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In less than a week, Bowdoin’s spring semester will be underway and the campus will be alive with students, faculty, staff, visitors—and cars. For Barry Mills, that means conversations about parking are certain to follow. Continue reading Barry Mills: Let’s Solve Bowdoin’s Parking Problem 
In this month’s column, John Cross ’76 reflects on winter break, the ice of a snowless campus, and the cycles of tradition. For me, beginning a new year involves recalibrating internal calendars and cycles, and adjusting goals and priorities to the realities of another year having passed without my having written the definitive word on the archaeology of Northeastern North America, achieved the physical fitness of a 25-year old, or even managed to sort the “stuff” that threatens to engulf me in my office. The holiday break for students lasts until January 23—ample time in which to do some research at Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, establish an exercise routine at the Buck Fitness Center, and eliminate at least some of my office clutter. Winter break is also one of my favorite times to take in Bowdoin sports events, in part because I’ve always felt as though each increment of crowd support matters a little more to the players when there are fewer fans in the stands.
Continue reading Whispering Pines: “Go U Bears!” Forty years after the advent of coeducation at Bowdoin, an academic project on the subject prompts Barry Mills to reflect on the period and the leaders who made change possible. Continue reading Barry Mills: Conversations About Coeducation In this month’s column, John Cross ’76 writes about the strange-but-true account of how Searles Science Building came to be built. I am often struck by the ways in which lives intersect at one or more points in time, and especially by how often those intersections involve people connected in one way or another to the College. The story of how the Mary Frances Searles Science Building [1894] came to be built is an endlessly fascinating account of fortunes made, of love, of eccentricity and excesses, of high-profile legal proceedings, and, finally, of a new dawn for the sciences at Bowdoin. It is also a tale of remarkable personalities—the wealthy widow Mary Hopkins of San Francisco; the young interior designer Edward Searles of Methuen, Massachusetts; the prominent New York lawyer and businessman Thomas Hubbard of the Bowdoin Class of 1857; and the English architect and champion of Gothic Revival architecture in America Henry Vaughan. Continue reading Whispering Pines: Stranger Than Fiction? The Story of Searles Science Building 
There are projections that more than 3.2 million students are to graduate from high school next year. Many of them — and, of course, their parents — are already in the throes of applying to college. The Washington Post set out to debunk some of the more persistent myths about the college admissions process. The Bowdoin Daily Sun asked Scott Meiklejohn, Bowdoin’s dean of admissions and financial aid, to weigh in on what The Post found. Continue reading Dean Meiklejohn Weighs In on Washington Post’s ‘Seven College Admissions Myths’  Angus King H’07, a distinguished lecturer at the College since 2004, is a regular contributor to the Bowdoin Daily Sun. In his latest post, the former two-term governor of Maine argues that free trade isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.
Continue reading Angus King: Rethinking Free Trade 
Citing the need to harness human creativity to spark innovation and echoing the call for a greater focus on entrepreneurship, President Barry Mills writes of Bowdoin’s place in the development of the sophisticated skills required to thrive in a creative economy. Continue reading Barry Mills on Developing the Social Capacities to Lead  Everyone knows what a coach does on game day, and how the players spend their time. But what about the director of athletics? As Jeff Ward explains, it’s a fast-moving labor of love…
Continue reading Jeff Ward: 75 Hours in the Life of the Athletics Director 
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan — called “a thrilling time” by the Portland Press Herald — is a collection of 60 bronze vessels and monumental bells from southern China. As Museum Curator Joachim Homann explains, visitors have an extremely rare opportunity for what he calls a spellbinding and transcendent experience. Continue reading All the Bells and Vessels: Museum of Art Curator Joachim Homann on New Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Bronzes | Bowdoin Athletics 2/3/2012 Women's Track & Field at 1st/4 Maine State Meet (Bates) | Recap 2/4/2012 Men's Ice Hockey Video 2/4/2012 Nordic Skiing at Vermont Carnival (Trapp Family Lodge) 2/4/2012 Women's Swimming & Diving at Colby 2/4/2012 Men's Swimming & Diving at Colby 2/4/2012 Men's Track & Field at Maine State Meet (Bates) 2/4/2012 Women's Squash Bowdoin at Bates 2/4/2012 Men's Squash Wesleyan (Conn.) at Bowdoin 2/5/2012 Nordic Skiing at Vermont Carnival (Trapp Family Lodge) 2/10/2012 Nordic Skiing at Dartmouth Carnival (Oak Hill) 2/10/2012 Women's Squash Bates at Bowdoin 2/10/2012 Women's Ice Hockey Bowdoin at Hamilton Video |
Barry Mills: Let’s Solve Bowdoin’s Parking Problem
In less than a week, Bowdoin’s spring semester will be underway and the campus will be alive with students, faculty, staff, visitors—and cars. For Barry Mills, that means conversations about parking are certain to follow.
Continue reading Barry Mills: Let’s Solve Bowdoin’s Parking Problem