W Hockey
Women’s hockey takes first place at Codfish Bowl
Last weekend, the women’s hockey team (5–2–0; 3–1–0 NESCAC) snagged victories against William Smith College (5–3–0) and Manhattanville University (2–5–1), winning the 2025 Codfish Bowl Championship. The Polar Bears dominated the competition, recording 81 shots to the opposition’s 27.
As …
Artificial Intelligence
Hastings Initiative progresses with campus outreach and continues to allocate funds
In March, the College announced a $50 million donation from Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings ’83 to establish the Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity. Since then, an advisory committee consisting of faculty across departments has worked to guide the implementation …
BOSS
BOSS reveals increased AI usage, campus reactions to recent events and Hastings Initiative
Introduction
“Do you give a damn?” For 86.7 percent of respondents to this semester’s Bowdoin Orient Student Survey (BOSS), the answer is yes. Drawing from 336 anonymous respondents across all class years, the survey captured student sentiment on a variety …
Poll
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Ode to a Saturday morning ritual
Roused by a gentle alarm, I drag my weary body out of bed, nab a few poetry collections off my bookshelf (Ada Limón and Ross Gay are in heavy rotation) and scramble down the Coles Tower stairwell to the WBOR …
Carseat reflections on an Uber to Oxford
“I blink my eyes, and I am 50.”
At one point, when I was young, I thought something similar: “One day I shall be in college, all alone, without my mother nor my home.”
This shortness of span that one …

