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University of Southern Maine USM Digital Commons Free Press, The, 1971- Student Newspapers 4-18-2016 The Free Press Vol. 47, Issue No. 20, 04-18-2016 Krysteana Scribner University of Southern Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/free_press Recommended Citation Scribner, Krysteana, "The Free Press Vol. 47, Issue No. 20, 04-18-2016" (2016). Free Press, The, 1971-. 162. https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/free_press/162 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at USM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Free Press, The, 1971- by an authorized administrator of USM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. USMFreePress The Free Press usmfreepress INDIA STREET GRADUATING ART ANIMALS ON HEALTH CLINIC STUDENT GALLERY CAMPUS The India Street health Seniors show off their Last week, the clinic may soon see its fi nal pieces before Animal Refuge League services consolidated, they go off into the brought bunnies to but why? Find out the post-graduation world. campus. Are animals details inside. theraputic for stress? NEWS 2 ARTS & CULTURE 7 COMMUNITY 14 Vol. 47, Issue No. 20 the free press Apr. 18, 2016 University of Southern Maine Student Newspaper usmfreepress.org USM professor gives Huskies take down Eagles for seventh straight win talk on drone warfare Bryer Sousa time is of the essence, for exam- Free Press Staff ple, in the case of an apartment building fi re.” USM English Professor John Nevertheless, rather than sim- Muthyala served as a facilitator of ply highlighting the fact that critical cultural refl ection and as drones can be used for enhancing an educator as he presented a talk public safety and just causes, Pro- titled “Drones: Weapons of War fessor Muthyala also delved into or Tools for Entertainment” to the state-violence-based nature of students and members of the com- drone use as well. “In this lecture, munity in 423 Glickman Library I was going to focus primarily on on April 13. the military aspects and American In Professor Muthyala’s pre- foreign policy,” he said. He con- sentation, two questions were tinued by explaining that “One of explored as part of the Faculty the things that the Obama admin- Lecture Series that was brought istration has done is move beyond about by the Department of Eng- the personality drone strike strat- lish, those questions being: “How egy that the Bush administration do digital tools, systems and net- employed. The personality based works extend, justify, or contain strike was oriented towards un- Erin Brown / Free Press Staff derstanding and assessing indi- America’s role in the world? And Junior Bobby Delaney winds up to pitch against the Husson University Eagles in a win Tuesday afternoon. what impact do they have on so- viduals’ behaviors, for example, ciety, culture and liberal democ- who they were meeting and what For full story, see page 15 racy?” they were doing… Obama moved Professor Muthyala elaborated that into a entirely different realm on the two aforementioned ques- with his signature strike strategy, tions due to the fact that he is which exams patterns of behavior Polls are now open, student body penning a book concerned with among large groups of people, surveillance cultures and drones. irrespective of the individual na- Moreover, his intellectual endeav- ture of an activity. Thus we have president nominees provide their solutions ors are concerned with various instances where the parameters of questions in disciplines such as the strike can be indiscriminate.” the digital humanities, globaliza- Professor Muthyala concluded tion studies, the literature of the our conversation by stating that Americas and cultural criticism. “Drones and surveillance systems In fact, Professor Muthyala has inaugurate a new dispensation of authored two books, Reworlding empire. While changing our sense America: Myth, History, and Nar- of space and time they are altering rative and Dwelling in American: notions of war and peace, guilt Dissent, Empire, and Globaliza- and innocence, visibility and in- tion. visibility, security and the greater When asked about how he ar- common good.” rived at the title of the talk, Pro- Following the interview with fessor Muthyala stated that “It Professor Muthyala, Catherine, [the title] was framed in that way a student of the University of to avoid the perception that drone Southern Maine, was asked what technology is inherently oriented her views are with respect to the only towards control, surveil- utilization of drone technology. lance, and destruction, at least in “It seems irresponsible to put in- the way that drones have captured nocents at risk by way of algo- the public imagination, that is, pri- rithms and artifi cial intelligence. marily as tools of state violence. Drones shouldn’t be the fi rst re- Because of the rapid infusion of source used in international diplo- technology into society, the com- macy. It is dumbfounding to me,” mercialization of drone technol- she stated. ogy has also started and that has To read a recent article by Bradford Spurr / Multimedia Editor Professor Muthyala, please see lead to the application of drone Student Body President nominees, Muhammad Khan and Dylan Ross, at the debate last Thursday night. tech in a variety of contexts.” “Whither the Digital Humani- ties?” For another perspective Professor Muthyala expand- Colin Cundy second occurred in the evening in Each student pays a ‘student ac- on the militarized employment ed upon the contexts, by noting Contributor the Brooks Student Center on the tivity fee’ based on the student’s that “Researchers in both private of drones in international affairs, Gorham Campus. credit hours. The SGA is the stew- and public universities are using one may be interested in a column On April 14, polls offi cially The student body president and ard of the fund this fee creates. drones to survey the impact of ris- written prior to this presentation, opened for the 2016 student body vice president lead the Student Muhammad Khan, candidate ing sea levels in areas they simply titled “The Millennials Con- president and vice president elec- Senate and act as representatives for student body president and a could not reach… We have drones science, On The Drone Papers,” tions. Candidates for these posi- to the university’s administration. history major, is running with being used for natural disasters published by The Free Press. tions introduced themselves and The Student Government Asso- specifi c goals in mind. “I would to access humanly impossible to their platforms in two debate- ciation (SGA), which the student like to work with USM Libraries reach areas to watch a dissipate style events. The fi rst was held body president and vice presi- and help them purchase all the things they could not do without [email protected] late-morning in Woodbury Center dent are a part of, is responsible this technology, especially where @USMFreePress on the Portland Campus and the for governing all student groups. See nominees on page 5 2 April 18, 2016 Bill to transition India Street services leaves some uneasy Krysteana Scribner Editor-in-chief The city of Portland is look- ing to pass a new budget, which could cause all clinics at the India Street Public Health to close. In the wake of this decision, over 20 public health workers would lose their jobs, and 1,114 patients re- ceiving care at these clinics would be forced to shift their services to the Portland Community Health Center. With the loss of India Street Clinics, there will also be a loss of programs for HIV Preven- tion, Positive Health Care, STD CLinic, the Needle Exchange, Free Clinic and the Immunization Clinic. The India Street Needle Exchange, which currently dis- tributes more than 100,00 clean needles yearly, would also be shut down, with the current idea to transfer the services still in it’s early stages of thought. The Portland Community Health Center, a privately run non-profi t currently provides their services to over 6,600 people a year, but in the transfer of ser- vices, it had been made unclear Krysteana Scribner / Editor-in-chief how they will accommodate that The Portland Community Health Center on India Street services over 6,000 people, but due to potential legislation that will result in a loss of fund- demand of services that will be ing, the services offered may no longer be in one convenient location. lost on India Street. Jessica Grondin, director of Street: According to the Public the health center on India Street. Students and Recovery group on who have gone to this clinic for communications for the city of Health Division’s 2014-2015 an- The three member committee will campus, explained that although years and people have a comfort- Portland, stated that she doesn’t nual report, the India Street clinic vote next week at a public hearing he has never personally used the able factor along with relation- anticipate any problems to arise, had an annual budget of $1.4 mil- on April 21. If the proposal goes services on India Street, he knows ships being formed. You don’t and made clear the reasoning as to lion, with nearly half of that cost through, the vote will go back to a lot of individuals who do, and have to have an appointment to why this consolidation has been being paid through federal and the full council and they will have the loss of these services would get served, either - if this transfer proposed. state grants. the fi rst reading on May 2, with a be detrimental to their well-being.