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Rin Pastor
Orient Staff — Class of
2027
Number of articles:
40
First Article:
November 7, 2025
Latest Article:
October 16, 2026
1 photo by Rin Pastor
Rin PastorHONOR THY FATHER: The Longfellows a cappella group pose with a photo of their namesake at Brunswick’s Unitarian Universalist Church, where they performed for the annual Longfellow Days festival. Next year will mark the 200th anniversary of Longfellow’s graduation of the College.
On October 5, University of Virginia Postdoctoral Fellow Daniel Blinderman gave a talk in the Visual Arts Center’s Beam Classroom titled “American Authoritarianism: Lessons and Legacies from the Origins of Jim Crow.” During this lecture, Blinderman compared the current state …
Last Friday, Elias McEaneney ’27 unveiled his Student Voices collection, “Working / Out / Gender,” in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library (H-L). The collection’s focus is on the intersection of labor and gender, an area of study that McEaneney has been interested in …
On your way to or from a meal in Thorne Dining Hall, you might walk by the Bowdoin Maker Space, tucked into the side of Jewett Hall. The Maker Space hosts multiple kinds of 3D printers, a laser engraving machine …
I studied abroad at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea last spring, an endeavor that introduced me to a range of new experiences. I discovered the simultaneous ultimate freedoms (best public transport in the world) and ultimate limitations (everything costs …
Katie Tran ’27 has always been curious about artistic materials. She recalls learning how to make soap from scratch at ten years old in an attempt to understand the process of making it.
As students arrived back on campus, a new sight on Coe Quad greeted them: a pollinator garden brimming with native flowers. This project was completed over the summer, but the decision to create it arose out of a prior campus …
Bowdoin’s literary past holds an abundance of hauntings. Some of these ghosts are simply due to Bowdoin’s location—an old, remote college where the sun sets early and the woods cover most of the state. The College also has a collection …
Yesterday, Tedford Housing, a nonprofit organization in Brunswick dedicated to helping people experiencing homelessness, opened a new facility in Cook’s Corner with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The new facility centralizes and expands the organization’s previous locations, increasing Tedford’s capacity to provide …
Two weeks ago, the Orient reported on institutional perspectives, actions and commentary regarding the increasing precarity of international students’ safety and visa statuses in the wake of President Donald Trump’s reelection. Travel bans, delays in visa interviews, new social …
Last Wednesday in Kresge Auditorium, professor of law at Harvard Law School Lawrence Lessig discussed ongoing litigation at the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit regarding campaign finance regulations. This litigation pertains to a 2024 Maine ballot initiative limiting …