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STUDENT SENATOR USM’S ACADEMIC HUSKY SPORTS RESIGNS page 4 FREEDOM page 3 SCOREBOARD page 14 BIKER RESCUED ON CAMPUS PAGE 4 Volume 39, Issue 2 • September 10, 2007 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE Student New campus bistro aims senate to cut long takeout lines goes aNgelique CarsoN by percentages every year, so that told us that it was a popu- hands-on exeCuTive ediTor lar place. It was convenient, it was meeting people’s needs, Joel C. TheriaulT Students frustrated with the but there were still people that News ediTor long lines and crowded shopping we weren’t serving because the experience at Luther Bonney’s Luther Bonney location just snack bar will be relieved to wasn’t big enough.” USM’s student government will know that a solution may have Nelson said that she has even go through many changes through- been unveiled Tuesday. A second greater hopes for the Bistro out the academic year, including kiosk, The Bistro Below, opened Below, beyond the need to feed shifting more power to senate on the first day of classes in the and caffeinate students, staff and committees and a new mission to basement of Payson Smith Hall faculty. She hopes that the loca- breathe fresh life into the senate’s in Portland. tion adds to a sense of commu- relationships with various campus The Bistro, a plan in the works nity at USM. entities and student organizations. since January 2006, replaced “I hope that some community “We want faces of senators out vending machines embedded in forms around it,” said Nelson. “If there,” said student senate chair a hallway peppered with class- ANGELIQUE BY CARSON PHOTO STAFF I go down and bring up a candy and senior chemistry major Emily rooms. The new location was bar and we split it and have some Fitch. “If the student body doesn’t Students on a break from a French class in the basement of Payson know who we are, we’re not doing the brainchild of students, fac- Smith Hall are some of the Bistro Below’s first customers. The kiosk conversation that adds commu- our job.” ulty and staff in conjunction with opened Tuesday. nity. I’m really hoping that it Aramark, USM’s dining services builds relationships.” Part of the increased visibility need to take some pressure off of Luther Bonney kiosk in a timely provider. Aramark picked up the con- the senators will adopt this year the Luther Bonney kiosk, which way due to the volume of Plans for the new kiosk were struction bill for the new kiosk, is a more active role in events sits just outside Luther Bonney’s people. a collaboration between Denise and the location was chosen and happenings with entities and Talbot Hall auditorium, the larg- “Luther Bonney was so busy Nelson, director of residential after research Aramark con- groups funded by the student sen- est classroom on campus seating that they couldn’t meet the need life and resident education, and ducted to determine where the ate’s budget. over 200 students. Nelson said in that part of campus because it Aramark’s Keith Brady, the greatest amount of foot traf- “So far, with President (AJ) the idea for the Bistro developed wasn’t big enough,” said Brady. senior food service director for fic existed. A report by Market Chalifour,” Fitch said, “we have from an obvious difficulty to “The (amount of) people using all three Southern Maine cam- Match, Aramark’s research team, some of the best relations with the keep the line moving through the Luther Bonney was doubling puses. Nelson said that they saw a found that Woodbury Campus entities right now, if you can be- Center is no longer the center at lieve it after all that happened at all. Instead, Luther Bonny has the end of last year.” become the bustling heart of the Several student groups felt the Husky Fest 2007 a success Portland campus. sting of last year’s budget slashings, This is nothing new to a large including Portland and Gorham’s number of USM Portland stu- Events Boards, the Leadership dents who frequently must decide Development Board and Words whether or not that piping hot cup and Images, USM’s art and literary of coffee is worth both the wait journal. The Newspaper program, and uncomfortable late entrance which provides free copies of the to class. Portland Press Herald, The Boston According to Brady, the regis- Globe and the New York Times to trar’s office calculated that there students daily, was allotted half of were between 600-900 people its usual budget and was intended in Payson Smith Hall per hour to be funded for the only the fall during the 2006 spring semester. semester. In addition, vending machine Fitch said these improved rela- sales were highest in the same tions are due to candid one-on-one hall during business hours. discussions between individual It only made sense to provide senators and members of entity those students with a quick and groups, and the success of the easy refreshment venue, said Entity Retreat held on Aug. 31 in Brady. Portland. “What we want to do Though the Bistro is only in is—looking back at what hap- its first week of operations, stu- pened last year—prevent that from dents seem to be enjoying the happening,” she said, “by taking venue. measures to start the budget pro- STAFF PHOTO BY BRANDON BY PHOTO MCKENNEY STAFF “I think it’s good,” said soph- cess earlier, make sure that every- omore Dionisios Sparangis, 19. one’s really involved, make sure A student chats with a Student Affairs rep at Husky Fest last Thursday. The annual event drew its larges crowd in its seven-year history with more than 100 organizations present and a live DJ cour- BISTRO See SENATE tesy of the Portland Events Board. See more photos of the day on pages eight and nine. See PAGE 12 PAGE 12 2 The Free Press | September 10, 2007 news Student body pres stays close to home Joel C. TheriaulT Opening Breakfast speech on Aug. “That’s one of those things that every student 31 that said the university needs News ediTor has been able to utilize, and if we got rid of it to “scale back” on costs. “I don’t know if raising the student activity While the 36th student senate that would just be completely irresponsible. fee is necessarily the answer—more overhauls its system, the office of We’re still working on it, but it will be back.” money for less people. the student body president is making “If the student activity fee is serv- – Student Body President A.J. Chalifour of the free newspaper program, waves of its own. The addition of an ing less students,” he continued, “we which took a budget cut in last year’s allocations. executive branch this year will ef- just have to come up with ways to fectively double the size of student better utilize the student activity fee, his chief of staff and the Cabinet—a executive branch. “That’s the big government at USM. as opposed to raising it.” group of twenty people that includes one,” he said. A referendum to last spring’s stu- Chalifour said another matter representatives of the student, fac- This year’s student body president dent senate ballot asked voters if he plans to resolve is the future of ulty, professional and classified staff will also assist the student senate they wanted an equal-power execu- USM’s newspaper program, which senates; the student representative to entities “do the best with what they tive branch to work with the senate’s provides free copies of the Portland University of Maine System’s Board got” financially, said Chalifour. “The legislative branch, making a more JOEL BY C. PHOTO THERIAULT STAFF Press Herald, The Boston Globe of Trustees; a representative from student government’s budget was complete student government. The Student Body President A.J. and the New York Times to stu- each Boards of Visitors; and student really a point of contention last year, referendum passed, and the student Chalifour, elected last spring, dents daily. The program received members to join various university so we have a lot of groups with less body president this year will be as- plans to spend most of his time only half of its usual $10,000 budget committees. money. But I want to get a lot of sisted by a Cabinet as well as his on campus. last year and was to be cancelled in The chief of staff to Chalifour the entities talking with each other, chief of staff. spring 2008. is former Board of Student trying to share resources, and finding “The Cabinet is something that “The student body president posi- “The student government kind of Organizations (BSO) president out what they can do to help out the strictly falls under the student body tion is very new,” said student body rolls over money every year that’s Amanda Fecteau.