http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/index.xmlTue, 06 Sep 2011 10:37:51 -0400rdenton@bowdoin.edu (Robert Denton)http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2011/tad-macy.shtmlThu, 24 Mar 2011 14:49:41 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2011/tad-macy.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/archives/2011/bowdoin-magazine-winter-2011.shtmlWed, 23 Mar 2011 10:35:04 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/archives/2011/bowdoin-magazine-winter-2011.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2011/moments-inthe-game.shtmlMon, 07 Mar 2011 11:45:21 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2011/moments-inthe-game.shtmlA photographic look back at the third National Championship for field hockey and the first appearance in the NCAA Final Four for men’s soccer.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2011/downeast-huck-finn.shtmlMon, 07 Mar 2011 11:44:08 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2011/downeast-huck-finn.shtmlProfessor Watterson and student Devon Shapiro debate the veracity of a purported early first diary of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2011/Africana-Studies.shtmlMon, 07 Mar 2011 11:43:51 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2011/Africana-Studies.shtmlBowdoin's Africana Studies program is fast becoming a major crossroads for some of the most innovative inter-discipinary teaching and research at the College. Selby Frame talks to faculty and students about the program, its history, and its influences.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2011/thousand-words.shtmlMon, 07 Mar 2011 11:19:13 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2011/thousand-words.shtmlMy daughter turned twenty-two a couple of months ago. Her birthday is just after the holidays, so every year when I ask her what is on her birthday wish list, I do so with a little bit of trepidation at the idea of more spending … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2011/winter11-footnotes.shtmlMon, 28 Feb 2011 10:53:45 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2011/winter11-footnotes.shtmlBowdoin: What are you teaching for your first term at Bowdoin? Clarke: An Intro to Fiction Writing Workshop and a Detective Fiction class.  Bowdoin: Detective Fiction? Clarke: Yeah, it's the first time I've taught that class. I'm a rookie at it so I'm looking forward to it … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2011/winter-2011.shtmlMon, 28 Feb 2011 10:53:43 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2011/winter-2011.shtml5 Fabulous Business Fables Aesop's fables and business advice books collide in this collection of corporate fables by A. Hamilton Augenblecq and illustrated by James Lyon '68 … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/welcoming-winter.shtmlThu, 11 Nov 2010 06:35:24 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/welcoming-winter.shtmlWinter has arrived at Bowdoin, or so it seems. The maple outside my window is naked; the November wind whips right through the lining of my warmest fleece … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/what-am-i/2010/Summer10.shtmlFri, 10 Sep 2010 11:15:30 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/what-am-i/2010/Summer10.shtmlThe Thorndike Oak: George Thorndike, Class of 1806, planted this oak tree on the Quad in 1802 to mark the opening of the College. The Thorndike Oak became an important symbol for the College and many speeches and ceremonies were held beneath it … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2010/chapel-door.shtmlFri, 10 Sep 2010 10:46:35 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2010/chapel-door.shtmlThe chapel door (and door frame) on the north side of the entry has accumulated graffiti for more than a century. There is probably less tradition involved than a long history of opportunity for leaving a mark on campus … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2010/dance.shtmlThu, 09 Sep 2010 16:40:25 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2010/dance.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/Acorns-Oaks.shtmlFri, 03 Sep 2010 17:33:39 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/Acorns-Oaks.shtmlhttp://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/gifts-of-summer.shtmlFri, 03 Sep 2010 17:27:24 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/gifts-of-summer.shtmlMaine summers are full of messages to us. The first and most obvious is this: the gift of them is extravagant and lush and practically painful in its glory, but it is fleeting … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/Joy-Unconfined.shtmlThu, 02 Sep 2010 15:44:50 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/Joy-Unconfined.shtmlIn honor of four decades of dance at Bowdoin, and in recognition of the ways in which the dance program is inclusive and expansive, we decided to take the dancers out of their typical performance spaces and photograph them appearing in campus spots both familiar and unexpected.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/Fortune-Kowitt.shtmlWed, 01 Sep 2010 15:51:06 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/Fortune-Kowitt.shtmlLed by Editor Andy Serwer '81 and—for many years—publisher Hugh Wiley '82, Fortune magazine also has writers Katie Benner '99 and Beth Kowitt '07 putting their words to work for the revered global business publication.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/Fortune-Benner.shtmlWed, 01 Sep 2010 15:50:55 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/Fortune-Benner.shtmlLed by Editor Andy Serwer '81 and—for many years—publisher Hugh Wiley '82, Fortune magazine also has writers Katie Benner '99 and Beth Kowitt '07 putting their words to work for the revered global business publication.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/Fortune-Wiley.shtmlWed, 01 Sep 2010 15:50:33 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/Fortune-Wiley.shtmlLed by Editor Andy Serwer '81 and—for many years—publisher Hugh Wiley '82, Fortune magazine also has writers Katie Benner '99 and Beth Kowitt '07 putting their words to work for the revered global business publication.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/Chris-Potholm.shtmlWed, 01 Sep 2010 15:35:31 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/Chris-Potholm.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/Job-Finding-Work.shtmlWed, 01 Sep 2010 14:46:02 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/Job-Finding-Work.shtmlBowdoin's Career Planning Center uses real world experience to share the secrets of success.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/Fortune-Serwer.shtmlWed, 18 Aug 2010 15:16:59 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/Fortune-Serwer.shtmlLed by Editor Andy Serwer '81 and—for many years—publisher Hugh Wiley '82, Fortune magazine also has writers Katie Benner '99 and Beth Kowitt '07 putting their words to work for the revered global business publication.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/archives/2010/bowdoin-magazine-summer-2010.shtmlTue, 17 Aug 2010 13:49:30 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/archives/2010/bowdoin-magazine-summer-2010.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2010/summer10-footnotes1.shtmlWed, 28 Jul 2010 11:27:49 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2010/summer10-footnotes1.shtmlShortall: In his novel Leaving the World, Douglas Kennedy tackles big themes. The story follows Jane Howard, a brilliant academic, who discovers in the course of her adulthood that the world can be cruel, and that life is written largely by a series of random events. Kennedy: I think that’s very true, I mean, in one sense Leaving the World is about dealing with everything life throws in your path … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2010/summer-2010.shtmlWed, 28 Jul 2010 11:27:19 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2010/summer-2010.shtmlThe Accidental Adventures of India McAllister This illustrated chapter book by Charlotte Agell '81 is the first in a series. India McAllister is a fourth grader who lives with her artist mother and her dog, Tofu, in a small Maine town … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/lessons.shtmlTue, 22 Jun 2010 10:02:23 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/lessons.shtmlhttp://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/Tim-Diehl.shtmlThu, 27 May 2010 15:17:35 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/Tim-Diehl.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/the-Bowdoin-green.shtmlMon, 24 May 2010 16:08:31 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/the-Bowdoin-green.shtmlhttp://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/captains.shtmlTue, 18 May 2010 14:53:11 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/captains.shtmlBowdoin students often choose to room with classmates having similar interests. Leah Rubega ’10, Caitlin Hynes ’10, Shana Natelson ’10 and Christina Fish ’10, the residents of a Coles Tower quad, have taken that formula to the extreme … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/what-am-i/2010/Spring10.shtmlFri, 14 May 2010 15:26:22 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/what-am-i/2010/Spring10.shtmlThe left hand of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain--Civil War hero, sixth president of the College, Governor of Maine, and to this day arguably Bowdoin's most famous alumnus--holding his hat, as memorialized by sculptor Joseph Query. The statue was dedicated on the edge of campus at the corner of Park Row and Maine Street, just across from Chamberlain's former residence, on Saturday, May 31, 2003 … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2010/bruns-spring10.shtmlFri, 14 May 2010 06:29:42 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2010/bruns-spring10.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2010/museum-pieces-10.shtmlFri, 14 May 2010 06:27:22 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2010/museum-pieces-10.shtml"Museum Pieces," a Bowdoin tradition for more than 20 years, concluded the 2009-2010 Common Hour series on Friday, May 7, on the terrace of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The annual event celebrates the arrival of spring through dancing and music provided by the Department of Theater and Dance. Class projects, independent student work, and student clubs are all featured on the program. Student groups that performed included Obvious, Anokha, Pure Life, Polar Bear Swing, Middle Eastern Dance Ensemble, and Taiko … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2010/postcards.shtmlFri, 14 May 2010 06:26:18 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2010/postcards.shtmlThese antique postcards were the subject of a recent "Whispering Pines" installment from John Cross '76, Secretary of Development and College Relations. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2010/spring10-footnotes2.shtmlThu, 13 May 2010 14:18:38 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2010/spring10-footnotes2.shtmlBowdoin: How did you come to the strategy of using Mars to provide a morally detached standard to this study of war? Potholm: Teaching about war over the last twenty years has become harder and harder since fewer and fewer students come to its study with any background.  Also, many think it is enough to simply say, "I don’t like war" or "I don't like this war" or "I'm not interested in war." But Trotsky got it spot on when he said, "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." Moreover, the second Iraq War cast in sharp relief the difficulties of analyzing war in the context of one's country's national policy. Students and many professors had a very hard time getting beyond "war is bad" or "I don't like George Bush" or "my country right or wrong" when they were trying to understand what was going on in the war qua war … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2010/spring10-footnotes1.shtmlThu, 13 May 2010 11:10:54 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2010/spring10-footnotes1.shtmlBowdoin: Your poem "Butter Taps" from this collection appeared on the side of Cabot Creamery butter packages, how did that come about? McGrath: In 2007 when I was in a nutrition program in New York, I met a couple of students who, when they learned I was a poet, asked if I could write a poem about butter.  Butter is my very favorite food! They were marketing execs at Cabot Creamery, a Vermont dairy cooperative, and commissioned a poem about butter, which had to include a cow and a farmer. I had great fun writing a kind of bedtime poem about the comfort of the farm, which they ran on two million pounds of salted butter last year … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/leading-by-example-james-s.-lentz-1927-2009.shtmlTue, 11 May 2010 15:31:46 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/leading-by-example-james-s.-lentz-1927-2009.shtmlJim Lentz, who died on July 22, 2009, at age 82, was an integral member of the Bowdoin community for 41 years—half his life—as Head Football Coach, then Coordinator of Physical Education and Director of the Outing Club, and Outing Club Director Emeritus. Jim was an old-school man of few words, not a man of formal titles, and he exemplified the qualities that he valued: thoughtfulness, hard work … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/Marilyn-Reizbaum.shtmlTue, 11 May 2010 09:17:34 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/Marilyn-Reizbaum.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/Jim-Lentz.shtmlFri, 07 May 2010 14:34:10 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/Jim-Lentz.shtmlJim Lentz, who died on July 22, 2009, at age 82, was an integral member of the Bowdoin community for 41 years—half his life—as Head Football Coach, then Coordinator of Physical Education and Director of the Outing Club, and Outing Club Director Emeritus. On August 9, 2009, the College held a memorial service for Jim on Whittier Field. Read the personal tributes that friends offered to Jim that day, view photos of Jim, and add your own remembrances.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/path-of-resistance.shtmlFri, 07 May 2010 14:27:16 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/path-of-resistance.shtmlChange is hard, right? Everyone knows it. Everyone says so … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/salatino.shtmlFri, 07 May 2010 08:40:11 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/salatino.shtmlNew Bowdoin College Museum of Art Director Kevin Salatino Has a Vision.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/leadership-business.shtmlThu, 06 May 2010 15:31:07 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/leadership-business.shtmlBowdoin’s Leadership Training program requires more than 350 hours of learning. When they are done, participants in the program will be certified as Wilderness First Responders, be proficient at map and compass navigation, understand trip planning and logistics, be able to use and fix all kinds of gear, and cook in the wilderness – skills they can put to use for outdoor adventures for years to come. But the most valuable skill, the one they will use in their jobs, their community work, and lives, is the one perhaps hardest to teach – how to lead.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/life-lessons.shtmlThu, 06 May 2010 14:17:23 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2010/life-lessons.shtmlIn the turbulent times of today, Bowdoin alumni from some of our older classes remember other times of trouble and reflect on what ended up mattering most.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/archives/2010/bowdoin-magazine-spring-2010.shtmlThu, 06 May 2010 14:03:18 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/archives/2010/bowdoin-magazine-spring-2010.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/All-About-the-Journey.shtmlFri, 23 Apr 2010 06:57:52 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/All-About-the-Journey.shtmlIn these sunny – but not quite warm – days, students and faculty feel the acceleration of the academic year, as Commencement shifts from being a distant abstraction to a proximate reality. The transition in perspective is sudden, and for me it is the metaphorical equivalent of the overnight spring rain that brings forth new leaves on the trees of the campus quad … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2010/spring-2010.shtmlThu, 15 Apr 2010 16:01:29 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2010/spring-2010.shtmlAncient Greek Lyrics Willis Barnstone '48, distinguished professor emeritus of comparative literature and Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington, has published nearly 60 books of poetry, scholarship, translation, and memoir. Ancient Greek Lyrics collects his translations of Greek lyric poetry, including the most complete Sappho in English, and a representative sampling of all the significant poets from the Classical to the Byzantine period, as well as a glossary and updated bibliography … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/Michael-Franz .shtmlWed, 14 Apr 2010 10:27:51 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/Michael-Franz .shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/Every-Picture-Tells-a-Story.shtmlMon, 22 Mar 2010 16:48:25 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/Every-Picture-Tells-a-Story.shtmlSpring break brings prospective students and their families to Bowdoin for a look at the campus, which may be a virtual tour online or a walking tour with an Admissions Office guide. I recently took the early 20th-century equivalent of a campus tour: twelve black-and-white postcards of the Bowdoin campus, each postmarked in Brunswick on December 18, 1906, with a dark green 1-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp, written in the same hand, signed by “G.F” (a student), and addressed to “Miss Flora Murch” in South Paris, Maine. My search for the identity of “G.F.” was straightforward –it consisted of looking through the listings for the Classes of 1906 to 1910 for someone with those initials … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/Aviva-Briefel .shtmlFri, 19 Mar 2010 13:58:56 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/Aviva-Briefel .shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/michele-gaillard.shtmlThu, 25 Feb 2010 16:41:33 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/michele-gaillard.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/tim-foster.shtmlThu, 25 Feb 2010 16:05:19 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/tim-foster.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/A-Bowdoin-Terroir.shtmlWed, 24 Feb 2010 09:44:29 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2010/A-Bowdoin-Terroir.shtmlIt has been said that a Bowdoin education draws in some measure from the College’s location in Maine, from the social and physical landscape of the community in which it is rooted, and from being steeped in a rich brew of history and tradition. At times the boundary between the literal and the metaphorical may be crossed without our being entirely aware of it … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/matt-klingle.shtmlTue, 09 Feb 2010 15:09:36 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2010/matt-klingle.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2009/matt-odonnell-livestrong.shtmlTue, 08 Dec 2009 15:19:43 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2009/matt-odonnell-livestrong.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2009/alison-bennie-mcsweenys.shtmlTue, 08 Dec 2009 14:55:58 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2009/alison-bennie-mcsweenys.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/the-peter-buck-center.shtmlMon, 07 Dec 2009 14:57:15 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/the-peter-buck-center.shtmlThe Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitnesshttp://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/what-am-i/2009/polar-express.shtmlFri, 04 Dec 2009 16:19:03 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/what-am-i/2009/polar-express.shtmlA route on the 40-foot climbing wall, the most prominent feature in the new Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness that is already a huge draw across campus. Since the Buck Center opened in September, more than 200 individual climbers have signed in to use the wall … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/don-king.shtmlFri, 20 Nov 2009 14:14:08 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/don-king.shtmlThese digital images were taken over a four-year period by Donald King, Senior Audiovisual Specialist, Information Technology, on visits to Cape Cod, Mass., and the coast around Brunswick and Acadia, Maine.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2009/getting-to-know-you.shtmlFri, 20 Nov 2009 11:07:30 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2009/getting-to-know-you.shtmlI realized recently why living a kind of public life online – through Facebook, other networking sites, even cookie-enabled browsers – doesn’t totally freak me out: it’s because I grew up in a town of 500 people that was not just a suburb of somewhere else, but was 500 people pretty much in the middle of nowhere. After having endured adolescence in a place where my every activity, relationship, and opinion was not only common knowledge but part of the actual news of the day, I don’t get too exercised over the idea that a couple of hundred people can pretty much guess how I voted in today’s election … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2009/extending-conversation.shtmlFri, 20 Nov 2009 11:01:13 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2009/extending-conversation.shtmlChances are, whatever line of work you are in, you haven’t escaped hearing the term “social networking.” And, as with many buzzwords, you’ve probably learned what to call it sometime after you had already begun doing it. Apparently, all day, every day—whether at work or on vacation, sitting in a conference room or an armchair—many of us are sending out 140- character messages to our “followers,” sharing videos and articles and Web sites with hundreds of people at once, declaring ourselves fans of bacon or “This American Life” or Shania Twain—essentially putting our lives and selves online … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2009/bound-together.shtmlFri, 20 Nov 2009 09:40:34 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2009/bound-together.shtmlThe day that my son graduated from high school in June was one of the hottest days of the summer. The ceremony was held in the middle of the day, and lines were long at the concession stand, with all the early arrivals getting their stockpiles of water to take back to their seats. I was one of them, having learned the year before to come early … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/campus-fall-09.shtmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 16:18:44 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/campus-fall-09.shtmlThe angle of the sun, the colors, the breeze that hints of both the warmth of summer and the chill of impending winter. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2009/when-cold-becomes-hot.shtmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 15:19:28 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2009/when-cold-becomes-hot.shtmlEvents of the past year have brought into sharp focus the importance of the Arctic regions in environmental, economic, and geopolitical affairs. In August of 2007 two Russian submersible vessels took advantage of thin ice at the North Pole to explore the sea bed and plant a titanium Russian flag there … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2009/awaking-from-long-sleep.shtmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 15:05:57 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2009/awaking-from-long-sleep.shtmlThere are times in our daily lives when seemingly unrelated ideas, experiences, and images come together in unexpected ways. A recent chain of associations was triggered by an illustration of Rip Van Winkle, rising bearded and bewildered from the pile of leaves that had accumulated on and around him over the course of his 20-year slumber … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2009/the-spirit-of-a-new-year.shtmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 14:47:38 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/blogs/2009/the-spirit-of-a-new-year.shtmlThe beginning of a new academic year – Bowdoin’s 208th – triggers in each of us a personal emotional response, as images, sounds, and memories crowd into our consciousness. Saying good-bye to family members, meeting classmates for the first time, and adjusting expectations to the realities of college-level classrooms leave vivid impressions on memory … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/archives/2009/bowdoin-magazine-fall-2009.shtmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 13:51:58 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/archives/2009/bowdoin-magazine-fall-2009.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/on-the-air.shtmlWed, 11 Nov 2009 16:35:54 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/on-the-air.shtmlEarly each semester the staff of WBOR conducts the college radio equivalent of an open casting call: They invite anyone who’s interested – students, faculty, staff and community members – to apply for a DJ time slot, creating new generations of DJs that are keeping college radio very much alive.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/professor-dearest.shtmlWed, 11 Nov 2009 10:32:09 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/professor-dearest.shtmlEnglish professor William Watterson and Kristina Dahmann ’10 connect the dots between Parker Cleaveland, noted mineralogist and eccentric early-nineteenth century Bowdoin professor, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s character Dr. Cacaphodel in Hawthorne’s short story “The Great Carbuncle.”http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/not-your-average-joe.shtmlTue, 10 Nov 2009 16:50:48 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/not-your-average-joe.shtmlWant to learn how to predict the winner of a presidential elextion just by watching the eyes of each candidate? Ask Joe Tecce '55. Curious about whether Roger Clemens told the truth about whether he used steroids? Joe has his number. Seeking ways to ease the stress in your life? Joe's your man.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/field-hockeys-big-picture.shtmlTue, 10 Nov 2009 15:57:19 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/field-hockeys-big-picture.shtmlIn 2007, the Bowdoin field hockey team went a perfect 20-0 in winning the College’s first national championship of any kind. A tough act to follow. In 2008, the team went 19-2 en route to a second national championship. Yet there is a sense in which athletic success is about more than victory, bigger than any one season, and in which field hockey can be more than a game.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/the-ledge.shtmlTue, 10 Nov 2009 09:57:27 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/the-ledge.shtmlFifty years ago, a short story by Bowdoin professor Lawrence Sargent Hall ’36 won a prestigious O. Henry Award. On the golden anniversary of the story’s publication, author Anthony Doerr ’95 and novelist Margot Livesey comment on the staying power of “The Ledge.”http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2009/fall2-footnotes.shtmlWed, 24 Jun 2009 14:26:21 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2009/fall2-footnotes.shtmlBowdoin: How did the characters in The House on Fortune Street come to be? Livesey: One of my ambitions in writing The House on Fortune Street was to embody the very different ways people see the world, and also the very different ways we come to see people as we get to know them better and learn their inner lives. For instance, I expected readers to find my character, Abigail, not very likable in the first three sections of the novel and then, when they got to her section, the fourth section, to think,“Oh, well it’s actually more complicated than that.” I also think it’s very interesting how stories often come together from different sources; you can’t get the entire story from one source … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2009/fall1-footnotes.shtmlWed, 24 Jun 2009 14:12:47 -0400http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2009/fall1-footnotes.shtmlBowdoin: When did you get the idea you wanted to write a book? Smith: I would say about 10 or 12 years ago. During all my travels, I took copious notes, so that made it easier - particularly about some of the unsavory characters that I met … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/lindsey-bergstrom.shtmlFri, 06 Mar 2009 10:27:43 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/lindsey-bergstrom.shtmlLindsey Scott Bergstrom ’03 targets unspoken stories on the homefront While soldiers overseas do their best to cope day by day, so too, do the loved ones those soldiers leave behind. Lindsey Scott Bergstrom ’03 knows this well … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/what-am-i/2009/monster.shtmlThu, 05 Mar 2009 21:12:14 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/what-am-i/2009/monster.shtml “Monster,” Bowdoin’s original Zamboni Ice Re-Surfacer 400 Model F, one of the first Willys Jeep-chassis-based machines that the Zamboni company made between 1956 and 1964, is now on permanent display in the new Sidney J. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2009/winter-footnotes.shtmlThu, 05 Mar 2009 20:15:44 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2009/winter-footnotes.shtmlBowdoin: What are the most common misconceptions about the life of a travel writer? Kohnstamm: The most common misconception about the life of a contemporary travel writer is that you actually get to travel and you actually get to write. Most of the time, you are racing through a foreign country at a pace akin to “The Amazing Race” (if the publisher sends you there at all) and then penning cookie-cutter reviews or updating contact information … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2009/mark-wethli.shtmlWed, 04 Mar 2009 11:43:38 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2009/mark-wethli.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2009/sam-putnam.shtmlTue, 03 Mar 2009 14:36:13 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/one-i-like/2009/sam-putnam.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/archives/2009/bowdoin-magazine-winter-2009.shtmlMon, 02 Mar 2009 17:58:12 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/archives/2009/bowdoin-magazine-winter-2009.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/windows-of-bowdoin.shtmlThu, 26 Feb 2009 16:17:05 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/windows-of-bowdoin.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/winter-09.shtmlThu, 26 Feb 2009 16:10:15 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/winter-09.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/john-rich-korea.shtmlWed, 25 Feb 2009 13:09:13 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/slideshows/2009/john-rich-korea.shtmlU.S. Marine Corps World War Two veteran John Rich ’39 spent over 30 years as a war correspondent, with experience on the front lines of every major 20th century conflict from Korea to the Congo … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/bowdoin-book-of-quotations.shtmlTue, 24 Feb 2009 11:38:43 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/bowdoin-book-of-quotations.shtmlA world-recognized authority on quotations and on reference in general, Fred R. Shapiro is associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at Yale Law School. In compiling his recent Yale Book of Quotations, he encountered many of Bowdoin’s most illustrious—and eloquent—graduates.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/the-education-of-dr-jonathan-martin.shtmlTue, 24 Feb 2009 11:38:18 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/the-education-of-dr-jonathan-martin.shtmlJonathan Martin ’92, now a member of the department of neurosurgery at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, tells writer Mel Allen the harrowing and inspiring story of his military service as a neurosurgeon in Iraq and how it changed him.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/archives/2008/summer-2008.shtmlTue, 24 Feb 2009 09:39:46 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/archives/2008/summer-2008.shtml. … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2009/winter.shtmlWed, 11 Feb 2009 15:35:57 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/insider/bookshelf/2009/winter.shtmlIn his first novel, Jim Hughes '67 takes readers inside the beginning of a “new cold war.” Professor William Abbey accepts a consulting assignment on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, only to later discover that his client has plans for more than beach resorts. He realizes that millions of American lives are in his hands and that he must stop the Baja Project … http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/bears-in-vacationland.shtmlTue, 10 Feb 2009 15:31:29 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/bears-in-vacationland.shtmlPlanning a trip to Maine this year? While most alumni live outside of this beautiful state, there are many Bowdoin graduates who make a living sharing Maine’s attractions with others—in fact, you could plan a vacation just staying (and eating) with fellow Polar Bears. Writer Ed Beem outlines a few stops you might make on your way.http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/northward-over-the-ice.shtmlTue, 10 Feb 2009 15:31:27 -0500http://www.bowdoin.edu/magazine/features/2009/northward-over-the-ice.shtmlOn April 6, the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum will celebrate the centennial of Commander Robert E. Peary’s attainment of the North Pole. Ed Beem puts the 1909 journey into context and talks to some of Bowdoin’s current faculty to explain why the race is still on, and what’s at stake.