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Volume CXXXIII, Number 16
February 27, 2004
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 CBB will shut down after 2004-2005
PRIYA SRIDHAR, STAFF WRITER
First year students should rethink their plans about studying abroad through the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Off-Campus Study Program. After the 2004-2005 academic year, CBB will cease operations in South Africa, Ecuador and England.
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 Basketball retains top spot, gets national press
BETH KOWITT, ORIENT STAFF
An article in the Orient is now only small press for the Bowdoin Women's Basketball Team after a feature ran in The New York Times recently. "Basketball Isn't Only Stage on Which Bowdoin Excels" ran on Friday, February 21.
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Organizers bring Berlin to Bowdoin
JOY LEE, STAFF WRITER
While the Red Sox were heading to Florida for spring training this week, and Monica and Chandler looked for a house in the suburbs, the Bowdoin campus was also heading for a faraway place-all while staying close to home. A series of lectures and events entitled "Germany and Its Capital Berlin: Respect for Traces of Its History" have brought Berlin to campus.
[read the article] Increasing textbook prices empty students' pockets
BETH KOWITT, ORIENT STAFF
Bowdoin students are used to dishing out the dollars. With tuition rates among the highest in the nation, we're accustomed to cringing and writing big checks. But when it comes to buying books for classes, students are starting to wonder-how much is too much?
[read the article] BSG expands newspaper service for community
NATALIE CRAVEN, STAFF WRITER
In an effort to increase student awareness of the world outside Bowdoin, the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) recently increased the variety and number of newspapers made available each day. In addition to The Boston Globe and The New York Times, Bowdoin students now have access to USA Today, the local The Times Record, and The Financial Times.
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Speaker shares intense story of struggle from incredible poverty to Ivy League
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.
[read the article] Ahhh... February
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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Ambassador J.Lo?
Yesterday marked the 11th anniversary of the first World Trade Center attack back in 1993, when a car bomb killed six people but failed to drop the towers. Americans, resilient but unwilling to presume the worst- that this wasn't an isolated attack but an early strike in an ongoing war- quickly and willfully put the event aside, neglecting to ask some important questions.
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EDITORIAL
London calling?
While the closing of the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Off-Campus Study Program in London, Cape Town, and Quito is unfortunate, it is understandable in light of the financial and administrative problems noted by President Mills and the other college presidents in their statement. However, it calls attention to the fact that after Spring 2005, Bowdoin will not be operating any study abroad programs at all.
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A passionate review of Gibson's Passion of the Christ
For months prior to its release, The Passion of the Christ has created a firestorm of controversy, with naysayers fearing it would be anti-Semitic and proponents hoping it would properly account for the end of Jesus's life.
[read the article] M&G's Christie mystery offers thrills
Whodunit?
Masque and Gown will have audiences wondering just that during their production of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, which opened last night and continues tonight and tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. in Pickard Theater.
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Men suffer season-ending upest
With a win each from games earlier in the season, the Bates and Bowdoin Men's Basketball Teams were looking to settle the score in the first round of the NESCAC playoffs. The two teams broke the tie on Saturday with the win going to Bates.
[read the article] Skaters pick up back-to-back wins on road
After picking up back-to-back shut-out wins on the road versus Wesleyan and Trinity, the Bowdoin Women's Ice Hockey Team finished its regular season tied with Middlebury atop the NESCAC. Not only did the two teams post identical records, but also the Bears and Panthers were tied in every category used as a tie-breaker.
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