The Bowdoin Orient

On Friday, women's volleyball took the first set but lost in four to Williams. After beating the Polar Bears in the quarterfinals, the Ephs went on to win the championship title, while Bowdoin's loss marked the close to one of the most successful seasons in the program's history.

The final Polar Bear field hockey game of the regular season will take place on Friday at 5 p.m. on the familiar turf of Howard F. Ryan Field. The Polar Bears will play fifth-ranked Tufts.

After struggling through a frustrating 2-0 loss to the Middlebury Panthers this past Saturday, the field hockey team responded with a dominating performance during a mid-week shut-out victory over the Eagles of Husson College.

The women's volleyball team ended its week on a positive note with Tuesday's dramatic 3-0 sweep against the University of New England. The victory was especially welcome for the team after a series of difficult games during last weekend's Tufts Invitational, where the Polar Bears' Friday success against Wellesley was followed by successive losses to Tufts, MIT and NYU.

Women's volleyball ended the week on an uneven note after a loss to Bates on Wednesday and last weekend's mixed results at the Tufts University Tournament. The Polar Bears opened the tournament with a 3-1 fall to Connecticut College on Friday, but returned Saturday with a well-earned 3-2 victory over Wesleyan. These two games established their conference record as 1-1; with the non-conference face off against Bates, their total record now stands at 5-2.

The women's volleyball team is off to a strong start this season after a tight win against Colby on Wednesday, and an undefeated run at last weekend's Endicott Invitational Tournament. The players' incorporation of a solid offense, stamina and teamwork has helped them to establish an impressive record of 4-0 so far this season.

The women's volleyball team closed out its 2008 campaign on Friday, suffering a 3-1 loss to Wesleyan. The seventh-seeded Polar Bears began the game on a high note, holding a five-point lead at 15-10 only to fall to the second-seeded Cardinals in the first set, 25-21. After reaching 15-14 in the second set, however, the Bears refused to relinquish their lead. Eventually they triumphed with a 25-21 final score that would signal their last set victory of the season.

After a challenging weekend, women's volleyball will enter this weekend's NESCAC conference tournament as the No. 7 seed. Last weekend, the Polar Bears finished 1-2, with a victory over Hamilton but losses to Middlebury and Williams. The games took place as part of a NESCAC meet hosted by Colby. Bowdoin began the meet with the Friday night face-off against Middlebury.

After coming in seventh with mixed results at last weekend's Hall of Fame Tournament, women's volleyball came back on Wednesday to sweep Endicott after having lost to the Gulls twice earlier in the season. On Wednesday, hopes were high as Bowdoin worked toward turning the table on Endicott at long last. More than mere vindication seemed to rest on the outcome of the game.

The triumph of women's volleyball over Trinity last Saturday provided an uplifting contrast to Bowdoin's other face-offs with the Bantams that day. While football, women's soccer, and field hockey each met defeat against Trinity, Bowdoin Women's Volleyball crushed the Bantams with a 3-0 sweep.

Women's volleyball began the week with two wins and two losses at the MIT Invitational this weekend, but closed with a tight victory over Colby on Wednesday. The Colby match was held at Farley, marking Bowdoin's first home NESCAC match of the 2008 season. Going into the match, first year Gina Lonati expected a win.

Saturday's losses against Amherst and Tufts marked the most difficult weekend of the women's volleyball 2008 season to date. Anticipation was high for the double-header at Bates, which pitted the Polar Bears against the Lord Jeffs and the Jumbos, the leading teams in the NESCAC. Before the games, Jenna Diggs '10 predicted, "Our mental toughness is going to be the key factor that affects the outcome of the games this weekend."

With four season wins and only one loss, the women's volleyball team is back with a bang this fall, rebounding from their rocky 2007 season. With the team's home court in Morrell Gym under construction, the Farley Field House courts could be the trick to this season's success. On Wednesday, the Polar Bears (4-1) cruised to a 3-0 sweep over the University of New England (1-6) in a non-conference match hosted at Farley.

Several reviewers of "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days" have referred to it as a kind of horror film. They are not completely off-base.

Tomorrow, Bowdoin will host the Wabanaki Festival of Arts in an effort to familiarize students with various aspects of the Wabanaki culture. The event includes art exhibitions, as well as musical, cultural, and oral performances.

Viewers may have their doubts about Tim Burton's reincarnation of Steven Sondheim's classic Broadway musical, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." The first qualm may concern the film's content. Few movies today?if ever?are musicals about serial killers.

Human rights activist and filmmaker Dai Sil Kim-Gibson delivered a moving presentation on Korean comfort women on Thursday.

The Bowdoin Women's Volleyball Team closed its 2007 season with a 3-1 loss to Amherst in the first round of the NESCAC Tournament.

The enthusiasm of the home court was palpable this past Sunday as the Bowdoin Women's Volleyball Team closed its regular season with a 3-0 shutout of Bates.

In a lecture entitled "Filming The Lord of the Rings: How Peter Jackson Coped with J.R.R. Tolkien," Oxford professor and renowned Tolkien expert Tom Shippey went beyond his self-titled "cry of derision" to both criticize and, perhaps surprisingly, praise certain aspects of Jackson's films.

On Saturday, for the first time in the history of the team, Bowdoin Women's Volleyball defeated Springfield College in a tight 3-2 match to close its participation in the 2007 Volleyball Hall of Fame Tournament.

The Bowdoin Women's Volleyball Team returns from this past NESCAC weekend at Middlebury with a Friday victory over Hamilton but two Saturday losses against Williams and Middlebury.

The Bowdoin Women's Volleyball Team welcomed Gordon, Bates, Keene, Brandeis, Emmanuel, Wheaton and Keuka to campus this past Friday as it played host on the first day of the 2007 Midcoast Classic Tournament.

Following this past weekend's MIT Invitational tournament with an even 2-2 performance, the Bowdoin Women's Volleyball Team this Wednesday led a 3-0 sweep over Bates College.

The 2007 biopic of Edith Piaf, "La Vie en Rose," presents the harrowing life story of the famous French singer who performed from the late 1930s into the early 1960s. While Piaf had a successful career, certain elements of her background?her childhood spent in a brothel, for example?were less than idyllic. This film neatly and dramatically outlines the life and career of Piaf in an evocative, if sometimes fragmented, fashion.

Despite opening with two losses Saturday, the Women's Volleyball Team has recovered quickly. It took the final two games of their tournament on Sunday and then continued the streak, winning again on Wednesday.

Despite a 7-2 loss at Amherst on Saturday, the women's tennis team will enter this year's NCAA tournament with a first-round bye. With an overall 17-2 season record, the women still hold the record for the most consecutive victorious matches and the most overall wins in a season.

After a season in which the Bowdoin Women's Tennis Team broke the school record for single-season wins and for consecutive wins, it was finally brought to its knees this Saturday in a match against Williams?but not for long. Only a day after losing 7-2 to Williams, the Polar Bears reasserted themselves with an impressive 8-1 victory against Hamilton College, closing the regular season with a record of 17-1.

The Bowdoin Women's Tennis Team sustained its winning streak over the weekend, even in the face of highly ranked opponents Middlebury and Amherst. Having broken the previous school record of 13-0 in a season last week with its match against Colby, the team continues to set the standard for the history of Bowdoin women's tennis, advancing from a 14-0 record to an impressive 16-0 total.