Published December 13, 2018 by Rebecca Goldfine

Holiday Festivities... Commence!

In the days leading up to reading period, departments and student groups around campus celebrated the holiday season—in some rather unique and creative ways.

Student Activities organized a snow globe-making session in Smith Union last week for anyone who wanted to give homemade crafts as gifts. Bowdoin Hillel threw its annual latke party at Ladd House, with dreidel games and candle lighting.

The Bowdoin Outing Club hosted the yearly Yule Ball, in which partygoers dress up in their finest outdoor gear/formal wear for a night of dancing to live music.

And the Student Center for Multicultural Life held its annual, and very fierce, Desserts in December competition.

This year, instead of asking competitors to make gingerbread houses, Multicultural Center Director Benjamin Harris mixed things up and had people bake cookies. Many of the cookies ended up being just as elaborate as any gingerbread house. The Bowdoin Outing Club bakers even built a miniature campfire with real flames from a little backpacker burner (it was safe). (They won.) Another competitor (Harris's wife) crafted a small oven for her apple pie cookies.

The following competitors submitted cookies to Desserts in December: Residential Life, McKeen Center, Student Activities, SWAG, Multicultural Life, and the Outing Club.

First place for "Best Cookie Presentation" went to the Outing Club, while "Best Tasting Cookie" was awarded to the McKeen Center's brown butter toffee chocolate cookies.

 


Photos in this story by Fred J. Field and Andrew Estey.