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Burning Bowdoin Questions

Total Number of Articles: 6

First Article on this Page: September 15, 2023

Latest Article on this Page: December 1, 2023

Burning Bowdoin Questions

Bushy-tailed wingless dragon

Dragons and squirrels are more similar than meets the eye. In this edition of Burning Bowdoin Questions, I investigated how these winged and tailed creatures found a home in Brunswick. My first question came to me in a late-night conversation with a friend who excitedly said, “Do you know the story of the Brunswick High Dragon?” Of course, I did not, but I knew that it was a perfect next Bowdoin Burning Question after she began to explain it to me.

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Chronicles and namesakes

This week, in my third set of inquiries, I tackled two things near and dear to my Bowdoin experience: the libraries and Frank J. Wood. One of my friends came to me practically on fire with the first question: What’s the deal with the economics and government libraries in Hubbard Hall?

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Dark and damp

Have you ever been walking home from a late night in H-L in the rain, staring ahead with squinted eyes to navigate the dark path before you, only to feel your foot splash into a few-inch puddle, dousing the cuffs of your pants and your pride?

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Burning Bowdoin Questions

Burning Bowdoin questions: Why the polar bear?

Bowdoin has become synonymous with a bear native to a region over 1,000 miles north of its campus—the polar bear. So I set out to finally settle the question: Why the polar bear? In the first installment of Burning Bowdoin Questions, I seek to discover when the polar bear was first introduced as the Bowdoin mascot and how the abundance of taxidermy made it all the way to Brunswick.

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