April 1, 2005

NEWS IN BRIEF

Merger Plan Postponed

The University of Maine System has postponed for a year a controversial plan to make the University of Maine at Augusta a satellite campus of the University of Southern Maine, giving a legislative committee led by one of the proposal's fiercest critics time to weigh in.

The committee's chairwoman, State Sen. Elizabeth H. Mitchell, a Democrat, said all options, including abandoning the merger plan, were on the table. Deferring action will allow

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