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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. |  Men’s Basketball: The fourth-ranked Amherst College men’s basketball team rebounded from its first loss of the season to defeat Bowdoin 80-66 in Morrell Gymnasium on Friday evening.
Women’s Basketball: The Bowdoin College women’s basketball team gave top-ranked Amherst all it could handle in a 63-59 win for the Jeffs on Friday evening at Morrell Gym. Men’s Ice Hockey: The Bowdoin College men’s ice hockey team continued its hot play by scoring three times in the third period to pull away from Williams, 4-2, on Friday evening at Watson Arena. The Polar Bears (9-4-2, 7-2-2 NESCAC) are unbeaten in their last seven NESCAC games (6-0-1) and will host Middlebury on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. A photo gallery of Friday’s action is here. Women’s Ice Hockey: Middlebury’s Katie Sullivan scored the game-winner with 1:34 remaining to lead the fourth-ranked Panthers (10-1-2, 8-1) to a 2-1 win over Bowdoin (6-6-2, 4-3) in Kenyon Arena. Swimming and Diving: The Bowdoin College men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams swept Bates in a dual meet at Greason Pool on Friday night. Check out a photo gallery of the action here.  Southwest Airlines announced Friday that its familiar blue, red, and orange jets will soon be landing at Portland’s recently expanded Jetport. Last year’s purchase of AirTran by the Dallas-based Southwest is leading to a consolidation of the two carriers, with 15 cities losing service. Twenty-two others (including PWM) remain on the list.
 Otter Cliff in Maine's Acadia National Park. In honor of Martin Luther King Day, all 397 National Parks are offering free admission this holiday weekend. 
More than a third of the way through January, Brunswick and most of the rest of Maine are just now getting the first “real” snowstorm of the season (those one-to-three-inch “dustings” don’t really count for the hardiest of Mainers). Still, the first big snow event of the year, no matter when or where it falls, tends to give motorists a crash course in winter driving. Winter driving school instructor Mark Cox suggests five ways to stay safe while driving in snow.  Transportation sharing services have grown in popularity in the last decade as economical and environmental alternatives to owning, with Zipcar as the auto standard, and many bicycle services vying for their own spots in the market. A new San Francisco-based car sharing service called Getaround is bending the car sharing model with a more social approach, and Good bills it as the future of the industry.
On Christmas Day one hundred and three years ago, Robert E. Peary, Class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, Class of 1898, and their team of explorers were a little more than halfway to their goal of reaching the North Pole. Read MacMillan’s December 25, 1908, journal entry.  Randy Nichols As students wrap up coursework for the semester and prepare to hit the road for winter break, Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols, who, before joining Bowdoin’s ranks in 2005, logged 27 years with the Maine State Police, offers words of advice that are good for anyone traveling over the holidays. Continue reading Safe Travels: Advice from Security Director Randy Nichols on How Not to be ‘That Guy’ Ten years and 3.5 million passengers later, Amtrak has something to celebrate this week. Thursday marks the tenth anniversary of the Downeaster—passenger train service between Boston and Portland that has exceeded even the most enthusiastic expectations. A celebration that began with a pizza party on Monday for Amtrak employees will culminate Thursday with an anniversary ceremony in Portland. Meanwhile, a short distance up the road in Brunswick, construction workers on Tuesday lowered into place several sections of prefabricated concrete to form the train ramp at Brunswick Station. It’s the next stop on the return of passenger rail service to Maine, projected to expand to Brunswick in late 2012.  Ramp construction underway at Brunswick Station.  Just in time for the holidays, TIME unveils its best stuff of the year about to end. From books, to movies, to tweets—even the best people NOT running for president—it’s all here.
 Safe Passage, the non-profit founded by the late Hanley Denning ’92 to educate children whose families earn their living picking through trash at the Guatemala City Dump, was highlighted on NPR. The piece includes an interview with Jessica Britt ’10, who works for the agency. Listen to the segment.
Among its Alternative Spring Break 2012 options, the McKeen Center for the Common Good includes Providing Safe Passage in Guatemala, a trip that entails helping in the effort to combat poverty by creating opportunities and fostering dignity through the power of education. | Bowdoin Athletics 2/3/2012 Women's Track & Field at 1st/4 Maine State Meet (Bates) | Recap 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 Ice Hockey Bowdoin at Hamilton Video2/4/2012 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 |
