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Volume CXXXII, Number 3
September 27, 2002
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No longer popular, a nation pouts
KATHERINE CRANE, STAFF WRITER
We've decided we don't like Germany any more. In fact, we're so mad at those Germans we're not even going to talk to them, and neither are any of our friends. You won't see them sitting at our lunch table, and it goes without saying we're going to cross them right off our list of best buds.
You see, the German Justice Minister said something that really hurt our feelings, and we don't take kindly to having our feelings hurt. She said that we just wanted to go to war to divert attention from the economy, and that Hitler did the exact same thing. [read the article]

Use your imagination
GENEVIEVE CREEDON, COLUMNIST
One of my friends was sitting in my room earlier today creating a plan to suspend a train set from his ceiling, and after ten minutes of his imaginings, someone informed him that most of us had grown out of that stage. Then, I asked: "Do you ever think of anything realistic?" [read the article]

Doing some good the common way
LARA JACOBS, COLUMNIST
This Saturday is not just an annual event, but rather one more opportunity for us to use our personal power in ways that reach beyond our own well being, one more chance we have to "do good". [read the article]

Virtue, piety, and Convocation
TODD BUELL, COLUMNIST
To remove both Convocation and potentially Baccalaureate ceremonies from First Parish Church disrespects Bowdoin's long-standing relationship with the church and religion in general. [read the article]

Little red Corvette, baby you're much too fast. . .
ACADIA SENESE, COLUMNIST
So I don't own an SUV. I don't own a gas guzzling, hip, four-wheel drive, all-terrain vehicle. And I'm down with that, even at an SUV-laden campus like Bowdoin.Instead, I own a 1991 Ford Taurus, yes, that's right, a 1991 Taurus-red, automatic, grandmother-style automobile. [read the article]

 

Campus expansion
The campus has been buzzing lately with rumors of expansion, and such rumors strike fear into the hearts of many students who selected Bowdoin for want of an intimate academic environment. [read the editorial]

Bowdoin alumnus faces prejudice
It is not only current Bowdoin students who have been affected by new restrictions, but alumni as well. [read the letter]

Where oh where is Ludwig Rang?
Once engaged in the public compact, Ludwig Rang cannot withdraw; he must continue. Mr. Rang, sir, your admirers await your next installment. [read the letter]