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The From the Top program taped in Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall, late last month will be broadcast this evening at 8:00 on Maine Public Radio and across the country on National Public Radio. Here’s a taste of what to expect from Bowdoin sophomore Allen Wong Yu, appearing on the national radio program for the second time. Bowdoin Musician Takes It “From the Top” from Bowdoin College on Vimeo.
It’s the race before the race. Registration day for the TD Beach to Beacon, the 10K road race founded by Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson ’79, has long been a nail-biter. Thousands of runners sit poised by their computers for an online registration crush that historically fills in a fraction of the time it takes the fastest among them to complete the actual race. This year was no exception. When registration opened at 7 a.m. Thursday, 4,000 slots were filled in a record-breaking five minutes. Hopeful participants who weren’t that fast have until midnight March 22 to register for one of the 1,850 bibs remaining through a lottery. The 15th annual Beach to Beacon race is set for Saturday, August 4, in Cape Elizabeth, Benoit Samuelson’s hometown.
It was on this day, March 15, 1820, that the District of Maine achieved statehood. With consent, it split from Massachusetts to become the 23rd state as part of the Missouri Compromise. History.com has the details, including the factoid that the Pine Tree State is “the most sparsely populated state east of the Mississippi.”
Continue reading Taking a Day Away to Help a Latino Community in Maine The Bowdoin Polar Bear attacked Saddleback Mountain, in Rangeley, Maine, last weekend with the Bowdoin Outing Club Telemark Ski Class. In keeping with an inexplicable Telemark tradition, the BOC skiers end each season’s Tele program dressed in costume, and this year the Polar Bear couldn’t resist the fun. Keep an eye out for additional footage coming soon, as well as a full picture gallery by photographer Brian Wedge ’97.
 John Woodcock '72
U.S. District Court Judge John Woodcock Jr. ’72 is presiding over a controversial case involving a lawsuit challenging Maine Governor Paul LePage’s decision to remove a labor-themed mural from the Maine Department of Labor’s headquarters. Woodcock heard oral arguments Thursday in the case brought by two union officials and three artists who claim LePage violated the First Amendment. Read coverage in the Portland Press Herald.
In his latest column, John Cross ’76 looks toward spring break, which means more than fun in the sun for many Bowdoin students and often provides the first steps on a journey of public service. In a school year in which two of the heaviest snowfalls in Brunswick occurred before Thanksgiving, the upcoming spring break doesn’t carry the same sense of urgency to escape the iron hand of winter as in previous years. Spring vacation begins after the last classes on Friday, March 9, and ends at 8 AM on Monday, March 26. For some students it will be a chance to travel with friends; for others it means devoting time to an honors project or independent study, taking a short-term job, or helping out at home.
The February issue of DownEast magazine features an article on Linda Nelson ’83 and Judith Jerome, whose purchase of the Stonington Opera House 13 years ago helped reinvigorate that small Maine town.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow of the Class of 1825
Maine’s poet laureate Wesley McNair gave a poetry reading and spoke to a packed Main Lounge in Moulton Union this past Thursday about an often overlooked aspect of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetry as part of Brunswick’s annual Longfellow Days celebration. |  | ||
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Leaving early Saturday morning, nine Bowdoin students piled into a van, grabbed breakfast en route and drove four hours to the small Down East town of Milbridge, population roughly 1,200.
Angus S. King Jr. (far right foreground) — 2007 honorary degree recipient and currently a distinguished lecturer at Bowdoin — joins in the applause for President Barry Mills Monday evening in Main Lounge, Moulton Union. Mills welcomed the standing-room only crowd gathered for King’s lecture on the Cuban Missile Crisis, after which the former two-term Maine governor announced he will seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Olympia Snowe H’83. 
