“How can we improve Bowdoin’s accessibility?” my friend asks me, gesturing to Hubbard’s staircase entrance as we move past the building, which is completely wheelchair-inaccessible. I pause, picturing a wheelchair-accessible Hubbard with a beautiful stone ramp that makes the building …
On Monday, Bowdoin Students for Justice in Palestine’s (SJP) Bowdoin Solidarity Referendum began a five-day voting period. Nineteen minutes after voting opened, President Safa Zaki sent an email to all students detailing her opposition to points of the referendum’s proposals …
I watched “The Social Dilemma” back in 2021, and it fundamentally changed my perspective on technology. It clearly and exhaustively laid out various design mechanisms embedded in social media apps that keep you scrolling far longer than you intend to. …
It’s a challenging time to be in higher education. It’s a challenging time to be a leader. And it’s a hell of a challenging time to be a human on this planet who cares about other humans.
As an American Jew, my identity motivates me to support Bowdoin Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) referendum. If I were to instead comply with the racist, genocidal actions of the Israeli government, I’d be reliving the antisemitic events experienced …
I admire and appreciate both students’ efforts to combat injustice and suffering and my colleagues’ efforts to craft a statement addressing the Israel-Palestine conflict and student responses to this conflict.
I also appreciate and affirm my colleagues’ support for free …
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 …
While expressing your disappointment with the “pathetic” volume of writing and lack of “truly unpopular,” “audacious” and “controversial” contributions in and to the …
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 …