December 1, 2000
Volume CXXXII, Number 10

    To most Bowdoin students, November in Maine represents leafless trees, cold drizzle, and approaching finals. To Mainers, it means deer season. Annually, hunters polish off their rifles and put on blaze orange to search for a big buck.
    In 1998, 209,992 hunters went into the great Maine woods. Nearly two hundred and ten thousand armed citizens left their homes to search for a deer. A common question often asked is, "Aren't the woods a war zone? Why aren't people shot?"

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Beneath the Pines, Part 10 (Two Years Beneath the Pines: Timely Invitations)
By LUDWIG RANG, ALUMNUS CONTRIBUTOR

    Time was passing so quickly, it felt like I'd already been in America six months, though in reality it was only three.
    Homecoming weekend had come and gone, along with my first blind date, followed by Thanksgiving, spent with my friend Simon from the boat and his family in Philadelphia.
    The best thing about Homecoming had been the Big Game. I forget whom our side played--whether Colby or Bates, Amherst or Williams--or if Bowdoin won. But if we did, I'm sure it was my roommate Harvey who scored the winning touchdown or kick.

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Oliver Otis Howard, Part 10: Out West
By KID WONGSRICHANALAI , STAFF WRITER

    Following the Battle of Gettysburg in early July 1863, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia retreated south towards the Potomac River and the safety of the Virginian shore. Union General George G. Meade's Army of the Potomac slowly followed, but instead of bringing on another engagement that could have ended the war then and there, Meade let Lee escape.

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Physicist to address "scary" questions