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sign up today—it's free! On This Day2003 — The makers of the film Gods and Generals, featuring the early military career of Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Class of 1852, present an pre-release screening in Sills Hall. StorePurchase Bowdoin merchandise online. | As part of the redevelopment of the decommissioned Brunswick Naval Air Station, the Town of Brunswick will receive more than 1,000 acres designated for conservation and recreational purposes. In anticipation of this transition, Brunswick is developing an Open Space Management Plan for the area. Environmental studies majors Michael Lachance ’13, Christopher “Woody” Mawhinney ’12 and Francis Joyce ’12 had the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of this experience by working with staff from both the town and the National Park Service. The partnership provided a chance for students to be learn more about the redevelopment of the site while bringing valuable resources to the town’s planning process. Continue reading Slideshow: Out Standing in their Field: Environmental Studies Students Get Hands-On Experience Students returning to campus this week should notice that their laptops, iPads, Androids and other wireless gadgets are running more quickly and smoothly—an issue that students made a top priority for the college. Over winter break, Bowdoin’s IT department responded to student wishes by upgrading the college’s wireless system, replacing every access point with the latest technology from Cisco. The new access points, which look like white plastic boxes with small blue, red or green LED lights, connect Bowdoin’s network with wireless devices. They’ve been placed in 95 buildings and at more than 400 locations across campus, a number that will be expanded as the wireless needs of the campus grow and change. The initiative to update the system came after students experienced increasing difficulty with the wireless signal. “Students complained that the network was slowing down in dorms and places of a lot of activity,” Bowdoin CIO Mitch Davis says. “What we wanted to avoid was having any downtime when too many people were working on devices.” Continue reading Slideshow: College Listens to Students, Upgrades Wireless System  Camille Dungy and Matt O'Donnell at the Fishouse, October 2011. Bowdoin Magazine Associate Editor Matt O’Donnell is a renaissance man. In addition to his journalistic duties chronicling the life of the College and its alumni for the magazine, the Bowdoin Daily Sun, and the College’s ever increasing social media effort, and leading Bowdoin Outing Club groups up and down mountains hither and yon, he is at work as editor of From the Fishouse, an online audio literary journal. O’Donnell founded the non-profit From the Fishouse with poet Camille T. Dungy, a professor at San Francisco State University, to promote the oral tradition of poetry. Fishouse takes its name — and spelling — from the writing cabin of the late Maine writer, Lawrence Sargent Hall ’36, who taught English at Bowdoin from 1946 to 1986. The actual Fishouse now sits in the woods behind O’Donnell’s home. Along with its online offerings, Fishouse runs a visiting poet reading series on campus, co-sponsored by the Bowdoin College Alpha Delta Phi Society Literary Fund. O’Donnell and From the Fishouse were profiled this week on the website of 32 Poems Magazine. 
Men’s Squash — The men’s squash team split a series with rivals Bates and Colby in consecutive nights this week. The Polar Bears fell at Bates on Wednesday, 7-2, before bouncing back to edge the Mules, 5-4, in a thrilling match Thursday at the Lubin Family Squash Center. Students, and some staff and faculty, separated from friends last night in Thorne Dining Hall to sit down and eat with people outside their social circles. The event, Dinner with Several Strangers, was part of the student-led program, Beyond the Bowdoin Hello, which is bringing students, staff, faculty and community members together this week to discuss issues around race, class and bias. Beyond the Bowdoin Hello includes films, talks, discussion groups and interactive activities, such as Cross the Line, which took place last night in Moulton Union. Participating students were prompted to walk across the room if they agreed with statements read aloud — ranging from whether they wore watches to more controversial ones — allowing them to see where they and their peers stand on many issues. 
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the New York Times best seller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001), will speak at the first Common Hour of the 2012 spring semester at 12:30 p.m., Friday, January 27, in Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. This special Common Hour, presented in conjunction with the Brunswick-Bowdoin Community Read, is open to the public free of charge. Read more. Forecaster reporter Emily Guerin ’09 writes about the Community Read in the article, “Book Discussion Brings Together Brunswick Residents, Bowdoin College Students.” 
Women’s Basketball — Alexa Barry scored a career-high 21 points to lead the women’s basketball team to a 74-48 win over Maine Maritime Wednesday evening. Men’s Squash — Bates 7, Bowdoin 2 
Professional typographers and just about every style guide out there agree that there should only be one space between sentences, yet the notion there should be two, held over from last century’s manual typewriter days, is a strongly held belief. Slate columnist Farhad Manjoo lays out irrefutable proof why “if you type two spaces after a period, you’re doing it wrong.” A group of mostly Bowdoin students and community members met on campus Tuesday evening with Steve Wessler, the founder of the Portland Center for the Prevention of Hate, to learn how to facilitate group discussions that will take place during the Community Conversation about Prejudice. Wessler practiced law for more than 22 years, and now focuses on his human rights work to reduce bias and prevent hate crimes. The Community Conversation and potluck, planned for Jan. 31 at the Curtis Memorial Library, is part of Beyond the Bowdoin Hello, a weeklong program designed to bring students, staff, faculty and community members together to talk about issues of identity, difference and bias. Also on Tuesday evening as part of Beyond the Bowdoin Hello, comedian and activist Heather Gold performed a one-woman show on campus, “I Look like an Egg but I Identify as a Cookie.”  Brad Pitt in "The Tree of Life." Photo: Merie Wallace and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Steve ’70 and Paula Mae Schwartz were co-executive producers of last year’s The Tree of Life from director Terrence Malick and starring Brad Pitt, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and was announced yesterday as a nominee for a Best Picture Academy Award. Additional big news for the Schwartzes and their production company Chockstone Pictures came last week when it was announced that Chockstone and Nick Wechsler Productions purchased the rights to acclaimed author Cormac McCarthy’s first-ever spec script, The Counselor. In 2009, Steve, Paula Mae, and colleague Nick Wechsler produced the film adaptation of McCarthy’s novel The Road, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other recent projects from the Schwartzes and Chockstone include the upcoming Cogan’s Trade, also starring Pitt. | Bowdoin Athletics 1/27/2012 Nordic Skiing at UNH Carnival (Jackson Ski Touring Center) Results1/28/2012 Nordic Skiing at UNH Carnival (Jackson Ski Touring Center) Results1/28/2012 Women's Swimming & Diving at Wesleyan 1/28/2012 Women's Swimming & Diving at Trinity 1/28/2012 Men's Swimming & Diving at Wesleyan 1/28/2012 Men's Swimming & Diving at Trinity 1/28/2012 Men's Track & Field at Tufts, Springfield, RPI, Colby Preview1/28/2012 Women's Track & Field at RPI, Colby Preview1/28/2012 Women's Squash Brown at Bowdoin 1/28/2012 Men's Squash Brown at Bowdoin 1/28/2012 Women's Squash Tufts at Bowdoin 1/28/2012 Women's Squash Wellesley at Bowdoin 1/28/2012 Men's Squash Vermont at Bowdoin 1/29/2012 Women's Squash George Washington at Bowdoin 1/29/2012 Men's Squash George Washington at Bowdoin 1/29/2012 Women's Squash Mount Holyoke at Bowdoin 1/31/2012 Women's Basketball Eastern Conn. St. at Bowdoin Live stats | Video1/31/2012 Men's Basketball Bowdoin at Thomas |
