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Don't be a WART on society -- get out and vote
JIM McDONALD, CONTRIBUTOR
My friend Rory doesn't like Bowdoin College. His reasons are very
simple. He thinks that Bowdoin is nothing more than a group of WARTS.
W-hite A-mbivalent R-ich T-anked S-tudents. [read
the article]
Bush, Putin, and the Chechen war
KATHERINE CRANE, COLUMNIST
Isn't it strange how terrorist attacks always seem to help George
W. Bush? September 11 sent his approval ratings sky-high, and even
the possibility of terrorism in the distant future was enough to
convince Congress to let him start a war in Iraq. And now Bush's
old friend Pooty-Poot, who just a few weeks ago was refusing to
support him, has rejoined the team. [read
the article]
Democrats offer best choice in election
KATHERINE OSTROFSKY, STAFF WRITER
It may not be a presidential election year, but this election is
critically important to the future of our state and country. Just
what is at stake? Locally, a governor, senator, representative,
and state legislature will be elected. Nationally, both the United
States Senate and the House of Representatives are up for grabs.
[read the article]
The global repercussions of unilateral action
VINAY KASHYAP, CONTRIBUTOR
Our administration has lost sight of the fact that the same "anti-western"
ideology that attacked us on September 11 is still the prevalent
threat today. If we continue to move towards unilateral, pre-emptive
action against Iraq, we will not only be allowing the actual threat
to survive, but we will also be perpetuating it. [read
the article]
Remembering Senator Paul Wellstone
TODD BUELL, COLUMNIST
The Senate lost a great man last Friday. Senator Paul Wellstone
(D-Minnesota) died when a plane carrying him, his wife, three staffers,
and two pilots crashed in the north Minnesota woods. No one survived
the crash, and it will be months before we know precisely why the
aircraft went down. [read
the article]
Rock gods: the case of the skinny white boy
MACAELA FLANAGAN, COLUMNIST
One of my dearest high school friends once confided to me his fear
that he would never be accepted by the music world as anything other
than, well, a dork. His self-diagnosed ailment, he insisted, was
an incurable case of Skinny-White-Boy (symptoms include sub-100
pound frame, blindingly white skin, and awkward mannerisms). When
I laughed at what I thought was a joke, he looked at me and in complete
seriousness stated, "I'm not kidding. There is no one less
cool than a skinny white boy." Despite my attempts to point
out my friend's multitudes of wonderful traits and qualities, and
to make him aware of how shallow he sounded, he was convinced that
being a SWB was a fate worse than death. [read
the article]
The importance of reading fiction
LARA JACOBS, COLUMNIST
One night this week I was at Hatch burning much more than the midnight
oil, when I looked at the pile of textbooks spread on the table
before me, covering subjects ranging from Russian nationalism to
the History of the Symphony, and wondered when was the last time
that I actually read something for fun-something not on a required
reading list. [read the article]
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A space for the students
While the new Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain statue
pays respect to an important figure in both Brunswick and U.S. history,
its practical use is minimal. [read
the editorial]
Grading system: time to move on
Given the recent surge of commentary about last semester's
plus/minus controversy, I wonder why certain students feel compelled
to dig up a dead horse only to beat it up some more. [read
the letter]
NESCAC resolutions misread
There appeared in the Orient two weeks ago an article
criticizing the NESCAC presidents for their decision to reexamine
the role of out-of-season athletic training. The article was inaccurate
on a number of levels, but most erroneously when it alleged that
the presidents had decided to ban out-of-season activity altogether.
[read the letter]
Does the digest discriminate?
Given the commitment of the Bowdoin community to
freedom of speech, it is surprising that the student email digest
is needlessly censored. [read
the letter]
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