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I grew up in a city with a perpetual soundtrack. Once a colonial epicenter of the horrendous transatlantic slave trade, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, is now a vibrant hub of Afro-Caribbean diasporic culture, a place where locals’ alignment with sound …
In response to the author of “Disoriented: a review of the Bowdoin Orient”: I’ll bite.
While expressing your disappointment with the “pathetic” volume of writing and lack of “truly unpopular,” “audacious” and “controversial” contributions in and to the …
We, the undersigned, are Bowdoin faculty writing to express our support for the right of our students and faculty to protest and dissent.
Like many of our students and colleagues, we have been deeply disturbed by the mass slaughter of …
I fully support my students’ rights to protest, to activism and to dreaming and building better futures. At Bowdoin, I have been proud to be a part of solidarity initiatives to improve our campus community: from our committee hiring of …
We came to the Orient from many different places. (Boston, five miles outside of Boston, ten miles outside of Boston, Cambridge, extending all the way to Winchestah, Andovah and Pittsburgh, sure, and some other places.)
The Bowdoin that we knew …
Lyrics compromise music’s special metaphysical status.
To accept this, you first need to accept that music has a special metaphysical status—that is, in comparison to other art forms. By metaphysical, I am referring to the posited reality outside of human …
As the author of “Imagining Bowdoin” wrote in 2009, “If there is a yearning I see in the students, faculty and staff here, it is a yearning to believe that we dwell, and that Bowdoin students will forever dwell, in …
If the Bowdoin Orient disbanded tomorrow, what would change? The staff would be freed from their weekly Thursday night toils, the columnists would have to find somewhere else to publish and, for many of us, the ten minutes we spend …
“It ought always to be remembered, that literary institutions are founded and endowed for the common good, and not for the private advantage of those who resort to them for education,” President Joseph McKeen said in his 1802 inaugural address. …
Bowdoin has one of the only course registration systems in the country that puts students first. At many other colleges, students’ course schedules are determined by their availability and Wi-Fi at the time they register for classes. But at Bowdoin, …
