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This semester, Sara Binkhorst, Bowdoin’s director of student leadership development, will run an eight-week program titled iLead. Each week, a cohort of students will meet and work through a curriculum designed to develop leadership skills through interactive and experiential learning.…
One morning, someone walks into your room and tells you that you have a slice of toast waiting for you for breakfast. After getting ready for the day, you walk into the kitchen, and to your surprise, you find a …
Whether looking for books, ghosts or gargoyles, Hubbard Hall has everything. In its almost 122 years on campus, it has seen multiple transformations, from library to offices.
Hubbard Hall is named after General Thomas Hamlin Hubbard, Class of 1857, who …
Three Bowdoin students participating in a hackathon earlier this month developed an educational tool to improve writing skills using artificial intelligence (AI), raising important questions about the role of AI in relation to academics.
Hackathons, events where teams collaborate over …
We’ve all thought at some point in our lives, “Well, that was awkward.” That’s a thought that’s crossed my mind quite often in the year and a half I’ve been at Bowdoin. But instead of giving in to the temptation …
The encampment formed in Smith Union by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) protestors last Thursday, February 6, ended this past Monday, February 10. Campus community members reflect on complex emotions and contrasting perspectives that unfolded over the encampment’s four-day …
I consider myself a political person. Every morning I read the news or listen to a podcast summarizing it. My Instagram feed is littered with posts from The New York Times, The New Yorker and meme accounts spoofing current events. …
Last Thursday, when I heard about the encampment in Smith Union, confusion pulsed through me. I wasn’t sure how I felt, or who I could talk to about the way I was feeling.
Although I did not personally vote in …
One long-standing conception of academia is that of the ivory tower: an elite scholarly enterprise focused solely on the pursuit of truth and knowledge, removed from worldly concerns and troubles. For decades, however, many academics have sought to challenge that …
In May 1986, as Bowdoin prepared for its 180th Commencement, a cardboard and scrap wood structure stood on the Main Quad.
Members of Students for Action Against Apartheid occupied what they called the “shanty” on the quad to push for …
