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As Family Weekend commences, students across campus will have the opportunity to show their loved ones their dorm room, their favorite study spots and the College’s museums. With all this excitement, it is important to be conscious of varying family …
In what was no doubt the highlight of last week’s edition of the Bowdoin Orient, the first entry into the column “Poetic Vistas” argued for the reemergence of democratic poetry. There is, of course, validity to this argument. However, there …
Absentee voting is a confusing, frustrating and painstaking process.
Too many Americans who are living abroad assume that absentee voting has to be this way. I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t.
Americans have become accustomed to voting being …
Why do you love me? I don’t know. What about me do you love?
Nothing really. The “x” quality that drives my attraction isn’t particularly yours. It’s actually more in you than you. And it is only through the “x” …
It’s an odd thing for a writer to come down against the idea of complexity.
Writing lives, as Adam Shatz observed, “in the verbs, not the nouns … in the distance, sometimes the chasm, between words and deeds.” Complicating a …
As course registration season approaches, we mourn our last semester with Polaris as our primary source for creating our class schedule. As we think about the Workday transition for fall 2025 registration, we can’t help but feel overwhelmed and …
Returning to the College from abroad and seeing the excitement from the incoming first years has us—to put it in Adler-ic terms—stoked to party. But all we’ve known at the College is a social scene that people complain about.
We’re …
The 2024 General Election is only 38 days away. As you walk around campus, the approaching election may appear obvious, with Bowdoin Votes regularly tabling and partisan student organizations hosting community events. Though these signs suggest a politically active community, …
CHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCH. Or, the static of the TV. The black and white—but carefully not gray—colorless display that follows the end of a TV program. Such a display also happens to be the home of the girl from “The Ring” and a …
“We want shiny eyes and scrunchy faces!” Back in elementary school, that was our teachers’ cheery way of telling us it was good to endure a little confusion and difficulty working through a problem. This past summer, I was a …
