The Bowdoin Orient

The Bowdoin Community paid tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a ceremony in the Chapel Monday evening. The Longfellows, Slam Poet Society and the Bowdoin Community Gospel Choir performed in memory of Dr. King, and Brian Purnell, assistant professor of Africana studies, spoke of MLK’s legacy. “It was obvious how much this day meant to people,” said Ben Osher ’15, who performed at the service. “I felt like the lines between the secular and the religious were becoming blurred.”

When Sam Silverman ’14 was a freshman, he and his friends would always think about how great it would be to have food other than Domino’s or Papa John’s delivered to their doorsteps. Silverman is making his wish a reality. With his new business—Bowdoin Food Delivery.

When police released the names of 21 clients of Alexis Wright, the now-infamous Zumba instructor who has been charged with running a one-woman brothel out of her studio in Kennebunk, Maine, on Monday, one name quickly attracted the attention of Portland residents.

Josh Davis and Bruno Tropeano struggled when they first started Gelato Fiasco in 2007—banks were confused by the idea of gelato, and the economy collapsed just months after the company launched in fall of 2008.

Out of the 18 Bowdoin applicants this year, two seniors have won Fulbright grants, and four of their classmates have won funding for teaching assistantships. Daniel Jeong and Eli Garrard won Fulbright grants. Nick Powell, Derek Brooks, Zach Crawford, and Shazeda Ahmed received the other awards. Each year the Fulbright Program funds approximately 1,000 Americans who study or conduct research in any field. The other type of grant, which is not provided by the Fulbright Program, provides funding for students to work as English teaching assistants at schools and universities in foreign countries. Last year, approximately 870 teaching awards were made.

Boy meets girl at a party. Boy and girl hook up. A common scenario at Bowdoin College. Then boy gives girl a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI), or vice versa—a scenario that seems to be recently spreading on campus. Earlier this month, Coordinator of Health Education Whitney Hogan sent an email to all first years as well as Peer Health regarding the recent upswing in diagnoses of STIs on campus. The email was then circulated to many other groups and individuals.

Junior Elisabeth Carter attended the Brunswick Democratic Caucus with no intention of becoming a local representative, but by the end of the Sunday meeting she was one of the 12 members of the Cumberland County Democratic Committee.

The Office of Admissions admitted 53 students through Early Decision (ED) II, putting the total of admitted students for the Class of 2016 through ED at 224, six fewer than to last year. Admissions will now begin to evaluate the regular decision pool, which consists of 5,818 applications.

Twenty-one percent of classes were at or above capacity by the end of Bowdoin's two-week add/drop period last Friday. This year 1,043 add/drop cards were received compared to 980 last spring, a 6.4 percent increase. Registrar Jan Brackett said that numbers have not been this high since the spring of 2007, when the Office of the Registrar also coincidentally received 1,043 cards.

The Office of Admissions has received a total of 6,694 applications for the Class of 2016 so far, a 2 percent increase from last year's applicant pool and an all-time record for the College.

Joseph Sewall '43, former Republican president of the Maine Senate and prominent businessman, died at the age of 89 on November 23.

A college degree has never been more expensive. According to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, college tuition has increased more than 439 percent since 1982 and 5 percent since last year.

Since he was 11, Matt Roberts '93 knew that he wanted to work for David Letterman.

Students returned to campus to find that a number of changes had been made to several buildings.