The Bowdoin Orient

A Bowdoin education is a kick in the wallet. The Orient examines why tuition costs are so high and why they will continue to rise.

Former Governor of Maine and Bowdoin College Distinguished Lecturer Angus King says there is a plague of partisan politics in America, and he says he has a solution for it: Unity '08. In his Monday lecture titled "Polarization, Partisanship, and the Politics of Division?Isn't it Time for a Third Way?" King described the Unity '08 organization and its goals.

Summer fellowships allow students who rarely venture off campus during the academic year a chance to understand the community beyond Bowdoin.

In many situations, the journey is much more important than the goal. Such is the case for this year's fellowship applicants, who were honored by the Career Planning Center (CPC) on Wednesday.

Although the decision to attend any college is a difficult one, the Bowdoin Experience Weekend seeks to facilitate that decision for many multicultural students.

When the Bowdoin Women in Business Club (BWIB) put together its upcoming convention, it certainly meant business. The convention will take place on Saturday, March 31 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in Main Lounge, Moulton Union, with informational interviews and résumé critiques from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Career Planning Center.

Although college houses attracted only approximately 175 applicants for 200 slots this year, the Office of Residential Life and the Inter-House Council (IHC) are optimistic that next year's college houses will be enthusiastic and active in the Bowdoin community.

Bowdoin's Watson Fellowship and Fulbright Fellowship nominees this year are a diverse group of students, but they all share an important trait: passion.

The lack of transparency in Judicial Board elections has prompted the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) to try to change the committee's policies. Members of BSG voiced concerns that neither BSG nor the campus community as a whole has enough say in the elections, especially when the board makes decisions that impact students' lives.

BSG unanimously voted to adopt the Community Response Committee (CRC) proposal put forth at its meeting Wednesday.

Student life topped the Bowdoin Student Government agenda this week, as the body tackled academic advising, alcohol, and the judicial board in a three-hour meeting.

The resignation of a BSG member is unprecedented, and there is no provision for this particular situation in the BSG constitution. The replacement of Class of 2008 Representative Erma Drigo dominated this week's Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) meeting, which also included conversations about the school's new sexual harassment policy and the proposed Community Response Committee.

Do you know what NAFTA stands for? Though many students may not, a teach-in with Associate Professor of Sociology Joe Bandy on Monday revealed its relevant and lasting effects on the United States and Mexican economies.

Tommie Lindsey Jr. doesn't let his students off the hook as soon as the bell rings. "No matter what you do," Lindsey said at the Brodie Family Lecture on Thursday, "class is never dismissed."

Nick Manny traveled to Switzerland and Austria to work on several organic farms. He participated in this venture through an organization called Willing Workers On Organic Farms (WWOOF). Over the course of the summer, he worked at five farms in Switzerland and one in Austria.