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This past Saturday night, I seemingly committed an atrocity. I stood up at the Bowdoin-Colby men’s hockey game. You would have thought I did something truly terrible. No, I was just very excited to root for my Polar Bears in …
It’s been a while since I last wrote for the Orient. You may remember my last contribution to this column, which had a brief stint of YikYak fame, titled “Why I can’t go home.” In it, I lamented the struggles …
I hate going home. Most of the time, it feels like walking through a time capsule, which emphasizes the vast disconnect, a tension, between myself and the home I left behind. It’s bittersweet.
It’s odd how just a few days …
In “The Wretched of the Earth,” Algerian decolonial theorist Frantz Fanon wrote: “Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it,” Although he wrote this in 1961, this quote could not ring …
Last week, Senior Vice President and Dean for Student Affairs Jim Hoppe shared updates to the College’s policies on property use, freedom of expression and protests on campus following committee recommendations.
The College claims that it “firmly believes that the …
As many readers are already aware, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun a terror campaign here in Maine, kidnapping community members and separating families. Fear and despair are natural responses to the local and national news, but action …
Most of the 40-plus activist Bowdoin professors in Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP), and dozens more like-minded activist faculty, dutifully parrot the accusation of “settler colonialism” against Israel. What makes the theory of settler colonialism so potent …
I haven’t called myself a “math person” since I was 12 or so, probably about when they were adding letters to math in the rural Texas curriculum. I didn’t want to dislike it; I had found a lot of love …
Too often, colleges and universities in the United States comport themselves as institutions that exist in isolation from current affairs. The notion of the “ivory tower of academia” speaks for itself; these are places that analyze the world from the …
