The faculty, staff and students who organized last fall’s community teach-In, which focused the campus’s attention on environmental and social justice issues, are continuing their work this semester.
The group, which calls itself Intersections: People, Planet and Power, or IP3, recently organized a public talk on the Flint water crisis. Professor of Physics Madeleine Msall, who is a member, said IP3 plans to organize more discussions this semester on transportation infrastructure, indigenous activism in Ecuador, and Bowdoin’s plan to be carbon neutral.
“One of the things people said [after the teach-in last October] was they wanted more discussion of issues,” Msall said. “They wanted an opportunity to talk about how these issues are framed in the larger media and how we react to them as a Bowdoin community.” Read more.