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Today in Bowdoin History

1930 - A fire starts in one of the rooms on the 2nd floor of Appleton Hall when an electric iron is inadvertently left heating on one of the desks. Damage is confined to the one room.

The Whispering Pines

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Bowdoin Reads

Professor of Dance June Vail is reading:

The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker.

Favorite Bowdoin Recipes

The Bowdoin Log, Princess Bars, and so much more...

Polars Bears Heading To Jersey for NCAA's 'Sweet Sixteen'

The Bowdoin College women’s basketball team (22-6) will travel to Union, New Jersey, to play at Kean University (28-1) in the sectional round of the NCAA Division III Tournament on Friday, March 12. Game time is set for 8:00 p.m. Friday and tickets will be available for purchase at the door. All the action will be broadcast live from Kean this weekend, via live statistics and video webcast.

‘Get Ready’ for Kean—A Video by Alex Colby 10

Get Ready from Bowdoin College on Vimeo.

More Professors Evicting Laptops From the Classroom (The Washington Post)

Laptop computers were, not so long ago, embraced by higher education as a mighty technological innovation, but these days, more and more professors are telling students to leave them at the door.

Even the ‘New Passives’ Are Worried About the Economy (Chronicle of Higher Education)

A new Harvard University poll examines the opinions and political ideologies of more than 3,000 adults ages 18 to 29. These are the “new conservatives,” the “new progressives,” the “new religious,” and the “new passives,” and most are worried about being able to pay their bills. Plus, a lot of them aren’t so sure about Obama.

McKeen Center for the Common Good Receives Presidential Community Service Award

The Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.

When Anger Is An Illness (The Wall Street Journal)

An explosive disorder or merely a temper tantrum? Aware that high-pressure jobs can make for hot tempers, some professions are offering pre-emptive anger management.

'March Madness' Puts Academics (and Other Work?) on the Back Burner

Students who follow their favorite basketball team through the NCAA tournament are less likely to keep up with their academic work. That’s the conclusion of a new study at Duke University—home of the perennial basketball powerhouse Duke Blue Devils. With nearly 40 million Americans participating in tournament office pools and five million watching the games online, what’s all this madness doing to worker productivity?

Polar Bears Heading to the Shores of Lake Ontario

The Bowdoin College men’s ice hockey team has earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament in pairings announced on Sunday night. The Polar Bears (19-6-1), who finished first in the NESCAC Regular Season standings, will travel to play at Oswego State (25-2-0) in the quarterfinals of the Division III Tournament on Saturday, March 13, at 7:00 p.m.

Tickets will go on sale at Oswego’s box office on Wednesday morning and a limited number have been set aside for Bowdoin fans to order by phone. Prices are $8 for adults and $3 for students with college ID. To purchase tickets, Bowdoin fans should call the Oswego Ticket Office at 315.312.3073 and use program code 53 to ensure they will be seated in the Bowdoin fan section. Tickets will be available to be picked up at the box office prior to the game on Saturday night.

All tickets sales should be made through Oswego’s box office as no tickets will be available in the Bowdoin Athletic Department. For fans unable to attend the game, Oswego will provide live statistics and a audio broadcast of the game. More information about a possible video webcast will be available later this week. Live coverage will be available here.

Bowdoin will be making its third NCAA Tournament appearance overall and its first since 2002. Oswego, the 2007 National Champions, won the SUNYAC (State University of New York Athletic Conference) and are 25-2-0 this season, ranking second in the latest Division III poll.

What? Women Who Drink Gain LESS Weight? (NY Times)

It’s common knowledge that if you want to lose weight, it’s best to avoid alcohol. Right? Well, not so fast. A new study says women who consume a moderate amount of alcohol are less likely to gain weight and to avoid obesity than women who abstain.

Oh Say, Did You See Bowdoin's Longfellows Perform at the Celtics-Wizards Game?

Bowdoin’s a cappella group, The Longfellows, performed the national anthem Sunday in front of 18,000 fans at the Boston Celtics-Washington Wizards game in Boston. Fans at the game recorded the performance, while others provided a glimpse of how it played out on TV.