The Orient will not be published over the summer. Look for our next issue in early September.
-The Editors 2001-2002

Update
Grandfathering amendment on the table
JAMES FISHER, ORIENT STAFF
An amendment to plus/minus grading, introduced in Monday's faculty meeting, will be put to a vote by the Faculty later this month. [read the article]

The oldest continuously published college weekly in the United States Volume CXXXI, Number 24 May 3, 2002

Faculty considers GPA vote
BELINDA J. LOVETT, ORIENT STAFF
One month following the Faculty's decision to implement a plus/minus grading system, the Faculty will once again be making a decision regarding grading at Bowdoin. [read the article]

After the Faculty voted 45 to 29 last month to implement a plus/minus grading system, various groups of students, including Student Government, have waged campaigns to encourage the Faculty to reconsider the issue. [read the article]

Tour raises accessibility awareness
BELINDA J. LOVETT, ORIENT STAFF
Members of the Bowdoin community toured the campus in wheelchairs and on crutches Tuesday on a route designed to point out the inaccessibility of various campus buildings to handicapped individuals. [read the article]

Early decision will stay
JAMES FISHER, ORIENT STAFF
The College's admissions office has no plans to scrap the early decision process after the University of North Carolina gained nationwide attention by doing so last week. [read the article]

Search for vacant positions continues
NICHOLAS J. LoVECCHIO, ORIENT STAFF

The searches for a new treasurer and a new assistant dean of Student Affairs are nearing completion, while the search for a new director of Facilities will begin soon. [read the article]

Parking violations decrease
FE VIVAS, STAFF WRITER
Parking statistics released by security last month reveal that parking violations on Bowdoin's campus are down by 5.5 percent compared to last year's numbers. [read the article]

Taxi experiment deemed a success
FE VIVAS, STAFF WRITER
The Bowdoin Student Government recently proclaimed Brunswick Taxi's trial run as the new convenience shuttle system a success. [read the article]

17 students receive EMT certification
ANN SMITH, CONTRIBUTOR
Hosted by the Bowdoin College EMS (BCEMS) club, the students went through 120 hours of rigorous EMT-Basic training provided by the Portland Fire Department Paramedics. [read the article]

Security's other side Officer Logan and I head out in Security's ubiquitous white Jeep. It is charged with a strong smell of beer-that of an unregistered keg, I learn. [read the article] Military tribunals: are they fair? What is important is not just to see that justice is done, but that the world perceives that justice is done. [read the article]

The Gala: a guide In case we don't have enough to worry about already, the Activities Board has given us one more thing to add to the list. [read the article] Focus attention on stereotypes, not racism If the goal of these Asian-American students is to educate, they are expending their energy on action that does little to help Americans understand why the shirts are offensive. [read the article]

Menagerie hits Pickard The play promises to be as powerful on Bowdoin's Pickard Theater stage as it was when it originally premiered in Chicago in 1944. [read the article] Ted previews hottest summer albums Weezer, possibly the best band in rock, will release their fourth album entitled Maladroit on May 14, almost a year to the day after The Green Album. [read the article]

Don't count out these Bears Bowdoin softball extended its win streak to five games last weekend and heads to the NESCAC tournament at Williams tomorrow. [read the article] Ultimate hosts KBB The men and women's ultimate teams combined forces last Sunday to participate in the Kind Bud Bowl, a tournament hosted by Bowdoin on the Farley Fields. [read the article]

Dog owners may find fewer spots to walk their dogs in the near future, as Bowdoin considers implementing restrictions on dog-walking on certain spots on-campus, including the Farley athletic fields. The possibility of enforcing restrictions, according to Director of Facilities Bill Gardiner, follows increasing concern over people not cleaning up after their dogs, and in some cases people actually refusing to clean up their dogs after being asked to do so. "I feel certain most dog owners and townspeople will readily understand if the College must take such action," Gardiner said. (Susan Sullivan, Bowdoin Orient)

The College performed a 'green' demolition of a campus house on South Street last Monday. 97 percent of the materials from the house will be recycled. (Courtesy of James Marshall)

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