University of Southern Maine USM Digital Commons Free Press, The, 1971- Student Newspapers 9-7-2004 The Free Press Vol 36, Issue 1, 09-07-2004 John Bronson University of Southern Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/free_press Recommended Citation Bronson, John, "The Free Press Vol 36, Issue 1, 09-07-2004" (2004). Free Press, The, 1971-. 2. https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/free_press/2 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]. No dead dogs at this Husky Fest page 7 Volume 36, Issue 1 7 September 2004 Photo by Andrew Davis The construction continues page 5 Sowing Seeds of Peace page 3 STRIVE University students Jake Shappee and Noel Thompson at the Woodbury Campus Center Wednesday citizens and cultivating valuable at its conclusion. The academic New program lives for each student. work is designed to teach students While the integration of the how to learn most effectively opens USM to developmentally disabled into a based on their learning style, post-secondary education system thus preparing them to continue the disabled holds the promise of greater learning throughout their lives independence and reduced and careers. DIANE RUSSELL taxpayer burden, it remains to be During the first semester, seen whether traditional students students will take a class preparing CONTRIBUTING WRITER will find the experience beneficial them to successfully become part or if they will find they are held of campus life. Workshops on up by their new classmates. substance abuse, sexual education USM Media Studies senior and career topics will provide them This year the class of 2006 Miranda Valentine, 23, said that with social education in addition Michael Connor includes six young adults who “regardless of whether the student to their academics. According Gets Famous have Down Syndrome. They will to Brown, “the goal is that in the be attending classes as part of a second semester they’ll still have page 12 program created and implemented the seminar class which will be by STRIVE University and USM. “I got teased.” just the six STRIVE students, but This program is the first of its kind Christina Mailhot, 25 they’ll also have the opportunity in the nation. to audit other classes of their Cross If successful, this ground- choosing, with support.” breaking program could become The “independent living” a national model. Phone inquiries is developmentally disadvantaged aspect of the program has students Your have begun coming in from places or not, it will be up to the teacher living in a STRIVE-sponsored such as Virginia and California. to ensure students are in a class apartment in down-town Portland. STRIVE is waiting for data from that meets their education level There, they will learn skills to Words the initial two programs before and that they can keep up.” facilitate independent living. putting together a model structure STRIVE Director, Peter Brown said, House rules mimic those of officially. “They will pull their weight.” By traditional dorm life. According to press release matching the interests and skill New Feature from STRIVE, after high school levels of the individual student “these [developmentally disabled] to the classes they select, STRIVE students require $45,000 page 16 hopes to mitigate this potential. See STRIVE, annually in state-supported care Perhaps the biggest page 5 and are often placed in group challenge these students will face homes without competitive job is overcoming the stigmas they’ve training and independent-living become accustomed to facing. assistance.” The $45,000 of state- Christina described attending support is a burden on taxpayers elementary and high school. “I which the STRIVE program will got teased.” When asked how attempt to alleviate. The program that felt about it, she responded, is designed to teach students “horrible.” Being teased in college the skills necessary to become “is what I’m most scared about.” contributing taxpayers and STRIVE is a five-class Meet The Free Press engaged community members program of study, yielding a upon graduation, thus decreasing Certificate in Lifelong Learning page 4 the overall tax burden on Maine 2 the free press AMPUS RIME 92 BEDFORD STREET - PORTLAND, MAINE 04101 C C 207 . 780 . 4084 - [email protected] EXECUTIVE EDITOR JOHN BRONSON NEWS EDITOR JOSEPH THOMPSON Compiled by Joseph R. Thompson and Elise Adams ARTS EDITOR TIM HOFMANN SPORTS EDITOR JOE BILANCERI June 2, 2004 summons was issued on July 7 for said possession. PHOTO EDITOR IRIS BURKE A computer and phone were stolen from an COPY EDITOR SARAH HINES office on the first floor of the John Mitchel July 7 PRODUCTION MANAGER MELISSA ST.GERMAIN Center. It was an $1800 value. The case A stereo valued at $200 was stolen from a is under investigation. STAFF WRITERS JEN BLOOD vehicle at Portland Hall. The case is under WILLIAM BURKE investigation. June 2 BRIAN NADEAU DIANE RUSSELL Police confiscated a bong from a room in July 8 Portland Hall. A first floor window was broken in the PHOTOGRAPHERS MIKE BARDEN June 3 Admissions House, possibly by a rock. ANDREW DAVIS The damage was assessed at $75. The ERIK EISELE case is under investigation. Someone has possible tampered with REANNA ST.PIERRE computer in Luther Bonney Hall. It was noted as an “invasion of puter privacy.” July 9 CARTOONISTS JACK DUFFY DAVID KISH June 3 A student reported her vehicle stolen from a student parking in Gorham. It had last A motor vehicle rolled into DFM vehicle been seen on Sunday, July 4. The report ADVERTISING MANAGER JOHN MARSHALL in Gorham. Sgt Soper left note a on the was declared unfounded after the car was CONVERGENCE COORDINATOR JOSIE LORD car. found in lot G-11. CIRCULATION MANAGER MICHAEL MCALLISTER OFFICE MANAGER LUCILLE SIEGLER June 7 July 9 ADVISER JESS KILBY Two rings were stolen from Sullivan Gym. A window was reported cracked in the rear of the James Sullivan Gym. The damage In Brief June 8 was assessed at $200. called ‘the new retention initiative’ AMPUS SAFETY ALERT C in the University of Southern A hit and run scratched a 2004 Toyota July 9 The University of Southern Maine Maine strategic plan. Faculty and Corolla outside of Bailey Hall. staff will be contacting commuter Karen Casey requests that mail for has issued a Campus Safety Alert about Theodore Cunningham. students new to USM via phone or June 9 President Pattenaude is to be picked up from the mailroom and for the officer on He is a white male, 77 years old, postcard. The driving force behind Employees at 15 Baxter Blvd. were duty to take it to the president’s house and 5’11”, 200 lbs., silver hair, brown this initiative is the “Transforming harassed by a street person. The case is leave it on the kitchen table. eyes, driving a dark blue GMC USM: 2004-09” goal to increase under investigation. truck with a Maine veteran plate first to second year retention from July 22 #4701. Cunningham has been 68 percent to 75 percent. June 12 seen photographing women near Kevin Fogarty was arrested by Philippi the Woodsbury Campus Center Minor Rootes, a professor of theatre, was Hall on his way to pick up his daughter with a camera equipped with a MULTIPLE THEFTS FROM driving a USM Chevy van in Boston. The from SWISH camp for driving while telephoto lens. USM Police served PORTLAND HALL CARS van sustained $2,000 – $3,000 in damages intoxicated. Fogarty was taken to Gorham Cunningham with a criminal Police Department for an intoxilizer test. August 31, 2004 – during the last 24 while being driven into a parking garage. trespass notice, barring him from The accident occurred on June 10. hours there have been five reports of USM grounds. If he is observed items being stolen from cars parked July 24 on the grounds please contact the at Portland Hall. University Police July 1 USM Police. A Canon Power Shot Camera valued at are investigating the incidents. USM Police helped the Portland Police $200 was stolen from the top dresser drawer Police request that students not with a hit and run. in an A-wing dorm room at Portland Hall. PRESIDENT PRESENTS leave valuables in plain sight when the car is unattended and that PLAN FOR RETENTION July 4 students lock their vehicle doors. At the Faculty/Staff breakfast Chadwick Workstone, 20, of Portland, on August 27, President Richard ME, was stopped by Officer Plourde at see CRIME LOGS, Pattenaude unveiled part of what is Portland Hall. Workstone was charged page 10 with possession of illegal fireworks. A Compiled by Joseph R. Thompson 7 September 2004 up in Nazareth, an Israeli program avoids 3being territory that is 100 biased is by allowing people percent Palestinian, he to talk about anything they had no Jewish friends and want during the dialogue Photograph by Michael Garber everything he heard sessions. about Jewish people was Kamal, who didn’t negative. speak to the Israelis at “But after I went to the camp for the first two Seeds of Peace, everything weeks, said, “You grow up changed. I met my enemy knowing that person is an and it turned out that my enemy and when you go to enemy was a lot like me; the camp it helps break the we lived in the same area, ice, and you realize that looked mostly the same, person is human like you… and did the same things.