New campus center to promote wellness
By WILL JACOB, ORIENT STAFFBy 2009, students may be able to visit a nurse, an acupuncturist, and an athletic trainer all in the same building. The College has merged plans for a new fitness center, a health center renovation, and a wellness center proposed by the Counseling Service into a single project.
High-tech phones on the radar
By EMILY GRAHAM, ORIENT STAFFBowdoin's outdated phones face last call this semester. Information Technology (IT) plans to update many of Bowdoin's phones over Winter Break, replacing the 25-year-old system with ones that use voice-over Internet Protocol (IP) technology.
Dorm painting policy vague, students say
By LAUREN WILWERDING, ORIENT STAFFDirector of Residential Life Kim Pacelli wants students to be creative when decorating their dorm rooms. But this doesn't mean painting them. "There are a few buildings with [dorm rooms] that are painted [by students]," said Pacelli. "If I had my druthers, I would change that."
College drills on Quad to repair malfunctioning geothermal unit
By SAM WAXMAN, STAFF WRITERJust when students thought they had seen the end of construction on the Quad, an unforeseen problem has brought heavy machinery back to the center of campus. Construction workers are fixing a malfunction in the geothermal heating and cooling system responsible for temperature control in the Walker Art Building. They are also adding a component to prevent future glitches.
