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Volume CXXXIII, Number 13
January 25, 2002
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Reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
EIDER GORDILLO
The tunes resounded in the pretty-looking auditorium, and it was special that people actually showed up-something that does not surprise me.[read the article]

Armed forces slandered
HUGH HILL
What really gets under my skin is the tendency of liberals and ostensibly liberal institutions like Bowdoin to slander our armed forces. [read the article]

Debate, discuss national holidays like Veterans, Labor Day
TODD BUELL
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a holiday that we should recognize with a gathering or celebration, but so are numerous other holidays that we choose to ignore. [read the article]

We'll never catch bin Laden
CRAIG GIAMMONA
Our government's strong rhetoric served only to mythologize a man who I would rather forget. [read the article]

The awkwardness of the dining hall
KARA OPPENHEIM
But when he went into the servery to get some more Navy Bean Soup Au Pistou with Ham, he ran into her again! Foiled! [read the article]

 

Reconsidering well-roundedness
The topic of Bowdoin students' well-roundedness, brought up at last month's faculty meeting, deserves a brief discussion. [read the editorial]

Six 10-page papers? Drop.
Today ends the first of our two "shopping" weeks for classes. [read the editorial]

Senator addresses issues
I have joined Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, in proposing a balanced, bi-partisan energy plan. [read the letter

]The debate continues
Let's face it, college is not ENTIRELY about academics. [read the letter]

Setting the record straight
I was living in Dallas and was out shopping that morning. [read the letter]