At the end of the year, the Bowdoin’s Outing Club traditionally invites seniors, staff and faculty to join a rafting trip down the Dead River, in a stretch upstream from the town of The Forks in Maine. This year, the group enjoyed a beautiful spring day to raft approximately 13 miles on a river release of over 7,000 cubic feet per second. The group, split between three rafts and nine kayaks, paddled through mostly big class III rapids, with class I, II and IV rapids mixed in between, according to Becca Austin, the outing club’s assistant director.
Continue reading Slideshow: Seniors, Staff, Faculty Ride the Rapids
Brunswick ME May 25, 2013, 2:35 pm  50°F wind speed: 13 mph N |  Justine Pouravelis '06
Justine Pouravelis ’06, recognized as a standout on the women’s basketball team, earning Fourth-Team All-American, All-NESCAC and NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year honors, has been spotted in a commercial airing on the New England Sports Network, the regional cable television network more commonly known as NESN. Pouravelis has worked behind the scenes at NESN since she left Bowdoin, working her way up from associate producer to full studio producer, now working on Red Sox post-game and college hockey shows. She also produces Red Sox Small Talk, a show featuring questions asked by children and answered by the players. She tells the Bowdoin Daily Sun that working in live TV is the closest thing she’s found to playing a sport. “There’s such an adrenalin rush,” says Pouravelis. Continue reading Justine Pouravelis ’06 Snags TV Sports Gig, Cameo in Red Sox Commercial
Sky gazers in Asia and the western United States will get a rare treat today as the moon moves between Earth and the sun in a partial solar eclipse known as the “ring of fire.” The moon on Sunday will be at its farthest distance from Earth so it will not completely eclipse the sun, leaving a bright annulus—or ring—of sunlight glowing around its edge. It’s the first annulus eclipse visible from the mainland United States in almost 20 years, and astronomers will have to wait until 2023 for the next round of Johnny Cash references.
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