BRUNSWICK — Donations to presidential campaigns by Bowdoin College faculty and staff went 100 percent to President Obama’s re-election campaign.
Quoting Federal Election Committee data, The Bowdoin Orient reported donations from 10 employees to the Obama campaign, totaling $5,300. No donations were made to the campaign of Republican contender Mitt Romney, the newspaper reported.
Seven Bowdoin staff members also donated a total of $29,404 to the U.S. Senate campaign of Angus King, a Brunswick independent who once taught at the college, the newspaper reported.
Bowdoin College President Barry Mills donated $500 to Kevin Raye, a Bates College alumnus and Republican who ran an unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives.
“Members of the faculty are free, as individuals on their own time and with their own resources, to support whomever they choose,” Dean of Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd told The Orient. “We expect that individual political opinions do not stifle the education in the classroom and that all viewpoints are welcome and respected.”
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