Talk of the Quad
A year of grief at Bowdoin
There are three fish that live in a tank in the waiting room of the Counseling Center on College Street and every week I get to spend a few minutes just staring at them. One is fat and large, it …
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Students partner with alternative learning school
Throughout the semester, Bowdoin students in Education 1101, Contemporary American Education, have been exploring topics that arise in educational systems throughout the United States. Issues ranged from discrimination and privatization to charter schools and special education. While it is possible …
Between the lines with Marieke Van Der Steenhoven
Bowdoin’s foundation is its history. For centuries the institution was mostly wealthy, mostly white and all male. These students fought on both sides of the Civil War, influenced federal policy, founded colleges—and invested innumerable resources back into their alma mater. …
Love Lust and Like-Liking
On soulmates: looking for longevity in love
Soulmates. Do we believe in them? Is there truly one perfect person out there that you’re just meant to be with? What forces of fate could pull you to “the one”? And will you ever find them?
As we sit …
Heading north with the Arctic Studies program
Each year, there are on average only eight students who focus their studies on the Arctic. Spearheaded by Susan Kaplan, professor of anthropology and director of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, the Arctic Studies program is an …
Talk of the Quad
A good guy with a gun
If a good guy with a gun exists, it would be inside a church in Texas. I have not lived a life punctuated by the immediate and personal threat of gun violence, nor of violence in general. My family lives …
Talk of the Quad
Leaving an (awkward) mark
Relationships between the administration and student body are an integral part of a high functioning college or university. Humanizing our institutional superiors provides us a sense of companionship and support rather than discomfort and condescension as we persist in our …
Professor Wheelwright’s “the Naturalist’s Notebook” takes flight
Nathaniel Wheelwright, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Natural Sciences, has practiced naturalism all his life. For Wheelwright, naturalism is more than a field of study: it is a way of experiencing and perceiving the rhythms and …
Locked up and unloaded: Bowdoin will store your guns
Earlier this year, a fully loaded 15 round gun magazine was found under a chair on the third floor of David Saul Smith Union. The 9mm clip belonged to a student who is a highly trained EMT and licensed gun …
Love Lust and Like-Liking
A conversation on hookup culture
From a young age, we are trained to believe that traits have inherent feminine or masculine qualities. Women are emotional. Men are logical. Women are nurturers. Men are providers. Women are pursued. Men are pursuers. These rigid roles largely stem …