Bowdoin
Tonight on Jeopardy: Bear vs. Jumbo
Tonight at 7:30, Bowdoin’s Cindy Cammarn ’14 is up against Tufts’ Jed Silver ’13 in the collegiate Jeopardy semi-finals. Silver, who watches Jeopardy with his frat and plans to invest his winnings in a start-up NGO, had this to say about the presence of a ‘Cac rival: ”There’s no such thing as a rivalry at Tufts, we’re not [...]
SUMMER HIT ALERT: ‘Emotional Bro’
Bowdoin band The DFP performed a cover of ‘Emotional Bro’ this Friday to raucous reception. The song was written by Bowdoin alum Mikel McCavana ‘12 for his band The Transports, but has never made the ‘Cac internet splash it was clearly destined to have. This is a song for the ‘Cac ages, poised to be more [...]
Bowdoin’s Divestment Demonstration: All Quiet On Set
Two days ago I received a press release from a group called Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA). For months, following similar movements at other schools, this group of students has been asking the college to divest our endowment from fossil fuels. As far as raising awareness, they’ve done a pretty decent job. Debate was ignited in [...]
Weekend round-up: Darty edition
If you’re like us, you probably glanced at your nerdy assignment notebook this morning and felt a pang of ‘Oh shit’ wash over you like so much hangover nausea. If you were too busy attending one of the classic NESCAC parties held this weekend (or otherwise just basking in the glorious New England weather we [...]
“Push Thru” Boston
I received the following message from Bowdoin alum and music producer Alex Healy ’10: “I truly enjoyed the original version of this song, but decided to take it to a different, more somber space. Maybe it was subconscious, but I didn’t realize the significance of releasing a remix to a song called “Push Thru” this [...]
Pushing The Water Ahead: Bowdoin And NAS
The following is the perspective of one critically thinking Bowdoin student on the recently released report “What Bowdoin Teaches”. My belief is that the National Association of Scholars’ (NAS) study is a comment on ‘Cac culture at large, and that my analysis of it also functions, at times, as a defense of our way of life. [...]
Williams Alum Drags Bowdoin’s Name Through The Mud
This past Wednesday, the National Association of Scholars released a 359-page report criticizing the academia, policies, and practices at Bowdoin College. The report was generously funded by Thomas Klingenstein, a Williams graduate. Why, one might ask, would a wealthy suit expend money towards digging into Bowdoin’s curriculum and social dynamics? The story goes that Bowdoin [...]
A 45-Minute Phone Conversation On The Meaning Of ‘Bro’
The Middlebury Campus’s recent back and forth about a ‘privileged’ male’s place in campus activism has inspired a MiddBlog reflection on the use and abuse of the term ‘bro’. Our Conn blogger—self-described as toeing the bro line—declined to write a response…but he did offer to let me interview him about the practice of ‘scapebroating’. Below, [...]
