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Volume CXXXIII, Number 16 |
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Speaker shares intense story of struggle from incredible poverty to Ivy League
NICOLE COLUCCI, STAFF WRITER
It took 15-year-old Liz Murray one month of riding the subway all night and sleeping in abandoned corridors to realize that she was homeless. Now 24 and the subject of a television movie, she spoke at last Friday's Common Hour and shared her remarkable story of overcoming this homelessness to complete high school in two years and subsequently go on to study at Harvard.
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Ahhh... February
KAZIA JANKOWSKI, GUEST COLUMNIST
Taking one of my much needed telemark skiing breaks last weekend, a girl stopped next to me to ask the pivotal question-"Is this year a leap year?"
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Architecture professor designs speech on visionary
ADAM BABER, ORIENT STAFF
In 1935, the French architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, more commonly known as Le Corbusier, visited Bowdoin and presented his vision of the future city-the "Radiant City," he called it. At the time he was little-known outside intellectual circles, but he would go on to change the world.
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Freshman Fifteen and birth control pills: no connection
JEFF BENSON, M.D., DUDLEY COE HEALTH CENTER
Dear Dr. Jeff : I would like to start taking birth control pills, but I am already worried about gaining "the Freshman Fifteen"? What should I do?-V.W.
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First impressions of Labrador emerge
KATHRYN OSTROFSKY, COLUMNIST
The 90-ton schooner Julia A. Decker continued her northward voyage carrying Professor Leslie Lee and the 19 Bowdoin students and alumni of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador.
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Fast Features
ORIENT STAFF, CONTRIBUTORS
When Joshua Chamberlain, then a Bowdoin professor, tried to join the military to fight in the Civil War, Bowdoin faculty sent a representative to Augusta to discourage Chamberlain's appointment.
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Did You Know?: PVC plastic pollutes planet
KEISHA PAYSON, CONTRIBUTOR
Did you know that polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a common substance used in medical supplies and building construction, is the subject of environmental and health concerns? One of the byproducts of PVC production and incineration is dioxin, a known carcinogen.
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