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Volume CXXXIII, Number 16
February 27, 2004

 

Ambassador J.Lo?
PAT ROCKEFELLER, COLUMNIST
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. [read the article]

The real deal in the Marines
ALEX CORNELL DU HOUX, CONTRIBUTOR
Why are so many service members Republican? While I was training with the Marines, I found that most of my fellow Devil-Dogs were Republican, but I also noticed that most of them didn't realize what George W. Bush and the Republican party have been doing to their pay and social programs. [read the article]

Conservative dissent
HENRY WORK, CONTRIBUTOR
It was obvious that Republican Senator John McCain, during an interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in late January, was having fun. Bringing up Bush's proposal for a revitalization of lunar expeditions, McCain wondered aloud: "Has someone told him that we've already been there?" [read the article]

The Mrs. Robinson scenario
KARA OPPENHEIM, COLUMNIST
Ashton and Demi are doing it. Cameron and Justin are doing it. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon have been doing it for years, and if you need any more reassurance, just look to The Graduate. [read the article]

Student Speak
PETER HASTINGS
What is the one thing you would change at Bowdoin? [read the article]

 

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. [read the editorial]

Editorials represent the majority view of the editoral staff.

Organic diversity
As a non-white student at Bowdoin College, I am not interested in receiving pity or inciting guilt; rather, I am interested only in respect. [read the letter]

Openness key to diversity
[read the letter]

Let's get the facts first
I have been frustrated with the manner in which the "racial incidents" on campus have been dealt with by the administration and the Orient. [read the letter]

Excellence
Last Saturday, many Bowdoin hockey alums returned to the Pines to watch the current Bears play and to see how much our respective skills have diminished since we had the honor of wearing the white and black. [read the letter]

Real sex
This is a response to the lack of quality discourse and advice about sex and relationships in the forgery that is Sex and the Bubble. [read the letter]


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