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		<title>The Bowdoin Orient</title>
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		<description>The student newspaper of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:01 EST</pubDate>
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		<item><title><![CDATA[Watson Arena to host first game in January]]></title><description><![CDATA[On January 18, the puck drops.
In a little over a month, Watson Ice Arena will officially replace Dayton Arena as the venue for Bowdoin hockey teams.
"I'll have fond memories of [Dayton] but, honestly, it's fallen down," Director of Athletics Jeff Ward said.
]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=1&id=1]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=1&id=1]]></guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[A look back: Budget cuts in '90s slump]]></title><description><![CDATA[In his first semester at Bowdoin in 1990, President Robert Edwards wrote a memorandum to the school's financial planning committee detailing the status of budget.
"Very simply, Bowdoin is spending at a higher level than its revenues will support," he wrote.
As a result, Edwards, his administrative team and the College's overseers undertook the process of balancing the budget.
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]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=1&id=3]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=1&id=3]]></guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[BSG health center survey inadequate, members say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bowdoin Student Government (BSG), in conjunction with the Dean's office and Dudley Coe Health Center, has decided to conduct a second poll to measure student opinion about the health care provided on campus.
BSG President Sophia Seifert '09 and Vice President of Student Affairs Carly Berman '11 conducted the original survey, composed of questions compiled by the BSG Assembly.
]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=1&id=4]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=1&id=4]]></guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[BSG discusses health survey in final meeting of semester]]></title><description><![CDATA[Returning to a topic of concern for many Bowdoin students, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) members discussed fielding a new Health Center survey in conjunction with the College administration on Wednesday. Members were presented with a draft survey compiled by Director of Health Services Sandra Hayes and Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs Margaret Hazlett.
]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=1&id=5]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=1&id=5]]></guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[First-year black enrollment at 8.4 percent]]></title><description><![CDATA[With black students comprising 8.4 percent of the class of 2012, Bowdoin continues to rank among the highest in an annual survey of black enrollment at the nation's top liberal arts colleges.
Moving down the list two spots from last year, Bowdoin now has the seventh-highest percentage of African-American first years. The poll draws on information from the nation's top 30 liberal arts schools—two of which did not provide data—collected by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE).

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=1&id=6]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=1&id=6]]></guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where's the love?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether you're a girl or guy, gay or straight, we all know how it feels to—you know—like someone.

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=2&id=1]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=2&id=1]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letter fails to consider accessibility of water]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Competitive Enterprise Institute may have done research that suggests that there is absolutely nothing wrong with bottled water ("Crowley provides smart counterpoint to bottled water issue," December 5). This institute also still denies that climate change is caused by anthropogenic factors, a ridiculous assertion.

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=2&id=2]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=2&id=2]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Op-ed misses broader ideas about Obama]]></title><description><![CDATA[I appreciate Steve Robinson's ability to put his aside his partisan distaste for Barack Obama last week ("Obama's cabinet selections more moderate than anticipated," December 5). However, I assure him that us "Obamanites" are not "pulling our hair out".
]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=2&id=3]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=2&id=3]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robinson a worthy conservative voice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kudos to the Orient for continuing to publish Steve Robinson's work. His pieces offer much more than timely and thought provoking analyses. They are the voice of Bowdoin conservatives, who are routinely ridiculed, mocked and marginalized on our campus.
]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=2&id=4]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=2&id=4]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung up on hook-ups]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you want to date, don't come to Bowdoin.
At a school where hook-ups out number dates more than three to one, students looking for a dating scene may be sorely disappointed. First year Branden Asemah expected to come to Bowdoin and date a lot of people, but so far "it's just not happening." From what he has seen, the drunken hook-up has taken the place of the date.

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=3&id=1]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=3&id=1]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Report on Kinsey: The sexologist’s time at Bowdoin]]></title><description><![CDATA[In addition to performing music, Kinsey also wrote for the Quill while at Bowdoin. One of his pieces, entitled "Scientific Love," expresses Kinsey's view that love is above science and cannot be measured.
"It is enough that we never do approach love in mathematical terms!" he wrote. "My essay needs not be an essay, for ages have already written all concerning love. My essay on scientific love is unscientific as it needs must be, you see, when love has no science!"

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=3&id=2]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=3&id=2]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligent design: Students create their own majors]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's almost that time of year again—no, not the holiday season.
When sophomores return back to campus from winter break, they will receive cards in their mailboxes instructing them on the major declaration process. Some will pursue double majors, others will elect to complete an interdisciplinary concentration and others will be devising their own path of study.

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=3&id=3]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=3&id=3]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sexually Suggestive: ‘On the first day of (se)xmas, my true love gave to me...’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that most of us have less than 12 days left on campus, i.e., less than 12 days to get all of our work done, confirm travel plans, pack up our stuff and say goodbye to friends, I thought it might be cute, in the spirit of the holidays, to give some suggestions for end of semester sex relations—that is, if you can even find the time to hook-up in this maelstrom of papers and exams.

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=3&id=4]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=3&id=4]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art students incorporate diverse media in final shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the semester winds down, visual arts students are gearing up to present their final projects this weekend in mediums that include everything from chicken wire to paper leaves. 
Art Lecturer John Bisbee's Sculpture I and II classes, as well as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Anna Hepler's Advanced Studies in Visual Arts course, will hold shows in Fort Andross. Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Meggan Gould's Photo I and II classes will display their final projects in the McLellan Building. The different courses present a variety of interesting mediums, and the different assignments provided some challenging constraints within which students worked
]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=1]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=1]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musicians display talents at Note Book Café]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gibson Hall is alive with the sound of music this afternoon as a group of Bowdoin students showcase their musical talents at the Note Book Café. Initially a way for Polar Bears enrolled in music lessons to exhibit their semester-long endeavors, the Note Book Café features vocalists, pianists and violinists, as well as finger puppets.

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=2]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=2]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choristers offer new spin on holiday tradition at ‘Lessons’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bowdoin offers its students many holiday traditions including the Junior/Senior Ball, the final a cappella concert, and countless holiday parties, but what many students may not know is that the College also offers a traditional Festival of Lessons and Carols service for students, staff, and community members.
The service, unlike some other Bowdoin traditions, has an easily traceable history, with roots in Anglican Church traditions of the 1800s.
]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=3]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=3]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beer Geek: Brews provide an enjoyable study companion for finals week]]></title><description><![CDATA[Classes are done, the dance show is danced, course cards are in, and my last paper has been turned in. My only obligation now is to buckle down with the books once more and get ready for exams.
I need a drink.

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=4]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=4]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Book Nook: Christmas reads ideal for creative stocking stuffers]]></title><description><![CDATA['Tis the season for festive sweaters, twinkling lights, hot drinks and the inevitable and sometimes painful Christmas carols. It's the season for mistletoe and stocking stuffers, latkes and sleigh rides, and if you're on the brink of a secret Santa exchange or have time for shopping between finals and roasting chestnuts, here are a few holiday suggestions.

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=5]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=5]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coviello reflects on sabbatical work, travel]]></title><description><![CDATA["What have I been up to?" Associate Professor of English Peter Coviello smiled as he repeated the question. "Well, like all faculty members on leave, I've been drinking wine in exotic cities and dancing in night clubs across Europe," he joked. "No, no. Well, I have been away."
While away from Bowdoin, Coviello traveled throughout Europe to Naples, Berlin, Sussex, Madrid, Paris and London. He plotted his travels to accommodate several academic talks at European universities and also budgeted some time with his family in Naples. 

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=6]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=6]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bowdoin graduates travel to Ghana to film 'Mango']]></title><description><![CDATA[Three Bowdoin graduates flew to Ghana last summer to film "Under the Mango Tree," a documentary about the life and activities of the Maine-Ghana Youth Network (MGYN).
Steven Bartus '08 (editor), Anna Karass '08 (writer), and Aisha Woodward '08 (editor and writer) received the Davis Project for Peace Grant to undertake the project, which lasted three weeks. Woodward first volunteered for the MGYN when she studied abroad the spring of her junior year in Ghana. The same spring, the MGYN visited Bowdoin, and Karass met two of its leaders: Co-Director and Co-Founder Mollishmael Kwame Gabah and President Erin Rhoda.

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=7]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=7]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[DJ of the Week: Frances Milliken '09 and Matt Eshelman '09]]></title><description><![CDATA[ ]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=8]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=4&id=8]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 52 years, hockey teams leave historic Dayton Arena]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is tough to imagine hockey at Bowdoin without the legendary Dayton Arena. And yet, by the time students are back on campus following Winter Break, the Bowdoin hockey program will have moved to its new, swanky home next to Farley Field House.
While the excitement is building for the beautiful new arena, Bowdoin hockey's old Quonset hut home will be missed.
Men's hockey coach Terry Meagher compared Dayton to an old, beat-up family car with 300,000 miles on it. It's old and lovable, but broken in so many ways, and just impossible to fix without destroying it completely.

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=5&id=1]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=5&id=1]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men’s ice hockey splits, now 3-1-1 in conference]]></title><description><![CDATA[The high-flying men's hockey team was brought down to Earth following a weekend of difficult away games. The Polar Bears defeated Castleton Friday night 5-3 before slipping Saturday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in a 6-4 loss against Skidmore, their first loss of the season.
The Bears were quick to establish a first period lead against Castleton as Brunswick native Kit Smith '11 notched the game's first goal at 12:35.

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=5&id=2]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=5&id=2]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women’s basketball steals show, takes down Colby-Sawyer 54-45]]></title><description><![CDATA[Defense is the name of the game for the women's basketball team. Bowdoin's suffocating defense led to a nine-point road win over Colby-Sawyer on Thursday.
The Polar Bears shut down the Chargers with a whopping 17 steals and five blocks in the 54-45 win. Senior tri-captain Maria Noucas scored a season-high 16 points and junior forward Leah Rubega had 10 points and 10 rebounds in her third straight double-double.

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=5&id=3]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=5&id=3]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men’s basketball has streak snapped]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bowdoin Men's Basketball Team will enter the Winter Break on a sour note following its 63-57 loss to the Colby-Sawyer Chargers on Thursday night.  The loss snaps the Bears five-game winning streak as they fall to 7-2 on the season. Senior Kyle Jackson led all scorers with 16 points.  The Bears fell victim to poor three-point shooting, going 4-18 from beyond the arc, including only 1-10 in the second half. 

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=5&id=4]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=5&id=4]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swimming places 5th, 6th at MIT Invite]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite scientific claims to the contrary, it seems Polar Bears can thrive in warm waters.
At least that's what the Bowdoin swim teams showed last weekend during their successful meet in Cambridge, Mass. Amid steep competition from six other teams (NYU, MIT, Colby, Brandeis, Tufts and Wheaton) the Bowdoin's male and female delegations managed to make their collective roar heard.

]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=5&id=5]]></link><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2008-12-12&section=5&id=5]]></guid><category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women’s ice hockey skids to tough loss in Waterville]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bowdoin Women's Ice Hockey Team suffered a tough loss last Saturday, falling short 4-2 to the Colby Mules in Waterville.
Colby senior Becky Julian got the ball rolling for the Mules when she scored her first of three goals within the first minute of the game. 
Bowdoin's Lindsay McNamara '09 responded six minutes later, scoring the first goal for the Bears on an assist from Alexandra Chlebeck '12.

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The men and women both entered the weekend with a 1-1 record, with both teams defeating Connecticut College but falling to Dartmouth in matches before Thanksgiving.

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