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Volume CXXXI, Number 21
April 12, 2002
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Sexual harassment panel a success
CLARE FORSTIE, TODD BUELL, CORONA BENSON
There are moments in my sometimes-embittered Bowdoin career when I think to myself, "Yeah...this is what it's about." [read the article]

It's time for the men at Bowdoin to step up
CONOR WILLIAMS
A convincing case can be made that the consistent psychological harm done to the self-images of women should be enough to neccessitate speech control. [read the article]

We need new customs- like hibernation
CRAIG GIAMMONA
In my plan, December would be left intact, but it would be drastically reworked, turning the dark, cold month into a period of festivals, debauchery, and contemplation. [read the article]

Politicizing education
GENEVIVE CREEDON
The rhetoric used to support this accusation was very one-sided, to put it mildly, but it raised more than a few relevant issues that should concern us both as students and as citizens. [read the article]

Can one find 'life-changing love' within a friendship at Bowdoin?
KARA OPPENHEIM
Oftentimes two friends can hook up once or twice without any real damage. [read the article]

America must act in its best interests
PATRICK ROCKEFELLER
This is usually the point where Alec Baldwin, a mediocre actor and intellectual featherweight, stands up and shouts that Bush wasn't elected at all. [read the article]

 

Publication proliferation
Ink has been showering the pages of a large crop of campus publications this semester. [read the editorial]

Kudos to Kent
His classroom presence and his fashion sense will be sorely missed. [read the editorial]

Cartoons
-Herb
-The West Pole
-Stiffle: 'Allies Gone Wild'

Smooth Words champions
If you have trouble finding the smooth words while you're getting your groove on, then you can take a hint from our winners. [read the letter]

Faculty took student opposition seriously
What was the grave sin of the Faculty? What was the metaphorical equivalent the dog's urinating? [read the letter]

Recognizing others' right to dissent
One wonders exactly how impartial, or even how credible, anything concocted by Frank Luntz actually is. [read the letter]