Image courtesy of Aniqa Chowdhury FROM THE BOWDOIN BUBBLE TO THE BIG CITY: Zohran Mamdani '14 was an activist and a changemaker long before his mayoral campaign, founding Bowdoin Students for Justice ...

“This story, in a funny way, begins in Paris,” remembered Robert H. Edwards, President of the College from 1990 to 2001. Now 86 years of age, Edwards sat upright at his spotless dining room table in ...

On Maine’s southern border with New Hampshire, a large blue sign stands at the north end of the Piscataqua River Bridge. “Welcome to Maine—the way life should be,” it reads. For decades, motorists ...

Kristen Kinzler AID IN GAZA: Hani Almadhoun discusses the obstacles faced in sending out aid to Gaza in Kresge Auditorium. Almadhoun shared his experience as a member of the UNRWA in conjunction with ...

In recent months there has been a pattern of stories in the Orient exploring the complexities and limitations of Bowdoin’s endowment and operating budget. To add context to the series of articles and ...

The American Studies Association, a group of scholars on American culture and history, recently decided to honor the call of Palestinian civil society to boycott Israeli institutions. This academic ...

I particularly remember a conversation that I had with a college advisor about race during my senior year of high school. Specifically, it was an incident of overt racism that involved the conscious ...

This past summer, as I was inspecting storm drains in a neighborhood of Sabattus, Maine, an elderly man approached me from his driveway. His name was Marcel, and though he was initially only curious ...

Miles Berry ENCAMPMENT FOR GAZA: Students for Justice in Palestine formed an encampment on the first floor of Smith Union. Organizers protested Donald Trump’s recent comments on U.S. “ownership” of ...

Almost three decades ago, the College banned fraternities from campus, transforming social life at Bowdoin and creating the College House System. One major reason for the ban, as cited by the ...

This is the offer of the college for the best four years of your life. Picture Bowdoin’s campus. What do you see? A row of aesthetically pleasing first-year bricks. Students playing frisbee out on the ...

Being at a liberal arts college, I constantly hear about the politics of language, but I have never known of in-depth discussions on slurs and epithets. I was reminded of this last week when I ...