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Volume CXXXII, Number 10
November 22, 2002
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Wethli
raises bar with his brush
ADAM BABER, COLUMNIST
It is 1978. Arriving at Bowdoin for a job interview, Mark
Wethli realizes he has found the ideal academic environment. He meets
with the search committee about the position, is offered the position,
and promptly turns Bowdoin down in favor of a job in California. Why?
Because the Bowdoin position is for only one year. [read
the article]
Banking nightmare
TIMOTHY J. RIEMER, COLUMNIST
The 90s were an unusually prosperous time for the US. With
the invention of the internet many people believed that the economy had
been transformed. Firms in the late 90s saw unheard-of profits, especially
in the technology sector. However, while everything was all warm and fuzzy
here in the U.S, across the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese economy was facing
one of its worst declines ever, nearly a polar opposite of the U.S. economy.
[read the article]
Student
fire fighters fight fires fiercely
ANN SULLIVAN, STAFF WRITER
The Orient spoke with student voluneers to get the
down-low on the hot spots.[read
the article]
New Contraceptives
JEFF BENSON, M.D.
Dear Dr. Jeff: What have you heard about the new birth
control rings and patches? A.A. [read
the article]
A dark road to a terrible war
KID WONGSRICHANALAI, STAFF WRITER
With the gathering storm clouds of another world war far
in the distance the members of the Class of 1941 returned to Bowdoin College
after a refreshing summer, ready to begin their second year in the fall
of 1938. The campus they returned to was quite a different one from the
one they had left. Among the additions to Bowdoin's campus were the new
statue of a polar bear in front of Sargent Gymnasium and the new sound
system in Moulton Union. [read
the article]

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