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• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G7TM2WWUSPPTO2SNDBEXTLHSRQ Confucius

  Where’s coolfusion and the lies?

• Anonymous

  I could save him the trouble.  $9 million, 450 out-of-staters.  The rest of the words will be purely for artistic purposes………..

• Anonymous

  I was wondering the same thing!
  What is his deal? is he a flatlander that bought one of the Castine waterfront mansions or what?

• Anonymous

  Mrs. Warren (the owner of this newspaper) and on the MMA board of trustees got her action-item list to blast the BDN’s front age with hype and spin all pre-written by MMA public relations staff. The list is different from the usual several daily BDN activities stories highlighting the numerous sports events and New Jersey’s ”Johnny the jock” made good stories. This one is slightly different as now Maine’s taxpayers will be gifting soccer players from Turkey who will fill the vacancies in the running-back line-up. Rosen got to Lepage to fix the roads as he was tired of taking the heat trying to answer the question of why his precious MMA gets $9 million each year and the roads haven’t been touched in a decade.  MMA votes .. Roads don’t.

• Anonymous

  Therapy could help you rid yourself of your unhealthy fixation/obsession with all things MMA…

• Anonymous

  The amazing thing isn’t that you wrote this tripe – we’re all used to hearing these rants.  No, what is amazing is that some fool out there actually liked it.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_T2TXFLSBTFEI33I5DZOCTAWNAY Chris

  MMA should look into developing a DP training system on campus.  Hate to tell the instructors down there that DP is something that is around to stay and they need to update their teaching.  The shipping world is dying and things are moving in different directions then when they went to school and sailed over 30 years ago.  Wake up and dont just focus on engineering, there are more carreers at MMA that need attention.  Board of Trustees, you need to start listening to people that arent at the school they have become blinded by the Castine Road and dont realize there is a world out there other then what happens in little Castine.  MMA is a great school that will soon see its 90% (or whatever it is) job placement begin to fall lower because they arent training to the new standards.  this is a start for the engine department but well over due.  Get with it.  If you want any more money from alumni like me you better get on top of things.