Senate discusses committee on racial understanding

After more than an hour\u27s debate Tuesday night the General Student Senate voted to allow the committee on Racial Understanding to pick its own co-chairs and student members. The committee was formed last week in response to what is being called a racial attack on two University of Maine students, Feb. 17. It will study, and attempt to find answers to race relation problems at the university

GSS votes race was motive in Orono attack

The assault on two black University of Maine students Sunday morning was racially motivated, the Student Senate voted at their meeting Tuesday night. About thirty African-American students attended the meeting to express their concerns about racism on campus

GSS votes race was motive in Orono attack

Article from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding the General Student Senate voting that an attack on two Black students was motivated by race

The News Crawler: A Big Data Approach to Local Information Ecosystems

In the past 20 years, Silicon Valley’s platforms and opaque algorithms have increasingly influenced civic discourse, helping Facebook, Twitter, and others extract and consolidate the revenues generated. That trend has reduced the profitability of local news organizations, but not the importance of locally created news reporting in residents’ day-to-day lives. The disruption of the economics and distribution of news has reduced, scattered, and diversified local news sources (digital-first newspapers, digital-only newsrooms, and television and radio broadcasters publishing online), making it difficult to inventory and understand the information health of communities, individually and in aggregate. Analysis of this national trend is often based on the geolocation of known news outlets as a proxy for community coverage. This measure does not accurately estimate the quality, scale, or diversity of topics provided to the community. This project is developing a scalable, semi-automated approach to describe digital news content along journalism-quality-focused standards. We propose identifying representative corpora and applying machine learning and natural language processing to estimate the extent to which news articles engage in multiple journalistic dimensions, including geographic relevancy, critical information needs, and equity of coverage

Global Journalist: How a sports reporter challenged Romania's oligarchy

In 2015, victims of a fire in a Romanian nightclub began to dying of infections in hospitals where they were being treated for their burns. Sports reporter Catalin Tolontan and his team investigated the government-run health care system to discover corruption, dark money and cover-ups. This program features interviews with Tolontan, the director of a documentary film about his investigation and two journalism professors who discuss the future of investigative journalism

Maine Perspective, v 4, i 22

The Maine Perspective, a publication for the University of Maine, was a campus newsletter produced by the Department of Public Affairs which eventually transformed into the Division of Marketing and Communication. Regular features include listings of newly released titles by UMaine authors, Look Who\u27s On Campus, an opinion column entitled Viewpoint, and Classified Ads. Included in this issue are articles covering UMaine\u27s participation in an Educational Alliance with Canadian counterparts, ongoing research in the field of Supercritical Fluids, and a photo essay of architecture on the UMaine campus

Maine Perspective, v 6, i 16

The Maine Perspective, a publication for the University of Maine, was a campus newsletter produced by the Department of Public Affairs which eventually transformed into the Division of Marketing and Communication. Regular features include listings of newly released titles by UMaine authors, Look Who\u27s On Campus, Along the Mall, In Focus, and Classified Ads. Articles cover a study by Stephanie Seguino showing that the average earnings of Maine women are inadequate to cover basic needs, President Hutchinson\u27s response to a Faculty Senate Plan for the Bangor campus, and a graduate student\u27s invention to improve delivery of radiation treatments

Maine Perspective, v 6, i 10

The Maine Perspective, a publication for the University of Maine, was a campus newsletter produced by the Department of Public Affairs which eventually transformed into the Division of Marketing and Communication. Regular features include listings of newly released titles by UMaine authors, Look Who\u27s On Campus, an opinion column entitled Viewpoint, and Classified Ads. Included in this issue are articles covering research into Maine\u27s entrepreneurial economy, a profile of Stella Clement-Brown, and a feature about the Witmer family members enrolled in classes at UMaine