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Volume CXXXIII, Number 8
November 2, 2001
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Education not legislation
TODD BUELL, STAFF WRITER
Somehow the American Flag, a symbol of the values that thousands of American men and women have died to protect, is often not treated with the same respect by courts and University administrators as other religious and ethnic symbols. [read the article]

You've got mail: flirting over the internet
KARA OPPENHEIM, STAFF WRITER
Bowdoin must not have realized what it was getting into when it incorporated email into the system. Administrators couldn't have known what time, energy, and stress would go into the composing and reading of these little kilobytes of silicon. [read the article]

Boredom, the MTV generation without stimulus
GENEVIVE CREEDON, STAFF WRITER
Our generation has become so used to seeking entertainment that it has forgotten that uneventful moments aren't innately boring. [read the article]

 

President Mills's plan
The steps Mills laid out are necessary to answering the common complaints leveled against Bowdoin and places like it: that it is constrictively small, that its academic program is limited, and that its price is just obscene. [read the editorial]

Chabotar: bound to go down in academic fame
It is a rare occasion when Kent travels out of town with out stopping for dinner with a former student and disciple of Government 215. [read the letter]

Vote yes on 1
The Coastal Protection Zone Amendments will place reasonable limits on the number of houses and septic systems that can pour pollutants into the bay. [read the letter]

Econ. professor replies
Their stress on flaws in the Kyoto Protocol, viewed from a narrow economic perspective, had two unfortunate effects. [read the letter]