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When I went home after my first year, someone I had known for years asked me a deceptively simple question: “Who are you?” I answered the way most people would: generically listing what I love, what I do, what I …
Are we overscheduled? Short answer: Yes. Capital Y. Somewhere between another planned meal and sprinting to my third class of the day, I started thinking about when rest started to feel like something we had to earn. When scheduling became …
If I said a child fled with his family to a foreign land to escape hostility and persecution, the story would be as old as time. I could be referring to baby Jesus, who fled with his parents to Egypt, …
All of the following information is taken from a training given to the peer educators by Dr. Jason Kilmer of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington.
As Ivies approaches, many students are counting down …
The Trump administration is waging a war against universities, civil liberties and democratic norms.
Bowdoin is in the crosshairs, and yet the College has not resisted, hoping that we can escape unnoticed. This strategy has committed Bowdoin to staying silent, …
“And why should we go hunting for a substitute for youthful desires, when youthful desires never fail? A substitute for distractions, when we go on enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last? What need have we of repose …
When I speak, I speak with a distinct lack of twang. I pronounce my r’s with full rhoticity, my vowels are never lengthened, my cadence is not melodic. When I speak, I speak with a plain American rhythm, the likes …
“It’s hard being a Bowdoin student.”
Sometimes you hear something so absolutely wrong that in the shadow of its falsehood an image of the truth becomes apparent. Sitting in the back of some inane mandatory training session (perhaps during Sophomore …
As a Jewish student, I often feel alienated from my faith. Ashamed, even. Searching for answers, I have found it helpful to put myself in the shoes of Jews around the world. Some of them are in the holy land, …
I only read of Coleman Hughes’s recent campus talk, which made some curious claims, in the Orient. I read that focusing on race is a divisive departure from the nonviolent and race-blind formula that worked for the Civil Rights Movement. …
