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Volume CXXXI, Number 21
April 12, 2002
Chabotar named president of Guilford
BELINDA J. LOVETT, ORIENT STAFF
After teaching 40 college presidents a year since 1990 as a faculty member of the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents, Treasurer Kent Chabotar has finally decided to become a president himself. [read the article]

Forum airs complaints
DANIEL JEFFERSON MILLER, ORIENT STAFF
A group of incensed students gathered to discuss the decision of the faculty to begin a plus/minus system of grading. [read the article]

Bates rape unnerves students
JAMES FISHER, ORIENT STAFF
Security forces, including police officers, flooded the Bates campus following the rape of a female student there last weekend. [read the article]

Safe Space sponsors awareness week
NICOLE DURAND, STAFF WRITER
Along with the continuing creation and display of the quilt, Safe Space invited Jackson Katz, a male anti-sexism activist, to speak. [read the article]

College releases '06 applicant profile
Fifty-five international students representing 25 countries were offered admission. [read the article]

News briefs

Tyranny of the good
Barbara Held discussed the exponential growth of the self-help industry in turn-of-the century America and the overwhelming push for a positive attitude that underlies it. [read the article]

Not an ordinary BOC adventure
The Las Vegas airport: the perfect place to begin a trip that is centered around getting in touch with nature. [read the article]

Publication proliferation
Ink has been showering the pages of a large crop of campus publications this semester. [read the editorial]

Sexual harassment panel a success
There are moments in my sometimes-embittered Bowdoin career when I think to myself, "Yeah...this is what it's about." [read the article]

Ghetto Life debuts at Common Hour
The piece has won considerable acclaim in several theatrical competitions, winning first place in the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival in competition against over 800 other students' plays. [read the article]

Value in convergence
The exhibit puts two similar pieces of art side by side to show, rather than tell, how art accrues value. [read the article]

Jumbos end Polar Bears' five-game winning streak
The Bowdoin Softball Team burst onto the sunny competitive scene in Florida during its Spring Break trip after a long pre-season at Farley Field House. [read the article]

Double win for lax
The Polar Bears picked up back to back wins this week, upping their record to 6-2 as they prepare to face defending national champion Middlebury Saturday afternoon. [read the article]

The Celtic sounds of Slainte swept the annual Battle of the Bands in Jack Magee's Pub Thursday night. Above, Trevor Peterson '02 and Adam Comfort '03 bring the sounds of Ireland to Bowdoin. (Daniel Jefferson Miller, Bowdoin Orient)

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