Almost three decades ago, the College banned fraternities from campus, transforming social life at Bowdoin and creating the College House System. One major reason for the ban, as cited by the commission that recommended fraternity abolition, was a toxic drinking …
Students and faculty piled into Roux Lantern’s long benches on Monday evening to learn about a widely unknown element of the climate crisis: energy poverty. In a talk co-sponsored by the economics department and the environmental studies program, Bowdoin alumna …
Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) briefly met in the Mills Hall event space on Wednesday night to share committee updates and discuss Student Activities Funding Committee (SAFC) amendments regarding club funding, fundraising and donations.
The meeting began with committees sharing updates. …
The temporary closure of the Susan Dwight Bliss Room in Hubbard Hall, which began in 2020, is due to a lack of climate control in the building. While the College is currently embarking on a planning and design process for …
On Tuesday evening, students, professors and community members gathered in Kresge Auditorium to hear the 2024 Alfred E. Golz Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Scott Ellsworth of the University of Michigan, titled “Hidden Histories: The Tulsa Race Massacre and the …
This past Wednesday, Professor Kristina Richardson, a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar and faculty member at the University of Virginia, delivered a talk examining the Indian-Ocean slave trade that began in the seventh century.
Over the past two years, Nomad Pizza has turned into a hotspot for students to gather with friends, eat and enjoy live music by student bands. Last week, the owner, Tom Grim, announced that he will retire at the age …
From undersea internet cable to international AI policy to Russian cyberattacks, U.S. Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy Nathaniel C. Fick handles it all. At the annual Everett P. Pope lecture on Tuesday in Kresge Auditorium, Fick shared …