Liz Hedrick
Number of articles: 6First article: September 17, 2004
Latest article: April 8, 2005
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Students enjoy pseudo-parents
Brunswick families ease transition to Maine winters and American culture
Bowdoin can feel very far from home for Californian student witnessing her first Maine blizzard. Amy Ear '07 remembers walking home during her first experience with snow and encountering a woman about to shovel her driveway.
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To save face, don?t drink and dial
Providers offer protection from this embarrassing, though amusing, act
As a reflex, many people immediately reach for their cell phones on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings just to check and see who they called the previous night. They scan their phone menus for "recent calls," and are usually relieved to learn that their last call was to Dominoes at 11:30 p.m. However, for some, different numbers follow?numbers that exacerbate hangover-related migraines, tempt callers to hurl their phones from third story windows, and make them want to hibernate until someone else bears the brunt of excruciating mortification. These are the numbers of old boyfriends/girlfriends, bosses or parents.
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Trading spaces Bowdoin
Res Life offers hope to first years who find coexistence trying
One of the most exciting, terrifying, potentially rewarding, and often surreal aspects of going to college is learning to live with new roommates. Regardless of whether a student is an only child who grew up in an isolated palace or the middle child in a family of thirteen, he or she is expected to sleep, sharing the same air with one or two other people.
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Get to know the real Dr. Jeff
Jeff Benson brings his appreciation of alternative medicine to Dudley Coe
While practicing medicine on a Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, Dr. Jeff Benson of the Dudley Coe Health Center witnessed a miracle of alternative medicine that altered his view of the medical field.
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Searching for another side of the social scene
But when I came to Bowdoin and realized that much of the social scene was centered on drinking I was faced with an immediate dilemma: drink and compromise a critical aspect of my personality or not drink and count the contours on the plaster walls of my dorm room each Thursday, Friday and Saturday night.
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Professor Profiles: Sonja Moser follows serendipitous path to Bowdoin theater department
Sonja Moser, Bowdoin's newest theater professor, has worked in theater since the age of three, when she began performing for her family during holidays. She admits that these shows must have been "a trial for them to sit through," but her passion for the theater was undeniable.