Image courtesy of Aniqa Chowdhury FROM THE BOWDOIN BUBBLE TO THE BIG CITY: Zohran Mamdani '14 was an activist and a changemaker long before his mayoral campaign, founding Bowdoin Students for Justice ...

Welcome back to Turning Point! In case you are new here, we interview Bowdoin alumni and Mainers about the experiences that shaped their twenties and share their stories with Bowdoin students. This ...

Abigail Hebert NEW FILES, OLD CONNECTIONS: Hawthorne-Longfellow Library’s Special Collections and Archives bears the name of George Mitchell ’54 H’84. Newly released Epstein files revealed a ...

Miles Berry ENCAMPMENT FOR GAZA: Students for Justice in Palestine formed an encampment on the first floor of Smith Union. Organizers protested Donald Trump’s recent comments on U.S. “ownership” of ...

Debriefs, life updates, quick check-ins that serendipitously turn into lengthy storytimes.… My Bowdoin experience is defined by an incredible range of dialogues. Reflecting on the past four years, ...

When I was a child, no more than three or four years old, my mother told me that whenever I lied, she could read it on my forehead. I wasn’t really a mischievous child and didn’t lie often, so I ...

Bergen Pickett MOLDY MADNESS: The College recently announced that Reed House will undergo renovation during the 2026-2027 academic year. Multiple college houses have faced recent infrastructure ...

Abigail Hebert WRITTEN REFLECTION: Author Ayelet Tsabari discussed her debut novel “Songs for the Brokenhearted” Wednesday night with Professor of Africana Studies and History Brian Purnell. The book ...

Courtesy of Maiara Rebordáo FARMER TO FRONTRUNNER: Graham Platner, an oyster farmer by trade, is now a leading candidate in the Senate democratic primary. The Democratic primary was never supposed to ...

A Black man living in Jim Crow South, Leadbelly was intimately acquainted with the despair of a protagonist-in-crisis: despite his obvious musical acuity and, later, acclaim, the artist served an ...

On Maine’s southern border with New Hampshire, a large blue sign stands at the north end of the Piscataqua River Bridge. “Welcome to Maine—the way life should be,” it reads. For decades, motorists ...

Bowdoin’s literary past holds an abundance of hauntings. Some of these ghosts are simply due to Bowdoin’s location—an old, remote college where the sun sets early and the woods cover most of the state ...