College Houses
ResLife announces Reed House renovation, looks toward future College House updates
Last Friday, the Office of Residential Life (ResLife) announced that Reed House will undergo renovation during the 2026–27 academic year. The announcement came amid the College House application process for current first-year students and several other infrastructural challenges in the …
Campus Culture
Reflecting on the Bowdoin Students for Justice in Palestine encampment, one year later
On the evening of February 6, 2025, organizers of Bowdoin Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) held a rally at the Polar Bear statue, passing around a megaphone and delivering speeches criticizing the Trump administration and the College for their …
Mental Health
“Every Brilliant Thing” production portrays a life worth living in one-person performances
Don’t expect a passive viewing experience—audience participation is crucial to this weekend’s production of “Every Brilliant Thing,” which follows an unnamed narrator through their upbringing by a mother with severe depression and suicidal ideations.
“The list began after her first …
Poll
Recently in ‘Talk of the Quad’
The people make the place
This past weekend, I fled Bowdoin’s blizzard conditions for the warm embrace of my sister and the city of Los Angeles. What began as a desperate attempt to outrun the isolation of Brunswick quickly became an escape from the winter …
In transit
I feel oddly still. Permanently going somewhere. Always alienated from somewhere else. I sit here on a large red cushion, whose tone casts itself boldly onto this scene. I have to get a rabies vaccine in 12 minutes. I don’t …

