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4 weeks 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.
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2 months ago | 
bowdoinorient.com | Janet Briggs |Kaya Patel |John Schubert |Emma Kilbride
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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
bowdoinorient.com | Janet Briggs |Emma Kilbride |Miles Berry
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2 months ago | 
bowdoinorient.com | Janet Briggs |Emma Kilbride |Miles Berry
As the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) encampment in Smith Union surpasses the 24-hour mark, protesters grapple with potential disciplinary actions and call for more community support. As of Friday evening, around 40 protesters remained in the Smith Union encampment. In an interview with the Orient on Friday afternoon, lead SJP organizer Olivia Kenney ’25 said that they have taken on a “spokesperson” role for the encampment and spent much of the day interfacing with administrators.
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2 months ago | 
bowdoinorient.com | Emma Kilbride
Following last week’s debunked rumor that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were spotted in downtown Brunswick, the Office of Safety and Security issued a statement Wednesday advising College members on interacting with ICE agents and other law enforcement personnel.
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2 months ago | 
bowdoinorient.com | Emma Kilbride |Janet Briggs
February 7, 2025, 1:10 p.m.: According to Senior Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs Scott Hood, Smith Union remains closed, but student protesters are holding open the doors to the building to allow people and supplies to pass through. Community members are bringing provisions to students in the encampment. February 7, 2025, 12:02 p.m.: Protesters broke past security at the South entrance of Smith Union to join the encampment.
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2 months ago | 
bowdoinorient.com | Emma Kilbride |Miles Berry
February 7, 2025, 1:20 a.m.: Nichols and Toro-Ferrari left the premises after collecting student information from the first floor of Smith Union. At least 50 protesters remained in the encampment. “The more you try to silence us, the louder we will be,” students chanted. Several protesters are planning to stay the night in the encampment and discussed sleeping arrangements.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
bowdoinorient.com | Emma Kilbride
Slade Moore sits on a faux-velvet armchair in WBOR, proudly sporting an official station t-shirt emblazoned with a vibrating cell tower and the phrase “300 watts o’ PURE POWER!”The Brunswick area writer and filmmaker has been a DJ at the station for two years. Now, in WBOR’s last semester in the basement of Dudley Coe, he’s memorializing his devotion to the airwaves with an original documentary about the station and its evolving place in campus culture.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
pressherald.com | Emma Kilbride
Three of the four candidates vying to represent Maine in the U.S. Senate made their final pitch to voters Saturday night at Bowdoin College. Candidates Demi Kouzounas (R), David Costello (D) and Jason Cherry (I) are vying for the seat currently held by Sen. Angus King (I-Brunswick), who didn’t take part in the debate. The debate was student-focused and constructed from questions submitted by students at colleges across the state.
