29
- The Times Record (new window)
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2007-04-03 |
| The Great Maine Bike Swap is scheduled to be held April 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Sullivan Fitness Complex at the University of Southern Maine's Portland campus. Sponsored by the Bicycle Coalition of Maine in partnership with the University of Southern Maine Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), the public may buy and sell bicycles with 15 percent of the proceeds going to the Bicycle Coalition of Maine to support its bike safety and education programs. | |
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Mainetoday.com
- The Cost of College Textbooks Just Keeps Going ... UP (new window)
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2006-09-11 |
| Buying textbooks goes with the territory in college. But as prices have outstripped students' budgets, some try to save up, some resign themselves to a fate of debt, and others are looking for options like sharing books. | |
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Deeper into Debt
- Portland Press Herald
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2006-04-17 |
| Students share their experiences of high student debt. According to a report released by PIRG, 39.3 percent of graduates from public universities and 55.9 percent from private universities would have unmanageable debt if they got paid what a starting teacher makes in Maine. | |
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College Debt Ball and Chain for too Many
- Lewiston Sun Journal
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2006-04-16 |
| On Tuesday, students at the University of Southern Maine protested, with a giant ball and chain, the growing risk and burden student loans are becoming to students in higher education. | |
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After Borrowing Heavily for College, Students Find Debt Tough to Overcome
- Lewiston Sun Journal
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2006-04-13 |
| Standing in front of an oversized ball and chain, Korsen and other USM students quoted Wednesday from a Maine Public Interest Research Group report on the effect of rising college costs and exploding student loan debt. The combination will keep many graduates from public-service careers such as teaching and social work. | |
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Financing The Future: As Schools Teeter On The Brink, Students Find Themselves Falling By The Wayside
- The Mass Meda (new window)
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2006-04-03 |
| On March 20th, a panel composed of business executives, researchers, and college faculty convened at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in order to discuss, among other things, the recent cuts in student financial aid on the federal, state, and local levels. | |
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No Money, Mo Problems
- The Boston Phoenix (new window)
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2006-03-22 |
| High interest rates and higher education costs have students concerned about the future of college funding. The Department of Education Commission on the Future of Higher Education does little to answer their concerns. | |
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The View From the Peanut Gallery
- Insidehighered.com (new window)
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2006-03-21 |
| Students find themselves going deeper and deeper into debt while members of the U.S. Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education do little in response. | |
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Many Maine Graduates Buried In Student Debt
- WCSH6.com TV (new window)
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2006-03-20 |
| A new report finds that Maine college grads have one of the worst rates of student debt in the nation. Student leaders released the study, done by the Public Interest Research Group or PIRG, on the USM campus in Portland Wednesday. They stood before a huge symbolic ball and chain to make their point. | |
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