The Bowdoin Orient
Volume CXLI, Number 14
February 3, 2012
NEWS
OneCard accepted by Brunswick businesses
By DYLAN HAMMER, ORIENT STAFFAfter many years of false starts, OneCards will be accepted as payment at select businesses in downtown Brunswick. Domino's Pizza, Aki Sushi, and Big Top Deli are currently set up to accept student identification cards as payment, with more businesses soon to join.
College boasts world's fastest wireless technology
By PETER GRIESMER, ORIENT STAFFPerennial groans regarding the inadequacies of the College's Internet connectivity may finally fall silent. The College has nearly completed the installation of the world's fastest wireless technology, a process which began in early December. Mitch Davis, Bowdoin's chief information officer, negotiated a deal with Cisco that brought the company's brand new, top-of-the-line wireless system to campus, placing Bowdoin among the first three organizations to receive a shipment of the company's new Aironet 3600 Series wireless access points.
College house application process altered
By LUKE DRABYN, ORIENT STAFFWith the application deadline for College House residency just around the corner, interested students will be subject to a new interview process designed to improve the increasingly competitive College House application process. The new method is meant to be more personal and to grant current College House members a larger role in choosing new residents.
Facebook mass deactivation experiment hits College
By ERICA BERRY, ORIENT STAFFCollege students propelled Facebook to popularity, and at Bowdoin, they are now experimenting with deactivation en masse. Last Monday, Tyler Patton '12 and Ruiqi Tang '13 launched massdeactivation.blogspot.com, the site of their self-proclaimed "social experiment" that urges Bowdoin students to disable their Facebook profiles from February 8 to March 8. During this time, profiles will not be deleted but dormant, allowing students the option to resume their presence on the social network after the trial period.
Michael Bartini hired as new head of financial aid
By SAMUEL FRIZELL, ORIENT STAFFThe College announced Tuesday that Michael Bartini will replace Stephen Joyce as the director of student aid. Bartini will begin working at the College this week, but will not officially replace Joyce until July.
Orbit will offer customizable activity feeds
By AMANDA MINOFF, ORIENT STAFFThe Orbit, which replaced the Student Digest last spring as the College's announcement network, is in flux once again.
Film crew from C-SPAN records 'The Wire' class on Wednesday
By SOMYA MAWRIE, ORIENT STAFFOn Wednesday, a film crew arrived on campus to tape Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Brian Purnell's "The Wire": Race, Class, Gender and the Urban Crisis." The course will be featured on C-SPAN's "Lectures in History" series on an upcoming Saturday.
BSG debates council elections, approves T-shirt funding request
By NATALIE CLARK, ORIENT STAFFBowdoin Student Government (BSG) presented projects for the coming weeks and settled lingering matters from last semester this Wednesday in its first session of 2012.
Vassar College accidentally admits 76 students under ED II
By GARRETT CASEY, ORIENT STAFFSeventy-six would-be members of the Vassar College Class of 2016 had to put a cork in their festivities last Friday after finding out that the college had, in fact, not intended to offer them admission.
Claremont McKenna found to have lied to U.S. News on SAT data
By LINDA KINSTLER, ORIENT STAFFOn Monday, the news broke nationwide that since 2005, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) had reported inflated SAT scores to the Department of Education, U.S. News & World Report, and various credit rating firms in efforts to elevate the college's ranking.