Lauren Speigel
Number of articles: 4First article: October 16, 2009
Latest article: December 4, 2009
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Date week more personal than ever
Interested in being Mr. Darcy to a single senior girl? Or taking a long walk under a full moon with a "girl with pronounced veins?" Bowdoin's new personal ads allow students to write profiles and peruse ads posted by others, which range from the silly to the sincere. Believing that the culture surrounding dating—whether it be a dining hall date, dinner date, friendly or romantic—at Bowdoin could use a little sprucing up, Alliance of Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP) is bringing the date back to Bowdoin with its annual Date Week.
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Students count off to support Bowdoin Campaign
Last spring, Alison Bennie, the editor of Bowdoin Magazine, was faced with the task of creating a graphic symbol to represent the successful Bowdoin Campaign. Her final vision, photographs of Bowdoin students positioning their bodies into shapes of the cardinal numbers, embodies the idea that the $293 million raised by the five-year long fundraiser goes toward bettering the experience of the student body, according to Bennie. The student number photographs appear on the homepage of the Bowdoin Web site, broadcasting various statistics from the Bowdoin Campaign.
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Students worm way into deep-sea studies
Earlier this month, two Bowdoin students had a unique opportunity to complete fieldwork in the Gulf of Mexico with Professor of Biology and Doherty Marine Biology Postdoctoral Scholar Dan Thornhill. Thornhill also brought Courtney Bell '10 and Will Hatleberg '11 with him to conduct research. Leaving the week before fall break, the group spent a night in Auburn, Ala. before continuing to Mississippi with researchers from Auburn University to conduct deep-sea data collection.
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Students help rebuild North Haven community
Over fall break a group of eight students headed north to help build affordable housing in North Haven, an island off the coast of Rockland, Maine. The trip was led by Krista Bahm '11 and was the first part of a series of Weekend Service Trips coordinated through the McKeen Center for the Common Good. The McKeen Center runs a myriad of programs throughout the year that aim to connect Bowdoin students with the larger communities in Maine. This island service trip was an opportunity for students to learn about life in North Haven while helping the local community.