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Greater Portland's news and arts weekly NOV. 8, 1990 FREE How Maine elected three Republicans and a far-left Liberal Andrews: "How sweet it is" By Monte Paulsen retreated from public view. While he was gone, Mainers The Candidate took a deep breath. He stepped into re-elected Republican Senator Bill Cohen, Republican the ballroom. Hundredsof wildly cheering-and wildly Shortly after 60' clock, The Candidate walked alone Congresswoman Olympia Snowe, and Republican liberal-supporters rushed to him. The steelfell from his into an almost-empty hotel ballroom. There, he granted Governor John McKernan. grin. And by the time he reached the podium, he was no three back-to-back television interviews for the evening Exactly six hours later, The Candidate returned. He longer the The Candidate. news shows. wore a steely grin and a new grey suit. He strode briskly Tom Andrews had become The Lone Liberal Con­ Exit polls were already predicting his victory, but down the wide hotel hallway. Ever the consummate gressman. And when he reached that podium, he said: still The Candidate was jumpy. "Nothing means any­ campaigner, he paused at the ballroom door to inquire "How sweet it is." thing until the last vote is in," he said to one blow-dried after a staging detail. newsman. "The only numbers that count are the num­ Then he stopped. bers that come tonight," he told another. Shortly after midnight, for less than a seoond, you Continued on page 9 Then, for the first time in months, The Candidate could have heard a ballot drop in that hallway. BP' entr... ce to Bowdoin's IMImlnlstratlon building and library Nov. 2. Activism awakens on Maine campuses INSIDE Bowdoin students want faculty that's less white, less male, more diverse NEWSBRIEFS pages 2-8 ELECTION RESULTS page 7 By Andy Newman devise a plan for addresSing the issue by Nov. 2. But when Nov. 2 came, Edwards had no plan, so the students ELlCTION FLUFF page 9 A new era of student protest has begun on Maine campuses, protested. That afternoon Edwards announced a plan, and the STUDENT PROTESTS page 10 and this time the college administration thinks it's good news. protest abated. VIEWS page 12 On Friday, Nov. 2, about 50 Bowdoin students blocked the It was the third major protest by Maine oollege students in a entrance of a building that houses Bowdoin's library and week. 10-DAY CALlNDAR page 14 administrative offices. The students demanded that the college Maine's students are protesting war and discrimination. And ART SUPPORT page 18 hire more minority and women faculty. as Bowdoin itself has become the subject of student protests, a MARCHING SPORTS page 22 At Bowdoin, where only 12 of Bowdoin's 141 faculty mem­ question emerges: Are Edwards and the rest of the faculty bers are minorities and only one-third are women, students first fighting the students, or joining them? CLASSIFIEDS page 24 cried out for diversity last spring. At a rally in May, they POOK IN HEA VlN page 25 demanded that incoming Bowdoin President Robert Edwards Continued on page 10 ELZZUP PUZZLE page 27 2 'c~ Bay Weekly November 8, 1990 3 BLACI( TIE ... • distinctive catering Book us now for all of your '. Holiday Catering months. , needs "We're accustomed to sitting down and remedying tV problems with Pine Tree's 870 Broadwa • So. Portland • 799-7119 :: : lawyers. 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