Dance
December Dance Concert takes center stage
It is that time of year once more: the weekend where the December Dance Concert takes Pickard Theater by storm. Six fall semester classes—Making Dances in the Digital Age, Introduction to Hip Hop, Introduction to Modern Dance, Modern II: Repertory …
Enterprise
Bottoms up: Exploring the past 30 years of alcohol culture at Bowdoin
Almost three decades ago, the College banned fraternities from campus, transforming social life at Bowdoin and creating the College House System. One major reason for the ban, as cited by the commission that recommended fraternity abolition, was a toxic drinking …
Enterprise
As student enrollment trends and liberal arts values collide, faculty disagree over how to respond
The College is embarking on a new donor-funded hiring initiative to add nine new faculty positions to academic departments with high student demand over the next two years.
Two positions will go to the Department of Computer Science and one …
Poll
Recently in ‘Talk of the Quad’
What food means to me
When I first got to college, my go-to icebreaker question was, “Do you live to eat or eat to live?” Coming from Singapore, where food is an integral part of the culture and all of my friends “lived to eat,” …
Lessons from a year of anonymity
In August 2023, I boarded a flight to Paris, France and set off to spend my junior year abroad. As I jetted into the cloudy sky and nervously anticipated the year to come, I thought about what I hoped to …