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  • 1 month ago | bowdoinorient.com | Emma Kilbride |Janet Briggs

    Randy Nichols, associate vice president of the office of safety and security, was late to his final interview with the Orient. Sporting polarized shades and his signature khakis, he strode up hurriedly and apologized profusely. There was an incident on campus, he explained; students felt unsafe, and he needed to handle it. For 20 years, this has been Nichols’s life as head of safety and security—constantly on-call and constantly trying to make Bowdoin a safer place. “It’s a 24/7, 365 job,” he said.

  • 1 month ago | bowdoinorient.com | Julia Dickinson |Janet Briggs |Kaya Patel |Emma Kilbride

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  • 2 months ago | bowdoinorient.com | Janet Briggs |Emma Kilbride

    With an ocean separating Maine and Ireland, what could a small college like Bowdoin have to do with Irish history? At Monday’s talk from Peter McLoughlin, a professor at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, attendees got a historical breakdown of the Northern Irish peace process and America’s role in it—from Maine to Washington, D.C.McLoughlin is a specialist in Irish and Northern Irish history and a fellow of the Senator George J.

  • Feb 21, 2025 | bowdoinorient.com | Janet Briggs |Kaya Patel |John Schubert |Emma Kilbride

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  • Feb 14, 2025 | bowdoinorient.com | Emma Kilbride

    Ronan Farrow graduated from college at 15, became a UNICEF ambassador before he was old enough to vote and entered Yale Law School before he was old enough to buy a beer. Now he’s turning to the next generation. On Tuesday, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist took the stage in Kresge Auditorium to deliver “The Power of the Next Generation,” a talk exploring the mounting precarity of the media industry and how young people, and young tech, are set to shape it.