On Friday, during their final meeting of the semester, faculty voted in favor of instituting a week-long Thanksgiving break. Friday’s vote marks the culmination of a months-long debate among faculty members and students alike over the future of the break.…
This fall’s Bowdoin Orient Student Survey (BOSS) yielded 374 responses, representing nearly 20 percent of the student body. Sixty percent of the respondents were underclassmen with roughly an equal number of first years and sophomores responding. The other 40 percent …
Over 70 Brunswick residents and Bowdoin students gathered on the Brunswick Town Mall last Sunday, November 19, where they advocated for tighter gun control laws in Maine in the wake of last month’s mass shootings in Lewiston.
Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) met on Wednesday for their penultimate meeting of the fall semester. Members discussed two proposals: a committee for break programming and a fund for affinity group kickoff events.
This January, students will begin to enjoy a central new study space—in one of the oldest buildings on Bowdoin’s campus. Hubbard Hall is set to house a freshly renovated reading room in the former Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum (PMAM), which moved …
On Wednesday night, the Bowdoin Labor Alliance (BLA) hosted Scott Adams, the president of the Maine American Postal Workers Union, who discussed his role in the organization and the importance of unionization. BLA brought Adams to campus in hopes of …
Students overwhelmingly support an extended Thanksgiving Break, according to a report released to students by Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) last night. The report compiled data from a survey sent out by BSG on November 12.
Bowdoin Hillel and the Department of Government and Legal Studies collaborated to bring lecturer in Jewish Studies and director of Jewish Student Life at Colby College Lauren Cohen Fisher to Kresge Auditorium on Tuesday evening. Fisher illuminated historical events occurring …
On Thursday, Professor of Digital and Computational Studies Eric Chown and Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies Fernando Nascimento discussed their new book, “Meaningful Technologies: How Digital Metaphors Change the Way We Think and Live.” They were joined by …
On a Wednesday night panel hosted by the Black Student Union (BSU), Claudia Marroquin, the senior vice president and dean of admissions and student aid, discussed some of the ways that the admissions office is trying to build a diverse …