Every fall and spring, Bowdoin students trade their OneCards for plane tickets as they study away from campus en masse. However, a small but significant cohort of these students—around four percent—choose to study away from Bowdoin a little closer to …
Students often have trouble imagining their teachers outside of the classroom: Do they sleep in the stacks or in their offices? Do they write research papers and lab reports in their spare time? Not always. But for many Bowdoin professors, …
Last Saturday, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Bowdoin, Tennessee state Representative Justin J. Pearson ’17 took the stage in a sold-out Kresge auditorium to speak to King’s legacy, U.S. politics …
Bowdoin’s 60 auditors this semester range from Brunswick High School students to octogenarians. They include alumni returning to the Quad and first-time visitors to campus. Across departments, professors are given individual choice over whether to allow auditors into their courses, …
From his first years on Bowdoin’s campus debating with peers and professors, to his last debating with friends and students, Professor George Isaacson ’70 moved and inspired people around him one socratic seminar at a time. Isaacson died on August …
On Thursday, June 29, President Clayton Rose sent an email statement to the College in response to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to effectively ban race-based affirmative action in college admissions.
Rose, who echoed the Court’s dissenting opinions, wrote the …
In an email to the College sent on Wednesday, April 26, the College’s Covid-19 Planning Group announced that Bowdoin will scale back on-campus Covid protocols following the federal government’s announcement that the country’s three-year long public health emergency will cease …
Bright lights, a disco ball, a swing and a two-foot layer of fog accompanied Assistant Professor of Dance Aretha Aoki as she took to the stage last Saturday in her multidisciplinary dance performance: IzumonookunI. On either side of Aoki were …
Editor’s Note April 2, 2023 at 4:48 p.m.: An earlier version of this article misspelled the Maine town Madawaska. The correct spelling is Madawaska, not Maddawaska.
Last week’s Maine State Spelling Bee, hosted in Studzinski Recital Hall, started off like …