The Bowdoin Orient

College drops full-time doctor

By EMILY GUERIN, ORIENT STAFF

The College began a search for a new director of health services this week, one of the first steps towards a new system of health care at Dudley Coe Health Center.

Recital hall fine-tuned for opening

By NICK DAY, ORIENT STAFF

After more than a year and a half of construction and renovation, the $15 million Studzinski Recital Hall is set to open next week with a series of inaugural concerts.

Center for Common Good will open in '08

By BETH KOWITT, ORIENT STAFF

If you're looking for the common good, by the fall of 2008, you'll be able to knock on its door.

BSG officer elections plagued by low turnout

By KIRA CHAPPELLE, ORIENT STAFF

The elections for next year's Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) and the referendum initiated by Ian Yaffe '09 showed a significant decrease in voter participation among Bowdoin students.

TOMMY WILCOX, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BRIGHT LIGHTS: The $15 million Studzinski Recital Hall will open next week. Community members were invited on April 18 to a “Hard Hat Sneak Preview Concert,” during which designers took measurements and fine-tuned the hall’s acoustics. The “Stud’s” official opening is next weekend. See feature article...

FEATURES

From student to teacher

By MARY HELEN MILLER, ORIENT STAFF

For their final semester of college, eight seniors went back to high school. As the culminating part of their teaching minors, these men and women traded their flexible college schedules for a post that required them to be professionally dressed and in the classroom of a local high school every morning before many of their peers had rolled out of bed. Two weeks ago, these students completed the required 14 weeks of classroom instruction, thus making them eligible to teach in Maine and some other states.

OPINION

EDITORIAL

Twin Concerns

Two items in the news should surprise students this week?and perhaps not in a good way. On Monday, the College began its search for a new director of health services. The individual will fill the position vacated by Dr. Jeff Benson in January, when the College abruptly announced that he would no longer be serving his post. We are also concerned by news that the faculty will not consider the proposed course scheduling policy during its May faculty meetings.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Artistic zombies invade Maine Mall for student project

By KELSEY ABBRUZZESE, ORIENT STAFF

Attention, shoppers: Please do not take pictures of the zombies. Patrons at the Maine Mall on Sunday did not hear this broadcasted over the loudspeaker, but it was the message a Maine Mall security officer named Googin conveyed when he asked Sam Tung '09 and his friends, who were dressed as zombies for Tung's art project, to leave the mall.

SPORTS

Hit batsman seals deal for Polar Bear baseball

By TOM LAKIN, STAFF WRITER

The baseball team continued its up-and-down play last week, splitting a weekend series with Wesleyan, beating Brandeis and Husson, but losing to St. Joseph's. The Bears played host to Wesleyan for a doubleheader on what turned out to be a sunny Saturday afternoon. Bowdoin played very well in the first game, capitalizing on a five-run fifth inning that led to an 8-5 victory. The Bears were white hot at the plate, with four different players?Joe Berte '09, Jon Koperniak '09, Reid Auger '10, and John Lawrie '07?contributing two hits each.