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I played this game in kindergarten where I would chase the boys around. Not tag—if I caught them, they’d just take off again. I don’t remember exactly why or how this game began.
I distinctly remember chasing this one kid …
More often than not, I catch myself scrolling past moments of boredom—literally. When left with a few moments of spare time, like waiting in line for coffee, time seems to move faster if I’m scrolling on my phone. My phone …
Last night, the College’s head of communications denied Portland Press Herald photographer Brianna Soukup entry to Pickard Theater to report on “October 7 The Play” because of worries surrounding privacy. The Orient’s photographer also had difficulty entering the theater. This …
American poet and literary icon Audre Lorde once said, “We are all in the process of becoming.”
I’ve always admired this quote’s spirit of growth, especially as a student of America’s highly structured education system—it’s uplifting to think that learning …
To the Editors:
On the night of September 14, Bill Harwood, Bowdoin’s associate vice president of safety and security, sent an email to the entire campus community indicating that a credible threat of violence meant that an outdoor vigil planned …
We, as students of Bowdoin College, do not have the ability to free Israeli hostages held by Hamas. Such a feat is only achievable through negotiation and diplomacy—efforts the Israeli government has actively sabotaged by shooting its own hostages in …
Presidential Candidates
Brendan McLoughlin ’29
My fellow Bears, my name is Brendan A. McLoughlin, and I’m running for class president. For nearly the past decade I have served in various capacities in my communities—all in the hopes of giving a …
At the onset, political association on a college campus appears to be an effective means of expressing one’s voice amidst a group of like-minded individuals. However, I will attempt to disprove this sentiment, as I think associating oneself with a …
Just months before becoming a Supreme Court justice, Lewis Powell sent a scathing confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country’s major big-business lobby. It was August 23, 1971, and according to Powell, corporate America faced an existential …
It’s like birding without the eye-roll reputation, like plant-ID without geographical constraints, like collecting rocks without the guilt of extraction: cloudspotting, a hobby oblivious to privilege and location.
My cloud obsession started in an unlikely way: sitting on the toilet …
