December 8, 2000
Volume CXXXII, Number 12

 










 

Response to the Scifres arrest
By Suzanne E. Mahar

    As an employee of Bowdoin, the wife of a Brunswick Police Officer, and a member of this community, I question the motives of anyone who refuses to leave the scene after a police officer asks him to. Even in small-town America, police officers put their lives on the line everyday. When my husband leaves for work each day, I can only hope and pray that he returns safely. When placed in every different possible situation, he has to be on his guard.

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Woodsman, spare that tree
By Timothy J. Vail, Orr's Island

   As one directly involved with the recent cutting and pruning of the Bowdoin Pines along Bath Road, I feel compelled to explain the reason for the undertaking of this project. The Town of Brunswick, and especially the Bowdoin College community, is very protective of their magnificent stand of white pines. I believe the Bowdoin Pines are unique to populated New England-and therein lies the problem.

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European Orient contributor responds to the Florida mess
By Ludwig Rang - Alumnus Contributor

   As a Bowdoin alumnus, German-born but long resident in Britain, and author of the current series "Two Years Beneath the Pines", may I briefly comment on the post-electoral imbroglio, for lack of a better English word.

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