At the onset, political association on a college campus appears to be an effective means of expressing one’s voice amidst a group of like-minded individuals. However, I will attempt to disprove this sentiment, as I think associating oneself with a …
Just months before becoming a Supreme Court justice, Lewis Powell sent a scathing confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country’s major big-business lobby. It was August 23, 1971, and according to Powell, corporate America faced an existential …
It’s like birding without the eye-roll reputation, like plant-ID without geographical constraints, like collecting rocks without the guilt of extraction: cloudspotting, a hobby oblivious to privilege and location.
My cloud obsession started in an unlikely way: sitting on the toilet …
Sills Hall has been a campus staple since the building opened in 1952; in the decades after, it served as a longstanding home to the humanities. It held Smith Auditorium, which served as a cornerstone of the Cinema Studies department, …
During the first Trump administration, I followed the advice of seasoned organizers to select a specific issue to dedicate time, learning and action to. Having selected queer issues at large, I recognized very quickly that by far the largest threat …
You squash a honey bee as you sip your morning coffee and look out on the Maine coast. It’s your routine. What you likely fail to consider is that both the species of bee you’ve killed and the coffee on …
The weight of feeling doesn’t ask if you’re ready. It rises anyway—a lump in your throat, a sadness you can’t outrun. I am scared of how deeply I feel. It would be easier, I think, to harden myself against it, …
Student government is a kind of a fifth class. Having finished my work with Bowdoin Student Government (BSG), I thought I should write a sort of course review: what worked, what didn’t and how we can improve the institution in …
In the past three years, Bowdoin averaged 3.3 million pounds of trash, recycling and food waste per year—a significant increase from the three years before the pandemic, where the school averaged only 2.35 million pounds. These extra million pounds of …