Caitlin Panicker
Orient Staff — Class of 2026
Number of articles: 68
First Article: September 20, 2024
Latest Article: December 5, 2025
1 photo by Caitlin Panicker
M Basketball
2025-2026 winter sports preview
MEN’S HOCKEY
2024–2025 RECORD: 9–13–3 (7–8–3 NESCAC)
Coming off of a stronger season than the record might suggest, the men’s hockey team is looking to get back to their winning ways. Earning the fourth seed in the NESCAC tournament, the …
Safety and Security
Kirk vigil postponed in response to security threats
On Sunday afternoon, students received a campus-wide email from Jackson Holl ’27 inviting them to a candlelight vigil at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art steps in honor of Charlie Kirk, a right-wing activist who was fatally shot on September …
Talk of the Quad
Soft ground
Early in the fall it is not rainy, but I decide to wear rain pants to lab anyway. We study mosses flagged by yellow tape for a few hours. The medium is found ballpoint pen on waterproof paper: my favorite …
Baseball
2025 spring sports preview
SOFTBALL
2024 RECORD: 24–16 (7–9 NESCAC)
Last year, the softball team defeated Middlebury College in the first round of the NESCAC tournament before falling to Williams College in the semifinals. Several players received NESCAC accolades last year, including Anika Ewert …
Lecture
Reed Johnson talks alternative WWII histories through the city of St. Petersburg
On Thursday night, Senior Lecturer in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Reed Johnson spoke on the importance of the alternative history genre, discussing two novels that examine what the city of St. Petersburg might have looked like if Nazi …
M Basketball
2024–2025 winter sports preview
MEN’S BASKETBALL
2023–2024 record: 9–15 (3–7 NESCAC)
At the end of last year’s season, the men’s basketball team bounced back from a losing streak to win three of its last four NESCAC games. Adding five first-year players and led by …
Faculty
Faculty convenes to discuss first-year course registration, Workday transition
Last Friday, faculty met in the Mills Hall event space to discuss last week’s Board of Trustees meeting, review changes to next year’s first-year course registration and advising system and provide other committee updates.
President Safa Zaki addressed the …
Faculty
Faculty evaluates changes to College governance
Last Friday, the faculty convened for a forum on changes to committees for faculty governance. The meeting was led by the Committee on Governance and Faculty Affairs (GFA). Faculty members reviewed past changes to faculty committees from 1999–2000, 2008–2009 and …
Jonathan Skinner on ecopoetry, cultural tradition and the Bachman’s warbler
On Monday, the English department hosted poet, editor and founder of the journal “ecopoetics” Jonathan Skinner for a talk and poetry reading. Skinner’s talk centered around his work on the Bachman’s warbler, a migratory bird that went extinct just before …