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Rachel Baron

Columnist — Class of 2017

Number of articles: 3

First Article: March 31, 2017

Latest Article: April 26, 2017

Zero Chill

Bowdoin’s government department must be revamped and modernized

Bowdoin’s Department of Government and Legal Studies has an incredible reputation. But it is clear to me that its highly ranked status has in fact impeded the department’s motivation to improve. Bowdoin’s government department was the only department that escaped criticism in the 2013 National Association of Scholars (NAS) report—a report in which the major criticisms of Bowdoin were that it is accepting of different gender and sexual identities, that it emphasizes multiculturalism and that it does not focus enough on traditional American and Western political values.

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