Hockey players charged with OUI, underage possession

Second suspension in two years for Payson
By Mary Emmi, Zach Dionne and Zach Dionne

University of Maine men’s hockey player Nicholas Payson was charged with operating under the influence and has been suspended indefinitely for the second time in two years.

Prof. Diane Hoff to leave UMaine

Faculty Senate pres. accepts position at U. of West Georgia
By Dylan Riley

Dianne Hoff, professor in the College of Education and Human Development and president of Faculty Senate, will leave the University of Maine before July 2009 to take an associate dean’s position at the University of West Georgia.

Fire guts Orono apartment building

Rose Collins

A fire destroyed a historic apartment building in downtown Orono Tuesday.
By Mary Emmi

A large apartment fire in Orono left 26 people, including 12 University of Maine students, homeless on Tuesday. The apartment contained a total of 18 units and was located in the middle of downtown Orono at the intersection of Bennoch Road and Main Street.

• UMaine student diagnosed with H1N1
• BOT increases tuition
• UMaine announces 32 layoffs, 31 work-year reductions
  140 positions affected; $5.8 million saved
• Women sentenced in connection with Lyford death
• Gay marriage bill sponsor speaks at UM
• Bill to propose marijuana research at UMaine stalls
• Campus fights alcohol abuse
  Public Safety reports 147 cases of underage possession
• Up in smoke
  Students lose home, but find a community
• Police Beat for 04/27/2009

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• Editorial: Effects of this year will go on in the next
  
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Bangor arts adapt to stay afloat in sinking economy

Amy Brooks for The Maine Campus

The Bangor Symphony Orchestra has had to reduce overhead costs by reducing its number of salaried employees and forming new partnerships.
By Zach Dionne

As the economy worsens, organizations like the Penobscot Theater, the University of Maine Museum of Art and the 113-year-old Bangor Symphony Orchestra are adapting to survive the recession.

Chickenfest

Partiers take to Maine wilderness for secretive, one-of-a-kind experience

Zach Dionne for The Maine Campus

A couch burns at Chickenfest, an annual underground party.
By Zach Dionne

Chickenfest is canceled.
It’s three in the afternoon Saturday and I’m at a friend of a friend’s house. Before it even got off the ground, the yearly underground romp in the woods has been busted or called off, depending who you talk to. This group is sitting on couches and lawn chairs in their yard, drinking [...]

• Funk Thrust: This is the sound of partying
• Gamer-musicians prepare for shred-off
• TV Snob: Disgust me, shock me, make me laugh
• CD Review: Doom
• Film Review: The Soloist

• UMaine, Vermont split series
  McAvoy, Leisenheimer lead squad, baseball in second place
• Saturday sweep paces Bears
  Softball takes two out of three from Albany, continues AE rise
• Year in Review
• Young runners lead U.S. rise in distance
  Hall, Goucher lead charge in marathon, hope to challenge Kenyan distance running
• Record Relay: Women’s track competes at UNH
• En-titled IX?