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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 …
I spend a lot of time considering where to study. Sometimes more than I spend actually studying. The first few weeks I was here I wandered campus at night, delighting in the discovery of all the unique rooms at Bowdoin. …
This week last year, our Editorial Board felt it pressing, in the week following Bowdoin’s announcement of a record number of applications received, to urge the College to end its practice of preferencing legacy status in the admissions process. Following …
Portland, Maine, is currently in the midst of a homelessness crisis. Housing has been becoming increasingly unaffordable—a problem no doubt worsened by the recent influx of remote workers from out of state—and incoming asylum seekers have been straining city resources…
Prolonged existence within cold environments feeds the ego. Or, at least, this has been my experience since hitting the hot and dusty, eastbound out of Los Angeles and settling in Maine last fall. And before I’m met with any gripes …
Despite his contributions to addressing the struggles of being Black in America, Bowdoin College’s first Black student, John Brown Russwurm (Class of 1826), has been erased, hidden and overlooked by the College. During his lifetime (1799-1851), Russwurm taught Black history …
If you close your eyes and picture someone surfing, you may visualize the tropical, turquoise waters of Hawaii or the sun-scorched, mile-long beaches of the West Coast. Maybe you even know a thing or two about surfing and think about …
