The Bowdoin Orient

Town proposal could end off-campus housing

A proposed zoning ordinance with considerable implications for off-campus housing generated spirited debate at a town council meeting on Tuesday. Zoning Ordinance 166, sponsored by District 7 Councilor Newell Augur, proposes to limit the number of people who can live together "who are not part of a household unit" to no more than two people. The ordinance also seeks to redefine "household unit" as a "domestic relationship based upon birth, marriage, or other domestic bond as distinguished from a housemate or roommate situation."

Healthcare Check-up: Some former staffers question management

Lori Chadbourne sat crying in the parking lot of the Dudley Coe Health Center in late September. After six years sitting at the front desk working as the administrative coordinator for the Dudley Coe Health Center?a job she loved so much she hoped to work at Bowdoin for decades, until her retirement?she had decided to quit.

Healthcare Check-up: As facility ages, care gets more complex

At the core of many of the issues facing Dudley Coe Health Center lies the tension between the educational mission of the College and the necessity of providing healthcare to students. "Obviously Bowdoin in not a medical facility, it's a college," Student Health Program Administrator Caitlin Gutheil said. "What we excel in is educational practices, not medical practices."

Early Admissions: Peers? policy changes may affect Bowdoin

When Harvard and Princeton decided to eliminate their early admission programs starting this fall and accept all members of the Class of 2012 through a single process with a January 1, 2008 deadline, Bowdoin admissions wondered what kind of ripple effect the move would have in Brunswick. Not much, administrators have since discovered. But they predict that Bowdoin will feel the repercussions of Princeton and Harvard's decision during the regular admissions process.