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You can’t tune into a media outlet lately and not run smack into Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, who has equally mesmerized and rankled fans and opponents this football season with his fourth quarter heroics and endzone prayers. Tebow’s improbable run through the NFL playoffs ended against the New England Patriots last weekend, but in the week leading up to that game, Owen Strachan ’03, a professor of theology and history at Boyce College in Louisville, Kentucky, wondered in an essay for The Atlantic “Does God Care Whether Tim Tebow Wins on Saturday?” Strachan’s piece covers “a theology of providence, suffering, and sports,” and made an impact with scholars and face-painters. For several days it was one of the most-read pieces on The Atlantic‘s site, it was featured in the “Nota Bene” section of The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Arts & Letters Daily website, and it drew thousands of Facebook “likes” and hundreds of comments.  Michael Franz In a backlash against “Citizens United,” the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision to allow corporations to spend freely in elections, cities across the country are passing resolutions in opposition to the ruling. Members of the Portland City Council voted 6-2 in favor of a non-binding resolution calling on Maine’s congressional delegation to support a Constitutional amendment abolishing “corporate personhood.” In advance of that vote, Associate Professor of Government Michael Franz shared insight into campaign finance in a segment airing on MPBN. Read the text or listen to the segment. 
In a free market, a four-year high school education would cost $67,500, or $17,000 a year, for the average earning returns it gives graduates, according to Matt Steinglass of The Economist. That’s compared to the true market price of a college education, which Mother Jones political blogger Kevin Drum estimated at $75,000. (Drum got his figure by estimating the lifelong earnings of a college grad at $1 million over a 40-year career, and figured out the sum you’d have to invest, at 3% interest, to earn this amount in four decades.) 
Frosty’s Donuts, a Maine Street institution for 50 years, closed its doors last June in what appeared to be the end of a delicious era in Brunswick. The Brunswick Times Record and Bangor Daily News set mouths watering this week when the publications announced that Frosty’s has been purchased and will reopen soon, using Bob and June Frost’s original signature recipes. | Bowdoin Athletics 2/19/2012 Women's Swimming & Diving at 6th/11 NESCAC Championship (Wesleyan) | Recap2/17/2012 Men's Track & Field at 5th/24 New England Division III's (Springfield) | Recap2/17/2012 Nordic Skiing at 10th/13 Williams Carnival (Prospect Mtn.) | Recap2/17/2012 Women's Track & Field at 3rd/22 New England Division III's (Smith) | Recap 2/24/2012 Men's Track & Field at Open New England's (BU) 2/24/2012 Nordic Skiing at Middlebury Carnival/EISA (Rikert Touring Ctr.) 2/24/2012 Women's Track & Field at Open New England's (BU) 2/24/2012 Women's Squash Wellesley at Bowdoin 2/25/2012 Nordic Skiing at Middlebury Carnival/EISA (Rikert Touring Ctr.) 2/25/2012 Women's Squash Bowdoin at TBA 2/26/2012 Women's Squash Bowdoin at TBA |
