Author: Ray Rice

The successful candidate of this past presidential election was bound to be a “first” in one form or another:  one would be the first woman ever to hold the office; the other without holding a previous political office or having...

Dear UMPI Community,      I have had the opportunity to speak with many of you since last week’s elections and the range of responses to it, regardless of how you felt about its outcomes.  The subsequent intolerant incidents...

      One of my most vivid college memories is of a warm spring evening my classmates and I spent at the home of our Latin professor, Mary Moser.  Classes had just ended, and we were celebrating with a dinner prepared by Prof....

Welcome, or welcome back, as the case may be, to the University of Maine at Presque Isle—or UMPI—or North of Ordinary or “umm-pea” as we are phonetically, if not better, known. Let me be honest from the very start: this is not a...