Adventurous Students Prepare for a Journey Across Peru This Spring
By Milo Fitzgerald Contributing Writer Preparations are underway for fourteen students to take on an intensive Peru travel course during the upcoming May term, from May 20th to June 6th. The travel course is led by Professors of Anthropolo gy Nicole and Lucas...
UMF’s newest Adjunct Professor and District attorney: Andrew Robinson
By Thomas Young Contributing Writer Andrew “Andy” Robinson is a new law instructor at UMF and just finished his first semester as an adjunct professor while being re-elected as district attorney in UMF’s district. Robinson is taking over the courses that were...
UMF Intervarsity Fellowship Helping After the Hurricane
Alexis Wyman-LaBelle Staff Reporter The Intervarsity fellowship is preparing to go to Puerto Rico to help rebuild after the destruction after Hurricane Maria. The hurricane left the island without power and with an estimate over $8 million in damage....
The Fremont Street String Band Strums Their Way Into UMF
By Emma Pierce Contributing Writer On Feb. 3, the Fremont Street String Band, originally formed in Machias, performed at The Landing. From the sound check thirty minutes before the show started to the very end, the Fremont Street String Band put smiles on the faces...
Student Activists Make Themselves Known
By Emily Mokler Editor-in-Chief In response to the Jan. 28 Bangor Daily News (BDN) article about the experiences of two UMF students after reporting that they had been sexually assaulted, a coalition called Look Us in the Eyes (LUITE) has become an independent...
Philosophy and a Talking Tree: Peter Hardy on his New Novels
Nolan Pakulski Contributing Writer Professor Peter Hardy, Associate Professor of Mathematics, has published a trilogy of novels that explore modern issues, possible futures for mankind, and some of the greater mysteries of life, which all revolve around a...
UMF Establishes Student Exchange Program with Al Akhawayn University in Morocco
By Eryn Finnegan President UMF Interim President Eric Brown recently visited Al Akhawayn University (AUI) in Ifrane, Morocco, to establish a student exchange program, effective starting the 2019-2020 school year. A public, nonprofit liberal arts college situated in...
Mary Ryan Pioneers Conscious Consumerism at UMF
Contributing Writer In the basement of the Education Center, a room is shelved with items for sale that people would commonly call trash-- an assortment of leather scraps, salvaged coffee cans, jars of colorful buttons, used spools of Christmas ribbon. For...
Midterm Election Controversy
By Andrea Swiedom Contributing Writer On election day, students saw Farmington community member Bill Crandall, who set up a sign outside of the polls at the Farmington Community Center. Given Crandall’s professional setup, there has been controversy as to whether...
UMF Graduate Coaches “Fit Girls” Program
By Evan Gorr Contributing Writer Catherine Dennis, 2017 UMF graduate and second year teacher at Cascade Brook School (CBS) in Farmington, co-coaches a reading and running program called Fit Girls, a community based program for girls in grades fourth through sixth in...