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Recall the warm feeling that bubbles up in your stomach and blossoms into a shy smile on the offhand occasion that you are awarded a simple “good work.” Praise lights us up inside. Offering praise to someone, usually someone to …
Before spring break, student staff in the Office of Residential Life announced that, with 82 percent of staff support, we are filing to form a union. Following that announcement, Bowdoin chose not to voluntarily recognize our union; instead, it hired …
John Winthrop, lauded by the likes of Cotton Mather as the “Moses” of the American people, introduced what would soon become the American holy commandments in his sermon “A Model of Christian Charity.” He preached that “We must …
This year, the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLaS) program celebrated its 25th anniversary at Bowdoin. This weekend will be packed with programming, including speakers, a concert and the College’s first-ever bilingual theater production.
To us, this celebration serves …
Yesterday President Safa Zaki sent an email to the Bowdoin community with details about the search for the College’s next senior vice president and dean for student affairs. The College has retained the search firm WittKieffer to assist with …
The Next Great American Novel must be, and will be, written by a man.
Women can easily relate to both other women and men. By what processes of cultural hegemony and forced mental dexterity this is a product, I can …
For prospective students interested in attending Bowdoin, our school’s legendary Outing Club (BOC) is often an important draw. These students might visit the BOC’s website to read about its incredible offerings, which include an impressive whitewater program and a multitude …
We’ve all heard it before, and actually, we’ve written about it before—the classic upperclassmen gripes about the lack of excitement, fun and good parties on campus and the groaning and moaning on Friday and Saturday afternoons about whether or not …
Back in the old days, when a man graduated from Bowdoin he was a ‘Bowdoin Man,’ whereas when he graduated from Yale he was a ‘Yale Man,’ and somehow there was supposed to be a tangible difference between the …
In December of 2023, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows ruled that Donald Trump’s actions surrounding the January 6 Capitol incident violated the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment, thereby disqualifying him from the Maine Republican primary ballot. A few …
