The Bowdoin Orient

Surprise snowfall conquers classes

By NICK DAY, ORIENT STAFF

The wintry mix that blanketed the College on Thursday left half the campus in the dark, but it bestowed students and staff their first official snow day in, according to some professors, more than 30 years.

'Academic time moves slowly'

By ANNA KARASS, ORIENT STAFF

While the influence of the Middle East in world affairs is undisputed, the urgency of adapting Bowdoin's curriculum to this reality is less certain. However, for some students and faculty members, the lack of courses about Islam and the Middle East represents a critical gap in the institution's curriculum.

Abroad provider SIT sued by Ithaca student

By BETH KOWITT, ORIENT STAFF

Safety concerns have led the School for International Training (SIT), an organization providing study abroad programs attended by Bowdoin students, to have its use suspended by Ithaca College.

College finalizes plan for 30 College St.

By EMILY GUERIN, ORIENT STAFF

The renovation plans for 30 College St. were finalized last week after members of student groups chose a design from three proposed blueprints.

APRIL WONDERLAND: The College canceled classes on Thursday due to a weather-related power outage. See feature article...

FEATURES

Unleashing the inner bear

By KELSEY ABBRUZZESE, ORIENT STAFF

Taylor Arnold '07 and John Hall '08 have fond memories of attending hockey games as children with their fathers. What they remember most, though, is not the athletes. They remember the mascots.

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OPINION

EDITORIAL

Middle Eastern studies

In his "Offer of the College," former Bowdoin President William DeWitt Hyde envisages an education that will equip graduates to "be at home in all lands and all ages." And though the academic curriculum here is broad, the College's lack of course offerings in Arabic language and Middle Eastern culture has made it so that Bowdoin students who aspire to careers in diplomacy or business in the Middle East?or wish to travel there for any reason?will not feel at home in the least.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Seniors to deliver 'face-melting' music compositions

By MARTINA WELKE, STAFF WRITER

Two of Bowdoin's own nouveau composers are making their stage debut this weekend, as Nate Guttman '07 and Adam Cohen-Leadholm '07 will present their senior honors projects in composition. The show will be in Kresge Auditorium today at 7:30 p.m., complete with professional musicians.

SPORTS

Green baseball team working to find stride

By TOM LAKIN, STAFF WRITER

The Bowdoin Baseball Team has a different look this year. Gone are the dominant senior pitchers who led the Bears to their first-ever NCAA tournament appearance last season. This year's version will rely on senior leadership at the plate and a green crop of first-year hurlers. At 7-7, the young squad is off to a fairly solid start?and with a decent spring trip and two quality wins over a great Trinity team, the Bears' .500 record is perhaps even more solid than initially thought.