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WEBOn the nature of art: BOG workshops bring students to barn. By Juan Chang • 9 days ago. On Tuesday, the Bowdoin Organic Garden (BOG) hosted two simultaneous workshops centered around organic dyes at the BOG barn at 12 Harpswell Rd. Attendees had the opportunity to learn about flower pounding, a printmaking technique, or tie-dye their own ...
Lives unlived – The Bowdoin Orient
WEB1 day ago · This piece represents the opinion of the author . Henry Abbott. 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 are also limitations.
News – The Bowdoin Orient
WEBCollege unveils presidential portrait of Clayton Rose. By Sam Borne • 16 days ago. Yesterday afternoon, students, faculty, alumni, trustees and community members gathered in the newly renovated study room of Hubbard Hall to unveil the portrait of Bowdoin’s 15th president, Clayton Rose. President Safa Zaki remarked on her and the community ...
Editorial – The Bowdoin Orient
WEBMar 1, 2024 · Editorial The case for more political discourse on campus. By Editorial Board • 13 days ago. 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.
What’s in a Name – The Bowdoin Orient
WEB1 day ago · What’s in a Name: Appleton Hall. By Maile Winterbottom • Just now. “All [undergraduates] shall attend morning and evening prayer in the chapel,” Bowdoin College President Jesse Appleton wrote in his 1814 pamphlet, “Laws of Bowdoin College.”. Appleton went on to declare, “If any undergraduate …
News in Brief – The Bowdoin Orient
WEBApr 15, 2022 · News in Brief Bowdoin administration and faculty respond to landmark Supreme Court decision. By Sam Pausman and Juliana Vandermark • June 30, 2023. On Thursday, June 29, President Clayton Rose sent an email statement to the College in response to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to effectively ban race-based affirmative action in college admissions.
Patrick Sullivan – The Bowdoin Orient
WEB1 day ago · Lives unlived. By Patrick Sullivan • Just now. 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 …
Climate action: what Bowdoin is doing right
WEBApr 19, 2024 · Given the rather dismal responses from my polling, I will share a brief overview of Bowdoin’s climate benchmarks and action plan. Bowdoin became carbon neutral in April 2018 and as of 2024 remains one of only 12 U.S. colleges and universities to have hit this benchmark. To achieve this milestone, the College reduced carbon emissions by ...
Reimagining Bowdoin – The Bowdoin Orient
WEBFeb 16, 2024 · Reimagining Bowdoin When we forget about greatness. By Aidan Sheeran-Hahnel • April 25, 2024. As the author of “Imagining Bowdoin” wrote in 2009, “If there is a yearning I see in the students, faculty and staff here, it is a yearning to believe that we dwell, and that Bowdoin students will forever dwell, in … Read more
Our Bowdoin (Orient) – The Bowdoin Orient
WEBMay 3, 2024 · The Bowdoin that we knew was one of administrative crackdowns, arrays of muted faces wearing blue-light glasses trapped in rows of boxes on our dusty laptop screens and pairs of eyes peering over masks from six feet away to observe us sticking Q-tips inches up our nostrils. After a disjointed freshman year, we searched for what the “true ...