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Since 1871, The Bowdoin Orient has been a staple at the College, covering and chronicling events on and around campus. From April 1899 onward, our coverage has been weekly. Looking back at Orient issues from the month of February, we …
April 30, 2025 was the day that Lisa Tran McKee closed on Brunswick’s home decor store Nest. It was also the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon—the same week her family escaped from Vietnam and eventually settled in Orange …
Identical twins Chase and Tyler Lenk ’26 always knew that they wanted to go to college together. Ever since applying Early Decision to Bowdoin and getting accepted at the same time, they have seen their passions overlap while still …
We sat on the floor sandwiched between the TV and a dilapidated pile of furniture in a Coleman basement dorm on Sunday evening, my phone lying flat between Tess Artzer ’29 and I with my liked Bad Bunny songs open …
I only met you twice in my life. Once, at the age of four, during a wedding in the village. I don’t remember much about that trip. It was my first time outside the United States and the tri-state area. …
On February 9 at 8 p.m., I took a gamble and asked the slightly reserved man in the Coles Tower elevator if he was going to Quiz Bowl. The answer was yes.
Perhaps I could identify him using Neiman Mocombe’s …
Similar to other institutions, many professors at Bowdoin share not only their academic disciplines but also their lives. Several couples exist within Bowdoin’s faculty and staff, with some in fields as different as biology and economics while others reside in …
Singlehandedly designing a house from scratch is not the first thing most people would take on to start their retirement. But Bunny Andrews is not most people. As we sit down among the crowd leisurely finishing their lunches at Wild …
Upperclassmen residence Howard Hall, built in 1996, immortalizes the “Christian General,” a Bowdoin alum both ridiculed and revered who helped to alter the course of American education
Oliver Otis Howard was born to Rowland Howard and Elizabeth Otis …
Professors are such fundamental presences in students’ academic lives, so the thought that they have a life outside of their teaching can come as a shock. But professors, like students, are not singular in their interests.
Many professors have passions …
