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Established 2007 N ...........R'EASTER NEWS Make a Dif­ Setting the Re­ ference, Be a cord Straight Mentor on Housing BY ANDREW FREDETTE BY MICHAEL CAMPINELL Nor'easter Staff Nor'easter Staff Have you ever wondered Right after the hous­ what it would be like to have a ing selection for the 2009 - 2010 mentor when you where growing school year happened, rumors up? Wonder what the experience starting spreading like wildfire. might do for you and the experi­ This article is to help set those ru­ ence you might gain? Growing mors straight. Information in this up is a part of life that not ev­ article was received from Jennifer eryone wants to do. But there are Deburro-Jones, the Director oJ ways to revert to your child hood Residential Life at UNE. She and and feel like a kid again. UNE is I have spoke on several occasions running a mentor program with about the many different aspects the College Community Men­ of housing at UNE and she has toring Program. also sent me answers to specific The program consists of 55 questions about the housing se­ mentors right now who are all lection process and what is hap­ UNE students, and the group of TY GOWEN, NOR'EASTER NEWS pening next year. BUSH CENTER: George H.W. and Barbara Bush address UNE at the dedication ceremony on October 3, 2008. children they work with are any One of the first rumors is that where from kindergarten all the housing selection numbers are way to 8th grade. The age of the International Center not actually random. The hous­ mentees ranges from 5 years old ing selection numbers are indeed to 13 years old. BY MARISSA SIMOES "As the university is growing, whole. random. All students who are There are about 100 chil­ Nor'easter Staff as the world is changing it's im­ Center supporter and travel showing that they are returning to dren in the program right now portant that we give our students extraordinaire, Provost Jacque housing by filling out their hous­ that come from Biddeford, As the University of the perspective to understand the Carter believes, "The student of ing selection intent form (a form Saco, Portland, and Kennebunk. New England continues to ex­ world better," she explained. today is going to graduate and filled out by all residential students Through the CCMP, UNE part­ pand, one new direction it is The program surfaced when work in what we call the 'age of in January) are assigned a random ners with agencies such as the heading toward is the interna­ it was brought to the administra­ information.' The information is number known as a PIDM. These Northern York Country Yl\1CA tional. The International Center tions attention that there was not connecting us to the world. Two numbers are then grouped by aca­ Kids Out program, Northern of Education is the newest addi­ enough of an infrastructure to en­ big things we need to stay fo­ demic year, randomized within York Country Yl\1CA Com­ tion to the university's mission, able and support international ex­ cused on now are technology and that gr'?up, and then checked to munity Connections program, designed to prepare students for periences for students outside of globalization. If we can fuse that make sure there are no mistakes. Biddeford Primary School, Al­ the ever changing world. the College of Arts and Sciences. into our curriculum and into our These are the numbers that stu­ ternative Education program Director of the program While the study abroad office student experience, they will have dents are assigned and use for of Biddeford Middle School and Study Abroad Coordinator, was duly capable of making CAS the tools they will need to not be housing selection. (BMS), BMS Civil Rights Team, Trisha Mason, has taken on the students' dreams of international restricted to just one place, like Another rumor that arose is BMS Homework Club, BMS program in hopes of making the travel come true, it was not so for Maine." surrounding break housing. The Student Assistance Team, John University of New England not other UNE students. The Inter­ Mason hopes that the Cen­ only dorm used for break housing F. Kennedy Kindergarten Center only a national institution, but an national Center of Education was ter will open up opportunities is East Hall. This is done to Please see MENTORS, page 2 international one as well. set up to serve the university as a Please see INTL, page Please see HOUSING, page 3 3rd Annual Relay For Life at UNE a Success BY ERICA HATCH support for the people who have Nor'easter Staff battled, the people who still are battling, and the people who have On Friday, March 20th at lost loved ones from this horrible six p.m., twenty-eight teams, and disease. over two-hundred and fifty par­ As of seven o'clock that night, ticipants entered the gymnasium the participants had raised over on the Biddeford campus ofUNE 18,000 dollars for the American to take part in an over-night event Cancer Society! But that wasn't called the Relay for Life. the end of the fundraising. The Relay for Life is a fundraiser teams continued to fundraise af­ that has happened for twenty­ ter the night of the relay. five years all across the country in Registration for the relay benefit of the American Cancer began at five o'clock p.m., where Society. team members checked in and The purpose is to raise mon­ the survivors were given medals. ey and awareness, but it is also The Relay was set in motion by BRIANA WHITE, CONTRIBUTOR there to symbolize the hope and Please see RELAY, page 2 RELAY FOR LIFE: People gather outside the campus center to celebrate, fight back and remember cancer fighters and survivors. MORENEWS Features/A&E: Sports: EDITORIAL: Gender Gap, page 2 Meet Jacque Carter, page 5 Men's LAX, page page 9 Hate Crimes, page 14 Students Advocate for Professor, page 2 New Mascots, page 5 Year in Review, page 9 Housing Fiasco, page 16 Security Blotters, page 4 Radio UNE, page 12 lntramurals, page 10 Letter to the Editor, page 15 Vagina Monologues, page 12 Softball, page 11 2 NEWS NOR'EASTER NEWS MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2009 RELAY ten dollars. The luminarias were were laps that had themes like MENTORS guidelines for that. You have to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 placed around the planted area in Cinderella's masquerade, beach CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 commit yourself to the program front of the campus center, ~ong lap, 80's celebrities, and even an for a year and you have to be in the the first lap at six o'clock p.m.. At the walkway, and in an open area ice cream lap! During the relay, of Biddeford, Biddeford Inter­ mentor program to start the year, six-thirty there was an opening to spell out "HOPE." there were also a couple events mediate School, Consolidated if you have citizenship in second ceremony which was followed by The luminaria ceremony like Open Mic Night and a Wii School of Kennebunkport, Sea semester you cant join just to join a very emotional and conquer­ Road School ofKennebunk,Mid­ and get your hours done, you ac­ ing survivor lap. Then later on, at dle School of the Kennebunks, tually have to make sure that you eleven o'clock, the luminaria cer­ Crossroads Youth Center of Saco, can devote time to a child for a emony was held outside. Sanford Kids Club, and Project full academic year. Luminarias are little paper SAFE and SMART of Portland. Alicia Tonks said "it's re­ bags that friends, family, and sur­ The program is set up so that warding" talking about the pro­ vivors decorated in remembrance students from UNE can come gram and continued saying "it's a and honor. Each bag had its own and participate in the community good time to relax and get away story, its own dedication, and its around the campus, and provide from school''. a consistent, reliable adult role This is her third year doing models for the children. "UNE the mentor program, and is very students help the children they impressed by the way that the pro­ are working with to develop into gram is ran and how successful it BRIANA WHITE, CONTRJBUTOR confident, competent, and con­ is. The program is a great success RELAY FOR LIFE: One of the many teams that spent their night walking around tributing members of society." and the students that are involved the gym. The mentor's responsibilities in it love doing it, and have a great are very simple and easy to do. You time working with the children, was a very important, and a very tennis tournament that were each have to commit one to two hours and the children have a great time emotional, part of the night. This held in the hang. In the gym, a week to mentor at the mentor­ working with the mentors. was when everyone got together there was a game of limbo, and a ing site for one academic year. You If you are interested in join­ for a moment of silence for those name-that-celebrity contest. have to attend a mandatory two ing the mentoring program who have passed and for those This was the third year that hour training before mentoring here at UNE or have questions still battling cancer. This was also UNE has taken part in the Re­ occurs. Attend periodic reflection about it contact Melissa Grove when people got together to share lay, thanks to Danielle Demers sessions.

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