On This Day1862 - Joshua L. Chamberlain, Class of 1852, after being denied leave to join Union forces in the Civil War, receives leave to study in Europe and proceeds to join the Union Army. He would win a Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery at Gettysburg, and eventually be chosen to receive Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. StorePurchase Bowdoin merchandise online. | By now you’ve probably seen the videos on Apple’s site showing the iPad . But Apple’s marketing videos aren’t always indicative of the way it actually works in real life. Luckily, Apple had plenty of iPads in a demo pit area after the event today and we captured some footage of a few applications actually being used. In this video see Apple’s new Keynote app (built specifically for the iPad), as well as the new iBooks app, in action. As you can see, the device is very fast. Also note the Apple employee talking about using the iPad to make calls.  As airlines continue to raise fees for checked luggage, more travelers are coming up with creative ways to dodge them. More…
Undergraduate business programs should be more deeply infused with the virtues of a traditional liberal-arts education, two scholars said here on Thursday at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. “Business programs are often quite effective, but also terribly narrow,” said William M. Sullivan, a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, during a panel discussion. Narrow pre-professional programs, he said, do not give students the depth they need to be morally engaged citizens and intellectually agile workers. Read more…  Is America going to hell? After a year of economic calamity that many fear has sent us into irreversible decline, the author finds reassurance in the peculiarly American cycle of crisis and renewal, and in the continuing strength of the forces that have made the country great: our university system, our receptiveness to immigration, our culture of innovation. In most significant ways, the U.S. remains the envy of the world. But here’s the alarming problem: our governing system is old and broken and dysfunctional. Fixing it—without resorting to a constitutional convention or a coup—is the key to securing the nation’s future. More…
 Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of Thomas Jefferson—part of the permanent collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art—made it into The New York Times’s “Room For Debate” blog. Have a look…
 More than a year after the meltdown of the financial markets, the unemployment rate continues to edge up providing evidence that the economy, though expanding, has not yet grown enough to end the brutal conditions facing American workers. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this map shows how each county is faring. More…
A tutorial on plagiarism developed jointly by Bates, Bowdoin, and Colby colleges is a key part of a new study suggesting that student plagiarism can actually be reduced not through the fear of being caught, but through education. More…  There may not be a more eclectic artist on the planet than Paul D. Miller (Bowdoin Class of 1992), aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid. A passionate and intelligent artist, as well-versed in French literature and philosophy as he is in hip-hop, Miller continues to add to his creative output across a broad cultural spectrum. More…
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