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Feb 4, 2022 · Raymond Bolduc ’71, a member of Zeta Psi, recognized that Bowdoin’s fraternities were “dinosaurs fading slowly into extinction,” but still expressed his discontent with what he maintains even today was a “power grab” by Edwards.
Sep 13, 2024 · Though fraternities are long gone, each new class of students continues the tradition, refashioning the gesture to fit their ideals for Bowdoin's community today. Neiman Mocombe ’26, a multimedia student correspondent for Bowdoin's communications office, set out during the second week of classes to get a sense of what students think about the ...
Oct 28, 2022 · “I’m a tour guide, and I kind of have this little statement where I say, ‘I didn’t think the Bowdoin Hello was real,” Wolcott-Breen said. “I think there is something unique about Bowdoin’s small community and how interconnected it is.”
Even before the advent of coeducation at Bowdoin, however, there were some flaws in the fraternity system: “most, if not all” Bowdoin fraternities discriminated against black, Catholic, and Jewish students, in part as a result of the national fraternities’ regulations.
Feb 4, 2022 · End of an era: the final years of Bowdoin’s fraternities By Reuben Schafir • February 4, 2022 “This story, in a funny way, begins in Paris,” remembered Robert H. Edwards, President of the College from 1990 to 2001.
Apr 23, 2013 · Bowdoin’s transformation under President Howell in 1969 and 1970 was cataclysmic, not evolutionary. Most of what happened occurred in less than a year and crystallized into a new social and cultural pattern that has remained, apart from minor details, unchanged in the ensuing 43 years.
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Dec 16, 1992 · Three fraternities and a sorority, the last holdouts in an otherwise coeducational Greek system, have been ordered to admit the opposite sex or cease to exist by next July 1.