What’s in a Name? The McKeen Center – The Bowdoin Orient
WEB7 hours ago — The McKeen Center, founded in 2008, may seem like a fairly recent addition to campus in comparison to the over 200-year history of the College. However, the name McKeen has been of the utmost importance to Bowdoin through the centuries. Joseph McKeen, born in 1757 in Londonderry, N.H., graduated from Dartmouth College in 1774 and from Harvard ...
Shut up and dance – The Bowdoin Orient
WEB6 hours ago — By Benny Adler and Michael Gordon. Orient Staff. September 27, 2024. This piece represents the opinion of the author s. 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 …
The case for more political discourse on campus
WEB6 hours ago — The recent activity of Bowdoin Votes as well as specific political party student groups is no doubt commendable and bodes well for the political engagement we have created on campus. Nonetheless, the absence of interpersonal political conversations lingers. The Office of Inclusion and Diversity has begun holding weekly talks covering the ...
Rooted in Brunswick – The Bowdoin Orient
WEB7 hours ago — September 27, 2024. Henry Abbott. I’ll admit it: I was overwhelmed during my first semester at Bowdoin College. Three thousand miles away from my home in California, I was ready to sink my teeth into Maine and did everything I could to find something to grab hold of. I poured my efforts into my courses, particularly my first-year writing ...
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WEBThe power of portage: Professor Willi Lempert finds community in mapping local Native pathways. Willi Lempert, an assistant professor of anthropology at Bowdoin, is using Google Earth to reimagine the history of Brunswick’s land and people. Over the past four years, Lempert, alongside a host of community members, Maine Indigenous ...
Poetic Vistas – The Bowdoin Orient
WEB4 hours ago — In the final act of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” as Emily Webb resigns herself to her grave, she implores the Stage Manager: “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?”. Initially, he responds with a …. Read more. [email protected] • 6200 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011.
News – The Bowdoin Orient
WEBSep 13, 2024 — Carrigan Fain joins BOC as new assistant director. By Caitlin Panicker • 6 days ago. On Tuesday, Carrigan Fain officially joined the Bowdoin Outing Club (BOC) staff as its new assistant director following the departure of Eric Guiang ’18. Guiang’s two-year tenure at the Outing Club ended earlier this month. “I am taking on many ….
Features – The Bowdoin Orient
WEBClass of 2028 undergoes new class registration system, orientation schedule. By Sam Borne • 17 days ago. Bowdoin’s Class of 2028 began their first year much like the first years before them—the frenzy of settling into their bricks and the excitement of a new year, full of endless possibilities. However, the College’s changes to first ...
Arts & Entertainment – The Bowdoin Orient
WEBMay 3, 2024 — Portrait of an Artist: Julia Katherine Fiori ’24. By Dakota Wilson • May 3, 2024. Now on display at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA): new exhibition “Empires of Liberty: Athena, America, and the Feminine Allegory of the State,” curated by Julia Katherine Fiori ’24. Drawing upon scholarship within the fields of archaeology and ….
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 ...