The Bowdoin Orient

Investigation of professor’s study draws to a close

By NICK DAY, ORIENT STAFF

Following a College investigation of alleged research misconduct, a Bowdoin professor now awaits a final decision on the matter from President Barry Mills. Professor of Economics Jonathan Goldstein, a former chair of the economics department and a 29-year tenured veteran of the College, researched in a 2008 paper the effect of athletics on academics at 36 small, liberal arts colleges, including Bowdoin. The paper, which contained results potentially harmful to the reputation of the College, has not been published in a scholarly journal but was posted last August on Goldstein's faculty page of the Bowdoin Web site.

Local stores contend with slow economy

By TOPH TUCKER, ORIENT STAFF

On Sunday, CyberLANd employee James McKernan told the Orient, "We hit a rough patch, but we're picking ourselves back up. Things are picking up." By Wednesday, a "Going Out of Business" banner had been draped across the storefront. Inside, the news was still sinking in for patrons and staff.

Study examines grade inflation, athletics

By NICK DAY, ORIENT STAFF

Professor of Economics Jonathan Goldstein's paper, "The Tradeoff Between Extra-Curricular Activities and the Academic Mission of Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Why Some Schools Are Poor Educational Investments," has been the source of an eight-month long dispute between the author and College officials since shortly after it was posted on his faculty Web page last August.

Maine newspapers weather economic storm

By WILL JACOB, ORIENT STAFF

Amid the online-only shift of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a threatened Boston Globe, and the state's own Blethen Maine Newspapers for sale, the news industry today is struggling. With advertising revenues falling for all, print subscriptions down 15 to 20 percent at some Maine dailies in the past eight years, and burdensome debt structures to support, newspapers in Maine are looking, with the rest of the country, for ways to weather the storm.

MARGOT D. MILLER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

ELEMENTARY EXPOSURE: Fifth grade students from Woodside Elementary School admire the photographs they created with the help of Aspen Gavenus ’09 (far right) and Sam Modest ’09 (not pictured) at the Topsham Public Library on Thursday. Bowdoin students who aided Gavenus and Modest with their project, from left: Maggie Brenner ’10, Dzenana Lukovic ’09, Jordy Agusti ’09, and Nick Norton ’09.

FEATURES

Gunther ’09 brings Baltimore to light through poetry

By MARY HELEN MILLER, ORIENT STAFF

When senior Kristen Gunther peruses the U.S. travel section in a bookstore, she usually notices that one section is conspicuously missing. "You get down to Philly, and it skips right down to D.C.—there's nothing on Baltimore," she said.

OPINION

EDITORIAL

Sharing the burden

For the past several months, the College has been forced to make hard decisions about how to reduce spending. While trying to stay as committed as possible to its fundamental principles, the College has made cutbacks that have significantly affected everyone on campus—everyone, that is, except the students.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Muses, love stories, and imagination abound at One Act Festival

By ERIN K. MCAULIFFE, STAFF WRITER

If you had one act to tell your story, what would you say? This week, three Bowdoin students, with the help of their peers, are answering that question during the annual One Act Festival. Produced by Masque and Gown in collaboration with the Hunter Frost Fund, the festival gives student playwrights, directors, and actors a chance to showcase their work by completing the challenging task of performing a one act play. The festival is also a competition. The writer of the best play is awarded at Honor's Day and memorialized on a statue in Memorial Hall.

SPORTS

Tennis keeps streak alive with 7th victory

By ROBERT ZHANG-SMITHERAM, CONTRIBUTOR

The men's tennis team has been out-hitting its opponents at all positions, beating Bates 9-0 on Thursday night, dismissing Colby with a 9-0 shut-out last Friday, and winning again, 8-1, the following day against Tufts. The win improves the Bears NESCAC record to 5-0, with a 9-2 overall record. Stephen Sullivan lead the way against Bates, winning at the No. 1 singles position, but the whole team had strong performanecs. The win marks the first time the Polar Bears swept the Bobcats 9-0. "Pretty much everyone stepped up in general," Matt Knise '10 said. "We're on a seven-match streak now, so it's awesome going into Middlebury this weekend."