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sign up today—it's free! On This Day2000 — Not-for-profit entrepreneur Ellen Baxter '75 presents a lecture entitled "Homelessness in New York City: The Courts, the Politics and Pragmatic Solutions,” in the chapel. StorePurchase Bowdoin merchandise online. | Six weeks after touting a tuition tax as a key component of Pittsburgh’s fiscal recovery, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl yesterday shelved the levy in favor of pledges of help from universities, tax-exempt organizations, and the corporate community.
Recognizing that Facebook was interfering with their lives offline, some students took steps to kick the habit.
From This American Life:  This year, The Princeton Review named Penn State the #1 Party School in America. It’s a rotating crown—last year it was University of Florida, before that it was West Virginia University. So we wondered: What is it like to be at the country’s top party school? This American Life producers spent a recent football weekend at Penn State to figure this out. There, we learned the definition of “fracket” (think frat plus jacket); the best way to clean up beer cans after a big party (snow shovel); and how hard it is to get college kids to drink less (really hard). Listen…
From the Portland Press Herald: AUGUSTA — A state legislator wants to make Maine the first state to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer. Democratic Rep. Andrea Boland of Sanford says there are very substantial and numerous studies that point to the risk. But there’s little consensus among scientists of the hazards of cell phone use.
Percentage of graduates on Facebook who are fans of their college: | Bowdoin | 44% | | Williams | 39% | | Trinity | 38% | | Amherst: | 37% | | Carleton | 35% | | Davidson | 33% | | Bates: | 32% | | Middlebury | 27% | | Hamilton | 27% | | Oberlin | 25% | | Haverford | 24% | | Wellesley | 24% | | Wesleyan | 23% | | Vassar | 21% | | Swarthmore | 20% | | Colby | 17% |
Check out the LIFE magazine photo archive on Google for Bowdoin photos from the 1950s.
 The merits of a liberal arts education and the book A True Liberal Arts Education (China Publishing Group, 2009), written by Yongfang Chen ’10 for college-bound students in his native China, are the subject of an article on The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report blog.
Bowdoin’s Associate Director of Student Aid Gary Weaver joined representatives from Maine Education Services and the Finance Authority of Maine to discuss college affordability and to answer listener questions during MPBN’s On the Line program.
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