The Bowdoin Orient

Repeat Champions

By SETH WALDER, ORIENT STAFF

It was almost too perfect. A repeat of the NESCAC finals. Tie game?into sudden death overtime. Double overtime. And then, who else but Lindsay McNamara '09, Bowdoin's all-time leading scorer, to end it once and for all, sealing the field hockey team's second consecutive national title?this time against NESCAC rival Tufts.

Fitness center on track, but $3.6m short of funds

By NICK DANIELS, ORIENT STAFF

Despite a considerable shortage of raised funds for the new Fitness, Health and Wellness Center, College officials said they expect the center to open its doors next fall. According to Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer Katy Longley, as of September 30, the College still needs to raise more than $3.6 million for the $15.5 million project. Approximately $5.6 million has already been either given or pledged to fund the building. Most of the remaining difference between the project cost and raised funds?a little more than $6 million?will be paid for through debt financing.

Mono infects high number of students

By CLAIRE COLLERY, ORIENT STAFF

For some students, Thanksgiving Break can't come soon enough. Though most students are worn out by looming deadlines, an unusually high number of students are struggling with the added burden of illness.

Streamlined card system to require new OneCards

By ANYA COHEN, ORIENT STAFF

Bowdoin will see the installation of a long-awaited new ID card system this Winter Break. Operations Manager of Residential Life Lisa Rendall announced in an e-mail to the campus last Friday that all faculty, staff and students will receive new, redesigned ID cards and that card readers in 22 buildings will be replaced as part of an effort to move toward one door access system.

MARGOT D. MILLER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BACK-TO-BACK: Kara Kelley '10 and Lindsay McNamara '09 are mobbed by students as they arrive at Farley Field House at 1 a.m. Monday morning after their national championship victory.

FEATURES

A 'dead language' that's alive and well at Bowdoin

By CAITLIN BEACH, ORIENT STAFF

Latin is not a dead language at Bowdoin. In fact, for all intents and purposes, it's alive and kicking. In accordance with national trends, enrollment in Latin at Bowdoin has spiked in recent years. A Modern Language Association (MLA) study from 2002 to 2006 revealed that Latin enrollments at the collegiate level increased by 7.9 percent.

OPINION

EDITORIAL

Giving thanks

It is easy to feel gloomy as we approach the end of the semester?the days are becoming darker, school work is getting more difficult and the economy is in a downward spiral. However, despite all that, we have much to be thankful for.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Bowdoin professor premieres solo exhibit at ICON

By CAROLYN WILLIAMS, ORIENT STAFF

Anna Hepler carved out the world as she saw it for her latest exhibit, "Woodcuts," at ICON Contemporary Art Gallery in Brunswick. Hepler, a visiting assistant professor of art at Bowdoin, currently has 17 woodcuts hanging at the gallery that depict reductive images of real life objects, a theme prevalent throughout Hepler's work, woodcut and otherwise. "My work looks abstract but is in fact a kind of reductive realism," Hepler said. "That is, the images are based on real things and real observations in the world."

SPORTS

Field hockey competes in NCAA Final Four

By KATHERINE POKRASS, ORIENT STAFF

The Bowdoin Field Hockey Team punched its ticket to the 2008 NCAA Final Four Tournament after two exciting victories over Stevens Institute of Technology and Middlebury last weekend. The team will look to defend its 2007 title at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania, this year's site of the final four.