The Bowdoin Orient

Erik Tillotson, the Brunswick resident who was arrested for trespassing on the Bowdoin campus in late November, is back in town.

The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear the case of a Bowdoin graduate who sued in federal court over a 1999 Judicial Board decision, the court said in an order issued earlier this month.

Two thefts that occurred on the Bowdoin campus last year remain unsolved, despite the detailed available information on them.

Harvard President Lawrence Summers recently touched off a significant controversy when, while speaking extemporaneously at a conference on women?s progress in the sciences and math, he suggested that inquiries into a possible connection between biology and women?s ability in those subjects should not be off-limits.

I don't really like food, and I hate cleaning my hands. Forks scare me. In reality, the only thing I like about cooking is the microwave.

The problem with George W. Bush's Second Inaugural Address is not its mind-numbing repetitiveness, and the scary thing about the vision of foreign policy it articulates is not the "celebration of human freedom." Rather, the address is disturbing for what it does not contain: in the middle of a war that has cost well over one hundred thousand lives, it mentions neither Iraq nor Afghanistan.

I have long theorized that four years at Bowdoin, while building up our minds, erodes our sense of personal responsibility. The evidence is compelling. Whiny and entitled comment cards at the dining hall. Messes abandoned all over campus, left for the College to clean up. Complete lack of hygiene that results in housekeeper exploitation.

Fellow students, you are living in the shadow of tyranny, the tyranny of the thesis. In our theory obsessed academic environment, a coherent argument is too often prized over thoughtful observation, texts made subordinate to conclusions, and the burden of "proving" something born without question.

Having spent the last year as a co-leader of the Bowdoin Women's Association, organizing protests against the policies of the Bush administration and campaigning for Kerry, the Presidential Inauguration had the atmosphere of a funeral rather than victory celebration.

Picture this: a climate controlled gym with 20 Ellipticals, fresh towels, miniature televisions, lemon water, and available treadmills.

At least three Bowdoin students braved chilly temperatures and unprecedented security measures to join the approximately 100,000 people gathered in the nation's capital last week to observe President George W. Bush's second inauguration ceremony.

While Bowdoin students spent the bulk of January interning, working, and more likely, sleeping in, students at hundreds of colleges across the country, including nearby Middlebury and Colby Colleges, were already back to the books, thanks to an innovative system called "January Term."

Dear Dr. Jeff: I get tired pretty easily, and my coach thinks I may be anemic. Should I come in for blood tests? MW Dear MW: There are many, many causes of fatigue, only one of which is anemia.

Five days into the new semester and we're feeling exhausted already, right? I swear that as early as Tuesday afternoon, I overheard kids in Moulton talking about parties on the weekend.

It's the end of another year in Hollywood, and the Oscars are here again. Prada and Armani may still be wrapping red-carpet stars in their latest rags while host Chris Rock practices comedy in a tux, but something feels off.

After weeks of anticipation and frantic last-minute shopping, the day after Christmas usually brings with it a kind of pleasant, plump stagnation. This respite is welcome, for sure, but the post-holiday hangover can prompt a certain kind of restless languor that longs to be disrupted. So when my dad asked me if I'd like to go to Joel Schumacher's big screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, I peeled myself off the couch and drove with him to our local movie theater.

I am Charlotte Simmons. This ambiguous refrain repeated continually by the protagonist in Tom Wolfe's latest novel lays the groundwork for a story exploring an ambitious and fascinating subject: the chronicles of collegiate life.

Rock bands that will melt the snow right off your boots are coming Saturday night to Bowdoin College. WBOR is bringing three of the most exciting new rock bands to play right smack in the middle of Smith Union: The Secret Machines, Moving Units and Autolux. These bands have sold out New York and L.A. venues and are stopping by Bowdoin on their world tour which starts off January 27 in Boston, takes them across America, over to England, Ireland, France, Belgium and ending back in Tennessee on June 10 for the Bonaroo festival. Here is a quick bio of each band to whet your appetite:

The impeccable taste and utter hipness of my roommate Luke are quite possibly the only reasons why this isn't my second consecutive month of listening to the Postal Service's Give Up on repeat. I like to think of Luke as the musical savior who drops into my life when I'm in dire straits and pulls me towards the light, away from the inane drudgery of routine listening.

Audiences left 2000's blockbuster hit Meet the Parents starring Ben Stiller, wondering, "What kind of people would name their child Gaylord Focker?" Meet the Fockers answered just that. Released on December 2, 2004, the sequel brought back the comedic cast of the first movie with the addition of Barbra Streisand and Dennis Hoffman as Greg Focker's parents, Roz and Bernie.

As unoriginal as it sounds, I think it might have been the Chili Peppers that opened me up to music and made me want to explore it more.

The last time most fans saw their Bowdoin men's hockey team play, the Black and White had just dropped a crushing home overtime game against rival Colby. In the final two minutes of the game, Bowdoin scored two goals, only to fall in overtime. Instead of mourning a missed opportunity, though, the team has responded brilliantly to the loss. Over Winter Break, the team skated their way to a 6-1-1 record, including a five-game winning streak following the Colby loss and a victory over then top-ranked Middlebury.

The Bowdoin women's indoor track team returned to campus two weeks early for preseason training and faced Brandeis and Colby in its first two meets of the season. The team ran past Brandeis in dual-meet action, while dropping a home meet to Colby.

Well, it finally happened. The so-called experts have been predicting a Patriots-Eagles Super Bowl for three straight years, and now they will finally get some vindication. As for me, this matchup does not excite. As a Giants fan living in New England, I cannot imagine a worse situation.