Music
Student band Blume attracts crowds at first-year orientation event
On Sunday at 8:30 p.m., Jack Magee’s Pub was cloaked in purple light for a performance by Blume, an old-school R&B, rock and pop band of Bowdoin sophomores.
The event was organized as part of First-Year Orientation Week but attracted …
Admissions
Record-size class pushes Bowdoin to rethink first-year housing
Bowdoin’s Class of 2030 arrived last Monday with 554 students, well above the roughly 515 first years the College typically enrolls. The jump has meant triples in Osher Hall and West Hall, more quints in Coleman Hall and Moore Hall …
BCMA
BCMA to host tour and reception of “Currents” exhibition spotlighting special loan
With the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) relaunching “Currents: Art Since 1900” for the academic year, Curator Cassandra (Casey) Braun and Robert Bernheim—associate professor of history at the University of Maine at Augusta—will lead a tour and reception spotlighting …
Poll
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What I owe my younger self
Most journeys in civic life don’t begin at five years old, but on January 19, 2010, I brought my kindergarten class’s teddy bear to the polls.
I didn’t really understand what the election was about (or that you’re not supposed …
It was all “For Good”
For better or for worse, I am a deeply nostalgic person. But I didn’t realize this until quite recently, perhaps because I usually don’t enter bouts of nostalgia until everyone else falls asleep and I lie awake trying to do …
