UMF Tutors are “Zoom”ing to Help Students
By Paige Lilly, Contributing Writer Before the pandemic, tutoring was one of the most readily available services for students at UMF. At almost any time, students could walk into the Mantor Library and there would be a tutor waiting to help them with their needs....
UMF Biology Class Helps Cultivate New and Rare Life
By Michael Levesque, Contributing Writer The Natural History of a Maine Watershed class taught by Nancy Prentiss, accompanied by Maine aquatic professionals, ventured out to lay Atlantic salmon eggs near Avon, ME. Classified as an endangered species, Atlantic...
UMF Free Ride Team Hits the Slopes
By Abby Pomerleau, Contributing Writer The UMF Freeride team is making the most out of their season with weekly practices and optional competitions. The United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) competitions are not being held this year, but...
Masks Can’t Stop the Music
By Samantha Pond, Contributing Writer Two of UMF’s acapella groups, Deep Treble and the Clefnotes, are finding ways to continue making music despite the pandemic. In March 2020, both groups were thrown for a loop when schools started to close down and no one...
UMF’s Nightmare Club Provides Thrills and Chills to Students
by Maxen Ryder, Contributing Writer The Nightmare Club provides a pleasantly scary experience for their group by hosting activities and events in order to create a positive, safe community. Every week, members of the club vote on a horror movie to watch...
Students are Getting Active with Intramural Sports
By Marissa Goodwin, Contributing Writer As the spring semester is starting to gear up, students gather to safely play intramural sports with their friends to be active and take a break from the stress of classes. Intramurals, which are tournaments of games...
Tagging Hostile Terrain
By Ciera Miller, Staff Writer Since September, University of Maine at Farmington (UMF) students across five disciplines participated in filling out a total of 1,370 toe tags for the Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) installation at the Oak Institute for Human Rights at...
Tiny Frog Wishes
You happen upon a tiny frog who grants tiny wishes. The frog informs you that you cannot wish for big things, like money, love, or power, or wishes that will benefit a population. What do you wish for? -Freckles the Flyer Frog By Faith Rouillard and Malcolm...
A Sunday Drive Through Kittery
By Cassidy Delano, Contributing Writer Kittery is the perfect place for a calm Sunday drive. It is a small town in southern Maine that sits on the Atlantic Coast. I have lived in the same house in Kittery my entire life, and my Sunday drive route has never...
Ye Olde Beaver
Taking a look back at the past 90 years of our campus newspaper and highlighting noteworthy items that perhaps were best forgotten. Ah yes, the longstanding ratio issue here at UMF. Well, I guess it’s not that much of an issue for the 33% of students here that are...