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Volume CXXXI, Number 20
April 5, 2002
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Is it possible to be an amoeba at Bowdoin?
KARA OPPENHEIM
Is it inconceivable that there are some people in this world who are actually not sexual beings at all? [read the article]

Baseball: An eternal home for writers
TODD BUELL
Baseball commands a reverence in our society that is analogous in some ways to religion. [read the article]

The anti-capitalist Republicans
HUGH HILL
What, you say? Republicans anti-capitalist? Yes, it is a sad thing. [read the article]

College faculty out of touch with the U.S.
GIL BARNDOLLAR
It is now basically a given that the majority of college professors in this country run the gamut from liberal to neo-Marxist. [read the article]

Nicole Stiffle, Bowdoin Orient
Yasser Arafat is a terrorist

PATRICK ROCKEFELLER
As the leader of Palestine, Arafat has been given an impressive police force armed by Israel. [read the article]

A portable, 'Way Funny' game
SARAH RAMEY
while Elaine is a great choice for a Mr. T character, imagining anyone as Mr. T is very funny. [read the article]

To whom it may concern
GENEVIVE CREEDON
I try to write at least one good letter every week. [read the article]

 

Faculty relieves itself of grading burden
Just as it is not unusual for a dog to urinate on the trunk of a tree simply because other dogs have urinated there before him, so is it not unusual for faculty members to vote for a major change to a grading system simply because other schools have done so.[read the editorial]

Editors' Note
The volume number of the 2001-2002 edition of the Orient has been changed from 133 to 131 beginning with this issue. [read the note]

Cartoons
Herb
The West Pole

Security, Athletic Services will reevaluate policies
We have initiated a full review of our policies and protocols regarding such incidents. [read the letter]