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\(,J h.h,u,•\;(, ~ l'nl\L'r-..1t~ol'.\in, En~land Wcdncsday.Octobcrl7.2012 Global Education Presents Morocco Campaign BY JOCELYN KOLLER requirements. and lab courses Nor'easter Staff will be offered both on campus and online to provide flexibility The University of New for students. England has announced further The plan for UNE's Mo plans for its campus in Tangier, rocco campus was signed into Morocco. This campus will be agreement in June of 2012; cur built as part of an agreement with , rently, the campus is scheduled the American School of Tangier, to open in 2013. University which is the oldest American lUDl School in Morocco and wilJ of New England Chair of the house the new UNE site. UNE Board, Mark Doiron. and As students will be able to attend the sociate Provost for Global Ini Tangier campus at no additional tiatives. Anouar Majid, signed cost, and are able to stay for one the agreement on the campus of semester or a full academic year. the American School in Tangier. The location for the UNE Majid stated that this opening campus is ideal: downtown would help to establish friend Tangier is within walking dis ship between the two locations, tance and the Mediterranean Sea is close by. In addition, the Tang stating: "U.S. policy makers ier campus is close enough to have been struggling to reach out UNE's current study abroad pro COURTESY OF UNE.EDU to the Arab and Muslim worlds, Prop<>M!d Morocco campus gram in Seville that both groups but we at UNE have decided to of students would have the op as academic spaces and a cafe. studying in Tangier, and so will and hopes to collaborate with the live up to our ideals and invest portunity to interact with one The two buildings, according the Atlas Mountains. University of Abdelmalek Essaa in friendship. Our presence in another-in fact, Spain is only to the current depictions, are to Within the Tangier com- di, which is a public Moroccan Tangier, the meeting point of about 40 minutes away from the be solid white with Nor'easter munity, UNE hopes to create an university with a branch campus Europe, Africa, and the Arab campus by high-speed ferry. blue accents and trim. With the open learning environment. Be- in Tangier. This collaboration world, wilJ build trust and allow While studying in Mo close proximity to the American cause of this, the university plans will allow for faculty exchang our students to discover multiple rocco, UNE students will have School, UNE students will have to allow free access to lectures es, research and other projects cultures and languages at once.'' the option of living on cam access to a swimming pool and given on the campus, which will that will benefit both UNE and pus or with a host family. The basketball courts. Cultural cen- be sponsored by the Center for the University of Abdelmalek The signed contract is for a re campus facility will consist of ters such as the cities of Casa- Global Humanities. In addition, Essaadi. The curriculum at the newable 99-year period. two buildings that contain stu blanca, Fez. and Marrakesh will UNE aims to offer select local Tangier campus will be fully dent and staff housing. as well be accessible for UNE students access to its Tangier courses, compatible with UNE's course u • USG to Vote on Smoking Ban UNE Prepares to Rock the Vote by BY PAIGE OLIVER the movement. Colleges such Clarifying Registration Process Nor'easter Staff as the University of Southern BY CARLOS AGUERO changing due to voter registra there's the importance of actu Maine, the University of Maine Nor'easter Staff tion. Brennancenter.org, website ally voting, which is something Over the past few years, at Orono, and Colby College for The Brennan Center for Jus that college students need to the University of New England have all begun to shift towards There is much confu tice at New York University of consider. As Chloe Maiers puts has been looking into making going tobacco-free. In order to sion this time of year over how Law, outlines the implications it: "A lot of people are put off by the Biddeford and Portland cam- make an educated decision that to register to vote, and then over of voter registration for college the debates and the negative ads, puses tobacco-free. This would is representative of the students the implications of said registra students: "Maine has a 'gain or mean that no cigarettes, cigars, who live on the Biddeford Cam tion. Chloe Maiers. President of loss' provision which states that but people should remember that or chewing tobacco would be pus, a number of steps have been UNE's People of Politics, and no voter will either gain or lose it's not just about Obama and allowed on campus at any time. taken. Information has been dis Brennancenter.org. a reputable residency solely because of their Romney, there are a Jot of other The current policy revolves tributed among the students, a voting laws website, can both presence in or absence from the things besides that on the ballots. around the 50-foot rule, which help clarify what UNE students state while attending school (Me. Chat and Chew was held to an I'm from Minnesota and I voted is a peer-enforced manadate in swer student questions, and a should be doing in order to pre Rev.Stat.Ann.tit.21-A, § 1127(7) which smoking is prohibited pare for election day (2011 )). It explicitly states that it absentee last week. We're vot survey was issued via email to within 50 feet of any building If one is worried about may not be interpreted 'to pre ing on gay marriage, and we' re all Biddeford students last week on campus. Recently. the other the registration deadline, fret not, vent a student at any institution voting on voter J.O. laws. Also, : asking if they were in favor of a student governments affiliated for the state of Maine is quite le of learning from qualifying as a the things that you vote on, you tobacco-free campus. Of those with UNE-The College of nient on deadlines. "Maine has voter' in the town 'where the stu who voted, 56.5 percent voted in can't think of it in tenn.s of the Osteopathic Medicine Student same day voting laws, meaning, dent resides while attending' that next four years. It's the rest of the • Government Association and favor of going tobacco free. and if you show up at your polling school. Out-of~state tuition does future of your community, your GAPSA, the student government 43 .5 percent voted against. place on Election Day, Novem not preclude residency for voting on the Portland Campus-have Even if USG votes in fa- ber 6, you can register right then purposes. state, your country." voted in favor of going tobacco vor of going tobacco-free, there and there. If you're from out of So where someone is UNE is running a cam free. Now, the Undergraduate is still a lot of work to be done state you can get an absentee bal registered to vote does not affect paign right now called "We Will Student Government is on the in order to determine how the lot online, print it out, fill it out, any federal financial aid, includ- Rock the Vote," and it encour verge of making their vote. policy will be administered. The and send it out. It's so easy that's ing Pell Grants, Perkins and Staf- ages all students to get involved A large reason for the USG E-Council met on Octo it's silly to not register," com ford Loans, Academic Competi- push to go tobacco-free is for ber 15 to discuss these results mented Maiers. tive Grants, SMART Grants, and and participate on election day. health reasons. which concern and USG will be voting on their UNE is also providing other federal loans. It will also This showcases the importance both smokers and non-smokers, stance this Friday, October 19 at transportation to students who not affect whether a student is that the university is putting on and many other colleges across 3:30PM in Alfond 205. All stu may not have a car on campus, considered a parents' dependent this election and the role that the countrv have alreadv started dents are encouraeed to attend. for this provides an opportu for FAFSA purposes." UNE students can play in it. nity for these students to vote. However, a small handful • Events include informative ses "There's going to be a shuttle on of private scholarships and grants sions. transportation to polls, • Election Day to bring students are designated for residents that and information being available to the polling place and back," reside in a particular place. If a about the different people and is • mentioned Maiers. student has one of these schol Finally, if one is worried arships or grants, he/she should sues present on the ballot. about a valid form of identifica check with the administrator of For even more informa tion. there are simple solutions to the program to see how they de tion about registration, students that problem. "You can bring in termine residency-they may not can contact the People of Poli a piece of mail if you' re register consider voter registration, or tics group, visit the said web ing in the state of Maine as proof they may not care if you switch of identification; it's that easy," your residency once enrolled at site Brennancenter.org or attend noted Maiers.