Brunswick ME May 23, 2013, 7:49 am  48°F wind speed: 0 mph N |  (L. to r.) Madeleine Albright, Jean Arasanayagam, David Blight, Rose Marie Bravo, Philip Conkling, C. Lee Herter. Many of the College’s six distinguished honorary degree recipients will soon be on campus sharing with the Bowdoin community and visitors fascinating insights on a variety of topics. View the schedule of talks and read more about the honorary degree recipients.
 Cindy Cammarn '14 (bottom row, second from right) with fellow College Week contestants and Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek (top row, center). Cindy Cammarn ’14 has had enough of the right answers — in the form of questions, of course — to survive to the next round on Jeopardy!‘s College Championship. Cammarn, a history and English major, and theater minor, taped her appearances earlier this spring and is keeping mum about the ultimate outcome, but what we can report is that in her first appearance, she amassed $12,700 and advances to the next round. Watch a post-game interview with Cammarn and read a pre-game story about her here.  Illustration credit: Abby McBride A Red-tailed Hawk family in Ithaca, N.Y. has its own reality show thanks to cameras mounted on its nest, which sits at the top of a light pole on the Cornell University campus. This week three eggs hatched into fluffy chicks as thousands of people watched the video stream online, meriting a writeup in the Wall Street Journal. The action will continue over the coming months as the hawk parents bring tasty morsels of food to the nest and care for their growing chicks. Curious viewers can ask questions about what they’re seeing in a live chat stream, which appears alongside the video and is moderated around the clock by knowledgeable nest watchers. Managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Bird Cam site is in its second year of operation. The Lab has other cameras trained on a nest of Great Blue Herons (whose five eggs should be hatching within the next few weeks) and features additional bird cams from partner programs elsewhere in North America. The goings-on at the hawk and heron nests can also be followed, appropriately, on Twitter. The Hunger Games, Revisited from Bowdoin College on Vimeo. Kristen Ghodsee (right, John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies) and Aviva Briefel (Associate Professor of English and Film Studies) sit down to talk about the movie The Hunger Games. Briefel and Ghodsee recently held a panel discussion on this topic with librarian Jeanne Madden of Falmouth Memorial Library, following a screening of the film in Smith Auditorium. This is a fun little video that showcases Portland in a whimsical way. Luke Plunkett uses tilt-shift photography to create the illusion that Maine’s largest city is actually a tiny town for toys.
Plenty of foodie film buffs have opinions about the most palatable food documentaries. Here’s a top-10 list from Kitchn and a slightly older list from Paste Magazine. Golden Owens ’15, Taekwondo Master from Bowdoin College on Vimeo. Golden Owens has been doing taekwondo since she was four; she started classes a few years after her dad (also a master) took up the martial art. Besides practicing taekwondo on her own, Owens sings for the a cappella group Ursus Verses and the Bowdoin Chamber Choir. An English major and Africana studies minor, she’s a member of the African American Society and has acted in a couple of theater productions on campus.
And by the way—as Michael Jordan once said—there is an “i” in “win!” | |||
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