Sure, sometimes it feels like you’re just exchanging meaningless pleasantries, but let’s face it—small talk is a necessary evil. It gets the conversion going, eases the unspoken tension held in eye ...

The encampment formed in Smith Union by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) protestors last Thursday, February 6, ended ...

I consider myself a political person. Every morning I read the news or listen to a podcast summarizing it. My Instagram feed is littered with posts from The New York Times, The New Yorker and meme ...

Your use (or tolerance) of the term “Intifada,” which is directly associated with suicide bombings, terrorism and the indiscriminate killing of civilians. It’s also specifically a call for violence ...

I came to a realization the other day as I watched my dad, Mike, and my dog, Bowie, stand up and stroll towards the front door in sync to go out for Bowie’s nightly potty trip. There was just ...

I had to laugh as I watched a moment as unexceptional as two coworkers exchanging good mornings or the exchange of coffee and card at a drive-through, except this seemingly mundane routine was being ...

I lived in that land for the first eighteen years of my life: the American South. I am from Pass Christian (pass kris-CHAN), a small town in Mississippi on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. I never ...

For over 16 years, I felt I belonged at Bowdoin. (I have the t-shirt from the Office of Inclusion and Diversity to prove it.) But that changed because of October 7 and the on-campus events since then, ...

Last Thursday, when I heard about the encampment in Smith Union, confusion pulsed through me. I wasn’t sure how I felt, or who I could talk to about the way I was feeling. Although I did not ...

For many Bowdoin professors, these recent headlines—which have made an explicit connection between the current political climate and its influence on academic work—speak to the ever-present ...

One piece of advice Farrow stressed was that individuals should vigilantly and stringently seek the truth—through research, dialogue and, of course, healthy skepticism.

As the parent of a Bowdoin graduate, I am dismayed at the college’s authoritarian response to the recent student ...