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Boat Launch, Pete Mcfarland

Maine Song and Story Sampler

Maine has a long and broad tradition of boat building, and in many coastal towns boat launches were a social event.

Observing King's Legacy, Kathryn Ritchie

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Article from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding a Faculty Senate vote on the University observing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a school holiday.

Mpac Extends Efforts To End Violence And Inequality, Robert Creutz

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

At 4 p.m. every Wednesday, a group gathers to develop methods in which it can promote exactly what its namesake implies: Peace. The Maine Peace Action Committee was founded in 1974, with a focus on working to end the war in Indochina. Today, the group extends its efforts to all who seek an end to violence and inequality.

Um Plans Christmas, Kwanzaa Celebrations, Jodi Sokolowski

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

People across campus are gearing up to celebrate the holiday season and many incorporate religion into that celebration.

Recognize Martin Luther King Day, Kathleen March

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Each academic year as January nears the University of Maine begins to think again about Martin Luther King, about the day officially designated to honor his life and teachings. Like several other national holidays, this one currently does not bring with it a day off from classes at this university. Several reasons have been cited for this: one is the academic year is already too short.

Christian Truth, Isaac J. Kimball

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The article "Suppressing minorities with religion," which appeared in Friday's Maine Campus, is based on stereotypes and ignorance.

Suppressing Minorities With Religion, Hillary Montgomery

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

While perusing the discussion folders in my FirstClass account recently, I happened upon the gender folder. For some odd reason, a number of files pertained to the subject of God and religion. Whatever the reason for using this folder to discuss such debated issues is no matter, rather the content of these messages really got me thinking.

The Lobbyist No. 20 (December 1997), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Wic Recognizes Role Models, Elizabeth Beaulieu

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Every year, the Women in the Curriculum and the Women's Studies Program honor three women with the Maryann Hartman Award for contributions and accomplishments. It is the groups' intent that the recognized women serve as a source of inspiration for all women.

Support Key To Onward Success, Christie Johnston

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The Onward Program, nationally known as the Student Support Services has striven to help students disadvantaged by a physical, mental or financial obstacle since 1970.

Computer Speech No Different From Others, Ryan Robbins

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Last week's filing of a civil rights lawsuit by the state against University of Maine student Casey Belangers for threatening another student on FirstClass raises concerns for how the First Amendment relates to computer networks.

Education Puzzle Needs Solutions, Misty Edgecomb

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

See Dick and Jane. Look! They go to school. See Jane go through the metal detector. The school policeman smiles. See Dick go through the metal detector. Oh no! Look, Dick has a gun.

Women Gain Confidence Through Self-Defense Courses, Krista Marrs

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

With the ongoing concern for student safety on campus, two public safety officers are offering a women's self-defense class and both say participants are making great progress.

Mr. Gnu Comic Strip, Travis Dandro

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A four-panel comic strip drawn by Travis Dandro depicting a bigoted perspective of both people of color and individuals with disabilities.

Long description.

Panel one contains one figure, a highly stylized, anthropomorphized Gnu (or African antelope with along head and beard), presumably the title character of the strip, Mr. Gnu. The character is holding a cereal box in front of him. Lettering over the character's head reads: "Hey kids! I'd like to introduce a new cereal!"

Panel two contains a close up of the cereal box with the lettering, "Sammy Davis CRUNCH" over a stylized drawing of a character that …

Umaine Commits To Classroom Equity, Andrea Page

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Several students addressed the Vision 2000 mission plan for changing gender equity at the University of Maine Thursday.

Maine Folklife, Vol. 3, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

It's nice to be able to report good news — very good news, indeed — to all of you who have supported the Maine Folklife Center in recent years, and to those of you who have supported us even longer when we were just the Northeast Archives. We learned late in the Spring that a new budget had been appropriated by the University Administration that would provide support for staff salaries and a modest operating budget.

With this kind of support, Sandy and I are very excited about the prospects for the coming year, and for what this kind of …

The Lobbyist No. 19 (August 1997), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

African-American Churches: Women Feeling The Spirit Take Some By Surprise, Kathryn Ritchie

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

When Cheryl Townsend Gilkes was a little girl, she leaned over to her mother in their normally sedate, traditional New England church one day to ask why Mrs. Sinclair was shouting. "She feels the Spirit," her mother explained in a whisper. Gilkes marveled at the older woman's curious behavior at the time, but now smiles in understanding.

Humanist Captivates Students With Poetry, Speech, John Doucette

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Article from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding Amari Baraki's visit to the University of Maine.

The Lobbyist No. 18 (February 1997), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Minority Faculty Program Increase Campus Diversity, Lester B. Smith

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Article from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding the University of Maine's Minority Faculty-In-Residence program.

Maine Folklife, Vol. 3, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

As you are undoubtedly aware, Sandy has operated the Archives on a shoe-string (sometimes almost no-string) budget for nearly forty years. Howevever, with the help of some well-thought-out grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, some smaller grants from foundations, and donations from our members, he and his staff have been able to turn out some pretty good projects (some of them award-winning) including videos: "An Oral Historian's Work," "Woodsmen and River Drivers," thirty-two volumes of Northeast Folklore, and four cassettes of the Maine Traditional Music Radio Program series.

Francis James Child: Some Thoughts While Shaving, Edward D. Ives

Dr. Edward D. Ives Papers

What can I possibly say that can add to the huge body of commentary on this man, the hochgecelebrated Francis James Child? Not much, I'm afraid. He has all but been canonized by some, demonized by others. H singlehandedly saved the ballad from oblivion; he is the source of our major ballad-study problems. He had an instinct that told him what was a ballad, what was not; he had no theoretical underpinning for his choices. His great collection is lhe beginning of all our wisdom; his great collection rides us like the Old Man of the Mountains, weighing us down, …

"How Got The Apples In?" Individual Creativity And Ballad Tradition, Edward D. Ives

Dr. Edward D. Ives Papers

Way back in the beginning of things, almost a hundred years ago, Francis Barton Gummere not only wrote as good a description of the ballad as we've got, he also asked a crucial if rather enigmatic question, and that question-probably partly because it was enigmatic to the point of being gnomic-caught my attention when I first read it almost half a century after it had been written: "How got the apples in?" It turns out he was quoting a humorous poem by John Wolcott (aka "Peter Pindar") in which King James, looking at an old woman's dumplings, wondered "How the …

Peace And Reconciliation Studies_Peace Week Poster, University Of Maine Peace And Reconciliation Studies Program

General University of Maine Publications

Photograph of a poster promoting events that were part of the University of Maine's Peace and Reconciliation Studies' (formerly known as Peace Studies) Peace Week.

Peace And Reconciliation Studies_Spring Luncheon Series Poster, University Of Maine Peace And Reconciliation Studies Program

General University of Maine Publications

Photograph of a poster promoting events that were part of the University of Maine's Peace and Reconciliation Studies' (formerly known as Peace Studies) Spring Luncheon Series.

Peace And Reconciliation Studies_Harry Wu Presentation Poster, University Of Maine Peace And Reconciliation Studies Program

General University of Maine Publications

Photograph of a poster promoting a presentation by Harry Wu "Troublemaker: One Man's Crusade Against China's Cruelty" held at the University of Maine on December 8, 1997. The event was organized by the University of Maine's Peace and Reconciliation Studies' (formerly known as Peace Studies).