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MARCH 27, 2015
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BY RACHAEL ALLEN
ORIENT STAFF
Brunswick Fire Department (BFD)

and Brunswick Police Department
(BPD) found eight fire and life-safety
violations during a January 19 inspection of -the off-campus residence at 83
Harpswell Road, colloquially known
as Crack House, forcing the six residents to cease use of the basement. Two
residents may also need to move out of
the house.
According to BPD Captain Mark
Waltz, the landlord of the property has
until April 3 to supply Deputy Chief
Emerson with a long-term correction
plan. If accepted, the landlord will have
until May 1 to implement the plan.
For the long term, the landlord will
have to bring the building up to complianceso, to fix all the facility-based or
structural-based deficiencies that may
be here, Emerson said. If they want to
continue using the basement, hes going to have to do some exit work. [The
building also has] to be brought into
compliance with the definition of a oneto-two family dwelling, which means
itll have to be limited to four people.
BFD and BPD performed their inspection of the house following a complaint from the Brunswick town office.
The investigation revealed eight fire and
life-safety violations, many of which were
similar to the nine violations discovered
in a 2008 investigation of the house.
Please see CRACK, page 3
COURTESY OF JOHN EWING
In its 11th appearance in the NCAA D-III Sweet 16, womens basketball fell to Montclair State University 61-54. After starting the second half down by 15 points, the Polar Bears closed the gap to five points, but ultimately could not keep
their tournament run alive. The team ended the season with a 25-5 (9-1 NESCAC) recordits first 25-win season since 2007. Montclair went on to earn third place in the tournament. For more, please see story on page 12.
Reyes 15 and Toomey 17 form alcohol support group

BY NATHAN GARNER
ORIENT STAFF
A peer-facilitated group designed to

develop a community for students who
have struggled with alcohol or other
substances will begin holding meetings
today. The group is led and organized by
Anna Reyes 15 and Patrick Toomey 17,
two students who have struggled with
alcohol themselves and were looking for
others with similar experiences.

We are trying to find students who
have gone through some sort of realization that their prior relationship with
substances or alcohol, or both, didnt
satisfy them, said Reyes.
Reyes struggled with alcohol as a first
year, which led her to take a year off.
Coming back, it made me realize, at
least for medealing with depression as
well as just being a bit of an introverted
personthat finding a social scene

around campus that didnt make me
want to me drink really heavily or do
anything else was difficult, Reyes said.
Reyes and Toomey came together
with the help of Whitney Hogan, associate director of health promotion.
My hope is that the group will be
really fluid and be really welcoming to
people who are kind of all over the spectrum in terms of their drinking habits,
but the common denominator will be

people who are looking to have weekends that are really fun and fulfill their
social needs without necessarily being
emotionally or physically disruptive,
said Hogan.
It is different than other more educational groups on campus such as Peer
Health or the Alcohol Team because
Please see ALCOHOL, page 4
Strapped for cash, Jens Place faces closure College admits 14.9% of
Class of 2019 applicants
BY HARRY DIPRINZIO
ORIENT STAFF
Local family-run restaurant Jens

Place announced in late January that it
is having trouble meeting tax and upkeep payments and will likely close if it
is not able to raise $26,000.
Jens Place, known for its friendly
service and homelike decor, serves
breakfast food on Stanwood Street, just
north of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School.
Owner Jen Burton said in a phone
interview that the restaurant has been
strapped for cash for years, and the only
way she can keep operating is to make
structural changes to increase revenue
in the future.
The renovations she plans include
increasing the restaurants capacity
and various minor improvements such
as new plumbing, heating windows
and decorations. Burton hopes the increased capacity and comfort will draw
more customers and keep the restaurant
Please see JENS, page 4
BY MARINA AFFO
ORIENT STAFF
HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
JEN AND JUICE: Jen Burton, owner of popular breakfast joint Jens Place, must raise $26,000 to
keep her restaurant afloat. So far, she has collected $2,845.
Last Friday the College mailed

out acceptance letters to 1,009 out
of 6,790 applicants for the Class of
2019, which puts this years acceptance rate at 14.9 percent, a slight
increase from last years rate of
14.8 percent.
There were 145 fewer applicants
than last year. That decrease was
spread across each region of the
United States other than New England, which had a small increase in
applicants, although Maine applications were down by 10 percent.
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Scott Meiklejohn said that
in comparison to last year, everything was off just a tiny bit.
A total of 382 multicultural students were admitted in comparison
to last years 403. The number of
international students accepted also

decreased from 84 to 76.
The number of high schools
from which students were accepted
rose, from 712 last year to 719 this
year.
533 females and 476 males were
accepted.
The target size for the class of
2019 is 500, and accepted students have until May 1 to decide if
they want to enroll at the College.
Many accepted students will likely
wait until after Admitted Students
Weekend, which will take place
from April 16-18, before making
their decisions.
Its very, very close to last
year in number and quality, said
Meiklejohn, I think the class that
arrives will be another great class
that will look a lot like the ones
weve enrolled the last couple of
years.
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strife at Bates.
New social app debuts on campus to mixed reviews.
Womens lacrosse returns from Florida with a 6-1 record and

a No. 5 national ranking. The
team faces a tough test against
Trinity this weekend.
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TRAYS FOR DAYS:

Thorne has a new accumulator
ZACH ALBERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND: Curatorial Assistant Andrea Rosen and museum co-directors Frank Goodyear and Anne Collins Goodyear pose for the Spring Open House
at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The science fiction-themed exhibition Past Futures will run through June.
INTO THE WOODS:

2014-2015 breakdown of Bowdoins largest club, the Bowdoin Outing Club
437
$45
Membership fee
Members
$69,000
$19,665
Food budget
Membership fees are used solely for
food purchases.
$80 - $100
Average cost of a one-day rafting trip

The BOC subsidizes all tripsrafting, climbing, and
other outdoor activitiesfor all members.
SAFC Funding
This budget is used primarily for van rentals
and gasoline to get to trip locations.
151
Number of trips on the calendar

The fall semester is the busiest
season for the BOC.
36
Number of trips in October

The busiest month this academic year
Students who choose to go trayless in Thorne rejoiced this week after the installment of the rebuilt tray
accumulatora new design that has
a built-in metal tray on every tier of
the conveyor. According to Mark
Dickey, the Thorne Dining Hall
unit manager, the new unit will be
a great new addition to the biggest
food hub on campus.
It seems to be working pretty
well, he said.
Initially installed in 2000, the tray
accumulator has been in a constant
state of rebuilding for about 14 years.
Staff members have continued updating the old unit themselves, because the original manufacturer went
out of business soon after the accumulator was installed.
We were able to rebuild and keep
it limping along, said Dickey.
However, the dining hall now has
a new designer, Caddy Company, and
with them, We are one week into the
new tray design, according to Dickey.
Despite the relatively smooth transition, there have been some bumps
in the road.
Im kind of going through some
growing pains, said Dickey.
There have been several retrofits
thus far, including the fact that the
model should have been five shelves
high, but didnt fit correctly with that
detail. As of Thursday, the five tier
unit was officially installed.
Another issue has been that the
new metal trays stick out an inch and
a half longer than they should, and
students tend to not push their trays
all the way back, causing the accumulator to get stuck. The first day, the
conveyor stopped 120 times.
Additionally, the pins holding
the metal trays in place stick down
a bit farther than they need to, with
the potential to scrape the hands of
students in a hurry to dump their
trays. The slant of the metal trays also
makes Dickey wonder if the student
trays will slide off.
We are still in a discovery
phase on how the whole thing is
going to work out, said Dickey.
But we are hoping to see this
new system finished soon.
BY THE NUMBERS
Number of trips in December

The least busy month this academic year
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Information and Technology (IT) is

one of the busiest oces on campus,
keeping the school s internet connection and online presence up and
running. Here are some statistics.
84,828
likes received on Bowdoins
Instagram photos since 2012
What are your goals for the rest of the semester?
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student email passwords

changed in the last 6 months
200,000
spam email messages
blocked per week
Emily Serwer 16
Joe Lake 15
Nick Benson 17
Zoe Wood 18
You dont want to hear my goals for the

rest of the semester. You dont want this
in the Orient. Theyre not fit to print.
To graduate at the end...and to

land a fun, extremely high paying
job in Boston.
Figure out what Im doing this

summer. I cant live at home. I cant cohabitate with my parents anymore.
To make it out alive?
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952,292
hours spent on computers in
public labs or kiosks
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Working group created in

response to Meeting in Union
BY MEG ROBBINS
ORIENT STAFF
A working group consisting of 15

students and four administrators has
been formed to help foster interaction, collaboration and learning among
community members of different races,
ethnicities, sexualities and economic
circumstances. Dean for Student Affairs
Tim Foster announced in a campuswide email on Monday that the group
will meet with department heads within
the Division of Student Affairs to both
hear about their existing initiatives to
create a more inclusive community and
give suggestions for improvement.
The work we do together will help
inform a strategic plan for our entire division, Foster wrote in Mondays email.
This is the first-ever working group
the College has created on this topic.
Though various working groups have
been instituted at Bowdoin over the
years, the last group that served a similar
purpose at College was the presidential
task force on minority admissions created when Robert Edwards was president
15 years ago, according to Foster.
The new working group was
formed as a response to recent events
in the nation and on campus, including
Februarys Meeting in the Union which
addressed the intersections of various
social justice issues. The Meeting, which
culminated with the delivery of a call to
action to President Mills, will provide
inspiration for members of the working
group as they look to produce specific
changes at the College.
I think were actually doing something about [the call to action] now
were going to engage with these people
and try and start the conversation that
should have happened a while ago, said
Briana Cardwell 17, a member of the
working group.
The group will gather several times
this semester, beginning on April 10.
Meetings will continue through the fall

semester of the 2015-2016 academic year.
Foster hopes that the group will
help envision ways to develop students and faculty members multicultural competency.
Student members are excited to begin
working with the administration in this
formal setting.
I think if we could reflect on all
the programs that we have now and
certain ways in which we can improve
upon them by the next cyclewhether thats by the next year or the year
after, that [would make me happy],
said Julian Tamayo 16. Seeing tangible results is something that Im really
interested in and I have high hopes
that that will happen. I think that this
group is framed in a way that will have
that as its main purpose.
Lan Crofton 18, another member
of the working group, stressed that the
conversations they will be having with
student affairs department heads are not
meant to be accusatory.
Its nothing thats supposed to make
them angry or anything like thatits
not supposed to say, This is what youre
doing, this is what youre not doing. Its
really just taking whats here and trying
to make it better, she said.
Several members of the working
group said that what they think will be
most helpful is using existing resources
on campus to bring more people into
conversations about race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status and other
social justice topics.
I think that may be our biggest problemwho actually comes to those conversations that are really powerful, said
Cardwell. Its not the people who dont
know about the stuff already.
What I really want to come out of
[the working group] is seeing other students come to these kinds of conversa-
Please see GROUP, page 5
COURTESY ANNA-RINA AND ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BRIGHT FUTURES: From left: Phui Yi Khong15, Watson Fellowship winner, Will Oso15, Junior Fellow for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
and Scott Mitchell15, winner of a Davis Projects for Peace grant.
3 Bowdoin students win national fellowships

BY VERA FENG
ORIENT STAFF
Decisions are coming in for Bowdoin students who applied to national fellowships and grant programs.
These decisions not only demonstrate
the student bodys commitment to
service and education, but also its international presence.
To date, Phui Yi Kong 15 has been
named a recipient of the Thomas J.
Watson Fellowship travel grant, Will
Ossoff 15 was selected as a Junior
Fellow for the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, and Scott
Mitchell 15 won a Davis Projects for
Peace grant.
Updates on the Fulbright, Udall, and
Truman scholars are forthcoming.
Bowdoin is one of only 40 schools
that nominate students for the $30,000
Watson Fellowship grant. The program offers college graduates a year
of independent exploration through
international travel.
Kong is an English and theater interdisciplinary major who graduated
in December. She stood out from 700
national finalists to become one of 50
Watson recipients and will travel to
four countries with her grant. While
abroad, she will explore martial arts
and physical theater and study their
role in fostering civic action.
Its the first application I felt I
could, to a large extent, divorce myself
from the parental voices and societal
CRACK
to address that.
Davis Projects for the Peace awarded Mitchell a $10,000 grant as a part of
its initiative to support students who
want to pursue grassroots projects.
Through his project, Stand With
Me, Mitchell has designed an affordable pediatric stander, a standing device used for children with developmental or physical difficulties.
So far, Mitchells stander has been
distributed in Peru, Honduras, Guatemala, China and North Korea. With
his Davis grant, he will travel to South
America to collect feedback and teach
local therapists and patients how to
find resources and even make the device by themselves.
Bowdoin alumna Linda Kinstler
13, a former editor in chief of the Orient, won a Marshall Scholarship to
study at two graduate schools in the
United Kingdom.
The Office of Student Fellowships and Research said that there
are 20 Fulbright finalists this year.
However, only 12 finalists have
been contacted at this time. Overall, 16 finalists applied to English
Teaching Assistantships and four
hope to pursue research.
The Chronicle of Higher Education named Bowdoin a top producer
of Fulbright scholars for 2014-2015,
and Stocks said she expects even more
Fulbridge wins this year.
Its going to be a record breaking
year, Stocks said.
Logic, White Panda, Reel

Big Fish to perform at Ivies
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The violations included: too many
people living in the house, no working
smoke detectors, impermissible padlocks on bedroom and bathroom doors,
basement non-storage usage without
a secondary exit, an upstairs bedroom
lacking a secondary means of escape,
combustible material too close to heating
appliances as well as electrical deficiencies, inadequate fire separation between
the garage and the house and deficiencies
with the oil-burning water heater.
The immediate fixeswere the
clearing of those exits, the replacement
of smoke detection that had been removed, the vacating of the illegal bedroom, the removal of impermissible
locks, and no further occupancy of the
basement for anything other than storage purposes, said Deputy Chief Jeffrey
Emerson of the BFD, who was in charge
of the investigation, in a phone interview with the Orient.
Six seniors currently reside in the
house. The landlord and the town will
determine whether two students must
move out of the house or whether the
house can become classified differently to allow for more residents, which
would require improvements like a fire
alarm and a sprinkler system.
[Our landlords] very supportive of
us, said a resident of the house, who
asked not to be identified. He wants the
house to continue to be a student housing option.
Associate Director of Housing Operations Lisa Rendall has offered the resi-
gaze, Kong said. The affirmation

received from the award after such
an independently minded application process is multiple foldnamely
empowerment through responsibility
and agency.
Director of Student Fellowships
and Research Cindy Stocks said the
Watson Fellowship is about finding
the right match, because it is such a
unique opportunity.
[Watson] is looking for individuals of unusual promise who need to
carry out those projects and deepen
their understanding around a particular issue, she said. One of the
things that make a good Watson
project is that what the person wants
to do cannot be accomplished in any
other way.
Ossoff, a government major and
history minor, will join the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
as a Junior Fellow in August. Each
year the organization selects 10 to
12 graduating seniors nationwide to
study issues promoting active international engagement.
According to Stocks, the admission rate is four percent and Ossoff is the first Bowdoin student to
accept the award. He will start as a
research assistant for the endowments senior associates who work
on nuclear policy program.
Ive always been interested in
peace, diplomacy and human rights,
Ossof said. This seems like one way
BY JOE SHERLOCK
ORIENT STAFF
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
CRACKDOWN: An o-campus residence at 83 1/2 Harpswell Road popularly known as Crack

Housewas issued eight fire and life-safety violations by the Brunswick Fire Department. Two students may
have to move out to comply with fire codes.
dents of Crack on-campus housing. So
far, only one resident has reached out to
Rendall to discuss this offer. The Office
of Residential Life (ResLife) is usually
not involved with off-campus housing,
but in the past it has offered on-campus
housing when neecessary, such as when
a furnace broke in an off-campus house
a few years ago.
Like ResLife, Bowdoins Office of
Safety and Security has served as an outlet for off-campus housing situations, involving themselves as necessary. In this
particular situation, Safety and Security
was made aware of the violations yet had
no direct involvement.
Its a town issue, said Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols. I havent
got any direct involvement in this matter
between the town and the landlord.
As such, no security report was issued
on the investigation, yet word of Cracks
potential shutdown spread rapidly as a
result of its prominent place in the Col-
leges social scene.

Throughout my four years here,
Crack has been a really important part
of the social life of this college [It is]
an environment for those people that
want to have a social life outside of the
normal social house experience, the
house resident said.
Crack House made headlines in
several local newspapers after house
residents threw a party in November at
which 14 students wore Native American costumes and were disciplined by
the College.
The Crack House resident thinks
that the house is under a lot of scrutiny and that there may be a connection
between the events that have taken
place this year.
For now, Cracks party scene is on hold.
Going forward, we wont be having
any more parties, the house resident
said. I cant speak to what happens
with the residents next year.
Ska punk band Reel Big Fish will

kick off Ivies on Thursday, April 23,
with experimental electronic act
The White Panda opening on Saturday and rapper Logic playing later
that afternoon.
Student reactions were mixed,
with most of the excitement geared
toward Reel Big Fish and White Panda, some students were not familiar
with any of the acts.
I dont know any of the bands
that are comingthat might just be
me living under a rock, said Selena
Lorrey 16.
Honestly, Ive never heard of any
of them From my understanding
the music is not the most important
part of Ivies, said Mac Brower 16.
According to Director of Student
Activities Nate Hintze, the Entertainment Board (eBoard) decided
to change the typical Ivies model,
which usually features Racer X on
Thursday night and two bands on
Saturday. The eBoard declined to
comment for this story.
They try to get all the different
genres that students likeit seemed
like a good thing to try to put the indie-rock act on Thursday night and
have the DJ and rapper on Saturday,

just to try things a little bit different,
said Hintze.
Hintze expects that there will be
between 1,800 and 2,500 students attending Ivies with an additional 500
for the performances on Saturday.
Im excited about Reel Big Fish,
but Im guessing Im in the minority, said Katie Coleman 16. Im
exited to have something different
from the past two yearsIm consistently surprised by the choices [the
eBoard makes].
Hintze declined to specify the
eBoards operating budget or how
much any act is getting paid some
contracts stipulate that the College
cannot say how much the performers charge, he said, adding that the
College finalized the contracts two
weeks before Spring Break.
None of the performers could be
reached by the time of publication.
Notably absent from this years
performers is Racer Xthe professor comprised 80s cover band that
has performed at most Ivies in recent years.
Im pretty excited [for Ivies performances], pretty sad Racer X isnt
performing because its my senior
year, but Ill survive, said Kristen
Nocka 15.
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JENS
ALCOHOL
operating for future years.

Burton created a Plumfund to
raise the money. Plumfund is similar
to Kickstarter, except the campaign
receives any donations, even if the
goal is not reached. Thus far she has
raised $2,845 from 41 contributors
in 55 days, and has received multiple
offers for pro-bono work from local
contractors and friends.
Burton is hoping the local community, especially Bowdoin students,
will pitch in to keep the business
above water.
Some Bowdoin students are concerned about the possible closure and
are helping support the campaign.
I know this has happened before
where theyve been struggling financially and have asked the community
for donations. Im optimistic that they
will be able to raise the money, said
Torey Lee 15, who photographed
Burton for a class project. Its a large
goal, but hopefully Bowdoin students
will pitch in if they like the place.
The restaurant is almost entirely
family run. Burtons sister and parents
are the primary staff while her son,
it is more social and is structured

around a community of like-minded individuals.
I think this group is going to be
really helpful for students to find
other students who are thinking critically about what the alcohol scene is
on campus and finding peer support
and camaraderie with other people,
Hogan said.
Unlike some other services on
campus, the vision for the group does
not focus on counseling or professional guidance.
We dont want it to feel like its a
group therapy session, said Reyes.
We decided we wanted to focus on
the social scene.
The hope when creating this group
was to get away from the stigma which
can be associated with groups like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Bowdoins
group is not designed to encourage total abstinence from substances.
We are not an AA group, but we are
a group that you can come to and we
can hopefully connect you to an AA
group if thats what you want to do, or
just discuss things pertaining to alcoholism, said Toomey.
In order to create a comfortable
and relaxed environment for discussion there will be no faculty present
at the meetings.
There is definitely a heavy drinking
culture at Bowdoin and a heavy party
scene and its easy to get sucked into
that, but there is also a lot more to college than just that. It will be strengthening to myself and hopefully to Anna to
know that we are not alone in that and
to other people who are struggling with
similar issues. Toomey said.
The group is still in the early stages
of development, meaning there is a lot
of room for adaptation and change.
The needs of the group will change depending on who attends, which could
call for more or less structure and also
the possibility of working with other
similar groups on campus.
Pat and I didnt want to make it too
strict of a setup as of yet because for us
we want to create a community that we
can also interact in, said Reyes.
While Friday meetings are designed
to be very informal, there are plans to
have a more facilitated discussion once
a month with a member of Counseling
Services or Geno Ring, a licensed drug
and alcohol counselor that often works
with Bowdoin students.
I think that being able to help other
people with similar issues is just another way of helping myself, and being able to create that healthy dialogue
regarding substance abuse in its many
forms. It can only help, Toomey said.
SUNNY SIDE UP: Jen Burton prepares a meal at Brunswick breakfast restaurant Jens Place. Though under financial stress, Burton feels optimistic the restaurant
will reach its fundraising goal in the next 33 days.
brother and friends help out on weekends. Recently, the restaurant has faced
setbacks due to complications with Jen
and her sister Coris health. Jen recently
had two brain tumors and now suffers from complications resulting from
multiple spinal-tap treatments and is
often unable to work. Cori recently recovered from a brain tumor as well.
These problems have been a strain

on staffing and used up much of the
familys financial resources.
In 2013, the Orient reported that
Jens Place was likely to be featured
on a reality TV show. Burton said that
she has since turned down the offer,
despite its potential financial benefits,
because it would have caused unnec-
essary and harmful tension within

her family.
Based on a recent influx of probono offers, Burton said she is feeling
optimistic that the restaurant will be
able to reach its goal in the final 33
days of the campaign, but she stressed
that she needs Bowdoin students and
families to help her get there.
Students and administration

BCA organizes student sitclash, causing tension at Bates in for fossil fuel divestment
BY JOHN BRANCH
ORIENT STAFF
As Bowdoins President-elect
Clayton Rose prepares to take office next year, several transitionspurred controversies have arisen
at neighboring Bates College.
Following the announcement
that two popular deans would
depart at the end of the year, the
Bates College Student Government
(BCSG) passed a vote of no confidence toward two members of the
administration, President Clayton Spencer and the schools Vice
President of Student Affairs and
Dean of Students Josh McIntosh,
last month.
We students should be citizens
at Bates, not subjects, and we hope
Wednesdays no-confidence vote
will serve as a wake-up call to an
administration that many students
feel has been cavalier and outof-touch, read a statement from
BCSG after the vote.
Other administrative decisions
this year have rankled Bates students as well. For example, McIntosh and Spencer came under criticism for their decision to end the
schools annual Trick or Drink
party last fall.
More recently, a piece in the
Bates Student alleged that a mail
center employee was illegally
fired due to a disability. Batess
Director of Media Relations Kent
Fischer wrote in response that the
piece makes a number of serious,
inaccurate and potentially defamatory assertions.
According to Norberto Diaz, a
junior at Bates and BCSGs president, students are especially upset that the departures of the two
deans, Associate Dean of Students
Holly Gurney and Assistant Dean
of Students Keith Tannenbaum,
were announced at the end of an
email from McIntosh about a variety of organizational changes.
McIntosh arrived at Bates at the
beginning of this academic year.
He declined to speak with the
Orient.
In an open letter published on
March 9, Spencer expressed regret

about the vote of no confidence,
but defended the organizational
changes.
I regret that the Student Government felt compelled to take
this action, because it suggests a
gap between the perceptions of a
group of students and what I know
to be widely shared aspirations for
strengthening the Bates experience, she wrote.
Diaz said that much of the controversy has been due to a lack of
transparency between students
and the administration.
Gurney and Tannenbaum were
two [members of the administration] that people saw around campus, who students spoke to, said
Diaz. It didnt really help that the
student body wasnt told in a good
way.
However, he added that he was
optimistic about improving communication with the administration, particularly McIntosh, who
as a new member of the administration has shouldered much of
the recent criticism from students.
Diaz said McIntoshs main goals
are to remake the schools orientation program and create a more
inclusive campus culture.
At the end of the day, hes doing
what he was hired to do. He sees
Bates going in a new direction,
Diaz said.
Since the vote, he said, the
BCSG has been making efforts to
improve dialogue.
A referendum reorganizing the
student government passed earlier this month, and Diaz has been
spearheading efforts to implement
office hours for student government members and monthly town
hall meetings with members of the
administration.
It all comes down to communication, he said. In the past, with
all these events happening...it was
mostly just bands of students tackling the administration. Student
government needs to have a relationship with the administration
so we can tell them whats going on
and how we feel.
BY GARRETT CASEY
ORIENT STAFF
Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA)

has recruited more than 50 students to participate in a sit-in as it
escalates its fossil fuel campaign,
the group announced in a press
release sent on Monday morning.
BCA did not indicate where or
when the sit-in would take place.
Students and alumni at Swarthmore College have staged a sit-in
at their campus finance and investment office since March 19, according to the Swarthmore Phoenix,
and climate activists at Harvard
have occupied the presidents office
and plan on holding a weeklong sitin sometime in April, according to
the Harvard Crimson.
A similar protest at Bowdoin
could run afoul of the Colleges Social Code.
In a list of activities that constitute breaches of the Social Code,
the College includes Disruption
of the orderly processes of the
College, involving obstruction of
teaching, research, administration, disciplinary proceedings, or
other College activities, including its public-service activities.
Occupation of College offices is
given as a specific example of this
sort of disruption.
Dean of Student Affairs Tim
Foster did not say whether or not
the College would discipline students involved in the occupation
of an administrative office.
Im confident students understand our Academic Honor
Code and Social Code and having
worked with students for a long
time, I expect they will make good
decisions, he wrote in an email to
the Orient.
BCA leader Matthew Goodrich
15 said that those planning on
participating in the sit-in know
that they could face disciplinary
action.
Were aware of that, he said.
But were also aware that the
College has denied us the proper
rights and respect we deserve as
students. The trend toward direct
action unfortunately is a last resort, as weve been shut out of the

more institutional channels.
Frustrated in its effort to convince the College to divest, BCA
offered the Trustees an ultimatum
on February 13: If the Trustees did
not appoint a divestment liaison to
the student body by March 6, BCA
would escalate its campaign.
In an interview with the Orient
on March 3, President Barry Mills
asserted that the trustees directed
BCA to go to him with further
concerns. BCA did not accept this
explanation.
In an act of deafness toward
the students and faculty, President Mills has now appointed
himself liaison, the group wrote
on its website on March 16. As
he will leave campus in the coming months, this does not fulfill
our request to engage the Board
in productive discussion and continue dialogue into next semester.
In consequence, we reaffirm our
intent to escalate this spring. The
Board has not acted for climate
justice, so we will.
news
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SECURITY REPORT: 2/27 to 3/26

Friday, February 27
An officer checked on the well-being of a student in Hyde Hall.
A student in Moore Hall with a
cut foot was escorted to Mid Coast
Hospital.
Two students in Stowe Hall violated
the hard alcohol policy.
Saturday, February 28
A student reported the theft of a
black North Face winter coat, size XXL,
from the living room at Baxter House.
An unregistered event was dispersed on the fifth floor of Coles Tower.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of a student at Stowe Inn, at the
request of a friend.
Sunday, March 1
A complaint of loud music was reported at Ladd House.
A window was broken in Baxter
House during an unregistered event. A
visiting student from the University of
Maine was found responsible and was
billed for the damages.
A large unregistered event was dispersed at Baxter House.
A black North Face medium womens winter jacket was reported stolen
from Baxter House.
Wall damage was discovered at
MacMillan House following an event.
Monday, March 2
A College informational sign on
College Street was knocked down by a
snow removal machine.
Tuesday, March 3
A student failed to comply with an
Office of the Dean of Student Affairs request to have no contact with a former
roommate.
A student with abdominal pain was
escorted from Appleton Hall to Mid
Coast Hospital.
Wednesday, March 4
Alcohol-related vandalism was reported after an unregistered event in
the Ladd House

basement.
Thursday,
March 5
A party at
Winthrop
Hall
involving students
and several underage
local guests was dispersed. The
guests were issued trespass
warnings
and removed
from
campus.
An
intoxicated
student
at
Winthrop Hall
was transported
to Mid Coast Hospital by Brunswick
Rescue.
An intoxicated
visitor at Winthrop
Hall was transported to
Mid Coast Hospital by
Brunswick Rescue.
A female student
reported being inappropriately touched
by an intoxicated male
student. The matter is
under investigation.
Friday, March 6
A student who
fell and hit his head
on ice was escorted
to Mid Coast Hospital.
Saturday,
March 7
An officer checked
on the wel-
being of an intoxicated student on

the second floor Hyde Hall.
A student furnished
alcohol to minors; a report was filed with
the deans office.
DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
The
Brunswick
Police Department
(BPD) cited five
minor students
for possession of
a large quantity
of beer and hard
alcohol in the
Watson
Arena parking lot.
Sunday, March 8
The BPD cited a student who was walking on
Garrison Street in possession of alcohol.
A student getting a
piggyback ride at Baxter
House fell backwards and
received a head injury. The
student was escorted to
Mid Coast Hospital.
Wednesday, March 11
A student reported
the theft of clothing
from the laundry
room at Chamberlain Hall. It
was determined
that the item was taken

by mistake and has been
returned.
Monday, March 16
An allegation of harassment was referred to Human
Resources.
A Harpswell man suspected of stealing a bicycle near Hubbard
Hall was issued a trespass warning and
removed from campus.
Wednesday, March 18
A smoke alarm at Stowe Inn was
activated by a student cooking.
Thursday, March 19
The Brunswick Fire Department
responded to Ashby House after a
contractor doing renovations accidentally started a small fire while using an
acetylene torch. There was no damage
reported.
Friday, March 20
A concerned parent requested a
wellness check on her son. The student
was fine.
Sunday, March 22
A student with flu-like symptoms
was escorted from 52 Harpswell to Mid
Coast Hospital.
A local resident reported that a
moose mascot was acting strangely at a
local skating event at Watson Arena. It
was determined that the moose was a bit
strange.
A smoke alarm at Brunswick
Apartments was caused by burnt
popcorn.
Tuesday, March 24
A student with severe throat pain
was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.
Thursday, March 26
An employee was taken to Mid
Coast Hospital with an arm injury after
a fall in the Quinby House parking lot.
Compiled by the Office of Safety and
Security.
GROUP
tions and the people that we meet with
pushing them to do so and maybe even
engaging their students and athletes or
whoever in those conversations themselves, she added.
Rebkah Tesfamariam 18, another member of the group, suggested
changes to the first-year orientation
program, such as more explicitly introducing incoming students to campus
houses like 24 College Street, 30 College Street and the Russwurm African
American Center, as well as including
a seminar that discusses the multicultural scene on campus, like those that
address the drinking and hook up cultures on campus.
Michelle Kruk 16, one of the organizers of the Meeting at the Union
said she is happy with the administrations response.
I think this is an important stepping
stone and I hope that the student body
participates in their initiative of having
campus-wide discussions on the topics
raised in the Letter and in the Meeting,
Kruk wrote in an email to the Orient.
This is a moment where the College
is giving us an opportunity to have our
voices heard so I hope a great number
of students seizes that chanceI know
I will.
Though she is pleased with the formation of the working group, Kruk
stressed the importance of a sustained
commitment to addressing social differences on campus.
While it is encouraging to see a
tangible result of activist efforts, I hope
that our progress doesnt stop with a
working group or even with campuswide discussions, Kruk wrote. The
administrations response is an exceptional start, but it is just thata start.
the bowdoin orient
FEATURES
Sullivan 17 takes gap year to travel America Friendsy frenzy: new social
app polarizes student body
MIND THE GAP
BY KELSEY SCARLETT
BY SARAH DRUMM
What do road trips, Frontier

and the Appalachian Trial have in
common? Answer: junior Paul Sullivans gap year.
I decided I wanted to take a gap
year to hike the Appalachian Trial
my freshman year of high school,
initially because one of my sisters
friends was doing it, and he had a
blast, so it seemed like a lot of fun,
said Sullivan, a Brunswick native. As
I progressed through high school, I
was working hard, and I just wanted
an experience that was different than
schoolwork and academics.
Sullivan would not reach the Appalachian Trial until the very end
of his gap year. Instead, after his
high school graduation, he began
the first leg of his adventure with a
two-month road trip with a friend.
We did a huge loopgoing out
West we stayed North, so we went
to Chicago and the Midwest, and
we went through Yellowstone and
Grand Teton, to Seattle, to Olympic National Park and then went
down the California coastRedwood, Yemini, San Francisco,
L.A.and then went diagonally
back to Maine, covering the Southwest, said Sullivan.
After his trip, Sullivan started
working at Frontier.
Working was probably the
toughest part because almost all of
my friends had gone away to college and town was empty, said Sullivan. It was a lot of hanging out
Friendsy, a mobile application that

combines elements of Facebook, Tinder and Yik Yak, quickly became the
latest social media craze at Bowdoin
after its introduction before Spring
Break, and had been downloaded by
nearly half of the student body (849
students) as of Monday.
Requiring a .edu email address
to sign up, the app allows students to
connect with one another on a friendly or romantic level.
Users are given the option to select friends, hookup or date on
other students profiles. If the feelings
are mutual, both parties receive a notification saying that they have been
matched. Students are then given the
chance to message their mutuals
with the help of conversation-starting prompts.
The app was founded in 2013 by
two Princeton students, Vaidhy Murti
and Michael Pinsky, in hopes of giving
students an easier way to connect with
each other and branch out of their social circles on campus. After testing
the app at a small number of campuses over the past year, the app launched
nationwide earlier this month.
Speaking to USA Today, Murti
said, Our goal of Friendsy is to go
back to the roots of what made Facebook once successfuland thats to
put the college social scene online.
Where everything you do and everything you see is very much relevant to
your day-to-day life.
Danny Mejia 17 and Laura Plimp-
ORIENT STAFF
COURTESY OF PAUL SULLIVAN
CROSS COUNTRY: Paul Sullivan 16 spent his gap year in many places in the U.S. His experience
included driving across the country and hiking the Appalachian trail.
with my parents and repeating the
same thing day in and day out.
When March rolled around he
was ready to begin the last leg: hiking the Appalachian Trail. He started the trip in Georgia and ended in
his own backyard in Maine, a week
before his pre-orientation trip.

It was weirdon the one hand
it felt great because I just completed the trail, but part of me wanted
to keep going, Sullivan said. I was
Please see GAP, page 8
ton 17 played a large role in getting

Friendsy on campus.
Plimpton heard about the app last
year from her sister who attends Hamilton College.
We had heard of other schools
that had Friendsy and we thought it
was really funny and wanted to see if
there was any way we could bring it to
a smaller school, because weve seen it
work at other small schools said Mejia. We figured wed try to make it a
thing at Bowdoin.
In order to make the app available
on campus, Friendsy requested that
students express interest by entering
their email address on Friendsys website. After Thanksgiving break, Mejia
and Plimpton told their friends to join
the app.
There was a group of six or seven
people already on it when it went live,
so we werent patient zero and patient
one on the app, Mejia added. Once
we heard it opened up and now only
needed people to join to make it a
thing then we sent it to a lot of people.
All those super annoying texts? Those
came from us.
Immediately after opening to
Bowdoin, the apps usage on campus exploded.
Dinner was at 7 p.m. and by like,
11 p.m. there had been 80 people who
had joined and then the next day it
was over 200, said Mejia. We meant
for it to just be a funny thing within
our friends, kind of. Then it became a
Union phenomenon that night.
Even Plimpton and Mejia are wary
Please see FRIENDSY, page 8
Professor Hadley Horch on 80s movies, Dairy Queen management, aviation

FACULTY CHATS
ELENA BRITOS
Ask Hadley Horch what her interests are, and her answers might surprise you. Horch is Associate Professor
of Biology and Neuroscience and the
director of the neuroscience program.
Her lab work is focused on conducting
studies on crickets.
I love my work, but I dont eat,
drink, and sleep it, she said.
Horch is a Midwesterner who grew
up in the suburbs of Indianapolis.
It didnt resonate with me there, and
I got out as quickly as I could, she said.
Horch decided to head east for college, enrolling at Swarthmore College
in Pennsylvania.
While Horch discovered her passion for neuroscience and held lab
jobs at Swarthmore, she was not without any prior work experience. The
summer before college, she decided it
would be interesting to get a job painting parking meters.
I worked at the Indiana Department of Transportation, but never did
get to paint any meters, said Horch.
I had applied because I thought that
sounded kind of fun to be outside all
summer. The lady I interviewed with
thought it was inappropriate for a girl
to be on that team, so she invented an
office job for me.
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
MORE THAN A JOB: Hadley Horch, Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroscience and the director of the neuroscience program, loves teaching students but also
has many hobbies outside the classroom, including flying and gardening.
In this job, she was once asked to rip
up documents and ended up with blisters on both of her thumbs.
I did that for days, and it was ridiculous because I think they had a shredder, Horch said.
Horch also recounted the misadventures of a former occupation: being the
manager of a Dairy Queen.
There was one night when [the other employees] changed all the clocks on
me so I closed up an hour earlyI was
that kind of kid. I remember a massive
ketchup and mustard fight in the back
that I was responsible for, even though
I didnt take part in it.
Despite the trials of her high-school
jobs, Horch looks back on them fondly.
When remembering her college years,

meeting her husband is one of Horchs
favorite memories.
Its kind of a funny story, she
said. Two friends of ours decided we
should date. They were telling me he
was talking about me, which was untrue, and they did the same to him. I
was a sophomore, and one night I was
hanging out and doing homework in

my room and my friends threw this
man into my room and locked the
door. He literally looked like he was
about to leap out the third floor window, and that is who I married.
Horch lives in Brunswick with her
husband and children, and is a dedicated gardener.
Im starting to do permaculture
in my yard, and I just built a hugel
mound, she said enthusiastically.
Horch describes hugel mounds
as brush, mud and sticks buried in a
trench covered in leaves.
They become a sort of nursery and
the idea is that whatever you plant in a
mound, in theory, you will never have
to water for twenty years, she said.
Horch recently ordered blueberry
bushes to plant in the mound.
I think I might have ordered kiwi
vines, too. Theres a northern variety
that can grow here, you eat the peel and
all. Ill need to build a trellis, though.
Horch admits that although gardening is a real hobby for her, sometimes
she would rather dream about projects
than actually carry them out.
I would love to flip houses. Not
that I would have the taste or skills to
do that, but I really like fixing up old
houses, and this is a fantasy of mine.
I thought about this when I was up for
tenure [which she received in 2010],
about what I would really want to do
other than [teaching], and all these crazy
Please see HORCH, page 8
the bowdoin orient
Crafts provide opportunity

for cross-cultural bonding
IN ORIEN
BOWDO
ALL, TH
E
PENELOPE LUSK
Beatrice Rafferty Elementary
School on the Sipayik reservation
in Pleasant Point, Maine has an art
room, craft corners in the classrooms and the Passamaquoddy
Language and Culture classroom,
home to beads, dream-catcher
rings and crayons that smear rainbows on small hands.
Sipayik is the larger of the
two
Passamaquoddy
tribal reservations in
Downeast
Maine;
Beatrice Rafferty is
the only school on
the reservation. After kids finish their
worksheets in Passamaquoddy class,
they grab coloring pages and the
crayon dust flies.
A
droopy-eared
pajamaed rabbit is
captioned, Mahtoqehsrabbit.
I spent a week on
Alternative
Spring
Break (ASB) in the
language
classroom
of the school, which
overlooks the Passamaquoddy Bay. I came
home with a stack of
drawings and colored
pages inches thick
I have mahtoqehs,
pesqahsuwehsokflower, and
images of the
traditional Passamaquoddy double
curve.
On
Friday,
we met with
Madonna Soctomah, a former tribal representative to
the Maine state
legislature. She
told us about her
experiences growing up on the reservation and then about her
time in the legislature, where she
worked with politicians who knew
nothing about her community. On
the reservation, she faced poverty.
Off it, she faced racism and a government that wanted to erase her
language and alter her way of life.
One of my ASB members asked
what she thought our group, which
traveled to Sipayik ostensibly to
help with the issues facing the
community, could actually do with
our week.
Soctomah told us to absorb everything we possibly could, to listen and to learn, and then to tell
other people what we had seen and
heard. She also asked us to treat her

people as humans.
Working in the classroommy
organized community service projectI met nearly every child who
attends Beatrice Rafferty. Fiveyear olds sat on my lap and thirteen-year olds told me about their
crushes. All the while, we colored
and drew, heads together, attracted
by the quiet spell of craft time.
The two teachers in the classroom told me about their childhoods, opened their library of
Passamaquoddy history books,
showed me the craft of beading a
dream-catcher, and patiently
corrected my Passamaquoddy pronunciation. (The Passamaquoddy s sounds
like an English z, d like
a b and t like d). As
children filed in and out,
the teachers would quietly
tell me whose parents were
separated or gone and who
had suffered unspeakably in
her five, or seven, or twelve
years of life.
On my last day in the
classroom I cut out dozens of paper flowers
pesqahsuweskil.
The
teacher gave me green
tempera paint, and on
the glass doors that
framed the bay glittering with chunks of
snow and ice, I created
an image of spring.
Before I left, the
teacher asked me to
close my eyes, and
she clasped a bracelet
around my wrist. She
had beaded it in blue and
cream and violet. When
I expressed how beautiful
it was, she laughed, saying that beading was easy,
her hobby. She pointed at
the paper and paint on the
doors and said that my work
was something she could not
make. We hugged good-bye.
We gave gifts to each
othercolored-in mahtoqehs, bracelets, even window
decorationsbecause we connected on a fundamental level,
through conversation and crayons.
To receive a craft made by someone
elsesomeone you have known for
a short time but will never forget
is a tremendous gift.
To share everything that I
learned about Passamaquoddy culture, language and life would take
endless pages and hours.
Stories of suffering and oppression,
stereotypes that evoke a mythologized way of life, can never define
people. I cannot define their entire
community in words, but I can tape
rabbits to my wallsrabbits colored
in during craft time by five-year-old
kidsand tell college students about
my new friends who made them.
ANNA H
SEW WHAT?
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the bowdoin orient
features
Alternative Spring Break program enjoys another successful year

BY MICHAEL COLBERT
ORIENT STAFF
Every year, Bowdoin students

set off on service-based Alternative
Spring Break (ASB) trips, and this
year was no exception. Students this
year traveled to different service
organizations in Maine, Florida,
Georgia, California, Pennsylvania,
Washington, D.C. and Guatemala,
working on a number of issues
ranging from poverty to education
to gender equality and equality for
the LGBTIQ community.
In order to prepare for these trips,
participants attend seminars planned
and taught by their trip leaders.
The leaders are responsible for
creating eight-week seminars that
help participants prepare for entering into the community, said
Andrew Lardie, Associate Director
for Service and Leadership at the
McKeen Center. They learn both
about the history of the community
theyre going to and the issue itself,
which might be local or a broader,
historical, more national focus.
Leaders have varying degrees
of scholarly expectations of their
groups, and often draw from their
academic backgrounds while creating the seminar curriculum.
Going on an ASB allows students,
both leaders and participants, to
engage with issues theyve studied
in the classroom.
Caroline Montag 17 a gender
and womens studies major, went
on the new trip to San Francisco
created by Alice Wang 15 and Karl
Reinhardt 15 to work with issues of
gender and sexuality. Part of what
compelled her to participate was
the chance to see what she studied
at Bowdoin in a different context.
I wanted to study these topics
in a place totally different from
Bowdoin, in a big city with a lot of
interesting queer and womens history, Montag said.
Seeing things in a much more
hands-on, direct historical lens
FRIENDSY
COURTESY OF CAROLINE MONTAG
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Many students participated in service-oriented Alternative Spring Break trips. One of these trips (above) went to San Francisco to work with the
San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Other trips went to places in Maine, Florida, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C and Guatemala.
was really interesting. We even
went on a queer history tour of
the city. Taking what Ive already
learned about the gay and womens
liberation movements and putting
it into the direct historical lens
of where it happened was really
great, she added.
On this trip students worked
with organizations such as the
San Francisco AIDS Foundation,
I used it for three days and its boring. It was a fun idea but it just doesnt
work. Its not the same as in person,
said Andrew Brenner 18
of the apps presence in Bowdoins soCasey Krause 17 does not use the
cial scene.
app but has some strong opinions
I think the point of something like
about its use on campus.
Friendsy is for big schools where its
I think its the stupidest thing
actually difficult to run into people,
ever, she said. I know that people
said Plimpton. You can only scroll
joke about it. If people actually do it
through so many people. Once youve
that would really piss me off. Its like
scrolled through everyone youre like
worse than hooking up blackout in the
now what?
Baxter basement. Ive talked to people
We have so many resources as unwho say they have it on their phone
dergraduates at a small school thats
but theyre not active on it. They just
easy to get
like to hear who
around and has
wants to hook
a lot of commuup with them to
nity focus that
boost their ego.
theres so many
Ill be in a group
different
opof people and
tions for people
somebody will
to meet each
be like I just got
other and get
three hookup
to know each
requests
on
other well, said
Friendsy and
DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Mejia. Asking
Ill throw up in
somebody to dinner is a really simple
my mouth a little bit.
thing. We dont need an app like this.
Roughly 950 students were active
I dont agree with it morally. I think
on Friendsy last week. This week,
its fun.
that number has dropped to just unDespite its popularity on campus,
der 850, signifying that the app may
a contingency of students disapprove
be beginning to lose steam.
of the app. For many, Bowdoins small
I deleted it because I didnt know
size renders the idea of the app useless
what to do with it anymore, said
Excuse me to all the people who
Plimpton. It was just really cool to
say they want to hook up or date on
watch. Seeing it start to finish in 48
Friendsy yet remain anonymous in
hours was the most fun part.
real life said Liam Finnerty 17. It
Better than Tinder, worse than evwill never cease to amaze me.
erything else, said Mejia.
where they helped prepare clean

needle kits for heroin addicts as
part of the organizations needle
exchange program, which strives
to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Sam Mayne 16 also had the opportunity to see what he studied in
anthropology classes during his trip
to Pleasant Point, Maine where ASB
participants worked with the Passamaquoddy tribe. Mayne has taken
HORCH

ideas came about. I also think it would
be really fun to be a movie critic.
In her free time, Horch enjoys
watching her favorite 80s movies
with her daughter and any show with
a comedic, female-driven narrative.
I kind of like vapid movies,
she said. I like Will Ferrell and
romantic comedies. I am able to
turn my brain off and be pretty uncritical with those. In college, I was
into dark movies about Vietnam,
but I just cant do that anymore. I
just need to be pretty fluffy. I think
a lot of deep thoughts at work, and
thats enough.
GAP

sad that all the people I had met along
the way were all dispersing.
Finishing his gap year experience,
he immediately went on his on his
pre-orientation tripbiking to Popham Beach. Back on campus, he
faced some difficulty transitioning to
college life.
As I look back on it, it was a
very weird experience, but I think
everyone is going through a weird
experience [during] freshman
falltrying to get used to this new
place, new home and new group
some anthropology courses specifically about native peoples, and this

helped him go into his experience
without any preconceived notions.
It doesnt relate quite how you
might expect it to, Mayne said.
When youre actually there, youre
not constantly thinking about the
fact that the people are natives.
Theyre just people, he added.
Mayne went on the PassamaHorch sipped coffee from a 30
Rock mug throughout the interview. When asked what Bowdoin
students might not know about her,
quoddy trip last year, and hopes to

go again next year and would even
like to return at the beginning of
the summer to run a weeklong literacy challenge to encourage students to read.
Although the ASB application
process typically gives preference to
new applicants, the Pleasant Point
trip gives past participants priority.
The trip is free of charge. President
Millss office supports it as part of
the Wabanaki-Bates-Bowdoin-Colby Collaboration. In order to foster
a deeper connection with the Wabanaki, the McKeen Center tries to
send familiar faces like Mayne on
orientation and ASB trips.
Its challenging because of the
distance, and it isnt convenient to
go there often, so what does it look
like to build a relationship with
people who you only see twice a
year? Lardie said.
With Mills departing at the end
of the year, President-elect Clayton Rose must make the decision
regarding the continuation of
Bowdoins participation in the collaboration and determine the fate
of the program.
Lardie, the trip leaders, Security
Officer JT Tyler and trip advisor
Roy Partridge have all discussed
ways in which they can sustain
a connection with the Wabanaki
throughout the year.
ASB trips aim to work as a
springboard from which Bowdoin
students can continue engagement
with the material presented during
the week.
Above all, Lardie is impressed by
the level of student initiative that he
sees in ASB trips. Students propose
trips in the spring and plan all aspects of them with minimal supervision from Lardie and the assistance
of two student McKeen Center ASB
Fellows. Looking forward, he hopes
to see proposals for trips that deal
with different issues, like environmental justice, domestic violence
and public health.
Horch revealed that she has her pilots license.

My husband and I had money
burning in our pockets, so we got
licensed at Chapel Hill, she said.

The last time I flew I was getting
certified on a Piper. I hate the feeling of doing stalls, what it does to
your stomach. That particular day,
I really felt like I was going to hurl.
Turns out I was pregnant with my
first child. After that, I became
more risk-averse and havent flown
alone since, but Im glad I did it.
Despite her willingness to share
her eclectic hobbies with the
Bowdoin community, Horch ultimately wants students to know how
glad she is to be teaching here.
I really love interacting with my
students. Its kind of nerdy to say
that, but I just love watching light
bulbs go off. Theres really no better
feeling. Its a passion for me.
of friends. I think I was pretty unhappy sitting inside, in a classroom

because I had gotten used to being
outside for most of the day, said
Sullivan. I wasnt super psyched
with the structure of school and
I also didnt know exactly what
I wanted to studyso I enjoyed
my classes but I wasnt passionate
about anything in particular.
That didnt stop him from engaging in the Bowdoin community.
That fall, Sullivan became involved
with the Bowdoin Outing Club
(BOC) and went through leadership training. He is still an active
member of the BOC. In the winter,
he takes advantage of the snow, try-
ing to make it up to Sugarloaf once

a week to ski.
Getting outside is a big part of
my life and a big part of how I stay
balanced and calm in the whirlwind
Bowdoin can be, said Sullivan.
Sullivan would recommend the gap
year experience to anyone interested.
I think, overall, one of the most
fun parts of the gap year was having
the opportunity to pursue my interests and just relax and take a deep
breath because that doesnt happen
in school, said Sullivan. Coming
back to Bowdoin, things werent
overwhelming to me because I had
done something outside of school.
It lends a nice perspective.
I remember a massive
ketchup and mustard fight in
the back that I was responsible
for.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HORCH
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Conover 83 shares film created for Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum

BY BRIDGET WENT
ORIENT STAFF
Coastal Studies Scholar and documentary filmmaker David Conover

83 screened his eight-minute film
created for the Auschwitz-Birkenau
Memorial and Museum on Wednesday in Kresge Auditorium. The event
was followed by a conversation with
Conover and Professor of English and
Cinema Studies Aviva Briefel.
A stark contrast to his typical
ocean and outdoor-focused works,
Conovers film provides Auschwitz
visitors with a portal to witness the
horrors of the camp prior to their entry into the primary gateway. With the
exception of Wednesdays audience of
Bowdoin students and community
members, the film will be shown exclusively on-site in the newly-renovated cinema room at the visitors center,
starting in four or five months.
Conover has spent the last 25 years
producing films that explore human
relationships with the earth, often
focusing on the ocean. Since 1992,
he has been executive producer and
director of the Camden, Maine-based
production company Compass Light,
which has received over 250 commissions from various publishers and
broadcasters, including PBS Nova and
the Discovery Channel. Conover has
also taught two Bowdoin courses in
documentary film: Seashore Digital
ABBY MOTYCKA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
MEMORIAL: Professor of English and Cinema Studies Aviva Briefel talks with filmmaker David Conover about his short film for Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Diaries in the fall and Science to Story: Digital and Beyond this semester.
Conovers Auschwitz Gateway Film
serves as a preamble to the visitor
experience and aims to prepare the
museums annual 1.5 million visitors,
who come from a variety of geographical and cultural backgrounds, to experience the camp.
The challenge was how to position
people for what really is the most important experience, which is just being there and being in this authentic
place, said Conover.
The film included archival images
and video clips superimposed with
contemporary shots of the camp.
Conover and his production team

shot and framed exact picture-frame
matches, filming in locations that have
been photographed in the archives.
The aerial drone shots, revealing
the magnitude of the camp through
picturesque grassy landscapes, were
juxtaposed against the harshness of
black and white photographs of people in the camp.
There is something very beautiful
about the way [the film] establishes
and constructs the shots initially, and
then recreates a history of what this
place actually is through the superimposition of color and black and white,
said Briefel.
Though documentation of the

camp is scarce, the film employed
photographs from the Lili Jacob collection, an archive of 180 photos taken
by Nazi photographers. Several video
clips were taken by Ukrainians who
came to the camp in January of 1945
while it was closed but still occupied.
Many photos in that collection
were taken with the agenda of dehumanizing Jews and other people
in the camp, depicting them almost
exclusively in crowds. The bias of
the camera informed the way the
images were contextualized in the
film. Using research conducted by
the museum, the film superimposed
nametags onto the families portrayed

in the photographs to restore their
individuality.
Briefel and Conover discussed the
poignancy of seeing photographs
from Auschwitz camps for the first
time, and our tendency to resist looking at the harsh and often disturbing
images.
Theres this paradox that it is really
an unknowable experience and yet
youre compelled to convey it, said
Conover.
Conover didnt see a necessity for
dramatizing the film in any way. His
decision to make the film dispassionate was guided by knowing that
people would be there experiencing
Auschwitz for themselves.
Although we were displaced in
the sense that were here in America
and not actually at the camp, we still
get a sense of being there, said Emiley Charley 17. It lets [visitors] remember history for themselves, she
added.
By providing an entry point to
experience the legacy of such a significant landmark with a devastating history, Conovers film makes no
claims to make sense of the events
that took place in Auschwitz during
the Holocaust.
This is really an atrocity; its not
a tragedy, said Conover. Theres no
real counterweight; its just horrible,
and thats it.
Brown discusses creating black J. Tillman and the evolution of the singer-songwriter
identity through image and text
HIPSTER DRIVEL
ORIENT STAFF
MATTHEW GOODRICH
There are many ways to be an
asshole with an acoustic guitar:
cover Wonderwall, for example,
or play Dave Matthews. The democratization of music consumption (once, you had to be nobility
to hear Mozart) mirrors, I think,
the decline of earnest musical talent (see: your Spotify Free usage
and the number of milquetoast
Coldplay wannabees dotting your
Facebook newsfeed). The advent
of audio recording meant you no
longer had to read sheet music in
order to experience Gilbert and
Sullivanbut can we call this a
happy development if it culminates
in Iggy Azalea?
The asshole-with-guitar rarely
means to be such a thing. He picked
up the instrument either to accommodate for his lack of personality
or to lyricize sentiments best left
in his diary, yet we heap on him
derision rather than pity. Why?
Because the storied history of the
singer-songwriter progresses from
sincere to sweet to sentimental to
saccharine. Singer-songwriter as a
quote-unquote genre has already
had its wunderkind beat poet protestor (Bob Dylan), its self-loathing and conflicted sneerer (also
Dylan), its Brill Building cinematic sell-out (Burt Bacharach), its
soft-rock schmaltz establishment
crooner (James Taylor), its alcoholic roustabout raconteur (Tom
Waits), its whimsical psychedelic
druggie (Harry Nilsson), and its
fuck-it-Ill-play-harpsichord vir-
anist. Instead
of sentiment,
he laced his
songs
with
scathing satire. His song
Rednecks,
for instance,
sends up the
trope of the
titular southerners who
cant tell
[their] ass
from a hole
in ground while damning white
northerners for their hypocrisy
and complicity in systemic racism.
Far from the middle-of-the-road
emoting of Ed Sheeran, Hozier,
and your cousin whose cover of
Fearless was retweeted by Taylor
Swift, Randy Newman had edge.
Who will deliver us from Sam
Smith in 2015?
DIANA FURUKAWA , THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
by black artists in this country is

also about the power of photography, whether it is a record of pain,
The Beam Classroom was overviolation, joy, or comfort, Brown
flowing on Tuesday night as stusaid in her talk on Tuesday evening.
dents and faculty packed the seats
Similarly, African American poetry
to hear Kimberly Juanita Brown,
is a catalogue of historical events.
Ph.D. speak. Browns talk, entitled
Many of DeCaravas photographs
Afterimages of History: The Poetics
were published in a 1955 book
of Photography in the Contempoco-authored by Langston Hughes,
rary, used photography and poetry
The Sweet Flypaper of Life. This
to discuss the subjectivity of African
book captivated African Americans
American experiences over the past
and became a bible to them, ac60 years.
cording to Brown.
Brown featured photographs
Browns own experience with
from black artthis book is noteists like Roy Deworthy. In her
Carava and Carvery-hard-to-find
I hovered over the idea of this
rie Mae Weems.
copy (originally
discarding. It somehow brings
DeCarava
from a library
captured
the
in
Vermont),
together a myriad of concerns
lives of African
animating black poetic and pho- she noticed the
American men
word discarded
tographic representation-remove, stamped inside
and women in
the 1950s and
the front cover.
reject, toss out, refuse.
1960sworking,
She could not let
protesting
for
that word go.
KIMBERLY JUANITA BROWN, PH.D.
rights, mournI hovered over
ing, enjoying the
the idea of this
small moments.
discarding, she
Weems work is more recentfrom
said in her talk. It somehow brings
the 1990s and early 2000sand fotogether a myriad of concerns
cuses on the recognition of African
animating black poetic and photoAmericans places in Louisiana hisgraphic representationsremove,
tory.
reject, toss out, refuse.
Brown matched these images with
Brown covers this issue as a lecthe words of poets of color. She beturer in the Studies of Women,
lieves the pairing of the words and
Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard
imagery help to convey historiUniversity, though she will be leavcal events and feelings of African
ing Harvard for Mount Holyoke
Americans.
College at the end of the academic
Owing to a history of racial subyear. She is also writing a book that
jugation in the United States...the
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juxtaposition of imagery practiced
BY LOUISA MOORE
tuoso (Van Dyke Parks). Which is

all to say: its tough being a white
guy in show biz these days. A sixstring and a broken heart dont get
you as far as they once did.
Maybe the singer-songwriter of
today has been reduced to your
annoying acoustic first-year floormate, but it wasnt always so. Lets
remember that before he turned
us all into hanky-soaked nostalgists with Youve
Got a Friend
in Me, Randy
Newman was
an acerbic pi-
Enter Josh Tillman, alias Father

John Misty, asshole-with-guitar,
but not the kind who only knows
the chorus to Wagon Wheel. Under an abbreviated name, he used
to perform mopey folk music, the
kind of sensitive lumberjack
tunes that made Bon Iver famous.
After a stint with Fleet Foxes, a
band that injected emotional highs
into listeners straight through a
catheter of pastoralism and fourpart harmony, he abandoned
white-male melancholia. I remember his Facebook post from the
Fleet Foxes page declaring, into
the gaping maw of obscurity I go.
You know what they say: if you
cant beat em, caricature em. Tillmans new project, Father John
Misty, is the Adult Swim version of
Bon Iver, a Newman-esque satire
of the possibility of a singer-songwriter in 2015. He even has his own
(anti-)origin story: depressed dude
fails at music industry, takes psychedelics, internalizes lifes nihilism, and transforms into shamanic
and cynical asshole-with-guitar
who knows hes the asshole-withguitar. Tillman is the kind of asshole who would laugh at the kid
trying to lead the entire camp in a
sing-a-long of Skinny Love, and
then sleep with his mother. Bon
Iver sings about losing love and innocence alike; Tillman thinks you
can recapture the former with his
specialty perfume called Innocence by Misty (it goes for $75.00
on his website).
The funniest part of the Father
John Misty joke, then, isnt the
absurdity of a singer-songwriter
releasing an album of love songs
in 2015although I Love You,
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Bowdoin College Museum of Art blasts off with spring programming
ZACH ALBERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
MUSEUM MARTIANS: On Thursday night, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art held a spring open house, featuring Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas with costumes and refreshments.
Neal Gabler dispells Hollywoods anti-Semitism Hafu film explores mixedBY MADDIE WOLFERT
ORIENT STAFF
Neal Gabler, a distinguished author, cultural historian and TV

commentator, gave a lecture entitled
How the Jews Invented Hollywood
and Why, about the Eastern European Jews who created the modern
silver screen.
Gabler, who has written for publications such as the New York Times
and Los Angeles Times, also served
as the liberal panelist on Fox News
Watch and replaced Robert Ebert as
a movie reviewer on the PBS show
Sneak Previews.
A professor at Stony Brook Southampton with interests in American
culture, Gabler has written leviathan-like biographies on both Walter Winchell and Walt Disney, and
has received multiple awards for
his book An Empire of Their Own:
How the Jews Invented Hollywood,
from which Tuesdays lecture drew
its name.
Gabler was chosen to give this
lecture by Bowdoins Harry Spindel
Memorial Lectureship committee.
This lectureship, founded in 1977
by Rosalyne Spindel Bernstein in
memory of her father, selects one
lecturer per year to speak on various aspects of Jewish culture. Past
topics have included art, poetry
and activism with lecturers like Art
Spiegelman.
This year, according to Associate
Professor of Classics and chair of
the lectureship Jennifer Kosak, the
committee agreed to select someone

who could speak to Jewish involvement in the film industry.
Neal Gablers name came right
up, said Kosak. There was no
question that he would be a superb
speaker for that topic.
Kosak said that this annual lecture, which serves as a headline
event on Jewish Studies at Bowdoin,
brings together not just members of
the Bowdoin community, but the
greater Brunswick community as
well.
Gabler attended lunch with students Tuesday afternoon and later
visited a film class.
I thought he was fantastic. I
think its a really uniquely Bowdoin
thing that he would come to lunch
with us and then walk with us to
class, said Nick Magalhaes 15, who
attended the lecture and joined Gabler for lunch. Its great that we can
incorporate an intellectual into student life.
That evening, Gabler addressed
a packed auditorium. He opened
with a story about his childhood
relationship with film and then
launched into his account of how
Eastern European Jews transformed
Hollywood into the glamorous institution of the 1920s that we recognize today.
Although anti-Semitic stereotypes portray Jewish film studio
presidentspeople who headed
production giants such as Warner
Brothers Entertainment and Universal Studiosas greedy men who
sacrificed art for profit, Gabler disagrees.

They were not the impediments
to art. In many ways they were the
engines of it, Gabler said.
In fact, according to Gabler, Jewish studio moguls had a direct hand
in the creation of most cinematic
masterpieces from the era as well as
in the elevation of the movie-going
experience and the accompanying
lavishness that has so influenced
American culture.
Theres this wonderful irony that
America is created in the image of
Hollywood, to a great extent, and
Hollywood is created by Eastern
European Jews, said Gabler. So if
you take the syllogism, America is
created by Eastern European Jews.
These Eastern European Jews,
Gabler argues, idealized an alien
country and people in their films
as a means of assimilation. This assimilation, says Gabler, was both
ruthless and relentless.
When you create a whole country by abandoning who you are,
which is essentially what they did,
you do pay a price, he said.
Ryan Szantyr 16, who attended
the lecture, said, I think that movies have always been about establishing an identity, and for these
people to give up their identity in
order to assimilate themselves into
American culture was, in a sense,
sad.
I love to entertain people, I want
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race realities in Japan

BY ADIRA POLITE
ORIENT STAFF
While issues of race and identity are

currently at the forefront of the minds
of many Americans, the Asian Studies
Department exposed campus to race
relations abroad with a screening and
discussion of the Japanese documentary Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan. The 2013 film follows
the lives of several half-Japanese individualshafusas they attempt to
fit into a racially uniform culture.
Hafus are actually quite popular
in Japanese mediabut they are also
stigmatized. They are supposed to live
a certain way, said Professor Toru
Shinoda of Waseda University in Tokyo who moderated the discussion
following the film.
No matter how long you live here,
youre not Japanese. Youre not accepted as a Japanese, said Sophia, a
half-Australian, half-Japanese woman
profiled in the film.
The hostility expressed towards
hafus can be so intense that some parents choose to hide the fact that their
children are not completely Japanese.
Fusae, a half-Korean, half-Japanese
woman in the film described the moment where she found out that she
was not actually fully Japanese. Her
mother concealed her Korean ancestry in order to protect her. Fusaes
mother warned her that she should be
careful when telling men that she is

only half-Japanese.
Fusae recalls, I really felt that I did
not belong anywhere in Japan. I wished
to be either fully Japanese or Korean.
The film also follows Mixed
Rootsa group that connects and
supports hafus struggling with their
racial identity.
Senior Lecturer in Japanese Language
Hiroo Aridome noted that students will
enroll in Japanese Language courses in
order to find their own identity.
Though Japans demography is different from Americas, the challenges
that accompany a multiracial identity
still resonate.
Im a first generation American.
That has really complicated the answers to What is your nationality?
and Where are you from? says Jorge
Gomez 18, who attended the event
and is of mixed race. Ive struggled
with the question of whether to identify as American or Mexican. Thats
why I identify as Mexican-American,
as that includes both.
Wednesdays screening was followed by a discussion moderated by
Shinoda that featured student panelists Emily Licholai 18, Greg Stasiw
15, Justin Ehringhaus 16 and Alex
Mathieu 15.
People perceive Japan as a homogeneous society with no race issues. I
hope that students can understand that
this is not true, said Professor Shinoda.
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will be published this fall.
[The] book project...explores
the cultural facility of dead black
bodies [that appeared] on the cover
of the New York Times in 1994,
said Brown.
Assistant Professor of Art History
Dana Byrd was one of the proponents of bringing Brown to campus,
with funding from the Bowdoin
College Museum of Art and the
Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund.
It seemed nice to have someone
who was trained in literature and
in African American studies, said
Byrd. [She] offer[ed] a slightly different method for working on photography and working at the intersection of the visual.
Byrd was thrilled by the large audience that attended the talk.
There was a broad spectrum of
students and faculty and people
from the community, and that was
really heartening, said Byrd. It suggested that people in this community
and on this campus are really engaged
with the arts and thinking deeply
about visual things.
Brown recognizes the less publicized
but still incredibly worthy work of African Americans in the past sixty years.
Poets and photographers mine
the vast archive of black subjectivity,
Brown said. [It] allow[s] the space to
pause, to contemplate, to acknowledge
and [to] engage in the spectacular
presence of African American visual
production.
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people to be engaged, and what I

want [the audience] to take away is
to understand the dynamics of the
creation of the American film industry. Who created it and why they
created it, said Gabler. If they take
that away, that theyll have an understanding that will help them appreciate two things: American film
industry and American culture.
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theres a brutal honesty to these

songs, which document Tillmans
neuroses, sins, and lexicon. Addressing his honeybear: Mascara,
Honeybear is full of self-referenblood, ash, and cum / On the Rortial asides suggesting Tillman is as
schach sheets where we make love,
bored with singer-songwriters as
Ive brought my mothers depresthe rest of us. No, the punch line
sion / Youve got your fathers
is that the Father John shaman
scorn and a wayward aunts schizocharacter isnt really a character at
phrenia. Addressing a judgmenall. Tillman really is just that bittal hookup who hoovers all [his]
ter, scathing, outrageous, hilaridrugs: She says, like literally, muous, and at times, brilliant. He was
sic is the air she breathes / And the
malaprops makes me want to fuckfaking it while drumming for Fleet
ing scream. The
Foxes,
champialbum is an acons of sincerity.
count of how he
Maybe its the difThe
punch
line
is
that
the
Father
met his wife, and
ference between
John
shaman
character
isnt
really
a
surely Tillman
Tinseltown and
Medford, Wiscon- character at all. Tillman really is just makes a loving
troubled hussin, but Tillmans
that bitter, scathing, outrageous ifband
but the mionly himself when
and, at times, brilliant. He was
sogynistic womhe lets his asshole-with-guitar faking it while drumming for Fleet anizer in him
is never wholly
run free.
Foxes, champions of sincerity
disowned.
I Love You,
Thats the point,
Honeybear
though. Tillman
plays with peris through with hiding, even his
formance. The title is tongue in
nastiest characteristics.
cheek, but only because Tillman
Father John Misty is too clevknows what its like to have been
er for his own goodthat sharp
chewed up and spit back out, both
tongue is bound to puncture his
by love and by commercial failure.
cheekbut he never backs away
Save me white Jesus, he sings
from who he is, which is a giant
over canned laughter on Bored
asshole with a mariachi guitar. Hes
In The USA, clearly expecting no
a jerk whose honesty is almost lovsalvation from either the Lord or
able. By serenading us with snark
the Boss. Tillman even leaked a
couched in sentiment wrapped up
version of his album early, with his
in equal parts schmaltz and cynivoice and instrumentation comcism, he delivers this truth to a dypressed into Super Mario Bros.ing industry: sometimes, it takes
style blockiness.
sarcasm to be sincere.
Despite such ironic affectations,
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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Jarred Kennedy-Loving 15
GRACE MALLETT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
IM LOVING IT: After he broke his leg, finishing his minor in dance has proved dicult for
Kennedy-Loving 15. Despite this, he continues to work on his independent study.
BY KIKI NAKAMURAKOYAMA
STAFF WRITER
Jarred Kennedy-Loving 15 was

not always encouraged to embrace
his body. It was only after he took
his first dance class with former
Visiting Professor Nya McCarthyBrown his sophomore year that he
felt inspired about dancing. Now a
senior, he is a gender and womens
studies major and dance minor who
is completing an independent study
in dance that explores identity, reflection and perceptionthanks to
and in spite of any and all of obstacles that stood in his way.
Coming from a lower socioeconomic background, dance wasnt
on his radar when he was growing
up. When one of his foster families
put him in a church production as
an angel, the pastor approached him
and told him boys shouldnt wear
tight clothing like his. After that experience he became self-conscious
and discouraged not only about his
body, but how he moved it.
I didnt dance that much, said
Kennedy-Loving. But I always
knew that I could.
At Bowdoin, working with McCarthy-Brown was a turning point
for him.
She changed my life; she believed
in me, he said. She taught me how
to isolate my rib cageI could move
it like Shakira.
In class, Kennedy-Loving liked
observing how different people
move and figuring out how they did
it.
I got to the class and it was like
food for me, he said. Its so good
to see what people are coming up
with.
From these experiences, Kennedy-Loving started to think about the
questions that would evolve into his
independent study: How do others
view us in our space? How do we
interact?
But before his independent study
was completely underway, Kennedy-Loving had a setback.
On February 7, he started the day
breaking records with the track and
field team at the Maine State Track
Meet, including his personal record of 23 seconds in the 200-meter
dash. He ended the day, however, in
the emergency in Lewiston, Maine.
While running the 400 meter race,

he suffered a compound fracture in
his leg.
It was an emotional time for me,
he said. I was in my hospital room
thinking, how am I going to finish
my minor?
For Kennedy-Loving, being
an athlete and a dancer work together because both demand his
attention and awareness of his
body in space.
I listen to my body, he said. Its
more important than the beat itself.
In addition to his experiences on
the dance floor and the track, Kennedy-Loving brings another level to
his personal journey with identity,
reflection and perception. While he
has been supported at Bowdoin, he
still finds it difficult to navigate his
identity as a gay black man.
Whatever you may be, you have
to find that creative truth, said Kennedy-Loving.
For his independent study, Kennedy-Loving is choreographing a
piece based on his favorite poem,
And Yea...This is a Love Poem, by
Nikki Giovanni. He emphasizes that
a lot of his work is about making
choices and accepting them.
When choosing dancers it was
important for him to emphasize that
no dance experience was necessary.
Its ludicrous to say only certain people can move in space,
he said. Teresa Liu 15, Adaiah
Hudgins-Lopez 18 and Christabel Fosu-Asare 18 are dancing in
this project.
When it comes to the actual choreography, Kennedy-Loving said
he sees it as a collaborative effort.
Throughout the process, KennedyLoving said he has felt inspired by
his dancers and their energy.
I have to watch these three
[people] move in space to work
through the choreography, he
explained.
His piece is comprised of angular movements and fluid motions
that focus on the upper body as a
representation of the constrained
identity.
Am I an artist? I dont know if
Im an artist. I love movement and
patterns and space and expression, he said. But I struggle to
call myself a dancer, so I just call
myself Jarred.
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SPORTS
Womens basketballs run ends in Sweet 16 Womens lacrosse nets six

wins, ranked fifth in nation
BY MADDIE JODKA
STAFF WRITER
SCORECARD
BY LIZA TARBELL
Su 3/6 Babson NCAA Round I

W 70-57
Sa 3/7 Ithaca NCAA Round II
W 71-66
Fri 3/13 Montclair St NCAA Round III L 61-54
After a loss in the NESCAC

championship and two NCAA
tournament wins, the womens basketball team fell in the Sweet Sixteen, finishing its season with an
impressive overall record of 25-5.
This season was the first time the
team reached the 25-win plateau
since 2007, and it was its 11th-ever
appearance in the Sweet 16.
The Polar Bears 23-4 pre-tournament record earned them the
distinction of being a host site for
an NCAA regional game, so they
played their first two tournament
games in the familiar confines of
Morrell Gymnasium where they
defeated Babson 70-57 and Ithaca
71-66 before falling at Montclair
State, 61-54.
Against Babson, senior Sara Binkhorst led the Polar Bears to victory
with 19 points. Sophomore Marle
Curle also added five assists. Bowdoin
outmuscled the Beavers on its way to a
43-32 rebounding advantage.
The Bears second-round game
against Ithaca was a nail-biter
the whole way through. Bowdoin
trailed 66-63 with two minutes remaining when Curle caught a pass
deep beyond the arc and drained a
game-tying three.
On the teams next possession,
Curle dribbled off a pick at the
top of the key and again pulled the
trigger, nailing another long-range
bomb to put the Bears up for good.
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PUMP UP THE JAM: Marle Curle 17 scored a game high 23 points, including the go-ahead three pointer,
helping the Polar Bears beat Ithaca College. The Polar Bears lost in their next game in the Sweet 16.
Curle finished with a career-high
23 points and five rebounds. Shannon Brady 18 added 21 points and
Kate Kerrigan 18 contributed 11
points and eight rebounds.
I thought they were a phenomenal team, said Head Coach Adrienne Shibles of Ithaca. I thought
the team showed a lot of poise
down the stretch to come back and
win that game. That was certainly a
highlight of our season.

Finally, the team faced Montclair
State who took over offensively in the
first half, leaving Bowdoin behind 3318 by halftime. In the second half, the
Polar Bears nearly pulled off a comeback to win the game, but Montclairs
four free throws extended their lead to
eight points to win the game. Binkhorst
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v. Mount Holyoke @ Fla W 15-6

v. St. Lawrence @Fla W 15-3
v. Middlebury
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The womens lacrosse team (6-1

overall, 3-1 NESCAC) started off
hot this season with a six-game
win streak, propelling it to a No.
3 national ranking. After losing to
Middlebury (5-1 overall, 3-1 NESCAC) last weekend and dropping
to No. 5 in the nation, the team
will host Trinity on Saturday, looking to further assert its prowess in
the highly competitive NESCAC.
Ive been impressed by how our
team started from the beginning
and by the level theyve been playing at, said Head Coach Liz Grote.
Were always looking to grow every day from there.
Of the six early-season wins,
captain Taylor Wilson 15 thought
the teams victory over Amherst
stood out as a highlight.
For us, coming off of last season,
we lost to them during the NESCAC
tournament, which kind of sealed
our fate, said Wilson. We didnt get
a bid for the NCAA tournament.
The Polar Bears came back with
a vengeance this year, beating
the then-No. 1 Lady Jeffs 10-6 on
March 7.
It gave us reassurance that we
could hold our own, too, because
from that point on, we just had
more confidence with every team
we played, said captain Natalie
Moore 15. It sent a message to

the whole NESCAC that we werent
going to let our season last year
happen again.
The game against Middlebury
this past weekend ended the teams
win streak. Middlebury was boosted by a first-half run during which
they scored four consecutive goals.
According to Wilson, the Polar
Bears did not feel that the game
was an accurate reflection of their
team.
We didnt come out of that game
feeling like Middlebury walked all
over us, she said. We made mistakes on our own that hurt us. It
was more like we beat ourselves
more than Middlebury beat us...
The way we played in the Middlebury game is not the way we play
and not the standard that we hold
ourselves to and have reached in
our other games.
Grote said she felt similarly.
I do think we played very well
as a team, she said. Statistically
we beat them in categories, but its
the goals at the end of the game
that matter.
We dont let one loss define
who we are, she added. If anything, it will give them more fuel.
Just a little more added incentive
to say, Lets get that groundball
next time.
Wilson agreed that the loss
could be used as motivation.
I think its a blessing in disguise
that we did have a bump in the road
this early in the season, because
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Snow impedes spring sports field prep Mens tennis has hot start
BY MAURA FRIEDLANDER
ORIENT STAFF
Many spring sports teams have

had to adjust their schedules and
practice routines over the last few
weeks due to this years unprecedented amount of snowfall, which
has left the outdoor fields and the
track covered in snow.
Although the cold winter climate has always forced teams like
lacrosse, softball, baseball and tennis to spend an extra week or two
training indoors, the huge amount
of snow this year has created a substantial delay in access to outdoor
training facilities.
According to Ashmead White
Director of Athletics Tim Ryan,
the lacrosse teams were forced to
practice indoors for a few extra
days because of cold weather and
excess snow, which caused a change
in other sports teams schedules.
In past winters, snow on the lacrosse fields artificial turf could be
plowed regularly by Bowdoin Facilities Management, but the extreme
amounts of snow all over campus
created a higher demand for Facilities plows.
We talk with Facilities on a
daily basis when it is snowing, said
Ryan. It helps them inform us of
the practice schedules that we may
need to adjustif we can get onto
the turf or not. We have a great re-
lationship, but their first priority

is understandably toward clearing
campus, and then they make their
way to our athletic fields.
The artificial turf was cleared at
the end of Spring Break, but the
softball and baseball fields, as well as
the Pickard fields, remain covered in
over a foot of snow and ice, according to softball player Marisa OToole
17. This makes practicing on their
own fields a challenge for the softball and baseball teams, as well as
the rugby teams.
Softball and baseball are traditionally left to clear their fields themselves, said OToole. This year Facilities shoveled the areas on our field
where the sun hits our fields, but other than that were pretty much on our
own. Right now were just waiting for
the snow to melt.
Because of their inability to
practice outdoors, many of the
spring teams have had to share the
Farley Field House facilities and
the artificial turf. Although this
does involve later practice times,
all teams do get regular windows
of time for practice.
The whole competition with
other teams just means that some
teams dont get ideal times, but
its not the end of the world, said
Kyle Wolstencroft 15, captain of
the mens tennis team. This year,
the coaches did a sort of lottery to
determine practice times, which
made forming the schedule more

fair for every team.
Though rescheduling practices has
not been a major issue, rescheduling
games and matches poses a different
issue for the Department of Athletics.
The tennis teams have traditionally
been able to reschedule their matches
at nearby Maine Pines tennis facility, but softball and baseball have not
been as lucky. These teams look to
nearby schools with less impact from
the snow, including Bates, to host their
home games.
Were fortunate to have a very
collegial relationship with the other
schools in our conference, Ryan
said. With such a short spring season, the goal is to be able to get all
of our conference games played, and
teams are willing to make accommodations to make sure that that can
happen while not adversely impacting students abilities to be in class.
Though the teams expressed
some frustration at the extended
winter and its effects on their practice locations, most feel that the
changes will not affect their performance throughout the season.
[The changed practices] didnt
affect us at all in Florida; we came
away with a really good record,
said OToole. Maine spring is always going to be like this, so were
used to the sport being affected by
weather. I think its mostly just a
general longing to be outside.
on Northern California trip

BY QUYEN HA
STAFF WRITER
The No. 10 mens tennis team

took a trip to the sunny West
Coast over Spring Break, going 5-1
against California teams and adding an in-conference win against
fellow traveler Trinity.
In its first match of its spring
season against Chapman, the
Bowdoin men grabbed crucial
doubles wins at the No. 1 and No.
2 spots. The team also won four of
the six singles matches, sealing a
7-2 triumph in its season debut.
Two days later, the Polar Bears
registered their second win as
they bested Carnegie Mellon 6-3.
Bowdoin won all three doubles
matches to sprint to an early 3-0
lead. Chase Savage 16 secured the
Polar Bears victory with a threeset win at the No. 4 singles spot.
The men fell to Pomona-Pitzer
5-4 in their third match. The Sagehens took control in the very beginning after sweeping doubles
and taking a 3-0 lead into the singles matches.
Four straight-set wins from
Kyle Wolfe 18 (6-0, 6-4), Savage
(6-1, 6-0), Luke Tercek 18 (6-1,
6-2) and Gil Roddy 18 (6-3, 6-3)
evened the match for the Polar
Bears, tying the score at 4-4.
It came down to the No.1 singles

match between Bowdoins Luke
Trinka 16 and Pomonas Connor
Hudson. The match went to a third
set, after Trinka won the first set
and Hudson tied the match up in
the second. In the end, Hudson
was able to secure the victory with
a 6-2 score in the final set, sealing
Bowdoins first loss of the season.
Right now we are going
through a bit of a growing pain,
said Trinka. We have done so well
in singles competing individually, but its much harder to adapt
and play with another person in
doubles, and thats what you see
when you look at our record so far.
I think we will achieve even more
successes once this adjustment period passes.
The Polar Bears quickly rebounded, shutting out Whittier
with a 9-0 win on Saturday. However, the teams match against the
University of Redlands proved
more challenging. The Bowdoin
men rallied from a 3-0 deficit in
doubles matches to secure a 5-4
victory.
After being swept in doubles,
Bowdoin quickly regained the momentum to grab a comeback win
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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Womens swim has five compete in nationals

Emma Beecher 16
WOMENS LACROSSE
HIGHLIGHTS
Leads Polar Bears in goals
scored, assists, shots on goal
and shot accuracy while only
starting three of the teams
seven games
EMMA ROBERTS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BY ALEX VASILE
ORIENT STAFF
Emma Beecher 16 has tallied

16 goals and seven assists through
seven games for the 6-1 Bowdoin
womens lacrosse team, leading
them in each category. Beecher has
continued to score at a consistent
pace despite switching from midfield to attack and moving into the
starting lineup. Though she has
seen a lot of playing time as a rotation midfielder, Beecher has only
started three games this season,
and she will likely remain one of
the four starting attackers for the
rest of the season.
Beecher had been a midfielder for her entire career, and the
change was made to give her more
playing time while keeping the
dominant midfield line of Clare
McLaughlin 15 Taylor Wilson 15,
and Lindsay Picard 16 on the field
together longer.
She deserves credit, attacker
Olivia Raisner 15 said. It couldve
produced chaos.
Beecher has not had much time
to learn the finer point of her new
position in practice; the team played
four games last week. McLaughlin
expects that the full week of practice before Saturdays home game
against Trinity will help Beecher get
acclimated. So far, she has played the
attack position defensively, working
further from the crease than attackers generally do.
I always think of her as a midfielder, said McLaughlin. We
havent had a lot of practices. We
havent really talked about it. I dont
even really think shes been taught
the attack position.
Its not my first thought, to
play behind [the crease] said
Beecher. But the other attackers
are good at playing behind and
around the crease so we play to
each others strengths.
Typically, attackers try to organize themselves so that two of them
are behind the net and two are by
the elbows. Beecher has made a
habit of lingering up by the restraining linea position known as high
attack. The team has taken this in
stride, and the seven offensive players have learned to organize themselves to take advantage of Beechers
strengths: speed and a strong righthanded drive.
More traditional attacking threats
Mettler Growney 17, known by
teammates for quick, precise cuts,
and Meg OConnor 16, known
for rolls toward the crease and her
stick-handling, can occupy defenders down low, pulling them away
from the ball.
If shes driving from the top of
the eight meter, Ill occupy a defender, said Growney. Ill move
them away from where she likes to

take the ball. We have to make the
right cuts and the right reads.
This creates lanes and shooting
space for Beecher or other midfielders to drive.
[A midfield] strength is driving
from the top, Taylor Wilson 15
said. Shes been a midfielder all of
her time at Bowdoin. She has that
tendency, and its also her strength
as an attacker. It gives us another
person who can drive from the top.
Beecher beats goalies with an unusually low, precise shot and has the
second highest conversion rate of
shots to goals on the team; 50 percent of her shots have scored so far.
She has a very distinctive shot,
Picard said. She shoots at a very
low angle, moving from the top or
outside. The placement is key.
Shes a very strong girl, said
Growney. She holds her ground
and gets into the zone quickly. The
goalie doesnt have time to prepare.
A change from previous years,
the team runs very few set plays or
schemes, using their comfort with
each other and understanding of
the game to create opportunities.
Beechers success has come largely
from this and the variety of scoring
threats the Polar Bears have fielded
this year. Six of the seven offensive
starters have recorded double digit
points already this season, with the
seventh, Growney, trailing with nine.
Furthermore, the teams creative
freelancing makes it difficult for
teams to focus on any one part of
their attack, especially since they
have their own defenders pushing
the pace after a stop. Bowdoin players pride themselves on their speed,
and they use it to create mismatches.
She scores a lot off of fast breaks,
where theres more space and fewer
people, O Connor said. Shes not
afraid to go to goal where other attackers might make the decision to
bring down and slow it.
In this way, increased opponent
focus on Beecher because shes
scored the most goals may open
up driving lanes for Picard, who
has scored only slightly fewer goals,
or allow passing threats Wilson or
Raisner to find the cutters or else
score themselves.
Most of attackers have a number
of goals and assists, Raisner said,
Everyone out there is a threat.
Given this, Beecher is likely to
have a similar number of opportunities, even if she begins to work
behind the net more. If not, her experience in the midfield should help
her distribute the ball.
The sports editor of the Orient
chooses the Athlete of the Week
based on exemplary performance.
To suggest an athlete, email
Sports Editor Jono Gruber at jgruber@bowdoin.edu.
WYLIE MAO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
TO THE SHIP: Mariah Rawding 18, Lela Garner 16, Sophia Walker 17, Bridget Killian 16 and Patty Boyer 15 represented the Polar Bears at Nationals.
BY MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER
ORIENT STAFF
The womens swimming team

had four top-20 finishes at the Division III Championship last week in
Shenandoah, Texas, though they did
not qualify for the finals in any event.
It was the first time since 2012
that the team was represented at
nationals and the five swimmers
were the most that the team has
sent to nationals in over a decade.
This was a surprise for us,

said captain Patty Boyer 15. We
didnt really expect to get to go to
NCAAs, we didnt expect to swim
fast enough to even have a chance
at qualifying, so that in itself was a
surprise. What was also a surprise
was how well we did considering we
hadnt planned for this to happen.
There was a lot of energy. It was
a really good place to be. Everyone
wanted to do well and everyone
was fast and it was just fun, said

Mariah Rawding 18.
The team competed in four relays and Rawding competed in
three individual events. Rawding
finished 18th in the 100 breaststroke (1:04.89), 21st in the 200
breaststroke (2:21.60) and 32nd in
the 50 freestyle (23.90).
Rawding, Boyer, Bridget Killian 16
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POST-SEASON AWARD RECIPIENTS

John Swords 15
NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year
GRACE MALLETT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Sara Binkhorst 15
NEWBA Player of the Year
Lucas Hausman 16
NESCAC Player of the Year
John McGinnis 15
Second Team All-NESCAC
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Erin Silva 15
All-American
Shannon Brady 16
First-Team All-NESCAC
LIAM FINNERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
CATHERINE YOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
WINTER SEASON BREIFINGS
After a 17-7 regular season, the mens basketball team fell to Amherst 76-56 in the NESCAC semifinals. Despite beating Bates 98-70 two weeks before the NCAA D-III tournament field was announced, the Bobcats earned an at-large
bid over the Polar Bears, ending the teams season. Although the Polar Bears failed to extend their season, individuals
racked up postseason rewards. Lucas Hausman 16, due in part to his 44-point performance in the win against Bates
that tied the Bowdoin single game record, became the first mens basketball player to win the NESCAC player of the
year award. Hausman was also named a third team All-American by the National Association of Basketball coaches.
Senior John Swords, who was second in the NESCAC with 2.1 blocks per game, was named NESCAC Defensive Player
of the Year and a member of the all-conferences second team.
Despite starting the season with a 6-0-1 record, which included three NESCAC wins, the mens hockey team finished
fifth in the conference and failed to make the NCAA tournament for the first time in three years. In their NESCAC
Quarterfinal loss to Williams, the Polar Bears nearly came back from a two-goal deficit, but, after tying the game at
3-3 with just under two minutes remaining in the third period, let in the game and season ending goal nine and a
half minutes into overtime. John McGinnis 15 was named to the second team All-NESCAC. McGinnis 114 points in his
four-year career has him tied for 21st in the programs history.
The womens hockey team also ended its season in an earlier than hope for exit. After upsetting Connecticut College in
the NESCAC Quarterfinals, the Polar Bears lost to Middlebury 4-2 the following weekend in the semifinals. The future
is still bright for the Polar Bears, as first year Miranda Bell led the team with 12 goals on the season.
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Womens tennis returns from break ranked 6

BY ALLISON WEI
STAFF WRITER
The womens tennis team began

its spring season with a trip to California over Spring Break, returning to Brunswick with a 6-2 record.
On the first day of play, the Polar Bears beat the Trinity University Tigers 7-2. The following day,
Bowdoin beat Wesleyan by the same
score. The Polar Bears entered singles play against the Cardinals after
Kyra Silitch 17 and Emma Chow 15
won the No. 2 doubles match and
Pilar Giffenig 17 and Tiffany Cheng
16 won the No. 3 doubles match.
Cheng, Giffenig, Silitch, Samantha
Stalder 17 and Tess Trinka 18 all
won their singles matches to secure
the victory.
The Polar Bears recorded their
third win against Washington University in St. Louis in a battle of
top-ten teams.
Trinka clinched the match at No.
3 singles to give Bowdoin the close
5-4 victory.
Bowdoin faced its first defeat
of the season against Emory Uni-
W. BBALL
led the team again with 15 points, followed by 13 points from Marle Curle
17. Despite making 77 percent of their
free throws this season, the Polar Bears
shot only 9-17 from the charity stripe
against Montclair.
There is an element of disappointment, Shibles said. And yet we
accomplished a great deal and there
is a lot to build on for next season.
The great thing about my job
is that every year is a new journey
with a different group of women,
she added. This has been one of
the most enjoyable years that Ive
had as a professional coach. It was a
joy to walk into practice every day.
Making it to Sweet 16 was an
amazing accomplishmentone that
everyone should be extremely proud
of, said Binkhorst. Particularly, win-
the bowdoin orient
sports
versity, last years NCAA national

champions. After falling behind 3-0
after doubles play, the Polar Bears
got wins from Joulia Likhanskaia
17, Trinka and Silitch, but it wasnt
enough to pull off the comeback.
The Emory loss was actually
a pretty encouraging loss, said
Chow. Even though the score was
6-3, there were a lot of three-set
matches, and our doubles matches
were tight. We definitely feel encouraged and are excited to hopefully play them again.
In another top-ten matchup, the
Polar Bears fell to Pomona-Pitzer
5-4. Giffenig and Cheng were the
only Bowdoin doubles team to win
its match. Likhanskaia, Cheng and
Stalder each earned singles victories, but the comeback fell short in
a three-set battle at No. 6 singles.
The Pomona loss was much
more frustrating because we lost
5-4 in the third set, Chow said.
Every year, we want to beat them,
and we should beat them. We beat
Wash U, who often beats them.
The Polar Bears rebounded by
beating Whitman College and the

University of Redlands by scores
of 9-0 and 7-2 respectively over the
next two days.
On its final day of play, Bowdoin
beat Trinity 8-1 in a conference
match. The Polar Bears jumped out to
a 3-0 lead after doubles play. Likhanskaia, Cheng, Giffenig, Stalder, and
Silitch all won in straight sets during
singles play to give Bowdoin the win.
The Polar Bears experimented
with changing its doubles lineup,
which contributed to the teams
strong finish in the trip.
Especially on Spring Break, its
about experimenting with teams and
trying them out, Chow said. Ideally, well have our doubles lineup
set when we get back. Those teams
can just get better together, so by the
time we get to Maythe peak of our
seasonwere at our best.
Looking forward, the team
hopes to continue its successful record and play competitively at the
NESCAC and NCAA tournaments.
Bowdoin will return to action at
home against MIT on April 4.
ning those first two games in Morrell

after having a disappointing loss in
the first round at home last year.
That [mentality] gave us the competitiveness and drive we needed, Brady
added. Our practices were sometimes
more physical than our games.
The end of this season marks the
end of the careers of the teams three
seniors, Megan Phelps, Siena Mitman, and Binkhorst.
It really was tough to see it come
to an end, said Binkhorst. Overall, I just feel very lucky to have had
such an amazing experience not
just this season but all four years.
You cant say that the loss of
the three seniors isnt going to affect us, said Brady. I think what
they have taught us and left with
us through their leadership and
through example will 100 percent
carry on through next year.
Shibles noted that Curle has al-
ready emerged as a real leader for

the team during this season amid the
teams the loss of Phelps to an ankle
injury in the middle of the season,
one of the many obstacles that the
team overcame.
Im most proud of the way they
represented Bowdoin, said Shibles.
And they just carry themselves with
a lot of character and class. Every time
we met a challenge they responded in
a really positive way and they stuck
together, and Im really proud of that.
Furthermore, Binkhorst and Brady
were honored by the New England
Womens Basketball Association
(NEWBA), and D3Hoops.com in the
Regional Awards last Sunday. Binkhorst was named Player of the Year,
and Brady was selected as a NEWBA
First Team All-Region choice. Binkhorst was recognized as First Team
All-Northeast Region, and Brady as
Second Team All-Northeast.
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when Wolfe (6-3, 6-2), Savage (6-2,

6-3), Tercek (6-3, 6-0) and Roddy
(6-3, 6-4) evened the score with their
victories at No. 3 to No. 6 singles.
Once again it came down to
Trinka at the No. 1 slot. Trinka
claimed a 7-6, 5-7, 6-1 win, thereby securing Bowdoins unlikely
victory against the Bulldogs.
The team ended its California
trip with a pair of wins over Whitman (5-4) and Trinity (6-3).
Once again, Bowdoin fell behind
early when Whitman took the initial advantage by winning all three
doubles matches by tight margins.
The Polar Bears mounted an impressive rally, and their triumphs
at positions No. 2 to No. 6 in singles completed the comeback win.

Kyle Wolfe claimed a three-setter
at No. 3 to take the key victory.
Against Trinity, Bowdoin scored
one double play from the No. 3
pairing of Savage/Roddy and dominated five of the six single matches. Bowdoin defeated the Bantams
6-3 overall.
The Polar Bears will return to
action on Saturday when they host
Wesleyan at the Maine Pines Tennis Center. Their game with the
University of Southern Maine has
been cancelled.
Its going to be a big match,
said Trinka. I think we are all
very excited on the heels of a great
Spring Break trip. We are definitely looking forward to getting back
out there and just crushing it.
Track kicks off season with

mixed results in Puerto Rico
first mile was over. But I told myself
the competition was struggling just
as much, and pushed through it.
The mens and womens outdoor
On the womens side, the Polar
track teams kickstarted their seasons
Bears fared well on and off the track.
with a Spring Break trip to Puerto
The womens 4x400m team, consisting
Rico, headlined by their opening
of Emily Clark 15, Georgia Bolduc
meet, the ninth Annual Spring Invi17, Meghan Bellerose 17 and Demi
tational. The Polar Bears faced global
Feder 17 placed second in their race.
competition in the non-scoring meet.
First year Sarah Kelley shone in the
Several
mens
800m, finishing
track and field
fourth with a time
I
was
very
happy
with
my
race
and
athletes achieved
of 2:19.28.
strong
results was even happier when my teamI was very
against their comhappy with my
mates
came
through
with
the
victoy
in
petition. In the field
race and was
the 4x400m.
events,
Seamus
even
happier
Power 16 recorded
when my teamSARAH KELLEY 18
the top finish of
mates
came
the day for the Pothrough with the
lar Bears, throwing
victory in the
the javelin 52.08 meters, for third place.
4x400m, said Kellsey.
On the track, Bowdoins strong disIn the field events, school record
tance squad excelled, highlighted by a
holder Erin Silva 15, fresh off of
fourth place finish by sophomore Matt
nationals, placed second in the pole
Jacobson in the 1500m (with a time
vault, soaring to 3.70m. Not to be
of 4:04.05) and a fifth place finish by
outdone, jumper Katharine Krupp
Captain Kevin Hoose 15 in the 3000m
16 leapt 11.19m in the triple jump
(with a time of 8:59.58).
for another second place finish.
It was a hot day, as expected, said
Leaving Puerto Rico with a solid
Hoose. Distance events are tough
block of training and a first taste of
when its hot outit requires anothcompetition, Bowdoin track will reer level of mental toughness. I found
turn to action on April 4 with their sole
myself glazed with sweat before the
home invitational of the year.
BY SAM SHAHEEN
STAFF WRITER
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Mens lacrosse off to a lackluster start

BY COOPER HEMPHILL
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
Wed 3/18
Sa
3/21
W ed 3/25
v. Stevens
at Middlebury St.
v. Plattsburgh St.
L 13-9
L 13-7
L 15-6
The mens lacrosse team has been

unable to heat up in the cold Maine
winter, starting their season 1-3 in
the NESCAC and 1-6 overall.
On February 28, the team travelled to Williamstown, Mass. for
their opening game of the season
against Williams. The team failed
to find their rhythm and fell behind early in the contest. Despite a
few strong individual performances, they fell 16-5 to the Ephs.
Midfielder Peter Reuter 16 netted three goals for the Polar Bears
and Mac Caputi 15 led the team
defensively with two forced turnovers and eight ground balls.
Looking to rebound from the
loss, Bowdoin faced No. 10 Amherst on March 7 in another NESCAC matchup. However, the Lord
Jeffs dominated the contest, 20-4.
Obviously it wasnt the way we
wanted to start out the season, but
were still coming into practice every
day working as hard as we can to
improve, said Brandon Lee. Were
still confident in our abilities.
The Polar Bears began to find
some offensive rhythm in their
next contest against the Keene
State Owls on March 11.
The Owls got on the board first
with two quick goals in the opening minutes of play. Starting with
a goal from Daniel Buckman 18,
Bowdoin scored four straight to
gain control of the match. The
score remained close, going back
and forth throughout the contest,

but Keene St. managed to hold a
steady lead that carried through to
a final score of 18-13 in their favor.
David Nemirov 15 led Bowdoin
with five goals and Peter Mumford
17 recorded 14 saves.
Next up was the home opener against Hamilton College on
March 14. Matthew Crowell 18
put in the first goal of the game
a minute in, and Bowdoin never
looked back. Spreading the ball
around proved to be the key to this
game as five different Polar Bears
scored in the opening quarter to
Team morale is still high. Were not

discouraged by the rough start Everyones coming in everyday excited to
play, excited to get better, excited to
compete.
BRANDON LEE 17
take an initial 5-2 Bowdoin lead.
Led by the strong play of firstyear attackman Shawn Daly,
Bowdoin remained ahead for the
remainder of the contest and won
by a final score of 12-8. Daly put
away four goals and Mumford
played a solid game in net, turning
away 14 Hamilton shots. Defensively, Bowdoin was led again by
Caputi, who caused two turnovers
and snatched up five ground balls.
Were a really young teama
lot of sophomores and freshman.
So the biggest thing is that were
seeing improvement every game.
Its a little thing here and there,
said Lee.
Looking to maintain momentum from the win, the team faced
Stevens Institute of Technology in

an out-of-conference showdown.
Stevens came out strong, leading 5-0 after the first 11 minutes.
Bowdoin bounced back with a 5-0
run of their own, sparked by a goal
from Brandon Rothman 16 with
two minutes remaining in the first
quarter. Bowdoin grabbed a twogoal lead in the start of the second
half, but then Stevens opened up
an 8-2 run to finish the game 13-9.
The team then travelled to Middlebury for another NESCAC matchup
looking to get back on track from their
loss against Stevens. However, the Panthers came to play, scoring the first six
goals of the contest until OBerry was
finally able to cut into the lead with
only one second left on the clock in the
first quarter. Each time Bowdoin tried
to inch back into the game, Middlebury was able to respond, finally ending in a score of 13-7.
Wednesday night brought more
disappointment for the Bears, losing in another out-of-conference
bout to a tough Plattsburgh State
team, trailing by as many as 11 in
the game before losing by a 15-6
score. Rothman had three goals
and Mumford made 18 saves.
Despite the rough start, the team is
still confident in itself moving forward.
Getting more experience under
our belt is big. We have more conference games coming down the
pipe, so we were starting to bare
down, said Lee
Team morale is still high. Were
not discouraged by the rough start.
Everyones coming in everyday excited to play, excited to get better,
excited to compete.
The Polar Bears look to get on
track tomorrow at 1 p.m. when
they travel to face the 2-6 Trinity
Bantams.
Softball swings out to 11-5 record in Florida

BY YASMIN HAYRE
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
Th
Fri
3/19
3/20
v. Smith at FL
W
v. Fredonia St. at FL W
v. Keene St. at FL
L
9-3
6-5
2-1
The softball team concluded its

Spring Break trip to Clermont, Florida with an overall record of 11-5.
According to Head Coach Ryan
Sullivan, the teams success can be
credited to depth in its batting order.
This is really helpful as you never know where the production for
each game will come from, he said.
And it allows all the hitters to do
their job without feeling like they
have to produce.
The Bears headed into their final
week in Florida with seven wins
and only three losses, and looked to
improve their record on Tuesday of
the second week in a doubleheader
against Anderson University and
Gallaudet University.
Cielle Collins 15 led the way
offensively in both the 8-2 loss
against Anderson and 11-0 win
over Gallaudet.
The Bears offensive scoring
against Anderson allowed them to
jump to a 2-0 lead in the opening
inning. Krul opened the bottom of
the first with a single followed by
a walk by Emily Griffin 17, and
a shot by Collins scored both the
runners on first and second.
Anderson answered with a pair in
the top of the second inning, adding one each in the third through
fifth innings and three more in the

sixth, serving the Bears their first
loss in a three game win streak.
Bowdoin rebounded with their
five-inning rout against Gallaudet,
scoring runs in all but one inning.
Griffin pitched to the opposing
team facing 29 total batters and allowed only one hit, while tallying six
strikeouts and two walks. The win
advanced the teams season to 8-4.
Our hitting was a bit inconsistent
at times, but everyone was always
supportive and positive, said captain Adriane Krul 15. Sometimes
it is difficult to get out of a slump
when you are playing sixteen games
in ten days, but hitters were able to
move on and compete with each new
at bat. Also, our pitchers really came
through for us in some tight games,
and as a senior its awesome to see the
team have the fight and drive to come
out on top against good opponents.
Bowdoin returned to action with
another doubleheader on Thursday
against Ripon College and Smith
College, where they outscored both
opponents in back-to-back wins.
The Bears jumped to a 1-0 lead immediately from a single from Gately
against Ripon and added three more
in the following inning. Marisa
OToole 17 started the second inning
scoring, followed by a single off the
bat of Alana Luzzio 17 that scored
Lauren OShea 18. Luzzio scored on
a wild pitch and the Bears led Ripon
4-0 after two innings.
Ripon cut the Bears lead in half
with a two-run fourth, but Bowdoin
responded with three in the next in-
ning. Ali Miller 18 scored and put

Bowdoin ahead 7-2. Krul, Griffin, Victoria Rusch 18, and OShea all scored,
concluding the game with a 9-2 win.
Then, in the first inning against
Smith, the Bears jumped to another early lead with a run by Geaumont. Jordan Gowdy 18 opened
the bottom of the third with a triple, but Smith quickly responded
and cut the Bears lead in half in
the fourth inning.
The Bears fired back with three
straight singles followed by a Gowdy
RBI line drive, allowing the Bears to
advance to a 7-1 lead. Gately closed
the inning with a two-run blast.
Smith once again cut the lead with a
two-run shot, but the Bears held onto
their win, 11-3.
The Bears headed into their final day of spring break with a 10-4
record and concluded their season
with a doubleheader against Fredonia State, where they won 6-5, and
Keene State, where they lost 2-1.
Julia Geaumont had a great
trip for us, said Sullivan. She
was awesome as a pitcher and really performed well. She also led
us in hitting in the third spot and
is a really key piece to our batting
lineup. Marisa OToole has had a really good start to the season with a
Week 1 NESCAC Player of the Week
award last week.
The team travels to Hartford, CT
next weekend where they play Trinity College.
I feel really good about our
upcoming series against Trinity,
said Krul.
15
NESCAC Standings
MENS LACROSSE
NESCAC
W
Williams
4
Amherst
3
Tufts
3
Middlebury 3
Wesleyan
2
Colby
2
Bates
1
BOWDOIN 1
Hamilton
1
Conn. Coll
0
Trinity
0
L
0
0
0
1
1
2
3
3
3
3
4
T
0
0
1
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
OVERALL
W L T
7
0 0
8
0 0
7
0 0
6
2 0
5
3 0
5
2 0
4
3 0
1
6 0
5
3 0
2
6 0
2
6 0
SCHEDULE
Sa 3/28 at Trinity
We 4/1 v. Bates
1 P.M.
7 P.M.
WOMENS LACROSSE
BOWDOIN
Colby
Hamilton
Middlebury
Trinity
Tufts
Williams
Amherst
Bates
Conn. Coll.
Wesleyan
W
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
1
1
0
0
L
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
4
3
3
T
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
W
6
8
7
6
1
6
5
5
5
2
4
L
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
5
5
4
T
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
SCHEDULE
Sa 3/28 v. Trinity
We 4/1 at Bates
NOON
7 P.M.
SAILING
SCHEDULE
SOFTBALL
NESCAC EAST
W
0
0
0
0
0
L
0
0
0
0
0
Bates
BOWDOIN
Colby
Trinity
Tufts
NESCAC WEST
W
0
0
0
0
0
L
0
0
0
0
0
Amherst
Hamilton
Middlebury
Wesleyan
Williams
OVERALL
W L
1
5
11 5
3
5
3
7
14 0
OVERALL
W L
8
4
5
7
7
3
6
6
6
1
SCHEDULE
Sa 3/28 v. Trinity
Su 3/29 v. Trinity
v. Trinity
3 P.M.
NOON
2 P.M.
BASEBALL
NESCAC EAST
W
0
0
0
0
0
Bates
BOWDOIN
Colby
Trinity
Tufts
OVERALL
W L
5
3
5
8
7
1
7
5
9
3
L
0
0
0
0
0
NESCAC WEST
W
0
0
0
0
0
Amherst
Hamilton
Middlebury
Wesleyan
Williams
L
0
0
0
0
0
OVERALL
W L
6
6
6
5
0
6
8
4
3
3
SCHEDULE
Sa 3/28
Su 3/29
at Dulphin Trophy
Staake Trophy
at Central Series
at FJ Invite
9:30 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
Compiled by Sarah Bonanno

Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC
*Bold line denotes NESCAC Tournament cut-off
Fri 3/27 at Tufts

Mon 3/30 at Tufts
We 4 /1 at Southern Maine
2 P.M.
7 P.M.
4 P.M.
MENS TENNIS
SCHEDULE
Sa 3/28
v. Wesleyan
2 P.M..
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the bowdoin orient
sports
The downward spiral of once-proud Parma

THE RELEGATION
ZONE
ERIC ZELINA
After a 10-minute hearing in
Italian court last week, Parma F.C.,
with its outstanding debt estimated at nearly 200 million euros, was
declared bankrupt. This means
that for all intents and purposes,
the club is dead. Long live Parma.
For a club that collected four
European trophies and four additional Italian trophies in the late
1990s and early 2000s while swashbuckling around the pitch in its
blue and yellow striped kits emblazoned with the logo of dairy giant
and club benefactor Parmalat, the
fall from grace has been swift. How
could a comfortable member of European footballs middle class burn
through three different owners in
the past six months and ultimately
end up in bankruptcy court?
The Parma story starts with Parmalat, which bankrolled the team
through its glory days.
On the back of the vast dairy
money, Parma seemed secure as a
member of the Italian top flight,
with aspirations to challenge traditional Serie A giants like Juventus.
When Parmalat imploded during a
massive financial fraud scandal in
2004, Parma was declared insolvent before being bought by Tommaso Ghiradi.
Under Ghiradi, Parma found
mixed success on the pitch, but
qualified for European competition as recently as last season with
a sixth place league finish. While it
was not claiming UEFA Cup titles,
the club seemed to have stabilized
after its financial struggles.
The first cracks in the faade appeared when UEFA kicked the club
out of this seasons Europa League
for an unpaid tax bill. Ghiradi

chalked the issue up to a clerical
mistake rather than underlying financial issues.
He proved to be a poor liar
though, as the depths of the clubs
financial struggles were revealed
over the following months.
Players havent been paid since
August and are now forced to do
their own laundry and drive the
team bus to matches. Meanwhile,
the club has had to cancel home
matches because it quite literally
cant keep the stadium lights on.
The youth team cant even afford
water bottles.
Meanwhile, the club has had to cancel

home matches because it quite literally cant keep the stadium lights on.
The youth team cant even aord water bottles.
In December, Ghiradi sold the
team for a single euro, passing on its
debts to a Cypriot-Russian company,
which promptly sold itagain for a
euroin February to Giampietro
Manenti, a Milanese businessman.
Manenti promised to pay off debts,
including back wages for the players. His failure to do so, culminated
in Parmas day in court. Manenti was
arrested on money laundering and
embezzlement charges last week.
After the bankruptcy ruling,
Parma looks doomed. The club
has already received an emergency
loan from the other clubs in Serie
A in order to complete its season.
Unless a financial backer steps
forward to buy the team and pay
off the massive debts, the club will
dissolve at the seasons end, forced
to start again under a new name in
the lowest professional tier in Italy.
Its hard to assess blame for Parmas
demise without laying the bulk of it
at Tommaso Ghiradis feet. When he

bought the club before the 2006-2007
season, Parmas gross debt was estimated at 16.1 million euros, a substantial amount, but relatively insignificant
in comparison to debt at other football
clubs. Under his watch, the debt ballooned to its current levels.
Since the Parmalat bankruptcy,
the club has clearly spent beyond its
means. By my count, it has over 150
players on its books, an absolutely
massive amount, with most out on
loan throughout Europe. For comparison, Chelsea, a club notorious for
snapping up young talents then sending them out on loan, has about 50
players on its books.
The problem though is also an institutional squeezing of the football
middle class, especially in leagues
like Serie A and Spains La Liga. The
biggest problem is the massively
inequitable split in TV revenues in
those leagues, with the vast majority
of the money going to a few titans
like Real Madrid, Juventus and Barcelona. This stands in stark comparison to the relatively even split in the
Premier League. Clubs from smaller
areas face other issues as well.
They cant depend on large ticket revenues and therefore have to
spend outside their means to challenge for titles.
Parmas tale is a tragedy, but its
not entirely uncommon, especially
in Italy, where corruption and shoddy management seem inexplicably
linked with football. Fiorentina
and Napoli both underwent similar
deaths in the early 2000s and have
since returned to competitiveness in
both the Serie A and Europe.
Outside of Italy, storied clubs like
Glasgow Rangers, Leeds United and
Portsmouth F.C have died and been
resurrected, although they have yet
to reach their prior heights. So while
Parma certainly seems dead and gone
now, there remains a sliver of hope
for its future.
Baseball heads south for season-opening play

BY ELI LUSTBADER
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
Th 3/19 v. Western New England
L 9-2
Fri 3/20 v. Allegheny at Lakeland, FL L 3-1
Fri 3/20 v. Allegheny at Lakeland, FL L 6-4
After playing 13 games in 11

days, the baseball team returned
from its annual trip to Florida on
March 20 with a 5-8 record. The
trip was defined by three distinct
stretches. The team went 1-4 in
its first five games. It then seemed
to find its form, going 4-1 over a
four-day stretch before dropping
its last three games in Florida.
In the middle games we started
to hit our stride and we got used
to playing outside, Captain Aaron
Rosen 15 said. Guys were getting
healthier and things were starting
to pick up, but then by the end of
the trip things started to drag a
little. Thirteen games in 11 days is
a lot, so theres an expected drop in
energy level.
I hate to make excuses, he continued, but when we got down
there we hadnt even practiced on
an actual baseball field yet. We also
lost a couple of key guys due to injuries in the first couple games so
we were battling from the start.
Despite the difficulties in the
early games, Rosen said that
younger players did a great job
stepping in for injured players.

Guys who really werent expected to play have filled in and
done a great job, he said. Evann
Dumont-Lapointe 17 and Nick
Sadler 18 have been awesome, and
so have a bunch of other guys. Its
kind of been a seamless transition.
Over the course of the 13 games,
first baseman Chad Martin 16 batted .340 with a team-leading 15 RBIs
and three home runs. Third baseman Cole DiRoberto 15 hit .367,
infielder Sean Mullaney 17 hit .378,
and Rosenwho plays shortstop
hit .375 with two home runs.
I hate to make excuses, but when we

got down there we hadnt even practiced on an actual baseball field yet.
We also lost a couple of key guys due
to injuries in the first couple of games.
ANDREW ROSEN 15
On the mound, captain Henry
Van Zant 15 went 1-1 with 20
strikeouts in 14 innings pitched
and passed a 2.57 ERA. Michael
Staes 16 went 1-0 in two starts
with a 1.64 ERA and 11 strikeouts
in 10 innings. Harry Ridge 16
went 1-1 with a 4.00 ERA in three
starts, and captain Erik Jacobsen
15 went 1-2 with a 4.71 ERA.
One of the highlights of the trip
was Bowdoins 5-1 win over Endicott

on March 16. Harry Ridge 16 pitched
six shutout innings against the Gulls,
who have gone to the NCAA Regional Championship and won over thirty
games in each of the last two seasons.
The last time the two teams played,
Endicott won 11-3.
Theyre a phenomenal team,
Rosen said. They always play us
tough and usually beat us, but Harry
went out there and just shut them
down. I think in general there were a
lot of games where we didnt roll over
and die. We came up with a lot of late
rallies, and I think that just speaks to
the character of the team overall.
Bowdoin has always placed
a strong emphasis on pitching,
though Rosen says that the hitters
this year are better than in years
past. This was evident in offensive onslaughts in victories against
Roger Williams (18-3) and Babson
(16-9). Against Roger Williams,
Martin went 5-5 with seven RBI,
and four extra base hits including
two home runs.
Its weird because this is the
worst record at this point in the
season in my four years here,
Rosen said, but Im 100 percent
confident that this is the best team
we have had talent-wise.
The Polar bears will look to get
their season back on track in a three
game series against Tufts this weekend at the New England Baseball
Complex in Northboro, Mass.
COURTESY BRIAN BEARD
STICK WITH IT: Lindsay Picard 16 looks to score for the fifth-ranked Polar Bears during Spring Break.
W. LACROSSE
how we react to it is going to say a

lot about our team, said Wilson.
The Polar Bears now turn their
attention to Trinity (7-1 overall,
3-1 NESCAC), whom they will
host tomorrow at noon.
Every team in the NESCAC
is technically a big game, said
Moore. Trinity, Middlebury, Amherstthose top three teams mean
a lot to us and we want to go out
and defeat them. This is the last of
those three and we are really excited to play.
Two of Trinitys coaches are former
Bowdoin players: Katy Dissinger 11
is the Bantams head coach, and Betsy
Sachs 14, a Polar Bear captain last
season, is an assistant coach.
To me, its awesome to see for-
SWIM
mer players in the coaching ranks,

said Grote. Im very proud of
them. Im hoping our team doesnt
look at it as, Oh, were playing
[Dissinger] and Betsy [Sachs] today, but rather that were playing
Trinity and we have to go get our
win.
Moore mentioned that Trinity
was the D-III national runner-up
last year, meaning this weekends
game is good practice for the competition Bowdoin may face in the
postseason. Grote said she will
look to her seniors in a game of
this magnitude.
[Moore and Wilsons] leadership has been great, she said. The
drive that they have and all eight
seniors in that senior classits a
pretty special class. They all have
a great desire to win. I think thats
something thats going to help carry
us through the season.
After a preliminary race, the top

16 finishers qualified for the finals.
No Bowdoin swimmer qualified
and Sophia Walker 17 finished 19th
for the finals.
in the 200 freestyle relay (1:35.94)
It was right on what I expected
and 21st in the 200 medley (1:46.94).
us to do, we swam very close to the
Killian, Rawding, Lela Garner 16
times we did at the conference meet,
and Walker finished 18th in the 400
said Head Coach Brad Burnham. I
freestyle relay (3:29.51) and 17th in
think we were hoping to finish in
the 400 medley relay (3:54.48).
the top 16, to be All-American. That
Because none of the five swimmers
would have made it really great.
had ever been to nationals, they did
Our goal was to make it back to
not have experience training during
finals, said Boyer. We were posithe four-week stretch after the NEStioned going into the event to be in
CAC championships.
them [based on qualifying time],
Everyone did a really great job
but because of not dropping enough
considering we werent really sure
time or other teams getting faster,
how our training
we didnt make it
was going to pay Our goal is to make it back to finals. back, so that was
off, Boyer said.
disappointing.
I think we are We were positioned going into the Overall I think
all, and should event to be in them [based on qualify- we have things to
be, happy for how
happy about.
ing time], but because of not dropping beIndividually,
we swam, and for
staying close to enough tie or other teams got faster, I wanted to go a
how we swam at we didn;t make it back, so that was little faster, said
NESCACs.
Rawding. Overdisappointing.
The new trainall I was happy.
ing
schedule
Ki l l i an w ho
PATTY BOYER 15
proved to be the
set a school rebiggest challenge
cord in her leg of
for the team.
the 400 freestyle
You have to really commit to it,
relay (52.09)Garner, Rawding,
thats the hardest part, said Rawdand Walker will have the chance to
ing. I think the mental part over the
qualify for nationals again next year.
four weeks was really hard.
Now that they understand what
You can swim a race and go rethe meet is like and the interval
ally fast and never be able to make
between the conference championthat time again, Boyer said. Beships and the nationals and what
ing able to do it twice in a row, five
kind of training we need to do, I
weeks apart with whacky training
think well be prepared for next
is a really great accomplishment.
year, Burnham said.
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17
The importance of education beyond the job market
owdoin Climate Action (BCA) announced over Spring Break that

it would escalate its fossil fuel divestment campaign by turning to
civil disobedience, starting with a sit-in that will occur in the coming weeks. The group distributed a press release stating that more than 50
students have pledged to participate. BCA says divestment is the tactic,
climate justice is the goal. We, and many members of the Bowdoin community, agree with BCAs goal of working toward climate justice, but we do
not believe that a narrow focus on pressuring the Trustees to divest is BCAs
best path forward.
The group has honed the rhetoric it uses to justify its escalation, repeatedly stating that since BCA members presented their case to the Board of
Trustees in October, the Trustees have been silent for over 140 days. Group
members also accuse President Barry Mills, who recently stated that he
is the liaison between the Board and BCA, of failing to engage with them
and failing to take climate justice seriously. Though Mills has been an imperfect liaison, we believe that BCAs argument is misrepresentative. Both
Mills and the Trustees have met with BCA and engaged with the groups
proposal. According to Mills, the Board concluded that divestment was
not viable for Bowdoin, yet BCA continues to focus on this singular goal.
BCA would be better off reaching out as opposed to sitting in. According to a scientific survey conducted by Associate Professor of Government
Michael Franz, only 24 percent of the 311 respondents support divestment,
while 37 percent oppose it, and 35 percent report that they do not have
enough information to make a decision. If BCA wants to continue the divestment conversation, it should engage both the 37 percent of students
who are opposed and the 35 percent who are undecided. BCA often asks,
Whose side are you on? Until there is a more meaningful and balanced
debate on the issue, many students will not know their answer to that question. We are beginning to see students who do not support divestment
speak out. Kuangji Chen 15 wrote a detailed op-ed this week in which he
argues that the financial costs of divestment outwiegh its symbolic value.
BCA might also consider putting its divestment campaign on the backburner and focusing its efforts on other climate initiatives. There are other
steps that can be taken toward the goal of climate justice. For example,
when Middlebury announced that it would not divest from fossil fuels
in 2013, Divest for Our Future Middlebury changed its tactics. It began
encouraging Middlebury to increase its investments in renewable energy
companies. Maine has no shortage of environmental issues. Advocates for
other environmental issues, as well as climate change researchers at Bowdoin and beyond, could all benefit from the work of committed college
activists like those involved with BCA.
Issues of climate change are some of the most pressing in our generation.
However, the single-minded pursuit of a symbolic goal is not the most effective way to engineer change from within the College. Sitting in perpetuates a disappointingly naive adherence to the divestment campaign. If BCA
wants to stand out, it should begin to pursue other options.
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KICKING THE CAN

DAVID STEURY
Wisconsin Governor Scott
Walkers presumed candidacy for
president recently set off a discussion about the utility and necessity
of a college degree. Walker never
graduated from college, choosing
to run for public office before finishing his degree.
Of course, pundits and everyday
Americans alike asked whether
the president should have a college degree in this day and age (the
last president to only have a high
school diploma was Harry Truman). However, those voices were
vastly outnumbered by Walkers
supporters, who took the opportunity to lament the fact that a bachelors degree is considered a necessity for many occupations.
On the one hand, they have a
pointit is terribly elitist
to explicitly or implicitly require
an aca-
Wisconsin had to be amended to

strike the parts about seeking to
improve the human condition
and the search for truth, to be
replaced by merely meeting the
states workforce needs.
The ensuing dustup caused
Walker to claim that the changes
had just snuck their way in there,
but clearly either Walker or one
of his staffers thought they were a
good enough idea to insert into the
proposal.
The utility of education, and in
particular the sort of impractical education offered by Bowdoin and its peer schools, cannot
be confined to the workplace.
To claim that education should
exist merely to enable the next
generation of worker
drones to be more
productive worker
ficult questions about events yet to

occur, we will be able to present
a reasoned answer. Just as we are
now taught, our children will be
able to understand rather than to
blindly follow.
A purely vocational notion of
education does little to further
our ability to understand where
we came from and where were
headed, and it does not encourage
us to be valued members of a society in any way besides contributing to the GDP. (It must be noted
that all of the benefits of education
I mention theoretically contribute
to GDP indirectly.)
Civic engagement, self-examination and cultural understanding
are values that must be taught by
parents or by the educational system. An academy that teaches the
values of great artists, thinkers and
scientists will help our civilization
achieve its full potential.
Very few people would truly
embrace the idea of an
educational qual-
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
demic qualification for an elected

position that represents the whole
of the United States. But it is not
his lack of a college degree that
should disqualify Walker from the
White House. It is the utter contempt that Walker and many of
his supporters have for the most
respected system of higher education in the world that makes him a
uniquely terrible candidate for the
Oval Office.
When defending the liberal arts,
we often point to the value that
graduates of schools like Bowdoin
add to the workforce. In a world
that increasingly calls for technical
skills, our alumni, administration,
and faculty laud the liberal arts for
preparing students to be versatile
members of the workforce. Liberal
arts students are praised for being quick learners and for their
ability to think critically in the
workplace.
That is all well and good, but it
is a poor defense of academia and
the liberal arts in particular. Education cannot be wholly about vocation. This, in particular, Walker
does not understand. As part of a
Walker-backed budget proposal,
the charter of the University of
drones not only cheapens education, but also cheapens millennia

of scholarship in the search for
truth and meaning.
It shows immense disrespect for
the giants upon whose shoulders
we stand to claim that academia
should turn its focus to workforce
needs alone. Of course, we can all
agree that people should have a
skill that can get them ahead in the
world and that a certain degree of
vocational education is necessary
for a productive and successful society.
But we should all also agree
that while an understanding of the
Federalist Papers helps very few
job seekers, it helps us to be better
citizens and voters. A deep understanding of history or the natural
sciences or the wonders of mathematics may not always be the hard
skill that we need, but it certainly
helps us to navigate the world.
As we get older, many of us will
have children. At that point, it will
be our duty to impart our knowledge and values to the generation
that will replace us. Our academic
engagement will help us to present
our children with a nuanced view
of the world. When they ask us dif-
ification for higher office. If Bill

Gates announced tomorrow his
candidacy for the White House,
none would criticize his lack of a
diploma. Being elected governor
of one of the 50 states is no small
feat, and especially considering
Walkers considerable accomplishments, his lack of a B.A. certificate
hanging in his study should not
disqualify him from the presidency.
However, his evident lack of understanding of why the academy
exists is alarming, and Walkers
positions are exemplary of the
anti-intellectualism that pervades
certain circles in our country. Every member of society can derive
value from learning for learnings
sake. Perhaps Walker should think
about improving the nations secondary education systems and
making higher education more accessible rather than attempting to
eviscerate American learning.
Plato, whose writings helped
form the basis of modern Western
civilization, envisioned a society
headed by the philosopher king.
He would be dismayed that we are
contemplating the elevation of its
antithesis to our highest office.
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opinion
The economics of divestment: why I stopped supporting BCAs campaign

BY KUANGJI CHEN
CONTRIBUTOR
For the past three years, many environmentally conscious Bowdoin

students and faculty members, led by
Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA), have
been demanding that the College divest the endowments holdings from
large publicly traded fossil fuel companies to mitigate climate change.
Allegedly, more than 1,000 students have signed a petition to
support this campaign. While
the exact number of supporters
is questionable, there is no doubt
that I figure among that number.
During my freshman year, a nice
girl in David Saul Smith Union
told me that if I supported the
environment and thought climate
change was an important issue, I
should sign her petition. Without
knowing what divestment was, I
signed my name. I have since educated myself on the issue.
To make an informed decision on
this matter, we need to first understand how our endowment works.
The bulk of Bowdoins endowment
comes from alumni donations and
to grow the endowment, these don
ations are invested into financial
assets such as equities and bonds.
Bowdoins endowment has been one
of the best-performing endowments
in the nation over the past decade
and covers around 40 percent of
Bowdoins annual operating costs.
The market value of the endowment exceeded $1.2 billion last year
and, according to President Barry
Mills, A strong and growing endowment is the single most important
factor in our ability to provide access
and opportunity through financial
aid, and to fund the outstanding academic and residential life programs
that set Bowdoin apart.
Divestment supporters demand
that Bowdoin eliminate its fossil fuel

holdings, which amount to 1.4 percent
of the total endowment portfolio.
Even though that is a small percentage of the portfolio, committing
to divest it would choke the future
growth of the endowment.
As is typical, Bowdoins endowment is not directly invested in
stocks. Instead, the Colleges Investment Office is responsible for
They make unsupported

claims that there are alternative
fossil-free investment strategies
that Bowdoin could easily
pursue without hurting the
endowments returns.
selecting fund managers, each of
whom manages a portion of the
endowment. The endowments continued success proves that Bowdoin
has hired some of the best money
managers in the world. It is their
independent investment decisions
that led to 1.4 percent of Bowdoins
endowment being invested in the
fossil fuel industry. In order to divest this tiny percentage of its portfolio, Bowdoin would have to withdraw 100 percent of funds from
each manager who invests in fossil
fuel equities at all, and completely
terminate its investment relationships with those managers.
Reinvestment of the withdrawn
capital would be limited to very restricted alternatives because most
top-tier capital management firms
view the fossil fuel sector as instrumental to portfolio returns and diversification. Whats more, Bowdoin
would lose the option to utilize most
of commonly used investment tools

such as the S&P 500, which includes
fossil fuel companies.
This would severely compromise the
endowments profitability. Ultimately,
the loss of substantial portfolio income
would force the College to either cut
costs by abandoning its low facultystudent ratio or give up its need-blind
admissions policy and seek more income from tuition, sacrificing the socioeconomic diversity of the College.
It is true that a handful of colleges
and universities around the world
have decided to pursue divestment.
However, we must analyze this information critically. Far more schools
have decided not to divest despite
pressure from student and faculty
members. And the endowments at
Unity College, Pitzer College and
the University of Glasgowthree
schools BCA has called out as examplesplay drastically different roles
in supporting school operations than
Bowdoins endowment does.
To start, the combined size of the
endowments at these schools is only
$300 million, less than a quarter of
Bowdoins endowment.
In addition, drawing analogies to
schools like Stanford, which committed to divest its $18.7 billion endowment from direct coal holdings
in May, is impertinent. Stanford is
one of the few schools that directly
invests part of its portfolio in companies, and thus divesting its direct
holdings in coal will not have any
impact on the rest of its portfolio.
Whats more, coal does a lot more
environmental harm than other fossil fuels like natural gas.
Members of BCA continue to say
that they do not support divestment at
the cost of financial aid. They make unsupported claims that there are alternative fossil-free investment strategies
that Bowdoin could easily pursue without hurting the endowments returns.
However, this utopian belief ignores

the basic economics of investment.
Senior Vice President for Investments Paula Volent has indicated
that divestment would have reduced investment returns by five
percent a year over the preceding decade, costing the school more than
$100 million. Bowdoin alumni contribute to the endowment with the
expectation that their gifts will be
prudently managed. The extraordinary return of the endowment over
the past decade is a confirmation of
that expectation and restricting the
endowments potential profitability
could very well discourage future
giving to the College.
With such an expensive price
tag, what are the benefits of divestment? Some proponents believe that
the selloff of fossil fuel stocks would
drive share prices down, forcing
these environmentally insensitive
companies to suffer. This belief is
simply misguided. Investing in the
stocks of fossil fuel companies does
not fund their operations; it grants
stockholders a fraction of the future
The insurmountable gap

between the potential benefits
and costs of divestment should
be readily apparent to any
reasonable observer.
profits of a business. Trading a stock
transfers that right to claim these future profits and in the long term, the
share prices of fossil fuel companies
will not change because some investors decide to transfer their ownership of the stocks.
In the past, the endowments success has contributed to Bowdoins
capability to meaningfully reduce

its carbon footprint by allowing the
College to install solar panels and
implement of other green initiatives
that it would not have otherwise
been able to afford.
Indeed, BCA has recently tacitly
acknowledged that the impact of
divestment would only be symbolic.
BCAs Allyson Gross writes, The
goal of divestment is to catalyze bold
political action addressing climate
change, and to publicly stigmatize
the fossil fuel industry.
It is worth noting that this argument is based on the assumptions
that destroying the fossil fuel industry would reverse or mitigate climate
change. It may be myopic to suggest
that fossil fuel companies cannot be
part of the solution. In fact, large fossil fuel coporations like ExxonMobil
are among the largest investors in
research and development in carbon
capture technology and sustainable
alternative energy.
Bowdoin could better address climate change by implementing green
initiatives on campus and supporting faculty and student research that
might lead to solutions to the problem. The endowment is the vehicle to
fund such endeavors. It is not, however, an appropriate tool by which to
shape public debate on energy policy
and climate change.
The insurmountable gap between
the potential benefits and costs of divestment should be readily apparent
to any reasonable observer. Three
years after I signed BCAs petition,
I still think the environment and
climate change are extremely important issues but I feel the divestment
campaign is misguided and that it
is time for BCA leaders to take alternative approaches to addressing
climate change.
Kuangji Chen is a member of the
Class of 2015.
Committing to the climate: taking a stand for divestment by sitting in

BY CLARA BELITZ
CONTRIBUTOR
I am sitting in for climate justice because I want to see Bowdoin demonstrate its commitment to the common
good. I have pledged to join members
of Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA) and
more than 50 other students in this sitin for fossil fuel divestment because I
am disappointed.
Instead of progress and dialogue, the
Trustees have offered a token meeting
and continued silence. Bowdoin students, faculty and alumni deserve better. We deserve to have a genuine conversation about how to make climate
action a reality at Bowdoin.
Bowdoin students first won the
chance to propose divestment to the
Board last April, when we delivered a
student petition representing five class
years to President Barry Mills. From
April to October, six other members
of BCA and Irepresenting three class
years and a variety of on-campus activitiesbegan to prepare a formal proposal and presentation for the meeting.
Meticulously researched, written
and rewritten, our proposal was outlined in both written form and on a
Prezzi, to be given to nearly half of the
Board on October 17. We worked for
weeks. We practiced and edited, and
did dress rehearsal presentations with
faculty who held a variety of opinions
on divestment.
On the day of the presentation, the
Trustees were greeted by close to 100
cheering students, and a letter in sup-
port of divestment signed by 70 professors. The Trustees appeared receptive, asking us genuine and engaging
questions. The positive response to the
presentation was promising, and forward collaborative movement
seemed possible. I
felt hopeful that we
would be able to
make meaningful
progress toward divestment.
At the
end of the
meeting,
howe ver,
we were
cut off.
W h e n
we asked
the assembled
Tr u s t ees with
whom
w
e
should
follow up, moderator and trustee Art Black interrupted our question
with applause, and the
meeting ended. Some
trustees left without taking
the written proposal. The cheers
of the students outside were matched
by the subsequent silence of the Board.
In attempting to contact the Trustees
in the following months, we were con-
tinually rebuffed. Chair of the Board

Deborah Jensen Barker and Mills
played hot potato with responsibility
for moving forward on divestment in
the Orient, and when the
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Board remained silent on divestment

at its February meeting, the Colleges
pretense of collaboration dissolved.
We were never given the opportuni-
ty to continue the conversation started

at the presentation. We were never
able to collaborate with Board members. During their spring meeting,
we dropped a banner reminding the
Trustees that the campus awaited
action. It read, Literary institutions are endowed for the
common good, a quotation
from former Bowdoin President Joseph McKeen.
Having been ignored by
the Board of Trustees, and
denied the opportunity
to work with the College, BCA publicly
called on the College
at the Meeting in the
Union, a gathering
of students expressing dissatisfaction
with the campus
climate surrounding issues of
inequali t y
and
injustice, to
establish
a trustee
liaison to
communicate with the student body
on divestment. President Millsjust
three months away from the close of
his own tenure at the Collegeappointed himself the liaison.
For nearly three years, we have organized, petitioned, talked, thought and
rallied while the Board of Trustees has
dragged its feet. Meanwhile, in the 140

days between October 17, when we
proposed divestment to the Board, and
March 6, the deadline for a divestment
liaison, the New School, the University
of Maine System, and Norways Government Pension Fund Global (the
worlds largest sovereign wealth fund)
committed to some form of divestment. They joined a growing number
of organizations across the globe that
have committed to divestment.
At Bowdoin, we are taught to pursue the common good, and that the
first step on the path to institutional
change is dialogue. Yet the College has
not responded to our efforts to create
a dialogue, ignoring the calls of students, faculty and alumni for fossil fuel
divestment. And so the time has come
to take a stronger step. This spring,
more than 50 Bowdoin students have
pledged to join hundreds of students
across the country, from Swarthmore,
Harvard, University of CaliforniaBerkeley, and elsewhere, to sit-in for
climate justice.
In a 2006 interview with the Orient
about Darfur divestment, Mills stated
that our efforts in community service
are designed to bubble up from our
students, faculty and staffrather than
being imposed by the College. Noting a lack of vocal campus activism,
Mills ended by posing a question to the
Bowdoin community: Where is that
outrage?
Well, here it is.
Clara Belitz is a member of the
Class of 2017.
opinion
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Israeli academic institutions treatment of Palestinians worthy of boycott

BY CHRISTOPHER WEDEMAN
CONTRIBUTOR
In a moment of honesty during

the Israeli elections, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that a
Palestinian state would never exist
under his watch and warned of Arabs advancing on the ballot boxes in
droves, and then he won a decisive
reelection. Netanyahus political rivals were hardly better. One of them
proudly orchestrated Israels 20082009 bombardment and massacre of
Palestinians in Gaza, and the other
criticized Netanyahu for not bombing
Gaza hard enough this past summer.
A straight line can be drawn from
1947-1948, when Zionist troops forcibly expelled over half a million Palestinians from their homes and destroyed over 500 villages, to this weeks
electoral drama, which demonstrated
the fact that Israelis want to maintain
Israels control over the West Bank,
where nearly three million Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation and apartheid. Since 1948, Israeli
state policy has remained the same:
displacement of the native population
and replacement with Jewish settlers.
What does this mean for academia
in the holy land?

Israeli academic and cultural institutions are deeply intertwined with the
occupation and ongoing colonization
of Palestine. Most Israeli universities
are state-run, give admissions priority
to soldiers, and discriminate against
Palestinian students. Israeli universities conduct research for the Israeli
military, including developing remotecontrolled bulldozers used in home demolitions, and several of them operate
out of illegal settlements.
No Israeli university has spoken out
against Israels occupation and military
assaults against Palestinians. Instead,
Ben-Gurion University, Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and the
University of Haifa all made explicit
statements of support for the bombardment of Gaza last summer and provided financial benefits to soldiers.
Israeli universities cooperate with
the Israeli military and the Israeli government in all functions of settler colonialism, and are essentially inseparable
from the occupation itself.
According to a New Israel Fund
study published in 2005, the educational system in Israel is segregated,
with the state spending an average of
$1,100 for each Jewish student as op-
posed to $192 for each Palestinian. In

the occupied West Bank, Israeli authorities regularly kill Palestinian students and professors, raid universities,
and subject scholars to imprisonment,
torture and travel restrictions. Gaza remains under an intense blockade, and
last summer, as in 2009, Israel bombed
dozens of its schools and universities.
Israeli universities cooperate

with the Israeli military and the
Israeli government in all functions
of settler colonialism.
The U.S. government singles Israel
out with preferential trade agreements,
weapons, U.N. Security Council vetoes
in their favor and more than $3.1 billion in annual military aid. Without
facing any sort of punishment for its
actions, Israel will continue to oppress
and massacre Palestinians.
What does this mean for Bowdoin?
Palestinian academics are denied
basic academic freedoms under Israeli
colonial rule, and Israeli academic institutions are party to the oppressive
Dangers of Yik Yak outweigh the benefits

MY 77 CENTS
VEE FYER-MORREL
Anonymity is so hot right now.
Not that it didnt exist before, but
there are now seemingly endless
forums that offer the opportunity
to speak in an uninhibited manner without any threat of personal
identification. Anonymity allows
us to speak more freely, perhaps.
To say what weve been wanting to
say without any consequence. To
assign our names to something is
to make us accountable for our actions, and wheres the fun in that?
Yik Yak is a great example of
this phenomenon. In case youre
unfamiliar, Yik Yak is a free app in
which users can write Yaks, brief
statements of any kind, which are
shared with users who fall within a
ten mile radius. All users have the
opportunity to contribute by composing or responding to posts, as
well as by upvoting or downvoting
posts. TIME aptly called it a local,
anonymous Twitter.
When Ive complained to

friends about some of the upsetting
Yaks, mostly Ive been told that
Im taking it too seriously.
Full disclosure: Im not above
Yik Yak; on the contrary, I read it
a lot. Sometimes I even giggle despite myself at comments like this
one: When my friend asked me to
stop acting like a flamingo I had to
put my foot down.
But the apps more sinister implications have convinced me that
it does more harm than good.
When Ive complained to friends
about some of the upsetting Yaks,
mostly Ive been told that Im taking it too seriously. We have no
proof these are even Bowdoin students, since there are other people
within a 10-mile radius of the Col-
lege, and we have no proof these

people are seriousthey might
just be trying to get a rise out of us.
My response is usually that its
working. Whether or not these
comments are written in earnest,
whether or not it would be far
more judicious of me to just delete
the damn app, I still think its important to acknowledge that these
messages contribute to the social
climate of this campus.
Sure, it would be better to just
ignore these hateful messages altogether. If you are one of these
brave and impervious people, I salute you. But this task, of course, is
easier said than done. What makes
it even more difficult to dismiss
these messages in the case of Yik
Yak is that users know these comments are composed within relative proximity to themclose to
home, if you will.
The app can be extremely problematic with regard to body dissatisfaction. Along with some
other employees at the Womens
Resource Center, I am involved
in the creation of campaigns, programming and focus groups surrounding healthy body image at
Bowdoin. We have discussed Yik
Yaks on body image and noted
that, more often than not, the app
contributes to general distress.
One post I read recently was
from a person asking how to tell
his girlfriend that she needs to lose
weight. Two responses were: thats
why you dump them once they get
fat, and, maybe more troublingly,
the fact that youre posting this
to Yik Yak and arguing with anyone who tries to offer any insight
proves you deserve a fat girlfriend.
Another Yak read, there should
be a weight limit for leggings/yoga
pants. There were a slew of comments, including, Fatties, put
down the candy bar and eat a salad, and, Fat chicks shouldnt wear
yoga pants. Its nasty. Not appealing. Go hit a gym. Those are only
a few examples.
Now, those arent the posts that
get the most upvotes, nor are they
free from contemptuous responses
that call them out on their blatant

cruelty. However, these sorts of
posts do demonstrate that anonymous forums like Yik Yak ultimately facilitate bullying and hate
speech.
Just this March, American University administrators issued a
public statement denouncing racist statements made by students
on Yik Yak. In February, after a
female user reported how she was
encouraged to commit suicide by
other anonymous users, a petition
asking for the app to be shut down
surfaced online, and was signed by
more than 78,000 people.
Just this March, American

University administrators issued
a puplic statement denouncing
racist statements made by
students on Yik Yak.
My point is not to say that everyone at Bowdoinor everyone who
posts on Yik Yakis malicious. It
is to say, however, that these kinds
of apps have the potential to be
incredibly injurious, and we as
Bowdoin students are implicated
in this by virtue of reading and
contributing to them. The concept of Yik Yak does offer some
interesting opportunities by creating a space in which people can
share opinions, humor and honest
communications. However, I dont
think these benefits outweigh its
costs.
If you dont have Yik Yak, dont
bother. If you do, be aware of the
messages you are receiving. Be
aware of what youre writing.
We are responsible for fostering
a community in which students
feel safe, and apps like this, while
entertaining, dont really help anyone. A generation of people who
take responsibility for their actions would be better than a generation of people who lash out
from behind the anonymous comfort of a screen.
system that denies them those rights,

so Bowdoin College should honor the
call of Palestinian civil society for a
boycott of Israeli academic and cultural
institutions.
In the coming week, Students for
Justice in Palestine (SJP) will be holding Justice for Palestine Week, which
will feature events focusing on Palestinian experiences in Israel, the West
Bank and the Gaza Strip. Afterwards,
SJP will bring a resolution to the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) asking it to endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. The boycott has
precedent in the boycott of academic
and cultural institutions in apartheid
South Africa.
The boycott does not target individuals on the basis of their nationality. It
asks that ties be severed with institutions
complicit in the Israeli occupation. The
boycott means a refusal to take part in
events, conferences and research that
are partially or fully funded by Israeli
institutions. In other words, a professor
from the University of Tel Aviv is still
welcome to speak at Bowdoin as long
as she does so as an individual professor,
and not expressly as a representative or
ambassador of Israeli institutions or of
the Israeli government.
Boycotts are a nonviolent way to

bring ignored realities to the forefront
and to encourage dialogue and action.
Not boycotting means placing greater
importance on the freedom to maintain partnerships with Israeli institutions than on the basic freedoms and
human rights of Palestinians including freedoms of movement, access to
clean water and fair living conditions,
which Palestinians are denied.
Given that international state actors
are unwilling or have failed to force
Israel to comply with international
law and end its brutal repression of
the Palestinians, the soundest solution
for scholars concerned with human
rights and academic freedom is to join
the growing Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions Movement. This movement
aims to nonviolently isolate the state
of Israel until it recognizes that it must
abandon its commitments to occupation, apartheid, and ethno-religious
supremacy. It is a chance for Bowdoin
to demonstrate that academia is not
just a plaything of the privileged and
that education is truly a human right.
This spring, BSG should vote to boycott Israel.
Christopher Wedeman is a member
of the Class of 2015.
Cultural context must be taken into

account when discussing oppression
BY LANE STURTEVANT
CONTRIBUTOR
Before Spring Break, many students

wrote about campus activism, showing
just how pertinent this issue is. However, I worry about the way that Addie
Brownes article, in particular, framed
activism.
For example, Browne separates
cultural appropriation and offensive
language from fundamental social
problems. She writes that Bowdoin
creates activists who are setting out to
eliminate one offensive word and action at a time. I think that she is trying,
perhaps, to argue that simply getting
someone not to say faggot is different
from getting them to truly understand
why it is offensive.
Some forms of activism on campus
do merely police language and behavior without radically challenging our
attitudes and ideologies. But Browne
seems to believe that concern over language and behavior is inherently bad
activism. She calls it the ultimately
superficial goal of becoming politically
correct.
For me, those words and actions that
even Browne deems offensive are a fundamental part of larger systems of oppression. There can seem like a distinct
distance between Bowdoin and the
violence against minorities that we read
about in the news.
I certainly agree that we should
be more active against this violence.
However, the attitudes and ideologies that motivate or excuse offensive
language and behavior operate within,
and partially reproduce, the systems
of oppression that take a much more
forceful form elsewhere. For example,
disregard for Native American cultures is part of a historical and ongoing privileging of non-Natives and
cultural appropriation is a product
of the colonial project of eliminating
Native personhood. The scale of discriminations might differ, but they all
share the same genealogy.
I also wish to challenge Brownes
framing of reservations. She writes
that stopping someone from appropriating Native American cultures
[does] little to help those who re-
main disadvantaged by the debilitating environment of reservations.

This description of reservations, offered in the name of social justice,
proves that being an activist requires
self-reflexivity.
If Browne wants to use the plight of
Native Americans to further her own
arguments about political correctness, then she needs to consider what
it means to construct their experiences
as a plight. What does it imply to say
that reservations, the home of peoples
of multiple cultures and histories, are
debilitating environments that necessitate a white intervention?
Portland Press Herald reporter
Colin Woodward recently wrote a series on the Passamaquoddy, a tribe in
Maine. He wrote that, an economic,
political and cultural renaissance is
underway throughout Indian Country in the United States. According
to Woodward, this renaissance, empirically evident in statistics of income,
life expectancy, and employment rate
increases, results from the greatly increased control Indians have over their
own affairs.
Native Americans have long maintained their agency through complex
acts of resistance to, and negotiation
with imperialist institutions. Now,
through a measure of autonomy that
has come from decades of indigenous
activism, they are fashioning their own
future. When we portray Native Americans as passive victims, disadvantaged
by the debilitating environment of reservations, we not only once again ignore their personhood, but we also distance ourselves from our responsibility
within the systems of oppression that
work against them.
Fighting for social justice involves collaboration with those
people we are trying to help. It involves listening to them and asking
them what they want, and how they
want us to act as their allies. It involves respecting them as people.
It involves educating ourselves and
our peers about the systems of oppression that still operate on and off
our campus.
Lane Sturtevant is a member of the
Class of 2015.
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M CLAM ROLL, TORTELLINI ALFREDO
46 T CHICKEN TENDERS, QUESADILLA

27 M CHICKEN TENDERS, MUSSELS
TUESDAY
LECTURE
LECTURE
Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy

Studies at the American Enterprise Institute Rick Hess
will discuss potential reforms to No Child Left Behind,
which required public schools to institute standardized
testing for all students.
Pickering Room, Hubbard Hall. Noon.
MIT professor Craig Steven Wilder will give the annual

John Brown Russwurm Lecture. Wilder, to discuss the
inaccessibility of higher education for people of color in
the second half of the 18th century, will use the stories
of Reverend Samson Occom and poet Phillis Wheatley. A
reception in Russwurm House will take place at 5 p.m..
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 6:30 p.m.
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"Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery & the Troubled History of America's Universities"
"Reauthorizing No Child Left Behind:

Challenges and Opportunities"
SATURDAY
Coee House
39 T SWEET & SOUR CHICKEN

16 M GENERAL TAO'S CHICKEN
Bowdoin Queer Straight Alliance will host a

conversation about trans* visibility on Bowdoin's
campus. Genderqueer students will share their stories
and experiences before engaging in an open dialogue
with the audience. Tea and cookies will be served.
Howell House. 7:30 p.m.
EVENT
Winter Farmers Market
The Bowdoin Organic Garden (BOG) will lead a trip to

Brunswick Winter Market. There will be an opportunity
to ask questions about the BOG, and the BOG will provide
some money for shopping.
Fort Andross. 10 a.m.
FILM
Filmmaker Yasmine Perni will present her documentary,

which tells the story of Palestinian Christians who are
often ignored by the media.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 2 p.m.
"Learning to Die"
Over the course of the next three and a half weeks, Bowdoin will compete with Colby in an effort to reduce dorm
electricity consumption.
Bowdoin College. All Day.
The New York-based improvisation and sketch group,

which launched the careers of stars like Amy Poehler, will
entertain students for a night of comic relief.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
41 T PIZZA, PORK WITH ORANGE GLAZE

27 M MAC & CHEESE, ROAST CHICKEN
43 T MAC & CHEESE, BEEF CHILI

27 M MAC & CHEESE, BEEF CHILI
LECTURE
Bowdoin vs. Colby Energy Competition
Upright Citizens Brigade
WEDNESDAYY
EVENT
PERFORMANCE
SUNDAY
30
45 T BRAISED BEEF, VEGGIE STEW

30 M TOFU BURGERS, LINGUINE
MONDAY
"The Stones Cry Out"
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GO BURSURK: Caroline Montag '17 performs at Bursurka, a joint performance

between co-ed a capella groups BOKA and Ursus Versus last night in the Chapel.
Michigan professor Ellen Muehlberger will speak about

her recent research on discourses of death in early
Christian preaching and texts and their embodiment of a
classical method of teaching and learning.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 4:30 p.m.
FILM
"Budrus"
LECTURE
"Gone to the Dogs"
Bates professor Jakub Kazecki will discuss a short film

parody of "All Quiet on the Western Front" that bears
the humorous name "A Dogville Comedy So Quiet on the
Canine Front."
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 2:30 p.m.
To conclude Justice For Palestine Week, there will be a

screening of a documentary that celebrates a
successful non-violent resistance movement led by a
father-daughter team in the rural Palestinian village,
Budrus, in protest of Israel's building of a disruptive
security barrier.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 8:30 p.m.
FILM
"Secundaria"
EVENT
Bowdoin Women in Business
At the annual spring panel, five alumnae will share their

experiences navigating the business world. Speakers
include a political strategist, an innovator in healthcare
delivery, a data cruncher, a lawyer and a producer. The
panelists will also meet with students individually after
the presentation.
Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 1 p.m.
Chapel Service
The Chapel. 7p.m.
HOLIDAY
PANEL
"Elevating the Status of Teaching"
Associate Professor of Education Dorris Santoro will

moderate a panel of school administrators and teachers
as they discuss ideas to raise the status of teaching.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
RELIGIOUS SERVICE
3 EVENT
Mending Before
Trending: On
Self Reflection
and Healing
Professor of Film at Boston University Mary Jane Doherty

will screen her documentary, which follows a class of
advanced students at Cuba's prestigious National Ballet
School as they try to dance their way out of poverty. A
discussion with Doherty will follow.
Cleaveland 151, Druckenmiller Hall. 7 p.m.
BREAK
BREAK
LECTURE
"Because What
is Beautiful is
Good"
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43 T CHICKEN BURGERS, BEEF SAUTE

36 M SOBA NOODLES, FLATBREAD
THURSDAY
LECTURE
"The Human Significance of Climate

Change"
Professor of English David Collings will discuss his new

book, "Stolen Future, Broken Present: The Human Significance of Climate Change," which encourages us to accept
our responsibility for imminent ecological disasters
caused by climate change.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 12:30 p.m.
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Holiday
9 EVENT
A Closer View
of Bowdoin's
Civil War
Monument

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THE NATIONS OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLEGE WEEKLY

VOLUME 144, NUMBER 18

MARCH 27, 2015

Brunswick Fire Department (BFD)

Please see CRACK, page 3

COURTESY OF JOHN EWING

Reyes 15 and Toomey 17 form alcohol support group

A peer-facilitated group designed to

others with similar experiences.

personthat finding a social scene

but the common denominator will be

Please see ALCOHOL, page 4

Class of 2019 applicants

Local family-run restaurant Jens

Please see JENS, page 4

HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Last Friday the College mailed

international students accepted also

FEATURES: FRIENDSY FRENZY

Administration changes cause

New social app debuts on campus to mixed reviews.

Womens lacrosse returns from Florida with a 6-1 record and

EDITORIAL: Stand down.

KICKING THE CAN: David Steury 15 on Scott

friday, march 27, 2015

TRAYS FOR DAYS:

ZACH ALBERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

INTO THE WOODS:

Average cost of a one-day rafting trip

Number of trips on the calendar

Number of trips in October

Number of trips in December

Information and Technology (IT) is

What are your goals for the rest of the semester?

student email passwords

You dont want to hear my goals for the

To graduate at the end...and to

Figure out what Im doing this

To make it out alive?

COMPILED BY OLIVIA ATWOOD AND ELIZA GRAUMLICH

friday, march 27, 2015

the bowdoin orient

Working group created in

A working group consisting of 15

Meetings will continue through the fall

Please see GROUP, page 5

COURTESY ANNA-RINA AND ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

3 Bowdoin students win national fellowships

Logic, White Panda, Reel

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

gaze, Kong said. The affirmation

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

CRACKDOWN: An o-campus residence at 83 1/2 Harpswell Road popularly known as Crack

leges social scene.

Ska punk band Reel Big Fish will

have the DJ and rapper on Saturday,

friday, march 27, 2015

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operating for future years.

it is more social and is structured

HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

These problems have been a strain