The Bowdoin Orient

Watson Arena to host first game in January

By PETER GRIESMER, ORIENT STAFF

On January 18, the puck drops. In a little over a month, Watson Ice Arena will officially replace Dayton Arena as the venue for Bowdoin hockey teams. "I'll have fond memories of [Dayton] but, honestly, it's fallen down," Director of Athletics Jeff Ward said.

A look back: Budget cuts in '90s slump

By NAT HERZ, ORIENT STAFF

In his first semester at Bowdoin in 1990, President Robert Edwards wrote a memorandum to the school's financial planning committee detailing the status of budget. "Very simply, Bowdoin is spending at a higher level than its revenues will support," he wrote. As a result, Edwards, his administrative team and the College's overseers undertook the process of balancing the budget.

Student-faculty ratio decreases to 9:1

By ZOë LESCAZE, ORIENT STAFF

The steady increase of Bowdoin faculty in recent years has shifted the student to faculty ratio from 10:1 to 9:1, a change that impacts interactions between students and teachers as well as the scope of Bowdoin's offerings.

BSG health center survey inadequate, members say

By PIPER GROSSWENDT AND SETH WALDER, ORIENT STAFF

Bowdoin Student Government (BSG), in conjunction with the Dean's office and Dudley Coe Health Center, has decided to conduct a second poll to measure student opinion about the health care provided on campus. BSG President Sophia Seifert '09 and Vice President of Student Affairs Carly Berman '11 conducted the original survey, composed of questions compiled by the BSG Assembly.

MARGOT D. MILLER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

STICKING TO IT: John Bisbee’s Sculpture I class puts the finishing touches on its collaborative final project. The assignment was to fill the classroom, located in Fort Andross, with non-representational structures made entirely from masking tape. Please see related story, page 8.

FEATURES

Hung up on hook-ups

By EMILY GUERIN AND MARY HELEN MILLER, ORIENT STAFF

If you want to date, don't come to Bowdoin. At a school where hook-ups out number dates more than three to one, students looking for a dating scene may be sorely disappointed. First year Branden Asemah expected to come to Bowdoin and date a lot of people, but so far "it's just not happening." From what he has seen, the drunken hook-up has taken the place of the date.

OPINION

EDITORIAL

Where's the love?

Whether you're a girl or guy, gay or straight, we all know how it feels to?you know?like someone.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Art students incorporate diverse media in final shows

By ANDY BERNARD, STAFF WRITER

As the semester winds down, visual arts students are gearing up to present their final projects this weekend in mediums that include everything from chicken wire to paper leaves. Art Lecturer John Bisbee's Sculpture I and II classes, as well as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Anna Hepler's Advanced Studies in Visual Arts course, will hold shows in Fort Andross. Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Meggan Gould's Photo I and II classes will display their final projects in the McLellan Building. The different courses present a variety of interesting mediums, and the different assignments provided some challenging constraints within which students worked

SPORTS

After 52 years, hockey teams leave historic Dayton Arena

By JEREMY BERNFELD, STAFF WRITER

It is tough to imagine hockey at Bowdoin without the legendary Dayton Arena. And yet, by the time students are back on campus following Winter Break, the Bowdoin hockey program will have moved to its new, swanky home next to Farley Field House. While the excitement is building for the beautiful new arena, Bowdoin hockey's old Quonset hut home will be missed. Men's hockey coach Terry Meagher compared Dayton to an old, beat-up family car with 300,000 miles on it. It's old and lovable, but broken in so many ways, and just impossible to fix without destroying it completely.