The Bowdoin Orient

Faculty cuts CR/D/F in required courses

Future classes of Bowdoin students will no longer be able to protect their grade point averages from low marks in required classes, the faculty decided Monday. By a 66-16-1 vote, the professors passed a motion to prohibit students from using the Credit/D/Fail option in courses taken to satisfy distribution requirements beginning with the Class of 2012. The new rule was passed despite the pleas of more than 40 students who assembled to greet faculty as they passed through the Thorne Hall lobby on their way to the meeting.

Trespass warnings issued to three

Four Brunswick males started their evening using the public computers in Smith Union; an hour and a half later they had been ejected from campus by Security and were lying in slush on South Street on the wrong side of a Brunswick Police officer's Taser. Three of the four men have been issued criminal trespass warnings by the Brunswick Police Department (BPD) and will be arrested if they set foot on campus again; the fourth has yet to be issued a warning.

Election commission gathers info for BSG

As the presidential candidates smile, spin, and spend their way toward November, some students might feel tempted to be cynical about the nation's electoral process. Perhaps it will hearten them to know that election reform is high on someone's agenda: A special committee headed by Will Hales '08 is currently exploring ways to improve Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) elections.

BSG reflects on Credit/D/Fail vote, funds vans to Clinton, Obama events

Following Monday's faculty vote on Credit/D/Fail, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) spent part of its Wednesday meeting discussing the group's effort voicing its opinion on the motion (see story, page 1). Despite the faculty's decision, BSG President Dustin Brooks '08 said that BSG's presence at Monday's vote represents "the biggest student activism to surround a policy issue since 1993," when the faculty decided to abolish fraternities.