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sign up today—it's free! On This Day2000 — Not-for-profit entrepreneur Ellen Baxter '75 presents a lecture entitled "Homelessness in New York City: The Courts, the Politics and Pragmatic Solutions,” in the chapel. StorePurchase Bowdoin merchandise online. | Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Brian Purnell and students in his class,”The Wire”: Race, Class, Gender, and the Urban Crisis, found that Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall, had been turned into a makeshift television studio Wednesday, when a crew from C-SPAN came to videotape their class from start to finish for its American History TV series, ”Lectures in History.” While no air date has yet been set, producers say an April airing is likely. Stay tuned. Continue reading Slideshow: C-SPAN on Campus, Videotapes Class for ‘Lectures in History’ 
In his latest column, on the cusp of Black History Month, John Cross ’76 reflects on two alumni from the 1920s who, “each in his own way, put a shoulder to the wheel to advance human dignity and ensure social justice.” In looking through a bound copy of The Quill (Bowdoin’s literary magazine) for 1924 that had once belonged to President Kenneth C. M. Sills, Class of 1901, I came across a three-page essay on “Prejudices” by future Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist W. Hodding Carter, Jr., of the Class of 1927. After declaring that his initial impulse was to write a defense of the Ku Klux Klan, Carter proceeded to vent his anger at French Canadians, “Sons of Erin,” African Americans, and New Englanders whose ancestors had profited from the slave trade. By any standard, it was strong stuff to read in a College publication, especially coming, as it did, from a seventeen-year-old from Louisiana. It was with deep regret and no small measure of shame that Carter would later recall that for his first year at Bowdoin he refused to talk to (or even remain in the same room with) the College’s only African-American student at that time, who lived in an adjacent room in Winthrop Hall.
Continue reading Whispering Pines: Transformations and Trajectories  Longfellow around 1850, daguerrotype, Southworth & Hawes, Boston Nearly two centuries after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow introduced students to the “soaring” poetry of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, two recent Bowdoin grads have published new findings about the Longfellow-Dante connection in the prestigious journal Dante Studies. Both alumnae worked with primary documents in Bowdoin’s Special Collections and Archives to aid in their research. “I was looking at marginalia, Longfellow’s handwritten notes,” says Kelsey Abbruzzese ’07. “It was so amazing to think that Longfellow held this, he wrote on it, and here it is at the College where I can hold it and incorporate it into my essay.” Read the story.  Christopher Hill '74 During the bloody conflict of the post-Yugoslav wars, only one newly independent country of the former Yugoslavia remained at peace. In a recent Project Syndicate essay, Christopher Hill ’74, praises Kiro Gligorov, Macedonia’s former president, for avoiding warfare despite the turbulent environment. Gligorov survived an assassination attempt in 1995 to die Jan 1, 2012 at the age of 94. Hill, currently dean of the Korbel School of International Studies at University of Denver, was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and ambassador to Iraq, South Korea, Macedonia and Poland. He was also special envoy for Kosovo, a negotiator of the Dayton Peace Accords, and chief U.S. negotiator with North Korea from 2005-2009. 
Professional typographers and just about every style guide out there agree that there should only be one space between sentences, yet the notion there should be two, held over from last century’s manual typewriter days, is a strongly held belief. Slate columnist Farhad Manjoo lays out irrefutable proof why “if you type two spaces after a period, you’re doing it wrong.”  Dr. and Mrs. Fred Stoddard '64 at the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, DC. In 1964 as president of the Political Forum, Fred Stoddard ’64 invited Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at Bowdoin about the civil rights movement and the importance of ending segregation and discrimination in America. On May 6, 1964, Stoddard and President Coles introduced the Reverend King to an overflowing crowd at First Parish Church. “Interestingly,” Stoddard writes, “one of my Harvard Medical students who went to Morehouse College’s sister school, Spellman, recently told me that the talk there now is that MLK’s trip to Maine was a turning point for him as he fought for the Voting Rights bill.” On January 12, 2012 former US Senator George Mitchell ’54 was interviewed by Atlantic national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg in a series on peace in the Middle East. Senator Mitchell served the Obama administration as Middle East envoy from 2009 to 2011.  Joan Benoit '79 was a senior at the College when, wearing a Bowdoin singlet and a Red Sox cap, she crossed the finish line, winning the 1979 Boston Marathon in what was then a women's course-record of 2:35:15. Running is on many minds and much in the news with yesterday’s U.S. Olympic Marathon trials in Houston. “Picking the top U.S. women’s marathoner of all time is as easy as it was to pick the top man,” writes the Chicago Tribune‘s Olympic sports columnist Philip Hersh. “It’s Joan Benoit Samuelson, of course.” 
The late John Gould ’31, H’68, novelist and long-time columnist for The Christian Science Monitor, mentor to Stephen King, and widely considered the dean of Maine writers, lived for decades on a farm in Lisbon Falls, Maine, where he wrote much of his work in a small log cabin just a short drive up Route 196 from Brunswick. The current owner of the property recently listed Gould’s original cabin on Craigslist. In true Maine fashion, the crumbling building is “free for the taking,” ostensibly for salvage purposes, though the “person removing cabin must provide excavation work and fill.” 
Joshua Chamberlain, Medal of Honor-winning hero of Gettysburg, governor of Maine and president of the College, is now emblazoned on a what-could-be-cooler-or-more-vintage T-shirt. “Chamberlain is the quintessential Mainer,” says the shirt’s creator, Jeff Lauzier, president of Loyal Citizen Clothing. ”A hard working, soft spoken man of God and man of honor. He did what he did because it was right, not for recognition. This is our way of paying homage to him for his ideals and for his exuding what being a Mainer is all about.” The Chamberlain shirts are sold through several stores including Joseph’s of Portland, whose proprietor, Joe Redman ’70, is part of a Bowdoin legacy that includes father Charles Redman Jr. ’42, uncle Mac Redman ’34 and brother Charles Redman III ’73. More about the Chamberlain T-shirts here. | 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 |
