The Bowdoin Orient

Faculty to consider limiting Credit/D/Fail

By STEVE KOLOWICH, ORIENT STAFF

The faculty may vote as early as next week on a measure that would forbid students in the Class of 2012 and beyond from using the Credit/D/Fail option in classes taken to fulfill distribution requirements. The Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee (CEP) is expected to submit a motion at Monday's faculty meeting addressing the question and recommending that the body vote in favor of the rule change.

Student hospitalized after fight

By JOSHUA MILLER, ORIENT STAFF

A drunken fight between two students outside Brunswick Apartments early on the morning of Saturday, January 26, left a student hospitalized for 12 hours. The assault victim, a male member of the Class of 2009, suffered some cuts and bruises and a lump on the back of his head, but has made a full recovery.

C-Store emphasizes healthier options

By EMILY GUERIN, ORIENT STAFF

Students looking for a Snickers or a Kit-Kat at the C-Store in Smith Union may now have to look a little harder. A recent decision to move candy from a prominent display in the store to under a counter?where it is shelved in relative obscurity?is part of an ongoing effort to encourage healthier eating, according to Director of Dining & Bookstore Services Mary Lou Kennedy.

Students, Maine residents look forward to caucuses

By ALEX LOCKE, ORIENT STAFF

Bowdoin students, along with Maine residents across the state, will soon head to school gyms and town halls to participate in the upcoming Republican and Democratic caucuses. The Republican caucuses last from Friday until Sunday; the Bowdoin Republicans have endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

MARGOT D. MILLER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Construction continues on the Watson Ice Arena. The rink, expected to be completed by the winter of 2008, will cost the College approximately $20 million.

FEATURES

Winter swells tempt surfers into freezing ocean waters

By GEMMA LEGHORN, ORIENT STAFF

As Jess McGreehan '08 and Madelyn Sullivan '09 drive back to campus on a cold January morning, the two surfers describe the experience of being caught under a wintry wave: "It feels like someone has dumped 50 pounds of ice cubes into your wetsuit," says Sullivan. "It goes into every crevice."

OPINION

EDITORIAL

Civic engagement

Bowdoin students will have several opportunities to exercise their democratic rights in coming weeks. On Monday, the faculty may vote to forbid students from taking required classes Credit/D/Fail, and Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) is encouraging students to participate in this important curricular question by assembling peaceably outside Daggett Lounge. As the state caucuses approach, students registered in Maine will also have the opportunity to engage with national politics by helping Maine choose its favored presidential candidates.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Author?s taut narratives tell stories of post-apartheid loss

By FRANCES MILLIKEN, ORIENT STAFF

Loss is the most deeply entrenched theme that winds itself through Nadine Gordimer's most recent collection of short stories. The departures that occur in this collection are caused by death, circumstance, and the frequent, strange twists of life. "Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories" is representative of the South African author's firm grasp on the pulse of the post-Apartheid nation and the strains on identity and love that have come into currency due to the shrunken scale of the modern world.

SPORTS

Men?s basketball jumps to 2nd place in NESCAC

By DAVID SHAEFFER, STAFF WRITER

The men's basketball team improved its conference record to 3-1 with impressive victories over Connecticut College and Wesleyan last weekend.