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Volume CXXXIII, Number 16
February 15, 2002
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Red Sox fans should understand disparity
CRAIG GIAMMONA
With a Super Bowl victory from their beloved Patriots still fresh in mind and spring training just around the corner, Boston fans are faced with the important task of developing a sense of humor. [read the article]

Subscribing to a culture of materialism
EBEN GILFENBAUM
If the magazines are vestiges of a time when Bowdoin was a thriving chapter of the good-old-boys club, what were they still doing populating the shelves of a College revitalized by 30 years of reform?
[read the article]

Total absurdity in love
SARAH RAMEY
I don't say this as one of the Snoopy card-sending, red heart antennae-wearing fanatics, but rather as someone who has wallowed for too long and would like to see the suffering put to an end. [read the article]

Valentine's Day: origins and practices
KARA OPPENHEIM
It's that time of the year again. Hallmark factories and chocolate shops are working overtime. Flower shops are selling out. [read the article]

It's freezing out here
HUGH HILL
Why do we live in this frozen wasteland when more hospitable climes are just a few scant hours away by car? [read the article]

Efforts need an intellectual focus
PATRICK ROCKEFELLER
At the much-touted Diversity Panel Discussion on Wednesday night, the one conclusion everyone seemed to agree upon was that diversity is good. [read the article]

Creating campus discussion
JULEAH SWANSON
What arose was a series of finger-pointing allegations regarding the people at fault for what some feel is a lack of interaction and discussion among students.
[read the article]

Bowdoin needs some traditions of its own
TODD BUELL
In the first months of my freshman year, I refused to walk through the gate that stands between the Quad and College Street. [read the article]

Is it the students, profs or society?
INA HOXHA
The first week of this semester, I sat in on literally seven different classes. [read the article]

Is intellectual discourse dead?
GENEVIVE CREEDON
The first unofficial thing I was told about Bowdoin was that it is a "first-grade camp for twenty-year-olds." [read the article]

 

A need for practical classes
Students have been complaining about the un-usefulness of classes for quite a while, as far back as the 1800s. [read the editorial]

Cartoons
-The West Pole
-Herb the really unlucky immortal possum

V-Day comes to Bowdoin
Ten percent of proceeds will go to the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). [read the letter]

The seriousness of sign theft
Bruce Boucher and the Deans need to emphasize the seriousness of stealing signs, particularly stop signs. [read the letter]

Rubio clarifies Jung lecture review
It is fortunate that a deep and abiding sense of humor seems to be a prerequisite for graceful aging/saging. [read the letter]