The Bowdoin Orient
Volume CXXXIX, Number 24
May 7, 2010
OPINION
Leaving Home
Will Bowdoin forget us? After spending four years on this campus, we'd certainly not like to think so. Having called so many dorms across campus our homes, worn in the seats of so many desks, and grown so familiar with faculty and friends, we've come to think of this place as our own, existing indefinitely just for us.
Benefit of the Doubt: ‘Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so’
By JOE BABLER, COLUMNISTThe summer after my sophomore year, I spent some time working at a nonprofit writing out by hand thousands of addresses and thank you letters. While my hand was cramping and my handwriting was deteriorating, I had a lot of free time to listen to anything I wanted to on the radio. I decided to spend most of the summer listening to the partisans of talk radio—Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mike Malloy, and a few others. I wanted to find out why so many found these radio shows hosts compelling.
Country First: Good luck, Class of 2010, in an America with an inept president
By JOSE CESPEDES, COLUMNISTWith the school year drawing to a close and another crop of Bowdoin students getting ready to end their four years here, it seems appropriate to wish the Class of 2010 the best of luck in their future endeavors. In fact, it seems almost necessary given the almost Herculean task of securing employment in the current economy.
Examining our addiction to the Internet
By AMANDA GARTSIDE, CONTRIBUTORAs one of the most useful and arguably most important developments of the 20th and 21st centuries, the Internet has a ubiquitous presence in developed countries and is exponentially increasing in users worldwide. A report issued on February 23, 2010, by John B. Horrigan at the Federal Communications Commission, finds that 78 percent of adults in the United States are Internet users and 65 percent of adults have home broadband access.
Green Hornet prank didn’t prompt theft
I enjoyed your article on College pranks. To set the record straight, the chickens used for the auxiliary dining annex and stockyard prank were not stolen, but purchased from a chicken farmer.
Senior Week ought to be transparent
Like any senior, I've been looking forward to Senior Week for a long time. However, I recently became less excited when I learned that I am expected to pay $35 in Senior Week dues to subsidize lousy beer that I am not going to drink and a Portland Pub Crawl in which I will not be participating.