Students and Staff Lop Off, Donate 130 Inches of Hair
Sixteen people on campus who previously had long, naturally colored hair have sporty new cuts in time for summer. They were the students and staff who stopped by the Sail Room last week to donate more than eight inches of their hair to Pantene Beautiful Lengths, an organization that makes free wigs for cancer patients.
Professor Henry Laurence Asks ‘Can Public Broadcasting Help Save Democracy?’
Among the threats to democracy today, says Laurence, is a crisis in journalism brought about partly by the fact that there’s simply “too much information” out there. This has fueled an increasing polarization in public opinion, he argues, and spawned a growth in sensationalist, opinionated, misleading or even false journalism.
Nature Moments: House Invaders
If you live in an old house, you’re probably acquainted with certain types of spiders, bugs and beetles. Although these house invaders are not native to the northeast, they’re completely harmless and really quite companionable—some of them will even dance for you!
Poet Ross Gay on “The Process of Being a Person”
Poet Ross Gay treated a packed audience in Hubbard Hall to a celebration of making—making art and community and joy—with poems and essays about “the process of being a person, which is difficult and wonderful.”
Bowdoin Achieves Carbon Neutrality. Now for the Next Step.
The moment has arrived, two years ahead of schedule. Bowdoin has achieved carbon neutrality, a goal it set out in 2009 to reach by 2020 as part of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment.
A Clothesline for Hanging Out the Stories of Gender Violence
On Wednesday and Thursday, students were invited to stop by Lamarche Gallery in the Smith Union to make t-shirts for The Clothesline Project, a national movement to make sexual violence more visible.
‘Math, Tipping Points, and Planet Earth:’ Your Questions Answered
Math professor Mary Lou Zeeman takes part in a live online Q&A on April 19, to discuss the intersection of mathematics and environmental science.
Oprah for President? Chryl Laird Assesses the Challenges
Oprah Winfrey has made it quite clear that she will not run for president in 2020, but this has not stopped many from urging the media tycoon and television personality to reconsider, writes Assistant Professor of Government Chryl Laird in ‘The Conversation.’