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Casinos wrong for Maine
BEN KREIDER, CONTRIBUTOR
I can still vividly remember driving up the Maine
Turnpike as a freshman. After crossing the bridge from New Hampshire,
a simple sign proclaims: "Welcome to Maine: The Way Life Should
Be." [read the article]
No rapid solutions
PAT ROCKEFELLER, COLUMNIST
This summer, in response to a number of surveys showing
support for the U.S. in the Middle East disappearing faster than
a six-pack at a campus wide, Congress commissioned Edward Djerejian,
a former ambassador to Syria to put together an Advisory Group to
provide some rapid solutions. [read
the article]
The Dean vs.
Kerry dilemma
BRYANT ANTHONY RICH, COLUMNIST
As the Democratic primary nears, two candidates have
emerged as the leading fundraisers after the most recent fundraising
reporting deadline. [read
the article]
Bowdoin college,
where every child is above average
JIM MCDONALD, COLUMNIST
Late Friday night in the library, one can get to
thinking: "Why am I staring at this economics instead of pissing
my life away like that belligerent drunk outside my window?" I flash
forward two years when the drunk and I are both graduating on a
majestic May day. Barry Mills proudly exclaiming, "Graduating at
the top of his class, a Theater and Women's Studies major, Mr. Belligerent
Drunk." [read the article]
As work piles up, so does IcyHot
IAN MORRISON, HUMOR COLUMNIST
It's just about mid-semester, and I'd like to make
some things clear: the reading - I haven't done it. That problem
set that was due by five - it'll be done by six, tomorrow. [read
the article]
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Book prices fail test
A recent front-page New York Times article scratched
the surface of an issue very relevant to students: the sky-high
price of textbooks. [read
the editorial]
OUT week: Be more inclusive
According to a statement by BGSA leaders, Haliday
Douglas '05 and Caitlin Connolly '05, in the October 8th Student
Digest, OUT week was intended to be "a time of awareness and
reflection on issues of sexual orientation/identity." [read
the letter]
Pro-choice majority doesn't choose battles
We are writing in regards to James Baumberger's October
10 article, "Pro-choice strategy wrong on partial-birth abortion."
[read the letter]
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